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After having problem with estabilishing connection to github.com now I have a problem with next step - pushing. I need to mention, that I am novice at GIT service, and this whole Distributed Subversion Checking Systems world..
I have done
git init, then
git add *.h and
git add *.cpp, but currently
git status does not print anything in "# On branch master" section?
Previously It was correctly printing whole list of added files, now this list is gone.
Nextly, I have executed:
git remote add origin https://github.com/mgeeky/disasm.git
and error has occured after:
git push origin master
error: Cannot access URL https://github.com/mgeeky/disasm.git/, return code 22
fatal: git-http-push failed
What should I do now? I've tried:
git push origin
No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing.
Perhaps you should specify a branch such as 'master'.
Everything up-to-date
But it seems to be okay.
Yes, I have already done
git commit, I have a files in commit (named "initial" ) but still can't push them to github.com .
In question: http://superuser.com/questions/256152/another-ssh-connect-to-host-github-com-port-22-bad-file-number
I had a problem with connection to the server. Through SSH I am not able to connect (problem 22: Bad file number), so only way for me is to use Smart HTTP method, so
I can't use
firstname.lastname@example.com:mgeeky/disasm.git but
But this is not what I am asking about. The point is that after
git commit and after
git push origin master I receive
error: Cannot access URL https://github.com/mgeeky/disasm.git/, return code 22
fatal: git-http-push failed
What could I do with this? I still not able to use GIT and constantly trying.. Yes, I tried Github Bootcamp, and have stopped at 3.1 "Create A Repo"->"Commit your README" at
$ git remote add origin email@example.com:username/Hello-World.gitSets the origin for the Hello-World repo
$ git push origin master
What next?


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Rodes For Him & For Her hosted the annual Rodes' Personal Shopping Day on Dec. 1, at the clothing store located at 4938 Brownsboro Road.
During the holiday event Rodes hosted designers from three featured collections. GIMO'S Italian S.P.A. held a special showing of crafted, unique leather outerwear pieces for both men and women. Borlino showcased their hand-crafted bags, totes and luggage – all made in Italy from the finest leathers – at Rodes For Him. Fans of Cindy Borders jewelry had an opportunity to meet the talented designer and view her newest holiday jewelry collection, which features stones and semi-precious jewels.
The annual celebration was created as a "thank you" to the store's loyal customers for their continued support. Customers enjoyed holiday refreshments, food and music, as well as an appearance by Santa Claus himself.
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What are the effects of having too much water in your mash? If it's too "soupy" or watery or whatnot.
As homebrewers we're used to 1.25-1.5 qts/lb. But in some pro brewing set ups they mash in one vessel and lauter in another. In order to transfer from one vessel to the next they use better than 2qts/lb in some cases for pump-ability.
Some speak of getting a thinner beer with a thinner mash, but i think within 10-20% of the target thickness you won't see much of a difference.
More water does dilute the enzymes to an extent also, which has an impact on conversion time. But the relationship between enzyme and substrate ratio for conversion efficiency and time is not a linear relationship. So at the end of the "curve" we are operating in there is tolerance for more water than expected, and very little if any change in conversion time is seen.
Keep in mind most of us mashing for 60mins tend to mash longer than is actually required to convert. So 60 minutes will still cover you even if you use 2X-3X water.
The major effect is dilution of enzyme concentration. In a watery mash the enzymes take longer to convert starches.
While it takes longer to convert, you will ultimately end up with a more fermentable wort because high concentrations of sugars hinder enzyme action.


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Those that wish to participate may turn in tails and landowner certification forms anytime at the Evant Ranch and Farm Depot or the Gatesville Farm and Ranch Supply.
Money will only be paid at those locations on the first and third Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. and on December 29.
There is a 25 acre minimum per landowner to qualify.
Only $5,000 is available in rewards.
Landowner certification forms may be picked up at either above location or found only at the Coryell County website.
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MAYNARD - The Maynard Fire Department and Sportsmen's Club presented a check Tuesday night for nearly $8,000 to the Dopkiss family, who lost their home in a fire Jan. 27. Also present was Delores Shinkarow, the neighbor whose quick reaction prevented the tragedy from claiming the family's lives.
At about 11:30 p.m. Jan. 27, Shinkarow looked out her window and was shocked to see her neighbors' house engulfed in flames.
"I happened to see it and I ran over there. I started hollering, 'The house is on fire!'
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A?COMMUNITY rallied to help and support a Maynard family after the loss of their home to a fire in January. Members of the Maynard Fire Department and Sportsmen's Club held a February fundraiser for the family. Kneeling, from left, are Buck Kowalcyk, Sportsmen's Club and Sue Olinski, fire department. In back, from left, are Fire Chief Steve Klan; Delores Shinkarow; Kelly, Gerald and Zach Dopkiss; Justin Mowery, fire department; Ed Gorza, Sportsmen's Club; Brian Ware, fire department.
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"It was the whole side of the house. It was a terrible sight," she said. "It was a blaze."
Gerald and Kelly Dopkiss and their son, Zach were asleep at the time and quickly exited the structure. Shinkarow said the fire marshal informed them that a delay of five more minutes would likely have resulted in the deaths of all three.
When firefighters from Maynard, Barton and Harrisville arrived, they saw the house could not be saved and they could only keep the fire from spreading. Maynard Fire Chief Steve Klan noted that the fire began at a wood burner in a room addition. The fire had spread through the house.
Shinkarow was later presented with the Good Neighbor Award by the fire department.
"I'm glad I saved three lives," she said.
"She's our angel," said Kelly Dopkiss.
Dopkiss spoke about the loss of the family's home of more than 20 years of all the memories and mementos it held, but added that the community has been generous in lending help and support including donations and a Feb. 17 benefit held by the fire department and Sportsmen's Club.
"It's overwhelming, everybody's help," Dopkiss said.
"Maynard's a good community," added Shinkarow.
The family is currently staying at a rental but plans to erect another house at the site.
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Oxymoron Cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory for $26.95
Low Carb Cheesecake sweetened with Splenda®, 7-inch Dessert
Creamy and Delicious and Baked in a Graham Cracker Walnut Crust, our Low Carb Cheesecake has all of the great taste of our Original Cheesecake. You'll never know the Carbs are missing!
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$27 for a 7 Inch Cheesecake? a 7 Inch Cheesecake!
Dang, this is the anti-deal...
@dmmutti: incorrect; really good cheesecake is at least $20
@deputybangles: Also incorrect. Really good cheesecake can't be had for any price, but my Sister will make some for you if she likes you.
Were can I meet up with your sister, and hope she isn't a big'en
If she makes REALLY GOOD Cheesecake, who CARES if she's a big'un !!!
It's too bad you can't de-Woot or flag a comment for being unrelated, for instance with unrelated links.
Well, it is low carb. The minute you brand it as low carb is the minute it doubles in price. No wonder Americans are fat. It's cheaper to eat unhealthy.
Still doesn't change the fact that they are pretty much the worst food on the planet.
When my family went on atkins, my dad kept making these (mod edit: profanity) no carb cheesecakes. they are really bad.
Hey, their regular 7-inch cheesecake is 23.95, so NONE of them is a bargain!
@richellelander: No wonder Americans are fat. It's cheaper to eat unhealthy.
Ummm... yeah? What, you've never gone grocery shopping and priced Gwaltney Big 8 hotdogs and Ramen noodles against lean meats and produce?
Ever wonder why you can get a McD's combo for $6 but a trip to a salad bar costs over $10?
Why do you think obesity is more of a problem in the lower income brackets? If it's between eating healthy, or eating poorly and making rent, there's a lot to be said for a roof.
@ceruleandragon: The time stamp on the comments is a permalink - you can copy and paste that into a tattle and the mods will take care of it
Who wants to spend that much money on a partially eaten cheesecake anyways? The picture doesn't lie people!! :)
@dosquatch: Are you serious?!? You honestly believe most obese people are fat because they're forced to eat unhealthy food to fit their budget? That is the stupidest thing I've read in at least a month. Just because you can get 5 double cheeseburgers for $5 doesn't mean you have to eat that many to survive. If they really were short on money they would eat less, even if the food is unhealthy.
Ew gross splenda no wonder its cheap.
@darkdrag0n: Are you serious? dosquatch's point wasn't "Oh i can get 5 cheeseburgers for $5 so I'll do that instead of spending that $5 on something heathy" The point is that people who only have $10 or $20 to feed them for a week cannot afford to buy lean meats and produce so they're going to be less healthy than someone who can. Even if they eat LESS hotdogs and ramen, they're still eating hotdogs and ramen.
@darkdrag0n: I am serious. It is stupid, but not because it's wrong.
It has less to do with how much you eat and more to do with glucose response. Starchy foods spike blood sugar, which spikes insulin, which stores the excess sugar as fat. Cheap foods use lots of sugars and starches as fillers. It's biology and chemistry, dude.
Or have I missed the epedimic of obese vegetarians?
You wanna fix the obesity problem? Fix the quality of our diets, and quantity will fix itself.
@darkdrag0n: I take it you've never had to live on a tight budget.
Try making rent and buying all the really expensive "healthy" options
btw I believe most of these "healthy" options are bogus anyway, rule 1 of business, get someone to pay more for something you have been selling for years.
It doesn't matter whether the food is healthy or not...it's all about the calories.
@mr2gts: You're only partially right. You can control a waistline by controlling calories. Weight Watchers makes bank on that. What's missed is that, when you sell inexpensive foods loaded with fats, starches, and sugars, it is impossibly easy to overindulge calorically without actually eating a lot of quantity.
That still doesn't change the biology, though, and dietically worse foods have a far more pronounced effect on energy levels and waistlines than the same amount of calories of dietically better foods.
Which was, and still is, my original point. Fix the quality, and quantity takes care of itself.
for example i can live off of $5 a week if i eat ramen, but if i try to eat food of any nutritional quality its going to cost me $5 a day. This is coming from someone who works two jobs and goes to college and can barely pay the rent.
Biology does play a huge role in how well you metabolize those starches and sugars. I've seen people thinner than me eat twice as much. However, for the average American it's more about what's available to them. Not to say all rich people who can afford healthy foods are thin, but the obesity problem is higher in lower income brackets for multiple reasons. Biology, accessibility to stores that sell healthy foods, and cost. Produce and dairy product prices are going through the roof. Forget lean meats. Your getting the fattiest part of the cow for 44 cents a pound, because you can't afford the 93%. A can of fat free Pringles cost double or three times as much as the fatty kind. So in sum, the cheap stuff is the junk food. Eating less is a bad idea when trying to lose weight or staying healthy. Eating healthy foods is the best way to lose weight and remain healthy. There's got to be some way to produce healthier foods at a lower cost.
@dosquatch: I'm pretty sure that was my point in the first place. Did I phrase it wrong?
Ah man, I was all excited about this until I read Splenda. That stuff tastes godawful if you're not used to it. I'm going to go ahead and throw my two cents into conversation now. Artificial sweeteners have been linked to obesity. Here's a study if you're interested in reading about it: http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20050613/drink-more-diet-soda-gain-more-weight
Speaking as someone who is on a low carb diet, most cheesecakes are fairly low carb to begin with. Not a lot of sugar goes into a cheesecake, and the graham cracker crust is low glycemic. If you can make a good regular cheesecake, low carb is easy.
That being said, this is horribly overpriced and is from a horrible restaurant.
Check their nutrition information, this is the only low carb item on the menu.
@topshopgamer: That's awesome. lol
@richellelander: No, I just have a low-level reaction to "fat american" statements :o) You're right on point.
@topshopgamer: Awesome, seconded!
@dchase80: She's not a big'un, but she's married. Sorry.
All these folks talking about tight budgets . . . yeah, I understand completely! We're on woot after all! Deals on woot >rent>food. Amirite?
@darkdrag0n: Sorry, what you said is definitely the uneducated statement. You've forgotten that the more you eat processed, fatty hi-g foods, the more food you need because you aren't getting the nutrition you need so the body says EAT MORE!
Here's the nutritional breakdown on the most popular recipe on Allrecipes. Looks like a lot of carbs to me.
Nutritional Information
Chantal's New York Cheesecake
Servings Per Recipe: 12
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 533
Total Fat: 35.7g
Cholesterol: 167mg
Sodium: 380mg
Total Carbs: 44.2g
Dietary Fiber: 0.6g
Protein: 10.3g
About: Nutrition Info
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@marcoselmalo: U M rite!:)
@dosquatch: Darn it! Now you go me thinking about ramen nooddles. mmmmmm...Ramen noodles. Curse you! :)
@yessrinc: I'm betting, based on all the low-carb food I eat, that a lot of those carbs come from sugar alcohol and the like.
That said, splenda is gross. I can't wait until companies start using stevia and erythritol for sweeteners.
@topshopgamer: That study is mind-bogglingly stupid. The obesity/diet soda correlation is more due to the fact that someone who drinks two cans of soda a day likely has a psychological addiction to sweets, little self-control, and is unwilling to significantly alter their diet to become healthy. The diet soda itself, aka artificial sweeteners, does not CAUSE obesity, good grief. And I realize you aren't saying it CAUSES obesity, just that it's linked--however, the sweeteners themselves are not the problem. The problem is--and continues to be so for almost all people with weight issues--moderation.
You'd buy less if you grow your own. http://squarefootgardening.com - You can grow an amazing amount of foods in a small space.
@dmax801: ...Grow your own cheesecake?
@aliceinwootland: ...Yeah, because diet soda and obesity are also right on topic. Thanks for catching that.
@aliceinwootland: "Grow your own cheesecake?"
I'd buy that tree! Will it grow in the squarefootgarden @dmax801 suggests?
@mcogan1966: Its good for the soul darling. Good for the soul.
@zollars23: No no no... Cheesecakes have tons of carbs. I just made a pumpkin cheesecake this weekend and used two 8oz pkgs of cream cheese, a full cup of sugar and TONS of butter in the crust. For 4 oz of crumbs there was a half stick of butter. I think the crust alone was 1200 calories. lol...
@float410: Cream cheese and butter have fat, not carbs. Sugar and graham crackers have carbs.
Fat has calories, but not the sort that cause a bad glucose response. No, those fat calories cause a bad CHOLESTEROL response. Different problem entirely :o)
@kirazxm: how in the heck did we get on ugg boots?
@dosquatch: Agreed. I think we can also agree that cheesecake is bad, bad, bad, but oh so good, good, good. We are screwed either way if we eat too much cheesecake. Regardless of whether it's fat free, sugar free, low carb, non-dairy, etc. Now, who said something about growing a cheesecake tree? I want some of that organic cheesecake!
@dosquatch: Ever been grocery shopping at a farmer's market?
Jeez. You can eat healthier for less than a MacDonald's's burger.
The problem is ignorance and ... well, people who think they have to have meat at every sitting: obstinance. They swear by it, but you feed 'em a Boca burger or a TVP chili and they wouldn't know the difference. It's the fat and salt they crave.
Get off the animal fats, and Type 2 Diabetes evaporates. No shots. Also flavor makes a comeback, instead of it all being masked by grease and MSG.
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Ummm.... okay. "Jeez", I think? Did you miss that I'm advocating a healthier diet, and not more McD's?
The cheesecake is "Too Damn High" and so is the rent.
The study was also confirmed on rats.
They fed one group yogurt+sugar, the other group yogurt + artificial sweetener. The artificially sweetened yogurt led to obesity.
It is theorized that artificial sweeteners disassociate the taste of calories with actual consumption of calories, and because taste/smell is the only short acting method the body has to estimate caloric intake, you overshoot your eating waiting until your stomach is full. Plus, because you don't know how much sugar you ate, you body doesn't up its metabolism like it usually would after sugar consumption.
Edit: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bne-feb08-swithers.pdf
@crycis805: $5 worth of real food - 2 cans of beans, 1 can of corn, 2 cans of diced tomatoes, 1/2 lb ground beef, and packet of seasonings and you have enough soup to eat all week. And FAR more nutritious than ramen. When eaten in the correct portion sizes, most recipes will make several meals worth of food.
Most people seem to think groceries only make one meal and is therefore more expensive. When the grocery bill is divided by the number of meals it makes, the per meal cost is far lower than people think. And usually quite competitive or outright lower than fast food prices.


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I'm looking for a bicycle to commute to work (<2 miles), do groceries (~2-3 miles), go to school (~8 miles). Would this be a good bike for that? (one of the cheapest bikes on bikesdirect.com)
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While the comments on your question are good, i'll answer anyway.
Short answer: Yes for your specific needs this is a fitting bike. Longer. Yes, If you have some hills, the 3 speed oxford model may help.
Buying a used bike off craigslist for someone with little bike knowledge is probably not a great idea. a $50 - 100 bike in my area is generally pretty old. beat up and not worth the savings.


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Read and understand this carefully: the project (video) profile that I have selected is correct and it correctly matches what the video is supposed to be! I expect the frame rate to be 29.97 fps, Nautilus properties report the frame rate to be 29.97 fps (it actually just says 30 fps). I've set the frame rate of the profile in Kdenlive to 29.97 fps before importing any clips - so I know that I'm using the right frame rate in the project for the right frame rate of the video.
If I import a clip, the audio is visibly shorter than the video (there is a period of audio waveform that is flat - a little at the beginning, but most at the end), which to me indicates that the frame rate in Kdenlive is incorrect. I exported the audio of that clip and it came to be 5:28;26, which is what I expect the clip length to be. Moreover, that is exactly the length of the same clip (both video and audio) that I get when I use Cinelerra and there is no period of flat audio waveform at start/end. Cinelerra reports a frame rate of 29.97 for the project profile as well.
This is the weirdest, most annoying thing and its rendering Kdenlive useless to me. I cannot tell though if the problem is isolated to Kdenlive or if it is the case with any program that relies on melt (MLT?).
I even trancoded the clip and forced a frame rate of 30 FPS and then imported it into Kdenlive but got the same results. Even ffmpeg reports that the frame rate is 29.97, so I know that I have the frame rate setting correct!
Please help...
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 14:53
So your source file is a NTSC DVD of a film transfer?
Maybe these might help:
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 19:26
A 1080i camera, then frame rate is 60i not (29.98) unless you are deinterlacing?
Try a 1080i HDV project and see if it resolves your problem. As an aside kdenlive offers a great proxy function, no real need to transcode to proxies outside of kdenlive, it could get a bit messy swapping over for encoding.
My apologies about the links I should have said IF your source is NTSC video of film transfer the problem could relate to telicine but it doesn't. :-)
Tue, 06/18/2013 - 21:31
Yes, your correct, fields not 60 frames, I was thinking specifically in 'framerate' typical palance not technically correct and didn't actually say 60 frames per second. ;-)
Basically if you have 60i source with kdenlive then a 60i project is required and then if you want 30p out at the other end you use the force progressive in the render properties rather than using a 30P progressive project to start with, just the way kdenlive / MLT seem to work.
So back to the problem, if you look at the clip properties for one of your clips and you know them to be 60i, what do the clip properties say? If they report 29.98 progressive then try using the overides to force interlaced and top or bottom first.
Maybe ffmpeg is reporting incorrectly to MLT and you need to overide 'force' what you know to be correct.
Wed, 06/19/2013 - 07:15
Can you provide a short clip to test? As you say maybe underlying problem with MLT or incompatibility with your ffmpeg version. I have HDV media and see no problems with it.
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I see your camera offers: HDV 1080, 60i/30F/24F Recording and Playback, 60i/30frame/sec, 24 frame/sec with 2:3 pulldown switchable, so do you have problems with kdenlive using all of these modes or particular ones, which mode is causing you problems. Note: 24F is an option going back to the links to Inverse Telecine NTSC 29.97 to 24fps.
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 11:26
I also had a look at your clip, as I had a similar issue with strange framerates with a video recorded with my smartphone.
I added the clip to a HDV 1440x1080i 29.97 fps kdenlive project. The audio thumbnail indeed looks strange at the end of the clip, but I also noticed that the last 24 frames or so the video is "frozen" and that there is silence exactly during that time when the video plays.
Then I cut off those frames and rendered the video as H.264 and added the resulting video as a clip, then the audio thumbnail looks normal and A/V sync seems to be fine too, looking at the violin playing.
Could it be that the only issue really is those duplicated video frames at the end of the clip?
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 11:43
Oh and BTW, ffmpeg seems to have issues with this material:
[mpegts @ 0xd53b80] Continuity check failed for pid 2068 expected 1 got 15
[mpeg2video @ 0xd596c0] mpeg_decode_postinit() failure
[mpegts @ 0xd53b80] PES packet size mismatch
Last message repeated 23 times
[NULL @ 0xd5d540] start time is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
[NULL @ 0xd77680] start time is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
[mpegts @ 0xd53b80] PES packet size mismatch
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Stream #0.0[0x810]: Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p, 1440x1080 [PAR 4:3 DAR 16:9], 25000 kb/s, 36.28 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
And it actually thinks the frame rate is 36.28 fps.
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 22:40
Yes I concur with dode, ffmpeg has problems with these files, so does MKVMergeGUI with error:
Error: Found B frame without second reference in a non closed GOP. Fix the MPEG2 video stream before attempting to multiplex it.
Suggesting the .m2t files produced by the camera are 'broken' in some way for less forgiving codec implementations.
However using a simple commandline app available from Ubuntu distro called dvbcut, for DVB mpeg2 transport stream cutting and remuxing without reencoding (as long as m2t's aren't trimmed :-) ). http://dvbcut.sourceforge.net/ and a simple batch script, it's possible to very quickly index and remux each '.m2t' file into a '.mpg' container.
Creating a shell script with gedit or similar, saving it as say m2t_to_mpg.sh
for file in *.m2t ; do
dvbcut $file -generateidx $file -idx $file'.idx'
dvbcut $file -batch $file -exp './Out/'$file'.mpg' | $file
Give it execute permissions via nautilus properties.
Install dvbcut, which is a small app, create a folder of .m2t's and a sub folder called 'Out', open a terminal in the folder containing the .m2t's and start the batch script with ./m2t_to_mpg.sh and all the m2t's should be indexed and remuxed one by one.
This does double disk space usage but personally I copy files for a project off my RAID archive/backup into a project folder and use those rather than working off original files, so no problem to delete the copied m2t's in the project folder and work with the mpg's. You may disagree.
dvbcut does appear to resolve the issue you're having from the file you gave.


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Op-eds such as "Noble lies damaging environmentalism," which ran in the Taunton Daily Gazette Wednesday, spread nothing but ignoble lies to protect the multi-billion dollar fossil fuel industry harming our environment and public health.
Readers should not be surprised to see Tom Harris, environmental policy advisor for conservative think-tank the Heartland Institute, lash out against the 97 percent of climate scientists who agree humans are causing climate change and that we must embrace new strategies and technologies to protect our planet.
Decades ago, the Heartland Institute and similar organizations cast doubt about the cancer risks of second-hand smoke in order to protect the tobacco industry. Today, Heartland has shifted its energy to heighten skepticism around climate change on behalf of fossil fuel donors now backing its research and opinion pieces.
The Heartland Institute failed then and is doomed to fail now. Evidence such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports show the science is settled on this issue — except for the "science" of those financed by the fossil fuel industry. Even the President & CEO of the American Lung Association of the Northeast acknowledges climate change "will make it even more challenging to protect human health."
State Sen. Marc R. Pacheco
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I installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 on my laptop. I knew that installing using the option install alongside windows 8 will screwup windows's bootloader. But I ended up installing it in that way because I was not paying any attention. So now I have a GRUB, a working ubuntu and a broken windows 8. I dont have a windows 8 installation disk as it came preinstalled. Is there a way to repair windows bootloader?
A broken windows in the sense when i try to boot windows it gives me a screen saying "windows failed to start" and "boot configuration data missing" and asks me to insert windows installation disk. But i dont have one.


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I am taking a course in Matrix Theory and we have a theorem that states (among other things) that:
The following conditions on the matrix $A$ of size $m \times n$ are equivalent:
(1) A has left inverse
(2) The system $Ax=b$ has at most one solution for any column vector $b$.
The proof that (1) $\implies$ (2) goes like this:
If $Ax=b$ and $V$ is a left inverse, then $VAx=Vb \implies x=Vb$, so we have at most one solution (if any).
The thing is, left inverses are not unique right? Take $A = \left( \begin{matrix} 1 \\ 0 \end{matrix} \right)$ That has left inverses $V_1= \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & 0 \end{matrix} \right) $ and $ V_2 = \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & 1 \end{matrix} \right)$
Does this mean that the proof is wrong or am I missing something?


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You have dozens, maybe hundreds, of ways to finish mahogany for your woodworking projects. That's part of the beauty of the wood; you can apply nearly any finish to it and it'll look wonderful. So there's no way to make a definitive declaration about the best finish for mahogany. But I can pass you a few tips, ideas, and tried-and-true techniques that have served woodworkers for many years.
Absorb these three techniques, you might find them useful for your woodworking projects. The video above demonstrates how to fill grain, stain and dye to achieve the following looks and colors in mahogany.
1. How to Make a Deep Red Antique Mahogany Finish Using Dye, Stain, and Filler
Products Used:
Of the three process we'll show you here, this one is the most sophisticated, but it also has the most interesting result of the three. While there are a few steps, it's a straightforward process that's not hard to pull off. Even though I'm going to list the exact brands and products I used to create this finish, they're less important than understanding the process. Other brands will work just fine, too. In short: dye the wood to make it the overall color you want, seal it, fill the grain with something dark (aside from the filler I used, there are several other options too), apply a protective finish on top and polish it.
- Solar Lux aniline dye, medium brown walnut color (it dries with a maroon red color)
- Old Masters Woodgrain filler
- Zar oil stain, Early American color
- Denatured alcohol
- Zinsser SealCoat
- Spray lacquer
- Prepare the wood surface as you normally would by sanding to 180 or 220 grit
- Prepare the dye by diluting it by 50% with denatured alcohol in a mixing container. Apply the dye, either with a pad or by spraying
- Let it dry, then apply another coat of dye. Repeat until you're happy with the color
- Apply a coat of Zinsser Sealcoat after the dye is dry. Work quickly and do not let it drip or pool.
- After it has dried, you may lightly and carefully sand the sealer if it developed nibs or bumps. Be cautious not to sand through the dye.
- Mix Old Masters Woodgrain Filler with a dark brown oil stain. In this example that's Zar Early American. Use a 2:1 ratio, 2 parts filler to one part stain.
- Apply this tinted Woodgrain Filler with a rag, brush, or scraper to work it into the pores of the wood. Follow directions on the can. Let it dry for about 5 minutes, the wipe it off moving across the grain.
- Allow the filler to dry about 4 hours. Do another application if the grain is not filled to your satisfaction.
- Apply the topcoat of choice. The sample above is finished off with another 3 coats of Zinsser SealCoat, sanded between each one with 220 grit. And then it's sprayed with 3 coats of lacquer, also sanded between each coat.
- Buff and polish when the top coat is ready.
2. Staining Mahogany The Right Way
Coloring mahogany doesn't need to be as involved as that first process. You're allowed to just open a can of wood stain — and there are legitimate reasons for staining mahogany, such as making the color of a whole project look even and homogenous. The results, of course, are far less dramatic and less nuanced than the first method (above), but stains can still look nice.
There are a lot of kinds of oil stains to choose from, but basic penetrating oil stains seem to bring the nicest results from the bunch. You'll know this kind of a stain by how thin and watery they are. Because of that, they only just kiss the wood with a bit of color. The pigment builds up in the pores, darkening them more than the surface wood which highlights the character in the wood rather than obscuring it. And some stain colors look very natural on mahogany like Old Masters "Dark Mahogany" color.
Not all oil stains are engineered the same way. Gel stain, for example, is most often suited for creating a wood grain appearance on fiberglass doors. That's why if you were to get up close to the stained piece of mahogany on the right you'd notice that the color appears to be almost like a translucent layer of film riding on top of the wood rather than getting into it. The gel stain has muddied the grain of that piece of mahogany. Gel stain has its place — on a piece of raw mahogany is, arguably, not it.
Genuine mahogany also accepts water based stains just fine. As usual, raise the grain and sand it back before applying the water based stain. If you do want to use a water based stain, I suggest filling the grain with a darker water based filler first. Perhaps Timbermate's walnut colored filler.
After staining mahogany (and after it dries!), protect it with your preferred top coat like varnish, shellac, lacquer or polyurethane.
Take a closer look at stained mahogany examples:
3. Fill the grain to get a perfectly smooth finish
Your mahogany woodworking project will benefit greatly if you fill the grain first, and you'll notice the difference between a finish with the grain filled and one without the grain filled. So how do you do it? There is more than one way to skin this cat, so here are two.
1. Woodgrain Filler or another paste filler
We already brought up Old Masters Woodgrain Filler in the first process above. So that's one product you can use, and it's easy to work with. The trick with it is that you're supposed to tint it with an oil based stain because out of the can it's an off white or cream color. So you tint it, apply it, wipe it off, and once it dries sand it smooth. The sanding could be optional if you wipe it down well enough and you approve of the color that it leaves. Naturally, the stain you tinted the filler with will color your wood — the sanding will clear it up though. If you still want to stain your mahogany a darker color, you can do so. So you get the benefit of darkened pores, filled pores, and the choice of keeping your mahogany its natural color or staining it.
Another way to keep the stain in the filler from darkening your mahogany is to put down a washcoat (a coat of sealer) before the filler.
2. Timbermate, or another water based wood filler
The benefits of a water based wood filler is that it dries much faster and clean up is much simpler than the oil based filler above. You also don't have to tint it, as it frequently is available in numerous colors. The brand Timbermate offers a mahogany color filler, which is what I've used in the sample in the picture above. A darker filler might prove to be a little more interesting, darkening the pores more, but the point is that the filler helps you achieve a glassy smooth finish quickly.
Want a Few More Ideas?
If none of these suit your tastes, don't worry. We've got three more recipes for you, too.
See our post "3 More Easy & Exquisite Finishes for Mahogany" with step-by-step instructions.


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I just implemented the bufferedrenderer. It really works great, this is a huge step forward! Grid scrolls nice and easy.
Now just some layout issues with the fieldsets, hope these things get stable too.
But, good job, that bufferedrenderer. Next step, put that thing default hidden the grid so you don't even have to configure it
4 Jan 2013 3:53 PM #12
This does not work for me in 4.2.0 with:
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config.viewConfig = {
markDirty : false,
emptyText : 'strNoItems'
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You mean the markDirty config?
Did it ever work?
I see no code for handling it. Even though it is documented!
This is a bug in that the reality does not match the config.
Please create another thread for this which I can push into the Jira queue.Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
Read the docs too: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/docs/
Scope: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.ph...642#post257642
11 Jan 2013 8:26 AM #14
Created a new thread for this: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?253647
12 Feb 2014 12:42 PM #15
Thanks for your clear explanation! It took me some time to figure it all out, but now it seems to fall all into place. Maybe you can explain some more about what you said?
Our plan here is to support lookup on a buffered store but if there is no match we will at a minimum issue a diagnostic message or perhaps throw an error back. The reason being that when a record is not in the page cache, that does not mean it is not "in the store" ... not in the 10M item sense. It means we don't know the answer to the membership question. If the record were being displayed somehow, then we would surely find it and all would be well.
Many things get exciting during edit. If any set operations are in effect (sorting, grouping or filtering) an edit can completely invalidate the cache. Editing the right field could cause the first record to become the last.
Because the page cache has never supported saving/syncing, this was always a hack in previous versions to get working. We will not be enforcing any checks here to prevent you from trying to edit a buffered store's content, but this is not supported.... still.
Thanks in advance
23 Apr 2014 4:54 AM #16
My little override in 4.2.2 for editing in buffered store
PHP Code:
Ext.override(Ext.data.PageMap, {
filterBy : function(fn, scope) {
var me = this,
result = {items:[]};
me.forEach(function(rec, index) {
if (fn.call(scope, rec, index)) {
return result;
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29 Jul 2014 8:24 AM #18
How much you mean for HUGE dataset ?
How much you mean for HUGE dataset ?
1K, 10K, 100K, 1M rows ?


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Home > Novitec Rosso > Novitec Fiat Punto Evo
Below you will find the high resolution car wallpaper for Novitec Fiat Punto Evo. You may use the car wallpaper for any of the following standard screen resolutions:
1600x1200 | 1400x1050 | 1280x1024 | 1280x960 | 1152x864 | 1024x768 (iPad) | 800x600 Full Car Details
Novitec Fiat Punto Evo
Novitec now offers an extensive tuning program for the Fiat Punto Evo. The tuning package, worth 1929 Euros, includes engine tuning for the two turbocharged gasoline engines and for all diesel models, a sport exhaust system for a throatier exhaust note, a striking body-styling package, custom-tailored tire/wheel combinations with diameters of 17 and 18 inches and sporty suspension options.


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Just got a Nikon 16-35mm f4 VR lens for my d700, and I would love to make some QTVR panos with it. But I cant find anyone used this combo before, and found the nodal point of it.
- So if anyone have this combo, please show me your work.
- How many images do I need for a 360 degree image, when used with a fullframe sensor and the lens at 16mm


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Where are you selling your bowling pins? We buy them by lot. I use to order them on Ebay. I can't…
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believe it's not butter.
get next to you, babe. (No matter what I do)
I can't get next to you.
get no, satisfaction. Cause I try and I try and I try and I try.
I can't get no, I can't get no.
...I can't...I can't stand losin', I can't......I can't...I can't stand losin'...
...stand not havin me some more bowling pins
...fight this feeling anymore.
I've forgotten what I started fighting for.
It's time to bring this ship into the shore,
And throw away the oars, forever.
...dance, I can't talk.
Only thing about me is the way I walk.
I can't dance, I can't sing
I'm just standing here selling everything.
i steal mine from the bowling alley at night. they don't miss 1 or 2
If you don't have an answer to my questions. DO NOT LEAVE AN ANSWER. YOU ARE WASTING MY VALUABLE TIME!
believe I ate the whoooole thing!
@lenlan10: you never finished your question. look up there, it's cutoff.
@lenlan10: This is deals.woot... It's probably not the place for people with "valuable" time.
@w00tgurl: 10 pin or duckpin?
@straub: Hahahaahahaa!!!! Oh, man! Thanks for the laugh! As the Great Homer once said, "It's funny cuz it's true."
@klozitshoper: both, whatever i can get my five finger discount on. i would sell some to @lenlan10 but he's being kinda mean.. there is no rush on getting bowling pins, ever
I absolutely love that the mods tagged this with fill-in-the-blank. So lighten up, @lenlan10.
@wilcononomous: believe it
I don't sell my bowling pins, I hoard them. I have hundreds of them of all shapes and sizes -ten pin, candle pin, duck pin, 9 pin, some of those 5 pin ones you see in Canada- hundreds I tell you, and they're all mine. I won't sell them. Ever.
I'm going for the world record of bowling pin hoarding, because I can't...
@lenlan10: Because somebody has to say it...Deals.woot is a deal aggregator so it can't track an order for you or tell you which is the best deal for you. Deals.woot doesn't sell bowling pins, tires, shoes or any sort of goods. It's merely a site to find links to great deals elsewhere on the web that have been found by regular folks like you (and the crazy people who contributed to this thread) and posted to share with the members.
If you had a specific question on an ebay deal someone posted on deals.woot.com, you need to go BACK to that specific deal and ask your question IN THAT SPECIFIC THREAD. The deal poster should be able to help you.
Don't mind the goofy answers here. I'm blaming it on hurricane jitters. It was all in good fun as a result of what even you will admit came across an odd question to ask the community. Welcome to Deals.woot.com!
@lavikinga: that answer applies to 40% of all the questions on here. When will these people learn?
@captainsuperdawg: There is a never-ending supply of newcomers, which is a Good Thing. Some are more clueful than others, of course; we mostly hear from the clue-challenged crowd. But if they're not familiar with the site and/or do little shopping on-line, there's no particular reason to expect them to understand the vagaries of this particular.
(Then again, I'm used to teaching folks how to set up and use a home-banking system when they're not sure what a browser is or how to tell which browser they use, so newbie questions are pretty routine for me to handle.)
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Sencha Touch with Google Admob
Hi everyone,
Does any on know whether it is possible to integrates Google Admob into Sencha Touch?
I have seen a couple of post about this but they do not provide any answer.
I am new to JS, but I believe the admob JS code seems to be designed to be executed when a page is loaded. This some how not what Sencha Touch do, Sencha touch app do not reload from screen to screen.
If any one can share abit about how to in integrare ad (does not have to be Admob) into sencha touch that will be helpful.
8 May 2012 10:28 PM #2
tutorial to use admob with sencha touchi get a tutorial to use admob with sencha touch. and found it's nice. you can also take a look with this


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Andrew Kern: Teaching and The Abolition of Man
Andrew Kern, founder and president of the CIRCE Institute, joins the podcast to discuss classical education and its continued growth, how to teach teachers classically, and one of his favorite books for teachers, C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man. He explains some of the book's major points, which include how society is tending towards erasing humanity by attempting to control it and how many modern schools attempt not to instruct children in truth and virtue but condition them according to the desires of central planners. The CIRCE Institute teaches people how to conduct classical education. We also mention Kern's book, Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America.


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Snap Fitness of Ionia Trainer Tony Holtrust was working at Ionia Wash King as the night shift attendant Wednesday evening when he heard gun shots outside.
"I was counting the till and I heard a sound outside and I said, 'That's got to be a gunshot based on the way it is ringing through the building,'" Holtrust said.
Holtrust told his co-worker to call 9-1-1 and then heard four more shots and ran to the scene.
As he ran toward the vehicles, he saw the passengers of one of the cars beating on the hood and saying, "Call the cops."
"I approached the silver Taurus and I saw a guy with a gun in his hand, so I told him I was going to kick the gun out of his hand and then asked him if he was all right. There was a lot of blood and his was blinking and moaning," said Holtrust.
Then, he turned to the next shooter, who he reported was gasping and turning purple.
"I tried to do CPR and I yelled, 'Where are the cops?' and eventually they came all at once," said Holtrust.
When the police came, they handcuffed Holtrust in order to secure the area.
"I didn't think about what I was doing, one of the trainer requirements for Snap Fitness is to learn CPR so I just did what I had to do," said Holtrust.
When the cops realized that Holtrust was a hero, not a bad guy, he was released.
"I don't feel like a hero. I did what I could," Holtrust said.
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- BSO Case Number: NL12-08-852
- PIO Number: 12-10-17
- Date: 10/12/12
- Time:
- Place of Occurrence: 2555 NW 49 Ave, #104, Lauderdale Lakes
- Jurisdiction: Lauderdale Lakes
- State of Florida
- Name withheld, 8, female
- Jorim Athanaze, 20, 6/27/92, male, 2555 NW 49 Ave., Lauderdale Lakes
Description of Incident:
A young Lauderdale Lakes man is accused of molesting a child that his mother babysat at their home and detectives believe there may be other victims.
Jorim Athanaze, 20, is charged with lewd or lascivious molestation for an incident that occurred two years ago, when the now eight-year-old victim was six. The female victim's mother contacted the Broward Sheriff's Office after learning of the inappropriate contact and the girl told detectives that Athanaze assaulted her when she was left in the care of his mother. The girl described being partially undressed and molested and said it happened on more than one occasion.
During questioning by detectives Athanaze admitted knowing the victim but denied molesting her. He did, however, admit to sexually battering two other children. Charges against him in connection with those incidents are pending a review with the State Attorney's Office.
Detectives believe there are probably other victims, possibly dating back several years. Anyone who believes that their children had inappropriate contact with Jorim Athanaze is asked to contact BSO Detective Michelle McCardle at 954-321-4261.
- THIS REPORT BY: Det. M. McCardle, SVU Jim Leljedal / PIO 10/16/12 1600
Posted At: 10/16/2012 03:50 PM
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Just installed Ubuntu 12.10, I has 1024x768 resolution at first, than I add PPA
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
get update
sudo apt-get update
and install driver
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings
now I have 640x480 maximum. How do I fix this? I'm newbie in Ubuntu, also not native english speaker, sorry for poor language and halp me, please.


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Attorney General Jon Bruning today announced John Oldson, 47, was convicted on one count of second degree murder for the 1989 death of Cathy Beard. He faces a possible life sentence for the Class IB felony. Sentencing will be held April 1, 2013.
"Nebraska law enforcement can be trusted to doggedly pursue justice – however long it takes. This conviction is a testament to that dedication and perseverance," said Bruning. "After nearly 25 years, John Oldson is being held accountable for murdering Cathy Beard. Hopefully, this decision brings a sense of closure to those who loved her."
Cathy Beard was last seen leaving the Some Place Else Tavern in Ord with John Oldson, on May 31, 1989. The skeletal remains of the 31-year-old waitress were found in a rural Valley County pasture three years later.
Oldson was charged with Beard's murder in January 2012.
At trial, forensic pathologist Dr. Matthias Okoye explained that a team of forensic experts were on hand during the examination of Beard's remains in 1992. After the examination, he ruled the death a homicide and determined the cause to be blunt force trauma to the head and trunk. He said stab wounds to the rib and vertebrae would have contributed to her death.
More than 40 witnesses testified during the two-week trial. The jury returned with the conviction after nearly seven hours of deliberation.
Assistant Attorneys General Corey O'Brien and Matt Lierman handled the case in cooperation with Valley County Attorney Glenn Clark. Investigative support was provided by investigators Pat Mason and Bill Black of the Attorney General's Office, Jay Morrow of the Nebraska State Patrol and Valley County Sheriff Casey Hurlburt.
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Women's Nike Fanatic Hoodie
Let your wild side run free in the Nike Fanatic Women's Hoodie. Made with adjustable features and an overlay at the upper body, the hoodie keeps in the heat and shuts out the elements. And it's made with specialized fabric that helps manage sweat so you stay dry and comfortable. The breathable, mesh-lined hoodie also has a media player cord-management feature so you're free to create your on-the-go soundtrack.


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My laptop is set up with Windows Vista on one smallish partition, and Ubuntu on the rest of the (single) hard drive. While I do use Windows mostly for just running Windows-based games easily, there are a few tools on it that I still like to use. I decided to look at virtualization again, since that allows me to use those tools without straying too far away from Linux's comforting presence.
First, the good news: I have it working!
I set up a virtual disk that points to the real hard drive as follows:
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /home/dmccall/Documents/VirtualBox/WindowsVista_PhysicalPartition/sda.vdmk -rawdisk /dev/sda -register
The problem here is that this makes the entire hard drive be accessed by the virtual machine! Clearly, I now run the risk of the universe imploding and it being my fault.
Indeed, I have 3 critical seconds every time I boot that virtual machine in which to press Escape to open the GRUB menu, scroll down and choose Windows, or else Ubuntu will meet its duplicate self, creating a giant rift in time ultimately destroying us all!
Obviously, being a kind and forgiving person, I do not want this to happen, so I hope to repair this doomsday machine before it is too late.
That actual working solution was actually the last thing I tried, but I am sure many people here understand this stuff way better than I do. Initially, I had hoped to use the "-partition 1" argument to restrict access to just that one partition Windows lives on. This led to Error 17 in GRUB (and I do not want to kill GRUB). Changed the MBR using "dd" (note: I have no idea how this command works. Just copied "dd if=/dev/sda1 of=windowsvista.mbr bs=512 count=1" from a forum post and it seemed to do, err, something).
Changing the MBR got me to Windows, but it gave an error immediately that \Windows\System32\winload.exe was corrupted or missing, thus could not boot. This is not the case. I had unmounted /media/sda1, so it was not because the partition was already in use, unless Ubuntu mounts it elsewhere, too.
I get the following output from VBoxManage internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk /dev/sdaAs you can see, Windows resides on number 1, the others are all Linuxy partitions.Code:VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.4 (C) 2005-2007 innotek GmbH All rights reserved. Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect) 1 0x07 0 /32 /33 1023/254/63 76368 2048 2 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 14300 156408840 5 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 61318 185695398 6 0x82 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 635 311275503
Any help in getting this working with virtualized Windows restricted to just its partition would be much appreciated. Remember: It is for the good of us all. Otherwise, we're all doomed!


text: Our governing document is turning 226 years old. Help celebrate on Tuesday, September 17, at 4:00 pm with the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Gerald Ford Institute. We will be meeting at the bell in front of Robinson Hall for a brief reflection on the day's importance. Afterwards we will head to the first floor of the Kellogg Center for desserts and trivia. So join us for a party over two centuries in the making!


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Suppose now we are trying to explain to students who do not know complex numbers, how do we distinguish $i$ and $-i$ to them? They will object that they both squared to $-1$ and thus they are indistinguishable. Is there a way of explaining this in an elementary way without go into introductory things in complex analysis?
If you construct $\Bbb C$ as $\Bbb R[X]/(X^2+1)$ the roots are indistinguishable. You just choose one and identify it with the point $(0,1)$ in the Gauss-Argand plane. That chosen one will be $i$.
If, on the other hand you construct $\Bbb C$ as the set of pairs $(a,b)\in\Bbb R^2$ with suitable addition and multiplication, then $\pm i=(0,\pm1)$.
The two constructions are of course isomorphic but not canonically isomorphic, due to the arbitrarity of the choice of a root which is the effect of existence of a trivial $\Bbb R$-automorphism, namely complex conjugation.
Simple: there are two distinct values whose square is $-1$, so you choose one of them and call it $i$. The other one, then, is $-i$. It doesn't matter which of them you choose, just as it doesn't matter which direction in space you call $x$.
If you construct $\mathbb{C}$ purely algebraically then there is no distinction until you've chosen what $i$ is, and then the distinction is made by the observation that if $x=i$ is one solution to $x^2=-1$ then $x=-i$ is the other.
This is beause we construct $\mathbb{C}$ algebraically as the field $\mathbb{R}(i)$ obtained by adjoining $i$ to $\mathbb{R}$, where $i$ is an abstract root of the polynomial $x^2+1$. But once you've done this, you can declare that $i$ is the point on the Argand diagram lying at unit length 'above' $0$, and this distinguishes it from $-i$. As André Nicolas says in the comments, if you'd chosen $-i$ instead of $i$ then it doesn't matter, since the (unique!) map fixing $\mathbb{R}$ and sending $i \mapsto -i$ is a $\mathbb{R}$-automorphism of $\mathbb{C}$. (Intuitively: choosing the other root changes nothing except labelling.)
In more human terms, you say $i$ is 'something' which squares to give $-1$, and then $-i$ is 'the other thing' which does the same.
We can then make the translation to the Argand diagram by identifying this new field $\mathbb{C}=\mathbb{R}(i)$ with the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ by using the following correspondence: $$\mathbb{C} \ni a+bi \leftrightarrow (a,b) \in \mathbb{R}^2$$ with operations $$(a,b)+(c,d)=(a+c,b+d)$$ $$(a,b)\cdot(c,d)=(ac-bd, ad+bc)$$
It doesn't matter which one you call $i$; whichever it is, the other one is called $-i$.
I suspect it's not necessary to say more than that. And in a way, to say much more in answer to that question might amount to making the answer seem more complicated than it really is. That doesn't mean you shouldn't say more after saying that; e.g. that the field $\mathbb{C}$ has exactly one automorphism that's not hideously ill-behaved, etc.
First off, you don't need to know anything about complex analysis in order to understand this. Complex analysis refers to doing calculus with complex numbers, but this is just a question about the basic complex-number system itself.
By way of analogy, let's think for a moment about the way the ancient Greeks conceived of ordinary numbers. Euclid's Elements is actually not just about what is taught today as geometry; it's full of material that today would be considered to be algebra and number theory. For example, what we would represent as multiplication $xy$, Euclid would represent as the area of a rectangle with sides of certain lengths. An identity like $x(y+z)=xy+xz$ would be represented as cutting a rectangle into two smaller rectangles. In Euclid's system, there is no such thing as the real number system, and in fact there is not even a number 1. If I say I'm 6 feet tall, in Euclid's language we would say that we have two different line segments, and their ratio is 6. The small one is arbitrarily chosen as the unit of measurement. But the choice of the unit segment is completely arbitrary, and it can be different if you finish one calculation and start another one.
Similarly, it's completely arbitrary how to label $i$ versus $-i$. For example, a typical application of complex numbers is to describe oscillations. Suppose two cars' windshield wipers are both running. They have the same frequency, say 1 Hz, but they're out of phase with one another by 90 degrees. We can represent the two oscillations as complex numbers whose magnitudes represent the frequency and whose arguments represent the phase. The magnitudes both have to be 1, but it's completely arbitrary whether we use a bigger argument to represent an oscillation with a leading phase, or a lagging one. We have to make an arbitrary choice. There is nothing obliging us to be consistent about this choice from one calculation to the next.
So just as Euclid's system "doesn't care" which length we consider a unit, the complex number system "doesn't care" which root of -1 we call $i$ and which $-i$.
You asked for an elementary explanation of the difference between i and -i. Multiplying a complex number by i rotates it by 90 degrees anti-clockwise, multiplying by -i rotates it by 90 degrees clockwise. Sure if I repeat either one twice I have rotated by 180 degrees (or multiplied by -1) but I can still distinguish one from the other.


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Sometimes when I speak with my fellows at work, I start my sentences with "so" or "um". I don't know if this a bad behavior in business speak or not? If so, how can I get rid of those filler words?
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It's a bad speaking habit in general; however, most people do it, myself included. It takes a fair amount of practice and training to discipline one's speech. If you find yourself doing it to often, you may consider taking some lessons from a speaking coach. I suggest you watch the movie The King's Speech: even royalty have this problem.
Everyone does this when speaking extemporaneously. In consequence, no one notices when anyone else does it. Unless you notice other people making those almost unconscious tiny encouraging nods -- yes, please, go ahead, finish your sentence, while we're young -- don't worry about it.
It's true that everyone says "so", "um", or "now" at times while they're thinking. Nonetheless there are several other things about this practice that are true:
Try this. Get some recording and editing software (eg Camtasia for Window has a free trial.) Record yourself saying something you might say at work (progress report on a project, for example.) Play it back. Carefully edit out all the so/um/ah/now. Play it again. Doesn't it sound crisper and smarter?
One of the reasons it sounds "bad" is that it reveals that you are still thinking. People who don't reveal they are still thinking sound smarter. Another reason is that it shows you are "holding the floor" while thinking - you "buzzed in" to the conversation by talking, but you don't yet have anything to say. Some people (not always consciously) find this a little rude. Interestingly, if you use silence instead of filler words, people don't get those impressions. You still get the same amount of time to think.
Too much is annoying, very little is a desire in formal speech, but the effort to remove such things -entirely- from your speech might be debilitating to the natural flow of your discourse.
Too much could be taken as a sign of not having thought out or said something similar already, and therefore unreasoned or unpracticed. That is, being inarticulate in speech may be taken by others as a sign of not having much practice in thought behind the ideas you are presenting.
It's not 'bad' behavior; but a lesser frequency of filler is preferred and considered more formal. But actual articulation of thought is preferred to saying something inane or illogical because you didn't give thought to the right words.
Everyone does this too some extent. I doubt that anyone speaks in perfectly constructed sentences all the time. In fact, if somebody were to speak in such a way their speech would lose a lot of its character and they would in some sense appear less human.
So don't worry about it, unless your use of "filler" words is really excessive.


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My boy is turning 2. Is it appropriate to invite 13 year olds to his birthday parties? We argue a lot about this.
At two years old, I'm assuming that the party is mostly a get-together of parents of small children (most 2-year olds aren't at the stage where they have their own social circle). The main problem with inviting a teenager or near-teen is that it is unlikely that his/her friends will be there, and thus he/she will be left out, and basically have nothing to do for the entire party.
This won't be fair to the teenager, and it could make the party extremely uncomfortable.
On the other hand, if the teenager wants to be there, (e.g. because he/she's close to your child), I'd make sure that you're doing something they can be involved in, (e.g. party games like charades) and if at all possible get some of his/her friends round, so he/she won't be so excluded.
Certainly, the most important point to remember is that from the perspective of the children, a two-year old and a 13-year old are completely different. The older one might take care of the younger one, but they're not friends.
I just invited a seventeen year old to my daughter's six year party (he is really important to her, a good influence, baby sits and is involved in the same theater group as she, plus his parents are friends of ours).
However, I asked him to take on a role in the party and provide some of the entertainment. It gave him something to do that engaged his strengths (as a drama buff he loves entertaining and put on a magic show), honored the difference in age (he also was given a "thank you gift" instead of a "goody bag") and placed him in the role he is for Alice, mentor.
Kids need people in their lives from a variety of ages because this provides them with a maximum amount of opportunities for good socialization. The fact that this young man is being considered by you in the first place causes me to think he is important in your family's set of relationships and probably important to your child, not to mention an accepted and appreciated influence.
When we have done family parties we had children of all ages, so long as we had something for them all to do, or they had someone their own age or near to be with - things were fine. For my sons first year parties they were all for the family rather then the kids, the second birthday party was more about them but we still had mostly the family.
If the 13 year old is someone related, you don't really note the relation, then being with the family might be enough - or be nice and let them bring a friend along.
Until the children get older and have their own friends or classmates they want to be with I've never seen limits on ages, especially when considering family members.


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Last month, the Committee on Doctrine of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a critique [PDF] of theologian Elizabeth A. Johnson's book Quest for the Living God, claiming that it "contaminates the traditional Catholic understanding of God" and therefore "completely undermines the gospel." The bishops' statement concludes:
The basic problem with Quest for the Living God as a work of Catholic theology is that the book does not take the faith of the Church as its starting point. Instead, the author employs standards from outside the faith to criticize and to revise in a radical fashion the conception of God revealed in Scripture and taught by the Magisterium. While the book at times displays an engagement with Catholic theological tradition and remains in continuity with it, it also departs from that tradition at a number of crucial junctures. For these reasons, combined with the fact that the book is directed primarily to an audience of nonspecialist readers and is being used as a textbook for the study of the doctrine of God, the Committee on Doctrine finds itself obligated to state publicly that the doctrine of God presented in Quest for the Living God does not accord with authentic Catholic teaching on essential points.
Few contemporary theologians have communicated an appreciation of the Christian mysteries more faithfully, consistently, and intelligently than has Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ. Quest for the Living God is but one of her many profound works unfolding the richness of Christian faith. Throughout her distinguished career, Johnson has brought the love of God into the hearts and minds of countless readers, including many Catholic students, with force and clarity. And, unlike many other theologians, she has done so in a way that takes seriously the discoveries of science, especially evolution.
Johnson does not need me to defend her. However, as I see it, the bishops' statement reflects, among other problems, a theological failure to take evolution seriously. I suspect this has something to do with some strong opinions of Fr. Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap, executive director of the Secretariat for Doctrine and author of Does God Suffer? and Does God Change? (in both books his answer is no). Weinandy, with whose writings the statement has unmistakable verbal and ideological similarities, links suffering so closely to human sin that his theology lacks the breadth to take in the full drama of life that Darwin and his followers have laid open. This is true, more or less, of contemporary theology in general, but the structure of Weinandy's theology is especially resistant to evolution. Unfortunately, this carries over in a significant way into the bishops' criticism of Johnson.
In order to take evolution seriously theology has to ask whether God cares about the suffering of all living beings, not just humans. Today almost all theologians who take evolution seriously have accepted the idea of a suffering God in one form or another. Of course, what it means to say that God suffers has always been a matter of dispute in theology, and the issue remains unsettled. When Cyril of Alexandria stated that "the Impassible suffers," he captured the paradox perfectly. Yet, Weinandy, with whom I had a brief and cordial acquaintance many years ago when he was an adjunct instructor in theology at Georgetown, has consistently tried to dissolve Cyril's paradox by declaring straight out that God does not suffer. His flattening of what has always been a lively theological enigma is evident throughout the committee's critique of Johnson's book. How so?
God cannot suffer, Weinandy maintains, for if God suffers, divine transcendence is jeopardized. Following a traditional formulation, his refrain is that Jesus suffers as man, but not as God. That formulation has always floated in a sea of theological paradox, and Weinandy, as I read his scholarly work, wants to rescue God finally from any such ambiguity. In a 2001 article in First Things, he writes: "The truth that God does not suffer is at the heart of the gospel, making it truly good news." I doubt if many biblical scholars, preachers or theologians have ever summed up the New Testament message this way, but Weinandy persists, "The compassion of God is seen...not in His suffering in solidarity with humankind, but in His ability to alleviate the cause of human suffering—sin." He says nothing about God's possible solidarity with nonhuman pain or suffering.
Theologically, associating suffering exclusively or even primarily with sin has always been problematic, as the book of Job already testifies. However, in his book Jesus the Christ Weinandy goes so far as to identify sin as the "source of all suffering." His citing the "cause" of suffering as sin, together with his literalist denial of divine suffering, is the central core of a doctrinal program to which all other theological ideas must bend. No doubt he can find in Patristic thought a verbal ancestry for his commitment to divine impassability (nonsuffering). The problem, however, is that this theological program, if applied rigorously, now renders it impossible for Christians who embrace it to take evolution seriously.
Taking sin as the sole cause of suffering narrows the understanding of Christ's redemptive work down to that of the removal of human guilt and leaves the larger drama of life and the 14 billion year cosmic process outside the range of God's healing love. A purely expiatory theology of suffering—the idea that all suffering is caused by sin—is especially out of place when one contemplates the endless ages of predation, life feeding on life, extinctions, and violent deaths of sentient organisms throughout prehuman evolution, not to mention innocent human suffering. Weinandy's claim that suffering is essentially the result of sin is also the grounding assumption of today's antievolutionist biblical literalists. It is a significant obstacle to any serious theological encounter with evolution.
How, though, does this discussion of evolution, sin, and suffering bear on the bishops' statement? I think the imperviousness of Weinandy's theology to evolution supports and coincides with the severe judgment by the bishops' statement that Johnson has gone astray from Christian faith in her espousal of panentheism. This is a serious charge, so it is important to understand where it comes from.
Panentheism (as distinct from "pantheism") is the venerable notion that everything ("pan" means "all") exists in God rather than outside of the divine life. It is not a new idea in religious and theological history. As Paul says in Acts, God is the one "in whom we live and move and have our being." Christian versions of panentheism imply, therefore, that God's mode of being is wide, deep, and compassionate enough to embrace all of creation—including the undeserved suffering of nonhuman life which Darwin himself found so excessive. Panentheism, as many contemporary Catholic theologians understand the term, is also perfectly consistent with the affirmation of divine transcendence (see, for example, K. Rahner and H. Vorgrimler, Theological Dictionary).
Beneath the statement's repudiation of panentheism lurks not only Weinandy's claim that all significant suffering is the consequence of sin but also his judgment that a suffering God would be in danger of being absorbed into the world and hence contaminated by sin and evil. Such a being would be, in his view, less than "God," even though for other theologians the eternal, unchanging fidelity of God reveals itself most powerfully in images of divine solidarity with the world's suffering. For many contemporary theologians, divine transcendence is expressed, not suppressed, by God's empowering participation in the world's anguish and struggles, including the whole drama of life. Weinandy declares in his First Things article, however, that a theologian who accepts a suffering God necessarily succumbs to panentheism, just as a proponent of panentheism is bound to accept the erroneous idea of a suffering God.
Weinandy's writings and the bishops' statement harbor a distorted understanding of panentheism. They carelessly conflate it with pantheism, the belief that no distinction exists between the world and God. Their caricature of panentheism is then mistakenly projected onto Johnson's book, implying that her work tends toward pantheism, which it clearly does not. Instead, her theology preserves the qualitative distinction between God and the world. The "mutual abiding" of God and the world to which Johnson refers, and which the statement characterizes as contrary to church teaching, is completely consistent with the traditional Christian (Trinitarian and Chalcedonian) principle that "true union differentiates." God's intimacy with the world, as Karl Rahner and other Catholic theologians have noted, paradoxically makes the world something distinct from and other than God.
Weinandy's detachment of God from life's suffering also undergirds other criticisms of Johnson's book as well. I cannot elaborate here, but the bishops' statement expresses uneasiness with Johnson's allowance for revelatory experience in non-Christian religious traditions, for indeterminacy and self-creativity in natural processes, and for using a plurality of analogies and metaphors for God. The statement's objection to new ways of imaging, thinking, and talking about God is consistent with a theological decision to protect God from too close a contact with human experience, the suffering of life, and a universe that, as contemporary cosmology has shown, is still in the making. This is especially ironic since the sacramental quality of Catholic life and thought has always featured a God who touches the world in order to heal it.
Even so, my main objection is not that a particular theologian takes a firm stance on the never fully settled topic of God and suffering. Much more problematic is that the USCCB seems to want to make one debatable, scientifically uninformed interpretation of an ancient theological paradox a test of orthodoxy in the work of a widely respected Catholic theologian who also happens to take science seriously. As a Catholic, I want the Committee on Doctrine to teach authoritatively. However, given the problematic process that went into shaping the statement, as well as its failure to take evolution seriously, just how much authority can scientifically educated Catholics attribute to it?
Finally, what seems most obviously unjust is the nondialogical character of the process that led to the statement's harsh accusations. One might assume, of course, that the bishops on the committee were continually involved in the process. If so, why did they not point out the distortions in the statement's understanding of panentheism? Why did they not ask if there might be more nuanced theological ways of understanding the relationship of God to the world and to suffering? Were other theologians invited to participate in this process? If so, on what points did they perhaps differ from Weinandy's opinions? Above all, of course, why did the committee not consult Elizabeth Johnson herself, just to make sure the bishops fully understood what they were rejecting. Why was she not invited to clarify her understanding of God before, rather than after, the release of the statement?
Related: Brian Davies's response to this article: Does God Suffer?
Censure or Critique? by Luke Timothy Johnson & Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
Teilhard and the Question of Life's Suffering, by John F. Haught
Dennis O'Brien's review of Quest for the Living God
From dotCommonweal: Did the Committee on Doctrine Read 'Quest for the Living God'?
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About the Author
John F. Haught, author of God after Evolution and many other books, is a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University.
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Yet another reason to pay less (or no) attention to what the bishops might say. This constant undercutting of their own credibility just continues to reinforce that this is our church as much (maybe more?) than theirs.
It is difficult not to notice the similarity of the USCCB's imposition of arbitrary orthodoxy on a respected theologian and the concurrent disaster of Republican scorn for governance by due process being heaped on the nation in the person of President Obama.
Mustn't we ask ourselves, what in Christ's Name can we do to bring solace to such great fear - there is evidently little or no reasoning with it for it abjures reason itself - along with the very notion of Christianity based in compassion for suffering without regard to any theology of its cause.
Thank you Fr. Haught for the analysis; I hope I can figure out what good to make of it.
Bill Mullins, Kansas City
Just what you would expect in an institution operating solely on dogma, to the exclusion of all else. At least, modern secular governments prevent the church from torturing and murdering her, as it would have done in the past.
According to Rahner-Vorgrimler, Theological Dictionary, in their definition of 'Communication of Idioms', it is false to say 'The Logos did not die.' Why then would it be true to say 'The Logos did not suffer'?
Last Sunday's Gospel was about the man born blind. The disciples asked Jesus, "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind." Jesus answered, "Neither he nor his parents; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him."
The blind man's suffering was not caused by sin, yet the bishops apparently follow Father Weinandy's assertion that all suffering is caused by sin. WDJS? What did Jesus say?
Déja vu over again!
What an interesting experience it was to read
less than one week after reading and hearing and meditating on last Sunday's gospel – The Man Born Blind (John 9:1-41).
I don't think I am unique in seeing Sister Elizabeth Johnson as one born blind (like all of us) but who now who can see. She has certainly helped me to see. I confess that in the Church of the present blindness is a tempting comfort.
Eve Kavanagh
Let me ask a simple question. Is it remotely possible that the bishops' criticism of Elizabeth Johnson's work undergirds an evolving (no pun intended) uneasiness with (read: disdain for) her writing because she could be considered a feminist theologian?
I have studied this text in a systematics class for my master's in theology, and found her work refreshing and enlightening, particularly in view of evolution and its relationship to God's presence in the world. Johnson has helped many of my classmates to understand God as, yes, living and working and being in the world. There is something profoundly sacramental about that notion.
Fr. Haught, thank you for your comments.
I have found Johnson's work, including Quest, not only intellectually stimulating, but also profoundly reverent and "devotional" in the best sense of that word. This woman clearly loves God---but she loves the LIVING GOD, and not the fossilized idol of the institutional boys' club. Maybe that's where the bishops' fundamental mistake is: they don't recognize their dead deity in Johnson's work and so think it's heretical.
The day I became a Christian feminist was the day a young priest told me that ordination is a form of transubstantiation. Turned my whole world upside down and the scales finally fell away from my eyes. I have since been told that this little prig of a man is on the "bishop track." Is it any wonder that these men cannot properly read and discern truth in a serious work of theology? The only way I survive in the church is by paying as little attention to them as possible.
While this is just another tragically insensitive, unnecessary, and soulfully regrettable action by the United States Catholic bishops, I look to the fact that many of the men appointed bishops under the auspices of Cardinal Rigali, have little real theological education much less any liberal arts education of any depth. They have matriculated through closely watched ecclesiastical schools with the substance of their theological education coming from EWTN and Mother Angelica's school of theology.
Their preaching and writing, in general, betrays the fact that they are poorly read and unable to understand the complexities of serious educational study. Their preaching and writing, in general, shows absolutely no familiarity with the texts of the literary classics of the average high school reading list in our American schools and, absolutely, no understanding or appreciation of American poetry.
They are intellectually handicapped and will be recognized as regrettable figures in the history of American Catholicism. The most dreadful dimension of this is that when they are recognized for their limitations, there will be relatively few American Catholics.
While I would agree with Haught and others in the blog that the USCCB should have had an open debate about the book, and sought out Sr. Johnson in its investigation, I remain perplexed by H's counter-punch about the beauty and merits of "Darwin and his followers" for theology. What is charged, in this charged article, is that W adheres to an older doctrine of divine impassibility, and so will not allow for an evolutionary perspective in theology. As H states: "The problem, however, is that [W's] theological program, if applied rigorously, now renders it impossible for Christians who embrace it to take evolution seriously." W and USCCB, it appears, simply do not understand evolutionary theology, and the novel (and perhaps creative, bold, etc.) doctrine of panentheism which it professes. What more, the inherent danger in W's and the USCCB's contrary theological program is that they seem "to want to make one debatable, scientifically uninformed interpretation of an ancient theological paradox a test of orthodoxy in the work of a widely respected Catholic theologian who also happens to take science seriously."
Is "science" informing theology (or not) really at issue here? Is it not the philosophical presuppositions that undergird each position that must be elicited and debated? To turn this into unscientific v. scientific matter seems farcical considering that the terms and meaning of 'science' and 'Darwinism' are themselves problematic for both scientists and Darwinists. Anthony Baker ("Theology and the Crisis of Darwinism", Modern Theology [2002]) nicely captures this point:
[Theistic evolutionists are] somehow related to the ground-breaking research of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, generally proceed by means of a theological withdrawal from the natural sciences, allowing the latter to reach conclusions "objectively", without any metaphysical prejudices. When theology does come on the scene, these writers are careful not to let it violate the space of autonomous science, simply finding room within its limits for a more scientifically savvy version of Christianity (or a baptized Darwinism, some would say). But the problem, of course, is that autonomy and objectivity are not easy to come by in modern science. As will be discussed below, Darwinism in particular is heavy-laden with its own metaphysical assumptions, and a theology that begins by surrendering to it has already rendered itself hopelessly compromised.
Could this attack on W and H's own position, to use Charles Taylor's (via MacIntyre) phrase, be rather a case of rival, and/or asymmetric, traditions? H claims' that J's book offers "new ways of imaging, thinking, and talking about God", but at least in terms of evolutionary science they are really "old ways" of talking about God from antiquity and the 18th and 19th centuries. Moreover, the philosophical presuppositions undergirding the rival traditions Leucippus àEpicurus vs. Plato/Aristotle and their modern votaries cannot be dispatched with a appeal to 'science'. In the end, it seems that the adage "two wrongs don't make a right" applies here.
John Haught provided a very thoughtful response to the statement from the USCCB committee, one I consider more insightful and closer to the truth of what Sister Elizabeth Johnson actually said and meant than the response of the bishops' committee headed up by Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washinton, DC, the ordinary for my dioceses.
I was taught, thanks to How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler, a book a theology professor required us to read in the seminary, that any criticism of what was written by any author could only be made after "coming to terms with the author." In other words, the reader must fully understand the terms as the terms were used by the author. This is much more than looking up the words in a dictionary.
Since there was no dialogue with Sister Elizabeth Johnson, then I have to conclude that her critics definitely did not "come to terms with the author." Therefore, I have concluded that the statement is deficient as an authoritative statement that I should take seriously. Ordination may give a bishop authority (everyone else must merit respect and authority on a subject or discipline by the quality of their work: physicians, lawyers, teachers, engineers, etc. except for bishops).
We read her Quest for the Living God in our parish book discussion group, in our parish in Washington, DC. With the exception of one person among the 16-20 who participated, all of us were enriched by her writing.
Just another reason why faith and reason do NOT go together. I am a Biology major and never feel as if any of it is a stumbling block to my faith. I must admit that I agree with Luther that "faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding." When we try to put reason and faith together we get the problem that was outlined in this article. Evolution is an explanation of how God's world works and faith is evidence of God. Yes, the evidence of God's existence, the incarnation, the Trinity, and the Eucharist is in faith. Science answers how. Faith answers why and who. Reason doesn't explain faith.
thoughtful comments, thank you. PANENTHEISM: a staple of mystics, i.e. Meister Eckhart. Some mention should be made to the current mystic and esteemed Theologian: Matthew Fox. M.F is a rich resource re evolution.
I find it fascinating that Donald Wuerl has time to pile on Elizabeth Johnson. Between being a frequent guest on EWTN, polishing the rungs on his career ladder and trying to out-Dolan our local ordinary, I would think he was too busy.
Are we backing into the Index of Forbidden Books? I thought that was over and done with. I had the privilege of being at Fordham and being able to take advantage of Beth Johnson's mind and heart -- as well as her gentle sense of humor as a theology graduate student. I hadn't read the book in question; thanks to Amazon, I am about to and I will make up my own mind.
The church I studied was open to discussion, intellectually honest and worthy of respect. It is now reduced to an extension of the Republican right wing. Indeed, one of his choristers was having a notorious relationship with a prominent politician right under Wuerl's nose. Did he pile on those two or did he smile complacently and soldier on? Yes, I'm piling on Wuerl. He is a careerist unworthy of the miter.


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WILMINGTON, N.C. – "Eastbound and Down" star Danny McBride took a tumble while skating for a scene at a Wilmington roller rink on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson for the HBO comedy series.
The actor and crews with the locally produced show were slated to film at Jellybeans Family Skate Center at 5216 Oleander Drive from 7 a.m. to noon, according to a Wilmington film permit.
McBride, who was treated and later released from a local hospital, is expected to be back to filming the raunchy comedy soon.
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