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13 Real Animals Lifted Directly Out of Your Nightmares
#6. The Mata Mata Mutant Turtle
Holy shit, whose idea was this? What you'd suspect was a regular turtle after a series of grotesque radiation experiments is actually mata mata, a South American turtle that looks like a cross between Bowser and Ian McShane.
Supposedly its hideous exterior camouflages it from its prey, but really the thing is just so fucking ugly that fish would rather get eaten than have to look at it. Fortunately, people aren't on the menu, but with a shell that measures 18-inches long and a body that weighs 33-pounds, we wouldn't tease them with our fingers.
All right, we need to get something cute and furry on this list, ASAP.
#5. Aye Aye Lemur A.K.A. the Rat that Ate All the Crystal Meth
Fuck! That's actually worse! This strung-out looking thing is the aye aye lemur, which appears to have crawled its way out of the rancid vagina of a Victorian prostitute and went straight to work hiding in children's bedrooms to steal their dreams.
Actually, it lives in trees in Madagascar and uses its freakishly over-sized fingers to find grubs (the exact purpose of its goblin hair has yet to be determined). It's basically the terrifying version of a woodpecker. Unsurprisingly, Madagascan natives regard the aye aye as an unholy terror. Consequently, the damn thing is endangered and we're legally required to give a shit about it. But fuck it, the Rancor was probably endangered too.
Let's get us another furry creature, it's still better than going back to the shit with tentacles.
#4. Star Nosed Mole A.K.A. the Furry Creature with Tentacles
Ah! Where's its face?! Is that its face?
The star nosed mole a.k.a. "the creature with another bullshit name because it should be called 'the tentacle faced digbeast'" looks like it should come bursting out of the boiler room of an old church to kill every orphan in the city, only to eventually be cast back into Hell by a retired priest struggling with his own faith played by Lance Henriksen.
In reality they're only about eight-inches long and are mostly blind (its titular star nose is a sensory organ) which we argue takes nothing away from its orphan-eating potential.
#3. The Big Red Jellyfish
The granrojo jellyfish ("big red" in English) is 10-feet across, lives in the deep sea and looks like an escaped uterus hell-bent on revenge. They've only been seen two dozen times, so very little is known about them, aside from their being huge, red versions of what your boner sees when it has a nightmare. Scientists aren't even sure what or how they eat, presumably because the guy who took this series of photographs was never heard from again.
#2. The Fish with the Transparent Head (A.K.A. Barreleye)
At this point we have decided that anything that comes from the deep sea is pure evil. This one appears to have been dreamed up as a children's learning tool by Satan's kindergarten teacher.
It's a barreleye fish and you can see through its head. The weird green balls inside are its eyes, and they are frozen staring upwards to find fish.
That's right. Rather than giving it a great sense of smell or touch or superior electromagnetic senses to help it hunt in the darkness of the deep sea, nature saw fit to glue eyes on the top of its brain and give it an invisible skull. Why not?
#1. Wolf Trap
If you think that picture makes it hard to figure out what's going on with this creature, you're right. You'll find that all photos of it have the same problem.
Sharing its name with an anti-terrorist unit led by Louis Gossett, Jr., the wolf-trap anglerfish is also known as a wonderfish, which sounds more like a Saturday morning cartoon show.
They are distinctive because, for one, they have a fucking fishing pole glued to their head. To catch fish, not wolves as their name would imply (if such a fish existed, you'd have fucking heard about it by now). They're called a "wolf-trap" because their massive upper jaws (which are up to three times the size of the lower jaw) have "movable premaxilaries," which means it opens and closes sideways like... well, like a wolf trap.
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Cape Town's Table Mountain – a magical place for love
The month of October did not only bring gusts of wind to Cape Town and Table Mountain, but also a deliverance of love and wedding proposals.
On October 26, 2012, Elmer Marthinus led his girlfriend, Anneen Marais, through a maze of blindfolded glory only to propose to her at the summit of Table Mountain, and on October 13, 2012, it was the turn of Justine Fargher and Jonny Ewing to experience the joy.
It is a day Justine is not likely to forget – the day she went up Table Mountain with a boyfriend and came down with a fiancé.
While on holiday in Cape Town, Justine and her boyfriend Jonny had decided to go on an early morning hike using the Platteklip Gorge path.
"It was a beautiful day with bright blue skies and not a single cloud. Once we reached the top, there were a group of rocks that formed a small hill and we climbed to the top of the rocks so we could enjoy the beautiful view alone.
"While looking over beautiful Cape Town, Jonny got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. Of course, my answer was yes!"
She said that after spending some time exploring the top of Table Mountain they caught the cable car back down to the bottom.
"The view from the rotating cable car was incredible. I could not have asked for a more meaningful proposal," said Justine.
Asked if he was nervous about proposing, Jonny said: "I was not nervous at all, I was quite relaxed. We had spoken about it; the proposal wasn't out of the blue. I was more nervous about losing the ring".
"We have been dating for 10 months, but we've known each other since I was five years old. She was my first girlfriend when I was 12. After school we went our separate ways and then met each other again a year ago and just connected."
The Johannesburg-based couple will be moving to Cape Town at the end of the year when Justine qualifies as a doctor. The wedding date has been set for March 23, 2013.
Let's hope the month of November will also be filled with declarations of love and marriage.


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One way to tessellate a 3D sphere is by iterated subdivision of an icosahedron. I am wondering whether this method gives a homogeneous surface density of vertices. To the eye, it seems to do so, and logic indicates that too (each face has the same are in the icosahedron, and faces in each subdivision are created of equal area), but is there some bias that I'm not thinking of?
Otherwise, what tessellation method can yield a constant density of vertices?


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The Fort Lewis College women�s lacrosse team played one of half of �Fort Lewis lacrosse.�
But a lone half wasn�t enough to beat Lindenwood, and the Lions won 19-10 on Monday at Ray Dennison Memorial Field.
�We played very good in the first,� FLC head coach Kelsey MacDonald said. �We were making good stops on defense. ... Taking our time and doing what we needed to capitalize and score.�
Kicked off by Justiene Groothuis� score just 47 seconds into the game, the Lions opened up a 5-1 lead early in the first half, aided by win after win on the draw.
The Lions won 23 of 30 draw controls Monday.
Groothuis finished with six goals, while Maddi Ossell and Melissa Smith each scored four to keep Lindenwood undefeated � 10-0 overall and 5-0 in the Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.
But the Skyhawks didn�t panic, settling back into a solid defense and working to turn over Lindenwood�s attack.
It started to work.
Fort Lewis scored four of the next five goals to pull within a single goal at 6-5.
Jessica Norby tallied a hat trick on FLC�s first four goals, while Ally Kvidera got the other point. Norby and Kvidera finished with four goals apiece.
�They were killing us on the draw, but we were coming up with caused turnovers; we were making the stops, and then when we had the ball on our attack, we were poised and not throwing our passes away.
�That�s Fort Lewis lacrosse,� MacDonald said.
That style of play kept the Skyhawks within striking distance. Although the Lions opened up a three-goal lead with two quick scores as the clock approached 1 minute remaining in the first half, the Skyhawks answered with a beautiful goal when Norby, from the far right side, hit Brook Wineland with a sharp pass in front of goal.
Wineland flicked the ball high sideways past Lindenwood goalkeeper Christin Hehmeyer with 11 seconds remaining, seeming to grab back the game�s momentum.
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Lindenwood�s Lindsey Palmer took a pass from Ossello at the goal mouth, paused for a half second, then slammed home a goal past FLC keeper Alyssa Spencer, who made 13 saves total Monday, with .5 seconds left.
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Although FLC held the Lions scoreless for the first 8:35 of the second half, the Skyhawks couldn�t cut into the lead either.
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�I don�t know if once they went up by five we kind of stopped playing a little bit ... five goals is not a lot in lacrosse. You�ve got to have the mental toughness to come back by five,� MacDonald said.
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I live in a tall building (20 floors) on a mountain. Because the water pressure from the water company is not enough, there is a water pump at the last floor which is activated each time someone is using fresh water in his apartment.
To me, that's a big waste of energy, and I think that in theory it would be possible to reuse the used water which is going down to pump some fresh water up.
I wonder if such device already exist on the market, and I would like to know how such device would be called. Would there be a problem to operate with such a height difference?


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Can someone explain, explicitly, how to, given a reductive complex algebraic group construct the Langlands dual group? I know it is a group with the cocharacters of G as its characters, but how does one go about writing down what group it is?
You can construct the dual group in a combinatorial manner as follows: Reductive groups are classified by their root datum. There is an obvious duality on the set of all root data, and the dual group is the reductive group with the dual root datum.
You can see Wikipedia for the notion of the root datum.
The Chevalley construction mentioned by Steven Sam from Lusztig's notes can also be found in Springer's textbook "Linear algebraic groups" (on pages 164-165 of the second edition). It's beautiful and clear and elementary (no perverse sheaves!) and direct (no Lie algebras, which wouldn't work in finite characteristic, and no reduction to simply connected groups). If you want to construct representations of the dual group directly, then geometric Satake is a good idea. For the classical Langlands conjectures, what one cares about are not representations of the dual group but elements of it (or a little more precisely, maps of Galois groups into it). For such purposes, the Chevalley construction by generators and relations is just what Dr. Langlands ordered.
One way to "construct" the Langlands dual group is via the geometric Satake isomorphism, which gives an equivalence between the category of representations of the Langlands dual group and the category of G[[t]]-equivariant perverse sheaves on the affine Grassmannian. From the category of representations, the group can be reconstructed via Tannakian duality, i.e., as automorphisms of the fibre functor. I suppose whether or not this is an explicit construction depends on your point of view.
Lusztig explained how to construct a reductive algebraic group from a given root datum in a class I took from him. I took notes and scanned them. If you don't mind the quality, you can find the construction in Lecture 14 (starting from p.34) here: http://math.mit.edu/~ssam/notes/alggp.djvu
The construction is similar to constructing a semisimple Lie algebra from a root system.
As Peter mentioned, reductive groups are determined by their root data, and the Langlands dual is given by switching weights with coweights, and roots with coroots.
There is a "construction" of a group from a root datum in SGA III Exp 25 (in vol 3). It starts by reducing to the simply connected semisimple case (meaning there are ways of going from this case to the general case). The weights give you a torus T, and the positive/negative roots give you unipotent groups U+ and U-. You form a scheme \Omega = U- x T x U+, and create G by gluing a few disjoint copies of \Omega together, and writing down a composition law. This yields a split group over an arbitrary base scheme.
Again, I'm always responding to old posts... (do I need to keep mentioning this or is it perfectly acceptable to reply to old questions?). I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but my gut reaction is to use the highest weight theorem and various formulas (e.g. Kostant). You index the irreducible representations by the dominant characters and use the formulas to figure out the dimensions of all the weight spaces and how to write tensor products as direct sums of irreducibles.
I was googling for the root datum. This site and a very nice, conscise treatment of Calder Daenzer turned up: http://www.math.psu.edu/daenzer/Root_Data_for_Reductive_Groups.pdf His notes deal with complex, reductive groups only (as requested by the OP). In the end, he states the definition of the Langlands dual group.
Perhaps, you will also like Casselman: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~gor/Notes.pdf
I am aware that this question is pretty old! I add this as answer because I was not quite satisfied with the remaining suggestions in relation of brevity/precision. E.g. Springer's book requires a massive book keeping of notation. I am aware that Springer's/the SGA proof works over any basefield, and is thus more general.


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First Bullet and Boone, now Barren may be the next Kentucky county taking a stand against recent federal gun control restrictions.
The Boone County Fiscal Court approved a resolution this week against federal regulations that may restrict gun ownership, giving the sheriff the authority to not enforce federal mandates it views unconstitutional, leaving that responsibility to federal law enforcement.
Barren County Sheriff Chris Eaton says his county has been silent on the issue until now.
"We wanted to kind of research it, and look at it, and make sure we made the right decisions, but like I said, as Sheriff, I strongly believe in the right for a person to bear arms," said Barren County Sheriff Chris Eaton.
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Allen County Sheriff Jeff Cooke thinks the federal mandates thus far are not unconstitutional, but thinks people fear the federal government will eventually take guns they already own away from them.
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Just a brief post about my lunch trip today to Govinda's. I got the chicken cheese steak sandwich (or something to that effect) and a root beer. The taste was pretty good, though nothing exceptional. I certainly enjoyed the fact that it was close to where the conference was being held, but the service was really, really slow. The cooks kept screwing up peoples' orders which just made things even slower. I ate outside on a very rickety table, preferring the fresh air to the cramped quarters and rather dingy decor inside. Still, I think I will go back once more before this research trip is over just to enjoy the experience and convenience of eating at an all veggie restaurant.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Vegan Dad on the Road: Govinda's
Posted by Vegan Dad at 5:12 PM
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9 comments:
- Dan said...
where was this? i assume it was mock chicken? :)
- July 19, 2008 at 5:29 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Govinda's is on Broad and South street in Philadelphia. Yes, it is mock chicken made of seitan. They don't bother coming up with clever names for the meat, but explain on the menu that it is gluten-based.
- July 19, 2008 at 5:34 PM
- Melanie said...
When you go back, make sure you go upstairs to the sit down restaurant part!!
- July 19, 2008 at 6:30 PM
- Cyn said...
Have you been to Gianna's? They also make a great vegan cheesesteak. I recommend the Freebird Italiano with broccoli rabe.
- July 19, 2008 at 9:09 PM
- Binx said...
I totally agree with you in that this place is special. I mean, it's cool that it exists and it certainly is convenient, but I think it's overpriced and the service is horrible. Plus i'm pretty sure they just use May Wah fake meat: vegieworld.com.
Steer clear of Gianna's, no matter what anyone says: this is also overpriced, processed "vegan" crap (think GimmeLean on a roll and super greasy fries). Govinda's is waaaaay better that Gianna's.
- July 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM
- Michelle said...
OMG, I MISS Govindas! We used to live on South! (above the Health Food store that is probably LONG gone now) It was late 80s/early 90s during and following college. Man that was pretty awesome food, 3 bucks for the buffet, and the bookstore next door was also fun..
- July 20, 2008 at 12:28 AM
- Latayy said...
That looks good
was it rubbery?
I made some moussaka today you can check it out if you like
- July 20, 2008 at 1:35 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
the texture was pretty good, not too rubbery or tough.
I did not realize there was an upstairs. Will hit that this week.
Agreed about Gianna's. I ate there last time I was in Philly for a conference and I found their vegan cheesesteak very unappealing. I wasn't sure what the "steak" part was, actually.
- July 20, 2008 at 2:58 PM
- VeganLinda said...
The problem with cooking a lot at home and liking to cook is that eating out quite often becomes a disappointment. I know when I am in a groove cooking at home, I can't stand most of what I eat out. :-)
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My friend is starting a Necron army, and I was going to start a Space Marine army, but Necrons are really an interesting army to play, while the Space Marines are very generic. Could I build a Necron army and fight his Necron army? Is this against the rules?
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There is nothing in the rules to prevent two armies from the same codex from fighting one another. I would just be sure that you can tell who each model belongs to; this is not too difficult once they are painted, but it could be easy to lose track of who is on which side if there are all just bare plastic.
With the current fluff, Necrons Overlords have their own Dynasties and it is easy to justify a power struggle between two of them. Most other codexes can have fluff reasons to fight amongst themselves.
Any army can fight against any other army, even Space Marines of the same chapter.
It depends on how much you care about the story of your battles as to how odd this may feel.
If you are just playing games, it won't be an issue. If you want to run a coherent story or campaign then you'll need to justify why the two armies are fighting, and that may be difficult.
Short answer: If you both want to play with same armies, I don't see what the issue is; AS LONG as you know which models belong to who.
If you want to be a player that respects lore, then 2 players might not be able to play the same race v each other (haven't played for a while, but -> Imperials would not fight each other, whereas Orks totally would.) So Necrons could fight each other and it would make sense.


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I just wanted to ask for your opinion on a situation that occurs sometimes and which I don't know what would be the most elegant way to solve it.
Here it goes:
We have module A which reads an entry from a database and sends a request to module B containing ONLY the information from the entry module B would need to accomplish it's job (to keep modularity I just give it the information it needs -> module B has nothing to do with the rest of the information from the read DB entry). Now after finishing it's job, module B has to reply to a module C if it succeeded or failed. To do this module B replies with the information it has gotten from module A and some variable meaning success or fail. Now here comes the problem: module C needs to find that entry again BUT the information it has gotten from module B is not enough to uniquely find the exact same entry again.
I don't think that module A giving more information to module B which it doesn't need to do it's job but which it could then give back to module C would be a good practice because this would mean giving some module information it doesn't really need.
What do you think?


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I've been building a HTML (email/page) composition tool in Ember.js as a way of getting my head round it, I guess it's a sort of WYSIWYG.
A user adds various objects with different values (link, text etc.), the objects can have different templates and be arranged with jQuery UI which feeds back to the controller. What the user sees on screen is actually spot on and I am currently saving and reloading clean JSON from localstorage as a method of persistence.
What I'd really like to do though, is being able to generate a clean HTML version of what the user is seeing. Either from something written into the front end application or by processing the JSON I export on the server side.
I'd like to keep as much in JS, Ember and Handlebars as possible, and Ideally not re-implement too much of my templates/code in different places.
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I guess It might seem like an odd thing to be doing, with limited practical application but I'd like to finish it now I've started :) Also, I think the principles involved in any answer could probably have different application, I just haven't thought of it yet
Thanks! And thanks to the other people on here for answering my previous few questions about Ember.
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In case anyone finds this link - I've added (to my standard JS version) a check for attr within the attribute loop.
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Rumble on the Right
Now that the GOP has gone all serious on us about the economy, it is interesting to see a substantive criticism of Paul Ryan's economic policies (and record) by a significant figure on the Right. David Stockman was Reagan's Budget Director and one of the fathers of "supply side" economics. And he is angry.This article is important, because we need to remember that there aren't just two alternatives. Each economic alternative (Obama's and Romney's) represents various possibilities from within the Right and the Left, and these should be addressed too.
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I have to admit that as a writer, I also very much the like expression "folded like a lawn chair."
Stockman sounds as scarey as Ryan, just in a different way!
True. But his position, unlike Ryan's, is coherent. One can't have small government and the kind of free market that Romney talks about without attacking the monopolies and downsizing the military(-industrial complex).
I can't think of a single Republican President since Calvin Coolidge who has actually pursued a small-government policy. They want big government just as much as the Democrats do, just big in different ways. The one possible exception to that might be Ike, but even he favored big government projects such as the Interstate Highway system. Ike also warned against the 'military-industrial complex,' but only at the end of his administration.
Every time I drive on I-95 from Florida to Pennsylvania I say: "I like Ike" except when I pass through South Carolina and Virginia where I got speeding tickets.
The only way Ike could get into this year's GOP conclave would be by having a heart attack right in front of the door to the convention hall. Ditto T.R. And as for Lincoln, if he had a heart attack there, they'd just roll him into the gutter, or find someone to roll him into the gutter for them. That the inventor of Ronald Reagan's magic asterisk in budgeting (details to come later) should find Paul Ryan's specified tax cuts and unspecified loophole closings appalling shows just how much the party has fallen just since R.R. (And, no, that doesn't mean you have to vote Democratic.)
Maureen Dowd writes her best column (on any subject) on Ryan. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/opinion/dowd-when-cruelty-is-cute.html... is just replete with quotable lines. "Hes the cutest package that cruelty ever came in. ""Like Mitt Romney, Ryan truly believes he made it on his own, so everyone else can, too. He shrugs off the advantage of starting as the white guy from an affluent family, able to breeze into a summer internship for a Wisconsin Republican senator as a college student.""Ryan should stop being so lovable. People who intend to hurt other people should wipe the smile off their faces."It is really better than a keynote speech.
Lovable Liberals? Hardly. Dowd has been dour and sour for quite awhile now, Biden says Romney will put blacks folks "back in chains", and CNN snickers and the slavery inference. Democrats demonizing and distorting is more what this campaign is starting to look like.
Oops - ' . . . at the slavery inference'
Rumble on the Right? Not really. In any case, Republicans mend fences quickly, and we will all get behind the Romney-Ryan ticket.
Ken, Some thought -out posts would be desirable once in a while.
I agree with Maureen Dowd. Even before he was the pick, Ryan stood out to me as somewhat dangerous. Smug is what he is when you consider the accumulated wealth from his wife's family and his own. Do we really want an inexperienced foreign policy team in the White House, not to mention the economy? The "tadoo" about Biden's comment is just that. I wasn't even thinking about Black people...he was referring to untethering Wallstreet from their recently imposed restricitons after the 09 collapse. Talk about trumped up politics from the GOP..give us a break!
David Stockman has been an outsider of the conservative movement for years. He has absolutely zero influence on the GOP. This is no "rumble" on the right.
But are his points well taken?
unagidon: of course they are, but not in Teapublican circles, unless he toes whatever line is dictated by Limbaugh, Hannity, FauxNews, Adelson, the Kochs, ad nauseum.
Ryan is also a trumpeter of Ayn Rand. Except when it comes to religion, war and women's rights. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/opinion/ayn-rand-wouldnt-approve-of-pa...
I'm not sure which is more amusing: the notion that David Stockman can be credibly quoted as a significant figure on the Right or, given his track record, the notion that he can be credibly quoted at all.
Im not sure which is more amusing: the notion that David Stockman can be credibly quoted as a significant figure on the Right or, given his track record, the notion that he can be credibly quoted at all.
Nice. Sort of reminds me of Stalin killing all the Old Bolsheviks from the original revolution that he could lay his hands on.So Stockman is wrong? Care to tell me how? I know that his standing in the tribe has fallen, but he makes some serious points that are either true or false.
"Sort of reminds me of ..." Wow, that comparison is over the line, no? And I mean waaaaay over the line.
Give Ryan this. He can develop a program. This is why the right embraces him. All they have is negativity. Ryan at least gives them a semblance of a platform.
I agree with Dowd about Ryan and the belief he made it on his own. There's a post at the NYT's philosophy blog about this - the writer calls it the "veil of opulance" - the refusal of sucessful people to credit their debt to luck .... http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/the-veil-of-opulence/
Fr. Jack is back! It's amusing how every right-winger here is dutifully repeating the refrain that David Stockman cannot be taken seriously as a Republican. Did anyone read the op-ed? Where is the apostasy? Incidentally, if the economy sank under lo those many years of GOP fiscal policy, why should it grow under the Ryan plan?
Wow, that comparison is over the line, no? And I mean waaaaay over the line.
I have watched as the Republican Party has moved waaaaay beyond Reagan and yet it still wants to claim His Immortal Mantle. Stockman was speaking as an angry Reaganite, but the current flavor is to claim that people like him are not really Reaganites, which is like saying that Trotsky wasn't really a Communist. There haven't been judicial murders in the Party, but there has certainly been a purge.By the way, I wasn't implying that you were like Stalin and if I made you cry I deeply apologize.
Crystal --Interesting article. But I do think that criticisms of Rand because of her atheism are rather irrelevant. You can be a good atheist and wise in the ways of politics. I also think that anti-Randians over-simplify her appeal, making her the antithesis of such tried and true political sages as Aquinas. In fact, Rand, like Aquinas, was a great admirer of Aristotle (or so she said), and in fact she did incorporate some basic Aristotelian principles into her philosophy. She agreed that the purpose of man's life is to be happy, that human happiness is to be found in the actualization of our superior potentials, and that we are each responsible for ourselves. He would have applauded all of this, and so should we. But he also held (unlike her) that man as a social animal, a being whose fulfillment can be realized only in conjunction with other human beings, and that the state hss the right to make demands of the individual for the sake of he common good.Ryan says he admires Aquinas more than Rand, but we have yet to hear what he says about the necessity at times of sacrificing one's own good for the sake of the whole social unit.I must admit, however, that Ryan is 10 cuts above Romney, who doesn't seem to have thought any further than tomorrow's Dow-Jones average. At least he thinks, however imperfectly.Oh, by the way, there is one thing about Rand I really admire -- she insists that to live a human life one *must think* and think rationally and deeply about what one's life will be, and, I'd say, should be. No going through life just weighing the merits of this columnist latest words of wisdom against another's latest column. We need to do the hard stuff ourselves for ourselves. She's very ARistotelian in this -- man is a rational animal, and when we do not use our reasoning powers full force we will descend to the level of clowns and beasts.
Hi Ann,I haven't read any of Rand's books myself but I've read about her, that she thought the only great philosophers were the "three As" - Aristotle, Aquinas, and herself ;) Maybe I'm not a good Catholic, but I don't really like Aristotle/Aquinas. I vote for Plato :)About Ryan's education - the aquisition of knowledge is good and so is intelligence but they can't take the place of empathy, compassion, or the will to do good.
Crystal --Contrary to popular belief you don't have to be a Thomist to be a Catholic (though some people do seem to think so). I too have only read about Rand's philosophy, though I did read "The Fountainhead". It's about some thoroughly repulsive people, so that was enough for me.I'm not a Thomist myself (I disagree with some of his metaphysics, ethics and epistemology), though I do recognize his greatness in many areas. He really does have a tremendous amount to offer. Let me recommend Edward Feser's little book "Aquinas". It's the best introduction I've ever seen. Amazingly clear. Feser is a conservative politically, but he does give reasons for it, so I forgive him :-) But don't read his "The New Superstition". It's a nasty polemic against some neo-atheists who also write nasty polemics. "Aquinas" isn't like that.
Can't believe you are giving any credence to David Stockman. Oh, I forgot, whatever serves the interest of bashing those who oppose Obama. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are two of the most competent individuals to run for office. They both also happen to be gentlemen of great character. Their proposals are reasonable alternatives to grow our economy.
Can't believe St. Ronald Reagan gave any credence to David Stockman. So wonder why he made Stockman his budget director. Oh, I forgot. That was the historical Ronald Reagan. Now the mythical Ronald Reagan is ascendant in a party that would be suspicious of him if he were still alive.
Stockman has a certain amount of credibility as a conservative because he's liberals' second favorite kind: a "reformed" one (only a dead one is preferable). But I cannot help but find it ironic that some here are citing a column in which he writes this:"Mr. Ryan showed his conservative mettle in 2008 when he folded like a lawn chair on the auto bailout and the Wall Street bailout. But the greater hypocrisy is his phony plan to solve the entitlements mess by deferring changes to social insurance by at least a decade."Or this: "A true agenda to reform the welfare state would require a sweeping, income-based eligibility test, which would reduce or eliminate social insurance benefits for millions of affluent retirees."Or this: "We need a national sales tax a consumption tax, like the dreaded but efficient value-added tax but Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan dont have the gumption to support it. "Since when did folks here think the auto bailout & TARP were unacceptable? Or agree that the welfare state is riddled with "millions of affluent retirees"? Or that a sales/consumption tax is acceptable (remember, a national sales tax is the basis for most "flat tax" proposals)? Are we to believe that Ryan is, simultaneously, so conservative as to be out of the mainstream (Look - there's Ayn Rand!) AND a total sell-out to big government? If the byline of the column read "Ron Paul", I can imagine the treatment here.By the way, with the addition of Steve Rattner to the op-ed pages, since when did the Grey Lady conclude that hedge funders charged with defrauding their investors should lead the charge against the righties? I guess criticism of the right covereth a multitude of sins.
Many thanks to Ann Olivier for her remarks about Rand. I'm not a Rand expert, just someone who has read her novels and wants those hours of my life back.A good place to get a taste of Rand without wasting a lot of time, however, is with "Anthem," a very short dystopian novel written in the 1930s (which, IMO, seems to have been heavily influenced by Zamyatin's "We," a much better book).For Rand, the common good IS the good of the individual. And that seems to me to be a very odd idea for a Catholic like Ryan at a time when many Church leaders are preaching against the evils of individuality.In "Anthem," Rand makes it clear that when people are free to pursue their potential and choose the people with whom they wish to associate out of affection and common purpose, community with thrive. She sees the corporation in romanticized terms (she called herself a romantic), and, ironically, I see a good deal of what the Soviets envisioned for their collectives in her notion of the corporation. Sadly, collectives in communist tyrannies were grim and inept operations because they didn't foster affection and common purpose. Instead, collective members often watched for opportunities to turn hated co-workers into the party boss, and nobody really cared if the means of production were efficient or produced any quality items. If anyone sees parallels with today's corporate culture, well, you're not the only one. I hasten to add that if interdepartmental intrigue, jealousies and hatreds get you fired in today's corporations, you only lose your job. You aren't sent to Siberia or some other hinterland for starvation and re-education.Rand's own experiences with totalitarian communism were interesting. She was very brainy and received a top-notch education under the Soviet regime--an education not open to women under the czars. But she wanted to live her OWN life, not become an intellectual cog that served the Soviet machinery. She managed to get into the U.S. on a tourist visa saying she had a fiance back in Russia (she didn't), and wouldn't be staying. She married Frank O'Connor before her visa ran out, which allowed her to stay and pursue naturalization.
Josh--I mean Jeff: "Stockman has a certain amount of credibility as a conservative because hes liberals second favorite kind: a 'reformed' one (only a dead one is preferable)." What are you talking about? You go on to cite examples of Stockman's unreformed fiscal conservatism. I know it's difficult, but try to take in the point of unagidon's post here.
"It would be best if you used your real name when commenting, but if you have a good reason not to, we require persistent pseudonyms. That is, pick a handle and stick with it. If you post under multiple names, your accounts will be blocked."Or are only people who agree with you (unagidon) allowed the benefit of this rule? If you have a problem with my use of this rule, then feel free to contact me directly, because, frankly, your tactic above is childish.Beyond that, I take unagidon's point as: "This article is important, because we need to remember that there arent just two alternatives. Each economic alternative (Obamas and Romneys) represents various possibilities from within the Right and the Left, and these should be addressed too."I'm evaluating Stockman's alternative conservative proposal by pointing out that Stockman's proposals are actually more extreme than Ryan's, which I would think would make Stockman an uneasy ally for left-leaning critics of Ryan.
I have only and ever posted as unagidon, so you don't need to worry about that.I don't agree with Stockman any more than I agree with Ryan. What was interesting about Stockman's piece are his claims for what Ryan is really doing as opposed to what he says he's doing.
"I have only and ever posted as unagidon, so you dont need to worry about that."Then the rule should be applied to all who consistently follow it, not just insurance executives.
unagidonHis assertion that defense spending is a primary driver of our fiscal problems is absolute rubbish and his use of statistics to "prove" it is misleading. Who cares whether the defense budget, adjusted for inflation, is double what it was in the 50's. As a percentage of the federal budget, it is less than a third what it was then - 70% vs. >25%. More importantly, as a percentage of GDP in the post-war era, it is historically low and significantly lower than in the 50's and 60's when it was at its peak.Also, his discussion of the threat and what is needed for defense display a gross ignorance of what money is being spent on what aspects of the "warfare state" budget. First, the vast majority of that budget is spent on personnel costs, and as the numbers of forces draw down, so does that part of the budget. Also, claiming we have no "advanced industrial state enemies" doesn't address what spending is occuring and why it is necessary. Much of this spending is going towards new types of warfare and defense like cyber and information warfare and systems that can be used in many levels of warfare like drones, command and control, communication and intelligence systems. In these areas our enemies may not be, and usually aren't, large industrial countries, but the threat is real and serious. As for those big ticket systems like fighters, bombers, tanks, and warships, we are buying far fewer, but far more sophisticated weapons. Why? Well maybe because our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines are operating, in many cases, on systems that their grandfathers used. This is no exageration. China may not be making as many aircraft as the Soviets did, but we will be at a disadvantage if we are trying to detect them with radars that were made in the 1960's. Finally, while it costs a fortune to buy some of these new systems, it costs even more to operate the old ones. Everything from fuel efficiency to being able to find parts for 30-50 year old machines or completely re-equipping 20th century systems with 21st century technology is making these Cold War systems cost prohibitive.He has some points about needs testing and sales taxes or a VAT.My point above was not to address his arguments, but to point out that his opinion hardly indicates some rift on the right.
Fine argument about the defense budget as a percentage of GDP, Sean. The problem is, once you make it, you have to support entitlements as a percent of GDP on the same basis. Also, you are making the "deficits don't matter" argument (at least Cheney's version of it) and supporting those who think that a new and very strong stimulus package, which would create growth and raise GDP would be the way to go
Ann,Thanks for the book recommendation - I'll take a look.
Jean --Very interesting analogy -- Rand's conflating of collectives and corporations. Ideas do survive in surprising ways, don't they. Hmm. I wonder if the sociologists have studied the cultures of the lower levels of employees in corporations. It seems to me that many corporations do manage to win the loyalty of the underlings while others hate them. Hmm. I wonder what it's like to work for a bank these days! Are the tellers despised like their policy makers are?
OK - I will - entitlement spending has increased from 2.5% to nearly 10% of GDP between 1965 and 2012 - so I don't get you point.I am not making the deficits don't matter argument. I am simply saying that defense spending is not the primary driver of deficits, and never has been. Perhaps my take on this is facile, but both in my experience in life and observation of history, the more difficult and costly you make a thing, the less of it you will have, and the more you subsidize and support a thing the more of it you get. It seems to me that over taxing wealth creation and subsidizing dependency is a unsustainable and a recipe for disaster in any economy.
God help the poor oppressed conservatives. J: I don't like pseudonyms, but recognize they are sometimes a necessary evil. (We have, from time to time, considered going with Facebook logins. Still a live option.) But if you're going to pick one, best not to go with something that looks like an actual name. Especially when it's the name of a sitting congressman. Especially when you have claimed that you "share the name with a Republican Congressman from Louisiana." See, that makes you look deceptive. And makes me doubt you have a good reason to use it. No one was ever under the impression that unagidon was his Christian name.
For the record, I have used the name consistently on this and other sites well before the Republican Congressman was a Congressman. I have changed it one other sites when their rules were changed to require actual names. I have not done so here, primarily out of laziness.And I was never under the impression that I was oppressed. Only confused that apparently you choose to enforce your own rules when and where you seem fit.But happy to know you consider me deceptive. Real civil of you.
There are less civil terms for people who deliberately mislead others.
Unagidon--There's no need to be snarky, or to apologize to me, as I was not the one slighted by your comment. The ones slighted were those murdered by a Communist dictator, whose suffering you were reminded of when a former government bureaucrat suffered the indignity of having someone opine that he has no credibility on the impact that tax rates have on tax revenues.You might want to consider apologizing to them. Or simply retract your comment. We all go too far from time to time--I'm sure I have.
"There are less civil terms for people who deliberately mislead others."As there are for people who impugn others. I have followed the rule set forth on this board. If you had a problem with it, you could have requested I address it.
His assertion that defense spending is a primary driver of our fiscal problems is absolute rubbish and his use of statistics to prove it is misleading. Who cares whether the defense budget, adjusted for inflation, is double what it was in the 50s. As a percentage of the federal budget, it is less than a third what it was then 70% vs. >25%. More importantly, as a percentage of GDP in the post-war era, it is historically low and significantly lower than in the 50s and 60s when it was at its peak.
You forgot to include the interest on the debt of our earlier military expenditures (since you have included it entitlements), plus homeland security, military's increasing piece of discretionary spending, Veterans' Affairs, etc. Starts to add up and starts to approach entitlements as a percentage of GDP. And again, if you talk about the Federal Debt in terms of itself, military spending is both a big piece of it and a big contributor to the deficit.Do we need to spend 40 to 48 percent of all defense spending in the world? You haven't convinced me that it's necessary. Talking about old weapons systems seems to me to be an argument that says that we spent so much before, so we have to keep spending at that rate in the future.
Theres no need to be snarky, or to apologize to me, as I was not the one slighted by your comment. The ones slighted were those murdered by a Communist dictator, whose suffering you were reminded of when a former government bureaucrat suffered the indignity of having someone opine that he has no credibility on the impact that tax rates have on tax revenues.
You weren't talking about tax rates. You said that Stockman had no credibility. I pointed out that he was a Reaganite and one of the founders of Reaganomics, which is what the currently degraded Republican Party is supposedly appealing to. Stockman disagrees and all you can say is that he is out of favor, without in fact addressing him directly.As for Stalin, I have no idea what you are trying to get at.
I generally dont like to do this, but some time there are so many inaccuraciesYou werent talking about tax rates. Sure I was.You said that Stockman had no credibility. Yep, when it comes to his ability to forecast the impact of tax rates on tax revenue.I pointed out that he was a Reaganite Well, he was once in Reagans cabinet, but while there, in an interview with the Atlantic Monthly, he made it clear he was not a Reaganite.and one of the founders of Reaganomics,A laughable assertion, he mocked Reaganomics.which is what the currently degraded Wishful thinking, clearly.Republican Party is supposedly appealing to. No supposedly about it.Stockman disagreesMore accurately, Stockman has never agreed.and all you can sayOh, Ive said a whole lot more. is that he is out of favor, More accurately, he has never been in favor.without in fact addressing him directly.Actually, I did address Stockman, and quite directly. What I did not address is his interview in the NYT. As I think Ive made abundantly clear, hes not credible enough to listen to, given the embarrassingly incorrect predictions he made re Reaganomics.As for Stalin, I have no idea what you are trying to get at.Thats simply not believable.
David Stockman was Reagan's budget director and one of the architects of what came to be called Reaganomics. He disavowed Reaganomics and especially what Reagan's other advisers did with things like the Laffer Curve. (Laffer said that a reduction in taxes would lead to an increase in investment/revenue under certain circumstances. Stockman did not disagree with Laffer's ideas, but said that these circumstances did not exist in the 1980's. But it has become a matter of GOP theology that cutting taxes always produces more capital and stimulates investment. THIS is what he disagrees with on the tax question.) Stockman disavowed "Reaganomics" because it didn't fulfill its promises and came to look like just those things he is criticizing Ryan for. The point of the NYT article was that Ryan is in fact not a small government supporter and is, in fact, pro-monopoly pro-crony capitalist. His points are well taken. One can disagree with him, but what one cannot do is to say that he is discredited on the subject of taxes and that therefore what he says isn't true. It might not be relevant to Tea Party circles (like so much of what Reagan did), but it does constitute a criticism from the Right and you still have not addressed it.With my Stalin reference I was saying that the current Right is disavowing its own legacy while claiming the mantle of the people being disavowed. I was equating Reagan with the "Old Bolsheviks". Since you claim that I should apologize to these victims of Stalin, I hereby apologize to the Old Bolsheviks for equating them with Republicans.
Last comment on this subject (sorry, unagidon): J, you impugned yourself when you said you happened to have the same name as a congressman from Louisiana, and later suggested you were just using a nom de web.
1. Again, it's not against YOUR rules. When confusion arose as to the matter, I was clear that I was NOT a Congressman from Louisiana. 2. Again, if there was concern over the matter, you could have requested a change. I have done so on other sites. You didn't. Don't blame me for not doing your job.
Jimmy Carter's four years in the White House gave us an economy that grew, on average, 3%/year. However, from a presidential-re-election perspective, the trend was bad:1977: 5% growth1978: 6% growth1979: 3% growth1980: 0% growthRonald Reagan's vaunted first term resulted in ... 3% average growth, the same as President Carter's. But the trend was different:1981: 3% growth1982: -2% growth1983: 5% growth1984: 7% growthPolitically, that is the case for so-called "Reaganomics" - those two years of higher-than-normal growth leading into the 1984 election. (FWIW - my recollection is that Stockman's influence in the Reagan administration had waned by then - he was on the way out). After that election, the economy didn't sustain growth at those levels, but did grow at 3-4% per year. Clinton's economies grew at about the same clip: 3-4% per year. George HW Bush's term averaged only 2% growth, and he was a one-term president. His son's two terms also averaged 2% growth. That he was re-elected no doubt is attributable to non-economic reasons (primarily 9/11).FWIW - President Obama's first three years in office have averaged between 0% and 1% growth. The trend is:2009: -3.1% growth2010: 2.4% growth2011: 1.8% growthI'm suggesting 2011 was the key year. Had the economy been able to get up into the 3-4% range (or higher), his administration could credibly tell the same story that Reagan's did after his first term: basically, would have the confidence to ask the question, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" There are all sorts of caveats to this type of analysis: The economic challenges that Reagan inherited (high inflation, high consumer interest rates, high unemployment) were not the same as those Obama inherited, so what worked during Reagan's first term may not work now. Fed actions influence economic performance as much as or more than fiscal policy, and the Fed is not under the President's or Congress' control. The economy is more global now. And so on.
Oh, I don't blame you for anything, J. Except trying to deceive readers about your name.
"Except trying to deceive readers about your name."LOL. SO devious of me.
Jim--Very intersting. Thanks for adding some much needed perspective.
I have to assume those so intent on checking people's "IDs" in here are even more obsessed with passing and enforcing voter ID laws.
Devious, maybe. Deceptive, certainly. As I said, I'm not a fan of pseudonyms, but I'm less of a fan of people who try to trick others into believing the name they're using is their real name, which is exactly what you did.
This matter of internet names seems to be turning into an ethical question. Who thinks it's a matter of morality? Is not using your given name always a lie? I think not. If it were, then nicknames would also be immoral, wouldn't they? Do we have a right not to be known? Is outing a pseudo-nym an invasion of privacy?
Well, after googling the "real" Jeff Landry, the politician, I know I would never wish to be mistaken for him. So I believe the pseudonymous one was not trying to pass himself off as the real one.It has me thinking, though, what a drag it would be if some horrible public figure named "Irene Baldwin" appeared on the horizon. I would have to change my name and phone number, I guess.
"Is outing a pseudo-nym an invasion of privacy?"Ann--I think it generally is inappropriate to out people, even to snoop on them. This may be an opportune time for me to offer that my ID is not necessarily my real name, but that any comments I've made in here are consistently under that ID (though I can't be certain that others have not also used my ID to make comments).What I find more troubling than people using online pseudonyms are editors/reporters/academics/what have you, who do not adequately disclose if and when they work for political campaigns. Nicholas Cafardi, call your office.
What creeps me is when men post using the pseudonym of a woman and then comment on issues where gender matters- family planning, women in the Church,etc. I've also seen comments by an anonymous poster that waxed eloquent about Catholics religious freedoms where he was trying to create the impression he was himself Catholic, but you could just tell by some of the odd things he said that he very probably wasn't. That's where all the anonymous stuff gets dishonest.
Irene Baldwin... I scoped Alex Baldwin's recent wedding pics in the NY Catholic church but did not see you there. (-:
"I think it generally is inappropriate to out people, even to snoop on them."Generally, yes, but I got unsolicited shame-on-you e-mail from someone on here once. He signed his note 'Anonymous," but his real name was in the address field of the email. I found this very creepy and slightly menacing.When I said I thought people should respond on the blog instead of sending me e-mails, including Mr. X (I used his real name), he had a big freak-out and told me how over it because apparently his employer would see it and he would get in trouble.I asked the thread originator to delete the "outing," largely because I figured anybody who was too dumb to realize that the e-mail would show his real name probably really needed a job, even if he was sending and posting snotty stuff when he was supposed to be working. One or two people on here have the same prissy and superior tone as Mr. X, and I have blocked them from my e-mail account, as well as a handful of others who rub me the wrong way.I see no reason to "out" people if they're using a consistent pseudonym and not masquerading as a real, living person. I myself once considered using the pseudonym "Jesus Christ." Then people who didn't like my ideas would have to write, "I completely disagree with Jesus Christ."
Correction, yeesh: When I said ON THE BLOG THAT I thought people should respond on the blog instead of sending me e-mails, including Mr. X (I used his real name), he had a big freak-out and told me TO GET IT OFF THERE BECAUSE his employer would see it and he would get in trouble.
Ergo, Jimmy Mac had an ID change to Jim McCrea.The latter is the real. The former was really real!
Hey, Jimmy Mac, do you mind if I still call you Jimmy Mac? Otherwise, you're Jim McC, and there is already a Jim McK who also comments around here, and I can barely keep all the Davids straight in my mind as it is.
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The first difficulty I have when shooting a panorama with a monopod is holding the darn thing plumb! The second is that as I rotate around, the base of the monopod tends to drift around. The end result is 4 images that are close but not exactly on the nodal point. PTGui can stitch most of my images, but sometimes I just cannot get a pano to stitch.
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$335 msrp is not too attractive either. I found one for about $100 without the fluid head. That is ok since I do not shoot video and have no use for a fluid video head. Manfrotto sells three versions of their fluid monopods. The other two are cheaper versions.
I received the package and headed straight out to the garage. I hacksawed off the base and put the rest of the monopod (Very big, tall and heavy) back into my spare parts box.
The only modification I had to do to my existing monopod was reducing the diameter of the rubber tip at the end so it would slide into the base. I will probably make a plastic insert in order to snug up the fit.
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The base has a ball joint which will allow the three tripod legs to pivot on uneven surfaces. There is a "fluid" connection between the base and the monopod allowing for 360 degree horizontal rotation.
There is just enough resistance in the base so that holding the monopod plumb is now quite easy and much quicker than before. The fluid connection allows the monopod to rotate 360 while keeping the bottom at the exact same position. The nodal point should be much easier now to maintain.
The resistance in the ball joint is adjustable. I would NEVER take my hand off my camera when using this rig. That is what a tripod is for.
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The Grayville Volleyball team started their season off in a positive way on Tuesday night with a 25-11, 25-5 dominating win over Clay City.
Team leaders were Shelby McGarvey with 14 points, 10 aces, four kills and a dig, Ashley Rudisill with a point and a kill, Jordan Bosecker with two points, two kills and six digs, Kassi Linnemann with seven points, six kills and a block, Kerri Mitchell with three points, two aces, a kill and two assists, Kodi Knight with a point, a kill and two assists, Kyla Harms with a point and a kill, Mia Buckova with three points, three kills and five assists, Shaylee Hart with a dig and Taylor Knight with an assist.
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Serve this light-as-air cake with your favorite summer berries
Prep Time: 30M
Cooking Time: 35M-45M, plus cooling
Serves: makes 8-12 servings
- 1 cup cake flour
- 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
- 12 large egg whites
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 cup superfine sugar
- 1tsp pure vanilla or almond extract
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- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Sift the flour and confectioner's sugar together.
- Beat the egg whites and cream of tartar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on high speed until soft peaks form. One tablespoon at a time, beat in the superfine sugar until shiny, stiff peaks form. In three additions, sift in the flour mixture, gently folding in each addition with a large rubber spatula. Fold in the vanilla. Spoon into a 10in (25cm) tube cake pan with a removable bottom and gently smooth the top.
- Bake about 40 minutes, until the top is golden brown and springs back when pressed.
- Invert the cake pan on a work surface. (The cake should clear the work surface-if not, perch the cake pan on custard cups.) Cool completely. Run a long, dull knife around the inside of the pan. Remove the sides of the pan. Pull the bottom of the cake away from tube section and transfer, upside down, to a serving platter.
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Other than the 3rd quarter, not much went right for Skyline's boys against Pretty Prairie Tuesday night at the Thunderdome. The T-Birds dropped a 56-36 decision to the visiting Bulldogs. Dustin Weber posted 4 points in the opening stanza, but Pretty Prairie put up 17 and SHS was immediately in a deep hole. Kasey Gilpin hit a 3 and Brady McComb converted a pair from the charity stripe in Q2. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs were putting up another 17-spot, and took a 34-9 lead into the break. Skyline scored more than half their evening's points in Q3, putting up 18 to get the game back to respectable at 42-31. Dan Hacker had all 6 of his points in that frame, Gilpin hit another 3, Weber had 5 pts, and Bryce McKennon added 3 in the scoring outburst. Brandon Abbott made a couple of buckets to pace SHS in the 4th quarter, but it wasn't enough, as the Bulldogs countered with 14 of their own and claimed the 56-36 win. At 1-8, Skyline travels to Fairfield on Friday to take on the Falcons in a HOPL match-up. Skyline 4 5 22 5 36 Pretty 17 17 8 14 56 Gilpin 6, Abbott 5, Dustin Weber 12, McKennon 3, McComb 4, Hacker 6
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I go climbing about twice a week, and after a month or so my shoes are quite dirty. Not only do they smell, but I can actually see the dirt on the inside (probably from walking around barefoot on less-than-clean surfaces). I'd like to eliminate the smell at the very least and perhaps keep them generally cleaner (but I guess this involves using slippers). I've found a similar question about running shoes, but I'm not sure if the materials used in climbing shoes make any difference? I also saw that they use some kind of spray on the boots they rent at the gym, but I'm not exactly sure what.
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I had a period of serious shoe funk, and tried a number techniques before finding a system that works for me. It should be noted that shoe odor tends to be much worse in synthetic shoes.
The most important thing is prevention. Do not put your shoes in a bag, ever. Even in an open canvas bag, the shoes don't dry out as well between sessions. I've taken to always clipping my shoes onto the outside of my bag so that they're always airing out.
Even so, dirt and sweat will take its toll over time, but there are a number of ways to clean your shoes. I tried the washing machine, but it seemed a bit harsh on the rubber. My preferred method is to just hold them under the tap, run warm water and scrub the hell out of them with a toothbrush. Once the water coming out of them turns clear, I dip the toothbrush in vinegar and give them a good scrub all over to kill any bacteria. After that, I rinse them again and put them aside to dry. I've never had any odor problems survive this.
A disinfectant spray to kill fungus certainly can't hurt, but isn't as important if you're the only one using the shoes.
There are a lot of things you can do to increase the shelf life of your rock climbing shoes as well as reduce the odor/bacteria in it:
I agree with @Dean that "the most important thing is prevention" but my method is slightly different.
Over my first 6 months of climbing ~2/wk indoors, my climbing shoes became unbearably (and embarrassingly) smelly, despite religiously air drying them after use. As OP mentioned, they were also visibly dirty on the inside. And it's worth noting that I never wear socks with my climbing shoes.
My friend (and much more experienced climber whose been through several pairs of climbing shoes over the years) insisted that I could wash them in the machine but I remained concerned about damaging the rubber and/or the glue that holds parts of the rubber together. I finally put them through a side-loading washing machine with a load of laundry. They came out smelling much better, looking clean and none the worse for wear.
After going to the gym with my newly washed shoes, I noticed some odor had returned, although nothing like before. So, while they were still moist with sweat, I put 1-2 tablespoons of baking soda in each shoe and rubbed it around the inside. Also, as noted, I allow them to air dry. Before returning to the gym a few days later, I banged the shoes together to remove excess baking soda out.
After 2-3 trips to the gym, the baking soda was no longer visible on the inside of the shoe, so I repeated the process. So far (about 1 month of 2-3 gym visits/wk) this seems to be preventing the smell from getting worse. When they again become visibly dirty, I'll either put them through the wash or try @Dean's toothbrush & vinegar method.


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Chris Braswell, who scored nine points and grabbed seven rebounds against Massachusetts, averages 11.4 points per game. Braswell is second on the team in rebounding at 5.7 boards per game. Braswell moved into 15th place on the 49ers career scoring list in the Massachusetts game. Pierria Henry averages 8.8 points per game. Henry leads the team in assists with 71 and steals with 58. Henry ranks among the nation's leaders in steals. Willie Clayton, who scored eight points and grabbed six rebounds against Massachusetts, averages 8.2 points per game. Clayton leads the team in rebounding at 7.3 boards per game. Terrence Williams averages 6.5 points per game. Williams scored eight points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out four assists off the bench in the Massachusetts game.
Darion Clark, who is expected to play in the Temple game after missing the Massachusetts game with an ankle injury, averages 6.3 points per game. Clark is third on the team in rebounding at 4.8 boards per game. Denzel Ingram, who has started the 17 of the last 18 games, averages 6.0 points per game. E. Victor Nickerson, who led the 49ers with 12 points in the Massachusetts game, averages 5.4 points per game. JT Thompson, who made his first start at Charlotte in the Massachusetts game, averages 4.5 points per game. Ivan Benkovic recorded his first career double-figure scoring game with 10 points off the bench against Massachusetts.
This game will mark the 13th meeting between Charlotte and Temple, who leads the all-time series 7-5. Temple defeated Charlotte, 79-57, in their last meeting which came at Halton Arena, January 25, 2012. Former 49ers standout Javarris Barnett led the 49ers with 14 points. Braswell scored 12 points and grabbed seven rebounds in that game. Temple defeated Charlotte, 76-67, in their last meeting at Temple, January 26, 2011. Former 49er Derrio Green and Braswell each scored 15 points apiece in that game.


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