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Evangelicals and Catholics Together?
Here is an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i42/42b00601.htm, witten by the distinguished Barnard historian of religion Randall Balmer, on what he would say if invited back to Wheaton College to speak at its convocation. Balmer is a cradle evangelical Protestant, whose anguish at what he perceives to be the hijacking of his religion for Republican political ends permeates the article.
It seems to me that some Catholics feel an analogous anguish.
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Cathleen Kaveny is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor in the Theology Department and Law School at Boston College.
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It's struck me for some time that on the question of religion and politics, some of the young Turks among the bishops are more evangelical than Catholic, that is, seem to believe in the possibility of moving directly from the Scriptures (or from the Code of Canon Law) to a concrete social or political duty, without making use, they may think, of any mediating reflection or discourse. It's such a departure from Catholic method in our social doctrine.Peter Steinfels article in today's NY Times has a good discussion of the conclusions presented at the recent Bishops' meeting on the matter. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/us/24beliefs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
On the subject of Evangelicals and the attitude of the hierarchy towards Catholic politicians there seems to be many 'nuances', a word that Cardinal Levada is fond of using.One sees how Benedict XVI seems to be reaching out to Evangelicals and how Levada, the head of the CDF is seeking a more practical solution on Catholic politicians and church teaching. His resolution of the San Francisco health crisis with reference to gays was admirable.So there are bishops who are "young Turks" and Evangelicals who are "rogues associated with the religious right." I suppose these are the folk who make dialogue difficult. Yet how responsible is Ratzinger and John Paul II for this problem.Richard McBrien, in a response to Timothy Radcliffe, writes that dialogue is impossible in the church because: "Conservative bishops (or what he (Radcliffe) would now refer to as Communion Catholics) hold a disproportionate amount of power that makes real brotherly and sisterly conversation impossible, for all practicalpurposes. And why is their power disproportionately greater than thelaity's and clergy's? Because the pattern of episcopal appointments during John Paul II's pontificate unduly favored candidates of adecidedly conservative frame of mind."Has it gotten to the point where Rome cannot control the vocal minority it created?BTW, I cannot fine the url for Obrien's talk. I think it was given at the LA conference for Corpus. If anyone wants I can send it or somebody can feature it.
Bill, there are two McBrien pieces on the Tidings website that deal with Radcliffes ideas and the issues you identify. I think the original McBrien/Radcliffe exchanges on an earlier version of the Radcliffe talk might also be available in the NCR archives. It is interesting to look at the way McBrien sorts out the situation in the Church in the light of Balmers picture of the situation among the Evangelicals.Demoralization in the Churchhttp://www.the-tidings.com/2006/0602/essays.htmSources of Demoralization in the Churchhttp://www.the-tidings.com/2006/0609/essays.htm
Balmer predicted that the immediate response of conservative Republican Protestants to his article would be prompt and vicious personal attacks. More specifically, he said that "the next approach will be some gratuitous personal attack: that I am a member of the academic elite, spokesman for the Northeastern establishment, misguided liberal, prodigal son, traitor to the faith, or some such." Alas, he is under personal attack also by conservative Republican Catholics. My colleague, Richard Garnett, has categorized Balmer's commentary as a "screed." http://www.mirrorofjustice.com/mirrorofjustice/2006/06/jesus_is_not_a_.h... says Balmer's writing "strikes me as smug, self-indulgent, and superficial. It's standard partisan hackery, top to bottom, but -- convenient for the Chronicle of Higher Education."I must say, I didn't have that impression at all. But read both pieces, and judge the tone of each for yourself .
Garnett's response shows irritation and and chiefly employs abuse. One might be inclined to respond in kind, but that temptation should certainly be resisted. I recall dimly a Monty Python skit about the difference between abuse and argument. But actually the difference is not one of nuance and anyone with a liberal education should not need to be reminded.I only know about "Evangelical Christians" as a quasi political category what I read in the press. I think liberal journalists tend to take a jaundiced view. Then one does hear some strange utterances from Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Billy Graham usually seemed to err in the direction of prudence. In short I know little about the people Balmer speaks of. It does appear that some "conservative" Catholics are easily irritated by disagreement.
I suppose one might be a bit skeptical of about the timing of Balmers piece in The Chronicle. After all, it is frankly offered as an up-front antidote to whatever poisoning of the well he expects from the religious right when his new book comes out. Still, we can judge for ourselves on that point when the reviews come out..But Cathy is right to direct our attention to the note of anguish in Balmers catalogue of woes that might touch a chord with Catholics who feel similarly under siege by conservative co-religionists and most especially an increasingly conservative hierarchy. Balmer seems to have little hope that his well-organized and powerful opponents will see the light any time soon, and yet he insists he is one of their own, isnt about to leave, and refuses to close the book on them. There is something familiar there.By turning the man who wrote the article into Balmer, an evangelical persona being used to add a certain freshness to a hackneyed script, Garnett manages to dismiss his message as just the strikingly uncharitable screed of an evangelical Christian. How exactly Balmers piece is also convenient for The Chronicle, Garnett doesnt say, but this remark seems just to be another way of writing Balmers criticism off because it comes from a tainted source. The really interesting thing here is that Garnett is instinctively following exactly the game plan Balmer predicted his religious right opponents would use.
To be fair there is a liberal contingent that, since the 60s, Barry Goldwater, Vatican Council and all, which has severely looked down on conservatives. If fact even with the conservatives playing catch up, our universities are overwhelmingly, despite Bob Jones and Falwell, liberal.Even Hans kung has pointed out that progressive's failure to be gentle with literal or fundamentalist Christians will cause a backlash. More so, when a liberal intervention starts to arbitrarily destroy some crucial institutions like marriage and the state.When liberals destroy without building they deserve a backlash.So the irony is that many times while liberals may have scholarship behind them they may have gone overboard in dismissing values which may be indispensable to society.The key to dialogue from the liberal perspective is to understand the dread fear of change in the fundamentalist mind. Liberals have to show where the change neither is a threat to faith nor stability.
Just a note on semantics: evangelicals are not the same as fundamentalists.The evangelicals I know are nondenominationals, leery of hierarchical churches in which legalism (fundamentalism) or intermediaries (like priests and popes) stand between the soul and its creator.They may tend toward literal interpretation of Scripture, like fundamentalists, and they may tend toward political conservatism. But they are less politically monolithic than fundamentalists, and less likely to push political agendas.The difference between the evangelicals and fundamentalists I know is this:The evangelicals will happily read Scripture with you and explore themes and possibilities, and will rejoice when you find common ground. Fundamentalists will simply tell you you're wrong.
Jean,Thanks for the helpful distinction. But of course I have a question. Do fundamentalists and evangelicals identify themselves as such according to your definitions? In other words will an evangelical say: I am not a fundamentalist, I am an evangelical, and will a fundamentalist make a comparable assertion and denial?
Joe, that's a good question.The evangelicals and fundamentalists among my in-laws and friends do use these terms.Beliefnet has a snippet from Wendy Zoba's book (she's an evangelical) that outlines how evangelicals split from fundamentalists.http://www.beliefnet.com/story/167/story_16774_1.html
Cathy Kaveny characterizes my reaction to Balmer as a "personal attack." I'm not sure what "personal" means in this context. I said nothing about Balmer. His piece, though, was -- as I said -- a "smug" and "superficial" "screed." I'm comfortable thinking that someone not already committed to the truth of the tendentious and uncharitable claims in Balmer's piece would agree that, as between his piece and mine, his is the more (to use Cathy's word) "vicious."Joe Gannon, quite rightly, reminds us of the distinction between abuse and argument. I would (and did) classify Balmer's essay as the former. Now, Joe is right -- I *was* irritated by Balmer's piece (and said as much), and so did not attempt to hide that irritation in my post. Perhaps I should have. Susan suggests I wrote "instinctively." I like to think that I read Balmer's piece (several times) thought about it, and responded appropriately (if, of course, incompletely).Although I do not agree with my fellow Catholics who say that they are "under seige" by "conservative co-religionists" and an "increasingly conservative hierarchy" -- that is, such statements do not, in my view, accurately describe what's going on in the Church -- I *do* sympathize (and, believe it or not, experience) the anguish of Catholics who are frustrated by the failure of our political landscape to offer a completely comfortable home for Catholics who take seriously the Church's social teachings (all of them). Any fair-minded person who reads Mirror of Justice knows -- and, certainly, Cathy Kaveny knows very well -- that I am deeply engaged in and committed to dialogue with fellow Catholics, whose politics are more to the left than my own, about the challenge of faithful citizenship. In my view, pieces like the one by Professor Balmer are entirely unhelpful to such dialogue, and indicate contempt, not anguish.
Rick Garnett says that any fair minded individual would find his statement the more charitable. I have to say this puts one in a bind, because a simple judgment in favor of Balmer would make one, from Garnetts point of view, not fair-minded! So lets look avoid general judgments, and look at specific language. Surely, criticism has to be acceptable. Its not the point one makes, its the way one makes it. Here, to be concrete, is a list of specific words and phrases that Garnett used about Balmer that I found not to be conducive to good conversation.Paragraph 1smug, self-indulgent, and superficialstandard partisan hackery, top to bottom, but -- convenient for the Chronicle of Higher Educationscreed a "woe is me, I have suffered for my progressive views from intolerant conservatives" complaint. Paragraph 2We're told that on judicial matters, the religious right demands appointees who would diminish individual rights to privacy with respect to abortion. Whatever.Just how ignorant about legal and political realities, one wonders, is Mr. Balmer?Paragraph 3 Balmer has added nothing to our conversation.Paragraph 4 But again, Balmer's piece, and rants like it, are not -- in my view -- consonant with our aims and shared commitments. It is fact that some of us -- who are every bit as engaged, educated, informed, and committed to the Catholic social tradition as any others of us (and certainly as Mr. Balmer)********I found Ricks comments here quite puzzling, since 1) Balmer isnt Catholic and doesnt pretend to be committed to the Catholic tradition.The word vicious comes from Balmer --I should have put it in quotes. I have to sa y that I find this concationation of remarks to count as personally disrepspetful Balmer. I also have to say I found no language comparable language in Professor Balmers piece about evangelicals.
My friend Rick can defend himself, but for what it's worth, I thought that these passages from Balmer were quite "vicious," both in tone and in substance. Perhaps the problem is that we all tend to turn a blind eye to viciousness with which we agree? From Balmer: "The evangelical subculture, which prizes conformity above all else, doesn't suffer rebels gladly, and it is especially intolerant of anyone with the temerity to challenge the shibboleths of the religious right. I understand that. Despite their putative claims to the faith, the leaders of the religious right are vicious toward anyone who refuses to kowtow to their version of orthodoxy, and their machinery of vilification strikes with ruthless, dispassionate efficiency.""Public education is very much imperiled by Republican policies, to the evident satisfaction of the religious right . . . "[Comment: Would it be too much to expect that if a professor offers a highly counterintuitive theory, he should at least venture some sort of explanation? I.e., how is public education "very much imperiled" by the Bush administration, which vastly increased education spending? I'd bet anything that there are some conservative evangelicals who have criticized Bush precisely for doing too much for the public schools.]"Although I didn't really expect that the religious right would climb out of the Republican Party's cozy bed over the torture of human beings, I thought perhaps they might poke out a foot and maybe wiggle a toe or two.""Such rhetoric and policies are a scandal, a reproach to the gospel I honor and to the Jesus I love. ""The coalition with the Republican Party is blasphemy, pure and simple.""Rather than gear up for new competition, as Beecher did in the 19th century, the religious right seeks to use the machinations of government and public policy to impose its vision of a theocratic order.""My evangelical theology assures me that no one, not even Karl Rove or James Dobson, lies beyond the reach of redemption, and that even a people led astray can find their way home." [It's the "not even" that seems vicious. If you can't see it, then imagine Ann Coulter saying, "Even Bill Clinton might somehow escape the flames of hell," or something like that.]
My colleague Cathy is right that I should -- we all should -- try to use language that is "conducive to good conversation." I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on the relative extent to which Balmer and I might have fallen short in this respect, and on the question whether Balmer's essay is well understood as an invitation to good conversation with people whose characterization of certain policies and events might differ from his.In any event, and in case Commonweal readers are interested in the context, here is a longer excerpt from what I wrote, in response to Balmer's essay (which was posted by my friend Michael Perry on Mirror of Justice):". . . To be clear: Yes, Jesus is not a Republican. Yes, Balmer has identified a number of issues on which the current administration could be criticized in good faith by thoughtful, reasonable Christians. Yes, it would be bad if Christianity -- or even the (shudder) 'religious right' -- were to confuse the message of Christ with the platform of the Republican party. But Balmer has added nothing to our conversation.I have been absent from the blog for a week or so, and I regret it that this first post in a while is so obviously shaped by irritation. But there it is. Here at Mirror of Justice, we disagree, from time to time, about the political implications of what I am determined to believe is our shared commitment to the enterprise of seeking, with the help of the Church's social teaching, the truth about the world and about how our lives together ought to be ordered. I continue to believe that, in the vast blogosphere, ours is one of the few sites where a large group of engaged and intelligent people, who have come to very different conclusions about politics, are still able to talk with and learn from one another, all the while growing in friendship. But again, Balmer's piece, and rants like it, are not -- in my view -- consonant with our aims and shared commitments. . . ."
I suppose what disappointed me most about your comment on Balmer, Rick, was that it offered no evidence for the assertion that the piece is top-to-bottom partisan hackery. It's a serious charge because it impugns his intellectual honesty. What definition of partisan are you using here? It's not clear from the post.I'm all for spirited disagreement, but if you're going to call someone's writing "smug" and "self-indulgent," and part of your response to that writing is "whatever," then you shouldn't be surprised when readers seek more explanation.
To paraphrase what I said earlier, what seems to be going on here is that people are simply unable to recognize partisanship where they tend to agree with the partisan positions at issue. The partisan nature of Balmer's screed should be clear in his laundry list of complaints about Republicans. For example, he accuses Republicans of "imperil[ing]" public education [completely unsubstantiated], of treating corporations like "the deity" [a wild exaggeration of what could have been a decent point], of "transforming students into catechumens" [when a school board tries to put a sticker on biology textbook noting that some issues therein are controversial, whatever the advisability of doing so, this does not even remotely amount to "transforming students into catechumens"], referring to the notion of putting a Ten Commandments monument in any public place as "theocratic" [again, whatever the advisability of doing so, it is quite overwrought to describe such an action with the word "theocratic"], or referring to the Bush administration as "jettisoning" the Kyoto Protocol [Balmer is apparently unaware that the Senate had already unanimously rejected the Kyoto Protocol under the Clinton administration]. And so forth. On issue after issue, Balmer puts forth the most tendentious and simplistic framing of the issue. And he always does so in a way paints Republicans as the villains. This cannot be a coincidence. If Balmer was non-partisan in any sense, surely there would be at least one issue where he used something other than standard liberal cliches (e.g., "individual rights to privacy" or "a matter properly left to a woman and her conscience," when referring to abortion).Also, it's odd that Balmer claims that there are 2,000 biblical references to the poor and our duties to the poor. Consider that Balmer elsewhere says this:"Negotiating that dual status can be fraught, but it is incumbent upon responsible citizens of this earthly realm to abide by certain standards of behavior deemed essential for the functioning of the social order. Much as I would like all of my fellow Americans to be Christians or vegetarians or Democrats, I have no right to demand it. The leaders of the religious right have failed to observe even the most basic etiquette of democracy."So, then, much as Balmer would like for the government to satisfy the Christian responsibility to help the poor, he has "no right to demand it." But wait, Balmer doesn't say that at all. To the contrary, he says, "The Bible contains something like 2,000 references to the poor and the believer's responsibility for the poor. Sadly, that obligation seems not to have trickled down into public policy." So Balmer's point, then, boils down this: The religious right shouldn't be allowed to impose their own religious beliefs on society (e.g., abortion). Instead, Balmer should be the one allowed to impose his own religious beliefs (about helping the poor). What a double standard. Plus, the claim about "2000 references" seems to have been copied from Tony Campolo [http://www.preachingtoday.com/30659]. Having read through the entire Bible more than a dozen times, I don't see how this claim could even conceivably be true. If you search on biblegateway.com for the word "poor" in the New American Standard Bible, there are only 148 results. And that includes quite a few scriptures that have nothing to do with Balmer's point (or that even undermine it). E.g., "blessed are the poor in spirit," or Jesus telling Judas that the "poor will always be with you," or Paul warning the Corinthians that even if he gives "all my possessions to feed the poor . . . but do not have love, it profits me nothing." The Bible does have several verses about feeding the poor, or about not being prejudiced against the poor (the book of James, for example). But it's a bit odd that folks like Balmer (or Campolo) aren't content to make that point straightforwardly, rather than putting forward what seems to be an incredible exaggeration about "2000 references." To be sure, Balmer does have a few good points buried in the article, such as his attempt to get conservative groups to speak out against torture. But on the whole, his article is roughly on the same level that one can expect from Ann Coulter's book "Godless," in which (I'm fairly confident) every issue will be described such that Democratic positions and Democrats themselves are painted as irreligious.
I must admit Stuart, you make a lot of sense. No doubt most liberals might like Balmer's words but Balmer's words can hardly be construed as an invitation to dialogue. And neither does Coulter as you point out.You did put a little effort into the post which helps. Yet I hope you are not saying that the preferential option of Jesus is not for the poor?At any rate I don't know what it means but I found your numbers for the word "poor", fascinating. Which prompted me to use your source to relate the following.War---231 timespeace--331hate---90love--320lowly--9slave 189And the word sex? 0 as in zero. No wonder Catholics don't read the bible.
That raises an interesting point -- the word "sex" might not appear in a particular translation, but the Bible definitely has some things to say about chastity, fornication, adultery, lust, etc. Similarly, maybe Tony Campolo (from whom Balmer was cribbing) was referring to various synonyms for "poor." Still, I'm not sure what those synonyms would be; I'm pretty sure that much of the Bible (genealogies, most of the stories of the Israelite judges and kings, etc., etc.) has absolutely nothing to say about "the poor" one way or the other; and many references to the word "poor" aren't even relevant (see the examples that I mentioned above; also, there are instances where Paul says, "I was poorly clothed," or something like that, which doesn't have anything to do with "the poor"). Anyway -- as for the "preferential option for the poor" -- I said that the Bible does have at least a few verses on this issue.


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The DCR015 can be powered by a 20V MAX battery (not shown) that fits into a compartment on the back of the housing. When the cord (lower left) is plugged in the radio can be used to charge the battery.
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This radio/charger works with DeWalt's new 12V Max and 20V Max batteries. It can charge those batteries or be run off of them. I rarely roll out a cord just to run a radio but with this one I will because it allows me to use it as a charger and gives me two 110-volt receptacles (on the side of the unit) to plug things into—like phone chargers or charges for other brands of cordless tools.
On the side of the radio is a storage box large enough to hold my iPod or my Samsung S3 in an Otterbox (just barely). The aux input is inside the box so I can close the door over the media player to keep it clean and dry. There is a USB port in there too, which can be used for charging various devices. The DCR015's digital tuner has multiple presets, and the radio stations in our area come in clear—though most of the time we use it with a media player.
You would not want to crank this thing all the way up near other houses because it would be too loud for the neighbors. We often frame where there are no nearby neighbors and in that situation I'll set the media player just short of max volume and turn the radio all the way up. Even then, it's not quite loud enough if it's a large site and we're wearing hearing protection. The volume is sufficient for use in a shop with hearing protection on.
The DCR015 is sold bare (no charger or batteries); I've seen it online for about $180.
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This new Makita radio is an upgraded version of a radio we reviewed in 2011. It's relatively compact but is taller and boxier than other jobsite radios and has speakers that face to the sides. The LXRM03 can be powered by an included AC adaptor or 9.6-volt to 18-volt slide-style and pod-style Makita batteries. The batteries and adaptor store in a gasketed compartment on the back of the unit.
I like the iPod/iPhone dock on top of the radio, which can be used to play music and will charge the device when the radio is off. When an iPod or iPhone is in the dock you can control it with the radio controls. When the dock is not in use a lid can be closed over it. Devices that don't work with the dock can be connected to an auxiliary input on the front of the radio or a second input in the compartment that holds the battery. The LCD display is backlit and very easy to read. The tuner has 5 presets but I hardly every use them because we mostly listen to media players.
There's a lot to like about this radio. I like the small size and that it works with my iPod (and an iPhone if I had one). The radio is rugged and it sounds good too. What I don't like about the unit is the location of the speakers; they project out the sides so the sound can't be aimed. It helps to put the radio in a corner so the sound projects out, but it's not always possible to do this. The LXRM03 would not be my first choice for a framing site because it's not quite loud enough and it's too easy to knock your iPod off the dock—because it's up on top. It would be great indoors or in the shop.
The radio is sold bare (no battery or charger) and I've seen it online for about $145.
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Wilson: Mills takes key win in BL race
To say the Lewis Mills girls basketball team has come out of nowhere this season would be inaccurate. The potential was hardly invisible. To say the Spartans have flown a bit under the Berkshire League radar would be closer to the truth.
To say everybody is watching now after Friday night is a given.
Faced with virtual elimination from the Berkshire League race, the Spartans did a tap dance on Nonnewaug, 57-40, keeping the spice level at a delicious high in the battle for the conference title.
Mills (10-2 BL, 10-4 overall) did itself and Thomaston a favor with this one; the outcome coupled with Thomaston's win over Litchfield to give the Bears (12-1, 14-1) a one-game lead. Nonnewaug is right there at 12-2, 12-3.
Mills and the Bears get to do it in Thomaston on Big Friday, Part II, next week. Nonnewaug and the Bears play in the last game of the season. You get the picture. This is an ulcer-producing beauty.
Mills lost close contests to both Thomaston and Nonnewaug the first time around, allowing the Bears and Chiefs to justifiably steal the headlines and the spotlight.
It's now time to share. The Spartans are here and don't appear to be going anywhere.
"I just told the kids in the locker room that this is something we spent all year looking for," said Mills coach Joe Capitani. "And not just this year. We took our lumps last year. We played everybody close but down the stretch there was not
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enough to get it done. A lot was said about team confidence. We learned that tonight. This is the first block of the foundation."
The foundation looks pretty firm. There was Teagan Dunn, who posted a double-double with 20 points and 17 rebounds. Natalie Ruel drained a pair of 3-pointers and finished with 16 points, while Lesleigh Carter and Hope Shevchuck added nine apiece.
It was a little bit of pick-your-poison on the Nonnewaug side. Despite the Chiefs' struggles, coach Adam Brutting tipped his hat to the Spartans.
"Give Lewis Mills all the credit in the world," said Brutting. "Basketball is a game of momentum, and weren't they just coming off a double-OT loss to Kolbe? They came out strong. They were feeling good at home."
"We're not flashy players, but when the five are playing together on offense and defense, we're a tough team," said Capitani.
Nonnewaug appeared out of sync right from the beginning, missing its first seven shots while turning the ball over five times. By the time the first basket came on a Katie Burke layup with just 1:30 to go in the first period, Mills led, 9-1.
The Chiefs rallied in the second quarter with their best 2 1/2 minutes of the game as Burke scored eight of her 20 points on a variety of drives to the hoop to lead an 11-2 run and put Nonnewaug ahead, 17-13.
It was all a mirage. Burke struggled with her shooting and was repeatedly called for traveling (seven times) for a hop, jump-stop move that the officials weren't buying. At the end of the game, she calmly awaited the officials to ask for a clarification.
In the meantime, outside of a couple of 3-pointers from sharp-shooting Allie Rescsanski (11 points), the Chiefs turned the ball over six times and could find little offense. Mills scored the last 11 points of the quarter with Lesleigh Carter draining a 3-pointer and Dunn converting two rebounds for baskets to forge a 24-17 halftime lead.
The Spartans built the lead to 37-28 by the end of the third quarter and made sure the home crowd went home happy early in the fourth quarter with an early seven-point spurt. Ruel hit a 3-pointer and Dunn dropped in two hoops for a 44-28 lead.
"It's tough. We're a young team, and when they see me off my game a bit, as one of the leaders, it throws things off," said Burke.
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Now let's take a player who already has possession of the ball on the outside. He/she makes a dribble move into the lane, picks up the dribble, takes one step, and then lands a two-footed jump-stop. So far, so good. But after landing the jump-stop, he/she cannot move either foot and has no pivot foot since the one step was already used up prior to the jump-stop. He/she could jump upward, but must either shoot or pass the ball before either foot touches the floor again. "
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Unanswered: Basica view switching - how?
I'm new in MVC and I need some help in understand a logic of views and controllers. I have two questions.
1) Can I have multiple controllers? For example, every view has own controller which is dynamically initialized when I switch view?
2) What I am doing wrong with building a simple MVC app, when I setActiveItem to my second View when I click a button. And I want to go back to first view with another button. Everythings goes without errors, but when I come back to first view, all of handlers/listeners seems to be disactivated..
Any help would be appreciated. My CODE:
Ext.Loader.setConfig({ enabled: true }); Ext.application({ name: 'MVC', controllers: ['Main'] });
Ext.define('MVC.view.Main', { extend: 'Ext.Panel', alias: 'widget.main', initialize : function() { this.callParent(); }, config: { fullscreen: true, items: { xtype: 'toolbar', docked: 'top', items: [{ xtype: 'button', id: 'CLICK', text: 'CLICK' }] } } });
Ext.define('MVC.view.Second', { extend: 'Ext.Panel', alias: 'widget.second', initialize : function() { this.callParent(); }, config: { fullscreen: true, items: { xtype: 'toolbar', docked: 'top', items: [{ xtype: 'button', id: 'KLIK2', text: 'KLIK2' }] } } });
Ext.define('MVC.controller.Main', { extend: 'Ext.app.Controller', config: { profile: Ext.os.deviceType.toLowerCase() }, views : [ 'Main', 'Second' ], refs: [{ ref: 'main', selector: 'mainview', autoCreate: true, xtype: 'mainview' }, { ref: 'second', selector: 'secondview', xtype: 'secondview' }], init: function() { this.getMainView().create(); this.control({ '#CLICK': { 'tap': function() { Ext.Viewport.setActiveItem({xtype:'second'}); } }, '#CLICK2': { 'tap': function() { Ext.Viewport.setActiveItem({xtype:'main'}); } } }); } });
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Have a look at this Q&A thread, it covers your same question:
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I tried that solution and it didn't worked for me. That's the reason of the new thread which I have opened. Any other possible ideas?
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I´ve got problems with view switching too.
Sencha need´s to provide an example of a typical CRUD-App in MVC-style!
Tabpanel with homepanel & listview, show editview on tap and switch back to listview after saving to localstore.
This would make things much easier esp. for beginners!


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I may have the answer. Let's promote "Barack Obama skeet shooting teams" in our public schools. I'm envisioning book covers, flyers etc. "Skeet is Kool" "See you at the range". Also fund raising efforts featuring the same photo. "Won't you help deserving young people learn to shoot skeet?"Big time cognitive dissonance for the gun fearing, Obama loving, school bureaurcrats.
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Every one of them brought a rifle or two to school in their vehicles every day, and we thought nothing of it...
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CoCon - boy, has Colorado - greater Denver, at least - changed since that time. I moved there in 1969 and left in 1983, and I saw enormous changes just over that time frame. Judging from I see happening there since, apparently all of California moved there after I left - or Boulder expanded and took over the entire state.
Seriously, I sent a long email to our Governor explaining how my wife and I, and our investments and businesses, are seriously thinking about leaving the state thanks to the Dem-dominated legislature's moves in the gun-grab arena. It's disgusting, and the Denver-Boulder area is dominated by liberals. The rural areas and some population centers -- Douglas County and Colorado Springs -- are quite conservative. I'm all for letting Denver, Boulder, and Aurora form their own state...Frank
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Music, Political Activism and the State*
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In this one-day conference we seek to cultivate a dialogue concerning the intersections between music, political activism and the State, both among scholars from a range of disciplines and practitioners seeking to use music to contribute to social change. Whilst the importance of musical performance to political activism has long been reflected within the scholarly literature, more remains to be said about the ways that practices of protest or activist musicianship emerge in relation to the State, as an entity with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, as a set of bureaucratic institutions (often with conflicting interests), and as a concept which individuals construct in everyday and official discourse. Particularly deserving of further attention are the ways that States – as legal institution and socially negotiated concept – may condition and create possibilities for creative musical practice.
In this conference, we aim to stimulate a cross-disciplinary debate addressing a number of important questions relating to this topic:
– How do protest musicians represent the State within their performances, and how may this relate to their own sense of marginality in relation to it?
– In what ways may the so-called "conspiracy theories" that often result from State opacity create possibilities for creative responses in music?
– Moving beyond the notion of musical performance as protest, how may the practice of music be seen to contribute to the formation of activist *communities* seeking to undermine State control?
– How has music contributed to, reflected upon and contested historical processes of State formation, and what insights into internal contradictions among State actors may be gleaned from the study of musical practice?
– How have politically engaged musicians used creative practice to challenge, undermine or reinforce State legitimacy, and what kinds of practical relationships between musicians and State institutions underpin these forms of expression?
– Conversely, how may musical performance function as a social practice within so-called "stateless societies", as well as "failed states"?
– Finally, taking into account the disjunction between the intimacy and exclusivity often adhering to musical performance and the construction of State power as indiscriminate and universal, how can we adequately research and represent the relationships between States and musicians?
Contributions are invited from researchers working in musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, anthropology, politics, sociology and related disciplines, as well as from musicians and activists. We welcome 20-minute papers or shorter presentations for panel discussion addressing the conference themes. We particularly wish to encourage proposals involving small-scale live musical performance.
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If you didn't attend Monday's annual dinner meeting of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, you missed an opportunity to hear a powerful speech delivered by Chris Spielman.
We knew that the former star football player at all levels of the game - from his high school days at Massillon to his collegiate days at Ohio State to his time spent with Detroit, Buffalo and Cleveland in the National Football League - had very little to prove on the football field.
After hearing him speak, though, we learned that his transformation from "... Chris, who defines himself as a football player ..." to "Chris, the guy who wakes up every morning and pleads with God to be the weakest man in the world, because when you do that, you will be the strongest ..." can give everyone something to think about.
He remains active in the fight against breast cancer, helping to raise money for the Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research, a project Chris and his wife started before her death from the disease on Nov. 19, 2009, at the age of 42.
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When Spielman and his late wife started the fund, they hoped to raise $250,000. To date, $12 million has been collected.
Spielman told chamber members and supporters who had gathered at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville that they can be sure that none of that money is wasted. He said that well-intended efforts are not enough - the work must produce results, or the funding is shifted to other projects.
There wasn't much discussion about football during Spielman's talk. The current ESPN college football commentator was more than willing, however, to answer questions about the current game in general and the Buckeyes in particular before the dinner started.
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I know that vim (like emacs) is very powerful editor for programmers, as long as you know how to use it, its shortcuts, and so on. What steps can I take and what tutorials can I read to become an advanced vim user?
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Step 0: learn to touch type. Seriously - if your fingers don't know where the keys are then vim is going to be a pain. And even if you reject vim, touch typing will improve your programming (ask Steve Yegge) by making the mind to monitor link friction free. There is a lot of software that can help you improve your typing.
Step 1: Use the keyboard preferences to swap Caps Lock and Escape - seriously, how often do you use Caps Lock? Using vim you will be using Escape all the time, and having it available on the home row makes a huge difference. With the standard Ubuntu desktop, go through the menus: System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts tab. Then hit the "Layout Options" button, click on the triangle next to "Caps Lock key behaviour" and select "Swap ESC and CapsLock". (Note how to do this has changed - see this for how to do this in 14.04.
Step 2: use vimtutor to get you started. It is in gvim (under the help menu I think) or you can just type 'vimtutor' at the command line. It will take 30-45 minutes of your time and then your fingers will know the basics of vi/vim and you should be able to edit files without wanting to hurl your keyboard out of the window.
Step 3: use vim everywhere. See
Step 4: learn more about vim. You will only have scratched the surface with vimtutor. You can
Learn a litle often would be my advice - there is so much out there that sticking to bite-size chunks will be the best way to make the knowledge stick.
Step 5: Profit :)
"vimtutor" form package "vim" is probably the best place to start.
Two things:
And a third: VimCasts
That is a pretty good tutorial. It has videos and such.
This will sound silly, but get to know vim's help command. The help system is remarkably intuitive and easy to navigate.
Help is available by typing
The help is hyperlinked, with links denoted at either bold or coloured text. You can follow links by hitting <Ctrl-]> when your cursor is on it, and <Ctrl-t> to go back. To get out of help, type
Some great answers. Definitely try to integrate it into daily life and make sure you don't try to flood your brain with too much at a time. There's just too much to vim to learn it all in a week.
At first just start with one/two new commands/keys a week. Use them and ingrain them into your brain. You don't want to have to refer to a cheat sheet all day.
I've got a sample vim config setup that's really well documented I publish for people: http://github.com/mitechie/pyvim
Don't just copy/paste though. Make sure you understand what's going into your vim config so you don't forget/misunderstand what it's doing for you.
and I've started doing some vim screencasts: http://lococast.net/archives/111
PeepCode's Smash into VIM 1 & 2 are a great resource. You can also check out Rob Conery's blog, he has some good VIM related information/blogs available there.
I used a book that I found from Vim's website
I know that I might get negative feedback for this answer, as it may hurt vim fans and users: First ask yourself what you want to do. And only if vim is the best tool for that specific task, do what all the other answers tell you.
Or to say it with more images: You can try to get twice as fast or good with a hammer than you are now. But depending on the situation a screw driver may help more than the hammer. :)
I haven't really learned Vim yet but I think that by doing all my browsing with the Pentadactyl extension for Firefox it will be less difficult when I get around to do so.
Any text fields and the command line can be treated like Vim normal mode with a Ctrl T (or automatically, if you change a setting); however, here's where it falls down at the moment for me since many actions are interpreted to be global e.g. attempting to paste with p opens a url with the text that's in the buffer and attempting to overwrite text with r reloads the page. But you can open the text field in Gvim by pressing Control I, so it's not really an issue.
Another problem is that it makes websites like Gmail or Remember the Milk trickier to use since you have yet another mode to contend with.
See the answers on beginner's tips for learning Vim from Programmers SE
To reiterate my answer from that question:
I learnt a lot from the O'Reilly book "Learning the Vi and Vim editors". It's the best Vim book I've read.
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Give the numerous new ways of performing asynchronous operations in C#, TPL, Parallel Extensions, Async CTP, Reactive Extensions I was wonder what the simplest way to parallelize the fetching and processing portions of the following would be:
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In short what is the simplest way to get
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The 6 Greatest Athletic Feats Ever (Aren't What You Think)
Most of us believe there are more earthquakes, wars and nipple slips than 15 years ago. Really, it just seems like that because 24-hour news networks are breathlessly reporting on each one. Similarly, we've been convinced that a select few highly televised moments and athletes are the greatest in the history of sports. For instance, here are six events everyone knows as the greatest in the history of sport, and the true stories that actually beat their pants off.
#6. The Real Miracle on Ice
The story you know:
The 1980 Soviet hockey team was an unstoppable force of nature fueled by communism and pieces of shit like the guys on the U.S. hockey team. The U.S. team was composed of college kids who had never played together, had no chemistry and presumably learned to skate only after failing to make the U.S. track team, like in Cool Runnings. Yet when these teams met in the medal round, the USA squad somehow managed to gain an improbable lead and held it until Al Michaels asked everyone, "Do you believe in miracles?" as time ran out on what was immediately declared the biggest upset in sports history.
That day, the first (albeit primitive) teabag was performed.
But actually ...
Michaels, and everyone who has spent the past 30 years taking his call literally, has apparently forgotten about the far-less-promising U.S. Olympic hockey team that won gold against the Russians on neutral ice in the 1960 Olympics. Makes you start to wonder just how impartial the American media were being when calculating those one-in-a-million odds in the first place.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the USA basketball team has pulled off yet another victory despite the odds!"
Anyone who follows hockey at any level will tell you that the most important details heading into any big game are who has the hot goalie and who has home ice. America had future NHL goalie Jim Craig playing out of his mind in goal and a stadium full of fans losing their shit because it was the height of the Cold War and they all believed they were witnessing a miracle.
He would later flip out and murder dozens of camping teenagers with a machete.
Unfortunately, Michaels wasn't present to verify the miracle that took place on the ice of the 1942 Stanley Cup finals. The Detroit Red Wings were pummeling the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-0 in a best-of-seven series. Pulling a page from the playbook of the self-sabotaging owner in Major League, Leafs coach Hap Day benched his best defensemen as well as a future Hall of Famer and replaced them with two unproven rookies who had combined for a whopping 9 points during the regular season.
We're betting the cut-out of Hap Day wasn't quite as hot, though.
Halfway through Game 4, the move was going approximately as well as you'd expect. The Leafs found themselves down by two goals. Because it's difficult to fire a coach in the middle of a game, Day stuck to his guns and kept the gang of unproven jerks on the ice. And that's when the Leafs suddenly began playing out of their minds, coming from behind to win the game and the entire series.
And their manager was pissed!
Mathematicians have looked at the history of games in which a team trailed by two goals and the history of seven-game series in which a team was down three games to none, and calculated the Leafs chance of winning at that moment at 0.17 percent. Herb Brooks, the coach of the U.S. Olympic hockey team that year, calculated his squad's chances of winning at a more reasonable 10 percent. This one just comes down to the fact that it's much more fun to believe in miracles at the height of the Cold War than ones pulled off by teams named after foliage.
#5. Stupidest Mistake: Fred Merkle
The story you know:
It's Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, and the Boston Red Sox are sure to win their first championship in almost 70 years. Then first baseman Bill Buckner lets a routine ground ball go through his legs, single-handedly costing the Sox the game. The Sox lose the World Series, and Buckner, ashamed by his colossal gaffe, exiles himself to the land of colossal gaffes, otherwise known as Idaho.
Boston fans made sure it was the last day he didn't smell like urine.
But actually ...
First of all, it's hard to peg the Red Sox' losing the World Series on Buckner, since his gaffe happened in Game 6, and the entire roster had to lose a whole seventh game in order to keep the Red Sox championship drought alive. Buckner was playing with an injured leg, and Sox manager John McNamara had been sending in a defensive replacement for Buckner in the last few innings of most games. But Game 6 of the World Series evidently wasn't important enough for him to take 10 seconds to make the replacement.
Cracked dramatization of Buckner's leg injury.
Buckner has nothing on Fred Merkle, who was the poster boy of stupid mistakes before it was decided that the only two teams in Major League Baseball were the Yankees and the Red Sox. In 1908, Merkle's Giants played the Cubs in a critical game that decided the National League pennant. The game was tied with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. The Giants had runners on first and third. Their next batter, Al Bridwell, singled to center, winning the game for the Giants as fans rushed onto the field. The runner on first, Fred Merkle, seeing the throngs of fans and deciding he should beat the traffic, ran directly to home plate for the celebration, forgetting that when you're running bases in baseball, you're supposed to actually touch all the bases.
Also, you're not allowed to fire baseballs out of your mind.
This might be excusable as one of those caught-up-in-the-moment gaffes if the captain of the Cubs hadn't specifically stated he wanted umpires to call out runners who failed to touch the bag at game's end right before the game.
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Artist's depiction of that request.
The league president ruled that the game had to be replayed, and the Cubs defeated the Giants, capturing the pennant. To add insult to injury, angry sportswriters mercilessly dubbed his mistake Merkle's Boner, making this the most ashamed anyone has ever been of a boner outside of seventh-grade wrestling practice.
#4. The Greatest
The story you know:
If someone asked you to name the greatest boxer of all time, it'd probably take you all of three seconds to come up with Muhammad Ali. It was his nickname, after all. ESPN ranked him the third-greatest athlete of the century, and his list of brilliant shit-talking quotes could fill a Lil Wayne mix tape. He was an icon to black and white Americans at a time when the country was still struggling with the civil rights movement, and he spoke for a nation at war when he told the U.S. draft board, in no uncertain terms, to go fuck itself.
You don't argue with a man who can literally punch you until you die.
But actually ...
Hidden away in the grainy footage of old boxing reels is the inventor and perfector of rag doll physics. Call Ali the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time and prepare to dig in for a long lecture on Joe Louis, the most fundamentally pure boxer to ever step into the ring at any level. Listed 11th on ESPN's tally of the greatest athletes of the century, Louis won 95.6 percent of his fights, compared with Ali's 91.8 percent, and KO'd an insane 74.3 percent of his opponents, compared with Ali's much more reasonable 60.7 percent. But Ali came along at a time when everyone was willing to declare a black man The Greatest. Louis had to settle for "The Brown Bomber."
Get it? It's because of his skin, see!
Of course, Ali was more than a great boxer. It's tough to argue that anyone could have embodied the 60s and 70s better than Ali when he refused to fight in the Vietnam War. Though Louis did stand up to a government in his day. The Nazi government. When not busy with world domination and his Mousketeer meetings, Hitler was fond of idle speculation on which races he thought were superior (his money was on the Aryans). When it was announced that Joe Louis, the most prominent African-American in sports, would fight Germany's great Max Schmeling, Hitler used the event to laud German superiority. Hitler even extended the 1 a.m. curfew to 3 a.m. so that bars could broadcast Schmeling's rout for all to see.
Joe Louis poses over the corpses of his freshly slain Nazi enemies.
The political significance of the fight was not lost on anyone. President Franklin Roosevelt himself told Louis, "We need muscles like yours to beat Germany. Because seriously, fuck those guys"*
*Only able to find sources for the first half of that statement.
And Louis didn't disappoint, knocking out Schmeling in just two minutes and four seconds, which probably made for some awkward moments the next day around the water coolers in Nazi Germany. More importantly, at a time when African-Americans were still being segregated, discriminated against and fucking lynched, the biggest hero in America was a black man.
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Seriously, the fight was over before that flash bulb stopped emitting light.
Joe Louis was Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Ali rolled into one. Like Ali, he was a boxer who perfectly embodied America's communal feeling at a time of war. Ali refused to fight the Vietcong and eventually stopped fighting in the ring at a time when Americans were protesting. Louis kicked the shit out of a Nazi while America was starting to get an itch to do the same. As admirable as Ali's pacifism was, it's tough to argue he'd be as well-remembered as a boxer who spoke with his God-given gift for violence if you reversed the eras.


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Would you be willing to pay an airline fee for carry-on bags?
I'm not even sure if the question is "would you ever pay a carry-on bag fee" or "what do you think of the inevitable carry-on bag fee"?
Spirit airlines already charges for carry-on bags in addition to checked luggage, and now another less famous (IMO) airline just started charging for carry-on bags too, Allegiant Air.
Do you think that airlines charging fees for carry-on bags is inevitable?
Do you think the fee is justified? How much of a fee is too much?
Would you boycott that airline? And if so, would you boycott them ALL if everyone charged?
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in order to avoid bag fees, i've taken to just wearing all the clothes i'll need for my entire trip at once. the security line is somewhat of a hassle though.
"sir, please take off your jacket and the one below that and the one below that and the sweater vest below that and the windbreaker below that."
or at least, that's what i tell myself i should do.
This is why I'd much rather drive. I don't care if it takes extra days or not.
Hopefully most airlines don't take it to this extreme. I am an airline employee though, so further comments withheld.
Ok, now this is just getting ridiculous! What's next? Swipe credit card to use bathroom on airplane???
@underinsomnia: i think ryan air already charges for bathroom usage.
Checked baggage gets a fee, anything to eat gets a fee, everything gets a fee...
I wish trains were faster to take because then I would skip flying entirely.
When an USAir employee said I had to pay for a glass of water during a flight I decided that would be the last time I booked flights with them...
The more fees they add the more likely people will not fly with that service...
@underinsomnia: great, you had to give them that idea...
never carry a bag again. This coat has 33 pockets and was designed to beat airline baggage fees. Screw em.
@capguncowboy: According to @carl669 someone already had the idea... that's just great... I hate these greedy bastards.
"If the Wright brothers were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs."
— Herb Kelleher, Founder of Southwest Airlines, USA Today, 8 June 1994.
I don't ever fly because I am stuck here on DW.
As usual, I am ambivalent. In a way it is fairer to charge a base fee, then additional fees for various things so that people are paying their real share of the cost. But it really isn't being evenly charged. I pay more for my two small suitcases than does someone checking one twice as big as both together. If the purpose of the fee is to cover fuel costs, it should be based on luggage weight, not the number of bags. A carry on fee is going to make people do silly stuff like put their laptop in one coat pocket and a change of clothes in the other, which is going to make sitting beside them loads of fun. If they are going to do this, then they should just have a weigh in at the check-in counter, you and everything you want to take aboard at 10 cents a pound. That way they'd get their pound of flesh-- or at least a payoff for it.
I will avoid airlines that charge carry-on fees. My thought is just up the ticket price to what it should be to cover all the costs and go back to making airplane travel something special.


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Have you ever thought about what you can do with $100?
One WKU student was given a $100 from the "Hundred Dollar Solution" program.
With the money, she created her own charity called Highlighters, Notebooks, Backpacks, Oh my!
Her goal is to provide adult ESL students at the Bowling Green Technical College with the supplies they need to learn English.
With the money she was able to buy posters, and other supplies needed to get the donations she needs.
"I thought something just as small as getting them a backpack or a notebook for these students would mean so much, and these classes are really giving them skills that they can use in the workforce, because they want to be productive and they want get their driver's license and things like that," McKinze Vowel, creator of the charity, says.
If you would like the donate to McKinze's "Highlighters, Notebooks, and Backpacks, Oh My!" program. she will be set-up outside Wal-Mart on Campbell Lane tomorrow between 11 AM and 7 PM.
You can bring any new or gently used school supply.


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I installed 12.04 by using WUBI Windows installer on my Windows 7 computer. I installed Ubuntu with the same partition (
c:\) with Windows 7.
When I boot my computer, the boot manager does not come out and it directly boots into 12.04. So I cannot boot into Windows.
How can I make the boot manager come out to choose my boot option?


text: The embattled Morro Bay City Attorney Robert Schultz is now on administrative leave. Yesterday the City Council voted 3-2 in favor of the action. No reason has been given for why Schultz is being told to leave. Mayor Jamie Irons says he expects an interim city attorney to be in place soon.


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The seventh annual Chamber Trivia Challenge "Stars of Trivia" will be held March 7 at Blue Ridge Community College.
Registration will be from 5:30 to 6 p.m. The challenge begins at 6 p.m. Teams of four people will compete in three rounds of question-and-answer sessions with categories including pop trivia, local trivia, educational trivia and more.
Participants who attend dressed as their favorite celebrity can enter a drawing for a prize.
Cost to participate is $150 for a team of four people; $250 sponsorship with team of four people; $500 social sponsorship with team of four people.
For more information or to register, contact the Chamber at 828-692-1413.
Dr. Gordon I. Groh, a local orthopaedic surgeon, has been named to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Shoulder and Elbow Program Committee, an educational body of select leading national and international orthopaedic surgeons.
Groh is a board-certified specialist in shoulder, elbow and hand surgery at Blue Ridge Bone & Joint in Asheville and Hendersonville for the past 18 years. He also has been reappointed to the Education Subcommittee for the 2013 AAOS annual meeting to be held in Chicago in March. At that same meeting, Groh will present a course on "Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty: Beyond the Basics."
Carolina Trust Bank (Nasdaq: CART) on Monday reported full year 2012 net loss of $60,000, or $0.01 per diluted common share attributable to common shareholders, compared with a 2011 net loss of $2.30 million, or $0.50 per diluted share attributable to common shareholders. Excluding payment of dividends on preferred shares, the bank realized net income of $217,000 for the full year 2012.
The company also announced that it has exited the U.S. Treasury's Capital Purchase Program. This was accomplished through the Treasury's public auction process. The $4 million in preferred stock was purchased by private investors, and the bank subsequently repurchased 35 percent of the total from one of the investors.
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I'm trying to use a program called 'pyrit' which can use OpenCL. When I run the program, I get this warning:
Failed to load Pyrit's OpenCL-core ('Failed to enumerate OpenCL-platforms (Unknown CLresult)')
(the code for pyrit to work with opencl has been successfully compiled and installed already)
I have an Nvidia Hybrid Optimus graphics card (geforce gt 630m), and I assume I need to enable OpenCL for it to work properly. I want to avoid CUDA if I can, but I don't know if that's an option.
I'm not sure what I need to do to enable OpenCL. Should I just follow the normal instructions for installing CUDA as described here? How can I get nVidia CUDA or OpenCL working on a laptop with nVidia discrete card/Intel Integrated Graphics?


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The 6 Most Baffling Video Game Spinoffs
#3. Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight
The Original:
Street Fighter and the more popular Street Fighter II are fighting games about racial stereotypes using mystical powers to beat the shit out of each other. The series is one of the most enduring and recognized in history, and there is absolutely no reason to change it to anything other than the ludicrous punchfest it already is.
Well, maybe add just a bit more racism, but that's it.
The Spinoff:
Take everything and anything you may know about Street Fighter (including Jean-Claude Van Damme kicking Raul Julia into a wall of exploding televisions) and then set those memories on fire before throwing them out of a speeding van like a botched ransom. The end result will somewhat resemble Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight, which recasts Ken Masters ...
This big ol' sack of punch-meat.
... as a cyborg scientist battling aliens in the post-apocalyptic wastelands of 2010 (which you may recognize as the year Jonah Hex came out).
Yep, this looks about right.
The game plays like a cross between Metroid and a rabid bat penis and has absolutely nothing to do with the Street Fighter franchise beyond the words "Street" and "Fighter" being in the title. The original Japanese version was released as a vague sci-fi spinoff, but when it was brought over to the U.S., both the title and the main character's name were changed to cash in on the brand's enormous popularity. Sort of like Daniel Baldwin mumbling through the "Daniel" portion of his name to try and cheat his way into a dinner reservation.
However, in all fairness, fireballs remain a strong presence. We think.
#2. Wily & Right no RockBoard: That's Paradise (Mega Man)
The Original:
The Mega Man series centers on a blue android jumping and shooting his way through impossible odds to destroy eight evil robot bosses and defeat their villainous master, Dr. Wily, with a toe kick to his nefarious beanbag.
While still saving time to let the winds of victory blow through his hair.
The Spinoff:
Wily & Right no RockBoard: That's Paradise is a "business simulation" that combines all of the worst parts of Monopoly and Mario Party into a single joyless hatepunch masquerading as a video game. As the title suggests, you control Dr. Wily (he of the beanbag kick described above) and move around a board, buying properties and collecting rent, because for some reason he decided he'd rather be a slumlord than a robot lord.
"Sorry, but no pets are allowed. Nor are any weapons that would make it easier to destroy me."
You can also play as Dr. Light, Mega Man's creator and mentor, or Roll, Mega Man's female counterpart -- in fact, pretty much every character in the Mega Man universe is available to you except Mega Man. He evidently took the Crispin Glover/Marlon Brando route and declined to appear in this bizarre continuation of the series, which inexplicably took a cyborg sprinting through treacherous enemy lairs and detonating evil robots with his arm cannon and replaced him with a bunch of aggressively stationary melvins that stare at you while you browse an endless stream of menus.
Angrily. Hatefully.
#1. Almost Every Sonic Game Ever Created
The Original:
Sonic the Hedgehog is the misguided illustration of a very old man's concept of "attitude," complete with sneakers and an "everyone but me can go fuck themselves" smirk. Basically, he is what Sega executives imagined would appeal to bratty children who don't have the attention span for Super Mario Bros. The original series of Sonic games on the Genesis was action platformers that encouraged Sonic to run balls-out through each level as fast as he could, smashing through enemies, freeing his adorable animal friends, and defeating a boss every few minutes, until either the game ended or you ran out of Adderall and bit your grandmother. It's Mario on methamphetamines.
Although it was originally called Gollum's Precious Bonerland.
The Spinoff:
Sonic has actually spawned an embarrassing horde of spinoffs that, to date, outnumber the games in the official original series. Take Sonic and the Black Knight, for example:
We're guessing the black knight is the one dressed in red?
Sonic claws for relevance in this forgettable third-person action title that puts a sword in his hand and tosses him in the middle of Arthurian legend, because that makes all of the sense that is available to be made. It incorporated the use of the Nintendo Wii's motion controllers by forcing players to clumsily swing their arms around in an attempt to get Sonic to stab things while simultaneously indulging the most ridiculous piece of fan fiction Sega could find that didn't devolve into graphic hedgehog pornography.
Evidently feeling that third-person action was where all the money had been hiding from them, Sega continued the gibbering line of reasoning established by Sonic and the Black Knight with Sonic Unleashed. This game replaced swords with the ability to transform into a werehog to eviscerate your enemies, because a werehog is apparently a thing.
Followed by blood-curdling screams and blood. God, the blood ...
Sonic is already a hedgehog, so we are confused by the "werehog" terminology. However, we are even more confused by the fact that, in his werehog form, Sonic has elastic limbs like Stretch Armstrong that allow him to flail his way through bad guys and achieve the least subtle God of War ripoff since God of War II.
When Sonic Unleashed failed to fill the gaming community's pants with excitement, Sega decided to give their struggling mascot guns and a motorcycle and changed his name to that of a cool badass (see "very old man's concept," above).
"I also skateboard. Moms are so uncool, huh, guys?"
Shadow the Hedgehog even sported a new color scheme of red and black, which is the universal war paint of one who does not suffer any bullshit. He zoomed across blasted landscapes, belching hot lead at odious demons with a handgun the size of his entire body while cursing out rude quips, and this was based on a game about a smiling blue hedgehog that runs fast and rescues forest creatures.
In keeping with the darker theme, Tails was retconned to be a date rapist.
It's as if Sega doesn't know what to do with Sonic unless he's trying to mimic the success of another series. Ironically, if they'd stuck to copying Mario, they would've just made the exact same game over and over again for the past 27 years.
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Since mass can be given to particles via the interaction with the Higgs Field could there be a "Charger Field" that supplies particles with charge? Possibly this would require two different "charger bosons" one for + and one for -.
Though charge and mass are fundamentally different concepts, one can cook up an interaction like
$L = |d\phi - |\alpha|^2 A \phi|^2+\lambda(|\alpha|^2-c^2)^2 + |d_B \alpha|^2 + dA^2 + dB^2$.
Here $\alpha$ and $\phi$ are complex scalars and $A$ and $B$ are $U(1)$ gauge fields. $|-|$ denotes complex magnitude and $d_B$ is the covariant derivative for $\alpha$ under $B$.
There are two gauge symmetries
$\phi \rightarrow e^{i\theta}\phi$ with corresponding transformation for $A$, and $B$ fixed
$\alpha \rightarrow e^{i\zeta}\alpha$, with corresponding transformation for $B$, and $A$ fixed
At large $\lambda$, the second gauge symmetry is broken, causing $B$ to gain mass and $\phi$ to gain charge $c^2$, the vev of $|\alpha|^2$, which acts as a charge (for $\phi$ in the $A$ field) in the above Lagrangian. The phase of $\alpha$ is then left over as a real scalar : the Higgs boson.
Experts, please let me know if this is hogwash. This is not something I've ever seen in the literature.
The standard model of particle physics describes three forces of nature - electromagnetism, the weak interaction and the strong nuclear force. Each interaction is described by a so-called gauge theory. That is, additional symmetries are added to the theory for each force. One symmetry you may be familiar with from classical physics is rotational invariance - you can rotate a system, and Newton's laws still work. So, classical physics is invariant under rotations. The group of rotations has a name, O(N). This also includes reflections. N is the number of dimensions. Another symmetry you may know of is Lorentz invariance - this includes rotations and translations, along with boosts. Boosts are the familiar Lorentz transformations of time and space that leave the speed of light invariant. Since special relativity is formulated in four dimensional spacetime, we need four dimensions. However, we distinguish between one of the dimensions and the rest, which is time. So, the Lorentz group is SO(3,1). Why an S? This stands for special, meaning that this group doesn't have all of the symmetries of O(3,1), which has too many to be an actual description of the world.
So, gauge symmetries are a bit different. They're essentially symmetries of the theory that are redundant. While in the classical version of the theory one can disregard them (you can use the electric and magnetic field instead of the 4-potential), they are necessary for consistency in the quantum theory. So, each force has one of these gauge symmetries.
So, when you impose gauge symmetries of a theory, you get an interesting result - they end up requiring that some particles have charge, that electric and magnetic fields exist, that anti-particles exist, what quantities are conserved, what interactions can and cannot occur, and many other things.
So, we can see that many features of the Standard Model, such as charge, exist because of the local gauge symmetries that exist in the theory. This isn't the case for mass, which is why we have the Higgs mechanism. However, we don't need a Higgs mechanism for charge, because it emerges out of the gauge symmetries.
And also see Ron's post, showing that such a thing wouldn't even be consistent.
You can't have charger fields giving charge to particles individually, (except for the case of noncompact U(1) gauge group described by user404143), because charges are discrete not continuous. The closest you can come is through the nonrenormalizable interaction
$$ \phi \mathrm{tr}(F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu})$$
Which, by altering the VEV of $\phi$ alters the charges of all the particles coupled to the gauge field in $F$ by a proportional amount. You can rescale the A field to do it in the particle part of the action, but this leads to all charges changing proportionally to the fundamental charge.
The only case where this fails is the noncompact U(1) (QED without charge quantization, which is exceptional in many regards, in particular it remains renormalizable with a mass term). In this case, you can do it by arbitrarily changing the charge using $\phi$.
The models are never renormalizable, since by power counting, the minimal coupling is already at the limit of dimension allowed, and any variation in the constants will just make it non-renormalizable. The reason is obvious from the kinetic coupling--- kinetic terms are those that define the dimension of the field, and making the kinetic term coefficient a field, making a nonlinear sigma-model, always takes you away from renormalizable theories except in dimension 2 where fields are dimensionless.
In 2d you can probably do this, there is no barrier to a term of the form above, the field $\phi$ is dimensionless. But in this case, the gauge field is non-propagting, and you have confinement always, so it would be a field dependent Regge slope, not a field dependent charge.