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Rockets Hit Hezbollah Strongholds in Beirut
BEIRUT—Violence linked to the war in Syria crept closer to the Lebanese capital, as rockets struck a Beirut suburb dominated by Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
The Sunday morning rocket attacks, launched from within Lebanon, came a day after Hezbollah's leader issued his strongest declaration yet of the group's support for the embattled Syrian regime.
The attacks on the southern fringes of Beirut, which didn't claim any lives, were the first such strikes near the capital in the more than two years of a civil war in Syria that has sent artillery into Lebanese border areas and embroiled local factions in fighting in the north of Lebanon.
Fighting in the northern city of Tripoli between Lebanese Sunnis, who back Syrian rebels, and Lebanese Alawites, from the same sect as Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, has killed 30 people and injured more than 200 in the past eight days, a Lebanese security official said. It has been the fiercest and longest bout there between the longtime rivals in many years.
The weekend of worsening violence, Lebanese leaders said, shows how Syria's war has degenerated into an ideological battle between sects that has spanned the border between the two countries.
The hardening of sectarian lines in Syria and across the region has come to define the battle between the Shiite-linked, Alawite-led Syrian regime and the Sunni-led rebel insurgency, and has damped prospects for a peaceful political resolution to the conflict.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, whose fighters are backing Syrian government troops, on Saturday called Syria a new front in the Shiite party's war against Israel and the West. He also criticized the Lebanese government—in which his party is a dominant force—for being defenseless in the face of violence in the country and on its borders.
In his first explicit admission of Hezbollah's role in Syria, Mr. Nasrallah framed the fight as necessary for the survival of the alliance between Hezbollah, the Syrian regime, and regional Shiite superpower Iran.
"Syria is the backbone of the resistance," Mr. Nasrallah, referring to his party, said in a televised speech on Saturday. "The resistance cannot sit idly by, arms crossed, as its back is exposed or its support broken," he said, mocking Lebanon as "a state of sects and a state of regions."
In Damascus, supporters of President Assad cheered Mr. Nasrallah's comments, seeing them as the most direct pledge by the Hezbollah chief to defend and protect the Syrian president, his longtime ally. Newspaper front pages carried headlines from the speech.
The Syrian state-owned Tishreen newspaper on Sunday carried a bold front-page headline above a photograph of Mr. Nasrallah delivering his speech the previous day.
Meanwhile, Syrian opposition pages on Facebook FB -0.85 % and other social-media websites were awash with inflammatory comments about Mr. Nasrallah, Hezbollah and Shiites.
Pro-regime pages on the same websites praised Mr. Nasrallah and the foresight of the Syrian regime in nurturing Hezbollah for years in coordination with their mutual ally Iran. For Assad loyalists, Damascus's bet on Hezbollah is paying off now, as the regime is fighting for its survival.
An undated black-and-white photograph showing the Syrian regime's founder, the late Hafez al-Assad, seated on the floor in a meeting with Iran's current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was posted on many of these pages.
"Our enemies will kneel at your feet," read a caption next to a photograph of Mr. Nasrallah posted on a pro-regime Facebook page titled "Syrian Truth."
Damascus agreed "in principle" on Sunday to take part in an international conference in June in Geneva, led by Russia and the U.S., that aims to bring members of the Syrian regime together with the opposition. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, speaking in Baghdad, said the government was ready to participate in the talks, but that no world power has the right to "decide Syria's future on behalf of the Syrian people."
"In all good faith, we think the international conference presents a suitable opportunity for a political solution for the crisis in Syria," Mr. Moallem said.
In Lebanon, four Syrian workers were injured Sunday morning when a rocket slammed into an open-air car showroom in a southern suburb of Beirut that is a Hezbollah stronghold. The rocket was one of three launched early that morning from an uninhabited area in the mountains east of Beirut, security officials at the scene said.
A second rocket hit a house in the Chiyah neighborhood, a short distance away, but didn't explode and no one at the home was injured, neighbors and security officials said. A third rocket also didn't explode; it wasn't clear where that rocket had struck.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Security officials at the scene said it was likely linked to local tensions over the war in Syria. They said a range of actors could be responsible, including local Lebanese or Palestinian factions allied with the Syrian rebels.
Lebanon's state news agency said the rockets were 107-millimeter Grad rockets, a type of small rocket Lebanese officials said have been fired before from south Lebanon into Israel.
Lebanese officials sought to play down tensions after the strikes. "We are living in an unacceptable atmosphere, and hope that the events in Syria don't occur in Lebanon and more levelheaded minds prevail," Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told reporters at the scene. "Lebanon cannot handle this," he said.
Syrian dissidents and U.S. officials say Iran and Hezbollah have guided the Syrian government in surveillance, and later, counterinsurgency strategies, since the early months of the uprising in 2011. Hezbollah fighters joined the battle in Syria in earnest earlier this year, to defend Shiite-majority Syrian towns along the Lebanese border and to protect a Shiite shrine in Damascus.
The Hezbollah fighters have been locked in battle alongside Syrian troops for a week in the town of Qusayr, about 10 kilometers, or 6 miles, from the border with Lebanon. The border area around the town, a rebel stronghold, is a strategic land link for Hezbollah in Lebanon with its ally Iran, and a supply route between Hezbollah and the Syrian regime.
Speaking Saturday on the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000, Mr. Nasrallah conceded that Hezbollah had become involved in Syria "in the last few months" to defend border towns against what he called Sunni extremists backed by Israel and the West. He said so many of the party's fighters have volunteered to join the battle, he has had to turn some away.
"Brother and sisters: If Syria falls into the hands of the U.S., Israel, takfiri [extremists], and the tools of America in the region that call themselves regional states," he said, "the resistance will be besieged and Israel will enter Lebanon."
The U.S., which supports the Syrian opposition, has warned of the risks of more spillover of the crisis into Lebanon. President Barack Obama has expressed concern to Lebanese President Michel Suleiman over Hezbollah's role in Syria. Mr. Suleiman, in turn, cautioned Hezbollah on Friday against acting against the interests of national security.
Mr. Nasrallah's defiant speech on Saturday underscored how Hezbollah has come to view the war in Syria as a threat to its own existence, a position he appeared to reiterate to his Shiite constituency.
His opponents in Lebanon's government, which is split between camps allied with and opposed to the Syrian regime immediately slammed it as defiant and dangerous. "Nasrallah is calling the entire Lebanese entity into question," said Mohamad Chatah, a former minister and adviser allied with the anti-Hezbollah, pro-Western opposition in Lebanon. "What we are seeing is almost unprecedented….It is the complete disregard of other Lebanese and the Lebanese state," Mr. Chatah told a local TV channel.
In the Shiite-majority neighborhoods around where the rockets struck Sunday, residents—largely Hezbollah supporters—backed the party chief's characterization of the war in Syria as a fight for survival. Many said they believed the rocket attacks had been planned or instigated by Israel, the U.S. and their local Lebanese proxies in an attempt to provoke Hezbollah into a war on its own territory.
Many of the residents said they weren't interested in war, but wouldn't stay on the sidelines if they were further provoked.
"We have Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, God protect his life, behind us, and we are not afraid of those people, that trash," said Zuhair Sweid, the chief security guard for the car showroom where one of the rockets struck. "This is a cowardly act, a terrorist act, an Israeli act," Mr. Sweid said of the rocket attacks, adding: "Tell America to stop funding the terrorists."
"We, Lebanese, we are ready, if they want to come here," he said defiantly of his opponents, whom he described as a mix of Sunni jihadists from Syria and other countries, and Israelis. "Let them come down here."
—Sam Dagher in Damascus contributed to this article.
Write to Nour Malas at email@example.com
Corrections & Amplifications
Hezbollah has openly backed Syrian government troops against rebels in a fight for strategic territory in the Syrian town of Qusayr. An earlier version of the article incorrectly stated that Hezbollah has backed the rebels.


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I'm an absolute beginner as an [L]Ubuntu user. The fact is my laptop can find any wifi network, but when I insert the password (which is absolutely right, I assure) it asks again for the password few seconds later and it keeps asking and asking and asking...
BTW I'm using this same laptop now, but with an wired network.
I have another computer, a desktop, with Ubuntu using the same wifi network. I've already tried to restart my router and any device. What else could I check?
This is what I have here:
01:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 2565
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at fcfee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ipw2100
Kernel modules: ipw2100
$ dmesg | grep ipw210
[ 20.552763] ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.2
[ 20.552768] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 20.552930] ipw2100 0000:01:03.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 [ 20.553507] ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
sudo iwlist scan
Cell 03 - Address: bla bla
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Encryption key:on Bit Rates bla bla bla bla bla bla
Signal level:0
Noise level:0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 24ms ago

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I have read the explanation for this in several textbooks, but I am struggling to understand it via Archimedes' principle. If someone can clarify with a diagram or something so I can understand or a clear equation explanation that would be great.
Good question.
Assume we have one cube of ice in a glass of water. The ice displaces some of that water, raising the height of the water by an amount we will call $h$.
Archimedes' principle states that the weight of water displaced will equal the upward buoyancy force provided by that water. In this case,
$$\text{Weight of water displaced} = m_\text{water displaced}g = \rho Vg = \rho Ahg$$
where $V$ is volume of water displaced, $\rho$ is density of water, $A$ is the surface area of the glass and $g$ is acceleration due to gravity.
Therefore the upward buoyancy force acting on the ice is $\rho Ahg$.
Now the downward weight of ice is $m_\text{ice}g$.
Now because the ice is neither sinking nor floating, these must balance. That is:
$$\rho Ahg = m_\text{ice}g$$
$$h = \frac{m_\text{ice}}{\rho A}$$
Now when the ice melts, this height difference due to buoyancy goes to 0. But now an additional mass $m_\text{ice}$ of water has been added to the cup in the form of water. Since mass is conserved, the mass of ice that has melted has been turned into an equivalent mass of water.
The volume of such water added to the cup is thus:
$$V = \frac{m_\text{ice}}{\rho}$$
and therefore,
$$Ah = \frac{m_\text{ice}}{\rho}$$
$$h = \frac{m_\text{ice}}{\rho A}$$
That is, the height the water has increased due to the melted ice is exactly the same as the height increase due to buoyancy before the ice had melted.
Here is an explanation that needs no explicit equations.
Consider the following diagram, in which part1 and part2 represent the ice.
The displaced water volume equals part2 volume and has as much mass as (part1+part2)
Now look at what happens when both part1 and part2 melt:
And we just said that part1+part2 mass water has part2 volume.
Brandon, above, gets right to the point. Frozen water displaces its own mass in the rest of the water, which means in effect it displaces an amount equal to itself. While frozen it is larger in volume, and thus less dense, because of hydrogen bonding -- that's why it floats -- and when it melts it returns to the liquid state (surprise!) at essentially the same density as the surrounding water. A given quantity of water, temporarily larger in volume but correspondingly less dense because it has frozen, returning to the liquid state will thus not raise the overall level of water (assuming here no evaporation, mosquitoes stopping in to have a sip, etc etc) --
While the two existing answers offer some good science, on why the water level does not change, they are both slightly over optimistic. While the level will not rise, it will not remain the same either. Evaporation will occur simultaneously with melting, and the water level in the glass will actually lower slightly.
Even if the ice remains frozen the process of Sublimation will allow the ice to evaporate. You have may seen this occur in your freezer, or with snow on your porch
The displacement answers of mew and kal are spot on.
This is about the chemistry of the displacement.
Water is the only substance with solid density less than the liquid.
As you cool a liquid and it settles in and get more dense. As it settles to solid it typically just settles in more.
Water is very a interesting molecule in that it is very stable and still polar. Two hydrogen and one oxygen in a triangle. The oxygen is slightly negative and the hydrogen positive. When they settle into a solid they form a lattice that is less dense than the liquid state. Water has a maximum density as 4 Celsius.
If ice was more dense than water we would be on a much much different earth. We would probably not be on this earth.
I've seen this question some years ago. Note that the water level doesn't change as the ice melts ONLY if the ice is melting in pure water. If you melt ice cubes in salt water, the water level will increase as the ice melts.
Consider an ice cube of 10cm, assume that the density of water and ice is 10:9. At first, the ice has 9 cm in the water, when it melts, it becomes water with the volume 10*10*9. Just fills the melted ice original in the water.
It does, it lowers it. Frozen water takes up more space that liquid water (you'll notice it floats -that is because there is less mass per volume). As it melts it takes less space per area thus the water level goes down.
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For a locally compact (Hausdorff) abelian group $G$ we have following theorem (see e.g. Folland):
"For every (strongly continuous) unitary representation $(\pi,\mathcal{H_{\pi}})$ of $G$, there exists a unique regular $\mathcal{H}_{\pi}$-projection-valued measure $P$ on $\hat{G}$ such that $\pi$ decomposes as:
$\pi (g)=\int_{\hat{G}}\left\langle g,\chi\right\rangle dP\left(\chi\right)$ for every $g \in G$."
To which extent is this theorem true for nilpotent Lie groups (say, connected and simply connected)? That is, do we have a canonical decomposition of a unitary representation of such a group in terms of its irreducible unireps and some sort of measure on the unitary dual?
The proof of the above theorem has two major ingredients: the identification of the spectrum of $L^1 (G)$ with $\hat{G}$ when $G$ is abelian and the spectral theory of commutative Banach algebras. It is not clear to me whether any of these ingredients has a suitable analogue in the nilpotent case. Furthermore, in this case $\hat{G}$ is not a group or even a Hausdorff space, plus one would have to integrate an operator-valued function which assumes operators acting on different Hilbert spaces as its values. Thus I am not so sure if the standard theory of projection-valued measures can be so easily applied in this case.


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ABILENE, Kan. (AP) - An annual event honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower has been moved to a new location because of the federal government shutdown.
The 32nd Eisenhower Pilgrimage will be held Saturday at the First United Methodist Church in Abilene. Previous ceremonies were held at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, which is closed because of the shutdown.
The Salina Journal reports (http://bit.ly/GN5jgX ) the event usually involves a wreath-laying ceremony at an Eisenhower statue, with a 21-gun salute, music and troops from Fort Riley. It's generally held around Eisenhower's Oct. 14 birthday.
The event is organized by the state American Legion. Organizers say this year's event will be scaled back because it can't be held at the library.
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Okay, so I got a new iPhone and I got some music from my Mom's iTunes library onto my iPhone with no problems, then I tried to sync some songs from my own iTunes library and I cannot. Do I need to activate homesharing or something, because I don't have this problem with my iPod. PLEASE HELP!!!
From my understanding of the question, it seems to me that you are trying to sync your new iPhone with two different libraries. This is impossible without a jailbreak (which by no means I am suggesting you do).
Since you can't sync songs from your own iTunes library, it looks like you set up your iPhone on your mom's library. I would suggest that you select 'Erase and Sync' when you try to sync your music to your own library and allow your iTunes library to manage your new iPhone. Then, I would probably import your mom's music to your iTunes library.
You can do this using Home Sharing, as you said, but only if both of you use the same Apple ID. Alternatively, you could follow this thread and simply share the organized files and put them in your ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/ if you're on a Mac. Hope this helps!


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I'm building a Facebook app for a client who have a Facebook company page and I'm stumped as to how to develop the app so that they can actually have access to it without binding it with my own personal FB Login (to which I obviously have no desire to grant them access).
They have added me as an admin to their FB page but when I'm logged into that and go to developer.facebook.com I'm told that to proceed I have to switch back to my own personal account.
I'm sure I'm missing something fundamental here, but am totally confused as to what the process is to build an app for a third party, so that they don't have to give me their personal FB login and I don't have to give them my own.


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Olympic Profile: Carlos Arena, Securities Division, New York
Carlos Arena competed in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta as a member of Mexico's Olympic swimming team. Carlos took part in the Men's 100m and 200m Backstroke. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 and is now working in New York in our Securities Division. We spoke with him about his Olympics experience.
Q: When did you start swimming and what led you to the Olympics?
Carlos: I started swimming when I was around 7 or 8 years old. My family was always around water, so at the beginning it was mainly for safety reasons. But I was talented and quickly got fast. During my teens, I went through a very tough time as everyone around me got taller and stronger, while my body took very long to evolve. Kids that I used to beat were lapping me in workouts and meets. But my goal was never to beat any of them or win a specific competition; my goal was to qualify for the Olympic Games, and I knew I had to continue training much harder and longer. My entire life was driven by that goal. Most of my extended family thought it was a hobby and questioned why my parents would allow me to sacrifice so much for it. I even decided to go to the University of Texas because of the rankings posted in Swimming World Magazine, applying as a normal student and never recruited. When I got there coach asked "Who is that guy who just showed up to school, is he fast?" Later on, I was accepted to the varsity team and during that time I swam at the Atlanta Games.
Q: How have the lessons you've learned through your career in sports translated into your career in business?
Carlos: While swimming is an individual sport, the network that supports an athlete is critical. For example, you see Michael Phelps swimming on his own but what's important and necessary for his success are all of the efforts of his coaches, family and teammates. It's similar to what we do at Goldman Sachs. There might be one person doing the pitch, but that person cannot do it on their own. You need support from the entire team to move yourself and the firm forward.
Q: What is your favorite memory of the Games?
Carlos: My best memory is from the opening ceremony. My family and friends had come to Atlanta to watch. I knew they were somewhere in the stadium and asked them to look for me. But as I walked around the track, I saw a Mexican flag at the distance which ended up being them. So I stood there taking pictures while people from other countries kept walking past me. After all the efforts over all those years, these were the people who had supported me unconditionally. We were finally there, together.
Q: What advice would you like to share?
Carlos: It's important to dream big. Sometimes goals appear to be unobtainable, but if you've worked hard, and you're patient, they will be attainable. There are a lot of sacrifices, a lot of work that needs to be done, but if you don't aim high, you sell yourself short.


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Marble Target
- Metal cake pan
- Marbles
- Set out a small metal cake pan as a target.
- The first player crouches ten feet from the pan and tries to flick his marbles one at a time into the pan.
- If he hits the target, he continues to shoot. If he misses, his turn ends.
- Players take turns shooting in this way.
- The winner is the first player to land five marbles in the pan.
- If children have difficulty flicking their marbles, you can draw a target with chalk and have the kids roll their marbles toward the target.
- The winner is the first player to land five marbles inside the target.
- A child playing alone can try to land five marbles in the target within a certain amount of time or count how many marbles he must shoot before he lands five in the target.
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Energy Certificates
Energy Certificates
Existing buildings are recognised as being responsible for high proportion carbon emissions. There is new legislation in place requiring Public Buildings over 1000m2 to display a certificate giving the building an energy rating similar to those for fridges, where a rating of A - is very efficient and G - is least efficient.
These are based on the actual amount of metered energy used by the building over a period of 12 months.
The purpose of introducing Display Energy Certificates (DECs) is to raise public awareness of energy use and to inform visitors to public buildings about the energy used within the building. This is part of the Governments implementation in England and Wales of the European Directive 2002/91/EC on the Energy Performance of Buildings.
In addition to the Display Energy Certificates, there are also Energy Performance Certificates; these are required now for the construction, sale or rental of all buildings.
For further information about Display Energy Certificates please contact the Sustainability and Energy Management Team, Christina Taylor on 0121 303 6547
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Are you a SANE program manager struggling with recruiting and retaining staff, budgeting, and program management? Do you ever think, "Wow, they sure didn't teach this in school!" Consider applying for this free, online 6-week SANE Sustainability course offered by the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). Taught by nationally recognized experts, Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P and Jenifer Markowitz ND, RN, WHNP-BC, SANE-A, this course will provide education and skill building on issues of program sustainability, including budgeting, staffing, and collaboration, as well as ongoing technical assistance and capacity building to SANE Program Managers. Approximately 15 nursing contact hours (CE) will be awarded upon completion of the course. Eligibility: attendees must either be a current SANE Program Manager (nurse or non-nurse) or a nurse who aspires to become a SANE program manager. Cost: the course is free, but requires a commitment to attend all 6 weeks and devote a minimum of 2.5 hours per week to webinars and assignments. Students must complete the entire course to receive the 15 nursing CEs. Students will also receive a certificate upon completion. Format: each week, attendees will view a recorded webinar on that week's topic. The webinar will be followed by a homework assignment and then a live discussion webinar to further explore the topic. Agenda: the course will begin April 1 and coursework must be completed by May 31. Live, real-time webinars will be held at 2 pm Eastern Time on Mondays. Students should plan to attend these sessions in real-time after watching the week's recorded content at their leisure. Click the above link Web-Based SANE Sustainability Training Application to view the course agenda for each Monday. How to Apply: submit the online application before March 10, 2013. If you are interested and unable to participate in this first round, this course will be repeated in late summer. The application period for the second round will open in June.


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6 Massive Secret Operations That Are Hidden All Around You
#3. Missile Silos
At first, missile silos were set up as above ground launch facilities, completely out in the open. But then came the Cold War, and after the successful orbit of Sputnik in 1957, the U.S. started to feel a bit uncomfortable with the entirety of their weapons just sitting there, visible from space and being tripped over by drunken farmers. So they were all relocated to where they'd be safe from a nuclear blast and out of sight: underground.
And we all know that, right? The missile surfacing from beneath the army base is a war movie trope. The surprising thing, though? There's often no base.
Just two air force guys sitting underground and drinking Jim Bean.
At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. had an estimated 1,000 Minuteman Missiles hidden in silos across the country. But don't worry; fewer than 500 even remain active today.
Where Are They Hiding?
Well, if we knew that they'd have to kill us. But we know they were literally everywhere, and we've got proof: After the Cold War, silos that were emptied were just left to the elements, no longer serving any purpose. But recently, abandoned bases have been appearing on the real estate market. For a missile base that cost the U.S. government three million dollars to build in the 1960s, you can snatch one up for as low as $100,000 and live in it.
"Rave in John's missile silo!"
Whether or not you want to spend your free time plotting the death of charming British men in tuxedos is entirely up to you. The methods of camouflage vary:
"What a strange-but-totally-innocuous mural."
#2. Disguised Government Buildings
The government likes their privacy and they go to great lengths to keep it. But not all of their secret facilities are located in labyrinthine cave systems, inside volcanoes or hovering in a cloud bank. They have thousands of perfectly normal buildings spread all over the country that they use to conduct their secret operations.
Above: Secrets.
They're usually grouped in purposefully pedestrian-looking office buildings, discreetly unlabeled and carefully designed to be utterly forgettable. And we're not talking about the DMV here. These are serious agencies: The Fort Meade cluster in Florida is the largest of these facilities, and it's the headquarters of the NSA. The area, sitting right out there in the open, is so top secret that if you approach it, your GPS will send you into a series of U-turns thanks to the government jamming the signal.
If you take a picture near one of these buildings, uniformed guards will emerge--oftentimes from concealed security stations--to ask you for your personal information and to delete the pictures from your camera. Keith McCammon experienced this first hand when he accidentally photographed an unmarked office building which turned out to be the location of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
"Miranda-whats now?"
Where Are They Hiding?
No, that isn't a Wal-Mart behind this dude's farm. It's a [REDACTED] office.
We all know how you spot government hideouts: Be on the lookout for black SUVs, barbed wire and help wanted signs for local restaurants and coffee houses. Wait... what?
The "top secret" part of the U.S. government employs over 845,000 people, and when they want to recruit new workers, they can't really put an ad on Monster.com for super-spies. Instead they put out signs like the one above: "TS" means "top secret" and "SCI" stands for "Sensitive Compartmented Information." Only people with top secret security clearances can attend these normal-seeming "job fairs," which probably explains why nobody has ever, ever gotten a job out of one.
#1. Underground Homeless Cities (Real Mole People)
Life on the street is tough, but what options does a homeless person have when the busy, unforgiving city is becoming too much for them to handle? Why, they just go underground! Underground: Where no cops or street-punks will hassle you. Just mole rats and the lava people...
And the odd Morlock.
Where Are They Hiding?
Beneath the casinos and the flashing neon lights of the Las Vegas strip lies a labyrinth of tunnels that were initially built to protect the city from flash floods. But now they've become a place where the homeless live sheltered from the weather, rent free.
This "apartment" would cost you $1,200 a month on the surface.
There are over 200 miles of tunnels under the city and any trip down into them reveals a vast network of homeless shelters. We aren't talking cardboard boxes here, either: They have some pretty sophisticated homes.
Does he really count as homeless at this point?
New York City also has abandoned tunnel systems that the homeless have found shelter in. The AmTrak Freedom Tunnel was built in the 1930s but, as it served no real purpose, it was quickly abandoned. For over 30 years, it acted as a shelter for huge tribes (that's what you call groups of hobos, right? Or is it a gaggle?) of homeless people. But it wasn't just sleeping in the dirt: They formed complex societies complete with mayors and elaborate social structures. They were so resourceful that many of them even siphoned water and electricity from the city and built ad-hoc underground, multi-story homes out of whatever was available.
Some of these hobo-houses contain all the comforts of the above-ground world.
Others are... less resourceful.
These "tribes" were the inspiration for both a book and a documentary called Dark Days, which sadly revealed that the Freedom Tunnel was eventually emptied out by AmTrak. But don't be sad: There are many, many more abandoned underground tunnels in NYC for you to get murdered in.
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America's expanding waistlines might pose a threat to national security, the Pentagon says.
More than a quarter of Americans ages 17-24 are too overweight to serve, depleting the eligible pool of potential soldiers. The number of men deemed ineligible to serve based on weight has doubled in the last 50 years; among women, the number has tripled.
Those currently serving aren't immune to weight issues, with 1 in 20 members of the armed service suffering from weight problems, up from 1 in 50 just seven years ago. Weight issues can lead to multiple health issues that can literally leave servicemen and women unfit for battle.
"It's not just a major health issue for our nation; it's also become a national security issue," retired Rear Adm. James Barnett said.
Besides shrinking the number of qualified candidates for military service, weight issues are requiring the Pentagon to spend more than $1 billion a year on medical care related to weight and obesity--a steep price tag as the government faces a mounting national debt.
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In ArcGIS 10.0, how do I calculate the weighted centroid of a collection of polygons, where I want the weight to be a raster layer. In particular I am using a raster of population counts and would like to generate the population weighted centroid as a result.
There's a neat trick: you can create grids of row and column indexes by performing FlowAccumulation calculations on constant grids, as in
For your purposes that's good enough. When you really need $$XMap and $$YMap, rescale the row/column indexes by the cellsize and shift by the origin (plus, perhaps, another half a cellsize in both directions to obtain coordinates of cell centers).
No scripting needed (and much faster in execution, too)!
Now to answer your question: convert the polygons to grid format after first computing the population per unit area. Call this grid [density], because it's a population density. Compute [row index] and [column index] grids as shown above. To obtain the x-coordinates of the centroids, divide the zonal sums of [density]*[column index] by the zonal sums of [density] (there's one of each per polygonal zone). Do a similar operation with the row indexes to obtain the y-coordinates of the centroids. If desired, convert these centroids (which are averaged row/column indexes) to coordinates by scaling by the cellsize and adding the coordinates of the origin (plus one-half the cellsize).
This post on ESRI forums provides the logic on using $$XMap, $$YMap, some map algebra, and zonal summaries to come up with the x and y coordinates for each weighted centroid.
The following code is my attempt at replicating the now removed $$XMap and $$YMap grid expressions in python in ArcGIS 10.0:
At this point I have rasters of both x and y coordinates and can continue on using the logic in the above link.


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Facebook Feedback Friday: Your favourite 'phuza Thursday' spot in Cape Town
Yesterday evening we asked people who like the I ♥ Cape Town Facebook page: "Where is your favourite 'phuza Thursday' spot in Cape Town?" (Phuza is the Zulu word for "drink") Having an after-work sundowner has become a popular pastime for many Capetonians, and of course, for our international visitors too!
There were many suggestions from around the Cape, but the most popular places were to be found on Long Street, and in Gugulethu, Camps Bay and Sea Point. Check out some of the responses below:
Vuyolwethu MaEro Manzana Dikana: Hangouts in Gugulethu, having braaied (barbecued) meat, then later to the live, funky, young, fresh streets of Long Street, then much later, sundowners in an uber cool cocktail lounge in Camps Bay by the beach!
Nolie Ntsoko: Soli's n Ace's pub every wensday n thursday with some spit n fish braai, kasi style waya waya
Zaah Zindlani: Mdlalo's tshisa nyama, with nyc deep house @ Imizamo yetu in Hout bay best meat as ever
Nandipha Madala: @ Ace's place tshisa nyama in Khayelitsha. Thursday its free fish braai
Jacobus Louw: Umtata lounge in Strand Lwandle is cosy and its relaxed and for nice place to take your girl out to also as i did it and have a nice time there.braai facilities and safe big screens for sport lovers and the hottest deep house music for the latest trends and the visitors got a nice treatment.will definately recommend it to anyone who visit Strand and surroundings
BraNqo Ndlovu: Zula Bar by far...... Truly magnificent ambiance, service, staff, patronage - easy to be a second home hey.....
Paul Tosio: 12 Apostles for Cocktails!
Leon Jansen van Rensburg: The best still is Pakalolo's in Blouberg! Sunsets and cocktails!
And finally, this answer sums it up:
David Roux: Doesn't matter where .... to be in CT is all I need!
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If my understanding of the rules is correct, at 0 HP you are still aware and can take certain actions, but taking a strenuous standard action such as attacking or casting a spell will drop you to -1 HP and render you unconscious. If you use that action to cast a healing spell on yourself, does that just drop you to -1 HP and waste the spell, or does it put you back into positive HP?
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The rules then go on to explicitly mention the possibility of healing thyself:
0 HP means that your character is conscious but crippled, thus they would be able to use an action to, say chug a potion. If you parse everything out the healing comes first in the chain unless it's a delayed effect but the standard action is complete and thus any resulting effects are in play and could bring you above 0 and without plinker damage. I also see nothing under the concentration skill that would demand a roll even when disabled since the damage isn't during the casting.
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The damage comes only after the act, and even then, only if you are still Disabled. If an action brings you out of the Disabled state (which usually means that it somehow healed you back above 0HP), then at the time when you "should" take the damage, you are no longer Disabled, so the damage no longer applies.
In theory, if some effect were to cause you to stop being Disabled even though you are still at 0HP or less, then this should also prevent the point of damage. I can't think of any such effects off the top of my head, though.


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I have a problem with the following sequence $$ \lim_{n \to \infty} g_n \stackrel{?}{=} \pi $$ where $$g_n = \sum_{k=1}^{n-1} \frac{\sqrt{\frac{2n}{k}-1}}{n-k} + \sum_{k=n+1}^{2n-1}\frac{\sqrt{\frac{2n}{k}-1}}{n-k}.$$
Does it converge to $\pi$? I tested experimentally that it does, but I was unable to prove it by hand. Could anybody help, or offer some methods of approach?


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6 Fitness Tips Everyone's Heard (That Don't Work at All)
So this last year, I've been trying to do the old lose-weight-get-strong thing, so I can fit into a bikini and smash through walls. You know, the same thing millions of other Americans are striving for.
Deep down, we all want to be She-Hulk.
When I started out, I thought, naively, that different things work for different people and I should look around and try different ideas to see what works for me. I was a fool to have thought that. According to countless self-proclaimed fitness experts, there is only one way to avoid obesity and early death: their way. Among the tips you'll have screamed at -- from website and magazine headlines -- are ...
#6. You MUST Eat Breakfast
This advice comes with one or more all-capped words most of the time, for some reason, as if implying that if you DON'T eat BREAKFAST you might DIE.
Why is breakfast so LIFE and DEATH? Well, for one thing, breakfast supposedly will "jump-start your metabolism" and make you burn calories at a faster rate throughout the day. This is silly and jump starting your metabolism by eating is not a real thing. In fact, for one group (male athletes), not eating breakfast really jump-starts their system.
The other reason given for the supreme importance of breakfast is that if you wait until lunch, you'll be so hungry you'll eat the entire buffet, heat lamps and all, and end up taking in more total calories over the course of the day than if you'd just eaten your crappy toast and fruit at breakfast.
Via Spencer195
The trays aren't bad, if crunchy. I wouldn't recommend the tongs though.
Unfortunately, studies show that's not the case. When subjects were asked to skip breakfast, and even both breakfast and lunch, they actually ended up eating the same or fewer calories than when they'd been eating breakfast.
My point isn't that you should skip breakfast. Maybe you are starving at 7 a.m. and feel like crap if you don't eat something. Maybe you do shove your face into the salad bar at lunch and suck everything up like a vacuum if you don't get your morning cereal. Maybe you can't eat when you get up, but you like a snack at 9 a.m. when you get to work. Whatever. All I'm saying is science has proven breakfast will not solve all or any of your major life problems.
#5. You Must Get Your BMI Down
If you've ever tried to get fit, you've probably been introduced to the concept of BMI, or Body Mass Index. The concept is over 100-years old, and is totally showing it. BMI is more or less weight divided by height. If it's above a certain number, you're obese.
You can probably already see what the problem with that is. By that extremely oversimplified metric, Reggie Bush (pictured here) ...
... is a big old fatty. You could be 200 pounds of muscle or 200 pounds of fat (give or take some bones and blood or something) and BMI wouldn't know the difference.
That would be bad enough if BMI was just like an astrological sign or penis measurement that you use to brag groundlessly to other people. But it's not just a frivolous vanity stat, it's something that's being used to judge pretty important things, like whether you can apply for a job as a cop or firefighter, certain military jobs, or whether you can undergo surgery.
It might not be exactly the same as evaluating job applicants by reading the length of their lifeline on their palm, but it's pretty close. And do you really want anything to do with a system that has no place for guys like this?
#4. Barefoot Running is Best
One of the hot trends nowadays is barefoot running, which is exactly what it sounds like. (Although some people do it with super-thin sandals or goofy-looking foot protectors.)
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The reasoning goes that we evolved to run without shoes. Some dude won the 1960 Olympic marathon barefoot, and there's a tribe in Mexico that's been running hundreds of miles for years wearing only simple thin sandals.
So the theory goes that shoes are just a clunky modern invention that cage the mysterious physics tricks our feet are capable of.
But first of all, not everyone's feet are the magical mechanical machines evolution built. About 20 percent of adults have flat feet, so we don't even have that bio-mechanical springy arch that our athletic shoes are allegedly repressing.
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My feet, more or less.
You'd think people would go, "OK, I'm not talking about you then," but barefoot running advocates are extremely preachy, or to be fair, the ones you hear the most from are extremely preachy and (ironically) inflexible. So if you have normal feet? Barefoot running is the answer. Flat feet? Barefoot running is also the answer because it will "strengthen the muscles" that support your arch. That you don't have.
Other things they'll tell you is that everyone against barefoot running has a "vested interest" so you shouldn't listen to your podiatrist because they just want to sell you foot products, and top professional runners only wear shoes because they are in bed with dirty shoe company money.
Look at those money-grubbing sellouts.
Could you overdo it and get hurt? Nonsense. It's impossible to over-train or over-stride because "your feet will stop you."
That's interesting because sports injury clinics claim to be seeing a lot of injuries you can only get by barefoot running.
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It can get filtered out in the enthusiasm, because a lot of barefoot runners tend to excuse barefoot running pain as "getting used to it" after years of running wrong, or even see it as a good sign that they're really working out their foot muscles while framing any pain from running in shoes as signs of damage and wrong running.
How can people be so stubbornly sure that barefoot running is the only way for humans to run? There must be a lot of really good research on it, I guess. Except there isn't. Even one of the biggest researchers of barefoot running has this to say at the bottom of his website dedicated to barefoot running:
"Please note that we present no data on how people should run, whether shoes cause some injuries, or whether barefoot running causes other kinds of injuries. We believe there is a strong need for controlled, prospective studies on these issues."
Seems like a really weird basis for people to base a "this will work for everybody" level of faith in.
Oh, that guy that won the 1960 Olympic marathon barefoot? He ran it again in 1964 and set a new record ... while totally wearing shoes.


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This will NEVER compare to the Goldeneye for N64, which is about the best game ever. This is still a pretty good game though.
Thumbs up on the deal, but extra credit for anyone that can find the deal on the N64 controller for the true goldeneye experience.
I wanted this game to be good so bad. I Just couldn't do it. When we got it we ended up dusting off the old N64 controllers.
@gideonfrost: The Wii controls were awful. I am looking forward to trying it on Xbox360 or PS3 to see if it is worthwhile, although I am waiting for it to go to the bargain bin since the reviews are mediocre.
@lane7505: You are very correct. It will never be the same as the N64 version. Those were the days...
The Xbox controller makes all the difference in the world. I had a hard time playing this on the Wii classic controller and hod no problems with it on the xbox 360 controller.
It's just nostalgia speaking. True those were the days but playing it now on the 64 it's pretty dated. If you must play on an n64 perfect dark is the fuller version of the same thing. This new golden eye is a pretty fun game too, just different. The Online play is fun if you don't have any HD system to compare it to others and myself I prefer the Wii's pointer to a pad.
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Shipping Pallets: The science behind unit load design
For the past five or six years, Mark White, president of White and Company and a professor emeritus at Virginia Tech, has been preaching the benefits of a systems-based approach to unit load design.
White's idea, as I've written in the past, is that pallets, industrial packaging and materials handling systems are too often designed in a vacuum. The folks designing pallets never talk to the packaging engineers, the systems engineers or transportation people who are shipping a product. The result: the money saved by designing the conveyor system a certain way may be lost many times over in extra pallet and packaging expenditures.
The latest research coming out of Virginia Tech on pallet design puts new science behind that concept. White presented his findings at the ISTA Annual Conference in April. You can view the presentation here.
The bottom line on the research is that it demonstrates how a pallet designed for stiffness instead of just strength can result in a significant reduction in the overall cost of a unit load. "I have worked with several companies that have spent an additional $1.50 on their pallet but reduced the overall cost of shipping a unit load by $6 to $7 per load because they can reduce the mil thickness on the pails they ship their product in," says White.
Here's what the research shows and how he gets to those savings. Pallets are typically designed with strength in mind – that is getting the right thickness so that the deckboards don't break or the stringers collapse during handling. Without question, strength is important. But the new research conducted by one of White's research students demonstrates that a stiffer pallet can resist stress as it moves through the supply chain. That can lead to lower overall packaging costs.
"If you think about how product moves, the majority of the mechanical stress to which packaged product is exposed in the unit load has to work with a pallet," White says. "We're talking about pallets in racks, double and triple stacked on the floor, picked up and moved with a lift truck or the vibration experienced as a truck moves down the road. All those stresses go through the pallet first."
White and his students have been looking at how the pallet reacts to those stresses for years. More recently, his team looked at whether they can predict how much compression stress a packaged product will be exposed to as a function of the pallet design and whether that compression can be mitigated by altering the pallet design. Voila, White says: "It worked."
Why compression strength? "That's how much force there is on that packaged product sitting on a pallet when you stack two or three unit loads high in the warehouse," White says. "Compression strength is what manufacturers of corrugated cartons and plastic pails and bottles design to. If we can reduce compression stress through the pallet design, they can reduce the amount of rigid packaging in the unit load."
That's important because the cost of rigid packaging – the cost of all those containers, pails and bottles that sit on top of a pallet – is a lot more than the cost of the pallet itself.
The research demonstrates that the pallet amplifies the compression stress to the product in storage by a factor of 5 to 10. The flip side is that a stiffer pallet – one redesigned with thicker deck boards – can cut the compression stresses in half.
That's why a $1.50 investment in thicker deck boards than are required from the perspective of strength alone can deliver an overall savings of $6 to $7 because of thinner pails and still transport a load through the supply chain without damage.
"Pallet strength is still important," White says. "You don't want a pallet to collapse. What I'm proposing is that packaging engineers and pallet designers understand that pallet stiffness is a close second."
The new research will be incorporated into the unit load and pallet design short courses offered at Virginia Tech this fall.


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As evidenced by Cathy's wonderful post below, last nights election results have turned statistician Nate Silver into a pop culture icon. Exhibit A is a new Twitter hashtag #natesilverfacts that parodies the Chuck Norris facts. The best #natesilverfacts are those that drink deep from the wells of geek culture. I suspect you will be able to understand most of these, but it may help to know that Hari Seldon was a character in Isaac Asimovs Foundation Triology who could predict the decline of empires hundreds of years into the future. Enjoy!Nate Silver can tell you a particles position AND momentum.Pi was invented to sate Nates hunger.Han Solo lets Nate Silver tell him the odds.Nate Silver owns a copy of the set of all sets that do not contain themselves.Nate Silvers samples have only a median and a mode. Because no number would be mean to Nate Silver.Nate Silver can divide by zero.Nate has a proof of Fermats last theorem that fits within the margin.Results ask Nate Silver if they are significant.Nate Silver does not breathe air. He just periodically samples the atmosphere.Nate Silver knows there is no such thing as #natesilverfacts only #natesilverconfidenceintervals.Nate Silver knows whether Schrdingers Cat is alive or dead.Outliers exist because they are hiding from Nate Silver.Nate Silvers great-great-great-great-great grandsons name is going to be Hari Seldon.When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone he had three missed calls from Nate Silver.Nate Silver walked over each of the bridges in Koninsberg exactly once.When Nate Silver cant sleep he counts sheep. All of them.Nate Silver possesses all seven Palantirs.Wikipedia asked Nate Silver to stop adding Dates of Death for people who were still alive.
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Nate Siver will be hired by Koch Bros. to find out where their ad money was wasted,
Hm. What was all that about? Oh, sorry - wrong door.
Interesting to see the Republicans, who spent this campaign denying global warming, got fooled by their own version of statistics in their election planning, sending Gov. Romney to Pennsylvania, which turned out to be out of reach. What's best about Nate Silver is his dedication to following the data wherever it leads.
It's funny that people are so impressed with Silver, whose "models" represent all of about 10 minutes of work in Microsoft Excel: http://rwcg.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/the-10-minute-nate-silver-or-why-th... See also http://rwcg.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/todays-election-update/
I think the reason he's impressive is that he's a very good teacher. He writes very well, and non-polemically; he's trying to help his audience understand what's going on, not simply trying to press them to accede to his position.
hes trying to help his audience understand whats going on, not simply trying to press them to accede to his position.------Agree! (A lesson in there for those who cannot BEAR disagreement?)
"Its funny that people are so impressed with Silver, whose models represent all of about 10 minutes of work in Microsoft Excel..."But is it not laudable that he was able to take a simple product and market it to the right audience at the right time and he will be rewarded by becoming a millionaire many times over? Especially in contrast to a Henry Olsen at AEI for example who arrived at the almost identical statistical analysis using a slightly different methodology but marketed it in a substantially different way. It seems to me one could consider that rather entrepreneurial and innovative, which are traits some people judge positively.
Silver did a great job; he was a trailblazer and a great explainer, even if it turns out you can get 80% of the value with 20% of the effort.One danger is that where we used to follow polls we all now follow poll aggregators. Many of us tend to notice the newest Pew poll, for example, mostly because of the effect it had on 538. That reduces the value of the poll to the company that paid for it (they were hoping you'd buy their newspaper to read their poll results). But if there are fewer polls, there's less data for Nate Silver to aggregate, so the quality of his analysis could go down.
"Its funny that people are so impressed with Silver, whose models represent all of about 10 minutes of work in Microsoft Excel"Excel was around 4 or 8 or 12 years ago, too -- too bad you and I didn't think of doing it then!
As they say on Facebook: Like!
Stuart: Nate did it; you didn't Grapes are meant to be enjoyed peeled, not sour.
Nate Silver counts his chickens before they hatch.
My favorite from Twitter: Nate Silver expected the Spanish Inquisition.
The MS NBC business guys are saying the DOW tanked because they thought Romney was going to win and are selling on their disappointment. . With dopes like this on WS, Silver should open a hedge fund and cash in like anyone with an arithmetic degree. Buy now and take the WS dopes money.
Jim -- no sour grapes -- it's just funny that people who don't know much about math are so easily impressed.
Stuart =-C'mon. If Nate isn't that impressive, why didn't some older guy do what he's doing long, long ago? In fact, sometimes the hardest thing to do is invent a simpler product -- that works. Same with abstract ideas. They're not hard to understand, once somebody else has invented them.
It is only admirable because there are people who think math and science are deniable. Not too long ago, people respected math and science, but today there are political campaigns and news networks who are unable to accept simple math. Someone who stands against such idiocy is admirable.An example of someone who acknowledges the error of his math:http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/unskewed-polls-wrong.php
Nate Silver knows how much wood a woodchuck can chuck, what dark matter looks like, what dark energy feels like, and where to find dilithium crystals for warp drive.


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Still over-priced.
I might prefer to spend $6 more to get it directly from Origin (EA). http://store.origin.com/store/ea/cat/pc-games/categoryID.8831900
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Doesn't seem like the greatest rating site, or people only complain.
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Just posted: The saintly politics of Francis
Just posted on the website: E. J. Dionne Jr. comments on the announcement by Pope Francis that John Paul II and John XXIII will be canonized together:
Pope Francis is proving himself to be a genuinely holy man, a brilliant politician and a leader who knows that reform requires a keen understanding of how creating a better future demands sophisticated invocations of the past.
Nothing demonstrated all three traits better than Francis' announcement that he would make both Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII saints. The obvious political analysis here is correct: On the whole, conservative Catholics will cheer swift sainthood for John Paul while progressive Catholics will welcome the news that an overly long process of elevating John to the same status had reached its culmination. One for one side, one for the other – it's a good formula for harmony, something Catholicism needs right now....
[E]xcept among the ranks of scholars and older progressive Catholics, Vatican II is so often a dim memory. Moreover, there are conservative voices in the church that have sought to play down just how important the council was in opening Catholicism to the modern world. Pope John embraced modernity and the lessons it had to teach Catholics even as he was critical of modernity's failings.
By lifting up John, Pope Francis is telling Catholics to embrace this legacy again -- beginning by paying attention to it. In so doing, he will reinforce comparisons already being made between himself and Pope John.
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To reinforce the idea that Francis wants us to embrace the legacy of John XXIII's engagement with modernity we have today's homily:
"In the Christian life, even in the life of the Church, there are old structures, passing structures: it is necessary to renew them! And the Church has always been attentive to this, with dialogue with cultures . . . It always allows itself to be renewed according to places, times, and persons. The Church has always done this! From the very first moment, we remember the first theological battle: was it necessary to carry out all of the Jewish practices in order to be Christian? No! They said no! The gentiles could enter as they are: gentiles . . . Entering into the Church and receiving Baptism. A first renewal of the structures. . . . And so the Church always goes forward, giving space to the Holy Spirit that renews these structures, structures of the churches. Don't be afraid of that! Don't be afraid of the newness of the Gospel! Don't be afraid of the newness that the Holy Spirit works in us! Don't be afraid of the renewal of structures!"
The Church, he said, "is free: the Holy Spirit carries her forward." The Gospel teaches this: "the liberty to always find the newness of the Gospel in us, in our life, and even in our structures." The Pope then re-iterated the importance of the "freedom to choose new wineskins for this newness." He added that the Christian is free, "with that liberty" that Jesus gives us. A Christian "is not a slave of habits, of structures. . . . The Spirit carries [the Christian] forward." The Pope then recalled that on the day of Pentecost, the Madonna was there with the disciples:
"And where the mother is, the children are safe! All of them! Let us ask for the grace of not being afraid of the newness of the Gospel, of not being afraid of the renewal that the Holy Spirit brings, of not being afraid to let go of the passing structures that imprison us. If we are afraid, we know that the Mother is with us. And like children who are a little afraid, let us go to her – and she, as the ancient antiphon says, – 'will protect us with her cloak, with her motherly protection.' Amen.
If that isn't a warning to the Curia of what is in store for it, what would be? It's so emphatic I'm starting to wonder just how radical the changes will be.
Everyone is so eager for a change from the last 2 pontificates that we need to keep our wits about us and wait to see what is done as opposed to just hope for what we want to be done.
The proof remains in the pudding.
But wishful hope is still a pleasant change.
How soon before a movement gathers steam to name John Paul II a Doctor of the Church?
Am I alone in feeling that there ought to be a moratorium on canonizing any more popes who have lived in the last three centuries or so. All of these recent canonizations have the feel of the old Greek apotheosis or Roman Divinization of emperors.
Yes, do need the canonization of modern saints, but there's more than enough adulation of popes as it is without having to canonize so many of the recent holders of the office. Somehow, I think that John XXIII would agree. Maybe Francis too.
Bernard, I fully agree. What's the rush? Who are they models for? Not too many of us are going to become pope, are we? Maybe you will, but not me at least.
I've just noticed that Fr.Francis Clooney, SJ has posted on the "America" blog site his own view that there is something "unseemly" about having a pope canonize his recent predecessor or predecessors.
I think that both John XXIII and John Paul II certainly will go down as extraordinary leaders in the fullest sense of the word. John XXIII by seeing the importance of a postive message and the need to elminate some dead wood from the barque. John Paul II because he was keenly aware of the importance of symbols and had a charismatic, theatrical presence well suited to the television age. He brought the institution of the Church into the world in a pretty significant manner in terms of active engagement. While there is no doubt disagreement with some specifics, he is an important and effective leader in that regard.
That said, those qualities in and of themselves, while important, are not necessarily criteria for saintliness. I am not sure what saintliness looks like in the modern world and perhaps that is why we need contemporary examples. On the other hand, a certain historical distance needs to occur before a definitive judgement can be rendered. I found his writings to be illuminative and liked the flair and tone of the texts. I was also attracted to phenomenology and while he distanced himself a bit, it was good to see a modern pope with a philosophical operating system other than the dried timber of some of the scholastics.
Still, time and distance is good before rushing quickly to canonization.
I agree with Fr Clooney. And I also think the following makes good points: http://bilgrimage.blogspot.jp/2013/07/ej-dionne-on-franciss-decision-to.html#disqus_thread
I agree with Fr Clooney. And I also think the following makes good points: http://bilgrimage.blogspot.jp/2013/07/ej-dionne-on-franciss-decision-to.html#disqus_thread
I will start paying attention to the making of saints when there are more ordinary people being recognized for leading extraordinary lives, rather than a preponderance of people who one expects to be extraordinary by virtue of their calling, but whose lives fall short of even the virtues of so many of the ordinary.
I'm pointing explcititly to JPII. His failure to deal with rampant clericalism, financial skullduggery and structural corruption was and remains shocking.
If someone is a saint, in our estimation, we needn't wait for the church leadership to put its formal stamp of approval on it. One of the appealing things about traditional canonization is that it was the essence of popular spirituality: the people decided. I believe having a popular devotion is still an important criterion today.
People loved John XXIII. No need to wait centuries for the hierarchy to confirm what people already know in their hearts. And if the church hierarchy decides to dispense with the waiting period - fine.
I don't think that John Paul II can be blamed completely for all of the issues facing the Church or Latin America. If there is clericalism (and I am not even sure there really is), whose fault is that? As far as abuse allegations go, absolutely! But even here, on this board, when reforms such as removing the statute of limitations for criminal charges against adults who abuse children have been raised, these legal reforms have been met by opposition. Multiply that by 100 and you can see what any leader faces. We (and I mean the Church as in we lay people) cannot even prevent the child sex trade industry through international law and interdiction. More money is spent on the war on "terror" than the real war agains women and children through the sex trade. So where is the saints who are addressing this through legislation?
The plight of the poor in Latin American countries has a lot of roots including, and probably especially, the NAFTA agreements signed by the leaders of Canada and the United States (Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative). I did not see the pope's signature on any of those documents. Nor did I see a groundswell of opposition from the main parties.
In the modern world, the Church is a moral force and this is why the abuse crisis is among the most serious. I think Francis understands this intuitively. As for reforming the institution, Paul VI did a lot in that regard and is underappreciated for his work in that area. PJP II was less interested in the inner working and his mind was elsewhere and he let the apparatus run on auto-pilot. The mandarin figure was Ratzinger and his thing was liturgy an scripture.
Reforming entrenched institutions is difficult. A friend of mine quoted Mao when I told him that the expectation was that Francis could reform the Curia. Mao is reported to have said that he wanted to change a country but only was able to change two blocks!
I think its a great idea to propose the canonization of both J23 and JP2 at the same time constituting a brilliant stroke of both pastoral and political leadership from the new pope.
It demonstrates that Papa Francesco has a real deft political sense about him. That is good news for progressives who seek reform in the church.
[E. J. Dionne has written an insightful op-ed in the Washington Post about this very issue - required reading for all progressives.]
By nominating JP2 at this time, it will only serve to highlight that, despite all the historic character of JP's papacy for late 20th century world history, he was essentially a vacuous, even feckless, leader when it came to the greatest calamity to befall the church since the crusades and the Inquisition: the wanton, serial rape and sodomy of children by priests.
That is a tough cross for any would-be saint to carry. I don't think that it will prevent JP2 - and his rabid "sancto subito" reactionary supporters - from making the final step up the sainthood ladder.
But, I do think that it will bring enormous pressure to bear upon the Vatican to demonstrate convincingly that JP's laissez-faire attitude toward massive sexual abuse by priests and bishops is a thing of the past. Good move, Papa Francesco!
[An example of all that Jesuit training??? Maybe survivors will finally get their due from the church???]
By pushing forward the canonization of Papa Giovanni at this time, the dying embers of hope and optimism of Vatican2 may just be ignited again into a Pentecost fire for the church. Maybe, a new Easter fire in the early morning darkness?!?
Papa Francesco in one fell stroke has reclaimed the legacy of perhaps arguably the greatest apostle since Peter and Paul: John XXIII. Papa Giovanni, n. Angelo Roncalli, remains for us today a true genius of the human heart.
Papa Giovanni's prayer when he called the Council ["Restore the face of Christ to the Church"] as yet still remains unrealized - mostly because of revisionists in the hierarchy like Wojtyla and Ratzinger who cling to their power and money at all costs.
I dare say we will not see the likes of another John XXIII for at least another millennium. But, just maybe (?), the Holy Spirit has brought us another Francesco to put his shoulder to bolstering a crumbling church.
Francis of Assisi's famous words seem very apropo today for our Francesco, and those of us who are desparate for his new leadership: "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
Pope Francis may well have a sincere respect for both sainthood candidates' holiness. But if he is offering them as a matched set to mollify Catholics who might object to one or the other, as is suggested here and elsewhere, which in his mind would be the saint, and which the sop?
Just a reminder: "Canonization is a precept of the Roman Pontiff commanding public veneration to be paid an individual by the Universal Church."
And from that same article in the Catholic Encyclopedia: "Canonization, therefore, creates a cultus which is universal and obligatory."
And: "Is the pope infallible in issuing a decree of canonization? Most theologians answer in the affirmative."
And: "In honour of . . . we decree and define that Blessed N. is a Saint, and we inscribe his name in the catalogue of saints, and order that his memory by devoutly and piously celebrated yearly on the . . . day of . . . his feast."
(There's no picking and choosing. Catholics are obliged to venerate/celebrate those defined as saints.)
Gerelyn --
I don't know where it appears in the official teachings, but I've read many times that Catholics are not tobliged to accept any particular person as a saint (except, i would imagine those in the Gospels). What you quote just indicates that the Church is not always consistent in its teachings.
A recent example of a pope imposing the obligation would be John Paul's Decree of Canonization of Escriva.
No one is exempt, whatever s/he may imagine s/he has read many times.
". . . We inscribe his name in the catalogue of the Saints, ordaining that, throughout the universal Church, he be devoutly honored among the Saints.
Gerelyn: that obligation .... and $3.00 .... will buy you a mediocre cup of ersatz coffee at Starbucks.
(Much obliged, as Grandpa used to say.)
I never go to Starbucks. I could count the paper cups of mediocre Starbucks coffee I've had on one hand. Too weak. The coffee I grind and make at home is sooo much better, so much hotter.
(I think it's funny that some people imagine they are not obliged to provide due dulia.)
I wish Francis would just canonize everyone whose cause is in the pipeline. Or, better yet, just declare that everyone who ever lived is a saint and must be venerated.
I agree w. Dionne. Canonization of both Popes simultaneously is a brilliant stroke, designed to bring together both progressive and conservative Catholics. If this gap can be bridged, we will be a stronger Church and a more effective voice in a secularized world.
I suppose it's good for Catholics to have a large number of saints to choose from, so that everyone who seeks may find a congenial model of holiness and an appealing object of veneration. And Catholics do in fact choose the saints they wish to honor and pray to.
But commanding veneration is psychologically absurd. It smacks of bullying, the exercise of power over others merely to show that one has it. People used to submit to that; now they mostly turn away.
I would like to see Venerable Samuel Mazzuchelli canonized.
And the Servant of God Edward Flanagan.
"How soon before a movement gathers steam to name John Paul II a Doctor of the Church?"
God forbid, but if something like that JUST HAS TO HAPPEN, then Benedict would be the more likely choice.
Gerelyn: way to go re: Mazzuchelli! I was born and raised within 5 miles of his grave. He also founded the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters who were my grade school teachers and many of whom remain close friends even these days.
I didn't know that anyone who posts here had even heard of him.