Coming up is a conference where many of the space advocates will convene - so to answer the question directly, they will be in Washington, D.C. the end of this month: http://www.isdc2008.org/
This paradigm reminds me of Eclipse. It's not just a Java IDE - it's also a platform on which you can develop any program at all - and because of the wide variety of features and modes, it offers what it calls "perspectives" - your "modes" - to switch among sets of open windows, button bars, and so forth. It is a little confusing at first, even to an experienced computer user, but once the paradigm is clear, it works wonderfully!
Hm... I like Linux and Serenity. The guy sitting next to me is a fanatic for both Windows and Star Wars (he has a light saber, Darth Tater, and so forth decorating his cube)... Coincidence? I think not.
Funny this. I once won a year's supply of milk (52 gallons, one each week) from the local convenience store. Being the stickler for getting things right that I am, I checked on the tax law and kept careful records of the cost of each gallon I picked up and reported something like $300 on my income tax for that year. Free milk is nice, but the recordkeeping isn't.
On a calm day, the wind farm will only generate enough power to illuminate the green light itself, because it is of the incandescent variety. They had considered using an LED green light, but the initial outlay was too much.
Nintendo of America Initiates Replacement Program for Wrist Straps Used with Controllers for the Wii Video Game System
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary replacement program for the following consumer product. Name of Product: Wrist Straps Used with Controllers for the Nintendo Wii Video Game System
Units: About 2 Million
Distributor: Nintendo of America Inc.
Issue: If consumers swing the hand-held "Wii Remote" game controllers using excessive force and accidentally let go, the cord connecting the controller to the wrist strap can break, potentially causing the controller to strike bystanders or objects.
Incidents/Injuries: Nintendo has received reports of cords on wrist straps breaking, including three reports of minor injuries not requiring medical attention. All of these incidents occurred when consumers were playing the game, "Wii Sports."
Description: The wrist straps are sold with Nintendo's Wii video game system (pronounced "we"). Its controller, called the Wii Remote, is shaped like a TV remote. Sensors determine the Wii Remote's position in 3-D space, which means that a tennis swing, for example, is done through movement of a consumer's hand rather than by just fingers and thumbs. The cords on the wrist straps included in this program are 0.6mm in diameter. The replacement cords are 1.0 mm in diameter (see photo below).
Sold by: The Wii video game systems have been sold since November 19, 2006 for approximately $249. The Wii Remote has separately been sold from November 19, 2006 for approximately $39. All Wii video game systems purchased after December 11, 2006 should have the new 1.0 mm cord. All individually sold Wii Remotes purchased after December 18, 2006, should have the new 1.0 mm cord.
Manufactured in: Japan and China
Remedy: Consumers should contact the firm for a replacement wrist strap.
Customer Contact: For more information, contact Nintendo toll-free at (800) 859-4519 between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. PT, or visit their Web site at www.support.nintendo.com
Someone at Microsoft is getting a commission on the reboots, and someone else is getting a cut for the time spent rebooting.... it's all a game to see how much we'll put up with before revolting!
For this election, I started last week doing the deep research on everything from my House representative to the county soil & water conservation board. I went to the county's board of elections page and downloaded the composite ballot - to find out who was running against whom. I searched the net for information on the various candidates, focusing on articles in preference to the candidates' own web sites. I look for endorsements by newspaper editors - because they have been following the issues very closely. They typically document their rationale as well, giving me some more context for making the decision on my own. I look for fair-minded judges, not those who have an agenda plastered over their campaign web sites. I look for candidates aligned with my ideals, and I look for experience relevant to the job. If I'm not sure how to vote, I think of people I know whose opinions I respect (an attorney for a clerk of court recommendation, for example), and ask them. It took me about 3 hours to research 18 contests on the ballot - 10 minutes each, on average - not a bad investment for a quality government, I'd say.
If your county doesn't have the composite ballot on the web site, the daily paper probably publishes a voters' guide on Saturday before the election, oft times including that composite ballot. If you can't plunk down the $0.50 for the paper, the local library will have one and will be able to tell you which issue has the collected information. The librarian will also have a host of other ways to research the issues.
The way I see it, our founding fathers, our ancestors, and our military through today fought hard for us to have the right to vote. We owe them a few hours every other year to do our part for a good government.
Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam; or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
There's a market for votes (they pay quite a bit for campaigning, after all), and Rebecca Mercuri quantified it as about $20 per vote. That's quite the incentive to mess with a ballot box, no?
Not quite like that, but how about a rocket bicycle. (Not that you can do much commuting on a bicycle in the area - it's just as car-ridden as the rest of the country.)
Agreed on all points. I'm glad the CEV is in the works, and I'm frustrated to see the Shuttle still flying and all the brainpower pouring into figuring out how to make the foam stay on the tank. There are better things we can do with our time. When the Soviets got their first Shuttle back, they quickly decided it was too expensive and scrapped the whole program. Why must we be so thick-headed about it? So let's say they retire the Shuttle in 2010 as planned and bring the CEV into the mix. How many more Shuttle flights will there be? Probably somewhere between 4 and 20. The manifest calls for 17 more flights to assemble the station. It could happen.
My question: Is there a better way than a chemical rocket to get mass from earth to orbit or farther? Until we crack that nut, we'll do well to stick with automated probes and the occasional manned adventure.
It was RCC (reinforced carbon-carbon) panel 6 and/or 7 on the left wing that got punctured by a 2-pound piece of foam dislodged from a ramp on the external tank. The hole resulted in plasma entering the wing, and as hypothesized before the first launch of Columbia and documented in the IMAX movie Hail Columbia!, the tile system failed like a zipper being undone.
It took Columbia's dissentigration to convince me, but Alex Roland is right. The Shuttle is a jobs program with a little bit of scientific research thrown in for fun. It's far more expensive than it was designed to be, and it's proven itself not viable time and again. The only people who aren't taking note are those who write the checks.
What should we be doing in space? We should be using robots to explore (like the Mars rovers) and perform experiments in orbit. We should send people when we get the fuel to vehicle mass ratio better than 97%, and when it can warrant the expense of taking life support systems on a mission.
The Moon/Mars trips are another bigger jobs program, but they don't even have to get anywhere because the guy who called for them (and his successor, for that matter) will be safely out of office before the promised arrival date of 2018, so when it falls short, he won't have a price to pay.
If Mars is the goal, the Mars Direct plan is much more economical. If the Moon is the target, go straight there, but don't use the Moon as a lillypad to get to Mars because landing and launching from there takes a certain amount of energy that needs not be expended on the way to Mars.
I want to see us (humans) explore space. I want to learn about the cosmos and I'd love to leave the planet (and probably return). I've followed the U.S. space program since I was old enough to know what a rocket was, and I've learned about the Soviet program since Glasnost. Now I'd like to see us do something meaningful - not just run a space truck to orbit and back, and not just design a fantastical Moon/Mars mission for the sake of it, but really learn about better forms of transportation and about the universe.
All of these issues contribute to discomfort (which might be interpreted as "stress" by some people)
The fluorescent lights overhead flicker at 60Hz
Computer fans make a racket
Hard drives constantly make some sound
Monitors flicker by design
Cell phone signals drop out, prompting louder volume which doesn't really help.
People less accustomed to computers and electronic devices will also have a stress response to the unfamiliar when they use it.
Is it related to [cue mystical music] electromagnetic fields? Well, all those things use EM fields, but it looks to me like we've just found a bunch of new (in the last century) ways to annoy people with electricity. EM fields aren't the bad guy - it's all the ingenuity sprouted as a result of convenient EM fields and the design flaws that people haven't yet recognized.
I haven't thought of a similar situation in the pre-electricity world - perhaps standing next to a fast-moving windmill would have been annoying, or listening to the clanking of a chain going on or off its spool, or any other squeaky-type sounds. The general public doesn't understand "squeaky" yet as it applies to various electronic gadgets.
I have, and I think all the computer nerds should have already seen it, but in a graduate operating systems class at North Carolina State University in 2001, I asked for a show of hands of those who had seen the movie. Out of 80 students, only 3 had seen it! Now that could be a testament to the cultural diversity at NCSU, or it could be a testament to my age vs. theirs (I'm a few years older than most grad students, and was old enough to see it in the theater when it came out), or it could be a testament to the lack of true nerds at NCSU (my experience has been that half of my teammates on group projects have no idea how to write a program). At any rate, people need to know a little bit of history. Kudos, for once;-) to the editors for posting this story.
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They just can't have a store in every shopping mall.
If they would consolidate their stores and put one or two in each metro area, focusing on the hobbyist by providing the integrated circuits, connectors, switches, project boxes, breadboards, and so forth, they would be in good shape. How much would you pay for a handfull of 10k resistors if you needed 3 for a project? Talk about profit margin! They won't make money on cell phone plans, TV sets, cordless phones, or Tandy computers. They have a reputation for selling junk. But for parts, it's the place to go (except that they quit selling the cool parts...)
Heck, they used to have some cool project books. They could send people project ideas by e-mail and put them up on a web site. They could milk it for all it's worth...
Oh, but I forget! We don't care about science (and to some extent, engineering) in this country. It's all about short-term gains, next quarter's profit, and so forth... Grumble, grumble.
So yes, they could be cool if they wanted. I don't think they really want to earn my business.
Amen. Just yesterday I saw a piece on BBC World News about vitamin D deficiency (sorry, the BBC News web link actually tells enough information to be useful). The TV spot didn't even tell how much vitamin D seems to cut the risk of certain cancers in half! By contrast, the UCSD press release had plenty of useful information. What irks me is that they still send you on a wild goose chase to find a summary written by the scientists. I think the problem is not only editors wanting tabloid content, but in these cases, a public relations department whose job is perceived as being to put the best possible spin on things for the organization. Regardless of the quality of the "reporting" by the PR department, the actual reporters are going to have to get more information, and the media contact is the PR person who wrote the article, not a scientist. The reporters also talk to someone else for a differing opinion and try to show the "debate" whether there is one or not. They may then find some expert in the subject who hasn't read the study, and it goes downhill from there. It's a bad game of telephone mixed up with putting someone on the spot about a paper they haven't seen: a recipe for disaster.
The trouble with biodiesel (especially in the U.S.) is that it's usually grown in the Great Plains, and the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies a big chunk of the Plains, is running out of water for irrigation. 12.
That we get 80% of our total energy from dinosaurs is my biggest concern. True, energy from dinosaurs is inexpensive, and the inefficiencies in storing large amounts of electrical energy in a portable fashion present challenges, but these are challenges we must meet while we curtail our energy consumption.
I like the idea of tapping into the energy we've put (and trapped) in the atmosphere; such an approach makes good use of existing resources.
Count me in! I'm tired of Christians imposing their morality by force of law. I do what I can within my church to promote tolerance and understanding. For example, when Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore brought a monument of the 10 Commandments into the State Courthouse, I asked a church group, "Do you think a Buddhist in Alabama will get a fair trial?" They thought about it and mostly came to agree with my reasoning that church and state really DO need to be separate entities, at least in that situation. Give to Caesar what is Caesar's.
It's a delicate balance to guide our brothers without tripping over our own faults along the way. We all have them - it's just a matter of being open to understanding them. Beware of anyone who has all the answers!
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Coming up is a conference where many of the space advocates will convene - so to answer the question directly, they will be in Washington, D.C. the end of this month: http://www.isdc2008.org/
There are several commercial interests, including the Artemis Society, http://www.asi.org/ and http://www.virgingalactic.com/
This paradigm reminds me of Eclipse. It's not just a Java IDE - it's also a platform on which you can develop any program at all - and because of the wide variety of features and modes, it offers what it calls "perspectives" - your "modes" - to switch among sets of open windows, button bars, and so forth. It is a little confusing at first, even to an experienced computer user, but once the paradigm is clear, it works wonderfully!
Hm... I like Linux and Serenity. The guy sitting next to me is a fanatic for both Windows and Star Wars (he has a light saber, Darth Tater, and so forth decorating his cube)... Coincidence? I think not.
Funny this. I once won a year's supply of milk (52 gallons, one each week) from the local convenience store. Being the stickler for getting things right that I am, I checked on the tax law and kept careful records of the cost of each gallon I picked up and reported something like $300 on my income tax for that year. Free milk is nice, but the recordkeeping isn't.
Yeah, they have a good picture of the Shearon Harris nuke plant near Apex, NC.
On a calm day, the wind farm will only generate enough power to illuminate the green light itself, because it is of the incandescent variety. They had considered using an LED green light, but the initial outlay was too much.
NEWS from CPSC
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of Information and Public Affairs
Washington, DC 20207
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 15, 2006
Release #07-061
Firm's Hotline: (800) 859-4519
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908
Nintendo of America Initiates Replacement Program for Wrist Straps Used
with Controllers for the Wii Video Game System
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in
cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary
replacement program for the following consumer product.
Name of Product: Wrist Straps Used with Controllers for the Nintendo Wii
Video Game System
Units: About 2 Million
Distributor: Nintendo of America Inc.
Issue: If consumers swing the hand-held "Wii Remote" game controllers
using excessive force and accidentally let go, the cord connecting the
controller to the wrist strap can break, potentially causing the
controller to strike bystanders or objects.
Incidents/Injuries: Nintendo has received reports of cords on wrist
straps breaking, including three reports of minor injuries not requiring
medical attention. All of these incidents occurred when consumers were
playing the game, "Wii Sports."
Description: The wrist straps are sold with Nintendo's Wii video game
system (pronounced "we"). Its controller, called the Wii Remote, is
shaped like a TV remote. Sensors determine the Wii Remote's position in
3-D space, which means that a tennis swing, for example, is done through
movement of a consumer's hand rather than by just fingers and thumbs.
The cords on the wrist straps included in this program are 0.6mm in
diameter. The replacement cords are 1.0 mm in diameter (see photo
below).
Sold by: The Wii video game systems have been sold since November 19,
2006 for approximately $249. The Wii Remote has separately been sold
from November 19, 2006 for approximately $39. All Wii video game systems
purchased after December 11, 2006 should have the new 1.0 mm cord. All
individually sold Wii Remotes purchased after December 18, 2006, should
have the new 1.0 mm cord.
Manufactured in: Japan and China
Remedy: Consumers should contact the firm for a replacement wrist strap.
Customer Contact: For more information, contact Nintendo toll-free at
(800) 859-4519 between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. PT, or visit their Web site at
www.support.nintendo.com
To see this Press Release on CPSC's web site, including a picture of the
product involved, please go to:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml07/07061
Someone at Microsoft is getting a commission on the reboots, and someone else is getting a cut for the time spent rebooting.... it's all a game to see how much we'll put up with before revolting!
The gadgets of 1492 were pretty simple....
But more seriously, I had to settle for a plastic JAWS and a Tonka fire engine. What are they whining about?
For this election, I started last week doing the deep research on everything from my House representative to the county soil & water conservation board. I went to the county's board of elections page and downloaded the composite ballot - to find out who was running against whom. I searched the net for information on the various candidates, focusing on articles in preference to the candidates' own web sites. I look for endorsements by newspaper editors - because they have been following the issues very closely. They typically document their rationale as well, giving me some more context for making the decision on my own. I look for fair-minded judges, not those who have an agenda plastered over their campaign web sites. I look for candidates aligned with my ideals, and I look for experience relevant to the job. If I'm not sure how to vote, I think of people I know whose opinions I respect (an attorney for a clerk of court recommendation, for example), and ask them. It took me about 3 hours to research 18 contests on the ballot - 10 minutes each, on average - not a bad investment for a quality government, I'd say.
If your county doesn't have the composite ballot on the web site, the daily paper probably publishes a voters' guide on Saturday before the election, oft times including that composite ballot. If you can't plunk down the $0.50 for the paper, the local library will have one and will be able to tell you which issue has the collected information. The librarian will also have a host of other ways to research the issues.
The way I see it, our founding fathers, our ancestors, and our military through today fought hard for us to have the right to vote. We owe them a few hours every other year to do our part for a good government.
Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam; or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
There's a market for votes (they pay quite a bit for campaigning, after all), and Rebecca Mercuri quantified it as about $20 per vote. That's quite the incentive to mess with a ballot box, no?
Not quite like that, but how about a rocket bicycle. (Not that you can do much commuting on a bicycle in the area - it's just as car-ridden as the rest of the country.)
Oh, and there's Jesus as an Eggbeater and God's Rocket (the latter offering an eggbeater pic, too).
Agreed on all points. I'm glad the CEV is in the works, and I'm frustrated to see the Shuttle still flying and all the brainpower pouring into figuring out how to make the foam stay on the tank. There are better things we can do with our time. When the Soviets got their first Shuttle back, they quickly decided it was too expensive and scrapped the whole program. Why must we be so thick-headed about it? So let's say they retire the Shuttle in 2010 as planned and bring the CEV into the mix. How many more Shuttle flights will there be? Probably somewhere between 4 and 20. The manifest calls for 17 more flights to assemble the station. It could happen.
My question: Is there a better way than a chemical rocket to get mass from earth to orbit or farther? Until we crack that nut, we'll do well to stick with automated probes and the occasional manned adventure.
It was RCC (reinforced carbon-carbon) panel 6 and/or 7 on the left wing that got punctured by a 2-pound piece of foam dislodged from a ramp on the external tank. The hole resulted in plasma entering the wing, and as hypothesized before the first launch of Columbia and documented in the IMAX movie Hail Columbia!, the tile system failed like a zipper being undone.
It took Columbia's dissentigration to convince me, but Alex Roland is right. The Shuttle is a jobs program with a little bit of scientific research thrown in for fun. It's far more expensive than it was designed to be, and it's proven itself not viable time and again. The only people who aren't taking note are those who write the checks.
Fred DeJarnette, who worked on the original tile engineering is ready for a replacement. Let's do some real engineering and come up with a better spacecraft! (The Onion has an interesting take on the Shuttle program.)
What should we be doing in space? We should be using robots to explore (like the Mars rovers) and perform experiments in orbit. We should send people when we get the fuel to vehicle mass ratio better than 97%, and when it can warrant the expense of taking life support systems on a mission.
The Moon/Mars trips are another bigger jobs program, but they don't even have to get anywhere because the guy who called for them (and his successor, for that matter) will be safely out of office before the promised arrival date of 2018, so when it falls short, he won't have a
price to pay.
If Mars is the goal, the Mars Direct plan is much more economical. If the Moon is the target, go straight there, but don't use the Moon as a lillypad to get to Mars because landing and launching from there takes a certain amount of energy that needs not be expended on the way to Mars.
I want to see us (humans) explore space. I want to learn about the cosmos and I'd love to leave the planet (and probably return). I've followed the U.S. space program since I was old enough to know what a rocket was, and I've learned about the Soviet program since Glasnost. Now I'd like to see us do something meaningful - not just run a space truck to orbit and back, and not just design a fantastical Moon/Mars mission for the sake of it, but really learn about better forms of transportation and about the universe.
- The fluorescent lights overhead flicker at 60Hz
- Computer fans make a racket
- Hard drives constantly make some sound
- Monitors flicker by design
- Cell phone signals drop out, prompting louder volume which doesn't really help.
People less accustomed to computers and electronic devices will also have a stress response to the unfamiliar when they use it.Is it related to [cue mystical music] electromagnetic fields? Well, all those things use EM fields, but it looks to me like we've just found a bunch of new (in the last century) ways to annoy people with electricity. EM fields aren't the bad guy - it's all the ingenuity sprouted as a result of convenient EM fields and the design flaws that people haven't yet recognized.
I haven't thought of a similar situation in the pre-electricity world - perhaps standing next to a fast-moving windmill would have been annoying, or listening to the clanking of a chain going on or off its spool, or any other squeaky-type sounds. The general public doesn't understand "squeaky" yet as it applies to various electronic gadgets.
I have, and I think all the computer nerds should have already seen it, but in a graduate operating systems class at North Carolina State University in 2001, I asked for a show of hands of those who had seen the movie. Out of 80 students, only 3 had seen it! Now that could be a testament to the cultural diversity at NCSU, or it could be a testament to my age vs. theirs (I'm a few years older than most grad students, and was old enough to see it in the theater when it came out), or it could be a testament to the lack of true nerds at NCSU (my experience has been that half of my teammates on group projects have no idea how to write a program). At any rate, people need to know a little bit of history. Kudos, for once ;-) to the editors for posting this story.
They just can't have a store in every shopping mall.
If they would consolidate their stores and put one or two in each metro area, focusing on the hobbyist by providing the integrated circuits, connectors, switches, project boxes, breadboards, and so forth, they would be in good shape. How much would you pay for a handfull of 10k resistors if you needed 3 for a project? Talk about profit margin! They won't make money on cell phone plans, TV sets, cordless phones, or Tandy computers. They have a reputation for selling junk. But for parts, it's the place to go (except that they quit selling the cool parts...)
Heck, they used to have some cool project books. They could send people project ideas by e-mail and put them up on a web site. They could milk it for all it's worth...
Oh, but I forget! We don't care about science (and to some extent, engineering) in this country. It's all about short-term gains, next quarter's profit, and so forth... Grumble, grumble.
So yes, they could be cool if they wanted. I don't think they really want to earn my business.
Amen. Just yesterday I saw a piece on BBC World News about vitamin D deficiency (sorry, the BBC News web link actually tells enough information to be useful). The TV spot didn't even tell how much vitamin D seems to cut the risk of certain cancers in half! By contrast, the UCSD press release had plenty of useful information. What irks me is that they still send you on a wild goose chase to find a summary written by the scientists. I think the problem is not only editors wanting tabloid content, but in these cases, a public relations department whose job is perceived as being to put the best possible spin on things for the organization. Regardless of the quality of the "reporting" by the PR department, the actual reporters are going to have to get more information, and the media contact is the PR person who wrote the article, not a scientist. The reporters also talk to someone else for a differing opinion and try to show the "debate" whether there is one or not. They may then find some expert in the subject who hasn't read the study, and it goes downhill from there. It's a bad game of telephone mixed up with putting someone on the spot about a paper they haven't seen: a recipe for disaster.
Cómo puede Ud. decir tal cosa, usted clod insensible?
Duh! It finds the nearest trailer park!
The trouble with biodiesel (especially in the U.S.) is that it's usually grown in the Great Plains, and the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies a big chunk of the Plains, is running out of water for irrigation. 1 2.
That we get 80% of our total energy from dinosaurs is my biggest concern. True, energy from dinosaurs is inexpensive, and the inefficiencies in storing large amounts of electrical energy in a portable fashion present challenges, but these are challenges we must meet while we curtail our energy consumption.
I like the idea of tapping into the energy we've put (and trapped) in the atmosphere; such an approach makes good use of existing resources.
Um.... you Europeans wouldn't even have the WWW if it hadn't been for Al Gore creating the Internet !
Count me in! I'm tired of Christians imposing their morality by force of law. I do what I can within my church to promote tolerance and understanding. For example, when Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore brought a monument of the 10 Commandments into the State Courthouse, I asked a church group, "Do you think a Buddhist in Alabama will get a fair trial?" They thought about it and mostly came to agree with my reasoning that church and state really DO need to be separate entities, at least in that situation. Give to Caesar what is Caesar's.
It's a delicate balance to guide our brothers without tripping over our own faults along the way. We all have them - it's just a matter of being open to understanding them. Beware of anyone who has all the answers!