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Day One Decathlon/Heptathlon Results
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - Day one of the decathlon and heptathlon competition at the Northridge Invitational is complete as 21 men competed in two sections of the decathlon and 27 women competed in two sections of the heptathlon.
Competing on a day that saw temperatures reach 90 degrees, unusual for the San Fernando Valley in March, the Matadors Derrick Harris scored a day one decathlon total of 3,403 points while Taylor Cudequest scored 3,176. Kevin Finley is also competing for the CSUN men.
Harris scored a day one event best of 789 points after running 11.33 in the 100 meters.
In the heptathlon, Cal State Northridge also had three competitors as Stephanie Hicks scored a team-best 2,902 points on day one while Jealinda Mills scored 2,675 and Jordan DuFault posted 2,448 points.
Hicks ran the second-fastest time of the day in the 100 meter hurdles clocking a time of 14.42 to earn 920 points. Mills ran 26.45 in the 200 meters to earn her highest point total of the day (758). DuFault won her section of the shot put after tossing a best of 36-9.75 (11.22) which gave her 610 points, her best of the day.
The second and final day of the both the decathlon and heptathlon is Friday with the main portion of the 2013 Northridge Invitational set for Saturday.

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Airport project scheduled for summerBy Gordon Dritschilo
Staff Writer | February 07,2013Work around the runway at the Rutland airport is slated for the summer.
The proposed FY 2014 budget includes $5,360,000 for the expansion of the runway safety area and associated relocation of Airport Road. The project will provide more flat terrain surrounding the runway.
"If a plane lands long — or short — this level turf provides a safe area for the plane to come to a rest with minimal structure damage," said Jason Owen, project manager for the Vermont Agency of Transportation.
The change brings the airport closer to FAA design standards, Owen said, and should help upgrade the airport's safety rating from "fair" to "excellent."
"In a perfect world, in airports like Rutland, they would like 1,000 feet," he said. "That's not practical, but we're going to double what's there. Right now, it's about 300 feet and we're going to make it 600 feet."
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Balance shifts on health care committeeBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | December 14,2013MONTPELIER The balance of power in the House Committee on Health Care will shift in favor of Democrats next year when House Speaker Shap Smith drops a Republican from the 11-person panel and replaces him with a member of the ruling party.
Gone from the committee, Smith said late Friday evening, is Rep. John Mitchell, a Republican from Fairfax now headed to the House Committee on Education. Replacing him is incoming Democratic Rep. Kathy Hoyt, appointed by Gov. Peter Shumlin earlier this year to replace the seat vacated by Margaret Cheney.
House Speaker Shap Smith said the move is designed to make way for a newly minted lawmaker whose breadth and depth of experience are critically important as we move forward with health care reform.
House Minority Leader Don Turner, however, said the shake up amounts to partisan maneuvering designed to undermine the influence of the GOP as the Democratic supermajority prepares to face tough questions over the troubled roll out of the new health insurance exchange.
Im very concerned and Im very disappointed, Turner said late Friday evening. I think Vermonters will see through this that Democrats dont like tough questions when it comes to health care, and that by taking away a person who is asking those like tough questions may make it easier for them.
The personnel change comes during the middle of the two-year biennium, and isnt the only reassignment Smith confirmed Friday.
Rep. Patti Lewis, a Berlin Republican, will move from education to the House Committee on Government Operations. Incoming Democratic Rep. Margie Ryerson, who filled the Randolph seat opened up by the death of Larry Townsend, will be assigned to the House Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Rep. Rebecca Ellis, a Waterbury Democrat, will take over as vice-chairwoman of energy and natural resources, a position formerly held by Cheney.
Hoyt, who lives in Norwich, has a long career in government that includes stints as secretary of administration under former Govs. Madeline Kunin and Howard Dean. She was a also a member of a three-person panel that spent more than a year examining ways to overhaul the states tax structure.
With his direct appointment of Hoyt in September, Shumlin bypassed the conventional nominating process in which the local party committee forwards three names to the governors desk. Hoyts predecessor left when she accepted Shumlins appointment to a seat on the three-person Public Service Board.
(Hoyt) is someone who has seen state government from every angle, and her experience will be invaluable on that committee, Smith said.
Turner said that if Smith wanted to find room for Hoyt on the committee, he could have done so without eroding what little representation the GOP has on a panel that will be dealing next year not only with the exchange, but with the seeds of a public financing system for the single-payer system Shumlin has said will come online by 2017.
I think its wrong, Turner said. I just dont like that were going to have only two Republicans on one of the most important committees in the House right now.
Smith said the composition of the Health Care Committee during the last session wasnt reflective of the partisan make-up of the body. The six Democrats, one Progressive, one independent and three Republicans, Smith said, didnt mirror the near super-majority status of his party.
Its 6-5 committee right now, and the balance is different than most of the other committees, and that plays a role in the decision, Smith said. And its not an easy decision.
That narrow margin led to some very public setbacks last session for the committees Democratic chairman, who saw his committee go against him on at least one high-profile vote.
Rep. Mary Morrissey, who will be one of two Republicans left on the Health Care Committee, said the change disrespects the work that Mitchell and the committee have done over the first half of the session.
Turner said he appreciated that the speaker called him earlier this week to inform him of his plan, and that Smith was willing to work with Republicans in determining which of the three would be sent to the education committee.
Turner said he thinks Hoyts experience on the Blue Ribbon Tax Commission, the panel that worked in 2009 to try to reform the income and sales tax, is one of the reasons Smith wants her on health care.
From my perspective, I think theyre trying to figure out how theyre going to do single-payer, Turner said. And being a former member of that commission, Im sure she has a lot of information about taxation.
Smith said Hoyts facility with the tax code is one reason among many shell be a good fit on the committee.
Certainly it helps that she was on the Blue Ribbon Tax Commission, Smith said. But it really is the breadth and depth of her experience.
Darcie Johnston, head of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, which working to stymie progress toward single-payer, said the committee reassignments underscore the urgency of the opposition.
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"The core Catholic claim"?
Joseph A. Komonchak February 6, 2013 - 10:47am
In the latest New Yorker, Adam Gopnik has a rather snarky review of a few recent works on Galileo. Towards the end, he offers an explanation of why the Church wouldnt tolerate his views at least as hypothesis:
Whatever might be said to accord faith and Copernicus, religion depends for its myth on a certain sense of scale.... Man must be at the center of a universe on a stable planet, or else the core Catholic claim that the omnipotent ruler of the cosmos could satisfy his sense of justice only by sending his son here to be tortured to death begins to seem a ittle frayed. Scale matters. If Clark Kent had never left Smallville, then the significance of Superman would be much reduced.
There could be some superficial merit in the argument about scale here: Pascal, for example, said that the eternal silence of the universes immensities terrified him. But, notice, it was the silence, not the immensities, that frightened him, and difference in scale was not the most important thing:
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
But what struck me was the ignorance displayed in Gopnik's throwaway summary of the core Catholic claim which seriouslymisrepresents the core Catholic belief in redemption through the death and resurrection of Christ.Many Christians, including even many Catholics, may hold something like that view of the atonement, which in turn, of course, repels many others. Another reason for profound regret at the low level of knowledge and understanding of the faith.
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Claire I stand by my above "for a greater good" quote . I certainly don't disagree that Newtown was a horrific tragedy, but so was the crucifixtion if looked at only as the single act of killing Christ without knowing , as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story." As I already wrote above, we killed our Creater. In return, we got redemption. Could anything be more evil than killing God? And yet, by that being "allowed", we were all redeemed.Despite human suffering being one of the great mysteries, we do know, from Catholic Theology/Christ's teachings, that suffering united to Christ has great power, redemptive power , which was in fact, the "greater good", of the Deicide.We couldn't possible know, sans Divine Revelation, how the suffering of Newtown (or any other acts of evil), will play out in the whole economy of salvation history, only that "for those who love God, it will have been for a greater good (Rom 8:28). If looked at only at the macro/human level, yeah, it all sucks. The good news is that because of Christ's suffering, we have hope, hope in knowing that the suffering of Newtown or 911 or the Holocast or any other, big or small, acts of evil have the potential to help redeem the world. Of course it doesn't look "fair", but trust that God is smarter than all of us. The end game is "every soul saved." Our job is to keep our eyes on Christ, pick up crosses, and follow. Only when we finally see the face of God will we know why God allowed what we believed to be so unjust. This may help you a lot. JPII wrote much on this topic.http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/h...
(Hi, Claire. I want to respond to your comment, but since this interesting and amusing thread isn't the place, I'll do so in a private e-mail.) (If anyone wants a copy, let me know.)
The "how" is forever ponderous, but isn't the "why" more important? And that we know: For God so loved the world. Makes the how seem more a a curiosity than the crux of the matter.Abe--yes, thanks for that.
Patricia: see http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=22367Fr. K 12/17/2012 - 12:34 pm wrote like a parent would. I feel rather guilty about praising him for the second time in one day, but his - rather than your reasoning about some abstract "greater good" - is the Christian, compassionate, human reaction:"My first, and later, reaction was that these deaths were not the result of divine action or call or will, but of the murderous will of a human being. I know, I know, the intent was to state a conviction that even this evil does not fall outside the realm of Gods superintending power and love, but the sentence seemed, and seems, too easy to say, distracting from the monstrousness of the deed, sounding hollow in the face of unfathomed grief, saying too much about the unspeakable.We all look for answers to our many Whys, for reasons. But is this not one of those occasions when reasons are precisely what we will not find? In a couple of places, St. Augustine warned against looking for reasons for an evil will, when it is the absence of reason that makes a will evil. To look for reasons for the failure of reason is, he said, like wanting to see darkness or to hear silence. An eye perceives darkness only when it begins not to see; an ear perceives silence only when it ceases to hear. So when our minds seek to understand what lacks intelligibility, we know it by not knowing it. See darkness, and youll understand sin.This doesnt throw much light on things; in fact it leaves them shrouded in darknesswhich I take it to have been Augustines point: that in the human heart and in the midst of human sociability there are dark caves that no light illumines and no words can utter. Sometimes we ought to admit that were simply dumbin both senses of the word."Or, more concisely, remember: Jesus wept.I know that this thread is about trying to apply some kind of logical, analytical reasoning to mysteries, but I think we need to remember not to take it too far.
Claire I fail to see how quoting Romans 8:28 is "taking it too far," or how Father K and I are in much of a conflict. Are you also arguing that the crucifixition of Christ did not bring about a "greater good?" I also made it more than clear that suffering is indeed a great mystery, consequently, I or anyone else outside of Divinity am unable to tell you at this time what if any "good" will come from Newtown. The main point was "When we love God, and even more so when our sufferings are united to His, God HIMSELF tells us, ALL WILL work for good. Perhaps Thomas A Kempis, author of The Imitation of Christ (2nd most read book after the Bible), said it best:"If, indeed, there were Anything Better or More Useful for Man's Salvation than Suffering, Christ would have shown it by Word and Example."I challenge any of you, including Abe, to offer anything in our humaness that can break us more than human suffering, as it's often in, and only in, the debts of human suffering that many of us fianally, still in our free will, call out to God. It's at that point, that man often realizes he needs God, consequently, the faith for salvation can then be made possible.
Claire --I'm glad you're glad when Fr. K. and I agree, and no doubt he is glad I'm glad you're glad . . . :-) But let me go a bit further and maybe there's some disagreement in all this after all.Not only do I think the so-called "Scholastic method" would be a welcome method for doing theology today, I think it is *essential* today that Rome re-recognize the value of dialectics, and it is essential that Rome even encourage reasoned disputations. Its present squelching of obviously justified challenges only serves to discourage the young from becoming theologians, and it causes the clergy to abandon the faithful who, like Anne, are seriously troubled by the problems. And in my experience there are many who are so troubled. Nothing is perfect, and that includes Vatican II. At VII Aquinas was almost totally ignored, having been dismissed by theologians who found him barren for this age. I do not consider myself a Thomist, but to take that attitude towards Aquinas and the other rationalist theologians exhibits a sort of irrationality that is worthy of the Romantics, not the Roman Catholic intellectual tradition. Unfortunately, the present Pope leans towards Romanticism. (See, I knew I could find something to argue with JAK about :-) Further, not only does the rejection of Aquinas and his dialectical method short-change the faithful, but it is simply inconceivable that the secularists will even *begin* to take the "New Evangelism" seriously as long as Rome persists in its intolerance of dissent. And, rightly, the New Evangelism is directed towards the secularists as well as believers of other faiths. The Enlightenment saw very clearly that criticizing one's own thoughts is a means to truth, and the medievals already knew it. The Vatican needs to learn it again. I don't mean to say that reason is the only method of expanding understanding of theology. But it does seem to me that humility demands a proper respect for reasoning. We all can be wrong.
Patricia, I'm not sure how to respond, but when you write: " its often in, and only in, the debts of human suffering that many of us finally, still in our free will, call out to God. Its at that point, that man often realizes he needs God, consequently, the faith for salvation can then be made possible", and apply it to other people's s sufferings, it brings to mind the Inquisition-like Christians of the past who tried to beat people into conversion. Something in what you write seems a little bit off. Maybe an apparent lack of sympathy for other people's sufferings? Maybe a lack of revulsion at suffering as consequence of evil? I can't quite put my finger on it (and maybe that's because I don't have a good understanding of sin and expiation), but I hope that someone more skilled than me will take you up on it.
That is, if you talk about transforming your own suffering by uniting yourself to Christ, that's all well and good, but if you talk about other people's suffering and claim, like Pangloss, that things will work out for the best, that talk seems hollow. Their suffering belongs to them. In and as of itself, suffering is the product of evil. It can be transformed, but as long as it is not, it deserves only compassion, not abstract reasonings about a hypothetical greater good.But I probably misunderstood what you wrote.
JAK --Yes, the scholastic method could be useful on blogs. But rhetoric was not part of the method, and I fear that most "arguments" on blogs are largely rhetorical appeals. They're don't stick to the subject and are largely name-calling.But how about the theologians here (I mean you and Fr. Imbelli) giving us a demonstration of a theological disputation? Or maybe you could each have a team, the Pros and the Cons. Grant could formulate the question. There was once such a disputation in the School of Philosophy at Cath. U. when I was there. It was in Latin, but great fun watching two students pretend they were medieval masters. The "Nego! Nego!"s really flew. (One of them, Robert Sokolowski, did turn out to be a master of phenomenology.)Here's the site again of the light-hearted question, "Whether Aquinas is fittingly called boring." It's funny, but it shows exactly how Aquinas' and the others' disputations were structured.http://www.dominicanablog.com/2013/01/28/whether-st-thomas-is-boring/
Claire for $2.50, you can download Scott Hahn's MP3 on "making sense out of suffering." He explains it as simply as I think is possible, in a "cliff note" kind of way; great place to start. I'm quite sure if you listend to it, redemptive suffering would make a lot more sense. I found a link for you. http://www.lighthousecatholicmedia.org/store/title/making-sense-out-of-s..., many Catholics never have much or any understanding of redemptive suffering, for all the obvious reasons. Hats off to you for even trying to understand it rather than outright rejecting it. Trust me it's worth the effort, at least to be familiar with it in a general sense. That's where Scott Hahn will be of great help!
Thank you, Anne Chapman, for your questions, which I share. Also to Gerelyn, Ann, Claire, Frs. K and I, among others. Like Anne, I share these questions; they shape one's image of God at least, and in turn influence prayer life. My ignorance is very clear from reading comments, but those mentions of God's love help foster more positive interpretations.I used to think, well if God allowed the crucifixion to happen to his Son, if he treated him that way, what chance in blazes did I have? And what was so extraordinary about God coming to share our humanity? If God creates man a certain way, why shouldn't God partake of what He made? Why create a world that exempts him alone from experiencing what his creatures have to cope with, instead of being willing to share the conditions he decided for others?That image accords well with a God of penal substitution. I read at mass today, God "died for our sins" in the Nicene Creed. I recall a Good Friday liturgy where parishioners were given a nail and then filed to the front to use a hammer to pound the nail into a large wooden cross. By the end, it was studded with nails as a reminder of our part in causing God's brutal death. Yipes.Gerelyn - "if this is a core Catholic belief, its strange how few understand it and how poorly and inconsistently its taught." Amen.I am starting to read Christianity in Evolution: an exploration by Jack Mahoney SJ (Georgetown Univ Press). I find this far more meaningful:the evolutionary achievement of Jesus was to confront and overcome death in an act of cosmic significance, ushering humanity into the culminating stage of its evolutionary destiny, the full sharing of God's inner life. Previously such doctrines as original sin, the fall, sacrifice, and atonement stemmed from viewing death as the penalty for sin and are shown not only to have serious difficulties in themselves, but also to emerge from a Jewish culture preoccupied with sin and sacrifice that could not otherwise account for death. The death of Jesus on the cross is now seen as saving humanity, not from sin, but from individual extinction and meaninglessness. Death is now seen as a normal process that affects all living things and the religious doctrines connected with explaining it in humans are no longer required or justified.In the end, Rahner's words catch my tired, confused brain: to the effect that whoever does not love the mystery does not know God, but constructs an image in one's own likeness.
Patricia, thank you for not taking offense at my comments. It seems that we are talking past one another. But I appreciate your taking the time to look for a reference.
Carolyn Disco,I see what Father Mahoney is trying to move beyond, But, solely on the basis of the quote you give, I think he may be equally one-sided.My point is that I think there is a dialectic between sin and death, and that fear of death, of vulnerability, often leads us to take "defensive" measures that in turn become death-dealing/sinful. In this regard I've several times appealed to Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death" as an illuminating study. On the theory that the best defense is a good offense, we often respond to perceived threats by lashing out at the other/Other. Cain serves as paradigmatic instance.When I was in grammar school, "mystery" was often presented as a "red light:" you can't understand it, so don't bother. I try to suggest it's like a blinking "yellow light:" proceed with caution. Rahner's great article, "The Concept of Mystery in Catholic Theology" has been a guide.I think this thread has proceeded with due caution in seeking some understanding of the paschal mystery of faith.
"I challenge any of you, including Abe, to offer anything in our humaness that can break us more than human suffering, as its often in, and only in, the debts of human suffering that many of us fianally, still in our free will, call out to God. Its at that point, that man often realizes he needs God, consequently, the faith for salvation can then be made possible."Well what does your challenge even amount to? I'm fine saying that its suffering that breaks us more than anything, but that doesn't seem like any great realization. The problem is everything that follows after, because it falls into the same trap of valorizing suffering as a key element in God's plan for salvation. It makes suffering be "for something," and in doing so, it runs the risk (unavoidable, I think) of making suffering good.What is so mysterious about suffering? The murder of the children at Newton was not a mystery. Nor was the execution of Jesus. Rather, the reasons for why those tragedies took place are all too obvious, all too familiar. I'm not saying that suffering can't lead to something, that it can't be transformative. What I'm saying is that it's really messed-up to place people's suffering on a pedestal as a means of divinization. What Claire wrote above at 10:46 is dead on, and you never addressed her point.
Claire I would hope that I never take offense at anyone like you with an honest attempt to understand the faith. I will make one last attempt as simply as I can make it. God created man and women. Man sinned against God, consequently, the entire human race was in need of redemption, as God and sin cannot co-exist, meaning none of us would ever be able to spend eternity (heaven) with God owing to our "original sin" obtained via our human blood lines. Being that man is finite, and only God is infinite, only God could "repay the debt of sin" so to speak. Consequently, Jesus sent His son to redeem us. And He chose the cross.From Genesis 3:16 to the end of the New Testament, we encounter pain and suffering, the consequence of sin. Jesus being God, He chose to not only to redeem us, but to redeem us in the greatest of love, total sacrifice. Just as a good mother never leaves the side of her sick child, God, our heavenly father, chose not to ever leave us, both in our joys or in all of our suffering(s). Consequently, His life and passion left nothing, in his humanity, bigger than any of us could ever suffer. That's why He chose to suffer MORE.Not only did He suffer more than any of us ever could, He even invited us INTO His suffering, consequently, out of great love, to even "share" in His redemption, by uniting our sufferings to His sufferings (redemptive suffering).From James to St. Paul's "thorn in his side", to countless references in Scripture, in addition to just about every saint, we are told that suffering, properly understood (and united with Christ), is a great gift. The reason it's a great gift is that it enables profound graces, of which Christ promised, He would always give us sufficient grace for anything of which He allowed. Like many things of faith, it's a great paradox, for sure counter intuitive, albeit true. Before Christ, suffering was "meaningless." Christ gave suffering both meaning and power, the greatest power in fact, redemption.Blessed Henry Suso once wrote:"Suffering is a short pain and a long joy. Suffering gives to the sufferer, pain here, and joy hereinafter. Suffering changes an earthly man into a heavingly man." Copious saints and mystics have written much on the "gift of suffering", suggesting to us, that if we truly understood it's power, a power we will only know on the other side of the veil, we would regret (if it was possible to have regrets in heaven), that we weren't allowed more. In point of fact, we are being asked, with the one we love, Jesus Christ, to help in redeeming the world. This doesn't mean that Christ's sacrifice wasn't enough, only that our with His would be "more."And the really good news of course, is after the short lived life on earth, all suffering ends in eternal joy, in the beatitude of the oneness with God, the ultimate meaning of life, for sure the "end game" of our faith.Lastly I would suggest two things, and being that Lent starts on Wednesday, timing couldn't be better. Pray the rosary, especially the sorrowful mysteries, and meditate on the Stations of the Cross. If prayed in faithful obedience, God will start to reveal some of the mystery. One of the many beauties of the Catholic Faith is that none of us have to be sages to "get it", just faithful. Most of all, meditate on the crucifix, as it contains the entire human condition. There is nothing any of us can ever suffer or experience that Christ, in His great love for us, hasn't suffered more. It's all on the cross.Hope this helps Claire.
Bob Imbelli's comment at 2/8, 5:00 strikes me as very helpful:"I tried to move away from this by suggesting that we not think of redemption or atonement in terms of a transaction: something paid to another, but rather to focus upon the person whose vision and action transformed evil into good."Likewise, his quote from Anselm about the dreadfulness of sin.
"From Genesis 3:16 to the end of the New Testament, we encounter pain and suffering, the consequence of sin."Patrice --The problem is not that we suffer because we have sinned. There is no injustice there. The problem, the injustice, is that innocent creatures -- babies, crickets, horses, Jesus Himself -- suffer, sometimes dreadfully, without having sinned.You need to read Job to understand "the problem of evil". Be sure to take the end seriously -- in the end God punishes Job's "friends" who try to convince him that there is no problem, that suffering is a just result of our having sinned. God doesn't agree, and, in fact, he punishes Job's friends for their fooling themselves, and He *rewards Job mightily* for telling the truth about Him, for saying that He does at least seem to be an evil God. God doesn't want us to avoid this problem -- He wants us to face it and tell the truth as we see it, even though it makes God look evil Hmself.
"Before Christ, suffering was meaningless. Christ gave suffering both meaning and power, the greatest power in fact, redemption."Patrice --Yes, we agree about this. But the suffering is not good in itself, it is good only as means to a good end. It's goodness is derived, not intrinsic. So to call it a gift is not to say that the suffering itself is something to be grateful for -- even Jesus asked to avoid it. It is the *result* of suffering-freely- accepted that is mysteriously good. Suffering then is no longer meaningless, but it is still seems terribly unjust and hence utterly irrational.
Ann: You wrote: "At VII Aquinas was almost totally ignored, having been dismissed by theologians who found him barren for this age. I do not consider myself a Thomist, but to take that attitude towards Aquinas and the other rationalist theologians exhibits a sort of irrationality that is worthy of the Romantics, not the Roman Catholic intellectual tradition. Unfortunately, the present Pope leans towards Romanticism".Thomism was not ignored at the Second Vatican Council. There are twenty-eight references to his works in the conciliar texts, and there was an energetic debate about him and his thought during the preparation of the Council and during its third session. Fr. Congar even could write: "It could be shown that St. Thomas, the Doctor communis, furnished the writers of the dogmatic texts of Vatican II with the bases and the structure of their thought." Congar thought that Gaudium et spes in particular showed a Thomist methodology. I discuss all this in an essay which includes an explanation of why the place and role of St. Thomas was so hotly debated at the Council. http://jakomonchak.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/jak-thomism-at-vatican-ii...
Ann Oliver I never said that "we suffer because we have sinned", only that suffering is a consequense of sin. We are all, in the Body of Christ, in it together. Unlike what many think, sin is NOT personal, we all share in both the reparations and the sins of our brothers and sisters in Christ. Our sin affects each other as much as our prayers.Indeed many "good" and faithful people suffer. My point was that all suffering (regardless of how we get there), has value when united with Christ.Job was a pre figurement of Christ; a very good man who suffered much, almost "broke" in his despair (as Jesus in his humaness also asked the Father to take "this cup from me" , albeit Job or Christ (in his huamity), ever lost their faith.Abe, "it runs the risk (unavoidable, I think) of making suffering good."The point is Abe, suffering united to Christ IS good, very good, "redemptive" good. There's a good reason why Christ asked us all to "pick our crosses" and follow Him. That doesn't mean we go out looking to inflict pain and suffering on ourselves, only that we do encounter it, we can know that Christ is with us in it, always, and that is for sure "good."
'Unlike what many think, sin is NOT personal, we all share in both the reparations and the sins of our brothers and sisters in Christ."Patrice --I'm sorry, but according to what i have been taught and read this view is thoroughly at odds with the ancient and continuing teaching of the Church -- sin is *always* personal, and that is why we are responsible for it. We do not share the guilt of others, though I grant you the contemporary secular culture does seem to admit of something called "corporate guilt". But that is not Catholic belief. You are not guilty of my sins, nor I of yours. Yes, consequent on our sinning we can, with the grace of God, be helped to become repentant and we can sometimes influence others in to repent. But guilt is personal. That's why individuals, not groups, go to Hell, whatever that is. See Dante's Inferno for the classic view on this topic.
I don't believe that suffering per se is a consequence of sin. Cruelty and callous indifference to the suffering of other people are consequences of sin, even in the secular order. But mere suffering is a consequence of life or, more exactly, of the life of finite creatures that continue to grow and vary in imperfectly coordinated ways. Some of us are subject to the pain of flat feet because African forests vanished during the Pliocene and our ancestors had to leave the trees where we had lived for millions of years and walk upright on the savannah. Our feet are still trying to catch up. Childbirth is painful because our brains grew larger and the birth canal did not. Microbessinless microbesexploit us and cause diseases which we have not yet developed immunities to or remedies for. Even many of our social ills are more the result of ignorance and shortsightedness than of outright sin. And death is an entirely natural thing in itself, although it can be inflicted, perhaps even self-inflicted, through sin.I don't believe that Adam's disobedience was God's will, any more than mine is. Adam and I must each bear the responsibility. I also don't believe that the Crucifixion was God's will.God's will was the Incarnation. Having made a wonderful world, he did not choose merely to observe it or to play with it like a small boy spinning a top. He desired to immerse himself in it and to share in some sense the experience of his creatures. Why would he want to do that? I have no idea. But I believe he would have done it even if no one had ever sinned.The Cruciixion was our idea and our deed, ours alone. It was a violation of the ancient duty of hospitality and a stunning rejection of God's love, but merciifully mitigated by the victim's plea that "they know not what they do."And in this fateful contest, God proved the more resourceful player and countered our move with the Resurrection.But why, knowing how things would turn out, did he begin at all? Well, we ourselves sometimes do that, accepting a high cost for what we hope will be a greater good. And truly, "image and likeness" aside, he is not just like us and his calculations are not ours.
St. Augustine made two comments in his Enchiridion that are pertinent: "God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to allow evils to exist.""Almighty God, since he is supremely good, would never permit any evil in his works unless he were so omnipotent and good that he could bring good even out of evil."The sentences bear meditation. They're not a "solution" to the problem of evil, but state the terms within which a believer might pose the problem. There is no problem if God is either not almighty or not all-good. Christian faith refuses to choose between these two attributes and seeks understanding within the framework they supply.
I think the Creator is letting us work it out, just as we must let our children work it out. E. O. Wilson:http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/evolution-and-our-inner-... another charming NYT article on evolution from two days ago. Is our little ggggg....grandmother evil for what she is about to do to the insect? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/science/common-ancestor-of-mammals-plu...
JAK --It seems to me that the manifest presence of great goodness and beauty in the world points to the existence of a good Creator, and this evidence of His nature out-balances the problem of the evil that He has apparently created. No, not all evils are lacks of good. Physical evil is created, and thus must be a product of God. But, ISTM, it remains problematic for two reasons. The first is metaphysical: how can God who is goodness itself and who creates only things which resemble Him somehow, create that which is not good, i.i. evil? Some say that suffering in itself is not wholly evil -- it serves a purpose. But we we look at suffering in itself all we see is something bad. The other problem is the big ethical question of justice: how can a just God cause innocent creatures to suffer? One answer to that is that God Himself suffers with His creatures, that He does not require of them what He does not endure Himself, and this, of course, is a partial explanation of why Christ chose to die on the cross. But this problem doesn't destroy the fact that there is evidence of a good, loving Creator.In the end I think it is a question of which kind of evidence -- the existence of good and the existence of evil -- one finds most persuasive.
I found a 1995 set of notes by the international theological commission about redemption. A partial survey. http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_... are a few quotes after a quick scan.Traditionally, howeveras the biblical witness itself revealsall suffering, and indeed death itself, has been understood as springing from sin, the mystery of iniquity in Saint Pauls phrase (2 Thess 2:7). (par. 13 - that's for you, John Prior)The death of Jesus is not the act of a merciless God exacting the supreme sacrifice; it is not a buying back from some alienating power which has enslaved. It is the time and the place where a God who is love and who loves us is made visible. Jesus crucified tells how much God loves us, and affirms that in this gesture of love a human being has given unconditional assent to God's ways. (Part 2, par. 10)All who live in Christ are summoned to become active participants in the continuing process of redemption. Incorporated into the Body of Christ, they carry his work forward and thereby enter into closer union with him. Just as he was a sign of contradiction, so the individual Christian and the whole Church become signs of contradiction as they struggle against the forces of sin and destruction, amidst suffering and temptation. The faithful are united with the Lord by their prayers (2 Cor 1:11; 1 Tim 2:1-4), their works (1 Cor 3:9-14), and their sufferings, all of which have redemptive value when united with, and taken up into, the action of Christ himself. (par. 60)
Gerelyn,Thanks for pointing out that E. O. Wilson article. Mole Rats and Us will make a marvelous book title, if someone will just write the book.
Thank you, Claire. That's an excellent paragraph, that par. 13. It says the limitations of nature (natural catastrophes and such) may give rise to suffering, and so they may. But "limitations" is just one way of looking at the workings of nature, which are a continuing process of becoming that to all appearances is stochastic and undesigned. Only a very great artist could have found a way for his masterpiece to participate in its own creation.Supernovas explode with horrible destructive power, but they seed the universe with elements that life will later use. Plate tectonics disturb and disrupt the earth, and otherwise the dry land would long ago have eroded into the sea, and there would be no daffodils. Asteroid and meteor strikes wipe out whole classes of organisms, making room for new life, including us. Astounding beauty arises and, even more astounding, the ability to perceive it. Is the gain worth the loss? I think so, although I grant that a trilobite might not. But for our purpose here, I think the judgment that counts is, "God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good." Gen 1:31
"Im sorry, but according to what i have been taught and read this view is thoroughly at odds with the ancient and continuing teaching of the Church sin is *always* personal, and that is why we are responsible for it. We do not share the guilt of others"Ann I apologize if I'm writing so badly that you misunderstand much of what I write. I never said we share "guilt" of others' sins. What we share are the consequences, consequently, our sins, for that reason alone, cannot be "personal", at least not in the sense of consequences.We are all one in the Mystical Body of Christ.
Patricia ==Thanks for clarifying your point. It's a very important one, especially when we are considering government policy about many moral issues. Our actions do have consequences in the wider group, but rampant individualism in this country blinds many to the fact.
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Watch as Josh Earnest is forced to admit that Obama misled the public
posted at 4:41 pm on January 30, 2015 by Noah Rothman
Speaking before a group of Democratic supporters on Thursday night, President Barack Obama took a victory lap of sorts when he touched on the pace of the economic recovery.
"There is no economic metric by which we are not better off than when I took office," Obama asserted. "And that is because of the extraordinary will and dedication of the American people, but also because all of you have done a terrific job. And I'm proud of you for that."
During Friday's press briefing, CBS News reporter Mark Knoller probed White House Press Sec. Josh Earnest about the president's claim and asked if Obama included the national debt in his list of positive metrics.
Pockets of muted laughter from the press corps could be heard as Earnest responded. "What the president has noted is that when you evaluate the deficit, and the deficit is actually fallen by two-thirds since he's taken office," Earnest evaded, "and the way that we measure that is actually the way that economists measure that."
"They don't look at just the sum total," Earnest noted. Of course, because "sum totals" are often so frustratingly grim. "What they do is they evaluate the deficit as the percentage of the economy."
Knoller , observing that his question has not yet been answered, again asked about the national debt. "Which has gone up 70 percent on [Obama's] watch" the CBS reporter observed.
While he pondered how to respond to this damning line of questioning, Earnest conceded that he had no way of massaging the national debt by evaluating it as a relative percentage of some other index more favorable to the administration. Instead, he tried to again evade Knoller's question by making note of Obama's proposals to attempt to lower the debt – including and apparently limited to rising taxes.
"Might you concede that the debt is not a metric that shows we are better off?" Knoller asked for a third and final time.
"I think you would concede, as I would, that the raw math shows that the debt had increased," Earnest finally answered.
While the president's supporters were trumpeting a Congressional Budget Office report released this week which showed that the deficit has indeed been falling – inexplicably, if you were to believe the left, amid two of the least productive Congresses in living memory – that same report indicated that the debt is increasing rather rapidly.
When the president took office, Obama inherited $10.6 trillion national debt. Today, it stands at $18.1 trillion. "Through 2018, the budget deficit will remain at around $500 to $600 billion a year, or about 2.5 percent of the gross domestic product of the United States," read a report via The Blaze. "After 2018, however, the budget deficit will rise past 3 percent of GDP, and then hit 4 percent of GDP by 2025."
According to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's fiscal confidence index, while Americans are increasingly satisfied with the pace of the recovery, they remain deeply troubled by the increasing debt.
"A majority of respondents — 83 percent — agreed in the survey that the nation's national debt is an issue that President Obama and Congress should be spending more time addressing, including 64 percent who say that lawmakers should spend 'a lot' more time on the issue," The Hill reported last August. "This concern over the nation's $17.6 trillion debt spans party lines, with 92 percent of Republicans and 76 percent of Democrats agreeing that Washington needs to focus more on the issue."
The fact that the debt has increased by $500,000,000,000 (five hundred billion) in the space of just five months justifies the public's concerns. Good for Mark Knoller for acknowledging them, and for forcing the administration to concede that Americans are, in fact, not better off in at least one deeply troubling way.
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B'midbar: A Summary of the Parsha
Moses conducts a census of the Israelites; God describes the unique duties of the Kohath family of priests.
By Nancy Reuben Greenfield
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God told Moses to, "Take a total count of the entire community of the sons of Israel according to their families, according to their father's house, counting the names of all males twenty years old and upward."
But the Levites were not allowed to number themselves among them. For you shall appoint the Levites over the Dwelling Place of the Testimony. They shall carry the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Appointed Meeting and minister to it and camp around it. All the other sons of Israel shall camp with their own tribe, according to their divisions, at some distance around the Tent of Appointed Meeting.
Each of the descendants of Aaron (Moses' brother) were anointed as priests, but Nadab and Abihu died when they brought a strange fire before God. Since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar remained to minister as priests.
God spoke to Moses saying, "I shall take these Levites from amidst the sons of Israel in place of every first-born, for all that is firstborn is Mine. On the day I struck down all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I sanctified for Myself all that is first-born in Israel from man to beast. They shall remain Mine." The sons of Levi are then counted and named from one month old and upward.
Moses and Aaron and his sons are to camp in front and east of the Dwelling Place and keep charge of it. Any outsider who comes near is liable to the death penalty.
God spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, "Have the Kohathites among the Levites perform tasks for the Tent of Meeting that concern the most sacred objects. At the breaking of camp Aaron and his sons shall take down the screening curtain and cover the Ark of the Pact. They shall cover all that is within the ark with special cloths, including the sacred objects, so that they do not come in contact with these sacred objects and die. Then the Kohathites shall come and lift these sacred objects."
Eleazer, son of Aaron the priest, shall be responsible for the lighting oil, the aromatic incense, the regular meal offering and the anointing oil, the whole Tabernacle and everything consecrated in it or its vessels.
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying "Do not let the group of Kohathite clans be cut off from the Levites. Let Aaron and his sons go in and assign each of them to his duties so that the Kohathites shall live and not die when they approach the most sacred objects."
Questions For Discussion
1. There is a precise counting of all the tribes of Israel. Why do you think only men over the age of twenty were counted for all the tribes except the Levites, while even one-month-old Levite males were later counted? What about the women–didn't they count to God?
2. Do you consider yourself a member of a certain tribe of Israel? If so, which one and why?
3. The text suggests that if someone besides a Kohathite comes in contact with a sacred object in the Tent of Appointed Meeting that person will die. What are some of the sacred objects in today's sanctuaries? Do you feel that strict rules regarding sacred objects are still necessary? Do you feel that death should still be a consequence for not obeying the rules regarding sacred objects?
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Sami and Gabi take in the pregnancy news, Will and Sonny get intimate, and Nicole comes in contact with Eric Brady.
At the square, Nicole spots Eric Brady. Maxine waylays Nicole to discuss Jenn just as Eric jogs off. Nicole searches for him and flashes to the day he left town, and gave her a passionate kiss. Nearby at Mandalay, Rafe gets Sami's message and sees Sami's face in his server.
Kristen meets EJ at the coffee shop. She pauses when she sees Marlena walk in. She has a proposition for him. Marlena interrupts. She tells EJ to run. She knows what Kristen's up to. She and Kristen get into it. "You need to back off," Marlena says as John arrives. He escorts Marlena away. "What did she do to you?" Marlena says she came in and there she was. John drags her out. EJ calls that impressive. He hasn't seen Marlena that upset in a long time. Kristen calls the doc imbalanced. EJ assumes that's the plan. She tells him about the 'coincidence' that she and John were stranded on Smith Island together. EJ smirks. Kristen wants EJ to take over at CW as Sami's boss in order to move things along with Sami. EJ's torn, knowing he will have to be on speaking terms with Stefano. EJ likes his bitter and estranged relationship. Kristen reminds EJ Stefano's not going to be around forever.
Will and Sonny kiss tenderly at Sonny's. They move to the bed. They make love and bask in the afterglow. They agree it was perfect and start kissing again. Will feels secure in his own skin for the first time ever. Sonny thinks they're exactly where they belong. Later, they eat chips and talk about Will's job with EJ. He doesn't miss the perks and prefers what he has now. They kiss some more.
At the hospital, Cameron tells a shocked Gabi she's pregnant. Sami grins. "That's some news, huh?" Gabi's in shock. Sami promises she'll be okay. "That's what happens when you use birth control. It's not foolproof," Sami says. Rafe calls and they ignore it. Gabi cries that Rafe will be disappointed. Sami agrees to stay silent. She leaves the room to call Rafe and make up a story. She urges Nick to go do his errands and she'll stay with Gabi. Cameron heads back to see Gabi. She's a mess. He tells her she's about 12 weeks along. Gabi's confused momentarily and then flashes to sex with Will. Her mouth drops. Sami heads in and Gabi almost tells her Will's the father. She says she can't have the baby. Sami reminds her the father has rights - she should know. She thinks Nick will handle it better than Gab thinks. Cameron returns after Sami leaves. He hands her the name of an OBGYN and sends her home.
Marlena and John walk through the park and disagree that Kristen's manipulating them. Marlena assumes Kristen's having John followed and thinks if anything happens to her or their family it'll be on him.
Nicole returns to the square wondering who knows Eric's here. She's down to her last resort and calls Marlena, who is at her office. Marlena thinks she's calling for counselling and can't do it. She offers to find someone for her and Nicole becomes frustrated and hangs up. She considers who else to call when she spots him again. She runs after him.
Kristen walks into John's office to say she is stepping down at CW in order to put Marlena's mind at rest. No strings. He thanks her.
Nick returns to the pub, errands finished. He asks Eddie for ten more minutes and runs to call Gabi. Nicole arrives. She finds Eric.
EJ walks through the park and calls Stefano. The call comes as a pleasant surprise. He tells him he's going to replace Kristen as CEO of CW and hears EJ and Kristen are getting along. Stefano's glad EJ can forgive her past mistakes. EJ gives himself a pep talk. "I can do this!"
Sami bumps into Rafe at the cafe. She's stressed over all the emails that built up while she was with Gabi. He asks her about the message she left. She brushes it off. He's insistent.
Sonny and Will start kissing again at Sonny's when Gabi starts pounding at the door. Will opens the door and she realizes what she's interrupting.
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Brady finds Kristen at the board meeting at the church.
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02.21.2012 - South Carolina Dirt Series joins new WKA Dirt Program
With gas prices heading toward the $4 mark by spring, the intent is to save the competitor as much money as possible on travel expense, all the while refortifying a strong local base of competition at the Divisional level. This move will allow many competitors to continue racing for a national championship, primarily in their own back yard, while cutting travel, meal, and hotel expenses down dramatically.
Joining the new program will be the South Carolina Dirt Divisional Series at Possum Kingdom Super Speedway in Belton, South Carolina.
Jayson Brown and the SCDDS will host four WKA Divisional Races in 2012 at Possum Kingdom, one of which will be labeled a Super Regional. On the Super Regional date, competitors will run for double points with all class winners in the nationally recognized WKA classes gaining guaranteed starting spots in the December Dirt World Championships at Daytona International Speedway in Florida.
Additionally, all SCDDS Divisional champions will be granted guaranteed starting spots in their respective classes as well. Should guaranteed starters elect to run at Daytona, they MUST take a qualifying lap. However, any guaranteed starter will start no further back than 10
in their respective fields, another perk for those that have earned their way into the field.
It is also important to note the Daytona event is still open to ALL competitors, not just the guaranteed starters.
While discussions continue with many other dirt divisionals and dirt karting groups, the bottom line is beating the gas prices at the pump and keeping the momentum of karting heading in a most positive direction.
Here are the dates for the South Carolina Dirt Divisional Series for 2012.
May 26: Divisional
June 23: Divisional
July 28: Super Regional
Sept 15: Divisional
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I would doubt those back and forth discussion would even be taking place if Jones didn't bail out on UFC 151. After that, it makes stuff like this seem believable.
I would doubt those back and forth discussion would even be taking place if Jones didn't bail out on UFC 151. After that, it makes stuff like this seem believable.
let me ask a question and please don't flame me because its just a question and not 100% what I think should happen. just want to see what people think.
Lets say DW is telling the truth and Bones will not sign the bout agree agreement to fight Goose. Don you think he should be Stripped of the UFC title? The reason I bring this up is because we don't need MMA to turn in to Boxing where the Champ pretty much picks their fights. The UFC could set a Precedence. Ok your the champ and you don't want to fight who we deem next in line, your not the champ anymore. Have a fight they did when GSP left to crown a new champ and have the for champ work their way back up the rankings by having a fight or 2. Thoughts?
Big Hairy American Winning Machine
It wasn't like DC hadn't beaten a top 10 fighter. He was the #2 ranked HW, and had beaten several. That would be more equivalent to Aldo facing Florian and then Edgar; fighters who were very successful at a higher weight, and then dropped down to make a run at the title in a lighter class.
I also think it's hilarious that you can somehow utterly dismiss jones' eyepokes/assorted fouls but can still call the Mendes finish controversial. The reflexive fence grab happens far more often than eyepokes, but whatever.
And back to the actual question, I haven't seen a champion simply refusing to sign a bout agreement--or even delaying it this much, hoping to prompt a change of opponents. Neither Georges nor Aldo came close to that. Nobody has, to my knowledge.
If dana's version is accurate--and that's obviously a long shot--than I'd agree with everything Ramma stated about jones.
All manner of men came to work for the News: everything from wild young Turks who wanted to rip the world in half and start all over again -- to tired, beer-bellied old hacks who wanted nothing more than to live out their days in peace before a bunch of lunatics ripped the world in half.
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
The Rum Diary
Yeah, Bye.
I agree completely. I would actually like to see the belt defended 3 times a year if possible.
Big Hairy American Winning Machine
Got a lot of soul searching to do. Sorry to everyone I've let down
I will say one thing, if any champion in the history of the UFC deserves a little bit of a layoff, its Jones. Besides that toe injury, the dude has been pumping out fights every 6 months. Against the cream of the crop too. With that being said, I guarantee he ends up fighting Goose by sept.
Favorite Fights: Jonny Bones Jones, Wandy, Hendo, Cain, Matt Hughes, Melvin.
Most disliked fighters: Michael Bisping, Spankie Edgar, Alistair Overeem, Anderson Silva, Tim Sylvia, Chuck Liddell
Got a lot of soul searching to do. Sorry to everyone I've let down
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Netflix 'Just for Kids' now available on iPad
One of the most requested features for Netflix for iPhone and iPad is the "Just for Kids" section that's available on most other platforms -- and now it's finally here on the iPad! Even better, you don't have to do anything to get it. Netflix pushed a backend update and now you should see a "Just for Kids" button at the top left of the screen next to the Browse button. Unfortunately, Just for Kids is only available on the new iPad and the iPad 2, although Netflix has promised that the first generation iPad should receive support soon. No word yet on Netflix for iPhone.
The Just for Kids section of Netflix is filled with movies and TV shows suitable for children ages 12 and under. It's great for parents because it gives the peace of mind that your child won't accidentally stumble across something inappropriate, and it's great for kids because it's easy for them to find something they like. Keep in mind, however, that there isn't a way to lock your kids into Just for Kids, so adult supervision may still be required.
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An industrial reader is provided with an image formation system that is particularly adapted to read bar codes and two-dimensional symbols marked directly on objects. The image formation system includes illumination sources and illumination transmissive components that produce a combination of bright field and dark field illumination.
1. An industrial identification mark reader comprising:
a housing;
an imaging module positioned within the housing to capture an image of a mark on an object placed before the reader;
an illuminator module comprising a plurality of selectively actuated illuminators, the illuminator mounted within the housing; and
an integrated optical transmitter mounted within the housing, the integrated optical transmitter having a dark field illuminator transmitter, the dark field illumination transmitter in optical cooperation with at least one of the plurality of selectively actuated illuminators to project dark field illumination on the object; and a bright field illumination transmitter, the bright field illumination transmitter in optical cooperation with at least one of the plurality of selectively actuated illuminators to project bright field illumination on the object.
2. The reader according to
3. The reader according to
4. The reader according to
5. A plastic molded optical transmitter for use in a direct part mark reader comprising:
a structural frame;
a dark field illumination transmitter integrated into the frame; and
at least one bright field illumination transmitter integrated into the frame, and adjacent to the dark field illumination transmitter.
6. The transmitter according to
7. The transmitter according to
8. The transmitter according to
9. The transmitter according to
10. A hand-held direct part mark reader comprising:
a housing;
an imaging module having a field of view, the imaging module mounted within the housing for capturing an image of a mark on an object place in the field of view;
an illuminator module comprising a plurality of selectively actuated illuminators, the illuminator module mounted within the housing;
a dark field illumination transmitter, in optical cooperation with at least one of the plurality of selectively actuated illuminators in the illuminator module to project dark field illumination on the object, the dark field transmitter mounted within the housing; and
a viewing port through the housing to permit observation of the field of view.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to the field of symbology readers used to read symbols marked directly on objects. Symbology readers of this type, commonly known as direct part mark readers, are an extension of hand-held and fixed-mount image-based symbology readers. A direct part mark reader requires a unique image formation system to produce an image of a symbol that can be successfully and consistently decoded.
2. Description of the Related Art
Two-dimensional symbols are used for most direct part marking applications because such symbols can encode a sufficient number of characters while maintaining a relatively compact size. Error correction schemes are typically included in most two-dimensional symbologies, to improve the readability. The two-dimensional symbols are marked directly on the part or component using various methods, depending upon the material composition, part application, and environmental conditions. Common methods include dot peening, laser, and electro-chemical etch.
Symbols marked directly on a part or component are often difficult to read in comparison to symbols printed on labels. An image of a dot-peened, or etched mark often exhibits very low contrast using illumination or image formation systems of most image-based symbology readers. When a symbol is printed on an adhesive label, and applied to a part or component, or the part packaging, a typical image-based symbology reader can provide sufficient read rate. Industry trends, however, suggest that applications of direct part marking are nevertheless increasing.
Illumination of a symbol or mark is a primary concern when acquiring an image of the symbol to be read and decoded by an image-based symbology reader. Where symbols are printed on labels, or when marked directly on a part with a flat surface, high-angle "bright field" illumination is the type of illumination often used. Bright field illumination is a term of art for a type of illumination that produces a dark object in a bright background. Under bright field illumination, high-angle illumination strikes the object nearly perpendicularly, or at an angle not greater than 45 degrees from perpendicular. This type of illumination results in substantial illumination reflecting back toward the reader.
When a symbol or mark is etched or peened onto the surface of part or component, and the surface is rough or irregular, high-angle bright field illumination may not be appropriate. The irregular surface of the mark features will scatter as much light back to the reader as the surface of the background, resulting in indistinguishable features in the image. Low angle, "dark field" illumination has been shown to be suitable for certain direct part marking applications.
Under dark field illumination, low-angle illumination strikes the object at a low angle from the surface of the object, i.e., at an angle between 45 degrees and 90 degrees from perpendicular. Dark field illumination reflects away from the reader, with only random, irregular features of the mark or symbol on the surface of the object reflecting a portion of the illumination back into the reader. Further, certain reading applications may yield higher successful read rates when a combination of bright field and dark field illumination is used.
Industrial symbology readers are typically designed to provide bright field illumination from lighting sources integrated into the reader. When these readers are adapted to read direct part mark symbols, the use of removable light pipes and other adapters are used to redirect bright field illumination into a dark field mode. Accordingly, hand held readers known in the art that are used for direct part mark reading applications are configured exclusively for either bright field mode or dark field mode.
Accordingly, there is a need for a direct part mark reader with integrated illumination that provides variable and controllable illumination in both bright field and dark field modes.
An illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides an industrial identification mark reader with integrated illumination for both bright field and dark field modes. The reader has a housing with an imaging module that captures an image of a mark on an object placed before the reader. Within the housing, an illumination module has an array of selectively actuated illuminators for illuminating the mark or object. An integrated optical transmitter, supported by the housing, is aligned with, i.e., in optical cooperation with, the selectively actuated illuminators. The integrated optical transmitter has a dark field transmitter for transmitting dark field illumination, and bright field transmitters, for transmitting bright field illumination.
The integrated optical transmitter has a transparent window to provide a path for reflected illumination into the imager module, and to provide protection from the elements to the imager module, the illuminator module, and other internal components of the reader.
In an alternate illustrative embodiment, the integrated optical transmitter has a light pipe for the dark field transmitter, with a base having the bright field transmitter positioned within the light pipe. The alternate illustrative embodiment can be a removable component of the reader to permit field replacement for maintenance and repair and/or to permit the use of alternate light pipe designs for further varied illumination properties.
A third illustrative embodiment of the reader has a viewing port through which a user can view the field of view to which is visible to the imager.
The invention description below refers to the accompanying drawings, of which:
The reader 100 shown in
The reader 100 provides illumination of the mark during the acquisition of an image of the mark through the emission of light from an illumination board 114 (shown in phantom). The reader 100 of the present invention includes an integrated optical transmitter 120, as shown in further detail in
Referring to
The optical transmitter 120 also includes a dark field illumination transmitter 230 that transmits low angle dark field illumination from within the housing 106. The dark field illumination transmitter 230 consists of an extended barrel of light transmissive material terminating (in this embodiment) in an angled tip 235. As described further below, this tip is designed to cause internal reflection that projects a low-angle dark field illumination in the area directly in front of the reader 100. As noted above, such dark field illumination is typically provided at an angle greater than approximately 45 degrees from perpendicular.
The transmitter 120 also includes a window 240 that provides a transmission path for the reflected illumination into the housing 106 in the optical path of a field of view for the sensor module 112. The window 240 of the integrated optical transmitter 120 also provides physical protection from the elements for the several components of the reader that reside within the housing 106. Additionally, the window 240 can provide other optical functions, including filtering (for example, to reduce the effects of ambient illumination), and providing a telecentric view at the object by restricting the size of the opening.
The illumination board 114 has shown an array of dark field illuminators 330 that are generally aligned with the dark field transmitter 230. Each of the dark field illuminators 330 can be surface mounted LEDs that can be individually actuated by a processor controlling the illumination (not shown) to provide dark field illumination in a variety of modes concurrent to the acquisition of an image of a mark, if dark field illumination is desired during acquisition. For example, various modes of illumination can be provided by the array of dark field illuminators 330 that are actuated in quadrants, as disclosed in co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/911,989 filed Aug. 5, 2004, herein incorporated by reference. Control of various modes of illumination, and the synchronization of illumination to a specific acquisition, can be performed by a processor module (not shown) within the reader 100.
The illumination board 114 of the illustrative embodiment has a hole 340 that is aligned with the window 240 and the imaging module 112 to permit the transmission of reflected illumination from the mark into the imaging module 112 during image acquisition. Note that the size and shape of the hole 340 is sufficiently sized to not obscure reflected illumination from entering the imaging module 112.
The imaging module 112 is positioned behind the illumination board 112 in the exemplary embodiment, to receive reflected illumination to produce an image of the mark or symbol. The imaging module 112 has an area sensitive imaging array and an imaging lens. The imaging array can be a charge coupled device (CCD) or a complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device, or other imaging sensor known in the art. The imaging module 112 can also include focus adjustment mechanism to optimize the focus of an image projected onto the imaging array. Additionally, the imaging module can also include illumination to project on-axis bright field illumination toward the field of view, and/or to project an aiming illumination beam onto the field of view to provide the user with guidance for positioning the reader 100 during acquisition.
Coupled to the imaging module 112 is a processor unit (not shown) for receiving an acquired image from the imager module 112 to process and ultimately decode the image of the mark or symbol presented to the reader 100. The imager 112 can receive configuration instructions from the processing unit to set acquisition parameters, such as exposure duration, gain, offset, etc., in a manner commonly known in the art. The processor unit is coupled to the trigger 104 to initiate the illumination and image acquisition process when the trigger is actuated by the user.
When bright field illumination is used to illuminate a mark or symbol, the illumination projected onto the field of view has a high angle of incidence, e.g., less than 45 degrees from normal, as depicted as bright field illumination rays 430 in
When dark field illumination is used to illuminate a mark or symbol, the illumination projected onto the field of view has a low angle of incidence, e.g., greater than 45 degrees from normal, as depicted as dark field illumination rays 420 in
Also shown in
The frame 570 receives the distal end member 575 of the optical transmitter 120 according to the alternate embodiment. A screw 590 can be used to secure the transmitter 120 into the frame 570. One skilled in the art will appreciate that various methods can be used to mechanically secure the described assembly in place to permit the operation of an industrial mark reader. The skilled artisan will also appreciate that a transmitter 120 described herein can be removable in the field by way of such methods of attachment.
The integrated optical transmitter 120 according to the illustrative embodiment is molded or fabricated with polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or polycarbonate. The optical properties of the transmitter 120 can be obtained through polished mold surfaces and/or post fabrication polishing of the transmitter 120.
The integrated optical transmitter 120 of the alternate embodiment can produce illumination in both bright field and dark field modes, as described above.
An inherent difficulty with dark field illumination in most industrial mark readers is that the it is difficult to ensure that the mark or symbol 410 is in the field of view. The reader body obscures the mark or symbol when it is in dark field mode 450 from the user's view, and therefore, aiming and alignment of the reader is difficult. In an alternate embodiment of the present invention, a low profile reader is provided that permits direct observation of the mark or symbol by the user in dark field mode.
The foregoing has been a detailed description of various embodiments of the invention. It is expressly contemplated that a wide range of modifications and additions can be made hereto without departing from the spirit and scope of this invention. For example, the number, position and relative placement of the bright field transmitters on the integrated optical transmitter is exemplary and a variety of such transmitters can be employed to perform bright field illumination on hand held image-based decoding methods herein. Further, additional functionality can be added to the optical transmitter 120, such as aiming optics to direct aiming illumination onto the field of view to provide guidance to a user during operation of the reader 100. Further still, sensor optics can be incorporated into the integrated transmitter 120 to permit the transmission and reception of electromagnetic signals to be used in conjunction with an auto-focus mechanism in the reader 100. Thus, improved or differing components can be employed within the teachings of this invention. Accordingly, this description is meant to be taken only by way of example, and not to otherwise limit the scope of this invention.
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# 68, Tracey (Tbmccarthy on ravelry ), you are headed to the movies!
Please email me with your address and I will make sure your fandango gift card, T-shirt and notebook land in your hands.
I agree with the sentiment.
We have a lot of house flags in our neighborhood as well. I enjoy checking them out. Some are just beautiful. A few are unbelieveable.
Congratulations Tracey!! Enjoy the movie!!
Love the sentiment of your capture.
yes it is.
Agree with Kristyn Knits. Enjoy the movie!
love your new header :)
The fact that she knits has changed my view of Julia....thanks
Congratulations, Tracey - have fun at the movies. Perhaps you'll drop back in and give everyone a review?
Leslie, this was a cool thing for you to do!


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Found New Hardware (MTP Device) wont quit popin up!
by dcmarter - 1/18/07 6:07 PM
Just got a MP3 player (Philips SA4010), and did the whole set up process. Ran into afew bumbs like WMP and the Philips Device Manager not connecting with the MP3. Followed the steps provided by Philips to fix the that. After that it both WMP and PDM both connnected with the MP3. Now the only problem is that the "found new hard ware" MTP Device bubble/pop up, what ever you wanna call it, will not stop promting me. Even after I have closed it out, it pops right back up. So my question is, how in the world do I get it to stop, and will that cause the MP3 not being able to sync with WMP??? Help, please I deploy in two weeks and would really like to have the MP3 all set and ready to go!!! Thanxs.
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