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In Re Cooper, 10-41895 (Bankr. D. Kan. Feb. 21, 2012) Doc. # 49
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SIGNED this 21st day of February, 2012.
In the United States Bankruptcy Court
for the District of Kansas
In re: )
Sabrina Cooper, ) Case No. 10-41895
Debtor. )
________________________________ )
Memorandum Opinion and Order Denying Motion by Credit Union to
Reconsider Order Not Approving Reaffirmation Agreement
Creditor United Northwest Federal Credit Union ("United") asks me to
reconsider1 my order declining to approve a reaffirmation agreement2between
United and Debtor Sabrina Cooper. United claims that 11 U.S.C. § 524(m)(2)
strips me of authority to review, and decline to approve, the reaffirmation
agreement because United is a credit union. However, as explained below, §
Doc. 43.
Doc. 41. The Reaffirmation Agreement is at Doc. 35.
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524(m)(2) does not alter my statutory responsibility and duties under § 524(c)(6)
to determine if a reaffirmation agreement is in Ms. Cooper's best interest and
whether the agreement would create an undue hardship on her. Therefore, the
motion for reconsideration is denied.
This matter constitutes a core proceedings over which the Court has the
jurisdiction and authority to enter a final order.3
I. Findings of fact
Ms. Cooper filed her Chapter 7 petition in October, 2010 without an
attorney.4 She listed the 2004 Ford Explorer that is the subject of this agreement
on Schedule D, estimating its value at $8,125. She revealed on Schedule I that,
after all deductions from her wages, her net monthly income was $2,229.23 and
her total monthly expenses totaled $1,945.00—leaving her with excess monthly
income of $284.23.
The reaffirmation agreement calls for her to reaffirm a debt of $7,963.44
to United, and United contends the value of the Explorer is $8,400.00 (as
contrasted with Debtor's listed value of $8,125 a few months earlier). The
3 See 28 U.S.C. § 157(b)(2)(O) (core proceeding) and § 157(b)(1) (authority to hear coreproceedings).
4 Ms. Cooper did receive the assistance of a bankruptcy petition preparer in connectionwith filing the required petition and schedules, but this individual is not representing Ms.
Cooper in any legal capacity, did not sign the reaffirmation agreement, or appear with her atthe hearing on the reaffirmation agreement.
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agreement also indicates that after she filed her petition, her monthly income
decreased by over 25%— to $1,600.00, and her monthly expenses decreased to
$1,183.87—leaving her with excess monthly income of $416.13. In the
agreement, Ms. Cooper explained the reduction in her monthly income by stating
"I no longer have two jobs. I only have one main job." She explained the
reduction in her expenses by stating "Much of the debt was taken care of in the
bankruptcy." According to the information contained in the reaffirmation
agreement, United did not alter the principal amount due under the loan, the
interest rate, or the amount of monthly payments.
Although page 2 of the Reaffirmation Agreement Cover Sheet indicates
that Ms. Cooper was represented by counsel during the course of negotiating this
reaffirmation agreement and that her attorney had executed a certification in
support of the reaffirmation agreement, there was no such certification filed with
the Court.5 Ms. Cooper did complete Part E of the reaffirmation agreement,
which is a Motion for Court Approval of Reaffirmation Agreement that is
required to be signed by all debtors who are not represented by counsel.
5 The attorney certification is typically found in Part C of the Reaffirmation Agreement,
which was not present in the document filed with the Court.
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The Clerk issued a Notice of Hearing on Reaffirmation Agreement, setting
the reaffirmation agreement for hearing.6 Counsel for United was electronically
notified and Ms. Cooper was notified by mail. Only Ms. Cooper appeared at the
hearing. At that hearing, I provided Ms. Cooper the information that § 524(d)(1)
requires I provide debtors in this situation and asked her several questions
about the agreement and her finances.
After the disclosures and discussion about her income and expenses, I
found that the reaffirmation agreement was not in Ms. Cooper's best interest,
as § 524(c)(6)(A) requires, and issued an order not approving the reaffirmation
agreement. United then timely filed its motion for reconsideration. The sole
basis for the motion is the assertion that the Court has no authority to
disapprove the reaffirmation agreement as a result of the language contained in
§ 524(m)(2).
Additional facts will be discussed below, when necessary.
II. Standard for a Motion for Reconsideration
Rule 9023 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure incorporates Rule
59 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and allows for alteration or
amendment of judgments on the grounds for relief set forth in Rule 60(b) of the
Doc. 38.
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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as incorporated in Bankruptcy Rule 9024.7
Grounds for relief include mistake, inadvertence, surprise, excusable neglect,
fraud or newly discovered evidence. A motion to reconsider that is filed within
fourteen days of the entry of judgment is treated as a motion to alter or amend.8
The legal standard for granting a motion for reconsideration is narrow. "A
motion for reconsideration should be granted only to correct manifest errors of
law or to present newly discovered evidence."9 "Such motions are not appropriate
if the movant only wants the Court to revisit issues already addressed or to hear
new arguments or supporting facts that could have been presented originally."10
III. Analysis
A. Background on reaffirmation agreements and protections
afforded to debtors who enter into such agreements.
The goal of debtors who file for protection under Chapter 7 of the
Bankruptcy Code is to emerge from the bankruptcy process with a "fresh start."
The cornerstone of this fresh start is the discharge of personal liability on debts
7 See In re Colley, 814 F.2d 1008, 1010 (5th Cir. 1987).
8 In re American Freight System, Inc., 168 B.R. 245, 246 (D. Kan. 1994).
Adams v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., 225 F.3d 1179, n.5 (10th Cir. 2000)
(internal quotations omitted).
10 Zhou v. Pittsburg State Univ., 252 F. Supp. 2d 1194, 1199 (D. Kan. 2003) (citing Van
Skiver v. U.S., 952 F.2d 1241, 1243 (10th Cir. 1991).
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owed prior to bankruptcy.11 With limited exceptions—such as for those debts
found in 11 U.S.C. § 523 or priority debts—a Chapter 7 debtor is no longer
personally liable on prepetition debts once a discharge is granted under § 727.
One additional exception to this "fresh start" is secured debts in which a debtor
voluntarily reaffirms personal liability pursuant to § 524©. Given the potentially
negative effect reaffirmation agreements can have on a debtor's fresh start,
Congress built protections into § 524 to ensure that debtors were not
indiscriminately giving away a portion of their fresh start, but instead were
doing so only when it would not create an undue hardship on the debtor and the
debtor's dependents, and when doing so was in the debtor's best interest.12
One protection the Code afforded debtors is the requirement that their
attorney, if represented during the negotiation of the reaffirmation agreement,
must sign a certification indicating that:
this agreement represents a fully informed and voluntaryagreement by the debtor;
11 See Standiferd v. U.S. Trustee (In re Standiferd), 641 F.3d 1209, 1212 (10th Cir. 2011)
(noting that "[a] central purpose of the Bankruptcy Code is to give debtors a fresh start bydischarging their preexisting debts").
12 See In re Jamo, 283 F.3d 392, 398 (1st Cir. 2002) (noting that "[a]lthoughreaffirmation is consensual in nature, the myriad safeguards erected by Congress reflect itsrecognition that a debtor's decision to enter into a reaffirmation agreement is likely to befraught with consequence") and In re Minardi, 399 B.R. 841, 848 (Bankr. N.D. Okla. 2009)
(stating "[b]ecause reaffirmation constitutes a debtor-invoked exception to the tenet thatunderpins the bankruptcy system—the 'fresh start' principle—a reaffirming debtor must beafforded some protection against his own (potentially) short-sighted decisions").
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this agreement does not impose an undue hardship on the debtor orany dependent of the debtor; and
[the attorney] ha[s] fully advised the debtor of the legal effect andconsequences of this agreement and any default under this
Thus, for represented debtors, under § 524(k)(5), their attorney fills the critical
role of educating them of the potential pitfalls and consequences of reaffirming
a debt under § 524, and makes an initial determination whether the
reaffirmation agreement will create an undue hardship on the debtor.14
Congress provided another protection to debtors in § 524(m)(1). Under that
subsection, there is a presumption that a reaffirmation agreement will create an
undue hardship on a debtor and the debtor's dependents if the debtor's monthly
expenses exceed monthly income. Judges are required to review this
presumption and, if not satisfied with the explanation of how the debtor can
afford the reaffirmed debt,"may disapprove" such agreement.15
13 11 U.S.C. § 524(k)(5)(A).
14 See In re Perez, 2010 WL 2737187, *3 (Bankr. D. N.M. July 12, 2010) ("The decisionto reaffirm an otherwise dischargeable debt affects the debtor's fresh start and ordinarily is oneof the most important decisions to be made by an individual debtor in a chapter 7 consumercase. Debtor's counsel plays a critical role in protecting the interests of the debtor in makingthis important decision.").
15 11 U.S.C. § 524(m)(1). It is the practice of this Court to enter an order either"disapproving" or "not disapproving" a reaffirmation agreement in any case in which thepresumption of undue hardship arises. The purpose of this order is to inform all interestedparties that the Court has performed the mandatory review of the presumption of unduehardship and whether that presumption has been satisfactorily rebutted.
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The protections provided in § 524(k)(5) and § 524(m)(1) do not, however,
reach all debtors. When the debtor is not represented by counsel—either in
general or in the negotiation of the reaffirmation agreement—the gatekeeper
role played by the attorney, and evidenced by the certification under § 524(k)(5),
is absent. In addition, the requirement that the court review a reaffirmation
agreement in those cases where there is a presumption of undue hardship under
§ 524(m)(1) are not applicable under § 524(m)(2) if the creditor is a credit union,
as defined in § 19(b)(1)(A)(iv) of the Federal Reserve Act.16
To protect debtors who are not represented by an attorney in the course
of negotiating a reaffirmation agreement, however, the Bankruptcy Code places
additional procedural safeguards in completely different subsections of § 524—
subsections (c)(6) and (d). Section 524(c)(6)(A) states that in cases in which a
debtor is proceeding pro se, a reaffirmation agreement is only enforceable if "the
court approves such agreement as (1) not imposing an undue hardship on the
debtor or a dependent of the debtor; and (2) in the best interest of the debtor."17
In addition, § 524(d) requires that the court conduct a hearing to inform the
debtor that the agreement is not required under any law or prior agreement
between the parties and to advise the debtor of the legal effect and consequences
16 11 U.S.C. § 524(m)(2).
17 11 U.S.C. § 524(c)(6)(A).
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of the reaffirmation agreement and any default under the agreement.18 At that
hearing, the court is also required to determine whether the agreement complies
with the requirements of § 524(c)(6).19 Unlike the requirements of § 524(m)(1),
which do not apply to debts owed to credit unions, the only exception to the
requirements of § 524(c)(6) are reaffirmation agreements where the debt is a
consumer debt secured by real property.20
The Court had the authority to disapprove the reaffirmation
Ms. Cooper is proceeding pro se and was not represented by an attorney
in the course of negotiating the reaffirmation agreement with United. Therefore,
pursuant to § 524(d), I was required to conduct a hearing to inform Ms. Cooper
of the legal effect and consequences of the agreement and to inform her that she
was not required by any law or prior agreement with United to sign the
reaffirmation agreement. Furthermore, because the reaffirmed debt in this case
was not secured by real estate, § 524(d)(2) required me to determine whether the
reaffirmation agreement would impose an undue hardship on her and whether
it was in her best interest.
18 11 U.S.C. § 524(d)(1).
19 11 U.S.C. § 524(d)(2). It is the practice of this Court to enter an order either"Approving" or "Not Approving" a reaffirmation agreement in cases where the debtor isproceeding pro se.
20 11 U.S.C. §§ 524(c)(6)(B) and (d)(2).
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At the conclusion of the hearing, I found it was not in Ms. Cooper's best
interest to reaffirm the debt. I thus entered an order not approving the
reaffirmation agreement. I based my conclusion that entering into this
agreement was not in Ms. Cooper's best interest for several reasons—including
the fact that vehicles are typically a depreciating asset, and there is very little,
if any, equity in the collateral to protect her in the event she had any
interruption in income over the remaining life of the loan, or any unexpected
expenses. I am always concerned, especially in the face of depreciating assets,
that a debtor might face a deficiency judgment in the event of an unexpected
reduction in income or increase in expenses. In addition, Ms. Cooper did not
receive any tangible benefit from entering into the agreement to offset the risks
of maintaining personal liability, such as a reduced principal or interest on the
debt, or a lowering of the payments.
Another factor I considered was Ms. Cooper's $629 per month reduction
in income between the time she filed her petition and the time she entered into
the reaffirmation agreement—over a 25% decrease in income. To make the
reaffirmation "work," Ms. Cooper also indicated that her monthly expenses had
rather magically decreased by over $750 per month—nearly a 40%
reduction—between the time of filing her petition and the filing of the
reaffirmation agreement. The only explanation Ms. Cooper provided for this
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drastic reduction in expenses—which was necessary if the paperwork was to
show she could "afford" this reaffirmed debt—is that "much of the debt has been
taken care of in the bankruptcy."
A review of Schedule J, which lists Ms. Cooper's expenses on the date of
filing, however, shows that very few, if any, of the expenses listed would be
eliminated by the discharge she will receive. For example, Ms. Cooper's expenses
for rent, utilities, food, clothing, transportation, and health insurance would
likely be unaffected by her bankruptcy filing. Those essential expenses, when
combined with the payments required by the reaffirmation agreement on her
vehicle, exceed her current monthly income—and this does not account for
additional expenses most people have, such as medical and dental expenses not
covered by insurance.21 Based on the information available, I found—and
continue to find—that it is not in Ms. Cooper's best interest to commit to the
retention of personal liability this reaffirmation agreement would require.22
United filed its motion for reconsideration, claiming only that "[i]t appears
that per 11 U.S.C. § 524(m)(2), the Court may not have the authority to make
21 At the hearing on this matter, I asked Ms. Cooper how she had been able to reduceher monthly living expenses by over $750 each month—as she claimed in the reaffirmationagreement. Ms. Cooper was able to explain how her expenses had decreased to some degree,
but she was unable to offer any explanation for approximately $345 in alleged monthly savings.
22 I did advise Ms. Cooper that in my experience, most creditors with depreciatingcollateral seem to prefer to receive timely monthly payments rather than the return of thecollateral, and that the Code permits debtors to voluntarily repay any debt, as § 524(f) clarifies.
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the ruling set out in the Order entered February 9, 2012." United states that
"[t]he court should consider the impact of 11 U.S.C. § 524(m)(2), in reviewing the
court's decision." Its one page motion simply fails to mention, let alone analyze,
the rest of § 524; it also fails to cite a single case in support of its position.
While § 524(m)(2) is pertinent, because United is a credit union, I disagree
that § 524(m)(2) required a different result in this case. Section 524(m)(2)—by
its own terms—applies only to eliminate the protections afforded a debtor under
§ 524(m)(1). I did not rely on § 524(m)(1) when deciding to not approve Ms.
Cooper's reaffirmation agreement. Instead, I relied on the duties and
responsibilities required of me under §§ 524(c)(6) and 524(d)(2).
The requirements of § 524(c)(6) operate wholly independently of the
requirements of § 524(m)(1), and are not affected by the provisions of §
524(m)(2). The only exception to the requirements of § 524(c)(6) is if the debt is
a consumer debt that is secured by real estate. Obviously that is not the
situation here.
Section 524(c)(6) is an important part of the overall protections afforded
by Congress to pro se debtors who are seeking to reaffirm debts with any
creditor, including credit unions. I do not think it was merely an oversight by
Congress. In fact, Congress required that the disclosures mandated in every
reaffirmation include these sentences: "If you were not represented by an
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attorney during the negotiation of your reaffirmation agreements, it will not be
effective unless the court approves it. . . . The bankruptcy court must approve
your reaffirmation agreement as consistent with your best interests [unless debt
secures real property]."23 Nothing in the statutorily mandated disclosures
excepts reaffirmation agreements with credit unions.
In cases in which a debtor is represented by an attorney, the attorney
serves the role of counselor and gatekeeper to ensure the debtor is only giving
up a portion of the debtor's fresh start when it is in the debtor's best interest to
do so. Although Congress was willing to eliminate, pursuant to § 524(m)(2), the
protection judicial oversight affords represented debtors who do business with
credit unions because of the critical role the attorney serves in advising the
23 11 U.S.C. § 524(k)(3)(J)(i)(7). See In re Ong, 461 B.R. 559, 563 (9th Cir. BAP 2011)
(distinguishing between represented and unrepresented debtors when determining whetherBankruptcy Code provides for independent court review of reaffirmation agreements withcredit unions); In re Obmann, 2011 WL 7145760 (9th Cir. BAP 2011) (holding that becausedebtors were pro se, "the bankruptcy court was required to decide whether the Reaffirmationimposed an undue hardship and was in their best interest" despite the fact the agreement wasentered into with a credit union); In re Grisham, 436 B.R. 896, 905 n.6 (Bankr. N.D. Tex. 2010)
(recognizing if no attorney is involved and personal property is involved, the court must set ahearing to consider whether reaffirmation with credit union is in debtors' best interest); In re
Morton, 410 B.R. 556. 562-63 (6th Cir. BAP 2009) (noting that the court's review ofreaffirmation agreements to see whether the agreement is in the debtor's best interest islimited to cases involving pro se debtors if the creditor is a credit union); In re Huskinson, 2008
WL 2388113 at n.7 (Bankr. N.D. Ohio 2008) (holding that unrepresented debtors can beprevented from entering into financially unsound agreements with credit unions, citing §
524(c)(6)); In re Moustafi, 371 B.R. 434, 438 (Bankr. D. Ariz. 2007) (declining to approve areaffirmation agreement with a credit union where it was not in the debtor's best interest); In
re Hoffman, 358 B.R. 839, 843 (Bankr. W.D. Va. 2006) (holding that court is required todetermine whether reaffirmation agreement between unrepresented debtor and Salem FederalCredit Union was in debtors' best interest).
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debtor, it recognized that judicial oversight was still important for
unrepresented debtors. When no attorney is present to advise and negotiate the
best terms possible on behalf of a debtor, § 524(c)(6) requires the Court step in
and essentially perform the role of counsel to ensure that the debtor is fully
educated about the effect and consequences of a reaffirmation agreement, and
that the debtor's best interest is being protected. And that responsibility exists
to unrepresented debtors regardless the identity of the creditor; in other words,
regardless if the creditor is a credit union.24
IV. Conclusion
United's motion for reconsideration must be denied. Contrary to the
assumptions made by United in suggesting that § 524(m)(2) forbids the Court
from declining to approve a reaffirmation agreement based upon a determination
that the agreement was not in Ms. Cooper's best interest pursuant to § 524(c)(6),
the Court was required to perform the analysis.
It is, therefore, by the Court ordered that the Motion to Reconsider
Order Not Approving Reaffirmation Agreement is denied.25
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24 See In re Reed, 403 B.R. 102, 105 (Bankr. N.D. Okla. 2009) (noting that therequirements of § 524(c)(6) "represent an attempt to insure that a debtor does notimprovidently enter into reaffirmation agreements, and that the vitality of a debtor's 'freshstart' is preserved").
25 Doc. 43.
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Consequently, Dexter grows up to be a serial killer who, by the way, works with the Miami Police Department. He accrues dozens of kills over many years and gets away with every one. While he does make mistakes occasionally, this is a character who has absolutely perfected the art of getting away with murder.
Why This Is Bullshit:
The rules to which Dexter so strictly adheres aren't actually saving him; it's the complete and utter incompetence of the police that allows him the freedom to run around cutting up bad guys. If we look at even the easiest and cleanest of Dexter's kills, he still leaves himself exposed in a handful of ways. To begin, he relies on technology to track his targets; he downloads an absurd amount of protected information from police databases, and in the case of one of the show's most memorable bad guys (the "Trinity Killer," played by a sometimes-naked John Lithgow), Dexter talks to him several times on his cellphone before killing him. Apparently the Miami police don't bother checking up on the phone records when someone disappears.
We like to imagine that the priest from Footloose finally snapped.
Even more troubling is Dexter's incredibly elaborate, time-consuming and evidence-generating method of killing. He doesn't walk up to his victims in an alley and stab them in a way that could be mistaken for a random mugging. He prepares a ritualistic "murder room" full of artifacts from the killer's victims, and covers the walls and surfaces with plastic to prevent any DNA evidence from getting anywhere. He injects his victims with some kind of sedative so he can strap them down.
It's a huge pile of evidence that would nail him if any of it was ever connected to him, either before or after the fact. By covering entire rooms with the plastic, that means he's buying yards and yards of it for each kill. There's a hardware store clerk somewhere who watches a guy buying spools of plastic, face guards, gloves and aprons every week and says nothing about it. He's buying a powerful, injectable sedative from somewhere. Even Dexter's bank is complicit by completely ignoring his charges, which include everything previously mentioned, plus all the knives and instruments of torture he's bought over the years. He's stealing the victim photos, or making copies -- each picture having a direct link to the guy he killed.
"Mr. Morgan, care to explain these charges to 'Injectable Paralytic Agents 'R' Us'?"
And he has to be storing all of this stuff somewhere when he's not using it. Even if it's a storage locker under somebody else's name, he does this so often that there's no way he hasn't been seen coming and going dozens of times.
And once he's done with the kill, now comes the hard part: He has to dispose of all of that stuff. He can't just throw it in a dumpster when it's soaked with forensic evidence. Even if he's bundling them up in garbage bags with the bodies and dumping them into the ocean, those tarps are probably taking up more room than the victims. That means he'd have a lot more trash bags than just the six or seven we usually see him throwing overboard.
"That's it. I need to start composting this shit."
Finally, he's killing most of his victims in the worst possible places. Symbolism is important to Dexter; it's all about the ritual. So, in the final episode of Season 1, he drags his own brother (also a serial killer) to the same place he committed all his murders, which, incidentally, is also an active crime scene. The police know this man is on the loose and that he had murdered heaps of his victims in that very place. The fact that there aren't officers there the entire time that it takes Dexter to drain the blood out of his brother means that the homicide detectives in Miami are abysmal at their jobs.
#4. George Costanza in Seinfeld Is a Lonely Loser Who Has Had More Girls Than Any of Us
A conceit of most television shows is that even the most awkward, neurotic, unlucky-in-love characters are still pretty attractive. But Seinfeld makes no pretenses about George Costanza; he's a short, overweight, bald man who's awkward, cowardly and terrible with women.
He's like looking into a sweaty mirror.
In fact, entire episodes are devoted to his horrible luck with relationships and his inability to get a date. He's constantly complaining that women don't like him, and none of his friends disagree. At one point, he takes to wearing sweatpants in public to specifically display that he has "given up" on ever being attractive enough to land a woman.
Why This Is Bullshit:
George Costanza gets a ridiculous amount of action. Over the course of the show, he has 43 girlfriends.
We might believe this scene, if it was ever revealed that George had an 11-inch prehensile tongue.
To give you some context, the average number of sexual partners most men have in a lifetime is seven. George's relationships blow the national statistics out of the water. His girlfriends aren't ugly, either. He manages to hook up with successful women, models and at one point Marisa Tomei. Not an actress playing Marisa Tomei, Marisa Tomei as herself.
Being punched by this woman is a healthier relationship than any of us will ever know.
And it's not like these are blind dates. The women genuinely like him. Even though he's emotionally abusive and borderline crazy, they just want him more. He can only chase them away by doing truly disgusting things, like combining sex, food and television. If George Costanza is bad with women, then every man who's not named Wilt Chamberlain has a lot of catching up to do.
Oh George, a smartphone and a Bluetooth headset would have saved you from so many breakups.
#3. Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Wants to Be "Normal"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer revolves around a high school student who discovers she's actually a superhero destined to protect the earth against demons, ghosts and vampires with swollen eyebrows. And she hates it.
The splinters are the worst part.
She's a reluctant hero who openly resents her abilities because they have stripped her of the chance of ever living a normal life, and because teenagers hate responsibility. In fact, she almost turns her back on her duties at the end of Season 1 and tries to run away at the end of Season 2 to escape the pressure of killing evil shit all the time.
Even by the final season, she's still complaining about how miserable it is. She tries to give an inspiring speech to a new group of vampire hunters, and instead it comes out as "I hate this. I hate being here. I hate that you have to be here. I hate that there's evil, and that I was chosen to fight it. I wish, a whole lot of the time, that I hadn't been." The point being, her powers are a curse, forcing her to save the world when all she wants is to be a regular girl.
Personally, we'd take fighting vampires over student loans and car payments. But whatever.
Why This Is Bullshit:
What's a "normal life" in the Buffy universe? How does she even have a concept of what normal is? Keep in mind, it's not like the demons only reveal themselves to her because she's a slayer, and everyone else gets to spend Saturday at the mall. The demons are real for everyone -- Sunnydale is a war zone. The only difference is that everyone else is helpless and she isn't.
"If only I could die screaming instead of kicking 17 kinds of ass."
Over seven seasons, we see enough bodies pile up in that town to know that the idea of normalcy doesn't exist for anyone. The show is set in a horrifying universe where every day, "normal" people have to worry about their organs being harvested, getting eviscerated by She-Mantises or being eaten by bullies possessed by demonic hyenas. Well over 10 students and faculty die every season at Sunnydale High School, and 100 percent of those deaths are murder by some supernatural creature. Being "normal" means being a vulnerable hunk of meat just burning time before getting eaten by a demon.
Buffy hasn't sacrificed her life for her powers; her powers are the only thing ensuring that she has a life. She is one of the few people capable of even stepping foot outside her house at night without having to worry about something crawling out of hell and planting eggs in her chest.
Or, y'know, wherever She-Mantises plant their eggs.


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Thanks I really needed this reminder. Cause my laziness has caused me to lose alot of money on the road. I spend more money on the road buying food than my wife and at one time two kids.
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- This driver always makes time to mentor the next generation — whether at home or on the road
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In trucking, cash is king. And running out of cash before running out of month can create major problems for a trucker who's many miles from home.
But living on the road means that many truckers have duplicate expenses. They buy groceries, pay utility bills and mortgage or rent at home. On the road they have anti-idle technology installed in the truck, may pay for lodging or for parking, or a combination of all of these. Groceries are either food purchased that you prepare in the truck, or eating in the restaurants along the road, again duplicating a home expense. So it's crucial for a trucker to manage money wisely.
Buy, buy love
Many drivers unwittingly "nickel and dime" their way out of cash.
Let me suggest the carpenter's method of cash control. No, I don't mean nailing your wallet shut. What I'm suggesting is something every carpenter is taught: "Measure twice, cut once, to avoid making a mistake and having a board end up either too long or too short."
Using the same theory for purchasing an item, you should think twice before you spend once. Ask two questions: Do I really need this item? Is this something I want only because I'm standing here and it's available? Challenge yourself as to whether this is an impulse purchase or something really necessary. In other words, justify your purchase.
Combine this with tracking every single personal purchase in a pocket notebook. Write down the date, item purchased and amount paid on everything you buy, whether you use the cash in your pocket or a debit card. From a pack of gum to cigarettes, sodas, music, movies, meals, snacks. Literally, anything you buy for cash gets written down. At the end of each week go back over the list and place an "N" for Needed or a "W" for Wanted next to each purchase. Add up all the W's, multiply by 52 and you have a clear look at your potential savings if you make an effort to limit "wants" and only purchase the needs.
Finally, every trucker needs to have their own personal spending guidelines. This is a method of establishing the amount of cash you will have available over a one-month period, and then dividing it up according to anticipated needs.
Within those spending guidelines, you must establish an Emergency Fund. It must have a predetermined amount added to it each week, plus any excess unspent cash from any category. This will be the money set aside for unexpected events — such as a family emergency that requires you to fly home or any multitude of other crisis-mode occurrences that can happen on the road.
Budget benefits
By combining the carpenter's cash control method, tracking personal cash expenditures, and setting and adhering to specific personal spending guidelines, you will control and manage your money.
And as a wise man once said, "A rich man who spends his money carelessly will become a poor man. However, a poor man who manages his money wisely can become wealthy."
Every trucker should establish Personal Spending Guidelines
Step 1: Establish different categories: Meals and Snacks; Personal Items (soap, shampoo, razors, laundry money), Entertainment, Lodging and Parking, Gifts, and Emergency Fund.
Step 2: Get an accordion-file check organizer and label the tabs with each of the categories.
Step 3: Determine how much money you need for the most important things such as Meals, Lodging, and Personal Items each week. Then, see how much of your spendable cash is left and divide it equally between Entertainment, Gifts and Emergency Fund. Place the decided-upon amounts into each of the categories in the organizer.
Step 4: Remove only one-seventh of the amount available in Meals and Snacks each day to purchase your meals.
Step 5: You cannot spend more money in any one category each week than is in its respective pocket in the organizer. The only exception to this rule is your Emergency Fund, which should be untouched until you have a real emergency and need to take care of it.


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I've never been a big go-to-the-movies person.
The last one I went to was in 2004. Better Half and I went with a group from church on Ash Wednesday that year to see Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," a powerful film I had trouble watching but not trouble believing.
So that was nine years ago that I actually bought a ticket and went to a movie theater and watched a newly released production in the company of a bunch of other people.
Before that, it was "Forrest Gump" in 1994.
Notice a pattern here?
That being said, I can't claim to have any strong opinions about the films up for an Academy Award tonight because I have yet to see any of them, but I usually tune in just the same.
What the heck - I like to watch all the buff and beautiful actors and their significant others walk the red carpet, stop and swirl and have their pictures taken a gazillion times. I'm always more than a little curious to see what the women are wearing and how they have their hair fixed. I'm assuming they give this some thought, the same way women fret about what to wear to a class reunion. Or maybe not.
As for the awards show itself, there are things I like about it and things I don't.
I look forward to acceptance speeches only in the hopes that someone will find a unique, clever way to say thank-you and that brevity will prevail in the process.
I feel more than a little sad when there's the part paying tribute to actors who passed away since the previous year's show.
How well I like the show hinges on how good the host is.
Billy Crystal is a pretty tough act to follow in my book. I still remember the year he came out at the beginning, wheeled on stage as the masked, confined Hannibal Lecter character portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in "The Silence of the Lambs."
As for the food, I'd like to know what they have for dinner at these events. My guess is it's not rigatoni or chicken.
So, yes, I'll tune in to the Oscars because I do like movies for the entertainment and the education, for their comedy and their candor.
Even though I may not see new movies right away, I realize they can have a big impact on our lives.
Let's face it, I haven't gone boldly into the ocean since I saw "Jaws."
And if it weren't for movies, I'd be short on appropriate responses at appropriate times, including when Better Half says it's his turn to make dinner.
That's my cue for the Clint Eastwood/Harry Callahan classic: "Go ahead, make my day."
Or if I cook, and the meal falls short in the rave reviews department, not to worry.
"Frankly, my dear " so goes the Clark Gable/Rhett Butler line from "Gone With The Wind."
A good luck wish, by the way, goes out to Rick Witkowski of Studio L in Weirton. "Inocente" is up for an Academy Award in the best documentary short subject category. Witkowski was involved in the score for the film.
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I'm an aspiring physicist who wants to self study some Quantum Physics. My thirst for knowledge is unquenchable and I can not wait 2 more years until I get my first quantum physics class in university, so I want to start with a self study. I am enrolled in a grammar school and the most gifted among the gifted (not my description, mind you, I hate coming off as cocky, sorry) are enrolled in a special 'project'. We are allowed to take 3 school hours a week off in order to work on a project, which can be about anything you want, from music to mathematics. On the 4th of April we have to present our projects. Last year an acquaintance of mine did it about university level mathematics, so I thought, why not do it about university level physics? It is now the 3rd of October so I have half a year. My question is, where can I conduct a self study of quantum physics? Starting from scratch? And is it possible for me to be able to use and understand the Schrödinger equation by April? What are good books, sites, etc. that can help me? My goal is to have a working knowledge of BASIC quantum physics and I would like to understand and be able to use the Schrödinger equation. Is this possible? What is needed for these goals?
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Just pick up Dirac's book "The Principles of Quantum Mechanics" and read it in conjunction with "The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol III". Don't waste time with linear algebra, the entire content of the undergraduate courses can be learned in half a day. Don't worry about the infinite dimensional nature of the thing, just reduce all the spaces to finite dimensions.
Also, be aware that "gifted" is a political label that has nothing to do with you, it's just a way for schools to segregate students by their future social class. It's not the analog of special needs, because the students in gifted classes are no different from the students in usual classes, except that they are given a slightly better education. Don't be fooled by a label into thinking you are somehow special, everyone is ordinary, including Einstein and Dirac. One has to do good work despite this, and those folks show it is possible by assiduous effort.
Without having understood matrices and their interpretation as linear mappings (operators) it is very difficult to get a reasonable understanding of quantum mechanics. So you should spend some time on elementary linear algebra. Wikipedia is not bad on this, so you could pick up most from there. (To start with. For basic math, Wikipedia is almost completely reliable, which is not the case for more specialized topics. In case of doubt, cross check with other sources.)
Today, the shortest road to quantum mechanics is probably quantum information theory. For online introductory lecture notes see, e.g.,
In quantum information theory, all Hilbert spaces are finite-dimensional, wave functions are just complex vectors, and the Schroedinger equation is just a linear differential equation with constant coefficients. So you also need to learn a little bit about ordinary differential equations and how linear systems behave. Again, this can be picked up from Wikipedia.
In more traditional quantum mechanics, the Schroedinger equation is a partial differential equations, and wave functions are complex function depending on one or more position coordiates. On this level, you need to understand what partial derivatives are and have some knowledge about Fourier transforms.
Again, this can be picked up from Wikipedia. Then you might start with
You may also wish to try my online book http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0810.1019
If you want to understand quantum physics, you have to understand Fourier series and Fourier transforms. The best introductory text ever, is the book Who Is Fourier?. Do not be fooled by its cartoonish appearance, this is a serious book as can be demonstrated by the fact that the name on the top of the list of advisers is Yoichiro Nambu who is the 2008 Nobel prize co-winner:
Then I would work to gain an understanding of the Heat Equation. The Schrodinger equation can be described as the quantum version of the heat equation (except, what is diffusing is probability).
Fourier developed the Fourier series in order to solve the question of how heat diffuses in a material. If you understand these things, you can understand quantum mechanics within a few months.


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I have been having an overheating issue which makes my laptop shutdown immediately. Is there anyway to monitor the temperature from the sensor and scale down the CPU frequency to avoid that problem? Is there any existing software or shell script that can handle that job?
You should have a look at
There are such tools, but you should look into blowing dust out of your laptop cooler heatsink instead. If that doesn't help you might want to examine/replace thermal grease under heatsink or ultimately bring your laptop to authorized service.
Note: disassembling a typical laptop might be not a trivial task, but instructions can be found on the web rather easily. Consult your warranty card before disassembling!


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Apparently I am so happy with a GMs service that I need to tell Blizzard to get the guy a soda and a pizza.
So I was thinking, who would like to buy one and go drop it off?
Maybe it's a good opportunity for Ixobelle to get past the front gates… Just add a few CVs into the pizza box Ixo!
Mind you it took a while before I was visited by Cherigor, about 20 hours. Which I guess explains why I have never before had an in-game encounter with a GM. I am sure they were busy.. I doubt Cherigor was pushing me down the list or anything… I don't think he realized I had a Gnome main at that point.
DND: Go on give me a challenge!
I had just started on a Nexus run when the Deadly Boss Mods DND message flashed up.
He asked if it was a bad time…
I'm only healing I responded.
Earth Shield, Riptide, Chat to GM.
I did have to get the party to give me a minute while I went in search of a screenshot, but apart from that my conversation was wipe free.
Wipe free, but not laugh free.
I've read enough silly GM stories to know these folk have a great sense of humor, so I wasn't going to let him go without some fun.
I can't dance, sing or recite poetry but I can and do blog, so I made sure Cherigor knew that he was getting a mention… I must admit I didn't expect the response I got…
I guess it is no surprise, everyone likes a bit of Gnome at the end of their boot, it's even built into the game!
I wonder if it is Gnomeicular Vehicleslaughter if you achieve this while playing a Gnome?
Cherigor fixed up my issue pretty quickly, the not-master-looted-and-rotting-on-the-bosses-body-item was sent in the mail.
He only had one last question for me…
Might there be anything else I may be of assistance with tonight?
Didn't take me long to think of something…
Can you send my legendary Gnome Mage item please?
Apparently I am a little further back in the queue…
Ahh well, at least I had a good time, something to distract me from my Earth Shield-Riptide non-spam.
So if anyone is in the area, or thinking about dropping by Blizzard, make sure you drop off a beer soda and a pizza for Cherigor.
VoA Away!
Ohhh BTW, completely off topic, only tenuously linked by the location the item dropped (that required a support call).
I have now healed VoA25 and VoA10.
VoA25: Apart from the nearly lost item in VoA, nothing to report.
The VoA 10 run was preceded with me waiting LFG. I was doing other stuff, but I was amused by the Raid Leader spamming asking for people for a VoA10 run.
I was already in the "queue" for VoA10, so I was in no rush to answer his call.
The call was of course for a GEARED player who links achievements. In fact he was specifically looking for a Resto Shaman.
Anyway I thought I would just wait and see. I knew my presence was obvious and I wondered how long it would take before he asked me personally.
It took about 1/2 hour of spamming LFG, Trade and General before he asked me personally.
I'm geared and experienced, but that's none of your business!
I told him my spellpower and that I didn't have VoA10 achievement. I had however done in several times on my main as well as VoA25 on Squidly.
Apparently that was good enough for him, although the other healer did ask if I had my Resto gear on.
In the end we got all the bosses down without any issues. I only did 38% of the healing whereas the geared Tree healer did 58%. Mind you my overhealing was only 15% compared to his 75%.
Like HoL the other day, the big take away is that I can do VoA. I also know that I was MT healing and group healing in Naxx10 the other day (as in, I am not sure what the priest was doing, but I decided it would be easier if I just covered the whole raid).
I dare say it can only get better, once I remember where my other heals are keybound.
Just because I deprived you yesterday I am going to keep on writing.
I was sick yesterday so I didn't post. Actually i have been sick all week. People at work told me it was just hayfever, but after spending most of the weekend in bed and sleeping for 14 hours last night… I don't think so.
So rather than chewing out another post, I will just keep tacking on the end of this one.
I love Wintergrasp, but the wait feels like a doctor's office.
Armageddon's Coming Guild doubles in size!
I got a few new recruits over the weekend, you might know their names (or varients thereof).
Matticus dropped by at my insistence.
We had one of those annoying little level 1 Rogues jumping about… I felt like giving him a backhander when he challenged me to a duel (just as I did with OOMaggedon), but Matticus told him we were doing a drug deal…
Heeey Maaaan… I need pixels… got any pixels?
I told the fool rogue that he was in the presence of the old gods.. he thought were were there to raid… Raid Dun Morogh? I should have told him we were send by his mother to tell him it was bed time… maybe I will next time.
Recruiting on the Twisted Nether
I opened up recruiting while the latest TNB was being recorded. It was an interesting one. As usual those that didn't join the live chat missed out on a lot of stuff (apart from my guild recruitment). I sort of get another mention… well without giving too much away, you will get to hear about my Convict past… maybe present and we all now have a new way of saying goodbye.
Anyway, Syrana made her way Downunder specially to met me.
We did a bit of cyber… she was amazed at the size of my… ummm.. staff.
As an added bonus she got a piece of pie.
Pie wanted us to get a room… but if Ironforge can't handle 2 Gnomes mating… I don't know what can.
Pie brought me up to speed on the other Hordies… Lily is keeping Sylus occupied, and Fikkle has a new hunter's pet in training, which is apparently tearing up the house and giving him all sorts of Poo Quests… Sounds like both Sylus and Fikkle have their hands full… lucky that WoW prepared them so well with all the poo quests.
The Best Kind of Nightclubs
Jong is bringing us up to speed on the best kind of night clubs. While I was reading through I noted he was coping from flack from a Troll… some guy called an-TEE-jen, who has a big mace and will raid. I went there to stick up for Jong only to realize that I kinda like this guy… He might gain enough respect for me to call him AN-teh-jen. Great mix of WoW and non-Wow… actually even the non-Wow weaves itself back to WoW. The Attitude isn't quite as strong as Jong's, but there is still great potential.
So as they say on TNB…
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!
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Often in physics, Objects are approximated as spherical. However do any perfectly spherical objects actually exist in nature?
No, but it doesn't matter.
The theories that approximate things using spheres are ones in which the final result (the number you measure, the reading on your meter, whatever) depends continuously in some sense on the deviations from sphericity. More symbolically, for any $\varepsilon$ tolerance you allow in your measurement (none of our measurements are infinitely precise), there exists a $\delta$ such that any real object "within $\delta$" of being a sphere will give the same measurement to within $\varepsilon$.
It is not that theories are invalid because they assume something "wrong" about nature. Instead, you have to understand that there is always an implicit statement about how "real" behavior approaches the model as deviations from the model's assumptions get smaller.
If we are considering the states of matter we are familiar with (fermions), since these structures are inherently discretized (solids, liquids, gases), they will not exhibit perfect spherical symmetry.
We can loosen the definition of perfect and construct a cutoff where variations in the radius are negligible below some length scale and call that perfect.
Replying to wouter, the black hole will have an event horizon that is spherical if and only if the black hole has zero angular momentum. It ultimately depends on the interpretation of Cactus' question about what an "object" constitutes and if an event horizon is considered a valid answer.
I suppose it depends on how perfect your perfect sphere is.
A drop of water in space with no other gravity effects would look spherical, but if you zoomed in enough to see edges of molecules, then it wouldn't be.
From there you can just keep getting smaller (atoms, protons and neutrons, quarks, etc.) until you get into things like string theorem and quantum foam.
I would say no, like straight lines, there will not be a perfect spherical physical object in the natural world.
The other answers highlight the importance of a model vs observations, but we do have plenty of very, very spherical objects, as far as experimental measurements go. I only know of this through the excellent sixty symbols video on the topic, but the electron's distribution of charge has a dipole moment of less than $10^{-28}$ C m, which is pretty dang spherical.
See also: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110525/full/news.2011.321.html
Yes, with a couple of qualifiers. For example, a perfectly isolated 4He atom in its ground state is a perfect sphere according to the standard model of particle physics. This follows because the nucleus is in a spin-zero state, and the electrons also couple to spin zero. In quantum mechanics, a spin of zero is invariant under a rotation, which means that it's a perfect sphere.
There were, however, some qualifiers above. (1) The atom has to be perfectly isolated. In reality, we can't completely shield any region of space from electric, magnetic, and gravitational fields, so at some level these will cause the atom to be distorted. (2) This is according to the standard model, which we know breaks down at some level.
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Individual and relay finishers were Ashtyn Cowling in sixth in the shot put, Morgan Combs in first in the long jump, Combs in fifth in the discus, Lexi Wheeler in fourth in the 100-meter hurdles and a fourth place finish in the 400-meter relay, Madison Wenzel in third in the 400-meter run, Breona Owens in third and Abby Vaughan in fifth in the 1600-meter run, a first place finish in the eighth grade 800-meter relay, Janes Smith in first in the seventh grade 100-meter run, Eva Ochs in fourth and Carrie Blankenberger in sixth in the 800-meter run, Smith in fourth in the 200-meter run and a first place finish in the 1600-meter relay.
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Can you divide one square paper into five equal squares? You have a scissor and glue. You can measure and cut and then attach as well. Only condition is You can't waste any paper.
The Wallace-Bolyai-Gerwien Theorem theorem says:
Any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable
(where simple means no self intersections and equidecomposable means finitely cut and glued).
For your problem you can take the first polygon to be a unit square and the second to be a sqrt(5) by 1/sqrt(5) rectangle and apply this theorem. Then perform the remaining four cuts.
Also, the generalisation of your question is the 2d analogue of Hilbert's 3rd Problem which asks whether given any two polyhedra with equal volume can one be finitely cut and glued into the other. The answer here, unlike in the 2d case, is "no" which was proved by Dehn using Dehn invariants in 1900.
Cut from (0,0) to (1,1/2), and from (0,1/2) to (1,1). We can glue these three pieces together to get a ring with circumference $\sqrt 5$ and height $\sqrt 5 / 5$. Now it's easy!
Since $1+2i$ has length $\sqrt5$, you can lift a square fundamental domain of $\mathbb C/\mathbb Z[i]$ to $\mathbb C/(1+2i)\mathbb Z[i]$. Overlay a square fundamental domain for the larger torus to get a way to divide a square into 5 smaller squares.
It's pretty easy to decompose any rectangle into a square geometrically, but the general decomposition is not as nice.
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Class for 2012-02-20
We took a look at a page containing every currently valid HTML element. Many of them are considered "HTML5", but that's just because they're new.
Class for 2012-02-13
We added to the site from last class and added a sign-up form with validation to it.
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We added to the site from last class and added modals/submenus to it.
Class for 2012-01-30
We worked off of this mockup and the annotated version. Assets were found here.
We took all of this and turned it into this site.
Class for 2012-01-23
I made accounts on my web hosting, but I suggested students get web hosting space at NearlyFreeSpeech.Net, which will set you up with a pay-as-you-go site. It's free until you start getting a significant amount of traffic.
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Class for 2012-01-16
Highly-commented source for the slideshow and Twitter client we worked on.
Class for 2011-12-19
We modified this document to become an interactive web application: download the full web application here.
Class for 2011-12-12
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What's the meaning of にあたって/にあたり? How can I translate it?
For example, how can I translate it in these sentences:
What's the meaning of にあたって/にあたり? How can I translate it?
For example, how can I translate it in these sentences:
I think you can use ~にあたって and ~にあたり interchangeably in most cases. I think both can mean "on the occasion of; at this time of; upon doing~~". (~にあたり sounds more formal than ~にあたって to me.)
*The 注意をする means "to give (someone) advice/warning". --> See goo辞書「注意」#3
By the way, にあたり/にあたって can follow a noun, as well as a verb:
I think they can also be replaced with に際し/に際して:
(As an aside, I think 「~~(する)にあたりまして/際しまして・・・」 is preferred in a formal speech.)
matreya is correct. にあたって could be replaced in the above sentences by とき 'toki' meaning "time", and hence "when". The construction is grammaticalized from the case marker に plus a form of the verb あたる 'hit.intransitive'. For instance as in
矢は的にあたった。 The arrow hit the target.
The argument marked here with に is a directional complement of the verb. That the construction にあたって is grammaticalized can be verified by the inability to pause between the case marker and the verb. In my example, pausing is possible between the directional complement and the verb, hence the verb is fully lexical there. This construction belongs to a class of case marker-verb constructions that have become grammaticalized constructions. Other such constructions are にとって 'for', として 'as', or において 'in, at'. One should also keep in mind that にあたって belongs to a more formal register of speech, much as において. にとって and として, however, are widely used in spoken Japanese.


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