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Long-Lost Love With a 1936 Ford CoupeWritten by on February 20, 2003
Everyone has fallen in love with a Rod & Custom cover car at one time or another. For Bob Schneebeli, it happened way back in 1959 when this yellow '36 three-window coupe showed up on the front of the September issue. At that time, the coupe was owned by a 26-year-old hot rodder named Dick Brady, who had paid $275 for the car 10 years earlier. With a fairly stock '57 Corvette 283 between the fat fenders, the coupe was scooping up trophies at Southern California car shows. Bob was only 17 years old at the time but was smitten by the cover-model coupe and eventually made it his mission to own it.
The coupe may have been Bob's first automotive love, but it wasn't his only. He owns a wide variety of hot rod cars and trucks he's built over the years. In the early '70s, the '36 surfaced briefly at a swap meet in St. Louis, only to disappear again. When Bob finally tracked it down, he discovered that the long-lost coupe had been sold five times and had spent approximately 30 years in storage.
Naturally, the car had undergone a few changes between Brady and Schneebeli, but as Bob began the rebuild, he decided to return it to the condition it was in when he saw it on the cover of R&C. When Brady owned it, the coupe had '39 taillights, which had been replaced with '36s. Bob removed the spare tire, shaved the rear deck, and switched the taillights back to '39s. He pulled the entire drivetrain and built a 350 with a four-speed, built up the '36 chassis, ironed out the body, and reshot the paint. He's not quite finished yet. Bob's next step will be to redo the cockpit, using the old photos as a guide.
We met Bob completely by accident (or was it fate?) at the '02 Street Rod Nationals in Louisville. He was looking for the Pros Pick corral, which had already disbanded. We started asking questions about the cool yellow coupe. Out came the '59 issue, and we realized we'd stumbled onto a genuine survivor.


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The Delta Triangle was a vast uninhabited sector of the Milky Way Galaxy, located three weeks away from the nearest Federation starbase via subspace radio. An unusal feature of the Delta Triangle was its ability to cause starship sensors to fluctuate chaotically while within the region. This effect was caused by the parallel time continuum known as Elysia. (TAS: "The Time Trap")
Several decades prior to the 2260s, the starship Bonaventure explored the Triangle but became trapped within it. Species whose ships had become trapped over the years included Andorian, Tellarite, Klingon, Orion, Vulcan, Romulan, Human, Phylosian, and Gorn.
In 2269, the USS Enterprise surveyed the region to investigate and possibly determine the cause of the high number of mysterious disappearances of starships that have been recorded there since the distant past.
After nearly falling victim to a mouse trap set by the Klingons, the Enterprise along with the Klingon battle cruiser IKS Klothos, became trapped in Elysia . (TAS: "The Time Trap")
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I have been flying with Wizzair, Ryanair and Easyjet for some time already and have found that there is really a lot to be learned about how to achieve the lowest prices. It was not uncommon for me to buy Ryanair tickets for €20 Euros and come next day to find out that they are for €10. Or to fly home on the 23rd of December for €50 with Wizzair even though the starting price was €100 for all flights around Christmas.
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I have been looking around on Google for practice photos for the clone tool, but haven't found any good so far. The thing is that I am taking a paid course for Photoshop, and I have missed a couple of classes and now my instructor is angry at me for not being fluent with the clone tool. I'm new, so any kind of help is hugely appreciated!
Try Mac Desktops. The link goes to the "Landscapes — Nature" category. Find something with lots of trees. Clone more of them.
If those don't inspire you, browse through the category links at the bottom of the page. There are thousands of images at the site; something will work.
Ask your instructor to explain it again or to recreate a practice session for you ,you are paying him for something he cant get away till u don't understand or practice the things properly,ask him 10 times 20 times just don't afraid of anything go ahead....
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text: For those of you that joined me live yesterday you had an awesome time watching me draw a chibi monster from the Dead Space series. No there isn't real chibis in Dead Space this is my take on "how to draw a chibi Necromorph", step by step. This is one of my brother's favorite creatures in the game and if you are a fan of Dead Space you should enjoy replicating what I have drawn for you all. This was such a fun chibi to create and I hope to do more of them in the near future. I will leave you now so you can start drawing a chibi Necromorph too. I shall return because there is more tutorials coming your way. Adios people and enjoy!


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Is $\mathbb{Q}[2^{1/3}]=\{a+b2^{1/3}+c2^{2/3};a,b,c \in \mathbb{Q}\}$ a field?
I have checked that $b2^{1/3}$ and $c2^{2/3}$ both have inverses, $\frac{2^{2/3}}{2b}$ and $\frac{2^{1/3}}{2c}$, respectively.
There are some elements with $a,b,c \neq 0$ that have inverses, as $1+1*2^{1/3}+1*2^{2/3}$, whose inverse is $2^{1/3}-1$.
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I've included an album with three picture which have a particular effect that I see everywhere and I just wondered how you do it! the last picture in the album doesn't have the effect do you can see the difference.
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Have you taken down your Christmas decorations yet?
Our Christmas tree is littering the floor, gift wrap piles are everywhere, and glitter is showing up in unexpected places. As much as I love Christmas, this stuff is making me nuts! I am determined to get at least most of it cleaned up and put away before the weekend is over. When do you take down your decorations?
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Tree and other decorations come down 1 Jan.
What other use would there be for that day?
Live Christmas trees are recycled in our area. You can drop them at certain places or, if you get them to the curb on your assigned day, they will be picked up. They are used as part of a project by our Department of Natural Resources to prevent coastal erosion. Pretty cool!
My point, and I do have one, is that I haven't taken down my decorations either, but I'm determined to get it done in time for curbside pickup of our tree!
I leave my favorite stuff up year-round. Why put it away, I still like to look at it, is my theory.
I did not get anything else up this year. I am going to make it a goal to have a cat toy tree next season. I will need to do some work so if will be safe for the little manics.
Live trees are recycled here, too. I think you put them out regular night in January so you can keep the tree for a few more weeks and still get it into the program. Our last live tree I took down in March ;)
I tried to get my wife to help me take them down today but she insisted on leaving them up until Jan 1st. i guess she will be taking them down by herself now.
@mtm2: Some might say that day is for recovering from the night before.
House was de-Christmafied by Christmas night.
@eeekdageek: One of the joys of night drinking - other potential uses for 1 Jan.
Got it done yesterday. All is put away till next year.
Like @mtm2 ours come down on January 1st.
I'lll probably start tomorrow while keeping an eye on football. The tree and outside lights will come down Jan 1, or next weekend if the weather is bad on the first.
Jan 1st - ish! Though I did take down all the lighted decor that got buried under the snow, something weirding me out about leaving plugs under snow...
no and there is 4 inches of snow on the inflatable decorations now too......
"Taken down"? hmmm. there's an idea
In all seriousness, though, we usually take down the outside decorations and lights sometime in the week after new year's eve. Probably on Friday. Everyone on our street still has their stuff up and lit for a few more days at least. Of course, every street has that one house that never takes them down.....
Tree comes down around the same time. Christmas gifts are slowly being put into their new homes, and all giftwrap was bagged as gifts were being opened. After everything gets packed away into tubs, they go in their spaces in the garage. Try to keep the collection of halloween, 4th of july, christmas, thanksgiving, new year's, and easter stuff as well organized as possible and and label all the tubs with labels facing out so we know what's where.
Hello ??? Twelve days of Christmas anyone ??
That puts taking down the stuff on January 6th / the day of the Kings or Epiphany for the liturgically minded.
Though that said I leave my outside lights up all year (but not lit) because it's a P.I.T.A. to take them down.
I aim for the end of January -- too nice to take it down. Enjoy it. As long as it's down by Valentines I'm good.
(this of course only applies to artificial trees)
Helped my brother and SIL take all theirs down on the 26th*, but mine is only half done. Sunday morning and afternoon sounds like a good a time as any to finish up.
*edit: in the middle of Arkansas's first blizzard. Fun times.
I have a just-turned 4yo and an 18mo old. I wanted the stuff down the day I put it up! But I waited until the 26th, marked on my calander with a big circle around it, Lol
Our Christmas with the kids and grandkids is on the 6th this year. Stuff will come down after that.
I go all out for Christmas, and have a lot of lights. I took second place this year in the city contest, and I always leave them up until the 1st. I still have people stopping in front of the house this weekend, and wouldn't want to deprive anyone of seeing them over the Holidays.
#1 son has been in hospital since Thursday, so our usual routine of taking everything down but the tree (it's fake, so no hurry) until New Year's Day has thrown a monkey wrench into the works. Good news is he should be released today and life can go back to its normal chaos. We HAVE to start taking things down because the cats and dogs seem to be hellbent on knocking things down on their own! It's hard not to laugh when baby Jesus is rocketing across the wooden floors being chased by a cat & a dog.
no way! our tree is up till February. too amazing
Our tree and decorations are still up. It's a real tree, and it probably will stay up another week or so before it gets hauled to the curb for pickup. The outside lights, which amount to 6 light up Christmas Flamingos will be up until the half-frozen snow is gone, because I'm pretty sure I won't be able to pull them out of the ground now.
However, at one of the 4 stores I work, I will be taking their tree and decorations down on Friday. It looks so pretty I don't want to, but I can't leave them up forever unfortunately. Plus, the office really needs a cleaning, so this will force me to do so!
we took down one tree and most decorations a few days ago. another tree and outside lights are still up.
I feel like Christmas lights can become winter season lights as long as they aren't green and red.
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I'm trying to use pgrouting in order to create a graphe and I have two questions :
Is it possible to use the function assign_vertex_id() with a POLYGON geometry type? I always have the following error when I try to use this fonction :
psql (9.0.3)
Type "help" for help.
bpi=# SELECT assign_vertex_id('rangee', 0.00001, 'geometrie', 'id');
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "vertices_tmp_id_seq" for serial column "vertices_tmp.id"
CONTEXT: SQL statement "CREATE TABLE vertices_tmp (id serial)"
PL/pgSQL function "assign_vertex_id" line 14 at EXECUTE statement
ERROR: query string argument of EXECUTE is null
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "assign_vertex_id" line 31 at EXECUTE statement
the table rangee is :
bpi=# \d rangee
Table "public.rangee"
Column | Type | Modifiers
id | integer | not null
zone_id | integer |
geometrie | geometry |
description | character varying(50) |
source | integer |
target | integer |
"rangee_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
"rangee_spatial" gist (geometrie)
rangee_geom_srid BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON rangee FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE geometrie_srid()
I don't understand this mistake. Could you help me please?
My second question is about pgrouting. Is it possible to create a dual graph with this tool?
Thanks a lot and I'm sorry for my english.


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Is it just me, or are other people who live in the city frustrated with residents who don't shovel the snow from their walks?
Some of us enjoy walking not only in summer, but enjoy walking all winter as well and are forced to walk in the street when people don't clean off their walks
I just don't understand this, is this apathy or just being lazy! It seems some people just don't take any pride in their home or yard these days.
This is not only common courtesy, but a city ordinance. I think of the poor mail carrier who has to leap a mound of snow to deliver the mail.
It's time to be more considerate to our neighbors and those who provide daily services to us.
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DUBETZ, Mike, 90, of Amsterdam, OH, passed into the Lord's grasp Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, at Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville. He is in a better place, pain free due to the Lord.
He was born Oct. 28, 1922, in Wolf Run, OH, a son of the late Afton and Sandra Merena Dubetz.
He is also preceded in death by his wife, Anna (Gubanez) whom he married Feb. 15, 1947, and who died June 17, 2001; by two brothers, Wally and John and three sisters, Anna Mizik, Helen Alex and Mary Gorskey.
Mike was first a coal miner for the old Warners Colliers Coal Company before his career as an electrician at Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel, where he retired in 1983. He greatly enjoyed his duties that came with being a Springfield Township Trustee over the years.
Mike proudly served his country as a US Marine during WWII serving in the South Pacific until his honorable discharge in 1945 due to a war injury.
He will be greatly missed by all who loved him, especially his daughter, Carol Slates of North Canton, OH and son and daughter-in- law, Michael and Donna Dubetz of East Springfield, OH; but no one will miss him more than his two granddaughters, Jennifer and Krystyna Dubetz. He lived and breathed for them.
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The Wizards are going to be a test for you guys tonight. Good luck, I hear they're a better team than you guys.
You should get on Gears tonight KD. Gonna try to get on around midnight.
If no one shows up for Killzone tonight, I might just skip on ahead to Gears.
I'll be silent though. My mic FINALLY broke on me.
I will be on tonight for sure. Have tomorrow morning off and my Internet is now officially perfect. I was having some slit connection issues, but those have been resolved and I promise 100% consistency as far as connection goes. I will be getting high as all fuck tonight, so my play will be akin to Bloo's; good when my team is good, bad when my team is bad.
As Kobe has proven time and time again though, no matter how good you are, only Jordan can carry a team.
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Does anyone have reliable statistics (and barring that, reasonable anectdotal evidence) of the fraction of Kohanim, Levi'im, and Yisraelim in various Jewish communities today. By "communities" I don't necessarily mean geographic, but minhagic, like Chabad/Syrian/Litvak, etc.
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Answer: Levites: 4%, Priests: 4%.
A scientific article which deals with the genetics of priests and Levites quotes a book from 1999 (not available for reading online) which estimates Levites and priests each at 4% of the general Jewish population. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000292970763626X#bbib6 Referenced book: "The genetic origins of Old Testament priests", CE Renfrew, Editor, Population specific polymorphisms, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (1999), pp. 31–44
The Persian community (mostly Shirazi) absorbed by Baltimore contains a high fraction of Cohanim and very few Leviim.
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"Obama Waffles" and Invincible Ignorance...
News out this ayem about political correctness run amok at this weekend's Values Voters Summit...er, well, maybe there's something else at work? A vendor at the annual summit, a creation of James Dobson's Family Research Council, was selling "Obama Waffles," with a just oh-so-funny Aunt Jemima riff, as you can see.(Oh, and Obama is also depicted on a top flap in Arab-Muslim dress next to a placard saying, "Point box toward Mecca for tastier waffles.")Hilarious! And yes, low-hanging (strange?) fruit that will be fodderfor both sides. Naturally, being an East Coast elitist (well, I wannabe), I was taken aback by the product when I saw it. But what really got me was that no one at the Values Voters Summit seemed to blink until it was pointed out to them. Indeed, the products were "selling like hotcakes," as one put it. According to the AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap.Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying they had not realized the boxes displayed "offensive material." The summit and the exhibit hall where the boxes were sold had been open since Thursday afternoon.The box was meant as political satire, said Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, two writers from Franklin, Tenn., who created the mix. They sold it for $10 a box from a rented booth at the summit sponsored by the lobbying arm of the Family Research Council.David Nammo, executive director of the lobbying group FRC Action, said summit organizers were told the boxes were a parody of Obama's policy positions but had not examined them closely.
The Dems are trying to reach out to religious voters. The GOP is supposedly trying to make its confines friendly for minority voters (perhaps thinking of a few decades hence, when they become majority voters). So how does this stuff happen? Just part of the Republican frathouse sensibility of the campaign? Make fun of your opponents. It works.Or something more problematic? Sarah Pulliam over at the Christianity Today pol-blog has a good roundup, though she begins by saying that the two vendors "were trying to lighten the mood." Hmmm, bad verb choice.Butlook at the roster of speakers and maybe you begin to understand...Is it invincible ignorance by white Christian conservatives? Or simply a lack of broader experiences? Does this argue for fostering diversity? Or should simply following the Golden Rule of the Judeo-Christian tradition be enough?Politically, will this hurt McCain? Help Obama? No, I suspect it will reinforce views among McCain backers (the values crowd) that liberals need to get a life. Which is of course another pro-life message. See, it all works together...
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This is one of the beautiful things about being an American. We are only responsible for what we claim were our intentions. Let other people be judged by their actions.
"Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying they had not realized the boxes displayed offensive material."Given the number of Southerners over the age of 60 which I have to believe are at the top of the Family Research Council, my reaction to this is: that's a barefaced lie. Any Southerner over the age of 60 has got to know that such trash is terribly offensive. Too bad the national reporters are usually so young -- they might not know about Aunt Jemima. Right, Nancy, yikes!
Wow - this is pretty ugly.As a general rule, I don't hold candidates responsible for their fruit-loopy supporters (cf Rev. Jeremiah Wright).FWIW - I don't buy any Aunt Jemimah products because of the stereotype.
"As a general rule, I don't hold candidates responsible for their fruit-loopy supporters."On the other hand, consider the old maxim, "Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you what you are."Palin scares the hell out of me, and I find myself growing increasingly disappointed with McCain (not that I was ever prepared to vote for his platform).
Some of the frat boys I've known extol this kind of humor, not because it's funny, but because they see it as a strike against the Establishment that has "forced" them to be hyper-sensitive and politically correct about everybody's feelings, an Establishment they claim is "taking" jobs away from them and "giving" them to women and minorities.Which is why I find it highly ironic to hear white men from upper middle-class backgrounds accuse Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama of a sense of "entitlement."On the other hand, I don't think these kinds of racist allusions play well with most sincere white male funda-gelicals, whose churches are often racially diverse and welcoming of that diversity. As Jim noted, you can't hold the candidates responsible for the nut jobs, though the candidates ought to put their partisans on notice that they can do without that kind of "support."
This kind of stuff reinforces a nagging belief that "values voters" are animated as much by racial as they are by religious resentment. Their regionalism doesn't help matters. Of course, most people realized it was offensive, and many were very probably astonished that it was there at all. But one picture is worth countless words.
Is it invincible ignorance by white Christian conservatives? Or simply a lack of broader experiences? Well, unless it would be fair to blame you personally for every stupid thing that some diarist on Daily Kos says, maybe you should just say that this is ignorance and stupidity on the part of two men, rather than making such wild generalizations.
According to Amir Taheri in todays New York Post, Obama is now waffling on withdrawing troops from Iraq:While campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.Maple syrup anyone?
Ah, yes: Values Voters, indeed. But what values? White sheets, anyone?
Equal Time for HopeandChange:http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2008-09-15-0014/Honestly, folks. It's on both sides.
Couple of thoughts that may expand the thread, if it merits that:One regards Palin's Pentecostal roots (she has since migrated to more mainstream evangelicialism), which some are trying to mine for what they'll say about her policies, to see how theocratic she'll be. I don't think her possible Third Wave-ism or anything of that theology will have any impact, and in any case, end times beliefs are very mainstream (along with creationism). She's not weird that way--she's the heartland, theologically speaking. (And that theology is one reason I myself decided to swim the Tiber.Yet Pentecostals are also one of the few truly racially mixed denominations, esp in the South, and unfortunately not in Alaska, for demographic reasons. (See one of my cinematic faves, "The Apostle.") Perhaps the Values Voters, and Palin herslef, ould use a bit more Assemblies on Sunday. Also, Mark's comment is not uncommon, an effort at a kind of equivalency--I have heard it from family and some friends and students today. Both sides do it (though Mark, how does a snarky t-shirt company compare to a mainstream GOP event?), so, the thinking goes, grow a pair...There is to me the obvious problem in comparing taunts of African-Americans (and Muslims and Latinos, as apparently the rest of the packaging did) with similar barbs at white folks or conservatives or whatever. But in thinking about trying to convey to white folks why this sort of thing would be so offensive, one realizes (or I do) that it is so difficult to find an analogy, because of the disparate histories, and that I keep trying to find it in nasty critiques of religion or the cross that crazy guy in Minnesota desecrating the eucharist. And it strikes me that many Christians, esp conservatives, do naturally try to play that up into an equivalency, to show themselves as a persecuted minority as much--or more so, since we have no affirmative action and govt hadnouts, ya know--as minorities. The Rev. Wright outrage was so fierce, because of what he was saying about "us"...That equivalency doesn't work for so many reasons, but I think it may get at why there such boneheaded vendors (and their fans) like these can get by for so long among folks who ought to know better. But blaspheming God or country (if such charges can be sustained) is different from wielding a boot at real people. The Values Voter organizers have distanced themselves from the vendors, according to RNS: "We strongly condemn the tone and content of materials that were exhibited by one of the vendors at this weekend's Values Voter Summit," Family Research Council Action executive director David Nammo said in a statement issued Saturday (Sept. 13). "The materials represent an attempt to parody that cross(es) the line into coarseness and bias." Nammo said the product was thought to deal with "political flip-flops" but was removed when the specific content was brought to the attention of senior officials. "...(W)e are deeply dismayed that this vendor violated the spirit, message and tone of our event in such an offensive manner," he said.But one of the vendors was still pretty clueless: "We had some people mention that to us (that it could be offesnive), "but you think of Newman's Own or Emeril's -- there are tons and tons of personality-branded food products on the market. So we've taken that model and, using political satire, have highlighted his policies, his position changes."
PS: This all coming out on the 45th anniversary of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed four black girls shows we are sorely lacking in historical awareness as well.
And the pig with lipstick was offensive?Now we understand that value voters don't consider hypocrisy a problem, as if we didn't know that.Obviously, Value Voters are dividers, not uniters, but what do they care?????
To state the obvious, it is always whose ox is being gored. The sweetness of enemies is bitter and the bitterness of friends is sweet. Politics makes strange bedfellows and liars always. But when some people end up in jail, (or only act when threatened by jail) we should pay attention.
Not obvious to me at all, Bill. I think racism and sexism can be terrible things even short of jail. I daresay you and I aren't as exposed and vulnerable to such wounds in our society.
"The Values Voter organizers have distanced themselves from the vendors, according to RNS: We strongly condemn the tone and content of materials that were exhibited by one of the vendors at this weekends Values Voter Summit, Family Research Council Action executive director David Nammo said in a statement issued Saturday (Sept. 13). The materials represent an attempt to parody that cross(es) the line into coarseness and bias. "Bravo.
Just a thought: ignorance, insularity and lack of historical awareness are much more of a blight in our culture today than out-and-out malicious, white-sheet-wearing racism. I don't know anything about these knuckleheads are who thought Obama Waffles were a nifty idea, but it seems possible that they were just clueless about the hurtful Aunt Jemimah stereotype. I don't want to let them off the hook; just commenting about where I see our culture today.
I agree, Jim, and yours is a good point. As a onetime frat boy, or wannabe, at a Southern college, I am well aware of closed-minded attitudes and cluelessness--and how they can be as prevalent here in NYC as Greenville, SC. Every time someone tries to point the finger solely at Southerners, I can easily point to true "white-sheet wearing racism," like the cops on parade floats dressed like the KKK, or hate speech, or any number of violent crimes. I think diversity does help stave off ignorance of the experience of others, or at least force a correction perhaps more quickly than in a homogeneous area. But I do, I suppose, hold "values" folks (that is, religious believers, namely Christians) to a higher standard. Not fair, I suppose. But...
"But I do, I suppose, hold values folks (that is, religious believers, namely Christians) to a higher standard. Not fair, I suppose. "No; eminently fair, I believe.
Not sure about "fair" but experience tells me that when someone screws up this badly and the news hits the press, sanctomonios denial and probnouncements will surely follow.
"Also, Marks comment is not uncommon, an effort at a kind of equivalencyI have heard it from family and some friends and students today. Both sides do it (though Mark, how does a snarky t-shirt company compare to a mainstream GOP event?), so, the thinking goes, grow a pair And it strikes me that many Christians, esp conservatives, do naturally try to play that up into an equivalency, to show themselves as a persecuted minority as muchor more so, since we have no affirmative action and govt hadnouts, ya knowas minorities."I agree with that Christian conservatives often try to cast themselves as persecuted minorities. I agree that there's a difference between flogging this junk online and at a voter's summit.. I agree that race-based "satire" has an especially hateful tang in this country, with its history of institutionalized slavery and oppression.But.I was equally horrified by the "retarded baby" shirt. It is personally directed at Palin, and suggests scorn for her decision to have the child, suggests that she is exploiting the child for political purposes, and denigrates the dignity of people with Down Syndrome in general, and Palin's little boy in particular.Mark's motives may not be pure in bringing this travesty to our attention, but tactics like these always need to be outed whatever the intention, and they should be roundly condemned.
You are absolutely right, Jean. The t-shirt is a moment of eye-popping shlock to the senses. But.I could troll the internet (actually, it doesn't take much) and could find all manner of equally horrifying stuff about the Holocaust, e.g., or blacks or Christians or what have you.I think the test is this, however: What would the reaction have been had a vendor been selling the retarded baby t-shirt at the Values Voters Summit? Would they have gone like hotcakes? What about if they'd been sold at the Democratic Convention?
What would the reaction have been had a vendor been selling the retarded baby t-shirt at the Values Voters Summit? Would they have gone like hotcakes?And your evidence that these "waffles" sold "like hotcakes" is . . . what, exactly? That is, besides an obvious joke from the guy selling the waffles. I don't think you'd take that guy's word for anything else, so it might be useful to be skeptical here too.
"Wearing white chef's aprons, Whitlock and DeMoss were doing a brisk business at noon Saturday selling the waffle mix to people crowded around their booth. Two pyramids of waffle mix boxes stood several feet high on the booth's table."Why do you think they caricatured Obama in the manner that they did (darker skin, bigger lips, etc.)? After all, they didn't need to caricature him at all to make the point they wanted to make -- all they had to do was put his likeness on a box of waffle mix. How many people posting here have ever lived in a southern state?
Fair enough. Are you asking me why they caricatured Obama? To ridicule him in a racist fashion. I don't think anyone is disputing that. I grew up in Arkansas and attended college in Georgia. Maybe it's because I was born in the 1970s (rather than earlier), or maybe I'm just oblivious, or maybe I have tended to hang out with nice people, but I can't remember ever seeing anyone say or do anything racist in my entire life, except for once when I was a young teenager and an elderly Democrat was explaining to me why he supported abortion (because of the risk that black men would rape white women).
"Maybe its because I was born in the 1970s (rather than earlier), or maybe Im just oblivious, or maybe I have tended to hang out with nice people, but I cant remember ever seeing anyone say or do anything racist in my entire life"That's pretty amazing, Stuart ... I've lived in the upper Midwest my entire life, and until about 10-15 years ago, I used to hear casually racist remarks all the time. Nowadays, it's rare enough to be startling, but still do hear people say mind-blowingly ignorant things from time to time.
To be sure, if I had gone to public high school, I would probably have heard racist remarks at some point. Then in college, I ended up hanging out with a bunch of really nice evangelical friends . . . if I had hung out with some Georgia frat boys, again, I might have heard racist remarks. (In other words, I'm not denying that racism exists; I'm just saying that I have almost never seen it in my personal experience.)
BTW, over at GetReligion (http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3924) they raised the issue of the recent New Yorker cover of the Obamas.http://www.newyorker.com/online/covers/slideshow_blittcoversFree speech defense is just about iron-clad--just as these guys selling Obama Waffles wouldn't be jailed or barred from selling these things elsewher. But the New Yorker cover raises some interesting parallels, or not?
I'm as amazed as Jim. I was born in Chicago in the '70s--still hear casually racist comments there from time to time.
You guys are hanging out with the wrong crowds. :)
So Stuart, I think we can safely say you are not a man of the people?I am not going to make the effor to document all the racist comments I have heard in my lifetime, but let me say, categorically, that at least some of them have been made by people who attended private schools.
To be clear, I was homeschooled in high school. Thus, I spent my time with 1) my sisters; 2) people from church; and 3) other homeschooled kids, all of whom had evidently been taught not to make racist comments, because I never, not once, heard any of them do such a thing.This makes for an interesting study in perceptions. For someone like me who has always hung around with people who don't make racist comments, it seems implausible as an intuitive matter that anybody would patronize the "Obama Waffle" jackasses. But for some of the rest of you -- who apparently have seen lots of racism from family, friends, acquaintances, and/or stranger interactions -- it seems very plausible indeed.
I think the Lord would want us to behave in a must higher way. I am disappointed in Focus on the Family.
Also, I come from a small town of mostly white Americans. When anyone was different in color racist remarks would fly. It's out there and it happens. However, as Christian's we should love everyone as the Lord has loved them, refraining from these type of remarks and praying for forgiveness if we are the ones making the remarks.


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At Martha and Mary's (again)
In tomorrow's Gospel we pay our tri-annual visit to the home of Martha and Mary, just at the time they are playing host to that Jesus of Nazareth. Last time we were there, we had quite a conversation about what we witnessed and heard--http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/martha-and-mary?page=1
Has anything changed meanwhile?
Here's what I made of it then: http://jakomonchak.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/martha-and-mary/
St. Martha's feastday is coming up: July 29th.
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Fr. Komonchak's reflection on Martha and Mary is superb. I was paeticularly struck by his talk about the joy that should characterize both our hearing of God's word and our care for our neighbors. Joy can't be the object of a command or a law. It has to grow out of a relation, a relation to Jesus.
May the joy that Jesus brings us be the focus of the "new evangelization."
Would tonight's reading about Abraham's great welcome and hospitality to the strangers also reinforce that Mary's better part doesn't take away from the value of what Martha does?
And the first page of comments was there: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/martha-and-mary?page=0
The problem with Martha is that she is not fully engaged in what she is doing, but instead is worrying about what she thinks others ought to be doing, or perhaps about what she'd rather be doing instead of working in the kitchen. It's unpleasant for everyone when those activities are perceived as unwelcome burdens, obligations, instead of eager service of hospitality. Martha lacks the joy mentioned above.
Not only that, but she's resentful, trying to spoil the others' good time by making them feel guilty, playing the victim and adding a bitter taste to the meal. What does she want, that Jesus stay alone talking to himself in an empty room while she bosses her sister around in the kitchen? If instead, while preparing those fish, she were delighting in advance with the thought of the pleased expression on Jesus's face when he would be taking his first tasty bite, then all would be well. Couldn't she focus on what a privilege it is to be feeding Jesus? Or if she simply did what she really wanted to do and went to listen to Jesus for a while, then maybe the meal would be less elaborate, but her happiness would make a much better welcome, everyone would be happier and Jesus would have a better time.
In Chapter 4, "Mary and Martha of Bethany," of The Women in the Life of the Bridegroom: A Feminist Historical-Literary Analysis of the Female Characters in the Fourth Gospel, Adeline Fehribach explains why first-century readers would have "perceived Mary of Bethany as the betrothed/bride of the messianic bridegroom on behalf of the Jews just as the Samaritan woman . . . on behalf of the Samaritan people." P. 84
"What does she want, that Jesus stay alone talking to himself in an empty room while she bosses her sister around in the kitchen?"
If only Jesus had gone into the kitchen and helped make the meal, they could of all had a good time :)
I think the message of this story is the same as the one where Jesus told his disciples not to criticize the woman who had just "wasted" money on really expensive oil to anoint him (money that could have helped the poor). Or when he tells the disciple who needs to bury his father, to let the dead bury the dead.
These are all really good and important things we should doing, we're supposed to feed the hungry and bury the dead and Jesus tells us over and over to take care of thhe poor.
But in these stories, God's in the house; everything just pales beside that, nothing is more important.
Father Komonchak, you (and St. Augustine) show how looking at the clause or phrase we read right over can change our understanding of Scripture. I mean, "and it will not be taken from her" in this case. I'd always focused on what went before and thought of that, if at all, as a "so there, Lady" appended to an endorsement of the contemplative life. But it makes sense as a reference to eternity, where sitting at the feet of the Master will be undistracted by the needs of the temporal world.
As some others have said, the Gospel has to be read in continuity with the story of the Good Samaritan, which comes right before it and which we had last week.The priest and Levite, eyes averted and thoughts on heaven, did not choose the right part that time.
And we look at Abraham's story in the first reading, where he knows he is entertaining the Lord but runs around like Martha. Literally. He "ran" the herd and picked out a steer for a servant to prepare, then he himself prepared milk and curds (after hollering at Sarah to bake some rolls). Despite all his running around and shouting orders while the guests wait, he and Sarah got a son out of the visit. To everything there is a season.
Thanks for the provocation.
Just one more thing about joy and delight in the living out of our faith. Recall the title of one of Dorothy Day's books, "The Duty of Delight." If I'm not mistaken, she got he phrase from Peter Maurin. In any case, she certainly lived out the harmony of Martha and Mary.
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(The author doesn't mention Mary and Martha of Bethany.)
Yes, it is very interesting to consider that the words "and it will not be taken from her" may be a reference to eternity.It makes sense.
But in these stories, God's in the house; everything just pales beside that, nothing is more important.
True, but I can also imagine God saying, "Oh, don't fuss, my dear. Go and help that poor fellow first. I can wait."
Here's part of Pope Francis' homily today about Mary and Martha. I'm not at all sure he settles the question of the fairness of Jesus' response, but he sees the unity of contemplation and action in helping the poor -- in looking at the faces of the poor we see the face of Christ.
"So why does Martha receive the rebuke even if it is done with sweetness? Because she took only what she was doing to be essential, she was too absorbed and worried about things to "do." For a Christian, the works of service and charity are never detached from the principle source of our action: that is, listening to the Word of the Lord, sitting – like Mary – at Jesus' feet in the attitude of a disciple. And for this reason Mary is rebuked.
"In our Christian life too prayer and action are always profoundly united. Prayer that does not lead to concrete action toward a brother who is poor, sick, in need of help, the brother in difficulty, is a sterile and incomplete prayer. . . . It is also our work with our needy brother, our labor of charity in works of mercy, that brings us to the Lord because we see the Lord in our needy brother and sister."
Regarding the tension in discipleship between attending to the word and serving those in need (imagine those two things consuming so much of one's day that they come into conflict!), Luke highlights it again in Acts 6:
The Need for Assistants.1At that time, as the number of disciples continued to grow, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.2So the Twelve called together the community of the disciples and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to serve at table.3Brothers, select from among you seven reputable men, filled with the Spirit and wisdom, whom we shall appoint to this task,4whereas we shall devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."5The proposal was acceptable to the whole community, so they chose Stephen, a man filled with faith and the holy Spirit, also Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, a convert to Judaism.6They presented these men to the apostles who prayed and laid hands on them.7The word of God continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly; even a large group of priests were becoming obedient to the faith.
Sorry about the odd formatting in the previous comment. I pasted it directly from the USCCB's online bible, and it came out that way after I hit the Save button. It may be an easier read here.
St. Martha may have her own feast, but surely St. Mary of Bethany deserves one, too. The Episcopalians and the Eastern Church honor her. So should we. Popes make mistakes, even Gregory the Great...
Three years ago, I mentioned that connection, of waiting on table and attending to the Word in both Acts 6 ans in Luke's story of Martha and Mary. At the time, I remembered it as coming from St John Chrysostom, but I have not found that source again. It was mentioned in the Great Letter of (pseudo) Macarius in the 4th century, but that is the only early source I have found. (NT Wright mentioned it, according to Fr K)
And with Susan, I hope for a day to commemorate Mary of Bethany. If she is the same as the unnamed woman who anoints Jesus in Mark and Matthew, her absence from the calendar is truly puzzling. "wherever in all the world the Gospel is proclaimed, what she has done will be told in memory of her."
St. Martha may have her own feast, but surely St. Mary of Bethany deserves one, too. The Episcopalians and the Eastern Church honor her. So should we.
But we don't know whether or not she is the same as Mary Magdalene - and there is a long-standing tradition that the two are the same. Istm that the Episcopalians and the Eastern Church, in having two separate feast days on their official calendars, are assuming a certainty of facts that I don't think is warranted.
Assuming that the universal church calendar reflects people's (the church's) real, actual faith, I think we conclude that St. Martha has a feast day of her own because she had a following, for whatever reason, among the people. And to the extent that, in Western Catholic/Christian tradition, Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany are thought to be one and the same, the feast day on July 22nd would combine reverence and celebration for both (or, as it may be, for one and the same). This is popular devotion we're talking about.
Perhaps one way to gloss the difficulty would be to establish a feast day that celebrates an act or episode of one Mary or the other (assuming they are different :-)). E.g. keep the memorial of Mary Magdelene on 7/22, and a memorial of the visitation of Jesus to Mary and Martha in Bethany. Or a memorial of the encounter of Mary Magdalene with Jesus in the garden. This rather indirect (dare we say sacramentally imaginative?) approach would be consistent with the calendar's treatment of other major Gospel figures such as Mary, John the Baptist and Peter.
Btw, istm that Jesus' visit to Mary and Martha would be a better choice of a Luminous Mystery than the proclamation of the kingdom. Or maybe we need yet another set of rosary mysteries for some of Jesus' more memorable personal encounters. The visit to Mary and Martha, the woman at the well, the woman who is hemorrhaging, the woman about to be stoned, the woman who washed and anointed his feet. Done!
In John's gospel the woman who anointed the feet of Jesus is identified as Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus. (actually, they are identified as her siblings...)
The upcoming celebration of St Martha comes on the octave of yesterday's remembrance of MM, a connection better associated with the sisters IMO.
This would not be such a problem if Mary of Bethany had not been almost erased from Holy Week. John's version is still read on Monday, but Mark's comes only every 3rd year withe reading of the Passion, obscuring her. She has been cut from St Matthew's Passion, and the antiphons about her that accompanied the washing of the feet have been dropped. And the shorter version of the Lazarus gospel, on the Sunday before Palm Sunday, trims Mary's part to "Mary stayed at home"!!


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Is this a postulate? I get the expansion of the universe, the addition of discrete bits of space time between me and a distant galaxy, until very distant parts of the universe are moving relative to me, faster than the speed of light. But the other sure seems like (giant steaming load of convenience) I think I get reasons why, because they don't have any other way to explain the size of the universe and so on. Just seems it would be much easier to say the universe is eternal and cyclical in nature, and call it a day!
There are rules about things moving through space faster than light - there is no rule about space expanding faster than light.
As long as it can't be used to transfer information then there is no problem with relativity.


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BOSTON – Forty-seven former or present judges, including the chief justice of the state's highest court; 38 present or former legislators; a candidate for governor; a former congressman who's now a prospective medical marijuana entrepreneur.
That's just a partial list of people who may be called as defense witnesses or are otherwise associated with the trial of a former state probation commissioner from Quincy.
Judge William Young and attorneys on both sides winnowed a jury pool of more than 150 to about 90 Tuesday morning. They agreed that while opening statements in the corruption trial could start today, prosecutors will not begin presenting evidence until Thursday at the earliest.
Former probation commissioner John O'Brien and his former deputies, Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke III, are facing charges of fraud, bribery and racketeering stemming from an alleged scheme to rig the probation department's hiring process, benefiting candidates with the backing of state lawmakers and thereby raising the probation officials' status.
The three have pleaded not guilty.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Wyshak will present the prosecution's case, having been granted 45 minutes to do so. The three defense teams will split a 45-minute time period, with O'Brien's lawyers taking 25 minutes.
While both sides were advised to be ready to present their openings today, Young said he expected openings to begin Thursday morning.
Part of the jury selection process is weeding out individuals who know the lawyers, the witnesses or others associated with the case. On Friday, defense attorneys submitted a 13-page list of potential witnesses and others associated with the case. It includes current and former elected officials, judges and people who allegedly benefited from the hiring system.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo and his two immediate predecessors, Salvatore DiMasi and Thomas Finneran, are on the list, as is Senate President Therese Murray and both of her predecessors.
The list also includes Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Roderick Ireland of Milton; former Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall; Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley; and former U.S. Rep. William Delahunt of Quincy, who is seeking approval for three medical-marijuana dispensaries.
Also on the list are U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-South Boston, whose district includes a large portion of the South Shore, and U.S. Sen Edward Markey.
Prosecutors previously submitted a less expansive list of witnesses who could be called.
The court was to begin impaneling the jury today, and if time remained, opening arguments could be made. Young said he wants both openings to occur on the same day.
Young said that he would instruct the jury that political patronage is not illegal and neither is violating the probation department's policy manual. The judge said he would attempt to focus the jury's attention on the mail fraud aspect of the case and in "extreme circumstances" the bribery allegations.
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WASHINGTON—Chuck Hagel won Senate approval Tuesday to become defense secretary after a pitched battle and as budget cuts loom.
Mr. Hagel was confirmed 58 to 41—the narrowest vote ever for a defense secretary. Some believe the largely party-line vote could leave Mr. Hagel, the successor to Leon Panetta, in a weakened position.
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President Barack Obama will need to fill many key posts in his second term. Take a look at top officials, some of whom are expected to leave.
"I think that he's got some work to do," said Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R., N.H.), who voted against confirming Mr. Hagel. "Traditionally it's been a strong measure to have your secretary of defense have overwhelming bipartisan support and he does not have that."
Mr. Hagel's views on the military are similar in important respects to President Barack Obama's, a major reason he was nominated. While Mr. Hagel has backed a strong military, he has been deeply skeptical that military power can solve intractable problems or change a country.
His skepticism was born of his Vietnam War experience and hardened by his view that the war in Iraq and the 2007 troop surge were mistakes, wasting American lives and money.
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A former Republican senator from Nebraska, Mr. Hagel becomes the first defense secretary who needed to garner 60 votes to pass a procedural hurdle before Tuesday's confirmation vote. Earlier Tuesday, more than a dozen Senate Republicans put aside qualms about Mr. Hagel to join Democrats in a procedural vote that effectively ended a filibuster, paving the way for a confirmation vote.
Just four GOP senators—Kentucky's Rand Paul, Alabama's Richard Shelby, Nebraska's Mike Johanns and Mississippi's Thad Cochran—voted for Mr. Hagel's nomination. Mr. Paul had voted twice to delay the nomination, but after the second attempt failed, he decided to vote for Mr. Hagel.
"As he has said before, the president should be entitled to some leeway on his political appointments," said Moira Bagley, Mr. Paul's spokeswoman.
The hyperpartisan battle over a cabinet nominee is rare. Mr. Hagel will be the first Pentagon head to win confirmation despite opposition from dozens of senators. Eleven senators voted "no" on George C. Marshall's nomination in 1950, the previous high, according to Senate records. Still, President George W. Bush's attorney general nominees won confirmation by slimmer margins: John Ashcroft won by 16 votes, and Michael Mukasey won by 13.
More often, the Senate bears down on nominees during their confirmation hearings and then proceeds to a vote without delay, as was the case for Treasury nominee Jacob Lew. The Senate Finance Committee voted 19-5 Tuesday to send Mr. Lew's nomination to the Senate floor for a vote, possibly as early as Wednesday.
Mr. Lew received bipartisan support despite Republican scrutiny and criticism of his tenure at Citigroup Inc., his investment in an offshore fund and financial perks he received while working at New York University.
At Citigroup, where he worked from 2006 to 2009, he got to keep more bonus pay if he moved on to a high-level position in the federal government than to a private-sector competitor, according to committee records. Mr. Lew said he sought the provision due to his interest in potentially returning to the public sector.
"Citigroup received a taxpayer-funded bailout and gave Mr. Lew a piece of it on his way out the door," said Sen. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa), who cast one of the five votes against Mr. Lew.
Mr. Hagel's nomination faced far more scrutiny. Many Republicans said he isn't supportive enough of Israel and is too weak on Iran. A number of outside political groups with anonymous donors have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to derail the nomination. In his confirmation hearing Mr. Hagel pledged that he would be supportive of Israel and would work to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, in a written statement Tuesday evening, anticipated "working closely" with Mr. Hagel, and said: "Under the Obama Administration, security ties between the United States and Israel have been superb. We are fully confident that those bonds will grow stronger still as our countries continue to meet common challenges to our security."
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spoiler:The bull rancor boss glitched. He kept running into a wall or running in place. So to beat him all I had to do was lightning him over and over as he stood there. Kind of hate to beat a boss that way but he wouldn't move.
spoiler:Vader and Rogue Jedi at the beginning of the game.
On imperial felucia, after you defeat the first at-st, you can see the pod holding the next AT-ST you'll fight hovering in the air.
spoiler:1) When you are in the area where the Sarlac is, the stormtroppers all keep falling all over the place, on the geometry and stuff. I mean, they can't be THAT clumsy.
2) Near the edge of the sarlac, towards the front, I was able to slip through the geometry
3) During the fight with the Bull Rancor, several times, the camera view acted weird and basically spun up in the air [I couldn't see myself anymore]. I had to just wait for it to come back to earth.
4) The Shadow tropper guys [the ones that look like imperial guards] are totally jacked up. The one in Cloud City basically "turned off" once I led him up the ramps, away from the area he spawns. Made it quite easy to kill. The other one also "turned off" and basically stood there and let me kill him without any retaliation.
5) In the area with the Sarlac, on the right-hand side, I would pick up some of the containers with Right-Trigger and they would just explode [they didn't hit anything].
6) I cannot recall the EXACT location, but its where you are supposed to open a large door with the force. I was able to kil a guy on the other side with my lightsaber, even though the door was closed.
7) In several places, typical LOS junk... people were able to shoot me when I was standing behind something -- I actually saw the blaster bolts go through the walls.


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