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Automatic Transmission from Gearstar - TransformedWritten by on July 1, 2012 Contributors: Jerry Dixey Building an automatic for the long haul
Since 1996, STREET RODDER magazine has built a new car every year and then turned Jerry Dixey loose on an unsuspecting nation to travel the highways and byways of the country to promote the hobby we all love. With all the miles covered we've learned a number of lessons concerning the construction of a safe, reliable car, and with the record of performance that's been established we'd classify the endeavor as an unqualified success. This year's car, a reproduction '40 Ford coupe being built by Hollywood Hot Rods, will be equipped with an automatic transmission from Gearstar.
When automatic transmissions first began appearing in street rods there wasn't much to choose from. Massive four-speed Hydramatics with their goofy gear spreads and two-speed Powerlides were among the most common, but today we have a host of excellent automatic overdrives to pick from. However that doesn't mean they're perfect. The fact is car companies are in the business to make money. That means if they can save as little as a few cents on parts that will last for a reasonable period of time (read until the warranty is up) that's what they do. Could any OEM build a transmission, or any other component for that matter, that was virtually indestructible and would last a lifetime? Sure they could, the factory engineers have the know-how and the resources to do it, but their efforts come under the scrutiny of the bean counters who have to answer to executives who have to have an affordable product to make money for stockholders.
In terms of operation, all automatic transmissions function in the same manner in that multiple planetary gear sets are used to provide the various gear ratios plus Reverse. Friction devices, bands, and clutches are applied by hydraulic pressure created by the pump and directed by the valvebody and as various portions of the gear sets are held and released the gear ratios are changed. Simply put, when an automatic shifts one friction is applied and another is released. When one of the clutch packs won't hold the transmission slips it leads to increased wear of the other components and ultimately failure of the transmission.
While it's often easy to be critical of OEM parts, the truth is street rodders often subject factory components to far more stress than they were designed to endure. And even though the factories are constantly updating their products, ironically, it's often the aftermarket that comes up with improvements the manufacturers won't spend money on.
Gearstar has devoted years to finding the weaknesses in the popular automatic and spent a considerable amount of money developing the parts to correct them. These improved components increase the transmission's capacity to handle more horsepower and improve longevity. In addition, when a transmission is ordered from Gearstar, the customer is asked for information about the car, including engine displacement, horsepower, torque, weight, rear gear ratio, tire size, type of speedometer drive, and the intended use of the vehicle. All these specs are then used to calibrate the transmission's shift feel for that application.
To get an idea of what goes into a Gearstar transmission, Jerry Dixey grabbed his camera and headed to Akron, Ohio, to see for himself what they do. In this case the transmission parts shown are for a GM 700-R4, but same attention is given to every transmission that goes out the door (the improved parts will be on the left in all the photos). As Gearstar's owner puts it: "We build every transmission like it was going in one of our cars." You can't ask for more than that.
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This is a one-way clutch, as the name implies, when necessary the spring-loaded rollers move up a ramped inner race and lock the components together in one direction and release in the other. Gearstar redesigned springs that reduce wear and improve release characteristics.These are servo pistons that activate a band. The Corvette version on the left is used exclusively as it applies faster for a crisper shift.An improved one-way clutch inner race is also part of the package. In Level III and IV transmissions for high-horsepower applications the stock-style thrust washer is replaced with a Torrington bearing.Here's a case where a factory update is a step in the wrong direction. This is a sprag, another type of one-way clutch; the new style uses a plastic cage. Gearstar installs the early version with a metal cage.In addition to being 20 percent wider, the Gearstar band uses improved friction materials and has reinforced apply lugs.This is one of the planetary gear sets from a 700-R4, the improved replacement includes five pinion gears rather than the original four and the housing is made of hardened steel rather than cast like the stocker.The same improvements can be found in the 700-R4 rear planetary set, one additional pinion gear and improved endplates.
These are input shaft and drum assemblies; replacement shafts are heat-treated to improve their strength.One change often requires another. For reliability, a reinforced drum and modified apply piston are used to go along with the stronger shaft.Clutch packs are made up of alternating friction and steel discs. Gearstar installs improved friction discs and heat-treated steels.Torque converters are opened up and completely remanufactured with stall speed optimized for the application. Lock-up converters are equipped with better and thicker friction materials, and in many cases additional clutch discs.


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5 Ways the Modern World Makes You Extremely Easy to Stalk
#2. All of Your Wireless Cameras Are Easily Hacked
You can get wireless video cameras at any Walmart these days, and people use them as baby monitors, as security cameras and to record their hit one-man shows on YouTube. So what, now are we going to tell you that total strangers outside your home can tap right into that and use your own cameras to spy on you?
So take off the bathrobe, guy. You might as well put on a show.
In a manner that shocked even the police, a news station in Indiana teamed up with a private investigation firm and, armed with nothing but cheap handheld devices, they found that they could tap into home security cameras basically at will. The world was their reality show, but with presumably much less sex and more people sitting at their computers looking at Facebook. The problem is that once people set up their wireless security systems and see that the cameras work, they think they're done, never bothering to take the next step and secure the network.
And if you have a video baby monitor, guess what? Creepers everywhere can watch your child sleep. Don't be too alarmed, though, because some baby monitors are secured and can't be tapped into. And just when you thought your child couldn't be any more expensive, you find out those fancy-pants monitors cost around $200.
Or you can just get a wired webcam for like six bucks.
We'd say it's worth it.
#1. Your Shopping Habits Reveal More Than You Think
Look, you know by now that if you order a vibrator on Amazon, the next time you show up it's going to recommend Fifty Shades of Grey to you. With the ability to track what you buy, often across different sites, retailers know how to predict what you're going to buy next. But where it gets really creepy is when they start trying to predict your every move, and then follow you into real life.
"Customers who bought Ass Glazers 9 also liked Steel Magnolias."
Even when you shop in the real world, retailers track when you start developing patterns in what you buy. Then they'll start sending coupons for things you're more likely to buy next. So let's say you have a big change in your life, like, say, a pregnancy. And you're going to immediately drop everything to take care of that baby's needs, because if you don't it will shit all over you. There's a good bet that your nearest department store will know about it before you've even told your friends.
For instance, in 2002, Target made it a goal to figure out when their customers were pregnant. If they could capture a woman's loyalty when she was preparing for the big event, they'd have her forever. So Target figured out 25 products that pregnant women were likely to buy (vitamins, unscented lotion, cotton balls, etc). And then when they saw a customer buying those things, they started sending coupons for, say, baby cribs and nipple cream.
Buying frozen pizzas gets you coupons for antidepressants.
That's why one angry dad accosted a Target manager for spamming his teen daughter with their baby ads. As if his little girl was having sex!
Then said dad had to apologize a few days later when he found out that she actually was pregnant, and that Target had figured it out before he did. Yes, this corporation knew how to pick up on cues about this girl's most intimate behaviors better than the father who lived with her. Her pregnancy was a secret to her family, but not to this $70 billion a year retailer.
"Also, your son has herpes."
And the creepiest part of all is that they're trying not to be creepy about it. Much like when you stalk someone's Facebook before meeting them and then pretend not to know things about them, Target is now hiding the baby ads next to things like lawnmowers, to pretend it was all just a coincidence. One of their experts put it this way:
And we found out that as long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn't been spied on, she'll use the coupons. She just assumes that everyone else on her block got the same mailer for diapers and cribs. As long as we don't spook her, it works.
So ... yay for not spooking anyone, Target.
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30% Off all Single & Double Hammocks & 15% Off all Accessories (Rain Fly, Bug Net, Hanging Kits)
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I love seeing this deal offered every once in awhile. Still enjoying my double from a year ago :)
Any idea when the Packbacks will be in?
@darkazura: Glad you're enjoying your hammock! To answer your question, we're hoping within the next couple weeks.
"For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad ... but I could never find me a double hammock"- Frank Sinatra
My friends have one of these and it is fantastic. It is so cozy and you can even wrap yourself in it like a cocoon. It feels much better in my opinion than a rope hammock and it packs up to be so tiny. The perfect camping item. If only I weren't broke I'd get one.
Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there's four places. There's the Hammock Hut, that's on third. There's Hammocks-R-Us, that's on third too. You got Put-Your-Butt-There. That's on third. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the hammock complex on third.
Oh, the hammock district!
I've gotten a couple of these from one of the previous sales. So far they're great. Took one on a vacation a few months back and it saw plenty of use. It was really nice to be able to come back from a hike and just hop in to relax. The V9 Tarp kept the rain out of the hammock so even after an inch of rain the hammock was pretty dry. (It was slightly damp, but the air was pretty humid afterwards so I don't fault the tarp any.)
We found one issue with them. They're too comfortable. After we got in the hammock, it took a great deal of effort to make us want to get out.
WhereTF do I enter the Coupon code on the site !? going insane here..., is it some kinda scam !?
Cheap bstds, want to charge $2 additional if using paypal...so add $10 to the price incl s/h.
@jinx784: The coupon is entered during the final steps of the checkout process. If you're checking out with PayPal you just need to continue through all of the PayPal prompts and you're then brought back to our site where you'll enter the coupon codes and confirm the final total before checking out.
Trek Light's are the best. I've got 2 of the double size camoflage ones. The go anywhere rope kit w/ultralight biners are the only way to go!
I got one of the doubles in a previous Woot, have beat the hell out of it, and it's holding up strong. I'm sure I've had more than 400 pounds on it too. It's the 4th camping hammock I own, two of which are homemade, so as someone who regularly gets out the ol' "thread injector" (sewing machine) to make my own camping equipment, I can appreciate their quality. Buy this.


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pfsense for prioritizing traffic around LAN. It works well for specified port, IP, network, but I'm having a problem with torrent (transmission bittorrent) outbound connections. The outbound connections are random and no filter can be specified to slow them down if needed.
So I was thinking was it possible to specify a virtual IP just for the transmission daemon so I could use separate rules just for that IP?
The example would be:
Machine IP: 192.168.0.1
Transmission Daemon: 192.168.0.2
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You like mushrooms? We got mushrooms. This mix of five fungi contains porcini, chanterelle, shiitake, yellow bolete and oyster mushrooms.
It's perfect for any recipe where aromatic, earthy flavors are wanted. To be honest, we consider a cupboard bare if it lacks a jar of dried mushrooms. Don't be caught empty-handed. Stock up.
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We follow wild mushrooms around the world and forage for the finest quality in the woods, fields and mountains where they grow. While they are available, we sell most of them fresh, but also preserve some of nature's bounty. Dried naturally and carefully packed in France, our mushrooms offer the flavor of the forest year-round.
We think that a pantry is not complete without a few jars of dried mushrooms, ready for when inspiration strikes.
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I have a wordpress setup that I use for clients with around 30 or so child themes that they can choose from. Each child theme has it's own functions.php file currently. Is it possible to setup just one child functions.php and call it from all the separate child themes? My reason for wanting this functionality is I find myself continually making changes to the functions.php and I have to do it to all 30+ themes every time.
Well, I'd say that you need a custom plugin. All the rationale is in this Q&A:
Where to put my code: plugin or functions.php?
Also related:
And answering to the Question, create the following file
Use a plugin for that. Hook into
I do not recommend a mu-plugin. Real plugins can be deactivated, and you can enable or disable them for each site separately. Adjust the capabilities for the clients instead; this is a much cleaner approach.
I'd use a must use plugin. The code will apply across the network while your clients won't have access to it so they won't be able to disable or modify it.
To proceed you just have to put your code in one single file and put it in /wp-content/mu-plugins/
Hope this will help :)
You can
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|The Geoscience Australia Earth Observation Catalogue System is designed to allow users to search on-line for satellite imagery available from Geoscience Australia. The Catalogue comprises text and imagery for each scene in the Earth Observation Archive. Catalogue users can query and view ALOS, Landsat, MODIS, ERS, JERS, RADARSAT and ASTER Earth observation satellite acquisitions over the Australian landmass, most of Papua New Guinea, Eastern Indonesia, New Zealand and the Oceania region.
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|Interactive Maps is a discovery and exploration view of Geoscience Australia's geospatial services. The following scientific and decision support themes have curated content comprised of maps and functions. Each map has queries and functions with linked access to OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) web services and metadata. This system replaces MapConnect and AMSIS applications.
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Carl Schumacher
Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, Fisher Controls
BBA 2003 (Finance)
Finance (major)
Johnson & Johnson
Born and raised in Marengo, Iowa, Schumacher chose to attend the University primarily because he wanted to stay in state, and because it offered something he hadn't experienced in his hometown high school.
"Coming from a high school where there were only 57 people in my graduating class, I was looking forward to the experience I'd have at a large university like Iowa," he says. "I visited large and small private schools, too, but honestly, I just gravitated to Iowa."
It's a decision he never regretted, plus he chose to walk through Iowa's doors again for an MBA degree.
"I did fairly well as an undergraduate but wasn't as active in student organizations and volunteer activities as I was when I came back for my MBA degree," he says. "The MBA program provided me with so many opportunities, and I took advantage of as much as I could the second time around."
While in the MBA Program, Schumacher led a consulting team for the Business Solutions Center, was vice president of the Graduate Financial Management Association, co-chaired the class gift campaign, helped organize a mentoring program between first- and second-year MBA students, and was a member of the Henry Fund, Tippie's endowed equity portfolio managed by select MBA students.
MBA students participate in an internship during the summer after their first year, and Schumacher says he was "active in the internship hunt."
"I wanted an internship that was a good fit, a challenge that I'd learn a lot from, and where there might be post-graduation opportunities," he says. "I found it all with Johnson & Johnson."
During his internship, his primary project was to conduct an analysis of the company's oncology portfolio to improve its performance.
"Through the analysis and modeling scenarios, we wanted to mitigate risk and increase expected earnings," he says.
His ability to conduct such extensive financial modeling impressed his bosses, he says.
"They were pleased with my ability to build a good financial model and my ability to talk through its components, skills that would not have been nearly as sharp had I not been a member of the Henry Fund."
Early in the second year of his MBA, he was offered a senior financial analysis position in Johnson & Johnson.
After graduation, he moved to New Jersey and began the MBA Finance Leadership Development Program, working in research and development with the pharmaceutical segment of J&J. He continued working for J&J until spring of 2014, when he and his family returned to the midwest, after Carl accepted a position with Fisher Controls as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis.


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Boycott (?)
The Archdiocse of New Orleans has called upon Catholics to refuse to patronize (boycott?) contractors involved in building a new Planned Parenthood facility.
There were rumors that the NFL might refuse to patronize (boycott?) the state of Arizona for the Superbowl, if the governor signed a law that expanded rights of business owners to refuse to patronize (boycott?) customers if doing so violated their religious beliefs.
A gay hairdresser refused to cut the hair of the governor of New Mexico (boycott?) because he didn't agree with her stance on same-sex marriage.( HT Deacon's Bench)
What, exactly, is a boycott? Does refusing service in a particular case, for whatever reason, count as a little boycott? Or do you need to try to organize? How do we analyze the morality of boycotts? Is that analysis entirely reducible ot the morality of the underlying cause?
Can we distinguish between boycotting something and impermissible cooperation with evil? It may not be impermissible cooperation with evil to shop at a big box store, but I may choose to boycott it anyway, in order to change (say) child labor practices of its suppliers.
Any thoughts on how we should think about boycotts? They are not just a liberal, or a conservative tactic. They can be used by both sides in any controversy. Though: 1) in order to be necessary, you'd need to be trying to change the majority culture in some way; and 2) in order to effective, you'd need to have a substantial minority on your side.
What do you think?
About the Author
Cathleen Kaveny is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor in the Theology Department and Law School at Boston College.
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Why was the bus boycott in support of Rosa Parks in Montgomery, AL justified? Because the Jim Crow law about who could sit where in a bus was immoral. The bus riders were not morally obligated to cooperate with the bus company.
But if the reason they were not obligated was that the law was intrinsically immoral, then it would seem that they were *obligated* not-to-ride-those-buses. And if they were obligated not to ride, then all the people in all the other cities with that Jim Crow law would also seem to be oobligated not-to-ride-their-buses.
So many variables.
A boycott is a relatively blunt instrument, and the possibility is there to cause collateral damage. At least some of the construction contractors for that Planned Parenthood facility probably are small businesses, and my observation of construction jobs is that employment is not always permanent or secure for construction workers. It would be a shame if low-paid laborers ended up losing their jobs because of the Archdiocese's boycott. I am not sure that a diocese calling for a boycott is a good idea. I'd rather see the bishops teach and propose, and let the laity organize the boycotts. The diocese could target communication to the construction workers and urge them to consider working for companies that don't cooperate in building abortion facilities. No doubt, the facility would get built anyway - but I suspect it will despite the diocesan-led boycott, too. Just my view.
Refusing to partronize [boycott] is morally legitimate.However, a business open to the public that refuses customers based on a group identiy or a belief, is morally illigitimate and justifiably illigal.[As oppossed to not letting someone in store cause they're not wearing shoes,say][IMO.]I have no problem with the archdiocese telling people to not patronize businesses contracted out to planned parenthood. It's the church's opinion and the church as any group or indvidual has the right to try to change a culture through imposing negative consequences for having certain beliefs or practices.That's political action.And politiical action can have a good end or an evil end.it's certainly a right and expression of freedom to engage in political action.If I owned a business I would not deny goods or sevices to anyone -no matter what I knew about them including if I new them to hold the most egregious positions on anything.Open to the public,means just that. To exclude anyone would be to undermine the principla of equality, and freedom of belief, of association ,of speech, which are essential to a civil society.It is good that there are non discrimination laws on the books.To boycott a business ,though it may force the business to fail, does not undermine equality or freedom but is a tactic used to change beliefs and or practices which one sees as evil. Having a successful business is not an imperative and does not equate with freedom or equality.It does not mean that there are not boycotts that I find to be unethical .It depends what the reasons for the boycott are.
Boycott is an extreme tool of economic violence. It should be used sparingly when democratic persuasion and processes don't work as in the southern bus boycott. I would like to boycott the whole economic system because it relies on human exploitation and environmental ruin. I actually hate buying things at all. The increasing power, consolidation and monopoly for the benefit of large enterprises may allow for only the extreme measures of boycott.
The continued Planned Parenthood fixation by certain US bishops needs to stop. It is based upon poor research; wrong facts; biases; and a continued misogynism in typical paternilistic authoritarian style.
Help me understand what Aymond is trying to do here:
- first, does he clearly articulate why Planned Parenthood violates archdiocesan beliefs?
- second, where in this threatened boycott does he indicate that Planned Parenthood is *evil*?
- third, given the words and statements of the current pope over the last 9 months, how is Aymond's boycott echoing what Francis has said and is saying?
- fourth, is this really the best way to object to a very small percentage of what Planned Parenthood does? (if or can you say that Planned Parenthood causes thousands of abortions? and is this true in the NO archdiocese? or is this just the usual meme and continuing assumptions by certain US bishops?)
- fifth, especially in New Orleans and Orleans, St. Benard, and Picayune Parishes which have extremely high rates of poverty; unemployment; continued racial bigotry; high rates of single parenthood; etc. Doesn't Planned Parenthood provide support, education, resources, etc. that uphold the dignity of women esp. young black women? What is the archdiocese proposing to replace what Planned Parenthood is doing/offering or is this just your typical negative pronouncement and anathema?
- sixth, what has Aymond done to address the significantly high rates of uninsured in the state of Louisiana; has he spoken out against the governor, Jindal's, refusal to expand Medicaid to the poor? (why doesn't Aymond boycott that decision?)
- what does the archdioces do now in terms of outreach; how much financial and family support does it offer? how about medical services for women in these three parishes? (and wonder what the Daughters of Charity at Charity Hospital feel about this boycott? How about other religious orders in NO who struggle to not only encourage catholics to support the unemployed, the poor, the uneducated - do they agree with this move by Aymond?
This smacks of what Texas legislature did 6 months ago - yep, they closed down 25 centers but created significant impact to wellness, health, medical care in distant, rural communities and only exacerbated the plight of the poor, the barely employed at minimum wage, the more than 40% uninsured in the state of Texas, etc.
One simple follow up thought - is this really a pro-life declaration or, rather, is it not really just anti-abortion?
Is this really acting like the Good Samaritan or more like the judgmental Pharisees?
Boycotts arise out of long struggle and object to violence and denial of human dignity, rights, etc. Yes, abortion in one way is violence and denies the rights of the unborn...but, it is so much more complex than that. This boycott appears simplistic in response to a perceived threat (not sure I buy the archdiocese's math - they project but is that accurate). Louisiana already leads the nation in terms of poor and inadequate healthcare to its minority and poor citizens. How does this boycott address that situation? Appears like Aymond is attacking a *symptom* rather than the systemic change and hard work that is necessary and he is choosing to fight an organization (that, whether you agree or not, also provides significant healthcare resources and support) - why isn't he fighting other organizations e.g. governor's stance against Medicaid expansion; large number of uninsured; mininum wage difficulties, etc.
Call it "judgmental Pharisses" if you like. Planned Parenthood is engaged in the murder of the unborn and the church is morally obliged [as is any human being ]to denounce and to put up hurdles against it, including the noble traditon of calling for boycotts.The dignity of women,poor minority women is not upheld by planned parenthood coming to town to provide abortions or dispensing harmful birth control pills to these young and ignorant and impoverished women.
Your reasoning is so confused and convoluted that you need to take a step back and rethink everything you have said in your comment. As is, the thing is pure nonsense. I suggewst you try again, while thinking about the respective meanings of the terms "rights", "freedom", "discrimination", "moral, and "immoral."
You obviously put much effort into your statement--it just somehow went awry.
Bill, did you happen to read the news article to which Cathleen linked in her first link in the post? The article describes the buiding being constructed as an "abortion facility". Whatever good things(?) Planned Parenthood does in the community, presumably can be done without that facility.
Echoing what Stanley Kopacz said- this is a secondary boycott, which is an especially blunt tool of economic violence. My understanding is the NO Planned Parenthood will be an abortion clinic, not just a dispenser of contraceptives, so I'm OK with a boycott given the exceptionally grave cruelty of abortion.
I do have this concern. Many of the recent actions of the Catholic bishops have given me the impression that they hope to achieve things by the raw use of economic power that they have not been able to do by persuation- for example, in the areas of contraception and gay rights. I really hope the bishops reserve this economically violent tool for the violence of abortion, and don't start organizing boycotts of drugstores that sell contraceptives or small businesses owned by gay couples.
Okay, this is not meant to be a post on abortion. It's meant to try to figure out how to think about the activity of boycotting--which is done by lots of people for lots of reasons.
Well said, Ms. Caminer.
I was thinking about the criteria for "just (sic?) war" and wondering if such a model would work here...
lesseee... proper authority, proportionality, just means, reasonable hope of success -- not sure...
A secondary boycott, which is what N.O. is trying, is considered an unfair labor practice under the Taft-Hartley law. (It was passed over Truman's veto.) I have never heard of any organization except a union being hauled into court and enjoined to stop a secondary boycott, and I doubt I ever will. It is not conceivable to the haulers-into-court that a bishop would sink so low as to imitate a "union boss."
But there you are. If the bishop walks like a duck and squawks like a duck, he is engaging in an unfair labor practice under a Republican hot-button law.
I thought I made perfect sense but i'll try again.I was hurried.[ha ,ha.] I believe in boycotts of business AND I concur with laws that barr businesses from discriminating against people[based on ethincity,race, sexual preferences, religion etc;.protected classes].Why do I believe in boycotts but NOT in a business witholding his/her service to a person whose views or group identity the business owner disdains?Because I believe that boycotts are a form of political action.Free people can and should try to effect political change concerning practices or beliefs they believe are wrong through actions and boycotts are such legitimate means to effect change.On the other hand a [public] business is part of the public space and open to all .Hence barring anyone to partake of the goods or services in that public space is a violation of anti discrimation laws .These laws RIGHTLY exist to promote equality for all people in society. Discrimation is a way of underminding that principlal of equality and of equal treatment under the law.Inequality manifested as unequal treatment [not serving the customer] is inherently unjust.Therefore it is wrong to promote or partake of.Civil society is eroded when the injustice of discrimination in business is permitted. Free people have a right to their beliefs, however egreious. They have the right to the goods and services of a business because they partake of the same freedom and are equal.A boycott OF a business does not inherently undermine freedom but discrimation BY a business inherently does.A boycott may undermine a successful business but a successful business is not a guaranteed right.Freedom to use public goods and services is guaranteed as a right[ of free and equal people].Got it?
Cathleen Kaveny: "Okay, this is not meant to be a post on abortion. It's meant to try to figure out how to think about the activity of boycotting--which is done by lots of people for lots of reasons."
Isn't it an OK answer to say that boycotts, and especially secondary boycotts, should only be used in very grave situations, not over every disagreement? As a vegetarian I do not boycott supermarkets that sell meat, but I do boycott enterprises involving severe or unnecessary cruelty to animals. I was applying that principle to the example that you gave.
And though i support the principal of boycotts it does not follow[as i said in my first post but it makes no sense,you said, so i'll say it again; hopefully in a more sensical way] that I support all or any boycott. It depends on the reason for the boycott.[I support the one called for against contractors with planned parenthood, for sure]. I do oppose all instances of a business owner refusing to serve a customer[except for individual violations of a health or other code appropriate to that business].Questions of how great is the offense, weighed on the scale with the economic damage to those individuals in the business and their employees [or of a whole coundtry;sanctions],needs to measured and calculated accordingly.It's not always clear and easy but planned parenthood for me is an easy one.
Planned Parenthood has had a facility in New Orleans on Magaine Street for years. It doesn't do abortions.
While the Archbishop is calling for businesses to boycott the building, he has not threatened any punishment such as refusing Communion for anyone who does participate.
The proposed facility will be able to do as many as 30 abortions a day.
As the veteran of several boycotts (usually involving local environmental issues), I know first-hand the truth of Prof. Kaveny's maxim that "in order to be effective, you need to have a substantial minority on your side." Sometimes, however, small victories (e.g., connecting with other like-minded individuals and building on those associations) are more than pyrrhic and can eventually lead to quantifiable results. Cesar Chavez and his National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers Union) began small, for example, but through dynamic and sustained efforts, including the use of boycotts, became a major force for the rights of agricultural workers.
By the way, the word "boycott" has an interesting linguistic history:
The word 'boycott' entered the English language because of a dispute between a man named Boycott and the Irish Land League in 1880. Captain Charles Boycott was a landlord's agent, a man whose job was to collect rents from tenant farmers on an estate in northwest Ireland. At the time, landlords, many of whom were British, were exploiting Irish tenant farmers, and as part of a protest, the farmers on the estate where Boycott worked demanded a reduction in their rents. Boycott refused their demands, and evicted some tenants. The Irish Land League advocated that people in the area not attack Boycott, but rather use a new tactic: refuse to do business with him at all.
This new form of protest was effective, as Boycott wasn't able to get workers to harvest crops. And by the end of 1880 newspapers in Britain began using the word the way we know it today, not as a person's proper name, but as a tactic of protest.
I share the emotional response of the gay hairdresser toward the governor of New Mexico. However, if, as a business, you are set up, establishing a judicial person or partnership or sole proprietorship, and rely on the secular state's power, such as the enforcing of contracts, financial agreements, collection of debts, police power, etc. there should be very little question as to where your private views stop and compliance with law begins. If one is to use the law to buttress one's ability to do business, one cannot pick and choose which laws to obey or disregard.
If the hairdresser is licensed by the state and open to the general public, then he has no choice but to serve the Governor. Besides, just think of the chance to "preach the gospel" to a captive client who should be in mortal fear of the condition of her 'do if she really annoys the hairdresser by arguing back?
JP and Prof. Kaveny - yes, I did read the link in the initial post. JP - that link raised my questions...there is no documentation in that link; only assumptions or pronouncements from one, very biased source.
Do we know that this planned building will only be used for abortions? Can't think of any Planned Parenthood building, clinic, etc. that only serves that purpose? (keep in mind, there are no abortion clinics in the state of LA and so this is feared). Yes, the link states upto 30 abortions per day - and we know this how?
Prof. Kaveny - sorry, did not make my points clearly or directly connected to your initial question about boycotts. So......my list of points are all about the current situation and stats for people living in the three parishes - Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard in and around New Orleans. A secondary boycott falls on folks who work for construction industries, trucking, materials, etc. and this places an additional burden upon folks who already struggle to keep jobs, etc. So, it appears to be a boycott that falls disporportionally upon the very folks who could also benefit from Planned Parenthood services (in their traditional role as a location for medical and wellness care in minority neighborhoods).
You don't want this to be about abortion and yet, that is the total focus on Aymond's boycott and why I connected to Francis and his many statements about why we don't need to constantly mention or focus on abortion....rather, we need to address, listen to, and support the poor, the uneducated, the umemployeed. How will this boycott accomplish that? This doesn't appear to be a boycott (like Cesar Chavez) that addresses inequalities, discrimination, or attacks on human dignity - rather, it is a sledge hammer about abortion rather than a tool to use as part of systemic change. So, your boycott stops PP from constructing the building, does that change any minds, behaviors, etc. or is it just a heavy handed symbolic gesture that makes Aymond self-satisfied?
I came from a union family and married into another one, so I had no problem boycotting grapes in the Sixties. My problem with a boycott of a Planned Parenthood clinic is: where does it stop?
Must a Catholic UPS driver refuse to deliver packages to the clinic? A Catholic taxi driver refuse to transport a patient there? A Catholic police officer refuse to stand between protesters and the doors? If a vandal sprays red paint on the facade, is a Catholic cop required to let him go free rather than arrest him?
Some added information so that we see all sides:
Key point:
- Sounding affronted by what he described as "misinformation and sometimes downright malevolent voices which encourage community hysteria," Rabbi Edward Cohn chastised the clinic's detractors, including Archbishop Gregory Aymond, although Cohn only alluded to him and did not name him. Aymond spoke against the clinic at Monday's rally, calling abortion a violent act.
"No one has a monopoly on truth, especially in a free society in the 21th century," Cohn said. "No one. No church, no synagogue, no mosque. No archbishop, no rabbi, no imam bespeaks the official faith of the United States of America."
- this facility will be the first and only PP facility in the state to offer abortion services
- Officials supporting Planned Parenthood are in a stark minority in Louisiana, where lawmakers passed resolutions in both the House and the Senate this week aimed at the new clinic, calling for scrutiny of the group's finances and vigilance to uncover infractions of state law.
Planned Parenthood has raised $3.3 million in donations for the Claiborne project, including $800,000 in the past 90 days, said Pamela Steeg, a member of its fundraising committee. The clinic is expected to open in late 2014 or early 2015.
According to the most recent data available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011 ranked Louisiana first in the nation for syphilis and gonorrhea infections, and third for chlamydia. The state was also fourth in the country for AIDS cases in 2010. The greater New Orleans area ranked fifth among large metropolitan areas for its rate of AIDS. Baton Rouge was first.
(and I didn't even include these last reasons in my list of points above but can one also add *homophobic* to Aymond's boycott call?)
- More than 50 percent of all pregnancies in Louisiana are unintended, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research and policy analysis firm that focuses on sexual and reproductive health issues and supports abortion rights.
The clinic would also provide access to contraception, which Dr. Julie Finger, a pediatrician who works at a clinic for homeless youths at the edge of the French Quarter, said has been shown to reduce abortion rates.
"These legislators that are trying to block the building of the new Planned Parenthood facility, if their sole interest is to decrease abortions in Louisiana, then preventing Planned Parenthood is not the avenue to do so," she said. "If you want to get rid of abortion in Louisiana, they should put a Planned Parenthood on every street corner."
Finally, another NO newspaper provided information about Aymond's statement about 30 abortions per day.....he stated that he got that information from anti-abortion industry experts (yep, an unbiased and objective source of information). And Aymond then makes the wild assumption that this 30 per day would resuslt in 30 actual abortions every day all year (just because that is what anti-abortionists say). Something is being exaggerated here.
Tom Blackburn,
That's an interesting comparison between (arch)bishop and union boss, as the two are commonly—notice I cautiously refrain from saying accurately—perceived. So:
- make decisions without consulting those affected
- use a cadre of subordinates to enforce discipline, spiritual or mundane
- brook no opposition
- appeal to high-sounding and unopposable principles and justifications (apostolic authority, discipleship; brotherhood, solidarity)
- present a vision of paradise, always in the future
- depend entirely on the monetary contributions of their flock or membership
- feather their own nests
But like all comparisons, this one is imperfect. Those two dignitaries do differ in some respects; and overall, one is probably better than the other.
The Archdiocese can't succeed through moral persuasion, so they resort to bullying. it won't help their cause.
I don't mean not to talk about abortion in connection with the boycott-that is fine!
Does refusing service in a particular case, for whatever reason, count as a little boycott? Or do you need to try to organize?
Wikipedia's article on boycotts implies that a boycott is a collective action. I've never eaten at a Hooters because of the way they objectify women, but I haven't tried to found a movement to boycott it (although surely someone else has, somewhere). I don't know what the word for my personal little stand is (beyond "consumer choice", I guess) but I don't think it rises to the level of a boycott.
John Prior, one difference is that the dues-paying members of a union can usually vote out a boss if he goes off the rails. Dues-paying members of a church have to wait for Rome to do something about a bishop who needs to be curbed. Until recently, the latter could wait forever, but that may be about to change.
As an student of Irish history I am only too well aware of the origin of term "boycott".
Captain Boycott was the manager for an absent English landlord.
Out of a sense of duty (on high moral grounds) he enforced the landlord's legal right not tolower rents and to evict renters who could pay their dues.
Under the leadership of C S Parnell Boycott was ostracised. No one would work for him and his family. They were denied the necessities of life. The English parliament/government mismanaged the whole tenant farmer issue so badly that Ireland was in uproar. Parnell imprisoned was speaking out against against a law which gave no clear definition of what constituted a "fair rent" - a pretty basic concept.
The ostracising of Boycott started off as a non-violent political action, non-cooperation, non-payment of dues. As it spread, and as it had no discernible effect other than to make the incompetence of the English government more obvious, violence increased throughout the land. Parnell changed the emphasis from Land Reform to Home Rule.
So when I read Boycott (?) as the title of Prof Kaveny's blog I took it to indicate that she was questioning whether some of the socio-political actions in USA that called themselves "boycotts", were not in effect boycotts but "restrictions of trade", gratuitous punishment, political grandstanding hiding behind a word that the Irish hold dear as a memorial to the courage of the Irish peasantry who used the only weapon they had to try to bring their feudal masters, their absentee landlords, their out-of-touch English politicians, to their senses - at least the sense of fair play.
Concerted action is (part of) the definition of a boycott. A thousand people deciding separately not to patronize a business would not be a boycott. They might even have different and conceivably opposite motives. So some organizing is necessary. If a business can advertise to attract customers, I suppose an opponent should be able to speak out, within the limits of libel law, to deter them.
Things get complicated with secondary (tertiary?) boycotts. If people want to protest the employment conditions of field workers by boycotting grapes, should they also boycott truckers who deliver grapes to stores, the stores that sell them, the banks that provide payroll sevices for the stores' employees, other businesses that deal with those banks? How does a construction worker who may be pro-life enough to have a houseful of kids balance his obligation to feed them with the demand that he quit his job, in a brutal employment market, when he learns what the building he's working on will be used for?
And what happens when a boycott succeeds? When Planned Parenthood abandons its building plans or moves the facility to San Francisco, will Archbishop Aymond, still chuffed with the success of the Fortnight for Freedom in eliminating contraception, be there on the scene to comfort the young woman who has just brought her baby into a world that does not want it, or to care for the teenager bleeding from a botched abortion? It's a fallen world, they are always telling us, so there will be more of them. Our lot is to search the wreckage and choose the evil that least offends us.
Hey, that Gov. Martinez story is 2 years old! She's now firm on "the law of the land" from the Roberts court, and so presumably can return to her former hairdresser.
Before Katrina the poor in the New Orleans region had access to Charity Hospital where they could get very good if sometimes slow care. The emergency room in the old Charity used to be one of the best in the world. Katrina knocked out Charity. The nuns had stoppe running the place when they were required by law to provide for abortions. After they quit Charity they built three large clinics in the city to help the poor. The State is working to build another very large hospital in New Orleans for the poor and for emergency treatment (though I guess it won't be called Charity.)
The Archdiocese has a number of family service programs which serve everyone. I don't think it's fair to make a blanket accusation against Archbishop Aymond that he is indifferent to poor women. This is a poor city, and he doesn't have a great deal of money to work with.
I think people's purposeful way of spending- or not spending- their money is right up there with their exercise of their right to free speech. It doesn't matter if its a "boycott" of just one person- the value isn't just in its external impact- I think there's great value to the individual in just exercising that right, even if it doesn't accomplish anything.
Even when I personally find certain kinds of speech objectionable, I try to err on the side of supporting people's right to express themselves. Same with boycotts, including the one above.
Ann - beg to differ. The DCs have built those clinics (has nothing to do with the archdiocese or Aymond) and they fought a political battle to set up their first clinic in St. Bernard Parish. Again, the archdiocese has had nothing to do with that.
My question is - do you know what the DCs' position is on Planned Parenthood and this new building? My guess is that it is much more nuanced than Aymond and would suggest that the DC leadership would not support this boycott - why? because their focus is on addressing the needs of the poor in all of those neighborhoods and this boycott will hurt the poor more than make a statement.
Yes, all of NO has been hit hard by Katrina including the archdiocese - so what does that have to do with this declared boycott? What about any number of catholics who saw their school or parish church closed by the archdiocese so they could save money; sell property; etc.? Sorry, there are many sides to this issue and my stance is that this boycott has more to do with certain big donors who are anti-abortion rather than any type of concern for the poor.
It would be nice if the Catholic cop turned a blind eye to the vandal spray painting the facade of the abortion clinic.It could cost him/her, her job and land him in jail,So that's a personal choice.Same with the UPS driver and the taxi driver.It is right that any of those actions are illigal.Because we are a nation of laws,laws which protect the principle of equality and individual rights.Not a free for all which would be an evil society.When and how far any individual goes in comitting acts of civil disobedience is a personal choice. There is no moral obligation to commit individual acts of civil disobedience,because while putting the person at risk they are ineffective in stopping or changing the law,the egregious act or policy.And because there is no end of injustices for which acts of individual civil disobedience could be undertaken.A concerted effort, a movement is another story.Though I don't believe people are necessarily morally obligated to engage in acts of civil disobedience as part of a movement against an justice either.It's noble if they do but heroics and obligation are not the same. Heroics [civil disobedience] goes beyond the call of duty,Civil disobedience is always a matter of ones personal conscience.If i'm on parole i may lose that parole if I engage in civil disobedience. or lose my livlihood, or my children, etc.Someone else may be in a different boat.Though at some point in fighting injustice, civil disobedience as part of a movement where a tipping point is reached it may be morally obligatory for every person to take a stand. A concerted boycott is not civil disobedience as there is no risk invovled. But a boycott is more frought; with the potential injustice of callous disregard for the consequences to the business,[or country] if one is easily manipulated and just jumps on bandwagons.In the case of planned parenthood boycott i think it's justified. .Though Though we're not morally OBLIGATED to individually commit acts of civil disobedience[though once a movement is at a tipping point of effecting change through civil disobedience it may in fact be morally incumbent on all to participate] because we're not obligated to disregard what ever harm may befall us and because acts of individual,non coordinated civil disobedience have no effect on the policy objected to, boycotts are another matter. There IS a moral obligation for individuals to engage in boycotts of intrinsically evil instituions and companies that directly support them, such as the one against assissting planned parenthood.Any financial contibution to the evil institution helps keep that instituion going.There is also a moral obligation to refuse to commit intrinsically evil acts .A taxi driver refusing to drive a woman to the abortion clinic ithough engaged in a principled act for which there is a risk of imprisonment and/or losing his/her license will not effect access to getting the abortion or influencing changes in laws.Hence the taxi driver is not morally obligated to commit an act of civil disobedience. A nun accompanying a woman to an abortion clinic is unethical because it's a freely chosen subjective act of solidarity with the woman against her unborn offspring.That is not the situation with the taxi driver.who did not take it upon himself to acompamy the woman to the abortion clinic but is merely following the law regarding taxi driving. An act of civil disobedience is different from refusing to commit the act for which the goal of the civil disobedience is intended to effect. So allowing someone to spray paint a facade is illigal yes, but it is not morally obligatory to engage in individual acts of civil disobedience.It IS morally obligatory to refuse to commit the act for which the civli disobedience is intended to effect;It is morally obligatory to refuse to do an abortion,say.[I'm having trouble separating paragraphs,spelling too,obviously].
Michael, ha. I pulled it from the Deacon's Bench just a day or two ago. But that remindsme: I forgot to H/T because I was in a hurry. I'll fix that now!
Cathleen asks:"How do we analyze the morality of boycotts?" I don't see why this analysis ought to be different from the analysis of any other organized effirt to change a particular practice or institution. There are legal questions. some boycotts can be patently illegal, e.g., a group of parents keeping their children out of school to tryt o change school policy. Even so, the illegal is not necessarily the immoral.
Then there is the "political dimension." Here Cathleen's two points about influencing enough people to have a chance of being effective are relevant. Just to stir up trouble because one is displeased with some situation is irresponsible and, I would say, objectively immoral. But there is also the long-range effort of a relatively handful people working to influence their fellow citizent to work against some institutional injustice. Even effprts apparently doomed to fail are often enough deserving of moral approbation. Who could have known how effective Dorothy Day would have been at the outset of her work?
Finally, there is the basic moral question. Would this boycott lead me to inflict direct harm on some person, harm that is in no sense justified punishment.
I taake it that all three of these sorts of questions are relevant to the search for the practical wisdom to respond propeerly to institutionalzed injustices.
No easy answers. No pat formulas. No definitive certitude. But also no merre "flying solo by the seat of one's pants."


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I know there is ctrl+c, but sometimes that doesn't work. In Ubuntu desktop I can just close the terminal window and open a new one when this happens, but how would this be solved using the CLI in Ubuntu server (without restarting the box)?
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CTRL+C will send
You can use CTRL+\ which will send
You can suspend the process and return to shell with CTRL+Z, this will stop the execution of the process and return to the shell prompt. The process will be in memory and it will be available as a job in the current shell. You can then use
If none of them are working you can always send
The signals can not be delivered if the process is in an uninterruptible call. Uninterruptible calls are kernel functions that can not be stopped and usually happen because of a bad driver (e.g. a driver that is not reentrant). A process that is in uninterruptible sleep can not be stopped until the call gets completed or the server is rebooted.
If a process becomes a zombie, it will not use any resources only taking space in the process table. A zombie process can not receive signals.
The list of signals for the current architecture can be found with
See the man pages of
If you have full console access, you can do Alt-F1..12 and get a new console.
From there, you can do a process listing like follows:
Then do a
If you don't have full console access, just open another terminal window (perhaps via PuTTY or similar), and do the above process listing and kill steps.
Ctrl C sends a SIGINT to your running process. If you don't want to open another console you can send a SIGQUIT with Ctrl \. This will address most day to day hung apps that the SIGINT does not.
I've personally wanted a way to send a SIGKILL with a shortcut but I'm not aware of a way to do so.
I consider
Also, instead of starting with signal 9 (SIGKILL), consider starting with the default SIGTERM (15). This will give the process a chance to terminate gracefully (if it can).
Here's how that would work. Let's say that ntpd is hung.
What are the processes? (You can skip to pkill if you believe you won't have false positives).
Kill the processes:
If not, eventually move to
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In talking about physical/geographical directions, I'm pretty comfortable using 朝 and 向 and 往 for the meaning of "to" or "toward". But I would be hard put to describe to a Chinese language learner any differences in usage or meaning among these three words. Are there any important differences?
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I know the meaning of "couch potato" is a person living a mostly sedentary lifestyle who likes to watch TV while lying on the couch, but why potato?
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Couch Potato was introduced by Robert D. Armstrong in the book The Official Couch Potato Handbook
From http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20080521102001/http://www.potatomuseum.com/exCouch.html
"Very few words have a birthday so precise, and so precisely known, as couch potato. It was on July 15, 1976, we are told, that couch potato came into being, uttered by Tom Iacino of Pasadena, California, during a telephone conversation. He was a member of a Southern California group humorously opposing the fads of exercise and healthy diet in favor of vegetating before the TV and eating junk food (1973). Because their lives centered on television--the boob tube (1966)--they called themselves boob tubers. Iacino apparently took the brilliant next step and substituted potato as a synonym for tuber. Thinking of where that potato sits to watch the tube, he came up with couch potato.
Etymonline says the usage was first recorded in 1979.
Google NGrams apparently backs this up, and yet shows an anomalous blip around the turn of the 20th century:
What to make of the 1900 bulge, I can't say.
"Potato" is used presumably because it's inert, shapeless and plump: like most people who spend their lives in front of the TV. It also has a similar sound to other expressions using a stressed modifier followed by "potato": hot potato, sweet potato, mashed potatoes, etc., so there was a sound to mimic to make it sound "right".
The Oxford English Dictionary says:
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2008) says:
Here's the origin according to posts made on the American Dialect Society mailing list.
First from Barry Popik:
Larry Horn concurred:
Finally from A. Allan:
It might have something to do with people being called a 'vegetable' when they are unconscious in a coma (in a vegetative state).
Philo Farnsworth... is credited for inventing the television and once lived in Idaho which is famous for its potatoes. People who watch lots of television are often called couch potatoes. There could be some correlation between the term and the origin of the television.
If you look at the MyOldRadio.com website, episode 304 of the Our Miss Brooks radio show (which aired August 28, 1955) is entitled "Couch Potato." I assume this is the actual title of the episode that the people who run the website got off of some sort of log for the show; but we all know what happens when one assumes something.
I always thought it was a reference to the random stray potato chips you sometimes find lodged in the couch cushions. They are always found somewhere on/in the couch.....as are the people that watch tv all the time.


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6 Albums By Rock Legends That Were Thinly Veiled 'F#@k You's
#3. Led Zeppelin IV by. Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin redefined what the blues could be, mostly by playing it louder than any of their contemporaries. Despite a fast-growing base of dedicated fans, critics responded coolly to Zeppelin's first album, a fact that every shit band since the 1970s has used to explain why that 1.5 star review doesn't matter. But instead of crying about the critics, the band responded by churning out their second album less than a year later. And another album about a year after that. Sure enough, the critics hated both of those albums also.
Too busy rocking your face off to give a shit.
By the time Zep was ready to head in to a studio for the fourth time, they were the biggest rock group, and also the most critically reviled. Since it clearly couldn't be their taste in music that was lacking, critics agreed that the only reason the band sold so many records was the words "Led" and "Zeppelin" were printed on the cover.
No difference.
To combat this, the band, whose very name is allegedly also a fuck you, decided to release an album with no words on the outside, thereby allowing them to release it "anonymously." Instead of the more conventional method of writing the name of the band on the cover, the album was emblazoned with four mysterious symbols, to prove that the music could sell itself. They then took the logical fallacies present in this argument and buried them in mountains of cash, booze and groupie vag.
The end result: a record on shelves with no indication of where it came from, which nonetheless sold 37 million copies and finally convinced critics that they were wrong about the whole Led Zeppelin sucking thing.
#2. Here, My Dear by. Marvin Gaye
In 1962, Marvin Gaye apparently decided that what his relationship with his boss, Motown Records President Barry Gordy, needed was a palpable sense of tension and awkwardness. To rectify the problem, Gaye married Gordy's sister Anna, who just happened to be 17-years older than him. Despite the age difference and the veritable mountain of poontang that was most certainly hurled in Marvin's direction on a daily basis, the marriage lasted 13 years, just under a century in rock marriage years.
Aw yeah.
By the time they divorced, Marvin Gaye was a music legend and Anna Gordy was 95-years old, or at least she must have seemed it compared to Marvin's new lady, Janis Hunter, who was just 18-years old. In addition to being a legend by this point, Gaye he was also damn near broke and strung out on cocaine. Having no money to pay his estranged wife in alimony, Gaye's lawyer came up with a deal: Rather than pay any money upfront, Gordy would receive a hefty portion of the profits from Gaye's next album.
A deliberately shitty song has sprung to mind.
Of course, making money to pay your ex-wife's alimony ranks just below having your balls smashed with a claw hammer on the list of things that inspire a person to scale the very heights of artistic greatness. With that in mind, Marvin Gaye entered the studio fully intending to fill a vinyl record with 35 minutes of dogshit and call it a day. Fortunately, that plan was foiled by Gaye's unbridled awesomeness and what the world got instead was classic double album that was such an intimate overview of the demise of he and Gordy's relationship, she actually considered suing him for invasion of privacy. He didn't totally veer off course: The music critics of the day did what music critics do best and panned the album for being too "weird" and "not commercial enough." In other words, it was fucking killer and these days is rightly considered as such.
#1. Best of The Beatles
The title alone is pretty self explanatory, right? The Beatles were a few guys from England who had a couple of hits in the 60s, and the word "Best" in this context could only mean one thing... right?
Yeah, there's a reason we didn't include an artist name with this entry. Because we love suspense! The "Best" in the title of this album doesn't refer to every Beatles song that isn't "Wild Honey Pie." Instead, it refers to Pete Best, the drummer who was kicked out of the group in favor of the much handsomer Ringo Starr.
For some reason, Pete was a little bitter about being jettisoned from the biggest rock group of all time and came up with what has to be one of the most elaborate rock and roll revenge plots of all time. Instead of banging one of his ex-bandmates wives or going on tour as "Pete Best and The New Beatalls" or something, he decided that confusing the shit out of record buyers would be pretty damn hilarious alternative. So, he recorded an album and called it Best of The Beatles. And he was right, that shit was hilarious!
At least it was hilarious to anyone who didn't waste their money on it. However, seeing as how the album was foisted onto an unsuspecting world at Christmastime, 1965--right in the balls-center of Beatlemania--more than a few shoppers picked up what appeared to be the most kickass stocking stuffer imaginable. Provided your stocking was large enough to accommodate a vinyl LP, of course. But when people unwrapped their new purchase and tossed it on the ol' hi-fi and didn't hear "Love Me Do," the shit hit the fan. So much so that, at one point, the album was brought up at a New York State Bureau of Consumer Fraud hearing. But really, there wasn't much they could do about it. The album was exactly what it claimed to be: a record by Pete Best (formerly) of The Beatles.
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Can you come up with any sensible sentence, into which the following combination of words would fit in well: "take your life safety lightly". Please, don't change the words order. Also, if possible, describe the context, in which that sentence would naturally appear.
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I have to disagree with glenatron (EDIT: This disagreement appears to be between British and American idiom). While it is relatively non-idiomatic in American English to use "life safety" in the context suggested by the question, it is certainly a valid construction, both grammatically and semantically, and I wouldn't be surprised if I encountered it some text.
The issue (as noted in some comments) is that in the common case, "safety" by itself generally implies "life safety". However, there are other types of safety that we can reasonably talk about. Explicitly saying "life safety" can make sense either to ensure that the type of safety in question is unambiguous, or to emphasize the potential life-threatening nature of a situation.
For example, a manufacturing company might say "We take both fire and life safety seriously." In this sentence, the adjectives highlight that the company is serious about addressing multiple sources of danger, only some of which are potentially life-threatening. (Semi-related, the National Fire Prevention Association publishes a "Life Safety Code".)
English is flexible enough that it is the rare construction indeed that can be declared to be always wrong.
An aside on "your life safety" vs. "safety of your life": In English, it is extremely common for a genitive of specification to be replaced with a plain adjective--to the point that the genitive construction typically sounds awkward.
In answer to your question: No, I can't.
And I don't think there is a way that it could be formed into a sentence. The problem is "life safety" just isn't a term that works in English. If you were talking about the safety of your life, you would say "the safety of your life" so an equivalent phrase would be "take the safety of your life lightly."
Unless someone was to invent a piece of equipment called a Life Safety ( which given its somewhat awkward construction would not be something a native English speaker would do ) I can't see a way you could put those words in that order into use unless you were perhaps writing blank verse, in which case most rules of language construction are out the window, but to do that well is beyond most of us.
Failing to attend to dangers can cause accidents that take your life; safety, lightly considered, is hardly safety at all.


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- BSO Case Number: DR01-09-2598
- PIO Number: 01-12-44
- Date: September 18, 1997
- Time: 0750
- Place of Occurrence: Roadrunner Tire Co., 195 SW 15 St., Deerfield Beach
- John Rodocker, 36, 11/18/60, 611 NE 24 St., Pompano Beach (DECEASED)
- James Bostic, 56, 12/18/45, Glades Correctional Instn. (state prison)
Description of Incident:
An imprisoned career criminal has been charged with murder for the 1997 beating death of a Deerfield Beach tire store manager.
At 7:50 a.m. on September 18th, 1997, the body of John Rodocker was found behind the Roadrunner Tire Company at 195 SW 15th Street. Rodocker was the manager of the business and it appeared that he had interrupted a burglary in progress and was beaten to death. The cause of death was blunt head trauma.
The investigation revealed Rodocker had spent the night inside the building. The suspect, now known to be James Bostic, 56, began to break in to the structure through a plastered-over rear door. As he pulled chunks of cement off the closed-off entrance Bostic cut himself on a piece of wire lathe, leaving traces of his blood. A former Roadrunner employee, Bostic knew about the plastered-over back door and he knew Rodocker. When Rodocker went to check out the noise behind the building Bostic attacked him and left him dead.
A prolific burglar and career criminal, Bostic was questioned by detectives but there was no evidence to connect him to the crime. On January 17th, 2001, BSO was informed that the CODIS (Combined DNA Indexing System) DNA data base had linked prison inmate James Bostic to the blood found on the building wall. BSO detectives collected a separate DNA sample from Bostic and ran another DNA test, which again linked Bostic to the crime scene.
During interviews with detectives this year, Bostic denied being responsible for the Rodocker killing. A warrant for his arrest, charging him with First Degree Murder, was obtained on December 26th and the next day, BSO Det. Eli Thomasevich served Bostic at Glades Correctional Institute where he is currently imprisoned.
- THIS REPORT BY: Det. E. Thomasevich, Sgt. R. O'Neil, Homicide Jim Leljedal / PIO 12/28/01 2 p.m.
Posted At: 12/28/2001 01:52 PM
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ODOR SHIELD?!?! You are FRYING CHICKEN!!
@mllewi1: Yeah I like to smell chicken frying
But... but... there are HOLES in the odor shield!!!!!1!11!!!!eleven!!!
Ummm... I think you guys are missing the context here. The Odor Shield is for the cook to hold up in front of themselves for protection to ward off the 'stink eye' their self righteous skinny friends throw at them when they ask 'Hey, that smells good. What'cha cookin'?'.
I can't say whether or not this is a good deal, but there is something to be said for a cover for your pan while you fry chicken- simply because without one, oil is gonna spatter everywhere.
That said, I fry my chicken on an open pan. Love them odors.
I got this on groupon for a higher price and I love this pan. I pan fry thighs in it and the splattering is way decreased because the steam from the chicken doesn't fall back into the oil. It can evaporate out the lid. The chicken still smells great while cooking. You just don't get the oil splatter you get when you cook with a regular solid lid. Plus the dome is nice. It cleans up great in the dishwasher
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How can I upload a photo to Flickr from a URL?
Is this possible?
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Given your new specific question, there is no possibility from Flickr itself. I don't know the reason, but unless somebody finds a backdoor for that, you won't be able to do that.
You could of course (as a workaround) program an application that uses the Flickr API to fetch an image from an URL and upload it to Flickr. Wouldn't be that hard to do.
Maybe there is a Flickr App out there that does exactly that, but I wasn't able to find one (yet).
Why you can't do it
You can not upload a photo via an URL. You would have to pass the data of the photo within the URL, which is a HTTP GET Request:
The problem is that you can't push all the data of a photo within an URL. There is always a limit of how much can be sent. The W3C says:
And an image is just a huge amount of binary data. So, the following doesn't work:
What you can do
In order to upload to Flickr, you need to upload the photo via a HTTP POST request. The photo's data will be embedded into this request. You would use a "multipart" form for this:
But that would mean you don't "see" the photo in the URL.
Flickr offers an API (a programming interface) that allows you to perform various actions, including downloading and uploading photos, finding users and their details, et cetera.
There is an example for uploading photos by HTTP POST. But be aware that you need to program your own application to make use of the API, for example in Python, Java or any other decent language with networking capabilities.


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I know there's a lot of advice for MacBooks randomly shutting down or restarting, but my question is a bit different. My MacBook Pro (mid-2010 15") only turns off when I instruct it to. However, it will only ever Restart: If "Shutdown" is chosen, it will instead restart. If "Sleep" is chosen, it will restart. If I close the lid and the computer tries to go to sleep, it will restart. The only way to get it to power off is by manually holding the power button.
The issue began when I updated to 10.8.4 so I assume it's some sort of software problem with the OS (could a .plist file have been changed somewhere with a bizarre value?). I was hoping that upgrading to 10.8.5 might help, but it's impossible to update because...the computer reset required prohibits the update from happening.
I've also checked the kernel's shutdown causes, and it's typically code "3" or "-60" I know there's no guide to what these mean, but I'm guessing they refer to the system restarting on its own ("3") and being turned off manually by the user ("-60") but I have nothing to back that up.
What might cause a Mac to display this behavior?


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Join Jerry Nixon, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft and Denise Novosel, Staffing Director at Microsoft, Interactive Entertainment Division. Denise talks about the Women in Gaming Awards Luncheon at GDC, which celebrates the success of women in the gaming industry. Tune in and learn how Women in Gaming provide a great forum for community, outreach, networking and an option to give back to the community. Develop for Windows Phone 7.5 and Xbox Live Indie Games .
As the Staffing Director for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, Denise Novosel is responsible for leading recruitment for Microsoft entertainment business; Think Xbox and Kinect! Denise joined Microsoft's Staffing organization nearly 8 years ago, bringing with her 10+ years of Staffing expertise in the technology space. Throughout her tenure with Microsoft, she has built a world class staffing organization and played a critical role in shipping XBOX360 and Kinect. In addition, Denise is credited for helping build the Halo 3™ team. Before joining Microsoft, Denise held leadership roles with both a start-up entertainment product development organization and a major financial services organization. In addition, she has worked for a consulting firm and spent time as an independent consultant.
Jerry Nixon is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist in Colorado. He has been developing and designing on the Microsoft platform for 15 years. He speaks at universities, events and groups on Kinect, XAML, Windows Phone, and Windows 8. Most of Jerry's days are spent teaching his three daughters Star Trek character backstories and episode plots.
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Hi everybody. I'm looking for an analogue of irrationality measure for formal power series with integer coefficient, the elements of $\mathbb{Z}[[x]]$. For any $f \in \mathbb{Z}[[x]]$ and positive integer $g$, I thought to define something like $$m_g(f) := \sup_{p,q} \mbox{ord}(f - p / q)$$ where $p,q \in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ satisfy $\deg p, \deg q \leq g$ and $q \neq 0$; $\mbox{ord}(h) := n_0$ for any formal Laurent series $h = \sum_{n=n_0}^\infty a_n x^n$ with $a_{n_0} \neq 0$ and $\mbox{ord}(0) := +\infty$. Note that $m_g(f)$ is finite for all $g$ if and only if $f$ is irrational, otherwise $m_g(f) = +\infty$ for $g$ sufficently large. Do you have any references on this? Thank you.
I think you will enjoy the paper "Irrationality of Power Series for Various Number Theoretic Functions", by W.D. Banks, F. Luca and I.E. Shparlinski. They use your $m_g$ as a measure of irrationality and give asymptotics on $m_g(f)$ for a variety of different power series $f$. They focus on power series with coefficients coming from arithmetic functions such as the Euler totient function, number of (prime, squarefree...) divisors, sum of divisors, Liouville function etc.
Going by what's in Math Reviews, these two papers might be relevant:
Sandra Delaunay, Approximation diophantienne et distances ultramétriques non standard, Ann. Fac. Sci. Toulouse Math. (6) 14 (2005), no. 4, 629–661, MR2188586 (2006i:11085).
Dinesh S. Thakur, Diophantine approximation in finite characteristic, in Algebra, arithmetic and geometry with applications (West Lafayette, IN, 2000), 757–765, Springer, Berlin, 2004, MR2037123 (2004m:11109).
Note that thanks to Pade approximation we have $m_g(f) \geq 2g + 1$ for all $g \geq 1$ and $f \in \mathbb{Z}[[x]]$.


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