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Snap o' the Day: thrifty toilet
Besides exotic food, including its signature chicken pastry, Al Hamraa, the recently-opened Moroccan restaurant in the Ix building, has something few, if any, other restaurants offer: a dual-flush toilet. Yep, this Caroma brand commode–- seen here Saturday night in the men's room–- saves the world's most precious resource by churning out less than a liter of water for fluids and the full 1.6 liters for, ahem, solids.
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The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority will soon be punishing this business and all water rate-payers for their thrifty use of water.
Remember the more we conserve the higher our rates.
See also the Toto "Aquia." It's a Japanese make, but sold widely (and locally).
Nothing in dual flush toilets is as thrifty as a dual flush toilet retrofit kit Many people have never heard about them but they save lots of water and keep money in your pocket
Toilets account for approx. 30% of water used indoors. By installing a Dual Flush toilet you can save between 40% and 70% of drinking water being flushed down the toilet, depending how old the toilet is you are going to replace.
If you are serious about saving water, want a toilet that really works and is affordable, I would highly recommend a Caroma Dual Flush toilet. Caroma toilets offer a patented dual flush technology consisting of a 0.8 Gal flush for liquid waste and a 1.6 Gal flush for solids. On an average of 5 uses a day (4 liquid/ 1 solid) a Caroma Dual Flush toilet uses an average of 0.96 gallons per flush. The new Sydney Smart uses only 1.28 and 0.8 gpf, that is an average of 0.89 gallons per flush. This is the lowest water consumption of any toilet available in the US. Caroma, an Australian company set the standard by giving the world its first successful two button dual flush system in the nineteen eighties and has since perfected the technology. Also, with a full 3.5"³ trapway, these toilets virtually never clog. All of Caroma's toilets are on the list of WaterSense labeled HET's http://www.epa.gov/watersense/pp/find_het.htm and also qualify for several toilet rebate programs available in the US. Please visit my blog http://pottygirl.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/what-you-should-know-about-toi... to learn more or go to http://www.caromausa.com to learn where you can find Caroma toilets locally. Visit http://www.ecotransitions.com/howto.asp to see how we flush potatoes with 0.8 gallons of water, meant for liquids only. Best regards, Andrea Paulinelli
Enjoy your roundworms!
Yes, we've eaten at Ten and enjoyed the food, although it's really overpriced - even compared to similar restaurants in DC.
One disconcerting fact is that many of the tables are so close that when the server is talking to the next table you can get a full 5 minutes of his rear in your face.
OMG!!! What a great review!!!!
Just kidding, Kate. Love the review, feel like I was eating there too! The Hook should consider itself lucky to have a new writer of your caliber onboard. Maybe they'll let you fire up the Blind Date Challenge again too?
A little too much personal info about Kate... a little more info about the food would be appreciated.
Her novelty is painfully obvious.
Ten sounds wonderful!

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Hey all,
As some of you might know, I have a small but growing collection of programs and games I've written (this isn't a self-promoting post, but for the curious, it's at code.KevinWorkman.com). I don't make any money off of it or expect tons of visitors, and it's mostly for my own personal use- exploring the realm of indie development, trying different deployment strategies out, helping improve my non-Java (web) skills, etc.
Anyway, recently an ad-driven download site (softpedia.com) took a few of my games and offered them for download from their site. I'm not sure that I can be mad because all my stuff is free and open source, and they emailed me telling me about it, and they do link to my site (although the link is not exactly easy to find, and it's not the one I'd give out to the public). However, it is weird to think that other people are making money off my free programs (not a fortune, but something like 75 people have downloaded my stuff from there).
But maybe most importantly, I never really intended for any of those games to be "releasable". They were mostly experiments, so they contain some pretty obvious problems. I think I'd be completely fine if they carried the same kind of disclaimer on their site that mine contains (mostly just a description of known problems, or the fact that one was a Ludum Dare entry developed in 12 hours). I emailed them, but they did not respond.
So, my question is, does anybody have any experience with the Softpedia website? I had never heard of them before receiving the notification that they were using my programs, but my googling tells me they're pretty popular. Are they a legitimate download site, or are they just ad-riddled search engine bait? Am I being too sensitive? Not sensitive enough?
Here's the link to a list of the programs I wrote that they are using: More programs by Kevin Workman - Softpedia Disclaimer: none of the ads seem NSFW, and the site doesn't appear to have a reputation for malware, but approach at your own discretion.
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Authority does not seem such a thorny issue within various religious traditions. Within Protestant denominations, the highest authority is supposed to be Scripture (although in practice, it is whatever any given group uses to interpret Holy Scripture, e.g., The Westminster Confession, The Book of Concord, etc.) Within Catholicism, the highest authority is the pope.
It's between and among these groups the authority issue becomes so troublesome. It is the chief difference between them.
Within Orthodoxy, as within Catholicism or Protestantism, authority is likewise not an issue. It's only an issue in ecumenical discussions.
Outside of Orthodoxy, our view of authority is scandalous to all alike. For us, the ultimate, supreme Authority is "the Holy Spirit in the Church." Everybody agrees with this as far is it goes. But everybody else also wants to take it farther. For everyone else, there's always an "and" or a "but". But the Holy Spirit exercises that authority "through _____ ." Your choices for filling in the blank are several, including but not limited to: "the pope", "the Bible alone," "Word and Sacrament", "the local congregation," or even "Joseph Smith and the prophets after him." Everybody seems to want an external, material, "objective" ultimate authority.
The Orthodox, however, insist that the Holy Spirit (who is neither "subjective" nor "objective") works with His Church not only through Scripture, sacraments, hierarchy, and innumerable other means, but also directly, in Person. He speaks to the Church corporately and to each member personally. In Holy Chrismation, He comes to dwell deep inside each Christian, in the most profound part of his being. And from there, He, Himself, sometimes through "means" but very often im-mediate-ly (without means) prompts, leads, warns, guides, pricks the heart, enlightens, teaches, sanctifies.
Outside of Orthodoxy, attempts at such an approach have both seemed and proved to be disastrous. It is too individualistic, we are told. It is a recipe for division, we are told, because each person is going to think his own opinion has been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and then what? When the Holy Spirit is alleged to have inspired all sorts of contradictory things, how will you show any of them right or wrong? How will you know your doctrine really is authentically inspired by the Holy Spirit? Haven't you replaced one pope with millions of little popes?
Yes, I have to concede that outside of Orthodoxy all this appears to be true. Inside Orthodoxy, the reality is quite different.
The first and fundamental difference is that in Orthodoxy, doctrine is not something abstract, theoretical, academic. It is the verbalization of what's happening "on the ground," of concrete experience of her living Lord. Or, it is the putting into words of revelation in history, if within "history" we include us, today. Or, putting it yet a third way, doctrine is a direct outgrowth of our Life together in Christ, Who IS our Life. The more deeply one lives that life, the more quickly truth and falsehood become apparent: whatever nurtures our life in Him, whatever deepens and purifies it, is true; and whatever weakens or undermines that relationship with Him, or leads us away from Him rather than toward Him, is false. One perceives or senses these things readily, after he has lived the Christian Life for a while. Even those with no theological education, provided their hearts are with Christ, catch the whiff of error's stench from miles away, while the sweetness of truth makes the heart leap, brings liberation and newness and growth and repentance and gratitude and peace and joy. ("Growth" and "repentance," by the way, are virtually synonymous, since to grow into the new requires jettisoning the old.) So because it is our common life in Christ, life lived by the Holy Spirit, that produces doctrine, that spiritual Life is a common norm.
The second normative factor is deep respect for two facts about the Holy Spirit and revelation that should be obvious to every Christian. First, the Holy Spirit is not inconsistent; He does not reveal different, contradictory things to different people. Second, His ultimate, definitive revelation is Jesus Christ Himself. The Holy Spirit, although He may tell us many new things, such as to go here or stay away from there, repent of this and do that, is not going to reveal any new doctrine. Therefore, what He shows as Truth to me, if it is authentic, must accord with what He shows as Truth to all the other Orthodox everywhere, and has always revealed throughout the history of the Church. It will be deeply rooted in Holy Scripture. It will have been taught by the Fathers of the Church. It will reflect the prayers, the hymns, the worship of the Church. If not, it's a fluke, an artifact of my imagination, a mistake. Orthodoxy accepts as Truth only what the Holy Spirit has revealed consistently, everywhere and all the time, and yes, especially as recorded in Holy Scripture.
In Part 2, I will try to describe the role of the hierarchy in all this, and what authority it does and does not have.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
That Thorny Issue of Authority, Part 1
Authority does not seem such a thorny issue within various religious traditions. Within Protestant denominations, the highest authority is supposed to be Scripture (although in practice, it is whatever any given group uses to interpret Holy Scripture, e.g., The Westminster Confession, The Book of Concord, etc.) Within Catholicism, the highest authority is the pope.
Posted by Anastasia Theodoridis at 12:23 PM
Labels: Orthodoxy, Other Faiths
4 comments:
- DebD said...
I had an email conversation with a LDS friend of mine about this subject. It was quite hard to explain the Orthodox understanding of Church Authority and Hierarchy. I'm not sure I did it justice.
p.s. I think perhaps you meant "singularly" rather than "similarly a non-issue"..unless I am missing the meaning.
- April 19, 2008 at 2:42 PM
- Anastasia Theodoridis said...
Thank you, dear Deb, for pointing out the ambiguity of my wording, which I have now corrected.
OOH, a discussion with an LDS friend, how interesting! Knowing you, I'm quite sure you did it very well.
- April 20, 2008 at 12:32 AM
- 123 said...
In Holy Chrismation, He comes to dwell deep inside each Christian, in the most profound part of his being.
Which makes us all 'christs' in the same way that God became man so that men might become 'gods'. This is very different (better, deeper) thing than mere membership in the 'priesthood of all believers'.
- April 21, 2008 at 4:40 PM
- Just Mairs said...
Thanks for these posts on authority. You've cleared up some of my thinking and understanding!
- April 27, 2008 at 9:46 PM