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I've never found a reason to abandon the "old way" of racking the slide - that is, gripping the cocking serrations between the thumb and the side of the index finger and using a pushing motion of the frame against the slide. It has always been more natural and feels much stronger to me than the overhand method. I sometimes use an overhand method when I am manually locking the slide to the rear or disassembling a gun, but even then, I'm still gripping the serrations between the pad of the thumb and the side of the index finger, instead of the way that has become more common with all the fingers touching the slide.
So what are the preferences here? What is the reason you prefer one over the other? Why the shift from the old way to the way that is more common now? Is it just the sodium fluoride in the water, or is there a good reason for this?
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I was taught the new way, and do the same every time. Thought the old way was well........the old way, lol
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it mostly depends on the gun and what i am doing. i will use the "old" method to lock the slide back on an empty chamber. I typically use the "new" method when checking to see if a pistol is loaded. to me, there is less vision obstruction when using the "new" method. I find that i use the old method more frequently when shooting my full size firearms when compared to either my G43 or LCP.
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It depends; if I'm ejecting a live round, I use the thumb/finger method to facilitate cartridge clearance. If I'm loading the chamber, I utilize the over hand method.
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This post did make me unload, which is rare, and just see what was my natural motion. I find that I over hand when the goal is simply to get one in the chamber, which is rare, because there's always one in the chamber, but I underhand with the gun upside down when I want to catch the round in the chamber when I rack to unload. I dunno. I realize how many times I never rack. I shoot to empty, then just use the slide release on a fresh mag (and then drop the mag to add one more ).
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Old way. Rear serrations. Also like the look of a smooth slide front. No need to keep my fingers, etc. at the muzzle.
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I pinch the slide which keeps it pointed downrange. If I overhand it, it tends to point sideways a bit. YMMD.
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Kevin Cheveldayoff's job is about to get a lot more difficult.
With the NHL trade deadline looming just over a week away—Feb. 27 for those counting—the Jets still find themselves within striking distance of the eighth and final playoff spot—only two points back of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Eastern Conference standings after a win over the Carolina Hurricanes last night. But Washington sits in ninth spot a point up, with two games in hand.
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A very interesting person from Kahnawake asked me to take a look at his house.
Because of his great admiration for beauty and design, I wanted to give his home a clean and elegant feel.
I appreciate the creative intention and the skill it took to decorate the railing in the fashion of the rays of the sun but since the new door has more of a formal style, I've opted to go in this direction.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
What to do about Uncle Freddie
So, a bit of context. We've been reading Bradley's book on Well Being & Death. I have to say that I think Bradley has to be right, but there are little issues along the way that bother me. Among them is the thought that your death is bad for you after your demise. If Freddie had not been hit by that bus, he would still be with us today and would have really loved to have seen the cousins. So, his death is bad for him when the cousins visit because that's what he has been deprived of. Since he would have loved the wedding we're planning, should we worry about the further deprivations it would cause him if we have it now rather than wait to have it until after he would have died had he not been hit by the bus?
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- Michael said...
I find these issues very interesting. I think it's obvious that having the wedding now can't harm him (compared to not having it), even more obvious that postponing it couldn't make a difference either way, but I'm not totally sure why.
One thought which I'm pretty sure is not at the heart of it, but worth thinking about, is this. In the situation described, it seems very natural to say "he would have wanted us to have the wedding", or whatever, and to use that as a reason to go on as normal. So you could argue that having the wedding now is better than postponing because that would better respect (what we take to be) the dead man's (hypothetical?) wishes. Then you could say either:
1. The goodness of doing what he would want outweighs the badness of
doing something nice he will have been deprived of by dying.
2. When the decision to have the wedding is mediated by consideration of his death and his wishes, it is not (numerically) the same wedding that would have occurred in the counterfactual situation where he didn't die. Thus he was not deprived of participating in *this* wedding because had he not died *this* wedding wouldn't have taken place. In which case, the goodness of respecting his wishes (not to mention the goodness of just having the wedding) stand unopposed.
Of these, 2 sounds to me closer to the mark, though probably still confused. But the basic idea is: we're not deprived of things whose happening is in some important way related to our death (and this has a sensible counterfactual analysis.) This seems pointing in the rightish direction, inasmuch as it promises to keep us from minimizing the actualization of new good things in order to minimize deprivation.
- June 21, 2011 at 12:00 AM
I'm strongly intuitively pulled to this rule: "never prevent welfare for the living as a means to decreasing deprivational harm for the dead"
But I'm not sure how to defend it within Bradley's framework.
In the wedding case utilitarian reasoning could justify not cancelling the wedding: a lot of living people would be worsened by that action and only Freddie would benefit (by losing less than in the wedding alternative). But what if Freddie and ALL the other 100 wedding guests died. Should the only survivors, the couple to be married, now cancel their wedding for the sake of less deprivation for the 101 dead?
- June 22, 2011 at 2:04 PM
initially i thought that 2 might be on the right track, but then the following situation occurred to me.
suppose that uncle freddie suffers an injury and doctors inform his family that he will remain comatose for one year. couldn't the family give the same type of reasoning in this case? that is, in deciding to have the wedding, it is not (numerically) the same wedding, since had he not been comatose *this* wedding would not have taken place. and so it is not *this* wedding that freddie is deprived of participating in. and if similar reasoning works for this sort of case, then what prevents his family from reasoning similarly for any type of absence?
ultimately i suspect that freddie's lack of existence, and thus his failure to suffer deprivation, has to come into play somewhere.
but i think what makes this case in particular so difficult is clayton's question that asks:
"Since he would have loved the wedding we're planning, should we worry about the further deprivations it would cause him if we have it now rather than wait to have it until after he would have died had he not been hit by the bus?"
i'm thinking it might have something to do with a difference in the way we view accidental death versus non-accidental death. i'm not at all sure about that though. however there does seem to be something more to the statement that asks whether we should wait to have the wedding until after he would have died had he not been hit by the bus versus the statement that asks whether we should wait to have the wedding until after he would have died had he not died of, say, old age.
- June 24, 2011 at 9:15 AM
- J.R. said...
What if (living) Uncle Freddie was at work when the cousins visited, and he never found out for the rest of his existence that he missed their visit, would that be bad for him?
It seems odd to say missing some specific possibility is bad for the person missing it if they never know about it. It seems as though in such scenarios we are speculating about possible worlds.
- June 25, 2011 at 6:53 AM
- David Gordon said...
I think that there is a problem with your wedding example. There is no reason to cancel the wedding after Uncle Fred's death, even if Uncle Fred's death is in part bad for him because he is deprived of attending the wedding. Cancelling the wedding now does not change the truth value of "Uncle Fred would have wanted to be at the wedding", so long as the wedding would still have been held had Uncle Fred been alive.
- July 13, 2011 at 11:14 PM
Uncle Freddie's going to be deprived of the wedding whether you have it or not. If you have it, he'll miss it because he's dead. If you don't have it, he'll miss it because it doesn't take place. Since his deprivation is inevitable, you can hold the wedding without being responsible in any relevant way for his deprivation.
Or am I missing something?
- July 18, 2011 at 11:00 AM
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In a defensive battle that saw just 13 shots taken from each team throughout the entire game, the first-seeded MIT men's soccer team fell to second-seeded Wheaton College, 1-0, in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship finals following a goal in the 79th minute at home on Sunday afternoon. The Lyons received an automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division III Tournament, while the Engineers will wait to see if they will receive an at-large bid.
Although the ball spent the opening minutes of the game deep in MIT territory, the defensive-minded Engineers allowed just one shot during the first 14 minutes, which was blocked before it got too close to the net. Sophomore keeper Jake Amereno (Commack, N.Y.), who played a huge hand in MIT advancing over Coast Guard in penalty kicks in the semifinal yesterday, had his first touch a minute later, a diving save off a Wheaton free kick. It was not until 30 seconds later that Tech got its first shot, taken by sophomore Sean Bingham (Garden City, N.Y.), but the ball sailed wide of the cage. The Lyons had their first promising opportunity at the 18 minute mark when Brian Kenny took a shot from afar that went just wide of the posts.
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Costly upkeep: Bethel wants to sell aging system to Aquarion
BETHEL -- Local officials are moving ahead with a proposal to sell the town's water system to Aquarion, one of the largest water companies in New England. Bethel's water system serves more than 3,300 households and businesses.
The $7.2 million sale is part of a nationwide trend as multinational corporations take over municipally owned water systems with aging infrastructure and costly capital improvements to meet environmental rules.
Three-fourths of Connecticut's population gets its drinking water from the state's 556 community water systems. Those systems serve as few as 25 households and businesses.
In the past two years, Aquarion has acquired 57 Connecticut water systems, including United Water, which serves parts of Bethel, Newtown and New Milford.
The proposal to sell Bethel's water system has been in negotiations for more than a year, according to First Selectman Matt Knickerbocker, and has been approved by the Board of Selectmen and the town's Public Utilities Commission.
Knickerbocker said the move was prompted by the need for more than $6 million in infrastructure improvements in coming years and the town's ongoing, unsuccessful battle against Danbury land-use officials to build a water storage tank near the Eureka Reservoir.
"When the tank was denied, for a third time, the next best thing is to connect into Aquarion's water system," Knickerbocker said. "It doesn't make financial sense for Bethel to be in the water business anymore."
But not everyone is happy about the move.
Taxpayer advocate and Bethel's former Public Utilities Commission member Billy Michael said that while he is on the fence about the proposal, he is troubled by how it was negotiated.
"The fact that the Public Utilities Commission has been negotiating the sale of our water and natural resources without any public knowledge for the past year should give every citizen in Bethel a chill down their spine," he said.
Michael said while it makes sense for a private enterprise to take over an inefficient system, he said he is worried about an Australia-based company owning the town's water supply.
As part of the deal, Knickerbocker said, Aquarion will pay the town back for the $2.5 million debt the water department owes the town's reserve fund.
During his first term as first selectman, Knickerbocker said he discovered the department had been using reserve funds to cover its operational costs for years.
Recent rate increases have erased most of the debt, he said, and the water department is running in the black.
However, he said, aging infrastructure and new federal environmental mandates will require more than $6 million in system improvements in the next five years.
Jack Betkowski, vice chairman of the state Public Utility Regulatory Authority, said because of economies of scale it makes sense for larger companies to take over smaller operations.
"It's becoming increasingly difficult for smaller water companies to sustain themselves," he said.
Betkowski said he's not worried about Aquarion monopolizing the region's water supply because the industry is heavily regulated.
"There is a system of checks and balances in place to protect the consumers and the ratepayers," he said.
But state Sen. Michael McLachlan, a Republican who represents Bethel, said he is troubled by Aquarion's request for a nearly 17 percent rate increase before PURA.
That comes on top of an 11 percent increase in 2010 and a 17 percent increase in 2007.
"The problem is these acquisitions are followed by big rate hikes because they have to fix the systems," McLachlan said. "Something is wrong with that model. People just can't afford it."
Knickerbocker said as part of the deal, Aquarion officials agreed to keep rates the same for Bethel residents for the next three years.
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ASTON, Pa. (AP) – Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto are hoping to upgrade that silver medal from the 2006 Olympics in Vancouver.
The ice dancers appeared along with a number of other skaters and coaches Thursday as part of what was dubbed a Destination Vancouver Kick-Off Celebration at the IceWorks Skating Complex.
"We know firsthand how the experience changes you, what it means and how indescribable it is,'' Belbin said. "We know what it takes to get there and everything that goes along with it.''
Including the sacrifices.
Belbin and Agosto are the most successful ice dancers the U.S. has produced. In addition to their silver from the Turin Games, they won the silver medal at the world championships in March and are fivetime U.S. champions.
But after a rare finish off the podium at the 2008 worlds, the two decided they needed to make a change. They left their longtime coaches and the lives they'd built in Detroit and came to suburban Philadelphia to train with Olympic gold medalists Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov.
The team had a setback last fall when Agosto suffered a back injury that forced them to withdraw from the U.S. championships. But they returned in time for worlds, where they finished second to training partners Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia.
"I had a really serious back injury, but today it feels phenomenal,'' Agosto said. "It's the strongest I've ever felt in my entire skating career.''
And now they've got their sights set on Vancouver.
They officially kick off the Olympic season next week, when they compete at the Cup of China, their first Grand Prix assignment.
"After Torino in 2006, looking ahead to 2010 seemed like an eternity,'' Agosto said. "But the time has really flown by and it has been an incredible experience as we try to do it again.''
Other skaters who attended the press conference included: Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali, Italian ice dance champions and current European silver medalists; and Kim Navarro and Brent Bommentre, who were third at the last two U.S. championships.
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As a former Virginian, I'm all too aware of the asshatery that is Pat Robertson. I once lived a short distance from his colonial palace cum religious law school and occasionally saw some of his on-air "journalists" at the local Farm Fresh. I knew of him when Jim and Tammy Bakker were still producing a kids show starring gospel-spewing puppets (real puppets, not the marionettes that watch CBN). And I've followed his frightening career as he prayed away hurricanes and claimed the storms were God's vengeance on Walt Disney World's Gay Days.
His latest crusade against the Thundering Herd of Queerosity is a rip-roaring fantasy – aborting babies as a way to "level the playing field" for lesbians. He claims to speak directly with God on the celestial hotline daily, but this is more proof that God really should get a better PR man to service his temporal account.
As with all Robertsonian screeds, he fails in the simple logic his "God" bestowed on humans. Clearly the daily conversations with the Big Kahuna aren't nearly often enough.
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In his latest jaunt into the non-secular ether – ether which is apparently copiously pumped into the CBN News set – he makes his case for how lesbians would be on a "level field" with straight women.
His level playing field theory is so weak because he is simply unable to step across the aisle to see that women are constitutionally supposed to be on a level playing field, much as the religious can't be "demoted" because atheists think Christians aren't worth of a half set of civil rights (I believe that's the implicit 11th Commandment he's following here).
Pinhead Pat also contends that, "If a woman is a lesbian, what advantage does she have over a married woman? Or what deficiency does she have?"
"Well, she can't have children," his animatronic co-host mews. Pat answers, "And so if these married women don't have children, if they abort their babies, then that kind of puts them on a level playing field (with lesbians).
Pat buddy, it's time for your birds and the bees talk. Let us break out our copy of Pat Has Two Mommies which we bought at the last Level Playing Field Bowl.
Your rambling analysis jumps to the conclusion that lesbians can't have children – "Little Pat, pay attention! Both straight and lesbian women can have children. It happens every day. You really should get out more."
Sapphic vs. Non-Sapphic Equality
And what's up with this whole "abortion levels the playing field" concept? If a straight woman gets an abortion does she become a lesbian or a straight woman at 4th and 10 on the 20 yard line? If a lesbian aborts, does she become straight?
And, what's on this "level playing field" anyway? Equal pay? The right to marry whoever she damn well pleases? Does it take an abortion to make the sapphic and non-sapphic equal in their right to get divorced? And let's not forget the gentlemen. If gay men get a geldingoscopy, do they turn straight, or is the other way around?
Just how many lesbians can dance on the tip of your pin head any way?
Pat, I know you're terrified of many things in life, not the least of which are people who play for the other team. But dammit (Author's note: The author was careful to adhere to the Third Commandment) Pat, if you're going to love the sinner and hate the sin by hating both the sinner and the sin, get your story straight. Notwithstanding your belief in Creationism according to the Vlasic pickle stork, hire someone having a nodding acquaintance with the simple biology that deposited you here like a gay turd on our doorstep. It would be money well-spent. Unless, of course, God turns you into a lesbian to level the playing field.
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Nugyen Phoung Uyen, 21, was sentenced to six years for distributing leaflets hostile to the ruling party.
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Uyen's remarks to The Associated Press reveal something of the confidence of Vietnam's dissident movement, which has been energized by the spread of the Internet in recent years. Whilst long prison terms are still common, many dissidents and pro-democracy bloggers are not afraid to publicly express dissent, challenging a regime that until recently had a monopoly on most information in the country.
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Uyen said she was kept in a darkened room for the initial period of her imprisonment and given water contaminated with rat droppings. She said was given meat or fish only four times a month, less than the eight stipulated in prison regulations.
Uyen was freed followed meetings last month between President Barack Obama and Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang. Obama pressed Vietnam to take concrete steps to improve its human rights record — a major sticking point in ties between the countries.
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March 21, 2007, 10:06:44 AM »
Anyone ever watch
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Everyone who's ever seen it seems has great things to say about THE INVADERS. Me, I've never seen it but I sure do wish I could.
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I also remember having a HUGE crush on Erin Grey ~ those spandex trousers, ooh mamma!
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TOS - I'm loving the remastered version they are showing in syndication.
DS - The hands down best of all the modern Trek's, but it never gets it's due. I'm watching it over on DVD.
Babylon 5 - A great space opera of the old pulp style. I just watched it all again on DVD at the end of last year.
I also think Firefly would be going strong if Fox had not screwed the show over. It's a great show.
And you thought Trek isn't cool.
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Everyone in the list & more have kept me entertained for years.
I'm with Cheezeflixz & Shadowfyre, if there was a* nothing but Space show channel* I'd never get anything done .
My picks for top 3- Bab 5- Farscape- SGI.
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Space: Above and Beyond
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If you've never seen Firefly ... you need to if you like space shows. What happened to that show is a shame, they aired it out of order (The DVD's are in order) they didn't even air the last 3 shows. They moved it around and you could never find it and they preempted it about every other week when you could. So it was canned after 14 eps. then the movie took forever to get made to tie up the loose ends. It never had a chance and was unique as the old west meets space travel.
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Space: Above and Beyond
is another one I enjoyed and which FOX killed by jumping it all over the schedule.
I think that it was killed off by some of the absurd story arcs. I mean, do you remember the episode with Coolio?
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I voted for the original Doctor Who, Farscape, and The Prisoner (other). Farscape was great until the last season, and the wrapping up miniseries was rushed in tone, and had a few cliches I hated, but at least they got to finish. I hate when stories take the "get back to contemporary Earth" path like the last season, since we are so outclassed in technology, you write yourself into a corner or have to invoke magic or sometimes similar. I loved how they played around with cliches of scifi stories, like the body swapping ep where characters of different genders seized the opportunity to "explore". My kind of space opera for not playing by the rules most of the time.
The Prisoner is awesome in it mix of 60s pop spy culture, surrealism and Kafkaesque paranoia.
Doctor Who was fun and quirky and at its best made me look past the cheap effects and other limits.
I like many of the other series, some more than others. Firefly gets an honorable mention since it was so great the way it was going, but doesn't get the vote since it never got show what they could do over time. B5 I tried to get into, but the first season was shaky and it got moved around on the syndicated schedule so it was hard to find, the jump to cable was weird too. I wish Crusade had gotten more of a shot, it had potential, especially the ep. poking fun of the X-Files, since I never that show much. I like the Treks up until half way through DS9.
Red Dwarf was a hoot, so glad our PBS station ran it for so long, too bad I began to take it for granted they would keep airing it.
I'd still like to actually see if Blake's 7 is all it's cracked up to be. Never seen more than clips of it.
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I never got into any of the major ones, but my three favorite space shows (and I never really even watched these all that much) are Red Dwarf, Tripping the Rift, and Farscape.
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Star Trek, TNG is still my all-time favorite of the franchise, with DS9 coming in a close second. Though, the early episodes of TNG left a little to be desired. The whole look and feel of the show when it started just didn't seem right. I hate to say it, but the point when it got better was after Tasha Yar died.
I also like the new Doctor Who a lot. I was afraid it would jump the shark after Christopher Eccelston left after just one season, but luckily David Tennant has really stepped up, and proven himself worthy of the role.
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Farscape: Great, fun Sci-fi series with PUPPETS!! I met some of the people in charge of special effects [it was filmed in Australia] and they were all really interesting, passionate and fun people.
Stargate [Both forms]: Merging my love of Ancient Mythology with Sci-Fi made this show genius. Lagged off near the end [Ori bullocky] but I can't help but loving the entire thing. At one stage was my favourite show in general, but it's become harder and harder to keep track [they don't screen it here really at all]
Firefly: If it wasn't for the charisma of the characters, this show would have slipped by me. Never really screened here, I picked up the DVDs on a whim from the Uni Library because it was by Joss Whedon, and haven't looked back since.
I think I'd really like Battlestar Galactica [new series] but just haven't been able to watch a full episode, so it's passed me by really.
Enjoy various Star Trek joints but none really took me in like the above selections did. Dr Who is also good for an occasional watch.
Oh and how could I finish this up without even making mention of the excellent and hilarious Red Dwarf...
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Star Trek TOS without a doubt. I love Sci-fi B-movies of the 50's and 60's, and every episode of the original Star Trek series is like watching a great mini B-movie of that era. It's great stuff. I can't stand any of the other Star Trek series', and find them to be painfully dull and boring. The "Trekkies" out there make a big deal out of how the later series' are closer to Gene Roddenberry's original vision for the show. If that is true, I think the network execs were right when they told him to make changes!
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I picked Star Trek TOS, Star Trek Deep Space 9, and Star Trek Enterprise. I liked the original because I am a sci-fi fan and a series with a starship was just what the doctor ordered. The effects were about what you'd expect from a 60's TV series, but the stories were good and so was the acting. I was disappointed when it was cancelled. I started watching DS9 because it started coming on at 4:30 AM Monday thru Friday and I was up and didn't leave for work till 6:00 AM, eventually this caught me up to the weekly episodes and I started watching in the evening too. Enterprise is one I like because I find the whole idea of being the first humans to really explore the galaxy fascinating (didn't mean to sound like Spock), it's something I wish I could do, and the effects are quite good, that also makes it enjoyable for me. It's less enjoyable for the wife, every Monday the Sci-Fi network shows 4 episodes back to back, watching these sometimes makes the little woman a little crazy.
There is one other, when I was much younger on Saturday mornings I would watch "Commando Cody, Sky Marshall of the Universe". This guy had a rocket ship, ray guns, a rocket pack, used to fly around in a black leather jacket with a pair of rockets on the back, wore a pointed helmet to be aerodynamic. Used to fight with enemy aliens on the ground, in the air, and in outer space, I really loved that show.
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As promised, here's the origin of the current KJVO myth:
Ever wonder where KJVO-the false doctrine that the KJV is the only valid English Bible translation out there came from? Here's the skinny:
In 1930, a 7th Day Adventist official, Dr. Benjamin Wilkinson(1872-1968), published a book he named "Our Authorized Bible Vindicated" in response to a squabble within the SDA cult. This book is a collection of snippets in favor of the KJV of God's holy word, and is full of goofs, such as the "Psalm 12:6-7 thingie". Apparently, Wilkinson didn't bother to check 0ut the VERACITY of any of the info he gathered. And he copied PARTS of Dean John Burgon's writings, omitting anything that was critical of the Textus Receptus.
He obtained a Scottish copyright for this book, which he apparently allowed to lapse many years ago, as interest in his book was mostly limited to the SDA cult, and for only a short time.
There's no doubt that SDA is a pseudo/quasi-Christian cult, and that Dr. W was a full-fledged SDA official, teacher, and preacher, who often argued for the inerrancy of Ellen Gould White's writings, placing them on a par with Scripture. Several SDA buildings and libraries are named after him.
In 1955, someone called J. J. Ray of Eugene, OR discovered that book, and wrote his/her own book, "God Wrote Only One Bible". Ray copied much of Dr. W's book verbatim in GWOOB without acknowledging him whatsoever, copying many of the goofs in Dr. W's book. Whether Ray obtained Dr. W's permission to use his book, or simply plagiarized it is unknown, but at any rate, Ray used the power of modern media to publicize his/her book, thus starting the idea of KJVO among some of the general public.
Now, try Googling "J. J. Ray" in the Eugene, OR. area. The only one I've found whose lifetime fit the 1955 timeline was a used-car salesman, now deceased, who apparently never published any book. Ray's company, Eye-Opener Publishers, only published that one book. Apparently, "J. J. Ray" is a pseudonym. Now, why would any REAL MAN(or woman) OF GOD use a pseudonym? Apparently, "Ray" was concerned that Dr. W might speak out about his plagiarism.
Then, in 1970, Dr. D. O. Fuller, a Baptist pastor, published "Which Bible?"(3rd revision, 1972), a book which copied much from both Ray and Wilkinson, including many of the original goofs. Like W and Ray before him, he didn't bother to check out the VERACITY of the material he published. And, while he at least acknowledged W, he made absolutely NO mention of W's CULT AFFILIATION. It was this book which brought the public's attention, especially in Baptist circles, to the other two boox, and to KJVO in general. Soon, a whole genre was developed of KJVO boox, all of which drew a large portion of their material from those first three boox.
Now, while Ray's plagiarism and Fuller's deliberate omission of W's CULT AFFILIATION might've been legal, it was certainly DISHONEST, not something any devout Christian would do!
Now, I have not forgotten Dr. Peter S. Ruckman's 1964 works, "Manuscript Evidence" and "Bible Babel". These goof-filled worx was derived largely from Wilkinson's and Ray's books, repeating many of their booboos, such as the "Psalm 12:6-7 thingie". and copying an erroneous chart from Ray's book. Ruckman referred to the title of Ray's book as "God Only Wrote One Book", which hints at the inaccuracy of Ruckman's work. However, Ruckman's works was not among the "foundation stones" of the KJVO myth, as were Ray's and Fuller's boox, both derived from Wilkinson's book.
Virtually every current KJVO author, from Riplinger to Bynum to Melton to Grady to whomever, uses material from those first three boox in their own work, often re-worded, but still the same garbage in a different dumpster. About the only newer material in any of these boox is their criticism of newer Bible versions as they came out. We see a pattern of DISHONESTY in KJVO authorship, as many of its authors copy from each other without any acknowledgement, all of them drawing from a KNOWN CULT OFFICIAL'S book! HOW CAN ANY CHRISTIAN, SEEING ALL THIS DISHONESTY AND ATTEMPTS TO CONCEAL OR JUSTIFY IT, BELIEVE KJVO IS FROM GOD?
These facts are easily verified, either on the Internet or in most public libraries. Unlike KJVOs, we Freedom Readers deal in VERIFIABLE FACT, not fishing stories, opinion, and guesswork. All the boox I mentioned are available online legally, in npublic libraries, many religious book stores, or are for sale at various websites of religious book stores.
Thus, you see why I, and many other Christians who try to serve God in all aspects of life, are so vehemently against the KJVO myth! It's Satanic in origin, definitely NOT FROM GOD!
I challenge any KJVO to show us any book written before 1930 that is largely about KJVO, and which can be traced to having started the current KJVO doctrine.


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The first Saturday in November, we will celebrate International Games Day @ Your Library, an initiative of the American Library Association to reconnect communities through their libraries. Activities include educational and recreational games that have social value.
The first Saturday in November, we will celebrate International Games Day @ Your Library, an initiative of the American Library Association to reconnect communities through their libraries. Activities include educational and recreational games that have social value.
Step into our teen/children�s area and you will see games being played either on the TV with the Wii or table games. The library is not just your ordinary place to pick up a good book; it is a place to go for fun and meeting with friends.
As the fifth annual year rolls around, the games-day event has been expanded to include international libraries. ALA expects to double the number of participants this year. Last year, more than 27,000 people joined in on the fun, with 1,400 libraries across the country participating.
Families, students, home-schoolers and library patrons who like to play games are invited to come to the library for a fun day of play. Home-schoolers can meet and play with public school kids. This is an opportunity develop friendships as well as learn how to play new games.
We will begin our day with a scavenger hunt. The participants will learn what is available in the library and where things are located. Prizes will be given for correctly finishing the scavenger hunt. Next, the kids will begin game playing, which will include board games like Monopoly, Clue, chess, checkers, card games and Wii. They can also join a national video game tournament.
Bring your favorite game and teach others how to play. This day is a day for fun and interaction with others. You might just meet a new best friend or get the opportunity to talk and play with students you only see in passing at school. We want your library to be a place where you feel comfortable, and that you think of as the place to go for fun as well as for books and studying.
I am amazed to see students playing card games instead of computer games � and they are doing just that on Monday afternoons when they come in to play Yu-Gi-Oh!
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game is a Japanese collectible card battle game developed and published by Konami. Based on the Duel Monsters concept from the original manga series, the game requires players to use a combination of monsters, spells and traps to defeat their opponent.
The students are serious players. They come in, set up the tables and start the game. A leader ensures the rules are followed.
If you are interested, I�m sure there will be a game going on during gaming day. You can get an idea of what this Yu-Gi-Oh! game is all about.
Teen Wii: Fridays at 4 p.m. Nintendo Wii, ages 12-17 are welcome.
Teen Time: Ages 12-17 Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 p.m. meet in the story room.
Wii Play: Monday and Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. or Saturday 12�2 p.m. Families and adults are invited to come in and play Wii.
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Summit League Preview: South Dakota State at Omaha
Nobody's hotter in the Summit League right now than South Dakota State. The Jackrabbits are sporting a league-high four game win streak, and have moved from the bottom half of the standings to a two-way tie for second place with a month the play in the regular season.
Week six finds SDSU on the road for games at Omaha and Western Illinois.
The latest Jackrabbit victories came at home, beginning with a 28-point rout of then first place Fort Wayne at Frost Arena.
Against the Mastodons, SDSU shot 56 percent in the first half, got a couple of early 3-pointers from Jake Bittle, outscored IPFW by ten in the paint, and only turned the ball over three times in the first 20 minutes, going up by 13 and never looking back.
Head coach Scott Nagy told me improved defense was the key to the turnaround against a Fort Wayne team that beat the Jacks by seven last month in Indiana:
Two days after the Fort Wayne win, the Jacks welcomed last place IUPUI to Frost Arena and got out quickly against the Jaguars, thanks to great balance and ball movement.
In all, 12 different players scored the game for the Jacks, who ended up wining by 24.
Coach Nagy was relieved his team did not overlook a program whose last Summit League win came in December of 2012:
This week's road trip starts Thursday in Omaha against a Maverick team that came to Brookings last month and beat SDSU 80-71.
In that game, UNO shot 57 percent, and did a lot of damage thanks to a series of ball screens that gave the Jackrabbit defense fits.
Coach Nagy says his team has to do a better job defending in this game:
Tipoff is 7:00pm Thursday in Omaha.


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Ansel Elgort & Hollywood's Young Guns Go Shirtless for 'Interview' Mag!
The Fault In Our Stars' Ansel Elgort shows off his guns while going shirtless for Interview magazine's Young Guns of Hollywood portfolio.
Also featured alongside the 20-year-old actor are Jack O'Connell, Douglas Booth, and Luke Bracey. Here is what the guys had to share with the mag:
Ansel on who he wants to work with most: "I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good. I like the movie Warrior [2011] a lot and Gavin O'Connor, who directed it."
Douglas on green-screen work in Jupiter Ascending: "More than Noah did, certainly. Most of Jupiter was shot in a studio, but we did shoot some scenes in a cathedral, which basically served as the interior of my spaceship. It was quite gothic."
Jack on his biggest fashion faux pas: "When all my mates used to think they were proper rude boys, they used to take the piss out of me for wearing casual clothing. But in terms of a faux pas, I reckon I'm too proud to admit it�I'm of the opinion that I always look boss."
For more from the guys, visit InterviewMagazine.com!
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OK, are you ready to start the MDX journey. In MDX Puzzle #1 posting I presented you with the challenge of writing an MDX query based on the requirements that I outlined in that posting. In this solution and all subsequent solutions I will walk you through the process of writing the MDX restating each requirement along the way. Also, as I write the query I will define and explain any new concepts and functions that are introduced. Enough with the formalities let's go.
The first thing that you will need to do is get connected to a SQL Server Analysis Server (SSAS). If you are like me, a long-time DBA, you are probably thinking, how in the heck do I connect to SSAS. I have been connecting to SQL Servers for more than ten years, now they want me to connect to an Analysis Server. Well don't worry it's just like connecting to a SQL Server. First, open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), yes I said SSMS. Select Analysis Services from the Server Type drop down list, type your server name and click Connect.
Now that you are connected, you will need to ensure that you are querying the correct database. In the menu bar there is a drop down list that contains a list of all the available databases. Choose the Adventure Works DW 2008R2 database from the drop down list then click the New Query button. I was getting a little excited, because these steps are very similar to connecting to and writing a query against a SQL Server Database.
When you click the New Query button a new tab becomes available. On this tab you will select the cube (Adventure Works) and the Measure Group (Internet Sales), which you will by querying. Finally, I am ready to start writing this MDX query. Here is the first query that I wrote against the cube:
FROM [Adventure Works]
I wanted to see all the columns (hahahahahaha) in the cube. Was I wrong. This is a cube (Multi-Dimensions) not a single table. When selecting from the cube you select Measures and Attributes. What do I do? Well looking at the new tab in SSMS I expanded Measures then expanded the Internet Sales folder. The first requirement from the puzzle was to return Internet Sales Amount and Internet Order Quantity. I performed a drag and drop on the Internet Sales Amount measure, replacing the asterisk. I repeated the steps for the Internet Order Quantity Measure. Separating the two with a comma and arrived at the next query that I ran:
This one did not run either. I was already beginning to not like this MDX stuff. Not only was it very specific, but I noticed that everything has to be fully qualified. To get it to run I had to add two things to my query. First, curly braces ({ }) were place around both measures. Then the ON COLUMNS keywords were added immediately after the second brace. The braces creates the set of measures and the ON COLUMNS keywords specifies which axis to place the result set. There are several variations to this, as time goes on we will discuss them all.
Finally, my first executable MDX query. The next requirement was to show Product Categories and SubCategories as ROWS in the result set. In my earlier research, I found the solution for this. You will need to add a Tuple to your query. A tuple is a combination of dimension members or attributes. In this puzzle we are required to return two members from the same dimension, note that a tuple can contain members from different dimensions. My second working MDX query:
In addition to the tuple, the ON ROWS keywords were included in the query. As with the ON COLUMNS, ON ROWS specify which axis to place the data in the result set. Maybe this MDX stuff isn't too bad after all. Let's move on. I did get a little stuck on the next requirement, which was to add Ship Years to the Columns axis. After a little searching I came up with the solution. I had to create two tuples within the set of measures. The tuples contained the Ship Year coupled with each measure.
I also suffixed each Ship Year and both the Category and Subcategory with the Children function. This function returns a set of children for a specified member. You may notice several null values in your result set. How do you get rid of them? You can't just add WHERE <some column> IS NOT NULL to your query. This brings me to our last requirement, which was to filter the result set to Exclude NULL values and only show Men from the Customer Dimension. This to me was kind of simple. A quick search and I found the NON EMPTY keyword, which returns the set of tuples that are not empty (does not contain NULL values).
Wow, a lot of work, but this is finally starting to make a little sense to me. Finally, we need to filter the result set so that it only returns men from the Customer Dimension. In MDX you will use a WHERE clause to filter the data, but instead of filtering it is considered Slicing. To Slice our result set to meet our requirements add one final line of syntax to our query, which is our SOLUTION!
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Done. What a task, but I learned so many things from this. I can't wait for the next challenge. Please post your comments and solutions here. As always, if you have any questions please feel free to email me at email@example.com.


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I didn't know there were such things. However, by where I grew up, there was something called a "Deaf Church". To me this implied that the congregation was deaf or that it catered to a deaf congregation. I was right. A hospital or clinic that treats deaf patients, however is more a "clinic for the deaf" as opposed to a "deaf clinic" which implies that the people who work there are deaf which usually is not the case.Originally Posted by NewHope
The same way that a "handicapped taxi driver" is not the same thing as a "taxi driver who specializes in helping handicapped people"
Do you see the distinction?
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A lot of you reading this may not be England fans (luckily for you). Nor may you have ever seen an England match before because our international matches have no interest to you (and I don't blame you). However, you may have recently seen "the Farce", as the right honorary and great Adrian Chiles referred to it as, against Poland on the 16th October.
Although it wasn't played on the 16th, because the Polish FA refused to close the roof in order for them to have somewhere to park their nuclear sub for the night. As a result, the Polish FA made fools of themselves and their country in front of the entire world after what was a great Euros.
But how does this affect you? I know for a fact that there is no way you want to embarrass yourself when you finally pull on your nation's colours in the 2014 World Cup, so how do you avoid it?
Just stick to these ten simple tips.


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Red Barn Renovation: The Magic of Spray Foam Insulation
Last Friday night, I found myself ranting about building insulation to a disinterested friend. "But you don't understand, dude," I insisted, "this new spray foam stuff is revolutionary!" Thankfully, I knew you guys would enjoy these pictures — you're almost as nerdy about home improvement as I am!
Back in the forties and fifties, our barn was a fully operational chicken shack, designed to house hens, not humans. When we first moved here, light and air streamed through the plywood walls and rotten rafters. In the summer, it was sweltering — in the winter, you could see your breath. (Under such miserable conditions, I'm surprised these cooped up birds didn't stage a coup!) As I intend on working in the barn year round, properly insulating was a top priority. But which type were we to use?
With my workshop soon to be stocked with expensive steel tools and cast iron machinery, it was critical that we kept out moisture and it's close cousin, rust. To do this, we needed to better seal our "building envelope," the term specialists use to describe the layers of materials that separate indoors from outdoors. Downstairs, the porous cinder block walls were highly susceptible to moisture infiltration — upstairs, we needed to prevent air from escaping. Since fiberglass batts perform poorly under damp conditions, we opted for spray foam insulation.
About as awesome as insulation gets, spray foam is a two-part solution that mixes together when sprayed upon a surface. It comes in two different varieties: "closed-cell," a polyurethane-based mixture and "open-cell," made from isocyanurate. In terms of R-value, a measurement of resistance to heat flow, closed-cell is a superior insulation. Its denser composition provides an R-value of nearly 7.0 per inch, whereas open-cell offers 3.5 per inch. While that rating may be comparable to fiberglass, spray foam fills gaps and forms airtight seals where fiberglass simply cannot. Also, it expands like a microwaved marshmallow (to 100x its initial volume!), which is pretty much the silliest thing ever.
But as you can see from the nuclear fallout suits and heavy-duty respirators, during its application, this stuff is pretty bad for your brain. Fortunately, once the fumes dissipate, it is completely non-toxic. Of course, I had to snap a few photos while they were spraying — I tried holding my breath, but the damage was dumb…I mean done!
Images: Johnny Williams
Late last year, I kicked off a series of posts in which I'll document the transformation of an old barn into my future workshop.
• Red Barn Renovation: Where To Begin?
• Red Barn Renovation: Green Cleaning & Disposing Of Toxic Chemicals
• Red Barn Renovation: Energy Efficiency Tax Breaks
• Red Barn Renovation: Why I Bought A Wood Stove
• Red Barn Renovation: Hiring An Architect
• Red Barn Renovation: Where To Buy Reclaimed Wood
• Red Barn Renovation: Kicking Off Construction!
• Red Barn Renovation: Wires and Walls and Stairs, Oh My!


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On Wednesday, October 5th, several unions turned out in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement in a collective march. Protestors were joined by the Communication Workers of America, the Transport Workers Union Local 100, the United Federation of Teachers, and 2 SEIU chapters. Nearly 15000 turned out for the march which brought lower Manhattan to a near standstill. As the march continued into the night, the NYPD response got more aggressive, with repeated baton-assaults, pepper-macing, and arrests. Nearly two dozen were arrested that night.
This was the third time Occupy protestors clashed with the police, and the number of arrests now totalled over 800. This was the third consecutive clash with police in New York over the Occupy movement.
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