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A University of Colorado Boulder dancer and performance artist has won a $50,000 USA Fellowship Grant, an award designed to put unrestricted grants "directly into the hands of America's finest artists."
Michelle Ellsworth, an assistant professor of theatre and dance at CU, says she's honored, humbled and surprised by the award. Judging by the reviews she's gotten in recent years, others were not taken off guard.
In early December, United States Artists named 50 new fellows in visual, performing, media and literary arts across the country. The awards have been distributed since 2006, providing $15 million to artists to use as they see fit.
Ellsworth, who holds a master of fine arts from CU-Boulder and who has taught here since 2000, has been getting rave reviews for her performance art across the nation.
"Performance artist Ellsworth's onstage persona is a fascinating mix of humility and daring, mockery and gentleness," writes Westword's Juliet Wittman. "She comes across as a deferential satirist, a playful deep thinker, someone who expresses serious concerns with effervescent humor, operating sideways and using movement, objects and a highly eccentric take on everyday concerns to make her point."
"She's brilliantly neurotic and writes text that is as pungent and funny to hear as it is to see," wrote Ann Murphy of The Oakland Tribune.
Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times pronounced Ellsworth "smart, cute and profoundly irritating," adding that her "nutty witticisms popped up continually."
The Times was reviewing one of Ellsworth's energetic and eclectic performances called The Institute for Potential Religious Artifacts, Beliefs and Procedures (or TIFPRABAB), the essence of which Ellsworth distilled on the web at http://www.tifprabap.org.
The Village Voice's Elizabeth Zimmer added: "Her personality and the clear conceptual through-line of her story are quite winning."
And The Dallas Morning News' Margaret Putnam characterized Ellsworth's work as a rare treat. "Every once in a while, a choreographer equally deft with words and movement appears and makes the hybrid form a delight."
Though the awards were announced this month, Ellsworth learned that she'd won in September.
"I feel very humbled and grateful," she told Boulder Weekly. "I'm very shocked."
So shocked, in fact, that she repeatedly asked the president of United States Artists if there had been a mistake, she told the paper.
After the award, she told Westword that CU-Boulder has been a good fit for her. "I felt there was a community of experimentation here, and I felt sufficiently cloistered," she said.
"My ability to listen to the pieces has become stronger and I've become more devout as an artist in terms of my commitment to the pieces. I really try to do everything they ask of me. When I make one of these pieces I'm not even asking myself if it sucks … I don't know if a piece if going to suck or not, but I do know I'm doing everything I possibly can for it."
Ellsworth's performances tend to view quotidian things through an unconventional lens. "The Burger Foundation," for instance, was "dedicated to the re-evaluation of the relationship between hamburgers and humans," Ellsworth says in a video introduction.
"The Objectification of Things" was described as "part performance art, part ritual and part ethnography, illuminating the importance, impact, and fragile nature of the material world."
This year, Ellsworth read a newspaper story reporting that the human Y chromosome was shedding genes at a rate that would ultimately lead to its obsolescence. The result was a performance called "Preparation for the Obsolescence of the Y Chromosome."
Colorado Public Radio's Ryan Warner asked Ellsworth if the "Y Chromosome" performance were comedy or drama:
"As an artist, I have no loyalty whatsoever to humor, but I have noticed that when I perform that people will laugh. I would say I'm never pursuing a comedic path. I find the story rather sad. This piece was made not only because I read that article in the Times but also because my friend's father died, and I just started thinking about, 'Oh, what's that mean?'"
This month, Ellsworth emphasized her gratitude for "the profound support of the Department of Theatre and Dance, the ATLAS Institute, the college of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Humanities and the Arts and my many CU colleagues and collaborators." Additionally, she said, the National Performance Network has been "key to the creation of many of my pieces over the last 15 years."
Bud Coleman, associate professor and chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, said students and faculty "join in the celebration" of Ellsworth's fellowship.
"To receive this award in the same year as such dance luminaries at Liz Lerman, Lar Lubovitch and Donald Byrd is a powerful statement that the peer-review panel recognizes that not all cutting-edge solo dance is created by artists living in New York City," Coleman said.
"We are pleased to see that Professor Ellsworth is getting national attention for what we have known for a long time: Her work is original, funny, intelligent, thought-provoking and always engaging. Brava!"


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If I change my system time on Debian which files would be modified?
Would it be /etc/default/rcS?
Also, is default time on Debian Dec 31 1969?
Current time information is not stored in a file, rather it's synced from your hardware clock with
The date Dec 31 1969 is the epoch date (representing this number in bits this would be all zeros), when your system resets the system clock, it is reset to the epoch date (all zeros).
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And you're back in business. For continual syncing of the clock with an external source you should look at
If you would like to test your CMOS battery, the simplest way to do so is to shutdown your system, remove the power cord, wait for about 5 minutes (to remove stand-by power, and let the capacitors drain), then start everything back up. If your clock has reset again, get a new battery. You can usually find the correct battery at a drugstore. If this is a server, you should contact your vendor for a replacement (ASAP).
I'm not aware of any mechanism within Linux that would allow you to monitor the state of your CMOS battery.


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My default browser is the latest Chrome on the latest OS X. I want to open links to pivotaltracker.com (from Skype, email, wherever) in a Fluid browser that is dedicated to Pivotal Tracker. Googling got me nothing useful.
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Looks like you need Choosy, which will let you do exactly this sort of thing.


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On forms, is inline placeholder text better than a label outside each field?
Is putting text field instructions inside the text box rather than having a field label a usability issue?
Is putting text field instructions inside the text box rather than having a field label a usability issue?
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Generally speaking I would say yes.
The major problem is once the text box is selected, you don't have the instruction anymore.
It might not seem straightforward but in the case the user uses the
What I would rather do is to give the instruction on one side and add an example inside the text box.
Finally, be sure that when the box is selected, the prior content disappears. (the user should not be the one to erase the explanation/example content)
EDIT: a good example that drives me crazy each time it happens is when filling a date. Many websites put the instruction of how to write it (e.g. YYYY/MM/DD) inside the text box, and each time I have to fill it, I need to click somewhere else to see how to write it, and click back in. So I would recommend you to always put instructions outside (YYYY/MM/DD) and examples inside (1879/03/14).


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Cardinal George to President Obama
Here's a link to the letter which Cardinal George, as president of the USCCB, sent to President Obama and the leaders of Congresson January 13th. It might usefully be compared to the statement released right after the election.
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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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I do think it is a striking shift in tone and content. I think those with a bit of political savvy--inside and outside the hierarchy--got to the leadership with some advice. No word about Roe, heres, surprisingly, and a commitment to working together on policies to "reduce the number of abortions." The buzz in the pro-life blogosphere has also been a recognition that, for example, FOCA is a dead letter, and that there are other, better campaigns to wage. To me this marks the beginning of a beginning of a relationship. Perhaps. There is still so little recognition of the historic moment of Obama's election, little sense of joy or any emotion, or appreciation of the prsoepct of the end of a terrible policies on torture and such. The bishops seem like such bystanders to this moment. But I was amused by what was likely intended as a boilerplate line about gay marriage:"We stand firm in our support for marriage which is a faithful, exclusive, lifelong union of a man and a woman and must remain such in law..."So is the Cardinal asking to President to outlaw adultery and divorce?! It might make more sense!
How does the fact that George has been asked to resign by VOTF factor into this letter and discussion? Does this weaken his moral authority and by extension the bishops? If not is someone here prepared to defend George on his handling of abuse cases?
Well, the bishops show some perspective and savvy here.What did you think of the report of the apostolic visitation of seminaries. Apart from the gay issue, the Maginot Line of the current Catholic restorationism, I thought the mentality behind the visitation and report was too Tridentine. When they cannot talk about gradually giving responsibility to seminarians, what it means is that they have taken that responsibility away from them at the start, actually disempowering them for the tasks of ordinary life. Restricting internet access to the use of computers only in public places put seminarians in a world that may be refreshingly different from that of their contemporaries, who are likely to have constant internet access via their mobile phones. (Are seminarians allowed to have mobile phones?) All of this sequestering and brainwashing is with the purpose of shoring up celibacy; but plunge these hothouse plants back into the real world and celibacy collapses.
Until further notice, Cardinal George is the president of the USCCB, so whatever one thinks of him, he writes the letter and he's the point man for the President. Obama's not going to touch that one. As far as official reaction as per Fr. K's post, it's also interesting to note the reaction from Rome:Nice telegram from the Pope:http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/pope-benedicts-inauguration-day-... inauguration even commentary in L'Osservatore Romano comparing Washington to Berlin in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall:http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_quo/commenti/2009/015q01b1.htm... a Vatican Radio interview with Rick Garnett of Notre Dame who, according to Catholic World News [http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=1698] "commented on the new presidents openness to religion and predicted that under his leadership, the United States would continue to be less secularist than many European nations." http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=259860 Interesting, FWIW.
I agree with David Gibson that the second letter is, in general, more tempered and politically realistic than the earlier one, though a proponent of gay marriage could certainly disagree with that assessment. What I find most puzzling is that neither letter makes specific reference to embryonic stem cell research, an issue that David Podesta, one of the transition team leaders, has said could be the subject of an early Obama Administration executive order reversing the Bush Administration's executive directive limiting federal funding of ESCR. Though by no means simple, the issue of ESCR has fewer variables associated with it than does the abortion issue, and I'm surprised the bishops did not comment on it directly.
I'm happy the cardinal moderated his language - and so have some other true culture war conservatives. At the same time, I don't think old words are forgotten that easily. I also think the test of a person's real opinions is how they act when in power--not how they act when out of it. I think there will be many conservatives who try to recast themselves as moderates in order to stay in power. But thanks to Google, it's not hard to find their original stances. I tend to be quite skeptical of hardened culture warriors in new sheep's clothing.
Obamania is sweeping papalist circles -- perhaps there is some naivety here -- Obama may still disappoint -- these huge crowds recall the crowds who followed Princess Di, Tony Blair, John Paul II -- political substance is yet to be proven.I note in the report on the visitation of seminaries that the word "principles" is misspelt as "principals". Perhaps people should focus more on the education and less on the training of clerics. The report's attitude to moral theologians is sad -- particularly considering how often qualified moral theologians have been replaced with untrained ideological hacks in seminaries. The report freely accuses moral theologians of lacking the spirit of sentire cum ecclesia; any idea that informed dissent from Vatican crudity in this domain is the truer expression of sentire cum ecclesia is absent.
In Tuesday's New York Times in an article entitled "Obama Will Ease Restraints on States' Health Insurance Programs for Children," we read at paragraphs 4 and 5:"Mr.Obama has said, for example, that he objects to a last-minute Bush administration rule that grants new protections to health workers who refuse to help perform abortions, dispense contraceptives or provide other care because of their 'religious beliefs or moral convictions'.This 'provider conscience regulation', published on Dec.19, takes effect on Tuesday, the day of Mr. Obama's inauguration."Further on, at paragraphs 8 and 9:"Mr. Obama is also expected to revoke the so-called global gag rule, a policy that prohibits organizations receiving federal money from performing abortions or supporting abortion as a method of family planning in other countries. Critics say that the restrictions -- imposed by President Ronald Reagan, removed by President Bill Clinton two days after he took office and then reinstated by President Bush -- also limit access to contraceptives and family planning services.An official at the United States Agency for International Development, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, 'We are preparing the new policy, press releases, a memo to the field that could go out immediately telling them that all the restrictions have been removed'."If these possibilities turn out to be true, could they provide the first flashpoint between the new administration and the USCCB?(Not sure of my single quotes/double quotes, but in what the Italians call "le piccole ore," I haven't the energy to check the style books.)
Mr.Page-If the report about the provider conscience regulation is true, then it is terrible news. To require that I be allaowed to do what I think is right (e.g., perform an abortion) is one thing. To be requred to do what You Think is right but I think is wrong (e.g., perfom an abortion) is quite another. Next cnscientious objectors will also be required to kill against their consciences.
The Honeymoon is over:Catholic News Service (of the US bishops' conference) has reported on yet another letter that Cardinal George sent President Obama on January 16th. It is much more challenging than the bishops' policy agenda letter of 13 January and their statement yesterday following the inauguration. However, I have not been able to find the full text anywhere. Nor have I seen any other reports on this particular letter.Don't reverse policies protecting unborn, cardinal urges Obama By Nancy Frazier O'Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) -- It would be "a terrible mistake" for President Barack Obama to reverse current policies on embryonic stem-cell research, conscience protection and other life-related matters, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told him in a new letter.Such actions "could introduce significant negative and divisive factors into our national life, at a time when we need to come together to address the serious challenges facing our people," said Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago in a letter dated Jan. 16 and made public Jan. 19.The letter came less than a week after Cardinal George sent another letter to Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden and each member of Congress outlining the bishops' broad policy agenda as the new administration and Congress begin their work."I expect that some want you to take executive action soon to reverse current policies against government-sponsored destruction of unborn human life," Cardinal George said. "I urge you to consider that this could be a terrible mistake -- morally, politically and in terms of advancing the solidarity and well-being of our nation's people."Specifically, the USCCB president mentioned the recently issued Department of Health and Human Services regulation protecting the conscience rights of health care providers and institutions; the so-called Mexico City policy barring the use of U.S. family planning funds to promote or perform abortions in developing nations; and current embryonic stem-cell policy prohibiting federal funding of research involving embryonic stem-cell lines created after 2001.Cardinal George said he hoped the new president would "consider these comments in the spirit in which they are intended, as an invitation to set aside political pressures and ideologies and focus on the priorities and challenges that will unite us as a nation.""Again I want to express our hopes for your administration, and our offer to cooperate in advancing the common good and protecting the poor and vulnerable in these challenging times," he added.The cardinal noted that during his campaign Obama "spoke often about a need to reduce abortions" and had said he had no definite answer when asked at what point a baby has human rights."I think your remarks provide a basis for common ground," Cardinal George said. "Uncertainty as to when human rights begin provides no basis for compelling others to violate their conviction that these rights exist from the beginning. After all, those people may be right."And if the goal is to reduce abortions, that will not be achieved by involving the government in expanding and promoting abortions," he added.Commenting specifically on the HHS conscience guarantees, Cardinal George said the regulation was "a long-overdue measure for implementing three statutes enacted by Congress over the last 35 years.""An administration committed to faithfully implementing and enforcing the laws of the United States will want to retain this common-sense regulation, which explicitly protects the rights of health professionals who favor or oppose abortion to serve the basic health needs of their communities," he said."Suggestions that government involvement in health care will be aimed at denying conscience, or excluding Catholic and other health care providers from participation in serving the public good, could threaten much-needed health care reform at the outset," the cardinal added.He said the Mexico City policy, first implemented in 1984, "has wrongly been attacked as a restriction on foreign aid for family planning" but instead ensures that family planning funds "are not diverted to organizations dedicated to performing and promoting abortions instead of reducing them.""Once the clear line between family planning and abortion is erased, the idea of using family planning to reduce abortions becomes meaningless, and abortion tends to replace contraception as the means for reducing family size," said the cardinal's letter to Obama.On embryonic stem-cell research, Cardinal George said "recent startling advances in reprogramming adult cells," along with progress in research using adult and cord-blood stem cells, make any change in current policy "especially pointless.""To divert scarce funds away from these promising avenues for research and treatment toward the avenue that is most morally controversial as well as most medically speculative would be a sad victory of politics over science," he said.
Wrong again, Gibson! Yes, indeed there was a follow-up letter to Obama, much tougher and focused on life issues of abortion & stem cell research etc. I'm not sure what to make of it, except that there has been a lot of back-and-forth within the bishops conference over what approach to take, and we've seen before that when something is released that seems too "soft" on Obama other voices start lobbying for a corrective. So it seems they may still be working on their approach. I think they'd want to sort it out sooner rather than later. But that's me. The CNS story link is here:http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0900248.htmText of Cardinal George's follow-up letter is here:Dear Mr. President-elect:I recently wrote to assure you of the prayers of the Catholic bishops of the United States for your service to our nation, and to outline issues of special concern to us as we seek to work with your Administration and the new Congress to serve the common good.I am writing today on a matter that could introduce significant negative and divisive factors into our national life, at a time when we need to come together to address the serious challenges facing our people. I expect that some want you to take executive action soon to reverse current policies against government-sponsored destruction of unborn human life. I urge you to consider that this could be a terrible mistake -- morally, politically, and in terms of advancing the solidarity and well-being of our nation?s people. During the campaign, you promised as President to represent all the people and respect everyone?s moral and religious viewpoints. You also made several statements about abortion. On one occasion, when asked at what point a baby has human rights, you answered in effect that you do not have a definite answer. And you spoke often about a need to reduce abortions.The Catholic Church teaches that each human being, at every moment of biological development from conception to natural death, has an inherent and fundamental right to life. We are committed not only to reducing abortion, but to making it unthinkable as an answer to unintended pregnancy. At the same time, I think your remarks provide a basis for common ground. Uncertainty as to when human rights begin provides no basis for compelling others to violate their conviction that these rights exist from the beginning. After all, those people may be right. And if the goal is to reduce abortions, that will not be achieved by involving the government in expanding and promoting abortions.The regulation to protect conscience rights in health care issued last month by the Bush administration is the subject of false and misleading criticisms. It does not reach out to expand the rights of pro-life health professionals, but is a long-overdue measure for implementing three statutes enacted by Congress over the last 35 years. Many criticizing the new rule have done so without being aware of this legal foundation ? but widespread ignorance of a longstanding federal law protecting basic civil rights is among the good reasons for more visibly implementing it. An Administration committed to faithfully implementing and enforcing the laws of the United States will want to retain this common-sense regulation, which explicitly protects the right of health professionals who favor or oppose abortion to serve the basic health needs of their communities. Suggestions that government involvement in health care will be aimed at denying conscience, or excluding Catholic and other health care providers from participation in serving the public good, could threaten much-needed health care reform at the outset. The Mexico City Policy, first established in 1984, has wrongly been attacked as a restriction on foreign aid for family planning. In fact, it has not reduced such aid at all, but has ensured that family planning funds are not diverted to organizations dedicated to performing and promoting abortions instead of reducing them. Once the clear line between family planning and abortion is erased, the idea of using family planning to reduce abortions becomes meaningless, and abortion tends to replace contraception as the means for reducing family size. A shift toward promoting abortion in developing nations would also increase distrust of the United States in these nations, whose values and culture often reject abortion, at a time when we need their trust and respect.The embryonic stem cell policy initiated by President Bush has at times been criticized from both ends of the pro-life debate, but some criticisms are based on false premises. The policy did not ban embryonic stem cell research, or funding of such research. By restricting federally funded research to cell lines in existence at the time he issued his policy, he was trying to ensure that Americans are not forced to use their tax dollars to encourage expanded destruction of embryonic human beings for their stem cells. Such destruction is especially pointless at the present time, for several reasons. First, basic research in the capabilities of embryonic stem cells can be and is being pursued using the currently eligible cell lines as well as the hundreds of lines produced with nonfederal funds since 2001. Second, recent startling advances in reprogramming adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells ? hailed by the journal Science as the scientific breakthrough of the year ? are said by many scientists to be making embryonic stem cells irrelevant to medical progress. Third, adult and cord blood stem cells are now known to have great versatility, and are increasingly being used to reverse serious illnesses and even help rebuild damaged organs. To divert scarce funds away from these promising avenues for research and treatment toward the avenue that is most morally controversial as well as most medically speculative would be a sad victory of politics over science.I hope you will consider these comments in the spirit in which they are intended, as an invitation to set aside political pressures and ideologies and focus on the priorities and challenges that will unite us as a nation. Again I want to express our hopes for your Administration, and our offer to cooperate in advancing the common good and protecting the poor and vulnerable in these challenging times. As we approach the first days of your new responsibilities as President of the United States, I will offer my prayers for you and for your family. May God bless your efforts in fostering justice and peace for all, Mr. President, as you begin your term.
This provider conscience regulation, published on Dec.19, takes effect on Tuesday, the day of Mr. Obamas inauguration.John Page,Aren't you even a little suspicious of a regulation that was promulgated by the Bush administration and takes effect on the first day of Obama's presidency???Before this regulation, was anyone ever forced to perform an abortion? Can you offer a realistic scenario in which a doctor is forced to perform an abortion without the regulation?
Do you really want a country where a baby can be aborted at will and that a hospital or health care worker can be made to partisapate? Ask any one from another country like...... the Netherlands they will tell you they now kill off the ederly and sick! They have relatives that do not want to go to the hospital when they are sick.
When I wrote after midnight, I was fairly certain that there had been a later, less irenic letter from Cardinal George to President Obama than the one sent last week, but I couldn't find it. So I resorted to the NYT article since it seemed to me to indicate possible disagreenment ahead, and very soon. Yes, I believe the timing by the outgoing administration was very suspicious. But I have to admit to having little aquaintance with the "conscience clause" and how or even whether it has ever been invoked. Again, my purpose was simply to bring to the attention of the readers what seemed to me to be a warning sign that the era of good feelings represented by the posting might indeed be very short-lived. It is good to know that the more recent letter of the President of the USCCB, with its specific reference to the "conscience clause," has now been posted for the dotCommonweal readers.
i find it encouraging that the newly-released letter of Cardinal George offers some REASONS in support of his views. It it not a simple - and loud - litany of moral principles which may or may not be true. I don't agree with all of his reasoning, but at least he sees the need to support his conclusions.
"The Honeymoon is over"So what *should* characterize the relationship between the Obama administration and the USCCB? The bishops can scarcely dilute their principles in order to ingratiate themselves to the new administration. At the same time, taking too strident and oppositional approach could harm the chances of productively working together on the many issues in which the administration and the church see eye-to-eye. Surely a tone of civil assertiveness on areas of disagreement is most appropriate on the part of the USCCB? I expect that we'll see quite a bit of shifting in tone between ardor and coolness, depending on the issue du jour.
Do you really want a country where a baby can be aborted at will and that a hospital or health care worker can be made to partisapate? Robin,The answer is no, and the United States is not now, nor will it become during the Obama administration, such a country. How do you envision a health care worker being forced to participate in abortion? Are the police going to come in and hold a gun to a doctor's head? Will people who won't perform abortions be sent to jail? Netherlands they will tell you they now kill off the ederly and sick! Those who live in the Netherlands -- where there is voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide (which is very tightly controlled and closely monitored -- have a longer life-expectancy than those of us in the United States. One would think a country where the sick and elderly will "killed off" would have a shorter life expectancy.
David, I know health care workers who have told me this. They have also said they will leave the health care field. Yes, the hospitals or centers will monitor and if they refuse will be disicplined. I also know people who are from the Netherlands and have family still there. The family members do not want to go to the hospital.
The fact that Cardinal George is the head of the bishop's Conference makes him the poin tman. Still, his xcal lfor resignation from a number of followers (he among others as noted recently) weakens his position with whom he speaks to and his credibility among those who want him aside.I think what would be really poltically savvy would happen behind closed doors and utilize some hopefully skilled lobbying folk.I don't think the Obama proposals will change much about what the Catholic in the street thinks, so I'm not sure about the honeymoon.I guess if folks are having trouble following some directives ethically, it's a good thing they move on -that's a far more powerful witness and argument than asserting one's rights.
Mr. Nunz: If Catholic health-care providers cannot in conscience follow certain directives, are you suggesting that they should simply leave the field to others? I think refusing to follow certain directives--and facing the consequences--would be a more powerful witness than simply giving up this whole vast field of Christian care for the sick.
"I guess if folks are having trouble following some directives ethically, its a good thing they move on -thats a far more powerful witness and argument than asserting ones rights."But even better would be if they don't have rules and regulations foisted upon them that would force them to violate their consciences, the Hippocratic Oath, the virtually unbroken tradition of Western culture, and natural law.
When folks join a certain field, they should be clear about what they're called on to do for those they serve.If it provides an ethical conflict, they need to think deeply about enterring.For this juncture, health professionals say pharmacists for example have ben expected to provide medications their doctor orders.If they can now decide beyond their doctor and his patient what is right, ther eis a problem in the field.If the issue is that profound, their witness about that medication problem I think it would be better if they moved on, both for their conscience and to stimulate the conscience of others.
What if the "field" has suddenly changed from what it had been, and done so on the basis of ethical choices different from those that had led one to join the field in the first place. Why may one, should one, not remain and fight to effect a return to the earlier ethical principles? I should think that this would require the witness of considerable courage. I don't know what witness is given by simply withdrawing from the battlefield.
I wonder if Cardinal George woudl care to expand onthis language:"Once the clear line between family planning and abortion is erased, the idea of using family planning to reduce abortions becomes meaningless, and abortion tends to replace contraception as the means for reducing family size."Family planning is contraception. It appears he concedes U.S. measures to promote contraception are justified but contends there is a "clear line" between that and abortion. Here in the United States, it is the Catholic bishops who blur the line by arguing both are extrisically evil so he can hardly complain about the blurred line.
"When folks join a certain field, they should be clear about what theyre called on to do for those they serve. If it provides an ethical conflict, they need to think deeply about entering."Agreed. And all fields have such potential ethical conflicts to a greater or lesser extent. People need to explore htese before enterign a chosen filed and perhaps select a career that does not pose as much ethical risk to their particular ethical principles.Health care professionals can't claim surprise that a pharmacist is actually required to fill prescriptions or that doctors may be required to provide medically accrate information to their patients.On the other hand, no medical care professional is, or will be required to, perform an abortion.
Today, Obama came out against lobbyists and made provision for tranparency in government. Maybe he won't be able to do it. But I admit I am stunned. This is delivering. He had a quite a presence with his cabinet and staff at the swearing in ceremony. I refuse to get excited but this was something else. Cardinal George and Co. can use some of this high moral ground and transparency.
I'm willing to be enlightened, but how has the field of heath care changed radically from five years ago? Or did a Bush policy at the end of his term change it radically?If in my own experience a judge had told me to bring i nand lock up someone who I beeived wit hsome cetainty to be innocent, my job would be to obey the judge's orders. If it was so against my conscience, I'd say i twas time to move on and to protest what I though twas unjust.I don't think that kind of withdrawal is one taking their ball and going home,I've often believed that real witness entails some suffering on the part of one who desires to speak the truth.I also think that letting all ldetermine the ethics of their profession may open a can of worms yet unforeseen. Jim's point is valid: work to make the rules and regs of the field correct.
That's precisely what I'm proposing: Stay and "work to make the rules and regulations of the field correct." Perhaps I misunderstood what you meant by "moving on"; I thought you meant moving out of the field.
Thanks for an interesting post. The tone of the two recent letters is a lot less shrill than some of the remarks various bishops made during the campaign and its immediate aftermath. To me, it just means that political passions can get the better of bishops, much like anyone else. A number of bishops essentially endorsed the Republican ticket, however much they avoided saying so directly. This happened in 2004, too. I wonder if the relevant bishops have reflected on their responsibility for helping to elect George Bush.
"I wonder if Cardinal George woudl care to expand onthis language:" Once the clear line between family planning and abortion is erased, the idea of using family planning to reduce abortions becomes meaningless, and abortion tends to replace contraception as the means for reducing family size."Family planning is contraception. It appears he concedes U.S. measures to promote contraception are justified but contends there is a clear line between that and abortion."I'm not Cardinal George, but I read that section of the letter as clarifying the intent of the Mexico City policy, in response to distortions and misinformation about it.I agree that there is a trade-off between contraception and abortion implied in the policy. I'm okay with that. It appears that Cardinal George and the bishops are as well.Btw, apparently President Obama didn't find that paragraph of the letter persuasive. Fox News is reporting that he will issue an executive order tomorrow (1/22, the anniversary of Roe v Wade) repealing the Mexico City policy.http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/21/obama-lift-ban-f... the run-up to the election, there were many claims made in this forum that President Obama would implement policies to reduce the incidence of abortion, and this claim was made to make it acceptable for Catholic voters to vote for Obama. Here is the first concrete act on life issues of his presidency - an act which emphatically will not reduce the incidence of abortion, and arguably will make the United States, its legislators and its taxpayers complicit in abortions overseas.
Are Islamic restaurants legally required to sell liquor? Are Jewish restauratnts required to serve pork? Why should my druggist who owns his own store be required to sellvcontraceptives and abortifacients? Why should private hospitals be required to provide services of ANY specific sort ? If they are required to providecone kind, then why can't they be required to provide all kinds? This anti-conscience clause of pro-abortionists is frightening. Part of my background was very pro-Enlightenment, including its emphasisvon freedom of conscience. (this comes from my French side, buttressed by tbe opinions of John Locke's and those of the American founding fathers.) Such a law would set a dangerous precedent which would allow all sorts of violations of conscience.Granted, there is a theoretical problem here. - how to respect individual consciences which might or might not affect the common good . But surely when there are allternatve ways of serving what the majority thinks IS the common good. Then thecernatives should be applied. For instance, if a woman thinks abortifacients are ethical, then she can go to a different pharmacy. If there is only one pharmacy in town, she should consider that before living there. I guess the basic question I'm trying to get at is this. Why should one person's conscience should one person's conscience take precedence over another's?
It just amazes me that abortion keep getting over 50% of the coverage here. In many ways the bishops seem to still set the agenda. Yet they are wrong on contraceptives, to be sure. And they continue to be wrong on protecting children from abuse. Unquestionably real children while many reputable scientists say we are really talking about zygotes, albeit a potential human. Contrast that with 5 million children dying every year lacking basics and the thousands dying because of the might of others, who just happen to have the power. Etc.
Repeal of the Mexico City policy is hardly a surprise, but I find the Roe v. Wade anniversary timing of the announcement troubling. Of course, the new president's pro-choice supporters will be ecstatic about the timing, but it's something of a stick in the eye to those who are pro-life. Can we also expect tomorrow an announcement of the president's unqualified support for the Pregnant Women Support Act?
What I don't understand about the conscience clause regs is why they are needed...From what I understand, no health care provider (or any employee) can be forced to do something against their beliefs or moral convictions, nor can they suffer any penalty for standing by those convictions. That's federal law. Are there any examples of people being forced to do things they object to? I know these regs can also have many unintended consequences, such as undoing (potentially) laws to provide rape victims with contraception etc.
To be fair, I'll qualify my 8:19 pm post for the time being to say "if" it is true that Obama will issue an executive order tomorrow repealing the Mexico City policy. Fox News is not my first, or even my fourteenth, source for news, so I'd like confirmation from other sources before my umbrage is official.
If the conscience clauses are not needed but simply ratify already existing federal law, why are some so strongly in favor of them, and others so insistent that they not be allowed? Whether to introduce them into legislation has been a vigorously debated matter in some states. And if they only ratify existing law, why the alleged haste to repeal the recent directive? Why not just forget about it? There must be something at stake, for both sides.
Back in August, the HHS issued a fact sheet about the proposed conscience clause regulations. The link to the fact sheet is below. As you'll see, the stated purpose of the new regulations is to clarify the statutory provisions of three already existing laws that deal, at least in part, with conscience issues. As a general rule, clarification of statutory language is a primary purpose of federal regulations. They fill in the gaps that exist in virtually every piece of legislation enacted by Congress. Much more often happens at the administrative level--i.e., the level where agencies promulgate the regulations that are used to flesh out a statute--than happens at the congressional level. Whether the new conscience clause regulations overreach is a separate issue, one that courts are being asked to take up quickly. For example, three separate suits were filed last week in federal court in Connecticut challenging the regulations promulgated by the Bush Department of Health & Human Services.http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2008pres/08/20080821a.html
"Why should private hospitals be required to provide services of ANY specific sort ? If they are required to provide one kind, then why cant they be required to provide all kinds?"As the Brits say: If you take the Queen's shilling, you must do the Queen's bidding. Private anythings that take advantage of governmental funding as part of their income stream will have to get used to the fact that governmental requirements hold sway. Ctholic Charities and same-sex adoption is a good case in point.Don't want to do it? Go strictly and financially private.
Good questions all: I need to educate myself, as they say. As to why these are a big deal, I think it's mainly to score political points, for one side or another, more than actually making law better, or not.
To Jimmy Mac: The question at issue remains whether the government, representing the citizenry, should introduce these kinds of requirements or restrictions. That's a legitimate matter of public and civic debate, which I take it is what is now going on.
if regulations are interpretations of laws, how can they contradict/violate laws hat have already been passed be the Congress? For instance, a law explicitly requires parental notification before am abortion. How can a mere interpretation of some other law over-ride the act of Congress? Or are all of the restrictions ok abortion satez, not federal, laws?
It is perfectly appropriate for Bishop George to be Pro-Life and Pro-Family, but would you not say that he has been purblind about other lives and other families. Here is a brief note I wrote this morning to one of the genuine consciences in this complex world. It would be good idea for the good bishop to read it and to pay attention to AJ's broadcasts.I am an American living in Germany. On my cable TV, there is only one channel that remotely comes close to reporting the facts and a balanced point-of-view and that is Al Jazeera. America and Israel are hysterically blind and even (usually) fair-minded Germany is calculatingly blind to the ruthlessness of Israel--and worse--the churches in both countries, Catholic and Protestant, look the other way--afraid of the retaliating strikes of both Israel Lobbies.Al Jazeera has become the Conscience of the Middle East--against Establishment Terrorism which notices only the stones and puny weapons of Insurgent Terrorism.Highest Praise to you.Keep up the good work
Ann, I'm not an expert on regulations and executive orders, but I think this is a gray area of policy and politics that is worked out through court challenges and such. One sees it, for example, with interpretations of voting rights laws or clean air and endangered species acts. Sort of like the Catholic Church. There is the law, and then there is the pastoral application. The latter can vary widely according to one's views. In the case of the conscience clauses, whatever their merit or lack thereof, they were pretty clearly driven by politics. Otherwise, if Bush were so "pro-life," why did he wait seven years to promulgate them? Same with the Human Life Day thing or whatever he did just before leaving office.
By the comments being left, it appears that very few have any idea what the state of the law actually is and what these rules are evidently trying to accomplish. I think this link takes you to the rules: http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/PDFgate.cgi?WAISdocID=631937506... link should take you to the complaint filed by the Connecticut AG that outlines the objections to the law (though it might not work if you don't have the service -- I'm not sure): http://op.bna.com/hl.nsf/id/psts-7nbr3s/$File/cons.pdfAnn, the Secretary promulgates regulations to provide guidance on interpretation and enforcement of statutes. She doesn't make up the law as she goes along and lots of rules get invalidated for going beyond the boundaries of the statutes that are being interpreted. In general, the Secretary has broad but no unfettered discretion. The difference between a notice and comment rulemaking and other kinds of guidance is the level of deference that the Secretary is entitled to when she shows up in court to defend the guidance. Notice and comment rulemaking, where the Secretary has solicited the input of the public over a period of time, and considered their comments and suggestions, gets the most deference. Ad hoc guidance gets some deference, however, it depends on what the guidance pertains to -- if it interprets technical matters that the Secretary has unique expertise in, it still gets a lot of deference. If it interprets a statute of broad application, like the Church Amendments, it gets virtually none. The problem with these rules is that they not only allow Catholic hospitals to refuse to provide services, which is a well-established legal and perhaps even constitutional principle, but they essentially prevent non-Catholic institutions from being able to effectively work around personnel who refuse to provide services they object to, even if those services are a material and substantial part of the institution's mission, even if the refusal is ad hoc, and even if the refusal might threaten the life or safety of their patients. It's the impact on NON-CATHOLIC providers and the patients they serve that is at the heart of the objections.


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When not racking up scores on Konami music game Jubeat, Kya7y is on Twitter. And something she recently shared there, for lack of a better word, is amazing.
Thirty years ago, she tweeted, her dad spent seven years and several months drawing this maze on a sheet of A1 paper that measures approximately 35 by 23.3 inches. "Won't somebody make it to the goal?" she tweeted.
Kya7y added that she had fifty copies of the maze, but wasn't sure how they were printed, but thought they were done using printing tech that isn't really used today. The maze was created 30 years ago, mind you. And there is apparently another maze, too.
"Oh, right!" she tweeted, "I forgot something very important: it's not possible possible to reach the goal."
"I'm not really sure," she added, "but for the time being, my dad, who created this, hasn't even reached the goal."
This looks (and sounds) like a challenge. I'm keen. You?
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Healthy Winter Fruit Recipes & Winter Vegetable Recipes (Slide 11)
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Dr. Brian Patrick, assistant professor of biology at Dakota Wesleyan University, recently attended the American Arachnological Society annual meeting in Johnson City, Tenn., giving a presentation about a South Dakota spider survey.
There were 119 arachnologists from all over the U.S. at Eastern Tennessee State University for the conference. Patrick gave a presentation, "South Dakota Spider Survey: Preliminary Findings of Field Sampling and Literature Review," coauthored by Kevin Pfeiffer, a Sioux Falls native who lives in Berlin, Germany.
Pfeiffer was previously a television art director and now serves as a translator and editor in Berlin. He is an avid arachnologist and was interested in spiders from his home state and had begun a list of South Dakota species already when he heard Patrick was conducting a survey. Patrick said Pfeiffer contacted him and offered to collaborate on his South Dakota Spider Survey (SDSS).
"The talk focused on the first component of the state survey, which is literature review and review of specimens already collected within the state, as well as any preliminary studies conducted," Patrick said. "I presented information on what was known about spiders at the time the SDSS was established in 2010, as well as what additional species we have found in the state since 2010."
He then presented information on the direction and purpose of the SDSS, which is a project aimed at documenting the abundance and distribution of spiders in the state.
"The goal is to provide an accurate list of all known species in the state, where they are known to be found, and with what abundance," he said.
Additionally, Patrick plans to extract DNA, and sequence for DNA barcodes, from as many species in the state as possible and to make those barcodes available through the Barcode of Life Database (www.boldsystems.org/). All DNA sequencing data will also be made available through GenBank (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/).
"I also plan to image all species in the state and make those images available through the Encyclopedia of Life (http://eol.org/)," Patrick added. "The purpose of the imaging is to take detailed pictures of each species, including pictures necessary to accurately determine the species."
Patrick's research was supported by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant number P20GM103443. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.


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Before I ask the question, I must admit that combinatorics has never been my forte.
I am given a set X of size $n$, we may assume assume $X=\{1,2,...,n\}$. I want to count the partition of this set into subsets of size either 1 or 2. Let's denote the set of such partitions by $T_{n}$. I can find a recurrence equation for $|T_{n}|$. If I take one such partition, then the element $n$ must be in a subset of either size 2 or 1: let $R_{2}$ be the set of partitions in $T_{n}$ where $n$ is in a subset of size 2, and let $R_{1}$ be the set of partitions in $T_{n}$ where $n$ is in a subset of size 1. Then $R_{1}\cup R_{2}=T_{n}$ and their intersection is empty, so $|R_{1}|+ |R_{2}|=|T_{n}|$. In fact $R_{1}$ is simply $T_{n-1}$ and $R_{2}$ is $(n-1)T_{n-2}$ (as I have $n-1$ choices for the element in the same subset in which $n$ lies and then I can partition the remaining $n-2$ elements in $|T_{n-2}|$ ways). So $|T_{n}|=(n-1)|T_{n-1}|+|T_{n-2}|$.
This recurrence relation seems to work (in a very heuristic way, I have checked it for few $n$'s), but I am not sure it is right. I can construct a bijection between $T_{n}$ and the set $U_{n}$ of elements of the symmetric group $S_{n}$ with cycles types which are a sequence of 2's and 1's.
For example, I tried to calculate $|U_{6}|$ as follows: I have a single choice for the permutation of cycle type $(1,1,1,1,1,1)$, $\frac{6!}{2*5!}$ for the permutation with cycle type $(2,1,1,1,1)$, $\frac{6!}{4*4!}$ for the permutation with cycle type $(2,2,1,1)$, and $\frac{6!}{8*3!}$ for the permutation with cycle type $(2,2,2)$ but this gives me $26.5$.
The questions are:
- Is my recurrence relation correct?
- Where is my error in counting the elements of $U_{6}$?
Thank you so much in advance and I hope the questions are clear.
Erratum: I mis-wrote the recurrence relation, it should read $|T_{n}|=(n-1)|T_{n-2}|+|T_{n-1}|$.


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Scott E. Hensley, 41, Grayville, was injured Friday morning from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
Edwards County Sheriff Darby Boewe told WFIW Radio a preliminary investigation revealed that no other parties are believed to be involved in the case.
Hensley was taken to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Ind., for treatment of his injuries. State police, along with the Grayville Police Department and Edwards County Sheriff's Department, are continuing their investigation.
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The classifying space of a group $G$ is given by taking a contractible space $E$ equipped with a free $G$-action, and looking at the quotient, which we dub $BG$. The homotopy type of this space (and thus its cohomology) depend only on $G$, and this gives us one definition of group cohomology.
Now, we can also look at the orbifold $[pt/G]$, and compute its orbifold cohomology (as its regular cohomology is rather uninteresting). For finite groups $G$, we have the isomorphism (see Adem-Leida-Ruan) $$ H^*_{orb}\big([pt/G],\mathbb{C}\big) \cong Z(\mathbb{C}G). $$
We can easily see that for finite groups the cohomology obtained is not the same as we would get from the usual group cohomology.
Why? I understand that the actual constructions are very different, but this seems very unsatisfying to me. Morally this space is a contractible one modulo a free group action, and it is a model of $BG$ if we look at it in the appropriate way, so why shouldn't their cohomologies be the same?


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There are quite a few questions about how to quickly or effectively memorize information. I'm asking this again, because I'm not looking for an answer about how I might ideally do this, but want to know what is the best strategy under the given circumstances.
I have two exams. I have exactly four consecutive half days (five hours each) to prepare for the first exam, and two complete days for the second.
I don't have the time to learn a special memorizing technique or input the learning matter into some nifty software.
I cannot optimize my work-break schedule, and I won't be relaxed and well rested.
Both exams consist in
- memorizing a couple of hundred power point slides with diagrams and lists of terms.
- I must recall the lists and diagrams word by word. It does not help me to understand the gist of the matter.
Given these circumstances, what is the best way to memorize as much as I can in a way that allows me to reliably recall it.


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10 Famous Unsolved Mysteries Easily Explained by Science
The world is full of mysteries, and the human race loves nothing better than to find answers to them. Frequently, though, the answers aren't as popular as the mysteries themselves, and people will just continue right on believing, even when the evidence is right there, why don't you just look?! Just look, you bastard!
#10. Cattle Mutilation
The Mystery
There have been numerous reports of cattle mutilation -- that is, unexplainably dead cows turning up with odd wounds that look to be surgically precise. Their bodies have been split open, and the soft organs inside have been removed. Their eyes, tongues, genitals and anuses may also have been removed. But the most unusual element of all, and the thing that really sets off the Crazy Alarms in people's heads, is that the bodies are always mysteriously drained of blood.
Although the phrase "missing genitals" would drain our blood, too.
Clearly, it's vampires. Or else aliens are doing it to study the cows. Maybe satanic cults are committing ritualistic sacrifices. No, wait: It's unseen monsters like El Chupacabra that are feasting on the livestock!
Well, something is happening, goddamn it.
The Solution
In the 1970s, the ATF and even the FBI investigated the cattle-mutilation phenomenon. Their results? They found no evidence of anything other than natural causes and the occasional psychopath. No cult activity, no aliens, no monsters.
No missing sisters, no cigarette-smoking men, no hot redheads. Working in the FBI is surprisingly dull.
Natural causes that appear as surgical wounds? What about the removed organs? How is that possible? In most cases, scavengers such as foxes, buzzards and other critters that like beef au natural saunter by the decomposing corpse and have a bite or two -- thus the organ removal.
The surgical look comes later, when insects chew at the edges of the wounds. See, flies like soft foods, because flies don't have teeth. Same reason we go to Taco Bell: no standards and less work. And also much like Taco Bell, they prefer the softer parts of the animal: eyes, tongues, genitals, anuses and the rough edges of those aforementioned scavenger wounds. Also, if the animal's been lying around for long enough (or even short periods in the hot sun), it'll bloat and burst open, often with very clean, surgical-looking tears. And then come the maggots, which eat anything they can get their little teeth on.
Via The Telegraph
We just knew you needed to see this again.
They'll chew up whatever's left of those organs and drink the animal's blood, which typically pools to the bottom of the corpse, giving it that nice, cleanly drained look. Look, don't believe us (we certainly don't make a habit out of it), but what better way to demonstrate than a little field experiment? In 1979, an Arkansas sheriff named Herb Marshall got a bunch of complaints about cattle mutilation in his jurisdiction. So he got the idea to take a dead cow, plop it down in a field and film it for 48 hours in what was undoubtedly the worst two-day stakeout since Another 48 Hrs. After the elements and various creatures were done with it, the stakeout cow was indistinguishable from any other animal that had been "mutilated."
Or Nick Nolte's career.
#9. The Nazca Lines of Peru
The Mystery
The Nazca Lines of Peru were discovered in the 1930s, which, coincidentally enough, was right around the time people started flying planes high enough to see them. Much like the time we tried to confess our love to Cindy Lansmoore in 10-foot-high flaming letters on her lawn, ancient man, too, had a thing for crazy imagery that could only be seen from above. The Nazca Lines are large geoglyphs made of shallow lines dug into the earth, revealing the white ground beneath the red rocks that normally cover the area. Some are as large as 900 feet across, and the entire canvas area is about 190 square miles total, or slightly larger than the city of New Orleans.
Via lucdgbxl
Why, yes, that is a 100-foot-man waving at you.
So how did ancient, technologically deprived people build these things accurately, when we could spot them only after we successfully harnessed the power of flight? Some people believe they were either built by or were landing strips intended for visitors from another world. Author Jim Woodman thinks they might have been created by way of rudimentary hot air balloons that could give their passengers a larger view of the landscape. The pilot would direct the artists down below -- presumably by yelling really loudly (unless they also built rudimentary walkie-talkies).
Via theboywiththethorninhisside
The Solution
Woodman actually went out of his way to make a functioning balloon from the materials the Nazca people would have had, and while that's incredibly awesome, there's no evidence that the Nazca had even the vaguest concept of balloons.
Via nott.com
Still, if they did, this would make an awesome ancient South American birthday party.
But there were wooden stakes in the ground that have been carbon-dated to the time of the Nazca, and some researchers speculate that the Nazca may have simply drawn long ropes between the stakes to create the Nazca Lines. Dr. Joe Nickell of the University of Kentucky decided to make some Nazca Lines of his very own, using only methods and equipment the Nazca would have had handy. So three men and an 11-year-old kid set out to make a giant bird in a landfill, and in only a few hours, they did just that.
No aliens -- just a bunch of sweaty dudes who dig birds.
Via Joe Nickell
#8. Klerksdorp Spheres
The Mystery
Klerksdorp spheres, winners of the fiercely competitive "least sexy name in geology" award, are small, rounded, disc-shaped rocks found in a single mine in South Africa. They're described as being perfectly concentric, hard as steel and balanced to a degree that not even NASA can calculate. In fact, NASA has allegedly said that they could only have been constructed in a zero-gravity environment. Also, they've been carbon-dated as being nearly 3 billion years old. Speculation about their creators ranges from an ancient but unspeakably advanced ancestor of humanity to aliens to the followers of the Mighty Klerksdorp, He Who Devours.
Via Wikipedia
Made from the remains of his victims, presumably.
The Solution
We should start by saying that they're not perfectly round: Many are disc-shaped, and they're often intergrown with other stones. They're not as hard as steel, either. Steel's hardness varies depending on alloy, and Klerksdorp spheres are by no means unnaturally hard (tee hee!). They rate about 4 or 5 on the Mohs scale, which is only about halfway up the chart, far below steel's 6 or 7. Also, NASA has never examined them: That's Internet bullshit tacked onto the original information. That's what the Internet does -- you get a free bonus prize of Stupid Lies with every box of Delicious Facts.
"Can be eaten as part of a healthy lifestyle. Massively unsuitable for children."
However, the fact that they're 3 billion years old is true. Klerksdorp spheres are actually the product of a completely natural process known as concretion. Basically, they're just plain old sedimentary rocks that happen to look cool. Don't thank aliens -- thank good old Mother Nature.
Do it.
For the love of God, do it, or she'll sic Australia on you.
#7. Ball Lightning
The Mystery
Ball lightning is kind of like regular lightning, only in convenient travel-ready ball shape. People have been seeing the stuff since the 17th century. There's even some speculation that UFOs are actually misidentified ball lightning. The phenomenon is frequently described as traveling through solid matter, like walls, and has actually killed people. But what is it? Is it just regular lightning with a childlike sense of play? Did God lose his bouncy ball? Is it the disembodied, roving testicle of Thor? It's totally that last one, isn't it?
Via AstronomySquared
Photos that show the phenomenon in action certainly have the same picture quality as ancient porn anyway.
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In 2007, Brazilian scientists discovered that passing large amounts of electricity through a silicon wafer creates a vapor that, once cool, condenses into an aerosol that glows when recombining with oxygen. The result is tiny balls of electricity that "move erratically about the lab, rolling around on the floor, bouncing off objects, and burning whatever they touch."
Via ttyler1999
The only scenario imaginable where it's kind of badass to wear sandals.
You can watch a video of it right here. Those scientists now think that ball lightning occurs when regular lightning strikes ground rich in quartz, or silica (like you find in sand). Other scientists have agreed with the Brazilian group's findings, including John Abrahamson of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, who said, "Their balls are of sufficient duration and size to enter the mainstream ... seen in nature." Immediately followed by "What? What did I say? What's so funny? Guys?"
#6. Mystery Spots
The Mystery
Mystery spots are little roadside joints you'll find dotting all of America's interstate system. The most famous is the creatively named The Mystery Spot near Santa Cruz, Calif. For a modest entrance fee, you can personally experience a variety of odd phenomena: Water runs up an incline, people stand on the walls, balls roll uphill, and to put it technically, your shit just goes all bananas everywhere.
Via Richard Masoner
Water running up, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria!
The owners of The Mystery Spot describe it as a "gravitational anomaly." They speculate that this is probably the result of "cones of metal that were secretly brought here and buried in our earth as guidance systems for [alien] spacecraft." And your bananas-going shit is probably too busy with its own problems to argue with them.
The Solution
If you hadn't noticed from the pictures, everything looks a bit tilted in these places. That's because it is. In fact, it's even more tilted than it looks.
Via Seth Mazow
Scene from Inception 2: Lil' Inceptioneers
Once you're inside, you're unable to establish any kind of horizon or to orient yourself properly, so you have no real way of telling that mystery spot buildings can be tilted by as much as 20 degrees. Berkeley scientists wanted to know just how much the tilt and lack of proper perspective messes with your perception, and they discovered that just looking into a tilted room can dramatically distort your vision. If you're in the room and your body is also tilted, the effect is doubled or even tripled. Things that look like level fields are not, and you even have trouble distinguishing uphill from downhill. So when you're watching a spout of water appear to flow up an inclined pipe, you think you're seeing this:
But you're really seeing this:
And when you think you're seeing this:
You're really seeing this:
All via sandlotscience
There's nothing inherently mysterious about the spot; somebody just built an exceptionally shitty house and charged you to look at it.
We have more interesting DIY accidents every weekend.


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Potty Training Tips from Ali Landry (Video)shellthings
Once your child turns about 18 months old, you start thinking about potty training and gathering up all the potty training tips you can. And, oh, are there a lot of different potty training tips!
I've potty trained two of my boys and am about to start potty training my third. The tips that Ali Landry shares at a Pampers event are good ones. I used very similar tactics to potty train my boys, though I used an alarm on my cell phone to remind my boys it was time to try to go potty instead of a potty training watch like Ali Landry suggests. I think I might try that this time around!
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28 Jun 2011 7:46 AM #1
[CLOSED] Ext GWT 3.0 Explorer Demo ?
Is there a link to a preview version of an Ext GWT 3.0 Explorer. It could be useful to get used to the new APIs.
Or simply some links showing basic widgets working with 3.0 version (like tabbed pane for example).
28 Jun 2011 7:49 AM #2
There is no public one yet. A future developer preview will add a public one.
The API is not yet stable, keep this in mind.
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How should I approach peeling a clove of garlic to get the skin off most quickly? Is it different if I'm doing a bulb whole?
Even with a whole bulb, break it into cloves.
Put clove(s) on a cutting board. I usually cut off the root end of each clove. Lay a large chef's knife flat on the clove, then smack the knife to crush the clove. This breaks the skin of the clove and makes it much easier to peel.
The trick is that you're bruising the clove of garlic a little bit so the paper will release easier -- if you're using a bulb or less, it's not too bad to do the side of the knife press method.
... but if you're cooking up a recipe that calls for a dozen heads, there's an alternate trick:
You can do this with two metal bowls of the same size, pressing together the lip on the rims while shaking. I don't recommend plastic containers, as you might impart a garlic flavor to them that will be difficult to remove.
I take a hint from TV (and my fiancee): smash each clove with the flat part of the knife until the skin breaks, then you can easily take it off.
If you are peeling the whole clove, then you can just smash the whole thing with the flat part of a bigger knife (safety first) and take all the goodies out.
Two methods that work great.
1: Put the garlic cloves into lukewarm water and wait 20-30 minutes.
2: Put the garlic cloves into a tupperware and shake.
I'd use method one for peeling large batches of garlic that you can store in the fridge for a couple of weeks, and method two for immediate use.
Great video on peeling garlic.
It's basically the same method as that described in Joe's answer: Smash the head, put it all (if you need a whole head of garlic) in a large metal bowl, put another metal bowl on top, but upside down, so that the rims overlap, and shake hard for several seconds.
I call these Garlic Cannoli.
Actually, they're simply called "garlic peelers." For Christmas, I gave my wife one of these as a stocking-stuffer. I had seen them in kitchen gadget stores for years, but was always reluctant to get one, believing it was another useless, cheap gadget.
I was wrong!
I used to peel garlic using a knife, but now, with this, I can peel a clove every 5 seconds. It's essentially a silicone or rubber tube. You place the clove inside and lightly press it and roll it on the counter (like you're forming a baguette). Penny for penny, I've never had such a useful gadget (except maybe a silicone spatula).
If you need to keep the cloves whole, there's a nifty little tool that looks like a piece of rubber manicotti, which is specially designed for this purpose. You put a clove of garlic inside, then roll it back and forth on the counter. The clove will pop out the end completely stripped of its skin.
If you don't feel like going out and buying a one-use gadget, a silicone baking mat will probably do the same thing.
If you're going to be chopping the garlic, I find that slicing the garlic in half from base to tip makes it very easy to peel the skin off.
I don't like smashing garlic with my knife for fear of losing a finger. Safety first.
Rather than the "smash" method, I cut a little off each end of the clove and then slice the clove in half, lengthwise. Once it is sliced, the skin peels off easily. Plus, the cut allows for the (2) slices to lay flat for mincing.
This is so far the fastest method I've seen. Just put the garlic in a jar and then shake it.
lay down a knife horizontaly on the cloves and hit it. This will break the clove a bit. Now cut the top, and then the bottom and the shell will be gone.
The side of the garlic clove closest to the core will usually have a flatish edge where the skin is thicker - if you slice at the base of the clove with the flat side down, and then rotate the knife 90 degrees, you will pull off this thick edge off easier, and frequently this will also take the rest of the skin with it.
Try microwaving a clove for between 5-10 seconds and the skin practically falls off. Be careful not to leave them in too long, they'll explode and you'll have a garlicy mess in your microwave.
Break the bulb into cloves, breaking off the bottom and the dry stick that goes up the middle. For each clove, press the ridge that would have been at the centre of the bulb down hard on the chopping board, crushing it. This causes the skin to almost entirely separate from the clove; using a knife at the base it then comes off very easily, you can peel the whole bulb this way in a few tens of seconds.
After you have broken it down into cloves, I usually smash it slightly with my thumb or the side of a knife, and the tough peel (the shell) cracks, making it quite easy to simply peel it by hand.
My wife uses this device that is basically a rubber cylinder that you roll the clove in and it breaks down the shell. It works OK, but I can clove for clove peel quicker than anyone I know ;--)
I do it two different ways: First, if I've been working outdoors a lot and have good calluses on my hands, I'll take a scant palm full of cloves and rub my hands together with the garlic between them over the sink or bin, this takes off most of the skin and loosens what stays behind. Second, if the garlic has large cloves, will hold the bottom and the top of the clove, top by one hand bottom by the other and twist the clove, this loosens the skin.
The technique I use is just a little different from the "crush" method - I like to think of it as the "smack" method. It goes a little faster because you don't need to shift your hands on the knife very much.
After separating a clove, you place it flat on the cutting board and slice off the stem with a chef knife. Having sliced off the stem, you don't really need to "crush" the garlic to get the skin to separate - holding the knife normally by the handle, you can simply give the garlic one good smack with the flat of the tip, pick up the clove by the tail end, and poke it a bit with the knife and the garlic will fall out.
Optionally, something that I personally find easier is not to slice all the way when you are cutting off the stem. If you slice gently and lift up on the clove at the same time, when the knife reaches the skin on the opposite side, it doesn't penetrate the hard skin. The knife keeps the skin pinned down, and as you pull up on the clove, the skin will start to separate. This gives it a good start and makes the garlic part with its skin even more readily.
Cut the end at both sides and down the middle to peel them.
I generally microwave garlic cloves (as suggested by nachito above). 3-5 cloves 12 seconds works for me. Alternatively you can heat a pan and put cloves in it for a few minutes just to heat them up. That will separate the skin easily.
In case you're only going to press (rather than chop) the garlic, you don't even have to skin it. You can just put the whole clove in the press and you'll press the garlic right through its skin.


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Please my washing machine washes clothes but do not dry them ? have you an idea please ? washing machine: arthur martin 500T AW 575 electrolux the program is blocked on the value 4, it passes from 3 to 4 correctly but from 4 to 5 it's blocked (from 4 to 5 it dry the clothes )
when it wants drying, it's blocked and emits noise, so I try to empty myself the water, I reboot and it dry correctly so I think this is an absorption problem??


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Oracle Linux: Free as in Speech AND Free as in Beer
By Monica Kumar-Oracle on Jan 08, 2014
One of the biggest benefits of Oracle Linux is that binaries, patches, errata, and source are always free. Even if you don't have a support subscription, you can download and run exactly the same enterprise-grade distribution that is deployed in production by thousands of customers around the world. You can receive binaries and errata reliably and on schedule, and take advantage of the thousands of hours Oracle spends testing Oracle Linux every day. And, of course, Oracle Linux is completely compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so switching to Oracle Linux is easy.
CentOS is another Linux distribution that offers free binaries with Red Hat compatibility. Traditionally, CentOS has been used for Linux systems which do not require support in order to reduce or avoid expensive Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription costs. Recently, Red Hat announced it was "joining forces" with the CentOS project, hiring many the key CentOS developers, and "building a new CentOS." This is a curious development given that the primary factors that have made CentOS popular are that it is free and Red Hat compatible.
It would be natural for existing CentOS users to wonder what Red Hat actually has in mind for the "new CentOS" when the FAQ accompanying the announcement states that Red Hat does not recommend CentOS for production deployment, is not recommending mixed CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments, will not support JBoss and other products on CentOS, and is not including CentOS in Red Hat's developer offerings designed to create "applications for deployment into production environments."
If Red Hat truly wished to satisfy the key requirements of most CentOS users, they would take a much simpler step: they would make Red Hat Enterprise Linux binaries, patches, and errata available for free download – just like Oracle already does.
Fortunately, no matter what future CentOS faces in Red Hat's hands, Oracle Linux offers all users a single distribution for development, testing, and deployment, for free or with a paid support subscription. Oracle does not require customers to buy a subscription for every server running Oracle Linux (or any server running Oracle Linux). If a customer wants to pay for support for production systems only, that's the customer's choice. The Oracle model is simple, economical, and well suited to environments with rapidly changing needs.
Oracle is focused on providing what we have since day one – a fast, reliable Linux distribution that is completely compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, coupled with enterprise class support, indemnity, and flexible support policies. If you are CentOS user, or a Red Hat user, why not download and try Oracle Linux today? You have nothing to lose – after all, it's free!


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Lost Girl is a Canadian supernatural crime drama television series that premiered on Showcase on September 12, 2010.It follows the life of a succubus named Bo, played by Anna Silk, as she learns to control her abilities, helps those in need, and discovers the truth about her origins.
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Which episode is the 'tick tick boom' image captured from?
I was browsing around on the internet recently, as you do, and came across this image, which is a picture of Kenzi from Lost Girl; To save me from watching both series of Lost Girl again to find ...
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How come Lauren isn't harmed during her relationship with Bo?
In the TV show 'Lost Girl', Bo is a succubus, and succubi survive by feeding off the sexual energy of others, which can lead to death of the 'food' during the process. Up until recently, Bo went a ...
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Where is Lost Girl supposed to be based?
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I have a new, 3-year old, high-efficiency furnace in my home. Last year it started making a slight whining noise that was audible during the very first stage, before the blower motor started. No problems. Some weeks ago I started to hear a rumbling noise when the furnace kicks on--again, first stage, it's not the blower. The rumbling sounds a bit like the noise my fridge fan makes when its a little off balance. What might be causing this?
I'd have a look at your draft inducer motor. Do a Google image search for "Furnace draft inducer" to see what it looks like. I has the same kind of impeller as your main blower but on a smaller scale. You may have some debris in there.
I'm assuming since you mentioned a blower motor that you have forced hot air. Your system has two thermostats -- the one you use to set the room temperature controls the burner, and a separate thermostat internal to the furnace controls the blower fan, switching it on when the burner has warmed things up enough to not make a cold draft, and back off when things have cooled down after the burner has been shut off.
You are probably hearing the burner -- if oil, there is a motor, which may have a small vibration; if gas, you could be hearing the combustion air being sucked in, or possibly the solenoid that controls the gas valve.
I have the same situation with a relatively new Lennox furnace (this came with the house, which was built new in 2008). The furnace ran OK for all of two years, and now: every time the thermostat calls for heat, there's this rumbling / vibrating noise. I've isolated it to the cowl that covers the draft inducer motor.
In my case, the only option is to put in a new inducer motor - your mileage may vary.


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4 Aug 2011 5:26 PM #1
Integrating Sencha Animator Result with Sencha Touch
Can the results of Sencha Animator be shown in Sencha Touch application ?
If it is possible, is there any tutorial to do this ?
5 Aug 2011 12:34 PM #2
Yeah, that should be possible.
You can use an iframe to refer to the exported animation.
As for learning more about Sencha Touch, you can find more info in the learn section and the Sencha Touch forums.
Something like this might work:
var animationPanel = new Ext.Panel({ fullscreen: true, html: '<iframe src="path/to/export.html" width="300" height="300"></iframe>' });
7 Oct 2011 8:00 AM #3
Integrating animator without an iframe
Is there another Sencha Touch way to do this without an iframe?
Some people have mentioned using Ext.Ajax.request but I can't find any working examples of this.
Thank you,
7 Oct 2011 9:40 AM #4
If you don't mind getting your hands dirty, you could copy the html and the css (and js if needed) manually. Note that this might lead to some namespace conflicts and you need to go over the css rules to make sure they don't affect other elements on your page (in particular there is a ol and li rule that is currently global).
We're planning to make this easier in the future!
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Free smiles are just what the doctor ordered at Chandler Park Dental Care today.
Hundreds in Bowling Green lined up for their chance to get free dental services.
The Third Annual Smiles from the Heart Event aims at giving back to the community.
"It means I can smile and feel good about smiling,"says Lynette, a Patient
While most aren't excited about going to the dentist many waited in line, some overnight, to get free dental work.
"I had a filling to save a front tooth,"says Lynette.
"Today I had two fillings. It was not as bad as I was expecting it was actually pleasant,"says Lee Cox.
"They get a choice between a filling, extraction, or a cleaning,"says Dr. Eli Jackson, of Chandler Park Dental Care.
Dentists from Chattanooga...
"I hope I can help fill a need even with our health care reforms we have there are still holes and there's still people that need some help,"says Terrence Major, a Dentist from Chattanooga.
And even as far as South Carolina lent a helping hand.
"A lot of folks just kind of fall between the cracks and don't have the ability to get the proper dental care or even get to a dentist,"says Bobby Collins.
"One of the reasons I let my cavity go is because I don't have health or dental insurance so I can't afford to go out and get a cavity filled just whenever I need it filled,"says Cox.
"It just takes so much to get by anymore you just let things like that go, things you can do without,"says one patient who got her teeth cleaned.
But Collins says a healthy smile means a longer life.
"Dental hygiene is directly related to the health and well being of our body because it's the place where germs enter our body."
For Dr.. Eli Jackson it's all about giving back to those in need.
"Their not alone in their struggles,"says Jackson.
"What they have done today is a blessing,"says Lynette.
Jackson says they will see nearly 300 patients which totals almost $90,000 in dental work.
They saw between 25 and 30 people an hour starting at seven this morning and ending at five this evening.
Dentists came from as far as Texas and Pennsylvania.


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With the help of osm2po, I have successfully inserted the contents of the italian files (italy.osm.pbf) in a pgrouting-enabled database (postgresql 8.4)
It displays fine in Qgis, using rule based labeling (thanks to underdark for the .qml file).
Now I wonder: how can I find out what attributes are included in the .pbf and how to control what tags / flags are imported in the database? Any help very much appreciated.


text: I think everyone remembers this guy from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs right? This is "how to draw Brent McHale from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs". In the sequel, Brent is consistently wearing a chicken suit which means he is not going to look like the image you see before you now. His face remains the same, but his clothing will be different because like I said his suit is that of a chicken. Drawing Brent or Baby Brent will be easier than you think because he too is a simple figure. His big smile that shows his pearly whites is what the confident Brent looked like, in part two he is humble and a lot less arrogant. I have to bounce out of here for now but I shall return. Keep your eyes peeled for more to come folks. Adios and good luck.


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I was thinking, with the books Minecraft has come out with, it's time to replace those 500 blocks worth of signs with a simple book. Is there a Bukkit Plugin that will automatically give new users a rulebook?
The BookRules plugin might be exactly what you are looking for:
It's pretty simple to use:
A plugin that would be nice would be a book read plugin keeping all new player in prison as long as they haven't finished reading the rule book.
You can use the tools referred to in the answer to my question Is there a bukkit plugin to run small scripts when players (re)spawn?, namely Autorun command's


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I'm fairly new to wordpress. I'm trying to develop a website with search option to find available room information.
I would like to add a search box where people would be able to enter their information and hit the Search button. Then it'll display the available rooms. Something like the below website
If it's a duplicate question please accept my apologies.