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Dino Esposito talks about idiomatic design and some potential issues with the List type.
Let me start from a blog post that Krzysztof Cwalina—a prominent member of the .NET Framework team—made some time ago. You find it at http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/kcwalina/archive/2005/09/26/474010.aspx. In the post, Krzysztof doesn't recommend using List<T> in the signature of public members of custom classes. I'll get to the details of the post in a moment. Before going any further, though, I want to introduce idiomatic design.
When it comes to designing software, general principles of object-oriented design as well as basic and fundamental principles such as low coupling and high cohesion are always valid and should always be taken into due consideration.
However, when you step inside the design, at some point you meet the technology. When this happens, you may need to review the way you apply principles and aim at them in the context of the specific technology or platform you're using. This is called idiomatic design. Simply put, it is design when you conceptually envision a class and its attribute; it is idiomatic design when you know you will actually be using the .NET Framework (or any other framework) and adapt your decisions to the context.
As far as the .NET Framework is concerned, a set of idiomatic design rules exists under the name of Framework Design Guidelines. You can access them online from the following URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229042.aspx. The Framework Design Guidelines also exists as a book written by Microsoft's Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams.
The advice of not using List<T> in a public API is definitely an example of an idiomatic design rule. Let's briefly recap why List<T> is not recommended in a public signature and from there I'll take on the more general theme of code reusability.
According to Cwalina, two are the reasons for not using List<T> publicly. One is that List<T> is a rather bloated type with many members not relevant in many scenarios. The other reason is that the class is unsealed, but not specifically designed to be extended. Let's have a look at the class signature:
The class is designed to be a strongly typed list of objects that can be accessed by index. The class also provides methods to search, sort, and manipulate lists. If you look at the methods on the implemented interfaces, you obtain the following list of members, subdivided by interface:
In addition, the class List<T> counts a similar set of methods but non-generic. If you look at the actual list of members, you find many more methods: BinarySearch, Reverse, Sort, a variety of Find methods, and a bunch of predicate-based methods including ForEach and TrueForAll.
In a nutshell, List<T> is not merely a class that implements the IList<T> interface. It's, instead, quite a large object. Hence, it is preferable that you use simpler and thinner lists in your public APIs.
Behind the aforementioned idiomatic design rule, a couple of general principles of (object-oriented) software design can be recognized. One is the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP).
SRP states that each class should have only one reason to change. In other words, a class should expose a cohesive and anyway limited set of functionality. Bloated classes with methods that range from search to I/O, from manipulation to index-based access are hard to classify as SRP-safe classes.
Breaking the SRP principle is not per se a bad statement and doesn't affect in any way the working of the code based on such a class. It is simply a sign that confirms you have a lot of room left for improving the design of the class.
Using the List<T> class internally is absolutely fine and, in fact, the class is really helpful and performs optimally. When it comes to interfacing other layers and classes, though, a bit of attention is required. Full respect of the SRP principle ensures maintainability and readability of the code.
Let's move to the second motivation for not using List<T> in public signatures—the class is further inheritable, but it is not designed for being extended.
In .NET coding, leaving a class unsealed (which is the default setting indeed) is, well, a responsibility you take on your own. If you leave a class unsealed around your code you expose yourself to the possibility that others will inherit from that. What if at some point you have to trace back and seal a previously unsealed class that was inherited? In software development, changes of requirements are the rule, not the exception. For this reason, it would be preferable to seal as many classes as possible unless a strong reason exists to further inherit.
Using unsealed classes in public signatures may expose your code to a subtle issue that is well summarized by the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP).
When a new class is derived from an existing one, the derived class can be used in any place where the parent class is accepted. This is just polymorphism, isn't it? Well, the LSP principle just recalls that polymorphism is a great feature, but it doesn't come for free by simply inheriting a class. The principle says:
Subclasses should be substitutable for their base classes.
Apparently, you get this free of charge from just using an object-oriented language. It is not always as simple as you may think, though.
If the base class has virtual methods, and through virtual methods you make access to internal, hidden members, what would happen to overrides? Are these methods guaranteed to verify the same preconditions of overridden methods? If a virtual method accesses a private member, there's no possibility for an override to fulfill the same precondition—the override can't just access the private member which would make it unfit as an override. As a result, the override may alter the expected behavior of the base class thus potentially breaking polymorphism.
Now does this mean that the List<T> is not LSP-safe? I wouldn't say so, but for sure the class is not designed with inheritance in mind. From a coding perspective, using List<T> doesn't enable a great deal of polymorphism, but doesn't break (not even potentially) any code if used. The two points made by Cwalina are, of course, tightly related: the class is per se bloated and there's no clear polymorphism benefit in using List<T> in public APIs. In other words, you can; but you shouldn't.
Let's see why List<T> is still LSP-safe, but not really beneficial for further inheritance.
The first key point is that the class has no virtual methods. And virtual methods are just the means through which inheritance delivers benefits—by overriding methods you can alter the behavior of the class and bend it to your needs. Having no virtual methods in derivable class reduces the risk of breaking LSP, but at the cost of not making inheritance attractive and beneficial. List<T> has no protected members either. This means that when you derive a class from it all that you can do is adding new methods. New methods, however, have no privileged access to internal members, because when not public they are private. You can't really specialize the class behavior; you can only extend it in way that resembles composition rather than inheritance.
When you design a class for inheritance, you make available some virtual methods, either public or protected. These methods should be LSP-safe meaning that they only access protected or public members of the class and never private members. Access to private members can't be replicated by overrides which will make base and derived classes not semantically equivalent from the perspective of a caller. This is key point to keep in mind when considering inheritance in an object-oriented world.
In his aforementioned post and book, Cwalina recommends that you avoid List<T> in public APIs. What is the alternative? You should use a simpler list-based type such as Collection<T> or ReadOnlyCollection<T> for outputs and class properties. You should go for IEnumerable<T>, ICollection<T>, IList<T> for input parameters.
Are these guidelines valid in general and beyond the specific case of the List<T> class? The SRP principle comes handy again. Each class you design should take care of the smallest possible set of responsibilities. If you need to pass in a list of objects, then you should start with IEnumerable and increase the amount of responsibilities only when necessary.
When you return an object from a method, you should return the simplest possible object that works in the scenario. In the unfortunate case that no predefined classes match your needs, you should consider creating a custom class that implements a given set of interfaces. You should try to program to interfaces as much as possible. After all, "Program to an interface, not to an implementation" is the first principle of object-oriented design.
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In case readers need an easier refactoring then abandoning the List<T> utterly (and therefore having to address all the code that might be using the described bloated violations of single responsibility in List<T> by downstream consumers - although pain is perhaps unavoidable due to the nature of generics without constraints applied) I believe most would find it an acceptable compromise to do the following: 1) Refactor by creating a new collection class which will replace as needed your use of List<T> in your public API2) inherit from List<T> on each new class (which is driven by domain specifics in name and purpose) where necessary (where you cannot use an as described 'better' set or indeed just implement an interface yourself such as ICollection<T>)3) Make your new exposed type NON-GENERIC as a rule (in general this is good advice as it's very hard to test generic types in exposed APIs. On one extreme a case could be made that you would need to test with a wide variety of different types. Only the most 'generic' (sorry) code with wide application (such as Linq and IEnumerable<T>) should leverage generics.Thoughts?4) Ensure they are sealed if indeed using List<T> as base classFor example:public sealed class CustomerSet : List<Customer> then:public interface ISalesRepresentative {........CustomerSet KeyCustomers {get; }....}5) Even better? Create an abstract base for all your List<T> occurances as such (as this addresses co-variance)
public abstract class DomainSet<TSet, TContained> : List<TContained>where TSet : DomainSet<TSet, TContained>, IList<TContained> {}
public sealed class CustomerDefaults : DomainSet<CustomerDefaults, Customer> {}
public sealed class CustomerTargets : DomainSet<CustomerTargets, Customer> {}
public class Customer {
private static int _counter;
public Customer() {
Id = Interlocked.Increment(ref _counter);
public int Id { get; private set; }
public class startup {
private static IEnumerable<Customer> Get100Customers {get { return Enumerable.Repeat(1, 100).Select(i => new Customer()); }
public static void Main(string[] args) {
var defaults = new CustomerDefaults();
var targets = new CustomerTargets();
var allCustomers =
c => c.Id,
cInner => cInner.Id - 100,
(c, cInner) => new[] {c, cInner}).SelectMany(customers => customers).
Debug.Assert(allCustomers.Count() == 200);}
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On a good biking day QK - just might take a ride up there. Not even as far as Greensburg.
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By Rebekah Scott, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
President Andrew Jackson once called these great guns "sacred and holy relics," and displayed them over his fireplace.
Today, the elegant pair of combat pistols once owned by America's first president are on public display for the first time, at Fort Ligonier in Westmoreland County.
The long, lightweight flintlocks were made in France for the Marquis de Lafayette, an important foreign volunteer in the American Revolution. They are walnut set in steel, inlaid with gold and silver, engineered for killing. The daring young aristocrat brought them to America as arms for the rebellion.
Lafayette soon gave them to his mentor, Gen. George Washington, who strapped them to his saddle at Monmouth, Yorktown and Valley Forge. He later brought them west to Bedford to help quell the Whiskey Rebellion.
A generation later, in 1824, a Washington heir gave the pistols to Jackson, hero of the battle of New Orleans. He eventually returned them to the Lafayette family, and they remained in private hands.
In 2002, the pistols went on the block, setting a sales record for weapons at Christie's Auction House, where a "mystery bidder" paid $1.9 million for them.
That bidder turned out to be the Richard King Mellon Foundation, which has donated the guns to the nonprofit museum and re-created fort in Westmoreland County.
"These are a link to the founders of the United States," said Martin West, director of the Fort Ligonier Association. "They're weapons of war. They've been fired, for sure."
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"Remarks" was simply a draft document for use by an early biographer and was never meant for posterity. Washington told an aide to burn it, but it somehow survived.
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Fort Ligonier's Colonial-era treasures include a portrait of Sir John Ligonier by Sir Joshua Reynolds, dozens of original or reproduction firearms ranging in size from pistols to howitzers and thousands of items such as stirrups, chamber pots, musket barrels and flea combs found on site during archeological digs.
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On a good biking day QK - just might take a ride up there. Not even as far as Greensburg.
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It's good to see them on display. Imagine that, firearms helping to bring about freedom and individual rights.
Excellent to see them on Display. But how do you do a tactile reload
Ya know maybe we have gone the wrong way back then they carried 2 pistols 2 shots super slow reloads.. Today we carry 1 pistol up to 18 rounds and a spare 17 round mag and wonder if its enough
Follow Up Shots are best accomplished by carrying seven more pistols!
Hope nobody thought this was boring. I thought it was neat for Pennsylvania to have those pistols.
It's even MORE amazing that The PGH. Post Gazette actually even reported any positive GUN STORY. Doggone Left Wing Paper.
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Blackbeard did something like that.Follow Up Shots are best accomplished by carrying seven more pistols!
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Not at all. Thank you for posting. It's amazing to me that they have survived. The story isn't about guns, you see. It's about history, and things were different, then. Guns were OK, because they needed them. We don't.Originally Posted by QKShooter
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Not boring at all. I love the old guns. Would love to see those up close and personal.
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Actually, given that they're muzzle-loaders, your reload would have to be very tactile indeed...how do you do a tactile reload


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is a Electrician really needed to do that? i don't see How much better a electrician could do it. i don't know if you know or not that that is all i plan on doing myself but if you do and still think a Professional should be doing everything from installing the outlet boxes to running wires to wiring it up then pls let me know, i would hate to screw somthing up if it is somthing i should not be putting my hands on.
Ive read on the net/HR forum of people running the wire and getting the rest done by prof so i thought no harm in saving some money as this is going to cost enough without any electricial work
Shouldn't matter what the weather is like when installing insullation.
Hey dry waller! I'm not an electrician but it sounds like you are trying to get in over your head with the electrical. You have good ideas as to you wants. You are going to outsize your panel with the 240 Amps. You don't say what you are wanting to weld that would require such a high amperage welder. If you are wanting to weld light material such as on a vehicle you can use the wire feed that uses a 110 volt circuit and it would be 15 amps or 20 amps. Look at your garage and decide just exactly what you want mark the wall with where you would like to have an outlet. Remember you don't use each one all the time so you could over kill with outlets these are 15 amps each I used a 20 amp in my panel. Use an auxillary panel around 30 to 50 amps. The outlets have to be 4 foot from the floor so as not to cause a fire. Your insurance will be jeoprodized if you do it *** backwards. My advice to you is to talk to an electrician, not the hardware guy because he is there to make money for the company. (I found out the hardwaystill have the breakers and panel he suggested) Invest in a professional job., do the insulating and drywall yourself, place plastic behind it for additional insulation. Use 5/8s because it is fire retardsent and makes a better job. Tape and glaze the seams, apply a thin coat wait a couple days apply again wait apply again and wait. Sand in between coats. Make it look professional you and your friends will be proud of the job. I just built a 30 X 100 garage and it cost more than my house did but it looks professional for a do it yourself job.
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i only plan on using a welder for automotive 90% bodywork and the other time for the odd job. so i guess like you say the 110volt welder i have now will be fine for what im going to be doing.
i plan on 3 outlets 1 240 for a compressor and 2 120's
i actually would even not install anymore 120s as i got 2 and they have been fine but the odd time i got the 120V 15amp air compressor going, 5 4' double florescent lights, stereo, and power tool going at the same time and i feel like i am overloading it. so i think the 2 more 120 outlets coming in off of 1 line should be efficient and not overdone.
I will be talking to a electrician for sure
Also i find that is weird is the 2 120V outlets that are out there right now that were installed by the home builder are only 3 feet from the floor and it was done only 6 years ago
Thank you and everyone else for all the help its is very appreciated and please keep suggestions and tips coming!
What size wire did you get? I was looking at a couple of shots in your gallery, and from what I'm seeing, I'm guessing it's 14-2 or 14-3 /with ground. Granted, it sounds like that is probably wiring that already is there, not some new stuff you just ran. In mine, it's 12-3 with ground minimum. I have 50ft. of 10-3 with ground that will run in a couple of stretches from a junction box to the main 100 amp panel in the garage.
As a note also, I would not touch any existing wiring in the garage if you are considering going as gung-ho as me. I have 3 outlets and 2 incandescant lights that are being left alone and on a separate circuit fed direct from the house. When you drill for the wire to pass through the 2x4s, make sure you cover the 2 by with a metal gusset to protect the wire. I ran out, so I can't show you one, but basically it is just a 16 or 14 gauge flat plate that has a pair of points on each end that you drive onto the stud. Money very well spent in terms of wire protection. You just never know when you will forget there's a wire that runs through someplace.
In a while, Chet.
The other picture of the actuall wiring up in the celing i just opened up to take a look and see how it was done of splitting a wire to go two differnt locations, i dont plan on doing anything at all with it.
i do not plan on touching any existing wiring in the Garage, i am just wanting to run 2 wires down to the basement, 1 for 120 and 1 for 240 and they will be connected up to the houses main power box as there is 6+ open places for breakers. the 120 will get split off in the garage for the 2 outlets.
The 240v wire should be very short as in 15 feet max i would think as the power box is just on the other side of the wall and down underneath. the 120v wire though will be 50 feet away Max for the farthest away of the 2 outlets.
i will get some of those metal gussets for sure!
For your 220/240V, depending on the Amps of the compressor,
USE the following
12/3 for <20Amps
10/3 for 21Amps - 30Amps
The lenghts you specified will not drop cuurent as they are fairly short.
I ran a 8 AWG to a sub-panel in my garage using about 100' and the inspector said that was fine.
For all my outlets I ran 3 circuits x12/2 w/4 outlets on each.
a 12/3 for my 220V compressor.
and a 10/3 for my 220V welder.
I seem to recall you are from Calgary so, go to Home Depot/Rona and pick up a book titled Electrical Code Simplified (Alberta Edition). It's a very good book and will walk you through what you want to do and how to meet the code requirements. If you are the homeowner, you can pull a permit to work on your own home and then have inspections done to ensure you meet code and cover your *** as far as insurance goes. I wired both my basement in Calgary and now my garage in this home (5 oulets on each wall, 12 4' flourescent lights, 20 amp for 110 volt welder, 30 amp rv plug and 240 v plug for future compressor/welder) using this book for a reference and passed all inspections with flying colours. If you are in Calgary, they provide a very informative booklet when you get you permit as well. I would wire the 240 with 8-3 to allow lots of capacity -it's only a few bucks more. You cannot insulate or drywall over any of your wiring until it passes inspection. Even if all you are doing is roughing in, I would recommend reading this book as it is good information. Good Luck
Instead of dry wall have you thought about steel siding like you would use on the outside of a steel building?
My buddy did this to his shop and he loves it! He did all of the walls and ceiling.
Insulate and vapor barrier like you would do with rock.
It is already white or what ever color you choose, looks neat and clean and is washable. The only draw back is when you hang cabinets there needs to be a shim between the back of the cabinet and the siding, to accommodate the ribs in the siding.
My buddy used white for the walls and ceiling and hunter green accent trim pieces for the inside corners then hung a few neon hot rod pics! It looks like a million bucks and was easy to do! The best part was no sanding or painting!
insulating and drywalling the Garage
67blackhole is right. I used that book 30 years ago when I built and wired my house and garage. It is a great book and I still use it every once in a while like when I ran 220v to my wife's green house and when I have to wire a 3 way switch. By the way when the inspector came he said many of the homeowner wired homes he inspects are wired better than professional electricians as he feels the homeowner is not likely to take short cuts or use inferior materials and cause a safety hazard in their own homes. BEFORE I cause any professional electricians on this board to be upset I am not trying to imply that all or even the majority of electricians out there use short cuts or inferior materials. I am only reporting that the inspector said homeowner wired homes are very safe. I haven't had one problem with my house and garage; but I got all the permits and followed the code and had it inspected. Just like you should do if you decide to do anything yourself after you have researched it thoroughly.
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Hey montea, I went the the local Menards store yesterday and picked up a couple of those metal plates just to show you what to look for. They are called "nailplates" and where a grand total of $.14 each. Very cheap insurance indeed. See attached picture....
In a while, Chet.
I will get a bunch of those for sure and Thank you for getting one and taking a picture.
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Dec 13, '04, 8:43 pm
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Children's penance service and general absolution - how to complain?
My parish has celebrated communal penance services, inclusive of all age groups, twice a year, during Lent and Advent, for the past several years.
Although many have noted "pros" and "cons" with the
this has on how people think about the "place" and frequency of confession, the rite has always been conducted rather well: there are over a dozen priests from the diocese who process into the parish church; there are readings and a short homily, and a communal examination of conscience; after the closing prayer, private, individual confessions are heard. The attendance has been very high, 1,000+ each time.
Beginning this summer, we have a new pastor and a new associate pastor. It was announced two weeks ago that this year we would be having a separate communal penance service for children in grades 2 through 8; the larger more general service is to take place the following week. It was explained that only the pastor and associate pastor would hear the children's confessions, as other clergy from the diocese could not be in attendance -- the communal penance services are conducted throughout the diocese throughout Advent, and it isn't feasible to shedule the mass-gathering of the priests more than once per season in any one parish.
To everyone's surprise, the pastor announced at the beginning of this service, which took place last week, that the children would not be making individual confessions. Rather, each child "should approach him or the associate pastor and whisper in their ears the one or two big things that they had done wrong since their last confession." He also announced that the children would not be granted absolution individually. After the last child was finished, he granted all in attendance general absolution.
Many parents and most of the CCD teachers were very, very pleased with this service. Many of our stongest and most orthodox lay parish leaders, who have children in those grades, were also very, very pleased. Few are aware or concerned that a grave abuse of the Sacrament had taken place.
There was one parish staff person who was aware of the pastor's plan and beforehand questioned him (quite charitably) about the legitimacy of this "approach" to celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation (by the way, this brave soul was not me). Father indicated that such "criticisms" of his competence and authority were/are not welcome, and that lay persons shouldn't concern themselves about a decision that can only be made by a priest or bishop.
First of all, can anyone here help me to put together the relevant materials that make the case against such an abuse of the Sacrament of Penance?
And, I desperately need recommendations for how to proceed with a complaint. I have a sensitive situation wherein I work weekly with the pastor in a volunteer capacity as a leader in several ministries and apostolates. This pastor has been quick to squash the participation in parish leadership of those he thinks are "reactionary" or "too conservative" or "pre-Vatican II."
Do you think those parishioners who are concerned can go straight to the bishop with this? Can we request some sort of anyonymity?
Also, I have been forewarned by some persons "in the know" that the bishop fully backs these abuses. If his response to the complaint indicates such support, even if passive, who do we write next?
Thank you for your prayers and advice.
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Re: Children's penance service and general absolution - how to complain?
They did something similar in our parish, although there were a large group of priests, not just the pastor and associate pastor.
I'm guessing the changes may have to do with the sexual abuse scandal. I saw parents go with their children to confession. I'm not sure if they just stood nearby in visual but not auditory distance though. They too (the children) were to tell the priest the one or two big mistakes they have made, but I believe they did receive personal absolution.
I think many of the parents in the parish would've appreciated their own seperate service for their children (and hopefully for themselves as well). What I found most disturbing though was that many of the parents were there to take their children to this sacrament without partaking in it themselves. What message does that say to their kids? "It's important for you, but not for me"?
I probably also would've enjoyed a seperate service apart from those who were just shuffling the kids through their first rites as Catholics, but after overhearing one lady complain in line that it's not "special" because she had to wait in a long line and then giving up and taking her kids home without receiving this sacrament for the first time, something tells me the ambiance and enjoyment of the experience shouldn't be the main point of going to confession.
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Sorry for not really answering your question. I'm not sure what the valid ways of receiving the sacrament of reconciliation are. If you have questions about its validity and since your pastor sounds a little defensive, I don't think it's out of line to send your bishop or archbishop an email or letter charitably asking for clarification. You may want to consult your Catechism first if you haven't already and see what it says about ways the sacrament may be administered.
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. . . You may want to consult your Catechism first if you haven't already and see what it says about ways the sacrament may be administered.
Check it out! From the
In case of grave necessity recourse may be had to a communal celebration of reconciliation with general confession and general absolution. Grave necessity of this sort can arise when there is imminent danger of death without sufficient time for the priest or priests to hear each penitent's confession. Grave necessity can also exist when, given the number of penitents, there are not enough confessors to hear individual confessions properly in a reasonable time, so that the penitents through no fault of their own would be deprived of sacramental grace or Holy Communion for a long time. In this case, for the absolution to be valid the faithful must have the intention of individually confessing their grave sins in the time required. The diocesan bishop is the judge of whether or not the conditions required for general absolution exist.
A large gathering of the faithful on the occasion of major feasts or pilgrimages does not constitute a case of grave necessity.
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Re: Children's penance service and general absolution - how to complain?
It is nearly impossible to schedule more than one extra priest for a communal penance service, or for first confessions. We were very privileged to have our visiting priest help with first confessions on the first two Saturdays of Advent. In our 3 parent/child sessions preparing for first confession we urge parents to go to confession before their child does for the teaching value, and to go to confession frequently at the regular Saturday pm time and bring the child with them, as a far more effective way of teaching the necessity and value of the sacrament.
We have several options for first confession. Once the catechist, parent and child agree he is ready, they can come with their class on the scheduled Saturday mornings in this parish, go to a neighboring parish, or to the national shrine, which has confessions throughout the day in several languages, and is a popular pilgrimage site. To go outside the parish, they take a card, have it signed by the priest so we know they have had the opportunity for confession before 1st communion. If the child is deemed not ready in Advent, we have another preparation session in Lent.
We have scheduled penitiential Advent and lenten services for older kids and youth each year, but at the last minute we can't get priests, so it is just a prayer service with examination of conscience, and we urge them to confess here or a neighboring parish on Saturday, or go to the shrine.
I have very few complaints about the priests down here, but the inability to get 3-4 together, just among our 3 parishes for a regular, rotating communal penance (with individual confession and absolution) really puzzles me. Have not had this difficulty even in other parts of the country, although our ratio of priests to catholics is among the worst of any diocese. God bless our priests coming to us from Mexico, Vietnam, India, Africa, Philippines and elsewhere.
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This is, catechetically, the STUPIDEST thing imaginable! This is the most important confession of your child's life. Teach your child to make a good, thorough confession. Go to confession at the regularly scheduled time. Go in first yourself and as you leave, tell the priest that your child is coming in for his first confession (explain the circumstances briefly).
Then let your child have the benefit of making a proper confession and receiving not only the absolution of his sins but the psychological benefit of knowing he has participated in this Sacrament to the best of his ability and has not been shuffled off because Father is too busy. Set the pattern for later life. Take him back with you every month -- if not more often.
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Re: Children's penance service and general absolution - how to complain?
The best way to respond is to take your child to either the other service where individual Confessions are going to be heard or take them to individual Confesion. At another parish if necessary. When all these children show up for individual Confession he will get the message.
Copy the catechism passages and have the teachers send home a note informing parents that General absolution requires individual confession as soon as the opportunity is available.
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Re: Children's penance service and general absolution - how to complain?
General Absolution is forbidden by the Catholic Church unless it is a dire emergency, such as everyone being in immediate danger of death.
Therefore, a church that gives General Absolution, when it is not a dire emergency is not a Catholic Church. There is no need to complain. Just start going to a church that is Catholic.
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Well, first off i'd like to say hi! Now, I got a 1970 LeMans with the original 2bbl 350 that was equiped with dual exhaust outfitted with flowmaster mufflers. Other than that I think the engine is stock. The guy i bought it off of said he overhauled the engine like 2-3 years ago. Stated he made the 350 into a 396. I asked around other boards to see if this was possible. People said yes, but was hard to accomplish this without some strange bore and stroke set up. SO i dont know whether it's a true 350 or a 396 So having said that, I would really appreciate some help on bumping up the hp since Im not familiar with Pontiac engines and I'm still learning. I want to keep the 350 engine seeing as i heard from my car club that the value of the car will drop if i replace the original engine. What carb, headers, intake, cam (If you can help since i still dont know if its a 350 or 396). What kind of rwhp will i be looking at when I these upgrades?Also keep in mind that will be a daily driver, but with balls! One last thing, is there a way to find the size of the engine without having to pull out the engine and opening her up? Thanks much!!!
Regarding the value, if you have Speed channel watch the Barrett-Jackson auction coming up in Jan. (I think). Hot rods draw more $ than originals (provided they are done right). So swapping the engine most probably will not hurt the value of a 70 LeMans. A 70 GTO might be questionable. If the 350 is bored and stroked to a 396, you don't have an original car anyway.
Anyway, let's say you build up a nice 455. You oil up the cylinders on the 350, seal all the openings, bag it with desecant, and store it in a climate controlled area. The 455 is a bolt in (there may be certain blocks which have odd motor mount positions, double check before you sink the cash). Enjoy the performance. If, at the time you would want to sell, the value would be greater if the car was original, pull the 350 out of the moth balls, clean it up, slip it back in, and now you have an original car and an engine for your next hot rod.
Since the 350 is basically the same externally as the 400 and 455, all of the performance parts for a Poncho will work on the 350 and you will get performance improvements. But if you really want horsepower, there is no sub for cubic inches.
Oops, forgot your last question. If memory serves, there is (or was) a displacement tool that threaded into the spark plug hole and determined the size of the cylinder by rotating the crank from BDC to TDC. I remember seeing one when I helped a guy with a roundie rounder many (many, many) years ago. See if anyone in you club is or knows a dirt tracker and find out if the local track has one. On race night, if things are slow, they would probably check a cylinder for you. The most accurate way is to take off a head and measure the bore and stroke.
Pontiac 350 v8
9.5:1 comp
650 CFM carb (typical 4bbl)
dual-plane intake manifold
"small tube headers and mufflers"
and a cam with .454 lift on both sides, and duration of 290 for both sides also.
My Desktop Dyno 2000 says...
torque: 360 @ 4000
power: 326 @ 5000
torque at 2000 rpm (just fyi):325, @2500 it's 342, so it'd be a grunter set up as I had it.
turning a 350 into a 396 is not a weird combo over the last 10 years it has become popular with chevy engines i have a 94 trans am with a 350 lt1. a year ago i stroked it to a 396 using a eagle forged rotating assembly i consists of a 30 over bore a 3.875 stroke crank, 6" rods and a srp forged pistons with very high pin height. mine makes around 550 hp flywheel and has 13.6:1 compression.
What crank?
Must be a 428 or 455 crank in there?
I think the 326 and 350 engines had the
same stroke as the 389 & 400's? 3.75
I would check into whether or not the
bore is big enuf to use bigger valved heads without hitting the cyl walls, or
at least seriously shrouding the cyl wall side of the valve.
I think that suggestion of mothballing
the original motor and bolting in a
bigger one is sound advice - even a
relatively stock bigger cube motor would
have more torque than a warmed up smaller cube motor and likely wouldn't be more expensive even with some basic freshening up than a higher level of mods on a smaller motor.
Here's a website that I think you might
be real interested in - never have seen
or heard of Pontiacs putting out power
like this guy gets out of them.
Thanks to all that replyed!
@redsdad... I thought about getting a 400 some time back, and looked for one, but it's very hard to find one. The car club has helped but to no use. Not only that, but building one up would be almost close to impossible right now seeing as im going to college full time and all my money is going to that. I going to have around $1800 in Jan because of a refund the college is giving me back, but I dont think its enough to get a 400 up and running. There's some suspension and cosmtic things (interior) that i will use that money for also. Good advise! I'll will surely use a 400 or 455 on my next project . Also, good to know I can find the size of the engine without having to rip it apart. My local track opens on friday's for test and tune day so i'll head out there friday.
@chevelle are the numbers rwhp or flywheel? Those are pretty good numbers. What about for a 396 Pontiac (Just in case my engine is a 396) using the same modifications? I dont want a 400 hp beast....(just yet )
IS it really possible with a pontiac 350 though not a sbc 350.
@macx I would take the advice about the 455, but im on a tight tight budget so i don't think it's possible at this time. Im going to check the bore in the up coming weeks before I do and head work, and i'll report back. If i get some extra cash I would go for it, but it's gunna take a while. Thanks much for the link!
Look on the driver's side of your block, toward the front, just behind the fuel pump. Around '69 or '70, Pontiac started casting the displacement into the block at that point.
It's a YU code 350
350 options
Yes, back to "the real world" hey?
I scrounged good used parts for 3
years to build a mild engine for my car.
That old budget thing, of course!
I cruised forum classifieds and ebay.
As an interim measure, I'm sure a decent 4bbl intake and carb would help, as likely would headers and a hydraulic cam.
With a little shopping, you could probbly locate stuff like that quite reasonable and add a good bit of punch to your stock shortblock. Maybe even a better set of oem heads if you get lucky. do a little carb and advance curve timing, and you'd be amazed at the improvements.
Rather than searching for an engine alone, I'd search for a beater with a decent rebuildable engine.
There were pleny of big-cube Pontiac motors produced over the years. If I recall correctly, the 400 was available in Bonneville/Catalina/Station Wagons up until the mid-to-late 70's - maybe early 80s. I don't remember when the 455 was discontinued. Early 70's I think. You might even wind up with a better trans and/or rear end, possibly better brake parts too, depending on what's "swappable", especially on the bigger cars.
Try to find a rusted four-door or beat-up wagon with a 400 or 455. The advantage, assuming you have the room, is the beater becomes both an engine stand and a source for all the odds and ends (hoses, bracketry, etc.). You could then rebuild the engine in the beater, while still driving the LeMans. When the beater engine is the way you want it, you can spend a couple of days swapping the two and trash the hulk. If you're lucky, you may even be able to recoup some of your original investment selling off some of the beater parts. Ebay's great for unloading all those little odds-and-ends (especially interior parts) that the junkyards don't want to bother with.
Its getting harder to find old Pontiacs, but if you keep your eyes open, you'll probably be able to scrounge one for a couple hundred. If you're going to freshen up the engine anyhow, then you're really just looking for one that is rebuildable without major damage to the engine. The body and interior are pretty unimportant to you.
If you're strapped for cash, my advice would be to first concentrate on getting the new engine back to good running order. Don't worry about a new cam/intake/carb or dress-up pieces unless you need to replace worn/broken parts. Concentrate on a solid base - bearings, gaskets, new rings. Spend your initial money on making sure the block is solid - there's plenty of good advice on the board. You can probably live with the existing pistons, crank, possibly even the lifters, rockers, pushrods and valve springs for now. Get a solid base established, clean up everything, paint what you want (paint is cheap) and get it running well. Then swap it into your LeMans and enjoy it while you save up for better parts.
If you're not attached to the old engine and whichever trans/rear is left over, you can then sell them and get some more money to invest in the new one.
Just my opinion...its worth what you paid for it.
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Genre: Spiritual + SciFi !? There is first time for everything.
Expected Release Date: Fall 2007
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Any Shirow Masamune-fan in the house? He is bloody writing the story. Sorry! :D So what else is new? Well, the director for the show is going to be.. drumroll please.. (once again, sorry :heh: ).. Nakamura Ryutaro. I'll have you know that his name was merely involved with shows like Serial Experiment Lain, Kino no Tabi, REC, Colorful (has anyone actually seen it other than me that is?). I'm unbelievably excited about this piece of news that I've actually sat up to type this post. :heh: This year is getting better and better and better for the anime-fans. As of now there is no synopsis available on the story. Will keep updating as more information becomes available. So, where are the other Shirow Masamune-fans? :)
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ME! I am a big fan of his! I adore Ghost in the Shell.
This anime looks interesting, even if its only a picture being shown. XD
Wow, Masamune Shirow.
Just wow.
HOLY CRAP ALL THE TEXT IS REALLY HUGE ON THIS PAGE. I'M PRETTY SURe...okay that's enough... I'm pretty sure that I've run across his art in something and its not Ghost In The Shell since I've never seen any of it. His style certainly is unique and more detailed than your usual big eyes small mouth style. I like the artists that actually seem to put effort into their work, compared with say Hisashi Hirai. Everything points to this being a solid production at the bare minimum whatever it is, but lets not throw our hats at the ice before the trick is up.
Not to mention Shirow's position in this is still strangely obscure. There's no doubt he's the one who's writing the story, but there isn't any full clarification on how it's going around in the anime, since Chiaki Konoka of Lain is apparently the scriptwriter for Ghost Hound as well. It's possible that Shirow's contributing the original concept and idea with Konoka writing the script, or even both of them working together with Shirow being the lead writer but there's too little information at the moment. Right now, all we know is pretty much that Ghost Hound is being touted a 20th Anniversary Production I.G work, and they'll be collaberating with Shirow Masamune in this work. At least we can expect some dough being grinded into this, that's fo sure.
Ghost Hound is not scifi. It's a "Spiritual Animation" with themes of occult and spiritualism. Shirow is NOT writing the story, he simply co-conceived the idea with Production IG. The writer and director duo for Lain is handling the anime series with character designs from the Hell Girl character designer.
The trailer at TAF mainly showed the girl in the picture lying in a dead-like position while having flashbacks or visions of herself running up some stairs before a shadow being covers the sky and reaches for her. There are other characters that look like high school students, and there's a school setting but overall the area seems to be the more rural part of Japan similar to Spirited Away or Totoro with tons of greenary and old looking places.
The series starts airing on WOWOW in the Fall.
But the genre on the sell sheet at TAF says specifically "Spiritual Animation". :P
A friend of mine told me that the characteristic premise of the manga is that the characters don't speak at all. Would someone who's read the manga care to say something about it? My friend wasn't very explicit (he told me so by mail).
Ah, so Shirow has finally decided to stop producing softcore pornography (yes, I am looking at you, Intron Depot) and do something worthwhile?
And yet you still have that GITS avatar...
I hope theres good cast. I hope it doesnt end up failing like Blood+.
It's not that I disapprove so much, yet that's the only thing he's been doing since Man-Machine Interface. Rather sad story...
P.S. Researching on Intron Depot as I'm writing this post. Thanks Mr. P! ^^
In any case I am glad he's involved in something different, for a change. I'm mostly looking forward to this because of the animation studio and the director, rather than Shirow's not-so-clear role in it. And the first recent anime that came to my mind when I read "spiritual + sci-fi" and "rural settings" was Mushishi, for some reason. :heh:
And the girl in the promo picture resembles Enma a lot.
I don't care if Shirow did hentai, if he was also making something interesting in the mean time. A lot of mangaka draw dojinshi or erotic content, that's not the big deal.
The sad part is that he didn't do anything "interesting the mean time".
We'll see what this Ghost Hound is about. Although, the title itself brings back memories of Forest Whitaker's and Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog - Way of the Samurai". That's funny, in it's own little way. 8)
Anyone see the trailer?
"Spiritual animation"? What the hell's that? And the girl... a hologram Sadako from Ring?
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"We had a wonderful day, but getting married in Eau Claire cost a lot more than it would have if we would have gotten ..."
Tiffany and Steven 's Wedding
Ceremony at St. Charles Catholic Church
Reception at Ramada Inn and Convention Center
"Our wedding was great! We had a ton of fun and everything flowed together very well. We found January to be a great t..."
JESSICA and ANDREW's Wedding
Ceremony at St. James the Greater Catholic Church
Reception at The Plaza Hotel
Allison and Ryan's Wedding
Ceremony at St Patrick Church
Reception at Holiday Inn Campus Area
Ruth and Eric's Wedding
Ceremony at Emerald Ridge Outdoor Weddings
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Eau Claire Wedding In July
Ceremony at Peace Lutheran Church
Reception at Ramada Convention Center Eau Claire
Erin and Brad's Wedding
Ceremony at Grace Lutheran church
Dan & Allison's Wedding
Ceremony at St. Raymond's
Reception at Quality Inn