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True and False Reform
In these days when American bishops seem to have the time to write scolding books informing us how we should be thinking and acting in public life, arguably areas about which people in general know more than their clergy, it is refreshing to discover a newly-translated classic that breathes the air of common sense about the Churchs mission in the world. Earlier this year those who only read English were finally given access to Yves Congars remarkable 1950 book, True and False Reform in the Church. Congar, the single most influential theologian at Vatican II, wrote this text in the years immediately after the Second World War and published it immediately before Pius XIIs sobering attack on the new theology, Humani Generis. No prizes for guessing why it was not immediately translated into English. But it is puzzling that it didnt make it in the years after the Council, when everything else he wrote was translated. Perhaps it seemed to be pass at that point, writing as it did of the need for reform. But now that post-conciliar reform is mostly suppressed, it is as timely as ever.Congar was an academic theologian alright, and sometimes quite dry, but this is not a book to frighten non-specialists away. Mostly, the fact that it speaks to our times as directly and helpfully as it did to a different world 60 years ago means that anyone concerned with the future of the Church will be motivated, even excited, by its open and hopeful tone. Of course we could all throw up our hands in despair and exclaim, Well, we are clearly wasting our time if all our hopes for reform were uttered 60 years ago and ignored then! But Id recommend two different responses. First, attend to the specific proposals Congar makes. And second, be ready to see the patience he called for 60 years ago as coming pretty close to being exhausted.
As a taster, let me offer you Congars approach to the meaning of fidelity. We might expect a discussion of the tension between letter and spirit, something with which we are familiar in debates today about the meaning of Vatican II. But Congar offers us a different pairing, fidelity to the form and to the principle. There is a kind of fidelity, he writes, which includes the possibility of surpassing the forms in which a principle is expressed at the present time. So the real choice is fidelity to the letter or fidelity which includes development. Invoking Augustine in his support, he asks why genuinely good Catholics are frequently accused of novelty and forced to wait for time to prove them right. In an epochal moment, a moment of crisis in the Church, established form can act as a brake or bottleneck, with sometimes tragic consequences. But truth will out, the sap makes the bark expandthere are breakthroughs.Congar is at great pains to distinguish his (and our?) present moment of crisis from the days of Modernism. We are not talking about reforming dogma, he says. What really matters is how to do catechesis, how to preach, and he follows this by a call for improvement in clergy education. And in its turn, this brings us back to our own present epochal situation, and, curiously, to Cardinal Francis Georges latest book, God in Action, so clearly reviewed by Bill Portier here on the Commonweal website. Im not so much concerned with the argument of the book, at least not right here, as with the dedication. I once had a friend who was writing a Ph.D. on 18th century book dedications, and she taught me to take them seriously. The Cardinal dedicates his book to the many Catholic priests who, through prayer and ministry, live with God and interpret his purposes for his people. I confess to some confusion about this dedication. Live with God is surely a hope, actually an eschatological rather than a worldly hope, but its really the notion that the role of priests is to interpret Gods purposes to the people that puzzles me. For one thing, we are all of uslaity and ordained, even bishopsGods people. For another, as Congar taught us so well in a different book, we are all priestly people with the prophetic mission to teach. We are all called to interpret Gods purposes. We are all priests and prophets. And in todays complicated world it just might be that those of us who live more fully in the secular world might have a role in interpreting Gods purposes on behalf of the Church, for the clergy who minister to us. Congars book ends with a postscript written in that turbulent year, 1968. Reading that makes me think he would have accepted with equanimity the possibility that a hierarchical Church can tolerate mutuality and reciprocity in its teaching function.
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Paul Lakeland is the Aloysius P. Kelley, SJ, Professor of Catholic Studies at Fairfield University.
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The Cardinal dedicates his book to the many Catholic priests who, through prayer and ministry, live with God and interpret his purposes for his people. I confess to some confusion about this dedication. Live with God is surely a hope, actually an eschatological rather than a worldly hope, but its really the notion that the role of priests is to interpret Gods purposes to the people that puzzles me. For one thing, we are all of uslaity and ordained, even bishopsGods people. For another, as Congar taught us so well in a different book, we are all priestly people with the prophetic mission to teach.
Down with the institutional Church, eh? Get in line. Your cause is on a roll.
I'm sorry, bnut I think David's glib comment is both snarky and offensive to many Catholics who struggle to practice their faith easch day!Not to mention unintelligent.
I've been interested in Congar's work for quite some time, so I was excited to read this review. I have to admit, though, that Dr. Lakeland's opening line pretty much ruined my appetite to read the rest of the article. Even though I part ways with Dr. Lakeland on questions of priestly mediation w/in the Church, I can see how he could be concerned that Cardinal George's dedication might be read by some readers as implying a one-way relationship between the ordained and lay faithful (i.e., a relationship lacking reciprocity). Nevertheless, I don't think it's fair to describe Cardinal George's recent publication as a "scolding book." Couldn't Commonweal have provided a review of Congar's monograph w/o it devolving into one more article that sets the laity in opposition to the episcopacy? There's a time and a place to criticize bishops, and these days there is plenty to criticize, but I worry about the health of the body when this sort of thing becomes habitual.
Bob, I think the word you're looking for is "snotty."
[...] As a taster, let me offer you Congars approach to the meaning of fidelity. We might expect a discussion of the tension between letter and spirit, something with which we are familiar in debates today about the meaning of Vatican II. But Congar offers us a different pairing, fidelity to the form and to the principle. There is a kind of fidelity, he writes, which includes the possibility of surpassing the forms in which a principle is expressed at the present time. So the real choice is fidelity to the letter or fidelity which includes development. [more] [...]
Living with God is not a hope, it is a reality via the indwelling Holy Spirit by Whom we are transformed daily via our walk with God. Jn 14:25-2725 "These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Lk 11:13how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?" 1 Co 6:19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God,Eph 4:30-32Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.Php 1:6-76 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. And I too am confident in this truth.
Sorry, Ryan, I just call them as I see them. Both Archbishop Chaput's recent book and the two by Cardinal George seem to me to be sadly unaware that good teaching is more often than not a process of dialogue and, especially, that if the teaching is apparently not getting across, the fault is at least as likely to be the teacher's as it is the student's. Most of the current church teaching on sexual ethics is unconvincing. Most of the current church teaching on social and political issues is right on the money but largely ignored. In both cases, I would like to see a bishop tackle the question of why this happens without either blaming the failure on the hearers or operating on the old sermonizer's principle, "Argument weak here, speak louder." My own suggestion, for what it's worth, would be to recast the sexual ethical teaching in terms of the common good rather than "natural law," thereby bringing a new kind of "seamless garment" approach to the whole of our ethics.
The new America has an Editorial on the "new Americanism" about the debt crisis and how we've lost our sense of social responsibility/Several posters indicate they never hear from the pulpit about social responsibility.At weekend Mass last week, our new deacon talked about huis taking over our RCIA and how people would join him more and more wit happreciating JPII's "theology of the Body."I think we are caught in too much Romanism and the bishop as Rome's man.If the voice of the church is to be clarion in the public square, it's got to be seen as credible and not partisan.
I am inclined toward your view, Paul Lakeland. All Laws ever did was drive people to break them, be it local government civil laws or the Mosaic Laws. In fact, that was God's purpose for giving the Mosaic laws, that sin will increase. God did not want to give the peoples of the Exodus what became known as the Mosaic Laws. He wanted them to walk by faith in Him as Abraham did. All who were 19 years or older when they left Egypt perished over the following 40 years, except for Joshua and Caleb, whom by Faith wanted to take the promised land at the very beginning of the Exodus. Even Moses was not allowed to take the remaining people into the promised land, perished in the wilderness because he could not keep the Law that bears his name.The failure of the Mosaic laws, and similarly for all law, is that it sets peoples mind on sin. Life is like riding a bicycle or motorcycle, where one continually looks is where one goes. And laws keep peoples minds on sin continuously. I mean, do we have any laws on the books that say: Be kind and courteous to others, we will have police out in patrol cars looking for acts of kindness, and if they catch you being kind, they will issue you a $ 50 gift certificate for your kind deed. All efforts of people to keep the Mosaic Laws have proved to be a Sisyphean task. The purpose of the Mosaic Law was to cause sin to increase, It was our tutor until Christ came, revealing our need for God to be in our life, and the blood of Jesus, the perfect unblemished Lamb, whose blood is the ultimate covering of all my sins for all time, no further blood sacrifice is required. I am sealed by God through the indwelling Holy Spirit. I am saved, I can not lose my salvation. I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in me will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. I am not lawless. As the book of Hebrews points out, Jesus is not a priest of the order of Levi, but His priesthood is of the superior everlasting priesthood of Melchizedek, and that where there is a change of Priesthood, there is a change of Law. I am not to be judged by the Mosaic Laws, but by the Laws of Jesus Christ. The Mosaic laws are laws people had to keep in their entirety in order to receive all the blessings written in that Covenant. But the Laws of Jesus Christ are laws whereby God keeps me. My joy is complete, and I am already in a daily walk and loving fellowship with God. The Jews tried repeatedly to accuse Jesus of violating the Mosaic Covenant. He assured them that He had not violated the Mosaic covenant and that not one iota of the Mosaic Law will pass away until all is fulfilled.All was fulfilled upon Jesus death on the cross. Having kept the entire Mosaic Law until His death, and taking upon Himself the punishments of breaking the Mosaic Law, on our behalf, Then God Annihilated the Mosaic Covenant in accord with Zec 43Zec 11:7-147 So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock. Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me. Then I said, "I WILL NOT PASTURE YOU. WHAT IS TO DIE, LET IT DIE, AND WHAT IS TO BE ANNIHILATED, LET IT BE ANNiHILATED, AND LET THOSE WHO ARE LEFT EAT ONE ANOTHER'S FLESH" I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD. I said to them, "IF IT IS GOOD IN YOUR SIGHT, GIVE ME MY WAGES; BUT IF NOT, NEVER MIND." So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages. 13 Then the LORD said to me, "THROW IT TO THE POTTER, THAT MAGNIFICENT PRICE AT WHICH I WAS VALUED BY THEM." Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them." So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD. NASUThus God annihilated the Mosaic Covenant upon death of His only begotten son, Jesus. As for me, I am under the New Covenant of Jesus Christ. A Covenant through which God keeps me. Needless to say, I am a very happy man with a great relationship with God, for which I am most grateful, being transformed by the laws of Jesus Christ under the New Covenant we have in Jesus.Also note that Zec: 11: 1-6 prophecies the destruction of Herod's Temple in 70 AD.
Dr. Lakeland: Thank you for responding to my comment. I'll have to read Cardinal George's book more closely, but my first impression wasn't that he was adopting a scolding tone. Cardinal George, though conservative, has always struck me as being quite pastoral. I'd like to hear more about your suggestion of recasting the Church's sexual ethic: have you addressed this topic in any of your works?


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Goodguys Columbus - The Main EventWritten by on September 25, 2006 Contributors: Kevin Lee Goodguys Gives Us 6,000 Reasons to Come to Columbus
Each Goodguys event has its own distinct flavor, from the early season excitement of Del Mar to the kickback attitude at shows like Puyallup and Rhinebeck to the valley of iron in Scottsdale. For many hot rodders and custom car guys--about 6,000 of them to be sort of exact--the big show of the season is in Columbus, Ohio, in July.
The fairground is expansive but spectator-friendly, the indoor and outdoor vendor areas are huge, the swap meet is first class, and even the food is great. But by far, the biggest reason we keep Columbus on our list of "must-go" shows is the outstanding number and excellence of the cars that show up. And Goodguys keeps the show running after hours with more show 'n' shine activity at the host hotel, where the parking lot gets packed with rods by dinnertime and the local streets become a parade of cruisers, with sidewalks packed with local spectators and the air thick with smoke from mysteriously melting rubber.
You know how Rod & Custom feels about traditional rods and customs, so when we're here, we're in '40s, '50s, and '60s heaven. Fans of contemporary street rods also have plenty to look at, as well as the truck guys, the musclecar crowd, and everybody else. You might even find something completely unexpected, such as the world's coolest Studebaker Lark. You never know.
While attending the Nashville show, we noted a movement toward two-door and four-door wagons. We noticed the same trend in Columbus, and we also spotted a huge number of hot-rodded trucks--from early roadster pickups to postwar Ford F-series trucks to weather-beaten (or faux weather-beaten) classics to handcrafted one-of-a-kind customs. As you can see from our sample of photos, they're everywhere.
Enjoy this mini photo album of some of our favorites from Columbus.
Rod & Custom Goodguys Top Ten
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Wilson Payne has owned this '50 Merc for 15 years and just got it together last fall. It's got a 3-inch chop, skirts made from a '55 Chevy, '55 Chevy 210 trim, and '56 DeSoto bumper guards in the grille. The Jim Gilbert interior includes a '59 Chevy dash.Nobody could've missed Jerry Conklin's '51 Fleetline, known around the event as "the yellow Chevy." The paint on this on-the-ground custom is even brighter in real life, tempered by some white scallops. It also features a small-block, off-white interior, Cadillac taillight cones, and, if you look closely, flying eyeball side-pipe plates.Prewar customs as perfect as John St. Germain's '36 Ford roadster are really rare. Extended front and rear fenders, '41 Packard grille, boxed '37 chassis, '37 Packard skirt trim, and '57 Olds dash clock bezels modified for rear exhaust tips are just the beginning of the details on John's ride. The Navarro three-pot intake on the Flathead runs 97s at each end with a Ford 94 in between.This mostly homebuilt steel '29 roadster pickup is the second car built by owner Jeff Eischen, and was just finished this summer. We liked the rear quarter-elliptic springs (made from '48 Ford springs cut in half), race buckets that remind us of sports cars more than bombers, and Wheel Vintique wheels modified with drilled holes. The car has 150 louvers and who knows how many real rivets.Believe it or not, it took Bill Layman 12 years to convince the previous owner to sell this '54 Mercury Monterey hardtop. He finally succeeded, and the nosed and decked custom Merc now sports a 3-inch chop, Frenched headlights, and a big surprise inside in the form of a 331-inch Cadillac engine fed by six Stromberg carburetors. It's a beauty.Alex Test stripped his '64 Ford Galaxie of all the trim parts and pieces, and drenched the rest with House of Kolor Sublime Green paint, which calls attention to the custom sheetmetal work on this clean car. Did you notice that the Galaxie side-panel spears have been extended all the way into the rear quarters? Imaginative details like that take this car to the next level.You can't beat the looks of Dale Renner's track nose '33 roadster, built with all the right traditional ingredients: Flathead, Toploader transmission with a Jeep trans top, quick-change rearend, and a two-tone paint scheme that would make the Pierson Brothers proud. A pair of LED '39 taillights and an owner-built windshield add to the style of this topless hottie.Here's another sanitary, more-than-meets-the-eye custom--Jim Stockton's shoebox convertible, completed a couple of years ago. Jim mixed '50 Ford with Chevy power by adding a ZZ3 350 along with a reliable 700-R4 automatic transmission and a 9-inch Ford rearend. Hood emblems keep it looking deceptively conservative, and Air Ride 'bags hint at a slightly more radical personality.
After seeing Jack Matia's '63 Impala at all the shows, we finally gave him a well-deserved R&C pick. Dave Rieger and the guys at Classic Revivals handled the construction and paint on this Ram Jet 350-powered custom, and just about everybody has figured out that it's a '60 Plymouth top grafted to the body, just like in Steve Stanford's Custom Rodder illustration.There's a ton of traditional East Coast style all over Matt Hayes' '31 Ford five-window coupe. Matt channeled the unchopped body 5 inches over the Brookville chassis, suspended with split wishbones in front and a four-link with coilovers in the rear. Triple Edelbrock two-barrels top the Chevy 350, matched with a TH350 transmission. The white top, firewall, and tire sidewalls set off the custom blue finish.The newest addition to Bob Phelps' Chevy collection, which contains either a cabriolet or roadster from each available year from 1930 to 1939, is this just-completed '33 cabriolet. The body is the original steel, mounted on a polished stainless chassis that has been stretched 9 inches, and beefed up Heidt's independent suspension on both ends. Power comes from an LS6.Bill Taylor showed a lot of imagination by taking a humble little Lark and cooling it up into a Stude rod. He did it with a 330-horse small-block, 4L60E electronic trans, Fatman IFS, an original interior, and 15- and 16-inch American five-spokes. The '60 Studebaker has 9,000 original miles on the odometer. We'll see how long that lasts once this car hits the road.Lobeck's V8 Shop was set up in its customary corner at Columbus. One of the mouth-watering rods on display this year was Barry's copper-colored Model A roadster pickup, fendered with yellow-spoke wheels, an engine-turned dash panel, and handcrafted leather seats.Bob Appleman's '32 Ford pickup is probably nicer than any truck running around in the '60s ever was, with extensively louvered hood sides and tailgate, big 'n' littles, hairpins, a 283, and lots of gold paint.Scotty Gray always has something cool to drive. In Columbus, he had spectators drooling over this burgundy '33 Ford coupe. The original three-window body rests on boxed stock 'rails. The Flathead is dressed up with polished Offy heads and triple carburetors. The interior is genuine "pleather" tuck 'n' roll.Designed by David Brost, built at Steve's Auto Restoration, and owned by Gary Coe, this handcrafted '57 F-100 is just amazing. The body got a 2-inch chop, 1 1/2-inch section, and 1-inch channel. The powerplant is a supercharged Ford SVT 4.6L DOHC Cobra. Suspension includes a Heidt's IFS and four-link. It's unbelievable.
Ed and Bev Kurtzman are the proud owners of this tasty '53 Ford. They removed some chrome by eliminating the door handles, bumper guards, and hood emblems, but kept the rest, and added a little with side pipes and spots. A '53 Flathead is right at home under the hood.This daily-driven '46 Hudson hauler is one of three cool vehicles that Glen Reeves brought to the Nats...We kept coming back to Ed Gonder's brand-new, old-time, channeled '32 Ford pickup, packed with a '57 Olds J2 motor, and dressed up with red tuck 'n' roll on the bench seat and pie crust cheater slicks in back.Every yellow fenderless '34 three-window coupe reminds us of Jim Jacobs' famous Nailhead hot rod from our November 1973 cover, but this is the genuine article, as we could tell from the '37 Ford pickup grille, fat 'n' skinny tires, and four-link suspension (which Pete & Jake's championed 30-plus years ago). The license plate, Jake behind the wheel, and the cop following him were other clues.This seemingly simple '64 Falcon turned out to be not so simple. Merle Eschman kept the hood ornament to help make his 302-powered, five-speed Ford look low-buck, but he added Total Cost Involved A-arms and coils, Grand Am seats minus the headrests, Budniks, and all kinds of details, such as boxed doorjambs and Mercedes silver paint.Scott Morehouse's '51 Olds is a bona fide throwback to '50s sleds. We remember it as Joel Sheipe's custom, modified with '53 Buick headlights, '52 Buick front bumper, '55 Dodge bumpers, and '52 Kaiser rear bumper exhausts. A Camaro subframe, Chevy small-block, and four-speed are other details.Another Jim Jacobs car we love is his yellow phaeton, plastered with magazine pages. Jeff, from Cincinnati, is moving toward that look with the decals and signatures on the firewall of his '32 "tubaroo." We liked the skinny Firestones on painted steelies, custom headlight housings, and--could it be?--Don Garlits' helmet from the '60s?!
Here's a done-right Deuce highboy roadster, owned and shown by Jim and Joan Krejci. The leather interior is complemented by a banjo wheel and engine-turned instrument panel.Curtis Fisher's '54 Studebaker wagon, built in a contemporary style by Randy Segar, started out as a four-door and ended up as a phantom, topped with a Pontiac wagon roof. A 500ci Cadillac engine powers the car, which is equipped with 4-wheel disc brakes, a Mustang II front end, four-link, and bags.Mark Trostle's beautiful '32, black with green interior, was built on a Lobeck chassis using a new Dearborn Deuce body, and features an SVO 351 with Holman-Moody valve covers, a Tremec 5-speed, Dayton-Dunlop vintage racing tires and wheels, and black-face gauges.A combination of scallops and flames accentuate the length of Jeff Gilger's '60 Olds 88, with a slammed stance, orange steelies, a Mexican blanket upholstery to cover the seat, and a For Sale sign in the windshield.Another much-driven, primer-coated hot rod is this '32 Vicky. Al Mayer has owned the Deuce for 20 years. The current Chevy 350 is its fourth motor. Al drives the car anywhere and everywhere and plans on keeping it in primer. "Let the next guy paint it," he said.Butch Fairfield shows off his Street Rodder Top 10 '31 Model, built reminiscent of a car he remembers as a kid in the '50s. This 5-speed sedan is channeled 5 1/2 inches in front and 7 1/2 in back, over kicked-up Deuce rails. The small-block is disguised with Olds Rocket valve covers.Another great wagon. The interior woodwork on Bob Wills; '49 Chevy four-door woodie is as nice as the rest of the car. Mike Mayabb's brush created the perfect exterior woodgrain.Over in the import section, we found this row of nice Anglias. Greg McRoberts' suede '52 came from New Zealand, then Great Britain, before making it to the States. The small-block-powered rod is an Ohio resident now, and gets driven all over.
We love to see Willys built in all kinds of different styles, as long as they never stop building them like this. We didn't get this guys name, but we sure liked the looks of his straight-axle Gasser.We've always liked Paul Brewer's '32 Ford Y-block pickup, built to replicate a truck he loved as a kid, but was never able to own. A copy of an old magazine story on the original is displayed with the tribute truck, and describes how the first one was chopped and channeled decades ago.This fendered '32 three-window has been showing up everywhere this year, and has the traditional look nailed. Built on an Ionia Hot Rod Shop custom chassis, it's powered by a Cadillac engine with triple carburetors. Tim Thompson is the smiling owner.

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9 Normal Things That Look Trippy Under a Microscope
#4. Zinc Oxide
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You have tons of this stuff in your house, even if you don't have actual bottles labeled "zinc oxide" sitting around. It's a common ingredient in everything from breakfast cereal to medicine, from concrete to sunscreen. And despite being fancy enough to have both a "z" and an "x" in its name, zinc oxide is just another plain white powder.
Which is too bad, considering that when you zoom in to the nanoparticle level, zinc oxide looks like this:
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So that's where Everlasting Gobstoppers come from.
Man, it's a real shame that our human eyeballs are so shitty, because we can't think of a single instance where coating a scantily clad beachgoer in mesmerizing purple flowers wouldn't be an improvement.
#3. Polio
Via UMN.edu
Polio is the terrifying virus that ruined countless lives and made work way more difficult for FDR's photographers. With effects ranging from paralysis to death, the polio epidemic had Americans seriously shitting their pants by day and having iron-lung-filled nightmares by night, until Jonas Salk released a vaccine in 1955. It's kind of weird to think that the whole time, we were fighting this:
Awwww! Wook at the wittle pink puffball! We could just hug it all day. This cute little fella is so adorable, we want to adopt it and name it Pauly and buy it a little collar with its new name engraved on the tag. What's that, wittle Pauly? You want to come home and live with us? Well of course you can! What's the harm in that?
#2. Cigarette Paper
You've probably never given much thought to cigarette paper before, and for good reason. After all, it's just paper, right? It's the stuff wrapped inside the paper that's important. Well, actually ...
Via SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / BARCROFT MEDIA
OK, we're calling bullshit on this one. We know damn well that's not cigarette paper -- it's really some painstakingly CGI'd Star Wars movie set or something. We're sure some furry midgets are about to jump out from behind those crystal spires at any moment.
Except that totally is cigarette paper. Those blue crystals are actually an additive that helps keep the cigarette lit, because they release oxygen when burned. But we'll be damned if it doesn't look like Shelob should be hiding out in there somewhere, just biding her time until she can make a tasty hobbit meal out of Frodo -- and probably looking forward to enjoying a nice smoke afterward.
#1. Dust
Dust is also underappreciated on the whole -- for example, dust is vital in the formation of clouds, and thus for the existence of rain. Also ... well, that's mostly it, but that's pretty big, goddammit. But close up, it looks fake as hell.
Via Microcosmos, by Brandon Brill
Yes, before you ask, the color was added after the fact (electron microscopes don't see in color). Still, look at it. Shake out your keyboard and you've just created the ultimate Honey, I Shrunk the Kids obstacle course. But wait, what's that trying to nonchalantly hide out behind some neon pubic hairs toward the top of the frame?
Via Microcosmos, by Brandon Brill
Oh man, ftaghn this.
Oh God, whose idea was this? We have a feeling that tonight in our nightmares, micro-Cthulhu and his little orange friend Spike are going to be chasing our miniature selves through a keyboard labyrinth. And there is no Escape key.
When not being continually saddened by Google Images searches, Evan V. Symon can be found on Facebook.
For more tiny things that are amazing upon closer examination, check out 8 Amazing Works of Art You Need a Microscope to Appreciate and 12 Things You'll Wish You'd Never Seen Under a Microscope.


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In a letter dated 16 October Georg Kreisel asked me the question that follows. He agreed to my idea of posting the question here.
I'd be grateful if you could recommend an exposition of formulae of standard set theory interpreted in suitable segments $L_\alpha$ of $L$. (a) It is commonly said that each set of $L$ is definable by such a formula with symbols for specific ordinals, usually without specifying suitable $L_\alpha$ where the formula is interpreted. (Of course, if a set is defined at all, there is a bound for the $\alpha$ beyond which the definition is stable.) (b) Are there definitions without any additional symbols interpreted in $L$ which define (in $V$) uncountable, let alone, strongly inaccessible ordinals at all?


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Maharaj, democratic South Africa's first cabinet minister of transport—and subject of the internationally acclaimed biography Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa—will assume his new role starting this month.
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Maharaj participated in the Living Democracy: Perspectives from South Africa conference held at Bennington in March 2005. He was a Bennington faculty member from the fall of 2005 through the fall of 2008. In 2008, he received the prestigious Global Award for Outstanding Contribution to Human Rights from Priyadashni Academy in Mumbai, India.
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Does Gmail support return receipt of an email ?
This is not available using the usual web interface.
If you want read receipts you will have to activate POP3 access on your Gmail account and configure an email client that supports reciepts - such as MS Outlook, Outlook Express or Thunderbird.
If you want to stick with using the web interface you can sign up for ReadNotify this is a paid subscription service where by any email you send, you send it through their servers and they provide read receipts. They also provide other information and notifications.
Spypig is free web service to do this but not always reliable.
Since support of read receipt highly depends on the receiving server/client. If the receiving server clients are not able to support it, then sender may never get a receipt. And we can not know before hand that the receiving server client will support this or not. This kind of feature is actually mostly used for the environment where receiving side is using the same server e.g. Microsoft Exchange Server.


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Wet weather in Fayetteville typically sends Arkansas retreating to the Walker Indoor Pavilion for football practices. But Arkansas coach Bret Bielema decided to keep the Razorbacks out in the rain for Tuesday's workout.
Arkansas stayed on its practice fields through the steady rain as it continued the second week of preseason practices. Defensive coordinator Chris Ash said the wet work was a good test for how Arkansas would handle less than ideal conditions.
"It's going to rain at some point in the fall," Ash said. "We've got to get that work. Especially for the offensive guys. Quarterbacks throwing and receivers catching it."
The Razorbacks, who typically work in scorching heat during August practices, welcomed the weather. In fact, defensive tackle DeMarcus Hodge said he "loved it" and enjoyed his best work in the sloppy conditions.
"Honestly, I probably had the best practice," Hodge said. "Just off the cool feeling, just having the rain on my back, on my pads. I felt like I was moving out there."
Defensive line coach Charlie Partridge said there was some sloppy play in the rain as expected. For instance, the defense missed an opportunity to collect a few interceptions and Partridge pointed to the weather.
"It's good for us though," Partridge said. "It's good to have that experience so that our first time in the rain isn't during a game on some Saturday."
Small not concerned
Fullback Kiero Small is experiencing soreness in the same foot that made him miss 11 of Arkansas' 12 games last season. But the senior – who received a medical redshirt to return for 2013 — said he's not concerned about the recent issue.
"It's just a little sore," Small said Monday night. "When you injure something, with every new thing you do it gets a little sore. So it was a little sore.
"Coach (Bielema), myself and the trainers decided it would be smarter just to hold out of the scrimmage and work myself back into it."
Small broke the fifth metatarsal in his right foot last September. He didn't know if last week's soreness came because he was stepped on or planted wrong. But Small insisted he doesn't fear a recurring problem as the preseason continues.
"I'll be fine," Small said. "There's no concern. It's not a big thing. I'll be fine."
No turnovers
Arkansas' offense has done a solid job of protecting the football this preseason, according to the coaching staff. The Razorbacks — who suffered through a rash of mistakes in 2012 — didn't commit a turnover during last Saturday's scrimmage.
But there's another side to the turnover talk.
Ash said Tuesday he's not sure how many turnovers the defense has forced this preseason. It's not enough for his liking, though, as the opener inches closer
"My experience is, we're going to work as diligently as we can at creating takeaways," Ash said. "They usually come in waves. Once you get hot, they come.
"We're getting more and more. Our strip attempts are up at practice. Our interceptions are up at practice. But to have a number, I couldn't tell you."
Extra Points
Arkansas' first-team middle linebacker wasn't on the two-deep depth chart at the position in the spring. But Ash said Austin Jones – who spent much of the spring at the strong side position – is holding down the spot right now. "He just kept making plays, kept making plays and we said, 'Hey, this guy is one of our best linebackers. We need to find a spot for him. We need one of our best players at the middle linebacker position, so that's why we made the move." … Arkansas receivers coach Michael Smith said Monday night incoming freshman Melvinson Hartfield was cleared by the NCAA and was on his way to join the Razorbacks. "I'm excited for the kid," Smith said. "I hate for a kid to have to go through that. You have an opportunity to play major college football and to be sitting at home when everybody else is at camp has got to be hard. But I'm excited for Melvinson. He deserves it. He worked his tail off to get here and I'm excited just to have him here." … First-team safety Rohan Gaines (knee) didn't practice Tuesday, according to Ash. But Ash said he'll rejoin the team in another day or two. "We're just kind of holding him and making sure that he's 100 percent before we get him back out there," Ash said.


text: South Park has been a fun, and entertaining show for me for the past few weeks since I've been watching it. Even though the series has been a favorite of mine for years, I have just started watching the show again. Of course I'm talking about reruns, and some of the first episodes. Drawing South Park characters is always fun no matter what. There is a certain character that I wanted to draw because of an episode I watched a few days ago. This tutorial is going to show you "how to draw Mr. Hankey", step by step. The full name he goes by is "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", and that name in itself is funny. He first appeared on South Park during season one when they ran the ninth episode. This episode is the first time that Kyle started talking to a turd that talked and sang. No on else can see Mr. Hankey except for Kyle. The first time I watched the Christmas Poo episode I was laughing so hard I nearly split my pants. As you can imagine he is going to be an extremely easy character to draw because he is just a piece of turd. As gross as it may seem to do this lesson, he is still one of the funny members of South Park even though we don't get to see him very often. In all I know you will like learning "how to draw Mr. Hankey", step by step. I will be back later with more drawing fun so stay tuned in for more lessons coming your way. Peace out people, and make sure you don't talk to poo.


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Recently I've started a bit more rigorous training schedule. I LOVE to run and that's the main reason I started doing two a days, because even on days I lift I still want to run and love working out twice in one day, but am I doing too much? My body doesn't really feel over trained, but from what I've read there is a certain point of diminishing returns. How do I know if I am running so much it's hurting my training? And is one VO2Max work out a week enough to really make a difference? Here is a typical schedule for my training. My utlitmate running goal is to be able to run and keep a steady pace between 6 min and 6:30 for various lengths of short races (3k, 5k, 6k) and not go very much higher for longer ones such as 10ks. Any advice is appreciated! Thanks!
Monday: Strength Train, Run about 4 mi
Tuesday: Run 4 mi twice
Wednesday: Strength Train, Run about 4 mi
Thursday: VO2Max training, then Run about 4 mi
Friday: Do to hour long brisk walks
Saturday: 2 long runs about 6 or 7 miles each
Sunday is my day off.
Hi Bethany,
I will defer to the experts that are more familiar with formal training plans, but in general, my opinion is that it is positive to structure your workouts for your particular goals and individual improvement. If your focus is speed for shorter distances, then maybe try to work in some intervals, hill routines to build muscles/endurance and eventually push out the miles on the second route for maximum benefits. Doing doubles will also help with stamina and create amazing benefits to keep your energy and metalolism going, but frequently they are not recommended due to the increased risk of injury and possible interferance with the overall LR schedule.
If you are anticipating races, then switch out your schedule, for example: Remember that Thursday is paramount to Saturday and Friday most influences performance on Sunday, so exhange Saturday and Monday for a Sunday event and reverse Tuesday/Thursday for a Saturday event, as a possible suggestion.
Sounds like you are doing great and wishing you all the best.
Usually overtraining is marked by physical symptoms, which may be either pronounced or subtle; such as unusual fatigue, higher resting heart rate, weakened immune system and a tendency to pick up minor illnesses (particularly colds) or difficulty sleeping. If you have none of those, odds are that you aren't overtraining. Also note that at your pace - 6 to 6.5 min/mi - you are approaching elite level. You may want to consider joining a local running club which specializes in training faster runners.
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A local gun shop is shutting their doors for the weekend.
Guns 'N More will be closed for the rest of the weekend.
The owner of the shop, Claudius Walker, says he wants to honor the people who died.
He says he supports 2nd Amendment rights, but sometimes the weapons can get into the wrong hands.
Walker says, other times, guns can save lives.
Walker says the tragedy has deeply saddened everyone at the store.
"the kids didn't have a chance for life," he says, "I just think it's something I need to do and I encourage other gun owners this weekend to do the same, if they feel the same as I do about it."
Walker says he will re-open the store on Monday.


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I would very much like to have a complete list of the types of polynomial functions. I know that theres:
Quadratic : (AX^2 + BX + C)
Cubic : (AX^3 + BX^2 + CX + D)
Quartic : (AX^4 + BX^3 + CX^2 + DX + E)
Quintic : (AX^5 + BX^4 + CX^3 + DX^2 + EX + F)
What are the names of polynomial functions to the further powers? Sexstic? Septic? Octic? I'm not sure, so if someone could enlighten me, then that would be great. Please provide a list that goes at least to the seventh power, but it would be nice if you could go further. Thanks.


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Oftentimes, I want to include code samples in a list, for example:
- Item One
- Item Two, for example:
private bool ItemTwo() { return this.IFeelLucky; }
- Item Three
The problem is that there isn't a good and intuitive way to do this using Markdown. It's doable, but you have to do some formatting black-magic to get it that way, which is just not "nice" to deal with.
Source that produces this:
1. Item One 2. Item Two, for example:

private bool ItemTwo() { return this.IFeelLucky; }
 3. Item Three
I would love to just be able to do it this way:
1. Item One 2. Item Two, for example: private bool Test() { return this.IFeelLucky; } 3. Item Three
Which results in, well, this:
- Item One
Item Two, for example:
private bool Test() { return this.IFeelLucky; }
Item Three
Update: In order to use Markdown, you have to indent a minimum of eight spaces. I still stand my ground that this isn't 100% intuitive - you can indent only a single space to continue a list item (see below) - but at least it's good and easy.
1. List item Item continued 2. Another list item
Results in:
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Item continued
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Stuart Elliott has been the advertising columnist of The New York Times since May 1991, writing the weekday advertising report as well as other news articles and features. He also writes a weekly e-mail newsletter, In Advertising, for The New York Times on the Web and previously produced radio reports and podcasts for the Times on advertising and marketing topics.
Mr. Elliott has covered advertising, marketing and media topics for two decades; in addition to The Times, he has written on those subjects for USA Today, Advertising Age, The Detroit Free Press and The Times-Union in Rochester, N.Y.
Mr. Elliott has freelanced for many publications, including Campaign, Texas Monthly and Working Woman; speaks around the country; moderates panels, and has appeared on television programs like "Nightline," "Biography," "20/20," "The News with Brian Williams" and specials on networks including The History Channel, Showtime and VH1.
Mr. Elliott received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He lives in Manhattan and his hobbies and interests include politics, popular culture, American history and nostalgia, especially old advertising.
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That 60's Show: The Industry and How It Has Changed
The AMC cable television network is considering a series that would explore how Madison Avenue remakes itself to meet the changing needs of clients.May 30, 2006 businessNews
Marketers Are Joining the Varsity
Marketing and media companies are now capitalizing on consumer interest in high school sports and becoming big boosters of them.June 11, 2007 businessNews
Super Bowl Ads of Cartoonish Violence, Perhaps Reflecting Toll of War
The war in Iraq seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year's Super Bowl commercials.February 5, 2007 businessNews
Fake Products and the Movies That Loved Them
Before product placement became such a lucrative business, movie studios tended to place imaginary products on the screen.January 9, 2006 businessNews
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This is the best time of the year for Mets fans. Sure, the Mets haven't won any regular-season games yet, but they haven't lost any, either.
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The Top 5 Changes on Madison Ave. Over the Last 25 Years
Much is different for advertisers, marketers and consumers, but there are similarities that a time traveler might find comforting.
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James Bond will be drinking a new brand of vodka in "Spectre," the coming installment of the Bond thrillers.
December 16, 2014, Tuesday
Unfold, Open, Reveal: Hearst Reimagines Magazine Covers
Hearst Magazines is reimagining its covers with zippers, doors, flaps, fold-outs and more to encourage Madison Avenue to spend more on its print products.
December 15, 2014, Monday
Consolidation Coming in Sunday Magazines
Athlon Media has moved quickly to buy Sunday supplements, as they are called, and will be carrying out sweeping changes in rate bases to paper stocks.
December 12, 2014, Friday
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Subaru integrates its cars into scenes and sponsors online video of the IFC cable show in an example of nontraditional advertising.
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sitting on the toilet this morning i had a dump that created a toilet-bowl sized tsunami that threw a butt-splash at my arse
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the sprinkling of water you get on your butt when you are sitting on the toilet while it is flushing.
Mostly women get a buttslpash while on the toilet if they flush and dont get up fast enough, or if they flush first and sit down too soon.
Men may get a buttsplash from a crash-landed turd.
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9 Ridiculous Cooking Myths You Probably Believe
We don't expect all of our readers to know everything about cooking. At least some of our readers probably aren't expert chefs (though, yes, we assume that most are). It's OK if everyone doesn't know how to properly prepare a blowfish, or how to pair the right wine with the right dinner. You're not a master chef by any means, but you still know a few basic food truths, right?
Well guess what: You're wrong about those, too.
#9. Bread Gets Stale Because It Loses Its Moisture
The sandwich is, without question, the best thing ever discovered by man (suck it, penicillin!), and bread is the most dedicated soldier in the sandwich's army. Bread makes it possible for loose meats and stray condiments to transcend their differences, to come together and celebrate their tastiness in an organized and mutually beneficial fashion. It brings order to your fridge; without the bread's stern but fair confines, what would keep your deli meats in line? Or your peanut butter and jelly? You'd have to just eat a spoonful of peanut butter and then desperately chase it with a shot of jelly. You'd be pounding fistfuls of various meats into your maw and chugging Grey Poupon just to feel something. Bread fixes all that and keeps your food safe and easily transportable. It's like an edible envelope that mails food letters straight to your mouth.
Time for FedEx overnight.
That's why coming home to a loaf of stale bread is absolutely the single worst thing in life (suck it, AIDS!). You've got your meats, your cheeses, your oils and vinegars, but the bread is hard and brittle and utterly incapable of inspiring order in anything. It's dry. You must not have sealed the bag, or maybe you left the bread out on the counter in the sun, thereby robbing it of all of its sweet, precious moisture. Surely that's what happened, right?
The Reality:
Wrong. When your loaf becomes stale, it's not because it's dried out; the opposite is actually true. When bread gets too much moisture, the starches in the bread start to crystallize, making the bread tough and crumbly. Maybe you know some people who store bread in their refrigerator to prevent it from going stale. Those people are not your friends. Low temperatures actually help to speed up the crystallization process, like baguette Viagra.
It's too late for this loaf. Just look away now. Look away.
#8. Lobsters Scream When Boiled
OK, you can't make a sandwich because all of your bread is stale, so you've decided to make a nice lobster (often called "the sandwich of the sea") instead. There are so many ways to cook a lobster, but because you're still furious that the universe robbed you of your bread, you need to take your anger out on something. You've been told your whole life that lobsters scream when you boil them, so that's what you'll do. You need to boil a small sea creature alive just to hear it scream. That's you. (In this hypothetical, you are a sociopath.)
Be honest. Half of you are cackling right now.
The Reality:
Except it isn't screaming. That sound you hear is actually steam escaping the lobster's shell. When you toss a lobster into a pot of boiling water, steam builds up in the recesses of its shell and it has nowhere to go but out, much like a tea kettle. A delicious, expensive tea kettle.
Not only is it not screaming, your lobster isn't even all that pissed off at you, because its nervous system isn't very complex, so it's feeling little to no pain. So now you can't get a sandwich AND you can't even satisfy yourself with the tortured screams of a defenseless creature. What a sad day for you (you lunatic).
Now this is just a useless pot of untortured meat.
#7. Searing Meat Seals in Moisture
Sometimes you just have to take a look at your life and say, "Steak, steak steak steak, steak, it's time for steak, steak steak, it's steak time." You've got a big steak and an even bigger appetite. But you don't want to just broil the steak or eat it raw. That sonofabitching steak has been marinating for 48 hours; you need to preserve those juices, you want to be able to jab a straw into that steak and drink those juices straight up. And how do you do that? Well, because you're cultured, you know that searing is the best way to preserve juices, a tip you learned in one of Auguste Escoffier's cookbooks. Escoffier was one of the most famous chefs of all time (once called "the king of chefs and the chef of kings"), and he swore by searing. His cookbook is still used today, but not as a cookbook -- as a damned textbook in the school of cooking. He must know a thing or two, so if he says searing preserves juices, you are going to fire up the grill and slap the meat right down on it as hard as you motherfucking can. Those juices will be yours.
Somebody should bottle that shit into a soda.
Or maybe you can't cook at all. Maybe you went out to a restaurant to have someone else sear something for you, a nice tuna or swordfish, or perhaps some seared chicken nuggets, if the restaurant is particularly fancy. You don't care what you eat, as long as it's juicy, and that means you need some searing going on.
The Reality:
Not by a long shot. Searing meat doesn't do a goddamn thing to keep juices inside. When you sear your steak, you're actually creating a tougher crust on the outside of the cut, which just makes the inside seem juicier by comparison. That great chef Auguste Escoffier whose work is still used as a reference today? He's not just wrong, he's dead wrong. (Also? Dead.)
"I'll haunt your food! French toast? More like French ghost! I'm so lonely."
Meanwhile, the totally alive renowned chef and food scientist (?) Alton Brown did an experiment testing the myth, and he found that searing meat causes it to lose more moisture than meat that hasn't been seared. So the next time you want your steak to be juicy, don't get rough with it. Show it some love and cook it ever so gently.
Alton Brown, serious scientist.
#6. Alcohol Completely Evaporates When Cooked in Food
Penne with vodka sauce. Chicken Marsala. Rum cake. They're all delicious and they're all made even more exciting thanks to their loose associations with alcohol. Sure, you'll never get drunk while eating something that has vodka sauce on it, because all of the actual alcohol gets cooked off, but you still appreciate that, at some point, alcohol was involved, even though it's gone now.
Now all we need is a Coca-Cola cake.
It is gone, right? Surely the alcohol has been cooked off or evaporated away or ... something. We need an answer on this, people, we let children eat penne with vodka. We're not feeding our children alcohol noodles, are we?
The Reality:
Yep! Depending on the method of cooking, the heat and the time the food is left sitting, up to 85 percent of the alcohol can remain. Even if the alcohol is put into boiling water, it can still retain its intoxicating qualities. For alcohol to completely cook out of food, it needs to be cooked for upward of three hours. Go ahead and look online and through every cookbook available; you will not find a single recipe for vodka sauce, Marsala wine sauce or rum cake that suggests you cook for three freaking hours. Unless you cook your beer-battered onion rings for three cool hours, you'll be ever so slightly on your way to a nice buzz.
Warning: Whiskey-battered cheese ball vomit is caustic enough to melt linoleum.
If you want an alcohol-free pasta dinner for 7 o'clock, that's totally fine. Just make sure you start cooking at 4.
#5. Cooking in a Microwave Destroys Nutrients
You're hungry as all hell, but still a little bit hungover from last night's penne, so you're just not feeling up to cooking. You decide that you're going to pop some leftovers into the microwave. After you press the "Start" button, you remember something you've heard a million times: Cooking your food in a microwave destroys all the precious nutrients that that food has. So, now you're going to lose all the vitamins and minerals in your leftover lobster sandwich and pizza rolls thanks to that goddamn nuclear box, right?
"Time to turn this into cardboard!"
The Reality:
Wrong. Cooking in a microwave doesn't start a war on nutrients any more than cooking on the stovetop or in your oven does. In fact, microwave cooking helps to preserve nutrients more than other methods of cooking.
Because microwave cooking often consists of less heat and shorter cooking times than more conventional cooking methods, it actually does the least amount of damage when it comes to nutrients.
Above: The most damage.
So, while cooking in your microwave probably won't cook everything in the way that you want it, it will keep those Hot Pockets nice and, uh ... healthy.


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What tools and services are available for monitoring user interaction in a running mobile (iOS) app? Is there a way to monitor users taps, time spent in between taps etc?
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Since I cannot find a great solution, here is one solution:
These applications are great for the above solution
For the iPhone there are some apps to record the screen:
or you could purchase these: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/review-project-or-record-your-phones-screen-with-project-a-phone-2008113/
I'm currently experimenting with Mixpanel for browser based mobile apps (js support is req'ed aka "smartphones"); they also have native controls.
You can initiate events with additional app-defined properties: For example UI element X clicked Y = ms after page was displayed in browser. This way you can get more data about what users are doing in your app beyond just basic click tracking.
If they are web-based apps I'm sure you could rig up Google website optimizer for certain kinds of testing. http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer
However, I feel like quantitative information such as number of taps and delays would not be as valuable as other information obtained from directly observing users and interviewing participants after each experiment.
VNC is my go to application for monitoring the screen of almost anything. For whatever platform you are using, search for a VNC server supporting your operating system. Then look for a VNC client for whatever platform you are using to monitor your user (Mac, PC, Linux). You can then use whatever screen recording tool you like to record the screen of the system being used to monitor the user. This minimizes the amount of resources and access you need to the users machine.
I've seen eye trackers from Tobii and SMI work with mobile phones first-hand.
You could try an analytics site such as Bango which would highlight Average Session length, average sessions per day and unique users on Mobile Apps with real time analysis.


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Flavored edible fingerpaint for $12.99 + free shipping
One of our favorite activities as a child is still fun for adults, fingerpainting! Enjoy a playful pastime with these yummy fingerpaints. Create a mural or just a small, simple design anywhere on the body using these edible body paints.
Includes 4 paints: strawberry, blueberry, pineapple and pina colada. Fun gift idea for Valentine's Day.
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Sounds like fun for a rainy afternoon.
Even if you're a construction worker on a lunch break.
I wonder if it is Kosher...


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I have a SQL Server table pairing zipcodes and lat/long geometry, such as below
ID ZIP5 geom
1 356HH 0xE610000001044E00....FFFFFFFF0000000003ID
2 35677 0xE6100000010404000000068....000003
The problem I'm having is that I cannot seem to convert from one type to the other due to the ZIP5 field having characters.
What I have tried is an approach wherein I pull only records that are fully integer-friendly:
CONVERT(int, [ZIP5]) AS zip,
CONVERT(varchar(max), geom) AS coordinates
) AS t1
zip >= 85000 AND
zip < 86000
I assumed that since the subquery returned an
INT type, that there would be absolutely no problem doing normal comparison operators in the outer
WHERE. I get the following error when executing this query:
Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Conversion failed when converting the nvarchar value '356HH' to data type int.
Omitting the outer
WHERE, I get a full result set with 100% integers in the ZIP5 column. Using the outer
WHERE, it seems to look past the previous
CONVERT and fail on conversion.
As a few extra notes:
- The nature of this query is OK with not getting the rows that have letters.
- It would be perfectly OK as well for the HH (or any other double char pair) to be replaced with numerical zeroes (tried
STUFFto no avail, however)
- I've tried TRY/CATCH but it does not appear to work when within a
WHEREstatement -- when more broadly catching around the entire query, the try/catch will end up returning an empty set.
What approach would be the best to address without making a temp table--table variable?
Thanks for your time!


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The vsarTreasureMap team give us a quick demonstration of the new ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2 after completing two out of three sprints. The intention is to "show what we have" after Sprint 11 (May) and to allow you to submit candid feedback for the team to consider.
This solution developed as part of the ALM Rangers readiness solution family, by the phenomenal team that was distributed around the planet (North America, Europe and Africa).
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Bill Bailey pointed me to the 360Cities site, and I have been looking at it ever since.
One of the photographers on the site is a guy called Jook Leung. He does these amazing night time panoramas, that do not appear to be HDR. Or if they are, he somehow manages to get people in motion in them without much apparent ghosting or even much blurring. He has one of the Las Vegas strip that he took from a moving convertible.
I would just like to know how he does this. I suppose it could be very high ISO and some powerful noise reduction and single-image HDR from RAW images. Or it could be that he oh-so-carefully blends his images manually.
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WINTERSVILLE - Wintersville Police Officer Art Fowler has spent a decade educating area children how to resist drug and violence.
Fowler, the village's D.A.R.E officer, was recognized for his service during a banquet at the Columbus Zoo.
"We want to commend you for your award and recognition," Mayor Bob Gale said during Thursday's council meeting. "Thank you for your longevity and for your assistance in making the local D.A.R.E. program what it is today."
Village Administrator Walt Ziemba again updated council on Phases 1 and 2 of the waste water treatment plant.
"We recently had a pre-construction meeting on Nov. 14," he explained. "The construction trailer for Phase 1 will move in on Dec. 3 and by then we will have a plan on how they will proceed. There will be a lot of heavy equipment going in and out of the area and we will ask residents to park off the street during those times."
Ziemba said that the hours of operation for the work on Phase 1 will be from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
"Phase 1 construction will last about 15 months," he noted.
"We have submitted an application for low-interest loan through DEFA for Phase 2," he said. "The full application will be submitted after the first of the year."
He also offered a fact sheet regarding the village snow and ice control.
"Wintersville maintains 22.18 miles of village streets," he said. "We have four trucks to plow and salt their respective routes. Three two-and-a-half ton dump trucks and a one-ton dump truck comprise our fleet. My public works superintendent also has a pick-up with plow to assist in heavy snows in cul-de-sacs and intersections."
The village used 852 tons of salt in the 2011-2012 winter season compared to 1,427 tons in the 2010-2011 winter season and 1,529 tons in the 2009-2010 winter seasons. The salt price for 2012-2013 will be $58.45 per ton, Ziemba said.
"The typical cost for an average snow event, to plow and treat, costs approximately $35 per lane mile," he stated. "Higher snowfall amounts would increase this cost, as would overtime hours."
In other matters:
Council approved its annual funding for the Ray Laman Christmas party.
Gale announced that full-time village employees who began working before Jan. 1 and remain past Dec. 1 will receive a one-time only $500 bonus; permanent part-time employees will receive a one-time only $250 bonus; and part-time employees who began working with the village after Jan. 1 will receive a one-time only $100 bonus.
Council announced that the village offices will be closed Thursday and Nov. 23 in observance of Thanksgiving. Thursday's garbage pick-up will be collected Wednesday and Friday's pick-up will not be affected.
Council approved an agreement with Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District. The village will pay $5,000 a year for membership.
The next council meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 6.


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Kevin Owen attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in 1978 as a French hornist, winning the Outstanding Orchestral Player Award, and again in 1979 as a conductor, winning the Outstanding Contribution to the Program Award. He earned his B.M. from Boston University in 1983, where he was winner of the Dean's Scholar and Outstanding Brass Player Awards. He also won the Concerto-Aria and Boston Pops Solo competitions, performing with the Boston Pops during Commencement Weekend in 1983.
While attending Boston University in the early 80s, Owen joined the Boston Wind Quintet, which went on to win the top prize at the Young Performers of Connecticut Chamber Music Competition, along with the Coleman, Fischoff, Carmel and Shoreline Arts Alliance Chamber Music Competitions, all within one year. They gave their Carnegie Recital Hall debut in the fall of 1985. In 1986, Owen again won the Shoreline Arts Alliance Chamber Music Competition, this time with the Epic Brass, going on to give another Carnegie Recital Hall debut. For nineteen years, he has been a member of the Beacon Brass Quintet, the first brass ensemble ever to win the prestigious Concert Artists Guild Award, and he has toured nationally and internationally with the Empire Brass, the Boston Chamber Music Society and the Epic Brass. An active French hornist and educator, Owen is currently principal horn of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera (BLO), the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Boston Philharmonic orchestras. He has also been a member of the New Haven and Portland Symphony Orchestras.
For twenty years, Owen has been a regular substitute with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and the Boston Pops, and he has played with the Vienna and St. Petersburg philharmonic orchestras, as well as the Syracuse and Springfield symphony orchestras, among others. Additionally, many orchestras have asked Owen to perform as a soloist, including the Boston Pops, the Rhode Island, New Haven and Portland symphonies, the Boston Philharmonic, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Boston. He has also appeared with the rock bands Guster and My Morning Jacket on the David Letterman and Conan O'Brien television shows.
Owen has taught French horn at Rhode Island College and The Boston Conservatory, as well as chamber music at Brown University. In the summer of 2010, he instructed young French hornists at Boston Universities' Tanglewood Institute. For two years, he has been working with the music department of Dracut High School in Dracut (Massachusetts) under a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) and the BSO.
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This is my first all-grain batch and unfortunately it has developed some kind of growth. It didn't smell like death, actually smelled pretty good, and the samples I have been taking have all tasted good, so I went ahead and bottled it. Just curious what it could be and if I will be looking at a loss with this one.
White Film on Beer in Carboy
Don't worry - your beer is probably fine!
If not, you just have rogue colonies of yeast on your beer. They may persist until you rack the beer, but should settle upon racking, and will not affect the smell, taste, or appearance of your final carbonated beer.
If the beer does smell/taste sour, then unfortunately, your beer has become infected. You'll probably have to scrap the batch. Scrub all equipment thoroughly with cleaner, and sanitize carefully before brewing again. If you ferment in a plastic bucket, ensure there are no scratches in the plastic, as they may harbor bugs. If there are scratches, replace the vessel.
If it smells good, and tastes good it may not be an infection.
However, that looks like a little mold of some sort. Not the kind that will kill you or make you blind. Best advice is to drink the beer before the infection takes over.
Don't panic. Taste the beer. If it tastes like beer, it's probably ok. If it doesn't taste like beer, but not bad, you can do a couple of things. ONE: do nothing, bottle it, and wait to see how it matures. TWO: drop 2-3 campden tablets to sterilize the beer, then prime and bottle. THREE: Pasteurize, then add a little more malt and repitch with some fresh yeast, continue as if it were a new batch. Think about what you do and enjoy your brews. Cheers.
That doesn't look like cause for alarm to me. Give it another whiff if they start growing hairs or turn black/green. I don't think you're gonna take a loss.
The beer has great color otherwise, btw.
It looks like mold to me. I would throw it out, unfortunately.


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Pithy instructions for M's birthday blanket
I'm sorry I wasn't able to get to this sooner, but finally, I have time to write start on "pithy instructions" (as Elizabeth Zimmerman used to say) for the afghan I showed a while back, Margery's birthday blanket. Be forewarned, we didn't plan this blanket as something to be written out and published. In a greatly freeing exercise, Adina, Carla and I each poured our creative hearts into something for Margery without giving a thought to how difficult it might be to describe or reproduce. It was all about improvising as we went along. With that in mind, I can give you clues to how it all happened, but I don't have an exact materials list or precise instructions of any kind.
First, I pick the pallette of Ultra Alpaca with Margery's love of African textiles in mind:
…pitch black…
Each of us was aiming for a strip 16″ wide and 60″ long.
Adina used: brown rice, black, tiger's eye mix and woodland mix for her collage of mitered squares. I used woodland mix, white, mustard, and black, and when the black ran out, charcoal mix for my textured stripes and blocks. Carla kept it simple with black, tiger's eye mix and brown rice in her homage to Marianne Isager's, "Sierra Leone" sweater (more about that later.)
Tomorrow I will attempt to explain the thought process behind the knitting and design the center section, knit by yours truly.
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Your directions may be 'pithy', but I just like the chance to see the blanket again. It's the combo of colors and the various stripes that pull it together and yet set off each section at the same time. The texture is like a secret bonus. This just shows what a little basic creativity (and boredom) can come up with.May 17, 2008
Wow, what a great blanket in a terrific fiber. Ulta Alpaca and Ultra Alpaca Light are my new yarn loves. They have it all…great texture, fantastic stitch definition, just the right amount of twist so that the yarn doesn't do the annoying split thing, colors to die for…My daughter and I bought several colors each to knit Baby Surprise Jackets for her 5th (not a typo) son. Neither of us had knit a BSJ before so we had a knit-along via phone/email. It was a lot of fun and the yarns were great to knit with. The colors were great nontypical baby colors…EZ would have loved the results. I also knit Sjartje's Bootees to match. Several of the knitters I work with admired, touched, bought. I tell you, this stuff is addictive.May 20, 2008


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I work for an e-commerce site that has lately been shedding its workforce. I was hired ten months ago as a UI Developer. At that time we had three other developers. One was the technical lead who had been with the company for 10 years. The other two were server-side developers who had been there for 10 and 3.5 years respectively.
In ten months, the technical lead left for a better position, one developer was laid off, and the other very recently left. So, I am now the only developer on staff. We have one DBA and one network administrator.
They are currently looking to hire another developer but are not willing to pay enough to hire a senior person. I consider myself a junior developer with two years of experience. I have argued that we need to hire at least one senior developer and another junior developer if we're going to keep our current site operational (not to mention develop new features)...even if that means laying off staff in other departments.
Right now we get 6.5 million pageviews per month, and I feel like 3.2 million pageviews per developer must be incredibly abnormal.
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postgresql 9.0 streaming replication + hot standby is running. Now i need to add one more database to current cluster. What is the best way of doing this? I have a backup file about 20GB. should i restore to that cluster? can standby server have all the data?
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Yes, you can restore the backupfile to your hot-standby. But there are some detail you should notice. The following are steps I suggest
those steps will have an impact on performace, so take care.
Hz.Root, your question has many open ends but I will try to answer.
Just create a new database in master server and populate it.
Yes. To be precise, you restore it to the database, not to the cluster.
Standby server MUST have all the data - that is it's purpose. Every database, and every other object that is in primary PostgreSQL cluster, will be replicated to secondary server.


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When taking a picture with old fashioned film what sets the resolution of the picture? Is it the wavelength, or the chemical makeup of the film?
Both the diffraction limit and the grain size could affect the resolution limit of analog pictures. Let's see how they compare.
Diffraction limit The Abbe diffraction limit states that the size of the spot is $d=\lambda f\#$. The $f$-number will depend widely for different cameras and illumination settings. If, for example, you use $f/10$, this gives about 5μm for green light. See Edgar Bonet's comment below for more details on different lenses.
Grain size From this document, it seems that the mean grain size can go from 500 nm up to 30 microns. It depends on the film and the amount of development. More details can be found in this article
In short, both the diffraction circle and the grain size vary from a fraction of a micron to a few microns. The resolution will be determined by the both of them.
You can also check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_photography. There's some further info on this topic.
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When viewing cars that are driving along side of us, sometimes their wheels appear to be turning backwards even though they are traveling in the same direction as our car. Why do they look that way?
The issue appears to be rather complex, so I do not aim at providing an exhaustive answer.
At a toy model level it is reasonable to model the eye as a "camera". Specifically, let us assume that a human eye "samples" at a maximum frequency of $\nu$, so that we may make use of the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. Basically, given an instantaneous angular velocity of $\omega$, if the wheel has $n$ spacings, then the "highest frequency" component is $n\omega\over{2\pi}$ (i.e., in a full rotation, there are $n$ wheel bars passing at a given angle). Therefore, writing $\omega = {v\over r}$ with $v$ being the car speed and $r$ the wheel radius (here I am assuming pure rolling of the wheel), when $$ v > {{\pi\nu r}\over{n} } $$ we may assume that some kind of aliasing took place, i.e., I guess you would be unable to reconstruct correctly the wheel motion.
So assuming that a typical wheel has 10 bars and a radius of about 0.3 meters and your eye samples at ~30 Hz (typical frame rate of most first person shooter videogames, so it may be used as an upper limit since there one has complete illusion of movement), a rule of thumb calculation yields about 30 meters/second as a reasonable threshold speed for aliasing phenomena.


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The projected Social Security benefits for my spouse and me differ significantly due to our respective earnings, with mine being higher.
Let's say she claims a benefit at age 62 based on her earnings record and I work until my full retirement age of 66. At that point, will her benefit based on my earnings (once I opt for benefits) be discounted to reflect her previously opting for an early benefit?
Scott Smith
With Social Security retirement benefits, the decision to start collecting before full retirement age brings a permanent reduction in the benefit a person receives versus if he or she had waited to begin. That includes cases in which someone starts out with a benefit based only on his or her own work record and later becomes eligible for a spousal benefit as well.
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If you have earned a lot more than your wife over the years, her switch from her earned benefit to a spousal benefit might bring an increase in her Social Security checks. But the amount would be smaller than if she waited until her full retirement age to collect at all.
As an example, consider a wife born between 1943 and 1954 who doesn't qualify for a benefit based on her work history. At her full retirement age of 66, her spousal benefit would be half of her husband's benefit at his full retirement age. If she starts to collect at her age 62, her spousal benefit would be 35% of his full benefit.
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My wife and I are both full retirement age (66). We are both working full time and plan to continue to work for the foreseeable future. My wife has a high-deductible health plan and a health savings account (HSA) that she likes very much.
I filed for Social Security and suspended payments, so my wife can apply for spousal benefits under my account. But we were told by Social Security that she must sign up for Medicare in order to receive the spousal benefit. That wouldn't be a problem—except that Medicare doesn't permit having an HSA and being on Medicare.
So, in order for my wife to receive spousal benefits, she has to change or drop her HSA insurance and sign up for Medicare. Is that correct?
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Yes, your wife would need to forgo contributing to the HSA in order to begin collecting Social Security.
"By law, Social Security benefits and Medicare Part A are linked together," explains Kia Green Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Social Security Administration. "If a person is entitled to Social Security benefits and meets the Medicare requirements, they are entitled to Medicare Part A," which covers hospital care and is usually free. It isn't possible to take Social Security and say no to Medicare.
But individuals who are covered by Medicare can't contribute to an HSA, because those accounts are available only to people who have high-deductible health plans. (People with HSAs can use pretax dollars to pay unreimbursed medical expenses and can carry over unused sums to future years.)
This month, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case that sought to sever that link between Social Security and Medicare, so that a person could receive Social Security but opt out of Medicare.
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I'm 63 and work full time. My wife is 66 and has applied for Social Security.
Being under 66, if I apply on my record I get the big penalty because I make way more than the income limits for those under 66. Do the limits on income apply to those under 66 who receive spousal Social Security and are still working?
Ron Evans
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The rules that limit Social Security benefits paid to recipients who are under full retirement age and still working indeed apply the same to spousal and earned benefits. Moreover, Ms. Anderson of Social Security notes, when you apply for benefits before full retirement age, you are considered to be applying for both earned and spousal benefits; it is only at your full retirement age and older that you have the option to apply solely for spousal benefits.
If you are under full retirement age for all of 2013, Social Security deducts $1 from your benefits for every $2 you earn above the annual limit, which is $15,120. There is a lesser reduction in the year you reach full retirement age, and it applies only to earnings before the month you reach that age. Note that those withheld payments aren't "lost." As the Social Security website explains it, "after you reach full retirement age we recalculate your benefit amount to leave out the months when we reduced or withheld benefits due to your excess earnings."
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There are four cards in a hat. Three cards have 0 on one side and 1 on the other, while the fourth card has a 0 on both sides. If I observe that one side of a card I have chosen at random has a 0 on it, what is the probability of the card I have chosen being the one with 0 on both sides?
I think the answer's $\frac{2}{5}$ since we're accounting for sides only. We have five sides with a 0, and the two sided card has two of those 0s. Am I making a mistake?


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