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Gopnik: Paul Ryan, Theocrat?
Over at The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik is worried about Paul Ryan's apparent rejection of the separation between Church and State:
[S]omething genuinely disturbing and scary got said last night by Paul Ryan that is, I think, easily missed and still worth brooding over. It came in response to a solemn and, it seemed to some of us, inappropriately phrased question about the influence of the Catholic Church on both mens positions on abortion. Inappropriately phrased because legislation is made for everyone, not specially for those of faith. (And one would have thought that, at this moment in its history, the Catholic Church would not have much standing when it comes to defining the relationship between sexual behavior and doctrinal morality. However few in number the sinners might be, the failure to deal with them openly casts doubt on the integrity of the institution.)Paul Ryan did not say, as John Kennedy had said before him, that faith was faith and public service, public service, each to be honored and kept separate from the other. No, he said instead I dont see how a person can separate their public life from their private life or from their faith. Our faith informs us in everything we do. Thats a shocking answera mullahs answer, what those scary Iranian Ayatollahs he kept referring to when talking about Iran would say as well. Ryan was rejecting secularism itself, casually insisting, as the Roman Catholic Andrew Sullivan put it, that the usual necessary distinction between politics and religion, between state and church, cannot and should not exist. And he went on to make it quietly plain that his principles are uncompromising on this, even if his bosss policy may not seem so:"All Im saying is, if you believe that life begins at conception, that, therefore, doesnt change the definition of life. Thats a principle. The policy of a Romney administration is to oppose abortion with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother."Our system, unlike the Iranians, is not meant to be so total: it depends on making many distinctions between private life, where we follow our conscience into our chapel, and our public life, where we seek to merge many different kinds of conscience in a common space. Our faith should not inform us in everything we do, or there would be no end to the religious warfare that our tolerant founders feared.
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What Ryan said was "our faith informs us in everything we do." Informs is the verb. He didn't say "controls" or "determines everything we do." This thread will include famous comments from St. Thomas Aquinas to Pope Benedict XVI on the accommodations the person of faith has to make to the rest of society in prudence or in charity or in plain avoidance of smashing his head against a brick wall. An example would be Ryan's going along with Bishop Mitt's wigglewaggling over abortion, an issue Ryan conscience says is settled. Adam Gopnik's worry was sitting there waiting for him to invoke it, but Ryan's comments don't add up to confirming it.
Eric - don't have a dog in this hunt but would suggest that Ryan wasn't talking about church-state. He was talking personally about how his faith journey influences his decisions as a politician and that is a far cry from a theocracy or your words about mullahs.May not agree with his decisions and may not agree with his catholic faith interpretations but do want to hear how he expresses his faith and how it is connected to his prudential political decisions. If his faith is rigid and extremist, then would suggest that his politics will be touched by the same. If his faith is *big church*, his tone and expressions are ones of mercy, compassion, etc. then his political life will be impacted by this.
Adam Gopnik is almost as ignorant as Paul Ryan.
It seemed that every year he was governor of New York, Mario Cuomo would find on his desk a bill passed by the Legislature restoring the death penalty, something which, the polls showed, a majority of New York residents wanted to happen. Each year Gov. Cuomo vetoed the bill and gave a little homily explaining why he was doing so, in which it was not hard to see a reflection of his Catholic faith. On that point, though not on others, his faith was informing his public act.
I certainly don't think we should let our Catholic sense of social justice influence whom we vote for. That would be wholly inappropriate, and a violation of the, almost sacred, separation of Chuch and State in the public square.
If Representative Ryan had said that the writings of Ayn Rand informs everything he does, would Adam Gopnik be comparing him to the Ayatollahs?
Part of the problem here is that Gopnik (quoting Sullivan) treats the "distinction between politics and religion" as identical to that between "church and state". They are not the same. Part of the reason that the founders insisted on a separation of church and state was so that individuals would be free to allow their religion/faith to influence their politics. "Secularism" was not the goal. The Christian religion, like most others, is not confined to "the chapel" and to private consciences. At least since the Enlightenment, many have wanted to reduce religion to a private, interior matter. This is essentially a Gnostic move. (Note the modern fascination with and attempted rehabilitation of the Gnostic gospels.)Now, prudence would dictate that if one wants to advance religiously inspired policy positions in a pluralistic democracy, one would need to find non-sectarian arguments that also support those same policies. And this is precisely what Ryan did. He immediately challenged the implicit premise of the question that opposition to abortion is fundamentally a religious issue by making clear that his position was based as much on science and personal experience as it was on religious doctrine.What I find most silly about Gopnik's alarmist accusation that Ryan can't distinguish between deeply held religious convictions and public policy positions is that Ryan did precisely that in his answer: he distinguished between his personal conviction that abortion is not justified by rape or incest and the policy of a Romney administration that would allow exceptions in those cases.
This year the Florida ballot will contain a proposed constitutional amendment lifting the state's long ban on state aid to church schools. I was shocked that the priest officiating at the Saturday evening Mass told everyone to vote for it. What, and allow my tax dollars to be spent for the benefit of evangelical churches who teach their members to hate Catholicism (except, of course, when the Church is opposing abortion and marriage equality)?
Upon rereading, that last paragraph was a bit more derisive than I intended. Please substitute "puzzling" for "silly" and scratch "alarmist". Ah, the perils of internet posting. Mea culpa.
We think some things are so for ordinary, non-religious reasons. We think some things are so because of religious reasons. The problem here is that we think some things are so *both* because of ordinary experience and because of religious beliefs. For instance, both non-religious and religious people think that not honoring a commitment for trivial reasons is morally wrong. Same with murder and cheating in business. Morality and religious both motivate us, and sometimes at the same time.So it's silly to say that faith and reason or church and state have to be kept absolutely apart. Sometimes their values overlap and properly so. (Looks to me like Gopnik is spoiling for a fight. Note his scare quotes around "faith" at the beginning of the article.)It's also unreasonable of Ryan to say that his religion informs his whole life. Surely it doesn't tell him which tie to wear on Monday morning, or which team to root for on Sunday afternoon.
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels 10/13/2012 - 8:36 pm CONTRIBUTORAdam Gopnik is almost as ignorant as Paul Ryan.
Only much more so :O)Of course you can't separate religion from the rest of life. Kennedy was saying what he thought he needed to say to succeed in politics; Ryan was simply stating an obvious fact. Gopnik and the New Yorker are moral idiots. No, idiots, period. If it weren't the New Yorker nobody with a mind would take it seriously. Overschooled fools.
Now, prudence would dictate that if one wants to advance religiously inspired policy positions in a pluralistic democracy, one would need to find non-sectarian arguments that also support those same policies."I think David Tenney has it exactly right. Biden's answer to the abortion question completely avoided the non-sectarian arguments against abortion. As Kenneth Woodward, the former religion writer for Newsweek said in the pages of Commonweal in 2004 in reference to the Cuomo doctrine that Biden relied on during the VP debate,"Never once did he [Cuomo] say--as the bishops had, and he himself could have--that opposition to abortion as a matter of public morality is a defense of the human rights of the unborn. Never once did he say the abortion dispute is a disagreement over the scope of social justice. He did not say these things, and never has, I believe, because doing so would make his position difficult if not impossible to defend." http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/catholics-politics-abortion-0 (subscribers only?)Yet Cuomo had no problem with vetoing death penalty laws sent to him by the NY legislature, even though being anti-death penalty was a minority political position. I commend Cuomo for his stand on the death penalty, but as Woodward said in his Commonweal article about Cuomo and abortion, [h]e did not say these things, and never has, because, as I think his record makes clear, he does not believe them to be true.
"He immediately challenged the implicit premise of the question that opposition to abortion is fundamentally a religious issue by making clear that his position was based as much on science and personal experience as it was on religious doctrine.'David, there is no science in this. Obviously the dna in a human fetus is human. But that does not make it immortal.
No, Bill, but it leaves it human. That's science enough.
David, When you and the other one issue Christians start showing more reverence for miscarriages, (which are thrown into garbage bins and toilets) which equal the amount of pregnancies, then I will consider your efforts.
This is a good reminder of why I almost never read past Adam Gopnik's byline. He can be very good when he's writing about something he really understands. But he has a terrible instinct for which subjects he gets and which he really doesn't understand at all.Bill, you seem to think you have a winning argument with this line about miscarriages. You've said it several times, and each time it has struck me as incredibly insensitive to anyone who has actually experienced a pregnancy loss. Please stop trying to score points with other people's pain.
Matthew J. Franck over at First Things denounces not only the Gopnik piece but The New Yorker itself, saying, "When did the New Yorker become a magazine written by and for people who are deeply ignorant but imagine they are terribly bright? . . . . This is the New Yorker today: smugly stupid, vulgarly anti-scientific, passing off crude partisanship as philosophy."As I said over there, I think the Ryan remark is basically a pious platitude that tells us very little about Ryan's approach to being an elected official. The problem with the abortion question and Catholic office holders, it seems to me, is that the Catholic Church doesn't merely teach that abortion is immoral. It teaches (or so a lot of people argue) what the law ought to be regarding abortion. It must be outlawed. The Catholic Church also teaches, to a certain extent, not just that homosexuality is immoral, but that the law ought not to guarantee gay rights or permit same-sex unions or same-sex marriage. That, it seems to me, is going to far in a pluralistic, democratic society in which we have separation of Church and state. I have to say that the "orthodox" Catholic attitude toward church and state bewilders me. It does seem to me that Catholicism, unlike any religion I can think of, arrogates to itself the task of determining "objective" morality that should be binding on all people, not just Catholics. Ryan (and Santorum during the primaries) have both made it clear that they have supported public funding for contraception through Title X. The question is, Why? Ryan is now willing to accept exceptions for abortions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Why? It seems that on some issues on which the Church is crystal clear, say, contraception, it is acceptable to be "personally opposed but not willing to impose one's religious views on others," and in other areas (for example, abortion) to be "personally opposed but . . . ." is to be an apostate.
It seems to me that Gopnik makes a good point, especially in the last paragraph that I quoted, when he reminds Ryan that our political system is based on making distinctions between the prescriptions of individual consciences, universal moral norms, and coercive law. It may be the case that Ryan *felt* that he was seeing, in the "bean" on the ultrasound, a life, and he may be right about that. However, that does not immediately entail that he is seeing a morally significant life, the protection of which he can raise to the level of a universal moral norm. Even once he does that, though, he cannot move directly from morally significant life to legal personhood, as having legislatively or juridically defined rights. Lastly, even if he does establish the legal personhood of the "bean," he has yet to show that this person has rights to life that trump the variety of rights that we *know* to be held by an independent, fully rational, adult citizen. So, whatever the "faith" (the quotes indicating the vagueness of the term) upon which he is basing his pro-life stance, we need more (much more) to make it politically relevant (politics being the realm of legislatively and juridically enforceable law). This is why I think that Gopnik is right to point out at the beginning of the piece that "faith" has little to do with public service, especially so far as the *public* is concerned. Ryan might have all kinds of ways to get from his personal faith to his personal choice to run for office and the positions he plans to defend, but that is all just intellectual biography. It might be good stuff for his memoir, but in a *public* forum, like a debate, he needs to make *public* arguments. I'm afraid that "the bean argument" simply doesn't stand up, and no appeal to "faith" is going to make up the gap between experiential intuition and democratic law. In the end, I think it does a disservice to the pro-life argument to continue to allow appeals to the vagaries of "faith" in public forums. Making the rights of the unborn a "faith issue" only serves to marginalize it as a special interest; when, in fact, I take it that defenders of such rights assume they are making an appeal to natural reason. So, the "cause," as it were, would be better served if Ryan would not talk about his "faith" at all and have a go at some actual arguments.
It seems Robert George is being criticized for being too charitable and NOT calling those he disagrees with liars. But it seems to me the issue, as argued, is a matter of faith. There is no way to prove personhood begins at conception, and that is generally what the argument boils down to. I think the "life [personhood] begins at conception"/"abortion is murder" arguments are a dead end for the pro-life movement. It may be true that increasing numbers of people call themselves "pro-life," but how many of them actually believe it is murder to use embryos for stem-cell research or a risk of homicide to use contraceptive method that might interfere with implantation?
Good points David Nickol,I would add that there is much confusion and misunderstanding about the issue of abortion. There is direct abortion (immoral) and indirect abortion (morally permissible). However, the definition of "direct abortion" is a moral absolute according to the Church and it does not admit to "circumstances". Both Biden and Ryan claim that they are pro-life "with circumstances" and respect the Catholic Church's doctrine. However, the Church does not recognize "with circumstances (e.g., rape, incest and to save the life of the mother).With respect to indirect abortion, most Catholics don't abide by the Church's definition. For example, they don't believe that the procedure in the infamous Phoenix case is direct abortion (church's standpoint), but indirect abortion. Of importance is that most Catholics are against "abortion on demand"....e,g., terminating an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy for personal reasons. This represents the majority of abortions. While the abortion doctrine does not include exception in the cases of of rape, incest and to save the mother's life, many Bishops contradict the USCCB guidelines in the cases of rape. They allow Plan B to be administered to a rape victim based on a negative pregnancy test. The contradiction is that a pregnancy test will always be negative because it can only detect pregnancy after implantation which occurs about 3 weeks after fertilization. Thus, this is direct abortion if we apply the guidelines of the USCCB. Using the argument of justice and ethical context (e.g., circumstances and intentions) is appropriate in this case. However, the Church will not embrace this argument because to do so would mean accepting ethical context as a justification for exceptions in cases involving other sexual ethical teachings. Both Biden and Ryan do not reflect the current teaching of the Church on abortion. Biden goes further than Ryan in that he favors pro-choice for others of different faiths, but is pro-life with circumstances with respect to himself. Ryan seems to indicate that he would favor overturning Roe v. Wade.
Eric, I agree that "Making the rights of the unborn a faith issue only serves to marginalize it as a special interest" (well, I'd drop the "only"). But it hardly seems fair to criticize Ryan for talking about "faith" when the question he was asked (which was a lousy question, though not for the reason Gopnik thinks) was: "We have two Catholic candidates, first time on a stage such as this, and I would like to ask you both to tell me what role your religion has played in your own personal views on abortion. Please talk about how you came to that decision. Talk about how your religion played a part in that. And please, this is such an emotional issue for so many people in this country. Please talk personally about this if you could."
Mollie,Why was it a lousy question?
David: because it's a vice-presidential debate, not an Oprah interview. Ask what policies vis-a-vis abortion they support or their administration would work for, but don't specifically narrow it to their personal feelings about the as-a-Catholic framework.
It seems that on some issues on which the Church is crystal clear, say, contraception, it is acceptable to be personally opposed but not willing to impose ones religious views on others, and in other areas (for example, abortion) to be personally opposed but . . . . is to be an apostate.
The Church is in a bad bind on contraception. It hardly makes sense to oppose it in the modern world, but the change came suddenly in the middle of the past century, and the Church is simply unable to pivot on a dime.
Mollie: I agree with you as to why the question was inappropriate, and looking at the question again, I agree that it is unfair to criticize Ryan for talking about faith in his response. Though, I think that the more pressing critique still stands, namely that Ryan thinks that one can move seamlessly from personal faith to public policy, and he said as much in the first sentence of his response. Now, he could have answered the question personally and then gone through some of the steps that I mentioned to build a case for his public position on abortion legislation, but he didn't even acknowledge any of the difficulties in doing so. In that sense, I think Gopnik's basic concern is still valid. Ryan doesn't seem to be very aware of the challenges involved in moving from a personal, "faith" position to a public, political one.
the founders insisted on a separation of church and stateI read this statement in a number of posts and it reflects a common misperception. The first amendment precludes only the government from making any law respecting an establishment of a religion and impeding the free exercise of religion. The converse is not true, any and all religions are free to petition the government to establish any laws. There is nothing in the constitution insisting on a separation of church and state, but rather only a state sanctioned church.The argument is entirely beside the point with respect to abortion. The Catholic Church's view on abortion is based on the fetus's humanity. Further, I find odd the libertarian argument that a woman has complete and unfettered authority over her body which is entirely inconsistent with the huge need we as a society all have for children, not to mention more mundane social laws outlawing, for example, drugs.And it was a dopey question because it seemed to limit concern about abortion to a specific religions claim. It shows a complete lack of understanding of abortion.
David Nickol:"But it seems to me the issue, as argued, is a matter of faith."Would mind to try and support that statement with some evidence? As far as I recall nowhere in scripture there is any revelation that life begins at conception. The foundation of such teaching on the part of the Church is just a banal observation about biology: that there is a continuous, uninterrrupted development of the same organism from conception to birth and beyond. So much so that I believe in pre-scientific time abortion was allowed until a certain point when the science of the time thought ensoulment would take place.Regardless of the case at hand, there is a huge difference between "something the Church holds with absolute certainty" and "matter of faith." Matters of faith have to do with revealed truths about the mystery of God. No such thing applies to abortion.The real problem of course, as displayed also by the comment by Eric Bugys, is that you see faith and reason as two essentially separate, and possibly opposed, realities. On the contrary the Catholic understanding is "credo ut intelligam, intelligo ut credam" which among other things implies that faith strengthens and liberates reason.Case in point: a rational person, based on our current biological knowledge, should be able to determine that conception is the most reasonable even hat marks the formation of a new human individual. The fact that people cannot recognize it does not sgnal that they lack faith. It only signal that they lack reason.
Carlo: Once again, you confuse my position on the relation between faith and reason with the way that "faith" is deployed in political arguments. In modern politics, "faith" has come to denote (something like) those things held on the basis of religiously-informed, personal conviction. Now, you might not like this definition of faith, but it is how the word is used; it is how is was clearly meant in the question posed; and it was how both candidates interpreted it. Of course, I do not think that those things held by faith are necessarily inimical to reason, which is precisely why I would like to see pro-life advocates make their arguments on the basis of natural reason.
Eric --Ryan said his opposition to abortion is faith based, but he also said it is based on science. He did say how. At any rate, to the extent that he has an ordinary-knowledge argument, he is not just pushing theocracy.
Oops -- he did NOT say how his position is based on science.
I think that the more pressing critique still stands, namely that Ryan thinks that one can move seamlessly from personal faith to public policyEric,I still think you are missing the fact that Ryan did distinguish between personal faith and public policy in his answer to this very question. First, he made clear that his position isn't just based on faith. Second, he very clearly explained the difference between the principle that life begins at conception and the policy that Romney has advocated that would allow abortion in the cases of rape, incest, and a threat to the life of the mother. You are right to say that he did not walk step by step through process of how he moves from his personal position to this particular public policy, but given that he had less than a minute to answer the question I think it is unreasonable to expect that he should do so, especially given the way that the question was phrased.
Eric:great, thank you for the clarification. I would only object to the notion (if that is what you mean) that Catholics in the publisc square should accept to use the word faith in the fideistic/nominalistic way that is typical our post-Protestant culture. In fact, the choice between technocratic rationalism (a.k.a. as "the new left") and fideism (a.k.a. as "the religious right") is the poltical marker of the inner conflict between faith an reason that is inherent to most branches of Protestantism. From the point of view of an historian of ideas contemporary north-American culture is a "wonderful" specimen is it not??


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I am not certain if this is a complete question and I fear it might be shot down. Anyway, I try to pose it. My question is in connection to using D-modules to study PDEs (and systems of PDEs). When I was doing a perusal on "A primer of algebraic D-modules by S. C. Coutinho" the justification on the importance of D-modules; they provide an algebraic tool towards the solution of differential equations. This is the story I always hear! Do someone have a reference or more information about D-modules and algebraically solution of PDEs ?.
Perhaps you are looking for something deeper, but right there at the beginning of Hotta, Takeuchi, and Tanisaki's book on D-mods in the introduction is the connection to Linear PDEs.
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My guess is that this is a reference to Bernshtein's proof using the theory of D-modules that every constant coefficent partial differential operator $D$ has a fundamental solution, i.e. there is a distributional solution to the PDE $Du = \delta$ where $\delta$ is the Dirac distribution. This was an important theorem in analysis due to Malgrange and Ehrenpreis in the 1950's, and I think it came as a bit of a surprise that it can be done purely algebraically - all of the analytic input is encapsulated by a few basic facts about distributions. Everyone knows that the fundamental theorem of algebra is proved in analysis class; maybe this means the fundamental theorem of analysis will one day be proved in algebra class!
Here is a link to Bernshtein's paper: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~bernstei/Publication_list/publication_texts/bernstein-mod-dif-FAN.pdf. This was written in the 70's, and I think since then the argument has been cleaned up and made even more algebraic.

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The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has named 25 faculty or emeritus faculty from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Polytechnic Institute of NYU as AMS fellows for 2013, the program's initial year.
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"The new AMS Fellows Program recognizes some of the most accomplished mathematicians -- AMS members who have contributed to our understanding of deep and important mathematical questions, to applications throughout the scientific world, and to educational excellence," AMS President Eric M. Friedlander added.
The AMS Fellows from Courant included NYU Provost David McLaughlin as well as: Sylvain Cappell; Jeff Cheeger; Martin Davis; Percy Deift; Harold Edwards; Robert Kohn; Andrew Majda; Henry McKean, Jr.; Cathleen Synge Morawetz; Assaf Naor; Charles Newman; Louis Nirenberg; Charles Peskin; Ricky Pollack; Joel Spencer; Jean Taylor; Yuri Tschinkel; Srinivasa Varadhan; and Margaret Wright.
The AMS Fellows from NYU-Poly were: Erwin Lutwak; Lesley Sibner; Deane Yang; Yisong Yang; and Gaoyong Zhang.
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When using the phrase
ほんの一瞬, I somehow feel compelled to insert
だけ afterwards. This seems to be somewhat common (over one million hits for
"ほんの一瞬だけ" on Google), but does it seem silly in terms of redundancy? Since
ほんの and
だけ seem to have the same meaning, I'm not sure if I should actually say
ほんの一瞬だけ, despite the Google results.
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Yes it might be redundant and ungrammatical, but I think I say and write that way quite often... I think I also use 一瞬だけ and ほんの一瞬 but I think I tend to use ほんの一瞬だけ when I want to emphasize 'only'. I think it's similar to たった一回だけ/たった一度だけ, which seem also redundant but I use quite often... so maybe these expressions are rather casual and colloquial.
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The documentation for an API I often use for quick astronomical modeling and figure drawing says
Positions are given in FK5 heliocentric coordinates in the equinox of the date used.
What does "equinox of the date used" mean. Does it simply mean that the epoch for a value at time $t$ is $t$, rather than some other time (e.g. J2000)?


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News Brief: Common Variant for Psychosis Fingered at 16p11.2
24 December 2012. A common variant at 16p11.2 increases risk of psychosis, according to a report published online November 20 in Molecular Psychiatry. Led by Kari Stefansson of deCODE Genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland, the study combined cases of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other psychoses to search for variants related to psychosis, rather than to a specific diagnosis. The results flag a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within a 593 kb region that has been previously linked to schizophrenia and other disorders by rare copy number variants (CNVs).
The findings build on their previous schizophrenia GWAS, which identified 39 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that, though not genomewide-significant hits, had promising p values (see SRF related news story). In the new study, the researchers surveyed these same SNPs in an enlarged dataset, consisting of 27,543 cases with psychosis and 88,696 controls. A SNP at 16p11.2 attained genomewide significance (p = 6.6 x 10-11), with an odds ratio of 1.08, and suggests that combining diagnoses does not necessarily dilute psychosis-related GWAS signals.
The SNP lies in a region already on the radar: duplications are associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and microcephaly, whereas deletions are associated with autism, developmental delay, and macrocephaly (see SRF related news story). Though a recent zebrafish study identified the KCTD13 gene in this region as controlling head size (see SRF related news story), the new study did not find that the SNP altered this genes expression in human brain tissue. They did, however, report an association between the SNP and expression of MAPK3, a gene that modified zebrafish head size in combination with KCTD13.Michele Solis.
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Are you kidding me? As a long-time resident of Kansas, and having raised my children in this state, I certainly want an explanation from our legislators as to why Kansas ranks as the sixth worst state in the union for sex trafficking of innocent minors. This condition needs to be dealt with through the media until the Kansas legislators get the message - fix it!
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I made the mistake of assuming a torte would be done when the timer went off. I removed it from the oven and turned off the heat. Forty minutes later I discovered my error. Is it safe to reheat the oven (sans-torte) and continue cooking from where I left off? Are there any risks to doing this generally in baking?
You haven't mentioned exactly what's in the torte, but I am assuming that the only potentially "unsafe" ingredient is eggs. Thus, the only possible danger is that the eggs might be undercooked, posing a very minuscule (considering that most egg yolks/whites aren't contaminated in the first place) risk of salmonella.
But we're talking about a torte here, which isn't going to be finished until the eggs are set, and the setting temperature of eggs isn't that far off from the salmonella-killing temperature (63° C vs. 74° C). Use a thermometer if you're concerned.
Of course, if you're using pasteurized eggs then they should be free of bacteria to begin with and you have nothing to worry about at all.
Most likely, the worst thing you have to worry about is the torte drying out a bit, since you'll be increasing your overall baking time to get it back up to temp.
Edit: With respect to quality of the finished product, I might worry with a regular (flour) cake, because increasing the total baking time gives it more time to develop gluten and dry out, but a torte has little to no starch, so you're not really in much danger there. Just keep an eye on it, make sure it doesn't burn, and you'll be fine.


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How can I implement 301 redirect for specific posts of blogger (Not all)?
One new option has just opened up at "Settings › Search preferences" in the blogger interface:
Detailed here, it looks like:
Update: It seems you may now be able to specify a "permanent" redirect and i have updated the image to show this...
I'm pretty sure this can't be done. Your only opition would be a JavaScript redirect which could have text such as:
I have even seen companies like Microsoft utilize these kind of pages.
Update: I just ran into an example of Apple using a page like this.
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(From a post by Khusnul Khotimah, to which I've added my own observations)
Suppose you have a blog with three posts at addresses
The new URLs may be inside or outside your blog.
N.B: This works if the blog from which you are redirecting uses "layouts", but not if it uses the older "classic" templates. It seems that "classic" Blogger doesn't understand the "b:if" tag and therefore ignores it, with the result that the "cond" is always treated as true. Hence, if you try to use a series of conditional redirects in a "classic" template, the URL given in the last redirect will apply, and all pages on your blog will redirect to that URL (oops!). You can modify this behavior by exploiting the fact that "classic" Blogger respects the
Yes, the redirection code really must be inserted immediately after the
I've used this trick (with a 1-second delay) for redirected posts at this old blog (if a post has been moved, clicking on its title starts the automatic redirection).
Rumor has it that some search engines, including Google, will treat a "meta refresh" the same as 301 redirect, if the specified refresh delay is short. A meta refresh could be implement as the last resort when no other redirection option is available.
A meta refresh looks like this:
In order for search engines to consider this meta tag into account:
In blogger you can edit the head section of your blog via "Templates > Edit HTML". Blogger also provides the possibility of little bit of server-side scripting. So you can inject the meta refresh in the head section of your blog CONDITIONALLY, e.g. only when the page URL is
This post shows you how you can inject a custom title tag by checking the value of a blogger variable called
Complete reference of blogger template variables is available here.
I applied this on my blog and it kind of worked actually. Google webmaster tools reports links to my old blog in my new blog's "Links to Your Site" section.
I don't think there's a straightforward feature provided by Blogger to do this. However, if your Blogger-powered blog is on a custom domain (NOT something.blogspot.com) then there is an indirect way to do this (caveat: Highly experimental. May be correct in theory, but hasn't been tried in practice)


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Way back in 2006, Maker Faire was conceived of as a chance for the growing community of makers involved with MAKE Magazine to get together. That first Faire in San Mateo drew 22,000 people. Five years later in 2011, "flagship" Maker Faires occured in New York and Detroit as well as in the San Francisco Bay Area, and all together 175,000 people participated.
That's a whole lot of people! But add in Mini Maker Faires—community-based, independently-organized, smaller scale celebrations of do-it-yourself and do-it-together creativity that are popping up around the globe— and by our estimates, the Maker Faire population will just about double by the end of 2012, and likely will eclipse "maxi" Faires in attendance by 2013.
Maker Faire is not the only place to witness the momentum of the Maker Movement. TechShop was pitched at Maker Faire 2006, and now has four locations around the U.S., and is working on four more. Instructables.com built enough following and momentum to be acquired this year by Autodesk. Check out Radio Shack coming back to its roots with campaigns featuring Maker Faire stalwarts like Meredith Scheff on a new website, radioshackdiy.com. Big companies are wanting in the mix—a strong indicator of critical mass.
Mainstream media attention is another bellwether. One of the best of many excellent pieces this year was Miles O'Brien's 10 minute feature for PBS' News Hour on making as a remedy for the U.S.'s decline in math and science achievement. "Maker Faire: Mad Science for the Masses" came out after World Maker Faire New York in the Christian Science Monitor. Or hoMakerFaireGrowth.SM copyw about the fact that Forbes.com now has a column called "The Makers," written by Kitsap Mini Maker Faire producer and journalist TJ McCue!
The White House has increasingly also been in the Maker Faire mix, with high-ups like Tom Kalil (Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) hosting gatherings of educators at Maker Faire. And Dale Dougherty, the founder of MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire was honored by the White House in October as a "Champion of Change."
Most importantly, though, maker community is growing. More conversations are happening and more connections being made. Just one example of what happens: two years ago, two teachers from Louisville, KY came out to Maker Faire Bay Area. They saw what was going on and became determined to set up a hackerspace in Louisville. Last year, LVLone was born. This year, at Maker Faire Detroit, a group of makers (ages 17-24) who met at LVLone were showing their project to build a helium balloon to make a trans-Atlantic crossing, which has not been done successfully. Full circle!
Maker Faire seems to be filling a very big hole in our cultural fabric, satisfying a strong desire to celebrate creativity and innovation in our communities. We're a movement of enthusiasts, of fun-seeking and fun-making people, who bring passion to what they do and inspiration to those looking on. We can't wait to see what happens in 2012.


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Yahweh is often called "He" in english bibles. Is it so in Hebrew original?
- if yes, is there any other evidence of his masculitiny besides the pronoun?
- if no, why isn't Yahweh called "It"?
Yahweh is often called "He" in english bibles. Is it so in Hebrew original?
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Others have already responded as far as the grammar and God being masculine there. So I focus on your question as to whether there are other evidences of God's masculinity. Since you've asked about the Hebrew language, I'll limit my remarks to Hebrew texts.
Before I begin to look at various themes, it's worth noting that nothing can be said about God's biology. While the gods of the various neighboring nations had forms that were often hyper-masculine or hyper-feminine, the commandment against images ensured that YHWH was not worshiped as having any form. So while we often think of gender in terms of biology, such categories are inapplicable to a god worshiped only as a spirit.
That said, there were certainly traits and roles that the authors of the Hebrew scriptures would have viewed as particularly masculine or particularly feminine. While there are a small smattering of images wherein God is compared to something feminine (mostly by way of quick analogy), in the Hebrew scriptures the dominant images of God - particularly as he describes himself using extended metaphors - by and large portray God as masculine.
Divine Warrior
God is depicted throughout the Hebrew scriptures as a warrior god. Early in Genesis 9, we see him resting his war bow in the sky as a promise never to destroy the earth again. The dominant theme of the conquest is that God fights for Israel. Passages like Isaiah 59, describe God arrayed in armor ready to destroy his enemies. Examples could be multiplied almost endlessly.
The role of warrior was one considered exclusively masculine in the ancient near east. It was barbaric and shameful to have women fight for your tribe or nation. This can be seen, for instance, in Judges 4:8-9, where even the politically powerful Deborah rebukes Barak for inviting her to battle and honor is taken from him because of it. We see later in 4:14 that while Deborah was willing to join Barak at the site of the battle, Barak alone actually enters into the battle (along with the other men, of course). So the image of God as Divine Warrior is one that is very masculine.
Along the lines of the divine warrior motif, God is also portrayed as a suzerain and king throughout the Hebrew scriptures. One easy place to see this is in 1 Samuel 8 where God says that Israel has rejected him as king in asking for a king like the nations have. Psalm 2 is another. Kingship was a highly masculine role in the ANE.
While the idea of God as Father is much more developed in the New Testament writings, the concept is not absent from the Hebrew scriptures. For instance, in Isaiah 63:16 the Israelites appeal to God, "But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you, Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name."
Jilted Husband/Lover
The prophets, especially, choose this theme as an image for God. Ezekiel 23, for instance, is an extended diatribe against Israel and Judah who have gone like prostitutes to the surrounding nations, lusting after their large genitals and enraging God to jealous anger. Similarly we find descriptions of God as a scorned husband in Hosea and Jeremiah. These are not short analogies, either, but extended passages in which God as a rejected husband appeals to Israel, his wayward wife.
To summarize: whatever theologians today might think of God's gender, it's reasonable to conclude from a survey of their scriptures that the Israelites largely conceived of God in masculine terms. While the grammar already supports the pronoun "he" as the better choice for translation, the further context of the scriptures confirm this as the best choice.
For more information see "God & Gender-Is God Really Male?" or "God and gender - Definition".
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New Bern Mayor Lee Bettis appeared in court Thursday morning on DWI and other charges for allegedly driving erratically with children in his vehicle.
In district court at the Havelock City Hall, the judge decided to continue to the case to October 3.
According to a North Carolina State Crime Lab report, Alprazolam, better known as the anxiety drug Xanax, was in Bettis' system when he allegedly drove erratically on Highway 70 at the western end of Havelock on May 6. His wife's two children were in the vehicle, investigators said.
The incident led to DWI and other charges against the mayor.
The State Crime Lab report does not indicate how much Xanax was in Bettis' system. But the report does show that no alcohol, cocaine, opiates, barbiturates, methadone or Carisoprodol were present in the mayor's blood.
Bettis' lawyer, Marcus Chesnutt, said his client had a prescription for Xanax. Chesnutt then offered his reactions to the lab results.
"I'm a little bothered that this test doesn't have quantitative results with it. It shows something that is absolutely legal for somebody to have in their system. It doesn't show an amount that would impair him at all," Chesnutt said. "I'm a little bothered by the rush to judgement, the fact that he was charged without any kind of quantitative result coming back."
According to District Attorney Scott Thomas, another new development in the case is the appointment of a special prosecutor: Isaac Avery, of Raleigh. NewsChannel 12 could not reach Avery; a message on his office phone said he was on vacation.
Havelock Police said they were first notified of Bettis' erratic driving when a motorist called 911:
CALLER:"I mean, this guy almost hit about six people. He is everywhere... I'm just behind him, about 100 feet... It looks like a single occupant male. There's kids in there, no way. Oh man, there are kids in there."
DISPATCH: "Do you see a cruiser around you? If you see one, start flashing your lights, because we need to get this guy off the road."
CALLER:"Oh, don't hit the- ohhh. He's playing ping-pong in between the lanes [on] westbound 70... I mean, they popped the line a hundred times."
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Bettis said he was just trying to get his kids to school when he was pulled over. He admitted he was probably speeding, and explained why he failed the field sobriety test.
"The police officer said, 'you can't do a heel-to-toe walk and you're acting kind of funny,'" Bettis said. "I just had hip transplant surgery; I don't have any balance. I can't do a heel toe walk. After the breathalyzer came back zero-zero, I pretty much thought that was it."
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According to Major Jason Wank of the Carteret County Sheriff's Office, Nicole Bettis dialed 911 at about 2:10 a.m. on May 8 from the couple's rental home on Gastey Lane in Beaufort. Nicole claimed her husband had grabbed her because he was angry over his DWI arrest two days prior.
Officials released the 911 call to NewsChannel 12:
NICOLE:"My husband just left. He just abused me. He pushed me down the stairs and choked me and he took off."
911 DISPATCH:"When did this happen?"
NICOLE:"Within the last 15 minutes, 20 minutes... I'm fine. He's angry because he got pulled over the other morning while driving my children to school and I didn't support him on this, because I told him not to drive my children to school."
911 DISPATCH:"And you said he pushed you down?"
NICOLE: He pushed me down the stairs.
(CLICK HERE to listen to the entire 911 call)
When deputies arrived at the home, they did not find signs of injuries, Wank said. Nicole decided not to file charges and Bettis was not arrested.


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Perfect capture and rare pose ... enta m3alem :P
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Superb shot of this iconic Owl species.
what a moment of amazing shots!
Eccomi di nuovo.... quella strana!!
I often come back to this photo, the little owl is so engaging, almost performing for the photographer.
How lucky and skilful to have captured this thrilling moment.
yoga anyone?
nice shot perfect timing
she think is a ballerina, lol
excellent picture, my compliments!
Owl Yoga…
What calisthenics!
Aww. He's shy. So cute.
I've never seen an owl from that perspective...beautiful!!
I've never seen an owl from that perspective.
كفووووووو تستاهل والله العالميه وزياده يالحبيب
Wonderful capture!
lovely capture :)
Great !
Amazing photograph! Nature is so beautiful and you captured a spectacular moment. The shape, colors and texture of the owl are gorgeous, but to capture the one open eye (and so sharp) just brings the whole image to a higher level. The background so clean with the same shades of the owl and the branch….perfection!
so nice ,amazing shot
Awesome Yogic Owl
Excellent shot. It looks like a tiny owl, by the way.
Wow, the owl looks as it is restructurated;)
That's very nice photo. good timing
So beautiful, cute and amazing!! Lovely color and terrific textures make for a marvelous photo.
Absolutely Yoga!LOL
Yoga Owl photo op!
It took me a few minutes and a little contortion but I finally got it! Great timing!!
woowww....amazing shot...
Ooooh so adorable! Perfect focus and all too!
So cute!!
wow! Amazing
Good excellent photo
Change "Photo of the day" in "Awesomeness of the day", seriously, this is a pleasure to watch every day.
Hey all yoga fans, you are not alone.
Great catch !
What a great artistic eye to have firstly seen this little owl and then to have been quick
enough to capture this exquisite moment of beauty and comedy. A truly fabulous photo.
I live on our family's farm, and am surrounded by woods. I have owls talking close by every night. They are amazing birds. I love this photo! So much character!
Absolutely stunning capture
awesome shot...
nice picture
great shot!
~beautiful wise one of grace~
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Downloads the entire file, but http servers don't always provide the optional 'Content-Length:' header, and ftp/gopher/dict/etc servers don't provide a filesize header at all.
runs an rss feed through sed replacing the closing tags with newlines and the opening tags with white space making it readable.
This is a simple bash function and a key binding that uses commandlinefu's simple and easy search API. It prompts for a search term, then it uses curl to search commandline fu, and highlights the search results with less.
yt2mp3(){ for j in `seq 1 301`;do i=`curl -s gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/$1/uploads\?start-index=$j\&max-results=1|grep -o "watch[^&]*"`;ffmpeg -i `wget youtube.com/$i -qO-|grep -o 'url_map"[^,]*'|sed -n '1{s_.*|__;s_\\\__g;p}'` -vn -ab 128k "`youtube-dl -e ${i#*=}`.mp3";done;}
squeezed the monster (and nifty ☺) command from 7776 from 531 characters to 284 characters, but I don't see a way to get it down to 255. This is definitely a kludge!
Changed wget to curl and it doesn't create a file anymore.
like 7300, but doesn't clutter your working directory with old qr.*.png files. This will get the QR barcode, and send it right into ImageMagick's 'display' tool. Usage is the same as 7300; just call this function followed by the URL:
qrurl http://xkcd.com
this simply curls the feed and runs a xpath query on it ...
this will dump a list of domains one per line into a text file
Just added view with the eog viewer.
urls.txt should have a fully qualified url on each line
prefix with
rm log.txt;
to clear the log
change curl command to
curl --head $file | head -1 >> log.txt
to just get the http status
Just a few minor changes.
First the usage of lynx instead of curl so no sed is needed to revert the spaces. Then the usages of egrep instead of grep -e to save a few characters and last the removal of the extra 0.
Alternative to http://commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6831/find-co-ordinates-of-a-location with $* instead of $1 so no need to quote multi-word locations
Just add this to your .bashrc file.
Use quotes when query has multiple word length.
Note, you need to replace the email address with your private Instapaper email address.
There are a bunch of possible improvements such as,
- Not writing a temp file
- Doesnt strip tags (tho Instapaper does thankfully)
- Shouldnt require 2 curls
The command was too long for the command box, so here it is:
echo $(( `wget -qO - http://i18n.counter.li.org/ | grep 'users registered' | sed 's/.*\<font size=7\>//g' | tr '\>' ' ' | sed 's/<br.*//g' | tr ' ' '\0'` + `curl --silent http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en | grep users | head -2 | tail -1 | sed 's/.*<strong>//g' | sed 's/<\/strong>.*//g'` ))
This took me about an hour to do. It uses wget and curl because, dudalibre.com blocks wget, and wget worked nicely for me.
Shorter regex.
Just add this function to your .zshrc / .bashrc, and by typing "shout *URL*" you get a randomly chosen English word that ShoutKey.com uses to short your URL. You may now go to shoutkey.com/*output_word* and get redirected. The URL will be valid for 5 minutes.
(I've never used sed before, so I'll be quite glad if someone could straighten up the sed commands and combine them (perhaps also removing the whitespace). If so, I'll update it right away ;) )
Required curl version >=7.21; using .netrc for authorization
Shorter and made into a function.
Use curl and sed to shorten an URL using goo.gl without any other api
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8 Psychotic Overreactions by Adults at Youth Sporting Events
#4. Cop Pays Kid for Beanball
Throwing brushbacks and beanballs to intimidate batters have a long and dubious history in professional baseball. Major League pitchers have been known to rocket the ball directly into someone's face to settle scores.
And to field test Sammy Sosa's helmets.
While the stakes shouldn't be anywhere near as high in little league games, that didn't prevent one of Pennsylvania's finest from bribing a 10-year-old to peg one of the players on the other team. Police Officer Shawn Patrick Philips, who was on duty at the time, paid the pint-size hurler two dollars to clip a clean-up batter with a fastball. The exchange reportedly went down behind the elementary school bike racks. We are not making this up.
"And put some stank on it!"
Sure enough, the kid beaned his opponent, and the cop forked over the two bucks. Then he got caught.
The jury apparently didn't buy Philip's claims that he was "only joking" and had given the player the $2 for listening to his pitching tips or that the kid was the target of a major undercover sting operation. Philips was convicted of corruption of minors and solicitation to commit simple assault. The pitcher learned a valuable, symbolic lesson about sports and the world of grownups in general.
#3. The Topless Hockey Mom
Ripping on the fans of the opposing team is essentially a sports tradition, and hockey is probably the sport with the most rabidly aggressive players and fanbase in the United States, probably because they know nobody is watching them.
These guys might as well be invisible.
However, one Toronto mom decided it was high time the world took notice. During a match-up of rival pee-wee teams the York Toros and Mississauga Terriers, the crowd of parents, understandably rowdy after being stirred up by the intensity only prepubescent hockey players can bring, had been trading verbal blows all night. Then, in a move that left the league president "aghast," the hockey mom in question lifted her blouse and heroically taunted fans of the opposing team by shaking her breasts.
The unnamed mother was subsequently banned from attending league games for a year, but her kid's team, the York Toros, wound up winning 4-0, presumably because their opponents, the Mississauga Terriers, had accepted a bribe of boobtastic nudity.
#2. The Human Pyramid of Shame
The urge to brag about their children is fairly strong in most parents, regardless of whether or not their little bastards have any unique talents worth praising. Of course, preening sports parents are no different, but bragging on the sidelines can be a dangerous game. When one child's triumph is another's crippling display of failure, the line between earnest celebration and dirty assholery becomes pretty blurry.
"Sure we won, but more importantly you fucking lost."
For example, to celebrate their kids' shutout over the Lacey Bobcats, parents of elementary school players from Yelm, WA formed a human pyramid on the field, presumably in an attempt to form a Voltron of parental douchebaggery. This was only the beginning.
Apparently a parent from the losing football team thought the whole pyramid thing was a slap in the face, so she charged the flesh pyramid and starting beating the shit out of people with her umbrella.
Within seconds of her attack, about 15 others joined in the melee that eventually sent one man to the hospital with a neck injury. Two women, a teenager and one in her 50s, were arrested for assault. It is unknown whether or not the melee took place with both sides forming human battle pyramids, but hopefully they did and hopefully there is video somewhere.
#1. The Case of the Cheerleader and the Hitman
Considering this one has been the subject of not one, but two separate TV movies, you know it's going to be good.
She had to be in one of them.
Hoping to spare her daughter the pain and humiliation of being passed over by her junior high cheerleading squad, Wanda Holloway took aim at her daughter's cheerleading rival. She needed the other girl to drop out of the running, but how? Send her threatening notes? Vandalize her home?
Nah, not good enough. No, she decided the best thing to do would be to arrange for a hitman to kill the girl's mother. Holloway figured a 13-year-old girl would be so rattled over her mom's death that she wouldn't feel like cheerleading.
"Wait, you want me to do what?"
Thankfully, the plan fell through, as often happens with plans made by people too crazy to tie their own shoes. Holloway was convicted of solicitation of capital murder, but after serving six months of her 10-year sentence the judge ordered that she finish the remaining nine and a half years on probation.
Eh, it should be fine. Six months is long enough to cure that kind of crazy, right?
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Barium enema is a special x-ray of the large intestine, which includes the colon and rectum.
Lower gastrointestinal series; Lower GI series
This test may be done in a doctor's office or hospital radiology department. It is done after your colon is completely empty. Your doctor will give you instructions on how to empty your colon.
During the test:
Your bowels need to be completely empty for the exam. If they are not empty, the test may miss a problem in your large intestine.
You will likely be given instructions for cleansing your bowel. This is also called bowel preparation. Follow the instructions exactly. This ensures accurate results.
Your bowels are emptied using an enema or laxatives. For 1 to 3 days before the test, you need to be on a clear liquid diet. Examples of clear liquids are:
When barium enters your colon, you may feel like you need to have a bowel movement. You may also have a feeling of fullness, moderate to severe cramping, and general discomfort. Taking long, deep breaths may help you relax during the procedure.
It is normal for the stools to be white for a few days after this test. Drink extra fluids for 2 to 4 days. Ask your doctor about a laxative if you develop hard stools.
Barium enema is used to:
The barium enema test is used much less often than in the past. Colonoscopy is done more often now.
Barium should fill the colon evenly, showing normal bowel shape and position and no blockages.
Abnormal test results may be a sign of:
There is low radiation exposure. X-rays are monitored so that the smallest amount of radiation is used. Pregnant women and children are more sensitive to x-ray risks.
A rare but serious risk is a hole made in the colon (perforated colon) when the enema tube is inserted.
It is normal for the stools to be white for a few days after this test. You should try to drink extra fluids for 2 to 4 days. Ask your doctor about a laxative if you develop hard stools.
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I'm living in an old apartment, circa 1945. The walls seem to be made of an incredibly hard stone or concrete. Any recommendations on the right drill bit type to use? My standard set doesn't even make a dent.
For drilling stone or concrete you'll want to use a good quality masonry bit, and a good rotary hammer drill.
As Shirlock points out quality is important here, so you don't want to skimp on the tools when drilling stone or concrete. You'll want to look for a carbide tipped masonry bit, as these tend to last a bit longer than the typical masonry bit. You'll also want to make sure the bit is rated to be used in a hammer drill, since a standard bit can easily be destroyed by the hammer action of the drill (causing personal/property damage and/or death).
If you're doing a small job and don't want to spend the money on expensive tools, you should be able to rent what you need from a local home center (Home Depot, Lowes).
A hammer drill is necessary when drilling stone or concrete, since grinding away the material with a standard drill would take far too long. A hammer drill works similar to a normal drill, but with an added mechanism that "hammers" the bit while also spinning it. The idea is that the hammer action will break up material at the bits tip, then the bit will grind up the loose material and carry it away along it's threads (clearing the hole).
To reduce heat on the bit you'll want to drill at a slower speed, and pull the bit out of the hole from time to time to clear the debris. Remember the hammer action can be brutal on the bit, so you'll want to use a quality bit and keep it cool to reduce the possibility of shattering it.
If it is an interior wall, it is made from plaster on top of wood slats. For stone drilling, get what is called a tap-con drill bit. You are also going to want to use a hammer drill to make your holes. If it is stone, this bit will also work on stone or concrete like an exterior wall. Be sure to use a hammer drill.
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Are there any support groups that are for mesothelioma and not lung cancer?
Christina Bach, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C, Oncology Social Worker at Penn Medicine, responds:
Honestly, support groups specifically for mesothelioma are few and far between, and they are often lumped together with lung cancer groups. A good place to start is by contacting the American Cancer Society (1-800-ACS-2345), as they maintain a national database of support groups and supportive services available to patients. The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (MARF) has a few helpful options. One is a discussion forum where you can post questions or concerns and get input from other patients/families. They also offer telephone support groups – with separate groups for caregivers, patients, spouses and adults who have lost a parent. You need to contact the Nurse Practitioner at MARF to join those.
The Association of Cancer Online Resources is a website that hosts email groups, and they have a group for mesothelioma. You need to subscribe to join the list, which will send you emails from the group. These groups generally are made up of patients and caregivers and are not moderated by a healthcare professional. That does not mean they are not helpful – you can often learn a lot from people who have been in your shoes!
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