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Kindle Fire HDX has a spark
|The Kindle HDX is a decent option for those already invested in the Kindle platform who don't yet own an iPad or other tablet. It's slightly thinner and lighter than last year's Kindle HD, and the HDX has better, recessed power and volume buttons. A faster, quad-core processor makes the HDX feel snappier, and its higher-resolution screen is noticeable, particularly when viewing photos. (Amazon.com/MCT)
How many carmakers talk up their new models' emergency brakes? Do airplane makers call out state-of-the-art oxygen masks?
But Amazon.com tries to think differently about the Kindle tablets it began selling five years ago. It may be on to something with the "Mayday" button that's a highlight of its new Kindle HDX tablets.
Amazon's Kindle line has grown from a single, quirky black-and-white e-reader to an array of eight tablets, including the faster and lighter HDX color tablets, which begin shipping Oct. 18.
Founder Jeff Bezos is especially enthusiastic about Mayday, which initiates a videoconference with a customer-support representative when you press a life-ring-shaped icon in the settings menu.
Mayday is a twist on the virtual assistants available on Apple and Google devices, voicing answers and advice in response to spoken queries.
They're all descended from Microsoft's infamous Clippy, an animated assistant that appeared in late-1990s versions of Office.
I wonder if Mayday is also the first step toward an online version of Nordstrom's personal shopping advisers.
Perhaps I shouldn't be snarky. The presence of Mayday will be reassuring to some Kindle buyers, similar to the way Apple customers take comfort in knowing there's a live person available to help at the nearest Apple store.
Tablets were supposed to be dead-simple and easier than PCs, but with Mayday, Amazon is acknowledging they're still computers that need extra attention now and then.
Higher-end Kindles in particular have become more complicated. Where the original was a basic e-reader that automatically connected to wireless networks, the HDX is a more full-featured tablet with PC-like capabilities and complications.
You can connect to Amazon's digital mall via Wi-Fi or 4G cell networks, if you buy a service plan from AT&T or Verizon.
The HDX is also designed to connect wirelessly to "smart" TVs, game consoles and other set-top gear. This feature is coming in November, but the HDX can already mirror its display through a "Miracast" certified wireless TV adapter, if you can find one.
Amazon also is adding more business features, so you'll be able to connect the HDX to a secure corporate network and use it for light work, as well as reading, browsing, playing games and watching videos.
Clearly there will be demand for tech support, especially among the older book-lovers who were the original Kindles' core audience and may now be considering an upgrade to a color model.
The Kindle HDX is a decent option for those already invested in the Kindle platform who don't yet own an iPad or other tablet. It's slightly thinner and lighter than last year's Kindle HD, and the HDX has better, recessed power and volume buttons. But the HD is still a nice tablet and a good deal at $139.
A faster, quad-core processor makes the HDX feel snappier, and its higher-resolution screen is noticeable, particularly when viewing photos. I don't think it matters much with books or even videos on the little screen.
Going back and forth from an iPad to the HDX, I preferred the iPad's physical home button to the sometimes elusive "home" icon on the HDX touch screen. I also was disappointed that Yahoo's fantasy-football app isn't available on the Fire because that's primarily what I use tablets for in the fall.
The base 7-inch HDX that displays ads costs $229, or $244 without ads. Adding 4G LTE capability adds $100 to the price. Preorders are being taken now for the shipping that begins Oct. 18. An 8.9-inch HDX will be available Nov. 7 starting at $329.
The HDX is about 7.25 by 5 inches and weighs 10.7 ounces. If I started with a full charge in the morning, the battery would peter out about the time I settled in to read before going to bed.
Amazon's HDX matches the price of Google's Nexus 7 tablet and undercuts Apple's 7.9-inch iPad Mini, which starts at $329. But they're all facing competition from decent Android tablets now on sale for well under $200.
Having a friendly assistant available to help may also justify the HDX price.
Hewlett-Packard, for instance, is selling 7-inch "Slate" Android tablets for $140 to $170. But its "SmartFriend" tech support costs $15 per month for a subscription, or $100 for one-time help.
I'm not sure that people shopping for tablets this holiday season will think through the potential service costs. They should, because what they're mostly buying is a console to access a suite of online services with varying charges.
Amazon isn't giving it all away. Fire tablets prompt users to upload their photos and media files to Amazon's cloud system, where you get 5 gigabytes of space before monthly storage fees kick in. The average household is expected to generate 3.3 terabytes of digital content a year by 2016, according to Gartner research.
The Fire is also oriented toward the Amazon Prime service's offering of an online library of second-run videos, similar to Netflix. Prime costs $79 per year.
But it may all be a small price to pay if you're a lonely Kindle user and would like to chat with one of the friendly Mayday reps.
I was curious about which wireless adapter would work best to "fling" videos playing on the HDX to a TV set, mirroring the tablet display on the larger screen, so I called Mayday.
Less than 10 seconds later I was videoconferencing with a woman named "Stephanie" at an Amazon call center in the Tri-Cities area.
Stephanie said the "fling" feature is coming later and promised to email more details within 24 hours. I was hoping she'd slip up and confirm rumors that Amazon is developing its own wireless TV adapter, but she was too careful.
When a Mayday session begins, Amazon turns off the Kindle's front-facing camera so Stephanie and her co-workers can't see who they are chatting with. Stephanie insisted that she couldn't see me, and she didn't react when I made silly faces at the device as we talked.
When the conversation moved from tech support to the topic of what she could see from her vantage point, she informed me that she was authorized to terminate our session if it strayed.
After the Mayday call ended, a questionnaire popped up on the HDX, asking if my question was answered. Then a similar questionnaire appeared in my email inbox.
Fortunately, I was empowered to terminate the session and go back to watching videos, reading books and playing around on the HDX.
Here are some HDX specs as provided by Amazon:
- Base price: $229
- Screen size: 7 inches
- Processor: Quad-core 2.2 GHz
- Battery life: 11 hours mixed use, 17 hours reading
- Audio: Dolby Audio, dual stereo speakers, microphone
- Wi-Fi: Dual-band, dual antenna MIMOama
- 4G: Optional, service either AT&T or Verizon
- Camera: Front-facing HD camera
- Storage: 16, 32 or 64 gigabytes
- Dimensions: 7.3 x 5 x 0.35 inches
- Weight: Wi-Fi version 10.7 ounces, 4G version 11 ounces
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The number of Dyck paths in a square is well-known to equal the catalan numbers: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DyckPath.html But what if, instead of a square, we ask the same question with a rectangle? If one of its sides is a multiple of the other, then again there is a nice formula for the number of paths below the diagonal, but is there a nice formula in general? What is the number of paths from the lower-left corner of a rectangle with side lengths a and b to its upper-right corner staying below the diagonal (except for its endpoint)? I am also interested in asymptotics.
Since that Mirko Visontai told me that the answer is ${a+b\choose a}/(a+b)$ if $\gcd(a,b)=1$. The proof is the following (with k=a and l=b):
The number of 0--1 vectors with $k$ 0's and $l$ 1's is ${k+l\choose k}$, so we have to prove that out of these vectors exactly $1/(k+l)$ fraction is an element of $L(k,l)$. The set of all vectors can be partitioned into equivalence classes. Two vectors $p$ and $q$ are equivalent if there is a cyclic shift that maps one into the other, i.e., if for some $j$, $p_i = q_{i+j}$ for all $i$. We will prove that exactly one element from each equivalence class will be in $L(k,l)$. This proves the statement as each class consists of $k+l$ elements because $gcd(k,k+l)=1$.
We can view each 0--1 sequence as a walk on $\mathbb R$ where each 0 is a $-l/(k+l)$ step and each 1 is a $+k/(k+l)$ step. Each $(k,l)$ walk starts and ends at zero and each walk reaches its maximum height exactly once, otherwise $ak + bl = 0$ for some $0 < a +b < k+l$ which would imply $\gcd(k,l) \neq 1$. If we take the cyclic shift that ``starts from the top'', we stay in the negative region throughout the walk, which corresponds to remaining under the diagonal in the lattice path case. Any other cyclic shift goes above zero, which corresponds to going above the diagonal at some point.
I heard a talk at Indiana University last March by Timothy Chow. Here's his abstract, which seems to give a negative answer to your question about rectangles whose sides have non-integer ratio:
Is a sum OK?
I am used to a different rotation of the paths. I think the paths you are looking for can also be described as all paths above the x-axis, with steps (1,1) and (1,-1), that starts at (0,0) and ends on the line x=y+n for some (x,y) from (n,0) to (n+m,m).
(If instead they end at the line x=n, we get the Ballot paths.)
Let B(n,k) be the Ballot numbers, B(n,k)= # paths from (0,0) to (n,k). Now, all paths must pass the line x=n. From there on it is just a binomial path, so the number of paths are sum_{k=0,2,4,...,n} B(k,n)*( (n-m-k)/2 choose k/2)
(n choose k)= Binomial coefficient, n!/(k!(n-k)!)
If I understood your question correctly, the numbers you're looking for are called Ballot numbers. The number of paths from $(0,0)$ to $(m,n)$ (where $m>n$) which stay below the diagonal is $\frac{m-n}{m+n}\binom{m+n}{m}$.
Moreover, if $m>r \cdot n$, then the number of lattice paths from $(0,0)$ to $(m,n)$ which stay below the line $x=r\cdot y$ is $\frac{m-rn}{m+n}\binom{m+n}{m}$. (I haven't worked this out, but Ira Gessel says so in Introduction to Lattice Path Enumeration)

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Bardwil's back open in Bellaire
August 25, 2013
BELLAIRE — After a near two decade absence, Bardwil's Grocery Mart is back open on 2101 Belmont St....
It's a disgrace that someone has to use the name of a family that was well respected and operated a business in Bellaire for almost 90 years. Also a reporters credibility is based on the accuracy of the information in their article.The store hasn't been closed for "nearly two decades". Bardwil's Grocery was open in 2008.
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Looks like the owner finally decided to grow up. I guess when lego doesn't even accept you as an "official" lego museum, better just hang it up. Maybe he will sell this store to the Bellaire historic society if it doesn't make it.
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The headline is awful. Back Open? What the heck does that mean? How about Bardwils Open once more? I wish them well andbthank them for taking the risk.
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Sad to say, i wont give it long after opening, and that store will be broken into.
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Good luck to them. I think they'll probably do well. If Convenient can make it in Shadyside they should make it ok in South Bellaire.
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I am currently developing an application which uploads files to the App Folder in the Dropbox Account of the user. I am using the iOS SDK of Dropbox version 1.1. The problem I am facing is that I want to get the link of the files just uploaded so that I can share them with others.
For that, I came to know that the uploaded files should be inside the Public directory in my Dropbox account. I came across this following link
Get Public Link of Dropbox Files
I wanted to know how can I move the files from inside the /Apps/MyAppName/File location to the Public location. I have come across the following method in the API -
- (void)moveFrom:(NSString*)from_path toPath:(NSString *)to_path;
This method is located in the file DBRestClient.h in the SDK. What should the value which needs to be passed on as parameters to this function be? I apologize beforehand if you find my question to be trivial, but I really wanted to know the solution for this problem.


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Firstly, I know there is a similar question on SO but this is not a duplicate, as the issue there was different, though observed behaviour is the same.
I have added a few og:image tags and when I run my url through facebook debugger, it is finding the images but showing them as blank.
When I click the blank image tiles, it is showing me the image on the browser, so a little stumped here.
Here is what facebook sees for the images:
"image": [
"url": "http://[MY_SERVER]/path/to/jpg"
"url": "http://[MY_SERVER]/path/to/jpg"
In the debugger section on object properties, under og:image, it is showing two blank tiles. However when I click the tiles, it redirects to the image url on my server and the browser renders the image corretly.
Why is facebook not able to show these images then? What am I doing wrong?
The size of these JPEG images is around 500KB and aspect ratio is 1024X768 (so less than 3:1). For a completely different image that was of size around 100KB and aspect ratio 500X375, facebook was showing the image in the share. Just wondering if there could be an issue with the size of the image?


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I have recently joined a company as the sole IT guy and I'm struggling to get a handle on what software and hardware we own and how it is deployed. Keeping in mind my limited time and budget, what tools or processes are going to be effective for discovering and managing this information? Things I am looking after include:
- Approximately 35 desktops including PC and Mac.
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4 Apr 2010 4:57 AM #1
iPad thread
So my shiny new pad showed up yesterday and of course one of the first things I did was pull up my app with it. Most of the functionality works as expected. Here are a coupe of things I noticed right off the bat. Maybe others could post issues they have seen and solutions to them.
1. Toolbar button text appears to overlap icons slightly. This is not that big a deal.
2. Grids have a conceptual issue when working with touch devices. How can you perform a double click? I have lots of grids with double click for select behavior. On the pad, and iPhone double tap zooms. I suppose I could add a "open selected" button for mobile device support. However it does raise a interesting issue.
4 Apr 2010 6:43 AM #2
I think a bigger issue with the grid is the inability of grids to scroll at all. Not sure if this is a browser issue or what. Don't think so as even the ExtJS examples do not scroll...which severely cripples most applications that rely on scrolling grids (like mine). The scrollbar simply does not show up. I suppose you can always retool scrolling grids to paging ones, but that will be a significant amount of work.
I have also noticed that the back button in certain text input fields does not work.
And the drop down date box goes haywire as well, not even sure where to begin to describe what's going wrong with that.
Will Ext be looking into any of issues on running ExtJS apps on the iPad? Sure hope so. And we are all still waiting on ANYTHING out of Ext on what exactly the ext.mobile framework is, what it's capable of, when to expect something, or if it will ever exist. Truly dissappointed on that one.
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4 Apr 2010 7:25 AM #4
I've been playing with the iPad also. I'm posting over at Xantus' HTML5 Blog
I'm concentrating on getting all the draggable widgets working, and then I'm going to tackle some gestures, like the 4 finger box resize.
4 Apr 2010 7:47 AM #5
Very cool xantus, so does your blog post mean that you have the slider on all grids working now? Is this going to be a fix to the Ext base or grid libs that we can simply update to? That would be sweet.
I also noticed that "zooming" into an ExtJS app wreaks havoc on the viewport and screen sizing and mgmt. Be nice to be able to turn that off on a page by page basis.
Please keep the iPad and HTML5 blog and/or forum posts coming, I am VERY interested in the offline DB support and connection state mgmt of HTML5. I want to know what road I should be taking regarding building a mobile aspect of my medical field based app. I need something in the O.R....the iPad is the perfect device. So I need to know what ExtJS is going to offer to make using this device a reality in the field, and where my development efforts should be directed.
At first glance, it doesn't appear that "normal" ExtJS developed apps are going to work out of the box, at least not until they are patched. Glad to see somebody is alreasdy working on these issues...but would LOVE more info on ext.mobile....Buehler, anybody, Buehler?
- Oh, I think by "slider", you mean the slider controls...not that slider bar on the grids. That's a biggie issue then still, hope we can get that fixed.
- Ok, sorry for the ext.mobile questions then. Sure would be nice to hear from someone though on that...for the life of me I still don't understand the reason for shroud of secrecy surrounding that topic.
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4 Apr 2010 8:13 AM #6
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
Yep, Right now I'm concerned about getting normal Ext apps working on the iPad.
4 Apr 2010 9:12 AM #7
I haven't seen that yet. Could you check if this helps:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
Try this, go to a grid section (mine happens to be on the left hand nav)...and double tap to "zoom-in" to the grid which expands that grid section of the app within the browser. Next, make a row selection...on mine the whole grid that is in the panel disappears completely and I have to refresh the page to get it back. This only happens when you have zoomed in to something...so it appears that the viewport is getting very confused with the zooming feature of the browser. Hopefully it's not a nesting issue on my part.
Another big issue is the date field...it expands to fill the viewable screen horizontally and no date information is present. This cripples the app as well as it relies heavily on date selection. Hope you can take a look at that as well.
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The scrolling issue is due to the mobile webkit, which doesn't support scrolling divs.
I've been missing that feature for a long time on the iPhone.
There's a project called iScroll which tries to fix that through JavaScript: http://cubiq.org/scrolling-div-for-m...kit-turns-3/16
Haven't played around with it, though.
Anyhow, it's not really a bug in the Ext JS framework, but maybe there's a way to build a work around.
On the other hand, I'm hoping that the new iPhone OS 4.0 is going to fix that.


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Can you remember the last time you actually used the Print Screen key? Or Caps Lock, or Insert, or, Pause Break? Hell, does anyone even know what Pause Break does? Chances are, you have a number of keys you've never even touched. Instead of letting them collect dust, why not do something awesome with them? Here's a simple way to assign common, useful actions to those unused keys, like putting your computer to sleep, showing hidden files, or ejecting a flash drive.
Update: Unfortunately, this tool is currently broken. Luckily, you can still do this yourself with just a little know-how: check out our beginner's guide to AutoHotkey and you'll have remapped keys up and running in no time.
A lot of those keys may have useful functions built in to Windows, but if you already know the shortcuts and don't use them, let's be honest—you never will. So let's do something better with them. The nuts and bolts of this post rely on the previously mentioned, time-saving AutoHotkey (AHK) scripting language. You may have heard of it before, but since many of you don't have the time to learn a scripting language (don't worry, we understand), we've put together simple tool will let you use AHK to remap your unused keys in no time. Here's how.
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First, you'll need a few small pieces of software installed on your computer:
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Bishops fret about being too political
The bishops in question are in Canada, and their concerns regard a campaign against the Harper government's plan to sharply reduce international aid funding:
OTTAWA Canadian Catholic bishops have taken the unprecedented step of blocking an annual education campaign organized by the churchs foreign aid wing, Development and Peace, after deeming this years edition too partisan.The bishops are reported to have been concerned that the campaign, targeting the Harper governments controversial changes to Canadian international assistance, would divide parishioners and hurt the churchs work with the Conservatives on other issues.Organizers say they can appreciate the bishops concerns and are toning down the campaign so it is less political.
We certainly wouldn't want the church to appear to favor one side.
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A Modest Proposal. The American Catholic Church should voluntarily forgo tax exempt status in order to fully carry out its pastoral mission, including educating Americans on their political responsibilities to support their Catholic faith. We have seen several instances, most recently in Illinois and New Jersey, of pastors and Bishops having to tip-toe around State-imposed restrictions in carrying out their responsibilities to tell Catholics for whom to vote.How liberating it would be to throw off the shackles of State censorship that comes with tax exemption. In the history of the Church, faithful priests and Bishops have stood up to the State in the face of torture and execution. This is only money.Let's pay the taxes, and free our spiritual leaders to tell us how to be American Catholics!
The bishops are not acting in accordance with Matthew 25: 31-46. Then again they have not for a long time. They insist on living in grandiose mansions with servants while Jesus did not have a home. Of course that is not the part they want to imitate. The fact that Jesus was male they will use to exclude women but the fact that he was poor is irresponsibly ignored. Their answer is they have to live according to their status. Then what is Jesus? Chopped Liver? And have they not learned that the reason all the religious orders insisted on a vow of poverty was because the hierarchy had forgot its mission.The actions of the Canadian bishops is scandalous just as the political actions of the American bishops are in covertly supporting Republicans. Few bishops, in my opinion, will pass the bar of Matthew 25.
When I hear or read a member of our hierarchy or clergy has declaring in a statement or sermon that is decidedly political against the Democratic Party and our president and then say that he is not telling me how to vote, I call that deception.We have a longstanding aversion and loathing for deception in our tradition. It goes back to the Garden of Eden.
"Bishops having to tip-toe around State-imposed restrictions in carrying out their responsibilities to tell Catholics for whom to vote."Bishops have no responsiblity to tell me for whom to vote. If that were the case, why don't we lobby for a proxy system and they could just vote on behalf of all of us and save me a trip to the polls.
Re jbruns A Modest Proposal.When the hierarchy sided with the aristocrats before the French Revolution... as Palin would say "How did that turn out for you'
Bp. Paprocki offers a particularly dramatic example of the genre. He finds one party platform riddled with promotion of intrinsic evils and grave sins while the other has none, although it does contain a few prudential judgments. "My job is not to tell you for whom you should vote." "I have read the Republican Party Platform and there is nothing in it that supports or promotes an intrinsic evil or a serious sin." "Again, I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against, but a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy." Keep him in mind as you close the voting booth curtain behind you. http://ct.dio.org/bishops-column/59-think-and-pray-about-your-vote-in-up...
@Irene and Ed: Does "A Modest Proposal" provide you with a clue? Just asking.
The bishops around the world are overplaying their hands... and the faithful say, "So...that's your opinion... " and go on... The radical demise of episcopal power can't be far off....
Maybe we should be praying for the day when the voting booth in question is the one in which we choose the next bishop for the diocese. I've heard there was a time when the sense of the Faithful mattered in that process.
Speaking of Bishop Paprocki's flirtation with partisan politics, we haven't heard much from Bishop Sheridan in Colorado Springs lately, have we? Have to wonder if he got a nod from the IRS last time around --- or if local Catholics told him to shut up and not endanger their income tax deductions.Money talks.And the hierarchs know it.
"Keep [Paprocki] in mind as you close the voting booth curtain behind you."Reminds me of years ago when, as a federal civil service examiner, I was called upon at times to serve as a federal poll observer down south. We had authority to enter a polling booth to watch assistance being given to illiterate voters --- unless voters objected. Thus, three pairs of feet behind the curtain :-) We did not record the vote, only anything out of the ordinary about help being given.During my times in GA, AL, MS, and LA, I don't ever recall seeing a Catholic hierarch showing up to help a poor guy or gal vote!My-oh-my, how times have changed!
The big surprise is that Canada has a foreign aid program worth talking about. About all most Americans know about our foreign aid budget is that billion and billions of dollars are going into the Swiss bank accounts of African and South American dictators. That's not precisely true, of course, but nobody wants to be bothered knowing that one-third of the foreign aid budget goes to keeping Israel and Egypt from fighting with each other, and the other two-thirds would embarrass Canada or a Scandinavian country if they had to admit to it. It's a tribute to Canadians that they have a foreign aid budget worth fighting over. We used to have that, took, but it was long ago and on another planet.
Amen to David Pasinski's comments. I am reminded that the Holy Spirit is guiding us (and our bishops) even now.
Certain bishops seem to think that only certain actions (e.g., abortion, theft) are sins. But there sins of omission (e.g., not paying a just wage, ignoring the destitute). Those bishops never seem to weigh the GOP platform agains sins of omission. Wouldn't it be nice and comfortable if sin were only a matter of what we actively do and not also a matter of what we don't do. Sigh.It seems to me that the old list of the seven deadly sins (anger, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony). were a matter of what was actively done, except for sloth. We need a new list which includes the deadly sins of omission. These days, with the our democratic responsibility for government, I'd include not-listening-fairly-to-our-political=opponents and not-voting among them.(I think we need some threads about common contemporary sins which are not usually described as such, but which are nevertheless sinful, whether of commission or omission. But, of course, we don't sin anymore, we just make mistakes, so maybe not.)
We do have Catholic Relief Serviceshttp://www.crs.org/?utm_source=google-grant&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=...
jbruns: sorry, i didn't realize you were being satirical.
jbruns --Perhaps you could swiftly follow up your Modest Proposal with something like "An Argument to Prove that the Abolishing of Christianity , as Things Now Stand Today, be Attended with Some Inconveniences, and Perhaps not Produce Those Many Good Effects Proposed Thereby." The 1708 version summarized in Wikipedia looks as if it could be readily adapted through suitable updating to address many of the problems of 2012, and with good humor. The USCCB might be a possible publisher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Argument_Against_Abolishing_Christianity
@irene. And I am sorry my attempt was so lame :)@Jack:Great idea!
With the elections round the corner, our Bishops are frantically campaigning for the GOP candidates in the guise of Catholic morality. Their latest attempt is to register people to vote! All their instruction is geared toward rejecting the moral evil that is Obama, and embracing the moral right that is Romney-Ryan. The play up moral evils like abortion, birth control, gay marriage and assisted suicide and are totally silent on social commitment to the poor and needy. They, like the candidate they promote do not worry about the 47%, knowing well that more money comes from the other half. Widow's might is no more of value. They exhort the faithful to pay up with absolutely scant regard for the suffering mass who would be affected by the policies of the Romney-Ryan ticket. God come to our assistance!
David Gibson's article on Raymond Burke was on the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch this morning.http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/burke-may-be-the-fac... picture of Burke, "the face of Catholic conservatism," wearing one of his hats. From the article: "When some American Catholics worry that the hierarchy is tilting toward the Republican Party, or taking the church back to the 19th century (or earlier), they often point to Cardinal Raymond Burke as Exhibit A."
Cardinal Burke in scarlet dress wears a yard-wide bright red flower-pot of a hat with fluffy red pom-pons decorating its edges and says it's for the sake of Catholic tradition. What Catholic tradition is that? The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company? He's out of central casting.
Gerelyn: Years ago, I had an Easter bonnet that looked just like Cardinal Burke's headgear! (I don't know the "technical term for what he is wearing.) Sadly, I idn't win any prize in the Easter Parade.
Memories of Burke's trail in St. Louis are reflected in the contrast between the St. Louis Post-Dispatch headline and picture and those in the RNS version of the very good Gibson story. St. Louis history has been brought to mind recently not only by Burke in his galero but also by Finn, Rigali, Braxton, and Sheridan. Perhaps some local traditions? http://www.religionnews.com/faith/leaders-and-institutions/From-Roman-pe... http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/prelate-disobeying-pope
Gerelyn, thank you. One picture is worth a thousand words. I wonder what the hat cost, not to mention the silk cape? Silk hose? Red slippers by Prada? Let them eat cake, indeed. It's an old church tradition.
On Thursday evening I attended a presentation by Sr. Simone Campbell here in Philadelphia.What a contrast: simple outfit, Gospel values. (Headline for picture: Trick or Treat.)
lauretta --See "The Cost of Looking Good in the Magic Kingdom" http://www.richardsipe.com/Burke_Gallery/The%20Cost%20of%20Looking%20Goo...
Thanks, Jack. LOL at "perch". Good place for a galero.----Hi, Lauretta. I was wondering about the cost, too. I forget the name of the famous Roman tailor/haberdasher who supplies buskins, galeros, red socks, etc. Hi, Helen. (My husband was telling me this morning, while I was staring at Burke's picture, about nuns who buy cows for poor people in Kenya. One cow costs $1000. It provides income and security for the lucky recipient.)-----Aside from his clothes and his political views, what I find troubling about Burke is his power over seminaries and appointments of bishops. He recommended of Mariology as a "standard textbook in seminaries and provided the Foreword, the Imprimatur, and the blurb on the back cover. One of the contributors, Peter Fehlner, F.I., provided the Nihil Obstat. (Is that fair?)Entire thing free at Google Books. Note biographies of contributors, p. 885. Even though the strange book is about Mary and about various female "types" of Mary and about various female visionaries, not one contributor is a woman. Several are Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.http://books.google.com/books?id=ez0VRbQi1i4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mar...
(Jack, I posted that before I saw the Sipe thing.)
Jack, thank you for that site. I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. With all that silk and satin I don't suppose they would wear ordinary boxers or jockeys underneath. Unless, of course, they are wearing a hairshirt. PS I know you can make a smiley face with symbols but I'm not sure how, so just imagine one right here. Thanks.
Lauretta, in addition to the Sipe link about Burke's ostentation, an Asian Catholic news service reported awhile back that a cardinal's liturgical outfit cost in excess of $30,000 --- and *that* was for merely ONE SEASON of the church calendar!!! As reported at the time, a cardinal would typically have *several* such outfits, each of a different color to conform with a liturgical season. As they say, "Do the math!"His Eminence is both farce and jackass as far as I'm concerned.
Here's the sentence I like from the Gibson piece:"The vestments, everything, are part of a tradition," Burke says in his defense. "We need to understand that and not just discard it and say, well, it was all just an ugly accretion."What tradition precisely does he have in mind that governs his dress? Though I am no ecclesiastical fashionisto, I would imagine that the heavily bejewled robes, hats, frocks, and such, don't go back much before the Renaissance (copying the fashions of secular potentates of the day), and thus are rather latecomers to the tradition. And the lace (I'm guessing) is 18th or even 19th century. I wonder how old the cappa magna is. It is not easy to understand how someone in a position of authority can wear such things and expect to be taken seriously save perhaps by those who inhabit the same bubble. Granted that the Mother of Parliaments has some weird and wonderful costumes when it opens a new session ini Westminster, but not (I think) among those who exercise much authority.
FLASH (DIGRESSION)In the trial of Paolo Gabriele, the Pope's butler, the evidence compiled by the investigative commision of three cardinals will not be allowed into Gabriele's trial. Why? Here's why:". . . chief judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre, sitting before a crucifix and with a large, framed picture of Benedict looking down from the wall, said the commission answered only to the pope and had "no relevance" to the Vatican City's penal code."In other words, in the Vatican system of justice evidence is only what the Vatican police present as evidence. What the police have to say and what the Pope's Commission has to say concern facts which are so separate from each other that the Commission's report is "irrelevant". That's like saying if you're an NFL quarterback and you murder the temporary referee that the people in the stands who witnessed the act can't be allowed to testify either for or against you because they aren't part of the game, Sheesh.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/29/trial-of-popes-butler-st_n_1925...
Burke is one of a number of currently noticeable hierarchs who went off to junior seminary at about age 14. He thereby missed out on much of the extremely potent, multifaceted ripening process that most boys (and girls, I'm told on good authority) experience in a variety of ways in those years of dramatic transition from childhood to young adulthood. Major formative education, leading toward lasting effects, takes place. Specifics vary widely among individuals but, in one way or another, likely include new forms of awareness of the other gender, of interacting as a responsible individual with others, of decision-making, and of perspectives on formal and informal authority. We may be watching deferred maturation.
I was told that the cappa magna originated in the Middle Ages. When a bishop was riding a horse, he needed to look dignified. The cappa magna was used to cover the horses a** (oops, hindquarters).
Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, "Let us both go to law: I will prosecute YOU. --Come, I'll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I've nothing to do." Said the mouse to the cur, "Such a trial, dear Sir, With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath." "I'll be judge, I'll be jury," Said cunning old Fury: "I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death."'(Lewis Carroll -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).
There are lots of differences among this Canadian issue, the German bishops' response to the tax matter, and the various political statements put out by members of the USCCB, but there appears to be at least one striking thing they all have in common. So far as I can tell, there has been no serious consultation with the laity about any of these matters.I do not doubt that the bishops involved have talks with various lay people about these things, but serious consultation needs a well defined structure and some considerable transparency. No well run business today would eschew significant consumer research, input from competent consultants, and serious input form at least upper level middle management. The Church, i.e., the people of God, have every reason to want and push for such organized consultation both about how the clergy represent them in the public square and about how practical matters (budgetary, senior clergy appointments, etc.). I don't have the expertise to make a detailed proposal about the structure of this sort of consultation and I do realize that no structure will be so good and effective that it won't need regular review and adjustment. Nonetheless, let me make one suggestion.I would suggest that every Ordinary of a diocese be required to discuss and say how he deals with the advice he receives through this consultative process. in his "ad limina" report to Rome the consultative practices in place in his diocese. By itself, my suggestion is clearly too inconsequential to be adequate. But one has to get started somehow. If it ever was enough to take shelter beneath the notion that because bishops are "successors of the apostles" the quality of their decisions is adequately assured simply by virtue of their office.
I really liked Cardinal Burke's outfit; it's a form of self-expression.
I understand that words need to be weighed carefully, but I do not believe that there is a Gospel mandate to not take sides. In fact, the opposite is most probably be true.In 1987 I received a copy of an article "Taking Sides" by Fr. Albert Nolan, OP. Many other things have been jettisoned over the years to deal with the accumulations of life. "Taking Sides" has never come even remotely close to the scrap heap. I have taken it with me everywhere I have moved. "That is why every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings both new and old things out of his treasure chest."Add this to your treasure: http://www.scarboromissions.ca/Scarboro_missions_magazine/Issues/1990/Fe...
What does it say that an archbishop who admits to drunk driving is appointed as Archbishop of San Francisco? http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/27/san-francisco-archbishop-elect-char...
Bernard D. --Agree with your opening observation. Try a thought experiment. Assume bishops with rare exceptions are fundamentally incapable of the interactive communication you recommend, even though the need for it appears obvious and its potential is well validated in other spheres. Their conduct is not a result of decision, policy, or antipathy but rather a necessary consequence of the lack of capacity. The bishops are all produced by a nearly unique life-long process of selections, education, formation, enculturation, team training, formalized obedience, and mutual reinforcement. One result is not that one will not do as you suggest but that he can not. Furthermore, the present process of nomination, vetting, and appointment tends to ensure that the body of bishops will be self-reproducing in its own image. The needed change at their stage in life appears highly unlikely in view of common, very solidly embedded, personal characteristics, whatever motivations or potential consequences may be. if so, how does the needed information flow occur?
Through forty years I have been privileged to know some exceptions, but I believe Jack Barry's analysis to be spot on.
Jack B. --Thank you. I fear you're right. "Judge not" applies to the bishops too. Sigh. The problem, however, is that the exceptions make us impatient with the others. It's the old 'why can't Pope Benedict be more like Pope John?'
Jack Barry, thanks for your comment.Re the photo of Cardinal Burke that Gerelyn posted: Someone should warn the cardinal that he is at risk for being mistaken as a very odd transvestite.
"Furthermore, the present process of nomination, vetting, and appointment tends to ensure that the body of bishops will be self-reproducing in its own image."Guaranteed mediocrity. But who cares as long as they are obedient.
Bernard --"Mistaken" ?
Bill --- to your comment at 10:35 am:What does it say that a bishop convicted of failure to report possession of child pornography is still the bishop of Kansas City - St Joseph, MO?And not a peep from the Vatican!(not even on NCROnline's main page)
Jack --- to your comments at 12:06 pm:Spot on!I understand that incest repeated over time ultimately results in weakening of the gene pool.Might B16's papacy be the "Last Hurrah"???
"I was told that the cappa magna originated in the Middle Ages. When a bishop was riding a horse, he needed to look dignified. The cappa magna was used to cover the horses a** (oops, hindquarters)."Helen, "The cappa magna, now worn according to Roman usage by cardinals, bishops, and certain specially privileged prelates on occasions of ceremony, is not strictly a liturgical vestment, but is only a glorified cappa choralis, or choir cope [Thurston, H. (1908). Cope. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved September 30, 2012 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04351a.htm ]." Note original year of publication!A lot of young Catholic boys years ago "played priest" with their cardboard tabernacles, white chasubles (i.e., bed sheets), glass chalices, flat communion hosts (scrunched down Wonder Bread), etc. I'd like to think His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke never graduated from his "pretend" experience --- but merely ascended to a higher level of "make-believe" :-)
Jack Barry: do you have any idea why those bishops, Bp Paprocki and others, are lobbying for the Republicans? Is there some hidden strategy that we do not know?I think about the Legionaries of Christ and their bribes helping to explain the protection they enjoyed for many years, enabling them to satisfy one man's quest for power and abuse. Without knowing anything about the bribes behind the scenes, it was hard to understand the favor that they enjoyed. What's the hidden truth this time?
Claire -- Desperation. Keep an eye on Carl Anderson.
I wonder: could this have something to do with the next papal election? If by some strange turn of events the next pope was American (say, Dolan or Burke), then they would want to have been noticed by him for the sake of some hypothetical future promotion. What would count for them would be the reaction, not of their congregations, but of the people who matter for their career. Those bishops' letters are ostensibly written to the faithful, but in reality are meant for the eyes of their mentor or of Rome. In that way, Cdl Dolan and Cdl Burke can have an influence that extends well beyond their official roles.


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#3. African Dung Beetles Navigate Using the Milky Way
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Dung beetles are the tiny waste management officials of the insect world, but did you know that they have the soul of an astronomer?
It turns out that African dung beetles plot their courses using the light from the Milky Way, effectively making dung beetle navigation more complicated than your crummy knockoff GPS. For dung beetles, moving in a straight line away from a poo pile is crucial. Rolling giant balls of crap can be dangerous, because it's easy to get off track, as anybody who has set out to Katamari an innocent pile of skis and then accidentally absorbed a child's playground can attest.
Diurnal dung beetles are able to detect a symmetrical pattern of polarized light that appears around the sun by using a set of photoreceptors -- meaning that they can roll better in a straight line by looking at the sky than they can by watching where they're going. However, this isn't the case for the African dung beetle, which is nocturnal. Scientists initially thought they navigated using light from the moon, but repeated experiments proved that it was something far more philosophically complex.
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Looking toward the heavens, the African dung beetle ponders the meaning of life. It is to roll poop, he concludes.
It turns out that African dung beetles can actually see the dim strip of light that is the Milky Way from the Southern Hemisphere. This is incredible for an animal of this size, or anything without a telescope, for that matter. And the absolute best part? The dung beetles' galactic navigation abilities were proven by forcing test beetles to don tiny hats that blocked their view of the sky. The beetles then proceeded to roll around aimlessly, never getting anything done or having any clue as to where they were going, but at least thinking they looked pretty damn fly while doing it. You know: Just like every dude who wears a fedora.
Via Eric Warrant for National Geographic
"Leave me alone -- I've got shit to do!"
#2. Japanese Puffer Fish Make Crop Circles
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When an underwater photographer off the coast of Japan found these almost-6-foot-wide intricate structures drawn on the ocean floor, he had no idea what made them. Aliens? Aquaman? Alien Aquamen? (Isn't that what Stargate: Atlantis was about?) Regardless, these underwater crop circles (we have to ask: What's the crop here, fellas?) thrilled and excited all who saw them as they pondered what great and mysterious beings must surely be behind these astoundingly complex works of-
Oh, it was a horny fish? All right then.
Via Atheistuniverse.net
It's like the fish version of a booty text.
A television crew observed the tiny Japanese puffer fish painstakingly carving the design all day and night using just one fin. The more elaborate the "crop circle" was, the more likely a male was to find a mate. But they're not just elaborate Piscean fuck-palaces -- the intricately carved walls do serve other functions. The underwater crop circles act as a buffer for the ocean currents, which allow the puffer fish's eggs and young to stay in one place, and they also really blow the minds of frizzy-haired idiots on the History Channel.
#1. The Scaly-Foot Gastropod Can Turn Flesh into Metal
Via Anders Warén, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
There exists a species of hydrothermal vent snail that can incorporate metal from deep-sea vents into its own flesh like a gross, slimy version of Colossus from the X-Men. The snail's "foot" (that big pad of flesh it moves around on) is covered with iron-mineral scales that it culls from sulfides, and its shell comes complete with an outer layer of greigite (so named for its discoverer, Greg, the toughest marine biologist in the seven seas).
Scientists have observed deep-sea crabs attempting to break these snails between their claws for literally days on end, which often accomplishes jack levels of squat. Though the crabs get through on occasion, for the most part the scaly-foot gastropod just slimes around, covered in the maritime equivalent of the Iron Man suit, laughing at nature's various ineffective attempted murders.
Via MIT
Pictured: The billionaire alcoholic of the undersea world.
The mollusk's iron plating is so tough that the U.S. military is even taking cues from its unique shell makeup to design better armor for soldiers. Experiments at MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies have shown that the scaly-foot gastropod's organic middle layer absorbs mechanical pressure (from things such as squeezing) while dissipating heat; the outer, metallic layer is extremely hard to pierce; and the innermost layer is ... well, snail.
If the evolutionary race between prey and predator that has created these snails is any indication, somewhere down the line there will eventually be a species of crab that can take down this snail, and then, the world.
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Occasionally, I have several important, high workload tasks to be done within a short period of time. Some examples would be (as a student) several assignments released at the same time and due at the same time (I have an unusually high class-load), or when (part-time-work which pays the rent) has a peak period and nobody is allowed leave, or when an emergency uses up your planned time to complete tasks.
Obviously, I'm talking about tasks that A) can't be easily delayed, B) have to be done by a deadline, C) there's limited time available, and D) they can't be started earlier. I find myself avoiding tasks even when they're something I'd usually enjoy, and sometimes getting even LESS done than I usually would - as soon as I'm under time pressure for more than a couple of days.
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LDS blogger battles bipolar disorder by traveling the country, befriending strangers
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Times Square, Graceland and New Orleans are popular tourist destinations for many in their mid-20s, but as Josie Thompson drove around the U.S. earlier this year and stopped at those locations, seeing the sights was not her goal.
Instead, she was out to prove that there's still good in the world and to show that everyone has a story.
Thompson, 25, spent 100 days from March to July getting to know complete strangers. Her journey became known as "The 444 Project." Though each encounter with individuals from a large cross section of the population was different, she ended every one by asking the same question:
"What gets you out of bed each day?"
It's a question Thompson has struggled to answer in her own life for the better part of five years.
The beginning of a long battle
The fall of 2008 was a tumultuous season for Thompson. A sophomore at Mesa Community College and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she was still fresh off her years at Mesa High School, where she was a straight-A student and homecoming queen, played three varsity sports and served as student-body president.
Suddenly, as she began her second semester of her sophomore year, going to class became a miserable task. Getting out of bed became difficult, and the inability to pinpoint a reason for her struggle left her confused. She told a friend she had "no idea what's happening."
Soon, she withdrew from school and started treatment for depression, but she began spending the majority of her time in bed. She didn't even make it there during times she calls "floor days."
"I would lay there and it was as though my mind did not work," she said.
Eventually, the motivation to shower, brush her teeth and eat breakfast left her. Counting to three became necessary preparation for tasks such as swinging her legs over her bed and standing up.
"I would lay there absolutely wanting nothing more than death," she said. "I don't mean to sound cynical or dark or anything, but that was the reality of how I felt."
Her mother, Lisa Thompson, has a difficult time describing how she felt observing her daughter struggle so intensely.
"It was just indescribable pain to see one of your children suffer like that, and especially Josie, who had always been so outgoing and so friendly," Lisa Thompson said. "To just all of a sudden see that quality of life turn into this quality of life where she's just doing nothing but staying up in her room and hardly coming downstairs was hard. It was really hard."
The fact that treatments weren't working increased frustration. Josie Thompson said she also felt guilt, which in turn caused her to feel estranged from the Holy Ghost.
In an effort to do what she could to invite the Spirit, Thompson would turn on gospel-centered music even though she hated sound. Light was bad, too, but she always made sure there was at least some in her room.
"It was like something of a personal plea to my Heavenly Father that I was going to do everything in my power to invite the Spirit," she said.
Remembering moments throughout her life when she had felt the Spirit — what she calls her "spiritual food storage" — helped carry Thompson through the darkest of days, she said.
"The name of the game was endurance," Thompson said. "It just came to the point where it was just a waiting game. I just thought, 'I just have to hold on for dear life.' At that point, that was my only option."
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How to Get What You Want from the Pediatrician
Sick children need to take all their medicine. One unnerving development in this age of miracle drugs is that parents frequently do not bother to follow through on the regimen. For instance, instead of receiving the complete 10-day course of penicillin for treatment of strep infections, 56 percent of children do not receive the drug by day three, and 71 percent don't receive it by day six. Often this is because the parent either doesn't believe it's really important to follow through or doesn't understand the directions. Doctors want parents to realize that if a child does not take the complete cycle of a medication, the original condition may come back stronger than before. If you are confused about administering the medicine but feel foolish asking the doctor to repeat the instructions, talk to the nurse. You are not alone; many people find the directions confusing.
Your child's health care depends on what you tell the doctor. "Ninety percent of our diagnosis is made by the history, by just talking. Ten percent is made by physical exam and lab studies," says Andrew Baumel. Parents, then, aren't just advocates in the pediatrician's office; their observations are the raw data doctors rely on most to treat children.
Yet even the most devoted parents are sometimes reluctant to be forthcoming with the pediatrician, for many of the same reasons adults cite. They may be embarrassed by a problem their child is having or afraid of what the doctor will discover. Many parents become distracted during the visit and forget to relate the most important information. Some don't want to appear ignorant, while others don't want to take up too much of the doctor's time.
It may be tempting to think that a really good pediatrician will uncover any serious problem with your child whether or not you are forthcoming. That is not how pediatricians view things. Good doctors will take a comprehensive history during the yearly checkup, but ultimately they depend on you to tell them anything you think might be relevant to your child's well-being.
Magic Words and Deeds in the Pediatrician's Office
The well-child checkup is where your most in-depth conversations with the pediatrician will take place. The best time to schedule one is April through September, on any day other than Monday. October through March is flu season, and Mondays are loaded with kids who got sick over the weekend. Parents tend to schedule a yearly checkup around the child's birthday because it's easy to remember, but that is not necessary. You will get a more relaxed doctor and possibly more time if you schedule during the slow months. If you want an extra-long visit or have special issues to discuss, ask the front office if taking the last appointment of the day will assure you more time.
Before your visit, take a few moments to think about your child's health, behavior, and development. Pediatricians expect you to report anything out of the ordinary, even if it doesn't seem to relate to health care. For instance, a child who suddenly starts getting into trouble in school and whose work takes a nosedive may be having social problems, but it's also possible that he is having difficulty with his vision or hearing.
Next, prepare a list of topics you wish to discuss with the doctor and be sure to prioritize them. With only twenty minutes for the average visit, you may not get to discuss everything. Be sure to take paper and pencil along to jot down the doctor's advice. The Merck Manual reports that within 15 minutes after an office visit, some parents have already forgotten half the information. Parents tend to recall the first third of the visit best, and to remember more about diagnosis than treatment.
Doctors will usually run through a series of questions relating to your child's health and development, and of course you should answer these as specifically and clearly as you can. Keep your list of topics handy so you won't forget your own agenda when the doctor starts talking. For a smooth, satisfying office visit:
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I have a complicated Google spreadsheet with many sheets and a table of contents. Is there some way to create a link to the sheet names so that with a click one can go directly to the sheet? That is: clicking on the cell "sheet5" switches to sheet5?
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When you switch to a different sheet in Google Spreadsheets, pay attention to the URL in your browser's address bar. At the end of the URL you should see something like:
This number changes when you switch sheets, and specifies which sheet to display. Copy the entire URL and create a hyperlink to it with this formula:
With a script
I've thought about this question a lot since I first wrote this answer, and I came up with a solution that involves a script.
With the spreadsheet open, click the Tools menu, then Script editor.... Paste all this code into the editor:
Save the script, then refresh the spreadsheet. After a second or two a new menu, Tasks, will appear after Help. There is one item in this menu: Go to sheet...
This menu item will open a panel with a list of names of all the sheets in the current spreadsheet. It doesn't look like it, but if you click on one of the sheet names, that sheet will come to the front.
As an answer to another question, this script was improved to include a scrollable view and buttons.
The best way to do this from my experience is to tie a function to a button/image. The only drawback is that you cannot pass parameters along with a script assigned to a button. Due to this you will need to make a function specific to each navigation but they can call be a in a single script file.
Create an image (Insert -> image) and style it to your preference
Create a custom function with the following:
and then a function specific to your button
Finally assign this function to your button
You should now be able to click on your button and navigate to "Sheet5". This can also be modified to go to a specific area of the sheet as well.
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I know there was ArcInfo Workstation and some other older software that Esri has developed for taking care of land use polygons management. But how did this "Arc" came into the name? Is it simply because of the arc which is a geometric element representing a vector feature?
I am asked quite often and frankly speaking don't have a sound answer to this question.


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I know you can use ⌘+O to open a folder, however when you do that on an application it opens the application.
Is it possible to either make ⌘+O always show the contents or is there another shortcut for that?
I suggest that you create a custom Finder shortcut in System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts → +.
This way you can open packages with ⌥ as a modifier key.
If you want a single keystroke to open regular items and regular folders, but show package contents for packages (including Applications), you can turn to Automator.
Create a new Service in Automator.
The service receives files or folders in Finder.app.
The first action is Run AppleScript. Here is the script:
The second action is Open Finder Items
Save your service. I called mine
Then, go to System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard Shortcuts » Services and assign a keystroke to the service. Unfortunately, I have not found a way to reclaim shortcuts already claimed by the Finder, so you may have to pick a keystroke other than ⌘O.
If you want to open the package in the same window, replace the line
Under snow leopard, I found the simplest way was to use SAVE A COPY as iwork 08. then right click to and the show package content option will be available.


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Hydraulic fracturing and other drilling technologies are keeping prices for natural gas -- a key raw material for Dow Chemical and other chemical producers -- below $4/MMBtu. That's cheap enough that the US chemical industry can start taking market share from Middle Eastern producers.
By BEN LEFEBVRE
US oil and natural gas prices are low enough that
the country could start becoming a major petrochemical exporter into Asia, a
report said on Wednesday.
Hydraulic fracturing and other drilling technologies are
keeping prices for natural gas -- a key raw material for Dow
Chemical and other chemical producers -- below $4/MMBtu.
That's cheap enough that the US chemical industry can start
taking market share from Saudi Arabia and other Middle East
chemical producers in nearly any market.
"If we export petchems into Asia, the Saudis are going to
worry," says Edgard Habib, chief economist at Chevron.
"We are entering a race between OPEC and technology."
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Bully for the Russians. Now they can sell all of that oil and natural gas to the Chinese and Europeans. China would make an exenclelt market. Unlike the West, the Chinese have no desire to bully anyone around about their government, human rights, etc. China borders Russia and the pipelines can be built far enough east as to avoid Muslims R' Us in Central Asia. As China grows and grows economically and militarily (and Russia declines), the Chinese can offer to be a guaranteer of Russia's security against Muslims R' Us in the south. The Chinese, in return, get a free hand in economic dealings with Central Asia, including tapping all of that Caspian Sea oil as well (and Iranian natural gas). Since China's economy will be so big by that time, there will be more than enough market for oil and natural gas (even with all of those Chinese nuclear plants) that there will be no need for Iran, the Caspian Sea countries, and Russia to fight over market share.
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I agree: OPEC/Saudis will worry. If we become a major exporter / [competitor] with OPEC, guess what? They will fight back by raising oil prices, to create a disincentive for our petrochemical exports. The ONLY way this can work is if WE, as a UNIFIED NATION, go ahead and convert to Natural Gas - virtually ALL existing cars can be converted to run on NG. If so, then WE will become the new "energy force to be reckoned with" - and Saudi and other nations will be purchasing OUR exports, instead of the other way around.
What takes them soo long? Liquify it and transport to Asia.
Jeff Mason
natural gas from US is only on paper. This story is going for many years and stiil oil is flowing asia to the whole world. It is another hype by US.
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are a class of proteins that do not adopt a stable secondary or tertiary structure under physiological conditions in vitro, but still have biological functions. Many IDPs are implicated in cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and diabetes, which makes them attractive drug targets. Are there any successful examples of that? Are there any drugs which disrupt protein-protein interactions (as one of the protein being IDP)?
IDPs are indeed attractive drug targets and there are ongoing efforts to develop drug molecules that block interactions between a disordered and a structured protein. According to this relatively recent paper, however, these efforts have not brought a drug on the market, yet.
A few promising studies have shown drug-like molecules that inhibit protein-protein interactions based on intrinsic disorder of one of the partners and target:
The challenge in targeting protein-protein interactions for therapies stems largely from the fact, that the protein-protein contact surfaces are much larger than those involved in protein–small-molecule interactions (1,500–3,000 Å2 and (300–1,000 Å2, respectively) [2]. They are often flat and have no defined binding pocket. Also, IDPs often don't bind natural small ligands, that could act as starting points in developing drugs.
You may find this paper helpful:
Metallo SJ, Intrinsically disordered proteins are potential drug targets, Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2010 14(4): 481–488.
BTW: for a comprehensive, manually curated list of disordered proteins and regions, please check the Database of Protein Disorder.
I have been working on this problem for quite some time now and believe me getting specific binding is a real issue with IDRs. Also, since these regions dont form core structure of the protein, the residues are less conserved (more prone to mutations). So in case of evolving drug-resistance contributing proteins this become a bottleneck.
I have done some work on IDPs as potential drug target: Unraveling the potential of intrinsically disordered proteins as drug targets: application to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
But the concept has been taken well by even the conventional structural biologists.
As the paper suggests, my work is focused on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Multiple Drug resistance (MDR) and extremely drug resistance (XDR) form of TB have added to the tuberculosis loads not only in the developing but also developed nations. The drug resistance has been associated with proteins (mostly those involved in transport and metabolism) which have helped the pathogen grow resistant to first line of drugs or more. I refer such proteins as "Drug resistance associated proteins".


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BeanSwitch is the University of Tennessee at Martin's literary and arts magazine. BeanSwitch is published twice annually, in print during the spring and online during the fall.
BeanSwitch has existed in one form or another since 1961, when the first issue was published under the name Prolegomenon. The name was changed in 1968 to Vista. Then, shortly after that, the name was changed again to Windmills. Windmills existed from 1972 – 1983 as the official publication of the Omega Theta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English society. In 1984 the name was changed to BeanSwitch. The name is taken from a rural road not too far from us here in Martin. In 2004 we became a member of the Office of Student Publications, and in 2006 we began publishing our fall issues online. In fall 2011 we adopted James Bean as our official mascot, thanks to the fall 2011 executive staff, Chris Gunlefinger and Sarah Grace Jaggars.
Our goal today is the same as it has always been: to present the very best original creative writing and art from the students, staff and faculty of UTM, and the surrounding community. Please take a look around; we're confident you'll find something you like.


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I used Tamari, a smooth tasting natural soy sauce which comes in several types. It can be wheat free, although most Tamari sold in the U.S. contains wheat. If you're lucky enough to have the wheat-free kind, use a bit less because it's more concentrated.
You can certainly use regular sea salt too, or leave out the salt altogether and just use the soy sauce. Since I posted the first recipe for roasted chickpeas, I've discovered lots of other bloggers knew about roasted chickpeas before I did, so be sure to check after the recipe for those links.
Chickpeas Roasted with Tamari and Sea Salt
(Adapted by Kalyn from a recipe found in The South Beach Diet Cookbook.)
1 can chickpeas (garbanzo beans) or soak and cook dried beans, which would be even better
1 T olive oil
2-3 tsp. Tamari or soy sauce (use less for pure Tamari, more for Shoyu type Tamari or regular soy sauce)
1 tsp. Asian Sea Salt or sea salt
South Beach Suggestions:
This is a great snack idea for any phase of the South Beach Diet.
More Delicious Chickpea Snacks:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
Crispy Roasted Chickpeas with Moroccan Spices
Cece Fritos (Fried Chickpeas) from Seriously Good
Spicy Crunchy Chickpea Snack from Just Hungry
Chickpea Cocktail Snacks from Fresh Approach Cooking
Roasted Chickpeas from Anne's Food
Oven-Baked Spiced Chickpeas from Food in the Main
Crisp and Crunchy Chickpeas from Mahanandi
Indian Roasted Chickpeas from Cloudberry Quark
Garbanzo Bean Sundal from Dil Se
Spiced Black Chana (Black Chickpeas) from Aayi's Recipes
Chana Chaat in a Pappadum Bowl from Herbivoracious
Want even more recipes?
I find these recipes from other blogs using Food Blog Search.


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Steve Bashford's 1978 AMC Pacer Wagon - The Flying Aquarium - Hot RodsWritten by on October 1, 2010 This LS7-Powered Pacer Wagon Demonstrates That Weird Can Work.
Steve Bashford decided that maybe a Pacer, dorky as it is, could be more than merely a running gag in the Wayne's World movies. He saw potential. Starting with a pristine '78 wagon with only 9,000 miles that he scored at a California estate sale, the veteran rodder from Belleville, Michigan, swapped in a Chevy V-8, a race-prepped Powerglide, and a 9-inch Ford rear. But at the same time, he strove to preserve the car's ineffable Pacer-ness. And that's the charm of it. The oddball exterior sheetmetal is absolutely unaltered, and the paint, chrome, phony woodgrain, and much of the interior are factory original, just as they came from Kenosha.
Steve has owned the Pacer for around eight years, but construction didn't begin in earnest until about two years ago. Though he originally planned to install a big-inch Chevy Rat motor, the project really started rolling when he decided to go with a new LS7 crate engine. The suspension work was performed by Ken Bowers of Advanced Chassis, who built the rollcage and a four-link rear suspension setup that tucks the 15x12 Weld wheels and M/T Drag Radials inside the factory wheelhouses to preserve the original AMC look.
An old-school kinda guy, Steve opted to toss the LS7's factory EFI system for a GM Performance Parts intake manifold and a Barry Grant 850-cfm carb. Ignition is by MSD. Steve says the carbureted LS7 made an easy and totally driveable 680 hp on the engine dyno. Now running in the low 10s, Steve wants to raise the Pacer's game over the coming winter with a power-adder or two. Electrical and other cobuilding duties were handled by Steve's buddy Tom Coniam of Loose Ends Wiring. "Steve's money and Tommy's talent got us here," Steve says. Well, that and some creative weirdness supplied by American Motors.
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The rear seat was removed to make room for the rollcage, while carpeting was carefully patched in to match the Pacer wagon's original interior.A square-tube front crossmember was cut in to accommodate the LS7 oil pan. Front spindles are '69 Camaro, while a pair of Kooks headers originally designed for a Chevy Trailblazer SS slipped right in.The fabricated 9-inch Ford rear axlehousing uses Strange components from flange to flange. The coilovers are by QA1.Fat tires and wheelie bars make the Pacer's chubby proportions even more compelling. Or something. The Pacer still wears its original factory paint and vinyl woodgrain. AMC called this color Mocha Brown back in 1978.The otherwise stock LS7 crate engine runs a GMPP intake with an older Barry Grant 850-cfm carb, while the stock dry-sump system was retained using a compact Peterson oil tank.