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Francis & Obama meet, opening singularity that sucks oxygen out of U.S. media.
On my way home from work last night, I fired up my Twitter feed and found a series of tweets suggesting that today's meeting between pope and president might not go as well as some liberals had been predicting. They had read a piece by Thomas Reese, SJ, who worried that "controversy" could "cloud" the event. He'd seen a Vatican Radio report that concluded with a sloppy summary of disagreements between Obama and the U.S. bishops over the contraception mandate and gay marriage--rather than emphasizing areas of agreement, such as poverty. Reese pointed out that Vatican Radio is under the direction of Holy See spokesman Federico Lombardi, SJ, and wondered whether the article in question might be part of a "coordinated media strategy coming out of the Vatican Secretariat of State."
When Tom talks about the Catholic Church, people listen--as well they should. Good luck finding a more knowledgable observer of the scene. But on this issue, I think Tom's final thought in that post is the one worth heeding: "Sometimes a story is just a story and has no more authority than the individual author." Vatican Radio is not micromanaged by the Holy See press shop. If it were, people might start thinking the pope was poised to adopt the agenda of Future Church.
Over the past week, it seems like everybody with an internet connection has published explainers and prognostications about the meeting. It's only natural. The first Latin American pope meets the first black president. Is Pope Francis the Barack Obama of the Vatican? Obama the Francis of Washington? Contraception mandate at the Supreme Court. Putin's border-crossings. Inequality. Poverty. War. It's news. But media coverage has run the gamut from useful to really not.
In the former category: Jason Horowitz reminded New York Times readers of Obama's past work with the Catholic Church. David Gibson smartly wondered whether the meeting could "reset" Obama's "frayed" relations with the U.S. bishops.
Somwhere in the middle was John Allen, who argued that such a reset "may not be in the cards," because the two world leaders disagree about abortion and contraception (as though liberals were expecting Francis and Obama to stride onto the balcony of St. Peter's to announce co-sponsored legislation).
And in the latter category: Noted expert on the Catholic Church Rand Paul advised the president to explain to the pope "why he is telling businesses in America they can't remain true to their faith and stay in business." This morning, renowned scholar of Catholicism Reza Aslan weighed in at the BBC, explaining that the "founding philosophy of the Jesuits" was "the preferential option for the poor," that Jesus' message on poverty was "about literally replacing the poor with the rich, of them changing places, if you will" (I won't), that the pope "isn't even preaching truly what Jesus was preaching...that the rich and the poor should switch places." Aslan continued to regale listeners with his revolutionary hermeneutic of replacement: "The real power of this meeting comes from the fact that both men are interested in replacing values with politics." And on Tuesday Edward Morrissey tried to cool liberal jets by predicting that the Vatican would "confront" Obama on the contraception mandate and drone strikes.
So what really happened during this morning's fifty-two-minute meeting? Depends on what you read. The Washington Post bizarrely led by claiming Francis and Obama have "radically different politics." (On abortion? Yes. On economic inequality? No.) Over at the Los Angeles Times, Doyle McManus mistook that Vatican Radio piece for an official statement of the Holy See.
The Associated Press ran a couple of scintillating ledes. First came this:
Sharp differences over abortion and birth control surfaced as President Barack Obama held his first meeting Thursday with Pope Francis, even as the president sought to emphasize common ground issues like economic inequality during a much-anticipated Vatican visit.
Politico got into the act too, claiming that Obama was "confronted...by concerns over the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate." Conservative outlets like CatholicVote.org ran with it, alleging that "the Holy See Press Office stunned Vatican watchers when it confirmed that freedom of religion stood front and center during discussions about domestic affairs while social justice issues seemingly took a back seat to the conversation." (Catholic Vote failed to mention that Obama didn't receive a document on bioethics from Pope Francis, as he did from Pope Benedict.)
That's not how Obama characterized the conversation. The president said in a press conference that the "bulk of the time was [spent] discussing...the poor...and growing inequality." He said that they also discussed peace, especially in the Middle East, and immigration reform, but that the pope "did not touch in detail on the Affordable Care Act" and religious freedom. Rather, that came up in Obama's subsequent meeting with Secretary of State Parolin. And if you look at the Vatican's own statement on the meeting, you won't find much contrast with the president's account:
During the cordial meetings, views were exchanged on some current international themes and it was hoped that, in areas of conflict, there would be respect for humanitarian and international law and a negotiated solution between the parties involved. In the context of bilateral relations and cooperation between Church and State, there was a discussion on questions of particular relevance for the Church in that country, such as the exercise of the rights to religious freedom, life and conscientious objection, as well as the issue of immigration reform. Finally, the common commitment to the eradication of trafficking of human persons in the world was stated.
Try not to cut yourself on those "sharp differences"--differences everyone knew about going into the meeting, and nobody expected would be resolved at its conclusion.
Not long after that original AP lede went over the wire, it was replaced with new copy:
President Barack Obama and the Vatican gave distinctly different accounts of the president's audience with Pope Francis on Thursday, with Obama stressing their common ground on poverty and inequality but Vatican officials emphasizing concerns over Obama's health care law, which mandates contraception coverage.
"Sharp differences" was transmogrified into "distinctly different accounts," so now it sounds like someone isn't being totally forthcoming about the meeting. (Politico suggested the same.) And where exactly is the AP seeing Rome's emphasis on Obamacare? We know it came up with Parolin. If that was the Vatican's primary concern, why didn't Francis handle the issue instead?
The problem is that the AP is comparing apples and oranges. So you read that Obama was "incredibly moved" and "honored" by meeting the pope, that the president "was grateful to have the opportunity to speak with [Francis] about the responsibilities that we all share to care for the least of these, the poor, the excluded," and that Obama "was extremely moved by [Francis's] insights about the importance of us all having a moral perspective on world problems and not simply thinking in terms of our own narrow self-interests."
The AP then contrasts Obama's off-the-cuff comments with the Vatican's toneless news release:
The marked difference in emphasis introduced a perplexing element to the long-anticipated meeting, which the White House has looked forward to as way to validate Obama's economic policies.... In a report on Vatican Radio the day before the meeting, the Vatican had signaled that the divisive issues would indeed be on the agenda.
There's that Vatican Radio canard again. But no, there's nothing perplexing about the differences between a formal Vatican statement and a president's ad libbed remarks to the press. The Vatican's news release was never going to contain revealing language about the pope's emotional response to meeting Obama. It was never going to go on at any length or in any detail about what they discussed. When Benedict XVI met with George W. Bush in 2008, for example, it was, yes, awesome, but the joint statement of the Holy See and the White House didn't exactly describe the visit in florid terms. That's just how these things go.
I realize that reporters have editors who demand speedy coverage of major news events, that this qualified as one, and that it isn't easy to produce good, accurate copy at the drop of a hat. But what I don't understand is why anybody expected this meeting to produce major news. Francis gave Obama a copy of his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium. Obama gave Francis a box of seeds made from wood reclaimed from the National Shrine. They smiled for the cameras. They talked. The Holy See Press Office produced an anodyne statement on the meeting. It was never going to provide a transparent window on the president's conversation with the pope. Now would be a good time for commentators and reporters to stop fogging up the glass.
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Anyone can read what the White House said and what the Vatican said about the meeting. That is all that is known by the reporters, commentators and bloviators. (And you can know it, too, through the wonder of the Internet.) Then when you read what the reporters, commentators and bloviators made of what they --and you -- know, you almost despair. Well, I do anyway.
The Fox approach of knowing the answer before you figure out the question is getting to be pervasive.
There was certainly no animosity in the meeting. The body language was all positive. It could be that some in the US with ties to the Vatican pitched in for the spin to go their way. But we already know that Francis is not interested in the cultural wars that the American bishops have thrived on. In fact in Italy abortion has never been the poltical football it is here. Francis is no John Paul or Benedict. So far it seems positive for those who want to see the gospel prevail rather than power elite.
Dr. Robert Moynihan (The Moynihan Letter) will give his analysis of the meeting on the O'Reilly Factor tonight. Having read his latest post on the meeting, I am prepared to hear him imply that in his press conference after the meeting Obama was not truthful about what he and the pope discussed.
I think we need also to remember that the news media -- even the best of them -- thrives on controversy and looks for it even when it's not quite as important as they say. In a sense contraception (on which most of us have made up our minds) sells better than income inquality or poverty, about which we may differe wildly with one another. Or what to do the the new Czar of All the Russias (to use a title from the past), about which none of us may have any good ideas.
Juan Williams gave it to Charles Krauthammer on the Bret Baier show on Fox News. Williams laughed that Krauthammer would make it so political when it was not. It is amazing how Krauthammer gives the appearance of being so analytical when he is always totally partisan. C
Helen, i didn't hear Moynihan on the TV, but in his two letters on the meeting he doesn't express any doubt about the accuracy of what The President said
Letter 11:
We know from the Vatican press communique released after the meeting that the points touched upon were mainly of two types: (1) world issues and (2) US issues
But we do not know — and this is important — which of these matters were discussed directly with Pope Francis, and which were discussed with other high-ranking Vatican officials, like Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, who met with Obama after the meeting with the Pope ended. The Vatican's press communique lumps all the meetings together, so it is impossible to know from the communique which topic was discussed with which person.
Letter 12 (later) he just quotes what the President said at his press conference - without questioning it.
And he [Pope Francis] actually did not touch in detail on the Affordable Care Act. In my meeting with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Parolin, we discussed briefly the issue of making sure that conscience and religious freedom was observed in the context of applying the law. And I explained to him that most religious organizations are entirely exempt. Religiously affiliated hospitals or universities or NGOs simply have to attest that they have a religious objection, in which case they are not required to provide contraception although that employees of theirs who choose are able to obtain it through the insurance company.
And I pledged to continue to dialogue with the U.S. Conference of Bishops to make sure that we can strike the right balance, making sure that not only everybody has health care but families, and women in particular, are able to enjoy the kind of health care coverage that the AC offers, but that religious freedom is still observed.
Moynihan did point out that if the President gets around reading the copy of Evangelii Gaudium Francis gave him, he will find the Pope's views on abortion, contraception, religious freedom, etc. I assume this was to cheer up people who had hoped that Francis was going to give him a stern lecture on those subjects.
Did he say something else on TV?
Like these people, who have their own take on what happened:
I haven't read any of the news on the meeting but I really liked this photo of them together :) ... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dIdt1cJwmfo/UzS6xI-3mFI/AAAAAAAAOeA/PKj7sBg_z7...
Crystal --
Nice photo. The body language tells me that Obama is much more drawn to Francis than Francis is drawn to him. Obama will still be a relatively young man when his term is up, and I can't see him settling down to write history. But he'd make a fine preacher if he got into theology. Maybe the Pope will nudge him in that direction. Obama really misses not having a father, and Francis just might become a father figure for him. OK, OK, pure speculation.
I thought this was news-worthy, but for some reason, this nugget never got picked up by major news outlets.
From Rome Reports: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Av0e41gxI&list=UUxshhzR907v2w6DjICyAgLQ
At about 1:30 mark, while presenting his gifts, the Pope tells Obama:
"This gift is from the pope. But this other one is from Jorge Bergoglio. When I saw it, I said, 'I'll give to Obama.' It's the Angel of Peace. "
I concur that the meeting was probably, overall, more positive than the intimations of the media, both Catholic and otherwise would lead you to believe. Certainly, the issue of the contraception mandate was brought up at some point by somebody (either the pope or Secretary of State). Afterall, it is before the Supreme Court and it has implications for the Catholic community.
The issue is accommodation and the US government argues that they have accommodated as the sisters can check a box. The sisters feels that there are still problematic issues related to that and so now it is before the Supreme Court.
Of course, we can all agree that from both a social and financial point of view, court is not the best place to resolve civil conflicts (no offence to the lawyers on the board).
At any rate, other issues as well and I agree that the body language suggests warm camaraderie and also tend to agree with Anne's insight around Francis being a kind of father figure for Obama.
I thought the President's word choice when talking about the content of his meeting was interesting. He said he and Pope Francis didn't discuss matters of "social schism." Schism, like when people deliberately separate themselves from the One True Ideology and start some sort of parallel body. When the system is not bought into, when a group dissents from the One Magisterium and chooses to go its own way. That is how the President apparently views concerns about religious freedom raised by Catholic bishops, or shall we say, "schismatics."
Kathy, the "schism" language wasn't the president's word choice. Here's how the Q&A went:
Q: Mr. President, I just want to follow up on Jim's question on your meeting with the Pope today. Do you think some of the schisms that he (the reporter) referenced on social issues would stand in the way of you and Pope Francis collaborating or forming a strategic alliance to tackle income inequality?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: First of all, I just want to make clear -- maybe it wasn't clear from my answer to Jim -- that we actually didn't talk a whole lot about social schisms in my conversations with His Holiness. In fact, that really was not a topic of conversation. I think His Holiness and the Vatican have been clear about their position on a range of issues, some of them I differ with, most I heartily agree with. And I don't think that His Holiness envisions entering into a partnership or a coalition with any political figure on any issue. His job is a little more elevated.
The question may in fact indicate a preconceived story line that played out in a lot of copy but which didn't reflect reality.
Speaking of not reflecting reality, Rick Santorum says Obama is spinning the Pope meeting to his own advantage, and Santorum says that's his job:
I am happy they met. But to be completely honest, the body language looked like two little kds at a play date--they're meeting each other for the first time, acutely aware that everyone is watching them meeting each other.
David Gibson's correction to Obama's use of the word schism is a perfect example of the knee jerk reaction that is given by those who just cannot abide Obama and his policies.
In Moynihan's Letter 11 on his website, Inside the Vatican, he writes:
"At the end, they exchanged gifts, with the Pope offering Obama two medallions and a copy of his apostolic exhortation The Joy of the Gospel [Evangelii Gaudium]. 'You know, I actually will probably read this when I'm in the Oval Office, when I am deeply frustrated, and I am sure it will give me strength and will calm me down,' Obama said. 'I hope,' the Pope responded."
In the next paragraph Moynihan writes his spin on Obama's comment:
"Associated Press report on today's meeting in the Vatican of US President Barack Obama with Pope Francis by Jim Huhnhenn and Nicole Winfield. The photo below shows the Pope handing Obama the copy of his encyclical, which Obama said he will 'probably read.'"
I have read comments of others on the pope's response, "I hope." (e.g., I hope you see the errors of your thinkng.) It is pretty obvious to me that the pope was responding to Obama's compliment that the apostolic exhoration will give him strength and calm him down.
I'm sure the President is fully capable of accepting or rejecting an interviewer's word choices as well as his/her premises. He did one but not the other. Whether or not he brought the word into the conversation, he used it himself.
I thought the Pope's gift of Evangelii Gaudium was an excellent choice on his part. President Obama has indicated that he will read it, and I hope he does. He will find a great deal in it on which the two leaders strongly agree, and hopefully the Pope's excellent summary about the incalculable importance of all human beings will give the President pause:
"213. Among the vulnerable for whom the Church wishes to care with particular love and concern are unborn children, the most defenceless and innocent among us. Nowadays efforts are made to deny them their human dignity and to do with them whatever one pleases, taking their lives and passing laws preventing anyone from standing in the way of this. Frequently, as a way of ridiculing the Church's effort to defend their lives, attempts are made to present her position as ideological, obscurantist and conservative. Yet this defence of unborn life is closely linked to the defence of each and every other human right. It involves the conviction that a human being is always sacred and inviolable, in any situation and at every stage of development. Human beings are ends in themselves and never a means of resolving other problems. Once this conviction disappears, so do solid and lasting foundations for the defence of human rights, which would always be subject to the passing whims of the powers that be. Reason alone is sufficient to recognize the inviolable value of each single human life, but if we also look at the issue from the standpoint of faith, "every violation of the personal dignity of the human being cries out in vengeance to God and is an offence against the creator of the individual".
214. Precisely because this involves the internal consistency of our message about the value of the human person, the Church cannot be expected to change her position on this question. I want to be completely honest in this regard. This is not something subject to alleged reforms or "modernizations". It is not "progressive" to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life. On the other hand, it is also true that we have done little to adequately accompany women in very difficult situations, where abortion appears as a quick solution to their profound anguish, especially when the life developing within them is the result of rape or a situation of extreme poverty. Who can remain unmoved before such painful situations?"
John Hayes,
No, I did not see the interview on the O'Reilly Factor. The reason why I was a bit negative about the interview on the O'Reilly factor with Moynihan has to do with my post at 9:45 this morning.
At the O'Reilly Factor website there are just a few comments about the interview. Moynihan confirmed that the issue of ACA mandate was discussed in detail at a later meeting with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Parolin, and not with the pope. Ken Hackett, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, who was present at that meeting, confirmed that.
I see we are devoting a good bit of attention to the arcane science of interpreting body language. I suppose that's better than making up the thoughts of the participants in the meeting, And I know it's better than making up their thoughts before the meeting and then reporting them after the meeting as if the prticipants followed our script. But, really: Body language? Anybody have a dictionary for that?
I iterate: All we know is what the White House and Obama said and what the Vatican said. Obama added to his official word. The pope didn't. We may predict that Obama is not going to rewrite the ACA as a result of meeting the pope, and the pope is not going to embreace abortion. OK? But we knew all that before we started. The rest is straight Rashomon.
Anybody have a dictionary for that?
Quintilian, perhaps?
The rest is straight Rashomon
I found the spirit medium's testimony most persuasive; perhaps a pundit speak to one.
Re: body language
Hardly and arcane science. Well over 80 percent of all communication is non-verbal. Have you never been on a date?
Body language is when your body movements, especialy the involuntary ones, cofrim or deny what your words say.
"This gift is from the pope. But this other one is from Jorge Bergoglio. When I saw it, I said, 'I'll give to Obama.' It's the Angel of Peace. "
John hayes, what is your take on this. BTW, do you work for the US bishops. How about some full disclosure.
Thanks, Grant, for starting this discussion of the coverage of the Francis/Obama meeting. Pieces like this have to be timely, and take some fast, hard work. Friends and family often try to do this sort of thing over the phone or net or lunch fast enough, but read many of the same sources, and often from roughly the same point of view, so this quick "coverage of the coverage" was a neat idea. Keep it on your "to do" list.
Bill Mazzella, I liked that "this one's from the Pope but this one is from Jorge" Sounds as if Francis wants a personal relationship. It's like a lot of things he's done that make him so effective. No, I don't have any connection with the USCCB.
John Hayes,
You are right to think that the Pope and the President hit a personal note. Don't expect the right wing to acknowledge that because it does not fit its agenda. Posts on this thread already demonstrate that with the willful misinterpretation of the converstion.
My guess is that Francis is thinking that he is with Obama on separation of church and state. He must be wondering he would have never chosen the kind of bishops that are in the US. They forget the poor. Build zillion dollar cathedrals. Have more sympathy with abuser clergy than victims. And ignore the vast majority of Married Christians who practice contraception.
Same goes for Holly Lobby. If the Supreme court rules in its favor, then people can object to everything.
Maybe Catholics should take the bishops to court for not fulfilling their mandate.
George D, I have been on dates. I guess misreading body language is what leads to date rape. Try that one on the judge.
Seriously, many years ago I was tasked to introduce a speaker. I had barely begun when I noticed a friend of mine in the first row who was either a) having a heart attack b) trying to tell me I was introducing the wrong person or c) getting ready to shoot everyone in the room. The effect was so unnerving that I lost the introducee's name for a moment.
Afterward I asked my friend what thaty had been all about. He said he was concentrating on what I was saying. Oh.
This seems like the right picture:
Looks like love to me :-)


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Star at Derby, then star at Yale
DERBY -- John Pagliaro's career at Derby High made him an idol. His years at Yale turned him into a legend. Pagliaro was, quite simply, the pride and joy of the old factory towns.
"There was a tremendous amount of pride in the Valley that he went to play at Yale," said John Sponheimer, a longtime assistant coach at Ansonia. "It really was a big deal."
At Derby, Pagliaro set school records for career rushing yards (2,130) and touchdowns (40) as well as single-season rushing yards (1,047) and touchdowns (26). The latter numbers came in 1973, when he led the 10-0 Red Raiders to their second state No. 1 ranking in five years.
Over his last two seasons in Derby, Pagliaro's Red Raiders didn't lose a game. They went 10-0 in 1972, finishing No. 4 in the state rankings, before tearing through the 1973 campaign with eight shutouts. In his high school finale, he rushed for five touchdowns in a 43-6 Thanksgiving demolition of Shelton.
Pagliaro, a 1973 All-State selection, burst onto the scene well before then, though. Longtime Valley sportswriter and Derby Football Club president Bill Pucci recalled the 5-foot-10, 190-pound back's first game.
"He was a sophomore when he started his first game against North Haven, which was undefeated," Pucci said. "The first three or four times he carried the ball, you could tell he was going to be a star. He broke the ice and scored the first touchdown of the game, and Derby ended up winning a close game."
Nobody recalls Pagliaro as a particularly flashy or elusive runner, but rather as one with extraordinary strength determination.
"He had great strength in his legs," Sponheimer said. "He ran high in a sense that his knees would come up to his chest when he was running. He had good strength, great vision and excellent speed, but his leg drive was his best attribute."
"The thing was with him was that he had a motor that never stopped," Pucci added. "His knees went up to his chest when he ran because he was a track man. When he got into that line, he kept moving the pile. If they ran a sweep, he had the speed to run around the corner."
As many as 75 colleges, including Maryland, Tennessee and Boston College, recruited Pagliaro, but there was only one place he wanted to go.
"I'd been a Yale fan all my life," Pagliaro told the Boston Globe in 1977, his senior season with the Bulldogs. "I'd always dreamed of playing here. I thought it would be great to go to a school in the area. I had no intention of going anywhere else."
Pagliaro's decision delighted the entire Valley, which flocked to the Yale Bowl on Saturday afternoons.
"Everybody was so happy that he went to Yale," Pucci said. "We would meet all the Derby people in a section between the 30- and 40-yard lines. You'd see a couple hundred Derby people there. There was a big sense of pride."
George French, the current Derby football coach who grew up hearing about Pagliaro's legend, still has a sense for what Pagliaro's college career meant to his hometown.
"When he went to Yale, Derby went to Yale," French said. "There was so much happiness and joy for him down there. The town loved it. It was special for this town."
Pagliaro's college career was one of the best in Ivy League history. He became the first Bulldog to post consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons in 1976-77, and he earned Ivy League MVP honors after both campaigns. He set seven school records and was named, alongside Texas' Earl Campbell, to the Walter Camp All-America First Team in 1977.
Pagliaro's admirers from a few miles up the road got to see it all from the second tier of the Yale Bowl.
"The whole town of Derby took an interest in John's career," former Yale coach Carm Cozza wrote in his autobiography. "A cluster of fans in Red Raider jackets was in noisy evidence at all our games … (and) we let Big Lou (DeFilippo), the coach, roam our sidelines."
Pagliaro finished his Yale career with five straight 150-yard games, including a 172-yard, three-touchdown effort against Harvard that gave the Bulldogs the Ivy League championship.
"I don't know who wrote the script, but whoever did it did a fantastic job," Pagliaro told the Boston Globe after his last game. "(It) just all worked out so well."
Well for Pagliaro, and better for Derby.
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So I am to determine the number of both symmetric and reflexive relations on an n-element set. I've read various explanations (yes, Number of relations that are both symmetric and reflexive too) but I still don't quite get it.
If the relations are to be both symmetric and reflexive, why isn't the answer the same as for the reflexive? I mean - when we have some 25-element set, represent it as 5x5 grid, no other points can be symmetric and reflexive at the same time than the diagonal from (1,1) to (5,5). We can choose many symmetric ones apart from those too, but neither will be reflexive.
What do I not understand?


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This page is a long scroll. It needs to be tightened up and linked out...
Clean up the sections
The sections for Info, Status, Meetings, Emergency, and Events and Classes, and Incorporation include overlap and encourage long scrolling additions.
I propose we clean up the overlap on the main page, and create a set of sub-pages with expanded information.
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I love to use my son's Lycosa. The key movement is so very smooth and it is a pleasure to type on and we have never had a problem with it (but we purchased brand new).
I must be behind times, people hate Razer now?
I've had a Salmosa for 4-5 years and a Naga for a little over a year. I haven't had any problems out of either of them. In my opinion, they're leagues above any other mouse, especially Logitech's.
I have to agree with most of the people here who are saying that Razer products are hit or miss. I own two of their mice, a low end and a high end one, and one of the gaming headsets. The headset is great, but both of the mice have had problems. The very expensive Mamba that I have had poor battery life and eventually the battery nearly exploded. It was meant to be wireless, but I've been using it wired ever since. The more inexpensive mouse had a squeaking issue that I had to take the mouse apart and fix myself. I'd suggest maybe looking into steel series equipment if you are needing gaming products.
I had purchased a Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard – Silver from woot and it arrived DOA and by the time I actually got around to using it the 90 warranty was already up. However I have 2 Razer mice the Death Adder and Orochi that I use all the time and work great.
Anyone doubting Logitech here - I've owned an MX510 for about 9 years now. Zero problems. I've played many a FPS, MMO, and other games so it has been used and abused. Again, zero problems. That should be expected from a high end manufacturer.
I love razer stuff, it's weird seeing all the complaints. I've had 3 different razer keyboards that never had problems (until I spilled alcohol all over the first two... more than once). I also have a razer mouse and had a different razer mouse before it (the first didn't have side-buttons, which I find really valuable for gaming).
Mind you, never had any razer refurbs.
I've got a Nostromo, Lycosa, Naga and Diamondback. Everything works great except my Naga, which was replaced with a Logitech G600. When one of the others goes dead, they will be replaced with Logitech. Then clunkyness of the keys and the cheapness of the build quality is not worth the money. My fingers hurt after typing too long. A "gaming keyboard" should not require this much force per key.
I have had good results with Razer mice, although right now I prefer Logitech.
My experience with this particular Lycosa keyboard was not good. Random keys stopped working requiring constant unplugs/reboots. Other functions, including the lighted keys, were wonky. Customer support was of no help. Posted fixes didn't do the trick, so I just gave up and went with a Logitech keyboard for gaming and general computer usage. I have been happy with those keyboards and would never consider purchasing another Razer keyboard.
The mice are OK though IMO.
I really WANT to like Razer, they were strongly against SOPA / PIPA and that's always a plus for getting my dollars. But there's just ridiculous numbers of horror stories out there, for simple items that should be easy (how do you screw up a mouse?) that often turn into customer service horror stories as Razer is apparently unusually resistant to returns even for clearly defective items. Bottom line is Logitech stuff is better, cheaper, less likely to fail, less likely to be a hassle to return.
I have 3 razer mice, all still working, 1 is from 2004 which I use every day at work, the other is my back up mouse that I used for years until I wanted to try the Naga which I have used for 3 years now and all are refurbs and have never had any issues. I want to buy a razer key board, but my G15 works ok (aside from no key buffering or whatever), I just need to find the price point for their mechanical kb w/ macros.
I do have a nostromo which I bought a month ago, bought it knowing I may not like it and I was right...just made for a smaller or thinner hand than my huge bear claw of a hand.
I like both razer and logitech, but I have had bad logitech products and have yet to have a bad razer product. I had two wireless headsets, the first one (not the G930) one of the sides connection broke and doesn't play noise anymore and then I bought a WoW wireless headset (logitech?) where the right cupping broke off from wear and tear, I had the same issue with my G930 headset.
I have owned 2 razer products. The first one was the Megalodon headset. Expensive, but it is by far the best headset I have ever owned. It has lasted me years and the comfort is unmatched.
The second is this exact keyboard. I used it for approx. 12 hours and random keys stopped working randomly. First it was the M key, then I rebooted and the M key worked, then an hour later it was the period key. Then other keys stopped working randomly. The keyboard does feel nice, but that's about the only good thing about it. The keyboard is now unusable and unreturnable at this point. I do not recommend buying this keyboard.
I question the authenticity of a lot of the posts in this thread... I completely understand the ones going "have had X razer product never had any issues" but the ones saying they've had numerous razer products with no issues and the ones saying they are surprised by the negative comments...? Yeah... pretty much has to be a razer employee or has never looked at reviews for a single product they've bought.
I bought 8 of these, I'll be reselling all 8 to Razer fanboys because this is a terrible keyboard I would never use and the only people who still buy Razer products are fanboys, fortunately fanboys pay top dollar.
To avoid sounding like I just hate razer I'll give a little history. Razer started out with fantastic products they were things that were rare and genius for the gaming market such as the Barracuda HP-1 which is their best product to date and also among their first. Those headphones set the bar for years to follow.
My Logitech G15 Keyboard and G5 Mouse have been going strong for 8years now. Use everyday.
Unfortunately Razer has not produced a quality product since the HP-1... They have a few mice here and there that don't die after 6 months but that's the closest claim they have to quality products these days which is really sad.
The second issue with razer is the complete lack of innovation they started out doing things differently and better than anyone else, these days razer isn't releasing anything until a few months after everyone else already has that product on the market and the razer version won't have any new or better technology it'll be exactly the same thing that's already been on the market for months but will generally cost considerably more.
Problem 3 is customer service, not only some of the worst customer service you'll get but they're also quite literally completely incompetent to the point that everyone you speak with you'll think it's their first day of training and keep expecting someone to jump in and correct what they're saying or help them out somehow...
@ikisat: I'm not sure razer would care enough about selling refurbs on moofi to make employees put fake reviews up. Also, isn't the stuff already sold to woot before they put it here?
Either way... I heard gamer friends talk enthusiastically about razer products before I ever bought one. Their stuff is designed for gaming, I like their image, I like the pulsey lights on their keyboards, I like the wealth of buttons. I liked the first stuff of theirs that I tried, so never bothered to look for reviews when buying more. Wait no, I did look up reviews of the swtor keyboard, didn't see any major red flags. I dunno what else to tell you, it must be hit or miss.
@teevee: These aren't listed as refurbs they are listed as new with 1 year Razer warranty included.
I don't know where you found good reviews for the SWTOR keyboard it's the same as the Tron keyboard etc and all of them have really mixed reviews...
Their stuff isn't designed for gamers lol their mice are horribly unreliable, frequently misread and slide or double click on single clicks. Not to mention you can't even put your entire hand on any of them so it's finger control only. MMO gamers sure because of the 30 billion buttons on the side but other than that they aren't good for any games. If you want a gaming mouse I would suggest a Mionix Naos, that's a gaming mouse. Their headphones are horrible sound quality and positional accuracy so again might work for MMO but nothing else... Maybe that's what I'm missing perhaps Razer just went from being a gaming company to being an MMO company.
@ikisat: So their only mouse is the naga? I have 3 of their mice, Lycosa, Death Adder and Naga. They all have different feels and are for me, I am a gamer. There are many different ways to hold a mouse and that is one of the many reasons Razer has different mice for palmers like yourself to scorpion who like to use fingers etc.
Knocking a company is one thing, but you lose credibility if you try and claim that all gamers use a mouse one certain way.
I'll assume you meant Lachesis not Lycosa since Lycosa is not a mouse.
Death Adder and Lachesis are both mice from back when Razer was a good company with good products these mice are 5-6 year old... I've owned both those mice I also owned a Habu which was the Razer/Microsoft collaboration. Death Adder and Habu are both fantastic mice. Lachesis is hit or miss as it suffered from Razers double click and/or doa click problems. (the 2nd generation not the 1st which is as old as the death adder)
And, no. I was not saying there isn't different ways to hold a mouse I was saying Razer does not design a single mouse that isn't a finger mouse. None of their mice support a human hand your fingers drag off the edge of the mouse or your palm drags off the back. None of their designs can have your hand on the mouse.
This has to be the worst keyboard I've ever owned. The keys are sticky and clunky, it is a nightmare to type on this thing. I noticed a decrease in performance while gaming because the keys are stubborn. Went back to my old stock Dell keyboard, I wouldn't go back for anything. If you're looking for a solid gaming keyboard, get a mechanical one.


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I have a plastic soprano recorder about ten years old. Over the years its accumulated some dirt or something in the windway. it has a straight windway. What is the best way to clean it out? Could any damage be done to it during the cleaning process that I should be aware of? It also has some stuff in the bore. Would I clean that out the same way?
I approach cleaning my recorders the same way a flutist cleans their instrument because both have a stopped head joint. My recorders all came with a cleaning rod. I use a small piece of fabric, usually silk, and run this through the instrument after each time I play.
You should be careful when cleaning the windway because any nicks to the ramp (the angled section that creates the sound) can lessen the strength of the instrument's tone. Using a soft cloth, or as others have mentioned soapy water for a plastic instrument, does the trick nicely.
Because the windway itself does not effect the quality of tone production, I do not suspect it should be cleaned as often as the rest of the instrument. However, when needed, running a small piece of silk through it should do the job.
Some plastic recorders have separate blocks but most of those are glued in so removing them is not really possible. Warm/hot dishwater in the sink will do the trick. Later, a piece of card stock cut appropriately can be used to dislodge particles of food or lint that get caught in windway afterwards, or just wash it again. A clean pipe cleaner will work also, but it can leave more lint than it removes after multiple uses.
I would try a pipe-cleaner, or perhaps a cheap brass mouthpiece brush. Some mouthpiece brushes have a plastic cap on the wire though; those won't work. A pipe cleaner would probably be your best bet.
A pipe cleaner works very well. If you fold it in half it won't scratch your flute.


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The 5 Most Amazing Real Life MacGyver Moments
Were MacGyver real, the world would be a safer place. And not just for people with mullets. Of course, you'd think that MacGyver's almost supernatural resourcefulness has about as much place in the real world as a guy who shoots spider webs out of his wrists. You'd be wrong.
Apparently, people with preternatural resourcefulness exist in real life. Here are five that would have made the bemulleted-one himself beam with the pride of a makeshift heart made out of Popsicle sticks, a timing belt and gum.
#5. A World War II Pilot Used Jell-O to Copy a Map
So it's World War II. You've been sent into a secret Axis meeting room to obtain top-secret maps of the enemy's troop movements. You can't steal the maps because that would raise suspicions and you can't write down the coordinates because you're retarded. Or you don't have a pencil. Whichever is easier for you to believe.
All you've got is a wooden tray and a pocket full of Jell-O you snuck out of the mess tent. You don't know why you stole a handful of Jell-O, and you especially don't know why you stored it in your pocket, but there's no turning back now. You can hear guards moving in and you've only got a few minutes to get what you came for. What should you do other than have the most pathetic last meal of all time?
According to the book, Colditz--The Definitive History: The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapes, a group of British pilots in the Colditz prisoner camp were in that exact same situation. The boys gathered together some of the gelatin they had as rations, put the map face up on a wooden tray and poured the Jell-O (lemon-flavored) over them. They then took the Jell-O and pressed it on a sheet of clear greaseproof paper.
It worked. They were able to make 30 copies of the map and enjoyed a tasty meal of lemon-flavored Jell-O because the British were clever, smart and have no taste buds.
Could MacGyver Have Done it Better?
According to MacGyver, a map "can get you in and out of places a lot of different ways" other than just getting yourself from point A to point B. As this video clearly shows, a map can help you unlock doors, distract women in burkas and beat an armed guard senseless:
If the video ran just a little bit longer, MacGyver also could have showed you how a map can help you break up with your pregnant girlfriend, pay off your student loans and establish a Palestinian state. So, yes, while the Jell-O thing was impressive, with 30 copies of a map we're thinking MacGyver could have ended the war.


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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the weekly Cabinet meeting at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah yesterday.
King Abdullah opened the meeting by marking the Kingdom's 78th National Day, which is celebrated each year on September 23 in honor of the foundation of the modern Saudi state by King Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
The King said that celebrating National Day means safeguarding Saudi Arabia's achievements, continuing to work toward its development and prosperity, and consolidating the nation's unity and stability. The celebration also means continuing the Kingdom's efforts to seek peaceful coexistence among the nations and peoples of the world.
On international issues, the Cabinet condemned the September 17 terrorist attack on the US Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen. It denounced terrorism as the scourge of this era and reiterated the importance of combating terrorist ideology.
The Cabinet expressed support for Pakistan as that nation seeks to confront the wave of terrorism that has targeted its national unity and claimed the lives of innocent people.
Turning to the economy, the Cabinet reviewed a report by the Statistics Department on unemployment in the Kingdom. According to the report, unemployment has decreased to 9.8 percent from 11.2 percent.
The Cabinet approved the National Strategy for Health and Environment, which aims to preserve a clean, healthy environment and promote job training in the field.
It also approved several amendments to the system of pilgrim transport. The amendments include stipulations that agents or carriers must provide guarantees worth between SR 100,000 and SR 200,000 to the Ministry of Hajj in order to cover the pilgrims' accommodations. Violations will be investigated by representatives of the Ministries of Hajj and Interior as well as the carrier's agent or representative.


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School Choice Weekly #37
This week, the Chicago Teachers Union approved a resolution against national Common Core [2] curriculum and testing mandates, soon after Oregon's teachers union made similar moves and four months after the same from New York's.
How helpful of them to throw their political weight against the mandates now that it's unlikely they'll be fully repealed in more than a few states. And of course the union's vote is based on principle rather than the fact that new tests coming down the pike may hurt unions by bouncing low-performing teachers onto probation and revealing that public schools aren't educating as well as many think.
It's difficult to cut this Gordian knot because union protections for bad teachers should be repealed, but states' new test-tied teacher evaluation systems are ham-handed, biased central planning dictates [3]. So is Common Core. Cartels and monopolies are never a good idea, whether the particulars emanate from unions, state legislatures, or the Obama administration. So while teachers unions are almost certainly not motivated by what's best for kids (because they're actually about preserving jobs for their members instead), they've got a point.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Aside from snark, what may this portend? First, it makes quite clear what folks said long before Common Core passed based on the audacity of its aspirations rather than evidence of likely accomplishment: "Implementation" will grind it into nothing. Central Planning 101: It's impossible to micro-manage so many people. In other words, bigger unions starting to take the hint from their locals indicates that, despite all the push-polling showing otherwise, most teachers are not likely to make sweeping changes to their practice just because some shiny-faced bureaucrats somewhere have a big idea. In fact, they rather resent yet another intrusion.
Second, this complicates the already-insane Common Core politics, for until now the most visible and effective Common Core opponents have been Tea Partiers, who are hardly union-friendly. So this makes the weird underground alliances among right and left against Common Core even harder for sound-bite politicians to digest. Certainly it's not as easy as "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" adage.
But here's another, more useful proverb: If everyone can smell it, it definitely stinks.
- FLORIDA: As school choice matures in Florida, it confronts two struggles [4]: expansion and regulation.
- ARIZONA: While other states with highly regulated voucher programs tend to have far more demand than supply, Arizona has nearly 100 percent participation in its lightly regulated choice program [5].
- PENNSYLVANIA: Facing competition from online charter schools [6], a traditional district has stepped up its game and become a leader.
- INDIANA: Common Core opponents beat two incumbent state representatives in the state's GOP primary [7], by wide margins.
- CALIFORNIA: New Common Core tests are plagued with computer problems [8]. School leaders are relieved the tests don't count this year.
- LOUISIANA: The Senate Education Committee has rejected a repeal of Common Core [9], with members complaining about a loss of stability for schools.
- FLORIDA: Gov. Rick Scott has signed weak-sauce bills to delay and reduce the impact of Common Core [10].
- TESTING: A testing company has filed suit against the winner of a Common Core testing contract [11], saying the process was unfair and represents crony capitalism.
- ACHIEVEMENT: It's not just the poor. America's middle-income and wealthy kids are also academically behind [12] their international peers.
- NAEP: On the latest results from the Nation's Report Card, twelfth-graders still haven't improved in more than 20 years [13], and achievement gaps have barely budged.
- CHARTERS: Congressional Republicans are excited about spending more federal tax dollars on charter schools, but they may be loving charters to death, say Rick Hess and Michael McShane [14].
- PRESCHOOL: The Obama administration is using tax dollars to pay for preschool data from an advocacy group [15]. Preschool is the next goal for big-government pushers.
- OKLAHOMA: Computer problems again plague state tests [16]. The glitches invalidated more than 8,000 students' tests and got state leaders to fire their testing provider.
- ILLINOIS: Under a federal waiver of the No Child Left Behind law, Illinois has set lower academic goals for minorities [17] than for white kids.
- STUDENT LOANS: The higher education bubble has started to pop [18], says Richard Vedder.
- POETRY: Why you should forget Google and memorize poems [19].


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These animated 'Guardians' don't rise
DreamWorks Animation president Jeffrey Katzenberg recently lamented the dearth of holiday-themed movies headed to your multiplex this year. But in foisting "Rise of the Guardians" upon unsuspecting audiences for the holidays, it's clear he just wanted some cover. Other holiday films would take some of the pressure off this joyless, soul-dead piffle.


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An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. will open at Dia Art Foundation, 548 West 22nd Street, on Friday, October 13, 1989. The exhibition continues through June 17, 1990. Hours are Thursday to Sunday, 12 noon to 6 pm. Admission is free.
The exhibition focuses on the "Amerika" series and includes the thirteen large-scale paintings from the series completed between 1984-1989, as well as eighty study drawings for the most recent "Amerika" painting completed this past summer. In addition, a new painting based on Franz Schubert's Winterreise will be shown composed of seventy small panels with an overall length of sixty feet. The exhibition space on the second floor of 548 West 22nd Street has been restructured specifically for the works in this presentation.
A book documenting and discussing the "Amerika" series and the work generally of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. will be available. Texts by Arthur Danto, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, and by Michele Wallace, Assistant Professor of English at the Center for Worker Education and City College of New York, as well as an extensive annotated checklist with notes by Tim Rollins are included.
Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) is a collaborative group made up of students and artist Tim Rollins. They work under the umbrella organization the Art & Knowledge Workshop based in the South Bronx. This is the first major exhibition of the work of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. in New York. They recently were awarded the Joseph Beuys Prize from the Beuys Foundation in Basel, Switzerland and will have an important exhibition at the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst in Basel in May 1990.
This exhibition and publication have been made possible in part by the generous support of the Cowles Charitable Trust and The Jerry and Emily Spiegel Family Foundation, Inc. Additional funds have been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, Washington, D.C. and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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Track and Field Finishes Day One at Niswonger InvitationalJanuary 17, 2014
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – The Anderson men's and women's track and field teams competed against some of the region's best teams on the first day of the 36th Annual Niswonger Invitational, hosted by East Tennessee State on Friday inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletics Center at the David E. Walker Track and Gentry Field.
More than 25 schools from throughout the region are competing in the two-day meet. In addition to Anderson, UNC Asheville, Wofford, USC Upstate, Alabama State, Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Tennessee Tech, Milligan and Tusculum are in Johnson City.
Competition began Friday morning with the women's 60 meter hurdle prelims and the women's weight throw finals. Sprints, distance and jumps events continued throughout the day with action ending with the men's 5,000 meter run gold section.
Freshman Sherin Malone placed 12th in the 60 meter hurdle preliminaries with a time of 9.39 and posted a 69th-place finish in the 200 meter dash prelims.
Junior Savanna Keese finished 12th in the finals of the weight throw with a season-best distance of 15.46 meters, while junior Brooklyn Watt (13.87 meters) placed 20th and sophomore D'Yandra Morris placed 25th with a toss of 12.59 meters.
Watt placed 13th in the shot put with a season-best distance of 12.10 meters, while Morris was just behind in 14th with a toss of 11.81 meters.
Junior Jill Baxter notched 18th in the finals of the high jump with a height of 1.53 meters.
On the men's side, Malik Brown crossed the line in 32nd in the 60 meter hurdle preliminaries in a time of 9.85, while freshman Jonathan Shorter was 34th in a time of 9.91. Freshman Caleb Knight (54.82) placed 51st in the 400 meter dash prelims, while classmate Eric Hoover notched 68th in the prelims of the 60 meter dash in a time of 7.81 and finished 23rd in the finals of the triple jump.
Competition will pick back up on Saturday morning with the women's 5,000 meter run blue section final slated to begin at 8 a.m. Field events as well as distance and sprints competition will carry on over the course of the day with women's and men's 4x400 meter relay finals wrapping things up at 6:30 p.m.


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Research Frontiers for the Chemical Industry
2006, Chemical Heritage Foundation
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Squeezed in on all sides--including from raw material costs (which are at unprecedented highs), narrowing access to feedstocks, and growing competition in commodity markets--chemical firms must create new high-value materials and services to survive and profit. This report summarizes the second annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day and suggests solutions for current challenges based on this annual forum in which scientists and technology managers gather to explore frontier areas for the chemical industry. The industry's future, we argue, lies in a strategic "wager" on disruptive technologies, balanced by incremental steps to develop new feedstocks and manufacturing processes that yield novel materials with less environmental impact.
Innovation Day brings young innovators and industry leaders together to celebrate innovation in the chemical industry today and seek solutions for tomorrow's challenges.
Enjoy a bring-your-own brown-bag lunch while listening to CHF scholars share their research.
See your environment with fresh eyes through this online exhibit.
Meet us in person at one of our events.
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PVC Pipe Dresser Overhaul
Sometimes you need to do something more than just paint an old piece of furniture. Sometimes you need something that is unique and crazy awesome. While walking down the isles of my local home improvement warehouse the idea dawned on me. PVC Pipe Yo! You can TOTALLY update furniture with plumbing supplies!
This dresser was found at a garage sale for $50.00. It was SO solid and had recessed drawer fronts which are THE BEST kind to get. (you can see another way to update a dresser here). There was no way that Hailee and I were going to pass it up.
We had to take it apart to move it (cause it was flippin heavy and we were the brains AND the muscle of the operation.) and I never got it all back together for a good before shot.(Shame on me, I know) But from these pics you can see how the drawers looked originally.
We purchased an 8' piece of PVC pipe that was 2" around. I believe it cost around $6.00
Hailee's husband Mark got to it before I could (he is every DIYers dream, a guy that does projects BEFORE he is asked? Sheesh.)
Anyways, he marked every 1/2″ all the way down the pipe. And used a compound miter saw to cut each mark. It didn't take as long as you might think.
To make sure that they were all even he cut on the inside of each line. With the width of the saw blade they were about 3/8" thick.
Before After
And then by some sort of Saturday morning miracle they fit perfectly in the drawer fronts. The last pieces had to be cut in 1/2 but that was it.
When you are cutting PVC with a saw there are A LOT of shavings. Like it might look like December in your garage. To make sure that the drawers are clear of them before you paint use a blow dryer to blow them all off.
The PVC fit so perfectly and tight in the fronts that we did not glue every single circle. We just put glue in a few spots to make sure that it stayed in place.
Once everything is place and cleaned and dry its time to paint!!!
First prime with Kilz Spray Primer. This piece has laminate on the top and sides so you need something that has great adhesion since there is no sanding involved.
One the primer is dry you are ready to spray paint!
I used Krylon's Classic White in Gloss. When you use a primer like Kilz it tones down the gloss finish of spray paints. Normally its fine, but I wanted this piece to be high gloss white so I did a few extra coats to build up the gloss finish. I think we used 6 cans of spray paint on this entire piece.
And there you go! A SUPER cheap way to get an incredible piece of one of a kind furniture.
You can see more Before and After pictures of the entire room makeover here. And make sure to visit the rest of the tutorials from the makeover!
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Humid Friday
Sometimes making friends with the locals means bringing treats for monkeys, rabbits, cats and dogs.
Every year, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meets to discuss sites that have been proposed as new members of their list.
Here are 18 of our favorite reasons to get out of town this summer.
Concern about future pregnancies is keeping some millennials from traveling.
Have you been to any of these destinations? What would you add to the list?
Some of our favorite national parks are home to gorgeous beaches.
From Dubai to Sweden, these hotels (and hotel bars, spas, and restaurants) take sleeping with the fishes to a whole new below-sea level.
We live in a beautiful world, but some of the most mesmerizing sites take a little digging (or diving) to find.


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Dynamically adding adding views and controllers in Extjs4.1
Hi, I am using Extjs4.1. I am working on ExtjsMVC application. In my application so many views there. Here I need one thing. In MVC application, we are adding the entire view names in viewport. Is there any way to create the view when we click on button or tab Without adding the view names in viewport. By this way the application performance also will increase.
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why I do not always get. It just error
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It also get error.
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My problem is that the controller doesn't add the button on the view. I get the followig error: Uncaught TypeError: Object function h(){return this.constructor.apply(this,arguments)||null} has no method 'add' What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help in advanceHLN chuyên cung cấp lan ho diep đẹp cùng Minh Phát cung cấp may dem tien chính hãng.


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5 Real Planets Way Weirder Than Anything in Science Fiction
Movies and TV often present us with strange, alien worlds, and those worlds are often "themed" -- like a planet that's just a giant forest, or a vast snow desert, or full of Nazis. Obviously, that's not how planets work. Everybody knows the only "theme" a real planet can have is unbridled, awestruck terror. Like so ...
#5. The Light-Eater Planet
Try to imagine hell as a planet. Some of you probably thought of an ominous, red, glowing rock with temperatures hot enough to melt a Terminator, while others thought of a giant black ball of death where light literally goes to die. Congratulations: Collectively, you've all just imagined the distant giant known as TrES-2b.
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Abandon all hope ye who orbit here.
Orbiting a star in Draco, the constellation of the dragon (little known fact: most of space was named by John Carpenter), TrES-2b is the darkest planet humans have ever discovered. How dark are we talking about here? It absorbs (or "feasts on," if you will) 99 percent of the sunlight that reaches it, making it darker than coal, black acrylic paint, or your ex's cold, unforgiving heart. And it's not likely to ever go hungry, because the planet is located only 3 million miles from its star. In astronomical terms, that's like standing close enough to another person for your nose hairs to get tangled up.
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Also, the breath of the person standing too close is hot enough to vaporize uranium.
But hey, it also means that you can now stop worrying about someday being marooned on the Planet of Darkness and going insane ... because you'd probably first be killed by temperatures approaching one-fifth that of the surface of the sun, which have spotted the black surface of the planet with pools of hell magma.
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Good news for hot tub enthusiasts, we suppose.
So TrES-2b absorbs almost all light that comes its way, and the only broken sections in the sea of black are Earth-size spots of burning death. The unholy temperatures have made it impossible for clouds to form on TrES-2b, which some researchers think might contribute to the planet's pitch-black appearance. But that wouldn't completely explain the planet's appetite for sunlight. Theories abound: It might be due to the lack of any real atmosphere, or it might be the fault of light-absorbing particles like vaporized sodium or gaseous titanium oxide floating around the planet. Personally, we think it's because the loose tectonic plates of the planet's surface have literally been tainted black after millennia of sliding about on a solid core of ultra-dense hate.
#4. The Planet Traveling Through the Eye of Sauron
The "Eye of Sauron" is the magnificently geeky nickname given to a young star called Fomalhaut and the space debris surrounding it, which, when put together, totally look like a gigantic eye in outer space ...
Unblinking ...
Eternal ...
Watching you shower through the lens of infinity ...
Which may explain why we keep hearing "DON'T FORGET THE TAINT" in a booming voice from the heavens.
But that's all stupid anthropomorphization. Why rely on that, when the true facts are even more existentially terrifying? For example: The debris field is a gigantic disk of rocks and ice roughly twice as wide as the entire solar system. That's the scale we're dealing with here -- and you think your whole day is ruined when the Starbucks girl doesn't get your latte right. Located 25 light-years away from Earth, Fomalhaut b is a Jupiter-size celestial body orbiting the star in the center of Sauron's eye. Since it is but a seagull in the most majestic celestial garbage dump, it's highly probable that the planet is eternally plowing into space junk, resulting in a cosmic fireworks display of burning rocks and exploding ice.
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It's everything heavy metal has been promising us for the last 40 years.
It gets worse when you consider that Fomalhaut b might be going through this cruel cycle only because another planet pushed it out of a closer orbit around the star, dooming it to a life of perpetual destruction. That's the closest thing you can get to a Space Curse, and it might make for a pretty decent sci-fi horror flick (only, you know, with planets instead of people -- we're thinking Sarah Michelle Gellar as Fomalhaut b. And not just because she'd look good in a nice, low-cut, form-fitting debris field).
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Wow. Astronomy is really coming alive.
#3. The Evaporating Planet
KIC 12557548 b is a planet slowly being tortured to death by its own star. All right, maybe that's a bit overwrought. Let's find a less dramatic way to phrase it: Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that's literally evaporating from existence before our eyes as it leaves a dusty comet trail behind it like the bloody drag marks of a murder victim desperately crawling for help that will never come. There. Much more scientifically accurate.
C.U Keller, Leiden University
This is basically Saw for astronomers.
The planet orbits its star every 16 hours, meaning that KIC 12557548 b's surface temperatures are too hot for rocks, minerals, and even that guy who wears shorts in the dead of winter to exist. But that's not enough: The universe apparently took a look at the dying KIC 12557548 b and its melting mountains and rivers of magma and decided that it just hasn't suffered enough. KIC 12557548 b also displays planet-wide volcanic eruptions so powerful that they shoot ash into space. There, the ash is evaporated by cosmic radiation, because nothing escapes KIC 12557548 b.
NASA, European Space Agency, Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS
Even this planet doesn't want to live on this planet anymore.
But enough about KIC 12557548 b. Let's talk about you: special, beautiful you ...
... and all the horrible things that would happen to you if you set foot on KIC 12557548 b.
First, you'd see a massive, bright star that took up half of the sky. But the time for marveling at a sky of fire is over, because you're struggling to breathe in an atmosphere of 90 percent powdered rock. Then, if the numerous earthquakes and volcanic eruptions didn't immediately do you in (of course they would -- you'd be dead in nanoseconds, but for the purposes of this narrative you get to live for several horrible, clawing minutes), you would be swept up into space and evaporated with the other 100,000 tons of mass that disappear off the planet every second.
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'70s Ford Mustang-based Dirt Late Model - Those Were The DaysWritten by on January 30, 2014 Contributors: Phil Kunz Ultimate Racing
The '70s and early '80s were another time for Dirt Late Model racing. It was a time when dirt stock cars were being constructed in backyard garages out of parts and pieces from the muscle cars of the 1960s. That fact shouldn't be surprising as those cars were plentiful, had durable performance oriented parts and were relatively economical.
Making use of the parts and pieces of those muscle cars often resulted in some pretty nasty looking race cars, a good example of that technique being this Mustang. Constructed in the early 1970s, this Dirt Late Model actually used '60s muscle car components for its construction, blending the body from a stock '65 Mustang fastback with a different chassis. It was not possible to use the Mustang's chassis because of its unibody construction.
"But there was a logical fix," explained former driver Wally Heminger. "We used the chassis of a '63 Ford Galaxie which had a sturdy frame. We had to shorten it about 10 inches to make it compatible with the Mustang body."
Grafting a pony car body onto a full sized frame was in itself a fabrication challenge but in this case it was made slightly easier thanks to the fact that the rules of the time required a 108-inch wheelbase, which was the stock wheelbase of first generation Mustangs. Prior to mounting the body the team constructed a homemade rollcage from 13/4-inch round chrome-moly tubing.
Wally noted that back in those days, most of the Late Model teams used big block engines. Power came from a period 427ci/425hp engine which was acquired from a local Ford dealership. It fit right onto the Galaxie motor mounts.
It was a time when dirt stock cars were being constructed in backyard garages out of parts and pieces from the muscle cars of the 1960s
The powertrain remained in the Ford camp with a four-speed manual tranny that was acquired from a junk yard. Ah, the good old days, don't you wish that were back? Finally, there was a period Franklin quick-change rearend.
Wally said, "Suspension consisted of shocks from Holman and Moody. The rear springs came from a period Ford station wagon."
Heminger indicated, "The success I enjoyed in the car came from the fact that I could make it handle. Also, I kept records on how the car was set up for particular tracks. Most teams at the time didn't do that, and it gave me a real advantage."
Current Late Model fans might be surprised to see that the rear wheels protrude beyond the body confines. That situation was because there weren't shortened rear axles during that period.
In his mostly northern Ohio career, Wally was very successful with two track titles at his home track, Fremont (Ohio) Speedway along with 32 wins at that location. "We ran a lot against 454-powered Chevelle's and 427 Fairlanes at the time," he recalled.
He also ran the car twice at the prestigious Eldora Speedway World 100 where he had a best 10th place finish. He also qualified for the first World Dirt Track Championship race in 1981.
The Keegan racing family from the Fremont area was heavily involved with the car, having been built by Mervin Keegan and owned/campaigned by Mervin's twin sons, Ronnie and Donnie.
The car was recently brought back to life by current owner Joe West, the Keegan twins, and others. It took three months of steady work to complete this project. The outward appearance was done by original sponsor Foster Auto Body whose name is still on the car.
You better believe that it receives huge attention wherever it is displayed. Sure brings back some sweet memories of earlier dirt racing, wouldn't you agree?
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A very nifty installation was directing the exhaust pipes to a stacked location on the passenger door.Note the excellent fabrication on the right front corner. Nice place to put the 44 numbers. Sure would tell a driver in front of this car who was coming up behind. Also, the front bumper was extended out about three inches for protection. Wally indicated, "They called it a cow-catcher."One of the rear wheels with its period configuration. The original wheels were painted steel while these are chrome.The hood of the car contains the very familiar "427" engine figure. The original hood had a hole where the air cleaner protruded. West wanted a more modern hoodscoop to prevent dirt getting into the engine.One of the design highlights of this Ford model was the louvered rear pillar which was retained for its race car application.A view of the rear deck. Also, in this location, the bumper was moved further back for rear protection.A view of the rear deck. Also, in this location, the bumper was moved further back for rear protection. Notice that red and blue stripes are continued over the roof, a part of a very patriotic paint scheme.


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Maternity Sweaters!
Last week a KnitBits subscriber wrote in asking if we'd ever think of designing a maternity sweater. To be quite honest, we don't have any in the works but we had fun coming up with a list of sweaters that we think would work for ladies who are in the family way. Though we're flying blind here, so please feel free to chime in with your comments!
Left to right, top to bottom: Nuss, Anhinga, Haight, Paron, Peace, Moska, Pucker, Bitok, Cosima, Bantam, Remember, Montparnasse, Juliana, Pike, Hibito.
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All lovely choices (but don't forget – not too tight around the 'chestal' region as this area tends to, ahem, expand somewhat also.😉August 21, 2009
KarenLG #
The link to Haight points to the wrong pattern… ack… But now I'll get lost for hours looking at all the yummy patterns…August 21, 2009
oh wow, this is such a great idea!! I'm not in the family way yet, but it's on the horizon in a couple years- I love so many of these designs, and they would be perfect! Maybe Ravely needs a new category!August 21, 2009
Andra #
IMHO – Calvert from NGV3 should be included.August 22, 2009
Anouk #
When I was pregnant I knitted Calvert.August 23, 2009
beth #
I saw a pregnant lady in Tilted Duster and that seemed perfect!August 24, 2009
have you thought about cable pleats? right under the mid drift, that leaves a drapy finish in the stomach area like a baby doll top only it has instant expansion for the belly. if you stretch it out by the time you are at term…you can re-block it back to the correct size. Knitting stretchs and gives and if made from natural fabric you can re block with no problem. if you make it out of acrylic you may have to soak and wash it a few times to get it back to the right size.August 24, 2009
What about adding in Loppem? I know it fits pregnant ladies as well as (ahem!) middle aged ones too!August 25, 2009
Sarah #
Hooray! Thanks for making a post about this! I wonder how many sweaters I can make before I'm out of maternity clothes?August 28, 2009
Mrs. D #
I haven't started showing yet, but I would love to see some patterns that could be used during and after pregnancy, maybe with a button-in panel or something like that. I've seen one pattern like this on Canadian Living, but I think it looks really frumpy. It would be fun to see some patterns with similar concepts that are actually cute. Who wants to spend all that time knitting something that isn't going to fit so well during pregnancy, or knitting a pattern specifically for pregnancy that you'll only wear a small portion of your life?January 7, 2011
Pat Allums #
Years ago when I was having my babies, they are in their 50's now, one of the knitting companies had a pattern for a maternity sweater that could be converted at the end into a regular cardigan. It was done with inserts in the side seams that were triangular in shape from waist to sleeve. At the end of the pregnancy the seams were opened, the triangle removed at the seam reclosed. Sounded complicated, but it wasn't at the time when there was nothing for the pregnant woman in any clothes. When my daughters were pregnant, I looked high and low for the pattern to no avail. Maybe your very creative designers can come up with something.
Love your website!!January 7, 2011
These are great and I like the looseness you've left around the middle, there's nothing worse than feeling like your tummy is bound. especially during those last "not so comfortable" months. It's hard to find maternity sweaters that hang correctly over a pregnant belly. Thanks for these ideas, I'll be linking to this post from http://www.sweaters.com.November 1, 2011


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