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Pitchers, catchers, and cardinals report
It's a big week of meetings for Francis -- his first big chance to follow through on expectations that he will be collaborative and consultative in his exercise of power, and that he will effect some much-needed reforms in Rome. Catholic News Service was tweeting updates bright and early: "Next Monday and Tuesday, meetings of the secretariat of the synod of bishops and the 15-member cardinals' council on economic affairs.... 15-member council of cardinals on Holy See economic affairs will meet 8-member council of cardinals THIS Wednesday 19 February.... 'Extraordinary consistory' with all cardinals starts Thursday at 9:30 am."
[Update: Read Joshua McElwee's comprehensive report on the agenda for the coming week at the National Catholic Reporter.]
Cardinal Kasper will be giving the opening presentation at the Council of Cardinals: Francis X. Rocca reports on that for CNS here. With preparations for this fall's synod on the family underway, there is much speculation about what Kasper might say regarding divorced Catholics and communion, given that he has favored some changes to church regulations in the past. When it comes to "pastoral challenges in the context of evangelization," that's certainly a big one.
That "8-member council" mentioned above, the eight cardinals appointed by Pope Francis to advise him on reform, are meeting for the third time. That includes the one American member of the gang, Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston. Make no mistake, all these councils serve only in an advisory role, as Vatican spokesperson Fr. Federico Lombardi made clear at this morning's press briefing this morning. The pope is still the pope, after all. And it's up to the individual cardinals to keep the press informed, or not. Stay tuned.
This seems like a good time to mention that I'll be appearing on a panel next month at the American Bible Society (in NYC), responding to a presentation by the aforementioned Cardinal O'Malley. Since he'll be just back from all that meeting and advising, I'm looking forward to whatever updates he has to give. The event is free and open to the public: 6:30 p.m. on March 19. Ken Woodward, R.R. Reno of First Things and Matt Malone of America will be there too. Mark your calendars, and I'll remind you as it gets closer. And tell me, what would you ask Cardinal O'Malley if you had a chance?
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I would ask him whether we'll be seeing women deacons here any time soon. And what he thinks about appointing some women as papal nuncios.
Regfarding annulments: Deacon Greg Kandra at the Deacon's Bench links to and quotes from a John Allen article in the Boston Globe that prognosticates on a possible compromise and takes a look at some of the politics involved.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record (as many of us have for the last umpteen years) I would ask when we might see ecclesiastical leaders -- such as bishops -- starting to be held accountable for their roles in the child abuse scandals -- and I am by no means only thinking of the US or North America. Child safety programs, apologies, and the like are all very well, but as long as bishops see themselves as accountable only upwards, and not down to the people of the dioceses, not much has really changed.
I would ask something similar to Ms. Baldwin -- the Pope has spoken repeatedly about using the gifts of women as leaders in the Church -- how is the Pope going to put some real flesh on that committment? If not making women Cardinals and adding them to the C8 -- should he not just appoint some women to be part of this group?
I would also ask the Cardinal, given the recent violence in Nigeria against gay people
See here:
And given the fact that the Nigerian church supported these extremely punitive (I would say hate-filled) laws which help to spawn this repressive violence, is it not time for the Church to state clearly that this violence is in direct conflict with Church teaching and the Church must find a way to stand with the oppressed, marginalized gay community of Nigeria?
I would ask when guys who are known to have covered up sex abuse - Law, Brady, Mahony, etc - will be removed from office. About the roles for women in the church, Muller recently spoke about that ...http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/world-news/detail/articolo/32027/ ...
"Müller said they could be given some high-ranking positions in the Vatican: not in the Congregations but in the Pontifical Councils, for example the Pontifical Council on the Family (which is led by Bishop Vincenzo Paglia) or for Health Care Workers. The Prefect clarified, however, that as it is ordained ministers that hold jurisdictional power, neither lay people nor women can become heads of Congregations, that is, the dicasteries that have the jurisdictional power to act on the Pope's behalf. Other areas in which women could play a greater role are theological research and Caritas, although Müller is against the introduction of set quotas of women."
I'd ask how the hierarchy can believe that these kinds of opportunities can in any way make up for not allowing women to be priests.
Cardinal O'Malley, are you folks really planning to hold a Synod on the Family this fall with no participation by anyone who has actually started one, and no representation of one of the two sexes you say are essential for forming a family? Oh yes, we know you are reaching out to people with a questionnaire, but that is not at all the same as confronting them in person and listening to their insights and doubts and hopes on a matter where they have vastly more practical experience and authority than you have. And it is certainly not the same as giving them a role in decision-making.
Any good that might come of this synod is likely to be overwhelmed by caricature and ridicule of the way it is constituted. Believe me, sir, you and your brother hierarchs do not need to give skeptics, especially the many still within the fold, further reason to think you clueless and irrelevant.
Ask him if the Red Sox will win again this year... or if he'll be visiting Bishop Myers in his $500,000 addition to his $700,000 home...or when IS the Pope going to announce his America visit and meet with some victims of clergy sex abuse?
We could also ask why he didn't let Helmut Schuller speaak at any church building in Boston ... http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/belief/banned-bost...
Thanks, all. I mistakenly left a couple of things out of this post - I meant to link to Catholic News Service's Twitter account, and I also wanted to recommend Joshua McElwee's report on all of this at NCR. I've added the links above.
I would ask how they are preparing for the time when there are too few priests left for lay people to be able to receive the Eucharist weekly. Case in point: older people in rural France.
Do they have a plan?
Cardinal Maradiaga, coordinator of the Council of 8 Cardinals, says he thinks there should be a Congregation for the Laity headed by a married couple.
Sorry, I haven't seen an English-language article on this yet.
I would like to ask: Will Francis' reform include an admission that not all of the Church's magisterium has be inerrant?
Catholics sniff at the Protestant teaching about the so-called inerrancy of the Bibe, but the official Catholic magisterium about the Catholic magisterium being inerrant is an even more fundamental problem. Talk about self-reference! At least Pope Francis seems to know that self-reference problems can be huge ones.
Now that I've read that more carefully, it appears that his proposal is to create a Congregation for the Laity which would have within it a Pontifical Council for the Laity headed by a married couple.
Since he had just explained that the reason a Congregation is needed is that the existing Pontifical Commission for the Laity has no legal power, I'm not sure that is quite as bold a proposition as I had imagined.
Now that I've read that more carefully, it appears that his proposal is to create a Congregation for the Laity which would have within it a Pontifical Council for the Laity headed by a married couple.
Since he had just explained that the reason a Congregation is needed is that the existing Pontifical Commission for the Laity has no legal power, I'm not sure that is quite as bold a proposition as I had imagined.
which would have within it a Pontifical Council for the Laity headed by a married couple
Should have been:
which would have within it a Pontifical Council for Families headed by a married couple. A
I have a feeling Francis is not going to disappoint. As I see it he has started a paradigm change. We have had over forty years to absorb it. Time for the implementation of the real Vatican II.
John Hayes - hope that what you project happens via the council of 8.
Here is an excellent analysis of Francis' recent reconfirmations (not exactly positive):
Pope Francis is committed to the por and to making this more ofa servant-Church... but would he have been elected if he had not been clearly conservative on some other hot-button issues? I'm happy with him, but I'll be surprised to institutionaled change right away.
I think that the analysis on the page linked by Bill de Haas, while interesting, is slanted towards pessimism. I was surprised to see Fabrice Hadjadj on that list. I have read a couple of his thought-provoking books. He's an original thinker. (I don't know what his expertise is on family). The web page's main complaint seems to me that run-of-the-mill lay Catholics are missing, but I am not sure what kind of person he has in mind. Shouldn't the council consist of committed Catholics, and is it really surprising that committed Catholics often already have an official role of some kind? The only glaring omission is that of Commonweal editors.
It seems to me that Pope Francis is taking care to bring the church along with him as he institutes reform. Probably that is wise, but it does breed a certain amount of impatience.
Reforming the Vatican Bank probably isn't on many lists of top issues to be addressed here at dotCom, but it seems to have been one of the primary reasons he was elected. It's good to see him following through with it.
Bill deH. --
The members of the new Counsel for the Laity certainly look like a dreary lot -- except possibly for two members.
Said Azar is a Jewish convert to Catholicism, a philosopher, is married to an actress, and apparently is very interested in the arts. Judging by my own stereotypes of such folks, I wouldn't expect him to be very conservative. (See Wikipedia about him.)
Jarol Zyczkowski is, of all things, a mathematician and quantum physicist. So I asked myself: why would such a person be named to a Vatican group? I found one intriguing fact about the man: he is the inventor of the method of voting used by the European Union which attempts to give proportionate weight to the votes of the highly varied members. More research reveals he has edited a book on "Institutional Design and Voting",
Maybe Prof. Z. was asked to help Francis with his problems in restructuring the Curia. Maybe, just maybe, Francis is looking for some world-class advice on how to re-structure the Vatican and how to structure the anticipated world-wide collegial group. (Francis has already hired some management experts in re the bank and the communications center.)
A review of Prof. K Z.'s book gives the names of the articles in the book, e.g., "The double majority voting rule of the EU Reform Treaty as a democratic ideal for an enlarging Union: an appraisal using voting power analysis, Dennis Leech and Haris Aziz; The blocking power in voting systems, Tadeusz Sozanski; The distribution of power in the Council of Ministers of the European Union, Werner Kirsch."
Sounds like Francis could use this guy. Francis has the reputation of being all heart, highly intuitive, but remember that he was a chemist before he was a priest, so he must have some appreciation for technical stuff, and so far he has impressed me as being very systematic about his reforms.
Here's the review:
OOPS - As Claire tells us it's FabriceHadjadj who is the philosopher, not Said Azar.
Ann, Hadjadj is an original thinker but I do not think that he is progressive in any way except in freedom of thought. On the contrary, he presents a conservative perspective in such a fresh way as to make it almost convincing.
Also, he has six children, which raises the possibility that he is among the 2% who do not use contraception because they disapprove of it. But maybe he simply likes children.
IMO, what Paul Collins is highlighting with these reconfirmations is the current involvement of the new religious movements in places of importance, impact, and influence. You could also pessimistically say - follow the money with some of the NRMs. What was striking, IMO, is that these groups are not mainstream; do not reflect the middle ground of most catholics, etc.
Bill: what would be a "mainstream" group? Isn't "mainstream" synonym with "uninvolved", "indifferent", and "irregular participant in the sacraments"? It seems to me that every lay Catholic who cares about the church enough to get involved find themselves automatically in a marginal position.
Well, let me contrast that with some other proposed examples that could be on a lay council:
representatives from national conferences of catholic universities (especially those with degrees,works, publications, etc. in the field of family development, etc.)
representatives from national episcopal conferences that head up departments on family life (most of these folks have more experience, skills, and background than any of those *special* group reps that he reconfirmed
representatives from international catholic associations and NGOs that are committed to family life (why isn't anyone from any of the noted and respected religious orders that sponsor Relief Services, Family Support in the Third World, etc.)
How about reps of the church who are active at the United Nations or other international bodies that meet in Brussels, Switzerland, etc.
How about reps that better represent the geographical regions of the catholic church - those who support Family Life in the Asian region, South America, Africa, Middle East?
Not only are the *special groups* over-represented on this committee but they are almost all Euro-centric?
These are all good suggestions!
How about some married moral theologians and philosophers who are expert in the moral issues, and I don't mean just those who agree with the CDF.
That fact that Carl Anderson is included in this group makes me even more suspicious of what will actually happen than I was before.
I wonder how the members of the Council of the Laity were chosen? I suspect that the usual Vatican suspects made recommendations that support their agendae, as opposed to nominations being made from throughout the various episcopal conferences and other non-European based lay groups.
The obvious way to get the results you want is to ensure that the people who support your point(s) of view are making the recommendations.
But we know that, don't we?


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Russian translation online!
Translation by Александр Прокудин (Alexandre Prokoudine)
With kdenlive 0.7.8 I added some color scopes, used for displaying color information. In this section I will give a brief overviews over scopes in general and explain the most basic scope, the histogram, in detail.
Color correction. This is a really important topic in video editing. It starts with simple stretching of the tonal range if the brightness is not ideal, goes on with white balance to ensure that white remains white and not blue, and finally ends with creating looks which make your video look unique. (Remember the blueish Minority Report? The contrasty The Departed?)
For color correction we basically need two things, Effects for changing the colors and Scopes for monitoring the changes. The first scope I'm showing now is, as already mentioned, the histogram:
Read more in the full article …
Let's first take a look at the basic options available in all scopes.
During the process of color correction you'll want to keep this option enabled. When not color correcting, it should be disabled as it usually heavily impacts the performance of playback. (There is a lot of calculations going on in the scopes.)
Note that you can always update a scope by clicking on it.
So far about scopes in general. Now let's take a closer look at the Histogram.
When the Histogram receives an updated image from one of the monitors, each of these pixels consist of a Red, Green, and Blue component. Each of these values lies within a range of 0 and 255, which are the numbers you can represent with one Byte. 0 means that the component is not shining at all (i.e. it is black), 255 means that it is shining as bright as possible.
The Histogram is merely statistics; it shows how often a component of a certain brightness occurs. So what the Histogram then does is actually quite simple:
Example: If the red value is 0, increase the height of the bar at position 0 (that is at the very left) of the histogram by 1. If it is 42, increase bar 42 by 1. And so on.
The Histogram only shows the distribution of the luminance of the selected components – nothing more, nothing less. Also when looking at the RGB channels separately, instead of at the calculated Luma component only. You cannot really guess the colors in the image.
Really? Yes. Take a look at these two images.
Exactly the same Histogram. Totally different colors. (What you can do is guessing the color tone; see below.) But what is the histogram good for now?
To answer this question, I would like to point an article from the «Cambridge in Colour»: Understanding Digital Camera Histograms: Tones and Contrast and the second part Luminance & Color. Although written for digital photo cameras, exactly the same applies for digital video cameras. Both articles are easy to read and understand (and may also be of interest for experienced users).
Two special things about this histogram.
Nevertheless, the blue component does reach 0. This means that the darkest pixels are still slightly orange and didn't lose all color information yet.
In this case the candles cause the clipping. (Not too bad here, because the lost detail isn't important for the image.)
The RGB components also show very well that the shadows are not neutral grey but orange, otherwise the color heaps on the left would, as in the gradient histogram above, have their center at the same position. There isn't a lot to correct here, what could be done is raising the shadows with a Curves effect, but this is a matter of taste and the intended mood for the final movie.
We immediately notice two things:
Note that the Histogram is not very accurate for white balance. Later I will introduce a much more accurate scope.
Monitoring correct exposure is the Histogram's strength! The exposure can be corrected with curves as well, but this time I will use the Levels effect.
I've lowered the Input white level of the Luma channel until one of the RGB components reached 255. Lowering the input white level further would cause clipping on the wall and lost image information. (Which may be desired in certain circumstances!)
This process is called Stretching of the tonal range.
In kdenlive 0.7.8 the histogram can be adjusted as follows:
Most of the time you will want to use Rec. 709 which is, as far as I know, mostly used in digital video today.
The sample files used above can be downloaded here:
The Histogram is a great tool for exposure correction, together with the Curves and the Levels effects. It helps to avoid clipping (burned out areas) and crushed blacks (the opposite) when applying effects.
Thanks for reading! Continue with the Waveform and the RGB Parade.
Please drop your comments below.
Simon A. Eugster (Granjow)
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 16:26
Thanks for this detailed article !
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 23:37
it's great to have this kind of instructive feature reviews!
keep them coming...! :)
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:45
Thanks so much, it looks terrific.
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 15:10
Great work on the scopes. But I've so many comments to make on the write up. I'll keep it short though. :-)
The scopes are great for analytical purposes and primary colour correction rather than aid grading.
It's critically important to get exposure, white balance etc right in camera, this is 8bit so there is very little tolerance for 'fixing' in post.
The images attached in the write up highlight clearly some problems with trying to correct in post, some kdenlive specific and some 8bit processing in general.
Great additions all the same. :-)
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 01:30
Great feature, great article! If one could flattr it, I definitely would ;)
Sun, 12/26/2010 - 21:36
Thanks Granjow & team. These are great features ...


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I want to make a formula one car at least 30 cm in length out of standard LEGO parts. None of the LEGO wheels I have are big enough for this scale. Where can I get some big wheels that would look ok? The big tires here are too big. I looked on BrickLink, but just got confused.
You may want to have a look at some official LEGO sets of that scal to check what LEGO has been using.
For example, 2556-1 — SHELL Promotional Set F1 Ferrari seems to be about that length and uses 49mm diameter wheels and tires.
A similar wheel can be found in more recent sets, such as 8041 — Race Truck, which may be cheaper.
You can also look in the specific section for wheels on BrickLink for other sizes.


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8 Simple Questions You Won't Believe Science Can't Answer
The field of science is capable of some amazing things, mostly because it's filled with all the Albert Einsteins and Doogie Howsers the world has produced over the centuries. But it may shock you that some of the most mundane, everyday concepts are as big a mystery to scientists as they are to the average toddler.
Things like ...
#8. Why We Sleep
As far as we know, virtually every creature on earth enjoys a good night's rest as much as people do (though the hours we choose to sleep varies greatly). So obviously sleep must serve a key purpose for all living things, right? Well, it turns out science doesn't have a clue.
That's why science sits outside your room every night, watching.
What we have is a handful of proposed explanations for sleep that not many scientists can agree on. There's the theory that it's helping the brain clean house after a long day of learning. You see, your brain is constantly generating new pathways thanks to all the stuff that you see and do all day, so sleeping is when all the useless info gets tossed out.
Or maybe, instead of ditching the stuff that's not necessary, the brain might be reinforcing the stuff you do need. Scientists have seen that, when rats were asleep, the same neurons fired as when they had run mazes earlier that day. That means that the rats are essentially reliving their day and "practicing" the maze. This has led Harvard sleep researchers to assert that sleep is crucial for humans to form memories and to learn.
So really, passing out in the middle of an all-nighter is a valid study tactic.
But there's a problem with both of these theories. Plants and microorganisms, otherwise known as "things without brains," have dormant states that are very similar to sleep, which kind of puts doubt on the whole "sleep is good for the brain" theory. Then there's the fact that scientists have found certain humans who can go without sleep with no ill effects. There's even one dude who claims he hasn't slept a wink in 33 years.
In fact, all of these theories kind of went out the window when researchers discovered a gene mutation that allows people to sleep two to four hours a night without any adverse effects at all. So, is sleep useless, then? Is it just God's way of making us take a break between masturbation sessions? Your guess is as good as science's.
"We have found a strong, positive correlation between bong hits and passing out on the field behind the gym."
#7. How Many Planets Are in Our Solar System
Since Pluto was surprisingly kicked out of the solar system treehouse, we've known that the membership of the Planets Club is subject to change at science's whim. What you may not have realized is that the current inventory of eight planets and one sun is pretty much just science's best guess for the time being.
And somewhere out there, Pluto sheds a lonely tear.
It sounds bizarre, considering you all saw the same model of the solar system in elementary school. And every time you hear anything about space in the news, it's always badass telescope this, or new photograph of faraway galaxy that. We're mapping the edge of the freaking known universe over here. There's no way anything in our own cosmic backyard is escaping our notice, right?
Faulkes Telescope Project
We even took a picture of a space cloud that looks like a space pig humping a space turtle. The truth is out there, all right. And it's weird.
But despite what Big Space wants you to believe, the vast majority of our solar system is still uncharted and unknown. The area between Mercury and the sun is too bright to see, and the area beyond Uranus is too dark. Scientists are still finding new objects in theasteroid belt by the hundreds of thousands. Oh yeah, and some of astronomers think there might be a second sun. Seriously.
They've named it Nemesis because it flings comets at us. Nothing NASA says can convince us this isn't Galactus.
You see, not even our best telescope technology can see things that are far behind Pluto, where sunlight doesn't illuminate things all that well and where we're essentially blind. So astronomers have to combine vague clues and guesswork to figure out what's going on out there, kind of like space CSI.
First off, the fact that there's a huge gap in asteroids after a certain distance behind Pluto tells scientists that there's very likely a planet between the size of Earth and Mars that gobbled up all the space rock out there, so yeah, our solar system is probably back up to nine planets again. They're getting really tired of rewriting those middle school textbooks. And speaking of Pluto, astronomers have also discovered an object named Sedna orbiting the sun, and although no one's a hundred percent certain of its size, they're pretty sure it's carrying at least Pluto's heft.
Our next goal as a species should be to fashion these dwarf planets into a pair of Truck Balls for Earth.
But wait, that's not all, folks. Another little anomaly that astronomers have noticed is that comets' orbits aren't exactly going along as predicted. The explanation? There must be another planet out there that's affecting the icy rocks' orbits. And according to their hypothesis, this mother of a planet is huge -- like, "four times the size of Jupiter" huge. Named Tyche, this giant gas ball is way too far away for sunlight to reach it, but still, scientists are pretty confident that evidence gathered from a NASA telescope will prove its existence very soon. Who knows, in a few years, naming all the planets may be as hard as naming all 50 states.
#6. Why Ice Is Slippery
Saying that ice is slippery is like saying that water is wet -- it's something we've known for as long as we can be said to have known anything. Presumably, humans as a species knew ice was slippery before we knew fire was hot, or that it existed. But ask anyone why, and they won't be able to give you any better explanation than one of those cave people would have.
Our intern Thoog suspects that either evil spirits or flash thawing is the culprit.
We just don't know why it is that you can ski on ice but not on boulders. Although at this point, most of you are probably screaming "It's water, stupid!" -- and that's more or less the answer that scientists have always concluded. Even in some modern textbooks you can still read the popular explanation: Unlike most substances, ice expands when it freezes. So when you walk on it, you're actually compacting it back into slippery old water. Sounds simple, right? Too bad then that it's bullshit. Experiments have shown that your puny body doesn't exert nearly enough pressure on ice to squeeze even a tiny bit of it into liquid.
Science: "We don't know ... ice fairies, maybe?"
There are some competing theories, though none of them are better than the others. One popular theory is that the surface of ice remains liquid because there's nothing but open air on one side to put pressure on it. And some tests have confirmed that -- although they also confirm that the liquid layer is probably too thin to have any effect on friction.
Another theory that scientists have put forward is that ice is not actually slippery at all. Though this sounds like something that science, exasperated, would proclaim while waving a gun in your face to make you stop asking stupid questions, a guy named Dr. Salmeron thinks that the roughness on the surface of ice is actually so high that, ironically, it becomes slippery when you flash-melt it due to the sheer friction you're applying to it. Of course, in the same breath, Dr. Salmeron admits he may be talking out of his ass.
Salmeron Group
"Science has no hard answers, only questions and tasteful sweaters."
#5. How a Bicycle Works
Bicycles have been around since the early 19th century, and its basic design has actually changed relatively little for almost 200 years. You always had two wheels, a frame to connect them and a handlebar for steering, and you required a person completely devoid of shame to ride on it.
It turns out skintight short-shorts are an improvement in bicycle fashion.
At the very least, you'd think that the guy who invented the damn thing knew what he was doing, but after more than a century of research, science has been forced to conclude that he was probably some kind of sorcerer. The first bicycles were invented, not through any kind of scientific procedure, but by dumb old trial and error. Even modern bike design schools admit that it's not engineering or computer knowledge that make a good bike designer, but instead "intuition and experience."
So, what happens when you ask scientists exactly what makes a bicycle stable? Or what keeps it going? Or how people ride them? Well, odds are they'll either nervously tell you that they have cookies in the oven and run out on you, or if they're honest, they'll give you a pretty big shrug. In fact, top bike researchers admit that, even though some people have come up with equations on how to ride a bike or how they think bikes work, those equations are pretty much fancy icing on top of a cake of cluelessness. One Cornell researcher even says that absolutely nobody has ever come to an intuitive understanding of what makes a bicycle do its thing.
Science: "We've narrowed it down to either spoke fairies or wheel fairies."
For ages, scientists assumed that the gyroscopic effect (the force that keeps a spinning top from falling over) was the key for a bike's balance. But nope! In the '70s, a scientist disproved that theory.
So then, scientists thought that the principal factor for a bike's stability was something called the caster effect, or trail (something to do with the front wheel's angle away from the frame). But just this year, top bikeologists from Cornell and other universities formed an angry scientific mob, then torched and pitchforked that theory as well. They did this by building a goofy-looking bike that has no gyroscopic effect and no trail, but manages to stay upright nonetheless.
Sam Rentmeester/FMAX
"Look, Ma! No physics!"
So scientists are essentially back at square one, as things such as steering geometry and the physics of stability are all going back to the drawing board. At least you can be secure in the knowledge that the humiliation you feel when you ride a bike is akin to the humiliation science feels when it's asked how a bike stays up.


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Crazy for Cowls
Cowls are everywhere! They're quick to make, fun to wear, and they make great gifts. Since many of them only require a few skeins, they're a practical way to try out a new yarn without a big commitment. In addition to the cowl patterns produced by our design team (watch for this upcoming Friday's KnitBits newsletter for four new designs), I've pulled together some fun independently designed cowls from Ravelry. It's always interesting to see what other designers are doing with Berroco yarns…
First up, we have Lynette Meek's Columns and Buttons Cowl. Worked in Borealis, this cowl is the perfect display for some special buttons, and it really shows off the yarn's gorgeous colors.
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Let $E_{\alpha}(x^{\alpha})$ be a Mittag-Leffler function, $\alpha \in (0,1)$. It is an eigenfunction for nonlocal fractional derivative, defined as a convolution with $$ \Phi_{\lambda}(x) = \frac{x_{+}^{\lambda-1}}{\Gamma(\lambda)} $$ when $\lambda = -\alpha$ (Gelfand, Shilov, "Generalized functions"). We can define a local fractional derivative of order $\alpha$ by $$ \tilde{D}^{\alpha}f(x) = \lim\limits_{\delta \to +0} \frac{\Gamma(\alpha+1)(f(x+\delta)-f(x))}{\delta^{\alpha}} $$ Then for any $x>0$ we will have $\tilde{D}^{\alpha}E_{\alpha}(x^{\alpha}) = 0$ and $E_{\alpha}(x^{\alpha})$ is not invariant under action of local fractional derivative. I would like to know which function is an eigenfunction of local fractional derivative. If this function is well-known, is there a representation of such function that depends on $x$ through $x^{\alpha}$ like the Mittag-Leffler function? I think that the main advantage of such function is that $f(x+a)$ will still be an eigenfunction for any $a$ because of locality of operator. This property doesn't hold for nonlocal fractional derivative defined above, so $E_{\alpha}((x+a)^{\alpha})$ is not an eigenfunction for nonlocal fractional derivative if $a > 0$.
Nothing interesting is going to happen. Suppose $f$ is an eigenfunction, then it certainly must be continuous. Consider a closed interval on which $f$ is bounded away from $0$, then the fractional derivative of $f$, which is just a constant multiple of $f$, will also be bounded away from $0$. Say it is positive. Then $f - k x$ will also have positive fractional derivative for each constant $k$, since $kx$ has zero fractional derivative. A function of positive fractional derivative must be increasing, so $f-kx$ is an increasing function for all $k$. This is clearly impossible.
I think that this type of fractional differentiation, say of order $\alpha$, maps a Holder $\mathcal{H}^\beta$ function $f(x)$ into $\mathcal{H}^{\beta - \alpha}$ function. Therefore, if the derivative does not diverge or does not vanish identically it will map a $\mathcal{H}^{\alpha}$ function into a $\mathcal{H}^{0}$ function, which is discontinuous. If you apply it to a $\mathcal{H}^{0}$ function you will get $\mathcal{H}^{-\alpha}$ function which will alternate between infinity and zero. Therefore, only zero remains, i.e. $f(x) \equiv 0$ $\tilde{D}^{\alpha}0= k \; 0$.


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Jul 11
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Damski says:
I have been trying my hand at doing some flowers, but I cant get the image as sharp as I want for it. Have a look for your self on my 500px page(this should be higher quality than the one included.). I wanted to get as close as possable, but dont have a marco lens for really close up shots. Is there any thing else I can do to reduce the distance for the focus to kick in?
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Oh i'm happy with it, its got a nice dreamy feel to it, and it works for me with this image, other images i have taken have'nt worked in the same way. Portraits in particular, eyes just are not as sharp as i would like. Could it just be camera shake due to the shutter speed?
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StephenBatey says:
Lack of sharpness could be caused by (in no particular order)
Poor lens
Incorrect focus
Camera shake
Subject movement
Aperture too small
Too great a degree of enlargement
If parts are sharp and others not, add in
Insufficient depth of field
Uncorrected lens faults
You can also add in (in appropriate circumstance) not enough digital sharpening.
To be honest, with your portraits my best guess (and it has to be a guess) is that the camera isn't focusing where you want it to. And that's a guess for several reasons.
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ralarcon says:
To be honest; adequate sharpness is somewhat dependant on the print size and medium used. For example the shot above looks pretty sharp on my iphone at a distance of 10-12 inches from my eyes. In digital it is so tempting to do a 100% or more zoom and find photo is not sharp but ultimately all that matters is whether it looks sharp when printed or on your screen size and looked at as most normal people will; most people wont look at it at 200% or 2-3in from their eyes!
Any way your shot above is ok for iphones; i will look at it on my Pc and see what it is like there.
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magic lighthouse says:
All the answers above are correct but can I also add an element most people forget about and that is light quality. Although it should make little difference to actual sharpness it can have an effect on perceived sharpness. A very diffuse light will give a soft impression to the image whereas a sharply defined, directional beam of light will pick out more detail in the image. It will work with objects like flowers but will be less sucessful with portraits as lighting for these has to be balanced and usually a little soft, With females anyway. This is of course my opinion and others may disagree but try it for yourself, it may have the effect you are after.
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garry442 says:
I'd hazard a guess that 1/20 sec could have caused the blurring? Perhaps the Rose was moving in the breeze, or maybe you didn't use a tripod? Capturing a sharp shot, hand held at that speed is very difficult.
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I don't see a camera make/model mentioned. It is possible it could be that if it is a Nikon D7000. I had that problem along with millions of others. AF problem.
Edit, forget that, just looked at your 500px link and see it's a Canon
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alba said:
I don't see a camera make/model mentioned. It is possible it could be that if it is a Nikon D7000. I had that problem along with millions of others. AF problem.
Edit, forget that, just looked at your 500px link and see it's a Canon
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Something that bothers me as Windows User on OSX that I can't minimize an App Window by clicking the Dock Icon of the application. Is there a hidden setting for enabling this behavior or an utility that someone could recommend?
Simple answer is it'll bring the window to the front. Apple + H hides the window however, so that might be a bit more useful to you.
You can hide an active application by option-clicking (alt-clicking) its icon in the dock. You can also hide the active window and open another window by alt-clicking whatever application you want to open in the dock.
But I agree with you that it would be more symmetrical to be able to click to minimize all the open windows in an application. I am a long-time PC user and this is one area where PCs got it right. That and combining closing and quitting (and the related window management issue).
⌘+M or double-click the window title bar to minimize the window.
As you can see, there isn't a way to click the dock. Another option past the accepted answer of using a keyboard shortcut is to enable hiding from clicking the window's title bar.
Open System preference, select General, select Double-click a window's title bar to minimize'. On Lion this is above the control for Sidebar icon size.
Right click on the Icon and choose
click and hold on the applications icon in the dock and choose hide
The trouble is, if you hide (ALT-click or CMD-H), you hide all windows of that application. You probably don't want to do that, just to minimize the current window.
In OS X you don't have the Title Bar, with an item for each open window (eg. 3 different items for 3 windows of the MS Word) - but instead, an indicator for applications that have open windows, but nothing indicates how many windows are open... so you don't actually know where to click in the Dock to minimize which exact window (if more windows of the same app are open). You can right-click on the app in the Dock, then you'll get the list of the open windows, but that's for people with muuuuch time to spend clicking. For Zen practitioners :-)
Some Windows-like behavior can be achieved with 3rd party tools like HyperDock, but I don't remember I had a way to click a window to minimize it. But frankly I tested it for a really short time.
One thing that is significantly different between Windows and OSX is how OSX treats, well, windows in an app. An application can have more than one individual window. Each window is treated independently of the application itself.
So, if you want to minimize a specific window, instead of the Dock icon (which is for the application) you want to use any of the options for window minimization:
You can't actually minimize an application (you can get that effect if there is only one open window and you minimize that window). The "Hide" effect is probably what you are looking for.
Press and hold ⌘, use tab to select the application and then press H to hide it. Now release ⌘.
Do the same to unhide the application.
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Mastering the Compass/SASS Setup with Sencha Touch
I was plagued by a sea of problems setting up SASS to work with Sencha Touch. I read through posts/documentation, referenced samples, and searched to the end of the web and back without ever finding a solid understanding of the setup or the errors I was experiencing. And I'm a seasoned veteran of web design, having been designing/coding sites for well over a decade; so this is well with the realm of my expertise. That said, Ruby, Compass, and Sencha Touch are all new to me.
I wanted to post a clear and concise explanation of how to create a fool-proof setup for using SASS with Sencha Touch. My hope is that others experiencing my pains might be able to find this post and avoid the treacherous path I traveled to get here. So it's clear, though, this is not intended to rake the Sencha folks over the coals. I simply couldn't find solutions to my problems and discovered that there are countless others in the same boat. My absolute intent is to help the Sencha community.
And with that, let's get started…
In these forums, in the Sencha blog, and in various corners of the web there are lots of different references to how the .scss/.css files can/should be set up. In the end, it doesn't matter so long as your SCSS, CSS, and Sencha-Touch theme directories are properly referenced in your config.rb file. But that's where a lot of the confusion resides because the docs/posts don't marry to the Sencha Touch files you download.
The first thing you won't understand if you aren't familiar with Ruby is how the config.rb file works. Each instance of '..' is a call to a parent directory, and each subsequent named directory is a call to children directories.
So if you have a file in /parent/child/child/ and want to reference a file in /parent/ you would use '..','..'. If you wanted reference a file in /parent/other_child/ you would use '..','..','other_child'.
Once you have that under control, the config.rb file begins to make a lot of sense. The problem here, however, is that nothing I read implies you need to have a solid understanding of the Ruby file structure in order to get this set up. I didn't even find a reference of this in Compass or SASS documentation.
Now let's make it absolutely clear what each required line references and then clear up how this differs from what's downloaded with Sencha.
// Delineates location of the config.rb file which should be in the same directory as your SCSS file(s) sass_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) // Points to the location of the CSS file(s) you'll call from your HTML document css_path = File.join(sass_path, '..', 'css') // Points to the images directory used by the Sencha Touch theme images_dir = File.join(sass_path, '..', 'themes', 'images', 'default') // Points to the Sencha Touch theme load File.join(sass_path, '..', 'themes') // Denotes how the CSS files are compiled by Compass output_style = :compressed environment = :production
But this is only because I modified the paths based on how the directories are set up with the Sencha Touch download. In the docs/posts referencing this, there are two critical mismatches:
images_dir = File.join(sass_path, "..", "img")
load File.join(sass_path, '..', '..', '..', '..', 'resources', 'themes')
All the docs/samples/downloads have your app's SCSS file importing the Sencha Touch theme CSS like this:
@import 'sencha-touch/default/all';
As it turns out, Ruby/Compass don't have anything to do with this path and it's not properly written by default. Though this is somewhat confusing because the path links to all.css instead of _all.css, which is how the CSS file is labeled, and because there are references to how Ruby takes care of removing that underscore. In the end a direct CSS import path is all you need to get the them imported. Per my directory structure that I referenced above the path looks like this:
@import '../themes/stylesheets/sencha-touch/default/all';
The very first mistake I made was trying to run SASS commands directly. Running sass --watch path/to/scss:path/to/css throws a sea of various errors. So it's important to note that Compass commands are the vital component. And there are really only two you need for the elementary operation of compiling SASS for use with Sencha Touch:
compass compile path/to/scss (batch compiles on command) compass watch path/to/scss (compiles in real time as changes are saved)
First, I didn't know is that the root of the Compass compile/watch paths doesn't begin with your /users/ directory. It actually begins at your user directory. (I would imagine the root can be configured, but that's a power-user configuration which wouldn't be obvious to people who don't know Ruby and/or Compass. So I'm referencing a default installation/configuration.)
Second, you can't reference an actual SCSS file. Compass watches/compiles directories of style sheets all at once. So you need to point to a directory, not a file.
So instead of running:
compass watch /users/markwyner/project/resources/sass/myapp.scss
compass watch project/resources/sass/
Here's a summary of what I've outlined:
- Ruby paths single-quote and comma-separate each change in a directory. So Ruby's '..','..','themes' translates to "../../themes/" in HTML or CSS
- If you use the default directory structure for the theme downloaded with Sencha Touch 1.0.1a your config.rb file should reference theme images as images_dir = File.join(sass_path, "..", "img") and CSS load File.join(sass_path, '..', '..', '..', '..', 'resources', 'themes')
- Your SCSS file should directly import the theme's CSS files without the underscore in the file name: @import '../themes/stylesheets/sencha-touch/default/all';
- Run Compass commands rather than SASS commands, ensure the root for your compile/watch path is correct, and compile/watch your entire SCSS directory rather than a single SCSS file
I hope this helps anyone troubled by the SASS setup with Sencha Touch. I wish I would have had this post available to me a few weeks back. It would have saved me a lot of time.
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23 Mar 2011 7:39 AM #3
You're welcome very much.-------------------------------------------
Mark Wyner, Partner, Bunker
25 Mar 2011 2:49 AM #4
Thanks Alot! Finally beginning to understand this. Tho I only got this working in with 1.0.1a but still had the error with 1.1.0.
Thanks alot for the help!
25 Mar 2011 9:46 AM #5
Yeah, 1.1 is definitely out of sync. I'm going to submit a bug.-------------------------------------------
Mark Wyner, Partner, Bunker
17 Apr 2011 7:21 AM #6
Can anyone from the Sencha team provide an easy step-by-step instruction guide?
It would be great to have an easy step-by-step instruction guide on how to install and configure the SASS and Compass on a Mac or PC. I have been searching from posting to posting, in blogs and websites trying to find the download links of SASS and Compass. It doesn't make any sense to me that Sencha is being an advocate of using SASS and how easy it is to modify css themes and not provide the links and instructions to download the components required. I have been wasting tons of hours in the internet looking on how I should configure this to work and I still haven't been able to do so. An instructional video would be even better.
20 May 2011 10:28 AM #7
Issue with import line
I'm having an issue with this line, seems it can't find:
@import '../themes/stylesheets/sencha-touch/default/all';
c:\xampp\htdocs\mobile\app\www\scss c:\xampp\htdocs\mobile\app\www\assets\css c:\xampp\htdocs\mobile\app\www\assets\images c:\xampp\htdocs\mobile\app\www\assets\js c:\xampp\htdocs\mobile\app\www\assets\themes\stylesheets\sencha-touch\default\
# Delineate the directory for our SASS/SCSS files (this directory) sass_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) # Delineate the CSS directory (under resources/css in this demo) css_path = File.join(sass_path, "..", "assets", "css") # Delinate the images directory images_dir = File.join(sass_path, "..", "assets","image") # Load the sencha-touch framework load File.join(sass_path, '..', 'assets', 'themes') # Specify the output style/environment output_style = :compressed environment = :production
@import '../themes/stylesheets/sencha-touch/default/all'; @include sencha-panel; @include sencha-buttons; @include sencha-sheet; @include sencha-picker; @include sencha-tabs; @include sencha-toolbar; @include sencha-toolbar-forms; @include sencha-carousel; @include sencha-indexbar; @include sencha-list; @include sencha-list-paging; @include sencha-list-pullrefresh; @include sencha-layout; @include sencha-form; @include sencha-msgbox; @include sencha-loading-spinner;
error application.scss <Line 1: File to import not found or unreadable: ../themes/stylesheets/sencha-touch/default/all.
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C:/... (etc. etc.)
C:/... (etc. etc.)
Sass::SyntaxError on line ["1"] of C: File to import not found or unreadable: ../themes/stylesheets/sencha-touch/default/all.
Load Paths:
C:/... (etc. etc.)
C:/... (etc. etc.)
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What xpous said.
When I started my working life about 20 years ago, they came up with this new fangled idea called "graphical user interfaces", which replaced command line interfaces. If whoever wrote sass and compass wants to get more traction with it, perhaps some kind of install script or GUI to make it Just Work would be well worth the ROI.
9 Jan 2012 3:16 AM #9
i love you!
that was exactly whar i needed!!!
one thing to mention is that i got stuck with thus Compass error:
"You must compile individual stylesheets from the project directory "
I figure it out by creating a new project and work by your instructions there...(copying all sencha's file to the new project and back)
10 Jan 2012 1:08 AM #10
Thank youuu!
Was suffering with the problem for a few hours - I was sass --watch sencha-touch.sassencha-touch.css instead of doing the whole folder, stupid me.
Thanks a bunch!
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The arrow compatibility conditions in that problem can be considered an attempt to discretize the notion of a continuous vector field.
The Hairy Ball Theorem states that there is no continuous nowhere vanishing vector field on the sphere, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem.
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