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No. No. No. Google is not looking to acquire Amazon but Google is trying to get its electronic book store.
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Google just announced plans to open an electronic book store. Unlike Amazons strategy with the Kindle dedicated eReader device, Google plans to deliver eBooks to any device with a web browser.

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Remove all cleaners from under your sink or from floor level, and store them in an area your child can not reach or get to. If moving them isn't possible, install a child-proof latch, and don't use it in front of a child that may mimic your actions. Avoid storing cleaning compounds and food together, and keep everything in its original container. Food extracts such as vanilla and almond can be potentially poisonous to a child, so store these as you would any other household poison.
Do not leave any uncapped cleaner in the presence of a child, even for a brief amount of time. And remember to keep emergency numbers clearly posted by the telephone in the event your child accidentally ingests something poisonous.
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Defense Minister Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz concluded his visit to Washington, D.C. today where he engaged in productive meetings on a wide range of bilateral and regional issues. Prince Salman arrived at Andrew Air Force Base on April 10 where he was received by Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Joseph McMillan and U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James Smith.
Prince Salman met with a number of senior U.S. officials during his visit, including President Barack Obama; Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Mr. John Brennan; CENTCOM Commander General James Mattis; and Director of the Missile Defense Agency Gen. Patrick O'Reilly.
Saudi officials accompanying the Defense Minister included Minister of State and member of the Cabinet Dr. Mosaad bin Mohammed Al-Aiban; Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir; Lt. Gen. Mohammed Al-Ayesh, Commander, Royal Saudi Air Force; Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Al-Banyan, Director-General of the Defense Minister's Office; Maj.Gen. Ahmed Al-Qahtani, Director of the Armed Forces Intelligence Commission; Brig. Gen. Talal Al-Ghamdi, Military Advisor, Office of the Minister of Defense; Brig. Gen. Ahmed Al-Qahtani, Saudi Defense Attaché to the U.S.; and Brig. Gen. Tarik Al-Sarhan, Administration of Contracts and Treaties, Ministry of Defense.


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I read a lot about cows used in sacrifice , what is the reason that cows were sacrificed and what was the importance of cows for Bani Israel
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There are 4 basic categories of animals that are used in Sacrifices.
Goats were used for sacrifices anytime that there is a "Kaparah" or "atonement" related to the sacrifice. I.e. if the purpose of the sacrifice is to correct some wrong, then a goat is used.
Sheep are used for any sacrifices where the focus is on either the individual or family unit. It represents a more intimate and personal sacrifice.
Cows were used for any large or communal offerings. Cows being the largest animal, they were offered only when the entire nation was commanded to take part of the sacrifice.
Birds were used for any sacrifice where the poor were to be represented, either because they were required to bring a sacrifice but could not afford to bring a larger animal or for symbolic purposes.
It is also suggested that which animal to bring for the sacrifice is purely practical. The more people involved the more fatty animal you bring. Goats have the toughest and least amount of meat, then sheep, then cows, and birds were available for the poor.
According to R' Samson Raphael Hirsch, in various places in his commentary on the Torah, the ox, typically used for plowing fields, represents humans' power to do effect change in the world. Thus, any time we sacrifice an ox on God's altar, we're dedicating that power within ourselves to His service.
The first time he brings this up in his commentary is on Genesis 15:9, in the story of the "Covenant of the Pieces":
Of the various animal sacrifices, a cow (or more often, a bull) was considered the most expensive and often most choice. (Mind you, a pauper who can afford nothing but grain who brings it with meaning is valued over the mogul who thinks he can pay off G-d with a nice bull.)
Sforno discusses it being of the most utility to us, and also that its gestation period is eerily close to that of a human; hence when placing its blood around the altar, we think "how do I make sure my vitality is centered around the service of G-d."
Maimonides does observe that the mammals sacrificed -- cows, sheep, goats -- were deified by various idolatrous cultures (Indian, Egyptian, Babylonian, respectively), so part of this was a rejection of that.
Although many offerings required specific animals, where there were options the relative value of the offering indicated how special it was. Larger animals, like cows or bulls, were more likely to be brought for communal offerings because of the expense. However, we learn from the Torah that bigger is not necessarily better. In the first chapter of Leviticus, animal offerings are discussed as being brought by a "man" (Hebrew: "adom"). But in Leviticus 2:1-2, we read that a "soul" (Hebrew: "nefesh") brings a meal offering. The Talmud, Menachos 104b, explains that the meal offering is brought by a poor person who can't afford a cow, sheep, goat or even a bird offering. Therefore, by the Torah describing the giver as a "nefesh" it is as if G-d is declaring that He will "consider his act as if he sacrificed his entire soul." Hence, we learn that bigger is not necessarily better; rather an offering is only as good as the intent of the individual bringing it.


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There are lots of books about good web design, UI design, etc. With the advent of Xtext, it's very simple to write your own language. What are good books and resources about language design?
I'm not looking for a book about compiler building (like the dragon book) but something that answers:
- How to create a grammar that is forgiving (like adding optional trailing commas)?
- Which grammar patterns cause problems for users of a language?
- How create a compact grammar without introducing ambiguities. Here, think "clean language", not "parser builder warnings". Maybe "how do I avoid confusing the developer using my language?"


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The cutting edge of scientific research is often accomplished with surprisingly little cutting edge technology. In many cases, the equipment used to make discoveries is quite old, having been operating reliably for many years. Thus many scientists, comfortable with technological status quo, can easily miss small, affordable changes in technology that have the possibility to dramatically increase productivity.
Cloud computing may be one of these changes. While data-reliant researchers often have large, bespoke configurations for storing, retrieving, and working with large data sets, all research fields have had to come to terms with the sheer volume of data that modern, digitized test equipment has made normal. Many have relied on a carefully choreographed dance between mobile drives, email and small, custom-built servers. These solutions do get the job done, but at a cost to reliability and man-hours. Cloud-based solutions allow data to seamlessly be written from one location and accessed by one or many users. The data can be accessed from any location by authorized users, making data available to whole teams immediately upon collection.
Of course, cloud computing is not without its costs. Primarily, the cost. Some potential users balk at the thought of paying to keep data stored in a datacenter. There is certainly fact to this viewpoint, although some of these users may not be factoring the cost of hardware replacement and time, both configuring and using such systems. Many larger organizations have dedicated IT staff to arrange for similar in-house solutions, although most lack the redundancy and 24-hour staff of a dedicated datacenter. In many cases, outsourcing storage capacity can take advantage of such infrastructure at a similar cost.
There is one advantage of cloud-based storage that many have yet to realize: As cloud computing becomes more mature, the same datacenters holding storage resources will have easily accessible computing resources that can be temporarily deployed to help process and analyze the data. When computing power is factored into the cost of data storage and processing, the cost of using cloud-based solutions becomes much more appealing.
While cloud computing does very little to improve lab capabilities, the mixture of storage, accessibility, and computing power has the potential to dramatically streamline post-laboratory processes. Whether in a private cloud setting or a hosted datacenter, many researchers would benefit by looking into whether a cloud-hosting data solution fits into their operational budgets.
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I keep wondering how a Rubbia thorium reactor would handle a natural disaster of Fukushima level intensity. As I understand it the nuclear chain reaction would stop instantly if the power is cut, but nasty waste products such as Uranium-233 would still require substantial cooling and hence it would seem that this reactor is just as unsafe as any other type of reactor with definite risk of meltdown, radiation and other problems?
You are focusing on entirely the wrong thing.
A reactor burning Thorium produces fission products (like all reactors), including the majority of the heat source as well as radioactive Iodine and Cesium isotopes. The problem with Fukushima was mostly the release of such isotopes into the atmosphere (ultimately, isn't all of nuclear safety concerned with this?). However much heat U-233 produces is completely beside the point when you ask to compare it to Fukushima, it matters, just not for this question.
The key design feature of the Rubbia proposed reactor is that it is a subcritical accelerator driven reactor. To the extent that it uses a solid fuel form that does not have active fission product removal it is subject to the aforementioned problems.
The problems of sustained removal of decay heat in even the most dire of circumstances, however, have been addressed very well just with the next generation of reactors we are building today (although the concern can never be completely eliminated). The "passive" designs share the same fuel type with Fukushima (and almost all other reactors in the world), and just use natural forces to cool the reactor for weeks to months after an accident so loss of power isn't a concern. These same passive design principles could (and would) be applied to the Rubbia reactor design, because the Rubbia idea addresses concerns very different from the problems at Fukushima, which include sustainability and criticality safety.
The reduced radioactivity of accelerator driven subcritical reactors and Thorium reactors is not the short-lived stuff that creates problems during accidents. Mostly they reduce the long term waste and the unused fuel.
Fukushima incident has reached current scale due to human fails (both at the engineering, construction, operation & disaster mitigation stages), not natural disaster.
No matter how safe is the reactor, if humans will continue to ignore safety for the sake of profit, such fails will continue.
Thorium reactor is indeed 'safer' to a some degree, due to the fact that combined activity of wastes is lower, but If we had Thorium reactor at Fukushima, we might have had similar result (i.e. destruction of all cores & release of comparable(maybe some 2 times less) amount of radioactivity into environment). Yes, cooling is also needed for thorium reactor is shutdown state.
Although, it is possible(and it's being done for modern reactors) to have both thorium & usual uranium reactor built which are able to stay cooled passively for extended period - but still probably not long enough for fukushima case.
The question of cooling was addressed exactly to Carlo Rubbia after his presentation at the international thorium energy conference (iThEC) 2013 hosted at CERN.
He pointed out that, in case of a sudden total shutdown, the proposed design (CERN-AT-95-44 ET http://cds.cern.ch/record/289551) can be substantially air cooled with channels that surrounds the reactor, just taking advantage of convection, without forced ventilation. This should guarantee the safety as long as the air intakes stay clear.
Another important point is that not only the U-233 keeps heating the reactor after the accelerator goes down, but also its concentration keeps going up being produced by slow beta- decay of Pa-233 (produced from Th-232 by neutron capture). So if you want to be really safe you need to operate your reactor quite below the criticality. This imposes very strong requirements to the intensity and the reliability (up-time) of the accelerator complex which, related to its cost and efficiency, are still far from being solved.
The dangerous part of the Rubbia Thorium is the particle accelerator (the magnetic pump) which physicists never how its going to handle radiation. Its also unnecessary.


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Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
Other Names for this Disease
- Ornithine carbamoyltransferase deficiency
- OTC deficiency
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- GeneReviews provides a current, expert-authored, peer-reviewed, full-text article urea cycle disorders in general that you may find helpful. GeneReview articles describe the application of genetic testing to the diagnosis, management, and genetic counseling of patients with specific inherited conditions.
- The NORD Physician Guide for Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency was developed as a free service of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) and it's medical advisors. The guides provide a resource for clinicians about specific rare disorders to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of their patients with this condition.
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- The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through the National Library of Medicine, developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members, and members of the public with current information on clinical research studies. There is a study titled Study of Treatment and Metabolism in Patients With Urea Cycle Disorders which may be of interest to you. To find this trial, click on the link above.
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What is a menstrual cycle?
The menstrual cycle is the series of changes a woman's body goes through to prepare for a pregnancy. About once a month, the uterus grows a new lining (endometrium) to get ready for a fertilized egg . When there is no fertilized egg to start a pregnancy, the uterus sheds its lining. This is the monthly menstrual bleeding (also called menstrual period) that women have from their early teen years until menopause, around age 50.
The menstrual cycle is from Day 1 of bleeding to Day 1 of the next time of bleeding. Although the average cycle is 28 days, it is normal to have a cycle that is shorter or longer.
Girls usually start having menstrual periods between the ages of 11 and 14. Women usually start to have fewer periods between ages 39 and 51. Women in their 40s and teens may have cycles that are longer or change a lot. If you are a teen, your cycles should even out with time. If you are nearing menopause, your cycles will probably get longer and then will stop.
Talk to your doctor if you notice any big change in your cycle. It's especially important to check with your doctor if you have three or more menstrual periods that last longer than 7 days or are very heavy. Also call if you have bleeding between your periods or pelvic pain that is not from your period.
What controls the menstrual cycle?
Your hormones control your menstrual cycle. During each cycle, your brain's hypothalamus and pituitary gland send hormone signals back and forth with your ovaries. These signals get the ovaries and uterus ready for a pregnancy.
The hormones estrogen and progesterone play the biggest roles in how the uterus changes during each cycle.
- Estrogen builds up the lining of the uterus.
- Progesterone increases after an ovary releases an egg (ovulation) at the middle of the cycle. This helps the estrogen keep the lining thick and ready for a fertilized egg.
- A drop in progesterone (along with estrogen) causes the lining to break down. This is when your period starts.
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I want to share a specific Twitter post to my friend. For that I need to make a link for that post. How can I do that?
In the latest incarnation of Twitter the link is now called "Expand" and has moved under the Tweet:
If you actually click on the "Expand" link you get three more places to pick up the link - the time, the "Collapse" link and the "Details" link:
See the revision history for previous locations of this link
Click on the timestamp.
With the new Twitter layout, the currently accepted answer no longer works.
Now you need to first
The permalink for the post is now the
Now you can use new twitter API to embed tweets on a web page the tweet thus embedded looks better than the one blackbird pie did the tweet embedded Is small and with nifty links {reply, favorite, and retweet} embedded code looks like this
You can get the tweet embed code in the details link and via getting to the single tweet page!
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"Dancing With The Stars" is a non- profit event sponsored by Randolph Community College. All proceeds raised from this event benefits the Randolph Community College Foundation Scholarship Program for students. All participating dancers must raise money prior to the dancing event.
Dancers: Julie Moore (Sentry Fire Protection and A Venue On Worth), Will McCanless (McCanless Pottery), Jennifer Parrish (Lumina Wine and Beer) and Bo Davidson (Remax Realty) are combining their efforts to host A Taste Of Asheboro event. This event will host over 20 local restaurants, beer and wine will be provided, live entertainment and a silent auction. All proceeds from this event will benefit the RCC Foundation Scholarship Program.
Tickets are $35.00 in advance and $40.00 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at Lumina Wine and Beer (152 Sunset Ave. Asheboro), Sentry Fire Protection (2553 South Fayetteville Street, Asheboro), Remax Realty (231 South Fayetteville Street, Asheboro) and McCanless Pottery (634 S Hwy 705, Seagrove)


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The Whitetail refinery site was chosen to take advantage of production from the nearby Eagle Ford Shale play, according to WEC officials. This is the first of several planned operations by WEC in the region.
The Worldwide Energy Consortium (WEC) is beginning the
initial engineering and permitting phase for its new refinery located near Gardendale in
La Salle County, Texas, the company said on Monday.
The site was chosen to take advantage of the oil production
from the nearby Eagle Ford Shale play, according to
company officials, considered to be one of the largest oil and
gas fields in the world.
This is the first of several planned operations by WEC in the
region, the company said.
Working closely with local officials, producers, land owners,
and state agencies, WEC said it has identified multiple
production sites that will allow it to take advantage of the
abundant resources being developed in the area.
WEC says work to build the new Whitetail refinery will begin immediately. The
facility is expected to be operational by the last quarter of
The rapid deployment of modern, cost efficient refining operations directly into
the new production regions will positively impact the
producers, consumers, and the investors in our projects," said Dave Martinelli, CEO
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Capacity information has yet to be disclosed.
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Good news for Texas and it surrounding neighbors. Soon, the US will again become an exporter of fossils fuels, both increasing our revenues and reducing our National deficits because of fossil fuel imports.What I would like to see is the use of the "Flared Waste Heat" for the creation of power use offsets; just some more icing on the cake.
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about refining want to know the process.
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Well, this is another run by Mr. Martinelli which does not disclose the proposed cost of the [project or planned capacity. Every new refinery plans on the most cost efficent operations, so I am not sure what he is claiming this time out.
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6 Insane Houses You Won't Believe People Actually Live In
Let's face it, houses are boring and predictable. Ask a child what a house looks like, and they'll draw you the same square shape with a triangle on top that everyone thinks about when they hear the word "house." But there are some homes out there that break the mold and totally redefine what you're willing to believe people intentionally use to hang their proverbial hats. For example ...
#6. The Repurposed Airliner
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For anyone who has ever had to endure a long-haul flight, one day spent on an aircraft is about 23 hours too many. But then there are some people who exist in a mirror universe and just can't get enough of being trapped in cramped quarters with nowhere else to go. That's why a man in Oregon decided to convert a Boeing 727 into a home.
Via Airplanehome.com
The thing is, you could never, ever turn on your cellphone for some arbitrary reason.
Bruce Campbell (no, not that one) had a lot of unused land and apparently wanted to feel like he was sitting in the aftermath of a wilderness crash landing all the time. So, he purchased an old passenger airliner for the bargain price of $100,000 and went to work turning it into a house.
Via Chris Matyszczyk/CNET
If this plane's a-rockin' ... let me know because it means I have to adjust the landing gear.
While a hundred grand may not seem too steep for a whole plane, Campbell's expenses quickly piled up as he had to spend an additional $60,000 or so to move it from the airport to a staging site and then to his property. Add another $21,600 necessary for removing the wings and tail, and his initial expenditure had almost doubled.
Via Chris Matyszczyk/CNET
And then there's that sweet living room decor.
Still, it's a bargain if your goal is to spend the rest of your life inside an aluminium metal tube. And think of all the fun you can have, sitting in the cockpit and making engine noises, or pretending you and your friends crash landed on an island and now you have to decide who to eat.
Via Chris Matyszczyk/CNET
Note: No roommates. At least not now.
#5. The Transparent House
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So you've just taken a refreshing shower and you hop out to grab your favorite towel. As soon as you step out, however, you're startled to discover that a group of a dozen Japanese businessmen are staring at your junk. Such is the tribulation of living in the NA house, aka Japan's transparent house.
Via Design-milk.com
Not pictured: stones.
Designed by Sou Fujimoto architects, instead of being separated into different rooms like the lame-ass houses we all live in, the whole thing is one open environment; with different living spaces situated on different platforms. And all of the walls are glass.
Via Design-milk.com
And then, the hail storm came ...
But hey, at least it lets in a ton of natural sunlight, so your shame will be clearly visible to anyone passing by.
While the house looks great and will probably earn you a bunch of pretentious, artsy friends, it is nigh impossible to comfortably masturbate in, and that brings the actual value way down. The family that lives there is of a similar mind, and they've actually put up some curtains so the hobos would stop staring at them while they slept.
Via Design-milk.com
So maybe it wasn't their own masturbation concerns, but the strokes of homeless people gazing in.
#4. The Abandoned Star Wars Set
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We've mentioned before that the set remnants of Tatooine from The Phantom Menace are still totally just hanging around in the Tunisian desert, after the dejected filmmakers just washed their hands of the place. But the locals haven't let it go to waste -- there are totally a bunch of people now living in Anakin's former village.
Via Looklex.com
Via Rocketnews24.com
These are not the squatters you're looking for.
Keep in mind, several of the 15 or 20 structures are just facades that were built on the cheap, mostly out of cardboard and mud ...
Via Looklex.com
... but apparently it's really hot in the middle of the Sahara. So even a shelter that turns out to be kinda lame and disappointing can still be prime real estate for some quality squatting. While these places might look barely habitable at first, a look inside proves that certain folks are doing fine, just fine. Some even are in for a longer haul, setting up furniture and bringing their pet birds.
Via Looklex.com
Great. Now we have that Cantina band song stuck in our heads.
Tourists still descend on the abandoned film set, where they're often disheartened to find that the village is populated not by whimsical alien approximations of racial stereotypes, but by regular folk down on their luck who are making the best of their brief brush with Hollywood. At least Episode One did some good in the world.


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the best way of conveying God's love to people is through your own presence and deeds.
I'll pray for you friend. Mothers can be difficult--as all women can be--I'm sure she loves you even though she's so difficult.
Thank you all for your prayers. I apologized to her later that night and we are on good terms.
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I have a recipe for chocolate pudding that calls for Light Cream. I haven't ever seen light cream in the store. What is it? Also what can be used as a substitute?
This is somewhat regionally-dependent. You'll want to take into account where your recipe is from.
In the U.S., light cream is 18% fat (although, officially it can be anywhere from 18-30%). It is equivalent to table cream in Canada and single cream or just cream in the UK. I believe it is also sometimes referred to as table cream or coffee cream in the U.S.
The term is in contrast to heavy cream (also known as double cream or whipping cream in some regions) which is 36% fat.
In Canada, light cream actually refers to 5-6% "low-fat" cream, and seems to be used most often as a coffee creamer. This particular type of cream doesn't seem to be popular anywhere else.
See the Wikipedia page on cream for more detailed comparisons and terminology from other regions.
Light cream is usually full cream with some (up to most) of the fat removed (and usually gum and other stuff added to simulate the texture and other properties of full cream). You should be able to substitute with the same amount of full cream.


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I have used Computer Modern, and I love it. Is there any other complete METAFONT font that can be used with LaTeX?
The LaTeX Font Catalogue provides an overview with examples and how to use them of nearly all freely available fonts with good LaTeX support.
Essentially any font will work with LaTeX as a text font, you just have to set it up first. Math fonts are more trouble because they need more symbols. A list of free math fonts is at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/survey.html . There are also commercial LaTeX font sets, including all math fonts, for Times (known as MathTime) and Lucida.
There is also a program called XeTeX that is supposed to have very good support for fonts already installed on your computer. I haven't tried it, though.
An early project to make a complete font family was Pandora, but it has never really caught on.


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How A Superbug Traveled The World
Just as the name implies, Clostridium difficile is a difficult pathogen to beat. It causes a nasty infection in your gut, and it's often resistant to many antibiotics.
But C. difficile got even more troublesome about 10 years ago when a particularly virulent form of the bug cropped up in hospitals across the U.S and was no longer vulnerable to one of the most common classes of antibiotics.
These days antibiotic-resistant C. difficile is a superbug that kills nearly 14,000 Americans a year.
British geneticists just sequenced a bunch of these C. difficile strains from around the world. And, the genomic data chart how the drug-resistant bacteria arose in North America and then hopped to Europe, Australia and Asia.
The findings were just published in the journal Nature Genetics.
C. difficile infections usually occur in hospitals when patients have been treated with large doses of antibiotics. So Trevor Lawley and his team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute sequenced the genomes of 151 C. difficile strains isolated from hospital patients between 1985 and 2010.
From the DNA sequences, they calculated that the highly virulent form of C. difficile first appeared in Pittsburgh around 2001. From there, it spread to Oregon, New Jersey, Arizona and Maryland, where it caused major hospital outbreaks in each state. Since 2007, the drug-resistant bacteria have also made appearances in South Korea and Switzerland.
The genomic data also showed that another superbug of C. difficile cropped up independently in the U.S. around the same time. The scientists can't pinpoint exactly where it originated, but they know it spread to Montreal in 2003 and the Netherlands in 2006.
This strain found its way to the U.K. on four separate occasions, likely triggering a large hospital outbreak that reached both London and Cambridge.
Lawley and his team also figured out how the superbugs picked up resistance to a common class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones that includes such drugs as Levaquin and Cipro.
Both strains independently acquired a single mutation in an enzyme that binds fluroquinolones, and the strains also captured genes that pump antibiotics out of their cells.
American doctors heavily prescribed fluoroquinolones in the late 1990s and early 2000s. And, Lawley thinks this study is a cautionary tale about the risk of overusing antibiotics.
"The data indicated that antibiotic resistance can happen more frequently than we appreciated," Lawley tells Shots. "And, it will probably happen again."
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Bad Decision
The Obama administration has rejected appeals to exempt religious-affiliated institutions, such as hospitals and universities, from the mandate issued by the Department of Health and Human Services requiring all health-insurance policies to include free coverage for contraceptives and other "preventive" services such as sterilization.
This was a serious mistake (see "An Illiberal Mandate," December 20, 2011). The administration's decision raises deep concerns about its understanding of the fundamental corporate and institutional nature of the Catholic Church and similar religious communities. The HHS decision comes perilously close to insisting that the government should determine what is or isn't a religious organization or ministry. The reasoning behind restricting the exemption to institutions that primarily employ and serve coreligionists appears to be based on an essentially sectarian, and historically Protestant, understanding of "religion." The Catholic Church, which understands its public presence to be vital to its identity and mission, should not be forced to abide by such restrictions.
Recognizing how potentially disruptive the decision is, the administration gave institutions an extra year to comply. Many hope that a compromise can still be reached. One possible solution would be to segregate funds the way the Affordable Care Act segregates funding for abortion. Employees seeking coverage for contraception would have to purchase that separately, but without incurring a financial burden. That administrative solution has worked to the satisfaction of Catholic institutions in Hawaii, where a state law mandates contraception coverage.
The hyperbolic response of the bishops is not likely to help fix things. "Let us make no mistake: the future of our freedoms in our beloved republic is threatened now as never before," said Bishop William Lori, chair of the USCCB's Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty. Bishops now face the choice of either violating their consciences or dropping health coverage for employees, Lori claims. But providing policies that allow individuals the option of using contraceptives does not involve any direct cooperation with evil on the part of the church. No Catholic physician is being forced to prescribe contraception or to perform sterilizations; no Catholic hospital is being forced to dispense contraception or permit sterilization procedures. If Catholic institutions must choose between complying with the law or dropping health-insurance coverage for employees, they should comply "under duress," while working to modify or overturn the law. In this instance, the greater good of providing health insurance for all employees outweighs the "evil" involved in the possible use of contraception by some. A different calculus would be employed if the funding in question were for elective abortion, which is a much graver evil.
The bishops are right to oppose this mandate vigorously, but reversing the decision will depend in part on adopting a more measured tone—not lending credence to attacks suggesting the administration is motivated by anti-Catholic or anti-religious bias—and acknowledging that this is a legitimate health issue on which people of good will can differ. It is hard to ignore the fact that this is an election year, and that the presidential candidates of one party are rallying against a so-called war on religion. In this context, the bishops must not underestimate the dangers of partisan entanglement. For good and bad reasons, many bishops are deeply suspicious of the Obama administration. It would be a serious mistake, however, to let those suspicions create the impression that the church is allying itself with one party. As many religious champions of liberal causes associated with the Democratic Party discovered in the 1960s and '70s, such entanglements usually discredit one's cause, undermine the church's teaching authority in general, and drive away significant segments of the faithful. If the bishops don't want their concerns exploited for partisan uses, they have to make that point dramatically clear. So far they have failed to do so.
Nor should the bishops underestimate the potential this issue has for further dividing Catholics. In opposing the extension of access to contraception to tens of thousands of women, the church has once again maneuvered itself into a position where it will widely be seen—by Catholics and non-Catholics alike—as an institution in which celibate old men lay down the rules for how women should conduct themselves in the most intimate realm of their lives. Whether the bishops like it or not, the mandate is not only a religious-freedom issue; it is also a women's issue. If the church cannot demonstrate that it understands the unique health needs and concerns of those most directly affected by the HHS ruling, it will lose the larger cultural and political argument while further alienating many within its own house.
Related: Bad Reaction, by the Editors
For more coverage of the contraception-coverage mandate, click here.
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Excellent editorial. I am sure, too, that the "mandate" will be a dead issue in a month or sooner (if only to avoid making it a single-issue matter [among Catholic, Jewish Orthodox, evangelical Democrats] in the upcoming November election). The Obama Administration will come up with a third option or some kind of compromise. What a pity the president's advisors didn't advise him differently and earlier to avoid making so many undutiful, unfaithful Democrats. Even Chris Matthews is against the mandate! Wow!
I disagree.
I see the Obama Administration as trying to balance the First Amendment's dictum of not "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion with the demands of the constitutionally protected right to privacy and the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement that all citizens enjoy "equal protection of the laws."
In this case, those citizens are women who just happen to be employed in a Catholic hospital or university or service agency. Catholic "ministers" [i.e., priests, parish and diocesan workers] are exempted from the ACA Act.
What is wrong with that compromise? This arrangement the President is offering under the ACA Act is similar to ones that have been operative in 28 states for years. What has changed that so unnerves the hierarchs?
Besides, by standing firm President Obama has contributed to further reducing the need for abortions, therefore abortion itself, by insisting on reliable birth control services to all women- something that the hierarchs are incapable or unwilling to endorse.
You'd think that reducing abortions would be viewed by the hierarchs as the morally "greater good" especially since they lost the contraceptive argument with especially Catholic women decades ago. [And, Catholic women are not going back to pre-contraceptive days!]
Editorials written by committee suffer from focus problems, but definitely a nice try.
"The Obama Administration will come up with a third option or some kind of compromise."
Today's news hints that's happening already. Bit of political backtracking. But I wonder whether the President's capable of understanding what happened. Well, politically, of course, but beyond that.
I'm disappointed, if not dismayed, to have so much emotion invested in an issue which is mostly theoretical and entirely esoteric, while ignoring the consideration of something which is entirely real, which is 1.2 million abortions per year.
What is theoretical and esoteric is how money is collected and distributed, under insurance contracts. The issue is forcing Church-administered businesses, providing highly secular services, and employing large numbers of non-believers (both non-Catholics and Catholics) to buy insurance policies which cover contraceptive services for those individuals who wish to receive them.
All of us are forced to pay for things in which we don't believe and which contravene our religions and personal moralities. I'm against capital punishment (so is the Church) and I was against the Iraq War; yet I was forced against my will and conscience to pay for both.
I don't accept that the personal moralities of the board of directors of a hospital or college is of greater consequence than my personal morality or the personal morality of anyone else, when it comes to distribution of tax dollars. A businessman who is a Jehovah's Witness would be required to offer health insurance policies which covered blood transfusions, in contravention of that person's religious teachings.
It really is a slippery slope, when it comes to claiming religious freedom -- not at the level of the individual or at the level of a true, clearly religious entity (church, church school, mission, etc.) -- but at the level of the Board of Directors of a large business, engaged in primarily secular activities.
It's been pointed out that (1) Catholic-affiliated institutions already have to live with such insurance mandates at the state level and (2) Catholic-affiliated institutions already do subsidize contraceptive services through paying money to insurance companies which offer contraceptive services to other employers, thus subsidizing these latter policies through the profits which the Catholic institutions provide to these insurance companies.
When you actually start tracking the flow of dollars ("follow the money"), things really do become theoretical and esoteric.
Let's talk about something real. Let's talk about something really evil. Abortion.
For all the heated political and religious rhetoric against abortion, the single greatest thing which has saved the most babies from being killed by abortionists is contraception. After Roe v Wade, abortions went way up. Everyone knows that. What people don't know so much is that, since 1985, abortions have gone way down. A decline of something like 380,000 per year, since then:
This coincides with an explosion of contraceptive services and with the increasing availability of better contraceptives. Adjusted for population, the number of abortions is descending to the level existing before Roe v Wade.
Half of all pregnancies are unplanned. Of the unplanned pregnancies, 40% end up with abortion (baby killing). A lot of unplanned pregnancies occur because of ineffective use of contraceptives. This is why it's not only important to pay fo the contraceptives, but also to pay for counselling (part of proposed HHS regulations) on effective use of conraceptives.
If the HHS regulations go into effect and ObamaCare is not repealed by the GOP, the number of babies killed per year will drop dramatically, to well below the levels existing before Roe v Wade. So while the social conservatives rant and rage against Roe v Wade, without accomplishing anything, supporters of contraception have been quietly preventing the slaughter of 380,000 babies per year and this "liberal" Democratic admininstration will prevent the slaughter of an additional half million per year, over time.
I discussed on another thread how Pope Paul VI's Humanae Vitae states that lesser evils may legitimately be carried out to prevent greater evils. Contraception is a violation of natural law. Abortion is a violation of the 5th Commandment.
But the Catholic Bishops are more concerned about "following the money" in an esoteric economic sense, than in actually doing something effective, in terms of going after the true evil elephant in the room.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA
P.S., regarding my previous comment (I wish that there were an "edit" button - alas). Anyway, I'd like to change some wording, in anticipation of a predictable objection):
I don't accept that the personal moralities of the board of directors of a hospital or college is of greater consequence than my personal morality or the personal morality of anyone else, when it comes to distribution of tax dollars government-mandated personal or corporate expenditures.
- Larry W
"Hyperbolic response of the bishops"? First, government intrusions that have forced Catholic Charities out of providing adoption services in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. and now this and during an election year to boot!!. I can't imagine what will he do, if reelected? Obama is a secularist tyrant who rails against the restrictions that the constitution places on his ability to "fundamentally transform this country." Your biggest complaint seems to be that he may have awakened a giant and you would prefer that we all supinely accept dictates from the new "Messiah."
Well, anyway, it looks like President Obama is going to "quarantine" some of his earlier advisors in favor of a compromise of some sort.
So does the health insurance provided by the Catholic church not cover costs related to hysterectomies, tubal ligations & vasectomies? Must the patient first prove it is "medicinal" before it is authorized? (hhmm...the phrase "death panel" comes to mind). If the Catholic employer provides Medical Flex spending accounts for its employees, do they make sure the account won't reimburse for condoms or co-pays on other contraceptives? I guess if the Catholic church refuses to have the insurance and flex spending accounts they provide pay for any and all male and female contraceptives possible through every available means, I'd have less of a problem with this. But to take it out on just women is discrimination and flat out unfair.
What nonsense is this? Of course Catholics should stand up for their First Amendment rights--even if that means standing up to the liberal Messiah Obama.
Earlier today, the President announced an accommodation to religious affiliated institutions: the new plan requires the insurer, not the religious institution, to offer contraception coverage at no cost to the insured. While the accommodation should quell much of the uproar, the bishops are withholding judgment.
I generally find Commonweal's editorials on point and while I applaud the tone of this one, I do not agree that the administration's earlier regulation represented a threat to "religious liberty." As an earlier writer noted, more than 25 states already require insurers who cover prescription drugs to cover the full range of FDA-approved contraceptive prescriptions. Eight of those states do not provide the "church" exclusion provided in the administration's regulation. Additionally, many Catholic universities and hospitals have been providing coverage for contraception in their health plans for years, among them: Georgetown, Fordham, Marquette, and DePaul. Finally, the insurer for the archdiocese of New York began providing access to contraception in 2002 even before they would have been required to so do under state law.
The politically charged environment manufactured by the bishops' "outrage" and stoked by opportunistic republicans (as well as some democrats) is dishonest at best.
You have to hand it to our president. He was able to get insurance companies to provide contraceptive services for nothing. When was the last time an insurance company provided coverage for nothing? But wait, the woman can't just get the coverage from any insurance carrier; she has to go to the health insurer used by her employer, who pays the insurance premium that undoubtedly includes the cost of this "free" coverage. In short, the religious institution will be paying for contraceptive services. Where's the compromise? This is really an insult to our intelligence, and we need to replace this tyrant in the next election.
It may have been a bad decision. But it was also a case of bishops behaving badly. Hardly good shephards, using their staffs gently to guide any strays back into the fold. Hardly what Jesus would do. He asked others to follow him. He didn't command people to obey him. He led by example. And only twice was he reported to show anger: at the money changers in the temple (which should show how he might react to our greed-is-good culture) and at the barren fig tree. He also avoided politics: "Render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's" The bishops were too primed to react, apparently by a page from the Republican political playbook, to heed Christ's wise warning about mixing faith and politics.
The administration should have negotiated and discussed first rather than issue the mandate with its one year negotiation/discussion period. The bishops should have talked with the President privately first rather than unleash their barrage that included one bishop telling him in public (and not face to face) to go to hell.
All in all, this could have been handled better.
The bishops are their own worst enemies on this issue.
When Obamacare comes fully online, nearly every woman in the U.S. will have insurance that covers contraceptives, except those who work at religious-affiliated organizations. That will severely limit the ability of those organizations to recruit workers from among the substantial segment of the population whose religious beliefs do not preclude contraceptive use. When that happens, religious-affiliated organizations will not be able to provide the highest quality staff or services.
What pregnant women would utilize a Catholic hospital that would refuse to treat a possible life-threatening ectopic pregnancy and that can't provide the highest-quality staff?
Where religious faith compels institutions to take action in the secular world, they have an obligation to provide the highest possible quality of service to the community. Failing to do so can only call into question the underlying motivations of their efforts.
As I understand the Bishop's argument, contraception is such a grave sin that any institution that cooperates in its use, even by non-Catholics, shares in the grave error. They extend this reasoning even to the provision of comprehensive empolyee health insurance. In my view, there are several glaring problems with this position. First, many Catholic institutions ALREADY provide such coverage, some as required by local State law, and others purely voluntarily. Are these institutions going to be required to end the practice? If the argument is that it is voluntary and they should not be compelled by the government, that's a good legal argument, but not a moral one.
Perhaps worse, some of the very Catholic institutions involved in the controversy are themselves profiting from the manufacture, distribution and sales of contraceptives through their endowment and other investments...or do they avoid investing in Pharma, transportation companies and retail stores? I doubt it. And the de minimus argument of the diversity and breadth of their investments doesn't hold up under the comparison to insurance coverage for a minimal cost service.
So, on balance, it really seems more like a partisan political statement than one based on conscience, reason and moral thought.


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Respecting the Enigmatic
Im pleased when one of my students is excited to discover that something we are talking about in the course Im teaching actually connects to something in another course! But I found myself falling into the same set of feelings without the justification of inexperience or youth when two of the eight or ten books I am currently reading (that is, periodically picking up and putting down) revealed the same serendipitous connection. Charles Taylor and Mark Jordan may well be old friends for all I know, but if not, they should sit down together and have a long talk.In a way its not so surprising that they might have things in common, at least in the books I have been reading, since the focus of both is the question of teaching, specifically teaching with magisterial authority. In fact Magisterial Authority is the title of the chapter Taylor contributed to the book I promised a few weeks ago that I would revisit, namely, The Crisis of Authority in Catholic Modernity (see The Power of Being Well-Informed, July 12). Taylors essay is by far the briefest piece, perhaps a surprise for those of us who have waded through A Secular Age, alternately impressed by his wisdom and insight and appalled that he didnt have a better editor. Taylor, one of the most distinguished Catholic philosophers of our day, takes up two questions in his short essay, the scope of magisterial authority and the manner in which it should be exercised. While what the magisterium guards and teaches is vast, the deposit of faith or matters of faith and morals, how it should teach is significantly more constrained. Thinking especially of moral teaching, which seems to be pretty much all that the magisterium concerns itself with these days, Taylor points out that principles and goals lead to moral decisions only when we have some grasp of the situation in which they have to be applied, and this grasp cant be derived from faith. In other words, there is clearly a normative component in magisterial teaching, but it has to be offered in an inductive context where what Bernard Lonergan might have called taking a look is actually quite important. So, if you dont actually take a look but allow yourself to be panicked then you might end up like Pius IX trying to stop the clock on essentially dynamic issues about liberalism, democracy and so on. Taylor suggests that U.S. and Canadian bishops who want to censure politicians for their stance on abortion law or gay marriage may be repeating the same error of failing to see the limits of magisterial authority. He offers several explanations for this phenomenon, some of themlike legalism and false sacralization, (that is, identifying a particular historically conditioned mode of thought like natural law ethics as essential to the faith)quite familiar, and others, such as the failure of respect for the enigmatic, arrestingly unfamiliar, at least the term itself. What it comes down to, of course, is the charge that magisterial teaching frequently fails to respect the ambiguity and complexity of lived life. Taylors point, I take it, is that the magisterium often oversteps its legitimate responsibility and unwittingly tramples upon the indispensable roles of conscience and authentic freedom in making practical moral judgments. Bishops have the right and responsibility to teach, says Taylor, but without threats. Otherwise, given the Christian emphasis on the responsibility to conscience, teaching could end up commanding us not to do what we are in conscience bound to do. As, for example, would certainly be happening if bishops told us how we should vote.
The Harvard theologian Mark Jordan takes up the same set of issues a little less directly in his discussion of official moral teaching in The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism. In fact, he has an entire chapter on Teaching by Threatening, but gets to the point where he and Taylor can shake hands when he draws attention to the attitude of certainty that marks all official ecclesial documents. Precisely because the magisterium imagines it is supposed to have answers for everything, complex human worlds like the problem of homosexuality, says Jordan, are resolved in a few pages of propositions. In fact, almost every aspect of personal and sexual ethics in the Church is dealt with in similar fashion, so that the divorced and remarried or the pregnant and unmarried woman or those couples living together outside marriage are left, if they bother to check the teaching at all, either confused or scornful. The issue, both Taylor and Jordan suggest, is not best handled by classifying such people as sinful (arent we all?), relativistic or hedonistic, but by rethinking how the Church legitimately teaches. Jordan puts it well when, writing that Aquinass discussion of vices against nature is not interested in the mechanism of copulation but rather in a rhetorical program that can persuade whole human beings to seek the beatific end that they in fact desire.I think this is what both Jordan and Taylor want to say about magisterial teaching, and its certainly what I want to say. Good teaching, as good teachers know, is not a process of giving instructions that the pupils will slavishly follow, but rather of sharing what little wisdom and knowledge one has in the hope that some of them at least will carry off some of it into their lives beyond the classroom, where they will construct their own complex selves. It is in that mysterious, nay enigmatic, realm beyond the reach of the teacher that, if at all, they will acquire their own wisdom and insight.
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Paul Lakeland is the Aloysius P. Kelley, SJ, Professor of Catholic Studies at Fairfield University.
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You can go so far in that direction that you have nothing left but individual conscience. It's not a more sophisticated, better educated, more deeply informed way to receive religious authority, but a complete rejection of it - as authority. And that is the way of the West - believe no one and obey no one but the state. To the modern mind, anything else is irresponsible. We really can't think any differently. It complicates life enormously :O)
"If authoritative teaching is representative teaching, it must actually be received as authoritative and representative in the Christian community. It is not enough simply to claim that such teaching is representative. The community of Christians addressed by their teachers will either receive or not receive the teaching in light of their faith in Jesus Christ and of the scriptural witness to God's revelation in Christ. In the process of reception it becomes apparent whether or not the teaching was representative." Wolfgang Pannenberg, The Present and Future Church, First Things, November 1991.
You know it seems to me that we ought to give some thought to the phrases "teaching authority" or "authoritative teaching." Teaching is undoubtedly what we want and need in the Church, not to mention society as a whole. But what makes teaching "authoritative"? Not simply who says it. It has to have something to do with what they have to say and, as you suggest via Pannenberg, its reception or non-reception says something about its content. And then there's "teaching authority," which tends to the oxymoronic if you go too heavily on the authority part. Here the question is what kind of authority is "teaching authority" which comes down to asking what makes for good--and therefore authoritative--teaching? Too many people want to bang the "authority" drum as if it settles everything, when the most it should do is elicit our respectful attention, after which we will probably know how good the teaching is, which means how much "authority" it actually has.
Paul Lakeland (8/22 9:14 pm):
Too many people want to bang the authority drum as if it settles everything, when the most it should do is elicit our respectful attention, after which we will probably know how good the teaching is, which means how much authority it actually has.
I'm tempted to say that's an excellent illustration of circular reasoning :O)
Paul L. --Thanks very much for the review. I've ordered a copy.Yes, we need to talk about teaching authority, and we need to include a review of the various meanings of "authority".Let's go back to the beginning. The trusty (?) Proto-Indo-Europeanl dictionary gives some of the primitive meanings associated with "au-aued" in the various Indo-European languages. The word's basic meaning was apparently to speak, to talk, but there were many, many early derivative meanings such as oath, ode, sing hymns, voice, doctrine of the elders which seem to have persisted in our meaning. The last meaning (doctrine of the elders) is found in the Hindu Theravada, so I assume it is a very ancient one, and part of the kernel of meaning which the term had early on. See:http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/ielex/X/P0133.htmlIt seems that all those meanings are implicit in our uses of the term "authority" in "teaching authority". Most obviously, an authority speaks, but his manner is something like an oath-guaranteed wau -- he speaks with an intention that his message is guaranteed by his word of honor that what he is thinking/saying is definitely, exactly true. Further, and most obviously, our teaching authority presents his message as the doctrine of the elders, of those who knew what we must learn.But what about the singing, specifically the singing of hymns? Is that included in our basic sense of authority? Well, consider that singing hymns is a group process. Are those who listen to the words of the authority also in some way speaking -- at least to themselves -- what they are receiving from the authority? In other words, are they agreeing with the authorities, as hymn=singers agree with the choral director? Certainly Vatican II maintains that the authoritative teachings of the Church are in fact what the faithful have themselves also thought is truly the teaching of the elders.Except for the last point, on the surface this all seems simple enough, but I submit that none of it is simple. First, language is intrinsically ambiguous, so how exact can authoritative teaching be? And how do we *know* that the authority who speaks is in fact truthful? (These days there is a lot of evidence that many bishops are liars.) Most troublesome, how can the authority (and we) be sure that what he is saying is indeed what the elders also said?Another huge problem: what do the individuals who are the Church all actually belief is Christ's message? Not only what do *we* believe, but what have our ancestors, elders, believed To find the answer to that surely we must ask the individuals -- and that means asking ourselves -- what they think is true. Unfortunately, we often at least seem to disagree. And here's another problem: the teachings authorities of the Church seem to be saying at the same time that 1) they are confirming what the individuals believers think, and that 2) what they, the authorities, are saying is somehow news to the listeners. But how can 1) and 3) both be true?Where are the answers to these troubling questions to be found? In the much-needed theological epistemology that has yet to be thought out. Sigh.
I really liked Taylor's observations on the question of limits on the way magisterial authority ought to be exercised. It was so refreshing to find among the refusals to respect limits that "bring about a dispossession, a preemption of the Christian's capacity to work out by his or her own intellect and groping spiritual maturation, how to live the faith, do the right thing, reconceive his or her life, and live with its enigmas," that due respect for the enigmatic in life. A little Keatsian "negative capability" among the hierarchy might be a blessing to the Church. Great piece.
I finished the "Crisis of Authority" during Irene (just as Joseph Komonchak was starting Middlemarch -- see the main blog). And he too has a splendid article in "Crisis" on Benedict's view of Vatican II.. I very much liked Taylor's article, though I wish it had been a bit more fleshed out (I dispute the point above about the bad editing of Secularism - for someone like me, not at all at home in formal philosophical language, it's helpful to have Taylor's summings up and repetitions, driving his points home for the weak-minded among us. I think what he's saying in "Crisis" is that the whole question of ecclesiastical authority needs to be discussed and better understood. I wouldn't agree that there is simply a stark choice between unquestioning obedience on the one hand, and going entirely one's own way on the other, pleading the primacy of conscience. To see things this way is to echo those people who are always quick to point out that 'the Church is not a democracy." Of course it isn't, nor should it be; but there are choices other that between free-wheeling democracy and absolute monarchy, with its roots in 16th century visions of kingship. And above all, as I think both Taylor and Frank Oakley point out, one has to come to terms somehow with the question the historical situations in which authority is exercised. (Oakley's view is that the ancient and honorable tradition of conciliarism in the Church was finally excised by the papacy in the 19th century, and has now been swept down an Orwellian memory hole (my words, not his).So if one demands obedience to the magisterium, one has to be able to answer the question of which particular magisterium one has in mind -- that of the 12th century? the seventeenth century? the 19th century -- or the twentieth? Because they do, to some extent, often contradict one another, and the contradictions can't simply be papered over.As both Taylor and Oakley (in his summation) say, a bit of humility from Rome would be enormously helpful (as, no doubt it would be from us too). So how do we get "Crisis" into the hands of those who should read it?
I believe that only drastic action by Holy Spirit -- a miracle -- can reform the Church. The bishops have had their capacity for self-criticism bred out of them, so If they read Crisis they wouldn't recognize themselves.


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When I listen to the pronunciation of amtlicher on Dict.cc, I hear the letter t pronounced more like g or k. At least I do not hear it as a clear t. Can somebody please explain how t is pronounced here?
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For both 't' and 'l' the tip of the tongue is in the same spot (on the speaker's alveolar ridge, to be precise).
When 't' is followed by 'l', German speakers leave the tip of the tongue in that place, merely narrowing their tongue to go from one sound to the other. Thus, the release of the plosive 't' is very close to that of 'k' in this case.
As it may help to learn the pronunciation from audio examples provided by online dictionaries this is a good example on their limits. Speech synthesizers as used by dict.cc are prone to an artificial pronunciation, especially when it comes to a finer differentiation of sounds. In this example the sound
It may be better to search for directly recorded audio voices, as provided by some online services. For example Duden, Wiktionary, or Pons provide quite naturally sounding voice samples.
In case we are in doubt on the appropriate pronunciation we should look for an IPA phonetic notation where we may be able to compare the pronunctation of many phonemes with those in our native language.
When we search for "amtlich" in the Free Dictionary the following correct pronunciation will be displayed:
When clicking on the IPA notation a pop up window will also display a table of pronunciation keys for the letters used. There we can see that the


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Map of Powell-Hyde Cable Car
Ride on a historic cable car over San Francisco's famous hill and past many must-see destinations
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Riding the famous San Francisco cable cars should be at the top of the list for any visitor to San Francisco. These historic cars have been around since the year after inventor Andrew Smith Hallidie tested the first line in 1873 (he gained inspiration after witnessing a cart sliding backward down a slippery hill, dragging five horses with it). Today, tourists can ride the rail through many interesting San Francisco districts, including Union Square, North Beach, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Lombard Street and Fisherman's Wharf.
You can hop on and off the car as much as you like, but be aware that the next car that comes by may already be full.
This line goes down Taylor Street past Union Square, over Nob Hill and Russion Hill, past Lombard Street and ends at Aquatic Park near Ghiradelli Square.
Tickets cost $6 each way for adults and children 5-17. You also can purchase passes for multiple days: $14 for one day, $20 for three and $26 for seven days.
You can board from either end of the line, as well as on every stop along the route (when there is room available). If boarding in the middle of a route, wait on the sidewalk and wave to the gripmap (driver) so that he knows to stop. Wait for the car to completely stop. Remember that there are also poles for you to hold onto, leaning outside of the car, but be careful and watch for objects outside as you zip down the hills.
Hallidie Plaza
Hallidie Plaza is named after Andrew Smith Hallidie, who invented the cable car after watching a heavy cart slide backward down a slippery hill, dragging five horses to an unfortunate death.
Today, the plaza is likely one of your first stops in San Francisco. It is near the center of downtown San Francisco and at the heart of the tourist center. While waiting in line for a cable car, you are sure to see many street performers, ranging from tap dancers to painted human statues, as well as large crowds of people walking down Market Street or headed toward Union Square. You are sure to be entertained and it will help the time in line pass more quickly.
Union Square
When you think of Union Square, think shopping. When the space was set aside by the first mayor this was not its intention, but Union Square has become one of the largest and most popular shopping areas in all of San Francisco. You could spend hours at the various clothing stores, but you also can spend your time window-shopping if you aren't looking to spend all of your money, because these stores are pricey.
There are several cafes located on the outskirts of the square or just grab an afternoon drink in the square itself, take a seat and enjoy some people watching.
If you are here in July, try to make it to the annual bell-ringing contests held in Union Square. It is something you definitely won't forget.
Lombard Street
Lombard Street has been appropriately named the most crooked street in the world; with eight switchbacks in just one city block it is not hard to see why. Traffic down the street travels at only 5 mph, which is fine because it is a street strictly for tourists driving in the city--don't think you are going to save time going down it.
Hop off the cable car at the top. If you look south (down the hill), you will see Coit Tower in the distance. If you are feeling energetic, walk down the steps on either side of the street down to Leavenworth. From there you will have a great view of the road winding up the hill. When you have filled up your camera, wait for the next passing cable car and hop back on.
Ghirardelli Square
Originally a chocolate factory, the square is now packed with various small shops (but don't worry, you can still find plenty of chocolate). There are many restaurants around the square where you can relax and refuel after a full day of sightseeing.
Fisherman's Wharf
If you like seafood this place is a no-brainer. The wharf is only a few blocks from the end of the cable car line, so you cannot miss it. Whether you are in the mood for a fancy dinner at Alioto's, which offers great views of the bay, or just want a bread bowl of clam chowder from one of the smaller vendors on the street, you need look no further.
Before calling it a day, make sure to walk southeast along the water toward Pier 39, where you will likely see (or hear) sea lions and will run into crowds gathered around street performers. This place never gets dull and you won't get bored.
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I need the martingale part of the put payoff (not $C^2$..). Where $S_t=exp(\sigma W_t -\frac{\sigma^2t}{2})$
$d[(S_t -K)^+ ]$ ??
I guess I need to use local times but how?
I need the martingale part of the put payoff (not $C^2$..). Where $S_t=exp(\sigma W_t -\frac{\sigma^2t}{2})$
I guess I need to use local times but how?
Thanks you all!
(proof, for $\phi(t,S_t)=(K-S_t)^+$:
Step 1 smoothing : $\phi_\epsilon(x)=1_{S_t\leq K+\epsilon}\cdot\phi(x)+1_{S_t\in]K-\epsilon,K]} \cdot \psi(x)$, where $\psi(x)=-\frac{1}{\epsilon^2}(K-x)^2(K-x-2\epsilon)$ .
This function is $C^1$, and also $C^2$ excepting in a countable set.
Step 2 Itô on $\phi_\epsilon(S_t)= \phi_\epsilon(S_0)+\int^t_0\phi_\epsilon^{'}(S_t)dS_t+\frac{1}{2}\int^t_0 1_{S_t\in[K-\epsilon,K]}\phi_\epsilon^{''}(S_t)d\langle S\rangle _t$ because $\phi _\epsilon=0$ out of $[K-\epsilon,K]$
Let's denote by $L_t=lim_{\epsilon \to0}{\frac{1}{2\epsilon^2}*\int{_{K-\epsilon}^K(3S_t+4\epsilon-3K)dS_t}}$ it's a finite variation process since it is increasing
Step 3 We have that $\phi_\epsilon(S_t)-\phi_\epsilon(S_0)-\int^t_0\phi_\epsilon^{'}(S_t)dS_t \space \xrightarrow {L^2} \space\phi(S_t) -\phi(S_0) -\int^t_0\phi^{'}(S_t)dS_t $ (because $\int^t_0\phi_\epsilon^{'}(S_t) 1_{S_u\in[0,K-\epsilon]}dS_u \xrightarrow {L^2}\int_0^t\phi^{'}(S_u)du$ by using Itô isometry)
Finally We get the formula 'à la bridge' namely
and the martingale part is
Simply use Itô-Tanaka's formula I guess this should give something like : $df(S_t)=D_-f(S_t)dS_t+\frac{1}{2}dL^s_tf''(ds)$
with $f(S)=(S-K)^+$ so $D_-f(S)=1_{]K,+\infty}(S)$ and $f''(ds)=\delta_K(ds)$
This gives if I am not mistaken :
With $L^K_t$ being the local time of your geometric Brownian Motion $S$ around level $K$ at time $t$.
-$f''(ds)$ stands for second derivatives in the distribution-sense.
-The use of Itô-Tanaka's formula allows to avoid the derivation of the Mollifiers-type argument for the direct proof of the result (which is quite cumbersome in my opinion). I should add that Ito-Tanaka's formula is applicable to every $f$ that is the differnce of two convex functions if I remember well, which is the case here with $f(x)=(X-K)^+$.


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Microsoft Xbox 360 Standard Wireless Controller (Black) Microsoft NSF-00001 for $26.99
This Xbox 360 standard wireless controller makes the perfect addition to any home, office or dorm Xbox 360 game system. Prolong your gaming excitement with the adjustable vibration feedback for longer battery life. This controller utilizes 2.4 GHz wireless technology to deliver an impressive 30-foot range. Connect your headset to the built-in port and enjoy hours of Xbox Live play with your friends!
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They also have the wired version for $22.99. The wired version does also work on Windows.
just to note, it's refurbished
@llabra: That's a great deal! Wired controllers are a lot more useful than people think.
Shipping price is kind of obscene 8 bucks for 8-10 day shipping. No thanks!
Best Buy is selling Wii, PS3, and XBox 360 controllers for $35 or $25 on Black Friday, I forget.
@blinkdmb: Hmm. I bought a wired and wireless and shipping was only $6 for what looks like ground mail.
@bhermit: Thanks for the tip. I hope they have it for online purchases also.
With shipping around $6, that puts this refurbished unit @ about $34. You can get new for about $39, if the extra $5 bucks is worth it to you:


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I'm no vegetarian, and I enjoy my fair share of steak. The idea of vegetarianism always intrigued me, because in my eyes animals are to be eaten by humans for nourishment.
Obviously animals serve a purpose, because God Himself told Noah to collect a male and female of each species and create an ark large enough to sustain them all for the 40 days and 40 nights during which the flood took place.
So, my question is, has the purpose of animals ever been explicitly stated in the bible? If so, what is it?


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Note: This might be a strange question.
I have a table containing first name and last name, which schema as follow (table name: random_names):
id INT PRIMARY, AUTO INCREMENT
first_name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL
last_name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL
I would like to use a query to fetch a random value from
first_name and
last_name. Currently I use 2 queries to fetch the value:
SELECT first_name FROM random_names ORDER BY rand()
SELECT last_name FROM random_names ORDER BY rand()
But I wish I can output a list of random results in 1 result output. What did I miss ?


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What is your fashion view?
Fashion is simply a self-expression of one's personality and emotion. To quote the late Patrick Swayze in the film To Wong Foo, "I think today is a 'say something' hat day … I'm going to wear a 'say something' hat." Fashion should make you smile and make the people around you smile as well.
How do you describe your style?
Dry Martini with a twist. Currently, I'm channeling '50s and '60s Euro prep and being fairly conservative with my personal styling – well-tailored trousers, waistcoats, bow ties, etc. However, my style usually changes with the seasons. Overall, I tend to stay fairly clean cut with my clothing choices, but I will always incorporate some quirky accessory or something that says, "I definitely don't take myself too seriously."
What are your favorite pieces?
My cashmere Burberry scarf, an old pair of black Converse "Chuck Taylor's" that I'll wear with pretty much anything, a vintage silver tie clip that I stole from my dad and my Singer Sewing Machine circa 1982. Being a very skinny person, everything has to be tailored so I taught myself how to sew and I tailor all of my clothing myself.
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Occasionally, I'll find some pieces in some of the boutique stores in town, like Gifthorse (owned by my friends Shawn Beirne and Butch Sager) or Discoveries on Bardstown Road. But, mostly I order my clothes online. Two companies that I am obsessed with are Topman London and Zara. Most recently, I have been drooling over the clothes on the Gilt Groupe web site. Fantastic couture fashions at a fraction of the cost.
Who is your fashion icon? Why?
For their personal style and overall persona, pretty much any of the Old Hollywood gents like Clark Gable, James Stewart or Frank Sinatra. It's really not even a "fashion thing" with these guys, but how they carried themselves. They could sit at a bar by themselves, sipping on their cocktail, and you would not be able to take your eyes off of them.
From a fashion perspective, and simply for their unabashed creativity and flawless execution, I would have to say I really look to Alexander McQueen and John Galliano.


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27 Apr 2012 12:56 PM #11
It took a year to fix a bug I provided you guys with the fix for in a clearly stated and researched bug report.-Shea
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8 May 2012 1:50 PM #12
I love sencha, trust me I do. I am just confused as to how this bug is STILL in ST 2.0.1.
Path: \sdk\src\util
File: Geolocation.js
Line: 375
allowHighAccuracy: this.getAllowHighAccuracy()
enableHighAccuracy: this.getAllowHighAccuracy()
For those trying to get this fixed now add the following code for ST2.0.1
Ext.override(Ext.util.GeoLocation,{ parseOptions: function(){ var timeout = this.getTimeout(), ret = { maximumAge: this.getMaximumAge(), enableHighAccuracy: this.getAllowHighAccuracy() }; //Google doesn't like Infinity if (timeout !== Infinity) { ret.timeout = timeout; } return ret; } });
26 Jun 2012 1:42 AM #13
I'm actually not sure if this has really been fixed.....
@chaoswarp: thanks for your workaround. Unbelievable that this is still not fixed!
Seems that my device is now searching for GPS, but just for a second and then uses the default network location. I'll have to dig deeper into it.
14 Aug 2012 6:17 AM #14
Seems to be fixed since 2.0.2?!
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Since upgrading to 11.10,
xmodmap seems to be working nowhere near as well. I would like to be able to run
xmodmap after unlocking a locked screen, as it doesn't work. I have to run it from a terminal (twice). I don't want Caps_Lock or Menu keys after I log in.
Preferably, I would like
xmodmap to go back to being useable. It doesn't run automatically at startup anymore like it used to. I have a script at startup that has to run it several times before it actually does things. Here is my
.xmodmaprc file; hopefully somebody will be able to find something wrong:
clear mod1
clear mod3
clear mod4
clear lock
keycode 66 = Hyper_L
remove lock = Hyper_L
add mod3 = Hyper_L
keycode 133 = Alt_L
add mod1 = Alt_L
keycode 64 = Super_L
add mod4 = Super_L
keycode 135 = Super_R
add mod4 = Super_R
keycode 118 = Multi_key
Meanwhile, if fixing this file doesn't fix the problems I'm having, I would like to know how to run
xmodmap after resuming from suspend or unlocking from a locked screen.


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26 Jul 2013 12:11 PM #1
passing additional config props to init
I need to set things like a proxy api read uri and a TreeStore root name programatically. I believe the way to do this is by passing in additional config properties. However, I can't figure out how to do this in Architect. Is there something that explains how to do this?
thanks - dave
15 Aug 2013 7:56 AM #2
Help please.
15 Aug 2013 10:12 AM #3
15 Aug 2013 10:58 AM #4
That will work for one case - thank you.
But for the other cases, we have windows that are called on the fly and we only know the url for the datasource at the time we call it. And it will change each time we call. Is there a way to pass in the url?
thanks - dave
15 Aug 2013 11:24 AM #5
OK - tougher one.
In one of my projects I am handling multiple tabs by creating individual stores for each tab (each tab has a grid and a couple of comboboxes) and then setting references to the grid in the tab to that store in the tab instance.
I found out that I needed to be careful not to leak objects and when I close a tab I had to do a manual Ext.destroy() on the store.
15 Aug 2013 11:54 AM #6
Let me ask you a larger question - do you think Architect is worth it with the stuff like this you have to do?
I'm starting to think we should create the initial window layout in Architect, then copy that over to our code base and at that point use WebStorm instead.
??? - thanks - dave
15 Aug 2013 9:20 PM #7
I am not sure I understand your question - having one store per tab is a neccessity imposed by the framework as the filtering from a combobox and grid are applied to one store and can't be shared among instances. This has nothing to do with Architect.
If you ask if I think Architect is worth it unrelated to this issue, my answer will be a simple "yes!".
16 Aug 2013 6:51 AM #8
Let me explain better. I have a Window that a user uses to create a select for a database. The window needs to call our REST server to get the metadata for that database and the name of the database is part of the URL for the Store/Model that is the data store for the tree in the Window that displays the metadata.
So, each time this Window is created, it will have a different URL for the tree's data. Every user can have multiple databases and we have many users. So it's not even a set of 20 pre-defined URLs, it's something that does have to be defined each time the Window is instantiated.
In addition, there can be multiple instances of this Window up at once. So each Window needs it's own instantiation of its Store because each will have a different URL.
So I think this means that 1) The Store object must be created inside the Window object so each Window has its own Store object and 2) That we have to set the URL of each Store object when we create it.
Did I miss something or do we need to structure the code as I listed? And if we do, then I think Architect is not usable because it makes the Store a global object and it only allows a literal URL.
??? - thanks - dave
19 Aug 2013 1:09 PM #9
Hi all;
Does anyone have an idea how to do this in Architect?
thanks - dave
19 Aug 2013 2:01 PM #10
David -
At one point (Ext Designer 1.0 days) there was an option on every bindable item that would allow you to instantiate an instance of a store. We do not currently have an option to do that, though we should bring it back. Currently you would have to make a duplicate of the existing store.Aaron Conran


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Inspired by this question, I ask the reverse: how much about programming do system administrators need to know? More specifically, what programming tools are useful for a sysadmin to have?
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I'd start with:
System administration is just programming. A configuration management system lets you see your entire infrastructure as a distributed machine. As a sysadmin, your job is to program this machine.
Know one text editor. Usually vi for sysadmins, emacs for programmers.
Know how to script. Pick a scripting language. Perl is a perennial favourite, as is the shell/sed/awk combo. Ruby and Python can work, but for a lot of things objects are the wrong paradigm.
Know how to write readable documentation.
Version control. Crucial for maintaining configuration files and audit trails.
Learn to think in programming terms. Understand procedural, object oriented and functional programming paradigms. These may never be used, but knowing them makes you infinitely more productive.
Learn to use a debugger (or more) and logging.
Learn to use a RDBMS. There are plenty of data processing requirements which can be simplified by using a RDBMS correctly. Even being able to switch to a DBA role on demand can do wonders.
Test before deployment. See the test-driven development philosophy.
Pair programming is good. Have someone else watch over your shoulder to learn/advise/correct.
Learn to at least have a passing familiarity with a bunch of languages. Learn a new language every year.
Scripting is essential, but I'd second the advice that knowing some "real" languages is a definite bonus. You can do some very useful things with the .NET System.DirectoryServices namespace, for example.
I am a programmer and senior admin/integrator. To work where I do, you need to know the following things:
Most of the junior admins can look at one of our programmers and say (with authority), yes, I installed it correctly, here's where you have a leak which is why the code you just pushed is breaking. Or "No, its not our version of MySQL, look at your query here ..."
I think we're kind of different, when we hire a gifted administrator .. we half way expect for them to (eventually) find their way to programming, even if its just hacking something we use to work the way they need it to work.
In summary, being well rounded is never going to hurt you.
Many, many years ago (Windows NT 3.1 in fact) I started out as a programmer specialising in writing services and even the occasional device driver. This means you get to know the Windows kernel very well. In time I got a bit bored with the programming and switched to network management. I've found my background in programming has been immensley valuable over and over again.
It's not just that writing VBScript scripts is relatively painless. Knowing how the guts of Windows works, and particularly how IP works, helps greatly with detangling odd server and network problems. Also it's a mindset. Programmers are used to documentation and version control, and it horrifies me me to see how many Windows admins will just try something to see if it works and worry about untangling the mess afterwards.
All very well, but it isn't very useful advice to say go away and work as a programmer for ten years! However I think it would help most sysadmins to have some experience of programming in a "hard" language like C++ or C#. And if you have tame programmers in your organisation go drinking with them!
John Rennie
Bad things happen, your code will be around longer than you think it will. Fail gracefully, with useful error messages. You will run out of disk, ram, cpu, time, etc, deal with it.
Don't be so optimistic, that weird once in a million issue will happen far too often in production.
With all the descriptions here, I'm not going to say that I am a sysadmin. But the fact that I built and manage a couple of windows/linux server, I must admit something:
Knowing how to bind to your LDAP and retrieve needed info in your scripting language of choice is key for everything from troubleshooting to really stepping up various types of automation (account and resource provisioning, more intelligent checks on user or machine accounts).
May seem basic but I have seen plenty of bread-n-butter shops where folks don't think they have a need for this kind of system administration. Plenty of places spend big $$$ on big sets of administrative tools and, as far as I can tell, 95% of what they use the tools for could have been done with a few hours of scripting if anybody knew that or knew how to do it.
I've found that knowing bash, dos batch, and powershell scripting provide a system admin with the framework to do just about anything, on any popular system.


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CLINE, Edna A.. 86, of Bloomingdale, OH, died Wednesday morning, Dec. 5, 2012, at her home.
She was born in West Virginia on Sept. 30, 1926, the daughter of the late James and Alma Layfield McNemar.
Edna was a graduate of the Hopedale High School class of 1944 and a member of the Unionport Christian Church.
She was also preceded by her husband of 65 years, Dale Cline on Sept. 26, 2011, infant son, Gary Dale Cline, a brother, Delbert McNemar and a sister, Maxine Roush.
She is survived by three daughters, Charlotte (Shorty) Dorsey Lois and Cindy Cline all of Bloomingdale, OH; one son, Robert (Lisa) Cline of Adena, OH.; four grandchildren, Kristen Medley Bradley Dorsey Zachary and Ericka Cline; three great-grandchildren, Brayden Medley Kameron and Kiersten Dorsey
Friends may call at the Blackburn Funeral Home today Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, from 3-9 p.m. Services will be at the Unionport Christian Church on Friday morning at 11 a.m. Pastor Hubert Granger will officiate. Burial will follow at the Unionport Cemetery. Blackburn Funeral Homes, 740-937-2461 www.BlackburnFuneralHomes.com