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inFamous 2 - PlayStation 3 for $9.99 + free shipping
Publisher Sony Computer Entertainment America
Platform PlayStation 3
Genre Action & Adventure
Release Date 6/7/2011
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Great game! Sad ending... Good Action! I would defiantly buy this game for $10 if I didn't already buy it for $60 when it first came out. The platinum trophy was very fun to achieve.
I liked it. I paid about $30 and considered it a bargain. At $10, it's a steal. Buy and enjoy! This is one of those games that combines narrative and gameplay well.
If you're a playstation plus member this game has been free all month.
Thanks for this post. Should I play the first one before trying this one, or will I be able to follow the story?
@beertwenty If you play the first before this one, this one will make more sense. The narrative calls back to the first a few times and several of the plot points will mean a lot more if you understand where they're coming from. That said, this would work decently well as a stand-alone title. You're not going to be thoroughly in the dark about the story due to some of the cutscenes having explanations, and the abilities they took away or changed from the last game won't be something you miss (like basic bullets being infinite) since you never played the other. The cities and enemies are entirely different and only the most basic knowledge transfers; you have to learn each game independently. I like both and would recommend that if you can get either cheaply you pick them up, but you could definitely get away with not playing the first if the narrative isn't a big deal to you.
Great game. Amazing storyline. It's a must play.
Plus you can download missions if you haven't had enough yet!
Waste of time, no shipping and not stores have it either. Oh well.
Bestbuy has a bunch of great games for really cheap right now. I just bought this and AC: Revelations for $10 each. They're a steal at that price if their predecessors are any indication on how good they are. Unfortunately, Best Buy is a little wierd with their shipping. I got AC first because Infamous wasn't available for shipping. An hour later it was but I had to go to a meeting. When I got back it wasn't again. I kept checking back obsessively until there was shipping again and finally got it.
Order this the other day when it was first posted. Immediately got an email saying it was backorder and would be sent out when available. I got an email this morning saying it was still backordered and my order is being cancelled. My paypal got refunded. Called customer service since it still on their website to buy at this price and asked why out of all the people I know that ordered it Im the only one so far that has been completely cancelled. Is best buy never getting this back in stock?? I was told "well they are out of stock and probably wont get anymore in...they may get some in a few months though" to which i said "yeah...at full price im sure. Ill buy it somewhere else.


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Someone made the brocho of "oseh ma'aseh braishis" on a rainbow. Is this a brocho levatoloh? What sources deal with this issue please? (I have posed the shaaloh to my Rav.)
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The Maharsha (to Berachos 59a) explains that the end of the beracha on the rainbow וקיים במאמרו refers to the fact that the rainbow was created during the 6 days of creation (as listed in Avos 5:6). So perhaps you could make an argument that by saying עושה מעשה בראשית you are including such things as the rainbow?
http://revach.net/ask/article.php?id=547 It seems that the rainbow bracha is for a very specific thing (which, mind you, took place over 1600 years after maaseh vereishit) so it doesn't get covered by the other standard nature brachot.
Also, in the book Shaar HaAyin by Rabbi Eliyahu Ariel, in Chapter 12 footnote 1 he quotes Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky (sp?) that the blessing does not work even post facto and one would need to still recite the appropriate blessing.

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BELTON (September 19, 2012)--Nolan Creek Awareness and Music Event is Saturday at the pavilion on Nolan Creek.
From 3 p.m. until 10 p.m. vendor booths will be lined up along the creek and a free concert is also scheduled.
Presentations will be given at the event that is meant to raise money for the Nolan Creek Recreational Improvements Project.
A silent auction will also take place and someone will win a kayak with the "giveaway spinning wheel."
The pavilion is located at 219 East Street.


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Food Allergies and Intolerance
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If Mom, Dad, or both parents has a history of any type of allergy, including hay fever and asthma, it translates into a greater allergy risk for the children, including sensitivity to food.
The good news is that you can head off food allergies in children at risk. Avoiding allergies is based largely on delaying the introduction of the most offensive foodspeanuts, shellfish, fish, tree nuts, eggs, milk, soy, and wheat.
You can't change your baby's genetic tendency toward food allergies, but you may be able to minimize allergies. Try these tactics to reduce his chances of developing food allergies by following this advice from the American Dietetic Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Breastfeed Your Baby
Among the myriad benefits of breast milk, putting off food allergy and reducing asthma risk ranks high. Breastfeeding provides the most protection against food allergies during the first three years of your child's life. Why? Breast milk bolsters your baby's immune system. It also provides your infant with antibodies that combine with potential allergens and prevent them from being absorbed into baby's bloodstream. By contrast, infant formula contains proteins that may be allergenic to your infant, especially when allergies run in the family. Breastfeeding moms of children prone to food allergies should eliminate all nuts, including peanuts (technically a legume); eggs; and milk from their diets. That's because the proteins from these foods can make their way intact into breast milk and cause problems in baby. Women who decide to eliminate milk need supplemental calcium and alternate protein and vitamin D sources, too.
Wait Until Six Months to Introduce Solid Foods
Experts say it's OK to give baby food at four months, but you should wait an extra two months to give your baby the edge on food allergy. This extra time allows your infant's intestinal tract to mature that much further. Here's the recommended schedule for more foods.
- Begin offering orange vegetables such as sweet potatoes and carrots at seven months. Wait five to seven days before trying a new food to see if baby is sensitive.
- Move on to green vegetables when baby tolerates the orange varieties. Serve up spinach, green beans, and peas. Read the labels of baby foods to avoid milk-based additives.
- Next, offer fruits, but only one at a time. Steer clear of products with potentially problematic additives including tapioca or food starch.
- At nine months, start giving baby grains and other vegetables such as oats, corn, and potato. Save wheat for last since it's allergenic in many people.
- Start adding meat at one year of age.
- Wait until your child's first birthday to offer cow's milk or soy beverages and products made from milk and soy.
- Hold off until two years of age to give eggs to your child.
- Steer clear of peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish until at least three years of age.
Artificial flavors and colors in processed foods can bother hypersensitive kids. Benzoic acid, sodium benzoate and tartrazine yellow, also known as FD&C yellow no. 5, can result in asthma and rashes; yellow no. 5 can be allergenic to people with aspirin sensitivity. Sulfites pose a hazard as well. They're used on a number of processed foods, including shrimp, and on certain fruits and vegetables. Sulfites can trigger asthma and anaphylactic shock in susceptible children and adults. Hydrolyzed vegetable protein contains monosodium glutamate (MSG), which has negative effects on certain people. Tragacanth is a gum that has resulted in some severe allergic reactions.
Make Iron-Fortified Rice Cereal Your Baby's First Solid Food
Stick with rice cereal for the first month, since it's less likely than other grains to be allergenic. Read labels carefully. Even single grain infant cereals may contain malt, which your baby should avoid early on.
Getting over It
Your child may outgrow food allergy. As a child's digestive tract matures, there is less absorption into the bloodstream of certain, but not all, allergens. A child's immune system becomes stronger with the passing years, allowing it to block antigens from wreaking havoc on the body, too.
There's a good chance that your child will outgrow allergies to milk, soy, eggs, and wheat. For example, after reaching age one, it's possible for children allergic to formula made from cow's milk or soy to be tested for their reaction to milk or soy beverages. But there is little likelihood that sensitivity to peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish will disappear with time.
How will you know when your son or daughter is old enough to try a food your doctor initially diagnosed as allergenic? Don't take it upon yourself to see whether your child has recovered from a food allergy. Discuss the possibilities of reintroduction with your pediatrician or allergist. Trying out the foods at home is dangerous for your child. And don't count on your doctor reintroducing foods that have in the past caused an anaphylactic reaction in your child, such as peanuts. You shouldn't, either.
Allergies and Asthma: What's the Connection?
Asthma is the chronic inflammation of the airways, which results in episodic wheezing, shortness of breath, tightness in the chest, and coughing that's more likely to occur at night and in the morning. It's the most common ongoing disease of childhood. Out of the 17.3 million Americans who have asthma, an estimated 4.8 million of them are children, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Asthma is on the rise in this country and worldwide.
The primary goal of asthma management is to reduce airway inflammation. Children who live with smokers and/or who are subjected repeatedly to other air pollution are more likely to have the symptoms of asthma. Sulfites and other food additives can trigger asthma attacks, as can food allergies. Youngsters with asthma and food allergies run a greater risk of having anaphylactic reactions.
More on: Nutritional Resources for Families
Copyright © 2002 by Elizabeth M. Ward. Excerpted from Healthy Foods, Healthy Kids with permission of its publisher, Adams Media Corporation.
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U.S. District Judge James L. Robart sentenced Nick Hall, 47, to nearly four years in prison, while 33-year-old Keishjuan Daniels is facing just over three years behind bars.
Hall and Daniels operated their scheme under a program that allows veterans to claim reimbursement for driven miles during medical visits, if there isn't a Veterans Affairs medical facility in their hometown.
Prosecutors said Hall and Daniels managed to recruit a few veterans to claim inflated mileage counts. The two then created fake hometown addresses for veterans in places far away from Seattle, such as Pullman, Port Angeles and Port Townsend.
Hall and Daniels would then get half the money reimbursed to their recruits. The men would also create vouchers for visits that never happened.
Starting in 2010 and over 18 months, Hall and Daniels hauled in over $180,000 from their scheme.
"Not only did these defendants recruit vulnerable veterans into criminal activity, they stole resources critically needed to help our men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan," said U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan in a statement. "Following the arrests in this case the average monthly cost of larger travel vouchers was cut almost in half here, and sent a deterrent message everywhere: Don't cheat our wounded warriors."
Robart also ordered the men to pay back the $180,000.
The case in Seattle is not isolated and problems with inflated mileage claims have popped up nationwide since the reimbursement increased from 11 cents to 41.5 cents.
Nationwide over the last 18 months the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General has conducted 225 investigations and arrested 125 people for fraud in the travel benefits program, prosecutors said.


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I created a closed group and was the sole administrator. Somehow I deleted myself from the group and cannot regain access because I am the person that admits people to the group. What can I do to resolve this issue without having to delete the group? There are so many members, I won't be able to re invite them.
Per the Facebook FAQ - How can I become a group admin?
However, it appears that Facebook needs to update this FAQ, since there's no longer a right column with a Members sections. Instead, the Make Me Admin option is now under the settings icon (looks like a gear) at the top right of the group page.
So, you will need to privately contact one of your group members and ask him/her to become an admin using the instructions above. He or she will then be able to add you to the group and make you an admin again.
I'm not sure how Facebook behaves when the admin leaves a group, but its possible that it may assign admin to another user (maybe who ever joined 2nd). If you know anyone who is a member of the group in real life then I'd ask them if they can see who is admin.
Otherwise you can report a problem with groups here by following the Tell us More link at the bottom of this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/issues/groups
I think that when you delete yourself, it deletes the group if you made the group and were the only administrator.


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On the exhortation
Posted to our homepage, two pieces on Francis's Evangelii Gaudium. First, from our editors, who in "Out of the Tomb" write:
Francis wants to remind us that the church derives its whole identity from its mission to preach the gospel and to do so joyfully. This means that all Catholics, whatever their particular vocations, should understand themselves as missionaries. Most important, in order to share God's mercy with a suffering world, Catholics must not allow their own sufferings to rob them of joy or apostolic vigor. Despite Francis's characteristically upbeat tone, there is a suggestion of exasperation with those he describes, in the English translation, as "sourpusses." He cautions against a "tomb psychology" that "slowly transforms Christians into mummies in a museum." He does not quote St. Francis de Sales's famous maxim "A sad saint is a sorry saint," but he might have. If Christians really are people who have been liberated by God's mercy, then, Francis insists, they should act as though they have been liberated.
You can read the whole thing here.
E. J. Dionne Jr. also writes on Francis's exhortation:
Pope Francis has surprised the world because he embraces the Christian calling to destabilize and to challenge. As the first leader of the Catholic Church from the Southern Hemisphere, he is especially mindful of the ways in which unregulated capitalism has failed the poor and left them "waiting."
His apostolic exhortation, "The Joy of the Gospel," is drawing wide and deserved attention for its denunciation of "trickle-down" economics as a system that "expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power." It's a view that "has never been confirmed by the facts" and has created "a globalization of indifference." Will conservatives among American Catholics who have long championed tax cutting for the wealthy acknowledge the moral conundrum that Francis has put before them?
But American liberals and conservatives alike might be discomfited by the pope's criticism of "the individualism of our postmodern and globalized era," since each side defends its own favorite forms of individualism. Francis mourns "a vacuum left by secularist rationalism," not a phrase that will sit well with all on the left.
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The idea that Francis is against capitalism is false. He is talking about unfettered capitalism which the justice department has prosecuted and thwarted over and over. http://www.socialworkhelper.com/2013/12/02/pope-francis-speaks-capitalism-urges-rich-share-wealth/
What is different about Francis is that he does not just play lip service to the core Gospel message. He screams it out. This is essential Christianity as is clear from the words of Jesus: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed."
The official church has been as guilty as the secular world in playing politics and neglecting the poor. The building of gargantuan cathedrals have been preferred to feeding and clothing the needy. Culture became more important than shelter and more divinity was seen in Bach than in the Leper.
Francis is returning the focus to the heart of the gospel. As has been the case from time immemorial the politics have played out too often the detriment of the disadvantaged. The churches of Africa led by Augustine profited immensely when the wealth of the Donatist churches were given to augustine's group. Today, it is the same with bishop's seen more at the places of the super rich than in the locations of the needy. This is why Francis refers first to the clergy when he writes and speaks.
"The churches of Africa led by Augustine profited immensely when the wealth of the Donatist churches were given to augustine's group."
I am a big fan of Augustine. (M.A, in Theology, Villanova University).
Can you give me sources for your comment?
As far as I know this is not a disputed fact that the ruling of the emperor against the Donatist resulting in all the churches and wealth of the Donatists going to Augustine's group. At any rate, this is amply documented by Peter Brown in "Through the Eye of a Needle." 2011 You might also check out "Augustine" by O"Donnell. As an Augustine fan you may want to brace yourself reading O'donnell's book.
Some consider Augustine the Father of the Inquisition for his approval for the use of force to curtail disagreeing Christians. Augustine's view of sex in marriage was not approving. A necessary evil, so to speak which one should not take pleasure in????
Also questionable is his view of original sin and baptism.
But his use of the force of the Empire to help conquer the Donatists and the Pelagians is his most grievous fault. Etc.
I could not agree with you more. What may be uncomfortable for many American Catholics is the Pope's Message is not tempered for anyone,,,,,I think he politely reminds us that Catholic means Universal, not American. And yes, we have heard the usual "anti-catholic" innuendo style responses from Political Leaders who have been far too comfortable expecting the Catholic Church to carry their political waters. I think the Pope has asked Bishops in America to go back to the roots of the church, and help the Needy within their own Diocese.
Bill Donohue from the Catholic League wasted no time defending Rush Limbaugh's many anti-catholic innuendo statements about the Pope, and as he said "The largest Owner of Property In Manhattan", a wealthy Church. Do you think Bill Donohue wil get the Pope's message,,,,which I think seems directed to an organization that seems never to dwell on the Poor, Immigrants, Sick, and un-educated?
Francis attacks what Martin Luther King in 1956 called the "misuse of capitalism" but he also perhaps shows up the contradiction in the bourgeois insistence on maintaining it privileges at any cost while pretending to subscribe to ideologies of equality and justice (as noted in Simone de Beauvoir's "Privilèges" in 1955). Francesco Hideki Mitani has an eloquent essay on this in the forthcoming, December, issue of The Japan Mission Journal.
Joseph -- MLK was a democratic socialist. His phrase "misuse of capitalism" was a rhetorical feint to avoid being vilified as a Commie.
Besides, King -- and Pope Francis, for that matter -- would be wrong to see the current malaise of the poor, the working class, and large swaths of the "middle class" as the result of any "misuse of capitalism." Capitalism is about accumulating capital, which requires capitalists to keep wages as low as they can possibly go. And without unions and/or favorable state policies, that's where wages have gone. And the increasng automation of production, distribution, and even professional/managerial labor puts even further downward pressure on wages. Many of the jobs that are created are what David Graeber has infelicitously but rightly dubbed "bullshit jobs":
These phenomena don't represent a "misuse"; it's the logic of the system.
How come there is no comment blog here on Monday's NYT editor Bill Keller's op-ed piece, Sex and the Single Priest?
While it does not have the same erudition of some of the discussions on these Commonweal blogs, Keller's opinions do reflect the concerns of the majority Catholics - in or out of the pews - about the reforms necessary to begin to staunch the open wounds on the Body of Christ.
Jim Jenkins,
James Martin, SJ has a (highly defensive) post about this article on the America website (In All Things) and there are comments stating a range of opinions about his post and about the NYT article.
Father Martin's reply and the comments to that: http://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/beware-non-celibates-writing-about-celibacy
The burden of proof is on those who believe that there are other systems better than capitalism. There are problems, to be sure. But other systems tend to make people lazy and disengaged. Unfortunately, those with money, as with the Tea Party, can pay for people to espouse one point of view. Greed needs to be regulated and the wealthy have to be reminded that it will indeed be more difficult for them to enter heaven. Very difficult. While we must be ceaseless in fostering justice we should be aware of the joy in the spirt under which we can "rejoice always" as Paul exhorts, because Christ is risen. Here is Francis:
"7. Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met. To some extent this is because our "technological society has succeeded in multiplying occasions of pleasure, yet has found it very difficult to engender joy".[2] I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to. I also think of the real joy shown by others who, even amid pressing professional obligations, were able to preserve, in detachment and simplicity, a heart full of faith. In their own way, all these instances of joy flow from the infinite love of God, who has revealed himself to us in Jesus Christ. I never tire of repeating those words of Benedict XVI which take us to the very heart of the Gospel: "Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction"
This Exhortation is, for me, a loving but firm call to a deep examination of conscience. What missionary work am I called to do and how willing am I to do it? My temptation is to let myself off too easily, citing my assorted limitations. Obviously, that's not good enough. Just as obviously, getting myself to do what i can, including of course prayer, is no short term or simple project.
I find a lot of Luke and not so much Keynes in the exhortation. Pope Francis has a wideness to his evangelizing, as when he gets into how to create a good homily or how members of the ministerial priesthood should conduct themselves. His underlying point about the economy seems to me to be that the economy was made for humans, not humans for the economy.
This is, of course, heresy to those Americans who think that capitalism was created by God with its own laws, that the laws appeared on the flip side of the tablet with the Ten Commandments and it was only through an editing error that they did not make it into Genesis. They think that, among those laws, is one saying people must take STEM (science, thechnolgy, engingeering and math) courses to be worth a living wage to job creators, that the humanities only arouse desires that the economy can no longer fulfill for most people, and that social sciences too often come to liberal conclusions and therefore are a turn-off for job creators
Even the STEMs can expect unpaid inernships and part-time employment in much of their careers. The people formerly known as artists must become entrepreneurs, because only entrepreneurial paintings and entrepreneurally written books will sell. The folks who used to do the heavy factory work will get jobs building fall and spring houses to go with the summer and winter homes of the job creators or, better yet, move to a low-wage country where their muscles can still be employed.
That is my grandchildren's future as described by serious, tenured people. It is rejected by Pope Francis. Which makes the pope an outlier.
Now I would like to think there is a political party in the United States that stands with the pope. But one is exhausting the thesaurus looking for ways to say Pope Francis is nuts without being too blunt, and the other has bought into most the above as well. Both talk about the middle class, which is shrinking, but both take payments from the rich to ignore the poor, about whom none of the politicians and serious pundits is this country were talking until Pope Francis stirred things up while writing on a different subject, viz, evangelization.
1) I second the recommendation of Peter Brown's great book, Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350 - 550 AD.
2) Agree, Jim Jenkins, that the wonderful op-ed piece by Bill Keller deserves a thread and a discussion here. It left a tear in my eye.
And agree, Anne Chapman, that America's response, written by James Martin, S.J., was . . . defensive. (Also angry, weird, historically flawed (about the apostles' marital status), etc., etc. What's the problem at America? Martin's comments (at NCR, I think) about their clumsy dropping of the sentence about women from the Pope's interview were also . . . defensive, angry, weird, . . . etc.)
3) This article from the NYT this morning about the bishops being sued deserves a thread, too, imho. It left a feeling of RAGE in my heart. The war against women RAGES on.
I thought Fr. Ruff's (Pray Tell) comment to Fr. Martin's post at In All Things was interesting. I've seen a past article at ABC Religion & Ethics that does give the opinion that the Catholic Church has a higher rate of sex abuse than other denominations ... http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/11/15/3633611.htm
Sorry. it has been awhile and I got confused:
Of course Pope Francis is no Marxist, certainly no secular Utopian, but he is not a doctrinaire global Capitalist either, and Rush Limbaugh, being of mainline Protestant extraction, will find it difficult to appreciate what the Pope is saying, and how most Catholics will agree with him and in any case, will fall in line behind him. In fact I will wager that most American Protestants will not catch the nuance and balance the pope is describing. The news media will not help either; they will just gleefully proclaim "Francis is a Socialist", and move on to the next Hollywood outrage or nonsense. Thoughtful people however who take time to read a few pages or think about what Pope Francis wrote for ten or fifteen minutes, will readily understand.
In my reading of his letter, Pope Francis points to the current form of capitalism as being deficient because modern societies have – you guessed it - lost sight of the value of individual human beings, of the value of life.
This part of being a Catholic is easy for me, in that while I probably do not understand all of what Pope Francis is talking about, and as a Republican, politically I tend not to be as much toward the middle (as balanced) as he most probably is, of course I know he is correct - he is the pope after all - and I will trim my sails accordingly.
There – that burden is easy and that yoke is light. Like the red button at the Staples store says; "That was easy". I did the same with John Paul II, Pope Benedict (they both ocassionally commented on the economy as well); I will do the same with the next pope.
Old Chesterton once quipped something to the effect that; While strict Socialism ruins the family in theory, strict Capitalism does so in practice. In those days (1920's) he promoted something called "Distributism", which I have not yet looked into very much, but will of course - as time permits.
It will be intersting to see how American Catholics receive this, but how they react is not particularly important; Francis is simply saying the obvious truth and sputter away as one might, it is difficult to argue with that. In any case, for a traditional Catholic like me, the fact that the Pope in Rome - the Vicar of Christ - decided to take the time (i.e., spend his valuable time), and sit down and write out somehting like this means; it is important, we Catholics should pay careful attention, and with the consequent fresh understanding that sort of thoughtful consideration produces, adjust our course as best suits the common good.
Pope Francis is exactly right about unregulated, laissez faire capitalism. Conservative Christians think Christianity is Capitalism, an vice versa. These Christians think that private charity is all we need to help the poor. But, charity is not justice, and private charity can never meet the needs of the poor.
I thought Fr. Ruff's (Pray Tell) comment to Fr. Martin's post at In All Things was interesting.
Hi, Crystal, just in the interest of keeping attributions straight: the Fr. Ruff who runs the Pray Tell blog is Anthony Ruff. The comment to Fr. Martin's post at America was by a William Ruff. (Not sure who that is, presumably he's an America reader.)
The comment under the name "William Ruff" was signed "Anthony Ruff, OSB."
Martin used the word "lazy" twice in his hysterical denunciation of Bill Keller. An odd word for a priest to use against a layman, especially a renowned journalist and editor like Keller. (Jealous?)
From Wiki:
Keller joined The New York Times in April 1984 and served in the following capacities:[4]
- Reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau (1984–1986)
- Reporter in the Moscow bureau (1986–1988)
- Bureau chief in the Moscow bureau (1988–1991)
- Bureau chief in the Johannesburg bureau (1992–1995)
- Foreign editor (1995–1997)
- Managing editor (1997–2001)
- Op-ed columnist and senior writer (2001–2003)
- Executive editor (July 2003 to September 2011)
He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting citing his "resourceful and detailed coverage of events in the U.S.S.R." during 1988.
Where Keller might be "lazy" is more of tone than anything else. Even though he uses the correct term "mandatory celibacy", he gives the impression that celibacy is a total farce. Even if he quotes a professor, former priest, who acknowledges that those who use it as a solid witness are few. Those few who use celibacy well should not be lumped in Keller's wide ridicule. The other question here tho few raise it is that keller might be fighting his own demons in his preoccupation with a faith he says he no longer cares about.
On the other hand Martin might be lazy also in that he beleives the surveys which show a majority of priests happy in their choice. There are seriously legitimate doubts as to the accuracy of that poll.
Jim - yes, his sign-in name was William, but if you read to the bottom of his comment, you'll see he signed it 'Anthony Ruff OSB'.
Oh - I see Gerelyn already mentioned this :)
The other question here tho few raise it is that keller might be fighting his own demons in his preoccupation with a faith he says he no longer cares about.
To psychologize a man you don't know and suggest he's "fighting his own demons" is weird. And to claim "he says he no longer cares about" the faith is dishonest. He said nothing like that in the op-ed piece. In fact, he says, "Leaving your church is not so much like quitting a club as emigrating from the country where you grew up.You forfeit citizenship and no longer consider yourself subject to its laws, but you follow the news from the Old Country and wish its people well, because they are still in some sense your people. And if you write for a living you may sometimes write about that world, from a distance."
The article is about a beloved nun, his eighth grade teacher, who left the convent and married an ex-priest whose talents, training, etc., were wasted because he dared to marry. (A woman. Eeuuwww.) She died recently. RIP
On the other hand Martin might be lazy also in that he beleives the surveys which show a majority of priests happy in their choice. There are seriously legitimate doubts as to the accuracy of that poll.
Several studies of priests and seminarians indicate that they are lazy. Many failed at business before deciding on the priesthood. (See, e.g., Katarina Schuth, et al.) A soft berth.
As to what Martin believes? Who knows? Maybe, like Keller, he's saying what he believes. Maybe he really believes priests are happy. Maybe he really believes that the apostles (and Jesus) were bachelors.
We know a lot about Keller. This is not the first time he has talked about his lapsed faith and the church. He has written many times about the subject. Apparently you are looking at one article while I am looking at many. I used the word "might", whereas you listed keller's credentials as a journalism as if that would eo ipso make him right (or at least not lazy) on his pronouncements on celibacy.
The idea that Keller put forth ... that there could be a connection between enforced celibacy and the sex abuse crises ... is worth considering, and attacking him personally can't obviate that.
Gerelyn and Crystal, thanks. I guess I was too lazy to read all the way to the bottom :-). Or not interested enough. Actually, now that I know it's Anthony Ruff who wrote it, I might go back and read the whole thing ...
The question here was never that celibacy has had harmful effects. The question is whether Keller played fair in taking carte blance in attacking celibacy. Finally, as far as personal attacks, what do you mean by calling Martin "hysterical?" You know the connotations behind that word. Especially if it were applied in its historic (certainly unfair) meanings. Or is this some reverse, retaliatory, compensatory justice. I'll let you "psychologize" on that one.
I haven't said anything about Fr. Martin.
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I've been struggled for this identity for a while, how can I use combinatorial proof to prove the Fibonacci identity $$F_2+F_5+\dots+F_{3n-1}=\frac{F_{3n+1}-1}{2}$$ I know that $F_n$ is number of tilings for the board of length $n-1$, so if I rewrite the identity and let $f_n$ be the number of tilings for the board of length $n$, then I got $$f_1+f_4+\dots+f_{3n-2}=\frac{f_{3n}-1}{2}$$ the only thing that I know so far is the Right hand side, $f_{3n}-1$ is the number of tilings for the $3n$ board with at least one $(1\times 2)$ tile (or maybe I am wrong), but I have no idea of what the fraction $\frac{1}{2}$ is doing here. Can anyone help?
(P.S.: In general, when it comes to this kind of combinatorial proof question, is it ok to rewrite the question in a different way? Or is it ok to rewrite this question as $2(f_1+f_4+\dots+f_{3n-1})=f_{3n}-1$, then process the proof?
Thank you for all your useful proofs, but this is an identity from a course that I am taking recently, and it is all about combinatorial proof, so some hint about how to find the number of tilings for the board of length $3n$ would be really helpful.
Thanks for dtldarek's help, I finally came up with:
Rewrite the identity as $2F_2+2F_5+\dots+2F_{3n-1}=\frac{F_{3n+1}-1}{2}$, then the Left hand side becomes $F_2+F_2+F_5+F_5+\dots+F_{3n-1}+F_{3n-1}=F_0+F_1+F_2+F_3+\dots+F_{3n-3}+F_{3n-2}+F_{3n-1}=\sum^{3n-1}_{i=0}F_{i}\implies \sum^{3n-1}_{i=0} F_i=F_{3n+1}-1$, and recall that $f_n$ is the number of tilings for the board of length $n$, so we have $\sum^{3n-2}_{i=0}f_i=f_{3n}-1$.
For the Right hand side $f_{3n}$ is the number of tilings for the length of $3n$ board, then $f_{3n}-1$ is the number of tilings for a $3n$ board use at least one $1\times 2$ tile. Now, for the Left hand side, conditioning on the last domino in the $k^{th}$ cell, for any cells before the $k^{th}$ cell, there are only one way can be done, and all cells after the $k+1$ cell can be done in $f_{3n-k-1}$, finally sum up $k$ from 0 to $3n-1$, which is the Left hand side.
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We are trying to make chocolate truffles by heating cream and adding to chopped up chocolate but it keeps curdling. Are there any tips to avoid this happening?
I have made a lot of truffles, and even more ganache for other purposes, and I have never had this happen. My guess is that you are boiling the cream too hard and that is causing the curdling.
How to make ganache: You will need by weight one part 35% cream to 2 parts chocolate of your choice.
Chop your chocolate (if it's in blocks or chunks), put into a heatproof bowl (stainless steel is best) away fro your heat.
In a saucepan or pot (depending on how much you're making), bring the cream up to a high simmer.
Pour the cream immediately over the chocolate and stir with a silicone spatula if you have one, a wooden spoon otherwise. The chocolate should completely melt within about two minutes; longer for very high percentage dark chocolates. At this point if you are making flavoured truffles, add your flavourings (unless your flavour compounds have been infused into the cream).
Chill until set, make into truffles.
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If you are using alcohol as a flavouring in your truffles, you will need to use either more chocolate or less cream. I have found that approximately for every fluid ounce of alcohol added, remove 3/4-1 fluid ounce of cream from the recipe. I prefer to infuse flavourings in the cream, and have had great success with beets, bacon (with a Guinness reduction added to the chocolate later), black truffle and pureed walnut, and honey. Be sure to strain, of course, before adding the hot cream to the chocolate.
I have also found that white chocolate will often need slightly less cream than a milk or dark.
Try adding the heated cream to the chocolate away from the heat. Curdling often occurs when you add too much heat to the chocolate as it's the fats and cocoa solids in the chocolate separating that causes the issues.
When I make truffles I tend to use a cheese grater to create fine chocolate shavings which melt easily when mixed with warm cream avoiding the need to add more heat which you might need to do if you have bigger chunks.
To save a slightly curdled mixture you can sometimes get away with frantic whisking but the taste will probably be affected.
I melt the chocolate then allow it to cool slightly and add the cream at room temperature, stirring it in gradually, adding any alcohol for flavouring as I go - I've never had it curdle this way.
You should melt the chocolate over a double boiler as you heat the cream, and stir the cream vigorously into the melted chocolate to prevent this.
There are many reasons why this can happen. It is actually one of the most common problems with ganache. Here are a few things that can cause the lumpiness:
What recipe are you using? If you have any liquid flavorings (rum, fruit puree, etc) that can be a factor. Are you adding butter or only using cream?
If your truffle mixture happens to curdle all you do is add a splash of boiling water and mix it in. This smooths out the sauce and brings it back to a silky smooth mixture. I have found that whisking the mixture when it has curdled tends to make it worse.
I have had it split and it's generally adding something cold too late, whisking for a few minutes with an electric whisk on high speed will fix it, well it worked for me.
Boiling water worked for me! Cheers
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The level of play was decent. The final score was 2-1 to Celta Vigo. Players controlled the ball well and made good passes. Hard tackles and even soft tackles were met with entertainingly theatrical dives and the immediate clutching of body parts, but for the most part the ref just waved play on. The Rayo Vallecano goal was a thing of beauty. Their winger scampered down side, beating the defenders for pace and sent a picture perfect pass to an on rushing forward who slotted the ball into the bottom the corner of the net. Soon after that they won a penalty through the same speedy winger but it was well saved by the Celta Vigo keeper.
Celta's second goal was gifted to them by an atrocious clearance/piss poor decision by the Rayo keeper. The fans simultaneously lifted their hands in horror and then disgust as the Rayo keeper flubbed a clearance right at the Celta Vigo striker, who calmly struck the ball around a helpless keeper. High comedy
What made the game great were the fans. The Rayo "Ultras" positioned behind the goal were in constant voice, singing and chanting and getting the rest of the stadium involved. Drums were beating and heckles and worse were launched at the Celta Vigo supporters, who were perched in the top left of the stadium. Even though the traveling supporters had the last laugh, the Rayo Vallecano fans never quietened, even as we left the ground. At one point the Ultras would point toward one side of the pitch and start a chant to which we responded back. They then pointed to other side and they in turn did the same thing. This went on for 10 minutes. This outside of college bball and football does not exist in US sports. It's a shame and fodder for another article, but I must admit I'm glad that the Sounders and other MLS teams have fans who are bringing this sort of atmosphere into their own grounds. Its what makes home field advantage such a big deal in soccer. Its an added 12th man and impossible to ignore for opposing teams. Many a better away team has lost a game due to the relentless noise/abuse directed at them and cheering for the home team. I really hope to see tomorrow's derby. It will be intense!
This game had more quality then an MLS game. These players have played at the highest level in Spain at some point in their careers and if not yet, soon will be. That said, I think this would be a perfect place for up and coming US players to get their feet wet, learn from some seasoned veterans and really get to work on their ball skills and over all game understanding. Sure some of these current Segunda Division players maybe over the hill and some might not make it back to the grand stage a few miles down the road, but they all controlled the ball well, all had a good first touch and all knew how to tackle. Off course, every player wants to make it at the big club but so many get lost on the bench or in the reserves. There is no beating first team football, no matter what the level.
All it takes is one or two players to come over and make a difference. So instead of languishing on a bench or in the reserves in the Premiership, try it out in the Segunda Division in Spain. It might not be glamorous and you might not get on ESPN, but you will be playing and learning and people (other managers, national team coaches etc…) will see you.
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In some podcasts (it seems the speaker was from California) I heard that the word "especially" was pronounced with "ks" sound like "ikspeshally".
What was it likely to be, personal way of pronouncing this word or a local dialect?
In some podcasts (it seems the speaker was from California) I heard that the word "especially" was pronounced with "ks" sound like "ikspeshally".
What was it likely to be, personal way of pronouncing this word or a local dialect?
I live in Idaho and I hear people pronounce especially this way all of the time.
More often than not (at least around here) it gets pronounced either "ex-specially" or "eck-specially" or "eg-specially". There are many people here who have their own dialect.
Don't even ask me about "creek" and "crick"...
I checked more than 10 dictionaries and the pronunciation of "especially" is given as:
It's probably the personal way of pronouncing that word for the relevant person, which seems wrong to me.
I was born and raised in California. I've spent time in many different Californian locales, and I have never heard that pronunciation.
I think the speaker misspoke or was trying to be cute.
I've heard that pronunciation from people with Appalachian roots, but I think it is rare there. The same people tend to pronounce "nuclear" as "nucular", so the pattern seems to be to convert unusual (for the dialect) diphthongs to something more natural.
I was raised in California and have heard that occasionally. I do not think it is a regional dialect in the sense that there is some part of California in which everyone speaks that way. It's more likely to be a social dialect of some kind.
I am a native Southeast Texan, and most people pronounce especially with the "k" sound where I live. This has been a lifelong peeve to me, as I do not pronounce it that way myself. I pronounce it as it is spelled. I was an avid reader as a child, and saw it written before I ever heard it spoken.
Pronunciation of "especially" is:
Listen pronunciation from BeeDictionary or Google Dictionary
Sounds like a mash-up with words like "exclusively", "exceptionally", etc.
That kind of thing happens a lot.
That pronunciation is really weird. The word especially (at least in England and the rest of the UK) is normally pronounced with a certain "e" sound at the beginning, like the pronunciation of the letter e in the words bed, debt and get. In addition to that, it does not normally and is not supposed to have, a "ks" sound. It normally has an "s" sound there.
It was probably just a personal way of mispronouncing, mangling the word.
I heard a professor just today pronounce "especially" as expeshulee.
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Design patterns are useful for object oriented languages.
But how can a non-object-oriented language such as C make of use them?
Design patterns are useful for object oriented languages.
But how can a non-object-oriented language such as C make of use them?
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To reinforce the answers already given, a quote from GOF Design Patterns book itself:
While the design patterns described there are geared towards object-oriented software, and certainly object-oriented programming languages are a natural fit for it, the concepts they embody are language agnostic. What varies is the work overhead you would have to invest to implement the required OOP feature or a workaround for it.
From the wikipedia article on Software design patterns:
As you can see, there is no mention of object oriented programming here.
Design patterns apply to any computer language and sometimes are higher level (architectural patterns).
One example is for SQL - there is a even a book for SQL Design Patterns.
Design patterns are not limited to certain languages or language families. You could come up with design patterns for any language or paradigm.
If you are referring to the GOF patterns: Have a look at
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I have an Ubuntu laptop that stops responding when booting up. It will change between consoles with ctrl-alt-FN but pressing enter in the console would not even enter a blank line. The last printed line when booting up in recovery mode was "Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid". Any ideas what might be wrong?
Pressing ctrl-alt-del successfully rebooted it when in that mode. Another symptom is that GRUB stopped booting automatically, not sure if related (I doubt it).


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I went and saw Henry Rollins last week. That guy is intense. Talked for 2 hours straight, nonstop without a sip of water. What I really enjoyed about him is that he's in high demand and tours all over the world, yet he tells us that he takes the time to reply to anyone who writes him. I'm going to have to test this out and actually write him something. It may take him a while to respond to me, but I'm sure that he will eventually.
Which brings me to today's topic. Nothing bugs me more than when people start to get such a big ego that they think they're too good to respond. What's that about? Did you forget where you came from? Did you forget that you were once an ordinary person trying to climb the ladder in your industry? Remember the doors you tried to knock on? What's worse is when they reach out to you when they needed something and then when you reach back to them, it's crickets. I would understand if you were an A list celebrity, if so hire a staff to answer those letters/emails. I'm a normal guy, I have a little niche of about 10 people, but any time I get an inquiry/email, I make sure that I respond at least once. If a person comments on my photo or page, I make sure I take the time to thank them. If I can't thank them individually, I at least acknowledge the whole string of comments in one reply.
Maybe you'll feel differently one day when you're washed up and no one really cares about you or your work, then you will start treasuring the love and attention that's being showered onto you. I try to live my life and treat people exactly the way I want to be treated. In a world of "ME ME ME!" it's refreshing to see someone of Henry's status give back, even if it's just a simple "Thank you." note.
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1. A union ass bag who steals from the workers while supposedly "representing" their interests.
2. An AFSCME Representative
Note: this is a gender inclusive term that can be applied to a man, woman, or trans-gendered person.
2. An AFSCME Representative
Note: this is a gender inclusive term that can be applied to a man, woman, or trans-gendered person.
That shit-heel at AFSCME is worse than Jimmy Hoffa. At least Hoffa got the workers paid good. That shit-heel at AFSCME doesn't even do that for us. Fact is s(he) couldn't give two shits about us. S(he) just wants to get paid..
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someone who's low; mean; dishonest
He's a real shitheel; as in he's so low that he's like the heel of a shoe dragging in dog shit.
by Ilianivich March 15, 2003
A piece of human filth that thinks he is superior to everyone else on the planet.
Wow, that Dr. Klein is a real shit heel. Sumbitch thinks he knows everything, man.
by Carl De Riot August 17, 2007
An asshole; a despicable, loathesome person.
My roommate during my freshman year of college was a shitheel.
by JK March 15, 2003
Slang for an idiot, a despicable person.
Shut it, you shit heel!
by kakihara June 07, 2006
This is an old term dating back at least 100 years. My grandmother from Eastern Texas used it quite often to describe an uncouth person. I believe it refers to persons who probably didn't have an out-house or toilet, then when they dropped their pants and stooped down to evacuate their bowels, they would sometime hit the back of their shoes or boots. Of course, they probably just as often hit their pants.
That LeeRoy is a real shit heel.
by meatloaf66 September 22, 2009
a terrible, worthless person; usually from Texas
My friend Garrett Hall is a shitheel
by Dr. Funk December 16, 2003
A lazy person. Someone who wouldn't expend the energy to wipe the shit they stepped in off their shoes. Someone who would shit in bed and kick it out with their feet.
Bill never has any money. He doesn't work, and sits around all day watching TV and eating potato chips, he's a real shitheel.
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Not beeing economically able to actually buy the new iPhone, how can I impress my friends and family by posting status messages with the "via iPhone" postfix?
You would have to create a Facebook application. When you sign up for a new application using the Facebook API, I think the name you give your application will be the name that shows up in the "via" part of the post. I doubt you'll be able to register your application under the name iPhone, but you could maybe do one that is just as "cool".
See the status.set method on how to set the status using the API. This requires some programming, but the API has libraries available for most programming languages.
Try PostedVia
You can use websites like e.g. http://fbstatusvia.com to post via almost anything
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I am building a 3D application that simulates launching small rockets. I want to draw their trajectories.
I know that rockets have a degree of stability. I want to include this in the simulation, but I don't know what the physics would look like.
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Persona 4 headed to PSN as a PS2 ClassicWritten by: / / No Comments
Persona 4 is widely regarded as one of the finest JRPGs released during the PlayStation 2 era and its popularity has led to the development of a number of spin-off titles including Persona 4 Arena and the upcoming rhythm game Persona 4: Dancing All Night.
The ESRB recently rated Persona 4 for the PlayStation 3 which suggests that it will soon be available via PSN as a PS2 Classic. The original release is obviously missing the extra content found in the PS Vita remake Persona 4 Golden but if you don't own Sony's handheld then playing it on your PS3 is your next best option.
Persona 4 revolves around a group of high school students who band together to solve a series of supernatural murders in their rural town of Inaba. The game combines social simulation elements with dungeon-crawling and turn-based battles to create an addictive and compelling RPG experience.
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Nightowl at 5 years old. Any way of dealing with it?
Our 3 and 5 year-olds won't sleep before 10 pm and won't wake up before about 9 am. They share the same bedroom. How can we shift their sleep time?
Our 3 and 5 year-olds won't sleep before 10 pm and won't wake up before about 9 am. They share the same bedroom. How can we shift their sleep time?
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I agree with Rory, but would expand on the answer some.
My wife and I came up with the following practices to deal with this issue over the years.
1/ Make a standard night routine.
2/ Wake up time is what really matters. If the kid wakes up grumpy, the kid goes to bed earlier that evening.
3/ Worry less about whether the kids are sleeping and more about whether they are in their room quiet. Who cares if they stay awake for a couple of hours after bedtime, as long as they are quiet, let you alone, and wake up in a good mood.
4/ Avoid long naps, but an afternoon quiet time is very appropriate.
You haven't explained what they are doing instead (fighting, running around, watching TV??) so there may be many options, but try the following to get them in a bedtime mood earlier:
Definitely don't let them watch TV - it doesn't help small children get a restful sleep.
Also, if they still have a nap time during the day, make sure it's not too late in the day. If the nap from 2 to 4 in the afternoon, they're not likely to be sleepy at 7. Shorter, earlier naps, or possibly none at all.
In the mornings, get them up at the time you require. They may be tired and grumpy until they have sorted out the schedule change, but that is normal.


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The eldest daughter of 2008 vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, became a mother at the early age of 17. Bristol Palin now works with the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and the Candie's Foundation as an advocate for abstinence, and she speaks out against teen pregnancy. Her role as a spokesperson has been controversial as many question whether Bristol has been glamorizing or discouraging teen pregnancy.


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'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Lincoln' make AFI top-10 list
Published: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 3:07 p.m.
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LOS ANGELES — Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty," Steven Spielberg's Civil War epic "Lincoln" and Christopher Nolan's superhero tale "The Dark Knight Rises" are among the American Film Institute's top-10 movies of the year.
Also on the AFI top-10 announced Monday: Ben Affleck's Iran hostage-crisis drama "Argo;" Benh Zeitlin's low-budget hit "Beasts of the Southern Wild;" Quentin Tarantino's slavery saga "Django Unchained;" Tom Hooper's Victor Hugo musical "Les Miserables;" Ang Lee's shipwreck story "Life of Pi;" Wes Anderson's first-love romance "Moonrise Kingdom;" and David O. Russell's misfit love story "Silver Linings Playbook."
The AFI also picked its top-10 television shows for the year: "American Horror Story;" "Breaking Bad;" "Game Change;" "Game of Thrones;" "Girls;" "Homeland;" "Louie;" "Mad Men;" "Modern Family;" and "The Walking Dead."
Creative ensembles for the films and TV shows will be honored Jan. 11 at a luncheon in Los Angeles.
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Slapstick housepainters who create chaos – such as The Three Stooges in "Jerks of All Trades" – get laughs on television, but who would turn them loose on a real building?
"Nothing travels faster than news about a bad painting job," said Amy Bergeron, owner and president of Whitehouse Residential & Commercial Painting Co. "Our mission is 100 percent customer satisfaction, and we achieve it through top-quality craftsmanship and products. We want our customers to be our customers for life."
The business was named for the family who founded it in 1993. Amy was hired as an estimator in 2001, and purchased the company two years later.
"When I started working here, I didn't know if I would like it," she said. "Even before I became the owner, it was interesting to be a woman in a male-dominated industry. As I grew more comfortable with that, I grew more in love with the job. I loved working with customers on a personal level and seeing the transformation of a project from start to finish. As time went on, I realized that I could see myself doing this forever."
Certified as a Women's Business Enterprise, Whitehouse currently accepts about 190 projects annually, including houses, banks, schools, corporate headquarters and churches.
"The St. John Center for Homeless Men was a neat project for us. It used to be a church, and there were tapestry-type paintings on the walls. Because of the way we had to build the scaffolding, we were at eye level with the paintings, and saw the intricate detail," she said. "It takes special craftsmanship to do old homes, too. We pride ourselves on that. Old houses have become a niche for us – they're what we're known for."
Two summers ago, the Historic Homes Foundation, Inc. hired Whitehouse to repaint the exterior of Whitehall House & Gardens on Lexington Road. The Southern-style Greek Revival mansion required about five weeks of scrupulous care by a crew of four.
Buildings such as Whitehall that must meet historic-preservation standards may require colors which match the original ones, or approval to use other shades. The homeowner may not know the exact name of a shade that was applied years ago. When that happens, a paint chip is removed for matching as closely as possible.
"During the project, Whitehall was open for tours, meetings and weddings. We had to adjust our work accordingly and couldn't be there for days at a time. Brides don't want ladders all over the place, or wet paint and tarps," Amy said. "We also had to be very careful not to damage the ivy and other beautiful plantings."
To accommodate the needs of Whitehall's owners and guests, Whitehouse developed an unusual strategy. A crew often paints a house's entire fascia and soffit at one time, and all of the brickwork at another, and so on. But to keep Whitehall's lovely portico available for visitors and photographs, the crew painted that entire side at once, including the towering Corinthian columns.
"Those wooden columns had undergone some interesting repairs over the years," she said. "There was a hole that someone had filled with blank pages of notebook paper. Our craftsmen did the carpentry that was necessary to repair it and match what was original."
Whitehouse has greatly expanded its range of projects. A second company – Whitehouse Painting & Construction – now does renovations such as bathroom and kitchen upgrading, and hardwood floor installation. Maintenance plans that provide periodic touch-ups are available, as are faux finishes and murals. Factory-grade coatings can be applied to make existing kitchen cabinets look like new.
"We're becoming a one-stop shop for people who need anything from changing out a bathroom vanity to refinishing a basement," said Ann Dreisbach, who, in addition to being Amy's mother, handles Whitehouse's marketing and development of new business. "Women are very detail-oriented, and attention to detail is one thing that sets us apart. So does our determination to do whatever it takes to make our customers happy. This is a beautiful business to be in."
Whitehouse Residential & Commercial Painting Co., 8045 Warwick Ave., provides estimates and services by appointment. For more information, visit www.whitehousepaint.com or phone 502.425.0483.


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The dusting on the water of the toilet when you fart after a long diaharia.
Somebody please flush that fart dust down the toilet
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fart dust is microscopic and/or visible bits of feces expelled from the rectum. Feces accumulates on the sphincter after wiping the buttocks because of the wrinkles of the sphincter. Feces dries and when a person farts/expells gas the sphincter opens slightly and the wrinkles open and allow the dried feces to fall and be blown out. Dr. Chuck of The Virginia Fecal Institute performed many experiments to prove the existence of fart dust despite many disbelievers but proved without a shadow of a doubt that it in fact existed. With the help of a "volunteer", he had the test subject fart on a clean sheet of printer paper and the fart dust materialized. Fart dust does not occur with peoples who use baby wipes or bidets for cleansing their buttocks after bathroom use.
Joe awoke hacking up fart dust after Harold farted in his open mouth.
by Charles Golay October 17, 2008
The microscopic feces particals expelled out of the rectum within the methane gases of flatulation.
The seat fabric had accumulated nearly visable fart dust from its experience since being manufactured in 1951.
by Ashton Lee September 22, 2003
The rank smell that erupts when someone sits in a chair you recently blasted into.
Dude, someone left some freakin fart dust in my chair!
by gyrussfanx May 08, 2007
The Dust that flies when you slap a couch cushion, padded chair, or any other soft surface where people sit.
I was laughing so hard that I slapped the couch, got a whiff of fart dust, then almost passed out.
by pghpanthers2 September 15, 2008
A really dry flatulence which upon exiting the anus emits dust which then can be seen on the inner lining of the undergarment as a powder like substance which falls away upon removal of said undergarment.
Hey Bill, check out my collection of fart dust I have here in this jar. It weighs almost 10 pounds!
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I have read numerous posts from various websites saying that the wizard/sorceror spell "polymorph" breaks game balance. Even Wizards of the Coast somewhat admits that. Sticking to just the core games rules, how does this spell swing game balance totally askew? Perhaps I am just not creative enough to understand the extent to which the spell can make normally challenging situations trivial. Please give examples, broken down at various ranges of character levels (from 7th level, when a wizard first gains access to polymorph, up to 20th level)?
Update (12/18/2012):
There are some great answers here. I should have posted originally about the entire polymorph chain of spells instead of just the spell "polymorph" itself, but I think most of the answers so far took the question to mean the polymorph chain.
I do want to clarify slightly what I meant in my original question about examples, in the hopes of finding more of the "loopholes" that some have mentioned. The answer about the Avariel is a good one (gaining Fly at a longer duration at CL3 than at CL5 with the Fly spell). Any more examples of overpowered usages of the polymorph spell chain are welcome.


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At the end of the Murderbrawl XXXI mission, you can either choose to take Killbane's mask, which allows you to acquire his mask to wear, or he will tell you the "secret of the Apoca-fists."
If I choose to take his mask, does this completely lock me out of the Apoca-fists on that save? Or will I get the option to purchase them later on?


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This question is almost related to another question of mine. It is about finding the good question easy for reading and referring to it later. But then, I was asked to use search.
Now, I guess it is right time to reiterate the same request with a slight change. Think of Wikibooks or some sort that stuff. The language wise collection to include various top questions and important, interesting top answers, the answers can contain comments and examples to make the reading easy. It can be problem book with answers, starting from simple questions to advanced concepts.
I know it is little too much of asking in a Q&A site. But the truth is there are many people like me, who browse through SO to find good questions, techniques in language of our interest and learn concepts that way, this approach will make life easier for lot of us. If there is a proper mechanism/tool, people can compile a good collection of question through which one can learn language/technique.
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On Sunday, July 18, GreenHawks star Darrell "Hi Rise" Owens and Dunkin the mascot attended the Kommunity Festival on the National Mall! Extremely impressive motivational speakers, singers, and dancers took the stage as all in attendance thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful event. In addition, Dunkin and Hi Rise began spreading the word about our availability for GreenHawks events this fall, so please book your fundraiser, office event, birthday party, or Bar/Bat Mitzvah with us TODAY!
We are excited to announce that Washington GreenHawks superstar and ambassador Pat "The Roc" Robinson has been featured in hot pop band Matt and Kim's music video for their newest release, "Let's Go." Please check out the video where Pat is doing his thing and wowing his audience with unbelievable basketball tricks! Just another reason why, as Pat always declares, "Anything is Possible" if you decide you want to be a GREAT basketball player. Check out the video by clicking HERE!
The Washington GreenHawks and Green Hoops for Hope Foundation are pleased to announce their newest sponsor, the EZ HydroCooler! EZ Hydro cooler is a portable cooling/hydration system that allows parents to ensure that their children do not fall victim to the dangers of dehydration and heat stroke. It was recently rated the #1 newest outdoor safety product in the United States.
On Saturday, June 23, Dunkin the GreenHawks' mascot came to the Bethesda Big Train game to help celebrate Homer's birthday! The event was so much fun for all in attendance (including CAL RIPKEN JR)! Some of the mascots, including Dunkin, Blaze from Buffalo Wild Wings, and Topspin from the Washington Kastles took on Homer in an intense tug-of-war match after the 2nd inning, which brought endless laughter to the crowd. Fans were excited when (unfortunately for us) Homer came out the winner! Despite the loss in the tug-of-war, Dunkin did defeat Homer in a race around the bases later in the
On Saturday, June 16, Dunkin and many other mascots from the Washington, DC area came to help celebrate Louie the Baysox's birthday bash at the Bowie Baysox game! Dunkin helped greet hundreds of excited fans before the first pitch and all had a blast in the kid-oriented festivities that took place throughout the game. From a mascot Home Run Derby to mascots singing to Louie on the 1st base dugout, the crowd couldn't get enough and everyone went home happily despite a tough loss to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, 4-3.
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