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Acta Theologica
On-line version ISSN 2309-9089
Print version ISSN 1015-8758
Acta theol. vol.32 n.2 suppl. Bloemfontein Dec. 2012
The Belhar confession and church and society: a comparative reading in five statements1
P. Naudé
DVC: Academic, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
This essay offers a close comparative reading of the Belhar confession and the DRC witness document, Church and Society. It is argued (in the first statement) that although on the surface there are many similarities in content between the two documents, they are in fact theologically quite distinct (statements two to five). It is hoped that the DRC's decision in 2011 to start a process of adopting the Belhar confession represents a return to its Reformed roots in the confessing church tradition.
Keywords: Church and society; Belhar confession; Reformed tradition
Kernwoorde: Kerk en samelewing; Belharbelydenis; Gereformeerde tradisie
The year 2011 was a significant one for the family of Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa. In this year, we commemorated the 25th birthdays of two important church documents, namely the Belhar Confession and Church and Society. The Belhar document2 was adopted as draft confession by the then Dutch Reformed Mission Church in 1982 and subsequently formally included as confession in the church orders at the general synod in the suburb of Belhar close to Cape Town in October 1986. Kerk en Samelewing3 (KS/CS) is a witness document accepted as policy guideline for the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) at the General Synod, also in October 1986, and incidentally also in Cape Town.
The relative distance in time of 25 years allows for rich opportunities to reflect on the significance of these documents. In this paper, an attempt is made to read the two documents in a comparative manner. The aim is, however, to go beyond a mere comparison of content, which is addressed in the first paragraph below. The intention is to rather investigate what the significant social and theological divergences were (and still are?) so as to understand why the DRC took a quarter of a century to resolve in principle to accept the Confession of Belhar.4
For the sake of clarity and progression of argument, this paper posits five statements which are then explained in the ensuing paragraphs. Each of these statements could have been an academic paper on its own. The weakness of this essay is therefore that huge topics will be stated quite concisely in the hope that what is gained in breadth will adequately compensate for the loss in depth at some points.
On the face of it, there is a strong convergence in content between the Confession of Belhar (1982/6) and the DRC witness document Kerk en Samelewing (1986).
One can easily draw two columns with Belhar formulations on the one side and those of CS on the other and see that in many cases there are even exact verbal agreements between the two documents. Because of its historical precedence, let us take the five sub-divisions of the Belhar confession as point of departure and do a brief comparative reading.
Belhar's first article confesses the Trinity and the belief that the church came into existence and is under the care of God through the Word and the Spirit.
In section 243 of CS, the DRC confesses that it forms part of God's unique, holy people that has been elected to eternal life via the Word and the Spirit (reflecting Heidelberger Catechism question 45). That the church owes its existence and calling in the world to the gracious election by God is further emphasised with reference to the church and the new covenant through the miracle of re-creation. The essence of the church is therefore determined by the Triune God. The church is - above all - God's people (see CS sections 42, 46-8, and 82).
Belhar's second article repeats the creedal formulation from Nicea and the Apostolicum, namely a confession of one, holy, catholic, church, and places emphasis on both the spiritual and visible unity of the church.
The unity of the church is also a core theme in CS. The unity of the church is a reflection of the unity of the Trinity, and by living this unity the church is a window on God's new world (CS, section 81). Just like in Belhar, the link between theology and ecclesiology is an intricate one. As a direct echo of Belhar's second article, CS states:
The church is from its inception one in the Triune God, but must seek, serve and make this unity visible in the midst of the diversity in God's creation and amongst God's people in this torn-apart reality(section 82, my translation).
It is important to note that on the unity question, CS indeed corrects the traditional views of the DRC up to that point in two ways: diversity in creation is not longer used as argument for human and church divisions on the principle of pluriformity, and, whilst acknowledging the theological (spiritual) origin and eschatological fulfilment of this unity, CS clearly calls for visible unity, realised here and now. The notion of "unity in freedom" (Belhar, article 2) finds expression in the CS statement that visible unity must not be forced upon people for the mere sake of outward demonstration (CS, section 94).5
Belhar's third article focuses on the conviction that the message of reconciliation has been entrusted to the church and that the church should embody this reconciliation amongst its own members and in society.
In its discussion of the essence and calling of the church in paragraph 11 (with 9 sub-paragraphs), CS presents reconciliation from two perspectives: The priestly task of the church requires it to proclaim in word and deed the love and reconciliation amongst people (section 51). And it, secondly, makes particular mention of the church as "reconciled community" (paragraph 11.7, sections 77-80). Like Belhar, reconciliation is fundamentally seen as gracious gift from God through the blood of Christ.
Once the church understands its own reconciliation and peace with God, part of its thankfulness is to take up the ministry of reconciliation, noted for its love and peace amongst people; erecting visible signs of God's kingdom amidst the divisions of society (section 223). Racism is hence declared "a serious sin which no person or church may defend or practise" (section 112).
Belhar's fourth article confesses that God is a God of justice and peace who is in a special way the God of the sufferer, the poor and oppressed, and that the church is called to stand with God to ensure that justice and peace is established.
This has been the most contentious article of the Belhar confession and has been and is still today being used to discredit the confession as "liberation theology" built on the notion of a Marxist class struggle.6 In its first reaction to the Belhar confession, the DRC stated that this section could have been formulated differently, and at that point put forward the view that CS actually expresses the concern for justice more adequately.7
The point is not whether CS is "better" than Belhar, but whether the DRC's witness can be seen as consonant to the Belhar confession in this specific regard.
A close reading of the CS division on the church and relations amongst groups of people (division 12) reveals an astonishing and passionate plea for justice based on a careful analysis of the same biblical traditions cited in Belhar, namely the prophets and wisdom literature in the Old Testament, and the gospels and James in the New Testament. Justice is particularly expounded in relation to those whose rights have been violated. This is not only relevant on a personal level, but applies equally to the social structures in society (CS, sections 136-137).
Believers are therefore called to stand for the rights of the poor and the vulnerable. In deep consonance with Belhar, CS states that where this happens, believers follow the example of God Himself. "He is indeed par excellance (by uitnemendheid) the One who stands for the case of the sufferers and those living under injustice" (section 144, my translation, referring to Ps 146). This is repeated in the NT where especially the Lukan gospel describes God as "the One who especially cares for the less privileged and the vulnerable" (section 145, my translation). Indeed, because we are created in God's image, the Bible demonstrates "special sensitivity for those who are oppressed and exploited" (section 147, my translation).
It is clear that CS uses the same biblical language with the same kind of emphases as we find in Belhar article 4. No reformulation nor discrediting of Belhar can be defended from the strong witness that speaks so clearly from CS. Members of the DRC who still do this, contradict the stance of their own church.
Belhar's last article is a call to embodiment of the confession, despite the actions of governments or the ordinations of men. It recalls the early church's confession that Jesus is Lord, and ends with a doxology to the Father, Son and Spirit.
In the context of South Africa in the early and mid-1980s, the issue was indeed living the faith in the face of strong and sometimes violent state action. Readers are reminded of the controversial movement that prayed for the fall of the government in 1985.8 How does one embody one's deepest confession if the state legalises injustice and upholds unjust laws in the name of the very Christ whom one confesses?
CS is quite aware of this. The "Reformed" in the name of the DRC played an important role here. CS distinguishes between the state (ordained by God) and the government of the day, representing the state. The status of the government is dependent on the fulfilment of its calling to be servant of God by caring for all its citizens, and making sure that peace, order, and well-being are promoted (sections 310-432).
In principle CS agrees with Belhar: The Reformed tradition knows the right to protest against and actively resist the political order of the day (section 323). The chief reason and justification for these actions of last resort - such as civil disobedience and peaceful resistance (section 328) -is if the government in itself demonstrates such a measure of injustice that its legitimacy is fully questionable (section 326).
It will be shown later that this principle agreement (that obedience to Christ the Lord is a higher requirement than obedience to the government or state9) was not upheld consistently and in practice by CS. Nevertheless, one may assert that on the face of it, CS concurs in theory (see section 328) with Belhar, namely that one should rather suffer for your faith than to follow the stipulations of men (sic).
CS ends - like Belhar - on a doxological note from Philippians 1:9 -11, referring to our salvation through faith in Christ, and the eschatological hope that believers will be unblemished when Christ returns, to the honour and glory of God (section 383).
The primary and most obvious divergence between the two documents is that they represent distinct theological genres with a distinct "status", namely an official church confession following a status confessionis (1977/1982) and, in the case of Church and Society, a synodical witness document following a rethink of a previous DRC document called Ras, volk en nasie (1974).
Different church traditions respond in distinct ways to new situations in which a reinterpretation of the gospel is required. The most well-known of these ecclesial modes of speaking is the Roman Catholic encyclicals that from time to time provide pastoral and ethical guidelines for believers, whilst at the same time serving as the church's witness in the world.
It is common knowledge that only the Reformed tradition developed the specific genre of confessions, namely witnessing to the gospel in a specific situation against a perceived heresy and for the truth of the apostolic faith.10 But that does not happen often. In the normal course of events, churches in the Reformed tradition (obviously with some variations) formulate their witness via the work of officially appointed commissions and synodical reports.
I will not aim to analyse the theological differences underlying the notion of truth, Scripture and authority emanating from dialogues among faith traditions. Within the Reformed tradition, the view is clear: Scripture is the first and primary and ultimate "authority" for all forms of witness in the church. Following this, we find the credo's of the early church, followed historically by confessions specific to the Reformation tradition that all derive their authority from Scripture and that are always open for revision in the light of a subsequent better understanding of Scripture.
Commission and synod reports are the on-going witness of the church, subject to the same Scriptural truth. However, they do not carry the same "weight" as confessions that are serious expressions of faith following a situation of status confessionis in which the truth of the gospel itself is at stake. Barth (1961:79) reminds us that no church can be in a permanent state of status confessionis - confessions are therefore rarer, and from the perspective of church law, take a prime position in the orders of the church, from where they flow into the life and ministry of the church.
The simple but - as we will see below - important difference between Belhar and CS is that the latter was an updated witness of the DRC, revising its views of 1974 on core aspects of the faith in the context of South Africa in the early 1980s. In contrast stands Belhar as a confessional response to the very same situation, constituting a fundamental difference on the interpretation of the seriousness of threats to the truth of the gospel at that point.
What appears to be the same content as set out in the first statement above is not the full story.
Part of the reason for responding differently to the situation of SA in the 1970s and 1980s is that the DRC interpreted the situation from an oppositional perspective compared to the DRMC. These oppositional perspectives have their roots in at least three factors pertaining to the DRC, namely socio-economic status, political ideology, and natural theology.
3.1 Socio-economic status
There are quite a number of perspectives on how social factors determine our view of the world. The most prominent or these perspectives in theological circles is the Latin American liberation theologians' emphasis on the so-called "preferential option for the poor" which constructs reality "from the underside of history" and then takes the view of the poor as hermeneutical key to retrieve core themes in Scripture from this perspective. In the broader field of hermeneutics and Biblical Studies, the same point regarding social location (from different angles) has been made by feminist scholars, materialist exegetes, black and African theologians, and those who give privilege to the "ordinary readers" of the Bible.11
Outside the field of theology, some of the most prevalent theories related to our perspective-dependant view of reality, are related to Marxism12 (the sub-structure of economic class determining the supra-structure of religion, culture and politics) and the paradigm theory of Thomas Kuhn13 (scientific interpretation is shaped by the "normality" of a relevant community of scholars).
The South Africa of the period 1950-1980 from which the two documents under discussion emerged, was predicated upon a strict spatial, social and economic model of separation. White and coloured people in particular through the implementation of the Group Areas Act, literally and metaphorically lived in different worlds, and it is therefore to be expected that their perspective on South African realities would be markedly different: one from the upper, and the other from the underside of history and power.
This is evident in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more poignantly reflected than in the DRC's official response to Belhar during the general synod of 1990. The principle right of the DRMC to accept a new confession is granted. The DRC also noted that this acceptance was done "in great earnest" (met groot erns) "and that the content addresses matters that are of essential importance to the Mission Church" (Botha and Naudé 1998:83).
It is this last sentence that strikes one as the most revealing of viewing the world from different perspectives. Matters like unity, reconciliation and justice (and the seriousness of a status confessionis associated with them) were just not on the radar screen of the DRC in the same way, simply because it is very, very difficult to jump over one's own shadow - in this case one's social location. Barth is right: If you do not see the no! of the confession you will also not confess the yes! of the confession (Barth 1956: 630-631).
3.2 Political ideology
One could further argue that this social location of legal and practical separation, sprung from a political ideology which is unfortunately still present in aspects of CS. In this particular sense, CS is an ambiguous witness:
It takes as point of departure (in the Calvinist tradition) that God rules over all of reality and all spheres of society (sections 42, 44, 50, 216). It then proceeds to state that love, justice and human dignity are the tests for any political model (309). But in stead of logically moving forward to actually judge the politics of race-based separation from this perspective, CS retreats into a supposedly "neutral" position, stating that it is not the task of the church to actually prescribe any political model or policy. It names apartheid openly, but in stead of an unequivocal rejection, it says: "The DRC is convinced that the handling of apartheid (hantering van apartheid) as a political and social system that brings injustice to people and benefit one group unjustly above another, cannot be accepted on Christian ethical grounds..." (306). CS continues to state that not all suffering of people can be attributed to apartheid only (307), and that (perhaps) some of the legal measures in place were only experienced as hurtful and inhuman (339).
The same tension between "principle" and "practice", resolved in a supposedly neutral position, emerges from the section on the church and government. It was noted above that the CS accepts the right to rise up against a government which - due to injustice (323) - has lost its legitimacy (326). But even cases of peaceful protest like the call for sanctions or marches for freedom, the DRC cannot support, due the fact that they bring greater suffering and lead to unrest and violence. The retreat into "neutrality" is the way out: "The DRC may not identify itself with existing or other political ideologies or attempt to be involved in politics via the drafting of political programs or models" (332).
It is evidently clear: The DRC of the mid 1980s was politically just too compromised to clearly state that apartheid as such was not acceptable on ethical grounds, and that in fact the government of the day has lost all legitimacy in the eyes of the majority and in terms of the DRC's own ethical criteria. The dual power of social status and political ideology was too strong.
But again: that is not the full story. Theology was the real issue at stake.
3.3 Natural theology
The differences in social analysis and political ideology are not adequate to explain why CS and Belhar seem so close in terms of content, but in fact stand quite far apart. It has to do with the theological departure point as is witnessed in the interpretation of South African society at that time.
Chapter 1 in CS (entitled: "Background") refers to the complex society in which the DRC finds itself. This complexity is constituted by the fact that there is a wide divergence of racial groups, and CS gives exact percentages of the population for Zulu, Xhosa, White and Coloured people. This is followed by the remark that population growth amongst Whites is slower than amongst Black peoples and will lead Whites to occupy a proportionally smaller part of the total population. Literacy amongst Whites is much higher than amongst Blacks, and this will play a role in economic differences between rich and poor. In summary: the issue which needs to be addressed by the church is the wide diversity related to "race, skin colour, volk and culture, language and education, politics and economics, religion and church coupled to a big difference in levels of development..." If all these factors are present in one society, and one adds the strife between capitalism and communism and the struggle for world power, the potential for conflict is huge (CS, section 29).
What is crucial to note, is that this "background" is stated first, and then the principles of accountability (read: theology) follow in chapter 2. This is not a simple question of whether contextual analysis precedes or follows theological reflection. No, the real observation is that the DRC uses race differentiation and a philosophical principle of pluriformity as hermeneutical key to "frame" the subsequent theological response. When it is then stated that Scripture is the only criterion for judging the South African situation (section 36), the reading of Scripture is already embedded in a compromised principle of natural theology where God's revelation is seen in relation to the pluriformity in creation and recreation.
It is not in the nature of a confession to do extensive social analysis. In Belhar this "analysis" must be sought in the accompanying letter and in a few contextual references in the confession itself (e.g. article 3). What is immediately evident is a totally different spirit: Belhar approaches the South African situation from the perspective of whether the truth of the gospel is at stake or not. In other words, Belhar approaches the situation from a confessional starting point and not from any philosophical or political or language or race perspective. Yes, all these matters are indeed relevant in the confession of unity, reconciliation and justice - Belhar is far from neutral or objective - but it approaches the situation via a status confessionis.
In short: For CS the "problem" is how to live together in a complex and diverse society. For Belhar the "problem" is a false gospel supporting the division in church and society on the basis of diversity.
If one adds this latter theological point to the socio-economic status and political arguments above, it creates a fuller picture why CS and Belhar hold oppositional views, despite the seeming concurrence in content.
Apart from the fact of situational interpretation, the DRC at that point did not actualise its claim of being a confessional church in the Reformed tradition open to new revelation of the truth in dialogue with the ecumenical church, partially because of its ecumenical isolation, and more fundamentally because its theological identity was Reformed in the formal, but not in the normative sense.
It is not surprising to note how often the DRC refers to itself as a confessional church in the tradition of the Reformation. That is what its name and history say!
The church is a confessional community that stands in the tradition of the New Testament church and the apostolic faith. In fact, the apostolicity of the church refers to a sound adherence to the teaching of the apostles (sections 60-61). And the catholicity of the church refers to the unity of the one people of God on earth (sections 73-75). Truth arises from dialogue, and we must accept that no one has the monopoly on truth - openness to each other let us know the full nature of truth (159).
In sections 245 - 264, the DRC positions itself in the widening circle of ecumenical relations from its own family to the Roman Catholic Church and separatist groups. The DRC states that it will strive for membership of ecumenical bodies "where the basis, aims and practical living of these are compatible with its own confessional viewpoints" (264).
The question then arises: If confessions of the apostolic faith are particular to the Reformed tradition, and if the truth is not held by any one church, but in openness in dialogue, why did the DRC that claims to stand in this confessional tradition not accept the confession of Belhar in the period between 1982/86 and 1990 - or even up to this day?
There are many reasons - some of them implicit in the analyses of statements above. In this specific context, a part of the answer lies in the innocuously sounding end of paragraph 264: By 1986 the DRC was under huge ecumenical pressure to denounce the theology of apartheid.14 It was a relatively lonely church who felt itself under attack from others who could not see how complex the situation was and how honest the DRC was in its intentions to respond theologically. Deep down was the conviction that if others believe and practice those beliefs differently, the confession held by the DRC was the truth.
And yes, church politics was a reality. But for the first years after 1982, and for some even up to this day, the confession could not be heard because it was seen as an attack on the DRC from both the ecumenical world (Lutheran World Federation and the WARC) and its own daughter church, the DRMC. The reaction in the first phase after 1986 was not humble co-confession, but defence, because the DRC was no longer in the broader catholic and apostolic church where the specific truths of unity, reconciliation and justice resided (see Naude 1997).
There have been numerous studies on the theology which enabled the DRC to justify apartheid as church and political policy.15 Dirkie Smit makes the distinction between being Reformed in the formal or normative senses of the word.16 A church may have the right church orders and may officially subscribe to the right confessions, and even call itself "Reformed" without in fact being Reformed if judged by the normative criteria of this tradition. In actual terms, the DRC's identity in the first half of the 20th century has been predominantly shaped by neo-Calvinist, missiological Pietism (Kuyper, Warneck, Murray) - a theology that was in principle open to confession but not in actual practice. The DRMC had its identity shaped by the normative Reformed tradition of Calvin, Kuyper (reinterpreted), and specifically Barth17 in the confessing church tradition of Barmen and Bonhoeffer, and was as a church therefore much better prepared for the act of confession. It was Beyers Naudé, a son of the DRC, who first called for a confessing church as early as 1965 (Naudé 1965). But we know his voice was not heard for decades in his home church, because he spoke "too early".
The DRC's general synod's recommendation that Belhar becomes a part of its confessional basis (despite significant legal obstacles) probably represents both a societal and a theological shift, and it has the potential to invigorate the truly Reformed roots of the DRC, and make the visible reunification of the family possible.
A very difficult question to answer is: What changed in the DRC that its general synod recently (October 2011) decided with a significant majority to recommend to its parishes the adoption of Belhar as fourth confession? The answer to the question is probably too complex to answer right now. And we are perhaps too close to the events to fully understand what is going on.
One could somewhat cynically argue that the DRC is just a very late arrival in the new South Africa, and had to wait for its members to adapt to the realities of losing social, political and some economic power. This awareness of relative social status is then transferred to the ecclesial realm, and members are more comfortable to accept Belhar. Perhaps younger people (who according to reports played a significant role at the General Synod of 2011) do not know and are no longer emotionally blinded by the origins of Belhar and the leading figures of that time. They can read Belhar for what it says and not by whom it was said.
On the level of theology, one can argue that the DRC is currently a truly pluralistic church with no dominant paradigm: there are Pentecostal, Baptist, Congregational, Pietistic and various shades of Reformed strands all making up the complex and ever shifting theological self-understanding of the DRC. The most positive interpretation of the decision by the 2011 synod is to infer that the DRC has indeed returned - via a fairly lengthy detour of 130 years - to its normative, confessional roots. This inference will be tested in the lengthy process of confessional adoption, and we shall only know the answer with more surety afterward.
But it must be said with hope and joy: The structural and visible reunification of the DRC Family on the basis of an already shared tradition, complemented by the Belhar confession, will auger in a new and exciting theological and prophetic phase in the history of the Reformed churches in SA, and hopefully further into Africa. We cannot rest until the visible unity of the church is realised in practice.
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1 Revised and shortened version of a paper delivered on 31 October 2011 at the Theological Faculty of the University of the Free State.
2 For a first theological discussion on the origin and intention of the Belhar confession, read Cloete & Smit 1984.
3 For this essay, the original Afrikaans version of 1986 is used as basis, with English translations by the author. It should be noted that Kerk en Samelewing was revised in 1990.
4 For a definition and discussion of reception of church documents, read Naudé & Smit 2000. For a case study of the DRC's reaction to Belhar, read Botha & Naudé 77-89, and for a more academic account, Naudé 1997.
5 See also sections 59, 62, 74, 76, 82-99 and the practical translation with regard to the DRC family in sections 257-8.
6 See the discussion about Belhar and liberation theology in Botha & Naudé 1998: 86-88, and Smit's brilliant exegetical study on this article in Cloete & Smit 1984.
7 See the discussion of the DRC General Synod of 1990 decision (point 8 refers to Belhar's article 4) in Botha and Naude 1998: 83.
8 See the SACC text that motivated the call for prayers to end unjust rule in Villa-Vicencio 1985:247-250.
9 Read the moving testimony of Beyers Naudé and others on the issue of the right to resistance by Christians in the context of the Schlebusch Commission appointment in 1972 to investigate the work of the Christian Institute (Naudé 1995:170-179).
10 For a broad historical overview of status confessionis, read Smit's contribution on this topic in Cloete and Smit 1984. Read Naudé 2010:77-103 on the specific confessional character of the Belhar text in relation to the theology of Karl Barth.
11 For an accessible overview of different hermeneutical approaches with references to original literature, see Maimela and König 1998:257-450.
12 For a short statement on the interpretation of history as that of a class struggle, read Marx and Engels 1971 (original 1848).
13 See Kuhn's highly influential study on paradigms in science (1962) and the theological interpretation of his views by Tracy and Küng (1989)
14 For a discussion of the DRC's ecumenical relations in this period, see the incisive analysis by De Villiers (1986).
15 See Hexham 1981, De Gruchy 1979, Kinghorn 1986, and for a condensed version Naudé 2005, and 2010:23-48. For recent contributions on the work of Ben Marais and Beyers Naudé as critical voices from within the DRC, read Coetzee 2011, and for an analysis of Ben Marais and FJM Potgieter, read the study by Hans Engdahl (2006).
16 For a short exposition of this difference, see Smit 2009:221; and for an outline of the normative frame of being Reformed, see Smit 2010.
17 For the enormous direct and indirect influence of Barth in the Belhar synod of 1982, read Naudé 2010:77-83; and for a general assessment of Barth's value for confessional theology, read McCormack 2003.


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While playing around with the fractional calculus, I got stuck trying to show that two different ways of differintegrating the cosine give the same result. DLMF and the Wolfram Functions site don't seem to have this "identity" or something that can obviously be transformed into what I have, so I'm asking here.
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$(\alpha-1)\left({}_1 F_2 \left(1;\frac{1-\alpha}{2},\frac{2-\alpha}{2};-\frac{x^2}{4}\right)-{}_1 F_2 \left(-\frac{\alpha}{2};\frac12,\frac{2-\alpha}{2};-\frac{x^2}{4}\right)\cos(x)\right)\stackrel{?}{=}\alpha x \sin(x)\,{{}_1 F_2 \left(\frac{1-\alpha}{2};\frac32,\frac{3-\alpha}{2};-\frac{x^2}{4}\right)}$
Expanding the LHS minus the RHS in a Taylor series shows that the coefficients up to the 50th power are 0; trying out random complex values of $\alpha$ and $x$ seems to verify the identity. I would however like to see a way to confirm the identity analytically. How do I go about it?

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"Yogi Bear," the 3D
animated live-action/CGI feature starring the voices of Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake, has delivered its first poster, and a trailer is just hours away.
Aykroyd as Yogi makes sense in a sad way. The one-time comedy giant hasn't enjoyed much success on the big screen of late and "Yogi" was no doubt an easy paycheck. And thanks to Bill Murray's hilarious -- if dubious -- revelation about why he made "Garfield," Aykroyd's artistic integrity is unassailable on this front.
But what is Timberlake doing here? We don't want to suggest that the role of Boo Boo is beneath him. But he's got major roles in three high profile films, "The Social Network," "Bad Teacher" and "Friends With Benefits," he doesn't need Boo Boo.
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There has been shockingly little buzz surrounding this project, and it's hard to imagine where the audience is for such a film. Do kids still watch "Yogi Bear"? Do you remember him fondly enough that you'll just have to see it?
"Yogi Bear" has been sitting there on the December calendar for months now, just staring blankly at us hoping for our attention while we daydream about films like "Tron: Legacy," "True Grit," "Blue Valentine," "Somewhere," "The Illusionist" and "The Fighter." How on Earth will we find time?
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Eclipse DemoCamps Juno 2012/Krakow
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at the corner of ul. Warszauera and pl. Nowy, 1st floor
Date and Time
July 5, 2012
starts at 19:00
This Eclipse DemoCamp will be sponsored by
If your company is willing to co-sponsor this event, please contact Szymon Brandys.
- Szymon Brandys, IBM Polska, Eclipse Platform and Orion
- Malgorzata Janczarska, IBM Polska, Eclipse Platform and Orion
- Tomasz Zarna, IBM Polska, Eclipse Platform and JDT
If you would like to present at the DemoCamp, please feel free to add your name and topic to the list. Depending on the number of people interested we may have to change the tentative agenda, i.e. limit the number of presenters and time of each demo.
- What is new in Eclipse 3.8/4.2
- Data driven user interfaces with Eclipse Forms, EMF and Data Binding, Marcin Lewandowski, IBM Polska
- What is new in Orion 0.5
- Tworzenie aplikacji na system Android z użyciem Eclipse, Tomasz Janczarski
- Integracja OpenShift & Eclipse - szybki skok w chmury, Krzysztof Daniel, Red Hat
If you have any trouble with the wiki, just send an email to Szymon.
Mug4bug is an exciting contest to fix a bug or provide a simple feature in Eclipse. Since bugzilla is full of bugs we decided to narrow the list to issues that are not trivial but not too hard to tackle at the same time. All of them are valid issues and we would be very happy to have them all fixed.
The Prizes will be handed to winners during the event.
You've got 3 weeks. Are you up to the challenge?
Who Is Attending
If you plan on attending please add your name to the list below or register here. We'd like to see as many people show up as possible.
If you have any trouble with the wiki, just send an email to Szymon.
- Brandys Szymon, Eclipse Platform and Orion, IBM
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Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides (L.)L.) is a native, perennial, warm-season bunchgrass. This tall, robust grass has long been recognized as a highly productive forage grass of the eastern prairie with a photosynthetic rate that is among the highest reported in scientific literature for any species.
Naturally occurring stands have been found throughout most of the eastern half of the United States and west on favorable sites to Colorado. It can also be productive in arid regions with the aid of irrigation.
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Testing done at USDA-ARS Southern Great Plains Range Research Station, Woodward, OK, revealed the following results: In stands with adequate water and fertilizer, yields from three cutting (45 days apart – June 1, July 15, and September 1) commonly ranged from 7 to 8 tons per acre of 11% to 15% protein forage containing 65% TDN on an oven dry basis.
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A system, whether it's a desktop or a laptop, is the biggest investment most Mac users make. Fortunately, there are ways to get more Mac for your money, and to extend the life of the system you already have.
The Best Time to Buy
Apple often introduces additions or updates to its hardware line at major conferences, such as Macworld Conference & Expo (both in the United States and abroad) and the Worldwide Developers Conference. So to avoid buying a top Mac on Sunday and then seeing it replaced -- and its price dropped -- on Wednesday, don't buy right before a conference.
Apple also announces new machines at random times, so keep an eye on the analyst reports that are often quoted on Mac news sites such as MacCentral ( www.maccentral.com ) and in general-technology newsletters such as NewsFactor ( www.newsfactor .com ). Signs that may point to an imminent hardware upgrade are reports of Apple clearing out inventory or halting shipments of certain products. And if Apple hasn't updated a product for a long while, an upgrade may be just around the corner.
In 2004, Apple may have a presence at the following major conferences: Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco (January 5 through January 9), the Worldwide Developers Conference (usually in May or June), and Apple Expo Paris (in September). -- alan graham
Second Time's a Charm
Apple-refurbished products are often great deals. Whether someone has returned a Mac or a Mac is found to be defective, Apple puts the machine through a stringent refurbishment process and gives it an original Apple one-year limited warranty. Buying refurbished equipment could save you 10 to 30 percent of the price of a new Mac.
We compared prices for an eMac and an iBook -- both new and refurbished -- at three suppliers. We chose the online Apple Store ( http://store.apple.com; go to the Special Deals section), the Small Dog Electronics Web site ( www.smalldog.com ), and a brick-and-mortar CompUSA store ( www.compusa.com ). The refurbished items won the price war every time. -- ag
Put Your Education to Work
You may be eligible to purchase a Mac for less through an educational discount. At an Apple Store, the hoi polloi can buy a 1.25GHz Power Mac G4 with an 80GB hard drive and a DVD-R/CD-RW drive for $1,299. With an educational discount, it costs only $1,199.
But you can't just waltz into a store, announce yourself as a teacher at the School of Hard Knocks, and expect to save 100 bucks. To qualify, you must be an employee of a K–12 institution, a school-board member, a PTA or PTO executive, affiliated with a qualified home school, or an employee of a preschool. College and university faculty, staff, and students also qualify.
You can get the educational discount through your institution's hardware-purchasing program; to find out more, contact your school's MIS department. Or go through the Apple Store Web site -- just click on Educational Discount on the main page. After you enter your school name and complete your order, Apple calls your institution to verify that you're appropriately involved in bookish endeavors.
If Apple doesn't sell the product you're looking for, Gradware ( www.gradware.com ) also offers significant educational discounts (often as much as 50 percent). You'll need to fax them proof of your student status, such as a student ID, a class schedule, or a letter on your school's letterhead. -- ag
Package Deals
If you don't need a new computer right away, keep an eye out for special package deals that can make the most of your money. For example, at press time, ClubMac ( www.clubmac.com ) threw in a free Epson Stylus C84 color ink-jet printer (which has a list price of $99) with any Mac purchase. Just be sure to read the fine print. Many packages are a deal only after a mail-in rebate. If you don't take that extra step, you won't save any money. -- ag
Finance It
Gotta have a Mac now but can't afford to pay the full price all at once? Consider using the Apple Instant Loan, which gives you as long as five years to pay. Depending on your credit history, you can get a credit line of up to $10,000. Interest rates start at 9.99 percent and go up from there, so you could end up with a painfully large bill, but there aren't any penalties if you pay off the loan early. Plus, there are no processing costs or annual fees. You can apply for the Apple Instant Loan at the Apple Store site. -- ag
Preventive Care
"Would you like to purchase an extended warranty?" Who hasn't heard that question from a salesperson? Some retailers push extended warranties to drive up commissions, but that doesn't mean they're always a bad deal. Apple offers an extended warranty, the AppleCare Protection Plan. It can add substantially to a Mac's price -- as much as $249 for an iBook and $349 for a PowerBook. But if your Mac has serious problems (and especially if you're not comfortable tackling repairs yourself), an extended warranty can pay for itself on your first visit to the repair shop. (Just remember that if you're willing to crack open your Mac's case, you can save a lot of money. See " Before You Replace It, Repair It " for more.)
What You Get The AppleCare Protection Plan extends coverage of Apple-certified repairs from one year to three years, and it gives you free phone support for three years.
CompUSA also offers extended warranties on Apple products (with the iBook, for example, the extended warranty costs $249); however, coverage length is only two years. Also, CompUSA's protection doesn't include direct Apple phone support.
Buy It Now or Later You can add the AppleCare Protection Plan as long as your original warranty is in effect. CompUSA isn't so lenient -- you must buy it when you buy the Apple product. Both companies let you purchase the extended warranties at their online and retail stores. -- ag
You can still buy an Apple extended warranty, as long as you're covered by your original warranty.


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Crazy shoes. They're all the rage!
Yesterday in Milan, Miuccia Prada debuted a series of Lucite and plastic chandelier shoes with a rainbow of heel colors and swinging crystals. Equipped with what looks to be a velcro strap, the Prada footwear looks somewhat comfy—at least they didn't send the models tumbling, as did Rodarte's Nicholas Kirkwood stilettos.
Fancy yourself a 21st century Cinderella? These clear faux glass slippers from Maison Martin Margiela will suit you perfectly. That is, if you have $1,300 lying around. Oh, and that will only buy you one. If you want to shod both your feet, you'll need to shell out around $2,500. But who cares? You're a princess!
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Bigschuss wrote:moredman wrote:Nice Garand, and good job on the restoration! An acquaintance has a magnificent collection of Garands. He has every model and variation of every Garand ever made, with the exception of a type that IH built during WWII.
Fantastic rifles! Watch your thumb!
Thanks moredman. Appreciate the kind words.
The reason your friend is missing a WWII ear IHC Garand is because they don't exist. Only SA and Winchester made Garands during the war. IHC made them after the war.
I have yet to get a Garand thumb.....knock on wood.
That would explain that! Possibly he's not just concentrating on WWII. I know he mentioned the IH model, as he's looking for one. His display board at the MVCA show a few years ago was about 20 foot long. I'm mostly in the dark when it comes to Garands- but when it comes to k98k mausers, it's a bit different.


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This is one of my favourite Doctor Who episodes ever, for a number of reasons: the scale of it, the tone of it, the Doctor at Christmas… It's him at his best. He's on his finest form.
Also this issue:
- Docteur Qui - He was scared of the Sea Devils and performs a Belgian jazz version of the Doctor Who theme tune as part of his act. Life-long fan Bill Bailey tells DWM that it's a dream come true to be playing Commander Droxil in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.
- Time Lord Land Lord - Tenth Doctor, David Tennant was once her lodger, now she's an armour-clad soldier in the Christmas Special. DWM talks to Arabella Weir about playing Billis.
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Nine-year-old Maurice Cole, who plays young Cyril Arwell in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, tells DWM all about living out a Christmas fantasy with the Doctor – but he still has to find time to do his homework.
- Christmas Holly - Teenage Lily Arwell gets a Christmas that she will never forget when she meets the Doctor in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. Actress Holly Earl talks to DWM about confronting monsters and keeping secrets.
- Chocks Away! He was the voice of Mr Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures but now he's in front of the cameras as RAF pilot Reg Arwell in the Doctor Who Christmas Special. Alexander Armstrong takes flight with DWM.
- You're asking the Questions ... Doctor Who showrunner, Steven Moffat turns over his regular Production Notes this issue to answer some of the burning questions put to him – via Twitter – by you, the readers!
- Yuletide Who - How many Doctor Who Christmas Specials have there been? More than you might think, as the Watcher points out in his festive Watcher's Guide to Christmas!
- Looking Back - It's the final issue of 2011 and DWM takes a moment to look back at the events – both happy and sad – that have come our way in The DWM Review Of 2011.
- Yonder the Yeti... Alan Barnes wraps up warm for a Tibetan escapade as he scrutinises the 1967 story, The Abominable Snowmen in Fact of Fiction.
- I'm Asking the Questions... The Watcher is back to tax your brains once more with his annual, fiendishly festive Christmas Quiz!
- 13 – Lucky For Some! DWM's COUNTDOWN TO 50 reaches Series Thirteen and sees the last remnants of the past being cast off to make way for a new, darker and more frightening version of Doctor Who.
- In With The New! The Time Team relive Christmas past! Emma, Michael, Chris and Will say 'Hello' to the Tenth Doctor as he makes his début in The Christmas Invasion and defends the world against the alien Sycorax.
- New For Old? Is it right to recast old Doctors with new actors? Or can no-one ever replace the originals? Toby Hadoke and Johnny Candon once again find themselves at loggerheads as they each fight their corner in A Battle of Wits.
- Beware of Greeks... The Doctor, Amy and Rory come over all classical when they take a trip ancient Greece. But it's not long before they feel the wrath of the gods, in the first part of a brand new comic-strip adventure, The Chains of Olympus by Scott Gray, with art by Mike Collins.
- Top Of The Pops! It's that time again! DWM invites you to cast your vote for your favourite episodes, CDs, books, DVDs and DWM features in the annual DWM Season Survey.
The magazine's cover reflects one of the earliest covers to feature on the television listings magazine The Radio Times. DWM's editor Tom Spilsbury said:
We felt that such a pastiche suited the retro setting of this year's Doctor Who Christmas special – particularly as we were able to recast the mother and her two children with the characters in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. It's our tribute to the Radio Times Christmas covers of old!"
The two covers can be seen side-by-side on the Radio Times website.


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Oh, this dog.
She likes to sleep on top of my clothes that I throw on the bed.
She yawns about forty-five times a day. She is the drowsiest, floppiest, cuddliest, kissiest puppers you've ever seen.
Unless of course someone makes a noise six blocks away and then she is on it.
For a moment. And then she goes right back to nappers.
What you don't want to see is the electrician, standing in your bathroom torn down to the studs, with his face in his hands, shaking his head, as I just did.
You want to see him smiling and nodding, and saying, "No problem! This will be very easy and inexpensive!"
But I love my new quilt so much. This is the Oregon Summer quilt that I started earlier this summer. Gayle, Amy's mom of Tillie Studio quilted it so beautifully for me. The backing is kind of a terra-cotta pink cotton gingham (printed gingham), and the binding (I did it by machine and then by hand) is actually a pink and white candy-stripe. It was pure pleasure making this one, and my knees were very, very happy with me (because I didn't make them crawl around pinning every square). The dog, however, missed laying on it while I was working on it. So she's making up for it now. People ask me how I keep pet hair off my furniture. And I just say, "Seventy-two dpi. It hides a multitude of sins."
Not kitters's carpet poms, but black dog hair, at least.
*Sorry I forgot to mention this — for those who have asked about sizing/quantities of fabric, etc., I used my Ollalieberry Ice Cream quilt pattern for this quilt. It is available to download in my web shop. Thank you!


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FAYETTE SOFTBALL—After dishing it out heavy to the Toledo Cardinal Stritch JV team, Fayette's softball squad ran into its own problems Thursday at Pettisville.
Danni Wyse picked up a no-hitter win on the mound when the Cardinals visited April 15. She struck out six in the 20-3 blow-out, while walking six and hitting one batter.
Things really fell apart for the Cardinals in the bottom of the second inning when Fayette brought 17 runners home.
Some Fayette batters came to the plate three times that inning as the Eagles came through with six hits and five walks. Stritch fielders committed five errors.
Trisha Bates batted three for three and Wyse went two for four, with a stolen base. Katie Borer finished with a pair of steals.
Fayette made just two errors.
Despite the lop-sided score, Eagle coach Sheila Killam said the contest was a good learning experience for her young squad.
Fayette hung close to Pettisville for five and a half innings Thursday in a BBC contest, but the game got away from them in the bottom of the sixth when the Blackbirds put seven runs on the scoreboard.
MORENCI BASEBALL—Morenci's baseball season came to an abrupt halt after just two outings as injuries and ineligibilities resulted in a shortage of players.
After a 15-0 loss to Sand Creek at home Wednesday, the Bulldogs forfeited a pair of games but are expected to be back in action today when Whitmore Lake visits. Morenci should have 11 players in the lineup.
Sand Creek claimed a mercy-shortened five-inning win Wednesday after jumping to a 6-0 lead in the first inning. The Bulldogs ended up trying four pitchers in the first four innings of the contest.
Senior Anthony Barron started it off, but control problems took him off the mound. The first Aggie up slammed a double and the next three batters were hit by pitches.
Barron traded places with catcher Devin Martinez, but four runs scored on a walk and two base hits. Steven Pontious made a double play at second before one additional runner came home.
Two walks, a base hit, a fielder's choice and an error put the Aggies up 11-0 after two innings.…
MORENCI SOFTBALL—Morenci needed nine innings to get the job accomplished, but they came back from Whiteford Monday with a 6-2 softball victory.
Bulldog coach Kay Johnson knows there are tougher challenges ahead, but she's always pleased to come through with a win against Whiteford.
The Bobcats have an uncharacteristically weak 2-8 record, but Johnson says that losses have come from battles with quality Div. I teams.
Morenci (4-0) had all it could handle through eight innings with its first contest of the season against a pitcher adept at changing speeds and using a drop ball.
Whiteford took a 2-0 lead with single runs in the fifth and sixth innings. Morenci tied the contest with two outs in the seventh.
Rachael Rutkowski got on base with a single and Jade Pfund was safe on an error. After a strikeout and a fielder's choice, it looked as though Morenci might strand runners on second and third before Tess Ramsey came up to bat and smacked the first pitch for a two-RBI double.
Neither team got anything in the eighth inning, but three extra-base hits in the ninth put it away for Morenci.
Pfund and Nicolette Swimmer pounded doubles, Salena Martinez was safe on an error, then Ramsey belted a triple to drive two runners home. Ramsey scored on a ground out.
Morenci played a mercy-shortened 10-0 game Friday at Madison.
MORENCI SOCCER—Morenci's soccer club stands at 1-1-1 after the first three games of the 2008 season. The squad plays in the Southeast Michigan Soccer Association.
Morenci tied Milan 2-2, lost to the Adrian Area Football Club 4-1 and picked up its first victory Friday, a 4-2 win against the Adrian Football Club (AFC). The AFC is made up of Lenawee Christian School players who field a spring team for off-season training, said Morenci coach Pete Fallot.
This marks Morenci's third year of competition in the league. Home games are played at Adrian's Heritage Park and the next contest of the seven-game schedule is planned May 10.
The team competes in the 14 to 18-year-old boys division, although two girls are on the team. SEMSA rules allow girls on a boys team, but boys are not allowed on the girls team.
Team members are Kelby Allen, Brady Canfield, Josiah Fallot, Cedric Kutzley, Dillon Kunkle, Adam Ries, Andrew Roddy, Derek Gabler, Kyle White, Jacob Bovee, Lucas Johnson, Nicholas Merillat, Tricia Black, Leslie Montijo, Fausto Godinez and Brett Bovee.


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Three years into our relationship, I have only just found out that Jamie doesn't like potato salad. I suppose I never noticed him not eating potato salad at cookouts with friends, and I've never made it for him until recently.
So I was slightly appalled when he said he didn't like it, because to me, not liking potato salad is about as bad as not liking apple crumb pie with vanilla ice cream. It's as crucial to a cookout as smoky fires that make your eyes water, deviled eggs, baked beans and burned marshmallows. But I don't judge. Well, maybe I'm judging, just a little...
He did admit that he liked my version better than the typical kind found at most BBQs, the kind swimming in a bowl of mayonnaise, mustard and hard-boiled eggs. However, I like that kind, too. I don't discriminate against potato salad, not even the plastic tubs from the grocery store deli. It's all good. It just tastes like summer should.
Potato salad also makes me feel slightly patriotic, which I suppose you've noticed in my red, white and blue styling theme. I loved the view of the American flag from the top of the Will Rogers Shrine, which I mentioned in a previous post from our trip to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
So as I thought about a potato salad recipe to share with you all, I wanted to try something more unique, with unexpected flavors. And seeing as how we were out of mayonnaise anyway, I had to get creative in the ingredients for the sauce.
The night before, we had cooked dinner very late - I don't remember what we were doing that evening that we got such a late start on dinner, but we had planned to braise short ribs, and if you've ever braised short ribs, then you know how long those take. The short ribs were ready sometime around midnight, long after I'd fallen asleep on the couch, and the rich, meaty scent from the kitchen woke me up just barely enough to taste a few bites before falling into bed. Boiled potatoes, intended for garlic mashed potatoes, were forgotten in their pot of water. And so, with all those potatoes already cooked, making potato salad the next day just made sense.
First I cooked some bacon. And then, in the sizzling bacon grease, I quickly browned some garlic and shallots, which created the most wonderful, intoxicating aroma. For the sauce, a mixture of olive oil, sour cream, mustard, horseradish, honey and lemon was so much more interesting than mayonnaise, and a little basil added a welcome freshness.
Now, I know that potato salad is not normally a meal on its own, but after mixing it up and giving it a taste, the crispy bacon and bacon-infused garlic and shallots coating the potatoes seduced me. So I decided a small bowl of it along with a glass of pink lemonade flavored with a sprig of sweet basil, would be the perfect lunch. And it was... until Jamie came upstairs and told me he didn't like potato salad. Sigh. But thank you for eating everything I make, whether you like it or not. :)
Am I allowed to say I thought it was better than my mom's potato salad? Sorry, mom...
Potato Salad with Olive Oil, Bacon and Shallots
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- 1 1/2 pounds small red and/or white potatoes, unpeeled
- 4 slices bacon
- 1 shallot, diced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons low-fat sour cream
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon horseradish
- 1 teaspoon mustard (I used spicy brown, but yellow or Dijon would work, too)
- 2 teaspoons honey
- juice and zest of 1 lemon
- 5 fresh basil leaves, chopped
Quarter the potatoes; place in a stock pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil over medium high heat and cook just until tender, but not falling apart. Drain and cool.
In a skillet, cook the bacon until crisp; drain on a paper towel and crumble into pieces. Add the shallot and garlic to the hot skillet and cook in the bacon grease for 1-2 minutes until golden brown. Using a slotted spoon, scoop out the shallot and garlic, draining off the grease.
In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, bacon, shallot and garlic. In a separate bowl, whisk together the remaining ingredients; pour over the potatoes and toss to coat. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Yields 6 servings.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen


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Rainforest Action Network said, in a statement, that it received a letter from Cargill saying the company has been trying to work with the advocacy group for more than four years. RAN published a statement it said was received by Cargill that said "RAN refuses to have a constructive engagement" about environmental issues.
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The Houston Dynamo opened their 2008 preseason with a hard-fought, 1-0 win against the team now bearing their former name: the San Jose Earthquakes.
In front of a boisterous crowd at PAL Stadium, both teams battled early for midfield supremacy. It was Houston, though, that scored the first and only goal of the game in the 44th minute, thanks to a free kick by Stuart Holden. His delivery was aimed for Chris Wondolowski, who knocked the ball across the goalmouth, where Ricardo Clark got free to drive a shot past Earthquakes goalkeeper Joe Cannon and into the back of the net.
"It was probably one of the easiest goals I've ever scored," Clark said. "The ball just bounced to me, I was in the right spot, and it was easy from there. It was not the greatest goal, but I'll take it."
"Houston made several substitutions at halftime and during the second half, including rookie goalkeeper Corbin Waller replacing Pat Onstad. Waller had at least three good saves in the second half that prevented San Jose from tying the score, including two stops in the final 20 minutes.
With the 1-0 win in the books, the Orange will train tomorrow at PAL Stadium before taking on Cal in a scrimmage on Friday. A second pre-season match against the Earthquakes is set for Saturday at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, with kickoff scheduled for 9 p.m. CT.
"These games are just about preparation," Clark said. "They are just practice for the real thing coming up in Hawaii, so we just have to take things one day at a time so we can get to the Pan-Pacific Championship with plenty of confidence.
Houston Dynamo vs. San Jose Earthquakes
February 13, 2008 -- PAL Stadium, San Jose CA
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Ricardo Clark (Chris Wondolowski) 44
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad (Corbin Waller 46), Patrick Ianni, Eddie Robinson (Steve Wondolowski 64), Bobby Boswell (Mike Chabala 64), Stuart Holden (Jeremy Barlow 64), Richard Mulrooney (Nick Hatzke 64), Ricardo Clark (Geoff Cameron 46), Dwayne De Rosario (John Michael Hayden 64), Corey Ashe (Johnny Alcaraz 64), Brian Ching (Erik Ustruck 64), Chris Wondolowski (James Georgeff 64).
San Jose Earthquakes -- Joe Cannon (Preston Burpo 46), James Riley (Chris Roner 64), Nick Garcia (Taylor Graham 46), Jason Hernandez (Jay Ayres 64), Chris Pozniak (Greg Curry 64, Robert Sandoval 75), Shea Salinas (Adam Smarte 46), Joe Vide (Eric Denton 46), Ned Grabavoy (Fabrice Noel 64), Ivan Guerrero (Tim Bohnenkamp 64), Gavin Glinton (Yuri Morales 46), Kei Kamara (Matt Taylor 64).
Misconduct Summary:
HOU -- Jeremy Barlow (caution) 74
Attendance: 3,182
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial


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Slicer 3 Dartboard
Link to the Slicer 3 Dartboard here
- Attendees: Xiaodong, Jim, Katie, Nicole, Will, Steve, Nathan, Tina, Ron, Padma, Marco
- Nathan brought us up to date on fluid mechanics tractography
- Padma Sundaram: SCIrun environment supports EEG processing
- Marco is releasing Grid Wizard alpha version
- Nathan brought up the helical digital phantom web service. Currently the thinking is that it can be accessed through a web service. We suggested that Nathan write a wrapper, consistent with Slicer's execution module, to invoke the web service. However, since it is not available in source form, NAMIC cannot accept it as part of the NAMIC Kit proper. We can guide Nathan in the execution of this module.
- Attendees: Xiaodong, Katie, Will, Sebastien, Steve, Mike, Wendy, Haiyi, Dan, Curt, Tina
Other NA-MIC Projects
16 - CPack (Katie): Slicer3 compiles and packs using the new C-tools with some bug fixes. Using CMake to select desired modules, using something similar to cygwin. Official Slicer3 snapshot tagged. Different Tcl/Tk versions are currently used for different platform. This need to be addressed.
17 - Slicer GUI Style Guide and Cookbook {Wendy}: This will be a long term effort. During the programming week, the design and implementation details were discussed. The Cookbook will be launched from Slicer, act like KWWidget tour.
18 - Volume rendering (Steve): UI is fairly stable.
19 - Volume rendering using Cuda (Steve):
20 - 3D W Widgets and Picking (Will): found a list of candidates of widgets for Slicer. A few bug fixes for VTK.
21 - XNAT Integration (Dan): Requirements were gathered for a XNAT application that organizes files and caches files from XNAT repositories. Some XML format issues have been addressed.
22 - KWWidgets Roadmap (Sebastien): Gathered requirements. Been working down the list of the feature requirements.
External Collaboration
1 - Astronomical coordinate system support [Harvard IIC] (Mike): Astronomical datasets are quite different from medical dataset. Wendy helped with re-centering data. Made progress in converting between coordinate systems (Cartesian to Spherical).
2 - New Meshing Techniques into NA-MIC [Univ. of Iowa]
3 - Meshing Workflow into Slicer [Univ. of Iowa] (Curt): Will be integrated into Slicer soon. Command line program using VTK.
4 - Evaluating NA-MIC Tools for Small Animal Imaging Workflows [NCI] (Curt):
5 - IGSTK-Slicer [Georgetown] (Haiyi): Successful tracking data using IGSTK.
6 - Japanese Intelligent Surgical Instrument Project [AIST]
7 - GoFigure:High-Level Microscopy Image analysis Application and Algorithms [CalTech-Harvard Medical School]
8 - Doing microscopy image analysis with Slicer3 [The Ohio State University]
9 - fMRI Analysis with Slicer 3 [The Ohio State University]
10 - Resampling DTIs with Slicer 3 [BWH]
11 - Analyzing fMRI and concurrent EEG with Slicer and SCIRun [BWH]
12 - Bayesian hierarchical models for fMRI variance components analysis [BWH]
- Attendees: Ron, Will, Steve, Wendy, Nicole, David G, Mark S., Casey, Sebastien, Curt, Luca
- Look at upcoming VTK 3D widgets
- Review of projects from SLC AHM 2008 http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/2008_Winter_Project_Week
1 - Stochastic Tractography in Schizophrenia (need to be invited to follow-up TCon)
2 - Cortical thickness analysis - testing EM segmenter to their data. They estimated parameters and tested during the week. The goal now is to compare ITK-MS and EM segment module to see how these two tools compare for cortical thickness. They are reviewing the tools using the same patient data.
3 - (Mark Scully) Legion segmentation using EM segmenter and other options - worked with Brad using 2 channels of data. Flare as 3rd channel caused problems. Desired to have T1/T2/Flair together as three channel dataset. Marcel is going to deliver his segmentation algorithm software to them to compare results.
4 - Robotic Prostate Interventions - (David Gobbi) Working on transrectal biopsy module for Slicer. They had a previous module for transcranial biopsies. One of the most exciting developments was a new prototol "open IGT-Link" which will replace navitrack inside Slicer. Image transfer is working over this protocol. A simulator is being developed for the robot. A few VTK bugs may have been discovered during this process, but it isn't on the top priority list right now.
5 - Prostate Cancer - Wrote new ITK filter that has been submitted to the Sandbox. They are looking at spherical wavelets for shape segmentation. The wiki page will be updated soon.
Other NA-MIC Projects
1 - Groupwise Registration - (Casey) New Bspline registration method is being developed here. It has been used for another project by Casey (#6). Page needs to be updated.
2 - (Need to be invited to follow-up TCon)
3 - (Need to be invited to follow-up TCon))
4 - (Need to be invited to follow-up TCon). Page needs to be updated
5 - Incorporating DTI tools into NAMIC toolkit - They are gathering a dataset that has both structural and DTI data in agreement. Previous dataset was missing part of cortex. UNCDB2 dataset has full coverage of the brain. Resolution is a bit lower, but full coverage is an advantage. Page is close to up to data. Just submitted a paper to ISBI 2008 and working on MICCAI paper, as well.
- NITRIC is g-forge and would be a good place for automated build process for Slicer modules. This could make it easier to configure Slicer in client labs without need to build from source. This is still being developed by the NA-MIC core team. There is an entry on the collaboration section of the NA-MIC website. Also www.slicer.org/Documentation link.
6 - (Casey) Worked with Serdar using groupwise registration tool. They are currently evaluating results of this study. More images will be added.
7 - (John Melanakos) Spent last week working with collaborators on the MICCAI paper. Project page is well filled.
8 - (Need to be invited to follow-up TCon)
9 - (Need to be invited to follow-up TCon)
10 - MRML scenes for execution model. Some of the issues Brad was having have been resolved. Alex is making adjustments to MRML library as needed for the EM segmentation model.
11 - (Curt) Unstructured Grids in Slicer - Finite Element modeling process was originally in a standalone VTK application. The first Slicer module integration did not use MRML based storage. We are now creating subclasses of Model and Unstructured grid data for storage and display in Slicer. Some minor issues need to be worked out, but the MRML extensions for UnstructuredGrid datatypes are working.
12 - Python (Luca) MatPlotLib plots are close to happening within Slicer. Steve believes it is 80% complete. Python command line modules are working now. Multiple arguments had to be worked by Luca. He has developed Python-based CLI modules. The event broker is discussed here because it affects the interaction with Python, because a Mutex lock has to be placed on the MRML scene. Dan has been helping with metamodules - a single Python module which calls other mothers (hierarchical execution, recipes, etc.).
- Ron asked about using this scripting technique for the ModelMaker. Some of the parameter setting, etc. could be set in the top module. Nicole will look at this. Kilian said that he wanted to call the "modelmaker" from another module.
- A need was identified for new wiki pages: (1) scripted modules, (2) metamodules, (2) python scripted modules
13 - (Luca) Transform hardening - Sometimes images are not XYZ alligned. How will command line modules treat an object if it is the child of a transform. The module needs to be able to apply xforms to data (after hierarchy is flattened) to get xformed data. Jim and Steve talked through this lately becomes of the transforms access two-directions (from parents / to parents, etc.) They are looking at how to change the model.
14 - (Steve) MRML support for out-of-core processing - Steve put a link to a new page. Dan, Jim, Wendy, Steve, etc. working through NAC renewal grant (5 years). Multiresolution and asynchronous data are likely targets for this effort, but it will be a long-term effort.
15 - Event Broker discussion - Steve has made process on this, but this wiki page is older. See the event broker page. (look at link under Objective). New term "observation" : completely introspectable. A full dependency between objects is implemented. When a subject issues a "modified" event, Delete events are maintained. Complete "relationship" management of the interaction between objects. This helps by allowing asynchronous event processing. MRML has been converted to use the event broker with asynchronous events managed by the Slicer GUI (async events invoked after GUI events are done). This hasn't broken anything so far, but should improve scalability. Dot logfile format can be generated for inter-object dependencies. This can be used to help provide "who called who" traces. Some special magic is done in MRML Display nodes. They set "observation nodes"
Next Week
Continue through project review. Request missing project members to attend. Review wiki pages.
Attendees: Jim, Steve, Stephen, Wendy, Xiaodong, Nicole, Katie, Ron
- Project week follow-up
- Half of tcon on Feb 7
- Half of tcon on Feb 14
- Registration
- Viola-Wells optimizations need to be enabled
- Stephen needs to check-in and publish recent changes
- Stephen needs to update the wiki
- Luis continues to make optimizations (main focus is memory reduction)
- BatchMake
- Grid Wizard - meeting on Monday
- Integration with Slicer delivered via getbuildtest2
- New webpages
- http://slicer.org
- Uses wiki-to-web
- Feel free to edit/improve
- Slicer-specific wiki
- Migrating appropriate info from Na-mic to slicer
- Hold off on adding to Slicer-wiki until notified
- Continue using Na-mic wiki
- New Nitrc project
- Jim Miller is leading
- "Slicer3 plug-in examples" project
- http://nitrc.org - search for slicer3
- Includes demo/stub for ITK filtering data, etc.
- Collection associated with an ITK course being taught
- Requires CVS version of ITK
- Works with Slicer build and Slicer install
- Steve P is the liaison with NITRC
- Slicer tutorial at UNC, April 14th
- Working with UNC's BRIC (http://www.bric.unc.edu)
- Sonja, Randy, Martin, Stephen
- User-level Slicer training - Feb 20 at BWH
- 1249 Boyleston
- Release version of Slicer3
Attendees: Jim, Steve, Wendy, Xiaodong, Nicole, Katie, Alex, Luis, Ron, Will
- Project week follow-up (Next week?)
- Will will send email invitations for first half of projects for next week's tcon
- Loadable modules
- Alex and Terry are rearranging Slicer3.cxx to support loadable modules
- Separate branch for built-in module discovery process
- Sebastien is working on build issues for modules whose code is outside Slicer3
- GenerateCLP - Thanks Hans for changes to support building modules
- Hans is running a class this semester where the students will build Slicer CLI modules.
- Jim is working on an ExampleModule for people to use as a template for building modules outside of Slicer3. Perhaps NITRC.
- XML library
- What to do with libaries that are too big to include in the source directory?
- AHM 2009, Jan 5-9, 2009
- Summer Project Week, Jun 23-27, 2008
- New server architecture for wiki, svn, publication database
Attendees: Jim, Katie, Sebastien, Stephen, Luis, Steve, Wendy, Will
- Luis and Bill Hoffman are making progress in making ITK installation relocatable. This is needed to finish the work on building plugins from an installation.
- What's in VTK 5.2?
- Infovis - Tables, Graphs, Views, IO
- Refinements to WWidgets. Client/Server connections within the widgets. Event translation. New widgets (text, caption, affine, checkerboard, rectilinear wipe, annotation, key frame, contour, measurement, point/placer, plot)
- Build now? Or wait until 5.2 released?
- Repository freeze in March
- Release on April 1, 2008
- ITK release
- Patches to ITK 3.4
- Nine component/six component tensor conversion in IO has been patched to ITK 3.4
- 1/19-2/1 moving contributions on Insight Journal for ITK 3.6
- Move items from Review directory to main tree (QuadMesh, TransformIO) for ITK 3.6
- Freeze repository 2/29 for ITK 3.6
- Slicer3 will need to build against the Review directory.
- Patches to ITK 3.4
- CMake release
- Version 2.6 on the horizon - release candidate in 3 weeks.
- Tcl/Tk 8.5
- Sebastien has a Windows build
- Steve will try it out
- Wait to switch to 8.5 until we have a good reason
- Loadable modules
- Sebastien - working on CMake issues on building modules as loadable modules
- Terry - working on loading modules and reworking Slicer3.cxx
- Event Broker
- DWI DICOM as part of the Load Volume. Xiaodong is working on it.
- ITKFactories directory in build and installs to hold ImageIO plugin libraries. Should increase the speed of executable plugins on the Mac.
- OpenIGTLink
- Protocol on the wiki (message format)
- Put code in Sandbox, SourceForge, NITRC, Google Code???
- Will schedule a time to go over the Project Week results
No tcon due to AHM
- Attendees: Jim, Steve, Will, Brad Davis
- Topics:
- Jim and Will talked about leading the Monday and Friday sessions, and who would do what.
- We are going to send out reminders to the project leads to ensure that their project descriptions are up to date
- We discussed the software process project to make sure that we have a chance to address the Slicer build process, dashboards, etc.
- We decided not to hold the project wrap-up presentation at AHM; we will do that later at subsequent TCons. (We decided that we needed the time to actually work. We are concerned that we are starting to see too many break-outs and not enough time to work.)
- We keenly missed Tina and hope that she and her family are doing well.


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Are your kids looking for the perfect thing for Father's Day?
It might not be a thing at all, but rather something fun to do together.
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The long Fourth of July weekend got off to a violent start in Chicago as at least 15 people were shot, including two young teens, across the city since Thursday.
The weekend's first homicide took place shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday in the 3800 block of West Monroe Street when two women were shot in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the city's West Side.
Police believe a botched drug deal may have been the cause of the shooting. Four masked men were seen firing guns, and stray bullets struck the women sitting on a porch nearby.
One woman, 21, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The second person, also 21, was shot in the arm, police said.
On Friday, a man was killed and another man was wounded in a shooting at a strip mall at 63rd Street and Damen Avenue.
Police said the men were standing outside a building when a black vehicle pulled up and someone inside the vehicle opened fire, striking both men.
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A 34-year-old man was taken to Holy Cross Hospital and later pronounced dead. A 35-year-old man was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic.
Area South detectives are investigating the shooting, police said.
- West Town Apartments Evacuated After Sinkhole
- Parades, Fireworks Mark Fourth of July in Chicago Area
- 3 Hockey Players Robbed at Hawks' Practice Facility
The weekend's first shooting involved a 14-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl, who were walking in the 4100 block of South Dearborn Street just after 3 p.m., police said.
The teens were walking southbound on Dearborn Street when someone in a vehicle heading northbound opened fire at them, according to authorities.
The 14-year-old boy was shot in the thigh and the 13-year-old girl suffered a graze wound to the thigh, officials said. Both teens were taken to Comer Children's Hospital in stable condition and the girl has since been released.
Police said the boy is a documented gang member.
At least nine other people were shot in Chicago overnight.
- A man was seriously wounded after he was shot by police in the city's Rogers Park neighborhood around 11:20 a.m., according to authorities. Chicago police said officers were at the scene Friday afternoon and observed the man drinking on the sidewalk. He fled the officers on foot and led them on a chase through an apartment complex where he forced his way into an occupied residence, according to a police statement. The officers confronted the man in a backyard gangway area and the man told them he had a gun and reached for his waistband. Officers then shot them man, wounding him. The Chicago Fire Department said the man was transported to Presence Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston in serious-to-critical condition.
- Around 5:20 a.m., a 21-year-old man walked into Mercy Hospital and Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the thigh. The man told police he was shot at 47th and Ada streets.
- Around the same time, an 18-year-old man was shot in the 4300 block of South Wood Street. The man told officers he was standing on the block when someone got out of a vehicle and fired at him. He was shot in the upper left leg and took himself to University of Illinois Chicago Hospital. He was later transferred to Stroger Hospital where he was treated and released, police said.
- About an hour earlier, police shot a man in the 7400 block of South Vincennes Avenue. Officers responding to a call about a person with a gun saw a man at the mouth of an alley and approached him to "conduct a field interview," police said in a statement. The man fled on foot and while officers chased him he allegedly pointed his weapon at the officers, according to authorities. Officers shot the man, 23, in the chest and he was transported to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.
- Around 3:45 a.m. an 18-year-old woman was shot in the buttocks in the 2400 block of Homan Avenue in the Little Village neighborhood Homan Avenue. Details surrounding the shooting were not immediately available.
- Around 2:30 a.m., a 29-year-old man walked into Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to the calf. The man told police he was walking eastbound in the 3500 block of West Lake Street in the East Garfield Park neighborhood when he overheard a loud verbal altercation across the street between a group of men, police said. The man then said he heard shots and felt pain, according to authorities. He was transported by someone at the scene and was expected to be treated and released.
- Just before 3 a.m., someone walked into Saint Bernard Hospital in Healthcare Center and told police they were shot in the leg around 3 p.m. Thursday in the 8600 block of South Racine Avenue.
- Two hours earlier, a 56-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 7400 block of South Winchester Avenue. The man was taken to University of Chicago Hospital in good condition. Police said the man was highly intoxicated and unable to tell them what happened. Area Central detectives are investigating.
- Around 9:45 p.m. Thursday, a 21-year-old man was shot in the 600 block of North Ridgeway Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. Police said the man was shot in the stomach and arm and suffered a graze wound to the face. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.