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5 Scientific Advances That Should Have Changed Everything
#2. Robert Galbraith Heath Invented Brain-Fixing Electrodes 60 Years Ago
We've talked about the dickishness of some of Dr. Robert Galbraith Heath's experiments in the past. However, that's not all the man did. A large chunk of his work with Tulane University went a long way to revolutionize depression treatments. For instance, in the '70s, his team successfully treated several people previously labeled untreatable.
With electrodes.
"'Dead' -- 'not depressed'... it's a matter of perspective."
Yes, his more than slightly supervillainy solution to treating one of the most difficult mental problems around was to hook up to 125 electrodes to a patient's brain. And while the mere mention of the words "electricity" and "brain" in the same sentence conjures images of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Heath's method was actually specifically designed to ease the patient's mind by stimulating the pleasure center of the brain.
And it worked.
But the Problem Was ...
That's right; he found a way to just freaking inject electric pleasure into a human brain. It kind of sounds like the kind of discovery that should have changed civilization.
But Heath kept the experiments at a very low profile instead of going public for the "HOLY SHIT YOU CAN TOTALLY ELECTRIFY YOUR BRAIN INTO PLEASURE YOU GUYS" headlines. A quite possible reason for this was an incident in 1962: Heath was contacted by the CIA to see if his electrode trick could be used for interrogation by exploring the pain center instead.
"Oh, and is there a way to make another person shit their pants? Just out of ... um ... curiosity."
Heath sanely dismissed the idea as plain disgusting, and proceeded to play his cards close to chest.
Another problem that stood between Heath and the embracing public was the fact that his electrodes needed to stimulate the brain at regular intervals, it wasn't like a one-time thing. This basically amounted to "brain pacemakers" that would have to stay in the brain for years. So the technology remained in the shadows, and even today, we are still treating it like it's barely out of the experimental stage. Though it could still make a comeback -- Columbia University has been toying with the technology in recent years.
"You know, I think I'm OK with just being depressed."
How It Could Have Changed the World:
Let's talk figures.
Depression is one of the biggest health problems of the modern world, estimated to affect 19 million people in the U.S. alone. Its cumulative costs amount to a whopping $44 billion. And while it can be treated, it's far from an easy task -- medication is unpredictable and comes with side effects, and pretty much everyone needs a different treatment. It's hard to imagine what could have been accomplished with 50 years of evolution of Heath's electrode technology (which was proven to cure other mental illnesses, too).
Such as the ironic compulsion to randomly shock your own head.
Then again, we guess that's also imagining a world where somebody wouldn't immediately think of some horrifying use for it. It ... kind of seems like the sort of thing a person could get addicted to.
#1. Henry Cavendish Revolutionized Science, but Didn't Tell Anyone
Henry Cavendish is probably the most prolific scientist you've never heard of. He was a talented chemist whose list of accomplishments includes, but is not limited to: the discovery of hydrogen, calculating the density of Earth and establishing his own versions of Richter's Law, Ohm's Law, Coulomb's Law, Charles's Law of Gases and Dalton's Law ... and he did it in the 1700s, many years before any of those guys for whom the laws would be named.
He was also a bit of a hardass. For instance, while Georg Ohm figured out his law about electrical conduction by messing around with wires, Cavendish just flat out subjected himself to electric shocks, using his own damn nervous system as a galvanometer.
So, a fearless badass with a scientific mind that put all his peers to shame? Hell, he's just a vast fortune away from being the Georgian era equivalent to Batman. Wait, he was the richest man in England? Never mind.
But the Problem Was ...
He didn't share his earth-shattering discoveries with anyone. Because he was nuts.
Cavendish more than compensated his talents by having some serious issues. He spent the majority of his time barricaded in his study, communicating with his housekeeper via notes. Female servants were ordered to keep away from his line of sight on pain of getting instantly fired. On the rare occasion he ventured to scientific society meetings, he lurked around wearing strange, out-of-date clothing; if someone addressed or even looked at him, he would scream and run away.
He couldn't even look at the guy who did his damn portrait.
Knowing this, it's not surprising Cavendish didn't want to draw attention to himself and his little hobbies, lest he have to deal with people. In fact, we wouldn't even know about most of his discoveries had it not been for his private papers being looked through in 1879 by a James Clerk Maxwell ... nearly a century later.
How It Could Have Changed the World:
Cavendish made the majority of his discoveries decades before they were officially invented -- in the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and the era of the steam engine. And when you look at said discoveries, you'll realize that many of his findings concerned pretty crucial stuff about thermodynamics and electricity.
Things like, "Warning: Do not lick."
Now, imagine if England had figured out electricity decades before they actually did. With findings like Ohm's Law moved from 1827 to 1781, a vast thermodynamic and electrical knowledge suddenly at the scientific community's disposal and the public mind set in the "industrialize everything" mode that was the spirit of the era, the progress of technology would have been rapidly put to use. Gaslights could have become electrical ones within years, and the steam engine would've gone the way of the dodo. Great Britain might've entered the Victorian era fully lit, amped up and more powerful than ever, at no bigger price than the ruined dreams of potential future steampunk enthusiasts.
Which, now that we come to think of it, might not be a bad thing. There's also another side to the Electrified England scenario: We doubt that they would've been too keen to share their newly found power with America, what with one thing and another going on at the time. So it's entirely possible that they'd used their Cavendish tech against America, who'd have been back to eating tea and crumpets before they even realized it.
"I heard him say 'robot.' What the fuck is a robot?"
So, thanks for being a grouch, Henry!
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Nietzsche's Jesus ... and ours
Whatever else Christian theology is, it is an exercise in literary criticism. That is, to be a theologian is to take revelation seriously and taking revelation seriously means understanding that God has revealed himself in the Scriptures. To understand those Scriptures, then, one needs to pay attention to form, to genre, to plot, to figures of speech, and all the rest. And of course knowledge of history and philosophy and archeology among a host of relevant disciplines can and should be brought to bear on interpreting those Scriptures.
This is all a roundabout way of introducing two excellent literary critics: Terry Eagleton and Friedrich Nietzsche. If you haven't read Eagleton's article in the most recent Commonweal, go and do that now. What I write here is intended to be a codicil to Eagleton's piece. * I've just finished teaching Nietzsche's Anti-Christ, and as usual, the students were in turn angered, surprised, and bewildered. And that anger, surprise, and bewilderment came from Nietzsche's interpretations of the Gospels, from, we might say, his literary criticism.
As Eagleton makes clear, Nietzsche is the first real atheist, but it's worth noting that while Nietzsche hates Christianity, he has a particular fondness for Jesus. Nietzsche's Jesus is not the Son of God or the Word made flesh. Nietzsche's Jesus is a dim-witted man who spoke in metaphors that no one ever understood. Yes, Jesus brings glad tidings, but the "'glad tidings' are precisely that there are no more opposites; the kingdom of Heaven belongs to children; the faith which here finds utterance is not a faith which has been won by struggle – it is there, from the beginning, it is as it were a return to childishness in the spiritual domain." Jesus is an overgrown child. Like a child, he tells stories to tell how he feels. It's just that everyone has misunderstood the stories.
The metaphors Jesus used expressed his feelings of oneness and peace. As Nietzsche writes, "If I understand anything of this great symbolist it is that he took for realities, for 'truths,' only inner realities – that he understand the rest, everything pertaining to nature, time, space, history, only as signs, as occasions for metaphor." Jesus lived single-mindedly. He practiced what he preached, but he always preached in metaphors. From the very beginning, Jesus's "followers" took those metaphors and made them literal. "But it is patently obvious what is alluded to in the symbols 'Father' and 'Son' – not patently obvious to everyone, I grant: in the word 'Son' is expressed the entry into the collective feeling of the transfiguration of all things (blessedness), in the word 'Father' this feeling itself, the feeling of perfection and eternity." Ever the philologist, Nietzsche sees it as his job to disentangle the metaphorical from the literal. When someone asks you or me how we are doing, if we are feeling at peace with the world we might say, "I'm doing well" or "Today is a great day." When asked the same question, Jesus says, "The Father and I are one." "The 'Kingdom of Heaven,'" Nietzsche tells us, "is a condition of the heart – not something that 'comes upon the earth' or 'after death.'"
Now, to be clear, I find Nietzsche's interpretation tendentious in the extreme. But his tendentiousness is the point. And that's also why I find his reading oddly compelling. My students continued to be bewildered until I pointed them to what Nietzsche says about Christ's actions. Too often people think of Christianity in terms of holding certain theological propositions and behaving according to a particular moral code. Christian belief, especially among my students, often amounts to a divine 401(k) plan. So long as you contribute enough, a few dips in the market won't jeopardize your chances of heaven. But for Nietzsche (like Holden Caulfield, whom my students invoked), such a view is an example of bad faith or being a phoney. For Nietzsche, "To reduce being a Christian, Christianness to a holding something to be true, to a mere phenomenality of consciousness, means to negate Christianness. In fact there have been no Christians at all."
Jesus, according to Nietzsche, wasn't concerned primarily with the truth. Jesus was concerned about living life in a particular way. "Only Christian practice, a life such as he who died on the Cross lived, is Christian.… Even today such a life is possible, for certain men even necessary: genuine, primitive Christianity will be possible at all times…. Not a belief but a doing, above all a not-doing of many things, a different being." I told my students about a friend from college who is now a primitive Franciscan in Boston. He and one of his Franciscan brothers went to World Youth Day in Rio. They got there by hitchhiking. I think his life scandalized them more than the idea that God didn't exist. As I mentioned to my students, too often Christians say they believe in Jesus, not often enough do Christians seem to believe Jesus, to believe that the Kingdom of God is here, to believe in the glad tidings.
When Christians do things for the sake of the afterlife, when they allow suffering because everything will be reconciled in heaven, when they concern themselves more with theological argument than with living in peace with their neighbors, Nietzsche tells us, they are simply not doing what Jesus did. What children do any of those things? They are misunderstanding Jesus's metaphors, and they are misunderstanding their own motivations.
I look forward to reading Eagleton's forthcoming book. But in the meantime, I hope some dotCom readers might pick up Nietzsche, if only to find someone who takes Jesus so seriously. Nietzsche's answer is idiosyncratic. It's, as I said, tendentious. It ought épater la bourgeoisie. But Nietzsche takes seriously a question that is worth taking seriously: "Who do you say that I am?"
* In writing about Nietzsche, I recognize that I'm going where angels fear to tread. It was Mike Tyson, after all, who told us that in order to understand Nietzsche you need an IQ of 300. And I certainly don't have that.
About the Author
Scott D. Moringiello is an an assistant professor in the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in Catholic theology and religion and literature. He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Nietzsche is an astonishing thinker, an elegant writer, and a provocateur. Yes, he can be infuriating, but he can also be quite instructive. He's also an amusing German (the world could use more of those). And how can one not appreciate someone who grew weary of Wagner? His aphorisms and gnomic statements? Wunderbar! "Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; however, if the melody has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A parable."
too much Nietzsche is not good for your digestion
on the other hand, Moringiello makes even Nietzsche palatable -- it must be that Italian flavoring!
You have reached your objective, at least with me, as I am now delving into Nietzsche. My furthest up to this point was: "Christians don't look redeemed." When I took philosophy it was a mortal sin to read him. It is intriguing that he takes Jesus seriously as you wrote. Nietsche does think for himself. He did not just repeat or enlarge what was fashionable as some in the enlightenment did. Interesting that his sister tried to alter his writings to reflect a more orthodox view. At least according to H.L. Mencken. Many people within the church today agree with some of his criticisms. Francis is probably one.
The reason, I believe, that this thread does not get much of a response is that people who write about him make him more difficult than he is . To a certain extent Eagleton's article falls within that category. Perhaps you can fill in that gap.
Bill Mazzella,
Thanks for your comment. I'm so glad someone has taken me up on reading Nietzsche! I just want to make sure I follow your final paragraph. Are you saying that I've made N. too difficult or that my short piece helps fill the gap in making him more accessible? I certainly hope the latter!
Joseph O'Leary,
We only read him for two classes! I don't think that would cause too much indigestion.
Robert Imbelli,
I'm glad that Vattimo (whose work I like) isn't the only one to add Italian flavoring to Nietzche!
The latter. As RI wrote you make him palatable. If I were in South Bend I would audit your class.
Oh, good. Thanks for your kind words. And I teach at Villanova, not ND! So you wouldn't have to trek to the midwest.
Nietzsche: "The last Christian died on the Cross". Ouch.
(Like all adolescents, his criticisms often hit home.)

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The 5 Biggest Disasters in the History of Marketing Ideas
It's easy to feel like we're all just cogs in some corporation's cash printing machine. Even when they offer us a deal, we assume that at some level, they're still making out like bandits.
Yet sometimes companies screw up so badly that you wonder if they, like us, are just making it all up as they go along. How else do you explain ...
#5. McDonald's and the Olympics
Remember that Simpsons episode where Krusty Burger ran a huge promotion for the 1984 Olympics promising they'd give away burgers for every medal the Americans won? Krusty got steadily more enraged as the U.S. won event after event ("I will personally spit in every 50th burger!"). Well, that totally happened.
Sorry, Simpsons. This time, real life did it.
In 1984, the Olympics came back to the United States, and McDonald's went all-in with their sponsorship of the games. To show their confidence in the U.S. Olympic team, Mickey-D's came up with the "If the U.S. wins, you win!" promotion. Customers got scratch pieces with an Olympic event printed on them. If the Americans won a gold, silver or bronze medal in that event, the customer would get a free Big Mac, fries or Coke, depending on the medal.
"Now with steroids!"
Now, no business goes into a "win a free ___" promotion without having a fairly specific idea of how much free merchandise is going to go out the door. McDonald's probably looked at the U.S. medal count from the last games we had participated in, in 1976. In that year, the U.S. won 94 medals, 34 of them gold. After all, it was the Soviets and their allies who dominated the games every time (in 1976, Russia won 125 medals, and East Germany won 90, with 40 gold medals).
But the U.S. arguably had the best celebratory dances.
We have to go back to 1976 because the U.S. didn't participate in 1980, since the Olympics were held in Moscow and the U.S. boycotted the games because they hated the Russians. But that should have been a cue for McDonald's -- since the 1984 games were being held in the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and friends returned the favor and boycotted. Remember how we said Russians and East Germans finished ahead of the U.S. in 1976? Both of them would be sitting out the 1984 games altogether.
"We don't need you, we have a wall to play up against."
With the Eastern Bloc competition out of the way, the U.S. wound up winning significantly more medals as the last time around -- a mind-boggling 174 medals total. Instead of the 34 golds the U.S. won in 1976, the 1984 games saw the Americans bring home 83.
"I'm doing this for my country, for my family and for a truck-full of burger."
Which meant McDonald's had to give away much more food than they expected, including more than twice as many valuable Big Macs. There were rumors that locations were running out of Big Macs... that the customers didn't pay a dime for.
Did the CEO spit in every 50th burger? We can't know.
But yes. The answer is yes.
#4. Walkers Potato Chips
O.K., so the McDonald's Olympics giveaway might looks silly now, but maybe at the time they thought some other country was going to step up their medal count. It's an understandable mistake. But then you have the Walkers Potato Chips weather prediction contest.
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Also available: the wet-paint-watching contest and the staring into space extravaganza.
In theory, they'd be rewarding customers for predicting something far more unpredictable. If the customer bought a bag of chips for 40 pence (about 65 cents), they could go onto the website and try to predict when and where it would rain. If the customer could accurately predict the time and place, they'd win 10 pounds (about $16).
The secret to winning is checking the weather report.
Some of you have already spotted the problem by the fact that we're converting the dollar amounts from British pounds. Yes, this contest was held in England. In autumn. A time and place where the weather comes in two flavors: torrential downpour and "Oh, is it raining? I couldn't hear over the sound of slicing my wrists." Statistically, you have a better than 1 in 3 chance of it raining on any particular day. Also, Walkers gave out two entries per bag, doubling each participant's chances.
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Somebody did the math and figured out that statistically, for every three pounds' worth of chips Walkers sold, they were paying out 10 pounds in prize money.
Finally, during an extremely rainy week when they were set to lose over 1 million pounds, the site "mysteriously" went down ...
"Oh, would you look at that? Better get those razors back out, guys!"
... with the promotion ending soon afterward.
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In 1967, San Francisco-based Pacific Air Lines found itself in a tight spot. A well-publicized crash made customers nervous about flying, and a lot of other bad business decisions weren't helping.
"This will have to go."
Such grim circumstances called for serious action. Which is why they turned to a comedian to take over their promotions and save their airline. Specifically, this guy:
That's Stan Freberg. While most business leaders would say, "Might as well file for Chapter 11 right now," PAL put its trust in Freberg, which was pretty much a death sentence for the entire company.
"Forget better meals and basic safety standards. What I want on this flight is to laugh.
Freberg decided to address the public's post-crash mortal fear of flying using the power of edgy comedy. The first move was to take out a full-page ad, saying:
"Hey there! You with the sweat in your palms. It's about time an airline faced up to something. Most people are scared witless of flying. Deep down inside, every time that big plane lifts off that runway, you wonder if this is it, right? You want to know something, fella? So does the pilot, deep down inside."
"May as well wrestle with that hatch, 'cause that's the only way you're getting out of here, lady!"
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"I will now go around the plane to pry the oxygen masks from your faces."
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BUFFALO, SC-- Mrs. Sherry Graham Sizemore, age 44, wife of Tim Sizemore of 191 Haney Road, Buffalo, went home to be with her Lord, Monday, April 1, 2013, after a long battle with cancer.
Mrs. Sizemore was born in Union, January 3, 1969, a daughter of the late Jackie Keith Graham and Gerald Eugene Graham and wife Judy of Union. She was a graduate of Union High School and received a degree in cosmetology. An active member of Putman Baptist Church, Mrs. Sizemore served as a Sunday School teacher and also had served on various committees within the church. Sherry was a loving and devoted daughter, wife, mother, sister and aunt.
Surviving in addition to her husband, father and step-mother, are two daughters, Whitney Sizemore Smith and husband Phillip of Buffalo and Jordan Ashley Sizemore of the home; two sisters, Crystal Graham Adams and husband Steven of Tryon, NC and Tammy Graham Phillips of Buffalo; a step-brother, Jeff Culberson and wife Diane of Louisville, KY; her in-laws, Paul and Judy Whitehead; a sister-in-law, Marlene Rhinehart and husband James; a brother-in-law, Paul Jerry Whitehead, Jr. all of Union; several nieces and nephews including special nieces and nephews: Jacqueline Adams, Aaron Adams, Olivia Phillips, Chasity Rhinehart, Brooke Rhinehart, Dusty Rhinehart, Michaela Whitehead, Macy Whitehead and Jeri Lynn Whitehead.
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Suppose that I have an $A$ - module $N$ with $A$ commutative and I take a projective resolution of $N$:
$$\ldots \rightarrow P_2 \rightarrow P_1 \rightarrow P_0 \rightarrow N \rightarrow 0.$$
Suppose $M$ is some other $A$ - module. Now why is it the case that
$$\ldots \rightarrow P_2 \otimes_A M \rightarrow P_1 \otimes_A M \rightarrow P_0 \otimes_A M \rightarrow N \otimes_A M \rightarrow 0 $$
is not exact? I know that the tensor product is not in general left exact. However if the projective resolution is an infinite one then there is no "left" so why should the sequence above not be exact?
There has to be some problem with my understanding for then we always have $\textrm{Tor}_i^A(M,N) = 0$ for all $i$.


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I am an Atrix owner. One thing makes me annoyed. I try to place a call and if the line is somehow engaged, the phone automatically locks the screen. Is there any way that I bypass this automatic feature and use the gadget without hassle? Thanks in advance for the repsonse.
If you are rooted, disable your Proximity Sensor in a call. To do so, add following line to
If you don't use Proximity Sensor other than in call, you can disable it fully. To do so, use Hardware Disabler app. But, make sure you have selected correct driver of proximity sensor, otherwise you will brick your device. To find correct driver of proximity sensor, you can either Google or find it using Android Sensor Box app.
Plus, make sure to make screen timeout period long. You can use Widgetsoid app (or, other toggle apps) to make it infinite.
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Upgrades to the Tate Park soccer field in Clinton will be delayed until spring. At the Dec. 9 Clinton Village Council meeting, village manager Kevin Cornish said the heavy fall rain had forced postponement of the work. He said new drainage systems will be added and the field reseeded.
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That being said, I still really like the not so original versions of the story. That means I like the US versions I�ve seen on television. I�ve also been known to catch a few missed episodes online � just to make sure I stay current on the series. And now there are even Sailor Moon dolls here on The Doll Palace. What could be better?
Serena learns about her powers from a talking cat she helps save one morning before school. As she goes through fight after fight against the Dark Kingdom she learns even more about who she was in a past life and what is to become of her in this one. Along the way, others join the fight. My personal favorite is Sailor Mercury.
Amy is the smart one in the bunch. She is essentially the resident genius of the group. Poor Amy was originally an outcast since she was so smart and different than everyone else, but then she happened to help Serena out in a battle and got her own special powers. Now she is the smartest of the bunch and has some of the coolest powers. I think I might be Sailor Mercury in my next life. Even her outfit is cuter than everyone else�s, but I�m sure everyone has her own favorite.


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Softball Welcomes Mountain Lions to Smethers Field ThursdayFebruary 26, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – The No. 21 Anderson University softball team is slated to get back in action on Thursday, as the Trojans wrap up their longest homestand of the season by playing host to Peach Belt Conference-opponent Young Harris at Smethers Field. First-pitch versus the Mountain Lions is set for 1 p.m.
The Trojans
With a 15-1 record, Anderson is one win shy of setting a new school record for the best start in school history, as the 2013 edition of AU softball also started the campaign with an identical mark, which eclipsed the 2012 squad's 15-2 record.
Senior shortstop Abby Child continues to lead the Trojans' offense with a .500 batting average and ranks fourth in the league in that category. The versatile 5-foot-5 shortstop ranks in the top three in the SAC in nine offensive statistical categories. Hard-hitting first baseman Danielle Swygert is 13th in the league with her .438 batting average, ranks third with 21 hits along with Child, and is fifth in both runs scored (15) and RBI (15).
Freshman Courtney Czentnar continues her impressive debut at the plate, boasting a .395 batting average with three doubles and two home runs among her 15 hits on the season. The right-handed hitter has also driven in 10 runs. Second baseman Jessica Neidigh is riding a six-game hitting streak on the strength of a .385 batting average and continues to be a threat on the base paths, as the junior remains a perfect 8-for-8 in stolen bases, which is tied for tops in the SAC.
Sophomore Molly Child ranks 22nd in the SAC with her .380 batting average, while her six home runs lead the conference. She belted two homers in the Tuesday afternoon sweep of GRU Augusta, including a walk-off two-run shot in the opener. Freshman pitcher Augie Pena has three hits in eight at-bats, including a double, while Rebecca Martin rounds out the seven AU hitters who are batting above .300 on the season. Martin also blasted two home runs on Tuesday, including a solo shot that gave the Trojans the win in the nightcap.
As a team, the Trojans rank either first or second in the South Atlantic Conference in 10 offensive categories. AU batters have also been hit by errant pitches on 18 occasions this season, which ties Tusculum for tops in the league.
With a pair of wins on Tuesday, junior hurler Katelynn Howser improved to a league-best 7-0 on the season with a team-high 37 strikeouts in 40 innings of work. Freshman Lauren Rudesheim (6-0) has made nine appearances and has 28 strikeouts, while walking only six batters. Pena (3-1) remains second in the conference, averaging 9.40 strikeouts per contest, and has issued just three free passes in 22 1/3 innings.
The Mountain Lions
Young Harris was picked to finish 11th in the 2014 Peach Belt Conference preseason poll, according to a vote of the league's coaches. The Mountain Lions were predicted to finish ahead of UNC Pembroke after posting a 27-27 overall record a year ago, including a 6-16 mark and a 10th-place finish in the PBC.
First-year Head Coach Aileen Morales returned 14 players, including eight starters, from last year's team. Junior outfielders Sydnee Weaver and Paige Sexton returned after being two of the top three hitters for the Mountain Lions last season. Weaver batted .376 with a team-high 61 hits and 34 runs scored. Weaver was second on the team with 17 stolen bases while driving in 17 runs and collecting 12 extra-base hits. Sexton, who batted .321 a year ago, was the top base stealer for Young Harris with 21 stolen bases. She was second to Weaver in hits (50) and runs scored (31). Sexton drove in 18 runs with 11 extra-base hits.
Sophomore catcher/third baseman Sarah Magill is expected to anchor the Mountain Lion infield after moving to catcher at the beginning of last spring and starting 41 games at catcher. Magill batted .224 with nine extra-base hits and 12 RBI. First base is expected to rotate between three players - senior Dominique Sibley and sophomores Lindsay Tudor and Sarah Beth Marquis.
Sophomore Darby Stanford entered the season expected to lead the Young Harris pitchers after winning 13 games with a 2.74 ERA in 27 appearances a year ago. She tallied a team-high 14 complete games with one shutout. Stanford struck out 114 and walked 32 in 150.2 innings. Senior Katie-Jo Gentry tallied nine wins with a 4.61 ERA in 28 games, with one complete game. She struck out 71 in 129 innings of work.
Juniors Karli Timms and Brittany Henry, seniors Lisa Wilson and Brittany Olsen, and freshman Victoria Thomas complete the pitching staff. Henry went 4-1 with a 2.29 ERA in 14 appearances with three saves. Henry notched 33 strikeouts in 36.2 innings. Timms went 1-2 with a 2.58 ERA in 11 games with one complete game. Wilson, who battled an injury in 2013, made three appearances while Olsen recorded a save in eight games.
After throwing two shutouts, including a perfect game, Stanford was named the Peach Belt Conference Co-Softball Pitcher of the Week on Feb. 9. She went 2-0 with two complete games and a 0.78 ERA with 17 strikeouts and no walks at the UAH Charger Chillout in Huntsville, Ala. Stanford pitched the first-ever perfect game - 21 up, 21 down - and only second no-hitter since the Mountain Lions began playing four-year competition in 2011, as she struck out eight in a 4-0 win over Miles College. In that game she only allowed two fly outs and coaxed the opposition into 11 ground ball outs.
The Mountain Lions are 4-9 overall, but are 4-4 away from home, while dropping four of their last five and are coming off a two-game sweep at the hands of Reinhardt, 6-0 and 6-4, at home on Tuesday. The twin bill at Smethers Field is the first of three straight doubleheaders on the Mountain Lions' slate versus South Atlantic teams over a four-day span.
The Series vs. Young Harris
The Trojans and Mountain Lions have met four times, with Young Harris holding a 3-1 advantage in the overall series. After the Trojans claimed a 14-0 shutout in the first-ever meeting in 2012, Young Harris has defeated AU on three straight occasions, including taking a doubleheader, 8-2 and 10-5, from the Trojans last season.
Molly Child led the Trojans at the plate last season versus the Mountain Lions, as the then-freshman went 4-for-6 a year ago, with a double and four RBI on the day. She also walked twice, while Swygert and Jansky each tallied a pair of singles.


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Caleb Ulliman's father is an engineer and for a long time he thought he would become an engineer too, but that was before he took a 1-credit CU Teach course.
"One thing led to another, and all of a sudden I was headed down the path toward becoming a teacher," he said. "That's the case for a lot of people in CU Teach."
CU Teach is an innovative secondary math and science teacher education program that recruits exceptional math and science majors to earn a teaching license in tandem with the Colorado Learning Assistant Program. Learning Assistants are talented undergraduates who work alongside faculty teaching STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — to help transform undergraduate STEM courses at the University of Colorado Boulder. As many Learning Assistants move on to CU Teach, they work with teachers and students in local K-12 schools.
"That is what I love about this program; the students actually experience teaching instead of the perception of teaching," said Julie Andrew, a CU Teach Master Teacher, which designates a School of Education faculty member who is a veteran teacher of grades 6-12. "This process is much like teaching. Students learn as they go, it's step by step, and it's experiential. And really that is how we learn science."
With Andrew's guidance, Ulliman and CU Teach classmates introduced the chemistry of tie-dye to middle school students in workshops earlier this semester. Wearing tie-dyed CU Teach T-shirts that read: "We're dying to teach you science and math," the CU students challenged the young participants to determine what chemical compounds and geometric designs make the colorful craft possible.
Led by faculty in the School of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences, CU Teach and the Learning Assistant program provide discipline-specific education and public school co-teaching experiences for students. They also help future teachers understand the nuances of teaching science and math while they are engaged in upper-level science and math courses at CU-Boulder.
The concept has been a big hit with donors such as CU Professor Emeritus Richard McCray, the Anschutz Foundation and the United Launch Alliance. These and others (mostly first-time School of Education donors) gave $880,000 within 16 months to endow the CU Teach program — triggering $880,000 more in National Math and Science Initiative matching funds being disbursed to the program in April.
CU Teach is co-directed by Michael Klymkowsky, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and Valerie Otero, associate professor of physics education research. Otero said the value of the techniques exemplified in the tie-dye activity for integrating scientific content is supported by research. Such activities, along with projects that engage CU Teach students in scientific processes, are ingrained in CU Teach.
"We're able to demonstrate that K-12 teachers who had the Learning Assistant and CU Teach experience as undergraduates are engaging in more evidence-based teaching practices than their colleagues who did not have these experiences," Otero said. "Their students are articulating their ideas and making claims and supporting them with evidence. Students are identifying scientific principles from their observations and challenging one another more than they would in a traditional classroom."
Otero, who was recently named the American Physical Society's Woman Physicist of the Month, helped establish CU-Boulder's CU Teach program in 2008 as an extension of the internationally emulated Colorado Learning Assistant program. Since their inception, CU Teach and the Colorado Learning Assistant program have increased the number of graduates interested in math and science education, and the majority of graduates stay in Colorado, often to teach in high-needs schools.
"In the past, we didn't get a lot of teachers from majors such as applied math, physics, molecular biology and astronomy, but now we do," Otero said. "Most of our students end up in high-needs districts as full-time teachers because of the CU Teach commitment to equity and access."
CU Teach and the Learning Assistant program address national shortages in STEM education, and the programs aid national goals of training 100,000 highly qualified STEM teachers over the next decade.
Ulliman is majoring in biochemistry and will teach high school chemistry in Longmont next fall as a student teacher. He is excited to be part of the next generation of STEM teachers, and he credits his determination to the in-class experiences and supportive community of CU Teach teacher mentors.
In CU Teach, students and graduates are part of a lasting continuum of educators who receive support from Mentor Teachers in the local schools and experienced Master Teachers in the School of Education.
"If it weren't for the Master Teachers, I would not be going down this path, and I am very happy that I am," Ulliman said.
This story originally appeared on the Outreach and Engagement website.


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When Merriman's Waimea celebrated its 25th anniversary, there was more than enough reason to cheer Hawai'i Island's landmark resto. One of the founding members of Hawai'i Regional Cuisine, chef Peter Merriman championed the farm-to-table concept long before it became trendy. Since then, this toque has inspired the next generation of chefs. So what better way to mark the occasion than with blasts from Kahu Danny Akaka Jr.'s conch shell! It was also no surprise than this celebration drew kudos from none other than Gov. Neil Abercrombie. After the honors, Merriman marked the occasion by presenting $25,000 to island charities. –Photos by Kirk Lee Aeder


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The Future is Sooner and Stranger Than You Think
By Gaurav H-Oracle on Jan 31, 2013
"The future is sooner and stranger than you think" – Reid Hoffman
We are now at the cusp of the real Digital Age, an age where the network – the Internet today – becomes an organic entity. Various forces are in play that are accelerating the growth of the network – Metcalfe's Law (economic value), Gilder's Law (growth in connectivity) and Moore's Law (growth in processing power) are intersecting to drive rapid connectivity to the network. A common language (TCP/IP), convergence of communications on the Internet and a continuous drive to decomposition and distribution of state and function on the network are making this growth seamless.
Objects are joining the network every second, and each of these objects is generating a digital footprint. These objects are continuously connecting to each other, creating immense mesh graphs of relationships. These relationships are enhancing the digital footprints of the connected objects, growing it at an accelerated pace.
If we look at this network from a consumer-supplier perspective, our current thinking puts the individual consumer at the center of these relationships, the one with the "power" to create (or sever) these relationships. Thus one might view this immense graph as a mesh of star topologies, where each star is centered around an individual. A very different world from even 10 years ago, where the individual was likely a node in a lightly connected mesh.
Let's illustrate this with a retail banking example – 10 years ago a person would likely have had a long term relationship with a bank, where the bank would have dictated the terms for their current account, savings account and mortgage. This person might have had another mature relationship with a discount brokerage, where the brokerage would have controlled the fee structure, the margin requirements and CD rates. The suppliers were at the center of these relationships. Fast forward to today – this individual now likely has multiple transient relationships with a number of banks, a current account at one that charges no fees, savings accounts with banks that offer the highest interest, and a mortgage with a bank offering the lowest interest. The customer is now at the center of the star, with the suppliers being transient nodes.
This change in the power structure is exacerbated by new entrants into the market – institutions that are built around a complete digital footprint. These institutions have raised the expectations of the individual consumer. The consumer now expects to have real-time responses to their queries, and expects to have this discussion in public. The consumer now expects to have full transparency about the product and/or service that the suppliers are offering.
While established suppliers might view this new digital age with uncertainty, this age brings a brand new way of communicating with the consumer, finding out their preferences, offering goods and services supremely optimized to their needs. It brings about new ways of creating efficiencies in existing processes, but more importantly it brings about the means for us to do things that seemed improbable 10 years ago.
The DNA of the digital age is the Data that is created by the digital footprint of the participants. As more objects get digitized and join the network, new data is generated. Think about the requirements being mandated by the SEC (Securities Exchange Commission) and the CFTC (Commodities and Futures Trading Commission) to execute and clear swaps electronically. These are new sources of electronic data. The current nodes in the network are generating more new data continuously. Think about market data being generated at the various execution venues, it has been growing at an exponential rate since the cash equities market became electronic. Think about Twitter, Facebook, GPS (Global Positioning System) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) enabled devices, SmugMug, Yahoo!, LinkedIn and the blogosphere, data from these sources is being added every second. Current estimates put data generation at 5 trillion bits per second.
This data is the new frontier; it has been called the new Oil. And just like oil, this data needs to be ingested, manipulated, aggregated, cleansed, analyzed and likely persisted. And just like oil, various products can be derived from this data as it goes through the various phases of its refinement. Mid and back-office data management functions are now rapidly evolving to profit centers from traditional cost centers.
Clichés abound about the characteristics and lifecycle of this data – the 4 Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value), the 5 Ms (Monitoring, Mapping, Management, Middleware, Measurement). Everyone however does agree that we are moving from a world where the business would typically dictate their requirements to IT who would then figure out which data to persist and in which format, to a world where IT now has the ability to store all the data and allow the business to ask random questions later. Advances in storage technologies have made storage nearly free. Advances in compute technologies have enabled cheap powerful processing power to be made available for anyone with a credit card.
So what can we do with this data? We can address today's problems better – we can report to the regulator faster, with more data supporting each report. We can mine this data to find current trends in the market. But more importantly, if we can successfully merge the various streams of data from different sources, we can attempt to predict the future! Facebook has more knowledge about a consumer than any existing supplier today. Consumers, by choice, share their feelings, changes in their life status, their likes and dislikes, their travel plans, their pictures with tags, their current location – essentially an unlimited amount of information. This when combined with already existing data about that consumer in traditional stores, is a literal gold mine. This is a lot more than targeted advertisements, this enables a business to ask arbitrary questions about a consumer and expect a reliable answer in near real-time. Massive personalization is just the tip of this spear.
We in Oracle's Financial Services Analytical Applications organization are looking to merge traditional data with the new data to be able to solve problems like Fraud, Customer Analytics, Relationship Pricing, Real-time offers and Enhanced Risk Management. We have a significantly large portfolio of existing applications that address the analytics needs of banks and insurance firms which we are enhancing to take advantage of the new data and improvements in compute, storage and networking technologies.
I would love to hear from you about your plans to harness this new data for executing your business strategies.
"Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought" – Albert Einstein
Ambreesh Khanna is the VP, Product Management, for Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications.


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5 Surprising Upsides of Horrible Natural Disasters
There's a reason natural disasters are called that, and not "natural fun times." It's a constant scourge on our development as a species that we are perpetually beaten down by the wrath of nature. But that's why it's so surprising to learn that occasionally, just occasionally, natural disasters can have surprising upsides. Here are a few cases where the universe's fury has actually worked out pretty well for some of the people involved.
#5. Earthquakes Bring Two Rival Nations Together
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Surprisingly for two peoples united in their shared love of rotating meat, for most of the 20th century, Turkey and Greece really, really hated each other. As recently as the '90s, the Greek foreign minister was referring to the Turks as "thieves and rapists," while Turkey regularly celebrated its victory at the Battle of Smyrna by symbolically bayonetting actors dressed as Greek soldiers before hurling them into the sea and then stamping on a Greek flag. So it's probably fair to say that things were pretty tense.
But when a huge earthquake hit Istanbul and northern Turkey in 1999, the Greeks reacted out of character. Apparently concluding that a horrific natural disaster was worse than Turkey deserved, the Greeks stepped up to the plate, sending rescue crews and medical aid and raising a large sum of money for the relief effort. One Greek guy even called up the Turkish embassy and offered to donate a kidney to anyone who needed it. For the first time in decades, little rainbows started shining through the two nations' mutual disdain.
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"They're hoarding gold! Kill 'em!"
Then, less than a month later, a separate earthquake hit Athens. At this point, we've got to believe Poseidon was attempting a kind of horrible diplomacy the only way that he knew how. But it worked, as Turkish rescue efforts flooded into Greece, with Greek commentators struggling to contain their emotion at the outpouring of support.
This time the thaw stuck around. Diplomats from the two countries started meeting to discuss closer relations. Greek ships began docking in Turkish ports for the first time in 25 years. Greece even agreed to drop their opposition to Turkey entering the European Union. The Turks even agreed to stop pretending to stab old-timey Greek soldiers. We assume they moved on to pretending to stab, like, North Koreans or somebody. The point is, all it took to break the ice was two earth-shattering cataclysms. Hey, it's just the way humans are.
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"Thanks, destruction!"
#4. Mississippi Floods Wash Away an Oil Spill, Replenish the Environment
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What sucks about disasters is they almost never join up to cancel each other out -- the flood never comes just in time to put out the wildfire. But every once in a while, you get lucky. In 2011, the Mississippi River burst its banks and doused Louisiana in the worst flood that it's seen in about a quarter century, which is really saying something in a part of the world that gets pummeled constantly by hurricanes and other weather-related horrors. So why did NPR report it as "a good thing?" Do they just have a major hard-on for human suffering? No, it's because this time it was helping to undo a few earlier man-made disasters.
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Like the rebirth of legendary superhero Swampsuit Johnny.
First, the effort to divert water away from the Mississippi had the effect of restoring the ecosystem that Louisiana needs to survive. Since some enterprising humans decided that nature would look better as a housing development, they wrapped the whole river in levees and dams so effectively that the native wetlands had been drying up and shrinking since 1930. The floods helped to mitigate this by replenishing populations of crawfish, shrimp, and other slimy critters that form the local residents' livelihood.
But even more than that, the 2011 floods had the dual benefit of washing away some of the nasty oil sludge left behind from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Oh, yeah, remember that?
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It was kind of a big deal.
It's very difficult to get rid of crude oil in a natural area, but the flooding helped push some of that oil out of the wetlands where it could be more easily collected in the ocean. Of course, it would be nice if the Mississippi could achieve all this good without displacing thousands of people from their homes, but that's unlikely until we find a way to put all our houses on poles like in The Jetsons.
#3. A Tornado Exposes a Child Pornographer
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In September of 2004, Hurricane Ivan tore up the eastern U.S., killing more than 20 people and shooting tornadoes at the passing countryside. The most valiant of these tornadoes attacked the home of one Robert Medvee in Frederick, Maryland, and blew a hole in his roof. Medvee took a vacation at a friend's place while workers did the repairs.
In an oversight that would be hilarious if it weren't so horrific, Medvee forgot to clean his attic of the massive stash of child pornography he'd been storing in there, leaving workers to stumble upon the worst possible kind of hidden treasure. We kind of hope they took the rest of the day off to drink all of his beer before they called the cops.
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"Excuse me while I go jam this through the stuff that isn't broken yet."
When the police arrived, the sheer amount of child porn they removed from Medvee's home needed a pickup truck to haul it all. Aside from old-timey VHS tapes and Polaroids, the police removed "well over 1,000 CDs." When they filed charges, they only charged Medvee with 48 counts of digital child pornography, because they'd only been able to check 48 of the CDs before their souls threatened to evacuate their bodies. The state's attorney called it "the biggest amount I've ever seen in one place."
So as much of a bad rap as tornadoes have made for themselves lately, we can definitely see ourselves getting behind this new species of vigilante tornado (and in fact, we would pay to see a buddy cop movie based around the premise).
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"Look at him. Forty-eight hours to solve this case, and he's out there breaking all the rules."


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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Are VPNs able to decrypt SSL traffic originating from my use of services such as Gmail, Dropbox and Skype, Google Talk and HTTPS-enabled websites? I'm asking because I always turn off these and other services before activating a VPN and I'd like to know if it's necessary at all.
VPNs are not able to decrypt SSL/TLS traffic between the user and sites accessed through the VPN. But since the VPN has access to the SSL/TLS encrypted content it is a position to mount a man-in-the-middle attack. Most man-in-the-middle attacks can be detected by carefully checking the sites' certificates, but every once in a while there's a new attack that even the most vigilant user won't be able to detect. For example, certificate authority Trustwave (at least) once issued a certificate to a company which allowed that company to perform undetectable man-in-the-middle attacks on any SSL communication going through that company (http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Trustwave-issued-a-man-in-the-middle-certificate-1429982.html).
Of course, if you don't use a VPN you are subject to a MITM attack from your ISP and, depending on your country's network topography, your government. So you have to decide who you're more worried about - the VPN provider or your ISP/government.
If you have very sensitive data that you're worried about the best thing would be not to put in on the Internet (or on any Internet-connected machine) even in encrypted form.
A VPN is no more hostile than the Internet "in general". The VPN is a "private network": it is protected against the large Internet; but if the VPN is itself an evil entity, then you are back to where you began. To a slight extent, a corrupt VPN would make the task a bit easier for the attacker because, by construction, all your packets will go through the VPN, but this does not change the situation in a qualitative way.
SSL has been designed to resist an hostile Internet. This still relies on a proper instantiation; crucially, you shall mind the browser warnings, because if you allow your connections to use an unverified server certificate, then security goes down the drain.
Of course, if your specific VPN included the installation of some local software, and you have reasons to believe that this software could be ill-intentioned towards you, then all bets are off. Practically, this software might have installed an additional root CA that it controls, which would allow an accomplice to mount a man-in-the-middle attack which does not trigger browser warnings. There are some enterprise products which do just that (employees have long learned that with SSL they can escape the filters used by their sysadmins on the workplace; sysadmins are currently getting up-to-date). Bottom-line: SSL protects the transfer of data between your computer and the target server; it does nothing about the integrity of your computer.
Yes, it's possible, if they're using attacks like sslstrip or sslsniff. These essentially perform a man-in-the-middle and provide fake certificates, or redirect HTTPS traffic to HTTP. It's not transparent on the user-end unless the attackers compromise the CA's certificate, so a warning will be shown if the certificate is invalid.


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The Kansas House is preparing to debate legislation blocking tax breaks for abortion providers and barring public schools from using sex education instruction from groups that provide abortion services.
Abortion-rights advocates consider the bill on the chamber's Tuesday agenda the biggest threat in Kansas this year to access to abortion services.
Supporters contend the measure will lessen the state's entanglement with a procedure that many residents find objectionable.
The bill would prevent groups providing abortions from receiving tax exemptions or credits that go to other nonprofit groups or health care providers. It would also bar women who claim income tax deductions for medical expenses from including the cost of abortion services.
The legislation also would prohibit any abortion provider from furnishing materials or instructors for public schools' sex education classes.
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Typically, exegesis is used when interpreting scripture, so that value, meaning, and instruction is derived from the words.
When is eisegesis, or reading-into scripture, a valid interpretational technique?
This seems like an odd question. The only answer that seems reasonable would be that you read into Scripture the meaning you want it to have when you disagree with the actual meaning.
To read into Scripture what is not there is to put oneself as somehow over Scripture as more of an authority on the matter than the Scriptures themselves. There are definitely two distinct approaches to the Scriptures.
Two people will see in the Scriptures something that differs from either their own ideas or their own deeds. One person will conclude, The Bible must be wrong, and then misinterprets it to make it agree with him. Another will conclude, I must be wrong, and changes his ideas or his life to agree with the Bible.
I would argue that only one of these is a true follower of Jesus and of His teachings. Eisegesis is never appropriate.
The answer would depend on who you were asking. One man's "eisegesis" is another man's "orthodoxy," and it's not altogether uncommon to hear the former term levied as an accusation against any that disagree with a speaker's stance on any particular theological issue.
The Westminster Confession of Faith, which many Christians believe to be entirely consonant with Scripture, is one example of a document that seems, in articles 1.9 and 1.10, to state a very clear position wholly against eisegesis, in favor of a Sola Scriptura-style "interpret-the-Scriptures-by-the-Scriptures" exegetical approach.
Peter says pretty clearly that that's not ever a good idea:
So the scriptures should not be interpreted through eisegesis, but by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, which is the same power by which they were originally given.
I don't know that I've ever heard the term "eisegesis" used in anything but a polemical tone, so I suspect you aren't going to have anyone telling you that it's a good practice.
That said, the exegetical approach that most Christians typically espouse (cf. Fee & Stuart How to Read the Bible for All its Worth), "The text can never mean what it never meant" has serious flaws. Hermeneutics are intrinsically tied to epistemology—and the truth of the matter is that we cannot ever know for sure what any text meant, and therefor have no way to verify whether we are in fact committing [that most grievous of sins] eisegesis.
Furthermore, while most moderately informed Christians try to pull meaning "out" of a text (hence "exegesis"), the NT authors and most early Christians had no such sensibility. This is why so many OT texts are re-appropriated as prophecies about Jesus. The locus classicus is Isa 7:14. Who is Isa 7:14 about? Hezekiah. What does the NT say? It's about Jesus. Or better: Isa 40:3 was re-appropriated by both early Christians (referring to John the Baptist), and also by the Qumran community as a reference to themselves.
My own personal worldview values very highly a historical–critical approach to the Bible. That said, if we say that an exegetical approach is the only faithful way of interpreting the Bible we exclude all those who interpreted the Bible for the first 1500 years of the Church. This is not acceptable in my opinion.


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Jayhawks Roll Over Texas In Historic Performance , 76-38
Posted: 11:21 PM Jan 23, 2013
Reporter: KU, posted by Kinch O'Kelley
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Senior guard Angel Goodrich's three-pointer at the 9:52 mark in the first half put her over the career 1,000-point mark and capped a furious opening 10 minutes for the Kansas Jayhawks that set the tone for the 76-38 victory over Texas Wednesday night in Allen Fieldhouse. The 38-point margin of victory is the largest win in a Big 12 Conference game in Kansas history. The win improved KU's record to 12-5 on the year and 3-3 in league play.
The Jayhawks forced 11 turnovers over the first 10 minutes of the game, which doomed the Longhorns who fell to 7-11 overall and 0-7 in the Big 12. Texas finished the first half with more turnovers than points (17-12). The 12 points allowed in the opening period are tied for the third fewest by a KU opponent and are the fewest KU has allowed in a half versus a Big 12 foe.
Senior forward Carolyn Davis scored 16 points on 6-of-7 shooting in the first half to lead the Jayhawks into the intermission with a 46-12 lead. Goodrich added 11 points in the half while Kansas shot 53.1 percent in the first 20 minutes as a team.
Texas hit its first four field goals to open the second half and saw its points (21) surpass its turnovers (20) with 16:04 remaining in the game. Goodrich answered with an acrobatic layup and a three-pointer in consecutive possessions. The Jayhawks went on an 8-0 run following the hot Longhorn start to the half and the KU lead stood at 60-21 with 13:38 remaining in the game.
KU extended its lead to 40 points with 7:04 left following back-to-back three-pointers by sophomore guard Asia Boyd and Goodrich. Goodrich finished with a game-high 20 points, which marked the 11th time she has tallied at least 20 in a game in her career. She became the 26th player in KU history to surpass the career 1,000-point mark.
All 10 Jayhawks on the roster scored in the ballgame including 18 from Davis and 11 from senior guard Monica Engleman. The Jayhawks finished the game with 10 three-pointers, which is the eighth most in a game in KU history and tied for the second most versus a Big 12 opponent.
Texas finished the evening shooting 27.3% from the field. The 28 Longhorn turnovers are the most by a Big 12 team this season.
The Jayhawks continue Big 12 play on Saturday when Oklahoma State visits Allen Fieldhouse. Tip-off is scheduled for 8 p.m., and the game will be televised by Knology.
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We are getting a lot of interest in the instructor program and we have a large number of first time drivers. I need Competition licensed drivers, or Blue Group drivers willing to pass on some knowledge on the track to help out the novices.
In Car Instruction will be in the morning sessions only. You will be riding with the driver during hot laps giving real time instruction and feedback. These are first time drivers on the track - they will need basic instruction on what to look for at the flagging stations, how to properly pass, and how to navigate the course. Lead/follow in the afternoon is optional based on the novice's needs and your willingness to go out.
Competition licensed drivers – I can work out a little track time for heat cycling and brake bedding for the first 10 drivers that contact me to sign up. Work Bee hours are also available in lieu of track time.
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Designing an interface for a CMS (Content Management System), I stumbled upon a paradox and I'm a bit confused about what to do and why to do.
Before deleting an album, the user is asked to confirm the action.
Green "Yes"
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Let us assume first of all that we are in the affine case (we can worry about globalization later) and that we have $X$ affine over $S$, where $S$ is some unspecified scheme (but in practice probably the spectrum of a field), with $X=\mathrm{Spec}(A)$ (thus $A$ is an $\mathcal{O}_S$-algebra). We are emphatically not assuming $X$ to be smooth over $S$.
Assume that we are given a map $\mathfrak{g}\to\mathrm{Der}_S(A)$ of Lie algebras and that we are viewing $\mathfrak{g}$ as a Lie-sub-algebra of $\mathrm{Der}_S(A)$.
In analogy with the differential-geometric case we can interpret this as a distribution on $X$ and so we can ask: what are the integral subschemes of this distribution? Specifically, is there, through every point, a unique integral subscheme? And even more importantly, what can go wrong in the singular points and can we "integrate" this action to an analogue of a Lie groupoid?
I'm seriously betting the answer to most of the above is a resounding "NO!" but I'm curious to know what can go wrong and what is known to go wrong? In short: what is known concerning this? Can one form something like "$X/\mathfrak{g}$"?
Finally, let me iterate that I'm not assuming $X$ to be $S$-smooth.


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They were introduced by Anderson/Brown/Peterson to study the structure of the spin cobordism ring. I looked through the literature but I did not find a nice example of computation. For instance, I would like to know how to determine $\pi^J(\mathbb{H}P^2)$. Many thanks for any comments in advance.


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I want to bring my iPad to a beach to do some reading while on vacation. I am concerned about sand getting into its ports and causing damage. Obviously water would also be a concern, but I am not planning on taking it in any water. Does sand propose a significant threat and what can be done to limit the chances of a problem occurring?
Yes you can, but there are some aspects of the environment of the beach life that need to be controlled.
I would probably have a Chef Sleeve or two with me and bring an umbrella or shade to control the light and direct heat. A ziplock bag also works if you don't think the closer fitting sleeve is worth spending money on. Depending on your beach some or all of these concerns may be disregarded, but I tried to cover the common beach scenarios.
Other than that - keep it cool, heat yourself up and enjoy your iPad on the beach.
I use an OtterBox Defender case to protect my iPad in harsh environments. If I'm using it as a "chart plotter" on a small boat or kayak, I also put it into a waterproof map bag (along with a desiccant packet) that I got from an outdoor store.
For occasional use, you can also protect the iPad within a 1 gallon Zip-Loc™ bag. (Again, I'd add a desiccant packet if you're using it in a humid environment). I keep a Zip-Loc in my go bag for this purpose.
I'm going to expand my comment to @bmike's answer into another answer to this question for future seekers. Consider buying a Kindle for beach use.
Please understand that I applaud the desire to use the iPad for reading on the beach. As I see it, I paid real money for the tool, and if I'm not going use that tool as I want to, I shouldn't have bothered. That being said, there are certain risks and inconveniences that accompany this (and all) decision.
First, @bmike is correct about the danger that heat presents to portable electronics. That being said, my experience has taught me that if you're going to read with the iPad, you'll either seek or make shade. That risk is manageable. You'll also want to take proper care to keep your iPad cool when you're not using it. Options include a bag in the shade or (assuming the iPad is appropriately protected) in the top tray of a large cooler. Please, don't toss it down into the ice.
Perhaps a higher risk comes from flashing an expensive piece of kit on public beaches, both here and abroad. Assuming you're not going to stuff it into a waterproof case whenever the urge to take a dip strikes, or carry it with you as you and a loved one stroll hand-in-hand along the beach, the iPad presents a juicy target of opportunity to those who just weren't raised right (or for whom an iPad sold means eating tonight). It also brands you as a rich tourista and perhaps paints an even bigger target on your own person. (I trust my spanish-speaking friends here will forgive the slight as none is intended, it's just the linqua franca for much of my beach travel).
Add this risk to the inconvenience or as some would say, utter unreadability, of the LCD screen in bright sunlight and I can make a reasonable argument for leaving the iPad back in the room, and tossing a (relatively disposable) Kindle into my beach bag.


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Improvement in school safety was one topic discussed Monday at the Constantine Public Schools Board of Education meeting.
Superintendent Chuck Frisbie told the board that two Michigan State Police officers, one a member of a SWAT team, recently toured the schools to assess security.
"Our goal is to improve security for our students, a major priority," he said. "The District identified several possible problems around doors and entryways, and officers were invited to inspect the security camera system."
Police made several recommendations, and plan to return March 27 to talk to all K-12 staff to handle scenarios in training and security, Frisbie said.
Cost for a buzz-in security system would be $46,000, according to one quote the school received, Frisbie said.
The district recently received $450,000 from a "back tax fund," Frisbie said, which could pay for the system, among other things.
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The Office of Equity and Civil Rights Compliance will oversee the university's efforts to promote a discrimination and harassment -free environment and will be responsible for resolving complaints of discrimination on the basis of protected status. ECRC houses the university Title IX Coordinator, who is responsible for coordinating the university's efforts to comply with Title IX, which is the federal statute that prohibits sex discrimination. Sexual misconduct can be a form of sex discrimination, and it includes offenses such as sexual assault, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. For further information, please visit the ECRC website at ohio.edu/equity-civil-rights/ or call ECRC at 740-593-9140.
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