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6 Eerily Specific Inventions Predicted in Science Fiction
Science fiction is by far the nerdiest of the fictions, and its bread and butter consists of robot uprisings and unexpected time travel consequences. But for every Martian invasion and robocop-related mishap it has warned about, science fiction has made some stunningly accurate premonitions.
We're not talking about broad predictions, like "thinking machines" or "interplanetary travel." That stuff's easy. It's the weirdly specific prophecies that impress us.
#6. Jules Verne Predicts the Moon Landing in Ridiculous Detail ... in 1865
The first manned spaceship was launched during the month of December, by the United States from a base in Florida. The ship was made up mostly of aluminum, weighed 19,250 pounds, and cost what would now be about $12.1 billion to build. After three of the astronauts completed their moonwalk, they returned to Earth. Their capsule splashed down into the Pacific Ocean and was recovered by a U.S. Navy vessel.
Why are we boring you with history? Actually, we're not -- this is the plot of an 1865 novel by Jules Verne, whose frighteningly accurate visions of space travel lead us to conclude that he had to be some kind of time-traveling space-wizard.
Survey says ... "Space Wizard."
Though it was written over 100 years before the Apollo 11 mission, Verne's novel From the Earth to the Moon actually serves as a pretty damn accurate novelization of that mission, down to the scariest details. He was slightly off on the cost and weight of the rocket (but only slightly -- the real stats were 26,275 pounds and $14.4 billion), and in the biggest departure from reality, Verne's astronauts were shot out of a huge gun. But get this: Verne's space cannon was called Columbiad, and the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia.
The real coincidence icing on this insanity cake is this:
"The three adventurous companions were surprised and stupefied, despite their scientific reasonings. They felt themselves being carried into the domain of wonders! They felt that weight was really wanting to their bodies. If they stretched out their arms, they did not attempt to fall. Their heads shook on their shoulders. Their feet no longer clung to the floor of the projectile. They were like drunken men having no stability in themselves."
Somehow, Verne predicted that the astronauts would become weightless in space. There was no way he could have known that at the time -- it was just some crazy bullshit he made up to make the story interesting, like that time he wrote a book about going to the center of the Earth and finding dinosaurs.
And giant mushrooms.
#5. Mark Twain Predicts the Internet in 1898
When most people think of Mark Twain, they imagine Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn piloting a raft down the Mississippi River to find some trouble to get into. What's less well-known is that Twain also dabbled in science fiction, so there's probably a story out there in which Huck Finn finds a spaceship and enjoys a short career of interstellar high jinks and space piracy.
Pictured here.
It was in one of his science fiction stories, From the 'London Times' of 1904, that Twain dreamed up an invention called the "telelectroscope," which used the phone system to create a world wide network of information-sharing. Basically, Mark Twain invented the Internet. Keep in mind that he wrote this in 1898, when telephones were still fairly new and rare.
But Twain didn't stop there. His story describes "the daily doings of the globe made visible to everybody, and audibly discussable too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues." Mark Twain is talking about goddamn social networking. He didn't just predict that the Internet would unite the world, but also that people would immediately clog it up with trivial bullshit.
"And lots of tits."
Now check out the description of the guy using it:
"Day by day, and night by night, he called up one corner of the globe after another, and looked upon its life, and studied its strange sights, and spoke with its people. ... He seldom spoke, and I never interrupted him when he was absorbed in this amusement."
Pictured: Amusement
The protagonist of the story, a man falsely accused of murder and sentenced to death, is cleared of all charges in the end when he essentially gets on the Internet and finds his supposed "victim" in the crowd of an event he's watching being streamed live from China.
Unfortunately, the story itself is terrible. So, unlike visionaries such as Jules Verne, whose predictions everybody listened to, Mark Twain goes down in history as a great writer of small-town America who should just stay the hell away from sci-fi.
#4. Robert Heinlein Predicts Screen Savers in 1961
If you think about it, the most impressive predictions are the ones that are super-specific, and completely trivial. For instance, it's easy to predict there'll be a "major war" in the future, or a radical new energy source. Those are huge issues everyone is constantly thinking about and writing about; somebody is going to hit the mark. No, it would be more impressive if a 1940s writer specifically predicted Jersey Shore.
"The future is bleak."
That brings us to Robert Heinlein's 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. The novel is really about a Martian's attempt to fit in with human society, but Heinlein built up a fabulous future world complete with 3D televisions/computers in every middle-class home. So, 10 years before the first personal computer, we have this:
"They went to the living room; Jill sat at his feet and they applied themselves to martinis. Opposite his chair was a stereovision tank disguised as an aquarium; he switched it on, guppies and tetras gave way to the face of the well-known Winchell Augustus Greaves."
That's right. Their computer had a screen saver. To prevent "stereovision" from getting too boring when it was idle, it'd display an animation of fish swimming around, presumably to provide something for the cats of the future to swipe at.
"Also, sometimes the stereovision tank looked like the window of the Millennium Falcon."
Screen savers as you know them actually used to serve the purpose of keeping freeze-framed porn from burning itself permanently into CRT monitors. Not only do people still use them for the same purpose Heinlein described, but fish/aquarium screensavers were some of the most popular.
No word on whether it came with a "flying toasters" option.


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This relates to my previous question regarding my MacBook Pro. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/1450/macbook-pro-will-not-start-or-quits
I need to replace one of my 2G DIMMs and in shopping around at Crucial and OWC I notice that they also carry matched sets.
So, is there any reason that I should spend the extra $ and replace both DIMMs as opposed to just the bad one?

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when would I use one over the other? Are they the same?
They're not the same at all:
Frankly, I can't see any situation where you'd not want to use
I think your forgot "a space". When you write
The next example comes from the book Advanced TexBook by D Salomon :
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It's well known that all hyperfinite $\mathrm{II}_1$ factors are isomorphic. I risk the wrath of MathOverflow elders to ask if a particular isomorph is easier than others to handle. In particular, is there a presentation for which it's obvious that the commutant is also the hyperfinite $\mathrm{II}_1$ factor (presented in the same way)?
Another classical construction is to see the hyperfinite $\mathrm{II}_1$ factor as the infinite tensor product of the two by two matrices
$$ \mathcal{R}=\otimes_{n=1}^{\infty}{M_{2}(\mathbb{C})} $$
acting on its $L^{2}$ closure $L^{2}\Big(\otimes_{n=1}^{\infty}M_{2}(\mathbb{C})\Big)$ by right multiplication.
Then its commutant is given by the left multiplication.
I suppose what you mean is that you want the commutant of the hyperfinite $II_{1}$ coming from a certain construction to have arisen from essentially the same construction.
The closest I can think of to this is the classic one: if you take the left group von Neumann algebra of the group of those permutations of $\mathbb{Z}$ having finite support, then the commutant will have arisen as the right group von Neumann algebra of this group.


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As my players go up levels there are more and more variables in combat. I need help. What solutions exist out there and what makes them good?
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A clever, if ugly, version of status indicators used at my first DnD Encounters session cap rings I found a photo of the technique at http://slyflourish.com/three-cheap-4e-game-aids/:
I also found this - http://dapperdevil.com/index.php which includes a tray-style approach:
And a mini's approach:
UPDATE: I used a laser cutter to create some of my own status "chips" and area-of-effect indicators:
This is how we handle status effects:
Since we use token for things on the battlemat (and not minis), we use a set of small colored beads to put on the tokens:
We've played with it long enough that the color code is understandable at a glance.
The benefit is that it is trivial to add/remove. It's a simple visual cue. And it helps telegraph the status of all combatants on the battlefield.
One thing we have yet to figure out well is to distinguish between "save ends" and "end of next turn". Also, the tokens only fit about 4 or 5 beads before you need to stack them and the ones we have don't stack very well (i.e. easy to topple).
I'm a big fan of masterplan
In addition to combat tracking, it allows you to build out full encounters, adventures and campaigns.
Having access to graphics software, my immediate response was to design a printable paper version that I then laminated. I went through a few different concepts as they have a big disadvantage when you need to stack multiple effects.
I'm really happy with my current design and it seems to be working really well. The trick was to have each token be slightly smaller than the 1" tile and have a tab that extends out past the central square.
Probably easier to understand if you look at cover of the pdf:
For my own game I do custom markers for each of the powers as well, showing duration as well as the owner and the power name. Not managed to get them into a distributable form yet though.
My gaming group has been going for a few months using D&D essentials kits with tokens instead of minis, we use mini m&m candies for status effects and marks etc. They are handy and offer a nice snack option as well :)
Our DM also uses inCombat and it is very handy for computing HP and keeping track of initiative.
This answer is a repeat from another question but has a bearing here too:
Dark Platypus produces a line of products that we use at our table which pretty much handles all of your concerns and works very fast. See their products here
They have a magnet grid mat that is pre-printed with one inch squares and can handle magnet objects, dungeon tiles and dry-erase markers. To go with this is their set of magnet flag posts (they look like miniature lamp posts). they are magnetic on the bottom and on the top, so they stick the board and stay put. They come with a large set pf status fags that you attach to mini-magnets. Once this is done you can just stack them on the posts and easily see what is going on right on the battle filed. You do not have to pick up or handle the minis to change these condition flags. Each post has a number on it so can be used to track initiative too.
For my money this is the best. the price is not too bad and the mat is very rugged and will last as long as you take care of it. I purchased 3 set of the posts with different colored numbers, 2 mats and a bunch of the magnet bendy walls, and have never looked back. The bendy walls are great too.
I assign two players at the table to alternate keeping the flags up to date. Works fantastic that way and off loads a large amount of work from me, the DM.
I've been using http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/DnD4eCM for some time. It gets updated fairly frequently, it's a standalone combat tracker that tracks things like statuses, saves, and recharge rolls along with the initiative for the combat.
I recommend Masterplan for running combat in 4e; you can use it so that it handles the tokens on the map, or just the damage / conditions / saving throws / recharges.
If you're open to using a laptop at your table, check out Apprentice RPG. It's a 4e tool designed to make planning and executing combat and skill challenges easier on the DM. Unlike Masterplan, it's browser-based and thus cross-platform.
I usually have each player note down who is marked by her and I take notes about ongoing effects. Just a list in initiative order.
http://4eturntracker.com/ works really well if you have access to a projector or a separate screen that the players can see. You can create monsters and establish them in the program's database simply by copy/pasting the stats from the online compendium. You can then create encounters by using those database monsters. Load encounters and party members to start combat. The program tracks initiative, which it can roll automatically for everyone, damage and effects. Damage is very easy to apply to creatures, effects (particularly end conditions) a bit trickier.
The program has a lot of functionality, so the learning curve is a bit steep. If you want to use it, you should play with it for a while first to learn how it works.


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I have been toying with the idea of converting some forms at work to interactive forms. I have tried some of the routines that come with insdljs, but they seem a bit dated. The idea is very attractive. I am looking for more recent information, links and pointers. Does Beamer use JavaScript?
A similar question was posted in the German newsgroup de.comp.text.tex recently.
With pdfLaTeX it is easy to add JavaScript at the document level. User defined JavaScript functions can be added as Action dictionaries (simple pdf objects) to the document. Then their names have to be mapped to the corresponding PDF object numbers in the /JavaScript name tree of the /Names dictionary in the PDF catalog using the pdfTeX primitive \pdfnames. Finally, the functions can be used within any PDF object that accepts an Action dictionary (links, widgets, pages, etc.). All this is documented in the PDF reference and in the JavaScript reference of Acrobat:
Here is a simple example which may serve as a starting point. Therein, doc-level JavaScript functions which accept arguments are used in the Action dictionaries of two links:
AFAIK, Beamer does not use JavaScript. I do not have a direct answer for LaTeX, but some pointers that might be useful.
ConTeXt provides a mechanism for including arbitrary JS. See the widgets manual for details. ConTeXt presentation modules (s-pre-60 onwards) also use JavaScript to sequentially displaying things on a page (unlike Beamer which creates multiple pages), as does Paul Isambert's lecturer package (which works for plain TeX, LaTeX, and ConTeXt).


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For 2D graphics, there exists the function
FullGraphics to turn the stuff Mathematica generates automatically on
Graphics (like axes) into explicit graphics primitives. However that function doesn't work on
Graphics3D objects. So is there some (possibly undocumented) function which does the same for 3 dimensional graphics?
For 2D graphics, there exists the function
No solution with 3D return, but you can "vectorize" 3D graphics by using the good ole
This is now a
but finding the right patterns for the stuff you might want to work with could take some effort. Also you have to live with the fact that some appearances will change more or less dramatically.


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Fun Fact: The pyramid is covered with crushed quartz, contributing to the building's gleaming white façade.
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I've installed a HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL card that I've connected 3 x 1.5 TB HDDs. After creating a RAID 5 within the RocketRAID BIOS using the 3 disks, I am attempting to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 on the array. However, the installer is locking up during the
Detecting hardware phase.
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I'm using the standard Ubuntu Server 12.04 64-bit installation CD. In order to install the RocketRAID drivers so the installer can recognize the RAID array, I am using two driver packages from the HighPoint website.
rr272x_1x-ubuntu-11.10-x86_64-v1.4.12.0502.tgz(Drivers for Ubuntu 11.10; latest Ubuntu specific drivers)
RR272x_1x-Linux-Src-v1.4-120424-1752.tar.gz(Linux open source driver, which require a build against a kernel)
rr272x_1x-ubuntu-11.10-x86_64-v1.4.12.0502.tgz driver has a
preinst.sh script that is meant to load the driver while the Ubuntu installer is "Loading additional components". At that point, you use ALT + F2 to enter the console, mount the USB flash drive you have the driver package extracted to, and run the preinst.sh script. This is unsuccessful "as is" because the drivers included in this package are for the Linux 3.0.0-12-(generic/server) kernel and 12.04 has the 3.2.0-29 kernel.
To workaround this problem, I used the open source drivers listed above to build a driver off the 3.2.0-29-generic kernel, which I have on a Ubuntu Server 12.04 VirtualBox VM. I extracted the archive and navigated to
../rr272x_1x-linux-src-v1.4/product/rr272x/linux and ran a make against the 3.2.0-29-generic kernel as outlined in the open source driver README using the following
sudo make KERNELDIR=/lib/modules/3.2.0-29-generic/build. This successfully builds the following
I take the resulting driver and GZIP it into an archive that has the correct naming convention so the preinst.sh script will recognize it,
rr272x_1x3.2.0-29-genericx86_64.ko.gz. I then place it in the boot folder of the extracted
rr272x_1x-ubuntu-11.10-x86_64-v1.4.12.0502.tgz package, which is where it is supposed to be.
When launching into the console during the Ubuntu installation, this time the preinst.sh script runs successfully. I then press ALT + F1 to go back to the installer and continue until I hit the "Detecting hardware" phase, which is where the whole operation locks up.
I've tested the Ubuntu installation CD and it doesn't have any errors. I've also attempted this process multiple times in case it was a one time lockup, but it continues to lock up in the same place. Can anyone offer insight on what I may be doing incorrectly here?
NOTE: The installer will progress past the detecting hardware phase if the RocketRAID drives are not loaded, so I know it is something with the driver causing the issue.


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WHEELING - Local members of Congress viewed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Jackson as a general in the Obama administration's "war on coal," but now they are wondering about the "unknown" and who might replace her after she announced plans Thursday to resign.
In Jackson's four years as EPA director, she has pushed for stricter greenhouse gas regulations that many believe are harmful to the local coal industry. The EPA's proposed emissions limits for new power plants led American Electric Power and other companies to curtail construction of new coal-fired facilities and prompted the closure of some existing power plants.
Rep. David B. McKinley, R-Wheeling, is one of Jackson's most outspoken critics. He authored legislation that would have required the EPA to consider economic impact before instituting new environmental regulations, but it failed to pass the Senate.
McKinley termed Jackson a "known factor" in Washington and said pro-coal members of the House were becoming effective in blocking her regulatory efforts. He said her departure brings on the "unknown."
"She was a very aggressive regulator who clearly had coal, oil and gas in her crosshairs," McKinley said. "But at least I understood where she was coming from and could prepare for her testimony. ... I just hope the next director will be more sensitive to the effect fossil fuels have on our economy. It's one thing to shut down a mine, and another thing to shut down a community. That's the direction we were going."
Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, said he was sure Jackson's intentions were good, but "her policies were simply wrong for America."
"I am hopeful that Jackson's successor will be someone who understands that America needs a true 'all of the above' energy policy, someone who is committed to lowering energy prices, making America more energy independent and creating much-needed jobs - especially in Eastern and Southeastern Ohio."
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-Charleston, said Jackson's departure provides President Barack Obama a chance to "invite West Virginia" to participate in forming the nation's energy policy.
"The EPA should be a working partner in our shared goal of energy independence, job creation and environmental protection, not a punitive imperialistic hammer driven by an ideological agenda," Capito said.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said while he and Jackson have disagreed, they always were able to have a respectful dialogue.
"I will continue to fight for a balanced energy policy for the United States - which is exactly what we have in West Virginia - and I look forward to working with anyone willing to help bring this common sense West Virginia approach to the 113th Congress," Manchin said.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said the EPA and the coal industry need leaders to take them into the future.
"My hope is that West Virginia can find common ground in advancing clean coal no matter who is at the helm of this important agency, because new technology is the only realistic and honest path we have to a secure future for our coal industry and - more importantly - our coal miners, " Rockefeller said.


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BREAKING: Catholic League 'targeted' by IRS.
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse for the Obama administration, Dr. Donohue drops another bombshell:
The problems with the IRS extend beyond playing politics with conservative groups seeking a tax-exempt status. I have never made this public before, but given the heightened interest in the way the IRS has conducted itself, the time has come to disclose what happened.Just weeks after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, I was notified by the IRS that the Catholic League was under investigation for violating the IRS Code on political activities as it relates to 501(c)(3) organizations. What the IRS did not know was that I had proof who contacted them to launch the investigation: Catholics United, a George Soros-funded Catholic organization.The IRS was contacted on June 5, 2008, to launch a probe of the Catholic League, and the letter sent to me was dated Nov. 24, 2008.
Does the Obama administration have no shame? Are there no depths to which it will not -- wait, what's that? Obama wasn't inaugurated until January 2009? So this actually happened under George W. Bush? And Catholics United never made a secret of its concerns about the Catholic League's tax status? Nor is the group really funded by George Soros? And Donohue has a history of complaining to the IRS about liberals?Oh. Never mind.
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I demand that the Obama Administration be investigated for its role in fomenting Shays' Rebellion. And also for suppressing it.Are you listening, Rep. Issa?
Ah, but notice that the temperate and careful Dr. Donohue never actually accuses Obama of anything. It's just a helpful temporal reference, like saying, "Just a week after United Auto Workers marched in a Labor Day parade in 2001, terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center."There may be something in Catholic ethics that covers that kind of speech, but hey, he's just stating the chronology.
Do we reach a point where even quoting Donohue in his own words becomes uncharitable? Kicking him after he's knocked himself down?
I want to thank you for finding the press release in which Donohue said this amazing thing: "Whats driving this is a curious admixture of racism and anti-Catholicism. Quite simply, there are no standards for blacks and a double standard for Catholics." !!
Does anyone seriously believe it would be possible to stop Bill Donohue from knocking himself down? More to the point, he is a grown man who consistently seeks public attention to what he believes are serious threats. If they are indeed threats and are indeed serious I don't believe anyone would argue against requiring he spend sufficient time and resources researching the facts prior to claiming harm.We are daily bombarded with utter nonsense claiming to be yet another indisputable sign of impending doom. Such behavior from a grown man claiming to hold dearly a 2000 year old faith based on the life of Christ seems more than a little inconsistent and utterly unhelpful.
I appreciate the thought that went into the selection of a photo to accompany this post.A post about Donohue spewing fake crap.A photo of Donohue holding fake crap http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/watch-bill-donohue-puts-barack-obam... must Donohue do to get the four leaders of our Church quoted below (and others) to disavow his embarrassing and damaging antics?I appreciate Dr. Donohue and the work done by The Catholic League. I look forward to the day when the work done by the Catholic League is no longer necessary. Sadly, as recent events have proven once again, that day still seems far in the future. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New YorkThe Catholic League has the courage to speak up candidly and forcefully for the Church when circumstances call for fighting the good fight. The League should be on every Catholics short list of essential organizations to support. Most Rev. Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.Archbishop of PhiladelphiaI am privileged to support the Catholic League. The work of the Catholic League is invaluable and its accomplishments over the years are unparalleled. Cardinal Edwin OBrienPro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order (Knights) of the Holy Sepulchre of JerusalemThe Catholic League has done much to ensure that the Churchs positions are presented clearly and fairly. Too often those who do not understand the Church or Her teachings are the interpreters of the doctrines and events in the life of the Church. The work of the League is important in the mission of the Church which must teach the hard truths of the Gospel in season and out of season. Sean Cardinal OMalley, O.F.M. Cap.Archbishop of Boston
Thanks for posting this story, Grant.It's good to see that you're keeping an eye on Bill Donohue.
I must also come forward. I have always been worried that the IRS might target my nonprofit. As a result, it has forced me to take great pains to comply with the tax laws.
I was just getting around to blaming Barack Obama for breaking up the Beatles. He sent Yoko Ono and Linda Eastman from Kenya, right? Or was it Indonesia? I forget.
If George Soros didn't exist, the right wing would have to invent him; they need a liberal archvillain to "prove" they're victims of the vast left-wing conspiracy. Because snopes.com, the urban legend website, frequently debunks anti-Clinton and anti-Obama falsehoods, there's even a rumor that Soros owns the snopes website. He doesn't.Actually, though it's in the billions, Soros' fortune is dwarfed by the Koch brothers'.
My concern would not be so much about which group could claim targeting or victim status but the fact that they may have been targeted by the IRS for ideological reasons. That is a very chilling thought.The Commonweal Foundation that partly funds Commonweal (and I am happily a paying member of this community and will continue to be so) is tax exempt, as I understand it. This is because the content is religious. However, it is obvious where political sympathies lie and this magazine has been more than active in public policy, social justice, and political issues. It would be inappropriate for the IRS to try to intimidate Commonweal and threaten to remove status for ideological reasons.I think a full scale investigation should be conducted into the activity of the IRS as targeting groups, any groups, in this fashion, is something that needs to be fixed and addressed.
While I'd like to believe I grasp fully the notion ideology play no discernable role in the functioning of an agency of our government I do not believe that is realistically possible. It seems to me a particularly unrealistic expectation to have from a group of accountants. A group of individuals by choice isolated from society dependant near exclusively on their crops and livestock spending their time solely in prayer for others is likely altogether a non-profit. Beyond that, the water gets murky. For example, is a single parent making $2.50/hour plus tips considered a non-profit when tips are consistently very low for a month or two? If the answer is based largely a capitalistic ideology the answer would likely differ from that based on a less largely materialistic ideology. Bottom line, can the term non-profit be defined with sufficient clarity to be useful in all cases? Is it possible to separate ourselves from our ideology? Do we really want to do so?I find Obama's ability to tolerate near lunacy remarkable. For that reason if I had seen anything remotely resembling the indignant outrage now flying about when Rove, et. al, cut loose with Crossroads GPS I might indeed find myself in quite a practical and philosophical quandry. As it is, it seems to me this outrage is yet another truly balant example of near classical hypocrisy.On a saner note, check out the Youtube link to Barney and Andy in the comments on The Ultimate Indignity piece. It's a near Godsend.
BREAKING: The official who was Commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities division of the Internal Revenue Service in 2008 was Steven Miller -- the same Steven Miller who is the current Acting Commissioner of the IRS and whose resignation was demanded by President Obama.When you try to play this partisan game of deflection and diversion, make sure that it doesn't blow up in your face like this.
Could it be considered targeting if the IRS investigation is in response to citizen complaints? As in the case of the Catholic League? If it came out that the Catholic League had violated the political activity prohibition and that the IRS had received complaints and didn't follow up, wouldn't that be problematic?
How many filings did the IRS have in that wonderful season of Glenn Beck and sun, when anybody with an Uncle Sam costume and a video camera could become a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) organization? In other words, he or she could be what she never heard of before someone told her that saving the country is tax exempt. And, in other words, he or she could hear that he or she could become one of those things before ever hearing the word "accountant" much less having one. How much of this gunk flowed into the IRS in those thrilling days of yesteryear? And what should the IRS have done about it? No answers, so far, to those questions. From anybody.
The fact that Donohue's marriage did not work out can be understandable. But the fact that he says that marriage is not about love and his reliance on Leviticus makes him a laughingstock/hypocrite. That prominent American archbishops sing his praises says plenty about them. Clearly they depict a Catholic church that is preoccupied with abortion and same sex marriage. Despite protests to the contrary this seem to be all they have. This is terribly sad and reprehensible.
Grant, With all due respect, why do you keep giving Donohue oxygen? Didn't Sarah Silverman point out that the Catholic League is one guy with a computer? That simplifies it a bit, I know, but I think there is some truth to it. Don't we have anything more soul- centric to talk about than Bill Donohue?
I agree with Brian Pinter.What about a post giving Pope Francis's very powerful critique, in a public discourse yesterday, of financial greed, the idolization of money, and the tendency of the present global economic system to condemn vast numbers of people to lives of poverty and subhuman conditions?
I second John Page's comment about Pope Francis' speech yesterday.
Or how about this - America ran a column that underscores how the New Testament catalogs gossip and slander: http://americamagazine.org/content/good-word/slanderers-and-gossipers-li...'s worth reading and discussing, especially in our culture. Bill Donohue' outrages are like Page 6 stuff for progressive Catholics. Juicy, but bad for the soul.
Please forward all concerns about the state of my soul to the IRS.
Grant - I was talking about everybody's souls. Don't take it personally.
Allow me to rephrase: Lighten up.
I, for one, am appalled by the list of bishops (helpfully offered by Jack Marth above) who support and endorse Donohue and the Catholic League. They are the ones giving him oxygen, and cloaking his irresponsible nonsense in the mantle of respectability. They are, pardon the expression, confusing the faithful. Because as long as they pat him on the back, there will be some who view his pronouncements as coming with the nihil obstat. This, I would humbly submit, is the more important story here. It's not that a loudmouth is carrying on irresponsibly. It's the fact that he's endorsed by the bishops of prominent dioceses while doing the same.
Rita's spot on. Without the ecclesiastical oxygen, there'd be little to no response to the CL fire drills.
William Donohue and the Catholic League should be investigated. Way to go IRS!IMHO, the CL is little more than phony front for US Catholic hierarchy to get their "not-ready-for-primetime" retrograde ideology, especially anti-feminine ideology, out into the media. Donohue only says what most bishops would like to say publicly but can't without over stepping political bounds, or most importantly to the hierarchs, their tax-exempt status.
Would someone be so kind as to differentiate between a 501(c)3 organization whose purpose is restricted to charitable or educational purposes and a 501(c)4 organization whose primary purpose is "social welfare" originally envisioned as self-help local groups like neighborhood associations? The perversion is that some in both sections have abandoned their primary work which is legitimately tax-exempt to indulge in no holds barred politicking and the pass through of huge sums of anonymous campaign donations from so many secret corporate and uber rich sources. Look closely to see what they actually do, not what they say they do.
The hey distinction may be between 529 groups (e.g., Swift Boat Veterans for Truth) which are required to disclose their contributors and 501(c)(4) groups (e.g., Crossroads GPS) which do not. Since Citizens United removed any practical contribution or spending limitations, the premium that 501(c)(4) status offers is that black veil on anonymity.
Mike Evans:501c3s can engage in a limited amount of lobbying, but NO political activity at all.501c4s can engage in unlimited lobbying and some limited political activity.
Has it struck anyone else that conservative Catholics outraged that the IRS would target groups at the behest of ideologues and anonymous complaints are the same folks who endorse such tactics when carried out by the CDF? Or by those who write to bishops and pastors when they suspect someone in the parish is gay?
The Washington Post Editorial Board said on May 16 that "The IRS targeting conservative opponents of Mr. Obama for special scrutiny is horrifying and inexcusable."
I understand the point Mr. Pinter is making about how focusing on this sort of stuff can be bad for the soul. I know, for example, I am not inclined to be my best loving and forgiving Christian self when I consider Dr. Donohue and the support he enjoys from the leadership of the Church. That being said -- I hope Commonweal continues to pay close attention to the antics, lies and distortions of Donohue and the Catholic League. Even if nothing changes in the Catholic League or with its bishop endorsers, it is important that a place exists where people who share the name Catholic can publicly offer intelligent (even snarky) dissent. If nothing else when we are asked about Donohue's delusional, hate-filled, homophobic bilge, we can say -- "Go check out dotCommonweal -- you'll see many Catholics are appalled by this man." I also think there are many, many posts and discussions here which are very "soul-centric". In fact, the majority. To imply otherwise is terribly unfair to Mr. Gallicho in particular and dotCommonweal in general. There was no need to link to America (not that there is anything wrong with that!) if the goal was simply to give examples of edifying, soul-centric posts and discussions.
David G. --Pope Francis recently used some very strong language to describe snitches. (I can't remember where I read it.) I bet his experience living under the Argentine dictatorship had something to do with that.
It may be a tenuous connection, but because Mr. Pinter works at Regis, this inspiring, soul-enriching story and video of a Regis student made me think linking it here appropriate.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/your-money/four-college-essays-that-st.... Li's line about "my parents room emits a smell from the restaurant uniforms they wear seven days a week, all year round, reminded me of Pope Francis' wonderful reflections on the need for "shepherds living with the smell of the sheep." Perhaps even Dr. Donohue might agree the anti-Catholic NY Times gets it right occasionally?
There are many loudmouths out there who are a good deal more marginalized than Donohue. In my opinion, the root problem is that he has been clever and aggressive enough to corner the market for something that strikes a chord with a lot of people and for which there is in fact a genuine need, which he fills badly: shining a light on examples of ignorance and bias in the larger culture.It would be a tremendous service to both the church and the culture if someone would take it upon her/himself to build an alternative to Donohue and the Catholic League - to put forth a voice that is reasoned and responsible.
Jim P. =I agree. But the current polarization within the American Church would make it hard to explain sometimes just exactly what our beliefs are.
Has it struck anyone else that conservative Catholics outraged that the IRS would target groups at the behest of ideologues and anonymous complaints are the same folks who endorse such tactics when carried out by the CDFWhy would that strike anyone as a pertinent point? The tax arm of the U.S. government is supposed to be neutral concerning any and all political positions, whereas the Catholic Church is not supposed to be neutral as between Catholicism and unCatholic teachings. Also, the U.S. government has the power to throw people in jail, whereas . . . oh, never mind, if you thought that was an apt comparison in the first place, it isn't any use pointing out all the reasons why the U.S. government bears a different relationship to its citizens than the Catholic Church does to its employees.
@Jim Pauwels -- I just don't see the "genuine need" -- at least not in the US. There is no widespread anti-Catholic bias. Of course there is ignorance and there is isolated bias -- i.e. there are Donohues outside the Catholic Church. I see no great need to confront these folks except by demanding accountability from our Church's often dysfunctional leadership and to work hard at being the best reflection of gospel values we can be.
I think there is lots of anti-Catholic bias in the US. Read the comments after any kind of post about Pope Francis on Huffingotn Post or any of the news websites. All kinds of really bigoted things are said, even when the comments/actions of the Pope would be something the target audience would applaud coming from another source.
" I see no great need to confront these folks except by demanding accountability from our Churchs often dysfunctional leadership and to work hard at being the best reflection of gospel values we can be."One of the great flaws to Donohue's approach - and it is not unique to him; it seems to come with the territory in anti-defamation work - is that he is hyper-confrontational. When ignorance or bias makes itself known, it doesn't always require a full, frontal attack with all guns blazing. There are times when it is sufficient, and arguably more effective, to shine a light on the problem area, and let people work through the issue and come to the right conclusion on their own. And it's not necessary to position every offense as an instance of some grand conspiracy or as part of an unceasing culture war.(This presupposes that Donohue and the Catholic League are responding to genuine instances of ignorance and bias. They do from time to time, although I didn't find many examples on the front page of the Catholic League website at this time).
The abuse of the president's "enemies", for political purposes, by the IRS could not be more serious. Surely the scandal deserves more considered commentary from the president's "friends." I hope we get it.
Mr. Pauwels -- I resonate with much of what you say. The disconnect for me is your proposal to build an alternative to the Catholic League. I don't see the need. Or maybe it would be better to say -- the alternative exists. It is called the Church. If we work hard at being the Church Jesus calls us to be (including honest appraisal of the sins and failings of the Church) -- any negative power arising from ignorance and bias becomes more an more marginal and insignificant. Another thought comes to mind --we are not called to battle defamation. The message of the beatitudes suggests we should welcome it.
Mr. Marth,I think there is a misunderstanding here. I only linked the America article because I thought it was a good one. I have seen other blogs link to commonweal, and I didn't think any less of the commenter because of it. I didn't think I implied that Commonweal fails to publish worthwhile articles (at least I didn't say that), I was just saying that the topic of Billl Donohue is not a worthwhile one. We all know who he is, what he does, and how he does it. Nothing has changed with him, and I don't anticipate it will change. If Donohue came forward to apologize for acting like a bully and announced that the Catholic League is will be seeking to engage others in dialogue, not confrontation, I think that would be deserving of a post on dotCommonweal.
Check out the Catholic League's rating on Charity Navigator, where it gets one out of four stars, and ranks third on the list of "highly paid CEOs at low rated charities". In 2011, Mr. D. apparently pulled down $374,500 as his salary making up 11.8% of the total expenses of $3,177,066, while other administrative and fund raising expenses gobbled up over $1,000,000 more, leaving some $1,600,000 for program expenses. Anti-Catholicism on the part of Charity Navigator? But plenty of Catholic organizations, including various state and national Catholic Charities, and Catholic Relief Services, get the four star (top) rating. Since I know you're all wondering who leads the list of highly paid CEOs and low rated charities, it's the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. See:http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=topten.detail&listid=8which will also tell you the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation comes in at number 10. The YWCA USA comes in at 6.
It appears to me that many are missing the forest for the trees. The real issue of concern here is that for years, Geroge Soros has been funding (and generously), not only anti-Catholicism, but abortion and anti-Americanisn. Any faithful Catholic should take great objection to all three. In addition, any Catholic associated in any way with many of the Soros funded anti-catholic front groups, should be speaking out against the damaging groups and the message. To fail to do that is to be complicit in the anit-catholic campagin. Me thinks there is a bit of 'false anger' going on here. What sense does it make to be attacking Bill D or even Obama while ignoring the source, George Soros? Doing that sends the message that Bill D is more important than the anti-Catholic Propaganda; not exactly an admirable good Catholic example.
What hogwash. You don't get to run around our website smearing people. Show your math or move along.
After reading the NY Times this morning:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/us/catholic-church-whistle-blowers-joi... wondered how long it would take Dr. Donohue to attack. Not long:http://www.catholicleague.org/exposing-catholic-whistleblowers/
Irene: is it anti-Catholic bias or the objections of people who are unhappy about the way that the Catholic Church in this country attempts to constantly interfere in the lives of people who disagree with the stated positions of the church?Abortion.Contraception.Marriage Equality.Rights to discriminate.Unionizing of Catholic schools and hospitals.Obamacare.Etc.


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Attendance and parade participation were down Saturday compared to previous years, but Centreville's 2013 Covered Bridge Days community festival drew rave reviews, nonetheless.
"We came to hear the band (Spike and the Bulldogs) but we found the covered bridge celebration a very enjoyable event … we're definitely coming back next year," said Jeff Rich, a Cicero, Ind., resident attending with his companion, Marilyn Stafford.
After they worked up a sweat in the muggy weather, the Indianapolis-area residents took in the offerings from the decades-old Covered Bridge Days festival. Fourteen food vendors and more than three dozen arts and crafts booths gave attendees plenty to see and do.
The real draw, however, was the opening-night fireworks show Friday. Carole McClain, head of the Covered Bridge Days Planning Committee, said the fireworks show continues to be the most-anticipated portion of the event.
"A big crowd, always a large crowd for the fireworks," she said.
Another cornerstone of the festival was Saturday's Covered Bridge Festival Downtown Classic car show. The event observed its 10-year anniversary and drew 147 participants.
Organizer Jon Saulnier said he was hoping to attract 200 vehicles, but a dicey weather forecast likely contributed to the less-than-expected final count. Saulnier said the turnout included 24 Mustangs, which was the showcase model this year in honor of its 50th anniversary in 2014.
"It was a good 10th anniversary for the Centreville show," he said. "We'll start working toward the 2014 show in about December."
The long-distance award went to a participant from the Hillsdale County community of Moscow, roughly a 100-mile drive.
Tegan Hekter is a Centreville-area native who moved back to the community with her husband and two kids about three years ago. She said the Covered Bridge Days festival was an event she enjoyed from her younger days, attending with her father.
Now, with 3-year-old daughter Alexandria and 4-year-old son Bryce in tow, Hekter said her family's next generation is a part of the annual event.
"They like the parade, the fire engines and, of course, the candy," she said.
Wendy Parker was recognized prior to the parade as Centreville's Citizen of the Year.
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31 May 2013 12:28 PM #1
how can i get 2 or more columns in the desktop shortcuts? [SOLVED]
Hi all.
i'm trying the web desktop, so i want to get more shortcuts.
i'm trying to decipher the code so i think that the shortcuts part is this.
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thanks a lot, i saw your mensaje and now i have 3 columns
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Hi. I'm trying to do the same. And the columns should expend dynamicly, if the heigth is to small.
Sorry, but I don't understand how to modify the template. Do you have an example?
Thank you and best regards
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I also like to have an example how this can be done.
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New MLB 14: The Show video explains optional features Quick Counts and Player LockWritten by: / / No Comments
Sony San Diego Studio has always prided itself on introducing significant new features with each instalment of its MLB: The Show series, and this year's version looks set to give players even more ways to enjoy a game of virtual baseball. MLB 14: The Show features two new options called Quick Counts and Player Lock that are designed to expedite games in all modes apart from Road to the Show.
Quick Counts use an algorithm to generate the number of balls and strikes a batter already has when you initially take control of him, whereas Player Lock allows you to assume the role of only one player during a game. Sony San Diego Studio reckon that you'll be able to play a full game in as little as 10 minutes using Player Lock, while games with Quick Counts and Fast Play presentation turned on can be completed in around 30 minutes.
Here's a video explaining these two optional features in more detail:
MLB 14: The Show will be released for PS3 and PS Vita on April 1st in North America, and for PS4 sometime during May. Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of the latest entry in this award-winning baseball series.
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1) Most of the people that Jesus healed — did they believe Jesus was God?
2) If so, why did they ask for temporary things (let me walk; let me see; get rid of my diseases; heal my son/daughter) rather than "Tell me I'm saved"?
In this sense, the repentant thief was an absolute genius. He could have probably just as easily asked, "Please, let it be that after I die of crucifixion and be buried, you'll resurrect me a few days later like Lazarus," but instead, he said:
Luke 23:42
42 Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
Question re-iterated: why is that in the Bible there's numerous records of people asking Jesus for earthly deliverance (thus believing that he had great power) — yet no record of asking him for eternal life?
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The airport is located 50km (31 miles) southwest of Osaka.
How to get there
Road access to the artificial island on which the airport is built is via a dedicated access bridge (with a toll gate on entry), connecting to an expressway, which serves all directions, off the Hanshin Expressway (Wangan Route) and the Hanwa Expressway, further inland.
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The RR-600-2 offers a compact scope with the RR-600 reticle and can be used with all popular hunting cartridges
Below the center crosshair are a series of clearly numbered elevation lines and dots with corresponding wind lines which allow the shooter to precisely shoot out to 600-yards or meters, depending on the zero set without manual adjustments
The Rapid Reticle aiming system is accurate, easily understood, and extremely quick to use in the field. Its versatility allows shooters to use the scope with a wide range of ammunition which makes it adaptable in a variety of situations and circumstances
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Seems pretty bulky for a rectal scope.
Yes its a little big for recta scope but a super cheap price. I am pretty impressed.
In the specs it says the RR-600 operates only down to -1C. I hope that's a misprint because in certain parts of the country you're lucky if it's -10C when you're hunting.
I have a SOPS from the last time it was on Woot. Excellent reflex sight, very high quality construction, made in Japan, and the auto brightness seems to work quite well. About as good as an Aimpoint, if you can live without the insane battery life. Only caveat is that you'll need 1/2" risers to get it to AR-15 co-witness height. IT IS NOT "CHEAP CHINESE CRAP".
$299 2 months ago and $379 a month before that. Good thing I bought the straight 10X and not this variable one. Other than that PFI makes some great glass.
@prime suspect: Not with enough KY. Pretty sure it was the same size as the last one they used for my colonoscopy
Also note that the scope is calibrated for high BDC bullets. If you were expecting to use "normal" 5.56 ammunition (M193), it's probably not what you're looking for. If you use the heavy/long stuff (77gr), it should work alright.
@zuiquan: Pretty sure misprint. Should be -17degC according to:
Or about +1.4degF.
For those of us that don't understand optics or for some discussion, optically or in use/firing/mounting, what's the difference between the RR-600-2 (3-9x32mm) offered here and the RR-600-1 (3-9x42mm)?
Ballistic coefficient examples (think ammo used for this calibrated scope) also listed off that page.
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@mrln: 32mm v 42mm. That number is the objective lens size. The larger your front lens is the more light you're letting in. The more light you've got means you can shoot later or earlier (twilight) or under cloudy conditions where contrast is diminished. So, bigger is sometimes better but if your objective lens is very large you have to compensate at your mount site and this can sometimes make for an uncomfortable shooting position as well as adding weight to your kit.
@erwos: The description says it works with a variety of ammunition, I suppose within a specified range. Thanks for your insight! I was ready to grab one until I saw your comment. Can you explain a little more? I've just started shooting with cheap 55gr out of my 16 inch AR. How well would this scope work just for having fun out to 300 yards or so? I'm currently adjusting my iron sights up and down a few clicks when I swap out the bolt group for a 22 conversion kit out to 100 yards, so I don't mind making adjustments as long as they are predictable and repeatable.
@gundamcollector88: Can you please explain why you're glad you bought the fixed power model? I'm new to rifle shooting and need a little help.
@robertey: Longer/heavier bullets have different flight characteristics than shorter/lighter bullets. The drop compensation features of the reticle will not work quite right with those lighter bullets. 77gr 5.56x45 is on the lower edge of what the scope will work for.
@erwos: Ah, well then no good for me. I have used bullets in the 70 grain range for shooting pests with minor adjustments to my iron sights, but I can't see me getting something that won't work with the commonly available 55gr. Thank you for sorting me out.
@robertey: You absolutely would be better off with a scope calibrated for M855 or M193.
RR-600-2 is an excellent deal. In for two.
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@robertey: For what I intended for I didn't need the variable zoom so I went with the single. Also if I bought the r-600 then I would have paid ~110$ more than what it is going for now.
Has anyone had one of these ship yet? I'm surprised it's taking this long for them to get it out the door.


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I present to you today this very useful article introducing xmonad, an alternative window manager, the article is bt Fabio Viola and can be found along with many other interesting articles on the page of SaLUG Journal(In Italian), the article is released under the GNU Free Documentation License, translation from Italian by me.
Last week in Bologna I had the pleasure of knowing a geek from Padua, a smart boy with whom I had a chat.
He Introduced to me an interesting project, it is xmonad . On the official website [0] there is a phrase that strikes you and takes you to devour each page of the documentation or makes you close in a flash, the browser tab : "In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows." If you recognize yourself in this sentence xmonad is for you.
What is it?
It's an intelligent window manager written in Haskell whose 'main' peculiarities is to automatically position windows without overlapping. Xmonad has several advantages (which i found on the homepage of the project): tiling windows, minimalism, stable (and having tried hard, I can confirm), extensibility, many features (for example, supports xinerama), simple, supported .. .


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I'm using Debian 6 and Dropbox. I followed these commands to install it.
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HAWESVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A western Kentucky aluminum smelter has notified employees that it plans to shut down operations on Aug. 20 unless it can get lower electric rates.
Century Aluminum has been in negotiations with its power supplier, Big Rivers Electric Corp., for more than a year. Both parties told the Messenger-Inquirer on Tuesday that they are still trying to negotiate a deal before time runs out.
Legislation to lower the smelter's electric bills was introduced during the General Assembly, but pulled due to misinformation that surrounded the issue.
Century gave a 12-month notice last year to Big Rivers saying it would not renew its power contract. The plant in Hawesville employs about 700 workers.


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In 1971, USA and Pakistan were known to be strong allies or were they?
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I am an undergraduate non-math major. I just finished my university's engineering calculus series, looking forward to linear algebra in the coming semester. To be frank, I always despised math because I couldn't help but find it tedious. I have recently had a change in heart, however, due to advice and encouragement from my favorite professor and some experience with proving logic statements (which I mysteriously find ridiculously fun...). Starting to read math review journals sounds like a great way to begin as an amateur mathematician.
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The September issue of Health Care News features the seventh in our eight-state series of case studies, this one addressing New Hampshire--where elected officials have repealed community rating and guaranteed issue mandates adopted in 1994. Industry observers disagree as to whether the deregulation has brought insurer competition back to the state.
On page 1, the issue reports on corruption allegations in Illinois hospital construction, the popularity of health savings accounts, the federal government's decision that obesity should be treated as a disease for Medicare purposes, and the limited role patents play in slowing distribution of AIDS drugs in Africa.
This issue also covers: veterans' health care; the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on a patient's right to sue managed care plans in state courts; tort reform in Illinois; the Kerry-Edwards health care plan; the precautionary principle; protecting prescription drug patents in a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Australia; and association health plans. A review of Jacob Sullum's For Your Own Good and commentary by Dr. Robert Cihak on Canadian health care round out the issue.
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This is a beginner question about working with different coordinate systems in GeoDjango.
I've got a GeoDjango object with a polygon field, stored as OSGB coordinates:
class Region(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
geom = models.PolygonField(srid=27700)
objects = models.GeoManager()
I'd like to be able to query it using standard WGS84 coordinates:
def api(request):
lat = float(request.GET.get('lat'))
lng = float(request.GET.get('lng'))
pnt = Point(lat, lng, srid=4326)
a = SettlementLocalRegions.objects.get(geom__contains=pnt)
But this gives me no results, even though I know at least one object should contain the point.
I figure I'm doing something wrong with my coordinate systems. Do I need to convert
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SJ,I didnt think about having a Golden Rod heater for gun corrosion in a safe and that is the reason for 120Vac.Baja_TravelerI see your pointquote (I think the power/USB/Ethernet connections inside the safe are awesome! No better place to keep a video security DVR than inside a safe...)thanks for the gun safe info
The 120volt is to power a Golden Rod or backup computer hard drive. I have a Cannon that holds 80 guns and that power box is great. Most safe owners I know use a Golden Rod and in another safe you might have to drill a hole to get power in. I don't understand how having power inside the box is a problem as you have circuit breakers in your home to protect against fires. If you don't want power in yours just don't plug it in outside of the safe, problem solved. Beside I like the USB and ethernet plug inside the safe it makes life much easier.
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The 5 Most Embarrassing Architectural Failures Ever
#2. The John Hancock Tower Tries to Murder Pedestrians
Via Wikipedia
Winner of the prestigious National Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1977, the John Hancock Center stands as the tallest building in Boston and serves as a navigational landmark for the many, many drunken stab victims who doubtlessly wander those streets every minute of every day.
Via Sloriag.com
"I see the Hancock Tower, so that means the way out of Boston is to run screaming the opposite direction."
The Embarrassing Failure:
The building liked to drop windows onto the pavement below. And these aren't your cutesy little house windows, but 5-by-12-foot, 500-pound slabs of aerial death. And it wasn't just a few of them, but hundreds and hundreds of windows hurtling to the streets below. The problem got so bad that whenever winds exceeded 45 miles an hour, police would close off the entire area around the building for public safety. During one windstorm in January of 1973, over 60 windows were knocked loose from the building's facade. By April of that year, more than an acre of the building's exterior was covered in plywood like the backwoods 'shine-shack of some hillbilly giant. They initially painted the plywood black in an effort to hide it, but that turned out to be like slapping a Band-Aid over a zit and telling everybody you got the injury in a knife fight. After a while, some wandering bladesman will doubtlessly show up at school to challenge your rep, and the other kids will find out the truth. In the end, it's better to leave it all out there in the open, embarrassment and all.
Via Gizmodo.com
"Windows? No, the windows are fine. We just have vampires working on the lower floors."
A team of engineers, architects and builders all got together to work on a solution to the problem, but their findings were kept secret (though eventually it was revealed to be some boring technical crap about lead solder bonding or not bonding properly, or otherwise playing by its own rules like the loose cannon of the periodic table that it is). In the end, the issue was fixed, but only by replacing every single one of the windows at the cost of $7 million. We're assuming somebody had to work in Hancock's garden every day after school until those damages were paid for.
Via Minnesota.publicradio.org
No joke, they actually nicknamed it "The Plywood Palace."
#1. The Citigroup Center Nearly Destroys Manhattan
Via Wikipedia
When planning the Citigroup Center in the early 1970s, architect William LeMessurier had a little problem: The prospective site was already occupied by St. Peter's Lutheran Church, and they weren't willing to move. If he was going to build a skyscraper on that plot, it would have to be literally in the goddamn sky. So, rather than (understandably) resorting to arson or witchcraft, LeMessurier opted instead to design an entire skyscraper that hung above a quaint little church. The end result was the Citigroup Center, towering 915 feet over the New York streets and absolutely dwarfing God's modest home far below.
Via Wikimedia Commons
Faith is always an instant away from drowning in shattered glass. What a wonderful metaphor for living in New York.
The Embarrassing Failure:
One day engineer Joel Weinstein was looking at the blueprints and noticed something odd: It was a damn skyscraper on stilts. After a few stiff drinks, he managed to mentally get past that terrifying fact and spotted something else of concern: Quartering winds (winds that strike the corners of the building, rather than the flat faces) would cause far more loading force than they'd initially thought. LeMessurier himself looked into it and discovered that instead of the wind joints being welded on, as he had ordered in the design, the plans were switched to bolts during the construction. Which, no matter how much chewing gum you plaster over them to "really stick 'em in there," is simply not the same thing. So how much difference could it make? Well, with the bolts in place instead of welds, experts predicted that on average, New York City was hit by a storm that could topple the building every 55 years. Should the tuned mass damper inside it fail, that rate drops to every 16 years.
Via Wikipedia
"We've been meaning to replace those brown buildings anyway -- just aim for those."
So then what? They ordered the area evacuated at the onset of every storm? Nope. They at least warned people of the impending disaster? Double nope. They sent out a press release stating that the building was in no danger at all, so shut up and stop worrying about it? Triple nop- oh, wait: That's the one. Hey, way to help banks shed their sinister supervillain images, Citigroup. To their credit, however, Citigroup did request that the Red Cross create secret emergency procedures in the event of a collapse. Yep, that's not evil at all: make plans to deal with all the corpses afterward, rather than work on preventing them beforehand.
Construction workers only operated at night (again, in order to keep it secret), hastily welding all the joints every evening, in a deadly race against the impending hurricane season. And they cut it pretty damn close, too: That year, Hurricane Ella headed right toward New York City. The storm would have absolutely created winds fast enough to topple the building, but by a huge stroke of luck, Ella made a last-minute turn back out to sea and the building was fixed without incident.
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"It appears the God of Storms has accepted our sacrificial offer of orphan blood and puppy heads."
But what if things had gone a little differently? What's the worst that could have happened? Citigroup is out an expensive building and maybe a few workers -- but what's a paltry few million and a couple dozen drones to a corporate bank? They can always hatch some more Foreclosure Consultants from the Vault Queen and then it's back to business as usual, right?
Ah, but remember, this building was in the middle of New York City. So if it falls, it's not going to do it all politely with its elbows tucked in. The Red Cross estimated the death toll at a staggering 200,000 people, with 156 city blocks taking further damage.
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"Citigroup. Taunting God since 1812."
That's basically the entire island of Manhattan, gone. And all because somebody used the wrong kind of connector. Just something to think about next time you catch yourself replacing that spring with a bent paper clip.
Special thanks to Erik Germ for coming up with the Citigroup entry!
For more ridiculous failures, check out 6 Natural Disasters That Were Caused by Human Stupidity and The 7 Most Disastrous Typos Of All Time.


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Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Lemon and Pomegranate RecipeRoasted Brussels Sprouts with Lemon and Pomegranate
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Brussels sprouts are cruciferous vegetables that are loaded with health benefits. They contain some of the highest amounts of phytonutrients called glucosinolates, which are known for their ability to protect against cancer. This easy Brussels sprouts recipe is elegant enough to be a holiday side dish, yet simple enough to serve with grilled fish or chicken any night of the week.
Yield: 4 servings
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Baking time: 20 minutes
- 1 ½ lb. Brussels sprouts, trimmed and halved
- ¼ cup pomegranate arils
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- Zest of 1 lemon
- Juice of 1 lemon
- ½ tsp sea salt
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Spray a rimmed baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray or olive oil.
- Place all ingredients in a large bowl. Stir to coat the Brussels sprouts with the olive oil and lemon juice.
- Pour the Brussels sprouts onto the baking sheet and spread into a single layer.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and stir. Bake an additional 10 minutes, until the Brussels sprouts are browned and tender.
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EDENSBURG, Pa. - The Franciscan University of Steubenville men's and women's cross country teams finished second in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championships Saturday at Mount Aloysius College.
"Our teams ran very well," head coach Daniel Kuebler said. "This is a very difficult course and it usually slows most runner times by about two or two and a half minutes."
Despite the difficult conditions, FUS junior Bill Jones won the individual championship with a time of 25:44. Jones beat the second-place runner by almost two and a half minutes. FUS runner Jack Kaiser finished fourth (28:45) and teammate Patrick Flanagan was right behind him in fifth place at 28:51.
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WINNER — FUS runner Bill Jones won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference individual cross country title Saturday.
"Our men's team ran very strong," Kuebler said.
Junior Nicole Krajewski finished her 6K race in 23:22, dominating the race to finish nearly 30 seconds in front of her second place competition.
"The teams ran very competitively considering the depth of our competition," Kuebler said about the AMCC champions Penn St. Behrend. "They had five women on the all conference team and had four all stars on the men's conference team."
The Lady Barons now prepare for their NCAA Division III meet on Nov 10.
"This is when we weed our team out," Kuebler explained. "The best seven runners are going to qualify in two weeks."
Keubler also said he was particularly proud of his seniors.
"Our seniors ran really well," Kubeler said. "Some of them had their last race today. They all looked very strong, especially on such a hilly and difficult course. I'm really proud of the effort they gave."
Jones and the rest of his team look to qualify and prepare for the NCAA Div III meet in two weeks.
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STEUBENVILLE - The Barons defeated visiting Hilbert College 25-16, 25-21, 25-11 Saturday to finish 14-14 overall and 7-2 in conference action.
Sophomore Amy O'Keefe recorded her 1,000 career assist, including 17 against the Lady Hawks. Sam Kelly and Christina Marie Lawrence helped establish their team's defense and set a record for the fourth-most digs per set in Division III volleyball on the season.
This huge accomplishment for the Lady Barons, is not only their first time cracking the top 10 in this tough category, but is also thier first time in the top 100. Kelly had nine digs and Lawrence collected six.
As exciting as the match was for the red hot Lady Barons, the day was especially emotional for their two seniors, Christina Bair and captain Anna Cain.
Bair, a first-year player, has added leadership and skill despite her inexperience.
"She had gone on a mission trip last year with our assistant coach," said head coach, Kelly Herrmann. "After watching her on her intramural volleyball team, I saw that she was a competent player. We needed leadership.
"She is a leader, selfless and an amazing person. She has been a huge part of our success."
Senior Anna Cain finished her regular season as the Lady Baron's captain and four-year starter. Over her career, Cain has set the record most kills in FUS history with 993 and is on pace to crack the 1,000 kill mark over her career in the post season next week. She is the first all time in solo blocks and holds the record for most matches played.
"She is a wonderful, faithful, and grounded woman," Herrmann said. "I've coached so many great women in all my years, and Anna would be right at the top. No matter what kind of day she is having, she has always acted tremendously. It is going to be tough to replace her."
Cain has balanced power and consistency over the course of her career. With 993 kills, she leads the AMCC and she has 2.69 kills per set. She has played in 363 sets in her career; second in the AMCC.
Cain had 15 kills against the Lady Hawks along with two assists and six digs.
The Lady Barons will host a playoff game Wednesday against an opponent yet to be determined.
Swimmers grab a win
BETHANY - The women's swimming and diving team beat host Bethany College (70-62), and lost to six-time defending AMCC champion Penn State Behrend (87-50).
Head coach Becky Recznik was overly pleased with the way her team performed today, giving them lots of hope for future successes.
"Maria Giuliani is an incredible swimmer," Recznik said. "Last year she was a sprinter for us so she is most comfortable swimming the shorter distances, but this year we're really shaking it up for her. She has been working with coach Kristen [Curran] on timing and pacing, and it was just incredible today. She really trusted us, watched our hand signals and had such incredible results."
Giuliani won the 1000-yard free (11:44.87), the 200 free (2:07.85) and the 500 free (5:42.74).
Another noteworthy performance came from diver Kellie Rankin, who had practiced on a one-meter board all season. The board used at Bethany was a three-meter board.
"She literally showed up to the meet, practiced a few times, and competed. She scored incredibly well," Recznik said of her diver's 170.75-point performance. "(Coming up just over 20 points shy of the defending AMCC champion in her first competition) is quite a feat."
The Lady Barons visit Chatham University Saturday in a tri-meet.
"I definitely think it bolstered the spirits of the team to get a win under their belts," Recznik said. "We've got some work to do before Behrend comes to our home meet in two weeks, but we have the potential to beat them and now the girls know that."
Ruggers end season
GROVE CITY, Pa. -The rugby team was in the conference championship match, but for the first time did not come out victorious. They fell to Grove City College for the second time this year, ending their season with a 31-5 loss.
It was a matter of which team was going to make the fewest amount of mistakes heading into the match, according to FUS head coach Ken DeLucia, and the Barons were not that team.
"We needed to make less mistakes than we did," said head coach Ken DeLucia, who is in his first year as the head coach. "When you make mistakes against a team of this caliber, it is hard to overcome. Grove City capitalized on our mistakes, and my hat's off to them."
With it being his first year in the program, DeLucia said he did not necessarily have any concrete expectations, but was certainly pleased with the way the season turned out.
"We had an overall record of 6-3 and we played in the conference championship, that's a pretty good season in my book," DeLucia said. "I thought this season was excellent and I am really pleased with the results of this year's team and their efforts."


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Brooks to Coach U.S. Team in 2002
Herb Brooks, who in 1980 led the United States to one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history, will coach the American team at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, a hockey source told The Associated Press yesterday. USA Hockey will announce the hiring tomorrow, the person told The A.P. on the condition he not be identified. Pittsburgh Penguins General Manager Craig Patrick will be the Olympic team's general manager, the person said.


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A state project is expected to make the traffic flow better on Three Springs Road in Bowling Green.
"There's a whole lot of traffic and congestion. So, this is an attempt to provide more storage, more through-put for the signal at Scottsville Road, and just allow traffic to move more efficiently in that area," said Greg Meredith, KY Dept. of Highways.
Officials say it is a project that will be divided up into multiple phases, and is hoped to be finished by the end of this year.
It runs from the intersection of Scottsville and Three Springs Road to the Three Springs Road Church of Christ.
Some business owners say the construction will hurt business, and cause some changes.
"Right now, it's a hindrance on business, the fact that we've only got one way in and out of the property now where we used to have two," said Richard Feldman, President of TW Motors.
"We're going to have to do some construction backwards toward our building, we're losing a lot of footage. So, we're going to have to change some curbs, shrubbery, parking lot spaces, entrances for customers. We're going to have to educate the customers on where to pull in. Saturdays are probably going to be a big time for us now. We're going to have to stay open late for service because a lot of people are going to avoid coming here during a weekday," said Brett Denver, General Manager of Luxury Imports.
The project will put several more lanes on the road, and will actually have six lanes at the intersection of Three Springs and Scottsville Road.
Ultimately though, most think this will help when it is completed.
"I think when they get the road finished, it's going to help everything. We have a tremendous amount of congestion out here now, especially if you get out here on the weekends. My goodness, it's hard as heck to get out of here," said Feldman.
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Windows show the following components couldn't installed: Managment Tools Complete Failed. Client Tools Connectivity Failed. Client Tools SDK Failed. Client Tools Backwards Compantibility Failed. Managment Tools Basic Failed. SQL Server Data Tools Failed. Reporting Services -Native Failed. Database Engine Services Failed. Data Quality Services Failed. full-Text and Semantic Extractins for Search Failed. SQL Server Replication Failed. Integration Services Failed. Analysis Services Failed. SQL Client Connectivity SDK Failed.
In detail for failure of every component it provide these details:
Action required: Use the following information to resolve the error, and then try the setup process again. Feature failure reason: An error occurred for a dependency of the feature causing the setup process for the feature to fail.
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