fairly long, but I think there's a lot of meat here for us to think about.
So you want to be on the desktop?
A Linux programming call to arms.
How would you like to see Linux PC's for sale at your local general retailer?
experience building end user products for the traditional Mac/WinTel consumer.
popular, open-source desktop application software is available.
forget, and what they remember.
but because you already know what it says.
they are available in a competitive time frame.
by referring to some points out of Eric's writings that I will use later on.
community, is very close to snatching defeat from the very jaws of victory.
Chapter 1: Eric Raymond's Writings.
Chapter 3: The Big Myths.
Chapter 4: What to do about it.
Chapter 5: How Microsoft does it.
Praise your users for work that they do.
Let your users find the bugs.
The programs interface should be well structured to its intended purpose.
If the product becomes useful enough, it could become a "category killer".
developers who even now are gearing up to capture control of the Linux desktop.
purposes of this paper...most importantly, the term "user".
execution to user "ramping up time" and speed of user.
and needs of the ultimate of programming achievements...the human brain.
the Freaking Manual" on the human to computer interface. Fear not! Here it is.
myths that we must get rid of before we proceed.
Myth #1 We must evangelize the "All information should be free" concept.
present it to them in a way that attracts instead of repels them.
their works as intellectual property. Does that make the publisher greedy?
accustomed to. Now I published this paper the way I did for my own reasons.
it. However the end user does not have a vision about this.
have a somewhat more limited model we use called "freeware" or "public domain"
Myth #2 Computer users should read the manual.
used to say, "if at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions".
cost Apple millions in lost sales of Power PC computers.
Myth #3 Users are stupid.
One of my favorite Dilbert comics was while Dogbert was running for President.
idiots that I encounter, I will just shake my paw at them and say `Bah'".
them idiots". "Bah" said Dogbert...shaking his paw.
techs like us frequently seem to have about the user base.
what would they need us for?
travel in one? Of course not.
Myth #4 Marketing is slime.
since teachers are hired more for their teaching skill than for what they know.
spend their time working what will sell.
and marketing folks will suddenly love Linux (but for their own slimy reasons).
and put a Linux box on their desk instead of aMac.
Myth #5 Size and speed.
the most important part, they do not care about speed that they do not notice.
In short, they do not care about speed for the sake of speed itself.
call it a de-facto standard.
somewhat rapidly from time to time as new inventions open new possibilities.
little of the background screen objects as possible.
messing up the stuff that works the way they like it.
seen before, have wished that they had, and that seems to solve new problems.
Microsoft used to serve this user need better than they have lately.
be entertaining to some degree.
products based on speed and code size.
constitutes a useful GUI. This is often based on familiarity alone.
We need to do for the user with Linux what Windows is currently doing for them.
the average desktop user cares about the most.
the strength Unix has at the third, forth, and fifth layers will win the game.
be over. If you don't do it, then someone you don't like will.
and color, is still round and still bounces in almost exactly the same way.
interfaces (except that the Mac lacks the ever-useful command shell prompt).
"If you want to enter the Windows-like environment, type startx below".
sometimes requiring experimentation or doc searching to figure them out.
done faster with the some other system.
brainless "minimum questions asked" install mode.
and pressing ENTER at every step throughout nearly all of the install process.
an option as well, but as the exception rather than the rule.
popular choices, in some instantly and brainlessly available form.
passing to a subroutine to customize the lookup to the docs for that object).
television commercial break. This is no coincidence.
functionality clearly in docs that the user does not have to go find.
should appear in screen pop-ups resembling what HTML does with ALT tags.
and consistent in most details. The radical differences between the "old"
the open-source model in some interesting ways. No you say? Read on.
learned and died trying to fight. They were simply to closed-minded to succeed.
is Microsoft's favored GUI development environment, Visual Basic.
object for quick menu" very shortly became a popular feature among the users.
menu code to the new quick-menu object.
often they get the first copy of the patch as well.
the one here described spend most of their time waiting for the user anyway.
user's actual opinion of the speed of the product.
to wait so they can find and smooth out a few more bugs before they release?
already done to their competitors by product development and release strategy.
You think you hate Microsoft? Stand in line.
before with other small computers that others were inventing at that time.
there, and will take control of your platform.
Please forward this anywhere you think it would be helpful.
use it just so I can know what effect it is having.


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Q: Adding a single field adds a lot of seconds to page generation time I know in this case I must then customize storing/updating data. No problem in this side.
I m adding this field
    $this->crud->addField([
        'label' => 'Denominazione',
        'type' => 'text',
        'tab' => 'Cliente/Richiedente',
        'name' => 'customer.name',
        'wrapper' => ['class' => 'form-group col-md-6'],
        'attributes' => [
            'class' => 'form-control text-uppercase'
        ]
    ]);

The entity being edited is a Practice
Practice has a 1:1 relationship to Customer
public function customer()
{
    return $this->hasOne(Customer::class, 'practice_id');
}

and customer has the field named name
What I'm diong works perfectly but the problem is that adding this field, bring page load time from <3 sec to >9 second
I've only 1 record in practices table and only 1 record in customers table
customer.practice_id point to practice.id and is a foreign key in the db
I think i'm doing something wrong here, and I don't know why it's adding so much time to load a single field !
Notes

I am using debug bar for laravel, so I've execution time of ALL queries. The problem is NOT a slow query.
adding field to a different tab doesn't change; removing tabs at all doesn't change execution time; removing this specific field removes 8 seconds of 9 total execution. Why ?!
I'm using latest version of backpack, 5.3.5, with also a paid Pro package
Also note I'm not using a TONS of views
With the field

Without  the field

A: I was unable to reproduce that specific issue.
I've create a CRUD, added 2 Fields (one text and other hasOne.relation_attribute), with or without the hasOne field the load times are similar. 200ms/350ms
From the issue you described I would expect atleast for it to go to 1 second or something similar when I added the hasOne relation

The times are very similar, if I refresh the page some more times I get less loading time with the hasOne field that with only the text field.
If you use the hasOne relation in any other crud you can notice the same behavior? Or is it only in this specific CRUD?
I tried it also in our demo, specifically the MonsterCrud that has ALOT of fields and it's not optimized. Removing the hasOne fields from there has not the impact you are describing here.
If you change the field place instead of deleting, same happens ?
Cheers

A: I opened an issue on backpack crud to full document my timings. I found 'where' the issue is in the backpack code, but NOT WHY. And also, I've no idea on how to make it reproducible
The problem is when internally backpack try to 'guess' the default field name of a relationship.
By my knowledge, the implementation is not optimized, but has no problem, but a specific call causes 7 seconds of 'hang'
That said, I found 2 workarounds

*

*Adding a attribute field to each field coming from a relationship

*(instead of 1.) Adding in each models a public function identifiableAttribute() returning the default field name for a model, just to avoid at all the calling of that code

So

*

*I'am not sure if it's not a strange bug of framework, backpack or php, but 2 of my coworkers, with same code, has same problem, but, we cannot reproduce in no other project, so it's of course due to a moltitude of factors we cannot understand

*Is there 2 workarounds and now our code bring a full monster page on < 1 second

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Cracks have appeared in the bubble of invincibility of BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership with the victory of the alliance between SP (Samajwadi Party ) and BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) in Gorakhpur and Phulpur by polls. Worsening it further, RJD won Araria and Jehanabad in Bihar.
Currently, where there is still no such leader but the opposition parties are trying to find another solution—not one leader but one front of all opposition parties. The victory of the SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh has proved that such an alliance can beat the relentless Modi wave.
Narendra Modi tried to force the elections away by breaking into backward and Dalit vote banks of other parties. But the victory of the SP-BSP alliance and the RJD shows vote banks controlled by regional parties have not completely destroyed. It can be the biggest challenge to Modi's trademark presidential-style electoral campaign where everything gets smaller in from of his personality and performance.
Sonia Gandhi, UPA Chairperson yesterday hosted leaders of 20 opposition parties to create a joint front against the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections Next year. Shiv Sena has declared it would fight the next elections alone while the Shiromani Akali Dal has expressed its dissatisfaction with the BJP.
Further, Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the ruling party of Andhra Pradesh is already parting ways with BJP. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), BJP ally has floated the idea of a non-BJP, non-Congress third front.
It's high time for BJP to get on the ground and gather regional leaders to gain the faith of local people, and also solve grievances with all alliances.


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Four people standing on a rock probably in the late 1800s in Grinnell, Iowa. The verso reads: "Anna, we had these kodac pictures taken while Minnie was here. Lou says he's sorry he hadn't shaved. I tried to get him too but he put it off so now he says he didn't know he did look so ugly. I guess you will know us." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #54, Doris Losey (Krumm).
Gathering of Grinnellians
Gathering of Grinnellians in a park. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Hodgdon Sons
Cabinet card of the three Hodgdon sons in about 1890 when they lived in Grinnell, Iowa. From left to right: George E. Hodgdon, Charles R. Hodgdon, and William S. Hodgdon. Photo by Riley & Sherraden, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Jud Lea
Portrait by Kester of a man, possibly by the name of Jud Lea. Verso of photo is inscribed: To W.H. Mort, Order No. 7, Knife No. 188, Jud Lea. Grange Agent, Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Mrs. A. L. Child
Ella Stone Worsham was born in Muscatine, Iowa, and was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago. She came to Grinnell, Iowa, to be a finisher and retoucher in the Child Art Rooms. In 1885 she married the proprietor of the studio, Arthur Leon Child. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Mumpford Holland Driving a Wagon
Two images of Mumpford Holland. In the top image he is driving his wagon; the bottom image is a portrait. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
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Portrait of Mumpford Holland. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
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View looking northeast at the corner of 4th Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. There is a parade of soldiers carrying flags and others. Horses and carriages as well as electrical lines are visible. A large clock labeled "H.P. Proctor" is in the foreground as is a sign for "S.W. Belden Clothing." The Old Stone Church is visible in the background as are Stewart Library and the high school (both partially obscured). Central Park is to the right. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
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Service at the Congregational Church, also known as the Old Stone Church, in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
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The Grown-Up Test: Bonnie Langford
Gemma Calvert / 18 February 2019
The actress and dancer is starring in West End show 9 to 5 The Musical and turns 55 in July. But how old is she in her head?
gemma calvert
Worst hairstyle?
I've had plenty! The 1980s was probably my worst hairstyle, for the entire decade! I went from having so much hair I looked like a Tressy doll – I had tons of natural curly hair and I'm quite small, 5ft 1in. My hair came into the room before I did. In 1989/1990 I wanted a change, so I went to the other extreme and chopped it off to half an inch at the back. It was a nightmare because in those days we didn't have lovely things like straighteners, so it bounced up like I'd got my fingers in the electric sockets. These days it's mid-length. I've found a happy medium!
What was the last public complaint or protest you made?
I don't really publicly protest about anything. I give people a chance, but I will complain if they're doing a shoddy job, just because they're lazy. That said, I can't remember the last time I said 'that's not good enough'.
What did turning 50 mean for you?
Nothing much. Far too much emphasis is put on a number when it's about the person inside, what you're doing and where you're at in your life. There is no standard 'you have to behave like this' or 'you're physically like this' because of the number that goes beside your life. Unfortunately, when somebody has passed and you see their birth date and leaving date, it's really a quick dash. You never know what's coming. I know it means you can be part of Saga, which is a lovely benefit, but age isn't something you should concentrate on.
What's the last good deed you did for the planet?
I feel like a terrible person because I don't know. I'm environmentally friendly and I do lovely walks and appreciate the planet. I don't have a garden, I live in a flat in London with a balcony and I can't keep anything alive on it. I have two orchids in my house, which I've managed to keep alive. That's the important part because orchids are so difficult to grow.
What do you wear around the house?
My pyjamas, dressing gown and slippers. I've been rehearsing for 9 to 5 The Musical and doing a show at night so it's all been a bit mad. Generally, I go home and go to sleep.
Celebrities to see in West End theatre productions
Home or away?
I like to go away on holiday somewhere warm. In the summer, I rushed over to New York and visited friends and my niece who lives there and did some shopping, but I'm a bit of a Cancerian and I like to nest at home. I do so much away with my job, when I'm home I like to be quiet.
When did you last stand naked in front of someone?
I've just finished 42nd Street and people are running round half-naked most of the time so you just do. I also get spray tans and although you wear paper knickers, they don't do much, do they?
What single thing would make getting older easier?
A foam roller because you can roll out the lactic acid and knots in your muscles and legs, which makes you more supple. Also having a weekly deep-tissue or shiatsu massage, which I try to do. When I'm in a show and singing a lot, I try to get a vocal massage to realign my neck and shoulders and massage around my jaw, sinuses and voice box. It's not necessarily pleasant, but it's really freeing. You feel so released and open afterwards that it can give you a bit of a head in the clouds feeling. We hold so much of our emotions and energies in our bodies and don't even realise it.
What makes you really grumpy?
When I've not had enough sleep, when I'm not organised and on top of things and I can't bear being late. Also, people who don't listen or pay attention to other people, people who are blinkered and don't show respect and kindness for others. It's day-to-day ignorance – people walking along the street five abreast and you can't get past, not putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, people who are just completely oblivious to others. People can be incredibly single-minded. It takes nothing to be polite and kind.
What's the bad habit you can't break?
I'm being quite good because I'm not eating chocolate at the moment, which is generally a bad habit. Vocally, it's not very good for you and I'm also feeling very tired and I'm very bad at going for sugary, sweet snacks. Most people will go 'I'm doing a full detox'. I can't do that at the moment – life's too difficult – but I will cut out something that's easy to eliminate. Then you go for the chocolate and think 'no, I've been without it for a few days, I can do this. It's fine'. Other than that, I probably talk too much.
Name two people from the past you'd like to sit next to at dinner
One would be my father who is no longer with us. He was a strong, stable and quiet man and very much the anchor of my family. Often, he didn't share his thoughts and I would love to know what he was thinking. He took over from his father's business because that's what was expected and I don't think he got to do the job he really wanted to do. I [also] don't think he got to enjoy his retirement because he got dementia. Another person I'd like to sit down with is Angela Lansbury, who I worked with on a production in London called Gypsy when I was eight years old. I was taken to America for a year with the show and she was a great role model. She is to this day. She has a wonderful work ethic and a wonderful life ethic. She's utterly professional but also utterly personable and seemingly authentic. She's 93 and still working, still on it, still very much of today. The loveliest people are the ones who have the most experience because they don't have anything to prove.
Angela Lansbury talks Blithe Spirit
Who or what is your greatest love?
My daughter [Biana Grunert]. She's 18 and it's just wonderful to watch her grow. As a mum, you learn about yourself, other people, how to support and do the best you can. You don't get it right, you learn how to make terrible mistakes and you get over it. It's a working relationship because you're both growing so much. People used to say to me 'How do you keep fit?' and I went 'I don't actually keep fit, I just run after my daughter!'
What is the best thing you consider you've done?
Be a mum. That was my proudest moment. I always wanted to be a mum. I've never had a bucket list or a fixed vision. I've always had ambitions and goals but never said 'I want this by the time I'm 25'. I just wanted to see what life threw at me, but I did want to have a child and I didn't want to get to that point where I'd left it too late. I was an older mother – I had her when I was 35. I was so blessed.
Favourite tipple?
I've never been a drinker. It doesn't interest me. I don't like it. I'm not a judgmental person who disapproves, but I like to enjoy myself and still remember what happened the next day.
School prefect or school terror?
Prefect. I'm sorry. I was a bit of a good girl! I was actually a prefect at Italia Conti [The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts] in London. I liked to support the teachers and the pupils and be there if somebody needed any help with anything. I was one of those people who would listen.
Biggest regret?
I choose not to have regrets. They can make you bitter, which becomes a magnet and you're on a downward spiral. There have been difficult moments in my life and challenges, but if I hadn't done things that way, then I wouldn't have learned those lessons. In marriages, when things don't go according to plan, it's very hard for everyone involved and you just try to make it as straightforward as possible and try not to hurt too much – other people or yourself [Bonnie split from her husband of 20 years Paul Grunert in 2015]. Generally my main focus on that has always been my daughter. Whatever is best for her, I will be there.
Spring, summer, autumn or winter?
Spring. It's full of hope, the nights are getting warmer and there's lots of lovely colours.
Moment you felt you were finally adult?
When I bought my first property in London in 1993 and started paying the bills. I felt more of an adult when I was younger. I was very much in adult situations and didn't want anyone to say 'she's very good for her age' - age should not be an excuse. When I was in Gypsy with Angela, the director, Arthur Laurents – he wrote things like Westside Story as well – there were seven kids in the show and we were called 'small adults' because we were expected to be adult and behave in a certain way. We had fun with the company, but we weren't a separate entity and all of us rose to that challenge. I had less of a laugh when I was younger because I wanted to be accepted as being competent and professional. Now I will have a lot more fun and be a lot more stupid.
Last time you laughed till you cried?
All the time. I get quite hysterical about things and do laugh until I cry, generally with my daughter. Her friends think I'm an idiot because she's always filming me doing something daft. Once I was trying to wrestle with a duvet cover and ended up inside it, which was highly amusing for her and slightly claustrophobic for me! She's got enough to make a YouTube channel but, fortunately, she only shares them with her friends.
How laughter is good for health
Your hope for the future?
Health, happiness and that people start to listen to each other. So many people don't get heard and we all need to make a bit more time. I heard myself yesterday going 'I haven't got time!' That's bad. I need to make time because you never know when it will stop.
Bonnie can be silly, guffaws until she cries but loves her PJs and still works as hard as she did 46 years ago. With this much positivity and fun in her heart, she is a young 40 in her head.
Top pop and rock shows of the 1960s
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Bob Geldof talks to Saga Magazine
Marianne Faithfull - cleaning up her act
Joanna Lumley: a mistress of modesty
The Grown-Up Test: Tony Hadley
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Welcome to GB Bodywork - Clinic of Alternative Medicine.
I strongly believe that process of healing, especially most of chronic diseases consist of full complex of the above list. Also, changing ones' lifestyle is one of the indispensable requirement to stay on right track to healing and not to let chronic condition return after treatment is completed.
1. At least 3 month of procedures (acupuncture, herbs, massage, exercise, diet…) to start feeling the difference.
2. Each year of having chronic condition takes (costs) one month of treatment. For instance: if you have digestive problem for 6 years, expect to stay on strict regime and treatment for 6 months. And if you don't want the condition return, change your lifestyle for good and enjoy good health.
If you are ready to do your part for path to permanent healing, it will be our pleasure to do our part and help you maintain your health with our treatment and sharing the benefits from Eastern and Folk Medicine like Qi Gong, self massage, Su Jok, exercises and dietary supplements.


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Driver Survives After Plunging Into Northern California River
"I'm still in disbelief that he was still alive," a sheriff's diver told an NBC affiliate
A man survived for hours trapped in his upside-down car after it plunged into a frigid Northern California river, officials said.
California Highway Patrol officials in Yreka said 28-year-old Michael Finn breathed from a pocket of air inside his vehicle until he was rescued five hours after his car skidded off State Route 96 into the Klamath River in Siskiyou County.
The office says that a Siskiyou County Sheriff's dive team and a tow truck pulled the car from the water.
impeachment 5 mins ago
"I'm still in disbelief that he was still alive," dive team commander Sgt. Robert Giannini told NBC affiliate KOBI.
Authorities say Finn was transported by ambulance to a hospital to be treated for exposure.


PhD in Math., Senior researcher, Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy, Deformable Media and Ultrasonics, Email: veturiachiroiu@yahoo.com, Office Phone: +40213153810, Home Address: Aleea Costinesti nr. 10 Bucharest, Home Phone: +40216885181.
PhD in Math., Senior researcher, Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy, Deformable Media and Ultrasonics, Email: ligia_munteanu@hotmail.com, Office Phone: +40213153810, Home Address: Str. Minervei nr. 79 Bucharest, Home Phone: +40724701227.
Mechanical Engineer, Researcher assistant, Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy, Deformable Media and Ultrasonics, Email: ciprian_dragne@yahoo.com, Office Phone: +40213153810, Home Address: Aleea Motistea nr. 39 Bucharest, Home Phone: +40788914948.
Mathematician, Researcher assistant, Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy, Deformable Media and Ultrasonics, Email: cristina.stirbu29@gmail.com, Office Phone: +40213153810, Home Address: Aleea Sandulesti nr. 2 Bucharest, Home Phone: +40723700068.
The contribution of this paper consists in advancing of a control strategy based on the differential dynamic logic (dL) for a cooperative surgeon-robot system whose behavior depends on the interaction between discrete dynamics deriving from the control and continuous dynamics deriving from surgical instrument moving. Such systems are called hybrid systems. The dL algorithm captures the logics of superposition of both dynamics and is capable to control the system in the most natural way. In our opinion, dL can be successfully used for avoiding the collisions of the surgical instrument with a critical domain in a virtual system composed by a surgical robot, a device for visualizing and analyzing the medical images and a six degree-of-freedom robotic arm designed for use in hepatic surgery.
Key words: Differential logic control; Hybrid systems; Surgical robotics; Collision avoidance.
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Agreement on defence cooperation with Kosovo
Briefing – European Defence Fund: Multiannual financial framework 2021-2027 – 02-07-2021
In June 2018, the European Commission presented a legislative proposal on a European Defence Fund, including a budget allocation of €11.5 billion in constant 2018 prices for the 2021-2027 period. The proposal aimed to streamline and simplify the set-up in place at the time by integrating the Preparatory Action on Defence Research (research window) and the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (as one part of the capability window) into a single Fund. The main aims of the Fund would be to foster the competitiveness and innovativeness of European defence and to contribute to the EU's strategic autonomy. In this regard, the Fund would inter alia support collaborative industrial projects; co finance the costs of prototype development; encourage the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises; and promote projects in the framework of permanent structured cooperation. Synergies were expected with other EU initiatives in the field of cybersecurity, maritime transport, border management, Horizon Europe, the space programme and the European Peace Facility. In April 2019, after several trilogue meetings, Parliament and Council reached a partial agreement on the Fund, covering the content, but not, among other things, budgetary issues. Parliament adopted its position at first reading in April 2019. A provisional political agreement on the outstanding issues was reached in December 2020. The Council adopted its first-reading position in March 2021 and the Parliament adopted the text at second reading on 29 April. The final act was published in the Official Journal on 12 May.
Vučić says he will not recognise Kosovo's independence
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Portuguese defence minister: We should make better use of 'Coalitions of the Willing'
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Orangutans go home to Indonesia
Vietnam orangutan Repatriation
Within two weeks, all documents had been signed and the movement approved. On the day of transportation, the orangutans were given a good morning meal and then quickly moved into the moving cage together before being transported to the government vet station for a final signing of documents.
From there, they were moved to the airport for the second last leg of their journey. By the time they reached Jakarta, it was late and they were exhausted from the journey. The government decided they would initially be taken to a Safari park where licensed quarantine premises awaited them.
They will stay there for four weeks before they undertake the final leg of their journey to Borneo, where we hope they will grow into strong and confident orangutans, eventually able to return to the wild.
July 2006 Vietnam
After weeks of preparation and discussions with government departments and NGO's, Edwin and Cheryl headed to Vietnam to assist with the confiscation of two young orangutans on the 11th July, 2006, from the Thanh Canh Hotel outside of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The two orangutans, aged approximately 2 and 3 years old, had been bought illegally on the black market and were kept at the hotel as an attraction for guests and tourists. The hotel operates a small 'zoo' containing wild cats, birds and other monkeys, as well as somewhere between 70-100 bears held for the extraction of bile for the traditional Chinese medicine market.
The whole operation ran far more smoothly than expected. After a short discussion between the Vietnamese Forestry Protection Department (FPD), the team from Wildlife At Risk (WAR), a Vietnam based NGO, and ourselves removed the animals from the premises and transported them to a nearby holding facility for monitoring until they could be repatriated back to Indonesia. Once there, a physical examination and health check was undertaken and they were settled into a temporary holding cage.
Over the following two weeks, Cheryl stayed with the Orangutans to undertake their daily care and monitor the animals for any signs of illness. At the same time, Edwin and WAR were busy every day pushing for the signing of export, import and CITES permits to allow us to legally transport the animals back to Indonesia where they would be handed over to Indonesian forestry department authorities.
Within two weeks, all documents had been signed and the movement approved. On the day of transportation, the orangutans were given a good morning meal and then quickly moved into the moving cage together before being transported to the government vet station for a final signing of documents. From there, they were moved to the airport for the second last leg of their journey. By the time they reached Jakarta, it was late and they were exhausted from the journey.
The government decided they would initially be taken to a Safari park where licensed quarantine premises awaited them. They will stay there for four weeks before they undertake the final leg of their journey to Borneo, where we hope they will grow into strong and confident orangutans, eventually able to return to the wild.
We were all surprised at how quickly this repatriation took place given the difficulties that have been faced in Thailand, and wish to thank everyone involved in Vietnam and Indonesia for their assistance in moving the process along quickly.
Thanks again Wildlife-At-Risk (Vietnam) and F.P.D. Vietnam for a great cooperation and successful mission!
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Survive Initial Press
Get Much The Same's classic 2006 album 'Survive' on vinyl for the first time!
Fans have longed for this seminal release on 12'' vinyl for a long time, and Nitro Records have pressed a limited number to accompany the release of their new records 'Everything Is Fine'. We're fortunate enough to be stocking 'Survive' in the UK and Europe.
Everything Is Fine Vinyl
Much The Same's new 2019 album 'Everything Is Fine' on 12'' vinyl. Choose from two colours, with two different blue suede shoe and cherry cola coloured designs.
Everything is the bands first release since 2006's 'Survive'. It features 9 belting new tracks, combining more melodic hooks and darker lyrical subjects then the band have explored previously.
The new album comes in the wake of guitarist Dan O'Gorman's personal struggles with cancer and divorce; a trauma which inspired the band to rekindle their love of punk rock, against all odds.
Banquets – Banquets
Antillectual – Testimony
Austeros – Painted Blue
Grand Pop – Eight Nights
Fights And Fires – Live Life Like A Tourist
Smokey Bastard – Back To The Drawing Room
Astpai – Burden Calls
The Domestics – Cherry Blossom Life


Location : Meet at 8 am at Kranji MRT Station.
Led by P Pandian and Sutari Supari, we will ramble along the Green Corridor from Kranji MRT station to Upper Bukit Timah's Rail Mall. Join us to enjoy the glorious nature enroute, with bird songs, swaying trees, interesting insects, butterflies and dragonflies. This 10-km walk will take us through former fruit orchards and kampongs.
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Q: How to limit the same answer within one submission of google form? I have created a  group project signup form using google form. And there are two blanks where the students have to fill the names of their team members, I have created dropdown lists including all students in the class. But I do not want the student to submit the response with the same name for all team members. Is there any way to restrict the student not to fill the same name? Or is there any way to prevent the students to submit the forms if they try to submit the response with invalid answers?
To make it short, what I want is:
within one response, no same answers are allowed for different questions.
I have tried to search online, but all of them are about how to disallow students to submit duplicate responses.
Thank you.

A: What you could do is make check boxes with the names of every student in the class. Then all they have to do is select which people are in their group.
Example:
(#) represents the check box.
(#) Student name 1
(#) Student name 2
(#) Student name 3
(#) Student name 4
(#) Student name 5
and so on.....
Then whatever boxes they check off are the ones that are in their group. Because with the check boxes, they can't pick the same person twice. That's because it is only one question, but the student can pick multiple people.
I hope this answers your question, and have a wonderful rest of your day.


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What's On in Our Car
This post goes out to our friend Jen. She's one of those people who's always into something interesting. Her car's back footwells are awash with intriguing kids' books and toys, and she's always got something cool on the stereo. Since she's a children's librarian, she knows about new children's media before anyone else.
So, we were riding with her a few months ago and she said, "Hey, do you want to listen to the cow song?"
I imagined that the cow song was one of those kid's songs where everyone ends up mooing in rhythm. Nope—it was "Cows," (above) the first song on the Sandra Boynton CD Philadelphia Chickens. Little did I know that her cow song's bovine chorus line would earworm its way into our lives, expanding our minds and transforming our relationship with our car.
The Philadelphia Chickens CD comes beautifully packaged with a book. The book's first 32 pages contain partial lyrics and illustrations by Sandra Boynton and Michael Ford, and the second half of the book has the musical notation and additional lyrics for each song. Can you see where I'm going with this? Yes! My beginning reader is happily READING along with the songs as they play. Thank you, Jen!
Boynton and Ford collaborated on four other music-and-book sets—currently, we're rocking out to Dog Train: A Wild Ride on the Rock-and-Roll Side. Here are the other three:
Blue Moo: 17 Jukebox Hits From Way Back Never
Rhinoceros Tap: 15 Seriously Silly Songs
Frog Trouble: . . . And Eleven Other Pretty Serious Songs
Junior's other favorite right now is the Schoolhouse Rock! CD box set. I don't remember many Schoolhouse Rock episodes from my childhood, but the ones that I do remember really stand out—"Conjunction Junction" and "I'm Just A Bill." We're doing a lot of identification of parts of words in the course of our read-aloud time now (anyone remember this gem? I thought it was from Schoolhouse Rock, but it's actually from The Electric Company). Anyway, I bought the Schoolhouse Rock! CD box set because I thought it would reinforce what Junior was learning.
Boy, was I unprepared. Schoolhouse Rock! is AMAZING. The episodes I remembered were from the series Schoolhouse Rock's producers did for grammar and American history. What's been on repeat on our car, however, is Multiplication Rock! Yes, we are all voluntarily listening to songs about math—even when Junior isn't in the car. The one you all probably remember is "Three Is a Magic Number."
Junior's most requested song on Multiplication Rock! is "I Got Six" (there's something about those horns—he also loves "Verb.") My favorite is "The Good Eleven." Last weekend I heard him explaining the songs on Multiplication Rock! to his best friend in the back seat. Then, he passed me the Grammar Rock! CD so his friend could hear that one too.
The Schoolhouse Rock CD box set has four CDs: Multiplication Rock!, Grammar Rock!, Science Rock!, and America Rock!. For those of you with car DVD players, a DVD version of Schoolhouse Rock! is available with all 46 animations. If you do get either the CDs or the DVD, prepare yourself! Do you remember this pretty version of the preamble to the Constitution? I don't—but now it won't leave my head. I can't wait to get to Science Rock!, but with the election coming up, America Rock! might replace Multiplication Rock! in heavy rotation on our car stereo.


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A mass shooting occurred at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida, United States, on January 6, 2017. The attack occurred at about 12:55 EST (UTC-5) near the baggage claim in Terminal 2. Five people were killed, eight others were taken to the hospital,…
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The state of California is a living example of the Jesuit end-game. It has the largest population of Roman Catholic Hispanic illegal immigrants, welcomed in endless streams of higher and higher promises of benefits courtesy of the American taxpayer with current Governor Jerry Brown now…
Barack Obama's Race-Baiting Is Jesuit-Controlled
Graham Race-Baiter-in-Chief Barrack Hussein Obama, formerly Barry Soetoro (after his stepfather Lolo Soetoro), has overseen more false flag shooting events than all other presidents combined, I would wager. The most obvious goal of this orchestrated campaign of gun violence is gun control. Gun control is…
Sat, 27 February 2016
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Resistance Rising 069: Vatican Assassins
ANTONIN SCALIA'S'S NOT-SO-CONSERVATIVE CREDENTIALS ON "GUN CONTROL" BLACK LABEL SOCIETIE'S "ZAKK WYLDE" IS A "SOLDIER FOR CHRIST"...and the Papacy who is the Antichrist THE SICK, PERVERSE ROMAN PRACTICES BEHIND "VALENTINE'S DAY" FACEBOOK SAVES EVEN WHAT YOU DON'T POST MASSACHEUSETTES TOWN WANTS MANDATORY "MEATLESS MONDAYS" JESUITS…
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Lenny Pozner: the Sandy Hook Pozer
There is a very deeply disturbing agenda, the mere premise of which should shock you into reading further to see if any shred of it is true: Powerful forces in your own government have set up operations to terrorize and kill you and to blame…
Phony Patriots Rolled by the FBI All Match the Same Profile
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Guided boat and walking tours (Sea-Safari) are available on the Gippsland Lakes, focusing on the four islands between Lakes Entrance and Metung.
Rigby, Fraser, Flanningan and Pelican Islands each has a unique history and a wide range of wildlife. Seals and dolphins are occasionally seen.
Binoculars and guide books on-board. Minimum age for remote Sea-Safaris is 10 years old. $60 per hour per group of four.
Also available at Lake Tyers, Nowa Nowa, Boole Poole and major rivers. Subject to suitable weather and availability.
Explore and view the four islands of Rigby, Fraser, Flannagan and Pelican on the calm waterways of the Gippsland Lakes. Dolphins or seals are occasionally seen. Sea-birds include Pelicans, Terns and Cormorants. Optional guided short walks by Skipper Pete, an acredditted eco-guide and licensed tour operator. Guide books and binoculars available. BYO camera.
Lakes-Explorer provides water-taxi and eco-tour (Sea-Safari) services using the modern and quick commercial four passenger ferry.
The Water-Taxi service and Sea-Safaris available to explore remote and unique areas that large tour boats do not visit.
Available on Gippsland Lakes, Lake Tyers and large Gippsland rivers.
Water taxi: carries up to four passengers. Fees are based on per trip. Available from Lakes Entrance to Barrier Landing, Rigby Island, Kalimna, Fraser Island Retreat (guests only), Nungurner or Metung.
Eco - tour: (Sea-Safari): one, two or three hour guided boat and walking tours to explore remote locations or view wildlife.
Lakes- explorer: visits remote location that do not have road access. Please bring suitable clothing, footwear and drink. The Skipper has the right to modify or cancel an activity.


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Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Part 2: True Mode of Meeting Mr. Kingsley
True Mode of Meeting Mr. Kingsley
What shall be the special imputation, against which I shall throw myself in these pages, out of the thousand and one which my accuser directs upon me? I mean to confine myself to one, for there is only one about which I much care--the charge of untruthfulness. He may cast upon me as many other imputations as he pleases, and they may stick on me, as long as they can, in the course of nature. They will fall to the ground in their season.
And indeed I think the same of the charge of untruthfulness, and I select it from the rest, not because it is more formidable, but because it is more serious. Like the rest, it may disfigure me for a time, but it will not stain: Archbishop Whately used to say, "Throw dirt enough, and some will stick;" well, will stick, but not stain. I think he used to mean "stain," and I do not agree with him. Some dirt sticks longer than other dirt; but no dirt is immortal. According to the old saying, Prævalebit Veritas. There are virtues indeed, which the world is not fitted to judge about or to uphold, such as faith, hope, and charity: but it can judge about truthfulness; it can judge about the natural virtues, and truthfulness is one of them. Natural virtues may also become supernatural; truthfulness is such; but that does not withdraw it from the jurisdiction of mankind at large. It may be more difficult in this or that particular case for men to take cognizance of it, as it may be difficult for the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster to try a case fairly which took place in Hindoostan; but that is a question of capacity, not of right. Mankind has the right to judge of truthfulness in the case of a Catholic, as in the case of a Protestant, of an Italian, or of a Chinese. I have never doubted, that in my hour, in God's hour, my avenger will appear, and the world will acquit me of untruthfulness, even though it be not while I live.
Still more confident am I of such eventual acquittal, seeing that my judges are my own countrymen. I think, indeed, Englishmen the most suspicious and touchy of mankind; I think them unreasonable and unjust in their seasons of excitement; but I had rather be an Englishman (as in fact I am) than belong to any other race under heaven. They are as generous, as they are hasty and burly; and their repentance for their injustice is greater than their sin.
For twenty years and more I have borne an imputation, of which I am at least as sensitive, who am the object of it, as they can be, who are only the judges. I have not set myself to remove it, first, because I never have had an opening to speak, and, next, because I never saw in them the disposition to hear. I have wished to appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober. When shall I pronounce him to be himself again? If I may judge from the tone of the public press, which represents the public voice, I have great reason to take heart at this time. I have been treated by contemporary critics in this controversy with great fairness and gentleness, and I am grateful to them for it. However, the decision of the time and mode of my defence has been taken out of my hands; and I am thankful that it has been so. I am bound now as a duty to myself, to the Catholic cause, to the Catholic priesthood, to give account of myself without any delay, when I am so rudely and circumstantially charged with untruthfulness. I accept the challenge; I shall do my best to meet it, and I shall be content when I have done so.
I confine myself then, in these pages, to the charge of untruthfulness; and I hereby cart away, as so much rubbish, the impertinences, with which the pamphlet of Accusation swarms. I shall not think it necessary here to examine, whether I am "worked into a pitch of confusion," or have "carried self-deception to perfection," or am "anxious to show my credulity," or am "in a morbid state of mind," or "hunger for nonsense as my food," or "indulge in subtle paradoxes" and "rhetorical exaggerations," or have "eccentricities" or teach in a style "utterly beyond" my accuser's "comprehension," or create in him "blank astonishment," or "exalt the magical powers of my Church," or have "unconsciously committed myself to a statement which strikes at the root of all morality," or "look down on the Protestant gentry as without hope of heaven," or "had better be sent to the furthest" Catholic "mission among the savages of the South seas," than "to teach in an Irish Catholic University," or have "gambled away my reason," or adopt "sophistries," or have published "sophisms piled upon sophisms," or have in my sermons "culminating wonders," or have a "seemingly sceptical method," or have "barristerial ability" and "almost boundless silliness," or "make great mistakes," or am "a subtle dialectician," or perhaps have "lost my temper," or "misquote Scripture," or am "antiscriptural," or "border very closely on the Pelagian heresy."--Pp. 5, 7, 26, 29-34, 37, 38, 41, 43, 44, 48.
These all are impertinences; and the list is so long that I am almost sorry to have given them room which might be better used. However, there they are, or at least a portion of them; and having noticed them thus much, I shall notice them no more.
Coming then to the subject, which is to furnish the staple of my publication, the question of my truthfulness, I first direct attention to the passage which the Act of Accusation contains at p. 8 and p. 42. I shall give my reason presently, why I begin with it.
My accuser is speaking of my sermon on Wisdom and Innocence, and he says, "It must be _remembered always_ that it is not a Protestant, but a Romish sermon."--P. 8.
Then at p. 42 he continues, "Dr. Newman does not apply to it that epithet. He called it in his letter to me of the 7th of January (published by him) a 'Protestant' one. I remarked that, but considered it a mere slip of the pen. Besides, I have now nothing to say to that letter. It is to his 'Reflections,' in p. 32, which are open ground to me, that I refer. In them he deliberately repeats the epithet 'Protestant:' only he, in an utterly imaginary conversation, puts it into my mouth, 'which you preached when a Protestant.' I call the man who preached that Sermon a Protestant? I should have sooner called him a Buddhist. _At that very time he was teaching his disciples to scorn_ and repudiate that name of Protestant, under which, for some reason or other, he _now finds it convenient to take shelter_. If _he_ forgets, the world does not, the famous article in the _British Critic_ (the then organ of his party), of three years before, July 1841, which, after denouncing the name of Protestant, declared the object of the party to be none other than the '_unprotestantising_' the English Church."
In this passage my accuser asserts or implies, 1, that the sermon, on which he originally grounded his slander against me in the January No. of the magazine, was really and in matter of fact a "Romish" Sermon; 2, that I ought in my pamphlet to have acknowledged this fact; 3, that I didn't. 4, That I actually called it instead a Protestant Sermon. 5, That at the time when I published it, twenty years ago, I should have denied that it was a Protestant sermon. 6, By consequence, I should in that denial have avowed that it was a "Romish" Sermon; 7, and therefore, not only, when I was in the Established Church, was I guilty of the dishonesty of preaching what at the time I knew to be a "Romish" Sermon, but now too, in 1864, I have committed the additional dishonesty of calling it a Protestant sermon. If my accuser does not mean this, I submit to such reparation as I owe him for my mistake, but I cannot make out that he means anything else.
Here are two main points to be considered; 1, I in 1864 have called it a Protestant Sermon. 2, He in 1844 and now has styled it a Popish Sermon. Let me take these two points separately.
1. Certainly, when I was in the English Church, I _did_ disown the word "Protestant," and that, even at an earlier date than my accuser names; but just let us see whether this fact is anything at all to the purpose of his accusation. Last January 7th I spoke to this effect: "How can you prove that _Father_ Newman informs us of a certain thing about the Roman Clergy," by referring to a _Protestant_ sermon of the Vicar of St. Mary's? My accuser answers me thus: "There's a quibble! why, _Protestant_ is _not_ the word which you would have used when at St. Mary's, and yet you use it now!" Very true; I do; but what on earth does this matter to my _argument_? how does this word "Protestant," which I used, tend in any degree to make my argument a quibble? What word _should_ I have used twenty years ago instead of "Protestant?" "Roman" or "Romish?" by no manner of means.
My accuser indeed says that "it must always be remembered that it is not a Protestant _but_ a Romish sermon." He implies, and, I suppose, he thinks, that not to be a Protestant is to be a Roman; he may say so, if he pleases, but so did not say that large body who have been called by the name of Tractarians, as all the world knows. The movement proceeded on the very basis of denying that position which my accuser takes for granted that I allowed. It ever said, and it says now, that there is something _between_ Protestant and Romish; that there is a "Via Media" which is neither the one nor the other. Had I been asked twenty years ago, what the doctrine of the Established Church was, I should have answered, "Neither Romish _nor_ Protestant, _but_ 'Anglican' or 'Anglo-catholic.'" I should never have granted that the sermon was Romish; I should have denied, and that with an internal denial, quite as much as I do now, that it was a Roman or Romish sermon. Well then, substitute the word "Anglican" or "Anglo-catholic" for "Protestant" in my question, and see if the argument is a bit the worse for it--thus: "How can you prove that _Father_ Newman informs us a certain thing about the Roman Clergy, by referring to an _Anglican_ or _Anglo-catholic_ Sermon of the Vicar of St. Mary's?" The cogency of the argument remains just where it was. What have I gained in the argument, what has he lost, by my having said, not "an Anglican Sermon," but "a Protestant Sermon?" What dust then is he throwing into our eyes!
For instance: in 1844 I lived at Littlemore; two or three miles distant from Oxford; and Littlemore lies in three, perhaps in four, distinct parishes, so that of particular houses it is difficult to say, whether they are in St. Mary's, Oxford, or in Cowley, or in Iffley, or in Sandford, the line of demarcation running even through them. Now, supposing I were to say in 1864, that "twenty years ago I did not live in Oxford, _because_ I lived out at Littlemore, in the parish of Cowley;" and if upon this there were letters of mine produced dated Littlemore, 1844, in one of which I said that "I lived, not in Cowley, but at Littlemore, in St. Mary's parish," how would that prove that I contradicted myself, and that therefore after all I must be supposed to have been living in Oxford in 1844? The utmost that would be proved by the discrepancy, such as it was, would be, that there was some confusion either in me, or in the state of the fact as to the limits of the parishes. There would be no confusion about the place or spot of my residence. I should be saying in 1864, "I did not live in Oxford twenty years ago, because I lived at Littlemore in the Parish of Cowley." I should have been saying in 1844, "I do not live in Oxford, because I live in St. Mary's, Littlemore." In either case I should be saying that my _habitat_ in 1844 was _not_ Oxford, but Littlemore; and I should be giving the same reason for it. I should be proving an _alibi_. I should be naming the same place for the _alibi_; but twenty years ago I should have spoken of it as St. Mary's, Littlemore, and to-day I should have spoken of it as Littlemore in the Parish of Cowley.
And so as to my Sermon; in January, 1864, I called it a _Protestant_ sermon, and not a Roman; but in 1844 I should, if asked, have called it an _Anglican_ sermon, and not a Roman. In both cases I should have denied that it was Roman, and that on the ground of its being something else; though I should have called that something else, then by one name, now by another. The doctrine of the _Via Media_ is a _fact_, whatever name we give to it; I, as a Roman Priest, find it more natural and usual to call it Protestant: I, as all Oxford Vicar, thought it more exact to call it Anglican; but, whatever I then called it, and whatever I now call it, I mean one and the same object by my name, and therefore not another object--viz. not the Roman Church. The argument, I repeat, is sound, whether the _Via Media_ and the Vicar of St. Mary's be called Anglican or Protestant.
This is a specimen of what my accuser means by my "economies;" nay, it is actually one of those special two, three, or four, committed after February 1, which he thinks sufficient to connect me with the shifty casuists and the double-dealing moralists, as he considers them, of the Catholic Church. What a "Much ado about nothing!"
2. But, whether or not he can prove that I in 1864 have committed any logical fault in calling my Sermon on Wisdom and Innocence a Protestant Sermon, he is and has been all along, most firm in the belief himself that a Romish sermon it is; and this is the point on which I wish specially to insist. It is for this cause that I made the above extract from his pamphlet, not merely in order to answer him, though, when I had made it, I could not pass by the attack on me which it contains. I shall notice his charges one by one by and by; but I have made this extract here in order to insist and to dwell on this phenomenon--viz. that he does consider it an undeniable fact, that the sermon is "Romish,"--meaning by "Romish" not "savouring of Romish doctrine" merely, but "the work of a real Romanist, of a conscious Romanist." This belief it is which leads him to be so severe on me, for now calling it "Protestant." He thinks that, whether I have committed any logical self-contradiction or not, I am very well aware that, when I wrote it, I ought to have been elsewhere, that I was a conscious Romanist, teaching Romanism;--or if he does not believe this himself, he wishes others to think so, which comes to the same thing; certainly I prefer to consider that he thinks so himself, but, if he likes the other hypothesis better, he is welcome to it.
He believes then so firmly that the sermon was a "Romish Sermon," that he pointedly takes it for granted, before he has adduced a syllable of proof of the matter of fact. He _starts_ by saying that it is a fact to be "remembered." "It _must_ be _remembered always_," he says, "that it is not a Protestant, but a Romish Sermon," (p. 8). Its Romish parentage is a great truth for the memory, not a thesis for inquiry. Merely to refer his readers to the sermon is, he considers, to secure them on his side. Hence it is that, in his letter of January 18, he said to me, "It seems to me, that, by _referring_ publicly to the Sermon on which my allegations are founded, I have given every one _an opportunity of judging of their injustice_," that is, an opportunity of seeing that they are transparently just. The notion of there being a _Via Media_, held all along by a large party in the Anglican Church, and now at least not less than at any former time, is too subtle for his intellect. Accordingly, he thinks it was an allowable figure of speech--not more, I suppose, than an "hyperbole"--when referring to a sermon of the Vicar of St. Mary's in the magazine, to say that it was the writing of a Roman priest; and as to serious arguments to prove the point, why, they may indeed be necessary, as a matter of form, in an act of accusation, such as his pamphlet, but they are superfluous to the good sense of any one who will only just look into the matter himself.
Now, with respect to the so-called arguments which he ventures to put forward in proof that the sermon is Romish, I shall answer them, together with all his other arguments, in the latter portion of this reply; here I do but draw the attention of the reader, as I have said already, to the phenomenon itself, which he exhibits, of an unclouded confidence that the sermon is the writing of a virtual member of the Roman communion, and I do so because it has made a great impression on my own mind, and has suggested to me the course that I shall pursue in my answer to him.
I say, he takes it for granted that the Sermon is the writing of a virtual or actual, of a conscious Roman Catholic; and is impatient at the very notion of having to prove it. Father Newman and the Vicar of St. Mary's are one and the same: there has been no change of mind in him; what he believed then he believes now, and what he believes now he believed then. To dispute this is frivolous; to distinguish between his past self and his present is subtlety, and to ask for proof of their identity is seeking opportunity to be sophistical. This writer really thinks that he acts a straightforward honest part, when he says "A Catholic Priest informs us in his Sermon on Wisdom and Innocence preached at St. Mary's," and he thinks that I am the shuffler and quibbler when I forbid him to do so. So singular a phenomenon in a man of undoubted ability has struck me forcibly, and I shall pursue the train of thought which it opens.
It is not he alone who entertains, and has entertained, such an opinion of me and my writings. It is the impression of large classes of men; the impression twenty years ago and the impression now. There has been a general feeling that I was for years where I had no right to be; that I was a "Romanist" in Protestant livery and service; that I was doing the work of a hostile church in the bosom of the English Establishment, and knew it, or ought to have known it. There was no need of arguing about particular passages in my writings, when the fact was so patent, as men thought it to be.
First it was certain, and I could not myself deny it, that I scouted the name "Protestant." It was certain again, that many of the doctrines which I professed were popularly and generally known as badges of the Roman Church, as distinguished from the faith of the Reformation. Next, how could I have come by them? Evidently, I had certain friends and advisers who did not appear; there was some underground communication between Stonyhurst or Oscott and my rooms at Oriel. Beyond a doubt, I was advocating certain doctrines, not by accident, but on an understanding with ecclesiastics of the old religion. Then men went further, and said that I had actually been received into that religion, and withal had leave given me to profess myself a Protestant still. Others went even further, and gave it out to the world, as a matter of fact, of which they themselves had the proof in their hands, that I was actually a Jesuit. And when the opinions which I advocated spread, and younger men went further than I, the feeling against me waxed stronger and took a wider range.
And now indignation arose at the knavery of a conspiracy such as this:--and it became of course all the greater, in consequence of its being the received belief of the public at large, that craft and intrigue, such as they fancied they beheld with their own eyes, were the very instruments to which the Catholic Church has in these last centuries been indebted for her maintenance and extension.
There was another circumstance still, which increased the irritation and aversion felt by the large classes, of whom I have been speaking, as regards the preachers of doctrines, so new to them and so unpalatable; and that was, that they developed them in so measured a way. If they were inspired by Roman theologians (and this was taken for granted), why did they not speak out at once? Why did they keep the world in such suspense and anxiety as to what was coming next, and what was to be the upshot of the whole? Why this reticence, and half-speaking, and apparent indecision? It was plain that the plan of operations had been carefully mapped out from the first, and that these men were cautiously advancing towards its accomplishment, as far as was safe at the moment; that their aim and their hope was to carry off a large body with them of the young and the ignorant; that they meant gradually to leaven the minds of the rising generation, and to open the gate of that city, of which they were the sworn defenders, to the enemy who lay in ambush outside of it. And when in spite of the many protestations of the party to the contrary, there was at length an actual movement among their disciples, and one went over to Rome, and then another, the worst anticipations and the worst judgments which had been formed of them received their justification. And, lastly, when men first had said of me, "You will see, _he_ will go, he is only biding his time, he is waiting the word of command from Rome," and, when after all, after my arguments and denunciations of former years, at length I did leave the Anglican Church for the Roman, then they said to each other, "It is just as we said: I told you so."
This was the state of mind of masses of men twenty years ago, who took no more than an external and common-sense view of what was going on. And partly the tradition, partly the effect of that feeling, remains to the present time. Certainly I consider that, in my own case, it is the great obstacle in the way of my being favourably heard, as at present, when I have to make my defence. Not only am I now a member of a most un-English communion, whose great aim is considered to be the extinction of Protestantism and the Protestant Church, and whose means of attack are popularly supposed to be unscrupulous cunning and deceit, but besides, how came I originally to have any relations with the Church of Rome at all? did I, or my opinions, drop from the sky? how came I, in Oxford, _in gremio Universitatis_, to present myself to the eyes of men in that full-blown investiture of Popery? How could I dare, how could I have the conscience, with warnings, with prophecies, with accusations against me, to persevere in a path which steadily advanced towards, which ended in, the religion of Rome? And how am I now to be trusted, when long ago I was trusted, and was found wanting?
It is this which is the strength of the case of my accuser against me;--not his arguments in themselves, which I shall easily crumble into dust, but the bias of the court. It is the state of the atmosphere; it is the vibration all around which will more or less echo his assertion of my dishonesty; it is that prepossession against me, which takes it for granted that, when my reasoning is convincing it is only ingenious, and that when my statements are unanswerable, there is always something put out of sight or hidden in my sleeve; it is that plausible, but cruel conclusion to which men are so apt to jump, that when much is imputed, something must be true, and that it is more likely that one should be to blame, than that many should be mistaken in blaming him;--these are the real foes which I have to fight, and the auxiliaries to whom my accuser makes his court.
Well, I must break through this barrier of prejudice against me, if I can; and I think I shall be able to do so. When first I read the pamphlet of Accusation, I almost despaired of meeting effectively such a heap of misrepresentation and such a vehemence of animosity. What was the good of answering first one point, and then another, and going through the whole circle of its abuse; when my answer to the first point would be forgotten, as soon as I got to the second? What was the use of bringing out half a hundred separate principles or views for the refutation of the separate counts in the indictment, when rejoinders of this sort would but confuse and torment the reader by their number and their diversity? What hope was there of condensing into a pamphlet of a readable length, matter which ought freely to expand itself into half a dozen volumes? What means was there, except the expenditure of interminable pages, to set right even one of that series of "single passing hints," to use my assailant's own language, which, "as with his finger tip, he had delivered" against me?
All those separate charges of his had their force in being illustrations of one and the same great imputation. He had a positive idea to illuminate his whole matter, and to stamp it with a form, and to quicken it with an interpretation. He called me a _liar_--a simple, a broad, an intelligible, to the English public a plausible arraignment; but for me, to answer in detail charge one by reason one, and charge two by reason two, and charge three by reason three, and so to proceed through the whole string both of accusations and replies, each of which was to be independent of the rest, this would be certainly labour lost as regards any effective result. What I needed was a corresponding antagonist unity in my defence, and where was that to be found? We see, in the case of commentators on the prophecies of Scripture, an exemplification of the principle on which I am insisting; viz. how much more powerful even a false interpretation of the sacred text is than none at all;--how a certain key to the visions of the Apocalypse, for instance, may cling to the mind--(I have found it so in my own case)--mainly because they are positive and objective, in spite of the fullest demonstration that they really have no claim upon our belief. The reader says, "What else can the prophecy mean?" just as my accuser asks, "What, then, does Dr. Newman mean?" ... I reflected, and I saw a way out of my perplexity.
Yes, I said to myself, his very question is about my _meaning_; "What does Dr. Newman mean?" It pointed in the very same direction as that into which my musings had turned me already. He asks what I _mean_; not about my words, not about my arguments, not about my actions, as his ultimate point, but about that living intelligence, by which I write, and argue, and act. He asks about my mind and its beliefs and its sentiments; and he shall be answered;--not for his own sake, but for mine, for the sake of the religion which I profess, and of the priesthood in which I am unworthily included, and of my friends and of my foes, and of that general public which consists of neither one nor the other, but of well-wishers, lovers of fair play, sceptical cross-questioners, interested inquirers, curious lookers-on, and simple strangers, unconcerned yet not careless about the issue.
My perplexity did not last half an hour. I recognised what I had to do, though I shrank from both the task and the exposure which it would entail. I must, I said, give the true key to my whole life; I must show what I am that it may be seen what I am not, and that the phantom may be extinguished which gibbers instead of me. I wish to be known as a living man, and not as a scarecrow which is dressed up in my clothes. False ideas may be refuted indeed by argument, but by true ideas alone are they expelled. I will vanquish, not my accuser, but my judges. I will indeed answer his charges and criticisms on me one by one, lest any one should say that they are unanswerable, but such a work shall not be the scope nor the substance of my reply. I will draw out, as far as may be, the history of my mind; I will state the point at which I began, in what external suggestion or accident each opinion had its rise, how far and how they were developed from within, how they grew, were modified, were combined, were in collision with each other, and were changed; again how I conducted myself towards them, and how, and how far, and for how long a time, I thought I could hold them consistently with the ecclesiastical engagements which I had made and with the position which I filled. I must show--what is the very truth--that the doctrines which I held, and have held for so many years, have been taught me (speaking humanly) partly by the suggestions of Protestant friends, partly by the teaching of books, and partly by the action of my own mind: and thus I shall account for that phenomenon which to so many seems so wonderful, that I should have left "my kindred and my father's house" for a Church from which once I turned away with dread;--so wonderful to them! as if forsooth a religion which has flourished through so many ages, among so many nations, amid such varieties of social life, in such contrary classes and conditions of men, and after so many revolutions, political and civil, could not subdue the reason and overcome the heart, without the aid of fraud and the sophistries of the schools.
What I had proposed to myself in the course of half an hour, I determined on at the end of ten days. However, I have many difficulties in fulfilling my design. How am I to say all that has to be said in a reasonable compass? And then as to the materials of my narrative; I have no autobiographical notes to consult, no written explanations of particular treatises or of tracts which at the time gave offence, hardly any minutes of definite transactions or conversations, and few contemporary memoranda, I fear, of the feelings or motives under which from time to time I acted. I have an abundance of letters from friends with some copies or drafts of my answers to them, but they are for the most part unsorted, and, till this process has taken place, they are even too numerous and various to be available at a moment for my purpose. Then, as to the volumes which I have published, they would in many ways serve me, were I well up in them; but though I took great pains in their composition, I have thought little about them, when they were at length out of my hands, and, for the most part, the last time I read them has been when I revised their proof sheets.
Under these circumstances my sketch will of course be incomplete. I now for the first time contemplate my course as a whole; it is a first essay, but it will contain, I trust, no serious or substantial mistake, and so far will answer the purpose for which I write it. I purpose to set nothing down in it as certain, for which I have not a clear memory, or some written memorial, or the corroboration of some friend. There are witnesses enough up and down the country to verify, or correct, or complete it; and letters moreover of my own in abundance, unless they have been destroyed.
Moreover, I mean to be simply personal and historical: I am not expounding Catholic doctrine, I am doing no more than explaining myself, and my opinions and actions. I wish, as far as I am able, simply to state facts, whether they are ultimately determined to be for me or against me. Of course there will be room enough for contrariety of judgment among my readers, as to the necessity, or appositeness, or value, or good taste, or religious prudence of the details which I shall introduce. I may be accused of laying stress on little things, of being beside the mark, of going into impertinent or ridiculous details, of sounding my own praise, of giving scandal; but this is a case above all others, in which I am bound to follow my own lights and to speak out my own heart. It is not at all pleasant for me to be egotistical; nor to be criticised for being so. It is not pleasant to reveal to high and low, young and old, what has gone on within me from my early years. It is not pleasant to be giving to every shallow or flippant disputant the advantage over me of knowing my most private thoughts, I might even say the intercourse between myself and my Maker. But I do not like to be called to my face a liar and a knave: nor should I be doing my duty to my faith or to my name, if I were to suffer it. I know I have done nothing to deserve such an insult; and if I prove this, as I hope to do, I must not care for such incidental annoyances as are involved in the process.
Part 3: History of My Religious Opinions
Apologia Pro Vita Sua By John Henry Cardinal Newman
Part 1: Mr. Kingsley's Method of Disputation
Part 4: History of My Religious Opinions--1833 – 1839
Part 7: General Answer to Mr. Kingsley
Appendix: Answer in Detail to Mr. Kingsley's Accusations