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Socrates' Ethical Dilemma & the Mere Christian
by Graeme Hunter
Are ordinary Christians ethical? It partly depends on whom you mean by ordinary Christians. And the way I use the term is growing less common, since I neither mean "Christian" as a term of abuse nor "ordinary" as a term of praise. By "ordinary Christians" I mean people who in earlier times would have described themselves as "God-fearing" or perhaps "Bible believing"; the term signifies men and women who identify right conduct with submission to the will of God. Whether or not such people are statistically ordinary is of no concern. They are ordinary in the sense of being theologically unremarkable; they are the ones the New Testament describes as "salt of the earth," whom Dryden says "plod on to glory," in contrast to theological highflyers, who so often wing toward self-destruction.
The ordinary Christians I have in mind would not typically theorize or debate about questions of right living, but they would nevertheless be highly principled in their lives. Their most fundamental concern is to please God and to be obedient to what he commands. Where they are able to discern God's will, they feel no need of theorizing.
Many such people probably consider themselves ethical. But I shall disagree. I shall argue that when they are ethical it is only by accident. If correct, however, my argument will merely establish a fact; it will not be a reproach. If ordinary Christians are not ethical I shall try to show that it is because they are something else, which may be better.
The Dilemma of Divine Command Theory
But why should ordinary Christians not be ethical? Professors of ethics love to explain this, and they do so often and well. It is their particular joy to do it in freshman ethics courses where they feel duty-bound to deflect students from what they believe to be the myopic and dangerous path of ordinary Christianity. For these professors hold that ordinary Christians are not ethical, a point with which I shall agree. But they also assume, as I do not, that only immoral monsters could knowingly be unethical.
A fine example in print of this outlook is James Rachels's popular introductory text The Elements of Moral Philosophy (1993). Rachels devotes a chapter to the question of whether or not ethics depends on religion and a subchapter deals with the outlook of what I have called ordinary Christianity.
Following a widespread practice Rachels calls the attempt of ordinary Christians to live in obedience to God "Divine Command Theory." Now to elevate the behavior of ordinary Christians to the height of theory is something of an exaggeration since, as I already mentioned, they do not typically theorize about what they do. But for present purposes we may concede the term to Rachels.
Divine Command Theory, then, is the view that what is right depends on what God commands us to do. But according to Rachels, and to unnumbered professors of ethics across the continent, this submissive view is ethically untenable. Rachels explains with admirable patience and lucidity how Divine Command Theory inevitably founders on an ancient objection the philosopher Socrates once made to the seer Euthyphro. As was his way, Socrates asked his friend a hard question: "Tell me Euthyphro, he said, are actions good because God commands them or does God command them because they are good?"
The philosophically astute can see at once that Socrates is posing a dilemma. If actions are good merely because God commands them, then goodness becomes something arbitrary. Whatever God had commanded would have been just as good. Had he ordered us to steal, rather than to refrain from stealing, that would have been good. Had God bidden us to commit adultery, to commit murder or to dishonor our parents, it would have been good in the same way that it is now good to do the opposite. Arbitrariness is the inevitable result of saying that the good is simply whatever God commands. But this is a hard saying and few ordinary Christians can bring themselves to believe it.
It is true that, when you raise it in an ethics class, there are sure to be one or two freshmen who will truculently claim to believe it, their faces rigid with pious determination. Yes, they will say, with all the wooden conviction of a spin doctor, bad would be good if God commanded it. But they do not really believe it. They secretly believe they have been manipulated by the words of another logic-chopping professor. Here they are mistaken, however; in this case the ethics professor is right. He's the exception that proves the rule.
But to their credit, most ordinary Christians who stray into ethics courses ultimately accept Socrates's and Rachels's point. They do not try to swallow the bitter pill of arbitrariness. Most say instead that God would never command us to do something like steal or kill or commit adultery, because such things are evil. Unfortunately, however, that answer plays equally well into the hand of the professor of ethics who then deftly impales his Christian students on the other horn of Socrates's dilemma. If there are things that would not be good even if God commanded them, then there must be a standard of goodness independent of God's commands. And that means that things are not good just because God commands them.
The upshot of Socrates's dilemma, then, is this: it forces divine command theorists to give up something that they want to believe. If they say that whatever God commands would be good, then they make goodness arbitrary, which seems wrong. If they say that God first sees what is good and then commands it, they make the authority of goodness itself superior to that of God's commands. Finally, if they try to weasel out of it by saying that divine commands are simply a shortcut to ethical knowledge provided only to Christians, then they make the application of divine commands less than universal. So, however they try to preserve Divine Command Theory, they are left with a moral standard that is either arbitrary or lacking in authority or lacking in universality. It fails therefore to meet even what Professor Rachels calls "minimum standards" for ethical behavior, which are that we simply "do what there are the best reasons for doing" (p. 13). Given the weaknesses just mentioned, following divine commands could never be the best reason for doing anything. In the end, Rachels's argument comes to this: "even if [Christianity] is true, morality remains an independent matter" (p. 61). Thus those who are divine command theorists, the ones I am calling ordinary Christians, can act ethically only by accident, that is, only when divine commands coincide with what is ethical.
Ethics Without the Bible?
I believe Professor Rachels is right to imply as he does that ordinary Christians are unethical, but I shall argue that he is wrong to think of this dilemma as a reason for abandoning ordinary Christianity. It does lead some Christians in that direction, however.
Socrates's dilemma is so wonderfully persuasive that those who take the time to understand it are easily led by it in one of two ways. Some simply accept it and make themselves over as what I shall call ethical Christians. The moral they draw is that one ought always to argue for one's ethical views on purely ethical grounds. And that is just what they do. I once saw a sample letter that circulated through one of the major denominations instructing parishioners on how to write to politicians about matters of ethical concern. "By no means mention the Bible!" it told them. "To do so will be perceived as bigoted and your letter will simply be thrown away. Find reasons of social prudence in support of your ethical view; show that it would be in the honorable member's own self-interest to act in the way you suggest. Set out your views plainly and politely." And so forth.
Sound advice without a doubt. But it does not circulate in the churches of ordinary Christians, as I understand them. They would neither write such letters nor heed such instructions. If they object to any of the sinful activities that are glorified in our time, as many ordinary Christians do, it is not because such practices are unhygienic, or produce social problems, or run counter to the rational self-interest of politicians, though many of them do all those things. But ordinary Christians object primarily because they find such conduct to be contrary to the will of God. Hence that is what they would also say to their political leaders, were they ever seized by the futile wish to write them letters.
Ethical Christians are not so. They will argue ethical positions on purely ethical grounds and write accordingly to their political representatives. By such devices they escape being tossed on the horns of Socrates's dilemma. Strange are the ways of paradox, however. Avoiding semantic entanglement at that point pushes them toward pragmatic difficulty elsewhere. Having taken ethics alone as the measure, they inevitably come to occupy the same range of ethical positions as do the nonbelievers with whom they normally argue and correspond. And so their contribution to political debate is often Christian only in the letterhead under which it appears.
But not everyone who takes the trouble to understand Socrates's dilemma feels forced to become an ethical Christian. It is also possible to devise a more sophisticated version of Divine Command Theory to meet the requirements of rationality, universality, and authoritativeness that the simple version appears to lack. An excellent example of this is the theory of "theistic ethics" outlined by Peter Byrne (The Philosophical and Theological Foundations of Ethics [1992]), which attempts to resolve the problem by showing God's commands to be necessarily in conformity with ethical standards.
Ethical Christianity and intellectual Divine Command Theory are thus equally possible concessions to Socrates's dilemma; they are also equally permissible moves in the ethical conversation of our day. Ethical Christianity fits faith into ethics; intellectual Divine Command Theory fits ethics into faith. Though not exactly equivalent, the two responses are alike in that each attempts to close the gap between faith and ethics that Socrates's dilemma seems to open up.
A Parable of Good & Evil
The people I am calling ordinary Christians, however, take no step in either direction. They have little in common with ethical Christians, and they do not typically even try to meet intellectual challenges to their faith and practice. Why?
Media pundits and other observers of contemporary culture often charge that ordinary Christians fail to rise to such challenges because they are mentally feeble, or lazy, or downright anti-intellectual. And examples of each type exist in sufficient numbers to lend credibility to the stereotype. But would these be the only attitudes that could explain the refusal of ordinary Christians either to embrace ethical Christianity or to confront intellectual criticisms of their Christian practice? I think another explanation is possible, and I can introduce it most easily in the form of a parable.
Two trees predominate in the story of the Garden of Eden—the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. But readers rarely notice a point that is of great significance to the present question: that only the tree of life is explicitly said to be at the center of the garden (Gen. 2:9).1
The Bible has many symbols for life, though the tree is one of the most important. Many images are employed because life is one of the central concepts of the Christian faith, one major object of Scripture being to explain what the Creator meant life to be. In the Old Testament, which is essentially a collection of Hebrew Scriptures, it is equated with wisdom (Prov. 3:18). After sin enters the world that wisdom is mainly expressed as the fear of God and obedience to his commandments (e.g., Ps. 111:10). In the New Testament, which announces a new dispensation beginning with the advent of Christ, obedience to the law is superseded by obedience to the Lord, who is the fulfillment of the law. In a nutshell, then, the biblical picture of right living involves conformity with the law of God, finally understood to be obedience to the will of Christ.
The importance of the fact that only the tree of life is said to be at the center of the garden can now be explained. When Eve is tempted by the serpent she says that she has been forbidden to eat of the tree that is at the center of the garden (Gen. 3:3). But Eve does not mean the tree of life, the garden's real center; she means the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Even prior to the fall, then, there is in Eve an error that, though not itself culpable, nevertheless prefigures the entire history of the human struggle with good and evil. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, though not at the center of the garden, is at the center of Eve's thoughts and aspirations. This presents in symbolic form a truth that Aristotle places at the beginning of his Metaphysics: "Men by their nature want to know." And the knowledge we most keenly desire concerns what is good and bad for ourselves. We desire not merely to live well, but to live well out of our own knowledge. We want our right living to be the fruit of our own unaided understanding. By our very nature it seems to us that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, a perfect symbol of ethical knowledge, is the centerpiece of paradise.
Only immoral monsters desire evil for its own sake. Eve was far from that. Instead she symbolizes a great psychological insight applicable to all mankind: the good we desire most, the good we desire by nature, is the one that is first discovered by our own understanding. Translated into the terms of the present discussion Eve's mistake about the garden's true center is symbolic of placing ethics higher than the wisdom of life.
One major theme of the Bible is the contrast of these two types of wisdom, each symbolized by a tree. The tree of life represents wisdom about how to live derived from a source that is ultimately noncognitive; the tree of ethics represents a fully cognitive wisdom about the same thing. The Bible is often silent about ethical wisdom, but where the rival wisdoms are contrasted, especially in the letters of St. Paul, it is invariably to the advantage of the wisdom of life (e.g., 1 Cor. 1:19–25). Paul calls ethical wisdom philosophy, or the wisdom of this world, or the wisdom of the Greeks. He has in mind the great Hellenistic schools of ethical thought that vied for followers in his own time, each of which called Socrates its father. For Paul, however, the wisdom of life is superior to every version of Greek ethics. At its best Greek wisdom can only equip us for the present existence, whereas the wisdom of life prepares us for and even affords us immortality (e.g., 1 Cor. 15:51–58).
Wisdom for Ordinary Christians
Such is the parable of the two trees. But philosophers will ask whether any such noncognitive wisdom of life can be shown to exist. Can the sources of our knowledge of how to act be anything other than fully cognitive? Unlike the media commentators and others referred to earlier, I do not think it ridiculous to believe in wisdom derived from noncognitive sources. In fact, it would be quite rational to believe in and pursue such wisdom, provided just three things can be taken for granted about the world, things that ordinary Christians do in fact take for granted.
1. Sometimes a certain course of action is morally best.
2. Sometimes ethical reflection alone cannot discover the best course of action, at least not in time to act on it.
3. God exists, knows what we ought to do in such cases, wants us to do it, and at least occasionally reveals his will to us.
These assumptions are far from absurd. Only moral relativists and nihilists deny that there is ever a best course of action. Thus most people admit condition number 1. And condition number 2, that some questions either do not yield to human ethical reflection at all or do not yield in time to provide answers in concrete situations, is simply part of common experience. Questions of abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, and others are textbook examples where ethical reasoning has produced no definitive ethical insight, though millions of people must make life-and-death decisions involving these matters all the time. Only condition number 3, the existence of a personal God who can and does reveal what is good, is particularly controversial. But even it is far from absurd. Indeed many of the most discerning thinkers of every age have held it to be not just true, but provable.
Wisdom Revealed
The first thing to understand, then, about such noncognitive wisdom is that its existence is perfectly possible and that one need not be an obscurantist to believe in it. My next claim, however, is more likely to engender controversy. It is that wisdom of life can also be productive of a kind of knowledge that ethical wisdom does not make available. And yet this claim can easily be demonstrated by a pre-Christian example known to all philosophers.
Speaking in his own defense at his trial in Athens in 399 B.C., Socrates explained to the jury how it came about that he led the peculiar life that ultimately brought him before them. Socrates had not willingly chosen to be poor, to neglect his family, or to live off the handouts of the idle rich, he told the jurors. One is not to think of him as resembling the later Cynics who in their reverence for Socrates would proudly refer to such conditions as emblems of their devotion. No, Socrates was forced to accept these humiliations because of a calling laid upon him by a god.
Socrates's friend Chairephon had gone to consult the oracle at Delphi in an effort to discover who was wise, and the oracle had replied that Socrates was the wisest man in Athens. No one was more surprised by this saying than the man the oracle named. Except by revelation Socrates would never have conceived it. His own assessment of himself had been, on the contrary, that he was void of both wisdom and knowledge. Only his piety prevented him from thrusting the oracular message contemptuously aside. Only because it was the word of a god, did he undertake to investigate it, knowing it must conceal some deeper meaning. Since Socrates knew the oracle had not spoken in any straightforward or literal sense, he devised a simple test for proving its literal falsehood, with the vague intention of then returning to the oracle, proof in hand, and asking for clarification. His plan was simply to question prominent Athenians with a reputation for wisdom until he found one wiser than himself. It was the single-minded pursuit of that plan that caused Socrates to neglect his family and his work and to alienate those whom his questioning unmasked and humiliated. But in pursuing this hard and lonely way Socrates discovered a universal truth that was to become the cornerstone of philosophical inquiry. He learned that, despite appearances to the contrary, none is wise. And in learning this he also found the meaning of the oracle. Socrates was superior to the rest, not because he had any positive wisdom of the kind all men lack, but because he alone was fully conscious of his ignorance.
Faith Seeking Wisdom
Socrates's discovery of the secret of his own negative wisdom is a pivotal moment in history. Its importance to the development not just of philosophy but of civilization itself can hardly be questioned. But it is often overlooked that his hypothesis (that he was the wisest of men) would never have been formed, had it not been revealed by a god.
Moreover, even if per impossibile it had been formed, it could never have been proved in the manner Socrates chose. I could hardly prove that I was the wisest man in Canada by besting in argument a few time-serving politicians, prevaricating sophists, and other interlocutors, though the marketplace of Ottawa could no doubt furnish them in ample numbers. To conclude that I was the wisest Canadian on the basis of such encounters would be a hasty generalization of the grossest sort. Maybe some of them just had a bad day, people would say. Maybe they are more at home writing than speaking. Or maybe the wisest Canadian lives in the bonnie highlands of Nova Scotia.
But Socrates was not seeking inductive evidence for a hypothesis; he was merely verifying in experience an oracle of a god. He knew in advance that it was true. He only needed to discover what it meant. And he pursued enlightenment single-mindedly, even against the obvious interests of his natural life. When God speaks, his Word does not need to be proven; it needs only to be understood.
Socrates's reaction to the oracle is thus a perfect illustration of what the Augustinian tradition would later call faith seeking understanding. And that is the light in which the noncognitive wisdom of life is, I think, best understood. That such wisdom is possible, that it is capable of giving rise not only to good conduct but also to knowledge not available to ethical reflection, I take the case of Socrates to demonstrate. And yet I have already claimed that someone living according to the wisdom of life in the manner just explained would not necessarily be living an ethical life. I would now like to develop that idea more fully.
The Disintegration of Ethics
Since Kant, philosophers like to think of ethics as an autonomous field of inquiry. This is taken to mean that ethics is independent of other disciplines in its objects and principles in much the same way as, for example, the natural sciences are. But this newfound independence is more cherished in some contexts than in others. Just as Canada has traditionally valued its independence from the United States more highly than its independence from Britain, so the independence of ethics has primarily been asserted with respect to religion. Obviously, therefore, those whose first concern is to conform their behavior to the will of God cannot be living ethically in the modern sense.
Ordinary Christians will not much mind being called "unethical," however. Indeed it is one of the most innocuous of the epithets customarily applied to them. And to be unethical in the technical sense intended here is not necessarily even a bad thing. It merely means that one's actions in morally sensitive situations are motivated by extra-ethical, in this case religious, considerations. But I promised to go further and to argue that being unethical in this sense may be better than indifferent, that it may be a good thing. My reason for thinking so is simple and it is the point with which I shall close.
Post-Kantian modern philosophers were keen to establish ethics as a domain without religious foundation. However, their success allowed the further question to be raised of whether the now autonomous field of ethics had foundations of any kind whatever. To date no unique ones have been discovered. At its best ethics today seems only capable of multiple foundations, a position held by many, but brilliantly defended by John Kekes in The Morality of Pluralism (1993). At its worst and most vulgar level, however, contemporary ethics is simply relativistic. Now relativists are unwilling, and pluralists were hitherto unable, to prevent the decay of the field of ethics into an unlovely chaos of subdisciplines of doubtful compatibility. On the shelves of most university libraries will be found books on such bizarre topics as business ethics, evolutionary ethics, environmental ethics, animal ethics, and lesbian ethics, to name only some of the more comical examples. And some lively minds, seizing on the general confusion, can even envision such wonders as ethics without pain and ethics without principles.
The Choice of Ordinary Christians
Ironically we also find abundant books on Christian ethics cheek by jowl among these strange companions. Of course in one respect that is quite as it should be. Since ethics has become a party anyone can attend, there is certainly no reason for Christians to stay home. They can, to vary the metaphor, sit at the multicultural table and bring home whatever portion of the political stakes can be negotiated in that way. But the aim of a pluralistic conversation cannot go beyond staking out and defending political turf. A participant who wanted to convert another would show himself unfit for such an assembly; to proselytize is to reveal that you don't get it. For that reason, the Christians at the table will not be ordinary ones as I understand them.
Now it is quite true that by not participating in the ethical conversation ordinary Christians cut themselves off from an often diverting and sometimes even edifying exchange. For ethics is the main flashpoint of contemporary philosophical interest, and some very capable people are writing about it. But it would be harder to argue that abstainers miss anything of importance in life. This is where I think ordinary Christians are a little better off.
Ordinary Christians take it on faith that the wisdom associated with the tree of life will ultimately turn out to be rational, authoritative, and universal. Perhaps they are wrong and their faith will not issue in understanding. But they can take comfort from what St. Paul calls "the cloud of witnesses," that innumerable succession of faithful people, including even the pagan philosopher Socrates, who have understood through believing.
What is not surprising is that ordinary Christians expect no help in their pursuits from ethical thinkers whose considered opinion is that nothing is rational, authoritative, and universal. "Who seeks direction," asked Tertullian, "from those who have lost their way?" If the darker shadow is cast by the tree of knowledge, it is hardly surprising that some choose to dwell beneath the tree of life.
1. I am grateful for this observation to a keen reader of Scripture, my friend Dr. Chris Willis.
A version of this article was presented as a public lecture during the author's term as Father Edo Gatto Chair of Christian Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Graeme Hunter teaches philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Radical Protestantism in Spinoza's Thought (Ashgate). He is a contributing editor for Touchstone.
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From Star Trek To Donald Trump, Netflix's New Releases & Movies In August 2016 Are Unmissable
New month, new Netflix. In August the streaming site has a bunch of goodies lined up, from French lesbian dramas to blood-splattered neo-westerns to Donald Trump parodies. Yup, that's the full spectrum. If you're a sci-fi fan there's a classic Star Trek movie just as Beyond hits theaters, while those in need of a series to binge need look no further than Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down.
Check out the best movies and new releases hitting Netflix in August below.
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Al Gore very nearly became POTUS back in 2000, before a recount awarded the presidency to George Bush instead. In the years since he used his profile to raise awareness of the fact that global warming is increasing at an alarming rate.
Ten years since its release, at a time when some major world powers still refuse to take the threat of climate change seriously, the Oscar-award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth remains horribly relevant. This is a fascinating, in-depth look at Gore's heroic efforts to move global warming up the political agenda before it's too late. Simply put, it's perhaps the most important movie of the 21st century.
An Inconvenient Truth gets honest on Netflix from August 1.
Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal (2016)
If you enjoy laughing at Presidential candidate and certified fool Donald Trump, this 50-minute movie based on Trump's infamous ghost-written book The Art of the Deal is the perfect tonic to the horrifying possibility that the big man might actually become the next US President.
Johnny Depp undergoes a truly epic transformation in what may be his best role in years. You will cry laughing — and when November 8 comes around, you might actually just cry, period.
The Art of the Deal will tickle your funny bone from August 1.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2001, 2006)
The first and third installments in the Fast And The Furious franchise may not be the best movies the series has to offer (the emotional Furious 7 takes those honors), but both of these movies still pack enough breathless action to justify traveling back in time with Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and the gang. The first has the better cast, though, with most of your favorite faces conspicously absent from the Justin Lin-directed Tokyo Drift.
Both Fast & Furious movies rev up on Netflix from August 1.
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
What a time to be a Trekkie. With all 727 episodes of the various Star Trek TV series and every movie in the franchise set to hit Netflix before the new, , there's never been a better moment to dive head-first in the intergalactic world of Trek.
Nemesis is certainly not the greatest Star Trek adventure. In fact, it almost killed the movie franchise completely before J.J. Abrams rescued it with his flashy, lens flare-heavy reboot — but the key attraction here is Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander Worf and the rest of the Enterprise crew from The Next Generation reprising their roles for one final adventure. Star Trek has never had a stronger cast, and only a fool would say no to Patrick Stewart.
Star Trek: Nemesis cruises through the Netflix galaxy from August 1.
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Often described as the Coen Brothers' masterpiece (which seems a little reductive considering they've made at least three movies which would qualify as that), No Country For Old Men is the story of a Sheriff, a rogue hitman and a Vietnam vet on the mother of all collision courses.
Think of it as a darker, bloodier Fargo with less snow and more despair and you're sort of on the right track. Javier Bardem is deliciously blank-eyed as the aforementioned hitman, an individual long since deserted by any trace of morality or soul. If you've got nails, prepare to bite 'em, because this is one tense thriller.
The Get Down (Season 1A)
Baz Luhrmann, the Aussie director and visual genius who gave the world Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby, makes his first foray into television with the Netflix original series The Get Down.
The story of the birth of disco and hip-hop in poverty-stricken but culturally-rich 1970s New York promises to deliver soul and groove in spades, putting a magnifying glass on the Bronx kids whose energy and talent created a movement unlike any other in history. The cast is comprised mostly of unknowns, but Shameik Moore of last year's breakout hit Dope and Jaden Smith both play thrill-seeking kids with serious ambition to make it. The first season is split into two parts, the first arriving in August.
The Get Down Season 1, Part 1 boogies onto Netflix from August 12.
Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)
A French-language coming-of-age story with a three-hour runtime might not be top of your list, but it should be. Blue Is The Warmest Color is all about the sexual awakening of Adele, and not surprisingly it was dogged by controversy — but it still won the Palme d'Or, the highest honor at Cannes.
Rising French actress Léa Seydoux (Skyfall, The Grand Budapest Hotel) plays Emma, an art student who drifts in and out of Adele's life between high school and adulthood. It's touching, it's emotional and not exactly short on sex. Clear your evening and prepare to get lost in a modern masterpiece.
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Stanley is a former colliery town and civil parish in County Durham, England. Centred on a hilltop between Chester-le-Street and Consett, the town lies south west of Gateshead.
Stanley was formerly divided into three distinct settlements — the main town of West Stanley and the mining villages of East Stanley and South Stanley. Through a process of gradual expansion, these have become amalgamated into one town, with East and South Stanley no longer officially used as town names (although they are still recognised colloquially). The village of South Moor lies to the south.
Stanley was first mentioned in 1211; however, some neolithic and Roman remains have been found in the area. The town's name is derived from the Old English for 'Stoney Field'.
In John Speed's map of Co.Durham Stanley appears called Standley.
The West Stanley Pit Disaster, one of the worst coal mining disasters in British history took place in Stanley at West Stanley Colliery on 16 February 1909 when over 160 people were killed in the Burns Pit disaster.
Over recent decades, Stanley has suffered hard times economically, with the closure of the coal pits followed by the loss of major employers at Ever Ready in nearby Tanfield, as well as the closure of both the British Steel plant and Shotley Bridge General Hospital in the neighbouring town of Consett. Local businesses in Stanley town centre were also significantly affected by the development of the giant MetroCentre shopping complex in nearby Gateshead, with local trade decreasing as a result.
In 2000, Stanley briefly garnered attention in various national tabloid newspapers as well as BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles Show when local curry house impresario Harresh Ramadan turned his Indian takeaway restaurant on Front Street into a fish-and-chip shop and renamed it Harry Ramadan's, a spoof on the more famous and well-known Harry Ramsden's chain, with signage in an identical font and colours. The Harry Ramsden's chain sued, citing breach of copyright, with Ramadan backing down shortly after the national publicity had subsided. Soon thereafter, the shop took on new ownership and adopted the new name Jump 4 Joy's before closing down entirely in 2001.
In October 2003, plans by Archer and Rostron Ltd. to convert the derelict King's Head pub into a private sex club to be re-christened The Love Shack caused controversy, with over 500 local residents registering formal objections to the plan. Faced with this opposition, the company dropped its proposals to open a swingers club on the site and instead converted the venue into a hotel and health spa called The Local Spa.
In 2005, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister granted permission to plans to form a Stanley Town Council. This followed a campaign by local people, including a petition of over 2000 names, although this petition only represented 10% of the population that would be covered by the new Town council. Campaigners promised that the new Town Council would increase the pace of regeneration within the town.
In 2008, an arson attack left an historic building on Stanley Front Street in ruins along with a billiards club and several shops below. November 2008 saw the demolition of the burnt buildings.
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Marines in their dress blue uniforms will accept new, unwrapped toys at the Toys for Tots Drive at Ramona Airport on Saturday, Dec. 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Marines, pilots, residents, airport staff and others will collect toys for the annual Marine Corps toy drive. Even pilots from outside Ramona are invited to fly in with donations.
Many airport aircraft and Marine Humvees will be on display at the airport's public viewing area at 2926 Montecito Road. A special cookout is planned for participants.
"These kids, in some cases, this will be the only gift they receive," said Bo Donovan, airport manager.
People who want to donate but are unable to be at the airport on Saturday may contact Donovan at 788-3366. He will come to their home or business to pick up the toy, "regardless of where they are," he said.
"If the only reason they can't get a toy in that box is they can't be there, then I'll come and get it," said Donovan. "I want to chockfull those Hummers with toys."
While the need is great every Christmas, it is particularly strong this year because of the economy, Donovan said.
Toys For Tots has distributed more than 370 million toys to more than 173 million needy children since it began in 1947.


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A judge has been appointed to conduct an independent review of a controversial Government scheme to deal with on-the-run Irish republicans.
Lady Justice Hallett will carry out the probe, which was ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron when a case against a man accused of the IRA's Hyde Park bomb collapsed because he had received a letter under the scheme saying he was not wanted by the UK authorities.
As part of a deal struck by the previous Labour government and Sinn Fein, similar letters were sent to around 190 republicans.
Lady Justice Hallett was previously appointed as the coroner who presided over the inquests into those killed in the 7/7 terror attacks in London.
Details about the assurance letters emerged two weeks ago when the case against John Downey from Co Donegal was dramatically halted at the Old Bailey.
The 62-year-old denied murdering four soldiers in the attack in London's Hyde Park in 1982.
The case against him was ended because government officials mistakenly sent him one of the assurance letters in 2007 telling him he was no longer a wanted man.
The collapse shone light on the wider policy of sending such letters to on-the-runs, with many politicians in Northern Ireland, particularly unionists, reacting with fury and claiming the scheme was operating without their knowledge.
The crisis brought the Stormont Executive to the verge of collapse, with Democratic Unionist First Minister Peter Robinson threatening to resign - an ultimatum he withdrew after Mr Cameron ordered the judge-led review.
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers today announced that the Government had appointed a judge to take on the task.
In a written ministerial statement to the House of Commons, Ms Villiers said: "I am today informing the House that, following consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the Rt Hon Lady Justice Hallett DBE has been appointed to conduct an independent review of the administrative scheme to deal with so-called "on-the-runs" (OTRs)."
The review's terms of reference are to produce a full public account of the operation, to determine how many letters may have been sent in error or contained errors, and to produce recommendations on that or related matters.
Ms Villiers said: "Lady Justice Hallett is asked to make every effort to meet the timetable of conducting the inquiry and reporting to me by the end of May 2014, for the purpose of its full publication. In any event, the review will conclude by the end of June 2014."
The Northern Ireland Secretary last week insisted the OTR scheme was now over as far as the Government was concerned.
The process saw names of individuals passed to the authorities to check whether they were being pursued by police. If officers were not looking for them, they were sent a so-called assurance letter stating that fact.
The mistake in the Downey case resulted in him being sent a letter even though police in London wanted him for questioning.
Of around 190 republicans who received letters, 12 were issued since the coalition came to power in 2010.
Lady Hallett is the fifth woman to sit as a judge in the Court of Appeal.
In 2009 she was chosen to act as coroner in the inquest into the deaths of 52 people in the London bombings of July 7 2005 .
She was called to the Bar in 1972 and became a QC in 1989. She was made a High Court Judge in 1999 and has served in the Court of Appeal since 2005.
Lady Hallett was among five senior judges who, in February, ruled that whole life sentences "are entirely compatible" with the European Court of Human Rights, helping to ensure that the UK's most notorious serial killers die in prison.


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Beat the heat at Edmonton's outdoor pools
EDMONTON- Summer is prime time for swimming, but one pool was out of commission on Thursday.
The City Hall pool is closed for regular maintenance so a valve can be unblocked, according to city officials. They anticipate the pool will be back up and running on Friday, just in time for the oncoming heat wave.
To keep cool, the city's other outdoor pools remain open.
The locations and hours can be found below:
Queen Elizabeth: 11 AM to 7PM weekdays
9170 Walterdale Hill
Oliver: 11 AM to 7 PM
10315 119 Street
Mill Creek: 11 AM to 9 PM
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Fred Broadstock: 11 AM to 7 PM
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The Borden Park Outdoor Pool is closed for redevelopment. It's scheduled to re-open in 2016.
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I purchased for my son, a new LG G Pad 8.3. I upgraded to Kitkat 4.4.2 recently.
But, after upgrade, I noticed that I cannot move apps to the external microsd card. This option is enabled in my Samsung Note 8 with 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean).
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Derry City Council should create a skills audit for the city, it has been claimed.
SDLP council candidate for the Moor area, Emmet Doyle, said he believes the local authority and partners should conduct such an audit to give a snapshot of the qualifications and skills that young people possess.
Mr Doyle said that this could help of economic benefit and help job creation in the city.
"It is my firm belief that in order to create high value jobs and bring forward investment from employers, we need to maximise our skills ability right throughout the city," Mr Doyle said.
"I want Derry City Council and other partners to create a skills audit in the city to positively identify what skills and qualifications we are developing, and address obvious skill shortages that may be keeping large employers away from the city and towards Belfast and other areas.
"If we are to compete with other areas, we have to have an ace card such as skills and training capacity.
"If we are not creating the right skills base, particularly for our young people, or offering enough opportunity to learn key skills and upskill, then decisions have to be made."
He added that the Skills Escalator, as part of the One Plan, was one avenue to achieve this, "and fits in with the work Pat Ramsey has been doing in terms of a tracking programme for young people who are not in employment, education or training".


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During the coming year, you will be receiving your new debit card with an embedded chip. Paying with a chip card instead of a magnetic stripe card brings added security for your in-store transactions.
During the transition to chip, you can swipe your card as you normally would and follow the prompts. If the terminal is chip-enabled, it will prompt you to insert it with the chip toward the terminal, facing up. Do not remove until prompted. Provide your signature or PIN as prompted by the terminal. Some transactions may not require either. When the terminal says the transaction is complete, remove your card.
Depending on the type of ATM, your experience may differ slightly.
If your card stays visible, use these basic steps for a successful ATM transaction:
Insert and remove your card as you normally would. This tells a chip-enabled ATM whether you have a chip card or not. Then follow the prompts.
If the ATM is chip-enabled, it will prompt you to insert the card again and leave it inserted. The ATM will clamp down on the card to hold it in place until the transaction is complete. Do not remove the card until prompted by the ATM.
When the ATM says the transaction is complete, remember to take your card.
If your card is not visible, a chip-enabled ATM will automatically recognize the chip on your card. If you're used to an ATM returning your card immediately, note that your chip card will now be returned at the end of the transaction. To complete a transaction, proceed as you normally would and follow the prompts.
When the ATM says the transaction is complete, remember to take your card.
Chip cards are widely used in international markets and are accepted in more than 80 countries. Having a chip card will make it easier for you to make purchases when you travel internationally.
Don't carry your PIN in your wallet or purse or write it on your ATM or debit card.
Do not give your PIN to ANYONE
Never write your PIN on a deposit slip, an envelope, or other papers that could be easily lost or seen.
Carefully check ATM or debit card transactions before you enter the PIN or before you sign the receipt; the funds for this item will be fairly quickly transferred out of your checking or other deposit account.
Periodically check your account activity. This is particularly important if you bank online. Compare the current balance and recent withdrawals or transfers to those you've recorded, including your current ATM and debit card withdrawals and purchases and your recent checks. If you notice transactions you didn't make, or if your balance has dropped suddenly without activity by you, immediately report the problem to your card issuer. Someone may have co-opted your account information to commit fraud.
The Federal Trade Commission has created a new website that will provide a more efficient way for identity theft victims to report and recover from identity theft. Included in the new website is an interactive checklist which takes victims through a step-by-step recovery process. The checklist will help victims understand which recovery steps should be taken after learning their identity has been stolen. The website also provides victims tips for specific kinds of identity theft, including tax-related and medical-related identity theft. In addition, the website provides advice for people who have had personal information exposed in a data breach.
The English and Spanish versions of the website may be found at: www.identitytheft.gov.
What's My FICO Score and Why Does It Matter?
Many adults become aware of their FICO score when applying for a home mortgage or other loan. They may learn that their score is 690 or 740 or 770. But what does it really mean?
FICO is a firm once known as Fair Isaac Company. It specializes in analyzing data to create a financial grade for each potential borrower. The score is used to help banks and other lenders predict how likely it is that a consumer will pay his or her bills on time and be able to handle a mortgage amount or credit line. The score is also a factor in the interest and terms of your loan.
To create a score ranging from a low of 300 to a high of 850, FICO uses information provided by the three major reporting agencies: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. When creating a score, FICO considers the following factors:
What does your score mean?
By now, you may be wondering how to find your FICO score. While you can find your scores based on information from the three major reporting agencies online at www.myfico.com, these are not free. In addition, they may not be the precise scores used by your lender.
A better value is to request a free credit report from the three major reporting agencies online at www.annualcreditreport.com or by toll-free phone at 877-322-8228. Keep in mind the factors that FICO considers when reviewing your credit reports to get a handle on your approximate score. Also be sure to check these reports annually and inform the agencies if you spot any errors or inaccuracies.
To learn more about your financial health, visit the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions' Financial Wellness Checklist Center at www.wdfi.org/ymm/wellness_checklist.htm.
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Scammers, hackers, and identity thieves are looking to steal your personal information – and your money. But there are steps you can take to protect yourself, like keeping your computer software up-to-date and giving out your personal information only when you have a good reason.
Don't buy security software in response to unexpected pop-up messages or emails, especially messages that claim to have scanned your computer and found malware. Scammers send messages like these to try to get you to buy worthless software, or worse, to "break and enter" your computer.
Treat Your Personal Information Like Cash
Don't hand it out to just anyone. Your Social Security number, credit card numbers, and bank and utility account numbers can be used to steal your money or open new accounts in your name. So every time you are asked for your personal information – whether in a web form, an email, a text, or a phone message – think about whether you can really trust the request. In an effort to steal your information, scammers will do everything they can to appear trustworthy.
Check Out Companies to Find out Who You're Really Dealing With
When you're online, a little research can save you a lot of money. If you see an ad or an offer that looks good to you, take a moment to check out the compnay behind it. Type the company or product name into your favorite search engine with terms like "review," "complaint," or "scam." If you find bad reviews, you'll have to decide if the offer is worth the risk. If you can't find contact information for the company, take your business elsewhere.
Don't assume that an ad you see on a reputable site is trustworthy. The fact that a site features an ad for another site doesn't mean that it endorses the advertised site, or is even familiar with it.
Give Personal Information Over Encrypted Websites Only
If you're shopping or banking online, stick to sites that use encryption to protect your information as it travels from your computer to their server. To determine if a website is encrypted, look for https at the beginning of the web address (the "s" is for secure).
Some websites use encryption only on the sign-in page, but if any part of your session isn't encrypted, the entire account could be vulnerable. Look for https on every page of the site you're on, not just where you sign in.
Protect Your Passwords
Here are a few principles for creating strong passwords and keeping them safe:
Back Up Your Files
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December 30, 2011
Nigeria sold 64.56 billion naira ($396 million) worth of 91-day and 182-day short-dated instruments on Wednesday in its last treasury bill auction for the year, at higher yields compared with the previous auction, the central bank said on Friday.
The regulator sold 21.83 billion naira of 91-day treasury bills at a 14.96 percent marginal rate, up from 14.09 percent at the Dec. 21 auction, and 42.73 billion naira in 182-day paper at 16.98 percent against 16.20 percent previously.
The total subscription stood at 71.31 billion naira.
Nigeria, Africa's second biggest economy after South Africa, issues treasury bills regularly as part of monetary control measures to help lenders manage their liquidity.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Oludare Mayowa)
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Oludare Mayowa)


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Giganotosaurus carolinii. Based on fossil found in Argentina. Cretaceous, 112 - 89 million years ago.
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Giganotosaurus belongs to the same group as the North American Allosaurus and has three fingers on each hand, typical of allosaurs. It displaced Tyrannosaurus rex as the largest meat-eating dinosaur when its discovery was announced in 1995. Giganotosaurus possibly lived in family groups, as at least four of these dinosaurs of varying ages were found in a fossil bone-bed in Argentina.
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text: ungover from the nerd party(see episode #1.8, "Nerds Gone Wild"), RJ tries to kill the pain with aspirin, some of which he takes with him to school. But when Prinicpal Haggerty call him to his office to reprimand him about the rumors of a party and he takes another aspirin to deal with his headache, the principal accuses him of being a drug addict and sends him to detention, where her meets a gang who thinks he did harder drugs and decide to take him in. Lily tries to join the cheerleading squad in the hopes of attracting RJ and finds out something RJ already knows about Jenny -- that she's not as stuck-up and bitchy as she originally thought.Résumé de IMDb.com


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Looking at the label on the bottle, it only says Refills left : 0 By 21Jun2012. I returned much later then that date from my deployment and didn't experience any problems throughout the deployment.
I have less then 100 pills left, of 276 when it was filled. It was filled 22May2012.


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First Listen: Paul Williams' Love Song for Elaine Stritch - 'Looking for Love in the Dark'
Variety just premiered a love song composer, singer-songwriter, director and actor Paul Williams wrote for the late, great Elaine Stritch last year after watching her documentary ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME. It's called "Looking for Love in the Dark", and you can listen to it HERE!
The tune is inspired by a scene in the film in which Stritch talks about her husband John Bay.
"I had a real connection when she talked about her husband, that she was made for this man," Williams told Variety. "There was such an acceptance of him being gone, and the love that survived the ages."
When Williams finally met Stritch after her final show last spring at the Carlyle, he said: "She looked at me and said, 'Oh my god! The f-king song!' It was a great Elaine moment."
Broadway legend Elaine Stritch passed away on July 17 at her home in Birmingham, MI. She was 89.
She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and her Broadway debut in the comedy Loco in 1946. Notable Broadway credits include her Tony Award nominated roles in the original production of William Inge's 1955 play Bus Stop, Noël Coward's 1961 musical Sail Away, Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical Company, which includes her performance of the song "The Ladies Who Lunch", the 1996 revival of the Edward Albee play A Delicate Balanceand her 2001 Tony Award winning one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty.
Stritch won an Emmy Award in 1993, for her guest role on Law & Order and another in 2004, for the television documentary of her one woman show. From 2007 to 2012, she had a recurring role as Jack Donaghy's mother Colleenon NBC's 30 Rock, a role that won her a third Emmy in 2008.
More recently, she appeared in the Broadway revival of the Sondheim-Wheeler musical A Little Night Music, from July 2010 to January 2011, succeeding Angela Lansbury in the role of Madame Armfeldt.
Her documentary, ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME recently had its New York City premiere, in which she is showcased both on and off stage via rare archival footage and intimate cinema vérité. By turns bold, hilarious and moving, the film's journey connects Stritch's present to her past, and an inspiring portrait of a one-of-a-kind survivor emerges.


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My entry for ArtPrize is going to be a "small" sample of my most intricate and miniscule work. A tiny, hand cut, Mona Lisa jigsaw puzzle numbering 83 pieces contained in less than one square inch. The puzzle is about 1/8 inch thick and made from Walnut. I hand cut this puzzle using the thinnest blades in the world, a large magnifier and lots of patience.
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Rick Santorum's taken the lead in the Republican Presidential race in North Carolina with 31% to 25% for Mitt Romney and 23% for Newt Gingrich. A month ago Gingrich and Romney were tied for the lead with Santorum running 10 points behind.
Romney's staying competitive in North Carolina despite the fact that GOP voters there are pretty tepid toward him. Only 43% have a favorable opinion and an equal 43% see him negatively. That makes him less popular than both Gingrich (45/41) and Santorum (58/29).
Romney's really benefiting from Gingrich continuing to be strong enough in the South that he splits the conservative vote with Santorum, unlike in other parts of the country where conservatives are increasingly unifying around Santorum as the alternative to Romney. Among voters identifying as 'very conservative' Santorum leads Gingrich 35-32 with Romney at 19%.
If Gingrich dropped out of the race by the time North Carolina votes Santorum would have a much clearer lead with 43% to 33% for Romney and 10% for Paul. The race is still pretty fluid with only 52% of voters saying that they will definitely vote for their current choice.
The picture's a little more clear in the GOP race for Governor. Pat McCrory leads with 57% to 3% for Jim Harney, 2% each for Scott Jones and Jim Mahan, 1% for Charles Kenneth Moss, and 0% for Paul Wright. As much speculation as there was about a challenge to McCrory from the right he actually gets his strongest support from 'very conservative' voters at 62%. 60% of primary voters have a favorable opinion of him to 16% with a negative one.
-72% of voters are undecided for Lieutenant Governor with Dale Folwell at 9%, Dan Forest at 7%, Tony Gurley at 6%, Grey Mills at 4%, and Arthur Jason Rich at 2%. Predictably Folwell leads in the Triad, Forest is up in metro Charlotte, and Gurley has the advantage in the Triangle. This definitely looks like a race that could have a runoff in its future.
-In the race for State Auditor Debra Goldman and Greg Dority separate themselves from the pack a little with 11% each to 5% for Rudy Wright, and 3% each for Fern Shubert and Joseph Hank DeBragga. Dority's polling at double digits in eastern North Carolina, the Triad, and greater Charlotte where he's been on the ballot as a challenger to both Mel Watt and G.K. Butterfield in recent years. Goldman's strength is in the Triangle where she gets 15%.
-Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is in a similar position to Janet Cowell, leading primary challenger Bill McManus 32-12. Troxler's probably not really in any trouble but most GOP voters evidently don't know who he is even after 8 years in statewide office.
-Richard Morgan leads the race for Insurance Commissioner with 16% to 8% for James McCall and 7% for Mike Causey. Morgan is particularly strong in the Triangle where he gets 31%.
-John Tedesco has the early advantage for Superintendent with 12% to 7% for Richard Alexander, 6% for Mark Crawford, 5% for David Scholl, and 4% for Ray Ernest Martin. Tedesco's ahead because he's getting 35% in the Triangle. No one else is above 14% anywhere else.
-Kenn Gardner leads the Secretary of State field with 13% to 9% for Ed Goodwin, 6% for A.J. Daoud, and 4% for Michael Beitler. Gardner's at 18% in the Triangle where he served as a Wake County Commissioner.
-The prize for the race with the most undecideds goes to State Treasurer, where 76% of Republicans don't yet know who they'll vote for. Right now Steve Royal's at 13% and Frank Roche at 12%.
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Snowflakes For Frozen (Themed) Cake
Decorating By Pickulz Updated 27 Oct 2014 , 2:26am by mcclarygirl13
I wanted to make snow flakes for a Frozen themed cake I am attempting. What is the best/easiest way to make them?
Should I purchase the PME snowflake cutter? (Though its sold out on GSA)
And how can I add some shine to it?
I dont want to try royal icing, because the last time I made spider webs from RI, they were fragile and broke easily. (I live in a very humid area).
I absolutely love Frozen and cannot wait to put Olaf on a cake! I would use Magic Sparkles and definitely use a plunger cutter.
May I ask what are magic sparkles? Are they a sugar sprinkles? T I A Sweet Blessings
@jclvs2 magic sparkles and magic sprinkles are two different products, just so you know.
You could melt down white colored candymelts and pipe different sizes and shapes using a sandwich baggie with a very small hole cut in the corner. Works for me :)


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Why does it need to be broken up into multiple files?
You can have two pde files in one sketch directory. Opening the sketch will open both pde files, in separate tabs. You can put functions in one pde file, and call them from the other pde file.
I have the same question and see no useful answer here
I've broken up the project into several "libraries", which are shared with several "sketches". For instance, a RS485 library that is used by all other modules. This RS485 library now depends on a time library I created and I can't figure out how to include the time header file in the RS485 cpp file.That is, in my library directory I have, for simplicity's sake let's call it a rs485 and a time directory. Each contain their cpp and h files. The sketch contains "#include" for both time and rs485. All is happy. Now if I want to use the time class within the rs485 class, I can't find a way to include the time header in the rs485 cpp file.


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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A $4 million grant from the Department of Defense has been awarded to a Virginia school district.
The nonprofit National Math and Science Initiative said it will announce details of the funding for the Virginia Beach school district Friday.
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Its something that I am currently working on. I plan to add alot more to this. I hope you guys like it.
Also the map I used is not out yet, its actally being made by a friend of mine.
Its something that I am currently working on. I plan to add alot more to this. I hope you guys like it.
Also the map I used is not out yet, its actally being made by a friend of mine.
are you really that uncreative that you have to take someone elses idea?
if i were you i wouldnt do something on a character created by someone else.
I'm afraid that was incredibly pointless.
I also have to agree with darius on that.
BosSchitt needs to get that shit copyrighted, cuz peeps be steeeeelin.
Basboschit needs to quit in my option milking the series and its starting to suck, and I don't want to start seeing cheap knock offs... its like the twilight fanbase.... I hear mindless idiot gmod followers in GMOD now always quoting that damn series...
calm down... no more rants... Ive seen the damage a big rant can do...
I wouldn't say its dead and he's milking it but naming the skits is kinda dumb. But let's face it, most "good" garry's mod movies are random movies, and Dasboschitt pretty much perfected it with his series. It's better than having hundreds of movies like the one's Witchita used to make (has he been perma banned? I'm just glad he's gone)
all dasboshitt does is make the community stupider and makes it harder for serious film makers.
We already had a surge of random films in 2007-2008 and it just started to tone back down to decent non random films., then BAM he hits us like a bitch, he could at least be like kitty who actually BUILD A FUCKING STORY BASE its like god damn family guy, go off no story line and make random shit happen, to please the low IQ population.
Since i've not finished it and you guys always complain if I based my things on something else then i'll just change it. I'll get rid of Dr. Hax and put some HL2 and some other game characters in and do it like machinima does it, voice acting and such. There happy? Or are you going to complain again...
Oh and a little tip. I dont listen or take advise from those who insult me... Infact I ignore people who are abusive towards me.
The people who are abusive towards you offering you the best advice, I suggest you don't ignore it.
And people should be using voice actors and planing their film out a lot more.
It's okay. I'd recommend using one of those moving camera stools.
ITT ScoutKing is butthurt from the gmod idiot box videos
I also can't sleep at night, thank very much.
I am not mad at him, more annoyed and unrespectable.
(I posted this at five am with ms itouch)
??!?!? I never copied anyone's video/ character... someone needs to read.
See the OP name is LIONHEART1066
My name is SCOUTKING ok... can you handle that... I'm complaining on dasbooshitt style, and how its like GMOD FAMILY GUY and your getting pop ups of copy cats and crazy teenagers who are like " AHAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY I COPY THAT NOW! AHAHAHA"
Started out as robot chicken style, now it turns into a sort of family guy pace, humor, Fuck man it has the same family guy fan-base if you look close enough, this thread proves it.
Family guy is not clever.
South park is clever, it has a story foundation at least, and has a point.
Reminds me of those "Cartoon wars" episodes of South Park where Cartman wants to get Family guy off the air because of it's non plot related jokes :P The idiot box actually took something directly out of family guy, when Louis was growling after getting his pills from the Zeno clash guys
I do agree with you that South Park is better, but I do think that the earlier episodes of the idiot box were ok
The reason why I'm more of a critic than a "machinima" maker is because I can't write, and I don't want to do another stupid random video that would come out like crap. If I could make something like what Litfuse used to make, or what Pixel Eyes made, I would (of course it would be it's own unique thing, I don't mean "if i could rip them off i would")
I prefer kittys work


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Josh, I'm on a Macintosh and had no idea about entering spaces. I'm pretty certain that is what I was missing, I'll try again tonight.
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Community Forums › Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › Logo not shrinking for responsive view
Tagged: css, mobile, Quattro, responsive, styling
This topic contains 7 replies, has 2 voices, and was last updated by MelonBird 3 years, 8 months ago.
January 6, 2014 at 5:10 pm #83675
My logo is not shrinking down small enough to show on the smallest mobile devices. I've tried a few ways I thought would fix it, but none of them did.http://runmysites.com/wptesting/January 6, 2014 at 7:24 pm #83697
It seems to shrinking fine because it's small to begin with. Can you provide a screenshot for the smaller device. I checked it on 320 and it's fine.January 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm #83698
Anitac, I was just looking at it on the studiopress responsive testing here: http://www.studiopress.com/responsive/ Just plugin my URL: http://runmysites.com/wptesting/
It also looks fine on my iPhone, but I know not all devices are configured the same way, so I'm trying to make sure it works well on everything.January 6, 2014 at 7:32 pm #83699
The first one is 240px. I really can't say how many mobile devices are 240px anymore. If you want it to go smaller, you will need to add a 240px area to your media queries.January 6, 2014 at 7:51 pm #83701
Gotcha - it probably is overkill to worry about the 240, then. Thanks! You can mark this resolved.January 7, 2014 at 10:59 am #83834
I'm glad you didn't logo whis as resolved yet. I decided to make the logo wider, so now it's critical that I figure out how to contain it. I found this in FocusPro, which I used on another site with no responsive issues:
.header-image .site-title a { background-size: contain !important; }
But I put that in the media queries sections for Quattro for smaller screens, and it's not working. I also tried:
.header .title-area a { background-size: contain !important; }
Because it looked from Firebug like those would be the appropriate Quattro classes for the logo. But either I'm not putting it in the right place in the stylesheet (very possible, since I'm new to responsive design), or the code just isn't quite right. I also tried "max-width:100%."
Or could it be because I altered the size of the header image in functions.php? (To 320x50). If so, is there something I can put in functions.php to make it work?January 7, 2014 at 11:24 am #83840
Okay, somehow I've now killed all responsive styling, and I have no idea how. I replaced all the responsive design section from the original stylesheet, and that didn't fix it. Short of going back to the start and losing all my customizations and likely making the same mistake again, I have NO IDEA how to fix this. Here's my stylesheet in case that makes it easier to diagnose.
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January 7, 2014 at 4:54 pm #83906
- This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Susan. Reason: please don't load your whole stylesheet
Okay, you can drop this one after all. I decided not to go with responsive design on this site.
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LONDON (AP) -- Mesut Ozil says he chose to move to Arsenal because of manager Arsene Wenger's track record of improving players and his team's brand of attacking football.
The Germany playmaker left Real Madrid in the final hours of deadline day to join Arsenal for a club-record 50 million euros ($66 million), making him the third most expensive signing in English football history.
Ozil says Wenger is a "world-class manager'' who has "developed (players) under his guidance in the past,'' and says "I think I will fit perfectly into'' Arsenal's attacking and technical style.
The 24-year-old Ozil says he didn't get a chance to ask for advice from Germany teammates - and current Arsenal players - Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski about moving to England because "it all happened so fast.''
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I had big plans as a young girl. I was going to help cure cancer. Or become a chemist. Or maybe a physicist. I made good marks in school, especially math and science. My parents, strict adherents of traditional Mormon gender roles, were very supportive of my educational aspirations. As a young Mormon girl, I knew I was going to get married one day and having kids would likely follow. I never considered the possibility that I might sacrifice my education for either (marriage or motherhood). In fact, I recall my Dad "shaking on it" with my future brother-in-law that my older sister would finish her degree. Patriarchal irony aside, it was expected that I would go to college, graduate, and possibly change the world.
As a young woman, I didn't mind babysitting, but I never truly felt the pull to motherhood that so many of my Mormon female peers did. I never so much as uttered the words, "I can't wait to be a mom." I could wait. I could wait until the magic age in my head, 28—the age where reason met desperation (in my young mind). Part of that waiting period would naturally consist of higher education.
As an undergraduate at a state school with relatively few Mormons, the Mormon dating scene was brutal. I focused my energy on school because I found success there, and watched begrudgingly as my female Mormon friends racked up the dates. Fast-forward 3 years and 4 undergraduate major changes (Chemistry, to undeclared, to art, to social work): I met the boy I'd marry. He loved me for my smarts. But he was Catholic. This is another story altogether.
I earned my Master's degree and got married the next weekend. After we married, we set off for graduate school together. Well, kind of. Actually, he got into the graduate school of his dreams, accepted without consulting with me, and then I was left to shop around for graduate schools within driving distance of his institution. So, feminist blunder.
We were married for 2 years (I was 25 then) before I got the itch. Without warning, I WANTED A BABY. Like yesterday. As I was in the thick of my PhD program, I brushed the yearning aside until I finished comps. Then I begged and begged and reasoned and begged with my husband that it was a good idea for us to start our family while we were still in graduate school. And finally he saw the light. We had our first child just weeks after I proposed my dissertation. The first year of her life was absolutely fantastic. I was on fellowship and strictly working on my dissertation from home, and my husband was teaching two classes, and home 3 days a week. We were a stay-at-home-family. That is not to say that we didn't face our own hardships with transitioning to parenthood (read: SLEEP DEPRIVATION while writing a dissertation), but for the most part, our flexible work life was incredible.
But graduate school had to end some day. I was graduating one year ahead of my husband, and we decided that I would go on the academic job market and we would hope and pray that he would match for his pre-doctoral psychological internship in the region where I landed my first faculty position. The odds were looking good until in one fell swoop, match day obliterated our dreams. He matched across the country and I had already signed a contract. After picking up the pieces, we decided to grit our teeth and spend our daughter's second year of life apart. I would begin my first job, while he finished his doctoral studies across the country. It wasn't even a question as to whether or not I would be the primary caregiver for our daughter (enter again traditional gender roles).
We have been apart for nearly 7 months. In these months I have felt a whole host of emotions, many of which are founded in gender essentialism. It has been difficult to quiet the voices of insecurity. Because my career matters to me, I took my baby away from my husband. Because my career matters to me (and I finished my degree first), my husband's job prospects are now very geographically limited. Because my career matters to me, I am a bad mom. A bad wife. A bad Mormon.
Our family will be apart from each other for 3 more months, and then as luck would have it, my husband will be joining us again. This time in his ideal job at my institution. We were able to jointly negotiate a dual hire, and we are incredulous as to how we managed to "get it all." I know the struggles that dual career couples face. I know well the sacrifices that are necessary in order to obtain two careers in the same small city with specialized degrees. But somehow we did it.
Happy momentary ending (to this blog entry anyway). I am sure that the challenge of balancing our joint careers, combined with having one or two more children will be paralyzing at times. However, as I have learned to confront my gendered insecurities through all of these experiences, I have learned to rely on my husband for the partner he is. For me, the real secret to balancing parenthood and career has been realizing I cannot possibly do everything perfectly on my own. A hard pill to swallow for a perfectionist. So I rely on the wonderful care my day care provides to my daughter, the emotional and tangible support my husband offers me, and the friends and family who willingly pitch in when I travel for work. I am not a bad mother, or wife, or Mormon. I am simply doing the best I can. Except for the days when I pull the covers over my head and watch 8 entire episodes of How I Met Your Mother. But mostly, I am giving it my best shot.
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