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The Plymouth Police Department has announced changes to the times for the wake of Plymouth Police Officer Gregg Maloney, who died in the line of duty April 1, and further changes to the parking bans and road closures that will be in effect Monday and Tuesday during the wake and funeral.
The wake will be held Monday, April 7, at Memorial Hall, located at 83 Court St. in Plymouth.
Beginning at 6 a.m. Monday, no parking will be allowed on Court Street from Samoset Street to Chilton Street, through the conclusion of the wake Monday night.
The same section of Court Street will be closed to traffic beginning at 1 p.m. Monday, through the duration of the wake.
No parking will be allowed Monday in the lot behind Memorial Hall and Memorial Drive will be closed throughout the day.
The officer's family will have a private viewing hour from 2 to 3 p.m. Then, law enforcement personnel will be in place at 3 p.m. for a walk-through, led by Maloney's colleagues from the Plymouth Police Department and the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council Mobile Operations Unit. Members of the public will be invited to pay their respects from the conclusion of the walk-through until 8 p.m.
(Please note that the times previously announced noted public visiting hours from 3 to 6 p.m., followed by the uniformed walk-through. Public visitation will now begin at approximately 4 p.m.)
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 8, at St. Peter Church, located at 86 Court St. in Plymouth (directly across the street from Memorial Hall).
Beginning at 6 a.m. Tuesday, parking will be banned on Court Street between Lothrop Street (to the north) and Brewster Street (to the south). Parking will also be banned on Vernon Street, South Park Avenue and in the lot behind Memorial Hall until the funeral has concluded.
Court Street, from Brewster Street to Samoset Street, will be closed to traffic beginning at 8 a.m. through the duration of the funeral.
Plans are underway to provide an audio broadcast of the service to speakers outside the church and the same may, potentially, be offered inside Memorial Hall. (More information may be available Monday.)
Following the Mass, a procession will proceed from St. Peter's north on Court Street to Samoset Street and then turn west to Vine Hills Cemetery. The Plymouth Police Department will march on foot in this procession, which will also include motorcycles from the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council Mobile Operations Unit.
Samoset Street will be closed to traffic during this time, and the east bound Route 3, Exit 6, off ramps will be closed to allow for the funeral procession.
Public parking for those attending Officer Maloney's wake or funeral will be available on Water Street, at East Bay Grill and in the adjacent public lots, and at the Radisson Hotel. Parking meters will not be enforced during the hours of the wake and funeral.
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Were Argentina's and the UK's Antarctic territorial claims significant in the Falklands War?
Were Argentina's and the UK's Antarctic territorial claims significant in the Falklands War?
It was not a factor - both the UK and Argentina had signed the Antarctic Treaty, placing all territorial claims south of 60 degrees in abeyance indefinitely.
The full text of the original treaty
I am not aware of either nation having expressed a wish to go back on that treaty, and it was signed over 20 years before the Falklands War.
Although various countries have laid "claims" to various portions of Antarctica, those claims are basically unenforceable, because it is basically uninhabited, except for the occasional visitor, scientist, etc. It's hard to imagine this being worth fighting for.
The Falklands (Malvinas) on the other hand, are a different story. They have some 3,000 people (and something like five times as many sheep). They are also a major port of call for fishermen and cruise tourists from the outside. As a result, the islands have an economy that does about $100 million a year of both import and export trade, an amount way out of proportion to the population. Hence they were reasonably a causus belli.
Argentina, Chile, and the U.K. have overlapping claims on the Antarctic Peninsula, but the Falkands War was limited to the Falklands, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands.

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The 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High
Cracked.com's new book is now on sale. What follows is one of the classic articles that appear in the book, along with 18 new articles that you can't read anywhere else.
Any dreadlocked white guys finding this article after Googling "Drugs Rule" should know that we've given this list about drugs a rule. To make the cut, an accomplishment has to be considered great by people who could pass a field sobriety test. So no Grateful Dead music. We're sure someone somewhere has enjoyed the Dead perfectly sober, just as there are probably non-Christians who listen to Christian Rock. But we're just as sure that in the grand scheme of things, those people don't count.
In fact, because we're masochists, we gave ourselves a strict no music policy, leaving us with ... well, not a whole lot actually. Turns out most great things were accomplished by people who just said no, at least immediately prior to accomplishing them. Except for these five.
#5. Francis Crick Discovers DNA Thanks to LSD
The Accomplishment:
For the few Cracked readers not versed in the history of human genetics, Francis Crick is the closest that field gets to a rock star, which is pretty fucking close as it turns out. In 1953 in Cambridge, Crick burst through the front door of his home spouting what his wife Odile originally thought was crazy jibberish about two spirals twisting in opposite directions from one another. Like all great rock star's wives, Odile was an artist, and drew exactly what her husband described. Then the pair and research partner James Watson all went out to a pub and got drunk.
Above: Science?
Odile had no idea what they were celebrating. "Francis was always saying things like that." If so she probably should have drawn every word because those twisty spirals went on to become one of the most reproduced drawing in the history of science, a first draft of the double helix structure of DNA that scientists today still describe as "balls on."
The Drug:
LSD. Yes, when not discovering the key to life, and winning the Nobel Prize for it, Crick spent the 50s and 60s throwing all night parties famous for featuring that era's favorite party favors: LSD and nudity. Crick never made it a secret that he experimented with the drug, and in 2006, the London paper The Mail on Sunday reported that Crick had told many colleagues that he was experimenting with LSD when he figured out the double helix structure.
Drugs? This guy? No way.
Why It Makes Sense:
The double helix is essentially the Sgt. Peppers of scientific models, a ladder that's been melted and twirled by a pasta fork, or the two snakes from the caduceus if one of them was fucking the other with 100 dicks (depending on whether the artist ate the good or bad acid).
Now obviously scientists don't arrive at models by doodling on their trapper keeper and picking out the shape that looks the coolest. To do what Crick did required an insane amount of analytical, theoretical, and spatial thinking. It's not like Crick dropped out of high school and then used acid to turn himself into a supergenius.
Crick was a fan of Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, a study of the human mind which was undertaken like all good studies, while driving around LA on mescaline.
Huxley wrote that the sober mind has a series of filters on it that basically prevent abstract thought (evolution put them there for the sake of survival, since having daydreams about the nature of the universe while driving can cause you to plow into a semi). But Huxley and Crick thought drugs like mescaline and LSD could temporarily remove those filters.
So rather than melting his mind into a lava lamp of trippy shapes, Crick probably used LSD to get unfiltered access to a part of his brain most normal people rarely use.
"It's so fucking beautiful."
Before You Go Trying It...
The long term effects of acid aren't so great. While Crick never officially rocked a tinfoil hat, he was known to argue that life was seeded on Earth by a race of prehistoric aliens, a theory that has yet to gain widespread acceptance among the scientific community, or really anyone who isn't a character on the X Files or L Ron Hubbard.
#4. Freud and Cocaine Invent Psychoanalysis
The Accomplishment:
Freudian psychoanalysis is one of the most influential and controversial theories of the 20th Century. While you can argue its merits all day (though we wouldn't recommend it) you can't deny that it created an entire branch of medicine, and more importantly, gave us the two best seasons of The Sopranos.
The Drug:
Cocaine. The first ten years of Sigmund Freud's career were like a roving cocaine pep rally. He prescribed cocaine to his friends for headaches, nasal ailments or just to "give (their) cheeks a red color." After all, why whore yourself up with makeup when you can get the same effect with a little cocaine?
Actual prescription.
Freud wrote unintentionally hilarious letters to his wife promising to show her what happens to a woman in the hands of a "wild man with cocaine in his blood." Oh, and he wrote an entire book called On Cocaine that's basic thesis was: Cocaine is fucking awesome. You should really think about trying some.
After one of his friends died from the drug, Freud quietly folded up his cocaine pom-poms and sweater skirt combo, and went on to found the theory that was named after him. But a respected Freud biographer seems to think the drug played a huge role in the less embarrassing, second act of his career.
Why It Makes Sense:
In those letters to his wife bragging that he was a cocaine fueled sex machine, the man who created the talking cure said he most relied on the drug to untie his tongue. Louise Breger, who is something called a professor emeritus of Psychoanalytics Studies at the California Institute of Technology, suggests that before Freud experimented with the drug, he was an emotionally sterile, socially awkward guy in a lab coat. Cocaine not only untied his tongue, it turned him into the chatty Cathy that wanted to discuss how you felt about your mother.
"I think I'll write about cocaine again."
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's been around people on the drug or at least seen the movie Boogie Nights. Cocaine bestows its takers with a preternatural enthusiasm for talking about themselves, often to the great irritation of the people around them.
Berger specifically points to a series of all night cocaine benders in which Freud and his friend Fleischel discussed their "profoundest despair," as he referred to it. From those sessions Freud came up with the whole idea of the patient pouring out his feelings on a couch while the therapist nodded and took notes.
Before You Go Trying It...
Fleischel, the friend who sent Freud on the path toward psychoanalysis was the same guy the drug ended up killing.
#3. Dock Ellis Trips His Way to a No-Hitter
The Accomplishment:
In the hundreds of thousands of games in MLB history, there have been only 247 in which the starting pitcher records every out without giving up a hit. Pedro Martinez, like most pitchers, has gone his entire career without throwing one. In fact his team, the Mets, who've been sending a pitcher out to the mound 162 times every season for 46 years, have never had a pitcher throw one. Dock Ellis became one of the few to ever do it on June 20, 1970, though he barely remembers it.
The Drug:
Acid. The day of the no-hitter, Dock Ellis woke up around noon on what he thought was Friday and ate three tabs of acid, presumably because he was tired of Wheaties. But when his girlfriend arrived she was carrying Saturday's newspaper, which meant he'd slept through Friday or that his girlfriend's was a time traveler. The sports page had more bad news, he was scheduled to pitch in San Diego in six hours. Not only was the day that was beginning to swim around him the wrong one, the city his day was swimming in was Los Angeles.
"Not one thing about today makes sense to me."
We probably wouldn't have gone to the ball park that day (not to mention slept through a Friday and eaten LSD for breakfast). But Ellis had pitched high before. And by that we mean he had never pitched sober. Starting with booze as a high school prodigy and moving up through amphetamines and cocaine in the MLB, his Pirate teammates often took bets on whether anyone could take as many amphetamines as Dock.
Unfazed despite being on enough acid to melt Jimi Hendrix's guitar, Ellis hopped a flight to San Diego, and faced down a lineup that had woken up knowing what day it was, and also had the upper hand in the "not on acid" category. Not a single one got a hit.
Ellis remembers very little about the game, other than that sometimes the ball was huge in his hands and sometimes it was tiny, and that at one point he dove out of the way of a line drive, only to look up and see that the ball hadn't even reached the mound. If this sounds like a ridiculous cartoon to you, that's probably what it looked like to Ellis. So how the fuck did Ellis manage to pitch a better game than Pedro Martinez ever would?
Why It Makes Sense:
Writing in the New Yorker, Oliver Sacks describes a state of mind known as "the zone" in which "A baseball ... approaching at close to a hundred miles per hours ... may seem to be almost immobile in the air, its very seams strikingly visible... in a suddenly enlarged and spacious timescape." The zone is typically brought on by confidence, adrenaline and being fucking awesome at baseball. Ellis was all of those things, and LSD's affects include increased heart rate and the slowing down of time. So it's conceivable that Ellis tripped his way into the zone.
What Ellis saw the day of his no-hitter.
A large part of throwing a no hitter is getting over the fact that you're throwing one. As the game goes on and the lonely bastard in the middle of the diamond gets closer to immortality, the tension in the park and in the pitcher builds. Trying to throw a no hitter is such a mind fuck that it's considered the height of dickery for a teammate to acknowledge the no-hitter until the final out is recorded.
But baseball history was the last thing on Ellis' mind, keeping his shit together while a bunch of giant lizards fucked in the on-deck circle being the first.
Before You Go Trying It...
Ellis had the career trajectory of Darryl Strawberry, never reaching his potential because of drug addiction. Instead of being a household name, Dock Ellis is just that guy who threw a no-hitter on acid.


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What's your favorite cookbook?
I'm trying to start cooking more often, so I'm on the lookout for some simple, but good cookbooks.
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my mom's. I call her and ask her how to make things and she tells me.
the internet
Cook's Illustrated, "Best Recipes".
my personal favorite:
It provides some good history of the cuisine of those areas, has some well written basic concepts of cooking theory and practices and of course... recipes.
Amazon has some great cookbooks. Do a search for "Beginners Cook Books" and you'll get some good ones. If you want some creative dishes check out the vegan cookbooks. I'm an omnivore but I do like a lot of those recipes.
I absolutely love anything by Alton Brown (The same guy who hosts the "Good Eats" show on food network). After 10 years of good eats, they have released a book:
This book is great, it gives simple and advances skills, great recipes and also the science behind what is going on. I would STRONGLY recommend it.
How to Grill by Steven Raichlen. Changed the whole way I looked at BBQ and smoking.
@snapster: said "the internet." I agree.
Quite often I will buy a piece of fish or meat that looks interesting and noodle around the 'net using various techniques and seasonings from different recipes
I have always had a copy of Joy of Cooking in my kitchen. More as a reference than for recipes. Looking things up on the internet is great...but it's nice to be able to quickly access random information (how long to poach an egg, other names for a cut of meat, etc.).
Love the "Taste of Home" cookbooks.
Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook (from 30 years ago), James Beard's American Cookery, The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, and For Goodness Taste from the Junior League of Rochester are my four main sources beyond family recipes, depending on what I want to make.
We have a family recipe book. It has hundreds of recipes from as far back as 1792. Some are in German, and from the "homeland" as my great grams would say. My second favorite cook book is from the 50's. I stole it from my mom when I turned 14 and moved out in the 80's. Out of the ones I have purchased, I like the Taste Of Home and Southern Living collections.


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Lake Nanih Waiya
By: Don Groom, Southeast Fisheries Supervisor. Phone (918) 297-0153
Location: Located 1.5 miles northwest of Tuskahoma in Pushmataha County.
Driving Directions: From Clayton – 5 miles northeast on U.S. Hwy 271, ½ mile north on N4340.
Recreational Facilities: 2 boat ramps, fishing jetties and primitive camping.
Lake History: Lake Nanih Waiya was constructed by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation in 1958.
Primary Uses: Angling and general recreation
Physical Description:
Surface area...... 131 ac.
Volume ............. 1,064 ac.ft
Average depth......... 8.1 ft.
Shoreline development............0
Maximum depth .................... 25 ft.
Shoreline length ...................... 3 mi.
Fish Species of Interest:
Largemouth Bass, Bluegill Sunfish, Redear Sunfish, Crappie, Channel Catfish
Notable Characteristics of Lake or Fishery: Nutrient loading and water chemistry has promoted excessive aquatic vegetation. Nanih Waiya has a wide variety of fish species including grass pickerel and bowfin.
Special Regulations:
Largemouth/smallmouth bass; six (6) combined per day of which
only one (1) may be 22 inches or longer/ 16-22 inch protected
slot limit. Channel and/or blue catfish six (6) per day no size
limit. Fishing limited to two rods and reels only per person.
Fishing limited to rod and reed and bowfishing. No other method
of fishing is allowed.
Habitat Types Status and Improvements: The Lake has an excess of vegetation that can make fishing the lake a challenge. Recent herbicide application has been effective in reducing vegetation around jetties and other areas of the lake. Triploid grass carp stocked in 2011 will assist in controlling vegetation. In 2011, woody vegetation thinned near the primary boat ramp on the east side of the lake has improved bank access. Further efforts to improve bank access around the lake will continue. Staff will continue to reduce and gain control on aquatic vegetation to improve fishing for all anglers. The lake has four marked fish attractors made up of brush piles. Staff refurbished these attractors in 2011. Riprap along the dam and some standing timber provide additional fishing opportunities. Access roads that did not lead to the water have closed due to littering/dumping. Restrooms have been removed due to vandalism.
Description of Fish Management Practices: The 16-22" protected slot limit was removed in 2011. Effective immediately, six (6) largemouth bass over the 14" minimum length limit may be harvested each day. Annual 9" channel catfish stockings will continue at a rate of 40 per acre. Future stocking rates and frequency could be adjusted following an examination of catch rates and growth rates during summer netting surveys. Total largemouth bass abundance was moderate during 2009 electrofishing surveys. Quality LMB 14" and over are present in moderate to high abundance. A 5.5 lbs., 20" LMB was recorded as the largest of the sample.
Hunting: All forms of hunting are permitted during open hunting seasons from September 1 through spring turkey season. Hunting is restricted to shotguns and bows only. These lakes are closed to antlerless deer harvest, except during archery season. Hunting and shooting other than provided above is prohibited. "Closed areas" may be designated for purposes of safety and/or security.


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KILLEEN (November 20, 2012)--Nearly 4,000 wreaths will be laid at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery on Saturday.
Beginning at 10 a.m. family and friends of those buried there will lay wreaths first, followed by volunteers who will lay the wreaths at remaining graves.
The public is encouraged to participate and to arrive early to secure a parking spot.
Motorcyclists are also invited to participate in the wreath escort to the cemetery and should meet at 8 a.m. at Towne Services, located at 3101 E. Veterans Memorial Boulevard.
The escort will leave at 8:40 a.m.
The cemetery is located at 11463 State Highway 195.


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You'd think that by now, we as a species would have pretty much figured out sex, what with Hollywood and the Internet constantly pumping us full of messages on the subject -- and we all know that if there are two things that can be universally trusted, those two things are Hollywood and the Internet. But as we've shown you before, your sex-pertise may not be all it's engorged to be, which is why you still believe ridiculous things like ...
When you think of activities that get you in the mood for a nice romp, you probably think of nibbling your lover's ear, or kissing their neck, or playing the opening drum solo to "Hot for Teacher" on their butt cheeks. But there's an entire multi-million dollar industry that says you can skip all that boring foreplay bullshit, just so long as you're willing to gulp down some Spanish Fly or other weird concoction.
It's mayo and old library books. Don't give us that look.
And fine, chances are you don't believe that every single supplement claiming to be an aphrodisiac is actually going to make boning seem irresistible. But come on, at least a few of these sexual boosters must have an effect, right? Just one, maybe? There's no way that aphrodisiacs just literally don't exist at all.But Actually ...
Aphrodisiacs just literally don't exist at all. Not a single food or drug has ever been shown to have any sort of positive effect on a person's sex drive -- at least according to the FDA, but what do they know about food and drugs, anyway?
Thankfully, classic Motown still works every time.
But even if aphrodisiacs don't have any measurable physiological effect, what about the idea that they serve as placebos? There's nothing wrong with taking a harmless supplement if it's what you need to convince yourself that sex is fun (and let's be honest here, that can be a pretty difficult thing to convince yourself of).
That would be all well and good, except for the fact that the FDA is once again spoiling everyone's fun by pointing out that a lot of these herbal "aphrodisiacs" are really freaking bad for you. Take Spanish Fly, a substance you might think will get you all hot and wet, but instead might just permanently damage your urinary system. Hell, back in 1999, four people died after trying aphrodisiacs. Tone Loc lied to us!
Maybe we should reconsider doing the Wild Thing.
All right, so what about the everyday "sexy" foods like chocolate, which supposedly possesses magical panty-eliminating properties? Well, scientists in Italy tested this by creating something called the Female Sexual Function Index, because of course they did, and force-shoveling chocolate down a bunch of women's throats. And, sorry ladies, but it turns out that chocolate does precisely squat to crank up your Wannabone Meter ... unless, of course, you happen to have a Willy Wonka fetish, which may skew the results somewhat.
#5. Myth: Married/Older People Have Less Sex
Let's face it, the life of a young bachelor or bachelorette is awesome. Whenever the mood strikes they can simply go to a bar or a party or, hell, a library, make some sexy eyes at their random lover of choice, and head on home to rub their genitals on each other's faces until orgasm, as is the custom in human mating.
The male then apologizes to his mate, saying he "saw it in a porno once."
But as any standup comedian can tell you, that all dies with marriage. That ring you slip on is much like Frodo's, in that it makes your sex life turn all shadow-wobbly and attract the attention of big fiery eyeballs. And it only gets worse with time -- as you hit your golden years, sex becomes a dusty, ancient memory. Eventually your genitals make weird creaking noises and you can only pee after clearing away the cobwebs.But Actually ...
Here's a handy chart that should tell you everything you need to know about being married: There is a lot of sex. Just, sex all over the place.
Kinsey Institute
Charts are widely regarded to be the sluttiest type of document.
Holy shit, so almost 50 percent of young married couples are having sex two to three times a week. Meanwhile, more than 50 percent of young single people haven't even had sex in the past year. Single life doesn't seem so sexy anymore, does it?
"But Cracked," we just know you're saying right about now. "What we really, really want to know is how often old people are screwing each other." Well, we're here to serve: A horrible, horrible study sought to figure out just that, because scientists won't be content until you picture your own grandparents going at it, which you are indeed picturing right now. And it turns out that a whopping 75 percent of the senior citizens they asked to participate were connoisseurs of dancing the Wrinkly Tango. In fact, there's so much brittle pelvic grinding running rampant that it's causing an STD problem among the elderly.
"Forty years is the Syphilis anniversary."
But don't run to the bathroom screaming just yet, you'll miss out on the discussion about old people going down on each other! That's right, more than half of 57- to 75-year-olds have engaged in oral sex in the past year. So there you have it, kiddos: It's actually more likely than not that, sometime within the past year, your dear old grandma has sucked herself some dick. You're welcome.
#4. Myth: Inbreeding Between Cousins Creates a Genetic Nightmare
If there's one lesson the characters in Game of Thrones could truly benefit from, it's that inbreeding is a Bad Thing. Here in the non-fictional world, it's common knowledge that heads are much better when they're still attached to necks. Oh, and also that having sex with your cousin results in a dimwitted child sporting extra appendages. You might not completely understand the science, but you know that something makes the chromosomes go all screwy.
Don't fuck with us, weirdo.
Plus, sex with your cousin. Ew.But Actually ...
If inbreeding between cousins was actually that terrible for the gene pool, you wouldn't expect it to be biologically successful, evolutionarily speaking -- meaning that cousins shouldn't have as many children as unrelated couples. Darwin would be all over that shit. Which is funny, because Darwin himself married his first cousin. And it turns out there's no irony there, because breeding cousins are actually more biologically successful than total strangers. So if the whole point of natural selection is to prevent the gene pool from becoming polluted, what's going on here? Either natural selection sat this one out, or inbreeding between cousins just isn't that bad.
Via Wikimedia
It certainly would save on paper.
Well, no subject is too taboo for scientists to poke with needles, and it turns out that reproducing with your cousin only increases the risk of birth defects by 2 to 3 percent. That's the same increased risk faced by a woman who has a child at the age of 41. Does a 41-year-old woman having a kid weird you out? Well, according to science, banging your cousin isn't any weirder than that.
And if you take a close look at our timeline, we humans actually have a long and rich history of bonking our own relatives. In fact, one Rutgers anthropology professor estimates that 80 percent of every single married couple in human history were second cousins or more closely related. So what we're saying is that no one will think poorly of you if, at your next family reunion, you put on some banjo music and allow your inner biological urges to run their course. Only, of course, they will, because gross.
If your song is "Foggy Mountian Breakdown," then something went wrong.


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Award-winning author Laura Dassow Walls will deliver SUNY Geneseo's 2013 Walter Harding Lecture on Sept. 12 at 4 p.m. in the College Union Ballroom. Her address is titled, "Of Compass, Chains, and Sounding Lines: Taking Thoreau's Measure."
Walls is a Professor of English at the University at Notre Dame. She is the author of The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and a recipient of the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell prize. Walls is currently working on a new biography of Thoreau.
SUNY Geneseo launched the annual Harding lecture in 2004 in honor of the late Distinguished Professor Emeritus Walter Harding, an internationally known faculty member who was the world's leading scholar on 19th-century author Henry David Thoreau. Harding was the founding secretary and former president of the Thoreau Society, the oldest and largest international organization devoted to the study of any American author.
Harding taught in the Department of English for 26 years. He died in 1996. Harding's wife, Marjorie Brook Harding, created an endowment to make the lecture series possible. She significantly enlarged the endowment in 2010 , assuring that generations of Geneseo students and faculty will benefit from Walter Harding's tradition of scholarship and learning. Media
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I've got a set of pokemon, the perfect team I use for Wi-Fi gameplay and such, but strong as they may be, their natures are off. Normally this doesn't present much of an issue, but when I come up against other experienced players, it gets really challenging to do anything to them.
The problem is they all have the wrong natures, bad moves, etc. The cost and time it would take for me to get the right nature, followed by getting it up to level 100, with the correct EVs, would take years, and I'm looking for quick shortcut that can help me out.


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In other words: which physics experiment requires to know Pi with the highest precision?
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Pi is very far from being the only number we need in physics. Typical theoretical predictions depend on many other measured and calculated (or both) numbers besides pi.
Nevertheless, it is true that one needs to substitute the right value of pi to get the right predictions. Therefore, the right answer to your question is the most accurately experimental verified theoretical prediction we have in physics as of today, namely the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the electron
In some natural units, the magnetic moment of the electron is expressed as a g-factor which is somewhat higher than two. Experimentally, $$\frac g2 = 1.00115965218111 \pm 0.00000000000074$$ Theoretically, $g/2$ may be written as $$\frac g2 = 1+\frac{\alpha}{2\pi} + \dots$$ where the $\alpha/2\pi$ first subleading term was obtained by Schwinger in 1948 and many other, smaller terms are known today. The theoretical prediction agrees with the experimental measurement within the tiny error margin; the theoretical uncertainty contains the effect of new species of virtual particles with the masses and couplings that have not yet been ruled out. This requires, among many and many other things, to substitute the correct value of $\pi$ in Schwinger's leading correction $\alpha/2\pi$. You need to know 9-10 decimal points of $\pi$ to make this correction right within the experimental error.
So in practice, $\pi\approx 3.141592654$ would be OK everywhere in the part of physics that is testable. However, theoretical physicists of course often need to make calculations more accurately if not analytically, to figure out what's really happening with the formulae.
39 digits of pi is enough to calculate circumference of visible universe to a margin of error equal to the width of a proton ( unverified computation, according to http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/mar/14/pi-day CordwainerBird ) .
16 digits, for converting frequencies from Hz to angular frequency. Frequencies can now be measured with a precision approaching 1 part in 10^16, so dealing with those numbers would require knowing Pi to 16 digits or so.
Is this really "which physics experiment REQUIRES to know Pi with the highest precision"? A purist (or theorist) might disagree that this example doesn't count, and I'd agree that there's nothing fundamental here, just conversion from one convention to another. But from a practical point of view, it's something people do in physics and it requires knowing Pi to 16 digits.
In principle you will never reach the accuracy of the numerical value of $\pi$ in an experiment, it is much more important as an analytical tool. The part of the question concerning the most accurate experiment was given by Luboš.
So, just to give a little thing about the importance of $\pi$ as the area of a unit circle and also the ratio of a circle's circumference to diameter,
(from the corresponding wiki-article)
One very famous examples are Fourier transforms where you ask a periodic function to be represented by $\sin$ and $\cos$-terms, $$\mathcal{F}(f)(\xi)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}f(x)e^{2\pi\mathrm{i} \xi x}dx\ \mathrm{with}\ e^{\mathrm{i}\varphi}=\cos(\varphi) + \mathrm{i}\sin(\varphi)\ .$$ This is linked to $\pi$ because of the periodicity of the circle, $$r_1(\varphi) = r_2(\varphi + 2\pi)\ \mathrm{with}\ r_i\in \mathrm{circle}\ .$$
There are much more things to add as the underlying group of rotations is $U(1)$ which is in turn the gauge group for (quantum)electrodynamics explaining why you will almost certainly find the most prominent examples of results linked to the value of $\pi$ in this field.


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How to determine resolution (width x height) and type (gif, jpeg, png, bmp, etc) of an image from a stream (or byte array) without incurring the cost of decoding the entire image?
I know this can be done by just reading the headers. Just wondering if any such code or library already exists.


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I'm not very fluent in mathematical proofs. High School has, sadly, not taught me any kind of proof-theory. That's why I would like your help with my proof of
$$m \equiv S_m \pmod 3.$$
where $S_m$ is the digit sum of $m$ and $\wedge$ is a logical-AND.
I'm going to use the very little that I know: Mathematical induction.
$$A(1): S_m = 1 \wedge m = 1$$
$$m \equiv S_m \pmod 3\quad \text{because}\quad 1 \equiv 1 \pmod 3$$
Inductive Step:
$$A(n)\colon m = n \land S_m = \sum_{k=0}^K m_k = (m_0 + m_1 + \ldots + m_K)$$
$$m \equiv S_m \pmod 3.$$
So then
$$A(n+1)\colon m = n+1 \wedge S_m = \sum\limits_{k=0}^{K'} m_k = (m_0 + m_1 + \ldots + m_{K'})$$
$$m \equiv S_m \pmod 3.$$
I'm having trouble at the step of $A(n+1)$ because I don't know how to actually prove that it's valid? Please note that $m_0, \ldots, m_M$ refers to the summation of the digits of the number $m$. I just didn't find any good documentation that showed how to depict that in mathematical terms. Feel free to correct!


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10 Nov 2011 12:53 AM #1
Export broken when images with no url is used
Can't export project anymore. It just shows me this:
Tried restarting animator but problem is persistent, I can't export anymore, making the project I was working on pretty much worthless. Glad I did not spend any money on this, it is clearly not finished.twitter: @realjax
10 Nov 2011 8:10 AM #2
Sorry you're having issues. Do you want to zip up your project folder and post it here or PM it to me so I can take a look at it?
Also, could you describe the issue more? Is the problem that the "Preview Export" button does not work?
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Hi Arne
I'm sorry, I wasn't very clear there.
I was convinced for some reason that, earlier on in my evaluation, the export dialog showed another button besides 'preview export'. But there never was such a button... (still a crash though, I'll get back at it)
This whole export process is weird at best on windows. :
1) user clicks 'export project'
2) user then sees this:
so we wanted to export but we are expected to either/or:
- toggle 'ormma' (?)
- toggle 'minified' (?)
- preview our export.
I'm just a stupid user and I don't want to preview nothing I just wanted to export. It is unclear what I am supposed to do now, so I'll click the only button here. Then I am presented with the source code and an 'export to folder' button. AHA! Maybe I need to press that one too, let's press it:
I get a standard windows SAVE file dialog,.
Huh? I was under the impression that I was going to have to select a folder?
Or am I supposed to enter a filename now used as the export filename?
Turns out I can't select anything, I *have* to enter something in the filename field, but it will be used as the name of a folder in which my export will be saved. (here is where my export crashes by the way).
I think the export process needs a bit of a review guys.
Still, my project crashes on the final step..
Exactly what files is it that you want me to send? The saved project file only?
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11 Nov 2011 7:35 AM #4
If you send me the project folder that would be easiest for me.
Our help documentation does briefly talk about the export process if you're curious on what the export options means
I agree that the current export process is a little clunky. I am sure it will be significantly improved over time.
When you say "crash", do you mean that the error dialog came up or that the application quit or became unresponsive?
12 Nov 2011 6:57 PM #5
15 Nov 2011 12:38 AM #6
Hi Arne,
Send you a PM with a pointer to the files.
The programs doesn't crash, it says something along the lines of 'something bad happened, would you like to send a report?' (which I did).twitter: @realjax
15 Nov 2011 7:18 AM #7
I looked at your project file and found the bug that you're running into. What happens is that you have an image element with no image specified (your object named "achtergrond") and Animator doesn't currently handle that correctly.
So a workaround is to only use the image element if you use it with an image. If you want an object with only a background image, you can use the square or circle tool, remove any styles you want and add background images to them.
Thanks for reporting the bug!
15 Nov 2011 7:32 AM #8
Thanks for explaining.
Little bit confused though. What is then the difference between the 'general' settings of the object where I had indeed no image specified and the 'background' settings where I do have an image set up??
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The"general" setting will have an "image" property for image objects, "video" property for video objects, "content" property for other objects. All objects can have a background image set.
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I was using an old version of Norton Anti Virus and the Live Update wouldn't run. The solution was to rename a file. This got me thinking if a virus could replace an anti-virus database with it's own bogus one and make it appear that the definitions are always up to date, would the anti-virus system be hooped? How could this be protected against?
Anti-virus software are only useful as a preventive measure.
When your computer is clean, they are able to detect and prevent any attempts by malware to execute on your system. They rely on their malware database to do this. New and undiscovered malware will not be detected in such a way.
If a malware manages to execute on your system, you simply cannot trust the system anymore. There is no way to ensure that the malware is successfully removed. There is just too many ways a piece of malware can hide itself. Your best bet would be to wipe the system and start over in such a situation.
To answer your question - yes it can be done, it has been done.
Prevention is always better than cure. Take the usual steps to protect yourself - don't execute untrusted files and so on.
Some viruses simply disabled anti-virus programs. So it does happen. Another malware tactic is to install a rootkit which would prevent any other program detecting the virus.
Old-school "viruses" were a malicious prank, which would eventually do something interesting to show themselves, even if the anti-virus couldn't detect them. The modern threat is botnet software which exploits your computer to make money, so there's a big incentive to avoid being detection.
Anti-virus sellers responded to this sabotage in a classic arms race. They used all sorts of low-level tricks to detect when a virus was inhibiting them. This was not a race either side could "win" for sure; it's just two programs which can use the same powers, fighting for control of the same computer.
Modern Windows has built-in support for anti-virus. Hopefully this means Windows effectively reserving some powers for anti-virus only, so it could gain a somewhat stronger advantage than just having been installed first.
Modern Windows also has a driver-signing program, which should make it significantly harder to load malicious code like rootkits into the "kernel".
Windows 8 provides support for secure boot. This feature will (once any implementation mistakes are closed down...) prevent viruses modifying the boot path to load themselves (and then be able to sabotage the AV). Windows already attempts to stop viruses doing this while it's running. I.e. writing to the boot sector is one of these powers Windows tries to reserve. But e.g. if a virus wrote itself to e.g. a usb storage device and you left it plugged in, the BIOS could boot from that device and you be hosed. Secure boot should prevent that.
All of these are subject to local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. E.g. if there's a bug in the kernel, a virus may exploit it to load itself into the kernel. These are mitigated to some extent by NX and ASLR... but at least in Linux, which I'm more familiar with, they do still keep coming up.
I would never trust AV completely, and it's always worth exercising caution about what software you choose to run.
Most AV solutions prevent this by digitally signing their database. This involves computing a cryptographic hash of the database, then encrypting it with an asymmetric private key. The corresponding public key is embedded in the application, which it then uses to verify the authenticity of the database.
There are two potential attacks here:
The solution to the first attack is to use a strong hash, e.g. SHA-2 family. This ensures that the database is secure against hash collisions.
The solution to the second attack is a little more difficult. Preventing the on-disk executable from being modified is just a case of digitally signing it. However, the in-memory mods are more difficult to protect against. Quite a few AVs attempt to solve this by hooking memory access APIs at the kernel level, to prevent in-memory modification of their AV processes. This works quite well, but it's not a panacea.
Another problem is that a rootkit could modify the buffer that contains the executable contents as it is read from the disk, by acting as a mass storage filter driver. Again, there are some methods that are reasonably successful in defeating this, but they're not 100% effective.
At the end of the day, once malware runs on your computer, it is no longer your computer. AV is very useful for identifying malware before it gets a chance to execute, but it's relatively bad at mitigating the damage once the malware runs. I really wish AV vendors would embrace this, and focus on identification before execution, instead of trying to push snake-oil remedies for malware already running on a box.
I think you should never rely on an AV software alone.
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Just wondering if anyone has tried any of these commercial clay block paint oxide remover things... If so; do they work? Do they work on all paint types? Can I just use regular $1 a pound sculpting/pottery clay, or do I need the magic of the $20/150gram block at my local auto store?
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Yes, they do work for what they're intended (removing contamination on the paint, overspray etc) and no, as far as I know they're not the same as pottery clay but have some other ingredients in them. Rubbing pottery clay on your car will more or less give you the same result as rubbing sand on it...
Keep in mind that using a clay bar only make sense as part of a full detail. You wash the car thoroughly, then you clay it, polish it, wax & seal it. Clay will not remove oxidised paint (that's not what it's intended use is) but it'll remove contaminants on the paint reasonably safely that so you don't end up either trying to remove it using polish or worse, scratch the paint while polishing. Clay also pretty much strips any existing wax and sealant off the paint so if you're not going through the full routine you're likely to make things worse, not better.
I have tried it many years ago on an Imron paint job. The finish felt smoother than before and the sliding rag test was better. I didn't see any visual difference. In after thought I wondered about the grit that the clay is picking up. Since you reuse the clay wouldn't the clay hold the grit and eventually act as an abrasive? It appeared to do no harm but I didn't think the results justified the effort.


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Did Haman eat at the party before Ahashveirosh caught him "leaning" on Esther?
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Apparently not.
Haman, as we know from various midrashim, was quite learned. Doubtless he knew the Rambam that says that בימות החמה... ואוכל את החומץ, during the summer months one should eat vinegar. Since Ester's party was right at the beginning of the summer months, on Pesach, Haman was preparing vinegary food — pickles, in fact — right there at the party. When Achashverosh walked back into the party after his trip to the garden, he saw what Haman was up to, preparing vinegar for pickling. Thinking Haman was planning to pickle Ester, Achashverosh said, "הֲגַם לִכְבּוֹשׁ אֶת הַמַּלְכָּה עִמִּי בַּבָּיִת, do you also plan to pickle the queen with me at home?" and had him killed.
In fact, though, Haman had been planning to pickle only vegetables, and what better to pickle than cucumbers? But the Rambam also says, "ומיני מלפפונות אוכל אותם האדם בתחלה קודם אכילה, one should eat cucumbers before the rest of the meal" — so we see Haman hadn't started eating yet.
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I have an iPhone 4 with an iTunes account. My husband got his own iPhone 4 today. Is it better to have one or two iTunes accounts, but not have to rebuy apps.
I think that Apple's article on iTunes Home Sharing should cover what you're looking for. My husband and I have separate accounts, and anything we both want, we share.
It's easy to break things down with the two "rules of 5".
Each account (Apple ID to be technical) can be authorized on 5 computers at the same time.
Each device is happy to track purchases from 5 different accounts.
There is no limit on the number of devices that get to sync to any computer that is currently "authorized" so hundreds of devices can feed from that one iTunes library. All purchases from the 5 accounts that are "authorized" get to sync without passwords being entered.
So if you both had an account - your shared computer would count as one authorization for you and one for your spouse. Each of you could take your iPhones to 3 other friend's house and sync apps and music there (since you used 2 "slots" for your accounts). Most people never come close to the 5 limit.
You do need to know each account's password to update the apps on the go - so having twice the accounts means an extra step to update on the road or having to wait for a password or having the apps download at home by your spouse.
There's no way to split things up later - so if you don't mind the extra hassle of two accounts (and remembering to sign in and out on the computer to keep straight which account is buying what from the computer) it's often better to have two store accounts.
I always recommend if you don't share underwear drawers, don't share iTunes accounts. There's nothing wrong with a little individual space - especially when it's easy to share whenever you feel like it.


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My normal user account isn't working correctly in CentOS, but logging in as root works fine. What should I do to debug/fix the problem?
Check the logs to see if there are any messages of note there. Try resetting your password, not saying you don't know it, but a reset will fix a couple possible issues. Then check your
You may have not used the -p option in useradd, or maybe you were like me and supplied a plain text password with the -p option, thinking that would work. The best thing to try at this point is the passwd command. Its format is:
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Find distinct positive real numbers $x_1$ , $x_2$ , ... of least supremum such that, for each positive integer $n$, any two of 0, $x_1$ , $x_2$ ,..., $x_n$ differ by $1/n$ or more.
Note that the hurdle term $1/n$ is optimal in the sense that any replacement for it would need to stay below a constant multiple of it to allow a finite supremum. By a nonconstructive proof, there is a unique solution minimal with respect to the lexicographic ordering of real sequences; so a constructed solution (while eluding me) doesn't seem impossible. Although I haven't seen this problem anywhere, it looks too simple not to have been posed before. Any pointers would be welcome.


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Suppose that $f\in \mathcal{L}(\mathbb{R})$ and $g\in \mathcal{L}(\mathbb{R})$, $\phi(x,y)=f(y-x)g(x)$, prove that $\phi$ is measurable in $\mathbb{R}^2$.
I try to prove this problem by the definition of measurable function:
For any $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$, $E=\{(x,y)\in\mathbb{R}^2|\phi(x,y)<\alpha\}$ is measurable in $\mathbb{R^2}$.But I failed.
Are there some better ideas to solve this problem about measurable function in $\mathbb{R^2}$ ?


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There's a famous story about a Marine sergeant at the Battle of Belleau Wood shouting "Come on, you apes. Do you want to live forever?" It's been attributed to several people; a character in Starship Troopers says it; but what does it mean?
- "You are acting as if you wish never to die; in fact, you should desire to fight and to die fighting."
- "If you fight, your life may be shortened but you will achieve metaphorical immortality -- 'live forever' -- through your valor."
- A deliberate ambiguity between (1) and (2).
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Five years ago, President Obama won the primary election to become the democratic nominee for president, but that's not what several area residents remember about Super Tuesday 2008.
Several tornadoes swept through much of the South.
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First responder Hal Parrish says it was the most destruction in Allen County he's ever seen.
"The woods were giant thick woods and it ripped it to pieces. It used to be you couldn't even see through it and now there's not a good tree probably left in it," Officer Parrish says.
The trees are the only recognizable sign of destruction in left in Allen County from the February 5th, 2008 tornado, but families are still trying to pick up the pieces.
"People's lives are still broken and lost and you know remember loved ones today, but the actual clean-up took three to four months to clean-up the areas and the homes and around the facilities," says Allen County Emergency Management Director, Gary Petty.
Three newly built barns represent the path the tornado took in Allen County, where three families lived, and four people lost their lives.
"Right directly behind me was a double wide trailer and just beyond it was a single wide trailer and beyond it was and beyond it was a small framed house. This was just an open field through here, nothing but splinters and two or three automobiles," Officer Parrish says.
The tornado affected Officer Parrish personally and professionally.
When the sun came up that day and I was sitting back here on the four wheeler with me and the coroner, I saw things that I couldn't believe," he says.
After the tornado, the Allen County Fiscal Court and Emergency Management submitted an application to FEMA requesting community safe rooms in the county.
Those safe rooms are currently being constructed at all three county fire departments.
Officer Parrish says the community really came together to clean-up the storm damage.


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I am new to REST and may very well be pushing/crossing limits...
Say we have the typical Order example:
GET /Order/12345
Now I would like to publish a reflection resource to describe the "Order" type in terms of properties, methods, relationships.
GET /Reflection/Type/Order
Amongst other things, the reply could contain the URI for the representation of the reflection object of the method "foo" of type "Order"
Next we could POST to that URI to use/call/post-to the method... If the method needed parameters, they would be passed in the body.
POST /Reflection/Type/Order/Method/foo
My reasoning:
- view the objects/concepts/things in the reflection layer as resources
- "Type", "Method" are nouns
- "foo" is an id <============ THIS MIGHT BE (OR IS) THE PROBLEM
- GET /Reflection/Type/Order/Method returns all Method representations of type "Order"
- GET/PUT/DELETE of the reflection layer objects still make perfect sense (idempotency, etc)
I am now leaning towards having a transaction queue and POST-ing a transaction there...
POST /TransactionQueue
The body will contain URI to the reflection resource representing the method foo (/Reflection/Method/foo), URI's to any object resources and normal values for non-object arguments.
QUESTION: Is this interpretation tolerable or does it violate the REST style in the worst possible way?
If the above is bogus, I would need some hints about a RESTful interface to publish:
- objects
- a reflection layer describing what properties/methods/relationships the exposed objects have
- a way to execute methods on the objects
Update: This about HATEOAS is very interesting...
Update: Look for RestEasy powerpoint by Peter Lacey of Burton Group
Update: Podcast h ttp://www.udidahan.com/2008/03/16/podcast-rest-messaging-enterprise-solutions/
Update: book "Restful web services cookbook"
Update: book "Rest in practice"


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Simplifying or Truncating?
There has been wide-spread enthusiasm for the new Pope, beginning with his surprising and possibly revolutionary choice of name. The simplicity of his style and the pastoral sensitivity of his homilies and actions have received much favorable comment.I have already posted, on this blog, excerpts from his homilies at the Chrism Mass and at the Easter Vigil, because I found them spiritually challenging and worthy of reflection. I also appreciate his emphasis on being Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Saint Peter, though he may come in time to appreciate more the implications and demands of being both.Moreover, if he prefers to live in the Casa Santa Marta rather than in the Vatican Palace and "walk to work" each day -- more power to him!Nor do I begrudge his rather minimalistic use of three readings from the Old Testament at the Easter Vigil. He had had a whirl-wind three weeks and deserved a good night's sleep before Easter Sunday Mass and an address "Urbi et Orbi."But what did startle and disappoint was the truncating of the first reading of the Vigil, so that it began with the "6th Day" of the creation narrative. It is not a question of a violation of a "law" -- seemingly the option is present, though I've never heard it exercised before.But that on the most solemn of nights, the high point of the liturgical year, we were deprived of the stupendous account of God's gracious creation of all things (the very passage intoned to such effect on the occasion of the first circumnavigation of the moon) seemed a violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the liturgy of the Easter Vigil.It was further disappointing in that the appeal Pope Francis made on the occasion of the Mass of Installation on March 19th to be custodians of the environment appeared undercut by beginning the first reading of the Vigil with the creation of humanity -- an anthropological reduction.If indeed, as has been reported, the Pope has been influenced by the great theologian, Romano Guardini, it may not be Guardini's "The Spirit of the Liturgy" which has left its mark on him.Update:Sandro Magister has just posted some reflections on Pope Francis' Way, based upon the autobiographical interview he gave to two journalists in 2010. It explains why, despite his love for music, he does not sing when he celebrates Mass. And, no, it has nothing to do with his being a Jesuit.
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Rev. Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is Associate Professor of Theology Emeritus at Boston College.
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I wonder why the author feels "deprived" of the entire Genesis reading. Is the television the place where we turn to hear the Easter scriptures proclaimed, or is it one's parish church?
Father, something tells me that your question has been both asked and answered. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I see Francis' wisdom in living apart from the Papal Apartments and maintaining a separate life saying daily Mass and giving simple short homilies for people a pastor would meet in an ordinary small parish. "This Tuesday morning, members of the Vatican Gendamerie attended the daily mass of Pope Francis at St. Martha's House. In a short sermon, the Holy Father discussed the gospel account of the meeting of the resurrected Christ and Mary Magdalene, a woman all of whose hopes had been shattered, and who was crying. Sometimes in our lives, Pope Francis said, tears are the eyeglasses that let us see Jesus. That's why we need to know how to cry. We need to ask the Lord for the gift of tears. "It's a beautiful gift" said the Holy Father "to cry for everything: for goodness, for our sins, for grace, for joy. Tears prepare us to see Jesus. May God give us the grace to be able to say that we have seen Him in our heart and to witness by our our life that: 'I live as I do because I have seen the Lord.'"http://fr.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/04/02/le_pape_franois_:__les_larmes... (French only, sorry)
Pope Francis is 76 years old. That's almost *very old* if not extremely old. Very old bodies tire very easily. Old age simply doesn't permit one to do what one used to do without becoming exhausted. Easter Week is day after day of grueling ceremony. I can easily understand why the Pope would cut back -- he sees what keeping the extended ceremonies helped to do to poor Pope Benedict.
For a long, long time the official church has neglected the humanity of Jesus despite being technically correct acknowledging that he was fully human. One may whine about the terms high and low christology. But the appreciation of the humanity of Jesus is a long time coming. Francis of Assissi had Innocent III to contend with in rebuilding his church. Now he has a bishops of Rome who is one with him on that mission.
Ann,I already allowed that I could fully understand the reduction in the number of the readings, given the intensity of the past weeks. What I think should not be countenanced is the truncating of the first reading for the reasons I stated. I would hope that the liturgists in our midst would agree.
The first reading is one of the more familiar -- maybe most familiar -- readings in the Easter Vigil. I mean, how many Catholics ever hear anything from Baruch? And the opener is repetitive; it doesn't take a genius to figure out by the fourth day that God is going to see how good it is and that evening and morning are going to follow. Pope Francis may have had that in mind, and the thought is reasonable. That said, I'm sorry, too, that he missed the chance for a follow-up to the shout out he gave the environment on the night of his election. But I don't see the omission as ominous in any way.
Here's what the rubrics say. For pastoral reasons, the Old Testament readings can be reduced from seven to three, one of which must be Exodus 14 (the passage though the Red Sea). Even if the full set of seven Old Testament readings is used, the first reading from Genesis can be either the long form (gn 1: 12: 2) or the short form (1: 1, 26-31a)
20. in this vigil, the mother of all vigils, nine readings are provided, namely seven from the old testament and two from the New (the epistle and gospel), all of which should be read whenever this can be done, so that the character of the vigil, which demands an extended period of time, may be preserved.21. Nevertheless, where more serious pastoral circumstances demand it, the number of readings from the old testament may be reduced, always bearing in mind that the reading of the Word of god is a fundamental part of this easter vigil. at least three readings should be read from the old testament, both from the Law and from the prophets, and their respective responsorial psalms should be sung. Never, moreover, should the reading of chapter 14 of exodus with its canticle be omitted.24. after the first reading (on creation: gn 1: 12: 2 or 1: 1, 26-31a) and the psalm (104 [103] or 33 [32]).
Ann Olivier,"Pope Francis is 76 years old. Thats almost *very old* if not extremely old."Really? I think that 90+ years is *very old* if not extremely old.
I checked the video of the Vigil Mass. What was read was Genesis Chapter 1, verse 1 plus verse 26 through the first sentence of verse 31.That is the short form as described in the rubrics.
Ann, I just turned 76 2 days ago but do not feel "extremely old" and my friend, also 76, can run rings around me. My GF died at 100, as did my uncle in Dec., sharp as ever. My aunt just passed away at 98, so that leaves just one uncle, 99. Mom died young at only 93. Depends on the individual, I guess.
Margaret ==I didn't make myself clear. I would not call 76 "very old", though it is getting near very old. I'd say getting old usually begins around 80. I'd call "extremely old" somebody in their 90s. Individuals differ, of course, and I would expect that the boomers with their emphasis on good health and diet will do somewhat better than the older generations. But I have to say that the expression "old age isn't for sissies" now has meaning for me that it certainly didn't have when I was young. I have seen it in myself and in many very old family members -- beginning at age 70-75 or so strength can start to diminish rather rapidly even though the person has no one thing seriously wrong with him/her. Stamina becomes a thing of the past. Sorry to break the news if you haven't heard it before. Sigh. Of course, individuals do differ.I suspect it is genetic. My family does tend to live longer than average (into our 80s and 90s). But being alive and having stamina are often two different things. Some are chipper at those ages. Most are not. Sounds like your people live even longer than mine, though my grandmother did have two aunts who lived to 105 and 107. At any rate, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the Pope's knees or balance or both are giving way. I saw him stumble on some steps that weren't very high. Bad sign, though that has nothing to do with how good his mind is.
Pope Francis is the oldest of 5 siblings, but 3 of them are already deceased, so that does not say much for his family's longevity.
'I also appreciate his emphasis on being Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Saint Peter, though he may come in time to appreciate more the implications and demands of being both.'Excuse me Father - don't you realise how arrogant that statement is? Are you seriously suggesting you have a deeper understanding of the Petrine office than Pope Francis?
Mark,I certainly did not mean it "arrogantly." I merely opined that whatever our notional understanding of a situation may be, our actual experience may reveal implications and demands that surpass our thoughts and expectations. I presume such is the case, for example, in being a parent. I may have some general sense of what is entailed, but the actual experience leads to all sorts of new realizations. Thus the Bishop of Rome recently appointed the new Archbishop of Buenos Aires, as he will have to do in many other instances.Those experiences will surely impact his understanding of his role and responsibilities.
I don't have a problem if the Bishop of Rome trims the number and length of Easter Vigil readings. Those reading have their full impact in a community that prays together weekly, if not daily, has an active catechumenate and mission in the world.To my understanding, St Peter's Basilica is not a parish church. Does St Peter's observe a weekly dismissal of catechumens or elect? Or does it attract pilgrims and clergy and other visitors. It's an entirely different ministry.And if we are to equate St Peter's to the typical cathedral parish, we can still differ with the pope's choices on the Liturgy of the Word, and discern to celebrate more fully in our own communities. I differed from the previous pope on fussy decorations and I still prayed for him and admired his books. I can disagree with this one and still admire his evangelical emphasis.
Quote from Francis in the Magister article linked in Fr.Imbeli's update:"In another passage of the interview, Bergoglio criticizes those homilies which should be 'kerygmatic' but end up speaking about everything that has a connection with sex. This can be done, this cannot be done. This is wrong, this is not. And so we end up forgetting the treasure of Jesus alive, the treasure of the Holy Spirit present in our hearts, the treasure of a project of Christian life that has many implications that go much further than mere sexual questions. We overlook a very rich catechesis, with the mysteries of the faith, the creed, and we end up concentrating on whether or not to participate in a demonstration against a draft law in favor of the use of condoms.
Following John Hayes, another repris of a theme about preaching (from the Magister article).Francis: "I am sincerely convinced that, at the present time, the fundamental choice that the Church must make is not that of diminishing or taking away precepts, of making this or that easier, but of going into the street in search of the people, of knowing persons by name. And not only because going to proclaim the Gospel is its mission, but because if it does not do so it harms itself. It is obvious that if one goes into the street it can also happen that one has an accident, but I prefer a thousand times over an accident-ridden Church to a sick Church.""If it does not do so it harms itself." That strikes me as what has been happening over the last decade or more. And while we all have to dig ourselves out of the hole, Francis and his bishops may have more labor intensive digging to do.
What language was the Vatican Mass in? Italian? I think it must be very hard to celebrate a Mass in a language that's not your own.
Irene,the orations and the Eucharistic Prayer are in Latin; the readings in different languages -- French, German, Spanish, Italian. The Pope preached in Italian, and, as Magister says: "he speaks Italian well. And he also understands the Piedmontese dialect of his family of origin."Peggy,if Francis follows custom, he will write the document based upon last October's Synod on the New Evangelization. This may be a foretaste: "going to proclaim the Gospel is its mission ... if it does not do so it harms itself."


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During ssl key exchange, I have read that sending the symmetric key to the server encrypted with the server's public key is an old technique. Now for key echange Diffie hellman and other techniques are used.
My question is why is key echange using the seerver's public key outdated? What are it's shortcomings?
During ssl key exchange, I have read that sending the symmetric key to the server encrypted with the server's public key is an old technique. Now for key echange Diffie hellman and other techniques are used.
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The distinction is not so much a matter between Diffie-Hellman and RSA key exchange generally, rather it's about being able to use Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman, which use ephemeral (i.e. new) parameter every time. (It's also possible to use fixed DH parameters, but I'm not sure I've ever seen it.)
Essentially, if you record the encrypted traffic and later on get hold of the server's private key, an RSA cipher suite, you can later on decipher the entire traffic straight away (e.g. using Wireshark's SSL tools).
In contrast, using EDH, new random DH keys are (or should be) generated every time on each side. Those parameters are not recorded and not visible on the wire, which provides Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS).
(Whether it's actually perfect is not clear, but it adds another random space that an attacker may have to brute force.)
You can find more details in this RSA Security Inc. document or at the end of this section of the TLS specification.
I think you misunderstood what you read, or you got some bad information. Your premise is not accurate.
You said "sending the symmetric key to the server encrypted with the server's public key" is outdated. That is not accurate. There's nothing wrong with this way of doing key exchange. In fact, most SSL sessions that are negotiated today use exactly this technique. There's nothing outdated or problematic with it.
You also said "Now for key exchange Diffie Hellman and other techniques are used." If you meant that Diffie-Hellman has replaced the traditional method of encrypting the symmetric key under the server's public key, then this is not accurate either. Diffie-Hellman has not replaced those methods. The Diffie-Hellman approach is fine and valid too, but it is not accurate to say that Diffie-Hellman is somehow newer (in fact, it is older) or that it has replaced other methods.
I would imagine at the core of it, if it is not put on the wire, it cannot be sniffed, and is harder to break. I can imagine a scenario like this: An attacker somehow gets in the middle of the communication between the server and clients, and logs all data. After awhile, the attacker is able to compromise the server's certificate, obtaining its private key. With that, all captured SSL sessions can be compromised, since the shared secret can then be decrypted.
Diffie-Hellman prevents this, with each party having a secret, and another bit of data relating to that secret that is considered public. Once one party has received the public piece of the other party, a bit of fancy math is done that generates a number that is related to both secrets, but is not obtainable from the public information. So, in short, the DH key exchange can be sniffed, but the shared secret cannot be obtained.
In the above scenario, unless the attacker compromises the server itself, and installs a modified version of the SSL suite that logs the shared secrets (a much trickier task. Getting the full certificate may just involve social engineering, or compromising another box), the captured SSL sessions are still safe, since the shared secret is never put on the wire on any form.


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Well, I'm not sure how ethical this is, but I already posted this question to superuser and a poster suggested I move it over here. Very sorry if I'm breaking anybody's heart.
Anyway, here's the question:
I work in an education office in a third world country. We pay for internet by the megabyte (no other choice) and have lately been using an incredible amount of bandwidth. This is because the office staff have found out about p2p sharing. As far as I know, Limewire is the only program they're using, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time before they discover the more general world of bittorrent.
Using only a linksys router (that I could flash), is there any way for me prevent the office from destroying our bandwidth cap by downloading personal items (against policy).
Even semi-fixes would be better than nothing.
A few notes that became relevant after getting some answers on superuser:
1) I don't have access to everyone's computer.
2) Welcome to bureaucracy! Nobody can be fired. Realistic threats can't be made. This goes much deeper than stopping p2p, but hey. What can you do? Also, nobody has internet at home (expensive!) so they're fairly bloodthirsty.
3) Any solution has to be more-or-less automated. In about 8 months, I will leave and the office will still want to stop downloads.
4) One solution that seemed really appealing (on the suggestion of user skuzzy-delta) was using Tomato firmware to severly de-prioritize downloads. Unfortunately, my linksys wrt54g is too new for the firmware... but could pfsense or ddwrt do something similar? Would this be a good tactic?
For what it's worth, here's the link to my question on superuser: http://superuser.com/questions/66027/block-p2p-downloading-in-my-office
1) Can't buy anything. That means I cannot set up a dedicated server.
2) My linksys is wrt54g cdfe.... v7... can't run ddwrt :-(


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After a certain level some of my moves appear to build up something called Centering that wears off after a certain number of seconds. I think I skipped the description of this accidentally and I can't find anything online. What does Centering do and what causes it to build?
You're triggering Centering. This is gained at level 10 as a Jedi Sentinel (so it is Sentinel specific, though Sith Marauders have an equivalent ability).
You gain stacks of Centering whenever you spend focus or kill an enemy, and it doesn't do anything on its own until you reach 30 stacks of the buff. At that point, you can trigger Zen, Transcendence, or Inspiration:
A Jedi Sentinel gains the ability to Center. When a Sentinel attacks with force, stacks of centering are added. With more centering stacking come the ability to use advanced levels of fighting stances Zen, Transcendence, and Inspiration. For example, the activation of Zen takes place with 30 stacks of Centering. The Zen activation and specific lightsaber forms add different abilities to the Jedi Sentinel. The Zen activation and the Juyo form increase the critical chance of burning melee attacks by 100% and heals the party through the burn damage on the enemies.


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"Do you love me?" I asked Better Half out of the blue when we were driving home from an evening out of a little of this and that, a little of here and there.
He looked over at me and made his husband face, one of those oh-no-here-we-go-again looks.
I guess menopause moods are as tough on husbands as they are on wives. One minute witchy woman, the next, weepy wife. Insecure weepy wife.
There was a pause, what seemed like a stretch of silence a way lot longer than the highway before us.
"Ohhhh, let me count the ways," Better Half finally responded to the inquiry with exaggerated cheerfulness, accustomed to these periodic pop quizzes I give.
I think of them as state-of-the-marital union reality checks.
Or quarterly reports.
There was more silence. A "man-o-pause," I suppose.
"Have you forgotten how to count?" I asked.
"I'm thinking, I'm thinking," came the pressured yet animated response as he drummed his chin with his fingers.
"What's to think about - you either do or you don't," I said matter of factly and a little annoyed.
"You're right," he said with a sense of confidence and finality.
"I do love you," he surrendered at last. Cupid's prisoner.
"Liar," I said.
Then some silence, all of 5 seconds.
We chuckled.
"Do you love ME?" he asked.
Now it was my turn to look over at him and make my wife face, my version of the oh-no-here-we-go-again look.
There was a pause as I searched for the right words.
I took a deep breath.
"I guess," I shrugged my shoulders for emphasis.
We both started laughing.
Of course we love each other, we decided.
We finish each other's sentences.
We sense each other's moods the way dogs sense bad weather on the way.
We know each other's habits good and bad and still live under the same roof.
We have children and animals.
We grocery shop together without bloodshed at the check-out.
We respect each other's remote control ways.
We're peas and carrots.
We're two legs on an alligator.
And we have lots in common, and not just an appreciation for the daily Jumble in the newspaper.
We're always up for the challenge of a good pop quiz.
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Besides a kidney, are there any other organs that you are allowed to donate?
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Well according to Wikipedia, here's the list of organs that can currently be transplanted from a living donor. For something like a kidney donation, the donor has two and gives one. For something like a liver donation, they take a piece from the donor, which he can live without (and will be enough to help the recipient):
As far as I know, the halachic logic is the same for all of these: you're putting yourself at "some risk" (safek sakana) to save the life of someone in "serious mortal danger" (vadai sakana). (Okay with an ordinary blood transfusion your risk is quite minimal. With something like bone-marrow, from what I hear there's also a question not so much of risk but of pain.) The common psak l'halacha is that the Yerushalmi requires one to put himself in some risk to save a life, but we follow the Babylonian Talmud, which allows it and considers it a great mitzva. One exception would be if the donor risk exceeds the recipient's risk. Another exception would be certain cases, if the procedure has a <50% success rate: as long as the recipient could get off the operating table without this transplant, he's considered "presumed alive" and we try to save his life. But if, for instance, they've already taken out his heart and are about to put in a new one, he's no longer "presumed living", and thus we need 50+% chances. (This was R' Untermann's ruling regarding heart transplants from dead donors; the success rate has since exceeded 50%.) A last exception would be that as it's permitted but not required, if the donor's family objects or there's similar reason weighing against doing so. But basically if I understand the current numbers, all of these should be allowed.
As for donations from a dead body, we allow anything to be done to a dead body to save a life (see above caveats); the bigger concern is which organs get harvested before halachic death.
If I recall, Newsweek had a detailed description of a living-donor liver transplant, circa 2002. The recipient had damaged his liver from a youth full of drugs and alcohol, but had been clean for many years. I asked Rabbi Welcher if we factor into our decision whether the person in danger brought it upon himself like this case, he said probably not.
One issue dealt with by pos'kim is the prohibition against wounding oneself. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein in a letter reprinted in Igros Moshe (Choshen Mishpat Ⅰ 103) says that it is permissible to donate blood even though there is no known recipient now, in a case where the donor gets paid for his donation; part of his reasoning is that bloodletting, long thought to benefit the bloodlettee (or whatever the word is), probably does in fact benefit him, albeit slightly. Note that Rabbi Feinstein was dealing with the case he was presented (viz, where the donor is paid, etc.), and should not necessarily be construed as forbidding other cases. As always, CYLOR.
It is the opinion of a growing number that it is such a mitzvah to save a life that a person who is dead can donate any organs. Please see the Halakhic Organ Donation Society for more information.
The definition of halakhically "dead" is disputed - some see it as the complete cessation of the heart-beat and others the complete cessation of independent breath. The latter definition (aka, "brain stem death") is held by US and Israeli law and allows for more organs to save others' lives.
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