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I am learning about languages but struggling with operations on them. In my book there are some simple examples but how would I for example describe a language over $\Sigma=\{0,1\}$ such that every word is of length $n$ or greater (with $n \in \mathbb{N}$ and fixed, say $n=5$) AND every word contains at least two $1$'s?
You can do this directly (without any regex theory) by splitting it into cases:
Let $R$ be the regex for a short string with two 1s and $R'$ for a short string with one 1 (which we already know how to produce) then $$R0^* + R'(0+1)^*1(0+1)^* + 00000(0+1)^*1(0+1)^*1(0+1)^*$$ matches strings with length at least 5 containing at least two 1's.
(note: if you simplified the regex produced by the differentiation method you wouldn't get a regex quite as simple as this, because I we coded into this one the string of zeros fact in the first and last cases)
The typical approach is to write out a string that says: "Any number of 0's and 1's" then 1 then "any number of 0's and 1's" then 1 then "any number of 0's and 1's". This will get you all strings that have at least two 1's, but it allows strings as short as length 2 (ie, the "11" string). But you also have a minimum length requirement.
To get this length requirement enforced alongside the "two 1's" required is tricky and the ugliness of expressing it depends on your rules of what's allowed in expressing the language. The easiest way is $$ \{0,1\}^{\geq n} - 0^* - 0^*10^*$$ which is just saying "all strings of length at least $n$ except those that are only 0's or only have one 1." Since each of the terms above is a regular language, and since regular languages are closed under set difference, the expression above is a regular language and it is easily seen to give the result you desire.
This is trivial because the language is finite. Just list all the strings.
We want to create a regex which matches all strings of length 5 or greater with at least two 1's. A good start is that the regex $$R = (0+1)^*1(0+1)^*1(0+1)^*$$ will match all strings with at least two 1s in it.
To turn this into a regex who matches all strings of a length $\ge 5$ (say) we could differentiate it 5 times and delete the terminal symbols in this prefix.
Recall that differentiation $D_a$ of a regex with respect to a symbol $a$ produces a new regex matching $s$ whenever the original matched $as$. In this way we create a new regex $R_1 = (0 + D_0 R)(1 + D_1 R)$ which matches strings of length at least 1 (actually it will always match strings with length $\ge 2$ but for uniformity we say at least 1), then $R_2 = (0 + D_0 R_1)(1 + D_1 R_1)$ matches strings of length at least 2 etc..


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I know that idea is pronounced as /aɪˈdiə/, but I've meet several people in real life who put an 'r' at the end of the word. How come?
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In practically all dialects of (British) English, the word "idea" would generally be followed by an 'r' sound when followed by another word beginning with a vowel. So for example in saying "it was his idea and decision", this would usually be pronounced "idea-r-and decision". The phenomenon occurs in many places where you have a word ending in a vowel followed by another word beginning with a vowel and they are 'closely linked' syntactically, e.g. "law-r-and order", "Canada-r-and America", "he took the law-r-into his own hands" etc.
This occurs essentially because it's a natural phenomenon of language to have some strategy for 'linking' words together. French has a similar phenomenon involving 'latent' consonants (principally [z]), Spanish allows vowels to 'merge' into the same syllable, etc.
Update: there seems to be some disagreement about the exact extent of this phenomenon. In his article in the Blackwell Handbook of English Linguistics, Michael MacMahon (2008) describes it as:
though without giving any actual data. Gick (1999), one of the articles referenced by the Wikipedia entry, comments:
However, I think by "the controversy" here, the author means "how the phenomenon is to be analysed phonologically" rather than whereabouts the phenomenon actually occurs. What seems to have happened is a few studies have focussed on certain specific dialects, but we shouldn't conclude from that that the phenomenon occurs only in those dialects.
Adding r's to the end of words is something odd I first noticed as a child with my grandmother. Idea became "idear," "Ella" became "Eller," etc. I assumed it to be part of her Southern upbringing until I heard Billy Joel sing about "Brender and Eddie" in the "Ballad of Brenda and Eddie" segment of his "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant." Apparently this goes up into Maine!
This most likely has its roots in hypercorrection. Much as some Cockneys began to worry about "dropping their h's" such that some adding them to the beginnings of words that actually do start with vowels, one can observe that R's are dropped at the ends of most words in Received Pronunciation British English. Accents from the Atlantic states, whether Northern or Southern, ultimately derive from England, and so this probably originated with people from less literate times adding r's in their heads to words that didn't actually end with them. After all, they were used to not hearing the final consonant in plenty of words that actually DO end in r's.
It's likely because those speakers have pronounced rhotic accents, which means that they generate an 'r' sound as part of certain vowels.
Edit: It's also common in non-rhotic accents to have an 'r' appear in certain circumstances. I just realised that I say "idears" not "ideas".
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Two weeks ago, equities strategist Brian Sozzi of Belus Capital Advisors set off a small frenzy with his photos of worn out, understocked Sears stores. Now he's taking on Kmart.
He has published two dozen new photos taken during recent store visits that depict various stages of disarray. Both chains are owned by Sears Holdings, which is controlled by the billionaire financier Edward Lampert.
The photos were taken over a recent two-day period during which Mr. Sozzi visited four stores in the New York metropolitan area on a recent Friday and Saturday afternoon. He found empty shelves; dusty merchandise; ripped up carpeting; missing lights in freezer cases; signs that were missing letters, bent and sometimes misplaced; corrosion under a DieHard battery display; outdated cash registers and other scenes of disorder.
To Mr. Sozzi, the photos are an indictment of Mr. Lampert's stewardship of the company he created when he bought Kmart out of bankruptcy in 2003 and two years later combined it with Sears. Sears spends about half of what peers spend on capital expenditures, and the decay is evident in Mr. Sozzi's photos.
"Part of the magic of retailing is to not only have the right product, but to sell it in a way that makes people happy," Mr. Sozzi said in an interview. "If the lights are out, and the stores are dirty, why would people want to spend their hard earned money with you?"
Mr. Sozzi says he doesn't have a position in Sears' stock, which was up 4.1% Monday and 46% so far this year, at $60.54.
Sears countered by pointing to its own photos of its stores. Kmart spokeswoman Shannelle Armstrong-Fowler said the company has instructed employees to address the issues, but said Mr. Sozzi's pictures aren't representative. She said Kmart already invests "hundreds of millions of dollars every year" in stores, technology and a loyalty program called Shop Your Way that are designed to create a pleasant shopping experience. She added that store managers are required to meet cleanliness and brightness standards and that surprise visits by management are designed to catch any lapses.
Mr. Lampert has argued that investing more in stores is no guarantee of improved performance. "If it were just about store investment, then Best Buy would be thriving after the demise of Circuit City, Barnes & Noble would be thriving after the demise of Borders and other retailers who made significant store investments would be thriving instead of struggling to chart a new course," Mr. Lampert wrote in his 2013 letter to shareholders.
Kmart's performance has certainly deteriorated, creating new challenges for Mr. Lampert, who bought the company out of bankruptcy court. The chain had operating income of $5 million in 2012, down from $353 million two years earlier, according to regulatory filings. The company has closed 86 stores over that period. And yet EBITDA as a percent of revenue has nearly halved, a sign that pruning underperforming locations has done little to help profitability.
Last week, Sears said it may spin off Lands' End, one of its crown jewels, and sell its auto centers in an effort to shore up its finances and appease shareholders.
The Kmart spokeswoman said the company is trying to transition away from a traditional retail model to one that focuses more on its loyalty program.
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People describe different types of UX such as Agile UX and Lean UX. Looking at the Agile manifesto and Lean methodology, it would seem to me that a successful implementation of UX processes would require a flexible and efficient process anyway. Is the use of Agile or Lean UX redundant or does it mean something more that I am not aware of?
Although I am a staunch supporter of agile and lean methodologies in UX, it's important to remember that they are just methodologies. UX is not about how you create a great user experience, rather it is about what the user experience is.
So there are many different UX methodologies that can achieve good results. Often one methodology is more suited to a situation than another, so sometimes (given constraints) lean / agile methodologies aren't the best choice for a situation.
This all depends on what your definition of UX is... which has been a changing beast over the years - from what the experiences is through to a job description for certain kinds of role.
I would personally say that you do need the qualifiers - since you can apply UX practices in many different contexts. For example:
Now - I have my opinions about which of the above three approaches are more likely to get you a great product - but I certainly think it reasonable to be able to label them differently. There are certainly more or less suitable UX design approaches depending on the domain.
Personally I think that it's expressing the maturity of the UX domain that we're having these sorts of UX process discussions now - and realising that there isn't one-true-way of doing UX work.
In my experience agile development can be antagonistic towards UX, especially if UX is attempted to be made to fit within an agile development frame work. The issues with agile don't relate to how successful then can be for development teams but when either UX concepting is attempted within sprints or if key design is done on the fly with the development driving the design. Agile is great for developers and UX, in my experience, works best when it feeds that development process with the right level of specification for what is being built.
And that is where Lean UX comes in. From my understanding (and different people understand it differently), Lean UX is all about reducing the amount of deliverables and attempting to create what is needed to concept, communicate, test and develop the final UX. What is 'right' differs between projects and, most importantly, between the team you have. No one process is right for all teams and all projects and it is the team that, ultimately, makes the project work or fail, not the process.
Lean UX also taps into an old idea of trying to make designers view all team members as collaborators on the design. A good development team will work well with their UX resource and a good UX team/person will ensure that developers are involved with the design process. Having said that the important part is that the UX effort is respected and that the developers are given the permission to focus on engineering and implementation and are not responsible for design or functionality.
Lean UX works best when a production line is working where UX solutions are delivered to the developers when they needed but the developers only have the responsibility of saying when UX solutions are not feasible.
So, in summary, Lean UX, if done well, is a great complimentary approach that fits in well with an Agile development team, but it's not really the same thing.
Also Lean UX is not the same as Lean Start up as it does not have to build then test but can spend time researching how users use thing, providing it's done in a light way, for example two weeks spent interviewing staff members about an intranet is great whilst a two month research process is not Lean.
Lean or Agile are only methodologies of applying a discipline, be it software development or UX design.
The arrangement between the UX specialist and the dev team (external consultant, internal full time, etc...) determines heavily what methodology would be used. E.g., if you're not an integral part of the development organization, then Lean UX can be tough, if not impossible (correct me if I'm wrong on this assertion).
Another factor influencing the UX methodology is the the one used by the dev team itself. You'd be surprised to hear that there are still organizations that work in a Waterfall style (though they might not admit it). If they do, they expect a fully detailed UI specification before they begin their work, something not imaginable by the Lean or Agile methodologies.


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I've always had trouble choosing which first person pronoun to use - 私 (watashi), 僕 (boku), or 俺 (おれ). What kind of factors should I keep in mind when choosing between these? Is it common to vary one's choice by the social context, or do people tend to select one and stick with it all the time?
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It depends a lot on the situation. I try to keep it simple and only use three most practical forms of the pronoun:
僕 (boku) :: I use it whenever I am not at work
俺 (ore) :: Almost never use 俺 unless most people around me are already using 俺, too informal.
私 (watashi) :: What I always use at work. Never ever use boku at work, or in an email, since somebody could consider that you are being rude and not too formal. (Happened to me a couple of times when I was a new graduate at a Japanese company).
Are you a man? Are you a manly man? Use ore (俺). Are you a girly man? Use boku (僕). Are you being formal, unwilling to commit to 俺 or 僕, or just starting to learn Japanese? Use watashi (私).
Are you a girl? Are you a girly girl? Use atashi (あたし). (This rule isn't as fixed as the male rule). Are you a tomboy? Use boku (僕). Otherwise use watashi.
Are you speaking to a crowd, or being highly polite? Use watakushi (私, confusingly).
The social context is absolutely the deciding factor, but your personality affords you some additional flexibility. Just like deciding whether to use 〜さん or not, your choice of pronoun depends on how familiar you are with the people in your audience, and relative social status.
That said, I personally still gravitate towards 僕 over 私 even amongst new people since I'm a relatively young man and I feel like I can get away with it. :)
Also don't forget that not using the first-person pronoun is usually an option as well, which can nicely sidestep this issue.
わたし (私) - Typical, everyday, formal/informal "I." Err to this whenever possible.
あたし (私) - Same kanji, used only for females. Same feel as watashi.
わたくし (私) - Hyperformalized version of watashi. It is surely not to be used in all formal situations, but rather only to express extreme politeness.
[僕]{ぼく} - Masculine (though not exlusively) "I" used to give informal atmosphere. Not polite save for certain situations.
[俺]{おれ} - In terms of masculinity, it runs along the lines of 僕. I will go as far to say this is a rude expression. Unless you are sure that it is acceptable in any given situation, I would not use it, unless you're trying to be mean or rude. However, when used acceptably, it is excellent to portray a very informal mood.
Keep in mind there are many more ways to say "I," and these are only some of the most common.
Some others that people are missing:
Some pedants won't want to admit use of these informal pronouns, but you should know that they exist and that people use them (even in 2014!).


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1969 Ford Falcon - Reciprocity = VelocityWritten by on February 1, 2010 Inspired By Past PHR Feature Cars, This Budget-Built, 11-Second Falcon Wagon Provides Its Own Share Of Inspiration.
If everyone had access to PHR's coveted stack of Hometown Hot Rodding submissions, then shrinks, dive bars, and Oprah would all go out of business. That's because readers itching to get pictures of their cars published in a big magazine have a way of boosting our ego by telling us how PHR is the best car magazine around. It's the kind of empowerment that makes you want to shout from a mountaintop. Unfortunately, reality sets when those emails of praise end with: "I read each issue cover to cover, but tell me which issue it will be in because I might miss it."
Although such posturing is as harmless as it is amusing, it forces us to exercise reservation when someone claims to be an avid reader. Just as we began to wonder if anyone actually reads car magazines any more, we crossed paths with Lee Atkinson and his '69 Falcon wagon. It's the freak factor of a budget-built 11-second wagon that inspired us to put it in the mag, but Lee says, it's the pages of PHR that inspired him to build such a freakish machine in the first place.
Of course, we can't take all the credit. Lee's 557hp, 4R70W overdrive-shifted, home-built people hauler is ultimately the product of his ability to transform an outside-the-box vision and a sub-$25,000 budget into sheetmetal and tire smoke. This is a man who was quite literally destined to build hot rods from birth. "My dad was a car guy, and he actually drove me home from the hospital after I was born in a '64 Corvette Fuelie," so the story goes. "Even though he liked muscle cars, he wasn't very good at working on them, so I got a job in the parts department at a local Pontiac dealership as a kid to learn as much about cars as I could. I saved up enough money to buy a '72 Olds Cutlass-which is the car I cut my teeth on-and picked the mechanics' brains nonstop on how I could make it faster. From talking to them, I figured out early on that building a fast car isn't always about how smart you are, but rather taking the initiative to try stuff out and building upon those experiences."
Hanging out with the Poncho crowd during his formative years had a lasting impression on Lee, who has never felt the inclination to build anything mainstream. After fiddling around with a '79 Trans Am for a few years, he picked up a '67 Firebird that eventually ran 11s. During his many dragstrip outings, he became pals with Pontiac guru Jim Hand, and a friendly rivalry developed between the two. "Jim had an old Pontiac station wagon that was always a few tenths quicker than my Firebird. When my car was running 12.30s, his wagon ran 12.0s, and when my car squeaked into the high-11s, his car ran mid-11s," Lee says. "I remember thinking how cool it was to see a 4,000-pound station wagon-driven by a guy in his 80s-running 11s in full street trim. I didn't realize it at the time, but Jim and his car really made an impression on me that I'd never forget. Circumstances forced me to sell my Firebird a few years later, but when I was finally in a position to build another car, I found inspiration in Jim's wagon.
Surrounded by Pontiacs his entire life, Lee wanted to do something different this time around. He felt that building a Chevy was just too easy, and was intrigued at the prospect of wrenching together a Ford. "I absolutely love building motors and seeing how much power I can get out of them. I've built tons of motors for my friends over the years just for fun," Lee professes. "PHR's coverage of the Jegs Engine Masters Challenge has been of great interest to me. Right around the time I was looking for a new project car, I saw guys like Jon Kaase making some serious power with small-block Fords. Like many of the competitors in the EMC, I decided to build a CHI-headed Windsor." The only unknown now was the kind of car the motor would go in, and once again he got a few ideas from PHR to steer him in the right direction. "I noticed that PHR was featuring a bunch of street machines that all ran 11s or quicker for around $25,000. I thought, 'Hey, this is something that I could do, too,' " Lee explains. "I tentatively priced out things like the engine, driveline, suspension, and fuel system and set a budget of $25,000. My wife likes Rancheros, but they were too expensive and we wanted a car that had enough room to go cruising with our kids. I liked the idea of building a Ford wagon, and to stay on budget, I realized we needed to find a car for $5,000-$6,000 that didn't need any bodywork. Comets in that price range had way too much rust, so a Falcon suited our needs perfectly."
While perusing some online classifieds, Lee spotted the perfect candidate in a '69 Falcon located in Philadelphia. He and his wife, Loretta, hopped on a plane, and struck up a deal for $5,500. Before driving the wagon home 1,700 miles to Houston, Lee tracked down the Falcon's former owner in New Jersey who wanted to see it one last time. "He was the guy that did most of the restoration work, so it was a great opportunity for me to find out more about the car's history," Lee says. "When I told him my plans for the car, he thought the idea of drag racing a wagon was so cool. He gave us some dash panels and a custom gauge cluster he built for the car before he sold it, and sent us on our way."
The Falcon didn't putt around town with its 302 for long. While looking for used parts on various online message boards for his small-block combo, Lee spotted a deal he couldn't ignore. "The seller was a machinist who had a fully machined factory 351 Windsor block and a forged rotating assembly that had already been balanced for $2,350. He changed his mind and wanted to build a bigger-inch nitrous motor using an aftermarket block," Lee says. "I had actually planned on using a cast crank and cheaper rods, so this setup was definitely an upgrade from what I had in mind. He also had a set of AFR 225cc Windsor heads he was willing to throw in for $1,900. The CHI Cleveland heads would have made more power, but I couldn't justify the extra expense when these AFRs were staring me right in the face for so cheap, so I decided to stick with a more traditional Windsor combo. This route enabled me to save hundreds of dollars, and now I have an over-built bottom end just in case I decide to spray it."
Wanting to make respectable power while maintaining streetability, Lee matched the 425ci pump gas small-block with an Ultradyne 243/251-at-.050 mechanical roller cam that features a healthy .630-inch lift. Induction duties are handled by a Professional Products single-plane intake manifold, and a DaVinci-tuned Holley 750-cfm carb. On the engine dyno, the Windsor kicks out 557 hp and 540 lb-ft. All that power, however, put Lee in a pickle when it came time to sort out the transmission. He felt that a C6 would offer the necessary durability, but he wanted the relaxed cruise rpm than only an overdrive could provide. "After speaking at length with my trans builder, Jay Broader, he recommended a 4R70W. I'd never heard of it before, and the last thing I wanted was an electronically controlled transmission," Lee recollects. "However, he explained that the 4R70W is an updated and stronger version of the AOD that's actually very easy to program. It runs off of a standalone electronic control module that interfaces with a TPS sensor mounted on the carb. I can hook my laptop up to it and set the shift points, line pressure, converter lockup threshold, and upshift and downshift curves."
To date, the 3,530-pound Falcon has run a best of 11.51 at 118 mph at the dragstrip on a 1.65-second 60-foot time. That's pretty darn impressive by most standards considering its brick-like drag coefficient and rudimentary suspension setup. The front underpinnings are stock, while the posterior features Calvert Racing leaf springs and traction bars, Competition Engineering shocks, and Mickey Thompson ET Street radials.
Brisk e.t.'s aside, Lee enjoys the Falcon's stealthy nature the most. "I really like surprising people, because no one expects a wagon to be fast. I've tried my best to keep the car as mild-mannered in appearance and sound as possible," he explains. It's safe to say that Lee's accomplished just that. And while he may be flattered by the opportunity of having his car featured in PHR, quite frankly, we're the ones who are flattered to have somehow inspired the creation of such a freakishly cool machine that hauls people, cargo, and ass in equal measures.
|'69 Ford Falcon:
|Paint & body:
|Engine short-block:
|Cylinder heads (used):
|Intake manifold:
|Ignition box:
|Plug wires:
|Oil pan:
|Fuel system:
|Water pump:
|Cooling fan:
|Torque converter:
|Front suspension:
|Rear suspension:
|Lee Atkinson • Seabrook, TX
|Total cost to build: $23,865
|Ford 425ci small-block Windsor
|factory Ford bored to 4.060 inches
|Melling oil pump, Moroso pan
|Rotating assembly:
|Eagle 4.100-inch forged
|crank and H-beam steel rods;
|forged 10.7:1 Probe pistons
|Cylinder heads:
|CNC-ported AFR inline
|225cc castings with 2.08/1.60-inch valves;
|325 cfm of flow at .800-inch lift
|Ultradyne 243/251-at-.050
|mechanical roller;
|.630/.630-inch lift;
|110-degree LSA
|COMP Cams lifters,
|Probe 1.7:1 shaft-mount rockers,
|Manley valvesprings,
|Summit timing set,
|and Smith Brothers pushrods
|Professional Products
|single-plane intake manifold,
|Holley 750-cfm carb tuned by DaVinci
|Fuel system:
|Mallory pump and pressure regulator
|Ford Racing 1.75-inch long-tube headers,
|custom 3-inch X-pipe,
|dual 2.5-inch Goerlich mufflers
|Cooling system:
|C&R radiator,
|Meziere electric water pump,
|Spal electric fan, custom shroud
|MSD 6AL box, Dave Ray distributor
|557 hp at 6,100 rpm
|and 540 lb-ft at 4,700 rpm
|Built by:
|Ford 4R70W overdrive,
|adapter plate,
|Jay Broader billet 3,500-stall converter,
|custom crossmember,
|Baumann trans controller, Art Carr shifter
|Rear axle:
|custom 9-inch rearend
|with Detroit Truetrac differential,
|Moser 31-spline axles and 3.50:1 gears
|Front suspension:
|rebuilt stock
|Rear suspension:
|Calvert racing leaf springs
|and traction bars;
|Competition Engineering shocks
|Aerospace Engineering 12-inch discs
|and four-piston calipers,
|front; stock drums, rear
|Centerline Convo Pro15x6
|(3.5-inch backspace), front;
|15x8.5 (3.5-inch backspace), rear
|Kumho 205/65R15, front;
|Mickey Thompson 275/60R15
|ET Street Radials, rear
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With the addition of an electric cooling fan, water pump, and an electronically controlled trans, Lee didn't want to risk overstressing the electrical system. A Painless Wiring circuit fuse box mounted on the passenger inner fender acts as a safety net for all the electric hardware.Compared to Lee's best tuning efforts, the experts at DaVinci were able to extract a few extra ponies from his Holley carb. At the track, DaVinci's tuning was worth an extra 1.5 mph in the eighth-mile.The custom switch panel controls a plethora of functions. The two switches on the left actuate the line-lock and the MSD box's second stage rev-limiter. The two switches on the right activate two different trans programs-one for late shifts and one for earlier shifts. The center switch is used to disable overdrive, which comes in handy on the dyno.The Falcon's former owner fitted a custom dash gauge panel off of a Torino GT into the wagon. The gauges look crooked to the casual observer, but there's reason to the madness. "The way the gauges are oriented, when everything's operating in the ideal pressure and temperature range, the gauges on the right should point right, and the gauges on the left should point left. Also, when the tach points straight up, it's time to shift. This allows me to focus more on the road instead of looking down at the gauges," Lee explains.
Using a laptop, Lee can fine-tune the transmission computer based on its intended use. Shift points, shift firmness, and convertor lockup can be altered instantaneously.The cooling fan and water pump are electric, and both are operated by a custom controller from DC Controls. Right after the motor is fired up, the fan and water pump operate at between 5 to 25 percent of their full speed, then ramp up as coolant temperature increases. Lee says the setup is much easier on the electrical system.


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BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky – General Motors' Bowling Green Corvette Assembly is one of 54 facilities to meet a voluntary energy-reduction challenge set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, cutting its energy intensity by 26 percent in less than one year to meet the EPA's ENERGY STAR® Challenge for Industry.
To meet the ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry, facilities need to reduce energy intensity by 10 percent within five years. Bowling Green's reduction avoided 12,884 tons of CO2 from
entering the atmosphere — the equivalent of electricity use by 1,456 U.S. homes annually.
"Our employees are committed to helping increase our global operations' energy efficiency,"said Mike Robinson, GM vice president of sustainability and global regulatory affairs. "They remain at the core of our progress."
GM's Bowling Green Assembly saved more than $1 million in energy costs annually through its efforts. GM leads all companies worldwide in meeting the challenge. Total company-wide savings in energy costs total $90M.
For over 30 years, Bowling Green Assembly has been committed to actions that restore and preserve the environment while building America's favorite sports car – the Chevrolet Corvette. The Corvette plant continues to demonstrate its commitment to the environment through its recent change to energy efficient fluorescent lighting throughout the 1 million square foot plant.
This change has shown many important energy saving benefits:
Generating a total lighting energy savings of approximately 52%;
Recycling over 1200 used lamps and 35,000 pounds of scrap metal from the fixtures;
Saving 2,673 megawatt-hours of electricity;
Reducing the emission of carbon dioxide gases by 1,800 metric tons;
Reducing other harmful gases by an additional 8 metric tons.
"The men and women of Bowling Green Corvette Assembly take our environmental responsibility very seriously, as evidenced by these results," said Plant Manager Dave Tatman. "Through a clear and consistent focus on reducing our environmental impact, our employees have responded in terrific ways."
In March of 2011, GM received an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year award for energy management. Between 2005 and 2010, it reduced energy use in its global facilities by 28 percent and has since set a new goal to reduce energy intensity globally 20 percent by 2020.
In addition to lighting changes,
Bowling Green Assembly advanced its environmental awareness
and responsibility by:
Recycling 98.3 tons of cardboard/paper; 4 tons of wood; and 506 tons of scrap metal.
Managing 72 tons of material to Waste-to-Energy facilities.
Working with over 350 students from local elementary and high schools, as well as the local university, to participate in stream water quality surveys.
Enhancing the Wildlife Habitat trails by utilizing wood chips from projects at various businesses instead of having them go to the landfill. The Bowling Green Assembly Wildlife Habitat received certification from the Wildlife Habitat Council in November 2012.
For more information on GM's environmental commitment, visit its sustainability report and environmental blog. General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM, TSX: GMM) and its partners produce vehicles in 30 countries, and the company has leadership positions in the world's largest and fastest-growing automotive markets. GM's brands include Chevrolet and Cadillac, as well as Baojun, Buick, GMC, Holden, Isuzu, Jiefang, Opel, Vauxhall and Wuling. More information on the company and its subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety, security and information services, can be found at http://www.gm.com.
ENERGY STAR was introduced by EPA in 1992 as a voluntary, market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. Today, the ENERGY STAR label can be found on
more than 60 products as well as new homes and commercial and industrial buildings that meet strict energy-efficiency specifications set by the EPA. Last year alone, Americans, with the help of ENERGY
STAR, saved $18 billion on their energy bills while reducing the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of 34 million vehicles.


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Swim Center Clearview Aquarium Pool
Swim centers are great for the growing family. There is plenty of room for the kids to romp around while the parents keep a watchful eye.
- Clear windows with colorful designs
- Convenient drain plug
Measures 62.5 x 62.5 x 19. 5 inches
Capacity of 112 gallons
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I have a dynamic site which has many (well, less than 50) users. Each user is allowed to create as many pages as they want. I know that there is a limit to how many pages you can be listed in sitemap.xml, and for now I am under that limit, but I would like to know what the best way to enable search engines to know (all?) about my user's pages while still being under that limit even if I have more than the limit.
Note that you can specify multiple sitemaps in your robots.txt file:
If you're bumping into the limitation, perhaps divide your users up somehow. Let's say each of your users has no more than 10,000 urls a piece, you could break it up into files and add this to your
Now, you'd still have to be mindful of the 10MB limit for each individual sitemap, but this is an approach to handle the "too many" urls problem.
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For the past eight months, CU-Boulder Law School students have been working with 250 high school students at seven area high schools on building a strong foundation of civics education as part of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, a national program designed to give high school students an in-depth look at constitutional law.
Ten high school students joined Associate Professor Melissa Hart, director of the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law at the CU Law School, on a trip to Washington, D.C., to participate in a moot court competition and explore the capital.
Eighteen of Hart's law students worked with the 10 students to build a strong case for the question of whether a life sentence without the possibility of parole for juveniles under the age of 18 who commit felony murder violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The team made it to Washington, D.C., for the National Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition, where one student made it to the semifinals.
"This is a great first year to get our students first to nationals and then to the semifinal round," said Jessica Smith, a second-year student at Colorado Law. "I think the best part of this experience was being able to establish a relationship with the students."
The Colorado Law students led the high school students through the highlights of important Supreme Court cases affecting the rights and responsibilities of students and coached for the moot court competition. Coaches said watching the students build self-confidence and set goals for themselves for a legal education in the future made the program a memorable experience.
"I thought all of the students did a great job," said Joseph Cash, a second-year student at Colorado Law. "It's really rewarding to see students gain literacy in the Constitution more so than they are getting from the general curriculum."
The competition also gives high school students "skills that are transferable to anything they want to do: public speaking skills, critical thinking skills, analysis, and reading and writing skills," Cash said.
Isabella Solman, a senior at Lyons High School, was one of 24 students selected to advance to the semifinals in the moot court competition. She has met with Colorado Law students every Friday since September as part of her AP government class. "They went through the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and different court cases that apply to students, that apply to our lives," she said.
Solman said the competition has improved her public speaking and that she also has visited with law students on the CU-Boulder campus in order to practice. And while she has long been interested in going to graduate school, "I'd definitely consider going to law school now," she added.
In addition to Solman, the group that went to Washington consisted of two other students from Lyons High School (Sean Flynn and Marcos Rodriguez); three from Bruce Randolph High School in Denver (Cierra Conner, Alfonso Espino and Rene Garcia); two from Mapleton Early College in Thornton (Loren Tenorio and Cipriano Marrujo); and two from York International in Thornton (Navil Perez and Viviana Andazola). They were selected after a regional competition at Colorado Law.
Next year's Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project and moot court program will include additional Colorado high schools, Hart said.


text: This tutorial will teach you how to draw a realistic human eye. The tutorial took me two hours to draw. I know, the skin looks kinda funky. Lol, I wanted to do a realistic tutorial instead of cartoony ones. Follow these easy steps and you'll be prepared to draw your own realistic eye by yourself. I will probably do a coloring tutorial for this. I don't know. I'm going to do another eye tutorial. But this tutorial will be based on the eye's side. I hope this tutorial will come handy! Pleaz comment!


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I have to solve this exercise I will describe but I am facing some problems.
$$\int\int_\tau(x+y)\;dx\;dy$$ where $$(x-2)^2 + y^2 \leq 4$$ and $$y\geq0$$
So I am trying to find this integration inside half of a circle.
$\theta$ is from 0 to $\pi/2$ and $r\leq 4 \cos \theta$
$$\int_0^{\pi/2}\int_{4\cos\theta}^0r^2(\cos \theta+\sin\theta)\;dr\;d\theta$$
Something is wrong with the plane of integration cause I am getting wierd results.


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I can't find how many Fetishes are summoned when you cast Fetish Army.
Is it random each time they're summoned?
Does it depend on the caster level?
Do they actually have limited life, or are they invincible the time they last?
I can't find how many Fetishes are summoned when you cast Fetish Army.
It is always 5 fetishes (all runes except the following), 7 with Tiki Torchers or Head Hunters and 8 with Legion of Daggers.
As far as I know, they are invulnerable. I read in the battlenet forum (discussing an inferno-viable summoner build) that they count as minions, though. So you would benefit from crowd control, melee reflect or life steal / life on hit effects. This also apllies to Fetish Sycophants.
According to my little experience using this spell, the base number of fetishes is always 5 and the different runes can make this number vary.
I used them when I had a lower level and by then the enemies didn't kill any of them. They flash, however, when they receive an attack, so it could very well be that their life points are limited.


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A general expression to summarize all environmentalist aims. It is usually used mockingly, cynically, or sarcastically.
Person 1: I'm going to Mexico to help plant trees.
Person 2: (rolling eyes) Ya, Save the Whales.
Person 2: (rolling eyes) Ya, Save the Whales.
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But shoot the seals.
by Cheech and Chong July 30, 2003
The most random thing to say during a conversation.
"And then he said that my butt was big, so I said to shove it."
"You go girl save the whales!
"You go girl save the whales!
by Zach G. November 28, 2003
Screw the whales! If they can't adapt to changes in their environment, they might as well just die out.
If you say "Save the Whales!" I'll say "Survival of the Fittest!"
by Captain Pollution July 19, 2003
Actually whales are diing because humans are over killing them, (mainly the Japanese)
whoever said that whales cant adapt to there environment should die themselves.
by Mam August 29, 2004


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Although whether $$ P = NP $$ is important from theoretical computer science point of view, but I fail to see any practical implication of it.
Suppose that we can prove all questions that can be verified in polynomial time have polynomial time solutions, it won't help us in finding the actual solutions. Conversely, if we can prove that $$ P \ne NP,$$ then this doesn't mean that our current NP-hard problems have no polynomial time solutions.
From practical point of view ( practical as in the sense that we can immediately use the solution to real world scenario), it shouldn't bother me whether P vs NP is proved or disproved any more than whether my current problem has a polynomial time solution.
Am I right?


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Angelina R. Sanner
Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Copyright © Angelina R. Sanner, 1999, 2000
On June16, 1991 I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I had gone to the hospital with an attack of diverticulitis. While I was being examined the ER doctor asked me if I knew that I had a mass as big as an orange, I said, "No". Well, anyway, it turned out to be ovarian cancer, stage III. My CA-125 was 11,500. Shortly after the operation it went down to 500.
They had to do a temporary colostomy, which in fact, was reversed at my six-month second-look operation. I had six months of cysplatin/cytoxin chemotherapy that made me deadly sick. At my six month second look operation, the doctor took a "gazillion" biopsies which were all negative. He said to be on the safe side; I should continue the chemotherapy.This time the drugs were carboplatin/VP-16. He had inserted a port-o-cath. This wenton for 2 months - when I had my first recurrence which was treated with 6 weeks of radiation, followed by 3 days in the hospital with concentrated doses of radiation. Then I took hexalin orally for about 4 weeks.
By this time, Zofran had been discovered and my nausea was abated. I was fine for about 2 years. In December 1994, I was diagnosed with my 2nd recurrence. I received 1 monthly treatment of Taxol/carboplatin. Then because my blood count was so low they gave 4 more treatments of Taxol alone.
Two years later, August 1996, I thought I was home free, when suddenly my CA-125 went up again, so the doctor examined me and I was in my 3rd recurrence. This time I was treated over the next six months with five 24-hr infusions of taxol and two 1-hr infusions of topotecan. These chemicals shrunk the tumor down to less than 2 centimeters. I talked with my doctor and together we decided to do something aggressive and remove the damn thing!
So, in March of 1997, I was back in surgery. He removed the tumor, did a colostomy, resectionof my bladder and rectum and removal of port-o-cath. Unfortunately, this time the colostomy is permanent. ( But, I?ll never have to use Preparation H again.)
Meanwhile back at the ranch, I was diagnosed with Parkinson?s in 1990 and then six months later with Pagets (a form of osteoporosis, which is very painful- because instead of the bones becoming brittle, they become soft). Well, with medication, canes and walkers, I am doing all right. The only thing that set me back with my Parkinson?s was that Taxol and Topotecan affected my balance and I kept falling. I have had some very bad falls, but luckily, nothing was ever broken. Thank God.
I had a lumbar laminectomy in January 1994, which took care of my terrible back pain. Last December 1998; I had neck surgery that entailed removal of 3 bone spurs, and fusion using a piece of bone from my right hip. I wore a neck brace for over 13 weeks and was under "housearrest" because I couldn?t drive until March 23rd. And, boy have I gone shopping now. It seems that the spurs that were pressing on my spinal column and causing all that terrible pain had also affected my equilibrium and now I am walking much better and falling down less often. I am going to "Gait" therapy twice a week now and it is really helping. I also start speech therapy today.
This time I have a very good feeling about this remission or should I say I am cured! It willbe a year in March, and I feel wonderful.
The most important thing that I learned is that I was not alone. My husband and family were so supportive and helpful. We have four children. Two girls and two boys. We also have 10 grandchildren. I found out that I had friends I didn?t even know about. I finally retired in December 1994 after 19 1/2 yrs working in a District Attorney's office as Secretary to the District Attorney. The only reason I retired was because of my Parkinson?s, I couldn?t write or walk too well. I still keep in touch with all the people there. What I do now, is keep in touch with mychildren and friends through e-mail and I paint resin Santas. I started doing it for fun and to keep the arthritis at bay, but now I give or sell some to my friends.
I would like to say to anyone who has just been diagnosed with having some form of cancer. DO NOT GIVE UP! FIGHT! LIFE IS TOO SWEET!
Update: November 1, 2000Everything is going well for me cancer wise. My last CA125 was 5. It has been 5 for almost one year now and with a couple of exceptions, which were a 7 and then an 8, it has been 5, Thank God. I now have my blood tested every 3 months, instead of every month.
It's the other stuff that is driving me crazy. I have Parkinson's, whichcauses me to fall quite frequently. So, when I fell on May 7, 2000, it was the third fall of the day. Only this time I fell on the wooden floor in the kitchen and broke my left femur and it is not healing at all. (I have Pagets in that leg and it doesn't want to heal.) About six weeks ago, they strapped an electrical bone stimulator on me which I wear 10 hrs a day. I, surely hope it works, otherwise bone graft surgery.
But it is not going to keep me down. My husband bought me an electric wheelchair and outside of almost destroying all the doorways, I keep on going and going. Remember get rid of that bad attitude and try to acquire a good one; who knows it might be the difference between life and death.
Try to join a support group. We have a group of women from 5 to 16 at any given time. We meet once a month for dinner. We try different restaurants; give each other moral support etc. IT IS TRULY WONDERFUL!


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Is This Woman Dying Wrong? Bill Keller Is On It
Bill Keller raises eyebrows, and hackles, in these parts whenever he turns his attention to the Catholic Church (or the arguments against war). But did you know he's similarly careless and smug and mansplainy when he writes about other subjects, too?
Today's column is a perfect example. Keller has some thoughts about terminal illness and dying. He seems to want to argue, or at least propose, that Americans should be less committed to fighting for every last breath, whatever the cost (financial or otherwise), and more open to the death-with-dignity approach that embraces palliative care, as exemplified by his British father-in-law. He doesn't actually establish that Americans ARE unduly committed to extraordinary life-saving measures, he just asserts it, but maybe it's a valid place to begin a discussion.
Instead, though, Keller turns to a woman named Lisa Adams who has been using social media to chronicle her experiences fighting breast cancer. She's currently posting frequent updates to Twitter from her hospital room at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Keller uses her as an example of what's wrong with How We Die Today.
So there's the first problem: you want to say that American cancer patients are apt to approach death badly, fine, that's provocative, but maybe you have a point. But to hang that argument on a specific cancer patient -- and one who is not really a "public figure" and thus impossible to ignore, but rather a woman who has a following on Twitter but isn't otherwise bothering anybody -- that's where a slightly more reflective person ought to say, "You know, maybe this is unnecessarily insensitive."
The next problem is that, after singling out Adams to make an example of, Keller goes on to get a lot of things about her very wrong. Like, he said that she had two kids when in fact she has three. That's a little mistake, but telling -- he was that uninterested in her life? (It's also a reminder that "opinion" columnists don't have to be fact-checked like news journalists do, even when they base their opinions on inaccurate facts. Keller has a pretty long record of after-publication corrections -- this error now the latest -- but remains unchastened.) He also seems not to have thought for very long about how a mother with kids at home, however many there are, might legitimately approach her diagnosis differently than an elderly man like his father-in-law, whose choices Keller believes are dishonored by Adams's.
Then there's the fact that Adams actually does not fit the profile Keller tries to force her into. She isn't actually dying-but-refusing-to-admit-it. She isn't (according to her tweets correcting this column) pursuing treatments that go beyond the standard for a person with her diagnosis. She isn't running up an obscene therapy-dog bill (this is something Keller worries about!). And most important, she isn't someone who embraces and popularizes the cancer-patient-as-warrior metaphor that he finds so troubling. Well, he finds it troubling at the end of his column. For the first two-thirds he can't get enough of it. He sets up this painfully overdone cancer-treatment-as-war metaphor, and then he scolds her (with an expert to back him up!) because thinking of cancer that way gives people false hopes, or makes his father-in-law look bad, or something. Except, she doesn't think of herself that way. She has explicitly rejected that way of talking about her illness. You know who does talk about her struggle that way? Bill Keller.
So, Keller writes: "The first thing I would say is that her decision to treat her terminal disease as a military campaign has worked for her." It's not the first thing he says, really, but putting it that way is a signal he's trying to articulate some kind of argument. After implying that he'd tried to dig for details on her treatment ("her doctors, bound by privacy rules, won't say" -- another red flag, really, that this is maybe not a good topic for your column) and insinuating that there's something dodgy about her relationship with the hospital where she receives her care ("Lisa Adams's defiance has also been good for Memorial Sloan-Kettering"), he moves to his big argument: "whether her campaign has been a public service is a more complicated question."
But Keller hasn't demonstrated the necessity, or even the purpose, of answering that question. Who cares whether what she's doing on Twitter is a "public service"? It's helping her through a very difficult time; is that something we need Bill Keller to sign off on? And he doesn't really answer it, so much as imply that he's pretty sure the answer is "no." Here's what he concludes: "Adams is the standard-bearer for an approach to cancer that honors the warrior, that may raise false hopes, and that, implicitly, seems to peg patients like my father-in-law as failures."
Nothing about that is true, or could survive a careful reading of even a sampling of Adams's tweeting and blogging. Is she implicitly pegging Bill Keller's father-in-law as a failure? Or is Bill Keller implicitly suggesting that it's tacky for a woman like Adams to make a fuss on social media when she could just die quietly?
The icing on the insensitive hackery cake is that Keller's wife Emma published her own bizarre piece about how Lisa Adams isn't dying properly in the Guardian on Wednesday. (Read this excellent take from Zeynep Tufekci for more.) She made some similar points/errors, although her argument was more about how social media is unseemly (Adams's Twitter feed is "like a reality show"). That piece was greeted by an outcry which led to an apology of sorts from Emma Keller (who had quoted a conversation she had with Adams without Adams's permission), and since then the whole thing "has been removed pending investigation."
The headline is still there, asking: "What are the ethics of tweeting a terminal illness?" If you're tweeting your own illness, I'd say the ethics are pretty straightforward. If, on the other hand, you're misrepresenting someone else's terminal illness to make some cheap points in a newspaper column, the ethics are worth looking in to. Seems like the Guardian, belatedly, agrees.
And that is yet another red flag -- or a huge pulsing red siren -- that Keller somehow missed: his wife was already floundering in this quicksand. So my quesion is, what are the ethics of wondering what is going on with the Kellers? Exactly how chilling is their breakfast-table chit-chat? Because honestly, these twin columns picking apart a stranger living with cancer are super unsettling.
In his 2011 Hack List writeup, Alex Pareene lamented Bill Keller's decision "to return to the place where his obvious, obnoxious hackishness is most apparent: The opinion page." That profile is still quite accurate -- and the reference to Keller's Twitter-is-making-you-stupid column from 2011 suggests that his decision to target Lisa Adams may have as much to do with her chosen medium as with message.
And yet, in that column, Keller wrote this:
my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity.
Maybe he ought to give his inner worrywart more of a hearing, at least when it comes to those human characteristics. I'd say Twitter isn't the real threat at all.
Update: Credit Margaret Sullivan, the NYT's Public Editor, for a quick response, if not an especially exacting one. Here I thought we'd have to wait till next week for Bill Keller to issue an "I'm the real victim here, but I'm being big about it" nonresponse to his many critics, but Sullivan got it out of him before the day was out. Let's see, patting himself on the back for having "touched a nerve"? Check. Smug disparagement of Twitter as a venue for response? Check. Why, it's almost as though he doesn't feel the least bit accountable to either readers or the actual facts. Or, as Sullivan puts it, "As a columnist, Mr. Keller – by definition – has a great deal of free rein...."
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly is an editor at large and columnist at Commonweal.
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It seems like it is a slam dunk that Keller is so wrong. Especially since Lisa Adams is so young. Dan Callahan has written how he feels that we should center our resources on the young rather than extend the life of many elderly at probibitive cost. But Callahan does not talk about the young as Keller does. I imagine Keller has problems on other fronts. Which be a matter of opinion. But the attack on a mother of three is really strange if not downright crude.
Amazing, Mollie. Another beef with the NYT and Keller?
But to hang that argument on a specific cancer patient -- and one who is not really a "public figure" and thus impossible to ignore, but rather a woman who has a following on Twitter but isn't otherwise bothering anybody -- that's where a slightly more reflective person ought to say, "You know, maybe this is unnecessarily insensitive
She has nearly 10,000 followers on Twitter. (Only half the circulation of Commonweal.)
I hope no one will be deterred from reading Keller's column or Adams's blog or tweets by your distortion of them.
I was diagnosed with metastatic Breast Cancer about the same time as Lisa Adams (Sept 2012) and have been following her ever since. She is a master Tweeter, using her 140 characters to communicate in ways that are honest and authentic (which is rare in itself, these days). I learn so much from her, probably especially not to be ashamed of or to apologize for my feelings or my disease. Her writing is infinitely more compelling than that of either of the Kellers.
Thank you, Beth, for allowing us to know of your own illness and perspective. You will be in heart.
Adams is the standard-bearer for an approach to cancer that honors the warrior, that may raise false hopes, and that, implicitly, seems to peg patients like my father-in-law as failure
Be careful of making statements and assumptions around what other's experience or their framing of their experience says about your different experience. Is Kellar familiar with the concept of transference?
Transference is the phenomenon whereby we unconsciously transfer feelings and attitudes from a person or situation in the past on to a person or situation in the present. The process is at least partly inappropriate to the present...
Kellar could easily write about his father-in-law. What is life and death meant to him and his family? What it might say about cancer and disease. Tearing her down does not, and will not, honour the memory of his father-in-law. But he opted not to do that.
Anyone who hasn't read Susan Sontag's 1976 book, Illness as Metaphor, in a while might take a look back at it. She pointed out how difficult we find it to discuss certain dreadful diseases without metaphor.
In the old days, the diseases that were too scary to speak plainly about were leprosy and tuberculosis. Now, it's cancer. The warfare terminology -- fight, battle, invasion, defenses, etc. -- disturbs many who prefer plain speech, but it seems impossible to avoid.
Sontag talked about how the name of a disease itself becomes a metaphor: plague, leprous, cancer.
Many are criticizing Keller for writing about a woman who has posted 165,000 tweets about her disease. Their disapproval seems to reinforce the old idea that cancer shouldn't be discussed openly, that it is too shameful. Their criticism of Keller seems like a not-too-subtly veiled criticism of Adams.
(I'm sure everyone reading this remembers when cancer patients were sometimes/often not told of their diagnosis. It was hidden from them.)
"Many are criticizing Keller for writing about a woman who has posted 165,000 tweets about her disease. Their disapproval seems to reinforce the old idea that cancer shouldn't be discussed openly, that it is too shameful. Their criticism of Keller seems like a not-too-subtly veiled criticism of Adams. "
Gerelyn, as far as my finite mind can discern, your statement above makes no sense. Perhaps you can unpack it for us mere mortals.
Gerelyn: Stop trolling here or get lost. I'm not kidding.
Grant et al: I have nothing to say in response to Gerelyn's comments and, on other topics I often disagree with her. But I see no evidence of her "trolling" on this thread.
The definition of trolling is saying provocative things in an attempt to get a reaction. So, something like this: "Many are criticizing Keller for writing about a woman who has posted 165,000 tweets about her disease." It's calculated to get you to explain, hopefully in a heated way, that no, that's not what people are criticizing Keller for at all. You know it's trolling because no person of even average intelligence could actually think that's what this post, or any of the other responses to Keller's column, say.
"In this case, I'll go so far as to say that there are issues here of tone and sensitivity. For example, when Ms. Adams has made it so abundantly clear in her own work that she objects to the use of fighting metaphors in describing experiences with cancer, it was regrettable to use them throughout a column about her, starting with the first sentence. It suggests that Mr. Keller didn't make a full effort to understand the point of view of the person he's writing about on the very big and public stage that is The Times. And although I haven't read all of Ms. Adams's writing, readers are complaining about other examples of this disconnect. The Times should consider publishing some opposing points of view, possibly in the form of an Op-Ed column from a contributor."
Sorry for hitting the button too soon. The above post by me quotes the Times Public Editor. Keller is wanting here in tone and sensitivity. The problem of unnecessary, costly treatment as opposed to palliative care is a good one. To use the situation of Adams can be useful in this discussion. How to do it with sensitivity may not be easy. So can the OP-ED be done with Adams and if so how can it be better?
That's a good example, Bill, of why I'm frustrated by Sullivan's gentle critique: Keller didn't just "use" fighting metaphors to talk about Adams, he claimed that she is a "standard-bearer" for their use in discussing cancer, when in fact she is an outspoken critic of that practice. So it doesn't just "suggest" that Keller failed to make an effort to understand Adams's point of view, it proves it flat-out. And that's not just an error of sensitivity, because the whole argument of his column was that Adams's point of view, or her sharing her point of view, is somehow a disservice to other people with cancer. And he is hanging that bizarre assertion on a complete misrepresentation of what her point of view is.
His column was certainly insensitive, and it was a mess of an argument (though no NYT columnist will get fired for that), but it was also just factually wrong. I wish Sullivan could go beyond "regrettable" in cases like this.
The NYT's Public Editor on Keller's column:
Michael Perry
Mollie, I guess I have to admit that I am not a "person of even average intelligence."
Far above average, I know.
@Beth Cioffoletti; I have missed reading your comments. Sending prayers your way.
Mollie, my wife frequently has reason to wonder whether I have "even average intelligence."
OK, Mollie, I'll bite.
Please tell us what you would prefer for the NYT Public Editor to have said beyond "regrettable."
Bernard - it's possible you've traveled down the same path I have in marrying a woman smarter than oneself. Intrinsic to that decision is the very occasional look or even word to the effect, "Are all men this slow?" But the benefits far exceed the liabilities.
You don't know what kind of aggravated looks you can get unless you raise kids smarter than yourself, for example, when you play a strategic board game and your daughter reacts more quickly, "sees" things further ahead, gets impatient with your own slow, clumsy moves, and finally takes pity on you (the ultimate humiliation) and starts giving you good advice; or when you play a game of bridge and your son plans and does a squeeze on you, whereas you yourself had barely been able to explain to him what a squeeze was. Caught between parental pride, the urge to win, and the frustration of realizing that you are no longer in control.
I updated this post yesterday evening to comment on the response from the NYT's public editor, but I should have said so here in the comments -- thanks to those who brought it up.
Today's NYT has a news article about the Guardian's decision to pull Emma Keller's piece, which mentions the controversy over Bill Keller's column in passing. It doesn't, however, mention what most commentators I've read assume to be the reason for the Guardian's taking Emma Keller's post down: she quoted from private correspondence with Lisa Adams without Adams's permission. And it gives Bill Keller another chance to justify himself, speciously, and to decry "the idea that Emma, who endured her own double mastectomy in 2012, is somehow lacking in empathy for victims of breast cancer." It's not an "idea" -- she was lacking in empathy, maybe not to all victims, but to this particular victim whose story she distorted and whose trust she betrayed. I agree that her own history of cancer ought to make her more sensitive to the feelings of fellow sufferers, but that's not an automatic outcome, QED.
As for what I think Sullivan should have said: Well, basically what I wrote in my response to Bill's quoting her above. Her position is not one of authority, and the NYT has no obligation to take her advice, so I think she could stand to be a lot less timid. If the Times still has no one fact-checking Bill Keller's columns, she could recommend that they assign someone to do so. She could also suggest rethinking the whole "columnists have free rein" policy, given lapses like this one into outright misrepresentation of fact. Is there any real hope that Bill Keller will get canned for writing unreflective, poorly argued, underresearched columns? Of course not, because he is who he is. But why shouldn't Sullivan propose some quality control, or express some emotion stronger than regret at the lack of it?
I read the article, and I agree that it has most of the usual defects that Bill Keller's writing does (starting with the idea that whatever is going on in Bill Keller's family is of interest to everyone and suitable raw material for a column), but I really don't see that it is grossly unfair or unkind to Ms. Adams, who seems to have intentionally made her experience public for a reason. It's a truism from my perspective that the "battlefield" metaphor for cancer is absolutely normative in the U.S. (how many obituaries begin with "After a long and courageous battle with ______ cancer . . ."?) But Keller makes the same mistake, in reverse, that he seems to ascribe to others: not differentiating enough between individual cancers and individual diagnoses in light of other circumstances -- age just being one of them -- in adopting a treatment plan.
I don't think Keller says she should give up, but it is a general defect in his style to use an individual's experience as the jumping off point for a more general meditation, some of which seems useful here (the lack of participation in clinical trials) and some of which extends one individual's experience well beyond the point of general interest or general accuracy.
I can understand that Bill Keller might be faulted for using Lisa Adams as the springboard into a musing about the options that should be open to people with advanced chronic diseases. Adams is a young woman who wants to see her children grow up, and pursing aggressive and last-chance experimental treatment seems understandable in her case. Setting her beside Keller's presumably elderly father-in-law's who opted for palliative care seems unfair, as Mollie has pointed out, because the individuals are at quite different stages in their lives.
That said, I don't quite understand Mollie's vitriole.
I didn't feel that Keller was condemning Adams for "dying the wrong way," only pointing out, perhaps clumsily, that when you're handed a slim-to-none chance of surviving a particular disease, there ought to be more options, more information, and more support for the sick.
Neither did I feel that Keller was using his own family's experiences excessively in his essay. While he might have beefed up his points about less aggressive treatment, from what I can tell, it is true that some gravely ill patients actually do better with less medical intervention. For example, caregivers often note that hospice patients improve for a time after aggressive medical treatment is ended and the patient freed from the stress and exhaustion of clinical visits and infusions. Dialysis doesn't always add time or quality of life to seniors in renal failure. Iron lungs are replacing more invasive ventilators in Europe to treat COPD, leading to shorter hospital stays and fewer secondary infections.
Bill Keller is the one who, in his column, pegs Lisa Adams as the "standard bearer for an approach to cancer that honors the warrior...and that, implicitly, seems to peg patients like my father-in-law as failures".
I am pretty sure she did not set out to be a standard bearer for any approach--she is just dealing with her cancer in the best way she can. I am not a fan of twitter but--like it or not--it's what younger people do. And if it helps her, more power to her!
Likewise, HE is the one that sees an implicit "either-or" approach where, if the warrior mode is good, than his father-in-law is pegged as a "failure". Wow--what an assumption! What happened to "both-and"? I am a retired physician and am well aware of the American tendency to spend large amounts of money on end-of-life care that often is not very effective at either prolonging life or making it more meaningful as death approaches. But, as others have pointed out, there is a big difference between these two cases. I submit that both are reasonable choices: doing everything possible to help a young mother see her kids grow up, and honoring the choice of an elderly man, who presumably has lived a good life and has chosen to meet his Maker without a lot of futile expensive health care. I think both of these people could be seen as "successes" and perhaps even warriors and heroes. And, in any case--as Pope Francis says--"who am I to judge?"
This is maybe a bit far afield, but I wonder if Barbara, as a retired physician, would agree that the doctor has a lot of influence on the kind of end-of-life treatment is offered. I worked in a hospital for many years while I was going to college (decades ago, I admit), and it alwyas seemed to me that GPs, geriatricians, and some internal specialists tend to discourage aggressive treatment after a point and focus more on quality of life. Surgeons tend to encourage more aggressive treatment and seem to feel that cheating death out of a few weeks or months is a victory in itself.
In many hospitals, a team of physicians hashes out behind the scenes what they think is best to recommend to the patient in terms of treatment, and this strikes me as a really good development in the care of those who are seriously ill.
Jean --
I agree that surgeons, at least some of them, think that they can do anything. The egos! Maybe it's the nature of their specialty -- stitch it up, cut it out, bam it's done, case closed. Their patients don't usually linger for months or years as patients of other specialists sometimes do Or maybe it's because surgery might be the oldest of the specialities, and these days they really do some fantastic things, leading, perhaps, to some overconfidence. And I should think you'd need a tremendous self-confidence to even imagine cutting out somebody's heart and replacing it with another heart.
Jean, read this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/health/23ucla.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
It is very thought provoking. Go all the way to the end, where you are informed about a doctor who tried to prohibit anyone from counseling any of his patients about hospice care. That's how entrenched the battlefield metaphor is -- but the article provides a very nuanced discussion of the issues and how hard it is to identify what might be called "excessive measures."
Barbara, thanks! Very interesting article. I thought the point about how study results vary depending on which patients are included in the analysis was especially enlightening.
Ann, yes, at the risk of being anecdotal here, my mother, early 80s, had to have urgent open-heart surgery two days before Christmas. The thoracic surgeon was sort of like a used car salesman: "Honey, you are going to LOVE driving this pig valve around until you're 95! In two weeks, you'll be up feeling better than you have in 10 years!" The pre-surgical movie also featured middle-aged people who'd had the surgery who were running around doing all kinds of fun things. Fortunately, the cardiologist was a little more guardedly optimistic, and he outlined complications that frequently occur in elderly patients and the mental recovery component, which seems at least as important as the physical recovery.
Jean, there is a doctor who is working on an inventory of signs or statistics that will help individual patients who are over the age of 75 better judge how well they will fare in surgery, but a lot depends on the nature of the procedure and the person's overall health status. My father in law had valve surgery at the age of 91 and fared quite well. It was a short procedure and he was going to die without it and he had no chronic conditions like diabetes. So it wasn't actually a tough call.