As for the rest of it, Schwartz says, " The metaphor of the Augean stables is wonderfully appropriate . " ( In Greek mythology, one of Hercules'tasks was to clean the stables of King Augeas, where celestial horse muck was being produced at a faster rate than Hercules could shovel it .)
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If replacing the drawer pull had been a nearly insuperable task akin to the labors of Hercules, you might have considered _ and, I hope, rejected _ such dubious methods . ( Hercules himself, you'll recall, devised a clever _ but not illegal _ way to clean the Augean stables . ) But in fact you faced only assumptions, imaginary barriers that you used to justify petty theft.
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The patent in this case covered " a water flush system to remove cow manure from the floor of a dairy barn . " The system was a combination of conventional, well-known elements, using flowing water to flush cow manure from a barn . " Systems using flowing water to clean animal wastes from barn floors have been familiar on dairy farms since ancient times . " The Court cited the fifth labor of Hercules ( cleaning the Augean stables ) as an example.
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Starting in 2011, Rohde has attracted media attention because of his role in the Berkeley Earth project ( also known as " BEST " ) as the lead scientist, and was responsible for writing software that searched databases for global temperature records, compiled the records, and merged them into a global temperature record, a task that Muller compared to " Hercules's enormous task of cleaning the Augean stables . " With regard to Rohde's role in BEST, Muller also said that Rohde was responsible for extending the temperature record determined by the project back to 1753.
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Lockhart states that Ballantyne, in negotiating with Constable in 1817 regarding a second series of " Tales of my Landlord ", so wrought on his jealousy by hinting at the possibility of dividing the series with Murray, that he'agreed on the instant to do all that John shrank from asking, and at one sweep cleared the Augean stable in Hanover Street of unsaleable rubbish to the amount of ?, 270'; but from a passage in the " Life of Archibald Constable " it would appear that this was not effected till a later period.
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The question " Wird er den Augiasstall s�ubern ? " ( Will he clean the Augean stables ? ) is followed by scenes of a garbage dump, " Wird er die lern�ische Schlange t�ten ? " ( Will he kill the Lernaean Hydra ? ) is followed by a huge line of stopped traffic on a motorway and people walking around outside their cars, " Wird er die Rosse des Diomedes bez�hmen ? " ( Will he tame the Mares of Diomedes ? ) is followed by scenes of car racing and several race crashes including a crash into the spectators and shots of the subsequent disaster and piles of bodies, " Wird er die Amazonen besiegen ? " ( Will he defeat the Amazonians ? ( Hippolyta ) ) is followed by scores of young women marching in uniform, " Wird er die Giganten bezwingen ? " ( Will he conquer the giants ? ( Geryon ) ) is followed by shots of rubble of a destroyed apartment building and men in uniform searching the wreckage, " Wird er sich der stymphalischen V�gel erwehren ? " ( Will he resist the Stymphalian birds ? ) is followed by jets flying in formation, shooting missiles and dropping bombs on training targets.
