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Reconsidering Citizenship -- Healing Our Democracy
This blog charts my assuredly inadequate yet earnest attempts to reconsider citizenship today in a fragile and imploding United States of America. What will be required of each of us to integrate our history(ies) and mature into a robust, viable democracy-republic? Is it even possible anymore to hold generously, rigorously, our We the People? I want to say yes...and am willing to listen, learn, work for the Universe to prove me right...
Community is NOT Intimacy
Community is not the same thing as intimacy, nor is intimacy what community brings as gift. Years of yearning and disappointment are packed into this statement, though I am also smiling, now on this side of things.
A searing yearning has accompanied me most of my life. It's really only been in the last years that I learned not everyone has this sensation inside of them. For me, it's a waxing and waning emptiness within, met somehow in being seen, being deeply heard in who I am or what I have to say. Sometimes I'm acutely in touch with it, feeling its weight and drive to be met somehow, anyway, anyhow. More often than not, in these days, I'm less attuned to its urgencies and need. I know some of the stories underneath it, and can hold the 'searing' quality with a bit of watery ease. I also appreciate its contributions and gift in my life, the fruit of its drive.
Early on in my life, the searing yearning pushed me into some difficult situations--discounting my own worth so to be included in human groups that didn't respect me nor have my best interest at heart. That happened a lot in college. Over the years, however, this part of me has led into diverse spiritual friendships, deepening relationships and a web of belonging that nourishes me as the creative contemplative I am. I cannot now imagine my life away from the busy intersection of widely divergent human beings with whom I have shared prayer, pleasure, practice, lament, laughter and more. Friends who are deeply committed to wisdom ways of being in the world and who held spaces for me to heal, grow, learn, and love anew. In the end, this searing yearning has made me a contemplative, a writer, a community organizer, a circle-way holder/keeper--all of which makes my life overwhelmingly rich, abundant. I am grateful. A long road to 'here,' wherever 'here' is, but worthwhile.
Community did not provide for me what I have needed, however, nor was the intimacy I craved to be found in its valleys or mountaintops. Community is not the same thing as intimacy, nor is intimacy what community brings as gift.
Parker Palmer's essay articulated this for me in a way I could finally see it in my own experience. He names clearly that our culture today associates community with intimacy, which he points out is a trap.
"When community is reduced to intimacy, our world shrinks to a vanishing point: with how many people can one be genuinely intimate in a lifetime?" A light bulb went off in my head when I read those words for the first time. I was both exhausted and exhilarated. The energy output in my life at the time, to craft a faith community for myself in which I could be seen and heard, in which I could feel safe, was huge. Ultimately unsustainable. I was attempting to be intimate with an increasing number of spiritual friends, across geography and even generations. I was seeking intimate community, or so I thought.
Palmer's observation freed me to see my own finitude, accept my own limitations as gift. He was inviting me to relax into my created condition and be receptive to all around me apart from my intentions. Trust the gifts that would be given, that would emerge. Palmer crafts an image of community that resonated with me as soon as I read it, yet was also liberating me from this yearning that drove me so.
Community must be an expansive web, he observes. It must be "capacious enough to embrace everything from my relation to strangers I will never meet (e.g., the poor around the world to whom I am accountable), to people with whom I share local resources and must learn to get along (e.g., immediate neighbors), to people I am related to for the purpose of getting a job done (e.g., coworkers and colleagues)." In this expansive sense of community, we are related to one another without any one of us being completely responsible for the relationship itself. I know that sounds arrogant and more--how is one person responsible for any relationship, after all?--but it's how I was reared. It's my natural (if unhealthy) way of feeling connected, important, valued in relationship. I assumed for decades that I am responsible to care for the other if I am to be connected, to serve others if I am to be seen, to expend my own energies for what the other desires I am not to be alone. In my unconscious need, I constantly "served others" out of my own need more than their own. Ego-driven ministry, which is not ministry at all.
Parker conceded what is now acutely obvious to me, after forty years of living into the responsibility paradigm: "Intimacy is neither possible nor necessary across this entire range of relationships." His question is worth repeating: With how many people can one be genuinely intimate in a lifetime? For an extroverted introvert like myself--one who thrives on one-on-one connection in multiple, serial fashion--the number of folks may be larger than some others. But it's still finite. It's still limited to decreasing energies as I age. I had been working so very hard to create a scaffolding of spiritual friendships that could hold seekers across traditions, differentiating from norms and expectations. I had thought community simply needed to be more intimate to do its healing work in the world.
But to be freed of this increasingly heavy responsibility paradigm? To realize that community was not intimacy, nor intimacy community? Really? I found myself wondering. I don't have to serve to be seen, caretake others to be connected? I can learn to trust connection that I have not earned? Could my connectedness truly arise from a strengthened capacity for it, that contemplation strengthens in me? The invitation arrived at just the right time--enforced lockdown, in a global pandemic--and while I was terrified of being isolated and alone, I found myself more and more deeply connected. Somehow.
To begin to open my assumptions and learnings about this sense of community continues to unfold and challenge me. I've lived in my community is source of intimacy for so long that I find myself there often, even though I know it's not liberating or even true. Strengthening my capacity for connectedness is what ultimately connects me inside...to the earth (my prayer tree outside, Mama Elm, for instance), to sentient beings who don't speak in words (my heart-dog, Nala), to strangers I encounter in the grocery store, to human beings across the globe whose eyes and voices touch me now in ways new to me… Strengthening my capacity for connectedness continues to challenge me in specific areas of my life where I have felt hurt or unseen--so, with church colleagues, or higher education colleagues of all sorts. So many unhealthy habits from those environments, so now, many opportunities to practice health and differentiation while loving, strengthening capacity for connectedness even there. With 'them.'
When community and intimacy can be un-hinged from one another, I think there is also invitation to confront our habitual tribalisms--of nation, of church, of political party, etc.--with an increasingly larger web of relatedness that liberates. When you can pursue and participate in just a few of your most significant relationships that will deepen your own sense of intimacy--being seen, being heard, offering gifts of the same to those you love--then there is a freedom to broaden your sense of community...to include a whole slew of 'others' with whom you are related, whether you wish it were so, or not: strangers, colleagues, local-neighbors, more... You can begin to see all 'others' as part of a communal web, human being, belonging...being-longing...
Because like it or not, Parker names from the beginning of his essay, "we are embedded in community. Whether we think of ourselves as biological creatures or spiritual beings or both, the truth remains: we were created in and for a complex ecology of relatedness, and without it we wither and die." So much of my life has been spent attempting to craft an intimate community around me, so be seen, heard, safe, loved. I'd like the remainder of my life to be spent honoring the community within which I'm clearly embedded, apart from my choice or preference, knowing now that those with whom I am blessed to be intimate will be fewer, sustainable, and free. Connect, so you can connect again later...
There is great gift in finitude, as I often tell my students...to really not being in charge at all. Responsive, not responsible or reactive. Responsive, curious, receptive, free... It becomes feasible, then, for me to focus on what is mine to do: strengthen my capacity for connectedness through contemplation, delight, receptivity. That feels do-able, human, humane.
I invite you into that as well. Join me?
Community? ies? What...?!?
Connect, so you can connect again later… These seven words have become an aphorism for me these days, a bit of a mantra as I go about my workaday world. They are surprisingly minimalist for a relational person like myself. I got into theological education a long time ago, guided by a deep desire for deepening relationships, spiritual growth, a sense of belonging in Something Larger Than Myself. In my family, that's what church was. Theological learning was a good connector with my father, and in an odd, negative-attraction sort of way, with a couple of my uncles. (One was a professed atheist, hence "negative" yet "engaging conversations" between us.) The pathway has been a beautiful one for me, now over decades, peppered with unexpected spiritual friendships and fascinating work across collaborative energies and multiple traditions (and no-tradition). I continue to struggle, however, in my understandings of and participation in community.
What does that term truly signify today, given our global economies, political divisions, social-media algorhithms of fear, anger, hatred? How is it enlivening, life-giving, welcoming, even sacred? Can it even be any of those things anymore? How do we understand a community amidst the multiple-communities we can interact with now, every day?
As many who've traveled with me with know: In order to stay even remotely connected with my own root community of Protestant Christianity, I had to reach outward into other communities that valued faith and/or practice but were safe for a woman awakening to the Feminine long-denied within her own circles. I sat with Buddhist, Jewish, earth-centered spirituality, Muslim, secular-academic, Quaker/Friends, and more. The last 15 years have been an abundant buffet of welcome into webs of relationships that could hold the differentiation from my own root-tradition that was unfolding. This path of spiritual deepening required me to encounter and be broken open by the shadows of my own "community," be it familial, marital, ecclesial. Shadows very few in my closest relationships were interested or willing to see, to be clear.
So now, I struggle to understand community as anything monolithic or unifying. While I only affiliate with maybe six distinct communities today (Presbyterian Church USA, United Seminary UMC, Women Writing for (a) Change, and now Awakening Women, Fire&Water Leadership cohorts, and CrossFit), I could point to my daily intersections with probably 10 more, in some fashion or another. These ones named are in addition to my own immediate family and families of origin (my own, and that of my husband). How is one to understand community when a life is built around several diverse communities, many of whom do NOT get along with each other…!?
My Women Writing sisters downplay my seminary-prof-self; my Presbyterian community completely ignores my WWfaC self, or the woman deeply nourished by Awakening Women. CrossFit has a deep curiosity about my various selves, but our shared focus is fitness-in-community. Camaraderie and challenge go hand in hand, and we form a community together. But it also isn't complicated or even bothered with all the ecclesial-feminine bits in the rest of my life. Curious, but not focused or necessary to name. Awakening Women and Fire&Water folks are the most distantly connected in my daily life, the first largely in online interactions and occasional retreats, the second in monthly contacts across an incredibly diverse (for me) learning community. I am committed and connected there, but not in the same "in-person" sorts of ways.
As such, all of this can be isolating for me. I can easily feel alone in each community because I am affiliated with all the others that no one in each community is ALSO affiliated with. I am sensitized to the judgments of internal-community-assumptions because I know and love folks who don't fit within those assumptions, when spoken aloud. Regularly, I have to decide do I mirror this judgment to the one I love who is speaking? Do I share my experience of rudeness or malice, though I know it's not maliciously intended? Do I let it slide, honoring that s/he would have little reason to be so sensitized? And no one needs to be connected to all of my communities as I am for me to feel like I belong...but it can get complicated all the same.
Other times, I'm quietly astounded and delighted because of the overwhelmingly abundant web of connectedness I get to cherish, participate in, contribute to. I am regularly seen and connected with such a wide variety of human beings that I can feel the largeness of our own mysteries, the ways in which we ARE each other while being so vastly different. Human beings are fascinating creatures--of habit, of fragility, of humor--and each is so very lovable--no matter how hidden the divine spark may appear on any given day. Myself included. To encounter each human being as s/he is, when I'm open to it and curious, is a gift to me.
But is that encounter community? I don't think so…
These questions sent me back to an old-familiar-essay I've cherished ever since I first learned of it: Parker Palmer's 1998 essay, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Community...with a Fourteenth Thrown in for Free." [He wrote it late at night, with the Shopping Channel on in the background 😆] As I reread it a week ago, I startled to see some things anew, reframe some things within me based upon my own wrestlings here with what community signifies. I'll start with the opening two paragraphs, but I suspect there will be different observations rising here over the next several weeks and months. In reconsidering citizenship, I want all Americans to become more conscious of what we assume (or refuse) in our notions of community.
The first observation by Palmer is that community is not a goal to be achieved, but a gift to be received. In previous readings of this work, I think I have cruised past this first paragraph with a sense of "yeah, yeah, yeah...we know that already." This time through, I'm newly appreciative of the observation and the need to pause here, to stop and listen, to deeply consider more underneath the surface. It returned me to my opening aphorism: connect, so you can connect again later. The practices underneath Palmer's opening observation are vastly different from how most of us are shaped, trained, even convicted to believe. The way of being in my aphorism is more aligned with his observation... Hmmm...
Most of my inherited and earned assumptions about community rest in the idea that we can be trained to form it. Theological education and ecclesial communities are founded on this notion of being shaped in a tradition, being formed for belonging in this particular community.
Folks come to seminary to become leaders in shaping Christian communities to be better Christians. Shaping. Folks find themselves as members of churches when they know how they belong, what behaviors are expected, what we do together when we gather and serve. We belong when our community sees us, welcomes us. I have long heard community-organizing as the intentional, well-trained work of creating community, which has basically meant achieving it, to me anyway. And yet, Palmer opens: community is not a goal to be achieved, but a gift to be received. He writes, "When we try to "make community happen," driven by desire, design, and determination—places within us where the ego often lurks—we can make a good guess at the outcome: we will exhaust ourselves and alienate each other, snapping the connections we yearn for. Too many relationships have been diminished or destroyed by a drive toward "community-building" which evokes a grasping that is the opposite of what we need to do: relax into our created condition and receive the gift we have been given.
This is writ-large in one of the communities in which I participate, contribute (who will remain nameless). All of us have shown up with a desire for our lives to be different in some fashion, more significance, deeper meaning, closer connections, whatever we might name for ourselves as our 'heart's desire' in showing up. And it's precisely those expectations that exhaust us, alienate us from one another, and snap the connections we say we yearn for. Very few of us came into the journey with the idea that we ought to relax together, accept our created condition as it is, and receive.
My own version of "activity instead of receptivity" stemmed at first from the fact that I'm a white woman in a mixed-ethnicity group. I was not going to be 'one of those white women' unwilling to do her own work. I had an urgency within me that I thought was nothing but virtuous, even prophetic. I now know it was masking a sadness inside of me, a deep frustration that I live in Ohio in the year I do. I'm surrounded by Trump Republicans (who I try to constantly humanize and honor, while sometimes failing in my own fear and frustration). I'm much more emotionally aware of the woundedness all around me, white, persons of color, economically-challenged, sick…and it hurts. Can make me afraid for who 'we' are becoming around one another. It's exhausting to be around fearful white people when I'm fearful myself, as a white woman. When I relax, however, when I practice receptivity, there is an assurance that comes from elsewhere deep within me. I become patient with my urgency, and honor its value within me, potentially for those around me, but surely for myself.
The amusing part is that I was so consciously tending to learning in a racially-diverse community that I missed completely the much larger growth curve for myself: being in community with good-hearted people who serve in denominational structures. As I stay, I'm required to see "denominational executives" as living breathing human beings who matter. Very few people on the planet irritate me more than church denominational executives, by the way. Long, conflicted history in my own church travels...so of course, the universe has paired me now with several. As Winnie-the-Pooh says, "Oh bother." 😆😆😆
Part of this history comes from my extensive work in theological education, preparing folks for church leadership. Most of my work in theological education has pointed out the off-the-rails character of life in seminaries/div schools today, having little to no bearing on the relational skills of shaping community. Faculty are hopelessly shaped in more and more disembodied, abstracted, and emotionally-neglected skills, which means they arrive to "teach fledgling Christian leaders" with little to no emotional intelligence or endurance to actually participate in Christian community. Which is messy, conflict-ridden, disruptive and ultimately transformative, when held well by those able to hold ambiguity, uncertainty, and compassion for many. This is NOT what theological faculty do today. Most, anyway. Many come into teaching precisely to escape this work of Christian community. And theological students Zoom in from online portals, which means it's easy to step away from something that upsets them 'on screen.' I've had to grieve my previous sense of learning community to allow the individuals that come to me from their separate portals to learn, be engaged by the words of their classmates, and weekly, by my own words in video-lecture, responding to their words. Vastly different animal than in-person Christian community.
So how to break the cycle of assumption then? How to begin to shape incoming seminary students so that community is not something they can create or achieve, but only something they can receive? No one likes the answer to this, which is part of why I love Palmer's essay so much.
Practice receptivity. Do the inner work to learn how to become vulnerable in collective settings, such that you are receptive to whomever and whatever shows up there. Community will never emerge, be borne, until there is a "capacity for connectedness" deepening all around us. And receptivity requires inner work more than any external structure building.
As Palmer states in his second paragraph: "Community begins not externally but in the recesses of the human heart. Long before community can be manifest in outward relationships, it must be present in the individual as "a capacity for connectedness"—a capacity to resist the forces of disconnection with which our culture and our psyches are riddled, forces with names like narcissism, egotism, jealousy, competition, empire-building, nationalism, and related forms of madness in which psychopathology and political pathology become powerfully intertwined." Religious traditions today have lost more and more of the wisdom necessary for this "recess of the human heart" work. It's very challenging for traditional folks to get out of the way and relax, receive. Particularly when their sadness at apparent losses of tradition are so unconscious, so ungrieved.
Seems like next post invited is practicing receptivity in a world in which vulnerability can be penalized. How do we practice receptivity, so to develop our capacity for connectedness beyond what we've known in church, civic settings, family?
What is meant by inner work here, in a world demonstrating little but advocacy and resistance, posturing and proclaiming? More to come... Until then...
Connect, so you can connect again later. It may not seem like much, but it models a receptivity and a practice of connecting significant for what community might eventually come to mean.
Community Table...Not Yet
I sat down at the community table of the local coffee shop, noting the African-American women and small girl sitting at the other end. I smiled, belatedly realizing through my mask they wouldn't know that. As I waited for my coffee drink, a treat for me on this Monday morning, I set about making my list for the week. I wanted to clear the decks a little, in expectation and anticipation, to see what writing might come.
"We are expecting the rest of our friends to come soon," said one of the women to me, motioning that she would need the space, the table. "Oh," I said, with surprise. "This is usually the community table, so I didn't know…" I let my voice trail off… "When will they be arriving then?" "In the next few minutes…" "Okay," I said. I tried to attend to the words that might come before "they" arrived. Realizing the expectation was now disrupting getting my thoughts together, I packed up my stuff and headed to the back of the coffee shop. The corner booth had just opened up, as way would have it. I curled up in the corner chair, enjoying the quiet and the greater comfort around me.
The irony was not lost on me of course: the Community Table.
What is required, from each of us, all of us, to rebuild any sense of trust in community in the American experiment? Is it even possible anymore? How do we rebuild something that has never truly been an expansive American phenomenon, made even more demanding now across differences exploited by late-era-global-capitalism and social-media algorithms bent upon fear, anger and hatred?
To be clear, this is not about being asked to move from a community-table by the woman who asked for what she needed. Happy to, and we both landed in what we needed--her, space; me, quiet. And she would have no reason to know I had just left my car, after letting it run for a while so I could listen to the end of a chapter of a book that currently has me. It's captured my heart, my mind, even in the times I have to turn it off because I feel nauseous and sad.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers. The woman at the the table and I have every reason to see one another in the sculpted-wounded perspectives we've both inherited. Yet it begs the question for me, within the river of listening from another friend who is asking, "Is reconciliation even possible?" Reconciliation between…? we might ask…? Between white/color, masculine/feminine, wounded/wounding…? The questions are stomach-punches, to be sure, but there is strength and courage in asking them aloud… We have to remember how difficult it is, what we ask of others… this friend also said.
There will posts here to come, shaping what I mean by 'community' and what I am learning on my own journeying toward a more rigorous manifestation of that around me today. Enough for now to bow to the question, to move when asked, and to receive the graced quiet that comes when each of us receives what we need in the moment.
I will also always bow to my own sensation, yearning, however patiently I need to sit with my own sadnesses in order to participate in it:
I want the world to be different, to heal...
I want to sit quietly for, or walk slowly toward, the more frequent days when it feels possible for a moment at a time…this new/old story of reconciliation.
As I say to all those who sit in direction: at your pace. Only when You're ready.
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This $40,000 Exoskeleton Suit Helps the Paralyzed Walk Again
The Phoenix weighs 27 pounds and lets the user walk up to 1.1 miles per hour.
By Sarah Sloat
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Homayoon Kazerooni, CEO of SuitX, understands that he can't truly fix the injuries of the paralyzed. But he can do the next best thing — provide a robotic exoskeleton suit that gives them a chance to get up and out of their wheelchair.
SuitX's Phoenix is a modular, adjustable exoskeleton available now for $40,000. Powered by a battery pack backpack, it weighs 27 pounds and allows the user to walk up to 1.1 miles per hour. By pressing buttons integrated into a pair of crutches, the user of the device can control the movement of their legs. The legs are strapped within the exoskeleton, complete with small motors attached to standard orthotics located at the hips and knees.
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Steven Sanchez, pictured above, has been traveling the world on behalf of SuitX, demonstrating the Phoenix. Sanchez was immediately paralyzed from the waist down after a BMX accident — he says that while using his wheelchair isn't so bad, the Phoenix means an essential reprieve.
Sitting all day can lead to dangerous pressure sores. Before he came across the Phoenix he had decided to kill the nerves in his hands so it would be easier to walk around with crutches.
The MIT Technology Review notes that while the Phoenix is not the lightest exoskeleton in existence, nor the cheapest, "it's easily among the lightest and cheapest exoskeletons that can restore a person's mobility." This is because of its biomechanical design, focused more on mobility and user-friendliness.
"My idea and philosophy is less is more," Kazerooni told Fast Company. "We want to give a minimal amount to the user to be independent. We're not saying this is a complete [mobility] machine, but if we come up with something that's robust and simple — walks, stops, sits, and stands — that's hugely enabling!"
Kazerooni is the first to admit that $40,000 is "way too expensive." Within the next few years, he hopes that the Phoenix will be closer to $10,000. His major ambition, however, is to build a version of the Phoenix that can be adapted for children.
In the meantime, Sanchez — who says that his preference for the Phoenix comes down to the fact that, while expensive, it is much less expensive than the other options out there — will continue to work with SuitX, helping optimize the machine that focuses on "cleverness" instead of power.
"I am not the robot," Sanchez says. "I wear the robot."
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They stand at the door and gather in the halls of any church. They write on blogs, tweet, fb, text and email. They speak, lead studies, go to Bible studies and take places of leadership. "They" are you and me at any given moment of time: hearts that have been trampled and hurts that have piled up and faith that is tired and discouraged. Living on "should have" street in "what if" USA. Carrying around a wheelbarrow overflowing the burdens of shame and regret. Read on.
I walked in on my own two feet. From the outside it all looked put together. What a fooler! If she had been able to see me spiritually she would have seen my downcast head and my tear-stained face. She would have seen me barely able to stand. She would have known this was not the time to confront or tell me about her perfect family, perfect life and her perfect ministry. If she had known she would have put away her self-righteous words, her religious ambition and tucked away her judgemental attitude for another day. If she knew I am sure she would have taken the time to help carry my burden and pray for me.
Had she known she would not have condemned the very sin my family had faced or I had committed. If she had known she would have spoken words of life and not condemnation as I struggled believing the Lord would or could forgive me or work good in my hopeless situation. If she had known she would have surely walked this journey along side me with words of encouragement and worn her knees out in prayer on my behalf. If she had known she would not have used words for the devil to remind me that even the Lord could not redeem the bad decisions I have made.
If she had known how powerful and destructive her actions and words were she would have repented and handled my crises differently. If she had known how unimportant she was and how important the Lord was surely she would have acted differently.
If she had known what the future held for her or her family members she would have repented of her self righteousness, pride and religious ambition. She would have cried out to the Lord for herself and her sisters in Christ. In doing so, the Holy Spirit would have revealed the unseen to her so she could minister effectively. She would have become real and seen the power of the Lord working out His glory in her life and those around her. She would have faded and only Christ would be seen.
Don't you think....if she had known?


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I'm an Instructor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University and a Fellow at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. My work lies in the intersection of computational social science and social epidemiology, with a focus on health inequities. Some of my current projects include reducing racial/ethnic inequities in the treatment of opioid use disorder, minimizing the impact of climate-related disasters on medically-vulnerable populations, and quantifying structural and socioeconomic vulnerability to COVID-19 to help inform local, equitable response.
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Q: How to do precedence with multiple exponentials, ^, in an arithmetic equation I am working on a program that solves arithmetic equations.  I have encountered a problem that occurs when there are multiple exponential statements in a row the program does not correctly solve them. An example would be: 2^3^2, the correct answer is 512 but the program outputs 64.  This is because the program does 2^3 and then 8^2, instead of doing 3^2 and then 2^9.  Let me know if you have any ideas on how to modify my current code or have something to add.
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.util.EmptyStackException;
import myUtil.*;

public class PostFixEvaluator extends Asg6
{
    public static class SyntaxErrorException extends Exception
    {
        SyntaxErrorException(String message)
        {
            super(message);
        }
    }

    private static final String operators = "+-*/^()";
    private AStack<Double> operandStack;

    private double evaluateOP(char op) throws Exception
    {
        double rightside = operandStack.pop();
        double leftside = operandStack.pop();
        double result = 0;
        if(op == '+')
        {
            result = leftside + rightside;
        }
        else if(op == '-')
        {
            result = leftside - rightside;
        }
        else if(op == '*')
        {
            result = leftside * rightside;
        }
        else if(op == '/')
        {
            if(rightside == 0)
            {
                throw new Exception("Can not divide by 0, the equation is undefined");
            }
            else
            {
                result = leftside / rightside;
            }
        }
        else if(op == '^')
        {
            result = Math.pow(leftside, rightside);
        }
        return result;
    }

    private boolean isOperator(char ch)
    {
        return operators.indexOf(ch) != -1;
    }

    public double evaluate(String exp) throws Exception
    {
        operandStack = new AStack<Double>();
        String[] tokens = exp.split("\\s+");
        try
        {
            for(String nextToken : tokens)
            {
                char firstChar = nextToken.charAt(0);
                if(Character.isDigit(firstChar))
                {
                    double value = Double.parseDouble(nextToken);
                    operandStack.push(value);
                }
                else if (isOperator(firstChar))
                {
                    double result = evaluateOP(firstChar);
                    operandStack.push(result);
                }
                else
                {
                    throw new Exception("Invalid character: " + firstChar);
                }
            }
            double answer = operandStack.pop();
            if(operandStack.empty())
            {
                return answer;
            }
            else
            {
                throw new Exception("Syntax Error: Stack should be empty");
            }
        }
        catch(EmptyStackException ex)
        {
            throw new Exception("Syntax Error: The stack is empty");
        }
    }

}

A: You're trying to use an LL(1) grammar (which is what a recursive descent parser can parse) to model a right-associative operator (^). A right-associative operator requires left recursion, which doesn't work so easily with LL(1) grammars. You'll want to look at left factoring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL_parser#Left_Factoring

A: I would solve this with operator Priorities as you might want to have them anyway.
For testing i changed the class a bit, so i could test it and its sure not most efficient or readable but you should get
the idea how it works.
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.util.EmptyStackException;

import java.util.*;

public class PostFixEvaluator
{
    public static class SyntaxErrorException extends Exception
    {
        SyntaxErrorException(String message)
        {
            super(message);
        }
    }

    private static final String operators = "+-*/^()";
    private static int[] operatorPriority = {1,1,2,2,3,10,10};
    private Stack<Double> operandStack;
    private Stack<Character> operatorStack;

    private double evaluateOP(char op) throws Exception
    {
        double rightside = operandStack.pop();
        double leftside = operandStack.pop();
        double result = 0;
        if(op == '+')
        {
            result = leftside + rightside;
        }
        else if(op == '-')
        {
            result = leftside - rightside;
        }
        else if(op == '*')
        {
            result = leftside * rightside;
        }
        else if(op == '/')
        {
            if(rightside == 0)
            {
                throw new Exception("Can not divide by 0, the equation is undefined");
            }
            else
            {
                result = leftside / rightside;
            }
        }
        else if(op == '^')
        {
            result = Math.pow(leftside, rightside);
        }
        return result;
    }

    private boolean isOperator(char ch)
    {
        return operators.indexOf(ch) != -1;
    }

    public double evaluate(String exp) throws Exception
    {
        operandStack = new Stack<Double>();
        operatorStack = new Stack<Character>();
        String[] tokens = exp.split("\\s+");
        try
        {
            for(String nextToken : tokens)
            {
                char firstChar = nextToken.charAt(0);
                if(Character.isDigit(firstChar))
                {
                    double value = Double.parseDouble(nextToken);
                    operandStack.push(value);
                }
                else if (isOperator(firstChar))
                {
                    // Try to evaluate the operators on the stack
                    while (!operatorStack.isEmpty())
                    {
                        char tmpOperator = operatorStack.pop();
                        // If Operator has higher Priority than the one before,
                        // Calculate it first if equal first calculate the second
                        // operator to get the ^ problem fixed
                        if (operatorPriority[operators.indexOf(firstChar)] >= operatorPriority[operators.indexOf(tmpOperator)])
                        {
                           operatorStack.push(tmpOperator);
                           // Operand has to be fetched first
                           break;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            double result = evaluateOP(tmpOperator);
                            operandStack.push(result);
                        }
                    }
                    operatorStack.push(firstChar);
                }
                else
                {
                    throw new Exception("Invalid character: " + firstChar);
                }
            }

            // Here we need to calculate the operators left on the stack
            while (!operatorStack.isEmpty())
            {
                char tmpOperator = operatorStack.pop();
                // Operator Priority has to be descending,
                // or the code before is wrong.
                double result = evaluateOP(tmpOperator);
                operandStack.push(result);
            }

            double answer = operandStack.pop();
            if(operandStack.empty())
            {
                return answer;
            }
            else
            {
                throw new Exception("Syntax Error: Stack should be empty");
            }
        }
        catch(EmptyStackException ex)
        {
            throw new Exception("Syntax Error: The stack is empty");
        }
    }

    // For testing Only
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        PostFixEvaluator e = new PostFixEvaluator();
        System.out.println(e.evaluate("2 ^ 3 ^ 2"));
    }

}

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Wow, WTF is up with these dept. store spammers?
Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Dr Forrester, Jun 22, 2010.
Second night in a row. These bastards need to get a life. Even if they are bots.
You say "these bastards" but it's just SWATY.
Lone guy we executed for being a total dickweed.
Now he trolls the map forum, sort of like how a ghost haunts their tomb.
Does anyone know if the deals are genuine? They sound too good to be true!
Why'd we kill SWATY again?
Because the majority of this site couldn't accept that the final call on what to do with his map was actually his, and that he wasn't obligated to do what was suggested if he didn't agree with it.
Indeed, the staff have already been alerted of the spam-bots.
It's also advisable to not draw attention to them. If one comes up, and no staff members are online, just PM one and wait for it to be sorted. Don't post on the threads.
110% wrong on the reason. Everything else you were spot on.
Being abusive to other members and trolling threads (even if they were his own) pretty much sums it up.
You're not required to take the advice you're given. SWATY seemed like an immature kid who lashed out at anyone who even slightly disagreed on his view of his map. Dont want opposing views and or other perspectives? Then this is the wrong place to post your work. If he wanted people to just drool and high five him over his work, he should try fpsb.


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Rail Users Ireland Forum > Irish Rail Customer Service Issues > Intercity and Regional > Dublin Kerry
19:15 Tralee-Dublin Web-Fare
Jferb
The 19:15 Tralee to Dublin adult web-fare appears to have gone up to €20 (from €10) after November 29th. However, the same train from Cork (20:30) is still listed as €10. This is surely a glitch and I've contact IE on the matter but unsurprisingly they haven't had the good manners to get back to me.
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plant43
Bit of digging gets the page listing the services
http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/...ew&news_id=402
It's noted that the services listed there are only valid for special fares until 28th November. It looks like they have removed the 1915 train from the special offer? I don't think the fact that the Cork train is still 10 euro has any bearing on this. (don't see why either)
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The Cork and Tralee trains are the same train from Mallow so it would be illogical that the fare from Tralee should suddenly go up to €20 while still being €10 from Cork. Up to now, every such train has been priced the same from/to Tralee and Cork (be it €10,€20 or €36).
Furthermore, the 19.15 is the only €10 service between Tralee and Heuston so I'd doubt that they'd scrap it whilst retaining the €10 promotion elsewhere. The 11.00 Heuston to Tralee (and Cork) remains €10.
Sounds like price discrimination to me.
Got the following response from IE earlier:
I have checked the website the pricing is correct Cork to Heuston €10.00, Tralee to Heuston €20.00.
So this means that there'll no longer be any €10 fares from Tralee to Dublin but there remains no less than three trains a day from Cork priced at €10 (including the train the 19:15 feeds into - and that train is €10 from Limerick also).
And there remains €10 fares from Sligo, Westport, Galway, Limerick and Waterford to Dublin too. So have IE decided to specifically s**t on their Kerry customers?!?!?!
Not necessarily. Those fares aren't there as of right, they are there to fill seats. If the seats are full or near full, there is no need to offer low fares.
What are occupancy levels like on those trains?
I'd believe that if it were true but from my experience it's not. On a number of occasions when I've been on the 11:00 Dublin-Tralee, people have actually been left standing from Mallow to Killarney and that train is always €10, except Fridays.
The soon to be axed 20:00 Dublin-Tralee on the other hand is a very quiet service, yet it's always €20. The 19:15 Tralee-Dublin is similarly quiet and I've seen no recent increase in numbers that would justify a sudden doubling of the fare. And, as I've already said, that train connects with the 20:30 Cork-Dublin at Mallow and that remains €10 from Cork (as does the connecting train from Limerick) so this can only be interpreted as blatant discrimination against those using this particular service from Kerry.
It is further from Tralee by 40 miles. The capacity pinch is between Mallow and Tralee not the mainline section in many cases
The goal of the 10 euro fare is to fill previously quiet trains, the 11am used to be quiet, now its busy. There are plans for a more advanced pricing system based on demand without any function of time, I have been briefed by IE on this and it is very fair compared to the time based fares in Europe, as in book 2 weeks ahead. Not sure when we will be seeing it deployed
In the past where we spotted errors in the pricing Irish Rail moved quickly to fix the issue
Discrimination it may be, Jferb, but it's no different than Ryanair fares to Paris Beauvais (and no doubt similar prices of other airlines) magically shooting up on the dates around the France/Ireland football match last week, the Six Nations match in February, and the Heineken Cup final in May. The normal single price for that journey is €66; if IÉ can fill the train at €20 a seat it makes no business sense whatsoever for them to charge €10.
I still think ye're missing the point I'm making. There isn't much demand for the 19:15 between Tralee and Mallow so there doesn't seem to be any logic to scrapping the €10 fare to Dublin on this service, especially when the €10 fare remains on this service for those departing from Cork and Limerick.
On the other hand, I've been ages expecting the €10 fare on the 11:00 Dublin/Cork/Tralee to be scrapped as that service is so packed, but the €10 fare remains on that service into December. So IE are clearly not logically adjusting their prices according to demand!
There is one change in this service from the 29th though. At the moment the 20:30 train from Cork doesn't stop in Limerick Junction. From next week it will, with a connecting train from Limerick. Being a cynic, I can only surmise that IE have decided to shaft its Kerry customers to accommodate the extra €10 paying passengers expected from Limerick.
Will it seems my perseverance at hassling IE has paid off! The 19:15 is now back down to €10 again.
Or else this quick change of heart is a mere coincidence..
Originally Posted by Jferb
Someone pointed out on Facebook that there were no 10 euro fares from Kerry-Dublin. And hey presto, 10 euro fares are back again.
Looks like Facebook is the best means of contacting Irish Rail now, which says a lot.


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House Republicans seek cuts to Energy Star, weatherization, advanced energy research, puppies
By David Roberts on Jan 21, 2011
Congressional Republicans have been talking "spending cuts" for … well, forever … but for the most part they've been cagey about what specific programs they would cut. "Government spending" in the abstract is unpopular these days, but the programs government funds are generally popular. That's why "government waste" and "earmarks" are such popular topics among conservative pols — it helps maintain the illusion that it's possible to substantially cut spending without touching anything popular.
But give Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)'s Republican Study Committee some credit: They're naming names.
Here's the document [PDF], released today, wherein they outline their proposed cuts. Jordan will introduce it as the Spending Reduction Act of 2011 today.
Start with the obvious: There are no cuts to America's bloated military budget, which was somewhere north of $660 billion in 2010, more than the rest of the world's defense spending combined. And there are no cuts to the sprawling, opaque Department of Homeland Security, which costs more than $50 billion a year. In maintaining global empire and expanding the security state, every dollar is sacred.
There are also no cuts to fossil-fuel or corn-ethanol subsidies. No corporate contributor to the Republican Party will find anything to fear. The bill might as well be called the Thumbing Liberals In the Eye Act of 2011. It's a laundry list of targets conservatives have been after for decades, most of which will make no appreciable difference to the nation's fiscal health.
Here are a few proposed cuts that might be of particular interest to Grist readers:
Energy Star Program: $52 million a year.
Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants: $2.5 billion a year.
DOE Weatherization Grants to States: $530 million a year.
Amtrak Subsidies: $1.565 billion a year. (There are no cuts to highway subsidies, of course.)
Technology Innovation Program: $70 million a year. (Wait, I thought support for innovation was "post-partisan"!)
Applied Research at Department of Energy: $1.27 billion a year.
New Starts Transit: $2 billion a year.
Subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: $12.5 million a year.
Title X Family Planning: $318 million a year.
Appalachian Regional Commission: $76 million a year. (Why do we need this? They already have coal mines there!)
FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership: $200 million a year.
Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority: $150 million a year.
National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program: $56.2 million a year.
Delightful, no? That's to say nothing of the proposed cuts to public broadcasting, the NEA, historic building preservation, community development, etc., etc.
Also on the chopping block is the remaining unspent money from the stimulus bill, some $45 billion. Domestic spending programs would no longer have their budgets increase with inflation; same for federal worker salaries. Fannie and Freddie would be privatized. Overall discretionary spending would be frozen at 2006 levels.
This would, as any sentient economist will tell you, amount to a massive anti-stimulus right when the economy can least afford it. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost, though of course Republicans don't acknowledge that, because in their worldview it is Revealed Truth that, as Jordan put it, "if you reduce federal government spending, you actually create jobs."
So what do you think?
UPDATE: Adam Siegel has some thoughts on the cuts. Also, thanks to Adam Harris for reminding me (via Twitter) that the proposed repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act — which requires that public works projects pay prevailing wages — would have a huge negative effect on commercial retrofit work, where it plays a large role. Republicans have been trying to repeal Davis-Bacon for ages, most recently after Hurricane Katrina, because they hate unions.


To have the perfect holiday, patients need to be reminded to be healthy and safe.
The end of the year marks a season of celebration, togetherness and, of course, travelling over the holidays. That being said, it becomes the season where healthcare professionals are most consulted for travel advice.
The last thing on every traveller's mind is to fall sick, or worse, let their chronic illnesses get in their way of having a wonderful time. However, the prospect of disease and injury is real. In fact, some studies suggest that hospital admissions soar during this period.
To better prepare travellers for holiday, here are a list of useful tips and resources to aid healthcare professionals in providing health advice to them.
Vulnerable populations such as the elderly and the very young should be encouraged to get vaccinations.
Influenza has been prominently striking every continent this year, yet is the most addressable risk to avoid spoiling the perfect holiday. There are signs of the influenza season beginning early in popular tourist destinations this year. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there is an increasing number of influenza cases in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere – especially in the US and Canada. Similarly, various European countries have reported a growing number of cases.
Popular holiday destinations are particularly suitable for viruses to spread. Vulnerable populations such as the elderly and the very young are ideal hosts for infections and should be encouraged to get vaccinations whenever possible. It is prudent to advise travellers to have their vaccinations a couple of weeks earlier before their holiday as it takes time for the body to generate the needed antibodies for sufficient protection.
Influenza may top the news headline, but healthcare professionals should not forget about a whole host of other infectious diseases that may turn a well-planned holiday into an emergency visit to the hospital. Diseases that are not prevalent in our country may still be a risk when holiday seekers travel to other places, especially remote or exotic destinations. It is also sensible to keep travellers informed of any disease outbreaks in the countries they wish to visit when such information is available.
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides a comprehensive health information and vaccination recommendations, which is an extremely helpful reference to clinicians, pharmacists and travellers alike. Otherwise, healthcare professionals can also refer to the British National Formulary (BNF), which also provide similar recommendations.
There is currently no centralised database to determine what medicine is available in which country, and the methods to obtain them.
It is safe to assume that many travellers require chronic medications to help control their illnesses. A good proportion of patients should bring along their routine prescription medicine – but, accidents may still happen. Be it a lost suitcase or misplaced medicine, getting a prescription medicine filled in a foreign country can be a challenge. Unfortunately, there is no centralised database that reveals what medicine is available in which country, as well as the methods in obtaining them.
On the other hand, healthcare professionals should advise travellers to bring "enough" medicine for personal use. However, the definition of "enough" may be subjected to local regulatory interpretation. The recent case of Laura Plummer, a British woman who was sentenced to three-year jail in Egypt for bringing in 290 tramadol tablets for her husband with back pain, succinctly underlines the importance for travellers to understand the condition and context under which a prescription medicine can be brought along.
A trip to the clinic for a little nip and tuck could be fatal if the credentials are not cross-checked.
Many holiday seekers like to bring back a little souvenir from exotic places they have visited. And what is better than getting a nice tat to commemorate those lovely memories? The public attitude towards body art has changed dramatically over the years – with tattoos becoming widely acceptable.
However, tattoo-related infections do happen especially when artists fail to practise sterile techniques. In fact, a Mycobacterium outbreak in the US five years ago was traced back to contaminated inks that caused numerous nontuberculous mycobacterial infections across New York, Washington, Iowa and Colorado.
Similarly, travellers who plan to have an extra trip to the aesthetic clinic for a little nip and tuck must be urged to check the credentials of the clinic to ensure that the qualifications of the surgeons or clinics are true.
The age-old wisdom of washing our hands frequently and thoroughly should be constantly reinforced, but unfortunately, the simplest rule is also the easiest to forget. It is highly important to remind travellers to maintain appropriate personal hygiene as many diseases are transmitted through contaminated food and water.
Note: Article first published on 2 January 2018.


The World we have lost is a book written by the English historian Peter Laslett (1915-2001) and for the first time printed in 1965. In it Laslett, in a series of essays, questions the picture of early modern times as formed in the minds of our contemporaries. Early modern times are generally defined as the time from the late Middle ages c. end 15th century till about 1789, year of the French Revolution. Laslett demonstrates how the mentality of the pre-industrial period has, partly at least, become widely incomprehensible to modern people.
The following text deals with the punishment of religious dissidence (heresy) and political dissidence (especially high treason).
We should always be aware that what now lies in the past, once lay in the future.
The first mediaeval burning of heretics in Western Europe took place in 1022 in Orléans. In England no burnings at the stake are recorded until March 1401 when William Sawtrey was burned for heresy. Sawtrey was a priest who had denied transsubstantiation and rejected the veneration of saints. Sawtrey was a follower of John Wycliffe (1320-1384), considered a precursor of Protestantism. Wycliff's followers were called Lollards. The most famous adherent of Lollardism was Sir John Oldcastle, who in 1408 became Lord Cobham through marriage with Joan de la Pole, baroness of Cobham. Oldcastle was a trusted companion of Henry V. He had been imprisoned for heresy – therefore he was burnt. He escaped from prison and is said to have perpetrated a rebellion against the king. This was high treason – therefore he was hanged. In 1417 he was hanged, then burnt.
Of course, he was first hanged, then burnt. This seems ludicrous to us, kind of "economics of overkilling". Why had he to be executed a second time?
Not unlike Sir John Oldcastle, William Tyndale (1494-1536) gifted translator of the entire New Testament and some other parts of the Bible into English, was simultaneously strangled and burnt at the stake, though not in England. Why "double-killed", if he would have been quite dead either way?
Or are we missing some significance hidden to us, an "unlikeness" or dissonance between past and present, between the Middle ages, no matter how late, and the post-mediaeval times? Are we – to use Herbert Butterfield's terms –"hunting for the present in the past"?
The "said wicked preachings" evidently are those of the Lollards. Those Lollards shall be condemned as heretics, and they will be publicly stigmatized as such by burning them at the stake, visible to as many people as ever possible "in a high place"; and not merely as punishment but as deterrence: "to strike fear into the minds of others".
that whoever should read the Scriptures in English (which was then called Wycliffe's Learning) should forfeit land, cattle, goods, and life, and be condemned as heretics to God, enemies to the crown, and traitors to the kingdom; that they should not have the benefit of any sanctuary, though this was a privilege then granted to the most notorious malefactors; and that, if they continued obstinate, or relapsed after pardon, they should first be hanged for treason against the king, and then burned for heresy against God.
After the defeat of the Schmalkaldic League (the league of Protestant noblemen against the emperor Charles V) in 1547, the centre of Bucer's and Fagius' pastoral care and teaching had become Strassbourg. Strassbourg was a so-called "free imperial city", ("Freie Reichsstadt"), that is a city under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor with a certain amount of autonomy and direct representation in the diet as opposed to a "territorial city" ("Landstadt") ruled by some local prince (duke, margrave, count, or ecclesiastical lord). Bucer and Fagius were more in line with other reformers such as the Zürich reformer Zwingli, whereas Luther stuck to the conception of a Real Presence in the Eucharist.
So Bucer and Fagius could somehow be linked with Oldcastle and the Lollards. But that is not the topic on which we focus here.
In 1549 Bucer and Fagius lost their influence in the free city of Strassburg to Jacob Sturm, the then political leader of the city.
Under Mary I Thomas Cranmer was burned in Oxford in March 1556. One month before, on February 6, Bucer and Fagius, though no longer alive, were also tried as heretics –posthumously. They were disinterred and their caskets burned at the stake. On July 22, 1560 they were formally rehabilitated by Elizabeth I on July 22, 1560 by a brass plaque on the floor of the choir in Great St. Mary's.
"Vengeful folly" again? It might seem evident so from a possibly still current and for a fairly long time official representation of the reign of the Catholic zealot Mary I, of Bloody Mary (1553-1558). The interpretation of an ultimate convulsion of a nearly extinct epoch, incarnated by a regressive catholic spinster, supported by cardinal Reginald Pole, archbishop of Canterbury, previously featuring as a candidate for the papacy, main councilor of Mary, assisted by the arch-conservative Catholic ministers Stephen Gardiner, Lord Chancellor, and Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, seems to seamlessly fit into that picture.
But was it really the "ultimate convulsion of a nearly extinct epoch"?
For on 30 January 1661, the twelfth anniversary of the beheading of King Charles I, the same treatment as practiced on the reformer John Wycliffe in 1428 and half that as on Sir John Oldcastle in 1410, i.e. without burning, was practiced on three prominent regicides, all of them already deceased so that they had to be disinterred: Oliver Cromwell (d. 1658), his son-in-law Henry Ireton (d. 1651), and John Bradshaw (d. 1659), President of the High Court of Justice that sentenced King Charles I to death. All three were posthumously tried and "post mortem executed" for high treason after the same procedure as specified in the judgement of Sir Walter Raleigh in 1603 (not carried out until 1618) or the Gunpowder plotters in 1606.
And long after 1558, the death of Mary I, similarly in other high treason trials.
Vengeful folly again? So it seems to one commentator. "This cleared the way for Charles II to step into the breach and run the country. But he was filled with murderous rage and wanted revenge for his father's execution. He ordered the surviving signatories to his father's death warrant to be hanged. He then extended the same privilege to Oliver Cromwell, even though he had been dead for three years. And so, on 30 January 1661, Cromwell was dug up and beheaded." Like Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded according to his rank, not hanged.
Yet, it is clear that the actual addressees were not the dead Cromwell, Ireton or Bradshaw but the minds of the broad mass of subjects to strike fear in.
There lurks a serious flaw in this picture which for a long time was nevertheless conventional wisdom. Cardinal Pole was no fanatical, retrogressive Catholic. He was a humanist. He had read Macchiavelli whom he judged as negatively as about 70 years later the stalwart Protestant Roger Ascham in his educational treatise The Scholemaster, BTW written at the instigation of Lord Burghley, then still Sir William Cecil. In consideration of the growing English nationalism he rejected the offer of help from Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the order of Jesuits. Pole himself entertained the "crypto-Lutheran" notion of "justification by faith alone" and was therefore considered a heretic by the Cardinal Pietro Caraffa, the future pope Pius IV (1555-1559). Edmund Bonner, under Mary I one of the foremost persecutors of Protestants, was under Henry VIII a proponent of the royal supremacy over the pope, in favor of what Mary's Lord Chancellor Stephen Gardiner had written De Vera Obedientia.
Warned by the rebellion of 1549, also called "The Prayer Book Rebellion" (Kett rebellion) introduced that year whose unpopularity was one of the causes of the revolt, Elizabeth's Protestant advisers opted for a cautious transition.
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) de-dusted this old view.
"Official falsehood equally misrepresents the successive steps by which Catholicism was ultimately driven out. We are given to understand that the architect of the whole affair was a highly popular, typically national monarch, Henry Tudor, a man of strong will and strong political sense as well. Of what followed after his death, a further false picture is drawn. His eldest daughter, the legitimate Queen of England, Mary, is set out as opposing the natural tendency of the Englishmen to deny their ancestral religion…His illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth, is represented as the idol of the nation, a woman who ruled with individual power and skill, piloting England on the course which England desired to follow..
In Will in the World Stephen Greenblatt, however, in an electrifying move did fill the bottle – suddenly and smoothly. The result was presented in a three-dimensional nicety: a nice tale, a nice smile, a nice suit. To all the obstacles traced by historians like Christopher Haigh or Norman Jones, the historicist scriptwriter Greenblatt gives short shrift, a veritable tabula rasa. No word of the substantial amendments of the book of common prayer, that the church service was adapted so as to allow Catholics to keep to their accustomed ways, etc. Instead the historicist Greenblatt offers a succession of images in quick motion: Elizabeth presses the Bible against her bosom, tells the Westminster monks to get "away with those torches [the candles borne in the procession], for we see very well", etc. All very movie-like, but no gain of insight in the past.
In other words: the historicist Greenblatt does exactly the opposite of what according to Herbert Butterfield should not be the chief aim of the historian: hunting for what makes look the past more like the present.
Unless this is the very wrong objective the historicist has set himself.
 The origin of the term is uncertain.
 Statutes of the Realm, 2:12S-28: 2 Henry IV (1401).
 The orthodox creed insisted on Christ's physical presence, the Swiss reformer Zwingli, like Bucer, conceived the presence as purely symbolic, Luther stuck to a Real Presence, but not a really physical one.
 Fagius, Paul His original name was Paul Büchelin, literally "beech" = fagus. Humanists, especially from the Alemannic region (Southwest, Germany, Alsace, German speaking part of Switzerland) often graecicized or latinized their names. Main cities in the Alemanic region were Basel and Zürich in Switzerland, Strassbourg in Alsace/France). Melanchton is the graecicized form of the family name Schwartzerdt = black earth; Oecolampadius of John Husschyn or Hausschein (Hausschein = Houselight, hence Oiko (Haus) + lampados (light); the Strassbourg reformer Wolfgang Koepfel is better known under his latinized family name Capito.
 Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489-1553). Sometime mayor of Strassbourg. Not to be confused with the famous scholar Johannes or Jean Sturmius (1507-1589).
 Without naming him, Ascham must have borne Macchiavelli in mind: "They make Christ and his Gospell, onelie serue Ciuill pollicie: Than neyther Religion cummeth amisse to them In tyme they be Promoters of both openlie: in place againe mockers of both priuilie, as I wrote once in a rude ryme.
 Haigh, Christopher, English Reformations – Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors,Oxford, 1993, p. 238. The councillors might have been aware of the Kett Rebellion in 1549, in the third year of Edward VI's reign.


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2019 Nugget Rib Cook-Off Winners
Please click HERE for a press release featuring the 2019 Best In The West Nugget Cook-Off winners.
Nugget Event Center Job Fair May 1
Nugget Casino Resort to hold Job Fair for new Nugget Event Center
Reno/Sparks, Nevada – The Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada is holding a Job Fair for on-call and part time workers for the new Nugget Event Center in downtown Sparks. The Job Fair will be held on Wednesday, May 1 in the second floor Cascade rooms at the Nugget from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The new amphitheater is scheduled to open Saturday, June 15 with Toby Keith as the first performer and the Nugget is now hiring for a variety of positions including on-call and part-time ushers, security staff, bartenders, bar backs, ticket scanners and more. Employees hired to work in the brand new facility will not only assist guests, but will be able to hear top-level performers while getting paid!
Human Resources will also be hiring and interviewing for full time open positions available property-wide at the Nugget. Applicants should bring resumes and be prepared to interview. For information go to nuggetcareers.com or call 888-868-4438 and ask for Human Resources.
Several concerts and events are scheduled for the summer season at the Nugget Event Center including Chris Young July 6, Hank Williams Jr. August 3 and Lady Antebellum August 17. There will also be exciting free admission shows like Ruthie Foster for Artown, July 11, and several performers during Hot August Nights, The Best In The West Nugget Rib Cook-Off and more!
Nugget Casino Resort Announces New Entertainment Venue
For Immediate Release 1/29/19
The Nugget Announces Construction of a New Entertainment and Event Venue
Reno/Sparks, Nevada – Marnell Gaming, owner of the Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada officially announced construction of a brand new entertainment and event amphitheater across from the Nugget, on the former Bourbon Square site. The new event center will feature seating for more than 8,500 guests and expected project completion is June, 2019. The facility was approved by unanimous vote of the Sparks Planning Commission January 3.
"This new amphitheater is another step in Marnell Gaming's commitment to reinvest not only in the Nugget, but downtown Sparks," said Anthony Marnell III. "It will give the Nugget the ability to bring even more top name entertainment to Sparks for locals and visitors to enjoy."
The Nugget has booked Country superstar Toby Keith to perform as the first act in the new center June 15, 2019. Hank Williams, Jr. is scheduled to perform August 3 followed by Lady Antebellum, August 17. More "A" list acts are expected to book soon. Tickets for the acts will be announced and available on the Nugget's website pending final confirmation.
Marnell Gaming built a similar project, the Laughlin Event Center, in southern Nevada, adjacent to two hotel casinos formerly owned by the company, the Colorado Belle and Edgewater. "We saw great, positive impacts with the Laughlin Event Center and look forward to excellent results in Sparks." Marnell said.
The Nugget Event Center is the latest project by Marnell Gaming, which has already invested more than $50 million in property-wide upgrades and renovations at the Nugget, including a complete remodeling of the Resort west tower hotel rooms, convention center, casino, atrium pool, fitness center and the new Game On restaurant.
The Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada is one of the Reno/Tahoe region's most affordable vacation and convention destinations, featuring a multitude of amenities, including nearly 1,400 guestrooms, 110,000 square feet of meeting space, multiple award-winning dining outlets, a year-round atrium pool and numerous other amenities. The Nugget is owned by Marnell Gaming. For more information, please visit www.nuggetcasinoresort.com, call 1-800-648-1177, or visit us on Facebook and Twitter.
Ultimate Guide to the 2018 Best In The West Nugget Rib Cook-Off
The Ultimate Guide to the 30th Annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off
Reno/Sparks, Nevada – The 30th annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off will run Wednesday, August 29 through Monday, September 3, 2018 on Victorian Square at the Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada. The barbecue, music and craft festival is open from 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, and 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Monday. Admission, parking and entertainment are free!
"We have 23 of the country's best rib cookers at this year's event and we're excited to welcome three new cookers," said Nugget Vice President of Marketing, Bobbie Beuchat. "This is one of the most prestigious BBQ competitions in the country and we're looking forward to a great festival!"
A massive amount of pork ribs are served at the event with more than 240,000 pounds of ribs prepared for hungry crowds. The Cook-Off hosts a wide variety of activities at the event, including a carnival area with rides, a huge arts & crafts festival and top-notch entertainment, not to mention the best barbecue in the country. All the elements come together to draw hundreds of thousands of people to Victorian Square every extended Labor Day weekend.
Rib Cookers:
Twenty-three of the world's most-decorated and talented rib cookers will feed event- goers, while competing for a total cash purse of $19,500 and the title of "Best in the West" – a designation many cookers consider to be the ultimate prize in high-volume, competitive barbecue.
In 2017, Chicago BBQ Company of Burr Ridge, IL, took home the title of "Best in the West." Second place went to Uncle Bub's barbecue team from Westmont, IL, and Aussom Aussie, from Pittsburgh, PA, won 3rd place. The 2017 People's Choice Award was claimed by Back Forty Texas Barbecue House, Pleasant Hill, CA and Best Sauce also went to Uncle Bub's.
The 23 rib cookers at the 30th annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off are Aussom Aussie BBQ Company (Pittsburgh, PA by way of Sydney, Australia); Austin's Texas Lightning BBQ (Burr Ridge, Illinois); Back Forty Texas Barbecue (Pleasant Hill, CA); The Barbecue Company (Phoenix, AZ); BJ's Barbecue (Sparks, NV); Blazin' Bronco BBQ (Port St. Lucie, FL); Bourbon Q (Westport, KY); Butch's Smack Your Lips BBQ (Mt. Laurel, NJ); Carson City BBQ (Carson City, NV); Checkered Pig BBQ (Martinsville, VA); Chicago BBQ Company (Burr Ridge, IL); Desperado's BBQ & Rib Company (Hinckley, OH); Famous Dave's BBQ (Plymouth, MN and Reno, NV); Hole in the Wall BBQ (Eugene, OR); Joey's Texas Thunder BBQ (Borger, TX); Just North of Memphis (Minneapolis, MN); Montana Q Bar-B-Que (Frenchtown, Montana); Paleo Nick's (Reno, NV); Porky Chicks BBQ (Fayetteville, AR); Porky 'N Beans (Port Saint Lucie, FL) Rasta Joe's BBQ Inc. (Rochester, IN); Texas Outlaw Barbecue (Elizabethtown, KY) and Uncle Bub's (Westmont, IL).
This year's three new competitors are Blazin' Bronco BBQ from Port St. Lucie, Florida; Paleo Nick's from Reno, NV; Porky Chicks BBQ from Fayateville, AR.
The Nugget Casino Resort will welcome many talented musicians to be a big part of the celebration. All the entertainment is provided free-of-charge.
Main Stage Entertainment:
(Sponsored by ZYN Tobacco free nicotine pouches)
Wednesday, August 29th:
Colt Ford – 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, August 30th:
Mark McGrath – 7:00 p.m.
Friday, September 31st:
Joe Diffie – 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 1st:
10,000 Maniacs – 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 2nd:
Jana Kramer – 7:00 p.m.
Monday, September 3rd:
Blind Melon – 3:00 p.m.
Plaza Stage Entertainment:
(Sponsored by Floor & Décor)
Greg Golden Band – 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Buddy Emmer Band – 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Musicole – 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
John Dawson Band – 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Whiskey Preachers – 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Kingfinger – 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Audio Sky – 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Rick Hammond Band – 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Decoy – 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Garage Boys – 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Treedom Band – 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Milton Merlos – 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Jakes Garage Band – 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Delta Cat – 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Rib Cook-Off Awards Ceremony – 2:00 p.m.
Shuttle Service:
For quick, convenient access, there will be two free shuttles to and from the event.
204 EDISON WAY, RENO – Corner of Mill Street and Edison Way - SHUTTLE STOP
Shuttles supplied by All West Coachlines:
Wednesday, August 29 to Friday, August 31:
• 1 shuttle 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
• 2 more shuttles 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
• Total Shuttles: 3
Saturday, September 1 to Sunday, September 2:
• 3 shuttles 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Monday, September 3: Event Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• 2 shuttles 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
RSCVA PARKING LOT C – Near Kietzke Lane and Peckham Lane - SHUTTLE STOP
Wednesday, August 29 to Friday, August 31: Event Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
• 1 more shuttle 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Shuttles will take event goers to the RTC Centennial Plaza, near Victorian and 14th, just steps away from all the action!
Offsite Oversized Vehicle Parking is available during the Rib Cook-Off at the 204 Edison Way address above with shuttle service as noted.
Kids' Area:
Children will delight in an array of rides and activities. The kids' area will be located with craft vendors on the corner of 14th Street & Victorian Avenue, and will include games and exciting rides for kids of all ages. Ride tickets will be available for purchase just outside the kids' area.
People's Choice Award Voting
Voting for the People's Choice Award will be held online! Attendees can vote for their favorite rib cookers by visiting the official Rib Cook Off website at www.nuggetribcookoff.com and then clicking on the "Vote Here" link. Voting begins on Wednesday, August 29th at 10:30 a.m. and ends on Sunday, September 2nd at 9:00 p.m. Participants may vote once per day, with a valid email address. The winner will be announced on Monday, September 3rd at 2:00 pm on the Plaza Stage.
Website/Social Media:
Get updates during the event!
Website: www.nuggetribcookoff.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/nuggetribs
Twitter: @nuggetribs
Instagram: @nuggetribs
Use the official hashtag #NuggetRibs.
For more information, visit NuggetRibCookOff.com and NuggetCasinoResort.com.
Please note, event and information subject to change.
Thank you to our valued sponsors: City of Sparks, Floor & Décor, Morrey Distributing-Budweiser, Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority, ZYN Tobacco-Free Nicotine Pouches,
Labor Works, Cerveza Pacifico Clara, Northern Nevada Toyota Dealers, Coca-Cola,
Clos Du Bois Wine, Ravage Wine, Go RVing, Scheels.
The Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada is one of the Reno/Tahoe region's most affordable vacation and convention destinations, featuring a multitude of amenities, including nearly 1,400 guestrooms, 110,000 square feet of meeting space, multiple award-winning dining outlets, a year-round atrium pool and numerous other amenities. The Nugget is owned by Marnell Gaming. For more information, please visit www.nuggetcasinoresort.com, call 1-800-648-1177, or visit us on Facebook and Twitter
Event Photos Available at:
https://nuggetcasinoresort.smugmug.com/Events/Rib-Cook-Off/
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