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John Brennan: another Catholic in the upper reaches UPDATE
John Brennan has been Obama's national security adviser and is now nominated to head the CIA. His torture, rendition, and drone involvements have had moral murmuring but I've not detected major public criticisms of him. So today, I was surprised and amused to see Pat Lang, at my favorite military/intelligence/political blog, say the following: "I would not have picked Brennan. He seems to me to be a rule obsessed product of too much Catholic education." Can anyone have too much Catholic education? Does Lang mean too much Jesuit education? Brennan is a graduate of Fordham (political science).UPDATE: Here is a "Room for Debate," debate on Brennan at the NYTimes.Patrick Molloy informs us that Hagel is also a Catholic (didn't know that). See his comment below.And Here: an interesting and provocative piece by Michael Lind at Salon on the Hagel nomination: Obama Repudiates Bushism.
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The Jesuit tentacles reach throughout the realm. As Pat Zapor reports at CNS, not only is Catholic representation in Congress at an all-time high, but 10 percent of all House and Senate members are graduates of Jesuit colleges and universities:http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1300079.htmCan the Republic long endure?
And don't overlook Chuck Hagel."A lifelong Roman Catholic, he is strongly anti-abortion and consistently voted to restrict its availability. Based on this history, the abortion rights group NARAL gave him a zero rating, and the National Right to Life Committee gave him a rating of a hundred per cent. He supported teacher-led prayer in schools: the Christian Coalition gave him its top rating of a hundred per cent."http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/01/hagels-views-o... there's a potential scandal. His brother Tom was kicked out of Catholic school for making fun of nuns."Tom, on the other hand, was the rebel and class clown who did imitations of the nuns until he got kicked out of St. Bonaventure High. But he was so popular that after his expulsion, many of his classmates followed him out the door to public school."http://www.salon.com/2007/04/30/hagel_brothers/
I'd have to say that my exposure to Jesuit education didn't involve much rule-stickling beyond having women out of the men's dorm by midnight (and I fear to report that even that rule didn't get very stickled).
Out by midnight! In my secular humanist university (with a lingering Calvinist undertone) women had to be out by 6 pm. But that was in another country (chronologically speaking) and besides the wench is -- well, not dead, as Christopher Marlowe had it, but raising a family in the suburbs.There's obviously a strong opposition to Hagel building up. On NPR this morning someone from the American Enterprise Institute dismissed him as anti-Semitic (implying indeed that most criticism of Israel was closet anti-Semitism). Others are criticizing his obvious inclination towards Pentagon cutting. It would be interesting to know how far the Congressional critics of Pentagon-cutting are really worried about US security, and how far they are worried by the possibility of job losses in their own states. The DOD for years has done a good job of spreading its contractual goodies around so that there's hardly a state that wouldn't be affected by such cuts. Does anyone know how many military bases we have throughout the world? How far we really need them? And how far some may be doing more harm than good?
Thank you, Patrick Molloy. Didn't know that. Good thing that NYTimes doesn't seem to know about his 100 percent pro-life voting record!
Several sources (one of which is Wikipedia, not always 100% accurate) say that Chuck Hagel was brought up in the Catholic Church but is now an Episcopalian.
There were on-campus protests when Brennan was Fordham's commencement speaker, in May, due to his having defended torture as an American interrogation tactic, as well as his involvement with extrajudicial killings. I posted about it here. Scott Horton called Brennan "the principle advocate of the dont look back mantra with respect to the misdeeds of the Bush years," which makes him a consistent choice for Obama, but an unfortunate one in my opinion.
Mollie, As I recall, Brennan sat down at Fordham with a group of faculty (and students?). Did you ever come upon any report of that?
Based on what I saw on the Sunday morning talk shows, the main opposition to Hagel will come from GOP senators. And they will not say out loud in what their main opposition consists. Lest we forget, in 2007 Hagel said of the head of his own party, George W. Bush, that he was the worst president in 40 years, or words to that effect. And in 2008, he said, if asked, he would consider running as Obamas VP against John McCain, the nominee of his own party. These are big pluses for Hagel as far as Im concerned, but the GOP seems not to think so. The long knives are out. Democratic senators will also question him about some of his illiberal social policies, which others here have mentioned. And there will be questions about his views on Israel. But the major pro-Israel advocacy groups are not opposing the nomination, at least as of now. To the best of my knowledge, AIPAC has not opposed the nomination. The Anti-Defamation League (the ADL), while expressing some concerns, has said, with respect to the nomination, that the President should have discretion to name the Secretary of Defense he wants. And the National Jewish Democratic Council (the NJDC), an advocacy group within the Democratic Party, has expressed its confidence in President Obamas policies concerning Israel, which it assumes the Secretary of Defense will adhere to.
Sure... we get two Catholics in executive positions, Defense and Intellegence .... but ND got stomped on by both of these attributes. .. .. ..
Ed, you need to add a little rim shot sound effect to comments like that one :-)
That all three Jewish organizations have not opposed Hagel shows, I think, that Netanyahu is in trouble in the U.S. Yay for them!
See "Poll: Most Evangelicals and Catholics Condone Torture in Some Instances" at http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/god-and-country/2009/04/30/poll-most-ev... this information is still current, might it be that Brennan is a "shoe-in" if Republicans value the "Catholic vote"?
Two more Republicans who depart conspicuously from the party line are Chris Christie and Bobby Jindal. Is a new sub-set emerging in the GOP -- Catholics against the GOP establishment?
Yes, Chuck Hagel is no longer a Catholic. He is an Episcopalian. http://www.esquire.com/features/chuckhagel0407-4http://www.nytimes.com/2...
In most periodicals and blogs much is written about what is wrong with the operation of the Federal Government with particular emhasis on the Congress, as well as the Presidency. Throughout the criticisms is the frequent conclusion about the influence of money. The Supreme Court's United Citizens decision seems to have made things worse. From time to time someone writes about the need for reform of our Constitutional system; such as term limitations for both houses (as we have on the Presidency), curtailment of Congressional perks; such as life time pensions and health care, and especially control of unlimited money in elections, so that Senators and Congressmen do not make a lifetime career of their elective office and become lifetime tools of the rich and powerful. It would seem that we are in need of a Constituional Convention with an appropriate budget to allow for a significant staff and sufficient time to consider the need for whatever changes are truly needed to restore the so-called government of the people, by the people and for the people, as we are frequently told is the underlyiing idea of our Government. In the hundreds of Universities and Colleges throughout the land there are many well informed and highly intelligent academics in the Schools of Government studies, as well as scholars in all other disciplines, who should involve themselves in the issue of whether or not significant governmental changes should be made by way of a Constitutional Convention which may be the only way significant reform can be made. Why haven't we heard from any of them in a loud, clear, consistent and convincing voice They present themselves as experts in the field of government, so they should be a moving force in establishing the need for such studies. In order to get the original Constitution adopted a group of individuals saw to the publication of the Federalist Papers to explain why the Constitution should be adopted. If the time to do this, is not now, when will it ever be.
Rodrigo, thanks for the links... Great videos embedded in the Esquire article.
Rodrigo:As to Chuck Hagel's religious affiliation: Thanks for the confirmation.
Should we note that William Brennan is not the first Fordham graduate to head the CIA. William Casey was.
I do not know much abot Brennan, but I have always liked Chuck Hegel; pro-life and sensible when it comes to trimming military expenditures and military 'adventures'. Probably they will both be confirmed.


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Clinton To Obama: Honor Promise That People Can Keep Coverage
If you haven't heard about it yet, President Clinton sounds off on all things Obamacare during a provocative video interview with OZY, an online magazine.
Right off the bat, Clinton affirms his support for the law, despite its problems. "The big lesson is that we're better off with this law than without it," he says.
Still, the rollout of the online insurance marketplaces has been botched, as is plain to see. But, Clinton says, the difficulties aren't all that different from the ones that plagued the Bush administration during the expansion of Medicare in 2005 to include drug coverage. "It was a disaster," Clinton says.
Or, as Julie Rovner recounted in a recent story, "Computers couldn't talk to each other properly. Seniors ended up on endless phone holds. It took several months to work out many of the kinks." But eventually they did get solved, and the benefit became quite popular.
There are other less tractable problems with the Affordable Care Act, however. Clinton points out that states that have decided against taking federal money to expand Medicaid have left many people who work but don't make much in a "bizarre circumstance." In those states, people with incomes less than the poverty line (or $11,490 for an individual) wouldn't qualify for subsidized insurance on the exchanges or Medicaid.
Clinton winds up with a strong piece of advice for the administration about people who want to stick with the insurance coverage they have, even if it turns out not to be 100 percent in line with the Affordable Care Act's requirements. "I personally believe even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got."
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Rear Steer in Asphalt Race Cars - Rear Steer DesignWritten by on July 1, 2009 Contributors: John "Gibby" Gibson Part Two - Asphalt Rear Steer Do's And Don'ts
The Theory And Application Of Rear-Steer GeometryThe asphalt racing surface provides a lot of traction, even on those flat "slick" tracks. Because there's very little slip of the tires on asphalt, the range of useable rear steer is very small. We never need our suspension to steer the rearend to the right on asphalt. It's been a common practice for teams to align the rearend and/or have it steer slightly to the right to fix a tight mid-corner condition, but this goes into the category of crutches and shouldn't be necessary if the car is set up properly.
For general information on what produces rear steer, read the first few paragraphs of the Dirt section in Part One (on page XX), then come back to this section. Asphalt stock cars have three predominant rear suspension systems and all of them produce some amount of rear steer. They are:
The Asphalt Three-Link The three-link rear suspension system has two trailing arms mounted near the rear tires and one third link mounted atop the rear differential that controls rearend wrap-up. The trailing arms can be mounted parallel to the centerline of the car or angled with the front mounts closer to centerline.
RS in this system is caused by chassis movement, which can produce several secondary effects. Usually, the right rear corner of the chassis moves more than the left rear, and on most flat to medium banked tracks, the left rear moves very little. This has been confirmed by studying data from onboard data recording systems during testing that shows shock travel amounts in the turns. The left rear shock mostly seems to move between 1/2 inch in rebound and up to 1/2 inch in compression during the entire lap; whereas the RR shock may show from 2 to 4 inches or more of travel depending on the spring rates used.
That would mean that on most asphalt three-link cars, the RR trailing arm mostly controls RS due to body roll. We usually need to position the angle of the trailing arm so that the front mount is higher than the rear mount by roughly 1/3 the distance that the front mount will move down during cornering. The variation of height for the RR trailing arm is very small. Changes in the height of the front mount of as small as 1/4 inch can be felt by the driver.
A trick way to produce rear steer only under acceleration is by staggering the height of the two trailing arms in the three-link system when using a pullbar upper third link. If we mount the left-side trailing arm lower than the right-side trailing arm, then as the rearend rotates under acceleration due to the pullbar extending, then the LR wheel will move rearward more than the RR wheel, causing rear steer to the left to a small degree. This promotes forward bite without causing the car to be tight on entry or in the middle of the turns.
Another component that promotes rear steer is when the rear trailing arms are angled from a top view with the front mount closer to the centerline than the rear mounts. With this design, lateral movement of the rearend causes rear steer. If the Panhard bar is mounted on the right side of the chassis and level to the ground, when the chassis moves during cornering, the rearend will be pulled to the right and will steer to the left. This is caused by the rearend swinging around the instant center that is created from projecting lines through the arms to the front until the lines meet.
The Truck-Arm System The truck-arm system has been adapted from the design for a '64 Chevy truck and is used on many Late Model Stock cars as well as the three premier divisions of NASCAR, the Camping World Trucks, and the Nationwide cars, as well as on Sprint Cup cars. These systems only steer to the left and have a limited amount of steer. The roll of the chassis and the movement of the Panhard bar are the two components that influence the amount of steer in these systems.
As far as geometry related to rear steer is concerned, this is an ideal system for asphalt cars. The amount of rear steer due to body roll is regulated by the height of the front mounts of the arms, which are always mounted lower than the rear point of rotation which is the axle. Rear steer amounts due to the Panhard bar angle are regulated by the angle.
The Metric Four-Link SystemThe metric four-link is widely used for the stock classes where the host car's design utilizes that system. It uses four links, as the name implies, that aren't parallel to the centerline of the car. The top links are angled from a top view with the front pivots wider than the rear pivots. The lower links are angled from a top view with the front pivots narrower than the rear pivots.
Conclusion On asphalt, we don't want to make large changes to components that influence rear steer. Make small adjustments if you feel you need to, and when you find the correct amount of rear steer, stay there and tune the handling with the other components. Drivers can feel small changes in the height of the front mount on a right-side trailing arm.
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The front mounting block on the three-link suspension system is slotted vertically so that you can adjust the angle of the trailing arm to fine-tune the amount of rear steer. The car is very sensitive to changes in the trailing-arm angle and the height of the front mount should be moved in small increments. Most teams are getting away from using right trailing arm rubber biscuits. The movement can be as much as 1/4 inch forward upon acceleration, and that's way too much rear steer. Bob BollesAs the pullbar extends under acceleration, the rearend rotates back causing the rear wheels to move to the rear. The bottom pivot point is the back end of the trailing arms. If we mount the right-side arm higher than the left-side arm, then the radius on the left side will be longer from the lower mount to the axle, causing the LR wheel to move farther rearward than the RR wheel.The added movement of the LR causes a slight amount of rear steer to the left, the exact amount depends on the difference in height of the mounting points and the amount of third-link travel. When we tried this some years ago, we calculated that the movement was around 0.050 inch and produced enough rear steer to tighten the car off the corner on a flat and slick track. We can see where a link with a rubber biscuit moving 0.250 inch would cause excessive rear steer.The pullbar upper third link allows the rearend to rotate under acceleration. The movement of the rearend rearward can be utilized to produce rear steer to the left only while under acceleration. That way, the car is correctly aligned at the rear during entry and through the middle of the turns. Rear steer to the left helps promote bite on flat and slick asphalt tracks. Rob FisherSome three-link rear suspensions are built with the trailing arms angled from a top view with the front mounts located closer to the car's centerline than the rear mounts. This creates some amount of rear steer if the rearend moves laterally as the chassis rolls. This type of rear steer will tighten the car if the rearend moves to the right as the car rolls. The downside to this type of rear steer is that it will tighten the car in the middle of the turns as well as off the corner.The metric four-link suspension has two links above the rearend and two links below the rearend. They are angled from a top view to prevent the rearend from moving side to side as the chassis rolls. This system would work very well with larger sway bars. The high rear roll center works in conjunction with a stiff front end to reduce roll in the chassis.


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Pig Genome Project May Pave The Way For Better Bacon
Could bacon get any tastier?
Pig scientists and breeders say indeed it could, now that the pig genome has been sequenced and a trove of new genetic information is available.
The Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium, an international group of researchers, published their analysis of the genome this week in Nature.
The group spelled out the pattern of DNA on all of the chromosomes of a female domesticated pig. That data is now freely available to anyone — in swine science and beyond.
For thousands of years, humans have been breeding swine, choosing pigs that had favorable traits — such as bigger size or leaner meat — to create a new generation of pigs with those characteristics.
With the full genome, breeders will now be able to pinpoint the specific genes behind those traits. They will take "pigs that have at least one copy of the favorable version [of a gene] and use that pig to breed the next generation," says Jack C.M. Dekkers, a professor of animal breeding and genetics at Iowa State University in Ames. Some researchers may even use the information to do genetic modification of pigs.
The animal was a prime candidate for genome sequencing because it is a model for biomedical research and a critically important food source, notes Lawrence Schook, vice president for research at the University of Illinois and a co-author on the study.
Tastier pork could certainly be an outcome of this research, too, Schook and Dekkers say. What makes a pig tasty, however, is subject to debate and cultural preference. In some parts of Asia, Schook notes, breeders value fat content more than American breeders do.
Tenderness and meat color are other targets for breeders hoping to improve the pork on our plates.
The more pressing concern for many pig breeders and producers is healthier pigs.
"A sick pig is not a happy pig," says Dekkers.
Dekkers is part of a group of researchers looking for genes that make pigs less susceptible to the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. "It doesn't harm people, but it's devastating to pigs," Dekkers says. The virus causes sows to abort, young piglets to die and infected pigs to grow more slowly.
The disease is a problem worldwide and costs porcine producers $660 million per year in the U.S. alone.
Dekkers' group has already used data from the pig genome project to find some genes that could protect future generations of swine against PRRSV.
Pig producers would also like to find genes that would make swine grow faster and eat less, especially with prices rising for the corn and soybeans that go into pig feed.
"The key," Dekkers says, "is really understanding more about the underlying genes that make a pig a better pig."
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A new look at the diets of ancient African hominids shows a "game changer" occurred about 3.5 million years ago when some members added grasses or sedges to their menus, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
High-tech tests on tooth enamel by researchers indicate that prior to about 4 million years ago, Africa's hominids were eating essentially chimpanzee style, likely dining on fruits and some leaves, said CU-Boulder anthropology Professor Matt Sponheimer, lead study author. Despite the fact that grasses and sedges were readily available back then, the hominids seem to have ignored them for an extended period, he said.
"We don't know exactly what happened," said Sponheimer. "But we do know that after about 3.5 million years ago, some of these hominids started to eat things that they did not eat before, and it is quite possible that these changes in diet were an important step in becoming human."
A paper on the subject was published online by the Proceedings of the National of Sciences the week of June 3, along with three related papers. Prior to the new PNAS studies, researchers had analyzed teeth from 87 ancient hominid specimens. The new PNAS papers provide detailed information on the teeth of 88 additional specimens, including five previously unanalyzed hominid species, doubling the dataset, he said.
Sponheimer specializes in stable isotope analysis, comparing particular forms of the same chemical element, like carbon, that are present in hominid fossil teeth. The stable carbon isotopes obtained from ancient hominids helps researchers determine what types of plants they were eating, he said.
Carbon signals from hominid teeth are derived from two distinct plant photosynthetic pathways, said Sponheimer: The C3 signals are from plants like trees and bushes, while the C4 signals are from plants like grasses and sedges. The researchers also looked at the microscopic wear of hominid teeth, which provides scientists with more information on the foods they were eating, he said.
While the hominids from the genus Homo that evolved from australopithecines like the 3 million-year-old fossil Lucy -- considered by many the matriarch of modern humans -- were broadening their food choices, a short, upright hominid known as Paranthropus boisei that lived side by side with them in eastern Africa was diverging toward a more specific, C4 diet. Scientists initially had dubbed P. boisei "Nutcracker Man" because of its large, flat teeth and powerful jaws, but recent analyses indicate it might have instead used its back teeth to grind grasses and sedges, Sponheimer said.
"We now have the first direct evidence that as the cheek teeth on hominids got bigger, their consumption of plants like grasses and sedges increased," he said. "We also see niche differentiation between Homo and Paranthropus -- it looks probable that Paranthropus boisei had a relatively restricted diet, while members of the genus Homo were eating a wider variety of things. "The genus Paranthropus went extinct about 1 million years ago, while the genus Homo that includes us obviously did not."
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Rule of Life 129: A little parent appreciation goes a long way. You and your kids will adore this game. Use the mouse to move Olivia, in full scuba gear, up and down the deep ocean in search of ten rainbow pearls for her mom's necklace. Collect the special pearls and lots of giant bubbles! You can just roll over the bubbles and pearls; you don't need to click on them. But along the way, steer clear of the spikey pufferfish and pink jellyfish! This game has one level.
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The 5 Most Adorable Stories in the History of War
#2. General Grant Stops to Defend a Whipped Horse
In 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant was the Optimus Prime of the Union Army and the future 18th President of the United States, as shown in the famed documentary film Wild Wild West. He had plenty of negative personality traits to balance out all that high-and-mightiness, though: Grant had a reputation as a drunk and was known to hate meat with a taste of blood in it (notoriously embarrassing during a time when bloody was the only flavor meat came in) and for accepting no terms but unconditional surrender on occasion.
"No one's hat shall be taller than mine."
Grant was preparing his army to march on the Southern capital, where Robert E. Lee and his troops waited, in a buildup to what would be the Battle of the Wilderness, the first of their many death matches.
On the road to the battlefield, Grant knew full well who he was up against and where he was heading. His mind must have been teeming with strategies for what was destined to be the single bloodiest part of the Civil War. Within mere days, he would face battles so intense, thousands of people would be gunned down in minutes. What's more, Grant was developing the headache of his life. Which made it all the more amazing when he dropped it all to defend a horse.
To be fair, it was a really attractive horse.
His party came upon a teamster whose cart had sunk in the mud. In true "minor bad guy in a history movie" fashion, the man was attempting to get out of the ditch by whipping the ever-loving crap out of his poor horse.
From that second on, it was clear that Grant -- a man famous for showing little fear or emotion -- did in fact have one berserk button: cruelty to animals, particularly horses. Grant Hulked out the instant he saw the poor horse, visibly angered for the first time since, well, ever.
The teamster paid him no attention. That was his first strike.
"Whipping horses is cruel, but exposing them to gunfire and explosions is totally cool."
Grant ordered the man to stop, swearing like a sailor, despite notoriously despising foul language. The teamster, who must have been either the bravest or the dumbest person in the history of everything, somehow saw this as a challenge and answered back: "Who's driving this team anyhow, you or me?" Second strike.
There never was a third strike. Within the minute, the teamster found himself tied to a tree for six hours, while he thought long and hard about what he did.
This tree should do fine.
#1. The Great Snowball Battle of Rappahannock Academy
Yes, we realize almost all of our examples are from the Civil War. Our research found conclusively that it was the most adorable war ever fought, and we dare you to prove otherwise.
In February of 1863, the Confederate Army found itself in a jam near Rappahannock Academy. Two back-to-back snowstorms buried several divisions under nearly a foot and a half of snow in northern Virginia. After five days of relentless snow, the sun finally returned and milder temperatures began to soften the deep snow cover.
A lot of good snowmen died that day.
The soldiers emerged from their tents into the newly white landscape, pushed to their extreme limit. They were wet, freezing, filthy and hungry -- this could not go on any further. They had one thing in mind, and one thing alone:
A 10,000-man snowball fight.
The Confederate Army had recently undergone an organizational overhaul, which had led to a certain amount of friendly rivalry between units. Up to that point, this had been limited to verbal barbs and we assume the occasional West Side Story-style dance battle. But when the battle-hardened soldiers took one look at the vast fields of ideal-for-snowballs snow, they knew shit was about to go down -- 11-year-old style.
"Make them snowballs bigger. I've got me an idea ..."
In the morning of February 25, General Hoke riled up his North Carolinian soldiers for an early morning assault at the camp of Colonel Stiles' Georgian Brigade. They formed up in full battle lines -- complete with cavalry and everything -- and followed their officers straight into the Georgians' camp, where they proceeded to pelt them with snowballs.
Understandably, the Georgians were taken by surprise when the barrage of friendly fire hit them in the form of a metric fuckton of snow. It was looking like a quick victory for Hoke's boys, until everyone at the nearby camps noticed what was going on and decided to help. The influx of reinforcements joined in on the ruckus and pushed Hoke's soldiers back.
"Hey! That one had a severed finger in it!"
With North Carolina on the retreat, Colonel Stiles quickly convened a Council of Snowball War for counterattack measures. He decided to employ a variation of the most basic of military strategies: organize his troops, put a snowball in the hand of each man and march straight into the heart of "enemy" territory.
Sadly, Stiles had never learned the "build a big-ass snow wall and park yourself behind it" gambit as a kid, while Hoke clearly had plenty of experience. Stiles' men stormed the North Carolinians' camp in a neat formation -- only to find Hoke's troops standing steadfast against them, each and every one of them holding the middle schooler's equivalent of a Gatling gun: a sack filled to the brim with snowballs.
"How stupid are they? We've got guns."
What followed was nothing less than a snowbath, where hundreds of Georgians were captured and "whitewashed." It was later described by a participant as "one of the most memorable combats of the war." Even though the Georgians and their allies eventually succumbed to the superior firepower of the North Carolinians, everyone went back to their camps happy -- they'd all had jolly good fun, and the worst injuries of the day were a few bumps and scrapes here and there.
So, in case you spend your time reading comedy websites, governments of the world: Please consider fighting all future wars as epic snowball battles. The precedent's right there.
So that's sorted then, Canada. Mexico can referee.
For more stories that combine cuteness with war, check out this article.
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Could not find master instance -> work lost!
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My project has multiple linked instances to a component (just an extended Ext.dataview.list where I override the prepareData method). If I (save and then) close sencha architect and re-open the project, at least 1 of my linked instances will not be found and it'll automatically remove the component from the view (along with the new code in prepareData).
The error displayed is:
Could not find master instance ExtBox1-ext-gen2866 for linked instance "component" - the linked instance will be removed.
Happens every damn time, particularly frustrating because I have to quit Sencha Architect on occasion to get it to stop closing the current file I'm working on after I've edited a resource (this is another bug though, which someone else has already posted.)
Edit: am going to prepare another test project that I'll upload here that'll allow you to reproduce this. Right now this is basically stopping me from getting any work done, as on reloading some random part of my project is simply removed and code is lost.
edit 2: attempting to reproduce this on a new project isn't giving me the error. Something must be screwed with my real project file, in which added components are not found. Any way I can help you guys debug this? Thanks.
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13 Dec 2012 7:01 AM #3
Sent you an email with the project. 2 zips, one causes a call stack overflow, the other has the behaviour described.
13 Dec 2012 11:19 AM #4
Thanks for the projects, this will help us look into the bug.
23 Jan 2013 4:24 PM #5
Hi coolfish, we're still investigating possible causes of your issues but I wanted to give you an update on our findings so far.
In the project that has the stack overflow, this is because somehow you have a linked instance that is a child of its own master instance (in MyNavigationView12). I'm trying to find how it could have gotten into this situation, because this should never be allowed -- if you have any idea what steps you took to get it in that state please let us know. However, you should be able to get the project back into a useable state by doing the following:
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- In a text editor, open the file metadata/view/MyNavigationView12
- Delete the object within the "cn" array that has type:linkedinstance so it's just an empty array ("cn": [])
- Save the metadata file and open the project in Architect, it should now open correctly
- Re-link whatever component was supposed to be the child of the navigation view, if any.
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25 Jan 2013 6:32 AM #6
Hi Jason,
I'm not sure how I got it to get an instance to link to its child instance. That state happened while preparing the project which resulted in a loss of data when a new custom component was added to the project. To avoid the data loss, I make sure that the userAlias and userClassName is unique for the newly added custom component before saving & reopening the project. Try adding more than one instance of the custom component into the project.
Hope this helps
25 Jan 2013 10:03 AM #7
It sounds like you've got some custom components saved to the toolbox which you're using to create new instances -- it's possible that the problem lies there. Would you be able to send us a copy of those custom toolbox components so we can inspect them for issues? (Right-click custom toolbox item -> Export to file)Jason Johnston
Sencha Architect Development Team
28 Jan 2013 5:30 AM #8
The custom component is simply an extension of the Dataview.list component (with prepareData function overriden).
28 Jan 2013 7:55 AM #9
Thanks, I'll try that, but would you mind sending us a copy of your saved component anyway? User components are somewhat unique in terms of internal ids etc. and I want to make sure that we're getting an exact testcase so we aren't missing anything.Jason Johnston
Sencha Architect Development Team
30 Jan 2013 1:13 AM #10
Ah, the tricky thing is that to get around this bug, I've been creating a new component each time. IIRC when I was running into this, the problem would pop up when the userAlias and userClassName were the same for two instances of the same component. If you do that, you're not getting the error?
It appears I don't have the component in my Architect anymore, as I've been creating the new component as described above rather than from the toolbox.


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What are my options to go from Bangkok airport to Khao San Road? And what are the expected prices for this?
The simplest and cheapest way to get to Khao San Road from Suvarnabhumi Airport is to take the Airport Rail Link (ARL) City Line train to Makkasan Station (20 minutes, 35 baht) and then a #556 bus at the bus stop immediately in front of the doors to the station (35 baht). Don't take an Airport Express train - you'll pay a lot extra to save 5 minutes. (As of end of 2010, the #556 no longer runs from the Airport Transportation Centre. This is also the bus you should take in order to get a safe GOVERNMENT LICENCED bus from Southern Bus Terminal to destinations like Samui or Phuket.)
The answer to your question will depend on which Bangkok airport you are referring to, as there are two of them.
The primary airport is Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), which is often referred to as "Bangkok International Airport", and handles all International flights.
The second airport, Don Mueang International Airport (DMK), is the old Bangkok International airport, and although it was shutdown for commercial flights several years ago when Suvarnabhumi opened, it has since been reopened and a number of domestic airlines fly from it. Over the next few months many more domestic airlines will relocate from Suvarnabhumi to Don Mueang, such make sure you are aware where you are flying to/from.
Most likely you are referring to Suvarnabhumi, so this answer is based on that.
There are a number of options for getting from Suvarnabhumi to Khao San Road. The best option really depends on the time of day you arrive.
If you arrive any time of the day other than peak period, the best option is normally to just take a taxi. Including road tolls, the cost will be around 400 Baht (~$13) through the day, or around 500 Bhat at night, and it will be the fastest option. All taxis are legally required to use a meter - and make sure that they do as it will be the cheapest option. In general taxis from the airport will use a meter without you asking, but taxis TO the airport will often try and set a fixed price - if they refuse to use the meter just get another taxi.
If you arrive during peak, or if you're alone and really want to save every last dollar, then there are various other options including buses and train that may be faster than sitting in traffic, but personally I would avoid them and just go with the taxi - especially if you have luggage.
To get from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport into town, you could typically take the Airport Express Link or the standard train lines. Unfortunately, the area where Khao San Road is, is not connected AT ALL by any of their intra-city train lines. So depending on WHEN you arrive, here are your options (I don't remember that exact prices, I looked these up on Wikitravel's excellent entry on Bangkok):
Take mrt to phyathai then change to bts.then exits sapantaksin station.go to the pier take public boat to pra atrit pier.walk out to main road turn rright 200m turn in small lane on yours left.then you are there.
There is lot of way to travel from BKK airport. Limo: located just outside arrival level door 5 > highly priced about 800-1200 Baht depending on which car do you use. Taxi: Easy one: from arrival go to ground level (just downstairs) door 4 or 7 > taxis desk give you a ticket. The price is meter price + 50 Baht surcharge + Toll fee is you use Expressway (not needed at night). Minivan and bus: Cheapest option. first you have to go the transportation center > take the shuttle bus on arrival level door 5 (avoid limo touts) or departure 4 floor door 5. you should see a blue sign Shuttle Bus. Bus runs every 20 minutes 24h.
From the transportation center take minivan #551 to victory monument! (40 Baht) Minivan #551 to victory monument
Note the minivan is NOT convenient if you have large luggage!!! From victory monument you can take bus #12 or 157 (12 Baht) to democracy monument 2 minutes walk to Kao san road.
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All the mens in my size (32-34 depending on fit) are all slim fit :-( I hate skinny jeans. I think I'll ask about them to find others whos hare my opinion :-)
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Frankly, I prefer to specify the device by it's /dev name. (My bootargs_root is "root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw,relatime")
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restamp, Thanks you for the tips! I would change mine to the /dev/ format too; I was just getting used to and memorizing all the new devices...
BTW, you are running 'realtime' even with a flash? Unless you have one of those very large >8GB ones, which gets used sparsely, and one of the very recently made ones (the technology is improving here) the life would be affected by repeated writes. Yes, they are cheap to replace, but at some point they become unreliable before you notice serious problems. I am sticking with noatime.
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When I got my Plug, NAND technology was new to me, and I had to read up on it. One of the reasons I quickly moved to an SDcard was that I wanted to experiment w/o any fear that something I might inadvertently do would ruin the NAND memory on my Plug. An SDcard, as you say, is replaceable, but the on-board NAND is not.
I don't hit my SDcard very hard - at least not yet. So far it has held up well. I know that rewriting inode access times is intensive, but for some things, like mail files, it is desirable to know whether they have been read since being written, i.e., whether you have new mail or not. That's why I settled on "relatime" rather than "noatime" - it alleviates most of the writes w/o actually breaking programs. (It would be nice if the ext[23] fs's allowed you to set this feature on a per-file basis, wouldn't it?) And, BTW, I create all my SDcard file systems as ext2, not ext3. I suspect this probably has more of an impact on minimizing the number of writes than "relatime" vs. "noatime".
BTW, I'm not sure if specifying "relatime" or "noatime" on the Uboot parameter really works. I also specify it in my /etc/fstab. Between specifying it both places, I figure it will be honored.
The subject of wear leveling is a complex one. For a good primer, see:
Frankly, I don't understand how any SDcard can get by without a static wear leveling algorithm. With a jffs2 FS over raw NAND, the information about which blocks are free (and therefore available to take part in the wear leveling) is available, but on an SDcard, the NAND blocks are internally mapped to conventional 512-byte blocks and the card has no way of knowing which of these are free and which are not. Thus, the card must treat all blocks as potentially containing valuable data (right?), and either it must have a fairly large excess of physical NAND memory to serve as its free pool (which would be expensive), or it must use static wear leveling (again, right?). (If anyone can shed more light on this, please do so. Also, if anyone knows if there is some way to cause the card to read out the stats on its internal data on block write counts, etc, I'd love to hear about this.)
FWIW, I am using the following card:
I bought this card because a friend tried it and said it works well with the Plug. Empirically, it appears my Plug issues a write to the SDcard about once every 45 seconds on average, so statistically, the card should last a while. As it turns out, 16GB is wretched excess for me, but in today's world real-estate is cheap. And, so far, so good, although, I hesitate to add, my friend's card just recently failed. But, it's warranted for 3 years, so we'll see how it goes.
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Perhaps we need to move this discussion to another thread. I will reply in a new one, when I get back home later today.
BTW, how do you change the next boot device from the current running os, without opening the serial console? Is there a way for that in the new boot?
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Good idea CqCn. And a perfect chance to figure out how to do such things in a
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To respond to your question, I don't know. The obvious way is to do it through the Uboot. It's theoretically possible to do this from Linux, if you give Linux access to the Uboot environment section of the NAND, but the only tools I know to manipulate this are the
executables that came with the alpha-6 installer. These particular executables are Intel-based, but I suspect if you had the sources you could build them for the Plug.
What would really be nice is a program like the
program found on Solaris.
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restamp, Sorry, it took a few days for me to get back to this thread. Yes, I understand the problems of using noatime with some modified time dependent utils lik mail.
The SDCards I have been using are 2GB, 4GB sizes. I happen to have a few of these around. I have a couple of MicroCenter, Kingston, and one Partist (just started). At your 16G size it is definitely a newer chip. The newer chips, in general, are more reliable for repeat writing.
From what I understand, the newer ones may also have the distribution algorithm built into the chip. The external interface does not see this, but internally it get redistributed on subsequent writes to a new physical sector. Do not know the details of how this is affected on a reformat or things like that.
I have been using flash for many things for a while, and have been keeping an eye on life. I have had small 1MB cards becoming quite unreliable after a year plus of intensive use, while close to full. After reformat, the available sectors became less by about 5%, indicating permanent failures similar to those of long term use of hard disks. After the reformat, this particular stick, worked quite reliably. The type of use you are talking about probably will last 2+ years without trouble, just a guess.
There is a commercial software that can be added, supposedly working with many os, that would transparently redistribute the write; they claimed it increased the performance significantly. They were trying to get the software to be incorporated by the chip makers, but had a retrofitable version even for smaller sticks ~4GB. They were going to license the sw on a per stick basis. When I find that product, I would report here.
If I want to run any write intensive applications such as repeated compiling, or servers where data is constantly getting modified such as mail servers, I personally would go to a usb hard disk; I am limiting flash to where it wont cause a problem in the noatime mode.
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Coming rather late to this, but maybe I can add a data point or two.
Currently my main Internet-facing server boots from a 4GB SD card and keeps bulk data on a conventional hard disc which is spun down most of the time with laptop mode.
I have noatime on the SS and magnetic media, and laptop-mode's commit=600 further reduces traffic.
I've then made an effort to trim unnecessary logging and so on.
I'm using ext3 for all the filesystems though received wisdom suggests that ext2 would generate less traffic still.
In any case, I can tell you that it's been running for a couple of years without any obvious problems so far.
I won't run laptop mode but I will make use of the other techniques.
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Only a very small percentage of Southerners actually owned slaves. Maybe 1 or 2%. Yet they convinced so many of their much poorer countrymen to fight and die for their cause. Hundreds of thousands of Southern men died or were maimed on the battlefields so that small wealthy group could maintain their extravagant immoral lifestyle.
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While only a very small percentage of Southerner actually owned slaves - like 1-2% - they managed to get many of their much poorer countrymen to rally for their cause. Hundreds of thousands died of the battlefield and many more were maimed so that a small, very wealthy minority could maintain their lavish and immoral lifestyle.
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