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Lately, I seem to be running into the subjective warning a lot:
The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed.
I'm not saying this to complain. I'm just curious if it's just how I'm phrasing my questions or if it's not just me that feels this way. In particular, the warning comes up a lot when I start a question with "How do you..."
I don't feel this to be a good indicator of whether or not a question is subjective. But this is just my opinion. Have I been obliviously been writing horribly subjective-sounding questions and not knowing it?

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I have a question regarding Facebook Connect's security model. How hard would it be for a hacker to write an iPhone app which uses FB Connect, but also captures the username / password that is entered by a user on the FB Connect login dialog box? From what I can think of, one could look at the UITextField in the UIWindow and be able to capture the text entered. Or, even more subtle, replace the keyboard keys with your own buttons that look exactly like the iPhone keyboard, but the keys pressed are processed by the app. Or capturing the location of the touches (when keyboard is up) and guessing which keys were pressed.
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$0 \rightarrow M \rightarrow N \rightarrow P \rightarrow 0$
be an exact sequence of $A-$modules, where $A$ is a commutative ring with one.
Then for each natural number $i$ one can look at the induced maps
$Sym^i(N) \rightarrow Sym^i(P)$
$Sym^i(M) \rightarrow Sym^i(N)$.
The first question is, if they are still surjective resp. injective, i.e. is $Sym^i$ an exact functor?
The second question is: what are the kernel resp. cokernel of these maps?


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Does anyone have any experience converting a blog into a book, and if so:
- What software did you use?
- How was your experience?
I use Wordpress for my blogging.
Does anyone have any experience converting a blog into a book, and if so:
I use Wordpress for my blogging.
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Never done this myself, but I just found this site. Looks promising!
Good luck!
I did this for my brother's blog by laboriously cutting-and-pasting text and saving images and re-typesetting everything in LaTeX, and then getting it printed through Lulu. Took ages, but the result is a thousand-page tome that looks great.
I've long planned to write a WordPress plugin that would do the bulk of the work (there would still need to be some tweeking, I think), but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Try Anthologize. It's for Wordpress too. :)
According to ReadWriteWeb:
Just came out last Aug 3.
I found a similar but easier way than the one described above. in blogspot.com there is an option that let's you download your blog either as a word document or as a pdf, once you select this option and save the file, you have a very good formated document with all the articles in your blog. But still if you want to modify it, like for example adding an index, you can quickly do it in word and save it. Then you need to convert that file to a pdf, in order to be accepted for printing in lulu.com, which is a fantastic editorial site for independent books, and it is very cheap. It also lets you choose among many kind of papers, page formats, and more. I think this is the easiest way to transform your blog to a book.


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Last Modified: October 10, 2003
Authors: Joan Houghton, et al.
Affiliation: UKCCCR DCIS Working Party / DCIS trialists in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand
Source: Lancet. 2003 Jul 12;362(9378):95-102
The establishment of breast screening programs in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand resulted in an increase in the diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). At that time, randomized trials had demonstrated that breast conservation therapy (BCT) for invasive cancer was a safe alternative to mastectomy. However, it was still unclear whether breast-conserving alternatives were sufficient for DCIS. This study (contemporary with NSABP B-17, EORTC 10853, and NSABP B-24) was designed to investigate the role of breast irradiation as well as adjuvant tamoxifen for locally excised DCIS.


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How do I calculate the diameter of a circle that has n evenly-spaced points on its circumference where adjacent points are m distance apart?
If you have $n$ points uniformly distributed on a circle then the angle between the points is $\frac{2\pi}{n}$. If the distance between adjacent points is $m$ then the chord of the sector with angle $\frac{2\pi}{n}$ has length $m$.
Trigonometry then yields $$r = \frac{m\sin\left(\frac{(n-2)\pi}{2n}\right)}{\sin\left(\frac{2\pi}{n}\right)}$$
Alternatively, this formula will probably be simpler $$r = \frac{m}{2\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{n}\right)}$$
The circle is divided into $n$ wedges with angle $$ \theta = \frac{2 \pi}{n}. $$ Consider the triangle formed by the center of the circle (point $A$), one of the two adjacent points (point $B$), and the midpoint of the line joining the two adjacent points (point $C$). Now, $\angle BAC = \theta / 2 = \pi / n$, $AB = d/2$, and $BC = m / 2$, where $d$ is the diameter of the circle, so $$ AB \sin \left(\angle BAC\right) = BC \Rightarrow \frac{d}{2} \sin\left(\frac{\pi}{n}\right) = \frac{m}{2} \Rightarrow d = \frac{m}{\sin \left(\pi / n\right)}. $$


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Zombyfycation lets me summon a lot of zombies, but from time to time casting it kills most of them. It's quite frustrating to have that happen when I'm at eight zombies and trying to raise three more with the last scraps of mana left, only to end up companionless and out of mana.
Looking up several wikis provided me with texts that said the spell only allows a single zombie. This is confusing, because either there is a very obvious, game-breaking bug in the main skill of the Fleshsmithing tree (highly unlikely with any sort of maintenance on the game), or the texts have not been updated. The spell has a range of 3x3, which also makes no sense if it was meant to only raise at most one zombie.
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5 Of Life's Most Mundane Problems (Solved With Math)
#2. The Best Way to Parallel Park a Car
Parallel parking is easy as pie. All you need is to keep your mind away from the fact that you're trying to fit two tons of steel into a small space flanked on both sides by thousands of dollars' worth of other peoples' property aaaaaaa!
Whoops, sorry about that. Science, do you have any way to fix this?
Preferably without using the phrase "Now ramp that shit!"
In 2009, professor Simon Blackburn of Royal Holloway College teamed up with Vauxhall Motors with one goal in mind: to figure out the absolute best way to park your car. Blackburn finally came up with a solution, and when we say "solution," we mean "an unholy cluster of numbers and letters that would give Bill Nye an embolism."
Luckily, pretty much everyone who owns a car has a keen interest in parking. Other people saw Blackburn's work and both explained and elaborated on it. Before long, the BBC caught wind of the research and released this handy guide.
So, here's how you do it: First, you make sure there's at least 5 feet 11 inches more space than the length of your car available. Then, you calmly pull in as close to the car in front as possible. After that, all you need to do is reverse your vehicle smoothly into the parking space at a 40-degree angle. That's it. Just intrinsically know what 1 inch shy of 6 feet looks like as judged from 20 feet away through a car window, then crank a wheel with no measurements whatsoever on it in an arbitrary way that gives you a turning radius of exactly 40 degrees. Then ... floor it?
Well, it doesn't say not to.
#1. The Perfect Marriage
With divorce rates soaring, the concept of a perfect marriage is not unlike the concept of unicorns -- they feature most prominently in the realm of fantasy and the diaries of preteen girls.
First, you'll need a unicorn.
Unlike unicorns, marriage has garnered a good deal of interest from researchers (when are you gonna start genetically modifying us some Pegasii, science?). In fact, scientists from the Geneva School of Business have actually managed to figure out a formula for the best possible marriage. They reviewed over a thousand marriages from all social backgrounds and age groups and then determined how happy each couple was. From this data pool, they were able to create the optimal conditions for a perfect marriage. Here's what they have:
First of all, the man should be about five years older than the woman, because the couple dynamic apparently works the best that way. The couple should preferably be from the same cultural heritage, as this saves them from waging the bloody "which way should the toilet paper roll hang" war.
Finally, the wife should be at least 27 percent smarter than the husband. Optimally, the woman should have a degree, while the husband would remain relatively uneducated. There's logic behind this: Because they usually invest more raw emotion in a relationship, women have a tendency to carry the emotional happiness of the entire relationship, while the men tag along. Basically, if the wife is happy, then the husband is happy, too. This essentially puts the woman in the position of the "brain" of the relationship, so it sort of makes sense to reinforce the setting by giving her superior cranial capabilities as well.
Second, she can't be a douche about it. Book learnin' is for assholes.
Of course, this formula is far from foolproof -- after all, love is a right bastard to control. Still, the researchers claim that the couples within their "perfect" model have a 20 percent better chance to maintain a happy marriage than couples outside of the model. And for the millions and millions of us who don't fit their findings, there's always a consolation: All those "dumb, fat husband with a brilliant, pretty wife" shows on ABC are totally scientifically accurate!
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"What could be done to improve Christianity?" is a question that the church has never, ever asked us. But if they did, we'd tell them to bring back the era of the ass-kicking saints.
Did you even know there was such a thing? Sure enough, history books are full of men who could quote the Bible and beat you to death with it, at the same time. For instance ...
#6. Ignatius of Loyola was Cannon-Proof
Living in the early 1500s, Ignatius spent a good chunk of his life as a military man. A gambling, barroom brawlings military man. Oh, did we mention the whoring? Or as he put it in his autobiography "wenching."
During a huge battle with the French, his own men knew they were doomed and proposed a surrender. Ignatius would have none of that shit. He fought on and, shortly thereafter, he was shot with a friggin' cannon.
And lived.
The ball passed right between his legs, tearing one open and smashing the shin in his other leg. When he was carried to town to be treated, his broken leg had to be set, rebroken then set again. A chunk of bone sticking out had to be sawed off. When it was discovered that whoever set his leg had fucked it up so bad it was now shorter than the other one, they used weights to try to unsuccessfully stretch it out.
"Boy, we are just not good doctors."
When you consider this was around 1520 and they didn't have frivolous luxuries like sterilization and anesthesia, you realize the guy was more hard-core than entire countries' worth of today's pansies.
It was during his recovery, when his cannon wound made the whoring and brawling inconvenient, that he was forced to read stories of Christ and eventually decided to devote his life to God. That led him to one day found Society of Jesus, what most of us know as Jesuits. You may know them from their statues of a guy giving the finger to a cannonball.
#5. Vladimir of Kiev: Saint with 800 Wives and a Viking Army
Yeah, this guy had his own army of Vikings. We could probably stop right there.
Before becoming a saint, Vladimir Svyatoslavich enjoyed a career as a marauding pagan. One day he decided he wanted to be the Grand Prince of Kiev, so he amassed the aforementioned army of Vikings to go storm the city and depose the asshole who currently held the title (his brother).
Along the way he decided getting married might be fun and he sent some people to ask for the daughter of a nearby royal. After all, isn't that the time when men first start to think about settling down? When storming across Europe with hordes of Vikings to kill their own brother?
"Anyone else have a craving for wedding cake? I have a craving for wedding cake."
Sadly, the would-be bride declined the offer so he took a detour, killed her father and married her by force. Presumably there was a break for a nice dinner and some dancing before he got back to the task at hand and killed his brother, becoming ruler of Kiev.
Over the years he expanded his territory and his inventory of boobies, reportedly taking somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 concubines and several more wives.
So how does a guy like that become a saint? Well, the neighbors who he hadn't taken over kept badgering him about abandoning his pagan ways and adopting some manner of respectable religion. After deciding that Islam's stance on pork and booze wasn't to his liking, he settled on Christianity, mostly because it offered him some decent political footing in the area.
He was baptized and, possibly so they wouldn't make fun of him, had everyone else in Kiev baptized too. Thus they were heathens no more, and Vladimir secured himself a position as a saint. He may or may not have celebrated by grabbing each of the 1,600-plus boobies at his disposal.
#4. Symeon the Stylite was What David Blaine Only Pretends to Be
Unlike those first guys up there who kind of stumbled into sainthood and badassery due to extreme circumstances, Symeon chose both willingly. >
The man had a real hate-on for the pussified way all the rest of us live and decided he couldn't take it any more. At first he tried to shun the luxuries of mid 5th century life by shutting himself in a little ramshackle Unabomber-style hut for three years, where he figured not eating or drinking anything at all for the entire period of Lent would be a good idea.
After the hut proved too expansive and extravagant for him, Symeon packed up his loincloth and moved to a crevice in a rock in the desert. In a space about 20 yards in diameter, he set up shop but soon learned that when you decide to live your life as a religious sideshow, you're going to attract attention. Soon pilgrims arrived to watch him presumably just sitting on his rock. They asked him for advice and prayers and probably threw peanuts and tried to get him to do tricks.
Realizing the rock was still too awesome a place to spend his life, Symeon raised a stone pillar with a little platform on top, climbed up and sat there. He went through a couple of these pillars before he settled on one over 50 feet high where he stayed ... for 36 years.
He continued to get visitors and for a while each day, a ladder was used so people could come up and chat with him while those below waited their turn and tried to avoid getting pooped on from 50 feet up.
If you're still not clear on the badassery involved here, keep in mind this was all taking place in Syria, where summer temperatures can get over 100 and in winter dip below 50, which is probably just slightly more awful when you're on a stone pillar 50 feet off the ground.


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According to NOAA, the recent hot temperatures are more than just a heat wave. For the last 25 years, the world-wide temperature has been above the 20th century average with no sigh the summer sizzle is letting up.
Its another sweltering 90 degree day on Pete Demarest's Hillsdale, New Jersey, farm, but he's not sweating about his peaches.
"The leaves look good," he said. "The fruit is starting to size up. it's starting to give us color."
This summer's sizzling temperatures comes with a silver lining for some farmers and consumers. Just about every crop, from peaches to tomatoes to corn, should taste better this year.
"Everything that we eat in produce has sugar in it, natural sugar, and the drier it is the sweeter it's going to be," said Demarest.
New Jersey was one of three states that had the warmest month of June on record. In all, 34 states, stretching from the Northeast to the Southwest, had above average temperatures in June with no signs of changing any time soon.
"We've got this area of high pressure that is stuck right over the central and southeastern part of the country," said CBS News Consultant Dave Bernard. "Its basically not moving, so areas from Texas to the northeast that have been basically hot. Its going to stay that way."
So if the heat means misery for most people, some farmers are looking at their best season in years.
Greg Donaldson with Donaldson Farms said, "A lot of people are talking about how hot it is, but this is like an old-fashioned summer. This is what summer is all about."
But there is a downside – some parts of the country have not seen enough rain to go with hot weather, and dry conditions are beginning to be a problem.
"Heat can be a double edged sword," said Chandler Goule of the National Farmers Union.
With help from an occasional thunderstorm and good irrigation, Pete Demarest thinks his crops can handle the current heat wave, but he knows the one thing you can't count on is the weather.
"You never know from week to week," he said. "I could have a hail storm next week."
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loadScripts using eval instead of appending to dom
Ok, I don't want to get into the debate as to whether or not using eval is the correct thing to do. I did this more as an exercise to help me understand javascript better. This patch replaces the portion of element.update that appends inline javascript in the string supplied to the head element of the document, with an eval statement that runs on the string. References to javascript source files should still be appended to the head of the document, though I haven't tested it.
I've tested this in ie6 firefox 184.108.40.206.
To use this, you would just run this javascript after you load the yui-ext.js file.
YAHOO.ext.Element.prototype.update = function(html, loadScripts){ this.dom.innerHTML = html; if(!loadScripts) return this; var dom = this.dom; var _parseScripts = function(){ var s = dom.getElementsByTagName("script"); var docHead = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0]; // For browsers which discard scripts when inserting innerHTML, extract the scripts using a RegExp if(s.length == 0){ var re = /(?:<script.*(?:src=[\"\'](.*)[\"\']).*>.*<\/script>)|(?:<script.*>([\S\s]*?)<\/script>)/ig; // assumes HTML well formed and then loop through it. var match; while(match = re.exec(html)){ var s0 = document.createElement("script"); if (match[1]) { s0.src = match[1]; docHead.appendChild(s0); } else if (match[2]) eval(match[2]); else continue; } } else { for(var i = 0; i < s.length; i++){ var s0 = document.createElement("script"); s0.type = s[i].type; if (s[i].text) { eval(s[i].text); } else { s0.src = s[i].src; docHead.appendChild(s0); } } } } // set timeout to give DOM opportunity to catch up setTimeout(_parseScripts, 10); return this; }
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Joe, this is similar to what I am doing in the latest code, although there is no more inserting into the html body and fetching the tags. The reason is because IE7 discards some scripts and not others.
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Tire pressure monitoring systems ("TPMS") are integrated assemblies that include sensors in the tire stems, and they exist for the purpose of warning a driver when the air pressure in any of their tires has dropped to an unsafe level. To do this, pressure detectors are fitted on the part of the stem that sits inside the tire. Those pressure detectors each have their own battery and transmitter which relay information to the car's main computer. A normal-looking stem protrudes outside the tire for the purposes of adding air, and looks indistinguishable from traditional valve stems that don't have pressure sensors.


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Okay, I still can't choose between the two.
Anyone tried them both?
How about the look and feel?
Is a data plan a necessity with a tablet? I can get a data plan with the ATIV but not with the Surface, deal breaker for anyone?
Does the Surface have been updated to get rid of the unwanted crashes when opening apps?
RT vs Pro, is Win8 Pro any useful on a tablet?
How does SmartGlass act between my Xbox and my tablet? I've read a lot a bad stories about it.
Battery life?
You don't have to answer all of these questions, but if you can relate to one of these, feel free to do it.
The more answers I get the better I can make a decision and it would certainly help some other users who are struggling to choose between those two or any other tablets.
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I can answer a couple of things about the Surface.
I've had no crashes opening apps. Though it seems the apps that come with it as opposed to those I've downloaded take longer to load.
The Smart Glass works great with my Xbox. When testing playing video I shot on the Surface to the Xbox, short test videos of around 10 seconds or so, went with no problem drilling down to the camera roll. But when I tried the same with a video of around 8 minutes I got an error. But after I went to desktop mode and moved it to the videos folder it pushed over to the Xbox just fine.
My battery life has been good. I mostly just check mail, surf and play wordament. It goes about 10% an hour or 10 hours. But when I was playing the free part of Angry Birds Star Wars it went down to about 8 hours.
When I've taken it out with me to the local sports bar to use while watching football, I've had no problem jumping on their wireless and using it. Not sure if I'd really need it to have 4g or a data plan unless I was going to use it while in a car.
It's not much but hope it told you something.
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It's my understanding that there's still some major stability issues with the CloverTrail / Atom SoC being used in the Ativ SmartPC.
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From the Engadget review, for example:
apps crashed during our testing, including Internet Explorer and the stock camera program. Similarly, a few froze, forcing us to perform a hard reset. The camera app, in particular, went berserk several times when we tried to switch to video mode. Mind you, we haven't experienced problems like this on any other Windows 8 device we've tested. The Metro version of IE also froze more than once, and occasionally the screen failed to respond when we tried to swipe in from the side to toggle through open apps. The accelerometer, meanwhile, is often slow to pick up on changes in orientation. Worst of all, we noticed these issues on two different review units. A Samsung rep told us the company doesn't have anything to share regarding a possible firmware update, though AT&T confirmed to us that there are indeed some software improvements coming.
Maybe there have been software improvements since then, but there's a reason that all of these other CloverTrail devices keep getting delayed.
Edit: Or another good quote about CloverTrail, referring to the Asus W510 which uses the same SoC:
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If you have internet sharing on your phone why pay an additional $10-20 to use your own data on a tablet? I know it's not always on but it seems like a waste. Several hundred more for a tablet with 4g and several hundred more a year. I can tell you 920 on ATT and Surface is just as good as my home WiFi, speed wise. I have never had issues with Surface locking up with any apps. Battery life is great for such a large screen. I can stream 6-8 hours with one charge. You can't go wrong with Surface. Now if I had it to do over again, I would have wait for Pro. Rt is nice, but limited in a few areas.
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the main thing you want to remember is that they are two totally different devices...one is running RT and the other windows 8. Just remember that if there are ANY and I mean ANY at all classic x86 applications you want to run then don't go for RT. I'm not trying to bash RT as I think its a great system and functionally it works the same as win8 but just remember that outside of office, you cannot run any other x86 applications. Personally I would go for the surface just because from what I have read with the ATIV is that it has had a crapload of driver issues and it looks like its being returned..I mean, I don't usually read too much into newegg reviews and various forums, but when EVERYONE (almost) that has bought one, said they are returning it because of driver issues and then when HP and Lenovo are holding back their atom tablets to work on drivers because there seems to be news going around that the drivers for clovertrail need work. Personally, I'm looking into the HP envy x2 and possible the acer iconia w510 because they seems to suit my needs better.
I'm an engineering student so I need a couple of applications that are not on win RT like putty, notepad ++, light matlab use, win scp, 7zip, utorrent, programs like those, that you can run on an atom and windows RT won't work for me. Think of the surface like a glorified ipad, its useful for productivity work because of office, which is a huge plus over the ipad, but the other apps are lighter apps that won't do as much as a true pc, so take that as you will. For a lot of people this will do all they need for a computer, for me it won't though. Just my two cents...
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I have said it before, and will say it again, some things you should not have any fear trying yourself before taking it in to the 'smith. Obsolete or rare firing pins being at the top of that list, but many other parts can be done too. I have lost count, but this is like fourth or fifth one I have done in the last year or two alone. Seems everybody slips up eventually and dry fires an old shotgun breaking the pin . This last one is for a cheap O/U shotgun that is less than a year old, but parts can not be found for it. And after a $75 or so charge to make one, I "volunteered" again to do it. I am a former Ironworker after all . But I thought I would show just how easy it really is for anyone to do it with next to no tools in their garage. You will also see why I laugh at these shows like Sons of Guns with six digit machines when I can do this for less than $100 even if I bought all the tools new. These pins do not have to exactly DNO (dead nuts on) to work, simply able to move enough and the right length to strike without piercing the primer. Remember, lots of guns were before CNC machines were here and they had to do everything by hand. And they still go boom every time.This pic is stage one. It is the firing pin for the under barrel, the broken pin for the upper barrel, and the hardened tool steel punch used to make the pin. I bought a bunch of these punch pins at a yard sale years ago just for projects like this.Once you use a set of calipers to measure and mark where the shoulder should be (I use a fine tip Sharpie) chuck it up in the drill and hold it in place with a vise. This is so that you can use the drill to spin it one way (adjustable speed drills are your best friend here) while the Dremel tool is used to grind it the opposite direction giving it a nice fairly smooth texture. Remember, the drill can be used in reverse if need be to make them spin counter clockwise of each other. Then simply grind down to the same diameter as the original pin. One thing to be careful of here is that you do not grind it so fast and so long as to super heat the metal and take the hardness out of it. Pause frequently and cool it down. I use spit and wet fingers while it is still spinning in the drill for this myself. Too much water too quick will ruin the temper on it.When that is done, mark it for the next step down and grind some more.You now have a pin with an overly long tip that can be ground down to proper length. Also the reason you want to start from the back (hammer) side and work forward leaving you plenty of length at the tip.Now you simply mark the slots for the retaining pin and slot it out. Again, make sure you measure depth and width of the old firing pin. And even if the slot is a tad too long or too short, you can always adjust the actual striking tip accordingly with a test fire on a primer. There is more than enough room for it to move in the slot even if not "exactly" the same length and of by a few thousandths.And then you have the finished product along with the broken pin and the good one. I like to run on a wire brush on the bench grinder to smooth it out as much as possible too. If you do not know the exact length of the tip of the old pin you will have to put the new firing pin in the gun and push it as far forward as possible and grind in small amounts until sticks out just far enough to set off a primer but not pierce it. I was lucky as this was an O/U, so I had another pin for reference. If it is just one pin, leave it long and test fire a primer only and work your way down until correct.It's that easy, and only requires a vise, a drill, a dremel tool, an assortment of tips for the dremel, a $20 (I use digital) caliper, and a Sharpie. I know there are some machinists out there going crazy right now, but I have to tell you, I have done this close to a half dozen times and they are all still working like new to this day. And this last one was tested this afternoon and worked just as flawless as all the others. What do you have to lose in the end, three hours of tinkering in the garage? Worse case scenario is it doesn't work out and you have to pay anyway. Just remember three important things: Use only hardened tool steel, don't let it get too hot, and don't dowse it with water cooling it instantly.Now, take the money you saved and go shoot it.
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Posted 29 April 2012 - 07:23 AM
Bob, Is that a drill press, or a lathe? or possably a cnc?Tom
Posted 29 April 2012 - 11:47 AM
Good going! Ive made several that way myself. But mostly for little pocket auto pistols that My friend collects. They must get dryfired alot because a large percent of them have broken firing pins. I use drill shanks for pin blanks. Ive even made stepped drills to relign old rifle barrels using your method. DR
Posted 29 April 2012 - 12:50 PM
Neither, it is my $29 lathe from Harbor Freight, a variable speed drill in a vise. I was gonna splurge on the keyless chuck drill, but cheaped out .I hadn't thought about using a drill bit, but will have to remember that one. I have also used center punches and flat punches though. But with a drill bit I could star with it already the right diameter, sweet.
Bob,Is that a drill press, or a lathe? or possably a cnc?Tom
Posted 29 April 2012 - 01:01 PM
Way to do it yourself can you crown a barrel for me
Posted 29 April 2012 - 07:51 PM
I guess what they say is true about great minds thinking alike.......A while back I did the exact same thing to make a firing pin for one of my old Ithaca doubles. I got a few comments about my "Portagee lathe" from my buddy while I was working on it but it worked like a charm. I used a 1/4 inch grade 8 Caterpillar bolt for the pin material.
Posted 29 April 2012 - 11:08 PM
Now that's funny right there. See how hard he laughs when he needs one and doesn't want to fork out a fortune . Glad to see I am by far not the only one with resourcefulness on here. I think we all tend to forget that they used to make all these pieces for guns long before there was ever any precision machinery around. That's why I like to remind us all every now and then. I will say that some things should be left to the pros, especially since it would cost a whole lot more to buy the equipment needed, but there are still some things that we would be crazy not to try ourselves. Worst case scenario, we have to buy one in the end anyway.
I got a few comments about my "Portagee lathe" from my buddy
Recrowning is actually one of the easiest tasks and should absolutely be attempted yourself. Some valve grinding compound and a brass screw on a slow speed drill is all it takes. About $5 worth of materials. Give it a shot! Lots of instructional videos/reading about it out there.
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Is a French Press really that much better than other methods of brewing?
A few people told me how great French Press coffee is. And, when people talk about their French Press they talk like it's the goose that laid the golden egg. I'm a lover of coffee, but somehow have never had French Press. It seems like kind of a hassle to do it, in addition to the price of getting one.
So, for those of you out there who have had it, is it worth it? Or, if you're happy with your regular coffee pot, are you not missing much. I'd hate to spend the money on one, find it's just not worth the time to use it on a regular basis.
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Hassle? Can you boil water? If so, then a french press is not a hassle to brew with. Cleanup is slightly more involved than a normal drip pot.
The flavor from the coffee is different. Take a pot of Maxwell House from a drip machine and Maxwell House from a french press: the french press will taste richer/smoother.
Expense? You can spend as much as you want on a french press. I suggest heading to Target and getting a simple Bodum press for around $20.
Give it a try. You'll be surprised.
I love french press coffee, but for an easy quick cup, I actually like the Aeropress. Put grounds in, fill with water, push down, and then pop the grinds out. Minimal clean up because the press works like a squeegie on the sides of the thing. Generally it comes out strong so I'll dilute it with some more hot water or extra cream, but it's not bitter though.
Oh, also, if you have a Trader Joes near you, they have coffee instant packs that have cream and sugar already added. I don't know how they did it, but it's actually a really good cup of coffee (unfortunately I can't really drink it anymore as it has 10 carbs and I'm watching those :( )
I'm a long time coffee drinker, and I personally find the French Press to be one of those things I can just manage to live without. I like drip coffee makers. I hail from the days when a coffee percolator was an improvement over older methods, so I've seen a lot of things come and go. I've had friends who swore by them, and I've also done a blind taste test where the exact same coffee was made up in three ways (drip, perked, and with a press). Everyone spotted the perked coffee (it really isn't as good), but the other two were indistinguishable (this was a group of people who were VERY serious about their coffee).
I could spot the difference each time. I prefer the dripped (as long as you're using good water, good coffee, and any maker that takes conical filters),
It takes longer to make enough coffee with a press. I used to have a burr grinder, too, and gave it away once I realized it was taking too long.
I require coffee to be human. Sort of.
@lumpthar: It's a bit more than boiling water. You then have to put the coffe in it, pour the water over the coffee, let it steep (duration depends on the strength you want). Plus, you can't let the coffee sit in it, so you have to pour it out pretty quick, and I assume that means cleaning it. That.. is... hassle... If you coud let it sit in there for the day, that may be different. But, everything I read seems to say you want to basically drink it and clean it within a short time. The cleanup is part of making coffee.
I like the idea of having a side-by-side of something cheap like Maxwell House, and I guess $20 isn't too bad of a price. The ones I was looking at were $50+. I'll look up the one you mentioned.
@jesseroo: Ohhh... Aeropress looks interesting. Less cleanup.
I think my thing is the cleanup. With a dirp pot, I can make a pot in the morning, and I have coffee all day. I don't have to clean anything. I just have to toss the grounds sometime before bed (really, don't even need to do that). The Aeropress looks like it almost cleans itself.
@kmeltzer: I let my grounds sit in the bottom until I'm done with the pot.
Otherwise, what's the point? Breakfast drinks are not supposed to be difficult.
So what if the last half-cup is strong and slightly crunchy? Add some cream or whiskey and enjoy it anyway.
French press, moka pot and pour over (including Chemex) are among the relatively inexpensive methods of brewing coffee that all take a little extra time and some sort of special equipment. In my experience, I like these substantially more than auto drip coffee. Certainly it depends on your coffee as much as anything else. If a little bit of fine solids at the bottom of your cup don't sound like something you could tolerate, though, skip the French press. I have yet to try the Aeropress, but I would tend to trust the others here since I've seen so many good reviews.
french press is your answer only if you actually like coffee. I drink mine black and like the taste. It makes good coffee great and the coffee is as strong or as weak as you want. Just like the mister coffee.
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I've never tried French Press, but my drip maker satisfies me. Ease of cleanup is also a plus. I should add that I only drink coffee until mid-morning, so I'm not really picky about it.
Thanks for the responses, folks. I think I may try to pick up a small inexpensive one and see how I like it. Maybe I'll find one at a garage sale!
you realize that you can toss every single piece of a french press in a dishwasher right?
you just have to unscrew the bottom and put the pieces on the top of the dishwasher and remember what order they go in.
french press coffee just tastes---well, like coffee....other coffee has a burnt aftertaste, or worse, it picks up the taste of the filter, ick!
and there's no comparison to grinding your own beans. way fresher.
but if you do need coffee to be human before you can make coffee, trader joes has this incredible instant coffee, which tastes better than a lot of drip coffees. I have no idea how they did it, but I do know people who have TJ's instant and then make their morning. Or who keep it in desks at work or in purses. And if you live near a TJ's and someone doesn't and they've tried it, you end up mailing them a lot of it.
But try a french press. you can get a good one pretty cheap. the milk ones are good too.
I see a french press on Woot! today. Anyone use it? Seems cheap enough to try.
I use a $10 French press from Ikea, and I love it. Sometimes I use my regular drip coffee pot, but I've been obsessed with the press lately because of how smooth and rich my coffee comes out. Drip coffee is fine, but I really do notice a difference when I use the press. I get what you're saying, however, about wanting to be able to make extra and leave it for the day, but perhaps you could just pour the coffee from the press into the carafe of your regular pot to use for later?
Also, as far as heating the water up for the press, I just run water through my regular coffee pot so it boils quickly and I can walk away for a minute or two without worrying about it boiling over =]


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Con: If you're not interested in this kind of game, it's not really worth it. Plus it has a lot of lag.
b) Pinball. Basically, this is pinball; you should know how to play it. You can get gold grants, but it's a bit difficult to play at first. Once you get used to the controls, you might want to check it out.
Pro: You are guarenteed a gold grant with every play.
Con: Sometimes your ball gets lost unfairly, with no way of preventing this.
c) Wordbump. You have to make words and get the gold word to the top, not letting it drop to the bottom, or else it's game over. You get a gold grant with every level, and an item grant every thirty levels, plus school credits every so often, which can be exchanged at H R Wesley's for items.
Pro: Gold grant with every level, plus it's fairly straightforward to play.
Con: Lags horribly in later levels.
d) Slots. You put tokens in the slot machines and get a chance of winning tickets. You can use the tokens you get with Daily Chance, or buy them on the Marketplace where you can often get them cheaper than in the shop.
Pro: Very easy to play.
Con: Chance of winning big very small.
e) Blackjack. Plays like regular blackjack and uses tokens to win tickets. If you don't know how to play blackjack, practice this and you should pick it up in no time.
Pro: Extremely good chance of winning tickets.
Con: Sometimes you get unfair hands where you don't stand a chance of winning.
f) Jigsaw. Easy peasy. You put the puzzle together for a gold grant, and possibly an item, too. Choose from different levels of difficulty; the higher the level, the more gold you get.
Pro: Very easy to play.
Con: There's a bug that means that you sometimes do not get the gold grant.
g) Rally. Race your car around the track to get a prize. You can also go there to chat with friends.
Pro: Very easy to play.
Con: To stand a chance, you need to spend a lot on your car. Plus there are script kiddies and cy'berers around.
h) Love Factori. A puzzle where you connect bolts and circuits in order to win gold. A little known and fairly new game, this one.
Pro: Easy to play.
Con: Gets a bit dull after a while, plus you can end up getting stuck.
i) Fishing. Go to one of the lakes to catch fish, which you can then either sell on the Marketplace, or go to the relevant shop to trade in for gold and items.
Pro: Easy to play.
Con: Like Rally, you have to put in a lot of gold to get a good rod and good bait. Can get dull, too.
Towns is the Gaian world where you can wander around, collecting things and chatting to people, too, as you go. Kick trees, bushes and rocks for gold; just stand next to the tree, bush or rock and click. You can also pick up trash, flowers and bugs to make into items, bouquets and ink. I would recommend only picking up the bugs if your purpose is just to make gold, as ink retails for far more than the other two. The only problem with Towns is the fact that there can be script kiddies, cy'berers and beggers within. If you are bothered by any of these, just pull up the map and go to another section of Towns, or restart it.
I tend to use my tank solely for fun. It's very difficult to create a tank solely for making gold, and requires a lot of money spent on it, so it's best not to bother. Create a tank for fun, and put it in your signature so you can reap the benefits if someone plays your tank in Booty Grab. You should also visit your tank every day to feed your fish and click on the Overseer, who will give you either a gold grant, or an item. This seems to be completely random with no rhyme or reason behind it. I've gotten pink giftboxes one day, and something pants like the Nautilus the other day. It's basically a game of chance, like the Daily Chance cart.
Booty Grab is a game where you carry a shell on your head and try to catch as much gold as possible that falls from the fish. Whatever you catch, you get to keep. Sometimes, fish drop items too, like giftboxes or Aquarium fish. If giftboxes are being dropped, only catch one; there's a bug that ensures you lose everything, gold and items, if you catch two. Go to the Aquarium forum and click on the glowing threads. This is one of the easiest ways to make gold.
There are other ways to make gold on Gaia, like making art for example, but these are by far the easiest.
A little more to add on the topic of zOMG. It's a very good place to go if you're trying to make gold. Although yes, as Miranda says, it's laggy, if you do it right you can earn lots. (That's how I quested my Dainty Porridge from scratch, which is 800k)
1k = 1,000; 200k = 200,000
At the level of 4.5~5.0, go to Ba'ssken Lake. One round of Papa Saw on hard gets you 5~7k. If you do this repeatedly, you can earn a lot of gold. One day, I got 200k gold because I spent six hours in there. (So that's approx. 100k / three hours, that's 30k~ per hour) If you're too tired of it, just get 50k a day, which is 10 rounds.
The Hive is an okay place to go (10.0) if you're bored of Papa Saw. It's required for a quest, and goes on forever (well, until you die, anyway; I've only been to round 50 but my friends have been to round 75)
But better yet is Shallow Seas, if you are playing for rings. The rings that drop there are often at least 8.0, plus you do get around 30k per round from the treasure chests and everything (although the rounds here are often difficult; you'll need an experienced crew and to be a little experienced yourself.)
I've heard that they removed all of the ring drops, though, so I'm not sure if they drop anymore... I haven't played for a while.
OK; I checked out zOMG! out of curiosity and it is a gold mine. XD You can temporarily lower your level in the options menu if you want to go round and do repeat quests that are below your skill level.
Also, repeating the bosses over and over will net you orbs and gold; suggested bosses to repeat are the aforementioned Papa Saw, plus She-Wolf, the Shrine and Duneslam.
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Most people said don't use it but they cannot explain why.
I need "educated" reasons whether it is safe to use any wireless device during a lightning storm.
Most people said don't use it but they cannot explain why.
Most probably yes; wireless devices are not grounded, so they are not lighting rods of any kind as it is frequently assumed. There are some theories that cell phones somehow attracts lightnings by the field they produce, but the theory behind is weak. Experimental evaluation is very hard, since lightning hits are quite rare, such events are guided by numerous parameters and there are lots of other, hard to evaluate factors.
A modern wireless electrical device should be perfectly safe, all it is is putting a metal piece near your ear, basically giving you the same chance of being hit by lightning as any other time. Older (Or more accurately, larger) technologies with larger antennas might work as a lightning rod, and thus give you a somewhat higher chance of being hit.
Basically lightning is a low frequency electric signal, very broad band, while most cell phones are exactly the opposite.
Why would it be any more dangerous than, say, wearing a metal wristwatch, a ring, or metal body piercing? The answer is not at all, in fact less, since most devices with a wireless device in them are surrounded by plastic, which is an insulator.
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When I throw a punch, sometimes my wrist doesn't stay straight and I run the risk of spraining it. What kind of exercises can I do to strengthen my wrists so that my wrist isn't going to bend when I punch?
I feel there's a core issue here being neglected:
If I could highlight, underline, and make it flash, I would. Your issue here is not simply wrist strength (which, by the way, is not going to be corrected by simple strength training alone), but rather your form. Let me do my bold and caps thing again here to drive this point home:
Shocking, I know, but there's a key here: If your wrist is out of alignment. If it's not, your strike will be true, the impact will be absorbed down the long bones of the arm.
I really can't stress this enough: you must work on your form before you can rely on your punch. So, let's break down a punch (not necessarily your punch; I don't have any idea what you're studying, so I'll describe one method:
Punching with good form is its own workout. Your body naturally adapts to the lifestyle you set it to: If you work in a job sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day, your body adapts to that; if you chop wood every day for 2 hours, your body adapts to that. Punch to build the strength you need in the right muscles rather than performing exercises that target general groupings at the risk of not developing essential muscles.
There are a few things you can do:
The knuckle pushups have the following benefits: strengthens the fist, strengthens the forearm muscles. But they also have some drawbacks: rough on your knuckles, overdoing it can induce joint pain.
Fingertip pushups also strengthen the forearm muscles, and help with knife-hand techniques. They are hard to do, but well worth your time.
Kettlebell presses are my new favorite. The uneven loading of the kettlebell strengthens your grip, and the movement of the kettlebell press also strengthens your rotator cuff muscles (the smaller muscles in your shoulders).
If you don't have access to a kettlebell, you may want to try alternating pushup styles:
If you have access to a heavy bag, that will give you the most direct work to get used to punching. However, I recommend on not taping up or putting gloves on. As a martial artist you need to toughen your hands to be able to hit properly. Sure, the rough material on the bag doesn't feel good--but it's a part of toughening the skin as well as the joints involved in the punch. Concentrate on technique and form. Use your hips. Don't try to be fancy. If you need to buy a heavy bag, I recommend a good 50lb bag. Any heavier than that is unnecessary, and potentially will wear out your joints quicker.
bag work ( punching bag ). Just glove up and start punching, going light, building up. Practice coming in from different angles.
You don't have to do LOTs of this, just a regular 10 - 15 minute session working the bags will do a lot for improving the your whole of your punch, including wrists bending on impact.
Vertical Knuckle push ups on a soft surface will train your alignment and improve the stabilising muscles around the wrist.
Keep the elbows close to the body and use the front 2 knuckles of the fist.
Do not allow your wrist to buckle side to side - keep the correct alignment through your hand, wrist and elbow.
This gentleman's left arm has good alignment, but his right wrist has buckled.
If you need an easier introductory form, try simply holding the push up position with the arms fully extended and try completing the same push ups from your knees.
Strength and Form, Not Wrist-Specific Strength
Your best bet is improving your overall strength, not your wrist strength specifically. This, along with practicing good form with your punch against resistance, will keep you from bending your wrist. As Mark Rippetoe points out, it is more productive to get you strong, rather than get your wrist strong:
Focusing on wrist strength alone will lead you to do physical therapy or bodybuilding-style isolation workouts. You'll get just as much wrist strength by doing whole-body strengthening exercises, with the added benefit of being stronger all over. Wrist rollers, wrist curls, and other hyper-specific work is best left to the injured, or those who are strong but have a specific deficiency.
That doesn't mean you can't get yourself stronger alongside some punching-specific work. How?
Hit things. Bag work, as suggested by many others, is a great suggestion. Keep it light and short as you start, and gradually ramp up the intensity over several weeks. Focus on maintaining good form with a straight wrist. Historical implements like the Okinawan makiwara or the Chinese wall-sandbag are useful too, though they omit the (enormously helpful) element of simultaneously training your footwork. Hitting something reinforces proper mechanics while at the same time making denser bones and stronger soft tissues.
Lift. If you want stronger wrists, I imagine that push-ups, pull-ups, and presses should be central in your lifting program. Normal push-ups are okay at first, but clapping or knuckle push-ups are superior and should be switched to as soon as possible. Pull-ups, particularly on a thick bar, rope, or towel will strengthen your forearms (as well as most of the rest of you) and thereby help you maintain wrist position as you punch. Adding weight will be another great help, so overhead presses, performed with lots of weight for low reps, will train your ability to keep the wrist straight under heavy loads. Those will work with kettlebells, dumbbells, or barbells (in decreasing order of my opinion of each tool's wrist-strength specificity).
One simple one I used to do until I got decent strength in my wrists was wrist raises and twists with a light dumb-bell or barbell.
In a seated position, rest your elbow on your knee, forearm out in front with a light dumb-bell.
Raises palm down or palm up help to strengthen the main muscles in your forearm which hold your hand rigid, and twists help to strngthen the twisting muslces.
simple dumbell exercises are great for strengthening wrists. i did a lot of these when i was having trouble with wrist pain and it helped a lot.
there are 3 movements you will want to do.
palm down curling your wrist up and down. palm up curling your wrist up and down. palm down or up, tipping your wrist side to side.
start with a fairly light weight so your wrists can get used to the movements, and increase the weights as you go.
i see a lot of people posting about doing pushups to strengthen wrists, and while push ups are great for general strength and whatnot, if you have weak or injured wrists, there are exercises you should be doing before attempting knuckle or finger tip pushups.
Just want to throw some Hojo-Undo in the mix.
Of all the answers I like Patricia's best. There is little musculature in the wrist proper. The muscles that flex the wrist or hold it stable are in the forearm. Hand-curling motions, hand extension motions....The old classic "wrist roller"....All these strengthen the flexor and extensor musculature in
You could try punching walls a bit. Slowly punch the value and punch in such a way that you feel only your knuckles against the wall. Slowly increase the power behind your punch. It helps a lot. I have been doing that for some time now.
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WHEELING - Local higher education institutions are giving older students with careers, families or just the spark to learn something new options to go back to college.
Whether to advance their careers or finish an uncompleted bachelor's degree, older students in the area are seeking a new direction in making their way back to the classroom thanks to a variety of programs at West Liberty University and Wheeling Jesuit University that are tailored to fit an adult's needs and schedule.
"Most of our students are working full or part-time and are looking for career advancement," Thomas Michaud, dean of the School of Professional Studies at West Liberty University Highlands Center, said. "We aim to develop curricula and schedules that complement the lives of the non-traditional students so they are able to complete their degree in an accelerated way."
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Michaud said the WLU School of Professional Studies, which has been in place since 2009, is specifically tailored to serving non-traditional, adult students who must balance work, family life and personal interests. Through this program, a student can complete a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Leadership and Administration (BLA) within about 18 months. The BLA is designed to give students course content with practical relevance to work situations and to develop a student's administrative and leadership skills for their career.
In order to yield to work responsibilities, the classes meet 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.
"They develop skills in communication, finance, business and human resource law. It's very oriented for work challenges professionals have to handle on a daily basis," Michaud said. "I would say about 75 percent of these students already have jobs and want to shift to a high level position and some of the students are between jobs and this makes them more employable."
Michaud said the average age for the BLA program is about 38 years old, but students in their 50s and late 20s have graduated from the program. This past December, the school graduated a student who was 81.
"It was something she wanted to do for her children and grandchildren," he said.
The School of Professional Studies also offers a Regents Bachelor of Arts (RBA Today) for students who don't have many credits to finish to graduate and can take one or two classes a semester in the evenings and on Saturdays.
At Wheeling Jesuit University, Becky Forney, director of professional and graduate studies, said the university offers both undergraduate professional degrees and graduate degrees for older adults looking to come back to school.
"These are very non-traditional students. They might have aging parents, young children, a job, a social life, it's a lot to juggle, so we try to help them with the things we can help them with. I like to tell them I can help them with everything but their homework."
Wheeling Jesuit's BOLD program - Bachelor's of Arts Degree Completion Program in Organizational Leadership - is one of the most popular programs and assists students who have earned college credit, but for whatever reason never finished their bachelor's degree. Students in the program have the ability to complete their bachelor's degree in a 15-month period by taking classes that meet once a week. Along the way, they learn the leadership skills needed in their professional lives.
"Often, employers won't promote someone unless they have a bachelor's degree," Forney said. "Sometimes they have a lot of experience, but no degree, but this gives them the chance to learn something about leadership in their field and use their experience and college credit to get a degree in a relatively short amount of time."
She said the second degree nursing program or BA/BS to BSN Accelerated Program is by far the most popular program for continuing education. Though it's a full-time program, students who have already earned a four-year degree, but now want to be a nurse, can complete the program in 18 months and enter the workforce as a nurse.
"Nursing is one of those degree programs - individuals know they'll have a tremendous opportunity for employment either locally or anywhere in the country," Forney said.
Wheeling Jesuit also offers students with a bachelor's degree the opportunity to become a teacher in their field through the Accelerated Certification for Teaching Program, or ACT. ACT students can become a teacher for grades kindergarten through 12th grade. Teachers can also enroll in the Masters for Educational Leadership to advance in their teaching career.
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LONDON—A British Broadcasting Corp. scandal deepened Friday as the company apologized after an alleged sex-abuse victim said he had wrongly accused a former senior Conservative politician of being his attacker in a BBC investigative report that aired last week.
The broadcaster said it "apologized unreservedly" and listed a number of steps it had taken, including pausing all investigations by the BBC's "Newsnight" current affairs program, which broadcast the report.
The controversy over the report, which appeared on Nov. 2, comes as the British broadcaster reels from a separate scandal over its handling of allegations that its late TV host, Jimmy Savile, sexually assaulted numerous adolescent or teenage girls before his death last year at the age of 84.
In the Savile matter, the BBC has been widely criticized for shelving a "Newsnight" report that would have exposed the longtime icon's alleged wrongdoing. This time, it is under fire for a different "Newsnight" report in which the featured victim now says he accidentally identified the wrong man to the BBC.
"We should not have put out a film that was so fundamentally wrong. What happened here is completely unacceptable," BBC Director General George Entwistle said in an appearance on a BBC radio show Saturday morning.
Mr. Entwistle said he wouldn't resign over the problems, arguing that his job is to lead the BBC through good times and bad. He said he is doing "the right things to try and put this stuff straight."
The BBC Trust, the body that oversees the publicly funded broadcaster, called the flawed "Newsnight" report "a deeply troubling episode" in a statement Saturday and also apologized.
"The Trust has impressed upon the Director General the need to get to the bottom of this as a matter of the utmost urgency and will expect appropriate action to be taken as quickly as possible," the BBC Trust said.
Though the "Newsnight" report on Nov. 2 described the alleged perpetrator as only a "leading Conservative politician," a flurry of speculation on social media platforms and the Internet associated the program with Alistair McAlpine, a top Conservative Party figure under former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and later a member of the House of Lords.
On Friday, Mr. McAlpine, 70 years old, denied any wrongdoing in a lengthy statement that called the allegations and speculation about him "wholly false and seriously defamatory." A few hours later, Steven Messham, the alleged abuse victim who appeared as the main witness on the BBC's "Newsnight" program last week, apologized to Mr. McAlpine.
Mr. Messham, who had initially identified Mr. McAlpine to "Newsnight," said in a statement released to the BBC on Friday that he had reviewed a photograph of Mr. McAlpine and determined the one-time Conservative politician wasn't the same man he had told "Newsnight" about. Mr. Messham issued "sincere and humble apologies" to Mr. McAlpine.
"We have to look at 'Newsnight.' The way in which they behaved, the way they trailed it, they made it obvious who it was, or who they alleged it was," Andrew Reid, a lawyer for Mr. McAlpine, said in a TV interview Friday.
"I wish to make it clear that I do not suggest that Mr. Messham is malicious in making the allegations of sexual abuse about me," Mr. McAlpine said in his statement Friday. He later added: "If he does think I am the man who abused him all those years ago I can only suggest that he is mistaken and that he has identified the wrong person."
The BBC, in a full apology aired on "Newsnight" Friday, named a senior executive—Ken MacQuarrie, the director of BBC Scotland—to write a report for the head of the BBC. It added that it was pausing "Newsnight" investigations "to assess editorial robustness and supervision."
At the end of Friday's program, presenter Eddie Mair said "Newsnight will be back on Monday, probably."
The Nov. 2 "Newsnight" revived a previous scandal involving child sex abuse allegations in North Wales care homes—where Mr. Messham and a second alleged victim resided—dating back to the 1970s and 1980s. An investigation by police in North Wales, which began in 1991, resulted in several convictions of former care workers.
But speculation continued that the actual abuse was on a much greater scale, and involved perpetrators outside the care-home system, than the convictions suggested. In 1996, the then-minister for Wales, William Hague—who is the current foreign secretary—called an inquiry led by retired judge Sir Ronald Waterhouse to investigate the matter.
In the Nov. 2 program, BBC's "Newsnight" said there were two alleged victims who said they had suffered "sexual abuse at the hands of a leading Conservative politician from the Thatcher years." Ms. Thatcher was in office from 1979 to 1990. The show said one of those alleged victims was Mr. Messham. During the program, he said he had been taken to the unnamed man by car and was "sexually abused" by him more than a dozen times, and was subject to "basically rape." Mr. Messham also told the "Newsnight" program: "It wouldn't be just him, there would be other people involved as well."
Neither Mr. McAlpine's lawyer nor Mr. Messham could be reached for comment.
The second alleged victim previously told journalists working with the BBC of sexual abuse by the man in question ahead of a radio program that aired in 2000, according to "Newsnight." But the "Newsnight" team said they couldn't reach that second alleged victim ahead of last week's report.
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I am trying to determine the most ancient extant source for the concept of Hell as a place of spiritual cleansing. Regardless of what term you use for it (etc. ,גיא בן הינום, שְׁאוֹל), I understand that most Jews teach that Hell is a place of spiritual cleansing prior to entering the world to come (גַּן עֵדֶן "heaven," העולם הבא, etc.). What I am wondering is how far back this teaching can be substantiated. Who is the most ancient source making this claim and approximately what time period was it made? For instance, another user mentioned Nachmanides in Sha'ar HaGemul quoting Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer concerning שְׁאוֹל as well as some other sources, when would these have been written (approximately)? Are there any older sources?
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Pirkei deRabbi Eli'ezer is a compilation of midrashim [rabbinic allegory and exegesis], and the dating is questionable but scholars generally assign it to the eighth or ninth century. My reading of that source, though, doesn't say anything about Sheol as a place of cleansing the soul, but simply that Sheol is the lowest of the seven levels of Gehinnom.
As for your question, one of the earliest Jewish sources in my mind would be the (Babylonian) Talmud (completed circa 500 CE). The (Hebrew) Bible doesn't mention anything about She'ol as a place of cleansing — in the TaNaKh, She'ol is simply the place where a person's life-force goes when they die. In the Talmud, however, we read (Rosh haShana 16b-17a):
Later on this same page, the rabbis discuss the different kinds of people who go to Gehinnom and the lengths of time they need to spend there.
I'm far from a Talmudic scholar, so I'm sure the other knowledgeable users on this site will have additional, illuminating comments to add.
The belief in reward and punishment in the afterlife is a fundamental tenet of the Jewish faith (11th Principle of Rambam's 13 Principles of Faith). The earliest references I know of are various references in the Babylonian Talmud. Rosh Hashana 16b-17a attributes the view to Bais Shammai (ca 1st Century C.E.). Rabbi Akiva (ca 40 CE - ca 137 CE) is a bit more specific about how the non-wicked but less than righteous would be cleansed in Gehinnom for not more than 12 months. Mishna, Eduyos 2:10.
Although the books of the Tanach (i.e. the Hebrew Bible) allude to the afterlife, as the Talmudic citations above reveal, it is not very specific which is one reason the Sadducee sect refused to recognize the concept. See Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18 Chapter 1. Our sages of the late Second Temple (sometimes known as the Pharisees), held to the belief in reward and punishment after death as a lesson of the Oral Torah -- the unwritten detailing of laws given by G-d to Moses and passed down generation to generation thereafter.
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TAUNTON — The Holy Family boys basketball team recently won the Catholic Youth Organization Senior Championship after beating St. Anthony in the best-of-three final series.
Holy Family completed an undefeated regular season at 8-0 and beat St. Ann's in a semifinal affair.
St. Anthony stopped Holy Family's nine-game winning streak in Game 1 of the championship before losing the final two games.
Members of the champion Holy Family team, who played their final CYO game, are Pat Buzzell, Bryan Chaves, Serge Desir III, Jordan Edwards, Khamaari Ivey, Nick Mather, John and Jesse McCartney, Danny O'Connor, Matt Ward and head coach Buzz Buzzell.
Here's a recap of the finals:
Game 1
St. Anthony 58
Holy Family 52
St. Anthony jumped off to a fast start and held off Holy Family.
Kenny Ortiz, Brandon Ladetto and Alexi Reyes led the way for St. Anthony. Serge Desir III, John McCartney and Danny O'Connor paced Holy Family.
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Holy Family 52
St. Anthony 40
Holy Family outscored St. Anthony 34-17 in the second half to even up the series at 1-1.
John McCartney, Pat Buzzell, Serge Desir III, Matt Ward and Jessee McCartney led the way for Holy Family. Khamaari Ivey, Jordan Edwards, Bryan Chaves, Nick Mather and Danny O'Connor also had a strong game in the win. Kenny Ortiz, Brandon Ladetto and Alexi Reyes led the way for St. Anthony.
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Holy Family completed their comeback by beating St. Anthony in the deciding game.
John McCartney's rebound helped Holy Family take a 23-15 halftime lead. Pat Buzzell hit four-of-five from the free-throw line late and Serge Desir III had two blocks on defense to secure the victory. Nick Mather, Jordan Edwards and Matt Ward played well in the win.
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The 200 attendees, including Professors George A. Bermann, John C. Coffee Jr., Merritt B. Fox, and Hans Smit, shared a variety of experiences—some from jurisdictions with highly developed torts law regimes, others from nations where addressing wrongs with class action suits is a burgeoning idea.


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As I spend more time in the review panel, I notice more and more users who ask questions and then answer and accept that answer, which is just some bogus reply that doesn't answer the question but simply states that the "problem has gone away" because they either used something else or did something irrelevant to the issue that happened to solve the question.
This question isn't the best example, but it is the one that got me thinking and therefore the one I can find: Visual Studio Debugger Issues - The answer states:
Well I never ended up finding any resolution to this issue. I got an SSD and reformatted, so the issue went away.
Should this be considered an answer, or should the question just be closed as too localized since they are no longer seeking an answer to the question?