gravity equation to the level of $50\sim100$%, with the errors in various cosmological quantities being controlled to well under $\sim1$% or smaller (comparable to the discrepancies in the predictions of different modified gravity simulation codes [@code_comparison]). The same method, however, does not work as accurately in chameleon-type models (see Appendix \[app:trunc\]), the simulations for which are much more expensive than those for the Vainshtein-type models. Given that chameleon models are a large class of modified gravity models that are of interest to the theoretical and observational community, there is an equally urgent need for fast simulation methods for them – this is precisely the purpose of this paper.

Unlike the truncated simulation method in [@bbl2015], which artificially suppresses the solver of the modified gravity equation on higher refinement levels ofdiscretisation used in the scalar field equation (Eq. \[eq:eom\_discrete\_old\]) has a number of drawbacks:

-   Depending on the value of $\xi$, the original scalar field equation can be very nonlinear (when $\xi$ is small, the term involving $\left(-\tilde{f}_R \right)^{\frac{1}{n+1}}$ is large and non-negligible, c.f. Eq. \[eq:fr\_xi\]) or close to linear (when $\xi$ is large, that term is small and negligible so that the equation becomes nearly linear in $\tilde{f}_R$) [^2]. In the former case, introducing the new variable $u=\log(-\tilde{f}_R)$ makes the equation even more nonlinear; in the latter case, it nonlinearises an almost linear equation. The high nonlinearity makes the relaxation method very slow to converge, which is why simulations of $f(R)$ gravity are generally much more costly than $\Lambda$CDM simulations with the same specifications. Indeed, even with parallelised


to do the Gauss-Seidel iterations (we use the standard red-black chessboard scheme here). What it does get rid of is the ‘Newton-Raphson’ part \[Eq. (\[eq:relaxation\_update\])\] of the Newton-Gauss-Seidel (or nonlinear GS, or NGS) relaxation which updates the old guesses using a linear approximation of the full nonlinear equation. The speedup is also largely assisted by the simplicity of Eq. (\[eq:new\_discrete\]) compared to Eq. (\[eq:eom\_discrete\_old\]), which comes about due to the new variable redefinition. Therefore, while Gauss-Seidel iterations are still required, the savings using the new method can still be significant.

Tests and Simulations of the New Method {#sect:tests}
=======================================

In this section we present the results of several test runs of the new [ecosmog]{} code. In what follows, we will only consider the F6 model of $f(R)$ gravity, in which the present-day value ofshows that the two methods agree well even in regions of the cosmic web that are not mass-dominated. This is not unexpected: after all, the new method solves the same equation of motion, without needing to use the approximate and inefficient Newton-Raphson scheme. As a consequence, the simulation is now [ *significantly*]{} faster than before: the new method boosts the speed of the F6 calculation by a factor of 15 relative to the old implementation in [ecosmog]{} (see the last column of Table \[tab:SimDetails\]).

![Enhancement of the F6 matter power spectrum relative to $\Lambda$CDM for the ‘High res’ simulation ($B = 128 \, \rm{Mpc}/h$, $N_p = 512^3$). The different coloured curves show the relative difference at different scale factors, as indicated in the legend. Alongside the legend labels, we also


hydrodynamics and to resolve spatial scales important for star formation and feedback), and running large numbers of low resolution volumes to estimate the covariance matrix in non-standard gravity.

Summary and Discussions {#sect:summary}
=======================

Modified gravity models are an umbrella group of theories seeking to explain the apparent accelerated cosmic expansion by assuming modifications to the Einsteinian gravitational law on cosmological scales. Usually, such modifications must be small in high density environments in which gravity is known to be accurately described by GR, and this can be achieved by screening mechanisms, resulting in highly nonlinear field equations. Studying the cosmological implications of these theories and observational constraints on them is an active research topic in cosmology, but the nonlinear nature of these theories means that one has to resort to numerical simulations,when the error induced on the fifth force on the refinements is large, it does not propagate to the total gravitational force because the amplitude of the fifth force is small/screened.

In chameleon models, however, the correlation between high density regions and screening efficiency becomes less marked because of the dependence on the environmental density (in Vainshtein models, the screening efficiency depends on the local density only). For example, in $f(R)$ models, a low mass halo in a dark matter void constitutes an example of a highly-refined region (the centre of the halo can be very concentrated) that may not be screened (either by itself or by the low density environment it lives in). It is therefore interesting to determine whether or not the same truncation method, which works


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At that point, the Commission went out of business, leaving the State Board with no authority to modify the standards. Since then, eighth grade math has been a void. It's not part of the Common Core interim materials adoption process, and there's been confusion over how to create curriculum frameworks and teacher training for that grade.

A NEW COMMISSION'S CHARGE

Fast forward to this past Wednesday in the Senate Education Committee and the 7-2 passage of SB 1200, authored by Sen. Loni Hancock, an Oakland Democrat, on behalf of Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. It would


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Randall HALL
v.
Joseph DORSEY, et al.
Civ. A. No. 81-5083.
United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
March 10, 1982.
*508 Randall H. Hall, pro se.

MEMORANDUM
GILES, District Judge.
In this civil-rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a state prisoner complains that during his trial, the state court refused to file various pro se papers. Upon review of plaintiff's amended complaint, I shall dismiss this action for the reasons which follow.
The original complaint in this action alleged that defendant Keithly, an officer of the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, refused to accept filings from plaintiff. Plaintiff also sued Ms. Keithly's superior, Joseph Dorsey. I dismissed Mr. Dorsey because the complaint alleged no wrongdoing on his part. The remainder of the complaint was dismissed for lack of specificity, with leave toscientific users are too). I know that personally I
have no incentive to switch; Python 2.7 has all the features I need.

That will change with Python 3.5 and the matrix multiplication operator @.

Is there any other reason for me to consider Python 3?

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the Python 3. I'm not too familiar with the development roadmap and which
"features" might be useful for different audiences (e.g. the unicode overhaul
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stuff I do) but I think just that reason alone is enough.

But I do think the biggest leap in adoption will be once Python 3 will be the
default on most OSs, and we're definitely getting there. After we pass


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21, 2010, Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) trooper Josiah Trinkle was patrolling eastbound on Interstate 70 in Geary County. Trooper Trinkle has been employed with the KHP for three years. He had no law enforcement experience prior to his work for the KHP. He has received training on interdiction while employed with the KHP and has been involved in approximately 60 to 70 interdiction stops in the past three years.
2. The driving conditions on October 21st were excellent. It was sunny and the sky was clear. There was a light wind. In the area where Trooper Trinkle was patrolling, I-70 is straight, flat and without obstacles.
3. Trooper Trinkle's patrol car is equipped with a video camera. When the emergency lights are activated, the camera begins to produce a videoreturned to his patrol car. As he was about to enter his car, he noticed a Toyota Matrix drive by. Trooper Trinkle was immediately suspicious of the car because it *1171 (1) was a vehicle that commonly had hidden compartments; and (2) had a Utah license plate. He testified that he was unable to determine the race of the driver.
5. Trooper Trinkle did not seek any information on the Honda's license plate or Morales' driver's license. Rather, he quickly wrote a warning ticket and provided it to the driver. He simply said, "Okay. Good day." He left the Honda quickly and returned to his patrol car. The period of time from when Trooper Trinkle noticed the Toyota Matrix to the time that he ultimately left the scene of


787 (10th Cir. 1995) (en banc) (internal quotation marks omitted).
3. The alleged traffic violation here was K.S.A. 8-1522(a), which provides that "[w]henever any roadway has been divided into two (2) or more clearly marked lanes for traffic, . . . [a] vehicle shall be driven as nearly as practicable entirely within a single lane." This court has had ample opportunities to consider this statute. See United States v. Cruz-Chavez, No. 10-40055-01/02, 2010 WL 3270106 at *5 (D.Kan.2010) (citing cases). In general, an officer's observation of a vehicle straying out of its lane multiple times over a short distance creates reasonable suspicion that the driver violated K.S.A. 8-1522(a) so long as the strays could not be explained by "adverse physical conditions" such as the state of the road, theapproaching the Toyota, caused Gonzalez-Garcia to weave or cross the fog line. Therefore, the court believes that Trooper Trinkle had objective reasonable suspicion that K.S.A. 8-1522(a) had been violated. Given this finding, the court holds that the initial stop of the Toyota was justified and reasonable.
7. The court shall next turn to the other arguments raised by Gonzalez-Garcia. He contends that he was detained beyond the permissible scope of the stop. He suggests that Trooper Trinkle gave him no opportunity to leave after he issued him the warning ticket. The government has suggested that Trooper Trinkle and Gonzalez-Garcia engaged in a consensual conversation after the warning ticket was issued.
8. During a routine traffic stop, the detaining officer is permitted to ask such questions, examine such documentation, and run


the pace," said Kipchoge, adding he was never in doubt about breaking the barrier. "For me it was not 50-50, it was 90 percent."

Jim Ratcliffe, founder of the chemicals company backing the attempt, exchanged high-fives with Kipchoge after the finish.

"He even accelerated in the final kilometer, he is a super human," Ratcliffe said. "I can't believe he's done it. He did the first half in less than an hour and then he's just done that again."

Organizers said normal anti-doping regulations were in place and that Kipchoge and all the pacemakers were being tested in and out of competition by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).

The team behind the event "has ensured all athletes involved in the project are undergoing extensive intelligence-led testing that has been pioneered by the partnershipthe bugle against his own party alleging that they had failed to bring ‘Swaraj’ within the party as promised and not only to Delhi voters but the entire country.

“When I was about to join the AAP, Kejriwal used to quote my example of successfully implementing the concept of Swaraj and Mohalla-sabhas in my ward as a municipal corporator and asked party colleagues to follow the model. Ajit Singh Nagar’s book had inspired me on Swaraj,” he said.

A two-term Municipal Corporation of Delhi corporator, Binny blamed the AAP for keeping the Delhi public in dark over the Jan Lokpal Bill. “The Jan Lokpal draft was not ready with them, so its implementation was out of question. It was all drama that Kejriwal and his team staged before the public,


In India, Women Can’t Even Have Their Own Religion

Here’s an absolutely creepy situation out of India, where a court has refused to allow a woman to retain her own religion (Zoroastrianism), ruling that she is now officially the religion of her husband (Hinduism) because she married him.

The bench, though, has unanimously dismissed the petition by a Parsi woman married to a Hindu who had demanded a direction to Parsi Anjuman Trust not to prohibit her entry into Parsi religious places and to allow her to remain present during the last rites of her parents.

The petition was moved by one Goolrokh Adi Contractor, who had married Mahipal Gupta, a Hindu, under the provisions of the Special Marriage Act.

Goolrokh moved the petition after the Valsad Parsi Anjuman Trust did notin his judgment, “To my mind, it is not the function, even the power, of the court to mandate discarding of old customs merely on the ground that with passage of time, such customs have become outdated. If at all, it is for the legislature to make laws outlawing such customs, if necessary…” Concluding his judgment, Justice Kureshi observed, “All reforms start with a humble beginning.”

I’m having trouble figuring out exactly what is going on here. Whether Goolrokh is or is not a proper, true Parsi who can attend her parent’s funeral would presumably be up to whatever Zoroastrianism religion or temple she’s attending. Once you enter into a supernatural-based religion the rules of the natural-based world are all malleable.

So, are the judges and legislature acting on behalf


was, in fact, Hindu.

It’s ambiguous. The Zoroastrian authorities decided Goolrokh would not be admitted to temples because she had married outside the faith. All three judges ruled against her petition to be allowed in; one on the basis that the Parsi trust had the right to follow whatever customs they want, but the other two on the basis that she implicitly converted to Hinduism. The latter does sort of jibe with what Ed is talking about, but it still doesn’t qualify as interceding.

silverbuttons

Why would she want to belong to either religion? They are both equally ridiculous.

sivivolk

It’s a matter of Zoroastrian religious law. Zoroastrianism (which is rapidly shrinking) does not accept converts, and only children of a male Zoroastrian can count as Zoroastrians – a woman in a mixed-religiousrights and

(2) on account of personal injuries or sickness.    Sec. 104(a)(2);

O'Gilvie v. United States, 519 U.S. ___, 117 S. Ct. 452, 454

(1996); Commissioner v. Schleier, 515 U.S. at __, 115 S. Ct. at

2164; P & X Mkts., Inc. v. Commissioner, 106 T.C. 441, 443-444

(1996); sec. 1.104-1(c), Income Tax Regs.

      Petitioners contend that $800,000 is excludable from gross

income under section 104(a)(2) because the settlement agreement
                              - 14 -

expressly allocated that amount to the tort claim for personal

injuries.   In support of their position, petitioners cite Glynn

v. Commissioner, 76 T.C. 116, 120


                       - 16 -

(2d Cir. 1961), affg. T.C. Memo. 1960-21; Metzger v.

Commissioner, supra at 847-848.

       Where the settlement agreement expressly allocates the

settlement proceeds between tortlike personal injury damages and

other damages, the allocation is generally binding for tax

purposes (and the tortlike personal injury damages are excludable

under section 104(a)(2)).    Bagley v. Commissioner, supra at 406;

Robinson v. Commissioner, supra at 127; Threlkeld v.

Commissioner, supra at 1306-1307; Fono v. Commissioner, supra at

694.    However, an express allocation set forth in the settlement

is not necessarily determinative of the nature of the claim if

the agreement is not entered into by thethe fact that the record showed that both parties had

considered the strong possibility of petitioner's recovering

punitive damages.   Both parties worked on the terms of the

settlement document, and the taxpayer had consulted a tax

attorney concerning the allocation of the settlement proceeds.

     In contrast with Robinson v. Commissioner, supra, and Bagley

v. Commissioner, supra, in McKay v. Commissioner, supra, we found

that the settlement was made by hostile parties who continued to

be adverse with respect to the allocations to be made therein.

We noted that the "allocation of the settlement proceeds between

the wrongful discharge tort claim and the breach of contract

claim was based on * * * counsels' estimates of probability of *

* * success on the merits, recognition of the jury verdict, and

mutual assessment of the


the source of his difficulty in

finding a new job.   Finally, petitioner testified that he had

been seeing a psychotherapist for several years prior to his

firing as a result of the deterioration of his marriage and

problems with his children.   Compare Noel v. Commissioner, T.C.

Memo. 1997-113 ("The evidence before the Court is that * * *

[payor's] actions caused petitioner to suffer emotional

distress") with Knuckles v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 1964-33

("The doctor did not make a determination that * * * [taxpayer's]

emotional condition was attributable to an act * * * on the part

of * * * [the payor]").

     In light of the facts and circumstances, we conclude that

petitioner suffered no injury to his health that could be

attributed to the actions of the defendants, and(94.7%). Total PVD was achieved with 0.3-0.5 mL intravitreal C3F8 injection in 2-9 weeks (average 4 weeks) and B-scan ultrasonography was used for the PVD evaluation. Jorge et al.^[@ref19]^ reported similar results of PVD induction with C3F8. Rodrigues et al.^[@ref21]^ Yu et al.^[@ref24]^ and Steinle et al.^[@ref22]^ reported VMT release rates of 40%, 87.5% and 73% at 1 month with C3F8, respectively. Chan et al.^[@ref25]^ recently reported the largest series on PV with C3F8 and achieved successful PVD in 86% of 50 eyes at a median of 3 weeks. Although numerous studies have demonstrated the efficacy of C3F8 in PV, there are fewer studies in the literature regarding SF6, which has also been used for PV, with lower and delayed release rates.^[@ref26]^ Mori et al.^[@ref26]^ reported that 19


criteria in all of our VMT patients, but unfortunately we did not analyze vitreous face reflectivity.

OCT has increased our knowledge about VMA and the detection of VMI disorders.^[@ref30],[@ref31]^ OCT measurements can be used as a predictor of successful treatment and possible visual acuity increase.^[@ref21],[@ref32],[@ref33]^ Rodrigues et al.^[@ref21]^ reported that VMT release with PV increased in patients with low posterior hyaloid reflectivity on OCT. Sun et al.^[@ref32]^ determined that resolution of cone outer segment tips line and inner segment/outer segment line defects observed on SD-OCT was positively correlated with visual acuity improvement after VMT treatment with PV. SD-OCT based studies also showed that fellow eyes of patients with VMT or FTMH are at increased risk of developing VMI disorders.^[@ref34],[@ref35],[@ref36],[@ref37]^ It is important to examine the fellow eye and followon day 3 (B). The same procedure was performed on the left eye and resulted in VMT release within 2 days (E). Snellen visual acuity increased to 0.9 in the right (C) and left (F) eyes within a month](TJO-49-201-g1){#f1}

![A 58-year-old man (patient 1) presented with complaint of metamorphosia involving his right eye. Snellen visual acuity was 0.5 with -6.75 D spectacle correction and there was small full-thickness macular hole (160 μm) with vitreomacular traction (VMT) on spectral domain optical coherence tomography (A). Pneumatic vitreolysis with pure C3F8 resulted in VMT release on postoperative day 4. However, a horseshoe tear was detected in the inferior equatorial retina and a laser retinopexy was performed. The patient was instructed to stay in face-down position for a week and followed-up for 45


days but the macular hole persisted (B). Macular hole closure could only be achieved after pars plana vitrectomy and final Snellen visual acuity was 0.6 (C)](TJO-49-201-g2){#f2}

![A 72-year-old patient (patient 5) who had glaucoma and nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy presented with complaint of blurred vision in both eyes. Snellen visual acuity was 0.6 and vitreomacular traction (VMT) was detected on spectral domain optical coherence tomography in the right eye (A). There was highly elevated serous macular detachment and epiretinal membrane in association with VMT with a visual acuity of 0.05 in the left eye (E). Pars plana vitrectomy was performed on the left eye. The macula gradually reattached after surgery and final visual acuity was 0.2 in the left eye (F, G). During follow-up, the right eye was observed foris assumed in order to guarantee a $C^1$ local stable manifold. Specifically, ${N}$ is called normally hyperbolic for $f$ if the expansion of $Df$ in the unstable direction transverse to ${N}$ dominates the maximal expansion of $Df$ tangent to ${N}$ and the contraction of $Df$ in the stable direction transverse to ${N}$ dominates the maximal contraction of $Df$ tangent to ${N}$; see [@HPS Theorem 1.1]. For $C^r$ regularity, there is an analogous condition in terms of the $r$-th power of the maximal expansion/contraction tangent to ${N}$.

Although the maps considered in this paper are many-to-one, they also do not fit in the context of [@HPS] since $f|{L}$ is conformal, forcing that the rates of expansion tangent to ${S}$ and transverse to ${S}$ are equal. Thus, ${S}$ is not normally


the DHL at low temperatures; see [@blr1; @blr2]. In §\[SEC:NON\_ANALYTIC\_LY\], we’ll explain how Theorem B relates to the limiting distribution of Lee-Yang and Lee-Yang-Fisher zeros at low temperatures.

To summarize, the organization of the paper is as follows. Section \[SEC:PROOF\] is devoted to the proof of Theorem A’, and Section \[SEC:EXAMPLES\] describes several examples in which Theorem A can be applied. The description of examples for which ${\mathcal W^s_{{{\rm loc}}}({\mathcal B})}$ is not real analytic and proof of Theorem B then follow in Section \[SEC:NON\_ANALYTIC\]. Lastly, a physical interpretation of Theorem B as related to the Ising model on the DHL at low temperatures is given in Section \[SEC:NON\_ANALYTIC\_LY\].

We are very grateful to Turgay Bayraktar, Pavel Bleher, Laura DeMarco, Jeffrey Diller, John Hubbard, Sarah Koch, Mikhail Lyubich, Rodrigo Perez,hold even if $Df$ has an eigenvalue of $0$), there exists a local stable manifold, ${\mathcal W}^s_{{\rm loc}}((1,\bm
0))$, which is the graph of a holomorphic function $z = \eta_1({{\bm w}})$ defined on some $(n-1)$-dimensional open ball, ${\Lambda}$, in the ${{\bm w}}$ axis. Let ${\Sigma}\subset{S}$ to be the set of iterated preimages of $(1,\bm
0)$. Using a suitable invariant cone field and a well-chosen neighborhood of ${S}$, one can take iterated preimages of ${\mathcal W}^s_{{\rm loc}}((1,\bm 0))$ so that the preimage through each $x \in {\Sigma}$ is expressed as the graph of a holomorphic function $\eta_x({{\bm w}})$ defined on ${\Lambda}$, making ${\Lambda}$ smaller if necessary. In this way, we can construct local stable manifolds over ${\Sigma}$, which is dense in ${S}$. The function $\eta\colon{\Lambda}\times{\Sigma}\rightarrow\mathbb C$ given by $\eta({{\bm w}},x)=\eta_x({{\bm w}})$


$\delta>0$ centered at the point $q$ contained in ${L}$. Since ${\mathcal W}^u_{\delta}(\hat q)$ depends only on $q_0$, existence of a local product structure for $\hat{S}$ is very simple.

By the Stable Manifold Theorem, we may choose $\delta>0$ small enough so that for any $p\in S$, we have ${\mathcal W}_{\delta}^s(p)\cap L=\{p\}$. Thus, for any two points $p,q\in S$, the intersection ${\mathcal W}^s_{\delta}(p)\cap{\mathcal W}^u_{\delta}(\hat q)=\{p\}$, with $p\in S$. Moreover, $p$ has a unique history $\hat p=(p_i)_{i\leq0}$ with $p_j\in{\mathcal W}^u_{\delta}(\hat f^j(\hat q))$ for all $j\leq0$, and it is completely contained in $\hat S$ as well.

Given a neighborhood $\Omega$ of ${S}$, let $$\label{s}
{\mathcal W}^s_{{\rm loc}}({S}) := \{x \in {N}\colon f^n x\in \Omega\mbox{ and } f^n x\rightarrow{S}\mbox{ as }n\rightarrow\infty\}$$ (where $\Omega$ is implicit in the notation, and an assertion involving ${\mathcal W}^s_{{\rm loc}}({S})$ meansloc}}({S}))$, then $$\begin{aligned}
\left|\frac{{{\bm w}}_n}{{{z}_n}^{b}}\cdot {\bm g}_1({z}_n,{{\bm w}}_n)\right| &<& \frac{1}{2} \label{NEED1}, \end{aligned}$$ and if $({\zeta},{\bm \omega}) \in \Omega \cap ({\mathcal W}^s({\eta_{\text{\tiny{2}}}}) \cup {\mathcal W}^s_{{\rm loc}}({S}))$, then $$\begin{aligned}
\left|\frac{{\bm \omega}_n}{{\zeta}_n^b}\cdot {\bm h}_1({\zeta}_n,{\bm \omega}_n)\right| &<& \frac{1}{2}. \label{NEED2}\end{aligned}$$ Then, for points in $\Omega$, the $b^n$-th root is defined by taking the branch cut along the negative real axis. Moreover, this condition will also imply convergence of the infinite product (\[INFINITE\_PRODUCT\]) on $\Omega$, since the corresponding sum of logarithms converges: $$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\log\left|\frac{{{z}_{n+1}}}{{{z}_n}^{b}}\right|^{\frac{1}{b^{n+1}}} \leq \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{b^{n+1}} \log 2.$$

To construct $\Omega$, first note that for any ${K}_1 > 0$ sufficiently small, $\{|{{\bm w}}| \leq {K}_1 \} \cap \left({\mathcal W}^s({\eta_{\text{\tiny{1}}}}) \cup
{\mathcal W}^s_{{\rm loc}}({S})\right)$ is a compact subset of ${\mathbb{C}}^n$. Since ${\bm g}_1$ is holomorphic on ${\mathbb{C}}^n$, there is a bound $|{\bm g}_1({z},{{\bm w}})| \leq
{K}_2$ on any such compact


new exceptional divisor $E_{{\eta_{\text{\tiny{1}}}},2}$ and proper transform $\tilde{{L}}_2$. We inductively do this $b-2$ additional times, each time blowing up the intersection point between the previous exceptional divisor and proper transform of $L$.

Consider the system of coordinates ${z}, {\bm \lambda} = \frac{\bm
{{\bm w}}}{{z}^b}$ centered at the intersection point of $E_{{\eta_{\text{\tiny{1}}}},b}$ with $\tilde{L}_b$. Let us denote $({z}',\bm \lambda') = \tilde{f}({z},\bm
\lambda)$, where $\tilde{f}$ is the extension of $f$ to the final blow-up. We have $$\begin{aligned}
{z}' &=& {z}^b + {z}^b {\bm \lambda} \cdot {\bm g}({z},{z}^b \bm \lambda) \\
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is the formation of strong parties.

Having come to the conclusion that the political system operated more like a traditional industry than a public institution, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter set down their ideas in a Harvard Business School report. It’s called “Why Competition in the Politics Industry Is Failing America.” When you read the paper, right there under “Key Findings,” is this sentence, in bright red print: “The political system isn’t broken. It’s doing what it is designed to do.” In other words, it was no coincidence that politics had become self-sustaining, self-dealing, and self-centered. They were the blue team and the red team — kind of like Pepsi and Coke.

GEHL: Essentially they divided up an entire industry into two sides. PORTER: And we ended up seeing thatone, is a reform powerful? Will it actually change the competition? And a lot of what people are proposing now is actually not going to make much difference. So term limits are a great example. GEHL: We aren’t fans of term limits, because we think that without changing the root-cause incentives, you’ll actually just have different faces playing the same game. PORTER: So number one is, we have to reengineer the election processes, the election machinery. GEHL: And there are three electoral reforms that are important, we call it the the election trifecta. PORTER: And the first and probably the single most powerful is to move to non-partisan, single-ballot primaries. GEHL: Currently, if you’re going to vote in the primary, you show up and you get a Democratic


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Christ who hold unto the Word of God above all!

How does one know the truth of God? Faith, in agreement with the written Word and Living Word of God. Again Christ centered and Bible centered

How does one acquire? Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God!

How come the Word of God is always emphasized over and over and over? Hence the Word OF GOD, again Jesus Christ is the WORD OF GOD.

Now how can someone still conclude that Sola Scriptura is false when that means that we are to only abide in the Word of God because Jesus Christ is the Word of God? I find it extremely difficult for a spirit-filled believer to commit such heresy which is a work of the flesh. The reasonwere cases where Sola Scriptura was not followed (so, dispensationalists became dispensational when some lady had a “vision” and then they tried to accomodate Scriptures to that vision of pretrib rapture).

Which brings us to matters the least importance, where there can be differences among the brethren inside the same church or denomination. Church history is full of those kinds of differences (and we could even make the case that even among the church Fathers there are differences of a previous kind!)

So, now, to answer your question. If I do not agree with a persons interpretation and it is a first level text (about the Trinity), I would show them their inconsistency from the Scriptures and tell them that they need to repent of it in order to be


(i.e. her immaculate conception), finds some basis in Luke 1:28 in that she is “full of grace,” a title given to no one else in scripture. I actually agree that to draw the conclusion that she was preserved from original sin solely on this verse would be a stretch (though I would be interested to hear what you think it means that she was given this remarkable honorific!). Yet you are incorrect if you are arguing that Catholics read Luke 1:28 and from that verse alone draw this conclusion. The conclusion of her immaculate conception draws from a variety of scriptural and logical arguments, and has been with the Church in the deposit of faith since the early centuries. This doctrine is not contradicted by Romans 3:23 (“all17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
Now, we see two things (among other) here. Scriptures are able to make a person/the servant of God both “wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus” – that is, it is sufficiently clear as to the doctrine of salvation and even efficient by the Spirit of God to bring salvation and sustain salvation by faith. Also, the Scriptures are useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, and to equip us for every good work – that is, it is sufficiently clear as to the doctrine of Christian life and worship. It makes us equipped for righteous living and serving God and neighbor by our good works.

Pat: #42 “John, RC’s like to


things to different people and different Christian religions. We had common words that meant unlike things and we often did not know that was occurring in our conversations.

For the Father to create us, the Son to rescue us, and then the Holy Spirit to sanctify us means that He is intimately involved with us, and I did not believe that He would leave us each to our own devices. If infallibility is involved, it must be His infallibility, and it must be manifest in such a way that someone as unlearned as me could recognize it. He did come to save the poor and whatever limited critical thought I was capable of meant that at least in this sense I am poor.

So the question is how He chosesparcel of that salvation.

John #41
You said:
“Even supposing this text does mean Jesus is identifying Himself with the “I Am” of Exodus – not obvious from the language, which could just mean that you have to believe that He is the Messiah – the Anointed – which term applies to Samson, Samuel, David, probably others – even if, as I say, this is identifying Jesus with Yahweh, it doesn’t say anything about the Trinity. This is perfectly compatible with Sabellianism.
But in any case, are you saying this is the only essential belief – belief in Jesus’s divinity?
And I don’t see at all how this can be called a belief at all:”

Well, I was pointing out only one verse where Jesus plainly said that not believing that He is Yahweh


would be nothing similar to a Reformed Baptist or even Presbyterian view (and personaly I think the Apostolic and Catholic truth is somewhere between these two positions), but at least Romanists would start thinking outside the imagined umbrella of a Roman pontiff.

Casey, without doubt I am not a patristics scholar, as my line of expertize is more with the interpretation of Scriptures and protestant theology. Unfortunately, we come from two opposing angles to this same Scriptures: I come from inside of them and you come from 20 centuries of church tradition. And frankly, I didn’t mean to start debating with Called to Communion folks, but my intention was more to correct your misinterpretation of Sola Scriptura. As an ex-Protestant, you are probably not ignorant of a protestant position,Arius was a native Greek speaker and couldn’t understand the NT??) or evil (could they not say the same about us? Arius did) or something, and that is why they blew it.

Peace,

Fred

P.S. Please note that I am *not* saying Trinitarian Protestants are in the exact same boat with Mormons and Unitarians or whatever. The point is simply that these groups all appeal to the Bible in defense of their views, not that they are theologically indistinguishable or equivalent.

Casey,
Spong does not come close to representing Protestantism. He is so liberal as to be a heretical. Calvin and Luther would certainly agree on lot of doctrines. Should I compare some liberal Roman Catholic scholar with a conservative one and draw the conclusion there is no unity in the Roman Catholic


right genre of Scripture is the only interpretive grid that the very Scripture authors are using. Now you would say: what about typology and allegory and the like… Well, yes, we should only interpret Scripture typologically or allegorically when we have a Scriptural sanction to do so – and in light of the historical-critical method! And, every time we go into typology or allegory, this should be only to support something that the Scriptures speak plainly about (like the allegory in Galatians about Hagar and Sarai, which is used by Apostle as an allegorical illustration of a theological point he was Scripturaly proving from other Scriptures before using an allegory).

Your determination about when to apply other scriptural interpretive models (e.g. typology or allegory), if I’m interpreting you correctly,they have done so much harm towards the work of ecumenical unity. I would say, as someone who once was exposed to much Protestant condemnation of past Catholic historical errors, that many accusations against the Church are not accurate, or misconstrued, and that many evils widely endorsed by Protestants at various points in history are downplayed (e.g. chattel slavery, apartheid, colonization, and the “White Man’s Burden” come to mind). Yet even great wickedness by individuals within the Church does not de facto demonstrate the Church is not who she says she is, only that she is human, and susceptible to just as much sinful behavior as those outside of it.

Finally, you wrote,

You say that Reformed Protestantism is not “a particularly persuasive option”? I say: if Rome, with all


scholars are official Church teaching. Church councils, encyclicals, the Catholic Catechism, etc. officially represent Church teaching.

You also wrote,

My first point proves that a supposed infallible interpreter of Scripture is not necessary to interpret Scripture correctly. My example proves there is widespread agreement among many Protestants on essential doctrines.

There is widespread agreement among people with whom you determine to be faithful Protestants regarding doctrines you personally consider to be essential.

Finally, you wrote,

What is true of Protestants in regards to interpretation of Scripture is also true of RC’s. There are contradictory interpretations among Roman Catholics.

There are indeed contradictory interpretations among individual Catholics. Yet individual Catholics do not have final interpretive authority – the Magisterium does. In Protestantism, every individual claiming to be guided by the Holy Spirit and being faithfulthe farther we are from the Protestant Reformation. Yet none have any authority to determine who are the true heretics – once you eschew religious authority over the text, it’s no longer possible to claim the higher interpretive ground. in Christ, Casey

Catholics for Choice may not represent your version of abortion but they consider themselves good RC’s as do thousands of others like them. Pelosi and Biden considers themselves good RC’s though they support laws contrary to church teachings.
Hans Kung considers himself a good RC though he wrote much that was not in harmony with RCC teachings. There are many RC scholars that I have come across that deny for example the way the papacy has developed. It is contrary to what the “official” story of the papacy.

“My


teaching on how well the Apostles did during Holy Week, He wouldn’t come out very well, either.

No one individual in the RCC has “final interpretive authority”. That’s why you don’t have an official interpretation of any Scripture until the Magisterium as a whole creates one. Until then, you have the same kind of chaos that you claim Protestants do.

True, only the Magisterium, or in rare cases the Pope, has final interpretive authority. The “chaos” that exists among the Catholic laity is because many Catholics choose to disobey what the Church has taught, not because the Church hasn’t clarified its teaching on abortion, or justification, or contraception, or any number of issues. The chaos of Protestantism is more fundamental, and more difficult (if not categorically impossible) to overcome. induring His lifetime, or maybe by recollection after His resurrection. Then there’s the miracle of the Shroud of Turin… Anyway, I’ll simply quote the Catholic Catechism, says it better than I ever could:

1159 The sacred image, the liturgical icon, principally represents Christ. It cannot represent the invisible and incomprehensible God, but the incarnation of the Son of God has ushered in a new “economy” of images: “Previously God, who has neither a body nor a face, absolutely could not be represented by an image. But now that he has made himself visible in the flesh and has lived with men, I can make an image of what I have seen of God . . . and contemplate the glory of the Lord, his face unveiled.” 1160 Christian iconography


expresses in images the same Gospel message that Scripture communicates by words. Image and word illuminate each other: “We declare that we preserve intact all the written and unwritten traditions of the Church which have been entrusted to us. One of these traditions consists in the production of representational artwork, which accords with the history of the preaching of the Gospel. For it confirms that the incarnation of the Word of God was real and not imaginary, and to our benefit as well, for realities that illustrate each other undoubtedly reflect each other’s meaning.”

The first quotation is from St. John of Damascus, the second quotation is from the Second Council of Nicaea. Note that the council says that they preserve all the “written and unwritten traditions of theyou have offered, not the Bible itself. I, and the Catholic Church, firmly uphold Scripture as divine revelation, and we assent to its’ teaching.

Yes, I was well aware even before I wrote down those verses that, in their true context, they were primarily speaking of worshiping heaten idols (too bad I can’t interpret it allegorically and have an infallible Apostolic Authority to back up my claims ;)). Yet, it is also true that the original intention of Ex 20 and Dt 5 commandment was against using all pictures of God or of anything else to help our worship. Doesn’t it worry you one bit that your church just disregards the commandment of God by obeying the commandment of men? For, the second commandment was never revoked in any


to an Arian view). As for the others…I do not remember specifically off the top of my head. But I would be willing to bet you a dollar that they did. :-)

I would have to see some support if that is the case. I know many claim to use the Bible to support their claims but that doesn’t mean they truly are able to.

Feel free to correct me, but it seems as though “truly able to” is code for “their exegetical results differ from mine, so they are wrong.” Try reading the first couple volumes of Pelikan’s The Christian Tradition for examples of how Arius and others appealed to Scripture in support of their views.

I would be remiss if I failed to point out again that Arius (amongFourth Lateran Council, 1215)

“Outside the Church no one can be saved” means that all salvation comes from Christ who is the head of the Church and through the Church which is his body. This does not mean you have to be a formal member of the Catholic Church to be saved. There is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism and Jesus himself said, ” He who is not with me [and my Church] is against me, and he who does not gather with me [and my Church] scatters.” Luke 11:23

So there is no inconsistency between pre and post Vatican II regarding Pope Innocent III’s quote as you claim that prior to Vatican II “we were damned” but after Vatican II “Protestants [can] be considered Christians now.” I


But, for one we are doing this to God’s infallible revelation whereas you are doing it to assumed infallible revelation of men, who said “Protestants are anathemized over and over again!!!” while 400 years later these men say: “Protestants are anathemized, but only in some extreme cases.”

Anyways, I agree with this what you wrote:

“In light of the beginning of Holy Week, I suggest that we take a break from our conversation and devote this week to prayer and deeper meditation of the Scripture’s and Christ’s sacrifice, as well as reflection on our conversation. I’m happy to approve your comments, but I do not plan to comment again until after Easter Sunday.”

Casey,
How many Rc’s even understand Arianism let alone if they can determine if they are interpreting Scripture likeexist in visible unity anymore. It doesn’t exist for almost a millennium now since the great Schism. So, the Catholic Church doesn’t view Protestant interpretation of Scripture as an errant one, but the Roman church does. Actually, the Ortodox church believes that the Roman church is errant even with regards to salvation (holding to theosis and rejecting the Purgatory and indulgences – see for example: http://www.ukrainian-orthodoxy.org/questions/2005/differences.htm). And while I do understand that both the RCC and OC would reject Protestantism, I personally believe that Protestantism of the Reformers explains and unites many things where RCC and OC differ. For example, it cherishes both the penal substitution of the West and the Theosis of the East (of course, in the sanctification not justification) in the doctrine of being united


to Christ through faith and the Spirit of God. Thus, Protestantism is the renewal of Catholic Christianity!

You do need to go outside of Scripture to defent the errant gospel of Rome that is against “sola Fide” as defined by Protestantism: “by faith alone but not by faith that is alone”! Paul talks about the first part and about the second part of “faith alone”, while James emphasizes the second part only!

But, where you are wrong is in saying that it is my interpretation that you are against. No, the Rome’s claim to authority makes you believe this, but in all actuality I must conclude that you are persuaded that, as you have yourself said (“Of those three, only scripture is inspired.”) the only source-material of faith that isactually inspired does not consist the whole Gospel that is needed for salvation! Now, if Rome could prove (and it cannot) that it does have the magisterial authority to interpret the Bible and set the beliefs for Christianity, that would be one thing. But, the Rome actually claims that it has both the right to interpret the Bible authoritatively AND to give us extra-biblical source-material that is needed for our salvation – now that is another thing! So, when Paul was writing to Romans, giving them his understanding of the Gospel, and yet the blessed Apostle never mentioned human works as helping us keep or attain grace or salvation through merit (“CCC 2027 No one can merit the initial grace which is at the origin of conversion. Moved


will continue to increase until the end of time.” The bishop of Rome, as the successor of the Apostle Peter, is the principle of unity and a sign of the visible Church. There have certainly been wounds to this unity (CCC 817-819), per your mention of Orthodox and Protestant ecclesial communities, but this does not fundamentally negate the Church’s catholicity.

You do need to go outside of Scripture to defent the errant gospel of Rome that is against “sola Fide” as defined by Protestantism: “by faith alone but not by faith that is alone”! Paul talks about the first part and about the second part of “faith alone”, while James emphasizes the second part only!

I’ve looked for where in scripture Paul teaches sola fide and haven’t yet found it.Rome!

You say:

“I’ve looked for where in scripture Paul teaches sola fide and haven’t yet found it.”

Actually, the testimony of Scripture, the testimony of Paul and James, is best explained not by RCC doctrine of faith + merit, but by Protestant doctrine of “faith alone that produces works as proof of faith.” Paul says: “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God!” (Eph 2:8ff) “For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.” (Rom 3:28) “Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the


conclusion you draw from them, namely, that salvation is by “faith alone,” and that works merit nothing.

Well, the canon exists by it’s very being Scripture. Scripture is Scripture whether any external authority determines that it is Scripture or not! It is so because Scripture is God’s Word, having God’s own authority. Paul’s letters didn’t become Scripture when Peter said they were (nor in the 4th century), but as soon as Paul penned them! It is like saying that God is not God until there is the Church to determine that He is! It is not the Church who determines what is and what isn’t Scripture, but the Scriptures determine what is and what isn’t the Church!

I think you may have misunderstood me. The Catholic Church does not believeto be justified by faith, without the works of the law).”

The Reformers were not just following their own opinions but Scripture and some of the leaders of the church.

with regards to LXX, since it differs from the canon hold by Jewish theologians in the Land, the burden of proof is on you that: (1) Jewish theologians in the Land who had only what would later be known “a Protestant canon” we wrong about it, and rejected the added books of LXX for wrong reasons; and (2) that Jewish diaspora when reading those books in the LXX were not using them in a different way than the canon strictly speaking, as devotional books that were useful but not inspired, useful but not inerrant.

In other words, it is not a


that time period, but it is my understanding that there was a general de facto acceptance of the LXX as the authoritative scripture across the Greek-speaking Jewish diaspora. Certainly there was debate over this in the first century, as others rejected the LXX and rather accepted only the Hebrew-language canon. As for the Church prior to the acceptance of a formalized canon, the fact that the Jesus and the NT writers cited the LXX as scripture would indicate that Christ, and subsequently apostolic authorities, recognized the LXX as the authoritative canon of scripture. And no, I did not say that the NT were not authoritative in and of themselves. I expressly said the opposite of this in #113. The writings of the NT are in and of themselvesto twist your words. Sorry if my way of explaining things does not meet your expectations, but if you will charge me with being uncharitable, you should then charge even your own council of Trent of being uncharitable, because when I read it it is clear to me that they are misreading and misinterpreting the Reformers at times (see for example O’Maileys (a Jesuit) book: Trent: What Happened at the Council, page 249 (available on Amazon for preview in the printed edition)). So, if your authoritative and inerrant council can speak in this way, have grace on me who am neither authoritative nor inerrant!

It’s very kind of you to apologize, and I recognize given that you’re still talking after these weeks that you take this conversation seriously; you


or people claim them to be from God. I presume you don’t believe they all are from God.

Scriptures have their inherent authority from the time they are written. This is why I say that the whole necessary deposit of the faith is given us in the Scriptures. And it is hard to prove beyond any doubt Sola Scriptura because the Scriptures were not the only authority in the time of the apostles and the prophets. But it is exactly because of the quality and the certainty of Scriptures that they are the only God’s Word that we have now. As we see in Ephesians 2:20, the church was founded on the apostles and prophets – and they left us with the Word of God in a written form.who expressly describes it) and see what they did by praying to the dead, which would necessarily inform our understanding of what was meant by the apostolic tradition of praying for the dead.

On the other hand, as a Protestant, even if a tradition is well documented and there is a great confidence that an Apostle actually did say something, it is not just that I want to reject that tradition, but it is more of a caution not to put it in the same authority as the Scriptures. Therefore, I can be enriched by that tradition in my understanding of a text or practice, but I as a pastor cannot tell my church: you ought to pray for the dead so they can escape the Purgatory, because I


but the Scriptures “which cannot be broken” (John 10:35). This gives us authoritative Scriptures (because God said that He will protect His Scriptures!) and only informative traditions to work with (thus, having the same attitude towards traditions that our Lord had!). And we use that which is authoritative and inspired (and thus infallible) to check, accept or reject that which is informative and uninspired (and thus infallible)!

On what basis do you believe that the Holy Spirit would give wisdom to the early Church to “recognize and protect the Scriptures”? I’m confused as to how you draw the conclusion that Jesus promised to ensure the early Church would authoritatively determine the contents based on John 10:35. That does not seem to follow. For starters, He’s talking about the Hebrewreal space, in real time, off the printed page. The Holy Spirit guided these events – Jesus didn’t leave His followers as orphans, but gave the Helper to lead them into all truth.

I understand (and applaud) your veneration of written revelation (Scripture), and your vigilant desire to test the spirits.

I am not saying that you need to change your mind about sola scriptura.

What I AM saying is that you should really, genuinely, honestly, humbly, and cautiously, consider the possibility that the Holy Spirit may have inspired written revelation (Scripture) AND apostolic teachings and practices (Tradition), and that the Holy Spirit may have found a way to preserve both for future generations.

If you are going to demand that everyone else prove their positions while playing by your rules (when


doesn’t say that they compared Paul’s message with Scriptures and thought he was wrong, but they basically rejected the message because they were jaleous that the Greeks were accepting Christ – this was almost ever the problem Jews had with Paul, as even in 1. Thess 1,14-15 Paul clearly said: “…the Jews,who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved.”

So, when he came to Berea, and these people accepted Paul’s Word (and it was prophetic and Apostolic, and not a mere oral tradition) they were commended for accepting it because they searched the Scriptures Paul was using to prove Jesus is the Christ. AndBereans, when it says that it can impress the traditions of men that are not only adding to the Scriptures, but that are against the very commandments of Scriptures (for example, the second commandment against making idols). And therefore, what I am doing here is just saying the same thing that Paul said in Galatians 1 that I don’t care if an Apostle or an Angel from heaven gives me an “oral tradition” or a new prophecy: if it’s another Gospel from the one that is given in the Scriptures, it’s false and anathematized!

Miro, you seem not to understand the meaning of Tradition as Catholics (Jesus, Apostles, Christians throughout history for over 1500 years+) understand it, here is what it means:

TRADITION

Literally a “handing on,” referring to the passing


lips of Christ, from His way of life and His works, or whether they had learned it by the prompting of the Holy Spirit” (Constitution on Divine Revelation, II, 7). (Etym. Latin traditio, a giving over, delivery, surrender; a handing down: from tradere, to give up.)

So when you say:

So, when he came to Berea, and these people accepted Paul’s Word (and it was prophetic and Apostolic, and not a mere oral tradition)

The very words of Paul (revelation handed down to those to whom he was speaking) is Tradition, not “mere
[t]radition.” Paul was not quoting Old Testament Scripture, he was explaining something in it which was not clearly stated or found in the OT. Even Jesus had to interpret Scripture to those on the road to Emmaus. This too2. Thess 2:15: “stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.” But, Paul also said in the penultimate verse of his epistle: “I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the sign of genuineness in every letter of mine; it is the way I write.” (3:17)
Therefore, my point is twofold:
(1) Thessalonians have actually heard words come out from Paul’s lips and these words and these alone were authoritative, in the same way that they were to listen and obey only those letters that they received from him that had this “sign of genuineness.” Therefore, when the church does not have this “sign of genuineness” for the oral traditions that they received from


to precipitate a religious crisis. No Muslim I know considers the Christian bible as even remotely inspired or of divine origin. My talk with a Muslim brother will not survive the very first exchange if I were to quote the Scriptures to him.

Now, Paul did not say to Bereans: just believe me, but he commended them for checking his message against the Scriptures!!!

The contrast in Acts 17 is between the open-minded Bereans and the hostile Thessalonians. Paul didn’t praise the Bereans for their skepticism but for their willingness and eagerness to follow his interpretive lead in reading the well-known Messianic prophecies in the new light of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

The Church never says “just believe me,” but instead she labors to provide biblical andThat is why the authentic interpretation of the Scriptures belongs to the Magisterium.

The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ. (emphasis added)

See also §67.

So the answer to your question is that we judge all alleged new revelation to be either private (relating to the person(s) who received it) or not as revelation at all. We have no obligations with respect to private revelations; the recipient(s) may.

You wrote that statutes of the RCC are not idols, but sacred images.
Well, first of all, the Bible forbids both idols (1. John 5:21) and icons/images (Rom 1:23):
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or


true? If Christ tells St Gertrude that “that 1000 souls would be released from purgatory each time it is said devoutly” doesn’t that mean 1000 souls will be released out of purgatory?

I cannot see how these two things relate, but I did think later that I shouldn’t have written that, especially since this is a thread about Jason’s life and it was him that wrote.
Sorry Jason!

I respect anyone who can apologize :-)

The two things relate because we get tired of being told over and over and over that we worship Mary. We deny it every time, but that does not stop the next guy from making the same tired accusation. So it is tedious, as repeating yourself in a combox for every new participant (I totally agree withMary in the privacy of my room but loudly deny her in public. What kind of worship is that?

I have never met or heard of a Catholic who said they worship Mary. Never.

Are “private revelations” true? If Christ tells St Gertrude that “that 1000 souls would be released from purgatory each time it is said devoutly” doesn’t that mean 1000 souls will be released out of purgatory?

I know of no obligation for any Catholic with respect to private revelation, except the recipient. Even if the Magisterium declares a private revelation to be “worthy of belief” (see here), Catholics are not obliged to believe them.

Personally I know nothing about a revelation given to St. Gertrude, and so I have no opinion about the matter.

Catholics agree that the Bible teaches


Jesus was born. There is nothing in the OT that forbade the virgin to have children after the birth of the Messiah and there was no command from the angel or God that forbade her from having children after the birth of Christ. There is no reason to think they did not have normal sexual relations after Jesus was born and were blessed by God with many children.
Note this Psalm 127 on this issue:
” 3 Behold, children are a gift of the LORD,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.

4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.

5 How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them;
They will not be ashamed
When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Points 2matter; 2) Joseph understands from the angel’s message to him that he is not to have sexual intercourse with Mary (Matt. 1:25); 3) Mary’s perplexed response to the angel’s message (Lk. 1:34).

Protestant scholars have no problem accepting that Mary had other children.

Obviously.

No Greek lexicon of the NT shows that (Kittel, 1964, 1:144) “a broadened meaning for adelphos (to refer to a cousin) does not exist in the New Testament.”

If protestants have no problem accepting that Mary had other children, this linguistic conclusion is consistent with that assumption.

then were these leaders of the early church — ” Tertullian (Early third century)
Jovinianus (Late third century) Victorinus, bishop of Petavium (Early fourth century) Helvidius (late fourth century) considered heretics?

Here’s what St. Jerome says in his tract Against Helvidius (c. A.D. 383):

Now


good will. Asserting that we adore Mary while we consistently deny it does not manifest mutual respect and good will. Asserting that faith in the ongoing guidance of the Church by the action of the Holy Spirit is akin to belonging in a cult does not help mutual understanding.

In a later post (under the Perpetual Virginity thread) I will try to restate your arguments. I would ask you try to do the same with ours, and assess the accuracy of my restating your arguments.

Out of curiosity, could you elaborate on how you became satisfied with, not only the Marian doctrines (Immaculate Conception, Assumption, divine motherhood), for even some non-Catholics can hold to this, but also the dogmatic nature of these doctrines. In particular, how is it that youmanagement. He was given additional responsibility for development in 1987.

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Inland also announced appointments in three of its subsidiary companies.

Inland Mortgage Corp. has promoted Patricia McClain from controller to treasurer, Douglas S. Gannett to assistant vice president for


rather than having to do this manually, will the 'Set Default Grade' option accept an 'EX'? In the case of adding a penalty column, most all of my students would be receiving an EX score.

I am not 100% confident about your being able to remove the rule, Kimberly, and here's why: Community member Kat Elgen discovered that including EX in an assignment group had Canvas dropping the EX grade! You can read about that here: Excusing a student from assignment *and* dropping the lowest score? However, further experimentation (by me) just now shows that this might have been corrected and that Canvas is now removing BOTH the EX grade as well as the (other) lowest score from an assignment group with a drop lowest score rule. So maybecolumns one or a couple of students may need to keep a zero while the other's scores would be available to drop if it were their lowest.

I was experimenting and think that I may have found a way to tell Canvas to do this, without having to turn off the drop rule for everyone. I tested this in one of my Canvas sandbox courses and it appears to calculate correctly, but I do have some reservations about suggesting it to others and was hoping that some of the folks in the Community, like Ken Black, could weigh in with any thoughts about unintended consequences.

Here is what I did. I had a test student where I indicated a "0" for the grade I wanted to remain a zero and


it in the case of these two students, who also received a 0 on the final quiz:

Thanks Ken Black for bringing it to my attention that this conversation was taking place in two different posts. I like the workaround that you have created Eric Werth, and the suggestion by Ken to simply use a -1. I just tested it, with the same results, in a Sandbox course, and I am going to borrow this as a solution for instructors who need to indicate cheating but do not want to lose the desired action provided by the drop the lowest score setting.

Thank you both for checking! I made the feature request as well because while this may work, a way to indicate to keep a score in the gradebookOne thing I always say, before arguments begin, is that no two people with the same givens can come to a different conclusion with logic. If we’re going to have rational discussions, and we define “rational” to be adjacent to “logical”, we have a duty to set ideology aside and establish the givens, and determine the truth of the case, before we ever get into discussing the plan. Anything less is an exercise in denial.

We all know that “denial” is not just a river in Egypt. But the funny thing about denial in the gun policy debate, is that that very river in Egypt can show us a path to making actual sense of the gun policy debate, and coming to an actual resolution. This is wild, bear


agree on the givens before they started negotiating the policy. And that’s what Georgia Tech gave them.

There’s also a funny story about how GT beat out the United States Geological Survey on this task by building a better climate model with artificial neural networks in Visual Basic instead of complex physical modeling on Cray supercomputers, but you’ll need to buy me a beer to hear that one.

Here’s an image of the Nile Decision Support Tool (DST), a blended network of DSS tools for different regions on the same backbone:

This is one of the key features of water management of the Nile, and an example for the world going forward as our water resources become more strained. It avoided innumerable projectile chairs. It may have possibly avoided projectile rocketsST_UB4(dst0, dst1, dst2, dst3, dst, dst_stride);
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the judgment must be reversed.
Garrett was a prosecution for murder under the felony murder rule as set forth in V.T.C.A., Sec. 19.02(a)(3). There, the defendant pointed a weapon at the victim. The State prosecuted the defendant under the felony murder rule and alleged that while he was in the course of committing the offense of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and in the furtherance of the commission of that offense he committed an act clearly dangerous to human life, namely, pulling a loaded pistol out of his pocket which in turn caused the death of the victim.
The judgment in Garrett was reversed. This Court noted that the felony murder rule calls for the transfer of intent from one criminal act to another. It was found that thedefendant's conviction could not stand because the aggravated assault and the act resulting in the homicide were one and the same. It was therefore held that in order for the evidence to be sufficient to support a conviction under the felony murder rule, there must be a showing of felonious criminal conduct other than the assault which causes the homicide.
In the instant cause, the indictment alleges and the proof shows that appellant was engaged in felonious criminal conduct, namely, felony criminal mischief at the time the deceased was killed. Therefore, as required in Garrett, there was a showing of felonious criminal conduct other than the assault which caused the homicide. Unlike Garrett, appellant's act of felony criminal mischief in shooting at the house and the resulting homicide of


appellant contends that there is no evidence to show that he "intentionally and knowingly" caused the death of his daughter. The State argues that when he fired through the door appellant intended to kill his former wife and that felonious intent transferred over to the killing of the child. We agree.
V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Section 6.04(b)(2), provides as follows:
"(b) A person is nevertheless criminally responsible for causing a result if the only difference between what actually occurred and what he desired, contemplated, or risked is that:
(2) a different person or property was injured, harmed, or otherwise affected."
The jury was charged on the law of transferred intent.
Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict of guilty, we find the evidence sufficient to show that appellant was actingbut, instead, "a bodily movement, whether voluntary or involuntary, and includes speech." Under the facts in Garrett, supra, the defendant's pointing his pistol at the store clerk constituted the offense of aggravated assault, see V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Section 22.02(a)(4), and under Section 19.02(a)(3), supra, his pulling of the trigger constituted bodily movement, and was thus an independent "act." Thus, the defendant in Garrett v. State, supra, was properly charged and convicted of the offense of felony murder. Thus, in Garrett, supra, there were two separate and independent acts.
The panel decision of Garrett, supra, gains no strength by this Court's later decision of Ex parte Easter, 615 S.W.2d 719 (Tex.Cr.App.1981), in which this Court expressly held that "an indictment alleging felony murder was not fundamentally defective so as to


that in the course of and in furtherance of the commission of either felony criminal mischief appellant committed or attempted to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that caused the death of Elizabeth. What intervening, independent act did the State establish that appellant committed or attempted to commit after he had committed the felony criminal mischiefs? I have carefully searched the record for evidence of an intervening, independent act and conclude that I must answer the question in the negative. By the very terms of Section 19.02(a)(3), supra, the death causing act must be in addition to the predicate felony offense, in order to elevate the degree of culpability to that accorded the offense of first degree murder. As previously noted, Section 19.02(a)(3), supra, is notUnexpected insert You won't be guessing what this dildo looks like Jun.17

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with her utter faith in goodness, she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.” Tagore ended the letter, as a poet would, with a verse: “Give me the faith of the life in death, of the victory in defeat, of the power hidden in the frailness of beauty, of the dignity of pain that accepts hurt but disdains to return it.” Prose is ever the ‘doer’, poetry the ‘artist’. And so this letter and the line just cited cannot hope to compete with Tagore’s much-quoted poem ‘Where the mind is without fear…’. But taken for itself, this sentence has to rank among the greatest expressions in prose of truth’s protest against power. Certain words, poetic word-images, in that line are scorching: death,fit for human beings.” And he asked of the Viceroy, “relieve me of the title of knighthood”.

Solidarity with suffering, especially when it is spontaneous, takes many forms. One is sharing by renunciation. Tagore’s self-divestment of the title, then perhaps the most coveted, of ‘Sir’ was an act of spontaneous solidarity with the suffering of Delhi, of Amritsar. And it was a chastisement, in Tagore’s words, of the “arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit”.

The martyrs of Jallianwala beckon this generation, all of us, including India and Indians, Pakistan and Pakistanis, Bangladesh and Bangladeshis, Myanmar and Myanmarese, not just Britain, to give human freedom respect, human beings dignity, human rights recognition. Looking around them at those slain — Hindu with Dalit among them, Sikh and Muslim — the


In 1948, the concrete deck was replaced with steel grating. During 1982, bicycle access was improved through an $18,000 signal and sidewalk upgrade. In order to improve access and reduce energy costs, the sidewalks and lighting were replaced in 2000–2001. The Lovejoy Ramp, the long viaduct to and from 14th Avenue, was removed in 1999 as part of a $12.4 million reconstruction, intended to open up the site of the by-then-abandoned railroad yards for redevelopment. It was rebuilt as a much shorter Lovejoy ramp, from 9th Avenue, which opened in May 2002. A $28 million renovation began in February 2003. Included in this was the replacement of steel grating with a fiber-reinforced polymer composite material called DuraSpan, made by Martin Marietta Materials. The renovation was completed in Februaryclear that meeting with an adversary, probably our greatest adversary at the moment, at least in the president’s mind, is not viewed as a concession,” said DiMaggio, who was the subject of a Nation profile last year. “So, this is a welcome turn to diplomacy, to resolve the whole range of issues we have with Pyongyang.”

The outcome, however, is far from certain. Despite strong statements of intent from both sides to resolve their 70-year standoff, there is still a considerable gap between the US demands for Kim to rapidly disarm and North Korea’s desire for an end to what it defines as America’s “hostile policy.”

To the North, that policy encompasses the US nuclear weapons carried on its armada of warships and bombers in the Asia region; the biting


in 1994, agreed with this process at the 38 North briefing this week. “Those of us who have been involved in negotiations know everything doesn’t happen all at once,” he said. “It’s going to happen over a period of time.”

But this step-by-step approach—which is strongly endorsed by President Moon—has drawn sharp criticism from Washington hawks. For the most part, the think-tank intelligentsia and North Korea “experts” believe that an agreement to end the war would be premature if it comes before Kim Jong-un has completely, and irreversibly, denuclearized.

The most prominent of those critics has been Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic and International Studies—the man Trump almost appointed to be US ambassador to South Korea just a few months ago. Cha set his preferred tone on Junethe organization said a statement released Thursday afternoon.

“Complete denuclearization will take time,” Ploughshares continued, “the physical process of eliminating the North’s nuclear and missile arsenal and infrastructure would take years, as would the political process of building the necessary confidence between the parties. All told, this process may take five years or more.”

Given the impatience in Washington with Trump’s policies, that could be a tall order. But whatever Trump and Kim decide in Singapore, the highest-level talks in US-North Korean history will be a milestone for two countries that have been locked in conflict since North Korea was founded as a separate state in 1948. Democratic hawks and think-tank militants may not like that engagement process, but many Americans, along with millions of people in Korea and around


possible rotation states. Moreover, we find that most initial conditions will drive the planet towards the configuration at present seen at Venus, albeit through two very different evolutionary paths. The first is the generally accepted view whereby the spin axis flips direction. But we have also found that it is possible for Venus to begin with prograde rotation (the same direction as the other planets) yet then develop retrograde rotation while the obliquity goes towards zero: a rotation of the spin axis is not necessary in this case.Waste, fraud and abuse… that's what a whistleblower says they saw first-hand at the Bay Pines VA Hospital in St. Petersburg.

And when she reported it all, instead of taking action against the reported wrongdoing, she says she faced retaliation.

“I would go 4 to 6 hours sitting at my desk surfing the internet,” said Linda Madero.

Madero says her typical work day at Bay Pines VA Hospital involved very little work.

“Everybody seemed to be fine with me sitting there doing nothing,” she said.

Madero was not used to being bored when she started work at Bay Pines.

During 15 years in the U.S. Army, she worked as a medical technician, including in elite units created to prevent outbreaks of deadly diseases like Ebola and defend against biological attacks.

In 2012, Madero came highly


terminal and transported same across the street to a refrigerated warehouse for unpacking. As he opened the door of the container, he claims that 20 to 30 cartons of frozen beef fell out of the container onto his body, striking him and causing injuries. His complaint alleges that these injuries were caused by the negligent, careless or improper stacking of the boxes by defendants in the container. He alleges essentially that defendant Weddel loaded the ocean container with its beef products in New Zealand and delivered the sealed container to defendant A.C.T. for shipping to A.C.T.'s Port Philadelphia terminal in Gloucester, New Jersey, and that Weddel's allegedly negligent stacking of the container in New Zealand caused his injuries when he opened the container at the end of itsin obtaining the most efficient resolution of controversies, and the shared interest of the several States in furthering fundamental substantive social policies." Id. 471 U.S. at 477, 105 S.Ct. at 2184 (quoting World-Wide Volkswagen, 444 U.S. at 292, 100 S.Ct. at 564).
As a preliminary proposition, jurisdiction is not proper if the connection between the defendant and the State of New Jersey is found to be the "result of `random,' `fortuitous,' or `attenuated' contacts." Id. 471 U.S. at 475, 105 S.Ct. at 2183 (citations omitted). Therefore, plaintiffs, as the party with the burden of proving the existence of personal jurisdiction, must demonstrate more than "random," "fortuitous," or "attenuated" contacts with the State of New Jersey by defendant Weddel.
The Third Circuit has distinguished between "personal jurisdiction in cases where the


the more stringent standards applicable where general jurisdiction is asserted, as it is the very conduct of Weddel at issue in this case which is alleged to implicate the purposeful availment by Weddel of the forum state, New Jersey.
In support of its motion, Weddel submits an affidavit executed by its secretary, David Martin Follett-Clarke which, if unrebutted, might raise insurmountable obstacles to this court's assertion of personal jurisdiction over *638 it. Weddel asserts that it does not engage in the sale or distribution of its products outside of New Zealand and Fiji. Follett-Clarke Aff. ¶ 5. It further testifies through Mr. Follett-Clarke that it does not do business in New Jersey; that it does not advertise or market its products in New Jersey; that its only offices andWeddel believed those ships only landed in Pennsylvania, it could not be said to have undertaken purposeful activities with respect to New Jersey.[2] On the other hand, if Weddel did engage in a course of conduct of shipping its products via A.C.T./Blue Star to the United States, and if it also knew that A.C.T./Blue Star shipments landed in New Jersey, such conduct would appropriately be characterized as a purposeful availment of the forum state, New Jersey.
Conflicting evidence has been presented to the court on this point. The affidavit submitted by A.C.T./Blue Star contains the following statement:
During the period 1985 through October 1, 1991, all ACT/Pace Line shipments which were destined for "Philadelphia" were in fact discharged in Gloucester, New Jersey. This fact is well known to Weddel Crown


forth evidence to make out a prima facie case because it is ultimately the plaintiff's burden to show that jurisdiction exists. Id. at 457 (citing Provident Nat'l. Bank v. California Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n, 819 F.2d 434, 437 (3d Cir.1987)). Thus, for purposes of the present motion, prior to trial and prior to a conducting an evidentiary hearing, "once the plaintiff has met the burden and established a prima facie case of jurisdiction, that suffices, regardless of any controverting presentation by the moving party, to defeat the motion." Id. at 458.
Considering the evidence presented in the light most favorable to plaintiff, I find that the requisite prima facie showing of personal jurisdiction over Weddel has been made. Accepting as true (1) the implication in the Schultz affidavit,for a mistake concerning the identity of the proper party, the action would have been brought against the party.
Fed.R.Civ.P. 15(c)(3). Weddel's argument seems to be that only subdivision (c)(3) applies to an amendment concerning the naming of a party, and that subdivision (c)(3) cannot save the amended complaint because of the notice requirement. However, the comments to Rule 15(c)(1) and existing case law do not bear out Weddel's contentions.
The Advisory Committee notes to Rule 15(c)(1) make no reference to any such limitation to the terms of the amendment, but rather provide:

*643 This provision is new. It is intended to make it clear that the rule does not apply to preclude any relation back that may be permitted under the applicable limitations law. Generally, the applicable limitations law will


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