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Channeling theology?
Over at First Things, Maureen Mullarkey raises some long overdue questions about the relationship between the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr, the woman whom Balthasar considered a mystic and whose insights he incorporated into his own vast and controversial theological project. Mullarkey's essay is illustrated with a late-eighteenth-century print depicting a mesmeric exchange between a man and a woman, and she wonders whether Balthasar might have influenced her mystic states at least as much as her visions influenced his theology. Von Speyr seens to have dictated a second autobiography in what sounds an awful lot like a trance. Mullarkey writes:
A hyper-suggestible female susceptible to the ascendent will of an authoritative male is the classic stuff of the literature of parapsychology. In this instance, it is also an invitation to consider the power of theology to seduce and the ways of an eminent theologian to mesmerize. At the same time, it beckons a glance at the corresponding fascination of a theologian with a living mirror of—and prod to—his own transformative ambitions.
It has always puzzled me how a man of such prodigious learning as Balthasar could be so credulous when it came to von Speyr's effusions. In her book Balthasar: A (very) critical introduction, Karen Kirby also wonders about the relationship. On the one hand:
What other theologian of the twentieth century has been so profoundly influenced by a woman, and acknowledged that debt? As we have seen, Balthasar described von Speyr's thought and his own as two halves of a single whole; he put tremendous effort into transcribing and publishing vast amounts of her work; and at her prompting he left the Society of Jesus and made himself, for the central period of his intellectual life, something of an ecclesial and theological outcast.
On the other hand:
One could say, very briefly, that he is the channel [sic] through which she is available; we have almost no access to von Speyr except through Balthasar. And we can presume that her understanding and her articulation of her experiences was to some extent at least–perhaps to quite a significant extent–shaped by his intervention.
When in 1988 Cardinal Ratzinger gave the Erasmus Lecture for Richard John Neuhaus, he stayed around for a couple of days of conversation about the historical-critical method. During a coffee-break I expressed my reservations about some of Balthasar's speculations and exegesis, especially his claim that Christ's descent into hell meant that he suffered the pain of the damned. The Cardinal replied, "Oh, he got all that from Adrienne von Speyr and you know, she used to be a Calvinist."
I have a further interest in a possible diagnosis of parapsychology. My maternal great-great-grandfather Charles Partridge, a very successful New York City businessman, was a leader of the spiritualist movement in the mid-nineteenth century; he even founded a weekly newspaper, The Spiritual Telegraph, in which to publicize the messages received from the Spirit-world either by rappings on tables or by trance-communications.
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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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It is odd - besides his interest in Adrienne von Speyr's visions, there was also his interest in the tarot .... http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/scaldecott_hubtarot_apr07.asp
Karen Kilby seems to have opened the floodgates. Meanwhile the English translation of Theologik has the groupies murmuring "a work of genius!" In reality its first volume is a reprint of a mediocre 1947 work, the kind of philosophical rambling about transcendentals (truth, beauty, freedom; subject and object etc.) that German speakers can write in their sleep and the other two volumes don't look much better.
The Tarot book with the afterword by Hans Urs von Balthazar is recommended by other renowned men in Editorial Reviews: Bede Griffiths, Thomas Keating, OCSO, RIchard W. Kropf in NCR, et al.
(I'm almost tempted to read it.)
I think tarot cards, like opening a bible to a random page, can be useful in finding the answers to questions we have. Nothing magic about it or "occult". We know the answers already.
I prefer the Inner Child Cards.
As to von Balthazar's "channeling" a female mystic? To each his own. I've always had a hard time understanding how anyone can believe the private revelations of people like Margaret Mary Alacoque, Catherine of Siena, the visionaries of Lourdes, La Salette, Knock, Woonsocket, RI, etc., etc., etc., but if those claims help people along the way, fine.
I like this paper on von Balthazar and St. Cordula by Philip Endean, SJ.
Crystal --
Hmmm. Interesting. Another important 20th century Catholic intellectual who was actually the world's authority on the history of Tarot was Michael Dummett (a sometime contributor to Commonweal and one of the great logicians of the 20th century). He wrote extensively on Tarot. He said that he wasn't interested in the "fortune telling and occult" aspects of it.
His research revealed that that originally the Tarot figures had no occult meanings. It was just a popular card game. It was invented in the 15th century, and the occult meanings appeared only in the 18th century. Tnis strongly indicates to me that they were not based on any sort of visionary or "mystical" experience of any sort.
Von Balthasar was a tremendously learned man. I wonder if he knew Dummett's work onTarot., If so, it seems quite naive of him to use the Tarot figures as theological hermeneutic devices, no matter how sincere the author of that Meditations book was. True, all of Nature reveals the Lord, but Tarot cards?
Hi Ann. I actually have a pack of tarot cards from back in college :) Perhaps von Balthasar saw the cards in a Charles Peirce/semiotics kind of way as possible icons, signs, symbols of Christian meaning? Thomas Aquinas seems to have tried to address the divination issue, given that it's practiced a lot in the bible ... http://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.SS_Q95_A8.html
Tarot is still a popular card game, at least in France, for 3 to 5 players, of a style similar to whist or bridge, with trumps, bidding, and partners. It involves strategies and probability. I have a couple of decks and re-learn the game every time I go on vacation with people who like to play cards.
T S Eliot also used Tarot in "The Waste Land".
Von Balthasar wasted the time of students of theology for 30 years by teaching them an idiosyncratic, reactionary method that is the polar opposite of the more sober, empirical, world-open, dialogal, biblically grounded method of Vatican II.
Huffing and puffing about recondite theologoumena such as the Descent into Hell does nothing to make Christianity more comprehensible or credible in the horizon of modernity. Balthasar saw modernity as a Promethean revolt and expected an imminent eschatological event in which modernity would be overthrown.
His trinitarian theology is the framework of his system, and it is tritheistic, as Rahner saw, and fantasy ridden. The sterility of Balthasar's method is clearly on view in the vast sprawl of his trilogy, which simply fails to produce the goods. What a contrast with Barth's magnum opus!
Some claim that von Speyr's writings have intrinsic merit of their own. I have not read them, but Kilby suggests that it was actually Balthasar who wrote them.
Ratzinger ascribes the Descent into Hell stuff to von Speyr's Calvinist background. Calvin offered a metaphorical and spiritual reading of it, but today we see it as a piece of legend that has fallen by the wayside.
"His trinitarian theology is the framework of his system, and it is tritheistic, as Rahner saw, and fantasy ridden. The sterility of Balthasar's method is clearly on view in the vast sprawl of his trilogy, which simply fails to produce the goods."
I wonder which bits of theology are not "fantasy ridden".
Not enough people understand how Balthasar, deLbac, Rahner and others catapulted to pressure to return to orthodoxy. It really hurt theology and the renewal of Vatican II. One of the main reasons theology went in the tank for forty years. Ironic that Balthasar who criticized Kung for his unorthodoxy became somewhat of a "theological outcast" in his interaction with this mystic woman. Was there any romance in this? Rahner had a long relationship with a woman for over 20 years.
In my opinion mystics are highly overrated. If we spent as much time dissecting the Sermon on the Mount the church would thrive. Flowery stuff seems to be more attractive than calls to action.
She looked like Orson Welles.
Here's a holy card of Hans: http://thebyzantineanglocatholic.blogspot.com/2010/04/mystery-of-holy-sa...
Crystal --
Interesting Aquinas text. He's clearly against astrology, but casting lots is sometimes OK and sometimes not, depending on one's intentions. For instance, people who draw straws leave the determination up to chance or, possibly, to God's influence.
In my mother's family when two or more heirs want an object, drawing straws is used as a means of determining which heir will get it, No hocus pocus involved in that. St. Thomas, according to the first part of the text, would approve because the matter is left to chance -- no prayers involved. But later he says that to cast lots with prayers asking that God influence the outcome is wrong, because, says Augustine, that's too trivial a matter to ask God's influence. Hmm. Then what about all our other trivial prayer requests? Are they improper too?
Good to see that he explicitly dispproves of torture even for a good end :-) Wonder how Torquemada got around that.
Bill Mazzella:
Re: romance between von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr. Who knows?
Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. claims that von Balthasar was her confessor. Her biography online indicates that she came from a rather troubled family system.
I do not understand how von Balthasar could have such a following: JPII and BVI. Could if have something to do with "Communio"?
Rahner's relationship with Luise Rinser as indicated in their letters is pretty steamy. Interesting that she wrote a novel entitled, "Abelard's Love".
I had better stop now lest I descend to "National Enquirer" gossip.
"I do not understand how von Balthasar could have such a following: JPII and BVI. Could if have something to do with "Communio"? "
As long as one is loyal to Rome and give unconditional assent, theology does not matter as much. Rome turned Rahner, deLubac, Von Balthasar and other progressives, against Kung. As Avery Dulles turned toward orthodoxy Rome began to bestow honors on him. It was the only reason he became a Cardinal. Paul VI kept saying to Kung: "Give me a sign" un segno, that he was returning to orthodoxy. If he did he would have easily made bishop and Cardinal. (This was Ratzinger's path) The terrible treatment by Rome of Bernard Haring, a true saint and prophet, says it all.
John XXIII and Francis are different.
"I do not understand how von Balthasar could have such a following: JPII and BVI. Could if have something to do with "Communio"? "
Maybe because von Balthasar, unlike Rahner, was very conservative on all the doctrine stuff - for instance, to read what he has to say about women and their place in the church is depressing.
Thanks, Crystal, for those useful links. Although Karen Kilby reports perceptions of Balthasar's writing as "oozing sex" his pontifications on the role of woman sound like a zombie: http://web.archive.org/web/20040109232722/http://praiseofglory.com/bridegroom.htm/von.htm/
To the allegation that Rahner, too, is fantasy-ridden, I would say that in the specific area of Trinitarian theology he is remarkably sober; the only other theologian I have read who keeps trinitarian fantasy so firmly in check is Newman. Both agree that there is nothing much to be said about the Trinity -- except that the Church discerns that within the One God we must distinguish three instances, named Father, Son, and Spirit. All Rahner adds to Newman is that these instances may be called "modes of subsistence" (the Cappadocians' tropoi tes hyparxeos). This restraint drove Balthasar crazy, but it is the price of sanity aka orthodoxy. Why could Balthasar not be happy with what Scripture says about Father, Son and Spirit? Why did he need the superstructure of a fantasy world?
Of course there are a lot of theologians from Greek and Russian Orthodoxy who abound in fancy trinitarian speculations; I venture to suggest that a bit of Roman discipline would be good for them.
correction, "there is nothing much to be said about the Trinity" should be "there is nothing much to be said about the immanent Trinity".
What a fascinating thread, Fr. K.. Who would have thought?
Please keep going JOL, Gerelyn, Ann, Crystal, Bill M, et al. Such an education.
There have also been a lot of articles on von Balthasar and hell ....
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/08/why-von-balthasar-was-wro... ... Why Von Balthasar Was Wrong About Holy Saturday
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/10/balthasar-hell-and-heresy-an-... ... Balthasar, Hell, and Heresy: An Exchange
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/02/003-more-on-balthasar-hell-an... ... More on Balthasar, Hell, and Heresy
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/10/responses-to-balthasar-hell-a... ... Responses to Balthasar, Hell, and Heresy
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/08/the-population-of-hell-23 ... The Population of Hell
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=3344&CFID=214... ... The Inflated Reputation of Hans Urs von Balthasar
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2216 ... Will All Be Saved?
Speaking of Karen Kilby, she made some videos on von Balthasar for the U of Notingham ...
I take vigorous exception to Bill Mazzella's comments about DeLubac, et al's obedience to the Church. It may well be that their silencing was unjust. Their accepting it as part of their service to the Church remains to their credit.
Nice of you to refer to me in the third person. I am not quite sure what your point is. DeLubac, as well as many others, were restored by John XXIII and then stifled again by subsequent "Supreme Pontiffs." Hans Kung, Congar, Schillibexx and others chose to fight for what they believed was right, albeit in different modes. When Kung was censured by JPII many theologians at Tubingen, and other places, signed protest letters. When pressure came on the professors at Tubingen, practically all of them backed down. DeLubac, as well as others, chose to conform also. DeLubac became a Cardinal, the ultimate reward for orthodoxy. Some may say that Congar became a Cardinal also as to justify the others. But Congar suffered from a nueralgic disease for six years before he was named Cardinal. To me it was a cheap publicity stunt captitalizing on a frail person.
The definition of the Church goes beyond the hierarchical church. Service to the Church must always include obedience to one's conscience.
Bill, sorry that I did not refer erlier to yo in the second person. I intended no slight. But let me say again that I find no reason to think that the scholars to whom you refer were failing to follow their consciences. That you disagree with what they did is one thing. To charge them with a far from trivial moral failing is another thing. Mercy, love, and compassion always have a place when we are assessing the conduct of other people. There is nothing about these virtues that make them incompatible with a devotion to truth.
Yves Congar's neurological disease afflicted him for much longer than the last six years of his life. His Vatican II journal is filled with references to it. He himself gratefully regarded the cardinalate as a recognition of the importance and value of his work, however late it was in coming.
Joe K,
We have had this discussion before. Congar did have the disease from the 1930's. It became more acute the last six years,which he spent in Hôpital des Invalides. In these last years he became more and more frail. How capable was he when he was named Cardinal just before his death. If you can provide documentation for your remarks Joe, I would appreciate it. Depending on who writes, the Cardinalate is considered a forgiveness or reward. It is hard to consider Congar considering the Cardinalate as a recognition since he saw so many incompetents become Cardinal.
"To charge them with a far from trivial moral failing is another thing. "
Let me put it this way; Rare is the theologian who has not sold out. You can include Augustine of Hippo and Bernard of Clairvoux in that bunch. The lack of conscience of theologians is a large reason for the corruption in the church. The Vatican has killed or censured those who acted according to their conscience. Augustine said the age of martyrs was over which was true since officials began to compromise their faith rather than live it. Why else would Emperors call the first seven Councils. Marcus calls this the "Age of Hypocrisy."
We certainly have a whiff of that now with Catholic Justices who don't give a damn about the poor. As far as judging we all depend on the mercy of God whose mercies endure forever. Jesus said "if they persecuted me they will persecute you because the servant is not greater than the Master." Centuries of bishops have tried to be greater than the Master. Augustine, and others, have even used the state to kill other Christians.
"Mercy, love, and compassion always have a place when we are assessing the conduct of other people."
Bernard --
True about conduct, but when it comes to thinking, professional scholars have to be willing to criticize and be criticized. Unhappily, logic is merciless, and we all hate to be shown to be wrong. Most unfortunately, that seems to be especially true of the CDF.
Have you seen the latest on the rapprochement between the CDF and some of the liberation theologians? Nothing like a new pope to make the CDF reverse itself. Nothing. Sigh.
Bill: I passed on what I was told by a member of Congar's community at the Couvent saint Jacques in Paris.
It is, of course, quite rich that you would ask someone else for "documentation" after the string of unsubstantiated and highly judgmental comments you've been making about a whole bunch of theologians.
"quite rich"!!!
Is that from Holden Caufield or Vanity Fair? As far as Congar's community you know that is what is called hearsay. One sparrow does not make a summer. As far as documentation, Joe, you and I both know that if I make an error you are the first to cite chapter and verse.
Oh, now I get it! Guilty until proven innocent!
On this post, it would have been interesting to see comments by Cathy Kaveny, Lisa Fullam, Fr Imbelli, Lawrence Cunningham, or other theologians.
One member of Congar's community's comment does not mean that is what Congar felt. Especially in his advance illness.
But as you know I am quite serious about theologians. If anything they have to be serious witnesses to the faith. The constant quoting of Augustine, who declared that it was moral to kill Christians, is an indication that too many theologians do not understand how the violent history of Christianity stemmed from that. Likewise with Bernard of Clairvoux who did not just approve of the Crusades but clamored for them. We are talking centuries of theologians. The worst wars came within our lifetime. So these are serious problems which too many in Christianity avoid or stand on the sidelines uttering pieties but avoiding witnessing.
Bill M.:
The Dominican I referred to was a close associate of Congar at Le Saulchoir, unlikely to prettify anything he said. In any case, my source is a lot closer to him than anything you have offered in defense of your speculations.
Another rehearsing of all the bad things ancient thinkers did does not justify your sweeping comments about several 20th-century theologians whose hearts and good faith you call into question, as if only theologians who agree with you act out of conscience. You never seem to consider the possibility that someone could disagree with you without being either ignorant or cowardly.
Joe K
Quod gratis asseritor, gratis negatur. You can take all the cheap shots you want. That you do not back it up with facts is the issue. My opinion that Congar did not value the Cardinalate may make more sense than any spin. Here is Congar's letter to his mother. How he could change to value this vainglorious title warrants disbelief:
"What I am blamed for is usually very little. Most of the time, whatever problem is raised about an idea in my work is explained in the preceding line in that same work. What has put me in the wrong (in their eyes) is not having said false things, but having said things that they do not like to have said. I have touched on problems without always aligning myself to the one point of view which [Rome] wants to impose on the comportment of the whole of the Christian world and which is: to think nothing, to say nothing, except what they propose.
There is one pope who thinks everything, who says everything, and the whole quality of being Catholic consists in obeying him. They want to be absolutely the only ones to think or say anything, except on a small area of inconsequential topics. It is absolutely required to repeat and orchestrate their oracles, declaiming, "Ah, isn't this wonderful!" [Rome] has attributed to me an audience and an influence that I know very well I have never had. But they will listen to nothing about that.
The present pope [Pius XII] has (especially since 1950) developed almost to the point of obsession a paternalistic regime consisting in this: that he and he alone should say to the world what it has to think and what it must do. He wishes to reduce theologians to commenting on his statements and not to dare to think something or undertake something beyond mere commentary; except, I repeat, in a very small and safeguarded area of inconsequential problems.
The French Dominicans have been persecuted and reduced to silence because they have been the only ones who have had a certain freedom of thought, initiative and expression. In all cases this has been a matter of a freedom within orthodoxy, but an orthodoxy whose sources are the Bible, the Fathers of the Church, etc. The first warning I was given, perhaps the only clear one, came in 1938 or '39; Pere Gillet [the Dominican master general] said to me: "They complain about you for calling for a return to the sources of theology." And of course there are others who have also lived and worked in this same direction. Indeed, there are many, perhaps more and more. But we know that it is in large part thanks to us (the role of Editions du Cerf [the Dominican press in Paris], etc.) that we are so visible. And above all, we are the only group as a group to be free in the service of truth, the only ones to put truth above everything else.
It is clear to me that Rome has never looked for and even now does not look for anything but the affirmation of its own authority. Everything else interests it only as matter for the exercise of this authority. Except for a certain number of cases dealing with people of holiness and creativity, the whole history of Rome is about insisting on its own authority and the destruction of everything that cannot be reduced to submission. If Rome, 90 years late regarding the initiatives of the liturgical movement, now takes an interest in this movement, for example, it is so that the movement won't exist without and won't be able to escape its control. And on and on.
Practically speaking, they have destroyed me as far as it was possible for them. Everything I believed and had worked on has been taken away: ecumenism, teaching, conferences, working with priests, writing for Temoignage Chretien, involvement in conventions, etc.
They have not, of course, hurt my body; nor have they touched my soul or forced me to do anything. But a person is not limited to his skin and his soul. Above all when someone is a doctrinal apostle, he is his action, he is his friendships, he is his relationships, he is his social outreach; they have taken all that away from me. All that is now at a standstill, and in that way I have been profoundly wounded. They have reduced me to nothing and so they have for all practical purposes destroyed me. When, at certain times, I look back on everything I had hoped to be and to do, on what I had begun to do, I am overtaken by an immense heartsickness."
Bill: I didn't think you had any evidence. Certainly a letter written thirty years before he was made a cardinal, before Vatican II and the great contribution he made to its success and the great changes in the Church, doesn't ground the hypothesis you offer--and, please, it is nothing more than your hunch.
Henri de Lubac was indeed annoyingly conservative in later years, but his development is perfectly consistent with his earlier self. At the Council he was increasingly critical of what he saw as the excesses of the progressives; see http://www.france-catholique.fr/3103-Carnets-du-Concile-d-Henri-de.html To picture him as a careerist of any kind is ridiculous.
I saw de Lubac many times at Chantilly and chatted with him once in Paris -- he lived a modest, disciplined Jesuit life, and I am pretty sure thought as little of red hats as Congar. Congar hardly sighed for a red hat but its late arrival was greeted by thousands of people with relief, because the refusal to grant it was interpreted as meaning that his theology (in John Paul II's time) remained under a cloud (and of course Rahner was never considered as a potential Cardinal, not to speak of Schillebeeckx). Congar was pretty outspokenly critical of Vatican authorities -- he not the wisest course if you want a red hat. He was quite a scold and even at times a whiner. Congar denounced the Vatican's "morality of the sacrosanct semen" while de Lubac wrote a glowing preface to Karol Woytila (John Paul II)'s "Love and Responsibility". I saw Congar at a meeting of Communio chatting with the also uncardinalized Von Balthasar.
Stanislas Breton (passionist philosopher) boycotted a meeting with John Paul II at the Institut Catholique in 1980 and asked why the pope saluted de Lubac and not Congar (this was before de Lubac become cardinal). He wrote a brilliant essay in Esprit at that time on "de la netteté dans l'Eglise" referring to Catherine of Siena's call for nettezza.
Nobody ever accused Maritain of being a toady, but after Vatican II he wrote bitterly about some of the "liberal" changes.
It isn't uncommon for people to turn conservative as they age. The poet Robert Frost said, "I never dared to be radical when young. For fear it would make me conservative when old. " :-)
Kilby's 167 pages opened the floodgates??? now that is fantasy...
Endean is an excellent Rahner scholar; but on Balthasar he is quite sophomoric...


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Benedict's election to succeed John Paul II in 2005 was a statement. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been for two decades an avatar of conservative Catholicism. As Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he supported the reintroduction of the Latin Mass, which had all but disappeared after Vatican II. He was especially articulate defending the rationale for moral traditions. At a time when other Christian denominations were scrambling to appear modern and relevant by ditching their vestments and high-church trappings, Benedict's election seemed an affirmation that a church need not be hip to thrive.
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Largely lost in that controversy was the Pope's purpose in delivering the speech—an insistence that Faith and Reason need not be antagonists. Their convergence, he argued, "created Europe and remains the foundation of what can rightly be called Europe."
You might also call it a defense of Western civilization, or simply the West. In the modern West, however, we have turned skepticism and tolerance into such pre-eminent values that we are in danger of rendering ourselves incapable of defending the virtues of the Western tradition. Pope Benedict refused to turn a blind eye when radical Islam suppressed freedom, notably freedom of conscience.
In the Middle East, China and elsewhere, Christians face persecution, expulsion, imprisonment or even death for cleaving to their faith. Coptic Christians in Egypt have suffered greatly after Mubarak, and in Iraq some of the oldest Christian communities in the world cling to a tenuous existence. Benedict's pontificate deserves to be remembered for the attention and energy he gave to the plight of Christians living in unfree conditions for religious practice.
The one issue during Benedict's papacy that threatened to overwhelm all others has been the sex-abuse scandals among the Catholic priesthood. The Church has brought upon itself much of the condemnation it's received over cover-ups and lax treatment of abusive priests, though Pope Benedict recognized the problem and acted, if belatedly, to air these crimes and draw a line under them.
The scandals nonetheless made clear that the Catholic Church's lumbering, centuries-old Vatican administrative bureaucracy is its Achilles' heel. Honed over centuries to protect itself, the Vatican in many ways is a 16th-century bureaucracy in a 21st-century world. It proved during the abuse scandals that it is an insufficient servant of the modern papacy.
Four years ago, as part of an effort to reconcile a group of schismatics, Pope Benedict reinstated an excommunicated bishop who was, as Der Spiegel put it, "a notorious Holocaust denier." Benedict apologized for the episode, noting that if the Church had accessed information available on the Internet, it could have avoided the controversy. Perhaps so, but the larger problem of the Church hierarchy's insularity will take more than a bit of Googling or papal tweeting to address.
An intellectually strong Pope such as Benedict can set worthy goals and articulate them with force and eloquence. But it comes to naught if the Vatican is either incapable of following through to execute the Pope's intentions, or even undermines them. For all the diplomatic attention given the Middle East, there is little to show for it. Benedict's failure to meet with dissidents during his visit to Cuba last year was a glaring and inexplicable failure by those preparing the trip.
It's possible that Benedict recognized all this and that it influenced his decision to resign in favor of a younger man with more energy to manage and reinvigorate such a huge institution. If so, this traditionalist pope will prove to have been wise in breaking the papal tradition of staying on the job until death.
The Catholic Church under Benedict and John Paul II has been exemplary in defending tradition against the erosions of the modern world. And the Church isn't the only institution to find itself routinely behind the communications curve. We hope, though, that when the cardinals gather to pick Benedict's successor, they consider someone able and willing to clean out the Augean Stables at the Vatican itself. The papacy's voice is needed. But it needs an upgrade.

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15 Aug 2007 7:40 PM #1
Class Ext.form.ComboBox+click event
I need to fatch the items of ComboBox(Class Ext.form.ComboBox) when ever user clicks on combobox. There is no click event in combobox(in docs).
How can I apply click event to combo box so that when user clicks on combobox the event is fired.
with regards
15 Aug 2007 7:43 PM #2
15 Aug 2007 8:36 PM #3
Focus event will not do the job for me when I populate my combo on focus event because
On selecting an item ajax request is submitted to server and based on response dom is updated by appending new elements.
And somehow focus event of combo is triggered automatically(unwanted). I thought by using click event I could avoid this problem.
16 Aug 2007 2:14 AM #4
then use select.
your description isn't clear, but it appears you want some action performed only when an item in the ComboBox's list is selected.
16 Aug 2007 2:27 AM #5
look here where i have a sample with linked combos:
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Thanks for replying
What I wanted was to load data model used for combo when someone clicks combobox.
(ie populating combo when select is clicked). Click event is what I was looking for which was not there.
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16 Aug 2007 10:44 PM #7
beforequery event then.
note: the beforequery event fires only when the ComboBox's trigger is clicked. you'll also need to use the same handler which populates the store on the ComboBox's focus event as well (i.e. when the ComboBox's text input field is clicked).
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It has been more than a year since I've asked this question. So, here are the rule modifications that I've play-tested. It seems to balance well, though I would like the game to go a little longer.
Objective: Get 12 victory points before 3 years are up.
Feel free to critique.
Late reply is exceedingly late, but oh well. I tested these rules out and liked them; I also came up with some modifications I think add a little length and tension to the game.
Objective: Get 16 victory points before 4 years are up. (N.B. this is theoretically extensible for use with add-ons et cetera- the 4VP/1yr formula seems to balance decently.)
Additional stipulations:
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i personally have been on and off with ubuntu since... 9.04 i belive.
now i'd like to stay with ubuntu for good. i have settled in with 12.10.
the thing is, im not an expert in this field, i do not have professional knowledge on source coding not to mention programming language (basic c is all i've got, except all the pythons i played with in my calculator when i was in high school...)
ubuntu is always developing and there have always been problems and solvings people worked out. and i am more than greatful for this huge community.
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If ばかり could mean approximately; about; and could also mean only; merely; nothing but;, then how should we know if this sentence 5000円ばかりもっている。 means:
1) I have about 5000 yen.
or 2) I have only 5000 yen.
Note that ばかりに, ばかりか etc. also exist and work differently.
As @Scott just pointed out, in your example, you would use だけ or しか (+negative) to mean "only".
If the verb is past tense it means "just" happened. If the verb is -te iru it means only.
There are about 3 or 4 other uses that arent used as much. bakarini nado...


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- Crib -- it should meet crib safety standards.
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- Noise machine.
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- Changing table supplies
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I have bumped into a phenomenon in the geometry of jet space $J^r(\mathbb{R}^n,\mathbb{R})$ for $r,n\geq 2$ that I think might help one measure and understand the failure of regularity of functions, perhaps most usefully in the context of non-$C^\infty$ solutions to PDEs in $n$ independent and one dependent variable. But, I'd like to collect some example functions to see if my intuition is correct before proceeding with some difficult constructions.
Here are a couple questions:
What are some interesting functions that have $C^{r-1}$ regularity everywhere in an open set but have $C^r$ regularity on a strict subset (preferably closed, preferably a smooth variety, maybe even preferably discrete points)?
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Watch out for the catfish and be sure to X-ray the dog
In the early 1980s, a Rhode Island family went on its annual vacation, taking the beloved dog with them.
Alas, when it was time to shepherd the family home, the dog had vamoosed. The family looked high; it looked low, but as Rhode Island beckoned, neither snout nor tail of their beloved mutt could be found. Off they went.
Now, you already know how this shaggy dog tale is going to end. Months go by and the bereft family opened the door to find its tired, dusty old dog padding up the sidewalk. Cue the violins. Lassie had come home.
But when Joel Rawson, then the afternoon editor with the Providence Journal, read the story, he thought: C'mon.
How do they know it's the same dog, he asked the reporter.
Easy, said the reporter. As a puppy, the dog was hit by a car and broke its leg. This dog had the same distinctive limp.
In that case, said Rawson, in a demand that has become notorious throughout New England newsrooms: X-ray the dog.
They did and in so doing, discovered the dog's secret: The shifty cur was an impostor!
Had this story run last week, the Rhode Island family, which ended up keeping the furry fraud, might have named it Lennay Kekua.
Lennay Kekua may now be the most famous woman who never lived. Or maybe the most famous woman who never died. She was the chimerical beloved of an either despairing or devious Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o. Either Te'o was the victim of an elaborate and malicious Internet hoax, or he was the perpetrator of a vile ruse to make us all pity him. Take your pick.
Either way, by the end of the week, Te'o looked like the biggest meathead to ever strap on a pair of shoulder pads, which is saying something.
For those of us unfamiliar with the world of college football (Hello!) and less familiar with the world of online dating (ditto!), the Te'o swindle was a revelation. Until last week, for example, I thought that the term "catfish" referred to a bug-eyed bottom feeder with mutton chops. I've subsequently learned that it refers, according to the online Urban Dictionary, to "someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances." Such fiendishness is so endemic that it has spawned not only a movie but an MTV reality series.
Is it me, or does it seem like all the wrong people have oodles of free time?
Nearly 40 million Americans troll Internet dating sites, a romantic alternative infinitely more appealing than stalking the soused at bars and only slightly more efficient than thrusting your grocery cart toward the loneliest- looking person perusing the peas.
The problem, of course, is that the only ploy easier than stashing Cyrano in the bushes is impersonating the soulmate of one's dreams. In the words of the celebrated New Yorker cartoon, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
More troubling than the not-entirely-alarming apprehension that the Internet is teeming with charlatans whose exclusive ambition is to wring a few yucks from your humiliation is what the Te'o imbroglio reveals about romance in the 21st century.
News reports indicate that Te'o, who said he bravely played on the day of his supposed girlfriend's supposed funeral, never met the bewitching Lennay. Their "relationship" subsisted solely through email, Twitter postings and phone conversations.
Where was I when there were so many virile 20-year-old boyfriends who demanded nothing but a good-night text?
In my day, a hearty specimen like Te'o could develop a relationship with a blocking sled. How such a hunk of burning love could keep his pilot light lit without so much as a stroke of his flint is a little hard to fathom.
Equally perplexing is how such a devoted paramour could discover that his beloved had fallen into a coma, and not rush to her bedside to comfort her. Evidently, in such circumstances, BCNU works just as well.
If I were Lennay, I'd be like, "CUL8R"
But then, if I were Lennay, I'd be dead.
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The report of the design process, "A Map for the Future: Creating the Next Generation of Protected Areas Inventories in the United States" (July 2009), can be downloaded at right.
More information on available protected areas inventories can be found at these two sources:PAD-US (U.S. Geological Survey - Gap Analysis Program)
The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is a GIS database hosted by the USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP) that illustrates and describes public land ownership, management and conservation lands nationally, including voluntarily provided privately protected areas. Version 1.2 of this data set was released by GAP in April, 2011 and can be downloaded from the USGS PAD-US web site (data available in geodatabase and shape file formats). The web site includes an online map viewer for the data as well as information on PAD-US standards, core attribute schema and a summary of commonly requested statistics.
GAP compiled the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) version 1.1 with significant contributions and large aggregated datasets from the Bureau of Land Management (National Operations Center), the U.S. Forest Service (Automated Lands Program), GreenInfo Network (California) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC – National and Eastern Regional offices). Many other federal, state, local, non-governmental organizations and land trusts provided highly valuable data that was more limited in scope.
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Juan Cole: "Iranian President Rouhani acknowledges Holocaust as crime against Jewish people."
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff gives U.S. whatfor on NSA spying.
A handshake is just a handshake, unless it's not. Re: Rouhani and Obama do not encounter one another at the UN (oh, maybe in the men's room).
U.S.-Iran: A Tangled Web with a long history and the many factors in further tangling it. Lobelog
EVEN MORE: Apropos of Mr. Rouhani's remarks about the Jewish people and Nazis, the New York Times has this helpful story on what he said in Teheran and what he said in New York. It opens with an unusually feisty first paragraph (do they give Pulitzers for that?).
"TEHRAN — So there was Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency, once the dedicated defender of the Israel-bashing, Holocaust-denying former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, being singled out for praise on Thursday by The Wall Street Journal's staunchly conservative, Israel-defending, Iran-distrusting editorial page." New York Times Story
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The Fox News/GOP made a big deal about Irans president not shaking hands with Obama.. They never mentioned that the GOP Congress has dozens of Pols who wouldn't shake Obama hand if a camara/cell phone was around.
Juan Cole seeks to minimize the extent of anti-Semitism in Iran by pointing out that during WWII, Iran served as a conduit for Jews escaping Europe. Assuming this is true, its hardly evidence of the situation in Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Its not just Holocaust denial by its immediate-past President, though that's bad enough. Its the sponsoring of Holocaust-denial seminars. Its the wide dissemination of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous czarist secret police forgery of the late 19th century, purporting to set forth the worldwide conspiracy of the Jews to control the world. These and other forms of anti-Semitism are the reasons the Jewish population of Iran, 80,000 strong in 1979, is now a mere 10,000. Iran no longer allows entire Jewish families to have passports at the same time, thus insuring that those traveling abroad will return. Even so, outside Israel, it is the largest population of Jews in that part of the world, since the flight of Jews or their expulsion from Arab countries has been even more dramatic.
Whatever the views of the ordinary Iranians, those who are the staunchest supporters of the Islamic government, i.e., those in charge, are often pronounced anti-Semites.
That is why its not surprising to find the NYT reporting today that current President Rouhani's denial of Holocaust-denial has caused a firestorm in Iran, where Iranian media is reporting that he never did any such thing and is claiming that American media has distorted his words. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/world/middleeast/for-irans-leader-time-is-not-yet-right-for-meeting-obama.html?hp&_r=0.
The WSJ claims that the Iranian media's translation of Rouhani's words, which were spoken in his native tongue, is more accurate than the American translation. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303796404579097491626493058.html?mod=ITP_opinion_2. I recall reading yesterday that the CNN translation was provided by a translator provided by the Iranians.
It seems that either the Iranians are providing Americans false translations of Rouhani's words, or the Iranian leadership doesn't want its population to know that Rouhani dared to admit the existence of the Holocaust and admit it was evil. Imagine! Such a brouhaha about something as simple, truthful and humane as admitting that the Holocaust occurred and that it was evil.
Do you need to know anything else to understand the real state of affairs in Iran?
I wonder what Rouhani and Cole mean by the word "condemnable."
(And, as always, I wonder why anyone cares what those who deny, minimize, and/or justify the Holocaust pretend to think.)
Why would anyone want to minimize the efforts of Rouhani to overcome the denials of his predecessor? Why should the efforts of Iranians during WWII to save Jews be dismissed out of hand? Why should nascent and faltering efforts at peacemaking be so disturbing?
Would you like to see another Holocaust: World War III in the Middle East where Sunnis, Shias, Druse, Alawites, Christiand and Jews will decimate one another?
Gerelyn: Whatever translation is used, the words seem carefully selected, perhaps to mean different things to different people.
As to whether it should matter to anybody, Jews (for obvious reasons) are going to be the most sensitive to such things. You are correct that when espousers of Holocaust-denial are fringe people and have no power – such as white supremacists in the U.S. – it perhaps doesn't warrant much attention. They just aren't worth it.
But when it is a government that has called for the destruction of Israel, when it is the sponsor of Hezbollah, also sworn to Israel's destruction, which sits on Israel's northern border, and has tens of thousands of Iranian-provided rockets all pointed at Israel, it is justifiable to be concerned about just how anti-Semitic the Islamic Republic is. It would be irrational not to pay attention or to merely dismiss it with scorn.
By the way, I don't think this means the United States shouldn't follow up on Rouhani's initiative. I think it should, by all means.
I think Bill Clinton got it just about right on Monday's Newshour when he said of Iran, Israel and the U.S. : "But I think they [Israel] haven't done that [bombed Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities] partly because they have tried to leave the door open to a settlement, but they want to take a hard line on it, because they have heard all these protestations before, "We have no intention of having nuclear weapons," and the program just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger, to give them the capacity to build weapons. So I think it's a nice cautionary reminder for all of us that you go into these things with your eyes wide open, and if there are commitments made, they have to be kept and verified. But I think, on balance, this is positive. This new president seems to want a rapprochement with the United States. And we just have to make sure that, if we do this, it's real."
Agree, Jeff. They can't be dismissed. It's just so depressing to know there are still governments determined to complete the genocide. And individuals who support them.
I see my links to the NYT and WSJ above are not operative. I can't seem to get a link to the WSJ to work, perhaps because it is premium material.
But this should be an operative link to the NYT article. Here's hoping anyway.
Margaret asks: "Why would anyone want to minimize the efforts of Rouhani to overcome the [Holocaust]denials of his predecessor?" I don't know. You'll have to ask Iran about that. According to the NYT article -- which is not an opinion piece, but reportage -- "But a semiofficial Iranian news agency accused CNN of fabricating portions of Mr. Rouhani's interview, saying he had not used the word Holocaust or characterized the Nazi mass murder as "reprehensible." Mr. Rouhani spoke in Persian; officials at CNN said they used an interpreter provided by the Iranian government for the interview, which was conducted by Christiane Amanpour."
If you discover an answer, let me know.
Margaret asks: "Why should the efforts of Iranians during WWII to save Jews be dismissed out of hand?" I didn't dismiss them out of hand. I assumed for purpose of the discussion that they had occurred. I did, however, point out that Iran's attitude toward Jews is very different now under the Islamic Republic than it was under the Iran of WWII. If you won't acknowledge this, you simply aren't facing up to facts.
Margaret asks: "Why should nascent and faltering efforts at peacemaking be so disturbing?" They aren't disturbing to me. I hope Iran is in good faith. But a healthy scepticism is warranted until words are replaced by deeds. I repeat what I said above: "I think Bill Clinton got it just about right on Monday's Newshour when he said of Iran, Israel and the U.S. : 'But I think they [Israel] haven't done that [bombed Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities] partly because they have tried to leave the door open to a settlement, but they want to take a hard line on it, because they have heard all these protestations before, "We have no intention of having nuclear weapons," and the program just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger, to give them the capacity to build weapons. So I think it's a nice cautionary reminder for all of us that you go into these things with your eyes wide open, and if there are commitments made, they have to be kept and verified. But I think, on balance, this is positive. This new president seems to want a rapprochement with the United States. And we just have to make sure that, if we do this, it's real.'
Margaret asks: "Would you like to see another Holocaust: World War III in the Middle East where Sunnis, Shias, Druse, Alawites, Christiand and Jews will decimate one another?"
No. I wouldn't. That's why I don't want to see Iran get a nuclear weapon and want to see Bashar Assad relinquish his chemical weapons.
Unfortunately, for Christians, Jews and perhaps the Druse, they may not have a choice in the matter as the Sunnis and Shiites draw the whole region into increasing barbarism. The Jews are perhaps in the best position to avoid this fate, since, thank God, they have a country of their own in this beknighted region. The Christians don't, and their population in the entire region is dramatically decreasing as they come under increasing attack. Except in Israel where their population is increasing.
Christiane Amanpour's father is Iranian. She was born in London to an English mother but raised in Teheran. Isn't it likely she understood what Rouhani said?
Thanks for the article, Ms. S. So the statement was ambiguous. Hmm. I saw some of the interview on CNN. Rouhani's attitude (his body language) didn't seem a bit hostile. So I continue to hope.
Part of the diplomatic trick here will be for both Obama and Rouhani to tame (or evade) their hardliners. Sounds like Rouhani was welcomed back by supporters and then attacked by protesters including someone who threw a shoe (I think I remember that gesture from Iraq!).
This morning on ABC's This Week, George Stephanopoulos confronted Iran's foreign minister with the fact that the Ayatollah Khamenei's own web site calls the Holocaust a myth. The foreign minister, taken aback, said that it must be a mistranslation. The problem with this is that the English translation is the government's own. It appears on Khamenei's own web site, and the claim that it is a myth appears, not once, but numerous times, including as late as September 2012. The foreign minister said he would speak to the Ayatollah about it.
Meanwhile, the FARS new agency of Iran – which the NYT calls the "semi-official" news agency of the Iranian government and NBC Nightly News calls the "official" new agency – denies that President Rouhani ever mentioned the Holocaust by name or ever called it reprehensible.
What is obvious is that the Iranian government is still telling the Iranian people that the Holocaust is a myth and does not want them to know that President Rouhani is saying something else in the United States.
Do the Iranians really believe this anti-Semitic nonsense or do they just want to insult Jews? Probably some of both. Probably, the masses who support the government actually believe it, and the governing elite knows its a lie, but want to spit on the Jewish people.
According to the Ayatollah, "Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it." http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/index.php?p=bayanat&id=3500
With respect to the numerous iterations of this position, go to the site and search for "holocaust" and see for yourself.
Well okay Jeff. Israel can bomb Iran; that'll take care of all those Holocaust deniers.
Margaret: If Iran is indeed beginning an initiative to forego its nuclear weapon's program and seek a rapprochement with the West– as you seem to believe, and as I hope will be the case – it will be because of the sanctions-backed-by-the credible-threat-of-force regime, and not because of anything advocated by the likes of Juan Cole or Stephen Walt.
But my main reaction to your last comment is how deeply disappointing (and I am using a polite word here) it is to see that when I point out the factually truthful information that the Iranian government and the Supreme Leader, himself, are espousing anti-Semitic beliefs that you will find on the worst white supremacist or neo-Nazi sites in the U.S., your reaction is to ... attack and sneer at Israel. When I would have thought the normal, descent reaction would have been to criticize Iran.
I'm glad I didn't mention the Supreme Leader's other remarks – also duplicating beliefs of white supremacists and neo-Nazis -- that the government of the United States and other Western nations are controlled by Zionists. Then, you would have really let Israel have it.
No Jeff, I do not sneer at Israel, nor do I attack it. Israel will act in it own best interests and the interests of its citizens, and not because the Supreme Leader denies the Holocaust, or denies his denial. Is President Rouhani sincere? Is President Obama? Is President Putin? We'll see.
I am sneering at you and your never ending hectoring on everything I post about U.S. policies in the ME. Am I too optimistic about this turn in events? Will peace be better than war? We'll see.
Margaret: You raised the issue in your original post of Iran's denial of Holocaust denial. When I point out factually that back home in Iran, the government and the Supreme Leader are still engaged in Holocaust denial, you call it hectoring. There wasn't one word of hectoring in my comment of 12:41 pm today. If you claim there was, then quote it back to me.
Disagreeing with you is not hectoring. Or if it is, then every time you disagree with me, you are also guilty of hectoring.


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Raising Girls: Finding Positive Friends
In This Article:
Types of Girlfriends
Explain to your daughter that girlfriends come in many different forms, from casual to close ones, and that it is best to have one or several in each group. Life for a growing girl is filled with enormous possibilities, so she should not limit herself to just one relationship with one girl. She should be sure her circle includes many different girls. Here are a few types of good friends:
- Study buddies. These girls are in her classes; they are motivated and, like your daughter, want to excel in scholastics.
- Good friends. These are girls your daughter is comfortable with; they make her life more fun. They can be old friends she re-connects with, or new friends she meets now.
- Best buds. This is usually one girl, or two, who is a close, reliable, and unwavering friend she can talk to about everything.
- Soul pals. These are girls with whom your daughter can form a forever friendship because they think and feel alike, almost like twins. Now matter how much they grow and change, their connection stays the same. A soul pal may even be the girl herself, to herself.
Assuming your daughter is ready to make more friends, point out where she can best find some.
Girlfriend Meeting Places
Where your daughter meets new friends is important because the places are often an indicator as to what kinds of friends she will find there. Although she might meet new girlfriends anywhere, she can increase her chances by looking around the school library, the computer lab, or where girls usually hang out to study. Also by being an active participant in clubs and extracurricular activities, or in youth groups in the community, she can scout out more potential friends.
The more you find fault with your daughter's friends, the more she might feel she has to defend them. The same goes with the groups you may find your daughter beginning to cultivate. Forbidding her to associate with certain peers may do the exact opposite of what you want: It may cause your daughter to find them more appealing.
Girlfriend Keeping
By watching you, your daughter has already learned the friendship basics. But it will not hurt for you to remind her of the most important friend-keeping strategies:
- Being trustworthy and not telling her friends' secrets unless they are in danger or need help.
- Not being envious or jealous, and remaining good friends even when the going gets tough.
- Sharing some of her failures, as well as her successes, to bond better.
You, the parent, have a lot of influence on your daughter's friend-making skills. You can make your house a place where your girl and her friends want to hang out by providing plenty of soft drinks, snacks, and appropriate movies. You can encourage her to bring her girlfriends home, but do not critique them harshly.
You can also be a good listener when your girl complains about her friends or about being excluded from something they do. Listen to her with all your attention and tell her that her friendship dilemmas will diminish the older she gets.
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Building Tree using complex scenario
Doctors --
Doctors --
This simple is unable to build after I look at the request factory binding examples and experiment with simple tree example but no luck. I may be misunderstanding the concept of building the tree. Here is the exception after run the tree java.
Caused by: com.google.gwt.event.shared.UmbrellaException: Exception caught: The given model is already in the TreeStore, and should not be assigned a new node
at com.google.gwt.event.shared.EventBus.castFireEvent(EventBus.java:69)
at com.google.gwt.event.shared.SimpleEventBus.fireEvent(SimpleEventBus.java:57)
at com.sencha.gxt.data.shared.loader.Loader.fireEvent(Loader.java:207)
at com.sencha.gxt.data.shared.loader.TreeLoader.onLoadSuccess(TreeLoader.java:85)
at com.sencha.gxt.data.shared.loader.TreeLoader.onLoadSuccess(TreeLoader.java:1)
at com.sencha.gxt.data.shared.loader.Loader$1.onSuccess(Loader.java:228)
I noticed one thing that if invoke clients have children of Doctors and Doctors have children of Agreements and Agreements have children of Documents. Is that stating the error. Can I get some sample code snipet on this scenario.
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The solution is that two nodes in a TreeStore must not share the same ID - doing so is telling the TreeStore that the hierarchy contains a single item in two different places, which doesn't really make sense - which are 'its' children, or is the entire subtree from there duplicated? And which is its parent, since it has two?
In the future ramgovind, please consider elaborating on the solution, even when you find it yourself - it makes it easier for future users to find the answers to their own questions when they search


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Let's consider closed simply-connected 4-manifold $M$ and some $a\in H^2(M)$. It is very natural question to estimate minimal $g$ that $a$ can be presented as embedded surface of genus $g$.
As I know there is the adjunction inequality for estimation of minimal genus via Seiberg-Witten theory.
Question 1: Does there exist other methods to estimate minimal genus ?
I heard that there are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic 4-manifolds $M,N$ such that for some $a\in H^2$, $a$ has different minimal genus in $M,N$.
Question 2: Could you give me such examples? As I understand it should be some manipulations with Seiberg-Witten invariants...


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So when I clicked through on this it shows up as $3.99 with Free Shipping
same... ordered one for $3.99 plus tax... wonder when i can expect my refund and apology email? Wouldn't be the first time, lol
$4 + Tax!
Damn, and I got this on (my first and last) Black Friday, for $9. =/
ordered one, $4.37 in total...wonder whether it works...
Yes they work. I ordered one a few weeks ago for $6.99 with free shipping..
I could've gotten two of them at this price!
Works good - does it's job!
Fire sale? or fire hazard sale?
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I made a custom view which is used in several Fragments of an viewpager.
The view is always stored as a field of the Fragment. I inflate the layout in the constructor and everything works fine flipping through the pages. Because always the next Fragment is created the view shows up without any problem. But if I go back a destroyed View of a Fragment is recreated and it gives me an error, because I still use the same custom view, which isn't inflated, because the constructor isn't called.
So, when do I have to inflate my layout of the custom view? I don't think code would clear anything up, but I can deliver if needed.


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Star Wars Walker Pet Costume for $19.89 + free shipping
Officially licensed star wars costume created in partnership with lucas films
Features body cover worn through front legs
Headpiece included
Pet size large for animals 19-inch from neck to tail with a 20-inch chest
Let your dog join the fun in a costume from Rubies Costume Company
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Honey, where's the cat going with that grappling gun?
If you had a pet mouse, you could dress him up as General Veers.....
im oddly glad that this is a real thing now.
Whomever down-votes this should be banished to an un populated moon of Endor......
Ackbar the Gold Fish: "It's a Trap!"
My dogs are members of the Rebel Alliance and would chew that into tiny AT-AT bits.
I'm pretty sure, if I saw any dog actually dressed in that, it would take everything I have to not kick the owner squarely in the teeth!
George Lucas is an uncompromising artist. Ka-ching.
I wonder how this would look on my basset hounds.
@theendless: then start kickin..but beware...I know force choke your face :)
attack pattern droolta.
Tempted to get one for my Great Pyrenees but I'm not sure if he will stand long enough to even get a picture of it on.
@wingnutzero: haha that made me snort.
@spikedknight: Whoever. Whomever would be a direct object, while whoever would be the subject. Therefore you want the nominative form, whoever.
I obviously need to get a dog now.
Too small. My Great Dane is about a Greyhound and a half big. The Greyhound in the photo must be tiny if he has only a 20" chest. The reviews are interesting. I wonder if it actually licensed merchandise.
I got my guy a rubber headless horseman saddle and rider last year as it's the only thing I thought would fit, and I still had to add a 12" extension to the girth. The horseman looks more like a spider monkey than a person on his back. I guess I just need to make him something. He likes to wear dress up collars and sweatshirts and the like, he knows it usually means he's going to get to go somewhere when he gets washed and brushed and dressed up in his best.
@maggiecain: Does the dog in that picture look comfortable to you? I guess I'm just not a fan of dressing up pets for my amusement...
@theendless: Are you Johnny from Amazon? How many kids are put into suits for weddings and they aren't comfortable but we put them in it anyway. If it's not hurting anyone then you don't have to do it to your kid/anamal but you can't tell someone to not do it just because you don't like it.
Well, this coming from a cat person...
It is unfortunate that cats are picky about dressing them up.
So, I believe that instead of a cat costume, someone should make a Millennium Falcon cat house, a starwars walker & house scratching post, and a house of darth vadar's mask. You could even make these into dog houses.
This could be a great business...Hope someone's listening
How would you get that greyhound to walk slow enough for this to be realistic?
@rayray8822: A: Tether rope
@zapp brannigan: I'm not Johnny from Amazon, and I didn't tell anyone not to do it. My initial comment, which no one seemed to care for, was tongue in cheek. I was simply expressing my opinion, albeit in a particularly ineffective way, that it didn't look very nice for the dog, particularly the head piece that's covering his ears.
I also think there's a big difference between dressing up a kid who has the ability to comprehend what's going on, and the opposable thumbs to adjust what he's wearing, for a wedding, and putting a Star Wars costume on your dog who can do neither of those, just because you think it's funny.
Either way, I'll accept that I'm in the minority on this one, if that's the case (poor dogs)... I'll also accept that I suck at trying to be humorous (seriously, who targets one's teeth for kicking?), which is almost certainly case... but I think I'll still steer clear of cosplaying with my pets, regardless.
Not buying that it is officially licensed. Seems like a really crappy piece. It's a ripoff of an original idea too.


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Idea for a "real life driving jobs" mod
I've been reading on some other forums for simulators (both driving and flight sims) - and I agree with them - I really miss to grab a taxi and drive around, taking fares and earn some money.
So I've been thinking of this mod, if it one day will be possible to create advanced ones like this, like a "real life driving jobs"-mod. Read on, if you're interested..
The reason for doing this instead of playing those crappy games (18 wheels of steel etc) is
1. The graphics are AWESOME!!!
2. It's shorter distances than driving all across the US/Europe, much more to see, much more life and details
3. The physics are so totally awesome
4. There are SO many possibilities with different kind of cars and places to go
Now, for the ideas...
For starters - you should have some blips on the map, showing centrals for either taxi, bus, ambulance, fire station, or freight depots. When you're there, grab a vehicle of that type, and you will receive a text message with info of what's going on and what to do.
This one is pretty straight forward. A blip on the radar like those "random guy" missions would suffice. Maybe several blips on the screen at the time to pick which one to get. Some might be further away from your current location after your current customer has paid and exit your taxi, but might pay more?
Here it would be cool to do something different.. You're on a route! Would in fact work much as those crazy Bruce-races. You got a circuit and have to drive it 2-3 laps for instance. After that is complete, a blip on the radar will show you directions to the next circuit, and this time you might have to run it either more or less times, depending on its length. For each person going on board, you will earn x quantity of $$$ when they successfully get off the bus, just to make sure you don't cheat and just pick up a load of people and get off the bus yourself..
This one is the more interesting piece. You get over to the freight depot (there should be several, hosting different types of vehicles and goods to deliver). What I have in mind for now is
- Oil/gas tanker depot. Would need a truck and a trailer. Transport oil/gas from the depot or docks to gas stations and the airport, and maybe other places too?
- Express goods delivery car central. Deliver small goods between places with a small car (with some kind of a SUV or van?). Delivering donuts to the LCPD offices. Deliver catering for a film crew on location for the latest R*SC film or the latest big box office hit to the largest cinema in LC?
- Goods central for larger goods. Transport things from A to B with the Mule. For instance, transporting a bunch of meat for hamburgers to a a chain serving fast food. Or doing some dirty mafia stuff like delivering weapons for the gun shops. Maybe deliver spray paint equipment for the repaint shops. Computers for the Internet Cafè. Props for the theater and cabaret. New bowling equipment from a manufacturer to the bowling alleys? There's LOADS of possibilities!! And for larger missions, I think one should have to take several trips from A to B to deliver all the needed goods.
Straight forward.. An accident, shooting, a suicidal someone etc. - you get a blip on the radar - go there asap and pick him/her up, and go to the nearest hospital or clinic. I think it would be better to have several options on where to go instead of just one "HQ hospital" like I've seen in earlier GTA games, though, these might pay a little less than the "HQ hospital" ?
Also pretty straight forward. Grab a fire truck, and put out fires, either car accidents, garbage in alleys or maybe a house on fire?
I'd like to hear from you guys. What do you think? Would this be cool or what? The best part would be to actually be able to spend the money earned in this mod for the actual game and story..
Picking up supplies for the car wash..
Approaching the supplies in the back of the car wash.
Delivering... There should be a progress bar across the screen so I would unload the goods properly. Then there should be like a "2/5 stages completed" and earn a little money for completing the stage as a little bonus, if your vehicle didn't get damaged on the way. And when every stage is complete, the full payment would be given to you.
Additional ideas
- Money transport service, from one bank to another - might there be a robbery attempt around the next corner?
- Presidential/VIP motorcade: Bring the VIP safely from A to B. Assassinations highly possible! Make a choice - which one of the three routes to go.
- Ice cream car - earn a couple of $$$ for each sold cone of ice cream. Benefit more from popular areas with more pedestrians.
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Seconded! These types of side missions were available in some past GTA games as vigilante missions - I was a bit sad to see that they were removed with GTA IV. It might be a while before a mod of this nature could be made, but it's definitely a good idea.
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I don't think it would have to be so detailed that you have to carry boxes and such - just drive into the docking area - load or unload the goods and drive. Loading and unloading should be intuitive to understand, with a loading bar or something.
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This would be a good idea, I miss those old missions from previous games..
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I could definitely go for some trucking (better than the ones in GTA SA), that would be great.
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I've been driving for hours the last few days, and found a bunch of new vehicles I didn't even notice on the XBOX360, that would give this mod more variation to what kind of cars each type of transport company use.
I'm thinking big now.. Multiplayer? 30 minutes to earn the most cash, doing whatever kind of jobs they want? Imagine driving around as usual, maybe with some gas on a trailer, then some scumbag crashes into your car and there's an explosion, and you gotta get a new car - meanwhile, this means a new mission for the players playing as firefighters.
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interesting idea there OlaHaldor... i never thought of modding custom multiplayer games. i wonder if that would at all affect rockstar's ranking systems would be pretty cool if it was allowed though.
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And while we're at it - does anyone remember SimCopter?
Get over to the tourist helicopters, get in and fly -
- a blip on your radar would tell you where to go
- go there, and pick up 1-3 persons (the more people, the more $$$ after successful delivery)
- depending on how fast you get there, you might get some bonus money
- a new blip appears on the radar - this is their destination
- fly there asap
* the faster you get to their destination, the more will they pay
* the less damage you do on your chopper and surroundings, the more bonus money you get
Different kind of missions
- bring a doctor to an accident to save lives
- bring patients back from accident asap (timer?...) to a hospital
- pursuit criminals for the police - the police cars will follow your lead, and eventually apprehend the suspect
- fly VIP persons from their work, hotel, etc. to their villa with helipad in the back yard
- help the stars of "Americas next hooker" get a nice and glamorous entrance at the live TV-show hosted by David Letterman at Star Junction by doing a low pass and eventually land safely just outside of the studio with live audience in the streets..
The list can go on and on..
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Hell no! I wanna play GTA IV !
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Sounds tight.
I would like the taxi driving back. That was definitely noticed by myself the first time I played. Made me sad.
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I'm a 16 year-old Canadian-born Chinese who thinks he's got a good head on his shoulders. I know, I'm young and I haven't seen all that much.
But has American Politics always been as extreme as what we are currently seeing? Really, it's appalling for a country that considers itself to be a world leader. Inciting hate against Islam, Birth Certificates, comparisons to Nazism and Marxism ... what's next? I generally tend to be able to disagree with people on government policy without comparing them to Hitler.
I don't want to debate about whether or not Obama's policy is similar to Hitler's - I really do think that anyone with their mind out of the gutter realizes it's not, and that won't be subject to change in this thread.
I just want to hear everyone's opinion on how American Politics has changed within the past 50 years concerning everything BUT government policy. Someone with more life experience than me, at least. Is all of this conspiring ... new?
By the way, I think the Swastika with an Eagle on top of it looks more like the United States Marine Corps insignia than it does the Obama Heath Care logo. Not that I think that it matters.
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I want to know that if replication is down due to some reason as if master is down then what strategy should be followed so that the replication is up instantly without manually intervening the process , i.e if replication is down when no DBA is available then how the automatic fail-over will take place.
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Believe it or not, I just answered a question like this 5 days ago: MySQL Replication and High Availability
From that answer I provided, I advise against automatic failover with pure MySQL Replication unless your specifically script it to check for replication lag or totally unavailability of the old master (STONITH)
As an alternative, just setup a DRBD pair and run mysql on the DRBD Primary using HeartBeat to detect the DRBD Primary's unavailability.
Once a real failover happens, there must be manually intervention to setup the failover in the other direction.
MySQL 5.6 introduces Global Transaction Identifiers to replication, and complements these with new failover and switchover utilities which can automate fault recovery
You can learn more about replication in MySQL 5.6 here: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-5.6-replication.html
You can also watch a tutorial demonstrating how these utilities work to provide self-healing clusters: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-replication-utilities.html
There is no direct or simple answer to your question.
MySQL replication provides one thing: replication. It's a mechanism that maintains replicas of your live data set, usually in very-near-real-time, on more than one server.
Replication is used for a number of different purposes, including (but not limited to) fault/failure tolerance for your application in case of a master server outage; however, what MySQL provides is the synchronization of the data.
Failover can only be be provided by resources and systems external to MySQL, and these vary widely.
From the documentation:
-- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/faqs-replication.html#qandaitem-B-13-1-9
-- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/replication-solutions-switch.html


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