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Survey: 1 in 3 Kids Hurt Playing Sports
April 24, 2012 -- About 1 in 3 kids who plays sports will need medical attention due to injuries sustained on the field or court, such as concussions, broken bones, and dehydration, a new survey shows.
While some of these injuries can be serious, some easy-to-follow prevention tips including drinking enough water and wearing protective sports gear that fits appropriately can help children play it safe and still receive all the benefits of regular sports and physical activity.
The new survey was commissioned by Safe Kids Worldwide and Johnson & Johnson. It includes data on sports injuries and attitudes about prevention from 516 children ages 8-18 who played several sports, as well as 750 parents and 752 coaches.
When in Doubt, Take Them Out
About 1 in 5 traumatic brain injuries in kids occurs during sports and recreation activities. Yet more than half of all coaches surveyed believe there is an acceptable degree of head contact -- in the survey described as "getting your bell rung" or "seeing stars" -- that children can receive without risking a serious brain injury.
There's not.
"The concussion issue is a really big one," says Kate Carr. She is the president and CEO of Safe Kids Worldwide in Washington, D.C. The mantra should be "when in doubt, take them out."
Children who may have sustained a concussion should remain out of the game until they are cleared by a doctor. Signs of a concussion may include dizziness, confusion, loss of consciousness, vomiting, and fatigue. Many concussions don't involve a loss of consciousness. "They may seem disoriented, confused, and/or have hard time remembering something somebody just told them," Carr says.
Signs of a concussion do not necessarily occur immediately after the initial injury. They can happen days or weeks after a blow to the head.
Anders Cohen, MD, is the chief of neurosurgery and spine surgery at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York. When it comes to head blows, "one plus one equals three," he says. "If you have one and then another in a short time frame, this more than doubles the initial injury."


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November 24, 2011 | Tom Tritton
Today is Thanksgiving and most Americans are celebrating with friends, families, and feasts. Such occasions raise our spirits and lie on the plus side of the ledger.
It's also worth reflecting that not all of our fellow citizens share in the banquet. CHF's Feeding the World conference held last week in New York offered a glimpse of how chemistry may lift our ability to feed the seven billion people who share the planet, especially the one billion who have close to nothing to eat. More will need to be done, though, and the heady intersection of science and humanity are likely our best hope.
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Let $\mathcal F$ denotes the Fourier transform $\mathcal{F} :L^2(\mathbb R)\rightarrow L^2(\mathbb R)$ and $E, \Sigma$ be two measurable sets in $\mathbb R$.
The pair $(E,\Sigma)$ is called a weakly annihilating pair, if for any $f \in L^2(\mathbb{R})$, $support (f) \subseteq E$, $support(\mathcal F f)\subseteq \Sigma$, implies $f \equiv 0$.
The pair $(E,\Sigma)$ is called a strongly annihilating pair, if there exists a constant $C$ such that for any $f \in L^2(\mathbb{R})$,
$$\|f\|_2^2 \leq C \left(\int_{\mathbb R \setminus E} |f|^2 dx + \int_{\mathbb R \setminus \Sigma} |\mathcal F f|^2 d\xi \right).$$ The notion of annihilating pair arises in the study of uncertainty property in Fourier Analysis. For example Benedicks's Theorem says if $E$, $\Sigma$ are both sets of finite measures then they form a weakly annihilating pair, whereas Theorem of Amrein and Berthier says they form a strongly annihilating pair.
I am looking for examples of
1) A weakly annihilating pair which is $\underline{not}$ a strongly annihilating pair. ( Willie Wong has already answered this and I realise this was rather easy and I should have been able to figure it out myself, so my apologies.)
1') Sets $E$, $\Sigma$ both have infinite measure such that $(E,\Sigma)$ is a strongly annihilating pair.
2) Sets $E$, $\Sigma$ such that $E^c$ and $\Sigma^c$ have nonzero measure and $(E,\Sigma)$ is $\underline{not}$ a weakly annihilating pair.
I realise the standard reference for this topic is the book by Havin and Jöricke, which unfortunately our library does not have a copy of!! Is there any alternative reference someone can suggest ?


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What are tools/utilities that you should absolutely know while working as a Linux or Windows Sysadmin.
I'm thinking for example about GNU/screen that you'll need if you're working on Linux servers.
What are tools/utilities that you should absolutely know while working as a Linux or Windows Sysadmin.
I'm thinking for example about GNU/screen that you'll need if you're working on Linux servers.
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vi - I know not everyone likes it, but its pretty much going to be on any *nix server you come across, and when everything else is broken you are going to need to edit config files. I would also suggest csh and sh for the same reasons
As a Windows Sysadmin, you absolutely need to be familiar with SysInternals. Both for programming and for diagnosing what is going on with a machine, these are invaluable.
PuTTY: A great free SSH client for Windows. Just about everywhere I've worked has used this to connect to Unix servers from Windows.
Don't forget a sysdamin needs to get physical with their computer boxes!
You need to make sure you've got at least one
Some dude also writes about the top 10 things he/she thinks everyone should have in their toolbox.
I learned that even Windows' standard command shell can be really useful. No need to install PowerShell or cygwin to get a decent scripting functionality, especially when the scripts are supposed to be deployed on client machines.
Windows Tools:
There are a ton of small unix/linux tools that are helpful
grep, strace, GNU Screen, locate, rsync, sed, awk, and tripwire is pretty interesting too.
The list really goes on and on, I'm sure forgot far more than list here. Also, learn about how to configure these tools the way you want, like configuring .*rc files. This will make them all so much more useful. For example, here is my .screenrc file, since you seem interested in screen.
The perfect companion to PuTTY for Windows users administering remote *nix machines for me is WinSCP, a perfect, small simple and really usable FTP, SCP and SFTP client.
Powershell! Powershell is a fantastic command shell for windows, built on the .NET framework.
On any platform you should be familiar with the native, and popular backup tools. Nothing bugs me worse the a sysadmin who doesn't know how to make a good backup. A good backup will save you from almost any mistake you may make.
-ntbackup on windows, dd/tar on Linux -database dump commands -tftp to backup switches/routers/devices
The shell scripting tools: bash/sh, awk, grep, head, tail, less, cat, sort, uniq, wc (and others)
Awk lets you easily analyze log files or other files which is critical when you need to diagnose a problem. Some people use
Combine awk with sort, uniq, tail, grep, and wc to make your life pretty easy.
Mix in some shell scripting. It's super handy to be able to do things like
this lets you grep the logs on three servers for
ping traceroute / tracert netstat nslookup
For Windows I like BareTail.
This is probably not the answer you wanted, but I just wanted to share some thoughts. In general system administration is not only about the tools, but also about mental framework you use. In short - if you know what tasks you want to do, then finding a tool to do it is pretty simple.
Basically there are few questions sysadmin has to know about the system:
Now the personal choice of the tools is .. personal.
Btw, the answer about vi is great!
A good editor. Doesn't matter which one, I'm certainly not here to start a flame war. But you need to learn a good editor.
I use Emacs for just about everything. Vi(m) is another good one. Not sure about what would be best in Windows, but I'm guessing the Win32 variants of the 2 I mentionned would be good.
For Windows sysadmin:
Cygwin. Sometimes you just need to do a quick text file
dmidecode - Excellent for getting all sorts of information about the machine it's running on
strace - for when you can't figure out why the command you're issuing doesn't work the way you wish it did
find - There are more options to this little command than you are probably aware of. Read the man page and be enlightened
xargs - Very, very handy when you need to deal with lists of things
rsync - Knowing rsync and its various options is vital to moving data securely and quickly around your network
telnet - the humble telnet command has probably assisted me in diagnosing more network connectivity problems though the years than any other command
nmap - except maybe nmap
nc - netcat is awesome for setting up quick servers to see what clients are trying to do, or even for "telnet" using udp. Read the tutorials to see how powerful it really is
openssl's s_client Telnet over a secure connection into https servers to diagnose weirdness.
I'm sure there are a ton more I'll remember eventually. Check back for updates ;-)
Process Monitor especially to troubleshoot Permission problems.
I'm becoming a huge fan of DTrace, though at this point it's not available for Windows.
I wonder that no one mentioned VNC.
A few I normally use:
ps: to see the processes currently running
most common chain i use:
For Windows, let's not forget NET and NETSH, you'd be lost in networks without them.
Some tools are not mandatory but make the daily life easier:
On unix, dmesg. It collects all the system diagnostic messages and displays them nicely on the screen.
And yeah it's been 'obsoleted' by syslogd, but I still havent figured out how to get the syslogd setup to display things as nicely as dmesg does.
It has to be SSH and Putty for me: it saves so much legwork & travel it's untrue, and there's no messing with graphical settings or waiting for screen refresh :-)


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I absolutely love all the free play groups the moms from my church get together to do.
I think getting out is as important to my sanity as it is developmentally for my children.
A week and a half ago we all went to the police horse barn and therapeutic riding center. Official name I really have no clue.
Lorelei loved all the dirt and thought it was one big sandbox. Hunter was distraught with how dirty Lorelei was getting. : ) It was perfect family bonding time.
My kids absolutely enjoyed themselves. Hunter's only disappointment was there wasn't cows as well. For some reason he is determined to ride a cow. Never teaching this kid about Rodeos!!!! No mother wants her son to be a bull rider.
Lorelei was quite excellent at getting both of the officers to pick her up as she is so quick to slip my grip. She makes me feel like a bad mother with how quickly she disappears from me. If only they had baby shock collars. (joking joking...don't take me too seriously: )


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Using the limit definition of the derivative which I know is: $$f'(x)=\lim_{h\to0}\left(\frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h}\right)$$ I am trying to solve this problem $$f(x)= \frac{x}{x+2} $$
How do I go about properly solving this, I seemed to get
$$\frac{x}{x+2}\ $$ as my answer again? What are the steps I should follow?
I am trying to find the derivative of $f(x)= \frac{x}{x+2}$ using the definition of the derivative.


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Chorioamnionitis is an infection. It occurs in the membranes that surround the fetus. These membranes are called the chorion and the amnion. It is also an infection of the amniotic fluid. This fluid surrounds the fetus and protects it.
Chorioamnionitis can be a very serious condition. It requires special care from the doctor. A pregnant woman will need to deliver her baby right away. This is for the health of both the mother and the baby.
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Bacterial infections usually cause this condition. Infection may begin in the mother's genital tract. Bacteria then move up from the vagina, through the cervix, and into the fetal membranes. It then moves into the amniotic sac and its fluid. There it can then pass to the fetus. Many types of bacteria may cause this infection.
Chorioamnionitis is more common in young women. Other factors that can increase your chance of developing chorioamnionitis include:
Symptoms may include:
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The fetal heart rate will be monitored. The heart rate will increase if the mother has an infection.
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In Colossians 2:11, what does Paul mean by
τοῦ σώματος τῆς σαρκός? Paul uses
σάρξ to refer to the body or the physical far less than John, and it is clear that isn't what he's referring to here: the point of the verse is that the circumcision received by the Colossians was not physical (
περιτομῇ ἀξειρομοιήτῳ). But this use of
σώμα seems more unusual, and the two in combination especially. So what's the best way to understand and to translate this phrase (other than wooden literalness)?
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In Colossians 2:11, what does Paul mean by
The NET Bible translates this as:
That's four footnotes in one verse, all related to translation issues:
(I don't pretend to understand all that as I am a mere novice in Greek (or any other ) grammar.)
As for what Paul means by this, I take it as an allusion to something Moses said:
It's a theme that Paul returns to over and over again in places like Ephesians 2:11-22 and Romans 2:25-29. Less directly, he talks about needing to die or put aside our natural selves in order to obtain spiritual bodies in passages like Galatians 2:15-21 and 1st Corinthians 15:35-49. I don't think this passage is so much saying something new as saying the same thing in a new way.
Finally and further afield, the idea Paul expresses seems so much like something C. S. Lewis wrote in The Dawn Treader:
After this point in the story Eustace Scrubb becomes a full member of the crew of the Dawn Treader very much as if he were baptized and initiated.
Given Paul's other writings, I think we can understand "body of flesh" here to mean something of the old life that must be miraculous removed in order to commence living a new life as a part of the church.
This answer is complementary to Jon's. Having thought about this and researched it a good deal more and discussed it with friends, I have decided to render the phrase the whole mass of the sinful nature.
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Its not false.
You can't say its wrong as there is nothing to compare it to. The newgen created doesn't exist in the real world so you have nothing to match his career path or performance against like you have with a real player.
Do we get newgens that start with a low CA and go on to be top quality players - Yes
Do we get newgens at big clubs that turn out rubbish - Yes
Do we get newgens at big clubs who go on to have good careers at a lower level - Yes
Whether you like it or not there are loads of examples of players who look good at age 18yo-21yo that just never develop in the real world.
Go back and look at the U21 squads from 7/8 years ago and see how many are playing at top flight clubs, you'll be surprised at how many aren't - Just like your 22yo French ST.
I also don't know what you mean by "ratings" but a player's in match rating doesn't lower just because he has reached his PA. It also begs the question if he was playing well and scoring goals why would you sell him??
Reading some of your other posts I'm not even certain you understand the CA/PA system and how it translates into attributes and their use in the ME.


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WATERBURY — After intercepting a pass and returning it to the Amity High 32-yard line, Sacred Heart senior defensive back Jimmy Harris ran straight to the Hearts' offensive huddle. He was prepared to take over the game from his halfback position, as he had done so many times throughout his career.
Coach Ray Nicolletta called for a sweep right that would forever change Harris' football career and his life, as well. As Harris planted his left foot in the soggy Municipal Stadium grass, cutting to head upfield, his cleat got stuck. His body went forward but his leg didn't, and his left knee paid the price as he was hit high by one defender and low by another.
"It was a Saturday morning I got hurt, and I was operated on Sunday afternoon," Harris said. "All the cartilage was removed and all the tendons and ligaments were torn, and as the doctor said, it wasn't in a straight line either."
After scoring 15 touchdowns as a junior, Harris had finished second in the Naugatuck Valley League scoring, just one two-point conversion behind Naugatuck's Wayne Edmonds. That, along with his 9.7 yards per carry running the ball, were good enough to warrant inclusion on the 1963 preseason All-New England football team in the national "Complete Sports Magazine", published by New York Herald Tribune.
"I thought he might be able to go on to the pros," Nicolletta said. "Jimmy was spectacular. He was elusive. He could get by people or he could run through them. He was also a very fine defensive player for us."
Harris and Nicolletta estimated that as many as 40 to 50 colleges were recruiting Harris before the injury brought an end to his football career. Teammate Ron Diorio, who went on to play major league baseball with the Philadelphia Phillies, said he wasn't surprised so many colleges wanted Harris.
"As far back as when we were freshmen, he was a man among boys," Diorio said. "He had the body. He had the maturity. He certainly was a gifted athlete. For most of us mere mortals when we were starting out in high school, just to be involved as freshmen was something. He was light years ahead of everybody. As a freshman, he lettered in two sports and could have lettered in three."
Nicolletta said that the 5-foot-11, 175-pound Harris was such a gifted athlete that twice — against both Southington and Croft — he did something he had never seen a defender do. Harris came up to tackle a ball carrier, pulled the ball out of the hands of the offensive player and ran it back 60 yards for a touchdown.
One newspaper account of the play against Croft described it like this: "Sacred Heart's Jim Harris, who has faster hands than Wyatt Earp, stole the ball out of (Richie) Capristo's grasp on the 38 and ran 62 yards for the touchdown."
Despite playing only four games his senior season due to a dislocated shoulder and then later the knee injury, Harris still finished second behind Edmonds in the NVL scoring race with eight touchdowns. He earned All-City honors as a sophomore, junior and senior and was named to the second annual Naugatuck Valley League All-Star team.
"I would like to think that he could have played pro," Diorio said. "He was clearly one of the best athletes ever to come out of Waterbury. His ability, his leadership, his versatility. He played four sports or at least three (football, basketball, baseball) and dabbled in track. His quickness at running back. We were a .500 club, but just get him one step beyond the line of scrimmage where it was him and somebody else — forget about it."
Despite the fact that he couldn't play football again, Harris said he never felt sorry for himself. He played sports because he loved the competition and camaraderie. And ultimately with the help of Sacred Heart's Father Blanchard and Jack Delaney, he went to Huron College in South Dakota and played three years of baseball.
"I met my wife Addie out there, and we have been married for over 45 years and have three boys and four grandkids," said Harris, who taught at Holy Cross for 41 years and started the Crusaders' football and baseball programs. "I have never had any regrets about me getting hurt and going out there. I have had a lot more good days than bad days as a result of everything that happened."
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WINTERSVILLE - The Gaslite Restaurant is quickly becoming a new hotspot in Jefferson County.
The Petrella brothers recently acquired the restaurant from Frank Berardi, taking over ownership and operations a few months ago.
Mike Petrella, a recent graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University, will handle all of the day-to-day operations at the Gaslite. He also is the owner of Economy Lawn Care and co-owner of Village Sleep Center.
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NEW OWNERS — The Petrella brothers have acquired the Gaslite Restaurant in Wintersville from previous owners Frank and Dorothy Berardi. Helping to make the announcement were, from left, seated, the Berardi's and Mike Petrella; standing are Craig, Anita, Jay, Nikki and Billy Petrella. The Gaslite opens at 11 a.m. Monday through Friday and at 4 p.m. on Saturday.
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"The restaurant has been in business for many decades and formerly operated under the names Gumba's, the Farm and Mike's Steakhouse before transforming into the Gaslite," Petrella explained. "Frank Berardi and Dee Pizzoferrato officially opened the restaurant in 1992. Pizzoferrato passed away six years ago and the Berardis became the sole owners and operators."
The Gaslite legacy will continue, and since taking ownership, the Petrella brothers have been hard at work, initially expanding the menu.
"We've added seven new appetizers, four new wines, a new entree salad, two new sandwich options and an expanded cocktail menu featuring the Gaslite's signature drink, the Yellow Monkey," Petrella said.
Also recently added are a daily $5 lunch special, which includes a sandwich and a side; luncheons for funerals at a special cost; and happy hour from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday featuring half-off appetizers and daily drink specials. The restaurant will feature nightly dinner specials beginning at 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
"We have also installed a new floor, purchased locally from Valerie DiMichele at Creative Carpets in Wintersville, upgraded some of the kitchen and bar equipment and plan to upgrade the exterior in the spring as well as modernize the dining room decor," he noted.
Mike Petrella is joined by his brothers, Billy and Jay, in the venture. Jay Petrella is a local real estate agent and co-owner of Village Sleep Center, where he handles all daily operations. Billy Petrella is president of Petrella Wealth Management, C. William Industries and a co-owner of Village Sleep Center.
All three brothers have an active role in their family's real estate development company, Petrella Enterprises, which was founded 37 years ago by their parents, Anita and Craig. Members of the Petrella family also have previous food industry experience, as they owned and operated Dairy Queen in Hollywood Plaza and a drive-through in Mingo Junction for nine years.
Nikki Petrella handles the payroll for the Gaslite.
Mike Petrella said that the Gaslite has a great group of regular customers who are at the facility weekly.
"We have also seen a number of new companies and corporations host their holiday parties with us," he stated. "We are very excited for the spring to offer a new wing special and a variety of spring cocktails. A late-night happy hour will also be offered Thursday through Saturday from 9 p.m. to close."
Call ahead for reservations or to plan a party in the back dining room at (740) 264-2225.
Take-out service is available and has increased during the past two months, Mike Petrella added.
"Our take-out service is very quick as we know a number of business individuals do not have a lot of time to spend out of the office," Petrella stated. "We ask the community to please support our new venture and bring your family and friends to enjoy our famous steaks, tender ribs, delicious pork chops, homemade ham barbeque and huge salads."
Like the Gaslite on Facebook for menu and restaurant updates.
"We currently have 453 likes and have embraced social media to connect to our customers," Petrella said.
The restaurant opens at 11 a.m. Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. on Saturday and is closed on Sunday.
"We are also very fortunate that every staff member stayed on during the takeover," Petrella added. "We are excited for what the future has to bring."


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Last week the New York Times posted a short piece by Phillip Lopate about the relationship between doubt and the writing of essays. Lopate argues that the essay is a literary form especially hospitable to uncertainty. The essay is, or can be, exploratory, provisional, even self-contradictory. The word itself suggests an experiment (the French word essayer means "to try"). "The essay's job is to track consciousness; if you are fully aware of your mind you will find your thoughts doubling back, registering little peeps of ambivalence or disbelief," Lopate writes. He cites Montaigne's motto "What do I know?" and laments that high school students are now encouraged to write as if they were more sure of themselves and their opinions than they have any reason to be.
Especially when it comes to the development of young writers, it is crucial to nudge them past that self-righteous inveighing, that shrill, defensive one-track that is deadly for personal essays or memoirs, and encourage a more polyphonic, playful approach. That may be why a classic essay technique is to stage an inner debate by thinking against oneself.
Doubtfulness is not only a literary virtue; it is a way of life, says Lopate:
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with yes, buts, so whats? and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.
So a keen sensitivity to ambiguity is an unambiguously good thing, though Lopate acknowledges that it doesn't always lead to modesty: "The only danger, then, is becoming smug about ones capacity for doubt the essayist's occupational hazard, to which I periodically succumb."
I wish Lopate had made more of this last point, since there is often a good deal of preening and self-congratulation involved in contemporary expressions of doubt—an unbecoming confidence in the moral and intellectual superiority of those who are capable living with all those "yes, buts." It is one thing to register doubt, or to explore the best arguments against one's own beliefs. It is another to hold up one's exquisite doubtfulness for display. Uncertainty is of course part of the human condition, but it is no more a virtue than certainty. It can be the product of intellectual humility, but it can also be the product of pride: "Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men. I will not settle for easy answers." Nietzsche, the most eloquent champion of uncertainty, wanted nothing to do with intellectual humility. And who would accuse him of it? For him, pride and courage went together, and real courage was about the ability to endure uncertainty. It was not only that he refused to settle for easy answers; he wouldn't settle, full stop. Settlement was evidence of sloth and cowardice.
The question for a person of faith is: How do you make good use of your doubts without defining yourself by them? Doubt can be proof of engagement—proof that one is paying attention to the way things actually turn out rather than just letting expectation determine experience—but doubt can also be an excuse for disengagement. If you'll never commit yourself until you're absolutely certain, not only of what you believe now but of what you'll always believe, then you'll never commit yourself to anything. You'll neither make promises nor accept them. In that case, doubt will have made your life smaller by closing it off from the many experiences that are available only to those who first make a decision. The best way to make use of doubt is to try to settle it, and you do that by testing belief, not suspending it.
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If Socrates had written anything he might be known as the first essayist. Supremely confident that he knew that he knew nothing and neither did anyone else, in the end that got him killed. (Maybe a little touch of hubris would be a good thing? Just maybe? Maybe?)
"My own peculiar task in my Church and in my world has been that of the solitary explorer who, instead of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths of faith in its silences, its ambiguities, and in those certainties which lie deeper than the bottom of anxiety. In those depths there are no easy answers, no pat solutions to anything. It is a kind of submarine life in which faith sometimes mysteriously takes on the aspect of doubt, when, in fact, one has to doubt and reject conventional and superstitious surrogates that have taken the place of faith." Thomas Merton.To quote from my favorite philosopher:"Sometime I like to put sands of doubt into the oyster of my faith." Brother Cadfael
Hi, Matthew:I like the Draft series a lot, but I thought Lopate's entry was weak. 1) I prefer to think of essay more in the sense of assay. Try/assay/essay something as gold is tried/weighed/tested. Pick a topic, any topic, and assay it: perform a qualitative analysis of it. Put it on the scales and do a quantitative analysis. If the topic is examined honestly, there will be no doubt at the end.2) I prefer Montaigne's "It is myself I portray" to "What do I know" as a start-up for an essay. He was not doubtful. Worrying that high school kids are too sure of themselves is itself "deadly." I can't think of a worse approach to teaching writing than trying to convince the writer she should monitor herself "for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity." The best way to learn to write personal essays is to read personal essays. The New Yorker would be a good starting point.3) You say, The best way to make use of doubt, then, is to try to settle it, and you do that by testing belief, not suspending it. I agree. Trust your instincts. If there's a question, the answer is probably NO.
"Uncertainty is of course part of the human condition, but it is no more a virtue than certainty."I think it is, actually, because it leaves the door open for additional information, for updates in belief.Doubt doesn't necessarily keep people from making commitments, it just makes making those commitments an act of courage .... that's what existentialism is all about.
Interesting post - so, let's walk through an exercise from an earlier post on rewriting history via Douthart (my response to his opinion piece can best be summarized as "laments that high school students are now encouraged to write as if they were more sure of themselves and their opinions than they have any reason to be.")Ms. Steinfels asked that folks respond and find the *errors* in Douthart's opinion piece and claims. Among 21 items that were outlined by me, you focused on one - decreases in major denominations.Okay - let's start with waht Douthart stated in the actual article:"There are millions of lapsed Catholics, but the church still has a higher retention rate by far than most mainline Protestant denominations. Indeed, it is difficult to pick out a major religious body where the progressive course urged by so many of Ratzingers critics has increased vitality and growth."My response (p) claimed that Douthart's claim was a false allegation. You *doubted* that in these words: "Is there anything else in the studies you cite that would support your claim that Douthat is wrong about mainline Protestantism having dwindled much faster than the U.S. Catholic Church?"There were then a series of responses or *doubts* (to cite Lopate). Of course, what was assumed is that we agreed upon the meaning of mainline Protestantism ....e.g. Lutheran, Anglican, Episcopalian, Baptists, etc. Provided any number of links to data and surveys that could provide answers to the *doubts*.....but, documentation indicated that data is inherently subjective; surveys are unreliable, and even data studies have to be based upon less than organized ways of gathering data. This link -http://commons.trincoll.edu/aris/files/2011/08/ARIS_Report_2008.pdfprovided reliable data to show that *older* mainline Protestant denominations suffered decreases - in some cases, less than the size of the 3rd largest group which were non-practicing catholics. If you included pentocostal churces/attendance/growth as mainline Protestantism, then Douthart's claim can not be supported from the data. And you added the phrase - *more rapidly* - which again is open to how you parse the data; what is included or not in *mainline* denominations.So, in terms of *doubt* - guess it comes down to who doubts and that the *doubting process* is subjective. OTOH, agree significantly that doubting "is not only a literary virtue; it is a way of life"You never responded to the last data link or observations which brings another of Lopate's comments:".....often a good deal of preening and self-congratulation involved in contemporary expressions of doubtan unbecoming confidence in the moral and intellectual superiority of those who are capable living with all those yes, buts. It is one thing to register doubt, or to explore the best arguments against ones own beliefs. It is another to hold up ones exquisite doubtfulness for display. Uncertainty is of course part of the human condition, but it is no more a virtue than certainty. It can be the product of intellectual humility, but it can also be the product of pride"As I stated in the series of post repeatedly, what I stated were *claims* only in response to Douthart's claims and in choosing to respond to Ms. Steinfels' challenge I clearly said - *okay, I will take your bait*....my inadequate effort to do what you end this post with:"Doubt can be proof of engagementproof that one is paying attention to the way things actually turn out rather than just letting expectation determine experiencebut doubt can also be an excuse for disengagement. If youll never commit yourself until youre absolutely certain, not only of what you believe now but of what youll always believe, then youll never commit yourself to anything."Guess we each have our own way of *testing*!!
Supremely confident that he knew that he knew nothing and neither did anyone else, in the end that got him killed
Kierkegaard had a great line about there being a qualitative difference between a Socrates who says that all I know is that I can know nothing and young person beginning school saying the same thing to justify his or her own indolence.
While not exactly the same, I have always been consoled by the old contemplative notion that what we can say of God must be balanced against what we cannot say. This tension is at least as old as the Dionysian tension between the "names of God" and the "mystical theology." John of the Cross taught us that we can expect to pass through the dark night of the senses and then the dark night of faith.
"The question for a person of faith is: How do you make good use of your doubts without defining yourself by them? Doubt can be proof of engagementproof that one is paying attention to the way things actually turn out... The best way to make use of doubt, then, is to try to settle it, and you do that by testing belief, not suspending it.**********How does one "test belief" - especially those of the christian faith? There is no way to "test" any of it - one cannot do a test that "proves" that Jesus was also God. Nor that he "rose from the dead" and was "conceived by the Holy Spirit". etc, etc. There is no way to test even the basic premise that there is a God. It would be interesting, would it not, to use modern scientific methods to determine Jesus' "paternity" but, alas, there is no material to test.Is it time to reinterpret the words of the Nicene creed? Many in the pews either refrain from saying all of it, or cross their fingers in the manner of schoolchildren because they have doubts about the creedal statements taken literally (as they were catechised to do) - statements which cannot be tested, and so the doubts will remain. Does it not make sense to suspend beliefs (within the context of faith) that cannot be tested? Or does one accept that these beliefs cannot be tested - and thus one has a choice to suspend belief or to "take it on faith."
Michael Sean Winters and Oswald Sobrino deserve thanks for uncovering Mario Vargas LLosa's essay on the resignation of Pope Benedict (http://bit.ly/14y0j4w), which makes awfully good good use of an agnostic's doubts.
Anne,I think testing is much broader than 'modern scientific methods' which are limited to what can be observed and measured today. Much of human history, oral traditions and writings, cannot be substantiated by modern scientific methods with any degree of certainty.
I thought Anne raised a good question, and would like a more fleshed out articulation of how to test belief in what may be beyond observation.
Several "doubts" in Vargas Llosa's article are questionable, imho. One is this: "In this way, we can understand better his reluctance to accept the chair of St. Peter that was imposed on him eight years ago and to which, as we know now, he never aspired."Do "we" know this? How? What makes MVL think JR was reluctant to be pope? If he didn't want the burden the Escriva group "imposed on him," why didn't he say no, and let someone have it who wanted it?And what about this: "But it must be noted that thanks to him the Rev. Marcial Maciel, the Mexican from a satanic rulebook, finally received an official punishment from the center of the Church and that the group founded by him, the Legion of Christ, was declared to be under reorganization?" Why wasn't "the group" disbanded? Suppressed? What has the "reorganization" accomplished?Etc.
I agree with Abe. Anne does raise a good point, and I doubt I can give it the kind of answer it deserves here. As Bruce says, we believe many things that we haven't tested scientifically, and some that we cannot test scientifically. Most of the distant past is like this: we have records, which are a kind of evidence, but not the kind that you look for in a laboratory. But it isn't just history that's like this. A husband believes his wife loves him. Can he prove it? Certainly not in the way that medical reseachers prove something with clinical experiments. Nor could he prove in that way that what he means by love even exists. And yet I think it still makes sense to talk about testing such beliefs. Christian faith, like the belief that someone loves us, gives us a way to interpret our experience. Is it the best way? By trying to answer that question, we test our belief. We can always choose not to answer that question; we can assume, to save ourselves trouble, that it's already answered. We can deliberately stifle our doubts. (This is what the existentialists, following Nietzsche, would call "bad faith.") Trying to answer the question requires two things: first, that we pay adequate attention to our own experience, not ignoring or denying the parts of it that would seem to challenge our faith; and second, that we do justice to rival interpretations of that experience, trying to imagine what it would be like to understand our lives in a radically different way.
How does one test belief especially those of the christian faith? There is no way to test any of it one cannot do a test that proves that Jesus was also God. Nor that he rose from the dead and was conceived by the Holy Spirit. etc, etc. If a belief is put on one side of a scales and balanced with a belief of other religions, a determination or an educated guess can be made. E.g., if one's god was born to a virgin who had been overshadowed, and several other gods were conceived and born in a similar fashion, it becomes easier/harder to believe the story.And if one's god makes similar demands that other gods make -- animal/human sacrifice, a special caste of go-betweens, e.g,, the scales will balance. And if one's god comes from a similar background that gave rise to other deities -- thunder, e.g., that's another factor to consider. It's interesting, imho, to observe how people who lived at the time when old gods were replaced by the Christian God handled the transition. A ruler in Iceland, e.g., at the end of the viking period, believed in Jesus Christ, but still sacrificed and appealed to Thor for sea voyages and other important matters.
A brief and very small comment on a big topic. It's one thing to doubt whether some sentence p is true or not. It's a different thing to have doubts about oneself or other people, especially people who are important to oneself. It is a third thing to have doubts about whether some project or bet etc., that I, or you, is inclined to make is prudent, wise, etc.I would be foolish, I believe, if, after all these years, I doubt that my wife loves me. I would be wise to doubt whether some factual claims about the national economy are well founded. I might well be cowardly if I refrained from helping people in need because I have doubts about whether all of them really want my help or would be grateful for it.
Maybe there's some element of belief that has to do with choice. We just can't prove completely everything we do believe but it's difficult to go through life doubting all the things that cannot be proved, so we "act as if" many of them are true or not true. Kant wrote that the existence of God could not be proved (or disproved) but he said that most people do make a subconscious choice about whether God exists and that can be seen in how they live - they sort of "vote" with their actions. For most of my life I couldn't believe in God because I couldn't prove to myself he existed. Eventually I realized that even though I doubted he existed, I actually acted as if he did .... I would feel betrayed somehow whenrever something went terribly wrong, for instance, or I'd feel a sense of awe and joy when looking up at the stars at night, etc.
The title of this thread suggests that doubt is more than an obstacle to be overcome, but is deeply implicated in the very nature of human beings. I think that is right and, still more, that it is an aspect of all life.Rocks have a stolid certainty. "I'll just sit here for a million years, and let rain, heat, and lichens have their way." Plants face limited alternatives. "Is it better to grow straight up to the light or to branch out laterally?" Birds and beasts ask many questions and answer them more or less well. "Is that a leopard or a shadow over there?" "Is his tail long and beautiful enough?" "Where do we find the best nectar around here?" Life and death questions, but going no further than their own answer.We're apparently the only ones who ask how and why and then set out to answer those questions. In early days, it was "How does lightning work?" "How do plants grow?" "Why do children resemble their parents?" Good questions that we probably still haven't got to the bottom of. They are what scientists call "fruitful," meaning that each tentative answer opens up new lines of inquiry.That's a very good thing, if we can just get over the illusion of finality. The End of History. The End of Physics. The End of Faith. What a small world it would be if wewe!could figure it out. But no, at both ends of the cosmic scale, the inconceivably large and the small, we encounter mysteries stranger than anything that has come before. Even here in the middle, we have a sound theory about the diversity of life but still mostly speculation about its origin. And the citadel of our own brains is still untaken. Will it show at last that we are one substance or two?Our own records often raise questions of original error, faulty transmission, or current misinterpretation, to say nothing of deliberate lies. False prophets probably outnumber the true.[Caution: clashing metaphors ahead] I have begun to suspect that we will never be able on our own to burrow down to the core of reality and find the Answer. We are playing a game with imperfect information, more like bridge than chess. If God placed us in this situation, it may be that he wants us to seek him in the face of doubt and beyond reason. If not God, we must still set a course in a boundless sea.
I think we tend to under-estimate animal thought processes ... http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130207-can-animals-imagine/print
Some people think that metaphysics plus a bit of empirical data can prove the existence of a creator or an orderer of the whole of reality. But metaphysics is generally scorned these days, so few people know it well, so most people look to science for answers to ultimate questions. Unfortunately, as some important non-believers are starting to realize (see Nagel) science can't answer all questions. So what are the seekers to do?As I see it, the seekers can take page from the sciences, viz., the notion of a paradigm, and use it to find a reasonable answer, if not an extremely sure one. A paradigm is a hypothesis that best explains the patterns in the world as we find them -- not perfectly, but it is the best available hypothesis. (Notice, I didn't say the "plans" as we find them, I said *patterns*. At this point seekers can't rationally say whether or not there is a planner ("Orderer") because all they have found are patterns . But they do see patterns. Every scientific law is a pattern, every form of a work of art is a pattern, etc. It seems to me that many of the seekers (including me sometimes) rely on a sense of what *fits* the overall pattern of the universe. We are all, I think, inclined to a coherence theory of truth when it comes to matters of fact. (This is a very Humean notion -- truth = the sum total of propositions that are consistent with each other. It is the only kind of truth, actually that a great scientific paradigm has until there is a new scientific paradigm.)In other words, using the notion of a paradigm, what some of us find is a grand, over-arching paradigm -- an apparently ordered universe -- which goes past even scientific paradigms. Religious belief is acceptance of a grand paradigm that goes past the data of science, while (for some of us) including that data too. This acceptance of the best hypothesis that is consistent with the facts is no more an unscientific or anti-scientific procedure than scientists' own acceptance of paradigms. Different believers find different paradigms. For the Christian, the Nicene Creed is included in the Christian paradigm. For the Hindus the Vedas are closer to the truth, and so on. This results in many different concepts of God. Most believers (though not the materialist pantheists) accept a transcendent, spiritual reality as the best hypothesis to explain the matters of fact we encounter. Most often this transcendent reality is One who in some way knows and cares about people.And then there is some testimony of some of the mystics of the world's great religions, which can also be added to the paradigm. And, I would say, there are also sometimes little indications in our own lives that God does provide, shall we say, tailor-made graces that simply can't be accounted for by physics and mathematical probabilities. I mean the tiny miracles of grace, if you will. Further sometimes otherwise sane people even testify to big miracles, which, I think, cannot be dismissed out of hand. Yes, there are many reasons (much evidence) for the existence of God. But none of them is absolutely certain, and that is why we are said to have *faith* in God. Still, there is what Newman called "a convergence of probabilities" -- *sets* of patterns which alone cannot be called "planned" but which, taken as a group, indicate that the best overall hypothesis is that there is a Planner of it all.
I agree, Gerelyn, that animals are capable of solving many practical problems, including some that baffle us. I just don't think that there is much evidence yet that they spend a lot of time on ultimate questions. Maybe in their much longer histories they have found them to be unprofitable.
Sorry, I meant Crystal. Darn typos!
"Trying to answer the question requires two things: first, that we pay adequate attention to our own experience, not ignoring or denying the parts of it that would seem to challenge our faith; and second, that we do justice to rival interpretations of that experience, trying to imagine what it would be like to understand our lives in a radically different way."I am not sure, but I think Mr. Boudway states what I believe more clearly than I could have written. I would add a qualifier to "my own experience." I would say my own experience of seeking first the kingdom of God which Jesus announced is among us, even if it is not completely fulfilled here on earth as it is in heaven. My experience of meaning, my experience of giving and receiving love, my experience of finding meaning in my suffering of picking up my cross, my experience of miracles when attempting to live what most consider an impractical idealism, etc. etc. etc.Thanks for the post. I especially appreciate your insight about the pride some have in their existentialism, of their living with their doubt.
P.S. As a teacher I think you are correct about the error of h.s. students being asked to give reports as if they are experts. But why stop at that level. The same thing is true of undergraduate reports and even many doctoral dissertations.
Matthew: You wrote: "Uncertainty is of course part of the human condition, but it is no more a virtue than certainty. It can be the product of intellectual humility, but it can also be the product of pride."I count four propositions here. I wondered whether you--or your readers here--are certain of any of them.
Thank you for your comment, Joseph (9:08am). I have reached a stage in my own life where there is no certainty about anything in it, including about the validity of the four propositions you cite. It is a very uncomfortable place to be. Doubt is my ever present companion, it shadows all my days. Doubt about all that I was certain of for most of my life. I live with this doubt, but I can't say I'm "proud" of living with it. I have no choice - doubt has taken the place of certainty in virtually all important facets of my life, especially in my faith life. The exchange of certainty for doubt was not something I chose. I believe in God, because as Ann Olivier notes, it seems (to me) the only reasonable explanation for the existence of the universe and all that is in it. And the last smidgen of the faith I once had makes me "believe" that God is good - the essence of goodness. Defining God beyond that is beyond me. "God is the creator of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen". That I do not doubt. But, perhaps I "believe" this because I want to believe it, to hold on to the last bit of faith remaining. It seems (to me anyway) that the mystics - of all religious traditions - may provide the best spiritual path back to faith for those suffering from religious doubt. Creeds and dogmas - not so much.I much appreciate this post and the comments thread. All of you give me much to reflect on. Thank you.
Anne --Could you tell us what it is about the other/many/some dogmas that turn you off so? There are some moral teachings I think need revision, and certainly some of the practices of us Catholics need change. But what's the problem with the dogmas? Are they or some of them just downright wrong? Or insulting somehow? Or simply inadequate? Or irrelevant? Or incomprehensible? Or all of the above?? Or what?So many people complain about them I'd really like to have a better understanding of why.
Ann, would that the comment box be pages long! The only dogma that I have come to believe is "insulting" in a way is the one on Mary's perpetual virginity. The RCC's interpretation of the bible's frequent and clear references to Mary's other children stretches the linguistic issues and seems to be somewhat twisted, perhaps to support its views that virginity is a superior state, ontologically, thus demeaning the holiness of married life and married sexual love. Mary, in the eyes of these men, should not be "tainted" with experiencing normal married life. There are many church fathers to thank for this view, I suppose, not least Fr. K's favorite preacher, St. Augustine. However, the bigger problems are the basics of the creed - the nature of Trinity, the incarnation - just about everything that is mentioned after "seen" and "unseen" (which is what we still say in the Episcopal church that we now attend). But I stop right there and don't say the rest of the creed. We attend church because it's important to my husband. I would be a "none" or "SBNR" otherwise. But it is a great little church with two great priests - one of whom is a woman and that experience is a revelation all its own. Even as a docile young parochial school child in the 50s, I had trouble with three teachings: the Trinity - in spite of Sister's attempts to make it make sense by using a shamrock as a visual aid, EENS - which we were taught as Truth with a capital T (ONLY Catholics are eligible for heaven) and now labeled "heresy" I believe, and papal infallibility. "But, Sister, the pope is a human being. Only God is infallible". (Later, when I learned about Vatican I and Pius IX, I congratulated my young self for perceiving the untruth of that teaching at age 9). I learned, though, to stop asking questions which were not appreciated. I was ready to leave the church while a student in a Catholic college. But, a theology prof spent hours with me explaining the significance of Vatican II, the hope it promised, and I stayed. I suppressed questions and doubts for most of my life, relying on Vatican II's seeming support of "primacy of conscience." About four years ago, a wall came down and simply cut me off from "believing" the statements of the creed "on faith." I don't know why this happened. And I know of no way to "test" beliefs as suggested by Matthew B. Having doubt and living with it is nothing to be "proud" of - it is very uncomfortable and depressing actually. Maybe all those buried doubts from 3rd grade on finally broke through and I simply had to face the fact that I really did not know if I believed much of it, or any of it and had just gone along because I did love "the church" - the people, the traditions, the community, the shared experiences of growing up Catholic. I am not a scholar as are so many who comment on these threads, only an avid reader. Maybe my years of (very superficial) study of church history and development of doctrine during the first 1000 years (both informal reading and formal coursework), biblical scholarship (only books for non-scholar readers, not academic texts), the writings of some of the early church fathers, etc brought these doubts to the surface so that I could no longer ignore or suppress them. Maybe being totally disgusted with the hierarchy that enabled priests to molest kids, a pope who refused to hold bishops accountable, and a church which teaches officially that women are subservient to men by "divine will", etc. wore me down and allowed the underlying doubts on dogma to surface. They finally just burst through the barriers I had built to contain them, to avoid facing them. I don't know if these dogma are "right" or "wrong". Nobody does because it's not possible for any human being to know these things. (It didn't help the cause of "believing" the creed's dogmas to learn the history of the Council of Nicea either). They cannot be "tested' empirically. They are purely a matter of faith. Are some irrelevant? Perhaps - especially the Marian dogmas. Selective reliance on "Tradition" is one of the Catholic church's weakest points when it comes to its demands for "internal assent" to teachings. My interest in religion and spirituality also led me to an (equally surface) study of other religions, especially eastern religions. I have barely dipped my toes into those riches. As others have done, I could not help but note certain common themes in the teachings of the world's "great" religions, as well as the many common spiritual practices, all of which have survived for thousands of years. Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism are even older than Christianity. Like Christianity, all have mystics who are primarily teachers of the spiritual "way". Dogma and doctrine had become obstacles in the spiritual journey (for me, at least for now. Doubt has triumphed. But the mystics and spiritual writers don't focus on those and so I focus on them, especially Christian spiritual writers, as I also have come to believe that the teachings of Christianity embody all the "best" of the teachings of all the great religions - the most "complete" body of teachings are in the gospels. So, I do believe in the teachings of the gospels. I do not know that I believe that Jesus was God incarnate.
If anyone here knows of resources available on the statements in the creed that might go back to square one and re-explain the thinking underlying them at an adult level - but one that does not require an advanced degree in theology - please feel free to recommend them. For me, it's back to basics and I need more than a shamrock.


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I would like to preface by saying that I have no significant experience working with set theory, so I'm probably making an intuitive mistake. I have figured out where the mistake probably is, but I can't figure out why it IS a mistake. I figured that this was the best outlet to ask my question.
I was reading about the Continuum Hypothesis on Wikipedia recently, particularly about the fact that it's undecidable in ZFC -- which means that it is undecidable whether or not there is an infinite set whose size is strictly between that of the natural numbers and that of the real numbers. Now, intuitively, a proof that it cannot be disproved would immediately give way to the fact that no counterexample could be constructed (for such a counterexample would disprove it, which is impossible), and thus it must therefore be true. But that's not where I'm going with this.
Cantor proved that the rational numbers are countable -- that there exists a counting method such that, given any integer, you could determine the unique rational number which corresponds to it, and given any rational number, you could determine the unique integer which corresponds to it. The proof is fairly cool, but that's not where I'm going, either. Essentially, this demonstrated that $\aleph_0^2 = \aleph_0$. Then, he went on to prove that all algebraic numbers were countable, which proved the stronger statement that for any finite n, $\aleph_0^n = \aleph_0$. But yet, the cardinality of the real numbers is still strictly greater.
He explicitly determined the cardinality of the real numbers as $2^{\aleph_0}$, or, strictly speaking, for any $\alpha > 1, \mathfrak c = \alpha^{\aleph_0}$, because, no matter which base you're in, the number of real numbers doesn't change. This means that the cardinality of the real numbers is strictly exponential, whereas the cardinality of the countable numbers is strictly polynomial.
This is where my confusion arises. If I construct a set whose size after an infinite number of steps is bounded by any polynomial, it is countable, whereas a set whose size is greater than every polynomial would not be countable.
The Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely_primality_test has running time, for a given n, of $n^{O\log(\log(n))}$, which is of super-polynomial running time -- there exists no polynomial that is strictly greater than that function. However, it is also sub-exponential -- there exists no exponential function that is strictly less than it, either. Therefore, it exists between the polynomials and exponentials.
Using this, I can construct a set of numbers whose size after n steps is equal to $f(n) = n^{O\log(\log(n))}$ by appending approximately f'(n) unique values to the end of the set. I have now explicitly constructed an infinite set whose size is $\aleph_0^{\log(\log(\aleph_0))}$, have I not? And, as I said before, it is, eventually, larger than any set whose size grows polynomially. But it is also smaller than every set whose size grows exponentially.
Of course, it also turns out that this set is countable -- I can give you the numbers in the set, if you so wish. But that's only part of the problem.
Using the same method, I can also construct a set whose size grows exponentially, if I only change my function to $f(n) = 2^n$. I then append f'(n) unique values to the end of my set and, voila, as I take a countably infinite number of steps, namely $\aleph_0$, the size of my set becomes $2^{\aleph_0}$, the cardinality of the continuum -- but, as before, I can tell the nth item in my set, and if you give me any item in my set, I can tell you exactly where it lies.
Thus is my question: What did I do wrong? Either I have shown that $2^{\aleph_0} = \aleph_0$, which is exceedingly unlikely, or my assumption that my new set's size is equal to $2^{\aleph_0}$ is incorrect, and I cannot understand why.
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As far as I know, the five actors to have played the role of Batman in films are Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, and Christian Bale. Is it grammatical to call them "the batmen"?
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I would say that strictly speaking it is not. Irregular plurals carry if they are instances of the base word. A "fireman" is a type of man, so "firemen" is the appropriate plural, but the "Toronto Maple Leafs" are not leaves.
Since Batman is a proper noun, Batman does not designate a type of man but the name for one particular man, so the irregular plural does not carry. It should be "the Batmans". However, this is, at least to my ear, somewhat awkward.
So you have three choices. If you want to be strictly correct and not be awkward, "the actors who portrayed Batman". If you don't mind being a bit awkward, "the Batmans". If you can tolerate a few points off on your poetic license, and can see Batman as not so much a proper noun but as a type of man, then why not ... "the Batmen".
You could write the batmen, and if you're writing an attention-getting headline, maybe you should. But it is definitely unusual enough to call attention to itself, and you typically don't want to distract the reader from what you're trying to say.
Batmans sounds obviously wrong to me, unless you're going for laughs. Cf. librarymans.
For what it's worth, there is an actual episode of an actual Batman-themed TV show titled "Night of the Batmen!". Apparently the Batmen of All Nations are a thing too.
Maybe it's just me but it seems like real sentences using batmen tend to be a bit informal in tone:
while those using batmans are extremely informal in tone:
No. Batman is a single character. Multiple actors have played the character, but there's only one Batman.
Yes, it is grammatical.
Batman is the name of a character. Philip Seymor Hoffman played Truman Capote in the movie Capote. In referring to this character, if there were remake, the various portrayals would not be Trumen.
It is conceivable that the various players collectively could be referred to as the Trumans, but that feels very artificial. Each of the actors would have played Truman and collectively they played Truman or the Truman roles.
While it is arguable that there have been many Othellos, I think it is much better form to indicate that many have been Othello, that is, when referring to character names, the plural should be avoided. (Perhaps the only exception is a mulitplicity of Elvises and only when they appear in multiples at the same time, such as in Honeymoon in Vegas.)
Actually, the number of actors who have portrayed Batman is seven not five. Lewis G Wilson; Robert Lowrey; Adam West; Michael Keaton; Val Kilmer; George Clooney and Christian Bale.
Note the author of the article (and also the OP) wrote Batman and nothing similar to "There have been seven Batmen in the TV series and movie history." The noun batmen is of course grammatical, but why shouldn't it be? The plural of man is men, and as @Jrfras mentioned in their post, batmen are the personal servants assigned to a commissioned officer in the British Armed Forces. Therefore the following sentences would be perfectly correct
However, the nouns Batman and Caped Crusader are both proper nouns and it is the norm in English to capitalize proper nouns. Some proper nouns can be pluralized when we mention them as a unique group for example; the Simpsons, the Bushes, the Marches, the Himalayas; the United States; the Yankees; the Green Bay Packers etc.
But the role of Batman is one, the superhero in every film, comic strip, TV series is one, there has never been seven "Batmen" simultaneously. The seven actors are never referred to as "the Batmen" or, ex-Batmen. If two or more were called Batmen the term would be ambiguous, the speaker/writer might be stating that the actors were once private soldiers who were servants to high ranking officers.
Wikipedia mentions in its article Batman (military)
Google Books Ngrams seem to suggest that the plural forms "are/were batmen" and "are/were Batmen" are non-existent in American English whereas the expressions "was/is batman" enjoyed its peak of usage between 1916 and 1920, and the proper noun "was/is Batman" has had the upper hand since the 1960s.
The only group of superheroes I can think of whose name terminates with men is...
Strictly speaking, there have not been multiple "Batmen," but rather "multiple portrayals of Batman." Not only is it not grammatical to say "the batmen," it is factually incorrect to refer to the actors as such. Certainly, it's an appealing construction - after all, it sort of rolls off the tongue. However, that's not the nature of acting.
A name, proper noun, or a character. But Batmen sounds right .
Two examples from a UK based newspaper :
The gathering of 542 Batmen (and women) kicked off a campaign for a United Way charity.
In this short film released to commemorate Batman's 75th birthday, old man Bruce Wayne and Terry McGinnis fight against the Dark Knight's past incarnations – Batmen from comics, cartoons and live action. Happy Birthday, Bats!
What about Bats......
Batmen is grammatically correct, and the contextual meaning will probably be understood by the reader.
Whether or not you would use the word is more about style and preference. You could avoid the word by writing "the actors who've played Batman" or you could be lighthearted and use "Bat-Thespians" for example to go with naming convention of Batman's tools.
On August 2, 2014, the New York Times published an article titled "Spider-Man Unmasked! Elmo and Minnie, Too" about people who dress up as cartoon characters in order to pose for pictures and receive tips from tourists in Times Square—and this very question came up, not in the context of multiple instances of Batman but of multiple instances of Spider-Man. Here is how the New York Times handled the issue:
A caption in the same story mentions "the Times Square hurly-burly of Elmos, Minnie Mouses and Batmen who pose for photographs and then coax customers for tips." On the other hand, the same story also cites "an enclave of Mickey Mouses and Sheriff Woodys" (Sheriff Woody being the name of a character from the Toy Story movies)—but if you take Spider-Man/Spider-Men and Batman/ Batmen, instead of Spider-Man/Spider-Mans and Batman/Batmans, I would have expected the Sheriff Woody pairing to be Sheriff Woody/Sheriff Woodies, not Sheriff Woody/Sheriff Woodys.
Its hard to avoid the conclusion that the New York Times's treatment of Spider-Men (on the one hand) and its treatment of Sheriff Woodys (on the other) represent inconsistent ways of handling the same problem of rendering a singular proper (but fictional) name as a plural.


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I have noticed that every image I upload to Facebook is cropped automatically for the thumbnails. By automatically I mean that the user is not involved in setting the crop params in any way. The thing that is bugging me is that even with auto crop the thumbnails Facebook gets in the end are intelligent (they somehow crop the exact area where the face or the figure of the person is). How is that possible and how to do it in PHP?
P.S. I can't install install things to the server. And even without a face detection is there someway to make a good guess. I have noticed that for larger images facebook requires manual crops and does auto crop only for smaller images. The main goal is to make smart square crops and then resize them for thumbnails.