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5 Forms of Black Magic That Science Is Making Possible
Magicians, psychics and other sparkly frauds have been scamming the gullible and dim-witted for centuries using elaborate trickery to simulate fantastic powers. But now science is finally here, and it's going to follow through on all of their broken promises.
Here are the technologies that, if you could take them back in time, would totally let you cash in as a wizard.
#5. Mind Reading
The Scam:
In many ways, mind reading is a lot like the human digestive system: no matter what you put into it, ultimately all you're getting out is a bunch of shit. Psychics are mostly just using cold readings and leading questions to pick up clues. They see a guy in a red, white and blue cowboy hat and the "spirits" tell them that he likes country music. The guy is impressed, and hands them money to hear more.
"I'm sensing an object."
"It's not an object."
"Of course! I'm sensing something like an object, a... person!"
"My god! It is a person! My wife, Jenny!"
"Aha! Women are basically objects; you see how the reading was murky."
By creatively hedging their guesses and keeping all information vague, a good cold reader can emulate psychic abilities at least well enough to fool chumps, and chumps' money spends like anybody else's.
How it's Becoming Real:
Scientists at Berkeley University figured out that an MRI machine gives them a pretty clear picture of what the brain is doing. So, if they simply compare what the brain is doing when in different states of mind, you should eventually be able to come up with a machine that can see your thoughts. They already were able to make the machine "see" what word you were thinking of with a freaking 90 percent success rate.
We bet airport security would love to have one of these that you pass through, flashing your thoughts up on a screen for some bored TSA agent to chuckle at. We've got a feeling that in 20 years there'll be a booming industry in telepathy-blocking skull implants.
#4. Telekinesis
The Scam:
Telekinesis is the ability to move or interact with physical objects using only one's thoughts, and charlatans have been replicating it for centuries. Like say you want to bend a spoon with your mind. Simply misdirect the audience while you use your hands to bend the spoon in such a way that, when viewed from a top down angle, it still appears to be unbent. As you slowly adjust that viewing angle, the spoon appears to bend before the audience's very eyes! Hey! Look at you! You're better than Criss Angel!
Oh, not "better" in terms of magic tricks; he's got some pretty neat ones. You're just better than him in general. Because you're not Criss Angel. It's uh... it's not a hard thing to do.
How it's Becoming Real:
About five years ago, a group of scientists successfully decoded the brain signals human beings use to control their hands. Because said scientists were both astoundingly awesome and amazingly irresponsible, they then used this discovery to implant microchips in the brains of monkeys which allowed them to move computer cursors with their brain.
Guys, we need to sit you down and show you a little movie called The Lawnmower Man.
"I wish he'd stop clicking on 'kill me; I am a monster and should not be.' Why did we even put that option in there?"
Fast forward a few years and now we're starting to see the first wave of products resulting from that experiment. Behold the BrainGate, and despair!
From the company Cyberkinetics--which totally does NOT sound like a villainous organization dedicated to mass producing psychic robots--the BrainGate is a chip implanted in your motor cortex that monitors your brain activity and converts it into computer commands used to operate machinery. It was originally built for amputees and paraplegics, but the company has recently received a $4.25 million grant from the Department of Defense for their product.
It's not clear exactly what they're going to do with the technology, but odds are it's going to be less along the lines of "helping paraplegic monkeys to live better lives" than it will be "fusing human brains into unstoppable, unkillable robot bodies." Hello? RoboCop 2? Seriously, do you guys not have Cinemax?
"What does it want?!"
"Crack! It wants crack!"
"Why did we build a crackhead robot?!"
#3. Alchemy
The Scam:
Alchemy is the ancient, bullshit version of chemistry. When most people hear the word they immediately think of the alchemists who claimed they could turn lead into gold (a practice called Chrysopoeia, which is not to be confused with Chrysopelea, which is a flying snake. Seriously, don't confuse them. Your experiments will get terrifying in a hurry.)
"Now marvel, as I transmutate lead into gol-AHHH SNAAAAKES!!!"
--Mernil the Dyslexic Wizard
Of course, the closest old-timey alchemists ever really got was mixing sulfur and gold powder into a metal to turn it yellow. That's right: All it took to create "gold" from lead was to put some gold in it! Good god, it was staring us in the face the entire time!
How it's Becoming Real:
Science has made monumental leaps since that era when alchemy was considered the second-most promising method of obtaining gold after "capturing a leprechaun." We now know that gold is an element that simply has three fewer protons than lead. If you could somehow change that using SCIENCE...
Oh, actually we're kind of late on this one. Back in 1980, a scientist named Glenn Seaborg accidentally made gold out of bismuth, using the aforementioned proton-plucking method (OK, it was a bit more complicated than that).
Yes, bismuth, the same stuff that's in Pepto Bismol.
Or "Pink Bismuth" if you can only afford the generic.
It was only a few thousand atoms' worth, and the cost of doing it was way more than the resulting gold would be worth. But still. He made gold.
Seaborg, seen here without gold. There are, like, 200 friggin' pictures of the guy, and not one of them has gold in it. Awesome work, Google.
And mankind is really just getting started with the whole "change elements by farting around with their protons" business. Transmutation of elements is one of the things they're always doing at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider. Though they're talking less about turning lead into gold and more about turning radioactive waste into something that won't poison our great great grandchildren.
But hey, thanks to Cracked, Google search and poor reading comprehension, we're laying odds that at least one Internet-frequenter will be microwaving some Pepto tonight, and keeping that old dipshit alchemist spirit alive!


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I have a Wi-Fi solution similar to FON which has an encrypted private home Wi-Fi hotspot and a guest network which is unencrypted and requires one to log in once a day. My problem (or rather, annoyance) is that the phone seems to prefer the unencrypted guest network. I have it enabled because I can use other people's guest networks when I'm roaming about in the city. It would make sense that between an encrypted and unencrypted hotspot, it would be wise to prefer the encrypted one, regardless of signal strength. Is there any way to resolve this?
You could change the guest network to be low priority by editing the supplicant .conf file (probably requires root, or
You want to have
Is your device rooted? If so, you can access the /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf file and set/edit the priority field for each network. I looked around on the market, and I haven't been able to find any apps that will allow you to edit this field in a GUI, or any other way to do it without root. I haven't personally experimented with it either, so I'm not 100% sure how it will work, but it's the only option I've found that looks like it might help you control which network your phone connects to when there are multiple configured networks within range.


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Mango Jump Start (13): For Nokia Developers: Moving to the Windows Phone SDK from Qt
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If you are currently building applications in Qt for Nokia phones, then this session is for you! Gregg spends the hour discussion how the Windows Phone developer ecosystem maps to the Qt ecosystem.
This is a great session for any Qt developer who's looking to 'jumpstart' the transition to Windows Phone. It's a good place to start prior to diving into the full Mango Jump Start training series with Rob Wigley and Andy Miles
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My end goal is to get an excel (I'll probably just settle for .csv) file loaded from a silverlight app into my "%SCRATCHWORKSPACE%" for my gp service. I will be linear referencing the data onto a polyline.
I have silverlight reading the csv file's contents and packing it into a string to send over to ArcGIS Server.
Then I want to write this data to a csv file in the "%SCRATCHWORKSPACE%". But I don't seem to be able to use any standard python code to hit the "%SCRATCHWORKSPACE%".
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FORT RILEY, Kan. - Only 24 active-duty Soldiers can say they served in the Vietnam War, and Fort Riley Garrison Chaplain Col. Edwin Ahl is one of them.
After serving in three wars - Vietnam, Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom - and about 40 years of military experience, Ahl will be leaving active-duty service for retirement at the end of May.
"Serving God and country is a blessing. I watched John F. Kennedy and his inauguration speech with that famous line, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,' and I took that to heart," Ahl said. "What can I do to help my country and make it better? And God called me to be a chaplain, and I got the best of both worlds - serving God and country has been a blessing in my life and my Family, too."
Ahl began his military career in April 1969, when he joined the U.S. Navy as an electronic warfare specialist during the Vietnam War. He served a year in Vietnam, just 20 miles off the coast of Haiphong Harbor.
"My experience in Vietnam was scary. We were 20 miles off the coast of Haiphong Harbor, and we knew if we ever got sunk, we would have to swim to North Vietnam or to China. It was a lose-lose situation," Ahl said. "We would get shot at from the shore daily, and the North Vietnamese sent out boats to try and sink us. I was in Vietnam for one year, praise God."
Ahl left the military in 1972. He decided to go to college, and he received his bachelor's degree in geography from Humboldt State University. Ahl said he realized he missed the military, however, and decided to join the National Guard. It was during his time in the National Guard, he said, when he believed God called him to become a chaplain.
"I was in annual training at the National Guard down in Fort Smith, Ark., and I remember praying the night before we left asking God to show me what He wanted me to do, and God said, 'I want you to be an Army chaplain.' I wasn't too sure about that and asked Him to prove it to me, and He did by the people around me," Ahl said.
Ahl received his master's of divinity degree in theology from Oral Roberts University during his time in the National Guard. A few years later, in January 1988, Ahl returned to active duty as a chaplain for the U.S. Army. He also went on to receive his doctorate in theology from Andersonville Theological Seminary.
A chaplain is not just about being a preacher, teacher or a mentor, Ahl said, but being a man or woman of God, who is willing to get out there and do what the Soldiers are doing.
During Operation Desert Storm, Ahl served with the 87th Maintenance Battalion from December 1991 to May 1992.
"I got the call to go to Desert Storm suddenly over the Thanksgiving holiday. Fortunately, I had two weeks in Germany with my unit to get to know everybody before we went to Saudi Arabia," he said. "I put 5,000 miles on my humvee over there because I had companies all spread out and had to make sure everybody was taken care of."
One of his responsibilities as a chaplain was to earn the trust of his Soldiers in order to minister to them, and that meant being out there with them on a daily basis, Ahl said.
"When I was in Iraq, I'd get out of my office and go for a walk every day, and I'd just walk by a Soldier and say, 'Hey, God bless you. What's going on?'" he said. "And the Soldier would share what's going on in his life, and we'd end up talking for an hour right there on the bench."
Being in the military is truly a calling, Ahl said, and he advises Soldiers to remember God has a special place in His heart for those in uniform, especially when times get tough.
"There is pain and suffering, but there is also a joy in knowing that we are special to Him," he said. "Rejoice in that and do your best even when times get hard. Do what's best for your fellow Soldiers. I've tried to live by the words, 'mission first, men always,' as I've cared for and worked with and served those Soldiers around me."
If a Soldier is suffering, Ahl said receiving help is not a shame or a disgrace, especially when returning home from war.
"I have post traumatic stress (disorder). I've had it since Vietnam, and I deal with it by talking to someone, whether it's my wife or counselor," he said. "When I came back from each war, I was talking to someone and got help. I still do, and I probably always will."
According to Ahl, his wife has been a tremendous support for him.
"My wife, Jane, is a Proverbs 31 wife. She is a jewel taken off my crown in heaven and sent to earth to take care of me," Ahl said. "She's been my right hand, my best friend, and she keeps me straight. I couldn't have done it without her, and that's the truth."
Ahl and his Family are planning on retiring in Fayetteville, N.C. He also said he is looking at teaching in the local area.
"I would like to teach theology, church history or New and Old Testament survey at a Bible college," he said. "If I teach at a high school level though, I might teach advanced European history or advanced American history."
The ideal life, however, would be to teach three days a week, play golf three days a week and then go to church on Sunday, Ahl said.
"I will definitely miss the military. I guess that's why I'm going to settle down next to an Army post, because I love the Soldiers. They're a whole lot younger than 25 years ago or maybe I'm just getting older," Ahl said.
As a final farewell to Fort Riley, Ahl said he wishes nothing but the best for the Soldiers and Families who serve here.
"Fort Riley has been a blessing because of the people we've met and been able to serve," he said. "We will carry those memories with us into retirement, and we will always pray for Fort Riley and ask God to bless your pea-pickin' hearts."
Ahl will retire at 10 a.m., Thursday at Ware Parade Field, 500 Heubner Rd.


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St. Mary's Bank Credit Union recently donated $25,000 to The Palace Theatre in Manchester to provide support for two separate initiatives. $10,000 will be applied toward the theatre's Second Century Campaign designed to fund its capital improvements. The funds will be used for much needed theatre improvements and safety upgrades. The balance of St. Mary's gift, $15,000, will help fund "Angel Tickets" for the Palace Theatre's school matinee program for the next three years.
"The Palace Theatre is grateful for the generosity of St. Mary's Bank Credit Union, a consistent, long-time supporter of the Palace Theatre. St. Mary's Bank's commitment assists the Palace Theatre Trust in maintaining a community-oriented center for the exploration and presentation of theatre, music, and dance," stated Peter Ramsey, Palace Theatre president.
"We are pleased to support efforts to preserve one of Manchester's true historical artistic jewels for future generations of theater-goers," said Ronald H. Covey, Jr., St. Mary's Bank Credit Union president and CEO. "Our support of the Angel Ticket program also will provide many young people with their first exposure to live theater, and has the potential to mark the beginning of a lifelong appreciation of the arts."
A dedication ceremony was held on May 1, and a plaque commemorating St. Mary's Bank Credit Union's donation was attached to the right alcove of the theatre.
Built in 1914, the Palace Theatre is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Palace Theatre is a nonprofit performing arts center that hosts its own professional company, youth and teen program and presenting acts. It is committed to achieving its mission through preserving the historic facilities of the theatre, responding creatively to the cultural and entertainment needs of the community and governing in a fiscally responsible and strategic manner.


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Running in the Boston Marathon was the thrill of a lifetime for Hancock County native Teresa "Terry" DeLong - until Monday's bomb blasts came perilously close to hurting a group of family members who were there to cheer her on.
"For a while, it was very, very scary," DeLong said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
DeLong, 65, of New Cumberland, was a half-mile from the finish line on Monday when something happened.
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Teresa "Terry" DeLong, of New Cumberland, was among those participating in Monday's Boston Marathon. -- Contributed
"All at once, everybody stopped. I was thinking, 'Did somebody fall? What's going on?'" she said. "Then we found out how serious of an incident it was."
DeLong's thoughts immediately turned to her family - her husband, Robert DeLong Sr.; her sister, Cheryl "Sherry" Thrift, of Scott Depot, W.Va.; her son, Robert DeLong Jr., of Fort Mill, S.C.; and her daughter, Tammy Crago, of York, S.C.
All of them had made the trip with her on Saturday and had gathered at the finish line to cheer her on.
"I was trying to text them. They were trying to call me. When you can't get through, your first thought is ...," she said, her voice trailing off.
Some family members were following DeLong's progress remotely through an electronic chip she carried in her running shoe, said her niece, Chester attorney April Manypenny Raines.
DeLong finally received a text from her son, Robert, saying the family was OK. Then, she heard the news of the second blast and wondered afresh about her family's well-being. She never used to run with her cell phone, but on Monday, she was glad she did.
DeLong made phone contact with her other son, Joe DeLong, of Charleston, who told her the family was OK. She learned later that the second bomb had gone off about 10 feet from where the family was standing.
"The only thing that saved them was an electrical box and a big utility pole. On the other side of that box, they saw a man who lost both his legs," she said. "They didn't have a mark on them, but there were people all around them who lost limbs."
DeLong was reunited with her family about an hour later with the help of a police officer who led the runners to a safe area downtown. She said her family had "the most horrible looks on their faces. They said they saw things they would never want to see."
DeLong and Raines said Thrift was the closest to the blast.
"My aunt Sherry was pretty lucky she made it," Raines said.
A retired teacher with Hancock County Schools, DeLong qualified for the Boston Marathon by doing well in the Columbus Marathon in October 2011. She said her son is already talking to her about returning to Boston next year.
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When The Steel Wheels, a Virginia-based Americana/roots band, played at Mansfield's Rose Garden Coffeehouse on Saturday night, there was something special in the air. The band had performed in 2012 at the venue, located in the Congregational Church on the town's South Common, to a small crowd of 80 people. Fast-forward two years and more than 200 people filled the church's sanctuary on Saturday night.
[caption id="attachment_29" align="aligncenter" width="600"]http://thesteelwheels.com. Photo by Stephen Ide" src="http://blogs.gatehousemedia.com/folkbluegrass/wp-content/uploads/sites/264/2014/03/Steel-Wheels-si-031514-170.jpg" width="600" height="397" /> The Steel Wheels perform at the Rose Garden Coffeehouse, Mansfield, Mass., Saturday, May 15, 2014. The band: Brian Dickel (bass), Trent Wagler (guitar, banjo), Eric Brubaker (fiddle) and Jay Lapp (mandolin, guitar). For more information about The Steel Wheels, visit: http://thesteelwheels.com. Photo by Stephen Ide[/caption]
The band played many of the songs for which they have become known, including "Red Wing," "Breaking Like the Sun" and "Valley." They also played a number of new songs, including "We Got A Fire" and "End of the World," which aren't expected to be released on CD until 2015. The band has produced four CDs over the years and is about to release a 7-inch vinyl recording.
After performing a rousing rendition of the a cappella song "Valley," the band returned for an encore. According to band members, they had decided backstage to perform a song they hadn't done in some time, a pensive, evocative love waltz called "Dance Me Around the Room." The song ended with a surprising turn. An audience which had just delivered a thunderous standing ovation at the end of the show, was stunned to silence for about 10 seconds.
The Steel Wheels wrote on Facebook: "We don't perform this song all that often but made the backstage decision to do it for an encore last Saturday night. What happened at the end of the song was surprising, beautiful, and very powerful. 10 seconds of absolute silence."
Talk about musical impact.
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Dr. Stephen J. Patterson, professor of the New Testament at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, will deliver the 2007 Schiffman Lecture in Religious Studies, "The Jesus Seminar Mutiny: How Scholarship, Beads and a Little Pluck Sparked a Revolution in the Search for the Historical Jesus." The lecture will take place at 11 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 11 in Dorsey Chapel on the Columbia College campus.
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I've got a repository. In the middle of its life-cycle I deleted a lot of unnecessary files from it (I decided to keep them unversioned).
hg remove
hg commit
The repo grows bigger and bigger.
And I decided to get rid of old revisions the from initial one to the revision where lot of files were removed (let's name it X). Other words I want combine these revisions (from the initial to the X) into one initial revision.
But same time to keep the history of the following revisions (X+1, etc..) as they are.
I googled for the solution, but failed.
And found nothing clever than do this:
hg init newrepo
cd oldrepo
hg archive -r X newrepo
hg export -r X+1: -o "~/patches/%R-%h.diff"
cd newrepo
hg commit -A -m 'initial release (after archiving)'
hg import ~/patches/*.diff
And damn it, after few successfully applied patches I receive:
Hunk #1 FAILED at xxx
Hunk #2 FAILED at xxx
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file xxx.rej
abort: patch failed to apply
What I do wrong?
I've got 1 repo without branches (to be more exact to the revision X all branches were merged).
The second solution was * hg convert to svn * hg convert to mercurial from revisiob X+1
Failed with python backtrace (probably it was caused by our repo has about 3K files).


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WACO (October 31, 2012)—The McLennan County Grand Jury returned indictments Wednesday against three men charged in the commando-style robbery of the Super Plaza Grocery Store at 1320 North 25th St. in Waco.
Marco Polo Medina-Gonzalez, 29, Josias Chavez, 20, and Julio Cesar Medina, 24, were named in indictments charging aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery.
Medina-Gonzalez was also indicted for evading arrest or detention with a prior count.
An alert passerby who witnessed the robbery called 911 at around 12:35 a.m. on Sept. 28.
Police arrived just as two men ran out of the store and jumped into a waiting Toyota sedan, which sped away with officers in pursuit.
The chase ended abruptly at the intersection of Bosque Boulevard and Brookview Circle when the car hit a tree, leaving the occupants stunned.
Two of the men tried to run, but were caught after a brief foot chase.
The driver was pulled from the car and taken into custody.
The men didn't have a chance to use the AK-47 assault rifle, Uzi 9-mm automatic pistol and handgun with which they were armed.
The sequence of events leading up to what police say was a well-planned attempt to rob the store began when the three men followed the store's assistant manager after he closed the store for the night.
Near North 18th Street and Bosque they rammed his car, and then pulled in front of the vehicle to make it impossible for him to escape.
Two of the men ran to the manager's car, forced their way in at gunpoint, and ordered him to drive back to the store while the third man followed in the Toyota.
The two men, who were wearing military-style clothing and ski masks, forced the manager at gunpoint to enter the store and to deactivate the alarm system while the third man waited outside in the car.
The two men assaulted the victim and attempted to break into the store's safe, for which the manager did not have the combination.
The prompt arrival of police forced the would-be robbers to flee before they could get the safe open and they escaped empty-handed, police said.
The assistant store manager suffered minor injuries and was taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center for treatment, as were two of the three suspects.
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Latobia Saviour Brown, 22, of Killeen, who was arrested after a traffic stop in September in Bell County, was indicted Wednesday on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child by contact.
He was named in warrants issued in connection with an incident that was reported in mid-March when a girl younger than 14 told police she had been sexually assaulted at a residence in south Waco.
An arrest warrant affidavit indicated the victim and the accused man knew each other.
Jerry William Borchardt, 61, was named in an indictment Wednesday charging murder (habitual) in the July murder of Carol Jean Wagner, 60, who was found dead in her home in July.
She was suffocated.
Borchardt was her estranged boyfriend.
He told investigators he suffocated the woman with a pillow, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Keith William Foreman, 18, was indicted on two counts of abandoning a child stemming from an incident in April.
Officers who responded on April 5 to a report of a fight involving 10 to 15 men at the apartment complex in the 1100 block of North 6th Street in Waco found two young children alone in an unlocked apartment.
Aaron Sunmer Miller, 32, of Houston was indicted for theft over $200,000.
He was arrested on a warrant stemming from the theft of cartons of cigarettes worth more than $600,000 in November 2011 from the A-to-Z Warehouse, on South Interstate 35 in Waco.


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Some of you might remember that at about this time last year I was working on a knitted cover for my iPhone, in the shape of a whale shark? At first the project came together really quickly and I began writing down the pattern with the intention of publishing it, so that anyone interested could make it too, but unfortunately I got distracted along the way. Between being promoted at work, completing a diploma, buying a house and trying to find time to renovate it, I've had quite a busy year, and until now I just haven't had the time to put it all together.
The good news is, I've spent the last couple of weeks working really hard to get the pattern finished and it is finally done! I simplified the pattern from being knitted on DPNs to flat rows (for communication and tension purposes) and modified the fins to make them a better shape. I've even had a friend test the pattern to double check it works!
You can download the pattern here. It's absolutely free! And while I made the whale shark as a cover for my iPhone, I think it would do equally well as a soft toy.
I'm so excited to be sharing my very first knitting pattern. I really hope you like it!
Reuben 🙂
PS What do you think of the blog's new look? Katie gave HOH a bit of makeover over the weekend and we're pretty chuffed with it! It felt like time for a fresh start…


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I've used one of these for over a year, it is still working great. Ordering another to keep on hand.
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Deals like these always sucker me in for stuff I really don't need
On my order it says ships from China, delivery is about 2-3 weeks.
Can these be used for directing air traffic away from my house?
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After 10 years of writing something like business logic for my company I realized that for 95% of my code I just don't need any special OO techniques. For years I tried to get better with all that OO stuff. But with every book or article I got more confused and the resulting code was uglier and harder to maintain. And it always felt wrong and much to complicated.
The point is, that my job is very easy from an technical point of view. Read stuff from a database (not really SQL), do some calculations and maybe write something back to the database. Handling errors and transactions correctly is the biggest issue.
I found out, that the easiest way to express myself in c++ for what I have to code is to write plain functions. Maybe handling parameters with structs from time to time. But that's almost it. I wrote some helper classes, that I need on a regular base, but that is not necessary very often.
But in the past I surrounded every little or large peace of code with a class. And that is also what my co-workers from the c# department are doing and telling me all the time.
My question is, what is going wrong with us, that we think, that we can solve every software development problem by throwing just more OO techniques on it?
I needed 10 years to figure out that less is more. I looked through the book written by this guy from Romania who does a lot of magic with templates. And I thought: "Man, this looks so interesting - why are you just not needing it??"
Since this here is for Q&A: How much OO do you need to get your job done? And how often do you think, that you are doing something more complicated that necessary just because you have read about a new cool idea. And what do you do to not get into the overdesigning trap?


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I upgraded my Ubuntu 11.04 Oneric to the latest version Ubuntu 12.04 LTS this morning, but after installing all upgrades & cleaning up (Upgradation steps), when it restarted first time to complete installation, it got hang. Then I removed VGA cable of external display attached to my laptop & did a hard reboot then booted successfully and again when I connected other display, it got stuck again.
NOTE: I did upgrade to 12.04 LTS with 2nd display connected & that combo was working well with 11.04 Oneric.


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chemistry is for crack heads
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The only natural science that can be broken down into the categories "making drugs" and "blowing stuff up". Unfortunately, chemistry isn't all fun and games, mostly because of chemistry teachers, who are always bitching about things like "significant figures" and "molality versus molarity".
Remember that chemistry demonstration where the teacher burned his eyebrows off? That was hilarious.
by Al February 05, 2004
A school subject that teaches the alert young anarchist how to make primative explosive devices.
One of the few useful things I learnt at school was how to make nitro-based explosives.
by black flag June 02, 2004
A notion, mostly used by very shallow girls, which suggests that there's this mysterious attraction between two people that's out of anyone's control, and either "just happens" or "just doesn't happen". It's complete bullshit, and more specifically just a cop out to use when a superficial girl tries to pretend she isn't shallow by telling some guy "there's just no chemistry between us", as an excuse not to be together. What she's really saying is "I'm an ignorant bimbo too hung-up on superficial qualities, and I don't care how nice you are because you're not "hot" enough for me. I need someone more attractive, even if he is a complete and total asshole". Then they go around saying things like "Oh, woe is me, I don't know why I keep ending up with the wrong guys". Gee, I wonder why. Will they ever get a clue? Maybe, but it usually doesn't happen until the girl finally grows up, which is usually around the time she turns 40 or so and realizes the qualities in a person that REALLY matter.
I believe that chemistry plays a huge part in a relationship and if that isn't there, then it's just not meant to be.
-- just another bimbo
-- just another bimbo
by VonZippa June 16, 2004
Chemistry is the process of torturing high school students into freaking out and consequently dropping out of school.
That bum was a victim of chemistry.
by bOb_ that one guy October 10, 2005
The result of what happens when Math and Science become butt buddies.
Jennifer: So Sally, you up for some Chemistry Pre-AP PSAT CAHSEE College-prep Testing?! WHOOOOO CHEMISTRY!
Sally: Fuck chemistry, I'm becoming a stripper, bitch.
Sally: Fuck chemistry, I'm becoming a stripper, bitch.
by Mjolnir1134 May 19, 2007
(noun) 1. An excruciating form of torture; sometimes self-imposed. 2. Death broken down into many hourly segments, usually occuring in groups of 17 or more. 3. An extreme social disorder usually with physical symptoms.
1. I'd rather do chemistry than go out with you. 2. I can't go out tonight, I've got chemistry.
by Funguy November 04, 2003
- An education course often hated by those that do not have the mental capacity to comprehend it. Often referred to as "boring" and "useless" by ignorant students, but appreciated by those that see its consequences to society and technology. In college, chemistry is used as a filter class to weed out ill prepared or unintelligent pre-meds and other technical field majors. Serves to re-route them to a more appropriate field such as sociology, business, or political "science".
- A physical science dealing with the world of atoms and the molecules they form. Divided classically into 5 branches: physical, organic, inorganic, analytical, and biological.
- A physical science dealing with the world of atoms and the molecules they form. Divided classically into 5 branches: physical, organic, inorganic, analytical, and biological.
-Man, how am I ever going to get into med school if I fail general chemistry for the third time?!?!
-Chemistry is freaking sweet, personally I love physical chem though organic is pretty cool sometimes too.
-Chemistry is freaking sweet, personally I love physical chem though organic is pretty cool sometimes too.
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I ordered my NN5L but havenÄôt received it yet. In the mean time the opportunity to buy cheap Canon WC-DC58N wide angle converter lens for my G6 appeared. The converter is of max 94mm diameter. Do anyone has any experience if this can be supported by NN5L equipped with Canon G6? If not, what converter that would fit do you recommend?
The question also is valid for Canon G7 (applies to G9 too) since this is the second camera I have.
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I am getting a different distance for the lower arm for the Canon 40D using the supplied camera plate. The upper arm is at about the 49 mm marking. I have attempted to make the measurement with a set non digital calipers and get 51 mm +-error (I am not able to measure this very accurately) The table has a lower setting of 54.5 mm for the Canon 40D using the camera plate. I am looking through the view finder with the upper arm at 90 degrees and the tripod leveled using the bubble in the NN5L. I also switched on live view and changed to x10 setting to see if they agree. The middle exposure point is shifted slightly to the right
I have been using my NN5L for a while with my Canon 40D and Sigma 10mm fisheye which has a 167 degree on Canon APS-C and 180 degree FOV on Nikon DX APS-C sensors. Initially I did a quick alignment with a Zantac pill bottle and a pen. I also shot with too many stops at eight detents. I am now doing what I should have done initially and fine tuning my settings. I am going to change to six detents and see how that effects my results.
I will be calling Sigma again when a particular person is to see how different the entry pupil site is on the 10mm versus the 8mm.
Focal length, diameter (mm), length (mm), groups, elements
8 mm, 73.5 mm, 68.6 mm, 6 groups, 11 elements
10mm, 75.5 mm, 83.1 mm, 7 groups, 12 elements
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Just rcvd information from Sigma USA support
This information is measured from image plane when lens is focused at infinity (elements move when focusing) and something about Lens head (lens head term may have translation issue)
Lens, 1st Nodal Point, 2nd Nodal point (rear, defines focal length), Entry pupil, Exit pupil
Sigma 8mm f 3.5, NP1 87.4 mm, NP2 8.1 mm, Entry 94.3 mm, Exit 54.0 mm
Sigma 10mm f 3.5, NP1 88.8 mm, NP2 10.2 mm, Entry 97.5 mm, Exit 72.5 mm
Tangent: Sigma support said diffraction losses start at lower aperture for wide angle lenses. He says that I need to try different stops empirically and see where I get better results. I have usually been shooting at f11 because I read that that was a sweet spot for the 20D and a particular lens for depth of field and diffraction loss. Of course this is with the caveat that you don't want to shoot very open with a wide angle lens unless necessary to get the shot (low aperture)


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I remember someone mentioning in a forum (on here? I'm not sure!) that the hopping backward arabesques in the coda of the black swan pdd are meant to be on pointe. I had never seen it done that way, (...)Is this a Cuban thing?(...) does anyone know the source of the hops on pointe in this variation and why only Cuban dancers seem to do it?Thanks!
Aurora, I've always wondered myself about this and many other steps sequences in some of Alonso's choreographies which she always claim to stage carbon copy upon those that she danced during the 40's and 50's at BT and Ballet Russes. Specifically about this backward sautees sur le pointe en arabesque penchee, i just had a wonderful glimpse today while looking at the extra footage on the "Ballet Russes" movie. If you click on the the clip of Mia Slavenska's Kitri variation, you'll see the same exact sequence of steps being perfectly performed, leg raised the whole time at a perfect 90 degree, smiling face, fierce hops. It really gave me the chills to see, for the first time aside from the cuban company, this step performed by such a legend and way so back in time, and to realize how carefully has been Alonso in the preservation of such an old fashioned, but lovely, technical oddity.


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City to hold townhall meeting
February 6, 2013
STEUBENVILLE — City officials are preparing to go public with their request for health care concessions from the three city employee unions....
Its not just the Fire who have grievances so does AFSCME, many of them. I do not know about police. From what I understand with the health care costing us more money they want to add 3,000 $ on top of that more to the equation.
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The place to make a stand is not in the Health Care Meeting, that's has nothing to do with their other grievances. I ask a friend on the Dept. about that and was told grievances not about that. Don't hold up the other 2 Unions that play no part in the process of resolving your grievance. Take it up in the appropriate place, maybe council should be approached in a regular meeting, Council is the BOSS of the City Manager. There would be a place to save money, do away with the City Manager and go back to Mayoral Government. This City is to small for a City Manager making too much money. I agree with someotherguy and 2girlsmom. But you need to Talk about the right things in the right place.
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You want Bob's dept to focus on "recycling". Seriously? How many council meetings have you had where you discussed this PILOT program in Buena Vista? For goodness sake I seriously think pilot stole the plane and the only plans were in it. As well last time I checked Bob is the superintendent of M&R & Sanitation. Weeds - M&R : Sanitation - Recycling.... Stop laying off your workers and you might have a fighting chance at generating REVENUE with new business. Oh now there's a word no one mentions.... REVENUE instead of CUTS.
Health care seems to be a real stinger for everyone too. Why in the world are you putting it on the backs of the taxpayers to get your unions to pass a healthcare change? You sent that healthcare woman all around to all the unions but you did so right as you were telling everyone we're laying you off!! Think about it.... We want health care cuts and by the way bye bye!! For goodness sake you are one overpaid city mgr. Where is your c
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Yes I heard they walked out. Their contract violated by the city and grievances filed and the city manager failed to reply. How much do you take before you make a stand? As a wife of a steel worker I watched contacts not honored and families suffer. Be as it may at least they made a stand and the other unions did also.
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The Fire Dept had 7 or 8 grievances sitting on the city manager's desk for well over a month that she was ignoring. She told the Fire rep that she was going to a meeting with the law director to discuss the grievances. The fire rep called the law director to ask what time the meeting was and he said there was no meeting planned that he knew of. The lies the city manager keeps telling are the reasons the Fire Dept kept walking out.
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How is Council "Whipping Boys" they do all the whipping. Give some truth to the public tell them the only Union creating a problem is the Fire Dept., they're representative is the only one that keeps walking out of the Health Committee meetings. Point that out at your town hall meeting. I also suggest the City think hard before they spout off at a Public Meeting. They better check labor laws before they bash the Unions in public. I'm not bashing the Fire Dept. they have a dangerous job, I'm just stating the facts. City Officials should be careful about what they say in "public places", the citizens of this City can hear you, we are not deaf.
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Maybe at the town hall meeting OUR city manager will look at the people talking to her instead of her ipad? Yeah I was there and who ever called her out on the carpet for that kudos to you. Its kinda nice to see the person you are talking to instead of the top of their head.
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We have been in a wage freeze for years actually, we have not had a wage increase for years with our contracts.. As for the health insurance, my family and I hardly use it. We do not abuse it. We go to the Dr's when we HAVE to not for a sniffle or runny nose. We do not use the ER for those either. It costs money, money we do not really have. I'm tired of robbing Peter to pay Paul every month to pay my bills. I love my job with the city, I go to work everyday do not call off or use my sick time. I do not abuse the system. Don't tell me to look for another job, cause there are not out there. NO, I am not crying, for those of you out there riding the white horse. I have put my time in with the city , performed my job the best of my ability for many, many years. I am tired of giving , Its time the counsel does something about it besides kiss each others butt, and take from the workers who do the job. Try to hire someone off the streets who know the job like we do and willing to work.
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The city manager, law director, mayor and secretaries are not responsible for putting a levy on the ballot. They may have all knew that levy needed passed but it's not their job to put it on the ballot. The FINANCE DIRECTOR is responsible for things like that. When Alyssa Kerker realized she screwed up, her first call was to her uncle. When the city manager wanted to fire Alyssa Kerker for not putting it on the ballot, her uncle, 6th ward councilman David "Pokey" Lalich made the comment that there will be no finger pointing at who was responsible and they would make every effort to move on. If you are tired of me "harping on this same dumb issue", YOU feel free to move on. She is responsible for this oversight which cost the city over $300,000. If I made a mistake that cost the city that much, I would be looking for another job.
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Wage freeze???? The city union workers haven't had a raise in 6 years. They have however taken concessions in health care time and time again. So, the M.O. is going to be to demonize the city union workers and turn the citizens against them huh? Not cool.
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So which union do you work for? You had a city manager that didn't put it on the ballot, and she was given every document possible before coming to this fine City of ours and in those docs were the notes that said we needed to pass this levy and please do not forget the levy committee that should have "mentioned" it. Least not forget you have a law director, mayor, secretaries ~ all people that knew that the levy needed passed. Why aren't you getting all the facts? Why are you so stuck on the finance director? Wait is that a grudge you're holding? If so, stop wasting time and come up with something productive because I'm sick of you harping on this same dumb issue without bringing any facts to the table. More than one person is responsible for that error. MOVE ON!
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I'm still waiting for council or the city manager to discipline or fire finance director Alyssa Kerker for costing the city over $300,000 by "forgetting" to put a city levy on the ballot last year. As long as Uncle Pokey is on council, that's not going to happen. When she is disciplined come talk to me about concessions.
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For fixed $a,b,c \in \mathbb{R}$ with $ac \neq 0$, it seems to me that one can find an increasing sequence of integers $\{\alpha_n\}$ such that the quantity $c \log \alpha_n$ becomes arbitrarily close to elements of the set
$$ A = \{ ak+b \,\colon k \in \mathbb{Z} \}. $$
First, is this true? If so, my question is: how good is the approximation?
For example, given any $\epsilon > 0$, is it possible to find infinitely-many integers $n$ such that, for some constant $C$,
$$ \textrm{dist}(c \log n,A) := \inf_{k \in \mathbb{Z}} |c \log n - ak-b| \leq C n^{-\epsilon}? $$
How about
$$ \textrm{dist}(c \log n,A) \leq C e^{-n}? $$
I am also interested in results which might say something like "There are at most finitely-many $n$ satisfying
$$ \textrm{dist}(c \log n,A) \leq C e^{-n^2} $$
for any positive constant $C$" to illustrate the "best-possible" nature of a less restrictive bound.
I am trying to determine the behavior of a quantity like
$$ \left|\left(1-e^{i c \log n}\right)g(n)\right|^{1/n}, $$
where $g(n)$ is well-behaved. Until now I have simply been excluding all $n$ for which $1-e^{i c \log n}$ lies in some small fixed neighborhood of the origin, but doing this I lose infinitely-many $n$.
If, for example, it turns out that, for some positive constant $C$, there are only finitely-many $n$ satisfying
$$ \left| 1-e^{i(\theta + c \log n)} \right| \leq C n^{-1-\epsilon} \tag{1} $$
for any $\epsilon > 0$, then all but finitely-many $n$ satisfy
$$ C n^{-1} \leq \left| 1-e^{i(\theta + c \log n)} \right| \leq 2. $$
In that case we could exclude at most finitely-many $n$ to obtain the desirable property
$$ \left| 1-e^{i(\theta + c \log n)} \right|^{1/n} \to 1 $$
as $n \to \infty$.
Now, if we let
$$ B = \{2\pi k - \theta \,\colon k \in \mathbb{Z}\}, $$
then equation $(1)$ is equivalent to the existence of a positive constant $C_1$ such that only finitely-many $n$ satisfy
$$ \textrm{dist}(c \log n,B) \leq C_1 n^{-1-\epsilon} $$
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Fed Seeks to Protect Even a Small Bank
The acquisition took 21 months to win approval from the Federal Reserve, signaling that certain financial institution deals could face an unusually tough path.
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Chinese Exports Show Trouble for Asian Economies
Asian nations like Japan and South Korea are a crucial part of China's supply chain, but they are increasingly dependent on Chinese export demand.
November 28, 2011, Monday
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One easy way to tell the difference between a merger of equals and a takeover is if the top brass get rich and are granted undeserved paydays.
November 8, 2011, Tuesday
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Olympus Faces Credibility Gap
After firing its chief executive and effectively paying two advisers a 35 percent commission for a British acquisition in 2008, Olympus could be forced to take big write-downs or even delist.
October 20, 2011, Thursday
Olympus Chief Goes, but Push for Reform Goes On
The Olympus board's decision to fire Michael C. Woodford after only two weeks shows that change was sorely needed.
October 18, 2011, Tuesday
Volcker Rule Could Leave Some Murky Wiggle Room
America's banking regulators have taken a good stab at devising a framework for the Volcker Rule on proprietary trading by banks, but it still leaves gray areas.
October 10, 2011, Monday
A Case for Reform at Japan Tobacco
Japan's biggest enterprises have long put job preservation and market share ahead of profits and stock price performance.
June 16, 2011, Thursday
In Pandora's Valuation, a Few Sour Notes
Pandora's primary competition is in the analog dashboard of terrestrial radio, and unlike Sirius XM, the company depends primarily on advertising.
June 6, 2011, Monday
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What if the I.M.F. chose its next leader based on the economic performance of the 187 member states?
May 23, 2011, Monday
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The decision by Raj Rajaratnam, of the Galleon Group, not to enter a plea agreement on insider trading led to fewer charges and a chance to appeal the verdict.
April 20, 2011, Wednesday
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Kentucky State Police are investigating a single-vehicle, fatal collision that occurred on KY 181 South (Guthrie Rd), approximately 2 miles north of Guthrie, on Thursday at 12:03 a.m.
KSP says the preliminary investigation reveals Sheila D. Austin, 56, of Elkton, was operating a 2004 Hyundai Accent, northbound on KY 181 when she lost control of the vehicle and exited the right shoulder of the roadway.
While trying to regain control of the vehicle the driver overcorrected and traveled into the southbound lane.
She then overcorrected once again and traveled back off the right shoulder of the roadway.
KPS says the vehicle overturned as a result and Austin, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle.
She was pronounced dead at the scene by Todd County Coroner Bob Whittlesey.


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If you've ever seen a deer, moose or caribou with antlers in person, then you know that they have this fuzzy hair on them when they are growing that looks like velvet. In fact, that's what "they" call it…velvet. Photo right: Bonnie Harris It's highly vascular skin that provides the antlers, because of the blood supply, oxygen and essential nutrients they need to grow large and strong. Antlers are used as weapons in the animal world, as well as attracting a mate by showing off their impressive rack of antlers to the ladies. Almost all of these types of animals grows a brand new rack [ ... ]
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A Tour of U.S. National Parks
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SSPX head apologizes.
I updated my post below, but just in case people aren't checking that thread, here's the latest development in the Williamson saga.John Allen reports today that the Vatican has released a statement from SSPX superior Bishop Bernard Fellay, who apologizes for Williamsons offenses. It reads, in part:
Its clear that a Catholic bishop cannot speak with ecclesiastical authority except on questions that regard faith and morals. Our Fraternity does not claim any authority on other matters. Its mission is the propagation and restoration of authentic Catholic doctrine, expressed in the dogmas of the faith. Its for this reason that we are known, accepted and respected in the entire world.The affirmations of Bishop Williamson do not reflect in any sense the position of our Fraternity. For this reason I have prohibited him, pending any new orders, from taking any public positions on political or historical questions.We ask the forgiveness of the Supreme Pontiff, and of all people of good will, for the dramatic consequences of this act. Because we recognize how ill-advised these declarations were, we can only look with sadness at the way in which they have directly struck our Fraternity, discrediting its mission.This is something we cannot accept, and we declare that we will continue to preach Catholic doctrine and to administer the sacraments of grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Shrewd move, as far as it goes. I would have preferred something stronger (ill-advised doesnt begin to describe what Williamson spews), sooner (why did it take so long for Fellay to publicly condemn Williamsons unhinged views about the Shoah when he has been repeating them for years?), and less, well, huffy (yes, yes, youre respected the world over, but why not name the Jewish people in your apology to the pope and to all people of good will?). And P.S.: the Fraternity isnt the only one that suffers as a result of this train wreck. But at least Fellay appears to have an inkling of the gravity of Williamsons transgressions.Interesting, too, that the statement was released by the Vatican. Given Fellay's reticence to condemn Williamson's outrageous views--as recently as yesterday--it seems likely that Fellay felt some pressure from Rome to issue his statement.
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Maybe some good will come of this. People now realize more than ever that these are not just nostalgic traditionalists who want to be respected, but are are bunch of loons with odious opinions. After all, despite Fellay's deft attempt at deflection, Williamson's views on the Jewish people did exactly come out of a vacuum. I think the way forward is quite claer: completely accept the validity of the twenty-first ecumenical council or (to borrow Williamson's upper-class English accent) "bugger off"...
Rather anemic response to Williamson's reprehensible comments.And, of course, we're reminded --- once again --- of the SSPX mission: "the propagation and restoration of authentic Catholic doctrine."'Nuff said.
I wore myself out trying to look for an actual apology or condemnation in statements like this: "Our Fraternity does not claim any authority on other matters. Its mission is the propagation and restoration of authentic Catholic doctrine, expressed in the dogmas of the faith. Its for this reason that we are known, accepted and respected in the entire world."This boils down to "We don't claim to know absolutely everything... That's part of what makes us so well-liked!" He's not so much distancing himself from Williamson's conclusions as saying it's okay not to listen."We declare that we will continue... to administer the sacraments of grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ."Isn't that what they're not supposed to do?
Hello All,In charity I'll assume that Bishop Fellay's apology is genuine and that Williamson's views are not representative of the membership of the SSPX. But at least part of what Fellay says has me puzzled:"Our Fraternity does not claim any authority on other matters. Its mission is the propagation and restoration of authentic Catholic doctrine, expressed in the dogmas of the faith."If this is literally true then the members of SSPX would evidently be committed to rejecting some of the teachings of councils and/or popes before Vatican II, although the SSPX explicitly rejects only Vatican II. As some of our fellow participants here have reminded us, Vatican II defined no new doctrines, and did not repudiate any previously defined doctrines. In fact the Roman Catholic Church has never repudiated any defined doctrine. So if what Fellay says is literally true, then I conclude that the SSPX must reject some previously defined doctrines as inauthentic. Maybe the SSPX rejects the doctrines concerning the infallibility of the pope, the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary, which were defined as recently as the 19th and 20th centuries but before Vatican II?Okay all, I will admit it. I'm not being entirely serious - I suspect that Fellay has a very peculiar understanding of the term "doctrine", just as he has an odd understanding of what it means to be "known, accepted and respected in the entire world.".
It would be interesting to know what other Bishops throughout the world think of this matter; even more interestring to know if any Bishops were consulted when the Pope made his decision about the SSPX. According to one report in the secular press even Cardinal Kasper who leads the Vatican's efforts at Christian Unity was in the dark.I ran into this group in 2003 at a church, the name of which I forget, near rue des Bernadins in Paris. Listening to a few of them was stunning. A couple of them said that whether I knew it or not I was Protestant if I supported Vatican11.
Thank you for your comments, Grant. I did check Fellay's interview yesterday in which he says:- [Patricia Briel, Le Temps:] Do you condemn the negationist declarations of Bishop Williamson?- [Fellay:] It does not belong to me to condemn them. I do not have the competence for (t)his. So, Fellay, the head of the SSPX, is not competent enough to be able to condemn denial of the Holocaust. This speaks volumes about the group. Unity is wonderful, but depending on who and what you are unifying with.I thank God for the outcry, at least from the laity, that forces some response from officials. What a testament to indifference or worse, if this whole thing had gone unremarked beyond rarefied theological discussions. Abstraction is fine to a point, but Christianity involves the Incarnation, God in the flesh, understanding that matter matters. And the flesh and blood reality of the Jewish people with their acute pain on this issue should not be bartered for anyone's doctrinal comfort or accommodation.Truly, the offense is beyond understanding. All Benedict really sees is the Vatican world --- thank you, Hans Kung in the NYT. There must be some remove, some ether that accompanies episcopal ordination. Passive-voice non-apology apologies become the currency of speech. I am reminded of the spin of US Catholic bishops who described the sexual abuse nightmare as an abstract "passion of the Church" where they were the "victim," instead of the painful scarring of innocent flesh and the real human suffering they caused. All the same pattern of deflection, evasion and refusal to be accountable.
Note of the District Superior for Germany of the SSPX(Rorate Caeli translation)"As District Superior of the Society [of Saint Pius X] in Germany, I am very troubled by the words pronounced by Bishop Williamson here in this country. "The banalization of the genocide of the Jews by the Nazi regime and of its horror are unacceptable for us."The persecution and murder of an incalculable number of Jews under the Third Reich touches us painfully and they also violate the Christian commandment of love for neighbor which does not distinguish ethnicities."I must apologize for this behavior and dissociate myself from such a view."Such dissociation is also necessary for us because the father of Archbishop Lefebvre died in a KZ [concentration camp] and because numerous Catholic priests lost their lives in Hitler's concentration camps."Stuttgart, January 27, 2009Father Franz Schmidberger(Father Schmidberger was the Superior-General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X at the time of the consecrations of 1988.)
And, of course, were reminded once again of the SSPX mission: the propagation and restoration of authentic Catholic doctrine.Well, yes, one would hope that this is what a Catholic would want for a mission. The debate is over what *is* authentic Catholic doctrine. Which I grant also begs the question of whether it needs to be restored. Fr. Schmidberger's statement is the strongest and most welcome - and not surprising given that he works in Germany, perhaps. Nonetheless, even Fellay's statement, pressured or not, represents an unprecedented step within the SSPX. So we're left to pray that we see more positive movement in this direction. That can only be a good thing.
All Benedict really sees is the Vatican world thank you, Hans Kung in the NYT. I really don't know what the Pope sees. But I think it's an open question whether an academic sinecure at Tubingen is any less isolated from the wider world than the Vatican is.
Benedict's myopia and stuffy reactionary conservatism have weighed heavily on the Catholic world for decades now. Is it any wonder that according to a Pew report a third of US Catholics are ex-catholics (even factoring in the huge influx of immigrant Catholics)?
Re: "Nonetheless, even Fellays statement, pressured or not, represents an unprecedented step within the SSPX."That is depressing beyond measure, in light of what a dissembling mess of a statement Fellay signed. Seriously, is he that exalted in the group's mind?I fear the old world of unbounded deference to hierarchy still lives, where "Father says" is the final judgment of all. It's not healthy for Father or infantilized adults or vulnerable children. We've already got bells back and more Latin. What next?
Since Bishop Fellay publicly asked for forgiveness, I think this gives us a good opportunity for an examination of conscience. Do we discredit, dismiss, downplay, or speak less than forceful condemnations against any holocausts of innocents in our day? Do we speak of classes of human beings as not persons whose killing is something less than murder and to some degree justified? Are we claiming the mantle of Catholic or of liberal inclusion for positions which soft-peddle extreme slaughter and massive social injustice? Do we tolerate such equivocation from our friends, colleagues, and co-workers? Miserere nobis.
This thread is not about abortion. Nor will it become one about abortion.
I'm not going to raise any specific issue, Grant. We have a profound situation here, where the Church extended mercy, intolerant statements were made, forgiveness was publicly requested, and reparations offered. As Christians this presents us with an important opportunity to reflect on something we must all internalize: there, but for the grace of God, go I. Any one of us, myself included, could be in the holocaust-denying shoes of Bishop Williamson or worse, and maybe without even knowing it. Without such an examination of conscience, we will be incapable of praying "forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us".
The comment posted at 8:27 smacks of censorship or, if not censorship, then a certain sensitivity which could be read to reflect how close to home the earlier commenter hit. No matter what your view, it seems like a reasonable point, especially for someone to make in the particular forum of comments to a blog post.
It's not censorship. This is not a street corner. This is not a public park. It's a blog. We have just shy of a thousand threads on abortion--please don't insult my intelligence by suggesting the comment was not about abortion--and I do not want to see the debate rehashed here.If you want to talk about the insufficient apology offered by Fellay, by all means do. If you want to talk about abortion, pick another post. Off-topic comments will be deleted.
Grant that is an interesting point, and I do appreciate you leaving my comments up for reflection. I think the issue of whether and how we as Christians can stand and judge the apology to be insufficient is the issue I am raising, and how our judgment on that issue is affected if we humbly examine our conscience about our own blindnesses and weaknesses and stated views on other social injustices.
David's newest post includes this quote from Pope Benedict, in which the Pope draws a lesson from the Holocaust that is not dissimilar from the point I am trying to make here:"May the Shoah be a warning to everyone against oblivion, denials or reductionism."
I must admit I'm a bit surprised at the shock at the view of Bishop Williamson. The SSPX is clearly anti-Semitic. Just read some of their essays on Jews on their web site, although I notice some of the more awful ones have recently been removed from there. Their basic approach is that all Jews are guilty of deicide and they are trying to take over the world. But the SSPX says they're not anti-Semitic because they don't hate individual Jews. I mean really, they put it out there for everyone to see.Williamson is doing us all a favor. The SSPX is not just some folks nostalgic for Latin. They reject everything about Vatican II, everything, not just liturgical reforms. Nosra Aetate is a document of Vatican II, so why be surprised to learn that they reject what that document teaches? The favor Williamson does for us is to show us, in the ugliest way possible, where we would be without the Council. Perhaps there can be no greater service on the 50th anniversary of the Council's inception than to provide such a dramatic contrast, proving the wisdom of John XXIII.
Matt - keep in mind that B16's action is about 4 bishops. A big issue is the fact that bishops are not "laicized" so what do you do when a bishop or a group of bishops goes their own way?How do you forgive? How do you re-incorporate them into the church? What happens if you offer an olive branch and they adamantly are convinced that their way is the "true" way?You have clerical office, ordination, etc. impacting this discussion in terms of trying to parallel or compare to issues such as abortion, ordination of women, gay marriage, etc.
"How do you forgive? How do you re-incorporate them into the church? What happens if you offer an olive branch and they adamantly are convinced that their way is the true way?"Bill, thinking about these questions, I'm imagining the four SSPX bishops attending their national bishops conference meetings. Zoinks!Your question reminds me of the troubles roiling the Anglican Communion - what is the nature of the relationship between local churches that seemingly do not share the same creeds? I know many Catholics look with some satisfaction upon our well-honed juridical structures that - theoretically at least - allow these questions of intrachurch relationship to be handled with nice, clean, sharp distinctions. Yet this SSPX situation seems to be "shades of grey". They're not excommunicated ... yet they're not in communion. What *is* the nature of the relationship, and how is it manifested?


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I have a discrete dynamical system in $[0,1]^n$. Specifically, I am studying the dynamics of a probability distribution under certain operator $\phi$ such that $\mathbf{q}[t+1]=\phi(\mathbf{q}[t])$. The probability distribution is specified by $n$ parameters in the $n$-dimensional vector $\mathbf{q}$. What I need to know is whether a specific starting point $\mathbf{q}_0$ is in the basin of attraction of another specific point $\mathbf{q}'$. The only way that I have to check this is by running a computer program. I would like to know how to analyze mathematically this type of global behaviors of the system. More in general, studying the size of the basin of attraction of the point $\mathbf{q}'$ would be very important. What type of mathematical tools are needed to study this kind of issues?
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OAKLAND, Ky. (AP) -- U.S. Postal Service officials have decided to keep an office in the small city of Oakland open but reduce its hours.
The announcement was made during a meeting at Oakland City Hall Tuesday afternoon. Fourteen of the city's 225 residents attended the meeting, and said they were happy with the decision.
The announcement came as part of a plan by the Postal Service to restructure. Chris Carroll, manager of post office operations in the area, said cost-saving measures are necessary for the agency's financial future.
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I've been searching for the title of a certain film for quite a while now with no success, so I come here in case any of the stuff I remember rings a bell to someone.
So, I remember that this film is set in two universes, the one being our own and the other a Dystopian one tightly controlled by the government.
I remember that towards the beginning of the film, a man with a completely white mask over his head strolls through a city (in the Dystopian universe) and then he enters a bar where after a while some people in uniform (I think it was mentioned that they were some sort of 'police') enter and proceed to capture him. A fight happens and the man manages to escape.
I also remember that in the city there were lots of people preaching weird religions.
I think the film is post 2000.
The film is not a cartoon, it's a live-action film.
If I remember any more details I'll add them.


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Vincent Ferraro, the Ruth Lawson Professor of International Politics at Mt. Holyoke College, will deliver this year's Kenneth Roemer Lecture on World Affairs at SUNY Geneseo. He will address "The Future of American Foreign Policy: The Burdens of a Reluctant Hegemon" at 2:30 p.m. April 3 in the MacVittie Union Ballroom. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Ferraro is a former consultant for the U.N.'s Development Program and Economic Policy Committee of the United Nations Association of the United States. He has been a member of the Pew Charitable Trust faculty fellowship board and is the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon faculty grant for his research on political economy.
His scholarly work in the field of international relations includes several articles on global poverty, third-world development and global debt. He also has authored articles on global interdependence and the politics of energy. He is currently Mount Holyoke's lead faculty member on a project funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Ferraro earned his doctorate from M.I.T., his master's degree from Columbia University and his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College.
The Kenneth Roemer Lecture on World Affairs is a memorial to Roemer's longstanding interest in global issues. The series was endowed by his brother, the late Spencer J. Roemer, emeritus director of admissions at Geneseo and member of the Geneseo Foundation Board of Directors.
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