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No. No one wants you. Get used to it. Weak program getting worse every year. Get used to fighting weber for recruits.
- 7:58 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Great article, thanks!
- 7:59 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Tom Holmoe's senior year at BYU was 1982, not 1984. Friendly fact check.
- 8:02 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Always the classless little brother, Chris B. is once again so eager to post on
a BYU-related article.
Nice to see you didn't disappoint, Chrissy....
- 8:05 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Oh Chris B... get a life. Getting nervous about BYU going to the Big 12.
It's alright, little brother. We'll still play you. We won't pretend to be too good for you now like you've tried to do to us.
There, there now .
- 8:05 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Chris B I suggest you have a little warm milk and some cookies and try and get excited about your Utes having any kind of chance to go bowling, outside of a party at Rancho Lanes in December.
- 8:17 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Harmon's partly right. BYU will end up in the Big 12, but only if Missouri's
rumored move to the SEC occurs. TCU was invited in part to try to keep Mizzou
in, and the agreement about equal revenue sharing was also a ploy to keep
Missouri and the other schools with wanderlust in the fold.
Some schools in the Big 12 are not too eager to invite BYU for reasons that have nothing to do with either business or the quality of athletic programs. But if Mizzou leaves the remaining schools in the Big 12 will go with the best option available and that is BYU. If Missouri stays, it's anybody's guess whether BYU will be invited.
- 8:22 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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There may not have been a formal offer, but they were definitely negotiatingand the Big 12 was definitely interested. Something scared the Big 12 off in those discussions. Holmoe is keeping mum so as to not risk future negotiations. But I'm afraid that ship has sailed. There won't be an offer, IMO; it has to do with broadcasting rights and Sunday play. The broadcasting network for the Big 12 don't want to have to deal with the baggage BYU brings. I truly, truly hope I'm wrong.
- 8:23 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Enough BYU Big 12 chit chat............"Show me the money!"
- 8:25 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Sorry Chris but your namesake won't be demanding the 2 for 1 game deals both BYU
and Utah can demand from Utah State for scheduling. And even Utah State might
not be getting any visits from their bigger brothers in Salt Lake and Provo
after 2014 when your Ute's are under contract to play in Logan one last time.
The rivalry might go into hiatus for 5-6 years as both schools get used to their
BCS league environments...but it will be back as a Pac 12/Big 12 showdown which
will add a new dimension to it that all the fans on both sides will back up and
The State of Utah will be the crossroads of two great BCS leagues in college football sooner than you think, and BOTH Utah and BYfanssn will be the winners in league realignment!
- 8:28 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Chris B gets an F-
When The most trusted reporter in BYU history speaks Charles Schwab listens.
- 8:35 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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The Big 12 presidents/chancellors 4 years ago made a decision to change the
championship finale of their league basketball toruney to Saturday knowing it
could come to BYU replacing Colorado in the league line-up. They have the data
to back up it's been a great choice thus far, but FOX TV Sports wouldn't listen
and blocked the BYU application a couple of weeks ago in favor of TCU.
Missouri to the SEC when they really want the Big Ten? Don't bet on either.
- 8:48 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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I don't have any sources and I say that BYU is out of the Big-12 expansion picture. See how easy that is was. This coming from a reporter who had a tantrum on national television when BYU was invited by the PAC-10. I wonder how much bigger the tantrum will get if BYU happens to not get an Big-12 invite and is asked to speak on national television again.
- 8:49 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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@Chris B
What's the point of going to an AQ conference if you can't even win a game in that conference?
- 8:59 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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everyone seems to be running away from the big 12 colorado, nebraska last
texas a&m and now missouri. oklahoma and oklahoma state looked at leaving and byu fans think this will be the greatest thing for their athletics programs as they have been waiting weeks for an invite
- 9:03 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Jeff in Norman,
I think we know who will have the Tantrum, should BYU go to the Big 12.
- 9:07 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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I don't care where BYU goes. just hurry up and decide what you want to do. chris b...why do you always have to comment on byu's articles.
- 9:13 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Jeff in Norman
Dude, proof read your posts before submitting them. I can't understand you.
- 9:15 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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Chris B,
I understand your worry about BYU and going to the Big 12...
BYU = Never loosing a recruit to the utes that they want.
Better conference than the pac 12.
Longer nights curled up on moms kitchen floor sobbing.
More "mark it down" worthless predictions.
Another several years with nothing else to do but post on BYU articles.
Heres to another 20 years + Chris..lol
- 9:17 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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I've been excited about this topic for the past few months, checking the news daily to see if things are going to happen. However, as a huge BYU fan, I don't see this thing coming our way. I'm gearing up for a long history as an Independent school. Let's be honest, that is just who we are. We're different and we kind of like floating alone on things. Would I love to be in the Big 12? YES!!! However, I just don't think it will happen any more.
- 9:19 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011
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A little bit of a disclaimer, I have very little knowledge of the correct terminology for some of the things I'm going to ask about, and I apologize in advance
I have a Nexus S 4g phone that is, at the moment of writing, connected to my 11.10 computer through its USB charger cable. In the past, connecting the phone like this has allowed me to transfer files between my computer and my phone; I'm able to get my music onto my phone, and my photos onto my computer, for example. For some reason, this has stopped working. My phone still charges its battery when connected to the computer, but neither the computer nor the phone recognized that they are connected.
Is there something I can do to get the phone and the computer to detect each other? I don't know how to fix this, and it's more than a little frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Are we required to have one in a standard kitchen with a gas range in a residential home? The big question is not how many CFM or ducted or not, just whether there is a requirement in the building codes. I live in New Jersey, US.
Yes, and not only do you need a fan but it must exhaust outside and not just recirculate the air through a carbon filter. You are burning fossil fuels which produces carbon monoxide (among other things). This can kill you if not properly vented.
Rather than repeat what is already on this site, per the comments, see this answer for the exact code requirements for exhaust hoods.
All gas-fired appliances require venting of the products of combustion! Even new appliances produce CO in quantities that can accumulate in the blood stream and cause injury or death. Get the products of combustion out of your house!
I am sorry but I disagree with the other answers. While I would always put an exhaust over a gas range, it is not code where I am at.
Some cities require a window to be in the room if no exhaust (and room is loosely interpreted). For instance the kitchen is in the same room as dining room as long as there is no door separating the two rooms according to local inspectors.
Some allow a ceiling fan - go figure. Just saying it isn't required in most places.
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I'm looking to buy a smallish light tent (1 or 2 feet on a side) and there seems to be quite an array of options. Are there any that are any better than any others? Or should I just go with whatever is cheapest? I used to go to the local photo store and look at this kind of thing, but it closed a couple of months ago :(
I would recommend building one yourself, I followed Bill Hubers' instructions on PBase last year to photograph Jewelry and the results were amazing. One recommendation I took was to not fasten the legs or cross beams, by doing so it is easily collapsible for transport. You can then also make interchangeable beams for additional box sizes as required.
I found these two pretty decent, with swappable backdrops. You can take a look.
I would go with whatever the least expensive option is with the features and size that you want (e.g. interchangeable backgrounds, easy collapse, interior hooks, etc.). A light box is a pretty simple device and you can also easily make them yourself, you just require a reasonably rigid frame, some light white fabric for diffusion, and something like bristol board for the backdrop. There are a ton of examples on the web on how to do that and they work just fine though they don't shout "professional" if you're doing the photography for someone else.
Either way, unless you have really special requirements for it, I doubt that you'd find much difference in any of the options out there in practice.
My light tent was cheap - it required a box cutter and a cardboard box. And a band-aid.
I got my ideas from here and here. The band-aid idea came from first aid training. ;-)


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WHEELING - A potentially deadly, flesh eating heroin knock-off drug - called "krokodil" because users develop blackened or green, scaly skin as a side effect -has found its way from Russia to the United States.
Clinically known as Desomorphine, krokodil - pronounced "crocodile" - is an opiate derivative of morphine, though more potent. It first appeared in Russia when heroin became scarce or too expensive. The drug has attracted a following there because of its simple production, utilizing codeine, iodine, gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, lighter fluid and red phosphorus.
Dr. Matt Lee, director of the Emergency/Trauma Center at Wheeling Hospital, said, "the clandestine manufacturing process is similar to that of methamphetamine. Desomorphine made this way is highly impure and contaminated with various toxic and corrosive by-products."
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A new, flesh eating heroin knock-off drug is making its way throughout the U.S., and doctors such as Dr. Matt Lee, director of the Emergency/Trauma Center at Wheeling Hospital, are warning of its use. -- Fred Connors
He said krokodil is notorious for producing severe tissue damage in users, including vein damage and gangrene. Some documented cases report skin falling off the body, exposing bone and muscle tissue.
Law enforcement officials in Columbus, Ohio this week reported the first suspected case of krokodil use when a homeless man showing those symptoms said he had used the drug. While other cases of use have been identified in Arizona, Oklahoma and Illinois, it apparently has not been widespread across the county.
"We haven't seen it here," Lee said. "I have not found any alerts issued by the Centers For Disease Control or the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency."
Lee said it is not easy to identify krokodil from regular street heroin.
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Drs. Tina Cutone and Rachel Gilman of All About Women have joined Weirton Medical Center. The two physicians will be performing procedures at WMC immediately and are expected to see patients as early as this spring in a newly designed, state-of-the-art facility located inside Weirton Medical Center's Medical Office Building.
Cutone is a Weirton native and has been practicing obstetrics/ gynecology in the Weirton-Steubenville community since 1999. She's a West Virginia University School of Medicine graduate. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. She is board certified by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and specializes in total women's health. Her particular areas of interest include treatment of urinary incontinence and pelvic surgery.
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5 Great Scientists Who Believed Wildly Unscientific Things
If you've been reading Cracked for a while, you probably already know that some scientists had pretty unorthodox methods of experimentation, and that some others were thought of as idiots in their time. But those are all just cases of misunderstood genius -- brilliant people doing crazy things in the service of the scientific method. What's harder to figure out are the famously brilliant scientists who went above and beyond to proudly wave two middle fingers in the face of reason.
#5. Isaac Newton
Everyone knows that Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientists to ever live. He discovered the laws of gravitation, invented calculus and generally made enlightenment more popular than stupidity and madness, which had been topping the charts for most of human history. Even more impressive: He accomplished all of this in his spare time, figuring out gravity, calculus and optics during a single break from university. Newton's main area of interest, and the academic pursuit to which he dedicated the most time, was pants-soiling insanity.
"It's not science if you're covering your junk."
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It's estimated that Newton devoted more time to the study of scripture than to science, and he was generally considered a religious nut at a time when everyone took their religion pretty seriously. Newton treated the Bible like Russell Crowe treated newspaper clippings in A Beautiful Mind, poring over it for hours, looking for hidden codes. Newton also spent quite a bit of his time trying to figure out the exact measurements of the Temple of Solomon, which he modestly claimed would allow him to predict the exact date of the apocalypse.
Because all numbers add up to a wolf eating the sun.
Not all of Newton's scientific beliefs have stood the test of time quite as well as gravity. For instance, he also poured hours and hours of his time into alchemy. In fact, he was so interested in alchemy that it is now believed that alchemy was his main focus, and real science was more of a pastime for him. Unlike mathematics and the laws of physics, Newton wasn't even trying to take alchemy in new and interesting directions, opting instead to pursue theories that had long since been disregarded by people who still believed alchemy was possible. His time as an alchemist was mainly devoted to creating the philosopher's stone, which he believed could transmute other metals into gold and grant human beings immortality.
Apple-induced head injuries are kind of a double-edged sword for scientists.
This might sound familiar if you read the first Harry Potter book, where Harry pursues the same stone as Newton. Of course, in the book, Harry has to find the stone to keep the evil noseless warlock who lives on the back of his teacher's head from gaining too much power. Thanks to the alchemical experiments he performed on himself, Newton had so much lead and mercury in his system at the time of his death that he might have been pursuing the stone for the same reason as Harry.
"Behold, I control the RAINBOW. I am your God now, leprechauns!"
#4. Alfred Russel Wallace
If you're only familiar with one biologist, it's Charles Darwin, inventor of the theory of evolution, and mascot for ill-advised religious debates ever since. Alfred Russel Wallace, one of the most accomplished biologists who ever lived, also came up with the theory of evolution, but he's mostly remembered as a lesson in why you shouldn't send a copy of your career-making theory to a competing biologist.
Wallace sent Darwin a copy of his theory of natural selection in 1858, before Darwin had published a word of his own theory (having been too busy eating every creature he came across). Letters and notes from the time seem to indicate that Darwin was already kicking around a theory of natural selection, but also that he didn't understand key concepts like divergent evolution until Wallace explained them to him.
We're not sure we understand it now either.
Even worse, the field aside from biology in which Wallace was most influential is also dominated by other, much more famous experts, like Whoopi Goldberg's character in Ghost and Egon from Ghostbusters.
The Crazy:
The guy who probably beat Darwin to the theory of evolution was also hugely interested in practicing spiritualist seances. In fact, he believed seances allowed him to communicate with ghosts on the other side of the divide. Most of his paranormal experiments involved staring at ectoplasm. Not the kind that is part of a cell membrane, which would be understandable for a biologist -- Wallace was interested in the type of ectoplasm that characters in Skyrim and Ghostbusters know as matter that bridges the physical and spirit realms, and that everyone else knows isn't real.
Or is actually what ghosts create when they vomit.
A small hindrance like reality, however, wasn't going to stop Wallace, one of the greatest minds in the history of biology, from claiming that communications with the spirit realm inspired a large portion of his work. The scientific method was also important, but Wallace rarely talked about it, presumably because it sucked at making tables levitate.
Understandably, his friends and colleagues, like Thomas Huxley, weren't on board with his beliefs, and Darwin openly wondered if Wallace's magical belief system was hurting the credibility of the theory he stole from him. Actually, if Darwin hadn't cockblocked Wallace's claim to history, we might associate evolution with the crazy guy who thought he could talk to ghosts.
And then the atheists wouldn't be able to use that argument at all.
#3. Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley was a British chemist who was responsible for inventing the process for carbonation and the production of laughing gas, and therefore is indirectly responsible for "David After Dentist" and every soda you've ever enjoyed. Oh, he also discovered oxygen in 1774, which we guess is kind of useful, if you're one of those people who's into breathing.
"This 'oxygen' doesn't get me high at all. Back to the laughing gas!"
When Priestley discovered oxygen, he didn't actually call it oxygen; he called it "dephlogisticated air," but that's probably pretty common. You don't let the doctor who delivers your baby name it just because he's the first person to discover it. Priestly probably had a simple but perfectly scientific reason for naming oxygen something so profoundly stupid.
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Actually, he only went out of his way to discover oxygen in the first place to prop up his belief in the phlogiston theory, which is based on the assumption that there are four elements: water, earth, fire and air. While it was once the most popular explanation for the natural universe, the phlogiston theory has since gained attention for being the most swiftly and utterly disproved theory ever taken seriously by people over the age of 5.
Responsible for more cries of "Remember that? What were we thinking?" than parachute pants.
Unfortunately, the theory's plummet from grace occurred right smack in the middle of Priestley's promising, and then increasingly hilarious, scientific career. While Priestley used his discovery of oxygen to declare "Phlogiston for life, bitches!" the rest of science was using it to demonstrate the exact degree to which his pet theory was full of shit, which turned out to be substantial. It was as if he'd discovered stem cell research, and then used it to support his belief that male babies are more likely to be delivered by a gray stork.
"Look! All this phlogiston is setting fire to my research! Wheeee!"
Seeing their opportunity to rub Priestley's face in his own bullshit theory, science proved that matter combines with oxygen through a process called oxidation and reduction, which in turn unlocked the building blocks of the natural universe. Despite his peers repeatedly pointing out how completely crazy it made him look, Priestley stuck to his guns. As the rest of science raced forward to where we are today, Priestley told them, "You guys go ahead without me, I'm going to hang back. I've got a good feeling about this theory that seems more appropriate for World of Warcraft." (Not an exact quote.)
And then he was butt-forked by Satan and aged in an oak cask. Just like Einstein.


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Historical Amnesia
In a review some years ago of John Noonan's A Church That Can and Cannot Change (2005), my neighbor Dennis O'Brien remarked that the Roman Catholic Church has a strong sense of tradition and no sense of history. He's a philosopher and former university president, and I'm a historian, but his bon mot sums up the church's worrisome habit of ignoring all too often the tangled skeins of the past underlying its public pronouncements. Think, for instance, of Benedict XVI's May 2007 letter to the church in China, which noted Matteo Ricci's assurances to the Ming emperor that the church had no political aims in his country. "As Pope John Paul II stated," Benedict wrote, "recalling what Fr. Matteo Ricci wrote from Beijing, 'So too today the Catholic Church seeks no privilege from China and its leaders but solely the resumption of a dialogue'" based on mutual respect and understanding. True enough, but few historians would recognize that as a complete picture, overlooking as it does the four centuries since Ricci's death in Beijing, and the ways in which missionaries (by no means all of them Catholic) and their home governments built up for themselves positions of entrenched privilege that ended only in the mid-twentieth century.
No doubt Vatican diplomats would argue that this sort of historical forgetfulness has its uses as Rome seeks to build bridges to the People's Republic. Maybe so, but in any case Benedict's letter is simply one example of the kinds of memory loss that one sees all too often—and let's not even get into the question of Francis's views on gay priests, already engaging the usual suspects on both sides of the issue. Take instead, a recent article by Archbishop William Lori, dealing not with China but with the United States, which seems a particularly egregious example of ignoring the past.
Religious freedom is, he points out (or at least should be) a fundamental right, not only here at home but everywhere. He praises the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty (which he chairs) and its Fortnight for Freedom for "planting the seeds of a move for religious freedom" which will eventually "bear fruit among the laity." Yet surely that sounds a bit odd, at least if we are talking about the American laity. However we may argue over the First Amendment, most of us know, after all, that religious freedom has been enshrined in the Constitution for over two centuries. Could it be that rather than the bishops' "planting the seed" of religious liberty, so that it would bear fruit among the laity, it might actually be the laity (Catholic and otherwise) who did the planting, so that one day it would bear fruit among the bishops, as it finally did when the Vatican Council issued Dignitatis humanae in 1965? Comforting though it might seem to posit episcopal leadership in such matters, the American laity, rightly or wrongly, did not wait until the twenty-first century for the bishops to plant such a seed. In fact they have been out in front, while over the centuries, whatever their private beliefs, the bishops were held in check by Rome.
Now, it's true that a year ago, the same Committee's statement, "Our First, Most Cherished Liberty" (April 12, 2012) pays somewhat more attention to history, referring back to colonial Maryland's brief experiment with a limited religious toleration, to Cardinal James Gibbons's praise for religious freedom in 1887, and so forth. But it is a highly selective attention, completely ignoring nineteenth century papal condemnations of this "cherished liberty." It's thus rather like extolling the long history of American freedom while averting one's eyes from the realities of slavery.
It's worth reflecting on this, because such misreadings of history exemplify why such appeals are likely to have little resonance among Americans, Catholic or otherwise. Yet these misreadings are all too common among Catholic leaders (and by no means restricted to them alone—think of the EU's recent battle over the Christian role in Europe's "heritage"). Part of the error stems, no doubt, from an ignorance of history, or more likely, history badly taught. Take, for instance, the role of St. Thomas More, cited by the USCCB in its Fortnight of Freedom. More, surely, was a great man, and indeed a saint, who died for his beliefs. But in no sense was he the exemplar of religious freedom that the bishops would have us believe. As King Henry's chancellor after 1529, he was engaged in the persecution of heretics—it was, after all, in his job description (as indeed More's chancellerian successors under Elizabeth and others were charged with persecuting Catholics, and for that matter, Dissenters of various sorts).
But leave More to one side. The greater question implicitly raised by Lori, but never answered, has to do with the Catholic Church's recent conversion to a view of religious freedom as a "fundamental right." When and why did it happen? Here, Lori's historical account carries us back no farther than Dignitatis humanae forty-eight year ago. Again he's perfectly accurate when he says that "successive popes have reaffirmed the church's commitment to this principle," and though he rather surprisingly ignores John XXIII's role in planting seeds, he cites John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and now Francis I, in support of religious freedom. Yet isn't this a bit like saying that ever since the Voting Rights Act—also of 1965—successive U.S. presidents have upheld the ideal of racial equality? Case closed, in short; and there's no longer any need to delve into America's murky past from 1789 to 1964, and to have to explain the difficult contradictions that crop up.
Or is there? And if, since 1965, "successive" popes have upheld religious freedom, what can we say about "predecessive" popes, those who earlier presided over the governance of the church and its teachings for almost two millennia? Should we simply ignore them? There's no need to return to the problems and the corruptions of the medieval and renaissance papacies, or Nicholas V's authorization of slavery in Romanus pontifex (1455), which sits awkwardly with John Paul II's condemnation of it in Veritatis splendor (1993). All you have to do is look at some of the leaders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Read, say, Gregory XVI's Mirari vos (1832), or Pius IX's Quanta cura and its annexed Syllabus of Errors (1864), whose teachings were later reaffirmed by Leo XIII, Pius X, and Pius XI. Are those pontiffs spinning in their graves today as they see their ideas overridden by later generations? Or are they (as we may prefer to believe) laughing in Heaven, joyful that the truth that has at last been understood?
Now, this "cherished freedom," of course, was never particularly high on the agenda of any of the world's great religions before modern times (in Japan, for instance, even Buddhists fought one another). Still, the fact remains that the earthly historical teachings of these earlier popes would seem to contradict Dignitatis humanae. What to do?
There are three possible answers to this conundrum. First: we can simply elbow Clio and her complications aside, and ignore the question. That is the way church leaders often seem to behave, and it is the way the European Union behaves over the question of the continent's Christian heritage. A second answer is to say that the teachings of Gregory XVI or Pius IX, authoritative though they may sound, are not in fact part of the church's magisterium. This might seem a difficult argument to make, but one should never underestimate the power of sprightly lawyers, both civil and canon, to talk themselves out of tight spots.
The third answer, and the one that most historians would favor, is simply that times change and teachings change, so that (in the words of Lumen fidei in 2013) "everything in the patrimony of faith comes to be more deeply understood," or, as we might say, historicized. That is essentially the argument of John Noonan's book, which in fact deals both with slavery and religious freedom (though not with historical amnesia). It is also the argument of Patrick O'Neil, one of Noonan's critics, faced with the problem of explaining how mere religious tolerance, once grudgingly permitted at particular times in particular places for prudential reasons, became metamorphosed into an obligatory universal religious freedom. But does this mean that our predecessors were in fact unwitting heretics? Or that those who favored religious liberty were heretics until the church announced its own conversion?
Hence O'Brien's comment about the strength of tradition and the weakness of history. Some might see such historical amnesia as deceptive. I should prefer to put it down instead to defective education, particularly defective historical education. But then we historians are always fond of lamenting that these days no one seems to know or care anything about the past and its importance. Like it or not, we are creatures of history, and must face up to the difficulties of our heritage—at least if we expect our pronouncements to be taken seriously.
About the Author
Nicholas Clifford, a professor emeritus of Middlebury College, is a frequent contributor to Commonweal.
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Bishop Lori was the first USA bishop to ban Catholic VOTF members from meeting in their own parishes in 2002. . He planted seeds alright.
"…such misreadings of history exemplify why such appeals are likely to have little resonance among Americans, Catholic or otherwise… ."
So true at least for me. How can I get excited about attacks on our religious liberty or "Fortnights for Freedom" when
- We have recourse to the court system, etc.
- Our churches have special privileges, e.g., tax exemptions.
- There are places in the world where Christians are being subject to outrageous to horrendous persecutions.
(In addition, the chaplain in the House of Representatives is a Catholic priest.)
Thank you, Professor Clifford, for your insightful analysis. Your article reminds me that one's nose can be seen if one just looks close enough. Too many distractions today and too many attempts to bastardize history for specific gain of one kind or other. If we don't know from whence we came, it makes it all the more harder to figure out where we're heading --- or where we are! Again, thank you.
Democracy and liberty are gainst Natural Law and to be everywhere condemned. So ruled the infallible popes in the 1800's. Case closed.
Democracy and liberty are gainst Natural Law and to be everywhere condemned. So ruled the infallible popes in the 1800's. Case closed.
Natural law cannot be changed. The Bishops are heretics.
When Bishop Lori writes, "Successive popes have reaffirmed the church's commitment to this principle" of religious freedom, he reminds me of various papal pronouncements down through the centuries that often begin with something like, "As the church has always taught...." just before we are treated to a rather novel interpetaion of some particular doctrine.
It is stunning how obtuse Archbishop Lori has been. Anyone who has read the definitive work on the subject of the politics of American Catholics in the colonies, Papist Patriots, by Maura Jane Farrelly (Oxford UP, 2012) would know that the laity's Republican principles are the root of religious freedom among Catholics in the U.S. Anyone who recollects the silencing of John Courtney Murray in the 1950's would realize how obtuse Abp. Lori is. Anyone who knows the history, as the ironic (I hope) John McGrath does, of Roman Catholic pronouncements on religious freedom in the 1830's (against the French liberals), the 1864 reiteration of the condemnations of freedom of conscience and religion in the Syllabus of Errors, and the teaching ofTestem Benevolentiae issued by Leo XIIII against the heresy of "Americanism," would recognize the wildly selective view the archbishop presents.
But is it true that thsoe who don't know history are condemned to repeat it? If so, Lori is in real trouble.
My question is the following: "Why this re[peated 'mind set' that always seem to not see the value of change? Is the possible answer that the leaders in the Church feel that "human tradition is more important the truth?"
American Catholic Bishops not only misread the past, they misread the present. Too many of them are wealthy cosseted, pompous, narrow-minded, inadequately educated bachelors, oblivous to the challenges, suffering, joys, and achievements of the laity they purport to serve.
Yes, my previous post, while based on fact and the acceptable Catholic habit of calling people heretics, was ironic. We did study this issue in high school and how l'Avenir came up with a slogan that convinced the staunch Belgian Catholics to let their small secularist minority write their Constitution, despite the fervid opposition of the bishops to democracy.
Misread history? What about the ridiculous Catholic chant that "marriage has always and everywhere been between one man abnd one woman." I know Catholics do not read the Bible, which would let them know that their chant was a big lie, but weren't they aware of the existence of Muslims in the world? Of course they were. They deliberately chose to lie.
I find myself in the unfamiliar place where I rise to defend a member of the hierarchy, and one with whom I disagree and find so disagreeable as Archbishop Lori to boot. But the good Archbishop wasn't writing a scholarly paper on the history of Catholic thought on the growth of religious freedom. He was writing a political document designed to attract people to his cause. And while the very fact that Archbishop Lori was able to write such a piece, in the New York times, no less without a single government agent excercising prior censorship or worse, arresting him immediately upon its publication, would seem to me to indicate that both freedom of speech and freedom of religion are doing quite nicely thank you very much. the Archbishop disagrees with a public policy and he was marshalling his "facts", no differently than any other political writer would do. In these kinds of pieces, regardless of the view of the writer, inconvinient facts,those which don't back up the the writer's or the speaker's position, are ignored. This isn't much different from Ronald Reagan quoting FDR on the need for a balanced budget at the Republican convention or Clinton quoting Reagan to the Democrats. Everyone knows FDR would be more horrified by the modern day GOP than he was by the economic royalists of his own day, and that Reagan would have held a similar view of Clinton. Everyone knows that the Bishops aren't leading the people on religious freedom and that the Church was centuries behind in its views on this matter(heck wasn't democracy part of the sin of Modernism condemned by Pius X in the 20th Century?), but that doesn't build his case for his position.
Some do, but remarkably few people, apart from some dyed-in-the-wool reactionaries, seem willing to acknowledge that the saintly Founders, to whom God dictated the sacred Constitution, were none of them notably enthusiastic about democracy. That is, of course, why we have a system that looks very like an 18th-century constitutional monarchy or even moderate absolutism, although not as much so as Hamilton, for example, would have wished.
One day, when the federal and states' governments decide to institute universal suffrage, as seen in countries where the aim is for every adult citizen to be on the register, this country may be able to take its first tottering steps towards democracy. In the meantime, all the talk about The World's Oldest (or Greatest) Democracy is vacuous blustering.
No, you can't step into the same river twice.
ARE WE to FORGET that in 1455 NICHOLASV authorized slavery? DOES that mean that since then all of the popes have turned a blind eye to slavery? OR, has a pope disclaimed the fact that NICHOLAS V was for slavery? THE CHURCH is suppose to stand up for the poor and sick,NOT the rich,moneymen that are running our world head first into ruination.
POPE FRANCIS is more worried about the poor than about the rich. HE wants us to look after our fellow man with an eye towards enriching ones life. NOT keep trying to keep man down.
RELIGIOUS freedom is allowing us to practice our religion,not meaning to run countries under the guise of religious freedom. THE middle east is a perfect example of failed religious teachings and preachers preaching hatred for the infidel, the so-called non-believers.
ARE today's bishops trying to influence elections like in the old days? OR are they trying to make us take notice and think?
It seems to me Lori's words and deeds are fine examples of the real world consequences of the topic at hand.
If Lori wishes to be a politician than he should be one. If he wishes to be a Catholic priest than he should be one. To be both requires support of the notion there is a point one reaches in the Catholic bureaucratic hierarchy at which there no longer exist an absolute requirement one follow the teachings of Christ. Being a successful politician demands making decisions a Catholic priest simply may not make. The unshakeable conviction heaven is real and reachable is a powerful force.
For a priest to do otherwise will always result in that priest embracing a fuzzy view of his own history. And I believe it is reasonable to assume one's view of all history is heavily colored by ones own history.
That Lori may speak and publish freely is indeed a good thing all around. That he be called to task is an even better thing. It is an indication of the fact we are not blind to the power of words and the enormous influence so many have had with their misue.
A biographer of Henry VIII--I telieve it was Francis Hackett but I am not certain--wrote that the Catholic Church had the best organized memory in the world. He meant that it could find precedent for any position it wanted to take at any given time, just as it could support the opposite position a few decades or scores of years later. Nicholas Clifford has shown more examples of that flexibility.
Nicholas, this is a fantastic article, and I thank you for it.
Might I add an additional complication, or unintended consequence, of the egregious tendency of bishops to read history selectively and make incredible statements based on these misreadings? The whole church loses credibility when it comes to matters of grave importance to faith.
The greatest truths of the faith are supposed to be taught by our bishops. If they can't even get a few historical facts right... it undermines the credibility of everything else the Church teaches.
The questions posed toward the end of the article deserve close attention.
Consider first the question of "what to do" about apparent contradictions, e.g., that between Dignitatis humanae and earlier pronouncements. The "three possible answers" listed are first, to ignore the question; second, to deny that the earlier pronouncements belong to the magisterium; and third, to state simply that times change and teachings change.
That last alternative leads, as noted, to more questions, and they do need to be addressed. But first I would note that there is a fourth alternative, and it has not been neglected by those who would (a) expand infallibility as broadly as possible and (b) deny that Church teachings ever change. It is a different way for "spritely lawyers" to "talk their way out of tight spots." Here a doctrine that has become inconvenient receives a new reading, so that it no longer says what it obviously said.
The best way to employ this strategy is to issue a new authoritative statement upholding the earlier doctrine while adding language that renders it irrelevant. An example is Benedict XIV's Vix pervenit. Issued in 1745, it confirmed age-old strictures against usury. It was definitely a sin to demand of the borrower more money than was lent just because it was lent. But the pope also noted that there might be certain titles running along with the loan, extrinsic to it, which the lender might justly claim. And of course those "extrinsic" titles just happened to add up to the reasons interest was charged in the real world (elaborated by late medieval and early modern moralists, they were based on lucrum cessans, damnum emergens, periculum sortis, and others).
So the newer doctrine can pretty much clear the way for the spritely (or sprightly) lawyer. Alternatively, the older doctrine may have been set out in such a way as to separate it from its practical effects at the time it was issued. The key to that strategy is to declaim against heretical positions without naming the heretics. Suspects may protest that they don't hold the positions condemned. Their protests can be ignored, and sanctions can be imposed. Later, condemnations of the heresies, even "phantom heresies," can be upheld with a straight face, and never mind the unjust treatment of real people (consider, for instance, the cases of Americanism and Modernism).
Going back to the "third answer" in the article, the formulation in Lumen fidei is surely distorted if it is reduced "simply" (too simply) to the assertion that "times change and teachings change." In that reduction the "patrimony of faith," rather than being "more deeply understood" would be relativized out of existence. The perplexity expressed about unwitting heretics, or those who cease to be heretics when the Church comes to see things their way, would be understandable.
Far from suggesting such radical relativism, Francis goes on to quote Dei verbum on the transmission of the faith. That same document contains observations about different stages in that transmission and also about the contributions that various scholarly methodologies can make, for instance, to the interpretationof Scripture.
The distinction necessary in considering contradictions between earlier and later Church pronouncements is that between the faith and the teaching used to interpret and transmit it. Those charged with the interpretation and transmission have sometimes erred in what they taught. Admitting that would enhance rather than lessen their credibility.


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text: For those of you that are familiar with the animated web series 'Bravest Warriors' you will have fun with this next tut. Here is "how to draw Catbug", step by step. Catbug is exactly what he looks like, a cat in a ladybug's shell. His blue colored coat goes will with the red colored shell. In the series Catbug is a creature that could only have come from the imagination of a child. Drawing Catbug should prove to be fun and exciting. Whenever you recreate a figure from Bravest Warriors it feels like you are drawing another Adventure Time character. Have fun people and enjoy.


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Memory Segment
Whenever U create a program and load it on a CPU ie executing UR program. It loads a Process Page on the virtual memory of UR system.That Process page will be mapped to UR Task Struct which will be in UR Process Control Block PCB.
Ps: Stack Segment and Heap Segment may grow other way too (UP and Down respectively)as it depend on the system U work
- Intel/Windows Stack grows Upwards
- Sparc/Solaris Stack grows Downwards
When a program is executed a Function Stack Frame is created in the Stack segment of UR Process Page for each and every function called and destroyed when U exit from the function scope.
Function Stack Frame
All Task structs have two Pointer called the Stack Pointer (SP), and the Frame (FP) or Base Pointer (BP). SP always points to the "top" of the stack, and FP always points to the "top" of the frame.
So when function are called inside functions the stack keeps growing downward. when Functions are called:
In a small program like :
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- The fn called pushes the parameters of the fn to be called into the stack
- The Program counter is saved as return address
- SP pointing to previous stack is copied to the new FP
void fn (void) { int j; return; } int main (void) { int i; fn(); return 0; }
To test these we can write a small Program:
#include <iostream> using namespace std; void fn(void) { int * ptr; ptr = (int *)&ptr; ++ptr; int* mainfp = (int*)(*ptr); --mainfp; --mainfp; *mainfp = 20; return; } int main (void) { int i = 10; fn(); cout<<I =<<i<<endl; return 0; }


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Sonic X - Chaos Control
It began as a simple rescue mission... no-one could, when looking back, believe that the events that eventually transpired had come from such a simple thing. It was all very straightforward, and had begun with Cream the rabbit wandering happily through the woods picking flowers, her Chao Cheese by her side as always. Little did she know that one of Eggman's robots lurked behind a tree; when she passed by, unsuspectingly, the robot jumped out and grabbed her, stifling her screams by putting her into a sack. Cheese tried bravely to distract the robot in his terrible task, but was overpowered and put into the sack with her. Cream soon fainted from fright and the robot took her away, back to his master. Eggman rubbed his hands together with glee; this was the final part to his fiendish plot. He needed the lifeforce of an innocent in order to power his machine... which also held all of the seven Chaos Emeralds which he'd painstakingly gathered from around the world. As well as the Master Emerald, the taking of which he considered to be one of his own personal triumphs. Eggman had tricked Knuckles in allowing him to look at the Master Emerald; the reason he gave was that he wanted to take measurements in order to create a copy that would be exactly like it in every way. Knuckles had considered Eggman's idea to be insane, but had allowed him to look at the Emerald anyway. This was Eggman's chance; he'd used his transportation machine to steal the Master Emerald and transport it to his base, where it surmounted his machine.
The capture of Cream was the final piece of the puzzle; the final part of Eggman's diabolical plan to give him absolute power over the entire planet. Now, he was busily working on his machine, to get everything perfect for the exact time that the moon was parallel to the planet, which would be when he'd press the button to start the machine off. Cream and Cheese were nearby, in a cage. Eggman didn't care about the fact that he was taking the life of an innocent child; all he cared about was his plan for control. However, there were a few fatal flaws in his plan that he hadn't considered. One was Sonic, who by now had learned of Eggman's kidnapping of Cream, who was racing at top speed towards Eggman's base, followed at a slower pace by Tails and Amy who were flying in Tails' plane above Sonic. All three knew that time was of the essence; the moment that the moon became parallel to the planet, the machine would be activated and everything they loved and valued would be destroyed. The second was Shadow, the dark hedgehog who had been created by Eggman's grandfather, and who generally kept himself to himself. However, this was something that he could not allow to happen; the idea of Eggman having absolute power over everything, including the Chaos Emeralds, was something that tore at his very conscience. So Shadow too was racing towards Eggman's base with the idea of stopping him before he could push the button.
Knuckles of course was incandescent with rage, both at himself for being so gullible as to actually allow Eggman to view the Master Emerald, and at Eggman for daring to steal it. As the guardian of the emerald, Knuckles was locked into despair at its theft for a few minutes after it was stolen, unable to do anything til rage took him over and he started to run in the direction that Eggman had taken in his ship, triumphant after transporting the Master Emerald to his base. He had nothing on his mind except the emerald, so it wasn't surprising that he didn't see Rouge flying towards Eggman's base above him. Rouge had seen the Chaos Emeralds being brought there, one by one, and her love for jewels had finally driven her to take the risk of stealing the Chaos Emeralds from Eggman. She had the advantage of being able to fly, and therefore enter the base unseen from above. She hugged to herself the thought of finally possessing such beautiful gems, and perhaps any others that Eggman had tucked away inside his base. She entered the base at the same time as Sonic arrived and started fighting off Eggman's defensive perimeter to gain entrance for himself and his friends. In a way, it was ironic; all had different reasons for wanting to gain entrance to the base, but all arrived at roughly the exact same time. Shadow slipped inside while the defensive robots were distracted by Sonic; Knuckles punched a hole in the wall round the back of the base and got inside too. Tails and Amy landed their plane and, along with Sonic, destroyed the last of the robots to gain entrance to Eggman's base.
That is when everything went disasterously wrong for Eggman. He thought that he'd had everything planned down to the slightest detail, the planet was about to be correctly lined up with the moon, he was about to press the button... then suddenly, he was assailed simultaniously by Amy swinging her hammer at the cage to free Cream and Cheese; Sonic and Shadow independantly rushing at him to prevent him from pressing the button; Knuckles swinging a fist in his face shouting incoherantly about thieves; Tails tinkering with the machine in an attempt to send it haywire, and Rouge stretching out one gloved hand towards the Chaos Emeralds which were placed on top of the machine. He didn't know who to attack first; but he must have done something, as the button somehow ended up being pressed, just as Amy freed Cream and Cheese and Rouge picked up one of the Chaos Emeralds. This, along with the alignment of the moon and planet being out of key, meant that instead of the machine working as Eggman had planned, Chaos Control kicked in and a blinding white light blasted out. Soon, for everyone present, things faded to black. The effect of the machine meant that all were sent to another planet, to land in different parts of the same city. The Chaos Emeralds and Master Emerald too were sent, to be scattered all over the country. It was a disaster to end all disasters, but worse was to come.
The Government soon learned of mysterious gems landing randomly all over the country. Due to nothing more than luck, the FBI found one and brought it in. The gem, one of the Chaos Emeralds, was put through rigorous testing in the best laboratories that the President had, and soon revealed that it had incredible powers. What these powers were, and how they could be tapped into, was still to be learned, but the top scientists performing the tests assured the President that they'd do their utmost to do both of these tasks so that the Government could use the power to the best of its ability. This was a find that was not to be sniffed at and the FBI were given instructions to find the rest of these precious gems as well as to deal with anyone else they found to be searching them out. This was a power that deserved to be kept solely for use by the Government.
> Stick to YOUR character. These characters already have distinct personalities, ages, etc. For example; Don't play Cream as a sultry character, because she's only 6 and that doesn't match her personality. If you want to learn more about your character's personality, you can find a list of Sonic characters here: Sonic X - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .
> Obey the rules of the RPG stickies! Read them over, if need be.
> If anyone not currently involved in the RP (those who are already will know who they are), please contact either Miranda_ or myself via PM asking for permission, as well as giving us a couple paragraphs of writing so we can see your skill level.
> If anyone else has any other questions, again please contact Miranda or myself with them. ^_^
Character Form:
There is none. Like I said, all characters already have their personalities and ages defined, as well as each person assigned to a character (I will edit in a list shortly!), so play them as they are. However, we expect a good starting paragraph, of course. :P
Character List!:
Knuckles - Miranda_
Rouge - TheHayleyDoll
Tails - spirit_queen
Cream - Catlover642
Sonic - Aaronshadows
Shadow - noirmali
Amy - Silent_Wolf
We're starting with when you're character first wakes up after being warped into this other world. Not all the characters will be in the exact same area, so don't post as such, but instead little groups will be spread out. It's part of the plot that the characters have to find each other first, and it wouldn't make much sense if they were all together.
Knuckles had been angrier than he'd ever had been before, at least, that he could remember, when he'd finally torn his way into Eggman's base. He'd then not noticed anything else other than the fact that Eggman was standing right there in front of him, and that the precious Master Emerald was behind Eggman. Knuckles had therefore run at Eggman to punch him into oblivion. Before he could do so, there was a blinding flash of light and then it all went black...
Knuckles wasn't aware of anything, even where he was. He was out cold, lying on top of Rouge in a busy street on a planet that he'd never even heard of. The city was in a country called America, far away from his home planet.
Rouge had her eyes set on the Chaos Emeralds, and managed to grab one before things went black. She didn't have it in her hands when she had finally gained consciousness, though she did feel a large weight on her chest. At first, she only thought of it as maybe some kind of pain, thinking maybe someone had kicked her hard in the stomach and she had the wind knocked out of her. Opening up just one eye at first, she noticed that they were someplace very different, and she finally realized that the weight on her chest wasn't from getting kicked, but because Knuckles was laying on top of her.
Though her back was a little achy from what she assumed might have been her falling to the ground, she let out a little smirk and said, "I knew you wouldn't be able to keep off me, Knuckles. It was obvious that you were going to fall for my charm sooner or later."
Miles "Tails" Prower awoke with such a headache that all he knew was pain; he coulnd't even remember how he got here, let alone where "here" was. He groaned and curled up, clutching his aching skull and willing this mother of all headaches away, which wasn't working too well. Finally, it receeded enough that he could sit up and inspect his surroundings, which only lead to Tails getting more confused; he was laying on a flat concrete surface with a big red circle painted on it. In the middle of this cirlce was a giant "H". Still disoriented, Tails simply stared at the letter, wondering wha it stood for.
But he was forced to concentrate on other things when he heard a lous whump-whump and a lartge helicopter almost landed on top of him. Tails just managed to scramble away, but there was nowhere to hide; whoever polited that helicopter would see him instantly, and Tails was afraid.
Shadow was disappointed, in pain, and angry although he would never show it. He was lost, didn't know where he was, and his arm hurt. Anyone else in the same position would have been experiencing the same thing. The last thing he remembered was slipping into the labratory, and was about to get the gems while Sonic was busy distracting Dr. Eggman, and then everything went white. He opened his eyes. The first thing that hit him was, it's so gray. The sky was completely covered by clouds, and it looked like it might rain. He sat up, and saw that his arm had a bruise. He was face to face with a big stone, concluding that it was the cause of the bruise. It had a person's name on it and the date that they died. He knew that it was obviously a tombstone, and looked around. There were hundreds of them, with variations of dark and light gray, all different sizes. Some of them had flowers lying beside them and they all had names and messages engraved on them. On one side was a dark forest. He got up. He didn't know where he was or what had happened, but he wasn't going to just lie here and do nothing.
He heard the sound of a branch cracking, and quickly ducked. He saw an old man standing by a tombstone, placing white lilies there. The old man kneeled, did a quick prayer, and walked away. Shadow watched all this in fascination. He zoomed quickly toward the forest in his skates, hiding in the darkness of the trees.
Cream didn't know where she was, but she knew she couldn't be in Mobius; it was pitch black and Mobius was the most peaceful place she ever knew. She was sitting hunched up uncomfortably between two pieces of metal. It hurt horribly, but it was nothing compared to the fear she felt. She wondered if she was still with Dr.Eggman, mabye he transported her into a new kidnapping place.
She knew she had to get out but she couldn't see any doors. Because of the fear and the lack of not knowing what to do, she began to panic attack and was hitting the walls of the metal. Suddenly, she felt herself and the metal fall down against rock hard pavement. The top of the metal thing came off and Cream was staring out into a much more lighter enviroment; tho, it didn't do much to ease her fear, she was still shaking. Cream quickly scrambled out. She heard a loud sounding of thumping from above; she looked up and saw a helicopter flying in the sky. Is it Eggman? Please don't let it be Eggman. She quickly panicked, looking for somewhere to hide. Cream hoped some one would be there to help her; and luckily, she spotted Tails, or atleast she thought it was him, she didn't know if that had foxes in this place.. "Tails?" she screamed loudly, hoping it was him.
"Cream!" Tails replied. He rushed over to her. "Duck down!" He pulled her down with him as the helicopter landed on the "H" he'd been studying earlier.
As soon as the blades slowed nearly to a stop, the doors of the helicopter were thrown open and what appeared to be a stretcher came out; the paramedics didn't seem to notice the two anthromorphs as they rushed to get the patient inside. Tails stayed as still as possible while watching, growing more an more confused; why were they being ignored? What was wrong with that person in the stretcher? Where were they??
Sonic moaned loudly and heard something jump away from him. His eyes snapped open instantly and he observed a small child with a very large stick with string attached in front of where he was lying. He also noticed a huge body of water beside him.
"Hey, let's not get too hasty!" He exclaimed as the child poked him with the stick. He scrambled up and edged away from the lake, then turned and darted off.
Cream was shaking more than ever now. And without any warning, started crying about Cheese. She was so worried about getting out herself she didn't notice where he was or if he was with her. How could I ever be so selfish?
At that, the pilot fo the helicopter looked over at them. "What the hell...?" He said in a distinct southern-American accent. He got out of his craft and took a step toward them, confusion reflecting in his eyes; the little things lookes like animals, but they also resembled people.
Tails was conflicted between asking where they were and trusting the rather tall human male and running, and so sat frozen.
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Short fingered for hot days, padded for long rides.
Supple after repeated soakings, breathable on hot days, and protective when sampling dirt, the Tessa Women's Cycling Glove's Clarino synthetic leather palm adds undeniable comfort and protection to your ride.
- Lightly padded synthetic Clarino palm
- Mesh backs
- Hook-and-loop strap closure
Tech Specs
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Size chart
|Palm Circumference
|< 7in
(< 17.8cm)
|7 - 8in
(17.8 - 20.3cm)
|8 - 9in
(20.3 - 22.9cm)
|9 - 9.75in
(22.9 - 24.8cm)
|9.75 - 10.5in
(24.8 - 26.7cm)
|10.5in +
(26.7cm +)
|Palm-Fingertip Length
|< 6.8in
(< 17.4cm)
|6.8 - 7in
(17.5 - 18.0cm)
|7 - 7.4in
(18.1 - 18.8cm)
|7.4 - 7.8in
(18.9 - 19.9cm)
|7.8 - 8.3in
(20.0 - 21.0cm)
|8.3in +
(21.1cm +)
|Palm Circumference
|6.5 - 7.25in
(16.5 - 18.4cm)
|7.25 - 8in
(18.4 - 20.3cm)
|8 - 8.75in
(20.3 - 22.2cm)
|Palm-Fingertip Length
|6 - 6.3in
(15.3 - 16.0cm)
|6.3 - 6.7in
(16.1 - 16.9cm)
|6.7 - 7in
(17.0 - 17.7cm)
|Palm Circumference
|< 5.6in
(< 14.2cm)
|5.6 - 6in
(14.2 - 15.2cm)
|6 - 6.4in
(15.2 - 16.2cm)
|6.4in +
(162cm +)
|Palm-Fingertip Length
|< 6.1in
(< 15.5cm)
|6.1 - 6.3in
(15.5 - 16.0cm)
|6.3 - 6.5in
(16.0 - 16.5cm)
|6.5in +
(16.5cm +)
- How to Measure:
- Palm Circumference:
- Measure around your hand at the widest point excluding the thumb.
- Palm-Fingertip Length:
- Measure from the bend of your wrist to the tip of your middle finger.
Reviews & Community
pretty comfy
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
This are pretty comfy..I ordered a medium and I think they fit well. I wish they had the pull loop on the fingers to get the gloves off after a long sweaty ride and they are already showing dirt stains. I got the grey white so i feel that's expected with such a light color. Other wise my hands feel great on the bike!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
I own multiple pairs of these gloves. The padding is a little too stiff on the first ride, but after a ride or two of break-in, they're perfect.
Run small
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
- Fit: Runs small
- Size Bought: S
I purchased these for someone who wears smalls but she said these were a little tight. She kept the gloves but I don't know how much wear they'll get. Although, they should loosen up after being worn a few times. We'll see.
Bought a second pair
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: Small
My dog chewed up a glove and I bought a second pair, wouldn't wear anything else.
COOL gloves
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
- Fit: Runs small
- Size Bought: S
Nice glove is a little next time you buy M code,I am customers from China
Customer Loves them!
Feel great!!
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
I'm relatively new to riding, but heard that riding with gloves would make a huge difference in my hands. After riding with these gloves, I can't imagine ever riding without them again! They're amazing! Extremely comfortable...the padding is perfect! They fit great, are easy to get on and off, and washed up perfectly! I definitely recommend!
Couldn't But Enough Pairs!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: Runs small
Purchased several of these for family and friends because of how much my wife liked them. They have an excellent fit and grip.
Giro tessa gloves. white. large
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: large
I'm 5'9" and the large fits. I measured my hand like the sizing chart suggests and they're true to size. I ride a lot and so yes, they got stinky after a few weeks, but washed great.
I loved the close-out pricing! Thanks!
Like 'em
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
These gloves get the job done. They are breathable, look good, have adequate padding, wash easily, and don't get stinky.
The only con: They are not as grippy as I'd like. Sometimes on a descent when I'm braking and hit a bump, my hand flies off of the handlebar and brake. Part of this could be due to the exposed fingertips versus full fingered gloves, but I'd like for the palm of my hand to stick to my bike grips too.
Tessa Glove in Action
Nice Glove
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Comfortable riding glove...washes well and comes out soft and flexible. Good deal on a good glove.
My all-time favorite gloves
I LOVE these gloves. I have no complaints about them, whatsoever.
They provide adequate padding for longer rides. They are comfortable and well-constructed. Gloves are true to size. I like mine to be a little roomy, so my hands have space to swell on hot days when my hands get sweaty. The thumb has a great little suede-like piece that is great for wiping sweaty sunglasses.
I purchased mine nearly a year ago and wear them on almost every ride, and the padding just started to wear out recently. I ordered 3 more to have for future use, just in case Giro discontinues these.
I have bought over half a dozen gloves in the past couple of years, and these are, hands down, the winners.


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21 Oct 2011 9:00 PM #1
Unanswered: MVC for a tab panel with controllers for each tab
I want to create a controller (and view) for each tab in my tab panel and I want a master controller (and view) for the tab panel itself. How do I define this? I know how to create just the view hierarchy like the code snippet below but I don't know how to wire up the controllers.
Ext.define('MyApp.view.MasterTabPanel', { extend: 'Ext.tab.Panel', requires: ['MyApp.view.FirstTab', 'MyApp.view.SecondTab', 'MyApp.view.ThirdTab'], config: { fullscreen: true, tabBarPosition: 'bottom', cardSwitchAnimation: 'flip', items: [ { xtype: 'firsttabview' }, { xtype: 'secondtabview' }, { xtype: 'thirdtabview' } ] } });
10 Nov 2011 7:54 AM #2
I would be curious to know the best way to do this as well. Did you end up figuring it out? Thanks.
10 Nov 2011 9:53 AM #3
I don't know if it's the best way, but I think it works if you make your controllers something like this:
this.control({ 'firsttabview > button[name=some_button]': {tap: this.someButtonTap}, ... });
10 Nov 2011 10:15 AM #4
I would think ideally you would want to define a controller that gave you the TabPanel view and handled the events of clicking on those tabs to decide which sub controllers to instantiate. And then you would want to define a new controller for each tab.
So lets say you had an app that had a tab bar along the bottom, one tab would be maybe a todo list and the other tab would be a settings tab. I would like:
TabController + TabView(for showing the tabs)
ToDoController + ListView (list of todos) + DetailsView (todo details) + FormView (so I can edit my todos)
SettingController + ListView (list of settings to change)
To me it doesn't seem like the "child controllers" should have the event handlers for deciding when they are shown.
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The Pentagon says it is investigating why a Navy submarine collided with an Aegis cruiser during routine operations at an undisclosed location.
The U.S. Fleet Forces Command said in a news release Saturday evening that the submarine USS Montpelier and the USS San Jacinto collided at about 3:30 p.m. No one was injured, and the extent of any damages was not clear Saturday evening.
Lt. Commander Brian Badura of the Fleet Forces Command said late Saturday that such collisions have taken place in the past but are unusual. He said that typically when an incident occurs, a team will swing into action to determine "exactly what happened."
The news release says "overall damage to both ships is being evaluated," and that the sub's propulsion plant was "unaffected by the collision." Both Norfolk, Va.-based Navy ships are operating on their own power.


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City Officials Convicted in Pay Scandal
LOS ANGELES—Five former officials of the small city of Bell, Calif., were convicted Wednesday on corruption charges after they were accused of overpaying themselves by millions of dollars in all.
The five were acquitted on some counts, while a sixth defendant tried with them was acquitted of all charges.
Of the 96 charges under consideration, the jury returned verdicts on 54 and remained deadlocked on 42. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy instructed jurors, who spent 18 days to reach the verdicts read in court Wednesday, to deliberate further. She thanked them and sent them home for the evening just after 3 p.m., describing their work as "conscientious" and asking that they do everything they can to avoid television and Internet reports.
Luis Artiga, a city councilman and pastor for nearly two decades in Bell, roughly 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, was tearful as a court official read aloud his not-guilty verdicts. After jurors broke for lunch, Mr. Artiga told reporters that his sermon this Sunday would be titled "All things are possible for those who believe."
Mr Artiga said he regrets joining the city council, and he looks forward to returning to "what I do best—being a pastor and a servant."
Those convicted on at least some counts were former Mayor Oscar Hernandez and former council members Teresa Jacobo, George Mirabal, George Cole and Victor Bello.
Because the trial remains open and two defendants have yet to be tried, prosecutors didn't make statements after the verdicts were read. Stanley L. Friedman, a lawyer for Mr. Hernandez, called the jury's lengthy deliberation "extraordinary" and called the mixed outcome "not anything anybody predicted."
All the former officials were arrested in September 2010. Bell, a city of 37,000 people, is one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County.
Prosecutors had claimed that the five former council members and former mayor illegally inflated their pay through roles with other city-related entities. Several of them allegedly collected $100,000 in annual pay for part-time city-council positions.
Former City Manager Robert Rizzo, who is accused of receiving the biggest overpayment by far, is to be tried at a later date, as is former Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia.
Mr. Rizzo alone was charged with misappropriating $4.3 million in public funds. He collected $1.1 million per year in salary and benefits; Ms. Spaccia received $540,000.
Aside from what they received as salary, the money they are accused of wrongly collecting included the value of cashed-out vacation and sick time.
In the verdicts returned Wednesday, the defendants were found guilty of several counts of misappropriating public funds through their roles overseeing the city's Solid Waste and Recycling Authority between the years of 2006 and 2010. None of the city-council members were found guilty of similar counts for their work on the Public Financing Authority. Jurors remained undecided on several counts regarding two other city entities.
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ROYAL GORGE BRIDGE, Coloado (CNN) -- Sad. Helpless. Shaken.
That's how Morgan Pace felt as she drove past a large plume of smoke near her home in Monument, Colorado, which is about 20 miles north of Colorado Springs. It wasn't an isolated fire, but a large and growing conflagration that has spurred thousands to flee their homes.
"It was just surreal," said Pace, a CNN iReporter.
Fear and anxiety were common Wednesday in much of central Colorado thanks not just to one, but two major wildfires that have threatened lives and property. Pace, a 38-year-old mother four, is among tens of thousands affected directly and indirectly by the Black Forest Fire.
So, too, is Lisa Aggarwal. After a sleepless night, she packed up and left her Colorado Springs home on Wednesday -- a hot and blue sky day, except for the looming smoke -- along with her three young children.
"My family is scared and just trying to remain calm," Aggarwal, another iReporter, said Wednesday.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the Black Forest Fire had spread to 8,500 acres -- none of which were considered "contained" -- according to the Colorado Office of Emergency Management.
"We have some very unpredictable conditions," El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said at an early media briefing. "Priorities are saving lives (including) protecting first responders and firefighters."
At an afternoon update, he said the winds had shifted and moved the fire in two directions. He anticipated the fire would continue to grow by 3,000 acres.
Mandatory evacuation orders, which extended over a 55-square-mile area, affected about 9,000 people in more than 3,400 households.
Thankfully, as of Wednesday afternoon, there were no reports of casualties, but one person might be missing, Maketa said.
Still, at least 92 structures were labeled as lost.
Alicia Welch had two reasons to worry: Her son was out at a day camp before the flames forced them to head home, and her husband was still out hiking in another endangered area with Boy Scouts.
"He said that a lot of the boys, the Scouts he knew what was going on. The leaders care about their families and what's going on at home," Welch told CNN, her comments cut off as she broke down for a moment, overwhelmed with emotion.
The Royal Gorge Fire, meanwhile, is burning on the other side of Colorado Springs, about 55 miles to the southwest.
At about 3,800 acres, it was roughly half the size of the Black Forest Fire on Wednesday. But it likewise was 0% contained and had damaged at least three structures, the state office of emergency management reported.
It triggered the precautionary evacuation of some 905 inmates from the Centennial Correctional Facility, located in Canon City, between midnight and 9 a.m. Wednesday. Most of the inmates are "special needs" -- meaning they receive medical treatment -- said state corrections department spokeswoman Alison Morgan.
The famous Royal Gorge Bridge that spans the Arkansas River is still intact but needs to be inspected before it can reopen for tourists, a spokeswoman for the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park said.
The suspension bridge, which is 956 feet above the river and among the highest in the world, is made of more than 1,000 wooden planks.
"We did not know until today whether the bridge was still standing," Peggy Gair said.
Gair says fire at the park burned a visitor's center, a tramway building, a carousel and several restaurants.
There were other fires in the state as well, including in Grand and Huerfano Counties. Statewide, officials warned that such blazes have proven tough to handle due to a combination of factors.
"Fire severity is extreme as reported in multiple areas," the state office of emergency management said, "and fires are escaping initial attack, as evident by the number of large fires."


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The authors make no mention whatsoever about...
Is this sentence appropriate for formal writing?
Is this sentence appropriate for formal writing?
Whatsoever is perfectly fine if used for emphasis. For example, if you were reviewing a book about desserts, you might say:
This is a plain statement, just reporting the facts. Nothing wrong with that. But you might want to go at the matter a little harder.
This is emphatic, emphasizing the writer's disbelief or disappointment that the authors did not mention ice cream. Probably this writer had hoped a written work about dessert would at least mention ice cream.
There are other constructions you could use for emphasis as well.
And so on. The point is, sometimes extra words are fine to use when making a point. And, yes, I like ice cream and would be indignant if a book about dessert were to leave it out.
I think in that context whatsoever is unnecessary and perhaps seems slightly condescending, as though you're deriding them for not mentioning whatever it is.
The authors make no mention of X works perfectly well without the added emphasis.
Still, I wouldn't necessarily have said that whatsoever is informal per se.