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The French veterinarian Ferand Mery famously said, "God made the cat in
order that man might have the pleasure of caressing a tiger". While the
domestic cat cannot claim the venerable tiger as an ancestor, it is true
that our cuddly feline companions are believed to have descended from felis
sylvestris lybica, the African wildcat. Also known as "the desert cat",
this feline is a desert-dwelling species that inhabits harsh environments
notable for their lack of food and even less water. To survive, the African
wildcat can shed nearly all of her reserves of fat and protein, up to 40%
of her weight! But even this highly adapted animal is much less tolerant
to dehydration. And yet, it continues to thrive in desert climates without
easy access to water.
Water is the single most vital component necessary to sustain the normal
functioning of all living cells. Water has many functions: it eliminates
waste, lubricates tissues, regulates body temperature, cushions joints and
internal organs, aids in digestion, and much more.
In the wild, cats tend to eat small game characterized as high-protein
and high-moisture content, such as rabbits, birds and rodents (even some
juicy insects). Prey animals like these contain about 70% water, providing
most of the moisture that wild cats need. Unsurprisingly, wild cats have
failed to evolve a strong "thirst reflex" like that of dogs and humans.
A thirst reflex involves complex interactions between the kidney and the
brain. When we are dehydrated, the kidney releases chemicals that communicate
with the brain, which in turn makes us consciously aware that we are thirsty
and need to drink.
Like her desert dwelling ancestors, today's domestic cat also has a diminished
thirst reflex and must derive most of her water requirement from the moisture
in her food. When a cat eats only dry food, she may not take in as much
hydration as canned-food-only cats. Cats do increase the amount they drink
when fed strictly dry food, but according to a recent study, not nearly
enough to fully compensate. Studies have shown that cats consuming a diet
containing 10% moisture with free access to drinking water had an average
daily urine volume of 63 milliliters (ml). Urine volume increased to 112
ml per day when fed a canned diet with 75% moisture content. Additionally,
urine was also more concentrated in cats fed the 10% moisture food. Veterinary
scientists generally believe that decreased urine volume and increased urine
concentration may be risk factors for the development of urinary tract disease
in cats, including issues such as bladder stones, feline urologic syndrome
and kidney disease.
Compared to dogs, cats make less precise and rapid adjustments to the
amount that they drink in response to temperature changes. When the temperature
rises, dogs compensate by drinking more water. Cat's brains don't register
the need to drink more in response to temperature changes as quickly, which
can lead to dehydration.
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that your cat is receiving increased hydration simply by supplementing your
cat's diet with a high quality canned food.
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and pathophysiology. Vet Clinics of North American: Small Animal Practice
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July 26. 2011 23:07
Hello,What are your comments re. the raw diets which are very 'wet' versus the combo dry/ wet diet? Also, what about the theory put forth by raw feeders that kibble shouldn't be mixed with wet foods (different rates of consumption)?Thank you for your thoughts,Polly
July 29. 2011 06:27
Thanks for the great article Dr Jane! Keeping cats hydrated is so important and many people don't realize their cat may not be drinking enough water. Instinctive Choice is wonderful!
Rich and Lisa Jelinek
July 30. 2011 22:51
Very interesting. I had not realized the importance of cats drinking more water. I will certainly keep a closer eye on my 5 cats to see if they are drinking more. Maybe I will get a fountain to encourage them.
Very good article.
Thank you, Dr. Jane
July 30. 2011 23:24
Wonderful article on keeping cats hydrated. Would it be alright with you if I placed this article on my cat website? Many people go to my site just for the CAT CARE information I offer. This may help all of those that have had urinary tract issues with their cats. When I question those that have had problems , it has been those who feed dry diets only. In 30 yrs of breeding cats , I have never had a cat with urinary problems , or kidney stones. Your explanation as to why cats don't drink is something I never thought of or gave any time too. But I always recommend wet food , so the cats take in more water. Great, great information.
Sue Villareal
July 31. 2011 21:47
Excellent, easy to read and understand article! My cats love Instinctive Choice and I swear, I could put it on a cracker and it it myself, lol. Honestly, it is one less worry for me to not have to worry about the quality and sources of your excellent diets!
Teri and the cats of Curlz and Swirlz
August 1. 2011 12:30
Interesting article on the cat's origins and aversion to water. My mother grew up with cats and I don't ever remeber seeing a bowl of water next to our cat's food dish, but there was always a dish of milk for her. Isn't milk a good substitute for water and nourishing also?
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Microsoft executive explains why PS4 is outselling Xbox OneWritten by: / / 24 Comments
In response to the most recent monthly sales figures for the US videogame industry from sales tracking firm The NPD Group, Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi wrote that five million Xbox One consoles had been sold-in to retailers around the world since the machine's launch in November 2013, meaning that five million units had made their way into the retail channel:
"The new generation is off to a strong start," Mehdi continued, "with global Xbox One sales outpacing Xbox 360 by more than 60 percent at the same point in time, a true testament to your love of console gaming."
The day before Mehdi's post, however, Sony had revealed that seven million PlayStation 4 consoles had been sold to consumers – not just retailers – representing a much more reliable sales figure.
Why the disparity between the two consoles?
In an interview with Forbes recently, Yusuf Mehdi outlined the reasons he thinks that the Xbox One is behind the sales of the PS4, pointing out that "[Sony is] in many more markets right now than [MIcrosoft is]. They're in 40+ markets, we're in 13."
Mehdi also offered a rather peculiar reason for the sales disparity, claiming that "[people] have been more satisfied with the Xbox 360 than the PS3, so in that respect people have less of a need to upgrade in the short term due to regular updates for the Xbox 360."
Mehdi is confident, however, that sales will see an uptick now that the Xbox One will become available for $399 – the same price as a PS4 – in a new bundle without Kinect:
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"And finally," Mehdi wrapped up, "you can still add on Kinect to create all these additional experiences with voice commands, biometric recognition, recording gameplay and more."
What do you think is the reason behind the sales differences between the Xbox One and PlayStation 4? Is it as clear-cut as Mehdi says and do you agree that Xbox One has a better games line-up than the PS4?
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The generalized homological mirror symmetry conjecture states that for mirror dual models $(X_E, w)$ and $(X_E', w')$ , if $L$, a lattice polytope which is a Newton polytope of a nonsingular projective toric variety, is in $M_{R}$ , then isomorphisms exist between: $D^b(X_E,w)$ and $DFS(X_E',w')$, $D^b(X_E',w')$ and $DFS(X_E,w)$, where $DFS$ is the derived Fukaya category and $D^b$ is derived category of coherent sheaves. What cases of this conjecture are open? Any references are greatly appreciated.
The conjecture has been solved for elliptic curves, abelian varieties, non-singular torus bundles over affine manifolds, and quartic surfaces. It remains to find a unification from algebraic geometry. A few references for this subject are the following:
Kontsevich, Maxim (1994), Homological algebra of mirror symmetry, arXiv:alg-geom/9411018. Kontsevich, Maxim; Soibelman, Yan (2000), Homological Mirror Symmetry and torus fibrations, arXiv:math.SG/0011041. Seidel, Paul (2003), Homological mirror symmetry for the quartic surface, arXiv:math.SG/0310414. Hausel, Tamas; Thaddeus, Michael (2002), Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality, and the Hitchin system, arXiv:math.DG/0205236


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July 12, 2011 –Jessica Kitson, Associate Director for Career Services and Co-Director of the Eric R. Neisser Public Interest Program at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, has been named 2011-2012 chair of the Public Service Section of the National Association of Law Placement (NALP), the association for legal career professionals. As chair, Kitson oversees work groups dedicated to a range of activities from educational programming to employment data analysis.
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It's ironical that Linux, the most secure OS, is commonly used to hack other machines.
Is that sentence correct, with respect to the irony part?
I don't see what's ironic about it, honestly. What is it about a more secure system being used to hack a less secure system that violates any expectation? That's like saying it's ironic that the reliable, well-armored, heavily armed German Panzer III tanks beat the bejesus out of the legendarily crappy British A9s and A10s in World War II. Well, no, that's really just pretty much what you'd expect to happen.
The definition of irony can be so elusive. It may help to think of irony as the juxtaposition of two contradicting states, one which is obvious and one which is unexpected.
Let's examine the two pieces of your example:
If we could state that the Linux development community put a high value on developing a secure operating system in order to prevent hacking, then I think yes, we could consider this statement ironic.
In other words, we would be presented with two contradicting states:
Thus, irony.
Change "ironical" to "ironic" and you are spot on the money.


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I bought this same monitor from newegg 2 years ago for almost the same price, and I love the heck out of it. It died on me about 9 months in but Acer's customer service was really easy to deal with, all I had to do was ship it out to them and a little less than two weeks later it was back to enabling my gaming addiction.
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I've always liked Acer monitors, but to me this should be a common price for a 20" monitor without LED backlighting or HDMI these days... Perhaps I'm expecting too much?
@superllama7: I think you are. You can always buy a DVI->HDMI dongle.
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I've been looking into an exercise ball more seriously as a chair alternative. I've heard the benefits which include core strengthening and encouraging you to sit up straight. Are there any drawbacks? Or adjustments that you need to make in order to make it a viable chair replacement?
From a little personal experience I can tell, that ball size may be a problem.
My height is 195 cm and I'm using a 75 cm ball. When fully inflated, it is too high - I have to bend down to the keyboard of my notebook. When less inflated, it becomes too large horizontally when I sit down, so that I can't bend my knees enough.
As a result my posture is not very good when sitting on the ball and working on my notebook.
I've tried a 65-cm ball, but it is too small. I think the solution can be making your keyboard/screen stand highter somehow, but not tried this yet.
The only drawback is that when you start using it you won't be able to sit for as long as you want. As your core strengthens, though, the amount of time that you can sit on it will increase.
On the other hand our bodies weren't designed for sitting eight or ten hours straight. I consider this apparent drawback a blessing in disguise because it will force you to take regular breaks.
I use an exercise ball at home and I know people at work who use them.
If you're interested in sitting you may find this TED Talk enjoyable [6min]:
Exercise ball is a good thing to try if you experience back problems. I know several health professionals who recommend it and I'm not aware of any downsides.
Make sure you select a ball with appropriate size -- check the weight specification. And pump it up to its full size.
You can use the ball for doing exercises while working, which will benefit your back. One good exercise is to raise one foot 10 seconds while balancing on the ball.
Exercise ball as a chair is good idea, but if you tend to be sitting for longer hours, exercise ball is not that good. Since you can/will be able to sit on it for only a small amount of time(lets say 1 or two hours), and then you have to switch back to chair. It may be a good idea to consider chair which can move 360" to give your body more natural movement.
I was searching for a very long time to find a doctor that is specialiced on back back problems.
He explained to me that you should alternate 'moving chairs' with 'regular chairs'.
The exercise ball would be a 'moving chair' where you muscles (back and stomage muscles) are trained. And with a 'regular chair' your muscles are lees needed.
The trick is to alternate both.
To his explaination a exercise ball should be used say 50% or 70% of the time but not 100% of the time.
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I haven't examined any of the other DHCP servers to see if they support registering with bind.
It has been my experience the that the DHCP client packages on Linux do support BIND. However, it registering with the name server is often not enabled by default. Linux has a history of being used more as a sever where the IP address will be static (even if served by DHCP). Linux desktops are becoming more frequent, and if I were rolling them out in a corporate environment I might enable registration.
Enabling DHCP registration in bind risks DNS hijacking. It is best to use a separate domain for dynamic addresses. To use client registration, it must be enabled in the bind configuration.
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Un cammino attraverso la Commedia (Inf. 7-12)
In a recent post on dotCommonweal, Robert Imbelli discussed Charles Taylor's term "excarnation," which Imbelli glosses as "the avoidance or denial of those dimensions of humanity that threaten our sense of being autonomous individuals." I have not read all of A Secular Age, but Imbelli's discussion has helped shape my thinking on Inferno Cantos 7-12. After all, one way to think about the seven vices that chart Dante's journey through hell is that each vice becomes progressively more excarnated. In the name of making us more autonomous, sin ends up dividing us from ourselves. Sin offers an ersatz autonomy that places human will over divine providence and the nature that God created. Sins make bodies less meaningful because meaning can only exist in community. And communities only exist through the interactions of embodied individuals.
There is no community in Hell because there are no bodies in Hell. Unlike the shades he encounters, Dante is embodied. His body still communicates meaningfully. In Canto 12, as Dante walks among the covetous and the wrathful, Chiron notices Dante's footprints. "When he had uncovered his enormous mouth / he said to his companions: Have you observed / the one behind dislodges what he touches? / That is not what the feet of dead men do. / And my good leader, now at Chiron's breast, / where his two natures join, replied: / He is indeed alive, and so alone, / it is my task to show him this dark valley / Necessity compels us, not delight" (Inf. 12:79-87).* In this life, the more embodied we are, the less alone we are. Our bodies enable communication with others. We long to be in touch with our friends and loved ones. And being in touch is not a metaphor. But in Hell, no one can be in touch because there are no bodies to touch or to do the touching. (It's an interesting and important question to ask how immaterial souls can suffer physical torment, but we'll have to come back to that.)
Therefore, because Dante is alive, because he is embodied, he finds himself alone in Hell. He cant be in touch even with Virgil.** In a sense, the souls in Hell were excarnated, disembodied, before they even died. Their punishment simply continues what they have already done. I think this puts the sin of usury in its proper context. The problem with usury, as Virgil explains to Dante is that through usury money becomes unconnected to embodied labor. "By toil and nature, if you remember Genesis, / near the beginning, it is man's lotto earn his bread and prosper. / The usurer, who takes another path, / scorns nature in herself and in her follower, / and elsewhere sets his hopes" (Inf. 11:106-111).
Of course, all of the Inferno and all of the Commedia is in part an exhortation to its audience. The pilgrim stands for all of us. He therefore speaks to everyone. And he can only exhort his audience, he can only relate what he has seen, because unlike the shades he encounters, he is embodied. This is why the two apostrophes we encounter in Cantos 8 and 9 are so important.
By Canto 8, Dante has already visited the lustful, the gluttonous, the avaricious and the prodigal. In that Canto while he is among the angry and the sullen, and after he has crossed the River Styx, Dante encounters fallen angels. For the first time in the poem, the pilgrim directly addresses his readers: "Reader, how could I not lose heart / at the sound of these accurs'd words, / for I thought I would never make it back" (Inf. 8:94-96). The angels demanded that Virgil leave Dante to return to the land of the living by himself. With his words, Dante acts as an angel to us by reminding us of the horror of being left in Hell. Even if he cannot touch Virgil, Dante can't make his journey without him.
In Canto 9, Dante and Virgil reach the Gates of Dis, and beyond the Gates of Dis he will encounter shades whose sins were ever more excarnated because these sins increasingly separated human beings from each other. We still have to reach the circles where the shades committed violence, fraud, and treachery. (We see heresy in Canto 10 and begin to see violence in Cantos 11 and 12.) Dantes apostrophe in Canto 9 reads: "O you who have sound intellects, / consider the teaching that is hidden / behind the veil of these strange verses" (Inf. 9:61-63). Robert Hollander notes that there is much scholarly disagreement about these lines. Without trying to adjudicate those scholarly disagreements, let me offer a reading here that coheres with my argument about excarnation. Dante's audience can have sound intellects now because they read his text and hear his words as ensouled flesh or as embodied intellects.
Dante's journey serves as a warning to his audience to keep their intellects and their bodies in harmony, which is another way of saying that Dante urges his audience to cherish their own incarnation. Dante reminds us that the pain of being human is surpassed only by the pain of being once human and facing a judgment that will leave us excarnated.
I recognize that I have still not addressed Dante's poetics in any meaningful way. I'll be sure to do that in the next post. In fact, I think the discussion of harmony is a perfect segue.
What did you find interesting in these cantos? Is my discussion of excarnation helpful? What of importance did I miss?
*Similarly in Canto 8, the boat that crosses the river Styx only becomes heavy when Dante steps in it. See Inf. 8:25-27
**That is to say, Im not sure how to read, e.g., Inf. 9:60 where Virgil hands cover Dantes face.
[For Part 1 of our discussion, see here. For the introduction, see here]
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Scott D. Moringiello is an an assistant professor in the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in Catholic theology and religion and literature. He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Scott, this is my first reading and what surprises me is how thoroughly engaging it is. I always thought it would be "difficult" and yet, without needing a scholar's grasp of all the layers of meaning, I am finding it a pleasure and pretty easy to follow. So thank you for proposing this journey. I appreciate your comments.I find myself wondering who among the political leaders and/or dictators of modern society would be found in which circle of Hell (an excellent diversion). And I wonder where Dante's choices of torment came from. e.g., the river of blood that gradually leveled off so that some souls were up to their eyeballs in it, and the "less guilty" were covered only to their ankles, and those with sharpened tongues, etc. My biblical knowledge is scant!It also struck me as odd that if Dante had divine protection, what did he need to fear from the Gorgon and the Minotaur?
Scott, I really like your discussion of excarnation as a way of understanding the organization of Dante's hell. There are certainly spirits that seem to be in community (Paolo and Francesca are still together, for example, as are all those heretics hanging out in sepulchers whom Dante expects to share messages with one another), but it isn't community in any productive or generative way.That said, what strikes me most about these six cantos is the way they both insist upon and undermine their own organizational logic. There's that magnificent bit at the beginning of Canto 7, where the narrator says, "Ah, Justice of God! Who heaps up/such strange punishment and pain as I saw there?" Which sounds like an outraged denial of God's justice (how can this be justice, to cause so much pain?), until the next tercet continues, "And why do our sins so waste us?" That line, while still expressing shock and puzzlement at the suffering Dante finds in hell, and still allowing a potential indictment of the God who permits sin to exist, could also be read as putting the blame on the sinners themselves: it is they who heap up their own punishment and pain. But the question about God's justice isn't erased.Similarly, in Canto 11, where Virgil outlines the structure and logic of hell, Dante again raises the question of God's justice by way of a question about hell's organizational logic, asking of those in the first five circles, "'why are they not punished inside the fiery city/if God's anger is upon them?/And if not, why are they so afflicted?'" Virgil reproves him and explains, and then Dante tells him that his words are as clear as the sun and have "resolv[ed] [his] doubts." But again, the question still lingers. I think again of Paradise Lost, where Adam's inquiries about the nature of the cosmos in Book 8 draw an impatient rebuke from Raphael, who refuses to answer the question of whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun around the earth. The poem's next lines seem to underscore the insufficiency of Raphael's reply: "To whom thus Adam cleerd of doubt, repli'd./How fully hast thou satisfi'd me, pure /Intelligence of Heav'n." Cleared of doubt? Fully satisfied? REALLY?I'm not trying to suggest that Dante's system doesn't make sense or that he doesn't believe in it or expect his readers to as well; I take Dante, like Milton, as sincere in his justification of God's ways to men. But the poem seems unafraid to raise our own doubts by reminding us that, hey! It's really hard to reconcile the idea of an infinitely-merciful God with one who is also infinitely just. We may believe it to be true, but human logic, like human emotions, just can't grasp those simultaneous truths.
1) In some cases forced togetherness is a harsher punishment than isolation. Canto X has Farinata, a Ghibelline, and Cavalcante, a Guelph, sharing the same tomb - - enemies in life, eternal companions in death. Imagine a Fox News blowhard and an MSNBC heckler engaged in never-ending crossfire in the same TV studio. In contrast, theological adversaries Aquinas and Siger of Brabant will be happily reconciled in the same circle in Paradiso.2) FDR in his 1936 "Rendezvous with Destiny" speech draws a widely accepted political lesson from the Inferno's architecture and its cast of characters: "Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15314But of course politicians will have their own punishment when Dante considers fraud in Canto XXI.
Necessity compels us, not delight (necessit l ci nduce, e non diletto). This is the contrary to what Augustine wrote about the bread of life: Est quaedam voluptas cordis, cui panis dulcis est ille coelestis. Porro si poetae dicere licuit, Trahit sua quemque voluptas (Virg. Eclog. 2); non necessitas, sed voluptas; non obligatio, sed delectatio: quanto fortius nos dicere debemus trahi hominem ad Christum, qui delectatur veritate, delectatur beatitudine, delectatur justitia, delectatur sempiterna vita, quod totum Christus est?non necessitas, sed voluptas; non obligatio, sed delectatio "Not necessity, but pleasure; not obligation, but delight."A deliberate contrast, or are these commonplace oppositions?
I love the notion of "excarnation." I find it to be a helpful way of thinking about the lack of community that we find among the sinners in Hell, which comes about at first through their lack of self-control and later through their own twisted choices. The best examples that I can think of that demonstrate this tendency are the poet-count Bertran de Born who literally "excarnates" himself as he holds his severed head aloft in front of Dante and Virgil in canto 28, and the tragic figure of Count Ugolino, who gnaws away at the skull of his enemy Archbishop Ruggieri in canto 32. I also like the idea about the "flawed organizational logic" that exists in the Inferno. I see an instance of this in the "dance" of the avaricious and the prodigal, which seems at first perfectly organized into a semi-circular movement, much like the movement of the heavenly spheres in Dante's ptolemaic cosmology. They seem regular and without change -- and yet Dante quickly undermines this regularity with Virgil's discourse on the hidden ministrations of the goddess Fortuna. Her operations are anything but regular and symmetrical, and so humans on Earth are left puzzling out the question of why some people flourish materially while others perish. I think these two ideas, excarnation and organization, seem to point to a kind of anti-human "dead-ness" about Hell. There is nothing living in Hell, nothing spontaneous. Everything seems to proceed according to a logical, pre-determined flow-chart. Sinners arrive, they're judge, and punishment commences. The point is that there is no sense of God's creative surprises here in Hell. God, if he is mentioned at all, is spoken of as a judgmental figure infinitely removed from the scene. There is no one who comes and says anything along the lines of "see, I am doing something new." And yet, there is evidence of the Incarnation, of God's "unreasonable" or "asymmetric" creativity, all over Hell. The impregnable fortress of Dis is opened at the touch of a magic wand. References to the anastasis, Christ's descent into Hell to rescue the patriarchs, continue to pop up, in cantos 9 and 12. So as Dante travels through these circles, he becomes more aware of his own bodiliness, his own agency, his connection to the world of the living and his participation in divine grace. We see him growing increasingly bold (as with Filippo Argenti) as he begins to discover the painful future that awaits him in his exile from Florence, where his fellow citizens will try to "excarnate" him through the organisms of the law. Perhaps his poetry can be considered a personal response to excarnation and a call to build community!
I must confess that I chuckled when I read in Canto VII that tonsured heads (clerics, popes and cardinals) were in hell among the avaricious. Hopefully, Pope Francis will have an influence in preventing any future additions to this level of Hell.In the earlier cantos of the Inferno Dante shows show some sympathy for the plight of those who are receiving punishment for their sins even though it is a just punishment. But when he meets a political enemy of his in Canto VIII he is not so sympathetic and even wants further suffering for this person. It is interesting that shortly after this incident Dante begins to fear that Virgil, the voice of Reason, will abandon him. Politics can bring out the worst in people and is often accompanied by a loss of rationality.In Canto X Dante learns that the shades are able to know the past and to see into the future. Farinata notes that after Judgment Day the gates of the Future are closed a sobering observation. The shades, however, have no awareness of what is happening in the present. Today I have seen advertisements for workshops on Mindfulness, another was of saying Living in the Present Moment. They teach techniques for focusing on the present because the present is where your life enfolds. For the shades in Hell their present is over. There is no way that they can rectify their sins.Throughout the Inferno the people in Hell interact with Vergil and Dante but not each other. This is another aspect of their punishment. They are denied community and companionship. After all, misery loves company.
I like the term "excarnation," and I like its definition - the avoidance of those things that are common to us as humans, and hence threatening to our ever-alert and fragile sense of individualism - though I don't know that Dante would have seen the phenomenon he knows as sin in that way. He might have seen it the opposite way - that it is in going "each unto his own way" that people go wrong. This picks up on what an earlier commenter noted, just how objective and clear Dante seems - he is not clearly obsessed with any one thing, like people's shoes or the way they speak or how they feel about one or another political issue. He seems to be taking everything in. And I feel that this is true - that in the end we do not get to create our own reality, and our failure in any one aspect of our development comes back to haunt us. I will give an example from a man I know: a wonderful, thoughtful, competent man who was good at almost everything, he never wanted to be in charge of anything. Recently he was in a position where everyone wanted him to step into a leadership role at work, which he refused to do, saying he didn't want to have to lead - he prefered to influence decisions from behind the scenes. Well, the person who took over promptly had a fight with him and fired him, and since then he has had horrible financial difficulties (he is older and is having difficulties finding a job in the area, but is in no position to move). The one aspect of his life which he refused to develop is getting back at him.I often feel that the sinners in hell are the people who had one problem that they never were willing to work on or improve - and at some point it got them.The scene with Vergil covering Dante's eyes, and the "veil of the strange verses," I think must be an allegory of some sort, but Lord knows what it is.


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I would like to use the hybrid suspend method instead of suspend when closing the lid or selecting "Suspend" from the menu.
I can imagine to change the pm-suspend script to do so automatically, but there might be a more maintainable / easier way.
Indirect hybrid sleep
This is the older method: first suspend and then wake up to hibernate after a delay (15 minutes by default). Use this with a Linux kernel before 3.6, or if you like that it does not use any power after 15 minutes any more.
Add the file
Real hybrid suspending with Linux 3.6+
If you have a Linux 3.6 kernel, you can use the following, which will suspend to both disk and RAM from the beginning.
Add the file
This will always write the image to disk and then suspend to RAM, having the benefits that resuming will always be fast (as long as the battery does not run out) and that the machine will not wake up for a short time (after PM_HIBERNATE_DELAY) to hibernate for real.
The drawback is that the process takes longer (because it always hibernates to disk), and that your battery might run out in the long run (e.g. after 12 hours).
In 12.04 I noticed that when hibernation is triggered (using
Timeout is set to -1 and it awaits user selection. I am guessing this requires some editing of scripts in
This question comes up frequently enough in Google that I think it's worth bumping. The method described here is (imo) not hybrid suspend. It is "hibernate after X minutes in suspend". True hybrid suspend writes your RAM out to disk and then goes in low-power state (sleep mode). While it takes longer, the resume is instant while the machine has battery left, otherwise resumes form hard disk. This behaviour is what most people know as hybrid sleep, and used by default in the newer Windows and Mac laptops.
Here's how to enable the real hybrid suspend:
% cat /etc/pm/config.d/00-use-suspend-hybrid # Always use suspend_hybrid instead of suspend if [ "$METHOD" = "suspend" ]; then METHOD=suspend_hybrid fi
This method works for me on my Sony Vaio SVS.
PS: Reproducing the patch here in case the file is deleted in the future:
diff --git a/pm/pm-functions.in b/pm/pm-functions.in --- a/pm/pm-functions.in +++ b/pm/pm-functions.in @@ -316,8 +316,28 @@ if [ -z "$HIBERNATE_MODULE" ] && \ { [ -n "${HIBERNATE_MODE}" ] && \ grep -qw "${HIBERNATE_MODE}" /sys/power/disk && \ + HIBERNATE_MODE_SAVE=$(cat /sys/power/disk) && \ + HIBERNATE_MODE_SAVE="${HIBERNATE_MODE_SAVE##*[}" && \ + HIBERNATE_MODE_SAVE="${HIBERNATE_MODE_SAVE%%]*}" && \ echo -n "${HIBERNATE_MODE}" > /sys/power/disk echo -n "disk" > /sys/power/state + RET=$? + echo -n "$HIBERNATE_MODE_SAVE" > /sys/power/disk + return "$RET" + } +fi + +# for kernels that support suspend to both (i.e. hybrid suspend) +# since kernel 3.6 +if [ -z "$SUSPEND_HYBRID_MODULE" ] && \ + [ -f /sys/power/disk ] && \ + grep -q disk /sys/power/state && \ + grep -q suspend /sys/power/disk; then + SUSPEND_HYBRID_MODULE="kernel" + do_suspend_hybrid() + { + HIBERNATE_MODE="suspend" + do_hibernate } fi
Ubuntu 16.04 and above
The solution by blueyed for Real hybrid suspending with Linux 3.6+ did not work for me. I suspect this is because Ubuntu 16.04 uses
First, test if hibernate and hybrid-sleep works using systemd
Open a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and enter:
This should get your computer to hibernate. To try hybrid-sleep, enter:
If it works make it permanent.
Open the file
Find the two lines:
Note, These lines are commented out with
Save the file. Log out and log back in.
Source: http://superuser.com/questions/719447/how-to-use-systemd-hybrid-sleep-instead-of-suspend-under-gnome-in-linux
I hope this helps
There's another solution without adding any file in config.d, just using wakealarm in /sys/class/rtc/rtc0. Make use obsolete code in pm-functions (/usr/lib/pm-utils) after the comments #since the kernel does not directly support ... , ('cos the current kernel (after 3.6 something) does directly support). Revert that code and put in do_suspend() part instead of do_suspend_hybrid(), and use the patch for pm-functions ('til they fix it).
Obsolete code (suspend then hibernate when suspend_hybrid is called):
Recommended. Even easier to use uswsusp while the same time maximize the benefit of s2both i.e. s2both when suspend. Put the reverted code in do_suspend() part of uswsusp module (/usr/lib/pm-utils/module.d).
Reverted code (suspend_hybrid when suspend is called):
With uswsusp, we can see the progress of suspend/hibernate and the reverse process displayed in text, even we can abort it by pressing backspace. Without uswsusp, suspend/hibernate just appear-disappear annoyingly, especially when wakealarm is triggered and execute hibernate (s2disk in uswsusp). Set the period of sleep before hibernate in the usual place on pm-functions file.
Here's the uswsusp mod: (remember, this module is called from pm-functions so the inserted variables are the same)


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There comes a time in every man's life when he is called upon to defend the integrity and honor of another man's penis. I guess this mine. There has been a considerable amount of attention on the Internet and in the media lately, focused on Jon Hamm, star of the successful and critically acclaimed television series Mad Men, specifically concerning a certain part of his anatomy. Without rehashing the particulars, we have been made to understand that Jon Hamm has an enormous wang. The secret is out. Now, it's time for everyone to stop talking about it.
For the record, I admit to having some serious dude love for Jon Hamm. As an actor, he consistently gives an outstanding performance, and his portrayal of Don Draper in Mad Men is no exception. Don Draper is a psychologically and morally complex character, capable of acts of apathy, cruelty, and sweeping generosity, seeking both redemption and self-destruction in the equal measure–in other words, a human being–and Hamm never shrinks away from playing the character at his best and his worst. My wife and I, after much anticipation, were watching the premiere of season six last week. The problem was that I had trouble enjoying the show with the same unadulterated pleasure as before. I was distracted by something, an insinuation, a bad joke, a quickly suppressed giggle–I was distracted by a penis. I realized that the man's penis had become a subtext in his entire body of work. All across the country, the eyes of viewers were flickering towards Don Draper's groin, looking for the tell-tale silhouette.
I will never understand the obsession with celebrities–or in this case, celebrity man-cannons–but Jon Hamm's penis has inspired a fascination that goes well beyond ridiculous. I know that it shouldn't come as a surprise that there are websites dedicated to the subject of Jon Hamm's penis. Or that Jon Hamm, in an interview with Rolling Stone, was quoted as saying, "They're called 'privates' for a reason. I'm wearing pants, for fuck's sake. Lay off." While I'm no expert on social niceties, I'd say that when a guy is forced to go on record in the venerable pages of Rolling Stone magazine as saying hey guys, lay off my junk, a line has been crossed somewhere.
To put a little perspective on this, if I started a blog dedicated to the subject of my neighbor's dick, that would make me creepy and, well, kind of a tool (Sorry, Brandon). But, if my neighbor was Jon Hamm, suddenly I'm a freaking journalist in the league of Perez Hilton, the bleeding rectum of the blogosphere. What I'm getting at is that just because the penis is attached to Jon Hamm, we shouldn't make the mistake of believing that it is a special penis, certainly not any more special than the penis belonging to any other man. And though it is apparently bigger than most, this is evidence only that God likes Jon Hamm more than most men, and so decided to give him astonishing good looks and charm, talent, wealth, and a tallywacker that could choke a giraffe.
We need to leave Jon Hamm's penis alone, or, if you prefer, at least treat it with the respect it deserves: don't fuck with it. After all, if the legends are true, then we have to assume that this is one trouser snake that is capable of defending itself; you don't want to piss it off. I won't pretend that, just to please me, the entire Internet as a whole will suddenly acquiesce and I'll no longer have to suffer the indignity of seeing Don Draper dick tales posted on CNN alongside the latest news of the global clusterfuck of a nuclear-armed North Korea. It's human nature, probably at its worst; we're curious. How much money does he make? What's she like in bed? How big is that guy's dick? For some stupid reason, we're dying to know. It doesn't necessarily make us bad people, just a bunch of complete wankers. So, I'm going to defuse this situation right now. Brought to you by Blank Universe, here is an exclusive photo of Jon Hamm's penis. The mystery is gone. You're welcome. Now let's get on with our lives.


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ANDERSON, Scarlet Rayne, 2 years old, of Follansbee, WV, passed away June 12, 2013, at home.
She was born Sept. 6, 2011, in Wheeling, WV. Scarlet is a member of the Beads of Courage of Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.
She is survived by her parents, Rachel Palmer and Michael Goodman; maternal grandparents, Lorie Palmer of Wellsburg, WV, and Richard Palmer of Weirton, WV; paternal grandparents, Kelly and Sam Mixter of Weirton, WV, "Nanna" Janice and "Pap Pap" Richard Goodman of Follansbee, WV; great-grandmother, Elizabeth "GeeGee" Holden of Wellsburg, WV; and her sister, Skye Palmer at home; several aunts, uncles and cousins also survive.
Visitation will be Saturday, June 15, 2013, from 11 a.m. until the time of service at 1 p.m. at Reasner Funeral Home, 1515 Charles St., Wellsburg, WV with Angel Adams officiating.
Interment will follow at Kadesh Chapel Cemetery, Beech Bottom, WV.
Online condolences can be made to ReasnerofWellsburg.com.


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To the Editor,
Romney is a severe conservative when he needs to be. He is a moderate when it suits his purposes. He is also a liberal when the wind blows in that particular direction.
His own party labeled him "a well lubricated wind vein." What more does anyone need to call him what he really is, a liar?
Romney is "a ship without a rudder," clearly at the mercy of an "idiot wind" that blows his sails in all different directions. He consistently takes the path of least resistance.
Against the auto bailout loan, against going into Pakistan after OBL while, at the same time, attempting to take credit for one while both agreeing with and disagreeing with both. Wishy-washy is way too generous for this "pudding-filled balloon." Ask yourself who was right.
Sheldon Adelson, the Koch Brothers, Robert Murray are all expecting behemoth "ROI," "Return On Investment" from Willard Mitt. He is not about to disappoint his "puppet masters."
His charge that the president can't work with Congress is ridiculously ludicrous. Anyone paying attention, even minimal attention, knows that this is "self serving" outrageous lies.
Congress, both House and Senate, have done nothing but obstruct this president, even when he agrees with them. Cynically voting against measures that they, themselves, proposed and sponsored.
They will not allow this president to do anything good for this country because it would weaken their chances of regaining the White House. Blaming the president for not being able to work with Republicans is like blaming the judge for the incarceration of the criminal.
You can't trust him to do anything he says and then you can't trust him to do anything right. On all disagreement with the president, he has been wrong. Whether you call it Etch-A-Sketch or Romnesia or rudderless, it all adds up to the undeniable fast that Mitt Romney is a huge liar. How can anyone from the extreme right to moderate to liberal believe a single word that Romney says? A chameleon would be embarrassed by his inability to keep up with Willard Mitt.
Choice, no choice. Mitt Romney is "multiple choice."
There is only one conviction that Mitt Romney has, tax cuts for the very wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
Trickle down "supply side" economics has never worked. Ronald Reagan's own economic advisers have admitted this. The middle class are the "job creators" and when the middle class does well, the wealthy and the poor do well.
In Massachusetts, Romney has a 39 percent approval rating, while his "healthcare law" has a 64 percent approval rating.
On our side of the economic argument are Franklin Roosevelt, Bill Clinton and Warren Buffet. On the other side are Karl Rove, George Bush and "The Donald." My question, who do you trust?
Bob Atkinson


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(CBS/AP)-- The facts are undisputed: Republicans have a problem attracting Hispanic voters.
With Mitt Romney as the prime example of how bad the situation is for the GOP - he lost Hispanics by over 40 points to President Obama - some in the party have drawn the conclusion that the GOP's hard line on immigration is the reason for its troubles with Hispanics.
In the aftermath of Romney's drubbing, several Republicans publicly called for their party to be more inclusive and some have now moved to the next stage of repairing relations with Hispanic voters - proposing legislation - despite criticism from Democrats that this push is purely political.
The Republican-led House of Representatives is taking up a measure this week that would create a new immigration program to give high-skilled workers in the science, technology engineering and math (STEM) industries permanent residency in the U.S.
Additionally, two retiring Republicans, Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, joined with fellow co-sponsor Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to introduce a new version of the DREAM Act legislation Tuesday.
It would provide permanent residency, but not citizenship, to children under the age of 14 brought to the U.S. by their illegal immigrant parents. In exchange, the youth would have to obtain higher education or serve in the military. The measure is similar to the presidential directive issued by Mr. Obama this past summer and would lock it into federal law.
"While this legislation addresses a single facet of our nation's complex immigration problem, it is nonetheless a step forward in addressing a time sensitive issue," Kyl said.
A Senate Democratic aide said the measure means little because undocumented youth have already been given reprieve from the president. He also said it is unlikely to be brought up before the end of the year, but "it is encouraging that Republicans are willing to correct the missteps and move the debate forward" for the next Congress.
Many Republicans, until recently, were adamantly opposed to various versions of the DREAM Act, even though it was first introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah., in 2001.
For example, in 2010, after the Senate failed to pass a version of the DREAM Act that included a path to citizenship, McCain said, "I cannot put the priorities of these students, as difficult and unfair in many respects as their situation is, ahead of my constituents and the American people who demand that the Federal government fulfill its Constitutional duty to secure our borders before we undertake other reforms."
Mark Kirkorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that calls for fewer legal immigrants and strongly opposes illegal immigration, says the DREAM Act is a "compelling" issue for Republicans if they want to appeal to Hispanic voters because undocumented children are blameless innocents.
"They need to do something proactive but also address this most sympathetic group of illegal aliens," Kirkorian said.
Meanwhile, the House bill being taken up this week, the STEM Act, is authored by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who has previously been a staunch supporter of many of the harshest immigration proposals, including notifying authorities when illegal immigrants are admitted to hospitals and doing away with birthright citizenship to children born to immigrants in the U.S.
"We cannot afford to educate these foreign graduates in the U.S. and then send them back home to work for our competitors. For America to remain the world's economic leader, we must have access to the world's best talent," Smith said in a recent statement.
But Smith's push to pass the STEM Act is viewed by some through a purely political lens, and some say his efforts are futile and misguided.
David Koelsch, immigration law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy law school, told CBS News that the timing of the bill, just weeks after an election in a Congress where 80 members won't be back come the New Year, is "truly political."
Republicans are "trying to get something done in a lame duck session to save face," he said.
The concept of the bill - increasing immigration of highly-skilled workers - is one that both sides of the aisle are able get behind because of a shortage of workers in STEM industries. It is even one of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' priorities for comprehensive immigration reform for the upcoming Congress, but one of that caucus' leaders echoed the criticism that it's a partisan effort to send a political message.
"This week's vote is more about politics and optics for the Republicans than about anything substantive," Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., said in a statement.
The STEM Act failed to pass the House in September because a House rule required it to pass with a two-thirds majority. Although the new rewritten version will require only a simple majority, Republicans sweetened it to appeal to Democrats by allowing family members of STEM green card recipients to wait for permanent status in the U.S. after one year.
But most Democrats are expected to oppose the measure because it cancels another program, the Diversity Visa Program, which is a lottery system allowing 55,000 residents with high school degrees of countries that have low immigration rates to apply for American residency. African residents tend to be largest recipients of the system.
"The Republicans are still looking at immigration through the old lens that legal immigration is a problem that must be eliminated or never increased," Gutierrez said. "We don't need to eliminate immigration for one group to allow immigration for another, we can and will reform immigration so that we have a controlled and legal flow that benefits the economy and keeps families together."
Even Republican allies who say the legislation is political approve of it.
"Part of the calculation is they want to be seen as putting forward substantive and practical [legislation] on immigration. If you're going to do that, this kind of targeted piecemeal measure seems to be the way to go about it," Kirkorian said.
Although the House is expected to pass the bill before the end of the week, a Senate Democratic leadership aide said the Senate will likely not address the legislation because the lame duck period between now and the end of the year is "extremely packed."


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Are there any books or sites that detail, step-by-step, the evolution of the first single-celled organisms (bacteria, archaea) from a Miller-Urey-like beginning? That is, assumes only amino acids, then from there to self-replicating proteins, until culminating in the formation of a basic cell?
Origin of Life: Chemical Approach is an edited volume by Piet Herdewijn and M. Volkan Kisakürek.
here is the book's description from the webpage:
I quite like the account given in Early evolution without a tree of life, where alkaline hydrothermal vents (like "Lost City") are theorized to have formed pre-biotic compartments with a proton gradient (i.e. an energy source) from which cells could have evolved.
From a more geology-oriented perspective:
Robert M Hazen (2007) - Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins
Noam Lahav (1999)- Biogenesis: Theories of Life's Origin
J William Schopf (2001) - Cradle of Life
I have watched Hazen's nice "Origins of Life" DVD/Video Course. There he says that the Miller-Urey stuff has gotten less popular. Their atmosphere contains too much Nitrogen, Hydrogen and focuses on the water surface and the open water body.
More recent research points to a more CO2-rich atmosphere, and that life evolved deeper in hot water at the bottom of the ocean.


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Exiting my car parked in front of Roy's Hickory Pit BBQ in Hutchinson, I got a whiff of the tantalizing aroma of meat slowly smoking over hickory and my stomach quickly started to rumble. Fired up for Roy's mouthwatering meat topped with a mild and sweet sauce I remembered from a previous visit, I couldn't wait to sink my teeth into those succulent ribs once again. In fact, I purposely arrived early to avoid the potential long line of customers that sometimes extends out the bright red front door of the sunny yellow building during the lunch hour.
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