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Usually I write assembly programs and then dump their contents to get the shellcode. What I was wondering is whether I could write a C++ program instead of assembly, then dump and use that instead of the assembly?
The Linux kernel can be viewed as a kind of ultimate shell code, since it is "injected" on a raw machine (which only has the BIOS code at that point) and then provides a lot of functionality. That kernel is written in C.
If you write shell code in C or C++, you will run into trouble with library calls and linking, which are two facets of the same issue.
Code produced by a C compiler may contain references to other parts of the code, or external functions or variables. For instance, if you access a
The problem, of course, is that you do not have the luxury of a linker when making a shell code. You have to produce a sequence of bytes which is already ready, with no hole to fill, and able to run at whatever address it will be loaded, address which is not necessarily known in advance (thanks, in part, to ASLR). You must write position-independent code. Compilers often offer a command-line flag for that (e.g.
Unfortunately, C compilers, and C++ compilers even more so, will generate code with holes without your consent. For instance, a typical C compiler will produce code with hidden calls to
The Linux kernel solves these issues by using the MMU. The boot loading code (which is a piece of hand-written assembly) takes control of the MMU to make sure that the RAM pages where the kernel code is will be seen at a fixed, known address in the address space: the kernel, when compiled, is linked with that explicit assumption; the holes are filled with addresses which are correct only if the kernel is indeed at that exact position in the address space. Playing with the MMU is a kernel privilege, you cannot do that from userland code, let alone from a shell code.
You could envision making your shell code a piece of assembly which is, in fact, a dynamic linker, able to load a piece of binary code produced by a C or C++ compiler, patching it dynamically, i.e. filling the "holes" with the actual loading address. That's what occurs in the exploits provided with metasploit: the exploit itself installs that nifty piece of code, which can then install "payloads" which are generic DLL, written in higher-level languages, up to and including a full VNC server.
However you put it, though, you will have to do some PIC code in manual assembly at some point. Writing your own loader/linker is a great pedagogical exercise, and it can be used to leverage an initial exploit to arbitrary control levels, but at its core, handmade assembly will still be needed.
It is perfectly valid to write shellcode in any language that gets compiled down to machine code instructions. Provided no external libraries that are not linked by the victim program are required for its operation.
However, it is almost never the case that directly compiled code (even from just C) is a valid, injectable shellcode. The most common reason would be the requirement to remove
Compiled code will also be bloated, performing various 'bookkeeping' type tasks such as function prologues, stack-frame setup and pulldown etc. All this makes it a poor choice for shellcode, which typically has to be very small.
So, you will need to write your program, compile it, and then tune it at the machine code level. This is actually quite a common approach that many people take who might find writing assembly from scratch a bit daunting.
In my experience however, you will end up messing around with the final shellcode so much that you will be very familiar with every byte it contains before you are finished, and it probably would have been quicker to use assembly directly, right from the start.
Of course, if you are trying to perform a large, complex task, then writing it in a higher level language can be appealing. In reality though, the better approach is usually to create a simple stager shellcode, which is injected by the exploit. The stager then downloads the real payload and executes it. This allows the real payload to be a complex, stand alone executable which links its own libraries at will.
Remember of course, where the name comes from; a shellcode is generally intended to perform the task of a stager, with the archetypal stager being
As TildalWave points out, even when compiling from C++, it is possible to have fine-grained control over the output machine-code. The most direct way is to include inline assembly statements within the C++ source, for example;
You can also alter the compiler directives, and when compiling code to be edited you should always disable all compiler optimisation. Few things are more confusing than the weird stuff compilers do to reduce the number of instructions.


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Sunrise, Fla.- Florida Panthers Executive VP & General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has agreed to terms with D Colby Robak on a two-year contract.
Robak, 23, has played in 19 National Hockey League games, all with Florida (2011-13). He recorded his first NHL point, an assist, on Mar. 5, 2013, vs. Winnipeg, while appearing in 16 games for Florida. Robak also played in 63 games with San Antonio (AHL) during the 2012-13 campaign recording 23 points (5-18-23).
The 6-foot-3, 194-pound defenseman was drafted by Florida in the second round (46th overall) in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

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I want to move into some game development, but the only language I know really well is Ruby. Most of what I have read seems to point towards lower level languages like C++ for game development, or languages for specific frameworks like C# for using XNA. Does anyone have any experience using a language like ruby for game development? If so, would you advise for or against it?
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I have no preference towards Ruby (or Python), I'm a Java person myself. But UnknownDevice's answer about how Ruby is somehow "not really for games" and Python is, frustrated me. I do hope he will clarify.
I know Pygame exists and has been around, and I recognize that Python has a larger userbase than Ruby. But to be honest, neither of them seems like a language "for games". Neither does Java, and that's my game programming language of choice. (and when I say "of choice", I do mean by choice, not because it's what's taught in school or because it's something I "know"). And really, what is a language "for games"? Well, speed is a factor, and obviously it must have libraries for graphics and other game systems (audio, input, etc).
As far as speed goes, it seems to be a tossup between Ruby and Python. Do some searches and you'll quickly find benchmarks and arguments for both sides of the spectrum, and various configurations which put one or the other ahead. Python with something called "Psycho" seems a popular speed demon compared to Ruby, yet regular Python seems to be a bit slower than Ruby. In the end, if you're choosing such a high-level language you're obviously not concerned with native speeds anyway; go with the language you know best. And obviously you know Ruby best, so I encourage it!
The other factor is whether the technology is there to create games; whether it can support drawing to the screen and collecting input and playing audio. Ruby can do all of these. In fact there are a good number of options in this respect. There's a ruby-opengl package at RubyForge which will give OpenGL support to Ruby (or it might be included by default?). Alternatively, Chingu provides "lightning fast OpenGL accelerated 2D graphics!" according to its homepage; it builds extra features on top of Gosu, which you could choose to use if Chingu is too much for you. Or for 3D graphics, if you don't want to use ruby-opengl, try G3DRuby, "a very clean set of wrapper classes for many of the more advanced OpenGL features". There's even Rubygame, which I can't find much information on but it claims to be "a cross-platform multimedia library" and given the name, must have emphasis on game development. If you are familiar with the popular SDL library for C++, there's Ruby/SDL or RUDL, both of which are Ruby wrappers of SDL. Or if you prefer the newer, more object-oriented SFML, it is also available for Ruby!
There is no reason that Ruby should be less of a game programming language than Python; if there is one, I'd really like to hear it so I can argue against it. If you feel most comfortable programming in Ruby, and you are aware of the pros and cons compared to other popular languages, then by all means you can certainly develop games in Ruby!
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tl;dr: the naive garbage collector is a real problem.
There's no reason why you can't. As long as there's multimedia support for a language, then it's gamedev material. Heck, a large proportion of one of the Rollercoaster Tycoon games was done by hand in ASM.
While I'm not familiar with a lot of the deep spec work surrounding Ruby, Enterbrain created the game making programs RPG Maker VX and RPG Maker XP that use game scripts based off Ruby: http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/
This was actually my first dive into the language. As most people said, you probably won't get the high performance of other languages, but if you're looking to start a 2D RPG (or other 2D game, really), it's probably one of the most sophisticated game editors out there to help.
It depends what type of game you are interested in writing. I've used ruby to write AI clients for several games, including Diplomacy, poker, and Lost Cities. I find it's a very friendly language for quickly experimenting with different concepts. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to use it to write my real-time shooter - it just won't have the performance I need.
Your question is too general. Do you want just to write some computer game as a hobby project or do you want to get into indie/professional game development? Will it have graphics? On which platforms is it supposed to run?
In general, Ruby is suitable for hobby projects (BTW my favourite Ruby game is Ruby Warrior) and for the development of web-based games like Farmville. There's even certain demand for such programmers, try to google something like: "ruby programmer social game".
On the other hand, if you want to develop desktop- or mobile-based games with graphics, Ruby is not the best option. Consider:
Don't expect to write highly-performant, professional, commercial, 3D games with Ruby, but Ruby is a great language to use when learning game development concepts.
Gosu is the most popular (and actively maintained) library for writing 2D games in Ruby. It has an underlying C++ library that it uses to improve performance and interact with the underlying display rendering libraries like OpenGL.
As far as performance goes, the "default" Ruby implementation (MRI) will work fine (I suggest the latest Ruby 2.0 for best performance) but there are alternative implementations that have native threads and alternative garbage collection algorithms such as Rubinius, JRuby, etc. If you're making use of threads, you may want to try Rubinius, otherwise MRI Ruby will work just fine.
Ruby is a nice language, but it's not really for games to be honest. If you don't want to use C++ but want something like Ruby check out Python. For a good Python framework you should check out something like www.cocos2d.org/.
I said Python because it has a bigger userbase and more choices when it comes to frameworks/libraries for games development. Its pretty obvious that this person has no experience in games development so it doesn't make sense to me to recommend that they use something like Ruby just because it's possible.
When I work on games I use C++ with Lua, I don't go off and write my game in Visual Basic just because it has media support. I'm sure everyone here has heard someone say certain tools for certain jobs. I'm sure you can hammer a nail with a shoe, but why would you do that when you can use a hammer.


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Answered: Change mouseover color on modified css rows
I have a grid panel where I would like the color of each row to change when it has been updated by the user. Thanks to a page written by Skirtle (thanks!), I've figured out how to do this
In my grid
viewConfig: { getRowClass: function(record, rowIndex, rowParams, store) { if(!record) return ''; if(record.dirty == true) return 'bg-row-edited'; } }
.bg-row-edited .x-grid-cell { background-color:#fffec7 !important; }
I have tried the following in the CSS file but it has not worked:
.bg-row-edited .x-grid-row-over .x-grid-cell { background-color: #be6; border-bottom-color: #999; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-top-color: #999; border-top-style: dashed; }
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Yep, this definitely works thanks Scott. The !important keyword forced the browser to use those css properties.
Also, a space between .bg-row-edited and .x-grid-row-over caused the css property to not get picked up. I'm not a css expert here but it seems that ExtJS is treating bg-row-edited similar to a tag where you would have tag.className in your css file (ex: p.boldedParagraphs { attributes making the paragraph bold;} Is this why the space mattered?
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You want the same element, not a descending class of the element
x-grid-row bg-row-edited x-grid-row-over
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I would love to understand why it was required for there to be no space between the name of this CSS cls and the .x-grid-row-over, this is the first time in my CSS I've had to do that to make it work.


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The holidays are here but that doesn't mean you can't plan a warm weather getaway. This is the time of year many of us start thinking about what we want to do during our summer vacation. This year, Do Your Part and consider something different - ecotourism. Ecotourism is the "it" thing in the travel industry these days. Travelers are searching for ways to discover new places while making the least impact on the environment. While I can't mention every eco hot spot in the world, here are my Top 5 eco-destinations for the adventurer in you!


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The skin of your baby is extremely soft and smooth. The soles of the feet and toes are shown in this image and it is clear they are free from wrinkles. During the next week evidence of fingerprint and toeprint patterns will appear on the skin.
Your baby's complex lung development is continuing. To picture their growth and development, imagine the whole lungs as a tree: the trunk has developed (the trachea or windpipe), and this has branched into smaller and medium-sized branches (bronchi), but the twigs (bronchioles) holding the leaves (alveoli) have not yet formed. It is the alveoli that have walls so thin that they allow oxygen to be absorbed from the air in them and carbon dioxide to leave via the bloodstream.
From now until 28 weeks the "twigs" are forming that will hold the alveoli that will become filled with air after birth. These "twigs" will have a limited ability to transfer gases but the lungs will not be fully effective until the alveoli develop. The growth of the blood vessels that support the lungs closely matches the growth of the lungs themselves. These blood vessels will be essential for the transfer of oxygen after your baby is born.
After birth, all the blood that is leaving the right side of the heart will enter the lung circulation, but before birth, with the lungs filled with fluid and not used for breathing, only a small amount of blood (approximately 10-15 percent) is directed to them.
Relaxin is one of the most important pregnancy-related hormones. As its name implies, relaxin relaxes the connective tissue, tendons, and ligaments in your body to allow the diaphragm to expand and create space for your baby to grow. It also loosens the ligaments and tendons enough to facilitate the opening of the birth canal for a vaginal delivery.
Relaxin affects most parts of your body and, as a result, your spine and pelvis will also feel less stable, so be aware of your posture and alignment when exercising.
Relaxin is also responsible for the relaxation of the circulatory system: the walls of the veins are relaxed, which sometimes results in varicose veins (see ... Doctor). Doing cardiovascular exercise will help increase blood flow and can reduce the occurrence of varicose veins.
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The Kansas Mental Health Coalition (KMHC), a coalition of over 60 consumer and family advocacy organizations, provider associations, direct mental health service providers, pharmaceutical companies and others who share a common mission dedicated to improving the lives of Kansans with mental illnesses, is looking for volunteers to serve as legislative house district advocates.
"We are looking for people who have a connection to mental health and can serve as a go-between for those who use our services and legislators, who control funding for these services," Rick Cagan, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, part of the KMHC, said. "These volunteers can be individuals who have mental illnesses, a family member or friend of someone with an illness, a mental health professional or even a community member who understands the importance of mental health services."
Advocates will attend an eight hour training session, which will be scheduled at a later date here in Dodge City, to learn the duties and responsibilities of their job, but after that is completed there shouldn't be a big time commitment on a day-to-day basis.
"For the most part advocates will have an occasional phone call, an e-mail here and there or may have to attend a meeting when a legislator is in the area," Cagan said.
The main thing advocates will be responsible for is serving as a source of information for both community members who will use these services and legislators who will decide on legislation that affects these services.
"Many legislators are unaware of how big of an impact organizations like Area Mental Health have on a community," Cagan said. "So it's the job of these advocates to inform them."
Eventually it is the goal of Topeka-based KMHC to have an advocate in each legislative House district in the state. Currently several are set up, but more are needed.
"We want this program to be widespread across the state," Cagan said, "because these issues affect people across the state."
For more information about becoming an advocate for a Southwest Kansas house district visit Area Mental Health at 2101 U.S. Highway 50 bypass here in Dodge City or call (800) 539-2660. Once enough applications have been submitted a training meeting will be scheduled in Dodge City.
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Someone ended their sentence with やいな. What dialect is this? What does やい mean? I assume that な means the same thing as in standard Japanese?
Update: the original sentence was 「もう出来あがり?仕事はやいな~」.
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Update: This is not an instance of やい, but rather 速い【はやい】, so the information in my original answer is not actually applicable in this case.
Wikipedia suggests that at the very least, this is a feature of Hakata dialect (though it is also likely a feature of other dialects as well, as suggested by my comment above). In Hakata dialect, it is used as a light suggestion/command, like the ~て form of verbs in other dialect:
な would then be the same as in standard Japanese, as you assumed.
When used not as a suffix, but as a stand-alone word, やい is a (rude) attention-getter among children, like the British "Oi", but specific to kids. (Adults would use おい!)
Kids: やい、俺のガンダムを勝手にいじるな! (Hey, don't mess with my Gundam toy!)
Adults: おい、おれの新車に触るんじゃねえ! (Hey, don't touch my new car!)
I believe the above is the most common usage (標準語) usage of やい, though as others have noted, some dialects have their own uses for the word.
PS: I thought I'd answer the question as asked in the title, ignoring the fact that it was inspired by a mis-parsed "速い" :)


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In his first Eilenberg Lecture at Columbia, Benedict Gross says that only recently have we been able to give examples of finite galoisian extensions $K$ of ${\bf Q}$ which are ramified only at $2$ (respectively $3$) and for which the group Gal$(K|{\bf Q})$ is not solvable. He seemed to suggest that this was made possible by recent progress in the Langlands Programme.
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December 6, 2012 PIO# 12-12-3
The 25th annual Toys in the Sun Run is rounding the bend, and motorists may want to find alternate routes to avoid delays.
On Sunday, Dec. 9, thousands of motorcycles will leave the Mardi Gras Casino, 831 N. Federal Hwy. in Hallandale Beach, to begin a trek to Markham Park, 16001 W. State Road 84 in Sunrise.
Road closures along the route will affect traffic flow. At 9 a.m., the bikers will head west on Pembroke Road. They will take Interstate 95 north to 595 and head west. They will exit at 136th Avenue, continue west on State Road 84 and enter Markham Park. Those roadways will be closed from approximately 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
There will be live entertainment, more than 100 vendors, food and a classic bike show. Admission is $10 per person with an unwrapped toy, or $20 per person without a toy. Organizers are not accepting stuffed animals. The run typically raises more than half a million dollars and collects more than 50,000 toys. The annual event is organized by the South Florida Presidents Council, the largest motorcycle club in Florida.
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Does anybody has this equipment combination ? I've got it setup with the Quick Release Clamp and Camera Plate.
Readings are 76mm lower rail and 79 upper rail.
I get perfect alignment both vertically and horizontally.
Trouble is, if i tilt the lens down -15degree, i can see in the lower corner of the lens the edge of the upper rail.
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I am aware of the lightning rod used to protect buildings and structures. But, what does it mean to refer to a person as a lightning rod? Also, when is it appropriate to use and when should it be avoided?
See this NY Times article for example, which is titled James Franco's 2 Roles at Yale - Scholar and Lightning Rod.


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I'm often reading stuff on my Mac but then I want to switch to my iPad to read it there. Is there a simple way to copy text or an URL from my Mac to my iPad?
To copy an URL you could try Jumping URL as well as myPhoneDesktop which can also push text to the Notes app on the iPad. Let me know what you think about these. In the meantime I'll look for some more apps.
Safari's reading list and iCloud works well to synchronize a list of URL between Macs and iOS devices. The Simplenote app and web app work well to let all your devices keep track of text documents. You only need to pay for the latter if you want enhanced features or avoid the advertisements that are minimal and generally very tasteful.
Pastebot, while not iPad native, is excellent for pushing images/text and various other bits between a Mac and iOS device.
If you're looking for a longer lasting solution, check out Instapaper.
A free no additional app solution exists If you are using iCloud, you can use the built in Notes Application on the iPhone / iPad and coming soon to Mac OS X via Mountain Lion.
But til then on Lion Notes can be oddly be accessed via the OS X Lion Mail Application Notes function. You can copy paste to Notes and then grab results from whichever platform you wish.
Also try NoteFile for iOS devices and the corresponding widget for Mac. It syncs beautifully between both almost instantly. It's made by junecloud.com


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The White House, Pete Souza, File, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In the months leading up to the killing of Osama bin Laden, veteran intelligence analyst Robert Cardillo was given the nickname "Debbie Downer." With each new tidbit of information that tracked bin Laden to a high-walled compound in northern Pakistan — phone records, satellite imaging, clues from other suspects — Cardillo cast doubt that the terror network leader and mastermind was actually there.
As the world now knows well, President Barack Obama ultimately decided to launch a May 2011 raid on the Abbottabad compound that killed bin Laden. But the level of widespread skepticism that Cardillo shared with other top-level officials — which nearly scuttled the raid — reflected a sea change within the U.S. spy community, one that embraces debate to avoid "slam-dunk" intelligence in tough national security decisions.
The same sort of high-stakes dissent was on public display recently as intelligence officials grappled with conflicting opinions about threats in North Korea and Syria. And it is a vital part of ongoing discussions over whether to send deadly drone strikes against terror suspects abroad — including U.S. citizens.
The three cases provide a rare look inside the secretive 16 intelligence agencies as they try to piece together security threats from bits of vague information from around the world. But they also raise concerns about whether officials who make decisions based on their assessments can get clear guidance from a divided intelligence community.
At the helm of what he calls a healthy discord is Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who has spent more than two-thirds of his 72 years collecting, analyzing and reviewing spy data from war zones and rogue nations. Clapper, the nation's fourth top intelligence chief, says disputes are uncommon but absolutely necessary to get as much input as possible in far-flung places where it's hard for the U.S. to extract — or fully understand — ground-level realities.
"What's bad about dissension? Is it a good thing to have uniformity of view where everyone agrees all the time? I don't think so," Clapper told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. "...People lust for uniform clairvoyance. We're not going to do that."
"We are never dealing with a perfect set of facts," Clapper said. "You know the old saw about the difference between mysteries and secrets? Of course, we're held equally responsible for divining both. And so those imponderables like that just have to be factored."
Looking in from the outside, the dissension can seem awkward, if not uneasy — especially when the risks are so high.
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Within hours, Clapper announced that the DIA report did not reflect the opinions of the rest of the intelligence community, and that North Korea was not yet fully capable of launching a nuclear-armed missile.
Two weeks later, the White House announced that U.S. intelligence concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad has probably used deadly chemical weapons at least twice in his country's fierce civil war. But White House officials said the intelligence wasn't strong enough to justify sending significant U.S. military support to Syrian rebels who are fighting Assad's regime.
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December 12, 2012
Hello, Darling – photos of a West Coast love affair
Head north out of Cape Town on the R27, then take the R307 turn off and drive for around 70km, and you'll arrive in quaint Darling – a picturesque village in the heart of the West Coast. A day trip to this idyllic community of vineyards and canola fields is a must for city slickers looking for a change of scenery.
First stop has to be Tannie Evita Bezhuidenhout's restaurant-cum-playhouse-cum-art gallery, Evita se Perron. Open from 10h00 to 16h00 on Tuesday to Sunday, visit www.evita.co.za to see what's showing.
Enjoy the wild flowers in bloom, and the curious nguni cattle, as you drive through the painteresque countryside. Fields of wild daisies, arum lilies and yellow canolas colour the route in white and yellow. Be sure to stop off and enjoy the smells.
A pit stop at the Tienie Versfeld Wildflower Reserve is a must, especially when the wild blooms are in flower. Get directions and more details here.
The Darling Wind Farm lies just out of town, past the wildflower reserve and towards Ysterfontein. The farm is operational, and although it's not technically open to visitors, it's certainly something worth stopping off to see.
Don't forget to do a tad of wine (and olive) tasting. Cloof, Darling Cellars, Darling Olives, Ormonde, Tukulu and Groote Post farms are open for tastings daily, some accompanied with a gourmet cheese and olive platter. Click here for more information.
Things to remember
- General shopping hours are 08h30 to 17h00 on weekdays and 09h00 to 13h00 on Saturday. If you need supplies on a Sunday, get them in Cape Town.
- Expect lovely warm weather in summer (a perfect 24 degrees), but cooler and sometimes windy weather in winter
- Watch out for tortoises! The West Coast road is littered with smashed shells, stay alert while driving and don't contribute to the carnage.


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Women Nobel Prize Winners for Literature
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Gabriela Mistral (1945)
A Chilean writer, Gabriela Mistral was a teacher and director of rural schools in Chile before she attained wider acclaim as an educator. Mistral was noted for her revision of the Mexican school system under José Vasconcelos. Subsequently, she served as Chilean consul in various European and Latin American cities, and represented her country at the League of Nations and the United Nations. The mystery of childbearing, the sorrow of a tragic love, and a burning desire for justice are recurrent themes of her fluent and lyric verse.
Fun Fact: Gabriela Mistral's original name was Lucila Godoy Alcayaga.
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Banana and Walnut Bread
Categories: Cooking with Kids, Kid-friendly, Low-fat, Quick to fix
Type: Breakfast
Type: Breakfast
This fast and healthy banana bread recipe relies on cottage cheese for its moist deliciousness.
Serves: serves 6
- 8 oz (250 g) cottage cheese, pressed through a sieve
- 2/3 cup soft brown sugar
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 2 oz (60 g) chopped walnuts
- 2 bananas, mashed
- 2 cups whole-wheat flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
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- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
- Line a 2.lb (1.kg) loaf pan with greased parchment paper.
- Cream the cottage cheese and sugar together until well blended.
- Gradually beat in the eggs.
- Add the chopped nuts and bananas and mix well.
- Add the flour, baking powder, and salt to the cottage cheese mixture and mix well.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, pressing it into the corners.
- Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean.
- Cool on a wire rack and serve in lightly buttered slices.
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The first one, the effective resistance is $2R$, then $5R/3$ then $13R/8$ etc.... My job is to find the pattern/equation so I can find the total resistance when $20$ resistors are connected. Of course I can do the long way by using this formula I created $R_n = (R_{n-1} \times R)/(R_{n-1} +R) +R$. Can you guys help me find an equation where I can just input the value of $n$ and simply get an answer. Thanks!
The second question is: What would I get if I had an infinite number of resistance.
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With the hubbub over the fiscal cliff a few weeks ago, the agricultural community was also watching to see what Washington would do about expiring farm legislation, too. Recall that the 2008 Farm Bill provisions were set to expire last fall, at the end of the federal fiscal year, Sept. 30, 2012. The agriculture committees in both the Senate and House of Representatives had already developed and passed farm legislation out of committee and on for consideration by each full chamber in Congress. In June, the entire Senate approved the basic package sent forward from its Ag Committee, and the House Ag Committee moved its bill forward to the entire House in July. However, the House Ag Committee never saw its bill reach the floor of the House for consideration by that full body. There were many political cross-currents at work to delay this process. Among other things, Speaker Boehner was not supportive of the dairy program as written, and there was disagreement on spending cuts on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as the current food assistance or food stamps program is called. With the fall elections approaching and the budget battles brewing, the Farm Bill got put on the back burner. Actually, major budget savings on farm programs were a big part of both the House and Senate Ag Committee proposals. The most expensive of the commodity-related programs, the direct payments program, was dropped in both the House and Senate proposals. Direct payments were replaced by risk-related programs which would provide revenue or price protection mainly designed to help with so-called, "shallow losses," those losses not covered under current crop insurance plans because of the deductible on crop insurance coverage. Replacing direct payments with these programs was expected to result in government budget savings of about $2 billion per year, with total of about $23 billion from all programs over the life of the legislation. These savings were very significant for the USDA budget. But of course no deal was reached on these proposals. Instead, as part of the fiscal cliff arrangement, a last-minute deal was developed to extend most of the 2008 Farm Bill provisions one more year, to September 30, 2013. This also avoided reversion to permanent farm legislation established in the Agricultural Act of 1949, including USDA commitments to purchase dairy products at $38 per hundredweight, more than double the current market price. So which farm programs were extended? The direct payments program, counter-cyclical payments, and the ACRE program which provides revenue support when national crop prices and state and farm yields fall below preset levels. Dairy support prices are maintained at current levels, and most other commodity program provisions remain in place, too. Some agricultural disaster programs were also authorized, including some which will cover losses from the 2012 drought, although funds have not yet been appropriated. Some conservation programs such as the Wetlands Reserve Program, and a variety of programs for energy, horticulture, and organic agriculture were not extended. Because the direct payments represent the most expensive program under the 2008 legislation, and since payments aren't usually made until autumn, many think that the House and Senate will try to pass farm legislation before that to avoid making those payments and achieve some budget savings. What's not so clear is how closely the new farm program proposals will reflect those produced in 2012. It's a new Congress, and some committees and subcommittees will have changed. Carl Zulaf, agricultural economist at Ohio State University, explains why committee changes may turn out to be important. He said, "A key feature of the 2012 Farm Bill debate was the division between southern and midwest agriculture over the future structure of the farm safety net. Southern agriculture was more concerned about the loss of direct payments and more skeptical about the ability of crop insurance to meet its needs. Thus, a 1-year extension of the 2008 farm bill is more closely aligned with the desires of southern agriculture. Senator Cochran of Mississippi replaces Senator Roberts of Kansas as Ranking Minority Member (Republican) on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. Three of the five subcommittee chairs in the House Agriculture Committee are now from southern states. In contrast, two of six subcommittee chairs in the House Agriculture Committee were from southern states in 2012. 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Enbridge will construct a new 350,000 bbl tank at the Athabasca terminal as well as additional infrastructure including new booster pumps, meters and modifications to existing piping and manifolds. To meet Suncor's required in-service date, Enbridge began construction in July 2011.
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I'm looking at hooking up some rain barrels using PVC piping. Is there a certain type of PVC that would be best to use for this, considering that it will be exposed to sun/rain/heat/cold? Lots of people seem to use "regular" white PVC but I didn't think that was intended for outdoor use.
All PVC is subject to UV light degradation. PVC without UV protection will eventually suffer a loss of impact resistance. Your pipe will be whole, until impact at which it will shatter or crack instead of flex.
Some PVC (PVC UVR) is UV resistant. The sunlight still damages the PVC pipe, but it is in a matrix of other chemicals that compete for the UV light (stealing it away from the would be damaged PVC). PVC UVR will degrade, but at a slower rate.
Thicker wall pipe will take longer to fail, as the UV will be caught by upper layers before penetrating lower layers. Painted pipe will not fail, provided that your paint blocks or reflects UV light (and nearly all paints do).
You are right, a lot of people use PVC pipe, but mostly it is meant to be used in buried applications (where it will be shielded from UV light); however, most of those buried applications come out of the ground at some point. Typically the out-of-ground portions are not properly protected, which is just a timer for eventual failure.
Sometimes that's due to ignorance, sometimes people rationalize that PVC is so cheap the pipe repair in the future will be cheap too. Save yourself the headache of doing it twice, paint your PVC.
You could try the gray colored Schedule 80 PVC pipe. This is a much heavier duty material that will stand up to being outdoors. It is recommended by manufacturers. such as U.S. Plastic Corp, that PVC pipe and fittings be painted after installation with a coat of white water based latex paint to provide for UV resistance. The UV light is what is part of the sunlight that can degrade PVC.
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I have become convinced that if we move physics into a category theoretic foundation (one that eschews the presentation of the theory of categories IN SET) then we might avoid problems of ontic and epistemic states for quantum theory. Does anyone strongly disagree? I have been working on a presentation of the theory of categories that is more like type theory and would avoid things like "The category of groups consists of the set of all groups". The reason we avoid problems of ontic/epistemic is because the mathematics is grounded in the concept that "morphism" equals "cuasal relation" rather than "my set of states is ...well...a set of elements which exists by virtue of the fact that the elements exist". We might trade "causal relation" for a more generic relation that reflects "causally neutral probability theories". Does anyone strongly disagree?...or agree :)


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By TYLER REYNARD, For The Times Leader
WHEELING - As the price of a college education continues to rise, many high school students are taking advantage of the opportunity to earn college credit prior to graduation.
With such programs expanding locally, how many credit hours can a high school student earn?
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Students at The Linsly School can earn college credit through Advanced Placement courses and exams. A motivated high school student can earn more than a semester's worth of college credit during their high school career.
At Wheeling Park High School, the answer is anywhere from 20 to 30, depending on how many courses a student takes and how they fare on the AP exam.
Students at other schools can earn varying levels of college credit based on availability.
According to the College Board, which is headed by former West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton,
"From the moment you enter an AP classroom, you'll notice the difference - in the teacher's approach to the subject, in the attitude of your classmates, in the way you start to think.
"In AP classrooms, the focus is not on memorizing facts and figures. Instead you'll engage in intense discussions, solve problems collaboratively, and learn to write clearly and persuasively.
"With 34 AP courses to choose from, including Chinese Language and Culture, Environmental Science, and Psychology, you'll be able to explore your interests and discover new passions.
In AP classes, you'll study fascinating topics and ideas that just might become the foundation of your future college major or career."
Most four-year U.S. colleges and colleges in more than 60 other countries give students credit, advanced placement or both on the basis of AP Exam scores.
By entering college with AP credits, students will have the time to move into upper level courses, pursue a double-major or study abroad.
Locally, Wheeling Jesuit University and West Virginia Northern Community College have offered AP courses to Wheeling Central Catholic High School seniors for years.
Seniors at Wheeling Central with qualifying standardized test scores can fulfill their high school requirements while earning college credit by taking college level courses in history, science and mathematics, among others.
Wheeling Jesuit sends an instructor to the high school, while students taking classes through West Virginia Northern travel to the college's downtown campus and learn among college students.
Students are able to graduate with as many as 15 credit hours. That number will grow next year when the Wheeling Jesuit program will be opened to Central juniors, as well.
While students at The Linsly School do not take classes externally for college credits, the school offers a rigorous Advanced Placement program as part of its course offerings. Among those courses are science, mathematics, literature and history.
The number of college credits those students earn is based on the score they receive on the AP exam and on the score the college of matriculation requires.
There are 379 Linsly students enrolled in those classes this year, including students who are enrolled in multiple classes, and approximately 130 students will take a combined 250 AP exams each year.
Highly motivated juniors and seniors in Ohio, Brooke, Marshall, Hancock and Wetzel counties are being offered dual enrollment in high school and West Liberty University's Honors College through the Advanced Academy of West Virginia's Advanced Education Pilot Program.
Students will satisfy high school credits required for their diploma by taking college level courses that will also count toward general education and, in some cases, discipline specific college courses. In essence, those students will earn both high school and college credit at the same time.
Officials expect that high school seniors will earn a minimum of 30 college credits through West Liberty's program. However, it is entirely possible that a motivated, academically advanced student could earn more.
Classes will take place at West Liberty's Highland Center and officials are hopeful the program will begin in August.
Wheeling Park High School offers an array of opportunities for motivated students. College at Park provides Park students with the opportunity to earn college credits while completing high school graduation requirements. Dual high school and college credits may be earned while attending classes on campus with instruction provided by Wheeling Park teachers. Students earn transferable college credit from accredited institutions of higher education.
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The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space
#3. A Cold Star
Here's the very first lesson you learned about the cosmos: The sun is hot. Even before you knew what the sun was, or what a star was made of, you knew that.
When you get into the science of it, you realize that you were even more right than you thought: The surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and several thousand times hotter than that at the core. So, yeah, the one thing we know about stars is that you don't ever want to try to land on one, unless you want to instantly burst into flame.
Though you could pretend you were that Nazi guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
But, scientists have recently discovered that's not always the case. Five months after discovering a star only about 20 degrees hotter than a cup of McDonald's coffee, scientists stumbled across a star they believe is even colder. WISE 1828+2650 is only 80 degrees Fahrenheit, meaning if we ever went there, we could romp around on the surface in a space helmet and shorts.
You could be the first prostitute to work a star.
How is This Even Possible?
WISE 1828+2650 is part of a small group of cold stars known as brown dwarfs. These little buddies begin their lives just like normal stars, but don't have the required mass to take off. In fact, these stars are so small that they don't have enough mass to undergo hydrogen fusion, which in a normal star is what releases all that energy in the form of heat. And yet, these lumps of uselessness are still considered stars because no one has the heart to tell them otherwise.
Via Earthsky.org
No, you're doing great, little guy. You're an awesome star because you try!
#2. A Star 1,500 Times Bigger Than Our Sun
The hardest part of understanding anything about space is trying to grasp a sense of scale. For instance, if you've seen models of the solar system, none of them really convey how much bigger the sun is than the Earth.
Via VJkrishna.com
"Y'all ain't shit."
Our sun is 109 times larger than the Earth, and if you lumped the mass of all of the stuff in our solar system together, 99 percent of it would be sun (and that's including that fat cow, Jupiter). In fact, despite what you were told in elementary school, our sun isn't some small chump compared to other stars. To recap, our sun: it's big.
But now imagine a star that is as big compared to the sun as the sun is to the Earth. Now imagine one five times bigger than that. We can't show it to you to scale, because it'd be a big yellow circle and our entire solar system would be too small to even show up as a pixel on your monitor.
Via Wikipedia
That's the star VY Canis Majoris. It's a red hypergiant roughly 1.7 billion miles in diameter, which means it's so big it takes eight hours for its own light to travel from one of its sides to the other.
How Is This Even Possible?
Yes, we said "red hypergiant." Despite that incredibly awesome name, it's just a really big star. Not just big in size, but big in brightness, as in millions of times brighter than our sun.
As for how this particular hypergiant got that big, no one knows. It's so far away (4,900 light-years) that scientists haven't had much chance to study it. But they'd better hop to it, because we only have about 100,000 years before the whole thing BLOWS UP AND KILLS US. (Or just blows up.)
Via 20birds.net
In the realm of size, we don't actually exist.
But when you start talking about truly huge shit in space, it only gets more mind-boggling from there.
#1. The Gargantuan Blob from the Beginning of Time
We're taught in school that we're all time travelers of sorts. We're told that the sunlight all around us originated over eight minutes ago, and that just by looking up into the sky we're glancing into the past. What you probably didn't know is that as telescopes get stronger, the images that are coming back are getting freakier.
Like this thing:
Via National Geographic
And blob-ier.
The blob isn't composed of Jell-O (surprise!) but of gas -- we think. And it's fucking huge -- it is a galactic cluster roughly 200 million light-years wide. As in, light from one end would take 200 million years to reach the other.
For comparison, our entire galaxy is only 100,000 light-years across.
And by the way, the light from this thing took roughly 12 billion years to reach our retinas, meaning that it is essentially a chunk of whatever the hell blew off of the Big Bang. To find it, researchers used a specific filter on their telescopes, which was able to detect the core at the center, then the three jellyfishy tentacles extending out into space.
Inside each of those appendages are galaxies and gas bubbles, some 400,000 light-years wide. The galaxies are all clumped together, four times closer to each other than most other galaxies in the universe. All of that is pretty impressive for something with the rather sad scientific name Newfound Blob.
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The early estimates put the renewable energy share of gross consumption for the EU at 14.4% in 2012, compared with 13.1% in 2011. A colder winter was said to contribute.
The Directive 2009/28 states that the EU 27 Member States
should achieve an overall 20% share of renewable energy in
gross final energy consumption across Europe. It has set a binding
individual target for each country by 2020.
EurObservER is monitoring
the progress of each Member State in achieving these targets.
The estimates are the first to be published for
Calculating the renewable energy share for each member country
is a delicate task. The results are estimations made by the
EurObservER consortium, based on the information gathered
over the past year by the project team.
The preliminary estimates put
the renewable energy share of gross final energy consumption
for the EU at 14.4% in
2012, compared to
13.1% in 2011, which is a 1.3 % increase.
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I just got my new ThinkPad X121e and installed Ubuntu 11.10 ..everything is fine, except I can't get my data from my old EeePC (Ubuntu 10.4) to my new baby. The EeePC says it could not mount Ubuntu 11.10 i386 because:
Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
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Swan Lake productions
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The Bolshois is very dramatic but strangely unmoving. McKenzies misses the mark so often that it can be really frustrating. Ive gotten used to his prologue and swamp thing/von Rothbart split but I just cant accept what hes done to the lakeside acts, especially act 4. In a good performance you come out of Act 3 with all of that stormy, swirling emotionalism and instead of bringing it to a climax his act 4 just lets it dissipate. The part he leaves out where Sigfried is searching through the groups of swans for Odette is so integral to the resolution of the drama its absence always kills the magic for me. I hate the way your first glimpse of Odette after the betrayal finds her standing alone on the cliff instead of being comforted by her swans. I also dislike the way this production forces the prince to be a wimpy outsider. I consider that to be a valid interpretation, but McKenzies production makes it the only one possible.
I really like the Kirovs. I dont mind the jester at all, I think he is entertaining and can work as a kind of narrative device to help move the plot along. Id prefer a tragic ending but the happy ending doesnt bother me that much because there is more drama and pathos in this version than any of the tragic versions around these days. The one thing I really miss in the Kirov staging is Odettes mime. That's certainly a flaw in my eyes, but despite it's flaws the Sergeyev production is one of the few left that really gets to the heart & soul of the story. I also really love their version of the first act pas de trois, and the way that each member of the corps brings total commitment and and conviction to even the smallest role.
My favorite past productions were the ones I grew up with, Ashtons for the RB (I loved his first act waltz) and Blairs for ABT. I would love to see a plain vanilla traditional Swan Lake. Does anyone know what the one the Perm ballet is bringing to NJPAC & Princeton is like?
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The Balanchine is superb--and they are doing it several times in Saratoga this summer, so no grumbling, please.....
I love the Kirov one, but lament the curtailment of mime....perhaps they will restore it (hint hint)...the ending is silly, but there is so much else that is good....
Posted 04 July 2005 - 10:46 AM
Well, Royal Ballet has had the revolving door of Swan Lake productions lately....I saw the unfortunate, very recent Makarova one last year (no magic, dusty), and they are bringing yet another "new" one on tour to the US next year...One can hope for something better!
I'm sure Juliet temporarily got her bad productions mixed up, but the revolving door has been "Sleeping Beauty." I'm also hoping for something better (taking on faith that the Makarova production wasn't up to snuff, having personal experience with the Crooked Production that preceded it). We'll get to see it in D.C. next spring.
And maybe the next spring, we'll see a Back to the Old Royal Ballet Great Production Putting All the Ashton Dowell Dumped Back In production.
Posted 04 July 2005 - 11:08 AM
So, going on the process of elimination, and mindful that Leigh and I have similar taste, I'm following his lead and voting Royal.
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My favorite past productions were the ones I grew up with, Ashtons for the RB (I loved his first act waltz) and Blairs for ABT. I would love to see a plain vanilla traditional Swan Lake. Does anyone know what the one the Perm ballet is bringing to NJPAC & Princeton is like?
I think we grew up on the same two Swan Lakes. The Ashton one for Royal Ballet and the Blair for ABT were the ones I came to know the ballet by.
Your question on the Perm version is interesting.
This is not an answer because much can change in 13 years, but if you click on the Amazon link and search Swan Lake Perm, you will see the VHS with Nina Ananiashvili from a 1992 Perm performance.
I have this, haven't looked at it in a long time, but remember it being being similar to other Russian/Soviet versions. (these are not pluses for me)
But I do remember some very nice work from the corps, which surprised me, then I did a little research and found that Perm is a major ballet company, maybe 3 rd after Maryinsky and Bolshoi in Russia, or rather the former USSR.
I also remember Nina's very fast fouettes in Act 3.
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I came across a review for the new Turtles in Time: Re-Shelled, which is of course a remake of the old arcade beat-em-up. It looks like a graphical update of the original game. But the review said that we'd probably be bored of it in a short time, and that it was nothing new.
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Tony Judt and the Integral Word
In a recent article in The New York Review of Books Tony Judt wrote:
In Politics and the English Language, Orwell castigated contemporaries for using language to mystify rather than inform. His critique was directed at bad faith: people wrote poorly because they were trying to say something unclear or else deliberately prevaricating. Our problem, it seems to me, is different. Shoddy prose today bespeaks intellectual insecurity: we speak and write badly because we dont feel confident in what we think and are reluctant to assert it unambiguously (Its only my opinion). Rather than suffering from the onset of newspeak, we risk the rise of nospeak.I am more conscious of these considerations now than at any time in the past. In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them. They still form with impeccable discipline and unreduced range in the silence of my thoughtsthe view from inside is as rich as everbut I can no longer convey them with ease. Vowel sounds and sibilant consonants slide out of my mouth, shapeless and inchoate even to my close collaborator. The vocal muscle, for sixty years my reliable alter ego, is failing. Communication, performance, assertion: these are now my weakest assets. Translating being into thought, thought into words, and words into communication will soon be beyond me and I shall be confined to the rhetorical landscape of my interior reflections.Though I am now more sympathetic to those constrained to silence I remain contemptuous of garbled language. No longer free to exercise it myself, I appreciate more than ever how vital communication is to the republic: not just the means by which we live together but part of what living together means. The wealth of words in which I was raised were a public space in their own rightand properly preserved public spaces are what we so lack today. If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have.
Professor Judt passed away on Friday. The New York Times remembers him here.[Editor's note: We just posted Peter Steinfels's review of Judt's last book, Ill Fares the Land.]
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Rev. Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is Associate Professor of Theology Emeritus at Boston College.
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He will be remembered for his brilliance and his high moral standards; an exemplary scholar, a courageous human being. May he rest in peace.
Peter's review is, as usual, lucid and insightful.This paragraph seems to me to identify a further area for crucial conversation:"In Ill Fares the Land, Judt the moralist touched the topic of religion but usually to quickly back away. He was well aware that the postwar consensus in Europe was the creation of Christian Democrats as much as of Social Democrats. He took a swipe at sophisticated dismissals of religion and noted that the appeal of John Paul II to young people, even beyond the bounds of faith, indicated that humans need a language in which to express their moral instincts. To argue convincingly about right and wrong we need a language of ends, not means. Can we hope for such a language in what Judt, still the European, assumed were postreligious societies like our own, where most people find meaning and satisfaction in secular objectives? He believed so but without advancing much of a case."
Judt could pick up religious themes that others missed. He greatly admired the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski who was equally adept in Marxist theory and Jansenist theology. A revealing anecdote here:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/187025/judt-kolakowski/rich-lowry
A Bit of History. I'm still reading the fascinating biog of the Maritains. Jacques Maritain's influence on the Christian Democrat movement was large in Euroge and huge in South America, His "Integral Humanism" strongly supported both individual freedom of conscience and a pluralistic form of government. But in France the extremely conservative (and in many cases fascist) French clergy and laity and the powers in Rome itself were so against Maritain's thinking that he feared that the book would be put on the Index. Indeed, at one point, in South America some newspapers reported it had already been condemned. (It hadn't.) And even Paul VI, a friend of Maritain, refused to approve its publication.Is it any wonder that after WWII the existentialists, with hopes unguaranteed by their essentially nihilistic philosophies, became the dominant new political thinkers in Europe? And Rome wonders why Europeans don't pay attention to it any more?
The publication schedule of The New York Review of Books resembles that of Commonweal. I keep checking the periodical shelf of our public library to see whether a new issue has arrived, but I subscribe to Commonweal. ----Aside from Judt's marvelous insights into civil behavior, his travels caught me. A few months ago, he recalled how great it was as a youth to explore London and its surroundings by public transport and bicycle. I think he would ride an Underground or Tube route out a considerable distance and then bicycle an arc until he encountered another route home.-----Unless I am mistaken, Judt gave high praise to Jean Monnet and the other founders of the Common Market. I must reread "Postwar."
Ann, may I ask who are the nihilistic existentialist philosophers that you refer to? I'm prepared to argue that some people called existentialists (many people called existentialists at some point or other denied that they were existentialists), e.g. Marcel, Buber, Merleau-Ponty, and going back a bit, Kierkegaard had important things to say. Sartre is a hard case. He tends to drive me to distraction, but my friend Tom Flynn, a first rate philosopher at Emory ( and, by the way, a fine priest) has spent lots of his career making the case that Sartre, among other postmoderns, is important in showing us the limits of the Enlightenment.In political terms, what about Raymond Aron, etc., on the French scene? I need not denigrate maritain when I say that there was much more of great value on the French asecne than one would know from reading only Maritain.
Bernard --I was thinking of Sartre and Camus. Strictly speaking, I suppose they aren't nihilists since they think one can invent one's own values, but since so far as I know neither gives a strong ground for their positions, poignant as Camus may be. (Sartre drives me up the wall -- brilliant and willful adolescent.) I find it hard to read philosophers whose foundations are so shaky, so I don't know very much about either. But their influence has been huge -- it extends all the way down to "doing your own thing", I think.
Bernard --I don't know Aron at all. I'm not much interested in political philosophy. I just happen to have read some of Maritain's because I couldn't avoid it. I don't doubt there is a lot of value in the French scene, They've gone through so many trials for so many generations. I defend Maritain because he was quite courageous in sticking to his guns against a repressive Vatican and he spoke out against the sometimes fascist French clergy. (According to this biog I'm reading his association with L'Action francaise was always a troubled one, though I'm not so sure how objective the biog. is.) Unfortunately, the Church since V2 has turned anti-Thomas, which means that Maritain's fine political theory is being lost, though as I understand it, it still is influential in So. America. It was just what the Church needed to counter Communism. But Pius XII apparently suspected Maritain himself of being a Communist. Small wonder the liberation theologians didn't stand a chance.
Ann: In the Vatican there were different views of Maritain. The Holy Office came close to a formal condemnation of his views on religious freedom in the mid-to late-1950's (J.C. Murray's views would have been condemned, too). Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange spoke of Maritain's "doctrinal deviations," by which he meant his political views; Maritain reminded the very influential Dominican of his support of Vichy during WW II; G.-L. is supposed to have said that anyone who supported the Free French was in a state of objective mortal sin! On the other hand, Giam Battista Montini (future Paul VI) was a Maritainist and himself trandlated at least one work of M's into Italian; there's a book on the relation between Montini and Maritain. Cardinal Eugene Tisserant, living and working at the Vatican, was a world apart from G.-L. and the like. Etienne Fouilloux is preparing a biography of Tisserant which should be quite revealing. Maritain, of course, served as French Ambassador to the Holy See right after the War. I'm inclined to think that Maritain's early association with L'Action franaise was serious and earnest. It was a French Dominican priest, Fr. Clerissac, who helped Maritain through his conversion journey, and there was a good deal of sympathy for Maurras and his movement among French Dominicans, as a book published about a decade ago showed. (There was similar support for Maurras among some French Jesuits--e.g., Fr. Pedro Descoqs--, but as far as I know this hasn't been studied as closely or deeply.) The leaders of Action franaise considered Maritain a rat when he not only submitted to the papal condemnation of the movement but wrote a couple of works defending it. Maritain's difficulties in Rome and elsewhere, particularly in Spain and Latin American countries, began with his refusal to call the Spanish Civil War a "holy war." Many of his critics then went on to criticize his proposal of a "new Christendom" that would be at home in the new climate of democratic and pluralistic societies in which the Church would have ti rely on the "poor means" of the Gospel. The critics didn't see anything wrong with the old Christendom in which the Catholic Church (and the Church alone) enjoyed the economic, politcal, and even coercive support of the State.
And Maritain also had an unexpected friendship when in the U.S. with Saul Alinsky. CWL published something about this (their correspondence) and someone at UND published a book I believe. Memory fails at summoning the author's name. The article must be in the archives....
In the Aug 19 "Summer " issue of NYRB there is another Judt memoir piece called "Meritocracy." He reflects on his education, especially his days at King's College, Cambridge, praising a then young research fellow who first introduced him to the challenges of intellectual history, and changed his mind about certain unconsidered assumptions " by the simple device of listening very intently to everything I said, taking it with extraordinary seriousness on its own terms, and then picking it gently and firmly apart in a way that I could both accept and respect." That," said Judt, " is teaching. It is also a certain sort of liberalism: the kind that engages in good faith with dissenting (or simply mistaken ) opinions across a broad political spectrum."That same approach to controverted matters has long made it hard to resist reading Judt's pieces in the TLS or LRB or NYRB before anything else. Just watching the way his mind worked on whatever subject he's turned it to has been a special pleasure--nevermind whether you agreed with him, or not. And these last little fragments of memoir have been a gift to his readers for the glimpse of the man behind the words he handled so well. He will be missed.
Susan,Thank you for including the quote from Judt's August 19th article. It suggests what university teaching at its best should be. Of course, the Oxbridge system of tutorials can help foster such patient and extended conversation.I fully agree that "these last little fragments of memoir have been a gift to his readers."
". . . by the simple device of listening very intently to everything I said, taking it with extraordinary seriousness on its own terms, and then picking it gently and firmly apart in a way that I could both accept and respect. "I read recently (was it here?) that the idea for this "tutorial" method has its origin in Newman's Idea of a University. Maybe it accounts for the enormous influence the Oxford/Cambridge thinkers have had in so many fields in the last century or so. Those schools are not very big to start with, relatively speaking. What a remarkable man Judt must have been, a brother in spirit to Stephen Hawking, another Oxbridge product and ALS victim.


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The Staff of Herding, and its respective upgrades the Nightmarish, Hellish, and Infernal Staff of Herding, are used to access the 'Secret Cow Level' in Diablo III dubbed Whimsyshire. Each individual form of the Staff is used to access the SCL in its respective difficulty.
The Normal staff is obtained by crafting. You will need 50k gold, Black Mushroom, Leoric's Shinbone, Liquid Rainbow, Wirt's Bell, and a Gibbering Gemstone, as well as the plans to make it, which randomly drop off of Izual in the Normal Difficulty (The plans, not the other items). Note, that after defeating Izual in the harder difficulties, the plans may be bought from Gorell who is located within Bastion's Keep Stronghold.
The upgraded staves are crafted using the original staff (or whatever last upgrade applies) and additional gold, as well as the recepie, also obtained from Gorell.
Once the staff is complete take The Old Ruins waypoint (Act I) and head west down Old Tristram Road. Hug the south wall. There should be a Skeletal Corpse and a "rift" in one of the crevices in the ground. If you have the Staff, the Ghost of the Cow King will appear with a quest above his head.
When you craft the staff, you must find the Cow King carcass on the Old Tristram road. The ghost of the Cow King will show up and grant you with portal to the Whimsyshire. What is there? ...madness :D
It is very widely speculated that this item and the related Hellish Staff of Herding and Infernal Staff of Herding are related to accessing the secret "Cow" level.
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