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I have been studying Spanish once a week for two semesters now. We have covered two different past tenses plus future tense and I thought it might be a good time to start doing some reading on my own. Please, suggest some sources of reading material for my level of proficiency. I'm not really looking for any specific topics at this point.
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As pointed out in the comments, this may vary drastically depending on what you expect. And a brief disclaimer: I don't know much about teaching spanish.it
Nonetheless, here's an attempt at it:
There's a children's book called "Platero y yo". Apparently it was written to teach verb conjugations. It's freely available as part of the Gutenberg project.
Do let us know if you find it of appropriate level or not.


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Hi I thought I would offer up some images for advice from the panoramic experts on the site. It is a brand new area for me as I tend to specialise in wildlife and nature photography. However seeing some of the panoramas being produced has given me a push to try my hand at them.
All of the images located here http://www.photosbykev.com/wordpress...phy/panoramic/ are taken with the NN3 MkII supporting a Canon Eos 40D and 17-40mm or 10-22mm lens fitted with grad ND filters and/or polarising filters to balance out the ground/sky exposure. I tend to shoot bracketed images to maximise the dynamic range of the images. Process them in Photomatrix and then stitch in Panorama Factory v5 and then upload to my site using the Zoomify export option in Photoshop CS3. This allows me to show the full resolution of the >1Gb images without significant risk of image theft.
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What are reasons for someone to do Pilates as his or her main fitness activity (like how other people do strength training, yoga, or running)? What does doing Pilates entail?
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The overall number 1 reason to choose ANY activity for fitness:
You Enjoy It
Now, reasons you might choose to try out Pilates and see if it's that kind of activity for you:
Footnote 1: As you indicated, I am referring to Pilates practice as the primary, not only exercise. I do personally also do the major compound body movements with dumbbell/barbell for additional strength work, but time-wise I put much more into Pilates than moving iron. It simply shifts the emphasis off of adding muscle and onto those other things. I am not saying that only Pilates does those things and barbell training does not, it's just, how do you want to balance where you put your effort among all these competing concerns? Do you want to get stronger and have your posture gradually improve as a side effect, or fix your posture and get gradually stronger as a side effect? I find more time on these aspects and less on straight strength works for me.
Footnote 2: I am of course referring to studying the Pilates method in an equipped studio with a good instructor. Not flopping around on the floor of the living in front of a DVD "toning your tummy" with 2-lb. neoprene dumbbells :)
The overall number 1 reason to choose ANY activity for fitness:
It causes the desired adaptation in your body
There is no good reason a person to choose pilates as their main fitness activity (assuming the goal is fitness, rather than pleasure, or for a feeling of doing something useful).
It perhaps would be useful or pleasing as a supplementary activity, but for a main activity, strength training, cardiovascular conditioning, or a sport that works these attributes work would always be better alternatives to pilates.


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29 Sep 2010 6:52 AM #1
Ext.Direct Exceptions and Events
Ext.Direct is a wonderful method to interact with the server side, but I have a few questions about things I cannot found in the source.
1) In Direct.js I found:
exceptions: { TRANSPORT: 'xhr', PARSE: 'parse', LOGIN: 'login', SERVER: 'exception' }
2) With something like
Ext.Direct.on('info', function(e) { Ext.Msg.alert('Info: ' + e.data); });
But what is to do with other events?
3) Is it possible to initiate a server side event out of a php script called by cron?
4) Is there already a useful login method? I think about following situation: A session may be timed out, but this should not end in loosing data, which was not saved. So if an Ext.Direct call is make for doing something on the server and the session is timed out, on client side should appear a login window. If the user logged in successfully, the last call to the server should be repeated. So it is a transparent login system: the application itself is not disturbed when the user is able to continue the session with correct password (changing the username should not be possible). If nothing exists till now, has anyone an idea, how to solve this?
29 Sep 2010 11:58 AM #2
1) no idea
2) You can catch anything you want with this. particulary :
Ext.Direct.on('timeout', onShowLoginFormToDoNotLoseCurrentChanges); Ext.Direct.on('msg', displayMsgThatComesInDataField); Ext.Direct.on('trace', ifYouAreADeveloperShowThisInAAlertMsgOrWhathever);
So, to me, they are some kind of "core" msg system between the server side app and the client side app.
example msg:
{type : 'event', name : 'msg', data : 'Some Important Data'} {type : 'event', name: 'trace', where : 'Where this XXXX happen', trace : 'Some important debug data like a dump'} {type : 'event', name: 'bunnyjump', anything : 'dummy', goesHere : 'you can create you custom data depending what you need'}
4) there you go. In number 2) I kind of answered that. But it's up to you basically.
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We use exceptions to debug from php.
Ext.Direct.on("exception", function(event) { var backtrace = ""; if (event.where) { backtrace = "
" + "Backtrace:<\/strong>
" + event.where.replace(/#/g, "
#") + "<\/p>"; } extDirectDebug( "
" + event.message + "<\/p>" + backtrace, event.method, "ExtDirect - Exception" ); }); Ext.Direct.on("event", function(event, provider) { if (typeof event.debug !== "undefined" && event.debug !== "") { extDirectDebug(event.debug, event.method, "ExtDirect - Debug"); } });
10 Oct 2010 4:53 AM #4
Have you code for 'extDirectDebug'?
10 Oct 2010 7:03 AM #5
sure, though it's only the output, depends on the environment.
var extDirectDebug = function(message, header, group) { var TYPO3ViewportInstance = null; if (top && top.TYPO3 && typeof top.TYPO3.Backend === "object") { TYPO3ViewportInstance = top.TYPO3.Backend; } else if (typeof TYPO3 === "object" && typeof TYPO3.Backend === "object") { TYPO3ViewportInstance = TYPO3.Backend; } if (TYPO3ViewportInstance !== null) { TYPO3ViewportInstance.DebugConsole.addTab(message, header, group); } else if (typeof console === "object") { console.log(message); } else { document.write(message); } };
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Under Windows/Linux, client side. How can I ensure that I'm not connecting to a rogue AP?
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IMO man-in-the-middle attacks are almost unavoidable
To make matters worse, 802.11x sessions can easily be forced to disconnect and re-authenticate, so the man-in-the-middle can appear at any time in the session.
By using a radio-beam directed only at the client, it is very hard for intrusion detection systems to intercept this traffic.
Don't worry
The solution
What can the attacker do?
But keep your laptop safe
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Now you only need to worry about that iphone.....
WPA2 has a mitm attack vector called Hole 196, see: http://www.airtightnetworks.com/WPA2-Hole196
*) not all VPN solutions are and lots of them have configurations where an otherwise safe solution is still at risk, but there are safe options and if you have a good sysadmin it is not a difficult thing to setup correctly.
The only way to be 'sure' you are connecting where you want to connect, is by having a root of trust beforehand, something shared with AP like symmetric keys or a the public key of the AP (and be trust the public key belongs to it) or trust some certificate. If you have this root of trust, you can form a basis of trusting the AP if it can provide assurances that it knows the private key or can use the shared key.
Also, if the AP uses WPA/WPA2 then mutual authentication is used, so you can infer it is the correct AP by the fact that authentication succeeds or fails.
The solution is alluded to in another answer but not explicitly stated. This is currently only possible using WPA/WPA2 Enterprise. Using EAP-TLS both the client and the authentication server (ie RADIUS) are authenticated via certificates. If you want to be sure you are connecting to the right AP secure mutual authentication is required. That being said this type of deployment is rare outside of the enterprise.
Here's what I suggest:
This seems good enough for most purposes. If you need high security, set up a VPN and ensure that all of the network traffic out of your machine is tunneled through the VPN: then you don't care what access point it is traversing.
My general advice would be to only connect to "secured" WiFi Access Points. This requires that you and the AP have knowledge of a PSK or other authentication process, by which your system otherwise will not connect to the AP.
Additionally (and obviously) this does have the major added benefit of making sure that your wireless traffic isn't easily sniff-able by Eve.
You cant and you should not worry to much about it.
If the AP gives you internet connectivity it should be regarded with the same suspicion as any internet connection. So any sensitive information sent over the internet and the access point should be separately authenticated and encrypted.
This is a common issue at the security conferences I have attended in the past. One in particular provided all the delegates with the MAC address of AP. Users were instructed to enter static entries in the ARP table of your device to ensure that rouge APs would not work.
As for determining prior to connection you could use something like Kismet/Kismac to ID the AP.
You can't? You can be sure within some confidence level. The "secure" confidence level depends on your situation.
But to be more helpful, Johan has answered it pretty comprehensively. I think the more important question might be "What are the relative strengths of the various ways to secure your APs?"
And how much effort does it take to subvert the various levels of securing your AP?
If have root access to the wireless router then if running an SSHD on it, then you can check the ssh key stored in the "known_hosts" on the client that it matches the one you get when connecting to the SSHD on the wireless router.


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NYSE to Test New Contingency Plan Tuesday
U.S. stock exchange operators are preparing to test a new contingency plan Tuesday morning to ensure domestic equity trading restarts this week.
NYSE Euronext officials also dismissed reports that its headquarters in lower Manhattan had been affected by flooding, though they said they have a backup plan should the building and its storied trading floor suffer "irreparable damage."
"We stress that, as of now, there has been no damage to the NYSE Euronext NYC headquarters that would impair trading floor operations," exchange officials said in a notice to traders.
The contingency plan was described as "precautionary" given the unpredictability of the storm that has already caused flooding in parts of the city.
The broader plan outlined Monday night by NYSE and rival exchange groups BATS Global Markets Inc. and Direct Edge Holdings LLC would see the Big Board operator's all-electronic NYSE Arca platform handle critical opening and closing auctions.
The New York Stock Exchange and the smaller NYSE MKT exchange would remain closed under the plan being discussed,
The plan deviates from a proposal floated Sunday by NYSE Euronext, which involved operating the New York Stock Exchange using Arca's systems. This drew concerns from brokerage officials worried that they weren't properly prepared for the unconventional approach.
Under the plan outlined late Monday, all trading in NYSE-listed securities would execute on the Arca exchange, according to the notice from NYSE Euronext.
"NYSE Arca should be considered the primary market in this scenario," exchange officials wrote in the notice. Certain orders wouldn't be able to be used under the scenario, and the exchange operator warned members that while regulatory relief from some trading rules was being sought, there was no guarantee that this would be granted.
NYSE, BATS and Direct Edge planned to convene a marketwide test at 8 a.m. local time Tuesday, with auctions and trading to be conducted in "test symbols," or placeholder securities reserved for checking trading systems. The test is set to conclude at noon Eastern time, according to the notices.
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Tips for New Moms: Please, Tell Me It Gets Easier!
Several moms I know have set numbers of children they always dreamed of having numbers that realism has made them relinquish or that they are chugging towards determinedly, without regard for financial or emotional cost. A good friend of mine is abiding by a superstition that she has to have multiple children to compensate for some disappointing her later on. When she complains about her husband's lack of can-do helpfulness, it sounds to me as if she's decided to have children with her nanny, the more faithful partner.
A mother of an eight-year-old offers her wisdom, "I'm a very good mother of one. I enjoy my daughter immensely and spend a lot of time with her. I simply ignore all the talk about 'Who will she have when her father and I are dead and buried?' Because I'm not so sure I'd be as good of a mother to two or more."
A thirty-nine-year-old in my mompool is wrestling with the decision, nine months into life with her very amenable first child. "I can't afford to wait much longer. Listening to those of you who have more than one, I'm apt to think I ought to quit while I'm ahead. Maybe my baby urge will just go quiet."
"Or maybe it won't," says another mom, this one the proud owner of not one but three easy babies. "Nobody else has the right answer for you. You have to weigh the decision you'll ultimately be happy with. Because I've been out with my three children and had people say to me, 'Think you have enough kids already?' Whatever you do, somebody will have an opinion about it."
My friends and I disagree with Dr. Laura about most topics these days even though we guiltily enjoy tuning her in. But as our wise selves and our kids' moms, we do think she's right that when Dad says "no dice," the matter of more children has to be dismissed. Many of us with less than fully contributing partners now appreciate how much a family is handicapped by this. We know now that even the most loving of mothers cannot make up for a reluctant or worse yet, an antagonistic partner.
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What are your thoughts about changing the button label based on what the user has done to the input.
For example, for updating an item's price-- once the user enters the 'update page' the button label would be labeled [go back] by default -- and would then change to [update] once the value has been changed.
in particular, do you feel it would be at all confusing to the user on the default state?


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1-1/2 pounds pork tenderloin
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1/4 cup cornmeal
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1 cup low-salt chicken broth
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
3 tablespoons tomato paste
1 tablespoon brown sugar
2 stalks celery, sliced on diagonal
2 carrots, peeled and sliced on diagonal
1/2 cup frozen corn
1/2 red pepper, sliced into thin strips
Trim excess fat from tenderloins and cut into two pieces. Mix cumin with cornmeal. Roll meat in mixture to coat. Pour oil into a nonstick, 12-inch skillet and brown meat over medium heat. Combine chicken broth, vinegar, tomato paste, and sugar. Add to meat along with celery and carrots. Bring to a boil; cover and simmer 15 to 20 minutes. Add corn and red pepper; cover and simmer 10 more minutes. To serve, slice meat onto a platter and surround with vegetables.
Each serving contains about 151 calories, 19.5 g protein, 3 g fat (18 percent calories from fat), 55 mg cholesterol, 11 g carbohydrates, 2 g fiber, and 186 mg sodium.
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Charlie Wilson suffers stroke
ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Former U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson suffered a stroke while in Florida last week, according to a statement released Tuesday by Wilson's family.
Wilson reportedly suffered a brain aneurysm Friday while vacationing in the Orlando area and has been in a medically induced coma while he is being treated.
Wilson, a two-term Democrat, lost a re-election bid in 2010 to Republican Bill Johnson. Wilson attempted to unseat Johnson in a rematch election in 2012, but lost.
Prior to his tenure in Congress, Wilson served in the Ohio House of Representatives and in the state Senate.
Wilson turned 70 on Jan. 18.
Thursday last day to make tax payment
STEUBENVILLE - Jefferson County Treasurer Raymond M. Agresta said Thursday is the last day to pay tax bills without penalty for the first half of 2012.
Persons who have not received a bill should contact the county treasurer's office at (740) 283-8572.
Credit card payments are only accepted by telephone at (800) 2PAY-TAX (1-800-272-9829) or online at www.officialpayments.com and use code 4577. Agresta said Official Payments, the service provider, charges a convenience fee for the service.
Checks can be mailed to P.O. Box 398, Steubenville, OH 43952, or dropped in the drop-off box located on the alley side of the courthouse. Persons wanting a receipt must return the entire statement along with a self-addressed stamped envelope.
Payments also can be made at the treasurer's office on the first floor of the courthouse or at the following banks: Huntington National Bank in Steubenville (Hollywood Branch), Bergholz, Richmond, Wintersville, Toronto and Tiltonsville; and Peoples National in Mount Pleasant.
Grave decorations need removed
RICHMOND - Salem Township trustees have asked that all winter decorations be removed from the graves in Richmond Union Cemetery and Quaker Cemetery by March 25.
Buckeye Local policy overview provided
Buckeye Local School District officials will provide an overview of the Title I parent involvement policies and the school-parent compacts at the junior high and elementary schools. Title I is part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
The 2013-14 parent involvement policy and school-parent compacts can be reviewed for adoption. Parents' comments and recommendations will be accepted. All meetings will be held in the respective school buildings.
The schedule is as follows:
8 a.m. Friday, Buckeye Local Junior High School.
10 a.m. Friday, South Elementary School.
Contact Angela Hicks, administrative assistant/director of federal programs, or Cindy Schooler, parent involvement coordinator, at (740) 769-7395 with questions or concerns.
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US PlayStation Plus Update for February: Outlast, Metro: Last LightWritten by: / / 5 Comments
Sony has revealed which games PS Plus members in North America will be able to download as part of their subscriptions over the course of next month. These include no less than three first-person shooters: 4A Games' post-apocalyptic Metro: Last light, the terrifying new PS4 release Outlast which naturally has you fighting for your life in a mental asylum, as well as Overkill Software's co-op focused Payday 2.
Meanwhile, PS Vita players with Plus subscriptions can soon sink their teeth into Street Fighter X Tekken's lengthy story mode and enjoy the excellent community features of ModNation Racers: Road Trip.
Here's a summary of the additions to Plus' Instant Game Collection during February:
- Outlast (PS4)
- Metro: Last Light (PS3)
- Payday 2 (PS3)
- Remember Me (PS3)
- Street Fighter X Tekken (PS Vita)
- ModNation Racers: Road Trip (PS Vita)
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22 Jan 2012 12:27 PM #1
Timeline for SQL proxy?
Is there any word when an SQL proxy will be available for ST2? I just found out that localStorage is getting wiped between my app updates (phonegap), so I'm really stuck right now.
I'm on my way to syncing to the web via manual backup, but this is a huge pain that I was hoping to avoid for a while.
22 Jan 2012 2:40 PM #2
Have you looked at Sencha.io?
22 Jan 2012 2:42 PM #3
When I log in, I get a white page that says this:
There are no organizations.
22 Jan 2012 2:54 PM #4
That's the gist of what sync does. Is that an error "There are no organizations" that you are getting? Or is it just informational? Have you tried creating an organization?
22 Jan 2012 2:56 PM #5
It looks like an error.
"There are no organizations." is the entirety of the source code for the page that gets rendered after I login.
22 Jan 2012 3:00 PM #6
Oh my gosh, this is exactly what I need, and what I've started to build. If only the login page worked!
Do you know when the sync happens? A good bit of my users are offline, or in spotty areas, when using the app, since there is no dynamic internet content.
If the proxy doesn't work like a write-through cache that can batch what hasn't been saved, I don't know that this will work for me.
22 Jan 2012 6:17 PM #7
I'm sorry you were unable to login successfully.
I have fixed the problem, and you should be ok now.
In happier news, our Sencha.io data service sounds perfectly suited to your use case.
Whenever your app calls sync() we exchange updates with the server.
Your users can make local updates whenever they want... online or offline!
22 Jan 2012 6:37 PM #8
Awesome. I can log in now.
This absolutely looks like exactly what I'm looking for, and I only wish I had found this *before* I'd setup the heroku instance and started building the backend to handle a sync. Eh. :P
I'm using Sencha Touch 1.1.1, so can I just drop in Sencha I/O SDK Beta 3? How does the library uniquely identify users? I'd like to bind to UUID at first, but I've had a couple requests for iCloud storage to sync between devices. If I could fake it with Sencha IO, that sounds like a win to me.
Also, is there any form of security on user data, and do I have access to it? I'm thinking this could be a *really* easy way to do analytics if all I need to do is create a model and call sync. I've been needing analytics for a while, and I've been dreading writing the "if network not available, buffer in localstorage, then push up eventually" crap that Sencha IO sounds like it takes care of.
22 Jan 2012 7:01 PM #9
> I'm using Sencha Touch 1.1.1, so can I just drop in Sencha I/O SDK Beta 3?
No. SIO SDK B3 only works with ST2 PR2 and PR3.
> How does the library uniquely identify users?
As a developer you can create a group of users. Each user who registers for
your app becomes a member of that group and is assigned a unique id, and
a unique username.
> Also, is there any form of security on user data, and do I have access to it?
By default a user's data is only available for access by that user.
(Or by the developer of the app that created the data.)
> I'm thinking this could be a *really* easy way to do analytics
I don't really know what you mean, but...
> if all I need to do is create a model and call sync.
Yes, that's all you need to do.


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What does Detect [Alignment] reveal about a creature that is possessed? Does it reveal the presence of the base creature's alignment, the possessing creature's alignment, or both?
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I think the answer would depend on the alignment of the creature being possessed and the alignment of the possessing creature. Looking at the spell Detect Evil from the PHB:
So if an evil creature is being possessed by another evil creature, the caster would be able to detect that there are 2 evil aura's on the creature. Note that the caster doesn't know the source of the aura; hence they couldn't tell if it is possession, an evil magical item, or an evil spell on the creature.
If a good creature is being possessed by an evil creature, the caster would be able to detect that there is 1 evil aura on the creature. Again, since the source of the evil is not known there is no way to tell if it's a possession, an evil magical item, an evil spell, or if the creature actually is evil... though most players jump to the conclusion that it's an evil creature, which can make a great adventure hook.
Possession is usually described in fiction as someone's mind (or a piece of it) entering one's body and taking control over it from the rightful owner; contrast with domination and other forms of mind control, where the controller's mind stays where it is but sends instructions.
Detect Evil in the PHB says that you can "sense the presence of evil", and the other parts of the description all refer to evil auras (basically to detect strength and number of evil presences). So I'd think that if one creature possessed another, then both of them would show up for Detect [Alignment] (subject to their actual alignments) since both of them are present in some form.


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6 Jun 2013 3:35 PM #1
Theme override include order
Hey guys,
I am having an issue with the include order of overrides in an extended theme... I created a theme which extends ext-theme-neptune, the neptune theme has an override for tabs that specifically disables tab borders, which I need enabled.
In my theme folder I have created /packages/my-custom-theme/overrides/tab/Tab.js with the following content:
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Ext.define('MyCustomTheme.tab.Tab', {
override: 'Ext.tab.Tab',
border: true
It would seem appropriate to always include locally built packages after the default packages that we are extending from... Is there a way to specify this or is there anything else I am missing?
16 Jun 2013 9:32 PM #2
I'm having this exact issue with applying tab borders. Under 4.1.0 this worked fine, I was also able to override the default tab border configuration without using a custom theme simply by including an override in my application sources. Neither approach is working for me with 4.2.1.
16 Jun 2013 9:49 PM #3
@cnelissen as a work-around I set the border in the initComponent() method of my Tab override
initComponent: function () { this.setBorder('1 1 0 1'); this.callParent(); }


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Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey, an associate managing editor at The Times in charge of weekend coverage, joined the paper in 1999. Previously, he was a deputy foreign editor and a correspondent based in Washington, Nairobi, Mexico City and Phoenix.
As the newspaper's first-ever Phoenix Bureau chief, he covered the immigration debate, border issues and other events in the Southwestern United States from 2010 to 2012.
Before that, Marc was The Times's Mexico bureau chief, responsible for covering Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. From 2006 to 2010, he led the newspaper's coverage of Mexico's drug war, Cuba's transition from Fidel Castro and Haiti's struggle for stability, among other issues in more than 30 countries large and small.
From 2001 to 2006, Marc traveled extensively throughout Africa as the Nairobi bureau chief. He wrote some of the earliest news accounts of the conflict in the western Darfur region of Sudan and focused attention on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and northern Uganda, where fierce fighting had become a way of life.
His first assignment at The Times was as a White House correspondent covering the end of the Clinton administration and the initial months of the presidency of George W. Bush. He also covered the State Department.
Before joining The Times, Marc worked at The Los Angeles Times for 10 years, as a suburban reporter, covering City Hall and as a Washington correspondent. He also covered local news at the Buffalo News and was a summer intern at The Washington Post.
Born in New York City, Marc graduated from Cornell University, where he majored in biology and was editor in chief of The Cornell Daily Sun. He received a master's degree in international policy and practice from The George Washington University.
The Leader, el Comandante: A Former Foreign Correspondent Weighs In on Real and Big-Screen Dictators
As I sat in a theater watching the faux dictator of the made-up Republic of Wadiya carry on, I imagined all those real-life autocrats sitting in the dark around me guffawing at the execution jokes.
May 17, 2012, Thursday
Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico in 1980s, Dies at 77
His tenure marred by economic crisis and an earthquake, Mr. de la Madrid is credited for setting Mexico on a path to a free-market economy and, inadvertently, multiparty rule.
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After Promoting Others' Work, a Late-Blooming Sculptor Realizes Her Dream
Some of Retha Walden Gambaro's sculptures are on view through May 13 in an exhibition at the Heard Museum's new sculpture garden in Phoenix.
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Shot-Up Image of President Draws a Secret Service Inquiry
A photograph online showed a group of young Arizona men posing with guns and holding a bullet-riddled image of the president's face.
January 27, 2012, Friday
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Judge Orders Arizona Candidate Struck From Ballot
A judge said Alejandrina Cabrera, who is seeking a City Council seat in the border community of San Luis, Ariz., did not know enough English for the job.
January 27, 2012, Friday
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Arizona Candidate Challenged Over English Skills
Alejandrina Cabrera's political opponents in San Luis, Ariz., say she cannot speak English well enough to serve on the City Council.
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For Giffords, House Comeback Is One Too Many
In a video released online, Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona said she was stepping down to focus on her recovery after being shot in the head in an assassination attempt last year.
January 23, 2012, Monday
Strafing Mock Targets, but Holding Fire, Too
The military training exercises at an Arizona bombing range are as realistic as can be, but migrants, animals and smugglers can sometimes halt operations.
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A Watchdog for Conservative Ideals
The Goldwater Institute, a libertarian think tank, plays an outsize role in setting the agenda in Arizona and is helping set up similar litigation outfits elsewhere.
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Border Fence Blocks Bears in Migration, Study Finds
The black bear population in southern Arizona faces threats from manmade borders, urban sprawl and expanding highway systems, researchers found.
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Hi, I am looking for a good reference to start reading about Mathematical Finance/Financial Engineering. I have a good background in Math but have no idea at all in Finance.
If you have no idea at all of finance you should begin by reading a book of finance, with only elementary mathematics, which tells you what it is all about. A very standard, well-known text book is "Options, Future, and other Derivatives" by John C. Hull. Now to begin with the mathematical treatment of finance, I recommend for example "Methods of Mathematical Finance" by I. Karatzas & S.E. Shrieve.
I definitely recommand "Introduction to Stochastic Calculus Applied to Finance" by Lamberton and Lapeyre. It is concise, precise, introduce all the mathematics you want by constructing the Ito calculus, the Black-Scholes model, formulation of the pricing via martingales and PDE, some interest rate theory and then introducing jumps and finishing by the algorithmic side. Then you can read "The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance " by Mark Joshi where you can gain more insight on the financial side and the technics used by the practionners. I think this could be a good start.
There is also the excellent lectures by Emmanuel Derman that you can find here http://www.ederman.com/new/docs/laughter.html. You can read theme even before the Joshi book. It goes from the basics to local-stochastic volatility in a physicist spirit with lot of intuition
The standard reference for derivative pricing and the role of Ito calculus are still the books by Shreve called Stochastic Calculus I (discrete) and Stochastic Calculus II (continuous). The whole theory is developed from a mathematical viewpoint with definitions and theorems and proofs; so if you appreciate the standard math textbook approach to life then you will find the presentation pleasantly familiar.
The material is developed slowly (I think most people who have taken a course in probability even at the undergraduate level can safely skip Shreve I) but by the end one starts to see and use non-trivial results.
These books are used in the Intro math finance classes at Chicago and Rutgers, both of which have well-reputed math-finance programs.
Some expert (physicist, working partly in finance) recommended me the book:
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Potters (2003). Theory of Financial Risk and Derivative Pricing: From Statistical Physics to Risk Management Amazon
It is econophysics approach to analysis of financial markets. It uses quite advanced mathematics including random matrices, stable distributions and so on. One can also look for the papers by these authors in arxiv.
Another expert recommended me the following site: http://www.opentradingsystem.com/quantNotes/main.html about quantative finances,
and the book " High-Frequency Trading. A Practical Guide to Algorithmic Strategies and Trading Systems" IRENE ALDRIDGE
I agree with Vel Nias' answer that Shreve's books are good. I would like to add that if you have literally no idea at all in finance, as I did when I first started reading about financial mathematics, it would be a very good idea to read a non-mathematics book about finance to learn what stocks are etc. Most authors of economics books try hard to show how clever they are, so their books can be quite difficult to read. On the other hand, children's books can sometimes be good, such as Growing Money by Karlitz and Honig. I also recommend The Great Game by John Steele Gordon, which is a relatively down-to-earth history of Wall Street.
(By the way, it's almost impossible to find a book about finance which is unbiased in the sense that it doesn't try to offer some kind of investment advice.)


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BEIRUT—Al Qaeda's branch in Iraq said it has merged with a Syrian rebel extremist faction, in a push by the terrorist organization to exert more influence on the Syrian rebellion and its outcome.
The declaration reflects cross-border coordination between al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria's Jabhat al Nusra, or the al Nusra Front, a force with growing battlefield clout that has been a target of U.S. efforts to isolate rebel extremists in Syria. The two groups are already closely linked; when the U.S. designated the Syrian group as a terrorist organization in December, it described al Nusra as an alias for the Iraqi group.
The announcement from Iraq followed a statement on Sunday by al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri calling on Syrian rebels to direct their fight at establishing a "jihadist Islamic state" there as they seek to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.
On Wednesday, al Nusra's leader appeared to distance himself slightly from the announcement, saying al Nusra's leadership hadn't been consulted on the move, but swore his group's allegiance to the broader al Qaeda organization and its leader Mr. Zawahiri.
In an audio statement, Abou Mohamad al Golani said members of al Nusra "swear allegiance to, listen to and follow orders" from al Qaeda. He also confirmed ties with al Qaeda in Iraq and said Nusra fighters have benefited from their expertise and aid, but that the Syrian group would continue to hold its own black flag rather than come under a new name.
The new signs of al Qaeda's influence are likely to deepen a schism within the Syrian rebel movement between Islamist extremists who shun Western involvement and more moderate fighters trying to work with the political opposition and Western powers. Many of these rebels say the longer the civil war drags on, the easier it will be for al Qaeda in Iraq to influence the fight.
The U.S. has stepped up efforts with Arab partners in the region, and Syrian rebels, to counter the influence of al Nusra. In Iraq, the Central Intelligence Agency has ramped up support to elite Iraqi antiterrorism units to better fight al Qaeda affiliates, The Wall Street Journal reported in March.
Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday hinted that additional U.S. steps to help moderate rebels were in the works. Mr. Kerry is due to meet the Syrian Opposition Coalition's leadership in London on Wednesday.
In a 21-minute audio clip posted on militant websites late Monday, al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said his group was providing half of its budget to the conflict in Syria and that al Nusra—whose leaders are generally unknown—won't have a separate leader.
He outlined how al Qaeda in Iraq, officially called the Islamic State of Iraq, had cells in Syria that were reinforced with fighters from Iraq who helped draw "plans and policies" for the Syrian branch.
Mr. Baghdadi said the merged group would now be known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham. Sham denotes a historic and Islamic name for Syria and the surrounding region.
"It is time to announce to the Levantine [Syrian] people and the whole world that Jabhat al Nusra is merely an extension and part of the Islamic State of Iraq," Mr. Baghdadi said.
He warned Syrians against swapping "the injustice of dictatorship" for "the injustice of democracy that the people of Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have tried before you."
The authenticity of the al Qaeda in Iraq message posted on Monday and al Nusra's response on Wednesday couldn't be confirmed, but they were widely posted on militant websites.
Iraqi officials said al Qaeda in Iraq, which shares a decade-old relationship with Syrian jihadists, has been empowered by the Syrian war and has been feeding off the military strength of al Nusra.
"This signals the beginning of a new phase of operations of these armed groups which depends on the exchange of experiences," said Mowaffak al Rubaie, former Iraqi national-security adviser. He saw the announcement of a merger as an attempt to rile up Sunnis in Iraq by convincing them they were fighting the same cause as Syria's rebels, against Shiite domination.
In Syria, Islamist rebels said the announcement marked what has been happening on the ground for months. One aim of formally uniting the groups is to block other Sunni rebel groups from dominating the fight in Syria or "being the voice of Sunnis in the region," said a Syrian activist.
Terrorism experts described the announcement as a sign of confidence. "If this means they're going to cooperate even more, it's almost like a multiplication of the threat posed by each," said Bruce Riedel, a counterterrorism expert at the Brookings Institution. "They bring a lot of capabilities together, and they extend the reach of al Qaeda across the entire Fertile Crescent, from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf."
Al Nusra first emerged as a shadowy group claiming car bombings in Damascus and Aleppo, Syria's largest cities, in early 2012. Rebels and U.S. officials say its core fighters are Syrians who fought in the Iraqi insurgency against Western-led coalition forces, and are now using their expertise and ties to al Qaeda in Iraq at home against the Assad regime.
Over the past year, al Nusra has attracted hundreds of foreign fighters from the Middle East and central Asia, who have helped the group and its affiliated fighters score every major opposition battlefield gain in recent months.
In northern and eastern Syria, where rebels control territory, the group, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., is also engaging in the battle for hearts and minds. In Aleppo, al Nusra controls the provision of local services, such as water supply and bread distribution, according to rebels and local residents.
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Like other RDBMS, view meta data is stored at view creation time.
CREATE VIEW in the MySQL docs
The view definition is "frozen" at creation time, so changes to the underlying tables afterward [sic] do not affect the view definition.
I can't see a way to refresh this view meta data cleanly, unlike other RDBMS:
- SQL Server:
EXEC sp_refreshview 'MyView'
- Oracle:
ALTER VIEW MyView COMPILE
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It took several hours, but after gruesome work two girls scouring the ' net—with only one cup between them to store rep!—finally gathered up all the lost reputation points:
The key to their success was clues hidden in the new rep audit reports. Over the course of the next several weeks I will be returning this rep to those deserving souls that come up with the best uses for these new reports.
Some sort of custom, detailed graph control is an obvious choice, but even simple tools are needed to run locally and retrieve the reports so that personal downvoting history can be stripped before processing (if it's going to be uploaded anywhere).
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RG Steel suing Health Plan for 'mismanagement'
January 27, 2013
WHEELING — RG Steel liquidated its mills last summer, but the bankrupt company is now suing the Health Plan of the Upper Ohio Valley for allegedly mismanaging $1.45 million worth of funds....
If this wasn't so sad it would be funny. A company that so miss-managed their operations that they couldn't have done a better job of destroying the company than if they did it intentionally. They adversely affected the lives of 4500 current and retired employees and now to claim someone else mismanaged health care is a joke. It is amazing RG's lawyers can address the court with a straight face. Guess they play by their own rules.
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1963 Ford F-250 Pickup Truck - Reader's RidesWritten on November 1, 2009
"Slick Crazy" in California
Jack and Toni of Alpine, California, sent us a bunch of color prints depicting their '61-66 Ford truck collection. In upcoming issues we'll revisit and show you more of their collection. In the meantime here's the family's '62 and '63. Jack wrote: "It was in 1975, at the age of 10, when I watched my oldest brother Tom butcher a perfectly good '65 T-bird convertible to steal the FE motor for a slightly worn-out '63 Ford Unibody. My brother, in his senior year of high school, proceeded to race the old truck up and down Long Island until he blew it up entirely. As a grown man, I moved to San Diego, in 1986. It was then I found my second wife and our first '66 F-100 in a trailer park with no engine for the cost of $300. My friend had just totaled his '81 Corvette, so I proceeded to put the Corvette drivetrain into the old girl. The next "Slick" was the Clairemont Family Farms truck. This particular '63 F-250 Unibody, with a Y-block and three on the tree, was bone stock and purchased in Spring Valley, California, for $1,400. My wife and I rubbed out the paint and used the '63 F-250 to help build our family's first house. The old "Slick" trudged back and forth to the dumps and the local supply stores until she burnt a piston. I called my dad in New York, with whom I spent many of my days growing up helping him patch together our family vehicles in the driveway of our family home. My dad told me to 'just pop the head and drop the pan with the engine still in it and throw in another piston.' I heeded my father's advice and the truck is still purring to this day with the same spark plugs in it."
Next is their '62 Ford Unibody that Jack found in Bonita, California, at another "Slick" enthusiast's home. "I brought it in on a trailer and my wife freaked out, exclaiming: 'What the heck is this now!' In all my very best salesmanship, I explained, 'It's for you, honey, I'll build it however you want.' This project turned into a frame-off restoration. I located another '66 F-100 4x4 Unibody on eBay for $500 and proceeded to build the only '62 F-100 Unibody 4x4 known to man. Ford everything, new A/C, power steering, brakes, and a built 390-inch FE motor worked up to about 410 hp. The color is '64 Ford Competition Orange everywhere. The truck's bodywork (my least favorite part of the build) was done by the entire family, with endless hours of long-boarding and a little professional help and guidance from, believe it or not, my oldest brother Tom's best friend, 'Rooster' who now lives in Temecula. The local postal annex owner finished the bodywork and shot it in his garage for trade of the 302 that came out originally and my services of building his numbers-matching 396 engine for his Chevelle. The Ford motor was painted black with correct gold valve covers and air filter. My wife, the one who complained when we started this project, refuses to give it up; she doesn't want to drive anything else. I installed a removable steering wheel so when she goes to the market she can bring the steering wheel with her in the grocery basket to deter any 'would-be truck takers.' She loves the outcome and so does the rest of the family."
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Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD
Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
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What is the prognosis (outlook) for people who get a tick bite?
The great majority of people who get tick bites have no problems during or after the bite. For people with suppressed immune systems (HIV, cancer, chemotherapy patients), the prognosis is still good, but they should contact their physicians and inform them about a tick bite. Also, the faster the tick is removed after a bite, the less likely the tick will transmit pathogens.
The overall prognosis for an individual person changes if the tick transmits a pathogen. The prognosis can range from good to poor and is determined by the disease transmitted, the stage of the disease, and the condition of the patient. Immune-suppressed patients usually have a worse prognosis than otherwise healthy people. Consultation with an infectious-disease specialist is one of the best ways to determine the prognosis for the many diseases that ticks can transmit to people.
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18 Jun 2009 11:19 AM #1
EXTJS and Test Complete
I am wondering if there is anyone who is using the AQA automation software Test Complete with web applications using EXTJS? If there is anyone sucessfully using this combination I would be greatful to hear from you. We are having issues with the panel numbers changing which causes the values of the DOM objects to change between builds. I would like to know if anyone else is seeing this and if you have seen it did you find a workaround?
29 Mar 2010 9:42 AM #2
We are having this problem as well
We are having this problem as well, any idea of a nice work around?
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EXT and Test Complete
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TestComplete will work with EXT if you can find a property that will remain consistant in your app. I found that the classname property is very descriptive and usually isn't changing. It is also key to note that adding properties to the mapped object acts as an 'AND' function to further create a unique identification for the object in question. I had success using InnerHTML and InnerText properties along with the classname to create uniqueness for the object being mapped.
29 Mar 2010 2:13 PM #4
A suggestion..
I've been struggling with this for about 3 years and I have found that the problem is more manageable in Firefox and Safari browsers where the web page window is a single object. Then it's simply a matter mapping the page, delaying until all objects are viewable and then plotting the click points. It's kind of painful getting the points and it all becomes obsolete with any changes in the page but it can be done.
I'm still working on the IE dynamic. IE does try to map every object on the IE page and I have had problems with the appearance of a freeze while it remaps the page based on (I assume and has been tentatively confirmed by AQA) changes created by a button click.
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Have you deal with slider? I wonder how to change value on slider not using click and drag.
31 Jan 2013 1:25 PM #6
TestComplete 9.2 release from earlier this month includes support for ExtJS. You can download a free trial here: TestComplete Homepage
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20 Mar 2013 11:57 AM #7
I am currently evaluating the current release of TestComplete and running into many of the issue listed on this thread. Can you provide some detail how to overcome the trouble with dynamic objects ? we also use Ozone Widget Framework in addition to Ext JS.
21 Mar 2013 10:03 PM #8
TestComplete provides many features so that you could create reliable tests for dynamic objects. Look at this screencast demonstrating them: http://support.smartbear.com/screenc...namic-objects/


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In combat, can my Dragonborn Barbarian use the Scion of Arkhosia's overland flight 12 in combat, move the 12 squares given by the overland flight from the paragon path, land, then use a standard action?
Conversely, could my Dragonborn Barbarian use overland flight in combat to double move and go 24 squares?
I have seen a lot of people reference the DMG in regards to overland flight, but I feel with how overland flight is described in PHB2 (for player characters), that it CAN be used but is highly restrictive while flying.


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At some point after launch, usually just before or after separation from the last booster stage, spacecraft are often made to "spin" (about the axis of their trajectory)? See e.g this You Tube video. What is the reason for this spin?
It's a great way to get gyroscopic stability.
NASA has been using this technique for a long time. For instance, the Pioneer spacecraft used this method. Another example is the Juno spacecraft as well.
I hope that answers your question sufficiently.
Applying spin along an axis, usually the direction of travel, endows the craft with a degree of gyroscopic stability, enabling the craft to preserve consumables onboard as it makes navigation easier. SPin is also used in re-entry (like the beagle mars lander).
New Horizons, Pioneer 1 and 2, Voyager 1 and 2, as well as some sattellites all use a spin to gain gyroscopic stability.
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I read that Japanese researchers have developed very sensitive camera that recorded bioluminescence in humans; is it possible and if so what is the mechanism behind it?
From the article you linked:
They reference these two works. The first is a 1988 review from Popp et al. (1988):
Biophoton emission - Experientia 44:543–600. (sorry, I cannot find the link to a full text...)
Fritz-Albert Popp is the biophysicist who first developed the biophoton theory.
The second work they reference is by the same first author:
In vivo imaging of spontaneous ultraweak photon emission from a rat's brain correlated with cerebral energy metabolism and oxidative stress. - Kobayashi M, et al.
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NYT's ironic fact-check error
David Brooks's column today is vintage Brooks. In this column I will embed my own nostalgia for the time and place in which I grew up within a framework of someone else's compelling (if simplistic) narrative, and then offer sweeping, general prescriptions for our societial ills. The upshot of this particular instance of the genre is that "religion" (impossibly generalized) used to play a more "dominant role in public culture," and that such a role supported a "moral status system" that provided a check on the "worldly status system." Back in those days, when there were "competing status hierarchies," the "culture was probably more dynamic" and -- it goes without saying -- better.
It's a pristine specimen of Brooks. Along the way, he quotes from the sourcebooks of Judeo-Christian culture (Hebrew Bible and New Testament), which is what he means by "religion," in order to show the sources of our old "mores," before we became "secular." But then there's this doozy of a blunder:
In Corinthians, Jesus tells the crowds, "Not many of you were wise by worldly standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. ..."
Where to begin analyzing this unbelievable error?! Until proven otherwise, I'm going to go ahead and pronounce it the most ironic fact-checking oversight in the history of the esteemed New York Times.
To anyone formed in the Judeo-Christian heritage, the one so exalted by Brooks, it is self-evident that Jesus did not go to Greece or author 1 Corinthians. It's almost pre-rational: Christian kids learn things like this before they even learn that they're learning things at church. Jesus barely left Galilee and did not author anything. Moreover, this section of 1 Corinthians is about Christ crucified, which is unmistakable from reading a couple verses on either side of the quote. It makes me wonder, did Brooks pluck this quote from a Bible quote daily calendar? Or from a context-less collection of inspirational quotes? In any case, during a piece lamenting the declining influence of religion, Brooks reveals his own stunning ignorance of the Judeo-Christian sources that he mines for his arguments.
On to the fact-checkers: I have great respect for these folks at the Times. They have an extremely difficult job at what is the best and most fast-paced newsroom in the country. In my limited (one) experience with writing for the Times, I was in awe of how swiftly and thoroughly they worked.
But in this case, a group of fact-checkers -- multiple people -- read over this sentence, and not one of them stopped the error. What that reveals is profound: the staff at the Times is not as secular as we think they are. They are even more secular than we think they are.
To not know that Jesus did not speak to people in Greece would be like not knowing a basic fact about the most important figures of American history. Letting this error through would be akin to: charting Columbus's voyage on the Mayflower; assigning the wrong author to the Emancipation Proclamation; praising Malcolm X's "I Have a Dream" speech; recounting Kennedy's trip to China; or commemorating Bush's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" moment. All of those errors are unimaginable, as they should be.
And so, when we turn from Mr. Brooks to the fact-checkers, we find that his comical irony becomes a kind of tragic irony. The group of fact-checkers has embodied the very absence of Judeo-Christian culture bemoaned in the column itself.
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Correction: June 14, 2013
An earlier version of this column misattributed a passage from Corinthians that ends with the statement, "God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong." The letter to the Corinthians is by Paul, not Jesus.
That type of error from an author is as embarrassing as you say, but not as astounding. A writer means one thing and writes another. Jesus instead of Paul. Mental hiccup. That's one reason editors exist. But that it made it all the way through a line of professional readers and into print is amazing, like publishing an upside-down photo.
Can something be amazing and yet not uncommon? I ask because I sometimes see easily spotted errors blotting major books from prestigious publishers. I would say that standards have slipped recently, except that H. W. Fowler found plenty of errors in print when he wrote A Dictionary of Modern English Usage many years ago.
But is this error ironic? It would be ironic if Brooks was claiming that we are more steeped than ever in Judeo-Christian culture. As it is, the error is amusing confirmation of his thesis, or maybe just a quick and not entirely representative look at conditions in the shop where he works.
Some years ago, I was told by a friend that she had heard the editor of one of our leading literary reviews remark, "Well, when Jesus wrote the New Testament. . . ." I leave the review unnamed, since I can't vouch for the truth of the story.
Jesus must have been there on one of those "Follow in the Footsteps of Paul" package tours.
I once wrote "since Abel slew Cain," and it went through three editors intact, including a lay preacher at his church. Nobody can predict what the semi-conscious mind will do while the conscious mind is wrestling with phrasing the next sentence. Even Homer nodded (although I am told the sea he was talking about sometimes, in some light, turns the color of wine).
The column is a serious muddle, at best.
And the mistake is hilarious. But all I can say is, "There but for the grace of God..."
Oh, and the grace of copy editors. Copy editors are such a pain in the tuchas. Unbelievably detail-obsessed people who annoyed me no end -- and saved my hide more times than I could count. They are also the hoplites of journalism who are first to go in budget cutting.
This morning I sat in a quiet waiting room, read Brooks' article, and missed the error. The column was not headed FIND THE ERROR BELOW. Even those often stump me. I read quickly, my mind creates what the sentence is probably saying.
Did the scribes copying codices of scripture ever make errors?
And then there was the "Wicked Bible" of 1631.
"The word not in the sentence 'Thou shalt not commit adultery' was omitted, thus changing the sentence into 'Thou shalt commit adultery.'"
The printers might have had the fun-loving Corinthians in mind when they documented this new commandment.
"Jesus barely left Galilee and did not author anything."
Eusebius, the Father of Church History, tells us about a letter Jesus wrote to Abgarus, Ruler of Edessa.
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This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: June 14, 2013
An earlier version of this column misattributed a passage from Corinthians that ends with the statement, "God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong." The letter to the Corinthians is by Paul, not Jesus.
Thanks, Gerelyn. Eusebius says the letter existed in his time in the city of Edessa
The answer of Jesus to the ruler Abgarus by the courier Ananias.
Blessed are you who hast believed in me without having seen me. For it is written concerning me, that they who have seen me will not believe in me, and that they who have not seen me will believe and be saved. But in regard to what you have written me, that I should come to you, it isnecessary for me to fulfill all things here for which I have been sent, and after I have fulfilled them thus to be taken up again to him that sent me. But after I have been taken up I will send to you one of my disciples, that he may heal your disease and give life to you and yours.
"Correction: June 14, 2013
An earlier version of this column misattributed a passage from Corinthians that ends with the statement, 'God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.' The letter to the Corinthians is by Paul, not Jesus."
Even the corrected version is wrong. Would it have been too much to hope that the editors at the nation's newspaper of record might have noticed that there are two epistles to the Corinthians?
Then we have the following assertion in the Catholic world: "Jesus made Peter the first Pope." Holy Mother Church has no problem infecting history with doctrine.
It may reflect my prejudice in the endless battle between editors and writers, but I assumed the copy desk was responsible when I read it. But I guess not - the correction would probably have specified if it was an editing error. Still, not a good day for the editors.
Coming soon in the NYT:
"An earlier version of this editorial implied that President Obama may actually be losing credibility, and that criticisms of his policies may have some validity. We regret the error."
My dad, on a trip to Israel sponsored by the Tourism Minsitry was shown a site where St Peter was supposed to be buried. My dad told the very earnest guide that someone should let the Pope know; he thinks he's buried at the Vatican.
Samuel Johnson, a man of prodigious memory, when presenting his Dictionary to the world, wrote of the way "that what is obvious is not always known, and what is known is not always present; that sudden fits of inadvertence will surprise vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment of need, for that which yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts tomorrow."
My guess is that David Brooks just suffered one of those Johnsonian "eclipses of the mind." Too bad the Times couldn't have caught it for him, though.
I read Brooks fairly regularly. I find you never know just what he's going to say. Sometimes he sounds like a genuine independent, occasionally he sounds sort of profound like a child, and sometimes he sounds just a bit flaky. Anyway, he seems to have different sorts of mental processes from other pundits, and not a bad thing :-)
I think the real story here is Michael Peppard's article - much ado about nothing.
So David Brooks made a mistake - so what! Is really worth the extent to which Mr. Peppard goes - 7 or so paragraphs - to castigate Mr. Brooks?
I hardly think Mr. Brook's oversight equals saying Kennedy went to China, etc.
I think Mr. Peppard needs to step back and take a little look at what he has done and how overblown and trivial it really is.
Whoops, I think Mr. Peppard or one of his friends is going to write 7 paragraphs about how I left out the word "it" at the beginning of my sentence, "Is (it ) really..."
Heaven help me!
Brooks' mistake was trivial. What was noteworthy is that a team of checkers missed it. What that shows is that the NYT is staffed with many people who do not have the foggiest notion of what is considered important in the world of religion. Given that it is the "paper of record" -- and is a great paper in many ways -- such a mistake is noteworthy, It substantiates the claim that the NYT has a blind spot when it comes to religion.
Interestingly, Peppard himself showed ignorance about essential religiouys knowedge. The original Op-Ed (not blog) by Brooks *also* said that the stories of Saul, David, and Esther were in the "Torah." (Wrong. They are not in the first five books of the Old Testment, but in later books (e.g., Book of Esther).
Should we also blame the copy correctors at COMMONWEAL "for their ignorance of the Old Testment" and for leeting "blog" through as well?
It looks to me like Brooks had had a really bad memory that day, for several reasons.
... And, it looks to me like I am having an especially bad typing-spelling day right now!