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23 Sep 2010 11:53 PM #1
help editor grid
hello every one i have a problem with my code....
I'd like my editor grid to send back all data to my data base in a single row even if i only changed one of it's column...
is that possible??? if so could anyone give me an example....
I've searched the net for it but i havent found that could help me...the code i have now does work but it only passes the data from the column that was changed....
24 Sep 2010 2:38 AM #2
Is this what you mean?
Config option of JsonReader:
writeAllFields : Booleanfalse by default. Set true to have DataWriter return ALL fields of a modified record -- not just those that changed....
false by default. Set true to have DataWriter return ALL fields of a modified record -- not just those that changed. false to have DataWriter only request modified fields from a record.
24 Sep 2010 6:22 PM #3
thank you...
thank you for the info i got caught up on the grid that i forgot about the config option of jsonwriter silly me lol.....^_^
but i have another question how can i make 2 column of in a row change data simultaneously??
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first column is the account description and the second is the account code...what i want to do is when i pick a description the account code would also change to its corresponding code. I've got a working code but i just cant figure out how to do it inside the grid...
26 Sep 2010 2:39 AM #4
Listen for the afteredit event on the grid and do some checks for the field being edited and if it's the description one then update the code one.
this.on('afteredit', function(e){ if(e.field === 'Description'){ var code = this.getCodeFromDescription(e.value); // get the equivalent code from somewhere, the Combo's store maybe? e.record.Code = code; } }, this); // untested!
26 Sep 2010 9:36 PM #5
the afteredit event was really helpful thank you...but i can't seem too figure out how to change the account code
this is my afteredit function:
afteredit: function(e) { if(e.field == 'CD_account_description' && e.value == 'Accounts Payable') { //this is the part where i get lost ^_^ var x = e.record.data.CD_account_code; // x is the original value of the account code } }
27 Sep 2010 1:09 AM #6
Where are you storing the equivalent Account Codes? The simplest (and nastiest...) answer is to do a massive switch or if/else if statement to pick out the right Account Code. However, probably the best way would be to store the AccountCode in the Account Description's combo store and then get it from that.
afteredit: function(e) { if(e.field == 'CD_account_description' && e.value == 'Accounts Payable') { var editor = e.grid.getColumnModel().getCellEditor(e.Column, e.Row); // get the index of the selected description record var selectedDescriptionIndex = editor.getStore().findExact('Description', e.value); // get the description record var selectedDescription = editor.getStore().getAt(selectedDescriptionIndex); // assign the Description's accountCode to the grid's record record.data.AccountCode = selectedDescription.data.AccountCode; } } //again, untested and a little bit theoretical!
Last edited by StuartAshworth; 27 Sep 2010 at 1:10 AM. Reason: weird formatting....
27 Sep 2010 1:54 AM #7
again thank you for the quick reply..sadly i used the nastiest way to do it..^_^
but that's ok because i'm not working with that many account codes to begin with so that's fine with me and
my account code fiels is not a combobox either its just a plain numberfield..^_^
it's working just fine now...thank you for all your help.....but i have another question..
i have an amount column and i want to show their sum at the bottom of the grid or after the last amount is it possible??and i was also thinking of putting in at the bottom bar..please give me your opinion...thank you again
27 Sep 2010 2:00 AM #8
Check out the Grid Summary Plugin (http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...221#post111221) (latest code is always on Post#9)
It's really good and easy to implement.
30 Sep 2010 6:54 PM #9
hello again mr.stoot98 i have not yet got the hang of using the plugin you
referred but its ok i'll figure it out soon..
i have a question about the the grid you've helped me with...when i select an account description the account code changes as well but their cell does not become dirty so when i click on the save button and my grid reloads it still have the same value not the once i selected. here is the code that i used:
if(e.field == 'CD_account_description' && e.value == 'Owner Capital') { var x = e.record.data.CD_account_code = 301; e.record.commit(); }
1 Oct 2010 3:01 AM #10
By calling e.record.commit() you are marking the record as 'clean' (i.e. not dirty) and so it won't be included in the next Store save.
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6 Games That Put Insane Detail Into Stuff You Didn't Notice
Now that we're in a golden age of video game technology, players are constantly demanding that video games be made as graphically detailed and realistic as possible. However, programmers have been going to insane lengths to show off their attention to detail in other, less obvious ways for years now, and you probably didn't even notice.
These are the amazing little flourishes that simultaneously wow us with their obsessive compulsion and provide a powerful rejoinder to the argument that soaring game budgets are both necessary and entirely justified.
#6. Call of Duty Is Packed With "Authentic" Details No One Will Ever Notice
In addition to being a lightning rod for kids who communicate exclusively via homophobic racism, Call of Duty is one of the best-selling game series of all time. The games pride themselves on realism in their portrayal of both military strategy and equipment (OK, the last game did feature robot attack spiders), sometimes to an absurd degree. For instance, in the Black Ops II multiplayer, they have gadgets called Tac Inserts that control where you respawn. Normally you can only see them for a split second before placing them on the ground. However, if you hold onto one long enough (essentially making yourself a giant stationary target with a glowing PDA), you'll notice a set of coordinates on the item's display screen:
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They lead to a psychiatrist's office.
If you write those coordinates down and search for them on Google Maps, you'll find that they correspond to your in-game location in the real world. For example, one level is set in Singapore, so your Tac Insert's coordinates will show a place in Singapore. The detail is simultaneously so mind-bogglingly precise and utterly pointless that it's almost beautiful.
But this series is full of "nobody will ever notice this" details -- in one level of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, you're trapped in a plane that is falling from the sky. If you happen to press the reload button during this brief sequence, your magazine will actually float away from you like it would in real life.
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Luckily, pants prevent the same thing from happening when you shit yourself.
In Call of Duty: Black Ops and its 1980s-movie-sequel-titled follow-up, Black Ops II, there is a multiplayer level called Nuketown that is crammed full of hidden details. For instance, there is a scale model of the Brady Bunch house, despite the fact that 90 percent of the game's audience isn't even old enough to tell you the names of all five original Power Rangers.
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"Here's a story ... of a lovely lady ... who was bringing up thr- INCOMING! HIT THE FUCKING DECK!"
Nuketown also features a countdown clock, which displays the actual time left in the match rather than the amount of time Indiana Jones has to locate a refrigerator, a population counter that changes depending on how many people are left in the game, and mailboxes bearing the names of the game's main protagonists. All of these details are impossible to notice while you're battling a horde of screaming teenagers hyped up on Monster and Avenged Sevenfold.
#5. Halo 3 Has Your Name on Each Individual Bullet
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According to Bungie, the series' creator, gamers have spent over 85 million days playing Halo games online. However, that figure is probably rivaled by the amount of time Bungie has spent filling the games with more meticulous detail than the average Kubrick film. For example, in Halo 3, every single bullet fired from an assault rifle has the main character's name carved into the back of it, as if he brought all the bullets from home.
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So now, while mowing down your enemies, you can scream, "Suck my autograph!"
It's known, appropriately, as the Chief's bullet, and although it is technically present and visible in regular play, it is impossible for anyone to actually see, because bullets are tiny and fast. Reading a millimeter of text on a television screen is difficult enough without having to try to discern it from the back of an individual bullet as it explodes from the barrel of your space rifle toward AIDS_Lord6969. The only reason anyone ever discovered the Chief's bullet was because Halo 3 includes a replay mode that allows you to record videos of any multiplayer match you participate in. Some bold Halo player combing through saved videos of their various online victories inadvertently stumbled upon the writing, and now it's a well-known Easter egg.
Halo 3's replay mode also revealed other laborious details put in by the game's development team, because apparently scrawling a self-referential word onto an infinite rain of digital bullets wasn't enough. For example, every Warthog armored vehicle in the game has a full set of lighted dashboard instruments, despite the fact that you only ever see the cars from the outside.
Yeah, but your avatar knows. And that's what really matters.
This is like Warner Bros. hiring a team of carpenters to build a complete interior set for the house next door to Wayne Manor in Batman Begins.
#4. Every Detail in Metal Gear Solid Is Absurdly Specific
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The Metal Gear Solid series is famous for being totally insane. This is partly due to the series' lead creative director, Hideo Kojima. In addition to developing the long-winded batshit lunacy of the game's story, Kojima is adamant about infusing as much detail as humanly possible into every entry in the series, no matter how pointless or inconsequential those details may be.
For instance, in one ofMetal Gear Solid 2's many cinematic cut scenes, the game's hero, Solid Snake, does a complicated handshake with his sidekick Otacon, and if you pay close attention to the hand movements of the shake and are a student of video game history, you'll notice that Snake and Otacon are partially acting out the infamous Konami Code -- up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right. Normally the code ends with a press of the START button, but Snake and Otacon punctuate their bromance with a ball-shattering man hug instead, because human beings do not have start buttons.
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At least not ones that are frequently shown in video games.
But even that was more likely to be spotted than some of the other random shit he had inserted into the background -- in the original Metal Gear Solid, Kojima made sure someone individually designed every single desk that appears in the game so players would feel properly immersed, because apparently finding a bunch of identical looking desks in a military base would've been totally unrealistic. In MGS 2, there is a random ice bucket sitting in a lounge -- if you shoot it, ice will spill out and slowly melt in a realistic manner until it has completely disappeared. This effect is never used again at any point in the rest of the game -- someone was told to figure out how to make ice melt in a PlayStation 2 game, and that achievement is entirely dependent on the player deciding to shoot one obscure object in the first level.
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And, yes, you could shoot the spilled ice cubes off of the bar, too.
Then you have Metal Gear Solid 3, where the list of things you can do just to screw around is longer than the game's Wikipedia entry. However, by far the most insane detail is one that is never mentioned at any point during the game -- it's something that just kind of happens. After an early boss fight, you're thrown into a pitch black cave that leaves you unable to see anything. However, if you simply let the game sit for a few minutes, the screen will very gradually become slightly lighter, to represent your character's eyes adjusting to the dark.
Nobody tells you to do this, no attention is drawn to it, and it doesn't affect gameplay in a meaningful way -- Kojima just wanted the experience of being trapped in a Stygian cavern to be as realistic as possible, and he wasn't allowed to stuff every copy of Metal Gear Solid 3 full of live scorpions.
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This game is best played with five or more players.
- Potato
- Have the players sit cross-legged in a circle.
- One player sits in the middle of the circle; this player is the leprechaun.
- The leprechaun starts the game by throwing a potato to one of the players in the circle.
- The leprechaun then closes her eyes and keeps them closed while the potato is passed among the players in the circle.
- After the potato has been passed for a while, the leprechaun shouts, "Shamrock!" and opens her eyes.
- The player holding the potato at that moment leaves the circle and is out of the game.
- Play continues until only one player is left in the circle.
- That player is the winner and gets to be the leprechaun for the next game.
- Keep playing until each player has had a turn as the leprechaun.
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Goal.com cartoonist Omar Momani gives us his unique take on the football news of the dayChelsea's Capital One Cup defeat to Swansea brought misery for the fans and also for striker Fernando Torres, who once again failed to score before being substituted.
The Spain international has endured a terrible time in west London since his £50 million move from Liverpool, and was jeered on Wednesday night at Stamford Bridge by his own fans.
To make matters worse, the supporters also called for new signing Demba Ba, who looked a real threat in his brief cameo and could be set to ensure Torres gets the chop from Chelsea's team.
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Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on January 14th, 2008:
- SimCity Source Code Released to the Wild! Let the ports begin… – Renamed to Micropolis, you can now download the source code. Blast from the past!
- Best Color Tools For Web Designers – 18 resources for getting the color just right.
COLOURlovers – create your own palettes
- 10 MPH – an indie documentary about an ambitious cross-country trip (Seattle to Boston) via Segway, is now available for your viewing pleasure…free of charge!
- Feltron Eight – Nicholas Felton posted his 2007 Annual Report. I happen to have a copy of the 2006 Annual Report and I have to say it's even lovelier in print.
- the stribe – an 8-channel multi-touch controller for music or video software.
- Jun Murakoshi _ noisy instrument 01 – When you put a seashell on your ear, you can hear something strange noise. It is noise but it makes us feel good. This product is a wearable instrument for listening the noise like seashell makes.


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I've used Rescue Time, but unfortunately, they don't offer the (free) ability to track time across your browsing, only showing that you were using a browser during that time.
I spend a lot of time browsing, for both productive and unproductive reasons. It'd be immensely useful if I could find a plugin/program that could track the sites I go to and how much time I spend across each.
And perhaps this is reaching, but the ability to see some sort of timeline, graphs, and/or plots of browsing usage over a time period would be brilliant. But the bare essentials is a tool that tracks the time to specific sites.


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Three people have been charged with several burglaries in Warren County.
The Warren County Sheriff's Office says deputies responded to an alarm at Boyce General Store on Thursday.
When they were driving, they say they noticed a vehicle parked near the intersection of Mt Lebanon Road and Whitlock Road.
While at the store, an alarm went off at Southern Kentucky Marine.
On their way there, deputies say they noticed the vehicle was no longer at the intersection.
Deputies soon located the vehicle's owner to investigate.
Deputies say Christian Price, 18, and two juveniles later admitted to the burglaries, and several others.
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The 35th meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) began yesterday in Kampala, Uganda. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nizar Madani led the Saudi delegation to the meeting.
The three-day conference will address issues including the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Middle East peace process, the situation in Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, US sanctions on Syria, lifting sanctions on Libya, UN reform and the nuclear file.
In his address to the gathering, Madani said that Islamic solidarity remains one of the Kingdom's top priorities. He highlighted the importance of resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, called for Palestinian unity and condemned Israel for its collective punishment of the Palestinian people in violation of international conventions.
On other international issues, he welcomed the election of Gen. Michel Suleiman as president of Lebanon and reiterated Saudi Arabia's support for Iraq. Madani also highlighted the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz's call for dialogue among religions and cultures.
The foreign ministers also signed the new OIC charter in a special ceremony conducted on the fringes of the meeting. Madani signed on behalf of Saudi Arabia, invited to be one the first signatories in recognition of its efforts to bring about the document.
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Is Legatus Anti-Muslim?
Legatus, a Group of Catholic business people, have decided to sue HHS over the contraception mandate. Most troublingly, they have chosen the public-interest law firm of the Thomas More Center to do so.As their website clearly indicates, the Thomas More Center favors religious liberty -- for Christians. But not for Muslims. (More here.) Their key issues include defending the religious freedom of Christians and confronting the threat of Islam.Here's what they say about religious liberty for Christians:
The Christian values upon which this Nation was founded are under attack. The ACLU and like-minded organizations are using sympathetic courts to destroy the religious and moral foundations of our great nation. Using the metaphor, a wall of separation between church and state, which is found nowhere in our Constitution, they attack crosses, Ten Commandment monuments, Nativity displays, Christmas celebrations in public schools, the Pledge of Allegiance, our national motto, In God We Trust and prayers at public meetings. The main battleground in this culture war is the courtroom and that is where the Thomas More Law Center is defending the religious freedom of Christians.
And here's what they say about Muslims:
Radical Muslims and Islamic organizations in America take advantage of our legal system and are waging a Stealth Jihad within our borders. Their aim is to transform America into an Islamic nation. They have already infiltrated the highest levels of our government, the media, our military, both major political parties, public schools, universities, financial institutions and the cultural elite. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, political leaders still claim Islam is a religion of peace. Our national leaders refuse to identify Radical Islam as the enemy. Political correctness has paralyzed our governments ability to deal with these threats. That is why the Thomas More Law Center has been at the forefront of legal battle against this internal threat.
In my view, they're not advocating religious liberty -- they're advocating re-establishment of their favored religion. And talk of Muslims "infiltrating" our public life cannot be interpreted as anything other than rank prejudice. Much the same thing was said about Catholics at one point in this nation's history.Are the nation's top Catholic business men and women so religiously prejudiced? I don't believe so. But then who made the decision to go with this firm? Tom Monaghan founded both Legatus and the Thomas More Center.Cardinal Dolan's picture is prrominently featured on their website. If I were he, I'd ask them to take it down.
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Cathleen Kaveny is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor in the Theology Department and Law School at Boston College.
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Suggest one added step the LCWR can take is to have a 'money' fund that would/could out spend the Legatus, Thomas More soc. etc. ...they LCWR have a bigger base & more clout.
This nation has, until recent times, an essentially Judeo-Christian nation and culture, and in addition, not especially enthusiastic about even the possibility of Sharia law creeping into our judicial structure, I'm very happy with the Thomas More Center. I realize that commonweal readers will take umbrage at this statement, but there it is. If I were to suggest that we accommodate, say, Satanist legal criteria (if there were such a thing; see Aliester Crowley) in our legal system, I'm sure that you would at least take pause. I think the muslims are capable of looking out for themselves; they are not shrinking violets.
Bob Schwartz, Aren't Muslim American also "us"? Why should they have to look out for themselves? It's completely disingenuous to talk about religious liberty when we only want it for some of us and not for the rest of us- there's no "liberty" in that, quite the opposite.
Cardibal Dolan's PRprominently place is not surptising given his ties to the continuing lurch to the right Church of his good buddy, Bill Donahue.Elsewhere I bemoned the loss of moderate voices and the Thomas More Centere is part of the problem.(BTW, interesting report on NPR this morning on how partisans tend to overlok facts of they don't fit in with their ideology.)
If you substitute 'Jews' for 'Muslims' it is apparent what kind organization the More Center is.
@Bob Schwartz (5/9, 12:29 pm) What's your evidence that the US has been "until recent times, an essentially Judeo-Christian nation and culture"?The founders, regardless of their religious beliefs (a solid minority were Deists), were quick to ensure that the new nation would not be a "Christian" nation, and would not have an established church. There were so few Jews in the US for the first 100+ years, that I suspect many American Jews would question the characterization of this as a "Judeo-Christian" nation. Indeed, there's little evidence of which I'm aware concerning the regular use of the phrase "Judeo-Christian" as a descriptive in the early years of the Republic.An aside: the concern about Sharia law and Muslim culture and beliefs "creeping into" not only our judicial structure, but into our wider polity, is reminiscent of nothing so much as the anti-Catholic reaction to the (much larger on a percentage basis) Irish and German Catholic wave of immigrants in the 1840s and 50s...followed by the larger wave of Southern and Eastern Europeans (mostly Catholics and Jews, all of them suspiciously dark-skinned, smelly and foreign) in the late 19th and early 20th century.
They are advocating establishment, not re-establishment, of their favorite religion. The "Christian values upon which this nation was founded" are secular. That they tracked pretty well with the needs of Christians, including Catholics, astounded the Catholic Church for over a century. Now that we are comfortable with them, we should not be changing them to exclude other Americans.
As American citizens, the Catholic bishops in the United States use Catholic natural law to oppose same-sex marriage, oppose legalized abortion in the first trimester, and oppose artificial contraception.
It is so sad to see Thomas More's name so apprpriated. And the rhetoric of these quotations can only leave one wondering at the scholarship and values -- not the best of academia or our traditions. Propaganda comes much more to mind.I'm preparing a course for the Fall in "America's Fitful Faith journey: The Development of Religious Liberty - Columbus to Madison." I highly recommend Steven Waldman's "Founding Faith" for those who want an overview of Amercan struggles with the notion of "religious liberty."
And people wonder why Catholicism is becoming increasingly irrelevant in US society! This kind of very dangerous Catholicism is a scourge on the face of this earth and the quicker it dies the better Christianity in general will be.
Ask many Jews exactly HOW "Judeo-" Christian this country has been. Watch the movie "Gentleman's Agreement" and education yourself: https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=gentleman%27s+agreement+f...
Here you go - they must have had this thread in mind:http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-similarities-between-rig...
Jimmie Mac"this kind of very dangerous Catholicism" you and I may think is a scourge but what do you think is the source on the war against LCWR?
Cathleen writes: "If I were he,[CDL Dolan] Id ask them to take it down." Ah, but if you were he we'd be having a much more hopeful discussion.
Last week the TMLC announced that Rep. Allen West had joined their Citizens Advisory Board. http://www.thomasmore.org/news/congressman-allen-west-joins-the-thomas-m... was just after he charged that 78 to 81 Democratic members of the House of Representatives are Communists. His addition should have a powerful effect on the Center's intellectual heft and credibility.
"-- what do you think is the source on the war against LCWR?"Authoritarian, clericalist, male-dominated, mysogynistic churchianity masquerading as legitimate action by alleged "successors of the apostles."It has gone beyond very dangerous Catholicism and has become a source of scandal and sin.
I've read -- perhaps in John McGreevy's work -- that the term "Judaeo-Christian" is of relatively recent (i.e., 20th century) coinage, and that in its origins, by "Christian" it meant Protestant -- particularly in mid-century when Catholic countries like Italy, Spain, Poland (and, of course, Vichy France) were succumbing to the lure of dictatorship, if not totalitarianism.Is that correct? I don't know, but maybe someone else does.I think it's also a purely US phrase. Do Canadians use it? or anyone else? I think not.
The "Christian values" on which this nation was founded usually excluded Catholics.As recently as 1960 John F. Kennedy had to defend himself against accusations that his Presidency would be dominated by the Vatican. Al Smith was almost certainly defeated in 1928 by anti-Catholic bigotry, and the arguments were much the same. Have we forgotten our own history? Let's rely on the vigor of American democracy and welcome American Muslims to full participation.
Judaeo-Christian is used in Canada by the same type of Christian that uses it in the USA. Thankfully, even as a percentage of our population, they are much fewer in number, and don't have the same political clout.Everyone should perhaps be reminded of the voyage of the MS St Louis, if they really think N America was ever founded on Judaeo Christian Values. The Jewish part maybe fashionable now, but it certainly was not 70/80 years ago.
Agree, Michael. Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray (which was shown on PBS) is interesting. http://www.jewishsoldiersinblueandgray.com/Abraham Lincoln overturned Grant's infamous Order #11.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/grant.html
Given our history, American Catholics should be the first to defend Muslim Americans today. Instead, too many are returning to the mentality of the Crusades and repeating foolishness they hear from rightwing yahoos, such as that idiocy about "radical Islamists" invading the upper echelons of government and sharia law taking over the courts. That Legatus buys this bigoted nonsense says all I have to know about Legatus. That the organization wants to be associated with the USCCB and Cardinal Dolan's fight with the government over the HHS mandate, in turn, casts a deserving pall over that cause as well.
As a history buff, I give credence to the claim that this country was founded by Christians of various denominations (mainly low-church Anglicans and Protestants), many of whom even believed in the establishment of their own denominations on the state level, although they ultimately bowed to the Deists among our founders who demanded it be disallowed on the federal level. One of our more distinguished founding fathers, Deist Thomas Jefferson, owned a copy of the Quran and saw religious liberty extending to Americans of all religious beliefs, not just Christians. For the record, the term "Judeo-Christian" was hardly a popular phrase in 18th-century America, where Jews, Catholics and African-American slaves (never mind women of any kind) rarely got mentioned in the same sentence, paragraph or document that referenced "rights."
Cathleen, I have an article in the next issue of Commonweal that goes into the Thomas More Center and the HHS mandate and this post by you is quite interesting. If you have not seen it, be sure to see the video at the Thomas More website of its president's speech at a rally against the HHS Mandate. From my perspective, the most chilling thing I have seen in a while. Can't wait to see what you think of my article in next month's issue. Thanks for posting this.
This is the video I refer to. It is not at their home page anymore, but a 3 minute version of it was there for weeks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMQkQe12zZM&feature=relmfuIn finding this, I found that Bishop Michael Byrnes spoke at the same rally, which I did not know when I wrote my article. This is significant given what the TMLC president said at the same rally. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NiuKZZJkuo&feature=relmfu
Bob Schwartz ==Some of the sharia legal system is already present in common law. At one time the Muslims conquored Sicily, and later some Normans defeated them. A law professor friend told me that during the Norman dominance of Sicily (medieval period) one of the Norman kings was closely related to the English king of the time. Through their connection some Isllamic laws regarding property became known in England, and some of their ideas were incorporated into common law somehow. Sorry, I have no reference, but my law teacher friend said there was a teacher at the law school of Loyola in New Orleans who was researching the subject. That was some time ago.
Ironies abound. Muslims may end up as the only group who agrees with the Usccb on same sex marriage. With interesting wording an editorial in the NY Times today describes Obama'a position on same sex marriage as taking the "high moral ground" and "President Obama's moment." Maybe the next irony will be that some in the Thomas More Center will "out" themselves.
"And heres an edit of that video. Disturbing:"Quite!
Cathleen - I think we can agree that Richard Thompson's and the Thomas More Center's views on religion, politics and the Constitution are not ones that you and I share. But do those controversial political, legal and philosophical views somehow disqualify Thompson and the Center from representing clients? Does an attorney's client become complicit in the attorney's controversial political views merely by retaining that attorney? And if the very existence of that attorney-client relationship is ethically problematic, does it even extend to besmirching the reputation of a public figure, the photograph of whom someone has put up on the client's site, perhaps without the public figure's permission or knowledge?If the attorney represents her client ethically and honorably, is there any issue with respect to that client? I'm sure you've thought about these issues more deeply than I have, so I'd welcome your thoughts.
Jim, I think you have the question exactly backward. I am criticizing Legatus's choice of a law firm to represent them. The choice of a law firm is a moral choice, subject to moral analysis, like any other choice.. In this case, I see the problem as more fundamental, because it involves a conflict at a deep moral level. The law firm is working against the religious liberty message that the bishops are pushing. They are working for establishment of the Christian world view, not religious liberty for all.Most law firms are not advocacy firms. They are advocates for hire. Everyone understands that they are not to be associated with the agenda of their clients. In contrast, this law firm is not a morally neutral law firm but one with a clearly stated religious and political agenda. It picks its clients to advance its agenda. It advances its cause through the cause of its clients. One of the big issues in advocacy law firm ethics, in fact, is how they act when the interests of their cause and that of their clients no longer converge.In some cases, one has to take the lawyers who are available to them. But I am assuming that Legatus has financial resources available to them that other people don't.Let me be plain: I think the Thomas More Center is besmirching the Cardinal's reputation. And I repeat my hope that he requests them to take it down. They are using him to advocate religious establishment of Christianity--and discrimination against Muslims. Not that he reads the commonweal blog or anything.
the photograph of whom someone has put up on the clients site, perhaps without the public figures permission or knowledgeJust now I put a comment on Cdl Dolan's blog informing him that his photo is on that website and makes it look as though he approved of TMLC, along with links to the website and to the disturbing video of the president's speech. So he is now informed if he wasn't before.I therefore expect his photo to disappear within a few days, or else.
I am writing an essay for another publication dealing with the Vatican's domination targeting American Catholics and America's Nuns. In doing the first part of the essay---the Vatican had been trying to impose an Europeanized Catholic version of Christianity on America from the time of Pius IX and Leo XIII. Does the term "Americanism" ring a bell for anyone here? It was a form of "Modernism" that was the bane of the Vatican from the 19th into the early 20th Century.In two papal letters sent to Cardinal-Archbishop James Gibbons of Baltimore, Leo XIII (who produced absolutely no evidence to PROVE that it existed), demanded that Gibbons repudiate "Americanism". Gibbons, to his credit, wrote a spirited-letter debating the points listed and stated that no bishop, priest, or layman---espoused the concepts that Leo listed. The papal letters, by the way, were "Loginqua Oceani" (1895) and the very pointed accusation of American culture (and American Catholics acceptance of this culture) in "Testem Benevolentiae" (1899). But what this pressure by the Vatican did was to convience educated American Catholics that the Vatican not only distrusted the American form of government---but that it would not be happy until all American Catholics were brought to heel at the Vatican commands. AND other Americans, aware of these papal demands, became more convinced that the Vatican despised democracy and a democratic government (as outlined in the Constitutions)---and any Catholics in government could not be trusted. Of course, Catholics in America and the Catholic immigrants who came to America from Ireland, and from central and eastern Europe experienced terrible discrimination from many Americans. And Jewish immigrants got doses of the same.I am bringing this historical part up about the Vatican's insistence of Catholic Americans (under Leo XIII), to be 'submissive and obedient' to the Magisterium back in the 1890's---because it seems that so many of the activities of the American hierarchy (both in Rome) and in the US---and now utilizing the Thomas More Center----are seemingly fitting into the 'obedient' stance that Leo XIII wanted from Americans in the 1890's. Only now----insteading of 'marginalizing Protestants' (as Leo wanted), Catholics are trying to marginalize and discriminate Muslims.
"Most law firms are not advocacy firms. They are advocates for hire. Everyone understands that they are not to be associated with the agenda of their clients. In contrast, this law firm is not a morally neutral law firm but one with a clearly stated religious and political agenda. It picks its clients to advance its agenda. It advances its cause through the cause of its clients."Cathleen, thanks for this explanation - I'd never heard of the category of "advocacy law firms" before, but now that you've explained it, it does make sense, and I'm sure there are many other examples of advocacy law firms."The law firm is working against the religious liberty message that the bishops are pushing. They are working for establishment of the Christian world view, not religious liberty for all."At the risk of appearing to defend the anti-Muslim positions of the Thomas More Center - and I don't defend those positions; I find it odious that the Center apparently conflates radical Islam with all Muslims and Muslim organizations - I don't think the links you've provided demonstrate that the law firm wants to establish Christianity. The quote you provided in your original post suggest a somewhat more complex narrative: that in the view of the Center, America's foundations are Judeo-Christian; those foundations are under attack; and the Center wishes to defend those foundations. Now, istm that in fact, part and parcel of our Judeo-Christian heritage is a healthy respect for religious pluralism and religious freedom - and surely one of the great accomplishments of Vatican II was to enshrine that aspect of our heritage in magisterial teaching. So to my way of thinking, a true defense of our Judeo-Christian heritage is to defend the rights of Muslim US citizens to engage in all of the activities and enjoy all of the rights and protections that any citizen enjoys. But my views on this, which I view as deeply rooted in the country's Judeo-Christian heritage, don't amount to a wish for the legal establishment of Christianity.I haven't studies the Thomas More Center's website and other materials exhaustively, but I don't see that they've stated that they want to establish Christianity. What I do have an issue with, based on the materials to which you've linked, is that they seem to equate radical Islam with Islam in general. Obviously, radical Islam is not just a paranoid right-wing fantasy; but it is incumbent on everyone to distinguish between Islam and radical Islam, and not lump all Muslims into the latter category.
Transcript of the first minute of GG's video: "Thousands of American soldiers are shedding their blood, sacrificing their lives to establish a constitution, a republic in Afghanistan and Iraq, while here, our own government is tearing up our constitution.Most of those soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are Christians; many of them are Catholic. Washington doesn't realize that Christians were born for combat. They have underestimated Christians.Christ said: "I did not come to bring peace but a sword". When Christ saw the money changers in the temple, he did not keep quiet, he did not turn away in the presence of Rome to keep the peace. He broke the peace by driving them out. He armed himself with chords and drove them outSo, peace is not our goal. Righteousness is our goal."
Jim P. ==I've seen the word "Islamist" used to refer to those whose beliefs are radical, that is, those Muslims who want to establish Islamic government everywhere and by force if necessary. The word allows us to make the much needed distinction you mention.
A grand compromise: The Thomas More Law Center takes down the Cardinal Dolan picture and sends it to the Fordham Theology Department where it is to be prominently displayed. If this proves too inflammatory for the theologians a portrait of Thomas More may be substituted.
"cords", not "chords". (Although this spelling trap has no good reason of existing.)
In Leo XIII's first letter to Cardinal Gibbons in 1895---(Loginqua Oceani), he rejected the American separation of Church and State. Leo made it clear that this is a 'very erroneous' arrangement even for the United States. The letter noted that horribly in America, Church and State were 'dissevered and divorced'.the papal letter stated that Rome, will at best tolerate this experiment in America, but only until the number of Catholics in America becomes a majority. Then all the Protestant churches must be marginalized. All the clergy in America must show a 'submissive spirit' and all lay Catholics must show 'obedience' to this encyclical's mandates.Back then, the Vatican directive was against Protestants. Today, it is against Muslims. But the Vatican is still directing America's hierarchy to reject any concepts of a separation of church and state.
While npt as zooey asthe Cardinal Newman society, Th Thomas More Center has joined the dshift to the radical(poltco religious) right that, despite some good works, is partisanly biased like the K of C.And our hierarchy drifts with then.Hence my feeling is a pl.ague on their houses.(BTW many can keep sdayiong we are a Judaeoo Cgristian nation, but that's pur religion -which of course they conflate!)
I appreciate your historical reference, Little Bear. I thought they were superceded by the acceptance of John Courtenay Murray, but I am sure that that suspicion of Americanism has new advocates -- including some of the American cardinals.
jimmy mac i love you. can i adopt you?
jimmy macthe main reason why i don't like the idea of gay couples is that it takes men like you out of the dating scene. it's a big loss for us.
Mary - I'll ask my partner, but if there is money involved, we can talk!Claire - ask some of the women I dated early on in my life. You didn't miss much.
"Bi-sexuality doubles your chances of getting a date on Saturday night." Rodney DangerfieldJimmy, There you go again thinking love is just about sex....On a serious note I propose a serious eleventh commandment. The RCC is forbidden to talk about sex for a year. The purpose is to see if they can find anything else in the gospel.
Earlier this year, I had an exchange with a fellow blogger at NCROnline about her view that the United States was founded as a Christian nation (http://ncronline.org/blogs/grace-margins/why-bishops-will-never-be-satis...). Here's the substance of my reply:"...Americans of 1770 were either overwhelmingly Protestant or unchurched. Yet in such ports as Newport, Rhode Island, New York City, Philadelphia, Charleston, and Savannah - places where transatlantic vessels carrying passengers and crew regularly docked - [we] would have come across not only Christian churches but also Jewish synagogues. As of 1770, some one thousand Jews probably lived in the colonies. In 1790, the first federal census counted 1,243 Jews in a total American population of almost three million. By the end of the century, the new republic had synagogues in Charleston, New York, Newport, Savannah, Philadelphia, and Richmond" (p. 1).**********"...Most of the founding fathers of the United States were members of Christian churches. Yet widespread disagreement exists about their beliefs."The religious beliefs of the founders seem to have fallen into three categories: Non-Christian Deism, Christian Deism, and orthodox Christianity...How can students of early American history distinguish a Deist from an orthodox Christian? [We] should consider at least the following four points."First, they should look - to a point - at the *actions* of America's founding fathers in the area of religion. If a founder belonged to a church, attended a church, or served on a governing body such as a vestry, those involvements did not guarantee his orthodoxy. A colonial church served not only religious but also social and business functions. Thus no reader of American history should classify all churchgoers as orthodox believers. Nevertheless, readers should regard regular church attendance by a founder as more clearly indicative of orthodoxy than sporadic attendance. Devout Christians among the founders would be more likely to go to church."Second, [we] should look at the participation of the founders in what some colonial churches called 'ordinances' and others called 'sacraments'. That a founder was baptized says little about his adult beliefs. During the colonial period, most churches baptized children shortly after birth. The children therefore had no choice about whether to be incorporated into the Christian faith or not...[T]he most thoroughgoing Deists could be and probably were baptized. A far better indicator of the religious stance of founders is whether or not they had their own children baptized. Yet even there, the orthodoxy of their wives usually caused the children to be baptized."But if most of the founders had no choice about their own baptism, they did have a choice about confirmation...[T]his rite represented a reaffirmation of baptismal vows by an adult or young adult. It conferred full church membership...**********"...[O]nce these churches [Episcopal and Roman Catholic] had bishops, the avoidance of confirmation by a church member represented a conscious omission."George Washington, for example, lived in [states] during the period when [they] had Episcopal bishops, but he was never confirmed. James Madison of Montpelier never arranged for confirmation, though his cousin...held the office of bishop of Virginia during twenty-two years of President Madison's life...Madison had been aligned with the Deists for twenty years..."Thus if a founder was an Anglican or a Roman Catholic and decided not to be confirmed, Deism had probably influenced him to some extent. Episcopalians and Roman Catholics who sought confirmation after their American bishops took office were more likely to be orthodox believers than those who avoided the rite. Because confirmation was not held in the highest regard in either church during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this litmus test is helpful but not entirely indicative of a founder's religious belief."A second rite [we] should heed is the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion. Participation or abstention from this sacrament or ordinance represents another way of distinguishing between Deists and orthodox Christians. Few founders who were Deists would have received the bread and the wine distributed at the communion. If they attended church, even sporadically, they would have been least likely to attend on Sundays when the Holy Communion was being administered. In the Anglican or Episcopal churches, where the Lord's Supper came after the preaching service, members influenced by Deism might attend only the first part of the service and then leave without communicating, as Washington did."If [one] asks why Deists were reluctant to receive the Holy Communion, the answer seems to stem from at least two causes. First, the Lord's Supper represented the most supernatural level of church activity...That earthly bread and wine could in some way become the body and blood of Christ vexed founders such as Jefferson and Adams. Their correspondence often employed the derogatory term 'hocus-pocus' - a term that probably comes from the words said by a Roman Catholic priest - 'hoc est enim corpus meum' (or 'this is my body') - in the Mass."Deists, in fact, would have encountered problems believing in the purpose of the Holy Communion service even in churches that did not teach a 'real presence' in the bread and wine...[T]he Lord's Supper physically linked participants with the Christian doctrine of the atonement (the belief that Jesus of Nazareth had paid the penalty for the sins of humanity by dying on the cross). All orthodox Christians believed not only that Jesus had died for 'them', but also that his body had been given and his blood had been shed for 'them'..."But Deists believed neither in the doctrine of the atonement nor in the presence of Christ in the elements. They did not believe that Jesus was a savior who had died for them. Hence they found much to oppose in this central ordinance or sacrament of Christianity. Because Deists denied what the Lord's Supper signified, they had no reason to participate in the rite."Third, [we] should also consider the dimension of 'inactivity' versus 'activity'. Few thoroughgoing Deists would have taken an 'active' part in the rituals of the Christianity that surrounded them. And most Deistic Christians would have participated in these rituals 'less actively' than orthodox churchgoers.**********"...The greater the influence of Deism, the less a person participated. Non-Christian Deists rejected all sacraments and rarely attended church. Deistic Christians attended church regularly or sporadically, but seldom participated in the Lord's Supper and confirmation. Orthodox Christians attended regularly and participated in both sacraments [confirmation and holy communion]..."Finally, in determining where a founder stood religiously, [we] should look carefully at his 'religious language'. Non-Christian Deists such as Paine described God with such terms as 'Providence', 'the Creator', and 'Nature's God', but they refused to use specific Christian terminology."Similarly, Deistic Christians often used Deistic terms for God. Occasionally or frequently, however (depending upon the degree of Deistic influence on their religion), they added a Christian dimension to the terms - such as 'Merciful Providence' or 'Divine Goodness'. In addition, they used the name of Jesus and employed terms - 'Supreme Being' or 'Supreme Ruler of the World', for example - that rode the boundary between Deism and Judeo-Christian orthodoxy. But they did not go further and employ terms that would indelibly commit them to orthodoxy. As for the orthodox Christians among the founders and populace, they affirmed the Trinity and used language ('Savior', 'Redeemer', or 'the Resurrected Christ', for example) that clearly conveyed their orthodox views" (pp. 134-140).(David L. Holmes. THE FAITHS OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS. Oxford University Press, 2006)========================="God was essential in the declaration Jefferson put together in his rented parlor [in Philadelphia in June 1776], but the God he wrote of was in no explicit way the God of Abraham, much less God the Father of the Holy Trinity.**********"Jefferson had mentioned God only twice - as 'Nature's God' and 'Creator' - but in the editing process his colleagues added two more allusions to the Almighty. One noted that the Congress was 'appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions...,' and the other asserted the Founder's 'firm reliance on the protection of divine providence...' as they pledged 'to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.' But 'the supreme judge of the world' and 'divine providence' were no more specific to the God of the Bible than 'Creator' and 'Nature's God'.**********"The founding religion - at least in the Declaration - was based more on a religion of reason than of revelation. But it was still religion. From Bolingbroke to Jefferson, even the most cerebral of Deists were making a leap of faith when they ascribed the discernible attributes of nature to a divine author. 'The Liberty of a People is the gift of God and Nature,' wrote Algernon Sidney in his 'Discourses concerning Government', a work much on Jefferson's mind as he wrote in Philadelphia. Sidney's book, published in 1698, was a reply to a treatise by Sir Robert Filmer titled 'Patriarcha, or the Natural Power of Kings'. Sidney's view of individual rights became the American view, but from a strictly intellectual point of view there is no reason to ascribe 'the Liberty of a People' to 'God "and" Nature unless one wishes to involve the divine in the equation. In other words, a secular case can be made that experience and inferences from nature (defined as what we find before us in observable reality or can reasonably discern intellectually) suggest it is best for a society to consider all men equal and work from there. It is a matter of choice - a matter of faith - to bring God into the picture at all. The Founding Fathers made that choice, linking the cause of liberty to the idea of God while avoiding sectarian religious imagery or associations."The God of the Declaration is a divine force that created the universe, endows all men with human rights, and is an actor in the drama of the world he made...It was this God who became the God of America's public religion...As far as possible, religious debate belonged outside politics. Jefferson, for one, relished theology, but saw such arguments as private intellectual affairs, not fit subjects for government. 'I write with freedom,' he said to one correspondent, 'because, while I claim a right to believe in one God, I yield as freely to others that of believing in three. Both religions, I find, make honest men, and that is the only point society has any right to look to."(Jon Meacham. AMERICAN GOSPEL: GOD, THE FOUNDING FATHERS, AND THE MAKING OF A NATION. Random House, 2006, pp. 72-75)=========================See also Meacham's article "A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation", which appeared in the New York Times in 2007. It can be accessed at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/opinion/07meacham.html.
Mr. Molloy, any problem with affixing Dolan's pic to a cork board at Fordham? Or would such a step be cheatin'?
Read the following statement from the Thomas More Law Center and substitute "Opus Dei" everytime you see Muslim or Islam. Is it a fit? Radical Muslims and Islamic organizations in America take advantage of our legal system and are waging a Stealth Jihad within our borders. Their aim is to transform America into an Islamic nation. They have already infiltrated the highest levels of our government, the media, our military, both major political parties, public schools, universities, financial institutions and the cultural elite. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, political leaders still claim Islam is a religion of peace. Our national leaders refuse to identify Radical Islam as the enemy. Political correctness has paralyzed our governments ability to deal with these threats. That is why the Thomas More Law Center has been at the forefront of legal battle against this internal threat.
The Cardinal Newman Society has a new video ostensibly aimed at Geogetown for inviting Kathleen Sibelius to speak but mainly supporting the bishops' campaign against "the Obama administration's assault on religious freedom"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C70sYGRDpUw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
On May 10, Claire said: Just now I put a comment on Cdl Dolans blog informing him that his photo is on that website and makes it look as though he approved of TMLC, along with links to the website and to the disturbing video of the presidents speech. So he is now informed if he wasnt before.As of today, my comment on Cdl Dolan's blog is still marked as "awaiting moderation".Cardinal Dolan's picture still features prominently on the Legatus web site.
My comment on Cdl Dolan's blog has now been moderated and is gone (as it should), so it's been read and processed. Cdl Dolan's picture is still onhttp://www.thomasmore.org/news/tmlc-files-lawsuit-challenging-the-hhs-ma...


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A vessel collision on the Niangua Arm of the Lake of the Ozarks resulted in the third boating fatality on the lake this year.
James Koch, 61, of High Ridge, Mo., was piloting a 2004 Chaparral at the 4 mile marker of the Big Niangua when the vessel struck an unspecified fixed object Friday night. Koch was not wearing a life jacket according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. He was pronounced dead shortly before 11 p.m. by Camden County Coroner Dee Ballard.
This is Troop F's third boating fatality in 2013.
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Given that there are a few jobs where an MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) in creative writing is preferred as a writer or editor, is it possible figure out the ROI (return on investment) of acquiring the degree? Obviously there are a lot of variables in figuring out the ROI of any degree - how much is the degree? What of the possible job options does the degree land you? However it seems like with an MFA in Creative Writing especially it gets even more complex because it is hard to quantify how much "better" a writer a particular MFA might get you and therefore how much more likely you will be to succeed as a writer. It isn't quite as straight-forward as a degree such as an MBA, which is more like a simple gating mechanism. Is there any fairly accurate way to determine if an MFA is really worth it for a given writer?
Unfortunately- no.
A ROI would suggest that just the "skills" learned are the only skills needed. If one intends to be a "writer" there are considerations such as "creativity" and being in "the right place at the right time" that the MFA doesn't even attempt to teach.
Yes, the same could be said for other degrees but the fact of the matter is that a degree in accounting (plus certification) are required for some jobs. I dare say that William Faulkner wasn't hired to teach at UVA because of a degree. The same thing could be said for lots of of "Top Ten" book list authors. Quick! Where did Dan Brown get his degree? J.D. Salinger? Eco? Rowling? Nabokov? Puzo? and lots of others.
Can a dedicated "student" learn something in an MFA program? Yes. Does that translate into a ROI? It depends on the student and too many other variables.
The question really should be WHAT do you want to get out of an MFA program and can the selected MFA program provide this?
Hopefully most MFA programs are telling their students (before signing up) the entire publishing industry is being changed just like the entire field of journalism. With a degree in journalism (news) trying to find a newspaper that is hiring and not firing is the real challenge.
I think to some extent, you CAN simplify it the same way as for an MBA, because there are so many other (free or low cost) ways to improve your writing. So what does the program offer, other than the letters?
I guess it gives structure and discipline. There ARE other ways to improve your writing, but maybe some writers want to be given assignments and deadlines in order to force them to work. Fair enough, except that learning to work on your own, without immediate external incentives, is a pretty important skill for a writer to pick up. So the MFA programs help writers with a weakness, but they may only provide a bandaid solution.
MFAs also give access to professional writers and publishing insiders, but from what I've heard, the quality of these 'experts' varies greatly. And in these days of blogs, conferences, etc., I don't think MFAs are the only way to get access to these people. Sure, conferences cost money, but nowhere near as much as taking a year or two off work AND paying tuition to an MFA program.
Writers groups, whether in person or on line, give as much feedback as one would get in an MFA program, and while some of the feedback isn't valuable, I think sorting through that is another skill that a writer needs to develop.
I don't mean to argue against taking an MFA. If I had the time and the money, I'd love to do it. It would be incredible to have that much time set aside for writing, and that much support and encouragement close at hand. But it's not necessary to become a better writer. I think an MFA is a luxury. And luxury items don't have an ROI.
No one was ever published strictly because they had an MFA. If you wish to be a writer, then writing should be your first goal. If you wish to get on as an editor somewhere, show your editing experience. An MFA may get you in the door for a low-level position in publishing, but it's more likely that you will need other connections.
This question reminds me of something the great pianist and teacher Rosina Lhévinne is supposed to have said when asked by a student if she thought he had what it takes to be a musician. "Can you do anything else?" she asked him.
"Well," the student said, "I supposed I could get a law degree if this doesn't work out."
"Then do that," she said. "If you can do anything else, then you should. If all you can do is music, then be a musician."
Get an MFA if you want to teach. There's some palpable ROI. Don't bother if you want to write.
When it comes to writing, getting an MFA isn't going to improve your skill that much more than self-study. If you're intelligent enough to write well, you're intelligent enough to learn it on your own, with a writing group, and via one-off workshops. Ultimately, it's not about how many classes you have taken. It's about how hard (and smart) you work at it. And don't forget the peer review.


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What is the best solution for hiding login control on public facing WCM sites? Obviously putting the whole thing in a div would be straight forward but then, I don't see how people that will need access to the back-end can get it. i.e. editors, approvers etc. Is there a way to give them access through other means while not allowing visitors to see a login control?
You can create an Authoring Site and extend this site and create a public website. Check out Publishing and Content Deployment
Check out this article as well. This is pretty old but you will get some ideas.
Some like to have two different sites, one for internet facing and one for internal admins etc.
It depends on how particular the users are.
For example, I just deployed a public facing site and just removed the login/welcome snippets.
All the admin needs to do is access a restricted page and they will be prompted for authentication. For example: http://yoursite/_layouts/settings.aspx
Hitting the above url will prompt for credentials.
I personally prefer this method, as it's a simple url to remember and eliminates the need to "hide" anything.
But that's just me and your clients may not like this, in which case you could consider the two-site option.
Removing the link to loginis hardly enough, instead focus on removing access to login.
Use UAG to deny all access to login and authenticate.
Also activate the ViewFormPagesLockDown feature to remove the permission to view form pages (also removes access to unprotected layout pages).
Alternatively SharePoint api gives access to remove anonymous access to Layouts virtusl directory on IIS
Edit: Also read the hardening articles on TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/f507f5d6-4c9d-4f98-909f-069c53b9a3f6.aspx


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Alice Roosevelt (1884-1980)
Daughter of Alice and Theodore Roosevelt, Alice was the eldest Roosevelt child. Very popular with the American public, she was described as "rambunctious, independent, and irreverent." The Alice-Blue gown, a fashionable dress of the early 20th century, was made in her honor.
Fun Fact: Alice once described her father, Theodore Roosevelt, as a person who wanted to be "the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral."
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Where you were on 11/22/63
It seems a sacred time, this Friday afternoon 50 years after JFK was slain. It's sent me back to a book long on the shelf, Four Days: The Historical Record of the Death of President Kennedy, compiled by United Press International and Amnerican Heritage Magazine. Stuck inside, I found a yellowing copy of The New York Times section The News of the Week in Review for Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963.
"He was a man of peace, who at first hand experienced war," the paper editorialized.
OK, so on the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, I was in my fifth-grade classroom at Mary Queen of Heaven School, Brooklyn. A Kennedy-esque young priest -- he looked as if he could have been a Kennedy himself, and he used to require the altar boys to show up after school for a physical fitness routine -- came over from the rectory to break the news. Later, after Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, our teacher -- her name was Miss Kennedy -- made a terrible assumption about the suspect. She said, "After all President Kennedy has done for the Negroes ..."
Some days later, the parish had a Mass for the children featuring an empty casket covered with an American flag in the center aisle before the main altar. Everyone was in tears, as if we'd lost a close relative.
And you?
About the Author
Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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7th grade - Most Precious Blood Catholic School, Denver. Pastor, Fr. Degan, CM, announced the news and we later went to church for a brief prayer service. At the service, Fr. Degan talked about what had happened and that another friend of his, Vincentian priest, Oscar Huber, CM, had anointed President Kennedy.
Remember that my mother was backing out of the garage two days later when I saw Oswald shot by Ruby on TV and ran out to tell her. She was on her way to host a tea for the Daughters of Charity who ran our school and they were moving into a new convent on the parish grounds.
Years later, saw Fr. Huber buried at the Vincentian cementery in Perryville, MO where Fr. Huber had been raised and later attended seminary and was ordained.
I was riding home as a 5 year old from the private Ryan Academy in Norfolk, Virginia when the bus driver announced that the President had been shot. A few of my school mates clapped and cheered, which confused me. When I arrived home I told my mother what had happened. I think I was too young to understand her response, but as I would understand when I got older, some folks in the South didn't like President Kennedy's support for civil rights, and they had inculcated that dislike into their young kids. People forget that some Americans were happy to see the President go.
My home would never be more somber and dark than during those days following the assassination. My Irish Catholic mother was glued to the tv, mostly in tears, while my Irish Catholic dad did his best to comfort her when home from his duties as a Physician on the Naval base. When it came time later for my dad to make a decision about whether to remain in Norfolk, my mother said she just couldn't. With the kids cheering on the assassination, and the neighbors giving my mom grief for doubling her African American maid's wages to $3.00 per day, she had to move on.
We were very much rapt up into Kennedy at that time. Such style, flair and Catholic to boot. Yet as with most hagiagraphy---unreal. In JFK's case he was born into privilege and milked it. He read words prepared for him. When Jesus died there was no national mourning. No parade. Yet we overlook the regrettable ethics of those celebrated as heroes. Same for MLK.
I was a brand new USAF 2nd Lt with about 100 other men (no women in those days) on a radar site in the middle of NOWHERE, Washington State. The sirens went off; armed guards raced around like they actually knew what they were doing; the place was locked up and we all expected Russian Badgers to come over the hill any minute and blast us all to smithereens.
We were kept very busy for about a week and then we retreated back into our usual state of boredom, but with ears glued to radios as often as possible. No tweets, no internet, darned little TV and a dearth of readable newsprint in the middle of NOWHERE, Washington State.
Bill M: The ethics of memory are a difficult matter. It is very common for us to weave webs of belief that are highly personalistic, and yet these webs may allow us to function very well in the world. If we had to accommodate every failure, every limitation, every sin in our own lives, how would we ever advance through a day? Shall we therefore diminish the value we find in certain stories of our heroes and heroines because not everything that could be known about them accords with the best that we learned from them?
I was a 14-year-old freshman in boarding school, 800 miles from my family and the Middle Western world in which I had been raised. I heard the news announced by a prominent Senior, a school leader: "That son-of-a-bitch Kennedy has been shot." To me the immediate shock was not the shooting (we did not immediately know that he was dead), but rather the expletive used to describe John Kennedy, who was a hero to my parents.
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Bill d - that is very interesting stuff. I ran across this article about Fr. Huber.
Third grade.The principal came on the PA system and told us the president had been shot. I was looking at my teacher, Sister Scholastica, and saw her face change and her mouth formed an o and she kept reapeating, oh,oh,oh with her mouth in a perfect round. I was mesmerized, like an autistic child, at her rounded mouth saying "oh".Then, over the PA ,the principal had the whole school saying the.rosary. When we were dismissed for the day, while in the school yard there was alot of commotion but through the commotion I head one classmate say"I'm glad he's dead". I walked home and when I got home and was in front of my building,I saw my next door neighbor coming back from the store pushing her grocery cart . She looked so calm and oblivious I thought she must not know so I went up to her and said;" Mrs. Morris;guess what, guess what, they killed the president"! and she calmly replied;"Yes ,I know". I was baffled at her seeming indifference and calmess.[Inside I was thinking-how could you go about business as usual and go to the store like nothing happened after you just heard the president awas killed"?] At some point I remember seeing images of Oswald on tv and I remember feeling sorry for him as he was being manhandled by an apparant mob of people.I remember him saying"I'm a patsy"; I did not know what the word means but I felt sorry for him. I also remember [I think, while still in class before being dismissed the radio was on the PA system after we said our rosary]. hearing that Oswald was not given a lawyer.I remember someone-on the radio saying that of course he should NOT get a lawyer in this case- and feeling sorry that there was absolutely no one on earth to defend him. In the next few days I also though of the contrast of Jackie and her children with Oswald's wife and their children.Their contingent place in history and the contingency for good or bad of their own lives. Again I felt sorry for them. Fifty years later, I dont' think about the what's ifs and all the political meaning ,but just how ephemeral everythng is;the pomposity of;earthly power is impotent and powerless before eternity.I remember my father who never watched tv watching the funeral and telling us that we would remember this all our lives. So now when I think of this event ,I think of him too .What connects us more then our beliefs, politics, etc. is our connection with time/eternity; the fact that we're all just here .
Monsignor Bonner H.S., Drexel Hill, PA, sophomore homeroom after lunch. Without previous announcement, a radio broadcast was fed through the PA system, a poor connection at first. The fragments began to coalesce into a horrible revelation. The president was shot. Later, the worse news that he was dead. After classes, at band practice, my only encounter with one who mocked my grief. I remember multiple hands grabbing and holding me back at that moment. My mother and I travelled to Washington by train and stood in line for ten hours to file past the casket. It felt good to be an American back then. People say they do now, but I think they are just saying it.
I was 27, an Air Force radar technician at Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage Alaska. At first I misheard the announcement and thought the President had been "shocked", as in electrocuted. Having been a reborn catholic for three years at the time, and having voted for him, I was of course stunned and saddened. Then came the Oswald assassination, on TV yet. I thought, "What the H******** is going on!" Some time later, a very conservative magazine had an article entitled "Marx-manship in Dallas". That's when my political/philosophical education started.
I've already related my 11/22/63 story on another dotCommonweal blog entry, so I won't bore anyone with repeating it here.
I had never heard the Fr. Huber story before. As fate would have it, NPR's "StoryCorps" segment this morning involved the story of an ambulance driver who happened to be at the hospital with his assistant when Presdient Kennedy was brought in. The driver, his assistant, and Mrs. Kennedy were the only ones present in the ER trauma room when Fr. Huber anointed the president.
Recently married and moved to NYC for graduate school, I was standing in a Citibank (probably not called that then) to get our weekly funds. There was no announement just a rising set of whispers in the line, "The President has been shot." Peter and I spent the next days listening to the radio and watching television. It seemed incredible that such a killing could occur.
Watching the observances today (Friday) and the inevitable questions about Kennedy's achievements (or not), I was reminded of how the "charisma" question really was seen then. Kennedy had energy and ideas. Everyone forgets how boring and seemingly non-engaged Eisenhower was. He has been rehabilitated as president (probably rightly so) but at the time he was a worn out general who had served two terms that seemed undistinguished. Nixon, his VP, lost because Kennedy beat him in the debates, but also because Eisenhower did not inspire much affection or attachment. History may have changed that along with the assessment of Kennedy as having not done much. But that's not how it seemed at the time. History!! Historians!! Memory!! Who really knows?
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I know it's significant that Kennedy was the forst Catholic president, and I did like his 'I won't vote as a Catholic' speech and I think it's interesting the connection between him and John Courtney Murray SJ, but when I think of him I mostly think of his wealth, his philandering, and his administration's strange connection to mining in New Guinea (http://www.voanews.com/content/mine-collapses-in-eastern-indonesia/16620...).
I was in 7th grade, we were all eating our sack lunches when Sister came in with the news, tears in her eyes. 12 year old girls can be drama queens, and a few of my classmates proceeded to have raving hysterics. I watched in awe; envious in a way, but I'm not wired that way, so I just sat in silence. After a few minutes Sister said, "Enough of that, go out and wash your faces; we'll go down to the chapel and say the rosary." I just remember the comfort of the prayers said so many times you don't even have to think about them. School was dismissed early. I remember arguing with my brothers on the way home about who got to tell Mom the news. But when we got home she was watching the news on our black and white tv. My parents were Republicans and far from being Kennedy supporters (on the other hand, my grandmother had been invited to his inaugeral ball, but that's another story). However Mom and Dad were somber, and we watched all the coverage. As Mom put it, "He was in office by the will of the people, and someone tried to override that with a bullet."
I was working as a roughneck in Cherokee County back in those days—just a worm, really. Dirty job. Dirty as all hell.
Anyway, I remember it was Eli, or maybe Ralph—he came tearing down from that little booth where the drillers would sit around drinking coffee, just yelling his head off. Well, you can't just shut down a rig like it was nothing, and like I said, I was just a worm—so it wasn't until about a half hour later that I could go and hear what all the fuss was about. So there I was, covered in mud and grease from toe to head, tears cutting through all the muck. We all five of us—me, Ralph, Eli, Lil' Pete, and Eddy Smiles—just stood there for a while, listening to the radio, not knowing what to say.
Then Ralph, or maybe it was Eli—he says, "Well, alright, that rig ain't gonna run its own damn self!" And we all went back down into the pit.
Abe? Back in the glory days of oil exploration? 1880s? This explains why you're such a wise guy.
Many thanks for the eloquent recollections here.
Walter Cronkite's radio remembrance for the 40th assassination anniversary was aired last night on NPR, and is among the best of these things floating around for the occasion: http://www.npr.org/2013/11/22/246628793/walter-cronkite-on-the-assassination-of-john-f-kennedy
FWIW, my great-grandfather used to tell about the Lincoln assassination. (I never heard this first-hand; he was already in his 90s when I was born, but Dad had heard these stories a lot). Grampa was five at the time Lincoln was shot, but he vividly recalled his mother being terrified that the Civil War would break out again. Her brother had been killed fighting for one of the New York regiments, and she was unconsolable for several days. He remembers special community meetings were held so people could get news, prayer services were held for the safety of the nation, and sending a contingent of community leaders to see the funeral train was briefly discussed, but the nearst stop in Chicago was too far away.
Jim P - interesting but even yesterday Steve Landregan (currently archivist for the Dallas Diocese) who was an assistant administrator at Parkland the day of shooting, recalls setting up a news room and asking police to look at for the catholic priests. He made the call to Holy Trinity rectory asking for the priests and found out that they were on their way.
He (yesterday both in interviews and in a quoted, published interview today) repeats that the presidential party wanted no announcement until Kennedy was anointed. He relates that Fr. Huber came out and told some of them that the president was dead and had been anointed. After that, the news was announced in the emergeny press room at Parkland.
BTW - Landregan is a deacon (1st in Dallas) and led deacon trainings for the diocese for years. One other note - they cite that the ritual book is in a museum at DePaul University (which is true) but for years all of those museum items were located in Perryville, MO at the college seminary, retirement home, and motherhouse of the Vincentians in the western US. When the college was closed in 1985, it was decided to relocate the museums, library, etc. to DePaul University.
Personal note - on my way to the Vincentian novitiate in 1969, stopped at Holy Trinity to meet a classmate and Huber's associate, Fr. Stack, gave each of us our first cassocks.
Kennedy, Jacqueline, Robert F Kennedy were sublime. The myth is not a posthumous construct of the widow using the press to monumentalize her husband. I don't remember where I heard of the assassination but I do remember his visit to Ireland earlier that year, from tv and from being in the crowd in Cork but too small to see the great man. He had genuine charism, magnificent presence, deep humanity, humor, wisdom -- something Obama found impossible to imitate during his own Irish trip. To talk of the Kennedys as the idle rich is silly -- they had to "labour to be beautiful" and they kept loudly voicing ideals of justice, freedom, compassion, in a way that never rang hollow.
Camelot lives on in Japan with Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador.
I was in eight-grade at Mt. Calvary Catholic School in Forestville, MD just outside Washington DC. Sister Norman was called to the door of our classroom by another teacher when Sister Norman let out a gasped, "Oh no, please Lord!"
Sister immediately turned back into our classroom and began to set up the classroom television that was on a tall movable stand on wheels - we always had to adjust the antenna to get the reception right. We all began watching Walter Cronkite talk us through the reports filtering out of Parkland Hospital in Dallas. I remember Sister started to cry and asked that we begin to recite the rosary.
Soon the principal, Sister Gabriel, announced over the "loud speaker" that local government officials were declaring a state of emergency and were asking that students be dismissed from school and return to our homes as soon as possible.
I remember walking home and I saw police and military vehicles beginning to take up positions at intersections along Pennsylvania Avenue (which extends out into Prince George's County toward to nearby Andrews Air Force Base - the destination of Air Force 1 with the body of John Kennedy).
As my brother and I walked home, we saw our mother walking toward us. She had been crying. She tooks us by the hand and we walked quietly home together.
On the Sunday following when Kennedy's body was brought to the US Capitol to lie-in-state, I was standing with my father and sister at the corner of Delaware Avenue and Constitution Avenue on the steps of the Old Senate Office Building, now called the Russell Office Building.
We had met a relative at the Office Building who was the top aide to Senator Mike Mansfield and had arranged so we could view the funeral procession along with other Senate staffers. The funeral cortege had turned off of Pennsylvania Avenue and processed up Constitution before turning right in front of us into the Capitol Plaza. I'll never forget the muffled drums, the flags fluttering in the breeze, the riderless horse with the boots in the stirrups turned backwards.
Many government officials and dignitaries were ushered pass us to take their places in the Capitol Rotunda. Although many of these people were familiar to us from television, I don't remember anyone calling out to them or acknowledging them. The crowd though twenty to fifty people deep from the curb was just silent.
A man standing near me had an old portable transitor radio which he held next to his ear and announced to the crowd that Oswald had been shot in the Dallas police headquarters. A confused gasp and reaction spread through the crowd. Right behind me I remember there was an African American woman with a dress hat on who said that she wished she could have been the one to deliver justice to Oswald.
After the dignitaries had left the Rotunda, the public was then allowed to cue up and climb the tall Capitol steps to walk past President Kennedy's flag drapped casket. Because we were at the front of the line, I don't recall us waiting in line for that long. I remember most the honor guard rigidly holding their posts. The only sounds were people crying and quietly praying.
Dallas, TX - Nov. 24th - Holy Trinity Catholic Church bulletin:
Not every Holy Trinity parishioner is aware of the pivotal role our parish played during the events of November 22, 1963. Recently, Ruth Lang, who celebrates her 90th birthday on November 30th, shared her story with a group of Holy Trinity friends who have been meeting regularly for many years to read about and discuss issues of faith.
On that day in 1963, Ruth was relieved of her receptionist duties in the Holy Trinity parish office to go down to Lemmon Avenue to watch the presidential motorcade. She remembers that the Daughters of Charity, who managed and taught the students at Holy Trinity School, took the schoolchildren out of class and down to Lemmon to see the President and First Lady pass by. In their white "bonnets," the Daughters would have been very noticeable in the crowd, and Ruth noted that the President seemed to take special notice of them as he drove by. It was only after she returned from watching the motorcade that Ruth learned that the President had been shot, and that Holy Trinity Pastor Father Oscar Huber had gone to Parkland Hospital with Father Thompson to minister to Mrs. Kennedy and the President. The two priests wrote accounts of that day, and they are contained within Holy Trinity's archives. In his account, Father Huber noted " . . . the perfect composure maintained by Mrs. Kennedy . . .
I will never forget the blank stare in her eyes and the signs of agony on her face," as he stopped to offer her words of comfort at the hospital.
Long-time parishioner Becky Corley has a slightly different remembrance of the day – at once joyous and chilling. With her fellow SMU student friends, she also went to Lemmon Avenue to watch the motorcade pass by. A small boy near her was holding a sign saying, "Mr. President, Please Stop and Shake our Hands." To their great surprise, the President's limousine did stop, and Becky and her friends shook the hands of President Kennedy, the First Lady and Texas Governor John Connally, who was riding in the President's car (and who would later be seriously wounded at Dealey Plaza). The stop was not planned, and the Secret Service car preceding the President's limousine didn't realize that it had left the President's car behind, and had to quickly back up for quite a distance to rejoin the motorcade. Becky and her friends were so excited by their encounter that they attempted to catch up with the motorcade in downtown Dallas, only to hear that shots had been fired at the President's motorcade. They actually beat the motorcade to Parkland Hospital, learned of the President's death, and Becky went to Holy Trinity Church to seek comfort. By the time she arrived, the church was already completely full with Dallasites joining together in grief and prayer.
From Fr. Huber's written notes of the visit to Parkland Hospital:


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I always hear Chinese people making sentences using 而已 - but I've never quite, 100%, understood how to use this in sentences myself. What is the correct way to apply it, and what is the English equivalent?
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"而已" is always used at the end of a sentence and with words like "仅仅","只","不过". A similar word in Chinese is "罢了"(actually, this word comes from 满语). You use the structure "......(part A),不过......(part B)而已" to emphasize the expression that A is just limited within B. You could only use "不过", also, and "而已" weakens your mood and sometimes expresses that you don't have help to (or don't take care of) B.
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The equivalent for the structure "不过......而已" would be "only","just".
The easy way to understand this is to use an oral English sentence rather than something formal. This is commonly used to mean "...and that's all".
For example in English you can say "It's just an exam and that's all".
In Chinese this could be said: "这不过是一个考试而已" Zhè bùguò shì yīgè kǎoshì éryǐ


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It was proven in BBD (see Corollary 5.3.2) that for an open immersion $j$ the functor $j_{!*}$ preserves weights of mixed sheaves. The proof relies on several previous results; it is especially complicated in the case when $j$ is not affine. Does an easier proof (or a plan of it:)) exist? I would like to have a proof that (mostly) relies on the properties of $j_{!*}$ (and on the 'formal' properties of weights).
The proof in BBD is not that complicated, and it doesn't matter much whether $j$ is affine or not. It uses the three following facts :
Now the result you want is obvious : Take $j:X\rightarrow Y$ a quasi-finite morphism. If the perverse sheaf $K$ on $X$ is of weight $\leq a$, then $j_!K$ is of weight $\leq a$ (as a complex), so the perverse sheaf ${}^pH^0j_!K$ is of weight $\leq a$, and so is its quotient $j_{!*}K$. Likewise for weights $\geq a$, using this time $j_*$.
Note that you could also define $j_{!*}K$ (for $K$ pure of weight $a$) as the weight $\leq a$ part of $j_*K$, or as the weight $\geq a$ part of $j_!K$. I think it's not too hard to recover the usual properties of $j_{!*}K$ from that definition, but I would have to think more to see how to make it work for mixed (but not pure) perverse sheaves.
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(1) I don't think that it is so hard to go from the affine case to the general case. Consider an open embedding $j:U\rightarrow X$, let $i:Y\rightarrow X$ be the complement. Let $\pi:X'\rightarrow X$ be the blowup of $Y$ in $X$, and $j':U\rightarrow X'$ be the inclusion. Then $j'$ is affine, and, for every perverse sheaf $K$ on $U$, $j_{!*}K$ is a direct factor of ${}^pH^0\pi_*j'_{!*}K$, so the result for $j_{!*}K$ follows if you know it for $j'_{!*}K$, without any need of BBD 5.3.1. (You don't need the decomposition theorem to prove my claim. It is an exercise in perverse sheaves to prove that the map ${}^pH^0\pi_*j'_!K={}^p H^0j_!K\rightarrow j_{!*}K$ factors through a map ${}^pH^0\pi_*j'_{!*}K\rightarrow j_{!*}K$. Likewise, or by duality, there is a natural map $j_{!*}K\rightarrow{}^pH^0\pi_*j_{!*}K$. The composition $j_{!*}K\rightarrow{}^pH^0\pi_*j'_{!*}K\rightarrow j_{!*}K$ is the identity when restricted to $U$, so it is the identity.)
(2) If $K$ is pure, there is a slightly different way to prove what you want (you might be able to do something if $K$ is mixed too, but I didn't try to work it out). Notation : $j$ is an open immersion from $U$ to $X$. First, the problem is local in $X$, so you can assume that $X$ is affine. Then $Y:=X-U$ is defined by a finite number of functions on $X$. By induction over the number of functions necessary to define $Y$, you can reduce to the case where there exists a function $f:X\rightarrow\mathbb{A}^1$ such that $Y=f^{-1}(0)$. Now you can use the result of Beilinson-Bernstein (cf "A proof of Jantzen conjectures") that the Jantzen filtration on $j_!K$ coincides with (a shift of) the weight filtration if $K$ is pure. The Jantzen filtration on $j_!K$ is induced by the monodromy filtration on the maximal extension $\Xi_f K$, and it is an exercise to identify the quotient $j_{!*}K$ of $j_!K$ with one of the graded pieces of this filtration and to conclude that it has the expected weight. This proof avoids BBD 5.2, but it relies on the article of Beilinson-Bernstein instead; as fat as I can tell, the methods Beilinson-Bernstein use to prove the result that you need are natural extensions of the methods of Weil II, and you have to assume Weil II anyway, so maybe this is slightly more natural.


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For reading purposes on mobile devices, what is the way to go? Paging or scrolling? If I want to give the reader the option of a scroll, should the controls for that be on-screen or in a menu?
It is becoming commonplace to offer both options to the user (why not?). Instapaper has an option to switch between the two, and Float has both navigation controls enabled simultaneously.
Scrolling + "Load More"
Paging on a mobile divice is frustrating. Tapping still is still inaccurate, though most have gotten the hang of it. But if they are reading through 10 pages, chances are they will have trouble pressing the button 2-3 times. Also, if the information is being pulled via the web, they must reload the pages assets which takes a while for safari to render. Further more, it breaks their cognitive flow, though just for a moment, can make then move onto something else.
Now you dont want to load it all at once either I assume, and scrolling through that would be nice. So if you just load 20 at a time and then have a large "load more" button, people can keep reading.
Scrolling, and navigating through a lot of info is a main part of any app, and I strongly urge you, whatever you choose, not to put it into a menue.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -Sophomore T'Sheila Mungo of the Charlotte women's track and field team is no stranger to smashing school records or being a top performer in the Atlantic 10 conference. However, Mungo's hard work and precise efforts landed her as the top collegiate performer in the nation in the 500 meter dash so for this season.
Mungo set a school record in the 500m with a time of 1:11.03 at the Virginia Tech Invitational at Rector Field House Friday evening. She broke the previous indoor record of 1:12.68 which she set at the Atlantic 10 Indoor Championship last year. Additionally, her time is ranked first among hundreds of athletes across the nation that competed last week.
Only a sophomore, Mungo has already established an athletic resume that most student-athletes will never achieve. She made an immediate impact in her freshman season and was named the A-10 Women's Indoor Outstanding Rookie Performer. Mungo quickly made her way onto and up the Charlotte all-time top ten list and is a part of a record-setting relay team.
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The Niners who've already displayed an impressive indoor campaign, will keep the season rolling when they head to Blacksburg for the Hokie Invitational beginning on Friday, January 25.