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5 Seemingly Insignificant Things That Make People Like You
We all want to be accepted by our fellow humans, but let's face it: Somewhere, someday, you're going to run into someone who just plain doesn't like you. Maybe it's your tendency to threateningly whip out your genitals at the slightest provocation. Maybe it's your perpetual case of gas so noxious that it's as if your colon is a portal to Hell itself. Or, just as likely, it's a totally random quirk that you had no idea was turning people off.
That's right: According to science, if you want people to like you there are a few simple and completely nonsensical steps you can follow:
#5. Just Apologize for Everything, Even if You Had Nothing to Do With It
Have you ever met Apology Guy? You know, the guy who says he's sorry for the horrible traffic you encountered on the way to work (even though you're almost positive he's not a traffic engineer), or for the awful weather we've been having lately (even though you're pretty sure he's not a Norse god). Not one bit of the world's shittiness is his fault, yet he feels an obligatory need to apologize for everything. And maybe we all have a little bit of Apology Guy living inside us -- after all, who hasn't gone on a first date and apologized for the movie being less than good, or for the fact that it rained on your outdoor table at the cafe afterwards?
"My bad."
It makes no sense, so why do people do it? Because society demands that apology, and rewards you for making it. In a Harvard Business School study, researchers sent participants into a crowded train station during a deluge and tasked them with bumming cellphones off of strangers. The participants were instructed to randomly either a) ask the stranger to use their cellphone or b) apologize about the bad weather first, and then ask to use their phone.
When simply asked to hand over their phone, the strangers were about as likely to do so as they were to push the participant into the path of a moving train. After hearing the superfluous apology first, on the other hand, the strangers felt an almost hypnotic urge to toss their phone to a possible identity thief in a crowded train station.
"Sorry to hear you got delayed. Can I get the last four digits of your social?"
The series of experiments revealed that giving that unnecessary apology increases trust levels -- even though what you're doing is kind of dishonest, since you're getting sympathy for admitting to a mistake you didn't make. It's like humans are so eager to have someone to blame that you can immediately get on everyone's good side by becoming the apologetic public relations person for the universe:
"On behalf of the infinitely complex, uncontrollable cosmic forces that brought you today's weather, I apologize."
"Well, thank you for admitting you were wrong."
Yes, sometimes it's just about taking advantage of how crazy we all are.
#4. Part Your Hair on the Left
OK, we admit this sounds ridiculous. But see if you don't find the evidence convincing:
First, let's do a little experiment. Take a minute to think about some popular, attractive, powerful males. Brad Pitt. Jon Hamm. Or John F. Kennedy, if you really must go the non-Hollywood route. Now, think about their hair. Notice any similarities? Do a Google Images search if you must; we'll wait. No we won't: Chances are they part their hair on the left.
John and Catherine Walter, a brother/sister nuclear physicist/cultural anthropologist team (presumably the unhealthy obsession with men's hair was just a mutual hobby) decided to look into why this was, and their research resulted in the Hair Part Theory. Basically, the theory observes that the way a person's hair is parted has a direct effect on others' assumptions about his or her personality.
Just don't assume that the carpet follows the same rules as the drapes.
Since "most men part their hair on the left, which is supposedly perceived as masculine and assertive," parting their hair on the right in turn causes them to be "regarded as more sensitive, effeminate, and nerdy." On the other hand, women "traditionally part their hair on the right, and if they are left-parters (like Margaret Thatcher and Hillary Clinton) they may be perceived as powerful and masculine." Having your part on the unexpected side, then, "creates vague discomfort in onlookers and may lead to being shunned."
It sounds like a buttload of quackery until you start to tally up all the examples, perhaps the greatest of which being the very pinnacle of masculinity himself, Superman:
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Masculinity and color blocking.
Wimpy, nerdy, presumably erectile-dysfunctional Clark Kent has his hair parted on the right. But when he transforms into the muscular, heroic, could literally pound you into dust (with his dick) Superman, his part moves to the left.
And speaking of supermen, Internet darling Ryan Gosling's entire career supports this theory too. As he went from a lovable hunk in The Notebook to a creepy-ass loser in Lars and the Real Girl and back to a panty-dampening legend in Crazy, Stupid, Love, his hair part went from the left, to the right, to the left, respectively.
Top: Ron Swanson's younger brother.
Bottom: Someone banned from the women's section at Sears.
But that's just Hollywood, right? Chances are some producer once got wind of this theory, and it spread throughout the industry from there. Well, for some real-world examples, look no further than America's presidents. There have been only six right-parting U.S. presidents, and as the study points out, "three of them (James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Warren G. Harding) are deemed by historians to be among our worst, and two others (John Tyler and Chester Arthur) are deemed to be inconsequential."Damn. Let's hear from the Chester A. Arthur defenders in the comment section!
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Wow. Bigger "tariff reform" crowd than normal today.
Now, if you don't have a luscious, thick head of hair to put a nice part in, you can always ...
#3. Shave Your Head
Male pattern baldness poses some difficult decisions for the average man. Do you grow one side out and comb it up and over the top? Start from the back and swoosh it all forward? Maybe grow an extra-long mustache, string it up behind your ears and twirl it into a sort of hair-based turban? There's no perfect option, but any option is better than going completely bald, right?
Not according to the University of Pennsylvania, it's not. They performed a series of three studies to compare the perceived personality traits of men with thinning, shaved, or thick hair. In the first, participants were shown a series of photos of similar-looking men -- the main difference being their position on the hairiness scale -- and the Mr. Cleans of the group were consistently rated as more "powerful, influential, and authoritative."
Also aerodynamic.
In the second, participants were shown doctored photos of the same men -- one with hair and one bald. The bald version was assumed to be not only more manly but also "nearly an inch taller and 13 percent stronger." In the third experiment, simply reading written descriptions of men was enough for participants to rate the shaved pates highest in terms of "masculinity, strength, dominance, and leadership potential."
"I like the bald look; I think it adds a couple extra inches."
"To your height?"
And while the amply-haired men were regarded as only moderately less desirable than their shinier counterparts, can you guess who came in dead last in the polls? That's right: those poor, thinning-hair bastards. The studies did find that being fully shaved makes a man look older and less attractive than having hair -- but not nearly as unattractive as having thinning hair. Thinning hair is so hideous, evidently, that the researchers posited that those who wash a bit more of their manliness down the drain each morning "may improve their interpersonal standing by shaving." In case you ever doubted that Lex Luthor knew his shit, doubt no more.


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- 1991: Hedwig delivers her first message to Harry Potter: an invitation to visit Rubeus Hagrid that afternoon. In the morning, the first years have their first Potions class with Professor Snape; Harry gets on Snape's bad side and loses two points from Gryffindor. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley have tea with Hagrid at three o'clock; while having tea they read a copy of the Daily Prophet concerning the break-in at Gringotts that had taken place the same day that Harry and Hagrid had visited Diagon Alley.
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I have read that before the invention of monotheism, the Jews worshipped multiple gods of which traces remain in various texts. So I wonder whether it is possible to reconstruct it and what the gods there were.
One notable thing about the Hebrew Scriptures is that they don't typically claim that there aren't other gods; just that theirs is a jealous God, and thus the only one a Jew should worship.
This kind of attitude isn't really entirely unique in the ancient world. Most cities had their own patron god. A Pantheon was in many ways just the summation of all the regionally-worshipped dieties in an area.
There are mentions of other gods or supernatural beings throughout the Torah. My personal favorite is Leviathan, who based on descriptions in various parts of the Hebrew Scriptures, seems quite similar to the Norse's World Serpent (or perhaps a super fire-breathing sea dragon). Isaiah even prophecies a final battle between God and Leviathan (which God of course will win).
There are also two other supernatural creatures: Behemoth and Ziz, but they don't get as much face-time in the Bible.
Baal is mentioned quite a bit in The Bible as well. However, that is basically a semetic word for "Lord". So essentially when The Bible uses that word it is saying "one of our neighbors' Lord god, rather than our own Lord God."
There is a community on the web, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canaanitepaganism/?yguid=192651149, their theme is just the old Jewish paganism (canaanite?). Surely, you'll find there all these old gods, including Lord El and Lady Asherah.


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GOP Makes Counteroffer In Cliff Talks
Proposal Calls for $800 Billion Increase In Revenue, Half What Obama Seeks
House Republicans on Monday made a fresh deficit-reduction proposal to the White House that calls for $800 billion in increased tax revenue, half of what President Barack Obama has proposed.
The GOP offer was immediately rejected by the White House, but it provides the most detailed statement to date of what Republicans are willing to concede for now. It comes days after the White House put forward its opening bid in the high-stakes deficit talks. With both sides now having made preliminary offers, the parameters for future negotiations between Republicans and the White House are becoming clearer.
Monday's proposal would make $600 billion in cuts in Medicare and other health programs over 10 years, compared with the $350 billion the president proposed. It would also slow the growth of Social Security benefits, a move most Democrats oppose. The tax-revenue figure is one Republicans say could be achieved without increasing income-tax rates, one of their core objectives.
"What we are putting forth is a credible plan that deserves serious consideration by the White House," said House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), in a briefing for reporters.
The proposal was made in a letter sent to the White House and signed by Mr. Boehner and other GOP leaders, notably including House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), who has been an opponent of any tax increase both in Congress and as Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate. His support will be vital to any final deal.
The offer's outlines are similar to a budget deal that was emerging in private talks between Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner in mid-2011, when Mr. Boehner agreed to $800 billion in new revenues but Mr. Obama sought more. Those talks collapsed with each side blaming the other for the breakdown.
The immediate Democratic reaction was dismissive. White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said the plan "includes nothing new and provides no details on which deductions they would eliminate, which loopholes they will close or which Medicare savings they would achieve."
He stuck with the president's insistence that the GOP agree to raising tax rates on upper-income Americans.
Administration officials were surprised by the GOP offer. They played down its potential to advance talks, saying Mr. Obama continues to wait for Republican leaders to soften on higher tax rates.
Still, officials said, congressional leaders and the president could meet by the end of this week. Their last meeting was nearly three weeks ago. Discussions between congressional and White House staff continued over the weekend, officials said.
On Capitol Hill, congressional Democrats made clear they would not be satisfied until the GOP gave ground on raising upper-income tax rates.
Rep. Sander Levin (D., Mich.), ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, said Republicans were in "a state of denial" if they believed they did not have to concede on tax rates.
"The recent election was not a status quo election, but rather a validation of the president's often-stated position on taxes," said Mr. Levin.
Beyond the question of what to do with the top tax rates, another likely sticking point for Democrats in the GOP proposal would be how it treats Social Security. Republicans want to change the way cost-of-living increases are calculated, a shift that would save money by slowing the growth of benefits without fundamentally altering the structure of the program. Many Democrats want to exclude the program from the deficit discussion, because they don't think it contributes to the nation's deficit problem.
Despite the public bantering, typical of a negotiation with weeks to run, the proposal represented modest movement in the face of a deadlock between the parties on how to avoid the fiscal cliff, the $500 billion in tax increases and spending cuts due to take effect in January.
The White House last week irked Republicans by making an opening bid in the budget talks that largely summarized the president's most-recent budget proposal, one that was heavy on tax increases and light on spending cuts.
If nothing else, the GOP offer gives Mr. Obama something more specific to respond to.
Republicans said they were tempted to respond by offering their own most uncompromising proposal—the House-passed budget from Rep. Ryan that called for a far-reaching overhaul of Medicare and no tax increases.
Instead, they drew on a proposal from Erskine Bowles, a Democrat who has been pushing for bipartisan deficit-reduction plans. The proposal was narrower than that recommended by the president's 2010 deficit-reduction commission, known as Simpson-Bowles.
Mr. Bowles distanced himself on Monday from the GOP proposal, which had been drawn from his testimony before Congress's 2011 deficit-reduction "supercommittee," noting he had simply taken "the midpoint of the public offers put forward during the negotiations to demonstrate where I thought a deal could be reached at that time," Mr. Bowles said in a written statement on Monday.
In their counteroffer, Republicans did not accept Mr. Obama's bottom-line demand that income-tax rates increase for the top two income brackets. GOP aides describing the plan said they believed the proposed $800 billion revenue target could be met without raising rates, but by closing loopholes and deductions in a broad rewrite of the tax code.
The proposal represented a series of targets without much policy detail on how they would be met, such as the specific loopholes and deductions Republicans would get rid of.
Asked if the plan called for an increase in the eligibility age for Medicare, the GOP aides didn't answer directly, but one said, "I don't think there is any way to get a comprehensive deal without it."
The proposal did not say how the plan would fit into the two-step legislative process that leaders of both parties have tentatively embraced. That would include a small deficit-reduction package crafted and passed by year's end, setting the stage for a broader effort next year to revamp the tax code and curb Medicare and other entitlement spending.
The proposal also did not specify how Congress would address the $110 billion in spending cuts set to take effect Jan. 2 in defense and discretionary spending. The GOP aide suggested the plan's savings would be enough to allow the "sequester" to be postponed or replaced.
In a signal of the political pressures facing Mr. Boehner as he seeks compromise with the president, he came under fire Monday from some conservatives for an offer they said conceded too much.
"Speaker Boehner's counteroffer today offers disappointingly small spending reductions," said James Valvo, policy director of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political group.
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I need to install Google Picasa picture Viewer on ubuntu 12.04 but there is no such package for Ubuntu or any other Linux distro.
Even when it was supported by Google, what they distributed was just the windows executable and a copy of wine. This combination still works.
Download the latest installer and then run it by double clicking in
Being a windows application, it doesn't integrate that well with Ubuntu. I have found picasa 3.9 to crash occasionally in Ubuntu - anecdotally earlier versions (3.6) may be more reliable.
While it is likely to be possible to run picasa for windows under wine for the foreseeable future, you may wish to consider using a native application, such as
Good officially killed support for the Picasa Linux client back in April, 2012. Your best option is to use Picasa Web or you can use one of the many photo management apps that are available for Linux such as shotwell
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It appears that redaction criticism can be viewed either positively or negatively by proponents of a grammatical-historical hermeneutic (see this article)? What are the primary arguments for and against the two approaches being compatible?
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Historical-grammatical method
The historical-grammatical method attempts to re-discover the original meaning of a text as intended by its author. It's "historical" because it tries to place the text in historical context and it's "grammatical" because it closely analyses the grammar of the text to determine meaning. Implicitly, the method assumes the received text is the same or very close to the text produced by the original author. (However, most commentators are open to insights provided by textual criticism to help find the best text based on analysis of numerous extant manuscripts.)
Redaction criticism
Redaction criticism on the other hand, attempts to identify and understand editorial decisions embedded in the text. Related disciplines include source criticism, which attempts to identify written sources, and form criticism, which attempts to identify the context of sources before they were written down. Together these methods are called historical criticism.
With those definitions, it should be possible to see how the two approaches could be compatible. For texts that are clearly edited from older sources, such as Genesis, we need redaction criticism to be able to place the text in the context needed to use the historical-grammatical method. If we can determine the author of Genesis 2 knew about Genesis 1, we must interpret the text differently than if both texts were written independently of each other. Teasing out the editorial process of the individual gospels has radically altered our approach to reading them. (Mark has become vastly more important in the process.)
The incompatibility comes when, in my opinion, historical criticism oversteps its bounds or tries to assert more than it is able. For instance, Paul leaves us an intriguing puzzle in 2nd Corinthians 2:3-4 and 7:8 when he refers to a previous sorrowful letter. One solution to the problem might be that a helpful editor included the letter in 2nd Corinthians 10-13. But Normann Perrin divides the letter into 5 Pauline fragments and one interpolation. That seems highly speculative.
It turns out the historical-grammatical method converges on a narrow set of interpretations while historical criticism tends to diverge.1 The problem as I see it stems from the limited number of editorial decisions that can truly be discovered in the current form of Biblical text. After the Synoptic problem was solved, the range of texts needing redaction criticism has dropped to a trickle. The number of texts that can be interpreted via various historical-critical techniques turns out to be very small because the texts were transmitted as whole books rather than shorter chunks. In order for scholars to make novel proposals, more radical interpretations must be offered. Since the content of the text can be sidestepped by proposing a new view of the history of its composition, new theories need not conform to the text at all.


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Hm - the code doesn't seem to work like I thought. I am creating a ByteArray of a word-file and giving it to the encode function. When I decode it and writing the bytearray back to the hdd, the size is bigger and the file cannot be opened
What am I doing wrong?! Isn't it possible to encode a ByteArray to base64? How would you encode an exe-file to base64?
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Hi guys,
I rewrote the function, so that I could encode and decode ByteArrays. The code can be found here: http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthrea...635#post430635
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Hi Animal
Could you tell me Where to find the base 64 encode funtion in Extjs?
Thank you
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Base64 is currently not included in ExtJS SDK.
But there are many ready-to-use extensions, just search forum


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i would like to ask if it's possible to use CSS3 animation on sencha touch. Because i try this:Code:
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CSS3 and ST are two different things. CSS3 is used to style element, ST is a JavaScript framework that creates HTML so yes it's possible for CSS3 to style HTML that is created by ST.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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Why is the eighth, and last, day of Chanukah called "Zos Chanukah" and what is it significance?
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The eighth day of Chanukah contains the Torah reading including the sum total (Numbers 7:84) of all the tribes' leaders' dedication offerings. So the phrase used is "zos chanukas hamizbeach", this was the dedication/inauguration, and the eighth day of Chanukah is then known as "zos chanukah" or "this is chanukah." It has the longest Torah reading of all 8 days.
In Hassidic thought it has significance because it's the wrap-up of the holiday, as if to say "this represents how our chanukah went this year"; in some schools of Hassidic thought it's also seen as an extra-last-last chance for final judgment from the High Holidays (something like "the verdict is written on Rosh HaShanah and sealed on Yom Kippur ... but the book isn't closed until Hoshanah Rabba, and isn't put back on the shelf until Zos Chanukah" ... however you interpret that).
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=4683&st=&pgnum=120&hilite=) - at the end of Yud the Bnei Yisaschar quotes a gematria linking zos chanukah to judgement.
This is not the gematria I mentioned here, but I ran across this (page 5 of this pdf)


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The other day I had to drive from Baghdad to Basra. On the surface it might sound faster to fly, but with delays and limits on transportation upon arrival, I find it easier to drive. Shortly before my trip began, I had a meeting in the International Zone of Baghdad with a man who was incredulous that a westerner would get into a vehicle and attempt the six-hour voyage to southern Iraq. He was very concerned that I was engaging in unnecessarily dangerous behavior. Then we started discussing the concept of Socio-Cultural Security.
At Strategic Social, we define Socio-Cultural Security as a way to maintain the safety of a person or group based on an intimate understanding of the people, culture and customs of one's surroundings. For years the personnel at Strategic Social have lived and worked in some of the most challenging and austere political climates on earth. Our track record of safe and secure success is attributable not to guns and armored vehicles, but rather to understanding how to move, act and interact with various cultures. This is not to say that we don't take precautions; we have our protocols and we are very detailed in our adherence to them. I just stress that our protocols are different. They are based on a socio-cultural understanding of the geographies in which we live and work.
Strategic Social's approach to socio-cultural understanding begins with history. We first seek to understand how a people arrived at their current cultural and geographic reality. This admittedly academic step is followed by tactile diligence: we get up close and personal with the audience to understand the grassroots of a people. Initially, this consists of polls, surveys, interviews and simple conversations. Over time we develop relationships enabling deep understanding and empathy. We typically take a localized approach by finding partners from the community that we can work with and learn from. For instance, our team in Kabul consists of men and woman from every major ethnic group in Afghanistan. Each one of our team members is both a valuable employee and a cultural advisor. The results include media products that resonate deeply with the audience, social science research that provides actionable information and technology products that are relevant and usable both locally and throughout our global enterprise.
Recently, we have been able to take this approach to our historic markets and expand into new lines of business. We are now growing our core business to include infrastructure development and new areas of IT and technology services. In the case of infrastructure development, our approach leads to safer and more productive work sites. We know who to hire and how to train them. We can build local capacity while growing our business. As we build local capacity, it creates more opportunity both for Strategic Social and for the communities in which we work. Our growth is fueled by an infrastructure that is less expensive than it would be with a traditional approach to security. We also have a great sanity check on our products and services because our staff members are also our customers in many respects. I am very proud of our efforts in each country, province and village in which we have team members.
As I drove into Basra earlier this week, I was struck by the surge of foreign nationals that have descended upon the governate. As we expand our work in the area, I am just hopeful that the companies and individuals building the new Basra are mindful that socio-cultural engagement and empathy are a far greater source of safety and success than guns and armored vehicles. Socio-Cultural Security is the key to developing the lasting partnerships that will lead to long-term success, be it in Basra, Kabul or anywhere else.


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Okay, I had to add one more. Every
The second line looks confusing if you're not used to using pattern matching and extractors. Whenever you define a
The right hand expression creates a
Most of the time your patterns use extractors that are members of singleton objects. For example, if you write a pattern like
then you're implicitly calling the extractor
But you can also use class instances in patterns, and that is what's happening here. The val regex is an instance of
Structural type definitions - i.e. a type described by what methods it supports. For example:
Notice that the type of the parameter
Type-Constructor Polymorphism (a.k.a. higher-kinded types)
Without this feature you can, for example, express the idea of mapping a function over a list to return another list, or mapping a function over a tree to return another tree. But you can't express this idea generally without higher kinds.
With higher kinds, you can capture the idea of any type that's parameterised with another type. A type constructor that takes one parameter is said to be of kind
For example:
Now, if you have a
Extractors which allow you to replace messy
With this, which is much clearer in my opinion
I have to do a bit of legwork in the background...
But the legwork is worth it for the fact that it separates a piece of business logic into a sensible place. I can implement my
Manifests which are a sort of way at getting the type information at runtime, as if Scala had reified types.
In scala 2.8 you can have tail-recursive methods by using the package scala.util.control.TailCalls (in fact it's trampolining).
An example:
Case classes automatically mixin the Product trait, providing untyped, indexed access to the fields without any reflection:
This feature also provides a simplified way to alter the output of the
It's not exactly hidden, but certainly a under advertised feature: scalac -Xprint.
As a illustration of the use consider the following source:
Compiling this with scalac -Xprint:typer outputs:
scalac -Xprint:<phase> will print the syntax tree after some compiler phase. To see the available phases use scalac -Xshow-phases.
This is a great way to learn what is going on behind the scenes.
Try with
using the typer phase to really feel how useful it is.
You can define your own control structures. It's really just functions and objects and some syntactic sugar, but they look and behave like the real thing.
For example, the following code defines
Now you can do the following:
Dunno if this is really hidden, but I find it quite nice.
Typeconstructors that take 2 type parameters can be written in infix notation
Scala 2.8 introduced default and named arguments, which made possible the addition of a new "copy" method that Scala adds to case classes. If you define this:
and you want to create a new Foo that's like an existing Foo, only with a different "n" value, then you can just say:
in scala 2.8 you can add @specialized to your generic classes/methods. This will create special versions of the class for primitive types (extending AnyVal) and save the cost of un-necessary boxing/unboxing :
You can select a subset of AnyVals :
Extending the language. I always wanted to do something like this in Java (couldn't). But in Scala I can have:
and then write:
and get
You can designate a call-by-name parameter (EDITED: this is different then a lazy parameter!) to a function and it will not be evaluated until used by the function (EDIT: in fact, it will be reevaluated every time it is used). See this faq for details
You can use
Being inline, it does not impose any additional overhead.
You can compose structural types with the 'with' keyword
placeholder syntax for anonymous functions
From The Scala Language Specification:
From Scala Language Changes:
Using this you could do something like:
Implicit definitions, particularly conversions.
For example, assume a function which will format an input string to fit to a size, by replacing the middle of it with "...":
You can use that with any String, and, of course, use the toString method to convert anything. But you could also write it like this:
And then, you could pass classes of other types by doing this:
Now you can call that function passing a double:
The last argument is implicit, and is being passed automatically because of the implicit de declaration. Furthermore, "s" is being treated like a String inside sizeBoundedString because there is an implicit conversion from it to String.
Implicits of this type are better defined for uncommon types to avoid unexpected conversions. You can also explictly pass a conversion, and it will still be implicitly used inside sizeBoundedString:
You can also have multiple implicit arguments, but then you must either pass all of them, or not pass any of them. There is also a shortcut syntax for implicit conversions:
This is used exactly the same way.
Implicits can have any value. They can be used, for instance, to hide library information. Take the following example, for instance:
In this example, calling "f" in an Y object will send the log to the default daemon, and on an instance of X to the Daemon X daemon. But calling g on an instance of X will send the log to the explicitly given DefaultDaemon.
While this simple example can be re-written with overload and private state, implicits do not require private state, and can be brought into context with imports.
Maybe not too hidden, but I think this is useful:
This will automatically generate a getter and setter for the field that matches bean convention.
Further description at developerworks
Implicit arguments in closures.
A function argument can be marked as implicit just as with methods. Within the scope of the body of the function the implicit parameter is visible and eligible for implicit resolution:
Build infinite data structures with Scala's
Result types are dependent on implicit resolution. This can give you a form of multiple dispatch:
Scala's equivalent of Java double brace initializer.
Scala allows you to create an anonymous subclass with the body of the class (the constructor) containing statements to initialize the instance of that class.
This pattern is very useful when building component-based user interfaces (for example Swing , Vaadin) as it allows to create UI components and declare their properties more concisely.
See http://spot.colorado.edu/~reids/papers/how-scala-experience-improved-our-java-development-reid-2011.pdf for more information.
Here is an example of creating a Vaadin button:
Excluding members from
(Thanks to Adriaan for pointing this out.) – Philippe Sep 26 '11 at 16:36
Now calling post with inappropriate length argument will cause an exception:
You can write multiple requirements or even add description to each:
Now exceptions are verbose:
One more example is here.
You can perform an action every time requirement fails:
Traits with
While my example is really not much more than a poor mans AOP, I used these Stackable Traits much to my liking to build Scala interpreter instances with predefined imports, custom bindings and classpathes. The Stackable Traits made it possible to create my factory along the lines of


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Oklahoma: Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Innovation, and Welcoming Initiatives in the Sooner State
In Oklahoma, there is no doubt that immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators play an important role. Immigrant entrepreneurs bring in additional revenue, create jobs, and contribute significantly to the state's economy. Highly skilled immigrants are vital to the state's innovation industries and to the metropolitan areas within the state, helping to boost local economies. Furthermore, local government, business, and non-profit leaders recognize the importance of immigrants in their communities and support immigration through local "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
Immigrant entrepreneurs contribute to Oklahoma's economy.
- From 2006 to 2010, there were 11,983 new immigrant business owners in Oklahoma, and in 2010, 7 percent of all business owners in Oklahoma were foreign-born.
- In 2010, new immigrant business owners had total net business income of $477 million, which is 5.3 percent of all net business income in the state.
Highly skilled immigrants are vital to Oklahoma's innovation industries, which in turn helps lead American innovation and creates jobs.
- Immigrants contribute to Oklahoma's economic growth and competitiveness by earning degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields from the state's research universities. In 2009, over 55 percent of STEM graduates from the state's research-intensive universities were foreign-born, and more than 70 percent of graduates earning PhDs in engineering in Oklahoma were not born in the U.S.
- In 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor certified 1,267 H-1B high-skilled visa labor certification applications in Oklahoma, with an average annual wage of $57,182, which is higher than Oklahoma's median household income of $44,287 or per capita income of $23,770.
- An expansion of the high-skilled visa program would create an estimated 3,000 new jobs in Oklahoma by 2020. By 2045, this expansion would add around $1.1 billion to Gross State Product and increase personal income by more than $1 billion. The following are examples of metropolitan area demand for high-skilled foreign-born workers.
- The Oklahoma City metropolitan area had 585 H-1B requests in 2010-2011, with 51.3 percent of visa-holders working in STEM occupations. A major employer includes the University of Oklahoma.
- The Tulsa metropolitan area had 483 H-1B requests in 2010-2011, with 70.6 percent of visa-holders working in STEM occupations. Major employers include Alindus Inc., and Guru IT Solutions Inc.
While the numbers are compelling, they don't tell the whole story.
- Immigrant entrepreneurs not only contribute to large innovative companies, but to small business formation in local communities. In Oklahoma towns, immigrant family-owned small businesses contribute to the vitality of their local communities. Although initially aimed at other immigrant customers, many businesses quickly see an expansion of their clientele to include a diverse array of immigrant and native-born customers alike.
- Oklahoma City, as the state's capital and largest city, contains a variety of immigrant-owned business examples. The city hosts restaurants, markets, and other businesses owned and operated by immigrants, including eateries representing cuisines from Mexico, El Salvador, Morocco, Guatemala, and Bangladesh.
- Along SW 29th Street and other main business corridors on the southside of the city, a variety of Hispanic small businesses are thriving. Such establishments include restaurants, auto repair, markets, shops, and beauty salons. Additionally, food trucks selling Mexican food are seen in many neighborhoods around the city.
- The Realzola family, from Mexico, owns several small businesses including a used car dealership, an auto repair shop, and a Mexican restaurant. Also in the state's capital city, Henryk and Elizabeth Orlowski, from Poland, own and operate a real estate office.
- Wes Salous, a Palestinian immigrant, moved to Oklahoma City from Dallas several years ago to purchase an IHOP restaurant. Today, he owns several of those restaurants around the Oklahoma City area, including a location in Bricktown. Salous' two brothers, Salim and Sammy, operate a car lot and auto repair shop in the Mid-City area.
In Oklahoma, local leaders have begun recognizing and supporting immigration through "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
- The YWCA Tulsa Immigrant and Refugee program provides services that promote self-sufficiency for the area's immigrant and refugee population.
- Examples of services the program provides are English as a second language (ESL) classes, legal permanent residency application, civics and citizenship classes, interpretation and translation, job search and employment assistance, and other immigration assistance.
- In the spring of 2013, the Oklahoma House of Representatives introduced HR 1014, "a resolution recognizing the many social and economic contributions immigrants make to the State of Oklahoma; urging Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform; and directing distribution."
- This resolution is an example of the state Legislature recognizing the contributions immigrants make to Oklahoma and the need for national policymakers to bring the immigration system up to date so that immigrants can more efficiently contribute and effectively integrate into the places in which they live and work.
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I am currently configuring the search crawler to access our existing non-SharePoint document management system in order to include these documents in Enterprise Search. The document management system requires a username and password to access and I have created an account that has minimal privileges.
However, the document management system has some links which perform actions, for example bookmarking a document. If the crawler accesses these, it will perform the action for the crawler's account. Eventually, this will mean that the crawler will have performed the bookmark action on every single item within the document management system, creating significant database bloat.
It is possible to exclude URLs from the Crawl Configuration. However, does this prevent the crawler from accessing the URL or does it still access it to find more links, but just exclude that URL from the search result?


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I'm trying to resolve a situation of characters being connected to things that are moving. If I am at the end of a 20ft chain connected to a boulder, and someone drops that boulder off a 50ft cliff, presumably that would pull me over as well, wouldn't it? Effectively I would be restrained, but could move freely within the length of the chain. What is the best way to model this in the system?
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You can use normal forced movement rules to get them to the precipice, but the PC should get a saving throw (Rules Compendium p. 213, DMG p.44) to avoid going over the edge.
If they succeed on their save, the Climbing rules should take effect, because the PC has fallen prone at the edge with a massive boulder pulling them down. If they fail, they take 1d10 falling damage per ten feet fallen, with an Athletics check to resist some damage (PHB p.284).
If they make their saving throw at the precipice, they fall prone and the boulder gets to pull really really hard on the chain. I would improvise this as an attack-with-combat-advantage against FORT. Even though the player is prone, I would model it as placing the player in the climbing state, with the weight of the boulder substituting for the pull of gravity.
If they have sufficient FORT, they can shrug off the damage and hang on; if not, damage forces them to make an Athletics check at DC-plus-damage-taken to hold on and not be moved. (PHB p.182 for all climbing rules incl. damage while climbing). If the boulder exceeds a player's maximum drag load (50x STR, PHB p.222) then the damage should be static and push the DC to the point where only a critical hit will work. If the boulder exceeds 20xSTR, then the player is both slowed (speed = 2) and climbing (climb at half speed on a success) so even a successful climb check will likely have them moving only one square per turn.
From here, then, you can adjust the terrain climb DC, the boulder's attack, and the boulder's weight and damage numbers with an understanding of how hard you want it to pull on your players. In particular you can look at your PCs' Athletics and FORT scores to figure out their odds of surviving.
DMG p.65 lists object defenses and hit points; Iron Manacles have a FORT of 8 (auto-hit for most PCs) and 30 hps, so it's possible for the player to break the chain in order to free themselves. A sufficiently-motivated ranged striker could break the chain with an encounter or daily power and some lucky dice rolls.
I would make a generic rule that still allows a small measure of player agency.
Any time the boulder moves to a square more than 4 squares away from you, you must shift as a free action to remain within 4 squares of the boulder.
This allows the character to look around frantically and attempt to shift diagonally so the chain gets snagged on something strong enough to hold the boulder up. Or maybe even get a free chance to knock an enemy prone with the chain.
But if nothing is around (and this is the best part) you can rub your hands together and laugh derisively as the player is forced to utter the words: "I shift off the cliff."
You should model it as forced movement (does not provoke opportunity attacks). However unless you can justify stopping the boulder you are falling with it.
You now take 5d10 falling damage unless you are trained in acrobatics, in that case you can reduce the damage by the amount of an acrobatics check divided by 5(I think).
You're asking half a physics question, half a D&D question, so here's half a physics answer, half an RPG answer:
Let's say you and the boulder are standing right next to each other at the edge of a 50 ft. cliff. There's a 20 ft. chain from an iron ring around your...neck? waist? Let's say waist. A troll comes along and pushes the boulder over the edge of the cliff.
The boulder falls 20 ft, and then you get yanked off the cliff. This takes 1.1 seconds, and is like getting punched in the stomach by an iron bar moving 24 mph. See wolfram alpha for all the calculations.
When you hit the ground, about 1 second later, you'll hit the ground at about 46 mph - the boulder was going 39 when it hit the ground, and so were you. You have however long it takes to travel that remaining 20 feet to accelerate to your final speed. That's gonna be about 46 mph. I had help on this math, so don't ask me for all the details. I also made all sorts of simplifying assumptions, like no air resistance, and the boulder's mass is so much greater than the PC's that the loss of velocity for the boulder was essentially zero.
So much for the physics answer. For the RPG, I would do this:
1) Apply damage for the boulder yanking him off the cliff. 2) Apply damage for hitting the ground.
Does DnD have collision damage? Probably not. Use falling damage instead.
So at the table, in lieu of doing all this math, I'd probably have just said:
"Ouch! The boulder yanks you off the cliff, and then you slam into the ground below! Roll for damage for falling 50 feet and add 50%. Armor does not protect."
You just described how to model it: The character is unable to move 20ft away from the bolder, and movement of the boulder is, effectively, a type of forced movement (lagging 20ft) for the character.
You should probably include some way for the character get free, whether it be strength checks, a bunch of help, or a hammer and chisel.


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Covering a circle randomly with arcs has been well studied in the past (Geometric Probability - Solomon).
But the problem when the circle is changed to a line segment doesn't seem to have been studied before.
I'd like to know if there's any work out there who already obtained the probability distribution of the number and the length of the connected line segments that you get when randomly covering a line segment with another set of shorter segments, which may all be of equal length or have some kind of distribution.


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Is it a mod, or another way to remove blocks without logging in to the server? I have a server but someone has placed a world anchor thats crashing the server when we try to log on.
You can use MCEdit to load the map and delete the block, however all the non-vanilla blocks will be invisible, so you'll have to know where it is before loading MCEdit. But you can view the block ID so you can check it's the right block before deleting it.
No, it is not possible.
Perhaps you have some backups? If you knew the coordinates of the World Anchor you could delete the chunk, but that means losing some of your World.
You have a few options here. The following is a list of things that you can do, starting from easiest/most convenient to harder/less convenient.
The most convenient thing to do would be to delete the world and to start over. Of course, this is the easiest thing to do, meaning that it is also associated with dire consequences. If you have anything worth keeping, you may want to port it over using WorldEdit/MCEdit. If you find that too complicated, do not use this solution.
If you open the world in vanilla, and then save it and put it back on the server, this may also fix the problem. This may also remove your non-vanilla placed blocks. You probably would not want this if you have large things that you do not want to lose.
Another solution is to delete the mod and the configuration file(s)/folder(s) that has the world anchor. Then run the game normally, save, and put the mod back on.
The most complex solution is to find the item ID of the world anchor and to use WorldEdit to remove it. However, this requires you to log into the server, which you cannot do. If the server does not immediately crash, you may have enough time to type the command, assuming you are close to it. Assuming the anchor has Item ID 483, you would do


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I was showing someone how to play the intro to "More Than A Feeling", and as we were working through the chord pattern it dawned on me how many times I've played the same voicing for the Dmaj (C,B on top) - The Doors, The Stones,Rush, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin et al have, over the years given us first position chord voicing/patterns that have become standard simply because they've been copied so many hundreds of times in other songs - What are some examples (in tabs).
The only "rock" (as opposed to every other style of music) chord pattern I can think of is the so-called "Texas G" chord:
This is typically played using the thumb on the low-E string and the middle finger playing both the B- and high-E strings. Note that this isn't a typical G chord, which includes the B on the A-string. Instead it intentionally leaves that B out, so it's made up purely of roots and fifths. It's popular both because it's easy and because it doesn't have a third in it, so it's neither major nor minor---in that sense, it's like a power chord.
If instead you're asking about popular first-position chords in general, of course this would require a much longer example. Perhaps you can give examples of songs that use the chords you're looking for?
I think the answer to this could easily be any rock song using chord progressions in open positions; there are literally thousands of possible examples; though a favourite of mine is 'Sympathy for the Devil' by the 'Rolling Stones' (check out the rest of their catalogue for more examples).
Led Zeppelin's work has a lot of open chords, one of the most well known being Stairway to Heaven; in which the chords are 99% open.
More modern examples might be the music's of - Radiohead(Karma Police is an excellent example), Oasis, Coldplay, David Gray.


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10 Animals You Won't Believe Are Closely Related
4-3 Rock Hyrax
Image By Hans Hillewaert
The rock hyrax looks like a confused groundhog or a woodchuck who would chuck wood if it wasn't suffering from what appears to be the most uncomfortable case of hemorrhoids in the Animal Kingdom. When not busy looking confused about where its body parts are located in the fur covered pile of pudding attached to its head, it spends its time being absolutely freaking terrified.
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That's because the hyrax is the fat kid in nature's most terrifyingly bully filled high school: Africa. Its natural predators include leopards, Egyptian cobras, puff adders, wild dogs, eagles, and presumably the Queen from Aliens. The only reason it's not extinct is that look on its face up there. The hyrax is never not terrified. It's got three modes: eating, looking out for predators and being eaten by the most terrifying animals on the African continent.
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Above: Nature's equivalent of bringing a Nerf gun to a Blitzkrieg.
What it actually is: The elephant's closest living relative
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The hyrax is actually the disappointing little broth of the only good reason to ever use the word "Majestic." While the hyrax wedged itself in the rocks and learned to be super scared of stuff, its cousin was chilling out on the savanna getting huge and learning to use its nose as a hand/squirt gun combination.
Even stranger, the hyrax isn't the goofiest looking dipshit in the elephant's royal family. That distinction would fall to the manatee, which you might know as "that morbidly obese, mentally handicapped seal at the zoo.
While they look like walruses, manatees evolved completely independent of other aquatic mammals. Some several million-odd years ago, a group of small, fat, Jamaican mammoths called Prorastomuses started spending too much time foraging in the water. A few million years later and they're bloated, bald and so slow they make the act of floating look exhausting.
So ... out ... of ... breath.
2-1 Great Auk
Image By Sarah Hartwell
Standing three-feet-tall, the great auk looked like an emperor penguin with a hangover. Like the penguin, they were large flightless birds with bright white bellies and black backs that only laid one egg a year. To see them in motion was to be absolutely freaking sure you were looking at a penguin. They swam like big fat torpedoes, and waddled around awkwardly like they were dragging around a stone that was tied to their dick. Like two brothers in the same crime family splitting up the block, the emperor penguins chose to live in the South Pole while the great auk ruled the Northern Hemisphere. That was the only really noticeable difference. Well, that and the beak.
Image By Stan Shebs and Sammlung Leipzig
While the emperor penguin's snout comes to a smooth point like it was designed to be dipped in ink and sign endorsement deals, the great auk's beak made it look like it had seen its share of bar fights.
Presumably because it was a little big uglier, we didn't feel so bad about wiping every single member of their species off the planet -- shooting the last pair in 1844. But, hey, at least their brothers live on in the south, fighting the good fight one precious egg at a time.
And, occasionally, having their lives narrated by Morgan Freeman.
What it actually is: Closer to just about any bird north of the equator
The only way they're related is that the word "penguin" comes from the French word for great auk, and was given to the Coke mascots by sailors who thought they were looking at a colony of great auks chilling in the Southern Hemisphere. But the name is nothing more than a a centuries-long case of mistaken identity, since the great auk is more like a mutated seagull than anything else.
We knew we recognized that goofy ass look from somewhere.
See, despite looking almost identical to one another, the penguin and the great auk aren't even remotely related. They started rocking the same colors, decided flying was overrated and that diving was where it was at all without passing so much as a single note or meaningful glance. They might as well have existed on opposite ends of the galaxy and they showed up to prom wearing the same freaking tuxedo.
And while we're not here to take sides, the penguin stole the auk's look, stole its name and then the auk mysteriously disappeared. We realize it's absurd to claim that the penguin had anything to do with its extinction, but it's not like the penguin didn't have a financial motive.
That's the North goddamn Pole! That should be a great auk.
The lesson, as always, is that when humanity gets involved, all things being equal -- the ugly guy gets screwed right in his stupid ugly face.
For the Cracked take on other animals, check out The 6 Most Unlikely Partners in the Animal Kingdom and The 9 Most Mind-blowing Disguises in the Animal Kingdom.


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6026 Twin Bell Triangle Alarm Clock, with Background Light
This twin bell alarm clock looks like a classic key wind, but it is actually a battery operated clock. The features include a black dial on demand, a repeating snooze, bell alarm sound and yellow background light.
Electronic alarm clock
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battery operated, no thanks
As much as I love this company and their random items, I've got a cell phone with an alarm function.
Not in for one.
Guess too many people liked this, item is now out of stock.


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The Globalization of Indifference (Update)
This morning Pope Francis visited the tiny island of Lampedusa, off the coast of Sicily. As I reported in a previous post, the island is closer to Tunisia than to Sicily. It is therefore the destination of many from North Africa, seeking a better life for themselves and their children.Tragically, a number have perished making the voyage.
Francis chose the island for his first journey outside Rome, going to the margins where the most needy are to be found.
Here is a report from Vatican News:
The Holy Father wore violet vestments during the Mass, calling it a "liturgy of repentance."
"God asks each one of us: Where is the blood of your brother that cries out to me?," Pope Francis said during his homily, quoting from the Genesis story of Cain and Abel. "Today no one in the world feels responsible for this; we have lost the sense of fraternal responsibility."
"The culture of well-being, that makes us think of ourselves, that makes us insensitive to the cries of others, that makes us live in soap bubbles, that are beautiful but are nothing, are illusions of futility, of the transient, that brings indifference to others, that brings even the globalization of indifference," he continued. "In this world of globalization we have fallen into a globalization of indifference. We are accustomed to the suffering of others, it doesn't concern us, it's none of our business."
The voyage has created tremendous attention in the Italian Press. It will be interesting to see whether it receives much notice here.
Andrea Tornielli, one of the most knowledgable Vatican commentators his written:
But the Pope's visit to Lampedusa on this hot summer day is emblematic for other reasons as well. The Pope has shown that he can travel around Italy without all the usual pomp and ceremony of a papal visit, without queues of politicians and institutional representatives in tow and without being surrounded by bishops and cardinals. He can go and private visit – or at least as private as a papal visit can be – doing away with anything superfluous, getting around in an off-road car and using a wooden crozier and chalice made using the wood from the boats that came to the island carrying groups of immigrants in desperate search of a better life. The Pope's visit to Lampedusa, the gateway to Europe could be a possible model for the future, the promise of a pontificate of change, which is evident even in its early days.
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Interesting that Pope Francis is wearing violet and, instead of merely condeming the surrounding culture, is asking for forgiveness. He really thinks of himself as part of the world, in the culture, one of us. He feels fraternal responsibility in spite of not having personal responsibility. In that way as well, he is "going to the margins", sharing responsibility and therefore repentance, and in that way, reaching out to those who are indifferent. How can one not want to follow him when he is trying so hard to be united with all?
I wonder, though, how much of it is indifference and how much is a sense of helplessness?
The information revolution means that most of us in the rich nations are aware of the major tragedies that occur every day, all over the world. We know in seconds, as the stories flash up on our news feeds. I don't know about others, but I find it overwhelming at times. Tragedies this week included the 19 firefighters who died in Arizona, the murder of 55 students and teachers in schools in northern Nigeria whose sin was "teaching western education", bombing deaths in the mid-east, dozens dead in protests in Cairo. Etc, etc. So often I feel helpless when faced with the non-stop drumbeat of news of the world's tragedies. The plight of refugees all over the world is heartbreaking; the reports of gruesome murders against those trying to stop the drug wars in Mexico; the ever increasing rates of human trafficking and slavery, the ongoing situation in Syria and the growing refugee problem from that - what do we do about it - all of it? What CAN we do about it?
Anne and all:
"Accept an assignment. Then you don't have to be responsible for everything."
- Sister Corita Kent, IHM
A quick check on Google finds the story reported by the BBC, the Guardian, and several news outlets in the US among which are the Boston Herald, but not the NY Times, WaPo, LA Times, etc. They'll probably get around to it eventually, but the silence does so far suggest perhaps that Francis is not behaving the way a pope is popularly meant to behave, and if he really wants an audience in the US, he should be restricting himself to condemning secularism, gay marriage,etc. etc. . . the expected topics, of course.
My daughter in Italy tells me that Lampedusa is the main entry point for African immigrants into Italy, and thus to the EU, and the Italians wonder which side Swedes, Danes, and other such northern European countries would be on if they were right next to Africa and the Middle East.
Is Lampedusa also where Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- author of The Leopard -- came from? a 1958 novel that a) on a scale of four, gets five stars; and b) explains a lot about Italy and its periodic malaises.
he was born in Palermo, son and heir of the Prince of Lampedusa. I saw the film version of "Il Gattopardo" in Palermo in 1963, and thought it terrific.
With regard Francis and contemporary culture check the complete text of his remarks to Seminarians on Saturday:
I think indifference to other people's needs is something learned and maybe it can be unlearned.
I volunteer with the Girl Scouts and I'm always impressed with how earnestly these young girls, these children, work on service projects.
One girl recently did a project meant to in some way help a new mother; the girl did some fundraising and used some of her own money to put together a gift basket of items for a young mother living in a homeless shelter. The girl put this gift basket together with as much care and concern as if it were for her own sister, right down to carefully selecting the congratulations card and the packaging and she brought the gift to the shelter to give to the mother.
The young mother, just a girl herself, probably wasn't receiving a whole lot of congratulations and gifts for her new baby. The $100 gift basket didn''t do anything to change the young mother's financial circumstances, but I think the sincere concern for her well-being and the honest congratulations on the birth of her baby made that gift something more than it would have been otherwise.
I think if we adults could find a way to care about other people, strangers, the way children and young people seem to be able to, we could turn around that global indifference.
"…the silence does so far suggest perhaps that Francis is not behaving the way a pope is popularly meant to behave…"
As one very conservative and, to my mind nasty priest blogger has encouraged his followers to give Pope Francis time so that he can learn how to be pope.
Sorry, Father, you may have to wait until hell freezes over.
the silence does so far suggest perhaps that Francis is not behaving the way a pope is popularly meant to behave, - See more at: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/globalization-indifference#sthash...
"…the silence does so far suggest perhaps that Francis is not behaving the way a pope is popularly meant to behave…"
One very conservative and, to my mind nasty, priest blogger has encouraged his followers to give Pope Francis time so that he can learn how to be pope.
Sorry, Father, you may have to wait until hell freezes over.
h/t Rocco Palmo @ Whispers in the Loggia:
Today no one in the world feels responsible for this; we have lost the sense of fraternal responsibility.
Nuance and fine distinctions are hard to do in a short homily, I suppose, but I think Pope Francis speaks too broadly here. Surely many millions of individuals are doing what they can to alleviate their brothers' and sisters' distress. And many organizations are laboring in the same fields. It is the largest structures, those at the national and international level, that fail most often, sometimes out of indifference or even hostility to those in need, but more often from the feckless but realistic fear of making things worse by an intervention.
Cain's sin was the murder of a flesh-and-blood brother, and thus an attack on his own small community, without which humans do not survive for long. Until fairly recently in our bloody history, it was acceptable, even meritorious, to oppress and kill those outside our own group. The circle of inclusiveness and the awareness of a shared humanity are still growing too slowly, but they are growing. We are just not very good yet at acting on them. But it seems to me that we are doing better than we used to do.
using a wooden crozier and chalice made using the wood from the boats that came to the island carrying groups of immigrants in desperate search of a better life.
Another bull's-eye. This is ingenious.
Pope Francis faced (not for the first time) the usual homilist's problem: The people who don't need to hear what he is saying, because they are doing what he urges, feel badly because they cannot rise to a higher level. The people who need to hear it have a whole list of how everything is wonderful, in its own way, and there is nothing more they need to do, thank you very much. ("O Lord, I thank you that I throw in a sizeable check ($20) for CRS every year unlike those other folks.")
Francis dealt with that this way: "So many of us, even including myself, are disordiented, we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live." Well, we know the bus-riding archbishop is more attentive than we are. So where does that leave us?
This guy is good!
On the topic of the more portable papacy that can go without entourages and papal accoutrements, and intending no implicit or explicit criticisms of anyone, but truly--gold candlesticks and sumptuous vestments, doctrinal corrections and florid condemnations never were going to convert the world. Never. As the Esquire writer (an atheist) has it, Francis is "kinda awesome." Simplicity and sincerity get through. The Kingdom moves incrementally closer. Hooray.
Mark - thank you. I need to remind myself of that whenever I read the news!
I'm glad that Francis felt comfortable in saying that people of other faiths can get spiritual gains from following their own religious practices
I give a thought, too, to the dear Muslim immigrants that are beginning the fast of Ramadan, with best wishes for abundant spiritual fruits. The Church is near to you in the search for a more dignified life for yourselves and for your families.
Text from page http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/07/08/pope_on_lampedusa:_%E2%80%9Ct...
of the Vatican Radio website
Looks as it's getting pretty good coverage in the US:
The NYTimes, so far, has published two articles on the Pope's trip to Lampedusa.
Yesterday (pre-trip)
On the WaPo site, a search on "pope lampedusa" turned up 6 articles.
On LATimes, search wasn't working but I found this article im the "World" section:
Amazing that the whole scheduled time from plane landing at Lampedusa to plane taking off for Rome was only an hour and a half. Francis has figured out how to accomplish a lot in a short period of time. Very effective.
Here's the programme with times
God bless Italy for taking in the refugees. Is there any systematic agreement among the other European nations to take in the refugees? Germany and France have taken in a lot of Muslims, Great Britain has taken in some, and the U. N. has world-wide concerns, but it doesn't seem strong enough to do a great deal of good. And, of course, the U.S. has taken in millions of immigrants from the south.
Shouldn't there be some overall world institution for helping the people who in countries which simply cannot support their populations? Is this what Pope Francis is really asking for? (Further, considering that over-population is a cause of much of the immigration problem, and considering that Humanae Vitae has not been received by the Faithful, shouldn't Pope Francis be reconsidering that encyclical?
What I'm getting at it that when economically blessed nations are presented with major social dislocations, as Christians we must to help them. But just feeding and housing the refugees when they get here isn't enough. We have to somehow help them to change their original circumstances. Immigration should be a last resort .
After Katrina I was a refugee for two months. Though I knew I would eventually returny, I was miserable because of it -- and that was typical of the Katrina refugees. How must these millions of immigrants feel knowing they will rarely go back home -- if ever? No, immigration should be a last resort. But what can the solution be?
Mons. Marini seems to have come on board with the Franciscan messaging and put his talents to it
It was a hot day.. Bishops wore ballcaps and Francis draped white cloth over his head for protection from the sun. No Saturno Papale for him.
Rocco reports:
As noted by Catholic News Service, the ritual text employed by Francis was that of a Mass of Reparation ("for the Remission of Sins") in light of the suffering of the innocent, the Pope and his concelebrants – some of whom wore ballcaps to shade themselves from the summer sun – all vested in penitential violet.
To underscore the tone of the pontiff's "profound" emotion, which the Vatican referred to in announcing today's quickly-planned visit, Francis likewise donned the papal "mourning" miter – simple white, lined with gold – which, per tradition, a Pope dons only for two occasions: funeral liturgies and Good Friday... until he's buried in it. In the same vein, the monsignori of Papa Bergoglio's entourage hewed to the new script by leaving their purple at home and donning unadorned black cassocks for the day.
On leaving the migrant group to head to Mass by means of an open jeep, a lucky TV crew was able to stick a microphone in front of Francis and get his unscripted mind on the moment.
"I'm here to pray," the Pope said. "And I want to help."
Ann, solving the underlying problems will take a while - bringing about peace in countries that are at war within themselves or against their neighbors, and developing economies to be able to support the population and provide social safety nets for those without jobs are the ultimate solutions, but obviously not easily achieved.
Here is information on the UN agency that coordinates help for refugees. It includes coverage of the pope's visit.
The pope, and then the pope. Do we risk canonizing Pope Francis even before he dies? When the papal shoulder cape, the zimarra, on a gusty day and at sea, covers the pope's head should this be seen as a papal innovation? It happened to Benedict many times, and no one saw it as other than the effect of a strong wind.
It seems to me that the suspension of the daily papal homilies from yesterday until September may not be altogether a bad thing. Seizing on their favorite saying, commentators appeared to be vying with each other to offer their own interpretations, influenced, at times I thought, by their chosen positions. Can popes talk too much? If so, can this crowd out our local bishop and, even more, our parish priests?
Sandro Magister, who had great regard for Pope Benedict XVI, seems at a bit of a loss on how to deal with Pope Francis. Yesterday he had a lead article in ESPRESSO, with the, to me, rather desperate title, "Il Papa non e' di sinistra." "The Pope is not a leftist."
There is reason for much hope, but would a little calm, say through December, be helpful? And what of the local or particular Churches, the dioceses, and perhaps even more, the USCCB? So far, I don't see much change. But admittedly, it's early days yet.
The second intercession from Evening Prayer yesterday, in a rough translation, "Protect our pope, Francis, and our local bishop; strengthen them with the power of your Spirit: - - Fulfill the yearnings of your people, Lord."
"no one saw it as other than the effect of a strong wind" – on the order of Acts 2:2?
It seems to me that some more traditional or conservative Catholics are experiencing cognitive dissonance about Pope Francis. As one such Catholic blogger has written recently: "Would it be too much for your humble sensibilities to throw one a little brocade once and while? I mean you are Pope. I'm pretty sure it's not a sin to look like one." followed by "I really do want to love this guy."
In addition, I think that some people either do not like or are afraid of the unexpected. I used to find it amusing to observe the reactions of some parishioners to a homily. One group loved to hear the priest say things in the way that were familiar to them, in the way they learned it in Catholic school while others loved to hear other ways of looking at and expressing the Gospel message.
Pope Francis is full of surprises. It reminds me that Jesus was like that, too. He ate with so-called sinners, conversed intelligently in public with women, invited a despised tax collector into his inner circle, and gave Himself to us in common bread and wine. I could go on and, as a matter of fact I think that I am going to do some more research on how many times Jesus did the unexpected.
Anne --
Thanks for the address. The U. N. does indeed do a great deal for refugees in transit and for those stuck in camps just outside their own countries. But for many their needs remain huge when are trying to integrate into their new ones. There just isn't enough help to go around.
There just isn't enough help to go around. Ann, that is why I expressed that these situations produce (in me) not indifference but too often a sense of helplessness. The need is so overwhelming.
OMG ... to look like a pope, one has to wear a bit of brocade? Is that what the papacy had become during Francis' two predecessors' reigns ... a bit of brocade?
I guess the hype about Pope Francis is over the top. But he makes me feel good about being a Catholic, and I would like to just enjoy feeling this way for a little while.


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I assume you are talking about a difference in neural activity?
The difference in processing of targets and distracters does not come from their relative frequency, but from their task-relevance: you are paying attention to the targets, thus increasing gain. In auditory MMN, this attention component becomes evident slightly later than the prediction component, and might be missing completely for ignored stimuli (e.g. when the participants are watching a movie while listening to a stream of sounds). Naatanen has more than one review paper that goes into this, this one probably the most recent.


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First of all, i apologize if this is a repeat thread, i tried looking to the answer myself and couldn't find exactly what i was looking for.
When i first saw ICEnhancer in action i was blown away by the detail of everything and more so the real car models. I haven't had a computer that could run even the simplest of games in almost 2 years so i was out of luck and out of practice(with modding games). My friend informed me that installing ICE was incredibly easy and fast to do so i went into it thinking it was simply copying a few files here, adding a few there, nothing to serious...i was wrong hahaha. However, me and my "friend" no longer talk and i recently bought a very nice rig. I bought GTAIV for the sole purpose of running the ICEnhancer.
Im not completely ignorant to modding games at this level, i used to run and operate several l4d, l4d2, css, and tf2 servers. However i learned how to do that on my own and its been some time since i have done any of that and to put it nicely, im out of practice.
I followed the installation guide found on these threads, and was redirected to another page that shows how to get around steam. I installed GTAIV ver. 1.0.4 and the appropriate version of social club. Since it was a fresh install of GTA i started it up, signed in and all that nonsense, and then logged out. I followed the directions, all that stuff was done right. Now, when i started the game back up, just to make sure everything still worked, Social Club told me the game wasnt up to date(obviously) and that if i didn't update i couldnt save achievments. This i figured was fine since i play on steam and im not worried about those in this game anyway, or mutiplayer for that matter(and yes, i have auto update turned off in steam). The problem though is that games for windows live popped up and said that if i didnt update the game i couldnt save my progress. That is when i stopped playing with it and decided to take to the community.
1)If i install ICEnhancer, is there something that works around games for windows? Or am i really not going to be able to save my game? As much as i like ICE and what it does, it wouldnt be worth it if i couldnt save my game.
2) did i do something wrong? should i not have opened the game after installing the lower versions? Or did i not install something right? Is there a way to turn off games for windows or even social club since i wont be using them?
After that, i also noticed that car model are not a part of ICEnhancer. Am i right in understanding that it is a seprete mod that runs those, and that cars have to be added manually as well? Like i said, the only reason i bought this game again is because of ICE. the thought of building up a 6 star wanted level in a lambo allures me lol. So im going to go through with this one way or another.
3) how long, on average, would it take to install ICE, and the mod for cars(i know its on here, i saw it already and bookmarked it i just dont remember the name) and a bunch of car models to the game? Is there anything else i am missing in that regard?
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This i figured was fine since i play on steam and im not worried about those in this game anyway, or mutiplayer for that matter(and yes, i have auto update turned off in steam). The problem though is that games for windows live popped up and said that if i didnt update the game i couldnt save my progress. That is when i stopped playing with it and decided to take to the community.
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About the updating.. I also had that first time I played Gta 4 and just let it update (to 18.104.22.168.) most mods work for that patch too (and Icenhancer always has a beta version for it, which in my experience works just as good).
I don't know how to keep it at patch 188.8.131.52.
Now about Icenhancer, the downloading will take up the most tiime (last Icenhancer I downloaded was more then 4gb if I remember correctly). It's just a matter of replacing files (not installing anything). It's a graphics mod so yes it doesn't include cars (you'll have to download them seperately).
But please backup your game (after you've patched it) because mods in gta 4 replace default things (so you need a backup if you ever want to uninstall something). Icehancer is just a matter of replacing files, if you want to replace cars/weapons/player items you'll need OpenIV or SparkIV. These are programs to open up gta 4 files and replace the right items. I recommend using SparkIV to begin with
If you need any help on how to install those mods let me know, but I'll let you work on the first thing before moving on to the next ;)
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