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Would it be a problem to place the upper rail (the shorter rail) at 15.5 cm center onto the clamp? Is there enough rail left on the clamp to hold?
Would it be a problem to place the upper rail (the shorter rail) at 15.5 cm center onto the clamp? Is there enough rail left on the clamp to hold?
My Canon DSLR with a 10-22mm at 22mm will not go further than 45 degrees up before hitting the lower clamp, and my 24-70mm at 24mm will hit the lower clamp the 37.5 degree detent stop. (Also my 70-200mm at 70mm will hit the clamp at 37.5, but I'm NOT concern about that)
Is there a solution I can get to perhaps raise the vertical rail? (MFVR-170C)
The version for Ultimate M series will be out soon.
BTW, you can extend the upper rail by installing the QRC-40A via 2 holes at the end of MFR-170.
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Attached is a "wordsmithed" version of the lens chart that I posted earlier. I clarified the "2 pins needed" by stating where the pins need to be placed on the RD16. I know from experience how easy it is to get rattled when you are trying to remember all of the details to capture a panorama.
I'm beggining in process of creation a panoramas.
I'm very like the NodalNinja Head and want to create panoramas using this heads.
But have a question about choice of needing heads for me, what heads is more suitable for me?
My technics now: Nikon D90, Nikkor 18-200mm, Nikkor 10.5mm.
In future I want add to my equipment: Nikkor 14-24mm, Nikkor 70-200mm.
The purpose: priority - spherical panoramas at home, in cars, rooms etc, less - gigapano...
Reading information from http://www.nodalninja.com/ web-site I understand that:
- NN4 is good universal head, but not modular. It is suite for all my current and future lens and body.
- R1 and R10 is only for fisheye lens
- M1-L and M1-S - last, modern, perfect quality, comfortable heads.
- M1-L is not suitable for current 10.5mm lens, I need to byu additional shorter Upper Rail.
- M1-S is not suitable for future 70-200mm lens, I need to add longer Upper Rail.
- For M1-series soon will appear special clamp to attach 10.5mm to M1 (M1 + lens ring 10.5+ clamp+ 10.5mm lens). But for what series M1-S or M1-L will be availible this clamp?
I think that M1 series is best choice for me but what packing list to use?
Please help.
May be advice for my conditions already is there in this forum, but reading all forum post is difficult for me (my native language is not English).
Best regards
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Hello Any One
I am knew to the spheric panoramas, i just want to be sure i get all what i need to be ready when the M1L production is release.
Does any one know if i need some thing else beside the M1L and the R16? I am planing to shoot with the 5d & canon 15 mm in portrait mode
May be i could get a extra upper reel and cut it if if gets one the way will that help.
An easy leveller (http://store.nodalninja.com/products...with-Case.html) might be a good plus :) You just screw it between top of your tripod and M1L, and it'll allow you to get your M1L levelled in a snap ;)
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Thank you Nick I will keep checking the store to ad it to my order when is available.
Hello again,
I recieved the pre M1-L the last days and already started testing for LRS and URS. I just began with D3. I will test D90 and D7000 D300s when I finished the big boys 14-24, 24-70, 70-200. Nikkor 10.5, Sigma8mm/f3.5, Samyang 8mm 3.5, Nikkor 16mmm.
Is the 18-200 VRII? Please add the model, important cause different model may change in settings. Any preferences?
For those who are waiting for the definite models, there should be some Nikon data available and "certified" to let you know what you should order in definite production line.
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"The Big One" is used to describe a big person in a small place that is accused of everything . Commonly associated with Avichay as a "Big One". Originally: "Shiur Anglit"
The big one constantly knocks into people with his immense size.
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What one bites when one dies.
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A phrase used in NASCAR to describe a large crash at Daytona, or Talledega involving several cars. Usually caused by the restrictor plates on the cars keeping them bunched together, 3 or 4 across, 43 deep, untill one car in the front cuts down in front of another car to close, and spins out in front of the rest of the pack. The Big One usually has 5-10 cars involved but some have had up to 26.
Just look up "The Big One @ Daytona" and you will get a pretty good idea.
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It's the one people always talk about, the mythical/legendary big one. why isn't it already defined?
Refers to anything big, a big piece of food, a big sex organ, a big butt, or anything else that is big.
Refers to anything big, a big piece of food, a big sex organ, a big butt, or anything else that is big.
Hah! He bit the big one!
by wichita March 16, 2008
the best big brother ever even though he is also the biggest a-hole in the world...it is out of love...Also another way to differentiate between a Sr. Dad and a Jr. Son
Brain Sr. = The Big One
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How can I recognize if the player device is an iPad or an iPhone?
Now I can do it by checking the viewport size. But I think is just a tricky way, is there any other, more standard way?
To detect what platform you're runnning on from UnrealScript, you'd typically use:
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Also, when submitting an app to the Apple Store, you only have one build for all devices: you won't be able to do it manually by making two different builds.
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I'm still a bit lost after reading a lot of threads, and I want to make sure I make the right choice of gear.
I want to shoot spherical panoramas with my 5D Mark II and a Canon 24mm f/1.4 lens, strictly indoors. Will the NN3 MKII Starter Package be a good choice for that ? I still don't understand if I need a rotator or something else than this package and my tripod.
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I have lots of MP3 files that make 1 book. But they're all only about 5 minutes long. Is there an easy way to concatenate all of these that runs in OS X 10.7 (Lion)?
For audiobooks, I prefer AudioBook Builder, which takes a bunch of mp3 files and merges them into the audiobook format instead. Advantages of this format is chaptering and the ability to remember where you left off listening.
You can actually use the unix command line utility 'cat' to do this. Open terminal.app (in your /Applications/Utilities folder). You then need to get to the directory these files are in, so if in ~/sys.stderr/book, then
Then you can run
Assuming these are all in the right order name wise, they will be added.
Some tips would be to:
There's more information in this Mac OS Hints post as well.
If you don't want to use cat, you could also open up GarageBand, make a new file, and then open all the current mp3's and join them together. Then export that new large file as an MP3 of the audiobook (sorry, not on my Mac right now, so don't have screenshots).
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Perhaps my question is really naive. I teach this semester in algebra. I am embarassed about the proof that a free module over an integral domain has a well-defined rank. It is based on the theorem that two bases have the same cardinal. But the proof I know of this statement uses a reduction modulo a maximal ideal (then we are brought back to the theory of vector spaces). It seems to me that the existence of a principal ideal needs in general the axiom of choice (not for concrete domains, of course). Whence my question:
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Belmont County Commissioners passed a resolution Wednesday endorsing the efforts and goals of the Great Stone Viaduct Historical Education Society, In....
Gee. seems like the commissioners have no problem throwing money away when it's not THEIRS!!
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Glad they passed that "resolution" for the Bellaire viaducts. That will give the drug dealers 37 more places to hide behind.
Meanwhile, they bought 4 PU Trucks, to replace the ones NOT being maintained.
But, wait a minute ! They are still using "our money", to pay for 2 Port Authority "heads", and 2 Development "heads" + ALL the other useless political jobs they hand out.
I'm so glad they want to save the viaducts, and buy new pick-ups 8)
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It seems that until around the 20th century, a relatively large portion of rulers saw it as their goal to acquire more land. What was the main rationale behind this?
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There are many factors:
Keep in mind that this is New Imperialism, which came after Old Imperialism. Old Imperialistic motives can be summed up quickly:
I think there's a selection bias at play. A ruler that did not care about acquiring more land would typically end up avoiding conflict with the neighbors, and would tend to not be noticed historically. Just because the historically notable rulers were a certain way does not mean that the average rulers were the same way.
Note: this is an opinion question (especially the second part) and probably off-topic here. I'll try to answer it nevertheless. I'm not sure there is a single rationale behind this.
One can easily find more rationales. In the end, the psychological factors causing countries to compete didn't go away, they are still there. The important difference now might be the globalization: with the economies of all countries interconnected a war between first world countries would be devastating for all parties involved and cannot be rationalized no matter how hard one tries. So the competition shifted into other areas like economy.


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This is what it looks like from a few paces away:
I've searched the immediate vicinity, but I don't see anything else to interact with here. What can I do?


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The NCOE Volleyball team kicked off their season last week at home against Cisne. The team fought hard but lost 25-19, 16-25, 20-25.
Earned points in the game were scored by Jessi Rush with three with two aces, Willow Kauffman with two and an ace, Brittiny Bond with one, Taylor Colbert with five and an ace, Miranda Johnson with eight and three aces and Chelsea Duncan with six and and ace.
Rush added 14 assists.
Kills were delivered by Rush with two, Megan Sutton with two, Bond with four, Bailey Hosick with two, Johnson with four and Duncan with five.
Bond and Duncan both had a block each, and digs were posted by Bond with nine, Johnson with three, Kauffman with five and Colbert with one.
The NCOE junior varsity team did defeat Cisne, 25-21, 25-20.
Emily Edwards had 11 points with seven kills, Shealun Healy with 13 points and two kills, Brittany Thomas with five points and two kills, Sydney Hucker with eight points and 11 assists, Kasey Ingram with a kill, Jolye Murphy with two kills, Alexa Short with a kill and Colbert with five points and three digs.
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Praying—and fasting
The U.S. Bishops released a statement yesterday urging Catholics to embrace Pope Francis's call for a day of prayer and fasting next Saturday for an end to the conflict and violence in Syria and elsewhere. The Pope himself is going to lead a prayer-gathering in St. Peter's Square from 7:00 P.M. to midnight, Rome-time, 1:00 to 6:00 P.M. on the east coast of the U.S.
Has anyone heard of similar specific local events here?
A while back we had a brief discussion of the point of fasting. Here in my translation is a brief reflection on fasting published in the Italian newspaper La Stampa by Enzo Bianchi, founder and prior of the ecumenical monastery of Bose.
The power of fasting
Fasting is an ascetical practice common to all religions, a practice already lived by Israel, proposed again by Christ, and welcomed by the Church's tradition. Its fundamental role is to make us realize what our hunger is, what it is we live by, what it is that nourishes us.
By fasting we learn to recognize and to bring order to our many appetites by moderating the most basic and vital one, hunger. We learn to discipline our relations with others, with external reality, and with God, relations always tempted by gluttony. Fasting is an asceticism of need and an education of desire. When we fast, we are prodded to examine the quality of our actions, the consequences of our actions, the violence we permit into our relationships. For a Christian, then, fasting is a confession of faith made by the body, a pedagogy that brings the entirety of the person to the worship of God, a reminder imprinted on one's own body not to live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. That is why, at particularly decisive and critical moments, the Church exhorts Christians to fast in order to think about daily events before God, to purify their own convictions, and to convert so as always to choose in favor of life.
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Fr. K, thanks for these words of Enzo Bianchi. It would be good to repost them sometime near the beginning of Lent. I am sorry to say that I spend most of Ash Wednesday and Good Friday wrapped in a cloud of self-pity for how hungry I am, and counting the hours until I can eat a full meal. (Those who have met me in person can attest that missing a meal or two would not do me any harm).
The Diocese of Trenton posted this on their website, recommending prayer, fasting, and observances at masses: http://www.dioceseoftrenton.org/events?cgid=1&ceid=919&cerid=0&cdt=9%2f7...
My parish has organized an hour of prayer and song: http://www.churchofsaintann.net/ann/
Sounds like a good idea to me.
My parish community is organizing Eucharistic Adoration, Benediction, and Sacrament of Reconcilation from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
Nothing so far in the parish that I have noticed but I hope to practice some of it for this intention. As an aside, and on a far less spiritual note, fasting (aka intermittent fasting) also has tremendous health benefits.
My understanding was that the Holy Father urged all local bishops to hold like gatherings on Sept. 7 at the end of his Angelus message.
I know in my own diocese here our bishop offered Benediction on the steps of our state capitol to kick off the Fortnight for Freedom. Surely he'll also heed the Holy Father's call for local churches to "gather and pray for this intention."
No...wait.....Apparently, we faithful are on our own.
I honestly don't see how fasting will help the situation in Syria. It seems like a kind of magical thinking.
The USCCB prayer is here: http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers/prayer-for-peace-in-syria.cfm
The first reading for this coming Sunday: "the deliberations of mortals are timid,
and unsure are our plans."
I honestly don't see how fasting will help the situation in Syria. It seems like a kind of magical thinking.
But of course you could say that about any and all petitionary prayer, couldn't you?
What I find disturbing is that to some—and I would find them misguided—this kind of thing puts world leaders like President Obama, who may actually do something about Bashar Assad, in a bad light. Why can Obama be more like the pope, deploring violence on all sides? "War no more! War never again!"
It is very easy when you are the USCCB and the pope to be evenhanded and to oppose violence and injustice while implying that in this or any conflict, both sides are equally to blame. Only the powerless have the luxury of writing a prayer like the one on the USCCB site.
Bob Schwartz: today you posted on the other thread: "To the world: Nazi Germany is gassing and incinerating Jews by the the millions. Proposed Response: Lets not attack Nazi Germany. Instead, lets all pray and fast; that should take care of it, Problem solved" at exactly the same time as you posted on this thread: "Sounds like a good idea to me."
What is going on?
Yes, I feel pretty conflicted about petitionary prayer. I do pray for things but at the same time I feel God should be doing all he can for good without me nagging him. But it's not just that I think God would be working to help Syria whether we pray for it or not, it's the strange (I think) idea that God is pleased with people ritualistically punishing themselves (fasting) and that he's more likely to snwer those people's prayers.
I can see this Saturday prayer event raising people's consciousness about Syria and maybe getting them to tell their elected representatives not to intervene, but that doesn't have anything to do with praying to God or fasting. And even if the west doesn't intervene in Syria, that doesn't = peace.
"I think God would be working to help Syria whether we pray for it or not"
Assuming that to be true, are you really doing anything to really help if you do not pray? The people of Syria are on the other side of the world. Thousands of miles away. The only way we can be joined with them, the only way we can be spiritually united, in communion with them, is by and through the transcendent God. That means prayer.
Besides, before prayer is our telling God what to do, it is our opening ourselves to God, who has already uttered the first word. In prayer, we are responding to His initiative. In prayer, expressing love for our brothers and sisters, we can obtain grace, the power of God Himself to do things that we otherwise would find difficult or impossible to do on our own.
I think if the bishops were totally serious about this, they would request that all Sunday masses (and Saturday, too) should be superseded by a prayer for peace event.
OK, so there could be ONE mass as usual for those who think they'll die in a state of mortal sin and go to hell if they don't attend a mass on the weekend.
"are you really doing anything to really help if you do not pray?"
Back in 2007 Jim Wallis of Sojourners sent out emails and posted at his blog asking everyone to pray that congress would vote to end the war in Iraq. I thought back then too that it wouldn't work - that a large number of people praying for a certain outcome would not be any more effective than one person praying for it, at least as far as getting God to act. But that doesn't mean I don't pray for stuff like this - I do. My worry is ... 1)what this kind of thing says about God: that he decides to intervene based on the popularity of an issue or on the performance of ritual acts, and 2) what it says about us: that we think group prayer is like magic, like a giant novena, that can command action through intent and numbers, and 3) I worry this kind of thing makes people feel like they are actually doing something to help and they then won't do anything practical instead that might really help.
I honestly don't see how fasting will help the situation in Syria. It seems like a kind of magical thinking.
Paying and fasting is just the first step. If we pray and fast, maybe we'll be able to better hear God trying to tell us what to do next. In fact I thought the way in which Bianchi presented it in this post was clear: "fast in order to think about daily events before God, to purify their own convictions, and to convert so as always to choose in favor of life." There is nothing there about fasting directly helping the situation in Syria, but plenty about indirect impact. It's not magical but, indeed, pretty straightforward.
Only, fasting I think is powerful for people like Jim P. who apparently need their three square meals a day, and whose stomach complains immediately if it does not get fed at the right time. But it is kind of useless for people like me who have a much more discrete stomach and who sometimes find themselves thinking: "Why am I feeling weak? Oh, right, I have not eaten for 36 hours. Must remember to eat." I wonder: is it connected to gender? Is fasting, as a means of conversion, more of a discipline for men?
I'm all for praying but not fasting - I'd like an explination from those who think fasting is a good thing of how, actually how, going without food for a little while helps one "think about daily events before God" or helps "purify convictions" , or helps one "choose in favor of life." Going without food just gives you low blood sugar with all its pretty much negative attendent physical/mental symptoms. I think sometimes people believe if they do something that's hard, like fasting, that means it's productive, but as Howard Gray SJ has said about aceticism, harder isn't better, it's just harder.
"they would request that all Sunday masses (and Saturday, too) should be superseded by a prayer for peace event"
This really is sad. Do you really not know what the Mass is? Is that really your idea of "serious"?
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the faith, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ - God Himself. Is it really your suggestion that it is better to do away with the Real Presence of the Lord, that there are more important things than having Him not only spiritually present, but bodily present before us?
The good idea is to fast and pray. But then someone proposed that we should fast and pray instead of taking positive positive military action. Bad idea. Sorry I confused you. Are we clear now?
Bob: all clear now. Thanks!
Bender --
This time I'm with you :-)
Crystal --
Fasting does something very positive -- it makes us realize, if only for a very brief period of time, what it's like to do without one of life's necessities. There are billions of people who do without enough food daily. Fasting makes us more aware of their plight, and if our feelings are human, we will identify with them better and take action to reduce their suffering.
"vote to end the war in Iraq" - You mean, vote to leave Iraq. Look at what is happening there currently, on a daily basis ( http://antiwar.com/ ), as a reminder of the consequences of US efforts to rush to bring peace and democracy to another country. In November 2003, President Bush said: "We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq and pay a bitter cost of casualties and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins. We will help the Iraqi people establish a peaceful and democratic country in the heart of the Middle East." Ten years later, this is a snapshot of what US "peace" looks like in Iraq:
- 80 Iraqis Killed, 236 Wounded As Bombers Converge on Baghdad Again – September 3rd, 2013
- Bombers Attack Iraq Militia Leader; 26 Killed Across Country – September 2nd, 2013
- 52 Killed in Massacre at Camp Ashraf; 30 Iraqis Killed in Other Attacks – September 1st, 2013
- 29 Iraqis Killed in Bombings, Mosque Shootings – August 31st, 2013
- Attacks Against Kurds, Sahwa Leave 22 Dead in Iraq – August 30th, 2013
Ms. Watson:
No one is saying that fasting automatically has the kind of effects that Enzo Bianchi describes. Doing without is simply doing without, and dieting is not fasting. There are biblical indictments of fasting without religious seriousness and convictions, without commitments to the poor. Nothing in religion accomplishes anything without the participation of mind and heart.
Here, in Italian, two efforts by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi to explain the religious and anthropological meaning of fasting:
Crystal, I believe that prayer and by extension, fasting, have to do with us intentionally joining ourselves to God, to what is good. Prayer to me is an energy--not "only" words but something more, something mysterious, something we can give but without having control over the outcome. Fasting does not have to be understood as ritualistic self punishment. It strikes me as an exercise in self-control---as we gain ground in that discipline, we may hope and pray that others are able to do so as well. Regarding what is proposed for Syria---I understand the burning need to register opposition to the use of chemical weapons but I think that military intervention, no matter how well intentioned will not produce the desired effect of having Assad stand down in any way. It simply extends the violence while rationalizing it from another perspective. Violence is not an answer, tempting as it may be. Prayer may lead us to recognizing other means of effectively opposing the violence in Syria.
Only, fasting I think is powerful for people like Jim P. who apparently need their three square meals a day, and whose stomach complains immediately if it does not get fed at the right time.
Claire - quite right. My cats are the same way.
I would say that fasting can also be an exercise in solidarity. To put it in a United States perspective: the difference between being food-secure and food-insecure is profound, and is difficult for the well-fed like me to appreciate unless we actually miss a few meals.
This much, or little, may be said for prayer and fasting: they are less likely than any of the proposed alternatives to make matters worse in Syria. And they may be of some internal benefit to those who practice them. But for driving action, I suspect they will be about as efficacious as two summers of the Fortnight for Freedom. No matter what happens in this wayward world, it is hard to prove or disprove that prayer brought it about.
John Prior et al:
Prayer and fasting have a central place in hte worship of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. No knowledgeable person thinks that one can empirically establish their efficacy. They are exercises of faith. As Jim Pauwels says, they are also ways to express solidarity with the needy. They are never, at bottom, merely one optional means of worship. They are always part of a well developed life of faith.
Thanks everyone for answers to my questions about fasting. I saw something today at the Jesuit Post that helped too ... http://thejesuitpost.org/site/2013/09/on-syria-praying-because-we-dont-k...
Bender: explain that to those who find the quickest mass to get in and out of and then rush off for brunch.
I think that what sounds good in theory is rarely understood by the vast majority of people who attend mass.
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4) what happens if God doesn't answer these prayers? Does it mean that all of those prayers were for the wrong thing? Is God's non answer the answer?
If people are only going to pray and fast without attempting to move heaven and earth (pun intended) here to get their message to the decision makers, then it seems that Pontium Pilate's hand washing prevails again.
Hi Jim - yes, I agree.
Crystal --
Maybe we fast and pray not because of what God is but because of what we are.
God has told us that He is our father. I would think that He expects us to talk to Him according to our best understanding of what a father is, even though our understanding is bound to be inadequate. Surely the Lord's Prayer that Jesus recommends to us would seem to bear that out. In other words, we don't really have to understand why it's good to pray. We just need to believe that it is. Weird, but faith is often weird.
I do think praying is good amd I practice petitionary prayer - sometimes it seems like my prayers are answered and sometimes not. But it seems different to organize a group prayer for peace ... I'm afraid people will believe they're doing all that needs to be done for peace because they've joined in that prayer, and I worry this kind of prayer exists mostly to make the paray-ers feel comforted rather than to actually constructively help. As far as fasting goes, I don't see that as positive or helpful at all. I know people say it symbolizes solidarity with those who are suffering, but I think people who are suffering would prefer concrete help.
Has anyone heard of similar specific local events here?
In the parish where I often go, tomorrow there is a festive meal, planned several months ago, to celebrate getting back together after the end of summer. In the parish where I wiil be this weekend, tomorrow there is a joyful kick-off meeting to present ministries to people and incite them to sign up. In my family there is a get-together of some extended familly to share meals for a day. It's not as though the pope's call arrived in a void and his suggestion was just something to add to an otherwise free agenda. It would be crazy to cancel any of those events in order to pray and fast with the pope, I think. Such a last-minute call with no flexibility is impractical. It was also announced too late for parishes to easily reach their parishioners. Pope Francis should have, for example, asked people to set aside an evening of their choice this week or next week for prayer and fasting, and he should have made the announcement ahead of last weekend's liturgies. He is showing a certain lack of common sense.
Claire, your point is well-made. Our parish happens to have its "volunteer appreciation dinner" scheduled for Saturday evening, an event that was pinned to the calendar months ago and that cannot / should not be cancelled.
Our archdiocese did email out to all pastors, for forwarding on to parishioners as best they could, a listing of churches in the diocese that are open for prayers on Saturday. The implication is that those who wish to fast and pray individually can go into one of those churches for prayer. It's a practical suggestion, as yet another logistical challenge to the Pope's invitation is that Saturdays are very busy times in many parishes - it's a day for funerals, weddings, sacrament of reconciliation, and a regular Saturday evening mass of anticipation of Sunday mass.
I'll go to Mass and fast tomorrow, but today I called my Senators and my Congressman and told them that my husband and I, registered voters in their district, oppose for religious reasons military intervention in Syria.
This discussion has made me think a lot about the ecumenical prayer and fasting services I participated in during the Vietnam war. Those events helped participants see that they were united across religious and political boundaries, and they allowed people to proclaim from their various religious traditions writing and thinking that would provide guidance for actions at that time.
Mostly these services ended with a call to action. Some individuals might be more likely to write a congressional representative. Others might be more inclined to attend a public rally. One church was moved to provide asylum to a draft resister. Not everyone would respond in the same way or for the same reasons. (And, yes, I suppose some felt they'd done enough by sitting there and praying on the side of the angels. But maybe for those people it was a first step to have attended at all.)
As others have noted above, the prayer service isn't so much to tell God what to do, but to allow oneself to be open to God's love and mercy. God does not need our hunger as a sacrifice nor our help in any endeavor. But if our ultimate goal is to bring forth the Kingdom, then we grow closer to that in our sacrifices. We become agents of God in the way that St. Teresa of Avila envisioned.
For me, the point of a petitionary prayer is to imagine a world in which suffering and sin are no longer part of the landscape. Through particular intentions, those prayers are a way to keep the Kingdom in front of us. There is always an answer, although it is frequently "not now." Even there, we have a choice--a few tears can lubricate our resolve to keep trying, or we can tamp down those tears and let our empathy and resolve rust up.
Not sure if this makes sense, but thank you for the discussion.
It makes great senses to me, Jean.
Prayer and fasting can seem like magical thinking -- and can be magical thinking. Unless we see and do it for us, a type of divine psychotherapy, to clarify our thinking, our motives and our actions, to get more in line with the law of love, to regard all others as persons and not as objects. And the more who pray and fast, the better. We are ever in need of stepping out of our narrow, selfish, objectifying perspective. Again, the more of us who do this, the better. I remember years ago someone suggested that the Catholic church become 520 million conscientious objectors. That would have accomplished something in the real world. It would have been a kind of miracle.
Robert Lyons
5 September 2013 21:11 (2 of 2)
I can't come to terms with the idea of a 'God of Love' who has to be cajoled by people's fasting and praying into providing peace in areas that lack it. Surely if Love is His essence He should be sufficiently moved by the plight of those who are suffering to do all that He can to help them, regardless of whether people fast and pray for him to do so or not. A God who refuses to provide peace until He receives X amount of prayers and Y amount of fasting sounds more like a shopkeeper than a loving father. I won't be joining in the prayer and fasting, so if God finds himself a prayer and a missed meal short in His tally and as a result decides not to intervene, you'll know who is to blame.
Jim McCrea:
Spare us the condescension! No one who has contributed to this thread has espoused the primitive notion of God or of religious practice you indict.
Another effort to explain by Enzo Bianchi:
But," someone will ask, "how can prayer and fasting in their unarmed weakness confront and stop monstrous war-machines?"... For a believer, prayer is dialogue with God, listening to his Word and asking him to complete what human beings can only begin. But in a broader sense, praying is also "thinking before Another," facing ethical demands that surpass us and ask us to re-read our lives and events in a light that does not look only or primarily at our own interests. In that sense, I believe, prayer can be shared also by non-believers, by those "people of good will" who–according to St. Matthew's meaning–are not people with good intentions, but all human beings, objects of God's mercy, of God's "good will."
Fasting is a practice found not only in all religious traditions but also in philosophical thought, in political action, and in the ethical behavior of men and women in every cultural and geographical area. It is a means of self-knowledge, for reading one's own desires, an antidote to the voracious desire to possess that dwells within us.
The prayer and fasting to which Pope Francis invites us today, can be universal means for discerning what is good for all of humanity and not only for "our" side, for making decisions by other criteria, different from self-centeredness and our own advantage.
Of course, from those with responsibility to govern we do not ask for "symbolic gestures," but that they assume their responsibility and, above all, display a coherence between what they say ... and the way they exercise their power and engage in political action. To hope that millions of people praying and fasting throughout the world can change the destiny of history can seem a utopian dream, but it is the responsibility of each of us to see that utopia finds a place to dwell, that the unhoped-for becomes reality, that peace and justice embrace, and human beings are no longer enemies to one another.
Full Italian text at: http://www.finesettimana.org/pmwiki/uploads/Stampa201309/130907bianchi.pdf


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I have a following problem
When we want to write $a^2 + b^2$ in terms of $(a \pm b)^2$ we can do it like that $$a^2 +b^2 = \frac{(a+b)^2}{2} + \frac{(a-b)^2}{2}.$$
Can we do anything similar for $a_1^2 + a_2^2 + \ldots + a_n^2$ ? I can add the assumption that all $a_i$ are positive numbers. I mean to express this as combination of their sums and differences. I know that this question is a little bit naive but I'm curious whether it has an easy answer.


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Anecdotally, I have observed (myself included) that siblings tend to think that they look less similar to each other than an unrelated observer would say. Is there any experimental data to back this up, or am I completely wrong?
You are not completely wrong but not completely right either. Some siblings tend to think they are less similar to each other, even twins. It may or may not have scientific reason, but it has sociological reason behind it. Every people in our society want to have their own separate identity and they do not want themselves to be compared with others even with their siblings.It might be also due to the result of fact that, siblings pass times with each other so often that they notice distinct differences in both their characteristics and look while ordinary people, looking at them for the first time, can not notice the differences. This is related to the reason why we can not sometime recognize people from any particular race or ethnicity at first look.


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I bought tickets for the Boston Bruins' opening night against the Montreal Canadians on October 18, 2012. What will happen to the tickets that people have bought if there is a lockout?
Also there is a possibility that there will be a partial lockout and the season will start in December rather than October (like the NBA 2011-2012 season). If this happens, and "opening night" gets moved from October 18th to December 1st, what will happen to all of those who bought tickets for games between those two dates?


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6 Things That Secretly Make You Act Like a Jerk
It is horrifyingly easy to manipulate a person's moral decisions without them knowing it -- that's why this is one of our favorite subjects. We've previously talked about how everything from caffeine to bad lighting can turn you into a jerk. There are all kinds of unpredictable exterior stimuli that are basically like cheat codes for turning perfectly good people into dickheads, and they only get weirder ...
#6. Just Looking at Alcohol Makes You More Racist
It's no secret that alcohol amplifies obnoxiousness. It tears down the walls of inhibition, revealing that we're all secretly loud, unapologetic dicks just beneath the surface. Studies on this subject would be hilarious, but not terribly surprising. Here's what is surprising, though: Drinkers are just as awful when thinking about alcohol. More specifically, they become a lot more racist.
One study involved exposing participants to a series of magazine ads to prime them -- half of the participants saw ads for alcoholic beverages, and the other half saw ads for soda and water. Afterward, to examine their racist tendencies, researchers gave them multiple tests, showing a split-second image of a white face or a black face and then a picture of either a gun or a tool, at which point the participants were asked to identify what they had just seen. Well, it turns out that the people who had seen the alcohol ads frequently mistook the tool for a gun during quick identification. But here's where it gets weird: They only mistook it for a gun when it was a black face that preceded the picture. Those who had seen the ads for non-alcoholic beverages were not just better at identifying the difference between hammers and automatic weapons; they were also significantly less racist when they did mess up. What the hell?
"Everybody on the fucking ground! This is a robbery!"
To explain this, we have to understand how the subconscious works. Your brain is constantly registering and associating things without your input because you'd go insane if it tried to run everything by your conscious mind. Picture your subconscious as a secretary or assistant, making decisions that are so small or trivial that they aren't worth the boss's time. It's very easy to forget how extremely powerful the secretary actually is, just by virtue of all of these little decisions it makes day to day. And no matter how many "racism is wrong" messages you get in your conscious mind, lots of us still subconsciously make the connection between, say, black men and violence.
So even if you don't think you're racist, your subconscious secretary is still signing your name with a rubber stamp to some pretty racist ideas, simply because your neural pathways have decided that generalizing and stereotyping is a much faster way of doing business.
"Love your suit. Where'd you steal it?"
Of course, if you actually drink alcohol, your conscious inhibitions fall and suddenly you're screaming to a police officer about how Jews are secretly behind all of the world's wars. But since your brain is familiar with that process of inhibition, just being reminded of alcohol starts the process, if just a little tiny bit. You naturally become more relaxed, subconsciously remembering the no-holds-barred attitude you had the last time you were under the influence and screamed racial slurs through the entire game of beer pong.
#5. Wearing Knockoff Products Leads to Immoral Decisions
As far as deceptions go, wearing knockoff luxury items is probably the most benign, because it's a completely victimless form of dishonestly. Well, aside from those poor kids in the sweatshop who have to stitch the fake handbags together when they could have been doing the exact same thing at a real Prada factory. Wearing replicas is like telling a little white lie to the world, insisting that you are a little wealthier, a little more polished, and a little more fashion-conscious. But, bizarrely, it also makes you a little less trustworthy, too. We don't mean that untrustworthy people tend to wear them -- we mean that we can stick the fake clothes on you and you'll become less honest.
To test it, researchers recruited young women and had them wear a pair of Chloe sunglasses ...
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And Kim Kardashian's skin suit.
... like those.
Half of them were told that the sunglasses were fake, while the other half were truthfully told that they were real. The women then had to fill out a complicated math test that couldn't possibly be finished in the given time.
When they were done, they had to score themselves on the honor system, and for every additional correct answer, they would be given more money. With that incentive, a whopping 70 percent of the women who thought they were wearing fake sunglasses cheated and scored themselves higher to get more cash. Of the women who knew that the glasses were real, only 30 percent cheated.
Let's not tell Chloe about that, though -- the ads will get weird.
This is another one of those experiments that prove how malleable most people are when it comes to their honesty -- give them a little nudge one way or the other, and you find out just how much wiggle room they have in their moral code. In this case, experts concluded that even when we don't notice it, just wearing fake products alone will subconsciously make us more comfortable with lying. With one duplicity already under our belt, it's easier to just say, "Oh, what's one more on the pile?"
#4. Having a Bitter Taste in Your Mouth Makes You Judgmental
It's easy to understand why people get short-tempered when they're unhappy. We all know firsthand that as we suffer through the discomfort of a headache, hunger, or lack of sleep, it doesn't take much provocation to turn us into raging assholes. But what about something as simple as a bad taste in your mouth? Is it possible for bitter food to turn us into bitter people?
According to scientists at the City University of New York, the answer is a resounding "Yes, and who the fuck are you to question us?"
"We're wearing safety goggles because we don't want to get your blood in our eyes."
Specifically, they found that bitter foods can make people more judgmental. In an effort to demonstrate how easy it is to turn us into righteous pricks, researchers gave participants a bitter drink, a sweet drink, or a glass of water. They then presented them with several grave scenarios that they had to judge. These included things like eating a dead dog and family members having sex with each other. What the researchers found was that the people who had to endure the bitter drink in their mouths were 27 percent more judgmental than those who drank water or a sweet drink.
So how can an unpleasant taste make us immediately jump onto our high horses? Because the taste of physical disgust is so profound to us that it can trigger our ideas of moral disgust. The two types of revulsion feel so similar that our minds attribute them to the same source. It makes sense -- if you say that something is disgusting, you can be talking about a mob that beat up a homeless man or a smelly trash can -- offending your morals and offending your five senses both trigger the same gut reaction. Zombies eat people, but also they are oozing, rotting, grunting piles of stinking meat -- they make great villains, because the disgust hits us on both levels.
It's the same exact principle with ventriloquists.
So the participants felt as though they weren't just hearing about incest, but that incest was infiltrating their taste buds as well. The takeaway here is that whenever you start feeling morally righteous, try brushing your teeth and see if it goes away before you try to shame anyone. Or you could continually ask yourself if maybe, just maybe, you aren't judging certain people more harshly purely because they gross you out.


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Kansas Natioanl guardsmen of the 1st Battalion 108th Aviation Regiment in a welcome home ceremony Aug. 18, 2012
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A welcome home ceremony, one year in the making, awaited a group of Kansas National Guardsmen at Landon Middle School Saturday morning.
Loved ones cheered and clapped as more than 140 soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 108th Aviation Regiment returned from a year-long deployment to Kuwait.
"These soldiers have done an outstanding job in Kuwait, from the pilots and aircrews that carried out the flight missions to the ground crew that kept the helicopters flying under adverse conditions," Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, state adjutant general, said. "Now they are coming home for a well-deserved rest and we say,'Welcome back!'" he said.
The men and women served in Operation Enduring Freedom, conducting air movement and air assault operations in support of 29th Combat Aviation Brigade and the Deployable Aviation Task Force.
This is the second group of the Black Hawk Helicopter Battalion returning home this month - the first group of 110 soldiers returned to Kansas August 11.
The 1st Battalion, 108th Aviation, headquartered in Topeka, with companies in Topeka, Salina, Austin, Texas, and Hawaii, is an air assault battalion, flying the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.


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We have been fixing cracks in our interior, and exterior walls since we moved into our house 3 years ago, and it just keeps getting worse. Our house sits between a field that goes uphill at a 45 degree angle, and a downhill at 45 degrees on the other side of our house where the neighbors are located. We have about 2 feet clearance from the downhill and our foundation of our house. I'm wondering if these cracks are from the foundation losing its battle with the hill during the rain. The cracks are forming from our front door down the hall to our bedroom directly in the middle of the house. As previously stated we have been fixing them since we moved in, but lately they have been getting worse. The Cracks from our front door are corner cracks leading to the ceiling both outside in the stucco and inside drywall. We also have a crack leading from the hallway to the front door 5 feet long. We have another crack from our front window right next to the front door leading to the carpet. Is our foundation giving way?
If your cracks are getting worse you have a serious problem, most likely subsidence, and that's bad. Get a professional, unbiased assessment and soon. Do not leave this problem any longer, deal with it right away! Get help!
Cracks that run the entire length of the house typically are indication of either a crack in the foundation or a bend in the foundation severe enough to crack the superstructure.
The key is to get someone in to assess and improve the foundation before you need to assess and improve the foundation and fix the house framing.


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Brettanomyces Saccharomyces Lactobacillus Sour Cherry Salvia Ale
Procure laboratory microbes or cultivate isolated microbes found growing wild in fruit peels.
borrow microbes from beer
1. purchase Sour Belgian red ale (Rodenbach Grand Cru or similar)
2. pour 200ml of ale into a gallon jug and drink the rest
3. procure starter solution of malt extract and water (2 pints water 1/2 cup malt extract)
4. put room temperature malt solution into jug with the ale; put on airlock
5. cultivate microbes at room temperature for a few days
6. add more malt solution
7. after a few more days it should be ready to pitch into a beer wort
Black Sage alcohol extract fortification
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fresh herb alcohol extract
1. Place 1 part fresh herb and 2 parts 95% alcohol into glass jar.
2. Press herb down below the fluid surface and seal jar tightly.
3. Store in dark cool cellar for 10 days.
4. Strain and press herb.
5. Store alcohol extract in sealed amber glass (e.g. a beer bottle with cork)
1. Figure out the ale to alcohol extract fortification ratio
2. add alcohol extract to ale at bottle or keg time
Yerba Matte Ale
- 1 - 4 ounces of Yerba Matte
- 4 gallons of water
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- yeast: Safale US-05 (http://www.brewshop.co.nz/pdf/safale_US-05_yeast.pdf)
starting specific gravity 1.055; 6.9% potential alcohol
yeast pitched on March 24th, 2012 @ 5:30pm
Ginger Ale
- 2 pounds of fresh ginger
- 8 pounds of malt extract; we used Munich and Amber malt syrups
- 4 gallons of water; we used tap water
- 1 liquid vile of Dry English ale yeast (wlp007)
- simmer malt extract and water for about 30 minutes
- decoct ginger in a pot of water
- add strained decoction to malt extract solution
- let it cool in the large stockpot with the lid on
- check specific gravity
- siphon into 5 gallon glass carboy
- pitch yeast; pitced on March 23rd, 2012
- attach bung and hose + jar of water for an airlock with overflow
the half full glass carboy
Extra wort from the Ginger Ale was put into a different 5 gallon carboy and a different yeast (Danstar Nottingham) was pitched.
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COLUMBIA, Mo., April 23 - Columbia College assistant professor Bo Bedilion is partnering with local artists and art students from Missouri Valley College and Columbia College to host "Empty Bowls," an event to help curb hunger. The event, which is part of an international movement to fight hunger, features clay bowls created by local artists, and will be held Friday, April 25 at 6 p.m. at the Balsamo Warehouse in Columbia, Mo.
"I'm very excited to be part of this event," said Bedilion, assistant professor of ceramics. "Local artists and students have a fantastic opportunity to see, in a very tangible way, the effect their artwork has on others. It's also a great opportunity to collaborate with local artists and community members to produce some really cool handcrafted bowls."
At the event, community members will be served soup in a bowl that they will be encouraged to keep, symbolizing the empty bowls of the hungry around the world. Proceeds from this event will be donated to Loaves and Fishes, a local soup kitchen.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Abortion providers in Oklahoma would be required to answer dozens of new questions on a state questionnaire under a bill given final approval in the House despite concerns the bill paves the way for costly litigation against the state.
The bill adds several questions to the Individual Abortion Form that abortion providers in Oklahoma are required to fill out and submit to the Department of Health. Providers already are required to ask a woman dozens of questions about her age, race, marital status, previous pregnancies, and relationship problems.
The bill would add questions about whether an ultrasound was conducted and where the abortion provider had hospital privileges.
Oklahoma City Democratic Rep. Kay Floyd raised concern about a section that allows an individual taxpayer to sue a provider.
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I played around with PI a while ago in high-sec, but chose a rather bad product and didn't earn enough money for it to be worthwile. I want to give PI a second shot now in low-sec and I'm wondering about the layout for my planet.
I want to minimize the amount of hauling required, so I'm planning to search for a planet where I can extract two resources and produce one P2 product on the same planet.
My basic idea would be to center everything around a Launchpad that also serves as final storage for the P2 product. My main concerns are how to efficiently buffer the intermediate products. Is it better to add storage facilites for that, or should everything go into the single launchpad and be redirected from there? Any other aspects I should take into account?


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Eastern Ohio feels drilling impact
March 6, 2013
As Gulfport Energy continues drilling profitable Utica Shale wells across eastern Ohio, MarkWest Energy plans to build about $1.8 billion worth of new infrastructure this year to process the gas....
Please review the anti fracking liberals who demonize this industry and yet enjoy all of benefits of natural gas. Hypocrits, two faced.
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text: I don't know what all the fuss is about, but there has been more and more requests form me to make more and more lessons on characters from Animal Crossing. So today I will start the tutorial day by uploading a lesson on "how to draw Margie", step by step. She is the white colored elephant in the series that wears a yellow colored hat with red trim lining. Like her clothing suggests, Margie has a very keen eye for fashion. For those of you that are familiar with this character from Animal Crossing, you should know that when Margie is out and about, she will often have a notepad with her because she like to jot down ideas for new clothing designs and patterns. Apart from being in love with fashion, Margie is also a wonderful friend who wears her heart on her sleeve. This lesson should prove to be simple enough for anyone to tackle. So if you are an Animal Crossing fan, you will love drawing Margie. I shall return folks so stay tuned in for more drawing fun!


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In string theory I came across the fact that there are difficulties in describing the coupling of R-R fields with world sheets in RNS formalism and it can be done in GS formalism only. Can someone explain the reason(s) behind that?
Also, I think if you have a space time where you can quantize strings and you have non zero R-R fields, then you need to use GS formalism to quantize strings there. It seems to me that these two are related and again my question is- why is that? Do we always need to use GS formalism there?


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If a future astronaut travelled to Alpha Centauri at a significant percentage of light-speed? Apart from increased blue shifted radiation from their direction of travel - how would they experience other cosmic radiation?
If the trip took a subject several times faster than an observer on earth. Would the astronaut get less or more time / exposure to cosmic radiation?


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SOCIAL housing exists to help the poor.
Local authorities and housing associations provide housing for those who cannot afford to buy, or who are vulnerable. Accordingly, central government spends more than £600m-a-year on social housing in Yorkshire alone.
Yet this social housing is still so expensive that 77 per cent of all tenants need to claim housing benefit in order to live in it. This accounts for another £700m of Government funding each year for tenants in Yorkshire.
Why, we might ask, does the Government, or rather the taxpayer, have to pay for this housing twice once to build it and then again to pay the rent?
This crazy situation has come about not because social-housing tenants are lazy, or because they are cheating the system, but because of the actions of the Government.
Social-housing landlords cannot charge the rents they want but have to set them according to a national system controlled by central government.
Landlords cannot make their own decisions about maintaining their own dwellings, but again have to meet the Government's Decent Homes Standard. The Government tells social-housing landlords what income they are going to have and what they have to spend it on.
All this is maintained by an expensive bureaucracy with bodies such as the Housing Corporation and Regional Housing Boards, who insist that landlords develop policies and strategies for everything from investment to public relations.
In the face of these demands, social-housing landlords know that the best way to guarantee their income is by taking tenants whose income is so low that they can claim housing benefit.
This is why the number of housing-association tenants in receipt of benefit has risen from just over 50 per cent a decade ago to the present level of nearly four out of five. What makes this situation worse is that the vast majority of this housing benefit is paid direct to the landlord and the tenant never sees it.
But the folly does not stop there. While most people argue that there is a chronic shortage of affordable housing, the Government is actually insisting that perfectly good housing in cities like Hull, Barnsley and Doncaster is pulled down.
An organisation set up in South Yorkshire, called Transform South Yorkshire, has so far been allocated more than £160m of Government money, and in the name of "housing-market renewal" has already demolished more than 1,700 dwellings without replacing them with any new housing whatsoever.
The Government claims that many of the houses demolished are unwanted, but most are still lived in and have been compulsorily purchased in the face of opposition from the local community. So the Government deals with a housing shortage by demolishing perfectly good housing and then spends money to subsidise both landlords and tenants so that they can afford the high rents set by the Government itself. Is this really a sane system?
In a new book published by the Institute of Economic Affairs, Choice and the End of Social Housing, I argue that there is an alternative to this madness.
Instead of funding landlords who then encourage benefit dependency, the sole criteria for subsidising housing should be household income.
We should abolish all subsidies to social-housing landlords and treat them in exactly the same way as private landlords. They should compete for their tenants on the basis of the quality of their management and maintenance, not because they have special privileges from the Government.
This would allow us to abolish the expensive and wasteful bureaucracy that ties down housing. Instead of responding to the demands of government, landlords should react to the needs of tenants.
The way to achieve this is not through central-government regulation but through healthy competition with other local landlords. Instead of making policies and strategies, landlords should concentrate on their core tasks of managing and maintaining housing.
If households are on low income, then they should get the financial support that helps them to access and sustain good-quality housing regardless of who their landlord is.
The most straightforward way to make housing more affordable is to increase household income. Any subsidy should be paid to tenants and not to their landlord. We should assume that tenants are competent and that, if they do not pay their rent, they should pay the consequences.
On the outskirts of Bradford there is a housing development that is considered so good it has been designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations.
This means that, along with places like the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China, it is considered a unique environment and a testament to human ingenuity.
This development is Saltaire, built in the 19th century by Titus Salt to ensure that his workers had a decent place to live.
What motivated Salt was not government regulation or subsidy, but what Adam Smith termed "enlightened self-interest". Salt realised that a healthy workforce was an effective and efficient one and that this was the best way to make his company succeed in the face of competition from other manufacturers.
We can learn a lot from this example. In housing policy, we should seek to rely again on enlightened self-interest and to follow the market.
See also Peter King's
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What are the best options out there to be able to provide a guest wireless internet access so they can't see the rest of devices in LAN?, what's the best and also cost effective appliance that will do that?
I need to setup a Guest wi-fi SSID so customers/clients can connect to the internet, what's the best way to do that?
My company is looking into the same issue. Unless I read something better here, we are going with 2 Linksys wireless routers....running DDWRT.
We like to have the public AP auto-disabled during nonbusiness hours as well as blind to our network. It would be totally open, but may have a welcome portal via wifidog (which, thanks to serverfault, I have discovered runs nicely with DDWRT).
The staff router will not broadcast SSID and will use MAC address recognition, be available 24/7 and play nicely with our network.
I would strongly suggest putting guests on their own subnet with strictly controlled firewalls preventing anything but internet access.
Are you looking to do this through a single wireless router or through multiple access points? Many routers are multi-SSID as well as DMZ capable if that's what you want. I would look around for some higher end SOHO boxes like the one's from DrayTek. I have had good luck with them in the past. If you already have the LAN set up with a separate subnet for the guest network then you would just place an AP on each and name/secure them as desired. Both would do the job for you.
The new Apple AirPort Extremes support this.
I have been using the guest network option on a new airport for about a month now and it has worked very well so far.
Several companies I know have set up a seperate cheap ADSL connection with a wireless router and this is what is used to provide network access to visitors.
You can have a look at one question I asked on Wednesday that might help you too, here the link :
Netcomm do a product that provides Layer 2 segregation, effectively running each client in it's own VLAN. It even does an SMTP redirect - very handy if your ISP blocks port 25. Although it's designed as a pay system with tickets, this can just be turned off.
Over here in Oz it's about AUS $1,500
I have a DLink DI-655 and one of recent firmware upgrades came with a new feature, 2 Independent Wifi networks on the AP/Router. The second one is a guest network, with a differnet SSID, the ablity to set different security settings (Primary can be WPA2 w/AES [CCMP] only, and the guest can be WPA w/TKIP for legacy laptops). The guest network can be set to only allow internet access (no internal access).
I've seen it for $100 at Costco. I'm sure that you can order it, or something just like it without much trouble (and it does N with a gigabit ethernet). The Linksys model above is now getting out of date, as it is 802.11g system.


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spoiler:The book indicates that he may have died...but if you defeat the N64 game, you will learn that Dash indeed survives....
He and Guri also set up ODT, a company that constructed Human Replica Droids on Onadax in the Minos Cluster. They had used the company to bring his brother Stanton back to life, but both had left the company by the time it was infiltrated by Jaina Solo. It was rumored that during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion that he was responsible for sabotaging Peace Brigade shipments.


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To promote proper shedding, at least one of the hides should be turned into a "high humidity" hide. Stuff it with damp sphagnum moss or another moist substrate, and check it regularly to make sure the substrate is moist enough and clean.
We recommend that you always use a bowl when feeding your tegu. Feeding them from your hand can become confusing for them, and it can encourage food aggression that results in them accidentally biting you when going for food.
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Institutes: Life of Calvin, Part 4
Calvin wrote as a fugitive. Exiled from France, he eventually settled in Basel where he found enough leisure to put together the first edition of his Institutes of the Christian Religion.
The first edition debuted in March of 1536 and was a relatively short book—nothing close to the 1000-plus pages of the final edition. The first edition was designed to be small enough to fit into a minister's coat pocket so it could be carried and referenced at any time in any place.
He would later write, "All I had in mind was to hand on some elementary teaching by which anyone who had been touched by an interest in religion might be formed to true godliness. I labored at the task especially for our own Frenchmen, for I saw that many were hungering and thirsting after Christ and yet that only a very few had any real knowledge of him." Amazing that this elementary teaching would grow into one of the most important books in the history of the church.
Three years later in 1539, now in Strasbourg (having been exiled from Geneva—we'll get to that story in due course!), Calvin saw fit to make updates and produce the second edition of his Institutes.
The first two editions appeared in Latin. But in 1541, Calvin himself translated the second-edition Latin into his native French. From then on, translating new editions into French became his practice for each following publication of the Institutes until his death.
The third edition came in 1543, then a fourth edition seven years later in 1550.
During the Winter of 1558, Calvin's health was rapidly deteriorating, and he thought himself at death's doorstep. (He would actually recover and live until 1564.) So once again he undertook the significant task of revising his Institutes. Anticipating that this was his last edition, he poured all he had into making it the final and definitive edition. His French translation came out in 1560, and Calvin's Institutes was complete.
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This is part 4 of our 9-part series tracing some key contours of the story of Calvin's life.
- Part 1: Born to Gerard (1509-1523)
- Part 2: Off to Paris (1523–1532)
- Part 3: De Clementia, Conversion, and Cop (1532–33)
- Part 4: Institutes (1535–1536)
- Part 5: A Night's Stay in Geneva (1536–1538)
- Part 6: The Golden Years (1538–1541)
- Part 7: Return to Geneva (1541–1553)
- Part 8: The Fateful Years (1553–1554)
- Part 9: An Unmarked Grave (1554–1564)