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The Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Those not planing to watch THE event today, may be interested in "thumbing" through the latest issue of "C-21 Resources" from Boston College's Church in the 21st Century Initiative. The theme is "Exploring the Catholic Intellectual Tradition" and contains articles probing different dimensions of the theme, as well as art works and photographs to evoke further aspects and implications.The Spring issue may be accessed here.And those in the Boston College area may find the following events of interest: a presentation this Thursday, February 7th at 5:30 by yours truly on "The Heart of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition," followed by further reflections by two colleagues; and a panel on Wednesday, February 20th at 5:30 by the editors ofAmerica, Commonweal, and U.S.Catholic on "The Future of Catholic Periodicals." Further details may be found on page 18 of the issue.
About the Author
Rev. Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is Associate Professor of Theology Emeritus at Boston College.
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If I may, the great thing about the DVDs is that they have subtitles, which allows one to make out what those Brits are saying.
Congrats, thats a pretty slick publication youve got there, Father, that has such people int! The un-mellifluous humankind can hardly detract from Katherine Martins thoughtful reflection. The spur to action directive she gleans from Augustines conception of evil as the absence of good is the perfect antidote to the whateverness so prevalent among people her age. Inspiring. Im not sure Im comfortable with Augustines formulation, though. If evil is the default position, then the picture of good we can create seems always to be on a canvas of evil.As she describes Teilhards sanctification of activity, it calls to mind Escrivas teaching that our most menial every day labours, when done in service and love, align us with our Creator. A most unsophomoric insight she has there. Spring came early, guess the groundhog did not see his shadow!
I had no idea BC was making such things available. Good for them, and many thanks indeed for pointing us in this direction. I will try to find time to get to it later today since whatever event you're referring to leaves me a bit cold, with most of the time taken up by commercials. Or perhaps you were referring to the next episode in Downton Abbey? Where I gather there's an upcoming battle over whether Lady Sybil's half-Irish child can be christened a Catholic? Lord Grantham has already let us know that he's always found "a bit of Johnny Foreigner" among Catholics. Julian Fellowes, a Papist himself (I think), must be having fun writing this.
Nicholas,I confess that I've become addicted and will eagerly watch the new episode of DA tonight -- and once it starts, no commercial interruptions. (Though I wish I could afford a Viking River Cruise!)
Nicholas: you must not describe coming events!!! Some of us have just finished Season two (DVD), and are only now beginning Season three (just released on DVD) with a short ad for the coming Season four!!! Yes, addiction; why? It is nowhere as deep as Brideshead Revisited (lo, those many years ago with Jeremy Irons), yet it is truly absorbing...
DA Fans--You can cheat, as my wife and I have, and see all of Season 3 (shown during the fall of 2012 on British TV) on the internet for free. And Julian Fellowes, a/k/a The Right Honourable Lord Fellowes of West Stafford, is a Papist. During an interview last year, he said that he would be introducing a "Catholic theme" into season 3.
More on DA:Peggy says "absorbing". In my own case I find myself really caring for the characters. I imagine it to be like the crowd gathered at the wharf in New York waiting for the latest Dickens installment and asking: "Is Little Nell dead?" I haven't experienced this in other productions -- I'm too young to remember the "Brideshead" series :-)
William collier:Each week my sisters, niece, and I try to guess what will happen before each episode. How I wish I could find out ahead of time so that they will think I am a genius.By the way, Fellowes said that he had an aunt who was just like the Maggie Smith character.
For you young DA and Brideshead addicts, before Brideshead there was another, the first, great super-popular TV series. It was a dramatization of Galsworthy's 3 novels, The Forsythe Saga. It was the model for the later Masterpiece Theatre series. (Masterpiece Theatre didn't exist at the time.) In England in 1957 each episode had an audience of about 18M people!It was in black and white, which might limit its appeal to somem and I don't think it's ever been replayed on PBS. Pity. The characterizations get into some depth, and the acting is the English at their ensemble best. Eric Porter as Soames (an anti-hero if ever there was one) is riveting. Try it. It's a period drama, not about the aristocracy, but about the rich-getting-richer upper-middle class folk. In many ways it foreshadows our own values-sick culture.
You write: "The essays that follow explore the facets of the Catholic intellectual tradition: its expressions in theology and philosophy, natural law and morality, scientific research and artistic creativity."But from glancing at the list of articles I did not see a contribution on scientific research. Am I wrong?Gerelyn would be happy that there are so many women contributors.
Claire,you are right: it is THE lacuna. We had intended to include at least one specific piece, but could not find one that seemed both pointed and relatively brief. The one we had first considered, did not seem quite appropriate in the final editing (and I did not revise the opening essay to reflect this -- mea culpa!).Perhaps the closest we come is the discussion in several of the articles of the mutual enrichment of faith and reason.The book edited by Piderit and Morey, "Teaching the Tradition," does contain essays on "Religious Themes Related to the Sciences," but they are rather lengthy.Do you or others have recommendations? We may amplify the issue into a small book.
I fear that any paper on recent Catholicism and science would not be too different from papers on Catholicism and science since the condemnation of Galileo. No doubt there have been some fine Catholic scientists since then, but, so far as I know, only one (Mendel) of nearly the caliber of Galileo. But the Church isn't the only one at fault. Another reason for the estrangement is that since the Enlightenment science has become enamored of scientism, the reductionist philosophy that asserts that science cannot say anything about a non-material dimension, and, therefore, according to it, only the material world can be known. That philosophical position seems to be weakening, fortunately, but theoretical science does not generally welcome believers. Another reason for the rift: test everything is science's motto, and that can be off-putting to many people of a religious bent.Then there are all the problems with medical ethics. One notable Catholic physician did make a world-changing contribution to medical practice (the Pill) but he, Dr. Rock, was, of course, highly criticized by the official Catholic moralists. Psychology has also been suspect to many Catholic moralists, given the strong influences of the pragmatism (the true is what works) and Freud.It seems to me that the mutual suspicion on both sides is not likely to draw as many young Catholics into the ground-breaking areas of the sciences as we might hope. However, with the the eventual demise of scientism that might eventually change -- if the official Church can change enough to allow thorough debate about moral issues in the sciences.I'd like to hear from any scientists on the blog about this. They might have a different view-point. But I suspect there aren't many scientists here.
Ann, I'm a scientist and I have to say that my scientific life is almost completely disjoint from my Catholic life. But a few attitudes seep through unconsciously: when I work on a scientific question, I always ask myself what it's good for. When I think about a religious question, I tend to go about it in an analytical way. It is also possible that attitudes towards authority are related. If a new scientific paper is produced by a leader of the field, then we make a special effort to try to understand the paper. That means, in particular, raising objections and trying to see how those objections are addressed in the paper. Our respect for the author is reflected in the extent of our efforts to prove them wrong - otherwise we wouldn't bother. And that is how we come to embrace their ideas fully: by fighting a good fight and losing.
Claire,Going about one's labors as a scientist (or a historian, or a technician) entails its own demands and criteria of excellence, as you indicate.But further questions do arise -- as you suggest. "What's it good for?" what ethical standards govern my procedures and choices? what accounts for our expectation that intelligibility governs our pursuits?When these questions arise (am I correct that they do?), then the person we are and bring to the task determines how we respond, and that person is formed and informed by her faith vision and practice. Here, I think, is where faith and reason are mutually illuminating and enriching.
Fr Imbelli, yes, but you're only going in one direction, faith illuminating reason; while, as you say, the enrichment is mutual, and also goes in the other direction.
Claire,I was taken with your statement that "my scientific life is almost completely disjoint from my Catholic life" and I attempted to suggest some ways that the latter might affect the former.I would be happy to hear whether my suggestions made sense to you -- your "yes" may indicate that they did. The further question how "reason" might illuminate and enrich one's faith commitment is important, but was not the immediate issue I sought to address.
The differences are perhaps more a question of taste than of ethics. For example, I don't work on cryptography, because I have a distaste of the mindset that tries to hide things from others. Actually, there is nothing unethical about trying to encrypt and protect financial transactions, but it requires a mindset that does not go well with the virtue of trust. Do researchers who have some religious faith give more importance to the beauty of their work? I see no evidence of it. Do they care more about some hypothetical social impact in some indeterminate future? I also see no evidence of it. Do they care more about what is true? Certainly not. Everyone cares about that above all else, and religious faith does not make one iota of difference.Is there a difference in the way in which they do their daily work? I think that it is possible that they are better citizens and have more of a sense of duty to the community. It is also possible that they live their work life differently, with different gratifications. For example, sharing new technical ideas is a form of esoteric communion of the minds, and is one of the aspects of my work that I enjoy the most. Others, I am told, are happiest when they have a new idea but have not yet talked about it. The sense of being the only one in the whole world who knows it brings them joy. Then there is teaching as a performance - enjoying putting on a show and being admired by the students - versus teaching as service - enjoying the glorious look on a student's face when he understands something new. (What do you enjoy the most about teaching?)Perhaps it's not what we do that is different, but what we get out of it.
Claire --Thanks for the reply. It seems that your interest is at least equally in results, pragmatics. Would you say that these days there is less interest in basic research? (Or maybe there is just less money for it than there ued to be.) In the last half century of so, would you say there have been many leading scientists who are Catholic?
less interest in basic researchNo, it's not that. It's that there are so many new questions to study on the power of computation in the broad sense, that the idea of some potential, hypothetical, long-term vague possible application helps give some direction, guide our taste to choose questions to study. Viewed properly, they're not a hindrance to basic research but a help; they help form our taste. There is no dichotomy between "basic" and "applied".As to your second question, I have no idea. It's not written on people's forehead whether they are Catholic
Well, next Wednesday it will be.
Mark,I presume you mean Wednesday the 20th for the "Editors' Panel."You mean I won't see you this evening? :-(
Sorry, Father, Im not in Boston so wont have the pleasure of seeing your talk in person. Looking forward to the webcast replay when its available, though.


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I recently found out that Kongregate actually has a wiki of its own!
However, I noticed that only chatroom articles are updated even remotely frequently, and from that "List of Badged Games" I can see there's not even an article for most of badged games!!
Why is that so? With so many awesome players… how come nobody cares for it? Wouldn't it be awesome if we had great pages for all games? For example, a page for SCGMD4 with info about the game, tips for the badges, info about what are the Achievements and all row prizes, secrets of the game, etc.
It's far better than any other failed attempt of creating an "ultimate kong website" because this one can be edited by THOUSANDS of people and will last forever! The awesome thing about Wikis is that they never really die forever like "Kong blogs", since Wikis are iconic and everybody always check them out.
I'm tempted to start editing some articles… maybe we can build a strong community on that Wiki, so that even if someone doesn't want to edit anymore, there will still be plenty of people to keep editing and welcome people who feel like helping out!
This is one of the best articles I found. It shows the final boss, some secrets, tips… I wish there was one like that for every game!
What do you guys think?
EDIT: There are even achievements on the Wiki! Just like Kong :P
My request: Just edit the Wiki with something awesome you got to know, or, e.g., if you're a Papa's Hot Doggeria enthusiast and 100%d the game, add a picture of all ingredients unlocked and such! You don't need to embark on a gigantic quest of editing. =)


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I have a Mac Pro tower with a 2 x 2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon chipset, and 8 RAM slots. I have been told because of the processor's triple-channel memory capability that I should be installing RAM modules in sets of three. I do a lot of compiling on this machine and want to maximize all the hardware I've got. Does it follow that I should avoid installing RAM in the last two slots?
Mac Pro Memory - Should I use 8 RAM slots in dual-channel mode or 6 RAM slots in triple-channel mode?
The direct answer to your question is you will get marginally higher peak memory bandwidth with 6 matched memory modules running in triple channel mode than you will with 8 matched memory modules in dual channel mode. However, there are no guarantees that your machine will perform the tasks you use it for any quicker in either mode. You need a more in-depth analysis than that. Firstly, here are the memory replacement instructions for your Mac. In summary, the instructions for your model go like so:
To determine whether you would benefit from more total RAM or from keeping your RAM in triple channel mode would require benchmarks. It's difficult without measuring usage to say whether there will be any benefit from adding more RAM. If you run a compile with Activity Monitor running are you using all the RAM you have? Is disk I/O particularly high? If disk I/O is high but your RAM is not fully utilised you may be better off with an SSD hard drive to run your compilations from rather than adding RAM, check for paging to disk during the compile. The important thing here is to find the bottleneck rather than hoping that adding RAM will make things run quicker. It may even turn out that the CPU or the compiler is the bottleneck. If you have two 6-core CPUs, can your compiler use all that processing power?
I know I've probably raised more questions than I've answered but it's worth considering them if you're looking for a performance improvement for your investment.
If you are a programmer you probably understand these concepts anyway but here's a link to a codinghorror article just explaining the process of finding bottlenecks which I think is easy to read. The OS in this case is windows but the principles are the same. You can use Activity Monitor or a third party resource monitoring tool to determine the bottleneck.
For example, to determine whether your system is running out of RAM, fire up Activity Monitor. Near the bottom of the window, select the tab button labelled 'System Memory' and take a look at the pie chart and figures listed beneath. Here's an example from my system.
The figures in this screenshot you should be interested in are Free and Page Outs. Free shows how much RAM is currently available, Page Outs is an indicator that your system is running out of RAM and has had to write temporary data to disk. Anything above 0 in Page Outs means you could potentially benefit from more RAM. You could perform whatever activity you expect to push your system with Activity Monitor open and monitor these figures throughout. This should help you determine whether you will get any benefit from more RAM. For completeness, here's what each item represents.
Here's a really nice link too for Mac performance questions http://www.macperformanceguide.com/
It all depends on whether you need raw RAM speed or a higher total amount of RAM. Today's RAM is so fast you may not notice the drop from triple channel to single channel. However, considering you can easily put 12GB or more in the first 6 slots using two 3-channel kits, there's really not much reason to use all 8 unless you need to max out the machine for some reason. And just code compiling will not require so much RAM to need to do that.
So, in summation, I'd recommend sticking with two 3-channel kits to still get a large amount of RAM at the fastest speed.
In almost all consumer or end user uses of a Mac Pro, it's highly unlikely that memory transfer speed will be a performance bottleneck (the reason that SSD's became such an important upgrade despite the initial high cost is that file access times affected almost all Mac users). Where memory bandwidth would count is in scientific use (where the Mac Pro is being run flat out on processor and memory intensive activity).
Lloyd Chambers of Mac Performance Guide did some very in-depth tests of how memory affects performance back in June 2009 when the Mac Pro 2009 first came out. Chambers in particular tests against Photoshop and various raw processing utilities. His conclusion:
For some perspective, don't forget that 8 sticks (dual processor configuration, dual channel) is 50% faster than 3 sticks (single processor, triple channel).
In my own use (web development, photo processing, research), I'm running 32 GB in dual channel (6 core Mac Pro 2009). I have noticed no slow down over 24 GB in triple channel after trying both. On the other hand, running out of memory will slow your computer down to a crawl.


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Adding to what jutky cited:
There is a parenthetical note in Rashi to Judg. 20:45* that after the civil war described there, in which most of the tribe of Benjamin was wiped out, some one hundred members of the tribe fled the Land of Israel and ended up "in the lands of Rome and Germany." Those who remained behind - including Eliyahu (or his ancestors) - came to be called "toshavim," residents (of the Land).
* The source given, מ"ע, is Megaleh Amukos by R' Nosson Nota Shapiro (17th century). This and many other such parenthetical notes first appeared in a 1699 edition of Tanach.
Here is some info about Tishbi.
There is written that it is either a name of city (which has not been identified) or another form the word "תושב"
To add a little information to that which has already been presented, the ancient translations all interpret Tishbi as denoting his residence in a particular place. The precise name of that place, however, varies from version to version:
• Targum Yonatan: אליהו דמתושב מתותבי גלעד ("Elijah from Toshav, of the residents of Gilead"). So too Rashi, Rabbi David Qimchi (Radak) and R' David Altschuler (Metzudot Tziyon) on 1 Kings 17:1;
• Syriac Peshitta: ܐܠܝܐ ܕܡܢ ܬܫܒܝ ܡܢ ܬܘܬܒܐ ܕܓܠܥܕ (= Aram. אליא דמן תשבי מן תותבא דגלעד; ie: "Elijah from Tishbi, of the residents of Gilead");
• Greek "Septuagint" (3 Kings 17:1): Ηλιου ό προφητης Θεσβιτης ό εκ Θεσβων της Γαλααδ ("Eliu the prophet, the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad"). Aside from the addition of προφητης ("the prophet"), the Greek translator has understood "residents" (תושבי) to be the name of the place from which Elijah came;
• The Latin Vulgate (also 3 Kings 17:1) is painfully literal, but differs from the Greek: Helias Thesbites de habitatoribus Galaad ("Helias the Thesbite, of the residents of Galaad"). Presumably, they are also interpreting Thesbite as a geographical marker, but it is unclear whether they understand the town to be named Toshav or Tishbi.
In accordance with the Syriac, the HALOT lexicon interprets "Tishbi" as being the name of the place. In favour of that suggestion, note that Tishbi is also the name of a town in Naphtali, in which Tobias lived in the apocryphal Tobit 1:2.
The word "תשבי" Tishbite, begins with the root word "שב" and means "to return". Adding a yod to the end makes it plural and becomes the word "שבי" meaning "to dwell". With the preposition tav the word becomes "He shall return to dwell". This definition makes more sense in the context. The word Elijah is a compound of the words "El & Ya" meaning "My G-d is YHVH". The passage then reads "Elijah the Tishbite" or "G-d is YHVH, He shall return to dwell".


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Is there a computer algebra system that is able to compute the Lie algebra cohomology in a given representation? What if the Lie algebra is finite dimensional? In my case I would like to be able to compute the cohomology in the following situation: let $\mathfrak{g}\subset \mathfrak{h}$ be an inclusion of finite dimensional complex Lie albebras, I'd like to compute the cohomology of $Hom(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{h}/\mathfrak{g})$.
I have looked at this question a few years ago (with some more recent sporadic gilmpses), so I am definitely not uptodate. Here it goes, anyway, what I have learned back then:
I personally think that there is a big unexplored area here - one should use heavily sparsity of occuring matrices (currently none of the programs described above seems to use it). Which kind of sparsity it is, is not clear apriori, and, moreover, I suspect that for different algebras and modules one will have different kinds of sparsity. This makes an interesting connection with methods and tricks from numerical linear algebra.
Again, take all this with a grain of salt, as things may have changed since I looked at them.
In the Maple computer algebra system you have the package LieAlgebraCohomology which should do what you want.


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I appreciate the time and effort that you put into all of your season previews, but I could not allow some of the points that you made to go unchallenged.
"It's hard to imagine Denver's offense rebounding in the wake of Marshall and Scheffler leaving for Miami and Detroit, respectively. "
Would you rather have an arguably elite player who takes every third play off, or an above average player who gives 100% effort on every play? I would argue that whoever is the "#1" receiver and Branson will both put effort in on every play. This was not the case with Scheffler and Marshall. It remains to be seen as to whether or not Branson is above average, but he will most likely be getting the targets that Scheffler got last year.
"Jabar Gaffney isn't a legitimate No. 1 receiver."
You then argue that Gaffney is not a #1 receiver by laughably bringing up the final KC game from last year in which he caught 14 balls for 213 yards. Based on his career numbers, Gaffney is not a prototype #1 receiver, but I argue that a team can win in the NFL with a bunch of above average receivers in the absence of a #1 (the 2001 patriots are a good example).
"Thomas can't run routes or catch the ball consistently"
Is it that he can't run routes, or that he really wasn't asked to run them at GT? I would argue that a man with a higher Wonderlic score than Myron Rolle and a degree for Georgia Tech. can learn to run routes at the NFL level. In regards to Thomas' hands, Brandon Marshall had more than his share of dropped passes during his years with the Broncos.
"Denver's secondary also has major depth issues. The short and slow Alphonso Smith struggled last year, losing his job to the decrepit Ty Law. Smith will compete with rookies Perrish Cox and Syd'Quan Thompson for nickel duties. Cox should win the job. "
Darcel McBath and David Bruton provide some quality depth at safety. McBath had a phenomenal game against the vaunted Colts passing attack last year. Cox, Smith and Jones all provide quality depth at corner. Smith was injured for most of last year, so writing him off as worse the "decrepit" Law is premature.
"The defensive line, quite frankly, is garbage. Nose tackle Jamal Williams is 34 and played all of 45 snaps in 2009 before suffering a season-ending triceps injury. Both defensive ends, Justin Bannan and Jarvis Green, were acquired this offseason. Bannan has been a solid reserve for the Ravens, while Green was abysmal as a starter for New England last year."
The D line in the second half of last year was garbage. I am trusting in Xander's ability to bring in upgrades via free agency in Green, Bannan and Williams. You assume that Williams has nothing left because of his age and previous injury. During the 2008 season he was quite effective at clogging the middle and stuffing interior runs for the Chargers. Even if he has lost some ability relative to 2008 due to aging, he is an upgrade over the players who played NT last year for the Broncos. Williams and Baker should provide a decent rotation at NT. McBean was one of the better DL for the Broncos last year (his injury corresponding to the Broncos inability to stop the run). The DL should be improved relative to last season.
"Denver's stop unit has loads of problems, and the 30.5 points per game it surrendered in the final four weeks of the 2009 campaign was no fluke. But perhaps the biggest issue is the departure of Mike Nolan. Nolan is an outstanding defensive coordinator"
How can Nolan be an outstanding defensive coordinator if his unit gave up 30.5 ppg in the final 4 games? Are you assigning the blame for this completely on the players? Nolan obviously had some good ideas that worked for the first half of the season as the results show. Once opponents adjusted to what he was doing as a coordinator his unit suffered horribly. Injuries played a huge role, but these three sentences above are contradictory. If he is indeed an "outstanding D coordinator," you need to offer up some excuses as to why his unit played so poorly down the stretch when it mattered most.
You rate the teams quarterbacks as a two stars out of 5. Kyle Orton was statistically in the top half of NFL quarterbacks if you use traditional stats or in the top third if you use modern stats (football outsiders). That would make the teams QBs, if the rating is based on just the starter, a three or four star. If you factor in the #2 and #3 QBs, a former starter and first rounder in Quinn and a first rounder in Tebow, I would say that those are as good if not better than most teams #2 and #3 QBs so that should not drag the rating down.
I think that you are underestimating the Broncos this year as you did last year.
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You can't really be serious with Jabar Gaffney being a No. 1 receiver. He's not even in the same league as Brandon Marshall. I don't care what he did against the Chiefs. What was the end result of that game? The Chiefs didn't respect Gaffney like they would Marshall. That's why Denver was blown out. Well, one of the reasons anyway.
If Jamal Williams had something left, why would the Chargers let him go?
And Mike Nolan is one of the top defensive coordinators in the NFL. The Broncos allowed 30.5 ppg because they had no talent on defense. You need talent.


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As many as 171,000 veterans would lose their prime coverage and drop to standard coverage.
Currently, retirees and active duty military using TRICARE Prime are required to use the military clinic unless they live more than 30 minutes from the designated clinics on post. If outside a specified radius and a local doctor accepts TRICARE, a veteran can name that physician as their primary care physician and still receive benefits under the prime program.
Should prime members' coverage change, under the standard program a $150 per person or $300 per family annual deductible would be applied.
Office visits would increase depending on the cost-share amount as billed by the provider and inpatient care would increase from an $11 per day charge with a $25 minimum to $535 per day or 25 percent cost-share, whichever is less. Patients would be responsible for 25 percent cost-share of professional fees.
Also, eye exams which are covered every two years for patients 3 and older under the Prime coverage would not be covered for any beneficiary older than six under TRICARE Standard.
The changes are intended to reduce the cost of providing health care to military retirees by constricting Prime service areas, a military.com spokesperson said.
If implemented, the changes would kick in on April 1 in the west region, followed by the north and south regions on October 1 of next year.
Active duty military and their families will not be impacted.
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In this artificially colored ultrasound scan of the baby within the uterus, the spine shows up especially clearly. The two blue crosses, at the top of the baby's head and at his bottom, indicate where the rump to crown measurement is taken.
At around this stage you may begin to "show," that is, instead of having a slightly bigger waist you develop a definite "bump" and start to look pregnant. You may begin to notice people's eyes are drawn toward your abdomen. If you'd rather keep the pregnancy quiet in some circles-for example, at work-wear baggy clothes.
While some women have neat little bellies positioned more to the front, others have bellies that are more spread out. The size and shape of yours will be individual to you, so try not to compare. There are old wives' tales that if you're carrying in front you're having a boy, and if you're carrying spread out over your hips you're carrying a girl, though this hasn't been proved.
If you haven't bought any maternity clothes, you may want to shop for some or adapt your clothes (see ... Your body).
Twin bonding occurs well before the babies are born.
Advanced video technology has captured the special relationship between twins in the uterus. They have been seen to interact and even grasp each other's hands.
It is normal to get the nighttime munchies during pregnancy, but annoying, especially if you're already having difficulties sleeping. Try to preempt nighttime hunger by snacking on the right foods before you go to bed:
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yeah, leaf was a heck of a leader for her division.
did you have problems with her in the past?
There was once a time when I was known as Exeggudork...
I have no idea why, but I read her VMs and stupidly told her. XDDDD!!!! I wasn't even thinking at the moment.
But, I don't worry about it. What's happened has happened, if I do anything such as bully tactics. It will only make things worse.
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I'm back and milotic I don't mean to start a trend like that it's just that he never knew the old Omega closed, so he thought this was the Omega he was already in, and that he had already registered because he was coleader. That's why. Anyways... I got my final artwork done for my clan ^_^
Well, back to the grunt work.
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Good news: I got PO.
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Look here to see what I mean? Should I ask one of these guys to delete their answer (and merge whatever detail is missing into the other answer)? I'm aware of this other question, but it's a little different.
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If I am such second answerer myself, even by a split second, then I delete my answer if I recognize it's a duplicate. Hence I do not upvote duplicate answers that are not first. I would not downvote such duplicates though, as one can never be sure what happened in the 5 minute edit grace period.
If the second answerer comments "you just beat me with that" but do not delete their answer, then I tend to comment "there's always the delete link...".
(The timeline of the example you gave shows that the 1st answer did not match the 2nd, until it was edited after the 2nd was posted. In such case, if equal, I'd upvote the 2nd.)
I'd tend to upvote both as long as they are timely close enough to each other: if one answer comes 10 seconds later than the other one, I'd like to show my appreciation to both answerers.
If there are several minutes (hours) between the two answers, I'd downvote the second one since it makes me feel like he (she) just copied the first answer and added a pinch of own content.
I agree with dalle - upvote both of the answers. If they're the same, then just reward the Accepted Answer to whoever was quicker.
You'll have to do that for this question ;-)
Upvote both answers, and select one of them as the accepted answer. If the answers are identical to the letter or if you cannot decide which one is better, choose one at random, or select the first posted.


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KILLEEN (December 4, 2012)—Police Tuesday identified a man who was killed in a hit-and-run accident early Sunday morning in the 1000 block of South State Highway 195 as Richard J. Taylor, 46, of Killeen.
The driver of the pickup truck that struck Taylor didn't stop and remained at large Tuesday, Killeen police said.
Officers responded to the accident around 1:10 a.m. Sunday and found Taylor lying in the northbound lanes of the highway.
Officers were able to establish that two men had attempted to cross the roadway from east to west.
One of the men made it across the lanes of traffic and when he turned to look for his friend, he saw a white, single-cab Nissan pickup truck strike Taylor man.
The driver didn't stop and continued northbound on the highway.
A vehicle that was following the truck also struck the man who was lying in the roadway, but that driver stopped and was at the scene when police arrived.
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the driver of the accident to call Bell County Crime Stoppers at (254) 526-TIPS.
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Vanilla Cheesecake
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Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
This rich yet light cheesecake is guaranteed to be a crowd pleaser
Prep Time: 20M, plus standing and 6 hrs chilling
Cooking Time: 50M
Serves: makes 10-12 servings
- 4 tbsp butter, plus more for the pan
- 1 1/2 cups crushed graham crackers
- 1 cup plus 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 1/2 lb ( 675g) cream cheese (not reduced fat) at room temperature
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- one 16oz container sour cream
- kiwi fruit, thinly sliced, to garnish
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- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Lightly butter the bottom and side of a 9in (23cm) springform pan.
- To make the crust, melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the graham cracker crumbs and 1 tbsp sugar and mix well. Press the crumbs into the bottom and 1in (2.5cm) up the sides of the springform pan.
- Combine the cream cheese, egg yolks, 3/4 cup of the sugar, and the vanilla in a bowl and mix with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. In a separate bowl, using clean beaters, beat the egg whites until stiff. Fold the egg whites into the cream cheese mixture. Pour into the pan and smooth the top.
- Bake for 45 minutes, or until the sides have risen and are beginning to brown. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, increase the oven temperature to 400°F (200°C). Whisk the sour cream and remaining 1/4 cup sugar in a bowl. Pour over the cheesecake and smooth the top. Return the cheesecake to the oven and bake for 10 minutes more, until the topping looks set around the edges. Cool completely on a wire rack. Cover and refrigerate for at least 6 hours. Remove the sides of the pan, garnish with the kiwi fruit, and serve chilled, cutting the cheesecake with a wet knife.
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What tv shows do you marathon watch?
With cable, there are always mini-marathons of shows. Which shows do you sit and watch multiple episodes of when you catch them? I freely admit to Law and Order and Law and Order:CI
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I did this with Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad and Arrested Development. Breaking Bad was so great when it came to this way of viewing.
Doctor Who, Bones, NCIS, Castle.
@mybestuser1: Castle, definitely.
For me, The Big Bang Theory, Stargate, Firefly and Farscape are all good for bulk watching.
What is this "cable" thing you speak of? I have a small antenna, a Blu-ray player and a Roku. Lately, I've been watching back-to-back episodes of Warehouse 13, Foyle's War, Doctor Who, the old Hawaii Five-O, Inspector Lewis and The Last Enemy via Roku. (Hmm .. crimes and government cover-ups. Maybe I need to add a few light comedies to the queue.) I like watching things on my own schedule, not one pre-programmed by someone else.
I don't have cable either, but I tend to watch a lot of shows in marathon mode. Usually that's from DVD/blurays, but I also record OTA shows and sometimes wait for them to finish a season before I start watching.
Some shows I've binged on recently: Arrested Development, Cougar Town, Better Off Ted, Justified, and Battlestar Galactica.
All the Law and Orders, NCIS, and CSIs.
Did I mention Law and Order?
When it comes to something I revisit and binge watch, it's Battlestar Galactica (the new version).
The most recent series of stuff I hadn't seen yet was trying the Killing. I didn't like it enough to stick with it.
Dexter...Mike & Molly...Spartacus...Falling Skies
Any old school tv fans out there? Dragnet, Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gunsmoke, Bonznza, MASH. I Love Lucy comforts and distracts me when everything in my modern life is going wrong.
For more modern stuff: Law & Order SVU (marathon on USA Network today), Cold Case, Criminal Minds.
I don't watch marathons on TV - but I marathon-watch shows that I'd never seen. That's how I watched Lost, Stargate SG-1, and Arrested Development. In the case of Lost, it was only the first 4 seasons. For some of these shows, it's the only way to keep track of everything that's going on.
But there's so much out there to see I rarely waste time watching the same thing twice. Even if I like it.
Dexter, Arrested, Battlestar Galactica, Weeds, Breaking Bad, Firefly, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead...
@okham: don't get me started on how much I detest TBBT, for it's got all too much power when my Happy Endings outwitted it.
Catching up with a mini-marathon of Falling Skies right now.
I love the Burn Notice marathons since I just started watching the show not too long ago....and now that it's my favorite show, I just found out this is going to be the last season of it. Also, Law and Order(all of them), Monk, Criminal Minds,
I second the Big Bang Theory. Great show for marathons :)
@flowerz: Burn Notice - Yeah! I forgot about that one...and this is the last season!
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Don't judge me.
I hate Burn Notice, that guy is such a douche.
We don't ever watch live tv (except for hockey games!), so most of our marathons are self-induced, either from the DVR, DVDs, Netflix or other online resources that shall remain nameless.
Recently we powered through Arrested Development from start to hilarious finish. I'm currently diving through Damages & House of Cards. Hubby just finished Parks & Rec and is already 5 seasons into The Office.
I do indulge in a serious love of L&O: SVU, so I still DVR all the old episodes and marathon through them when I'm in the right mood. Sometimes CSI too, which I like, but always find it pales in comparison to SVU if I watch them around the same time.
I'll soon be hitting the newer BSG as I've never seen it (I know, I know). After that, it's hard to say as there are SO MANY shows out there that I've not seen and desperately want to dive into. Plus, it's not that long until the next seasons of Suits, Sons of Anarchy & Breaking Bad that will be inserting themselves into my plans.
When I was younger I always watched the Twilight Zone marathons as there were a couple of episodes that only ran during the marathons. Now that's mostly what I use Netflix for. Right now I am working my way through Life, it's a great series and it's been a long time since I have seen it. Before that was the Twilight Zone. Before that the BBC series Wire in the Blood. My retired best friend spent pretty much the whole winter and spring over at my house while I was at work watching all the Star Trek series one after the other on Netflix.
Am I the only one who will answer, "None?" I find if I watch more than one or two episodes of any show back-to-back, they blur together in my mind, and I don't remember them as well. Shows I enjoy enough to watch, I like to remember vividly afterwards.
Back when I had disc-delivery Netflix, I might power-through a 4 episode dvd of a show over the course of a weekend, but not all in one sitting.
Currently - Falling Skies, Top Gear (new season starts July 8th baby), Sons of Guns, Walking Dead, and Mythbusters
Oldies that are good on sick days - Star Trek Next Gen. and How Its Made,
@djp519: for me @ least, sometimes sitting down and marathon watching is the only way to follow some of the multi ep(or multi season) story arcs weaved into some shows. there have been a few, that just watching as lone eps i've fully missed, but watching in bulk, where things are still semi fresh in the mind, you wonder how you missed it the first time around. and no,my brain is not coming up with specifics ATM.
I also vote Star Trek TNG. Make it so!
@earlyre: I recently re-watched all of Game of Thrones with a friend who hadn't seen any of it, and I got a lot more out of the last few episodes of the season with the details of earlier seasons fresher in my mind. A lot of the sub-plots and lesser characters seemed more connected to the main story after refreshing my memory of who they were and what their meta-roles were.
Arrested Development
Storage Wars
Deadliest Catch
Mountain Men
Always Sunny
I wont watch reruns of the reality typse stuff, but if i've never seen them before i'll watch for hours.
Ooh! almost forgot about Top Gear (UK version). i watch that show even if it is reruns, its just straight up good.
The best shows to marathon are those which require attention and recall—that is, when a detail from one episode becomes important a few episodes down the line, binge-watching is ideal. I can barely remember yesterday, never mind two weeks ago.
Arrested Development is the epitome of comedy requiring attention and recall, particularly because it is littered not only with callback references, but foreshadowing jokes. Something will happen in one episode that does not become funny until several episodes later (e.g. Buster and the loose seal). The hype does not even begin to accurately describe this show's greatness.
For drama, behold The Wire, one of the greatest pieces of media (show, movie, book, game) I have ever experienced, but one which refuses to hold the viewer's hand and which requires full attention and cumulative memory. Not to mention, when during a scene you start to hear the end-cue music, you clamor for the next episode.
Breaking Bad too. Amazing.
@dupedyetagain: very true about arrested development. I think thats one of the main reasons it didn't do well in the ratings department. if you didn't watch from the first episode, and actually pay attention, you missed the majority of the jokes. i have all the DVD's and i have seen each episode probably 2 dozen times and i still get jokes i missed the first 24 times. for example, in one episode Micheal tells GOB to "get rid of the Seaward" (a boat GOB just bought) and Lucille says "i'll leave when i'm good and ready". i must have seen that episode 4 or 5 times before the joke finally sunk in and i had a good laugh. like you said, it is impossible to describe the awesomeness of that show.
Also, alot of the jokes are back to back, so if you laugh too hard at one joke, you will miss the next one. now i'm gonna go home and watch some AD when i get off work...
@ndcouch: That's absolutely one of my favorite AD jokes, and one I missed at least my first two times around.
Here's one from (I think) the same episode that I did not get until years later. Remember when they build the fake house and, at the ribbon-cutting, all four walls fall down? And one of the walls falls onto Buster, who is saved when he happens to be standing exactly where the window opening is?
I present to you, from the 1920s, the immortal Buster Keaton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN2SKWSOdGM
@dupedyetagain: "For drama, behold The Wire, one of the greatest pieces of media ... which refuses to hold the viewer's hand and which requires full attention and cumulative memory."
Yes indeed, behold The Wire! That absence of hand-holding is a big part of what made it so great. If you weren't paying attention and thinking, you missed half the show. It was really like 20th century Shakespeare.
I've recently been marathoning In Plain Sight, and before that Justified. Both shows are mostly law-and-order featuring highly flawed lead characters, with a hefty dose of cynical wisecracking. I think I'm mostly there for the wisecracking.
Sorry for being FOB here. But Korean dramas all the way!!
@jaaayzhu: That's funny. You don't type FOB. ;)
@dupedyetagain: ha! i've been watching the show for years and you just introduced me to yet another joke. in that same episode, you know how they are talking about rock/paper/scissors? one joke my wife pointed out was that GOB and Micheal are fighting with the giant rock and scissor, and it gets reported in the news'paper' and it made the family look bad. once again, paper beat rock. that show is literally overflowing with good jokes


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9 Disturbing Christmas Ads You Won't Believe Are Real
Making an ad around Christmastime is pretty much a slam dunk -- you portray a beautiful family giving your product as a gift, and boom, you're done. If you're selling something that nobody gives as gifts, like cars, who cares? Stick a big red bow on that shit. But people still manage to screw it up, and we like to point out the most horrifying examples.
So here are more old-school holiday ads that make us wonder what the hell the past was thinking.
#9. The 12 Giant Hell-Bats of Christmas
No, this isn't us fucking with you, this is an actual holiday card distributed around the 1890s. We're guessing there must have been a bunch of end-of-the-world anxiety about the year 1900, because in what other context would it make sense to say, "Remember, these pantsless kids riding huge bats are coming for you. Soon. Happy New Year"?
This ad (or greeting card, or prophecy, whatever it was) is an endless pit of horrors -- the longer you stare at it, the more dark secrets reveal themselves. Did you already notice that the demonic children riding those winged nightmares also have wings? And that the children are whipping the giant bats like horses?
Clearly what we see here is a Christmas tree that, minutes before, started speaking to the family in an unholy voice, booming with curses in an ancient dead language. The priest was called, and he set the cursed thing ablaze. It was too late to save the mother's sanity.
This is actually an ad for Pyrene fire extinguishers, but it's hilarious even in that context; the father in this photo clearly has no intention of dousing that huge blaze with that little bottle of Pyrene and will instead be bludgeoning that fire to death with his bare hands. That is not a startled father quickly reacting to a household emergency. That is an old man seeing his nemesis return for the last time. "So once again it is just you and I, fire. You have sneaked into my home disguised as a Christmas tree, like a coward. For this, you will die at my fists. Margaret, make Sally watch."
"Damn it, Steve, you're drunk!"
#7. This Child Is a Terrified Hostage
The photograph that woman is taking is about to be mailed to that girl's mother with a ransom demand, possibly with a tiny severed finger included. That weeping girl has no idea where she is or who the monster behind that fine Kodak camera is.
We suppose you could say that, in reality, this is just an ad about a mother photographing her little girl on Christmas morning, and this girl likes to open presents in bed (and the girl is apprehensive because she lives in an era when terror lurks around every corner). But Kodak actually had a whole series of these ads, and each and every one featured a woman photographing a young girl, in her bed, with a doll. Often against the girl's will:
"Move the doll down -- you can still see the handcuffs."
Look close -- we're pretty sure that girl was drugged. So maybe this was a holiday tradition back in the early 1900s? If so, all we can say is that the kids definitely were not on board with that shit.
#6. This Child Is Aroused
OK, this kid is a little too on board with whatever is going on here.
In 1970, GE wanted you to know that their lights were cool to the touch, and this little kid wanted to make sure that was the most awkward thing you learned about all day. Now, it's not this kid's fault that she got a haircut as bowl-shaped and lopsided as one of the Three Stooges, but the look on her face says that either there is something really freaky going on off-camera to the right or she's possessed. You can decide which is creepier.
And while we're on the subject ...
#5. Pantsless Santa Role Playing
We know the 1950s were a simpler, more innocent time, but that does little to make us feel in any way OK with this underwear ad. Seriously, Fruit of the Loom, we'd feel a lot more comfortable if you splurged on separate men's and boy's ads, or maybe just added any kind of context. Instead, it's two grown men and a child standing around in their underwear with just a Santa mask between them. And can we also talk about Santa mask choices? Maybe next time a little less eyebrow raising and come hither whistling? Thanks.
"Oooooooo, look at all that cock!"
Wait a second. Is that a two-way mirror on the other side of the room? Who do we find in there watching ...


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I am on Ubuntu and I have forgotten the password for my Gnome Keyring (yes, stupid me, I know). Any way I can get it back? I have already looked at this link, but it says it's not possible if my home directory is encrypted and unfortunately my home directory is encrypted.
Resetting everything (delete all passwords and start new keyring):
Navigate to Places > Home. Press ctrl h to view "hidden files". Navigate to .gnome2 > keyrings and delete
Using the same keyring (resetting keyring password but keeping old passwords in keyring):
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and after that delete
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3) Replace the new keyring file with the backup of the old keyring file
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Jill D. Moravec, 46, of Muscatine, Iowa, formerly of Nebraska City, died at UIHC in Iowa City, Iowa, on Oct. 5, 2012, from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
She is survived by husband Jon Moravec; children Aaron and Julia, at home; father Lt. Colonel Arthur Meyer, USAF (retired), Tucson, Ariz.; mother in-law Merna Moravec, Seward; brother and sister in-law Scott and Donna Meyer, Independence, Mo.; sister and brother in-law Colonel Janet Kasmer, USAF and Colonel James Kasmer, USAF (retired), Arlington, Va.; brothers in-law and sisters in-law Rick and Pam Pape, Lincoln, Tim and Lori Moravec, Seward, and Chris and Carol Moravec, Lincoln; nephews, nieces, aunts, uncles, cousins, and a host of friends.
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A little help for the "conservative idea factory" (Part 2 of 2)
In my last entry, I talked about the sense of urgency and even crisis among some conservatives. The "ideas factory" is not as productive as it once was, it seems. By way of offering some advice from outside, as it were, I thought I would begin with the very metaphor used in this case to describe the current conditions of ossification and doubt.
The metaphor is in fact extremely apt. American conservatives indeed have a factory of ideas. The core "products" of that factory have been meant as a reflection on (and justification of) the modern economic order, as well as an explanation of the social dislocation caused by its dynamic, transformative forces. This economic order post-2008 went through a massive cratering and fragmentation, and so it's not surprising that the ideological edifice surrounding and supporting that order also broke down. The problem for conservatives, however, is that they don't seem to have the means to rebuild that system, that is, to reconstruct a vital and coherent vision to illuminate the post-2008 economic and social (dis)order. Their current attempts at reconstruction and translation have for the most part fallen on deaf ears.
To explain what I mean, consider the fragment from a speech recently delivered by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The topic of the speech concerned Christian virtues and economic systems:
"The cardinal sin of capitalism is greed, but the cardinal sin of socialism is power. I'm not sure there's a clear choice between those evils," Scalia said. "While I would not argue that capitalism as an economic system is inherently more Christian than socialism … it does seem to me that capitalism is more dependent on Christianity than socialism is. For in order for capitalism to work - in order for it to produce a good and a stable society - the traditional Christian virtues are essential." (http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/At-Ho...)
There is much here that is correct: recognizing that capitalism expresses certain Christian values is as old as Max Weber's work. And yet embedded within these comments is an assumption that lays bare the current productivity problem within the conservative factory of ideas. When Scalia uses the term "power" here, he means "state power," contrasted with the allegedly powerless power, the "invisible hand" of the free market (which is marred by the mere vice of greed). Ideological rigidity on this point of contrast doesn't match up with everyday experience: for most of us, it doesn't matter whether it comes from a public or a private source, from the federal government or a private bank or corporate head office. The experience of dislocation is the same. Power is power, public or private.
Nor is the primary purpose of capitalism to "produce a good and stable society" as Scalia puts it. If the Great Recession taught us anything, it's that good and stable societies are often challenged and even catastrophically undermined by the tumultuous forces unleashed by financialized capital. Scalia seems to be living the pre-2008 economic world, while the rest of us – of necessity, perhaps disabused of our former ideas – have moved on.
Can conservatives catch up to the real world? Doing so would require an end to demonizing the state and deifying the market. Until that happens, its factory of ideas will be fated to produce intellectual commodities that fewer people want, which capture an ever-smaller market share, and which seem increasingly irrelevant to the demands of everyday life for the majority of Americans.
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Perhaps it's true that conservatives don't have many new ideas. Part of it may just be our nature, as we tend to be fond of the timeless classics (including those outmoded notions of personal virtue and responsibility that seem so risible these days).
On the other hand, it's indisputable that we're better at math. We've taken Mr. Micawber's axiom to heart, "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and, in short, you are for ever floored."
To be sure, math is boring, and so in the world of competitive ideas, it's a bit of a tough sale. But math is necessary, and sooner or later, America will come around to its utility.
With all respect liberals can do math too. And liberals do care about balancing income and spending: we're just willing to do it (sometimes) by raising taxes on the high end earners, as Bill Clinton did. (As a huge Dickens fan, I have to point out that Mr. Micawber did NOT practice what he preached . David Copperfield had to visit him in a debtor's prison.)
The difference seems to me to be a difference core beliefs about the relationship of human beings and property. Conservatives seem to believe that the right to property is absolute, and should be prioritized over (for example) feeding the hungry and providing health care to the sick. Liberals recognize that property has to be stable- you can't have the state just confiscating everything a person has in an unpredictable manner- but also think that both morally and practically the right to property can be moderated by such concerns as solidarity with the poor and the need to keep money circulating throughout society. (Unregulated capitalism tends to create massive inequality, with more and more of the wealth of society accumulating at the very top, as it did in the Gilded Age c. 1890.) Thus, liberals accept the idea of limited but significant redistribution by taxes that go into social spending.
The conservative belief in the absolute piority of property seems to me to lack a sense of history. Certainly, many people have become wealthy by producing something of value that other people want to buy, and producing it efficiently. But many also obtained wealth through immoral laws and violence. My maternal ancestors became destitute in the highland clearances for example- some English guy got rich off our stolen lands. In the same context, there was slavery, the enclosures in Renaissance England, the theft of this country from the Native Americans, the violent supression of unions in the 19th century. The reality of history seems to me to refute an Ayn Rand philosophy of property.
There actually are some thoughtful conservatives who are trying to create a more humane conservatism: Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam, and Rod Dreher are three of the best. But I don't see how any of their ideas are going to gain traction in the current political atmosphere where the Republican party seems determined to continue the pattern of taking away from the poor (continually cutting food stamps, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance) and giving the rich lower and lower tax rates.
"Part of it may just be our nature, as we tend to be fond of the timeless classics (including those outmoded notions of personal virtue and responsibility that seem so risible these days)."
Surely you are not saying that liberals do not value personal virtue and responsibility.
A good adjunct to this conversation is Christopher Hayes' "The Twilight of The Elites."
Surely you are not saying that liberals do not value personal virtue and responsibility.
To judge by the policies liberals support and the ideas their factories generate - apparently, not very much, if by personal virtues and responsiblity we mean such things as liberty, thrift, hard work, self improvement, chastity, respect for the law - and respect for life.
"(I)n order for capitalism to work - in order for it to produce a good and a stable society - the traditional Christian virtues are essential."
Oh, absolutely. But the same is essential for socialism to produce a good and stable society. Trying to get along without traditional Christian virtues is what did in the communist systems. But we can see in Scandanavia that with basic (if residual) Christian values, like solidarity, socialism can be made to work. The error of Justice Scalia is to hope for an economic system that will make all people good and great. (Sort of like the invisible hand administering spankings at appropriate times.) Never happen. In today's first reading St. Paul mentions "the greed that is idolatry." That is the capitalist idolatry. (The socialists have a different one.)
There are two problems with that axiom: First, there are plenty of good reasons to temporarily spend more than one is currently earning. Buying a car, buying a house, going to college, and responding to emergencies all require spending more than one's current income, whether that involves taking money from savings or taking out a loan. Second, a society as a whole can't spend more or less than it earns. Everyone's spending is someone else's income if everyone tries to spend less than they earn at the same, everyone will find that their incomes have fallen and they have to spend even less.
Furthermore, it isn't clear to me that conservatives care about deficits. They seem to be far more concerned about cutting taxes, and the deficit is relevant only to the extent that larger deficits make additional tax cuts more difficult politically.
Liberty is a conservative value? Sounds like a liberal value to me?
Thrift is a conservative value? Come on. Let's promote a free unregulated market that promotes greed.
Hard work is a conservative value? Tell that to my liberal friends who are helping immigrants to support their families and people who have lost their jobs in this economy.
Chastity, a conservative value? Are you saying that conservatives are more chaste? I say prove it.
Self improvement, a conservative value? Sounds a bit self-centered. (OK, a bit of a stretch on my part.)
Respect for the law, a conservative value? Like the second amendment with no sensible regulation?
Pro-life? Well, you may make the argument that pro-choice is not pro-life and I can understand that but pro-life encompasses so much more.
You usually have good points to contribute on this blog, but this time, you've missed the boat, IMHO.
Ryan: and let's not forget that everyne starts in life with a big debt - how else would we make it past the newborn stage, if not by receiving things for free from the society of people around us?
Helen: Jim P. has two personalities. When he talks about religion, he makes sense and typically strives for dialogue and compromise. When he talks about politics, all bets are off. His Republican loyalty takes precedence over his usual common sense.
Jim P: all I can say is: hmpf.
"To judge by the policies liberals support and the ideas their factories generate - apparently, not very much, if by personal virtues and responsiblity we mean such things as liberty, thrift, hard work, self improvement, chastity, respect for the law - and respect for life."
Jim P. ==
You seem to have no understanding whatsoever of what it is like to be without the means to live a normal middle-class life.
Liberty? To the degree that you are poor to begin with you do not have the means to take the actions you need to take (e.g., buy food, buy medicine) are free only to suffer. You don't even have carfare sufficient to look for jobs.
Thrift? If you have no assets, thrift is irrelevant.
Hard word? When there are no jobs or none an ignorant person qualifies for or close enough to get to, a poor person can't work.
Self-improvement? When you have no means and start from nothing, improvement is impossible.
Chastity? What does this have to do with money or lack thereof? Anyone can be undisciplined.
Respect for law? When the law ignores you, why respect it?
Respect for life? One does not respect life when one does not respect the living, when one sees the poor living in squallor and expects them to overcome it all by themselves.
Now let's talk about generosity and greed . . .
About liberals not understanding math. What a generalization!!! Maynard Keynes, that paradigm of economic liberals, was a brillian math major, did major original work in probability theory, and had to be pursuaged by the great economist Alfred Marshall to go into economics rather than math.
If any group is shy of math, it's the conservative economists who persist in using outworn, over-simple mathmatical formulae, though, I grant you, the greedy conservatives do seem to be awfully good at counting up the value their misbegotten assets. (How's that for some hasty generalizations?)
Ann, nicely done :-). Claire, the Americanized spelling is "harrumph!". I suppose I haven't changed many hearts and minds? Ah, well.
Big surprise, Jim. I disagree with you but have no desire to change your heart and mind.
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"Annual income zero, annual exprnditure, eating, result Death
What is engaging about this post is that it doesn't contain a shred of the condescension or smarminess you usually see when liberals offer advice to conservatives.
Jim P.--
Thank you. But I must add that while your heart doesn't need changing (it's obvious that you are a kindly man) your mind has a long way to go before it sees what life for a very poor person is like.
Or maybe your problem is that you think there aren't really many very poor Americans? Maybe that's why you aren't a Democrat?
Or how do you define "very poor"?
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"What is engaging about this post is that it doesn't contain a shred of the condescension or smarminess you usually see when liberals offer advice to conservatives."
"Fess up". - Is this a backhanded compliment or are you being sarcastic?
Well, let's see, there's this:
…the current conditions of ossification and doubt…
And this:
Can conservatives catch up to the real world?
And isn't that title just adorable with the cute little scare quotes?
The author pretends not to notice the machinations of a certain political party in creating the post-2008 "massive cratering and fragmentation"
All this from an idea factory that, every day, refuses to do what it must to protect innocent human life. Matthew 7:3-5
Interesting article. Yet, I would have preferred that you had cited an article by more objective economist, not one who was economic adviser to the presidential campaigns of McCain (2000 and 2008) and Romney.
Clarity trumps objectivity any day. Plus, if objectivity were all that mattered, you'd never listen to anything I had to say—imagine the void in your life.
I'm have difficulty imagining the void in my life. Perhaps, you could be a bit clearer.


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