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I'd like a clear & easy-to-understand (especially for non-physics-types) explanation of what Hyperfocal Distance is, how it affects photographs, and what determines its value.
The hyperfocal distance is the distance at which everything from 1/2 the distance to infinity is in focus.
For instance, if the hyperfocal distance of a particular lens at a particular aperture is 100ft, then by focusing at 100 ft you can capture anything from 50ft-infinity in clear focus.
A more in depth explanation can be found at www.dofmaster.com
It's arguable whether this is "clear and easy to understand", but Thom Hogan has an interesting article on Hyperfocal distance - explaining that it's not quite what people think it is, and also why it's not necessarily a desirable effect.
Here's a few quotes (emphasis mine):
The hyperfocal distance is the nearest distance on which a lens can be focused on a given aperture, where the depth of field will extend to "infinity".
To determine the hyperfocal distance, you can use WolframAlpha's formula, it requires 3 variables:
The aforementioned DOFMaster site has a table with the different CoC values for various digital cameras.
The hyperfocal distance is used a lot in landscape photography, where the maximum depth of field is achieved , which carries on up to the "infinity" point too - it's generally two thirds of the way between the camera and its infinite distance.
Found this answer on dofmaster.com, which in turn references "How to Use Your Camera, New York Institute of Photography, 2000":
Depth of field refers to the range of distances between which anything is in focus, or at least close enough not to look noticeably out of focus.
On lenses with mechanical focus rings (often older lenses), there are often depth of field markers showing you the near and far depth of field limits for each aperture. It extends each side of your actual focal setting. If you don't have these markers you can still do math or guesstimate to work it out.
For any given aperture, you can turn the focus knob until the far limit of your depth of field sits exactly at infinity. The hyperfocal distance is whatever distance you need to focus to in order to achieve this. It'll be different according to your aperture.
Everything between half your hyperfocal distance and infinity will then be within your depth of field.


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When we eat, finally we feel full. I know which mechanism causes the sensation of being full. But when we sleep excessively we often still want more sleep. Why does this happen? Is there a mechanism underlying this?
Studies have proven somewhat the opposite of what you're asking
For example a study from 2004 - "The impact of extended sleep on daytime alertness, vigilance, and mood" found that,
And thus concluded
Whilst an older study from '73 -"Performance and Mood Following Variations in the Length and Timing of Sleep" found that,
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12 Nov 2007 9:05 AM #21
Thanks, Simon! Extension updated with a fix.
PS: neat testcase
12 Nov 2007 11:16 PM #22
Thanks for the quick fix! It works perfectly.
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13 Nov 2007 1:42 AM #24
As the name suggests - ComboBox is not my Select component. The first two components (ComboBox) are put there in order to compare the formal ComboBox with my Select component.
Concerning the situation you are presenting - no bug in the component. Just a tippo in the testcase. Fixed in the zip now, and later on the live demo page.
13 Nov 2007 5:12 PM #25
Andrei, again a a fantastic widget. I've found that it works perfectly when I'm using it in a form.
Only one issue that I've found, and I'm not sure if is to do with your component, or with Ext itself... When I try to use this in an EditorGridPanel (V. 2.0) I can set the values with it correctly to start with, and by using editor.field.getRawValue () I'm returning the values when I render the grid cell. The problem is that when I go to edit that cell again, what's displayed is the value fields, and not the display fields as they should be. Also, the selected entries aren't displaying as selected in the drop-down list. This lets the selections get added two or more times to the selections list. From what I can see, this is because of the editors actions when it closes the field after editing, but I'm not to sure of how to get around it.
I've got fields with the same definitions working fine in a form, but not working in the editable grid. Not sure if there is anything that can be done about this.'Once again, fortune vomits on my eiderdown'
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14 Nov 2007 3:21 AM #26
@catacaustic - so apparently it's not working as perfect as you say it is
I don't know what to say. I have made a small testcase inside a grid, based on the Ext2 example - http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=83945#post83945 - it seems to work ok. If you can please post the config for the Select, or even bring a small testcase, or if you feel comfortable with it - message me in private with the link to your application.
As of now, I'm cleaning the code a bit, and improving some functions in order to publish v0.4 soon.
14 Nov 2007 3:43 PM #27
As I said, it works perfectly when I use it in a form.
Your editable grid example works fine... when the select box a single select. When I add in the config item of "multiSelect: true" to make it a multi-selectable ComboBox it displays the same problems that I've described. It doesn't remember (or doesn't display) the selections, and just keeps on adding selections even if they are already there. As I said, I'm pretty sure this is to do with the Editor trying to set the value of the select box when editing closes. This will set the values as a string, as it is returned from the select box, but the select box doesn't seem to parse that string into an array properly, so sees the full string as one single item. For some reason it also brings in a blank item at the start, probably also doe to the editor trying to set something that it shouldn't be doing.
The setup for the column with the multi-select editor that I've got here is:Code:
{header: "<span ext:qtip=\"Tags set on this footprint\">Tags", dataIndex: "tags", width: 100, sortable: false, hidden: false, renderer: CF.Render.renderFootprintTags, editor: new Ext.grid.GridEditor (new Ext.form.MultiSelect ({ store: new Ext.data.Store ({ proxy: new Ext.data.HttpProxy ({ url: "api/api-json.php?f=getTags", method: "POST" }), reader: new Ext.data.JsonReader ({ root: "tags", id: "id" }, [ {name: "id", mapping: "id"}, {name: "name", mapping: "name"} ]) }), name: "tags", listWidth: 200, allowBlank: true, emptyText: "All tags", valueField: "id", displayField: "name", editable: false, forceSelection: true, triggerAction: "all", title: "Tags", loadingText: "Loading tags", multiSelect: true }))}'Once again, fortune vomits on my eiderdown'
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14 Nov 2007 4:08 PM #28
I think I've got something worked out here. It looks like it's working in my system, so see what it can do from your end.
I've done some small changes to the setValue() function and it looks like it works. My changes are set out here:Code:
setValue:function(v){ // Don't set anything if the value isn't defined if (v !== undefined) { var result = [], resultRaw = []; if (!(v instanceof Array)){ // Split a string into an array // v = [v]; v = v.split (","); } if (!this.multiSelect && v instanceof Array){ v = v.slice(0,1); } for (var i=0, len=v.length; i<len; i++){ var value = v[i]; var text = value; if(this.valueField){ var r = this.findRecord(this.valueField, value); if(r){ text = r.data[this.displayField]; } } resultRaw.push(value); result.push(text); } v = resultRaw.join(','); text = result.join(','); this.lastSelectionText = text; this.valueArray = resultRaw; if(this.hiddenField){ this.hiddenField.value = v; } Ext.form.ComboBox.superclass.setValue.call(this, text); this.value = v; if (this.view){ this.view.clearSelections(); this.selectByValue(this.valueArray); } if (this.oldValueArray != this.valueArray){ this.fireEvent('change', this, this.oldValueArray, this.valueArray); } this.oldValueArray = Ext.apply([], this.valueArray); if (this.history && !this.multiSelect && this.mode == 'local'){ this.addHistory(this.getRawValue()); } } // if () else { // Clear everything to start with this.valueArray = []; } // else }
Check this for yourself, and see if this works for you as well. I think I may be pretty close'Once again, fortune vomits on my eiderdown'
- Edmund Blackadder
14 Nov 2007 4:54 PM #29
I think I've got it. Small change to the "else" statement...Code:
else { // Clear everything to start with if (this.view) { this.reset (); } // if () while (this.valueArray.length > 0) { this.valueArray.pop (); } // for () } // else'Once again, fortune vomits on my eiderdown'
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14 Nov 2007 11:46 PM #30
@catacaustic - it figures that it has to do with that, but there's one thing: in case of multiSelect, the value given to setValue should be an array (when going to v0.3 I deliberately took out the "," separator)
So.. basically, in your record, the field tags should be an array, and not string.
But your experience will probably take me to re-implement the separator. It seems logical to have it - at least optional. - Most probably this evening.
PS: thanks for your great input - all your post put me little by little in the right direction without looking at the source, which saves time
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City Manager in this town is career suicide. The drunk, uneducated and thieving council will never let go of control unless it benefits their pockets. Steubenville offers nothing for recreation, they show no support to public safety services and ohh yeah we have no job opportunity here. So good luck and in sure we will see a similar article in about a year
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I usually disconnect my cellphone from the charger some time after it's fully charged because I'm afraid the battery could lose capacity over time if I don't. However, I believe modern electronics should be able to handle this kind of scenario and automatically stop charging the battery once it's full. Does this apply to modern Android phones? Or do I need to continue disconnecting it all the time?
As njd pointed out, most cell phone batteries are Lithium Ion now.
Although constant charging cannot hurt, it looks like you may want to periodically run the battery all the way down so the digital circuits can correctly calibrate:
As for battery life, temperature is apparently a factor -- the hotter the environment, the more capacity loss over time. And storing the battery at 100% charge is actually unhealthy for Lithium Ion batteries!
Great set of Lithium Ion battery use tips here: http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
Modern cell-phones all use lithium-ion batteries, which work best with frequent top-up charges.
They have circuitry to monitor the input voltage and prevent over-charging.
Some chargers get quite warm while connected to the mains supply, and that's just wasted energy; so you might want to disconnect the charger from the mains once your cellphone is fully charged, but there will be no damage to the battery if you leave it charging a few hours longer.
All devices should stop charging once they're full. However, they might start recharging when the charge drops down to 80-90% depending on the manufacturer.
If I'm rights most batteries should be rated for about 1000 charge cycles before serious degradation occurs. If you charge the phone at night, in the car and at work that would be about one year. After that you might as well buy another battery since they are getting really cheap. Just dispose of the battery environment friendly.
The phone I have (OpenMoko FreeRunner) specifically states in the documentation that it will live happily on the charger; it was made in 2006 or so.
If your phone's charging circuits are sophisticated enough it should be able to trickle charge and not overcharge or poorly condition the battery.
Here are the real expert answers from Electrical Engineering, our sister site:
Effects of smartphones always connected to AC power?
Not directly related, but also a nice read:
TL;DR: The charging circuit is safely engineered to be connected to the charging circuit 24/7.
Modern electronics will not overcharge battery, and phone should be able to handle being constantly plugged in. However keeping battery constantly in high state of charge and charge cycling in high voltage will increase battery degradation. It's best for battery when phone is minimal time in full charge.
My personal experience is that my android phone SGS1 handled overnight charging all well so it's not wise to get too worried about this, but if your battery newer last long keep eye on that.
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Ubuntu 10.10 Wifi router TP-Link TD-W8901G
After connecting to wifi network, net do not work (tested with ping 126.96.36.199). After some time (usually seconds) ping go through. Then after some time go still. After some extra time works again. And this "up and down" repeats constantly.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)___Senior guard Laura Kinderknecht was named honorable mention Daktronics All-America Friday by a vote of College Sports Information Directors of America members.
Kinderknecht was already named the Daktronics Central Region player of the year and the MIAA most valable player. She also earned first team honors on both those teams.
She finished the year eighth in scoring in the MIAA with 14.0 points a game and she was third with 2.8 made 3-pointers a game. Overall, she was in the top 10 in six MIAA statistical catergories.
Kinderknecht became Washburn's 14th player to earn an All-America award and this is the 28th All-America in Washburn's history. She ended her career with 20th at Washburn with 1,019 points, third with 197 3-pointers and sixth with 312 assists. She's the only Lady Blue to ever score at least 1,000 points with 300 assists and 197 3-pointers.
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The Pope has arrived in Paris for the start of his first visit to the "elder daughter" of the Church since his election. Later today (5:30 local time) he will address seven hundred representatives of the world of culture at the Collge des Bernardins in a talk that will be closely parsed.The prestigious daily Le Monde has been offering some detailed reflections in anticipation of the Pope's arrival. Yesterday it published an article by one of the world's best known philosophers, the Catholic Jean-Luc Marion. Here is Marion's conclusion:
Or, et c'est une constante de tous ses crits, tant de thologien que de pape, Benot XVI souligne que la foi des chrtiens, ds les premiers sicles, par exemple chez saint Justin et saint Augustin, a prtendu la vrit et la rationalit ; que, par la suite, elle a revendiqu de ne pas discuter avec les religions de l'Antiquit, rcuses comme dcidment infrarationnelles, mais avec les philosophes - donc avec les Grecs ou les hellniss.La question devient ds lors de savoir si, aujourd'hui encore, la Rvlation chrtienne, en particulier dans le discours des catholiques, peut contribuer l'exercice de la raison. Cette prtention parat comme toujours folle et mme un peu plus aujourd'hui, alors qu'on va rptant, avec un fin sourire : "Qu'est-ce que la vrit ?" Apprtons-nous pourtant entendre quelqu'un qui va oser dire que cette question admet une rponse. Et mme si tous ne veulent pas de la rponse qu'il va proposer (c'est leur droit le plus strict), tous gagneraient entendre calmement poser la question.
Marion suggests that a constant of Benedict's reflection (drawing upon the tradition of Justin Martyr and Augustine) is that Christian faith claims to be consonant with reason and to espouse truth. The challenge today is whether Christian revelation, as reflected in the speech of Christians, can foster the exercise of reason.Such a claim can appear folly to those who ask, with a knowing smile, "what is truth?" But all can gain by allowing themselves to hear a calm raising of the question and to consider the response the Pope offers.As usual, John Allen is on the scene.
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I worry, greatly, about abstractions about reason and truth, particularly in ethics The Church proclaims its own reasonableness-its own insight into the natural moral law. It insists that the positions it holds are consonant with reason. Ultimately, however, the test of reasonableness isn't what you say about yourself--it's what other people say about you--believers and unbelievers. To put the point quite sharply, there are many people in mental institutions who regularly proclaim their own reasonablenss and rationality. So what you say about yourself can't be decisive, in principle.If the line of argument is "You must accept by faith not only the truth of what I say, but also that what I say is reasonable, and not only reasonable but the ONLY reasonable view," then you're not actually running a reason-based argument; you're running a faith-based argument, with reason as a rhetorical weapon.Reasonable is as reasonable does. So the question is, how do reasonable people act What do they do when confronted by counterarguments?
Marion suggests that the great blessing that Ratzinger has provided as both thinker and pope, is not so much providing definitive answers -- far less coercing assent, as Prof Kaveny seems to suggest but in the difficult questions he poses. Marion writes that Ratzinger has the dangerous talent of seeing difficulties that one would prefer to ignore, of posing diagnoses of sicknesses that one denies having. The inquiries Ratzinger makes are uncomfortable but necessary (une benediction") because they subvert the purported definitive answers proposed in, for example, the political field to what are actually badly posed questions.Pope as socratic gadfly takes some getting used to.
Cathy: I don't know how you can say that "Ultimately,... the test of reasonableness isnt what you say about yourselfits what other people say about youbelievers and unbelievers." How is what other people say any more an ultimate test than what you say about yourself? If I can be wrong in thinking myself irational, cannot others be wrong in thinking themselvs rational and me irrational? I could be right about my reasonableness, and others could be right about my unreasonableness; I could be right about their unreasonableness, and they could be wrong about my unreasonableness. If you are saying that reasonableness is more likely to emerge out of a conversation with others than out of solipsistic introspection, one could agree with that, but even that is not an "ultimate test". In any case, it can hardly be said that Ratzinger/Benedict XVI does not engage in conversation with great minds, both past and present.
I didn't know about what had happened to Catholic adoption agencies in England. I live in San Francisco, California. Years ago this city passed a domestic partners act. This meant that non-profits like Catholic Charities could not receive any kind of funding from the City if they did not provide domestic partners the ability to be able to obtain health insurance through their partners employer's group plan. The Archdiocese of San Francisco almost lost any type of funding because they were going to refuse to provide these benefits for domestic partners . Eventually what was discovered at the time was that the Franciscans had been offering anybody who lived with their employees the opportunity to purchase health insurance through their health insurance plan. The Franciscans didn't care if their employee's roommate was a partner, a mother, a friend, an enemy, or whatever. The Franciscans in San Francisco operate San Anthony's Foundation which is a very large non-profit that employees many people. This is what the Archdiocese does. Fortunately the Franciscans helped Archbishop William Levada to think out of the box. Levada is now Cardinal Levada and head of the The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). In time the Catholic Church might lose its current tax status and any funding from any governmental agency because of its message about gay people and their lives. Gay people pay taxes and probably with the years will be less inclined to be tolerant toward the Catholic Church. I think financially the Catholic Church will be in a very vulnerable place in the future. I hope the Catholic Church changes its teachings about homosexuality or starts to think outside of the box.I know for a fact that Pope Benedict XVI can be very wrong about things. I am a gay, Catholic man who has been in a relationship with my partner Joe for 42 years. My relationship with Joe is not intrinsically evil. It has been a great gift from God. In time I hope the Catholic Church learns more about love.
Joe, I'm working with the distinction that some philosophers of knowledge use between aleitheology (theory of truth) and epistemology (theory of justified belief or knowledge). While I accept the argument of post-Wittgensteinian philosophers that there is no reason to posit an unbridgeable gulf between the two there is a distinction. So, I think truth means correspondence to reality, while knowledge or reasonableness means broadly and rigorously justified belief. While our best marker of truth, normally is justified belief, the two are not identical. So. . . someone who just wildly speculated that the earth revolved around the sun in the days before Copernicus would be speaking the truth--but they would not be reasonable in making the assertion (i.e., they would not have sound, dialectically justified beliefs for thinking so). Conversely, those who though that the homunculus was a little man and that the woman simply allowed it to grow quite possibly were reasonable before 1860 and the discovery of egg and sperm; they were also making a false claim. In philosophy and in law, reasonableness points to the process of justifying a belief dialectically and on the basis of moving from sound premises to sound conclusion. Knowledge is not simply an individual matter, it is both produced and tested in community. One may assert one's own connection to the truth; I don't think one can conclusively aassert one's own reasonableness. What happens with the person on the three day hold is that they're asked to demonstrate their reasoning process. If they fail the test, they are unreasonable --although they might still be correct.So whether the Pope can claim to be reasonable --as opposed simply to speaking the truth--depends upon the process by which he engages thinkers, not merely the degree to which it challenges others, but the way it responds to challenges made by others.
Cathleen is certainly more than capable of speaking for herself. But let me say that I do think that she has an important point. In my own voice, may I add the following. So far as I can see, all exercises of reason outside of mathematical matters ( and even here I'd want to make some clarifications) are in principle fallible, whoever is doing the reasoning. I agree that, in matters of faith, it is proper to talk in terms of infallibility (again, with the need for qualifying elaboration). But I don't see the defensibility of saying that, by exercising reason, any of us ever arrives at the point that the propositions that we utter are beyond all reasonable contestation. There is no way to know that a contestation is reasonable or not except by considering it. If it proves to be incoherent or irrelevant, then it no longer deserves further consideration. If not, then the discussion, if it is reasonable, ought to continue.Finally, let me mention one of the Heideggerian claims that I consider terribly important. At least in his early works he talks about truth in terms of "Alethia" or the alpha-privative notion of uncovering or dis-closing. Such disclosures can deserve to be held to be non-relativistic without beling held to be the "last [true] word" about any topic. May I suggest that theological reasoning can rightly claim no more than to dis-close some of the truth about its topics without being able to claim to have dis-close all that deserves to be said about it.
Sorry, Cathleen, I was composing my own response and did not see your latest until I posted my own. To what extent we are in agreement here is something I'll have to think about later today.
Cathy: If truth is correspondence with reality, how can you say that those who thought that the sun revolves around the earth were speaking the truth. I think that they were being reasonable, that is, doing their best to be reasonable, but did not have enough data or couldnt understand it or were impatient in their reflection, and so didnt reach a knowledge of what is the case, so that their judgment was wrong. You write: In philosophy and in law, reasonableness points to the process of justifying a belief dialectically and on the basis of moving from sound premises to sound conclusion. Knowledge is not simply an individual matter, it is both produced and tested in community.The second of these sentences is not entailed by the first, but I agree that no one reaches knowledge utterly alone. If ones claim to have knowledge on a particular point must be tested in community, it remains, of course, that the testing will be carried out by individuals: there is no communal to do the testing.You write: One may assert ones own connection to the truth; I dont think one can conclusively assert ones own reasonableness....I see that the adverb conclusively appears only in the second sentence, and wonder what its absence from the first means. In any case, I believe I am in connection with what is the case in judging that posts sent to this blog by someone named Cathy come from a professor at Notre Dame named Kaveny. I believe that I may also claim to be reasonable in this judgment. I would find it very odd for a person, even a pope, to claim that he is speaking the truth while leaving in suspense whether he is being reasonable. It is by being reasonable that one reaches a knowledge of what is the case: that is, by being attentive to all the data that must be taken into account, by proffering a hypothesis that brings the data into intelligible relation to one another, and by verifying ones hypothesis (which can include responding to objections to it), a point reached when the conditions for the truth of the hypothesis are seen to be verified and no further relevant questions arise and one can proceed to a judgment without being rash or slow. As for the need to respond to objections, this is, of course, prominent in our Catholic intellectual tradition; one need think only of Augustines several volumes with Quaestiones in the titles, or of Aquinas Summae, or of Newmans statement, which I think Ive quoted here before: That is no intellectual triumph of any truth of Religion, which has not been preceded by a full statement of what can be said against it. Of course, in this little dialectic, we are testing one anothers notion of reasonableness, arent we?
Brad,I doubt Marion or the pope would disagree with your point. Another paragraph in Marion's Le Monde article gives the reader a better idea of what he means by reason:La crise la plus profonde, quoiqu'en un sens la plus secrte de notre poque, tient en effet la dilution, l'vanescence ou peut-tre mme la disparition d'une rationalit apte clairer les questions qui dpassent la gestion et la production des objets, mais qui dcident de notre manire de vivre et de mourir. Rarement la philosophie (et la "science") n'a pu en dire moins qu'aujourd'hui sur notre condition - ce que nous sommes, ce que nous pouvons savoir, ce que nous devons faire et ce qu'il nous est permis d'esprer. Ce dsert assch de rationalit se nomme le nihilisme. Ce n'est pas une hypothse en l'air, facultative, mais un fait. Notre tragdie.[Very rough translation: "The most profound crisis, albeit the most secret kind of crisis in our time, tends toward the dilution, evanescence and maybe even the disappearance of a rationality able to clarify the questions which go beyond the management and production of objects but which decide how we live and die. Rarely has philosophy (and "science") had less to say than today about our condition -- about who we are, what we can know, what we ought to do, and what we are permitted to hope for. This parched desert of rationality is called nihilism. This is not an abstract hypothesis but a fact. Our tragedy."]The distinction between aleitheology and epistemology is sometimes a useful one, but it is not the distinction Marion is concerned with here. His distinction is between a "parched rationality," whose only strength is the rigor of its dialectic, and reason, which, according to his understanding (and the pope's) involves dialectic but is not reducible to dialectic. His main point seems to be about the connection between metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy; and he doesn't say that Catholic metaphysics has a monopoly on reason or reasonableness.
I have a fancy-schmancy new laptop, and it's erasing my posts. Arbitrarily and unreasonably. So this is a lot shorter, cuz I have to go to the airport.Joe, the whole point of my argument is that one can be correct (make a true statement) and unreasonable in making it, and I also agree that one can make a false statement and be reasonable in making it. Reasonableness points to the process, truth points to the result. But i do think that our processes for obtaining knowledge are generally reliable. I really like your thick description of what reasonableness means. And that's what I think we need to focus on. We can't simply say we or the pope or the Church s reasonable, we need to responsibly engage the process of being reasonable. So my question is, what does the Church need to do -how does the pope and the bishops and the papal academies need to behave in order to demonstrate their reasonableness. Here's my suggestion: It would be nice, if at least at one convention by a papal academy, they had a couple of speakers whose views differed from the church's teaching on a controversial point in the society. For responsible engagement. It would be nice, also, if they didn't write up the conference conclusions before they actually held the conference. It's hard to think reason matters when you know the result of inquiry before you actually inquire.
Apart from the truth discussion here, I thought it interesting (in Allen's report) of the 5 areas where Church and State should work togther in BXVI's view.This may work toward a better relationship in value issues between Vatican and EU pragmatically.It would be interesting to extrapolate his views to our good old USA.
Mr Dauenhauer: I agree with the main point of your first paragraph. As for the second, I do not believe that a claim to have reached the truth about a matter always or necessarily means claiming that one has come to know everything about the matter or to have spoken the last word about it. This is true in all areas of knowledge, and it is particularly true in matters having to do with God. Si comprehendis, non est Deus, Augustine said in a statement often quoted by Pope Benedict: If youve grasped it, its not God that youve grasped. Your last sentence echoes the statement of the First Vatican Council, often dismissed for being overly intellectualistic or even rationalistic:"Now reason, enlightened by faith, when it seeks persistently, piously and soberly, does indeed achieve by Gods gift some understanding, and that most profitable, of the mysteries, whether by analogy from what it knows naturally, or from the connection of these mysteries with one another and with the final end of humanity; but reason is never rendered capable of penetrating these mysteries in the way in which it penetrates the truths that form its proper object. For the divine mysteries, by their very nature, so far surpass the created understanding that, even when a revelation has been given and accepted by faith, they remain covered by the veil of that same faith and enveloped, as it were, in a kind of fog, as long as in this mortal life, we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, and not by sight (2 Cor 5:6-7) "
If I may interject, I agree that it is possible for someone to believe a proposition that is true but not have good reasons for believing it. But I doubt that it is possible to have good reasons for believing a false proposition, only apparently good reasons. Thus most people before the seventeenth century believed that the earth does not move and they had reasons that appeared to be good, but turned out to be not so good. Are there any general criteria for goodness of reason? I doubt it.
For some reason I was reminded, in reading the comments, of a book I read long ago at Yale (a few years before Cathy arrived there): Dorothy Emmet's "The Nature of Metaphysics."If I remember Ms Emmet's book correctly, it leads me to make two observations:1. Are we sometimes in danger of considering "faith" and "reason" as hermetically sealed areas of human engagement with reality? Whereas any articulation of "faith" draws upon reason (not the "parched rationality" to which Matthew calls attention); and is there a rational undertaking that is devoid of "faith?"2. Does that suggest, further, that both terms need to be considered analogically. As does "reasonableness." What may be reasonable criteria in one area of investigation, need not be the same in another.I certainly concur with Joseph Komonchak in advocating the long tradition of dialogue exemplified in the "videtur quod non...sed contra."
So break it down for us. Does this mean that we respect healthy secularism but not disagreement with Dominus Jesus. The secularists are healthy but it is wrong for Christians to eat at the same table because they believe slightly differently. Are Catholics who think unreasonable but Catholics who give blind obedience to the Magisterium reasonable. What is to prevent one from concluding that like, John Paul II, Benedict has one set of rules for those outside the church and another for those inside? Or that when Rome chooses to dialogue it is alright. But if a parish decides to it is not. Etc.
Fr. Imbelli --Thanks very much for the Marion quotation. I don't know him at all, but he sounds quite interesting. A quick check of Wikipedia and some review of some of his books at Amazon, tell me (perhas quite wrongly), that he rejects\medieval metaphysics because it is only about "being". What nonsense. All of the medievals had a great deal to say about the other transcendentals, including goodness and beauty and, a fortiori, love. But be that at it may Marion does seem to be venturing into that most mysterious of metaphysical areas, viz., Transcendentals Land. Sounds very interesting.I'm also particularly interested in his epistemological notion of "saturated phenomena", Whatever it means exactly, I'd like to know more.Can you, or anybody else, recommend a particiular book of his to someone (me) who needs an introduction to his work? The big work about "giveness" sounds much to the point, but also sounds like more than I want at this point..
Ann,The Dominicans roasted him for misinterpreting St. Thomas; and, as I recall, he made a generous "retractatio." His latest in English is "The Erotic Phenomenon." I haven't read it, but Commonweal reviewed it. Grant could get us the link, but here is what Amazon reports:Marion's avowed topic is the erotic phenomenon, and his method is phenomenology. He is a master of that method, and the result is an analysis of erotic love of unparalleled precision and depth. The depiction he gives of the erotic phenomenon is fundamentally convincing, and readers will find their own loves illuminated and questioned.Commonweal
Ann,Here's the link for Paul Griffiths' review of The Erotic Phenomenon, which appeared in the March 9, 2007 issue of Commonweal:http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=1875&var_reche...
Re Fr. Komonchak's 11:06 am post of today: I've been reading Jaroslav Pelikan's "Christianity and Classical Culture." In it he discusses the Greek Fathers of the Church known as the Cappadocians. What Fr. Komonchak says in his post meshes with what is called the apophatic theology of the Cappadocians (St.Basil, his brother St. Gregory of Nyssa, their sister Macrina, and St. Gregory Nazienzen). They talked extensively about the relation of "Natural theology," which is developed by reason without any claim to have divine revelation and the Christian revelation as expressed in the Bible and in the Tradition of the Church. I'mnot sure that I have their position clearly in my head, but it is important to know that there is this apparent congruence between the Greek Christian East and the Latin West. And, for what's it's worth, the Cappadocians denouned abortion on grounds of natural theology.For an amateur like me, I find all this fascinating. By contrast, I find the pronouncements of people like Archbishop Chaput and Bishop Morlino barely endurable.
About rationality in ethics, I think the most helpful source is Alasdair MacIntyre's Whose Justice? Which Rationality? --which talks about tradition as an argument about the goods that constitute that tradition, the practices that carry it forward. Again, I think we need to move beyond generalities. It's not enough for the Church to pat itself on the back--to insist on its own rationality. Or to turn to faith to overcome gaps in logical argument or practical reasoning. What practices of inquiry, concretely, should the Church engage in that demonstrates a real commitment to practical reasoning--not simply their use of it as a shield?
Ann:The best general introduction to his work in English is Jean-Luc Marion: An Introduction by Robyn Horner which provides a nice overview of both his earlier theological works and his later phenomenological works. I think the best essay to go to is Kevin Hart's fine introductory essay in Counter Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion which is a collected volume which includes essays by David Tracy, John Milbank, Cyril O'Regan, etc. on Marion's philosophy and theology. Finally, if you are interested in reading primary texts I would point you to Visible and Revealed which a recent collection of his more theologically oriented articles. There is still a discussion of the saturated phenomena and as always his theology is highly philosophical, but this collection is among the more accessible. In Excess: Studies in the Saturated Phenomenon, particularly the last "theological" essay whcih is a confrontation with Derrida: In the Name: How to Avoid Speaking of It. I would turn you away from the Erotic Phenomena until you have waded through Reduction and Givenness and Being and Given, because Erotic is a extension of the phenomenological analyses of these works into the realm of love. With respect to the question of the medievals, he has always been particularly fond of Dionysius the Areopigate whose strategy for naming God is one that figures God in excess of Being in Platonic fashion as the "Good beyond Being." His problem with Being, of course, is that it has traditionally (at least since a certain interpretation of Parmenides) been correlated with thought and therefore comprehension. Thus, Marion's earlier tracks in theology have provocative titles like "God without Being" in which he attempts to construct a theology of revelation that escapes the reduction of God's transcendence to concepts. Marion is a decidely post-Heideggerian and post-Levinasian thinker and in this vein is committed to purging metaphysics from theological discourse insofar as metaphysical theologies have compromised the transcendence of God by treating God as a being and therefore something to be understood, comprehended, etc. Think of the traditional definition of theology as "faith seeking understanding." Marion would revise this to be "faith seeking charity" or "faith seeking a non-metaphysical understanding of praise and worship."In any case, it is in God withoutu Being that he argues Aquinas succumbs to the metaphysical tradition by placing Being as the first name of God. As Imbelli points out, he later retracts this and this retraction has been published in an edited volume on mysticism and contemporary thought: Mystics: Presence and Aporia. The article is entitled, "Thomas Aquinas and Onto-theology." In this and other articles (Phenomenology: A Relief for Metaphysics) he revises his genealogy of metaphysics from scholasticism to Nietzsche to Suarez to Nietzsche. This is significant, of course, because he has now lifted the cloud from Thomas.Anyhow, I highly recommend Marion, although it can be tough going if you aren't familiar with Heidegger and Husserl. Check out the Hart essay and from there see if you want to dive in further!
"What practices of inquiry, concretely, should the Church engage in that demonstrates a real commitment to practical reasoningnot simply their use of it as a shield?"Exactly. Another question that comes to mind is that it is generally agreed that reason was introduced to the church by Thomas. The "I understand therefore I believe." Some say he paved the way for the enlightenment. Augustine and Justin martyr talk of reason only in conjunction with revelation and seem to thereby devalue it. "I believe therefore I understand."Both axioms are true. It is the manipulation that is the problem.
Have forgotten most of my undergraduate philosophy degree education but your thoughts remind me of a few other recent parallel threads:a) the challenge of what the church and theologians call - "Reception" - seems connected to your thoughts. Authority can speak and teach but there must be reception by the sensus fidelium; your arguments may be reasonable but are they received?b) here is an extract from B16's talk at Notre Dame: "To put it yet another way: there are dimensions of meaning in the word (Scripture) and in words which only come to light within the living community of this history-generating word. Through the growing realization of the different layers of meaning, the word is not devalued, but in fact appears in its full grandeur and dignity. Therefore the Catechism of the Catholic Church can rightly say that Christianity does not simply represent a religion of the book in the classical sense (cf. par. 108). It perceives in the words the word, the Logos itself, which spreads its mystery through this multiplicity. This particular structure of the Bible issues a constantly new challenge to every generation. It excludes by its nature everything that today is known as fundamentalism. In effect, the word of God can never simply be equated with the letter of the text. To attain to it involves a transcending and a process of understanding, led by the inner movement of the whole and hence it also has to become a process of living. Only within the dynamic unity of the whole are the many books one book. Gods word and action in the world are only revealed in the word and history of human beings;c) Earlier quote from a lecture series in Rome by Goyret: ""Well, it's true, What I cannot do is, 'I say I have the truth, and you have to agree with me.' I cannot say that. So my job is to find arguments to persuade you."Not sure this adds anything to your discussion but for what it is worth?
Another observation on the relation between reason, science, and faith. Nothing that I say here implies that I doubt that deliberately inducing an abortion is objectively a serious moral wrong.Another passage from Pelikan re the Cappadocian Fathers. According to Pelikan, Gregory of Nyssa says: "Whoever searches the whole of revelation will find thee no doctrine of the divine nature at all, nor indeed a doctrine of anything else that has a substantial existence, so that we live our lives in ignorance of much, being ignorant first of all of ourselves as human beings,and then of all other things besides...." Then Pelikan adds,"including the soul and its relation to the body." I assume that Pelikan's addition faithfully reflects Gregory's position.Consider the following:1. Neither modern biology nor any modern physical science has anything at all to say about a human soul. S, science has nothing to say about when a fertilized human egg is "ensouled."2. To those who raise the issue of all the fertilized eggs that are spontaneously aborted, I ask: Why ought I believe that all these eggs have been endowed with a whatever it is that is a human soul? Surely God in his foreknowledge could leave these eggs "unsouled." We do not want to say that God has to ensoul every fertilized human egg, do we?3. But in our ignorance, would we not be presumptious to claim that we can be confident that there is a period of time after fertilization during which we could deliberately induce an abortion and claim that there was no human soul present when we did so.4. The upshot of these remarks is that we ought not to induce an abortion, but if we do so, there are striking differences between aborting a fertilized egg in the earliest stages o its life and murdering a fetus that has reached viablilty.If I've gone astray, I'll be glad to be corrected. In any case, I hope that the American bishops would take the trouble to be precise when they address any of the complex issues concerning the relation between reason and faith . What a number of them have said thys far about the issue of abortion falls well short of the precision that the seriousness of the matter calls for.
Thank you for your most recent post, Bernard. I am with you completely as to ## 1, 2, and 3, but in the spirit of your comment about the need for "precision that the seriousness of the matter calls for"--I am with you wholeheartedly as to this comment, too--would you mind elaborating on the phrase "striking differences" in # 4? I'm not trying to be argumentative, just more clear about the thrust of your argument. Thanks.
Thanks, William. Let me try to give you a sensible answer.I take it that these is a spectrum of conditions that run between the moment of egg fertilization and the achievement of viability. I have no ability to make fine discriminations within this spectrum, but I think I can say something about the two poles.As I see it, there is no reasonable argument to be made that denies that, once viability is achieved, the child is entitled to all the moral and legal rights that any of the rest of us are. This is not a religious claim. It is based solely on reason and observation.The case of the fertilized egg is different in some important respects. First, it appears that if one has to rely only on reason and observation, then there is room for reasonable disagreement about the status of the fertilized egg. We as Catholics have the guidance of Church teaching and Tradition to consider aborting any human entity, even a newly fertilized egg, as objectively seriously sinful. But I think we have to acknowledge that some people, not blessed with faith, can have defensible reasons for disagreeing with us.As individual citizens, we Catholics have a duty to "believe, teach, and confess" that we regard all deliberately induced abortions to be wrong.If I were an elected official representing both believers and non-believers, then it seems to me that I have to work for laws that all the people that I represent can find habitable. That search is never over and done with. It is always a work in progress. To me, it makes some sense for the Church to oppose having clergymen serve as elected officials in a secular government. Faced with the hard work of representing all their constituents, they would have a very hard time helping Catholics that, in their work of representing, they were not acting contrary to Church teaching in some cases. Lay people do not have the same problem to the same degree.What i see as the disservice committed by Archbishop Chaput, Cardinal Egan and others in their criticisms of Biden (Pelosi is another matter) is that they have not helped their congregations understand this complex issue.Of course, if I'm wrong about all this,then my objections to their remarks are idle.I'm going to be away from home, and blogging, for a number of days, William, so this will be my last posting for a while. I hope I've clarified my thinking as you asked me to do.Best.Wishes


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11 Oct 2012 11:40 PM #1
Final Build (ant) :: still missing some (event) Classes
Here what i've got when build with ant (sencha ant build) :
Creating Application Cache with manifest http://dev.tag-all.com:28880/build/T...cache.appcache Application Cache Checking event Application Cache Downloading event Application Cache Progress event (0 of 1) http://dev.tag-all.com:28880/build/T...ion/index.html Application Cache Progress event (1 of 1) Application Cache Cached event Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://dev.tag-all.com:28880/build/T...=1350026474009
This is something that I've got in "development" when I do not properly set the "Ext.Loader.setPath"
With =
//<debug> Ext.Loader.setPath({ 'Ext': '../../../../Library/touch/src', 'Tall' : '../../../../Library/tall/src', 'TagAll': 'app' }); //</debug>Code:
[INFO] [Ext.ClassManager] Overriding existing alias: 'widget.component' of: 'Ext.dataview.DataView' with: 'Ext.Component'. Be sure it's intentional.sencha-touch.js:600 [INFO] [Ext.ClassManager] Overriding existing alias: 'widget.mask' of: 'Ext.LoadMask' with: 'Ext.Mask'. Be sure it's intentional. sencha-touch.js:600 [INFO] [Ext.ClassManager] Overriding existing alias: 'widget.container' of: 'Ext.dataview.DataView' with: 'Ext.Container'. Be sure it's intentional. sencha-touch.js:600 [INFO] [Ext.ClassManager] Overriding existing alias: 'widget.viewport' of: 'Ext.viewport.Android' with: 'Ext.viewport.Default'. Be sure it's intentional. sencha-touch.js:600
And without =
//<debug> Ext.Loader.setPath({ //'Ext': '../../../../Library/touch/src', 'Tall' : '../../../../Library/tall/src', 'TagAll': 'app' }); //</debug>Code:
- GET http://dev.tag-all.com:28880/TagAll/...=1350027513861 404 (Not Found) sencha-touch.js:7977
- GET http://dev.tag-all.com:28880/TagAll/...=1350027513871 404 (Not Found) sencha-touch.js:7977
- Uncaught Error: [Ext.Loader] Failed loading './event/Dispatcher.js', please verify that the file exists sencha-touch.js:8319
- Uncaught Error: [Ext.Loader] Failed loading './event/publisher/Dom.js', please verify that the file exists sencha-touch.js:8319
What I've understood is that issue comes from the "microloader"...
So actually it seems that is the only last step to have a good build (ok, there is also the problem pointed else where, that the app.appcache has a final "," which cause problem)
So, I'am adding in "app.js" the Requires for ALL the Ext event...
Ext.application({ name : 'TagAll', requires : [ 'Ext.MessageBox', //-----fixing bug for build--------------- 'Ext.event.*', //---------------------------------------- 'Ext.data.proxy.LocalStorage',
Document was loaded from Application Cache with manifest http://dev.tag-all.com:28880/build/T...cache.appcache Application Cache Checking event Application Cache NoUpdate event
- GET http://dev.tag-all.com:28880/build/T...=1350030457345 404 (Not Found) ItemPublisher.js:1
12 Oct 2012 1:31 AM #2
After investigation, all appends in the compiled app.js =>
(somewhere in the code - see at the end of the obj definition ;-)
defaultSetupConfig:{ eventPublishers:{ dom:{ xclass:"Ext.event.publisher.Dom" }, touchGesture:{ xclass:"Ext.event.publisher.TouchGesture", recognizers:{ drag:{xclass:"Ext.event.recognizer.Drag"}, tap:{xclass:"Ext.event.recognizer.Tap"}, doubleTap:{xclass:"Ext.event.recognizer.DoubleTap"}, longPress:{xclass:"Ext.event.recognizer.LongPress"}, swipe:{ xclass:"Ext.event.recognizer.HorizontalSwipe"}, pinch:{xclass:"Ext.event.recognizer.Pinch"}, rotate:{xclass:"Ext.event.recognizer.Rotate"} } }, componentDelegation:{ xclass:"Ext.event.publisher.ComponentDelegation"}, componentPaint:{xclass:"Ext.event.publisher.ComponentPaint"}, elementPaint:{xclass:"Ext.event.publisher.ElementPaint"}, elementSize:{xclass:"Ext.event.publisher.ElementSize"}, seriesItemEvents:{xclass:"Ext.chart.series.ItemPublisher"} }
12 Oct 2012 3:35 AM #3
Ouf...it'is done ;-)
So, to make my application working, i've just have to add this =
Ext.application({ name : 'TagAll', requires : [ 'Ext.MessageBox', //-----fixing bug for build--------------- 'Ext.event.*', 'Ext.chart.series.ItemPublisher', 'Ext.log.Logger', 'Ext.log.writer.Console', 'Ext.log.formatter.Default', 'Ext.fx.Runner', 'Ext.viewport.Viewport', //----------------------------------------
But NOW, this is the "cached" / "update" thing that did not works...
We have to clean the localStorage manually, which is impossible to ask this to our user !!!!!
12 Oct 2012 4:19 AM #4
Fixe this issue
The last thing I've found to resolve this issue (workarround) is:
Delete the "archive" folder before starting "sencha ant build" command
If you change the "update" parameters in the app.json to "full" (instead of "delta" all goes fine ;-)
"js": [ { "path": "../../../../Library/touch/sencha-touch.js" }, { "path": "app.js", "bundle": true, "update": "full" }, { "path": "../../../../Library/tall/tall.js", "update": "full" } ],
12 Oct 2012 9:52 PM #5
This looks similar to some bugs we have fixed recently but I am going to open this so we can check in to your test case. Thanks.
12 Oct 2012 9:54 PM #6
Also - what versions of Touch and Cmd are you using? If you mentioned it I missed it. Thanks.Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
"Use the source, Luke!"
20 Oct 2013 4:33 PM #7
I'm having the same issue as well
What YomeKitsuma suggested fixes my build as well.
I'm running sencha cmd 18.104.22.168 with Sencha Touch 2.3.
It may also be worth pointing out that I had built my app using Cmd 4 and Touch 2.3 that was released at SenchaCon and performed an app upgrade a couple weeks ago.
3 Dec 2013 11:13 PM #8
I've the same issue! When using
eventPublishers: { touchGesture: { recognizers: { swipe: { // this will include both vertical and horizontal swipe recognizers xclass: 'Ext.ux.event.recognizer.Swipe' } } } },
I've to require the following classes to make it work.
'Ext.event.*','Ext.event.publisher.*', 'Ext.event.recognizer.*', 'Ext.chart.series.ItemPublisher'
ST 2.3 Nightly build 20131126
Why has the chart.series.ItemPublisher to be required, when not using any charts?`


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Upload image to an album if exist else create new album - Facebook
I am using this code to create a album and upload a photo to a user's profile
//Create an album
$album_details = array(
'message'=> 'my album name',
'name'=> 'my album name'
$create_album = $facebook->api('/me/albums', 'post', $album_details);
//Get album ID of the album you've just created
$album_uid = $create_album['id'];
$args = array('message' => '');
copy($image, 'tmp/file.jpeg');
$args['image'] = '@' . realpath('tmp/file.jpeg');
$data = $facebook->api('/'.$album_uid.'/photos', 'post', $args);
This code works fine but I have one problem, every time a user uploads a photo it creates a new album each time. What i want to do is create an album the first time only and if user uploads a photo a 2nd time it should get uploaded to the album created first time. How i can do that?


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MK Guth Interviews Artist Laura Fritz
PNCA MFA in Visual Studies Chair MK Guth talks with PNCA Continuing Education alumna Laura Fritz about her New American Art Union (NAUU) Show "Evident" on PORT, a Weblog that features discussions, announcements and events about Portland art and artists.
"Evident" is a striking body of work made possible by a prestigious exhibition award from the "New American Art Union (NAAU)":http://www.newamericanartunion.com/Artists/. The installation appears through February 22 as the latest in NAAU's Couture series. NAAU is located at 922 SE Ankeny St., Portland, OR.
Guth focuses on Fritz's artistic background, from her start at Drake University in Iowa to her most recent video show for the 2007 Portland Experimental Film Festival. Fritz explains of her background, "I didn't really start doing installation art until I moved to Portland and took a few continuing ed courses at PNCA. That's when I got my first solo show at the Manuel Izquierdo Gallery from Nan Curtis."
Fritz also describes her use for the scientific method in everything from experimenting with light in her recent installation to explorations of gingerbread recipes. Fritz's installation, "Evident," is set in a darkened space with projected light, mirrors and partially obscured objects. "It is about perception, anticipation and expectations," says Fritz.
Read the full "PORT":http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2009/02/interview_with_3.html article.
PNCA and OFFICE PDX Welcome Design Leaders
Pacific Northwest College of Art, in collaboration with "OFFICE PDX":http://www.officepdx.com/events.php, welcomes Jerry French, founder of "French Paper":http://www.mrfrench.com/, the only independently owned paper mill in the US, and internationally acclaimed designer Charles S. Anderson, founder of Minneapolis–based Charles S. Anderson ("CSA":http://www.csadesign.com/) Design.
In 2006, they launched Pop Ink, a brand of licensed products produced in conjunction with French Paper Company, inspired by the highs and lows of art and print culture. The lecture will be followed by a question and answer session lead by Amara Holstein, contributing writer and editor for Portland Spaces, Dwell, and Wallpaper magazine.
Pop Ink products have been featured in numerous publications including: Dwell, The New York Times, ReadyMade, and Communication Arts, among others. CSA's approach to design is "a continuous evolution inspired by the highs and lows of art and print culture," according to Anderson. Since founding CSA in 1989, Anderson has worked with clients such as Nike, Target, Coca-Cola, Levi's and more.
Lecture | CSA + French Paper
Featuring Design Leaders Charles S. Anderson and Jerry French
6:30pm, February 25 | PNCA Swigert Commons
ARTFORUM Reviews Modou Dieng at Rocksbox
PNCA Faculty Modou Dieng's recent collaboration with Damien Gilley, SHOOT YOU – SHOOT ME, is the focus of an "ARTFORUM":http://artforum.com/picks/section=us#picks22058 review.
The show runs through March 1 at "Rocksbox":http://www.rocksboxfineart.com/current, 6540 N. Interstate Ave. Gallery hours are Saturday through Sunday, noon to 6 pm.
Dieng is a dynamic contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited at Steve Turner Gallery (Los Angeles), Carousel du Louvre (Paris) and Casa Encendida (Madrid). The New York Times says that his work for the 2008 show "Flow" in New York, "evokes the exhilaration and misplaced optimism of 1960s Africa."
"Dieng":www.modoudieng.com is Assistant Professor in Painting at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
PNCA Faculty Shows Work at galleryHomeland
PNCA Faculty Gordon Barnes and Artist Mandee Schroer show new work at galleryHomeland, a Portland gallery that fosters cutting edge and challenging concepts in art.
The show, "Disaster Capitalist," capitalizes on self-made disasters as a means of creating and examines the disasters in the process of making work.
"[The show] plays off the term Naomi Klein gives to companies that have learned to profit from disaster in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism in which she argues that hardcore free marketers take advantage of (or possibly contribute to) economic shock following disaster or upheaval to advance free market policies around the world (to their benefit, of course)," according to Portland blog ULTRA.
The show runs now through March 1. Exhibition Hours: 12-6 pm, Friday-Monday. galleryHomeland is located at 2505 SE 11th Ave.
Lecture in Honor of Black History Month
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) and co-sponsor Portland Community College (PCC) welcome award-winning film maker Charles Burnett and editor/producer Edwin Santiago for a conversation on the film "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation," at 7pm, February 18 in PNCA's Swigert Commons.
The film will be screened as part of the 19th Annual Cascade Festival of African Films at 7pm, February 20 at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. in Portland.
Together, Burnett and Santiago created 2007's "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation," which follows the legend of Samuel Nujoma (Carl Lumbly), Namibia's first president and a prominent leader in the struggle for independence from apartheid South Africa. Burnett and Santiago have previously collaborated on such films as "Nightjohn" and "Warming by the Devil's Fire."
An influential film director, the New York Times heralded Burnett as "the nation's least-known great film maker and most gifted black director." Lumbly, who stars in "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation," has acted in Burnett's "To Sleep With Anger" alongside Danny Glover and guest-starred in the "X-Files," "The West Wing" and "Alias." Santiago moved into a career in film, working as an editor and producer, after 20 years as a combat photographer in the United Stated Marine Corps.
"The Cascade Festival of African Films":http://www.africanfilmfestival.org/ runs February 6 through March 7 and offers a month of free film screenings within the Portland metro area. "The significance of our festival is that we allow Portland area viewers to see films made predominately by African directors," said Mary Holmstrom, co-founder and co-director of the Cascade Festival of African Films. "They manage to tell stories about Africa that isn't the Hollywood version or stereotypical version."
Photo courtesy of Cascade Festival of African Films
Book Release: Integrating a Burning House
Pacific Northwest College of Art alumni Anna Gray '08 and Ryan Wilson Paulsen '08 have made art out of tragedy with their book Integrating a Burning House.
The book focuses on the September 2008 fire that destroyed their home. They will read from the book at 6:30pm Thursday, February 19 at Allied Works Architecture, 1532 SW Morrison St.
Both Paulsen and Gray are artists and writers who collaborate with a range of local groups including the PNCA community, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and PDX Contemporary Art, among others.
Seattle City Light Illuminates Public Space, Art
PNCA Faculty Emily Ginsburg participated in Seattle City Light, a permanent public art project commissioned with Seattle City Light 1 Percent for Art funds and administered by the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.
Ginsburg's work features a graphic mural of circuitry, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer story ""Seattle City Light sponsors seven art installations"":http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/399854_visual13.html.
Remembering Terry Toedtemeier
Pacific Northwest College of Art honors former Associate Professor of Art and History and Terry Toedtemeier with an exhibit in the PNCA Printmaking/Photo Gallery.
As a scientist, historian, photographer, and curator, Terry Toedtemeier observed, taught, recorded, and collected examples of the awesome power of erosion by time and elements. With his camera, he could halt the forces of heat, wind, or water to bring us a sense of time and place if only for a frame. His life, work, and passing are a testament to the power of suspending one moment in the geological permanence of ages.
Through Terry's 30 years of artistic contributions, he touched not only the community of Pacific Northwest College of Art, but had an impact regionally and nationally through the galleries, museums, and colleges that exhibited and collected his work. While an Associate Professor of Art and History at PNCA, Terry's strong ties to Oregon's landscapes and cultures made him a vital part of the college's academic and artistic life. Beginning as a graduate of Oregon State University with a degree in geology, Terry melded his science with his art. For more than 20 years, Terry was Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum. He was also one of the founding artists and co-directors of Blue Sky Gallery. Terry's work is included in the collections of the National Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
Manifesting his ardent devotion to both photography and the geological wonders of his home, Terry's crowning achievement was his sweeping historical photography book entitled Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957. His work gave rise to an equally well-received exhibit he curated at the Portland Art Museum. The book will be on view in the State Capitol as part of a two-year exhibit on the history and geology of Oregon.
MFA Student Proves That Taste Matters
To Tricia Martin, eating is art.
As an MFA student in PNCA's Visual studies program, Martin proves it through her "blog":http://eatingisart.blogspot.com, hosting themed dinners, and creating dynamically crafted events centered on the intersection of design, art, and food.
The blog "frolic!":http://elseachelsea.typepad.com/about.html currently features Martin's work in the story ""taste matters"":http://elseachelsea.typepad.com/frolic/2009/02/taste-matters.htmlanne
This last summer, with her project Pietopia, Martin posed the question, "What kind of pie would describe the way you are feeling right now?" and had a contest to find out. "More than 50 entrants from as far away as Seattle and San Francisco submitted a pie recipe and 300-word story to explain the ingredients," wrote Rebecca Koffman in an article for the Oregonian.
The most recent iteration of Pietopia is an exhibit at the Niche Gallery at the Ecotrust building, 721 NW Ninth Ave. On exhibit are "six screenprints done by four different artists and myself as a reinterpretation of the people's winning stories," says Martin. "A visual component to the story."
The screenprints are by PNCA's own Justin Bland, Christopher Huizar, Jason Traeger, Mia Nolting and Tricia Martin, on exhibit until March 12.
MFA Show Deals With Mimicry and Dance
It all started with a YouTube video.
"In our downtime, we were listening to crunky Hip Hop and Southern Rap. We started watching YouTube videos," says Rebecca Steele of her time with fellow MFA student Paige Saez at a Caldera Residency this past fall. "So we started to try to create dance moves from the Hip Hop videos."
And so OUR BEST MACHINES ARE MADE OF SUNSHINE was born. As the most recent show at the Lodge Gallery (1532 SW Morrison St), the exhibit deals with issues of play, mimicry, and "how images can be effective or generative in the form of the copy" says Steele.
A combination of photographs, video and installation, the exhibition centers on a YouTube video of Low Flow-Rider and its many response videos. The opening runs 7:30–9:30pm February 12. Visit http://paigesaez.org or http://rebeccasteele.net for more information on the artists.
PNCA Announces Extraordinary Opportunity
PNCA and the Museum of Contemporary Craft explore an extraordinary opportunity to integrate the two institutions. In a "letter":http://www.pnca.edu/about/president/ to the community, PNCA President Tom Manley and Kathy Abraham, President, Board of Directors, "Museum of Contemporary Craft":http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/, outline the extensive steps that have been taken by a joint task force in exploring and analyzing the opportunity.
Oregonian Talks With New Joint MFA in Applied Craft and Design Chair
The Oregonian recently spoke with JP Reuer, the new Chair of the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program, offered jointly by Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) and Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA).
""JP Reuer on design-build, the merger of craft and design"":http://blog.oregonlive.com/portlandarts/2009/02/architect_jp_reuer_is_in.html highlights Reuer's work and the philosophy of this innovative program.
A former Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, Reuer brings a breadth of experience in design and arts education to the program. Reuer is also a LEED accredited architect and licensed general contractor, founder of JP Reuer, Architect, PA and Reuer Associates Inc., and a founding member of DesignBox, a collaborative group of creative talent from a variety of design disciplines. With a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Design and a Master's of Architecture in Affordable Housing, Reuer continues to explore socially purposed design.
"I view the act of making not simply as a means to an end, but as an integral part of designing," said Reuer. "Enhancing the relationship between design and making is something that in my experience is not only mutually beneficial to design and craft, but also supports and gives character to local community."
Portland's two oldest art colleges, OCAC and PNCA, have partnered on a joint MFA degree that fosters a new, forward-thinking model of art and design education. The creation of the joint MFA bolsters the cooperative efforts of these two growing institutions by creating a program that offers students opportunities for creative work that fuses craft, design and environmentalism within a rich academic and creative practice.
For more information, visit our "Press Center":http://www.pnca.edu/news/press/.
New Work in Manuel Izquierdo Gallery
The Manuel Izquierdo Gallery at the Pacific Northwest College of Art presents "The righteous foundation of us." This exhibition by Portland artist Josh Smith features his
fascination with the hive and colony structures characteristic of early Modernism. Utilizing repetition of cylinders and inexpensive materials, Smith's sculptures are simultaneously industrial and organic forms.
"The righteous foundation of us" will be on exhibit from February 5–26, 2009 at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Manuel Izquierdo Sculpture Gallery, 825 NW 13th Avenue, Portland, Oregon. Gallery hours are 9-5pm, Monday-Saturday and by appointment.
A graduate of the Oregon College of Art and Craft, Smith has exhibited work in several galleries including Hoffman Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Craft, and Gallery Homeland. This is his first solo exhibition.
All events are free and open to the public.
MFA Show Explores Temporal Frequencies
The MFA Central Gallery features a collaboration between two MFA students that explores "Temporal Frequencies."
Sound artist Mindy McGovern and light-based painter Laura Hughes use color frequency to explore links between their individual practices in a video projection that integrates elements of both practices.
McGovern created a piano and percussion tonal composition derived from relative color frequencies. Hughes: Painting created with inkjet printer ink, oil, and isopropyl alcohol inserted into corrugated plastic.
*"Temporal Frequencies"
First Thursday Opening* | February 5, 6pm – 9pm
Installation runs 11am-6pm, Monday – Saturday through February 27
MFA Central Gallery
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Main Campus Building, 1241 NW Johnson St.
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Serves 8
- 2 cups dry Cannellini Beans
- 8 cups cold water
- 1 Tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 2 sprigs fresh sage
- 6 whole black peppercorns
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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz met with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Jeddah today. The Jordanian monarch arrived in Jeddah earlier today for a one-day visit to the Kingdom.
After a red-carpet welcome at the King Abdulaziz International Airport, the two leaders held official talks at the royal palace in Jeddah. They discussed developments in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq in addition to other international issues and ways to boost bilateral cooperation.
The meeting was also attended by the Chairman of the Allegiance Commission Prince Mishaal bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Interior Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, Makkah Governor Prince Khalid Al-Faisal and Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Saud Al-Faisal.
The Jordanian delegation to the talks included Prime Minister Nader Al-Dahabi, Chief of the Royal Dourt Dr. Basim Awadallah, Royal Advisor for Tribal Affairs Al-Sharif Fawaz bin Zabin, Foreign Minister Dr. Salah Eddin Al-Bashir, Director-General of General Intelligence Lt. Gen. Mohammad Al-Dahabi and Director of Information and Communication Amjad Al-Adhaylh.
Before departing the Kingdom, King Abdullah of Jordan attended a luncheon hosted in his honor by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.


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Shirley Dinkel
Shirley E. Dinkel, a 44-year resident of Colville, passed away on July 26, 2011 in Colville at the age of 79. Shirley was born on Nov. 9, 1931 in Midvale, Idaho, the daughter of Elmon and Grace Edith (Lanway) Bratcher. She was raised on the family farm just outside of Midvale. Shirley attended school in Midvale and graduated in 1949 as the valedictorian of her class. On Feb. 5, 1949, Shirley married Mike Dinkel and they moved to New Meadows, Idaho, where they began a family. While her children were young, Shirley devoted her attention and time to raising her family. She was also active in the Methodist Church and a member of the Rebecca's Lodge. As her children grew, she found time to work as a volunteer for the school theatrical program, assisting with costumes and other facets of the productions. She also began her career as a cook for the school's hot lunch program. In 1963, the family moved to Grangeville, Idaho. Shirley continued to work outside of the home as a cook at a local nursing home. Four years later, their family relocated to Colville. Shirley's cooking skills were enjoyed throughout the years at many local restaurants until her retirement in the mid 1990's. Her husband, Mike, preceded her in death in 1971. During Shirley's retirement, she continued to do what she had always done… care for others. She was in charge of the monthly tenant dinners at her apartment complex in Kettle Falls. Whether you were family, neighbors or friends, Shirley was always there to offer a hand, cook and help with the care of their home. Shirley was well known for her cooking and her homemade delights drew many guests. No one ever left her home without "too much" to eat. This seemed to define her character, for she was never satisfied unless she had provided an abundance of her generosity, love, laughter, kindness, and nourishment in portions often bordering on "too much." Following her stroke in 2009, Shirley resided in the care of Pinewood Terrace Nursing Home. During these past 22 months, the majority of her verbal skills were lost, so with varied inflection, she would communicate using two very fitting words, "too much." Shirley shared many camping trips, fishing trips, huckleberry adventures and several vacations with her dear friends, Byron and Florence Cooper. She had a light-hearted approach to life, loved music, dancing and watched many musical television programs. Her collection of frogs was quite expansive and included jewelry, cards, statuettes, stuffed animals and many "colorful" craft items. She would have loved to fill her home daily with cut flowers especially red roses.Shirley was preceded in death by her husband, Mike; broth¬ers, Wayne, Norris, Ray, Harley and Howard Bratcher; sisters, Reva Ash and Edna Widner; a grandson, Kenny Hopper; son-in-laws, Larry Zimmerman and Loren Hopper.She is survived by her daughters, Edie Stewart and husband, John, Colville; Diane Zimmerman, Lewiston, Idaho; grandchild, Ron Hopper and wife, Lacey, McAllister, MT, and a great-grandson, Colton Hopper; numerous nieces and nephews.A memorial service for Mrs. Shirley Ellen Dinkel will begin at 11 a.m., Saturday, August 6 at the Danekas Funeral Chapel in Colville. Pastor Bob Todd will officiate. Memorial contributions may be given to the Shriner's Hospital. Please visit the on-line memorial and sign the guest book at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory is entrusted with the arrangements.


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I had always wondered what it must have been like for the cowboys back in the good old days to drive cattle up from Texas to the railroad heads in Kansas. I figured I would never get the chance to do anything like that, because it didn't happen anymore. I found out this summer I was wrong.While those long-lonely days on the trail ARE over, some Kansans still get on their horses and drive cattle the old fashioned way. The folks at the Moore Longhorn Cattle Ranch lets city boys (and girls) like me come along to help out.
Cattle Drive: The Moore Longhorn Cattle Ranch Experience
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$ ls $(./myscript)
The problem here is that
b c is split to
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ls of course cannot find them. Is there some way to circumvent this? I thought escaping the space in the output would be enough.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte track and field team wrapped up the Georgia Tech Invitational on Saturday afternoon at Griffin Track.
Highlighting Charlotte's performances at the Georgia Tech Invitational was freshman Anthony Campbell who finished third overall in the triple jump with a leap of 49'03.75. In the 200m, T'Sheila Mungo was sixth (24.47) and Anthony Bynum was seventh on the men's side (21.34).
On Friday evening, several distance runners and field athletes competed at the Wolfpack Last Chance meet, hosted by N.C. State in Raleigh. Charlotte finished with three first place finishes.
Jake Deaton won the discus with a toss of 177'08. Katrina Wright was fourth in the women's discus (151'00).
Isaac McReynolds captured first in the 110m hurdles with a time of 14.22.Daweet Dagnachew also won the 3000m steeplechase (9:20.86). Maria Ruiz was second in the women's 3000m steeplechase (10:52.48), followed by Morgan Richards in fourth (11:07.87), and Ashleigh Handchen in sixth (11:13.29).
Zach Greth came in third in the 5000m with a time of 15:10.59. In the 800m run, Maraya Slatter was fourth with a time of 2:08.22 and Taylor Carcella was sixth (2:11.60). On the men's side, Sean Kluttz was eighth (1:51.07).
In other field events, Daniel Freeman was second in the javelin (173'07), John Celona finished third in the hammer throw (153'05), and Toby Jo Klauenberg was third in the shot put (44'11.75).
A few athletes will compete on Sunday, May 12 in the Aggie Last Chance meet, hosted by N.C. A&T in Greensboro in hopes of securing a NCAA qualifying time or mark.
The last day for running an eligible qualifying time or distance is Sunday, May 12. The student-athletes that have posted the best times this season that rank in the top 48 of their respective event(s) and declare to compete in them qualify for the two NCAA regional championship meets (East and West). The list of student-athletes, by event, who have been accepted to compete in each preliminary championships competition will be announced on Thursday, May 16, by 1 p.m. ET


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17 Jan 2013 6:45 AM #1
RGB out of HSL delivers wrong color if hue is 0
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Version(s) of Ext GWT
Ext GWT 3.0b and 3.1
Browser versions and OS
doesn't matter
Virtual Machine
doesn't matter
There is a bug in RGB calculation out of an HSL. It seem like, it only appears, if the hue is zero. The resulting RGB is always a shade of grey (r=g=b).
Run mode
Only tested in development mode.
Steps to reproduce the problem
Initilize an RGB with a given HSL with hue = 0.
See example below.
Expected result
RGB in shade of red.
Actual result
RGB in shade of grey.
Test case
RGB rgb = new RGB(new HSL(new RGB(255, 0, 0))); GWT.log(rgb.getColor()); // rgb(128, 128, 128) <<<--- WRONG rgb = new RGB(new HSL(new RGB(255, 1, 0))); GWT.log(rgb.getColor()); // rgb(255, 1, 0) <<<--- Right
- In gxt-chart-3.0.0b.jar com.sencha.gxt.chart.client.draw.RGB line 112:
if (h == 0 || s == 0) {
shall be
if (s == 0) {
The shortcut to set r, g and b each to l seems only correct, if s==0.
Don't use the RGB(HSL hsl) - Constructer. At least not when hue is zero.
- In gxt-chart-3.0.0b.jar com.sencha.gxt.chart.client.draw.RGB line 112:
17 Jan 2013 11:18 AM #2
Thanks for the report, and for the workaround. I have opened a bug in our bug tracker, and will update this thread when we have have made any changes for this.
20 Jan 2014 6:50 PM #3
This issue has been fixed in the 3.1 branch, and will go out in the upcoming 3.1 beta. As part of this fix process I put together test cases from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV#Examples to make sure that we have complete coverage over the color conversion process. This revealed a few other issues such as floating point precision, and our inconsistent handling of arguments passed into HSL vs HSV objects - these have also been changed to be more consistent.