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This Week in American Orthodox History (March 19-23)

In this episode, Matthew discusses, among other things, some influential early convert priests, the Romanian Bishop Polycarp Morusca, a 1940s attempt at jurisdictional unity, and the renowned church historian Jaroslav Pelikan.




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Love and Mercy

Love can have many meanings, and often the world tells us to "follow our hearts." In the scholarly words of Boston, love is "more than a feeling"!




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Update: Google now helps search for plane tickets

Search for something like [lax nyc] and Google will help you buy plane tickets for that trip.




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News: Google donates $350,000 to open source projects at Oregon State

(Google blog post)




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Launch: Google Music, search for bands and albums




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Launch: Google Code Search

Google now lets you do searches -- including regular expression searches -- across public source code.




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Launch: searchmash, an experimental site started by Google

Uses Ajax and some other web2.0-ish features.




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What are the optimal biases to overcome?




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How Street Artist Marc Ecko Launched A Billion Dollar Clothing Company

Today I’m pumped to share the unusual story behind how Marc Ecko turned his love of street art into a billion dollar clothing company. You see, like most artists, he got the “itch” early on, but he abandoned his craft for a much more stable career move – pharmacy school. He didn’t last long though, […]



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Hosting WooCommerce Stores with Unexpected High Traffic

What do you already know about hosting WooCommerce stores? When it comes to hosting WooCommerce stores, you may have already read some of my articles on choosing a WordPress host, or how to think about WooCommerce already. But maybe you haven't. Or maybe you read the super sharp article by Carl Alexander on using a ... Read more

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Police searching for drivers who ran from scene that caused SB I-65 multi-vehicle crash, lanes reopen




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Boeing commercial airplanes quality chief to retire in December




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URC highlights: Connacht 31-7 Dragons

Watch highlights as Connacht secure a convincing victory over Dragons in the United Rugby Championship.




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URC highlights: Ospreys 22-13 Edinburgh

Watch highlights as Ospreys earn a much-needed United Rugby Championship victory over Edinburgh in Bridgend.




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Call Center Outsourcing Costs: How Much Is It REALLY?

For most business owners, the main reason why they would outsource their call center services is that it’s usually the least expensive option. Be that as it may, there are several factors that go into the final cost of doing so—including the type of call center, its location, and the […]

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Wales rugby results archive

BBC Sport Wales archive of the results and match reports of the national team.




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Wales boost from best URC weekend in three years

BBC Sport Wales assesses a successful final weekend of the first block of games in the United Rugby Championship.




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'Error-strewn Ireland display may force Farrell into shake-up'

Ireland's error-filled performance in the 23-13 defeat by New Zealand leaves head coach Andy Farrell with much to ponder.




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Injury forces Bailey retirement

Former Commonwealth Games squash silver medallist Tania Bailey announces her retirement from the sport.




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Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri i gael gwared ar 'Snowdonia' o'i logo

Mae Awdurdod Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri wedi pleidleisio o blaid logo newydd sy'n adlewyrchu penderfyniad cynharach i ollwng 'Snowdonia' o'i enw.




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Searches resume for woman missing for 29 years

Jo Jo Dullard, who was 21, went missing from Moone in County Kildare while hitchhiking in 1995.




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Annual Santa-themed motorcycle ride out returns

The event sees scores of bikers dressed as Santa raise money for the Manx children's Hospice.




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Motorcyclists urged to stay on designated paths

Concerns are raised about damage to plantations and boundary fencing in the Manx uplands by riders.




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Trafficker jailed for forcing women into sex work

A human trafficker who lured women from Thailand and forced them into the sex trade is jailed




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Church organist celebrates 75 years of service

Rita Purves was just 13 when she first took a seat at the organ in Morebattle in the Borders.




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Air search team has busiest autumn for call-outs

The Channel Islands Air Search team sees a "significant increase" in incidents.




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Tax firm raided by HMRC 'closes abruptly'

A company where warrants were recently executed is no longer in business, the BBC has learned.




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'I think it's very sad for an archbishop to resign'

A Nottingham theologian says the resignation of Justin Welby is "unprecedented".




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Church 'colluded' with sex abuse bishop

Former bishop Peter Ball was jailed for sex offences against 18 teenagers and young men.




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Motorcyclist killed in crash with car

Police are seeking witnesses to the incident on the A5 between Potterspury and Old Stratford.




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Karting circuit has plans for racing-themed hub

Buckmore Park is proposing a centre with racing simulators, a restaurant and bar and roof terrace.




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Church has a ‘long way to go’ after ‘sickening’ abuse

Right Reverend Rachel Treweek said there were “lessons to learn” following the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury.




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Historic fountain returns to March

March’s historic ornamental fountain has returned after an absence of more than a year.




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Ferguson keen not to 'overcook' Cambridge derby

Peterborough United manager Darren Ferguson says he has tried to play down the significance of Saturday's derby with Cambridge United to his players.




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Burial plot plan stolen during church safe heist

The Chapel and School Room church says the loss of the document will make it "harder to do burials".




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Church abuse report should 'shake us to the core'

The Bishop of Chelmsford says Justin Welby has taken responsibility for his "failures".




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Three people charged with forced marriage

Two women and a man are denied bail and remanded in custody.




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Ceiling fall forces Christmas show's cancellation

A large slab of plaster fell from the ceiling "exploding" into the venue, company trustees say.




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Using leftovers for free meals in Worcester

Discover FoodCycle, which turns supermarket food waste into hot meals.




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Worcester confirm bid to return to professional rugby

Worcester Warriors take a major step towards a return to professional rugby with a formal bid to join the second-tier Championship.




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Cobb exits Worcestershire after one-season stay

Josh Cobb departs Worcestershire after one-season stay on white-ball contract, while Olly Cox also exits.




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Chris McCausland: 'Perception of people with disabilities is antiquated'

The comedian has been praised by students at the Royal National College for the Blind, where he studied.




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Nuclear site holds emergency exercise

People living nearby may hear the emergency siren and the site is likely to be in lockdown.




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King faces fans after painful Robins 'divorce'

Coventry City owner Doug King outlines the real reasons behind Mark Robins' sacking from Sky Blues.




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U-turns and LinkedIn rants plague fire chief search

The latest candidate for the post has withdrawn just days after the appointment was announced.





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Use of ch unit considered inappropriate (in certain circumstances)

Update: The title of this post was originally a knowing nod to the considered harmful cliché. I thought it might be amusing and get a bit of attention. However it was brought to my attention by a few people I respect that the title as written might be harmful in itself, so I changed it. However I believe that the subtle point I’m trying to make still stands:

When did we start using the ch unit to specify the maximum length for a line of text? Many places you look nowadays you'll see a variation on:

.prose {
  max-inline-size: 60ch;
}

Is it because of a direct reading of Bringhurst and people (like me) who’ve quoted him:

Anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as a satisfactory length of line for a single-column page set in a serifed text face in a text size. The 66-character line (counting both letters and spaces) is widely regarded as ideal. For multiple column work, a better average is 40 to 50 characters.

I get it: there’s all that talk of ’characters’. But that’s not what Bringhurst means literally. I’ll come back to that shortly.

Firstly let’s remind ourselves about the CSS ch unit. While ch sounds like it should equate to a number of characters or a character width, that’s not strictly the case. The ch unit specifically refers to the width of the zero ’0’ character within the selected font, or 0.5em if no ’0’ is present. So unless you have a line made up entirely of zeroes, or are using a monospaced font, a width of 66ch will probably not give you a line containing 66 characters. What’s more, the rendered width of that line will vary with the font design, sometimes significantly.

Two text blocks are set to 34 ch wide, but the use of a condensed font (top) and an expanded font (bottom) makes the rendered width narrower and wider respectively.

The important part of Bringhurst’s guideline is not the ’66-characters’ but the ’satisfactory length’. This is about readability, and readability is affected by the length of a line more so than the number of characters in it.

A consistent finding is that long line lengths on screen are least preferred or judged as least easy to read [my emphasis]

With that in mind, restricting your line length using rem would be a far more appropriate unit to use:

.prose {
  max-inline-size: 30rem;
}

This would give you a line length accessibly tied to text size, but independent of font design.

But is using ch harmful?

Bringhurst’s guideline includes this little caveat: a page set in a serifed text face in a text size. This enables him to equate the number of characters in a line with its length. So if you are using a fairly standard typeface for your text then you’ll probably be fine. However that ’standard typeface’ assumption is implicit anytime you use ch to set the width of a column of text. Using rem removes that assumption and gives you what you are probably really after – a consistent, predictable limit on line length.

It didn’t surprise me to find that Eric Meyer had written about this six years ago. I’ll leave you with an important observation from his post:

If you’re working with multiple typefaces, say one for headlines and another for body copy, be careful about setting ch measures and thinking they’ll be equivalent between the two fonts. The odds are very, very high they won’t be.

So is using ch harmful? At the risk of saying it depends, it might not be harmful, but it could be, and there is a far more reliable and appropriate unit to use by way of the rem when it comes to limiting line length in a column of text.

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Bristol Academy beat Barcelona - a decade on

BBC Radio Bristol's Sound of the City looks back at Bristol Academy's win against Barcelona in the Champions League in 2014.




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Festival worker to become Antarctic postmaster

George Clarke will staff the most southerly post office in the world, living among a penguin colony.




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Police officer convicted of coercive behaviour

Mitchell Curtis 'refused to admit what he had done' to colleagues despite a 'wealth of evidence'.