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Just as you can look at a newspaper photograph and see both the image and the tiny individual dots that give it its shapes and shadings, city leaders look at their municipalities in terms of both the big picture and the individual citizens that comprise it.
The majority of us live in cities, and the percentage is growing. Municipal leaders who run the complex network of diverse people, expected services and aging infrastructure are on a constant search for more efficient ways to analyze data, anticipate problems and coordinate resources in their cities.
As centers of business, culture and life, cities are logical places to integrate many of the Smarter Planet principles and innovations in public safety, transportation, water, building, social services and agencies. A new kind of solution, the IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities (US), synchronizes and analyzes efforts among sectors and agencies as they happen, giving decision makers consolidated information that helps them anticipate—rather than just react to—problems. By using these tested approaches, cities can manage growth and development in a sustainable way that minimizes disruptions and helps increase prosperity for everyone.
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As governments infuse the basic systems of our planet with intelligence to stimulate economies and benefit citizens, we start to ask: Can the operations of government itself become smarter?
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Our rapidly urbanizing planet depends on getting people and things from here to there. Our cars keep getting smarter. So how about our roadways?
A new school of thought: educate yourself on key trends in learning, advances in computing and the economic factors that are reshaping our educational systems.
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Imagine a rail system infused with enough intelligence to increase capacity and utilization and reduce congestion. Fortunately, we don't have to wait to begin seeing such impacts.
If a building's systems interoperate, they can be managed centrally, even intelligently. With all their impact on the planet, it's time for buildings to get smart.
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Looking to the future of cities' economic and social development in the Decade of Smart.
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Taking a more proactive approach to handling its transportation and utilties infrastructure, Cambridge, Ontario (PDF, 594KB), acquired a sophisticated new work and asset management system.
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Malta (US) is building a smart grid that links the power and water systems, and will detect leakages, allow for variable pricing and provide more control to consumers. Ultimately, it will enable this island country to replace fossil fuels with sustainable energy sources.
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In England, the Coventry (US) City Council held a three-day IBM Jam to engage in substantial conversation with its citizens and stakeholders about the city's future.
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IBM can help city and industry leaders increase the vitality and competitiveness of urban environments with solutions that can optimize the entire city, improve the quality and efficiency of services, and reduce waste and expense associated with inefficient processes and uncoordinated, duplicated execution.


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What is the etymology of "regression" as in finding the coefficients of polynomials?
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Latin "re-" ("back") plus "-gredior, -gredi, -gressus sum" ("go"); the "-ion" suffix is common for forming nouns.
Thus "regression" literally means "going back". It is more commonly used in a figurative sense (as the opposite of "development"). The mathematical sense you mention comes from the idea that one would normally use a formula to calculate coordinates of a curve, but in "regression" one is starting with the coordinates and "going back" to the formula.
I think it inherits it merely from being part of the larger concept of regression analysis. From that, as per Wikipedia:

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WHEELING - There's no place like home according to Wheeling Nailers coach Clark Donatelli. More specifically, there's no place like the Pittsburgh Penguins organization, and that's a big reason the Providence, RI, native agreed Wednesday to come back to the Friendly City for a third season.
"I can tell you (the Penguins) are very involved and don't leave any stone left unturned,'' Donatelli said. "They don't discriminate between Wheeling, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Pittsburgh -they treat everyone the same.
"They are very hands-on and they want to know what's going on at all times. I'm constantly on the phone with (assistant general manager) Jason Botterill and John Hynes, the coach in Wilkes-Barre.''
Donatelli often says that all players in the ECHL are talented, but learning how to be a consistent pro is the main thing keeping them out of the American Hockey League. Well it stands to reason the same is true of a coach, therefore Donatelli said his time in Wilkes-Barre during the Baby Pens' long postseason run was invaluable.
"At the end of the year with Coach Hynes, it was great being able to slide right in there behind the bench as an assistant coach during their playoff run and be in charge of the power play,'' Donatelli, 45, said. You grow and you mature.
"It was a great experience."
So, too, was his first full season being in charge of the Nailers. Though Wheeling failed to qualify for the Kelly Cup Playoffs, it did finish with a winning record (31-29-12) for the third consecutive season.
There were lessons learned in coming up short, the coach said.
"Our road record has to get better and we think we have taken steps to fix that by bringing in some more character guys that have the ability to step up and stop a situation like that,'' Donatelli said. "You look at the home loss to Florida last year when we blew a three-goal lead with eight minutes left and you could just kill yourself.
"Things like that are about character. You need guys who will not let things like that happen.''
To that end, there are going to be a host of new faces in Wheeling this season. Several players had called Wheeling home for a number of year, but either through retirement, advancement to the next level or the lure of a bigger payday in Europe, will no longer be around.
That's not a bad thing, the coach said.
"You kind of need or or two or of those guys who have been around a while in your locker room, to help the younger guys along,'' Donatelli said. "I think there's room for a couple of those guys, but for the most part we want guys who are going up in their careers, not on the back end of the line.
"Not all teams approach it that way and that's fine, but it's been pretty successful for us.''
A former two-time Olympian and one-time captain of the national team, Donatelli will have some company this season as his wife, Michelle, and youngest son, Jack, will be living in Wheeling.
"Clark is a valuable member of our organization both on and off of the ice, and we are happy to have him back for another season," Nailers governor Don Rigby said. "He has developed a fantastic working relationship with the Penguins and (Montreal) Canadiens, and has countless connections in the hockey world that will help us put a winning product on the ice, while also helping players reach their highest potential."
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It took awhile for the engine to warm up on this chilly November evening.
But after revving it a few times and squealing the tires a bit, Fort Lewis College sped right through Northern New Mexico�s road block.
The FLC men�s basketball team forced 26 turnovers, held the Eagles without a field goal for the first 10 minutes, 4 seconds of the game, then simply rolled from there to an 83-52 victory in its home and regular-season opener Thursday at Whalen Gymnasium.
Skyhawks head coach Bob Hofman had little negative to say about the performance, one in which all 14 players in uniform saw time. Eight players made their Whalen Gym debuts for FLC (1-0), including Nick Tomsick, who led all scorers with 17 points.
Cade Kloster and Jared Smith caught Hofman�s eye as each scored nine points, and Hofman admitted he�ll have some tough decisions to make regarding playing time as he looks to whittle his rotation down to a more manageable size.
�Every player improved himself (Thursday),� Hofman said. �Every day we have to start making more difficult decisions about playing time.�
FLC took three minutes to find the basket to open the game, but the Skyhawks exploded from there, going on a 19-0 run in the first half to grab a 19-1 lead, powered on the run by eight of Mike Matthews� 16 points. Defense did the trick in that run and for most of the game, as the Eagles (3-5) shot just 25 percent in the first half and committed 26 turnovers in the game.
Guys who didn�t have huge scoring nights still managed to make an impact in other areas. Ignacio High School product Alex Herrera had a respectable seven points, but he muscled his way to 10 rebounds, while fellow center Torrey Udall had seven points and six boards � five on the offensive glass � as the Skyhawks held a 44-32 rebounding advantage.
Starting point guard Matt Mazarei didn�t find his way on the scoresheet, but he dished out nine assists, while Shane Jensen and Lucas Archuleta chipped in seven points each.
�We have a lot of good guys. We�ve got �Chief� (Herrera) taking over the post, and we�ve got Torrey, also a great post. We�ve got a bunch of new guards, a lot of transfers, great players, and we�re a good scoring team,� Matthews said. �And I think it�ll be consistent throughout the season.�
FLC shot the ball well, connecting at a 47-percent clip and made 11 of 30 from 3, a slightly high but acceptable number of attempts from distance in Hofman�s estimation.
Eagles� head coach Ryan Cordova, a former FLC assistant, picked up a technical foul after taking umbrage with what became a 23-14 disparity in fouls.
FLC and Northern N.M., an NAIA program, will meet again Nov. 24 in Grand Junction, but first, the Skyhawks will take a step up in competition, facing Dixie State next Friday, also in Grand Junction. Dixie State is receiving votes in the NABC Coaches Poll.
�We�re still trying to get some chemistry going with the new guys, and I think we did a good job of that (Thursday),� Matthews said.


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Standing up for your child with autism isn't easy, but every parent can learn the skills to become a powerful advocate and help improve the system for people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). One mother of a child with autism, and a legal expert on ASD, has advice for taking control and turning an overwhelming situation into something empowering. Areva Martin, Esq., offers these "Seven Principles of Advocacy" in her book, The Everyday Advocate: Standing Up for Your Child with Autism. These key principles may help you get the services and attention your child deserves in school and in life.
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When a human being exhales CO₂, what is, by the numbers, the main source of carbon atoms exiting the body in this way? I mean what class of cells, or which tissues are the biggest on a pie chart of where carbon atoms breathed out in the form of CO₂ molecules came from?
CO2 is a product of Cellular Respiration, which generally takes Glucose and molecular Oxygen to produce Carbon Dioxide, water, heat, and allows ADP to be regenerated into ATP (or other various oxidation reactions). The Carbon comes from wherever the acetyl-CoA used in the Citric Acid Cycle came from - either carboyhydrates or fatty-acids (saturated carbon chains).
Simplified reaction: C6H12O6 (s) + 6 O2 (g) → 6 CO2 (g) + 6 H2O (l) + heat
So, you are correct. CO2 transferring out of the lungs is mostly the result of burning sugars (or fats) for energy (the regeneration of ADP/GDP with respect to human biology).
To that end, the tissues that produce the most CO2 will be the cell-types which constantly require energy. Nominally, muscle tissues.
Per your comment, broken down fat, or rather, the process of Fatty-Acid Catabolism, results in the production of acetyl-CoA, which is a primary player in the Citric-Acid Cycle. The Citric Acid Cycle, which you should recognize as the Cycle that Pyruvate - the end result of Glycolysis (the breakdown of Glucose into 2x 3-Carbon Pyruvates) - also goes into after being converted into acetyl-CoA by Pyruvate Dehydrogenase.
The sum of all reactions in the citric acid cycle is: Acetyl-CoA + 3 NAD+ + Q + GDP + Pi + 2 H2O → CoA-SH + 3 NADH + 3 H+ + QH2 + GTP + 2 CO2
So, for a basic breakdown with respect to CO2:
At rest, the main sources of CO2 are the brain, liver and heart.
The original questions seems to me to be asking for information about which tissues or organs are responsible for producing most of the exhaled CO2. As other answers have mentioned, CO2 production by cells reflects the amount of oxidative metabolism that is being carried out. This means that we can answer the question by simply asking - which tissues/organs are responsible for consuming the most O2?
There are many sources of information about this, but the most succinct statement that I have found is here:
Other sources are in broad agreement with this. Note however that these are values at rest. As the quotation states, during active exercise the skeletal muscle will become the major source of CO2.
The chemical formula for glucose is C6H12O6. When the body needs energy, the glucose molecule is broken down to give CO2 and water:
Therefore, I think "C" comes mostly from glucose molecules.
The two main chemical processes in the human body that generate carbon dioxide (CO2) are:
The total level of carbon dioxide in the blood (CO2b) is therefore the sum of the metabolic (CO2m) and carbon dioxide arising in the large bowel (CO2c). In certain circumstances CO2c arising in the colon may be resorb into the bloodstream.


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I'm working on a project with a buddy, he doesn't have a 360 nor does he have the money to get one right now, but we want our game to be submitted to XBLIG. So right now we're both designing our game on the PC but we're using adapted 360 controllers. What are the things we need to keep in mind during the process so that we can "easily" port our game to the 360 from the PC?
You have to keep in mind that the Xbox360 has far poorer .NET performance than your average desktop PC (and a limited subset of it too!).
There are two main reasons: the Load/Hit/Store penalty (due to the architecture of the CPU/RAM/GPU) and the non-generational Garbage Collector.
For GC issues, which cause 'pauses' or 'freezes' in your game during runtime, you want to avoid any kind of runtime garbage, so be very careful with Strings (never concatenate for instance), never allocate reference type objects after your initial loading (ie no
But whatever you do, you will have to test on the Xbox360, and the sooner the better.
The best way is to periodically test the game in a console to check for performance problems or problematic garbage collections; otherwise you will end with a lengthy debugging and optimization session before publishing the game.
And when porting to Xbox 360, check all the cases specified in the peer review evil checklist.
No one seems to mention this, but be sure to, at the very least, compile your project for the X360 every day. The Xbox only features a subset of .NET (.NET Compact Framework 3.0), missing lots of interesting stuff like Tuples, some collections, optional parameters, etc., so you will get bitten if you rely on any of them and don't realize you shouldn't until too late in the project.


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In $GL(n, \mathbb{Q}_p)$, what are the orbits under conjugation of $GL(n, \mathbb{Z}_p)$?
The problem can be reduced to that of classifying $GL(n,\mathbf{Z}_p)$ conjugacy classes in $M(n,\mathbf{Z}_p)$. The situation for general $n$ is complicated, but for $n=2$ the problem is settled by the following.
Let $F\in M(2,\mathbf{Z}_p)$ be any matrix, let $f(x)$ be its characteristic polynomial, and let
$n(F)=\sup_i(i\in\mathbf{Z}_{\ge 0},$ $F$ mod $p^i$ is multiplication by a scalar $)$.
Then the $GL(2,\mathbf{Z}_p)$ conjugacy class of $F$ is uniquely determined by $f(x)$ and $n(F)$.
If $n(F)$ is infinite, then $F$ is a scalar matrix and therefore central.
If $n(F)$ is finite then there exists a unique integer $\lambda\in\mathbf{Z}$, with $0\le\lambda\le p^{n(F)}-1$ such that $F$ is conjugate to $\begin{pmatrix} \lambda&0\\ 0&\lambda \end{pmatrix}+p^{n(F)}\begin{pmatrix} 0&-a_0\\ 1&-a_1 \end{pmatrix}$.
Here $a_0$ and $a_1$ are the constant and linear term of the polynomial $f_0(x):=p^{-2n(F)}f(p^{n(F)}x+\lambda)$, which has coefficients in $\mathbf{Z}_p$.
We have that $p^{n(F)}$ is the index of the ring $\mathbf{Z}_p[F]$ inside the ring $R_F:=\mathbf{Q}_p[F]\cap M(2, \mathbf{Z}_p)$.
All rings are viewed as subrings of $M(2,\mathbf{Q}_p)$. We will sometime think of $F$ and of elements of $R_F$ as endomorphisms of the standard lattice $\mathbf{Z}_p^2$ inside $\mathbf{Q}_p^2$.
Proof: if $n(F)$ is infinite then there is not much to prove, therefore we assume $n(F)$ finite, and $F$ not central. The ring $R_F$ as defined above contains $\mathbf{Z}_p[F]$ with finite index, since they both are finite free $\mathbf{Z}_p$-modules of rank two. This is clear for $\mathbf{Z}_p[F]$, since $f(x)$ is the minimal polynomial of $F$, since $F$ is not central. For $R_F$ it follows from the fact that $\mathbf{Q}_p[F]\cap M(2, \mathbf{Z}_p)$ is open, compact, and non-empty in $\mathbf{Q}_p[F]$, which has rank two over $\mathbf{Q}_p$, since $F$ is not central.
The ring $R_F$ has a $\mathbf{Z}_p$-basis of the form $(1, F')$ where $F'=(a+bF)/p^{h}$, for some $a,b\in\mathbf{Z}_p$ not both divisible by $p$, and where $p^h$, with $h\ge 0$, is the index of $\mathbf{Z}_p[F]$ in $R_F$. The $p$-adic integer $b$ is a unit, for otherwise $p^{h-1}F'-b'F=a/p$, with $b'=b/p\in\mathbf{Z}_p$, would belong to $R_F$, which is not possible since $a/p$ is not a $p$-adic integer. This shows that the natural action of $F$ on $\mathbf{Z}_p^2/(p^h)$ is multiplication by $-ab^{-1}$ mod $p^h$. Therefore $h\leq n(F)$.
On the other hand, if $\lambda$ is any integer such that $F-\lambda$ is zero mod $p^{n(F)}$, then $F'':=(F-\lambda)/p^{n(F)}$ is an element of $R_F$, since $F-\lambda$ commutes with $F$ and it is divisible by $p^{n(F)}$ in $M(2,\mathbf{Z}_p)$. Therefore $n(F)\leq h$. Thus $n(F)=p^h$ and $(1, F'')$ is a $\mathbf{Z}_p$-basis of $R_F$ (since it spans a lattice of the correct index).
Now, by the maximality of $n(F)$ we see that $F''$ does not act via scalar multiplication on $\mathbf{Z}_p^2/p$. This implies that there is a $\mathbf{Z}_p$-basis $(e_1, e_2)$ of $\mathbf{Z}_p^2$ such that $F''(\mathbf{Z}_p\cdot e_1)\not\equiv \mathbf{Z}_p e_1$ mod $p$. It follows that $(e_1, F''(e_1))$ is also a $\mathbf{Z}_p$-basis of $\mathbf{Z}_p^2$.
With respect to this basis the action of $F''$ is given by a matrix of the form $\begin{pmatrix} 0&-a_0\\ 1&-a_1 \end{pmatrix}$, where $a_0$ and $a_1$ are the constant and the linear term of the characteristic polynomial of $F''$, which is $f_0(x):=p^{-2n(F)}f(p^{n(F)}x+\lambda)$ and has coefficients in $\mathbf{Z}_p$. By picking $\lambda$ in the range $0,\ldots,p^{n(F)}-1$, we see that the action of $F$ with respect to the basis $(e_1, F''(e_1))$ is that given by the statement.
Notice that this shows that $\mathbf{Z}_p^2$ is a free $R_F$-module of rank one, and classifying the action of $F$ on $\mathbf{Z}_p^2$ is roughly equivalent to finding $R_F$. I was interested exactly in this in the context of Tate modules of elliptic curves over finite fields ($F=$Frobenius). Probably there is a more conceptual/simpler proof. I would be interested to hear what you get in higher dimension. It won't be that easy, I expect. What makes this case simple is that orders of $\mathbf{Q}_p[F]$ containing $F$ are classified by the index with which $\mathbf{Z}_p[F]$ sits in them.
The answer to this question would also determine the conjugacy classes in $GL(n, \mathbb Z_p)$. I think this is known to be a "wild" question for $n>2$, i.e. there is no hope to find an answer. I am not sure about $n=2$. Have you tried to work this case out?


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I've set up a custom post type called 'properties'. These posts can be tagged with the custom taxonomies of 'area' and 'university'.
I would like to be able to have a form with a drop-down for each tag. When the form is submitted I would like to go to the URL that displays the archive of those tags.
Two questions really:
- What is the URL that will return the correct posts?
- How do you construct that URL with a form?
For some reason I thought that this would be really easy but I just can't find a way to do it. Any help is much appreciated.


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I am currently using VirtualBox 3.2. I would like to upgrade it to latest version without losing any operating systems in it. How can I achieve this?
Head on over to this page and download the Ubuntu package for your version / architecture.
Be sure to get the VirtualBox extension pack too. (This provides USB 2.0 and RDP support.) The most recent version can be found on the VirtualBox Downloads page.
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The Oracle public key for apt-secure can be downloaded here. You can add this key with
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You should be able to upgrade virtualbox from the ppa available from virtualbox directly.
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A positive integer $n$ is called square-full or powerfull if $p^2|n$ for every factor $p$ of $n$ for every prime factor $p$.
I need to show that if $n$ is square-full show so it can be written in the form $n=a^2b^3$ for $a,b$ positive integer.
I looked in wikipedia but the proof was too complicated... is there any easy way to prove this?


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Entertainment CEO Strauss Zelnick will speak with the NYU community about his professional success, a talk that is part of NYU's "Wisdom of the Humanities" event series, on Wednesday, April 3, 5:30 p.m. at NYU's Wasserman Center for Career Development (133 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor [between 3rd and 4th Avenues]).
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Can I freeze soup in a pot (I believe it's made of stainless steel)? Are there any health risks? Is there any risk of damage to the pot?
The possible risks I can think of are (1) the large thermal mass may mean that the soup cools off too slowly, leading to spoilage in the middle, and (2) freezer burn on the top of the soup, because there's no truly effective way to seal out air from a pot. In practice, (1) is unlikely unless you're talking about a 25-gallon pot or something, in which case it wouldn't fit in an ordinary freezer anyway. (2) on the other hand will be a problem, unless you're only freezing the soup for a short period.
The only risk to the pot is that it may not quite fit in the freezer comfortably, so as people take things out and put things in, they may shove the pot about and maybe break a handle or something.
There are no health safety risks with storing food in a stainless steel, or most other cooking pot metals for that mater
The pot should be fine, but there is always a risk with metal in a freezer in that bare skin contact may freeze to it. Also other products in freezer bags may even freeze to it
In general it's easier not to use metal containers in the freezer, unless enamelled or plastic coated
If it's stainless, there should be no health or other problem. But you will lose your pot for the duration of the freezing.
Water expands when it freezes. That has a small risk of damaging the pot (though, it'll likely expand upwards instead—do not fill to the top). E.g., this can cause glass jars to break. Metal is more flexible though (and you have a very wide "mouth" on the pot).
But I'm unsure why you'd ever want to do this.
Freezing in disposable hot-beverage cups (the non-styrofoam type that coffee is served in) is a much better option. First, its a single serving per cup, so you can easily pull one serving out of the freezer. Second, they're microwavable.
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Integrative oncology, or integrative medicine, refers to the use of complementary, or integrative, therapies in collaboration with conventional medicine. These therapies work in concert with standard treatment methods (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation) to treat the patient's body, mind and spirit. Integrative therapies contribute to the overall goals of treatment, symptom management, distress relief, and may improve overall treatment efficacy and adherence.
Conventional cancer therapies: cancer treatments that are widely practiced and have been proven beneficial in clinical research trials. These are often called standard care and may include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and/or hormonal therapy.
Complementary and alternative medicines and practices (CAM): not considered standard treatments, though many can be beneficial to cancer patients. Often, these therapies are not routinely taught in medical schools and your physician or nurse may not be familiar with them.
Integrative Oncology: is an approach to cancer care that incorporates promising complementary therapies to support the whole patient: mind, body and spirit. Many cancer centers have integrative medicine programs that offer complementary therapies on-site.
Many integrative therapies are helpful in relieving side effects and supporting a patient's overall wellbeing. Unfortunately, for many of these therapies, we are not certain what risks, if any, they pose, and for others the risks are well known. Integrative therapies that are taken by mouth or given through an IV may interfere with standard cancer treatments (either negating or intensifying its action) or cause certain blood test results to be inaccurate, so it is important to discuss those with your providers. In addition, the treatments may have side effects of their own. For example, they may worsen other medical conditions a patient has, such as high blood pressure.
Vitamins, herbal therapies and supplements do not require FDA approval and they are not subject to the same manufacturing and purity standards as regulated pharmaceuticals. This has led to production batches containing impurities, or not containing what the label states they contain. One way to safeguard against this is to buy from reputable manufacturers or those that are verified by USP (United States Pharmacopeial Convention). USP is a non-profit organization that tests vitamins and supplements for purity and assures that the products contain what the label says they contain. Verified vitamins and supplements will have a "USP verified" seal on the packaging.
There can also be safety concerns for some mind-body and body-based practices, depending on your situation. For example, deep tissue massage is typically not recommended for areas affected by lymphedema and acupuncture could increase infection risk in patients with a low white blood cell count. This underscores the importance of discussing ALL integrative oncology therapies with your providers.
The key to integrating these therapies into your cancer care is to talk about it with your healthcare team. Although many integrative therapies can be helpful, others have been proven ineffective or can interact with your standard cancer treatments or other medications. In recent years, oncology providers have become more aware of promising integrative therapies and are usually willing to support their patients in using these therapies safely. Your team can help guide you towards therapies that may be beneficial to your care needs based on your symptoms, coping and stress reduction needs. Your healthcare team can refer you to integrative practitioners at your treatment center, or in your area. It is important that all of your care providers know what therapies you are using and work together to provide you with optimal treatment. This includes your integrative medicine providers. An oncology social worker or navigator can also help you with coordinating care and facilitating communication amongst providers.
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I've just realised that CC is "carbon-copy" and BCC is "blind-carbon-copy". Basically I'm wondering, where did these terms come from?
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Back when typewriters were in common use and photocopiers were rare, one kind of paper you used to be able to buy actually came as two or more sheets stuck together at the top with carbon paper between each sheet. This way you automatically had multiple copies of whatever you put on the paper. This was commonly used to save typing work for office memos, but was especially common for forms. If they were filled out by hand, they'd put instructions on the top of the first page to "press firmly when writing" to ensure even the bottom copy was legible. I think such forms are still around in some places, but they now use specially backed paper instead of separate sheets of carbon paper. Forms also typically had different words at the bottom of the carbon copy pages saying who got that copy.
Now the "blind carbon copy" I always thought was an email innovation. However, Unreason in the comments below found a reference to it from a secretarial handbook from 1979. Wikipedia explains it was made to emulate an old office typist trick of adding addressees to one (or more) of the carbon-copied sheets after the copies were made, so that the others don't see that addressee. According to the handbook, secretaries were supposed to make note of these extra recipients in a file, but the other recipients would be "blind" to the fact that these extra people received copies.
I always thought it was "carbon copy" (and upvoted that answer) but I just read a letter to New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028171.200-cc-all-readers.html saying otherwise. The letter-writer points out that Latin used double letters for plurals, a habit that came into academic English -- pp for pages and LLB for the degree Bachelor of Laws, for example. (As a student I used ff for following in my own notes, eg "p 21ff has quick summary".) Apparently cc would thus mean copies, not carbon copy. The letter claims that cc predates carbon paper or even typewriters, and was used in medieval times. Intriguing and at least slightly convincing. Note it's never c.c. or CC - always cc. To me that adds a little support.
Here is something I found:
When Typewritter along with carbon paper was actually used letters used to have at the bottom of the page, a list cc: Names, Initials, Department, Or Notice Borad ID for people/Departments who were getting copies. The name of the addressee(s) was not changed. At the time of actual distribution, a tick mark was placed by Pen against a specific name in CC to ensure that no one got the list twice by error and no one was missed.
In certain cases, it was required that a senior or unrelated person needed to be informed. His name would be written out/typed on the additional copy. It was written BCC so that the receiver also knew that he is got a copy without others knowing about it.
Carbon copy is correct. The OED defines c.c. as "carbon copy or copies (followed by a list of others to whom correspondence is to be copied)." The earliest citation listed is this: "1936 L. I. Hutchinson Standard Handbk. Secretaries 287 The carbon copy notation, 'c.c.', should be the last notation." The definiton of bcc (no periods supplied) is "blind carbon copy" and the earliest citation is: "1974 W. H. Bonner Better Business Writing 455 You would omit the carbon copy notation from the original, but would typewrite the letters bcc (meaning blind carbon copy) on the carbon copies only."
It is, however, true that both terms were in use earlier. A search of Google books turns up a reference to the term in a 1912 U.S. government report stating that "by almost universal practice of business concerns the carbon copy has supplanted the press copy as a record of the outgoing correspondence." Press copies were made by wetting the original and pressing it onto another sheet, and this was the first widespread technology employed to make duplicate copies of correspondence. Reference to carbons replacing the press method is clear evidence about where the term came from.
The earliest blind carbon copy turns up in Google Books is 1948 in The Secretary's book: a complete reference manual.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Robert William Green, 57, 52235 National Road, St. Clairsville, was arraigned Thursday before Judge Jennifer R. Sargus.
He pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated vehicular manslaughter, a felony of the second degree, and one count of failing to stop after an accident, a felony of the third degree, occurring Aug. 8, 2012. He is also charged with a count of hit-skip.
His status conference was set for Feb. 1, with plea agreement March 15 and trial April 2. Bond was continued at $25,000.
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Jason Cattane, 31, Bridgeport, was killed in the August accident, which occurred near the North Ebbert Road intersection. He was reportedly walking home after attending the funeral of a friend's mother.
The boy's father, David R. Cattane, was present at the arraignment. He said he wishes justice to be served and hopes for the maximum sentence.
"The state highway patrol did an outstanding job investigating this case, and all the evidence they gathered from their investigation was presented to the grand jury last week," said Prosecutor Chris Berhalter. "After hearing all that evidence, they did return a two-count indictment."
He added that the delay between the accident and charging someone was unfortunate but inevitable.
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BELMONT COUNTY officials are asking for the public's support to pin down who is illegally dumping at Wegee Creek off Ohio 7 and vandalizing property.
Flood workers have removed mattresses, tires, refrigerators and other items from the creek in Shadyside.
A pile of dirt blocks the access road as a quick fix for Shadyside, Mead Township and Belmont County officials.
"Unfortunately, this is the second time in the last month and a half to two months, people have removed the chains which have closed off the area," said Dwayne Pielech, county flood grant coordinator. "Not only did they remove the chain with four padlocks on it, but they also took a chainsaw and cut two telephone poles to get the chain off."
Flood grant workers clean up natural debris at creek sites around the county, but also come across litter, according to Pielech. He said Wegee, in particular, is a problem area for dumping.
"We took two 40-cubic yard dumpsters out of there and several dozen tires. There was a lot of meal products that we also took from the area, and plastics we tried to recycle," Pielech said.
He said the area is pretty clear for now. While officials try to find a solution, they said they want residents who live by the creek to keep their eyes open.
"What we are asking the public to do is for anyone who knows anyone, an individual or group, that removed the chains at the site, to please contact the Belmont County Sheriff's Office."
The chain removed reportedly weighed close to 100 pounds and cost hundreds of dollars. Officials said they hope that the temporary dirt block discourages any further illegal activity.


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I am having some hard time with awk today. If I try to do:
df|awk '{print $2; $some=$2; print $some}'
It works as expected and I get the size of the disks twice but if I do:
df|awk '{$some=$2; print $some}'
I just get blank lines. Why is this happening? Something is maybe wrong in my understanding but why the usage of a field mandatory for subsequent fields to work? I also tried doing:
df|awk '{print "hello"; $some=$2; print $some}'
and I got some "hello", each separated by a newline. Where is $some=$2 lost?
df command outputs:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 38448788 32098732 4396932 88% /
udev 1914564 4 1914560 1% /dev
tmpfs 768744 984 767760 1% /run


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Arrested: Craig Copely, 64, 908 Market St., menacing warrant, Monday.
Theft: Wallet taken from house on Saturday in the 100 block of McConnell Avenue and credit card used at gas station.
Vandalism: White powdery substance found in vehicle gas tank in the 200 block of North Fourth Street, Monday.
Arrested: Michael J. Goski, 24, 624 Monroe Drive, Bergholz, expired registration and bench warrant out of Wintersville county court, Monday.
Arrested: Brandi Nelson, 25, 624 Monroe Drive, Bergholz, bench warrant out of Wintersville county court, Monday.
Cited: Bradley Newburn, 35, 858 Buena Vista Blvd., speeding; Torrence Lyda, 21, Apartment 2, 1147 Wellesley Ave., riding outside vehicle; Cody L. Colvin, 20, 1414 Pennsylvania Ave., Weirton, expired registration; and Edward C. Dameron, 26, 20 N. Byron Drive, Wintersville, driving with suspended license and failure to yield.
Arrested: Eric E. Taylor, 35, 2917 Sunset Blvd., driving with suspended license, failure to appear warrant out of municipal court and petit theft, Monday.
Arrested: Patricia Scott, 49, Apartment 5, 321 Woodland Ave., disorderly conduct, Monday.
Arrested: Perrier Coleman, 18, 742 Woodlawn Road, petit theft and obstructing justice, Monday.
Arrested: Tami Shackelford, 34, 1135 Oak Grove Ave., petit theft and failure to appear warrant out of Wintersville county court, Monday.
Arrested: Allyson L. Mullins, 27, 507 Woodland Ave., failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, today.
Arrested: Derrek E. Cason, 23, Steubenville, failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, today.
Arrested: Steven Carothers, 25, 1335 Euclid Ave., failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, today.
Arrested: Lamont Whatley, 21, 817 Market Square, failure to appear warrant out of municipal court and possession of drug paraphernalia, today.
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Arrested: Jamie L. Ford, 32, 417 S. Main St., Amsterdam, failure to appear in court warrant out of Carroll County, Monday.
Cited: Richard Clogg, 20, Benwood, driving with suspended license and failure to control.
Theft: Bike taken from yard in Sunny Acres, Wintersville, over the weekend.
Arrested: Daniel A. Lewis, 37, 110 Lee Ave., Weirton, failure to appear warrant out of Muskingum County, Monday.
Arrested: Charles Becker, 35, Carrollton, parole violation, Monday.
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Arrested: Zachary A. Roeder, 20, 18 Marshall St., Wellsburg, domestic battery, Sunday.
Arrested: Sierra M. Cooper, 18,111 Randall Ave., Follansbee, transporting stolen property, Friday.
Arrested: Mitchell T. Lucas, 21, 106 Decca Lane, Colliers, domestic battery, battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, destruction of property, disorderly conduct and public intoxication, Saturday.
Theft: A home on Eldersville Road in Follansbee was broken into and a laptop computer and cash were taken between 10:15 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday. A rear door was kicked in.
Breaking and entering: A home on Rockdale Road on Hooverson Heights was broken into some time early last week. A rear door leading to the basement was kicked in. Nothing appeared to have been taken.
Cross Creek Township
Cited: Joshua E. Waugh, 30, 4401 Lovers Lane, Steubenville, stop sign violation; David B. Kell, 47, 100 Meadow Road, Wintersville, speeding; Anthony J. Miller, 23, 325 Terrace Drive, Wintersville, operating ATV on roadway and driving with suspended license; Aaron Fabian, 21, 901 Main St., Smithfield, operating ATV on roadway; and Cody Minor, 21, 401 Edwards St., Mingo Junction, operating ATV on roadway.
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Cited: James Robb Jr., 43, Masury, speeding.
Charged: Amber Ruttencutter, 21, 904 Third St., Brilliant, disorderly conduct, Sunday.


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6 Disasters Caused by Poorly Designed User Interfaces
#3. The Herald of Free Enterprise Capsized Because of an Open Door
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In 1987, the Herald of Free Enterprise, a ferry between Belgium and England, capsized, resulting in the deadliest accident a British ship has been involved in outside a war in almost 100 years. The cause? Someone forgot to close the door that allows cars to board the ferry.
Via Jurgenbockstaele
"I don't understand. I left the screen door shut."
The Dumb Problem:
Hey, you know how in your car you have a little light that tells you when somebody's door or the trunk is open? Yeah, this ship didn't have that.
And even worse, in a car, even if you had no warning "ding," there's still a good chance you'd see that the door or trunk was left open. Not so on the boat -- its doors weren't visible from the captain's post, and the only system for making sure they were closed was called "assuming someone closed them." Unless the guy in charge of closing the doors came up to the captain and said, "Hey, by the way, I am currently asleep in my cabin and didn't do my job," the captain would start the ship and leave. Even if the doors were open and inviting in tons of seawater. Which is exactly what happened.
That's the gaping doorway on the left.
It's not like this type of technology was unheard of at the time; this was just 1987 here. Members of the Herald crew had actually asked management to install a door-position indicator on the bridge, but management dismissed the request, calling it "frivolous."
Although some crew members were clearly at fault here, the ensuing investigation found that the root of the problem was actually in the company's management for not listening to the crew members' concerns and not implementing a better security system. In the end, as punishment for the deaths of nearly 200 people, the company's owners were forced to ... change the company's name and repaint their ships (they were all acquitted).
Via Simplonpc.co.uk
Company before.
Via Ferryfantastic.webs.com
Company after. The real victims here, people.
#2. The Kegworth Air Disaster Happened Because of a Digital Dial
In 1989, a Boeing 737 crashed into the side of the M1 motorway near Kegworth, England. The problems started when the jet began vibrating, indicating that one of its two engines was malfunctioning. Unfortunately, the pilots got the impression that the good engine was at fault and turned it off.
Without any functioning engines, the jet became a large piece of metal suspended in the air and did what large pieces of metal suspended in the air tend to do.
Via Smh.com.au
The Dumb Problem:
Some months earlier, the cockpit instrumentation in this type of plane was updated to give them a slicker-looking digital design, presumably because someone at Boeing finally got around to watching Back to the Future and thought the inside of the DeLorean looked cool. The remarkably inept new design wasn't the only reason for the crash, but it was by far the dumbest and most easily avoidable.
At one point during the Kegworth flight, the dial indicating the vibration in the left engine rose to the maximum and stayed there for three minutes -- but the pilots never saw it, because it was too small. The older model had a large, clearly visible mechanical pointer that was pretty hard to miss. Here's a picture:
Via Asib.gov.uk
With instruments like those, you could bull's-eye a womp rat, no problem.
You can read those dials, right? Even if you backed up from your monitor a ways, you'd see that all those on the left are pointing to the upper right. Now try to find the "needle" on the new dials:
Via Asib.gov.uk
If you're saying "They're just circles, they don't have needles pointing at anything," you're almost right. Here's a closer look:
Via Asib.gov.uk
This is actually a better view than they gave the people flying the fucking plane.
See those three little lines outside the dial? That's the entire "pointer." The dial itself was already hard to see, and on top of that it had a digital pointer that barely existed. Now add that to the fact that the whole place was vibrating at the time. In the confusion, the pilots never saw the dials. Yes, the information was there if they went looking for it, but making the dials look stylish instead of readable made them easy to miss.
#1. The Space Shuttle Columbia Burned Up Because of PowerPoint
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Every disaster on this list so far happened in a matter of minutes or even seconds and involved people having to act fast and under pressure. Not this one: After a piece of debris hit the space shuttle Columbia during launch on January 16, 2003, NASA had two weeks to prepare it for re-entry. Engineers were called to assess the danger, and after reading their reports, NASA decided that everything was just fine.
Well, we all know how that turned out.
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So how did the experts so badly underestimate the damage to the shuttle? Well, you know those danger-assessment reports we mentioned? The ones commissioned by the most advanced space agency in the world to decide what to do about a potentially huge disaster? They were done with the same tool a 14-year-old would use today to create a school presentation: Microsoft's PowerPoint. And, according to information design guru Professor Edward Tufte, that fact may very well have cost seven astronauts their lives.
"Hey! When you clicked the thing, a glowy thing happened!"
Why? Because this was an enormously complex engineering puzzle with tons and tons of data painting the picture -- it wasn't the kind of shit that can be conveyed by a pie graph and four bullet points surrounded by clip art. Trying to compress a complex problem into a PowerPoint slide inevitably leads to truncated or unintentionally misleading information. Sometimes that causes you to get a D in a community college business class, and sometimes that causes a space shuttle to blow up.
For example, Professor Tufte analyzed slides used in one of the reports and pointed out that the arbitrary bullet point hierarchy (an inevitable part of every PP presentation ever created) made some statements look more important than others. Like in this slide:
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Every single word was programmed to spin in separately from off screen.
You see bold words like "overpredicted penetration of tile coating," which makes it sound like the damage wasn't as bad as they thought. But way down in the middle, in the tiniest of non-bolded print, you see the words "Test results do show that it is possible with sufficient mass and velocity," where "it" meant "total freaking disaster."
And see that nonsense phrase buried down at the very very bottom? "Volume of ramp is 1920cu vs 3 cu in for test"? Yeah, that actually meant that the debris that hit Columbia was 640 times bigger than the one they used for testing. But hey, at least the bullet point fit onto a single line.
"Rocket science isn't really rocket science, right?"
In a much more serious post-accident report, experts at NASA actually admitted that as the information in PowerPoint presentations moved to the top of the agency, key facts were filtered out. By the time it reached high-level employees, they were only seeing the good stuff. And let's face it: It's entirely possible that at least some of those guys just glanced at the headlines and thought "Well, that's a relief," then continued playing Minesweeper.
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MORRISTOWN - The Steubenville Big Red girls basketball team displayed the heart of a champion during their Ohio Division II sectional game at Union Local Tuesday.
Ultimately it fell just short as an Emiley Masloski three-pointer to tie the game was off the mark, and No. 1 seed Carrollton held on to claim a 52-48 win.
"I think our girls played tremendous on the defensive end," said Big Red head coach Phil Casinelli. "The game plan the coaching staff, Coach (Mark) Masloski and Coach (Angie) Forte had, the girls executed to perfection. Offensively, in the first half, we didn't get a couple shots to fall. We were kind of lagging behind.
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"We fought. Our girls fought for 32 minutes. They didn't give up. I thought they played an outstanding game. Emiley just, with that injury, just couldn't get any lift on that last shot, and it just came up short."
Emiley Masloski, who was hobbled by injury, played a game to remember in the loss. The junior guard struck for a game-high 18 points, and hit a three with 22.4 seconds left to pull her team within three at 51-48.
"She's playing at about 60 percent," said Casinelli. "It's a shame that a girl who works so hard and loves the game so much that, at this stage, she wasn't able to be at 100 percent.
"She obviously wanted to be there for her teammates. She gutted it out again. She's been doing that for a month. Her performance speaks for itself."
Carrollton's Monica Starre missed two foul shots after being fouled with 17 seconds left giving Big Red the shot at the tie. When Steubenville's final shot fell short Starre was fouled again with .6 seconds left and hit one of two for the four-point final margin of victory.
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It wasn't as easy as the season finale last week, but the Pratt High School softball team dispatched Kingman 8-0 on Monday at Green Complex to advance to the regional semi-finals.
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ARW401: Drawing S (2014-2015)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Visual Arts
COURSE TITLE: Drawing S
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Fundamentals of Art
Major Concepts/Content: The drawing course is designed for students who want to explore drawing as a means of self-expression. The course activities develop students' skills in the techniques and styles of drawing media, Students explore the two and three-dimensional aspects in drawing and develop personal expression.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will provide practice in using a variety of drawing tools and materials. Students will create drawings that use several widely recognized techniques, such as contour and gestures, and will demonstrate the ability to use several drawing media effectively. Techniques for pre-serving and presenting drawings will be taught in the course. Visits to art galleries, studios, and museums will be included when feasible
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be required to demonstrate the proper care and storage of drawing tools and materials. Projects will be evaluated on Originality, craftsmanship, effort, time utilization, and quality with consideration given to the individual or student's talent, experience, and/or limitations. Both written and oral tests will be used to evaluate knowledge of course content.
Essential Expectations: Upon successful completion of Drawing S course, the student should be able to:
Upon completion of the drawing course, students should be able to:
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- Demonstrate several drawing techniques, e.g., cross hatch and value study.
- Demonstrate several drawing methods, e.g., contour and sketching.
- Demonstrate one- and two-point perspective.
- Display proficiency in a variety of drawing media.
- Demonstrate composition skills in drawing.
- Use a variety of drawing tools, including computers.
- Use a variety of drawing materials.
- Demonstrate techniques for preserving and presenting drawings.
- Maintain an art portfolio and a sketchbook/journal.
- Demonstrate Aesthetic Perception
- Discuss the relationship between drawing and other art forms.
- Discuss the effectiveness of expression in selected drawings.
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- Name artists whose drawings are representative of several significant political and/or social movements.
- Identify ways in which drawing is utilized in the commercial, the industrial, and the scientific worlds.
- Discuss artists who have produced significant drawings.
- Identify the drawings of prominent artists.
- Identify career options related to drawing.
- Utilize Critical Judgment of the Visual Arts
- Discuss the effective use of drawing media.
- Compare the media used in several drawings.
- Critique their own drawings and the drawings of their peers.
- Assist in the selection of drawings for exhibition purposes.
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Shimon and Levi single-handedly Killed out an entire city because of immorality against Dinah their sister illustrating their character of anger, later Pinchas a descendant of Levi followed in his fathers footsteps and killed Zimri who was also engaged in an act of immorality using his anger in a postive way, the problem is the person he killed was Shimon's descendant. How did this happen they where both cursed by Yackov for their anger yet Levi developed positively and therfore Pinchas took revenge on the Sin and the other took part in the Sin. What caused this extreme parting of ways?
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The Midrash (cited in my comments to YS' answer) gives the following analogy:
It's like two people who borrowed money from the king. One paid back his debt, and indeed later was able to lend to the king. The other not only failed to repay, but borrowed again.
Similarly, Shimon and Levi both "borrowed" (became indebted to G-d) at Shechem. Levi repaid his debt in the desert, when they responded to Moshe's call "Whoever is for Hashem, with me!" (after the Sin of the Golden Calf); and then they went on to "lend" G-d at Shittim (in a sense, Hashem now "owed them one"). Whereas Shimon not only did not make good on their earlier debt, but sank further into liability in the affair of Zimri.
However, the Midrash doesn't give a reason why they developed so differently. For that, we would need R' Yaakov's answer cited by YS.
Although I wonder about another possibility. Way back when, after the brothers' first visit to Egypt to buy grain, Yosef detained Shimon (Gen. 42:24). He had valid reasons for doing so (see Rashi there), but after all, that kept Shimon away from his family for probably several months or more (the time it took for the rest of the brothers to get back to Canaan, consume all of the food they had brought back, convince Yaakov to allow Binyamin to go with them, and then travel back to Egypt). Could it be, then, that this lost time (of being in the presence of the tzaddik Yaakov, or of the opportunity to perform the mitzvah of honoring his father) itself had a negative effect on him?
YS cites Pinchas' killing of Zimri (Bamidbar chapter 25) as an example of Shimon and Levi's "parting of ways." YS's question can be strengthened with further illustrations of the ambiguity and tension that seems to surround these two charcters. In Bereshit, Levi and Shimon are both severely reprimanded in the blessings of Yaakov at the end of his life:
Conversely, at the end of Moshe's life, Levi is praised whereas Shimon is completely ignored:
For Levi the words: "I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel" is manifest by taking residence in the arei miklat, cities of refuge, distributed throughout the land of Israel. For Shimon, this meant being awarded a portion of land completely subsumed within the portion of Yehuda and then completely disappearing from the narrative history of the Tanach. The last time we hear from the tribe of Shimon in any narrative portion of Tanach is in the first chapter of the book of Shoftim. There, Shimon is involved in an act of terrible cruelty against the enemy king Adoni Bezek:
Many biblical commentators have addressed the development of the Shimon and Levi characters in the Torah. For example, YS gave an answer provided by Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky. Rav Kamenetsky's answer like many of the answers that are given to this question is obviously correct in the sense that the message it teaches is unambiguously a fundamental message of the Torah:
Furthermore, the distinction made by Rav Kamenetsky's between Shimon and Levi is conceivable assuming we take literally the Midrashim that Levi were learning Torah in Mitzrayim. However, I think a careful, literal reading of text suggests a different answer (for an analysis of the exegetical role of midrash see Appendix #1, for an analysis of Tanach begovah einayim, see Appendix #2).
Like the midrash cited by Alex in his answer, is is clear from the Torah that the pivotal point in the narrative where the tribe of Levi merit their status as workers in the Temple is the incident following the sin of the golden calf. There the Torah describes:
The Torah summarizes this event in the book of Devarim:
The incident with Shchem (Bereshit 34) cited by YS in his question, is the Torah's archetypal incident of morally ambiguous militarism. The text there strongly suggests that Levi and Shimon were justified in their massacre, yet Yaakov's "curse" at the end of the book, implies otherwise. (The blessings of Yaakov are further riddled with paradox considering that Reuven gets a very positive blessing despite the the Torah's horrifying testimony: "And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel [Yaakov] heard of it..." (Bereshit 35:22).) Apparently, the moral ambiguity is resolved after the incident at Har Sinai where Levi's militarism is vindicated.
In other words, the killing of Jewish people at Har Sinai was necessary to demonstrate that the killing of non Jews in Shchem was not an act of nationalistic fervor or xenophobic prejudice, but rather was done leshem shamayim, for the sake of heaven. I think the discrepancy that emerges between the character of Shimon and the character of Levi makes clear that when we are forced to defend ourselves against an enemy, we can do so in one of two ways. If arms are taken up in the name of militarism and blood thirst, the act is unacceptable, however if arms are taken up with a sense of moral obligation and koved rosh, it is praiseworthy. Shimon killed his enemies and tortured them unnecessarily, Levi was willing to kill people who were not his enemies and carry out his mission with a heavy heart. Shimon killed only when it was convenient for him, Levi was willing to kill when doing so was horrific and impossibly tragic. Shimon wanted to go to war, Levi did so when it was absolutely necessary and when the imperative was as unambiguous as it was at the foot of mount Sinai.
This I think, is the source of the zealousness that the Torah admires in Pinchas and this is an issue that needs to be brought to the fore today where, for better or for worse, questions of war and morality have suddenly become practically relevant.
Appendix #1:
The assumption of the midrash that the tribe of Levi was exempt from the slavery in Egypt and allowed to learn Torah is not at all obvious. The simple reading of text does not suggest that the Leviim had special treatment in Egypt and its unintuitive to say that the Torah was studied there since the Torah was only given to the Jewish people after the exodus from Egypt.
Assuming the inerrancy of the Torah and the significance of what Chazal have to say, is it somewhat unsettling when a midrash makes assumptions that are not explicit in the Torah. There are two methodological approaches to this situation:
The main difference between these two approaches is the question: how much time should be spent studying and resolving the simple reading of the Torah without taking on the additional assumptions of Chazal.
This methodological question is an explicit dispute amongst the Rishonim. A careful reading of the Rambam in Hilchot Talmud Torah, the laws related to Torah study, (1:11) makes it clear that he assumes like the second approach outlined above (see also his introduction to his commentary on the 11th of Chapter of Tractate Sanhedrin and multiple places in the Moreh). Alternatively, the position of Rabbenu Tam quoted in the Tosfot on Kiddushin 30a implies that he holds like the first approach outlined above.
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In my analysis of this issue (and in Rav Kaminestsky's analysis as well), the character of Shimon is criticized. This is not a simple thing to do considering the stature of a biblical character like Shimon and his central role in Jewish history as the father of one of the twelve tribes. Whether or not it is desirable to criticize biblical characters relates to the highly controversial issue in Jewish thought called Tanach begova einayim. In my humble opinion and in the opinion of the Rabbis who taught me how to study Tanach, the criticism of biblical characters is inappropriate if it means passing judgment on people who we never met, we cannot understand and who cannot defend themselves against our claims. However, criticizing biblical characters is appropriate and is valuable if the goal of our criticism is exclusively to uncover the messages that the Torah intended we take from its narratives.
Reb Yackov Kamenetsky in the Emes LeYaakov answers to understand we have to see how history developed.That is while most of Klal Yisroel were slaves in Mitzrayim,Levi was free to learn Torah. It was the Torah values that allowed the Leviim to channel their zealousness in the proper way. By stark contrast Shevet Shimon never got to learn Torah.Therefore their zealousness had no torah values and therefore expressed itself in forbidden ways. Rav Yackov says: "When zealousness is guided and bound by the limits of the Torah then it will succeed…. But without guidance, boundaries, and the hanhagas haTorah it [zealousness] does not have the power to succeed and ultimately will remove the kanai from the world."


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