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The wikipedia article says a lot, but doesn't dissect the artifact.
The wikipedia article says a lot, but doesn't dissect the artifact.
This image from guitar-mod.com should help:
If you can visually flip it around in your head to match the pickguard picture, you can see that the rhythm pickup's volume and tone controls are thumbwheel-type roller pots.
In the Fender Jazzmaster, essentially there are two different tone control circuits, the "Lead circuit" and the "Rhythm circuit", designed to have different tonal characteristics. You can switch between the two, independent of the selection of pickups.
This was Fender's design, and it proved not to be very popular, but it is retained on new guitars that are patterned after the original model.
Gibson had a related system, called the Varitone, which was a six-position rotary knob that engaged different arrangements of capacitors into the tone circuit to create different "notches" in the frequency response, independent of the conventional tone and volume controls. The Varitone was found on some high-end ES-335-family instruments starting in 1958. It is still available on some "custom shop" models of Gibson and Epiphone guitars today, notably the B. B. King "Lucille" model.
This is nothing I know myself, but here's what I could find:
from this forum: http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?2188596-Fender-Jazzmaster-Switches


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n. A state of being in two pieces of bread and the desire to put something edible between them, but possessing nothing suitable.
"Hey, I have two pieces of bread and nothing to put between them... looks like it's sandwish time for me!"
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"to make a sandwish" is an expression for giving condolences.
if thats the case, im gonna send you my condolences by making a sandwish
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a bread only sandwich with no filling or bread with a condiment only as filling , as you consume it you wish for meat and cheese .
I spent all my loot and all i could afford was this lousy sandwish wish I could afford a real sandwich .
the_shootist tarafından 25 Ekim 2010, Pazartesi
What you wish you were eating while you're having a Subway sandwich
This Meatball Marinara is pretty good, but I sandwish I was having a hero from that Italian deli in SoHo.
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See our Events page for examples of what we do.
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Francona gets lost before home opener
(AP) CLEVELAND - Terry Francona has 80 more games to find his way to Progressive Field. His first trip was an adventure.
Call it an unintentional walk.
Cleveland's new manager said he got lost Monday making the two-block walk from his apartment to the ballpark for the Indians' home opener against the New York Yankees.
Francona is living in downtown Cleveland during the season and he plans to ride a small scooter he used during spring training in Arizona for the short commute to the ballpark. However, he decided to hit the streets on foot early in the morning and ended up needing directions to find his new workplace.
"I got lost three times," he said. "Even when I got to the garage two people who work here said, `Hey, do you know where you're going?' I was like, `Nope.'"
Fortunately for Francona, an Indians employee picked him up in a golf cart and got him to the stadium.
Boston's manager for eight seasons, Francona was overwhelmed by the assistance he received while encountering a few fans on his maiden voyage.
"Cleveland is officially the nicest people I've ever met," he said. "Everybody I did walk by said, `Hello.' That's a little different than I'm used to."
Francona said he has always preferred to stay as close as possible to where he works.
"I like being close to the ballpark, always have," he said. "If I had my druthers on the road, I would rather stay in a motel next to the ballpark than have to drive a half-hour."
Francona was looking forward to catching a ceremonial first pitch from his father, Tito, who played outfield for the Indians from 1959-64. The Franconas were to take part in special pregame festivities involving several Indians players and their fathers.
"That will be really cool for me," Francona said.
As a kid, Francona often visited Cleveland's old ballpark with his dad and that's where he got his nickname, "Tito."
"Guys would say, "Hey, little Tito,'" Francona said. "It just kind of stuck."
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The 5 Most Needlessly Complex Terror Plots in Film History
Real terrorist plots tend to have two steps: blow stuff up, take credit. Maybe if they're feeling creative they'll blow themselves up or light their shoe on fire first.
Action movie terrorists, on the other hand, like their plans to have as many interlocking steps as possible, like an intricate Rube Goldberg machine of death and maniacal cackling. Since we have entirely too much time on our hands, we're saluting the villains who contrived the most needlessly convoluted terror plots in action movie history.
#5. Howard Payne from Speed
Payne is a disgruntled ex-policeman who likes to blow stuff up. In Payne's defense, it's important to note that his last name is a homophone for "pain," so after he retired from his first career as a rogue cop, his options were pretty limited to professional wrestler and action-movie bad guy.
The Plot:
In Keanu Reeves movies, even bank robbers turn out to have convoluted M.O.s and bizarre, complex motives.
Don't all criminals rob banks to fund their search for the perfect wave?
It's the movie equivalent of a Mexican restaurant that distracts you from the low quality meat by piling on thick enchilada sauce and playing loud, embarrassing music whenever it's someone's birthday.
So what's it going to be, Payne? Dress up as Napoleon and rob the US Mint to fund your life's goal of snowboarding Mt. Everest?
Wait, you're going to blow up a public bus unless the cops give you what you want? That ... that actually might work. It's simple, to the point. Christ, it's like you're a real terrorist or something. Wait, why are you still talking? What do you mean the bus only blows up if it goes below 50 MPH? Goddamnit, that doesn't even make sense! Are you protesting the speed limit?
Of course, every bus will eventually go above 50 MPH and slow back down, so you still might be in the clear. You just need to make sure you keep your stupid loophole a secret until the bomb blows up. And not that we should have to tell you this, but when we say you shouldn't tell anyone, that includes the explosives expert who, despite his dazed expression and perpetually stoned manner of speaking, is the only person who's ever come close to being able to catch you.
You would want to keep him as far away from your convoluted, gaping loophole as possible. Agreed?
Why It Failed:
Goddamnit Payne, you told the bomb expert! In fact, he's the first person you told! And then you let him get on the bus and spend an hour and a half trying to figure out how to screw up your plot!
It's right around here where we have to stop questioning your intelligence and start questioning whether you want to be a terrorist at all.
#4. Egor Korshunov from Air Force One
Gary Oldman, in uber-evil mode with the black goatee.
The Plot:
Oldman and his crew gain access to Air Force One by disguising themselves as a Khazakistany news team in order to trick the President into looking at naked pictures of an obese woman.
Wait, wrong movie. In Air Force One they use the Khazakistany news team disguise to hijack Air Force One and take the President hostage. Apparently the secret service is approximately as easy to dupe as Pamela Anderson's security detail. But don't worry, the movie has all your, "Don't they do background checks on people they let onto Air Force One?" questions covered.
See, one of the secret service agents is in league with the terrorists. They're hoping you'll be too exhausted from that first question to ask follow up questions like, "Don't they do background checks on secret service agents?"
Regardless of the convoluted way he gets there, Oldman finds himself in control of the President, his family and more importantly an awesome plane with a kitchen and recliners about 20 minutes into the film.
This would be a pretty sizable bargaining chip in most cases. If we found ourselves with that sort of leverage, it would be about 30 minutes before our demands were met (all four of the mouths on the side of Mt. Rushmore now wrapped around cocks). But in this particular case, the President was only in Moscow in the first place to deliver a speech about how America DOESN'T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS.
And this just pisses him off more
Oldman seem to be under the impression that America is run by a team of 11-year-olds who only follow official policy until you threaten to hurt someone. Also, and here's where it gets really stupid, Oldman kidnaps the most closely guarded man on the planet in order to negotiate the release of a dictator who's being held by ... Russia. That's right, he's threatening to kill the President of the United States to scare a country that just spent the better part of a century glaring across the Bering Strait and muttering "motherfucker" under its breath.
Why It Failed:
The President turns out to be a total badass and kills all the terrorists. But there's a far simpler reason it fails: they didn't just kidnap the President of Russia. The country that has the guy they're after. The country where Russian terrorists like them would presumably know a few people. The country that, in the '90s, would have probably negotiated the release of a political prisoner for a BMW and a couple of Adidas track suits.
#3. Oliver and Cheryl Lang from Arlington Road
Like most terrorists you hear about on the news, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusak are a white middle-class couple who travel from town to town framing people for blowing up federal buildings.
The Plot:
For some reason, the first step in their plan is to get their neighbor Jeff Bridges to suspect that they're terrorists. So they drop subtle clues only Bridges will notice like leaving suspicious blueprints out when he comes by the house, and blowing their 12-year-old son's hand off.
Apparently the idea is that no one's going to believe the likable Jeff Bridges when he accuses typecast creep Robbins and his cold unattractive wife of anything untoward. And for some reason, that's exactly the brick wall of anti-logic he runs into every time he tries to point out that the couple next door are so obviously terrorists.
Why would anyone believe Bridges? He's just a college professor. Who teaches a course on domestic terrorism.
Robbins never explains what the sodomy has to do with anything
Somehow, the plan works. Bridges plays into their hands and follows a confusing trail of clues right up to the building they want him to blow up. It's a terror plot in the sense that going to Vegas and putting your life savings on the same number 10 times in a row is a financial investment strategy.
If you think we're being nit-picky here, don't just take our word for it. Roger Ebert wants some fucking answers too:
"How can anyone, even skilled conspirators, predict with perfect accuracy the outcome of a car crash? How can they know in advance that a man will go to a certain pay phone at a certain time, so that he can see a particular truck he needs to see? How can the actions of security guards be accurately anticipated? Isn't it risky to hinge an entire plan of action on the hope that the police won't stop a car speeding recklessly through a downtown area?"
He may look like an old lesbian, but Ebert has very little patience for bullshit terrorism.
Why It Failed:
Well, in a sense it doesn't. The whole thing goes off without a hitch. In another sense: What's the point of framing a college professor for your act of terrorism? Aren't terrorists supposed to have some reason they're blowing stuff up? A political reason maybe?
We're left to conclude that the terrorists in Arlington Road are fighting for the twin causes of awesome explosions and asinine twist endings. Mission accomplished, brothers.


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Let an $n\times n$ matrix ${\bf A}$, the all ones vector ${\bf w}$, and the $n\times n$ Krylov matrix $${\bf K}_n = \left[ {\bf w}\;\;{\bf A}{\bf w}\;\;\ldots \;\; {\bf A}^{n-1}{\bf w}\right].$$ Is there a way to characterize the spectrum of ${\bf K}_n$ in terms of the eigenvalues of ${\bf A}$?
Certainly not in terms of the eigenvalues of $A$, because this won't be invariant under similarity transformations on $A$. One thing I can say is that for any vector $b$, $K b = \sum_{j=0}^{n-1} b_{j+1} A^j w$. So $K$ is singular if and only if $w$ is in the null space of a nontrivial polynomial in $A$ of degree $\le n-1$.
I don't see any reason for there to be a nice characterization. For instance if $A$ is diagonal then $K_n$ is a Vandermonde matrix, so its spectrum is fairly complicated...
The short answer is: no. You can see the difficulty if $w$ is an eigenvector of $A$:the Krylov matrix becomes singular, while $A$ may not be.
The Krylov matrix is generated, as you probably know, during the Arnoldi iteration for locating eigenvalues of A. As part of the (stabilized version) of the process, A is partially reduced through orthogonal projections onto $\cal{K}_n$ to Hessenberg form, $H_n$. The eigenvalues of $H_m$, $m<n$, are fairly readily computed. I think the question of why the (Ritz) eigenvalues of $H_n$ converge to those of $A$ is an open question for general $A$.


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Domestic Violence - 08-01-2009, 11:12 AM
No One Believed Me - 1 - The Bigger Picture - Your Life - MSN Lifestyle
Today when I was online, I found this story that I think everyone should make a point to read. If you don't have the time, I'll highlight a few few points.
For those of you who don't know, I lived with an abuser up until two years ago. The abuser was my step-mother, who attempted to smother my father, stab him, and eventually attacked me for defending him while she was sending him into having a heart attack. In the 12+ years of abuse I dealt with, she had a habit of attacking my father, then when he defended himself, she called the police and claimed he was beating her. When the police arrived, it didn't matter what you said, he was dragged away. When they finally realized she was the perpetrator(and, coincidentally, she was mentally ill), they never once arrested her. They actually frequently left her in the house with us even though she was out of control. Never once in this time did we receive assistance until finally I filed a report against her. They didn't believe my father, they thought he was automatically an abuser because he's a man. How could the law be so lacking in its practices that with abuse it now arrests first and asks questions later?
It can be pretty da.mn infuriating, but to change this standard is going to be very hard. What I don't understand is that while men will usually just use their fists or words, women will grab the nearest blunt or sharp object to hurt somebody with - and they're only called mentally unstable!
That helpline that man called needs to be shut down; what would they do if a teenage boy called, being abused by his mother or another female family member? Would they turn him away too?
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
Agreed. The courts actually usually just push to get them mental health treatment(it happened to us) instead of pushing jail time. They even put her on probation only when she started stalking us, which was ridiculous because if any man did what she did, they would've been in jail for attempted murder, child abuse, harassment, etc etc. She was just charged with "assault". End discussion, nothing more, nothing less. We just got some info from the DA that the lone harassment charge(and there was over 10) finally resulted in 1 years probation, even though it violated her assault probation. Total BS.
Apparently most helplines do that. I know shelters around my home do the same thing. They actually took in my stepmother after she ran from the cops and they treated her like the victim. They even were trying to help her get acquitted. At least this man lucked out, he sued the state and they now require there to be services to help male victims as well and these groups have to accomodate them too.
Depends. Over 16, he's not really considered a child anymore, so they might just assume he's lieing. I do wonder about that. I've found that most of these groups have a flat out hatred against all males even though not all males are abusers.
Reading this thread, too, has made me start wondering if a lot of reported cases of women being abused by men are actually women ABUSING the men and not the other way around. :\
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
I agree. They kind of act like there's a cut off age for young men between abused and abuser. If they're over 18 most of the time, people consider them the abuser, and not the abused.
I know that feeling, though, with an abusive parent. Maybe not to the extent of most, but there are times when my mother gets like that. She threw a plate at my brother one - and it could have hit him in the neck and done a lot of damage. She's also throw other stuff, like pens, books, basically anything she had with her. She's always the first to attack, even if it's just a threat of an attack, and then she always tries to put the blame on my father, or me in some cases. I'm a little headstrong, so that leads to me getting into a lot of fights with my mum, be it verbal or physical. And, of course, she's a woman so she's been told to be "mentally unstable" and is treated almost like the victim. Just yesterday, before I went to bed, I got into a fight with her. I wanted to go outside to take a breather, so I sat on the deck. She started screaming for my dad to come help, and threatened to call the cops on me and for them to take me away. So, I went inside and tried to go to my room but she wouldn't leave me alone, so I pushed her out of my room. Then she started threatening to beat the door down and before I had gotten her out of my room, it looked like she wanted to strangle me, or something. She can't remember anything that happened last night, so I do think it has something to do with mental stability (and the fact that I think she was high on sleeping pills that night), but still...
My mum has actually threatened my dad before with a knife, but she claims she was doing it for "self defense" when my dad did nothing whatsoever, except maybe make a little comment. Then this one time, I was buttering my toast with a BUTTER KNIFE, and I turned to her because she was talking to me, and she flipped out. I was like, "It's just a butter knife..." and then she went and told the rest of my family that I threatened her with a knife. o_o
Maybe people just don't want to believe that women are abusers too. In my opinion, it seems like anti-feminism when a woman doesn't get treated the same as men do. In this case it's not a good thing to be treated that way, but it should still be equal...
I'm not saying I want my mum to be in jail, because I think she is just mentally unstable, but I just don't agree with the double standard. But how are we supposed to fix it without putting cameras all over our homes? Society doesn't makes sense sometimes...
EDIT: This kind of reminds me of the Chris Brown/Rhianna thing. Maybe she had the first strike, or something. Still, I'm not saying theres an excuse for what he did to her... >.>
Agreed. It feels like we're stuck in this spiral where nothing can really change. I'd say the key is education, which there is very little of to begin with. I remember in my criminology class in high school, my teacher actually taught that usually men abuse women. I was the only one who objected to it because of my experience and everyone attacked me and claimed my father must be weak because of it. It was sad really and completely uncalled for.
I know the knife thing. When my stepmother tried to stab my father, she actually told the police that she was "showing him the knife". This was funny because in the recording(my father wisened up in the last few weeks and recorded her all of the time because he figured we would have to run for it), she threw the knife at him while screaming at him. You can hear it hit the wall and the dog freak out as a scuffle broke out over it. Most terrifying thing I've ever heard. They did nothing about it though because she was "mentally unstable". I don't deny that fact, but that was just flat out abuse in my opinion because she was being treated and had been for years. Its sad that she got away with such extreme things simply because of society's attitude towards domestic violence.
Double standard crap just doesn't happen in Ireland. Or if it does, very rarely.
There are a few reasons for this, including:
1: In ancient gaelic society, women and men where equal in all respects. Women warriors could swing axes at annoying invaders as well as any man, and we had both Kings and queens, and they could rule independently.
2: Holds true in modern Ireland; our ladies are freaking tough nuts! XD
3: This is the land of saints and scholars. We're far too intelligent to stoop to such behaviour. =P
So yeah, doesn't happen in ireland cuz it's actually difficult here.
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Could have gone without the balsamic vinegar, it was too much.
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Roasting isn't usually the first cooking method you think of for cauliflower but the results are quite delicious. The florets are cut into thick slices and tossed with extra-virgin olive oil and herbs. Wherever the flat surfaces come into contact with the hot roasting pan, a deep browning occurs that results in a sweet, nutty flavor.
Could have gone without the balsamic vinegar, it was too much.
Loved it! Very flavorful!
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I'm creating a multiplayer game just for fun and exploring different techniques like isometric games, node.js and socket.io. The point is that I've tried to make an alternative approach on multiplayer gaming in a browser. Have a look here; http://ny.scsterallure.nl/ The second player connects to the game by going on his mobile device to http://ny.scsterallure.nl/index.mobile.html All though I'm not finished with the game and controls, I think the mobile device controller shouldn't be a webpage but an app. Since the webpage doesn't handle double taps and other events well. So my question is; are there already some generic (virtual) mobile gamepad apps or is this something new? Also what are your opinions on the whole controller interaction.
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Such a thing already exists -- see Google's ChannelConnect API. I built a game for a client using this technology to do exactly what you're suggesting. I'd post a link, but unfortunately it was a 1-day banner ad game on Youtube. It was hooked up for iOS and Android, using a browser-based controller.
And TBH, I don't think it's the world's greatest idea, mainly for reasons of latency. As far as I -- and I think most networked game developers -- are concerned, a game isn't playable when the delay between your manipulating a controller and seeing the effect of that manipulation onscreen is more than a tenth of a second, let alone half a second. So the mobile network had better be damned reliable -- which you cannot guarantee with your players on so many different providers, at different times of day.


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Cottage Grove, Oregon- One of the crown jewels of IMCA Modified racing in the Pacific Northwest has been the annual Cottage Grove Speedway Modified Nationals. That great event is next for the historic ¼-mile clay oval starting with Friday June 27th and concluding on Saturday the 28th. Support classes on Friday are Micro Sprints and Hornets while Saturday is Northwest Extreme Sprints and Hornets.
Friday night will offer a $25.00 per Car Load Special which mean a car, truck, RV, etc. full of race fans get into the races for just $25.00. Be sure and get your $2.00 coupons at either Boyce & Sons Landscaping and Building Materials, Jim's Tire Factory, the Cottage Grove Community Center, Welt & Welt Inc., Bonanza Drive Up, or the Pink House Restaurant in Cottage Grove. You can also find the coupons in Eugene at Aesthetic Surgical Arts or in Springfield at Jazzie's Deli or Giant Burger.
So far this year Braedon Hand and Mark Wauge are tied in the win column with three wins a piece. Wauge enters the weekend with a slight points lead over hand as the two are in a heated battle in the standings. It will be interesting to see how things shake down and if any of them can win this weekend as neither of them have won at the CGS Modified Nationals.
Friday's program for the IMCA Modifieds will include qualifying, heats, and a main event with the top two in the prelim feature locked into Saturday's main event. The top two finishers in the Race of Champions will also get locked in to Saturday's main event. A great car count is expected and this race has produced some great memories throughout the years.
In the Hornet ranks Taunton Swaim has managed to dominate scoring a total of four victories including the 4-Cylinder Nationals. Drivers with one win include K.C. Scott (non-point), Eric Cooper (non-point), and most recently Josh Corley.
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Sam Ruby
has observed for quite sometime that Web service toolkits
need to do a better job helping developers deal with change. Most
toolkits provide little help with Web service versioning and most
generated clients are brittle in the face of change. Sam wants to
see more support for the intrinsic extensibility of XML surfaced
through toolkits. In the absence of that, it will be hard to build
systems that will work at Internet scale. A large part of the value
of the Web came from the fact that you can deploy clients and servers
independently with a high degree of success. Web services should work
the same way (as I described here).
Versioning is one of the things you gain if you build Web services that
are loosely-coupled. Many people claim that the use of XML makes things
inherently loosely-coupled. This is true to some degree - clients and servers
do not have to know how the code at the other end of the wire is implemented.
However, Web services and their clients may still be tightly-coupled in terms
of the data they send and receive. Most Web services today focus on an RPC
programming model. If you build distributed applications around method callstacks,
they will almost certainly be tightly-coupled because, in general, it is hard to
version behavior. It is a lot easier to version data, which is one of the reasons
I think of Web services in terms of messages, not RPC calls.
Clemens Vasters
expressed his disagreement with Sam's position. He wants
to know exactly what data to expect, so he can generate optimized parsers and
serializers to increase performance. I don't understand why XSD cannot be used to
solve this problem. XSD can be used to define as tightly closed or openly extensible
a message format as you desire. If toolkits went further with their support for XSD's extensibility
features, then proponents of loose-coupling would be happy. If some services choose
never to use those features, proponents of tighter coupling would be happy. I believe all
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One is not allowed to take God's name in vain, and certainly not allowed to curse the name of God (chas v'shalom). I'd like to understand conceptually why these things are considered such grievous sins. Why is misusing God's name so bad?
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With regard to taking God's name in vain, the Chinuch (Mitzva 30) goes into great detail why it's forbidden, but basically
1) swearing unnecessarily in God's name shows that you have no respect or fear for the Master of the universe (and all the other attributes the Names of God encompass)
2) swearing falsely in God's name is forbidden because God is Emes and by doing that you imply that something related to God can be false chas v'shalom
edit: Hey turns out I have the volume of Artscroll Sefer Hachinuch that covers "blessing" God as well:
Says the Chinuch (Mitzvah 70),
Both this and Mitzvah 69 (the prohibition to curse a judge) are derived from Shemos 22:27, אֱלֹהִים לֹא תְקַלֵּל.


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Why is it that many denominations partake of leavened bread and wine during the Lord's Supper when the bread and wine of the original Supper was unleavened? The Passover coincides with the start of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
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Theologically, Episcopalians liken the leaven to the power of the Holy Spirit giving lift and rise to the loaf. As an Episcopalian myself, however, my pragmatic analysis is that this is primarily because they like the taste better (silly 'Episcopalians). I, too, however dislike the symbolism, because in my mind, leaven is associated with sin.
I don't remember details, but Benedict XVI in his Jesus of Nazareth, volume 2 discussed when did the Last Supper happen and concluded that it's more likely that it has been a day before the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. I don't remember the places in Bible supporting it (and in fact I would rather wait a week before I can re-read the chapter 5 in Jesus of Nazareth for all the reasoning), but Kaiphas wanted to kill Jesus before the feast. There is a tradition (I think it's rooted in Bible but I'm not sure how firmly) that Jesus died in the same hour when the Passover lambs were killed. Also, Joseph of Arimatia hurried with the burial of Jesus "because it was the Jewish day of Preparation" (John 19:42), which makes more sense if the Passover was on Saturday. John's term of Last Supper ("It was just before the Passover Festival." - John 13:1) that the Last Supper was before Passover.
The point is that it's not so clear that Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with unleavened breads. I'll add some more reasoning when I get home and remind what Ratzinger/Benedict XVI writes in Jesus of Nazareth.
Thomas Aquinas in Contra Errores Graecorum (almost in the end) cites some suspicious source claiming to be Pope Gregory saying: "The Roman Church offers unleavened bread because the Word of the Father took flesh without any carnal conmingling; but other Churches offer leavened bread because the Word of the Father is clothed with flesh and is true God and true man. So, also, yeast is mixed with flour and this becomes the true body of our Lord Jesus Christ."


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Ok I need to do a check list as something has gone wrong? Please help if you can.
Nikon D3 with 16mm nikkor fisheye lens , NN5L top rail 68, bottom rail 86. Camera set to manual, lens set to F22 but manual mode in camera set to F11. Shooting in Full sun WB set to Sun, ISO 200.
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Computer....... each set of three images are blended in Apateur to make one HDR image of all shots.
PTQui........ lens set to circular, 16mm, when I stitch them all together, PTQui says control points needed, I run optimizer but this says GOOD? Finished panorama usless?
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Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh this afternoon. The meeting began with a briefing on the latest regional and international developments, as well reports on local issues.
Marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the Cabinet renewed the Kingdom's call for the international community to support the efforts of the Palestinians to gain their rights, end their suffering, and push forward with the peace process. It reiterated the importance of the establishment of a comprehensive solution that leads to the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
The Cabinet was briefed on the outcome of the 129th session of the Foreign Ministers Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Kuwait, which was held to prepare for the 34th meeting of the GCC leaders. Furthermore, the ministers commended the proceedings of the 32nd meeting of the GCC Interior Ministers Council in Bahrain, which called for the enhancement of security cooperation between the GCC states.
The Council of Ministers welcomed the recommendations issued by the World Conference on the Prophet (peace be upon him) and His Rights on Humanity, organized by the Islamic University of Madinah, which called for the criminalization of abuse against the world's honored prophets and apostles.
Next, the Cabinet heard a report on the developments following the expiration of the deadline for violators of residency and work regulations in the Kingdom to correct their legal status. It stressed that ample opportunity was given to offenders to correct their statuses, penalty-free, and that the application of the Kingdom's regulations is being undertaken in a fair and just manner, in-line with international regulations and conventions.
Finally, the Council commended the opening of the 2013 Innovation Exhibition, held under the theme "With innovation, we build a knowledge-based society," on behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz by Minister of Education Prince Faisal bin Abdullah bin Muhammad.
Addressing its remaining agenda items, the Cabinet approved the appointment of Deputy Minister of Economy and Planning Mohammed Al-Daham to the Board of Directors of the General Organization for Saudi Arabian Airlines; approved increases in the Kingdom's shares in the capital of the Arab Monetary Fund, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa; approved the appointments of Dr. Azzam Dakhil and Khalid Khowaiter as private sector members on the Board of Directors of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation for a period of three years; and approved an agreement with Uzbekistan regarding the encouragement and reciprocal protection of investments.
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WHEELING - Many of America's military veterans have traveled thousands of miles in service to their country - so it seems fitting that after they return home, their country should assist them in obtaining the help they often need.
A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Mobile Vets Center will make a stop in Wheeling on Nov. 10 during the annual Veterans Day 10K Race, according to Michael Novotney, a readjustment counseling technician at the Wheeling Vets Center located along state Route 88 in Bethlehem. The vehicle will be stationed in front of WesBanco Arena near the race's finish line.
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The VA established the fleet of mobile centers to make things easier for veterans who otherwise would have to travel long distances to receive services. Although that's not the case in Wheeling, Novotney said the mobile centers also provide a convenient way to reach a large number of veterans who will be concentrated in one place.
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The appeal of locally-made art seemed to resonate with many of the people who attended Sunday's Art on the Green event at Klinger Lake Country Club.
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"There's a lot of interest in the art here today and I've seen a lot of people leave here with art in hand," said Cline, Art on the Green organizer. "Good art is appreciated by a lot of people, and good art made locally is especially appreciated."
Sturgis residents Rob and Patty LaBarge said they had a light calendar Sunday and were pleased to help support the second annual event, which previously ran for three years as Art in the Park in White Pigeon's Wade Park.
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For example, McDowell, or McDonald, or McKenna, etc. Is it necessary to capitalize that letter following "Mc"? And if yes, why is this so?
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As Etymology for Mc and O' in names says, Mc is an abbreviation for Mac, and Mac is a Gaelic term meaning "son of". Hence the name McKenna means "son of Kenna", and since Kenna is a proper name, it is capitalized, even when combined with Mac.
(Of course "mac" alone is itself not a proper name, and from one view wouldn't need to be capitalized. However since it is taken as beginning the whole surname, it is capitalized as the initial letter of a proper name. In this respect, it is treated like English most often treats other borrowed prepositions in names, such as de from French and van from Dutch.)
It depends in part on where the person comes from. In Scottish names, the second capital is almost always correct - McDonald, MacDonald, etc (but note that 'Machinery' does need a capital H).
In names of Irish descent, sometimes the owners insist on no second capital; I had a colleague whose surname was Macdonald and he was not happy when the 'd' was capitalized. I'm not sure how general that is.
Some Scottish surnames do not have a capital. Some can be spelt with capital and some without. I was told by a Macintyre, that his name if spelt with the small case i, it meant that historically they were of the lower orders, but the name MacIntyre, with capial I, meant they were of the professional, or I guess landed classes. That's what he told me anyway.
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What percentage of physics PhDs leave physics to become quantitative analysts, work in computer science/information technology or business? Is physics that bad that so many people leave? Was it worth it?
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In Germany the average age of a professor when he/she gets tenure is 42. A professor retires at the age of 65. If you add that the average professor will have one or two students per year finishing a PhD, you can figure out the percentage of physics PhD that can get a tenured position yourself :-)
As a physicist you are trained to do basic research, and there are almost no positions for doing basic research outside of academia, that's how the system works. So the question why one should study physics is legitimate. According to my own experience, physicists are employed as generalists when no specialized engineers are available. When a company needs a software developer or an electro engineer for example, they will sometimes hire a physicist instead of someone with the matching degree, because "a brilliant physicist is able to learn the necessary skills on the job, so in the long term it is more profitable to have a brilliant physicist instead of a mediocre software scientist".
Not pursuing an academic career does not necessarily mean 'leaving physics'. There are loads of physics PhDs working in industrial R&D. True, their careers don't focus on finding the Higgs boson, but there is a lot of interesting and rewarding work to be done in applied physics. And yes, occasionally industrial scientist scoop up a Nobel.
A google search would be more help to you. The AIP has a page.
More people choose to do a phd in physics then there are tenure spots. Competition is high and monetary rewards not that hot. If one is a real physicist, one hangs on because of the physics interests not the career and yes, it is worth it.
Just to note that people could leave research because they may not have "research grant funding" skills or aptitude.
A researcher who has invested a few years in a sub-field X may become almost a world expert in an aspect of X - maybe in one of the experimental/computational/calculational aspects. Unfortunately fashions change in science, in Physics perhaps because experiments are starting to disprove the assumptions/predictions of X.
So our researcher finds no more money to work in sub-field X. Our researcher now faces some stark choices: adapt the experimental/calculational techniques to a popular field like Y; physically relocate to an Institution that still pursues X; or develop a new sub-field; or leave research.
If our researcher stays on and hopes to change sub-field they will now face a research grant procedure, which although not hostile to them, is hostile to sub-field X which becomes a liability from now on. Some individuals have the skills to negotiate this, some dont.
@Tim van Beek To look at it in another way, a lot of people get into physics with the aim of walking away from it after the undergrad, grad or phd. For instance, people may choose to go into environmental science. And a lot of physics phds go into biology because the problems there today are much more interesting than they are in physics. And lets face it. Biology has a lot of catching up to do!! :P


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Some irony on Woot...
I saw the Coastal deal again and it occurred to me how funny it is that it gets voted up. Deals like Netflix and the travel sites seem to get downvoted a lot, the primary reason being "It's not a deal if it's there all the time."
Coastal seems to have that first pair free offer year round, yet it seems exempt from the downvotes.
Not saying it's a bad deal because its not, I just found the whole situation funny
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Yeah, but to counter, the choices of frames very every time.
Do you think it has anything to do with where it's placed in the sponsored deals? It seems like items 1 - 3 usually do pretty well with the votes. Places 4 and 5 usually don't fare as well.
@pitamuffin: You do know that the positions change as they get voted up or down, right?
@pitamuffin: They're ranked by user votes. So if they're unpopular, they end up at the bottom.
@xarous: I did not know that. Fair point haha
Right, but I meant as a psychological kind of thing. You see it in the bottom 2 and you're more likely to downvote just because of where it already is.
@pitamuffin: I've found that most voters here are sheep not shepherd.
@pitamuffin: Fair enough. I suppose I could see that influencing some users
@pitamuffin: I agree. I wonder how poorly those sponsored deals that fall to the bottom on the day's ranks would fare if they were NOT sorted by popularity.
@blgauthier: It would be interesting if the number of votes was not revealed until maybe after you've voted or later on in the day. I bet the ranking and voting would be somewhat different due to the shepherd/sheep analogy. I must confess that I sometimes vote on the sponsored deals depending upon their "dealness" and at other times based on how I think everyone else will vote. Usually dependent upon the kind of mood I'm in...
@jimmyd103: @blgauthier: I tend to be very selective with my downvotes. I admit that seeing a lot of downvotes makes me more willing to downvote, but generally my rule is that if I like it, I upvote it. If I don't have a strong opinion, I leave it alone. If I actually think it's a bad deal, that's typically when I downvote. I sometimes do downvote for the whole "If it's offered every day it's not a deal" mentality, but not often. Just because it's offered every day doesn't mean its a bad deal. $50 off for a first purchase or a free month of a service or whatever, even if offered year round are still potentially good finds.
I pretty much limit my downvotes to items I oppose for personal reasons, regardless of cost. Some people might be offended by that, I guess, but I lost my father to lung cancer so I always downvote smoking related items.
I bought a steamer from woot! a few months ago I don't need an iron anymore
Honestly, with the Sponsored deals, I don't use the same criteria as the user posted ones. I up/down vote a sponsored deal based on how good the offer is and how useful I think it is to know about them. I know the eyeglass place is ALWAYS going to have an extra pair free and so is every other eyeglass business...not impressed. The travel sites may be running specials for certain flights, and considering that most of us travel to Vegas less often than purchasing glasses, I think that info is useful to someone about to book a trip, so I upvote. And I don't care how many times Moofi offers it (because they don't have to compete w/ the up/down vote either!), I'm not paying $500 for a USED vacuum cleaner, I don't care what kind of weather pattern its packing.
I don't think it's fair to compare the Netflix trial offer with the low-cost/free glasses. The Netflix offer just isn't really a deal, overall. Whereas, even if Coastal's prices are always that low, they are offering a normally expensive product for extremely low cost - a deal.


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Ive got output from lsusb, lsmod, ifconfig and syslog there
What happens is that it can detect wireless networks but can't connect to them. It just keeps asking for the wifi password. I've tried both WEP and WPA2 Personal, both no luck.
This wifi device is a wifi dongle that seems to be using a Realtek chip as you can see from lsusb output. I really have no idea what's wrong with it because it is working fine in other OS. But I'd really like to use linux so I'm trying to get this to work.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW/AP) - Supporters say it will create jobs and grow the economy, but critics call it irresponsible and reckless.
The House approved a tax bill Wednesday on a 64-59 vote. The Senate approved it earlier and Gov. Sam Brownback says he's prepared to sign it.
The bill reduces individual income tax rates and lowers the sales tax. It also eliminates income taxes for 191,000 businesses.
But legislative staff predicts it will create a budget shortfall that could exceed $2.7 billion by 2017.
Former state GOP chair Rochelle Chronister and the group Traditional Republicans for Common Sense released a statement blasting the measure.
"Never before, in the history of our state, have we seen such reckless financial policy being made," Chronister said. "One thing is clear, hardworking Kansans lost today. And, our children lost today."
But Brownback says the bill would grow the state's economy.
"After a decade of lost jobs and people, Kansas is now on the path of economic growth and job creation," he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Full statement from Gov. Sam Brownback:
"As with all bills approved by the Kansas Legislature, I will carefully review and consider HB 2117. It would create tens of thousands of new jobs, and combined with spending restraint, will help to reverse a lost decade of declining employment.
"I am prepared to sign the bill but I encourage Kansas Legislators to continue their work on reforming our state's tax policy and to consider some of the alternatives I proposed in my original pro-growth tax reform to off-set the cost.
"It is important to recognize that the debate in Kansas has changed from how we grow state government to about how we grow the state's economy. After a decade of lost jobs and people, Kansas is now on the path of economic growth and job creation."
Full statement from Rochelle Chronsiter of Traditional Republicans for Common Sense:
"Rarely do voters get an opportunity to see such a spectacular failure of leadership by their elected officials.
"Never before, in the history of our state, have we seen such reckless financial policy being made. One thing is clear, hardworking Kansans lost today. And, our children lost today.
"It is hard to overstate the impact of what occurred today in the House. If Governor Brownback allows this to become law, in just a few years, nearly half of the State General Fund will need to be cut. To be clear, the state will go bankrupt, property and sales taxes will increase and critical services will be eliminated.
"Kansans deserve a tax structure that is responsible, pro-growth and competitive. We cannot afford these irresponsible financial policies that deficit spend and run up the tax bill on future generations. It doesn't work for Washington and it shouldn't work here."
From House Speaker Mike O'Neal:
"Today the House took necessary action to ensure Kansas is moving in the right direction when it comes to reforming our state's income tax policy. The Senate has made it clear they do not want to reform taxes this session and we hope this will encourage them to reconsider giving the Tax Conference Committee report further consideration."
Statement from Michael Marvin, Executive Director of the Kansas Organization of State Employees:
"The level of political gamesmanship displayed by the House of
Representatives today should serve as an embarassment to all Kansans. The House's irresponsible action has placed every state program and the citizens they serve in jeopardy. The tax plan approved by the House will blow a devastating $207 million hole in the state's budget starting next fiscal year, growing to $1.2 billion in Fiscal Year 2018. This will require massive cuts to every critical state programs and jeopardize the safety and livelihood of state employees, while lining the pockets of the Governor's corporate donors.
"Kansans should not be pawns in the political games of Governor Brownback and his allies. Kansans deserve more than to be roadkill on the Governor's road map to ruin."
From the Working Kansans Alliance:
In a series of unprecedented procedural moves today Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal and House conservatives sent a massive corporate tax break to Governor Brownback for his signature.
The tax break specifically exempts all business income passed through on individual income tax returns by corporations large and small.
Meanwhile, the poorest Kansans will actually see a tax increase.
Not that details like those were actually discussed on the House floor as Speaker O'Neal shut down debate abruptly and even refused to let some House Democrats explain their votes.
But the impact of this reckless plan will reach far beyond the offshore accounts wealthiest Kansans and the executive boardrooms of the Kansas corporations. After Governor Brownback signs this bill the other shoe will drop. Under this plan Kansas is projected to be billions of dollars in the hole within three years.
So in order to cut $3.7 Billion out of the budget before 2018 to give away in tax cuts 40% of the State General fund will be cut.
Public education will be gutted, costing teachers their jobs, forcing more schools to close and increasing class sizes for Kansas children.
State agencies will be slashed, costing state employees their jobs and asking those who remain to do more - and serve more Kansans - with dramatically less.
And absolutely nothing in this tax bill will address the tax that impacts more working families than any other: property tax. In fact this tax bill guarantees that property and sales taxes will go up across Kansas.
Kansans can look-up your representative on our website and find out how they voted on this tax giveaway to corporations and wealthy Kansans.


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5 Animals Who Live Through a Horror Movie Every Day
You don't bone in a horror movie.
If you hear a suspicious news report about some murderer they can't seem to find or some mysterious crop of disappearances, do not, under any circumstances, take your pants off and try to lock fleshparts with another human being.
"With orgasms come axe murderers." Just like Grandad used to say.
While it's tempting to dismiss that sort of thing as nothing but a horror movie trope, monsters attacking couples in the middle of a tender embrace is a very real thing in the animal kingdom. The villains in question are, unsurprisingly, bats.
Armin Kubelbeck
"It was bats the whole time."
A study with the hilariously understated title "Bats Eavesdrop on the Sound of Copulating Flies" recently discovered that a European species called Natterer's bat spends an unhealthy amount of time listening to fly couples getting sweaty. And it's not just jerkin' it quietly in the other room while they get down, like your weird roommate who always wears a towel and nothing else.
Since the flies generally hang out on plants that camouflage them, the Natterer struggles to find them using its echolocation skills alone. The bat is crafty, though, and has taken other senses into the equation. Its good hearing enables it to locate the flies by their tiny fly moans and itty-bitty slap-and-bumping. It has learned to recognize the sounds of fly sex, is what we're saying here. Attacking the flies mid-coitus not only means that the prey is pretty preoccupied -- there's also the added bonus of catching two flies at a time.
Paolo Filipucci
Even if it does mean swallowing the occasional condom.
That's from the bat's point of view, anyway. The European fly's point of view is that they're forced to use the worst contraceptive in the history of humping: a huge, dark, toothsome monster that attacks them from the sky whenever they get down and dirty.
#1. The Fly That Re-enacts Alien
Alien is as disturbing as movie monsters get: It features a creature that violently injects its eggs into a victim, then disengages and allows the poor bastard to assume he got off with a scare until its young graphically bursts out through his chest. Something like that could only come from the curiously rape-focused pen of a Hollywood writer with more sexual hang-ups than a Freudian suspension fetishist.
Or from the daily life of a common bee.
"Hey, sweetheart. Did you get horrifically defiled today?"
The horrid creature casting a shadow on our lovable bumbling bee-friends is called Apocephalus borealis, a parasitic fly with some terrifyingly xenomorph-like properties: It injects its young right into the thorax of a living bee, then lets the poor little guy go free. Well, "free" is such a relative term ...
You see, merely imitating one of the most terrifying monsters that human imagination could invent is not enough for A. borealis. While its fictional counterpart allows its victims a modicum of dignity, giving them full cognitive control before the inevitable dinner table chest-bursting scene, A. borealis instead turns the bee into a mindless living-dead slave for the remainder of its short life. Hence its lovely colloquial nickname: the zombie fly.
And they told us we were crazy to hoard shotguns.
While normal bees retire in their hives for the night, these zombees (that's seriously what they're called) leave their homes to confusedly roam the land, presumably emitting a low moan and waiting for the appropriately dramatic moment to attack passing insects for their brains. They continue wandering until they're irreversibly lost and exhausted. When they finally drop, so sick of un-life that they can't go on, A. borealis delivers the final blow and bursts out through the bee's abdomen, sometimes decapitating the victim in the process.
"Game over, man! Game over!"
Because every order of Genius Sandwich comes with a free side of Sick and Twisted Fries, the discovery of this hellbeast actually excited scientists, and they deliberately started forcing bees to hang out with the zombie flies. It was complete and utter carnage, to the point that A. borealis is now suspected to be a major contributor in the disappearing-bees epidemic of recent years. You know -- the one that some people see as a sign of the end times.
That's right: The zombie fly is such a terror, it technically qualifies as a horseman of the apocalypse.
For more horrendous scenarios from Mother Nature, check out 6 Animals That Kill Nature's Scariest Creatures For Fun and The 5 Stupidest Looking Superpowers in the Animal Kingdom.
If you're pressed for time and just looking for a quick fix, then check out The 7 Most Shameful Abuses of Bacon.


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Does Bible impose any type of mandatory prayer that you have to offer at particular time or particular day? If so, what are some important prayers? Is a prayer at Church more worthy than a prayer at home?
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The closest would be the model prayer given in Matthew chapter 6 as part of the Sermon on the Mount. This prayer is understood by most to be an example, or model, rather than something to be repeated verbatim.
So, no, there are no specific mandatory prayers given in scripture, other than that we are to pray — and to pray without ceasing. Mandatory prayers reflect an ethos that is more about rule keeping. While there are rules, Christianity is not really about rule keeping: it's about building a relationship with God, and by extension your fellow man.
To Catholics, observance of the Sabbath as mandated by the 3rd commandment:
is observed by the precept of the church
and, as a prayer
it ranks right up there. Even if one doesn't consider the Mass a prayer, it certainly contains lots and lots of prayers and lots and lots of scripture.
But, there is another prayer that all Christians must pray, because prayer is more than verbal. One must contemplate Jesus
And, in so doing, one must pray.
Finally there's the Lord's Prayer, which has been noted elsewhere, I wasn't going to mention it, but people are claiming that it was never meant to be repeated. Well...
To many protestants this:
May seem more familiar, or at least the end, and they sure as heck didn't get it from the Bible. I think they got it from the Didache Chapter 8, the apocryphal, but still pretty holy, book of the compiled wisdom of the Apostles, by way of the Catholic Church which preserved the tradition, but lost the manuscript.
So, owing to the age of this book (certainly older than Eusebius of Caesarea who wrote about it in the 4th century), it's pretty clear that the Lord's Prayer was interpreted as "the what to pray" if you want to be a Christian.
Truly, there is no place in the Bible where you can find MANDATORY prayer. But Jesus gave us some guidelines on how we should pray and what the content of our prayer should be.
Recommended is the Lord's prayer which I found sufficient to cater for all needs of a christian. This doesn't mean you have to pray it verbatim but reflect on every part of it and pray it in your own words.
The Lord's prayer encourages approaching God in prayer like a child to Father, that every christian should anticipate the coming of christ and value doing the will of God. Daily provision of food, Deliverance from evil, grace not to fall into temptation, forgiveness of sins and so on.
Sticking to this alone is enough for a christian to be sustained in life journey and the christian journey.


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I come back to this after manic nursery decorating/setup. Must remind myself that I am above the hormones and will not cry. Ahem. I truly hope that Woot continues to be the quirky, lovable place I enjoy so much even in his absence.
@snapster, this is just the conclusion to the April Fool's joke, right? Right? :(
Everything changes. Everything.
@snapster, the site is still too wide. :-}
Thanks for all the entertainment.
We'll keep the porch light on, just in case you need to find your way back home.
Oh, and even though I already posted the link on the deal, I can't resist.
Well, he did post that he was. I am sad and sorry and discouraged. BTW, why should this be a question when the post is where we should all be looking; i.e. fresh deals? I voted for it though.
Thanks for the great site, @snapster!
I just hope the parting is on happy terms and he isn't being forced out. Thanks for all the hard work all these years, Snapster!
Also hoping the new Woot! CEO is promoted internally and really understands the culture of the site. Fingers crossed!
Thanks for putting this here -- I missed @snapster 's original post! :/
Well that sucks. I'll be totally blunt here. He probably saw the unfortunate direction that this site is headed, and stepped down while it still had it's dignity somewhat. That way, when it unfortunately does poorly, he can say it was because he wasn't there.
Downvote me if you must, but this is an unfortunate truth.
I'm certainly sad to see him go...
Hmmm... Well, I guess this explains his recent absense...
@snapster: Ah well, thanks for all your work in creating and building woot. Best of luck to you sir in all your future endeavors.
Thanks for woot @snapter Sorry to see you going. Everything about my woot that I knew and liked is nearly gone as of this day...
Who is to fill his shoes as the new Woot Overlord? Who will taunt us with creepy pictures of the mannequin head Mandy? Who will we complain to about having stayed up all night for this crap? SIGH He'll be missed in my book, that's for sure.
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No, you meant: http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com
Just stumbled across this one, Woot Founder And Daily Deals Pioneer Matt Rutledge Leaves Amazon
Checked calendar, not April 1st...
You could see it, as he puts it, joining us!
@jimmyd103: Interesting:
"While the explosion of daily deals sites certainly helped Woot to find a buyer in Amazon, Rutledge says looking back he might have liked to stay independent and compete in that fast-growing market."
@agingdragqueen: Wow. That'll certainly be part of @snapster's legacy.
I just got here and found the news. What's the deal that everyone's been referring to?
:::wandering off to feel bad::::
@magic cave: Hey, no worries. Life goes on, you know. Saw your comment on "thanks for the fish" but preferred to respond over here. This was not unexpected (his leaving), once he'd sold the rest of Woot to Amazon (they'd owned a percentage for I don't know how long, but quite a while). You should expect that there was a contract that said he had to stay for a certain amount of time, and I'm sure there's a stiff non-compete in it as well.
I'll miss sparring with him, although the sparring I enjoyed most was on G+, from which I've been gone for quite some time.
Off to finish putting up strawberry jam (which is oh, so tasty, on a cold winter day).
As the woot properties are clearly no longer "the most reluctant retailer possible—pitching as few items as we could with the least amount of hype for the least amount of time" with the redesign and woot+, I can see that this is a good time to part ways, whether you agree with the changes or not. Good luck, snapster.
The next biz: in partnership with Goodwill, crapdonations.com: All mystery boxes All the time!


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Currently I'm a full time employee with the potential to improve myself. I've enrolled in a Master's degree program that will require me to take classes during working hours. For example, I will begin work at 8 AM, head to a lecture at 9 AM, then return to work at 11 AM and work until 5 PM. Lectures will be held every day including weekends.
I work in the IT field which occasionally requires me to stay late and work into the night. Work emergencies and exams will also impact my schedule. I think I'll be overloading myself but I will not get such another opportunity like this easily.
Are there any tips or productivity boosts that may help me in this situation? Is there any scientific research related to this topic - managing/balancing work and school? Are there any proven techniques that can help?


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13 May 2012 8:45 AM #1
Can I open more than one project in Animator at the same time on my Mac?
I'm finding a way to open more than one project in Animator at the same time on my Mac. Does anybody know how to do that in Animator? I couldn't find any option for me to open two or more projects in Animator.
14 May 2012 4:22 PM #2
Currently, Animator can open one project at a time. We definitely have this in our backlog. In the meantime is there anything particular your are trying to accomplish by opening two projects? (e.g. copying objects).
14 May 2012 4:27 PM #3
Yes, I sometimes want to copy objects or to compare the animations of two projects to learn.
14 May 2012 4:37 PM #4
So comparing projects is going to be pretty hard without being able to open two projects at the same time, but you can copy objects between projects. Just open up the first projects select the object (base state - not the keyframe), copy the object, open the second project without closing animator and then you should be able to paste it.
14 May 2012 4:54 PM #5
Thanks Arnebech. For copying, that can be done, but it would be more convenient if we can have two or more projects opened at the same time so we don't have to close one project and then open the other. Hope that Animator will have this option in the future.
27 May 2012 6:37 PM #6
Would it be possible to open 2 projetcs if I were to use 2 monitors at the same time? Thanks!
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31 May 2012 8:30 PM #8
On Mac
Oh, I think I can't help you because I used Windows!


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Ah, Maltstock! 2013 marked Master of Malt's 4th visit to the "relaxed whisky weekend", although of the four people who went, three of us were, in fact, Maltstock virgins! That Boutique-y Whisky Company have also now released their second batch of Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky, complete with Maltstock label – more on that towards the end!
As mentioned above, Cat (now Maverick Drinks' Brand Communications Manager), was the only one of us who had travelled to Maltstock before (making the local newspapers in the process), the rest of the team was made up by her Maverick minion Teesh, Sam Alexandra (who is MoM's marketing maestro), and yours truly!
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I'm trying to prove the statement in the title in as simple a way as possible. It is Theorem 3.2.9 in Helein's book "Harmonic maps, conservation laws, and moving frames", although it is not proved there. The statement is as follows.
Suppose $\phi\in\mathbb{R}^m$ is a weak solution of $\Delta \phi = f \in \mathcal{H}^1$, where $\mathcal{H}^1$ is the standard Hardy space on $\mathbb{R}^m$. Then $$ \Big\lVert\frac{\partial^2\phi}{\partial x^\alpha \partial x^\beta}\Big\rVert_{L^1(\mathbb{R}^m)} \le C\lVert f \rVert_{\mathcal{H}^1(\mathbb{R}^m)}. $$
My idea is to use convolution with the kernel of the Laplacian, and then differentiate, estimate in $L^1$ and somehow interpolate between the $\mathcal H^1$ and $BMO$ norms. Then since the kernel of the Laplacian is in $BMO$, I am finished. However there are two problems with my proof: I don't know how to prove that one can interpolate a convolution between $\mathcal H^1$ and $BMO$ (atomic decomposition?) and I don't know how to prove that the kernel of the Laplacian is in $BMO$.
Does anyone have either a better way to prove this theorem, or a way to fix up my proof? Thanks!


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The 5 Most Baffling Explosions in Movie History
In Hollywood, anything can blow up. Thanks to this rule, we've all had to experience our fair share of explosions that, well, strain credibility a little. And then there are the ones that are just completely retarded.
#5. Van Helsing's Exploding Wagon
Here we have Van Helsing, a film that took one of the defining novels of the 19th century, tore it to pieces like a ravenous hound, buried it somewhere and produced a vehicle for Hugh Jackman. In the novel, Van Helsing is a 60-year-old Dutch man who embodies everything about 19th century sexual repression, in this movie, he carries an automatic crossbow and leaps from a burning carriage to fire two pistols in slow motion.
You can argue whether or not those are improvements, but there's no arguing about this:
Why It's Ridiculous:
That's right, a wooden horse-drawn carriage ran off a cliff, then exploded like it was crafted entirely from sticks of TNT stuck together with C4.
Not only is the concept laughable on paper, but the film actually shows you there's nothing particularly explosive inside (just a bunch of stakes, as the superbly-acted Vampiress so kindly points out).
They do gain points, however, for using it as a device to introduce the world's first Holy Nail Bomb.
If It Really Worked That Way:
If horse-drawn carriages could explode like this, well, for one thing Oregon Trail would've looked a whole lot more like Grand Theft Auto.
For another, action movies would never have been invented at all, because kick-ass historical documentaries would have pretty much dominated the box office from the beginning.
#4. Jaws: The Revenge (of the Exploding Shark)
OK, a real nitpicker could point out that the oxygen tank explosion in the first Jaws wasn't exactly realistic (ask the MythBusters guys), but we'll let that one go. That's the sort of thing that seems like it would work, and by Hollywood standards, that's more than good enough.
But by the time the fourth Jaws movie rolled around, things had gotten silly enough that we were surprised the shark didn't fly. To cap the whole thing off, this happens:
Why It's Ridiculous:
Yes, this clip can only be described as a travesty to God and man alike. It laughs in the face of the laws of nature by having a roaring shark (a roaring shark?) that, contrary to everything mankind knows about physics and biology, explodes after it gets pierced with a piece of wood.
Continuing its orgy of disregard for everything that is good in the world, the film goes on to cut to grainy sepia "flashbacks" to the original Jaws, as if to say "Hey, remember this? We weren't always this bad! You know what, I'm gonna load up the trunk, and we're gonna go out and have a picnic--just like when we were first going out. How about that, honey? How about that?"
Unfortunately, it has the opposite effect, with Spielberg's defining work making this movie look that much more retarded by contrast. An attempt at a tasteful homage ends up having the same effect as Brett Ratner sticking clips of Citizen Kane in the middle of Rush Hour 2.
If It Really Worked That Way:
For one, the roaring shark thing might actually be beneficial, we'd be able to hear them coming and they may be less likely to eat humans who had already crapped their pants at the sound (that is, all of them).
As for the exploding shark phenomenon, you'd have to think that would ensure they'd never go extinct, but on the other hand, we may be wrong considering the number of accidental detonations that would surely happen during mating season.
#3. Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 Prompts a Vehicle Recall
This of course if the film that produced the legendary: Garbage Day clip. But not as many of us have experienced the incident that occurs just moments later, and earns the film a spot in the Stupid Explosion Hall of Fame:
Why It's Ridiculous:
Remember the Ford Pinto? The most dangerous car ever to enter mass-production due to its easily-ruptured gas tank? Imagine one of those, multiply it by murder and you have a car approaching the one seen in this clip.
First our bad guy shoots the radiator, which apparently causes the driver to steer toward the conveniently positioned ramp. This causes the car to go sailing to within an inch of the bad guy (we're guessing much to the surprise of both the actor and the stunt coordinator). It then rolls onto its roof, somehow managing to land on its wheels again.
There is a brief moment when the driver no doubt felt the rush of relief, having survived both the shooting and the crash, vowing to live life to its fullest after having cheated death. At this point the car erupts like a fucking volcano.
If It Really Worked That Way:
For one, if cars exploded as the result of the minor force with which this one hits the ground, you'd be shitting yourself every time you brushed a curb.
Even worse, the impact somehow causes passenger compartment to detonate.
So what little chance you already had of surviving even a short trip in this death trap is reduced to zero.
Unless of course this means the driver was wearing a bomb belt, which would then mean that Garbage Day Guy foiled a fucking suicide bombing, saving countless lives.
Silent Night Deadly Night 2: A film that requires multiple viewings due to its rich tapestry of moral complexity.