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The 15 Most Cringe-Worthy James Bond Puns
James Bond, as conceived by author Ian Fleming, is a suave but professional secret agent who doubles as an assassin. He is cold, detached and is, in Fleming's words, "an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department."
Clearly, there's enough room for interpretation in there to assume he was also deeply fond of boner jokes, because that's exactly what filmmakers did with the character once he started being portrayed by swarthy British types on the silver screen. As you'll see, some of the Bond double entendres were almost physically painful.
#15. Christmas Comes Once A Year
Film: The World is Not Enough
Bond is in bed on top of Dr. Christmas Jones, a brilliant nuclear scientist convincingly portrayed by Denise Richards, who, like all brilliant female nuclear scientists, looks like a supermodel and dresses like Lara Croft.
Then James says, "I thought Christmas only comes once a year."
The saddest part is knowing the entire reason they named her "Christmas" was so they could set up that orgasm joke at the end of the movie. So in the Bond world, girls can grow up to be nuclear physicists, but they still get stripper names.
Bond girls (as you'll see) tend to get worse names than this, and Christmas was probably something like "Vixen McLegs" or "Chesty Evildoer" in earlier drafts. Then, they thought up the joke and went back in with Microsoft Word and reverse engineered all the "Aslyn Boobsaplenty" entries into "Christmas Jones." Yes, screenwriters get paid good money to do things like that.
Groan Factor: 4.5
#14. The Inflatable Villain
Film: Live and Let Die
In this amazing scene, Bond is wrestling with bad guy Kananga in a shark-infested pool when he causes Kananga to imbibe an air capsule. Instead of just spitting it out (since it's clearly just in his mouth and not lodged down his esophagus) Kananga gets a panicked look on his face, inflates like a balloon, flies up to the ceiling and explodes. This is witnessed by Bond's love interest, Solitare, who nonetheless asks Bond, "Where's Kananga?"
Bond replies, "Oh, he always did have an inflated opinion of himself."
We know what you're thinking. We made this whole bit up, or confused it with something that happened in a Road Runner cartoon. But, no, what might be the silliest death scene in just about any movie in history, did in fact take place in Live and Let Die. Perhaps you would like to see it for yourself.
What makes the double entendre especially ridiculous is that Solitare witnesses the events before she asks Bond where Kananga is. There are all sorts of better questions she could ask, such as, "How the fuck did Kananga just turn into a human balloon and explode on the ceiling?"
What's even more maddening is the fact that Bond's reply doesn't answer the question. "'Where's Kananga' you ask? I killed him by inflating him, and he's over there in the shark tank, and on the walls and ceiling." That's the right answer. Replying that Kananga had an inflated opinion of himself is like a friend asking you if you've seen where he left his gloves and replying, "Your gloves are fuzzy."
Groan Factor: 5
#13. Python Crush
Film: Moonraker
On his way to rescue love interest Dr. Holly Goodhead (that's her character's real name, we're sorry), James Bond tangles with the bad guy's boa constrictor and kills it with a ballpoint pen that's really a hypodermic needle.
Hugo Drax asks, "Why did you break up the encounter with my pet python?"
Bond says, "I discovered it had a crush on me."
What makes this especially cringe-worthy is that Hugo's line is so transparently a set up that exists for no other reason than to facilitate the groan-inducing pun. Does Drax really not know why Bond killed the snake rather than allow it to kill him? Would a normal person reply, "because it was trying to kill me?"
And what of Bond, who by making this retarded attempt at humor is inadvertently implying that the snake had romantic feelings for him? They probably didn't want to explore the subject of bestiality in their big-budget spy movie, but they wrote themselves into it and now they have to live with the result.
And, so do we.
Groan Factor: 5.5
#12. Oddjob Blows a Fuse
Film: Goldfinger
Bond and Henchman Oddjob, who kills people by throwing his sharpened hat at them, are engaged in a battle royale at Fort Knox. Bond throws Oddjobb's hat at him but it gets lodged in security bars. Oddjob reaches for it just as Bond grabs a conveniently located live power wire large enough to single-handedly light up most of Las Vegas. He electrifies the bars, frying Oddjob to death.
In response to this turn of events a General asks, "Where's your butler friend?"
Bond replies, "Oh, he blew a fuse."
If you don't know, "He blew a fuse" was slang in the '50s and '60s for losing one's temper. Audiences these days probably think Bond was implying that Oddjob was a robot, which is the only circumstance where that pun has even the most tenuous connection to logic.
We should note that this was Bond's second failed attempt to make a good electrocution joke. Earlier in the film, Bond knocks a bad guy into a tub of water and tosses an electric heater in with him, electrocuting the poor dope instantly. As he walks away, Bond mutters "Shocking ... positively shocking," a line so lazy it makes the blown fuse thing look ingenious by comparison.
Groan Factor: 5.5
#11. Boner reference No. 1
Film: Die Another Day
Bond is getting a fencing lesson from Madonna, who looks like an S&M grandma with a poodle haircut.
She says, "I see you handle your weapon well."
James Bond counters, "I have been known to keep my tip up."
The whole Madonna cameo is a little weird in the first place, having come off her film-destroying roles in Swept Away and The Next Best Thing.
But anyway, there's Bond, making one of his signature wiener jokes, not to a Bond girl like Denise Richards, but to a woman who no one has thought of as a sex symbol in 15 years. We get the feeling we could stick Bond in the same room with Cloris Leachman and within five minutes he'd be saying, "So, would you like to hear about my boner?"
Groan Factor: 6


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When I want to speak of a woman who serves food and drinks to passengers on a plane, should I use 'air hostess' or 'stewardess'? What's the difference? And when I take a plane, how should I call her?
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In the US at least, both have fallen out of favor in recent years for a couple of reasons: because there are more men working in the field than there used to be, and because of a general trend towards less gender-specific occupation titles. The more widespread term now is flight attendant, for both men and women.
They are called flight attendants, and you must not assume it will be a woman.
Other terms, such as "air host/hostess" and "steward/stewardess" are quite dated. I would advise against using them. And if you were to use them to address a flight attendant, you will be lucky if you get any service at all, because of the offense they would cause.
Furthermore, since it is generally considered pretty rude to address a person by their occupation—many servers in restaurants, for example, hate being called "waiter" or "waitress"—I would advise addressing a flight attendant with "sir" or "ma'am" if you need to use an address at all. "Excuse me" should be sufficient to get a flight attendant's attention when necessary.
I think the industry term is Cabin crew (as opposed to flight crew)
although in america they are probably 'in-flight refreshment facilitation operatives"
While I agree with the other answers, if I was writing a period piece, I would use stewardess or air hostess. I'm not sure what time period air hostess was from, but it feels more 60's to me.
I agree with phenry's answer (and those of the others) about both terms being offensive of late, and obsolete as well. But given the fact that the question was asked from China, I thought I might as well put forth my opinion.
I believe there was a major difference between a stewardess and an air hostess.
I remember being taught that a stewardess is the lady who is in charge of preparing and distributing food in the aeroplane.
An air hostess on the other hand is the lady who is in-charge of welcoming you onto the aircraft, providing you with your pillows and blankets, in charge of your safety (remember the original air hostess served as medical nurses abroad international flights) and any other enquiries you might have.
However, like everyone pointed out, this is pretty obsolete now (as has the system of unwed airhostess) and everyone is known as a flight attendant or cabin crew nowadays. And they usually end up taking care of both the activities mentioned above.
You could always call her a "waitress in the sky".
Well, since part of their spiel at the start of the trip is to identify themselves, the sensible thing is to use the same term they used for themselves. That's always safest in any social situation. Listen, then talk.
It depends who is doing the speaking. If you're writing a story, and it's a lecherous salesman type, you might use "stew".
I usually use "Miss" to address "younger" female flight attendants, and avoid the issue with the others "Excuse me, ... ".


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Glendale — From his place among the stacks, North Shore Library Director Dick Nelson has seen the world transform throughout the course of his four decades in the library business.
Where there was once a sprawling card catalog to track the library's collection there is now a countywide digital system at anyone and everyone's fingertips. In place of the phonograph records and the room-filling, card-fed computers of old are desktop PCs, DVDs, CDs, e-book readers, audiobooks, and, of course, rows upon rows of books on almost every topic imaginable.
All-told, the North Shore Library's collection contains more than 121,000 items. About 25,000 physical items are checked out each month. When digital media are included in the count, roughly half a million items circulate annually between the North Shore Library and its member communities of Glendale, Fox Point, Bayside and River Hills.
"You name it, we've got it," Nelson said.
After 20 years at the head of the ever-growing, ever-changing collection, Nelson is retiring on March 17. A public reception will be held in his honor at 5 p.m. Feb. 28.
Nelson thanked the Friends of the North Shore Library, North Shore Library Foundation, library board of directors, and Fox Point staff — which act as the library's fiscal agent — for their help and support over the years.
Hopes expansion becomes reality
"I can't say enough about those groups," Nelson said. "I've been lucky enough to have an excellent bunch of people on the library board. They're very committed, and now they're looking into an expansion project, and I hope the public gives every indication of being interested and seeing it come about."
Unsurprisingly a bookish type, Nelson already has his eye on several area book clubs and plans to audit local college courses in his free time.
He also plans to take educational, "Road Scholar" vacations with his wife, Cathy, — coincidentally, the retired 20-year director of the Brown Deer Library — go fishing, volunteer with the Kletzsch Park Friends, and spend more time with his six children and seven grandchildren.
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Head of circulation Kathy Manning described Nelson as a "shirt-off-his-back type of guy" who has always been there to help library staffers and customers.
More than anything, Manning said his legacy will be a place that the community finds welcoming and useful.
"He's a fixture around here and I truly hope he enjoys retirement," Manning said. "He completely deserves it for what he's put into our library, and the profession."
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6 Impossible Escapes Using Impossibler Methods
#3. Slava Kurilov Jumps Off a Cruise Ship, Swims for Three Days
Unfortunately, not everyone who wants to flee an oppressive regime by sea is lucky enough to know how to build an AquaScooter. Some have to make do with their arms. Like Slava Kurilov, an oceanographer living in the USSR who, in 1974, jumped into the Pacific Ocean and became the only person insane enough to escape from behind the Iron Curtain by swimming.
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A man so badass he gave that cigar cancer.
Kurilov had been denied a visa to make research trips outside the Soviet Union several times, the official reason being that Russians are dicks. In 1974, he saw an ad for a cruise ship sailing into the Pacific. The trip required no visa because it wasn't going to sail into a foreign harbor, or even go near one. It was the perfect opportunity for Kurilov to finally get to know some of the places he had been studying and relax a little. But the party was cut short when, about a hundred kilometers from shore, he fell overboard.
Did we say he fell? Actually, he fucking jumped. His plan: swim night and day until he reached the Philippines.
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Hundreds of kilometers of open sea: better than living in the USSR.
We should note here that he had no clue where he was. The ship's course had been kept secret for security reasons, and he'd been given a chance to peek at a map exactly once. All he could do was guess when to jump -- as in, on which day -- and wing it.
Since Kurilov's plan was pretty much improvised, he had no raft, no lifesaver and not even a piece of wood to hang on to, let alone luxuries like a compass or a knife. He also had no drinking water and no food except what was circling around him.
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We're pretty sure he could have made a campfire to roast it.
Kurilov says he possessed the mental power to keep swimming for three straight days thanks to the fact that he was also an advanced yogi. He studied the ocean for years, knew how to guide himself by looking at the stars and learned meditation techniques: It's like he was literally the only person on the planet who could pull off this plan.
And despite swimming way off course and at one point being dragged away from land by a treacherous current, Kurilov never gave up and eventually reached the Philippines ... where he was, of course, jailed for a few weeks, possibly after being mistaken for some sort of sea mutant. After all that, he still loved the sea. In his journal he reflects upon what he felt during his time drifting in the ocean -- honestly, it reads like three days of making sweet, albeit painful and demanding, love with the Pacific.
Via RealUSSR.com
That's not sea foam behind me.
#2. The Bethke Brothers Soar Over the Berlin Wall
The Bethke brothers hated being in East Germany almost as much as they loved risking their lives to get out of it. It all started with Ingo, the eldest brother, who in 1975 sneaked past minefields and watchtowers to cross the 650-foot-wide Elbe River in an inflatable mattress. Ingo's brothers back in East Germany were eager to be reunited with him, and also to undermine his accomplishment by doing something even more badass.
The second brother, Holger, got his turn in 1983, but he and his friend decided to take a more direct route: they jumped over the Berlin Wall with ropes, hooks and arrows.
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All three brothers and their varying degrees of mustache.
That task is actually even harder than it sounds. First, an arrow fired by Holger from the top of a five-story building brought a piece of rope to a roof on the other side of the wall, where Ingo was waiting. This rope was then used to string a length of steel wire across the two buildings. The plan was for Holger to travel across the wire using a pulley wheel, but at one point the pulley got stuck ... so he crossed the final stretch by holding on to it with his hands and feet while below the searchlights gleamed.
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Also, this bullshit.
He made it. Two down, one to go.
If Ingo was the low-budget original and Holger was the critically acclaimed sequel, Egbert, the youngest brother, was the high-profile third act with the implausible plot and spectacular visuals. In order to finance his brother's rescue, Ingo sold his pub in 1989 and bought two ultralight planes to fly right across the border and back. Why two? One to pick up Egbert, and another just so their brother could follow them with a camera rolling. Here's the original footage, starting at 2:57:
Of course, neither of them knew how to fly a plane, so Ingo took a crash course in aviation and taught Holger himself. On the day of the rescue they dressed in military uniforms, painted the planes green and stuck Russian stars on them, figuring that the guards would think twice before attacking what looked like Russian planes.
The plan was simple: cross the border in the small hours, touch down in a park, grab Egbert and haul ass. However, on approaching the pickup zone, they found that someone had pitched a fucking circus tent on their prospective landing ground. There was just enough space left next to it, so one plane landed anyway. Egbert hopped on ... and then they got the hell away from East Berlin as fast as possible, right? Actually, no. They flew along the border for a few extra miles just to enjoy the view, and also because fuck those AK-47s.
Footage from the plane, moments prior to raining shit onto the wall.
The end of the clip shows West Berlin cops puzzling over the two abandoned Russian-looking planes while the brothers are long gone, celebrating in a bar. Later they quipped, "if we'd known that the wall would fall that same year we'd have done it anyway." Of course, that doesn't take into consideration the strong possibility that the Soviets called it quits purely out of shame for not being able to contain the Bethke brothers.
#1. Jumpin' Joe Beyrle Kicks Ass Through Europe
Getting the nickname "Jumpin'" when you're in the 101st Airborne's "Screaming Eagles" division and everyone's job is to jump out of planes has to be an achievement in itself. Not satisfied with that, Jumpin' Joe Beyrle also went on to become the only American soldier to serve in both the U.S. Army and the Soviet Army in World War II ... but not before having to go through hell and back. Just looking at his face before and after his ordeal should tell you the whole story:
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In June 1944, Beyrle was supposed to take part in D-Day, but his Normandy jump went a little wrong -- by which we mean his plane burst into flames with him still in it. He was forced to jump off the plane before it crashed, landing on the roof of a church. Despite being all alone and slightly singed from the explosion, he still managed to evade capture for 24 hours, in which time he kept busy by blowing up a power station (oh, and a few German soldiers as well) before being captured and dragged into the heart of the Reich.
After being beaten, starved and generally treated in a manner not necessarily conforming to the Geneva Conventions, Beyrle found himself as a POW in what is now Western Poland, less than 100 miles from the Russian Front. He would later find out that the American government had pronounced him dead months ago and a funeral mass had been held in his hometown. No one was coming to get him.
And so, in January 1945, despite various wounds (including a fresh bullet hole in his left arm), Beyrle attempted the last of several escapes. Fleeing in a hail of bullets (which killed the two other prisoners who tried to go with him), he headed east, hoping to run into the Red Army.
After three days of wading through icy streams by night and hiding in barns by day, Beyrle made it to the Russian Front, where the American waved down a T-34 shouting, "Amerikansky tovarishch!" He convinced the female tank commander that he, in his own words, "wanted to join them and go to Berlin with them and kill Nazis." They handed him a paybook and a machine gun and, that was it: This member of the 101st Airborne was now in the Red Army.
Several days of constant fighting later, he went back to his old POW camp and helped liberate his friends. Taking three suitcases full of liberated currency and his own POW record file as a souvenir, he rejoined the Soviets and kept on fighting ... until a German bomber blew him up. He woke up in a Russian hospital, where he met with the most decorated military leader in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union: Georgy Zhukov.
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When they shook hands, four people caught on fire.
With the Field Marshal's help, Beyrle traveled to the American Embassy in the Soviet Capital ... where he was arrested because he misplaced all his identification on the Moscow subway. Beyrle was held under armed guard until his identity was confirmed, attacking a guard for no reason in the meantime, and he was returned to America. He came back to his hometown of Muskegon, Michigan, in 1946, where he got married in the same church and with the same priest that had held his funeral two years earlier.
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Family play time: Piece together fun memories with puzzles
|With Codee Scorpion (Techno Source) it is pretty hard to believe that it's made from a single strand of 64 small blocks. (MCT)
Codee Scorpion
Okay, take a look at the scorpion. Pretty hard to believe that it's made from a single strand of 64 small blocks. But it is. Every Codee kit (in addition to the scorpion, there's a penguin, pig, flamingo, gator, and others) comes with detailed instructions on how to twist, cajole, rotate, and prod the blocks into submission.. Assembling it takes a lot of hand-eye coordination and even more patience, since each block has to be turned in exactly the right way. But it's a ton of fun. The one drawback is that Codee isn't really something you can do with a child — except to help with the explanations (although when I was giving it a try on my own, my 9-year-old stood over my shoulder correcting my every move). The solution is to get two of them and race or build something unique. You can also connect two or more Codees to create bigger and more complicated works. Ages 8 and up.www.technosourceusa.com.
City of New York time puzzle (4D Cityscape)
This is an absolutely masterful puzzle. You start off by putting together the 500+ piece 2D puzzle of the island of Manhattan. Once that's done — it's going to take a while — you add the 3D element by inserting over 100 plastic models of actual New York buildings into the 2D puzzle (which, by the way, features glow-in-the-dark streets). Now the 4D part comes in. The buildings range from ones that would have dominated the skyline as far back as 1812 and move forward through time all the way to 2013, when the Freedom Tower (which will replace the World Trade Center buildings) will be completed. The box itself includes a poster with a brief history of the city peppered with fascinating trivia. An online education feature adds even more education — and entertainment — to the mix. Thirteen other 4D puzzles include London, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Paris, Chicago, and the entire U.S. An absolute blast for patient dads and kids 9 and up. www.4dcityscape.com
Pieces of History (Find It Games)
If you haven't seen them, we recommend that you check out some Find-It games, an assortment of transparent canisters containing objects hidden in a sea of plastic pellets (they're a lot cooler than they sound). Now, the folks at Find It have gone old-school and introduced the "Pieces of History" series of traditional puzzles, which include Pharaoh's Egypt, Parade of Animals, and Dry Ground. Each has 300 pieces, and within the final image you can search for "hidden" objects that are also found in the border of the puzzle.
In Pharaoh's Egypt, for example, you'll discover a leopard in a tree, a blue hippo in a market basket, and 38 more hidden objects and animals. Played together, these puzzles can spark wonderful conversations about history, geography, and discovery. Ages: 6+.www.finditgames.com.
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26 Nov 2010 4:31 AM #1
Endless Ext.List with Ext.data.JsonStore
I am new to Sencha Touch development, so I might miss something really basic here.
I have Ext.List with a Ext.data.JsonStore. And I am trying to load new Items / Records when the end of the list is reached. I can't find any Event for that?
26 Nov 2010 7:48 AM #2
I think you're going to have to listen to the scroll events from the scroller element.https://moduscreate.com/wp-content/t...es/favicon.png
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26 Nov 2010 10:45 AM #3
Thank you for your reply!
Where would I find the scroller element? I cannot find anything about that in the API Documentation.
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Thank you!
The Solution seems to be:
list.scroller.addListener('scrollend', function(scroller, offset){ if((list.el.dom.scrollHeight-offset.y)== list.height) { console.log('listend'); } });
1 Jan 2013 10:00 PM #6
I am new to Extjs. Even I am trying to implement an endless scroller on my grid with json data.
Kindly guide where and how I should be using the code given by you above.
Many thanks for the help.
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I have read a statement from Sossinsky and Prasolov' s book "Knots, Lİnks, Braids and 3-Manifold", it says that two reduced word represent isotopic braids if and only if they have the same reduced form, page 54. My claim is that this statement is not true: take $b_2b_1b_2^{-1}b_3^{-1}b_3^{-1}$ and $b_3^{-1}b_2b_3b_2b_1b_2^{-1}b_2^{-1}b_3^{-1}b_2^{-1}$. They represent isotopic braids but they are not the same. What is the correct form of such a characterization?
Here "reduced" refer to the so-called handle reduction algorithm introduced by Dehornoy.
So far I remember, this algorithm does not provide a normal form, therefore I agree that the statement is false: two reduced word may represent the same braid even if they are different. Indeed, it can be checked with the following Java applet: http://www.math.unicaen.fr/~tressapp/index.html (it applies handle reduction the other way as you does, i.e. it pushes handles to the left, so in that case the reduction will produce the same word. But if you swap $b_1$ and $b_3$ you still get isotopic braid, and now the applet will tell you that the words are already reduced).
The true statement is that a word represent the trivial braid if and only if its reduction is the empty word. Of course it still solve the word problem: checking if $w_1,w_2$ represent the same braid is the same as checking if $w_1w_2^{-1}$ represents the trivial braid.
Edit. For the sake of completeness let me recall why not leading to a normal form is not a negative point against this algorithm.
For a very nice (if slightly typesetting-challenged) survey of this subject, see Patrick Dehornoy's survey.


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Upgrading Front End Suspension - The Straight And Narrow Part 2Written by on January 1, 2002 Installing A-Body Space-Age Suspension Parts
Last month, we covered our woeful tale of how we began this project. A rain-slickened road and drum brakes led to the situation seen above; our bone-stock, 318-equipped, four-door granny car was found lacking in safety when it counted. Luckily, nobody was hurt, but it was decided immediately afterward to update the vintage brakes and suspension as soon as possible. Wilwood, PST (Performance Suspension Technology), and MagnumForce Racing were all quick to answer the call to help upgrade the front end of this stout little Dart.
The disc-brake conversion kit and a suitable master cylinder and proportioning valve came from Wilwood in Camarillo, California. PST (Montville, New Jersey) supplied an original-performance suspension-rebuild kit with all the parts, pieces, and bushings to eliminate the age-related deficiencies of the Dart's 30-year-old front suspension. Finally, MagnumForce (Campbell, California) turned out to be the icing on this effort's cake, providing not only the people, place, and expertise to do the work, but also a set of trick new tubular upper control arms.
Additionally, MagnumForce proprietor (and serious Mopar madman) Ron Jenkins provided various other required components and fittings before we were finished, including the braided brake lines. He even rummaged around in his storage loft and found a loaner set of 15x7 police wheels with the 4 1/2-inch bolt circle that were needed for the Wilwood hubs up front.
As a related and final piece to the puzzle, Stockton Wheel (Stockton, California) easily solved the spare-tire problem that exists when driving a car with one bolt-circle size up front and a different size in the rear. These folks manufacture and carry a wide variety of DOT-approved adapters that let you put just about any wheel on just about any hub. I didn't know this when I called to inquire about getting a wheel drilled for both bolt circles, but finding out certainly made life easier.
The inch-thick adapters for this application, whittled out of 6160 aluminum billet, presently give the back of the Dart a wide-track stance with its borrowed rims in place; these are cool pieces. Stockton Wheel also signed up to adjust the backspacing of whatever wheels are chosen for permanent use.
During its two days in the MagnumForce shop undergoing this suspension upgrade, nothing was done to the Dart that a competent home mechanic couldn't handle. Aside from a few moments spent with a hydraulic press, the most exotic items used were pickle forks and a flaring tool for the brake lines. And the most frustrating, time-consuming part of the entire process (as seen in the last issue) was removing the outer bushing shell from the lower control arm, which could have been avoided if high-performance, urethane bushings were installed (which reportedly drop right inside the existing shell) instead of rubber.
Of course, after this sort of suspension work, a stop at an alignment shop was required to true everything up. And during the three-hour drive back home after all was said and done, I was amazed at the difference and couldn't believe I'd even been willing to drive it in its previous condition.
All of that mental, "Well, it's a 30-year-old car" allowances as to its handling were now gone. The steering was solid, positive, and quickly responsive, and it no longer had the slightest tendency to wander around in its lane. But the improvement in the braking situation was the most profound of all. I was told that greater pedal pressure would be required with the change to front discs (and no power assist), but any difference was unnoticeable. Instead, I was overwhelmed that its braking action was equal to, or better than, any vehicle I've ever driven. Going from worst to first in any venue is great, but I was able to notice, by its glaring absence, just how apprehensive I had actually been about the brakes during the short time I'd been driving this car-and for good reason! Follow on as we finish our trip to the straight and narrow of Mopar front suspension conversions.
What Really Happened That Fateful Day
This car was acquired for the use of my betrothed, Nina, a genuine soccer mom with two preteen boys. Nina is a Norwegian who has driven various types of foreign cars almost exclusively throughout the years, finding most of them quite efficient but also pretty boring. So when this one-owner, mostly garaged Dart recently became available, she ran her hands all along its contours, proclaimed it to be a car with great soul, and heartily agreed it should be ours (you gotta love it).
However, her first behind-the-wheel experience in it was brief. "The brakes are horrible, and I'm not driving it until they're fixed," she said.
The shoes were checked, the brakes adjusted, the hydraulics checked out, and her verdict was the same. "The brakes are still awful, but you can drive it if you want."
And so it came to pass that, on the rain-slickened roads of California's coastal Santa Cruz Mountains, I was nearing the end of an extended, crowded, curving, steep, two-lane downhill run that required heavy brake application, even with the automatic tranny in Second gear and the brakes sizzling. Coming around a tight right-hand curve, I saw a line of stopped cars not very far ahead of me. I stomped on the brake pedal, which had virtually no effect. I was going only about 20 mph at that time, so I pulled it down into Low, hoping for the best.
Yep, running into the cars in front of me was no longer a problem. Instead, the rear tires instantly broke loose and, given the wet road; the downhill, weight-on-the-nose attitude of the car; and the sideways momentum of going around the curve the back end made a quick swing out to the left.
The good news is there were no cars coming the other way as I momentarily took up both lanes. The bad news is the curve was so sharp, I was sliding off the road and onto the embankment before I could do anything about it. More good news: The Dart slid right in between the large oak tree on the left and the telephone pole on the right and, being at a right angle to the road I didn't barrel roll down the embankment. It almost stopped after sliding along sideways in the damp dirt, and I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but then bad news again: The tires dug in and it ever so gently tipped up onto its left side. Good news: It stayed there and didn't roll over onto its roof.
The Dart was rather precariously balanced, though, and a bunch of folks materialized seemingly out of nowhere to hold it up while I got out. Gas was slowly dripping out of the gas cap, while these folks were frantically hollering at me to get out before it exploded (too many action movies, I guess), but I was intent on finding out where my little point-and-shoot camera had ended up. After all, I knew I would tell this tale for a long time to come, and for a photojournalist not to have photos of such an event was unthinkable.
I also wanted to find my plastic film container that was filled with 93-percent nitro, courtesy of the crew of the hemi-powered, Foothill Flyer front-engine dragster. Assuming the police would probably check things out, that was one conversation this long-haired writer figured would be better to avoid. But the police, paramedics, and fire-department personnel who came along were friendly, understanding, glad no one was hurt, and just interested in pulling the car back onto its wheels and getting it out of there.
The ultimate damage to the Dart was surprisingly minor: one dead front tire, the left rear brake drum filled with differential lube that dripped out of the axle vent, and relatively insignificant dents and dings here and there. None of the chrome trim was bent; the paint wasn't scratched; and the door-mounted mirror, which had been buried in the dirt, wasn't even knocked out of alignment. In fact, the most annoying result was that my ever-present tool pouch, which was on the back floor, punched through the previously pristine headliner, right about where the C-pillar received its ding on the outside. I'm awfully fond of that dent, though, and whatever caused it actually kept the car from rolling all the way over.
When the wrecker pulled up to her house with the Dart on the hook, Nina looked at me, looked at the car, innocently (but pointedly) asked if I had a problem with the brakes, and mercifully kept her I-told-you-so comments to herself. So that's where this all started, and here's where it ends. The good news is, with the new brakes and suspension, Nina is now quite happy to drive the Dart anywhere, anytime. That's also the bad news, since now it looks like I've gotta go and marry her so I can keep driving it too!
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The new MagnumForce Racing tubular upper control arms (left) that were installed on the Dart feature larger-shank ball joints than the originals and are designed to be used with spindles from a '73-'76, factory-disc-equipped A-Body car, which also have a beefier, stronger lower ball-joint knuckle arm (top).Only a couple of modifications were required to use the trick new upper control arms. First, the PST rubber snubbers were cut down to a bit less than half of their original length.Next, the trailing edge of the forward control-arm bracket was bent back out of the way to allow full movement of the control arm. No cutting or grinding was needed, since a pair of locking pliers proved adequate for the task.Can you spot the mistake that's about to occur in this photo? After the lower control arms were installed, the torsion bars were brought back into place. However, this one was immediately removed again because installer Dave Decker realized the lower control arm wasn't in the full-drop position.Then the boneyard '76 Valiant spindles, with their new PST ball joints and bushings, joined the party.After installing new KYB shocks instead of the coilovers, the caliper mounting brackets were installed on the spindles (which were already drilled out and tapped for the larger Wilwood bolts, as seen last month). One side fit perfectly, while the other required a slight enlarging of the holes on the bracket to compensate for the OEM manufacturing tolerances in the spindle.Assembling the rotors and hubs, along with greasing the bearings and installing the seals, was the next order of business. The 10 3/4-inch drilled and slotted racing rotors originally provided by Wilwood were replaced with these solid, vented ones, courtesy of MagnumForce's extensive stock of Wilwood parts. This was then bolted to the spindle. Decker was diligent in following the explicit Wilwood torquing specs throughout the assembly process.
After properly aligning the caliper, the pads were slipped into place and secured with long cotter pins. Wilwood can provide various pads with different friction material, depending on the intended usage.Proving once again that I chose the right place to get this installed, MagnumForce stepped in with braided-steel brake lines after I neglected to order them from Wilwood. If you're going to update braking equipment, you might as well do it right.Then it was time to get under the hood to install the new Wilwood master cylinder. Its two-bolt mounting flange fits right inside the four studs used with the OEM version, so the new bolt locations were simply marked and drilled.The master cylinder then bolted right up, but the factory brake-line fittings no longer worked; Wilwood provides the correct fittings in the kit. With the material provided by the extra loop in the stock brake lines and the use of a flaring tool, installing the new fittings was a snap.The conceptually simple job of installing the new linkage between the brake pedal and the master cylinder actually took quite a while to get the geometry right and left the brake pedal significantly higher. Adjusting the brake-light switch for the new pedal position also took some time.With the change to front discs from drum brakes, the use of a proportioning valve becomes a necessity. Wilwood provided one, and it was bolted to the bottom of the car, right under the driver seat. Again, plenty of stock brake line and the flaring tool (along with a couple of angled fittings from MagnumForce's amazing stock of Earl's products) kept the installation easy.That pickle fork seen below the car received quite a workout on the 30-year-old suspension pieces. Doesn't that brake/rotor assembly look cool?
These adapters from Stockton Wheel (Stockton, California) are a third alternative to either immediately also changing the rear axles of the car or now carrying two spare tires/rims, due to the larger 4 1/2-inch bolt circle of the Wilwood hubs. Carved out of 6160 aluminum billet, they are an inch thick and DOT-approved.Sixty-five pounds of torque is the specification for mounting the adapters to the stock, 1/2-inch studs, using the original lug nuts.While the loaner rims still fit under the rear fenders with the adapters in place (and were still on the car when this photo was taken), the car's permanent set will be machined to compensate for the inch difference in backspacing. Soccer mom Nina, shown with sons Alexander (left) and Andreas, is finally happy to drive the Dart-and was careful not to block from view the slight sheetmetal damage (on the rear door and the C-pillar just above the door) left by the author's tipping episode.


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OOW Sao Paulo and Officer Remarketer Award
By Martin Morganti on Dec 23, 2011
I've recently returned from Oracle OpenWorld in Sao Paulo Brazil, which was held earlier in December. It was great to see the broad range of partners involved in this world class event, and to see the impressive number of customers who attended. This event showcased to our customers the breadth of capability that Oracle, working with our partners can bring to bear. It provided me with a great opportunity to talk to many of the Remarketer Authorised Distributors in Latin America, as well as with the Oracle teams who work directly with the partners.
Whilst in Sao Paulo I had the opportunity to spend time with Officer an Oracle VAD from Brazil and spoke to some of their Remarketer partners. Most conversations were focused on how they have successfully used the initiative to start building an Oracle business. A particular highlight for me was in the Oracle PartnerNetwork Forum, during the Partner Excellence Awards, Luiz Meisler, Oracle Executive Vice President of Latin America, recognised Officer as the top Remarketer Value Added Distributor in Oracle's first quarter. The photo below shows the presentation of the award to Fabio Gaia President of Officer and Cecilia Gomes by Judson Althoff Oracle Senior Vice President Worldwide Alliances and Channels. With them are Sandra Vaz Oracle VP LAD Alliances and Francislaine Muratorio Oracle Brazil Alliances and Channels Manager.
Congratulations to Fabio, Cecilia and all of the team at Officer for this great achievement and good luck for continued success with Remarketer for the rest of FY12.


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so how much a month does Iraq cost the government?
so how much a month does Iraq cost the government?
that's erroneous. Bush isn't spending the money. The president isn't allowed to authorize much spending. The spending all comes from congress.
if only people knew about our politics before they argued about them.
Also fin, yes they did. They are getting too caught up in fucking up so republicans look bad (CUZ IT'Z ALL THE PRESIDENTS FAULT AMIRITE). If there were a democratic president it would be a hell of a lot worse too.


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Charlotte, NC -Charlotte 49ers midfielder Donnie Smith was selected as the 21st overall pick (second pick of the second round) by the New England Revolution in today's Major League Soccer's SuperDraft.
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Smith, who earned All-Atlantic 10 honors three times in his career, was named Atlantic 10 Midfielder of the Year this past season. He earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors in 2012 and 2010. He was a second-team All-Atlantic 10 selection in 2011. Smith scored four goals and recorded four assists this past season. Smith scored game-winning goals against South Carolina, Richmond and Saint Louis.
"This is an incredible achievement by Donnie," Charlotte coach Kevin Langan said. "It is a just reward for a stellar career at Charlotte. Donnie is an incredibly humble player who embraced the Charlotte culture. He was an impactful player for us. This past season, as a senior, he really stepped up and realized his full potential. We are very proud of Donnie. I am excited to watch his career progress."


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As a college student, I am working with limited cooking equipment. There are several outdoor charcoal grills however, which students sometimes have cookouts on. How hot do can these grills get? I have literally no idea how hot they get, but would like to find something in the 700 degree area.
Charcoal can get to 700 degrees F but in normal use you're more likely to be in the 500F range. In order to get to the higher end of charcoal's abilities there are a couple things you can do:
There are several factors that determine how hot your grill will get:
Dump a chimney full of charcoal into a Weber kettle, leave the lid off, and you will easily get temperatures of 700f or more at the grate. Put the lid on, opening the top vent all the way, and closing the bottom vents by half, and the same amount of fuel will probably give you 450-500f temps at the grate. Mound a half-chimney of coals to one side, and you can achieve 200-300f on the other side of the grill with the lid on and proper manipulation of the bottom vents.
So it's all pretty variable, but the same grill can get you to a variety of different outcomes depending on how you set it up.


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I'm trying to use an Event Receiver on a List to create a Managed Path with Wildcard-inclusion in the parent WebApplication. I tried to handle it with the following code (reduced to show the idea)
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using (var site = new SPSite(properties.SiteId))
var semester = new Semester(properties.ListItem);
var webApplication = site.WebApplication;
webApplication.Prefixes.Add(semester.UrlPart, SPPrefixType.WildcardInclusion);
If the code comes to Prefixes. And it will throw a SecurityException. The SharepointWebSite-Account is far away from least privilege at the moment (DB-Sysadmin, Local Admin, Farm Admin), but it refuses to perform my task.
I just tried to accomplish my Task with powershell logged on as the user in question - and it works - so the user privileges seem not to be the Problem.
For clearification: it's an asynchronous on ItemAdded Event-Receiver.
I found something in the logs, but as i said from Powershell it works with that user:
08/24/2012 13:46:16.80 w3wp.exe (0x13EC)
0x12C8 SharePoint Foundation Topology
7f7y High Adding a new WildcardInclusion site prefix with the path SoSe to the web application MiscWebApp. efa9c69b-9634-90de-f417-1b3bf5bf9325
08/24/2012 13:46:16.80 w3wp.exe (0x13EC)
0x12C8 SharePoint Foundation Topology
8dyu High The SPPersistedObject, SPWebApplication Name=MiscWebApp, could not be updated because the current user is not a Farm Administrator. efa9c69b-9634-90de-f417-1b3bf5bf9325
Can anybody help?


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Using Over-the-Counter Medications During Pregnancy
In This Article:
Digestive and sleep aids
Digestive Problems
All pregnant women quickly find out that a tiny little fetus can cause an awful lot of upset in the digestive tract. Everything from heartburn to constipation can be blamed on the body changes of pregnancy. If these troubles persist, your doctor might approve the use of certain medications that will bring relief. But not all medications for digestive problems are safe for your baby, so be sure to ask before you buy.
Antacids: Heartburn and indigestion are badges of expectant motherhood; few can escape them during pregnancy. If you can live with the occasional discomfort, it's best to stay away from medications altogether. But if you're suffering week after week, talk to your doctor. He will recommend an antacid that's best for you—not all are safe.
Popular antacids such Maalox, Mylicon, Milk of Magnesia, Gelusil, Di-Gel, Tums, and Rolaids are all safe to take during pregnancy. (Some have the added bonus of containing compounds that will relieve excess gas.) Others, however, should be avoided: Alka-Seltzer, for example, is not recommended because it contains aspirin. Alka-Mint and Alka-Seltzer Advanced formula, however, are generally safe to use because they do not contain aspirin. Pepto-Bismol is on the "avoid" list; it contains an element closely related to aspirin and should not be used during pregnancy.
Newer antacids like Pepsid, Zantac, and Tagamet have not been thoroughly tested for safety during pregnancy, but there does not seem to be a problem with their use and there have been no reports of fetal harm. Ask your doctor before you use one of these antacids.
Constipation: If you're pregnant, you might be constipated also-for some women the two just go together. If you haven't had a bowel movement for days and you're in pain, ask your doctor about using a stool softener or laxative. These medications will soften your stools so they pass easily and relieve the pressure on your bowel. Using a stool softener or laxative is good in an emergency, but don't get into the laxative habit. If you're not careful you can "train" your bowels to need the laxative in order to work normally. After you get relief, keep your bowels in shape naturally—drink lots of water, eat high-fiber foods, such as fruits and vegetables, and exercise.
Diarrhea: When you have diarrhea, you want relief. Diarrhea ties you to your house; it tires you out, and it flushes fluids and nutrients out of your body. Relief is easily found in over-the-counter medications, such as Kaopectate or Imodium A-D. Both are safe to take when you're expecting.
Sleep Aids
In the first three months of pregnancy, a woman can sleep anywhere, anytime. How ironic that later in pregnancy, she sometimes can't sleep at all! When you're losing sleep because you are anxious about having a baby, or your legs ache, or the baby kicks and keeps you up, or because of 100 possible pregnancy-related reasons, you might be tempted to take a sleeping pill. You should think again and then talk to your doctor.
Most over-the-counter (OTC) sleeping pills contain antihistamines, which, in addition to clearing your sinuses, depress your central nervous system. This includes Excedrin P.M., Sominex, Sleep-Eze, and Unisom. Only Unisom contains a type of antihistamine that is considered relatively safe to use during pregnancy. When used infrequently and in the right dose, Unisom should not affect your baby.
Whether pregnant or not, sleeping pills should not be used more than a few nights in a row. A side effect of antihistamines is a mental slowdown that can make it difficult to concentrate, focus, or drive a car the morning after. These OTC drugs are usually effective for only mild, temporary forms of insomnia. Because they work quickly but don't last very long, these products work only to help you fall asleep. They can't help with frequent nighttime awakenings. If you are plagued by insomnia during your pregnancy, talk to your doctor before you try to medicate yourself to sleep.
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Woodland Garden
Club meets
Sixteen members of the Woodland Garden Club met for the annual Christmas dinner on Dec. 13 at the Farm Restaurant in Mount Pleasant for a family-style dinner and dessert.
Elaine Wukelic led the program in which each member recalled a special memory involving the club. Some reflected on the person who introduced them to the club while others recalled fun times they had shared meeting in each other's homes when the club was newly formed.
Members revealed their secret garden pal during a Christmas gift exchange, and the names of new secret garden pals were distributed.
President Verna Smolinsky shared an inspirational message and Irish blessing.
The next meeting will be held on Feb. 7.
SCS retirees have
Christmas lunch
There were 35 Steubenville City School retirees in attendance for a Christmas lunch held Dec. 13 at the Ville Restaurant.
Christmas cards were sent, and a gift exchange was held.
A thank-you letter was read from Charity Hospice. Volunteers worked for two days at its poinsettia tree booth at the mall and collected more than $500.
State Teachers Retirement System news updates were discussed.
Charities were chosen for the next two months. January will be Hounds' Haven, and February will be the Jefferson County Humane Society.
The next lunch will be held Jan. 10 at Margaret's in Toronto.
Gadabouts enjoy
Rollback music
At their December dinner meeting held at St. Florian Hall, the Gadabouts enjoyed classic oldies from the 1950s through the 1970s courtesy of Rollback, a group consisting of Rich Grimm, Dan Morgan and Gadabouts member David Hunt.
John Zak presided and recognized birthdays, anniversaries and members on the prayer list. Devotions were led by Dino Rossi.
Guests attending were Dorothy Arnester, Donna Olsen, Bill and Terry Roe, Roger and Mary Manfresca.
Melvin Simpson won the 50/50 drawing which was conducted by Vice President Jennie Avoli.
A drawing for a tray of holiday cookies donated by member Evelyn Parise was conducted by Terry and Laura Mamula. The winner was Bonna Kay Moffitt.
Door prizes that were furnished by Paul and Gloria Tripodi were won by Dorothy Arnester, Roger Manfresca, Mary Cox, Lillian Kestner, Terry Mamula, Virginia McMenamin, Nick Smarella and Helen Sweeney. Tickets for the prizes were distributed by Frank and Carol Wisnieski.
Regina Truax announced the following upcoming tours:
For details, contact Truax at (304) 723-0419.
All Gadabouts trips are open to nonmembers.
The Gadabouts club is for couples and singles 55 years of age and older.
Adena Lions aid
hurricane relief
Darrin Young spoke on the Hurricane Sandy Relief Project at the business meeting of the Adena Lions Club held in the Lions Club room.
It was noted that District 13G had asked for donations to send to New Jersey for the relief project so the club donated $500 to the effort.
Thank-you cards were sent by the Hopedale Baseball League and for a resident for the purchase of eye glasses.
Randy Bednarski and Young accomplished projects around the community center. Members were reminded of the zone meeting, the Lion's sponsored Christmas Cantata and caroling at the Sienna Point and Autumn Health centers.
The annual Christmas dinner was held at the Adena Fire Hall with Dustin Kinsey, John Sebring and Don Moore in charge.
Tom and Rebecca Donley and Jason Kovlasky were welcomed as new members in the club.
Past District Gov. R.J. Konkoleski gave the Lions oath to the new members.
A successful rose sale was held, with Randy and Shirley Bednarski and Nancy and Ron Malin in charge of the project.
There was $500 collected for the Adena Food Pantry.
Round and square
dance canceled
The Brush Creek Grange that was to be the site of a round and square dance Saturday evening will not be happening after all.
The event has been canceled because of the weather.
Country Friends
event Saturday
Country Friends will host Bobby Brandt and the Eldurays band on Saturday at the Memorial Hall located at 402 Old Police Lodge road, Colliers.
Country Friends has events every Monday, Friday and Saturday at the hall. The doors open at 6 p.m. each Saturday, and the dance starts at 7 p.m.
On Monday and Friday, the doors open at 4 p.m., and open mic begins at 6 p.m. Participants can bring a covered dish if they so desire for the meal that begins at 5 p.m.
There will be no program on New Year's Eve.
Country Friends Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Christian friendship and brotherly love through music. All proceeds go to charity. For information, call (304) 527-4253 or (304) 479-1270.
The website is www.countryfriendsfoundation.com.
New name but
same mission
The monthly diabetes workshop at Harrison Community Hospital has been renamed Healthy Life Workshops.
The free educational sessions are held the first Thursday of each month in the hospital's cafeteria meeting area and feature guest speakers including physicians, dieticians and other health care professionals covering a variety of topics such as healthy eating, monitoring blood sugar levels, taking medications and problem solving.
Past programs have featured the arthritis foundation and the hospital's clinical trials research program.
Carol Teter, a diabetes nurse educator at Harrison Community Hospital, will lead the discussion at the Jan. 3 workshop, which will focus on managing blood sugar levels. There are many different reasons for someone to have high blood sugar levels.
"Many of the programs presented during our monthly diabetes workshops for the past several years covered a variety of health care topics that are of great interest and value to anyone wanting to learn new ways to live a healthy life," said Carole Patton, executive assistant at the hospital. Attendance has increased from five or six per meeting a few years ago to as many as 42 participants in recent months, she said.
"That increased level of interest prompted us to rename the program to Healthy Life Workshops, because the programs speak to a much wider audience, whether they have diabetes or not," Patton said.
Reservations are not required. Light refreshments are served, and there is a drawing for a door prize. Transportation is available through the Harrison County Rural Transit by calling (740) 942-1369.
Center holding
Dec. 31 party
The Greater Weirton Senior Center is holding a New Year's Eve party beginning at 7 p.m. Monday.
Sands of Time will be performing from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets are $15 per person, or $25 per couple.
Pictures will be taken from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. with a $5 charge for copies.
The ticket price includes party favors, door prizes and a midnight buffet with desserts, coffee, punch and a New Year's Eve toast.
For information, call the center at (304) 748-3490.


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In Eastern theology, the idea of a dispassionate God is common. It is often said that wrath is an energy of God but is not part of his essence. I have even heard Western theologians say that wrath is not an eternal attribute of God (it did not exist in the absence of sin, it only exists in response to unholiness). Does he really get mad or is this just for our benefit, since "God is love?" Or is this an influx from Plato into Christian thought? I am interested in a Western explanation (which often speaks of eternal vs. temporal "attributes" of God rather than the Eastern model of essence vs. energies).
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There is some confusion about the word 'anthropomorphism' as it is found in the Bible. The basic idea is that anything that is 'unworthy' of being attributed to God, which is a human characteristic applied to God in order for us to understand something higher and nobler, is anthropomorphic. For example when the Bible says Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord, the 'eyes' are not real physical eyes, but this is an anthropomorphism to say that in God's perspective Noah was graciously approved.
The Greeks were famous for a different kind of anthropomorphism not found in the Bible. They created gods that seemed like grumpy and resentful children who happened to have a lot of power. This is not the kind of anthropomorphism found in the Bible. The Bible starts 'in the beginning there was God' not man who applied their ideas about themselves to God. God is higher than our nature in every sense and beyond our comprehension in every way. Unlike the Greek god's created by men, and therefore unholy human traits were projected up to them, God made man and some of our traits are in his image. So we see human traits that are 'worthy' of God are not anthropomorphisms but attestations that we are created in his image.
With regard to emotions, such as love and righteous anger, these emotions are not anthropomorphisms. Holy anger is a subset of love, for love hates evil and opposes it. An infinite God who loves without measure must necessarily infinitely oppose sin, or he does not love. Therefore the human affections that we call emotions, at least those that are encouraged in scripture and evident in the life of Christ, are not anthropomorphisms.
Whether God is 'actually angry' may mean different things to different people. What is 'actually'? Is it 'human' or 'real'? We can't pretend to understand how God feels; we can only know that he wants us to understand him as feeling. The best way to see how God 'feels' and how God wants our emotions to be like, is to read the gospels and see how God in man felt, and how the Christ's emotions were like. Jesus got angry but was most characteristic as loving - both emotions were real and indicative of how the Father and Spirit 'feel'.


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21 Apr 2012 11:03 AM #1
CRUD in Ext.Direct.mvc3
Can anybody send me a example source code of a CRUD program in Ext.Direct.mvc 3?
Thanks in Advance,
Marcos Mejia
24 Apr 2012 7:49 AM #2
This may a difficult request to fill. You may have to search the web to see if anyone has posted such an example.
We have MVC,Direct projects in our Examples DIR that may help.
28 May 2012 9:57 PM #3
I agree with the poster. There NEEDS to be a fully CRUD example of Ext.Direct. Any server side language is fine with me. I just need to see how it's wired up on the client side. I have been struggling with this lately and it's very frustrating when the only Ext.Direct examples from Sencha are simple reads.
I am looking for a good GridPanel example that shows all CRUD operations.


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Brevard College hosts reception for student art show
Published: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 1:35 p.m.
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BREVARD, N.C. – The Brevard College Art Department will host an opening reception for its juried student art exhibition from 5:30-7 p.m. today in the Spiers Gallery of the Sims Art Center.
The presentation of awards begin at 6 p.m. Paintings, photography and sculpture are just a few of the different types of artwork that will be on display.
The show, which is open to all Brevard College students, will be juried by visiting artist Betty Bates.
Awards will be given for Best of Show, President's Choice, Division Chair's Choice and Students' Choice as well as first, second and third places. Six honorable mentions will also be awarded.
The reception and exhibit visitations are free to the public. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. weekdays when the college is in session. The exhibit displays until April 5. Call 828-884-8188 for more information.
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Jillian Venters is a technical editor for ASP.NET within the developer division, editing documentation for Visual Web Developer to ensure all text and copy is clear and concise. With a diverse background in games and music engineering, Jillian is another fantastic example of how you can have a happy and successful career at Microsoft without being a hard-core programmer or developer. But, even more interesting (at least for Ritzy) is that Jillian is a full-fledged Goth. What's a Goth, you ask? Goth has roots back to the 1700's, the current incarnation is an off-shoot of the punk and new wave movement that includes influences from Victorian mourning clothing, so good they're bad horror movies, Dracula and more. Guess what else? Goths aren't just disgruntled teens trying to upset mom and dad! Lots of adults are Goths (there's a formal group of them at Microsoft), and as Jillian describes one of the best ways to think about Goth is that it is an aesthetic preference which finds beauty in unconventional things. Wanna know more? Check out her etiquette and advice blog site, Gothic Charm School. Not only that, but Jillian is writing a book coming out next year on the Goth movement! (Good gig for an editor, eh? It should be well written.) It takes all types, and Microsoft proudly accepts them all. Enjoy!
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Cross dressers still make me think... wow ok.. but maybe thats cuz where I work (manchester), you literally get cross dressers like this:
Was Microsoft recently sued for discrimination? Did I miss something? Because we've never had a video on C9 focusing on "goth" or any other type style of living before, besides techy. This seems like MS is trying to cover up or appologize for something.
Specifically looking at this:
One of the things I loved about this interview is that is explicitly demonstrates how open minded Microsoft really is.
And this
But, even more interesting (at least for Ritzy) is that Jillian is a full-fledged Goth. What's a Goth, you ask?.
Eh, just came to mind, disregard it. Cool vid none the less!
ps. Didn't Russia recently set out to ban this type of style?
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Yay for goths making it in big companies! I love her office decorations like the beautiful picture of Siouxsie on the wall, and Emilie autumn's head in the upper right corner of the band wall. I wish I could get a closer look. I wonder if she would mind me hiding under a hoop skirt.
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I'm wondering, how do you read programming books? I always don't do the exercises, I just read the book.. Do you read while sleeping or you really take the book and study like you do in high school and highlight words ?
It's up to what I expect from that book.
If I read it because I want to know how to do something I never know it before, I will read and try to code all along (and also do some exercise). That give me some taste of that thing.
If I read it because I want to know some concepts behind something, often when I try to learn something new, I will focus on why they do these and those.
So I think it up to you. You should set your goal before read those books (in fact, you should do this before do everything). Then try to reach that goal, instead of just read it without direction.
Disclaimer - I'm writing this from the point of view of someone who can already program, if you were learning your first programming language the answer would be very different.
I avoid doing the exercises because I believe that the structure of programming books hasn't really updated to reflect the rise of the internet (oh they put their source code online and such but...) So the books are trying to give you the history, the philsophy, and the syntax and the semantics all at the same time.
When I read a programming book I make sure that I've first learned to do at least "hello world" and hopefully a few of the Project Euler problems in it. Then I go though the book to get a sense of the history and philisophy of the language - because that's really the great value of the textbooks - so that you know not only that, to give a silly example, Java doens't have explicit pointer arithmatic, but also why it doesn't, and the approach that the language would like you to take.
I think that the textbook is a vital tool for getting one from a basic familiarity with the lanugage to a deeper understanding. But for exercises and help and understanding at the low level - they have nothing on resources like Rosetta Code, Stack Overflow, Project Euler, and even Wikipedia.
So yeah, my short answer is: read it like a novel. Admitedly a boring one.
PS - to avoid controversy, if I read something in the textbook that I don't understand, or that I want to check - I certainly run and play with the code samples...
There is a great book that describes that problem (and many others) - it's called "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor your wetware" by Andy Hunt, author of Pragmatic Programmer (another great book!). He writes in a general manner but his book is addressed to software developers.
Basically Andy proposes a process of deliberate reading as a way of making reading more effective. In particular he describes a process called SQ3R that is an acronym for the steps you need to take:
It's all about making reading a conscious process instead of reading random books and forgetting them quickly.
For example let's say you are Java developer and want to read a book about C#. You could:
I also agree with other comments that you have to read book with certain goal in mind. If your goal is to use certain language / framework / tool at hand in your next project or to get a job than technique I've described above is great.
On the other hand if you just want to familiarize yourself with some concepts without going to deeply into details I believe quick reading through it and taking some general notes is good enough. When need arises at least you know what you do not know and can easily catch up with your knowledge. For example I've done so with "REST in practice" as at the moment I didn't need to create any REST services but now I'm well aware of concepts, practices and how to put pieces together if opportunity arises (and I can understand what are all this flame wars on twitter all about ;-).
Learning a programming language is similar to learning any language - you can't learn well from reading a dictionary or textbook on grammar. You learn by doing it.
The brain is a pattern recognition machine, not simple data storage like a computer. It's difficult to learn it without applying it somewhere.
I am always trying to extend examples from the book; imagine you just got a huge box with a construction set; will you read the manual until you are asleep or will you try to build something right away?
I consider this to be the one of the best things about programming - even after 25+ years of development I am still enjoying doing it ;)
I don't read programming books at all i prefer it either verbally or a video tutorial and practicing it side by side
You don't.
But, if you are reading a programming book, you should ONLY do the exercises and read the material afterwards.
You should use Google & documentation to build what you want to build in tools of your own choosing. Books won't teach you much: building real applications will.
When you build real applications - you learn how to FIND information - instead of fill yourself with mostly irrelevant information that you'll probably forget (unless we're talking about fundamental programming constructs - in that case - it's ok).
Programming itself is very simple: what's hard is building real-world applications in various languages and platforms.
Personally, I hate the way most programming books are written. But regardless, as much as I'd like to be able to just read them like other books, I generally don't get much out of one unless I'm using it next to the computer and poking around the software actually trying stuff.
All great answers here - just want to add my own. Always read the review of the book from Amazon or somewhere else BEFORE starting reading the book. People generally recommend certain sections of the book, other better books etc. If there is a better book out there, then why study this particular one.


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CHATTANOOGA — Chattanooga police have arrested a man in what they say is Hamilton County's first reported case of sex trafficking.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports social services agencies in the area have known about the growing problem and even helped victims, but no one had ever reported trafficking to law enforcement until last week.
That is when a 21-year-old Baltimore woman was able to escape the man she says was a pimp holding her against her will. The woman borrowed a cell phone from someone in a restaurant bathroom and called police.
Khari Matthew Troutman was arrested and charged with domestic assault, kidnapping and promoting prostitution.
He is in the Hamilton County Jail. Bail is set at $165,000.
The woman told police she met Troutman at a motel in Silver Springs, Md. She said she agreed to work for him as a prostitute and was taken to Knoxville, Chattanooga and North Carolina, according to a Chattanooga police report. Customers were found by placing online advertisements.
But the woman said Troutman became violent after she asked to go back to Maryland so that she could visit her children in foster care. When she told him she would find her own way back, he beat her, she said. The police report notes that her face was marked with bruises.
Troutman told police he was in a romantic relationship with the woman. He said he and a friend were sightseeing with the woman and two prostitutes. He said the woman chose to prostitute herself on her own time.
Tennessee law defines sexual trafficking as someone forcing another person into sexual servitude.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reported last year that more than 100 people in Hamilton County were trafficking victims. But that information came through reports collected from social services organizations, not the police.
Organizations such as the Partnership for Families, Children and Adults and Second Life Chattanooga have rallied the Chattanooga community in the past year to be aware of sex trafficking locally. They say it continues to be a growing problem in Tennessee.


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Airport hotels
There is a small Transit Hotel at Johannesburg O. R. Tambo International Airport, while the 5-star InterContinental Hotel is situated opposite. The Southern Sun O R Tambo International Airport and the Southern Sun Garden Court are also nearby. There are also budget establishments located a little further afield; information on accommodation is available at the Gauteng Tourism Authority Information Desk in International Arrivals or online. Most hotels operate shuttle services to/from the airport.
Protea Hotel Transit is located within the terminal building at O.R. Tambo International Airport. The 87-room hotel is a few steps from duty-free shopping and the airports' range restaurants and bars. O.R. Tambo International Airport Terminal A Johannesburg P O Box 119 South Africa Tel: (011) 390 1160. Web: www.proteahotels.com
Southern Sun Garden Court offers a complimentary shuttle service to O.R Tambo International Airport. The hotel has its own restaurant and pub. Isando Ext. 3 2 Hulley Road Kempton Park 1619 South Africa Tel: (011) 392 1062. Web: www.southernsun.com
Southern Sun O.R Tambo International Airport Hotel Airport Grounds Jones Road Kempton Park South Africa Tel: (011) 392 1062 Web: www.southernsun.com