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I'd like to clarify several details about how w3 total cache works.
I'm using w3 total cache to combine multiple js files into one. I'm also setting expires headers from the browser tab to twenty days. Garbage collection interval is set to one day.
When the combined file is rebuilt due to garbage collection will the combined file name change if the js files haven't been changed? I guess it will not change as otherwise users won't be able to use the cached one.
If I modify one of the files will w3tc automatically detect it or do I need to clear the minify cache?
To sum up I am interested in which cases the combined file name changes and do I have to worry about clients using older version do to expires headers and how w3tc manages it.


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Currently we have about 8 or so in-house servers, all of which are Dell towers. We've never needed to upgrade them in a way other than more memory or a HD swap. There's a 10 foot wide or so rack system that everything is on (servers, network hardware etc.) and it's taking up a fair amount of space which is pretty limited in our office.
We're going to be upgrading two of the servers (backup and dev. web). What I'm wondering about is if there's any reason I should go for rack mounted or stick with towers. We don't have a rack to put them in and I don't see us getting one for awhile. My thinking is that it's worth planning now so we can change over later, but I'm not sure if it's ok to just stack rack mounted systems on each other, if there's a real price difference that would make towers better or even something else I'm not thinking of. Our 2 newest Dell towers can be rack mounted if we got the hardware for it I think.

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6 Creepy Animal Behaviors That Science Can't Explain
#3. Blue Whales Are Experiencing Global Puberty
Scientists are a weird lot, and they do some strange stuff in the name of science. Case in point, back in the 60s, some scientists thought it would be cool to stick a bunch of microphones into the oceans of the world and record blue whales singing. Forty years later, someone got the idea to study four decades of whale song, presumably to keep the grant money flowing, when they made a strange discovery: Every blue whale in the world was singing deeper every year.
How long has this been going on?
They have no idea why, but the whales have been going all Barry White on us for at least 40 years. The important thing to remember here, though, is that this isn't just most blue whales, but every goddamn one of them. This would be like every human on Earth slowly speaking more and more like James Earl Jones every year, regardless of language (which whales apparently have) or location. The drop is small, just a few fractions of a hertz per year, but it is steady and constant.
You'll recognize this as the "Tara Reid Effect."
But, they must have a theory for this...
Everything from global warming to increased noise pollution has been suggested. However, the impact of global warming on the oceans doesn't hold water (get it?!) because the changes in acidity and density that might have caused a change that the whales would have to compensate for is so minor that it in no way explains the much larger change in whale voices.
The fact that one in three whales has purchased a Barry White album only raises more questions.
Noise pollution might be a more reasonable solution. Sure, the last time we were in a crowded bar, we didn't try to get the waitress's attention by talking in a lower key. But assuming whales aren't as receptive to high pitched cries of "who do I have to blow to get MORE BEER!?" that still means that every Blue Whale in every ocean on the goddamn planet has simultaneously been altering their behavior in exactly the same way ... for forty years. What do you have to say to each other that's so important, Blue Whales? Something you want to share with the rest of the class? Something about a secret society, operating on a higher plan, waiting to strike during the next earth quake?
One respected news source has concluded that the whales are "straight fucking with us."
#2. Ants With Collective Intelligence
Ants have amazed us for centuries. They build tightly structured colonies, some farm and others use suicide bombs to protect their hive. Perhaps you saw this video that made the rounds a while back in which scientists fill an underground ant colony with cement. It's pretty clear that we're in for some creepy shit when 10 goddamn tons of cement disappear down the hole before it's full. But then around the four minute mark, they dig out a sprawling underground "megalopolis."
As the narrator says, somehow keeping his bowels from audibly evacuating, the tiny ants have constructed an enormous city that "looks like it was designed by an architect. A single mind." If you've ever lived in a human city, you of course realize this is a feat mankind has yet to get the hang of.
"Good for ants," you might say if you're a sucker, "Why'd jerk-ass science have to drown them in cement?" Probably because Science knows about army ants. Sure, you can put 100 army ants on a table, and they will walk around in a circle until they drop dead of exhaustion, which is pretty stupid. On the other hand, when they are in groups of thousands or millions, they can regulate their collective temperature, decide when to either settle down and sleep for the night or pack up and leave. And sometimes they use their superorganism intelligence to coordinate attacks.
Amazingly, the more ants there are, the smarter they are as a whole. Sort of works opposite of humans, who get dumber for every person you add to a group, until a soccer riot breaks out. Put enough army ants in an urban location, and it won't be long before they realize they've got the upper hand. The cement doesn't seem so excessive now does it?
How long has this been going on?
Well, they think the African and South American types of army ants formed two different groups from a common ancestor back in the Cretaceous Era, meaning army ants have been acting together to travel and terrify other animals for at least 65-million years. On the up side, if they were planning on taking over the planet, they probably would have done it already.
But, they must have a theory for this...
Swarm Theory is just starting to get a grasp on this. Scientists suggest that while the individual ants are kinda retarded, as a group they manage to make good decisions because of how each individual idiot interacts with the others. Sort of how individual brain cells are pretty useless until you get the whole gang together. This behavior is surprisingly common, with everything from ants to bees to buffalo all showing abilities to use their minds like animal-brain Voltrons.
As an aside, if the impossibly organized tactical geniuses in the Strategic Warfare Ant Division ever decide to join forces with the vicious, soulless, victory-at-any-cost warriors in the Giant Monster Squid Coalition, the human race is six different kinds of fucked.
#1. Animal Earthquake Predictions
If there is one power animals have that qualifies them as "Haley Joel Osment" creepy, it is this. Many, if not most animals have the bizarre ability to know when an earthquake is about to happen. Some can even detect something is amiss with Mother Earth up to a week in advance, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
I HAZ--ah, fuck it.
Everything from cats, to dogs to centipedes will leave the area when they sense a quake coming, leaving the humans behind scratching their heads and cleaning up lost pet shit when the big one hits.
How long has this been going on?
Since the beginning of recorded history. Pretty much the day mankind figured out they could put pen to paper and record what was happening, at least one person wrote down that animals were going apeshit just before a quake hit. According to the USGS link above, the Greeks recorded in 373 BC that rats, weasels, snakes and centipedes got the fuck out of dodge days before a "destructive" quake. As recently as the 2004 tsunami, there are records that a herd of 500 blackbucks left the coastal areas in India and headed for the hills shortly before the wave hit.
"Snap! Blackbucks, roll out!"
You can learn a thing or two from mother nature; if the animals are running in one direction, you might want to think about following them.
But, they must have a theory for this...
There are many, but most of them are followed with a shrug and "or maybe it's magic or some shit." All of these depend on animals having some previously unknown supersense, like the ability to sense seismic waves, or possible changes in the magnetic fields before the quake hits, or changes in groundwater, ground tilt or electrical fields. Not one of these has been or is detectable by humans or our equipment, so they are about as concrete as saying "Gandalf did it." But hey, if the USGS says Gandalf did it, we're inclined to accept that as proof.
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This shabbos, the Parasha, Bo, starts with Moshe being told to "Bo El Paroh", "Come to Pharaoh". I don't understand this wording, should it have said "Lech El Paroh", "go to Pharaoh"? Is there a reason why the command was worded that way?
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Baal Haturim says that Bo = 3 as there were 3 more makkos left.
The Zohar (vol. 2 34a) explains (translation from chabad.org):
God gives this instruction - "בא אל פרעה" - to Moshe preceding three of the Plagues: Frogs (Shemot 7:26), Dead Animals (Shemot 9:1), and Locusts (Shemot 10:1 - your question). According to R' Samson Raphael Hirsch's scheme for understanding the purposes of the Plagues, laid out in his commentary on 7:15, these three plagues, each the second in a group of three, form a group with a particular message to impart, and the use of this command to kick them off fits with that message, just as the introductions to the other two groups of three fit their intended messages.
In R' Hirsch's scheme (which takes its queue from R' Yehuda's famous initialization דצ"ך עד"ש באח"ב), the first nine Plagues can be divided into three sets of three, each of which contained the same three messages in sequence:
(See R' Hirsch's commentary for a full explanation of how each of the Plagues fit into this scheme.)
For the first Plague in each set, God commands Moshe to confront Paraoh at or on the way to the Nile River, using the verbs "לך" (Shemot 7:15) or "התיצב" (Shemot 8:16 and Shemot 9:13). The message here, according to R' Hirsch (at the end of the commentary on 7:15), is "Your future does not depend on the goodwill of the River but on the will of Him Who has sent me." To someone whose royalty, theology, national identity, and economy depended on the stable provision of this river, this gesture was quite alienating, thus fitting with the גרות theme.
The third Plague in each set was meant not to teach a lesson so much as to punish Pharaoh for not listening to the first two lessons as well as for his terrible mistreatment of the Jews. Accordingly, they are not preceded by a confrontation/lesson from Moshe. Instead, God commands Moshe to strike without warning in Shemot 8:12, Shemot 9:8, and Shemot 10:21.
Finally, to the question at hand, in the second Plague in each set, God sends Moshe to Pharaoh with the command "בא אל פרעה," which R' Hirsch translates as "Go in to Pharaoh" (my emphasis) and explains (in his comment on 7:26) "visit him in his palace" (consistent with the interpretation of the Ba'al Haturim cited in these answers and the understanding of Onkelos' translation suggested by this comment). Similar to the way God sets up the confrontations in the first Plagues, these confrontations are also meant to undermine the setting: Moshe goes in to Pharaoh's palace "in the midst of all the splendor" (comment on 10:1) and proceeds to promise, in front of the whole court, a degrading and impovershing Plague. Thus, these three plagues are programmed, starting with the location of their announcements, to cut Pharaoh down from the lofty perch from which he presumed to make other humans into property.
I've no time to check amongst the Acharonim, but so far as the Rishonim are concerned it would appear that the only person to even question the language here is the Baal haTurim (even the Rosh doesn't mention it, and it's not asked by Daat Zkeinim). He merely suggests that telling Moses to "come" is what God does when Moses is supposed to confront the Pharaoh in his house, while telling him to "go" is what God does when Moses is supposed to confront the Pharaoh at the river (7:15). He also suggests that the word בא is used because it has the gematria of 3, alluding to the remaining three plagues.
(As a side note, it's interesting that both Onkelos and "Yonatan" render לך as אזל ("go down") in 7:15, and בא as עול ("go up") in 10:1. Up to you whether or not you want to make something of that).
The Ibn Ezra and Baal HaTurim say that when Hashem told Moshe to go to the palace Hashem said Bo - and when Hashem told Moshe to meet Pharoh at the water Hashem said Laich.
Additionally, Hashem was telling Moshe that he was going along with him, and therefore it says Bo.
The Ohr Hachaim says that Hashem is not Saying go he is saying Come with me hence BO that is with me HAshem.
The Chasam Sofer uses this question to answer another question:
How did Moshe know what plague to bring next? Hashem's words do not mention anything about a plague of locust!
The Chasam Sofer explains that Hashem hinted it to him - take בא, to פרעה in order to place these letters of mine (שתי could mean to place, אות can mean letter) in him - take ב and א, and switch them in to פרעה's name. Since א and ע are vocally interchangeable letters, and so are ב and פ, switch the א in for the ע and the ב in for the פ and you end up with בראה, which are the letters of ארבה.
(for an explanation of why Hashem would tell Moshe in this complicated roundabout way, see R' Y.D. Schlesinger's Shaarei Leil HaSeder)
Maybe Bo indicates that when we go to fight evil (Pharoh), we must start by recognizing and fighting the evil / Pharoh that is inside us, so we must "come in" to find the evil before we "go out" to find it outside ourselves.
Rabbi Zamir Kohen explains that "Bo" is used to indicated that HaShem is omnipresent. Were HaShem to use the word "Lekh", it would imply that HaShem is not in the location where He commanded Moshe to go.


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TAUNTON — No one was reported injured, but property damage was fairly significant after a minivan slammed into a highway sign, a city trash receptacle and a thick granite column where Taunton Green meets Post Office Square early on Thursday morning.
The driver of the 1995 Mercury Villager was identified by police as 57-year-old Francis Melchionne of 59 Ingell St.
The vehicle not only dislodged a sign directing traffic to towns located along Route 140, it also bent a metal railing and knocked over a thick granite column in front of the historic Crocker Building at 4 Court St.
The force of the crash didn't just topple the otherwise sturdy column. It also caused a decorative sphere attached atop the column by a reinforced bar to break up and land at least 3 feet away.
Police said the single-vehicle crash occurred just after 1 a.m.
"I thought they had dismantled it. I just noticed now what happened," said Pauline Nassif, a paralegal who works inside the Crocker Building.
Nassif, 42, said she initially thought the objects on the ground were part of the city's recent downtown sidewalk replacement project.
She said she was surprised at the level of destruction caused by one vehicle.
"It had to hit extremely hard — look at it," she said.
Nassif said she's not altogether surprised that someone managed to drive into the sign and granite column. She said she's noticed cars sometimes drive up Post Office Square and then make an illegal left turn onto Court Street.
Attorney Thomas Percy, who owns the building, did not immediately return a call and email seeking comment about the incident.
The original version of the Crocker Building was built in 1898. It was named for former U.S. Rep. Samuel L. Crocker, whose home was located there.
The building sits within what is known as the Taunton Green Historic District.
Police did not immediately cite Melchionne with a driving violation.
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On January 24, 2001, Dia Center for the Arts will present a new installation by artist Diana Thater entitled Knots + Surfaces. The work will be on view on the third floor of Dia's galleries at 548 West 22nd Street through June 17, 2001. This exhibition will reopen in Fall 2001 and will extend through February 2002. Exhibition hours during the 2000-2001 season are Wednesday - Sunday, 12 noon to 6 pm, through June 17, 2001. Admission is $6 ($3 for students and seniors and free to members).
Diana Thater will present a large-scale multiprojection video installation that interacts with the open architectural space of Dia's third-floor gallery. A charged environment of layered projections and clustered monitors will constitute the vehicle for metaphorical explorations of mapping multidimensional space. Referring to a recent mathematical hypothesis that correlates a complex, six-dimensional spatial model to the map of a honeybee's dance, Thater will expand on her abiding concern with the intersection of nature and culture. The various forms of projection and staging of her mise-en-scène will ensure that the spectator constantly crosses different sightlines, interrupting the projector's beams of light, thereby implicating the viewer in the actual site and, by extension, the thematics of the piece.
Diana Thater was born in San Francisco in 1962 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in 1990. Her recent solo exhibitions include a major installation currently at Tentsta Konsthalle in Stockholm; the Gallery at the Wiener Secession in Vienna earlier this year; "The best outside is the inside," at the St. Louis Art Museum (1999); "The best sense is the nonsense," at the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario (1999); "Projects 64. Diana Thater: The best animals are the flat animals," at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1998); "The best animals are the flat animals - the best space is the deep space," at MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (1998). She has also participated in the 1999 Carnegie International and Sculpture Project Munster (1997).
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The practice of righteousness is to bear with this time and in some way to fast from this world, not from ordinary food, which we do rarely, but from love of the world, which we ought always to be doing. Whoever abstains from this world, therefore, fulfills the law. For one cannot love what is eternal unless one stops loving what is temporal. Consider human love; think of it as the souls hand. If it holds one thing, it cant hold something else. For it to take hold something given to it, it has to let go of what its already holding. This is what Im saying. Ill say it plainly: One who loves the world cannot love God: his hands are full. God says to him: Take what Im giving. He doesnt want to let go of what hes holding; he cant accept whats being offered. Am I saying that he cant possess anything? If he can, if perfection requires it of him, then let him not possess anything. If he cant, if some need prevents it, then let him possess it but not be possessed by it; let him hold it, and not it hold him; let him be the lord, not the servant, of his property. ... What does it mean: Dont love what you possess in this world? That it not fill hands that ought to hold God. (Augustine, Sermon 125, 7; PL 38, 694)
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What a brilliant and original metaphor.
May I ask a tangential question, and hope not to derail the conversation? How should one pronounce this saint's name? Residents of Florida say "AU-gus-teen". But in my undergraduate days, I heard "au-GUS-tin".
Jim, I learned, and have always heard in church circles, the pronunciation au-Gus-tin. St. Augustine in Florida, the city, is AU-gus-teen, but you should never take Florida as normative. There is also St. AU-gus-teen grass, which survives well in Florida. The Germans (my maternal side) sing (constantly) "Ach, du lieber AU-gus-teen." But I'd still stick to au-Gus-tin until I hear someone who knows what he is talking about insist otherwise.
My father grew up in St. Augustine's parish on the South Side of Chicago and they pronounced it au-Gus-tin.
Jim Pauwels:I lived and worked in the diocese of St. Augustine for 22 years. I was told that au-GUS-tinis the English pronunciation of the city and that AU-gus-teen reflects the Spanish origin of the name. (As you probably know Pedro Menndez de Avils sighted land on August 28, 1565, the feast day of Augustine of Hippo, and named the territory, San Agustn.) I would probably have been fired from my job if I had called my place of work, the Diocese of St. au-GUS-tin. We really get to know how Augustine related to his congregation in his sermons. Some of his "takes" on Scripture are quite funny, at least to me. In presenting the words of John the Baptist "He must increase, I must decrease., he says that Jesus did increase by being raised on the cross and John did decrease by being beheaded.In recent times copies of lost sermons buried in medieval manuscripts in Europe were discovered(26 in 1990 and 8 in 2007).I think that his sermons should be required reading in seminaries and diaconate programs.
Augustine says "One who loves the world cannot love God." Very different point of view than Aquinas, who if i understand him correctly, sees hierarchies of good. So life itself, the physical world with all it entails, and the world of the mind are all goods, just not as good as the highest good, which is the happiness of contemplating the divine. Aquinas also thinks that existence is good because of his idea of God's knowledge. God knows things, and because of that knowledge, voil, we are sustained in being. By Gods knowing, the universe exists, so God is everywhere and in everything.It never made sense to me that having a loving attitude toward the world could be bad. Obviously, loving it in excess, to the exclusion of everything else, etc. etc. etc., is not good. But in and of itself? I don't see it.
Given what I was taught as a child, this text sounds positively heretical. But it does reflect St. A.'s personality, I think. All or nothing.
He is a fascinating fellow. Talk about an inquiring mind. We need another one of him today, too. Patricia Hampl, in her book I Could Tell You Stories, calls his Confessions that intensely personal document we now think of as the Wests first autobiography. And his ideas on the Trinity are still the only ones that ever made any sense to me. But I do think that like most people, his intellectual life was colored and even bounded by his emotional life.
Sick to think we should not love the world. What a lot of suffering and loneliness and insanity have come out of that sick teaching. But maybe Augustine was having a bad day when he advised the Creator's creatures to stop loving the creation. Just 102 sermons later, in what Garry Wills calls "his most explicit claim that what is changed in the Mass is not the bread given out but the believers receiving it," Augustine says, "This bread makes clear how you should love your union with one another." In Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, Wills devotes a chapter to "Explaining the Miracle: Augustine." The chapter is sad, because Wills tells of the punishment (silencing, isolation, ostracism) of others who followed Augustine lead in challenging the official view of transubstantiation and the real presence over the centuries: de Lubac, Berengar, Ratramnus, Danielou, Congar, Chenu, de Chardin, Rahner, Murray, et al. (Some were reinstated and even made cardinals, but their teachings have not reached down to the lamb level yet.)
Gerelyn: "their teachings have not reached down to the lamb level yet." As one of the lambs, how true.dotC provides an introduction to so much, for which I am grateful. This is absolutely the first time I have ever heard of transubstantiation and the real presence as under question or reframing. My ignorance stares me in the face. Not that I am scandalized in any way, but concerned that apparently so many of us are clueless. No doubt, I share an obligation to learn what I can but where have I been, or where has the teaching church been?How necessary to deepen my understanding. So much never gets to the pulpit, at least the ones where I have lived.Funny, Ann, to read your note, "Given what I was taught as a child, this text sounds positively heretical." I came away with, "Given what I was taught as a child, this text is solid truth."
Carolyn, that's exactly what I thought when I read the chapter. Why wasn't that ever mentioned in religion class, in theology, in Christology, in a single sermon, retreat conference, etc., etc. (They keep silence for fear of being silenced.) My religion teachers and theology professors were pretty radical when it came to social teachings, but now I realize they were too afraid to tell us what we probably intuited anyway.E.g., even in grade school I wondered about the "real presence," making "visits," etc. If God is everywhere, and Jesus is God, how can he be more present in the Eucharist, in the tabernacle, in the monstrance, etc.?But I didn't ask. I had classmates, especially in high school, who would challenge the teacher, argue, go on and on about stuff like WHY does God care if we go to Mass on Sunday instead of Monday? Or on Sunday instead of the REAL ORIGINAL sabbath, Saturday, etc. It was mildly amusing, but I wasn't inclined to do that. Another thing I wondered about, but didn't ask about, was heresy. I had one theology professor who was wild about heresy. He told us about many of them. I noticed the prominence of women in heresies. Women rose to leadership positions that the official church couldn't tolerate, so they had to be eradicated. (Cathars, e.g., and many others.) But what I really wondered about was how could a human being care so much about an obscure and unprovable point of theology as to burn and disembowel another human.Now I know, of course. The hatred on the various blogs makes it clear that people would gladly burn one another. (The comments about Garry Wills on the Diane Rehm page, e.g., some of the reviews, and some of the posts by some bloggers are scary. Probably not to him, though. He seems very good-natured about it all.)
It seems that if you're willing to look at evidence and exercise reason, there's lots of things you can figure out; it's how we acquire knowledge. But when it comes to mystery, I think we're at a crossroads. In the old days, we just accepted the view of the Church on the mysteries of faith, and didn't worry too much about it: the natural, the supernatural, the angels, the saints, sin, grace, heaven, and hell. Faith was defined and legitimized by religious authorities. That doesn't work anymore. Yet we haven't developed a coherent understanding of the guts of the faith to replace what was lost with the collapse of authority: the nature of God, the nature of the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Eucharist, etc. I don't think we have the words yet to express these things today in ways that make sense. But I don't think the underlying realities have gone away. Mystery is real. It needs to re-expressed. Throwing away the old definition is one thing, which Wills does. Coming up with new versions that respect mystery and tradition is another. And condemning theologians who are trying to do just that obviously doesn't help matters. It's yet another of the many toxicities of autocracy.
Carolyn and Jeanne --Hmm. Makes me wonder what the other people here were taught. And I wonder if it varied even within a diocese, say by the priests or pastors or by orders of priests and nuns.I know that New Orleans Catholicism was influenced by Jansenism, but this city was never thoroughly Jansenistic -- let the good times roll, cher:-) Janssen also influenced Irish Catholicism, and I'm wondering if that influence was strong in the Eastern U. S. seminaries or orders. But I don't know whether Janssen himself went so far as to say that we should't love the world at all.
Jeanne: "But I dont think the underlying realities have gone away. Mystery is real. It needs to re-expressed. Throwing away the old definition is one thing, which Wills does. Coming up with new versions that respect mystery and tradition is another. And condemning theologians who are trying to do just that obviously doesnt help matters. Its yet another of the many toxicities of autocracy."Amen. Thank you, Gerelyn and Ann, as well."Yet we havent developed a coherent understanding of the guts of the faith to replace what was lost with the collapse of authority: the nature of God, the nature of the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Eucharist, etc." But, but the search itself can be so meaningful. Relax, gentlemen.
The doctor's verb is "love." I think some of you are confusing that with "admire," "respect," "be awestruck by," "appreciate" or "really like." And, given who he was and the times, there is a strong element of the sensual in "love" the way Augustine used it that you would not apply to the universe.
Why pit loving God against loving the world? Why can't we love both? I'd read that Schillebeeckx disbelieved transubstantiation but instead liked the idea of transignification.
If God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, why shouldn't WE love the world? Didn't Jesus say that we should be perfect as his heavenly Father is perfect?
I interpret Augustine's words here, and similar types of language from the Bible, as "detachment". Detachment has a familiar ring psychologically and it has parallels with eastern forms of spirituality such as Buddhism. Not that these are exactly the same thing but I think a certain detachment from things of the world is psychologically helpful and good for the soul.It doesn't solve the problem because it is difficult to be detached but not indifferent. I don't think he is calling for indifference as the work of justice is Godly work of course. But too much attachment or love of the "world" is helpful.Additionally, it is probably helpful to breakdown what is meant by the term the "world" when used by Augustine and Paul. I don't think it has to do with material creation. I think the world, in this sense, has to do with power, craving, envy, etc. all the things associated with engagement in "worldly" affairs. So hating those things is challenging as that is the way of the world (pun intended).
I don't like the idea of detachment much, though it does come up a lot in different religions. Jesus seemed to me to be anything but emotionally detached.
In the Scriptures "world" can have at least the following meanings or referents: (1) the universe of things; (2) the world of nature; (3) the human world; (4) the human world as infected or corrupted by sin. St. Augustine was aware of these various meanings.In the snippet above, the word used is saeculum, which originally meant "age" or "generation," but which in the Scriptures can mean "world" or "worldliness," as in Jas 1:27: "Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation, and to keep one's self unspotted from this world (immaculatus ab hoc saeculo."
i know "tradition" includes St Aug et alia...but could we look at the same metaphor's meaning at the light of Liberation Theologies retaltionship with Possesions...the conversation on religion does not have (for me) a more todays' vocabulary and that does not appeal to many.
On the world in its various forms: A meditation from a German Jesuit site, on the virtues of listening, speaks about the ability to be silent and to listen, e.g., when one's relations with others have gone awry (the way one notices, and is alarmed by the engine of a car not sounding right); the ability to hear one's inner voices against the temptations of anger or simply a bad mood; the ability to hear what the words of Scripture, drawn from an older, more distant time, really say to us today. Then it closes:"And God's call , that comes to us not from Scripture, but from the world that surrounds us -- I can try this week to listen especially to that. . ."(this from the German version of Sacred Space, though it's no longer up there since they don't keep an archive of their past posts).
"Jesus seemed to me to be anything but emotionally detached"Not sure about that. He says in Luke that whoever comes to me and does not hate mother, father, brothers, and sisters and even his own life cannot be his disciple.And, he seems to separate himself from familial ties when his mother and brothers come and are worried about him and he says that whoever does the will of my Father, that person is my mother, my brother, my sister.That does not necessarily mean that Jesus is emotionally detached but it does suggest that he reorders natural relationships in some way.So as to Fr. K's clarification that "world", at least in this sermon, refers to the saeculum (age or generation), it seems that there is a kind of detachment from this age's present way of thinking (to the extent that is even humanly possible) that is called for this Lent.
George D I think that "hating" mother, father, etc., is a Semitic way of saying that something else is preferred to them. ( Paul speaks of God hating Esau and Loving Jacob in Romans 9: 13, but it refers to a text in the OT expressing a divine preference for the people of Israel over against the descendants of Esau.)Maybe that is one way to look at what Augustine is trying to say here. God is to be preferred to the "world," taken in the somewhat pejorative senses Fr. K points out.Still, metaphors can be revealing, and I do find chilling both Augustine's view of human loving as a zero-sum game, and his reluctant concession that if duty demands, one might have leave to "possess" what one loves-- but strictly as its "master."
Some examples of Jesus' non-detachment ... - his cleansing of the temple - his tears over Lazarus' death and over the fate of Jerusalem - his rant against the Scribes and Pharisees - the compassion (upset stomach - splagchnon) he felt when he saw people suffering
Jesus fairly often speaks in extreme exaggerations, e.g., "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out". At least as translated we obviously are not to take that literally. So when we find extreme statements that are contradictory it seems to me that we have to take them -- or at least one of them -- as exaggerations. They aren't metaphors -- they're exaggerations, but they too are not meant entirely literally. Like metaphors they convey some truth *and* they falsify, so they can be dangerous.
Examples of Jesus' detachment:- he had many friends but was willing to let go of his friendships in order to undergo his Passion- he frequently let go of company to go to the desert and pray- he would have liked the young rich man to come follow him, but did not pressure him- he presumably was a loving son, yet detached himself from his family to go preach- he had times of popularity and numerous followers, yet did not refrain from some hard sayings that turned some people away- and, maybe: he had a plan in mind, yet did not refrain, to answer his mother's request, from chugging water into wine before the proper time according to his plans.He possessed family, friends, disciples, success, but was not enslaved by any of that, not possessed by any of his attachments, and never hesitated to let go of what he was holding to receive what he was being given by the Father.When our schedule is so full that when an opportunity to give some help arrives, we just don't have time for it - then we've become the servant, not the master, of our schedule. When our budget is so tight that we have to turn down chances to spend money constructively - we've become the servant, not the master, of our income. When we are so afraid of crime that we stay home at certain times at which we used to love going out - we've become the servant, not the master, of our love of safety. When our love of beautiful objects prevents us from traveling, lest a burglary happen while we're away. When our attachment to health and hygiene prevents us from receiving communion from the cup, lest we catch a cold. When we grow so attached to this or that that we add constraints to our lives and lose our freedom to welcome what might come our way. That also extends to attachment to freedom itself. When we're so attached to our dreams that we can't tolerate disruptions. When we cannot take what arrives from the future and let go of the past to welcome the present. It's not that those things acquired in our lives so far are not good, or that we shouldn't love them. It's that we ought not to let our lives be defined by them.


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Updated: June 27, 2011, 1:47 PM ETBy Ravi Ubha | ESPN.com
WIMBLEDON, England -- A month ago, no one was sure the recuperating Williams sisters would even play at Wimbledon. In the course of only three matches, they became favorites. Over the weekend, British bookmakers, often on the money, installed Serena as the leading contender.
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.gdb) file that I would like to convert to shapefile (or any other non-proprietary format). Are there any Open Source tools to do so?
I have an ESRI File Geodatabase (
The next version of ogr will support reading file geodatabases. More info here: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3332
Edit: In the meantime it is present in gdal/ogr: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html
In the geospatial world a directory ending in .gdb is usually the Esri File Geodatabase Format, which has an open API which many 3rd party programs can read -- gdal/ogr, fme, and GlobalMapper to name the ones I'm familiar with. Gdal/ogr is open source and is included in many other applications like QGIS and SAGA.
Windows end users can most easily get the filegdb driver via the OSGeo4W
For developers, the gdal/ogr FileGDB driver is not included by default as the Esri SDK needs to be downloaded and installed separately (see build instructions).
A file ending in .gdb is likely the Garmin GPS Database format used by MapSource and Basecamp and the open source gpsbabel can read it, see How to batch convert Garmin GDB to GPX?.
No. .gdb is a proprietary format and ESRI isn't sharing the spec or providing an API.
I believe that some people have been able to hack together something to pull the features out, but none of the relationships, topology, domains, etc.
The best way to get the features out would be to dump the database to a shapefile or a ESRI personal database. The OGR library and tools can read personal geodatabases.
The API to read file geodatabases out of ArcObjects was promised by ESRI three years ago or so, but still has not seen the light.
There is a question related to this: File Geodatabase Open API? When?
This web app will allow you to get your data out of GDB format:
QGIS will read ESRI personal geodatabases- but I don't think anything will read file geodatabases.
I know it does not do File Geodatabase (as we are still waiting for Esri to release the API) but FDO Toolbox is pretty good as far as capability for reading and outputing file formats
Have a look at it here http://fdo.osgeo.org/
as petr k. says also look at the other thread for the release on the FGDB Open API.
You could always use something else like the ST_Geometry (SQL Server Spatial data Type, Oracle Spatial data Type, PostGIS)
Just a thought, CDB
I have tried to use both QGIS and osgeo4W and none of them worked for huge datasets, and i ended with using FME Safe Software.
it's not an open source software but it has 30 days free trial with fully functionnal software. It's by far the best converter tool i've ever seen will hundred of formats and easy usage.
Please refer to the following question.This will allow you to add the feature in QGIS . And then over here you can save it as a shapefile


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I've been looking at calculating the ROI on automated test on a project that I've been working on. However, I'm a little stuck when it comes to determining a good method for this. Simply counting the defects found when executed on the continuous integration sever doesn't really help as many developers run the test locally before checking in code, so I can accurately count how many defect have been found. So my question is how would I calculate this? My gut feeling is that they have massively helped, but I need to quantify this!
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The easiest way I can think of is to base it on how many hours the qa people are saving by not having to regression test all the scenarios covered by the automated test. If the response is they wouldn't regression test it, the answer to that that they should. The ideal scenario is that the entire application should be tested from one release to the next, but this in most situations just isn't possible. This is where automated testing really gives lift. You can have the QA subject matter expert write up the scenario, and then not worry about having to test it again.
I'm sure that the automated tests have helped and there should definitely be a ROI present. The question is, since there are several different types, what kind of ROI are you getting for the automated tests you have.
These are just a few off the top of my head, but you will be the best person to determine where these tests benefit you the most. Sit down and really think about the positive additions these test have provided for your project.
I can very quickly think of three benefits that should be somewhat measurable. (1) Freeing up testers from the monotony of repeating regression tests and allow them to focus on new development and areas that need their attention. Add up the time they are not spending on regression & show how that goes to new projects.
(2) Accelerated testing window. Especially when R&D is checking in code frequently, catching a regression problem sooner gives them a much narrower window of when the bug was introduced. Think about it, if I can say Test X passed 3 days ago & failed today, the developer only has 3 days of code to worry about instead of 3 months worth. Track how quickly those are caught compared to the days of manual regression.
(3) Provides a much better level of testing for smaller releases. In service packs, patches and hot fixes that have a very tiny testing window you there isn't always time to manually run the regression tests, but if they are automated you now have the option of running those tests even in that short time. Count the number of regression tests run in a service pack that never would have been possible before.
I can't tell whether the OP is a tester or a developer. I'll assume they're a tester.
It is difficult to measure the rate of return on the investment on automated tests because the relative cost and the return is speculative.
Here is my personal experience. In some cases, an automated test may be the only way to reproduce a problem or to verify that a change has made the product better. In mosts tests, automated tests uncover bugs that manual testing may have uncovered anyway.
Testers who have the skills to write automated tests are more expensive that those who do not. And testers who prefer to automate may, intentionally or subconsciously, avoid testing features that are difficult or cumbersome to automate.
It may make more sense to start by figuring out the rate of return of your QA organization as a whole.
It's hard to put a price on catching a bug before it goes out the door to a customer. It may be a small problem that can be corrected in the next release, or it may be the showstopper that keeps you at the office frantically trying to fix it so that you can get it to the customer as soon as possible.
If you are relying on your automation to check functionality so that you can avoid checking that functionality manually before shipping, then I believe the ROI can be calculated for:
First question: why do you feel that you need to quantify this? Are you being asked to provide metrics? Would a qualitative evaluation be more valuable here?
It also sounds to me like you're focusing at the wrong level - i.e. on too small a group: it's not so much about making the testers more effective, or the developers more effective, but about making the team as a whole more effective. Can you get feedback from the developers about how it's helped them? Is there anything that it's allowed you to do that you wouldn't have been able to do before (turn around an urgent change in 2 days without having to spend 3 weeks on regression testing, for example, or add functionality partway through a project which let you keep/win a major customer), that would be appealing to your stakeholders?
I can't write an answer about metrics without linking Cem Kaner's paper on metrics.
I don't see this as an exact science so you need to make some assumptions. But if you can put some numbers, money or time, in what it cost to find a bug in development (
That's a really simple model to get you started. I haven't used it myself but that's how I would start if I was to write an ROI for automation.
Keep in mind that automated testing will, for the most part, only catch things that "flesh-and-blood testers" have already caught. This is a good thing, because we want them thinking about new ways and things to test, not going over the same ground again and again.
A rule we had at my last firm (and I'm trying to get at my present firm) is for every bug, there's a test to catch it. This has a big impact. If you have a bug, and you release a patch that says "Hey customers, we have listened to you! We have fixed this bug you reported! Yay for us!" and then it turns out you didn't actually fix it, not only are they mad because you didn't fix, you've lost some trust from your customers.
So - how much is your customers trust worth to you?
There are online services which allow to calculate ROI: 1. ROI Calculator 2. ROI Calculator2


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amd64, i386 (32bit / 64bit) - Which version to choose?
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ia32-libs for Android SDK but it is not installing, i tried too hard.
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STEUBENVILLE - A local fan website relating to sports at Steubenville High School once again was taken over Tuesday and Wednesday by the hacktivist group Anonymous, protesting what the group contends is a cover-up concerning the rape trial of two high school students.
The homepage to www.rollredroll.com previously had been taken over by the loosely knit Internet hacking group earlier this week, but was removed Monday after the site's owner, Jim Parks, had the content removed. However, the group hacked its way back to take over the website again Christmas Day, with updates and additional materials the group claims prove more individuals were involved in the alleged rape of a teenage girl on Aug. 11-12.
Trent Mays, 16, of Bloomingdale and Malik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville, Steubenville Big Red student-athletes, are scheduled to go on trial before visiting Judge Tom Lipps Feb. 13 for the alleged rape.
Parks, the site owner and webmaster, couldn't be contacted for comment Wednesday. However, a report at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department Wednesday morning showed Parks lodged a complaint he was getting calls from what the report said were members of Anonymous.
The privately operated and owned website isn't connected with the school in any way, but Parks previously said he believed his site was targeted as a result of a New York Times article published Dec. 16. The lengthy article put the trial in the national spotlight, and celebrities, including comedian and actress Roseanne Barr, commented on the trial and controversy through Twitter.com.
The New York Times also carried a story on Anonymous taking over the website on the sports page in its Wednesday edition.
Parks also previously denied any knowledge of the incident or any of the high school students involved. The site typically posts information on Steubenville High School sports, including statistics, photos and schedules of various sporting events. Parks previously said Anonymous basically took over the website's home page through its central server site in Texas, and the group's accusations against him were "ridiculous."
Cached copies of two videos made by the shadowy group also were floating around the Internet, along with a video that is on the hijacked website. In the video, a figure wearing a Guy Fawkes mask with an electronically altered voice named individuals Anonymous claims also were involved in the alleged rape but who have not been charged. Additionally in the videos, Anonymous threatened to release Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and personal information about those it claimed were involved in the rape incident by Tuesday, unless they publicly apologized.
The hijacked homepage of Rollredroll.com also contained links to tweets allegedly made by members of what Anonymous claimed was a self-dubbed "rape crew," formed for the purpose of taking photos of women being abused by Steubenville High School students.
The homepage includes a message posted that reads "Greetings Citizens of the world, we are Anonymous, we are KnightSec. On Dec. 23, 2012, we released a video detailing the story of a young rape victim in Steubenville, Ohio, who was attacked by the Big Red High School football team and raped and kidnapped, carried party to party unconscious and intoxicated. Only two members were charged with the actual crimes, when everyone present was guilty." The message ends with, "We ask the proper authorities do not allow the cover-up of this potential criminal ring, and the victims do not go unprotected."
Twitter.com and Facebook.com are reporting that two protests are being organized in support of what Anonymous is calling "Operation Roll, Red Roll." The first is scheduled for noon Saturday and the second for Jan. 5. Both protests are scheduled to be held in the area near Steubenville City Hall on Third Street. Anonymous also references the Occupy movement as being part of the planned protests on the website.
A tweet on twitter.com indicated Barr was among those who planned to take part in Saturday's protest.
Steubenville Police Chief Bill McCafferty said Wednesday he had no knowledge of any protests being planned, and no one has contacted him regarding any.
"(Protesters) can do anything they want as long as it's lawful and they don't block any streets," said McCafferty, adding if streets are blocked by protesters, it will require a city permit.
Anonymous reportedly began in 2003 and gained a broader profile several years ago with a cyber attack on the religion Scientology and its affiliated sites. Since then the group has targeted websites of different countries, international banks, formed an alliance with the Occupy movement and most recently attacked and hacked into the website for the Westboro Baptist Church in Texas because of church members' threats to protest at funerals for victims of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.
The Guy Fawkes mask worn by members is borrowed from the 2005 movie "V For Vendetta," in which a man trying to lead a future uprising against a fascist British government dons the mask and ultimately leads a revolution. Some individuals associated with Anonymous have been arrested in several countries in the past five years for hacking activities, but the group has no formal structure.
This is the second incident of individuals on the Internet getting involved in the peripherals of the trial, as in October the family of a Steubenville High School student filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court against the the operator of an Internet blog site that claimed their son has been defamed in connection with a rape investigation.


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4K Ultra HD Blu-ray arrives in UK
Owners of 4K TVs now have another (and perhaps first?) way to access Ultra HD content on their screens thanks to the official UK launch of 4K Blu-ray.
Margin Makers: Guide to video game movies
The summer movie season is in full swing, meaning cinephilic gamers will be settling down with popcorn and the latest flick. MCV checks out the games that made it to ...
The Elder Scrolls Online won't fit on a Blu-ray disc
Bethesda has said that it has not been able to fit The Elder Scrolls Online onto a 50GB Blu-ray disc for PS4 or Xbox One.
Halo: Nightfall webseries heading to DVD and Blu-ray next month
Microsoft Studios will bring Halo: Nightfall to DVD and Blu-ray next month, the company has announced alongside the release of a new trailer.
Digital games are more environmentally damaging than physical games
Downloading games actually has a larger environmental impact than buying them physically, a new report has claimed.
August Xbox One update adds 3D Blu-ray support and remote downloads
Microsoft has outlined the additional functionality heading to Xbox One next month, and a big Blu-ray functionality boost features as part of it.
The Last of Us: Remastered is struggling to fit on a Blu-ray disc
Naughty Dog has said that disc space, as opposed to hardware limitations, are proving the biggest challenge for PS4 title The Last of Us: Remastered.
Minecraft: PlayStation Edition hitting Blu-ray next month
A disc version of indie smash-hit Minecraft will arrive on PS3 next month.
Yet more features added to next Xbox One update
Microsoft's impressive efforts to continue upgrading the Xbox One have taken a step forward with yet more features confirmed for the next update.
Sony reveals next-gen 1TB 'Archival' Blu-ray disc
What is being described as the "next-generation iteration of Blu-ray" has been revealed by Sony.
Physical share of movie and TV market tumbles in US
Only 64 per cent of the movie and TV market in the US last year was spent on physical DVDs and Blu-rays.
PS4 won't play 3D Blu-ray either
You're going to have to keep hold of your PS3 if you want to carry on making use of that 3D copy of Avatar you bought for £20.
Sony and Panasonic reveal Blu-ray successor plans
A 300GB successor to the Blu-ray standard has been revealed by Sony and Panasonic.


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This is the valve I have on my bike, but my current pump does not work with it. What kind of pump do I need to buy that will work with it?
That is a Presta Valve. Your pump, I am going to guess, is a Schrader Valve. You can buy a Presta pump from a shop or buy a $2 adapter.
It may be that your current pump actually supports this valve, but the application may not be obvious. You may need, for example, to push the valve deeper into the pump than may appear possible at first; only then the corresponding valve or rubber o-ring in the pump will yield.
If this is the first time you see this valve then maybe you just don't know that you need to open the valve by turning it counterclockwise (when it's pointing up).


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Let illegals, other noncitizens vote, New Haven mayor says
Published on Tue, Dec 20, 2011
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Already known as a refuge for people from other lands, New Haven and its mayor are seeking to extend voting rights to illegal immigrants and other noncitizens.
Mayor John DeStefano, a Democrat, introduced four years ago a first-of-its-kind program to give noncitizens, legal or not, city resident cards. Despite crackdowns elsewhere, he has forged ahead with proposals that he says encourage differences.
"We're a place of differences," he said. "We're a place that sees a strength and places a value on welcoming folks from all over."
Dozens of American cities including New York, San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., take a hands-off approach to pursuing illegal immigrants. While advocates say they are distancing themselves from a broken immigration system, critics accuse them of flouting federal law as "sanctuary cities."
Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has vowed to cut off federal funding for such cities. Texas Gov. Rick Perry pushed a bill this year that would have prohibited cities from acting as "sanctuaries" for illegal immigrants and get local law enforcement more involved in immigration enforcement. Mitt Romney has said he opposed sanctuary cities as Massachusetts governor and, as president, he would "find the right approach" to ending them if legally possible.
President Obama has resisted calls from some Republicans to crack down on sanctuary cities. As a Democratic candidate in 2007, he said the U.S. government should address the issue by providing a rational immigration system, not by withdrawing funds from such cities.
More than 70 cities and states nationwide bar police from asking community residents who have not been arrested to prove their legal status, according to the Immigration Policy Center. For many, including New Haven, the goal is to make immigrants comfortable reaching out to police for help.
Those policies, however, do not prevent state or local police from reporting foreign-born criminals to the Department of Homeland Security.
New Haven, the home of Yale University, is a port city of 125,000 residents with a history of embracing liberal politics. The city has an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 illegal immigrants, resettles some 200 refugees annually and hosts roughly 2,000 noncitizens associated with Yale.
Mr. DeStefano long ago prohibited police from asking people about their immigration status. In addition to his pledge to seek legislative action allowing illegal immigrants to vote — a proposal that many, including Democratic Gov. Dan Malloy, see as unrealistic — the 10-term mayor last week also spoke out against a federal immigration-enforcement program, Secure Communities, which uses fingerprints collected in local jails to identify illegal immigrants.
Mr. DeStefano brushed off the Republican attacks as irrelevant to his city and suggested critics are using immigrants as scapegoats amid the weak economy.
"These are hard times right now in America," he said. "Part of human nature is, when you're angry to look for someone else to blame for your problems. I understand that."
Some newcomers to New Haven are grateful to not be under scrutiny.
"Here the police give people a break. If you're caught driving drunk or without a license, you'll still go to court. But they don't call immigration," said Nicolas Gutierrez, a 63-year-old deli worker from Mexico who's a permanent U.S. resident.
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I'm trying to create a function for the title inside my functions.php, I'm having a problem with the search title part where I have to concatenate here's the part with issues:
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this one gives a title like this: Search for searchtermsitename
no quotes and the search term is attached to the site name.
I tried this one:
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it doesn't work either, this one outputs: searchtermSearch for "" sitename
it's better than the first one but he search query is before, and can't figure out why.
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Bridgewater Fire Department passes audit of raffle
Recently, an audit of the Bridgewater Volunteer Fire Department Fair Raffle was conducted by the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection. The audit came as a result of an anonymous complaint filed with that agency Jan. 2.
From the onset of the audit, the Fire Department cooperated fully with the state agency, and without hesitation provided all of the records and documentation requested. The Fire Department is pleased to report that upon the completion of the audit March 19, there were no material items noted based on the audit results. No hearings or administrative regulations were stated or acted upon by the consumer-protection agency. It found everything to be in order, and advised the Fire Department to proceed with the 2013 raffle and plan for many years of successful raffles.
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One single mom says: "Take at least one weekend a month to read a book of your choice. Rent movies for your kids and make plenty of popcorn so you can fit in your reading time. Reading, for me, allows the stress to flow away."
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I would love to have clowney on the fins! Helluva hit!
The fact that it came after one of the worst calls I've ever seen made it even better.
He is a man amongst boys!
"It happens all the time," Taylor said. "It's not an exact science and personnel guys aren't the end-all, be-all. " Jason Taylor,2011
"I'm much more humble than you would understand."
I'd love to have Clowney (I'm a Gamecocks fan!) but I would not love the record we would need to get him. Some team is going to love that monster on their line in 2014...


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WHEELING - Chills competed with the hills in Saturday's 37th Annual Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon Classic, much to the delight of runners who battled extreme heat and humidity last year during the event's 36th running.
With temperatures hovering in the low 30s when the cannon fired for the first time - historic lows for the annual Memorial Day Weekend event - runners took a little longer to warm up, then went out and scorched the notoriously hilly course.
Kenyan Shadrack Kiyai's overall winning time in the half marathon was a little more than two minutes faster than the pace set by Tariku Bokan a year ago and more than 13 minutes ahead of the 2011 winning time set by Wheeling-born Colin Gundling. That was the first year the race moved from a 20K to a half marathon.
''That goes to show that we are now starting to get the attention of some of the other world-class runners,'' Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon Classic Race Director R. ''Scat'' Scatterday said.
The first female to break the tape was Etaferahu Temesgen at 1:19.21, better than four minutes ahead of the 2012 winner's time.
''When we launched, it was close to 31 (degrees),'' Scatterday said. ''That was added to the no humidity and the sunshine, which made it a perfect run.
''Once these runners got their heat up in the first half mile to a mile, they were in excellent weather conditions. All they had to deal with was the ongoing challenge that they individually had between themselves and the course. That's the biggest single motivation. You're not interested in beating any time. You're not interested in beating any person. What this boils down to every year is an individual battle between them and the course. They want to come away from that run saying 'I won.'"
Also new to this year's race was a ''safe zone'' where security was tightened in response to the bombing during this year's Boston Marathon.
Scatterday was pleased with the way it was received.
''It was an interesting first go at it,'' he said. ''On the top of the list of comments is to say thank you to everybody for accepting the fact that this was a new thing, it was inconvenient, it was problematic, but it seems as though 99 percent of the people, if not all, were very much supportive of it. They understood the tradeoff.''
Other overall winners were Heath Piper of Eighty Four, Pa., in the Men's 5K Run (17:54.5); Martins Ferry's Christine Lewis in the Women's 5K Run (20:06.9); Donna Graham in the Women's 5K Walk (31:59.0); and Bethesda's Ryan Hudak-Hill in the Men's 5K walk (32:26.0).
Lee Stough of Glassport, Pa., captured the Men's 20K walk (1:59:38.88) and Quaker City, Ohio's Kathy Ervin took first in the Women's 20K Walk (2:23:48.23). The relay team of Matt Mason and Russell Mulley won the Men's relay (1:18:23.3) while Jennifer McFarland and Megan Truelove (1:28:08.3) captured the women's.
In all, 1,096 participants completed the various events on Saturday.


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Is it possible in springframework to log the time taken by methods [ selective | all ] automatically. By automatically i mean, i don't want to go to each method and write the log.debug ( "...." ); stuff.
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
AOP is what you need here. AOP allows you to add code to your application without modifying the original code. Spring AOP prefers to accomplish this with Proxy objects. Proxy objects use a Decorator Pattern to wrap the original Target object and add code. The Proxy is configured to implement one or more interfaces of the original Target object.
Here, to time an application, the idea is to use the
The first option is to use the Spring class
Below a Spring configuration that illustrates these steps:
And the configuration of the Log level for the
Starting with Spring 2.0, there is another option: using Spring 2.0 XML Schema-based configuration and Spring's AspectJ style pointcut expressions. With the
You can take a look at stagemonitor. It is a open source java web application performance monitor. It captures response time metrics, JVM metrics, request details (including a call stack captured by the request profiler) and more. The overhead is very low.
Optionally, you can use the great timeseries database graphite with it to store a long history of datapoints that you can look at with fancy dashboards.
Example Screenshot:
Take a look at the project website to see more screenshots, feature descriptions and documentation.
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Finally i figured out how to do this.
First of all see the post by 'Pascal Thivent', it did a great help to me. After changing your log4j.properties and creating the timingAdvisor what you have to is, binding this adviser to the class you wan to enable the debugging. You have to change your code like this.
earlier code:
New code.
You can use AspectJ for this, declare a log pointcut called by wildcard with pre- and post handling by before() and after() advice.
I see that there has already been an accepted answer here, but I'd encourage everyone to take a look at the latest release of Spring Toolsuite (SpringSource's distro of Eclipse). It comes with a profiling utility out of the box, Spring Insight, that provides these exact statistics at runtime in a nice format. Just deploy your app to its internal tomcat, hit a few pages, then go to the /insight servlet and see the time taken in each method called all the way down to the SQL statements that were executed and how long they took.
Here's a link to a nice writeup about Spring Insight that should get you what you want in just a few minutes. http://www.dotkam.com/2009/10/28/spring-insight-in-action-5-minutes-from-scratch/


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This mature ovarian follicle contains a fluid-filled cavity (pale pink) known as the follicular antrum. At this stage, just prior to ovulation, one follicle has become much larger than the others, and it is this follicle that will rupture to release an egg.
Estrogen levels are rising and reach their peak today, based on a 28-day menstrual cycle. The rise in estrogen from the follicles is what stimulates the release of the LH hormone, which surges about 24 hours before ovulation. FSH (see This is Day 4 of your Menstrual Cycle) from the pituitary gland starts rising later this week. Progesterone levels are low. There's no call for this hormone until the uterus lining needs to thicken. In fact, high levels would make the cervix hostile to sperm, so they would have trouble getting through to the uterus and the fallopian tubes to fertilize the egg.
Women also produce the male hormone testosterone and this reaches a peak around ovulation. This hormone is responsible for libido in both sexes so, hopefully, you and your partner should find you're both in the mood for making babies at this time.
Being stressed can affect your ability to conceive.
Perhaps it's no surprise that nature makes it more difficult to conceive in stressful circumstances. One reason might be that it reduces the ovary's response to the hormone surge at mid-cycle. There is also a link between stress and the failure of fertility treatments, although the exact reason for this isn't known.
There is no exact advice on when you should try again following a miscarriage. As a general guide, wait until you've had one menstrual period. This will help to date the pregnancy should you conceive quickly. However, your doctor may advise otherwise, especially if your miscarriage was linked with an infection. If you are waiting for tests because you miscarried, it makes sense to have these first.
You and your partner may need time to grieve for the lost pregnancy, so it is unwise to rush into trying to conceive again. Be reassured that the vast majority of women who had a single miscarriage go on to have a baby.
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