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Building Engines - Get Your Engine EducationWritten by on September 23, 2013 Want to learn how to build your own race engines? how about learning from a former Cup engine assembler?
When you talk about hard-to-get jobs, astronaut or NFL head coach are probably two of the first to come to mind. We also figure there aren't too many dolphin trainers out there (but didn't care enough to do any research to verify).
One really cool job that definitely has a lot more applicants than openings is engine builder—or assembler—for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series operation. Cup operations have over a hundred people working in the engine shop, but only a select few are chosen to oversee final assembly.
Forster Fry was a member of that select group for several years. Fry joined Richard Childress Racing as a cylinder head specialist in 1995 and moved up to engine assembler shortly after that. During that time Fry worked with famous engine builder Eddie Lanier and assembled engines for 2000 and the one and only Dale Earnhardt Sr. It's a pretty impressive resume, if you ask us.
Fry left RCR to work for himself building houses, but he never quit building engines. In fact, he went back to his roots—and our backyard—and helped out short track Saturday night race teams, particularly NASCAR Late Model Stock racers.
Fry says he continued to build engines mostly as a hobby because he wanted to stay connected to the sport he loved, but also noticed how many people racing at the Saturday night level could benefit with some of the knowledge he'd gained from years building engines at NASCAR's Cup Level.
"When I first got started in racing, I was always looking for ways to learn more and build better engines," Fry says. "Heck, I even took classes myself. So when I looked around and realized that there really wasn't anything geared toward the guy who wants to build his own race engines, I thought I might be able to help out a bit with that."
The result is Fry's latest venture, the Race City Engine School (RCES). Fry's new school is geared toward anyone looking to learn how to build Saturday night-level race engines or even just wants to advance their skills as an engine tuner. Fry uses a very hands-on style of teaching, accepting only two to four students at a time for a two-day class. Stations are set up around the RCES facility so that students can gain hands-on experience for everything from measuring and installing bearings to blueprinting a carburetor. That's a lot to squeeze into two days (that can last up to 12 hours each depending on the student's stamina) but Fry says that by concentrating on race engines only, he can pack in a lot in a little bit of time.
"By the time you get done with this school," he says with a laugh, "you will either be an engine builder or you can't wait to pay someone to build one for you."
Fry says that students typically travel in on Friday, or even earlier if they want to visit race shops or nearby Charlotte Motor Speedway. Saturday is the first day of class and focuses on the short block. Topics include the different types of blocks (stock vs. Bow Tie vs. aftermarket such as Dart), cleaning file-fitting rings, fitting bearings, how to degree in a cam, and checking endplay for the crank and cam among other things. Students return for day two on Sunday when Fry covers cylinder heads, valvetrain, and carburetors. This time around students get a primer on cylinder head porting and testing results on a flow bench. Fry also covers in detail how to blueprint a carburetor, installing valves and springs, cc'ing a combustion chamber and other critical areas of knowledge for a race-winning engine builder. Of course, because he maintains the extremely small class sizes, Fry says he is able to tailor each class to the needs of the students.
While talking with Fry he agreed to show us a few tips he teaches his students. Obviously, there are books that could be filled with what Fry is able to teach in the span of two days, but we did want to offer up a few highlights. For more information on the Race City Engine School, check out the resource box below.
The Simplest Way to Degree a Cam, Ever
The standard method for degreeing in a cam is what's commonly called the "Intake Centerline Method." Just like it says, this route requires you to determine the intake centerline of the intake lobe and then map out the opening and closing points from there. After you've done that you can calculate the duration.
But Fry teaches a super simple method for quickly degreeing in a cam. It's practically a single step. Fry's method sets the intake opening at the correct point and relies on the cam grinder to do his job correctly. Since this method won't tell you the duration, it works best when reinstalling a cam on a rebuild and you already know that cam has been ground correctly. Here's the down-and-dirty on the process:
Measure Oil Rail Drag
Building competitive Late Model Stock engines is all about reducing parasitic losses (drag) anywhere you can find it. The smart engine builders are even going so far as to choose oil rail separators that create the minimum amount of drag against the cylinder walls while still providing adequate oil control. But before you can do that you have to have a way to quantify just how much drag an oil rail separator creates. Here's the method Fry teaches his students.
Chamber Porting
Cylinder Head Porting is starting to become a bit of a lost art now that advancing technology is making CNC-ported heads so affordable. But there is still some value in understanding what's going on. For example, Fry teaches his students that just a little bit of port work in the chamber can be just as worthwhile as in the ports—especially with a Chevrolet 23-degree head. Plus, porting the chambers is a lot easier than trying to work inside the ports.
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Fry begins by installing a degree wheel and finding top dead center of the number one piston. Then he resets the degree wheel to zero.By checking the cam card, Fry determines that the intake valve should be open 0.050-inch when the crank is at 22 degrees BTDC.Now, Fry uses the degree wheel to position the crank at 22 degrees BTDC. Valve lift at this point isn't relevant, but Fry has already installed a dial indicator so that he can measure total lobe lift.If you are using a timing set like the popular Cloyes Hex-A-Just this step isn't necessary. Fry uses a standard timing set and to build in some adjustability, he drills out the mounting holes oversized ahead of time. The timing gear has already been installed but the bolts left loose. Now, he uses a screwdriver to adjust the timing so that lobe lift matches the cam card. The card lists valve lift, and since Fry is measuring lobe lift he must divide by the rocker ratio. For example, if he is running a 1.5:1 ratio rocker arm and total valve lift at 22 degrees is 0.050-inch, then Fry sets adjust the timing until the lobe lift is 0.033-inch (0.050/1.5=0.033).Offset keys are a common method for advancing or retarding camshaft timing and available from most speed shops. Fry keeps a variety on hand and finds the one that fits the crank gear as it is properly set.Fry begins by assembling just the oil rail on the piston, he also lubricates the cylinder bore with automatic transmission fluid (ATF). Besides being a decent lubricant, ATF is also a good cleaning agent, but you can use light motor oil if you like.Fry installs the piston upside down and pushes it to the bottom of the cylinder bore. He then attaches a common fish scale (you can get them from your local sporting goods store or Amazon.com) making sure to keep the hook near the center of the wristpin and pulls the piston through the bore at an slow, steady pace. Make sure not to jerk the piston, the speed isn't a matter of importance here.It can be hard to monitor the scale while you are concentrating on making a steady, even pull, so Fry recommends a scale like this that will mark the highest amount pulled so you can check after the fact. For a wet-sump Late Model Stock engine he says he looks for 5.5 to 6 pounds of resistance. More equals drag, and less usually means you will be burning oil on the track. If you are building a Street Stock with OEM-style rings, you will probably have to deal with a little more drag.
One of the biggest problems with a stock Chevrolet small-block port is shrouding around the intake valve—especially if you are trying to run larger 2.200 intakes. Here, even though the valve is open, Fry illustrates how the wall of the chamber can keep air from flowing into the cylinder around a large percentage of the valve in this unported head.Now here's a chamber that's had a bit of work done to it. Notice how the chamber wall has been moved back just fractions of an inch. This may not look like much (in fact, your tech man might not even notice it) but this small change will significantly increase the amount of air and fuel the intake port is able to move past the valve at low to medium lift levels.In this area, Fry teaches students how to assemble heads, perform basic port work, and even operate a flow bench.


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Im composing a song or theme for a setting in the desert. I'm trying to get instruments to use to capture the feeling being in the desert.
Here are some different approaches I thought of:
Cultural accuracy
Firstly, what is the geographic location of the desert you have in mind? There are many different types of deserts, and different regional cultures within the same desert (such as the African Sahara --just think of the vast number of African people groups it spans) will have different music styles --different instruments, different rhythmic patterns played on common instruments...the list goes on and on. I would advise doing some research and picking a specific location and cultural group if you are aiming for accuracy.
Also, as with any composition work you will ever do, the "feel"/situation/idea/viewpoint you are trying to portray/depict/suggest (I couldn't pick just one word, hence the forward slashes). A peaceful moment at a stereotypical oasis will (or should!) sound much different from a sandstorm, long and laborious camel caravan trek, unexpected rain, or bitterly cold and dark night. A work that attempts to follow a lost, dehydrated wanderer's encounters with various mirages will have a completely different feel than that illustrating the hectic flight of a desert hare -- and both of those will be written differently than a majestic celebration of the desert's vast landscape itself... and then incorporating indigenous instruments into the mix, as well as typical regional rhythmic patterns, time sigs, scales, etc. will also give the piece a unique flavor.
Going with the stereotype
Disney definitely made broad use of the Middle-Eastern desert stereotype (and probably helped develop and fuel it) in the movie Aladdin. Luckily for us, many parts of the movie's soundtrack reflects their aims. Some other references I can think of right now/found on the web are Arabian Dances and a marching band show I saw this year (unfortunately I can't think of the name of the show or the band).
My concert band idea
If you're writing this for concert band or something, though, and just trying to achieve the stereotypical, instantly-recognizable desert image, here are my ideas on the "desert landscape" thing (I like the concept so much I'll probably try my own hand at this someday):
Again, this is just a bunch of random stuff I thought of off the top of my head. Now that I read it, it sounds like more of a movie score than a cohesive work, but I might be wrong. And I applaud anyone who read though yet another of my ridiculously long answers. (I honestly try not to make them long...)
Well, I've never been to the desert, but I watch a lot of documentaries. The only sound in the desert itself is the wind and the sand.
So maybe some soft woodwinds?
And scraping noises. Drums with brushes. Shakers. A soft-shoe tap-dancer?
What kind of mood? Anything like this or this? At any rate, a sitar and some bongos would be a good start.

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Marco Rubio Flirts With Creationism, Says He's Unsure How Old The Earth Is
Scientists agree: the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. But don't tell that to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) — he thinks the age of the Earth can be discovered by studying the Bible.
In an interview with GQ magazine, Rubio suggested that the age of the Earth was "a dispute among theologians" and that there is no way to know the truth about the age of the Earth:
GQ: How old do you think the Earth is?
RUBIO: I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States. I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow. I'm not a scientist. I don't think I'm qualified to answer a question like that. At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.
The age of the Earth isn't much of a mystery to scientists, who use methods like radiometric dating to determine how old the Earth is with relative precision. To suggest we can't know how old the Earth is, then, is to deny the validity of these scientific methods altogether — a maneuver familiar to Rubio, who also denies the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
Rubio isn't the only figure in his party to challenge the scientific approach to the age of the Earth. Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) said "I don't have any idea" how old the Earth is, while former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) suggested "we just don't know."


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I know a middle school math teacher looking for some suggestions for hands-on activities to teach the concept of real numbers. I'm new to this site, so this may be a little off topic.
What do you mean exactly? Show them that not all numbers are rational? That not all numbers are algebraic? I think that you could explain historically how the Pythagoreans thought all numbers were rational. Then challenge them to find a number which is not rational. You might be surprised with the creativity you get. Maybe they know rational numbers have repeating decimal expansions and so they will invent one which does not repeat. Challenge them to explain why rational numbers have repeating decimal expansions. If you like geometry, you could lead them to the essential step in the geometric argument here:
that the square root of two is irrational.
The questioner's user page identifies him as an American, so he is presumably asking about the American middle school (grades 6-8) system. (In other words, most entering middle school students will be 11 years old, and most departing middle school students will be either 13 or 14.) Some of the responses so far seem to me to be pretty far away from this, so I am enclosing a link to the NCTM standards for grades 6-8:
Note: I didn't see anything about "real numbers" in the above link, although that doesn't mean that a discussion of real numbers would necessarily be inappropriate. These are intended to be minimal standards. (Still, realistically speaking, even these minimal standards are, on average, a long way from being met.)
My mind immediately jumps to grabbing a ruler and some string and trying to determine the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, or the hypotenuse of the right triangle with unit legs. In this way, the most accessible irrational numbers to most non-math majors (i.e. up to college even for most freshman) can be explored.
It should be easy to see that numbers can be built up from the humble unit 1, and quickly overtake the natural numbers with addition, the integers with subtraction, and the fractions with division. Informing someone that there are numbers outside these operations should be the first step.
I would then construct some irrational numbers and argue (likely without proof) that they are not rational. 0.1234567891011121314... seems like a good candidate for this. This also gives a powerful technique to the students to construct other irrational numbers and notice how many there actually are.
We can also explore the number Pi. Cut out in paper a square, a pentagon, a hexagon, etc, to have several shapes of about the same area. In some sense you can consider the ratio of a length to the perimeter in relation to the number of sides each shape has (and assign it as homework). As the number of sides goes up, you can argue that this number is approaching Pi.
I am of the impression that this question counts as community wiki since the question is subjective.
There is an argument to be made that the real numbers, by which I mean the completed reals, does not belong in an algebra course. In the answer above, all of the motivation comes from the real-algebraic-closure of $\mathbb{Q}$ (the largest algebraic field extension not containing $\sqrt{-1}$).
The reason one might want to introduce the whole continuum comes from numbers like $e$ and $\pi$, which are transcendental (the fact that these numbers are transcendental is not immediate and requires a proof that I would consider past middle-school level). If you're willing to state those facts without proof, you can give a moral argument for $e$ by showing that it is the limit of the sequence $((1+1/n)^n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$, which is Cauchy, and its inclusion in the real numbers follows from the completeness of $\mathbb{R}$. However, this argument may still be somewhat sophisticated for a middle-school algebra course.
Edit: On Prof. Clark's suggestion, I've copied my comments into the body text (with an additional section as well):
The notion of a sequence converging to a limiting value has a very intuitive geometric interpretation, so it wouldn't be hard to give a geometric argument (say on a graph, for example) that $e$ is a real number, since after relatively few iterations, the graph does level out. Showing that it is not the solution to a polynomial is effectively proving that it is transcendental, and I can't think of an informal argument showing this, but since this answer is community wiki, if someone has an idea, this would give a "moral" argument for the study of the "whole" continuum.
I find this approach useful because it can be introduced using the compound interest formula, which is often taught in an introductory algebra class.
We can see this as follows $$A=P(1+r/n)^{nt}.$$
Let $N:=n/r$. Then we have $$A=P(1+1/N)^{Nrt},$$ which we can rewrite as $$A=P((1+1/N)^N)^{rt}.$$
If we increase $N$ and leave $r$ fixed, this is equivalent to increasing $n$ (this is obvious because $r>0$), which amounts to increasing the number of compounding periods per unit time. Taking the limit (in some informal geometric sense), we can see that as we increase the number of compounding periods, we approach the continuously compounded interest formula $$A=Pe^{rt}.$$
I guess the "hands-on" version of the real numbers is the Euclidean line.
The book "Mathematics for high-school teachers" by Usiskin et al. has what I find a hideously over-complicated approach, at the nutshell of which is a nice idea: How does the notion of the collection of real numbers as a geometric object (a line) mesh up with its realisation as an algebraic object (at the middle-school level, decimal expansions)?
Some things to think about in this connection: If real numbers are directed lengths, how do we add and subtract them? OK, that's not so bad; how about multiplication and division? Now how about square roots? One can draw a nice picture to show $\sqrt2$ as the length of the diagonal of a unit square (constructed on a unit length by ruler and compass) being 'unfolded' (by a compass) down to the real line; now we've taken square roots geometrically. Can we do the same thing with the circumference of a circle?
If one wants to think purely in terms of decimals, there's the age-old "Are $1$ and $0.\overline9$ really the same number (and why)?". It's easy for middle schoolers, and good practice in long division, to find decimal expansions of some unfamiliar (for them) fractions, like $1/7$ and $1/13$; which ones terminate? Which ones repeat? Will one of these always happen? Can you predict in advance which is which, and how long it'll take before it terminates or repeats?
UPDATE: On further reflection, I suppose that the latter is "hands on" only in a very rough sense. Perhaps one could consider the analogous sum $\sum_{i = 1}^\infty \frac1{2^i}$ by ('building up') laying down a strip, then another strip of half the length, then another of half that length, and so on; or ('tearing down') by cutting off from a long strip half its width, then half of the remaining width, and so forth.
Thanks to Pete for the link on what the question means. I was misled by the other responses.
Here are two thoughts:
i. What is the square root of 14? Well, it's between 3 and 4. Then we can do better by taking the average of 3 and 14/3. Then we can repeat this and do even better.
ii. Take the Fibonnaci sequence 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,... Take ratios of successive terms 1/1,1/2,2/3,3/5,5/8,8/13,... then these are approximations to the "golden ratio".
A personal anecdote: My daughter is 11 yrs old, bright and interested in maths. I tried i. on her and drew a blank look. I conclude from this that either it is a mistake to teach your own children or that she was not ready for this.
I would suggest looking at materials provided by the Art of Problem Solving. The exposition is generally very high quality.


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I know it is possible to receive your Facebook messages via email. I would like to reply by email, but Facebook doesn't allow me to do this and instead returns a delivery failure. Are there any Facebook apps that could allow me to reply by email?
Facebook now has "Facebook email" (your vanity name after the www.facebook.com/ followed by @facebook.com). You can send to others at facebook using that address from your normal email client.
I'm not aware of any Facebook apps that provide the functionality you're after.
As far as I can tell, you can only reply to status updates via e-mail. That's what the link from JoshMock's answer refers to.
The best way to make this work would be an XMPP to email gateway. Then you could add facebook messages as if it were a normal POP or IMAP email account.
Bonus feature: auto-replace the reply-to address with an email address, for any matching name.
As of late last year you could if you set your options on Facebook to send you an email when you get a message. But they have a history of turning this feature on and off, from what I hear, so no guarantees.


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Trick or Treat: A Lutheran ordinariate?
Just in time for Reformation Day, the Vatican's top official for ecumenism floats the possibility that Lutherans could get their own special church inside the Roman Catholic Church, much as was done for disgruntled Anglicans. Cardinal Kurt Koch spoke to Zenit:
"Anglicanorum coetibus was not an initiative of Rome," Koch said, "but came from the Anglican Church. The Holy Father then sought a solution and, in my opinion, found a very broad solution, in which the Anglicans ecclesial and liturgical traditions were taken into ample consideration. If similar desires are expressed by the Lutherans, then we will have to reflect on them. However, the initiative is up to the Lutherans."
Hang on Anabaptists, your turn is coming soon!H/T: Catholic World News
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David Gibson is a national reporter for Religion News Service and author of The Coming Catholic Church (HarperOne) and The Rule of Benedict (HarperOne). He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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I am in favor of anything that allows the importation of more Lutheran chorales into our musical life. Though I was terrified that the new liturgy of last Advent would mean the vanishing (or banishing) of Luther's A Mighty Fortress from the missalette (ugh -- what a word!) we use locally, it's still with us. But for how long?
What is wrong with the word missalette? It is simply a convenient reference, located in the pew, for people to use . . . why the sighing and rolling of eyes? What would you have people like me read during mass?
I do not understand why so many Commonwealers disapproved of the Anglican ordinariate, but the hissing and sneering was front and center. I also do not see why they thought they had a say-so in the matter in the first place.
Maybe now is the time to canonize Martin Luther?
Gives a new take on the phrase- "Reform of the Reform."
I've heard of individual Lutheran pastors (like Fr. Neuhaus) and I know of individual Lutherans who have swum the Tiber. But I'm not aware of entire parishes or synods or similar social organizations who would come over en masse, as has been the case with Anglicanism. I should hasten to add that I know virtually nothing about Lutherans' internal politics and movements. But it seems possible that the situation could be quite different, and could call for a different response, than Anglicanorum Coetibus.
O, Ode to Joy! Just what Catholics need: Some malcontent Missouri Synod Lutherans who wouldn't know Martin Luther if he bite them in the _ _ _!?! No self-respecting Lutheran wants to get in bed with Roman apostates!?!This is one of those Vatican stories that should be ignored because any attention to it only encourages them.Let the hierarchs knock themselves out scouring the German countryside for some Lutherans to rescue from perdition: "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" ... Indeed!
Well it's one way to get women priests into the Church; now wouldn't that be a hoot.
"'Anglicanorum coetibus' was not an initiative of Rome but came from the Anglican Church," says the good cardinal.Hmmm. If Roman Catholic parishes, in highly publicized moves, defected to the Orthodox Communion, would Cardinal Koch be happy with the office of the Ecumenical Patriarch declaring, "This development was not an initiative of Constantinople but came from the Catholic Church"???
An interesting follow-up -- Catholic bishops in Germany are leery of being invited to "celebrate" the 500th anniversary of the nailing of the 95 theses, set for 2017:http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/31/us-germany-religion-luther-idU...
"It's not impossible in principle, but it depends on the character of the events planned," Bishop Gerhard Feige, the top Catholic official dealing with Protestants, said in a statement for the Protestant Reformation Day holiday on Wednesday."Catholic Christians consider the division of the western Church as a tragedy and - at least until now - do not think they can celebrate this merrily," he wrote in the text outlining Catholic doubts about the event.
Cardinal Ratzinger actually had many nice things to say about Luther, and was instrumental in the 1999 justification statement. Luther's ecclesiology seems to be the main stumbling block. But it is for Catholics in their own church.
Lutherans not inclined to leave seem occupied with the Luther Decade with annual themes leading up to 2017: 2008: Opening of the LutherDecade2009: Reformation and Confession2010: Reformation and Education2011: Reformation and Freedom2012: Reformation and Music2013: Reformation and Tolerance2014: Reformation and Politics2015: Reformation - Visual Arts and the Bible2016: Reformation and the One World2017: Anniversary of the Reformation.http://www.visit-luther.com/the-lutherdecade/the-lutherdecade.html More in English at http://www.luther2017.de/en Imagine the impact if the recent head-scratching synod of Roman Catholic bishops had wrapped up with a proposal of a ten-year celebration of their faith, perhaps even highlighting some of the same topics found above. (Replace "Reformation" with "Evangelization" as needed.)
Yup, imagine. But don't hold your breath. I think any effective "new evangelization," especially any evangelization that reaches the 85% of Millennials who no longer attend Church, will not come from the hierarchy. That leaves the religious and the likes of us.
If Luther taught us anything it's that when the hierarchy doesn't listen to the people, the people don't listen to the hierarchy. How many hierarchs now truly listen to the people, i.e., the lower clergy and laity? Name five. I'd say Cardinal Turkson, and maybe Cardinal Schoenbrun a little bit. Oh, and Bishop Robinson, the Australian. Cardinal Ravasi listens to the intellectuals. Who else? The Pope listens to the SSPSers, that's true, and the Lutherans sometimes.
I do not understand why so many Commonwealers disapproved of the Anglican ordinariateBecause it was so anit-ecumenical, done behind the Archbishop of Canterbury's back, and smacking of Uniatism.
Ken,The hissing and sneering at Anglicanorum coetibus was because the Anglicans who were interested in converting to Catholicism actually agreed with the Church that women cannot be ordained and that homosexual acts are sinful, whereas much energy here is devoted to trying to get the Church to adopt what has become the Anglican position.
Yes, indeed, some of us are put off that our Church is more embracing of non-Catholics opposed to women priests than it is of Catholic women called to the priesthood.
Has anyone done a counting of how many Anglicans have availed themselves of the Anglican ordinariate? Every now and then I read of an example, but I wonder if there are any numbers.About the missalette -- I don't object to the book itself, of course, for it can be very useful. Just the diminutive word which to my aging ear sounds cutesy.
"... whereas much energy here is devoted to trying to get the Church to adopt what has become the Anglican position."Please, wake up and die right.These are not Anglican positions. Women's ordination is allowed within ECUSA and in the CofE (though parishes do not have to accept a woman priest). Other national churches do not allow women's ordination.There has never been pronouncement from Lambeth other than that homosexual activity is a sin. Several bishops in the worldwide communion did sign a document saying that homosexuals should be treated with Christian charity (then Bishop Williams signed it), but even that did not get a majority of signatures.The fact that ECUSA ordains practicing homosexuals is one reason the Anglican Communion has been within a hair's breadth of schism.
Last I heard, Anglican ordinariates--full communion but using Anglican liturgy--is a hypothetical possibility, but no parish has ever taken Rome up on the offer, nor has Rome worked out a procedure for accepting any such parish. David G. is probably more up on this than me, though.Episcopalians with a more conservative line on women priests and homosexuality realigned with a "mission" effort led by the Anglican Bishop of Uganda (not remembering his name at the moment) rather than flocking to Rome. Eschewing women priests and homosexuality does not a Catholic make. Conservative Episcopalians would be skeptical about Roman teachings re divorce, birth control, purgatory, the exposition of the consecrated host. Oh, and that little matter of the papacy.
The US Odinariate web site offers a great deal of early-stage information about itself, processes, associated communities, etc. The FAQ appears to describe how a parish would be accepted as well as individuals. It answers the question "Will the liturgy look like a typical Catholic liturgy?" -- "The liturgy in ordinariate parishes will be fully Catholic, though will feel very similar to that of a traditional Anglican liturgy in terms of music, structure and prayers. Parishes will use the Book of Divine Worship, which is a Vatican-approved Catholic liturgical book that is based upon historic Anglican liturgies, with the prayers adapted ."http://www.usordinariate.org/
Jean --According to this article at the Ordinariate's U. S. site a number of parishes have already switched over.http://www.usordinariate.org/ord_news_orlando.html
Our Lady of Walsingham, the Ordinariate covering UK:http://www.ordinariate.org.uk/page.aspx?pid=329Our Lady of the Southern Cross, the Australian Ordinariate:http://ordinariate.org.au/
Back to the Lutherans, a popular quote, surprising to some, came from Cdl. Walter Kasper of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in a 2008 interview. He strongly commended Luther's faith, Biblical commentaries, and hymns. Most interesting is his claim (in English translation) that Luther is one " from whom even Catholics can learn". http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/7739
An informative Oct 2012 update from Ordinary Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson of the US Ordinariate after 9 months mentions a number of significant details, including dual charism, titles to churches, and collaboration with bishops. Some news from English papers has suggested these as points of difficulty as the Ordinariate begins there. http://www.usordinariate.org/oct11_ad_populum.html Heavy emphasis is put on the Ordinariate's two-fold charism or mission -- ministering to needs of all former Anglicans coming to the Catholic Church and maintaining the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions of the Anglican communion within the Catholic Church ". Introducing and maintaining the fullness of the distinctive Anglican patrimony is to be addressed in all decisions and activities. Consequences for already burdened US diocesan bishops and USCCB remain to be seen. Addition of a Lutheran Ordinariate surely would further enrich the unity being sought.
Jack and all, thanks for the update. Looks like something around a dozen U.S. parishes have "crossed over." As far as I can see (and this is from Wikipedia, so always suspect), about twice as many Episcopal churches realigned with the Anglican Church in North America, the Ugandan mission effort.So I'm still stickin' to my story that, among conservative Episcopalians, Anglicanism still looks better than swimming the Tiber.
"I do not understand why so many Commonwealers disapproved of the Anglican ordinariate, but the hissing and sneering was front and center. "Sorry, but it is really the Orneryariate.
I always thought that Anglicanorum coetibus was a form of birth control.
"Has anyone done a counting of how many Anglicans have availed themselves of the Anglican ordinariate?"Has anyone ever done a counting of how many Roman Catholics (including priests and especially women) have walked down the stree to membership in their local Episcopal church? How many current Episcopal rectors and vicars were formerly RC priests and RC women?I didn't think so. The numbers might be highly unsettling.BTW, I know 3 women rectors who are former RC. And then we can start looking in the numbers of former RC members of the UCC parishes, particularly in larger cities.
Transsubstantiation versus sacramental union is not a problem?I mentioned the Real Presence to my catechism kids in passing, and thought I had stated it in simple terms ("before the consecration, what you have on the altar is bread and wine; after the consecration, it is still bread and wine, but Christ is present in the bread and in the wine"). I used the simplest description that captured the gist of my belief, but realized this week that I may have described something more akin to "sacramental union" instead of "transubstantiation". If it's not an obstacle to the return of Lutherans within the Catholic church, then, does that mean that it's not important? Or is that outdated and resolved? Have there been discussions between Catholics and Lutherans that would have clarified the difference? I doubt that any of the kids care, but if the way I think is not the way the Church thinks, it would be good for me to at least be aware of it!
Jim -- "Anglicanorum coetibus" may yet turn up as the title of an episode of "The Big Bang Theory."
Mr. McCrea,The United Church of Christ has roughly half as many members as it did in the early '60s, even though the US population doubled during the same period. The Episcopal church lost 23% of its Sunday communicants in the last decade. Liberal Protestantism is dying, even if it is attracting Catholics who are upset by the Church's refusal to turn itself into a replica of liberal Protestantism.
Angela - in that case, it will be "The Anglicanorum coetibus Modifier" or some such.
Thorin: and if it was not for the influx of Spanish-speaking members into the RCC, what would the membership be like today?Besides, isn't this pope a proponent of a smaller, purer church?Your stats have nothing to do with my questions about reverse poping. I think you have just tried a form of "tu quoque" logical fallacy, but will leave that determination to my philosophical betters (anyone is).
[Feb 2010] In an honest appraisal of Lutheran-Catholic relations, former ELCA Presiding Bishop Herb Chilstrom last year acknowledged that ordaining women was the first nail in the coffin of further ecumenical progress, http://www.theliberalspirit.com/?p=2215
We've got an ECUSA parish (my ex-wife's) pastored by a former RC cleric. His brother, last I knew, is a religious order cleric assigned to a RC parish in our town.
What do the different branches of the Lutheran Christian tradition think of women's ordination? Anybody know?I'm surprised by Chilstrom's remarks. Didn't he criticize the RC archbishop for trying to push his religious beliefs on non-Catholics? Oh, well, I guess nobody's perfect.Just so-so.(like me)
Claire, that's an interesting question re transubstantiation and where Lutherans stand. Lutherans are in communion with Anglicans (or at least were; don't know whether recent developments in Anglicanism messed up that deal or what). But the Anglican take on communion is that Christ is present in the bread and wine, and Anglicans may believe in transubstantiation. Or they may believe that Christ enters us in some other, more spiritual way.It's hard to explain that to Catholics (who teach transubstantiation only) and Protestants that view communions merely commemoration.I guess it wouldn't really matter to Catholics, since Anglican orders are not legal or valid, ergo God is not present in Anglican communion.
Claire --As I understand Aquinas (and I think he's quite orthodox about this), at the Consecration that lump of stuff that is bread turns into Christ's body, and His soul is, of course, present in that body. This means that the wafer literally is Jesus' body and it's combined with its soul, just as your own body and soul are combined into one being, namely, Claire. I don't know what Thomas says about the texture, color, taste, etc. (the apects that we know by means of our senses). They are present miraculously, but are they just left over from the bread? I don't know.The whole thing is weird -- weird beyond belief for many people, but, oddly, not at all weird to many little children who make their First Communion. Yes, it does require that one believes that God can do things that you don't find happening in nature. God operates beyond nature at times, so strange things can happen.
Brian Davies says in his book The Thought of Thomas Aquinas that Anyone reading through the discussion of the Eucharist in the tertia pars of the Summa theologiae ought to see without much difficulty that Aquinas thinks of himself as talking about something which defies understanding. The Eucharist, for him, is a mystery in precisely the sense that God is a mystery for the Eucharist, for him, is the presence of God.That's the best explanation I've ever heard. We moderns easily forget mystery. But there it remains.
Jeanne --I agree. And it seems to me that one of the greatest failures of catechesis since VII has been the failure of the Church, first, to make the faithful aware of the greatness and mystery of God, and, second, its failure to teach people how to pray to such a God.By the way, your new book, "When the Enlightenment Hit the Neighborhood", came. I particularly like the part about reason and mystery. (Nagel's new book also came, and I'm seesawing between the two :-)
Oops -- that's "When the Enlightenment Hit the Neighborhoods" (plural)
For some background on the Real Presence doctrine:+ go to http://creativeadvance.blogspot.com/+ scroll down and look for "Dissertation" on the right; click the link+ scroll down to Part II, Chapter 2 ("Other examples of creativity")+ peruse "Real Presence in the Eucharist"I think Dr. Gerald Floyd gives a nice overview for those of us with no background in this area.My understanding is that the Lutheran Christian tradition embraces *consubstantiation* as its doctrine on the eucharist. Whether this understanding is uniform across the tradition, I don't know.Since the eucharist is a mystery of our faith, we must acknowledge that it cannot be explained. Otherwise, it would not be a mystery in the first place. Human words simply cannot explain a mystery.
There is nothing like experience to describe doctrines. I once took a visitor who wanted to see women clergy to an Evangelical Lutheran Church where I knew there were such. There were two women conducting the entire service. Later I took my friend to a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church where there was only one man who presided. In both churches communion was celebrated every Sunday. At the Missouri Church communion was served two different ways at the same time: both passing a chalice and offering individual communion cups (for those who were afraid of germs.) I have been told by reliable sources that Lutherans believe in Consubstantiation which means that the Sacrament is both the body and blood of Christ and bread and wine at the same time. They do not believe in the perduring presence so that means that they do not store the Sacrament in a tabernacle, but reconsecrate leftovers the next time they have a service. A Lutheran minister who visited a friend of mine who was confined to her home would consecrate the elements right there at the time of the visit. Martin Luther did a very good job at exposing the abuse of the sale of indulgences which were authorized by a Pope in order to cover a loan from the House of Fugger to Albrecht of Mainz for his purchase of a church office. Luther believed in Transubstantiation and stated that he would rather drink Blood with the Pope than wine with the Swiss (Reformed tradition). He later betrayed the German Peasants in their bid to improve their situation and became a rabid antisemite. He is best known for defining the doctrine of Justification by Faith. This means that a person cannot earn Salvation because it is a free gift from Jesus which need only be accepted. He based this doctrine on the verse in Genesis which says "Abram believed the Lord and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."Luther and Henry VIII hated each other. Luther opined that Henry was validly married to Katherine of Aragon. I am not and have never been a member of any Lutheran denomination, but I think that I have stated Lutheran beliefs and practices accurately. If not, I am open to correction.
I think the most important work on the Eucharist is the ARCIC I Windsor statement, which culminated in ARCIC II's "Clarifications" which can be found at http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/angl-comm... with links to earlier documents embedded.The Vatican response which led to the clarifications says:It is in respect of Eucharistic Doctrine that the members of the Commission were able to achieve the most notable progress toward a consensus. Together they affirm "that the eucharist is a sacrifice in the sacramental sense, provided that it is made clear that this is not a repetition of the historical sacrifice" [(EE 5)]1; and areas of agreement are also evident in respect of the real presence of Christ: "Before the eucharistic prayer to the question what is it?', the believer answers it is bread'. After the eucharistic prayer to the same question he answers: it is truly the body of Christ, the bread of life'" (EE 6). The Catholic Church rejoices that such common affirmations have become possible. Still, as will be indicated further on, it looks for certain clarifications which will assure that these affirmations are understood in a way that conforms to Catholic doctrine.After the clarifications were issued, JP2 and Robert Runcie issued a joint declaration affirming the "signs of progress" in these agreements. And the joint declaration of B16 and Abp Rowan Williams in 2006 refers to a process of fruitful dialogue, which has been marked by the discovery of significant elements of shared faith. While some would minimize the importance of these statements, they reflect substantial agreement at high levels on the Eucharist and Real Presence of Christ therein.Lutherans and Anglicans have moved even further along the road to unity, their shared communion reflecting a shared faith that is substantially the same as Roman Catholic faith. In some ways, these agreements paved the way for the Ordinariates though the object of the dialogue is mutual conversion and shared recognition of each other, not the creation of new divisions and institutions.
Consubstantiation and transubstantiation both are based on a philosophy of substance, that what makes a thing a thing is unknowable, though what we can sense may tell us a bit. In the context of this "essentialism" Claire's remarks are a good example of consubstantiation, both bread and Christ are present after the consecration.It is also possible that Clare thinks of bread differently, in scientific terms based on her sensory knowledge. In that context, saying "it is still bread" is the same as saying it still looks and tastes like bread. That is fully consistent with transubstantiation. Christ is present, but so are the appearances of bread.As Jeanne said, this is a mystery which doesn't quite fit into our philosophies. Our faith, not our philosophies, is what matters, except when our philosophies keep us from Christ. Then we need to reach past them to Christ.
Canonize Luther? I would vote against. He made too many extreme statements, even in his best thought out works such as The Bondage of the Will; and his antisemitic rants are far worse than anything from Bp Richard Williamson. Philip Melanchthon would be a worthier candidate for canonization if it were not for his support of the judicial murder of Michael Servetus.
We must stop talking about substance (on which Newman made some quite skeptical remarks in Apologia, chapter 5) and think of the Eucharist in terms of event. The meal event becomes participation in the Paschal event. Leave it at that.
Jim McK, thanks for the cite from the Windsor agreement. At some point along the road, RC-Anglican dialogue also confirmed that there was no impediment to Anglicans believing in the assumption of the Virgin Mary, an infallible Roman Catholic teaching, though it is not official teaching of either Anglicans or Lutherans.August 15 is the feast day of the Mother of Our Lord in both Lutheran and Anglican churches.From a practical perspective, I will say that during RCIA as I experienced, RC beliefs about Mary were very sketchily outlined. The Assumption was simply explained as "the feast of Mary's ascension into heaven," nothing about what the assumption actually meant or its significance. It's only been in the last couple of years that I've been able to take a more Catholic line on devotion to the Holy Mother. When you're sitting by a death bed, there really isn't anybody else in heaven better to call on to help you stand it.
In some ways, these agreements paved the way for the OrdinariatesThat's interesting. An unexpected consequence!
Thank you Joseph for your pointer to the informative "creative advance" dissertation chapter.


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I find it almost offensive that Ashley Simpson has no definitions on Urban Dictionary.
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This person sucks. looks like they pulled an Ashley Simpson.
by quagblar March 05, 2007
a girl who has almost not talent at all. was once a major poser who wouldnt hold a note to save her life a few years ago. now she is a fake, plastic faced slut who still cant hold a note to save her life. also says shit about how she loves how her natural body is, then gets plastic surgery on it the next day. the only way the world even knows her is through the fact that her sister was famous for her actual talent. has a tendency to lip sync at concerts (to the hideous screeching she calls music), and then gets caught.
ugh! stop trying to act all punk...you look like ashley simpson all over again!
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Those with a creative mind made setting a table into an art form.
Community Action of Southern Kentucky hosted a table-setting extravaganza Saturday morning at the Warren County Senior Center.
Each table supported a different theme. There was plenty of green for St. Patrick's day, as well as others that served as a tribute to our servicemen and women.
Visitors dropped a donation onto their favorite table which will go to support local senior centers.
"A lot of people think that all the funding from the state and federal government totally supports our centers but the fact is that covers about 75% of our cost of what it costs to run the center. So we have to raise the rest," says Sandi Knight, Director of Senior Services.
The winners from Saturday will move on to the regional table-setting extravaganza next Saturday at the Warren County Senior Center.
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I am shopping around for road bikes now, and I wanted to know what components to look for. I am not talking about the frame, carbon or otherwise, I mean types of shifters, brakes, cranks, rims, etc.
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As with any other equipment, it depends on how much you would like to spend...
The main difference between a cheap and a better bike is the quality of the materials and the comfort/performance they provide!
I have several cheap bikes and two "better" bikes, the differences between these are:
I may have forgotten something but this gives you an idea.
After the frame, wheels are the second most important element of a bicycle. Wheels are also the second most expensive and at times even more expensive than the actual frame. In terms of advice on buying a bike, start with your budget and back into the best frame, wheels then components money can buy. Another strategy some guys use is to buy the bike with the best frame/gruppo combo possible, then know they will upgrade wheels when $$ begin to flow again in a few months. I have used both of these strategies successfully, but now prefer the first as most components are very good...but that is not true of all wheel sets.
Off the cuff, without an overly detailed answer, cheap versus expensive can be summed up in 4 words: comfort, efficiency, weight and durability.
If you give me an idea of what type of riding you are looking to do and how much you are looking to spend, I will gladly provide some decent steeds to take a look at. Or if you look at a couple of models and want some feedback, I am sure you will get lots of responses if you post again here!
Good luck!
manufacturers of bike components (there aren't that many) universally put up their line in "groups". These go from the cheapest, which often have no name at all, to the most expensive. Shimano's top-of-the-line for road bikes is "Dura-Ace", for instance. With "Ultegra" below that, and then "105", and so on. Better components are lighter, often rebuildable, and usually operate in a very "slick" manner. Often the difference is hardly perceptible... And in some cases the "better" components are also more complicated and more likely to be in need of constant adjustment.
A good derailleur will change smoothly while under heavy load, i.e. while you are still peddling. They will also be capable of upgrading or changing the cassette, (the bundle of cogs at the rear) for different gear ratios and will have more options to do so. The same applies to the crank-set i.e the 2 or three big cogs at the pedal end/
New road bikes are generally available from two sources: your local bike store (LBS) and online. Not all brands are available from both types of distribution channel. That makes it harder to compare apples to apples.
Too, your LBS/brick & mortar retailer probably has a clearance sale starting sometime around August where they attempt to clear out inventory, so they can make space for next year's models. If you want to compare apples to apples, keep that in mind. You can get some very good deals in this way, which can be hard to beat online. The online-only sellers almost never have any kind of substantial sale.
In light of that, let's look at a couple of examples.
Lynskey Helix with full Ultegra drivetrain ($4950 assembled)
BikesDirect Motobecane Le Champion with full Ultegra drivetrain ($2100 assembled).
These bikes are very comparable in many respects. Both have a titanium frame, but the Lynskey frame is made in the USA, whereas the Motobecane frame is made in Taiwan. The Lynskey frame has a certain cachet among cyclists which the Motobecane frame does not have. If you were to compare the two frames side-by-side, you may find that the welds on the Lynskey are slightly prettier than the welds on the Motobecane. (The frame builders at Lynskey might be using multiple layers of weldment to help achieve that.) The other components are pretty comparable; I own and have ridden many miles on both the Aksium and Equipe wheels, for example, and there isn't much difference. The fork on the Lynskey is nicer and more expensive, but apart from that, all the components are entirely comparable in terms of price and quality. You can read online reviews of both bikes, and they both review favorably. The price for the Lynskey, however, is $2850 more.
This is sort of an apples-to-apples comparison, in that both bikes are available online and you can get them through certain dealers.
Take another trio of road bikes and compare:
Trek Madone 4.7 with a mostly-Ultegra drivetrain ($3150 MSRP)
Specialzed Tarmac SL3 Expert with a mostly-Ultegra drivetrain ($3900 MSRP)
Motobecane Immortal Force with a mostly-Ultegra drivetrain ($1600 MSRP).
Look at the specs for each of these; you have nicer wheels on the Specialized, and there are other differences. But all the frames are made in Taiwan, so far as I know. A big part in the price difference comes from paying for the distribution channel. The dealer has to make a profit to stay in business. Trek & Specialized are mainly distributed through brick & mortar retailers; BikesDirect has some brick & mortar retailer distribution, but mainly they sell online.
Full disclosure: I ride a Motobecane Le Champion with the titanium frame; I have about 4100 miles on the bike, and I'm totally happy with it. I also have a Trek Fuel EX 8 that I scored on clearance from a brick & mortar retailer. So I have no problem to buy either way.
Bottom line, you have to decide how much you are willing to pay for brand name cachet and LBS support. But I think it is fair to conclude that the dealer-centric brands cost more.
There is a big difference in component quality, for example I have a bike equipped with Ultegra and another bike that has mixed Sora and Tiagra groupset. As mentioned above Shimano Ultegra is fairly expensive while Shimano Tiagra and Sora are near the bottom of the range.
The cheaper Sora/Tiagra groupset requires constant attention, the shifters and the brakes feel spongy to the extent that I replaced the brakes with Ultegra after a few months as the Sora brakes felt unsafe. This did not entirely cure the problem as the main culprit are the shifters/brake levers. Replacing them is very expensive.
The Ultegra components are stiffer as they use better materials. They last for years and do not corrode as much as their cheaper cousins.
It does depend on usage, racing cyclists buy top of the range components because they are light and perform well even under maximum load and stress. If you are a weekend warrior that likes to potter around and do not need ultra-efficient brakes to get yourself out of trouble then go for the lower end components.
Just go for the cheapest derailleur you can buy. They all have a big spring, two jockey wheels and a cantilever system. Both expensive and cheap ones wear out at about the same rate. They both get gummed up with crud. When new, they shift identically... why wouldn't they?. When really worn out, the jockey wheels wobble and shifting isn't so precise. Maybe the few, very expensive derailleurs with jockey wheels that use bearings may last a little longer (perhaps they don't, perhaps they're pointless) ... but why pay 4x for this benefit?
Forget all this nonsense about "better quality material, better made" - and no-one being able to tell you what specifically is better. It's all marketing rubbish for gullible consumers.


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Obama resists fast-tracking Ebola drug, but new test cleared
The same day that President Obama told reporters at a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit that the he wasn't ready to share any experimental Ebola treatments with West Africa, the FDA has approved a diagnostic test for the devastating virus.
The drug Obama is talking about is called ZMapp and it was used to treat two Americans infected with Ebola before they were brought back to the States from West Africa.
According to WebMD, ZMapp takes a long time to produce partly because of the the weeks it takes to grow its ingredients. That, combined with it's lack of FDA approval, means it's not quite ready for mass production.
But even with Obama's announcement, it appears the FDA at least fast-tracked a diagnostic test for the virus.
The Los Angeles Times reports that a previously unapproved Ebola test has been authorized by the FDA under a "special emergency-use provision" — although an actual vaccine is still a ways off with officials saying one won't be available until 2015.
The diagnostic test is meant to detect the Zaire strain of Ebola, the same one that has infected more than 1,700 and killed as many as 932 people in Sierra Leon, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria.
A statement provided to health care workers by the FDA says it was authorized because, "At this time, no FDA-approved/cleared tests that identify the existence of the Ebola Zaire virus ... in clinical specimens are available."
A new test is definitely a good start, but are there any treatments besides ZMapp on the horizon?
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in java Abstract class contain one or more abstract method which has to be implemented by sub classes. An abstract class can contain no abstract methods also i.e. abstract class may contain concrete methods. A Java Interface can contain only method declarations and public static final constants and doesn't contain their implementation. The classes which implement the Interface must provide the method definition for all the methods present.
Interface and abstract class in java
is this a question or a statement or both ? :S
This is the difference between the abstract classes and interfaces..


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Pokémon Black or White Version 2 - Nintendo DS for $14.99 + free shipping
Available for in-store pick up
The availability on these has been going in and out all morning. So it it shows unavailable check back often.
This is the cheapest I have ever seen one of these.
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The url is not working, however, if you go to www.bestbuy.com and just search for Pokemon, it'll work.
I just did it for both, and did in store pickup. Good deal, basically 2 for 1. Works for both Black 2 and White 2.
I have tattled to get the link repaired. (Every link I try is not working)
The deal is still good - just picked up White Version 2
Just went to the site, great deal
Picked up both! :)
I partook.
White 2 is also on Amazon for $14.99, prime eligible
FYI, shipping appears to be currently unavailable. Just picked up Black version!
This deal is racist. :-P
@bige2401: Not if you buy both! =D
I purchased White 2. Black was only available for in-store pickup. White still has free shipping on it.
Picked one up, thank you for posting.
Thanks woot person for fixing the link :)
I just picked up Pokemon White 1 two weeks ago... bought White 2 for $10 thanks to a reward zone coupon... thank you @linkage89!
I just went to Target and had them match the price so I could get 5% off with my redcard. Helped knock off some of the tax.
Just got both from my local best buy had to buy online and pick up in store cuz special is online only
Just picked up Pokemon White 2 which my daughter has been wanting and I haven't wanted to pay full price for.
@lordreaper28: Not an online special. It is in store also, price tag might say retail ($34.99), but once you check out, it rings up for $14.99


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Well folks, I have loved our little battle of the Mages.
It all started with an offhand comment that I made.. and Gnome did the battle rage.
Fire vs. Arcane vs. Frost (and when the dead crawled back into his grave, a Gnome picked up the Popsicle).
It's been a blast (in more ways than one), and it has given me great pleasure to see the Mage community and many more join in the joy that is a battle of pyrotechnics.
If you want a "real" analysis of Mage talents, both past and future, then Euripides at Critical QQ is doing an indepth series.. go check it out. (Fire and Arcane up now).
Thanks to everyone that has come and read, commented and hopefully been inspired to dust off their Mage Alt (I think there have been a few Mage blogs inspired by the silliness that was the Mage War).
I just wanted to end the "War" with one last observation.
PewPewLazerz left a comment on my last Ducking and Weaving – Fire post.
Any guesses what number comment this was?
Yep, that's right… it is a 1337 comment, for a 1337 battle!
His comment:
I only have two things to say, my little fiery buddy.
And pew!
PS: Larisa, I too miss Zupa.. I still dream of the day I face off against him in WSG.. I know I will loose the encounter.. his Frostbolts vs. my hugs… still the pleasure would be all mine.
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Pro-Obama protesters confront Orly Taitz outside the State Objections Board meeting Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. (WIBW)
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A hearing is set in a California woman's legal challenge to keep Barack Obama off the Kansas ballot.
Orly Taitz attended Monday's State Objections Board Meeting, wanting to testify. The board ultimately ruled Obama would remain a candidate. Taitz argued they based their decision on the man who filed the objection, Joe Montgomery of Manhattan, withdrawing it under duress.
On her web site Thursday, Taitz announced Shawnee County Judge Larry Hendricks has set an October 3rd emergency hearing on her motion for a preliminary injunction.
Taitz says she has evidence Obama has committed identity fraud. Her filing names Secretary of State Kris Kobach and the State Objections Board. She says she is joined in the filing by a Kansan identified as Roger Walters.
Taitz says she is seeking to have Obama kept off the November general election ballot in Kansas until he produces original documents, including the application for a Connecticut Social security number she says he uses and his birth certificate.
Hearings on similar challenges Taitz filed are set for September 24 in Mississippi and September 26 in Indiana.
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Here's a look at what we're working on today...
1) Robotics Training Center
Southcentral Kentucky Technical College and General Motors announce a high-tech economic development partnership.
As a part of this partnership, Southcentral Kentucky Technical College will provide specialized robotics training for General Motors Corvette Assembly in Bowling Green, supporting the manufacturing of the next generation of Corvettes.
2) Jim Crow Car Coming to The Historic Railpark and Train Museum at the L&N Depot in Bowling Green
Through donations, grants, and several years of hard work, the museum and its volunteers have restored the car to historical accuracy.
Melissa Warren will track its progress.
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In her Special Report, Casey Wheeless looks at selling plasma, eggs, and sperm. She'll examine why people are choosing this option tonight on WBKO at 6:00.


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5 Insane Cases of Imposters Passing for World Leaders
#2. The CIA Turns the Indonesian President into Unwitting Porn Star
During the Cold War, a considerable percentage of the U.S. national budget went toward enticing the leaders of undecided countries to join their side, either by dispensing gifts and some good-natured extortion or simply by replacing the bastard with a more agreeable guy. One such leader was Sukarno, the first ever president of Indonesia, a nation so poor that for the longest time their presidents could only afford one name.
And half a top hat.
Although Sukarno had been pretty chummy with Eisenhower and Kennedy, the CIA still feared that he was leaning more to the communist side. They needed a subtle and elegant way to discredit him ... and after what must have been an interesting brainstorming session, it was decided that creating a fake sex tape of Sukarno doing it with a Soviet agent would be the safest bet.
It's not like they completely pulled that one out of their asses: There had been rumors in Indonesia that Sukarno was involved with a Russian stewardess. The CIA simply planned to solidify those rumors by hiring a porn actor who looked like Sukarno and filming him having sex with a blonde actress, then distributing the resulting movie in Indonesia. Sukarno would be so humiliated that he would be driven out of office -- according to a CIA agent involved in the production, the idea was to show that "a woman had gotten the better of Sukarno. Being tricked, deceived or otherwise outsmarted by one of the creatures God has provided for man's pleasure cannot be condoned [in Indonesian culture]."
Via Thisismarilyn.com
For the blonde actress, they just hired some chick the president knew.
After some trouble locating a close enough Sukarno look-alike in LA's porn scene (they even considered making a Sukarno mask), the CIA cast the role, finished their cinematic masterpiece (titled Happy Days) and started spreading saucy still photos from it across the Far East. However, the people of Indonesia either didn't buy the hoax or didn't give a shit -- presumably the only consequence for Sukarno was that men were suddenly high-fiving him in the street and complimenting his porn-star-sized dong.
Via Blog.agul.net
"Come on, man. You gotta whip it out. I have to know."
If anything, the incident only brought Sukarno closer to China and the Soviets, since in the following years he received more communist aid, opened more facilities to them and even got the coveted Lenin Peace Prize. Indonesia remained an important Soviet ally until 1967, when the CIA apparently said "screw it" and just replaced the guy with another dude.
#1. Stalin and Hitler's Doubles
Despotic rulers are apparently the number one employers in the doppelganger sector, what with their tendency to be both paranoid lunatics (who think everyone wants to kill them) and major assholes (that everyone really does want to kill). Not every dictator double, however, gets to have as much fun as those starring in porn movies -- in fact some of them got a pretty shitty deal.
Take Felix Dadaev, one of Stalin's four doubles, who wasn't so much recruited into the job as kidnapped and sent off to shake hands with foreign dignitaries. Dadaev, who was only in his 20s at the time, was "discovered" after being wounded so badly during World War II that they actually declared him dead. Fortunately, he got better, but his resemblance to 60-year-old Stalin (which got him teased in school) caught the eye of Russian intelligence agents, who started using him to save the real Stalin from assassination plots and lame public ceremonies.
Via Daily Mail
That's the decoy on the right, playing the propaganda equivalent of that guy who shakes the sign outside of Little Caesars.
In the meantime, Dadaev was forbidden from contacting his family, who still believed him dead, and in fact waited until 2008 to tell anyone what he did. Why? He still feared that the KGB (or Stalin's ghost) might kill him.
Via Daily Mail
Today he serves as a living computer simulation of what Stalin would look like at age 90.
But even Dadaev got off easy compared to Hitler's double Gustav Weler, who ended up taking a bullet to the head around the same time Hitler did, if only for the sake of accuracy. Weler was initially used as a decoy for Hitler for security reasons -- apparently, when the Nazi high command learned that the Soviets were approaching, they realized they might be slightly less eager to stomp the shit out of Germany if they thought Hitler was already dead ... at which point everyone presumably looked at the current Hitler double on the payroll and smiled.
Weler, or at least someone who looked conveniently like Hitler, was killed off and found by Red Army troops, who temporarily stopped their march to take pictures and pose with the body. Even today, the double's image is still sometimes mistakenly credited as Hitler's actual corpse.
Via All-history.org
That's how good this guy was at imitating people.
According to a servant who was present at the bunker, though, the dead guy was actually just a cook who happened to be sporting a Hitler 'stache and was "assassinated due to his strong likeness to Hitler." Of course, all this trickery turned out to be useless, because we all know what happened next: Hitler was shot to death by the Inglourious Basterds.
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In older versions it was easy to create a launcher on my desktop all i had to do is right click on my desktop and select the create launcher option. But on 11.10 the option disappeared from the menu.. How can I get it back?
The old GUI dialog is still available if you still want to use this:
Using ALT+F2 type
This will launch the old GUI Dialog and create a launcher on your Desktop:
Alternatively, you can install the old gnome-panel without much of the bulk:
You can later move the
You can do it manually. Make a new text-file named something.desktop and write this in there:
Dont forget to make the file executable (
This Is a solution to get it back on the right click menu In Gnome and Unity,
1- Install gnome-tweak-tool , if you don't already have it, In terminal paste-
2- Then type the following to launch it
Or use the key shortcut Alt+F2 type
3- Navigate to the "Desktop" tab on the left pictured - And turn ON
4-Source for this part: 1 Now we are going to create a Script to put on the right click menu -
put only this into the new text document and then save it as "Create New Launcher" no extension needed (you may need to use .sh as extension ex "Create New Launcher.sh", if you can't make it executable in the next step).
5- Now we need to make the file executable, Right click on the file go to > Properties > click Permissions tab > look for "Execute" and check "Allow executing file as program" then close out.
6- Open the file browser, go to > View > Show Hidden Files, now navigate to you home folder, and Place the file in
7- Now we have Create new launcher on the right click menu! Right click on your desktop and go to > Scripts > Create New Launcher
Then fill in the comand information for the application you want,
If you forget what the app's launch command is click "Browse" then navigate to File System > usr > bin which is /usr/bin , these are the applications on your system, most should automatacally find the icon after you click "Open" , although they won't show up before.
If It dosn't show the icon when you get back to the "Create Launcher" box you can drag a icon in by finding the icon in /usr/share/icons . There are default icons in the various theme folders or specific icons in the /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps or /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps, or if later you want to put an icon in you can right click > properties to drag and drop the icon in.
(This part only for gnome, alt+f2 is diffrent in unity) Another way to list known applications is to hit Alt+F2 and click on the app under "Show list of known applications", you can then copy the command text for that program to paste in to
All this will make it extremely easier to make custom launchers, and once setup you can make them without the terminal.
There is cooler way:
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to install that type in terminal (to open Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install arronax nautilus -q
cooler because it has drag&drop and more functions with GUI
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As for
An easier way to create a launcher for a program:
If you can find the program in your dash, just click and drag the icon for the program in your dash onto your desktop or wherever else you would like it. :)
In 14.04 / 15.10 / 16.04 To create a shortcut on the desktop to an existing application: the simpelest solution (not found in the other answers as far as I can see) is to copy the application's desktop file to the Desktop: go to
Simply drag and drop the icon from Dash on to the Desktop does not work in 14.04.
Make a file called
Put this is
Put this file in
Jurriaan has made a graphical python app to do all this for you, it can be downloaded here: http://jurschreuder.nl/UnityLaunchCreator.tar.gz
please be aware of this wiki page I've made, because I've noticed that questions on desktop and unity launchers are very often :) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UnityLaunchersAndDesktopFiles
This can be easily be achieved using
The shortcut is added in your current directory you right-click on
Considering previous answer by Scaine , the
This can be saved as file named
And here's how it looks
Side note: sadly, zenity's form field doesn't have checkbox for a forms widget, so the true/false for Terminal app option has to be typed. I am considering rewriting this script in PyQt.
Install "Create Launcher" from the Ubuntu Software Center. You can search this name to find it there. See also: Link - Ubuntu apps directory
I've noticed that both gnome-panel and gnome-tweak-tool need a load of dependencies, even with
The method I've used so far is to choose an arbitrary icon from the Dash, such as Firefox, and drag it to the desktop. You can't drag a icon from the Launcher, it doesn't let you. So it has to be the Dash, so press the Super (or Windows) key on your keyboard to launch the Dash, make sure it's not fullscreen (toggle it with the button at the top-left), then drag any icon at all onto your desktop.
Then right-click on the new desktop icon and change the path, description, icon (and comment if you like). Then drag this new launcher to somewhere like
Note : If you drag the file from the Desktop to the Launcher directly, then delete the Desktop file, the Launcher entry will stop working, even though it looks fine. I assume it makes some kind of shortcut to the original which you've just deleted.
I have developed a little command line program for launchers creation. Example:
It will create a corresponding desktop entry inside
You can then move it to your desktop like this:
More powerful alternatives are Alacarte and MenuLibre (they have more functions and a graphical user interface).
These launchers have one problem: you can't use them from the web browser, for example to attach archives to email messages or to upload files to sites like http://2shared.com/
There is an easy solution:
for example:
This way an icon appears at the desktop, with the image of a folder with an arrow below it, that represents a shortcut, instead of the spring or rocket of the launchers.
(*) You will get an error if you just try to drag/drop with Nautilus as a normal level user. That error was what made me figure out the six steps listed here. It's another example of "failure" being a step on the path to success.
In 14.04, you can right-click on the executable and choose
To attach this program to your launcher, simply start the program and then while it's running, right-click the icon on your launcher bar and choose
Note: adding programs to your launcher bar in this way does not work with WINE applications, however you can still add WINE apps to your desktop this way.
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Lacarra, like Cojocaru, is such a technical wizard
Interesting comment about Lacarra. A side of her I never really saw when she was here in San Francisco.
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Lacarra, like Cojocaru, is such a technical wizard
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But it just goes to show that there is more than one way to dance Balanchine.
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[I have to disagree here. When I saw the Kirov (with Vishneva) dance Rubies a few weeks ago, I thought the soft, rounded arms were jarringly out of keeping with the rest of the style that the company has worked to acquire in the last several years, and detracted from the ballet.
We had a thread once on this very topic -- to what extent a company taking on the work of a choreographer whose style is different from its own is obliged to acquire that style, or to let some of its own style show through -- but I couldn't find it.
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Home > Food > Recipes > Multigrain Pancakes
Multigrain Pancakes
Categories: Low-fat
Type: Breakfast
Type: Breakfast
Whole grain and multigrain flours make healthier pancakes than bleached white flour does. They contain many more of the essential nutrients that kids need to thrive.
Serves: 12 pancakes
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal
- 2 tablespoons oat bran
- 2 tablespoons toasted wheat germ or flax meal
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 3/4 cups nonfat or low-fat buttermilk
- 2 egg whites, lightly beaten, or 1/4 cup fat-free egg substitute
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- Place the flour, cornmeal, oat bran, wheat germ or flax meal, sugar, and baking soda in a large bowl, and stir to mix well. Add the buttermilk and the egg whites or egg substitute, and mix with a wire whisk to blend well.
- Coat a griddle or large nonstick skillet with nonstick cooking spray, and preheat over medium heat until a drop of water sizzles when it hits the surface. (If using an electric griddle, preheat the griddle according to the manufacturer's directions.)
- For each pancake, pour 1/4 cup of batter onto the griddle, and spread into a 4-inch circle. Cook for about 1 minute and 30 seconds, or until the top is bubbly and the edges are dry. Turn and cook for an additional minute, or until the second side is golden brown. As the pancakes are done, transfer them to a serving plate and keep warm in a preheated oven.
- Serve hot, topped with honey, maple syrup, Berry Fresh Fruit Sauce, or Fast and Easy Fruit Sauce
- To make Multigrain Banana Pancakes, add 1 1/2 cups of sliced bananas to the batter, and proceed with recipe as directed to make 15 pancakes. Top with maple syrup or honey and a sprinkling of toasted pecans, if desired.
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Ubuntu has a program called netdiscover.
Netdiscover is an active/passive address reconnaissance tool, mainly developed for those wireless networks without dhcp server, when you are wardriving. It can be also used on hub/switched networks.
Built on top of libnet and libpcap, it can passively detect online hosts, or search for them, by actively sending arp requests, it can also be used to inspect your network arp traffic, or find network addresses using auto scan mode, which will scan for common local networks.
Are there Fedora packages for this or a similar application?