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Throwback Thursday: Sr. Janet Mead's gold record
If you were near a radio in the mid-seventies you probably heard a lot of Janet Mead, even if you didn't necessarily know who Janet Mead was. Her "rock" recording "The Lord's Prayer" was, as they say in the business, burning up the charts in the late winter and early spring of 1974, peaking at No. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100--during Holy Week, as it happened.
Peaking, but never really going away, and not just because the song embodied what the word "earworm" must have been coined to describe. It became a Sunday-morning staple on New York's WOR, to which the knob on my parents' car radio was permanently fixed. The song seemed stuck in heavy rotation—programmed to play repeatedly during the hours we'd likely be on our way to and from Mass—in the years between my communion and confirmation, a period that spanned three presidencies, three papacies, and, closer to home, the loyal service of three different Plymouth station wagons.
What I didn't know then was that Janet Mead was Sister Janet Mead, of the Sisters of Mercy order in Australia, where she taught music at a pair of Catholic schools. Originally recorded as a B-side, "The Lord's Prayer" ultimately went gold—selling more than two million copies in the U.S. (more than three million internationally).
Still reliably an answer in trivia contests on one-hit-wonders of the seventies, Mead retains the distinction of being "only" (only?) the second woman to chart a top 10 single while serving as a nun (some of you might be able to guess the other). Among the artists she shared chart space with in 1974 were Barbra Streisand, the Jackson 5, Todd Rundgren, Barry White, and Eric Clapton. She was even up for a Grammy in the Best Inspirational Song category, losing to none other than Elvis Presley and his recording of "How Great Thou Art."
While the production company used its share of the massive earnings from "The Lord's Prayer" to rebuild its studio ("featuring a Neve Customised Model 8038 24-track mixing console having 28 microphone inputs and simultaneous quadraphonic, stereophonic and monophonic mix-down," read the publicity statement), Mead donated hers to charity. The song's popularity also won Mead a degree of fame she apparently hadn't anticipated. She has been quoted as saying that the record's success made for a "horrible time" in her life, even causing her to question her faith. She seemed to allude to this in notes accompanying her 1975 album "A Rock Mass": "It is easy to see the effect of a pop-tune which is a success and heard all over the world, because it has very obvious results. Not so easy is it, to see the more lasting effects of the kind of person we allow ourselves to become."
Mead didn't stop teaching, writing, or performing music, though she did eventually leave the Sisters of Mercy. Her original producer maintains a website from which her recordings are available. And "The Lord's Prayer" still has a way of turning up, as in this clip of Stephen Colbert and Jack White recalling the hits of yore (slight language advisory). But Colbert and White are wrong in more ways than one by associating it with the sixties. "The Lord's Prayer" is pure seventies, unmistakably and, for better or worse, unforgettably.
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That shot of her laughing at the end -- I suppose it's meant to communicate Christian joy, but to me it reads as a cackle, as if she knows her song will work its way into your head and never, ever leave. I had never heard this before. Now I am afraid I will never be able to say this prayer without hearing it.
It sounds like an outtake from Jesus Christ Superstar, especially with that fuzzy guitar opening. Better lyrics though.
Memory is a funny thing. When I read your post, I had no idea what you were talking about. Then I played the video and sang the whole thing without a wrong note. So it must be in my brain cloud, just like all the songs from "Hair" were when Raber brought home an old vinyl LP of that three years ago.
But beating Elvis belting out "How Great Thou Art"? Not a chance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaDSaq2J6Cs
Lord, I was alive and alert in the early 1970's, but I have no memory at all of this God-awful thing. Perhaps I have just suppressed it?
I'm nearly in the same boat as Fr. K - don't recall hearing it on the radio. But do remember hearing it during mass a few times (so that's where it came from!), but it never caught on as some other settings of the Our Father did.
I kind of like it. Anyway, way better than the Dominique -nique -nique thing by the poor Singing Nun. Wasn't Elvis in a movie with a singing nun? (Or mybe it was Elvis singing not the nun).
Sick guitar; unfortunate vocals.
Oh the girls in school uniforms and the sister in a modified habit brought back memories of my Catholic high school experience. Were we ever that young and innocent? Indeed, we were.
Irene, Elvis was in a movie with Mary Tyler Moore, who played a nun, and she didn't leave the convent for him even though he had not yet grown fat and taken to wearing glittery jumpsuits. Poor Jeanne Deckers left the sisterhood and committed suicide; there's a documentary about her life, "Sister Soirie -- Sister Smile." (Claire, correct my French spelling, please.)
I don't think the Our Father or most other prayers make very good songs. They don't don't have regular rhythm and so don't fit what most people are used to singing. As a result, without the leadership of a skilled cantor, the congregation sounds like it's keening what ought to be a joyful noise. I have learned to give this up to God.
Anyhow, Sr. Janet's Our Father is no worse than "Here I Am, Lord," the first parts of which are so far down the register you feel like you feel like you're gargling, but you have to start down real low so you can hit the high notes at the end. (Or at least I do; I don't have that Roy Orbison range I had even 10 years ago.)
No worse than the "Perry Como Our Father" either.
It's a question of genre. If you like sentimental schlock songs, go with Perry Como. If you like bouncey pop / lite rock, Sister Janet's version will appeal. It's a terrible recording, so you have to allow for that.
Are there hip hop or rap versions of the Lord's Prayer?
Today would have been Sœur Sourire's 80th birthday, if she had not committed suicide.
(The Our Father by Sr. Janet is no worse than the many other songs recorded by religious during that period.)
Are there hip hop or rap versions of the Lord's Prayer?
Are there! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_AuF8976sw
If you really want a throwback women with great impact, how about Joan Baez who was Mexican. Not only was she prominent in the peace movement and civil rights. She and Steve Jobs were lovers. Who would have thunk it? Her grandfather on her father's side was a former Catholic priest who became a Methodist Minister. She and Bob Dylan were involved toghether in the Peace movement and at one time were an item. She recently played songs from the Civil rights era for the president. If Joe K does not remember her then we will have to officially retire him.
I find it hard to believe that anyone who attended mass in the US in the 70s and never heard Sr. Mead's Our Father. It was very popular with the folk group in the parish in which I spent my grade school and high school years in the surburbs of the Philadelphia. I was 10 in 1974.
The Missa Bossa Nova was also very popular with our folk group.
I find myself singing this one to myself alot (echoes and all!):
"Mead didn't stop teaching, writing, or performing music, though she did eventually leave the Sisters of Mercy."
Well there's a surprise.
For what's her worth, her Wikipedia page seems to imply that she is still a nun, although who knows who wrote the entry or how accurate it is.
By the end of the song, the recording started to sound vaguely familar, as if maybe I had heard once or twice many years ago, but it was certainly no longer a staple either at Mass or on the radio by the time I was a child in the eighties.
Curious that in the supposedly depraved late-60's and early 70's, it wasn't unheardof to hear religion in music. A few songs from Godspell charted. "Jesus is Just Alright With Me." Stuff like that.
By the Reagan years, the only way a Christian singer would chart was by abandoning the genre altogether--and no doubt Amy Grant had pop chops, enough to get noticed, anyway.
Charlotte Church's recent commentary struck me:
The music business is "a male dominated industry with a juvenile perspective on gender and sexuality" and increasingly wants "sex objects that appear child-like", Church claimed in her lecture. Young, female are made "to present themselves as hypersexualised, unrealistic, cartoonish, as objects, reducing female sexuality to a prize you can win," she added. (BBC)
"When I was 19 or 20 I found myself in this position, being pressurised into wearing more and more revealing outfits. The lines that I had spun at me again and again - generally by middle-aged men - were: 'You look great, you've got a great body, why not show it off?'
We've traded in schlocky music for schlocky music executives promoting posers. All the snickers aside about Sr Janet, I don't think today's music scene is nearly as sophisticated as it was in her day.
You really think that that aspect of the music industry--the guys in suits manufacturing performers to move units--is all that new?
Oh, absolutely not. What's new is the crassness of the sex and the blatant misogyny. By the way, if some moderator would remove one of my above posts, maybe the one without the link, that would be great.
I'm sorry, Catholics. My dad was Welsh. They get excited about singing in choirs. We were Unitarians (on the fringes of, but still part of that Welsh Congregationalist tradition). And, in my view, this is how a hymn sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5mqR-ehY9
A hundred years ago, kids would get beaten for singing in this language. Now they can pack a stadium and sing to the glory of God. As we were all meant to do.
Eh... I suppose that, in a way, it would just be absurd to deny that there is obviouly an upbeat in the "crassness of the sex" (though I'd question whether misogyny is more blatant). I wonder, though, if we don't need to, as it were, "adjust for inflation" when it comes to crassness. And when we talk about the "crassness of the sex," we are pretty much always, always, always talking about the performance of women. With respect to popular music, men have been able to be crass for a pretty long time. I am not trying to deny that misogyny is at play in how women performers get packaged--women are more highly sexualized than men in pop music--but I am trying to point out that, regardless of presentation, women just get perceived differently than men when they are presented sexually. People thought it was crass when Elvis shook his hips, but I don't think people thought he was being manipulated by execs. The same is true for Brett Micahaels when he was out on stage humping his microphone stand. But when women grind on something... well, somehow it dominates the news cycle. I can't help but think of Scalia complaining about women who swear...
Also, if you only look at those examples of music that draw the most attention, you're bound to miss the breadth and depth of what's out there (and there's more out there than ever before). Further, sex and crassness don't always go together, and crassness might not always be just about sex. And why is crassness automatically bad? Crassness has its place. If you want to say that crassness has too much of a place, fine--but I suspect that its dominace has a lot to do with bluenoses hyping it.
I've been trying to remember an echo version of the Lord's Prayer that was very popular in my grade school masses in the 70s. I found it:
Sr. Juliana Garza.
Here's a fun website with many familiar (at least for me) of sounds from Church from the 70s.
Here's one I completely forgot about:
The young Mercy Sister who led us in song used to get us worked up into quite a frenzy with a competition between classes (who could echo her the loudest.)
(an aside -- that young Mercy Sister has gone on to become a significant voice/leader among women religious-- http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/global-sisters-explore-models-effec... )
Jack - I never knew where that echo Our Father came from ... it was used in parishes i belonged to, too, in that time period, but I never saw it in printed form. As far as I can tell, it spread in true folk fashion, with a guitarist from one parish teaching it to guitarists in another parish. In those days, college students coming back from Newman Centers during the summertime were transforming the music at a lot of parishes around here.
While most of this material hasn't "made the cut" into general use today, we shouldn't underestimate the tranformative power of the movement that used this material in the early days of the liturgical renewal. This was the stuff that was sung from mimeograph sheets and inexpensive booklets in church basements in the days of the upstairs organ / downstairs guitar masses. And it laid the groundwork for further developments - the St. Louis Jesuits, Glory and Praise, the Dameans, and then the great burst of creativity in the late '70s and early '80s that began filling up the hardback hymnals that most of us have in our pews today.
I think that the reason the Mead song is grating is because it is so inorganic: the vocal style is just grafted onto the fuzzed-out guitar without any effort at bridging the two things. It's the same reason why most classical/pop crossover acts don't work: the performers don't really embrace the musical idiom of the genre they're adopting, and so their productions just can't escape the realm of novelty songs (and that's what the Mead song is--a novelty piece; I think those were just a lot more popular in the 70s).
I think that there's a reason why the vast majority of pop Christian performers can't get crossover success. It's not the content of the lyrics per se, but rather that that content co-opts the music as a whole. Marshall McLuhan may be standing in line behind me, so I'd better be careful, but I think there's some essential misfire in how the message gets embedded in the medium.
Besides, as a wise man once observed: "All the best bands are affiliated with Satan."
Jack, we used to sing that when I was in grade school (mid to late '80s), and like Jim Pauwels I never knew (or thought to wonder) where it came from. Jim, I'm grateful for your comment. There's so much sneering at the music and worship styles of those who came of age during and just after Vatican II -- a lot of it coming from members of my generation. But I have very fond memories of praying with that music at liturgies that were, for me, both formative and "transformative." And I can't but be grateful for the people who worked so hard to give me an experience of God's love and encouraged me to participate fully in the Mass, even if they did it while wearing a guitar.
It doesn't help that the recordings are so often terrible. I have a hand-me-down CD of Carey Landry's album Hi God! -- a staple of my own elementary-school years -- and while I'd be happy to sing the songs with my kids, I can't stand the sound of his voice.
And none of this is to say I feel bad about giggling at Mead's hit song -- Abe is right, it's a novelty. So very 1970s.
Abe, interesting points on here. I think Sarah McLachlan's prayer of St. Francis falls flat in a similar way, but in that song, the lyrics that are sacrificed to the style. The punch of the prayer lies in the paradoxes, and these get lost in those breathy background responses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFkjdFgqOY4
Then there's this, which speaks to Jim Pauwel's point about music getting into the church. It's fun, but seems so totally pat, all's it takes to get those ghetto kids in is some cool singing nuns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI8lS8hr-nY Shades of "Going My Way," where Bing Crosby sets those boys straight by forming a choir! Ah, were it that easy.
You are thinking of Dolores Hart, an actress but not a singer, who was Elvis's romantic interest in Loving You and King Creole (1957 and 1958, respectively). In 1963 she entered the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis (Bethlehem, CT), where she still lives.
A novelty in retrospect - but not by design, I'd say. Ray Stevens's "The Streak" and Jim Stafford's "(I Don't Like) Spiders and Snakes," which played alongside Mead that year, were clearly conceived and written as humorous performances, the former an instant-response to a fad. Mead's intent, successful in that she completed it, was to write a rock mass of which this version of The Lord's Prayer was a part. My reflex as a survivor of seventies "culture" is to consign this to the bin holding all the rest of that decade's junk, and yet there is something about the sincerity and earnestness of Mead's effort that stops me from treating it as just a joke.
Granted, sincerity and earnestness can make for bad art, and nostalgia can cloud judgment. But as some have noted and Jack and Mollie have picked up on, performances like these informed the music at liturgies some of us came of age with. Around the time Mead's hit was waning, I was playing my saxophone at the 10 am folk mass, alongside a dozen other kids on clarinet, violin, piano, drums, guitar, and trombone, under the direction of a dedicated parishioner and semi-professional musician who transcribed "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord," "We Beseech Thee," and many other pieces for us on sheets of notebook paper. He, too, wore a guitar, while his son payed upright bass.
That video of Mead is hokey but it looks a lot like my experience. And though I do wish, so very much, that I could get the song out of my head, I'm not as inclined to be as contemptuously dismissive of it as I once might have been. Or maybe I'm just getting sentimental in my middle age.
Googling "dolores hart photos" yields a trove of pictures from both before and after professing her vows, including an "after" shot with the caption, "God is the bigger Elvis". Considering his physique in his later years (Elvis's, that is), that's a fairly bold theological claim. O gates, lift high your heads! Grow higher, ancient doors!
I hear a little bit of the Doors' "Love Me Two Times" in the music of this Our Father. (The lyrics, not so much.) Maybe with some "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" thrown in.
If you hear the Doors in this, please post what you're drinkin' so we can all enjoy it.
I have to say I thought it conjured a little Jefferson Airplane in the beginning.
70s gave us the greatest devotional song of all time, the inimitable Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit In the Sky". I still get all happy when I hear it on the car radio every once and a while.
I'm interested in the video presentation with the song. They certainly didn't have music videos as a matter of course in the 70's. Except for a Beatles movie. Speaking of which, it seems like sort of a day-in-the-life slice of Sr Janet's ministry.
That opening sequence looked like the beginning of a tv show. I was thinking this could cut into introducing Linc, Julie, and Pete.
Some praying, but only with students. Some music classes, but also walking around with those younger kids, a ministry of presence. No other sisters. This portrays a woman religious very much in apostolic ministry--how people saw sisters in the 70's no doubt.
Too bad we weren't hip on the New Evangelization in the 70's. And yes, I do wish it were as easy as forming a choir.
In Jean's link to the Welsh choir there can be found another link to the Oxford HS choirs singing "You Raise Me Up." Now THAT is good!
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Which is the correct usage when I tell someone that I am back?
I am back to [some city]
I am back in [some city]
Which is the correct usage when I tell someone that I am back?
FumbleFingers comment on EdGuiness answer is, I think, the real answer. When you are describing a destination, using a verb such as "go", you use the preposition "to". When you are describing a "state of being", using a verb such as "to be", you use the preposition "in".
Note that if you do use a non-proper noun like "city" or "town", you need to include an article.
Side note: "Town" without an article has a varity of special meanings. "I live in town" means that I live within the city limits, as in:
"I am/was/will be in town" means that I am in the city under discussion as opposed to travelling somewhere else. Like:
"We went to town" can mean that we went to the city under discussion, but it is also a slang term meaning we had a wild party or had sexual relations.
I went to Melbourne to visit my old chess club.
Now I am back in London, where it is raining.
Some time soon I will go to Brisbane for the sunshine. (It's too hot there, for chess)
And then after Brisbane, I will come back to London, to the rain.
The correct usage is "I am back in [some city]".
The word "to" does not work with the verb "to be" in this context, since it's used as a preposition that means "toward" or "in the direction of".
You cannot be to a location, but you can go to a location, as examples from other answers show.
The word "back" should fit in there in a way that it would still be Ok even if it was removed:
I am to the city. = X
I am in the city. = Ok
I have come to the city. = Ok
I have gone to the city. = Ok
We then return "back" and we have:
I am back to the city. = X
I am back in the city. = Ok
I have come back to the city. = Ok
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Before you shout at me with "As many as you can" I was wondering if there is different weight attached to each site or I am seriously underestimating the benefit of submitting to as many as I can.
What social bookmarking sites should I submit to?
The ones which you actually use it because that would bring considerable traffic and using social sites only for submission would not be of much help


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24 Sep 2012 2:37 AM #1
Sencha Cmd + Ext.Direct
What is the best way to compile an application with Ext.direct? For now I have a script called api.js
that I include after ext-dev.js and before app.js. That script has all the actions and then does the Ext.direct.Manager call:
Ext.ns('Ext'); Ext.php = { "url":"\/extdirect\/router", "type":"remoting", "enableBuffer":true, "actions":{ ....Ext.require('Ext.direct.*', function() { Ext.direct.Manager.addProvider(Ext.php);});
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26 Sep 2012 10:19 PM #3
I am reasonably sure I tried that and had issues. I think some of my stores were trying to load before? Or maybe it was before I changed all the directFn: Function lines to directFn: 'string'.
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I place Ext.direct.Manager.addProvider into the constructor method of my application and it works fine with dynamic class loading, as well.
Ext.define('school.Application', { name: 'school', extend: 'Ext.app.Application', requires: ['Ext.direct.*'], autoCreateViewport: true, constructor: function(config) { config = config || {}; (function applyMultipleNamespacesOfRemoteApi (apiNamespace){ Ext.Object.each(apiNamespace, function(key, value, object) { if (key == 'REMOTING_API') { Ext.direct.Manager.addProvider(value); } else { applyMultipleNamespacesOfRemoteApi(value); // recursive call } }); })(Ext.remote); this.callParent([config]); }, views: [], controllers: [], models: [], stores: [] });


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How Is Your Marriage?
By Rebecca Teti
Thursday: Marriage
(Join each day's Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun: Changing Roles)
Struggling in your marriage? Have some relationship advice to share? Have a marriage success story to share? Have a man/woman question? This weekly thread is the place to do it.
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Hi Ladies- I was hoping for a little advice today. My husband and I have 2 small children at home (both under 2). We are tired! I feel that we need a little time to work on our marriage but don't really have the resources to away for a weekend alone (ie Marriage Encounter). Does anyone have some suggestions on books, activities we could do on our own after the kids are asleep to work on our marriage, improve communication, etc? Thanks
I suggest reading wwnh.com (for you) as a great place to start! It has *completely* changed my outlook on my marriage (we were at a low point & I was exhausted + hubs & I were not the best communicators)! Now I am MUCH more understanding of him & him of me. Hope it helps you like it did me!!
I would recommend saying a rosary together nightly after the kiddos go to bed. We started doing this in January after our priest suggested a family rosary daily during one of his homilies. We initially did it as a family, but with little ones, it just wasn't working (more stressful than prayerful). We don't get one in every night, but 3-4 nights a week we do and it seems if one of us asks, the other finds it very difficult to turn down. Many times say it for our marriage, but also other intentions. As I was reflecting on our marriage the other day, thinking how great it's been the last 6 weeks or so, this is the only thing that I can come up with that is different......
Do a date night in! Get a bottle of wine, some candles, whip out the Scrabble board, and enjoy! You could also take the time to sit and write your husband a love letter during the kids' naptime (or during our lunch hour if you work). Then put it on his pillow and offer to put the kids to bed that night so that he can read it. Another fun thing is to get one of those "fun questions" books from the library. Like "would you rather" questions or hypothetical situations. Then after the kids go to bed, you could ask each other the questions... Guaranteed laughs! There are tons of books to read, but overall just have try to have a little fun and laugh a lot!
I think the books by Jon Gottman (a research pyschologist) who has actually done research on the things that keep a marriage together is another idea. He has some fun quiz's/activities that couples can do . . . my husband and I try and do one around our anniversary every year (wish it was more often LOL)


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The 5 Most Absurdly Petty National Laws Ever Enforced
Once your bloody coup is over and all that sweet, sweet authority starts pouring in, how do you keep it? There's a fine line between governing the people fairly and letting them walk all over you. After all, you got where you are by couping the shit out of the last guy, so what's to stop the people from doing the same to you?
Furious, insane crackdowns on irrelevant bullshit, that's what!
Just take a lesson from these folks ...
#5. Vote for the Wrong Song, Become an Enemy of the State
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The Eurovision song contest, for those of you not familiar, sets country against country in a sort of pop song Thunderdome: Over 50 countries enter, but only one leaves (feeling good about itself).
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Although it really, really shouldn't.
Each country chooses the artist that best represents its musical culture, or, barring that, has the most rockin' titties on display. These groups compete, all of Europe gets a chance to vote, and the winner presumably never has to compete in Eurovision again. You'd think this was all a bit pointless, like a grade school student body election: Won't every country just vote for itself?
But sometimes the results surprise you, as happened with Azerbaijan and Armenia in the 2009 Eurovision competition. Now, those two nations have been at each other's throats ever since they invented nations and throats (uh ... sometime back in the early '90s). No way in hell were citizens of one country voting for another. And for the most part, that was correct. But 43 Azerbaijanis bucked the nationalist trend and were so moved by Armenia's song that they picked up their phones and voted for the enemy.
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Wouldn't you?
In any other time, in any other place, this is where the ability to give a shit politely leaves the room, hops a Greyhound, and starts a new life somewhere far, far away. But not this time. This time the Azerbaijan security forces pulled the phone records to find out who some of these pop-traitors were and called them into police stations for questioning. The musical rebels were accused of being unpatriotic, and were even deemed "potential security threats" by the Azerbaijan authorities.
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"Not loving this is equal to terrorism."
And rightfully so. God forbid they buy a One Direction song on iTunes and bring the whole country to its knees.
#4. Iranians Crack Down on "Counter-Revolutionary" Water Gun Fights
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After the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini pushed a huge "let's get it on" campaign to boost population. The people did their civic duty and nobly used their genitals on one another for the good of the nation. So many babies were born that the government eventually put the brakes on the lovefest, but it was too late: Now half of the country's population is in their early 20s, and all they want to do is rock and roll all night and consume Western culture every day.
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We'll just assume their hands all say "Nicki Minaj."
And because young people are stupid regardless of regime, young Iranians have fallen in love with the concept of the flash mob. In the summer of 2011, a particularly hot one, bored youths decided to set up a playful public stunt. The plan was to get a bunch of strangers together, have an impromptu water gun fight, and then disappear. It worked, if one can describe professional time-wasting as working (we sure do): Dozens of young Iranians showed up at the appointed time and played squirt guns for a bit. Don't you love it when a plan comes together?
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"Say 'salaam alaikum' to my little friend."
Whereas any other country might shrug its collective shoulders and idly wonder why these kids don't get jobs, the Iranian government decided this was a national threat and cracked down with the full weight of its police state.
They put on their best, formal tinfoil hats (bowlers, we believe) and claimed that foreign powers were seeking to undermine the Islamic state by staging squirt-gun battles. One judge went further, and proclaimed that people who took part in said water fights were "counter-revolutionaries." A few arrests were actually made, with some participants even spending time in Iran's notorious prison system. Presumably when asked by other hardened criminals what they were in for, they did not answer "super soaking."
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"I ... uh, killed the army. The whole army."
#3. Being a Dick to Michael O'Brien Will Cost You Precisely $11,945
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In 2006, Australian politician Michael O'Brien was serving as the totally official and not-made-up-sounding Shadow Minister for Gaming. In 2010, O'Brien was promoted to For-Realsies Gaming Minister (actual title). And he found that the limelight, she burned.
Nearly as much as his chlamydia.
Apparently Michael O'Brien liked life in the shadows; he just wasn't crazy about that whole "public" part of "public office." Mostly because, much to O'Brien's shock and absolutely nobody else's, he found that some people in politics were big fat meanies. To combat this, when changes were being made to the Gambling Regulation Act in 2011, the Gaming Minister stuck an amendment in there that made it illegal to insult the Gaming Minister. If you, for example, were to call Michael O'Brien a suckling mama's boy with skin so thin that you can see through it, you would have to pony up 100 penalty units. For those of you who aren't up on obscure conversions, that's about $11,945. That's right: In Australia, it costs nearly $12,000 just to say that Michael O'Brien is the new name for the sand that gets in your vagina.
Here in America, luckily, it's totally free.
In fact, the First Amendment requires us to call him the closest a human has come to being the herpes virus.
The law also forbids picking on those working under the Gaming Minister, whom we can only assume waved their arms dramatically and mouthed "We're good" when the GM suggested they be included in the act.


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(WIBW) - It's being called an achievement with life-changing impact for people all around the Kansas City region.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius joined other officials at KU Medical Center Thursday afternoon to announce the University of Kansas Cancer Center earned designation as a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center.
KU's pursuit of the designation began a decade ago. Officials say it's already created more than 1100 jobs and funneled $453 million into the region's economy. It also led to creation of the Midwest Cancer Alliance, linking KU's oncologists and experts with more than a dozen hospitals around the region.
The designation gives KU's Cancer Center and its patients access to cutting edge treatments and clinical trials. KU says it will also help to attract researchers and scientists.
"By prioritizing medical research, we are investing in our future. NCI designation will dramatically enhance KUCC's ability to discover, develop and deliver innovative treatments to patients in our state and region, and will have a transformative impact on our state's economy," Moran said. "I congratulate the teams at KUCC, KU Medical Center, KU Hospital, and other partners for their successful pursuit of this exclusive designation that will have a life-changing impact on Kansans for generations to come – offering hope to thousands of patients."
KU Cancer Center becomes the 67th facility to earn NCI designation and the first in Kansas.


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lots of nice ideas, but cephas is totally the star of the bunch!
Bio: Cephas aka Falconer. Ancestor of the current Man-at-arms Duncan, and his brother Malcom, aka Fisto. Cephas is the last of the practicing falconers. Thought to be inhumane, the practice is not outlawed, but it is looked down upon and thought of as barbaric, due to the practice of stealing a young falcon from it's nest, and also that of keeping it blindfolded until a hunt. Cephas however, rescued a mother and her nest from rival falcons, (or some other such cliched story) and now Storm, the falcon, is not only endeared to him, but she also raises falcons that are reliant and freindly toward humans. Cephas had the great sword forged of a special, and rare material, that is very strong, but also lighter than any other metal. Cephas' sword, headgear and belt were later discovered by Duncan, and given to Malcom as a gift. Sure, why not.
Sorry you can't see the falcon in this shot, but it's just the grey bird from the weapons pack, on a red stand.
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lots of nice ideas, but cephas is totally the star of the bunch!
Yeah I was quite pleased to realize that the orange of the guards armor, underneath the brown, made it look like real leather, so I purposfully quite before making a totally brown coat. I was really excited when I realized this. Like I said though, somehow he still feels not quite perfect.
Also, the rocket guards need some work to make them match the PG's a little better. Right now they're just a simple mix-and-match.
Maybe Marzo as an archenemy was the biggest thing to happen to Mekaneck, but as far as Marzo was concerned...it was Tuesday.
I love the Cephus figure, and the Mer-minion looks like its gonna be great as well. I can't wait to see it finished.
He looks very cool. Well done.
Great job on those Nich, I like!
Your support means more research for the Myostatin-challenged.
Thanks! I appreciate it! I'm far from a real customizer, or else I might do more to him. The paint I used is cheap, but I'm definately happy with the way it turned out.


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Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 10 - WCF and HTTP
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A set of short screencasts providing a "tour" of the network capabilites in the Silverlight 4 beta. We'll look at raw HTTP access, socket access and WCF capabilities.
In this video, we take a look at using Windows Communication Foundation over HTTP.
The next video in this series is here and the previous videos are;
Part 1 - WebClient and HTTP GET, XML
Part 2 - WebClient and HTTP GET, RSS, ATOM, JSON
Part 3 - WebClient, HttWebpRequest and HTTP POST
Part 4 - Cross Domain and Cross Scheme
Part 5 - HTTP Methods and Stacks
Part 6 - HTTP and Basic Authentication
Part 7 - HTTP and Forms Authentication
Part 8 - TCP Sockets
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He is. Last time, I got an Impaler.
He is. Last time, I got an Impaler.
Edit: You really have to be thorough when you are picking up loot after the moonshot. Sometimes items can get stuck in the floor underneath the center area near the Vault Key. It's kinda tricky.
Oh, yeah, that's right. Sorry. His RARE drops are garanteed, includind the heads.
And if I'm not mistaken, the probability in any later kill is 1%. Which sucks.
Nah, it's 1%. Thing is, with 1%, the chance of getting ANYTHING AT ALL in a hundred tries is just 63%.
Hmm, maybe that's where I got my Impaler. I don't remember where that came from.
I didn't get shit when I beat him a couple of days ago.
Unless it was under that one section of his wing shit gets stuck under all the time.
I've been farming him for a CC for two days now, with no luck. I'm using The Bee shield, too, so my runs take a little under 3 minutes playing by myself in splitscreen. I even have the Vault Hunter Relic on. And if it finally drops but gets stuck under the Warrior, I'm going to run towards the nearest living thing and kill it.
Was just cleaning up some missions I had last night (Tier 3 rematches from Mr. Torgue and the second run against the Leviathan from Captain Scarlett) and a random pirate enemy dropped a Legendary shield. It absorbs bullets 81% of the time. Really low capacity, though.
Yeah, it's the Sham. Works great against enemies who shoot bullets, especially since my Commando has abilities that boost shield capacity and recharge anyway. However, it also highlights just how many enemies in this game don't actually shoot bullets! I'm hanging onto it, of course.
Got a Pyrophobia. It's fucking amazing.
Yeah, I heard it works. And I also found the perfect spot for soloing Terramorphous. He can't even hit you most of the time, and when he does, it's only once. Rock throwers and beams can still kill you, but hey.
EDIT: Why would you go through the trouble for purples? Just kill him again.
My weapon loadout only consists of purples right now because my luck with getting orange weapons to drop is so bad. I've been trying to get the CC so I can farm Terramorphous easily.
Edit: Victor, for some reason I was thinking your post was about how you found a safe spot to hide from the Warrior. Are you refering to the cliff face's ledge that Terramorphous can knock you up to?
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No, it's a small rock to the left, you can just walk there. It's SWEET. He just can't hit you. If you're talking about the place I think you are, that's not safe at all. He can just throw spikes at you from there. My spot is ALMOST PERFECT.
The one right in front of the exit by those steps? Yeah that's where I hide when I fight him. As long as you stay behind cover you're golden. It makes fighting him almost game-breakingly easy.
Yup. It's pretty cheap.
I beat Master Gee the Invincible the other night using a cheesy "hide behind a rock" tactic, and right when he died, my game froze. I guess it is a common problem.


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ARIES (March 21-April 19). The immature way is to assume that if something is not going right now, it never will go right, and therefore the whole endeavor should be chucked. The mature way is to take a breath, calm down and try again.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You'll do a kind of dance as you decide how close to get to someone. You'll emotionally back up, move in, pull to the side and circle to find the right angle. It may be awkward, but it's all part of the process.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You'll stand up to the people who take advantage of others, even if you personally have not been victimized. You're courageous and bold for those who can't be.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Take the time to focus on yourself. Search your soul, and then give it what it longs for. Self-love allows you to give what is rare and beautiful: friendship without self-interest, love without strings.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Wanderlust sets in. You feel you have to keep moving, though others want you to settle down. You may pause for a few moments, but only to catch your breath before you pick up and go again.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your purpose is to engage others, but your methods may be unusual. You'll make mischief — not because it's fun to be rebellious, but because you're trying to play with and entertain people.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). "Do I have to paint you a picture?" says a friend in exasperation. But the devil, as always, is in the details. So don't be afraid to say, "Yes, you DO have to paint me a picture," in order to prevent misunderstandings.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Someone is expecting you to pull a few rabbits out of your hat. While you love to entertain people, an audience that's too demanding takes the fun out of that. Set some boundaries.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Everyone loves a parade — except the person who is in a desperate hurry to get across the street. Don't stew in frustration when you can join that parade and work your way to the other side naturally.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You don't want your idiosyncratic friend to conform to your ways, and neither do you want to conform to his or hers. You appreciate your differences for how they widen both of your perspectives.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Negative thoughts have been rushing in circles through your mind like the loop of a roller coaster. It's high time to step over to the Ferris wheel for some calm revolutions and perspective on the crazy carnival of life.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Don't let a co-worker mistake your justified confidence for arrogance. Remember to present your can-do attitude in a way that doesn't turn you into the office steamroller.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (July 8). Spiritual and artistic awareness expands through the next 10 weeks. You will be hand-in-hand with a powerful ally this month. August brings a much-needed cash infusion. Rearrange finances to make the most of it. September shifts the family dynamic. You'll arrange fantastic events in December. Aquarius and Virgo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 2, 11, 48 and 30.
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Facebook has only two options for choosing who can send friend requests: everyone, and friends of friends. This means I should be able to send a friend request anyone that is a friend of a friend. However, I've seen a couple of mutual friends that don't have the "Add friend" button. How is this possible?
I have seen that too. What that means is they have set their security settings so high that people are not able to request to add them as a friend. I found a dear old friend on FB but unfortunately, they had both the "add friend" and "message" buttons not available due to security.
Many people don't realize what they have done with these settings.
The people that you see under the "Mutual Friends" are already your friends, and hence there is no option to add them as a friend.
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By Troy Kitch-Oracle on Oct 25, 2012
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As provider of the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, Oracle can uniquely safeguard your information throughout its entire lifecycle and is the recognized leader in Data Security, Identity Management, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance solutions.
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What kind of gamer trades the comfort of a couch and a big-screen television for a computer desk and a pair of monitors? Commenter Faux Bravo does unless someone talks him out of it in today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
So I've been thinking of Craigslist-ing my TV and purchasing one to two additional computer monitors and a desk. I currently have a weird gaming setup that really isn't very comfortable.
Does anyone do all their gaming, including console, from the "comfort" of an office chair? I was thinking having everything in one location would be pretty awesome. If I had my computer running one or two monitors (a larger one for gaming) and another monitor for my PlayStation 3.
I'm all for the couch or bed, but I really like to sit close when I'm gaming and that kind of defeats the need for a large TV (I currently have an older 42" Sony LCD). Are there downsides that I'm not thinking of? Has anyone run into things they dislike about always gaming at a desk?
Now I need to find some decent, cheap monitors and a desk. It's hard to find desks that don't suck at stores. The ones that aren't terrible cost WAY too much.
This is a major, life-changing decision I'm making here. Argh!


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22 Oct 2012 3:13 AM #1
How to add event handler for dynamically created widgets in the controller?
Hello Forum members,
I'm a newbie to ExtJs world. I started implementing a MVC based ExtJs 4 project. My problem is -
I have a view(myview.js) which contains a button. Whenever I click on that button (mycontroller.js) I'll create a new window which pops up on the parent window. This new window contains a button and now I need to handle click event for this button. How can I do it? Where should I write the event handler? I tried to do it in mycontroller.js itself. But it's not working as the window is getting created in the runtime. Can someone help me regarding this please?
Thanks a lot
22 Oct 2012 5:52 AM #2
It shouldn't matter that the window gets created later. If the window has an itemId or alias you can target it pretty easily. In your this.control call in your controller you can use a selector like
'#itemId button[text="Cancel"]'
Of course if you changed your button text then it wouldn't work, so you might want to target it differently. I try not to go too crazy with itemIds, but they are preferable to ids when you need to use something like that.
23 Oct 2012 6:19 PM #3
thanks a lot, you have just resolved my problem...


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This is pretty much a "software process" question:
When your organization is split into two teams: software team and database engineering team (the organization is in ETL/BI/Data mining delivering terabyte sized reports and database dumps for research organization),
What are the most common issues in coordination between such two teams? and how do you work around them? Precisely how much authority does a DBA have in dictating design versus a Software Engineer?


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I want to create light weight PNG images with good quality. Can anyone suggest the best way...
Note: Need to use these PNG images in android app designing.
I want to create light weight PNG images with good quality. Can anyone suggest the best way...
From how-to.wikia:
So yes, there is a way to compress them and to reduce file size. Having said that, this is also the first google result which you should have checked out. Additionally, what they are being used for also has an influence on what format you should use. I suggest including that in the question.
Source: http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_reduce_the_file_size_of_a_PNG_file
Addition: I have had good results with ImageOptim when compressing may files in a folder structure. Please also note the warning for Xcode compression.
In addition to the programs suggested by KMSTR, I've had excellent results with PNGOUT.
From the PNGOUT tutorial:
There's also a Windows GUI version called PNGOUTWin available, although it's shareware so you'll have to pay a few bucks for the full version.
Perhaps you can try Photoshop, File> Save for Web & Devices...
If you use Mac then try ImageAlpha (lossy PNG compressor) and ImageOptim (improves compression further).
On Windows it'll be TinyPNG and PNGGauntlet.


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Ross D. Franklin, Associated Press
NOGALES, Ariz. — When Dan Bell drives through his 35,000-acre cattle ranch, he speaks of the hurdles that the Border Patrol faces in his rolling green hills of oak and mesquite trees — the hours it takes to drive to some places, the wilderness areas that are generally off-limits to motorized vehicles, the environmental reviews required to extend a dirt road.
John Ladd offers a different take from his 14,000-acre spread: the Border Patrol already has more than enough roads and its beefed-up presence has flooded his land and eroded the soil.
Their differences explain why ranchers are on opposite sides of the fence over a sweeping proposal to waive environmental reviews on federal lands within 100 miles of Mexico and Canada for the sake of border security. The Border Patrol would have a free hand to build roads, camera towers, helicopter pads and living quarters without any of the outside scrutiny that can modify or even derail plans to extend its footprint.
The U.S. House approved the bill authored by Utah Republican Rob Bishop in June, but prospects in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate are extremely slim and chances of President Barack Obama's signature even slimmer. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified in Congress this year that the bill was unnecessary and "bad policy."
Still, an idea that House Republicans kicked around for years has advanced farther in the legislative process than ever before and rekindled discussion over how to balance border security with wildlife protection.
The debate raises some of the same questions that will play out on a larger scale when Congress and the president tackle immigration reform: Is the U.S. border with Mexico secure, considered by some lawmakers to be a litmus test for granting legal residency and citizenship to millions? Has the U.S. reached a point of border security overkill?
Heightened enforcement — along with a fewer available jobs in the U.S. and an aging population in Mexico — has brought Border Patrol arrests to 40-year lows.
The U.S. has erected 650 miles of fences and other barriers on the Mexican border, almost all of it after a 2005 law gave the Homeland Security secretary power to waive environmental reviews. The administration of President George W. Bush exercised its waiver authority on hundreds of miles after years of court challenges and environmental reviews delayed construction on a 14-mile stretch in San Diego.
The Border Patrol, which has doubled to more than 21,000 agents since 2004, has also built 12 "forward operating bases" to increase its presence in remote areas. Instead of driving long distances from their stations every shift, agents stay at the camps for several days.
Lots more needs to be done, according to backers of Bishop's bill to rewrite rules on millions of acres of federal land managed by the Interior and Agriculture departments, including more than 800 miles bordering Mexico and 1,000 miles bordering Canada. The bill would waive reviews required under the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act and 14 other laws in dozens of wilderness areas, national forests and national parks.
"It's a paralyzing process now," Bell, 44, said as his GMC truck barreled down a dirt road on a 10-mile stretch of his ranch that borders Mexico. "They wanted to put this road in for a decade, probably even longer. They broke ground on it last year."
Bell, a burly, third-generation rancher who leases his land from the Agriculture Department, acknowledges there are noticeably fewer border crossers since the government built a fence on the eastern part of his ranch, near Nogales. In the ranch's west end, the Border Patrol opened one of its camps in 2005 — a collection of shipping containers that agents use as a base while alternating 12-hour shifts.
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When zombies are sitting on a city, killing the populace, how quickly are new zombies born? And is this different between the different units, or the same for all zombie unit types?
I noticed that orc hordes convert civilians at a rate of 5 dead civilians to one zombie orc; is it the same for all species?


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I'm using libwebkit (with python-webkit) to render a page that plays a video. This application works fine in a Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop, Nvidia card and lots of libraries and software installed, but in a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 Server with intel 82945G/GZ card the video does not play.
I guess either some codec package is missing or it's a driver problem. What could be missing for this to play?
I'm trying with this video: http://video.eustasy.co.uk/480/
EDIT: doesn't look like a driver problem. With chromium I can play the video, but with libwebkit + python-webkit the video just shows the first frame and doesn't play. Any hints on what package could be missing?
SOLVED: apparently it had to do with lack of audio. While chrome would play the video with no sound, libwebkit wouldn't start video. Adding user to audio and video groups solved the problem.