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I understand that there are differences between the way Armor Class works in AD&D (first edition) and Basic D&D (the boxed sets, Rules Cyclopedia, etc.), but I don't have the books to check it out. My understanding is that one starts at AC 9 and the other starts at AC 10, but I don't know which is which. I'm going to be running a campaign using Labyrinth Lord and the Advanced Edition Companion with old modules from both versions of D&D. Will I need to adjust AC? Are there any other armor differences I should know about?
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Basic D&D has different Dex modifiers to AC, and different entries for armors worse than chain. The combination can result in up to a 2 point AC difference.
Note that AD&D2E has the same AC's as 1E, but has more armors; I've put the ones not in 1E PH in (parentheses).
For monsters, you won't need to adjust at all. For characters, if AC is 6 or higher, you may want to adjust it.
Edit Note: I added the LL data in for completeness.
That is correct, Basic D&D starts off at 9 and AD&D starts off at 10. But the differences are slight. For example no armor is 9 in BD&D and 10 in AD&D, leather is 7 in BD&D vs 8 in AD&D, but chain is 5 in both, and plate is 3 in both.
The difference is inconsequential and represent at most a -1 to hit at the lower armor classes. If you really concerned about it then subtract 1 from AC when it lower than 5 if using an AD&D module. But likely you will be looking up the monster stat in the Labyrinth Lord rulebook anyway. So it is a wash.
That's basically it. Technically the Dexterity adjustments to armour class table is slightly different between 1e and Basic as well, but that's fairly minor - I probably wouldn't worry about that as DM, unless I was helping convert PCs between the two systems.
Note 1st edition also had a more complex system of attack modifiers depending on weapon-vs-armour type that further modified the to-hit rolls for extra realism, but I don't think you'd experience any major problems from not using it.


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Let's face it, Hollywood is full of unoriginal ideas; just look at the disproportionate number of films based on books, plays, TV shows and even Broadway musicals that were themselves based on movies. But every now and then, that most unoriginal of green-lit ideas, the remake of a popular or critically acclaimed movie -- like current releases 'Clash of the Titans,''Death at a Funeral' and the upcoming 'Nightmare on Elm Street' reload -- can yield a film that equals, or in rare cases, surpasses the original.
After navigating tricky waters and narrowing down the definition of a remake to a movie clearly based on another feature-length film (and not, say, yet another adaptation of a classic text like a Shakespearean play or a Jane Austen novel), here is our list of the 25 best. That means you won't find adaptations like 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,' shorts-based films a la '12 Monkeys,' or reinterpretations like 'Clueless' or 'Moulin Rouge.' center>
Let's face it, Hollywood is full of unoriginal ideas; just look at the disproportionate number of films based on books, plays, TV shows and even Broadway musicals that were themselves based on movies. But every now and then, that most unoriginal of green-lit ideas, the remake of a popular or critically acclaimed movie -- like current releases 'Clash of the Titans,''Death at a Funeral' and the upcoming 'Nightmare on Elm Street' reload -- can yield a film that equals, or in rare cases, surpasses the original.
After navigating tricky waters and narrowing down the definition of a remake to a movie clearly based on another feature-length film (and not, say, yet another adaptation of a classic text like a Shakespearean play or a Jane Austen novel), here is our list of the 25 best. That means you won't find adaptations like 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,' shorts-based films a la '12 Monkeys,' or reinterpretations like 'Clueless' or 'Moulin Rouge.'
What you will find on this list is the Moviefone staff's highly subjective picks for the best remakes in movie history -- a crop of films worth watching even if you're completely unfamiliar with the originals.
25. 'The Thomas Crown Affair' (1999)
Based On: Norman Jewison's heist thriller, 'The Thomas Crown Affair' (1968)
Pierce Brosnan, a master of playing suave and sophisticated types, was the perfect choice to play the titular role that had belonged to Steve McQueen in 1968. What makes John McTiernan's remake even more memorable than the original is the electrifying chemistry between Brosnan's art thief and co-star Rene Russo's knowing insurance investigator. Not only are they worthy heist-flick adversaries, they steam up the screen with their magnetic attraction.
24. 'Ransom' (1996)
Based On: Alex Segal's hostage drama, 'Ransom!' (1956)
Rene Russo also starred, this time opposite Mel Gibson, in Ron Howard's thriller about a rich businessman whose son is kidnapped in an elaborate ransom scheme. Whether or not you're a Gibson fan, there's no denying he's the king of conquering fathers and husbands in full-blown revenge mode. With a fabulous ensemble cast -- Gary Sinise, Liev Schreiber and Lili Taylor as villains, and Delroy Lindo as a sympathetic FBI Agent -- this remake's taut, twisty and surprisingly touching.
23. 'Nosferatu the Vampyre' (1979)
Based On:F.W. Murnau's legendary vampire film, 'Nosferatu' (1922)
Two vampire movies more than 50 years apart are still among the standard bearers of the genre (sorry, Twihards!). German director Werner Herzog's stylized rendering of his countryman's original focuses on the dread and loneliness the Count (played by Herzog's frequent collaborator Klaus Kinski ) experiences, as he yearns for love but is ultimately doomed. Slow and deliberate and devoid of graphic blood and sex, this is a beautiful, cerebral 'Dracula.'
22. 'Insomnia' (2002)
Based On:Eric Skjoldbjærg's Norwegian psychological drama, 'Insomnia' (1997)
Christopher Nolan followed up his brilliantly enigmatic 'Memento' with this straightforward remake. Al Pacino is a troubled homicide detective stuck on assignment in Alaska, and the world-weary intensity he evokes is palpable. Nolan's most noticeable improvement for American audiences is the shocking casting of Robin Williams as the meticulous killer Pacino's trying to trap; their unique cat-and-mouse game in the unceasing daytime-fog of the Far North is creepily delicious.
21. '3:10 to Yuma' (2007)
Based On: Delmer Daves' Western '3:10 to Yuma' (1957)
James Mangold's thrilling tribute to the golden Westerns of half a century ago is propelled by the amazing duo of Russell Crowe, who kicks ass as notorious 19th-century outlaw Ben Wade, and Christian Bale, who plays a conflicted, crippled war hero paid to escort Wade to his prison train. The action is gripping, but the dialogue between the two men, who are far deeper and more complicated then they seem, makes this remake even better than Daves' original.
20. 'True Lies' (1994)
Based On:Claude Zidi's French spy comedy 'La Totale!' (1991)
Like most of James Cameron's canon, this was, in it's day, the most expensive movie ever made. Cameron and star Arnold Schwarzenegger's gift for effects-heavy action theatrics plus Jamie Lee Curtis' crack comic timing as Arnold's on-screen wife was a formula for box office success. Considering most audiences had never heard of the French comedy on which it's based, 'True Lies' is clearly one of those rare remakes that replaced the original as the "default" version.
19. 'Dawn of the Dead' (2004)
Based On:George Romero's zombie flick, 'Dawn of the Dead' (1978)
Redoing the Grandfather of Zombie's cult classic must've been a daunting task for first-time director Zack Snyder, but the unknown commercial and music-video vet managed to do Romero's legendary zombie film justice with a faithful (in spirit, if not in details) homage that earned him real fanboy cred. It also helped that Snyder had a talented and diverse ensemble featuring Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer and Jake Weber. Did it unseat the original? No, but it came pretty close.
18. 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' (1988)
Based On: Ralph Levy's con-men comedy, 'Bedtime Story' (1964)
Conning unsuspecting rich women along the French Riviera doesn't sound like a funny premise, but add in Steve Martin and Michael Caine as competing high-class hustlers, and Frank Oz's remake suddenly sounds potentially hilarious. Caine's suave, elegant approach versus Martin's perfect physical comedy make the object of their scheme -- Glenne Headly -- almost superfluous until the surprise ending, which is a tricky delight.
17.'The Italian Job' (2003)
Based On: Peter Collinson's British caper, 'The Italian Job' (1969)
It's hard to compete with the swingin' original (Michael Caine, Noël Coward, comedy genius Benny Hill, that awesome Mini Cooper chase sequence), but F. Gary Gray's go at the quintessentially English heist flick is -- no matter what your British friends say -- a bloody satisfying treat starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron and Ed Norton, and some souped-up Minis for the mandatory car chase -- this time through Los Angeles.
16.'The Champ' (1979)
Based On: King Vidor's award-winning boxing drama, 'The Champ' (1931)
Although Jon Voight didn't win an Oscar like Wallace Beery for starring in Franco Zeffirelli's tear-jerker remake, he and his adorable on-screen son Ricky Schroder made one of those emotional sports dramas that make men to cry. Critics overwhelmingly favored Vidor's poignant but harder-hitting tale over Zeffirelli's treacly re-conception, but audiences (us included) didn't mind spilling a few tears during the comeback drama.
15.'Little Shop of Horrors' (1986)
Based On: Roger Corman's horror comedy, 'Little Shop of Horrors' (1960)
Director Frank Oz's second film on the list is this hilariously twisted musical comedy starring Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene. Between the singing, flesh-eating plant Audrey II (voiced by the lead singer of the Four Tops, Levi Stubbs), Steve Martin as a deliciously sadistic dentist, and the doo-wop chorus girls, this is a freaky but fun musical. We dare you to not catch yourself singing "Little shop/Little shop of horrors" after watching the quirky and campy remake.
14.'The Ring' (2002)
Based On: Hideo Nakata's horror flick, 'Ringu' (1998)
Gore Verbinski's gothic American take on the outrageously popular Japanese original doesn't have the "best of horror" credentials of 'The Exorcist' or 'The Thing,' but it's chilling enough to elicit audience-wide yelps from even genre aficionados. Without a crazy body count or masked murderers, this is the epitome of scary minus the gore. Naomi Watts is unforgettable as a mom who will stop at nothing to uncover the seemingly unknowable mystery surrounding a killer VHS tape.
13. 'Father of the Bride' (1991)
Based On:Vincente Minnelli's wedding comedy 'Father of the Bride' (1950)
If you learn anything from this list, it's this: when in doubt, enlist Steve Martin to star in a comedy remake. Director Charles Shyer (who's also responsible for the remakes 'Alfie,' 'The Parent Trap' and the recently announced 'Private Benjamin') cast Martin in Spencer Tracy's iconic role as the titular father, and the result is a terrifically sweet performance (with help from fellow comedy masters like Diane Keaton and Martin Short).
12. 'Heaven Can Wait' (1978)
Based On:Alexander Hall's supernatural comedy, 'Here Comes Mr. Jordan' (1941)
Writer-director-star Warren Beatty changed the profession from boxer to quarterback, but the plot's are essentially the same -- an angel accidentally kills off a star athlete several decades too early, so he's reincarnated in the body of a womanizing billionaire (that should answer the question of why Beatty chose to redo this story). A screwball comedy with a subtly biting '70s edge, Beatty's remake is still a charmer 30-plus years later.
11. 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1978)
Based On:Don Siegel's alien-horror classic, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956)
Horror devotees still debate, three decades after the remake's release, whether Philip Kaufman's special-effects-aided version is as good as (or better!) than its predecessor. We'll leave it to the genre experts to decide, but one thing's for sure, both are masterpieces compared to the two subsequent remakes. Smart, suspenseful and socially conscious, this is the kind of crafty psychological thriller that even horror-sci-fi naysayers could love.
10. 'A Star is Born' (1954)
Based On:William Wellman's showbiz drama, 'A Star is Born' (1937)
Director George Cukor revived a fading Judy Garland's career with the comeback role of a lifetime. Playing a talented rising star who falls for James Mason's controlling, alcoholic singer (James Mason), Garland gave the performance of her career and cemented the unforgettable Ira Gershwin-Harold Arlen-produced standard 'The Man That Got Away' into her repertoire. Yes, it was made specifically to prop up Garland, but she delivered the movie equivalent of an amazing one-woman show .
9. 'Ocean's 11' (2001)
Based On:Lewis Milestone's heist flick, 'Ocean's 11' (1960)
Steven Soderbergh's remake of the Vegas-set caper stars a much more diverse group of actors than the A-list best friends who headlined the original, but the ensemble's collective energy is so infectious, it's easy to believe Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Cheadle and co. are a Hollywood reincarnation of the celebrated Rat Pack. Even the villainous casino owner, played by Andy Garcia, is likable -- so much so that he, along with Ocean's entire crew, returned for two sequels.
8. 'A Fistful of Dollars' (1964)
Based On: Akira Kurosawa's samurai drama, 'Yojimbo' (1961)
Sergio Leone's first Spaghetti Western is more important for introducing the world to Clint Eastwood's infamous Man With No Name, than for being an unofficial Kurosawa remake. With his air of mystery, narrowed eyes and cool aloofness, Eastwood's lawless character was so engrossing that Leone's violent retelling spawned two 'Dollar' sequels starring Eastwood's "Stranger." Not bad for a relatively unknown director and a star trying to break free from his TV persona.
7. 'The Fly' (1986)
Based On:Kurt Neumann's horror classic, 'The Fly' (1958)
Jeff Goldblum has starred in bigger blockbusters ('Jurassic Park,' 'Independence Day'), but to us, he'll forever be remembered for his very first performance as an eccentric scientist in David Cronenberg's excellent (and very different) remake. Part graphic horror, part graphic romance (it is a Cronenberg movie, after all) co-starring Geena Davis, the movie was both a commercial and critical success that completely transcended the campy original.
6. 'The Departed' (2006)
Based On: Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Hong Kong crime-thriller 'Infernal Affairs' (2002)
Who would've thought that Martin Scorsese would finally score Oscar gold for a story not about the New York City mob, but the Irish gangsters up in Boston. Scorsese's mind-blowing drama about cops, criminals and those who secretly cross the line between both worlds, is nothing short of extraordinary. Starring most of the best actors in Hollywood (Nicholson, DiCaprio, Damon, Baldwin, Sheen, Wahlberg, Farmiga), it's nearly Shakespearean in scope and scale.
5. 'The Magnificent Seven' (1960)
Based On: Akira Kurosawa's epic 'The Seven Samurai' (1954)
Kurosawa's samurai films obviously spoke to American directors, and John Sturges doesn't disappoint with his brilliant Westernization featuring seven gunmen hired to protect a besieged Mexican village. The seven spectacular action stars alone make this worth watching (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn and Horst Buchholz -- all of whom truly are magnificent), not to mention the epic gunfight sequences.
4. 'Cape Fear' (1991)
Based On:J. Lee Thompson's stalker thriller, 'Cape Fear' (1962)
Martin Scorsese's second remake in the top 10 is his modernization of Thompson's infamous 1962 crime thriller. Robert De Niro is frighteningly menacing and seductive as Max Cady, the ex-con out for revenge who Robert Mitchum immortalized. Nick Nolte holds his own as the attorney Cady is threatening, but it's a teenage Juliette Lewis who steals the show as the object of Cady's creepy obsession. The squeamish should stick to the excellent original, but this is one of Scorsese's best.
3. 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' (1956)
Based On:Alfred Hitchcock'sfirst'The Man Who Knew Too Much' (1934)
This is the only entry of a director remaking his own film (although plenty of other filmmakers have done it). Hitchcock kept the basic premise of his early thriller: a family on vacation stumbles upon top-secret information that leads to their child's kidnapping, but he updated the setting, shot in color and cast bonafide Hollywood sweethearts James Stewart and Doris Day in the subsequent film. Hitchcock himself proclaimed it the superior version, and who are we to argue with his genius?
2. 'Scarface' (1983)
Based On: Howard Hawks' gangland drama,'Scarface' (1932)
Brian De Palma's remake is a cultural phenomenon -- the kind of movie that nearly 30 years later is still regularly referenced. The genius behind De Palma and screenwriter Oliver Stone's update is switching from the Italian mob to the Cuban cartels in Miami's cocaine-fueled drug boom. Al Pacino's machine-gun-wielding kingpin Tony Montana is as iconic as Michael Corleone, with even more quotable lines, like, "Say hello to my little friend," or "In this country, you gotta make the money first..."
1. 'The Thing' (1982)
Based On: Howard Hawks''The Thing' (1952)
Considering this list could've been comprised solely of horror films -- there are just that many remakes in the genre -- it should come as no surprise that John Carpenter's horror gem is No. 1. A known master of paranoia and suspense, Carpenter's take on a parasitic alien that can shape-shift into any thing or any body is both bloody disgusting and bloody brilliant. Never has working in a remote outpost seemed scarier, and never has an awesomely bearded Kurt Russell been this good.
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The name of legendary bluegrass musician Bill Monroe can once again grace the festival held in his honor.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that a nonprofit organization can use Monroe's name to promote The Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Music Festival.
The appeals court decision reverses a lower court, which found that Ohio County held the intellectual property rights to Monroe's name and could stop the festival from using it.
Judge Joy A. Moore, writing for a three-judge panel, concluded that county officials intended to grant the festival's director the right to use Monroe's name, but failed to formalize the agreement.
Monroe was born in 1911 near Rosine in western Kentucky. He's credited by music historians with creating the sound that became known as bluegrass music.


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I'm looking to record an action that will set guides in a 3x3, 5x5, 3x5 and 5x3 grid on my canvas in equal partitions, but I want it to be able to work for any document size.
I'm interested in doing this in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Is there a way to do this? A script I can install?


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Is there a way to shebang-ify ftp and write small ftp scripts?
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Is there a way to shebang-ify ftp and write small ftp scripts?
For example:
Any thoughts?
Not with the
You can use a here document to pass a script to
Lftp accepts a script name passed as an argument.
Ncftp comes with two tools
Zsh includes an FTP module. Using a proper shell rather than a straight FTP script has the advantage that you can react to failures.
Of course there are plenty of other languages you could use: Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.
Another approach is to mount the FTP server as a directory, and then use
Note that if you were planning to use authentication (likely if you're uploading), and you have control over the server, you'd be better off with SSH access. It's more secure and more flexible. To copy files over SSH, you can use


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The 6 Most Disastrous Attempts at Internet Damage Control
#3. A Magazine Steals From, Then Blames, the Internet
Once upon a time, journalism student Monica Gaudio wrote a pretty kick ass recipe for an apple pie. She posted it on the iInternet, and later it appeared in a magazine called Cooks Source. That sounds like a freelance writer success story, until you realize that nobody at the magazine asked her if they could publish it, and they didn't pay her a dime.
Above: Plagiarism. Or bondage. We're really not sure what the difference is.
Gaudio sent a polite e-mail to the editor of Cooks Source asking that she remove the article from the online version of the magazine and make a small goodwill donation of $130 to the Columbia School of Journalism in lieu of, you know, paying her.
The editor of Cooks Source had a lot of options for making this go away -- for instance, by offering to pay some token amount for the use of the article. The editor, Judith Griggs, instead replied with one of the worst emails ever.
Seriously, people, it is never ever worth responding to the Internet.
The Backfire:
Griggs' response, in part:
"... the Web is considered "public domain" and you should be happy we just didn't "lift" your whole article and put someone else's name on it."
Above: Public Domain.
Holy shit! The "public domain" part is awesome on its own (we're going to start streaming Netflix movies onto Cracked and charge people for that shit). But Griggs wasn't done being an unthinkable bitch:
"You as a professional should know that the article we used written by you was in very bad need of editing, and is much better now than was originally ... We put some time into rewrites, you should compensate me!"
Artist's representation: Judith Griggs.
Wow. At this point we can't tell if Griggs is insane, or thought she was auditioning for the part of an 80s movie villain. It was like she stole someone's car and then sent them a bill for the gas she put in it on her way to Mexico.
As you can imagine, Gaudio was pretty pissed. But she wasn't alone.
The Fallout:
The Internet went into meltdown. The Cooks Source Facebook and Twitter page were flooded with thousands of angry comments, with eagle-eyed viewers quickly finding dozens of other cases of plagiarism, all of which were posted immediately on the Facebook page for all to see. When the viewers got bored of finding real cases of theft, they simply began making shit up.
Finally, Griggs was forced to respond to try to put out the fire:
"Well, here I am with egg on my face! I did apologise to Gaudio via email, but apparently it wasn't enough for her."
"Look, I've apologized for putting arsenic in the catnip, but it's really your fault for getting Mr. Jiggles addicted to drugs."
Yes. That's so amazing that we'd actually read a magazine based entirely around Griggs trying to apologize to people. She'll have time -- Cooks Source magazine was forced to shut down under the torrent of complaints and fleeing advertisers.
#2. Golden Beach Hotel Gets Orwellian with User Reviews
Adrian Healey simply wanted a quiet weekend at the seaside with his girlfriend, Sherrie, after being diagnosed with cancer 18 months prior. Two days into Healey's stay, the furious hotel manager burst into his room and threw both him and his girlfriend out onto the street before calling the police.
According to Healey, all he did wrong was ask for an extra towel. According to the hotel manager, he was thrown out for "abusing staff and breaking a rule not to eat hot food in the rooms."
Oh, and incidentally, he had written a negative review of the hotel online.
"Mua ha ha!"
The Backfire:
There are two sides of the story here and while it seems weird that the management would react so badly to a negative Internet review, if you look at TripAdvisor.com you see that the manager apparently sifts through the bad reviews and posts rebuttals insisting the reviewer is lying ("what a load of nonesense... all guests enjoyed the wkend entertainment and the hotel facilities."). When one woman complained that she found hair in her food, management replied, " This lady went back for seconds at breakfast i remeber her clearly... the fact that she cleaned her plate and had seconds speaks for itself." Then you have the flat-out "screw you" rebuttals ("If it was os bad you should have checked out , all other guests where more then happy . If this guest truly felt so bad no one was forceing them to stay!!!").
But the most common management response? Talking about how the guest was forcefully removed for bad behavior, or in one case telling a negative reviewer she wasn't allowed to ever stay there again.
So, yeah, he doesn't take criticism well.
It's a little something called business acument, assholes.
The Fallout:
If you clicked the link at the beginning, you'll see that came from a local paper describing just how much of a dick the manager was. And now here's one all the way from America. Really compelling stories featuring an easily hateable villain have a way of spreading, and tales of the Golden Beach Hotel's shittiness spread 5,000 miles.
But keep rebutting those reviews, guys! You'll win eventually!
Next up: Octopus wrestling.
#1. Digg Rebels Against the MPAA
The conventional wisdom is if you can't get absolute control over a new electronic medium, then you'll never profit from it. Thus companies pour money into making products and media hack proof, which due to human nature, just makes people want to hack them more (See: the guy who hacked the iPad 24 hours after it was released).
So once upon a time HD-DVD was competing with Blu-ray to be the new HD movie format. But a hacker known as Muslix64 was disappointed to find that his extremely expensive HD-DVD equipment wouldn't work with his expensive TV unless he bought the even more expensive cable the HD-DVD company demanded.
Taking matters into his own hands, he managed to find and pinpoint the encryption key on the discs that enabled him to strip the protection and use the format with any device.
The trouble came when he leaked the encryption key online so that anyone with the same problem could easily fix it. The MPAA went absolutely apeshit over this and started threatening anyone who posted the key with legal action. For a while several sites removed the information, and several others were shut down, but then the MPAA sent a cease-and-desist letter to Digg.
This oughta do it.
The Backfire:
Digg is not a guy with a website. Digg is millions of random strangers submitting stories on a website. So, the whole "cease and desist" thing doesn't work so much. Sure, Digg removed the first post, only to see it replaced by several more. Efforts to remove those caused hundreds more to pour in, each containing the HD-DVD encryption key in their headline. Soon, HD-DVD encryption keys totally flooded the front page of the site, until basically no other content was visible.
Posting the key became the popular cause of the day for the Internet. Users got creative, posting the key in songs, in pictures and even in binary code.
Subtlety isn't exactly the Internet's strong suit, is what we're trying to say.
Upon seeing this, Digg founder Kevin Rose posted on the main page, "You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company, (so) from now on we won't delete any posts containing the AACS encryption key."
The Fallout:
With Digg no longer removing any posts relating to the key, the floodgates opened and literally thousands of posts flooded the site all showing off the code. You could buy T-shirts and mugs, and one guy even got a tattoo of it.
My T-shirt breaks the law -- what the hell does yours do?
After Digg struck a resounding blow against Internet censorship, other sites began to follow its example, and started hosting the code too. Google search results showed that around 700,000 websites in total had the code, to which the MPAA responded by sending a cease-and-desist letter to Google telling it to stop returning results including the code. Google obviously did no such thing, because you know Google bows to no one. Except the Chinese.
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First, I'm considering purchasing a used NN3. Does anyone have any experience with used purchases? What kind of shape are these in?
Also, will the NN3 support a Nikon D700 (no grip) and a Tamron 17-35 f/2.8-4? Eventually I'd like to upgrade to the 14-24, so I'll ask about the D700/14-24 combo as well.
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If you wash your hands and your mind goes blank and you dont remember if you said a bracha or not. do you make a new one? Do you wash again and then make a new one?
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The general rule with berachot is safek berachot l'hakel- in a case where we are not sure whether we make a beracha we err to the side of not making another one. This is a subset of the general rule of safek d'rabanan l'kulah (we are lenient about doubts which occur on mitzvos from the Rabbis.)
The exceptions are berachot that are d'orayta "from the Torah" which are bentching (grace after meals) and birchat hatorah. However, one would be covered by the bracha of ahava rabba before shema in the morning if one was not sure about birchat hatorah and would not say it if one has said or plans to say that bracha.
Therefore you one would not go back and wash or make a new bracha.
I would think that if you know for sure that your hands are now tahor, then there is no problem. You washed your hands in order to purify them, so even if you didn't say a bracha, your hands would still be tahor. The tahara is taluy on the netila, not on the bracha.
In my opinion, I would think that someone should be nervous about washing one's hands and saying a bracha on the netila could be a bracha levatala. What if your hands are still tahor since the last time you were notel them? Then what happens is that you are notel them again and you say a new bracha - that would be a bracha sh'eino tzricha!


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#3. There's Nothing to See
The Fantasy:
In the movies, if there is a starship on screen, they're almost legally required to have it shred through nebulae at some point, or something equally colorful. They're even designed with this point in mind, with large windows in every hallway that lay bare the Technicolor splendor the universe.
The Reality:
There really is a lot to see in the universe. Unfortunately, 99.9 percent of it is this:
The majesty of the universe looks a lot like a shitty screensaver.
But what about those awesome Hubble photos they keep sending back? Like the "pillars of creation" picture from the Eagle Nebula?
Could we not one day zoom through the Great Beyond pointing out all the clouds that look like wispy rainbow colored dongs? Then flying through them to get the approximate experience of cock punching the universe?
Well... that up there, doesn't actually exist. Or it exists, but doesn't look like that.
The picture was, in essence, Photoshopped. Or, in more technical terms, "The color image is constructed from three separate images taken in the light of emission from different types of atoms. Red shows emission from singly-ionized sulfur atoms. Green shows emission from hydrogen. Blue shows light emitted by doubly-ionized oxygen atoms."
So, no, that's not at all what it would look like if you were plowing through it. What would it look like?
Our best guess is that it looks like Gene Shalit.
Well, we can say that it's boring enough that it took a shitload of manipulation to get it to look like something worthy of Astronomy Picture of the Day.
But, hey, there has to be something out there, right? Couldn't you intentionally set your course for some cool-looking part of the galaxy? Well, maybe, provided the nebula or other gas formation is still there when you arrive. All the pictures we have now were made with light that took many thousands of years getting to us. By the time you arrive, the whole thing could have collapsed into a new generation of stars or been blown to the far ends of the universe.
Of course, whatever you do see, you'll be watching on a video screen. They're not going to put windows all over the ship for you to gaze out, unless future space agencies suddenly become comfortable with the idea of installing massive structural faults into their trillion dollar investments. Having a window that you can see out of means that it's also transparent to radiation you're desperately trying to avoid. It would literally be like a screen door on a submarine.
Really, you'd be better off sleeping the whole trip. Which is a good thing, because...
#2. Getting Anywhere Interesting Means Never Going Home
The Fantasy:
Sci-fi is fond of selling us space travel as the Greatest Adventure. Luke Skywalker started as a simple dirt peasant, and at the end of what appears to be only a week he'd traveled across half the galaxy, crippled an empire and won the affections of a princess that wouldn't become creepy until much later. In the world of sci-fi, you can take day-trips to various Planets of Adventure and then return home the triumphant hero.
"Well, you know... hypothetically."
The Reality:
Luke Skywalker had hyperdrive, and the crew of the Enterprise had warp drive to get them around at faster-than-light speeds, both of which were pulled out of a writer's ass to get around this killjoy of an equation:
What a jerk.
Einstein's equation tells us that a little bit of mass equals a lot of energy. That means adding energy, like if you wanted to propel the object forward, increases its mass. You don't notice it normally, but you would if you went fast enough. So the faster you go, the more energy the object gains, and the more massive it becomes. As your object (that is, your ship) approaches the speed of light--but before it can reach it--it becomes infinitely massive, and the only way make something infinitely massive go faster is to use an infinite amount of energy.
Any mass you start with, even a single atom, is going to hit the same "Your Fat Ass Requires Infinite Energy" wall. Since there isn't enough energy in the entire universe to move even a single atom past this threshold, it's safe to say this is one speed limit you will be forced to obey.
But big deal, right? Light is like lubed lightning, going 300,000 kilometers a second. Even if we were going half that, we'd still make good time, wouldn't we?
Well, even though light can make the trip from here to the Sun in just eight minutes, on the scale of the universe that distance is like reaching for a beer. Getting to the next closest star system (Alpha Centauri) will take you more than four years, going the maximum speed the universe allows.
That's 28 wookiee years.
So even "short" trips are going to entail years of travel. But wait! Relativity has another fun surprise: Time will always seem to pass at the same rate for you, but to an outside observer, like everyone back on Earth, your time will appear to slow the faster you go. So, figuring you'll need a year at Alpha Centauri to get anything worthwhile done, that decade-long round trip from your perspective could easily mean 20 or more years of time passed on Earth depending on how much ass you've hauled.
And this will have happened.
There's going to be a severe disconnect when you get back. Knowledge and skills you painstakingly acquired will be outdated, your friends and family will have aged beyond you, and the culture itself will have evolved into something almost alien. Home, and the life you knew, will be forever gone.
#1. In Space, On-Star Won't Do Shit For You
The Fantasy:
In your average sci-fi setting, starships seem to serve equal time as vehicles of drama as they do, you know, actual vehicles. Every other episode of Star Trek has the crew facing down Catastrophic Space Anomalies and Sudden Equipment Failures. Fortunately, there's always some way to reconfigure the deflector dish to fix it.
Usually, the solution involves spilling red shirt blood.
The Reality:
You'd better freaking hope nothing goes wrong. Your life depends on your time aboard the starship being skull-crushingly boring. It'll take a lot of planning to make that happen since, as we mentioned before, the faster you scoot, the more kinetic energy you have. When you're moving at relativistic speeds, particles the size of a pebble impact with the force of a hand grenade. Rocks the size of a nuclear bomb will hit like a nuclear bomb.
"Goddamn, space is redundant."
But if you take damage--or have an onboard system fail--and it's not right in line with what the mission planners thought might fail, your options are pretty much limited to picking which part of your ass you would like to kiss goodbye. None of the stand-by sci-fi strategies for crisis management are going to work.
For instance, when your engine dies on Earth, friction from the air, ground and slow pedestrians will eventually bring you to a full stop.
Take heart, Toyota owners.
In space, nothing stops you; you keep hurtling forward into a black vacuum. If you want to backtrack, you have to spend twice as much time accelerating the opposite direction.
But maybe you're banking on a rescue? Of course, any ship sent after you will first have to match your speed and then go even faster to catch up. If you were going 0.5 times the speed of light, and they accelerate to 0.6 times, that means a starship only one light-year away will take 10 years just to get to you.
What's that you say? Screw the rescue ships and make for the escape pods? It almost sounds plausible. After all, didn't the Mir space station have one of those for when tired crewmen accidentally rammed cargo ships into the solar panels? Well, yeah, Mir did have an "escape pod," but the station was also sitting over Earth. All that pod really had to accomplish was to be really good at falling, just not good enough to liquefy its passengers on touchdown.
In deep space, the requirements for an escape pod scale up a bit. It will need:
A. Living space and amenities.
B. Artificial gravity.
C. Engines powerful enough to get you somewhere within your lifetime.
D. Enough supplies to last for the several years it'll take to make the trip.
So your escape pod is just going to be a second starship. What happens when it breaks?
You hope for help from an ethereal space dragon.
For cost reasons, future space agencies are unlikely to provide an infinite loop of starships. When something does go wrong, the reality is going to be more like Apollo 13, with astronauts scrambling desperately to MacGyver up shit like air filters out of duct tape and plastic bags.
Remember, kids: once you take the Deep Space Plunge, there's no going back. Your ass is committed.
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I am American. My Italian girlfriend who lives in Vienna says that I may have to apply for an ESTA visa to visit her. Is this correct? The last time I went to Europe (not Austria) I did not have to fill out a visa...
The answer is indeed no; no visa or ESTA of any kind needed for a visit of 90 days or less.
Here's what the US State Department (Bureau of Consular Affairs) has to say:
Also, technically one can only need an ESTA for the United States, as it's related to the US visa waiver program. Similar systems in other counties are called something else than "ESTA".
Check this page of the Austrian foreign affairs office. As a US citizen, you don't need a visa.
There is also a list of all countries and their entry regulations. Unfortunately it is only available in German.


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New York University will host a graduate admissions open house for military veterans and active duty service members on Thursday, June 19, at NYU's Stern School of Business (44 West 4th Street, Kaufman Management Center [at Greene Street]) from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The event will give veterans the opportunity to learn about 13 NYU graduate programs and the admissions process from campus administrators and fellow veterans who are current NYU students or alumni of the university.
Reporters wishing to attend the event must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU's Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or email@example.com.
The event will include representatives from the following NYU graduate schools and programs: Center for Urban Science and Progress; College of Dentistry; College of Nursing; Gallatin School of Individualized Study; Global Institute of Public Health; Graduate School of Arts and Science; Polytechnic School of Engineering; School of Continuing and Professional Studies; Silver School of Social Work; Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Stern School of Business; Tisch School of the Arts; and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Veterans wishing to attend the session must register here. For more information, call 718.637.5984.
Veterans have played a rich role at NYU, from the returning soldiers who studied here on the GI Bill after World War II, to some of its most notable alumni, including director Oliver Stone, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, writers Frank McCourt and Howard Zinn, and U.S. Senator Jacob Javits.
In the spring of 2014, NYU's student body included 300 veterans enrolled in courses.
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Sep 24 Rescue Rooms Nottingham UK.
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BOSTON, Ma. - Runner and Bowling Green resident Grant Cline ran in the Boston Marathon today, and he only finished about 30 minutes ahead of the explosions.
"I had a lot of people praying for me. It could have been me, part of that group either injured or killed. My heart goes out to those families," said Cline.
Here locally he had people looking out for him.
"The first person I'd thought about was Grant Cline. I'd already known he finished, but because of the time frame when he finished. I didn't know when all this was happening, I was watching the news feed on CNN trying to see the clock that they have down there at Boston," said Trax Running Partner Lilly Wheet.
Cline said this evening the scene was still chaotic in Boston.
"There were just a tremendous amount of ambulances, probably 100 or so. There were police cars, swat team, because when this went off we were thinking, 'what in the world could this be?' so they reacted accordingly," said Cline.
Trax Running in Bowling Green posted on their Facebook today all four runners were safe during a very hectic time.
"So much confusion at the beginning, you just don't know what is happening and where it's happening. We knew that we had four or five local runners and of course that was my biggest concern," said Trax coach Patrick Folker.
Trax Running partner Lilly Wheet has run in the race before and she said security is very tight.
"It's barricaded, very well policed. I noticed the first year I went, there are snipers on the buildings. So, they had all that. I don't know exactly how all this slipped in, but that area is full of people," said Wheet.
As of now, it isn't clear who made this attack.
Cline said in his hotel in downtown Boston, the lobby was packed with several people just waiting and trying to get in touch with other people.


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Why can one bend glass fibers without breaking it, whereas glasses one comes across in real life is usually solid?
Is there also a good high-school level explanation of this?
Why can one bend glass fibers without breaking it, whereas glasses one comes across in real life is usually solid?
Is there also a good high-school level explanation of this?
In addition to the question of bend radius - there is also an effect of surface scratches.
Most materials are very strong - they fail because a surface flaw allows a stress concentration - ie a crack to form. glass fibre has a very smooth surface because of the way it is made and can be put under high stress without cracking.
You can show this with a thick glass rod (or you could before we were banned from doing anything interesting by 'safety'). Clean the surface with acid, or heating and annealing, so any defects are removed you can then bend the rod like rubber. But touch the bent part with a metal ruler to create scratches and it will shatter
The critical parameter for materials under stress is the strain, defined in a general way{*} as the fraction change some length over that same length: $$ \lambda = \frac{\Delta l}{l} $$
So take a given a fiber of diameter $d$, and bent around a radius of curvature $r$, the strain of either the inside or outside edge is: $$ \lambda = \frac{((r \pm d) - r) \theta}{r \theta} = \pm \frac{d}{r} $$
Now you need only look up the breaking strain for the glass in question.
{*} Or fractional change in volume over volume, or displacement as a fraction of length, or... It really depends on the details of the situation you're trying to measure, but the above definition will work for tension and compression.
Having spent a great deal of time working with "normal" glass (one of my many hobbies), I can assure you that, in fact, all glasses can be bent. When cutting large sheets of glass, I always see the sheet bend before it breaks. Every now and then you have to strike it twice; the first time you bend it, it fails to break. Fiber optics differ from the usual glass partly in that it is very thin and so bends much more easily. After you've cut a few thousand pieces of glass you come to recognize differences between different compositions. Some glasses feel very smooth when they bend, others, like the stained art glass shown below, are rather ragged and difficult to bend. (And all breaks or cuts in glass begin with a bend.)
To get a more familiar metaphor, think about wood. It doesn't surprise you when a slat of wood that is 1mm in thickness is bent in a circle. Now imagine doing the same thing with a much thicker piece of wood. You can't do it with the thicker wood because it's too thick.
In addition, regular glass differs from fiber optic glass in that fiber optic glass is very pure and this makes it very strong. In the art glass community, thin glass rods is called "stringer". Let me see if I can find some photos of cold stringer being bent.
Okay, I found some clear stringer. I put it on a sheet of stained glass supported by two pennies. I took two photos, before and after pressing the stringer in the middle. You can see the bending. Straight:


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5 Famous Things You Won't Believe Were Invented in Dreams
Dreams aren't supposed to make any sense. They're just what happens when you put your head down for the night and your brain decides to bullshit you for eight hours about getting chased by Bigfoot while your teeth fall out. With that said, a surprising number of society's innovations have come from dreams, proving that sometimes there is method to your brain's madness. For example ...
#5. A Guy Dreams About Getting Stabbed, Invents the Sewing Machine
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If a sewing machine seems like a simple and obvious invention, just tell that to the poor fuckers who tediously made clothes by hand for several thousand years before anybody figured out the design. Until the 1800s, when one ripped the bodice off a comely maiden, she would have to sit for hours with a needle and thread to repair it. So one of the big innovations responsible for the clothes you're wearing now was Elias Howe's lock-stitch sewing machine. And it all came to him in a violent murder dream.
Let's sit back and watch this for about an hour.
In 1845, Howe was desperately trying to work through technical problems with his invention, but he kept running into an infuriating brick wall when it came to the design of the needle. Well, according to members of his family, it finally all came to him in the course of a ludicrously violent and somewhat racist nightmare. In the dream, he had been captured by cannibals. As is typical of bloodthirsty natives, Howe's captors presented him with an ultimatum -- come up with a design for a working sewing machine, or face death. Just like in real life, he failed to live up to the task, and so the cannibals sentenced him to be stabbed to death with spears. Hey, this was the 1800s -- at the time, like every third person actually died this way.
The remaining two people choked to death on their own beards.
Because this was a dream, rather than screaming and dying as people thrust spears into him, he noticed that each spears had a hole in the tip. Watching them puncture his flesh, going in and out, was allegedly the "Eureka!" moment that led to Howe figuring out that he needed to put a hole in the tip of the needle in his sewing machine. The device worked, and Howe died a rich man.
Now, it's entirely possible that this whole dream thing was a story made up by his descendants years later, but honestly, if they were going to invent an origin story, why would they come up with "Oh, it was all based on a racist stab dream. You know how he was"?
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Racist stab dreams were also responsible for the invention of the zipper, but that's a story for another day.
#4. James Cameron Dreams the Terminator
In 1981, director James Cameron was pretty much unknown in Hollywood, his greatest accomplishment at that time having been Piranha II: The Spawning, a cautionary tale about genetically engineered flying carnivorous fish. It was not the kind of film that people would watch and think that, 30 years later, the director would be responsible for the first and second most successful films in history.
Cameron also wrote Strange Days, which is a better movie than both of these combined.
Cameron of course had greater ambitions beyond flying piranhas. Yes, greater even than flying piranhas in space. He desired to make an action movie reminiscent of the old Outer Limits episodes he watched as a kid. He just didn't know what to write about. But while he was in Rome working on the post-production of Piranha II, Cameron grew sick and had to leave early to go to bed. That night, he had a fever dream -- there was an explosion, and coming out of it was a robot, cut in half, armed with kitchen knives, crawling toward a fleeing girl. Despite a 102 degree fever, Cameron sketched the robot down after he awoke, and once back in the United States, he hammered out a draft of what would become The Terminator.
Of course, the final film changed a little from Cameron's original vision. At first the killer robot was to be played by O.J. Simpson, but producers vetoed the idea because there was no way the public would believe O.J. would kill anyone (this was a little while ago).
But the finished product was a hit, and it was Cameron's first step toward becoming one of the biggest names in Hollywood, instead of getting pigeonholed as the go-to director for flying fish movies.
Fate had something much, much more stupid in mind.
#3. Einstein Dreams About Electrocuting Cows, Creates Special Theory of Relativity
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Albert Einstein is perhaps the only person whose name became a synonym for "smart." Solving the mysteries of the universe was more a hobby for him than a job. And if his brain power wasn't obnoxious enough already, many of his biographies recount that the theory of relativity came to him in a goddamn dream. When he was a teenager.
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Most teenage boys have their hands full constructing a working theory of boner hiding.
It's said that Einstein dreamed that he was walking through a farm when he came upon a bunch of cows huddled up against an electric fence. The farmer suddenly switched the fence on, because apparently he was that much of an asshole, and Einstein watched all of the cows jump back at the same time as they got shocked. Assuming that he'd witnessed some kind of synchronized cow acrobatics, Einstein recounted what he'd seen to the farmer, who had been standing at the opposite end of the field. But what the farmer had seen was different -- he'd seen the cows jump away one by one, like they were doing the wave at a football game. This would have been hilarious, and one assumes this is why he did it.
Of course Einstein, being Einstein, wasn't content with simply waving this away as a silly dream. Shit, if he'd dreamed about wearing a hat made of pudding, he would have assumed there was a physics problem to solve there. So after ruminating on the problem for a while, he started to put together the idea that events look different depending on where you're standing because of the time it takes the light to reach your eyes. In other words, the theory of relativity.
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Another staggering advance for humanity brought to you by electrocuting animals.
In short, we got one of the most radical developments in science because a young boy had a dream about electrocuting farmyard animals and spent his adult life refusing to let go of an argument that he had with an imaginary farmer. Take that, Ph.D. education!


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Pretrial Justice Experts to Discuss NJ Bail System and Reform on April 11
One of the most critical pretrial justice issues is the ability of the bail system both to effectively deliver justice for those charged with offenses and awaiting trial and to enhance the administration of the court system. Recent developments and studies have led many jurisdictions to consider changes in their money bail systems to ensure pretrial justice.
On Thursday, April 11, 2013, five national experts in the field will participate on a panel at Rutgers School of Law–Newark titled "Pretrial Justice in New Jersey: Considering Bail System Reform."
The program, sponsored by the Rutgers Institute for Professional Education, will consider New Jersey's current system for pretrial release on money bail and alternatives to a money bail system. Panelists will cover such specific issues as how the use of money bail effects defendants, the courts and the public; how the current system treats defendants who pose a threat to the community; and how risk-based bail systems work and the experiences of jurisdictions that have implemented this model.
Pre-registration is required at www.rutgerscle.com. The program is free for those not seeking CLE credit hours.
For those seeking CLE credit, the registration fee is $60. The program will provide 4.0 CLE credit hours (NJ and NY) or 3.5 (PA).
|"Pretrial Justice in New Jersey: Considering Bail System Reform"
|Hon. Martin Cronin, Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey
Christine A. Dozier, Chief, U.S. Pretrial Services Agency, District of New Jersey
Gloria Hancock, Ed.D., Deputy Executive Director of Programs, Juvenile Justice Commission
Hon. Truman A. Morrison, III, Senior Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Marie VanNostrand, Ph.D., Justice Project Manager, Luminosity, Inc.
|9:00 am – 1:00 pm, Thursday, April 11, 2013
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My opponent plays a Torturer. I have a Trader in hand. I choose to gain a Curse and then reveal the Trader and gain a Silver instead. Does the Silver go to my hand like the Curse would have?
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The Silver Gained from Trader works exactly the same as any other Gain; as Trader's text doesn't specify anything to the contrary, the Gained card goes directly to your discard pile. This situation is explicitly mentioned on page 11 of the Hinterlands instructions:


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Both sheep and elephant
St. Gregory the Great on the Scriptures:As the word of God exercises the wise by the mysteries it contains, so quite frequently it nourishes plain folk by its surface-meaning. It presents openly the food it offers the little ones; it keeps hidden what will hold people of loftier reach in suspense of admiration. It is, if I may put it this way, a kind of river that is both shallow and deep, in which a lamb may wade and and an elephant may swim. (Gregory, Morals on Job, Preface, iv; PL 75, 515)
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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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At that time, Jesus said in reply, "I give praise to you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and learned you have revealed them to the childlike." (Matt. 11:25). I wonder, though, if St. Gregory hasn't gotten it a little backwards. Sometimes the surface meaning that nourishes the little ones has more solid nutrition than the expected deeper meanings that tie the lofty in intellectual knots. (Cf. G. Will.)
How to preach to both lambs and elephants is not always clear.
Putting a lamb in water where elephants have been wallowing is likely to dirty their fleece.
The characterization of the two kinds of readers as members of different species seems to assume that the lambs would drown in the depths in which the elephants swim, and that the elephants would have to stomp through the shallows to get to a place where they could move more efficiently.Yet today we know that no reader really reads the same book twice. As we grow and change and experience more, learn more, we process the book differently. The wisest, most experienced reader was once one of " the little ones." And "plain folks" need not remain "little ones" forever. They can become more discerning-- and versatile-- readers of scripture.
I recognize the value that allegorical reading has in being able to situate the Church in a sort of cosmic framework of salvation history, but I often think that apart from that function, allegorical interpretation cheats the reader of the opportunity to experience the richness of Scripture. In other words, the surface situation in a book like Job probably provides more fruit when tackled head on than when read as foreshadowing Christianity.
That quotation tells us more about Gregory than about the word of God.
Also, sheep dislike walking in water.
people of loftier reach: that smacks of elitism. Does Gregory the Great consider himself a "wise one" or a "little one"? Why are those terms in opposition? Does he count himself among the "plain folk" or the "people of loftier reach"? I am all for education, learning, and the cultivation of the mind, but this text is close to offensive.One could also conjecture that, like research or exercise or, I am told, economics, 90% of the results come relatively easily, and experts spend most of their time trying to extract the remaining 9%. It's the law of diminishing returns: most people get most of whatever fruit can be obtained simply by reading Scripture "plainly", and the theological heavyweights put their elephant brains to the task and get a little more out of Scripture by expanding enormous effort.I'm all for it - pushing the boundaries of our understanding is necessary - I wouldn't be an academic if I didn't believe that - but the associated claim of superiority is nonsense.
Naturally I'm reading this quote of Greg the Great with 21st century eyes. It's offensive now, but it may have been perfectly natural in his days.
The idea that people occupied a place in a hierarchy relative to their capacity for understanding was pretty standard; the idea was that revelation could be accommodated to everyone, regardless of their relative position in the hierarchy.
As a little one, I have always felt that the trouble with the Gospel is not that its message is hard to understand, but that it is hard to perform. As a result, some wise ones today, although I think not so much in the Catholic Church, are exercising their wisdom by formulating and preaching the Prosperity Gospel, claiming that accumulation of wealth, prestige, and power is a sign of God's favor, which stands Christ's plain teaching on its head, but which is admittedly an easier doctrine to sell and to buy in our modern, grasping world.Less exegesis, more praxis.
John, I honestly do not understand what that has to do with Gregory's statements.
Susan Gannon: Your comment anticipates tomorrow's selection.Perhaps I should explain how I read and use passages like the ones chosen from Augustine, Gregory, or others. I don't expect them necessarily to provide great help in interpreting the so-called "literal sense" of the Scriptures, although at times I think they are very good at that. I think in particular of Augustine's commentary on St. John's Gospel. I read them for the insights into the faith and the life of the Church that for them were occasioned by the liturgical use of the biblical texts and assisted by their method of discerning various levels of meaning. They have NT warrant for their effort, of course: in 1 Cor 10:1-11 recounts many of the events of the Exodus and the forty years in the desert and says: "These things happened to them as an example.... They have been written as a warning to us, upon whom the end of the ages has come." See also 1 Cor 9:8-12 where Paul justifies his rights by citing the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain," and then asks, "Is God concerned here for oxen, or does he not rather say this for our sakes?"I agree with Abe Rosenzweig that the allegorical reading can rob the reader of a chance to experience and appreciate the richness of the biblical text, and I think Gregory's massive set of moral reflections on the Book of Job is a perfect example. But, to repeat, I cite the Fathers not to recommend allegorical readings of the biblical texts, but for the insights occasioned by those texts that happen to have particularly struck me.
John Prior: I'd conclude from your comment that we need better exegesis, too. Exegesis and praxis need not be inversely proportional.
I am sorry, Abe, I thought I was being tolerably clear. Sloshing about in the depths may occasionally reveal deep meaning, but it roils the surface, sometimes turns up mere mud, and is an occasion of vanity. It seems to me, too, that Christ employed the shepherd and sheep motif as charming and vivid metaphor in a society where real sheep were everywhere. But even by Gregory's time, it had begun to take on a tone of disparagement. It needs to be treated carefully.So how about better exegesis and more modest exegetes?
Gregory did get it backwards as did Origen and many fathers of the church. Nothing wrong with academics or intellectuals. But they will have a tougher time than the little ones in entering. The largest blemish on the Fathers of the Church is that they let the Empire thrive and the Way, the real faith, diminish. Yet the simple people still got it as they corrected Origen who got to lofty while he missed some essentials.
To me the problem with the use of term "sheep" .... while perfectly acceptable in describing our relation to Christ the Good Shepherd ... is its use by those who exalt themselves to the level of Christ and deem themselves more like elephants.Elephants plod and lumber and are easily brought down by the nimble. Sheep scamper, are nimble and relish the good earth that has been given to them.
Huh. I'm not sure whether what I learned in university re: theology, or what I learned in the 4-H re: bovidae makes me want to face-palm more when reading these responses.
Once I was with a group of European hikers in Africa and we saw an elephant in the distance. We all wanted to take our cameras and get a bit closer, but our local guide was very nervous. As soon as he saw the elephant raise its head to look at us, he said: "Quick, let's go away!" That's when I learned that elephants are dangerous. Once I was on a farm in the late winter and learned to go around the fields every morning at day break, counting sheep to account for anyone that might be missing: a mother sheep might have hidden under a bush to give birth. We would find the newborn lambs, gather the small ones up in our arms (they let themselves be picked up peacefully - those newborn creatures have no idea that the world is a dangerous place) and bring them home. If they were chilled, we'd turn on the oven (at low temperature) and put them in so that they would warm up. All the female sheep had been impregnated by artificial insemination, so all the births happened at roughly the same time - different every year, since it was planned in such a way that the lambs would be just the right size for eating at Easter. (In France people traditionally eat lamb for their Eater meal.)But what does St Gregory the Great know about elephants?


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How do you burn Ubuntu to a cd 700MB for a laptop that has no operating system?
i guess you only used ubuntu with the windows installer or something similar before.
A ubuntu (or any other distro) can boot up a system on it's own. no need for an OS there at all. In fact, even if there was an OS installed, it would be irrelevant to starting the ubuntu install.
Just burn the CD, and configure your BIOS to boot from it. if it's a newer computer, UEFI may give you trouble, but read on and you will be fine.
It is possible (if you do not have another PC to burn the CD, don't want to learn how to, or just don't want to) to buy Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit Desktop. It costs £4.71 and can be found here.
You can't easily use a CD, which normally only hold 600MB.
You can't create a DVD or USB boot disk, with no application or OS on the machine.
You can create a boot DVD using Mac, Windows, or a friend's Linux PC (the preferred method).
Best option: Get a friend to create a boot USB drive, on the current release of Ubuntu.
Fall-back option: Use DVD burning software (on Windows/Mac) with downloaded .ISO file here.
Cheat method (may work): Purchase magazine with attached bootable USB or DVD of your preferred Ubuntu version.


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18 Dec 2010 9:46 AM #1
[OPEN-678] YESNOCANCEL Issues on iPhone 3G
As you'll see in the attached screenshot, there seems to be a problem with Sencha Touch's handling of the YESNOCANCEL button layout; at least on an iPhone 3G.
1. The order of the buttons is reversed (i.e., Cancel-No-Yes instead of Yes-No-Cancel); and
2. The right-most button ("Yes") is cut-off in the display.
Here's an HTML example:
HTML Code:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Button TestR</title> <script src="lib/touch/sencha-touch-debug.js" type= "text/javascript"></script> <link href= "lib/touch/resources/css/sencha-touch-debug.css" rel= "stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="src/v5.js"> </script> </head> <body></body> </html>
Ext.setup({ onReady: function() { Ext.Msg.show({ title: 'Button TestR', msg: 'Do you like buttons?', buttons: Ext.MessageBox.YESNOCANCEL }) } });
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance...
Plane Wryter
12 Oct 2011 1:18 AM #2
I do encounter the same issue on my iPad.
Is there a way to fix this? I tried to set the width attribute, but that doesn't help as well.
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I don't really know what I did here. I cut off the bottom little cross guy on the stem of the airlock because it was getting clogged up during vigorous fermentations. Now the middle piece just kind of sits on top of the stem and doesn't move at all, even though I know there's fermentation going on. I didn't have this problem until I cut the bottom pieces off of my airlocks. Please advise, as I've got 20 gallons in fermenters right now and am having this problem with 3 of the airlocks.
It just means that air is escaping elsewhere, like around the bucket lid in one, two, or a few places, or from around the grommet around the airlock. If you've had many vigorous fermentations using your buckets (and I'm assuming buckets here--this isn't likely to happen with a carboy unless your stopper is too small), then there is a good chance there are other leaks. Not a problem.
As long as your beer is actively fermenting all outside air is still being pushed out and away from your beer. This will expel and prevent entry from any nasties that could harm your brew.
Airlock activity is not a good gauge of how well your batch is fermenting, and wherever your small leaks are, they're not likely to allow any contaminants in, provided that you don't go for months without racking, of course.
PS--If you are using carboys, you should be using blow-off tubes instead of airlocks to deal with this sort of thing.
Cutting the little cross-hatches off of a three-piece airlock will do nothing to harm the basic operation of the airlock. They work on air pressure. It is likely one of three things:
Good luck!


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I know I find them irritating. £1.7 M transfer fee and the agent won't go below 600K, or £3.8M fee and the agent won't go below 800K. It doesn't happen every time but it is annoying.
So unless work gets done on the negotiations I say it's a bad addition.


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Choosing Party Venues
The Beach
One of the absolute best places to party, the beach offers instant atmosphere for a variety of events: If a sunny day isn't reason enough to head for the beach with your pals, plan a birthday, graduation, or bon voyage party really, any kind of celebration fares well near an ocean or lake.
Don't discount a nighttime beach party, which can be incredibly fun. Check the regulations at your favorite ocean-side spot, and make sure that after-dark parties are allowed, as well as bonfires and grilling.
- Pros Beach parties are relatively easy to organize; most people are familiar with the particular requirements for a day at the beach. The beach is just plain fun, hearkening back to the days when the state of your tan was more important than the state of the world.
- Cons Sand. Itchy, wet bathing suits. Sand in the food. Sand in your sunblock. Sunburn. Screaming children. Children kicking sand on you. The potential for water-related accidents.
Just remember to apply sunblock at least 30 minutes before you arrive, and then reapply every two hours, or more frequently if you go swimming. You may also want to limit your beach partying to one staffed by a lifeguard, especially if you expect children will attend. Drowning and rip tides are serious realities, even at beaches you might think safe.
If you are packing sandwiches (my family's favorite was tuna salad), prepare your ingredients ahead of time, and then assemble sandwiches at the beach. Keep the meats and cheeses, breads, and vegetable garnishes separated until you are ready to eat, lest you wind up with soggy sandwiches, but you can slice the tomato, meat, and cheese; clean and shred the lettuce; or mix up the tuna salad ahead of time. Just be sure you leave room in your cooler for anything that might spoil, especially the tuna salad.
If you live near a beach or lake, save time and aggravation by packing an all-purpose beach bag you can grab at a moment's notice. Fill a straw or fabric tote with a beach towel, sunscreen, a wide-toothed comb, pre-moistened towelettes, a small first aid kit, a hat, and a juicy novel. Just add a bottle of water, and you're ready to party.
Usually a multiday event, camping mixes the challenges of a destination party with those of a beach party: You're gonna get dirty, and you're gonna stay that way for days; plus, you'll have to coordinate a group of people who probably don't even own a tent, let alone know you're supposed to brush the area clean of rocks before setting one up. Why, then, do this to yourself? Because camping rocks!
- Pros Camping creates a sense of personal empowerment and self-reliance you simply can't acquire from other parties. Yes, you can pitch a tent. You can also string up an outdoor kitchen, dig a privy hole, grill up a salmon fillet, and get a good-night's sleep, even in the woods. Camping also affords the opportunity for campfires, sing-alongs, ghost stories, and lots and lots of giggling.
- Cons In addition to bugs, bears, and things that go creep in the night, camping presents challenges. There is an art to sleeping (and doing other things) in the woods, and if you have not mastered this art, things could become very uncomfortable for you. Also, when you're stuck in the woods (or at the river), the nearest convenience store is usually quite a ways away, which might present problems for the unprepared. Because public campgrounds are, well, public, you'll be in close proximity to other campers, not all of whom you might love. You'll also need to observe all the park rules, including drinking and pet restrictions, quiet hours, and group size.
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Reproduced from Plan a Fabulous Party In No Time, by Tamar Love, by permission of Pearson Education. Copyright © 2005 by Que Publishing.


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NetBeans does something like this:
where | - caret position. If I will try to type ')' again, and if there all brackets closed - it will just move caret one character forward instead of inserting ')'. Seems like I need to override some typing action to do that, I saw, you got some action like, move one character forward, or maybe I need to subclass typing action.
I could do this by adding KeyListener, but I'm not sure if this is a good idea.


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For example: a canon, certain types of muskets etc...
Were there laws for whether women or freed slaves could not own specific weapons?
For example: a canon, certain types of muskets etc...
Were there laws for whether women or freed slaves could not own specific weapons?
Short answer - There were no federal legal prohibitions against weapon ownership in 1789.
Long answer. During that year the "United States" had at least 14 governments. For the first two months of the year, the territory was governed by the Articles of Confederation. I haven't reviewed all of the legal precedents under the AoC, but I'm willing to bet my collection of Stack Exchange Hats that AoC had no restrictions on gun ownership. Philosophically, that was an issue that would have been reserved for the states. For the last ten months of the year, the United States was governed by the Constitution. A quick review of the legislation passed that term, indicates that they didn't touch weapons laws. (they hadn't even passed the 2nd amendment yet). Furthermore since the clear intent of the drafters of the constitution was to avoid specifying negative rights, the absence of any mention of weapons, then there were no restrictions on weapon ownership.
But I said 14 governments, and I've only touched two. The other 12 were the state governments (Rhode Island didn't ratify the constitution till later). State laws may have restricted weapon ownership.


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I have a laptop and a pc. My pc is very old having 1G Ram and old dual core processor but my laptop is relatively new.
I want to use 12.04 for laptop and 10.10 for my pc. Is there a way I can add two different versions of Ubuntu 12.04(64 bit) and 10.10 (32 bit) to my usb at the same time?


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STEUBENVILLE - In early January, Big Red and Brooke waged a classic duel on the hardwood, Mike Haney's club escaping with a 65-63 win. Friday's rematch inside The Crimson Center was just as good.
Eric Johnson drained seven of eight free throws down the stretch as the Bruins spoiled Big Red's Senior Night with a thrilling 76-72 victory.
The win moves Dave Reitter's crew to 11-7 while Big Red, which fell by five to Cambridge earlier in the week, stands at 14-5.
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PATH BLOCKED — Steubenville Big Red's Mylik Young is stopped by Brooke's Thomas Cole during the third quarter of Friday's 76-72 Bruins win inside the Crimson Center.
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GREAT NIGHT — Brooke's Eric Johnson is defended by Steubenville's Tajuan Lawson during the third quarter of Friday's 76-72 Bruins win inside the Crimson Center.
Johnson's parade to the stripe started after Ryan Heaton scored from in close to put Brooke ahead 69-65 with a shade more than a minute to go. Big Red had pulled to within two (67-65) when Adam Sterling rebounded his own miss and went up strong for a hoop.
The senior made both ends of a one and one to give his team a 71-65 advantage. Periogn West counted with a conventional three-point play and it was 71-68 Bruins. Four more Johnson makes allowed the visitors to stretch their margin to seven (75-68).
Sterling got another deuce for the hosts and Johnson connected once more. Malik Young added the game's final hoop as time expired.
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Brooke 76, Big Red 72
Brooke 19 20 20 17 - 76
Big Red 15 22 15 20 - 72
BROOKE (11-7): Dameron 0 0-0 0; Cole 7 0-0 14; Schambach 6 0-0 13; Johnson 3 9-10 16; Heaton 5 0-0 11; Schwertfeger 8 0-0 19; Sole 1 1-1 3; Gambellin 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 30 10-11 76. 3-pointers: Schwertfeger (2), Heaton, Schambach, Johnson; Rebounds: 34 (Cole 12); Turnovers: 18.
BIG RED (14-5): West 8 3-3 20; Linn 3 0-0 8; Herring-Hill 3 5-6 13; Lawson 2 3-6 7; Young 6 2-4 14; Sterling 4 0-1 8; Smith 0 0-2 0; Purdue 1 0-0 2. TOTALS: 27 13-22 72. 3-pointers: West, Herring-Hill (2), Linn (2); Rebounds 44 (Young 20); Turnovers 10.
"He is the right guy to the get the ball," Reitter said of Johnson. "Everything is set up to get him the basketball on inbounds plays late in the game. We want him at the foul line and he made seven out of eight. That's great."
The veteran Brooke coach praised both teams for "playing as hard as they could and giving a good effort."
"We know when we go against Mike's team, it's not going to be over until it's over," Reitter noted. "We knew it was not going to be a blow out. Even if you get up 10, you're not safe because they can come back and hit a couple of threes. It was an outstanding game by both teams."
Thanks to baskets by Austin Schambach, who replaced the injured Hunter Wallace in Brooke's starting lineup, and Russell Schwertfeger, the Bruins held a 19-15 lead after the opening stanza. The first eight minutes featured seven lead changes. Schambach finished the quarter with seven points and freshman Thomas Cole added six.
A Cole hoop from the paint made it 31-25 Brooke midway through the second period. Big Red then reeled off eight straight to grab a 33-31 lead. Brandon Herring-Hill scored five of those eight and had 11 total during the quarter. The Bruins led at the break 39-37.
Both teams were red hot from the field during the initial 16 minutes. Brooke shot 55 percent (17 of 31) and Big Red 52 percent (14 for 27).
The Bruins kept up that torrid pace to open the third, hitting six of their first 10 tries to grab a 53-42 lead. Big Red closed to within three (53-50) thanks to two hoops from Adam Sterling and a West jumper. Schwertfeger scored twice and Brooke was up 59-52 going into the final quarter.
For the game, Reitter's cagers nailed 30 of 55 field goal attempts (55 percent).
"We were able to get a lot of close shots," Reitter pointed out. "We did take some threes and we made some. We had some nice drives and were able to get some nice shots inside. When the kids did drive, they saw Thomas (Cole) inside, they were dishing to him and he was getting some layups."
Cole ended with 14 points. In the first half, the 6-5 freshman had 10, canning five of his seven attempts. He finished his double-double by collecting 12 of Brooke's 34 rebounds. In addition, he swatted away four Big Red shots.
"He did a nice job," Reitter said. "He gave us energy. He was pounding the boards and keeping the ball alive. I expect him to go out and give us a hard game. He did that tonight and we'll take it anytime."
As Haney noted, Big Red's goal is to "hang our hat on our defense. They shot 55 percent from the field tonight. Credit them but our defensive effort was not as good as it needs to be."
"They had guys open and they drained their shots," he added. "Heaton and Schwertfeger were really knocking them down."
Schwertfeger paced Brooke in scoring with 19. Heaton added 11, seven coming in the second quarter when he canned three of his four attempts.
"Russell's scoring is picking up, he's attacking the basket and doing a nice job," Reitter said of Schwertfeger. "All the kids that played hard and aggressive.
"Schambach (who finished with 13 points) had a great floor game. He moved the ball well, handled their pressure and got the ball to the right people at the right time."
Johnson had 16, nine coming from the line.
Big Red's West took game scoring honors with 20. Young added 14 and got his double-double by pulling down 20 rebounds (Big Red has 44 as a team). Herring-Hill recorded 13. John Linn and Sterling evenly divided 16. Tajuan Lawson dished out six assists for the hosts.
"Losing on Senior Night is a shame" Haney noted. "We wanted our seniors to go out with a win. The work was there, we just had some breakdowns defensively and our shots weren't falling."
Big Red hoisted 74 field goal tries and made 27.
Senior players honored before the game are West, Young, Lawson, Linn, Glenn Purdue and Dashon Redman.
Brooke is back in action tonight, traveling to Moundsville to test John Marshall. Big Red earned the second seed for next week's Wheeling Hospital Ohio Valley Athletic Conference tournament. Haney's club will host Harrison Central on Tuesday in the Class 4A semifinals.
"We have the OVAC Tuesday and then it's tournament time," the Big Red coach said. "We can't hang our heads. We need to get back to work, practice our individual defense and get back to the way we were playing defense earlier in the season."


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I know that all planets and stars have a gravitational pull but does a simple much smaller object have a gravitational pull for example a pebble?
Yes, even a neutrino has a gravitational force, although it's so small that no experiment is likely to measure it in the foreseeable future.
The potential $V$ at a distance $x$ from a point mass of mass $m$ is:
$$V = - \frac {Gm}{x}$$
where G is the gravitational constant (this is the non-relativistic expression, which is valid under most circumstances). The mass $m$ can have any value. As long as $m$ is greater than zero there will be a finite potential.
Every matter and field we know has a stress-energy tensor which acts as a source for the gravitational field via Einstein's field equations. The gravitational field is described in terms of the curvature of space-time. Everything that moves in it "feels" it. Taken together this means everything interacts gravitationally with everything else.
Yes. One way to see this is that we observe all mattet to have the same acceleration in a given gravitational field, which means that the gravitational force acting on an object is strictly proportional to the object's inertia as measured by its mass. By Newton's third law, this force is also equal in strength to the force made by the object.
It's not even restricted to matter. Relativity says that energy is equivalent to mass, so for example a ray of light makes a gravitational field. (It's not actually the mass-energy but the stress-energy tensor that's relevant. The mass-energy is one part of the stress-energy tensor.)
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KODIAK ISLAND, Alaska (CNN) -- Two Coast Guard members have been shot dead on an island off Alaska's coast, prompting the lockdown Thursday of their base and at least one nearby school.
The Coast Guard offered few immediate details Thursday afternoon as to how, when or why two of its own were killed. Capt. Jesse Moore did acknowledge, though, "It is possible the suspect remains at large."
"We are deeply saddened that we lost two shipmates," Moore said in a news release. "This is a rare occurrence, and we are going to do everything possible to ensure we find out exactly what happened."
The victims, who have not been identified by name, were members at the Coast Guard Communications Station Kodiak. That base is on what the city of Kodiak's website calls the second largest island in the United States, situated in the Gulf of Alaska about 250 miles southwest of Anchorage. The borough of Kodiak Island has about 13,600 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Peterson Elementary School on the island went into lockdown mode, like the Coast Guard station itself, around 8:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. ET) after school leaders got a call from military police, Principal Beth Cole said.
By 11 a.m., they shifted to "lock in" mode -- allowing for more movement within the school, though lunch was still delivered to students in their classroom as a precaution, said Cole. No people were allowed in and out of the building all day.