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18 October 2009
Never Been and a Map to Nowhere
I know--I admit it--it's an extreme reaction. But the obsession with Jewish genetic ancestry seemed relevant in two ways: for Jews, to understand and cure ourselves of genetic diseases; and for Nazis, to locate and eradicate the Jewish gene.
But the notion of locating Jewish genes in order to, well, celebrate them for existing, seemed downright narcissistic. And not particularly relevant to anything. Except the biology of it all, which doesn't ring any bells for me. After all, the Rabbis who founded Judaism long ago dispensed with the Priests politically--and even though geneticists out there still convey deep satisfaction with research that shows linkages over generations between Cohens and Lemba Tribes of Southern Africa, it doesn't prove a whole lot except some genetic codes last a long time.
I dunno. Maybe this whole new fangled celebration of long-lasting genes is a reaction to the utter vacuousness of our own digital age when nothing lasts more than second. Or two. Three and I'm bored. Bye!
23andme, the guilty party which promises Ancestry Painting ( a cute nod to Margaret Mead and indigenous, tribal marking?) is a company which promises to place one of its costumers on a "global similarity plot" which, for a guy like me is another name for the grave. How's that for global similarities?
Is it my naturally sunny disposition? The fact that in Wisconsin, the land of my more recent ancestry, my teams always lose, or the fact that as I get older I just have a lower and lower tolerance for bullshit?
I wonder if I'm related to Hillel's contemporary, Akavya ben Mahalael? I wonder if it matters? "Reflect upon three things and you will not come within the power of sin: know where you come from; where you are going; and before whom in the future you will have to give account and reckoning. You come from a fetid drop (that's sperm and egg.) You are going to a place of dust, worm and maggots (that's presuming the "cool" thing at death is still burial.) And we will all have to answer before the Supreme King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed be God." Never a comfortable proposition. And less autonomous than 23 pairs of chromosomes.
Call me stupid for not realizing that there was a genetic answer to eradicating poverty, war and greed but it seems to me that Jewish gatherings that encourage genetic marking so that insights into Jewish identity can be celebrated are nothing less than a monumental waste of resources. And hey, people have the right to spend their money in whatever way they want, right? Right!
So here's my deal, full disclosure. At my shul we don't care where you come from. We care about where you're going. And if you want to invest in that, great. Be present.
We offer a swab-free shot at being who YOU are, in our Jewish community in Brooklyn.
In the meantime, I'll leave it to the Sander Gilmans of the world to figure out what kind of sick joke it is that some communal professionals play with philanthropic dollars by mapping the Jewish gene pool for a super hip continuity game. It's not too far removed from the shmuck who gets off the train at Union Square with his iPod at full throttle, in blissful, digitized ignorance of the outstretched hand that asks for food or, perish the thought, money.
Some maps, on a grid, lead you to another space, on the grid. And other maps, on the pages of a book, or experienced in community, lead you to places you or anyone else you've ever been related to, has never been.
Between "never been" and a "map to nowhere," I wonder where you stand?
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- Randi said...
^^lurker in a far-away flyover state is standing and applauding this post^^
This argument could also be used against the recent premise of Israeli historian Shlomo Sand: http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/18203/inventing-israel/
I know practicing Catholics who discover they have the "cohen-Y" chromosome and suddenly declare themselves a crypto-Jew. And many in the Jewish community encourage this notion! As a giyoret, I find this supremely annoying. I suppose genetic or geneological reasons are as good as any to spark an interest in Judaism--but the privilege that chromosomal information is given is just ridiculous.
Thank-you, Rabbi Bachman, for this post. - October 19, 2009 at 11:46 PM
- Andy Bachman said...
Right on.
- October 20, 2009 at 12:05 AM
- Ross said...
Question any wise Jew would ask himself is -- can I re-gift the free DNA test?
- October 25, 2009 at 3:54 PM
- Andy Bachman said...
Yes, regift it. Or trade it like junk bonds and baseball cards.
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Its actually working now, not sure why. I have another problem though which i will post in a seperate thread as its unrelated
lol. I have the same problem, and was just about to post the question. In my case, I have a static IP on my VPS, but wasn't asked the question, so no, I did not type * anywhere. I used the standard install mode. I was asked for a FQDN, which I entered as "hostname.mydomain.net.au" Also, I don't have any domains on my server yet. I have a couple DNS nameservers pointing at it, but not setup in ISPConfig yet. Cheers, Nap
That ok. Falkos answer is not related to the installer at all and the question of the first poster is about a website that he created in ispconfig and not the installer. If you dont add a domain, then you will see the standard apache webpage of course.
I was expecting the ISPConfig Welcome screen to show up. That's a DoS attack if I ever seen one (and I haven't). For testing, I've been using the IP and the Linode FQDN for my server, but I would like to prevent that real soon. Is that something I do through ISPConfig, or by tweaking the Apache2 config file? A million + 1 thanks, Nap
To test a website on your server, you will have to use the domain name of the website, not the IP and you have to create the website first of course. You can not expect to see a website that you havent created yet, apache can not guess what you might want to see if you dont create a website first. If you havent registered a domain yet, then take a look at the faq on how to access namebased apache vhosts without dns record. And dont edit any apache vhost files from ispconfig manually, just add the website in ispconfig.


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In Memphis in the mid-1980s it was a row of brick apartments, sitting perpendicular to Belvedere, between Poplar and Madison. I don't know who owned those apartments, but I know that every tenant there was an alcoholic tradesman and there was a year or two lived in those cubicles which most of them would like to forget.
I treaded lightly on those grounds and tried not to stay too long at any one time. I was dreadfully fearful of catching whatever the virus was which led these men to become permanent members of this community. I had several friends who had become tenants in these so-called "apartments" and I must admit that I did enjoy their company when it was time to toss back a few.
My best friend was Steve, the acne-scarred guitarist and drywall hanger. Steve was from a well-to-do family in Virginia. His dad had been a test pilot during the early days of The Right Stuff. He was the black sheep of the family, but there was genius underneath that scruff he carried like a badge of honor. During these days in the mid-1980's, he drank only enough to become witty and have flashy fingers with that six-string. He and I would serenade the crowd most evenings, while they dug a hole and started a fire in the wooded area fronting the apartments. There was a horseshoe pit and a dart board nailed to a tree and plenty of empty milk crates on which to sit and sing. The trees had that sort of Memphis old-growth forest feel, and I suppose they protected us from a lot of neighborly scrutiny. We could have used more scrutiny. It might have saved some folks from falling off that edge which is always just there, right there, one or two more steps away.
The parties would begin each day around five PM, if the weather was good. Those summer afternoons seemed to stay light forever, and Steve and I would entertain until our fingers got tired and we'd had maybe just one too many drinks. It was the days when the weather was bad when the problems seemed to arise. You see, these guys were painters, carpenters, plumbers, etc. and on rainy days, their work was often called off. That's when the drinking would begin around noon, inside, in those dingy apartments. By afternoon on those rainy days, it would have been unusual if someone wasn't bleeding or suffering serious psychological damage before bedtime.
Much of that damage was inflicted by George, the Irishman with the huge dick and the short temper. George's white-blonde hair fell in wisps over his ruddy forehead and sometimes almost hid his blue eyes rolling crazy in his head. He had the body of a middleweight and hands that went through walls on a regular basis. George would find a window of comedic genius for about an hour each day, but the time preceding that hour would be filled with quiet introspection and the time after that funny, funny hour had passed would usually be filled with mindless violence. Why was George so mad at the world?
George's brother, Hal, was married to a nice young lady named Sandy and they had a couple of kids together. The fly in the ointment was the fact that George had been banging Hal's wife for months. Sandy was in terminal lust with that huge Irish dick George carried around with him. Apparently there was only one Great White Whale in the family, and she'd picked the wrong brother for scratching her itch. So George felt this intense love for his brother's wife and this intense hatred for himself for those feelings. Many limbs were broken and much blood was shed due to this internal conflict going on inside this inebriated Viking.
Charlie was another mainstay in the group of screwball sots. Charlie was one of the few who actually had regular girlfriends. His favorite was a slightly overweight blonde who, according to his nightly recitations, had the most beautiful pussy on earth. Charlie's usual comparison was to a perfect butterfly with symmetrical pink wings. She didn't mind the homages to her nether regions, if her quiet smiles were any indication. What she did mind was when she came by one afternoon and found Charlie banging an underage runaway in the doorway of his apartment, yelling out to those of us sitting in the woods, "Hey, come get some of this, boys! We can make a sandwich with her!" Rose was the runaway's name, and I think she might have been fourteen. None of us were in the mood for a Rose sandwich that day. Butterfly pussy had seen enough degradation for one lunch period, however. We never saw her again.
Charlie liked to brag about the fact that he'd spent a few months in prison and had swapped blow jobs with some inmates. He said he wasn't a queer, but he'd be damned if he was going more than a week without sticking his dick somewhere wet. That mythos he kept spinning got one of the tradesmen in real trouble one night.
Dave was the one with some actual business sense. He was making plans on becoming the contractor instead of the contractee. If he could have stayed clear of the quarts of beer, he might have actually realized his dream. Dave had a hard time with women, and I don't really know why. He wasn't a bad-looking guy, and (as I said), he had ambition more than most. But one late night, Charlie was spinning his homoerotic jail tales, and Dave said something that led Charlie to believe that he'd like to swap one of these theoretical blow jobs, "just to see what it feels like." Charlie was not shy to live up to his promise, and Dave was not the same the next morning, or since.
Roy was the Charles Manson-lookalike who had more DWI's than any other person I've ever known in my life. At last count, he had fourteen and was still out of jail and itching to get behind the wheel of someone's car. The MADD organization had posters of ol' Roy up in their offices. He was quite proud of pointing out the fact that he'd not killed one innocent person while driving. Yet.
Robert was the night manager at the nearby Post Office. His daily routine was to begin drinking around 10 AM each day and drink steadily until 9 PM when it was time to begin his shift. He'd take his bicycle (too many DWI's for Robert, too) and wobble his way to work, where he'd unlock his office door, lock it back after entering, and sleep for eight hours on the payroll of the USPS. This went on for over a year before they found the courage to fire him. Robert immediately sued for wrongful dismissal, and six months later was awarded with all his back pay and an apology. This is an example of your tax dollars at work in an ambulance chasing America.
There were a dozen or so apartments in this little brick complex, and each one of them held a similar story: Stories that seemed somehow romantic to the almost homeless men who were living them. These stories scared me into marriage, and I'd like to think I just happened to be the one who saw the light a bit earlier than the rest. Unfortunately, that didn't turn out to be the case.
Steve wound up drinking whisky straight out of the bottle each day so that by sunset he was totally incapable of picking up a guitar, let alone playing a chord. He has been in and out of detox facilities since those days in Memphis. The last time I spoke to him, he could only slur enough syllables for me to realize that it was not going to end well.
George wound up moving back in with his mother when he lost one job too many from not showing up. Hal and Sandy got a divorce and moved as far away from the Irish terror as they could.
Charlie wound up in jail for a long time when he got talked into a drunken "operation redemption" from a 7-11 one night.
Dave killed himself. Charlie took no responsibility for the death.
Roy finally got the MADD crowd down on him so hard that his final DWI landed him in jail for ten years.
Robert went to architectural school with the money from the Post Office. I'm not sure if he finished or whatever happened to him. I think it's a government secret.
When you see a group of drunken tradesmen living as a group and having the time of their lives, take a snapshot. It won't last long. Not too many decades ago, they would have all been recruited for some mindless battle and a currently noble cause would have solved the problem of growing old. . . Alone. . . Drunk.
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Innocent but he just from the cold streak in the back of your courage a lot of the -- -- over. Yeah -- a perfect line looked like at third base line and those guys is so. Yeah I I can tell you that I got a nine year old and a utility that and the next day I'm not -- kidney he had it he had the exact thing in my what are you doing. Because he was watching the game and though is that -- do this see what happens when you gotta be kidding me it would seriously and become a trend. It's determine what kind of people feel TV and keep on that back you know that next few weeks so that this. Mr. this theology and think they can make it work and number -- -- you know so it does start something and continues for a national stretch frustrated that -- that baseball. Yeah and they you know even yesterday they they walk you intentionally NH is obviously your swing is is is locked in it's not just -- five home runs and at the quality of your at -- the entire weekend so do you feel like. Maybe for the first time all year that you are locked in right now. Yeah figures as the first the first we can receive the pretty good week in the years since then that despite the most like that have been. And now. You know however the plate. And see -- pretty well from playing it in him miners on the senate side got the talking quite a bit to come back. Now is that you are a lot accurately that black candidate. And I like I don't know management like partners caught. I'd -- to iPad. He's young and everybody man could take it down I gave it up as -- It was pretty funny if he would react like that such a close game and treatment here but undertone that. Yeah you know huge -- for their -- you know drive in the winning run in two days in a -- yeah. That was big. How district we talked a lot we talked all season about this just them the mental side is what is something like this do for you mentally from a confidence standpoint. They make you -- -- in -- better ball player in May not have. Joker barriers every year for you're you know drug dirty hit thirty -- elect you know we want to let. We got a notice there's chocolate and and the good thing is this happening while still relatively young and I can you know -- at all this year going policies and think about it. On the big picture industry has been playing great baseball now means SE second at bat well and that's what. Really in the big picture -- united on and the rest you know what to do and has just released on your partner on the watch. All right what we have we threw this out on Twitter and -- amazingly enough did not give -- the surprise. We have a surprise -- He ready player. You know you're not happy with surprises trash like surprises. Well a lot of surprises. Iran and Syria. Daniel -- does that send on the phone with us -- WWE superstar Daniel -- we know about the beard off. And we thought we reduced -- you know we thought we would dead if killed Redick the -- is. It wears a beard out right now Josh. If it's growing back. You know it's one of those processes that you're gonna buy -- been on this which are shorter here you know my whole career to get stuck on. You know sitting -- it can work from I -- we kept that in. You know -- -- same question -- and the late. It's kind of a difference. You know something -- -- -- wherever it is they could be a big you know Chinese thing for him and his company mr. -- advocate more. In thumbs down. That it has been great art within this year much of -- and deputies and not that excited to be apartment and -- the good thing it -- Mike -- is back in quickly. Daniel Daniel Bryan joins us at WWE a superstar was that a concession speech Daniel. Yeah. How could there what do. How. 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Might be it because it will be right and wouldn't you. Agree to -- the deal to everybody about and he would -- -- -- -- -- Yeah all the only thing that. Appreciate all -- Does that -- that it -- Sadr City and in this league right you go all over the next week that picture right. Do wish record but where exactly and summer in the -- during. Are bigger media for the biggest of the summer for a -- -- -- that -- -- championships. Unfortunately will be able to make it make it to wanna begin about. Outside portion of luck with that even though we are in the pickup. He's being too nice not to. You. And -- and -- don't -- I don't you know I completely meters and. -- go to the meat beat the unit no chance of your beard out. -- it there you can still believe it -- -- -- They're pretty -- But how can. Get up and hurt and yeah. Allen about the Teddy got Toronto right -- the defense. Actually I don't you -- drop down. I -- on the radio I'm so cup on the radio. The radio. You get that Twitter all the Hubert out thereto. Yet you will fight anybody in the and you have sort of perfect example from. Quoting Mickey Avalon backed. Up. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Iowa I'll play there are few and actually you quoted the can be. We got Daniel Bryan and Josh radical course they have the beard off going Daniel is going to be in town like you said a smack down in San Jose. And then on the eighteenth summer slam on paper view like you said Daniel thanks for stopping by the show we appreciate -- and I think -- it Redick soccer -- deal I guess. The that the -- the last note for -- conduct went out and grow a -- -- He laid it out at common template knuckle area that is coming or not shape it the pregnancy that. You have my word. Do you others there's Daniel O'Brien all right. But what did you think of the surprise did you -- don't come article it you know I don't know. I didn't I didn't in feeling. This present something written in the latest apparent count yeah. 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"If you cannot be chaste, be cautious"
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#13208 closed bug (fixed)
JS error trying to get the id of the document in IE8
Reported by: | tj.vantoll | Owned by: | gibson042 |
Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | 1.9.1 |
Component: | event | Version: | git |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked by: | Blocking: |
See http://jsfiddle.net/tj_vantoll/tg2VU/ and click on the link in IE8.
I get a JS error from this block in Sizzle:
Expr.filter["ID"] = function( id ) { var attrId = id.replace( runescape, funescape ); return function( elem ) { //The error occurs here when trying to call getAttribute //on the document itself return elem.getAttribute("id") === attrId; }; };
Couple of things:
- There needs to be an id listener attached to the document. It doesn't need to do anything, but it must be there.
- This seems specific to tables, if I switch the <table> with a <div> the problem does not occur.
- The issue does not occur in IE7, IE9, or the latest Chrome and Firefox. It seems specific to IE8.
I was unable to debug this any deeper on my own.
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comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by gibson042
- Resolution set to worksforme
- Status changed from new to closed
I am unable to reproduce on jquery-1.8.3 or jquery-git with IE7 or IE8. Please let us know if you continue to observe this behavior.
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by gibson042
- Component changed from unfiled to event
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by tj.vantoll
It's an IE8 only issue. I see it on http://jsfiddle.net/tj_vantoll/tg2VU/show in both a real IE8 install as well as IE8 via BrowserStack.
The link is successfully removed but I do get a JS error.
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by gibson042
- Resolution worksforme deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
Ah, I see now. Removing the ancestor element makes its parent a DocumentFragment for further event processing, which is invalid input for Sizzle. Sneaky.
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by gibson042
- Owner set to gibson042
- Status changed from reopened to assigned
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by mikesherov
Tsk tsk. You should know better than to challenge the king of all triagers: tj.vantoll. :)
comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by Richard Gibson
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed
Fix #13208: only check elements for delegation matches
Changeset: fc2ba2e1361126c39f955437ee025cfca3bffa65
comment:8 Changed 4 years ago by gibson042
- Milestone changed from None to 1.9.1
comment:9 Changed 3 years ago by dcherman
This seems like it may still be an issue in the 2.X branch. Here's a repro case ( tested in Chrome Latest ):
comment:10 Changed 3 years ago by dmethvin
dcherman can you open a new ticket? Tagging onto old tickets is not good, even if it might be the same problem. Thanks!
comment:11 Changed 3 years ago by navjot.singh@…
I am having the same problem. Can you tell the solution to this problem ?


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GULLANE, Scotland (AP) — Louis Oosthuizen and Peter Hanson withdrew from the British Open because of injuries midway through their first rounds on Thursday. Oosthuizen, the 2010 Open champion, was 4 over through eight holes when he pulled out after teeing off on No. 9. The South African says "as the round progressed, the pain in my neck translated into my hips and I found it increasingly uncomfortable to walk." Oosthuizen withdrew from last month's U.S. Open at Merion after the first round, citing a hip problem. Hanson, a Swede who played for Europe at last year's Ryder Cup, lasted just five holes before pulling out with a back injury that had troubled him before the tournament. He was 2 over par. © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. |


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To me, 'flutter' suggests uneven, rather uncontrolled power that might come when a bird is injured, A.
The bird fluttered its wings a few times and fell back to the ground.
'flap' is a word that you could use.
The bird flapped its wings and rose / flew off into the sky.
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Sexes and young similar DistributionFound in south-western and southern Europe, North Africa and east over Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to western Xinjiang (China). Mainly resident, but migratory in East. TaxonomySubspecies[1]There are 3 subspecies:
A fourth subspecies, sericea, is not recognised by all authorities[2] HabitatBreeds in dense, rather tall and often well-delimited vegetation, preferably near but not in water, e.g. in drier tall reeds with scattered bushes, stands of papyrus, willow, bamboo, various thick bushes etc.; sometimes breeds near human habitation, in thickly wooded parkland, beside reservoirs and canals etc. BehaviourGenerally keeps concealed in vegetation, often hops on ground or low down in shrubbery. DietThe diet includes insects and larvae. BreedingNests low down in dense vegetation. The 3-6 eggs are laid in a nest which is built in a bush near water. References
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MC students Taylor Bembery, Winston Curry, Tenesha Hughes, Ivory Jones, Crystal Killingsworth, Kourtney Paige and Tiffany Thompson got a taste of the life of a foreign correspondent by participating in a training simulation conducted by the Army ROTC program at Jackson State on Feb. 22. Students were prepped on the training exercise, which was designed as a humanitarian aid mission to the Central African Republic. The students participated as part of the Broadcast Documentary class taught by Olivia Goodheart, visiting instructor and chair of the department's Advisory Council.
"We were quite fortunate to have six JSU Mass Communications Department students involved on Saturday," said Lt. Colonel Travis Smith, professor of military science. "Some of the students served as embedded media on the patrolling lanes, while others interviewed my Cadet battalion Leadership and other Cadets on the weekend's training and on Army ROTC in general. We are looking forward to seeing their articles and videos.
The student journalists further developed our Cadets' critical thinking skills and turned the event into a first class training opportunity," Smith added.


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mobilephone.app CRASHI'm not sure if I am putting this in the right place, but I spent about an hour and half restoring after this problem happened, and I am wondering if anyone could give me some help.
I installed the newest version of the retro dialer recently, and it was working fine. I wanted to change the look to the ALT version, so I did. Then, after working perfectly for about two days, yesterday, everytime I went to use mobilephone.app, it crashed to the springboard. I couldn't get to favorites, voicemail, or even dial a single number. The only way I could call someone was directly from my contacts icon on the homescreen. After trying to reinstall the dialer for about an hour, I gave up, and restored.
I've since re-jailbroken, but I am very nervous about replacing my dialer. I LOVED the retro look, but not enough to warrant a full restore every couple of days.
Any help that anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.
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i have the same problem as you have, i cant open mobile phone just crashes and its after updating retro dialer, and this really s--ks, i am on 1.1.4, and i have every single app working through fixes or modifications and it would be a real huge headache to have to restore my phone,.... is there a fix for this that anyone knows of so that i do not have to restore, ... thanks to anyone who puts in their time in helping me out.
I had the same issue, however my retro dialar lasted for probably about 1.5 weeks before it started crashing. To be honest tho, I think it had to do with caterpillar's 2 day trial running out. I had to do a full restore, which worked out well for me anyways as I was still running 1.1.3. 1.1.4 seems to be quicker and more stable.
Bottom line is that I wont be messing with either app.
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The more I am reading, I think that the expiration of Caterpillar may have been the culprit. I am curious to know, however, if uninstalling that program would have solved my problem...Any takers??
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Uninstalling caterpillar is not easy. It puts files deep into your iphone, all over the place. I found a post somewhere about a guy who emailed ripdev asking for correct uninstallation procedures, but he said after he did them there was still stuff left over from caterpillar. You could also try deleting files via SSH, but that could be dangerous as well. Your best bet is probably to stick with the restore.
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Wow- I didn't know that about Caterpillar. Considering I only really wanted to try it for the font switching capabilities, I'll be happy to wait for FontSwap to return rather than try Caterpillar again. IMHO, if Caterpillar wants people to subscribe, rather than rendering the phone app useless, maybe add a pop up reminder. Just a thought...
hey guys i was just running the two day trial with caterpillar.. it was working fine for the two days and then when it wouldnt let me use their settings my phone app starting crashing. I was about to restore before I came to this. I uninstalled it and everything is working now. To uninstall it you open it up hit uninstall and switch everything to off. Then i uninstalled it on the installer. Just thought that would help.
A similar thing happened to me guys, but with the Kate beta on installer 4.0 beta. Way too many betas there, no wonder had some problems. 8-) Yeah running 1st gen on 2.0.1 pwn'd... working perfectly till installed Kate, then phone app problems. could only call from contacts icon like previous poster. I found that uninstalling Kate from the installer 4.0 app solved everything without even restarting the phone let alone having to re-jailbreak... Maybe the same with Caterpillar. Hope this helps some of you.
just remembered Caterpillar is the same program as Kate so should fix all your problems. Hope works for u allLast edited by DrAIR; 08-13-2008 at 10:16 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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08-15-2008, 06:19 AM #10iPhone 'Phone app' crashing
Same situation just happened to me over lunchtime today - able to send receive SMS - able to make calls through the Contacts app, but the Phone app froze at the Dialler and bounced back to the springboard.
I've been using 2.0.1 for about a week with no issues and had no idea why this sudden problem appeared. I systematically removing the last few apps I had installed and it seems sure enough, as DrAIR pointed out that the *KATE Beta* was the cause of the problem.
If I've learned anything from this then it's perhaps wise to at least think about researching any new apps you'd like to install - but where's the fun in that!
EDIT: - I heard that apparently the problem is caused by a clash between KATE and the DOCK. I don't have much time to look into this atm, but perhaps there's a way to disable the standard dock. Has anyone come across this yet?Last edited by SteveDave; 08-19-2008 at 06:38 PM.
Ive already unnistaled Kate but PhoneApp still crashes Ive rebooted already... Ideias?
EDIT: Ok, ive arranjed myself by going into Rip Dev Prefs and disabling Kate features (All of them)... It worked, PhoneApp works againLast edited by bronxmad; 08-19-2008 at 09:07 AM.
08-24-2008, 06:49 PM #12It was Kate
Uninstalling Kate did it for me to. Now my phone app is working.
Don't bother with the one hour or longer restore, just uninstall or disable Kate.
Kate, phone.app, retrodialer, can't dial, Caterpillar, retro dialer, phone appLast edited by notluf; 08-25-2008 at 10:23 PM.
I am having the same problem after having jailbroken a vanilla 3G with 2.0.2 and started playing with Themes.
I don't have Kate installed, nor used any of the Installer. The only progs I used were Cydia and Customize. I have applied complete and partial themes from Customize which I suspect might be causing this problem.
I'm looking for debugging tools for processes to help me find that problem. Any pointers on where to find truss, strace, ktrace or similar tool for iPhone OS?
After some tests with my iPhone I figured that my problem is different from what others are experiencing but it's related to a 3rd party App! BossPrefs.
In my case, I have toggled Edge to off in BossPrefs and for some reason this was crashing mobilephone.app.
My guess is that my phone has Visual Voicemail and I guess it uses Edge to talk to the VVM switch so when I turn off Edge from BossPrefs the mobilephone.app crashes and would not load? hope this helps someone who has VVM and toggled Edge off with BossPrefs.Last edited by EdmondB; 08-30-2008 at 08:10 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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Thanks guys. After uninstalling Kate, everything worked well. I'm running Firmware 2.0.1 on my 8gb iPhone. I was wondering why I wasn't able to make any calls and my phone app kept crashing. Again, thanks a lot.
thnx uninstalling kate did it
Same here. Kate was at fault for crashing my MobilePhone.app.
Just wanted to add that I also experienced this with mobilephone.app after installing Kate.
MobilePhone.app disappears shortly after opening.
MobilePhone.app crashes after opening.
After reading this thread I uninstalled Kate - which crashed my springboard and pulled all the icons out of my "Categories" and made a huge mess......but it was easily cleaned up (go into "Categories" and remove all the icons from the folders - re-spring and then put them back in) and I can now use the mobilephone.app again without any issues.
Problem Solved.
Ok - tech stuff out of the way with.
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I always thought that Cydia being open source was a better idea - but I liked the idea of it having a competitor too.......competition breeds improvement and all that good stuff...
From my recent experiences I am starting to think the installer.app's days are numbered....
This is the 3rd time in 3 weeks I have contemplated restoring my iphone and starting again. The last 2 times I actually did restore it. But since this was the second time I had come up against the same issue (mobilephone.app not working) I thought I might try and fix it this time.
The first time I restored it I was installing something (cant even remember what it was) from installer 4 and springboard crashed and kept crashing like every minute or 2. This in itself wasn't a problem - everything still worked - but every time it crashed it re-arranged all my icons.....
Doesn't sound so bad? Every time I went to do anything at all on my phone, in my portable games machine or watch anything on my TV or listen to some music OR surf the net on my PC I would have to spend a couple of minutes trying to track down where the damn icon had gone.....spread over 4 or 5 pages this can take a while.... (I use my iphone to do all those things "most" of the time excepting perhaps the web surfing which is probably more like half the time)
It was really annoying - the sort of thing that will eventually have you hurling your phone into the toilet and taking a dump on it just for the satisfaction of knowing you have laid as much **** on it as much as it did on you.....
Anyways - to cut a long story short(er). Until I find a really compelling reason to make me believe otherwise I am going to treat all apps in installer as being in beta (as well as installer itself) and only install them if I have some time to kill fixing my phone.
Cydia FTW!
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I also edited the tags so that hopefully others wont spend as much time trying to find a solution as I did.Last edited by SandersOnSite; 10-09-2008 at 05:52 PM. Reason: spelling / punctuation / credit where credit was due.
12-11-2008, 07:41 PM #18turned all of it off, uninstalled kate and "ripDev preferences" and still wont work!!
can anyone help me? i have had the same problem for about a day now and i turned everything inside of the the kate settings to "off" then uninstalled it from installer along with "RipDev Preferences" and my mobilephone.app still wont work!!
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did you reboot. try a complete power down twice
12-15-2008, 07:04 PM #20restore...
yeah, i tried every remedy i could find on here but none of it worked and i couldn't find a replacement for mobilephone.app, and i was in need of my phone this week because its finals week. too busy for problems, so i just did a restore.. hopefully any of you will have more luck/time than i did.


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Special: You take a -2 penalty to perception skill checks, as the chaotic wispering in your head distracts you easily.
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The video game industry's 2006 E3 Expo trade show in Los Angeles is getting a make-over — banned are the swarms of sexy, semi-clad "booth babes" that in years past took the unveiling of new games and technology to titillating new levels.
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Rules prohibiting the use of scantily clad young women to peddle video games are nothing new, but the handbook for this year's show in May outlines tough new penalties, including a $5,000 fine on the spot for the booth owner if the "booth babe" is semi-clad.
"What's new in 2006 is an update and clarification of the enforcement policies; as we do from time to time, we have taken steps to ensure that exhibitors are familiar with the policy and how it will be enforced," Mary Dolaher, E3 Expo show director, said in an e-mail.
She did not comment on the reasons for the change.
The video game industry has come under fire from federal and local politicians, who want to limit sales of violent and sexually explicit games to minors.
The handbook from the Entertainment Software Association, the show's promoter, says: "Material, including live models, conduct that is sexually explicit and/or sexually provocative, including but not limited to nudity, partial nudity and bathing suit bottoms, are prohibited on the show floor, all common areas, and at any access points to the show."
Exhibitors would receive one verbal warning when a violation occurs. Upon a second violation, the ESA said it would impose a $5,000 penalty, payable immediately on the site. It would also require that models comply with the dress code before returning to the floor.
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Why Mittal chose Vittal
CommentsBharti Airtel: Why Sunil Mittal chose Gopal Vittal
In his first stint at BhartiAirtel, between 2006 and 2008,GopalVittal made himself popular — and unpopular — by redefining the relationship between operations and marketing in India's largest telecom company. "Prior to that, each business head designed his offerings and then went to the marketing team, which worked with ad agencies," says a top Bharti executive who worked closely with Vittal, not wanting to be identified.
As head of marketing, Vittal turned that communication flow into a two-way street: he started suggesting changes in the consumer offerings and the business plan. "For the first time, the business heads were challenged by the marketing team," adds the executive. "Some even alleged he was trying to take over their businesses." Well, Vittal will from March 1, as CEO of Bharti's Indian operations.
Vittal declined to speak to ET for this story. But those who have seen him work at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) and Bharti say he can challenge established patterns without seeming cavalier, be instinctive and yet result-oriented, be entrepreneurial even in congested corporate environments, and connect well across the hierarchy. He is capable, they say, of changing a well-worn picture.
Kishore Biyani, who worked with Vittal as a trade partner, calls him a "highly intelligent thinker and strategist". "He has strong entrepreneurial instincts, is willing to take risks and is very passionate about his work," chimes in A Mahendran, managing director of Godrej Consumer Products, adding that Vittal is one of the few professionals in India with a high success record.
Vittal's has been a rapid but understated, tangible but under-documented rise: in charge of 74 per cent of HUL's 2008 revenues of Rs 20,601 crore at the age of 39, and now endowed with the onerous responsibility of reversing the alarming decline in profitability at the Rs 1,21,900 crore Bharti, by possibly retooling it. His 23-year career can be seen in four acts, as a series of arrivals and departures across two of India's most respected companies.
ACT I: HUL, Stint I
Straight after an MBA from IIM-Calcutta in 1990, Vittal joined HUL, the coveted choice of B-school grads. Marketing was his specialisation, and he took up positions as a brand manager and a marketing manager. In his early years, he did two stints as an area sales manager, worked in Brooke Bond (a group company) and handled skincare brands.
One of his HUL milestones was Project Bharat, a rural-reach strategy that incentivised people in rural areas to try HUL products. Vans went to villages carrying packages containing a selection of HUL products to be sold at two-thirds their combined price.
According to Dalip Sehgal, ex-director, HUL, Vittal caught the management's eye—especially that of MS 'Vindi' Banga, chairman from 2000 to 2004— with his ability to join the dots to make a story for the consumer.
"He sifted out unwanted data and simplified it into coherent plans," says Sehgal, who has worked with Vittal in HUL.
"He is perceptive and can see through the maze to arrive at workable points." R Balki, chairman and chief creative officer of ad agency Lowe Lintas & Partners, describes Vittal as "one of the most complete marketers" he has met. "He's got instincts, rigour and logic," he says. Balki recounts how Vittal approved Surf Excel's first 'Daag Ache Hain' film.
"He was having dinner somewhere. We literally barged in and told him the idea, and he approved it. It's always felt like working with someone who understands the power of communication." Vittal rose through the ranks to head the home and personal care (HPC) business of HUL, its biggest.
"He showed exceptional execution skills while heading it," Banga, now senior partner at UK-based PE fund Clayton Dubilier & Rice, told ET over phone from Dublin.
ACT II: Bharti, Stint I
In 2006, Bharti promoter Sunil Mittal lured Vittal to take charge as the company's marketing head.
"Mittal believed people from FMCG could fit in laterally as the nature of businesses was similar," says a current Bharti senior official who worked closely with Vittal in this period. ET spoke to six current and former Bharti executives on Vittal, none of whom were willing to come on record. The dominant narrative that emerges is that Vittal changed Bharti's marketing strategy to cater to the mass market.
This was the time when telecom companies were looking beyond the metros. Bharti, on its part, started looking beyond the top 10 cities, at the next 30 cities and towns, which housed about 350 million customers.
"A change in mindset was required as competition in smaller towns was largely from regional players and BSNL, and larger operators were seen as being more expensive," says the Bharti official quoted above. Powered by offerings tailored for these new markets, Bharti's subscriber base increased to 122 million in January 2009, against 33.6 million in January 2006.
The company came up with new offerings such as small top-ups of Rs 15-20.
"Some of these changes were led by inputs from the marketing team, which began working closely with people on the ground as well as agencies that collected customer feedback," this official says. But such engagements shook traditional equations in Bharti. "The operation teams never had marketing ask for changes in voucher denominations, or demand packages tailormade to suit their campaigns," says the official.
The Bharti officials ET spoke to outline two other significant Vittal contributions that broke new ground for the company and have endured: segmenting customers to make them targeted offerings, and bundling handsets with Airtel plans. Yet, they add, much as Vittal sought a deeper engagement between marketing and operations, his hands were tied beyond a point. Vittal left Bharti in mid-2008, but he had left his imprint.
ACT III: HUL, Stint II
Five HUL executives ET spoke to say Vittal returned to the company largely at CEO Nitin Paranjpe's persuasion. He was reappointed head of the HPC businesses and also given a board seat, superceding several company executives.
"Of the entire HUL talent, I would rate Gopal as the most intelligent after Vindi Banga," says Amin Babwani, an independent consultant who has worked with HUL for three decades and has known Vittal for years. "Those who make it to the board generally do not have any history of failures," adds a senior HUL official, on the condition of anonymity.
But the HPC business was flailing: in the preceding three years, it had grown at a compounded annual rate of 5-6 per cent. Vittal went to work, along with Hemant Bakshi, then ED, sales and customer development.
With the objective of reviving growth, HUL cut prices, drew up new campaigns for key brands to give them a clear positioning, made 40 launches and relaunched 90 per cent of the HPC portfolio. Between 2008 and 2012, HPC revenues grew at a compounded annual rate of 14.7 per cent and operating profit at 10.5 per cent. Vittal could delegate without losing control, says a senior HUL official who was part of the HPC leadership team.
"He lets good ideas flourish and involved multiple partners to discuss ideas, find solutions and thrash out issues. He did not believe in silo meetings." Adds Babwani: "He was able to connect easily with every person in the hierarchy." Vittal, who was seen in the company as second only to Paranjpe, left HUL again in early-2012, a few months before the latter received a five-year extension as CEO. "He (Vittal) was leagues ahead of everybody," says Babwani.
"If it is anybody's loss, it is HUL's."
ACT IV: Bharti, Stint II
Vittal rejoined Bharti as director (special projects), removed from the tumult of operations. He has spent most of the past year at SingTel's Singapore and Australia operations to familiarise himself with the data and Internet business; he's also been at Japan's Softbank and Silicon Valley to orient himself in new business streams linked to mobility.
At a company offsite in Dubai in 2010, Sunil Mittal spoke about transforming Bharti from a "dumb pipe" (which carried data traffic, while others made money) to a "smart pipe" (which carried data traffic and also made money off it). Even as Vittal embarked on his global apprenticeship, many were tipping him for the top job to realise this very vision.
When he did officially anoint Vittal, Mittal said, in a press statement: "He has an outstanding record at Unilever and brings with him a wealth of experience in assimilating the consumer mindset, managing operations efficiently, winning with the customer, building brand and innovating to secure market leadership." With outgoing CEO Sanjay Kapoor leaving, and another top-deck rejig, the stage is set for Vittal to do what he was trying to do in his first stint, and more.
A former Bharti executive, who was on its management board, says Indian telecom has made a "generational shift" over the last four years. "We no longer sell a product, but an experience," he says. "So, it is not a connection, but a combination of services, data, better network quality, apps, music, specialised tariff packages for regions and social media. The end product is the outcome of multiple tieups with content providers, technology platforms, financial service providers and banks, social media firms, Internet giants and app developers." Banga is backing Vittal for success in telecom too.
"The training in FMCG is essentially about reaching the consumer and delighting them." he says. "And these learnings are applicable to not just FMCG or telecom but every other sector. And these learnings will certainly stand Gopal in good stead." Sehgal adds that, unlike FMCG, telecom is a daily call and it's also capital intensive.
"The condition of the sector is severe. Some of the best guys in the sector have seen the industry in its best of times and so the ability to approach the market differently is tough," he says.
"And that is where Gopal's strength lies—in the ability to create new rules."
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A Norwich man who sexually assaulted a 23-month-old boy he was babysitting because he wanted to "see how it would feel" will be sentenced in January to 10 years in prison, 10 years of strict probation and registration as a sexual offender.
Brian Clark, 22, whose last known address was 91 S. Second Ave., pleaded guilty this morning in New London Superior Court to risk of injury to a minor. He has been held in lieu of $250,000 bond since he was arrested in July 2011. Prosecutor Theresa Anne Ferryman and attorney Peter E. Scillieri worked out a plea agreement in which Clark will be sentenced Jan. 31 to 20 years in prison, suspended after 10 years served and 10 years probation.
According to prosecutor Ferryman, officials at The William W. Backus Hospital notified police that the toddler appeared to have been sexually assaulted. The child's mother said Clark, who regularly babysat her two children, had told her the boy was injured when he was playing with a battery-operated ATV. The mother said the child was in notable pain and had what appeared to be blood in his diaper.
Police interviewed Clark, who eventually confessed, according to court documents. He said he knew it was wrong but did not think he would be caught. He said it was the first time he had touched anyone inappropriately.
The victim's family members were not in the courtroom to hear Clark plead guilty, but will be interviewed about the impact of the crime during a presentencing investigation by the Department of Adult Probation. A woman who came in support of Clark left the courtroom in tears after he was led back to the courthouse lockup.
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