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The first three gospels are sometimes known as the "synoptic" gospels. What does this term mean, and how does it differentiate them from the gospel of John?
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A brief look at any harmony of the Gospels will immediately point out an obvious fact - namely, Matthew, Mark, and Luke go over a lot of the same ground, but John is very different.
The number of parables and stories that occur in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, which do not occur in John, is just too great.
Note, for example, just the miracles of Christ.
Because these three seem to have the 'same view' on a lot of matters, they have been called the "synoptic" Gospels, from the Greek syn (same) and optic (relating to sight or view).
Famed exegete Daniel Wallace goes into detail on the so-called Synoptic Problem, asking how it is that three Gospel writers could include so much that is so similar, in even the same order. While he does not deny inspiration by the Holy Spirit, he shows how the complete agreement would not really fit with three men independently relating the same facts, without some form of collaboration or borrowing. A close reading of parenthetical remarks or the details which are included in some accounts but not others would seem to indicate that the authors were aware of the other works, and expected their audience to do the same.
Given this similarity, the fun question then becomes, who borrowed from whom?
Traditionally, Matthew was viewed as the first Gospel, hence its location first in the New Testament canon. That said, beginning with Schleiermacher in the early 1800s, the idea that Mark was actually the first began to take hold.
The rules of hermeneutics that are used to reconstruct "the original wording" (remember these were hand-copied manuscripts and minor variations happened) usually suggest that when two possible variations are presented, "the harder meaning is to be preferred." In other words, if a copyist is reading sourcing material and either re-copying it or re-using it, it is far more likely that a copyist would harmonize what is said with an overall theology, rather than introduce something that makes the existing theology less pure and pristine. Since Mark's Gospel typically includes some of the most human aspects of Jesus (the Messianic secret, the abrupt ending, etc...), the principle is taken to a macro level, thus giving Mark "temporal first place."
The synoptic "problem" does not seek to deny "Inspiration," but does seek to create an historical chain of events that tells us how our Gospels came to be.
Syn- means same (as in synchronize, same time), and optic of course refers to sight. The three first Gospels are syn-optic because they see alike; they basically tell the same story as each other, covering many of the same events. John, on the other hand, focuses on a lot of different material than the other authors, and has a very high percentage of unique content.
To contribute to the exceptional answers already here with a bit of additional information, the source material referred to as Q (or Q source, or Q Gospel, name from the German Quelle) is held in common between both Matthew and Luke, in addition to the common material from Mark, which is presumed to be written first. That said, there is debate on the nature and even the existence of the Q source, being theology. A good article about Q source can be found in the Anchor Bible Dictionary, though this may be difficult to access for those without academic theological libraries nearby.
The reason for the term synoptics is that they can be viewed together to gain parallel understanding of the three Gospels. John, however, is not considered synoptic because it has many different events (whereas Matthew, Mark, and Luke have the same basic events with some additional or missing events based upon source materials) and different structure and order.
An important caution in regards to the synoptics is not to proof text synoptic parallels. It is common for passages to be matched up in synoptic parallels based upon similar general meanings when translated, which may be accurate, or may not be, based upon the original context of the passage. The heretical Gospel of Thomas (deemed as a Gnostic text that promoted a secret knowledge of Christ) is found at many points to have parallels with the synoptics also, though itself nothing like the other Gospels in structure.
When the first three gospels are compared—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—it is obvious that the accounts are very similar to one another in content and expression. As a result, Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the "synoptic gospels." The word "synoptic" basically means "to see together with a common view."
Not that they should contradict each other but the striking similarities, not only of wording, as for example in the Healing of the Paralytic (Mk.2.1 12; Mt.9.1 8; Lk.5.17 26.), but also of the order of incidents, as for example the series of episodes recorded in Mark 10.13 34, and appearing in Matthew 19.13 xx.19 and Luke 18.15 34 presented a literary puzzle of sort. The question that arise is why these similarities?
Plausible explanation for similarities in order of events could be that writers presented them in the order of their occurrences. However for similarities of wording most of the literary studies only discuss this issue without taking into consideration the influence of Holy Spirit and point out to the literary dependence of these gospels on each other, which definitely the most logical conclusion one can expect with a sceptic mind.
One such research however bases this on oral traditions and concludes that the synoptic gospels are probably related to one another in a mostly literary, partly oral, fashion. It further goes on to say that it is highly likely that they were written from mostly oral traditions. However if the gospel authors had composed entirely from oral materials, each successive writer still depended on the groundwork of his predecessor(s).
Another study which is staunchly advocating the inspirational base for these similarities has found that only sixteen percent of the words in those sections are identical in all three Gospels. The study then focused on the agreements of two Gospels against a third Gospel in all combinations: Matthew-Luke against Mark, Matthew-Mark against Luke, and Mark-Luke against Matthew. It showed from several perspectives the impossibility of any theory of literary interdependence created by these combinations of agreements and disagreements. From the standpoint of observational facts, it pointed to randomness as the only possible explanation for the phenomena of the Gospels. Yet randomness is not an accurate term to apply.
As already said, the discussions of the origins of the Synoptic Gospels say far too little about the role of the Holy Spirit in the composing of those Gospels. He was the major author in the divine-human process of producing the Synoptic Gospels. Some of Jesus' last words to the Eleven were:
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The first three gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) are sometimes known as the "synoptic" gospels because by laying them in parallel and reading them synoptically ('with the same eye') in the original Greek language, it can readily be seen that there is a literary relationship among them.
Scholars have established that Matthew and Luke were substantially copied from Mark, with Matthew using some 90 per cent of the verses in Mark, often using the same words in the Greek language. Further sayings material not found in Mark but common to Matthew and Luke is attributed to the hypothetical 'Q' document, and once again, this could only come from an earlier, written Greek language document. Of course, the context of this is that the gospels were originally anonymous and, in spite of later attributions, we do not know who really wrote them.
There are several ways to establish independently that Mark was the original source gospel used for the other two gospels, rather than either Matthew or Luke. One, which John Dominic Crossan has studied, is a peculiarly distinctive Markan compositional device called an intercalation or sandwich. In The Birth of Christianity, page 106, he says that the device does not move from either Matthew or Luke into Mark but from Mark to the other two. Of Mark's nine sandwiches, Matthew retains Mark's pattern five times and Luke retains it four times, such that the only conclusion must be that in copying passages from Mark, the other two evangelists sometimes copied the intercalation pattern and sometimes not.
On page 565, Crossan identifies at least one instance in which John's Gospel also accepts an intercalation from Mark, but it is generally accepted that Mark was not the main source used by the author of John. The greater parallel in John is with Luke, but John contains many elaborations, changes of chronology, and passages for which the original source is unknown.


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No. It is not safe to generate passwords online. Don't do it!
In theory there are some ways that one could perhaps build a password generator that is not so bad (e.g., run it in Javascript, on your local machine, and so forth). However, in practice, there are too many pitfalls that an average user cannot be expected to detect. Consequently, I do not recommend it.
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Just because a password generator doesn't use JavaScript doesn't mean it's not safe, however it would be easy for the server to store the password sent out with your IP address. If this is a concern it would be easy to change a few characters in the password. The GRC Ultra High Security Password Generator does not use JavaScript but "this page will only allow itself to be displayed over a snoop-proof and proxy-proof high-security SSL connection, and it is marked as having expired back in 1999". Each "instance" of this page has multiple passwords so even if GRC did log them (which I doubt they do) they wouldn't know which one you've chosen to use. If you still want a JavaScript based generator here is one.
If the password is being generated locally in JavaScript and there is no traffic back to the server, you should be fine.
If the password was being stored in a cookie it would only be viewable from the site that it originated from, due to the same origin policy. You would also be able to detect this by checking your cookies.
Their is the possibility for disclosure of information if you use a bookmarklet such as the one at http://supergenpass.com (JavaScript in a bookmark). The bookmarklet is stored locally, but run in the context of the site you are at, so if there is JavaScript running from that site that is setup to detect your bookmarklet, it could access information that the bookmarklet, uses, prompts for, and generates.

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Apple Fritters
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These light, batter-coated rings enclose tender apple, with the aromatic flavors of anise and cinnamon
Prep Time: 20M
Cooking Time: 15M-20M, plus 1 hr resting
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 3 large Golden Delicious apples
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup anise liqueur, such as Anisette or ouzo
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1/3 cup plus 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 large eggs
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- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- vegetable oil, for deep-frying
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- Peel, core, and thinly slice the apples into rounds about 1/8in (4mm) thick. Toss the apples, 1/4 cup of the sugar, the liqueur, and lemon juice in a bowl. Let stand for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, whisk the remaining 1/2 cup sugar, milk, oil, and eggs together in a bowl. Sift in the flour, baking powder, and cinnamon and stir until smooth. Set aside for 30 minutes.
- Pour enough oil to come halfway up the sides of a large skillet and heat over high heat to 350°F (180°C). In batches, dip the drained apple slices in the batter. Deep-fry about 3 minutes, until golden brown. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to paper towels to drain. Serve warm, dusted with confectioner's sugar.
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Pete Santini has been painting cars since the late '70s. Inspired by the choppers of that era, his art is combination hot rod and outlaw biker. His office has several cool helmets and tanks on display. The shop is smeared with color.The test subject is a '69 Impala that is going to get a blue candy top with some metalflake accents. We're thinking this would look good on a rear valance or as a highlight on the roof if the car is painted all one color. We saw a metalflake job on a dashboard that was so subtle we almost missed it, and we think firewalls and SS stripes would look cool with flake as well. Our cars are from the '60s too; why do the choppers get to have all the fun?The surface prep for metalflake jobs is the same as any other paint job. If you are spraying over existing color you'll need to scuff it with 600- to 1,000-grit paper to kill the gloss. If you are working with bare metal, use some primer/filler, block-sand it with 320-grit paper, and finish with the finer grit.Here is a tech tip from Santini. Tape off the driprail so it doesn't get shot with the metalflake topcoat. The paint is thick, making it nearly impossible to get the molding back on without mangling it.Big paint companies like House of Kolor offer an assortment of flake sizes and colors that are actually made of plastic, not metal. There are grades from extrafine to what people like to call "speed boat" to stuff so thick that you just blow it on from a pile in your hand. Santini prefers to use silver instead of colored flake. The reason is that if you cut through to the colored flake while finish-sanding, you will saw off any corners that might be poking through the clear. The result will be silver chips that you will be able to see.For the purposes of this story, Santini picked up a brand-new SATAjet 3000 RP gun to try out. Normally a good flake gun will have a fluid tip that is large enough (1.8-2.0 mm) to pass the flake in suspension without clogging and will have a hanging cup with a ball bearing to constantly mix the flake while spraying. The SATA gun had a 1.4mm tip and a gravity-feed cup with a large neck to avoid clogging. Santini noted that the gun worked well for a job like this one where he was shooting fast and not allowing the gun to sit. The gravity feed also allowed the flake to stay in suspension and go on the car instead of to the bottom of the feed cup.Santini usually uses a silver basecoat under a silver flake regardless of what the final color is going to be. The neutral silver base allows for any candy topcoat without affecting the final color. Whatever the color, the topcoat has to be translucent or you won't see the flake. Duh! The tape stripes are for the nekkid ladies Santini will add later, but this is a family magazine.The new gun came with a newfangled mixing/gravity-feed cup with a small port on the top to ventilate the system. We thought it was cool because, in theory, the system uses one less cup and you can screw it directly to the top of the gun. Just don't forget to close the vent.The metalflake is added to the clear- or topcoat of a base/clear system. Santini prefers to use a slow-drying urethane clear so that the flakes sink into it. The more the flake sinks, the smoother the finish. He tells us that a good rule of thumb is 24 ounces of clear mixed with 2 ounces of flake, but we watched him just pour a bunch in and mix it up.
Santini mixed three different sizes of flake together in the clear to get the desired effect. The small flake fills the gaps, and the large flake adds the drama. Each coat should be allowed to get tacky before another is applied. A good way to test readiness is to dab the paint on a taped area with your finger. If it is sticky but does not create a string when you pull your hand away, it is ready. Keep adding coats until everything is covered evenly, usually about three to four coats.The same general painting techniques apply to spraying flake as other paint. Use a crosshatch pattern to avoid striping, don't add so much paint that it sags, and make sure you overlap on each pass. In this photo you can see the difference between the flake and the base. Also notice that the flake looks more uniform on the silver than it does on the green paper, proving that a matching base color is a good idea.Since the flakes tumble through the air and onto the surface of the car, the next step is to prepare some clearcoat to bury the flakes' sharp edges and add depth.Burying the flake can take as few as five or as many as 10 coats of clear. Santini recommends four to five coats maximum in one session and then waiting a few days for them to dry. If you add too many coats at one time, the bottom layers will dry slower than the top ones, causing cracking or bubbling. After the paint is totally dry, you can wet-sand it with 500-grit paper and add some more coats. Be careful not to break through to the flake when you are sanding or you will have to start again. If it feels and looks flat, it's good. This job took eight coats and two sandings to complete.Now that the flake is down, Santini can add any color of candy paint he wants. When he is done, it will look like the base, the flake, and the clear are all one color and 10 feet deep.


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I haven't played Shadowrun quite yet, but I've been reading the 4E core rulebook and I have been trying to build a character. I've been working on a Technomancer, but for character fluff I was thinking of making him mute but able to communicate via sound bytes and voice clips cut to make the phrases he intends to say, projected from either a Commlink device he carries for the purpose or from any other sort of speaker system he manages to control. Thing is, I'm not sure if this just be a roleplay thing or if I would need to buy certain skills in order to make it plausible in-game. Would this affect character creation or not?
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Already had a mute character at my table (gobelin ninja was his name, quite sums it up). In 2070 it's so easy to fix physical mutism that it can't be compensated with points. It's also very cheap and easy to get a voice simulator (most humanoid drones come with it). So it's really a matter of personal choice. That said, if you persist with your idea, and you have an open minded gm, he could reward your interpretation with karma, and he should inflict you social malus for the awkwardness of your character, maybe -1. Also, an Edit complex form should help you cut and assemble sound, but sound editing is so easy, gm should not ask for dice roll.
EDIT : you have to think of your persona (your reflection in the Matrix) too, doo you speak the same way in RA and RV that you do in meatspace ?
No skills would be needed for anything that the character owns and has usual access to. If you wanted to project from someone else's commlink or device that would start getting dicey.
I would probably ask your GM what the cost for a wirelessly enabled speaker-system to carry on your person. If your character had a hardware skill, you could probably build one as well.
Truth be told, it's all in the GM's style. Ultimately, I would personally classify it as an RP issue as you are never far from a device with a speaker. Now, should someone go through painstaking preparations to not let a decker/rigger do anything then that would make for an interesting session.
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Tyra Buss, the standout tennis, track and basketball athlete at Mt. Carmel, will begin her quest for a singles title at the IHSA State Tournament held at Buffalo Grove High School in Chicago today. Buss, who won her final regular season singles and doubles matches on the courts at Bradshaw Park Monday, Oct. 14, will play in the first round against Jillian Atkenson of Palos Hills (Stagg) held at Schaumburg High School.
Buss defeated all of her opponents in the IHSA Sectional Tournament held at Carbondale Friday, Oct. 18 and Saturday, Oct. 19. The event included players from Carmi-White County High School, which the number one doubles team of Alexa Combs and Shayle Knight advancing with a win out of the first round before just missing a second round win to be eliminated from the tournament and a chance to advance to state.
Other CWC players who participated in sectional includes singles players Madison Wheeler and Tiffany Winkleman and the doubles team of Kami Frymire and Karrissa Siegel. Frymire, Siegel and Wheeler are all seniors.
Buss, who is also a senior, will make her fourth appearance at the State Tennis Tournament. She finished among the top 32 as a freshman and sophomore and in the top 24 as a junior. Heading into her senior year, she had an overall high school career match record of 73-5 and an overall game record of 740-11. All five of the matches she lost were in state tournament play.
Buss has also competed on the state level in basketball, cross country and track. She has signed with Indiana University to play basketball with the Hoosiers next year.
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Bad Tom Brewery: Love of beer, entrepreneurial spirit spurs 2 fathers to open up brewery
CINCINNATI -- Part of the spirit of Cincinnati's history is the drive to strike out on your own, to be the master of your own destiny and at times -- open up with both barrels.
Such is the spirit at one of Cincinnati's newest breweries.
Bad Tom Brewery is the result of a friendship between two local fathers, a shared love of beer and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Sean Smith and Charles Boucher said they met a few years ago while their kids were on the same soccer team. Boucher would host parties at his home for the teams and happened to be a homebrewer with six taps in his basement.
Smith said he got to know Boucher over that time, and he came to see Boucher wasn't just a great brewer, but a potential business partner.
Smith owned his own insurance company for a time before selling it off, and after being impressed by the quality of Boucher's beer, he saw an opportunity. About three years ago, the two men decided to make the big leap and start their own brewing company.
The owner of Terry's Turf Club owns the building that Smith and Boucher selected for their brewery's home. They said the building was mostly used for storage and parking before they started leasing it.
The pair said they would come down every weekend for more than two years after they got the lease to work on the building. Once that was in order, it was time to find a brew house.
The guys were in luck as they had come across a workable system while scouting out an alternative location. A company called Accurate Mechanical was holding on to a big set of tanks from a flavoring company that would be perfect for a brew house.
Bad Toml was able to work out a deal with Accurate Mechanical to not only buy the tanks, but to have the tanks refurbished into a workable 40-barrel brewhouse. Smith and Boucher said they would like to continue to source as much of their equipment and resources as local as possible.
Their first brew day on the new system was on New Year's Eve of 2012.
"It was a 24-hour day for us," Smith said. "We've managed our time better since then [laughs]."
The guys said they have yet to brew on the system at full capacity so there's a lot of room for growth.
"By the end of the year, we'd like to be running about 15 barrels per week, at least," Boucher said. "Realistically we could ramp up at any minute."
Ramping up their recipes has been an interesting process for Boucher.
"At home I was brewing 10- to 15-gallon batches. For a while the smallest thing that we could brew was 500 gallons at a time. So for a while we were making 20 gallon test batches on the homebrew system before ramping it up for production," Boucher said. "As long as we keep the gravity right, everything works out and we're good to go."
Bad Tom has a rather unique part of its history that is almost unheard of in modern craft breweries: Smith and Boucher financed the brewery entirely out of pocket. The pair did not take out a bank loan or find investors. That has meant the construction and time until production has taken longer since they've done almost everything independently.
"I was having a conversation with Scott (LaFollette) over at Blank Slate the other day, and he made a good point. We might be the last of a dying breed to be able to do something on your own that slow. Anybody nowadays would probably need to come out with investors and a lot more capital and just say, 'Boom, go!' … So that slower business model is out the window with that trend now," Smith said.
Smith said they estimate that they've been working 80 hours a week split between their previous jobs and getting the brewery ready.
The guys are hoping to move to bottling or canning eventually but for now they will be focusing on keg sales and filling growlers in the tap room. They said bottling or canning could be a possibility starting early next year. For now, they want to get a good base among the bars and restaurants across town.
"We really feel fortunate and lucky with a lot of this because going back to when we got going in 2011, there has been a huge shift around us. While we were standing around with sledge hammers and jackhammers, at least three breweries have grown up around us," Smith said. "We feel fortunate that there's this bigger wave that we're on than we thought."
Both men said their families have been very supportive as they worked on the brewery. Their friends have also come down to the brewery to help out and spend time at the tap room.
Every beer at Bad Tom has a story. Smith and Boucher do research and produce stories about each of their brews. Their flagship beer is the Bad Tom Brown Ale.
The Bad Tom Brown is named after a notorious outlaw in Kentucky named "Bad Tom Smith", who was Smith's great-great uncle. Smith said "Bad Tom" has the distinction of being the last man who was hanged in the Bluegrass State. Their American Strong Ale is also named after the namesake of the 101st Airborne.
"The theme has kind of become, 'Double Barrel Brewery (the brewery's former name,) Legendary Brews,'" Smith said. "We wanted to become the type of brewery that not only had quality beers but also had a bit of a story behind them to keep it interesting."
Over the years, Boucher has tried many different styles with different recipes. Boucher said he has mostly tried to brew beers in ways that would be something that he would want to drink and has been lucky that people seem to like what he's making. They have about 30 recipes in the books right now and are always thinking up different things to try.
"We wanted to come out with something that would be easy to drink for everybody … Everybody already had IPAs out there already so we wanted to create something that would appeal to be a bigger audience," Boucher said of the Bad Tom. "Most of the beers that we have are more of a session beer, of course we do have some wild hairs."
Boucher said they will strive to have beers that finish clean, that people can drink and not still taste their previous beer when they switch to another.
The pair said they are excited to be getting out in public, meeting the other brewers and moving into the next phase of their business.
"There's just such good synergy in this city from limo tours going around, the bar owners being more interested in craft beer to consumers just being more knowledgeable about beer," Smith said.
Smith describes it as "being in a cave and now we're coming out."
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The process to search for a new city manager will begin at the next Augusta City Council meeting on April 15. At that meeting, after the four people who win today's election are sworn in, the new council will decide how they will select a replacement for Bill Keefer, who has served the city for more than 16 years.
Mayor Kristey Williams said she has received interest from seven consultant firms and hopes to get a formal letter of interest from all of them.
"The council will choose the process," Mayor Williams said.
She said she would get the information about all interested firms to the council before the next meeting so they could begin to narrow down the search for a firm that will help find candidates to fill the City Manager's office.
Keefer's last day is in May. He is leaving Augusta to take the same position in Grove, Okla.
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The Etowah-Horse Shoe Fire and Rescue Department has been awarded a $109,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan announced Thursday.
The funds are designated for operations and safety projects.
"Ensuring these local fire departments have adequate supplies and staff training will provide for safer communities," Hagan said in a news release. "I am committed to making sure our communities in North Carolina have the resources they need to continue thriving."
The Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program is awarded competitively to fire departments and emergency medical service organizations, according to the release. "Grants are awarded on a competitive basis and can be used to obtain emergency response equipment, personal protective equipment, firefighting and emergency vehicles, and training."
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5 Classic Games You Didn't Know Had WTF Backstories
#2. Double Dragon
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What we thought was going on:
Two brothers, Billy and Jimmy Lee, wander through the streets of New York, headbutting punks until they died from too much headbutting, because it was the '80s; that's just a Tuesday night. As added incentive, the punks also took your girlfriend, and you really want her back because she never wears a skirt that covers her entire butt.
Above: how half of you got your first erection.
The WTF Backstory:
The enemies in Double Dragon aren't just another example of 1980s Japan misunderstanding what the punk movement was about: The game is actually supposed to take place in the post-apocalypse. And Billy and Jimmy aren't just chisel-jawed dudes who like ass as much as they like tanktops -- they're both supposed to be martial arts masters protecting a sacred and secret style. And the woman? She's not just your helpless girlfriend: She's also an instructor named Marian who also teaches at the martial arts school... presumably as master of Flashing Buttcheek Style. The manual also makes a specific point of mentioning that, though she's Billy's girlfriend, Jimmy has a thing for her too.
Although the setting and character relationship changes do explain some things, now that we think about it: If we're talking post-nuclear war, then these freaks...
...suddenly make a hell of a lot more sense. We just chalked them up as Sloth rip-offs, what with pop-culture of the time still riding high off The Goonies and all.
And then there's the fight at the very end. After the Lord Humungus analogue up there goes down in flames to your totally spiritual Repeated Face-Kneeing Karate Style, this happens:
"No, Steve, I get the knife this time. You promised!"
It seemed totally random at the time, and as kids, we just rolled with it because "fighting is the best!" However, in one of those text scenes that our impatient thumbs flew past, it's revealed that Jimmy is the one who secretly kidnapped Marian. So what you saw through child's eyes as a fun little section where you finally got to fight each other, you now know was a (possibly post-rape) struggle between brothers in a society that collapsed, leaving violence and death as the only laws. Suddenly, there's something just a little less innocent about the tied up woman on the wall wearing 2/3 of a skirt.
The Road: The Video Game.
#1. Arkanoid
What we thought was going on:
It's single player Tetris-pong. This can have a story?
The WTF Backstory:
We were all sticky-fingered, not-yet-Ritalin-addled kids, so we were too busy mashing the start button to ever watch an intro, but if you watched the one for Arkanoid, you'd know that the "paddle" is actually supposed to be a space craft called the Vaus, which is "trapped in space warped by someone."
You'd also know that "Arkanoid" was the name of the destroyed mothership where all of your friends and coworkers just died, and that the block breaking is actually your attempt to escape "space warped" -- some kind of metaphysical quantum hellprison -- which, due to graphical limitations, looks like a bunch of shipping containers in a grass field.
This is basically the Event Horizon.
Imprisoned and abandoned, you're forced to fight your way to "Doh," the mysterious "someone" that initially trapped you in "space warped." After 32 levels of bouncing a ball off a paddle, Doh finally appears as a giant head.
Made of Jello.
So if you did just mash that start button -- foolishly thinking you didn't need a sci-fi novel to understand your ping pong game -- and still managed to reach the last level, this is how it went down: There you were, just cruising along, thinking you've got a pretty good sense of the game (it's basically just destructive handball, right?) and then BAM! Smug space head out of nowhere! Wait, what? Literally everything up to this point has been in block form, what the hell is this head thing? Now it's attacking you?!
And if you did keep it together enough to overcome your stunned confusion and defeat the head, the game abruptly ends and this pops up:
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In "Interchange" at WorkShop Theater Company, seemingly unrelated lives are gradually revealed to be closely interconnected.
October 20, 2010, Wednesday
Saved, Before Alcoholics Anonymous
The Metropolitan Playhouse production of W. H. Smith's cautionary tale "The Drunkard" makes a good case for the piece's being more than a quaint theatrical curio.
October 5, 2010, Tuesday
Lewis's Tempters, Meticulously Paving the Road to Hell
A humorous adaptation of C.S. Lewis's novella about a correspondence between an under secretary in the Devil's "lowerarchy" and his nephew.
June 12, 2010, Saturday
Religion and Private Passion Fight Their Good Fight
"Satin Slipper," a theological debate of a play, is being given a fervent if ultimately tedious revival.
February 3, 2010, Wednesday
Blood, Viscera, Maggots and Peace on Earth
The impromptu truce that broke out between German and British troops on Christmas Eve, 1914, is the focus of Ricardo Pérez Gonzalez's "In Fields Where They Lay."
December 24, 2009, Thursday
When Uninvited Guests Drop in, Watch What You Say and Whom You Watch
The Pearl Theater Company has staged a delightful revival that gives full voice to Shaw's litany of sins committed in the name of English propriety.
December 24, 2009, Thursday
What Becomes a Hero? A Bit of Merry Patricide
The ponderous tone that permeates this revival robs the play of much of its sparkle and wit.
October 16, 2009, Friday
1 ¾ Hours Before the Mast, With a Swift Nod to Melville
The Woodshed Collective has mounted a silly theater piece, which it claims was inspired by Herman Melville's novel "The Confidence-Man," aboard an old Coast Guard vessel at Pier 40.
September 23, 2009, Wednesday
Evoking the Joy and Disillusion of a Bygone Time
As part of 1st Irish, a five-week festival of Irish plays, Billy Roche is performing two tales from his book, "Tales From Rainwater Pond" at the Irish Repertory Theater.
September 8, 2009, Tuesday
French Quarter Fantasy: Playwright Young and Old
In a commendable revival for the Pearl Theater, the director Austin Pendleton successfully captures the spirit of Tennessee Williams's play.
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Should I learn HTML / XHTML / CSS first, or should I just dive into HTML5 and CSS3? I am a bit confused about this process. I do know basic HTML / CSS, but am planning on re-learning everything these next few weeks, and have not done this since high school.
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Firstly, HTML5 supercedes XHTML (see interview with HTML spec lead, Ian Hixson) so go for (X)HTML5 (the X has been dropped)
Secondly, HTML5 should be viewed more as a 'collection of features' rather than one spec. There will be no HTML 6 -- more, what features you support for HTML5 should be driven by your target browser set's adoption of that specific feature rather than anything that 'supports HTML5' as this doesn't really mean anything any more
As for learning, you should definitely have a handle on HTML and CSS, before jumping into HTML5 and CSS3. Although you can learn HTML and CSS through the new versions, a lot of the new features are not consistently implemented throughout the browsers. I would say that picking up the basics of the current version would make things a little easier to grasp.
HTML has not changes the way HTML is written or rendered, and although there are some deprecated features it is pretty much backward compatible. The main changes are really additions of features.
CSS3 is similar with a lot of new features, but little change to the structure and implementation.
html5 is a set of 'add ons' that can be used with xhtml if you want.
CSS3 is a set of 'add ons' that can be ued with previous CSS.
So, they are one and the same in the broad sense.


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What are the Halachic boundaries of Eretz Yisroel?
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There are two sets of boundaries that define "Israel" with respect to Halacha.
Generally speaking, the Western border is well enough defined as the Mediterranean. (Though see the Gemara in Gittin Chapter 1, and Tosfos' commentary ...)
The first set is the Biblical borders, as given in Numbers Chapter 34. The southern border is nahal mitzraim, generally translated as Wadi El Arish. Many printed translations of the Torah now include a map representing these borders according to the view of rabbinic cartographers such as Kaftor VaFerach.
The second, much smaller borders, are found in the Talmud, Mishnah Gittin 1:2:
The latter borders are the ones that define, for instance, "the land of Israel" with regards to agricultural laws such as tithes (terumot umaasrot) and the requirement for a sabbatical year (shemitah).
In his yutorah.org lecture on halachic issues related to the Gaza Disengagement, Rabbi Hershel Schachter points out that Gaza is within the Biblical borders (north of Wadi el Arish) but outside the Talmudic borders (south of Ashkelon). The halachic implications of that are a very lengthy discussion.
Well there are Biblical borders, and then there are the Talmudic borders. (Much of your question is addressed there). The Talmudic northern border is Ako (as given in Mishna Gittin Ch. 1). The Biblical northern border is addressed by Numbers 34:7--9:
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan identifies "Chamath Highway" as the modern-day Homa, Syria. See his commentary for more. Most of the other locations identified by Rabbi Kaplan's translation can be found on Wikipedia and/or Google Maps.


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Forge wrote:DVD? You don't need one of those. ;p
Ragnar Dan wrote:Not the post I meant to reply to, anyways. Stupid fingers, stupid mouse.
Now that you mention it I recall having done that, and decided it was probably some crap like that. Old age... it sucks, man.derFunkenstein wrote:The standard ZIP format can't handle the resource fork of HFS+ so you'll see ._MACOSX (or something like that) which contains a bunch of metadata. That's the duplicate copy you're seeing. You'll find that those files in that spare folder are quite a bit smaller than the actual files.
derFunkenstein wrote:On a standard Windows-designed keyboard, the command key is the Winlogo key. On a Mac that key is where the Alt key normally is, but even if you don't use the Preferences to remap the keys around you get used to it. Cmd+letter is the equivalent to Windows' Ctrl+letter, so you'll want to get that down.
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When a question states that "how smooth is $f~$" what should I do? For example how can we apply it in this question :
Consider the function $f: R\rightarrow R$ defined by
$ f(x) = \begin{cases}x^{2}\sin(1/x^2 ) & ~~\text {if}~~ x≠0;\\ 0 & ~~\text{if}~~ x=0; \end{cases}$
How smooth is $f$ ? What should I do? Is green theorem related to these kind of questions?


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I'm trying to solve the integral below:
$$\int_2^8 \frac{dt}{4t+14}$$
The issue for me is not calculating the integral, but the antiderivative. My steps for calculating it looked something like this:
- $\displaystyle\int_2^8 \frac{1}{2} \frac{dt}{2t+7}$
- $\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}\int_2^8 \frac{dt}{2t+7}$
- $\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}\ln(2t + 7)$
I double checked my answer with Wolfram|Alpha, but it (correctly) calculated it as:
$$\frac{1}{4}\ln(2t + 7)$$
I looked at the steps it took, but they don't make much sense for me. Hopefully someone can help me out with this.


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This problem looks simple, but I searched around and couldn't find any similar problems or related resources. Hope someone could provide a clue or at least a hint of what class of prolbems it belongs to.
A = { [$m$, $n$] | $m$ and $n$ are positive integer numbers} is a set of 2-D lattice points
R = { $r$ | $r^2$ = $m^2$ + $n^2$ } is a set whose elements are the distance between the origin and the lattice points in the set A.
The problem is:
If we sort all the $r$ from set R and use these sorted $r$ to creat a series C = {$r{_1}$, $r{_2}$, $r{_3}$..., $r{_N}$}, where $r_i$ $\in$ R and $N\to\infty$, so that $r{_1}$ $\leq$ $r{_2}$ $\leq$ $r{_3}$... $\leq$ $r{_N}$, and we define $\Delta$$r{_i}$ = $r_i$$_+$$_1$ $-$ $r{_i}$, what is the explicit forms of asymptotics of $\Delta$$r_i$, such as $\Delta$$r_i$ $\propto$ $\frac{1}{r_i}$ ?
The problem can be also described as:
What is the explicit forms of asymptotics of the minimum distance between two adjacent concentric circles that cross integer lattice points?
The motivation of this problem is that: integers $m$ and $n$ determine the electromagnetic resonance frequency $r$ in a 2-D rectangular cavity, so $\Delta$$r_i$ is the distance between two adjacent resonance frequencies.
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4 thick cut pork chops
salt and pepper
Apple Stuffing
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1/4 cup diced celery
1 Apple(Green or other sweet variety) chopped
4 tbsp melted butter
2 1 tsp dried sage
salt and pepper to taste
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1/2 cup Brandy
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by Melissa Brunner
This is not to condemn nor defend Joe Paterno. Rather, I think it should give everyone pause to look inside ourselves and examine to what extent we are - and should be - willing to do the right thing.
As the Board of Trustees acknowledged at its news conference Wednesday night, this is bigger than Penn State football. At the core are several young men who, if the charges are proven, were hurt by one man and, if the charges are further proven, were not protected by people in a position of authority to do so. Let's not forget that.
But how hard is it to speak up? I submit that similar situations play out more often than you think. Ask Topeka Police what one of the most frustrating challenges of their job is and they'll tell you it's getting witnesses to speak up about what they saw. Remember Marini McKnight? She was gunned down two years ago trying to break up a fight in Topeka's Central Park. A crowd of people was around - yet no one can tell police who did it. It's the same story in other incidents, too. There is fear over the repercussions of getting involved. If you speak up, what might happen to you? But you must ask whether you're willing to let the person hurt someone else because of the risk to yourself.
I'm sure some people will say the risks don't compare - that the "risks" Joe Paterno faced were more selfish - that he put a prestigious job and big paycheck ahead of the boys who allegedly became victims. In contrast, it could be said, the witnesses to a violent crime may be risking the safety of themselves or their loved ones. Though the answer may not be as cut and dried, the question is the same - what's the right thing to do? How difficult must it be before we should not be compelled to do the right thing?
The Penn State trustees sent a message that Joe Paterno should have done more. Paterno himself said, in hindsight, he wishes he had done more. When our time comes, will we do more?


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Suppose you have a vector space $V$ of dimension $2n$. I know that there exists a basis $x_1,\dots,x_n,y_1,\dots,y_m$ such that $\omega(x_i,x_j)=\omega(y_i,y_j)=0$ and $\omega(x_i,y_j)=\delta_{ij}$, where $\omega$ is a bilinear symmetric nondegenerate form.
Now let $W=\operatorname{span}\{x_1,\dots,x_n\}$, and $W'=\operatorname{span}\{y_1,\dots,y_n\}$. If $Cl(V,\omega)$ denotes the corresponding Clifford algebra, then one can define a $Cl(V,\omega)$-module structure on the exterior algebra $\Lambda(W)$ as follows. For $x\in W$, let $\sigma(x)\in\operatorname{End}(\Lambda(W))$ as wedge multiplication by $x$ on the left. Also, for $y\in W'$, one can define $\sigma(y)x=\omega(y,x)$ for $x\in W$, which then extends to $\sigma(y)\in\operatorname{End}(\Lambda(W))$ by $$ y(a\wedge b)=y(a)\wedge b+(-1)^{\deg a}a\wedge y(b). $$
My question is, why does the $\sigma$ defined above in fact give an isomorphism between $Cl(V,\omega)$ and $\operatorname{End}(\Lambda(W))$? I'm viewing the endomorphisms as over the underlying field $k$, by the way.


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I'm 13 now (so I'm in the clear), but that just seems a little harsh. Is that possibly related to the age limit for accepting a binding contract/agreement (although I thought that was 18 in the U.S.)?
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Police in eastern Kentucky have arrested a man who they say showed up at a construction site with a rifle and then took the weapon to a nursing home.
There were no injuries. Prestonsburg police told WYMT-TV in Hazard the gun wasn't loaded.
Construction workers told police they saw Philip Baldridge looking through construction materials and confronted him. The workers said the man left, but came back with a rifle. They called police.
Police then got a call that someone with a rifle was outside Riverview Nursing Home. Police say Baldridge left the gun outside and came into the home, saying he was there to visit someone.
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A van driven by Lee St. Clair, 24, of Nebraska City careened off of Highway 75 Tuesday, jumping a tributary of the Weeping Water Creek and wedging into a marsh. St. Clair and a passenger, 20-year-old Devon Cropp, were asleep when the van left the roadway.
Cropp said he woke up as soon as the car hit the ditch. It missed the concrete abutment of a highway bridge and Cropp could see the creek bed ahead. St. Clair said he had the cruise control set at 60 mph.
"I think we set a new record for jumping a van over a creek," Cropp said.
Both men were wearing seatbelts and front airbags deployed when the van slid to a stop in a grassy marsh just ahead of clump of trees.
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I have a problem. It's look like there is many pixels missing in my spherical photo.
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Cameras aren't always around capture malicious treatment of helpless animals and Pamlico County is no stranger to this issue
There are a number of abandonment stories one that happened on Kershaw Road. A man witnessed 7 Labrador puppies thrown from a car window. The most recent made headlines in the local paper. A 3 month old kitten was found in Low Lands. According to Wendy Seward with Oriental Village Veterinary Hospital, the kitten had also been thrown from a car.
"The skin hanging down from his lower jaw his teeth being broken or missing," Seward described. "It makes you angry cause it's so unnecessary, it makes you wish you could have a conversation with the person who did that and kind of set them straight to what they did and how they hurt the animal."
The kitten has been completely recovered from its injuries. Smiley the cat is now happy, healthy and living with its adopted family. Unfortunately this type of happy ending doesn't always happen.
Adding to the problems Seward says people don't realize their attempt to help is just as much of a burden. She says lost or unwanted animals are often left on the steps of animal hospitals, sometimes going unnoticed for days. People don't realize these facility are not large enough to house strays. Longing for a better solution, the Oriental Village suggest that people take strays to an animal shelter where the chances of surviving are more likely to end like Smiley's.


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The 7 Most Terrifying Disney Movie Deaths
Kids, like adults, love it when bad things happen to bad people. So Disney movies always make sure the villain gets what they've got coming to them in the end.
And, sometimes, Disney gives them what they had coming, and then way, way more. Here are seven Disney villains who got dispatched in (sometimes literally) gut-wrenching ways sure to keep the kiddies up for many nights.
#7. Ursula, from The Little Mermaid
Ursula is a sea witch, which any marine biologist will tell you means "eight-legged obese Mermoctopus." After the movie's heroine Ariel meets Prince Eric (Eric? Really Disney?), she decides that she absolutely must become human, probably due to the limitations of human/mermaid sex.
"Oh, okay, I can see why this is going to be a problem."
The evil Ursula gives her a set of legs and lungs in exchange for her voice. Being an evil bitch, Ursala makes the trade at the bottom of the ocean. Ariel becomes human and almost drowns, barely managing to make it to shore, and Ursula, who's somehow a heavy smoker, cackles raspily because she totally saw that shit coming. What a bitch.
How She Died:
Near the end of the movie, Ursala blackmails king Triton into giving her the Magical Trident, the "One Ring" of The Little Mermaid. This allows her to transform into a giant, super Ursula that controls the weather.
The Prince, deciding that he's had quite enough of this shit, steers his ship through a whirling vortex of doom and freaking impales Ursula right through the gut.
In Greek, for bonus weirdness. Death-y goodness at 2:00.
For whatever reason, this causes lighting to strike her for an effective electro-stab combo. If they'd only stuck an explosive in her mouth, they would have covered the shark-kills from all four Jaws movies.
She screams in agony and falls back into the ocean, the saltwater and electricity searing through the massive open wound in her belly and charring her huge, exposed intestines (that last part is implied but not shown).
The horror of this fresh in everyone's mind, the king gets his Trident back, and makes everyone happy and everything better somehow. Is there no problem a large-scale impalement can't solve?
#6. Scar, from The Lion King
Scar is King Mufasa's brother. He not only conspired against and subsequently killed his own brother, but tried to kill his nephew and (presumably) boned his late brother's wife.
This is the sort of thing that goes on all the time among lions, but nobody makes a fuss until the lions start talking.
How He Died:
When the fully grown Simba finally returns from his frolicking adventure with the comedy relief, he returns, likely hoping for some kind of peaceful resolution. Scar is having none of it, despite that fact that he's an old rag next to Simba.
After the longest, least sexy catfight we've ever seen, Scar is thrown from the cliff and finds himself in front of his hyena minions. The very same hyena minions he just sold out to Simba a few moments before. The heyenas question his leadership skills, and quit their jobs, leaving Scar to think about what he's done. Oh wait, no they actually tear him to shreds.
The lesson: Never insult a Hyena.
Fun fact: Hyena's jaws are strong enough to crush bone. We of course have no way of knowing which part of Scar's body their teeth ripped through first, so we're forced to assume it was his dick.
#5. Shan-Yu, from Mulan
Shan-Yu is a Mongolian warlord. The movie says very little about where he came from, but, judging by the eyes, we're going to assume he's a distant Mongolian relative of Darth Maul.
How He Died:
Mulan, who the movie repeatedly demonstrates is the single competent human being in China, follows Shan-Yu alone, eventually climbing onto the roof to set up an elaborate trap. Shan-Yu uses his Mongolian ninja powers to jump through the roof right next to her.
Using her fan, Mulan manages to pull the sword out of his hand in a move that makes Bruce Lee look like a white belt. Just as Mulan is about to kill Shan-Yu, the assistant producer reminds her that this movie needs a G rating. So, she stabs her sword into the ground and kicks him instead. Our bloodlust looks like it's going to go woefully unfulfilled. But wait!
It's Deus Ex Machina, the friendly dragon, come to help her! He fires a rocket the size of Texas, strong enough to lift the 600-lb man off his feet and torpedo him into a building crammed full of miscellaneous fireworks. Kapoosh.
So basically, it's the ludicrously violent death from Naked Gun, only instead of being played for laughs, it's the climax of a kids movie. Burning chunks of Mongolian fall from the sky, always kept barely off-camera or behind an explosion, as everyone below celebrates. Happy days, indeed.
"I think you've got one of Shan-Yu's teeth in your hair."
#4. Clayton, from Tarzan
Clayton is a hunter who visits Tarzan's neck of the woods. Everything from the red scarf to the tiny-ass mustache gives off clear douchebag signals. He's the neighbor your father used to hate. Worse, he turns out be a hunter of gorillas (not actually legal) and he shoots Tarzan's adopted daddy to death.
How He Died:
When it comes to jumping around trees in the jungle and swinging from vines, nobody can beat Tarzan, though we suppose a freaking double-barreled shotgun that doesn't need reloading doesn't hurt your cause. Having failed to learn the lessons of history and the first two Rambo films, Clayton decides his superior weaponry is all he needs to fight Tarzan on his own turf.
The struggle ends up with Clayton suspended over a cliff, tangled up in vines. He starts hacking away at everything, save for the vines that are tightening around his neck which, quite frankly, we would have started with.
Finally, he cuts one vine too many and they can't support his weight. Vines still around his neck, he falls...
Lightning strikes, revealing the shadow of his dangling, lifeless corpse. Clayton snapped his neck on the vines and he is left hanging there, his big swollen tongue hanging out, his eyes bulging, and the contents of his bowels slowly making their way down his trouser leg.
Or he died from exposure after hanging there for two or three days. Either way, what the hell Disney?


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I'm looking for the title of this movie I watched years ago set in modern times where the hero comes across this society of monsters (mutated people with strange powers) living underground in secret. If i remember correctly the entrance to their place was in a cemetery, possibly in a tomb. In any case the hero finds out he is really of of them and ends up helping them fights off humans come to kill them. In fact at some point I think a little girl was abducted and taken to the local police station where the hero had to rescue her before something happened (she was going to change shape/die/something). I think she was named Babette.
It's an 80s or 90s movie. I also have this impression it was also a book.
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An address can belong to either the mailing or billing categories.
When a user adds an address to a table, should the address category be an independent integer value set by a constant somewhere in the source code, or should it be a foreign key to a table that lists the categories available?
I'm concerned about performance and best practice.
The chances of adding or removing categories are slim to none.