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Scotty Davenport is in his eighth season as the head basketball coach at Bellarmine University. He is 162-62 in those 7-plus seasons, including the 2011 National Championship, and a trip to the 2012 Elite Eight and Final Four. His 2012-13 squad is off to an 8-0 start and is ranked No. 4 in the nation. The Knights host Quincy at 8 p.m. on Jan. 3, and Illinois-Springfield at 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 5.
KENT TAYLOR: Eight games into the season, how do you feel about this team?
SCOTTY DAVENPORT: We've literally gotten better every game and every practice. I know that's coach speak, but these guys have really gotten better. I knew that was going to happen because we have eight new guys.
TAYLOR: What would you like to see from the Bellarmine home fans in the second semester?
DAVENPORT: First of all, our students are back, and that's a huge plus for us. Our home game on Jan. 3 is the first day of class. We're getting ready to go through an 18-game gauntlet in the GLVC, five teams in the top 17 in the country. We know that there are a million people in this metro area, we're asking for 2,500 a night. Let's race up the national attendance standings. More importantly, it helps our players, it helps recruiting, it makes it a tough place to play. We are really begging for the people to come out.
TAYLOR: For basketball fans in the area who haven't seen Chris Dowe, is he as exciting a player as you have coached?
DAVENPORT: Chris Dowe is a good player at any level. We all refer to Division II, because that's where we play, but Chris Dowe is a great player if you're playing Cincinnati, if you're playing Louisville. He plays with guys all summer. He played up in Indianapolis. Chris Dowe is a really good basketball player, but the reason he's good, is he affects the game a lot of ways. He defends, he blocks shots, he soars to dunk a ball, he'll hit a three. The most important thing is, he's really taken pride in becoming a good passer.
TAYLOR: Bullitt East senior Rusty Troutman had a great week in the King of the Bluegrass; how big of a recruit is he for Bellarmine?
DAVENPORT: Rusty Troutman, as great of a player as he is, he's even equal or better as a person. He is a polite, courteous, humble young man. He has a tremendous family support group, in terms of his parents, his brothers, and it's a basketball family. We're thrilled to get him and every game we go watch him, we just get more excited about him joining our basketball team.
To tell you the kind of kid he is, invariably he'll come to a home game and I'll get a text: 'great game coach, thanks for the tickets.' Well, no, you're one of our family, you're in our family.
We're just very excited about him, because again, like Chris, he affects the game in a lot of ways. He rebounds his position, he can block shots, he defends, he passes, he can hit threes, he has a midrange game. Very talented player and he's without a doubt one of the top players in the senior class in the state of Kentucky. He plays and plays and plays the game, but he wins and wins and wins.
Go back through his career at Bullitt East, and he's coming out of a tremendous program. I've known Troy Barr for 25 years, and he does a tremendous job. Rusty, he did this on the AAU level, it doesn't make any difference where he's playing, he just plays and plays and plays, at a very high level, in a consistent manner, and he wins.
TAYLOR: How important is that factor in the recruiting process?
DAVENPORT: When I was getting started in my coaching life, the Bill Olsens of the world, the Jerry Joneses, the Wade Houstons, the guys when I was a graduate assistant at Louisville, they always said that in recruiting there is a lot to be said about winning. Our practices are structured (so that) every drill has consequences, and being competitive will spill over to the rest of their life. It'll spill over in the academic setting, it'll spill over when they're trying to get jobs. It is all about competing, and it's a very competitive world that we live in. The sooner these young people find that out, the better off they're going to be. This is why we recruit winners – we put a lot of stock in that.
TAYLOR: How important would it be for Bellarmine to get to the Elite Eight this year and play in Freedom Hall?
DAVENPORT: The players know it every day. They know everything now, in this age of technology and information. I think that it would just be a phenomenal honor to see this city on the grandest of stages in Division II basketball, the Elite Eight, in a building that has hosted six NCAA Division I National Championships. To wake up the echoes, all those Louisville fans, the Kentucky fans, the Indiana fans, all those fans who had great nights at Freedom Hall – what if we could just make it and reawaken all those memories, and go in there and have the support of this community. (It) would be, like Jim Nantz says, one for the ages.
TAYLOR: With all of the Catholic schools splitting from the Big East and forming their own league, has there been any talk at Bellarmine about joining a league like that?
DAVENPORT: We are Division I in lacrosse, and to do that, we'd have to go Division I in everything. I think college athletics right now is on such a topsy turvy run right now, it's just crazy. Our concentration and focus right now is just on being great where we are. If those opportunities presented themselves, that would be done at a much higher level than a coaching staff. That would be done through Dr. McGowan, Dr. Rhodes, Scott Wiegandt. I think you must be prepared for everything right now in college athletics. Even our own league, who knows?
There's a Division II league in West Virginia that just kind of imploded last summer. I think you must do your due diligence to always be ready. I'm not saying we're leaving or nothing is imminent for us, but you have to have your finger on the pulse on what's going on in college athletics.
TAYLOR: When you coached Allan Houston at Ballard, was it obvious to you early on that he was that kind of a special player?
DAVENPORT: Allan Houston was, again, these great players have great written on them in all facets. He was an advanced program student at Dunn Elementary, at Kammerer and at Ballard, which is the top 4 percent. His mother (made sure that) if he went to a basketball camp, he had to read a book for every camp he attended. He was going to be a balanced individual.
The game was easy for Allan to play, his vision was tremendous, he was a great, great shooter of the basketball. When you can shoot that well, you can always play. Allan's demeanor as a person was exactly the same academically as it was athletically. When you see great players, those two things will always go hand in hand. Greatness doesn't just occur on the basketball court, it will occur in every facet of your life, and Allan's a great example.
TAYLOR: DeJuan Wheat is another one who stands out; was he the quickest player that you ever coached?
DAVENPORT: He's the most humble player I ever coached. You bring up Allan Houston and DeJuan Wheat, both young men are incredibly humble. The next person that DeJuan Wheat shows up or embarrasses will be the first. If he needed to jump to dunk a basketball to win a game, he was going to jump up and dunk it. If the play called for him just to breakaway and use the backboard and be a fundamental player, that's what he was going to do. To see him go on and play professionally, not only in the NBA, but in Mexico and throughout Europe, and get his degree and do things, again, (it goes) back to being a balanced person.
TAYLOR: You won a state championship at Ballard, went to the Final Four at UofL, won a National Championship at Bellarmine. When you walked onto the court at the KFC Yum! Center for the exhibition against UofL and you were greeted by your son, Doug – on the UofL bench as the Cards' video coordinator – was that an even different emotion?
DAVENPORT: You're seeing him on a staff with a Hall of Fame coach. You walk across that court, it's 50 feet across that court, you're thinking, he was a ball boy at eight years old. He's absolutely just living a dream. It's well documented, my fond feelings for the University of Louisville, but I don't think there is anyone on the face of this earth that loves the University of Louisville more than Doug Davenport does. He's on his way to be a coach. I told him to look at all options, he was a very good student, and he said, "Dad, I want to be a basketball coach." He's going to be a really good one, he loves the game, he has a passion for the game. Most importantly, he has a passion for young people. He really cares about young people. If you put them first, you'll never go wrong in coaching.
This issue of The Voice-Tribune went to press Dec. 28 prior to the Battle Of The Bluegrass. Look for coverage of the Dec. 29 Kentucky v. Louisville game in the Jan. 10 issue.


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6 Scientific Reasons People Drive Like Assholes
#3. His or Her Genes
Hopefully you're not reading this while you're hauling ass down the highway, but if you are, what the hell... take a quick peek at the cars to your left and to your right. Now think about this: The odds are that one of those drivers--who really seem to have you sandwiched in there--has a gene that makes them a shitty driver. Better go ahead and buckle up too while you're at it.
The human body produces a protein called BDNF which is responsible for maintaining the health of our synapses. Scientists refer to this function as neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to renew itself and retain information.
Ben Stein has tons of that shit.
Driving, being one of those tasks that requires attention, decision-making and good motor skills, depends heavily on this. Good drivers' brains have high levels of BDNF production which allow them to learn faster and perform better during tasks that require advanced motor function. Bad drivers, sadly, do not.
And BDNF production is tied to one single gene variant which scientists have romantically dubbed Rs6265. If someone suffers from low BDNF levels, it doesn't 't necessarily mean they're going to go all Tiger Woods on a tree with their SUV every time they get behind the wheel. They're just more likely to do it than someone whose brain is virtually oozing BDNF like grease from a Fatburger.
That's what BDNF looks like, right?
#2. Their Car Smells Like Shit
OK, maybe not literally like shit. It's probably more like a wet Labradoodle covered with havarti cheese. Either way, bad odors have an adverse affect on your driving ability. So that's what those goddmaned pine tree air fresheners are for. We thought it was for guys to cover up the smell of weed in case they get pulled over.
In that case, don't get this kind.
Anyway, according to scientists at the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, a nice big whiff of something nasty can induce feelings of hostility, cause you to drive more aggressively and increase your chances of being involved in an accident.
"You just get a warning since it smells like eggy ass out here."
And secondly, smells are processed by the limbic system in your brain, which also governs emotions and long-term memories. A foul odor can evoke any number of long-buried memories and the emotions that come with them. The smell of rotting garbage may bring back memories of that year you lived in a dumpster.
Hard not to miss the old place.
At its most harmless, this leads to an inability to fully concentrate on the road. But if the smell is irritating enough, it can trigger a response in your trigeminal nerve which runs smack dab through the center of your skull.
A nerve response like this is typically accompanied by an adrenaline release that instantly puts you in a tense and angry state. "Tense and angry" tends to mean "asshole" to other motorists, and means you are more likely to start driving like one.
#1. He Just Watched The Fast and the Furious... Again
In many ways, we are prisoners of the culture we grew up in. We're social creatures, we can't help it.
For instance, we all know that children are itty-bitty little profanity sponges. Let a couple of F-bombs slip around a three-year-old, and next thing you know it's "Fuck you Tinky-Winky" this, and "Eat a dick, Bob the Builder" that.
According to psychologist Dr. Leon James children are also quite the little assimilators of our driving habits as well. He has postulated that a childhood of riding with parents who do inconsiderate things--like screaming obscenities, following too closely, attempting vehicular homicide--has a profound effect on the way that we will drive in the future. In other words, if your parents were assholes behind the wheel, it's a good bet you will be too.
And it's not just your parents that fuck you up. Oh no, it's our entire gasoline and car-chase addicted culture. Car chases look freaking awesome on screen and we've been cramming them into movies ever since the camera was invented. Ask a cop how much he likes the Fast and the Furious franchise. He'll be torn between his love for Vin Diesel and the way street racing deaths doubled the year the first film came out. Think it's ridiculous when panicked moral crusaders talk about how movies influence our youth? Tell that to members of the LAPD who have to do extra patrols around theaters showing Fast and Furious sequels just to keep teenagers from squealing off into the distance and smashing head-on into a tanker truck.
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The entire idea behind crime victims' rights is to return the victim as much as possible of the life he or she had before the crime was committed. April 2013 is National Crime Victims Month. Victims of crime need many things, most of which can be quite expensive.
Those gathered in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse ask, "How can I help?" They can donate -victims needs counseling and professional help, and, folks, it ain't cheap, even when organization, and many do, donate services at discounted rates. Doctors can give, too.
Why don't all the doctors who work in live in Jefferson County give one hour in wages to victims' rights? Why don't the universities give as well? The schools could give all proceeds from one home game to victims' rights.
We cannot change what has happened, but we can change the future, as Whitney Houston sang, "Find your strength in love ... " from "The Greatest Love of All."
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Suppose that the function $p(x)$ is defined on an open subset $U$ of $\mathbb{R}$ by a power series with real coefficients. Suppose, further, that $p$ maps rationals to rationals. Must $p$ be defined on $U$ by a rational function?
No. In fact, $p(x)$ can be a complex analytic function with rational coefficients that takes any algebraic number $\alpha$ in an element of $\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)$. (And everywhere analytic functions are not rational unless they are polynomials).
The algebraic numbers are countable, so one can find a countable sequence of polynomials $q_1(x), q_2(x), \ldots \in \mathbb{Q}[x]$ such that every algebraic number is a root of $q_n(x)$ for some $n$. Suppose that the degree of $q_i(x)$ is $a_i$, and choose integers $b_i$ such that $$b_{n+1} > b_{n} + a_1 + a_2 + \ldots + a_n.$$
Then consider the formal power series:
$$p(x) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} c_n x^{b_n} \left( \prod_{i=0}^{n} q_i(x) \right),$$
By the construction of $b_n$, the coefficient of $x^k$ for $k = b_n$ to $b_{n+1} -1$ in $p(x)$ is the coefficient of $x^k$ in $c_n x^{b_n} \prod_{i=1}^{n} q_i(x)$. Hence, choosing the $c_n$ to be appropriately small rational numbers, one can ensure that the coefficients of $p(x)$ decrease sufficiently rapidly and thus guarantee that $p(x)$ is analytic.
On the other hand, clearly $p(\alpha) \in \mathbb{Q}[\alpha]$ for every (algebraic) $\alpha$, because then the sum above will be a finite sum.
With a slight modification one can even guarantee that the same property holds for all derivatives of $p(x)$.
I learnt this fun argument from the always entertaining Alf van der Poorten (who sadly died recently).
You can map $\mathbb{Q}$ in itself by plenty of entire functions that are not rational functions. Let fix an enumeration of the rationals, $\mathbb{Q}=\{q _ j\\ : j=1,2,\dots \} $. Consider a series $$f(x):=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\\ \epsilon _n \\ \prod _{j=1}^n (x-q _j)$$ If $\epsilon _n$ is a sequence of rationals converging to 0 with sufficient velocity, the series converges uniformly on bounded sets to an entire function.
(edit) rmk. of course with some more small care we can even make an entire function $f(x)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty p _n(x)$ invertible over $\mathbb{R}$, and a bijection between two assigned countably infinite dense subsets $A$ and $B$. Start the series with the identity $p_0(x)=x$, then add inductively only odd degree polynomials $p _n$, that vanish on the (finitely many) already settled points, and do not destroy the invertibility on $\mathbb{R}$ (say, keeping all partial sums of the series with derivative greater than $1/2$). The bijectivity between $A$ and $B$ is to be ensured by a standard ping-pong argument.


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I am trying to calculate the following sum:
$$\sum_{i=0}^\infty \dfrac{e^{-\lambda}\lambda^{2i}}{(2i)!}, 0 \lt\lambda \lt 1$$
It is clearly a power series, however I am stuck trying to move beyond this conclusion. I tried to solve it using wolfram alpha and it gives the following answer: $e^{-\lambda} \cosh(\lambda)$. What would be the approach to get the answer the wolfram alpha gives me?


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I was listening to the radio today, and someone said, "The couple came across a literal 'pot of gold.'" It made me think: how do you say the opposite of that? I'm looking for a statement or phrase that lets you know that an idiom is an idiom and not to be taken "literally."
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Figurative or metaphorical are my go-tos
Both are essentially the same, as you can see from many dictionaries using one to define the other. When I get home I'll consult a more accepted source than Google, but I'm sure they won't have much to add.
The opposite of 'literally' is literally... literally!
According to the Oxford dictionary, literally now has two definitions,
The traditional meaning:
Or, the informal meaning:
So, depending on the context and emphasis, you could say the following:
And literally be grammatically and syntactically correct!
"Figurative", "Metaphorical", and "Proverbial" all spring to mind.
Figurative language is a general term describing anything in language that has a meaning other than its literal meaning--this is probably your best bet ifor a direct antonym of "literally." Note that the distinction between literal and figurative language exists within the field of language analysis independently of the contradictory dictionary definitions. Therefore, I am using "literally" here in its traditional meaning.
Metaphors are a specific figurative construct in which one entity is referred to as another entity in order to describe its properties. In your case, the couple found an actual pot of gold, but if they had stumbled across, say, an extremely valuable collection of ninth century Chinese porcelain, their find could still be described as a pot of gold to explain how valuable it was.
Proverbs are common sayings, often embodying a truth (eg. "A rolling stone gathers no moss"). I'm not sure if this usage is strictly correct, but I've heard it used on numerous occasions (for example, on Star Trek: The Next Generation, whenever the android Data used figurative language, he prefaced it with "proverbial" to explain that what he was about to say was not meant to be taken literally, e.g., "a proverbial needle in a haystack"). I believe that proverbial would be appropriate in your case, as "pot of gold" is a universally known saying within American English (possibly British English?), but I do not believe it would be appropriate if you were trying to establish the non-literalness of an arbitrary phrase with no cultural roots.
When you're using a metaphor, you state the non-literal as literal.
Would be better said, with emphasis on the metaphor itself:
And that my friends, is the opposite of literal.
Maybe it's because I'm a non-native speaker, but
Sounds like a metaphor to me already, because of the quotes, I'd not use any particular term to specify the fact that it's not to be taken literally.
Idiomatic might work, as that clearly states that what is being refered to is an idiom.
Virtual comes to mind here. The meaning is being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted. Source.
Semantically, equivalent to
Figurative while the literal opposite of literal, is a bit awkward in this type of usage. It's like hitting your reader over the head.
Semantically, it is the equivalent of
Accurate, but not quite as useful in this construct.
I like metaphorical - a metaphor provides a way of understanding complex ideas via familiar idioms. Proverbial also works for the same reason.
I don't think virtual cuts it. It has connotations of 'almost/nearly/not quite', and I want my pot of gold - literal or metaphorical - to be a bit more certain than that, thank you. Obviously I think abstract is even worse in that regard.
I am unsure about figurative. It feels awkward to me: what is a figurative pot of gold? Is it some Platonic depiction of a real pot? An imaginary pot? An oxymoronic pot - a Dr Seussian Pot that is Not? ... The problem perhaps is that figurative covers too broad a range of rhetorical styles to be considered as a precise-enough opposite for literal.
As for the OED: its not the first time a word has been defined with "opposite" meanings - cleave is one that springs to mind. Even so, perhaps this time they took Humpty a bit too um ... literally?
There are many good answers already offered. I'm going to offer my own definition, which is based more on nuance, than the meaning of the words themselves. In most instances the usage of "literal" in the example of "literal pot of gold":
The opposite of "literal pot of gold" might be a "literal money trap"
In the US, if you want to express that the idea is not in fact literal if there might be confusion, the idiom we add is: "But not for real"
I'm partial to the word
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I think they can be used interchangeably, there is a lot of overlap between the two, but I would usually use
What about can also express an objection, whereas how about does not.
From what I´ve learned teaching English, and what I´ve seen in most books, the difference is that we use WHAT ABOUT + noun, and HOW ABOUT + verb. It´s a pretty simple explanation, but that´s how it´s being taught in schools in Brazil.
This is a very good way to describe it. Here are some examples:
Andy: "I'm bored. There's nothing to do." Danny: "How about we go see a movie?"
Andy: "I'm bored. Let's go see a movie." Danny: "What about our exams tomorrow?"
In the first example, Danny expands the possibilities: Andy thought there was nothing to do, but Danny reminded him that they could see a movie.
In the second example, Danny limited the possibilities: Andy wanted to see a movie, but Danny reminded him that they had to study for their exams.
On a side note, "what about" cannot take a sentence. "What about we see a movie?" is wrong. You can say, however "What about seeing a movie?" or "What about a movie?"
I think how about is used when suggesting an idea, which could be answered or not, whereas what about requires answering, but I'm not very sure..
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If I didn't know better, I'd say Pope Francis is making George Weigel nervous
George Weigel's syndicated column is called "The Catholic Difference," presumably because in it Weigel lays out the proper way for Catholics to view the world -- and corrects the errors of those non-Catholics (or inadequately formed Catholics) who keep getting things wrong.
I often find that my view of things does not quite line up with what Weigel insists is the "Catholic" position. For example, the January 15 column, "What Popes Can and Can't Do," features this illustrative anecdote:
At an academic conference years ago, a distinguished Catholic philosopher remarked (perhaps hyperbolically) that "If the pope said that '2+2 = 5,' I'd believe him." An even more distinguished Catholic philosopher gave the correct, and far more Catholic, response: "If the Holy Father said that '2+2 = 5,' I would say publicly, 'Perhaps I have misunderstood His Holiness's meaning.' Privately, I would pray for his sanity."
I, meanwhile, would have said the "correct" and "Catholic" response is "Sorry, Holy Father, but that's not right." I probably wouldn't be all that private about it, either.
With this little story, Weigel is attempting to explain that popes can't go around changing established church doctrine on a whim, which is true enough. (He also says, "it is very difficult for those who see Catholicism through political lenses to grasp this." Which of course is why we need George Weigel -- now more than ever!) They do have a little more influence on church doctrine than they do on basic math, but we'll set that aside. Weigel is also taking this opportunity to throw more cold water on the hopes so many non-conservatives have been nurturing since Pope Francis's election. But the occasion of Weigel's warning is odd -- and not just because it follows his proclaiming the Wall Street Journal "America's best newspaper" and praising "the openness of the Journal's op-ed pages to serious Catholic argument on numerous issues." (I've been waiting for their Francis-inspired editorial "Trickle-Down Economics Reconsidered," but I think I must have missed it.)
What has Weigel worked up is a one-sentence description of Pope Francis in a space-filling listicle that ran in the WSJ, "People to Watch in 2014."
The WSJ said: "After raising expectations for shifting views toward homosexuality, divorce, the environment and society's obligation to the poor, the pontiff is expected to also undertake bureaucratic reform at the Vatican, as well as the possible expansion of the role of women in the church."
Weigel sighs. "A change of papal 'administration' does not—indeed cannot—mean a change of Catholic 'views.' Doctrine, as the Church understands it, is not a matter of anyone's 'views,' but of settled understandings of the truth of things."
Yes, but did the Journal's little blurb really merit this correction? That awkward language about "raising expectations for shifting views" is their way of avoiding the mistake Weigel is anticipating. "Views" does not mean "doctrine." For example: Abortion is a grave wrong. That's church teaching. But whether politicians, or voters, should be denied communion for directly or indirectly supporting prochoice policies is a matter of one's views. When it comes to setting priorities, choosing areas of emphasis, enforcing orthodoxy, and so forth, Pope Francis appears to have some views that are markedly different from his predecessors'. That's not a delusion. (Weigel doesn't mention that the WSJ's list also includes the USCCB's new president, Joseph Kurtz, and that his writeup offers another capsule summary of the Francis Agenda: "The pope is steering the church away from culture wars over gay marriage and abortion, focusing instead on economic inequality.")
I can't help feeling Weigel is working harder than necessary to spread the message that, when it comes to the prospects for meaningful change under Francis, there's nothing to see here, everyone should just move along. But that could just be a trick of my ideological blinders. As Weigel goes on to explain, women, in particular, shouldn't get too excited:
And "the role of women in the Church"? No doubt various Church structures would benefit by drawing upon a wider range of talent (irrespective of gender) than the talent-pool from which Church leaders typically emerge. Still, in an interview with La Stampa before Christmas, Pope Francis made it clear that identifying leadership in the Church with ordination is both a form of clericalism and another way of instrumentalizing Catholic women. Flying a Vatican desk, Francis was suggesting, is not the acme of discipleship.
There's an awful lot of misdirection and mumbling in that paragraph, considering that this was a fight Weigel picked. I mean, if the first part of the WSJ's sentence was perhaps a bit shaky, the last part, referring to expectations for "the possible expansion of the role of women in the church," is pretty rock solid: Francis has gone beyond typical Vatican boilerplate several times now to say that he thinks it's crucial for women to have a more prominent and non-symbolic role in the structures of the church. (For example: "It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.... The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions. The challenge today is this: to think about the specific place of women also in those places where the authority of the church is exercised.") He may not follow through on those statements, but that's what he has said.
So what's Weigel doing here? The WSJ (and the pope) referred to "[expanding] the role of women in the Church," not "making women priests." But Weigel responds by arguing against women's ordination, as though ordination were the only possible way that women's role could ever be expanded -- and then he turns around and wags his finger at those who keep "identifying leadership in the Church with ordination"! (They are guilty of a "grave misconstrual of eccesiastical 'roles.'") Also, please note that when the subject under discussion is expanding the role of women, then endorsing "drawing upon a wider range of talent" provided it is done "irrespective of gender" is just a longwinded way of saying "change nothing."
As for that last part, let's see if I'm following: if you object to the fact that, in the church, ordination is restricted to men and authority is restricted to the ordained, you are just contributing to the instrumentalization of women. Why focus on a petty little thing like gender? Truly orthodox defenders of the truth hardly think about it at all. And after all, there are other ways to be a disciple, ways that don't involve upsetting the balance of power that's working so well for the people who get to decide whether things are working well.
But perhaps this is one of those occasions when, finding the pope's plain words alarming, a distinguished Catholic intellectual has only one correct way to respond: by changing the subject and privately praying that the pope will come to his senses.
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I'm waiting for George's next book, "How Pope Francis is Really Beholding to MY Good Friend (Have I mentioned that before in any titles or articles that I am the official biographer?) Great Saint Pope John Paul II and Anything Construed as Not in Line With Him is A Misinterpretation." Shuld beanother best-seller!
Weigel is correct on the doctrinal and ecclesial issues around the role of the pope. However, as you correctly point out, a pope can do a great deal in terms of practice thereby rendering the doctrine superfluous.
And when it come to expnind the role of women in leadership positions, Benedict said much the same thing!
" Pope Francis made it clear that identifying leadership in the Church with ordination is both a form of clericalism and another way of instrumentalizing Catholic women."
This is really a criticism of the exaltation of ordained in the church. Jesus did not intend it. It is a corruption of his message to get into the alter Christus (other Christ) fiasco which elevated the clergy above all Catholics. The pastor is a presider at the mass. Let's really stop the hocus pocus and see the Eucharistic, the celebration of redemption, as the event of all the people. Why no one is seeing what Francis is saying is amazing. Yes women do belong in leadership. But don't insult them by offering them cult status with a group which has forgotten the message. Give them real leadership. (So no more jokes about a priest uttering the words of consecration over a bakery).
Next book - "Francis Derangement Syndrome"
George who?
Of course Weigel is nervous about Papa Francesco: He doesn't have a pope in place anymore who reflexively reinforces his own narrow ideological world view.
Let's remember, Weigel has made a lot of money on the right-wing ideological gravy train over the years. After years of pontificating, telling us what we should think and how we should act, Weigel's just protecting his investments.
That's always the bottom line with right-wingers.
Yes, indeed, Pope Francis has some extreme right-wing members of the Church shaking in their boots. Let's hope that it will not affect the trigger finger of Fr. Z.
Usually the weekly diocesean newspaper arrives with an insert for aid to Catholic Relief Services. About three weeks ago there was an insert envelope with the title "SPECIAL OFFER FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FOR CATHOLICS ONLY" or something to that effect. I could not understand why such a big change in the enclosures. Well now I have my answer. Weigel to the rescue to help his buddy Rupert Murduch expand subscriptions (and maybe pick up a dime for two) Had I had the opportunity to offer my opinion on the best American newspaper I'd have to say, without hesitation, the Christian Science Monitor. Oh George, you are a sly one, you are.
From a PhD student at Notre Dame University - speaks to an ally of Weigel - "War on Francis"
If the offer of the WSJ was $12 for 12 weeks, the "special" offer for Catholics is not different from their typical offers. False advertising? Eighth commandment?
Some of us had hoped that the "jump" signal would be placed earlier in postings so that more than ten posts could be listed on the first page.
Is there any way to increase the number of posts that appear there before they are sent to the black hole much more rarely visited?
Wait until Weigel reads this! :
- http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catholic-survey-shows-deep-frustration-within-the-church-a-946069.html
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Mollie: You might want to read Peter Beinart's lengthy article titled "The End of American Exceptionalism" at THE ATLANTIC. No, he does not mention Weigel. You'll have to provide the Weigel tie-ins. Beinart makes a passing observation about Rep. Paul Ryan that may be open to question.
My diocesan paper (a monthly) asks to be informed if readers find anything in it that is not consonant with Catholic teaching. Several times I, and others, have complained about Weigel's "Catholic Difference" because his piece, published under that title, said nothing about Catholicism at all (or, indeed, about religion of any kind) and we find it misleading that he appears to equate a particular variety of thoroughly secular conservative political thinking with Catholicism.
That said, his latest screed (which I read in the Vermont Catholic) seems to be simply a continuation of the arguments of all those over the last half-century who have maintained that Vatican II changed nothing, or at least nothing very important. For a while they had (most of the time) John Paul II and Benedict XVI on their side; now they don't.
Much of their confusion (and ours too, no doubt) comes from an unwillingness to engage the question of when, how, and why, the Church has changed its teachings over the last two millenia. They prefer to think that it never has, even when this is patently untrue. They (and we) would be much better off if they engaged the questions posed, not only by what has changed, but what hasn't.
(Many, many years ago, when I asked my Episcopalian mother why women wore hats in church, she told me that St. Paul had warned that uncovered women's hair might tempt the angels. But now, when did you last see a seriously hatted congregation? Is there any evidence of angelic temptation? I wonder how Weigel would explain this).
Brother Weigel will definitely need a good strong dose of smellings salts! First the Germans, and now the Swiss.
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The sky is definitely falling!
The snide shot at the WSJ Editorial page is a simple indicator of this author's lack of understanding of Wcon 101.
Ditto the Pope's.
'Trickle Down' is something that is used ONLY as a pejorative. As a real economic theory it does NOT exist....non-Economists and those who know they want to at least kick what they think of as Capitalism in the shins will use it ---as did Pope Francis, I am very sorry to say.
The (in my mind) legitimate and worthwhile proponents of Free market Capitalism have always insisted that it be carried out under the rule of law....when this Pope speaks of 'unbridled Capitalism' and 'unbridled Free markets' he is speaking of a system which moral men who embrace Capitalism and Freedom, abhor.
It's a straw man....and this Pope should be beyond and above creating straw men to curry favor with some erstwhile LiberationTheologians whose bruises he his trying to salve.....
To quote Tom Sowell, "Capitalism is not an "ism." It is closer to being the opposite of an "ism," because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to."--- "Unbridled" is NOT part of that description and this Pope ought to recognize that.
When another economic system demands the LACK of coercion that capitalism demands and when another system creates as much wealth and pulls as many OUT of poverty as 'Capitalism' does, then I'll listen to the Pope on things economic.
Till then, he does us a favor by sticking to his knitting.
In his Helsinki lecture of Nov 29, 2013, Tomas Piketty demonstrated that "high wealth inequality is not due to any "market failure": this is a market success: the more frictionless and distortion free are capital markets, the higher will wealth inequality become."
Welcome to the Acton Institute annex.
Please be careful -- there is a wide berth in the Catholic Church for political views of many kinds, however, there is NOT berth for denigration of the Sacraments which Our Lord most certainly did intend as evidenced in such Scripture passages as John 20-23 (whosoever sins you forgive are forgiven, etc.), John 6 (this is My Body, etc.), Cana and other places.
There IS sacramental grace -- ergo, not natural and not merely ascertained by the five senses - at work in each and every one of the Catholic sacraments including Holy Orders. Only the substitious and bleak, crass materialists believe otherwise.
To denigrate the operation of the supernatural in the world and in the Church is expressly NOT Catholic.
One may make of themselves an adept secularist with such statements, but not a Catholic. The supernatural working THROUGH and ALONGSIDE the natural is part and parcel of Christian faith.
Also...I am very grateful for George Weigel's writings and teachings. He is helping to breathe new life into people's faith.
You are free to disagree with him ...are there any of us who fully 100% agree with anybody on everything?....but he is doing a lot of good. Please let's don't forget this.
(Which is more than I can say of those of us here on a comments board rattling off?)
We are all allowed not to like everything the Pope says. So let's move on. It is well-established that only ex-cathedra statements/doctrine from the Pope are infallable. Menawhile, Jesus' Word is infallible. His life is infallible. His love is infallible. Let us focus our eyes instead on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, "who for the joy set before Him endured the Cross, scorning its shame." He is the Perfect One. All else flows from Him.
God bless you.


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I have a Roland/Boss GT3, which I use to get various distortion sounds. I like the sound for the most part, but I find that distorted sounds seem very ... "muddy" I guess would be the best way to describe it. Major chords, 7ths, etc, sound fine, or at least much better. Is there some common setting that can help clean up the sound at bit? What would be the most likely causes of this behaviour?
Quite possibly one of the best ways to remove muddiness from your overdriven tone (regardless of what chords you play) is through the use of a compressor. If you don't know what one of those is, check out this question. If you think you know what one is, you probably don't, and you should check out this question =D. I kid. In all seriousness though--JFET based and digital overdrive pedals will do this. If using a compressor in front of (or behind, some players like that too) the overdrive--and using it correctly--doesn't work, then consider reducing the amount of distortion on your overdrive or changing some parameters on how you equalize the tone pre and post drive.
Before I describe that a little more in depth, let me give you a little background on the way a TS808 clone (which is nearly every mass market overdrive since the TS hit the market) works. Inside your nifty little stompbox you likely have little electrical components called JFETs. These little guys are the next best thing for overdriving circuits in a natural way behind tube amps. Some people would even say that JFET's do it better, and there are several boutique and mass market JFET based overdrives on the market that sound phenomenal--tube like even. However, one thing that these JFET's won't do that a tube amp will is compress at higher gain settings--you need some other heavy duty components in the mix to acquire that property. So, lots of folks build what's known as clipping circuits into their overdrive designs. These circuits come in two applicable flavors: symmetrical and asymmetrical clipping, and they both lend unique dynamics to the overdrive. Asymmetrical clipping generates both even and odd order harmonics, and skews more towards even order the harder you clip. This results in a natural, smoother compressed sound with little to no intermodulation distortion--and sounds much like the push/pull dynamics of a tube based amplifier. Symmetrical clipping tends to emphasize the odd order harmonics and sounds harsher due to intermodulation distortion. The original TS808 used (and newer reissues still use I believe) symmetrical clipping.
Now, with all that history, if your GT-3 enables you to configure any of these parameters on your overdrive patch, you should play with them. If you want cleaner sounding overdriven tone then consider an asymmetrical overdrive or tossing a compressor in your chain (software or hardware). Also, if you have your amplifier gained out any whatsoever, you should remix the amplifier distortion and the stompbox distortion. It took me a month or two to find the proper overdrive mix on my rig such that my Orange didn't sound like a muffled, nasty, pissed off bass cabinet. Also know that all TS808 clones and most digital drives hike the middle frequencies. They do this for two reasons. First, bass frequencies sound blatty distorted--so most overdrives will cut those before they gain the signal. Second, high frequencies sound glassy and harsh when overdriven, and will sometimes get lost in the mix--so those are cut a little bit too pre-gain. All this results in a muddy mess.
Here's neat piece of information that I learned from Paul Cochrane of the Tim/Timmy fame. If you can control your bass frequencies pre distortion, and your highs post distortion, you pretty much have all the control you will ever need to get very nice overdriven tones. You can roll back the bass to reduce the blattyness to your preference--sometimes called "tighter" bass response, and then increase the highs to cover the mid bump and get a nice fat creamy awesome overdriven tone. Or jack the highs even more to cut through the mix during a solo. Very few newer boutique and mass market overdrives take advantage of this mostly because they are going for the TS808 vibe--which is dirt cheap and easy as pie to build.
Anyway, hope this helps. My overdrive tone quest has taken me years to arrive at a sound I'm happy with, but I'm still not even close to being done :D.
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In my experience, this is a problem inherent in heavy distortion. I'd suggest one of two things:
If these don't work:
I have been through maybe 25 or 30 different distortion boxes in my life trying to find the one that has the 'perfect' sound for me, and to be fair, it doesn't exist :-)
In saying that, I have managed to find ways to make the sound work. On something like the GT3 I find you can reduce muddiness a lot by scooping out more mid and low than you might expect before you get to the distortion stage and then roll off a little bit of the highs on the output if it sounds too harsh.
Backing off on the drive for the distortion stage also works well to keep dynamic range as well as giving a warmer, less muddy sound.
On my Line 6 (which is in the same market place as the GT3) most of the muddiness, if I want it, comes from the amp simulator - if running into a real amp make sure simulation is disabled.
As already mentioned, choosing your chords correctly will have a big effect. If you are playing rhythm guitar you really won't need as much distortion, and you can allow a more middle-y sound. For lead you will usually want more clarity, but that can be through more or less distortion.
I had this problem for a long time, after tweaking with it a bit I've finally got the perfect tone with no muddiness on my chords. You won't even need a compressor or EQ. I'm playing through a Boss Blues Driver and Fender Twin Reverb. Make sure you are using your bridge pick up, as the neck pick up won't be favorable for overdriven chords. Now, turn your volume on your guitar down from 10 to about 7-8. You will immediately notice a cleaner sound and that minor third won't get blurred out nearly as bad. Now, for the overdrive itself. For lead work, my gain is at about 2 o'clock/12. I turn it left to about 11 o'clock and I have completed the perfect overdriven sound for any chords(major,minor,7ths,sus,etc.) I can't speak for everyone, but with my particularly set up, this change produces no unwanted noise while still keeping the power and fullness that I look to achieve when using my overdrive.
Okay, here's a solution for this that I just discovered.
I've been playing with various methods of gain stacking. I found a good (actually, pretty awesome) sound with the Zoom G5. I simply pushed the signal a bit from the compressor to the "Extreme Distortion" they have in the unit. (It's pretty amazing. I wish I could find something like this in a real pedal.)
Then I push it into the "Exciter" effect. (I'm pretty sure this thing just boosts the top and bottom frequencies in some way, but I'd love to hear if anyone here knows of a unit that this compares to.
Now, this still left my sound a tad muddy in the mids. But the distortion was TIGHT. Not a lot of weird fuzziness (I don't like that in my tone.) And the artificial harmonics are off the hook.
I just didn't like the sound when I was playing rhythm. I could boost the lows, but it never had that punch-in-the-gut feel I was looking for.
But I just grabbed a Boss DA-2 - adaptive distortion - yesterday. I had a sneaking suspicion that this would be a solution to that "indistinct" notes issue that most distortion creates.
To be honest, I'm amazed at the sound on this thing. All notes are clear and ring out distinctly, allowing you to play full maj/min and 7th chords and get ALL the notes. It's phenomenal.
Now, since I want a much "heavier" sound, I played with gain stacking on this bad boy. THIS is tricky, since the Boss wants to carve up the sound and throttle the distortion on each note.
What I wound up doing was punching in a Tube screamer on it, and bumped up the levels (not the drive) in the Zoom G5 chain. I'm playing through a clean amp (strictly power) into a Line 6 4x12 cabinet.
I've got an HD500, a Zoom G5, and a Digitech IPB10 (the iPad one.) They're all looped, so I can basically just mix n match. Every so often I have to throw a gate in the mix to quiet things down.
What I eventually came up with is a really kickass rhythm sound that just feels incredible. The leads jump out because the Boss does an excellent job of balancing the note frequencies and volume levels.
The only thing I can't get are crazy pinched harmonics quite like the setup I had on the Zoom originally.
I can honestly say that if I could get that last bit of flavor in my sound, I'd be 95% to my personal tone "holy grail." (C'mon, no one gets 100% :)
A possible culprit here is the volume balance among the strings, and the voicing you are using. Adjust the pickup's pole pieces to even out the volume balance.


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Battlefield 4 Naval Strike DLC arrives for Premium members today, unless you're a PC player [Update]Written by: / / 1 Comment
[Update No. 2]
DICE has announced that Naval Strike is rolling out now for Battlefield 4 Premium members after an extended delay – find out what to expect with the content below.
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[Update No. 1]
Following the delay of the PC version of Naval Strike for Battlefield 4 Premium members, DICE has announced that the Xbox One version of the add-on has also been delayed and will be available in "early April," past its original release date of March 25th. DICE wrote:
"Additionally, we have decided to delay the Xbox One version of Naval Strike because we want to address issues in the animation system that hinder players from engaging targets in set circumstances using popular weapon configurations. We know that many Battlefield 4 Premium owners wanted to play Naval Strike today. However, we didn't want to release the new content until we believed it was quality content."
This is a vast change in approach and it seems as though DICE really wants to turn the general perception around regarding Battlefield 4's relative quality on launch.
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As promised, the third massive addition to Battlefield 4 arrives for the game's Premium members starting today on across Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
Developer DICE has announced a quality related delay for the PC version of Naval Strike, however, writing on the official Battlefield blog:
"Quality is our number one priority and we will not release Battlefield 4 Naval Strike on PC until we feel it meets the highest quality level possible. We are also working on a larger update to release alongside Battlefield 4 Naval Strike on PC that will address the issue of Tablet Commander not working correctly."
If you're a Battlefield 4 Premium member on console, though, you can look forward to water-based action on four all-new maps set in the South China Sea – here's a quick overview of the maps:
– Lost Islands: Blow open a crashed passenger plane and capture fishing villages across these tropical islands.
– Wave Breaker: Drop a submarine on your foes as you infiltrate a naval base or rush between shipping docks and rocky islands on this massive map.
– Nansha Strike: Wage war across stormy seas in the largest ocean stretch in a Battlefield map yet.
– Operation Mortar: Storm an abandoned cliff-side resort, or get lost in the breathtaking vistas in this map.
Battlefield 4 Naval Strike also includes the new 'Carrier Assault' game mode, which will be familiar to anyone who played the classic 'Titan Mode' in Battlefield 2142. The objective in this mode is to destroy the enemy team's carrier before they can do the same to yours, with all-out warfare exploding on land as well as over the sea and in the air before the game funnels into a much more close-quarters combat affair as you attempt to take out the carrier from the inside.
The amphibious hovercraft vehicle will also be introduced with Battlefield 4 Naval Strike, with five new weapons, two new gadgets and an additional ten assignments to complete, too.
Battlefield 4 Naval Strike Is Out in April, Too?
If you're a non-Premium member, you'll be able to purchase and download Battlefield 4 Naval Strike on your platform of choice starting April 8th, so don't fret if you feel you're missing out too much – your time will come, soon.
Mark the launch of the latest Battlefield 4 DLC with Naval Strike's overview video below:
Battlefield 4 – Naval Strike DLC Official Trailer
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I'm trying to find an android application that is able to motivate me quickly when I'm outdoors and look at my screen. It could look like as follows:
- It can display a motivational text (citation) on the Main screen (the screen before you unlock the phone, now it displays only date and time)
- It could display more citations and cycle through them (e.g. every 5 minutes)
- If I look at my screen and the text is already uniteresting there are two "buttons"
nextand I can look at another citation. I should be possible without unlocking the phone.
- It's possible to append new citations or to delete them.
Is there such an application or some approaching these features?
So far, I found only
LSMemo enabling only one memo on the lock screen.


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WACO (November 13, 2012)--In conjunction with National Adoption Awareness Month, Baylor Law School will hold a special Adoption Day in which some McLennan County children will receive forever homes.
In McLennan County 96 children are still waiting for forever homes, according to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
The Why Not Me? Campaign during the month of November hopes to spotlight the children currently in state care, especially minority and older children who tend to stay there longer.
Since the campaign's inception in 2005, adoptions from the DFPS have increased by 48 percent.
Adoptions this year were 8 percent higher than last year.
For more information, call (512) 369-7146.


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8 Fun (and Cheap!) Family Fitness Activities
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Playground Playtime
Just as kids love rec time during the school day, they'll enjoy romping around the playground when school is out of session. When is the last time Dad tried his hand at crossing the monkey bars or doing some pull-ups? And when was Mom last on the swings, pumping her legs to get sky-high? Playgrounds offer fun physical activity for everyone — even if you're just chasing the kids around.
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text: If you answered yes to any of these questions, we invite you to join our Weight Loss Surgery "Veterans" support group. The meetings will focus on helping you gain control in the constant fight against gaining weight. This is a time to share with other weight loss surgery "veterans" the triumphs, challenges and inspirations from your personal experience since weight loss surgery. We are in this journey together.


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Currently this page is being used to organize the build out and creation of the dark room. Eventually it'll be used to talk about happenings in the dark room.
The darkroom is under construction at 2169. It is located on the east side in between the emergency exit and the bathrooms. This room may also be used for silk screening.
If you want to participate in discussion, please hit up our mailing list.
Sort of in order of what needs to be done.
Build walls
Paint exterior
Run conduit and boxes
- Lighting
- Wire
- Vent switch
- Plumbing - Rubin
- Run pipes under floors
- Hook up sink
- Ventilation - Joachim
- Setup fan above room
- Vent out to bathroom or skylight
- Door - Kelly
- Door door
Light tight curtain or maze
- Paint interior - Peter
- Shelving and tables
- Bins for storage
- Some sort of filing cabinet for paper
- A small fridge
These are currently pledged funds.
- $50 - Andy
- $50 - Rubin
- $100 - dpc
- $177 - Joachim *paid* ceiling/fan materials
- $50 - Dan Garcia
- $50 - Mitch
- $75 - Kelly
- Enlarger
- Timer
- A butt load of chemicals
- A deep sink
- Light tight drums
- Enlarger - Audrey (I don't own a vehicle and need to arrange transport from my house to NB)
- Color enlarger - Dan Garcia
- Easel (11x14) - MarkC
- Timer (Digital) - MarkC
- Grain Focuser - MarkC
- Film chemicals (hc-110, tmax) -MarkC
Film scanner
We currently have a flatbed scanner with 35mm and 120 film inserts. The Canon software that works best with it is only for Windows. There has been talk of making a VM for this. The scanner belongs to Joachim and lives on his shelf.
This thread might be helpful, as the request for a linux compatible scanner was made...
I've been looking at the Nikon Super Coolscan LS-4000 ED. This is a high end consumer 35mm scanner. 4000dpi, Firewire, scans 6 frames, slides (with an attachment), and a roll of up to 40 frames (with a $500 attachment). It runs under Mac and Windows, Linux is supported through VueScan. Here's a nice review. I'm currently finding these used for around $500 off of ebay. --rubin110 14:26, 19 October 2009 (PDT)
Once the space is set up, I will teach classes on film development, printing, and general darkroom use. I will also be available to help out on a one-on-one basis with anyone who would like to learn.
Expressions of Interest
please add your name here if you're interested in attending a workshop.
We have meetings!
Agenda and meeting notes...