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U.S. Catholic bishops not satisfied with contraception mandate revision.
Given the initial response of critics of the Obama administration's contraception-coverage mandate (except for one lone welcoming voice), it's not terribly surprising that Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, has announced his displeasure with last Friday's proposed revision. Here's his statement in full. Analysis later.
For almost a century, the Catholic bishops of the United States have worked hard to support the right of every person to affordable, accessible, comprehensive, life-affirming healthcare.As we continue to do so, our changeless values remain the same.We promote the protection of the dignity of all human life and the innate rights that flow from it, including the right to life from conception to natural death; care for the poorest among us and the undocumented; the right of the Church to define itself, its ministries, and its ministers; and freedom of conscience.Last Friday, the Administration issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the HHS mandate that requires coverage for sterilization and contraception, including drugs that may cause abortions.The Administration indicates that it has heard some previously expressed concerns and that it is open to dialogue.With release of the NPRM, the Administration seeks to offer a response to serious matters which have been raised throughout the past year.We look forward to engaging with the Administration, and all branches and levels of government, to continue to address serious issues that remain. Our efforts will require additional, careful study.Only in this way can we best assure that healthcare for every woman, man and child is achieved without harm to our first, most cherished freedom.
In evaluating Friday's action regarding the HHS mandate, our reference remains the statement of our Administrative Committee made last March, United for Religious Freedom, and affirmed by the entire body of bishops in June 2012.In that statement, we first expressed concern over the mandate's "exceedingly narrow" four-part definition of "religious employer," one that exempted our houses of worship, but left "our great ministries of service to our neighbors, namely, the poor, the homeless, the sick, the students in our schools and universities, and others in need" subject to the mandate.This created "a 'second class' of citizenship within our religious community," "weakening [federal law's] healthy tradition of generous respect for religious freedom and diversity."And the exemption effectuated this distinction by requiring "among other things, [that employers] must hire and serve primarily those of their own faith."On Friday, the Administration proposed to drop the first three parts of the four-part test.This might address the last of the concerns above, but it seems not to address the rest.The Administration's proposal maintains its inaccurate distinction among religious ministries. It appears to offer second-class status to our first-class institutions in Catholic health care, Catholic education, and Catholic charities. HHS offers what it calls an "accommodation," rather than accepting the fact that these ministries are integral to our Church and worthy of the same exemption as our Catholic churches. And finally, it seems to take away something that we had previouslythe ability of an exempt employer (such as a diocese) to extend its coverage to the employees of a ministry outside the exemption.Second, United for Religious Freedom explained that the religious ministries not deemed "religious employers" would suffer the severe consequence of "be[ing] forced by government to violate their own teachings within their very own institutions."After Friday, it appears that the government would require all employees in our "accommodated" ministries to have the illicit coveragethey may not opt out, nor even opt out for their childrenunder a separate policy.In part because of gaps in the proposed regulations, it is still unclear how directly these separate policies would be funded by objecting ministries, and what precise role those ministries would have in arranging for these separate policies.Thus, there remains the possibility that ministries may yet be forced to fund and facilitate such morally illicit activities. Here, too, we will continue to analyze the proposal and to advocate for changes to the final rule that reflect these concerns.Third, the bishops explained that the "HHS mandate creates still a third class, those with no conscience protection at all:individuals who, in their daily lives, strive constantly to act in accordance with their faith and moral values."This includes employers sponsoring and subsidizing the coverage, insurers writing it, and beneficiaries paying individual premiums for it.Friday's action confirms that HHS has no intention to provide any exemption or accommodation at all to this "third class."In obedience to our Judeo-Christian heritage, we have consistently taught our people to live their lives during the week to reflect the same beliefs that they proclaim on the Sabbath.We cannot now abandon them to be forced to violate their morally well-informed consciences.Because the stakes are so high, we will not cease from our effort to assure that healthcare for all does not mean freedom for few.Throughout the past year, we have been assured by the Administration that we will not have to refer, pay for, or negotiate for the mandated coverage.We remain eager for the Administration to fulfill that pledge and to find acceptable solutionswe will affirm any genuine progress that is made, and we will redouble our efforts to overcome obstacles or setbacks.Thus, we welcome and will take seriously the Administration's invitation to submit our concerns through formal comments, and we will do so in the hope that an acceptable solution can be found that respects the consciences of all.At the same time, we will continue to stand united with brother bishops, religious institutions, and individual citizens who seek redress in the courts for as long as this is necessary.
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Why do politicians pay so much attention to Dolan et al? Don't these folks realize that most Catholics don't give a stinkin' hoot for the pontificating by the hierarchs (or, God forbid, am I wrong on this point)?As for Dolan's "third class", I have to wonder why employers opposed to war, nonetheless, still "pony up" taxes in full to Uncle Sam ("I want you").Go, Sebelius!!!Go, Obama!!!
Are they moving the goal-posts (again)? I don't remember them demanding an opt-out before for employees. Referring to the coverage as "illicit" is certainly odd. I don't think I've ever seen the claim that the mere existence of the coverage violates the conscience of the insured individual.
It was a USCCB staffer who initially spoke about a hypothetical Catholic Taco Bell owner. And you're right, Eduardo. Catholic teaching doesn't hold that things are evil in themselves. It's what we do with them that confers the moral aspect. More soon.
"...our changeless values remain the same."Well, yes, that's the way with changeless things, isn't it?
Three things leap out for me (only a quick read, so correct me if I misunderstand.) One:
After Friday, it appears that the government would require all employees in our "accommodated" ministries to have the illicit coveragethey may not opt out, nor even opt out for their childrenunder a separate policy.
It sounds like Dolan believes that the gov't plans to put every man, woman and child in the US on prescription contraception, which is clearly not the case. Isn't there a meaningful difference between what is covered by insurance and what one opts to receive? There is a requirement for informed consent to medical care: anyone who believes that contraception (or anything else covered to which one has moral objections,) is wrong need not use it. Simple as that. As far as I know, there is NO AUTHORITATIVE MAGISTERIAL TEACHING saying that insurance coverage for contraception is morally wrong. And why would it be? Policy questions should be based on questions of the common good. Overwhelming medical/public health evidence demonstrates that it does contribute to the common good. Including reducing abortions, too.Two:
In part because of gaps in the proposed regulations, it is still unclear how directly these separate policies would be funded by objecting ministries, and what precise role those ministries would have in arranging for these separate policies.Thus, there remains the possibility that ministries may yet be forced to fund and facilitate such morally illicit activities.
No funding is required. Has no one informed Cdl. Dolan of this? My understanding is that if you have coverage from an employer who does not wish to have his hands sullied with this, the insurance company is required to contact the covered person directly. The insured have access to this coverage because they are employed Americans. The employer has no responsibility except insofar as he employs people in a nation that makes health policy decisions based on medical, not religious, criteria. Three:
the "HHS mandate creates still a third class, those with no conscience protection at all:individuals who, in their daily lives, strive constantly to act in accordance with their faith and moral values.This includes employers sponsoring and subsidizing the coverage, insurers writing it, and beneficiaries paying individual premiums for it.
Here's that moral imagination thing again: the powerful (employers, insurers,) are worthy of conscience protection, not employees. And the "beneficiaries" again misstates what has been made clear. It does not cost extra. Honestly! If this is all about conscience, why not draft laws for insurance coverage as widely as possible and throw all one's moral muscle into conscience formation?
Yes, it may be "illicit" to have to provide coverage for these services, but it isn't illicit to have that coverage. At least it never was up to this point.
I wonder if these guys realize the extent to which this latest in an ever-increasing line of nonsense diminishes (even more) the value of their leadership to their "flocks" and, equally importantly, how they are viewed in the eyes of the rest of the country?Do they really think that the Obama administration will give them any more than lip-service after this latest goal-post switching? How can you negotiate with someone who keeps changing her/his mind? Obama learned his lesson in THAT respect during his last 4 years of trying to deal with Teapublican politicians. He now knows quite will how to deal with Teapublican bishops.If this is an example of what George Weigel is referring to as Evangelical Catholicsim on the offense (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/evangelical-cathol...), God save us all from an obviously offensive Evangelical Catholicism.
As I understand the state of play with Obamacare, if the mandate is out, so are the insurance companies, and it's back to the drawing board. And now Cardinal Dolan has offered up a demand for a user-option mandate. Which is a contradiction in terms. As any insurance company can see.So, after "almost a century," the bishops got what they wanted. And they don't want it.
My summary of Cardinal Dolan's statement is, "We're going to study these proposals; this isn't everything we wanted; we'd like to work with the administration to get more of what we wanted." Perhaps that's a glass-half-empty way of looking at it (although I don't think there is anything in the tone of the statement that is particularly war-like), but the glass is only half full - or less than half full.
Overwhelming medical/public health evidence demonstrates that it does contribute to the common good. Including reducing abortions, too.Lisa,I think your 'overwhelming' is wishful thinking. "Finally, a several-decades-long experiment with the relationship between widely available contraception and rates of unintended pregnancy shows the following results, which directly contradict the IOMs claims: It is the women who have been receiving free birth control for decades, who are the most likely today to experience unintended pregnancies, non-marital pregnancies, and abortions. Even among American women generally, rates of unintended pregnancy, non-marital pregnancies, and abortions have risen, not fallen, alongside the vastly expanded availability of both contraception and abortion. There is simply no evidence that making contraception free among employed women and their daughters will lower the national rate of unintended pregnancy, or abortions."
Is there anyone who is surprised by Cdl Dolan's response? Is there anyone commenting whose reaction to Cdl Dolan's response could not have been expected? On the HHS mandate, this is the pattern.Obama speaks.Chaput barks.Dolan complains.JJ and Jim McCrea post a shrill criticism of Dolan.Eduardo, Mollie and Tom, a less shrill but no less expected criticism of the same.Lisa backs it up by methodically exposing flaws in Dolan's response.Jim Pauwels defends Dolan by putting on his incurable optimist's glasses to look at the response.We are in a rut.
Is anyone really surprised that the hierarchs would again find some obscure reason to oppose women exercising their human rights over their own bodies? The hierarchs will never be satisfied until the US government agrees to enforce their anti-feminine ideology on all individuals regardless of individual conscience and belief.Of course, this kind of passive aggressive manipulation is par for course in the Catholic all-male feudal oligarchy. This is how life is lived along the banks of the Tiber.Yet another example of why the hierarchs are hopelessly alienated and ever increasingly irrelevant to the lives of Catholics. Only childless misogynists like Catholic hierarchs could elevate cognitive dissonance to the level of high art and ritual.During the last presidential campaign many of us Catholic Obama-supporters tried to warn the administration that hierarchs would continue to try to jerk the President around to demonstrate their own self-importance. The President's campaign believes that for political reasons they have to continue to dance with the devils because the of the growing importance of Catholic voters [read Latinos] to the Democratic coalition. They figure they have to keep this up for the near future until this growing Latino electoral behemoth is safely corralled for the Democrats.
It occurred to me that Dolan is displaying the same "cluelessness" and mindlessness that enabled Roger Mahony to corrupt his high office by his complicity for years in the rape and sodomy of children.I guess this could be considered the hierarchs at least being consistent.
I agree with Jim Pauweis. It's a moderate statement and looks forward to further conversation.
Jim McCrea: I clicked on the link to George Weigel's article about his vision of evangelical Catholicism. However, I did not follow something he said. So I am wondering if you or others follow his thought.I WILL TYPE THE PART OF HIS STATEMENT THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IN ALL CAPS.He says, "The curtain is coming down on the institutionally-focused Catholicism of the Counter-Reformation -- THE CHURCH IN WHICH EVERY CATHOLIC UNDER 50 GREW UP -- as the curtain rises on the Gospel-focused evangelical Catholicism of the third millennium."Did he mis-type "under 50" where he should have typed "over 50"?If he did not mis-type, then why did he seemingly exclude all Catholics over 50?Or is there some other meaning to this statement that I missed?(I understand that my inquiry about this quote is off the topic that Grant Gallicho introduced in this thread.)
Eduardo Pealver wrote:I commented on this in Grant's newer post "What Bishop's Want"My guess is that the issue is mostly about Catholic parents being able to prevent their children (who may be covered until they are 26 years old) from getting free contraceptives through the parent's plan. if they reject the contraception plan it cuts off their kids, too. If it had to do only with the parent, a Catholic employee could just not use contraceptives her/himself even if she/he automatically received a policy. The bishops may have a chance of getting this change. This is a new issue that they havent brought up before. It lends itself to a campaign about "would you want a young girl to be able to get free birth control without her parents' knowledge?"
Sorry, in my post just above I omitted what Eduardo had writtenEduardo Pealver wrote:"Are they moving the goal-posts (again)? I dont remember them demanding an opt-out before for employees. Referring to the coverage as illicit is certainly odd. I dont think Ive ever seen the claim that the mere existence of the coverage violates the conscience of the insured individual."I commented on this in Grants newer post What Bishops Want, etc
I can only wish that the Obama Administration would send a very NY-kind of message to Dolan: Go pound salt!If you wanted to see Catholic hierarchs get real cooperative with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama Administration should signal its allies on the left to start filling lawsuits that would seek to strip any non-profit organization that can't comply with the equal protection provisions of the 14th Amendment of any and all Federal money which subsidizes their corporate operations.If this were done, the Administration could drive a wedge between Catholic universities/colleges and hospitals and Catholic hierarchs. These institutions could not survive economically without Federal money. Catholic hospitals could not survive without Medicare or Medicaid funding. ND's golden dome would have to be melted down if they had to go without access to Federal student loan support.If it weren't for the fact that politically the Democrats need the Latino community firmly in their coalition if they are to win future elections. On the bright side, if Republicans fumble the ball again on immigration and a host of other issues important to Latinos - as it seems they have a death wish to do so - then trying to make nice with Dolan and his brother hierarchs won't matter much anyway in the long run politically. This small window of political opportunity for the hierarchs is closing very fast, and not a minute too soon.
I am glad to see most commentors on this issue finally realizing that freedom of religious conscience is an individual right,not a "Corporate/Bosses" right to oppress the free rights of their underlings to decide "religious" issues themselves. Will some of these Corps help the church enforce Sunday Mass attendance?


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A player in a 8th level campaign against giants is a shadow dancer. He has a pet shadow that does strength damage and is incorpreal. The question is, can a humanoid like a giant ever hit the shadow without magic weapons? Or can the shadow kill a whole city of giants by doing touch attacks and draining their strength while being completely safe from harm? Seems like a unbalancing ability!
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A Shadow is incorporeal. Incorporeal creatures can be hit only by magical weapons which do 50% damage. They are immune to nonmagical damage, regardless of magnitude (goes with the whole walking through walls thing).
Yes, it's pretty spiffy to be immune to something. More spiffy than simple energy resistance, less spiffy that immunity to magic like golems have. This would be a problem for a city of giants with no magic weapons, spellcasters, or clerics. Those are rare.
And if they happen to have one and grease the Shadowdancer's shadow, he gets a permanent negative level for his trouble. That's the game balance right there. A hill giant with a magic club (or a club some adept casts magic weapon or shillelagh or whatever) is likely going to kill it in one round, certainly before its strength is appreciably drained.
As has been mentioned, yes, this is how it works.
Addressing game balance: 3.x has almost none. The game is wildly, unbelievably imbalanced. (See here for a brief discussion of the Tiers and relevant links; it's not everything but it would be off-topic to go into much detail)
For a Despite claims to the contrary, Paizo did almost nothing significant to address this fact (and they made things a little bit worse almost as much as they made things a little bit better, but in all cases it's always a very little bit). See here for a very thorough 3.5/Pathfinder comparison by a fan of Pathfinder. I've linked to the conclusion that regardless of what else changed, it's still the same game with a lot of the same problems and Pathfinder didn't fix them.
So to begin with, you shouldn't really be expecting much.
But this is not really a great example of severe imbalance. Basically, you cannot get the Shadowdancer's Summon Shadow ability until ECL 8. By that time, creatures without magic are not real threats. DR/magic, occasionally in large quantities, is available by that level. 4th-level spells make life extremely difficult for the magically challenged (e.g. solid fog alone can end entire encounters against creatures who rely on physical attacks and do not have access to freedom of movement or teleportation effects).
So if you're throwing non-magical enemies at anyone who has Summon Shadow, you're doing some thing wrong.

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At the moment, I am working on the currency part of the game but I'm confused whether I should assign a unique serial number for every unit of the currency generated.
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6 Things You Use Every Day Made Smaller Than a Human Hair
It's practically dogma in today's technological age that everything has to be smaller. It wasn't too long ago that you needed a backpack to carry your cellphone, and now one can almost fit inside your ear. But the next frontier is all about making things "nano" size -- devices so tiny that they're invisible to the naked eye. And we're telling you, this stuff is going to make the future seriously weird. Already we've got ...
#6. A Hard Drive Made from Only 12 Atoms
Conventionally, researchers make stuff smaller by taking the smallest thing we have already and seeing if they can shrink it a little bit. But IBM decided to just skip to the end and figure out what was the smallest possible thing that they could make work, starting with one goddamn atom. Eventually they wound up with a bit of computer memory storage constructed out of just 12 atoms:
That, or it's a picture of a black light sex toy. Our files aren't labelled especially well.
To put it in context, your iPod can hold around 10,000 songs, give or take. This thing is about a million times denser than an iPod hard drive. So if you equipped an iPod with a bunch of these, you could store around 10 billion songs, assuming that scaling it up to that size wouldn't, we don't know, create a supernova (the dangers of nanotechnology are poorly understood, at least by us). We can say that the researchers were able to stick eight of these together to create one byte of memory, so there's that.
This can store roughly 1/3rd of a nipple.
Otherwise, the only problem (despite the fact that no Chinese sweatshop kids have hands small enough to assemble them) is that right now this thing requires something called a scanning tunneling microscope to operate, which is a device that most people don't have readily on hand. The atoms also have to be kept incredibly cold, or else it opens up a rift in the space-time continuum or something.
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Keeping things cold to avert disaster is a field we have some experience in.
Either way, the experiment shows that data can be stored at a size way, way smaller than science once thought possible, so maybe we're not far from a smartphone so tiny that you could lose it forever with a hard sneeze.
#5. Nanovolcanoes
Don't be alarmed, but researchers at North Carolina State University have successfully created tiny volcanoes. And they want to put them inside your body.
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Was that a pickup line?
See the scale there that shows what 500 nanometers looks like compared to the volcano? Well, an average flea is about 2 million nanometers long. So what we're saying is that an average flea penis would crush that shit like Godzilla.
So what's the point of a tiny little nanovolcano? Fortunately, these aren't mad scientists, and they don't plan on holding the world to ransom with the threat of unleashing a natural disaster inside your intestines. Nanovolcanoes are here to help. Specifically, they're designed to release drugs into your system, instead of horrible, horrible magma. The insides can hold little particles of medicine:
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Tiny amounts of vinegar and baking soda optional.
Nobody likes having to remember to take pills, so why not let a tiny volcanic eruption do all the work for you? By regulating the size of the cavity and the opening at the tip, scientists think they can custom make a volcano that will release a specific, regulated amount of a drug into your body, hopefully without the risk of it going all Mount Vesuvius on your insides.
According to science, the volcanoes are created by shining light through a crystal ball made of synthetic polymer onto nanoparticles that have been placed on a thin film. We're going to have to take their word for it. The only thing we're taking away from this is the image of tiny viruses running screaming as their virus-towns get leveled like a tiny Pompeii.
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If you look really closely, you can see a tiny virus Tommy Lee Jones collecting a paycheck.
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As if scientists aren't accused of playing God often enough, the crazy guys at the Wyss Institute at Harvard have gone right ahead and created what might be the building blocks of life. And we do mean building blocks -- what they've basically done is make a LEGO set out of DNA.
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Don't be fooled by the size: They're still insanely painful to step on.
Using a lot of science that we're hardly qualified to understand, the Wyss team engineered certain types of DNA in certain ways, and they have managed to create a bunch of 25-nanometer cubes that interlock to build bigger DNA structures. If you can't picture 25 nanometers, just pluck a hair from your head. That hair is 4,000 times thicker than one of these blocks.
As for what they could be used for, the scientists are notably vague on that point, and we can probably assume that they did it just to see if they could. But they speculate that the technology mostly has applications in medicine -- theoretically, it could lead to designer drugs that could be driven right to where the body needs them.
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Nothing says "legitimate medical applications" like tiny LSD sheets.
Aside from this futuristic robo bacteria, there is more to the shape of genetic nanostructures than mere ease of transportation. Enzymes work by integrating and breaking down proteins of a certain shape, for example. These building blocks may allow scientists to restructure the shape of proteins to make them more easily digestible.
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MrTattieHeid wrote:It's okay, Musky, there's always Whisky Live Kenora.
hpulley wrote:I too am underwhelmed so far. Richard Paterson alone might be worth the ticket, however and I still hold out hope for the other three which are still TBA. Still haven't bought my tickets though.
Actually the oak aged beer and the ale casked whisky and the 17yo Balvenie do look somewhat interesting so that might be a second masterclass for me to take. We'll see...
hpulley wrote:The exhibitor list is also very sad right now. I hope they will expand and update it soon or I will give it a miss again this year.
hpulley wrote:At this point it isn't looking like it is worth $100 and an afternoon just to see his talk. As I said above I hope the masterclasses and exhibitors lists fill out soon... or else I won't be there.
Direwolf wrote:My wife and I are considering going to Whisky Live Toronto. It would be our first, and are curious to know if it's worth taking the train in from Montreal?
However, from the look of the exhibitors, it doesn't seem promising. Having been to New York several times, it almost seems that Whisky Week in New York, which coincides with National Tartan Day and Whisky Live New York, which I missed by a few hours, is a lot more fun.
Any advice?
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BARNESVILLE - The roots of the Thanksgiving celebration sparked an "epic" discussion at Olney Friends School, where students examined the traditional account of the Pilgrims' feast and its role in American culture.
Humanities teacher Emily Carton introduced freshmen to the topic by reading "The Very First Thanksgiving Day" by Rhonda Gowler Green, a children's book illustrated with paintings by Susan Gaber. The simple story and vivid images made it easy for student to identify and analyze important elements of the tale.
As part of a unit focused on epic compositions, Carton's students explored the various elements of the Thanksgiving story. As with other epics they had studied, including "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and the "Ramayana," students were able to identify the story's heroes, their friends and enemies, the challenges they faced on their journey and the resolution of their conflicts.
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Olney Friends School Humanities teacher Emily Carton, above, leads a discussion of the Thanksgiving story and its role as an American epic.
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The class also considered "The True Story of Thanksgiving" as told by a national news publication. That article termed the fabled partnership between the Pilgrims and the American Indians a "fairly recent fiction." It described the clash of cultures that occurred along the eastern seaboard as Europeans arrived and colonized North America, including the settlers' poor planning and lack of survival skills.
In September, 1620, the Mayflower sailed from England with 102 passengers on board. The group, consisting mainly of religious separatists, traveled for 66 days before reaching the coast of Massachusetts. There they hoped to find religious freedom, abundant resources and prosperity.
Most passengers remained aboard the ship through the brutal winter months with only half surviving until spring. After moving ashore in March, the Pilgrims encountered Indians, including the famous Squanto, who helped them learn to survive and thrive in the New World.
A celebration of their successful harvest the following fall inspired the modern-day accounts of the "first Thanksgiving," though that festival probably did not include many of the foods we associate with Thanksgiving today.
Not only did Carton want to help students understand why the Thanksgiving story fits the mold of an epic, but she also hoped they would challenge the story and develop critical thinking skills.
"Epics reinforce societal and cultural values, but they aren't always true. The reason epics exit is to transmit values from generation to generation," she said. "Epics reflect our ideal - the values to which we aspire. An epic is not always true, but it serves its own purpose."
Carton's students determined that the traditional tale's messages about togetherness, hard work and thankfulness reinforce American cultural values. They also were inspired by the story's portrayal of the Pilgrims as brave and pioneering individuals.
"It makes you want to be a hero," one student said.
Following their exploration of the Thanksgiving epic, students shared epics they had composed with the rest of the class. Each of those stories focused on a class member, who served as the hero of the yarn.
Humanities classes at Olney blend the study of literature, history and geography. Those courses utilize the Harkness method of discussion, which helps students improve the way they listen and speak. Sitting in a circle, the students discuss the topic at hand while their teacher maps the conversation. At the end of the discussion, group members review their interactions and consider how they could improve.
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I placed a bounty on a question of mine, and got no answers. Instead of the bounty going away when it expired, it's still hanging out there. I don't need the rep back, I just want to create another bounty and can't.
Since the 23rd June 2011 all bounties have a 24 hour grace period after the usual 7 days, in which the person offering the bounty can award it. At the end of this 24 hour grace period the bounty will be automatically awarded or discarded following the previous rules.
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The How does the bounty system work? faq post is also helpful, specifically relevant here is the point What happens if there's no answer after the bounty period?
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I had the impression that 何 is pretty common kanji and that it is used in situations as above (after all, 今 is there, so it is not that it wanted to be hiragana-only). Do I understand it right that it could be written as 今何してる and if yes, what is the reason it is written 今なにしてる instead?
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As ジョン said, 今なにしてる could be written as 今何してる. However, I can think of two plausible reasons why they write 今なにしてる instead of 今何してる.
First, hiragana gives more informal and casual impression than kanji. I do not know the overall tone of text used on Facebook, but I assume that it is quite informal, judging from the colloquial expression してる (instead of している), so writing なに in hiragana is aligned with this casual atmosphere they want to give.
Second, some people prefer to avoid writing two kanji letters in a row when they do not form one word, because two kanji letters suggest that they form a Sino-Japanese word. Compare 今何してる to 勉強してる and notice that 今何 may look like one word, especially if you are not paying attention.
Other answers are correct, I just want to add one more thing:
My gut feeling is that なに is sometimes likely to be written in hiragana because it's a simple interrogative word. Most (simple) interrogative words, like どれ, なぜ, どう, いつ, どこ either do not have kanji renditions or their kanji renditions are rarely used. The same can be said for other simple determiners, like これ, この etc.
だれ does have a commonly used kanji rendition, but I claim that for the same reason as なに, it's sometimes likely to be written in hiragana.


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TORONTO - Steubenville Post 33 is one victory away from the claiming the Region 7 American Legion Baseball Tournament championship.
Donnie Young's club used a bean, a couple of blasts and some clutch pitching to clip Alliance Post 166 7-5 in the winner's bracket final Saturday at the Knight Baseball Complex.
The victory moves Post 33, now 29-9, into Monday's title game, set to start at 4 p.m. Steubenville will meet the survivor of today's loser's bracket action. Wayne County and Tusky County are set to tangle at 3 p.m. That winner will face Alliance at 6 p.m. Both games are scheduled for the KBC.
A Post 33 triumph Monday will send Steubenville to the state Legion tournament. A loss will lead to a second game at 7 p.m.
Steubenville grabbed the lead for good during its first at-bat Saturday. Bryan Pierro was clipped by Michael Whitaker's second pitch of the game. Lefty John Linn followed with a towering shot off the foul pole in left. Initially, the home plate umpire called Linn's blast foul. After a brief conversation with the third base ump, he changed his call and Linn touched them all, putting Post 33 up 2-0.
"That really set the tone," Young said of Linn's dinger. "We had some good at bats all the way through. Unfortunately we did leave too many guys on (Post 33 stranded 12 runners while Alliance left 13 on). That's a real good team over there and fortunately, we were able to get started early tonight."
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POST 33 (29-9): Zorne (WP, 4BB, 6K, 1HB) Murphy (6, 2BB, 2K, 1HB) A. Young (Save, 1BB, 0K) and McClurg. A. Young T, 2S; Pierro 2S; Linn HR, 2RBI; Colabella RBI; Panella D, S, RBI; Corsi HR, S, 2RBI.
POST 166 (22-8-1): Whitaker (LP, 0BB, 2K, 3HB) Minnich (6, 4BB, 3K, 1HB) Inge (9, 0BB, 0K) and Bugara. Taylor S; Strata S; Bugara S; Blevins 2S; Cannon S, RBI; McConnell S, RBI; Beech S.
Alliance, which saw its record drop to 22-8-1, plated an unearned run in the second off Post 33 starter and winner Anthony Zorne.
Post 33 stretched its advantage to 5-1 in the third (Brenton Colabella and Jimmy Panella driving home runs). Justin Corsi made it 7-1 when he stroked a home run to deep right. Panella got the inning going when he doubled to left.
Post 166 got to Zorne for three tallies in the home half of the fifth, Hunter Cannon and Seth McConnell each recording RBIs. The game's final run was scored in the sixth, a Post 33 error allowing Alliance's Josh Hammerton to touch the plate.
Steubenville finished with 10 hits (Alex Young recording three while Pierro, Panella and Corsi had two apiece). Alliance, meanwhile, had eight.
Zorne worked five innings, fanning six. The Big Red sophomore-to-be escaped some major trouble in the Alliance first. Two walks and a single loaded the sacks with one out. Zorne responded by recording two straight K's.
Chris Murphy came on the sixth, allowing two hits. Alex Young worked the ninth to record the save.
"I thought our pitchers did a great job," Young noted. "We threw a couple of young guys tonight (Murphy will be a junior at Catholic Central). Zorne got us into the sixth and gave us some great innings. Murph came in and did what he does. He got us to Al and that's what we needed. All three pitchers threw well."
Despite committing four errors, Post 33 did have a few shining moments defensively to support its hurlers. Pierro chased down a fly ball in deep center to complete Zorne's 1-2-3 third inning. Colabella erased an Alliance runner at the plate when he snagged a grounder and threw a perfect strike to catcher Kai McClurg. McClurg made a huge play in the fourth, cutting down a Post 166 player on his attempt to steal second.
"Most people might not understand this, but Kai is probably our heart and soul," Young stated. "He plays the game all out every pitch. Throwing the guy out at second may have been the biggest play of the game.
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As far as being in the Region 7 driver's seat goes, Young said it's a matter of "18 guys pulling together."
"It's the same thing I have said for three games (Post 33 also has defeated Kingsville and Wayne County in the double-elimination tournament),' he added. "I really thing I might be more proud of our young guys bench that don't even get into the game. They are so into the game. They help the other guys out and keep everyone an even keel.
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In the Ukraine-Russia stand-off, the word "fascist" is increasingly used to describe the opposing force. Russians are calling the Kiev forces "fascists"(and anti-Semites). While some in Eastern Ukraine have characterized the Russian "tourists" infiltrating their cities as "fascists." It is a derogatory word invoking the history of Hitler's invasion of Eastern Europe as well as the Soviet Union's control of Eastern Europe down to 1990-91. The word may carry emotional clout in the struggle that's now going on, but does it throw any light on the character of those forces.
Philosophers, historians, linguists, newspaper readers, liberals, fascists, and communists, what do you say?
Here is Wiki's summary (which it declares in need of further work):
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. Influenced by national syndicalism, the first fascist movements emerged in Italy around World War I, combining more typically right-wing positions with elements of left-wing politics, in opposition to communism, socialism, liberal democracy and traditional conservatism. Although fascism is usually placed on the far right on the traditional left–right spectrum, fascists themselves and some commentators have argued that the description is inadequate.
Fascists sought to unify their nation through a totalitarian state that promoted the mass mobilization of the national community and were characterized by having a vanguard party that initiated a revolutionary political movement aiming to reorganize the nation along principles according to fascist ideology. Fascist movements shared certain common features, including the veneration of the state, a devotion to a strong leader, and an emphasis on ultranationalism and militarism. Fascism views political violence, war, and imperialism as a means to achieve national rejuvenation and asserts that stronger nations have the right to expand their territory by displacing weaker nations....
Following World War II, few parties have openly described themselves as fascist, and the term is usually used pejoratively by political opponents. The terms neo-fascist or post-fascist are sometimes applied more formally to describe parties of the far right
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I'll weigh in as a reader and point to Timothy Snyder's piece in the New York Review of Books current issue (which has been outpaced by events). He explains the aspects of the Eurasian ideology that the Yanukovich regime used in justifying how it could tell "itself that its opponents are Jews and us that its opponents are Nazis." More:
Founded around 2001 by the Russian political scientist Aleksandr Dugin, it proposes the realization of National Bolshevism. Rather than rejecting totalitarian ideologies, Eurasianism calls upon politicians of the twenty-first century to draw what is useful from both fascism and Stalinism. … Eurasianism is not only the ideological source of the Eurasian Union, it is also the creed of a number of people in the Putin administration, and the moving force of a rather active far-right Russian youth movement.
Anyway, it presents context and history while examining the question "Why exactly do people with such views think they can call other people fascists?" in a compelling and relatively brief fashion.
I doubt that Putin understands himself as a fascist nor that it's the best way to describe his motives, but he seems willing enough to borrow plays from the old fascist playbooks when it suits his needs. His appeal to Russian nationalism in eastern Ukraine and internally in Russia, and what may well turn out to be his annexation of the Crimea, have fascist precedents.
Without resorting to accusations of fascism, nationalism certainly seems to be alive and well (and exploitable?) in the region.
For the Kremlin, every sign of nationalism in Eastern Europe, except for Russian nationalism, is a bad and dangerous thing. And every nationalist, except a Russian nationalist, is by implication a fascist. So if your country once belonged to the Soviet Union and you now would like it to be closer to the West and less dependent on Mother Russia, you are a fascist, or may as well be. Despite Russian conservatism, "liberal" still lacks the charge that "fascist" carries in Russian propaganda. Similarly, for Russia, democracy means nothing more than elections—rigged or fair. If an elected leader changes the constitution so that he has all the power, gags the press, robs his country blind, and orders his guards to start shooting people in the streets, he, not his opponents, gets to wear the mantle of democracy.
A major segment of Maidan (the opposition who kicked out Yanukovich) is a group called Svoboda. Svoboda has been around a while and they're well known to be fascist and anti-semitic; indeed they collaborated with the Nazis during World War I. When Yanukovich was kicked out they were given several prominent positions in the Ukrainian government. So the idea that Maidan are fascist did not come from nowhere.
From Timothy Snyder's article, referenced above by Dominic Preziosi:
The course of the [Ukranian] protest has very much been influenced by the presence of a rival project [to the European Union], based in Moscow, called the Eurasian Union. This is an international commercial and political union that does not yet exist but that is to come into being in January 2015. The Eurasian Union, unlike the European Union, is not based on the principles of the equality and democracy of member states, the rule of law, or human rights.
On the contrary, it is a hierarchical organization, which by its nature seems unlikely to admit any members that are democracies with the rule of law and human rights. Any democracy within the Eurasian Union would pose a threat to Putin's rule in Russia. Putin wants Ukraine in his Eurasian Union, which means that Ukraine must be authoritarian, which means that the Maidan must be crushed.
Thus the Iron Curtain seems to rise again as the Eurasian Union. Is Putin proving both Orwell and Tolkien prescient?
One pundit had this to say on "Fascist!" charges: It is wolves calling wolves wolves.
What a can of worms, indeed. But here are some considerations:
a) totalitarianism. Many, many years ago, Hannah Arendt argued that "totalitarianism" must be distinguished from "authoritarianism," no matter how dictatorial the latter could be. In her view, there were only two genuine totalitarianisms: Hitler's Germany after the mid-thirties, and Stalin's USSR after about 1938 (I've often wondered how she would have handled Mao's China in full bloom). Thus in her view, Fascist Italy, Spain, and various other European countries, were not totalitarian. As she pointed out, the church, the army, and the monarchy maintained separate existences, however much they played ball with Mussolini, Franco, etc. etc. Hitler and Stalin, of course, had no monarchy to worry about, but they did their utmost to fold institutions such as church and army into the new party-society that they sought to create (as did Mao, by the way).
Even more years ago, perhaps, Waldemar Gurian, writing in Commonweal, pointed to the conjuctions between "left" and "right" in ruling party platforms. Mussolini started political life as a socialist, and the Nazi party was of course a shortcut for "National Socialism" (in German it was the NSDAP, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or National Socialist German Workers' Party. And Gurian and others pointed out that western leftists were always reluctant to use the term "National Socialist" about Germany, because it was essential to maintain the distinction between Good Socialism and Bad Naziism.
Hence the word "fascist" came to be preferred in many western circles, because it has no socialist meaning attached to it, and seemingly could cover both Italy and Germany (and others like Spain, some of the Balkans, etc.)
Mussolini and his ilk also did much with the notion of a corporatist organization of society, supposedly bringing interest groups together to cooperate under state and party direction, rather than fighting each other (some influence of Catholic social teaching here). Corporatism can mean so many different things in different situations that it's difficult go get a handle on, but again it is (for me, anyway) difficult to distinguish between "fascist" corporatism in, say, Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy, and what went on in Stalinist Russia or Maoist China (and indeed continues often today) where the primary function of trade unions is not to fight for workers' rights, better conditions, higher wages and so forth, but to channel Beijing's directives down to the workers and make sure they pay attention and obey for the good of the Chinese economy.
I don't think I've ever seen a good definition of the word "fascist" to cover all varieties. Too often it simply means those we don't like. After June 4, 1989, when the Chinese army shot its way into Beijing, killing hundreds of civilians on the way, some western progressives condemned the move as a "fascist" action because they couldn't bear to think that it might be a "communist" action, despite the communist government and party that had ordered the incursion.
If, of course, government and party were really communist (whatever that term might mean) in anything but name.
None of which helps us to decide how many, if any, of the Kiev activists are really fascist.
I need to correct my earlier comment; Svoboda did not collaborate with the Nazis. They haven't been around that long. However they consider themselves the hiers of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, a fascist group which did collaborate the Nazis and was responsible for the deaths of about 100,000 Poles. In many pictures of the Maidan protests people can be seen flying the red and black OUN flag.
Svoboda has been condemned by several Jewish groups for their anti-semitic positions, and their leader Oleh Tyahnybok has proposed depriving Russian citizens of citizenship. They're a dangerous group, and the fact that Maidan has given them control of important ministries does not speak well of the new governmnet.
"...Oleh Tyahnybok has proposed depriving Russian citizens of citizenship."
That is to say ethnic Russians who are citizens of the Ukraine. My phrasing was a little poor there.
The leadership circle in Kiev at the moment has hardly been identified or interviewed, at least in the Western media. Who will run in May? Who will win? What do they stand for? What will they stand for. Calling any of them fascists or anti-Semites, liberals or neo-liberals assumes they have a fixed program that they intend to carry out--and will be able to carry out. At the moment, perhaps they should be seen as amateurs hoping to form an effective government, a huge challenge.
I remember being impressed with the leaders of the Orange Revolution, Yulia Tymoshenko and Victor Yushenko just for their courage and persistence. But apparently that wasn't sufficient to run a good government and be re-elected. Democracy is hard.
If Putin thinks that the rights of the Russians trump the rights of other peoples, then he is a facist in the most fundamental sense -- he's defending the ubermensch. But I'm not sure he's interested in Russia's power so much as he's interested in Putin's power.
I am surprised by his making the laughable claims, first, that the last president of Ukraine asked him to send troops, and, second, that there are no Russian troops there now. How dumb does he think the rest of the world is?
If Putin thinks that the rights of the Russians trump the rights of other peoples, then he is a facist in the most fundamental sense -- he's defending the ubermensch. But I'm not sure he's interested in Russia's power so much as he's interested in Putin's power.
I am surprised by his making the laughable claims, first, that the last president of Ukraine asked him to send troops, and, second, that there are no Russian troops there now. How dumb does he think the rest of the world is?


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RALEIGH — Older players who have taken different routes to college football have become mentors in Atlantic Coast Conference locker rooms that are filled with teenagers who have known only football.
The value of players like Clemson's Daniel Rodriguez or North Carolina's Sylvester Williams is about more than what they do on the field.
They're the kind of players coaches want for their maturity and leadership regardless of whether they start every game or play sparingly.
Rodriguez served in Iraq and Afghanistan before walking on for the Tigers. Williams worked a factory job after graduation before deciding to give college football a try and becoming a starter for the Tar Heels.
"They understand the real-life experiences," North Carolina State coach Tom O'Brien said. "Some of these guys right out of high school have no clue about what's out there or what's waiting for them if they don't get their degree or do what they're supposed to do. You have somebody that can say, 'Hey, listen, you don't know how lucky you have it being here.'"
O'Brien has one in reserve defensive end McKay Frandsen, a married 24-year-old who went on a 2-year Mormon mission to Alaska before walking on at BYU then going to junior college to earn his way to N.C. State.
Wake Forest's Alex Kinal, a 22-year-old redshirt freshman, spent three years working a construction job in his native Australia before getting a shot to play for the Demon Deacons. He's now their starting punter.
At Florida State, there's offensive lineman Menelik Watson. The 23-year-old junior graduated from high school in England in 2006, played basketball in Spain and played a year of basketball at Marist. But with his 6-foot-7 frame, he grew interested in football, played at Saddleback College (Calif.) and transferred to be a starting lineman for the Seminoles.
Boston College reserve quarterback Dave Shinskie, 28, spent seven seasons playing minor-league baseball. He started as a 25-year-old freshman and led the Eagles to eight wins, but lost his job the following year to current starter Chase Rettig.
"That probably wouldn't sit well with a lot of people, but Dave is a great teammate and a great asset to our program," BC coach Frank Spaziani said. "We're very fortunate that he contributed to those wins and he's still helping to contribute in a different way. … I attribute that to some of his maturity and what he's been through."
Rodriguez, 24, spent 18 months in Iraq and a year in Afghanistan, where he was shot in the shoulder and wounded by shrapnel in a battle in October 2009.
Rodriguez, who earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, had promised a friend who was killed in the attack that he would find a way to play college football if he made it home. He enrolled in a community college, then filmed his workout regimen in a video posted on YouTube that generated inquiries from about 50 schools — including Clemson.
"I wasn't, obviously, brought here on my five-star capabilities," Rodriguez said. "But what I've been through as a man and what I can relate and pass to these guys that are younger than I, having my experience and the hardships I've gone through and overcome, it's definitely something that the guys look up to me for."
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Rodriguez, who has one catch and has played primarily on special teams for the reigning ACC champions, is "inspirational."
"He's been a sergeant of 20 or 40 men in real life and now he's in the locker room with a bunch of 18- to 22-year-old guys who don't really have life figured out yet," Swinney said.
At North Carolina, Williams said he struggled in high school and did enough to graduate with his class. He then worked in a factory making radiator parts for large trucks before deciding it wasn't for him and that he would try to play football.
There weren't many options — he had played only one year of high school football — and he ended up walking on at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College armed only with his work ethic and the belief that "there was something more out there for me in life than there was at that factory."
He thrived, became an all-conference pick and ended up at North Carolina as a starting defensive tackle with a team-high five sacks.
Kareem Martin, one of Williams' line mates, said watching Williams has taught him a clear lesson: "You don't want to lose this opportunity."
"I just kind of tell guys, a lot of guys got here, it was easy for them to get here because they went to the big-time high schools," Williams said. "… Everybody's not going to play in the NFL, just like not everybody's going to play Division I. But you're able to get a free education from the University of North Carolina. Just take advantage of it."
Williams, who turns 24 next month, even recently pulled the UNC walk-ons aside, telling them he had been in their shoes and they could set themselves apart by working hard every day.
First-year coach Larry Fedora hopes it's a message that sticks with them beyond college.
"I've never been on a team where everybody has the same background, either economically or socially or anything," Fedora said. "And so that's the great thing about being part of a team or a football family: learning from others, learning from the mistakes of others, learning from the positive things of others. … That's what the real world is all about."
AP Sports Writers Joedy McCreary in Chapel Hill and Pete Iacobelli in Columbia, S.C., and Associated Press writer Brent Kallestad in Tallahassee, Fla., contributed to this report.


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Christopher Dorner sees himself as a crusader, a 6-foot, 270-pound whistleblower who confronted racism early in life and believes he suffered in his career and personal life for challenging injustices from bigotry to dishonesty.
He fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming a Los Angeles police officer in 2005, but saw it unravel three years later when he was fired after a police review board decided he falsely accused his training officer of kicking a mentally ill man in the face and chest. The incident led Dorner to plot violent revenge against those he believed responsible for his downfall, according to a 14-page manifesto police believe he authored because there are details in it only he would know.
Police say Dorner began carrying out that plot last weekend when he killed a woman whose father had represented him as he fought to keep his job. On Thursday — the eighth anniversary of his first day on the job with the LAPD — Dorner ambushed two officers, killing one, authorities said.
Also killed was the woman's fiance, whose body was found along with hers in a parked car near the recently engaged couple's condominium.
"I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports that I am suspected of committing such horrendous murders and have taken drastic and shocking actions in the last couple of days," the manifesto reads. "You are saying to yourself that this is completely out of character of the man you knew who always wore a smile wherever he was seen."
David Pighin, a neighbor of Dorner in the Orange County community of La Palma, said the ex-officer kept to himself and left his house and his black Nissan Titan, outfitted with tinted windows and custom rims, impeccably clean.
"There wasn't a scratch on it," Pighin said. "I would see him getting out of his truck and walk straight into the house."
Dorner has no children and court records show his wife filed for divorce in 2007, though there's no evidence one was granted. Pighin believed Dorner lived with his mother and possibly his sister. On Wednesday night, Pighin saw a white van with two armed SWAT officers in front of Dorner's house and later learned about the manhunt.
"We were completely shocked," he said. "This is a good family that appeared to be really nice people. They were really admired in the neighborhood."
The 33-year-old Dorner graduated in 2001 from Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, school officials said, where he majored in political science and had an unremarkable career as a reserve running back on the football team.
A friend from those days, Jamie Usera, told the Los Angeles Times that he saw no red flags. The two would have friendly debates about the extent of racism in the U.S. and take trips into the Utah desert to hunt rabbits, Usera told the newspaper.
"He was a typical guy. I liked him an awful lot," said Usera, who's now an attorney in Salem, Ore. "Nothing about him struck me as violent or irrational in any way. He was opinionated, but always seemed level-headed."
In addition to police work, Dorner served in the Naval Reserves, earning a rifle marksman ribbon and pistol expert medal. He served in a naval undersea warfare unit and various aviation training units, according to military records, and took a leave from the LAPD and deployed to Bahrain in 2006 and 2007.
His last day with the Navy was Friday.
"I will utilize every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordinance and survival training I've been given," the manifesto reads. "You have misjudged a sleeping giant."
Police were providing more than 40 protection details for people they determined at high risk after Dorner warned in his manifesto that their families would be harmed.
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it lasted less than 1 week. I don't see how sharpening plastic casing will work.
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Comments about Vuelta Zerolite 26" Mountain Wheelset - Limited Edition:
Nice looking wheel appears it will hold up. It required more switching of parts than I wanted for my bike, but at the price it was worth it.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Very nice for the price
By Sprocketman
from Vancouver, WA
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I bought these during a really good sale and they're definitely worth it. They were straight right out of the box (one needed a SLIGHT tweak on the truing stand). They come with a rim strip which is a nice touch. The skewers are nice looking too. They look great with the stickers, but I like a more toned down look on my bike, so the blow dryer and a few minutes of time and they're gone. Tires mounted easily. The only gripe I have is the braking surface is rather narrow. I am using KS Mountain pads and they just barely, and I mean BARELY fit the braking surface. It took a few tries to get them set up correctly. (HINT: align the pads as high & close to the tire as possible). To avoid this hassle use some thinline pads to save some headache. My only other issue with regards to these is the dual compound pads squeal like a stuck pig on these rims. I'll be trying a harder compound to hopefully solve this. With only 24 spokes I hope they hold up to daily commuting. Only time will tell. They feel very solid while riding and roll great with the precision bearings. I would definitely buy them again if I needed wheels for some of my other bikes.
Great upgrade
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These wheels are a great upgrade to a 20 year old mountain bike. Light for the price and they are holding up well.
Really nice wheels
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These wheels are for a very old bicycle that I rebuilt. I decided to be an all black bike and needed black wheels. These are not only black and beautiful, but light and also important, at a very good price. Definitively recommend them.
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I commute to and from work as well as recreational riding on the weekends.I've ordered two sets prior to the third I received the other day. They came in excellent condition. True out of the box.Decals look clean and sharp. The discount code along with the already low price made this purchase extra delightful.Thanks Vuelta a third time for an excellent product at an excellent price.
nice rims
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nice rims and have a nice look and trued up very well and roll smooth
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from North Jersey
I replaced these wheels on my MTB, mostly for XC trail use and DH. I beat my wheels like Tito Puente so I am hoping these will hold up.They look good out of the box and on the bike. True coming on and looked good.For under $100 I was very happy with the wheel. Dont know how they will hold up.The decals on the rims are stickers which I took off to give em that low key look.
excellent value
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Exceeded my expectations. I have used a number of value wheelsets and these are easily the best quality, substantially better than the Alex wheels that I had been running. Reasonably lightweight. Arrived very true. The rear wheel bearings needed adjustment as they were too tight. The front wheel was ready-to-go. I did not have any issues with metal shavings inside the wheels, which some other reviews noted. The rim strip was quality, too.
Great, lightweight wheelset
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Good looking wheel set, thank you.
Great Set of Wheels
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These turned out to be a great set of wheels; they seem sturdy and ready to go. The skewers seem cheap and the hubs are a mystery-not sure about technical riding with them, but they do the job.Overall a great set of wheels for the money.
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This is not the real problem I've been facing for almost 20 years. The problem is that I never finish what I begin. Never. It's all about programming, but other simple things like trying to write a book, trying to learn piano, trying to make a furniture (= learn the basics of carpentry), and so on.
I very feel like if I'm about to finish a project, I'm trying to find something else to avoiding finishing it.
It's very strange.
It has never been a problem in my professional life, because software are almost never finished. But now that I'm unemployed this is getting on my nerves: I know exactly what I should do, how I should do it, but (including now) I always find things to do that could keep me away from finishing my stuff. Am I the only one, and if not, what do you do to motivate you 'till the end?
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