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Please get rid of daily reputation limit, if not on SO.com, then at least on metaSO. On SO.com I can at least see both sides of the argument, but on metaSO the cap seems a bit useless. Let the active members of the community flourish here.
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
Agreed. Between the inconsistencies in the rep limit being calculated over a daily basis (thanks to the differences in local vs. server time), and the inconsistencies that other users such as Cletus have pointed out previously, I think it is losing it's popularity (if it ever really had any). It is a serious demotivator for very active users who contribute a lot to the site.
I know I and others have hit our rep limit early in the day and then completely stopped activity for the day, which cuts down the number of people who are willing to answer a question.
Edit: As I mentioned in another comment, I am also a strong advocate of raising the rep limit to something more reasonable for super-active users such as 500 rep in a day if you aren't going to bother getting rid of it.
I don't know for sure whether I'd support a complete removal of the cap, but I'd at least like to see it discussed. I'm still in favour of a per-post cap rather than a daily cap, personally. That way you don't get oodles of points for trivial posts, but a large effort across many posts would reap appropriate rewards.
I totally agree that on Meta it makes very little sense indeed, but I suspect that it would be awkward (with the current code base) to have a per-site reputation algorithm. It ought to be easily pluggable, but I would guess that the pluggability would have to be designed in from the start :)
Please don't get rid of the rep cap on SO.com. Here is another story.
The rep cap on SO.com is good. It acts as a hint to limit yourself to a certain amount of time on the site each day. Of course you can stay as long as you like but the daily cap is a gentle hint that maybe you should be doing something else for awhile.
What I would like however is some consistency with above-the-cap items (accepted answers, bounties, etc) such that whether they were above the cap or not wasn't a timing issue with whether you happened to be at or above the daily cap at the time they happened.
[I know SO isn't only about reputation but, putting that asside for a moment...]
I am for changing the "daily cap" to a "per-message cap." Here's why...
It may make no ultimate difference in the reputation scores (Jeff Atwood said he tested it and it made no difference) but, since I have been a "top-scoring" user on meta.SO (temporarily, I'm sure), I can see how per-day limits might provide a diminishing incentive to contribute for some.
I asked a few vaguely interesting questions (on meta.SO) which have pretty much maxed out my daily rep thereafter. I continue contributing but, strictly from a reputation-as-incentive point of view, why bother? A few even-mildly good posts essentially "cancels out" anything else you contribute to the site for some period of time.
I can only imagine what someone who continually contributes top contents feels like. Jon Skeet could flat-out leave this site for months and still have one of the fastest growing reputations on the system. He's earned it.
But, in the interest of rewarding someone's on-going contribution to the system, maybe the rep from a single post should max-out at some point, while a continuing contribution to the site is rewarded.
Just a thought.
The only good I can speak of the Cap is that when I hit it...I often times am less-distracted by SO throughout the rest of the day :)
Bump for great justice. It's unrewarding to get nothing for your answers. 400 rep limit seems fine, and would stop the insane people that need to step away from the keyboard. But when I post a few good answers, it becomes lame to not get anything.
And like others, I'm not inclined to help as much if I don't get anything out of it. People that earn that much rep deserve it, anyway.
Please consider only capping certain answers or raising the limit, again.
This is one of the few times I agree with Rich B :).
I seem to remember the daily cap limit was intended to prevent runaway rep totals, but to be honest, even with the rep cap it's already happened. Just look at the first page of the user list.
Either the daily cap needs a bump to say 500 or 1000 or just removed. It seems a bit unfair that new users to SO who are contributing great answers are hobbled by the 200 pt daily limit with no real chance of catching up with the high scoring beta crowd.
Whilst rep isn't the be all and end all, it is nice to see those numbers going up. And as some others have said, once you hit the rep cap it's a bit of a disincentive to spend a proper amount of time on a particularly gnarly question.
Personally I would suggest perhaps a sliding scale of rep cap rather than a single bump. As has been mentioned its meant to be about runaway totals. So it should probably start low that way you have to show a certain commitment of time to the site as well as "knowledge" before the site "trusts you" more. After all that was one of the primary purposes of the rep anyway.
I wonder how valuable the cap is after the user has passed 10k, unless the dev team plans to add more trusted access to even higher reps.
Or perhaps if the cap was removed after 10k John Skeet would have overflowed the counter on his account record :-)
Keep the limit. That said, one of the happiest times of my day is when my SO rep. resets. (How sad is that? :)

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IT is one of the minor glories of the US Constitution. Article One, Section Nine denies the power to the federal government to impose any export taxes. Why did they write that in? It was because the ludicrous protective system operated by Britain so exasperated the colonists.
The flip side of export taxes is import taxes tariffs. These barriers to trade have been slowly coming down since the multilateral trade agreements under the General Agreement of Tariffs & Trade (GATT) and now under the World Trade Organisation (WTO). These permanent jostlings to open markets since 1947 are the main reason we are so prosperous. Yet, while Im happy to applaud these successes, everyone seems to forget the happier and easier option to all these multilateral huffings and puffings unilateral free trade.
The three great patron saints of free trade ideas are Adam Smith, David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill. They were advocates of unilateral free trade and thought the endless wranglings to negotiate harmonious mutual tariff reductions largely wrong-headed.
My guess is not many readers will have got past my first invocation of that term multilateral. It has a certain glow of tedium; all jargon does. But I feel sad that an ideal as noble as free trade gets hidden behind the fog of the WTO. It loses all urgency or morality. The Kennedy Round of opening international trade was admirable. So is the present Doha Round currently juggernauting its way to failure in Hong Kong next year.
The great moments in the history of free trade are those episodes when tariffs were scrapped. It happened in antiquity. It happened in medieval city states. The results were great surges of prosperity. Athens was a free trade centre. Venice was a free port not a museum. Amsterdam was a free port too. After the smashing of Britains Corn Laws and other tariffs in 1846, Britain flourished.
Economic historians argue that Richard Cobden, the brilliant exponent of free trade, is also the father of its weaker cousin multilateralism. In 1860 he negotiated reciprocal trade liberalisation with France. In Cobdens mind, and that of his French equivalent Chevalier, was the fertile and beautiful thought that free trade is the basis not just for commercial dynamism but of peace too. They were at one on that important idea with the great French economist Frédéric Bastiat, who taught in the mid-19th century, if goods dont cross borders then armies will.
In those days, those who supported radicalism, reform or poverty reduction, those we now term the Left in politics, were all advocates of free trade, something which is rarely understood in todays intellectual climate. It was the closed minds of the Conservatives the aristocracy and landowners and early industrialists that opposed the opening up of markets and the freedom for individuals and businesses to trade as they wished.
We are now in a strange position. Those on the Left and the Right yawn disinterestedly about this vital topic. It is not in the main repertoire of political themes. It exists only in alien abstractions. There is no democratic leverage. Everyone agrees the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy is an expensive folly. Yet it never changes. It is untouchable.
The assumption of multilateralism is so dominant that we forget the great contemporary beacons of unilateral free trade Hong Kong and Singapore, island nations that have benefited immensely from buying and selling with the world. The official story is that China took over Hong Kong in 1997; the truth is that Hong Kongs only ideal free trade captured China.
In 1874 UK tariffs were tiny and matched directly by internal duties on spirits or tobacco. There was no effort to regard imports as a regrettable necessity. They were a measure of success. So, I would suggest Britain adopt a simple policy of dropping all its barriers without waiting for reciprocal action except we have surrendered all such powers to the European Commission. The EU is the inheritor of that other twisted version of free trade bi-lateralism. The EU is a wider version of the German ideal of the zollverien a customs union. It falls far short of the Ricardian ideal.
The World Bank, the expert at plotting these plots, reports that exhaustion often sets in to multilateral talks meaning that many acts of trade liberalisation are still unilateral. So it is not just an abstract ideal.
Protectionism is a bankrupt idea. Yet it still impoverishes the Third World. All of Latin America and Africa is enmeshed and immiserated by protectionism. Can we even imagine if the Doha Round stalls, as it will, that world leaders will say, oh well, it is regrettable but well just lower our tariffs anyway. Everyone is locked into the erroneous assumption that we can only drop our barriers if you drop yours.
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It's winter time and therefore I'm thinking about how to spend the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve. We have the plan to build an igloo somewhere in the mountains and spend some nights there. But is this allowed? For example in Switzerland wild camping is forbidden. If this is the case am I allowed to build an Igloo?
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Since you are a traveler and igloo is basically a temporary shelter, I believe Igloo-ing is another form of camping, thus it's not allowed.
However there will an occupy movement in Swiss next year from 24-28 January 2012 which the activists threat to igloo camp in Ski Resort Davos. On the same time, there will be a World Economic Forum in the resort. You can try to camp here (with risk to be hurt by the police). Read the full news.
I was really curious now and that's why I just had a call with a woman from the Bundesamt für Umwelt, the official federal office that is responsible for tourism in Switzerland. The woman was a little bit suprised about my question but was very kind. She told me that generally wild camping is not allowed in Switzerland (and Liechtenstein). But this law is not enforced really strictly. It heavily depends on the region, the situation and the individual police officer that will encounter you. This means, if you do wild camping where you don't disturb anybody, and where you don't litter the environment, or in very remote area, it is very unlikely that you will be traced down by the police. This is even more through for an igloo. As the woman of the office said, also igloos are theoretically camping. But it is very very unlikely that the police will get you out of it. Even so, if this would happen, and you really have to pay a fine, it is not very high, something around 80 to 100 Swiss francs.


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I am trying to run
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
But I'm getting this error:
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How can I fix this?
I am trying to run
But I'm getting this error:
How can I fix this?
I just saw that your command is not complete. Try:
If still does not work, try the following:
Running the command:
will give you the following output:
It is visible that the package is in archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
Hence, check your repositories. Open the update manager, go to settings, and after typing your password, you will see the repositories selected:
Try the options I have selected, and you should be fine.
I found the solution. Actually it's quite simple. I need to do a do a software update first (since this is a new install)


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I have an effusion that keeps filling up, and I have been getting it drained every week at my doctor's office. They want me to have some type of catheter put in so it can be drained at home. That sounds risky – wouldn't I be more at risk of infection if I do it myself at home?
Anil Vachani, MD, Pulmonologist at Penn Medicine, responds:
Patients with pleural effusions caused by cancer can be treated with various strategies that can include frequent drainage procedures done in the office or having a catheter placed in the pleural space. The catheter can then be drained several times per week, which may lead to greater improvement in symptoms when compared with only weekly drainage. Frequent drainage may also lead to the pleural space becoming "dry" and allowing the catheter to be removed at some point. There is a small risk of developing an infection with the catheter, but this is pretty low. You would have training by a nurse to teach you the correct way to perform the draining at home and how to avoid infection.
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WELLSBURG - Brooke County Sheriff Richard Ferguson is asking all residents who have been issued new citystyle addresses to begin using them and to post their numbers in a clearly visible location near their homes.
Ferguson said new addresses have been mailed to residents and businesses in all unincorporated areas of the county but there's still work to be done in making them available to the county's emergency 911 center.
At Ferguson's request, the commission agreed to employ Cheryl Dick of Wellsburg on a full-time basis to complete the task.
Dick and her husband, Terry, have been employed part time by the sheriff's department to work with the U.S. Postal Service in assigning citystyle street addresses to residents in unincorporated areas of the county.
Gone will be rural route addresses designated by RD 1 or RR 1, to be replaced by numbered addresses usually based on a home's or business' milepoint along a road. In some cases roads have been renamed to avoid confusion with ones with similar names in the same ZIP code area, and some unnamed roads have been named, all to meet federal guidelines enacted in 2001 and aimed at easing delivery by postal carriers and response by police, fire and ambulance departments.
Ferguson said Cheryl Dick will verify county records of occupants at each address are correct and enter the new addresses into the computer system used by the county's emergency 911 center so they will be displayed whenever a local caller phones the center.
The sheriff had hoped to have the work completed before the end of his term in December but he expects the work won't be completed for six months. Ferguson said the Dicks have been involved with the effort for some time and he will be leaving it in good hands.
Ferguson said residents should post their new numbers on reflective green signs on the exterior of their homes, mailbox posts or whatever location is most visible from the road.
Residents who receive their mail through post office boxes may continue to use them but must adopt the new addresses in other cases.
In other business, the commission:
Approved the receipt of a $10,000 grant to provide Hepatitis B vaccinations to the county's volunteer firefighters. The grant was secured from the West Virginia Development Office by state Sen. Jack Yost, D-Wellsburg, and county Commissioner Tim Ennis when Ennis was serving in the state House of Delegates.
Was advised the terms of several seats on the Brooke County Park and Recreation Commission, which oversees Brooke Hills Park, will expire soon. Letters of interest from anyone interested in serving, including current members, will be accepted for two weeks at Benzo's office at the county courthouse.
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I've always bottled directly after the primary fermentation has finished. What's the point of the secondary fermentation? Can I use a bucket or is it something that really necessitates a glass carboy?
The term "secondary fermentation" is misleading since the purpose isn't to continue fermentation. A secondary stage can be used for any combination of things:
I wouldn't recommend a bucket since you want to minimize head space to minimize exposure to oxygen. A bucket often provides too much beer-to-air contact, especially if aging a beer for an extended period of time. Some will argue that glass carboys are necessary, but I use plastic carboys and haven't had any problems.
I agree with Jeff L, that secondary is useful for particular things.
To your question, I only ever do a 'secondary' when adding fruit or extended aging. My beers clear just fine after two weeks in the fermenting vessel. I've never experienced off flavors from that two weeks on the yeast, and I always dry hop in the primary.
For me I can't find any reason to use a second vessel (except for fruit or extended aging, meaning more than a month) so it isn't worth the hassle.
I was told that it helps the clarity of the beer, since the sludge from the primary will be left over in the first fermenter. I use a glass carboy for secondary fermentation.
I also know of many people who bottle right after primary, as you do. If it's working for you, then it's no big deal. Try doing a secondary for a batch and see if you notice a difference.


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When Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was introduced as the new Pope Wednesday, it also was announced he would take the name Pope Francis I. It is reported he selected the name to honor his favorite saint, St. Francis of Assisi.
It brings up the question: Why do cardinals choose a new name when selected Pope?
I'm Catholic and did not recall the answer, so I did some checking for the answer and here's what I learned.
Selecting a new name is a tradition that dates back 533. Pope John II's birth name was Mercurius, which is derived from Mercury. Mercury was a pagan Roman god and Pope John II did not believe a belonging to a pagan religion was appropriate for a successor of St. Peter. Mercurius chose "John" to honor a previous pope.
While some Popes since then have kept their baptismal names, every Pope since 1555 has elected to take a new name. It has come to symbolize entering their new life as head of the Catholic Church. The Pope typically takes the name of a favorite saint or a previous Pope whom he admires.
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We're only 17 days into 2014 and we've already seen two egregious retouching incidents. First there was Diane Keaton's L'Oréal commercial (in which the 68-year-old actress looks like she did in Annie Hall) and now, glossy Vanity Fair magazine is under fire for apparently taking that wicked stylus to a photograph of Oscar Nominee Lupita Nyong'o.
At issue is the fact that the 12 years a Slave actress' skin color appears to look much lighter in the photograph than it does in real life.
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Vanity Fair tweeted the photo on Wednesday saying, "The stunning @Lupita_Nyongo photographed for our February #Vanities section," but it wasn't long before the Twitterverse was up in arms over the fact that the Mexico-born, Kenyan actress' complexion had been doctored.
One Lizz Brown said, "Here is what Lupita N'yongo's gorgeous skin tone looks like and here is what @vanityfair did. You be the judge," and posted the photo in question alongside another in which her skin looks considerably darker.
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Naturally, some cognoscenti were quick to point out that all magazine shots are lit differently than red carpet photos but not everyone was buying it.
ReneeKellyGirl's Tweet summed up the majority opinion: "@VanityFair: The stunning @Lupita_Nyongo did you lighten her skin?"
What's your verdict? Did the magazine alter Luong'o's skin tone? And, if they did, is it really such a big deal? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Data management in unexpected places
By Ashok.Ora-Oracle on Jun 12, 2014
Data management in unexpected places
When you think of network switches, routers, firewall appliances, etc., it may not be obvious that at the heart of these kinds of solutions is an engine that can manage huge amounts of data at very high throughput with low latencies and high availability.
Consider a network router that is processing tens (or hundreds) of thousands of network packets per second. So what really happens inside a router? Packets are streaming in at the rate of tens of thousands per second. Each packet has multiple attributes, for example, a destination, associated SLAs etc. For each packet, the router has to determine the address of the next "hop" to the destination; it has to determine how to prioritize this packet. If it's a high priority packet, then it has to be sent on its way before lower priority packets. As a consequence of prioritizing high priority packets, lower priority data packets may need to be temporarily stored (held back), but addressed fairly. If there are security or privacy requirements associated with the data packet, those have to be enforced. You probably need to keep track of statistics related to the packets processed (someone's sure to ask). You have to do all this (and more) while preserving high availability i.e. if one of the processors in the router goes down, you have to have a way to continue processing without interruption (the customer won't be happy with a "choppy" VoIP conversation, right?). And all this has to be achieved without ANY intervention from a human operator – the router is most likely to be in a remote location – it must JUST CONTINUE TO WORK CORRECTLY, even when bad things happen.
How is this implemented? As soon as a packet arrives, it is interpreted by the receiving software. The software decodes the packet headers in order to determine the destination, kind of packet (e.g. voice vs. data), SLAs associated with the "owner" of the packet etc. It looks up the internal database of "rules" of how to process this packet and handles the packet accordingly. The software might choose to hold on to the packet safely for some period of time, if it's a low priority packet.
Ah – this sounds very much like a database problem. For each packet, you have to minimally
· Look up the most efficient next "hop" towards the destination. The "most efficient" next hop can change, depending on latency, availability etc.
· Look up the SLA and determine the priority of this packet (e.g. voice calls get priority over data ftp)
· Look up security information associated with this data packet. It may be necessary to retrieve the context for this network packet since a network packet is a small "slice" of a session. The context for the "header" packet needs to be stored in the router, in order to make this work.
· If the priority of the packet is low, then "store" the packet temporarily in the router until it is time to forward the packet to the next hop.
· Update various statistics about the packet.
In most cases, you have to do all this in the context of a single transaction. For example, you want to look up the forwarding address and perform the "send" in a single transaction so that the forwarding address doesn't change while you're sending the packet. So, how do you do all this?
Berkeley DB is a proven, reliable, high performance, highly available embeddable database, designed for exactly these kinds of usage scenarios. Berkeley DB is a robust, reliable, proven solution that is currently being used in these scenarios.
First and foremost, Berkeley DB (or BDB for short) is very very fast. It can process tens or hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. It can be used as a pure in-memory database, or as a disk-persistent database. BDB provides high availability – if one board in the router fails, the system can automatically failover to another board – no manual intervention required. BDB is self-administering – there's no need for manual intervention in order to maintain a BDB application. No need to send a technician to a remote site in the middle of nowhere on a freezing winter day to perform maintenance operations.
BDB is used in over 200 million deployments worldwide for the past two decades for mission-critical applications such as the one described here. You have a choice of spending valuable resources to implement similar functionality, or, you could simply embed BDB in your application and off you go! I know what I'd do – choose BDB, so I can focus on my business problem. What will you do?


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I found a nautilus script I would like to use. How do I install it?
Say you want to install the following script you found while browsing Ask Ubuntu:
The first thing you'll notice is that many scripts won't just run out of the box. Sometimes they depend on other packages you might or might not have installed. In this case our script depends on
On other distros this might not be the case and you'll have to install the dependencies before using the script. If the dependency is part of the official repositories you can easily install it with
Setting the script up
Now that we've satisfied all dependencies we can move on and copy the script to our system. To do so we first create a new document in our scripts folder, which is
Next we will create a new empty document by right clicking and selecting Create new Document → Empty Document. Name it anything you want, but beware: The title you choose is how the script entry will later appear in the nautilus context menu. So better choose a descriptive name for the document:
Open the new document up in a text editor of your choice and proceed to copy and paste the contents of the code box above into it. Save it and exit the text editor.
Making it executable
At this point your script is set up correctly but still won't work as the system does not recognize it as an executable file yet. To make it executable, right click on your file and head to Properties → Permissions. Set the checkmark at Allow Executing as program and close the dialogue:
You should now be able to access the script from your nautilus context menu. Just right click on a file of your choice and head to Scripts --> Script name (here: Sample Script). Click on the entry to execute the script on the files you selected:
Assigning a keyboard shortcut to the script
Keyboard shortcuts for Nautilus scripts can be assigned by editing Nautilus' keyboard accelerator file. On Ubuntu 12.04 and below this file can be found under
The syntax of the accelerator file might look a bit overwhelming at first but it's actually pretty easy. Take a look at this excerpt, for instance:
Every line represents a single key assignment. The first double-quoted segment designates the action, the second one the assigned key combination. Lines starting with a semicolon are commented and currently inactive.
In order to assign a shortcut to your script you will have to search this file for the name of the script and uncomment the corresponding line by removing the semicolon. Then proceed to type in the keyboard shortcut you would like to assign.
These are the available modifiers and their corresponding keycodes:
You can find valid keycodes for all other keys by using xev.
Here's how you would have to modify the section above to assign your sample script to ALT + SHIFT + S:
On Ubuntu 12.04 (and perhaps later releases as well) Nautilus will sometimes overwrite the accelerator file before you can make any changes. So it might be a good idea to perform all of the changes you make while Nautilus isn't running (
Automating the installation
This Nautilus script will automatically install Nautilus scripts for you. Please take a look at the comments to see what's going on behind the scenes:
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426 Crate Hemi Dyno TestWritten by on December 12, 2003 Thrashing the Big Lung
Lucky us! We happened to get our paws on a crate Hemi--and the green light to run it to within an inch of its life on the dyno. Even better, we had a chance to bolt on a selection of go-fast goodies to see how much easy power could be netted from the same basic package. Actually, our Hemi is a 426-cube crate engine from Mopar Performance, the smallest in their stable of Hemi crates.
The 426 Hemi crate is basically a turnkey engine, requiring little more than a carb and headers to run. The engines are fairly mild in specs but are rated at 465 hp--a fistful more than the original 426's 425hp rating. Like the original engines, the crate carries cross-bolted main caps and iron Hemi heads, and features a 4.25-inch bore combined with a 3.75-inch stroke. The camshaft is a hydraulic lifter profile with .278 degrees of duration and .495/.480-inch lift, while the valves are the traditional 2.25/1.94 package. Compression ratio is a pump-gas-friendly 9:1.
Bridging the gap between those mighty valve covers is a dual-plane, single four-barrel intake manifold, a departure from the original dual fours of legend. Mopar Performance also offers a longer stroke version of the crate Hemi, at 472 cubes with 525 hp, as well as an aluminum-headed 528ci version rated at a whopping 610 hp.
Hemis are known for one thing above all else, and that is making power. The free-flowing Hemi heads encourage airflow and allow for prestigious power production, even in stock form. While other engine designs need major cylinder-head upgrades to support high horsepower levels, the Hemi responds to high-performance mods with significant output gains while maintaining the basic engine package. Well, that's the theory we wanted to put to the test.
Our plan was simple: Open the box on the stock crate Hemi, add a carb and headers, and spend a day tuning on the dyno to see what kind of power we could extract. From there, we'd make a couple of specification changes via a hot-cam combination, as well as an upgrade in the induction and exhaust systems to see what could be accomplished.
Once the lid was cracked on the Hemi's shipping box, we added a complete Milodon dual external-pickup oil-pump package and full-length oil pan, since that configuration will be used when the engine is installed in a car. Next, the factory dual-plane intake manifold was topped with a vacuum-secondary 950-cfm Holley carb, and the Hemi was ceremoniously loaded onto the Westech Dyno.
Once the Hemi was loaded, a set of Hooker 21/8-inch ceramic-coated headers were bolted to the heads, and the factory mechanical water pump was replaced by a Meziere electric unit. There's nothing quite like those gleaming valve covers to draw attention, and the Hemi got more than its fair share. With a flick of a switch on the dyno console, it fired to life, and it was showtime.
After several pulls on the dyno, the optimal jetting for our 950hp Holley was square at 82 jets front and back. We recorded a best of 486 hp at 5,800 rpm--a good 21 hp over the rated output. Considering the electric water pump, we figured the numbers were right on the mark. We set the ignition timing at 38 degrees total. Next, we ran through a timing loop, surprised to find the Hemi gaining power as timing was pulled out. With a setting of 33 degrees, we recorded a new peak output of 494 hp at 5,700 rpm. When you consider a displacement of only 426 cubes and near-500hp output with a relatively mild combo, it's hard to argue with the concept of Hemi power.
We spent a half day on the dyno with the essentially stock Hemi, and then off it came for additional mods. With the factory combo, we already witnessed enough power to satisfy the needs of almost any power-hungry speed junky. Consider the entire package: mild compression for pump gas, a maintenance-free hydraulic cam spec'd for daily use, and a no-hassle single four-barrel carb sitting on a modest two-plane intake--about as foolproof as a combo can get. We had to wonder: If the Hemi could show these numbers in such a demure package, what would we find if we turned up the heat a bit?
Turning up the heat pointed us to the camshaft as a starting point, and this time we didn't fool around. We considered a Hemi a solid base for a serious performance mill, and we decided to move straight from a hydraulic flat tappet to a stout solid roller. Solid rollers aren't cheap, but neither are Hemis, so we felt justified. Instead of a full-on race roller, we opted for one of Crane Cams' street roller grinds--a PowerMax SR-254/374-2S-12. This cam is not for the fainthearted, spec'ing out with .254/.262 degrees duration at .050, and .587/.568-inch lift on the intake and exhaust lobes, respectively.
Along with the camshaft, the roller conversion requires the matching roller lifters, PN 66515-16, matching pushrods, PN 66624-16, and a camshaft thrust button, PN 99163, to keep the cam from walking in the bore. Also required with a billet roller is a compatible aluminum-bronze distributor drive gear, which we picked up from Milodon. A roller cam is much more aggressive than a hydraulic flat tappet, and requires a significant upgrade in valvesprings. We swapped out the factory single springs for a matched set of Crane duals (consult the cam manufacturer for recommendations for your application).
We then had a solid street-roller-equipped crate Hemi that was otherwise stock. We suspected some additional changes would be required to make the most of the new camshaft combination, but, at the time, we were content to run the engine with this single change and test it to see what kind of gain it would net. We had a bit of a delay before we could schedule a follow-up day on the Westech dyno. Unfortunately, the 950hp Holley carb we had used for a baseline was no longer available, so we substituted a 975 Race Demon carb on top of the factory dual-plane intake.
The Hemi cranked to life with the sound to match its serious performance looks. The stout street roller had the unmistakable burble of a heavy-hitting performance combo, but it wasn't so outrageous that we were afraid to run it on the street. Again, working the tuning loops, we zeroed in on the optimal jetting, and using the same 33-degree timing setting as in our previous test, we found 534 hp at 6,400 rpm. The cam change was worth 40 hp--a solid gain--and came with a good 700-rpm increase in usable powerband without detracting from power production lower in the rev range. Still, we felt the camshaft/cylinder-head combination should make some explosive power even higher in the rpm band. The key, we believed, would be to complement the combination with a change in the induction system to let it breathe even higher up the range.
With our new combo, the dual-plane factory intake manifold appeared out of place. We wanted a serious single-plane intake manifold that would add to the high-rpm breathing capacity of the Hemi heads worked by the Crane roller cam. To fill that bill, we scored a high-rise Barton single four-barrel manifold. The Barton piece has the unmistakable look of an intake single-mindedly designed for performance, and comes with Dominator-pattern carb-mounting provision. A Dominator or King Demon carb bolts directly in place, while a 4150 standard-pattern carb requires an adapter. We opted to move to a large-bolt-pattern carb--a 995 King Demon.
With the intake and carb change, our Hemi took on a different character, at least in the looks department. The wickedly sweeping divorced runners of the Barton intake and the fat King Demon carb had the look of serious hardware. While we found the appearance satisfying, we were more interested in the numbers. It seemed a shoe-in that the induction was the cork in our previous combo, and confidence was running high that the upgraded induction would let the rest of the combo swill some serious air and turn a number.
We found tuning the King Demon no more difficult than a conventionally sized carb, and we limited our tuning to running a standard jetting loop. The King Demon features replaceable air-bleed circuits; however, no changes were required to get a fine-looking fuel curve. With the induction change, we hit paydirt, recording 594 hp at 6,600 rpm within five dyno pulls. As is typical with a single-plane versus a dual-plane, the lower end of the torque curve softened some, but the high-end charge really woke up.
The intake and carb were worth another remarkable 60 hp, pushing the output of our 426-cube engine so close to the 600hp number we could taste it. We wanted to push the engine over the magic 600hp mark, but our dyno time was winding down. A little more flogging or a change to synthetic lube would have easily moved it over the hump.
Stashed in the corner at Westech was a set of TTI 21/4-inch big-tube Hemi headers. On a 426-cube engine, we suspected they would be a little too much, but at least we gave them a try. Time was short, so we left our oh-so-close-to-600hp previous combo and made the move to the fat-tube headers. Unfortunately, they were a little too much for our combo, and we saw power drop over most of the range, with the exception of a blip above our previous output line in the midrange. It was clear we weren't going to hit our magic number with this combo, but, sorry pal, we were way past the two-minute warning, and there was no time to go back. Too much header cost us torque, power, and time.
So, how do we sum up this little adventure? Well, we can say what Mopar fans have known for years--Hemis make power. We had close to 600 hp on hand, close enough to call it there. When you consider we got there with only 426 cubes and the stock cylinder heads, it walks the walk. Try writing a list of other production engines that will do the same, and you won't have to worry about running out of ink.
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There's something nice about being able to purchase a brand-new 426 Hemiin 2003, some 32 years after they originally went out of production.Credit Mopar Performance for keeping the Hemi alive and well. Add a carband headers, and she's ready to run.We added a complete Milodon dual external-feed, swinging oil-pickupsystem and race pan, since this is the configuration it will run wheninstalled in the car. Got oil?The oiling system ensures an adequate oil supply under extreme dragstripforces. It bolted on without a hitch.We used a Holley 950hp vacuum secondary carb mounted on the stock MPdual-plane intake for our baseline testing.An ATI Super Damper was bolted to the front of the crank in place of theOE piece to meet SFI safety specs when this baby hits the track.We cheated a little with a Meziere electric water pump--a move that addedto our power numbers by eliminating the parasitic drag of the stockbelt-driven pump assembly. It saved considerable time, as it eliminatedthe need to set up a pulley system.Hooker 2-1/8-inch primary headers were used for our baseline runs. Thissize proved to work well for the 426 displacement Hemi, even in a high-output configuration. After a half day of tuning and tweaking, wecranked a full 494 hp and 499 lb-ft of torque from this combination--notbad at all.With the baseline in, we tore into the just-broken-in Hemi for a camchange. The crate comes with a hydraulic stick spec'ing out at .278degrees of gross duration, and .495/.480-inch lift.
The matching Crane solid-roller followers went next, after being soakedin oil. The lifters slipped into place with no mods, even with thepronounced lifter bosses cast into the new Hemi blocks.Crane also provided the roller timing set and aluminum thrust button.Flat tappets provide a rearward thrust due to the cam's taper, while aroller cam does not. To prevent cam walk, a thrust button is needed.We went back to the dyno and changed the valvesprings, using compressedair in the cylinders to hold the valves up and a Landy tool to compressthe springs for removal.Westech's Steve Brule set the lash to the recommended .020 inch on boththe intake and exhaust valves. After running the engine and lettingthings settle, the lash was set again.In the time between our last dyno session and our return with the camchange, one of our buddies at Car Craft Magazine made off with our test950hp Holley carb (leave it to a boy with a bow tie). Luckily, we had asimilarly sized Demon 975 hp on hand to provide the mix.With the roller cam, our fat-headed 426 Hemi was churning to the tune of539 hp. We were pretty happy, but we knew there was plenty left withouthaving to go back inside.It only stands to reason that a roller-cammed Hemi needs a seriousinduction. To fill that bill, we opted for a Barton high-risesingle-plane. The Barton manifold is flanged for a large Dominator- basecarb.Topping the Barton intake was a 995 King Demon carburetor. Thecombination of intake and carb gave our Hemi a look of pure power. Weliked the look but wanted the numbers to back it up. We also changed outthe stamped-steel valve covers for a set of cast MP pieces.The new combo put up the numbers when it came to the crunch, belting outa solid 594 hp at 6,600 rpm. What a difference an induction can make! Wewere within spitting distance of 600 hp, with a 9:1 426-cube motorthrough a pair of factory heads--but these are Hemi heads. We likelycould have topped the 600 mark with a little tuning or by changing to amore slippery oil, but time was running short.


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The wings have two different connectors to tell right from left. I would check the little pegs at the tip of the connector and make sure that you have 2 different sized ones. My left wing was really hard to push in the first time, but now is fine.
anyone else have a hard time putting in his right wing, one pops right in, the other won't go no matter how hard you push, is there a trick to it?
on the wing it looks like a peg, it matches the hole where the wing goes.
The wings have two different connectors to tell right from left. I would check the little pegs at the tip of the connector and make sure that you have 2 different sized ones. My left wing was really hard to push in the first time, but now is fine.
yeah i know, one of them goes in right away, but the other one with the peg in the end won't go in, nothings broke on it, it depends on how you look at it, if you're facing it then i guess it's the left one, but it's right wing overall. anyone have any tips?
i had a pain with my left wing i just pushed REALLY hard and got it in...but it still pops out from time to time. if you can't get it in i would call matty
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It seems wings may be an issue; personally, I wish the wings were permanent.
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The left wing on my SW pops right off when I rotate it. Weak.
Got my SWIFT WIND today. The left wing doesn't stay in and the right one snapped off two of the three tabs that hold it in as soon as I put in in. And they're not on the wrong sides (the pegs have a little "L" and "R" on them). This is the first time I've had any quality control issues with this line. Super annoying though.
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I STRONGLY suggest emailing Digital River and calling them... and getting a replacement.
I also suggest posting over in the Matty Forums. Toyguru will NOT acknowledge this unless we do the job: take pics of the broken pieces, post videos demonstrating the problem, and/or call/email Digital River.
This may be a design issue... not a sculpt thing.
There have been some issues with design for a while now... design being the transition from prototype sculpt to funtioning toy.
Swift Wind, Hurricane Hordak, Flipshot (visor, flappy wings on the jet-pack), King Hssss shoulders, Roboto shoulders, Marlena heads looking SEVERELY down, unsealed paint on the Leech body (no, I don't believe the green and red paint is supposed to be matte and scratchable), Man-E-Faces heads not fitting exactly right, etc.
I'm afraid for when the Sorceress is released!
I don't mind some of these things, and I think Terry and whoever else works on design do a great job for the most part. I just think more attention needs to be paid, or perhaps some more experience needs to be brought in... we are paying a premium on these figures.
A Want List of Sorts: at this point... I just hope there is a 2017...
Swiftwind's left wing was really tough to get in there, but both are in there for good. I pulled the wing out and that was tough to the point where I thought I broke it, so I won't be doing that again.
I did make sure the shape of the peg was lined up with the hole and pushed really hard to be sure that it was in there as far as possible. I don't know if that could be a problem with some of the wings that are falling out since it did require a ridiculous amount of force. I can definitely see how broken tabs can easily happen.
Since the wings are so similar aside from the subtle curve, I wonder if anyone got stuck with a pair of identical wings instead of a proper set. It's possible that some may have been packaged with the wings on the wrong side, too. I guess those could be things to look out for. Good luck with exchanges for those who need it. Thankfully, Matty was very good about replacing my cracked Roboto.
Both of mine were really tough to get in, but now that they're in, they're in there GOOD and tight, and after hearing about everyone's issues, I'm feeling pretty lucky about that!
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Immediately after I opened SWIFT WIND and he broke, I phoned Matty and spoke with a representative. They assured me that they would contact me within 48 hours with instructions on getting a replacement. I've waited patiently and... NOTHING. I understand that quality control may have problems from time to time, and while aggravating, I don't let it bother me much. But saying that you'll do something and then not following through is just not acceptable in any area of life. If one needs more time for promised action, then the least one can do is inform the waiting party that more time is required.
So Mattel: BIG FAT ****ING FAIL!!!
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Yeah all of mine were hard to get in but once I got them in they functioned fine, its weird because the left wing went in without problem.
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Oh, and by the way, I just checked and mine has two right legs in the front as well. Matty better resolve this. Not happy with their customer service right now.
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I had the same problem, but If you analyze the peg and the slot, you can see that the peg has to be turned a certain way for it to go in.
Check to see if the tabs inside the hole are broken. That's what happened to the left wing on my Swiftwind. The wing will stay in if I don't move it.
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Will the Griffin have the same connectors, hence the same problems with his wings ?
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It's not a problem, it's just that the peg has to be turned a certain way to fit in. This helps keep it from slipping out so easily. Examine the hole closely and you can see how it's supposed to fit in. My post above addresses this.
"Not a problem" !?
Go tell that to those who got a Swiftwind with a broken wing...
Because there's not only the connectors' problem. There's ALSO the fact that some Swiftwind figures arrived with a broken wing !
I sure hope the Griffin won't suffer from the same flaw.
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Routing service is a canonical instance of the famous saying
"Every problem in computer science can be solved by adding another level of indirection"
routing samples?routing training kit? thanks
Beta builds of the Routing Service documents are up now publicly. You can find the documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee517421(VS.100).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee517421(VS.100).aspx and the samples are here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd699773(VS.100).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd699773(VS.100).aspx. Comment heavily if you feel like they don't explain things well. I also have started publishing a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/routingrules/default.aspx.
This does not seem to be the WCF/MSMQ load balancing solution i was hoping for.
It's not out of the box, you're right. The main reason why is that the Routing Service is designed to be stateless, and most intelligent load balancing methods rely on some knowledge of "how many messages" or "how much traffic" has been sent a certain direction. While it's possible to build stateless load balancers, it's not immediately apparent how to do this within the Routing Service.
Over at the blog I'm going to be addressing the load balancing question fairly soon. In the meantime, take a look at the "Advanced Filters" sample over on MSDN. One of the advanced filters we build is a Round Robin filter. Note: I don't recommend using this sample, as it has all sorts of issues with locking. In the blog I'll explain why this isn't the best design (it's included in the sample as an example of a custom filter) and give you a better solution (hint: the Routing Service utilizes a MessageFilterTable<IEnumerable<ServiceEndpoint>>).
This does not seem to be the WCF/MSMQ load balancing solution i was hoping for how to pass a piss test.
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I'm self-studying a bit of linear algebra and got stuck with the following problem:
Let $\tau$ be a normal operator on a complex finite-dimensional inner product space V or a self-adjoint operator on a real finite-dimensional inner-product space. I want to show that $\tau^*=p(\tau)$, where $p(x)\in\mathbb{C}[x]$.
This looks to me like using minimal or characteristic polynomials, but I don't manage to prove it. Then my idea was to use the orthogonal spectral resolution of $\tau$, i.e. $\tau=\lambda_{1}\rho_{1}$+...+$\lambda_{k}\rho_{k}$, where $im(\rho_{i})=E_{\lambda_{i}}$ ($\lambda_{i}$ eigenvalues, $E_{\lambda_{i}}$ corresponding Eigenspace), and $ker(\rho_{i})=\bigodot_{j\neq i} E_{\lambda_{j}}$. Then using properties of the adjoint I find. $\tau^*=\overline{\lambda_{1}}\rho_{1}$+...+$\overline{\lambda_{k}}\rho_{k}$.And then? Thank you for any suggestion.


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I keep getting "file is open in another program" when i try to copy LDFs from one production to dev. Is there another way to copy these ldfs to dev server?
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You'll need to stop the SQL Server Service, or take the DB offline in order to copy the LDF files. SQL will maintain an open file handle to the LDF as long as the DB is up and running.
You could always just restore a DB backup to Dev and run any trans log backups to roll the DB forward. That's what I'd recommend actually over copying LDFs to a different server.
Take a step back and ask, why are we copying log files? SQL Server LDF files contain transaction log data, but they're not terribly useful by themselves. To work with a database, you need both the data files and log files. In order to access those files directly via the file system, though, you'll either need to stop SQL Server or use snapshot technologies like VSS.
If you're trying to synchronize transactions across multiple databases, check out technologies like transactional replication.
If you're trying to back up the database, use the SQL Server BACKUP DATABASE command.
Just to add to the list of methods:
You can also detach your DB and then copy the files. Tip: Before you detach your DB run sp_helpdb 'db_name' to find the location of your data/log files.
If you don't want to roll back your database to a point in time and you don't need transaction history - creating a database from a database backup will be just fine. You can check wheter your database is in Simple recovery model. If it is, then you don't need transaction history and can go with recovery from database backups.


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Bill Donohue, though completely wrong, is never wrong
When being constantly outraged and on the attack is how you make your living, you're bound to get a little sloppy with the details now and then. We've seen before what happens when the Catholic League's William A. Donohue, PhD, starts out with a complaint and then has trouble backing it up with actual evidence, and it isn't pretty.
When it comes to the church's sex-abuse crisis, Donohue's got his reactions all set, regardless of the facts. Is a bishop being criticized for mishandling accusations against an abusive priest? The bishop must be defended; he's done nothing wrong; the media (and/or leftist Catholics) are plainly out to get him.
Sometimes, though, the facts just don't line up with Donohue's interpretation. The recent case of Newark's Archbishop John J. Myers and Fr. Michael Fugee was a tough one; to maintain that Myers was a good guy getting an unfair rap, Donohue was forced to play lawyer -- a lawyer who doesn't know what the word "or" means. Thus, as Mark Silk explained yesterday, Donohue resorted to insisting that the New Jersey Star-Ledger had smeared Myers by calling for his resignation "because he allegedly did not hold Fugee to the terms of the agreement. As will soon be disclosed," Donohue said, "this accusation is patently false." And therefore "the entire editorial board of the newspaper should resign immediately."
But Donohue's argument that the accusation was false rests on an obviously erroneous reading of the archdiocese's court agreement to keep Fugee away from minors. Donohue insists that the court agreement expressly allowed Father Fugee to have contact with minors, provided he was supervised. Here's what the court order actually says:
It is agreed and understood that the Archdiocese shall not assign or otherwise place Michael Fugee in any position within the Archdiocese that allows him to have any unsupervised contact with or to supervise or minister to any minor/child under the age of 18 or work in any position in which children are involved. This includes, but is not limited to, presiding over a parish, involvement with a youth group, religious education/parochial school, CCD, confessions of children, youth choir, youth retreats and day care.
Now, we know Donohue sometimes has trouble understanding things he reads through his fog of resentful fury. But he wants to insist that the above plainly states that Fugee is permitted to do any of the itemized activities as long as he's being "supervised," when in fact there are a number of "or"s after that initial phrase about "unsupervised contact" that make it very clear the restriction is not thus limited. Is it even possible to read it that way in good faith?
Let's say Donohue really did think he was making a good argument. He knows now how wrong he was, not just because people like Silk have carefully, patiently explained his errors to him, but also because the Archdiocese has now admitted that yes, Fugee was in violation of that agreement. (Previously they had said he wasn't.) So here was what should have been a moment of truth for the Catholic League: in trying to protect a bishop from calumny, they have actually smeared an entire newspaper editorial board and muddied an important issue with a lot of false assertions and bad arguments. And that document in which Donohue's argument was so totally wrong? He'd bragged about how widely he'd distributed it -- he didn't just send it to "every bishop in the nation"; he also bothered "over 200 employees at the [Star-Ledger], including those who cover 'food news' and 'soccer.'" A big-time screwup like this could really hurt Bill Donohue's credibility, right? And it could really embarrass the bishops he's so eager to defend -- especially the ones who've gone out of their way to cheer him on without reservation. It could make them all look like they're much more invested in playing identity politics and stoking Catholic persecution complexes than they are in being honest and living up to their promises to protect children from abuse. So the only thing to do is issue a straightforward retraction and apology, right?
Oh, but you know better. Here's how Donohue actually responded: First, when his errors were pointed out, he doubled down with a press release titled "Archbishop Myers Deserves Support," which claimed that his previous missive had been a necessary response to "to a contrived story emanating from a foe of the Catholic Church." (By which he means the Star-Ledger.) You could tell his confidence was shaken, though, because he'd only gotten to his second paragraph before he was comparing the standards to which abusive priests are held to those we apply to "Muslim terrorists."
Donohue also quoted a statement from the archbishop himself, in which he had said, "the recommendations of the County Prosecutor regarding Father Fugees ability to return to ministry and future assignments in ministry carried great weight. We have followed those recommendations fully." Unfortunately for the Catholic League, that claim is exhibit A in the public's case against Myers, especially now that the archdiocese has admitted that the court order says what it obviously says, and that its recommendations had not, in fact, been followed "fully." (Well, the archdiocese actually says it didn't know what Fugee was up to. But still, a reversal, and this new line of defense is a direct contradiction of Donohue's bogus argument.)
That was Donohue's cue to issue a new press release, soberly titled "Newark Priest Resigns," and let me tell you, it's a real work of art. Donohue comes out flailing as only he can do: stubbornly denying error ("Fugees resignation does nothing to change my position") and blaming (a) the abusive priest, (b) the media (still) and (c) liberal Catholics (when your back's against the wall, say "Rembert Weakland!" and run away). The whole thing closes with a boilerplate non sequitur: "But when we see that the clergy of other religions, as well as public school officials, are being held to a lesser standard than our bishops, that is cause for action. Not until we get a level playing field will we back off." Yes, the game is rigged. How can Bill Donohue be expected to get the details right before he starts slinging mud, when there's a rabbi somewhere (or a Muslim terrorist!) whose trial isn't on the front page?
So, once again and for the record: William A. Donohue does not care whether the things he says are correct. Maintaining credibility is not a concern for him. And no bishop that I know of has recalled or moderated his support of the Catholic League in light of this fact.
Still, the Catholic League's pressers do make for lively reading. Donohue's latest salvo in particular tests the elasticity of irony itself when he blusters, regarding Fr. Fugee: "His dishonesty is appalling. Moreover, he has clearly impugned his character."
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The conservative wing of the Ideological Catholic Church is a spent husk.
NCROnline reports today that Fugee has submitted his resignation from active ministry to AB Myers. Perhaps the good Dr. Donohue can explain?(oh, never mind, Doc would probably put a "good spin" on the resignation :-)
In Battleship Bill's case, "PhD" means piled higher and deeper, and it's not good stuff, either.
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The Bishop of Trenton and the Bishop of Paterson clearly did not follow the party line (aka the Donohue/Myers line) as this story emerged. Their anger at having Fugee in their respective dioceses performing youth ministries functions in a parish and attending youth retreats at a retreat house was pretty clear. Maybe they will demand accountability from the Donohue/Myers deception machine? As I said in a comment in another thread about the Fugee case -- I find it more than ironic that Donohue touted the reversal of Fugee's conviction by an appeals court. The reason the appeals court vacated the conviction is it was based, in part, on the judges decision to let the jury hear a portion of Fugees confession in which he described himself as bisexual or homosexual.The appellate court said this could have led the jurors to Fugee guilty because of the "unfounded association between homosexuality and pedophilia.Bill Donahue is big on making that precise association and is famous for saying the child abuse crisis was a homosexual crisis all along. The evidence is all on my side.
Jack - yes, that's another wonderful irony. Mark Silk commented on it, too: "Donohue has long insisted that the abuse crisis is really just about the disproportionate attraction of homosexual priests to teenage boys, so there is a certain irony in his now embracing a judicial decision based on a rejection of this Donohue Doctrine."
Just once I would like to hear a pope or bishop say that Donohue does not speak for the institutional Church. The fact that to date, no pope or bishop has done so makes me fear that speaking for the institutional Church is exactly what Donohue does--and that this is why being a professional crank pays so well.
Question: why does this site give constant attention to any and all BS that Donahue comes up with?Wouldn't it be better to ignore him and his nonsense?What about him is (1) news, or (2) worthy of discussion?
Jimmy, every time I read one of these posts it's a Joseph Welch "have you no sense of decency, sir" moment. The Catholic League's work in looking out for the civil rights of Catholics--and in so doing upholding the rights of all citizens regardless of creed--has been utterly derailed Donohue. I think it's especially important for the Catholic media, of which Commonweal is a part, to call out Donohue and his crazy talk.Angela notes she'd like to hear the bishops say just once that Donohue does not speak for the Church. Clearly, silence can be taken as tacit approval of Donohue's tactics and message.
Kudos to Mollie on this one, and again to Grant Gallicho for a similar dissection of Donohue's drivel in the Finn case.I believe Commonweal provides an important public service in exposing the Catholic League's tactics. According to Form 950 or 990 for non-profits a few years back, Bill and his fax machine draw about $400K a year for giving cover to bishops. I sense he knows his audiences and exploits their loyalties for partisan advantage. The fact that supportive bishops choose to embrace his style is truly instructive.
Jean Raber: "The Catholic Leagues work in looking out for the civil rights of Catholicsand in so doing upholding the rights of all citizens regardless of creedhas been utterly derailed Donohue."Has the Catholic League ever actually done ANYTHING in furtherance of the civil rights of Catholics? To hear Donohue tell it, Catholics have the right to never, ever have our feelings hurt, and the right to silence anyone who dares to criticize the Catholic Church. Of course, the First Amendment doesn't mean anything of the kind.Were I to encounter actual religious discrimination, I'd seek help not from the Catholic League, but from the ACLU. They've been doing it longer, they have a bigger budget, and their lawyers have a genuine devotion to the Constitution that can never be mistaken for Donohue's blowhard shtick.
There is good news.... cable news is not booking him any more.
I joined the Catholic League the first year of its existence (1973) because I thought the Church could use an anti-defamation league, but within months I was sorry I had joined. Even in that first year it was obvious that Donohue would do more harm than good. Wild from the very beginning.
Virgil C. Blum, S.J. founded the Catholic League in 1973. Bill Donohue became it's director twenty years later.
Jim McCrea to the contrary notwithstanding, I would commend dotCommonweal's contributors for monitoring Bill Donohue's pronouncements regularly, and I would encourage the dotCommonweal's contributors to keep up their good work of monitoring his pronouncements.No doubt he is playing to his supporters. That's how he goes about winning their ongoing financial and moral support. Just as he is sad as a commentator, so too his supporters are sad for supporting him.However, I have no doubt that there are real examples of anti-Catholic attitudes and the expression of anti-Catholic views in the media and elsewhere. For this reason, dotCommonweal's contributors should keep up their good work of monitoring and criticizing Bill Donohue's pronouncements, so that when the time comes for certain writers to speak out about more substantial examples of alleged anti-Catholic bias in the media or elsewhere, dotCommonweal's contributors will have established a track record for not putting up with all the false alarms sounded by Bill Donohue.
Bill Donohue is Cardinal Dolan's attractive, articulate communications person.
Frank. --Thanks for the correction. But whoever was ruunning the League at the beginning was quite paranoid in my view.
Angela, yes, the ACLU has done a lot of all-purpose civil rights work, but I think the aims of the Catholic League were/are laudable. Ironically, Donohue has done a lot to feed the kind of stereotypes of lay Catholics--stooges enthralled to a corrupt hierarchy (a la Jack Chick's End Times cartoon tracts)--that the league should be fighting, no?Some mainstream media look to Donohue for color commentary on Catholic news, and until he is repudiated like Fr. Coughlin was, he will, in the minds of many outsiders, speak for American lay Catholics.
According to Wiki Donohue is divorced and has two children from that marriage. Is this well known? .........
Outside of the few ecclesiastics who apparently dote on Donahue and his fellow travelers, who else pays the slightest bit of attention to him?I have heard a few folk note that he periodically buts a large ad in the NY Times, but, outside of that, I haven't heard of any great hue and cry for the poor oppressed Catholics based on his efforts.Out here on the Left Coast, the Catholic esense of martrydom seems to be small to non-existent contra what MAY exist east of the Mississippi, so that may have something to do with it.
Jean: Fr. Coughlin was heard and taken seriously by millions on a weekly basis. He posed a threat to Roosevelt * and the church at that time, particularly because of his anti-semitism ** and of his support of Hitler and Mussolini because of their anti-communism. * Coughlin's opinions became more extreme. In September 1940 he described President Franklin D. Roosevelt as "the world's chief war-monger". The following year he wrote in Social Justice: "Stalin's idea to create world revolution and Hitler's so- called threat to seek world domination are not half as dangerous combined as is the proposal of the current British and American administrations to seize all raw materials in the world. Many people are beginning to wonder who they should fear most - the Roosevelt-Churchill combination or the Hitler-Mussolini combination." (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcoughlinE.htm).** Like Joseph Goebbels, Coughlin claimed that Marxist atheism in Europe was a Jewish plot. Coughlin also attacked the influence of Jews in America and this resulted in him being described as a fascist. In April 1941, Coughlin endorsed the America First Committee. However, his now open Anti-Semitism made this endorsement a mixed blessing for the organization. Donahue is a narrow and pretentious version of Coughlin and hardly heard at all.
"Donahue is a narrow and pretentious version of Coughlin and hardly heard at all."If that's so, then the Catholic press is doing its job marginalizing him.
Video of Donohue doing his thing on this case. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuT6RIyO7U0&feature=player_embedded#!Donohue -- "Fugee is as innocent as I am."
Scapegoating is the first refuge of scoundrels. So much for that example of dining among publicans and sinners or {*gasp*} treating women like human beings. The ancient tactic of harshly excluding the Other is just too useful for coercing group conformity. Those who hold power and the hangers-on of the seemingly powerful love the certainty of force. Truth, by comparison, seems ambiguous and feeble. No wonder then the shrill and desperate nastiness of the propaganda about a "homosexual crisis." If the problem were entirely about men abusing boys, then logically there would be no objection had they molested girls. If female victims are also abhorrent, then the problem is about child abuse, not homosexuality. And of course about a troubling relationship with the structures of power.
Oh, that charge of the liberal media is against us is really getting old. In 1990 or 1991, the Fall River diocese was handling accusations against a former priest of theirs who had molested more than 100 children, and that was a conservative estimate. Cardinal Law in Boston was lambasting the Boston Globe for their "anti-Catholic, anti-Church stand. And the Donahues of this fantasy land are still using this charge. Imagine a newspaper reporting on the abuse of more than 100 children - who do they think they are? Well, a decade after the Falls River revelations, we now know how all that turned out with the bombshell in Boston. Donahue is being paid by someone, some group of someones. And no, no bishop has called him out for his bombastic denunciations of journalists or others who have criticized the hierarchy. He has blamed the victims. And still we hear not a peep from any bishops. We can only speak of "the bishops" in a collective sense b/c thus far, they have kept their heads held low when one of their number slithers by a new accusation. We are all in need of redemption. The bishops are in need of an exorcism.
"Donahue is being paid by someone, some group of someones." Wanna bet that these good Catholics write him checks regularly? http://www.legatusmagazine.org/21st-century-warriors/BTW, the newly appointed bishop of the diocese of Oakland is/has been a chaplain to Legatus. I hope that was just a spiritual work of mercy and not a ministry to birds of a feather.http://www.legatusmagazine.org/tag/fr-michael-barber/
"the seemingly powerful love the certainty of force"Ravi --Great observation.
Bill Donohue still obfuscating (lying?) about the Fugee affair:http://www.catholicleague.org/corrupt-nj-papers-and-pols/Still pretending supervision of Fugee is the issue.He ignores that the Archdiocese is a signatory to the MOU and violated the agreement as well through its assignments and lax supervision.At least he apologizes for misrepresenting the coverage of the rabbi's crimes. Make the accusation first -- apologize later.
Thanks, Jack. (And thanks for pointing out too how the NYT's coverage of Fugee & Myers had reinforced Donohue's misreading. Sloppy.) Correction appended or not, you have to marvel at the larger shamelessness: having loudly called for resignations at the Star-Ledger based on an utterly discredited argument does not even give Donohue pause in scolding others for calling for someone's resignation -- and then declaring that "their credibility is shot"! "We Regret the Error" should be the headline on any and all future Catholic League press releases touching on this matter. For starters.


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I was thinking about the statement "if f is continuous on the interval I, there is not necessarily an interval J in I on which f is monotone." and this led me to the question "does there exist a continuous function $f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ that has uncountably infinite turning points?" when I say turning point I'm talking about a point (x,f(x)) s.t there exists an open ball around that point where f(x) is either the highest or lowest value within that ball.
eg. $f(x)=sin(x)$ has countably infinite turning points as opposed to $f(x)=x^2$ which has one.
I cant think of a reason that convinces me that its impossible yet I can conceptualize a function that does this. Is it impossible? or does there exist such a function? I certainly get the impression this is impossible . . .