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Using solid-state drives certainly does reduce the performance impact of fragmentation, primarily because random I/O is so much faster than traditional storage.
Nevertheless, the reduction in page density (and extra logging) caused by page splitting is still undesirable and may still impact performance.
Generally speaking, well-maintained indexes with an appropriate
See Paul Randal's excellent article on TechNet for details.
Using SSDs can help with performance. If you've tuned your queries, added more memory and still have an overwhelmed I/O subsystem it's time to think about SSDs. Just adding a solid-state disk to your system will not boost the performance, you have to play smart. Analyze the workload and which part of I/O subsystem is overloaded to determine which data and log files to put on SSDs
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text: It's no secret that people love the tutorials on all the different types of kitties that I have been creating. Today I will take the advice of a member and show you all "how to draw Shadow kitty", step by step. As you can see this kitty version is based on the fictional video game character Shadow the Hedgehog. The design concept came out so epic and I know for a fact that all you Sonic fans are going to love this lesson that will actually show you how it's done when it comes to drawing Shadow kitty. I kept the same ground colors for Shadow which is the black, red and yellow, and I also managed to keep that sharp snicker on this kitty's face which is supposed to mimic the real thing. I think you will find this tutorial easy, fun, and very entertaining. If there is another Sonic character that you would like to see as a kitty, just drop me a request and I will see what I can do. For now, I have to bounce out of here so I can get the other tutorials uploaded for you all. Peace out and enjoy!


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The Columbia Law School Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic recently filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit arguing that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)—a federal statute that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman—is unconstitutional. "One of the Constitution's most significant promises is that government will not single out certain groups for disfavor unless there is a legitimate reason for doing so," Professor Suzanne B. Goldberg, co-director of the clinic, said in reference to the brief. This past fall, the 2nd Circuit held that the statute violated the U.S. Constitution, and the U.S. Supreme Court announced in December that it will hear the case in 2013.


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Why wasn't San Marino unified with the Kindom of Italy during the unification process? Were there plans or efforts at the time to unify the two states? Did either government at any time try to annex the other state?
According to the legend, San Marino has been de facto independent since very old times, viz. since its foundation the year 301. Then the founder San Marino famously 1 said to the mountain community: Relinquo vos liberos ab utroque homine (I free you from both men), thus freeing it from both the temporal power of the Emperor and the power of the Roman Pontifex.
Pope Niccolò IV recognized the State of San Marino in 1291, but it had been de facto governed by an assembly of the citizens, the Arengo since about the year 1000.
A written republican Constitution was approved in 1600.
This just to provide context and to witness the ancient republican history of San Marino. Now to its role in the unification of Italy.
(From it.wikipedia.org, my translation). The convention ratified previously existing agreements with the King of Italy, that somewhat undermine the sovereignty of San Marino, which:
(Art. 1, my translation, emphasis added), however this was to some extent reverted with the last review in 1971, where San Marino still guarantees its neutrality.
It is surprisingly difficult to find free sources for detailed history of the Convention of 22 March 1862, which is the key point in the relationship between the Kingdom of Italy and the Republic of San Marino. The Convention itself is available for purchase (system error, not enough money) and consultation (system error: nowhere near where I live).
According to this source (don't be fooled by the button 'History', the relevant information is all in Italian), the small State leveraged on the friendship with Napoleon III, (who was the major foreign sponsor of Italian unification) and the desire of the Italian government to maintain his friendship in order to solve the open problems of Venice and Rome, under Austrian and Papal rule. The friendship of the Italian King himself might have been a factor, too, with many San Marino eminent people invoking the King's protection on the Republic. Even though Cavour was not enthusiast with the situation, when he was succeeded by Rattazzi an agreement became possible.
A final "conspiracy" note: because secret societies were heavily involved in the unification of Italy, they might have played a role in the signing of the Convention. This is however just a rumor.
San Marino had given a safe haven to key figures in the Italian unification movement, including Garibaldi, and apparently that's why San Marino's desire for independence was respected. more info The link also talks about the recognition of san marino by the Kingdom of Italy in 1862.
I don't know why they did not want to unify and why the new Italian state wasn't that bothered. But it might because of san marino's remote location in the Apennines.
Support from France seem to have kept san marino safe from the papal states and Austria during the period, so it seems likely this safeguarded their independence from the kingdom of Italy as well.
San Marino's wikipedia page says the following:
I do have one small problem with this, based on geography.
Here's where San Marino is:
Garibaldi's expedition to unite Italy under the rule of Piedmont-Sardinia only went as far north as the northern boundary of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (a bit north of Naples). The territory in the middle was run by the Pope, and the "honor" of attacking the Pope's forces and taking this land fell upon the regular forces of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, not Garibaldi. Garibaldi was really fighting for Italian unity, not for the King of P-S, and the P-S government didn't trust the guy, so they were quite anxious to get their army down to Napes ASAP and take over sovereignty of the "liberated" territory.
Here's what the map looked like in 1860:
If you compare this with the previous map, you will see that San Marino is somewhere in the border area between the brown (P-S) and the Red (Papal State). The P-S forces marched down the Adriatic coast (probably right by San Marino), defeating the Pope at Castelfidarfdo on the way, to meet up with Garibaldi's forces in Naples.
So here's what it looked like it 1861:
So it was P-S forces, not Garibaldi, that marched through during the Risorgimento. I really don't see how Garibaldi would have had any say whatsoever in the fate of San Marino way up in the north of Italy.
So the next question would be, why didn't Piedmont-Sardinia annex them, while they were in the neighborhood? The link provided in Nathan's answer gives a pretty good clue there. It appears Napolean III of France cared enough about the country's sovereignty to prevent a joint Austrian/Papal invasion seven years earlier. France was also Piedmont-Sardinia's patron. Enough so that when they needed to march through the Papal States to link up with Garibaldi, they actually sent to France for permission first. They would not have attacked another French client without permission, and their pressing goal was to get to Naples anyway, not to take every bit of territory on the peninsula.


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What tools do you suggest to use on the desktop (Windows) to help me with the game. I know there is an API that exposes a lot of information.
I was thinking that it would be nice to have a tool that would show me my expenses and sales on the market to be able to analyze it, maybe export to excel, etc.
What tools do you suggest to use on the desktop (Windows) to help me with the game. I know there is an API that exposes a lot of information.
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The canonical example would have to be EVEmon. Not only does it let you monitor your skill queue from outside the game and notify you when training finishes, but it also has an excellent ship and item browser that lets you quickly look up the statistics on anything you're interested in as well as find out whether you have the necessary skills to use it.
Eve Fitting Tool is useful for planning your future ship builds. You can export it to Evemon to automatically generate an optimized learning plan as well.
An excellent resource for finding 3rd party tools is the Third Party Tools category on EVElopedia
I highly recommend Eve Commander. It's not an application, but rather a webapp that manages all kinds of information for you.
Great interface, lots of useful stuff, very responsive developer.
It's not free, but paid for with in-game money. The prices are very reasonable, it was easily affordable and worth the money even for me as an Eve newbie.
I use these: ( link with URLs http://eve.nako.us/tools/external-tools-for-eve-onine )
EVEMon - EVEMon is a lightweight, easy-to-use standalone Windows application designed to assist you in keeping track of your EVE Online character progression.
EveHQ EveHQ is an extensible character application for use in conjunction with Eve-Online.Initially starting out as a character monitor and skill planner, EveHQ adopted a plug-in system where additional modules could be created independently of the main application which would extend the functionality of the program as a whole.
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I am using http://eve.grismar.net/explorer/index.php quite often to find stuff in EVE. Most of the time I am looking for a new agent for a certain corp. Most other tools don't let me specify as much conditions to limit what is show to me.
I can i.e. say "I want a agent for Federation Navy that provides lvl 4 missions, mostly kill missions, resides in 0.5+ systems, and is available with my standings."
I would recommend taking a look at EVEHQ, it covers most of the information exposed by the API.


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This is a simple explanation regarding how to use the dollmakers on the site. There are several types on the site, so I will try to explain them all to the best of my ability. Keep in mind, these steps are only necessary if you do not click on the direct link from the front page to your desired maker. These steps do not describe how to use premium features.
Regular Dollmakers(Does not apply to Candybar, Large, or Easy makers)
1. Select "Doll Maker Dress Up Games: Cartoon Dollmaker".
2. You will find several tabs here(General, Dollz, and Thematic) along with subcategories for the type of doll you want to make. Select the appropriate tab and subcategory.
3.Select the props you want to use, keeping in mind that clothes for that section usually only matches the base provided for that maker. You may select props across different tabs to use as well(this usually is used for things like backgrounds and decorations, not clothes). IT IS ALWAYS SUGGESTED TO USE THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF PROPS POSSIBLE BECAUSE LARGE AMOUNTS HAVE TROUBLE LOADING ALL OF THE IMAGES.
4. Once you have chosen your props, scroll down to the bottom of the page. You may notice some choices here that you can make regarding showing your doll in the "Currently on Dollmaker" section, safe mode, and build mode. It is up to you what you choose to do, but I don't recommend changing these things(besides showing your doll) until you are better acquainted with the makers.
5. Look further down, then select "Start Doll Maker".
6. Allow your props to load, then you can begin to make your doll. If you are under "Click & Drag" mode, you can just click on the prop and it'll appear in the build box for you to move around. If you are using "Drag & Drop", you will have to drag the prop up to the build box for usage. Props can be deleted from the build area by clicking on them then on the recycling bin. You also can add text, change colours of the background or border, and adjust the build box size. These are all features that do not necessarily need to be used.
7. Once you have assembled your doll, click on "Save". A screen will pop up with your completed doll and you will be given several options regarding using the doll on the site, to save, or to print it. Select the appropriate choice and enjoy!
Easy, Large, and Candybar Makers
1. Select the dollmaker you wish to use.
2. In the easy/large makers, I suggest that you click "remove all" before continuing because your props will layer over themselves. These is no option for this in candybar, but as you select items the old ones will be replaced.
3. On the left hand side of the screen, you will see several categories. These are how the props are classified. Click whichever one you want to use.
4. You will see several props appear in the middle of the screen in boxes. Click whichever one you want, keeping in mind that there are pages of props for some makers(like candybar) and in others you need to scroll down to see them all.
5. Select whatever props you want to use, keeping in mind that props layer in the easy makers and that they replace themselves in the candybar.
6. Once your doll is assembled, click "Save" or "Build" beneath your doll on the right hand side of the screen. A screen will pop up showing the doll and giving you several options for using the doll on the site, to save it, or to print it. Select your choice and enjoy!
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What should an organization do if an employee loses their laptop owned by the company. The laptop is used for business purposes, has confidential data and is also encrypted. Are there specific measures that an organization can take to minimise the impact of the asset/data loss?
You've already taken some good steps with encrypting the device, but there are a few other general things you can do:
Your organisational policy and process should reflect the fact that confidential data should have a shelf-life after which it stops being important. You should make sure that cases where that shelf-life is long are flagged and that data not carried around. For anything else, you want to aim to keep the machine secure for at least as long as the data is valuable, and that should inform your encryption schemes and other access control measures.
You have three parts in the loss of the laptop: hardware loss, data loss and data theft.
For data theft, encryption is the right tool, although it would be even better if the data had not been on the laptop in the first place. Moving to a "cloudy" model might be smart: keep the data on some servers (that your company manages) and use the laptop only as a movable terminal to access sessions on the server (Web-based, or even with RDP or NX). This will make the data much safer by avoiding, to a large extent, writing the precious data on the laptop itself.
If you do need to store data on the laptop, try TrueCrypt and make sure that the system "auto-locks" after some inactivity.
For data loss, there again, the cloud model looks better. Otherwise, regular backups, e.g. syncing daily with a company server through a VPN.
For hardware loss, well, too bad, you won't get the laptop back. Hardware is not very expensive. You can make the loss lower by using cheap laptops, which again points at the could model (you need less muscle if the computing does not actually happen on the computer).
A critical point is to make sure that incidents such as a stolen laptop are reported with all the possible alacrity. Therefore, you MUST make it known that a stolen laptop will not imply corporate or financial punishment on the employee to which the laptop was entrusted.
If employees have a direct interest in not reporting laptop theft, then you will not be able to apply defensive maneuvers such as forcing password changes.
Encryption is definitely the first step...was it full-disc encryption? You might want to look into being able to wipe devices remotely as well, should this happen again. This might help: http://www.rjssmartsecurity.com/How-We-Help/Data-Loss/ I'd reach out to some professionals beyond the forum if it's possible that there was really sensitive information on there.


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The Stern–Gerlach experiment has been carried out for silver and hydrogen atoms, with the result that the beams are deflected discretely rather than continuously by an inhomogenous magnetic field. What is theoretically predicted to happen for electron beams?
Electron beams cannot be split by a stern Gerlach apparatus, because the spin splitting and the orbital splitting cannot be practically separated. The orbital splitting in a constant magnetic field is exactly of the same magnitude as the spin splitting, meaning that the spin anti-aligned electron in a given Landau level is more or less precisely degenerate with the spin aligned electron in the previous Landau level. This means that you can't separate the velocity deflection of the electron from the spin deflection.
This is why Stern Gerlach experiments are only done on atomic beams. There is no simple practical known way to correct for this.
There is a bit of trouble with using electrons since the magnetic field of the apparatus will cause them to turn thanks to the Lorentz force. You could, of course, build a device to account for the turning, and still split the electrons by spin at the end.
The splitting of the beam by the Stern Gerlach apparatus is one of the great myths of modern physics. The orignial experiment wasn't done with a pencil-shaped beam but with a fan-shaped beam. While it is true that the fan-shaped beam is split in two, the case of the pencil-shaped beam is quite different. I analyze it in this blog posting. The actual result for the pencil beam is a donut shape. I don't believe there is any way to get just two dots on the collection screen the way people always describe it.


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The 8 Most Ridiculous Viral Videos of the 08 Election
The internet seems destined to change democracy forever. Anyone can stand up in support of their candidate, and have their voice heard by millions... no matter how fucking insane they are.
So, every election season the web is filled with cringe-worthy videos in "support" of a candidate who, we're guessing, regret the day their supporters figured out how to work a camera. We're talking about videos like...
#8. Diddy's Obama Blog
In this thoughtful piece, motherfuckin' Diddy shares his motherfuckin' thoughts on Sarah fuckin' Palin.
A rapper as a campaign supporter is a dicey proposition, but on the short list of rappers who would seem to make for a decent endorsement, Diddy is right near the top.
He's got a ton of cash, he's fairly well respected as a businessman, and he tends to let other rappers do his shooting for him. Unfortunately, he also has a video blog.
The premise of the video is simple: "John McCain is fuckin' up!" That's not a summary, that's a direct quote. It seems Diddy is unimpressed with McCain's decision to select Sarah Palin as his running mate. In presenting his argument against Sarah Palin, he makes the obvious "lack of experience" point that everyone else does. But then, he brings some new arguments into the fray. Among his politically savvy speaking points:
"Alaska motherfucker?"
"I don't know if there's any black people in Alaska."
"You would let her keep your kids?"
"There's not even no crackheads in Alaska!"
Diddy has a point, Article Two of the United States Constitution clearly states that to be president you must be a natural born citizen, at least 35 years old and have been a permanent resident in a crack infested area of the United States for at least fourteen years. Until this is amended to include meth, Sarah Palin just doesn't qualify. It's also important to note that Diddy makes all of these arguments while inexplicably spinning around in circles the whole time. There may not be crackheads in Alaska, but if this video is any indication, there may be one on the loose in the Hamptons.
#7. Raisin' McCain
McCain supporters are often unfairly stereotyped as being rednecks. It's because of this guy.
Another fine endorsement from the world of music, this time courtesy of John Rich, one half of the duo responsible for "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy." For those of you at work, or with too much good sense to actually watch the video: Imagine those Monday Night Football videos that Hank Williams Jr. does every week. Got it? Cool. Now imagine Hank is singing exclusively about the team most likely to lose the game. That's "Raising McCain."
Speaking of raisins, this woman is old! Pow!
Lest you ever think McCain supporters don't know how to party, this video has everything you need to have a rocking good time. Including...
...menacing facial hair...
...a legendary air fiddle/real fiddle combo solo...
...and of course, party loving midgets!
We bet that elitist Obama doesn't have midgets at his party (bad DNC/Dennis Kucinich jokes notwithstanding).
As much fun as everyone appears to be having, we have to question the thinking behind this particular video. Is "we're all just raising McCain" really the catch phrase you want to use in support of a candidate so quickly approaching his nursing home years? Raising McCain might work as a sitcom about baby-boomers caring for their incontinent father. But we'd be more comfortable with a chorus along the lines of, "we're all just sitting around chillin' while our able bodied president handles shit." A real songwriter could craft a decent tune out of that.
#6. TI$A - Imma Vote Obama Way
Obama supporters are often unfairly stereotyped as being flamboyant homosexuals. It's because of this guy.
Barack Obama already has a pretty decent number of A-Listers on his side. If this video is any indication, he's got the B-List vote on lockdown also. We weren't even sure who the dude rapping was, so we asked our friend Google. He doesn't know either. We do know he used to be signed to Kanye West's record label and he apparently used that to trick at least one real celebrity into appearing in the video.
Above: Kanye West, presumably moments before his security staff intervenes.
According to the lyrics of the song (all two of them), the gentleman rocking the mic is also "hood," which is clearly displayed in the picture below.
TI$A: pushing the Crips "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy to its absolute limit.
To his credit, TI$A understands that a no name rapper spouting the same two lyrics over a run-into-the-ground Isley Brothers sample isn't going to be enough to put his guy in the White House. So he's enlisted the help of some famous friends, including one of the unimportant dudes from The Black Eyed Peas and, um, some other people.
Can you name the celebs in this picture? (Hint: there are none.)
He also manages to catch former Yo! MTV Raps host Fab Five Freddy driving through the wrong part of Los Angeles at the wrong time. That should help.
Fab Five Freddy: the Reginald Denny of shitty Obama videos.
#5. It's Time to Drill
If it means no more songs like this, by all means, drill wherever the hell you please.
In most cases, you can take any given demographic and, with a fair amount of accuracy, predict who they are going to vote for. Not so with the god-awful-amateur-musician voting bloc. In the last entry, we met some dude who kind of raps and supports Obama. In this video from some cat that supports McCain, we get a painful slice of shitty nu-metal that makes Limp Bizkit sound like The Beatles.
Despite what the title may suggest, "It's Time To Drill" isn't a song about boning. Instead, the devil horns are being raised in favor of offshore drilling. Yeah, you read that right, now are you ready to rock?!?!? No? Well, this is awkward.
But it's not all just terrible tunes going on in this clip. Sure, this guy is a serious musician; he wouldn't be pointing his drumstick in front of those fancy green screen effects if he wasn't.
But he's also a comedian. Don't believe us? Well check this out...
Yep, he's farting in a gas tank. CLASSIC! Seriously, the whole video is exactly...that...funny.


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Here To Stay
At the height of the 2012 presidential campaign, the dashing Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui appeared in a series of web videos aimed at Latino Catholics in battleground states. "Our values today are under attack by President Barack Obama," intoned Verástegui, who starred in Bella, a film with a prolife message. "He is working hard to promote unlimited abortion and undermine traditional marriage. He has unleashed an unprecedented attack on the church and its freedom." The camera then cut to a close-up of a statue of the Virgin Mary, a tear rolling down her cheek.
Obama, meanwhile, was working the same demographic. Last October, just weeks before Election Day, the president unveiled the César Chávez National Monument at Nuestra Señora Reina de La Paz in Keene, California, where Chávez is buried. Dedicating the site, Obama concluded his remarks with a prayer Chávez wrote for farm workers: "Help us to love even those who hate, so we can change the world."
These competing appeals signaled the arrival of Latinos—and Latino Catholics in particular—as a pivotal force in American politics. In the election Obama won three-quarters of the Latino Catholic vote, countering Romney's strength among white Catholics and helping the president push to victory in a string of closely contested states. Indeed, Latino Catholics went for Obama so overwhelmingly that he won the total Catholic vote. The "Catholic Moment" identified by Richard John Neuhaus in 1987 may have come and gone, but it seems that a new, Latino Catholic moment is on the way.
What this moment will mean for the identity of the Catholic Church in the United States—and its civic influence—is hard to say. Though Latino Catholics broke heavily for Obama, it would be a mistake for liberals to be complacent about their political affiliation. While recent data challenge the assumption that most Latino Catholics are socially conservative—a Pew survey found that a plurality of churchgoing Latino Catholics favored legalizing same-sex marriage—polls also show that Latino Catholics with a conservative ideology tend to vote Democratic more than other conservatives. "Hispanics are already Republicans; they just don't know it yet," Reagan himself reportedly once quipped.
Whichever way Latino Catholics go, they will likely take the Catholic vote with them. "It is fairly dramatic how the ratio of white Catholics to Hispanic Catholics has shifted really since the early 1990s," says Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute. Jones notes that a five-to-one ratio among Catholic voters in the 1992 election narrowed to a two-to-one ratio in 2012—"a fairly big sea change," he says, "in a short amount of time." This mirrors changes within the church. In American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, social scientists David Campbell and Robert Putnam point out that nearly three out of every five Catholics aged eighteen to thirty-four—and two out of every three regular churchgoers—are Latino. And "Anglo" Catholics are leaving the church at twice the rate of Latino Catholics.
Where will these trends—along with continued immigration—lead American Catholicism? The short term will likely see a shift to the left on politics, especially regarding social welfare and economic issues. For example, Putnam and Campbell found a sharp contrast between white and Latino Catholics on the question of government aid to the poor: some 40 percent of white Catholics supported spending more, compared to 87 percent of Latino Catholics. A 2006 Pew survey found that churchgoing Latino Catholics were much more likely to consider themselves liberal than white Catholics were (26 percent to 11 percent). As Latinos become dominant in the U.S. Catholic Church, they could bring with them a stronger interest in social-justice activism.
At the same time, Putnam and Campbell found that Latino Catholics have a more orthodox perspective on social issues such as abortion, divorce, and birth control, and that they are less likely than white Catholics to support married priests or the ordination of women. Latino Catholics are more likely to express confidence in the Catholic hierarchy, and to believe that one must agree with the pope on abortion and birth control in order to be a good Catholic. Carlos Vargas-Ramos, co-editor of Blessing La Politica: The Latino Religious Experience and Political Engagement in the United States, traces this apparent conservatism to the 38 percent of Latino Catholics who see themselves as born-again or charismatic. "They are the most faithful of the faithful," he says, noting that they are more likely than other Latino Catholics to be persuaded by religious-liberty or prolife arguments.
And yet—Eduardo Verástegui's efforts notwithstanding—Latinos did not vote on social issues in 2012 but rather on the economy and on immigration. "Those have trumped issues of morality, consistently and over time," Vargas-Ramos observes. "Precisely because Latinos are still struggling economically, those issues still predominate." Poverty is the overriding fact of life for many Latino Catholics in the United States. Close to half have an annual household income under $30,000, according to the 2007 Pew study Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion. "People care more about those social issues when their material interests are taken care of," notes Campbell, a University of Notre Dame political scientist who co-authored American Grace. What's more, Republican alliances with the anti-immigration movement have left Latino voters feeling insulted. "For Latinos in general, the issue of immigration is the prism through which they see how all Americans look at Latinos," says Vargas-Ramos. Romney's proposal for "self-deportation"—that undocumented immigrants would leave voluntarily when they found they couldn't get work—was widely ridiculed, and it certainly didn't win him Latino votes.
Longer term, it's unclear how Latino voters will respond as their incomes rise—and as they are assimilated into American culture. Will they follow the path of other once-impoverished immigrant communities, such as Italians? Another open question is how many Latino Catholics in this country will remain Catholic. Young Latinos are not immune to the effects of secularism. Nor will they be unaffected by Protestant efforts to win them over—a trend across Latin America (see "The Church in Latin America," Commonweal, April 12, 2013).
What is clear, as the Pew Research Hispanic Center predicted in 2007, is that "Latinos will bring about important changes in the nation's largest religious institution." Like politicians, Catholic bishops are learning that they can't succeed if Latino Catholics don't share their priorities. The bishops' campaign against the Obama administration's contraception-coverage mandate may have helped Mitt Romney take 59 percent of the white Catholic vote, but the Latino-Catholic vote overrode it to deliver the overall Catholic vote to Obama. The bishops' new, more activist approach to seeking citizenship for undocumented immigrants—urging priests to give homilies on the subject, targeting members of Congress with phone calls, parish pilgrimages, and Masses dedicated to immigration reform—seems to reflect an awareness of the 2012 election's demographic lesson. This new approach is similar to the one often taken to abortion or same-sex marriage. In June, when Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent a letter to all parishes of the Archdiocese of New York asking Catholics to support the bishops on "two important issues," immigration reform and abortion, he mentioned immigration first.
The Latino journey in the U.S. Catholic Church has not been an easy one. "It has taken a very painful process to be integrated," says Mario Paredes, the American Bible Society's presidential liaison for Hispanic/Latino projects and Roman Catholic ministry. A Chilean immigrant, Paredes recalls the 1970 ordination of the first Mexican-American auxiliary bishop, now Archbishop Patrick Flores, who spoke of traveling with his farmworker parents through the South, where signs outside churches warned that Mexicans were not welcome. Against this backdrop, Paredes finds the changes in the church over the past fifty years "remarkable," and points to outreach programs the bishops run to Latino Catholics, and to an emerging Hispanic leadership within the U.S. church itself, which now includes sixteen diocesan bishops of Hispanic ancestry and two archbishops.
Challenges remain. Paredes notes that recent financial constraints have forced the bishops to cut back on services to Latinos; eight regional centers for ministry training have been shut down. And Latinos continue to be underrepresented in the hierarchy and priesthood of the U.S. church—though they are thriving in lay ministry. Lay leadership developed through the Cursillo and Jornada movements plays a vital role for the church in its work with Latino Catholics, according to sociologist Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, co-editor of Blessing La Politica. Pastors hoping to connect with Latino congregations often rely on lay leaders—"the great strength of the Hispanic church," says Stevens-Arroyo.
Historians have long noted the Catholic Church's importance in Americanizing immigrants. In 1950, Henry Steele Commager wrote that the church in the 1880s and 1890s was "one of the most effective of all agencies for democracy and Americanization." But the big-city parish could often be hostile to newcomers. Popular piety among Italians at the turn of last century—processions in the streets and boisterous festivals in honor of favored saints—embarrassed Irish-American prelates before their Protestant detractors, and pastors were upset that Italian immigrants put so little money into collection baskets. And so New York's archbishop forbade street processions in honor of saints; and in 1891 a wealthy German-Catholic layman, Peter Paul Cahensly, brought before Pope Leo XIII a proposal to build parishes and name bishops for specific ethnicities. Things got so bad for Italian immigrants that Pope Leo issued an encyclical reminding U.S. bishops that the Italians flooding into their parishes "spring from the same race as ourselves."
Today the pope is Latin American—and Francis's combination of theological traditionalism and advocacy for the downtrodden should sit particularly well with Latino Catholics. The tensions that roiled the hierarchy over the question of assimilation a century ago are evident today more on the parish level, as pastors try to figure out how to minister to congregations divided by multiple languages and nationalities. "There is a challenge on the part of Catholic leadership to navigate it," David Campbell says. It may be good theology to emphasize a parish community's oneness, but the practical reality is that there must be Mass in Spanish and other languages, priests who appeal to specific ethnic communities, and devotions to saints prized by various nationalities. Many a pastor who would prefer a church with no more than a few discreetly placed statues—thus focusing attention on the altar and Eucharist—has acceded to the wishes of immigrant parishioners and prominently featured statues important to them. If Campbell and Putnam are right, it would be a mistake to take steps that would dissolve the attachment to ethnic roots in the name of assimilation into the larger church community. Their study in American Grace found a convincing link between firm religious identity and strong ethnic ties.
Campbell says that while differences exist between Anglo and Latino Catholics, the church in the United States is "leading the way" when it comes to acclimating immigrant communities to American life. He attributes this success to the efforts of "good-hearted people, especially priests, on the front lines, trying to make this work." This effort is a time-honored and valuable contribution to American democracy, one that will assist today's Latinos as it did Irish, Italians, and other European ethnic groups before them. "If the Catholic Church didn't exist," says Campbell, "we would probably have to invent it."
About the Author
Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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"At the same time, Putnam and Campbell found that Latino Catholics have a more orthodox perspective on social issues such as abortion, divorce, and birth control, and that they are less likely than white Catholics to support married priests or the ordination of women."
Having an orthodox perspective on the social issues listed above is one thing; how this carries out in actual practice is quite another.
Note that 59% of Hispanic Catholics (along with 58% of white Catholics, and 55% of white mainline Protestants) favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally.
[PRRI/Brookings Religion, Values, and Immigration Reform Survey, March 2013]
I made phone calls on behalf of fetting same sex mariage approved in my state (it was). The Hispanic Catholic all considered gay sex a sin but same sex marriage a civil right. They agrreed to contact their legislatures to urge opassge of the law legalizing same sex narriage.
Hispanics are less likely to be blind to the fact that voting for conservaives on social issues also means voting for corporate privilege and hostility to the poor.
I have just been researching the number of Hispanic Catholics turning to Islam. I'm amazed at the numbers. I ponder what influence if any this will have on Paul Moses' thought.
For those interested in what Catherine Stidsen discovered about Hispanics converting to Islam …..
Ah, yes, "Latinoization," the new wave, what to do, what to do.
Let's see. The earliest surviving European colony in what are presently the 48 contiguous states of the U.S.A. was San Agustín. It was founded in 1565 in a land named after La Pascua Florida, Easter. A couple of centuries later, in the year when thirteen British colonies to the north of Florida declared their independence, one more Catholic mission was added to many others in what would later become our southwest and west. Mission San Francisco de Asís endures in the city sung by Tony Bennet, "America's favorite city." A lot had happened by the time Tony misplaced his heart, including the Florida purchase, the Texas annexation, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Our country acquired a lot more than territory as a result.
There were a fair number of people living in manifest-destiny land. They'd been there for centuries (some of their ancestors, of course, had been there for millennia). Many of them spoke Spanish, and their culture and religion were not those of British Protestants or their heirs. Neither was it French or Cartesian, as Jean Baptiste Lamy found when he assumed his see in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Lamy carried out needed reforms. Whether he recognized the baby being tossed out with the bathwater is another matter. Those familiar only with Paul Horgan's laudatory biography can find a different perspective in My Penitente Land, by Fray Angélico Chávez).
Yet for the dominant culture in our country, and even in U.S. Catholicism, the Latinos (or Hispanics, a term we owe to Richard Nixon, the "Dark Father of Hispanicity") are somehow a new and previously unsuspected reality. I can still recall Michael Novak (the unmeltable-ethnic maven) surveying in Commonweal the American Catholic landscape at mid-twentieth century. He listed quite a few countries from which the forebears of U.S. Catholics had come; none had a Spanish or partly Spanish heritage.
So. Latinos. New. What's new, it seems, is that the "ratio of white Catholics to Hispanic Catholics" has shifted dramatically. This "sea change" will need continued attention, but let's slow down and analyze the dichotomy "white" versus "Hispanic." I would hazard a guess that most readers would see nothing there to analyze, and that is really quite remarkable. For the use of those two terms contrastively entails, on the one hand, severe taxonomical confusion and, on the other, profound historical amnesia.
The confusion is between categories of race and of culture, language, and national origin (and that's apart from the dubious status of race as some sort of biological category). Bronson Arroyo is of Cuban origin: is he Hispanic or white? Orlando Cepeda is Puerto Rican. If he and Arroyo are both Hispanic, do they belong to the same race? How about Arroyo and the late Cuban musician Mongo Santamaría? How about any of them and Alberto Fujimori or any of the numerous Japanese and Chinese Peruvians? How about the late Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Strössner? We are proud of the motto "e pluribus unum." We apply it not so much to the original union of thirteen colonies as to our national character, whether we prefer the melting-pot or the mosaic as a metaphor. We seem unaware of the Latino (or Hispanic) mosaics and melting pots, and of the corresponding diversity among U.S. Latinos. The U.S. census bureau knows better: its definition of Hispanic or Latino lists criteria specifying culture and ancestry regardless of race. But elsewhere, in most popular and many scholarly or scientific texts, "Hispanic" is used contrastively with terms designating race.
If the taxonomical confusion obscures our understanding of what a Latino is (recall the hilarious Latino-specific gene in A Day without a Mexican), the historical amnesia obscures the problematic character of the term "white." Paul Moses takes it for granted as a term requiring no special attention. But "Anglo" gets quotation marks even when it is simply being used rather than referred to as a term. Is the implication that "white" has an obvious and clear meaning, while "Anglo" may not? Certainly neither can lay claim to precision, but "Anglo" comes closer to being a cultural or linguistic term more appropriately used in contrast to "Latino." Mr. Moses may want to correct me, but here "Anglo" seems to be regarded as a somewhat suspect synonym for "white." The quotation marks suggest that it may be an unnecessary synonym, one that some prefer for reasons that are not entirely clear. Keats might well have written "Anglo is white, white Anglo; that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." And that would faithfully reflect the history of whiteness as a social construct, a history remarkably easy to forget. Physical features were never enough to confer whiteness even on all Americans who came from the British Isles or Northern Europe. Ignatiev, Brodkin, and Guglielmo and Salerno have offered their varied perspectives on the albification of the Irish, the Jews, and the Italians, respectively, in the U.S.A.
The influence of distorted taxonomies should not be underestimated. And historical amnesia can be reinforced by choice of language: lex nominandi, lex credendi. Moreover, that belief can accommodate considerable cognitive dissonance. We all really know that Latinos have been here a long time, even if they are now more numerous and noticeable. But it's convenient to regard them, in general, as newcomers, pretty homogenous and not yet quite assimilated to the mainstream and rightly normative culture. Catholics in particular can better sustain that fiction by actively forgetting our cultural links with Latino culture and with the Spanish culture that preceded it.
Some aspects of the culture are unattractive, and we don't want to be associated with them (let the ghost of the Spanish Inquisition rattle its chains once more and then depart). Others are attractive, but we'd rather appropriate them while forgetting links to anything (in a true sense, now) Hispanic. It's fine to learn a little Spanish for taliking to the casual laborers in front of Home Depot. Higher culture and the heroes of Catholicism are another matter (examples can be provided on request).


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A Historic Archive Faces Digital Life
Traffic has darkened the façade of the Hunter College-owned MFA Studio Building on 41st Street, between the Port Authority and the Lincoln Tunnel. The interior, a picture of institutional indifference, doesn't look much better. But a climb to the sixth floor reveals a glittering treasure called the Association of Cultural Equity (ACE), a vast and remarkable assemblage of field recordings, instruments, books, posters and other artifacts collected by the legendary American archivist Alan Lomax over the better part of the 20th century.
In 1983, Lomax founded ACE in this building as a command post for his lifelong mission, to compile and disseminate the sights and sounds of cultures from around the globe, hoping to preserve them lest they be extinguished. Twenty-four years later, and 11 years since Lomax's death, the building is being sold, and ACE is preparing to move into a smaller space at Hunter's Brookdale campus, on 25th Street and First Avenue.
Fortunately, floor space has been less of an issue since ACE sold three-quarters of Lomax's original collection to the Library of Congress in 2004—650 linear feet of manuscripts, 6,400 sound recordings, 5,500 photos and 6,000 moving images—and launched its vast online archive in March 2012. Digital copies of much of the material now fill the shelves, and a cursory stroll through ACE's web site (culturalequity.org) offers endless hours of viewing (5,000 photographs, 3,000 videos), listening (17,400 files), and reading. One can also surf over to the Alan Lomax Archive YouTube channel, which boasts 77,000 subscribers.
"People used to be happy with published LPs and CDs, but today that's not really enough," Lomax archivist Todd Harvey said of the Library of Congress's American Folklife Center. "The idea is that if it doesn't exist in the digital form that's accessible over the web, then it really doesn't exist."
But even with the sale and the effort to digitize, the ACE offices still flow with a trove of relics and heirlooms, so the company is preparing an eBay EBAY -0.45 % auction, to begin March 9, as it begins the move from its 2,500-square-foot space to a 1,500-square-foot space. Items for sale will include much of Lomax's old recording equipment, video/film editing gear and other tools he used to build this archive, as well as odds and ends like his guitar and a few 78s from his personal record collection.
"We love having all this stuff around, but for practical reasons we have to pare it down," said ACE executive director Don Fleming, who's overseeing the sale. "This is the first time that we've offered anything to the public. We once let R. Crumb have some 78s of Alan's for doing a picture of Jelly Roll Morton, but this is probably the only time something like this will happen."
Though its archives can be accessed on a donation basis, and other labels, publishers and institutions often release its material, ACE continues to spread the good word on its own. On Feb, 14, it issued its first release in 12 months, "United Sacred Harp Convention: The Alan Lomax Recordings, 1959." Mississippi bluesman Sid Hemphill's "The Devil's Dream," recorded in 1942, will come out Thursday. The light-footed archive, with its $300,000 budget, may focus on historical recordings, but it is anticipating the CD's demise, releasing almost all of them on LP and as digital files. The nonprofit uses the proceeds to help cover operating costs, but also to honor Lomax's original contracts and make sure that artist royalties still go to their descendants if they can be found.
"We do like to monetize, and we do a lot of licensing, and in the past it's been very lucrative," said Anna Lomax Wood, Lomax's daughter and the president of ACE. (Bruce Springsteen, for example, used two Lomax-derived field samples on his recent "Wrecking Ball" album.) "But we've never been in it to make money. My father always said, 'If you want to make money, don't go into folk music.'"
He may not have made a lot of money, but Lomax's cultural impact at home and abroad is incalculable. In the decade before World War II, he and his father, the famed folklorist and collector John Lomax, took several historic trips through the South collecting material while working for the Library of Congress, making the first recordings of Muddy Waters and Fred McDowell, and capturing other legends like Jelly Roll Morton and Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter.
"It is quite possible none of them would be known today, and all the influences they spawned might have never occurred, had Alan not recorded them—and worked to popularize them," said Bill Nowlin, the founder of Rounder Records, which has released dozens of albums of Lomax material.
Later, through his radio broadcasts in the 1940s, Lomax helped bring wide exposure to such American folk icons as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and continued making field recordings throughout the Caribbean, Ireland, Scotland and Spain. After 1960, he focused on what he called "cultural equity," an egalitarian approach to expressive forms (particularly music, speech and dance) from around the world. It culminated in the last decades of his life in a forward-thinking creation he called the Global Jukebox Project, an early computer database that organized and compared various forms based on geography, style, and subsistence patterns. Initially available to institutions and researchers, a new version called the Global Jukebox Song Tree will be available online in the fall with a cache of 5,000 songs.
Though the aim of the Global Jukebox is to connect cultures, ACE is working to repatriate copies of archives back into the communities where Lomax originally documented them, even providing lesson plans so teachers in those communities know how to use them. "The physical part went to the Library of Congress, which is important to them, but we don't need it anymore," Mr. Fleming said. "One of the advantages of the digital era is it's now easier to send out the entire collection on a hard drive. Because one of our missions is to get them to use it as a resource and celebrate their culture."


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"I have a friend who said you don't just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers." — Mitt Romney to Barack Obama, presidential debate, Oct. 3
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy must have been on a bathroom break when Mr. Romney offered that assessment of the president's energy policies; barely 36 hours later, Gov. Malloy was picking losers for Connecticut's energy consumers.
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The magnificent Borobudur temple is the world's biggest Buddhist monument, an ancient site widely considered to be one of the world's seven wonders. Built in the 9th century during the reign of the Syailendra dynasty, the temple's design in Gupta architecture reflects India's influence on the region, yet there are enough indigenous scenes and elements incorporated to make Borobudur uniquely Indonesian. This awe inspiring monument is truly a marvel. After a visit here you will understand why it is Indonesia's most visited tourist attraction and a famous icon of Indonesia's cultural heritage.
Located on the island of Java, the temple sits majestically on a hilltop overlooking lush green fields and distant hills. It covers an enormous area, measuring 123 x 123 meters. The monument is a marvel of design, decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The architecture and stonework of this temple has no equal. And it was built without using any kind of cement or mortar! The structure is like a set of massive interlocking Lego blocks held together without any glue.
The temple has remained strong even through ten centuries of neglect. It was rediscovered in 1815, buried under volcanic ash. In the 1970's the Indonesian Government and UNESCO worked together to restore Borobudur to its former majesty The restoration took eight years to complete and today Borobudur is one of Indonesia and the world's most valuable treasures.
The temple is decorated with stone carvings in bas-relief representing images from the life of Buddha. Commentators claim that this is the largest and most complete ensemble of Buddhist reliefs in the world, unsurpassed in artistic merit.
This monument is both a shrine to the Lord Buddha and a place for Buddhist pilgrimage. The ten levels of the temple symbolize the three divisions of the religion's cosmic system. As visitors begin their journey at the base of the temple, they make their way to the top of the monument through the three levels of Budhist cosmology, Kamadhatu (the world of desire), Rupadhatu (the world of forms) and Arupadhatu (the world of formlessness). As visitors walk to the top the monument guides the pilgrims past 1,460 narrative relief panels on the wall and the balustrades.
The whole monument itself resembles a giant stupa, but seen from above it forms a mandala. The great stupa at the top of the temple sits 40 meters above the ground. This main dome is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues seated inside perforated stupa.
Historians suggest that the name of Borobudur comes from the Sanskrit 'Vihara Buddha Uhr' or the 'Buddhist monastery on the hill'.
To see images of the magnificent Borobudur Temple, visit our Photo essay: Borobudur: The colossal Monument of Buddha
As Borobudur is only a one hour drive from Jogjakarta, many visitors choose to stay in Jogja where there are a wide variety of hotels, from a simple bed & breakfast to starred hotels. Just look at our Travel Directory to search for hotels in DI Yogyakarta.
For visitors who want to stay as close as possible to the magnificent Borobudur temple there are other accommodation options. Standing high amidst the Menoreh Hills with some truly stunning views of Borobudur, the Amanjiwo hotel is a majestic building and almost a tourist attraction in its own right. Located only 3 km / 2 miles to the South of Borobudur the Amanjiwo is a luxury hotel where guests enjoy exclusive suites with private swimming pools.
Alternatively, there are hotels perched in the nearby beautiful highlands of Magelang. Magelang hotels are approximately 20 km/12 miles north of the Borobudur Temple. One of the most impressive hotels in this area is the Losari Coffee Plantation, which offers villa-style accommodation where the verandahs overlook some impressive views of the nearby volcanoes.
(Image on the left courtesy of Amanjiwo resort's official site: www.amanresorts.com)
The best way to explore this site is on foot. As you climb to the top of this magnificent temple you will marvel at the intricate detailed stone carvings displayed on the temples walls. You will certainly miss a great experience if you visit this enormous temple without learning about its history and importance which are captured on its many reliefs.
Guides are available for around Rp 50 thousand. This is a wise investment as a guide will be able to walk you around the site and explain the history of the temple, beginning with its construction during the Syailendra dynasty. The stone carvings attached to the temple display legends and stories which have great philosophical significance.
For visitors with children, don't miss the massive green grass area surrounding the Borobudur site.
You may choose to walk through Green Park from the entrance. Many vendors will offer you souvenirs and other knick knacks as you walk through this area, however there are regulations in place to prevent them from disturbing visitors.
Borobudur is only one hour's drive from Yogyakarta. The easiest way to get there is by joining a tour or renting a car.
During your journey to Borobudur, enjoy the fresh cool air of Magelang city with its roads lined with big shady trees. Borobudur itself stands tall against the spectacular backdrop of the Menoreh mountain range that surrounds it.
Entering the temple compound is easy and most visitors choose to wander around on foot. Alternatively you can chart a cart (pulled by a horse) at a reasonable price.
Alternatively, cruise passengers who disembark at Semarang can take a day tour driving through Wonosobo to Borobudur.


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Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - Woodlot owners need other woodlot owners. Cornell Cooperative Extension is looking for a few good forest owner volunteers to meet and work with their neighbors. The NY Master Forest Owner Program is entering its 24th year and is looking to fill up its new volunteer training workshop. Volunteers who complete the 4-day workshop will join the corps of over 200 certified volunteers across the state. September 7-10, 2016 at Cornell University's Arnot Teaching and Research Forest, VanEtten, NY (south of Ithaca in Schuyler County.
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As many readers know, the Middlebury/Southbury area suffered a huge loss recently with the passing of Tucker Gowen, a senior at Pomperaug High School and teammate of mine who for the past six months battled leukemia and complications associated with treatment.
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"Is your name Nebuchadnezzar?" "Is your name Rip Van Winkle?" "Is it, it couldn't be this, is it Rumpelstiltskin?"
With those three sentences the queen, formerly a miller's daughter, managed to save her first-born child from the clutches of an evil Rumpelstiltskin, bent on causing mischief in her kingdom.
The classic tale was brought to life Saturday at the Kenai Library using marionettes that have been traveling the country since 1964 with the Indiana-based Stevens Puppets.
Several rows of children sat on the library floor staring at the stage through 45-minute show, a phenomena Zan Raynor — puppeteer and operator of Stevens Puppets — said she is used to seeing.
"So many children don't see live theater," said Zan Raynor who runs Stevens Puppets. "So many things are on t.v. or it's a video game, to actually see live theater is new... It doesn't matter if you're in an inner city school with very, very poor children and they've never seen something like this or if you're in a very wealthy school with kids that have been taken to the ballet, they all sit spellbound and it's amazing to them."
Zan's husband Dan Raynor works the marionettes as well, the two took over Stevens Puppets which has been operating for more than 75 years.
"We do everything," Zan said. "I write the scripts and Dan makes the stages and I paint the scenery and the puppets."
All of the puppets are made out of wood and Zan said several of the shows have been in use for several decades.
Next summer, Zan said, she and Dan will be touring with a show of Sleeping Beauty that has been touring since 1954.
"We do a lot of touch-up," she said. "(Rumpelstiltskin) is coming up on its 50th year. This underwent a huge restoration process."
After the show, Dan gave a history of Stevens Puppets, the marionettes and the touring crows to the group and managed to keep the kids laughing as loudly as they did during the show.
"They're just so excited to see somebody be completely goofy and uninhibeted and they just giggle, they laugh, they're loud and it's ok," Zan said. "So many places it's not, storytime, school, you just have to sit down and be quiet and in Dan's world you just laugh, make loud, chime in and it's good. It's always good."


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My brother-in-law's car has just failed inspection. One of the items listed was a "cat-back." Since the bill is astronomical, I was wondering how much of the exhaust system is encompassed in this term and what is the relative ease to change this on a 97 Pontiac sedan?
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The cat back is just that the exhaust pipe including the muffler from the catalytic converter to the end of the tail pipe. Seems odd to me, not impossible just odd that you would need to replace the entire exhaust system from the cat back to pass inspection. I see from your profile that you are from PA and road salt can deteriorate an exhaust in that time-frame so it actually may be that bad.
It's not difficult to change unless it's rusted really bad, if that's the case you will want a lift and a torch.
Based on the "astronomical bill" I would get a second opinion.
Go around to some local shops and put their estimates against each other (openly) to drive the price down. There are a lot of "universal" pieces that can be used in exhaust repairs. I had everything (converter to the tail) replaced in my old Corsica (10 years ago maybe) for around $100. Of course this was no high end exhaust, but it was a Corsica. ;) Lasted until I sold the car some 6 years later.
I can't see it being astronomical - that is one of the expected regular replacements here in the UK (where we do get a lot of corrosion due to salt) but it is a quick half hour replacement and it is pretty cheap kit.
I don't know the Pontiac so I don't know whether there is some custom piping in there, but that seems odd.


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I got a PC that I'm not using and it has some power.. I wanna have my own DNS server like a ISP has.. How can I go about this? I know linux so that's no biggy.. Thought this would be something fun to do :D
This is a little confusing since you describe another setup than you mention in the topic.
First Local DNS Caching
This is pretty easy to achieve using
To set this up install the
Now edit
Now restart the dnsmasq service
Edit your
Now you can set your Linux machine as DNS server of your LAN clients and use DNS caching.
To test if it is working you might use
You will see something like
Now type the command again, and you should see something like:
ISP like real DNS Server
This would be possible using real nameserver software like bind. But if you have no experience on this you should probably start reading ahead at bind9.net since this would be to broad to answer.
There are only two caching recursive DNS servers that I can strongly recommend (avaiable both for Windows and UNIX variants)
The particular reason I recommend these two is DNSSEC - they both have full DNSSEC validation built-in. You won't get that with
BIND is generally considered to be the reference implementation of DNS, although I'd note that because it's a full general purpose DNS server it has lots of knobs and settings that a recursive-only server doesn't need.
Unbound was designed from the ground up to be recursive only. It's fast and lightweight.
Bind is the most popular: http://www.isc.org/software/bind
If you want something for windows, Windows Server has a DNS Server built in.
Not sure why you would want a local DNS server, it wont speed up DNS lookups necessarily. Keep in mind the DNS server has to run multiple queries before resolving to the IP. At a DSL or even cable, they will be slower than a DNS server at a datacenter with big pipes....
You kinda need a server OS to do that (as of what I know). I would install Windows Server (preferred 2003+) and install the DNS role. It has a nice little wizard that will help you set up your own DNS server.
I know that this isn't the only way, but it is a way that I am very familiar with.
-Good Luck
Something cool and fast is TinyDNS/DNScache
its very simple to configure and maintain..
But by far for your needs..
I would suggest dnsmasq.. it will do the job your looking for..
Hope this helps :D
It's probably not worth it. Your server will still have to rely on an authoritative nameserver, and you probably won't have a connection to that authority that's nearly as fast as dedicated DNS servers such as what Google provides.
A couple of other things to consider: Most computers actually cache DNS entries locally for a certain period of time anyway. Furthermore, some modern browsers are now "prefetching" DNS info for links on a page - Google Chrome for example.
By the way - here is another post that provides a good answer should you still want to continue "for fun." in house DNS server