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Box of Books for Francis?
Pope Francis has suggested that "we" need a deeper "theology of women," (itself a problematic phrase, emblematic of the usual us-them in which women are "them.") But he seems like a genuinely nice guy who's sincere about wanting to explore new territory. So, here's my idea...
Of course there are any number of books that could help Francis begin to sort out his ideas in this regard. Let's send him a starter set.
What are, say, 10 books that could help Francis in his revision of the Church with regard to women?
1. as any good feminist knows, a "theology of women," if it's adequate, is simultaneously a theology of men--men are damaged by patriarchy and sexism, too. So suggestions need not be books specifically about women or even by women, but should contribute importantly to Francis' task.
2. They need to be available in paperback. I'll spring for them and ship them, but I'm a theologian, not a venture capitalist--I can't sink my life savings (if I had any,) into this. But 10 books to send to Francis to help him think these things through? Sure. (Or perhaps Commonweal would like to underwrite? Or help underwrite? Just asking...)
3. Books can be singly authored or edited collections. For example, someone might recommend Catherine Mowry LaCugna's Freeing Theology. The Essentials of Theology in Feminist Perspective, or some such collection that covers a lot of ground in one volume and features some of the giants of feminist theology.
4. Francis said that the Church needs a more adequate theology of women, so we can safely assume that apologetics for the status quo aren't what he's looking for. Let's aim for faithful engagements with the tradition that break new ground. For example...
My vote is for Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's But She Said, in which she takes feminist biblical hermeneutics for a spin, resulting in chapters that are scholarly and reflective. It's a classic, both challenging and exhilarating. I hope it'll encourage Francis to read the Bible in new ways. (Of course, like many of you, I can think of dozens of books that'd be great. But this is a good, basic place to start--reading scripture.)
1. Make your suggetions here, with a brief explanation why you suggest the book you name. One book at a time, please.
2. If you like someone's suggestion, second it. Lets play Facebook--write, e.g., "Schussler Fiorenza: Like." Also like Facebook, one cannot "unlike." Just vote for what's good, and we can trust that the dotCommonweal community will sort wheat from chaff.
3. In, say, 2 weeks time, I'll add up the results. If there's a hopeless deadlock, I'll turn to some other voting methodology for the final list. I'll order them and ship them with a letter of good wishes, explaining the origin of the list, and that it's intended to be representative, not determinative of the possibilities for his project, and reflects the discernment of a community, not any individual.
4. I have no actual clue who to send them to. Perhaps the papal secretary? Is there anyone out there who knows how to actually get them to the Pope? Please let me know, either here or off-line.
Ready? Go!
About the Author
Lisa Fullam is professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic (Edwin Mellen Press).
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Good idea. I think just mailing the books to Francis with a cover letter should be enough. He's received personal letters from people and called them on the phone. Maybe you'll get a phone call from the Pope!
My suggestion on this feast of Doctor Therese of Lisieux? Her Letters:
(There are two volumes, but you said one book only, so I'm suggesting the first volume. He's probably read them both, since he's a devotee.)
Why that book? It shows how human Therese and her sisters were. They were real people, just like Jorge Bergoglio.
How about anything by Mary Hunt and her and her partner's WATER (Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual). While one may not agree with all her points of view, she is scholarly, well grounded, often humorous, and very human... give her a try, Pope Francis!
Send Pope Francis a copy of David Bakan's perceptive book about stereotypically masculine and feminine orientations: THE DUALITY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE: AN ESSAY ON PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION (Chicago: Rand McNally,1966).
David Bakan of the University of Chicago was Jewish.
Bakan identifies the stereotypically masculine orientation with agency.
He identifies the stereotypically feminine orientation with communion.
But the duality of these two tendencies in human existence requires each of us to work out a balance of the two within ourselves and our lives.
In other words, if we are exclusively oriented to agency, to the exclusion of communion, then we are out of balance.
Conversely, if we are exclusively oriented to communion, to the exclusion of agency, then we are out of balance.
In her research, Vicki S. Helgeson of Carnegie Mellon University has further explored Bakan's ideas about masculine and feminine orientations. She weaves reports of her own research into her 700-page textbook THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER, 3rd edition (2009).
I imagine that you could buy a copy of Bakan's book from a used-book dealer on the Internet.
"Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women (Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality)" by NT scholar Sandra M. Schneiders .... http://www.amazon.com/Women-Word-Testament-Spirituality-Madeleva/dp/0809...
I think it would be instructive for any man, including the Pope, to read Nuala O'Faolain, Elizabeth Strout, or Alice McDermott. If it has to have religious overtones, I'd suggest Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale." Yeah, it's dated, but there's a woman writing about living in a male-dominated hierarchy where the only value a woman has is reproductive.
He did promise in the interview that Grant blogged on that he wanted the next interview to be on women.
Great idea. I have no particular suggestion for a book, because I don't read much academic heology, being more familiar with what I would call "kitchen" theology (aka - common sense theology) written by everyday types whose language is understandable to those of us who don't have degrees in theology! I am familiar with most of the names mentioned, but I generally have read summaries of their work rather than the original scholarship. But I would be happy to help pay postage (email me!)
Someone mentioned St. Therese of Lisieux - I believe that Francis is already a fan of her writings, and mentioned this in one of his recent interviews. A question - is Francis fluent in English? If not, should the books be only those that are available in Spanish or Italian or whatever other languages he speaks and reads fluently?
Some have mentioned that a theology of women should not be - that we are human beings just like men. But it is useful to have someone again point out that so much of what the church teaches reflects the views of patriarchy, rather than those of all humanity. Francis is off to a great start - now if he can just get past his madonna complex (shared by his predecessors) and see women as more than "just" childbearers and mothers some real progress might be possible. Hopefully you all can find some books to make him think and push him past the patriarchal church's attachment to mommy.
How about some books in Spanish or Italian?
To give him an example of an actual womann's mind in action, Flannery O'Connor's The Complete Short Stories would be a good start. While telling her stories she *shows* how one highly perceptive woman observes the world..
Even though she has a bit on motherhood, a bit of Julian is always a good thing: http://www.amazon.it/Libro-delle-rivelazioni-Giuliana-Norwich/dp/8876106162/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380658658&sr=1-1
Maybe also Elizabeth Johnson's Colei che e: http://www.amazon.it/Colei-mistero-discorso-teologico-femminista/dp/8839...
Could we send him articles too? So much has been written recently that's not in book form ...
"Why Not? Scripture, History & Women's Ordination" by Robert Egan SJ ... https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/why-not-0
I didn't find the phrase "we" to be problematical at all. Instead I saw the connation as "we, the entire people of God."
For one practical suggestion worth implementing, I'd suggest "Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future" by Phyllis Zagano, Gary Macy, and William T. Ditewig
Something on the possibility of women Cardinals and greater female input into synods (eg the recent one on Sacred Scripture) would also suggest positive changes well within the purview of the Holy Father to make.
God Bless
Yes, I second the motion with Flannery O'Connor, particularly her letters, which don't pull punches.
I can't help noticing that over half the suggestions on this thread are coming from men, men who want to tell another man what to read so he can understand women better. Not that I'm a rank sexist or anything ...
How about a re-read of the Letter to the Romans. Still amazing the regard Paul has for all those women whom he refers to at the end of the chapter.
Greet Prisca and Aquila,* my co-workers in Christ Jesus,b4who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I am grateful but also all the churches of the Gentiles;5greet also the church at their house.* Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the firstfruits in Asia for Christ.c6Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.7Greet Andronicus and Junia,* my relatives and my fellow prisoners; they are prominent among the apostles and they were in Christ before me.8Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.9Greet Urbanus, our co-worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.10Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobulus.11Greet my relative Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus.12Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.13Greet Rufus,* chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.d14Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.15Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the holy ones who are with them.
The pope mentioned in the interview with Scalfari how close Paul is to his soul. A quick and easy gift for women (and men) would be to restore to the epistles the greetings to and from women that do not appear in the new sacramentary.
(The efforts to erase women from the early church never cease.)
Two books that Francis has probably read give examples of that:
The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women by Nicola Denzey. (There are men who still insist that the role of the women translators who worked with Jerome was minimal/negligible.)
Women Officeholders in Early Christianity: Epigraphical and Literary Studies by Ute Eisen.
What Gerelyn wrote.
And once and for all can we dispel the lies about Paul. He clearly writes that women are teachers and prophets. The contradiction in the same epistles are obvious interpolations.
Much as I like Julian and Theres, I think Francis is already familiar with their views. If we want him to see women's roles in the church in a new and more just way, we have to suggest works that reflect that.
"A Just and True Love: Feminism at the Frontiers of Theological Ethics: Essays in Honor of Margaret Farley"
On that "we" in the English translation of the Pope's interview in the section on women: The Italian does not use this pronoun. In one place it says "E necessario"--It's necessary; in another place it says "Bisogna," which has the same meaning. If people want to counterpose the "we" to "women," blame it, not on Pope Francis, but on the English translation. In my translation, given on another thread initiated by Lisa, I deliberately avoided using "we" precisely to prevent this misunderstanding.
Thanks, JK, for clarifying that point on translation. It does make a big difference
Not one book but selected articles of social anthropologist Mary Douglas would be enlightening, e.g., "The Bog Irish." and others comparing the worldviews of European and African women.
I would avoid the abstracts (the handmaid's tale is a good suggestion) and theological tomes. I do recommend my own brother's book The Book of the Poor by Kenan Heise, in which part one is simply poor people talking to him, and the second part some of the institutions, groups, and public & umbrella organizations which are trying to make a difference. I did send him a copy, but doubt that he got it because it is in English.
A book that would support Francis' whole approach to the future of the church would be Bernard Prusak's The Church Unfinished . And if he should find himself trying to work out a handy approach to J.P. II's legacy on the question of women's ordination, he might find Francis A. Sullivan's little book Creative Fidelity: Weighing and Interpreting Documents of the Magisterium very handy.
The late Fr. Louis Bouyer's "Woman In the Church" and "The Seat Of Wisdom" are classics well worth rediscovering.
All this time and nobody's mentioned Elizabeth Johnson's She Who Is? I know it's available in Spanish and I'm pretty sure it's available in Italian too.
Also, I second Farley's Just Love.
Not by a Catholic, but in many ways very Catholic, and one of the most important books to me personally, is Dorothee Soelle's The Strength of the Weak: Towards a Christian Feminist Identity. I have a feeling Francis would vibe with it.
I would like Francesco to learn more about Hildegard of Bingens. Here's a place to start:
I hope that Francis gets representative contemporary works from across ethnic and geographical lines, not just American and European women.
I'm not recommending anything because I think this should be the purview of the women here. It's their chance to put the best female feet forward.
I second the preceding recommendation.
Anything by Kathleen Norris.
"Like". I second the Elizabeth Johnson suggestion.
I nominate Michelle Gonzalez's Created In God's Image: An Introduction To Feminist Theological Anthropology and Anne Clifford's Introducing Feminist Theology, both published by Orbis Books.
I also second Elizabeth Johnson. I also recommend Edith Stein's "Woman" (Collected Works vol.2). And also Sr Joan Chittester. As already noted in previous comments, i'm much aware this is the American-European white female group. Authors from all continents needed.
The book I suggest is: "Taking up the Cross" New Testament Interpretations through Latina and Feminist Eyes. by Barbara E. Reid, O.P.
Thanks for the blurb on the David Baken book. I'll read it. Agency-Communion looks like an interesting filter to look at the Sacraments and the Bible.
Abe Books on the web sells scholarly and other hard to get books at deep discounts. No shipping fees. Abe is an independent filling in the gap left by the closing of so many retal independents.
Schussler Fiorenza: Like.
This is an excellent project. Obviously many of the commenters have done some srious thinking, guided by some excellent books. It would be good for Francis to hear from the commenters here.
Genesis I.
Written That You May Believe, Sandra Schneiders
No particular order:
The Glass Menagerie.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Age of Innocence.
Jane Eyre.
The Merchant of Venice.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Absalom, Absalom.
A Town Like Alice.
This may not be in Italian or Spanish yet, but it stands out as a book directed at non-specialists which resists dumbing down without sacrificing lucidity. Its arguments hew closely to evidence from Scripture and from official Church documents. The author has paid her dues in the trenches of adult religious education for many years, making accessible to ordinary Christians the insights that a study of literary forms can provide in reading the Bible. In this book she questions the ostensible immutability of Church teachings on a number of subjects, including ordination of women and moral aspects of differences in sexual orientation. She also deals with some discrepancies between what is taught and what is done as regards, for instance, treatment of the non-ordained employed by Church organizations. The book is Why the Catholic Church Must Change: A Necessary Conversation, by Margaret Nutting Ralph.
(@ Jim McCrea: Taking seriously that first guideline about what "any good feminist knows," I can't agree with you that making suggestions here is exclusively women's work...)
Meant to mention that Ralph's book is only available in hardcover (and Kindle) so far. But it actually doesn't weigh any more than a typical trade softcover, so maybe it could still be considered despite guideline #2.
Suggest God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage (2012), V. Gene Robinson
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Free Amazons of Darkover books.
I second Kathleen Norris; more specifically, The Cloister Walk. I will send a Spanish/Italian version--if there is one!!
I vote Alice von Hildebrand's The Privilege of Being a Woman. Does a good, pithy little job critiquing destructive secular versions of feminism, while highlighting the beauty of the Christian treatment of women. Also, it's short and cheap.
I would suggest "The Theology of the Body" by Pope John Paul II, 1997, which is about a theology of humanity, both men and women, and where he can find jewels like this one:
"Corporality and sexuality are not completely identified. Although the human body, in its normal constitution, bears within it the signs of sex and is, by it's nature, male or female, the fact, however, that man is a "body" belongs to the structure of the personal subject more deeply than the fact that he is in his somatic constitution also male or female. Therefore, the meaning of original solitude, which can be referred simply to "man," is substantially prior to the meaning of original unity. The latter, in fact, is based on masculinity and femininity, as if on two different "incarnations," that is, on two ways of "being a body" of tha same human being, created "in the image of God" (Genesis 1:27). — John Paul II, The Original Unity of Man and Woman, General Audience, 7 November 1979
I am sure he will get the point that we are human first , and only then male or female, and some male and female roles are different, but in God's mission what matters is that we are baptized persons, not baptized males versus baptized females.
In Christ,
I will chip in for shipping and handling. if I come across any good read I'll advise. God bless us all!!
I second Mary Douglas. Her work advanced the scientific understanding of what is common among varied cultures. And she stayed Catholic to the end.
I got it!!!
As an undergrad, I had the chance to read Jo Croissant's The Priesthood of the Heart. It is an excellent book and it talks about the two-fold vocation we, as women, were given: to be priests (by our openness and therefore by teaching, evangelizing, preparing our loved one's hearts in faith), and to be lovers (to God, to our husbands, to our children -if any- and to our loved ones). The book talks about women and our priestly love, and the attitudes needed to carry out the mission that God gave us, following in the example of Our Blessed Mother Mary.
I love the book and I think it does a great job in explaining the role women play in humanity.
I second the nominations of both Theresa and Luis.
I vote for a collection of essays written by a diverse group of women scholars who attended the New Voices Seminar at Saint Mary's College, inspired by the annual Madeleva Lecture Series. "Women, Wisdom, and Witness: Engaging Contexts in Conversation" takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the significant contexts of the contemporary experiences of women. The book considers the socio-political, interdisciplinary, and dialogical complexities of women's intellectual and social praxis at the intersection of theology and ethics. A wide array of topics are addressed: poverty, sexual norms, trauma and slavery, health care, immigration, and the roles of women in academia and the church.
Ok, So I have more than10 books, actually more--hey, we're talking 1500 years of silence here, so more than 10 books is fair game in my feminist hermeneutic. We are here to give him the best of ourselves and our love in the Spirit to him. 1. Women in the Early Church: Message of the Fathers of the Church Series (Message of the Fathers of the Church, V. 13.) by Elizabeth Ann Clark (Author) , Thomas Halton (Editor) 2. Women-Church: Theology and Practice of Feminist Liturgical Communities, Rosaemary Radford Ruether, Women have specific ideas about how to eliven dead liturgy and make it count agian!! #. Beyond God the Father, Mary Daly--yes, we need to bring in the LBGTQ communities to this conversation as well., 4. When Women were Priests by Karen Jo Trojesen--my advisor at Claremont Grad U.-yes, they may not have had the title, but they led, 5. & 6 The Revelatory Text and Written that You May Believe by Sandra Schneiders, 7. Sister Of Wisdom, St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine by Barbara Newman, 8. Women in Christianity by Hans Kung, 9. Vatican III, The work that needs to be done, Editd by Hans Kung, David Tracy & Johanne Metz, 10. Catholic does not equal the Vatican by Rosemary Radford Ruether, 11. Sexism and God Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology by Rosemary Radford Ruether, 12. Quest for the Living God by Elizabeth Johnson, 13. Feminst Philosophy of Religion Edtd. by Pamela Sue Anderson and Beverley Clack, 14. Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology edtd. by Mary McClintock Fulkerson and Sheila Briggs, 16. A Journey of Courage: The amazing story of Sr. Dorothy Stang, 17. & 18.Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality and Womanspirit Rising by Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow. Women have been telling our story in academia for over 4 decades now and we desire to be listened to, to end patriarchal imbalance and take our place beside our brothers in Christ and not reform our Church, but transform it into a new and better model of what it means for all of us to be Imago Dei, not less, not more, but equal. As I have said in many blogs before--our Church and all of the children of God have been cheated because half of humanity has been missing from the table in concelebration of our tradition. We will no longer, can no longer, will no longer be silent, learn who we are--not as distorted ideas, concepts, romantisizations of who and what women are and telling us what and how our spirituality should be -- we already know it and now it is up to us to teach it to all.
Someone listed "Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women (Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality)" by Sandra, and I second this vote! It is short, yet powerful, clear, concise, very well written.
I would also like to add Ivone Gebara's "Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation (Biblical Reflections on Ministry)." Again, a great read and informative about feminist theology. Also, Gebara is from Brazil and writes about her experience with women there, so Francis might find it particularly interesting.
A soft note to fellow commentors: There is a problem with most of the above recommendations and accompanying commentary. The idea that this Pope, or any Pope for that matter, needs to be schooled by paperback-writer theologians is somewhere between questionable and absurd.
The Popes with whom I am (historically) familiar--Pius XII>, appear to have spent the better part of their respective post-adolescent lives studying, writing on, and implementing the planet's most refined and complex theological system.
It is my impression that many of the writers mentioned can best be described as narrow and resentful -- even snappish, regarding their Church. The exact opposite of what Catholicism is supposed to be and is at its heart.
It might be more helpful to expose Francis, a Jesuit priest, to the notion of "woman" away from the niggling, limited constraints of "feminist theology." Rather, aim that he consider women qua women within the broader and genuinely Catholic context of the human condition.
Thank you.
What a great idea! I think we need to remind Pope Francis that feminist theologies of women are now in at least their 3rd generation. I'll second the choices for Beth Johnson's She who is and add Quest for the Living God. Consider asking for a papal read of Just Love by Margaret Farley. Add Shawn Copeland's Enfleshing Freedom. I would also recommend a tiny Italian volume by Luce Irigaray, Il Mistero de Maria published om 2010 by the Figlie de San Paolo <www.paoline.it>. It offers a spiritual philosophical perspective on Mary that show difference that is not derived from a masculine subject.
May the project succeed and you let us know the Top Ten.
p.s. I'd send them directly to Pope Francis at his residence (not the Vatican). Who knows, he may call you to say Grazie.
@ Kenneth Ray: I'm glad that's identified in advance as a "soft note," and very glad we were not treated to any sterner stuff. The soft lobs "questionable," "absurd," "narrow," "resentful," "snappish," and "niggling" should do nicely. I do like the new category "paperback-writer theologians," though it is presumably not to be taken literally. Otherwise it would need to include not only Avery Dulles, Yves Congar, Dietrich von Hildebrand and Karl Rahner, but also John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
As for the need of Pope Francis for schooling, that may be less important than his need to have what he says taken seriously. He has been pretty clear about listening to the faithful --in the broadest sense --and learning from them. He does not seem to regard the ecclesia docens as confined to the hierarchy, with everyone else only part of the ecclesia discens.
The box-of-books project may seem quixotic, but it can claim honorable precedents, not least that of the tireless correspondent Catherine of Siena, who affctionately addressed the pope in Avignon as "Babbo," or "Daddy," and helpfully suggested that if he couldn't do what was needed he should resign. The commenters here, and the authors they suggest, have a long way to go to match that.
As for quixotism, I'm reminded of GKC's "Lepanto." Despite the triumphalism and the intolerant distortions, there's no getting around it, it's magnificent right to the end:
"Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath/ (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.)/ And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain,/ Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain,/ And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the blade..."
@ Mr. Irias: Thank you for the thoughtful, engaging reply. In particular your statement "...his need to be taken seriously."
Although Catholic, I am not an expert on the Papacy. But I am very encouraged by what I see in Pope Francis, as there is obviously much work to be done, inside and outside of our church and he appears especially well suited to the tasks before him.
I myself do not think the Box-of-Books idea to be at all quixotic -- it serves as a good kick-start to one's own thinking on the subject. However I do apply the same healthy skepticism to commentators like the above as I do to the Church they are targeting. Most of the works cited are insignificant (at best) books by forgettable authors.
In other words, I think that THIS particular Box-of-Books is, so far, lacking in depth, breadth, and strength. And I do not expect that this will improve over the two-week window of opportunity, The readership of this magazine is not much more than the PC subset of American Catholicism, and in the PC world conformity is valued above all else.
Again, your comments are MUCH appreciated.
Hey, who you callin' PC?
A late add: The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath. (Should have included it above.)
@Mark Proska: Couple of possibilities. There's reference to "PC world" and to a magazine. Textual critics might discern a scribal error and some kind of beef with PC World magazine (on the part of a Mac user?). But I think Mr. Ray means you, me, all others identified here as subscribers to Commonweal, and many more. His field of fire keeps widening...
@Kenneth Ray: You thanked me twice, the second time with capital letters. You're welcome, I think. I'm still trying to harmonize "thoughtful" and "engaging" with "PC" and "conformity...above all else."
I can't say I've read all the books recommended so far, but I've read some, and they hardly deserve being dismissed collectively as "insignificant." As for "forgettable" authors, only you can decide which ones you'd like to forget (Julian of Norwich and Alice von Hildebrand? Really?). But using the term more broadly involves prediction, always very risky. Of course I may be "overthinking," as Miley Cyrus claims her critics have done. Maybe "insignificant" and "forgettable," like "PC," are just more miscellaneous "soft" missiles.
Flinging pejoratives is clearly less labor-intensive than dialogue, and it's certainly a time-honored tactic (the fault-finders in Siena used to call St. Catherine's friends "caterinati," or "catherined," those somehow bewitched by Catherine). But overuse blunts once-sharp edges.
To sustain your belief that Commonweal readers are devoted to PC conformism, you will need to avoid reading the magazine very often. It contains too much vigorous debate on a wide variety of topics, among readers as well as contributors and editors.
Again, a soft reply:
Time permitting, I will cite, one per day, a work/author from the above collection. And a brief note re. "the problem."
Tuesday: Gene Robinson. His deep, unyielding commitment to his own selfishness is literally destroying his own church. In ten years there may not be an Anglican Church as we know it today.
His is a Faustian bargain: Recreational gay sex in exchange for the destruction of a venerable and venerated Church. Not much here for Francis.
However, it does remind me that Goethe's Faust is deep, worthwhile reading. As is Marlowe's Dr. Faustus.
I vote for something non-theological, even though I 'm a total theology geek:
Men's Work by Paul Kivel
"Sexual harassment, child abuse, incest, rape, murder, war--it's impossible today to hear a news report and not be informed of violent acts perpetrated by men. Acknowledging that there are no easy answers to the problem of male violence--particularly in a world that seems to thrive on aggression and physical force--Men's Work reaches straight to its root causes. In his ground-breaking work, author Paul Kivel helps men confront the political, social, and personal forces that generate and reward misogyny, hatred, anger, and violent behavior.
Combining years of personal study and reflection with his work with men in the Oakland Men's Project, Men's Work presents an innovative and workable approach to stopping male violence. Kivel shows men how to reclaim the power and responsibility needed to unlearn the lessons of control and aggression.
Paul Kivel is a nationally known expert on men's issues. Through his work at the Oakland Men's Project, he helps men confront and change violent behaviors and teaches alternatives to violence in their relationships. He also trains teachers, therapists, probation officers, and agency staff who work with men, exploring such topics as male/female relationships, alternatives to violence, family violence, and sexual assault. Kivel resides in Oakland, California."
Wednesday's problem suggestion: Ivone Gebara, Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation.
The author seems to believe that we (the big "we", everyone) are inalienable components of a vast, integrated and fully interdependent Biomass, aka Earth, along with, say, rabbits, soybeans, and limestone. And that our need to set ourselves apart from and above animals, vegetables, and minerals is simply an extension of the human need to control, in turn an extension of the male need to control women.
Now ALL of God's creations have intrinsic value, simply because they are what they are. But only Man/Woman is created in God's image, and only he/she has a soul. We, Humans, are IN the world but not wholly OF it. We know this because (among other reasons) we are Catholic.
To contest this is to contradict one of the very basic tenets of Catholicism -- and Christianity at large.
The precepts of Gaiaism, in any form, will never fly in Rome. Not even close.
The notion is best suited for entry-level thinkers in an undergraduate seminar.
On the other hand, I am guessing that there are a number of readable works out there on Christian Stewardship. There is no stronger image in Scripture than that of The Good Shepherd.
Greetings from Seattle to my former JSTB advisor!
How about bravely going right to the subject of women's ordination? My vote is for two articles that appeared in the very pages of Commonweal. Apr. 11, 2008 and a reply to a reply Jul 18, 2008 by my friend Robert J. Egan, SJ. His arguments are erudite, concise, and totally worth a read. BTW, if you need info on him, check with Margaret O'Brien Steinfels. She and her husband Peter have known Egan since undergrad days at Loyola Chicago.
@ Lisa Fullam: I believe this closes the 2-week window of opportunity. I for one have gained mightily from introspection and personal reflection on the scope and depth of women's issues vis-a-vis the Church. The "Box of Books" challenge strikes me as an excellent heuristic device for laying out challenges facing present-day Catholicism. Throughout its 2000 year history the one thing the Papacy has never lacked is challenges.
It appears that I have a slightly different perspective on things, compared to your, say, typical respondents. I hope you see this as "good" thing -- injecting a sense of balance, or proportion, or (if I may say) common sense into the discussion.
I look forward to your next Box-of-Books project.
Thank you. KR
Dr. Fullam: Got here too late to suggest, but what did you send?


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What is the best build to pubstomp as Mundo jungle? I have seen so many and tried so many but want to know from someone who plays him a lot.
What this guide states is that he is a high ELO jungler that does run mundo.
Why these runes? Attack speed to clear faster, thus making your clear time ridiculously faster than it already is. Armor yellows and Magic Resist blues to help you survive in the jungle as well as be a monster ganker. And the movement speed quints to help you clear faster and get around the map faster for easier ganks.
Run 9/21/0 grabbing armor pen, improved exhaust, attack speed and attack damage in offense, and magic resist, armor, health, minion damage, and decreased damage in defense.
Build and Leveling
Start boots and 3 potions, into a heart of gold for increased farm and health, boots of situation, high ap or cc build merc treads, otherwise build ninja tabis, as they are ridiculously good. After that your major core items should be a Frozen mallet for the health, damage, and that overpowered slow it gives, and a Wits End for the attack speed, and stacking magic resist as thats always a good thing nowadays. If you feel the need to tank for your team, build Aegis of the Legion, either more armor or magic resist with transforming that HoG (heart of gold) into a Randuins Omen, or start working on a Force of Nature. More damage would be to build an Atmas Impaler.
As for leveling, Take W at rank 1, Q at 2, W at 3, E at 4, Then prioritize your R, W, Q, E.
Jungle Route and My Preferred Summoner Spells
The safe way would be to start at wraiths, red, golems, gank, wraiths, blue, gank again. Or if you are feeling ballsy, start wolves, blue, go take their red and then gank. Also take smite and exhaust, as they are your best friends in the jungle. you dont need flash or ghost as your are super tanky, and your ultimate has a low cooldown down ghost built in with the heal.
But thats pretty much it. Ive played him 5 out my last 6 ranked jungling games, and won them all doing just what I posted here. As Saintvicious classifies him, hes at a better spot than Shyvana, as his W can be toggled, and his cleaver basically has no cooldown which means perma-slow.

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28 Aug 2012 11:19 AM #1
Answered: Cannot create app or Usergroup
Are there any current issues with the servers that would be affecting the creation of new Apps or Usergroups? I have tried to create an App and Usergroup on 2 different accounts (and machines) and in both cases I receive an error after approx 2 minutes that says "there was an error. try again".
We are trying to dig into Sencha.io to see if it will accommodate our needs, but these issues are making us think twice before we have even begun.
@dpwilson Yesterday one of the servers failed which caused app/group creation to fail. It was going very slowly, rather than not working at all, so we didn't notice until the evening. I fixed it last night.
The next release is built on all new infrastructure, which is much more resilient to failures like these.
28 Aug 2012 11:28 PM #2
What browser & version are you using?
29 Aug 2012 12:00 AM #3
This is a very old unsolved bug.
29 Aug 2012 12:03 AM #4
Also, what is the name of the app/user group you are trying to create? Currently apps and user group names operate on a global basis - if someone has already used that name you cannot use it. In the next update names will not be global - you will be able to name apps and groups whatever you like even if someone else used the same name.
29 Aug 2012 12:05 AM #5
29 Aug 2012 12:06 AM #6
Don´t you think this is the same problem???
29 Aug 2012 12:08 AM #7
29 Aug 2012 12:11 AM #8
But there must be something wrong with sencha.io if so many users have this problem again and again.
Did merrells leave Sencha? I have not seen him in this forum since end of July...
29 Aug 2012 12:15 AM #9
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Good to hear. Keep on running!


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Charlotte baseball completes a five-game road swing Tuesday afternoon with a trip to Clinton, S.C. and Presbyterian College, with first pitch at 3 p.m.
Charlotte recently won two out of three to open Atlantic 10 Conference play at Richmond over the weekend at Pitt Field. The 49ers trailed in all three games, but came back twice, including in the ninth inning on Friday and the eighth inning on Sunday. The Niners had the tying run disallowed in the Saturday game in the ninth inning on a controversial ending to that contest and left town with an overall record of 16-7, the best win percentage in the Atlantic 10 to this point. Charlotte is 12-5 in March and 3-4 on the road this season.
Presbyterian also won two of three over the weekend against Winthrop, including the last two, which included a 10-inning 4-3 win in game one of a Saturday doubleheader. The Blue Hose had lost two in a row before that, at home to Wofford and the opening game of the Winthop series. PC enters the game with a 15-10 mark and a 5-2 home record.
Charlotte has won the last two meetings against the Blue Hose, but lost in the only trip in Clinton, 5-2 in the 2008 season.
Jason Harris (Austin, Tex. / Barton Co. CC) will make the start for Charlotte Tuesday. He made a relief appearance over the weekend, but has four starts. His last two starts resulted in his win and loss for the season. His 1-1 record goes with a 2.08 earned run average, 13 strikeouts and nine walks.
PC will send lefty Chad Sanders to start the home game. Sanders has posted a 3-1 mark, winning his last three relief appearances. This will be his second start of the season. He has struck out six and walked five.
As of Monday's NCAA statistics release, relief pitcher Hunter May (Cornelius, N.C. / Pitt CC) is tied for the national lead with six pitching victories. He took the comeback win on Friday and was in line for a win if Charlotte was able to complete the comeback on Saturday. He has not posted a loss this season in a team-high 14 appearances this season. He is also ranked 11th in the country in hits allowed per nine innings, at 4.73.
In other ranking news, junior Justin Seager (Kannapolis, N.C. / Northwest Cabarrus HS) added two more doubles to his ledger at Richmond to sit at a conference-leading 12 this season. That total is tied for third in the country through the weekend's games.
The 49ers are 34th in the country with a team batting average of .302 and are 38th in the nation in earned run average, posting the nation's 46th-best win percentage through six weeks.
The Blue Hose have played four extra-inning games this season, winning all four. Charlotte has a loss in its only extra-inning game this season, though they forced a ninth-inning tie, and the 49ers have three wins thanks to ninth-inning heroics (walk-off wins against Kent State and Siena and a last at bat victory over Richmond).
The 49ers return home this weekend with the first home conference series of the season, with new A-10 team VCU visiting Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium, starting Friday at 6 p.m.


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My storage is full and there's so many nice things to pick up. Is there a safe place I can drop things off at where they will be accessable later on? What I'm looking for is something like Diablo 2's "stash"...
There is no shared stash that's accessible from every city. However, if you drop items in places such as in your apartment, or in one of the hotel rooms in the Hung Hua hotel, such as the room with Mei, they will remain there should you revisit that area in a later part of the game.
Most of the time, I've found that its worth it just to sell whatever you don't need and keep it as spare cash to buy stuff later. There's plenty of goodies to be found everywhere if you explore enough and you can find most weapons multiple times.


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I'm a happy guy today. Not only was I able to make it onto the lake this morning for some early morning water skiing, I also just reviewed the results and feedback from Pentaho's PDI 4.0 launch yesterday. This release was a record setter for us on a number of fronts. Here are a few highlights:
- Over 2,600 PDI 4.0 EE downloads in one day
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- Pentaho.com reached an all time high for unique visitors.
- Forum activity is up 251% over normal days
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- Great coverage and positive response from industry press and the community on Twitter.
To me this proves that the market is hungry for a new approach to an old idea. If you are one of the people looking for a BI solution that is quicker to build, easier to adapt and faster time to value, you can see that you are not alone.
*If you were not one of the 1,850 that attended the live webinar, 'Pentaho Defines a Better Way to Build BI Solutions,' you can watch the replay here and access additional resources and recordings.
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6 Alternate Album Covers You Won't Believe Almost Happened
#3. The Black Crowes Wanted an Album Cover Full of Pubes
Rock stars are a rebellious bunch, and the Black Crowes set out to prove that in grand fashion with the release of their third album that anyone cared about, Amorica, in 1994. When it came time to choose an album cover, the band decided to work blue. We suspect that perverts all across the country were hit with an immediate twinge of deja vu upon seeing that album, because it's simply the cover of a 1976 issue of Hustler magazine with all of the unsightly words cropped out.
Patriotism, pubic style.
For some reason, retailers were less than enthused with the prospect of stocking a close-up shot of a Hustler girl's overflowing pubes on their store shelves. With several outlets, including the almighty Walmart, refusing to stock the album, the band stuck to their guns and decided that their artistic vision was more important than the cash windfall that accompanies being able to sell your albums in places where people shop.
Just joking. They immediately set about doctoring up a version of the album cover that would be palatable to the less-pube-friendly tastes of the big box department stores.
"See? This could just as easily be a folded flag that's being given to a widow."
To keep their integrity intact, the band argued that for some kids, places like Walmart were the only option for buying music, and not having their album stocked there meant that those kids couldn't buy it. The problem eventually worked itself out when nobody bought the album.
#2. A 1960s Album Almost Featured a (Gasp!) Toilet
All of the talk about the 1960s centers on how loose and free things were. It was a time of rampant sexual experimentation and copious amounts of drugs and opening your mind to new experiences. That said, it was also a decade that ended more than 40 years ago. The hippies were running wild, but everyone else was still living the 1950s dream of an America where things were orderly and proper and nobody put a picture of a toilet on their album cover. As you can see, the Mamas & the Papas did not share that dream.
It seems unfathomable nowadays, but at the time of its release, the above album cover was highly controversial. So much so, in fact, that it was recalled by the label. All because the prevailing opinion of the day was that actually showing a toilet was indecent, on the same scale as (insert whatever you've seen done with a toilet on the Internet, we don't have all day). That toilet might as well spell the word "fuck" in big porcelain letters, because that's how store owners viewed its presence in that photo.
Scrambling for a solution, record executives decided to just slap a sticker over the unsightly commode.
If they'd really been thinking, they would have just put the album next to the hand fans and smelling salts.
That ridiculous sticker did the trick. When the album was sent back out to record stores, there were no complaints. At least, there were no complaints about the toilet. Future versions of the album just cropped out the toilet, the bathtub, and generally any signs that they were in a bathroom at all, because really you can never be too careful:
"But how do we know they're not nude from the waist down?!"
#1. Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Is a Pile of Naked Women
This is one of those odd cases where what the artist wanted was actually way more tame than what wound up on some record store shelves. In 1968, Jimi Hendrix was ready for his first real album and had a grand vision for the art. Basically a collaboration between him and Linda Eastman, it was to be set in Central Park and feature kids of each race on a statue of Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
"OK, now Jimi, you'll be the Whiiii- Mad Hatter. You can be the Mad Hatter."
While tame by modern standards, a "one world, one race" message in the late 1960s was not appreciated by record executives, who instead went with this:
"Nothing says rock and roll like Ronald McDonald."
But in England, the label wanted to take things in, uh, kind of a different direction. They decided to humor Hendrix's race-oriented idea, and hired 21 women of many different races. The ladies were originally supposed to be around Hendrix like he was a god, but he had second thoughts and decided not to go to the shoot. When he didn't show up, the women were told that if they disrobed, they would be paid more money, and the rest is "You should have been there, man" history.
Censoring courtesy of us, because the Brits sure as hell weren't going to do it.
Afterward, Jimi would talk openly about how much he despised the English version of the album cover, which was on a completely different planet from what he wanted.
So what's the moral here? Always attend your photo shoots, because you never know when the titties are coming out.
You can find Kier on Twitter, his blog, and more recently, toiling away in the depths of Gomorrah. Evan can be found on Facebook, gloating over kicking Kier into the depths of Gomorrah.
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Genesis 34 tells about Shechem's rape of Dinah and the events that follow. 34:5 says that Yaakov heard ( שָׁמַע) about this (and didn't act immediately).
He didn't hear it from Dinah because she didn't come home (her brothers go to rescue her later). Shechem and Chamor came to negotiate a wedding, but the text implies that came after Yaakov heard. How did Yaakov hear?
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Many of the most brilliant ideas of modern physics are very much unpopperian. In view of this, it has become more and more difficult to hold an orthodox Popperian attitude in physics. It simply looks like more of a philosophical dogma nowadays. My question is, should physicists abandon this criterion at least partially for good? If so, what criterion should replace it?
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Popper's approach to the philosophy of science is of some historical importance, and quite possibly still has some value today, but it's certainly not holy writ. I think that many scientists and philosophers of science have moved beyond Popperianism, and that's fine.
As for what criterion should replace it, my vote is for Bayesian inference. The central idea of science is that evidence matters, and specifically that one must modify one's assessment of the probability of a statement's truth in the light of each additional piece of evidence. A "scientific" statement is one whose probability can be driven arbitrarily close to 1 or to 0 by the accumulation of appropriate evidence. Bayesian inference is the systematic way to think about evidence.
Thus the statement "there is life on other planets" is scientific, because we can imagine ways of gathering evidence that could support or oppose that statement in such a way as to drive its probability up to nearly 1 or down to nearly 0. Note that this statement is not "falsifiable," though, since we could never exhaustively check all planets.
I wrote a longer version of this rant here quite a while ago. Just to be clear, I'm not trained in philosophy, and my ideas are no doubt quite naive philosophically. In particular, I've never read Popper, so when I criticize Popperianism, I'm really criticizing the cartoon view of it that one seems to encounter among scientists.
In my opinion no, they shouldn't. Just because things are more difficult and complicated it does not mean that scientists should "cheat". That of course does not mean that they should abandon any idea which is not immediately falsifiable. Good ideas should be given time. If you abandon falsifiability and impose rigor then it becomes mathematics. If you don't impose rigor, well then it is "theology".
Physics needs to act the correct way. Physics its important to humanity and can not be fragilized.
In time theories may rise up or fall, give the authors time to elaborate, decades if we are willing to pay. Consensus must be avoided. I learn with discussions and past history of science. You can find your evidence, and myself mine, and both of us can be erroneous. I do not want to impose my viewpoint, even if I could, and I expect the same from the comunity.
Being 'unpopperian' is a problem? In the start of new ideas it is not a problem but, with the progressing of time, one must be prepared to make conclusions. An example: SUSY is beautiful, and makes predictions. If experience do not verify the predictions, I can expect one of the two: assume and restart, inspite of the beauty (this is not a physical criterion), or much less correct (cheat is my thought): rephrase the theory and by any kind of ... push previsions to unreacheable ranges of energy, even in the long term.
We must have clear what is a 'physical law' (relations obtained empirically and not subject to interpretation), written in stone, and a 'theory' (a model to interpret the 'why'). Theories come and go, from time to time substituted by revolutions of thought.
Imposing a criterion based on the statistics is ridiculous. This way computers can do the work and the results are written in stone. We'll know tomorrow, the same as today, with greater accuracy.
Data should be interpreted because data by itself can be misleading: pls read Henri Poincaré "The measure of Time" or his sphere-world and here


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Guess who found a workable copy of the old Vegan Dad template on his office computer? Yes, that is why I keep a folder on my desktop called "stuff." It's kind of like that one drawer you have at home filled with things you probably should chuck out but which might actually come in handy one day. It's nice to have a little colour back in the blog, and the old familiar look. Many of you liked the new look, but some had a reaction not unlike the ones people have when they come home from university in the summer to find out that their parents have painted their bedroom and moved all their stuff around. The whole experience has taught me a few things. First, change is bad. Second, stop procrastinating about your conference paper by messing with the setting on your blog.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Back in Business!
7 comments:
- LHFixer said...
Nice work. I usually find things like that after I spend countless hours redesigning.
- June 10, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- moss said...
thank god for that. i thought my eyes were broken when i first saw your accidental new look
- June 10, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- Teresa said...
We have a saying in our house...
"Everything shows up."
We avoid frustration by NOT looking for too long. Just wait and it'll show---eventually. For months my 5 year old couldn't find his harmonica (which the rest of us didn't mind so much). When it surfaced, he said, "Look! It showed up!"
(Glad to have the old look back, too!)
- June 10, 2008 at 1:16 PM
- Kumudha said...
Your blog is great!
- June 10, 2008 at 4:13 PM
- mollyjade said...
My parents painted my bedroom wall blue (just one). I like the old look, but I liked the new banner too.
- June 10, 2008 at 6:28 PM
- mom said...
I was surprised by the reaction to the new site...the price of fame...
but to give you advance notice...change is inevitable!
- June 12, 2008 at 5:59 AM
- veg.in.the.fog said...
thank GOODNESS! it looks wonderful again! i'm not saying change is all bad though. you could "paint" the old bedroom. but keep the format! ☺
- June 12, 2008 at 5:45 PM


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I am running SharePoint Foundation on Windows Server on a hosted site. I am able to retrieve a value with jQuery from the User Information List. Using Sharepoint Designer 2010, I have added a DVWP to filter a list. There is a filter parameter wizard in Designer, but I am not able to feed the value from the jQuery to the parameter wizard. Do I need to create a form variable, or a form control that the jQuery can populate? (If so how is that done?) Can I use that form control in the DVWP? There are options to use a server variable, control, or a form field in the filter wizard. Please show me how to do this. Thank you.
It depends on what the value is and how you want to use it. One thing to consider is putting a placeholder in the output from the DVWP and fill it in client-side in a $(document).ready function.
You can actually use the User Information List as a DataSource in an AggregateDataSource in the DVWP. The User Information List is hidden, but it you have the appropriate permissions, you can query it. Keep in mind that your average user may not be able to, however.
The other option is to use the SharePoint Web Services to determine the user's group membership. Take a look at my SPServices jQuery library.
You could create a hidden field which is populated using jQuery, and your parameter use that hidden field, however your hidden field would then be populated at run-time, and I'm not entirely sure if the filter works at runtime, or if the view is filtered at the server end using the parameter.


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Airport facilities
Money and Communications:
There is a bank in Arrivals in Terminal 2, as well as several ATMs and a post office in Terminal 1. Bureaux de change are available at the bank, in the baggage reclaim halls in both terminals, and in the Terminal 2 Departures lounge. Internet access is available in the terminals.
Eating and Drinking:
There are bars, restaurants and fast-food outlets, which can be found in the Centro Plaza in Terminal 1. Bars and cafes are also available in the Centro Comercial in Departures on the second floor of Terminal 2.
A variety of shops, including a pharmacy, can be found in the Central Plaza in Terminal 1. Many more shops, including duty-free, are available in the Centro Comercial in Departures on the second floor of Terminal 2.
There is no left-luggage facility at the airport. There are lost property offices (tel: 952 048 837 or 851) in both terminals, and a baggage wrapping service in Terminal 2.
Other Facilities:
There is a medical service, pharmacy, oratory and exhibition area, as well as travel agencies and an aviation museum.


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I recently installed a rear luggage rack and washed my bike, and now I get a buzzing rattle when I ride over bumps in the road, independent of whether I happen to be pedaling at the time. It sounds like it's coming from somewhere below me as I'm riding, which probably indicates somewhere between the bottom bracket and the rear hub, or as high as the saddle. With my bike up on a repair stand I tapped the various components of the rack and tightened the screws but I didn't find anything obviously loose or that rattled as I tapped it.
How can I narrow down the source of the rattle?


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John Miller, a retired Marine colonel, is the author of The Bridge at Dong Ha (Naval Institute Press, 1989) and The CoVans: U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam (Naval Institute Press, 2000). Following his 1985 retirement from the Marine Corps, he became Managing Editor of Proceedings and Naval History, a post he held until 2000.
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- Era: Vietnam
- Number of Pages: 184
- Subject: U.S. Marine Corps
- Date Available: October 2000


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Back to School: 10 Tips for a Smooth Startby Lindsay Hutton
Back to school is a major milestone in your child's life, so it's normal for him to have some first day jitters. These tips can help calm your child's nerves, and make the transition from home to school a little easier, leaving him with a feeling of excitement instead of anxiety.
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Meet Her New Teacher
Entering a classroom full of new faces can be stressful for anyone, especially a young child who hasn't spent a lot of time away from home yet. Most schools will have an open house to give you a chance to stop in and meet the teacher together. Be sure to attend, so your child will see at least one familiar face on the first day. If your child is younger, try to arrange a play date with other children that will be in her classroom in the fall, too. She'll be so excited to see her friends on the first day of school, she'll forget all about being nervous!


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10 Sep 2006 4:58 PM #1
tabpanel content and javascript
Is there a way to return and evaluate javascript as the content of a tab panel? What I'm doing is using the tab panel as a sidebar tool, and would like to build menu's using yahoo's menu system as the body.
I'd prefer to build the menus using javascript, but I think, looking at it, I might be able to use a callback if I build them from markup?
10 Sep 2006 8:18 PM #2
I take it you are looking to load the menu items using Ajax?
If yes, using a callback (or the UpdateManager's onUpdate event) and building them from markup is probably the easiest (and best) route.
If you aren't then you can build the menus in JS as you prefer and then render them to the tab body content using menu.render('your-tab-content-id').
11 Sep 2006 3:03 AM #3
option a looks more like what I'm going to need, thanks.
btw, this extension library is very nice, and thanks for sharing your hard work.
11 Sep 2006 3:18 AM #4
No problem. I'm glad you are finding it useful.
11 Sep 2006 6:39 PM #5
ok I'm still trying to wrap my head around javascript...
Right now I have this -
var modulesTab = navTabs.addTab('modules', 'Modules'); var modulesTabUpdater = modulesTab.getUpdateManager(); modulesTabUpdater.setDefaultUrl('/sidebar.php?mode=modules'); modulesTab.onActivate.subscribe(modulesTabUpdater.refresh, modulesTabUpdater, true);
Unfortunately, I'm still pretty new to javascript, and as I said, having trouble wrapping my head around it.
11 Sep 2006 7:08 PM #6
That looks ok to me. It will refresh every time the tab is activated though. You can probably shorten it up using the shortcut method setUrl:
var modulesTab = navTabs.addTab('modules', 'Modules'); modulesTab.setUrl('/sidebar.php?mode=modules', null, true);
If you want to eval the response of sidebar.php?mode=modules, you would do something like this:
// create basic renderer var EvalMenu = { render : function(el, response){ eval(response.responseText); }; }; var modulesTab = navTabs.addTab('modules', 'Modules'); modulesTab.getUpdateManager().setRenderer(EvalMenu); modulesTab.setUrl('/sidebar.php?mode=modules', null, true);
Why not include your menu javascript in a standard script tag, build your menus like the Yahoo examples, then have some code like this:
// ... build your menu in JS like you want // then call: yourMenu.render('modules'); // then when you are initializing your tabs you can use a standard tab var modulesTab = navTabs.addTab('modules', 'Modules');
12 Sep 2006 5:19 AM #7
I was looking at doing it similar to that, but from what I can see, my modules div didn't exist until the tab was activated. Though, I could be wrong, I was trying lots of different things last night trying to figure it out.
To give you an idea of what I'm doing... I'm doing basically a 2 layer menu, one layer with tabs, the other layer with menus. Everything is basically being dynamically created, depending on the page loaded.
For example - All pages will have a navigation tab, with a submenu with links to various parts of the side
Then some pages will have other tabs... my profile editor with have Layout and Modules tabs that will have submenus underneath.. my Profile views page may have a Contact tab..
To better visually show it... take the profile editor page, with Navigation as the active tab, it will look like
Navigation Layout Modules
Home Forums Groups FAQ Search
then if you activate the Layout tab you might have something like
Navigation Layout Modules
Background Text Style Columns
My backend uses a template system I use to generate the html and javascript, which I'm also using for the ajax style requests in order to keep my display files somewhat organized.
12 Sep 2006 12:06 PM #8
I see. So the tab item body isn't coming from existing markup, it's being created dynamically. In that case your have to swap them:
// ... build your menu in JS like you want var navTab = navTabs.addTab('modules', 'Modules'); navTab.setUrl('foo.php'); navTab.onActivate(function(){ homeMenu.render('modules'); forumsMenu.render('modules'); groupsMenu.render('modules'); .... });
Personally I would probably render the menus to document.body when the page loaded and then have the sub menus under each tab just call to those existing menus. Initial load time might be a little slower though.
12 Sep 2006 7:43 PM #9
I pretty much got it, and got a better understanding of how things work. Right now I'm using the eval method, because I mixed my code with one of the menubar examples, but I think I'm going to look at building the menus with markup and doing a render next.
One note, currently using the special renderer to eval the javascript, I had to make one quick mod. It wasn't getting rid of the "Loading..." text, so I tweaked it to
var EvalMenu = { render : function(el, o){ el.update(""); eval(o.responseText); } };
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Does anyone know if there is a classification of the subgroups of the real numbers taken under addition? If not can anyone point me in the directiong of any papers/materials which discuss properties of or interesting facts about these subgroups?
If you would like to classify the subgroups in the sense of Lebesugue measure, you may find the following facts helpful.
(1) Any measurable proper subgroup of the real line is of measure $0$.
(2) Any non-measurable subgroup $G$ of the real line charges fully everywhere, i.e., for any interval $I$, $m^{\ast}(G \cap I)=|I|$, where $m^{\ast}(\cdot)$ denotes the outer Lebesgue measure.
(3) Non-measurable subgroup of the real line exists.
Every torsion-free abelian group of cardinality at most $2^\omega$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of the reals. (To see this, note that any such group can be embedded in a divisible torsion-free group of the same cardinality, i.e., a vector space over $\mathbb Q$, which can in turn be embedded in any other vector space over $\mathbb Q$ of the same or greater dimension.) Since already the structure of rank 2 abelian groups is hopelessly complicated, you are not going to find any sensible classification.
I'm surprised no one has yet stated the most obvious fact (though I guess Xianghong's answer comes pretty close), which is that an additive subgroup of the reals is either of the form $a\mathbb{Z}$ or is dense in the real line (an obvious consequence from division with remainder).
The 2002 paper of Simon Thomas in JAMS provides a precise measure of "hopelessly complicated". As the rank of the groups increases, so does the complexity of the classification problem.
If you're interested in topological classification, then this might be useful: Farah and Solecki - Borel subgroups of Polish groups, Advances in Mathematics 199, 2006, 499-541.
Among a lot of other things, one of their results shows that for any countable ordinals $\alpha \neq 2$ and $\beta \geq 2$, there are $\Pi_{\alpha}^{0}$-complete and $\Sigma_{\beta}^{0}$-complete additive subgroups of any uncountable polish group. For connected abelian polish groups, this was previously shown by Mauldin by refining a result of Klee.
For every real number $\alpha$ with $0<\alpha<1$, there is an uncountable subgroup of $\mathbb{R}$ with Hausdorff dimension $\alpha$: see e.g. https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0018768/artikels/actions-free-group.pdf
You may be interested in the following elementary proofs:
Slightly off-topic, a weird subgroup in two dimensions is constructed in this paper:
Ryuji Maehara. On a connected dense proper subgroup of ${\bf R}^2$ whose complement is connected . Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 97 (1986) 556-558. MR 840645.
That subgroup is constructed as a graph of a wild group homomorphism $f:\mathbf{R}\to \mathbf{R}$, so it is also a subgroup: $\{ (x,f(x)) \mid x\in \mathbf{R}\}$