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Following up on our BlackBerry PlayBook Review yesterday, today we were finally able to see the paired BlackBerry Smartphone/PlayBook experience, which allows you to use your PlayBook as a big screen for your BlackBerry phone. The BlackBerry bridge is carried out via bluetooth, and the means for pairing is really simple. You'll download a BlackBerry Bridge app onto your phone from App World. On your tablet, you'll tap the options icon on the top right corner of the PlayBook (the gear) and from there will be an option to display a barcode. You'll scan the barcode of your PlayBook with your BlackBerry and that will pair the two devices. From there, you can run BlackBerry Messenger, your calendar, emails (and maybe more??) from your PlayBook. Check out the video above to see it in action! (note, we do the BBM pairing at the very end).
Video Demo: Pairing your BlackBerry Smartphone with BlackBerry PlayBook via BlackBerry Bridge
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Video Demo: Pairing your BlackBerry Smartphone with BlackBerry PlayBook via BlackBerry Bridge
I have an iPad 3G and an iPhone 4 and have been looking (considering) ditching it for the Torch/PlayBook. My biggest complaint with the iPad 3G is that it won't let me use the data plan form my iPhone to get internet, I have to pay separate when I need the 3G. Obviously not all the time without wifi, but when paired with the blackberry via bluetooth, is the browser on the PlayBook able to use the BlackBerry's data plan. Essentially, can the browser on the PlayBook use the bluetooth link as a "tether"?
I remember the earlier videos when it was first announced stating that it would. And now with 4G coming up that would be even better. Who would pay to have 4G separately for both your phone and tablet? I know I wouldn't!
Not only can you have bbm on the playbook, YOU CAN HAVE IT ON A 40INCH TV!!!!!!!!!
this isn't tethering it's pairing via BT. Tethering is different. This is a free app you DL and you're connected to your phone thru the PB...
completely free
there has been discussion of data tethering via your phone using this method, so far it's inconclusive but it looks like there probably won't be a charge to use your BB data plan on your PB...
not sure if it was "baked into" the BlackBerry Bridge app but I'm sure that is a question that will be answered soon
exactly what im waiting to find out....
A few Questions arise...
1. Can it be simultaneously paired to a phone as well as a Bluetooth headset...i.e. handle multiple device traffic on one BT receiver...I know this is possible with wireless mouse/kb sets for computers, just curious if it's in the PB...it has to be right?
2. How many phones can be paired at the same time. If more than one, how will the PB differentiate the phones on calendar, bbm, etc
3. Is there a time out option for the phone to the PB just in case you wanna conserve power
4. Can PBs sync together for gaming like on the DS? - Would be sweeeeet and certainly a plus point...
Kevin, if you see this, ask if you can!
I agree. I would like to know these answers as well.
Another question, when linked to the PB, I assume I would be able to transfer files if needed? Send MP3, video files, documents etc?
I can see myself ditching my laptop.
When paired with my Blackberry, can the PB use it's browser or the Blackberry browser? Nothing said in demo about internet use via pairing??
Does the PB have AutoText?
If so, does it use its own AutoText database or can I transfer the one I have on my BB?
If not, when a BB is paired with it does it use the BBs AutoText database when doing text entry in the "mirrored" apps (BBM, Calendar, etc.)?
One thing I have not seen in any of the demos is any evidence of any kind of predictive text entry. It surely must have it with only a touch screen keyboard, so how does it work? I like predictive text but it is the AutoText that I truly appreciate on the BB.
Who goes anywhere without their phone?!?
I was not even considering buying a PB, but if it allows me to "piggy back" my BB data connection and not have to pay for 3G on the iPad that could be a huge deal.
this looks awesome and I must have one when they come out....I hope the Bridge app to pair the BB with the PB gets included in the BB OS for us locked down BES users....
Ok since a lot of people seem worried that the Playbook won't be able to use their BBs internet connection, here is a quote from the official Blackberry website that was recently updated (http://ca.blackberry.com/playbook-tablet/):
3G network access using your BlackBerry® smartphone as a modem
4G network access available on BlackBerry® 4G PlayBook™ tablet
Wi-Fi® 802.11 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR
:D Double-Yai!
Can't wait!
1. I totally want to be able to keep my BB in my holster while browsing the web on my PlayBook using my BB as my "modem" without having to pay AT&T an extra $20 for a tethering plan.
2. It would be awesome to be able to "pair" third party apps (like Trillian) just like BBM is being paired.
3. I'd love to be able to use the PlayBook for video calling while "paired" with the BlackBerry.
4. When the frak can I buy one? Lol
Thanks for all of the PB vids, I cannot wait to get one of them.
You know whats scary? What if right after CES, Blackberry says screw it and SHIPS the PBs out the door?
That would make Apple and Samsung shit all over themselves....
This PB does exactly what I expect in a Tablet. Apple and Galaxy will have to step their game up... RIM is back in town with pure pwnage!
The BBM looks GREAT! Every video makes me want this more & more. I mentioned this to my wife last night & told her when it's "supposed" to come out, hopefully by March, her response was "you can't wait til your birthday, well that's August! With a look like someone kicked my puppy I said, well I guess I can TRY to wait, lol. I mean, we our having our first baby AND building a house so we have some other things going on right now. I do have a question about the Playbook that a buddy brought up.
1. He heard that you'll only be able to use the Contacts & Calendar function when it's linked to your Blackberry, has anyone else heard this? I'd hope not, I'd hope that after your initial link that your contacts, calendar & other stuff would transfer or maybe even use DM to "restore" that kind of information to your Playbook. I mean if I'm running it on Wifi & it's not connected to my Blackberry am I not going to be able to access my contacts & calendar? That doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
congrats by the way!
yeah from what I've read, because of security once you un-pair the blackberry smartphone with the Playbook, the data disappears from the Playbook.
I too would like to know if you could leave your "synced" calendar and other info onto your PB as an option. Syncing when needed. If thats the case, I assume there will be profiles created to allow for multiple devices usage on the PB.
What would be cool would be syncing with other playbook to play online gaming/chat/conferencing etc.
WE ALL JUST CREAMED OUR PANTIES. Well done, RIM! Bring it. Hurry.
Just one question, does the playbook have it's own PIN or would a BB handset be required to use the Email, Contacts, Calendar, and BBM programs. If this is the case RIM is really limiting their market. With the current lineup of Blackberry handsets, I really don't see someone giving up their iPhone 4, or Android phone just to get these features on a tablet that should already have it.
what im loving about all these videos is the no nonsense screen transitions (pretty much none). Therefore you get to where you want fast without having to wait. Sure you can be wowed by a pretty transition that takes a second but after a while you just want it to just do it already!
Playbook is awesome. I love that we wont necessarily need to have a separate data plan! and bbm on a bigger screen. WOOOO
I want one!!! RIGHT NOW!!! :'(
not to rain on everyone's parade but I don't think data tethering the PlayBook through your BlackBerry is not going to be as possible as everyone thinks.
Yes the BlackBerry website says you can access 3G data through your BlackBerry device via Bluetooth. However from I've read it does it using the IP modem function. This means that it's up to the carrier whether or not they allow this (basically just like tethering via the Desktop Manager). As an example BlackBerry says ALL of their phones have modem capability but as we all know it's the carrier's decision to allow it.
There's no rain on this parade. When synced with your BB smartphone, you can use either your phone or your Playbook to enter information in calendar or respond to BBM's, etc. The linkage is called Bridge which will also allow you to send/receive data through your phone. This was demonstrated rather smoothly at CES. The Playbook was synced with various Blackberry phones including the 9780 and the Torch. The 9780 was using T-Mobile's 3g network and of course the Torch was using ATT's 3g network. The owners of the phones didn't need to pay for any tethering plan with either cell providers.
So in a nutshell, having a Playbook Wifi version will not cost you anything extra on your monthly bill. The connection to the 3g networks is directly through your smartphone as if it originated from the smartphone. The beauty of bridge is that it allows the Playbook to act as a clone of your smartphone, only larger. The 3g network will be none-the-wiser.


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Do you air your wines?
I have purchased a few different wines via Woot from bottles thru Climber Pouch . Some of my winephile friends recommend all sorts of timing and techniques for airing. So in my interest of enjoying my wines at their best, even if tweaked, do you air your wines? If yes, which ones? And for how long and with what techniques? And do you vary your techniques according to the variety?
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I have a Vinturi and a Soiree aerator. Both work but I lean towards the Soiree as better. I have never decanted unless you count swirling in the glass.
For reds, now always. I have a Vinturi, and I think that it really helps to open up the wine without decanting and breathing. I have a really cool decanter, but I don't like to use it for day to day things. Keep you eye open, the Vinturi appears from time to time on Woot.
I only air whines.
No, but only because the boxes don't really have a way to do so. Otherwise I would. I mean, I want it to taste it's best, you know?
I picked up a Vinturi with stand via a Woot-Plus deal a month or so back (I got the red wine model). Each pour through it is supposedly the equivalent of 30 minutes of breathing.
So far, I've been experimenting with it and have found that while it definitely makes a difference, it is not always a positive one.
@bingo969: I've been looking at this Vinturi that the other responders have recommended. From what I can tell one pours the wine from a bottle or box or however it is packaged into the Vinturi and it dispenses into a glass. If I am right about the operation, then you could air boxed wine.
Hopefully some of the other responders will LMK if I am on the mark about the operation of the unit and if I am incorrect describe exactly how they use it.
I do not plan on investing the $$ in a vinturi any time soon. For some wines it'll be worthwhile to hyperdecant. (AKA: Mixing it up in a blender.)It's really hyperaerating, so you'll want to be doing it to younger wines rather than finely matured ones.

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UCMA Hello World - Send an Instant Message
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How are Latin botanical names (e.g. Rattus rattus or Eucalyptus marginata) handled in Chinese? Does a Chinese botanist simply use Latin? Are there specific characters allocated for these words?
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I'm native, but not a botanist.
For official binomial names, they are always Latin. We do have Chinese translation for every genus and species (well, at least most of the species), but not used in binomial names. These kind of translation don't use special characters, and usually not translated by sound, but by meaning.
It seems they use both. On this site, alternativehealing.com, there is a long list of botanical names, the characters and the pinyin as well. For completeness, I must say that in the Chinese wikipedia for "botanical names", 學名 (植物), it's stated that Latin must be used for classes, see the part titled "學名來源".
On the same site, in this page, there is even a dictionary; you can look up by the Latin name, the pinyin or the number of strokes of the characters (if you don't know the pinyin but you know the character).
all sciences done in chinese speaking country/regions basically all use english when it comes to technical lingoes. For chinese medicine/herb communities, if they are scientific (e.g. research, done university work) it's just english. Those traditional chinese herb community use the traditional names, but they are basically ignorant of modern botanical science. (e.g. it's this group that believes in rhino horns or tiger penis as aphrodisiacs etc.)


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Night Fighters examines the historical, technological, tactical, and strategic evolution of limited visibility aerial combat as the air forces of Great Britain and Germany dueled in the night skies during WWII. The book is based on extensive research and interviews with the key planners responsible for their respective national strategies governing the conduct of the nighttime air war as well as the airmen who fought the war. This arena of WWII combat produced a plethora of technological innovations, the results of which are seen today in everyday military and civilian life. This book provides a detailed historical analysis of the men, methods, machines, and devices that forever altered the course of aviation, military, and scientific history during the air war in the night skies of WWII.
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All elements are draggable.
I am using JInternalFrame (for complex elements) along with JPanel (for simple elements) to represent elements of a schematic diagram. There is a container (either a JDesktopPane or a JLayeredPane), which contain all these elements.
I have several problems with this concept:
Case 1 - The container is a JDesktopPane:
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- Clicking other elements don't "deactivate" previously active JInternalFrame
Case 2 - The container is a JLayeredPane:
- After clicking some elements inside a JInternalFrame, it stays "activated" forever.
Case 3 - JInternalFrame used for everything, but without decoration for simple elements:
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I don't get the whole concepts behind activating JInternalFrames anyway. If I could make a JInternalFrame not activable at all, I could choose Case 2 any would be happy.
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Welcome to the Grants, Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans page of the Health Sciences Library at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. This page lists internet resources for financial aid, grants, scholarships, and other funding resources for students entering universities, colleges and graduate schools. Also included are specific sites for students and professionals in the biomedical sciences and in the fields of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and dentistry.
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I have a video in mp4 (MPEG-4) and I would like to add subtitles to it. What tool or application would you recommend to help me write and sync the subtitles with the video?
An open-source, cross-platform solution is Jubler
I didn't try it, but it has a good amount of users on iusethis.
While I've never used this to create raw subtitles, here's the couple of programs I've tried for a similar purpose:
Never tried this, but is is cross-platform: http://www.aegisub.org/
After i read your comments - IMHO you will need:
Sublime HD is great, but its price is just crazy - 230€
A little bit of digging around turned up Submerge from bitfield. I have not used it, but it looks pretty decent and is listed on Apples's Downloads site. bitfield also has an app named iSubtitle in the Mac App Store which appears to do the same thing.
iSubtitle is $19.99 in the Mac App Store, while Submerge is only $9 from bitfield's web site.
Not mentioned yet is Annotation Edit.
Probably not suitable at consumer level (€245), but at prosumer or professional level it is a good option. I've worked with it in a movie producing company and it delivered very well.
It has FinalCut integration (import/export) and works with tons of formats.
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Two days into a new fiscal year without a final state budget, Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher and Democratic House Speaker Jody Richards continued their public debate Friday.
Speaking at a press conference to address his spending plan for the state, Fletcher accused Richards of "negotiating generally in the press. That's just, forgive me, it's not the way to negotiate. Him continuing down that line is not productive as far as I see and it doesn't indicate to me a serious effort of trying to reach some sort of compromise," Fletcher said.
In a prepared statement, Richards responded saying: "It is regrettable that Governor Fletcher continues his personal attacks on me and House leadership when he knows that I have initiated several telephone calls to him and Senator Williams to start the negotiating process toward approving a budget. Personal attacks do not accomplish anything. Real negotiation and compromise would."
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Mitt Romney gave it his best shot – and got booed.
"If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him," Romney said with a straight face as he addressed the NAACP's national convention Wednesday.
"I want you to know that if I did not believe that my policies and my leadership would help families of color — and families of any color — more than the policies and leadership of President Obama, I would not be running for president," Romney said to a chorus of boos.
It was a decidedly bold statement, but not at all believable. I'm not convinced that Romney actually believes his own rhetoric, but he desperately wants to win the White House so he'll say anything, to anybody, to get elected.
Minutes after Romney spoke to NAACP delegates, the largest black group Romney has ever addressed, his surrogates quickly appeared on national television praising Romney just for showing up.
I disagree. Romney shouldn't get kudos simply because he accepted the NAACP's invitation to speak during the national convention, offered some predictable platitudes, and then rushed off to the next campaign stop.
This wasn't a stretch: Romney had nothing to lose. He knows President Barack Obama received 95 percent of the black vote in 2008, and the president will probably get close to that level of black support in November so Romney felt he had a chance to siphon off some black votes by appealing directly to NAACP delegates.
For Romney, the Republican candidate for president, telling a crowd of black people that he's a better representative for African Americans than Obama, the nation's first black president, was not the best campaign pitch – and, in fact, Romney bluntly attacked the NAACP's core concerns.
"I believe that if you understood who I truly am in my heart," Romney said, "and if it were possible to fully communicate what I believe is in the real, enduring best interest of African-American families, you would vote for me for president."
Romney was long on clichés and short on substance. He offered some questionable "Kumbaya" moments, but it wasn't true leadership and he didn't sound serious about courting African-American voters.
"His criticism of the Affordable Care Act – legislation that will improve access to quality health care for millions – signals his fundamental misunderstanding of the needs of many African Americans," NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said after Romney's speech.
Here's what Romney failed to say: He didn't talk specifically about how he would reverse the 14.4 black unemployment rate; he didn't talk about his plan to address the rising HIV/AIDS crisis in the black community; he didn't talk in detail about the widening racial disparities in education; he avoided any views on about the criminal justice system, and he didn't discuss how his vision for health care will actually help black Americans – except for saying he'd repeal "Obamacare," the president's signature health care law.
"If our goal is jobs, we must stop spending over a trillion dollars more than we earn," Romney said. "To do this, I will eliminate non-essential programs like Obamacare."
That's when the real booing began – and for good reason. A CNN reporter said Romney had not experienced that kind of booing since Romney began campaigning for president, although there was some polite applause during portions of Romney's speech.
Tara Wall, a senior adviser for Romney, told reporters after the speech that Romney "received more applause than boos."
"If you want to count the handful of boos there were, I think we saw much more acceptance and applause of his speech a number of times," Wall said. "There was much more agreement over all from what I saw and heard."
But there didn't seem to be much agreement among NAACP delegates over this disingenuous statement from Romney: "I have no hidden agenda."
Nothing could be further from the truth. Romney hides everything. He refuses to make all of his tax returns public; he won't discuss in detail his offshore bank accounts; and his campaign is shielding many of his major donors. I really don't care if Romney wants to live his life in secrecy. Just don't run for president.
"At the NAACP today, leaders in the African-American community recognized the devastating impact Mitt Romney's policies would have on working families," Clo Ewing, a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign, said in a statement. "He'd gut investments in education, energy, and infrastructure, and raise taxes on the middle class even as he gives $5 trillion in tax cuts weighted towards millionaires and billionaires."
Romney is one of those millionaires. He's worth about $200 million; famously said he's "not concerned about the very poor" and has no obvious connection to working-class Americans – white or black.
"The unemployment rate, the duration of unemployment, average income, median family wealth are all worse in the black community," Romney said. "In June, while the overall unemployment rate remained stuck at 8.2 percent, the unemployment rate for African-Americans actually went up, from 13.6 percent to 14.4 percent."
Romney is adept at stating the obvious: Black folks already know the facts. The persistent question that remains unanswered is this: What is Romney planning to do about it?


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What are the halakhot that apply to bitcoin? Is it halakhickly money? What even is the halakhic definition of money? Can bitcoin transactions be made over shabbat? That sort of thing.
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You might think that Gold and Silver coins have inherent not abstract value, but as the Chazon Ish said, Gold and Silver have no actual material use. People want them only because they are rare, and that means they have abstract value.
Bitcoin, and the balance in your electronic bank account, are the same: They have only abstract value, and are therefor money in halacha.
PS. It would be pretty hard to actually spend bitcoins on Shabbos since they are electronic only.
Short answer: Bitcoin is the same as money.
Long Answer: Halachically , in the talmid money is anything which is minted and has a face on it. (Talmud bavli shabbat, muuktzeh) the Talmud compares a melted coin and a coin in regards to muktzeh on shabbat. Though the melted coin has value there is no risk of it being used in a transaction. The value of the slug itself might actually go up or down in value causing interest problems. However, business transactions and laws of interest etc are based on anything that can be exchanged for something of value. (You notice this the most at weddings when a hankerchief or pen is used as a method of transferring ownership) Money is muktzeh on shabbat because of it's connection to a contract, and one is not allowed to write on shabbat. Meaning the important thing is the contracts, not the form of money itself. Bitcoins are no different from the usage of credit cards or online shopping or checks where no physical money is transferred.
All cryptocurrencies (bitcoin etc.) are not money and never will be. According to Torah Law (Bava Metzia, where it discusses why money cannot be used for a kinyan / acquisition because a person has his attention on the seal on the money-source needed ) and even secular law. Though they might share some characteristics. There is no government issuing it as currency. No goverment, no judicial branch, no laws, no executive branch. Not money


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For uninstalling an app (or package) should I use
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What is advantage of any of them to other one?
For uninstalling an app (or package) should I use
What is advantage of any of them to other one?
If you have customized the package/software at all, either by editing the config files directly, or via a GUI, you may want to keep your customizations. Usually in Unix/Linux systems, configurations are saved in text files, even if the configuration/customization is done via the GUI.
Each Debian binary deb package has a list of files which it identifies as config files.
So, if you have not configured the package, or you don't want to keep your configurations, you can use
If you do keep the config files, then if/when you reinstall the package, Debian will attempt to reuse the saved configuration information. If the version of the package you are trying to (re)install has config files that conflict with the configuration files that are already installed, it will again ask you before overwriting, as it does on upgrade.
Minor comment: If you have removed the package and later want to remove the config files,it used to be the case that
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We get it. Parenting is hard. Kids are messy, needy and unable to expel waste from their bodies without coating the walls with it first. We also get that it's human nature to invent useless products for people who don't know any better than to just throw gadgets at every problem.
And that's how mankind wound up with ...
#12. Inflatable "Shit On My Face" Potty Seat
We're starting to think there's some kind of nefarious organization dedicated to building an army of future adults who are horrified of sitting on toilets. Why else would anyone invent this thing?
Yes, you, too, can condition your young children to shit onto a laughing face with eyes that look like eagerness incarnate. And the face is blue for no good reason, so we're guessing it's choking itself for double the pleasure.
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We want to mock this, but for some reason we're just deeply, deeply depressed.
Oh, and it's inflatable. So it's a toilet that you deflate between uses, then re-inflate the next time you need it. With your mouth.
#11. Tinkle Tube Toilet Aid
At the risk of attracting the wrong kind of Google search traffic to this article, this here is basically a gun silencer for your child's wiener.
If you're reading this, we can presume you know how peeing works, and that little boys don't just have to master the arts of bladder control, anus control and not-staining-their-Underoos control -- they've also got to learn how to aim. If only you had some kind of ... apparatus. Like the Tinkle Tube Toilet Aid. Simply remove the plastic caps and, uh, attach it. Now your toddler has improved accuracy and is trained for a future when all men will be able to upgrade to a robot penis.
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Is this legal? Can someone check on that?
It doesn't help that the Tinkle Tubers call toddler genitals "little soldiers" or that they seem to think men are absolute idiots when it comes to caring for their own children. Why else would they make this helpful video ...
... where a cartoon dad acts like he'd never taken his child into a bathroom before. In it, the guy just stands there for a solid 15 seconds, baffled by the thought of urinals, until the inevitable moment when the son drenches him in urine.
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#10. My Pee Pee Bottle
Some parents would apparently rather get consumed by fire ants than let their child use a public restroom. You know what's easier? Slightly squatting with your legs spread and peeing into a cup that your mom has shoved up onto your under-parts. Mind you, don't piss all over mama's hands, Makenna!
My Pee Pee Bottle
"LOOK! It has your NAME!"
And thus we have My Pee Pee Bottle, named by people who think personalizing a cup o' urine like it's some kind of prized trophy isn't going to screw up even the healthiest kids. And none of this is as baffling as how EMPHATICALLY My Pee Pee Bottle defends their product:
"At this time, My Pee Pee Bottle stands alone! Nothing compares to My Pee Pee Bottle, Nothing!"
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Kids don't just love My Pee Pee Bottle. They're willing to die for it.
#9. Why Cry Baby Crying Analyzer
Remember that Simpsons episode where Homer's brother invented that ridiculous device that could decipher what babies were saying? Well, somebody claims to have made one: the Why Cry Baby Crying Analyzer. Hey, and it only costs $19.99! Now you can finally know if your baby is tired, or hungry, or being stalked by a predator!
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Above: The only thoughts a baby is capable of.
The device requires just 20 seconds of uninterrupted analysis to figure out the problem (including telling you whether or not the baby is "bored"). Twenty seconds of uninterrupted crying might not sound like much to the uninitiated, so why don't you see how long you can get through this video before you shut it off:
On the other hand, it also displays room temperature and humidity, which is awesome because ... babies hate it when it's humid?
#8. Snazzy Baby Knee Pads
For those of you who insist on tiling your floor with upended glass shards, baby knee pads are a great product. For the rest of us, not so much. Not just because babies have learned to crawl through desert sands, mountainous landscapes and Third World sweat shops without the benefit of goofy ass leg cushions. And not just because you're dressing your kid like a girl in a P. Diddy video and calling him "Snazzy." All of these are really good reasons to not plop down $19.99 for a pair of knee pads, but the best reason is that your little crawling darling probably already owns half a dozen pairs of knee pads.
They're called "pants."
"You're going to pay for this in about 15 years."
#7. Time Out Pad, aka the Butt Prison
For the last couple of decades, the "time out" has replaced beatings and psychological torture as the socially acceptable way to discipline your child. It's a nonviolent way to put a kid in his place when he's done wrong, and it's a scientific fact that bad kids hate to sit still, so it can be a pretty effective punishment.
"Tommy, you sit on this until you learn how to get busy living or get busy dying."
But time outs have a catch: you have to monitor them. You can't walk away, because the kid will walk away, too, presumably to do some more arson. Which is why someone invented a butt snitch to make sure those kid butts stay put. Not only does the Time Out Pad provide an ass jail for toddler delinquents and a timer so he knows exactly how long he's got left, but it also sounds an ALARM if the kid gets up too early. It's like his own personal Inspector Javert, but for butts.


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"It has become apparent to many Americans that if we do not act decisively on the nation's debt soon, our economy will be seriously hobbled and we will dump an unsustainable burden on our children and grandchildren," said Myles Alexander, Project Coordinator for Kansas State University's Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy (ICDD.)
The forum titled "A Nation in Debt: How Can We Pay the Bills?" will present three possible options for participants to consider as a discussion starter:
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The policy suggestions made by participants in this forum will be forwarded to the Kettering Foundation as part of a national conversation on economic security that is happening in forums like this all across the country. "We are excited to have the voice of Kansans represented in this important project," said ICDD Director David Procter.
Some local and state elected officials and policy makers have been invited to observe the public forum process and reflect how they may use the information and decisions that result from the process. "That makes this forum a unique opportunity to make a difference," adds Procter.
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I've read of difficulties with wireless connectivity, touchpad and nVidia but all the posts seem to be quite old and possibly not currently relevant.


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Is there a field which is the union of finitely many proper subfields?
There are 3 cases.
Case 1. The field is finite. Then, as Charles Matthews pointed out, the primitive element theorem does the job.
Case 2: The intersection of the subfields is infinite. This is covered by darij grinberg's comment. The field is a vector space over this intersection and subfields are subspaces, but a vector space over an infinite field cannot be a union of finitely many proper subspaces.
Case 3: The field is infinite but the intersection of the subfields is finite. Then everything is a vector space over $\mathbb F_p$ where $p$ is the characteristic of the field. Let us forget about fields and do linear algebra over $\mathbb F_p$. Let me call a subfield (more generally, an affine subspace) big if its codimension over $\mathbb F_p$ is finite, and small otherwise. We only need two basic facts: Let $X$ be an affine space over $\mathbb F_p$ and $Y,Z$ affine subspaces with nonempty intersection, then
(1) if $Y$ and $Z$ are big, then $Y\cap Z$ is also big;
(2) if $Y$ is big and $Z$ is small, then $Y\cap Z$ is small in $Y$.
(This and everything below does not actually depend on the base field.)
If all our subfields are big, then so is their intersection. Then it is infinite and we are in Case 2. So there must be small subfields in our union. Let us just remove them and show that the union will remain the same (so we are in Case 2 again):
Lemma. Suppose that $X$, an affine space over $\mathbb F_p$, is covered by a finite collection of subspaces. Then the big subspaces from the collection also cover $X$.
Proof (pretty standard). Use induction in the number of subspaces. Suppose there is a point $a\in X$ that does not belong to the union of the big subspaces. Let $Y$ be one of the big subspaces (if there are any) and $Y'$ be the subspace parallel to $Y$ containing $a$. Consider the covering of $Y'$ by its intersections with our subspaces. By the basic fact (2), $a$ is not covered by the big intersections in $Y$. And at least one of the subspaces (namely $Y$) does not produce an intersection, so we can apply the inductive hypothesis in $Y'$.
It remains to consider the case when all subspaces are small. In this case, they just cannot cover $X$. Indeed, let $Y$ be one of them, $H$ any hyperplane containing $Y$ and $H'\ne H$ any hyperplane parallel to $H$. Replace $X$ by $H'$ and proceed by induction as above.
See A Bialynicki-Birula, J Browkin, A Schinzel, On the representation of fields as finite unions of subfields, Colloq Math 7 (1959) 31-32, MR 22 #2601. At the risk of violating copyright, here's the review, by S W Golomb:
This article contains a short proof of the fact that no field can be represented as a finite union of proper subfields. A counterexample is exhibited to the corresponding assertion for integral domains.
EDIT: The paper may be available at http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/cm/cm7/cm717.pdf
The reason it fails in the case of finite fields is the primitive element theorem (over the prime subfield, even). This is not quite an argument in the general case because of possible inseparability. Homework?


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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz today issued a number of Royal Decrees reconstituting the Council of Senior Ulema (Muslim Scholars) by appointing new members and extending the tenures of others.
King Abdullah relieved Sheikh Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohammad Al-Abdulmunem, upon his own request, from his post as Secretary General of the Commission of Senior Ulema, and appointed Sheikh Dr. Fahd bin Saad Al-Majed as his replacement, at the excellent grade.
Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Aasheikh was reappointed chairman of the Commission of Senior Ulema. Current members:
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A Royal decree was issued today relieving Sheikh Dr. Yousuf bin Mohammed Ali Al-Ghafees, a member of the Standing Committee for Research and Fatwa, an affiliate of Commission of Senior Ulema, from his post upon his request. King Abdullah also extended the term of members of the committee for four years, effective 3/3/1430 H., corresponding to February 27, 2009, unless otherwise indicated.
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We knows that in a critical system and self organized criticality we have long range interaction due power law decay in correlation. Is this fact equivalent to the butterfly effect?
No, or at least not in the sense the phrase "butterfly effect" is normally used. Well, possibly, but only if the critical system is chaotic.
The phrase is normally applied to systems that show chaotic behaviour. In such systems the trajectory of the system is very sensitive to the starting point i.e. if you take two points very close together in phase space the trajectories from those points will diverge. Hence the claim that a very small change to the system, such as a butterfly flapping its wings, will cause a big change in the future evolution of the system.
Critical systems may well show chaotic behaviour, and if so then I suppose the phrase "butterfly effect" does apply to them. However if this is the case the phrase would be used because they are chaotic not because they're critical.


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23 Mar 2010 2:38 PM #1
Ext JS 3.2RC1 released
We're pleased to release the first Release Candidate build of Ext JS 3.2 today. The recent 3.2 beta has been received very well and has had a minimal number of bugs reported so I hope we can move swiftly to final.
We'll issue a blog post when final hits (probably next week), but in the interim I'd greatly appreciate any feedback from people using the 3.2RC - as always, the bug forum is the place to post any bugs you encounter
Changes since the beta:
* Significant HBox and VBox layout speed improvements
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Excellent work guys! Well done!
The composite field is the killer extra feature for me.
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Hey, great! The themeviewer example is an excellent one to see most components with the theme, thanks!
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23 Mar 2010 5:09 PM #4
+1 from me. It's a joy to develop with Ext JS.
23 Mar 2010 7:50 PM #5
My project worked fine with 3.1, but no longer works properly in 3.2RC1 and I'm not sure how to debug that.
Basically what I have is:
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- what card is shown depends on what the user clicked in the center region.
One of the cards uses vbox layout, and is giving issues.
When activated it initially only shows the title of the card, and not the contents.
If I resize the border layout regions, it does display the contents of the card properly.
23 Mar 2010 7:57 PM #6
We put it through a lot of testing internally in different edge case situations but it sounds like we missed something. Would you mind filing a full bug report on the bugs forum so that we can get this addressed for 3.2 final?Ext JS Senior Software Architect
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23 Mar 2010 8:20 PM #7
EDIT: Never mind! I did find it using browser search as a method of component. For what ever it's worth, searching 'enableBubble' in the API docs search field didn't return any hits. Not sure why.
23 Mar 2010 11:08 PM #8
24 Mar 2010 6:44 AM #9
Setting layoutOnCardChange indeed solves it.
Created a bug nevertheless: http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=450384
24 Mar 2010 6:45 AM #10
I notice that tests are distributed with 3.2. How can I run the test suite (how can I get it)?


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If I were to offer two networks (one for trusted users and one to visitors) on one physical access point, is this dangerous because a visitor could compromise the trusted network across via the physical access point where both sets of wireless data propagate through?
Quite a lot of "enterprise" type access points offer functionality to allow multiple SSIDs on a single AP, and it's a pretty common configuration from what I've seen.
From a logical perspective the networks should be isolated (using VLANs or similar type of segregation). You should also be able to specify different authentication mechanisms, encryption types etc.
If correctly configured and patched, this shouldn't pose a major risk, however it does increase the complexity of the environment which always poses security risk (ie, one logical misconfiguration can cause a serious issue)
In terms of the Denial of Service risk, wireless networks can effectively always be DoS'd if an attacker wants to as a powerful enough radio source can cause denial of service on the signal and things like Deauth floods are pretty hard to stop too, from what I've seen.
Right! Your AP becomes a single point of failure and the key to the castle, if someone happens to get a privileged access to your public network by compromising your access point, your secured network isn't anymore!
As both Serge and Rory mentioned, it would require an exploit in the firmware of the Access Point, so if you can access the Access Point and configure it, your more secure network would be compromised. As for VLAN security, there is some best practices, Check this link on Cisco VLAN Best Practices
All in all, I would not recommend you to have two segmented wireless network, unless it is really needed I would skip the high-consequence network (the one with access to workstations, servers, domain controllers etc) and only have a guest network.


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I read my LibreOffice/OpenOffice documents with tablets and smartphones. Is there any software for the ODT -format which allows me to edit such files. I often find things which I should fix and would like to note that to the file.
Currently there is no such software. However, the LibreOffice team is working on an app. A prototype was reviewed e.g. here, if you want to take a look. No release date so far, but it will hopefully hit the market soon -- it is really strongly needed, as there is not a single Office app capable of working with OpenDocument formats (aside from AndrOffice, which is a spreadsheet-only app and obviously discontinued, as it is no longer listed on the playstore).
Until then: There's a Viewer app available at least, OpenOffice Document Reader...
UPDATE: Meanwhile, things have changed, and you have the choice between AndrOpen Office and TextMaker Mobile for read/write access, as well as Coffice and the already mentioned OpenDocument Reader for read-only access.
TextMaker Mobile is the only word processor that lets you open / save
This app is full of features, e.g., including a very good on-the-fly spell checker, footnotes, endnotes, comments, track changes, embedding of any font, access to several file hosting services etc., all TrueType and openType fonts can be embedded, it has a broad range of formatting and layout options, access and so much more.


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In a meeting of the goal-shy and goal-stingy, miserly New England's form won out, as the Revs stole a scoreless draw.After a two-goal outburst last week, the New England Revolution returned to their scoreless ways, playing to a 0-0 draw against the Portland Timbers at JELD-WEN Field.
The result is the seventh time in eight games involving the Revolution this season that at least one team has finished scoreless, and the fifth time the Revs have been shut out. It is their third scoreless draw.
The game also marks the first time this season the Timbers have failed to score a goal, and Portland's first scoreless draw since May 15, 2012.
Portland had most of the game's chances. Darlington Nagbe was stopped on a breakaway by New England keeper Bobby Shuttleworth in the first half, and saw a powerful effort go over the bar shortly after. In the second half, Shuttleworth again came up big, stopping a close-range Ryan Johnson effort and smothering the rebound on the line.
The draw gives the Revs a 2-3-3 record, good enough for seventh in the East. The Timbers retain the third spot in the West, sitting on 3-1-5.


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1 : to treat as an object or cause to have objective reality
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If I have only one dance pad, can my wife and I take turns playing 'multiplayer', or do we just have to play single player and share? (so we can record our high scores separately for example.)
You cannot "hotseat" one pad with different scores.
You have to have 2 for multiplayer. You can have separate player accounts that will track different scores when you have more than one pad, but you cannot use different accounts to track different scores at the same time with one pad.
You'll have to play single player under one profile and share the score.


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You're supposed to put on weight during pregnancy and while this is not a time to overeat, neither is it a time for fad or restrictive diets. By eating sensibly and exercising moderately, you should gain a healthy amount of weight during pregnancy.
How much weight you should gain depends on your starting weight. If you are underweight when you become pregnant, you should put on more weight than someone who's overweight. This starting weight is calculated by working out your BMI, which is a measure of weight in relation to height. It's a useful tool to figure out approximately how much weight you should gain during your pregnancy.
If your BMI falls within the normal range, then your recommended pregnancy weight gain is 25-35 lb (11-14.5 kg). If your BMI is in the underweight category, you should gain 28-40 lb (12.5-18 kg). If you're overweight, your pregnancy weight gain should be 15-25 lb (7-11 kg). Women in the obese category should gain at least 15 lb (7 kg). Women carrying twins should plan to gain about 35-45 lb (16-20 kg).
As a rough guide, an ideal weight gain is no more than 5 lb (2.2 kg) in the first trimester; no more than 12-19 lb (5.5-9 kg) in the second trimester; and no more than 8-11 lb (3.5-5 kg) in the third trimester. Remember not all of this weight gain is fat.
Over the 40 weeks of pregnancy, you are likely to gain very little weight in the first trimester and then experience a steady weight gain of around 1.5 to 2 lb a week. In the final few weeks of pregnancy, it's normal to gain a few more pounds. Remember that all figures given are averages and the amount you gain will depend on many individual factors; where weight is gained can also differ from woman to woman. Always consult your doctor if you're concerned about any aspect of your weight gain or diet.
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City v United: Blueview
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City fans from around the world will have the chance to share their Twitter messages for the Champions on the big screens at Sunday's hugely anticipated Manchester derby.
#blueview takes place at every City Barclays Premier League home game and gives fans from all over the world chance to share their support for the lads.
Before Sunday's clash with the Reds, City fans can get their name is lights by tweeting a pre-match message of support for the team by including the hashtag #blueview.
Throughout the pre-match build-up we will display the best tweets received from fans both at the Etihad Stadium and abroad on the big screens at CitySquare and within the main stadium bowl.
So, wherever you are in the world send us your thoughts ahead of the big kick-off and be part of it!
Join over 600,000 City fans around the world by following the club's official Twitter account.
Note: We are aware of connectivity issues in and around the Etihad Stadium on match days, particularly as we build up to kick-off. If you are struggling to get a 3G connection on your phone, you could always text a tweet in.


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These are special-purpose axes. If you want a utility axe, please buy one from your local hardware or chain store. These are not for chopping roots.
As these axes are hand made, the weights and measurements given below may vary slightly.
A. Hatchet The hatchet has a 3" face, a 1 lb head, and a 13-1/2" handle. The shape is classic with rounded lugs, sharply nipped shoulders and a slim blade section.
B. Swedish Carving Axe The carving axe, with its design based on traditional Swedish carving techniques, is good for roughing large carvings and architectural work. It has a 4-1/2" single-bevel face, a 14-1/2" long handle and a 2 lb head.
C. Small Carpenter's Axe The small carpenter's axe has a 17-1/2" handle and is well suited for work in dry wood. Offering incredible balance and control, it has a 3-1/2" face and a 1-1/2 lb head.
D. Broad Axe The broad axe is the Swedish double-bevel style with a 7" face, a 3 lb head and a 19-1/2" handle. It is easier to use than a single-bevel axe for fine work, but basically requires a different technique.
E. Forest Axe The traditional forest axe is perfect for limbing felled trees. Designed mainly for green wood, it has a thin 3-1/2" face, a 25-1/4" handle and a 2 lb head.
F. Throwing Axe The throwing axe is made to competition standards for weight, balance and size. Supplied with throwing instructions and complete rules, the axe has 6" faces, a 29" handle and weighs 3 lb, including the handle.
G. Splitting Maul The splitting maul is designed for splitting sizeable chunks of wood. The head, at 5-1/2 lb, is heavier compared to the splitting axes, and has a 2-1/2" face. The large poll is for use on a splitting wedge. The handle is 31-1/4".
H. & J. Splitting Axes Forged with concave, wedge-shaped heads designed for splitting, the splitting axes have steel collars to reduce damage from overstrikes. The small axe, with a 2 lb head, a 2-1/2" face, and a 23-1/2" handle, can be managed with one hand. The large axe has a 3" face, a 3-1/2 lb head, and a 27-1/4" handle.
K. Small Forest Axe The small forest axe is practical for splitting small sticks for the fire or cutting small-diameter limbwood for starter fuel in a fireplace. It has a 3-1/4" face, a 1-1/2 lb head, and a 19-1/2" handle.
L. Mini Hatchet With a 2-1/2" face and a 10-1/2" handle, the mini hatchet weighs just 13 oz overall. A terrific camp axe, it is well suited to chopping and splitting kindling.
M. Hunter's Axe The hunter's axe, with a gently rounded and polished flay poll, is specially made for skinning game. Also suitable for chopping wood, it has a 3-1/4" face, a 1-1/2 lb head, and an 18-3/4" handle.
N. Splitting Wedge The forged steel splitting wedge has a slight spiral to lever the wood apart. It has a 1-3/4" face and weighs 4 lb.
O. Mortise Axe The mortise axe has a 2-1/4" chisel-like bit for removing waste from mortises in rail fence construction or log building. It weighs about 2-1/2 lb with a 19-1/2" long handle.
Each Gränsfors axe is supplied with an informative booklet outlining proper usage, cutting techniques and care instructions.
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Catholic in Colorado
Stepping away for a moment from the travails of Ted Haggard, but sticking with the Rocky Mountain state, an interesting article by Amy Sullivan in the New Republic on Bill Ritter, the Catholic, pro-life Democrat likely to become Colorado's next governor today. (Also see Melinda Henneberger's fine piece in a recent Commonweal.)
The take away point: we can see an emerging group of Catholic pro-life Democrats at once critical of the bishops (in a number of regards) but also eager to reduce the number of abortions.
About the Author
John T. McGreevy is the I.A. O'Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
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Pro-life?From Ramesh Ponnuru:"...Beauprez said he'd support a ban on abortion with a life-of-the-mother exception; Ritter said he wouldn't. Beauprez said he opposes state funding for Planned Parenthood, while Ritter supports it."What kind of "pro-life Democrat" is Bill Ritter, the Democratic candidate for governor in Colorado, anyway? He says he is opposed to abortion and wants to reduce the abortion rate, but won't try to enact restrictions on abortion in state law. Based on Amy Sullivan's New Republic article, he may not want Roe overturned (although it may be that he just doesn't want to fight a losing battle to get the Democrats to end their support for Roe). This position sounds exactly like those of Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. The only difference I can see is that Ritter doesn't say he "supports abortion rights" or is "pro-choice." Which doesn't seem like much...."
Why describe him as "pro-life" when he clearly asks not be referred to as such? And where exactly does the relevance of your comment "we can see an emerging group of Catholic pro-life Democrats at once critical of the bishops (in a number of regards) but also eager to reduce the number of abortions" lie? Perhaps a closer reading of the article is in order.
In all seriousness, I ask whether people really believe this is part of a broader movement of pro-life Democrats. All of these alleged pro-life candidates are in swing states, and there isnt one that you would identify as actively or aggressively pro-life. Ritter is a case in point. Personally pro-life for religious reasons, would sign law restricting abortions IF Roe v. Wade is overturned, but has no intention of actively seeking changes in the law on abortion, and will not consider this issue in appointing judges. Basically, you get someone who feels bad about abortion but doesnt intend to do anything about it. This is more of an electoral strategy than anything else. An attempt to bleed off enough values voters in some of the purple states to win. Does anyone really think the red meat progressives in the party will ever let moderate or conservative Dems rise to any sort of prominence? Look what they did to Lieberman.
Ah, the usual suspects are already out and about on this thread.It's probably true that Democratic leadership sought out values Democrats in areas where they thought it might make a difference ( just as Republicans court evangelical like politicians where they think it will help.) That's not the same as saying a candidate is insincere as some seeem to infer here. That struikes me as the usual politically tinged rash judgement some folks make out of ideology.This thread reminded me that ,a number of years ago, we were visited by friends from Colorado. The hubby, a pro-life coordinator in his diocese, and I agreed how important the "whole cloth approach was to persuading the body politic.Pace Diogenes, Janice and other usual suspects that appear here, a total values package by a candidate of either stripe would seem to me to be a desideatum.
Mr. Nunz,Orthodox Catholics are not ideologues. We are simply following Church teaching. And it's not a "whole cloth" approach that you liberals advocate, it's a "seamless garment" approach that the hapless Cardinal Bernardin proposed, which is now a dead letter. Bernardin's approach was to place on the same level innocent life with prudential judgments (e.g., war, the death penalty, et al.) in order to qualify and relativize the primacy of innocent life. And he had remarkable success with it for more than twenty years. But its essentially fradulent nature, in terms of Catholic theology, has been more than disproved by the present Pope.
Sean--Lieberman may be moderate to conservative on some issues--the war in Iraq, Israel, etc.--but he's pro-choice on abortion, the main topic of this thread.Ritter doesn't fit my personal pro-life views in all regards, but he's a welcome change to the Cuomo/Kerry squishiness on the issue. The main thing for the Democrats is to get pro-life visibility, in all of its forms, in the party and before the electorate again. And there is pro-life variation in the Republican Party, too. Frist and Hatch are anti-abortion, yet in favor of embryonic stem cell research. That's a much greater pro-life divergence, to my way of thinking, than to be anti-abortion yet in favor of contraceptive methods that prevent fertilization. Again, Ritter's not the perfect pro-life candidate, but neither are many Republican politicians.Janice--The "hapless Cardinal Bernardin"? You're criticizing him for being anti-war, anti-death penalty?? No less a very orthodox prelate named JP II was also a vocal opponent of war and the death penalty. Whether those issues are "prudential" or not, it seems a real stretch to denigrate the seamless garment approach. And I didn't know it is exclusively a "liberal" issue, or that placing abortion with those other issues would somehow "qualify and relativize the primacy of innocent life"? What's wrong with having a consistent ethic of life that places life itself--from conception to death--as the primary focus. There are several papal encyclicals that would back that approach up. I'm assuming a papal encyclical would qualify as orthodox, and I really don't see any differences in JP II's attitudes on life issues and BXVI's attitudes on those issues. perhaps you can point differences out for us.
Sorry for all the syntax errors in the above...a bad typist and guy in a hurry to go vote for a pro-life candidate, was at work. ;)
Pro-life candidates can be easily identified with one question. Are you in favor of legally restricting access to abortion? Those who will not go on record advocating for a change in law are not seriously pro-life. It's that simple.
Ah . . to be called one of the usual suspects. It has a nice ring to it.Robert,The problem with the so-called "seemless garment" approach is that it is usually used as a basis for explaining support of pro-abortion on demand and/or pro-euthanasia politicians because they have "the rest of the cloth." Also, it fails to recognize a heirarchy of moral values that the Church teaches. Abortion and euthansia are inherently and always contrary to God's Law, capital punishment and war aren't. Believe me, I am against the death penalty, but I must admit that I am far more convinced by the moral case made by its proponents than I am by Teddy Kennedy's abortion position.In "seemless garment" terms, it's like being satisfied with just the sleeves. Your arms might be warm, but you're still basically naked.As to Mr Ritter, I don't think I am supposing bad faith, I am recounting exactly what he has said his position is. He won't do anything about abortion except in a very unlikely circumstance. Bill,My point wasn't that Lieberman is pro-life, but that someone who doesn't toe the party line (which is increasingly leftist) won't be very effective within the Democrat party. I also agree that neither party can be termed pro-life - believe me - I had to write myself in for Congress today.
mlj - Because of the role of the Supreme Court surely the answer requires slight nuance.Sean - Your statement that the seemless garment approach is "usually used as a basis for explaining support of abortion" is indefensible unless you are acquainted with only a very unusual slice of the Catholic population.Concerning your response to Bill Collier, is it fair to conclude that an anti-war stance is leftist in your eyes? And, was Sen. Lieberman "punished" for being pro-war, for his failure to see the need for some modification of the Administratioin's Iraqi policies , for his "I know what's best attitude," or for some combinatioin of all of the above?
James.I will agree with you that my statement is indefensible if you can show me a single example of anyone using the seamless garment argument as a basis for criticizing or condemning a liberal, pro-abortion politician, and I mean a real one, by name.I have seen it used to criticize orthodox bishops like Chaput and politicians like Rick Santorum and George Bush, but I have never seen it used against a liberal politician - ever.The most famous current "seamless garment" proponent is Fr McBrien, and in his own words, abortion and euthansia are not "trump cards." Everything from positions on war, poverty programs, and environmental regulations carry equal weight according to him. This is simply not the teaching of the Catholic Church. To the extent Cardinal Bernadin's consistent ethic of life is used this way, it is just wrong.A consistent ethic of life means that you and I must agree as faithful Catholics that caring for the poor, for example, is our obligation and should be a goal of public policy, but we don't have to agree what is the best way to do it. The same is not true of abortion or euthanasia. A consistent ethic of life does not mean I can trade my obligation to protect innocent unborn human life for a solid position on food stamps or greenhouse gas emmissions.
"To the extent Cardinal Bernadin's consistent ethic of life is used this way, it is just wrong." We may agree; that hardly makes it the "usual" use of the late, good Cardinal's suggestion.As to the single example of someone who has used the article as grounds for criticizing Kennedy, Kerry, etc. - I offer (sheepishly?) my own name or those of any number of my friends. Perhaps, we do not qualify as "anyone." That is not an indefensible position.
Just asking:The current nationwide consensus seems to favor some legal restrictions on abortion but far less than the church permits.In view of that, what sorts of legal restrictions on abortion does a Catholic politician have to support to be acceptably 'pro-life'? It seems to me as though nothing less than enacting church doctrine into law will do. Is that correct?
When I first got involved with the pro-life movement more than 30 years ago, I was so caught up in the cause that friends and family gradually distanced themselves from me. Perhaps it was my revulsion at the thought of a doctor deliberately killing an unborn child or whatever, but I lived and breathed the issue.It didn't take long for me to change my approach --- but not my devotion --- to the pro-life cause. I still condemn induced abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, etc., but I also realize there are good people who disagree one way or another with the pro-life movement's 100% insistence on getting its political way. Good folks differ here.We pro-lifers can continue to insist on "my way or the highway," or we can try to work with other people of good will to promote respect for life in the public arena. We can continue to support alternatives to abortion. We can refuse to kowtow to technology used to extend our biological life at the expense of our belief in eternal life. We can see anti-war/pro-peace efforts as being integral to the pro-life cause. And, yes, we can even see anti-death penalty thinking as part and parcel of the pro-life cause (notwithstanding my own belief that there are those few occasions when the death penalty overrides life imprisonment as a just and appropriate outcome).In short, we can be "right" and alienate everyone else with our tactics, thus getting us nowhere, or we can change our approach --- albeit not our beliefs --- to promote respect for life. Finally, we can refuse to endorse candidates who (continue to) say one thing to get elected but fail to promote the "cause" once in office.
Joe--You running for office?If so, you'd get my vote. And that's even though I'm anti-death penalty in all instances. I also include protection of the environment as closely associated with the panoply of pro-life issues. Perhaps you do, too.
Bill, thank you for your prospective vote. However, I have several sins in my closet and don't want to insert myself into politics where my weaknesses and shortcomings might even flourish :)Which leads me to --------------------I need a postulator who can promote my cause to formal canonization. S/he must be an effective communicator, researcher, planner, PR person, negotiator, etc. Should be proficient in word processing, meet and deal, etc. Critical skill: convince the Vatican that, my sins notwithstanding, I merit formal promotion to the heavenly elite :)
How is the Pro-life rubric anything more than a feel-good synonym for 'anti-abortion', with euthanasia thrown in for good measure?
I think a lot of people share your observation. All the more reason to promote the "seamless garment/consistent ethic" approach. As others have noted, what good is there to be born --- only to die in poverty, etc. due to lack of healthcare, education, and other goods that many of the rest of us can take for granted?
The interesting thing for me is to note that Colorado's out going govenor is Roman Catholic, and I can't recall him initiating anything state wide to challenge Roe V Wade. Yet condemnation of Gov to be, Ritter is well noted.And Janice you should grow to be as "hapless as Cardinal Bernadine".


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