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5 Modern Technologies That Are Way Older Than You Think
#2. They Had Seismographs Around the Time of the New Testament
If you live in an area that's prone to earthquakes, volcanoes, or other ground-based forms of overkill that our precious planet likes to throw at us, a seismometer can be the only thing that stands between you and the lava-filled crevasse that just opened up under your house. Understandably, mankind's need to invent a device that could keep up with Earth's bullshit has always been pretty urgent. That's why seismometers and seismographs have been around for a while: The earliest designs date as far back as 1880.
Like every machine in the 19th century, it was powered by coal and whiskey.
That is, the earliest modern designs.
Actually Invented In ...
The year 132. No, that is not a typo.
Back then, Roman soldiers were lounging about Hadrian's Wall and the Greeks were busy building temples for Zeus. Meanwhile, in China, Zhang Heng was sciencing the hell out of the universe. Zhang was a scholar of the Han Dynasty and a borderline superhero: The list of his scientific and artistic achievements is positively Da Vincian, and he was a powerful politician to boot.
"No, dude, that topknot totally hides your bald spot."
Also, he invented a machine whose function couldn't be replicated for 1,700 years.
Zhang's seismometer was all the more impressive because earthquake studies weren't really a thing back in 132. People just kind of figured they happened because a deity was pissed off or something and there was not much to be done. Zhang Heng politely disagreed and started tinkering, because if a god was about to punish your country, you might want a warning system.
Zhang's machine was a delightful mix of science, art, and tripping balls: a big bronze pot with dragon statues watching in eight directions, each holding a bronze ball in its mouth. The dragon mouths were calibrated so that at the slightest tremor of the ground, the head closest to the source would drop its ball into the mouth of a toad at the base of the device, indicating not only the earthquake, but also the direction of the earthquake. Zhang called it his "instrument for measuring the seasonal winds and the movements of the Earth," and it fucking worked. The machine was said to be capable of sensing an earthquake that was happening hundreds of miles away.
Each of those frog mouths was just large enough to accommodate one Imperial Nut. Most history books leave that out.
#1. The Videodisc Is Older Than the Great Depression
Even if you're not old enough to be in the group that remembers the fax-machine era we mentioned earlier, you probably do remember the transition from VHS tapes to DVD. But when did the first videodiscs come about? The more tech savvy among you may point out that laserdiscs were a thing as far back as the early 1980s. But there were videodiscs a little while before that. And by "a little while" we mean "during the Coolidge administration."
Making this article the only time in decades that "laserdisc" has been seen in the same paragraph as "cool."
Actually Invented In ...
To put it mildly, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird was always a bit ahead of his time. As a child in the late 1800s, he set up a telephone exchange between his house and those of his friends, and his interest in television began as a teenager -- which wouldn't be so unusual if not for the fact that TV didn't exist yet, and his fascination started with a German book about the photoelectric properties of selenium. Perhaps he wanted to invent TV so that it could distract other teenagers from kicking his ass; the historical record isn't clear.
But if those glasses are any indication, yes.
By 1928, he was able to send a television signal clear the fuck from London to New York, which was also right around the time he was pioneering another technology that was so ahead of its time that for a minute nobody knew what to do with it: the videodisc.
John's Radio Web
Before movie night got underway, it could double as a pizza cutter.
Between September of 1927 and March of 1928, Baird made a series of recordings on standard 78 RPM gramophone lacquers using a machine he called a Phonovision. Playing back the platters yielded a 30-line video signal that ... well, that looked like shit:
John's Radio Web
If this starts to look even one iota more like the cursed tape from The Ring, we're leaving.
Five of these discs remain, and sure, they look like hell: Baird was unable to get anything going in terms of selling the video recorder/player, but he was quick to improve on the four-frame-per-second resolution and soon was producing video at a crisp 12.5.
Baird Television
On a machine that would've looked awesome in our 1920s living room.
The BBC actually began broadcasting 30-line television programs (programmes, sorry) using Baird's mechanical video scanning technology in 1929. Production switched from Baird's company to BBC One in 1932, and broadcasts continued using the same technology until World War II caused their suspension in 1939.
The whole concept of recording video to disc wouldn't reappear in the mainstream until 40 years later with laserdisc technology, and after a brief domination by DVD and Blu-ray, here we are about to abandon it again. Look, John, it was a nice try, but apparently we don't want our video on fucking discs.
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If I am developing a client side application, what kind of domain should I provide to 0Auth callback? Can it be a custom application-centric scheme (like myapp://oauthcallback/)?
For native applications (ie. Desktop apps), in order to participate in an OAuth 2.0 flow you need to embed a browser control (or otherwise instrument one so you can read the current location, including hash) and do an implicit (ie. Client Side) flow with a redirect_uri of
This detail is buried down at bottom of our authentication docs for the moment.
During registration, desktop apps can have anything in the Domain field. I'd suggest setting it to the same domain as your website, just in case you want a more traditional flow there in the future (of course, you can edit your app's domain at any time).
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There is a concept of Mekach Toyus (mistake-based deal) in a marriage. What would be considered Mekach Toyus? Suppose when the bride or groom figured out that this was a Mekach Toyus and remained together for a while longer can they still say Mekach Toyus?
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See this lecture (mp3) by Rabbi Michael Broyde.
If there is a significant problem of which the other party was unaware, and it is the type of problem that the average reasonable person would absolutely not be willing to live with, then the marriage was effected on faulty conditions, and is automatically dissolved.
If I recall correctly from Rabbi Broyde, the Chazon Ish in Israel said such a case could exist, but he couldn't think of any. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein in fact ruled on several such cases, such as the bride who suddenly finds out that her husband:
(Those are three separate cases. Not one combination, oy!)
If, after learning of the problem, the couple chose to stay together (especially if they had marital relations), the concept becomes much less clear, as that could be a new act of marriage demonstrating that the newly-discovered fault is really not a problem for them. Rabbi Broyde mentions the complicated case of a woman who discovered something egregiously wrong with her husband, but chose to stick around for a few more months until she had enough evidence to take to a divorce lawyer; her staying around was not a demonstration of acceptance.
Tosafot in Kiddushin 9A discusses not using a diamond ring for Kiddushin. Since if the woman will think the gem is worth more than it actually is, this would be a Mekach Ta'us.
There are, however, major commentators who say the Kiddushin is still valid, and some that disagree, see here (discussing a fake gold ring).
Here is a blog post that links to a discussion regarding Rashi, Tosfot, Maharam, and R' Moshe regarding what is considered a Mekach Ta'us with regards to Kiddushin.
Also, here is a 6 part shiur from BusinessHalacha.com on the laws of Mekach Ta'us that may cover some of these issues.


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I'm trying to debug remotely pl/sql. But I can't - database returns me an error. What should I do to fix this and start debugging ?
ORA-30683: failure establishing connection to debugger
ORA-12541: TNS:no listener
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Sad to admit this was the last encounter I had dating, and to be honest, it sorta sucked the wind out of me and left me with no idea how to relay the story.
A guy online contacted me and when I reviewed his profile I thought, "oh this is good. But…" It was well written, said all the things I wanted to hear and more importantly, had no red flags or deal breakers. but he wasn't my type. I just didn't know if I could picture myself with him. There wasn't anything wrong with him, his features were nice….but I wasn't drawn to him or picking up a vibe that we'd connect. I decided I would go outside my comfort zone and at least see if he had any personality, anything about him that intrigued me. Nothing ventured, nothing gained right?
The next few days were exciting and fun, filled with emails, calls and texts from him…as we got to know one another and some of the crazy coincidences we had in common. We grew up about 30 miles from one another. We went to the same college and lived in the same dorm (he being older than me, we never overlapped), we both studied abroad our junior year, in the same European city. Both have moved around and had careers combined of freelance and full-time positions and lived in several cities. Both nomadic, sarcastic, sharp but emotional and sensitive. And then I found out he lived in my same building in New York City. Ten years prior. That's just crazy, of all the places in New York he lived in my exact building? Beyond coincidence, this was kismet.
So what's the catch? Yeah, of course there's one…. He doesn't live in New York currently. He's down south and thinking about possibly returning, but meanwhile has family matters to attend to. "Why did you list you lived in NY?" "Oh, that's the type of woman I want to meet. And who knows, maybe I'll return." After extensive conversations of me explaining that by no means was I looking for a long distance relationship or a pen pal he seemed to agree he wasn't either. How he's ready to settle in and settle down and wants to share his life with a great woman.
The talks were then followed up by others just as intimate, personal, compelling and revealing. Every day, hours a day for nearly three weeks. This went on for weeks, the daily calls, emails and texts. And then things got REALLY complicated. There is that new stage a/k/a honeymoon phase when you first meet someone and they want to make the best possible impression so they tell you only the good stuff….and of course that's all you hear anyhow even if there are some red flags peppered into passing conversation. So I'm thinking a month passed before I got the truth out of him. And it was a doozey. Even for me.
He had lived in NY amongst a few other cities, but circumstances now had him living with his 85-year-old mother –in Florida. So not only was he not living in NYC, the likelihood of him coming back to NY was slim. By this time we had spent countless hours speaking, confiding and sharing with one another – clearly on a friendship level….well, at least for me. You see he thought he was my boyfriend. He even referred to me as his girlfriend on the phone on more than one occasion. You mean your virtual girlfriend??
So where does this get even stranger?…..He had no money (pretty much a given with the men I meet) and couldn't afford to "fly up and take me out the way I deserved." So instead, he just never came at all. I think he actually enjoyed the no strings dynamic of a phone girl friend while I had bigger fish to fry as my life was coming apart at the seems and I prepared myself for another potential upheaval and career change. What did I get out of it you ask? A confidant and friend who lent an ear and who I reciprocated tenfold. A friend….with sexual overtones….but no actual sex. Phone sex is fun for about ten minutes and then I put the kaibosh on that shit.
This continued for about 3 months with his calls only amping in frequency and intensity. Then I planned a trip down to Florida for something else and decided we should meet up.
We did…


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Normally a quiet and quaint community, the small town of Paxico gets loud and jam-packed on the third Saturday of each September to celebrate the Paxico Blues Festival. For the last ten years, the town closes down streets and opens its arms to everyone for a free day of the blues.
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Sometimes when I want to umount a device, e.g.
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umount: /mnt: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use
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I usually solve this issue by closing a console window (in my case xfce4-terminal) and then
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Home > Food > Recipes > Rum-Raisin Bread Pudding
Rum-Raisin Bread Pudding
Categories: Low-fat
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Use a bread with body, like a good multigrain or oatmeal loaf, to add taste and texture to this rum-raisin bread pudding.
Serves: 6 servings
- 1/4 cup dark raisins
- 2 tablespoons light rum
- 4 cups 1/2-inch cubes firm multigrain or oatmeal bread (about 5 ounces)
- 1 can (12 ounces) evaporated skim milk
- 1/2 cup skim or low-fat milk
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons fat-free egg substitute
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon sugar
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- Place the raisins and rum in a small bowl, and stir to mix well. Set aside for at least 15 minutes.
- Place the bread cubes in a large bowl and set aside.
- Place the evaporated milk, milk, egg substitute, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl, and whisk until smooth. Pour the milk mixture over the bread cubes, and set aside for 10 minutes.
- Stir the raisin mixture into the bread mixture. Coat a 1 1/2-quart casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray, and pour the mixture into the dish. Sprinkle the sugar over the pudding.
- Bake uncovered at 350°F for about 1 hour, or until a sharp knife inserted in the center of the dish comes out clean. Allow to cool at room temperature for 45 minutes before serving. Serve warm or at room temperature, refrigerating any leftovers.
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The final decision on who will transfer and who will be laid off will be made next week, company officials said, and will be based on seniority and job descriptions.
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WHEELING - Tammy Slusser looked around and couldn't believe what she saw. There was nobody in sight for the nearly 50-year-old Monroeville, Pa., resident, except those holding the tape at the finish line in front of her.
''I'm stunned,'' she said.
At 49, Slusser had just hoped to be in contention for her age division. A member of a running club back home, Slusser had no problem settling for the women's overall crown at the 38th running of the Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon Classic, clocking in with a time of 1:32:26.
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Tmmy Slusser is the first woman to cross the finish line.
''We run every Tuesday night,'' Slusser said. ''I should actually be an honorary West Virginian because I run in every big race in the state.
''This is unbelievable.''
Ditto, Wheeling Central and recent Marshall University graduate Kelley Mortakis, said. She heard chatter along the course and had to do a double take when her second-place finish was announced as she crossed the finish line.
''Everyone kept saying 'second female' and I was like, really?' '' she said.
Yes, really.
Mortakis finished in 1:33:48, just off the time of Slusser, and said finishing second was important, but can't duplicate the feeling that merely competing brings her.
''My mom's been running this race for years and she can't run anymore so it means a lot,'' Mortakis said. ''I think this is for a good cause and it's a tough course.
''I was going into the last mile and I was saying 'the only thing getting me through this is the weather.' Honestly, we couldn't have asked for better weather.''
Slusser certainly won't argue. She estimates that she has run the course eight or nine times and the conditions the last two years ''have been perfect.''
Sherri Martin, 52, of West Alexander, Pa., crossed in a time of 1:37:21 to finish third. Flannery O'Rourke, 32, of Pittsburgh, finished fourth and Marian Tullius, a 54-year-old from Wexford, Pa., rounded out the top 5.
Locally, Kristina Tomlan, 28, of Shadyside, came in 65th overall and Janie Davis, 51, of Wheeling, was 67th. Elizabeth Thomas, 25, Becky Droginske, 55, and Karissa Duke, 19, and all from Wheeling, ended up 81st, 86th and 88th overall, respectively.


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It's a woot-off! anyone else excited?
I finally have money to spend! Can"t wait to see what I can get.
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Monday woot-offs are no good. Monday is always a busy day for me so I cant really keep up with all the non-sense. But, lets be honest, dont really expect anything special considering the last few woot-offs. Given the recent posts, I would half expect woot and sport and home to post the same thing at some point...
Excited? Not quite. Will try real hard to be optimistic, though. Do not plan on losing any sleep over it. Lack of BOCs, same prices, no real bargains, you know?
Anyone know what the cut-off is for Christmas orders with woot? Will items purchased in the woot-off be guaranteed to arrive before the big day?
I just try to be like @gmwhit.
Not really, I do have my wootalyzer up but I'm not expecting anything.
No boc chance and the deals not really any different then the usual 10 million deals available each day, makes it, well like every other woot day.
I am! We had some fun putting together the armagedd-off trading cards for you guys. Hopefully they'll add some fun in.
@gatzby: I'm eager to check these out. I really hope you guys planned ahead and include a set of cards with each t-shirt offering!
@belowi: We moved this woot-off up so items would have a good shot of arriving before Christmas. There's no guarantee but we're feeling good.
@gatzby: You said: "I am! We had some fun putting together the armagedd-off trading cards for you guys. Hopefully they'll add some fun in."
What is this of which you speak?
@cowboydann: You replied to gatzby: "I'm eager to check these out. I really hope you guys planned ahead and include a set of cards with each t-shirt offering!"
Ditto: What is this of which you speak?
Have NO idea what you guys are referring to. Am I missing the obvious? I do have a flair for that. :-/
Here's a link to the explanation:
And your first clue is here: (Check the third image)
Something to do with a shirt, (or possibly a BOC...) Keep the speculation alive!
@zerrick: Oh. Thanks so much for the links/info. Esoteric I see. A game that you chase around for clues, yes? Hope this ends well.
Guess I'll just revert back to my initial comment. And try harder to find a woot-off item or 2 I might be interested in. :-/
Not really.
I'm so excited, I think I'll give the staff of one (myself) the day off to find that "hard to find" gift for my in-laws.....
Last time they had a special event, that lasted an entire day/s worth of watching woot and obsessing over woot, I was grossly disappointed. Fool me once...
"4. No, there is absolutely not a Bag o' Crap involved anywhere in this thing in any way. For real. This warning is not us being cute. If you could see our faces, you'd know how serious we were. Please don't get into this expecting you'll wind up with a Bag o' Crap. You won't. Mark our words."
So do you think there's a BOC?
(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)
Yes. I've already cracked the code and ordered it.
ducks the thousands of bricks thrown I kid, I kid!
@gmwhit: well said. I used to wait up, stay up, have the wootalyzer on my cpu, but now I just stop by to see what's on maybe 2 or 3 times during the woot! off. They blew it with me, I can't get interested again unless something REALLY changes and I don't mean more Electronics
I wouldn't say excited. They don't excite me anymore, because they aren't exciting anymore.
But, today I'm part of an Honor Guard for a fallen marine, and will probably check in on what's being sold after I get back. Of course, maybe the lack of excitement is due to what I will be doing beforehand.
what i used to do when seeing this question on the right-side "recent questions" bar: go follow woot-off
what i'm doing today after seeing this question on the right-side "recent questions" bar: click through to question, leave this comment, briefly hover over pictures of "woot-off" stuff at the bottom, exit website.
I stopped being excited about Woot-offs when they stopped including a B-o-C during the event.
In a word - meh.
@gatzby: You should print up a real pack of trading cards and let us buy some, yar, woot trading cards!
Last Woot-off before Christmas?
Is it just me, or is anyone else here humming: Woot-off the wed-nosed waindeer ..
Okay. It's just me.
@tracergod: Unfortunately, they won't happen this time -- we put this content together on a super tight schedule. Joel, of shirt.woot fame, did ask us why we didn't come to him to get them printed, though, so who knows what the future might hold?
I am excited over all this excitement.
I am also excited over the games cropping up on the forums :)
ARMAGEDD-OFF: Movie Posters - Flying Debris, Cloudy, Weapon in hand, and sparks
ARMAGEDD-OFF: Will you survive?
I'm sort of excited finally because I'm keeping an eye out for any last minute stocking stuffer type deals. Or a really nice wine. But these are low priority.
@tracergod: Woot trading cards! Great idea!
Crap...I got a pack of all iggz, and nobody wants to trade with me. B-(
@mkentosh: Try wootstalker.com from @lichme . I like it better personally. As for the woot-off, I quit caring a few months ago.


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'The Daily Show' with Cathleen Kaveny.
In case you missed the show, here's video of what aired, along with the extended web-only clip after the jump. Nice work, Cathy!
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I'll echo Jon Stewart's closing comments, "Great job! So interesting!"For me, this closing sentence really highlighted one of the key facets of the current controversy over health care: "Part of what you're seeing now is really an acculturation of Catholic moral rhetoric to a context that's still very affected by Protestantism."For those of us for whom part of the attraction of Catholic moral teaching is precisely that it offers a different framework and context than that of the dominant American culture, one dismaying and disorienting aspect of this debate is the degree to which some of our bishops sound like...well...American Protestants.
Yes, good show.I was afraid it was going to descend into sitting around making fun of the bishops, but it was anything but that. I have to credit both Stewart's genuine curiosity, and Prof. Kaveny's statements.I also that the comedy bit about the controversy was fair, in that it did at least attempt to present the bishops' concern as a concern about religious liberty. Given how the conversation about this has "progressed" (e.g. the Obama campaign's absurd "birth control permission slip http://barackobama.tumblr.com/post/18551756110/if-mitt-romney-and-a-few-...) someone watching this program would have a better idea what issues were at stake than one following the regular coverage.I should apologize for my fears, and am glad they were unwarranted.
Here's proof that two really smart people can provide needed context for a complex issue in under 7 minutes. Something CCD students could benefit from, I think, as the older ones try to understand Church teaching on these issues and, more importantly, how the Church promulgates teaching.Plus, Cathleen gets extra points for that great necklace. I WANT!
Kudos to Cathy, really superb. And I have to credit Jon Stewart and the Daily Show -- this is as substantative and serious a discussion of the topic as you are going to find anywhere, and in a format that people who wouldn't normally attend to such things will watch. The value of that, in today's media and culture, is immeasurable.
Brava! Cathy. You did a superb job of explaining this very complicated issue in easily understandable terms, with great analogies and metaphors. Moreover, you seemed perfectly at home on Stewart's show. Maybe he will invite you to be his theologian in residence. Fr, Martin, watch out!
I think Fr. Barron should consult Cathy on how to present.I also think the first part of the show -mocking the political debate on the amendmen tyesterday should be looked at to appreciate the ugly politicization that continues to kill serious discourse.Finally, the adoption of Protestant (evangelical?) rhetoric to present , when the Church is moving towards a more welcoming towards evangelical stance, is important to understand the divided frames that a number bring to the topic.
I echo what David Gibson says. It really couldn't have been better on a serious show like, say, the News Hour, and and may very well have been less effective. Congratulations, Cathy.
Splendid! Oodles of kudos!
Wow, Cathy. You were simply the best person for that moment. What a fantastic series of explanations, exchanges, and a fitting conclusion (to the extended web segment): telling an audience of millions of younger viewers why you have stayed Catholic. Every human being matters. On a lighter note, I loved that they included Commonweal and not just ND in your bio. Maybe you're going to be like Jim Martin now, and become a Theologian-in-residence on Comedy Central, just a half-hour earlier. You'll have to move to NYC, though....
Very nice work. Prof Kaveny showed herself to be a very fair minded and patient woman and is a credit to ND and the Church. I was struck by the juxtaposition of two comments, at the beginning and the end:"Catholics are used to having a morality that pretty much everybody accepts. We used to call it natural law, it was a common morality accessible to everyone. But now were in a context where its very clear where not everyone accepts Catholic teaching on contraception, homosexuality on the one hand or even the death penalty on the other hand ..."And"Its picked up a lot of Protestant discourse ... jeremiad ... an acculturation of catholic moral rhetoric to a context thats still very affected by Protestant[ism] ..."So maybe we're in deep doo-doo because we've ignored our own intellectual heritage. Maybe we need an authentic, rigorous, scientifically informed application of natural law reasoning to these questions, not just the vague use of natural law vocabulary (ala Humanae Vitae) or the waving about of the words 'intrinsically evil.' Calling something "intrinsically evil" is not the same thing as making a reasoned natural law argument, which by its very nature is an argument about morality that is "accessible to everyone."
"So maybe were in deep doo-doo because weve ignored our own intellectual heritage. Maybe we need an authentic, rigorous, scientifically informed application of natural law reasoning to these questions"Cathleen's reference to Jeremiads and Protestant discourse are not to the content of Church teaching, but the style in which it is presented.
Natural law nevertheless remains a common morality accessible to everyone if it is applied in a way that is authentic, rigorous, and scientifically informed.
Great job, Cathy!
Prof. Kaveny - with David Gibson's remarks. Can we make you a bishop now?Your students are lucky - clear, precise, partnered with Stewart who picked up and highlighted excellent, brief synposis of what our moral and social justice traditions have really been. Agree - less than 7 minutes and said more than 20 hours of debates or congressional hearings.
Fully agree with David Gibson's view (10:39AM). Consider what a sad statement it makes about the state of current Church-related public activity that he, not known for hyperbole, could say what he did. Two bright people with different backgrounds and purposes met for a few minutes with grace and mutual respect on the subject of Catholicism. They chatted intelligently and intelligibly and wrapped up, leaving at least the possibility of more later. Is that how the New Evangelization is supposed to work?
"Cathleens reference to Jeremiads and Protestant discourse are not to the content of Church teaching, but the style in which it is presented."I think that's true, and it would have been interesting to see where a longer discussion about that might have gone. Is there a "Catholic" way of teaching that has been lost? (I can't speak to that because my life as a Catholic was very short, but I hope my son's will be much longer and I suspect it may depend as much on HOW he is taught as on WHAT.)
The interview covered a lot of ground in its 13 to 14 total minutes, and Stewart seemed genuinely interested and engaged. Too bad the "We try to be unpopular with everybody" comment at about 2:40 of the extended interview wasn't part of the TV portion of the interview. The comment clearly resonated with Stewart, too. Though the ratings wouldn't be nearly as high, you should try to get a full hour on Charlie Rose. :)
Jim and Jean, I would argue that style affects content. A jeremiad is prophetic speech, poetic invective, with prophecies of society's downfall. Natural law is rational and analytic in nature, a different beast altogether. I have a hard time imagining an analytic jeremiad. Change the style and you can't help but change the content.(John O'Malley's Four Cultures of the West is a wonderful short book about the four styles we've used in the past to communicate: prophetic, analytical, literary and visual/artistic. Great stuff.)
We try to be unpopular with everybody." I'm not sure we're trying hard enough. Bill Dehaas: She was wearing red, so maybe she's beyond the bishop level?! Or just making the guys envious...I very much agree about the Protestant and apocalyptic style, and how much it has informed these Catholic jeremiads and also that it affects content. I'd second Jeanne Follman on O'Malley and on Prof. Kaveny's writing on casuistical and prophetic discourse. Natural law I can never figure out, especially as it is deployed today -- as if it is a way to end an argument rather than engage one. But it's also perhaps relevant that Evangelicals seem to be adopting and deploying natural law theory, borrowing from Catholics. Maybe the cross-pollination is producing a hybrid?
"I would argue that style affects content."I thought that's what my point was.
The terrible polarization in the churches in the last thirty years seems to be a result of the flight of many Christians from their churches. What the churchers could not do through persuasion they began attempting to do through politics. In the last 20 years or so Evangelicals especially have formed bonds with the church as they fear a common threat to religious authority. It is a coalition based on empire building and to keep religion in power in public life. The reality is that Protestants are also sounding like Catholics also. The pope became more popular among Evangelicals than Falwell or Robertson as it became a matter of protecting turf or religious power and advantage. "Though miles apart on salvation, they find common ground in the language of moral absolutes." Translate 'moral absolutes' as power in the religious empire. Now religious freedom seems a better theme than abortion, same sex marriage, and contraception. All of a sudden EWTN is talking about religious freedom. The influence of the empire is amazing. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/weekinreview/the-nation-the-hypermoder... for the peaceful days when anti-communism, 24/7 was enough to keep the Empire going full steam.
David, the problem with natural law is exactly how it is often deployed today, as a way to end an argument rather than engage with one. Humanae Vitae certainly exemplifies that. It's really a shame, because it could be such a powerful tool, if actually used, as a way to reason about how to act based on doing good and avoiding evil. if an argument is an authentic natural law argument, it can't *not* make sense! And if it did make sense, then it would be a "common morality accessible to everyone."Interestingly, there is an old article in Ethics from 1965 (pre Humanae Vitae) that makes a Thomistic natural law argument in *favor* of contraception (subscription or fee required):http://www.jstor.org/pss/2379725
Jeanne, thanks for that reference. It's a vexing issue and yet part of tradition and an enticing mode of discourse, at least to an interested "layman" like me. Speaking of modes of discourse, contrast Limbaugh on Georgetown students Sandra Fluke and Georgetown University pres John DiGioia:http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/03/a-tipping-point-on-limba... becomes substance at a certain point.
Jean - to your excellent point about "style" - read John O'Malley's wonderful book about Vatican II in which he highlights the complete and deliberate decision to change the tone and style of concilar language - no anathemas; no condemnations. Statements were almost always put in the affirmative to be supportive and induce discussion.Here is a written response from Bishop William Lori to America magazine editorial:http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=4970The tone is "whinny and petulant" - almost sophomoric in its statements. Lori states: "....abortifacient drug called Ella. Here the details would seem to be fertilized ova, small defenseless human beings, who will likely suffer abortion within the purview of a church-run health insurance program." (natural law & HV - as Kaveny says - there isn't just one interpretation and HV is really discredited); IOM disputes this conclusion about the drug Ella- "tubal ligations" - have been a part of most insurance plans for years (catholic hospitals deal with this in another manner - does he have a clue?)- Lori states: "bishops should regard it not as a matter of religious liberty but merely policy that, as providers they teach one thing but as employers they are made to teach something else. In other words, we are forced to be a countersign to Church teaching and to give people plenty of reason not to follow it. The detail in question here is called scandal." (very narrow definition - in fact, catholic hospitals, universities, agencies have been a sign of church teaching within the public arena that, obviously, includes birth control, abortion, etc. His way of defining this could actually impact these ministries as a "countersign" - HHS compromise does not create scandal?)Catholic insurance companies and catholic self-insured comapnies - well, that is being negotiated and there is a period of time to do this in. Lori makes a statement that refuses to acknowledge this and, in effect, skews his accuracy.His easy dismissal and quote about $10 bc at Walmart ignores the reality of millions of very poor women, immigrants, non-insured, etc. He is disingenous at best.Like his congressional committee hearings and talks, Lori is not a very good advocate for what Prof. Kaveny said in less than 10 minutes. He reminds me of a scolding Southern Baptist minister in my youth.
I'm not sure that Evangelicals are adopting and deploying natural law theory on any but sexual issues, namely, birth control. And even on that, those Evangelicals who oppose contraception seem more radically Augustinian than natural-law Catholic in their disdain for "natural" family planning, believing every couple should have as many children as "God gives them" a la the Duggar family of Arkansas.
Cathy's point about the need to consider not only the religious freedom/conscience rights of institutions but of individuals affected by decisions made by institutions was neatly made, Too bad it was in the web-only segment. Happy thought: when the news gets around about this appearance, no doubt Cathy will be much in demand and will be able to explore the subject further in her inimitable style on TV and the Web!
Thanks for posting an interesting video.I had never really gotten the viagra analogy but the more I think about it, the more it seems a very apt analogy.There are some circumstances in which viagra is morally liciit and some when it is not. It is the same with contraception.There are some circumstances in which the use of contraception is within Catholic teaching eg before or after rape, as treatment for certain medical conditions (eg heavy periods), outside marriage, coercion in marriage, to prevent infection etc.Cathy's point that the rhetoric of persecution here is overblown is well taken.God Bless
Natural law I can never figure out, especially as it is deployed todayI think the problem is that while people claim that natural law is inherent in humanity and independent of revelation or tradition so that everyone should be able to the same conclusion in reality they mean a specific version of natural law which they feel everyone should accept as the correct one - perhaps closer to Grisez than the Greeks or the philosophers in between.Back in the days of the Catholic Encyclopedia, they didn't hesitate to say which were the right kinds of natural law and which were wrongRadically, the natural law consists of one supreme and universal principle, from which are derived all our natural moral obligations or duties. We cannot discuss here the many erroneous opinions regarding the fundamental rule of life. Some of them are utterly falsefor instance, that of Bentham, who made the pursuit of utility or temporal pleasure the foundation of the moral code, and that of Fichte, who taught that the supreme obligation is to love self above everything and all others on account of self. Others present the true idea in an imperfect or one-sided fashion. Epicurus, for example, held the supreme principle to be, "Follow nature"; the Stoics inculcated living according to reason. But these philosophers interpreted their principles in a manner less in conformity with our doctrine than the tenor of their words suggests. Catholic moralists, though agreeing upon the underlying conception of the Natural Law, have differed more or less in their expression of its fundamental formula. Among many others we find the following: "Love God as the end and everything on account of Him"; "Live conformably to human nature considered in all its essential respects"; "Observe the rational order established and sanctioned by God"; "Manifest in your life the image of God impressed on your rational nature." The exposition of St. Thomas is at once the most simple and philosophic. Starting from the premise that good is what primarily falls under the apprehension of the practical reasonthat is of reason acting as the dictator of conductand that, consequently, the supreme principle of moral action must have the good as its central idea, he holds that the supreme principle, from which all the other principles and precepts are derived, is that good is to be done, and evil avoided (I-II, Q, xciv, a. 2).Based on their understanding of natural law, they were able to distinguish between the morality of one man having several wives and one woman having several husbands:For example, under no circumstances is polyandry compatible with the moral order, while polygamy, though inconsistent with human relations in their proper moral and social development, is not absolutely incompatible with them under less civilized conditions.
Great presentation. She certainly kept it divorced from all the anger.
I thought Professor Kaveny did surprisingly well but I have to disagree with David G. I thought Stewart was off his game--perhaps because he wanted to take it easy on a political ally or more likely because he was a bit intimidated. What I found frustrating was he took the discussion over such a broad range that the talk was a bit too high level to really set out different points of view. I don't think anyone watching the show would have come away thinking, "Yes, now I understand both sides and can make an informed judgment." It was more of a course overview of, hopefully, things to come. If he's smart, he'll have her back and delve into 1 issue. 6 minutes is not a lot of time but it's enough if he comes prepared.
Beverley B. --Deploying natural law principles is not a matter of simply repeating *other* theologians conclusions. By definition, natural law ethics is (or is ideally) based on the facts of human behavior and how different behaviors can be shown to affect the flourishing of both individuals and society. Natural law ethics requires evidence, and that evidence must be presented explicitly in premises which are verifiable in experience. The hierarchy seems to have forgotten that, and blithely talks about "natural law" without data to support its conclusions.Once more, let me recommend Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue". It sets out the basic theory extremely clearly, and shows why the theory is still relevant today, at least in major parts. (I'm speaking of Aquinas' version here. There are many versions Catholic and Protestant) with many disagreements. But most scholars put Thomas at the top of the heap.
P. S. MacIntyre"s "A Short History of Ethics" is also authoritative AND clear. It will help you understand some of the deficiencies of other ethical systems and why natural law theorists become so attacged to it. Consider the alternative, as the saying goes.
Overall a good job. With the caveat that if I were interviewed on television, I'd probably miss many an opportunity to make a good point, I wish the answer had been different when Stewart made the point about how employees can just buy contraception with their wages. The answer was that it's a wonderful question and Stewart should be a moral theologian. But the question actually wasn't that good -- if an employee happens to take his wages and buy heroin, the employer has nothing to do with that choice, but if the employer provides the employee with "free heroin" coupons as part of his wages (even if the heroin really is free), the employer is obviously more deeply involved.
Great. Amazing topic to be discussing in that context, with so much seriousness! So much respect for our hierarchy!More and more, for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert humor is not the main goal but only a tool for communicating important messages. I wonder, though: would the typical viewer have preferred less content and more jokes?
Dear all,Thank you for your nice words and support. I was nervous, but it was a lot of fun. Jon is really a very nice, and kind person--on camera and off. (Grant, who came to the Green Room with me, can attest to that.) The time on camera was easier than I thought it would be. But I did have a sort of surreal experience: I have a big screen tv at home. Sitting at the desk, I saw him in the same "frame" that I see him in on tv at home. So I had the strange sense for a fleeting second that I was talking to my tv--and the tv was talking back! Plus, I got to spend a day in Manhattan! Who can beat that as a cure for the midwest late winter blues!
"The bottom line of Catholicism -- and why I say in it -- is every human being matters." Amazing. Prof. Kaveny captured volumes in this one line about thoughtful spiritual inquiry.
Not one word about war,torture and assassination.Like those arn't theological/ethical issues confronting American Catholics today.If they're not they should be.Talk about co-existing with evil.Mums the word.
Who would have thought that one of the most rational and thoughtful discussions on the issue would be to The Daily Show? It comes to that. Cathleen, you did a beautiful job. I still have a lingering question, though, how does Notre Dame University leverage its endowment to persuade Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, WalMart and CVS to cease the manufacture and sale of contraceptives? Isn't profiting from contraception as bad as paying for it, in both cases indirectly? I don't mean this to be a snark, I think it is a legitimate question.
Very good, overall, and I was very pleased to see a civil and not crazed discussion on these points so Kudo's to Kaveny, but neither she nor Stewart addressed the essential question as to whether or not this is a first amendment issue. Since Dolan seems clear that he will be taking this issue to the highest court, it's a necessary discussion point, and one that was barely skimmed over in the discussion of freedom of religion. I am not sure that Catholics can "protect their freedom of religion" while also "protecting the freedom of religion" of others by paying for their contraception. You protect freedom of religion by not telling any church what it "must" do. I think Obama administration, if they want to demonstrate that they are liberal and not illiberal, needs to give serious consideration to allowing church institutions to set up secondary cash funds in insurance policies where employees can use the money as they see fit. There is nothing wrong with such a plan. It is just to both the church and the employees. And it ends the narrative that Obama is trying to disregard the constitution.
Just a few random thoughts:As a Basilian scholastic (c1963-1964) teaching in a Catholic high school, I read through all journal articles that were stirred up by Dr. John Rock's pill. I had no dog in the fight at that time but rather a vow of chastity; the vow of poverty alone would have prevented me from purchasing any kind of contraceptive. I came to understand with my Latin Summae (Theologiae as well as Contra Gentiles) as well as Anton Pegis' English editions of Aquinas' texts that the entire argument was based on teleological causality. I had even as an undergraduate philosophy student come to disregard it as an assumed reading of God's mind. But who has known the mind of the Lord or His unsearchable judgement and inscrutable ways? I came to a determination that family planning (abortion aside) was not any kind of evil when it included John Rock's pill.I am still disturbed by the conversation reported by Father Andrew Greeley and the then archbishop of Cincinnati, Joseph Bernadin, in a Chicago cab. (circa 1968 recorded in his book "The Catholic Myth") Bernadine was to have called "Humanae Vitae" that "goddamned encyclical" (Chapter 5: Sex and the Family). The later Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago later denied he had said this, but check out Greeley's explanation.Our Cardinal Daniel DiNardo (Galveston-Houston) in an editiorial he wrote in the Houston Chronicle (Sunday, February 19, 2012) referred to the Obama/Sibelius compromise as attacking a "core teaching" of the Catholic Church. "...Catholic institutions will have to forfeit core Catholic teachings in order to comply with health care reform law." I had always thought that the core teachings of the Catholic Church were those settled upon by the Council of Nicea and celebrated by all good Catholics verbally at Mass as often as they attended: the Trinity, the omnipotence of the Father, the Son consubstantial with Him but made human flesh, dead, risen, and gloriously triumphant, the Holy Spirit through whom all of God's grace and inspiration comes to man and settles upon all creation, the union of faithful militant on earth, saints in heaven, all who have their sins forgiven, who have or will have risen from the dead; these are the core teachings of the Catholic Church. When will these overseers of the Church, originally appointed by a pagan Constantine, who was glorified by the bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, his mother's travelling companion, direct their attention more to the love of God than to the love of Canon Law, more to the humility of Jesus and less to the splendor of the Roman Empire?I would hope that someone in authority would review the old idea of Jacques Maritain in his "Man and State", written it seems ages ago. And in this review he or she would see that then as now we live a pluralistic society and we find a way to live together in some kind of harmony. We American Catholics are not always right or sometimes forfeit our own moral judgements, for example, in waging unjust wars. We forfeit our rights to offsetting compensation for what we bear in shouldering the expenses of Catholic education, which we do to be even better citizens.
" -- allowing church institutions to set up secondary cash funds in insurance policies where employees can use the money as they see fit. "And how exactly does that differ from simply paying an insurance premium for coverage that covers contraceptives?Same money. Different pocket. Is this what it takes to keep certain Catholics "happy?"In my day that was called casuistry or sophistry.Of, as that Doctor of the Church, Eric Idle, once said: "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Say no more!"
This interview is going to make Cathleen a lot of enemies. What ambitious Catholic leader would not be jealous of her clarity, of her ability to engage in respectful civil discourse while remaining firmly within the bounds of accepted Catholic teachings, of her visibility, and of her likability?She's been propelled to the frontline and will now be under close surveillance. One word out of line, and some people are going to be clamoring for her head. She needs to watch her back!
I apologize if I am repeating an earlier thread; however I found the Professor comments more determinate to the Church than helpful. I disagree with many of her basic assumptions and how they are presented.First, birth-control is not an issue of woman's health that is if you consider pregnancy a disease. If so, I would ask each of you to look in your hearts if you truly understand the Theology of the Eucharist. When a child is conceived, the child becomes part of the body of Christ. If your heart at the primal level does not have some level of fidelity towards all of us who walk the earth, then what is the significance of the Eucharist? Second, sex without any consequences is objectification. Again, I would ask you what does the Eucharist mean to you?Second, the honorable professor is a moral relativist. While she may have a Ph.D. in Theology, is she infallible? Us as Catholics hopefully understand the doctrine of infallibility. The honorable professor seems to have missed this lesson. I also would question her on her understanding of the death penalty. The death penalty is applied to those who have committed crimes or as adults have been victims of unfavorable circumstances. These adults are given a chance albeit slim at times to avoid this fate. How can a human in the embryonic stage of life do the same? How can a human in the embryonic stage of life defend or make rational choice of their volition? How can any educated person equate these two events?As for the connection of health benefits that are afforded with employment, I have major issues on her understanding of economics. First, endangered servitude was extinguished more than a century ago. We have free will to how or where we will be employed. This free will extends to employers. Employers have the ethical obligation to determine the terms of employment. We as employees have the right to either accept these terms or not. If we accept the offer for employment then we have chosen to abide by such principles. If we disagree then we are given the right and have the obligation to give our talents as well as services to where we have alignment. If people choose to be employed by Catholic institutions then they have chosen a Catholic ethic.While I appreciate the courage that it takes to put a foot forward, sometimes it is best that others should have stepped forward. In this case, I pray that she did not lead parts of the flocks deeper into darkness. Either way, I hope the University of Notre Dame vets its potential employees so that they understands the obligations that comes with representing the Catholic ethic.
E. J. Dionne, Commonweal, NCR, and Mark Shields have covered well the effect of the Administration's contraception ruling. As for the Church's (read: hierarchy) contraception teaching: it is an unjust 'law' illicitly promulgated.
Relative to the last 2 posts, I think I'm actually in the center. Strange place for me.
" We have free will to how or where we will be employed. "With all due respect, when was the last time you were in search of a job in this market?
Based upon a request, I needed to repond. Thanks be to God, I started a new job this week. I also have walked out of interviews where I would be selling porn or advocating abortion.
James Foy: consider yourself very, very lucky that you found a job and had a choice. I know many people, most of whom are 40 and over, who have not, and most likely will not have, that very good luck. Some of them might even avail themselves of the options you turned down in order to keep their homes, feed their families, and have any kind of hope for a future.


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Only 6 more days until "Tour Time" and everyone is starting to get antsy. I'll be at my local Verizon corporate store on Sunday, and sure many others will be venturing out early as well. If you don't have a local store in your area or just want to try and beat the crowds, it looks like Best Buy Mobile may be the way to go. Best Buy is offering Verizon Tour Pre-sales at all of their stores, and you can pre-order the device with a $50 deposit to be guaranteed a shiny new Tour come Sunday. There is no news of this on Best Buy's site so you'll have to swing by your local store to get in on the action. Big thanks to Michael for the image.
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Pre-Order Verizon BlackBerry Tour At Best Buy Mobile
Dang too bad they're not doing this for the Sprint Tour... *sad face*
I just left my local best buy. I was the SECOND person to do the pre-order. They will charge you $50.00, but give you a $50.00 gift card, as the placeholder. They will then call you the day the phones come in, and you get the phone. As I have a corporate account, this is the only way I was able to pre-order.
If the Best Buy you go to can't find the info, tell the sales rep to go into "employee news" or "employee mail". The flyer is in there. There is a UPC they have to scan.
Good luck !
It is a nice option, but I still think I will try my local corporate store. I am a gambler like that.
And nice Info Pablo, thanks
...you are freakin' KILLIN' me. Step it up.
That is what every BestBuy mobile rep I speak to in the Charlotte area tells me when I call to ask about the Tour release date. They say I can do the pre-order, but they don't know when they are getting it.
Can anyone confirm this - I went to my local retail Sprint store in South Philly and the guy told me that thru Sprint, they will only sell on-line or via telesales. Sprint retail stores will start selling the Tour sometime next month.
This was weird to me, but hey that is what they told me.
Will you be getting on 7/12?
How about before you blast this site on their editorial integrity you should actually LOOK at the flyer pictured and READ the article. Duh. This is obviously some deal between BBYM and Verizon, if Sprint didn't make a deal like this how is the "editorial integrity" of this site lacking by not reporting it???
the guy did not seem very confident that they would even have the phone sunday.
and he did not know the official price.
i'll just order it online on sunday and get my ne2 credit from vzw...which i would not receive if i bought it at best buy he told me.
I work for Best Buy Mobile as well, and to confirm, the $50 deposit is given as a gift card, which can be used towards the price of the phone.
Give BBY a break- if sales consultants don't know the price or when the phones are coming, they're not lying. Unfortunately, they don't tell us much.
I'm pumped though!
so lets say i preorder at best buy..put down my $50 and they give me the gift card for $50. then i go to my verizon store on sunday morning and just get it there instead..can i just not get the phone at best buy and use the gift card for something else? im thinking about doing this just in case they run out of the phone at the verizon store. best case i get it at verizon and use the best buy gift card for something else cause i need some stuff there anyway and worst case i miss out at verizon and get it at best buy when they get it. can someone who works there tell me if this is possible? thanks!
no you would not. that is why i am not buying it at best buy. i'll just order online sunday and wait a few days to get it.
Best Buy Mobile locations will be receiving the BlackBerry Tour on Sunday. The devices are not in our DC's yet because the initial shipment is going to be drop shipped via UPS rather than coming on one of our regular trucks. As for the Sprint BlackBerry Tour we haven't received any communication as to the release date on that. It is however in our inventory system, so we WILL be carrying it at some point.


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I downloaded the ISO from the official Ubuntu site, burnt the ISO to DVD and on restarting, I get the following error-
start booting from usb device syslinux 3.82
I've tried to install 13.04 and 12.10, but I've faced the same error. Later, I decided to install Linux Mint 15, only to get the same error. I reached the welcome screen, but when I select any of the given options, nothing happens and I get this error-
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What's your least favorite fall chore?
Yard work or some sort? Getting out the winter clothes? Something else?
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Raking leaves. I fill roughly 120 leaf bags (39 gallon) every year.
All of them. Chores suck.
@tbgolladay: I'll 2nd raking leaves, especially when you have no trees in your yard.
Gutters and cutting back the "leggy" plants for fall. If we didn't know better, we'd swear there's some sort of natural attraction between our leaves and the gutters on our house.
I agree with @lavikinga about cutting back the plants, I really really hate that job but I love having the plants, so it's a total love/hate relationship. I don't mind all the leaves because I just mulch them with the mower. I hate putting away the outdoor furniture too.
draining the riding mower, leaf blower, edger, trimmer and all other gas powered stuff.
Listening to talk about baseball playoff races and results.
My husband and I had the gutter thing to do every fall as well. Nasty and scary. Then we put up some gutter guards. The next fall at gutter-cleanout time we went up to have a look, and then got back down and put the ladder away -- no cleanout required.
See the brown ones here: http://www.homedepot.com/Building-Materials-Roofing-Gutters-Gutter-Parts-Accessories-Gutter-Guards/h_d1/N-5yc1vZar5e/R-100520851/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&storeId=10051&superSkuId=202938895#.UGrq103A-Jk
Now my least favorite fall chore is turning over and covering up the garden beds.
gutter guards are awesome. haven't even thought about gutter cleaning in years.. at most i'll just do a quick inspection of them to make sure they haven't become misaligned, or torn up by squirrels.
my least favorite thing is the late fall task of cutting back and wrapping up the fig trees. ugh. even though the figs are delicious... the effort isn't worth it lol. (6 of them between my yard and my parents' yard (they're old - i'm not letting them do it)
Gutting and butchering 5 - 6 deer for the year's store of freezer meat :)
@tbgolladay: agreed.
I fill significantly fewer leaf bags, but I don't have any grass, and raking leaves on pea gravel, between trees, and on the sidewalk is really annoying. Especially the sound of the rake on the sidewalk...
Scaring People during halloween
Gutting and butchering 5 - 6 people for the year's store of freezer meat. :P
Raking leaves.
Dusting out the big blankets.
Dusting out the heaters (but I usually just set the heat on freaky high and burn everything up).
Looking for where my jackets have gone..
I'll agree with @mattysc on this one. I don't have near as many leaves fall off my trees as I do to clean up.
@mkentosh: I used to do all that, now I just put sta-bil in the gas, and no more chores (of that kind)
it's hard to spell "chore" without "hore"
I used to hate cleaning out my gutters so much! Then I got these gutter guards (http://www.guttercoverkc.com/) after a friend told me about them. I'm so glad they did, too!


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Possible Duplicate:
Where is a typical Linux program installed
I'm new to Linux and I want to ask a bit more about packages.
In Windows, I download an
.exe file and install it.
When I install, I define the path where I want that application to be stored.
In that folder, I have all the files required for the application.
However, when I install a package in Linux using
yum or
apt-get, I don't know where the package is installed to and where the required files for that application are stored.
I have seen that most of the configurations are in the
/etc directory.
But why does Linux store the required files for an application in different directories?
Can someone tell me how packages are installed, and where and how are they stored? And if my understanding about package management is wrong, please correct me.


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I'm pretty sure I can do the gaming I want to on an i3/550Ti. This is under the gaming FPS doesn't need to be 120hz, only the display frequency. This also assumes that the 3D equipment doesn't drop in-game framerates below what the hardware would normally be doing by itself.
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Will given hardware perform the same framerate-wise with or without NVidia's 3D vision?


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Schrödinger's cat, the thought experiment, makes it seem like as if measurement can cause a system to stop being in a superposition of states and become either one of the states (collapsed).
So does a system always exist in a superposition? In this sense, do things in the macroscopic world have a wavefunction? Is it because of the size of the everyday object, so it won't behave so much like an electron? Theoretically, if the Planck constant is to be bigger, everyday object would start behaving more like particles in a quantum scale?


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Does life begin at conception, or does Judaism take a different view? At what point does life begin?
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For most halachic purposes, life begins at birth - to be exact, at the emergence of either most of the head for a normal birth, or most of the body if it's a breech birth (Niddah 28a). For that reason, if a pregnancy is endangering the mother's life, an abortion may be performed (see Shalom's answer here), whereas once the head has emerged we may not do so, because that would be outright murder (Sanhedrin 72b).
Generally, though, a baby less than 30 days old is considered possibly non-viable; for that reason, if he dies (G-d forbid) during that time, his parents don't sit shiva for him (Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah 353:4).
Beginning at the time an embryo is implanted in the uterus, we have a "potential life." If a woman is pregnant at a very early stage (even between implantation and forty days), Shabbat or Yom Kippur may be broken for the needs of her pregnancy. (Now practically anything that puts the fetus at risk is putting the mother at risk too, as it's far more dangerous for the mother to birth a stillborn than a live child; but the medieval commentaries made it clear that this was even true theoretically, to allow a potential life to come to fruition.)


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Clorindo Joe Barella Outdoor enthusiast, marathon runner
NEW HARTFORD — Joe passed away unexpectedly on Oct. 9, 2013, at the age of 76 while doing what he loved so much, riding his tandem bike with his wife Pat. He was born June 6, 1937, to Clorindo Sr. and Frances (Guillion) Barella. He grew up in the Bakerville hamlet of New Hartford, literally down the street from where he lived at the time of his death.
Joe was an avid worker, working in bowling alleys after school and picking tobacco in the summer as a teen. After serving in the Navy, he worked construction for C.H. Nickerson and O&G Industries, and also did drywall work.
Quitting smoking changed his life in the 1970s and he found new interest in outdoor activities. He enjoyed gardening, making stone walls and masonry projects at his home. He took up jogging and ran in numerous races including the Boston Marathon. He then took up backpacking, hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine four times, as well as Connecticut's Metacomet and Tunxis trails, among others. His favorite shelter was Riga Shelter on the Appalachian Trail, outside Salisbury, and was piqued by Monument Mountain outside of Great Barrington, Mass.
Joe also cycled, which became a family activity. He and his wife Pat participated in long distance bicycle rides in every state east of the Mississippi River and Ontario, Canada. Commuters to Hartford may know him as the long-johns wearing guy biking Route 202 in Nepaug nearly every morning, year round, often before sun up.
Joe loved telling stories about his days growing up on the family farm in Bakerville and about his many hiking adventures. At the suggestion of several kin, he wrote down many of his adventures, available on the family website at barella.org/History/Ernesto/Clorindo/Clorindo.
Given his passions, it is no surprise that Joe's favorite philosopher and writer was Henry David Thoreau, author of On Walden Pond. Joe rejoiced in nature and appreciated creatures, plants, and the natural order of things.
Known lovingly as "Pa," he is survived by his wife of 44 years, Patricia (Kuehl) Barella, and numerous family members including Perette Barella of Rochester, N.Y.; Patricia Ferreira and Jeff Stewart of Winsted; James Ferreira and Cathy Kendall of Granby; Elaine and "Cookie" Lindenfeld of Torrington; Carl Sager of Maine; and Joe's brother-in-law, Carl H. Kuehl of Torrington. He will be missed by his grandchildren, Timothy Smolen, Jacob Collum, Cody Ferreira, and Jackson and Charles Kendall. He will also be missed by his neighbors whose dogs he walked and who will remember him as a generous person who shared garden vegetables, handcrafted Christmas wreathes and with whom Joe enjoyed being a daily part of their lives.
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What is an example of a functor $F : \mathbb{C}\text{-Sch.} \to \text{Sets}$ with the property that the restriction of $F$ to locally Noetherian $\mathbb{C}$-schemes can be represented by a locally Noetherian $\mathbb{C}$-scheme, but that scheme does not represent $F$.
I'd be particularly nice to see a "real-world" example (though this might be stretching the notion of "real-world").


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I'd like to do a very broad search to find a cheap airfare between South America and Asia. I have a list of possible origins and possible destinations (like a matrix). Is there such a flight fare search engine that could fill out all matrix cells for a specific date or range?
Origin/Destination Tokyo Singapore Bangkok Hong Kong
Buenos Aires
Is there a free public API for flight fares out there? It wouldn't be too hard to program.


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5 Oct 2010 11:57 PM #1
How to do a delphi-like form layout?
Delphi's layout system is an absolute layout system where you anchor controls to a fixed distance from any edge. If you anchor a control to the right edge, it will change its x coordinate when the container resizes. When you anchor a control to both edges, it will keep both its x coordinate and its distance from the right edge.
I am having issues translating this to Ext.
Take a look at this example form:
In the middle row the "Valid From" and "Valid Until" date fields are anchored only to the right edge, so they will not resize, only change their x position. The "Customer" field however is anchored to both edges, so it will resize.
Any suggestions on how I can realize such a layout cleanly?
6 Oct 2010 12:24 AM #2
I suggest for start
PHP Code:
new Ext.FormPanel({
labelAlign: 'top',
itemCls: 'float-left',
width: 500, defaultType: 'textfield',
items: [{
fieldLabel: 'First Name',
name: 'first', allowBlank:false
fieldLabel: 'Last Name',
name: 'last'
fieldLabel: 'Company',
name: 'company'
}, {
fieldLabel: 'Email',
name: 'email', vtype:'email'
}, new Ext.form.TimeField({
fieldLabel: 'Time',
name: 'time', minValue: '8:00am', maxValue: '6:00pm'
<style> .float-left {float: left;margin-right: 4px;} </style>
6 Oct 2010 12:37 AM #3
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No, you can't do that with float layout.
Column or hbox layout are much better suited for this, e.g.
xtype: 'form', defaults: { xtype: 'container', anchor: '0', layout: 'hbox', defaults: { xtype: 'container', layout: 'form', labelAlign: 'top', defaultType: 'textfield' } }, items: [{ items: [{ items: { fieldLabel: 'Object Class', width: 200 } },{ items: { fieldLabel: 'Code', width: 200 } },{ items: { fieldLabel: 'Reference', flex: 1 } }] },{ items: [{ items: { fieldLabel: 'Customer', flex: 1 } },{ items: { fieldLabel: 'Valid From', width: 200 } },{ items: { fieldLabel: 'Valid Until', flex: 1 } }] },{ items: [{ items: { fieldLabel: 'Default Time Table', flex 1 } },{ items: { fieldLabel: 'Default Time Zone', flex: 1 } }] }]
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6 Oct 2010 2:16 AM #5
It hadn't occurred to me to wrap each field in its own formlayout container.
But, this solution is still a bit of a hack. It would probably be better if anchorlayout was extended to allow delphi-like anchoring.
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In Bemidbar 21, How come Gd cured the Israelites snake bites with the nehushtan? Why cure them that way? Why not just send the snakes away (as the people had asked)?
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The reason that Moses was told to effect a cure is that people had already been bitten, and simply sending the snakes away would have been insufficient to stem the rate at which people were dying. But if you look closely at the language in 21:7, what the people were really asking Moses for was forgiveness (cf: Rashi and Or haChayim on that verse). As Or haChayim points out, forgiveness has to come before the effects of that forgiveness can come, which is why Moses needs to build a serpent for people to look at before the rest of the snakes can be taken away.
As for how the bronze serpent provided a cure, you might be interested to look at Ramban, whose interpretation is reminiscent of 19th century homeopathy (!), or consider the following passage from the Mishna:


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