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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Here With You
From the beginning of our relationship, Andrew and I fell into a pattern of unfiltered honesty with one another, a raw directness that far surpasses polite censorship but falls a safe distance short of straight cruelty. I find it reassuring.
It's good to have someone like that by your side when you vomit on yourself and you look like a house and you raise your voice because the ice cubes were not crushed into small enough chunks.
He's the man who holds my hair back and insists that I'm beautiful and yet reminds me that I'm being a punk about the ice chips.
But then he still gets me the smaller ones, anyway.
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- Nita {ModVintageLife} said...
I can't wait to see that kid!
- March 2, 2012 at 1:08 AM
- Hartwood Roses said...
That man of yours is a treasure ... it is good of you to realize this, in your hormone-fogged reality.
The pop-up timer will go off very soon, signalling that this little one of yours is finished cooking. Then the REAL fun begins. They grow up SO fast.
- March 2, 2012 at 3:40 AM
- Teri said...
What a beautiful blog! I browsed for awhile and then hit the "join" button. I love your relationship with Andy...that honesty is so good. And your tummy!! Love how it looks. I carried twins and would never have allowed anyone to photograph mine except one time, right at the end. When I look back at it I am glad and at the same time horrified. Who knew a tummy could get so large AND stretched out of shape at the same time.
- March 2, 2012 at 9:12 AM
- Hallie @ ChasingHallie said...
Those photos are beautiful. Getting close!
- March 2, 2012 at 9:38 AM
- Sara @ Russet Street Reno said...
Congrats on having a great man, coming from a lady who also has a great man, I can appreciate how lucky it is!
- March 2, 2012 at 10:38 AM
- Chris said...
Hi Kelly, just stopping by to say how delightful your blog is. Thanks so much for sharing. I have recently found your blog and am now following you, and will visit often. Please stop by my blog and perhaps you would like to follow me also. Have a wonderful day. Hugs, Chris
- March 2, 2012 at 11:06 PM
- Christen said...
I love your blog so much! Thanks for sharing every step of the way with us!!
- March 3, 2012 at 11:31 PM
- DAVID McGRIEVEY said...
"too many houses, and a boatload of projects", seems to me the most important project is happening naturally.
Enjoy your hormonal roller coaster ride with a good man by your side, given the photos, you look ravishing doing it. Enjoy this moment.
X David, NYC
- March 4, 2012 at 6:05 PM
- Kate said...
beautiful Kelly. the words and the pictures :)
- March 4, 2012 at 11:24 PM


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suppose there is a group of matrices. these matrices multiplied result in a matrix in the group. the matrix can be divided in only one unique way of multiplication of some matrices in the group. we call these factors. when a matrix is multiplied with one of its factor matrices, the mattix becomes zero matrix.
so, is there any group of matrix satisfies this property?

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I'm studying Farb and Margalit's A primer on mapping class groups and trying to understand Wajnryb's finite presentation of Mod(S). I understand that There exists a finite presentation, but I can't understand how they got explicit Wajnryb's finite presentation. More precisely, I want to know how they knew that those 5 kinds of relation generate all relations.
It is still an open problem to find a short and simple way to derive a finite presentation for the mapping class group. The book by Farb and Margalit (in the recent preliminary version 4.00) gives a clear sketch of the known derivations, which are rather long and complicated. For the details one must consult the original papers cited in the book. There are two main steps. The first is to construct a certain 2-dimensional cell complex that the mapping class group acts on and prove that this complex is simply-connected. This was originally done in a 1980 paper of Thurston and myself. Basic properties of this complex make it clear that writing down an actual presentation is then just a matter of carrying out some long and difficult calculations, with perhaps some ingenuity to reduce the work. The second step is then to do the work and write down a presentation. Harer carried out this work shortly thereafter, and Wajnryb greatly simplified Harer's presentation in a 1983 paper. In a later 1999 paper Wajnryb gave a more elementary, self-contained exposition of the whole story, but this is a 60-page paper. The exact references are in the Farb-Margalit book. I certainly hope that a more efficient approach is found someday.
As the authors explain in the 2010-04-22 version of their text, an explicit presentation was first obtained by Harer, using the method developed by Hatcher and Thurston. The latter defined a 2-dimensional simply connected polyhedral complex on which Mod(S) acts :
A general recipe then says how to obtain a finite presentation of the whole group Mod(S), which Harer was the first to go through in all cases, obtaining a "somewhat unwieldy presentation".
Then Wajnryb managed to simplify Harer's presentation. Personally, I prefer Makoto Matsumoto's beautiful presentation (obtained by simplifying Wajnryb's one, with the aid of a computer), where relations added to the braid ones are naturally indexed by some Dynkin diagrams (ADE again!)
BTW, here's the link to Farb and Margalit's book.
I recently ran across this paper, which might be the shortest self-contained derivation of the Gervais presentation out there:


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I recently posted an algorithm question on SO and it was closed as a non-programming related. As far as I know, algorithms were always part of CS.
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Look at your question I can honestly say that you should ask it at mathoverflow.net.
Does this mean that you can't ask any math question? I think no; you can ask math questions that are not too technical or specific, something like high school algebra or first year undergrad calculus are accepted, I think. Beyond that, I suggest you take it to mathoverflow.
It has been nominated for reopening and is (temporarily at least) open again.
I would say that algorithms are reasonable questions for StackOverflow. Clearly, not everyone agrees, but it doesn't belong on SuperUser or ServerFault (or Meta), so where else could they be asked.
Technically it's purely math related, but computer science is simply heavily applied math. I wouldn't vote to close because it is very clearly related to programming (i.e. it's for programming purposes). It wouldn't make sense to ask:
Therefore, I would say it's okay for Stack Overflow.
Not really programming related. It is basic mathematical reasoning, and you would have been better off puzzling over until you got it yourself.
But close enough that I wouldn't vote to close. On the other hand, I wouldn't vote to reopen either...
That is so not an algorithm question. And if you think it is, you're wrong.
As a proponent of leaving the question closed I suppose I should reply.
Not all questions belong in the Trilogy. To say "it doesn't belong on SU or SF, therefore it must belong on SO." isn't valid.
I do agree it's a thin line. But imagine if the question had no language attached and the user had simply asked "To find out whether N is a prime number, we only need to look for all numbers less than or equal to sqrt(N). Why is that?" I don't think anybody here would think it was programming related, because it's pure math. In the same manner saying "How do they make waffles look so tasty? Oh, because I'm programming a waffle simulator" doesn't suddenly make waffles programming related, I don't think "Why is pure math question X so? Oh, I'm implementing it" makes the question related to programming.
Yes, programming is applied mathematics, but it's the application we talk about, not the pure mathematics. I don't find saying "well then algorithms etc also aren't programming related since they are math" is valid either. They are programming related because we implement them. We take these algorithms and apply them. How can one "apply" why the minimum number to check is sqrt(N)?


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In particular, I am interested in the story for a general reductive group $G$, say defined over $\mathbb{Q}$. I can imagine that mod-$\ell$ (algebraic) automorphic representation should correspond to conjugacy classes of homomorphisms from the motivic Galois group into $\widehat{G}(\overline{\mathbb{F}_\ell})$, but this does not seem like a very workable definition. Is there a more pragmatic approach?


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On the floor of the House of Representatives today, Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen said that Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus.
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Since this is titled 'Beyond Parody' I hope this is not going to far:How about; 'Forgive us Mr. President for we have ....but then again maybe I shouldn't.
Obama is sinking. His campaign is in trouble, and everyone knows it. Maybe if he could walk on water...
Obama is sinking. His campaign is in trouble, and everyone knows it. Maybe if he could walk on waterWell, you know, the sinking thing happened to Peter, when he tried to walk on water. And ultimately things worked out okay for him. You just need faith.
I thought we had a thread on comunity organization.We don't need more of the usual partisan comments lacking in both substance and wit.Could we have a real thread on some issue other than abortion??? many thanks.
If Obama were Republican, Donohue would let him walk on water and give him bi-location and his fully corrupt body will be displayed intact in at least ten churches. His difference with some other saints is that he will be found to have truly existed. http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809100364"Eighteen officials from the Patriarchate of Venice, Italy, where the relics have long been kept, accompanied the saint's remains to New York."I know this is a sad day, but there is something joyful for us," said Monsignor Hilary Franco, pastor of St. Augustine's, a former longtime Vatican official who arranged for the relics to come to New York. "We are blessed by the presence of St. Barbara."This is many people's idea of what it means to be Catholic.
I take it we're saying that both comments were beyond parody.
No, Joe. Just Cohen's. P.S. Are you getting my e-mails?
Grant,Clue the rest of us in. Why is the Cohen comment beyond parody? Seems to me that is was one of the recent campaign comments most susceptible to parody.
I continue to be amazed that my friend McCain, the man of honor, runs a campaign much like the swift boaters- not only the pig with lipstick hypocrisy, but also (see today's NYT on the new McCain ad on Obama and sex education.)In our local paper (Santa Fe New Mexican) today, poltical columnist Steve Terrell(hardly a flaming liberal) tells the story of how the RNC put out a story from a guy who says he found loads of trash bags full of flags waved at Obama's Denever speech and then discarded to be burnt. Terrell, who attended the speech as a reporter, said he wanted to get a flag for his son before leaving and searched "high and low" before finding one and one only.I thought the man of honor had said he wanted to run a civil campaign back when, but I guess that was a parody on civility.
Bob,Your columnist may have had trouble finding flags, but the story was nonetheless true. Even in the Dems response they admitted that there were a bunch of flags left in trash bags on a loading dock near the dumpsters (actually burning the flag is the appropriate way to destroy it if done correctly.) Their story is that they planned to pick them up later - this eight days after the convention was over, and that the guy stole them - don't hold your breath for the police report.Does it mean anything? Probably not. They were probably overlooked. Did the guy who found them hand the state GOP a nice little propaganda item? Yeah, but so what. Neither side has a has a corner on the clean campaigning market. What is all the garbage about Sarah Palin having some words spelled phonetically on her teleprompter if not a a backhanded way to color her (and her supporters) as stupid, backwoods rubes? Both sides do this, and will continue to do it. It's just noise.If you want to hold candidates to their promises over how they will run - start with the big O's pledge to use public financing and debate his opponent any time any where.
What is all the garbage about Sarah Palin having some words spelled phonetically on her teleprompter if not a a backhanded way to color her (and her supporters) as stupid, backwoods rubes?This is the first reaction I've seen since I commented on that earlier (I guess my observation is the "garbage" you're referring to?). I meant it as no reflection on the intelligence of Palin's supporters or Palin herself. I really, really wish I knew enough about her to pass judgment on her intelligence and leadership ability, but I don't. But the important thing to remember is that I'm not the one who assumed Sarah Palin wouldn't know the word "haberdasher" when she saw it. That's why it seemed worth noting to me: it appears that the convention's coordinators had so little knowledge of/confidence in Palin that they thought she might not be familiar with the word "haberdasher" (and didn't have a chance to find out whether their fears were well-founded). As for "nuclear," well, that one made me laugh because I was surprised anyone cared how she pronounced it -- in fact, I might have guessed she'd be encouraged to say it Bush-style, in solidarity, since obviously no one is too worried about his constant mispronunciation reflecting badly on him. Of lesser significance, of course, is that the transcript was published and reproduced online with no corrections, even days later. Maybe that says nothing important about the GOP or the McCain campaign, but the sloppiness strikes me as amusing at the very least. Let me say, though, that I'm all for phonetic spellings if they can stop people from saying "nuke-yular" and "War-shington" and so on. Give the candidates whatever help they need. Flash "please don't refer to Summa Theologica" or "for the love of pete, don't say 'uppity'" on the teleprompter nonstop, if it keeps them from making fools of themselves. Just don't include it when you release the transcript to the media.
We are still waiting for Palin to talk with us. She provides her own photo-op with no questions other than approved ones. If she is fit to run, then it is time to meet the press and the people. I am sure she is practicing.
Absolutely Bill! She should cancel her pre-scheduled event with soldiers, inculuding her son, to be deployed overseas so Tom Brokaw can have a crack at her. How selfish of her.
Unless I'm mistaken, today *is* the day Gov. Palin will at last allow the media (Charlie Gibson, though, not Brokaw) to "have a crack at her." Bill didn't say she should be talking to the media all day, every day -- but expecting that she talk to the media at all doesn't seem unreasonable to me. How did we end up on Palin anyway? I blame Grant for being too subtle.
Mollie's right -we need a new thread on "cocky wacko."
I saw a little of the interview with Gibson. I see why the Republicans are wary to let her on her own yet. She twisted around the question of God and destiny and was clearly uncomfortable. She was, of course, coached that that question was coming and I am not sure whether it was one of the ones allowed to be asked. At any rate Gibson did not spare her the tough questions. Being uncomfortable is understandable. I did like the fire I see in her. We will see how she adjusts. I give her a b- on this one. She will have to do better than this.


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It seems on Friday night that various people rise at various times towards the end of השכיבנו (and before beginning ושמרו). When is the actual proper moment to rise? (Sources, please.)
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Right where I put the <> marker is where you rise and accept the extra Neshamah of Shabbat. (You accept the extra Nefesh at the end of Lecha Dodi, and the extra Ruach at Barechu)
(Ben Ish Hai Parshat Vayera #3, Kaf HaHayyim 267:11.)
On Yom Tov it appears that one stands at the beginning of Kaddish, just as one does on weeknights. Even Sepharadim are not required to stand for Kaddish in general, the halacha is that at Arvit, one stands for Shemoneh Esreh at the kaddish immediately preceding Shemoneh Esreh.
Chabad stands before "Ufros aleinu" (See Hayom Yom, 2nd Day of Sivan). It does not give a reason, but see here, where it quotes S'fardi prayer books as follows:
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The committee, headed by Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom, D-Medina, is expected to release a report Wednesday recommending an end to the Guaranteed Education Tuition program, or GET.
The popular program, the second-largest of its kind in the country, has about 120,000 active accounts, set up by parents and grandparents to pay tuition bills years before they come due. It has about $2 billion in assets and is underfunded by about $631 million.
Just how much weight the recommendation might carry remains to be seen. Phasing out GET could be a hard sell: Voters like the program, and past proposals to amend it have been unsuccessful. At the same time, a number of states have shut down their prepaid tuition plans in recent years as skyrocketing tuition rates have left them underfunded.
In several meetings over the fall and winter, the eight-member committee touched on the possibility of ending GET, but its focus was to look at how charging different tuition rates for different programs would affect the prepaid tuition plan.
This month, Tom sent an email to committee members for their recommendations, and one of the poll choices was to close GET. Six members voted for that option.
"Actually, I'm kind of surprised we're even making that recommendation," said Sen. Bob Hasegawa, D-Seattle. Hasegawa voted against closing GET because he believes it's a good program to help families save for college.
He called a phaseout "the nuclear-bomb option."
Tom said he envisions a "thoughtful shutdown" of the program that would take place over many years. GET would continue to pay investors who hold accounts but would not sell any units after the current enrollment period ends this spring.
"We just feel there was a promise made, and there needs to be a promise kept," he said. "But we won't be taking new money" under the committee's recommendation.
Even though it's underfunded, GET costs the state no money right now. The state actuary estimates that if the program stops accepting contributions, it would cost the state $1.67 billion over an 11-year period beginning in 2025the year that "we will run out of money" if there are no new investors in the program, said GET director Betty Lochner.
Lochner has tried to make the case to legislators that GET is a long-term investment program, much like a pension fund, and that it eventually would recover if legislators left it alone.
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Brown, now chancellor of Washington State University, Spokane, who was a Democratic member of the GET advisory committee, said she still prefers changing the GET payout value, creating a GET 2. If there's no support for that, Brown said, she would favor ending the program.
Rep. Chris Reykdal, D-Tumwater, wants to stop selling new GET units this year, noting that most states already have ended their prepaid tuition programs.
Rep. Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama, said he originally opposed a shutdown of the program but now favors it. Orcutt said he fears investors will eventually decide GET isn't a good deal anymore because the program now charges an additional $19 fee for each GET unit purchasedpart of a recovery plan to make the program solvent in about 20 years.
"People who are buying in now are helping to fund the unfunded liability," Orcutt said. "How long before people decide it's not a good deal for them?"
GET credits currently cost $172 per unit and are for sale this year through May 31. The payout value this year is $117 per unit. Investors do not lock in tuition at today's prices when they purchase GET; in effect, they're paying a premium on the payout amount, anticipating that tuition will be much higher when their children reach college age.
The unit cost includes the $19 fee to help shrink the unfunded liability.
GET is underfunded in large part because of the precipitous increase in tuition at the state's universities over the past four years. The fund also lost money during the recession, when the value of its investments fell, although much of that has been recovered.
The program's biggest state impact has been to tie the hands of state universities, which would like to offer more slots in popular degrees like engineering and business by charging higher tuition rates for those programs. The universities would then use that money to grow the programs.
But because the GET payout is tied to the highest tuition rate at the most expensive state school, allowing higher tuition for some programscalled "differential tuition"would make GET payouts higher, too.
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It's as if he was preparing to have amnesia. Also, how did the 'surgeon' manage to find it?
I personally think the implant of the laser was to reveal Bourns own identity to himself if any accident happens.
It was likely from the beginning that Bourne may get amnesia due to the drug effect. So if anything of that happens, he can get back his identity easily(Like the movie went on). Maybe they thought, it will create pain in the implanted area and he would eventually find it. But I guess, his employer did not think that after committing to the plan, he would turn against them.
The doctor found the laser because he wanted to examine an severely wounded body thoroughly. So he found the scar, felt something inside it and made it out.
In his line of work it's a lot more likely that he was planning on dying rather than having amnesia someday. The implant was probably intended for his employer's benefit, not his own.
The 'surgeon' found the device when he pressed on the scar and noticed that there was something under the skin. It was a small device, but it would have to be big enough to feel if it contained a working laser and battery. Remember, Bourne had two bullet holes in him at the time, so it stands to reason that he'd get a thorough examination.


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Right now on the homepage, Joseph Bottum takes his turn in our special feature, "Engagement or Retreat? Catholicism & Same-Sex Marriage." Bottum responds to Ross Douthat and Jamie L. Manson, who themselves were responding to Bottum's controversial Commonweal piece from last summer, "The Things We Share: A Catholic's Case for Same-Sex Marriage." An excerpt from Bottum's response:
Sometimes same-sex marriage has been described as a natural outcome of the removal of sex from the realm of morality. Sometimes it has been praised as a wonderful transgressive rebellion, good because it helped undo bad Western norms. Sometimes it has been described as a useful expansion of an old idea, helping preserve the marriage culture. Occasionally it has been promoted as a way of returning ethics to sexual relations, drawing gays and lesbians away from support for the demoralization of sex, to which, it is claimed, they were forced by the repressions of a premodern morality that lasted into the modern world.
In other words, the arrival of legal recognition of same-sex marriage was over-determined in America. And that's why I think it makes a terrible object for the Catholic Church to pick as the synechdoche for all the objectionable things in contemporary society. Our problem as Catholics isn't that same-sex marriage somehow uniquely represents Western society's recent turns; our problem is those turns themselves: the disenchantment of the world, the systematic effort to hunt down and destroy the last vestiges of old metaphysical and spiritual meanings in the world.
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Friends: I think this topic has been beaten to death in Bottum's origional piece.
Will any minds changed based on this current triad (if I can use the term)?
The RCC has got to own up to the fact that secular, civil marriage is up to the voters and courts in this land. Religions will remain free to accept/reject/ignore/fume and fuss about it all they want, but it's just a matter of time before the SCOTUS finally acknowledges the reality of marriage equality as an equal protection matter.
This is off topic, but First Things fans might be interested in the move of Peter Augustine Lawler's FT column to National Review. (FT has financial problems.) Lawler's first article at NR, "Being Postmodern and Conservative" is an attempt to re-define "conservativism" for today's circumstances. It's an important sign of the times, I think -- that a leading conservative finds such a redefinition necessary. It's an interesting article, but needs a whole different thread. (And maybe "liberalism" needs redefinition too?)
Would it be helpful to introduce into this conversation Michael Hanby's essay, "The Brave New World of
Same-Sex Marriage," from The Federalist Blog?
Yes, it is always helpful to be reminded of consequences. Others have made similar arguments--Leon Kass, as I recall. The problem is that advocates of gay marriage don't seem to believe this will happen or don't seem to believe they have a responsibility for technology devised for infertile heterosexual couples.
It's only helpful if you can explain why marriage equality should be restricted because of the possible misue of technology, the use of which is not restricted to gays or even married people.
A bizarre unexpected consequence in a few preschools in France : this year Mothers' day and Fathers' day are being replaced by a single Parents' day.
Last year I laughed at the notion that granting gay couples the ability to marry would take anything away from heterosexual couples. This year I hear about this Mothers' day affair, and am taken by complete surprise. Does gay marriage mean that everything including some kind of official recognition of mothers (or of fathers) will now have to disappear or be replaced by some gender-neutral version?
I've yet to see a single reasonable argument against marriage equality.
"Does gay marriage mean that everything including some kind of official recognition of mothers (or of fathers) will now have to disappear or be replaced by some gender-neutral version? "
Imagine this sentence reworked as this ...
Does gender equality mean that everything including some kind of official recognition of women (or of men) will now have to disappear or be replaced by some gender-neutral version?
Right. I suppose the problem is not with gay marriage but with some who use it as an excuse to campaign against... against what? Gender? Motherhood?
I don't think anyone's against motherhood ... everybody who exists had a mother :) But things are changing. That's to be expected and not a bad thing. Sometimes it can be hard to get used to, though.
Claire --
If a child has two mothers, then it should celebrate Mothers' Day, and if two fathers, then it should celebrate Fathers' Day. I really don't see the problem.
So then, why replace mothers' day and fathers' day with a single parents' day?
Maria -- Exactly.
It seems to me that Western culture, as it learns to appreciate diversity, still has trouble sometime dealing with differences, a problem rooted in the silly metaphysical notion that different thing can somehow be "equal". The old apples and oranges problem. As such they can't be equal. That's like saying sweet is equal to purple or high to square. It's also, I think, part of the problem that some feminists have with "the equality of the sexes". We can be equal in our likenesses, but not in our differences. Equality just doesn't apply in some matters.
The reproductive technology issue raised @May 31, 2014 - 1:34pm should be of interest (and concern) to everyone, straight or gay. As the article points out, this is a largely unregulated technology controled largely by medical specialists, insurance companies, and sperm and egg collecting companies. The article goes on to point out the generally unregulated arena of genetic research. By unregulated, of course, is meant unregulated by law or government bodies. The moral or ethical restraints that might have once served as restraints are weak.
Arguments for and against reproductive technologies often pivot on "compassion" for the person(s) unable to conceive or bear children. Naturally "compassion" has prevailed over time (semen donors, then egg donors, in vitro fertilization, frozen embryos (and fights over who "owns" them), etc. Where once married couples were candidates, "compassion" has moved the technology on to single women, surrogate mothers, lesbian couples, and now gay couples. The genetic manipulations forecast in the articles (three-parent embryos, etc.) may be beyond scientists now, but when the technology is mastered, "compassion" will once again be the prevailing argument. Oddly none of this is subject to the regs that control experiment on humans (i.e., embryos, babies, etc).
The reasoning in that article starts from this statement:
Opponents of same-sex marriage [...] maintain that partisans of 'marriage equality' redefine marriage as an affective union which makes the birth and rearing of children incidental to its meaning, a result of the de-coupling of sex and procreation in the aftermath of The Pill. But this is only half true. Since married couples normally can and typically do have children, same-sex unions must retain in principle some form of the intrinsic connection between marriage, procreation and childrearing if they are really to be counted as marriage and to be truly 'equal' in the eyes of society and the law.
But the "since married couples normally can and typically do have children" is weak, and everything else in that article is predicated on that. It's like a house of cards that falls if the basis does not hold; and I am dubious about the assertion that marriage in its current form has an "intrinsic connection" with procreation and childrearing.
"Normally" and "typically"; weak? How so? It implies that that's what many married couple do, but not all.
The pivot, "same-sex unions must retain in principle some form of the intrinsic connection...." is the point of his argument. Is it true? Not true? Why? Why not? That's what raises the question about the expanded use of reproductive technologies, ne c'est pas?
If there was no such thing as marriage equality, those reproductive technologies would still be delevoped and used, so to bring that up as an argument against marriage equality is disingenuous. The same is true of the "de-coupling of sex and procreation" ... it's not just that not all married couple want to have children, many people who want children no longer feel the need to be married ... "For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage" ... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/for-women-under-30-most-births-occu... ... and that is not related to marriage equality.
Children are born outside of marriage. People get married with no intention of having children, or not for a very long time. People get divorced after having children. People get married or remarried at a later age, when they will no longer have children. Children are raised by a single parent. Etc. There are all sorts of things that wreak havoc with the traditional "marriage, procreation, childrearing" sequence, to the point where that sequence is no longer the norm, and the connection that used to be intrinsic is lost. And so, I buy the idea that marriage is being redefined to center on love between the spouses and, perhaps, mutual commitment. - In fact that's how the acceptance of gay marriage so quickly becomes such a straightforward matter.
So the "pivot of his argument" is precisely where he loses me.
Not that I like all aspects of that redefinition. I see too many scenes, in airports and train stations, of young children asking one of their parents why they cannot have both parents together, or of unaccompanied minors crying as they say goodbye to one parent before boarding to go back to the other parent. It's a ghastly way to raise the next generation, but that's the new norm, and threats on families and human beings, real as they are, are not to be imputed to gay marriage.
Claire: "threats on families and human beings, real as they are, are not to be imputed to gay marriage."
Nor are gay marriages or gay couples free of such threats or absolved from such responsibilities.


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5 Scientific Ways to Trick Yourself into Being a Good Person
#2. Getting Something You Don't Deserve Makes You Want to Help Others
One of the most despicable beings in every workplace is the freeloader -- the guy who lucked his way to the top while others were using a slightly different strategy called "actually working." The Homer Simpson to everyone else's Frank Grimes, if you will. Which one of those two types of worker do you think would be more likely to take others under their wing and help them advance in their careers? The hard worker, right? Well, science says you couldn't be more wrong.
"Sure, I'll help you get ahead. Step one is to watch out for the foreman while I take a nap."
In one study, participants had to take a quiz and were told that the ones who got good scores would receive money. However, some of the participants who got low scores were given money, too, even though it was clear to everyone that they didn't deserve it.
"And the top prize goes to Gary, a dead possum we found on the street."
After they received their money, deserved or undeserved, the participants were asked to give advice to someone. Then, in another experiment, researchers pretended that they had dropped some erasers as they were leaving the room to see if the participants would pick them up or look away and whistle. So what happened? Those who received money they didn't deserve were more likely, in both cases, to be excellent to one another -- they gave time-consuming advice to someone else and picked up the erasers.
Meanwhile, the ones who actually worked for the money they got were most likely to do squat.
"Bitch, I got a good score on a math quiz. My debt to society is paid."
This is all about how humans deal with being envied. According to researcher Niels van de Ven, who organized this experiment, there are two types of envy: benign and malicious. Benign envy is when everyone knows you deserve what you have but they envy you anyway, whereas malicious envy is reserved for those who don't deserve what they have and, honestly, have it coming.
That second guy might look like a jerk to the world, but according to van de Ven, the fear of being envied actually drives him to be helpful to other people. That fear isn't present in those who deserve what they have, so they feel they can get away with being bigger total assholes.
"I have three Ph.D.s. I spend my weekends spitting into open caskets."
#1. Counting Your Blessings ... Is Actually a Bad Idea
"Count your blessings." Our whole lives we're told that -- to be grateful for what we're given. After all, when you truly appreciate all of the gifts you've been given in life, you'll see how important it is to give back. But science, in its never-ending quest to turn everything you know into a lie, has set out to prove this one wrong, too.
"Next, we'll show mathematically that your mother doesn't love you."
This time, the study was performed on two fundraising groups. Members of both groups had to call people by phone and ask them to donate; they were told they'd all be paid by the hour, so the guy who made 200 calls was paid the same as the guy who made one and spent the rest of the day making booger sculptures. Then, one group was asked to write journal entries reminiscing about times when they were given something -- the "count your blessings" group. The other group wrote about times when they had given to others -- the "Look how awesome I am!" group.
After two weeks of that, it turned out that the group that wrote about giving gifts made 29 percent more phone calls than they used to, while the "count your blessings" group remained unchanged. So while counting their blessings may or may not have made them happier or given them more inner peace, it sure as hell didn't motivate them to help people more. The ones who celebrated their own prior generosity are the ones who stepped up.
"No need to thank me. I know how great I am."
In a second study, college students had to list three ways they had been given help or three ways they had helped others. When the students came back to pick up their $5 payment for the experiment, they were asked if they wanted to donate part of it for earthquake relief in Japan -- again, those who had to list their own good deeds were twice as likely to donate as the people in the other group. Bear in mind that we're talking about college students here, a group for whom $5 actually means something.
The researchers theorize that when we think about times when someone helped us, we might feel like we owe something to that specific person, and that gratitude fails to extend to everyone else. What's more, some might feel more indebted and dependent, so they become less inclined to help others. On the other hand, if you think about all the good you've done for others, you want to do more, because it felt good. So pat yourself on the back and think about how awesome you've been, champ. Success breeds success.
XJ is a freelance writer who talks about writing on his blog, and if you follow him on Twitter, he'll try to say something witty in your honor.
For more on what science has to say on our behavior, check out 6 Reasons Assholes Are Healthier (According to Science) and 5 Reasons Women Are as Shallow as Men (According to Science).
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Problem loading html page in tabpanel items
I have a tabPanel as my base layout.I need to load different local pages on each tabpanel item.i set the autoLoad property with the url to load.but page doesnt get load.
Ext.setup({ icon: 'icon.png', tabletStartupScreen: 'tablet_startup.png', phoneStartupScreen: 'phone_startup.png', glossOnIcon: false, onReady: function() { var tabpanel = new Ext.TabPanel({ tabBar: { dock: 'bottom', layout: { pack: 'center' } }, fullscreen: true, defaults: { scroll: 'vertical' }, items: [{ title: 'tab1', autoLoad:{url:'tab1.htm'}, listeners:{ activate : function(panel){ console.log("act"+panel); panel.getUpdater().refresh(); } } }, { title: 'tab2', autoLoad:{url:'tab2.htm'}, }] }); } });
for 'activate' listener in tabpanel item i get the below expection
Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'getUpdater'.
How could we load the page dynamically?
15 Mar 2011 12:36 AM #2
I am having a similiar issue. But in my case (chrome) no errors thrown but the page never gets updated. Did you manage to solve this?
2 Apr 2011 4:50 PM #3
Did you guys figure this out?
I am having the same issue, if you figured this out could you please post the solution?
5 Oct 2011 5:15 AM #4
any further developments on this issue
Hi Guys
has anyone got any ideas on this one? I am trying to implement this approach too with no joy.
Some guidance from someone who may know would be brilliant.
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answer for above questionCode:
listeners: { activate: function(tab) { tab.loader.load(); } }
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At What Age Do Women Feel Most Beautiful?
A new poll reveals what most women find to be their magic number
Drum roll please...
The majority of women polled said that 29 was their peak beauty year. Besides the obvious (acne's cleared up, no wrinkles yet, etc.) most cited feeling "confident" and "falling in love/enjoying a stable relationship" as the reasons why they felt their best just before hitting the big 3-0.
READ: 23 Worst Anti-Aging Skin Care Products
Surprisingly, 17 percent also said that at 29 they felt more self-assured with no make up on than they did with their "faces on."
A few more tidbits were uncovered by the non-scientific survey:
- The majority feel most beautiful on Friday -- specifically at 10 am
- Being tired is the main reason women say they don't feel attractive
- Nearly half of the respondents said that both stress and being around prettier women made them feel less appealing
- Our wedding day, being on vacation and being pregnant are the times at which we feel most beautiful
- Receiving compliments from other women -- not from men -- was cited as the best confidence booster
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And, as Nicole Melmore, a brand manager at the company says, there was one other notable takeaway from the study; "From age to occasions, our research shows that beauty really isn�t skin deep. In fact, with more women stating that they feel more beautiful when they are at home without their make-up on (17 per cent) compared to when they're wearing lots of make-up (seven per cent), it seems that feeling attractive isn't just down to having a perfectly made up face. "
Where do your own feelings on these topics fit in? Did you feel most beautiful at 29?
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