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I have no plans to see Noah, the new Darren Aronofsky biblical disaster movie, so I didn't get around to reading A. O. Scott's review in the New York Times until someone recommended it. That recommendation was related to the content-advisory bit at the bottom -- a form Scott has often had fun with. This, at the very end of his Noah review, is perhaps his greatest work:
"Noah" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). "And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and only Noah remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark."
The review itself is unexpectedly profound, as Scott (and, he says, Aronofsky) takes up some deep questions raised by the attempt to translate a biblical legend into screenplay material.
Noah's story, Scott writes, "is among the strangest and scariest in the Hebrew Bible. At its center is what appears to be an unnerving example of divine self-doubt." That's something we tend to leave out when we think about Noah and the Ark -- instead, we "emphasize the happy outcome: the rainbow, the dove, the cute paired-off beasts, the repopulation of the flood-cleansed earth." By contrast, says Scott, Aronofsky's film "dwells on the dark and troubling implications of Noah's experience." He has many interesting thoughts about how that plays out.
When you have kids, or when you start buying things for other people's newborns, you quickly discover the popularity of Noah's Ark as a nursery motif. Boats filled with animals appear all over bedding, gift wrap, and other baby items, especially unisex infant stuff -- wild animals seem to cross gender barriers in a way that fire trucks and butterflies do not, and in the case of the Ark they are conveniently organized in complementary pairs.
There's a Fisher Price Noah's Ark toy in the co-op playroom where I spend one morning a week with my sons. Watching my two-year-old stuffing the animal figurines into the boat, I started to point out the fact that they came in pairs, one male and one female -- but I stopped myself, thinking, How much of this story am I prepared to tell him? I didn't see how I could avoid starting at the beginning, and I certainly wasn't about to do that. Eventually, of course, I want him to hear the whole story, and to have it fire his imagination to think about God and God's relationship with us. But for now, "Noah was a guy who had a boat full of animals" is enough.
It's natural, even correct, for us to remember the story of Noah mainly through its happy ending, because that's the point of the story, the reason it's being told. But the rainbow and the boat and the animals do not make for a cute and simple story, and if we try to tell it that way we end up shortchanging its power to move and provoke us as imaginative, questioning, struggling adults. I like Scott's parental warning because it's clever, but also because it's a reminder that, however often religion may be considered in our culture a childish thing to be put away, the Bible, when you really look at it, isn't childish at all.
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I think it's a pretty grim story - because of some bad guys, God destroys all life on Earth, save for a few exceptions. It gives a whole new meaning to the expression 'collateral damage'.
"the Bible, when you really look at it, isn't childish at all."
No, it isn't.
Quite the opposite actually: the Bible is anything but for the childish mind.
As to the story of Noah, Ross Douthat of NY Times posted an interesting series of tweets the other day, analyzing the film Noah, which included this:
"God appears to be ambivalent, in other words, because *we* are ambivalent - or bc He wants us to be, bc that's appropriate to our situation."
I thought this was a very interesting thought, for indeed we humans I think often try to see God through our own human eyes, to understand Him through our human minds, and to imagine Him in our human hearts.
because of some bad guys, God destroys all life on Earth, save for a few exceptions
Right. Yet a few chapters later, the same God apparently was willing to spare all the sinners in Sodom for the sake of 10 righteous people.
Geez - you guys....we catholics are not literalists - we read the bible in a contextual way and understand that most narratives, stories, etc. are symbols and methaphors for insights into God and his people.
Read from Mark Link, SJ's *These Stones Will Shout*.....the story of Noah/Flood is another in a series of OT symbolic sin stories. Probably based upon an actual flood event, the event structure is used by the storyteller to convery an important truth about faith. (thus, it is not about factual history) Rather it is *factual-symbolic*....comes from an ancient flood tradition but symbolic because the tradition is used to convey a point of faith and teach all a moral lesson.
As one expert stated: *the genre of Genesis 6-9 chapters is didactic not historical. It is bootless to ponder such questions as whether the flood covered the whole earth or destroyed all people.*
What the story does say: sin leads us down a one way street - destruction of self, community, world. God alone can save us.
I don't understand your point, Bill. Does it seem as though people are stressing over whether this story is literal? It seems to me that the issue concerns expectations surrounding the Bible and children. I agree with Mollie: there is no other biblical text that competes with the story of the flood when it comes to childhood exposure. Mollie mentioned toys; I would point to children's books. An interesting project is to study the loads of picture books about Noah to see how different ones approach the question of mass death and destruction; most simply elide it. It strikes me as being a very difficult question: how do you go about introducing this story to children? And yet it's a question that is normally left unconsidered in favor of simply charging forward with early exposure.
A violent story dorsn't have to be about "factual history" to be problematic in certain contexts.
I shared Mollie's anecdote of the Noah's Ark toy at the co-op playroom with my baptism prep group this evening, as a way to illustrate how faith-sharing changes as our children mature.
The Bible, when you really look at it, isn't childish at all.
But then, neither are children.
I enjoyed this article-review in my paper - as much as anything else I always love Rabbinic questions and comments on things and she quotes many. Lorna
Abe - I agree with you but some commenters were getting lost in the weeds of literal history, fact, etc.
You get to the key question - how do you introduce this story to children?
My point is that the *story* is about the reality that *God saves us*; period. The rest of the details that some appear to want to argue about or feel will be too shocking to children misses the point.
So, allow me to translate - *how do you introduce the faith that GOD SAVES US".....and, now, how did this story of Noah do that......well, we can think about the most awful event (e.g. death of grandma or grandpa or parents or sisters/brothers) and yet our faith tells us the God saves us.
It reallys is a challenge = just as much as when you confront the death of a child - or, better, what happens when bad things happen to good people? and how do you translate that to a very young child?
Thanks, Ms. Crossman - that was a good read and it brings in an even more complicated reality - that the OT came out of four narrative threads - he mentions two. And, how are you going to explain that to a 4 or 5 yr. old...you aren't.\
But, it does show the complicated (or fruitless) rabbinic drill downs.
Bill, I totally disagree with our approach to this topic. The story comes first, and the theological nugget supposedly contained within the story pales in comparison with its "shell." The story comes first and affects the child (and actually, I should think, the adult) the most. And the lesson the story is supposed to teach ("GOD SAVES US") does not erase its medium--the disjunct between medium and supposed message is something that a child can detect.
You insult the rabbis, but they are doing what everyone does when it comes to a text (especially if that text is in the Bible); do you think that Christian allegorists are doing otherwise? You, too, are doing it by trying to bracket the violence of the story in favor of a sweeter message.
Bill, I'm with you all the way.For a theological clarification of The Flood narrative I am happy with a dissertation by Australian biblical scholar Tony Campbell SJ in his book God and Bible, Exploring Stories from Genesis to Job. I can recommend it (and all other writings by Father Campbell). As to when and how to introduce the story of The Flood to children these are pedogogical questions. But in writing that I'm thinking I suppose it depends on what image/concept of God one wants to instil (Is that too strong a word?) into the receptive mind (tabula rasa?) of the child.
Before I press the "Save" button another question has sprung to mind - Who put us in the situation where we had to be saved? Which makes me ask. Where's a Rabbi when I need one?
One other thought - if you read the original Grimm's Fairy Tales - they are outright scary, filled with violence, etc.
And yet, we find them translated, transformed, modified and watered down to just be cute stories. So, Abe, you may be correct - that is how we start with young kids and then gradually move to the moral, etc.
Not sure I agree or that the shell comes first. Think we have wandered far from the original post by Mollie (apologize if I threw this off the road, Mollie). Young children can grasp a moral truth - in fact, kids often ask for that explanation; those types of stories, etc.
Children develop notions of justice early in life, e.g., one mustn't take what belongs to another. "Mine!" is one of the first words children learn, and it's he foundation of much of ethics :-) They also know that life can be terribly scary. Who hasn't had a nightmare? But children differ one from the other mightily, so it seems to me that a detailed explanation that is good for one child, might be traumtic for another. All the more reason for their moral education to begin in the home with parents who know them best and love them best.
You misunderstand me, Bill, and I don't think we've wondered from the original point as well. Mollie observed the fact that the story of the flood is basically treated as "Baby's First Bible Story" in that it is the one whose imagery is introudced to children as early as the crib. She referred tp toys, and I expanded on this to include picture books.
I simply cannot agree that the actual story will ever, ever come second to some "moral truth" when it comes to a story for children. The stories mean too much to them and exist too vividly for them to be too readily pushed aside for the sake of a moral lesson. I used the term shell simply to go on along with your idea that the story contains a lesson within it that outstrips it in significance. I actually doubt that there is such a clearcut moral truth in the story of the flood. A sharp 3 year-old could cut through the idea that the moral is "GOD SAVES US" with some well-placed quetsions. Besides, as the adult reading the story, I feel morally uneasy about teaching that the story contains such a truth, when I suspect that it is much more complicated than that. There are many things that make me, as an adult, want to return to the story; a "moral truth" is not among them.
Most picture books that are not written for a parochial context either eliminate the mass death and destruction from the story in order to focus on other things, or even attempt to make the violence "silly." (the ones written for religious education-well, they have their own approaches). A few authors take a more honest approach, and do not simply remove the consequences of the flood. Peter Spier's Noah's Ark is perhaps the best example: there is a brief series of panels depicting a group of animals gathered about the now closed doors of the ark, then the waters rising higher about their bodies, and finally an expanse of water, with no more indication of the animals left behind. It is subtle and not grotesque--but it also doesn't hide what happens behind a curtain.
Crystal and I had a brief exchange in which we tried to suss out something of the nature of God - God's personality, if you will - based on a couple of snippets from Genesis.
I took, in Bill's initial comment, the "you guys" to refer to me and Crystal - essentially telling us that we were engaged in some rather naive exegesis. And I'm not saying he's wrong, by any means :-)
In fact, I think Bill is pointing to something that many people find pretty difficult, even when they've been exposed to biblical scholarship. There is the point of view of treating Genesis (or any book of the bible) as an object of scholarly inquiry, and the point of view of treating Genesis (or any book of the bible) as a source of faith illumination. It's not always easy for the believer to reconcile those two points of view. I suppose the conventional way to do so is to utilize, or at least to attempt to utilize, the fruits of scholarly inquiry as a way to inform the faith inquiry.
FWIW, and as an illustration of scholarly inquiry serving faith, here is the NAB editors' take on the meaning of the flood stories in Genesis:
The plot of Gn 2–11 (creation, the flood, renewed creation) has been borrowed from creation-flood stories attested in Mesopotamian literature of the second and early first millennia. In the Mesopotamian creation-flood stories, the gods created the human race as slaves whose task it was to manage the universe for them—giving them food, clothing, and honor in temple ceremonies. In an unforeseen development, however, the human race grew so numerous and noisy that the gods could not sleep. Deeply angered, the gods decided to destroy the race by a universal flood. One man and his family, however, secretly warned of the flood by his patron god, built a boat and survived. Soon regretting their impetuous decision, the gods created a revised version of humankind. The new race was created mortal so they would never again grow numerous and bother the gods. The authors of Genesis adapted the creation-flood story in accord with their views of God and humanity. For example, they attributed the fault to human sin rather than to divine miscalculation (6:5–7) and had God reaffirm without change the original creation (9:1–7). In the biblical version God is just, powerful, and not needy.
How should modern readers interpret the creation-flood story in Gn 2–11? The stories are neither history nor myth. "Myth" is an unsuitable term, for it has several different meanings and connotes untruth in popular English. "History" is equally misleading, for it suggests that the events actually took place. The best term is creation-flood story. Ancient Near Eastern thinkers did not have our methods of exploring serious questions. Instead, they used narratives for issues that we would call philosophical and theological. They added and subtracted narrative details and varied the plot as they sought meaning in the ancient stories. Their stories reveal a privileged time, when divine decisions were made that determined the future of the human race. The origin of something was thought to explain its present meaning, e.g., how God acts with justice and generosity, why human beings are rebellious, the nature of sexual attraction and marriage, why there are many peoples and languages. Though the stories may initially strike us as primitive and naive, they are in fact told with skill, compression, and subtlety. They provide profound answers to perennial questions about God and human beings.
I took Bill's comment, "My point is that the *story* is about the reality that *God saves us*" to be in line with the editors' point of view. I also took his comment to be informed by the interpretive key provided by Catholic worship. The Lectionary's pairing-up of passages, what it chooses to include and omit, the liturgical season in which they appear: these also provide a way to understand a passage.
Thus a passage of the flood narratives, Genesis 9:8-15, is the first reading of the first Sunday of Lent during Cycle B, where the Lectionary pairs it with Psalm 25:4-9, with Mark's account of Jesus' temptation in the desert, and with 1 Peter 3:18-22. The latter is itself an exegesis of the flood-story, presumably uninformed by the documentary hypothesis of Torah:
Christ suffered for since once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God.
Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the Spirit.
In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison, who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, wer saved through the water.
This prefigured baptism, which saves you now
It is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities and powers subjected to him.
My apologies for a formatting mistake in the previous comment: I included two paragraphs that were quoted from the Introduction to the New American Bible. When I pasted them into the comment, those paragraphs appeared to be indented, but after hitting the Save button, they've appeared in the ComBox as though I wrote it myself. They are the paragraphs beginning, "The plot of Gen 2-11..." and "How should modern readers interpret ...". Everything else in that comment that's not indented is my own comment.
One of the aspects of the blessing of the world after the flood is that the covenant with Noah is also with a covenant with all of creation. A particularly apt and helpful note in this day and age when ecology and the survival of the planet is much on the minds of adults.
I suspect that the harmony with nature expressed in seeing "safe" wild animals on Noah's boat actually calms children's fears. Which is not the whole story, but it's not bad or wrong.
On another front... There was a wonderful documentary made in Britain a few years ago about the filming of a modernized Noah story in one of the worst slums of England, using volunteer actors and making palpable the existential questions about wickedness on the earth, and what a just person faces when surrounded by evil. The making of the film actually changed this community because they worked together on it. A fascinating connection between community arts and biblical story.
The Noah story is very productive. It has many dimensions. You can enter it in a variety of ways. Not all of this belongs in the nursery. But then, we grow into things don't we?
Bill is right about Grimm's fairy tales. I think it's a shame we have disney-fied them, and taken out all the hard and scary parts. A perfect example is The Little Mermaid movie. A powerful fairy tale, turned into pablum romance by Disney. I liked the film, but the fairy tale was far better and was actually about redemptive suffering, not romance.
Adults today are pathological when it comes to erasing what they consider "too challenging" for kids. I once used the story of Hansel and Gretel in a children's textbook, and the censor took it out. "You are teaching children to steal" was the objection. Imagine that. Hansel and Gretel, a tale that is corrupting the moral lives of children.
Hi, Rita, I do think that, in the character of Usula the sea-witch, Disney (the corporate creative team - pretty sure Walt was gone by the time the film was in production) tried to stay in the tradition of characters and climactic scenes that young children would find frightening and harrowing. I suppose that, when Snow White, Pinocchio and Bambi were made, the organization was much smaller and I presume that Walt's articistic and storytelling sensibility was key.
Now, of course, Disney is a gigantic multinational, Walt is long gone, and so far as I can tell, their film plots are outlined by accountants and filled in by product managers, all to appeal to the fantasies, and more to the point, the musical tastes and fashion sense, of young teen/preteen girls. Nearly every major Disney release of the era inaugurated by The Little Mermaid has had essentially the same plot: the teen-age hero/heroine finds the life of home and village to be constraining and suffocating, and so she escapes and, after conflict and adventure, finds true love. From what I've seen of Frozen (it's kicking around here somewhere on DVD and I haven't been able to watch it end-to-end but I've seen quite a bit of it) it conforms to the same pattern. It's a fine plot, and I'm sure it sells lots of movie tickets and DVDs and triggers lots of music downloads, but it does seem a bit different than Hansel and Gretel.


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The Toronto High School Band Parents will host an Italian Fest spaghetti dinner from noon to 3 p.m. March 3 at Karaffa Elementary School. Spaghetti dinners are $7 each. Lasagna dinners are $8 each and available by pre-order only. Contact Julie Ault at (740) 424-8805 to pre-order a lasagna. Dinners will include a tossed salad and Italian bread. The Italian Fest menu also will include meatball sandwiches, wedding soup and a desserts. Tickets are available at the door or from any Toronto High School Band student.
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A ham loaf dinner will be served Thursday at the Hill Top Presbyterian Church fellowship hall, county Road 46, Toronto, from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The menu will be ham loaf, scalloped potatoes, green beans, coleslaw, homemade pie and hot and cold beverages. Eat-in and take-out available. Donations accepted.
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By following this link I am able to just turn SELinux off completely from my Fedora 14. But I wonder how could I disable SELinux only for the httpd daemon? I don't have system-config-selinux installed and due to company firewall policy I have got to search for the RPMs from pkgs.org in order to install any package. So is there a way to get this sorted out?
SELinux is preventing /opt/ibm/cognos/c10/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi "execute" access to
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SELinux denied access requested by /opt/ibm/cognos/c10/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi.
/opt/ibm/cognos/c10/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi is mislabeled.
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Allowing Access:
You can restore the default system context to this file by executing the
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Fix Command:
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Some quotes I like: "YOUR OTHER HALF IS WITHIN
These days, so many people are searching for a partner, a soul mate, their 'other half'. They feel incomplete, 'single', without that 'special someone' in their life.
But you are not half of a whole, friend. That is the lie. You have never been half of a whole. You are whole; that is your true nature.
If you are searching for a partner, or staying in a relationship, because you feel 'half' of a whole, incomplete when alone, unhappy with your own solitude, fearful of the void, you will be bringing a partner into your field of unhappiness, and anxiety will rumble underneath the relationship.
Find your happiness within. Make happiness the field in which you live and have your being. Discover the joy of your aloneness. As long as you run away from your aloneness, you will always be lonely, however crowded your life is, because you will be running away from yourself, and that is the greatest pain of all.
Find joy within. Be the one you have always sought. Then, when and if you are ready, allow another dear one into that field. Let them hang out, play, stay if they stay, and leave if they leave. Take delight in their freedom. Connect deeply. Notice when you are happy, and notice when you are unhappy, but do not blame them or credit them for either.
Help them learn to love their own aloneness too.
Maybe you will call them your friend, your partner, your lover. Maybe you will marry, maybe you will live together, maybe you will start a family, maybe you will never see each other again. In the joy of deep connection, the labels will not matter so much, and the future will take care of itself.
And you will have found your other half within yourself. And the fear of loneliness will disappear into sunsets. "
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"How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?" ― Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
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I would like to get my kids to learn some productivity techniques so that their future lives can be as productive as possible. I am going to start with two of the most basic ones, but it is difficult to explain the benefits of them to my kids. The two techniques that I am starting with are:
- When faced with a decision, step back and take a moment to take in as much information as you can before making a decision. In other words, don't make a knee-jerk decision.
- Make a note of anything that you need to refer to in the future.
Although these techniques are not groundbreaking, I believe that they form the basis for other high leveraging productivity techniques such as GTD. I don't want to initially overload them with too many techniques so I am starting with two.
One of my two kids is coming up to 6 years old, which I believe is old enough to start to grasp some of the concepts I am trying to teach him. My other son is coming up to 3 years. I think that this is too young, so I am mostly concentrating on my 6 year old.
My question is: Should I should persist with these two techniques?
Should I teach them different techniques instead? Why?


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Are you looking for the best pack and play ? Well, let me start by telling you that it is never going to be easy. Looking for the right one with the perfect features and price will be a challenging task. One of the reasons for such is the fact that there will be an abundance of choices, making it harder to pick one. Nonetheless, even if the possibilities can be overwhelming, this should never be an excuse to decide in haste. For sure, you would want nothing but the best for your baby. With this, keep on reading and learn about some of the questions that you should ask yourself to be able to find the best pack and play for your baby.
What Features Should I Be Looking For?
To be able to differentiate one option form the other, take a look at the features that they have. More often than not, if the list of features is more extensive, this also equates into having a more expensive price. The following are some of the features that you should be looking for:
- Changing Station: This is usually available in the form of a detachable insert, which makes the pack and play flexible. This will provide you with an area where you can easily change your baby's diapers and clothes when needed.
- Casters or Wheels: This is important if you expect the pack and play to be frequently moved from one place to another. The wheels make it easy to have it quickly transferred to a new location or room.
- Canopy: Even if pack and plays are used indoors, rooms can still be infiltrated by harsh light, especially during the day. With this, choosing one with canopy can prove to be a good thing to offer protection.
- Toys and Sounds: Babies can easily get bored. When they are bored, they tend to cry uncontrollably. With this, it will help if the pack and play has hanging toys and lights. It is a big plus if it comes with soothing music.


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Just before Tom Gold's piece, the last one, began, my friend and I had been bemoaning the fact that so much new ballet choreography is angst-filled, dark, with twisting and running substituting for footwork and port de bras.
Then the (creaky!!) curtain opened, and Lo! Color, Light, Joy, Attitude, Speed, Attack, and real FOOTWORK! Gargouillades, even, and a very interesting pirouette with a flexed foot.
I know what Leigh means by choreographing what feels good to a dancer, and while I am not trained as a dancer or choreographer, I don't think that's what Tom did. I feel that Peter Martins does that with most of his ballets with all that running, running, running and little else (except for the knotty pas de 2's).
Tom had interesting tableauxs, entrances and exits, and a pretty good balance between the principals and the corps (except for overworking Sean, also one of my fave raves). I liked his sense of fun, and the witty take on the Asian side-to-side head: a clever substitute for the real thing.
He also used the music well (though not perfectly) and responded to the North African/Klezmer folk essences that floated through it. And I agree with SingerWhoMoves and Klavier about their positive resonses to it.
I'm really proud of Tom, and hope he does more. He's a very bright, but modest artist.
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Reigniting Passion
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Would you want to settle for a ho-hum life of working, watching TV, paying the bills, eating, and going to sleep? Probably not. Life just wouldn't be satisfying if we were to just get by. What we want, what we crave, is passion. Passion for our work, for activities in our down time, and, most importantly, passion for our spouse. Many people describe their relationship by saying, "I think I still love him, but the passion is gone." Fortunately, this is usually not true, even when it seems to be. The passion is not gone; it just needs to be drawn out.
Many people who say they have passion problems find that they do. It's amazing how something can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Instead, if you think about the issue in terms of passion obstacles to overcome, it's much easier to see the light at the end of the tunnel. With a little determination and a lot of practice, you can have more passion in your relationship than you ever thought possible.
Passion is not like a butterfly landing on you if you're lucky and fleeing at the slightest breeze. How wonderful that this simply isn't true. In fact, passion is one area in which you can make a difference right away. You don't need to wait for a special love potion or some external stimulus to ignite your passion. You can make it happen in an instant.
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Shopping for bread to stock PBJ cart with LKaye
Camp Sweet Camp
Monday - PBJ Cart open for bizness
Bollocks on the sub
A plaque on the cart for our kickstarter donors
The pier was just a few blocks from our camp - amazing!
Robot dancing man
Sunset happy hour on the container deck
The sub and PBJ cart heading to DMV for nighttime approval
Brazil fiesta at Legstep next door
Loved this mobile caricature guy
Joe goes bike surfing
Marianna - hostess with the mostest
Legstep party favors
Da man
Inside the man
These art pieces made finding the bathrooms much easier
Detail on the Ego piece
Loved this
Rod, Chris, and Orlie staffing the cart
PBJ makes people happy
The Jewish Mother of Burning Man stopped for a bite
This was her first PBJ. I believe she was from Holland.
Orlie has the right outfit for any occasion
Love the pulpo mechanico!
Serving PBJ in a duststorm
Ajax atop Annubis
Not really sorry
Homer guides our way
Can you spot Massive dancing to Journey?
Excited to run into Bogdog at the cart
Gustavo's bday party
Make a wish - yummy dirt cake!
Joe in evening wear
PBJ cart visits Thunderdome for kidsville fight night
Moveable Feast - amazing dining car
Moveable Feast and PBJ Cart - different ends of the bman dining spectrum
Kids fighting in Thunderdome
We made a tray of sandwiches for the thunderdome staffers
Took the sub and cart to deep playa where we found the awesome movie theater
I think this is playing every night at bman
Next stop - one of the dance tents
Loved this art piece - the whole thing is made of zip ties!
Bollocks' awesome UK pride outfit
Loved fiery tuba guy - he was from St Louis too!
It was metal night - courtesy of my ipod
Reed and his camp who contributed to PBJ cart and won a PBJ party
Gus makes a sandwich
Lego car at kidsville
Not surprisingly, the cart was a hit at kidsville
A little bit of St Louis came rolling down our street
For the daring
The Gilmans
This kid did an amazing silks routine to dubstep
Marching Band march off - always a highlight of the week
Gus somehow slept through it
Dancing to Crystal Method
Tobias meets Toucan Sam
Greeting sunrise after a night of dancing
Temple at sunrise - so beautiful
Lots of tributes to pets this year
PBJ Love - After being up all night, I opened the cart at 9am on saturday and they were my first customers
A meeting of the yellow subs, with Gus looking like a feral kid
Our visual aid
Loved this kid - he had his first ever PBJ and amused us with a variety of accents
Josh explains that plastic gloves are available for those who want to make sandwiches the safe way or give proctology exams
Crowd gathers to see the man burn
Burn, man, burn
Walking around the ashes
Wearing my birthday sunglasses - turning 40 after the man burned was quite a party
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The book everyone seems to use to study Algebraic Geometry is Hartshorne's book. However, I hear a good number of people saying that this book totally misses the functorial point of view. Hence, could you please recommend a good source to learn AG using the Functor of Points approach? Thanks!!
Let me second the recommendation of Mumford's Lectures on curves on an algebraic surface, which is really fantastic. Mumford's Red Book, although at a more basic level, is also very good.
In a slighty different direction: if you have succeeded in solving a large number of Hartshorne questions, then why don't you just begin reading some research papers? If you want to learn the functor-of-points view-point, choose papers which emphasize this. Ultimately, I think that this will be more productive than looking for comprehensive and self-contained texts.
One source for this point of view is the Introduction to EGA I, Springer Verlag edition (different from the IHES version). Another one is Mumford, lectures on curves on an algebraic surface.
Try out "Groupes algébriques" (1970) by Michel Demazure and Pierre Gabriel. In the beginnung so called $Z$-functors (which are just functors from Rings to Sets, under appropriate set-theoretic assumptions) are studied "geometrically". In particular, you can define a quasi-coherent module on it, etc.
Dear Brian, it seems that algebraic geometers who adopt your favoured approach are essentially specialists in algebraic groups.
My favourite example would be Jantzen's Representations of Algebraic groups", Academic Press 1987, in which all of Chapter 1 (18 pages) is devoted to the functor approach you require. Let me emphasize that Jantzen doesn't limit himself to affine schemes nor to group schemes. He considers completely general schemes defined as local functors admitting an open covering (in the functor sense!) consisting of affine schemes . I am sure you'll love the ingenious but natural definitions of open subfunctor, closed subfunctor, base change ... introduced in this meaty chapter: good luck!
The last chapter of Eisenbud-Harris, The geometry of schemes, GTM 197, is dedicated to the functor of points.


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What's the easiest WoW class to level-up?
Hunter (Beast Master spec ones especially) is the most common choice for easy and fast levelling for a multitude of reasons :
Death Knights... you have 55 fewer levels to grind. ;Þ
I have leveled every class other than death knights through at least level 50 ... and a couple up past 70. I haven't leveled anything up to 80.
I'm interpreting your question to mean "easiest" as in "requiring the least skill and/or attention to solo through to at least level 40."
In my experience the easiest to level has been my paladin. These have good armor, reasonably good combat, and can heal themselves. So you just wander around pulling with exorcism, and then just bludgeoning the mobs with a good mace or sword and occasionally healing yourself until they fall over. When you do a bad pull or get too many ganging up on you then run, use lay on hands when you're near death and keep running. (Yeah, paladins don't have any good crowd control). I've leveled my pally to 61 while while barely paying attention (watching TV, hanging out on StackOverflow, chatting); you really don't need to pay much attention. (Usually I start a fight, go auto attack and let the fight grind down on its own --- with just the occasional self heal).
Druid is the most versatile class. However, you have to pay a bit more attention when leveling and soloing them. Basically you have to watch your mana and switch to cat or bear whenever that gets low (but before your health is too low for that to be sustainable for the rest of the current fight). By regularly shifting from feral to caster you can continuously grind through quests and rarely need to stop for drinking (mana regens while you're in feral forms).
The most difficult classes to play well are rogue and warrior.
To play a rogue you have to employ a high degree of situational awareness ... always using the correct skills (which depend on whether your target is facing you are you're behind it, whether your stealthed, whether they are stunned or sapped, which of your skills is on cool down, whether they're casting (and you need to kick them), how many combo points you've worked up on that target, and how much energy you have. You can't just casually work you rogue up while chatting away in other windows.
However the rogue's advantages are stealth and vanish ... and crowd control using sap. I good rogue can keep a couple, as many as three targets sapped while concentrating on one target (and that's even as low as the mid-20s). A halfway skilled rogue can defeat any other class in a duel ... and most of them are toast even with a five level handicap on the rogue's side.
Warriors are almost as complicated, having to use a mixture of different skills to be effective. You do have good armor ... but the lack of self-healing (just potions and bandages) and the lack of good crowd control makes things more difficult.
Warlocks and hunters are relatively easy to solo. The minions/pets give you a disposable tank and 'locks "fear" can be amazing for crowd control (though it can bring adds). The hunter's feign death is a "get out jail free" card for avoiding those pesky corpse walks. (However, when playing in a party I had it when my hunter survives a wipe with feign death and I just sit around useless until someone else hikes back to res. I'm planning on changing my lvl 72 hunter to engineering and getting goblin jumper cables to at least have some chance of being useful in that situation).
Hunters tend to be in very low demand for groups. They just do DPS and don't really contribute to the party for much of anything else. 'locks are popular for their soul stones (wipe prevention) and their summoning, as well as their extremely good DPS and low maintenance. (You should never have to slow down while your 'lock drinks --- if your 'lock is ever low enough on mana to care then he's incompetent (or he's destruction spec'd which might be the same thing for party/raiding).
You'd think the shaman would be about as easy as the paladin to level. However, their weaker armor really hurts with that. I find that managing totems requires more attention then the paladin auras and blessings. The self-resurrection ankh (re-incarnation) is a popular wipe mitigation feature provided by shamans.
Mages are probably the hardest to solo level. No armor, relatively weak crowd control (just polymorphing), easy to run low on mana, no self-healing, no pets nor minions. Mages should team up with anything that can heal them. Their ability to conjure food and water can be handy as well as their DPS.
I've just recently been working a priest and it's been relatively easy but not nearly as easy as the paladin. You have the healing, but you don't get the armor nor the melee; I'm told you want to solo as shadow spec; but I mostly not intending this to be for solo-ing so I'm sticking with holy/healer. Of course I now have quite a bit of experience with all the low level quests for the alliance races.
In the long run I think the paladin is going to be the one I push up to 80 first. I like the flexibility of being healer and tank (and I am dual-spec'd for it). My wife's level 80 druid is reasonably popular with other groups for her healing and her ability to off-tank or shift to cat form for rogue-like melee DPS (and stealthiness). The ability to shadow meld out of combat (elves) can also be a handy wipe mitigation strategy ... and druids have the only in-combat resurrection ability (rebirth). So I'll probably focus on my druid on the other realm that I play on.
The fastest leveling strategy that I know of is to work quests through about level 16 then just do back-to-back dungeon finder (while only doing the occasional quests while you're in the queue).
Lots of opinion on this one but I would put a paladin up there. Paladins are a defensive focused class that can heal, wear highest class of armor and gets several types of damage shields. They become very self sufficient as they reach higher levels as their retribution abilities rgenerate health and mana. They are also a hybrid class that allows the person to choose any of the three roles of tank, dps or healer which can make finding groups to level with a lot easier.
I recommend a Protection spec Warrior and chain running groups using LFD. I recently levelled a warrior to 80 using the dungeon finder. This was quick, easy, and everyone loved me. :D
Using heirloom shoulders, chest and sword meant I was consistently doing 20-30% more DPS than other classes (even with heirlooms) up until Outland. I felt consistently overpowered.
The class you like playing the most, will be the one you level up faster. You know, if you want to actually enjoy your time spent (and you will spend a lot!)
If you like dungeons, go for a class that can tank (I recommend Paladin). You get to chain-run dungeons, set the pace, and if you do your job right, everyone will love you and you'll level up faster than questing.
While it's not easy per se, it's definitely more entertaining than collecting another 12 raptor heads.
Also, once you're geared up, you can kill 5-6 normal mobs at a time easily, which will significantly speed up your quests. Also, you can do some group quests alone, for example the entire Colossal Menace quest line.
Just to add that while Hunters are great at lower levels, once you have the epic flying skill (level 70 required, I believe), Druids of either Feral or Balance spec eclipse (no pun intended) all other classes/specs in terms of questing, travelling, and gathering speed by far.
In addition to the obvious benefits for outdoor questing, druids also have two abilities that boost their speed without breaking stealth (Dash and Stampeding roar), so while working your way through a cavern or indoors area, you can stealth past all the unnecessary mobs, and Feral Druids with 2 points in Feral Swiftness also gain a 30% movement bonus that works indoors as well in cat form.
The single most powerful benefit of being a druid that most people don't factor into levelling/questing speed is that druids do not need to shift out of flight form in order to pick up quest objects, while all other classes must dismount, and cannot re-mount (1.5 second cast) until out of combat. That means that for gathering quests where you simply pick up objects from the environment, you can avoid all mobs that are not ranged.
Even if you are hovering only a few inches above the ground, a non-ranged mob will not aggro. Although Druids must be touching the ground in order to collect a Herb, they do not need to be touching the ground to collect a quest object. Assuming that approximately 1/4 quests are collection quests, Druids are the best choice for level 60+ levelling and doing the Loremaster achievement.
It's been shown that the fastest seems to be Hunter. It would stand to reason that that metric suggests that it is the easiest, as well.
Since the question is somewhat subjective i will add one thing: if you're looking for a class that levels fast then you're buying tickets for a faster re-roll to another class.
That said, if it's your first character you should take your time, level the 15 first levels of some classes you're doubting and see how it will be your role. Obviously if you don't like neither healing and/or hybrids you will quickly discard shaman, druid, paladin and priest. Something similar will happen if you also don't like tanking.
For the weak readers: level a class that fits you, not the trending one
Almost any class will level "fast". It's more a case of which spec in my class will help me level fastest ?
And that would be a DPS spec if you're grinding pre-level 80. Tank and healing specs are too slow when grinding trash for levels. Having said that though, playing classes that do group big group damage, (ie Shamans/Warlocks) seem to work quite well. But when you start raiding you'll need to consider what spec you will play. So be prepared to re-spec, and/or plan your secondary spec before then.
There are lots of DPS players out there and getting into an instance can take a while. But good tanks and healers are hard to come by.
although little outdated, this website is quite good: http://www.warcraftpets.com/guides/other/leveling.asp Leveling speed depends on:
Hunter kills relatively fast, WONDERFUL at low downtime, BEST at less deaths (especially with feign death after lvl 30, traps ...). Seems to be the fastest (if that is what you are only looking for)
Warlock is quite similar to hunter at those aspects: kills good, low downtime (can convert health to mana, quickly fill health with first aid (or suck it from enemy!) and go!) but can die :(
Mage/Rogue: BEST for killing fast, but mage downtimes due to mana filling, rogue downtimes due to energy and health filling (melee? with leather??) and they are fragile thus die easily. Their playstyle is quite risky and fun (both suck at the hands of an untalented player, both rock with talent (hunter's talent dependence is lower)).
Warrior: does not level. really... :) -> with recent arms tree upgrade, it seems that it can level thanks to rend-overpower(CRIT!!) combo (after around 25-30). But still, slow: has downtime for health filling (plate armor but not as high dps as mage or rogue), deaths are quite often and killing time is not that fast
Paladin: does not level, until u can aoe tank: read the link above for info. Less deaths thanks to plate armor and healing but very low dps until aoe leveling
Shaman: kills good, can survive thanks to healing but mana downtime is unbearable (mages can create water, shamans cannot, u must buy some all the time, and still annoying)
Druid: I do not know much but people say that it has high survival (less deaths), downtime of mana refill can be managed with beast forms but kills slow
Priest: for shadow spec: slow until 40, boosts around 40-50, then slows again. for healer spec: if you do instances, finding parties will be quite easy, thus you can level relatively fast but still, very hard to quest (i did not play any, only read about it)
Death Knight: can be opened only after u have a lvl 55 (starts at lvl 55) and u buy 2nd and 3rd expansions. People state it levels fast between 55-70, wears out a little after -but I did not play any-
Leveling speed also depends on how much fun u get from ur character, if it is not fun (e.g. if you do not enjoy a hunter or a warlock), then u cannot level since u wont play often whereas Blizz still robs you. Check what do you want to be in that game and pick accordingly -> or better, try every one, quit the one(s) when u get bored, go on with fun one(s). No class really sucks


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In this link, Corollary 3.2.2, page 59 the author claims that: The Euler characteristic of the toric variety $X_K$ associated to a convex polytope $K$ is the number of vertices of $K$.
I want to see how it works. Could someone please illustrate this for me by using this method to compute the Euler characteristic of $\mathbb{P}^{2}$ and $\mathbb{P}^{1}\times \mathbb{P}^{1}$? Thanks so much.


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19 Apr 2012 11:08 AM #1
array of arguments vs named arguments
So, array vs named, which is the preferred methodology by ExtJS?
With named, are all values required arguments?
Do values not listed with the specified parameters (extra params) get passed as well, or does it fail trying to locate the method?
22 Apr 2012 10:01 PM #2
JS uses positional parameters. You can of course send an object parameter with properties to simulate this.


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Crossing the bridge to Islam
In an interesting dispatch from Nairobi, the Zenit news agency describes a speech in which Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran outlined Pope Benedict XVI's new direction in interreligious dialogue. He said that previous popes have built "bridges of understanding" to other religions, and that now is the time to cross those bridges and speak more frankly about differences.The time for dealing with theological differences was postponed, the cardinal said, but "in the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, that future is now." The previous method "highlighted the common elements we share," the cardinal said, adding that the pope " wants to emphasize, by use of reason, the distinctiveness of the Christian faith."The speech spells out the pope's approach to interreligious dialogue more fully than I'd seen before (and is similar to what Benedict said in St. Joseph's Church in Manhattan concerning interfaith relations).But I think some bridge inspectors should be called in before too much weight is put on these structures of supposed interreligious friendship. In particular, the bridge to Islam has corroded in the last three years. The chief engineer, Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, the Vatican's top expert on Islam, was moved from his key post and dispatched to Egypt. The pope then famously insulted Islam in his Regensburg lecture. And he upset Muslims again by giving such a high profile to the conversion of a Muslim journalist who criticized Islam, baptizing him in St. Peter's at the Easter Vigil.In short, much of the good will that John Paul II built up is being lost. There is reason to be concerned with this new direction.I agree that religious freedom should be addressed in Christian-Muslim dialogue. But how is that best done? Islam has a long tradition of respect for holy and humble Christian monks, dating to the faith's earliest days and reflected today in the ability of some Franciscans to relate to Muslims. This is the face of the Catholic Church that Muslims are historically receptive to, and Benedict needs to listen to those who've engaged Muslims on that basis.
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Maybe Benedict needs to stop reading Augustine whose preoccupation with getting everyone to be Catholic initiated the use of force majeure to bring all into the faith. Amazing in a world in which very few are entering the Catholic clergy (none from New York), Benedict wants to talk about difference. Perhaps he should shore up his own base.
Well, without defending the direction B16 is looking to go, I think the situation is a bit more complex than this. I would point out that he didn't insult islam at Regensburg -- Musilms took insult, as people everywhere often do, by taking a quotation out of context, and completely reversing his meaining in the process. I should think that particular point needn't be re-hashed in this forum.Lets all read down in dot Commonweal a bit further to the post about Iraqi Christians. The greater problem Christianity has is not in coe-existing and having dialogue with those Muslims who share the "long tradition of respect for holy and HUMBLE (my emphasis) Christian monks." The greater problem is in merely coexisting with the smaller group of Muslims who simply want to exterminate us in the name of purifying the world for Allah. How can we expect success by dialoguing with one group while the other group of Muslims simply wants to make Martyrs out of us?I do not have an answer, nor am I implying one; but with respect Paul -- it is not exclusively our responsibility to bbe humble in diaolgue with Islam. I think that some in their camp are vanquishing a lot more goodwill than us. Apostates do not equal Martyrs, unless one has a radically different idea of truth. And THAT is the bridge the Pope is trying to cross. "What is truth?"
Cardinal Tauran was recently quoted as saying that dialogue with Islam was difficult because Muslims hold that the Quran was dictated by the Angel Gabriel, or words to that effect. Fr. Fessio a lttle back attributed similar sentiments to Benedict himself, and then, as I recall, apologized for repeating what Benedict had said at a meeting of his former students.This sort of talk is unhistorical. Jerome and Augustine both talked of dictation by the Holy Spirit. The Council of Trent and the Reformers both spoke of dictation. Vatican I spoke of dictation, and so, unless memory deceives me, did Leo XIII. The use of modern critical methods was regarded in Rome as a conspiracy against the faith until Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943?). Some are still suspicious.
For wise commentary on truth, one only has to go to the archives of Commonweal itself:We want to know for sure, and to say that we know; or we want what lies beneath this sense of "knowing for sure" we want to feel that we are on the right track in some way we can check out by referring to an external referent, some certain way, a polestar. This, very often, will separate us from others and is even intended to do so; we are not like the Muslim in this, nor like Jews in that, nor like fundamentalist Christians in another way; we are at pains to show that we are not conservatives, nor liberals; or we search for a positive criterion, like the Bible, or a church which cannot make mistakes, either because the church's "long haul" or tradition is a reliable guide (as Orthodox believe), or because the church has a guaranteed source of infallibility in a magisterial protected from error (as Catholics believe). Or we look for political and social correctness as a criterion for what really matters, religiously whatever the vehicle is, as unimportant: nearly anything will do, so long as it persuades us that we are on the right track. John Garvey, "If You Had Been There"Commonweal, 12 21 90.
It would appear to be a gross misinterpretation to say that Benedict did not insult Islam at Regensburg. It also would be difficult not to say that Benedict believes that error has no rights even though he dare not use that language. Down deep he thinks the Catholic church has it all and others are just not that graced. One can see why he is a Platonist as he lives in an ideal world (doctrinal). He interprets history a-priori. Very sad. Because the presumption is that God would neglect two thirds of the world. Whatever can be wrong with Christians having humility. Jesus said he has given us an example by washing the feet of his disciples. Such unecumenical language asks Jesus to come down from the cross and call Homeland Security. Not that security does not have its role. It is just that Christians go beyond the merely visible and earthly.
Humility, the saints say, is truth. It's not partial truth. Fitzgerald liked to focus on points of agreement. That's a nice beginning but it's not dialogue. Dialogue respects the other's commitment enough to acknowledge disagreements as well as agreements.
Hasn't the ecumenical movement taught us that there are two levels, at least, to inter-religious and inter-faith relationships? Level one carried on by official representative and generally populated by theologians and religious leaders. That seems to be where the Vatican is.Level two, on the ground, is carried out by ordinary Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc., who at least in the U.S. negotiate all matter of issues like inter-marriage, school pagents and holidays, and in New York! suspension of alternate side of the street parking on religious holidays. That seems to be where the Franciscans are, along with the rest of us, fording the river where there is no bridge.
Margaret, I don't think ecclesial life is so neatly divisible: the Vatican has their concerns, we (and the gentle Franciscans) have ours, and never the twain shall meet.The life of faith involves adherence to a doctrine. We might as well have an honest pluralism--one that respects differences.
What's difficult about telling the difference between meetings of official representatives of religious institutions and those that take place in the supermarket?
The Orthodox have an expression: "The Best theogian in the Church is the little old lady in the fourth row."The Bible says"They shall all be taught by God."The little people are allowed to have doctrine too.
Peg, that is phrased so elegantly. I do think that the Franciscans offer a good model for the Vatican to follow and that John Paul II paid attention to it.
How do you measure effectiveness?-Muslim theologians are scheduled to dialogue with this pope http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11983http://www.asianews.it/... Catholic church is being constructed in Qatar http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/32CC5571-64DA-45AA-BDE5-A0CA68CD4... negotiations are underway for a church in Saudi Arabia http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/672349/first_catholic_church_fo...
I'm not sure if you're a subscriber or a reader of Commonweal, Kathy, but you might find this interesting:http://commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2109&var_recherche...
Thanks very much, Grant. I do look at the print version from time to time to see if there's anything good but I'd missed this.I always enjoy hearing Rita Ferrone's perspective.My own thinking is, first of all, Pope Benedict has been working on this front with subtlety and finesse and has made impressive strides that should be considered textbook cases of statesmanship. Secondly, it seems to me that the authors of A Common Word are a little naive. To engage in honest dialogue with the Pope is to risk meeting his Lord, the Logos. It's a dangerous thing; who knows what could happen next? Thirdly, like many, the authors and signatories think that there is more parallelism between Christianity and other religions than actually exists.
It has become a modern axiom that if there is no peace among religions there will be no peace in the world. Certainly, all religion have the "parallelism" which is peace. In the wake of two World Wars, the holocaust and people eating garbage in other countries, what could be more important than that?
Bill,Theological parallelism.
Kathy,The most powerful point of the message of Jesus is peace. Didn't the orthodox crucify him?
Bill,I agree with you to some extent: love of enemies is a great challenge of the Gospel. The exhortation to live in peace, both within the Church and with all people, rings throughout the epistles.However, this post is about means, not ends. I think the Pope's goals are very peaceable and that his means are uncommonly effective. So I don't see any reason to demand that he conform to a more conventional manner of leadership.One more general comment before I stop hogging this thread. It seems to me that hiuman beings have a useful but pesky internal consistency. It's useful because the way a person lives affects the way he or she believes. But it's pesky, because denying one's beliefs in one sphere, for example in interreligious dialogue, can weaken faith quite thoroughly. There's a publishing house, I won't say which, whose catalogue is filled with variations of the Sabellian heresy. Who knows how it got to be so bad--except that the noblest underlying sentiment expressed by some of its authors is the desire to live in peace in a pluralistic world.
Kathy,Dialogue does not mean compromise of beliefs. It means we grant that people sincerely believe differently than we do and seek away to live in peace with them. There is always the danger with mixing with others that we can be changed. To avoid this, people too often resort to violence. In New York City this creative Muslin teacher is being harassed and persecuted just because she wants to make Islam respectable in America. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/nyregion/28school.html?_r=1&hp&oref=sl...
This thread has taken some interesting twists. I certainly would not advocate that anyone deny his or her beliefs when taking part in interreligious dialogue. Certainly, the models I've suggested - John Paul II or the Franciscans who are active in dialogue with Muslims - would not advocate that.


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I want a deeply embedded database. Deeply embedded means that the server is started by an application and closed by the application with no tcp/ip or 0 port. The main features of consideration are:
- At least 10 GB Database
- Database encryption and search in encryption
- Full text Search
- Possible updating of database through Online [This is only additional benifit]
- Must have C DLL
There are many options available like MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL. An opensource database would be great.


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I have an iPhone and iPad whose power adapters are both two-prong. Since I cannot ground them in a surge protector, is it necessary that these devices even be used with a surge protector?
Grounding the 2 prong adapters has nothing to do with it. The point of a surge protector is
In other words, the idea of the surge protector is to prevent surges of electricity from ever getting to your device. As long as the surge protector ITSELF is grounded, your devices being ungrounded is irrelevant.
The chargers/adapters you're using are little transformers - they convert 120v AC power into a certain amount of DC power using magnetic conversion fields (wires wrapped a certain #'s of times around one side of the magnet for incoming power and a different number of times around the other side of the magnet for outgoing power). An electrical surge (say 1000V instead of the usual 120) into this device will, in turn, cause the magnet to convert that much more power - so when the output should have been 9v it could be as much as 900v.
So yes - absolutely - use the surge protector, regardless of the number of prongs your device has.


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The 6 Cruelest Science Experiments Ever (Were Done on Kids)
#3. Tempting Babies to Crawl Off a Cliff
Once babies reach crawling age, they tend to not crawl straight off the edge of things when the fall is great enough to result in potential injury. But why is that? How do they know what a fatal drop is if they've never experienced one? Clearly the only way to study the phenomenon was to observe some infants as they encountered a remorseless abyss, then try to convince them to crawl off of it.
"Indiana Jones did it, do you want him to think you're a pussy?"
And so, in 1960, two psychologists at Cornell University named Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Walk proceeded to build what they dubbed the "visual cliff" -- a contraption made up of boards laid across a heavy sheet of glass. When some patterned fabric was added, the resulting effect was that the transition from boards to bare glass looked like a sheer drop straight to the floor below. Well, that's not so bad -- there was no real danger to the babies, right?
Well, not physical danger, anyway. One at a time, they plopped a bunch of babies on the "cliff" and had their mothers try to coax them across the glass. In other words, they had the mothers tell their own babies to do something that the babies believed was certain death, and the babies then had to choose between obedience and their own self-preservation.
You may remember that this is exactly how Gollum went crazy the second time.
They tested 36 infants ranging from 6 to 14 months old (you can see the video here), and of those 36, only three crept over the "cliff" and onto the glass (those three presumably did not grow up to become scientists themselves). Most of them crawled away from their mothers, presumably instilling a mistrust that plagued them for the rest of their lives. Others cried, probably because they lacked the language to fill the air with confused, wounded obscenities.
However, Gibson and Walk did notice that several of the infants who didn't cross onto the glass still got close enough to the edge to fall, had the drop been real. This led them to the following conclusion: "Evidently infants should not be left close to a brink, no matter how well they may discriminate depth." So, babies should be kept away from long drops. Thanks, science!
#2. Using Orphans as Practice Babies
Back in the days when young women were only expected to go to school to learn how to roast a chicken in between pregnancies, domestic economy (or home economics) was a thriving program at institutions like Cornell, the University of Minnesota and Eastern Illinois State. And these institutions figured that there was no better way to test out the latest child-rearing theories of the day than on actual living babies.
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"Whoops, this one's dead, too. Betty, can you grab a few more from the cabinet?"
Starting around 1920, these colleges and others "borrowed" hundreds of babies from orphanages for young female students to practice on. The babies stayed in practice apartments, where they were cared for by revolving groups of eight to 12 female students, a process we are convinced would lead a developing infant to believe that its mother was a shape-shifting demon.
Peek-a-boo is a lot more disturbing when the face keeps changing.
The babies' real identities were kept secret, so the girls took to giving them names like Denny Domecon (for domestic economy), as detailed in this Cornell publication that literally contains the sentence "Each of Cornell's two practice apartments is equipped with a real baby." After a year or two of serving as the doll in this real-life dollhouse, the babies would go on to homes in adoptive families, presumably frustrated over downgrading to just a personal assistant after having an entire staff.
In their defense, the Illinois State Child Welfare Division tried to shut down Eastern Illinois State's practice-babies program in the mid-1950s to protect a child known as "David North," who at the time was being raised by 12 different student mothers. Ultimately it was decided that the state had no jurisdiction, since David's real mother had given consent, and programs like this continued on up until the 1960s, when people finally realized that the only practice baby you should really get is your own.
"Hey, what did we agree on? No more mulligan babies!"
#1. Turning a Ruined Penis into a Lifelong Experiment
David Reimer was born in Winnipeg in 1965, one of a set of identical twin boys. When David was 8 months old, his parents took him to the doctor to get circumcised. Unfortunately, rather than using a scalpel like a medical professional, the doctor decided to use an electrocautery needle, presumably because one of his nightmares dared him to. If you're not familiar with that device or what it does, let us just put it like this: During the procedure, the doctor accidentally burned off David's entire penis.
"... on the plus side, he'll save a fortune on condoms!"
Understandably distraught, David's parents went to psychologist Dr. John Money, an expert in the field of sexual identity studies, for advice. Dr. Money made the radical recommendation of performing a sex change operation and raising David as a girl.
David's parents accepted his advice, truly wanting to do what was best in the wake of their son's tragedy and give him the best life they could. However, Dr. Money wasn't terribly interested in David's quality of life ("wasn't terribly interested" is a phrase that here means "He didn't give one volcanic shit"). Dr. Money suggested the sex change because he saw the situation as the perfect opportunity to perform the ultimate experiment to "prove that nurture, not nature, determines gender identity and sexual orientation." And the fact that David had a twin brother to use as a control group was just the icing on the douchecake.
"Quit letting her play with dolls, she's tainting my data!"
The problem was, David never accepted his role as "Brenda." She rebelled against wearing dresses and preferred her brother's toy cars and guns to her own dolls (to be fair, many girls do, because cars and guns are badass). She was relentlessly teased at school for talking and acting like a boy. Brenda/David's (Brendavid's?) parents went to Dr. Money for help, but he insisted that the child was just "going through a phase," and that everything would be totally fine. Meanwhile, Money was continuously publishing papers about the experiment and labeling it a complete success, which suggests that at no point in medical school was he called on to open a dictionary to the "S" section.
But Money mysteriously stopped publishing glowing reports on his experiment in the late '70s -- right around the time David found out the truth about his penis being melted off by a space wand. A few decades quietly passed, and then in 1997 the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine released a detailed follow-up on Dr. Money's experiments, illustrating the catastrophic damage he had caused to poor, tragic David and creating a media uproar criticizing his actions.
"Oh sure, blame the guy who didn't melt his penis off!"
Money was reportedly "mortified" by the case and refused to talk about it, although whether he was more upset over David's ultimate suicide or the failure of his own hubris is debatable.
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The race for Warren County Clerk is just one of several highly contested races in our viewing area.
The 2002 Vote: Candidate Profile
Dot Owens
Velma Runner
After more than 50 years of service as Warren County's Clerk, Yvonne Guy has decided not to seek reelection. A record number of candidates campaigned to become Guy's successor, but of course only two survived the May primaries. In fact, these candidates have spent more in this race than the candidates for Sheriff, Jailer and many Magistrates.
The Warren County Clerk manages a staff of 28 and handles more than 20 million dollars a year. The clerk is responsible for the motor vehicle registration and licensing, as well as filing records such as mortgages and deeds. She is also responsible for conducting elections within the county. Both Owens and Runner have experience in the Clerk's office, just in different departments.


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I am just starting with panorama photography, as a hobby rather than a business. Most of this will take place in mountainous terrain in Scotland and also on annual trips to the Himalayas (up to about 5500m), so equipment weight is an issue.
My main aim will be single row panoramas , though some multi row will also be done. Very little will be greater than 180 degrees, and for greater than 180 degrees I would probably buy a specialised 8mm or 10.5 mm lens.
My camera body is a Nikon D300, with Nikon 18-200mm VR, Sigma 10-20mm and Nikon 50mm f1.8 lenses. For most of the work I would be using the Sigma 10-20mm ; the Nikon 50mm would be for getting high resolution images of individual features within the landscape (eg trees ; rock outcrops etc) and the Nikon 18-200 would be for panoramas (limited angles) of details of distant mountain summits / ridges . I have no immediate need to do full spherical panoramas - as and when I do I will buy a suitable lens just for this.
The camera plus lens weight for Sigma (equal heaviest lens) is about 1.5Kg - NN3 is stated as being OK at 1.3Kg (and must be below 3Kg).
I have two questions -
Q1: What are the weights of the NN3, NN4 and NN5 in basic form and with the RD16 Rotator? This may seem nerdish, but at my age carrying heavy loads at above 4000m does not get any easier!!
I have attempted to find this information from the websites but there seem to me to be inconsistencies, and it would be useful to get values from people who actually have the kit. I think that NN3 basic is 475grms [By basic I am excluding such things as the Ez Leveler); NN3 with RD16 rotator is 860grms; NN4 and NN5 basic are about 890 grms. Based on this I would expect the NN4 / NN5 with RD16 Rotator to be about 1275 grms - though the figures on the website are somewhat lower.
Q2: With a D300 can I get away with an NN3 rather than NN4 or NN5 from a size standpoint ? It seems to me that there are two size issues - (a) being able to position the camera / lens in the no parallax position and (b) ensuring that the camera / lens do not snag the NN bodywork at low or high angles of tilt.
The B measurements (ie rear plane of camera body to front plane of lens housing) / upper rail setting are as follows
D300 + Sigma 10-20 @ 10mm = 141mm / 98mm (in lens table on the web site)
D300 + Sigma 10-20 @ 20mm = 146mm / 104mm (in lens table on the web site)
D300 + Nikon 50mm = 103mm / 59mm (not from web site)
D300 + 18-200VR at 70mm = 205mm / ???
D300 + 18-200VR @ 200mm = 225mm / ???
Note that for the 18-200 the range of rotation angles will be small, and probably less than 90deg).
(All B measurements are without lens hood or filters )
An NN3 basic model with a T-adapter should give maximum of 129mm (107 + 22) for the camera position on the Upper Rail which suggests that it should be ok from the no-parallax point of view.
Your comments would be appreciated.


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BARKER, Jan Carl, 58, of New Cumberland, WV, passed away Tuesday, October 23, 2012, at his residence.
He was born January 26, 1954 in Weirton, WV, a son of the late Carl O. and Ary Alice (Burton) Barker. Also preceded in death by a brother, Jeff Barker.
He was a retired painter from GCP Contracting and Falcon Transportation as a truck driver.
Jan was a great singer, loved playing guitar, loved fishing and hunting, but his greatest joy was spending time with his children.
Surviving are his wife, Leona (Ware) Barker at home; three children, Colleen Barker, Danny Barker and Cristina Luke, all of New Cumberland, WV; two sisters, Judy Barker of Virginia and Connie Roberts of Florida; one brother, Jack Barker of Morgantown, WV; four grandchildren, Alayna, Ginafae, Kaylee and Aiden.
Friends will be received at the Turley Funeral Home on Saturday, October 27, 2012, from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m.