Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I guess a blog which at least claims to be in the Anglican/Episcopal blogosphere should have something to say in the wake of all the "fun" going on around Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. That includes his sycophantic press release re Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori's upcoming honourary doctorate at Oxford and his address to …
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In Palm Beach, where else: Harvey Oyer, attorney for Del Frisco’s Grille: Royal Poinciana Plaza restaurant originally wanted to serve Saturday lunch and Sunday brunch. Council approved Saturday lunch service, asked restaurant to meet conditions to open: No live music, approved operating hours, priority reservation system for residents, no happy hour, refuse stored indoors, employee …
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It's Forrest Mims: Forrest M. Mims III '66, "the Country Scientist," has written more than 60 books, mostly technical tomes on electronics, some in various editions and in two or more languages. His total sales exceed 7 million copies. He is probably best known for his hand-lettered and illustrated Getting Started in Electronics, published by Radio Shack in …
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Our strange government is at it again: It began when the head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that the interplay of taxes and subsidies in the law “creates a disincentive for people to work.” The report predicted the mix would lead to fewer hours worked, costing the equivalent of nearly 2.5 million jobs. …
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In view of yesterday's debate on the subject, this, which is the postscript for University of Texas at El Paso math professor Granville Sewell's book Analysis of a Finite Element Method: PDE/PROTRAN: As I begin my 12th year of work on TWODEPEP (now PDE/PROTRAN ), I am intrigued by the analogy between the 11 year …
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There are two threads in the news these days that illustrate where our "Western civilisation" (which at this stage is neither) is going. As is usually the case, "God, gays and guns" are at the centre of the problem, but not in the venues they're normally associated with. Let's start with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin …
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...in William Penn's Philadelphia. This, from Robert Carse's Ports of Call: But the Scottish Presbyterians who came in from North Ireland were the worst. They knew their rights, they said, and they would have those satisfied before they stepped foot out of Penn's town of brotherly love. Most of the Scots were big, rangy men, …
One of the features of this blog is the Music Pages, where some music of the "Jesus Music" era is featured, a good deal of it to the delight of the artists. I can't take the credit for starting this; that must go to "Diakoneo" of the Ancient Star-Song, whose blog started in 2006 and …
From St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, 3, q. 26 a. 1: Properly speaking, the office of a mediator is to join together and unite those between whom he mediates: for extremes are united in the mean [medio]. Now to unite men to God perfectively belongs to Christ, through Whom men are reconciled to God, according …
Namely Taiwan: Beijing and Taipei this week announced the beginning of their first ever government-to-government talks. It is to some extent a mutual recognition of each other's standing, and as well as a sure-footed step in the process of reunification - so important for the People's Republic of China - it sets an important precedent …
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