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I'm creating a report designer for my customers so they can create any kind of report based on the data in a mysql table. These users have no knowledge of databases or queries so I need to make the UI as simple as possible. How can I present this in a way that allows tables with complex and deep joins. I understand that I can't possibly make it as simple that a 4th grader could use it, and I undertand they'll still need training on the usage. But I need to know how to make it flow logically so that it's easy to remember how to use. Any ideas?
This is a common need. Save yourself and your clients time and headaches by using one of the many existing solutions.
One quick example from googling:
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Contra Sirico (Part 2 of 3)
In the last section of Part 1, I talked a bit about some of the sociological conditions that may have shaped the turn to libertarian thought. What I want to do now is shift our focus more directly to the major lights leading and legitimating that turn. Garry Wills' devastating Bush's Fringe Government (New York Review of Books, 2006) is pertinent in this sense. Wills names names: Novak, Weigel, Fessio, and (especially) Neuhaus. With an eye to the current question of libertarian thought in particular I would also add the name of Robert Sirico, the influential head of the Acton Institute and a Paulist Priest. The mission of Sirico's Institute is a fusion of neoliberal political thought – Sirico is a member of the neoliberal Mount Pelerin Society among many other things – and Catholic teachings. Daniel Finn has gone after Sirico ably and with good reason, rightly calling his arguments "tendentious" and attacking his interpretation of liberty as "heresy." My approach here is different, and my conclusion is perhaps even less generous.
To be sure, a crucial aspect of the neoliberal/libertarian self-understanding involves an attack on Marx and socialism; this is an approach that goes back at least as far as Hayek's polemic The Road to Serfdom, and in this sense Sirico's topic and tone are typical. The sad reality of Sirico's position, however, is a series of assertions that would barely muster a passing grade in an introductory course on political ideologies. One can assume that despite his distortions, Hayek knew what he was talking about. Can the same be said of Sirico? I'll report; you decide.
The arguments in question appear in the online magazine Crisis. They appear in a piece entitled (without a great deal of subtlety) "The Great Lie: Pope Benedict XVI On Socialism" (June 01, 2012). According to Sirico's reading, the encyclical Spe Salvi is not merely a treatise on a primary Christian virtue (namely hope), but quite timely indeed as a critique of socialism (more generally) and Marx and Marxism (more specifically). Benedict's encyclical is evidence, we are told, that the pope "has discerned the essential problem that has evaded vast numbers of academics for 100 years." Vast numbers? Well that sounds impressive enough. And what might that "essential problem" be? More on that shortly. First, let's take a moment to fully understand why a papal critique of socialism is necessary. Sirico here is worth quoting at length:
… he has done this in a time when socialism as an ideology seems to have been unfazed by the collapse of the communist experiment. Visit the philosophy and English departments on most college campuses, and you will still find intellectuals waxing eloquent on the glories of socialist theory. Students are still encouraged to imagine that it could work.
He continues:
What about the Soviet Union? We are told that this wasn't really socialism. And what about Nazism–the German word for national socialism? Oh, that's not socialism either. What about the growing impoverishment in once-rich countries with social democratic governments? The failure of micro-socialism in the United States, where entire communities have lived on government subsidies and are plagued with frightening levels of social pathology? They say that this is not socialism either.
So far as I can tell, Sirico's position here is made up of three interrelated assertions. Let me try to summarize them: first, "socialist ideology" is a singular and coherent thing, and it encompasses a wide variety of positions from the left to the right (and including, apparently, Nazi Germany). Second, liberal arts professors in particular are responsible for perpetuating the myth that socialism might work. Third, their perpetuation of that myth requires a kind of selective blindness and perhaps active deception, both as to the pervasive danger of socialism and to the damage it has caused.
Sirico's second and third assertions are built upon the foundation of the first, so let's examine that one. To begin: the history of socialism (just like liberalism's history) is a fractured thing. A major fault line was already apparent in Marx's day, one that was resolved only by means of a radical split realized especially in the Russian Revolution: on one side were those advocates of gradual, constitutional change while on the other were those in favor of immediate revolutionary change. The term (democratic) "socialism" refers to the former camp, the reformers and constitutionalists, while the Leninist bolshevism of the latter is usually called communism. It feels painfully obvious to make this point, but this difference matters for reasons I will address in Part 3.
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Daniel Finn has gone after Sirico ably and with good reason, rightly calling his arguments "tendentious" and attacking his interpretation of liberty as "heresy."
Mr. Geroux--
2 questions. Do you see any contradiction in the sentence above? Your bio describes you as an independent scholar--can you explain what is meant by "independent"?
I gather you are not enamored with the thinking of Father Sirico. I am looking forward to the reasons you will provide in Part 3, as there seem to be quite few offered in Parts 1 and 2. Now I know how professors feel when they turn to the last page of a term paper, hoping all shall be revealed.
Hi Mark,
I don't see any contradiction in the sentence. Scholars who work without university affiliation are "independent." This has changed; my bio will be updated soon.
Thanks for the response (as you might imagine, I do see a contradiction). Of couse, I see a contradiction in the notion that a scholar without university affiliation would be considered independent--I would expect they would be most especially dependent (on someone)!
Mark --
In Western culture the tradition of scholars who are unaffiliated with universities is quite strong. I mean by that when the work of such scholars is seen to be competent, they are taken seriously by university scholars. For intance, two of the most influenced modern Europe philosophers were Descartes and Hume. Neither were college professors though they did philosophical research and highly original thinking which they published. Even in the middle ages some scholars worked for themselves -- they tutored and lectured. Abelard is a great example. He even had his own school. There is also the philosopher Claire Ortez-Hill, one of the best authorities on the phenomenologists, who is an anchorite attached to a convent in Paris. (Now I'm going to brag: there is my brother, the shepherd whom I've mentioned before, who does his biological research using his computers, and regularly delivers papers around the world.)
In the good old days it wasn't unusual for people (even some women) of independent means to use their time pursuing their intellectual and even scientiic interests. This was the ideal life according to the ancient Greeks. That tradition, unfortunately, no longer flourishes.
With the weakening support for universities in the U.S. there are more and more young scholars who never get jobs in universities, but I don't doubt that some will continue with their research as time allows.
I do not believe for a single second that you do not know what "independent scholar" means.
Thanks for the background, that's very interesting. And I had no idea your brother is a shepherd (?!).
Then you would be wrong—every second. Do not assume that everyone on this blog is immersed in the jargon of academe. I had figured an independent scholar was, if anything, like an independent voter, that is, "non-partisan" (though Rush Limbaugh now seems to call them low information voters, which is an interesting take). I've also seen the descriptor "independent" applied to journalism/magazines, though it's never been clearly explained what/whom these outfits are not dependent on, exactly.
Regardless, I congratulate Robert on his newfound dependency! (I take it to be a good thing)
"the Acton Insitute's organ, the online magazine Crisis"
FYI, there is no formal affiliation between Acton and Crisis: http://www.crisismagazine.com/about-us
Some neocons love to equate "Socialism" with Marxism-Leninsim, which is a discredited and dead ideology; it saves them a lot of trouble defining it. Socialism in practice is different. Some so-called socialist countries, e.g., Scandinavia, maybe France, the U.K., Canada, are doing quite well. I think Jesus would prefer an economic system that eliminates or reduces the extremes of great wealth and abject poverty, so that most, if not all of the people have the necessities of life and can lead a fully human existence. Needless to say, we don't all need, or deserve, the same material wealth. However, as a spokesperson for the "Nuns on the Bus" (i.e., Network) once said: "Capitalism is a great system....if you have money."

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As stated in the title, I'm currently looking for a shapefile/other geodata source of Europe's major roads (highways). If anybody knows a free datasource (or a possibility to extract that data from Open Street Map without processing the world file), it would be greatly appreciated.
Thought I'd share what I found through lengthy research. It seems, the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) has conducted a transportation network census in 2005. Hidden deep inside their Website, I have found this:
You have to download the ArcReader-project, which, when unzipped, contains routable, simplified shapefiles of all major roads along with some useful metadata. Same applies to the train network which can also be found on the page.
You can download nightly OpenStreetMap Europe snapshots from here:
As of today:
Using GDAL/OGR you can then extract the roads with a SQL statement (see http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_sql.html) by querying e.g. the type.
For this, EuroGeographic (one of the official European GIS data provider) released as an opendata product the EuroGlobalMap dataset
Data contrary to the link info about "Delivery formats available" can be directly downloaded as SHP (not "on demand")
The dataset contains six themes:
Another dataset can be the Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS), v1 (1980 – 2010). Look into it at the Columbia University website
Following from markusN, there are OpenStreetmap downloads at GeoFabrik that are in shapefile format and therefore don't require processing (depending on the dataset).
Alternately, there's one here: http://www.mapcruzin.com/free-europe-arcgis-maps-shapefiles.htm
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Im thinking of making a game that requires two mice to play. It needs to register the movement separately from one another. Is this possible? Or does the Windows architecture not allow for such things?
Thank you.
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Turns out you're in luck, kind of. http://superuser.com/questions/29432/using-two-mice-in-windows-7-dual-mouse-dual-cursor Because mice are just another kind of HID (human interface device) you can plug in as many as you want, but custom software is required to actually do anything with them. Beyond that link is a page to Microsoft's research called Multipoint and examples of how it was used.
Yes. Multiple mouse input is possible. Here are some example games.
Quick explanation:
With sample code (zip file).
I found the library that I used back in the day. Yay!
It's designed for use with .Net and XP, but the DLL works on my Win7 64-bit machine. The DLL has some quirks, but at a minimum, it's a proof of concept, and it's documented.
Edit: Not sure I'd recommend using this library these days, the other answers seem to provide some more recent, and probably cleaner results.
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The ghosts of 'Economic Justice for All' (Part I)
On Saturday the New York Times publishedMark Oppenheimer's writeup of the controversy surrounding Duquesne University's refusal to allow teachers it pays no more than ten grand a year -- without health coverage -- to form a union. (Paul Moses covered it here.) Oppenheimer nicely summarizes the issue: "Catholic moral theologians say Catholics have a special duty to recognize unions and Catholic administrators say their university has a special right not to." Of course, as the piece makes clear, you could just as well substitute "popes" or "bishops" for "Catholic moral theologians." When Benedict XVI wrote that labor unions have always been encouraged and supported by the church, he wasn't kidding -- or innovating.Still, perhaps Benedict might chortle at one of his priest's interpretation of church teaching on the right of labor to organize. As is required of all exercises in journalistic coverage of Catholic economic questions, Oppenheimer's article features a predictable quote from free-market warrior Fr. Robert Sirico. Arguing for a curiously contingent view of Catholic social teaching, Sirico suggests that because Rerum novarum -- Pope Leo XIII's encyclical on labor and capital -- was written in 1891, it may not apply to the situation of Duquesne's adjunct professors. In the industrial revolution, the church was concerned about communism, and not just capitalism but savage capitalism, Sirico told Oppenheimer. People were being brutalized. Thats just not the case in Pittsburgh today.Of course, there's nothing particularly humane about a Catholic university paying half its faculty a wage below the poverty line. Yet that's not what's most galling -- or laughable -- about Sirico's comment. No, it's the idea that Rerum novarum had an expiration date. Needless to say, that's not exactly what Leo XIII had in mind when he wrote it: "We may lay it down as a general and lasting law," Leo taught, "that working men's associations should be so organized and governed as to furnish the best and most suitable means for attaining what is aimed at, that is to say, for helping each individual member to better his condition to the utmost in body, soul, and property." Why "general and lasting"? Because, as Vince Miller ably explains, the church's support for workers' right to unionize is rooted in natural law -- not merely a reading of the signs of the times. The U.S. bishops of the late 1980s understood this. No one may deny the right to organize without attacking human dignity itself," they wrote inEconomic Justice for All (1986). A clear, strong statement. But is it one the bishops of today would endorse?
The subjects of that pastoral letter were discussed at some length during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting earlier this month. Bishop Stephen Blaire -- remember him? -- chairman of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, sought the bishops' approval to begin drafting a "message" tentatively titled "Work, Poverty, and a Broken Economy." The motion won the bishops' support by a wide margin, but the signals Blaire felt he had to send in order to win that support says a lot about the makeup of today's USCCB.Blaire acknowledged that such a statement was "not only timely, but perhaps overdue" -- indeed, at its November 2011 meeting, the USCCB did not even acknowledge the twenty-fifth anniversary of Economic Justice for All, let alone reserve time to discuss the economic crisis. Yet Blaire was also careful to say what the message would not be. It won't be "another pastoral letter on the economy," Blaire reassured the bishops. "Its not going to be, 'Oh, weve got another program, one size fits all'.... Were not going to be writing a policy letter." In other words, this won't be the sequel to Economic Justice for All.Such assurances calmed the concerns of several bishops, notably Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing, Michigan, and Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas. Boyea thanked Blaire for "the caveats contained both in the report and that you have articulated as well from the podium." Still, "my objections are probably more a caution," Boyea said. About what? Perceived partisanship:
Because there have been some concerns raised by some lay Catholics, a good number, and especially some Catholic economists about what was perceived as a partisan action against Congressman Ryan and the budget that he had proposed. [He's referring to Blaire's committee's criticism of the Ryan budget, and conservative complaints about it.] One problem is that this was perceived...as an action of the bishops, when it was only a committee. Another problem was that it was perceived as a wholesale dismissal of a very detailed plan when we...need to be only articulate in principles, and let the laity make these applications. Thirdly, it was perceived as partisan, and thus really didnt further a dialogue in our deeply divided country. Im somewhat reluctant to support this proposal, but your caveats have helped me a great deal, because Im not sure that we have the humility yet not to stray into areas where we lack competence, and where we need to let the laity take the lead.... We need to listen more than we need to speak. We already have an excellent, fine compendium of the social teachings of the Church, which is an excellent source of our Churchs theological positions on these matters.
The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church is five hundred pages long.Archbishop Naumann seconded Boyea's emotion: "There really is a perception problem with the conference and with this committee particularly as being perceived at times as partisan." But he went further:
Some see the whole solution as being a solution that the state solves, and the more people we get on to state assistance, the better. And that same group of people also seem to do other things that attack the structure of the family.... Weve seen some solutions tried now for decades with no real results, and I think, I hope that our statement wont just be again a reinforcement of that. And finally I think we need to talk about the debt and the real seriousness of that debt, and that we cant just simply go on, as sometimes were perceived as just encouraging the government to spend more money with no realistic way of how were going to afford to do this.
He failed to propose new revenue streams. (Naumann, you may recall, played that tune during the health-care-reform debate, darkly warning against "socialized medicine.")Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, echoed Boyea's sentiments too, urging the drafters of the statement to seek advice from economists at, for example, the University of Chicago or Notre Dame. (As president of the USCCB, Cardinal Dolan will select the drafting committee.)He closed with some advice of his own: "Jobs need to be created in the private sector, because...in the long run I think thats the best way of helping people to have economic stability."Three bishops spoke in favor of the proposed statement, including Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore. Both Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza, formerly of Galveston-Houston, reminded the bishops that Economic Justice for All still holds. "It was our pastoral," Fiorenza said. "It is our document. We voted for it. We stand by it. So it seems to be at least the basic principles that we incorporate in the pastoral could find a welcome place in your special message." Indeed, the letter was approved with just eight dissenting votes. "That document was such a milestone," Ramirez said, "and one of the proudest moments of this conference. And we need to say something about the economy since then. Its been a long time. Some things have changed. Things that have impacted our economy and every one of us and our poor people especially."But Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska -- no surprise -- wasn't buying it.
Id be willing to wager, from my anecdotal experience, that most of the priests in the United States have not read [Economic Justice for All], or much less studied it, or much less decided to implement it. And I often think many of the members of this elite body dont even know that document, or havent studied it or read it, or would be able even to quote a line from it. So I think we emit documents perhaps a little more effusively, we pour out things, a few years ago it was more ample than it is now, thank God, but most people pay very little attention.
Could Bruskewitz be right? It's not as though he has a front-row seat in Lincoln, Nebraska, but still: How did we get to the point where a meeting of the USCCB could entertain a conversation in which several bishops openly downplayed or denigrated one of the most important documents the conference ever issued? HasEconomic Justice for All become so embarrassing that in order to get the conference to support a committee document on an economic crisis more perilous than any since the Great Depression its chair must pinky-swear not to publish anything that approximates the 1986 pastoral letter?David J. O'Brien wrote about Economic Justice for All in Commonweal last year, recounting the history of the document's composition under the leadership of Archbishop Rembert Weakland, and providing a few theories about its "uncertain legacy." "At the peak of Reagan-era moral conservatism," O'Brien concludes, "the American bishops, in the name of their people, offered a vision of inclusiveness and human dignity. Let us hope the American Catholic community can do so again." Perhaps the wider Catholic community can. But this bishops conference? As it happens, Weakland took up that question in a paper he delivered at the Catholic Theological Society of America meeting earlier this month. Would he change anything about the process of putting together Economic Justice for All?
Naming a competent in house staff, selecting a group of diverse outside experts, scheduling numerous hearings across the country, publishing several drafts for public scrutiny and discussion before presenting to the bishops the final product for their vote. Even though the process lasted five years...I would not want to see one aspect of that process changed. But I acknowledge, a bit regretfully, that it would be impossible in our time to duplicate that process.
I'll write more about Weakland's talk later this week.
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Sirico -- if he's accurately quoted by Oppenheimer -- argues that Catholic teaching on trade unions is "historically contingent," and that we must remember that Rerum Novarum was written over a century ago, to respond to conditions different from those found today (at least in Pittsburgh). This, of course, is tantamount to arguing that Rerum Novarum itself is historically contingent, and from that is a minor step to arguing that the Church's magisterium is itself historically contingent. In fact it seems to me that the argument for such contingency is nothing new. Shortly after it was issued, Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors was proving to be somewhat of an embarrassment, and Bishop Dupanloup of Orleans rode to the rescue with a famous commentary purporting to show that Pius's teachings here were not as broad as they sounded, but actually dealt only with specific issues in specific countries. In other words, Dupanloup historicized it, rather the way Sirico seeks to historicize Rerum Novarum. (Pius thanked him for his gloss, by the way).I myself have no objections to such historicization (regardless of how one views the Duquesne situation). It is after all a very useful practice when you look at the teachings on slavery, for example, or the possibility of salvation outside the Church (pretty severely condemned in 1291 by Boniface VIII). But if we're going to historicize the Church's magisterial expressions, at least we ought to be honest about what we are doing, rather than pretending nothing has changed. But what then can be changed, on the basis of historical contingency? And what can't be? This of course was the burden of John Noonan's book on the subject some years ago, but in some Catholic circles at the time I think his careful work was either dismissed or ignored.
With any document of this sort, there is always a historical context. And when a document makes a policy proposal, e.g., support for unions as we have known them, then of course these specific policy recommendations have a temporally limited shelf life. It does not follow, however, that they have no importance as precedents. When, as in this case, the issue is economic justice for all the members of our society, then, if one wants to contend that the policy proposals of "Economic Justice..." have outlived their shelf life, he or she has the burden to show that there is a better policy to achievee the objectives in question, here economic justice for all.So, in my judgment, the nay-saying bishops have an obligation to come up with some proposal that they would argue would more effectively promote the objective objectives of economic justice. Absent such an alternative way of arriving at the goals that gave point to "Rerum Novarum" and "Economic Justice..." neither we nor their fellow bishops have any reason to pay any attention to them.
I hereby solemnly vow to have every class I ever teach where it's even remotely relevant read EJFA. In honor of Bruskewitz.
$10,000 a year for a professor.? What the hell happened to the conservative mantra "you get what you pay for'? no health insurance either so why do they care about Thursday's opinion? The Students may lose mommie and daddy health insurance too. What is the student loan total at Duquesne for the last 4 years? How much is still owed?On line study had better happen fast...academia is on the same path as buggy whips...
Thanks, Grant. Can remember the process for the pastoral and used it in teaching. Amazed today at how many graduates of places such as Univ. of Dallas who come to teach at the private catholic high schools in Dallas have little to no understanding of the Church's social teaching; wouldn't know this pastoral at all; and rarely use or comment on economic social issues. Of course, can remember our auxiliary bishop stating that he would never preach on that because it might offend some donors.Question: have repeatedly heard folks such as Sirico make a *distinction* between social justice or life issues based upon "intrinsic evil" and some type of hierarchy of evils. Thus, they arrive at a distinction such that issues such as abortion are intrinsic evils and thus for a catholic it is black and white, even in a pluralistic society. OTOH, things such as economic systems, policies, etc. - there are no real intrinsic evils and thus the approach by a catholic can be determined by the catholic? Obviously, this skates over realities such as a thousand children a day die of hunger (wouldn't that be an intrinsic evil?); etc. But, of course, Sirico and company would again skew that line of thinking also.One comment - Commonweal has posted a number of issues since the June USCCB meeting which have included actual quotes from certain bishops - Burskewitcz and Naumann, prominently. Find it to be humorous that both were concerned about partisanship on any type of economic statement but had no concerns about partisanship on the religious liberty question. Neither strikes me as deep thinkers and come across more as the newly minted evangelical Catholic (nee Republican bishop). For some of us, it is beyond imaging that catholic bishops have adopted evangelical christian preachers in terms of various societal issues - would have told you 30 years ago that this would never happen.It only seems to reinforce many experts who describe the current episcopal members as themost mediocre in US history. One should ask how many of the 250+ US bishops have ever read the economic pastoral; much less understood it.
The US does not generally look favorably towards unions. Catholics who were part and parcel of unions at the beginning withdrew support as their wealth increased. Yet in Germany unions remain strong while maintaining a healthy relationship with employers. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/06/german_economy.htmlWhat is troubling about the tepidity of the US bishops towards unions is their abandonment of the downtrodden as they increasingly cater to wealthier Catholics to build their horrible cathedrals. What the lack of support for unions may show above all is that the American Catholic church is ethnically formed and has a poor idea of who our neighbor is. The Catholic church too often has been more ethnic than Catholic/universal.
This distinction between principles and their contingent application is the basis of Benedict's explanation that the statements of Vatican Ii do not contradict prior teachings of the church:
It is precisely in this combination of continuity and discontinuity at different levels that the very nature of true reform consists. In this process of innovation in continuity we must learn to understand more practically than before that the Church's decisions on contingent matters - for example, certain practical forms of liberalism or a free interpretation of the Bible - should necessarily be contingent themselves, precisely because they refer to a specific reality that is changeable in itself. It was necessary to learn to recognize that in these decisions it is only the principles that express the permanent aspect, since they remain as an undercurrent, motivating decisions from within. On the other hand, not so permanent are the practical forms that depend on the historical situation and are therefore subject to change.http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2005/december/do...
In theory, you could argue that he principles of Rerum Novarum are still correct but the stated application of those principles related to the context of that time and can change as the context changes. That's how you would reconcile Nostra Aetate or Dignitatis Humanae with prior teachings.However, as recently as 2009, Benedict wrote:
Through the combination of social and economic change, trade union organizations experience greater difficulty in carrying out their task of representing the interests of workers, partly because Governments, for reasons of economic utility, often limit the freedom or the negotiating capacity of labour unions. Hence traditional networks of solidarity have more and more obstacles to overcome. The repeated calls issued within the Church's social doctrine, beginning with Rerum Novarum[60], for the promotion of workers' associations that can defend their rights must therefore be honoured today even more than in the past, as a prompt and far-sighted response to the urgent need for new forms of cooperation at the international level, as well as the local level.http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_...
So here does not seem to be any support for Fr. Sirico's claim that the context is different.
I don't have a problem with the notion that there was a historical context to Rerum Novarum - or, for that matter, to Economic Justice for All. Most exercises of the magisterium, I suppose, combine principles (which may be immutable or contingent) with applications of those principles. It's not always easy for us to tease out which is which. It wouldn't surprise me if the authors of some magisterial statements aren't always aware of the distinctions, either.The labor movement has accumulated 120 years of history and human experience, in many different cultures, since Rerum Novarum was written. It ranges from Communist domination in pre- and post-war Europe to Solidarity in Poland. In the US it covers situations as diverse as the heroic and bloody early organizing efforts and hard-won basic rights, to the mob influence of the Jimmy Hoffa era, to the decline of unionized basic industry, to the current transformation of the labor movement to a primarily public-sector institution. Has the church's teaching developed in tandem with this history? What principles from Rerum Novarum are still applicable today, and in what ways are they applicable? It seems to me that these are questions worth examining.
Thanks Grant - excellent pieceThe tacit partisanship of the bishops while overtly complaining about partisanship is one of the more amusing twists above. I only wish it were not so. No, the trouble in achieving an undertaking like EJFA in our time would be the close conservative minds of many of the loudest voices in the conference as noted here. I wish we could truly celebrate EJFA. As you say, there are too many Catholic commentators today who choose to ignore it or treat it, along with Rerum Novarum, as contingent.
"The tacit partisanship of the bishops"The alleged partisanship of a handful of bishops. According to Grant's report above, the motion to write whatever it is that is going to be written - a letter? - passed by "a wide margin", with only eight dissenting votes. That strikes me as a pretty solid consensus.If it's possible to put on Objectivity Glasses and re-read Boyea's and Naumann's comments above, it can be seen that their concerns actually have some merit. This is an election season during a sharply divided time in our history, and criticisms of political positions will be widely perceived as partisan. As illustrations of this tendency: I perceive the so-called "Nuns on the Bus" tour to be essentially a partisan stunt; and at least some folks who hang out here perceive the Fortnight for Freedom to be an essentially partisan stunt. And Naumann gets at something that is undeniable: EJfA, while still having some powerful things to say and while saying good things about some issues that are still relevant today, nonetheless, because it is 26 years old, is badly in need of updating. As an example, which Naumann seems to be pointing out: it says almost nothing about the irresponsible and in some cases catastrophic levels of debt that all levels of government have accumulated, which imperils their collective ability to meet their promises to government workers, contribute to the common good and provide a preferential option for the poor.I take Paprocki's comment to mean that EJfA strove to be non-partisan, but didn't succeed. That's a defensible position. I think he's calling for some balance.I don't take any of those comments (let's just ignore Bruskewitz) as reasons not to proceed with the letter, or whatever it's going to be. My view is that what is really needed is a successor document, and if that were to be undertaken, the concerns voiced by Boyea, Naumann and Paprocki would be not only legitimate but extremely important.
Jim, they don't want a successor document. Don't you find the handwringing about the partisanship of what will be a short, likely inconsequential document, a bit much? The word didn't come up during the religious-freedom debate.P.S. Governments need to accumulate debt in order to get out of recessions. Raising taxes might not be a bad idea. But Naumann didn't propose that, did he?
"P.S. Governments need to accumulate debt in order to get out of recessions."... And they need to pay it down when recessions end - as this one did some three years ago, and as previous recessions have ended over the last thirty years - yet the debt kept piling up, in good times and bad.But back to the topic: they may not want a successor document, but they should - that's just my view. EJfA is dismissable, rightly or wrongly, because so much of it is dated. The conference's 80s-vintage liturgy documents have been updated or will be updated. The same treatment is due for their economic and peace pastorals.I take what you characterize as handwringing to be signs of division within the conference on economic views. Perhaps the conference as a whole is not sharply divided - as you note, only eight bishops voted against the new letter. But personally, I'd like to see the bishops, as a body, tackle the sources of disagreement - to discern, as a body and with wide consultation (whatever that would look like these days), what Catholic teaching is and how it should be applied to our current situation, which is very different than the situation in 1986.
Re the future of Catholic Social Teaching: Don't miss the report of Supreme Knight Carl Anderson's speech at the Catholic Media meeting. It' in today' NCR online."Looney Tunes" at high volume!
Just so we are clear about an adjunct professor: Its a professor employed by a college or university for a specific purpose or length of time and often part-time. Adjunct employment often gives full-time working professionals the chance to share real-world expertise with today's college students.So its $10,000 per year for part-time employment. And I believe most part-time jobs come with no benefits.The characterization of ...theres nothing particularly humane about a Catholic university paying half its faculty a wage below the poverty line... is patently unfair
"Governments need to accumulate debt in order to get out of recessions. Raising taxes might not be a bad idea. But Naumann didnt propose that, did he?"Nor did Bill Clinton or Alice Rivlin recently.
And they need to pay it down when recessions end as this one did some three years ago...yet the debt kept piling up, in good times and bad.i dont think that people people who still can't find a job would agree that his recession is over.
I trust that we can agree that for the Christian there is no such thing as an undeserving poor person. Every person in need, even if he or she has done terrible things, deserves to have us willing to help alleviate his or her poverty.There is, of course, such a thing as "tough love." But lest we engage in self-deception, when we dish out the "tough"part, we darned well better check to make sure that we really are giving expression to a genuine love for the target of our toughness. For me, at least, it's much more easily said than done.
In reply to Bruce and his comment "Just so we are clear about an adjunct professor: Its a professor employed by a college or university for a specific purpose or length of time and often part-time. Adjunct employment often gives full-time working professionals the chance to share real-world expertise with todays college students....The characterization of theres nothing particularly humane about a Catholic university paying half its faculty a wage below the poverty line is patently unfair."With all respect, this is simply not so, though it once was common. Most sections in most subjects in most universities and colleges now are taught by adjunct and contingent faculty who often must work at two or three institutions to make a living. This is the new normal, to use an overworked phrase, at "Religious" and and secular schools alike. Please take time to educate yourself on these matters at http://www.academicworkforce.org/ and http://thenewfacultymajority.blogspot.com/. With respect, Dr. Alan Trevithick, adjunct at Fordham University (50% adjunct),LaGuardia Community College (CUNY, 50% plus adjunct) and Westchester CommunityCollege (SUNY, 75% plus adjunct), and board member, New Faculty Majority: TheNational Coalition for Adjunct and Contingent Equity.
John H. and Jim P. ==In that oft-quoted text of Benedict there seems to me to be a highly ambiguous use of the word "contingent". We know what "contingent" means, but what is it that Benedict is *calling* contingent? The particular events to which the moral principles are applied? Or is he calling "contingent" the varying application of the principles? Given the context, he seems to be sayng that "man has a right to form organizations" is a perennial principle, i.e., one that is always true. If it is always true, then there can be no question of whether or not the principle ought to be applied. If it is always true, then every group may organize regardless of the contingent circumstances.
I read very recently that the bishops say they are preparing a new statement on social justice, and it is scheduled to be published in November. (I forget where I read it.)November 3 maybe?
Bernard is right about how blithely we talk about stuff; Grand Knisght Anderson last night urging non-partisanship. See the text at "In All things" at America -which won the best blog award.)But I think here as in many other threads spin dominates.(On CNN the other night, a Romeny rep complained he hadn't offered enough facts to spin off.)bernard is also right about our approach to the poor - not the phony stuff we saw on the thread about nuns on the bus -BTW who was the congresman in Iowa who stood by(approved?) another radio taklker who said the nuns should be"pistol whipped?"If only the world of blogdom was makrked by full diclosure and intellectual honesty, maybe the converstion about the por and the Catholic posture about that could advance.
Ann, I agree with your characterization of Benedict's words. I think Sirico is incorrect if he is arguing that the right of workers to organize is contingent on historical and economic circumstances that no longer exist. My view is that the circumstances of 1891 in Europe have certainly changed, but the right of workers to associate hasn't.I would add that unions aren't exempt from critique, and the church needs to speak more forthrightly of some of the failings and abuses that unionization has exhibited. But I don't see that those are coming into play in the Duquesne situation. Unions and the union movement have a bad reputation in the US today, partly because of their enemies' successful rhetoric, and partly because of their own ineptitude and even moral failings. But it would be difficult to find a better case for organizing workers who are underpaid and exploitable than adjunct faculty. Well, actually, it's not that difficult: there are retail workers, and call center employees, and the guys who do lawn care, and ...
I don't think many secular citizens would appreciate their tax money going to teach religion or a religious culture. I think in the future even the tax break for religious donations will be looked at more closely. More young people today are non-affiliated. Roughly a quarter of Millennials and Gen X appears to be getting less religious as they age. It's all very well to have a you can teach your mythology if I can teach mine attitude and I'll pay for yours if you pay for mine but if larger numbers keep opting out of mythology all together, I think it becomes unsustainable.
No doubt Bernard Dauenhauer is correct: Those bishops who disagree ought to propose an alternative. Unfortunately, one of them already has: Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul-Minneapolis is unilaterally terminating the archdiocese's Catholic newspaper union (according to an NCR story dated June 22). The article by Tom Gallagher continues: "Instead of working through whatever managerial challenges the archbishop might have had with the 13-member newspaper guild, he just disbands it."And with a presumably straight face, he puts forward a worker-protection policy implemented by his predecessor, Archbishop Harry Flynn, called "Justice in Employment," which created certain safeguards for archdiocesan employees prior to being fired. Back in early 2009, I wrote an NCR story about the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis' Justice in Employment policy." It appears that we now know where Archbishop Nienstedt stands on the question of contingency.
Fr. Siricos response to America Magazine blog comment, also pertinent to Grant Gallichos post: http://blog.acton.org/archives/34135-rev-robert-sirico-reply-to-america-...
Grant,I look forward to your promised comments on RGW's talk. In the meantime would you provide a copy of his talk?
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If a boy becomes Bar Mitzva during Sefira, may he take a haircut for the Simcha - similar to a Bris where the father is allowed to take a haircut in Sefira?
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Nit'ei Gavriel (Pesach, vol. 3, 50:11) cites authorities on both sides of the issue:
Practically, as usual, CYLOR.
No. The simcha of the barmitzvah is our joy in the boy becoming obligated to keep mitzvos and the Jewish way of life.
When will he have his haircut?
If he takes it after his birthday, we would introduce the barmitzvah boy to mitzvos by making him go against our practice which is surely not the right thing to do.
if he takes it before his birthday, what sort of chinuch - education is that for his adult life?


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Giving old skis new life as furniture
Colorado man's business recycles well-used equipment
|Adam Vernon sits in one of his ski chairs, Nov. 7, 2013, at his Manitou Springs, Colo. home. Vernon's hobby has turned into his business Colorado Ski Chairs. (Christian Murdock/Colorado Springs Gazette/MCT)
They've gotten us safely down steep, snowy mountains. We've endured blinding storms and frostbite-inducing temperatures in them. We've waxed and tuned them meticulously, likely taking better care of them than we do our cars.
But when their time is up, when the rock scrapes and core shots add up, when the planks have lost their spring and the edges have no metal left to sharpen, do they deserve to be discarded in a landfill?
Adam Vernon has a better way.
Vernon does a healthy business making furniture from skis in his Manitou Springs, Colo., garage, with his company Colorado Ski Chairs. He's sold more in 2013 than the previous five years combined, as word of mouth and social media have spread his chairs from the ski towns of Summit County, Colo., to Texas.
It's not only about recycling to save the planet. It turns out skis make great building material.
"They're made to withstand just ridiculous amounts of weight and pressure and weather, and they're so much stronger than just lumber," said Vernon, 37, talking last week in his tree house made of skis. "Most building materials are not this bullet-proof. These are like zombie apocalypse-proof."
"Yeah, I have a couple extra skis lying around."
That's an understatement.
Last year in the U.S., 624,000 skis and 393,000 snowboards were sold. That means a lot of old skis and boards are no longer in use.
A small percentage of these seem to have found their way into Vernon's yard. He has as many as 500 skis, in rows and heaps and buckets, that he gets from garage sales, thrift stores and ski shops. Many aren't more than a few years old and appear quite skiable.
Vernon pointed to a row of Atomic skis.
"All these Atomics are only 6 years old, and I got them all free and they still ski really well. I ski them, my friends ski them, but legally (a shop) cannot adjust them so you can't sell them," he said.
That's because of ski indemnification, an issue that is little-known outside of ski tech and gear junkie circles.
Because of the litigious nature of our society, ski makers now only guarantee the safety of their products for a certain number of years, then remove them from a list of indemnified gear, meaning the maker no longer stands behind that product.
If skis or bindings see too many winters — even unused — shops won't work on them for liability reasons and used gear stores won't take them. Most gear reaches that point after four to seven years.
Said Vernon: "I think the indemnification thing is really overblown, but it's real."
About seven years ago, Vernon, a lifelong skier, began collecting antique skis to hang in his house.
These 50-year-old wooden skis often are worth money. But 10-year-old painted skis aren't. So he decided to make an Adirondack chair, attaching skis to a wood frame, with a binding as an adjustable cup holder.
"If it's painted, it really has no value now," he said. "But we're finding a way to make them valuable."
The chair looked great in his backyard so he started making more, selling them to friends and neighbors. He estimates he sold 20 chairs before this year. As word spread and his company's Facebook page grew more active, his business increased. He has sold 20 so far this year, and his chairs can be found in three stores in Breckenridge. Since he began painting Colorado flags on the chairs, they've grown more popular.
Vernon also takes snowboards, though they aren't subject to such rigid indemnity rules so he only has a few.
While he still has a day job in sales and marketing for a wellness and nutrition company, he envisions a time when Colorado Ski Chairs will be a full-time job. Ski furniture is so popular several similar companies have popped up around the state.
An Adirondack will run $300, slightly less if buyers want him to use their old skis. A bench is $600.
Among the other things he has made from skis: porch swings, rocking chairs, love seats, coat racks, picnic tables, corn hole boards (the yard game in which bean bags are tossed through holes) and of course the tree house. He even made a ski version of the game Jenga and is working on a bow from cross-country skis. Vernon tries to use every piece of a ski, though the lone use he has found for rear bindings is the climbing wall in his backyard.
As a skier, it still pains him when he has to saw into a ski that is perfectly usable but no store will sell or work on because of its age.
"I can't assume that liability so I mainly just cut everything into furniture," he said. "There are a lot of good skis that I've cut that I had mixed feelings about when I cut them.
"I thought, 'Oh man, these could still be ridden.' But they'll make a really pretty chair."
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I am looking for a simple To Do or Task app that will sync across iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro automatically.
What app will do this?
I am looking for a simple To Do or Task app that will sync across iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro automatically.
What app will do this?
Most people are looking to choose between the hundreds of Apps that exist in this class.
For most, you can't beat the free Reminders app with iCloud syncing.
It really boils down to what you call simple and how you work. Some find the simple design of Cheddar or Clear to be great while others dislike them strongly. You could easily spend more than $100 for a best of class solution like OmniFocus or Things
If the free reminders app (in conjunction with iCloud's notes and calendar integration), then you can have some more specific requirements from which to choose from the many, many other solutions from the App Store (as most of the apps in this class have adopted the Mac App store and iOS App Store as there is little downside for them to comply with the requirements of sandboxing and code signing).
Reminders. It's built into OS X and iOS. It syncs via iCloud.
Wunderlist rocks, but lately, I've been using the Notes App more and more - simple, syncs, and provided by Apple
Buddy Bird Todo. It syncs seamlessly via iCloud and Toodledo. Text to speech feature makes it unique also. It is one of the few apps which reads out your task to you. Omnifocus and Things are some of the other good todo apps..But they are quite expensive.


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There is a well known Medrash Rabbah that the Jews during the Plague of Blood sold water to the Egyptians for exorbitant amounts of money. The question is how was this allowed as we have a rule that we are not allowed to BENEFIT from Miracles selling the water would seem to be a physical enjoyment of the Miracle?
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The profit was from the natural water that we sold them. The miracle was that their own water became blood. The miracle drove up the price of water from zero to something. The profit was an indirect result of the miracle.
Yes one, anwser is according to the Shemos Rabba that the water in Goshen (place where jews lived) did not turn into blood. Also the Pardes Yosef says the water didnt turn into blood. Only when the Egyptians tried to drink from it did it turn to blood. He learns it out from the extra words in the pasuk that the fish died. Therefore they did not receive direct benefit from the miracle. Since they sold the Egyptians water not blood.


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BFA student Yiu-hong Leung blogs about his Global Studios: China experience, along with MFA student "Wayne Bund":http://www.pnca.edu/blogs2/blog.php?id=22.
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6 pm, June 4
PNCA Swigert Commons
1241 N.W. Johnson St.
Stevens Studios
1432 N.W. Johnson St.
Please note that exhibition hours coincide with PNCA's Summer Hours, now through the start of the Fall semester:
Main Campus Building, 1241 NW Johnson St.
8am–10pm, Monday–Thursday; 8am–7pm, Fridays; 9am–6pm, Saturdays; 1pm–6pm, Sundays
The Stevens Building, 1432 NW Johnson St.
Open according to the MFA and BFA Thesis Show hours, 10am-6pm, and Smart Works programs schedule. Call PNCA for more information, 503-226-4391.
Watch the BFA Focus Week Slideshow
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Slideshow from Commencement and Thesis Exhibition opening
PNCA Centennial Year Commencement
Pacific Northwest College of Art holds its Commencement May 24, featuring a Centennial Year Commencement address by PNCA Alumnus and award-winning Production Designer Michael Curry '81.
Michael Curry is one of the world's leading production designers, working widely in both conceptual and technical development with the foremost entertainment companies in the world such as Cirque du Soleil, the Metropolitan Opera, London's Royal National Theatre, Disney Theatrical Productions, LA Opera, and Universal Pictures. He also collaborates regularly with directors such as Robert Lepage, Nicholas Hytner, Julie Taymor and William Friedken.
Curry has been the recipient of many prestigious awards from his peers, including several awards for his puppet and costume work on Broadway, Olympic ceremonies, and his continuing innovations in the fields of visual effects and puppetry design.
He owns and operates Michael Curry Design, Inc., which designs and creates live-performance oriented dimensional characters and productions, such as those seen by world-wide audiences in the 1996 and 2002 Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, Superbowl 2000, and New York City's 2000 millennium event.
Currently, Curry is working on the production of LeRossignol @ the Paris Opera with Robert LePage, the 2010 Asian Games with the design team from the Bejing Summer Olympics, the 2010 World Cup Opening Ceremonies as well as Spiderman on Broadway directed by Julie Taymor and music by U2.
Commencement 2009
4 pm, May 24
Tiffany Center
1410 S.W. Morrison St.
Photo of Michael Curry courtesy of Michael Curry Design.
Feldman Gallery Presents Black Market Type & Print Shop
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) presents Black Market Type & Print Shop, an exhibit of a collection of 30 type-fonts extracted from the artwork of well-known artists that can be used by gallery visitors for art of their own making, organized by curator Joseph del Pesco.
Black Market Type & Print Shop features 30 different hand-drawn type samples, appropriated from exhibition catalogues and artist publications that feature the work of an array of renown contemporary artists.
The exhibition encourages the use of this typographic archive through a computer and photocopier, which will be available for gallery visitors to create their own work. The result: an interactive production environment or "print shop," outputting a range of distributed media, from concert flyers to lost pet announcements, garage sale notices and other street-post ephemera. The featured type sets were created without the permission of the artists, and their use is limited to the exhibition and for non-commercial use only.
The Black Market Type & Print Shop was recently presented at Articule, an artist-run centre in Montréal and featured posters, using the type archive, by a range of artists including Portland-based Brad Adkins and Harrell Fletcher. The PNCA exhibition will include a new group of 15 artists working with the type archive, including Anne Walsh, Germaine Koh, Matt Keegan, and Arnold Kemp.
Joseph del Pesco is a contemporary art curator and curator-at-large for Artists Space, New York. He holds a master's degree in curatorial practice from the California Colelge of the Arts in San Francisco and has curated exhibitions internationally. He's also a contributor to various periodical publications including Proximity (Chicago), NUKE (Paris), Flash Art (Milan) and X-Tra (Los Angeles). Del Pesco lives in Oakland, California.
Black Market Type & Print Shop
May 7 through June 27
First Thursday Opening | 6:30pm, May 7
PNCA Main Campus Building, PNCA Feldman Gallery + Project Space
1241 N.W. Johnson St.
All photos by PNCA Student Thomas Wheeler Castillo '09
PNCA Alumna Thelma Johnson Streat Honored at 10th Annual Art Hop
Pacific Northwest College of Art Alumna Thelma Johnson Streat (1911-1959) was honored by arts non-profit Art on Alberta and a range of galleries during the 10th annual Art Hop on Alberta Street in Northeast Portland.
With Streat's family in attendance, PNCA President Tom Manley addressed the large crowd that gathered to learn more about Streat's innovative work. Internationally known in the mid-twentieth century for her visual and performance art, Streat attended PNCA—then known the Museum Art School—in the 1930s. An innovative painter, dancer, designer, and educator, Streat was the first African-American woman to have her work collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Participating Alberta Street galleries included: Ampersand, Black United Fund, Grow, Guardino Gallery and Talisman.
Her artwork has been exhibited and collected by a number of well-known institutions and celebrities including Eleanor Roosevelt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Vincent Price and Roland Hayes. During her professional career as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist at San Francisco's Pickle Factory, she worked with muralist Diego Rivera who became one of her most ardent supporters. Rivera said of Streat: "The work of Thelma Johnson Streat is in my opinion one of the most interesting manifestations in this country at the present. It is extremely evolved and sophisticated enough to reconquer the grace and purity of African and American art."
"Art on Alberta":http://www.artonalberta.org/ is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the Alberta Art District's distinct cultural identity through art and educational activities.
Visit the Thelma Johnson Streat "Web site":http://www.thelmajohnsonstreat.net/ for more information about her life and work.
"Red Dots, Black Angel" 11.75"x15" by Thelma Johnson Streat
PNCA Launches Centennial Year with Fundraising Gala
On May 9, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) kicked off its Centennial celebration year as the region's leading college of art and design. Over 400 guests attended the PNCA Centennial Gala: Black Tie Birthday Bash, a testament to the College's extraordinary momentum and its long and rich history.
With a 360-degree view of the city from the eighth floor of the Machine Works Building, PNCA's community of supporters demonstrated their commitment to the College by giving generously to its future.
The Black Tie Birthday Bash and the Benefit Art Auction held earlier in the spring raised nearly $500,000 for PNCA's Centennial Campaign for PNCA+FIVE, a $32 million effort to endow scholarships, professorships, and academic programs; acquire and renovate its campus, and support ongoing operations and strategic initiatives.
For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, donors have contributed more than $3 million, bringing the campaign total to more than $27 million.
At the Centennial Gala, President Tom Manley announced that Campaign Chairman Lee Kelly '59 has bequeathed his Oregon City studio and garden as a permanent artist and residence center for PNCA. "This is an incredible gift from the heart from one of the College's most distinguished alumni," said Manley.
Harold and Arlene Schnitzer were the Honorary Chairs of PNCA's Centennial Gala and PNCA board member Kathleen Lewis served as the Gala Committee Chair. In addition, PNCA presented its first Civic Imagination Award to the Honorable Vera Katz, Mayor of the City of Portland from 1992 to 2004. The award recognized Mrs. Katz's instrumental role in shaping Portland's civic and cultural landscape.
"Watch the Centennial Short Film":http://www.pnca.edu/about/centennial/, produced by Portland-based golightly films.
About PNCA
Since its founding in 1909, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) has become a leader in innovative educational programming that connects students to a global perspective in the visual arts. The College offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Communication Design, Illustration, Intermedia, General Fine Arts, Painting, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture. In addition, the College offers a mentor-based MFA in Visual Studies and a new joint MFA in Applied Craft and Design with Oregon College of Art and Craft. PNCA has the oldest continuously running community arts education program in the Northwest. From its base in the heart of the Pearl district, PNCA is actively involved in Portland's cultural programming through exhibitions and a vibrant public program of lectures and visiting artists from around the world. In conjunction with its Ford Institute for Visual Education (FIVE), the College is pleased to present PNCA + FIVE Idea Studios, which bring internationally renowned artists such as James Turrell, philosopher Jacques Rancière, art critic Saul Ostrow, and theorist Tom Zummer. Visit on-line for a full events calendar and to learn more about PNCA's BFA degree, MFA in Visual Studies or Continuing Education courses for all ages and skill levels.
Engaging: Community Conversations
The Pacific Northwest College of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Craft, and invited members of Oregon's creative community engaged in a series of conversations in April about the anticipated integration of two of Portland's most venerable institutions that have, in recent years, reinvented themselves to respond to changing educational and cultural needs.
Through these conversations, the community explored the broader concepts relevant to creating a more vibrant and expanded educational and cultural institution that will strengthen its contribution to the cultural voice and economic vitality of the region.
Community Conversations
Towards a New Future: Embracing the Vision
Wednesday, March 18, 6:30 pm
Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St.
The Changing Dynamics of Craft and Design
Thursday, April 9, 6:30 pm
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Swigert Commons
Featuring: Andrew Wagner, Editor in Chief, American Craft magazine; Namita Gupta Wiggers, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft; JP Reuer, 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); and Karl Burkheimer, OCAC Wood Department Head.
Strengthening the Curriculum
Thursday, April 16, 6:30 pm
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Swigert Commons
Featuring: PNCA faculty members Rose Bond, Associate Professor, currently teaching in Time Arts and Moving Image Arts; Paul Missal, Professor, currently teaching in Observational Painting, Painting Techniques of the Old Masters; Victor Maldonado, Instructor, currently teaching in Theory & Practice: Art in Context, Professional Practices, Composition; and Bill Barrett, Executive Director of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).
Redefining a Museum's Role: A Cultural and Educational Resource
Thursday, April 23, 6:30 pm
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Featuring: Nan Curtis, PNCA Faculty, Multidisciplinary Artist and Independent Curator; Christina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs, the Portland Art Museum; Stephanie Snyder, John and Anne Hauberg Curator and Director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College; Linda Tesner, Director, The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College.; Namita Wiggers, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft.
Creative Grid: Building Community Through Collaboration
Thursday, April 30, 6:30 pm
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Swigert Commons
Featuring: Victoria Frey, Executive Director, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA); Linda K. Johnson, Artist, Educator & Founder of the South Waterfront Artist in Residence Program; Elizabeth Leach, Owner, Elizabeth Leach Gallery; Tom Manley, President, Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Conversations begin at 6:30pm, and are moderated by Tim DuRoche, Community Programs Manager, Portland Center Stage.
"Museum of Contemporary Craft":http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org, 724 NW Davis St.
"Pacific Northwest College of Art":http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org, Swigert Commons, 1241 NW Johnson St.
New Book Featuring PNCA Students and Faculty Work Explores The Green Zone
Learn more about the new book The Green Zone, a collaborative effort by Pacific Northwest College of Art Faculty Barry Sanders, Pacific Northwest College of Art President Tom Manley and PNCA Communication Design students.
In the book's preface, "As Far as the Word Can See," President Manley describes how PNCA collaborated with Sanders on the project and how the book affected the greater Portland community.
"While I was not surprised that so many PNCA faculty and students responded to Barry Sanders' text (and even more enthusiastically to Barry Sanders) with seriousness and commitment, the prairie-fire sweep of their involvement and the growing momentum of the efforts did impress me," Manley states in the book's preface.
In conjunction with curricular studies inspired by early drafts of The Green Zone, PNCA hosted a "Focus the Nation":http://focusthenation.org/usps_zip.php conference in Spring 2008. PNCA "Communication Design":http://www.pnca.edu/programs/bfa/majors/communication_design.php students also contributed artwork, which appears in the book.
The Green Zone explores the environmental consequences of militarism and is "the first book to provide a comprehensive examination of the relationship between militarism and ecological destruction," according to "AK Press":http://www.akpress.org/2009/items/greenzoneakpress, the book's publisher.
"Read President Manley's Preface":http://www.pnca.edu/about/president/
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Pier Paolo Pasolini Pages
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Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna 1922-Roma 1975), is one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th century; he was also devoted to the cinema. From the most intimate literature to the most popular cinema, Pasolini was a poet with a firm, clear mark on reality and everyday life.
"In general, my social life depends totally on what people are. I say "people" after due consideration, meaning what society is, people, the mass in the moment in which it comes existentially (or just visually) into contact with me. It is from this existential direct, concrete, dramatic, corporeal experience that all my ideological speeches come into light..."
Pasolini, with his political, civil and artistic engagement, had principally the aim of denouncing and impeding the cultural homologation and the anthropological mutation of Italian people. He dramatically recognized these two aspects in the growing consumerism, in the conditioning acted by the instrument of the mass media in the conditions of the urban lumpen proletariat.
"This engagement at first coincided with a diffused hostility, that also revealed the cultural blindness of the man who has always tried to bar the way."
"He arrested me, persecuted me, lynched me almost for two decades. A young man cannot know all these things... Perhaps I have had just the minimum of dignity that permitted me to widen the anguish of who waited every day for summons of the Court for years and years and he was afraid of looking in the kiosks not to read in the newspapers atracious, scandalous news about his person..."
The poet intensified progressively his interventions, always giving more incisiveness to his targets that became frightfully congrous, and thickening his group of friends (those political and cultural movements that needed his presence; all those people, who with him, wanted to talk beyond the deviant controversies or even the leading divergences) and of the enemies (the depositaries or the servants of a power that, at first despised him as an intellectual and homosexual confining him to the margins and then, understanding the useless effort to confine in a ghetto, he wanted to show the theeth).
"Neither friends, nor enemies will be able to remember him in the present, yet because his thought was always in becoming and it copped out of every scheme: he took the sap of life and he accepted the most horrible joke, he shared the heavy contradiction to get."
"I always paid, I desperately was at the forefront of everything. I made a lot of mistakes, but surely I have no regrets. [...] I am insatiable of our life / because that is the one and only thing in the world that cannot be worn out".
Pasolini has often been called a "provocative witness" but this sublime malediction has not been directed by a narcissism of the poet and by the advertising fancy of an editor; in this sort of slogan there was an instinctive, immediate, almost skin-deep but deep, implacable truth.
"In the phrase 'provocative witness' there is a key element that illuminate not only Pasolini's character, but also essentially his fundamental relationship with the collective, then there is the recording 'in the heat of the moment' of a rapid sensation yet to codify, that is just in the adjective 'provocative'. You often risk legitimate purpose about a 'public individual, and the competition to understand in advance the thoughts and the reactions facing every situation cannot be very lively. According to Pasolini, this game did not start; not for him, we could say only for him. This characteristic made him to win the adjective 'provocative', that is a dull but sincere judgement, it is disarming because everybody will be able to read it positively or negatively, according to the prefered perspective without grasping it really."
"This man, this artist was killed in the night between 1st and 2nd November, 1975. Pier Paolo Pasolini stopped existing, and in his friends, enemies and friends-enemies' speeches you fell, from then, in an heavy way, his lack, not to mention the lack of his character in the thankless epitaph given by the horrible crime, and in the too clouded and argued memory of the last dramatic moments of his life, that were gathered by people who were and those who were not, by people who could or by those who wanted to be. Pasolini's body was devoured by our society and our time: this is the nemesis that closes the apologue, as in an exhaustible fiction."
"During all my life I have
never exerted an act of violence, neither physical nor moral. Not because
I am fanatically for no-violence. If this is a form of ideological, self-pressure,
it is violence too. In my life I have never exerted any violence, neither
physical nor moral, simply because I trusted to my nature, that is my culture..."
Pier Paolo Pasolini's work includes:
Fiction Ragazzi di vita, 1955; Una vita violenta, 1959; Il sogno di una cosa, 1962; Amado mio - Atti impuri, 1962 (pubblicato 1982), Alì dagli Occhi Azzurri,1965; Teorema, 1968 and the unfinished, posthumous Petrolio, 1975.
Critical essays Passione e ideologia, 1960; La poesia popolare italiana, 1960; Empirismo eretico, 1972; Lettere luterane, 1976, Le belle bandiere, 1977 («Il caos», 1960-1965), Descrizioni di descrizioni, 1979 («Tempo», 1972-1975), L'odore dell'India, Il portico della morte, Scritti corsari, posthumous, 1975.
Scenarios Il Vangelo secondo Matteo, 1964; Uccellacci e uccellini, 1965; Edipo re, 1967; Medea, 1970; Il padre selvaggio, 1975.
Theatre Calderón, 1973; Affabulazione, Pilade, published posthumouses, 1977; Porcile, Orgia, Bestia da stile, published posthumouses, 1979.
Films Accattone, 1961; Mamma Roma, 1962; La ricotta, 1963; La rabbia, 1963; Comizi d'amore, 1963-64; Sopralluoghi in Palestina, 1963-64; Il Vangelo secondo Matteo, 1964; Uccellacci e uccellini, 1965; La terra vista dalla luna, 1966; Che cosa sono le nuvole, 1967; Edipo re, 1967; Appunti per un film sull'India, 1967-68; Teorema, 1968; La sequenza del fiore di carta, 1968; Appunti per un'Orestiade africana, 1968-69; Porcile, 1969; Medea, 1970; Decameron, 1971; Le mura di Sana'a, 1970-71; I racconti di Canterbury, 1972; Il fiore delle Mille e una notte, 1974; Salò o le centoventi giornate di Sodoma, 1975.
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Breaking a surfing World Record – Flickr pic of the day
This photograph of surfers attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the most surfers riding on the same wave was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Craig Strachan aka Craig is shooting.
Craig says, "Sunday, September 26, saw surfers from all over Cape Town on Muizenberg Beach, trying to break the Guinness World Record for the most surfers standing on one wave. The record of 110 was set in Muizenberg in October 2009.
"Although over 90 survers rode a single wave, the previous record was not beaten. Perhaps next year."
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!
Image © Craig Strachan aka Craig is shooting
Enter the My Cape Town photo competition
Cape Town Tourism invites photographers to enter the My Cape Town photo competition.
Submit your best photographs of Cape Town to the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group and tag them "mycapetown2010". Entries must be submitted before September 30, 2010.
The prize is R10 000 cash, plus a four-day hiking expedition on the Hoerikwaggo Trail (including accommodation) for the winning photographer and up to 11 friends.
Visit the My Cape Town Competition page to find out how judging will work.


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Art education integrates the practices of art making, art criticism, historical analysis, and an understanding of visual culture as foundations for teaching art in schools and the community.
The program leads to teacher certification for visual art in the Michigan public schools at the primary and secondary levels. Fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).
Majors complete rigorous training in studio art complemented by courses in the theory and methods of art education. During the last year of the program, art education majors complete their degree with assisting and directed teaching opportunities at regional schools. For information about admission to the program, please visit the department website.
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The program also builds the transferable skills of critical thinking, communication, and problem solving necessary for professional careers outside of the arts.
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How do you pronounce "coupon"?
I say "koo-pon", and hear a lot of people say "cue-pon".
I figure all of us here say (or think) this word many times on a daily basis, so was curious to how you pronounce it.
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I pronounce it correctly. :)
Occasionally with some other words attached, ending with "left at home".
@mtm2: I do that, too, as well. Things like "on my counter" and "in my car, I'll be right back."
I've always used the second pronunciation you listed: cue-pon. Never really thought about it.
I say "coo-pon," which makes sense since it comes from the French "couper" ("coo-pay"), to cut. I know it's different in different regions and it's all valid, but "coo-pon" is just proper for me. And anyway, I say "kue-linary" for culinary, so why would I pronounce the beginning of coupon the same way? That's just crazy talk right there.
Apparently both ways are correct... According to merriam-webster:
\ˈkü-ˌpän, ˈkyü-\
Ever since the Ron White special, I have called them "koo-pins"
Now I don't know, since I sat here repeating 'coupon' over and over again.
I have been calling them "Cue-Pins" for years, Don't plan on changing it anytime soon either.
@goldenthorn: I am the opposite. Cue for coupon and coo for culinary, not that I say culinary very often. I do here both ways for coupon said around where I live.
I say coo-pon.
BTW, I also say mis-chuv-us not mis-chee-vee-us, fo-lee-uj not foil-uj and skahn (rhymes with dawn) not scone (rhymes with phone).
"Pardon me, would you have any grey coupons?"
Q-pon from the mid-south.
I say it both ways depending on who I'm with. My mom = qpon, my wife = koopon. They both think I'm weird if I mix it up.
Everybody all at once....
All told.