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The Green Man, or how to resist the tyranny of the algorithm
This is a post originally found on my former blog at Angelico Press.
Once upon a time, in a summerland called The Late-Nineteen Hundreds or Early Two Thousands, my wife and I went to the Michigan Renaissance Festival accoutered in festival attire and accompanied by our then extant brood (might have been three, might have been four or five—I'm not good at keeping track), at least one of whom was probably in a stroller. At one point in our festivality, we encountered a unique character: The Green Man. This was an ingenious character and even more ingenious costume. The figure looked not unlike the ents from the LOTR films (long before they appeared), but it was much less bulky—in fact, it was rather lithe. Through a clever use of stilts and crutch-like appendages extending from where the hands must have been, it stood at least ten-feet tall and moved at an excruciatingly slow pace. I stood there dumbfounded. After ten minutes or so of taking in the spectacle, my wife and our easily-bored little ones wanted to move on, though I stalled them as long as I could before finally acquiescing.
As we moved along in search of jousting and/or sword-swallowing, my wife asked, "Why were you so into that thing?" (meaning The Green Man). I told her the truth: "I've seen him before."
Only I didn't mean I'd seen this-guy-in-an-ingenious-costume-at-the-Renaissance-Festival. I meant "The Green Man."
Professor Martin getting into the Renaissance Festival vibe, c. 1994.
In the mid-80s, while out for a picnic in the woods, I had seen a figure very much like the one I'd encountered at the festival. At least I thought I did. The figure I saw in the woods, though, or rather figures (actually there were more than one) seemed to travel at an even slower rate, more or less through the canopy of maple and oak trees around me. They were a bit smaller than the costumed figure, but very similar. Only, they were less "substantial." Imagine a walking nervous system, but replace the nerves with twigs and sticks and you'll get the idea. Of course, seeing such things is crazy. So I convinced myself my eyes were playing tricks on me. I never thought about it again until that moment at the festival.
One fall afternoon several years later as my wife was raking leaves in our yard, our eldest daughter, then probably three-years-old, asked her stop what she was doing. "Those people," she said, pointing to the place in the garden where her mother had just cleared some leaves. My wife saw nothing, but our daughter was insistent and didn't want the people to be hurt. She's now almost twenty-one and still swears it really happened.
Years later, I found another daughter's makeshift booklet outside (she was about seven or eight at the time). It read:
On the cover, in a circle, the title: Fairys
Page 1: Sientifec fairy Reaserch
—when a baby laughs for the first time a fairy is born
One day this same child showed up at the back door with a long-handled fishing net. "What do you want?" I asked. "Is this good for capturing things?" she said. "Depends," I answered. "What kinds of things?" "Faeries," she replied, very forthrightly. I told her I thought it could work; it was worth a shot. She was not successful.
Of course, children often believe that fairies exist. We find it cute.
When they don't grow out of it, we find them odd. And some never grow out of it.
Some of those who never grow out of it grow up to be philosophers and theologians, which is perhaps not as surprising as one might think. Two that come immediately to mind are John Milbank and David Bentley Hart. I am sure there are others. Some, though, tend to hide this proclivity beneath a literary veneer—pointing to J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and even J.K. Rowling as imaginative explorers of the land of magic, but ultimately backing off from actually signing on the dotted line. Such a posture may be very convenient, but also a bit cowardly, a kind of aestheticism both disingenuous and patronizing. At best, I wonder if such individuals are simply hedging their bets and trying to cover their behinds. At worst, perhaps there is something of infantilization at work there. Freud wasn't exactly a moron.
My grandfather, Michael Patrick Conlon, was born in Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland in 1910 and died in Detroit in 1984. He was a burly redhead who worked in a factory, but, on some summer evenings when I was a child, prompted no doubt by beer and Kessler's, he would tell his grandchildren stories of his childhood (or that he'd heard in childhood) concerning the invisible kingdom and its denizens. He was not one of those people given to fancy; but he knew these things were true. Untold numbers of people claim to have seen into this kingdom, and in the early twentieth century it was still easy to collect their stories, though I imagine now such experiences are not nearly as common as they used to be. Unfortunately, positivistic psychology, science, and sociology dismissed these kinds of experiences as wish-fulfillment, the product of unintended ingestion of natural hallucinogens, or a kind of atavistic primitivism. I never liked these kinds of explanations, which always seems to me an example of the kind of arrogant colonization western intellectuals have yet to resist inflicting on peoples and cultures they deem inferior.
Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has written about the development of a "buffered self" that accompanied the rise of modernity and the Scientific Revolution and which cordoned Western people from a porosity to nature and a trust in realities not readily apparent to the five senses: realities such as fairies, of course, but also those concerning the subtle qualities of things (such as the moon, relics, holy water, icons), not to mention angels, demons, even God. The Scientific Revolution and the Reformation served as what Taylor calls "engines of disenchantment" made only more efficient by the Enlightenment and what followed: the Industrial Revolution, the Marxist revolution, and, perhaps most insidiously, the digital revolution.
But even to use words like "re-enchantment" betrays that we don't really accept these realities; that we're simply nostalgic for a cultural past that lives only in our memory. We are still outside of it, doomed by a Cartesian separation oppressing us, an affliction of our cultural patrimony.
This affliction troubles most Christians today. I am often puzzled by theologians and other Christian intellectuals and academics who resolutely affirm the Real Presence in the Eucharist, the efficacy of prayer, and the existence of God, but who get a little fuzzy in their assurance when it comes to angels and demons, not to mention the qualities of relics and holy water. And don't even start them on fairies and green men. If the numinous exists, it cannot be only in the context of the Mass. Unfortunately, most of us are only porous (or pretend to be) on Sundays.
I think one of the best examples of a figure who can hold both Christian orthodoxy and folk belief in balance (with a little Roman paganism thrown in) is the seventeenth-century Anglican priest and poet Robert Herrick. (I have a chapter about him in my book, The Incarnation of the Poetic Word.) In his massive Hesperides and Noble Numbers, Herrick asserts the joy of parish life: a life that includes Christian piety as well as pagan revelry. In his unwieldy collection of verses, Herrick embraces the rosary as well as the maypole, the lares as well as the Holy Spirit, the annoying members of the parish as well as the beautiful maidens, the Virgin Mary as well as Queen Mab, the faerie kingdom as well as the Kingdom of God. The world he describes is a messy one, but open to all. And that is about as Christian as it gets. The fact that he published his book after being ejected from his living in Devonshire and used it as a stick to thrust in the eye of the tiresome Puritan killjoys who censured him makes it all the more delicious.
An important aspect of Herrick's book is that it also serves as lament for a world that was passing away: the world of a faith life integrated with nature. Nowhere does he describe so directly this world he so loved as in "The Argument of his Book":
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers, Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of May-poles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal-cakes. I write of youth, of love, and have access By these to sing of cleanly wantonness. I sing of dews, of rains, and piece by piece Of balm, of oil, of spice, and ambergris. I sing of Time's trans-shifting; and I write How roses first came red, and lilies white. I write of groves, of twilights, and I sing The court of Mab, and of the fairy king. I write of Hell; I sing (and ever shall) Of Heaven, and hope to have it after all.
As the Scientific Revolution asserted its superiority, as the Reformations (and Counter Reformations) reduced the Church calendar to a shadow of its simultaneously cosmic/agrarian and divine character, and as enclosure laws and the march of capitalism more and more removed people from the land and drove them into the squalor of the cities and the self-fulfilling prophecy of a dastardly social Darwinism, there was no room left for such a world. Such a world—of fasts, festivity, and divinity, of fairies, fertility, and fairs—is not efficient. It is not economically viable. Stockholders don't like it.
Our own world has no fasts to speak of, so it has no true festivity. It is hostile to both divinity and fertility. But it has its own faeries. Indeed, is not the internet a diabolical faerie Otherworld, a world of no material substance that nevertheless exists? Is not the posture of the person with a cellphone in his or her lap the same as the person in a state of contemplation? Do we not enter another world in just this way, whether in contemplative repose or by way of a screen? Is not the second of these a demonic parody of the former?
It seems to me that a connection to the natural world and its rhythms, to the wheel of the cosmos and the cycle of the liturgical year, is the anti-internet because it's the real internet: it opens us to what is real, the intertwined realms of the natural and the supernatural, and it helps us stay in touch with each other because it allows us to stay in touch with reality. In considering the sterile benefits of modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century, G.K. Chesterton saw the return to the land as a significant part of the return to sanity: "If we ever get the English back onto English land they will become again a religious people, if all goes well, a superstitious people. The absence from life of both the higher and lower forms of faith is largely due to a divorce from nature and the trees and clouds." We could use some healthy superstition connected to nature instead of the unhealthy superstition of virtual reality by which our humanity has become so degraded.
What I am saying, then, is that the green man I saw (or didn't see) so long ago, the little people my daughter saw as a child, and that many of the thousands upon thousands (probably more like millions) of experiences others have had of the invisible realm throughout history are indicative of what I have called in another context a poetic metaphysics. And by "poetic" I do not mean less real than what we're accustomed to. On the contrary, I mean more real than what we're accustomed to.
Such a world is not any more inconsistent with Christian belief than the internet is. Indeed, being mindful of even the possibility of such a world can certainly restore health to psyches affected in untold ways by the ravages of postmodernity so clearly made manifest in the utter madness so prevalent on social media and the internet. The digital revolution, like those before, cares nothing for human flourishing, but, like its antecedents, merely instrumentalizes human beings for other purposes. As Martin Heidegger told us so long ago, technology is never neutral.
At the first performance of J.M Barrie's Peter Pan on December 27th, 1904, no one knew what to expect when, after Tinkerbell's death, Peter asked the audience, "Do you believe in fairies? If you believe, wave your handkerchiefs and clap your hands!" An anxious Barrie had told the orchestra to be ready to lay down their instruments and clap their loudest when that moment came. But when it did come, the audience burst into such overwhelming applause that the actress playing Peter Pan burst into tears and had to leave the stage for a few moments to compose herself.
I don't think people are any different now. Only now, people are even more distanced from nature: that lack more than compensated for by their addictive involvement with their phones. They still desire a connection with the real, but look for it in exactly the wrong place.
I'm not suggesting everyone try to see faeries or the green man, or even to believe that such things exist. All I am saying is that there is more to the natural world than can be boiled down to an algorithm. As William Blake wrote, "We who dwell on Earth can do nothing of ourselves; everything is conducted by Spirits, no less than Digestion or Sleep."
Those of us who go by the name Christian would do well to not confine the numinous to Sundays, for the Lord poured out his Wisdom over all of nature (Sirach 1:9). God is a spirit, and he is to be worshiped in spirit and truth. And spirit is impervious to data or algorithms.
Michael can be reached at director@thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com See also The Center for Sophiological Studies' available courses.
An Epistle of Comfort
The Ecclesial State of Exception
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After giving birth to her daughter Taylor at the age of 20, Eraina decided she would live a good life despite her circumstances. Even after receiving a diagnosis of profound hearing loss and autism for her daughter Taylor, she went on to earn three academic degrees including one from Yale University. In the process of living in three different cities and navigating education and personal hurdles, she discovered something profound and universal: this isn't a normal life, it's a good life. My Good Life is the story of perseverance, faith, and hope. It is a story wrapped in goodness and love.Photos by Daria Shevtsova.
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Rainmaker has gained his name by his constant desire to go to the long field, and frequently firing sky balls that could bring down the rain. Rainmaker always conducts himself with fine manners, and an even finer sense for the long field. He plays it well in the field and finds it often while striking. Rainmaker has again credited himself with one true home run this season, and hopes to add more to his club's column next season.
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WWE Superstar Missing WrestleMania 34?, New WWE Game Revealed (Video)
– WWE has announced that Noam Dar underwent successful surgery to his left knee in Orlando on Thursday. The injury came during the Fatal 4 Way on the November 27th RAW. WWE notes that the injury had been bothering Dar for weeks but his knee went out again this past weekend. He underwent a MRI before this week's RAW and it was confirmed that he had a meniscus tear. Dar told the WWE website that this was the first time he'd ever undergone an invasive procedure.
Dar commented on his return, revealing that he will be out for 5 months, and The Zo Train with WWE Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Amore:
"We don't have any confirmed time frame just yet because I obviously need to see the post-op, but it's more than likely going to be around the five-month mark," Dar explained. "That would be with me working extensively at the [WWE] Performance Center, so that will make a huge difference. Staying on top of everything so we can hopefully take that time down a little bit."
"I talked to [Ariya] Daivari, Tony [Nese] and Drew 'Gaba-Gulak'. Enzo [Amore], I haven't spoken to yet," Dar said. "Gulak invited me to 'Star Wars [The Last Jedi],' but I'm pretty immobile at the moment. Daivari is obviously upset that he's lost his rooming buddy, so that would be stressful for anyone. So, he's going to have a long five months of not having my hilarious companionship."
– WWE sent us the following this week on the new WWE Mayhem mobile game, which features WWE Hall of Famer Jerry Lawler on commentary:
WWE® MAYHEM AVAILABLE NOW FOR iOS AND ANDROID
CHICAGO and STAMFORD, Conn. – Dec. 14, 2017 – Reliance Games, a leading global developer and publisher of free-to-play mobile games, has partnered with WWE, a recognized leader in global entertainment, to launch WWE Mayhem, a new, over-the-top, arcade-style action game featuring WWE Superstars and Legends. Available now, WWE Mayhem is free to download on iOS devices via the App Store, as well as Android smartphones and tablets through Google Play.
WWE Mayhem will offer an enhanced gameplay experience, allowing players to unlock unique content when used in conjunction with Mattel's WWE Retro Figures. Players who have the WWE Retro Figures will be able to scan their figure within the game to unlock WWE Superstars.
"With a spectacular roster of some of the best champions to ever enter the ring, WWE Mayhem lets fans decide which WWE Legends and Superstars are truly the greatest of all time," said Amit Khanduja, CEO, Reliance Entertainment – Digital.
"WWE Mayhem captures all the energy, excitement and emotion of WWE's live action in a mobile experience that any fan can enjoy," said Casey Collins, WWE Executive Vice President, Consumer Products. "This new mobile game provides us with another opportunity to engage a global fan base that consumes content across platforms."
Prove your worth in epic matches with fan-favorites like John Cena, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Triple H, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns, AJ Styles, Undertaker, Seth Rollins, Goldberg, The New Day, Kalisto and many more. Each star features their own hard-hitting signature moves and game-changing reversals to unleash upon any challengers. There are six distinct classes from which to choose including Brawler, Wildcard, Technician, Powerhouse, Highflyer or Showman.
WWE Mayhem delivers multiple ways to play: take on friends and rivals from around the world in one-versus-one matches, join weekly events and challenges pulled from real-world WWE shows, and enter tag-team match-ups with other champions to defeat all contenders.
For more information, visit www.reliancegames.com and follow @RelianceGames on Twitter.
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Although business places throughout south Trinidad opened their doors as normal yesterday, there was a low turnout of customers. Port of Spain was the same. There were also reports of some employees being absent.
High Street, San Fernando, which is usually busy on Mondays, was clear, as there was little pedestrian and vehicular traffic. A few people were seen sheltering from the rain outside business places. Some said they stayed away from work to offer help to affected families and friends. "I think everyone is scared in south. We were not affected, but from what we saw, it is scary. The rains are still falling. I am home today getting groceries for my friends who lost everything,"said a Princes Town mother of three.
San Fernando Business Association president Daphne Bartlett said businesses opened as normal but sales were slow. Speaking with Newsday, Bartlett said business owners had anticipated a low turnout.
In Port of Spain there was a visible absence of people throughout the day along Frederick Street and Independence Square for a Monday, as several roadside vendors were not at their usual posts.
At fast food restaurants like KFC, there was also a marked decrease in activity.
Newsday contacted President of the Downtown Owners and Merchants Association Gregory Aboud who said he was not in the country and was unaware of any developments over the past 48 hours.
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Biomedicine is being honored for their performance during the pandemic
Yvonne Lipsey October 13, 2021 2 min read
Created on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 07:49
On October 8, new board members of the Biomedical Regional Council and representatives of the Federal Council were at the Megaunit of Unimed Laboratório, in Curitiba, in order to honor employees who have worked on the front lines due to the pandemic. The event followed all health protocols that adhere to necessities and was quick to avoid crowding.
the audience The Chairman of the Board, Thiago Yueti Castelo Masuda, was present, along with Vice President Diane Pereira Camacho, as well as Janina Ferreira de Mello Vasco and Raphael Sahid from the Board of Directors of the entity. They were received by Milton Zemberg, supervisor of Unimed Laboratório, and spoke with half of the lab's production and service team, which in total consists of about 40 biomedical doctors. The meeting was attended by a specialist from each sector and Diane Gallo, a biomedical specialist in the technical sector at Unimed Laboratório, received a plaque on behalf of the others.
to get to know – "I think biomedical professionals are becoming more and more popular during this time of the pandemic. We have been at the forefront, both in clinical diagnosis and in the field of Covid-19 diagnostics, trying to help the community in some way. I am very happy today with this honor!" Principal because here at Unimed Laboratory we were able to start processing Covid tests very quickly. We hope to continue to help people with fast, high-quality diagnosis, as we have done since the beginning of the pandemic." The Chairman's draft also noted the challenge and reward for working during this period. "We represent the class at Parana and we have seen how empowered and appreciated we are in the face of this situation. So our goal is to honor and thank them for all their efforts."
Fit – The supervisor of Unimed Laboratório, who is also a biomedical specialist, noted the agility to work for the benefit of society as a whole in the face of the new virus. It may have been the private laboratory in Parana that has performed most of the Covid-19 tests so far, without failing to help other patients with other illnesses. And our biomedicine did not stop during the entire period of the epidemic, not even a single day. We operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, divided into four shifts and have approximately 300 employees today. On this occasion, we would like to thank the Regional Biomedical Council for its closeness and support to professionals, as well as this recognition." (Unimed Lab Press)
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ICONIC railway model maker Hornby, has issued its third profit warning in less than two years after it warned that unexpected foreign exchange movements would drag it to a worse-than-expected £1.2m loss.
In a trading update, the maker of Airfix and Scalextric revealed that despite trading in line with expectation at an operating level, it suffered a further £0.2m foreign exchange loss, since the £1m it predicted in its January update.
The loss relates to its exit from its trading agreement with a long-standing major supplier of model railway products. Previous supply chain delays had caused the business to suffer losses on the sterling value of currency held to purchase its products.
"With the main obstacle to an improved and efficient supply chain out of the way, we expect a gradual improvement in its reliability and quality. As a result we look forward to improved trading next year," Hornby said in the trading update.
Net debt at the end of March 2014 is now expected to be around £7.3m compared to £6.5m at the end of December 2013 and £2.1m at 31 March 2013, the company said, adding, it is expects to conclude negotiations of new banking facilities by the time results for the year to 31 March are announced in June.


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Ok so here it is...I have a new baby who is barely gonna be 5 months old...I have a 6 year old. I got an IUD Mirena. About 3 to 4 weeks ago I happened to look in the toilet and saw it floating in there. I bleed for like 7 days straight. But nothing since then.My BF and I have been using condoms. But he tried the pull out method a couple of times. I have heard you can become pregnant with this method too. Could it be possible that I could get pregnant again?


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Q: Picker View Background Color during Rotation I am having an issue with my picker view rotating. I am using a normal UIPickerView and autorotation, all of which is done in code (but the autorotation isn't what I'm concerned about). The picker view does exactly what I want it to do after rotation. The issue is that my background is black, and during rotation the background of the picker view turns white in places. I am pretty sure that these are the deep subviews of the picker view simply because of debugging using Xcode's visual debugger and taking mid-rotation screen shots.
My question is, how do I get the background of the picker view to not appear momentarily white?
I have tried something along these lines:
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and pass in pickerView.subviews as the initial parameter, but this doesn't produce the desired result.
So, what solution should I try to get the background to appear black throughout the entire rotation process?

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Press Release -- June 24th, 2014
Source: Unite Private Networks
Unite Private Networks Builds New Fiber-Optic Network in Little Rock
Ribbon Cutting set for Thursday, June 26
Little Rock, AR (June 24, 2014) – Unite Private Networks (UPN) announced today it recently completed a new high speed fiber-optic network in Little Rock, Arkansas.
"The city-wide network will extend throughout the community, including 1 gigabit connections to all 56 Little Rock School District facilities," said Steve Hartman, Vice President of Sales at UPN.
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SHAPING LA
F rom just eight recorded residents in 1850, when California became a state, to well above 500,000 people today, the Jewish population in Los Angeles surely has grown and evolved exponentially since the first settlers arrived here. The Jewish community and the city of Los Angeles undoubtedly have an intertwined story, each shaping the other's development over the years. And throughout Los Angeles and even stretching from the San Fernando Valley to the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys, markers showcasing Jewish influence are abundant.
The landmarks that paint the history of Jewish life in Los Angeles are, of course, far too many to fully portray in one magazine article. But there are themes we can touch on that give us a glimpse of the path the community took to get to where it is today in greater Los Angeles.
Perhaps a cemetery wouldn't be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about important historical landmarks of Jewish society in Los Angeles.
In fact, the first recorded Jewish site in the city of Los Angeles is a burial ground located near what is now Chavez Ravine next to Dodger Stadium. On a street called Lilac Terrace just south of the stadium, you can find a seemingly out of place bronze California landmark marker that designates the site.
It reads: "The Hebrew Benevolent Society of Los Angeles (1854), first charitable organization in the city, acquired this site from the city council by deed of April 9, 1855. This purchase of a sacred burial ground represented the first organized community effort by the pioneer Jewish settlers."
So why would the first Jewish site in the city be a cemetery?
Stephen Sass, president of the Jewish Historical Society of Southern California, said the reason can be traced back to Abraham, in the story where he looks for a place to bury his wife Sarah.
Building a cemetery, Sass said, "is saying to a community, 'We are going to stay here for a while and we expect that we are going to have people that are going to pass away and we want to make sure we treat them with dignity and respect in accordance with Jewish tradition.'"
Sass added, "It really was quite a statement because the Jewish population was probably less than 100 people at that point."
The site certainly provides an interesting context to the area and to the history of Jewish Los Angeles.
"We sometimes say Sandy Koufax wasn't the first Jew at Dodger Stadium," Sass said. "The joke was it was called Chavez Levine."
Ultimately, the site became too small for a growing population, so the community moved its burial ground to the Home of Peace Memorial Park and Mortuary in East Los Angeles.
Today, a walk around the cemetery is a journey through important Jewish figures from the past several decades.
"It's a storyline of the early Jews," said Steven Windmueller, professor emeritus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. "It's a phenomenal walk back in time."
Other iconic Jewish cemeteries that come to mind include Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in Culver City, where many of Hollywood's famous Jewish actors rest, and Mount Sinai in Hollywood Hills and Simi Valley.
Probably the first thing you think of when talking about any Jewish community is a synagogue. And there is no shortage of historic houses of worship in the Los Angeles area.
The Hebrew Benevolent Society also comes up here. The group organized the first places for gathering in the early Jewish community in the area.
"Maybe because there were not enough Jews to form a synagogue or they did not agree on the customs of a synagogue, [Hebrew Benevolent Society] would be by far the original institution for the community in Los Angeles," Windmueller said.
He added, "All the potential problems that come with early, unsettled society, you needed to provide social and human services to families and to their kids. I think that is precisely why you see this emerging so much as a first step."
The service group still exists today, now known as Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles.
In terms of a brick-and-mortar temple, the first that most point to would be the Wilshire Boulevard Temple. The Orthodox congregation first started as Temple B'nai B'rith, founded by Rabbi Joseph Newmark in 1862.
According to Wilshire Boulevard Temple's website, Newmark first came to Los Angeles from New York in 1854 and helped the community hold High Holy Day services in the city's only courtroom even before establishing his congregation.
The congregation first called the gothic-style Fort Street Temple home, dedicating the building in 1873. Later, it moved to a synagogue at 9th and Hope streets, a grand building that housed the largest chandelier in the city at the time.
Finally, in 1929, the now-reform congregation dedicated the current synagogue on Wilshire Boulevard, with architecture modeled off the Pantheon in Rome.
In addition to being Los Angeles' first formal congregation, Wilshire Boulevard Temple is also credited with traditions such as standing during the Kaddish prayer and establishing well-known Jewish summer camps Hess Kramer and Grindling Hilltop.
Sass said the synagogue itself not only plays a part in Jewish history but also portrays it on historic murals on its walls. Painted by artist Hugo Ballin, they were commissioned by members of the Warner family and are now known as the Warner Murals.
The name probably rings a bell, since the family is that behind Warner Bro Studios
"That would be a major landmark and one that even the non-Jewish community would recognize as a landmark for the Jewish community," Sass said. "It is often shown on the news."
Another iconic synagogue to note is the Breed Street Shul in Boyle Heights, also known as Congregation Talmud Torah.
Boyle Heights, Sass said, was a central part of Jewish history between 1920 and 1950.
"It was the largest Jewish community west of Chicago," Sass said, adding that it boasted more than 30 synagogues at its peak.
Now, Breed Street is the only one left standing.
Sass himself helped save the synagogue from being demolished and is the founder of the nonprofit Breed Street Shul Project, which has worked since 1999 to conserve and restore the building.
Of course there are countless synagogues and congregations across the region that trace Jewish history in Los Angeles. But with Wilshire Boulevard Temple and Breed Street Shul, we can see the community's beginnings.
Industry, Science & Education
The Warner Murals at Wilshire Boulevard Temple also shine a light on Jewish history in many of Los Angeles' prominent industries.
From film to banking to garments, there is a Jewish story to tell.
"As Jews have lived here they have kind of been part and parcel of the development of Southern California," Sass said. "They've built various synagogues and schools and businesses and been involved in the building of and the development of government and its institutions and whole industries like the garment industry and Hollywood, which they really just invented."
Legacy Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios all join with Warner Bros. as "Jewish landmarks, in a way," Sass said.
On top of Los Angeles' prominent garment industry, Sass also points to produce and flower markets.
These well-established Los Angeles industries "had a particular Sephardic influence and many Sephardic immigrants went into those businesses and established them from there," he said.
The area of health also has strong Jewish influence, including City of Hope in Duarte. The hospital, which is now a major research and treatment center in the region, was originally established in 1913 by a group of volunteers as the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association to address the tuberculosis epidemic that was plaguing the Jewish community at the time.
Cedars-Sinai, originally founded as Kaspare Cohn Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital in the early 1900s, also developed out of that need. Eastern European Jews diagnosed with the then deadly disease came in droves to Los Angeles, seeking a dry climate and clean air.
And even after the tuberculosis crisis faded, the hospitals maintained prominence.
"Both of those also served a function because it was difficult for Jewish doctors to find positions on some hospital staff and so the hospitals both performed a function in terms of both training and employment for Jewish doctors and nurses who might have otherwise had trouble getting jobs," Sass said.
In a similar vein, many of Los Angeles' educational institutions can be credited with playing a big part in Jewish history.
Windmueller points to California Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles and even the Claremont Colleges as evidence.
Southern California's universities were both shaped by Jewish scholars and also drew them to the area.
"As the growth of these institutions occurred out here in the west, it attracted significant amounts of Jewish professionals and professors," Windmueller said. "This has become and will continue to be an important center for research and intellectual inquiry and as jobs are opening and available you will continue to see some Jewish academics attracted to the West Coast."
Why? Windmueller guesses it could stem from core of Jewish philosophy and beliefs.
"Maybe out of the inquiring principals within Judaism, where the question is more important at times than the answer, and the urging or the requirement that you should challenge or ask or push back against answers," he said.
Important Stories
We've merely scratched the surface of the rich history of the Jewish community in Los Angeles, and there is certainly an endless collection of stories to be uncovered.
Windmueller encourages all to get to know their community's history.
"I think most Los Angeles and Southland Jews are really unfamiliar with the historical background of what has been a rather rich and interesting history in this area," Windmueller said. "These are all very interesting pieces to the larger question of how did we get here and what did we look like."
Our history should "both bring pride to Jews, but they also need to be made aware of some of these stories," Windmueller said.
A good place to start?
Windmueller recommends "History of the Jews in Los Angeles" by Max Vorspan and Lloyd Gartner.
Sass and The Jewish Historical Society of Los Angeles also have many resources and the group leads regular guided tours of important sites.
LAUREN GOLD IS A CONTRIBUTING WRITER TO JLIFE MAGAZINE.
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Several budget proposals which could have impacted frontline environmental services have been taken off the table by Carmarthenshire County Council's Executive Board.
Cllr Hazel Evans, Executive Board Member for Environment, said she was delighted that her colleagues had agreed to remove some of the most hard-hitting saving proposals from the budget report it has recommended to Full Council.
It means there will not be any reduction in winter gritting operations, a proposal that would have saved the authority £32,000 a year.
Cllr Evans said that as well as reflecting the overwhelming public opinion, gathered as part of the recent budget consultation exercise, the decision to save on gritting services could have impacted on public safety.
The level of savings originally proposed for rural road sweeping has also been revised following public feedback, meaning the proposed budget reduction is now only £100,000 - re-establishing £186,000 of the budget - with priority to be given to known problem areas.
An additional £160,000 has been put into the budget to limit any car parking increases across the county, in support of the local economy. It also means less of a knock-on effect on other transport services, such as road repairs and rural bus routes which are subsidised from the revenue generated from car parking fees.
Finally, the council has secured a £4.5million grant over three years for highway resurfacing, compensating for the proposed budget reduction in this area.
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While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbot Ferris's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form. Since then he has worked to understand how this collection came to exist and be set aside. With Stephen T. Austin, Bolick has transcribed the subsequent 1939 audio recordings. Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s presents the history of the collecting work, with over three hundred of the tunes and songs and a beautiful selection of period photographs.
In the summer of 1936, over one hundred fiddle tunes, many of them unique, along with thousands of songs, were collected and notated throughout a large part of Mississippi. Roughly 130 novice field workers captured beautiful tunes and tantalizing fragments. As a body of work, it is an unparalleled and fascinating snapshot of vernacular music as heard in Mississippi in the early part of the recorded era. However, this music was unpublished and forgotten. In 1939, building on the contacts made three years earlier, Herbert Halpert led one of the last and best executed of the WPA folklore projects which recorded audio performances in Mississippi. Some, but not all, of those distinctive fiddle tune recordings have been published. Additionally through cassette tape copies passed hand to hand, some of these distinctive tunes have regained currency and popularity among contemporary fiddlers. In Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s, this great music is at last widely available.
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16 Ways To Save Money on Food Now That Prices Are Rising
These are the best strategies and apps to help you save.
By Lia Sestric Jan 5, 2022 Start Saving Now
If you're like most people, the biggest check you write each month is for your mortgage or rent. However, the amount you spend at the supermarket might be a close second. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans spend $4,363 on food eaten at home every year — which is roughly 6% of the average person's pretax income.
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As if that wasn't enough, the global coronavirus pandemic has skyrocketed food prices and made it more difficult for those already scraping to get by. But you might not have to reconcile yourself to a diet of ramen noodles to protect your budget. Learn how to be a smart shopper by completely avoiding common grocery store mistakes.
Make Your Money Work for You
Seek Out Manager Markdowns
When buying food, especially meat, always be on the lookout for manager markdowns.
"Manager markdowns offer savings of up to 50% off on meat, poultry and fish nearing its expiration date," said Andrea Woroch, a consumer and money-saving expert. "Plan your meal around these manager markdowns, then cook what you want to eat right away and freeze the rest for later so it doesn't spoil."
Meat can very well be the priciest part of your grocery purchase. If you buy during a 50% markdown, you could easily save money each month.
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Always Buy Generic — Seriously
If you want to save big, go generic — there's a big window for savings.
"Canned goods, dried pasta, cereal, baking staples like flour and sugar, and even spices are good examples of generic or store brands that are just as good as name brands," said Woroch.
And nowadays, every big-box store has its own brand, which is usually half the cost. Woroch said this strategy can save you 30% to 50% on your grocery bill.
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Shop on Wednesdays
You also need to know when to buy certain items. And timing is everything.
"Wednesdays are the best day to shop for food, as this is when most supermarkets release new circulars, ensuring you have the first pick of the top deals," said Woroch.
She added that stores typically also honor last week's deals, so you'll likely have bonus sale items to choose from as well.
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Figure Out Your Store's Sales Cycles
Stores typically run all sales on a cycle. According to Tracie Fobes of Penny Pinchin' Mom, you should create a way to follow these sales — it's as simple as tracking prices of things you buy often in what she calls a "price book."
"This will allow you to stock up on those staples to carry you from sale to sale," she said. Tracking sales cycles can help when you're trying to get by living paycheck to paycheck.
Be Willing To Negotiate
Did you know that you can negotiate prices, especially when food is approaching its "sell by" date? That date doesn't necessarily mean a product will go bad by then — but it does mean the item's price isn't final.
So, if you see something approaching its "sell by" date, why not beat the store to the punch by asking for the discount first? You might be surprised by how much they knock off the price or offer you in coupons.
Save Online Coupons
While you're surfing the net, why not see what extra savings you can find for your next grocery trip? You can locate specific brand coupons online through sites like Coupon Sherpa or PromoCodeWatch, said Woroch.
For example, when she performed a search, Woroch found $3 off Tide Pods from Kroger, $1 off any two boxes of Cheerios and $1 off any 1-pound package of Jennie-O turkey breast. And just like that, you have $5 in savings.
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Use Those Coupons
A strategy is key to saving on groceries. So, put your grocery store coupons to work.
"When Publix has its weekly sales, people should focus on using their coupons on the items that are on sale BOGO (buy one, get one free) to maximize their savings," said Lisa Sims, author of "Digital Coupon Savings 411."
Feel free to combine coupons, as well. People can miss the biggest savings when it comes to grocery coupons. If you can master combining them, you can really make the magic happen, said Josh Elledge of SavingsAngel.
"If the coupon says it is a store coupon, you can also use a manufacturer's coupon on that same purchase," he said. "That's because the store is paying for the additional discount. This is called coupon stacking."
Shop on Double Coupon Days
Some grocery stores will give you twice the discount on whatever coupon you use on "double coupon" days — this means a $1 off coupon would be worth $2 off on that specific day. The best way to find out which of your local grocery store chains offers these double coupon days and when is to call them directly and ask about their policies. The extra leg work can end up helping you score major grocery deals.
Use Apps To Find Savings
Sometimes technology is your best bet to locate the best deals, which isn't always an easy task.
Jill Cataldo, the founder of the nationally syndicated newspaper column Super-Couponing Tips, recommends Flipp — a free app that gathers all of the store circulars in your area in one easy-to-use space.
"Use it to plan your weekly grocery trips, and you'll enjoy its coupon-matching feature too, which automatically points out additional discounts available on what you're buying at the supermarket," she said. "You can save 20% to 70% off each item by using the app, which can add up to hundreds of dollars over the year."
Sign Up For Loyalty Programs
Grocery stores want to have returning customers — that's why they offer loyalty programs.
Find out which supermarkets offer these programs before your next shopping trip. Savings might be instant or through future coupons, and the benefits could easily save $20 or more per shopping trip.
Figure Out Which Grocery Stores Have the Best Deals on Which Products
This might take some time to do, but careful comparison shopping at different grocery chains can help you find the best deals on specific products. The cheapest grocery stores for some items will be different than the cheapest grocery stores for other times.
"Every grocery store has its regular and sales price points," said Jacqueline of Mom Money Map. "Visit different grocery stores until you become familiar with these price points so you can recognize what's an actual great deal, and not be persuaded by a yellow sales tag. It's important to note the per unit price so you're comparing similar products."
Don't Shop at Eye Level
Grocery stores tend to stock their most expensive items at eye level, knowing that customers are most likely to grab these items. To find the best grocery deals, make sure to scan shelves from top to bottom instead of just grabbing the first item you see.
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Set Up Alerts for Price Drops
Use the Favado app to "favorite" the items you buy regularly. You'll get notified when new sale prices for these items are added to the weekly grocery ads' sales lists for stores in your area, so you'll never miss a deal.
If It's Discounted Now and You'll Need It Later, Buy It
Just because you're trying to cut your grocery bill doesn't mean you should skip buying items you don't need at the moment if they're on sale.
Say you go grocery shopping once a week, and there is something you know you'll need on an upcoming camping trip in two weeks. When you go into the supermarket, you find that item is on sale now. Instead of waiting until next week to buy the item, make the exception and buy it now.
"Watch for a great sale, combine it with coupons and store offers, and buy in a higher quantity," said Elledge. "You can easily cut 50% or more off the things you normally buy shopping this way."
Check the Unit Price When Buying in Bulk at Warehouse Stores
Some bulk items at warehouse stores might not really be the best value, said Benjamin Glaser, a former editor with DealNews.
"You're already out the cost of membership fees, and then you feel obliged to 'get your money's worth' and 'avoid return trips' by buying a lot," said Glaser. "Plus, buying in bulk always seems like a good deal. But if you check the unit price, you might not always be getting a discount."
Of course, buying in bulk can offer the opposite effect, depending on what you buy. Toilet paper and diapers are typically some of the best deals at Costco.
Buy Holiday Items After the Holiday
Holiday-themed candy and baked goods are usually heavily discounted after the holiday is over. Expect to see these holiday and seasonal items marked down up to 90%.
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Lia Sestric is a Pittsburgh native and graduate from E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Her bachelor's degree is in Broadcast News. She has written and produced television news stories in the Los Angeles area and Charleston, S.C. In 2012, Lia began to freelance write on the side about higher education and careers for Yahoo! Finance. Lia is now based in the Washington, D.C. area and continues to work on national and local writing contracts. Her work frequently appears on major sites like Yahoo, The Huffington Post, MSN, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, USA Today, in addition to GOBankingRates.
You can follow her on Twitter @liasestric and Facebook @LSHWrites. Lia can be reached by email lia.sestric@gmail.com.
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Beloved Actor Fred Willard Dies At 86
Fred Willard born Frederick "Charles" Willard was an American actor, comedian, and writer. He was best known for his roles in films as Rob Reiner mockumentary. "This Is Spinal Tap; the Christopher Guest mockumentary films Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, Mascots, and the Anchorman films.
According to Willard, in an interview with the Television Academy Foundation, he was born on September 18, 1939, and was "pretty sure" that he was born in Cleveland. In the same interview, he gave his birth name as Frederick Charles Willard without specifying the spelling of his first name, and noted that his father was also Frederick but with a different spelling.
U.S. Census records from April 1940 show the father as "Willard, Fred C," working in the financial department of a bank, and the son as "Frederick," but also shows the son as attending school in 1940 and at the age of "6" which, if correctly indicating years instead of months, would place his birth in 1933 or 1934. Also, at his death in 2020, his daughter was quoted as saying that he was 86.
Some indirect sources contradict one fact or another, such as listing Willard's birthplace as Shaker Heights, Ohio. In any case, the younger Willard stated that he grew up in Shaker Heights, which corresponds to the 1940 Census record showing the family on Riedham Road in that city.
His mother, Ruth, whose maiden name was Weinman, was a housewife. Willard said that he was 12 years old in 1951 when his father died. The younger Willard graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute in 1951 and the Virginia Military Institute in 1955. He was stationed in Germany while serving in the United States Army.
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are glass but the ceiling certainly is not: for, as, Greig claims, he "employs 98% women."
The third floor location and the tough looking doormen employed by Condénast are
perhaps there for a reason, Greig's magazine being one that everyone seems to have a
hold on. although younger readers have a tendency to elide the definite article that their
parents would have prefaced it with, The Tatler is nevertheless unique, particularly
following the rebranding of Harpers and Queen. "We'll be the only social magazine left in
Britain. Hoorah," quips Greig. But what exactly is a social magazine, what is the formula that
has kept Tatler going since its foundation in 1709? "It's a luxury. Like a fabulous box
of chocolates. deeply desirable, enjoyable. decadent and sometimes a little wicked." Flicking through the current issue reveals an interview with Paris Hilton in which the hotel
heiress enlightens the reader with her preferred conversation topics with her manicurist, a
short story by the improbably named evgenia Citkowitz about a sixth former at the kind of
girls' school whose leavers ball photos appear in Bystander, and numerous glossy ads.
advertising is clearly important: "the big brands love Tatler because it's very english, it's got
a sense of humour, a very rich readership." Very rich indeed: there are a mere 86,000 of
them, but in a year they spend a total of £1.1 billion on travel alone. as a magazine Tatler
chronicles society, and Greig is insistent on having writers who "have the inside
track;" hence a list of contributors encompassing both Parker-Bowles children and Lord
Freddie Windsor. But how valid is the notion of society in today's england of labour
politicians and Pete and Jordan's OK nuptials? Greig is adamant that "every country has a
society." He points out that society is, and always has been, accepting of new talent and
(gasp) new money. "There's no stigma to making money: people like success. The
establishment is always made up of those who do well, who reach up." as anyone who
has seen Madonna's current tweed phase will no doubt agree, these people merge. "Who
would have thought rock stars, symbols of rebellion, would be shooting pheasants on
country estates?" Our interview takes place during London Fashion week, and Greig uses the example of the
guest list at donatella Versace's party to illustrate this new trend: "there were people
from grand houses, people from rock, people from fashion, from the financial industry." and
do they all get on? "I think people are all rather intrigued by each other." But nevertheless
Tatler is not just for insiders. "It's read by probably the widest and most influential circle
of readers it's possible to have. From Tony Blair's spin doctors to Saatchis, to fifteen year
olds at schools all over the country." Certainly not all of these could be classed as
members of capitalised London Society. Even in Oxford it is not only those who can spot
their school friends in the back pages who read the magazine. Greig agrees that there can
be an element of voyeurism involved: in peeking into a different social milieu, a different
world. But the balance has to be kept right. "The insider should feel it's right and that they're
more informed, and the outsider should find it interesting and fascinating, and aspire to
know more about that kind of life." However, Greig emphasises that his magazine is not
totally serious: "Humour is very important for Tatler. I think we need to be mischievous,
ironic, to sometimes bite the hand that feeds us." It is reassuring to hear that articles
such as 'Terror on the King's road: Why Chelsea is no longer safe' (which appeared, with
unfortunate irony, shortly before the July 7th underground bombings) are not conceived with
a deadly serious public service agenda. But do some people miss the joke? "If they do
they probably don't read us again," laughs Greig. "I think most people who enjoy Tatler
enjoy the sense of having fun, including taking the piss sometimes."But who is this man who claims to "come in every morning thrilled to be here
because there are exciting things to be done?" now in his mid forties,he has worked in
journalism since leaving university at Oxford, although he claims: "I always used
to be rather nervous about calling myself a journalist." After Eton he read english at St.
Peter's, but was not involved with the student press. "I had a horrid time doing
journalism at Oxford. When I wrote one piece for the Isis, the editor totally rewrote it,
made up quotes and I had to write a letter of apology. I thought: shit, I'm not going
to do this." But do it he did, eschewing a job in banking to take up an offer
at a newspaper in deptford. except it turned out not to be an offer: someone at the South
east London and Kentish Mercury merely thought it would be amusing to have someone
whose CV read 'eton, Oxford, deptford.' They did, however, employ him as a crime reporter.
Was working in one of London's poorest boroughs a culture shock? "You have to be
genuine. Normal rules of life: be yourself. People don't give a monkey's as long as you are
yourself and you're comfortable in your own skin." After two years he moved to the Sunday
Times, who sent him to america. Greig claims: "I loved new York. It was a
real life changer." He covered "all the fun, froth and trivia," as well as more serious
events like the Waco shootings. After five years he returned to London as the Sunday
Times' Literary editor, a position he held for a further five years. What about the job at
Tatler? "I was rung up out of the blue by Nicholas Coleridge, who is the managing director
of Condénast. He said: "Please don't put the phone down: this is probably the maddest call
you've ever had, but would you consider being editor of Tatler?" He admits he had no
idea it was coming at the time, but he eagerly accepted. "Tatler is one of the oldest, most
distinguished magazines, with a pedigree going back almost three hundred years, and it's
had some great editors who made a difference in journalism."He mentions how the magazine "punches above it's weight: we're a small circulation that
tries to have a big impact. Tatler is an authority on social life." Certainly the rest of
the media listens. Greig recalls the time "we declared the dinner party was dead. There
were headlines in Korea, Canada, people rang us up." On another occasion there were
"seven TV stations camped outside (his) offi ce" following an interview with Prince Andrew.
The transition from a 'gritty, warty newspaper' to a glossy magazine with a two month lead
in period was a challenging one. "My first three months were quite tense. I thought it was
going to be the same as newspapers, whereas it's very different." How so? "It is less
adrenalin led. You haven't got that intense sense of 'we're going off the press in thirty
minutes.' Moreover the subject matter is different. at the start, Greig "didn't know anything
about fashion. [He] thought Pucci was a misspelling of Gucci." However it was not just the
switch to magazine journalism and the more female environment that the new editor had to
deal with. He also had his own agenda. "I wanted to make it more journalistic and
I wanted to go back to its roots, bringing in great writers, a sense of style." Under Greig's
command Tatler has featured work by Tom Wolfe, Kazuo Ishiguro, VS naipaul, William Boyd
and Seamus Heaney. "I have tried to make it more intelligent. I think our readers can take
great writing." Great writing it is, and in a glamorous showcase. Tatler is the kind of place
where the staff can borrow clothes from the heaps of couture in the fashion department if
they need something smarter for the evening. Aspiration shows on its shiny pages, but does it shine brightly enough in today's
increasingly homogenized world, where everyone is middle class? I ask Greig if it is still
cool to be posh. He considers for a minute and replies: "It's never cool simply to be posh,
but it's fine to be yourself. Whether you're posh or Polish or from Pittsburgh doesn't really
matter."ARCHIVE: 4th week MT 2005


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Q: Mostrar Layout al hacer Click en item de RecyclerView Estoy utilizando un RecyclerView para mostrar una lista de usuarios. Y me gustaría que al hacer click en los items de la lista se lance un layout mostrandome la información que tengo guardada en mi bd del usuario seleccionado, sin iniciar una nueva actividad. Comparto el código a ver si pueden ayudarme.
MiCuadroDeDialogo
public class MiCuadroDeDialogo extends DialogFragment {
@Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());

    View v = getActivity().getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.dialog_usuario, null);
    builder.setView(v);

    return builder.create();
}
}

UsuarioPendiente
public class UsuarioPendiente extends AppCompatActivity {

Context context;
LinearLayout volver;
RecyclerView listaPendientes;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_usuario_pendiente);
    context = UsuarioPendiente.this;
    volver = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.btnVolverPendientes);

    listaPendientes = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.listaPendientes);
    listaPendientes.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(context));
    listaPendientes.setItemAnimator(new DefaultItemAnimator());
    ControladorUsuario controlador = new ControladorUsuario(context);
    final UsuarioAdapter adapter = new UsuarioAdapter(context, controlador.listaUsuarios());
    listaPendientes.setAdapter(adapter);

    volver.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            finish();
        }
    });
}
}

UsuarioAdapter
public class UsuarioAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<UsuarioHolder> implements Filterable {

Context c;
public ArrayList<Usuario> usuarios, listaFiltrada;
FiltroUsuarios filtro;

   public UsuarioAdapter(Context ctx, ArrayList<Usuario> usuarios){
   this.c=ctx;
   this.usuarios=usuarios;
   this.listaFiltrada=usuarios;

 }

@Override
public UsuarioHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    View v= LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.item_lista_usuarios,null);

    //HOLDER
    UsuarioHolder holder=new UsuarioHolder(v);

    return holder;
}

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(UsuarioHolder holder, final int position) {
    holder.nombre.setText(usuarios.get(position).getNombre());
    holder.apellido.setText(usuarios.get(position).getApellido());
    holder.bind(usuarios.get(position));

}

@Override
public int getItemCount() {
    return usuarios.size();
}

@Override
public Filter getFilter() {
    if (filtro==null){
        filtro = new FiltroUsuarios(listaFiltrada, this);
    }
    return filtro;
}

}

UsuarioHolder
public class UsuarioHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

public TextView nombre, apellido;
public LinearLayout linearLayoutItem;

public UsuarioHolder(View itemView) {
    super(itemView);
    this.apellido = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.nombreUsuario);
    this.nombre = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.apellidoUsuario);

    linearLayoutItem = (LinearLayout) itemView.findViewById(R.id.linearLayoutItem);

}

 public void bind(Usuario user) {
    itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
       /* como lanzo el cuadro de dialogo correctamente aqui*/

        }
    });

}

dialog_usuario.xml

A: Utiliza un AlertDialog que es mas sencillo. Para eso tienes que utilizar AlertDialog.Builder y asignarle los parametros que necesites, en este caso setView(view) y show() para mostrar el dialogo.
Primero hay que enviarle el contexto a UsuarioHolder ya que AlertDialog.Builder requiere del contexto en el constructor:
//...
@Override
public UsuarioHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    View v= LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.item_lista_usuarios,null);

    // inicia el holder y envia el contexto en el constructor
    return new UsuarioHolder(v, this.c);;
}
//...

Ahora hay que definir que UsuarioHolder reciba el contexto en el constructor:
public class UsuarioHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

    //...
    private Context context;
    public UsuarioHolder(View itemView, Context context) {
        //...

        this.context = context;
    }

Entonces ahora en el metodo onClick se pone el codigo donde mostraras el dialog:
itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // inflamos el layout
        View view = getActivity()
        .getLayoutInflater()
        .inflate(R.layout.dialog_usuario, null);

        new AlertDialog.Builder(context)
        .setView(view)
        .show();

        //utilizando view, puedesa acceder a los controles del layout dialog_usuario
        TextView username = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.idDeUnControl);
    }
});

A: Prodrias abrir un AlertDialog con una vista personalizada que te muestra esta información, algo asi.
Primero asigna el evento onClick a tus elementos en el recyclerview utilizando un metodo en tu holder por ejemplo:
public void bind(Usuario user) { itemView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { /* aqui creas tu alertdialog */ });

este metodo lo ejecutas en el metodo onBindViewHolder
holder.bind(usuarios.get(position));

pasas el objeto usuario para que recuperes esos datos en el metodo bind y los pintes en tu alertdialog


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► Should I tell my brother to pull his offer on a house?
Should I tell my brother to pull his offer on a house?
Started by Snow, August 18, 2018, 10:37:54 PM
Hi guys. My brother has been looking for a new house for his wife and two kids. I knew they started looking about a month or so ago after relocating for his new job. They're in temporary housing now paid by his new company, which is good. I think they have one more month paid for. Anyway, they want to buy a 4 bedroom house in a competitive area with one of the best school districts. They bid on three houses last month and lost.
I just found out they bid on a 6 bedroom house that's 6,000 square feet (?!?!) and there's only one other interested buyer. This is the first time they think they have a decent shot at winning but it's over their budget and definitely more house than they need. I can't even imagine living in a 6,000 sq ft place. How in the world would you furnish it and keep it clean? Plus they don't plan to have any more kids.
I'm tempted to tell my brother to back out because I'd hate to see him get in over his head and get stretched with a mortgage bigger than planned with rates going up and so much house to maintain. But I also know he must be feeling frustrated from having lost 3 bids already and under pressure to get them out of temporary housing. And I don't want to piss him off since they already submitted their bid.
What would you do? Have you ever told a sibling you thought they were making a mistake on a big purchase?
Re: Should I tell my brother to pull his offer on a house?
My brothers and I quarrel about lots of things even to this day, so we've all grown a bit of a thick skin. If it was one of my brothers in that situation, I would say something with no expectation of him taking my advice. But I'd be glad to have it off my chest. Even though we don't always agree, we want the best for each other and have always spoken our minds openly. Sleep on it though and think about how he's reacted in past decisions you disagreed with. Perhaps he can afford more than you think, especially if he's using a mortgage lender. It's much harder to get approved these days.
Daimyo, Global Moderator
That's a tricky one! You could try talking to him and asking a lot of questions instead of just telling him you think he's making a mistake. He might realize he put in an offer because he's in panic mode or he might surprise you with how much he's thought things through and feels it's a great house for them.
Did you ever consider a house this large before you found this one?
What will you do with all the extra space?
Do you think you'll move and downsize after the kids move out?
Sounds like a lot of house to furnish and clean. How are you going to do that?
What's the maintenance history? Is it going to be a lot of work to maintain and fix up or is it totally move in ready?
Hope that helps. Good luck!
Thanks Captain and Sydney. I decided to call him this morning because I couldn't just sit still any longer. I took the approach of asking a lot of questions and letting him do most of the talking. He admitted that he's been nervous as hell after putting in their initial bid. The latest news is they are supposed to get a counter from the seller tomorrow. He thinks the other buyer is favored to win at this point because he doesn't want to get into a bidding war and is probably not going to agree to the counter offer unless it's a fractional change. He realizes this isn't their ideal house being that it's bigger than they need.
So most likely they'll have to keep looking for another house and I haven't had to get into an argument with him. phew
Shogun, Administrator
Always curious
Snow - What area, price, price/sqft,etc? Need some numbers to make a better assessment. How much can that house be sold for? When was it last sold and at what price etc?
Many markets are slowing across the country as inventory and rates pick up.
norcalbang
Mortgage banker for 20+ years here, also family of four, and have owned 30 houses... my .02 on this is a gut reaction of "nobody needs 6,000 sq ft" and given your brother's nervousness perhaps secretly he's hoping the other offer is accepted.
SWAN comes to mind, and splurging on 6K sq ft for me would squash the SWAN for sure!
To each their own, however, I must say that through the years I've had many clients buy the 5-6K sq ft home only to return a few years later wanting to downsize. The electric bills, water bills, furnishings, cleaning, upkeep, and the list goes on... it takes a toll for sure.
Your brother could buy a 2,500-3,000 sq ft home which is more than plenty for a family of four, and invest the difference. Perhaps hang on to the money saved then find an investment property during the winter (as Sam points out and I agree wholeheartedly), get a tax deduction, and make the investment a designated savings vehicle for the kids' college funds?? Just an idea, but good luck with the approach as it's quite difficult to convince family sometimes that maybe they should re-evaluate their decision


But DimensionEngineering warned me that this kind of setup could damage the sabertooth (so maybe it could damage the MM as well) because the power generated by the DC motors is not sinked as there is no resistor in that case. Maybe the MM has a protection ?
Hum. Today I wired the second smolka to the sabertooth, and after testing 5 minutes with LFS, the PSU failed. Same problem appeared. As I wired the second smolka, I also removed one resistor to clamp voltage on second output, so I went back to 18 ohm instead of 9. I'll order some more 9 ohm and see what happens. I'll also put another diode on the + side.
EDIT: added another diode and no issues after 10 mins. Will order 5 ohm as well, together with power diodes. Should find a working setup with all that !
@vthinsel any news about that?
@vthinsel, thank you for information.
the max current is 2 x 52 A, if more is requested no more current will be provided?
probably generated power from the motors can't "go back" to the PSU?
Just ordered a couple of 40A IXYS DH40-18A. Shoudl receive them middle of next week. Looks like it is cheaper to order two diodes instaed of a dual unit.
Yep, they are expensive, but should prevent current from going back to the PSU.
If more amps are requested, the diode will probably get hot and potentially be damaged. I'll put it on a heatsink, maybe on the sabertooth heatsink which will have a fan (the PSU fans flowing towards the sabertooth).
But DimensionEngineering warned me that this kind of setup could damage the sabertooth.................Maybe the MM has a protection ?
3. a P-channel MOSFET connected to the VCCpin The device sustains no more than -30A in reverse battery conditions because of the two body diodes of the power MOSFETs. Additionally, in reverse battery condition the I/Os of VNH2SP30-E are pulled down to the VCCline (approximately -1.5V).
@vthinsel the diode is installed. Did some tests without the seat, only by moving the levers by hand, which is producing a quite heavy oscillation. The diode will be very warm...so befor I start the final test I sticked a cooler on it. I am waiting until the thermal adhesive is dried off. I wonder how it will work. Will it blow?
If it is just warm, then it's OK.
As long as it doesnt become hot. They can probably cope quite high temp.
Are you sure that you have the right diagnosis?
Anyone having this issue and fixed it succesfully ?
You are certainly correct that when the motors stop, they appear as a short circuit. Unfortunately these server/pc power supplies are heavily protected against such things.
at the motor controller (MM/JRK). What you could do is add very large capacitors to the power supply to lessen the load put on the power supply, or a car battery.
Sometimes depending on the motor size and its current draw a capacitor nor a car battery will suffice as it is just the PSU doing what it is meant to do and shut down when an excessive load is applied.
ok guys obviously I wasted 50 bucks...at "Döttinger Höhe" the winches stopped again. At least the PSU stops a little bit later, but it stops.
Now using one PSU for one winch - no issues.
I havent read the entire thread but this sounds an awful lot like the voltage is rising on the supply rail and is causing the psu to go into over voltage protect. Like Alexey posted.
Are you able to log the rail voltages? or maybe just log maximum voltage?
in my own experience it is imperative to use heavy and short wires to avoid induction.
Just for giggles try and put a heavy resistor across the psu 0v and +24v. 100w (5Ohm@24v) should be enough (re purposed space heater maybe ?) . If this does the trick i would recommend a braking resistor 3-400w and a control circuit as not to continuously draw power. .