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WATERBURY — Sacred Heart team captain Tyler Meehan returned to the lineup Saturday after being sidelined for the previous five games due to an injury. Not only did the starting offensive guard finally play, he was a part of an offensive show for the Hearts.
Shyquon Thompson and Jacquan Overbey each scored three touchdowns and quarterback Javon Martin threw five touchdown passes to lead the Hearts to their second straight win, a 63-32 decision over Kennedy at Municipal Stadium.
"I've been waiting for this since last year," said Meehan of the talented group of players meshing together. "It's great see how everyone is responding. It feels great to be back."
Through the first four weeks of the season, Overbey was keyed on. Now he has a lot of supporting cast members.
"There's a lot less pressure now and it's fun to be out there," said Overbey, who had TD runs of four and 60 yards and finished with 174 rushing yards and also caught a 17-yard TD pass.
Martin, playing only his second game of the season, completed 13 of his first 14 passes to finish with 219 yards, including two TD strikes to David Coggins of 25 and 36 yards.
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Married Priests
It is very difficult to have a productive conversation about the possibility of a married priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church. For some Catholics, any discussion of a change in the church's current discipline constitutes either an attack on the priesthood itself or a capitulation to a secular culture that cannot appreciate the spiritual gifts that a celibate priesthood offers the church. Some Catholics support a married priesthood as a way to argue against priestly celibacy, which they regard as an antiquated discipline that is antisex and at least indirectly responsible for the clerical sex-abuse crisis. Still others will argue for a married priesthood as a necessary pastoral response to the shortage of priests: the people of God, they say, have a right to the Eucharist, and that right trumps any spiritual or pastoral value in a celibate priesthood. Frequently, advocates of a married priesthood will point out that ecumenical accommodations have already been made for married Protestant ministers who convert to Catholicism, but those cases remain the exceptions to the rule. What is needed today is a constructive argument for a married priesthood in the Latin Church that is neither a pastoral/ecumenical accommodation nor a repudiation of priestly celibacy.
Any discussion of the relationship between celibacy and priesthood needs to distinguish between three different "logics" that have governed the practice of committed celibacy in the tradition. We find the first logic in the words of Jesus commending those who freely become "eunuchs for the kingdom" (Matthew 19). We might speak of this as celibacy's prophetic witness to the values of the reign of God. According to this logic, one chooses a life of committed celibacy and renounces the sexual intimacy and companionship of marriage in order to enter into the paschal mystery in a distinctive way and give public witness to its transformative power.
This logic is not antisex: those who freely choose this way of life can also give witness to the liberating power of authentic sexuality, in part by resisting the contemporary tendency to reduce sexuality to sexual acts. This kind of prophetic witness invites all Christians to consider anew their own call to exercise the virtue of chastity, whatever the particular circumstances of their lives. A crucial characteristic of this logic is the presumption that the person considering a celibate way of life actually possesses a charism for celibacy. For those who recognize that charism in their lives, celibacy can be both demanding and fruitful. Without such a charism, however, celibacy can become a sterile burden. Prophetic celibacy first emerged in the witness of hermits and monks and continued to flourish in later forms of consecrated life. It has no intrinsic connection with the ministerial priesthood.
A second logic for celibacy, characterized by a concern for both moral and ritual purity, appears with particular force in the fourth and fifth centuries. Before examining this logic, we should recall a basic distinction: sexual continence refers to abstinence from sexual relations, whereas celibacy refers to forgoing marriage (and of course presumes sexual continence as well). The logic of purity sees the sexual continence of the clergy not as a freely embraced charism but as a canonical obligation intended to preserve the purity of the priest in view of his holy office. When it became difficult to ascertain whether married priests were observing sexual continence before celebrating the Eucharist, bishops and regional synods began calling not just for priestly continence but also for priestly celibacy.
The logic of purity is constructed around a selective appropriation of the norms governing the Levitical priesthood, as presented in the Old Testament. This logic treats sexual activity as a form of ritual defilement. It also draws on ancient Stoic suspicions of human sexuality. Sex, even in marriage, is viewed largely as a concession to natural appetites and to the necessity of procreation. Partly as a consequence of this second logic, sexual continence and eventually celibacy would become a canonical obligation for priests in the Latin Church.
Finally, there is a third logic for celibacy, what we might call the logic of ministerial freedom. This logic sees celibacy as providing a greater freedom for Gospel service because the minister is not preoccupied with familial obligations. (A fourth logic emerged in the early Middle Ages as a way of protecting church property from the inheritance claims of the clergy's offspring, but this logic lacks a properly theological foundation and so will not be considered here.) Note that the logic of ministerial freedom, like the logic of prophetic witness, assumes the presence of a charism, without which celibacy will be experienced only as a burden, not as a gift.
As long as celibacy was intended to preserve ritual purity, it made sense for it to be a canonical obligation for all priests. According to the logic of purity, the point of forbidding priests to marry was just to prevent them from engaging in sexual activity, which was judged to be incompatible with their cultic function. Since the Second Vatican Council, however, this logic has been largely abandoned (for good reasons). So we are left with the logics of prophetic witness and ministerial service. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
All the ordained ministers of the Latin Church, with the exception of permanent deacons, are normally chosen from among men of faith who live a celibate life and who intend to remain celibate "for the sake of the kingdom of heaven." Called to consecrate themselves with undivided heart to the Lord and to "the affairs of the Lord, they give themselves entirely to God and to men [and women]. Celibacy is a sign of this new life to the service of which the church's minister is consecrated; accepted with a joyous heart celibacy radiantly proclaims the Reign of God. (1579)
But this leaves us with a difficulty. As Heinz Vogels argues in Celibacy: Gift or Law (1993), a celibate life lived as prophetic witness and in genuine freedom for gospel service cannot be mandated by canonical obligation; it can emerge only as the free recognition and embrace of a particular charism.
A better understanding of celibacy's proper role in the church would require a better theology of vocation—one that properly distinguished between various ministries on the one hand and various forms of holiness on the other. Despite some helpful developments in its theology of vocation, the Second Vatican Council continued to draw on the traditional view of Christian vocation, configured around three alternative "states of life": marriage, priesthood, and religious life. However, an alternative framework presents itself in the middle four chapters of Lumen Gentium. Chapters 3 (on the hierarchy) and 4 (on the laity) explore how the church is constituted by its different charisms and ministries. Chapters 5 and 6 are concerned with the call to holiness—the former with the perfection of charity to which all Christians are called, and the latter with the public witness to holiness offered by consecrated religious. What we see embedded in the order of these four chapters is not the traditional "three states" schema, but the outlines of a new schema constructed along two axes. The first is ministerial: Am I called to serve the church through the charisms I have received from baptism or through ordination? The second axis has to do with holiness and forms of Christian discipleship: Am I called to pursue that Christian holiness proper to all disciples of Jesus, or am I called to give a public witness to the demands of discipleship and the values of the reign of God through a form of public vowed life? This framework has the merit of unhinging the ministerial priesthood from any necessary relationship with either celibacy or marriage, since the call to priestly ministry would be realized along one axis, and the call to the single life, marriage, or committed celibacy along the second axis.
Some male religious communities have preserved this distinction by insisting that those seeking entrance into their community focus on their embrace of its charism and apostolate before they explore the quite separate question of whether they are called to priestly ministry. The process for those entering the diocesan priesthood should be adapted along the same lines, so as to leave room for the possibility that a candidate for priestly ministry may not have a charism for celibacy. The lack of that charism should not be thought to invalidate a vocation to the priesthood.
For much of the history of the Latin Church, priestly celibacy was defended according to the logic of purity: the priesthood was seen as essentially incompatible with the sexual intimacy of marriage. This logic depended on a rather harsh appraisal of the character of human sexuality. A much more positive theology of sexuality emerged in the twentieth century, offering the possibility of a new assessment of a married priesthood—one based on the recognition that Christian marriage is not an alternative to an ascetical life, but a form of it.
I have no wish to demonize secular culture; grace is at work there too. Yet we cannot ignore the force of consumerism, which turns goods into commodities and encourages an "upgrade mentality," even with respect to human beings. This mentality can make lifelong commitment appear almost nonsensical. At the same time, our culture's preoccupation with romance and passion can make the mundane marital practice of companionship appear boring, laborious, and ultimately unnecessary. Consider the myth of Mr. or Ms. Right—the naïve conviction that there is one "right person" out there for each of us. This is a myth often underwritten by an inadequate understanding of divine providence and the misguided Christian conviction that God has intended "one person and only one person" for each of us who feel called to marriage. This myth can make the inevitable pains and disappointments within a marriage appear as indications that one has chosen the wrong person ("I see now that my spouse was not the right one").
Against this cultural backdrop, authentic Christian married life will inevitably be countercultural and prophetic. The public profession of marriage vows engages Christian spouses in a prophetic form of renunciation, a free embrace of limits for the sake of Christian witness and mission. The vows of marriage bind a couple together "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health." The faithful companionship to which Christian marriage calls us retains a vital and necessary ascetical character. Moreover, we must resist reducing marital lovemaking to "the thing celibates don't get to do"; it, too, participates in the prophetic witness of marriage. Conjugal love is not constituted by a mere "right to the body of one's spouse" (ius in corpus). In its potential for intimacy and vulnerability, as well as delight, and in its humble openness to new life, it is a sign of contradiction in a culture that commodifies sex and depreciates fidelity.
Christian married couples, like faithful celibate priests and consecrated religious, give prophetic witness to eschatological values associated with the coming of God's reign: chastity, radical forgiveness, vulnerability, fidelity, hospitality, generosity, and gratitude.
Were leaders in the Latin Church to recognize the prophetic witness of Christian married life, they might look at the possibility of a married priesthood with new eyes. They might see that marriage, like committed celibacy, is a concrete form of the universal call to holiness that can fruitfully support priestly ministry. They might come to see a married priesthood not as a reluctant pastoral or ecumenical accommodation but as a genuine gift to the entire church. They might recognize in a married priesthood a valuable complement to a celibate priesthood, a form of life well suited for both ministry and prophetic witness. And if a married priesthood helped challenge the misuse of priestly celibacy as a support for clerical elitism, well, that wouldn't be so bad either.
About the Author
Richard R. Gaillardetz is the Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College. His books include: Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II (co-authored with Catherine Clifford, Liturgical Press, 2012), When the Magisterium Intervenes (editor, Liturgical Press, 2012), Ecclesiology for a Global Church: A People Called and Sent (Orbis, 2008) and The Church in the Making (Paulist, 2006).
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What I have never understood is the Latin Rite's adamant position of mandatory clerical celibacy EXCEPT for members of the Ordinariate and others who are married Protestant ministers and then become Catholics and are able to ordained as married Catholic priests. If these exceptions to the rule are valid for them, does it not argue against the adamancy of the position to begin with?
And what about the married priests of the non-Latin Catholic Rites? Are they not quite "real" priests because they are not celibate?
The discipline will have more current validity if it is voluntary for those who choose it and not mandatory as a condition of ordination.
Thank you Professor Gaillardetz for a well written and insightful article.
The issue of Protestant clergy and their admittance to the Latin Church's ordained priesthood, with all the rights and obligations associated with this ministry and its call to holiness and witness, is contradictory and inconsistent to the argument of purity and its many defintiions and logics. To most theologians and Catholics, the Church's argument is unconvincing.
I profess that there is very little, if any, evidence that the married priesthood of non-Roman Catholic Christian Churches are less holy, effective witnesses and disciples of Jesus Christ in a public vowed life. Where is the evidence that one form of chasity is superior and more pleasing to God? Where is the evidence that the demands of married life has seriously impacted the obligations and responsibilities of priestly ordination?
I appreciated your discussion of consumerism in the modern Western secular culture. Clearly, this culture does minimize the values of married life, sexual intimacy, charisms, and forms of discipleship. However, the Church makes the profound error of painting with a wide brush the non-reception of many of its sexual ethical teachings by asserting that the secular culture is the cause of divorce, contraception, same-sex marriage, procreation by modern reproductive technologies for couples with serious fertility problems, et al. Those who disagree said to be infected with a some type of cultural diabolical cancer that prevents them from recognizing, understanding and living the truth, as proclaimed by the Magisterium. When there are no convincing moral arugments in suport of such teachings, it has the effect of rendering the Magisterium irrelevant especially in the areas of marriage, human sexualtiy and procreation.
So when it comes to the subject of a married or celibate priesthood, the prohibition of women ordination, or the question of a Divinely-wille ecclesial structure, it is not surprising that these teachings are unconvincing. The argument offered is often an argument "from authority", by proclaiming that the Church can only proclaim and teach the truth. However, when the issues are debated philosophically and theologically, by theologians, the discussion ends in division where the group opposing the established teaching are called revisionists, dissenters, unfaithful and misguided.
I enjoyed your article and pray that it moves the conversation of a married priesthood forward in a positve way.
Talk about a big news day to post this brilliant piece! I am not sure if it is unfortunate or providential, though it was perhaps correctly timed for the day before Francis' exhortation for a major revitalization of the Church. I am reading it as a foundational clarification of a key issue in the structural reform about to be undertaken. While the Catholic world is busy reading the lengthy and groundbreaking Evangelii Gaudium it may take a few days for readers to notice and engage with this article, judging at least from the few comments yet posted.
I too have found it "very difficult to have a productive conversation" about his issue. And this precise clarification of the reasons for the difficulty is most helpful and opens a way forward. It seems in fact a liberating experience that deserves a wide readership that hopefully will open the productive conversation that can effect the necessary breakthrough it implies.
It has long been my experience and observation that many engaged in vocational discernment find the way the Spirit is leading them blocked and can find no way to meaningfully express their disappointment or engage in "productive conversation" that may foster real change or reform in Church structures. The major need this article arouses in me is for some open and ecclesially recognized forum to promote and explore realistic ways married persons can follow a call of the Lord into presbyteral ministry.
Ritual Purity? Charism to witness to escatological issues? Defeating the possibility of inheriting church property? Becoming eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom - Seriously? So Peter was a weak and unworthy pope? Did he diddle with his wife too often for the purists? Juggle his grandchildren on his knee and know the rewards and comforts of family life? Dance with his daughter on her wedding day?
As they say on ESPN: "C'mon, man"
What if a significant number of men left the church and became Anglican priests then transferred back and became Catholic priests? It might take only a little longer than going to a Catholis seminary. Or go to an Eastern Rite seminary? Will it take something like this to get the church to reconsider its position which was not in effect our first thousand years? Let's return to the old, original church. Enough of this radicalism.
What a great article! I hope that Professor Gaillardetz will also write someday about the "creeping infallibility" that followed Pope John Paul II's insistince that the subject of women priests could not even be discussed in the church, another ridiculous concept of "sexual purity" by an all-male clergy.
What has been already noted.. and what definitely has passed...., is how we older Catholics loved and admired our celibate priests as portrayed in 30-40s-50s, movies. how the hero celibate priests with un-encumbered courage cleaned up whatever evil they encountered in society..... hero priests were played by Gregory. Peck, Carl Malden, Specer Tracy, Bing Crosby and even Frank Sinatra... that image of hero celibates mirrored the lonesome cowboy who came to town to ride out the bad guys and that cowboy never had a wagon full of wife and kids tagging along either .Is that hero celibate priest story helping keepi the lid on still? .
I will support a married priesthood *after* the Church approves of birth control.
Kathleen: "the church," i.e., the People of God, have approved of birth control with their actions and large-scale ignoring of Humanae Vitae. The church has spoken. Please do not fall into the trap of equating "the church" with the clergy.
Now for the married priesthood. If, for a start, bishops simply started to ordain married men in those areas where there is a crying need for priests the ability by the hierarchy to stop it would weaken quickly. Then the magic words could be uttered: "As the Church has always taught ...."
Would the wives also be "priests"? Or would it just be a way a perpetuating an all-mail priesthood?
I can spell but apparently I can't type!
BTW, where DID you find that picture of those priests? Are they for real?????
I have known a couple of priests who were deeply attached to their dogs. I felt sorry for the priests, who probably pined for wives and children, but dogs were the only family they were allowed to have. "It is not good for man to be alone," God said, so he created a woman, NOT a dog, for Adam.
The notion of "ritual putity" has deep roots in the dualism that has infected Christianity from the beginning: Zoroastrian/Gnostics, Manichaeans, Paulicians, Bogomils, Cathars, Albigensians, Jansenists and all in between. The thread running through all these dualisms (condemned as heresies) divides men (sky, light, dry, good ) from women (earth, darkness, wet, evil).
The Noah story tells of the sons of God entering into the daughters of men (men from the heavens endowed with a spark of divinity; women binding these heavenly spirits to matter). Thus the notion that Eve brought about man's fall from original grace. The Jewish "ritual purity" separated the women from the males' Court of the Israelites, thus farther from the Holy of Holies. The priests performed the theourgic ritual of bloody sacrifice (an empty magic). They required menstruating women to stay away from the temple until they had purified themselves in ritual baths. Why? the flow of women's blood is a marker of women's real magic which alone can give life.
Tradition tells us that all the Apostles, save John, were ordinary married men. The Eastern rites allow priests to marry. While holding other offices, women were banned from full priesthood in the early Church due to the suppression of women in those cultures. A woman's baptismal character is no different from a man's and this sacrament alone entitles every baptized person access to all other sacraments, including Holy Orders, if a woman feels called.
Many American Bishops are intent in supressing women on all fronts and have attacked the Sisters who are the true exemplars of the Christian life as spelled out in the Sermon on the Mount (spiritual and corporal works of mercy). The hierarchs would silence nuns and women in general and force nuns into the same clothing the Islamists force on their women.
No Pope can tell the Church as the "people of God" that they cannot discuss a married priesthood or priesthood for women. It's time for American Catholic Universities to protect the rights of theologians and laity to speak out and it's time for lay Catholics to curb the "hubris syndrome" infecting so many American Bishops and Cardinals.
I can't imagine being happily married and not wanting everyone else to experience the same joy that marriage brings.
Thank you for breaking the ice on this subject that most Catholics have already voted on but which "must not be discussed". The article is an excellent summary of the theological state of the question. But there is another elephant in the living room, and I suspect that we won't get far with the theology without facing up to that one too. When will we be able to speak without shame about homosexuality in the prriesthood? The New York Times just published an article estimating something like 5% for the prevalence of homosexuality in the general population; conservative estimates for the clergy run around five or six times that, and higher if we're considering those whose attractions are bisexual. Is this just a random coincidence, or has the celibate priesthood provided a safe and constructive outlet for the energies of generations of gay men who would otherwise have had to live lives of secrecy or ignominy because of our bigotry?
William Marrin,
The 2002 LA Times Poll of U.S. Priests showed that 23% of younger priests, those ordained less than 21 years, were either homosexual or had a strong trendancy toward this human orientation. 15% of all priests answered that they have a homosexual orientation.
Clearly, the percentage of Catholic priests who say they have a homosexual orientation (15%) is greater than the percent of men in the general population with a same-sex orientation (e.g., 5%). However, I don't think the proves that homosexuality was the cause of the clergy sex abuse scandal. For example, I don't think there was any convincing evidence that most of the clergy who sexually abused children were homosexual. Nor has it been proven that the rate of sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy is significanly higher than the sexual abuse of children in the general population. What is horrific is sexual abuse itself especially by clergy.
Mr. Barberi is clearly correct in asserting that homosexuality did not cause the sexual abuse scandal. I I was surprisedin fact that the thought even occurrd to him. As a resigned priest who taught for many years in a seminary, however, I do feel that there may be a connection between the clerical culture of cover-up that has long existed to preserve the illusion of clerical heterosexuality (and sexual continence), and the outrageous cover up of the criminal behavior of a few sociopaths. This may be a part of what Gaillardetz is referring to when he says that some believe to be an indirect connection between celibacy and the sex abuse scandal.
OK, keep priests celibate, but the Bible (Epistles of Timothy) states that a bishop should be a married man. If this party of the Bible is ignored, why not ignore the parts of the Bible bout homosexuality?
Christ ws celibate and we're supposed to immitate him.
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I have been experimenting with different layers to create a perfect gunshot but they all fail and sound like toy guns. What do I have to layer in order to create a deadly sounding gunshot?
Hope this helps.
To me, the most important part of a gunshot sound is the decay. That's what makes them sound interesting, massive, and I suppose deadly. In what environment are your guns being shot? Do they ring off of walls, a building, or a hillside? Do you have distant recordings of guns in these environments? The best gun design in my opinion, starts with these type of field recordings.
To make a music analogy, guns are like drums. The best drum sounds result from recording the drums interacting with the acoustic space. Part of the key to Jon Bonham's massive drum sound was the use of distant room mics in the studio and even a mic placed outside the studio door in a stairwell.
That being said, you might want to layer your gun sounds with various sweeteners. In film, it's not uncommon to layer recordings of say a cannon, mortar shell firing, or even thunder under the sound of even a tiny handgun. A little reverb, slap delay, compression, or sub can help thicken them up as well. If you're feeling avant garde...try layering them with the reversed sound of a pig squeal.
It looks like everyone has already given some great advice. The biggest problem may be with the sources you are using. Gun recordings don't always sound that interesting. Especially handguns and shotguns, neither sound like what you expect. Try adding a lot of compression or Waves L2 or even clipping and see if that gets you any closer. Also, like Justin said, the decay is very important to the sound. Do not neglect this aspect of the sound.
Check out the articles I wrote for designingsound.org. I'm not sure that I have many tips to offer that are not already in these articles:
http://designingsound.org/2010/04/chuck-russom-special-gun-sound-design/ http://designingsound.org/2010/04/chuck-russom-special-gun-recording-guide/
There are some films that I often turn to for gun inspiration:
I personally like to add a nice mic element pop from an explosion a couple milliseconds before the actual shot and decay. I work in video games and designing them can vary depending on how it feels during game play. The decay also holds a great deal in making a gunshot sound huge. Once you get those elements sounding good start mixing in mechanical/gun Foley.
Funnily enough, I've used balloon pops in gun designs before.
"a perfect gunshot"
maybe your problem is based on considering 'a gun' generically?
what type of gun? (a pistol is not a rifle is not a shotgun is not an AK47 etc)
what environment is it being shot in? (interior? exterior? close? wide? open field? canyon? inner city streets?)
what is the point of view or perspective of the gun? and after its fired? (what does the gun shoot at? is the action real time? is there time for bullet whizzes/impacts?)
what is the context of its use? (is the situation dangerous? kids firing air rifles at a park wont be dangerous, dirty harry/sniper fire in a battle zone is....)
"what sound can be layered to create a gunshot that gives that element of danger"
have you considered all the elements that make up a gun shot? - the trigger mechanism - the initial attack - the envelope of the explosion - the rapid evolution of the dense frequency impulse on its environment - the bullet exiting the barrell - the bullet travelling - the bullet impacting or ricocheting
there is no magic answer eg "just add an X and it will sound dangerous" while being "not fake"
"normal gunshots really just sound like a balloon popping"
really? you've actually been to a firing range & heard them like this?
When in Beijing I visited a firing range where you could fire anything you liked, if you were happy to pay the $ - that place scared the living hell out of me - guys were firing automatic machine guns in the booth next to me and the low frequencies permeated my entire body..... a balloon popping they were not!
Maybe some research for you to do (apart from visiting a firing range) is to assemble some scenes from movies with a variety of gunshots, and appreciate the range & breadth of approach... Are Sergio Leones guns realistic? Saving Private Ryan? Inglourius Bastaerds?
ka-pow. Two attacks, first one heavy, fat, and a little saturated + silence + actual gunshot (add reverb and such).
i'll be the teddy bear. describe a deadly gunshot to me?
Well I mean normal gunshots really just sound like a balloon popping. A gunshot really needs that element of danger but still have a realistic feel to it. I have heard many hollywood gunshots and some of them are very well done but some just failed to impress. I really just want to know what sound can be layered to create a gunshot that gives that element of danger but does not sound fake as the many I have heard.
Layer a detuned timpani sample underneath.
The best gunshot scene, hands-down, is the shoot-out in the Raven in Raiders of the Lost Ark. I believe they actually used a Winchester for Indy's revolver. That scene is aided by the fact that there's no music, and there's clarity in the gunshots. So much of the power of a gunshot comes from what's around it... ducking everything else out of the mix, etc. In that scene you can tell they thought about what/where every gunshot was coming from. It's not just a wall of gunshot stupidity.
Definitely the more 1-2-3 punch you can give to a gunshot the better... click, BANG, whooooosh/trail.
A high CRACK mixed in can help, a la the attack from a 21 gun salute, give a lower frequency gun more punch in a mix.


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About the Author (who doesn't do pictures, she says):
Pembroke Sinclair has had several stories published in various places. She writes an eclectic mix of stories ranging from western to science fiction to fantasy to horror. Her stories have been published in Static Movement; chuckhawks.com; The Cynic Online Magazine; NVF Magazine online, NVF Magazine Issue 8, NVF Magazine Issue 2, and NVF Magazine Issue 4; Sonar 4 Publications; Golden Visions Magazine; and Residential Aliens.
Her first novel, Coming from Nowhere, is now available at eTreasures Publishing and Amazon.com. Her story, "Sohei," was named one of the Best Stories of 2008 by The Cynic Online Magazine. If you would like to contact Pembroke, she can be reached at pembrokesinclair at hotmail dot com or pembrokesinclair.blogspot.com.
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The world has come to an end. It doesn't go out with a bang, or even a whimper. It goes out in an orgy of blood and the dead rising from their graves to feast on living flesh. As democracy crumples and the world melts into anarchy, five families in the U.S. rise to protect the survivors. The undead hate a humid environment, so they are migrating westward to escape its deteriorating effects. The survivors are constructing a wall in North Platte to keep the zombie threat to the west, while tyranny rules among the humans to the east. Capable but naïve Krista is 15 when the first attacks occur, and she loses her family and barely escapes with her life. She makes her way to the wall and begins a new life. But, as the undead threat grows and dictators brainwash those she cares about, Krista must fight not only to survive but also to defend everything she holds dear—her country, her freedom, and ultimately those she loves.
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That things change…a lot! I never had any intention of making this a YA book, but after an agent suggested it would work better, I revised it. In the end, I think it worked out better. Instead of my character sounding like a whiner, she's filled with teen angst!
3. What should your readers discover and want to share with their family and friends after reading this book?
A good plan to counteract the zombie apocalypse.
Ha! Sounds necessary. Thanks, Pembroke!
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I have an image encoded in the form of a list of points, like so:
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There is a line drawn between each point to make the image - if you sketch the points above (I'd advise doing it programatically) you'll see a lower case 'a'. This is part of a project regarding online character recognition. I am currently investigating the effects of several pre-processing techniques that can be applied to such a recognition system, and one technique that many of the papers that I have read apply is to 'smooth' the image, usually via a Gaussian blur. Unfortunately, they all proclaim it as "easy", and therefore they neglect to mention how one goes about doing so.
I have been looking for quite some time now, but I find myself still unable to understand how I would take the idea and apply it to an image made up of a set of points like the one above. From the wikipedia article I have the function:
$G(X) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi\sigma^2}}e^{-\frac{x^2}{2\sigma^2}}$
However, I have no idea how I actually apply that to my list of points to get a smoothed image. All of the examples online are both incredibly complicated and also for pixel-images, where every pixel in your image matters. Here, I only actually have the 20 or so points. So, what I am looking for is some explanation and advice regarding how I would apply a Gaussian blur in my way of representing the image - what do I apply $G(X)$ to (each co-ordinate?), how I calculate $\sigma^2$, etc.
The disclaimer: As stated, this is part of an assignment. However, this is not breaking any rules or 'cheating' in any form. The assignment is to investigate many features of online character recognition, not to magically know how to do one of the possible techniques for pre-processing the characters. Should I gain any knowledge of how to do the smoothing from this site, the site (and the individual, should they wish) will of course be credited in full.
I thank you for any help. I hope this question is placed correctly (I felt it was more mathematical than program-based, since it's more about the concept of Gaussian blurs rather than the implementation - I'm fairly sure I'll be able to handle that part) and that it is clear. If it is not, please just ask and I will clarify any points I can.
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A JFK is getting your head "blown" while driving in a car.
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What are the best Chinese online tv channels with english subtitles for passive Mandarin learning. I find Chinese a rather musical language and would love to watch subbed tv (news, documentaries, culture etc) in mandarin.
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Of all of these I really recommend getting the satellite antenna. It's definately worth the money.
While not exactly passive in the sense you might mean, I found comic books (manga, 漫畫) to be invaluable while learning chinese. The dialog is very colloquial and it's easier for me to learn new words when I have something written down I can look up in a dictionary.
There are several places you can get them online and off, if you are not in Greater China, including Yes Asia and dang-dang. Here is a nice blog post with lots of details.
If you are in Greater China, comic books are everywhere, and I remember, in Taiwan at least, they have these great little comic book shops where you can rent or read in the shop very cheaply. Getting hooked on a long running comic book series that you are buying can do some serious dammage to your wallet.


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Air Ride Suspension Install - Easy Air Ride, Part 1Written by on July 26, 2011 Superb Handling, Great Performance, and an Aggressive Stance
The whole time I've been into hot rod cars and trucks one of the things that has mattered most to me personally is stance. The way a vehicle sits, along with its wheel and tire combination, can make or break a classic truck or hot rod, or custom for that matter. These days, patina'd beaters are a perfect example. Without an in-the-weeds, all-around lowering (or a cool hot rod rake) and a nice set of wheels and tires a beater (or though I hate the term, rat rod) is nothing but an old, beat-up vehicle that'd make a neat ride ... if only it sat right and had a good looking wheel and tire combo.
Well, from the very day that I gained possession of my '57 Chevy pickup I knew that at some point it'd be outfitted with a RideTech air ride system of one configuration or other. Sure, I could have set up my aftermarket suspension so that the truck sat the way I wanted it to without the aid of air ride—I've gone that route plenty of times before. Unfortunately all those vehicles I lowered in that manner looked great, but they all handled like crap and road even worse. Heck, as much as I hate to admit it some of 'em were even pretty dangerous as the scrub lines ended up lower than the rim-ride height (in other words, if I'd ever gotten a flat the vehicle would have ended up scraping along on the chassis or a suspension part rather than the flat tire, becoming totally uncontrollable—not a smart idea at all).
Since the company's inception, RideTech has been at the cutting edge of air suspension technology and they've been constantly developing new and exciting products. It was my longtime exposure to vehicles equipped with RideTech systems that made the choice an easy one for me when it came time to outfit one of my own projects with air suspension.
As you may have noticed from the title, this is only part one of a multi-part story. This first installment is going to revolve around component installation more than anything else. I'm doing it this way so that I'll be able to have the space needed to get into some specifics, especially when it comes to the technical specifications and benefits of the RideTech control systems and the shocks themselves. This'll also give you a heads-up in regards to some of the challenges some may come across during an installation of this sort—especially since I'm working with aftermarket suspension components here rather than the factory Chevrolet suspension. That said, take a look at my first afternoon's installation progress and we'll see ya next issue with a look at wiring the controllers and running the air supply lines. ct
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Here's how the '57 sat as of the morning of the initial air ride install. Don't look like much without the bed, but thanks to a fresh delivery from LMC Truck that'll be rectified within days. Right now though, I'm looking forward to getting to work on the new air ride setup.As is the case with any installation process, the best bet is to unpack the components and match the parts to the packing list. There's nothing more aggravating than getting partway through an install and finding out you're short a part or there's something in the assembly that's damaged or otherwise unusable. Just as I suspected, everything was there and all was in perfect shape and ready for installation to begin.Once I knew all was well component-wise, the next thing I looked for were the installation instructions. I usually save instructions for an assembly emergency, but with a system as sophisticated as the RidePRO e3 I figured I'd break from my normal regimen and read the instructions first. I got a good laugh when I did dig out the instruction pack though—starting out an install with a smile on one's face is a great way to begin.I began that day's adventure by assembling the solenoid block, or more accurately, installing the air line fittings and air pressure sensors. It's really important to use thread sealant so you don't end up with air leaks in the future, so I went ahead and applied sealer to the threads of all four sensors and the 90-degree air line fittings as well. The air distribution block is factory labeled so the sensors and fittings are easily installed in the correct positions in the block.Next, I moved on to readying the air supply tank. RideTech offers a few different size tanks but I went with the 3-gallon capacity for my application. I also made sure to seal the threads on the tank fittings too.Next, I assembled the compressor and readied it for installation. The compressor is supplied with an air filter and a set of rubber isolators and sleeves that help absorb the vibrations of a running compressor.At this point I was ready to figure out mounting points for the compressor, distribution block, and air supply tank. This will vary from vehicle to vehicle and each individual owner's preference. You've got a lot of leeway and options in this respect since RideTech manufactures these systems using weathertight connections and moisture-resistant components. As you can see I chose to mount the compressor in the left rear framerail of the '57.After a bit of time on my back I figured a good place to mount the air tank was up under the floor and behind the step on the left side of the cab. This would allow me to mount the tank up high enough so it was safe, hidden, and away from the pavement when the truck was at its lowest point.After holding the tank in place under the truck and making sure it would indeed work in that position I then crawled out and drilled a couple of mounting holes through the cab step area. The bottom two mounting tabs on the tank did end up falling below the mounting point so I fashioned a couple of mounting supports that allowed me to mount the tank snuggly and by all four mounting points.
This shot is looking to the left side of the underside of the cab. You can see that the air tank is positioned up into the space behind the step and with the bottom edge of the rocker lower than the lowest point of the tank. This also placed the tank outboard of the framerail, separating it from the exhaust system, which will run inboard of the frame.The air distribution block mounting came next. I first cinched up the harness with a few wire ties so there'd be nothing flapping in the wind as I run down the road.I decided to locate the block under the cab as well. There was a good spot right near the air tank that'd work well in my case. I laid a piece of masking tape over the mounting surface of the block that I used as a template to drill the mounting holes.Here you can see how I mounted the block behind the backside of the same entry step as the air tank. Like the air tank, the block is tucked up and out of the way while still being accessible.OK, with the compressor, tank, and air distribution block in place and mounted it was on to installing my new Shockwaves, starting at the rear. The top image is the before shot with the original coilovers in place. The lower one is with the Shockwaves in place of the coilovers.
To get the chassis to sit as low as I wanted, I decided to redo the upper shock mounts so that the Shockwaves would mount higher and in-turn lower the chassis an equal amount. A bit of hunting through the scrap metal pile, a few minutes at the band saw, and presto, I had a new set of upper mounts that did the trick.At that point I still had to address the shock angle to my satisfaction. So, it was back to the scrap pile and band saw for another round of minor fabrication. Unfortunately, I'd used the last of my 1⁄2-inch plate for the upper mounts so I was left using 1⁄4-inch and doubling it up for the bottom relocating plates.This is what I came up with and shows how they moved the lower mounting point of the Shockwaves inward toward the center of the chassis. With a less drastic shock angle I was a bit more at ease with the rear shock installation.Here you can see the original coilover and the new Shockwave side by side. The Shockwave is a hair shorter, but obviously larger in diameter. The mounting eyelets are also much more heavy-duty on the Shockwave than on the coilover.Again, since my front suspension was an aftermarket assembly rather than an OEM design I did have to perform a few small modifications. Since the mounting eyelets are bulkier on the Shockwaves I had to trim a bit off both the upper and lower shock mounting tabs. If I'd had the original suspension I'm sure the Shockwaves would have bolted right in as RideTech engineers their products for an easy and hassle-free installation.
And there you have it—a Saturday afternoon's worth of air ride installation. And like I said earlier, this installment was a bit short on component specifics but I will be able to be a bit more informative as I get into the plumbing and wiring end of the install. Nonetheless, RideTech makes do-it-yourself air ride installation pretty darn pain free and the finished product will be one of the most satisfying stages of your build, and will improve your classic truck's handling and ride quality every bit as much as it will its look. Stay tuned!


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The offside rules has a major impact on the way football is played by making it more difficult to play a simple offside trap or in the past by stopping "goal hanging". I was wondering what other sports have an offside rule as well and does anyone know how the offside rule in that sport affects the way it is played?
There is an offside rule in (ice) hockey, which essentially means a player cannot just hang out the attacking 1/3 of the rink and wait for the puck to be passed to him.
There is also an offside rule in rugby which seems to differ a bit with respect to the two major disciplines of the sport (union and league). The difference between offside in football and offside in rugby appears to lie in the reference point to which the position of the player is compared, in rugby that is the ball whereas in football it is the second last defender (including the goalkeeper).
While it's not called "offside", there is a similar rule in basketball, called 3-second-violation. Here you can read a nice summary of the offensive and defensive 3-second violation calls. Note that this rule exists under FIBA regulations (art. 26) as well as NBA regulations (Rule 10, sections 7 & 8).
Gridiron Football (American and Canadian) has an offside foul too. If a player is on the wrong side of the line of the scrimmage when the ball is snapped then they are offside. It is even a strategy of the offensive team to entice a player to make such a move before the snap.
You could also argue that at the kickoff, the rule that says that the kicking team have to be behind the line the ball is on is also an offside rule. A deliberate attempt of the kicking team to gain possession at the kickoff by kicking short and along the ground is even still called an 'onside kick', a play that is reminiscent of a contested kickoff or 22-meter dropout in Rugby.
Lacrosse has rules for offsides as well. The rules forces at least three players of the team to be on the attack half of the field (usually the attackers) and at least four players to be on its defensive half of the field (usually the defence and goalie).
The three players in the midfield are, however, free to move however they want.
Source: Rule 65 "Offside" of the "FEDERATION OF INTERNATIONAL LACROSSE 2013-2014 Rules of Men's Field Lacrosse"
Field hockey used to have an offside rule as well. It was very similar to the offside rule in football. However, field hockey removed the offside rule in the mid-1990s. The rule changed over time and Wikipedia is a good starting point for a historical overview and further reading on this topic.


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Kathryn Tucker Windham, who died in 2011, was a noted Alabama storyteller and former journalist, perhaps best known for "13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey." Charlie "The Tin Man" Lucas is a self-taught artist popular statewide for his scrap metal sculptures and other works of art. Three of his pieces are currently on display on the AUM quad and he is planning to attend the book signing.
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When posting a status update on social website like facebook.com and linkedin.com which contain an URL, it will automatically scan the images available on the particular website and put it at the front of the status update.
May I know how this could be done if I would like to do the same for my web app? Which web framework (JSF, Richfaces, JQuery, ...) should I use in such development? Beside that, is there any pre-build features available in blogger.com or wordpress.com?


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For a collection of points in $\mathbb{R}^n$, is there a statistic that I can compute which will estimate the number of clusters with some level of confidence?
This is an age-old question, which actually does not have (I think even cannot have) a definite answer, because first you need to define what you mean by a cluster and so on. A famous saying in this regard is that "cluster is in the eye of a beholder". It is easy to construct examples where somebody could see one cluster, but somebody else more than one.
This being said, the MDL (minimum description length) principle would lead you to devise (IMHO) a clustering cost function in a most principled way, which by optimizing you could the find the cluster assignments and number of clusters simultaneously. For multinomial data you can see following: P.Kontkanen, P.Myllymäki, W.Buntine, J.Rissanen, H.Tirri, An MDL Framework for Data Clustering. In Advances in Minimum Description Length: Theory and Applications, edited by P. Grünwald, I.J. Myung and M. Pitt. The MIT Press, 2005.
The intuitively-appealing idea behind MDL clustering is that by clustering you create a model of the data. So the assumption is that a very good model is one that lets you compress the data well.
Anyway MDL might not be easy to apply, if you are looking for a practical way to detect the number of clusters. BIC (Bayesian information criteria) and the F-ratio have proven to work OK in practice.
I don't know if this is the most effective answer, but it has to be one of the coolest:
Barcodes: the persistent topology of data
It lets you estimate not only the number of connected components but also the higher Betti numbers. (For instance, if you take a random sample of enough points from an annulus, you will be able to measure both H0 = Z and H1 = Z.)
Carlsson has developed methods from applied topology to do clustering work. Robert Ghrist called a talk about this "Clusterfunctor" since it involves a functor from metric spaces to "persistent sets". It's talked about in Topology and Data, a survey article about using topology to do data analysis.
I think that for computing a level of confidence you need a model of clusters, for example a gaussian mixture model.
If the level of confidence is not an issue and you need simply the "right" number of clusters I would repeat what Ville said plus the following article:
Estimating the number of clusters in a dataset via the Gap statistic (2000) Tibshirani, Walther, Hastie http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.34.6664
There is a whole research field on this, and the answers so far have only highlighted a few of the specific algorithms developed. Check out this Wikipedia article on cluster analysis for an overview and some references.


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Which team would break the goals for record but fourth last?
I hope my coaches are doing this for a laugh, they are saying the same thing and disagreeing with the other. I hope they aren't trying to prove themselves either.
Saturn have broken every record ever with that incredible season I presume...
Board a little hard to please??
If you can't see it, you need to go to Specsavers.
The two zombies of course, I added the zombie myself.
Zeli Ismael is a real person, a young lad currently at Wolves (thought he was at Liverpool). He's rated very promisingly.
Interestingly Romania are at the reanimations too (though they do have a history of it):
I'm finding it very funny. I haven't seen real player names recycled like this since CM 97/98.
Not that funny. Just an amusing headline really
Mine I don't think its funny. But I still share it here.
League match comes first then Community Shield. HAHAHA!
I really wish the international managers would remember to let my players back inside after training...
Cant find the screen shot but England won a World Cup !
I like that he's also blonde.
The minnows are too good in FM.
Sounds about right, given how those overpaid wassocks usually play against minnows.
Although I have not got the screenshot there is actually a football club called DEPORTIVO WANKA from Peru
Search it up
Alright, so the spelling isn't quite right, and with that pace/agility he won't be floating like a butterfly, but his strength and aggression mean he can certainly sting like a bee.
Can't see Messi going there
Gave me a little chuckle.
Never been a sweeter match of FM. In the end anyway, watching it and going a man down after 20 mins or so as Man Utd had just equalised made it almost the worst. Justice has finally been done. JT's still club captain, but hardly ever plays and has recently started helping in the coaching realm.
EDIT: I won this year's one at Wembley aswell against Inter, so to go towards healing our Moscow wounds this game is perfect, maybe with enough mushies i can mak it seem real...
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What a Champions League Semi Final, i did put out a very weakened squad after our 3-0 win away in the first leg.
After 19 minutes i was fearing that decision was going to cost me...
surely this guy gets some grief in the derbys
Are you ryan giggs in disguise??
...hang on...
...WHAT?! How more convincing could that have gotten?
He has scored an excellent amount of goals this season
I've had a few funny player names during my six year save, but this chap has to be my favourite. I had noticed him during the season, but he's now retired, so this is the last time I'll get to snigger at his name when it pops up on my game:
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Not a sus website...
...and selecting "do not resize".
How do i post just the image and not the link??
- Yer Maw attempts to finish a cross.
- Defender slides through him, scoring an own goal.
- Goal is credited to someone completely different (Memelli)
- Goal is disallowed as Yer Maw is thought to have dived.
I'm pretty sure this should have stood!!
Just had this beauty through my academy.
haha that's funny
I've not trawled though all these funny pics but has anyone noticed any pics where people have had fun with the new backgrounds, like adding a window cleaner to one of the houses or a deck chair on the beach and so on ?
Best... stadium... name... ever:
Gay Dawn Farm
It's Gay Dawn, I've watched that team play when I was younger.
The worst performance I've ever seen by one player on any CM/FM. I'm Man Utd (and happen to be an Everton fan as well!).
I went through the highlights and Phil Jagielka gave away 3 penalties and was directly at fault for a total of 7 of the goals. So that's 8 major mistakes as one of the pens was missed.
I had never even seen a 1 rating. If there was a cameraman focusing Jagielka during the entire match he'd have lots of highlights
Jamie Day gets my vote every day of the week, what a season he has had
I was confused for so long thinking that was a player of the season vote lol. I couldn't work out how everyone had such an awesome goals:games ratio
I'd have voted for Jamie Day, he's a legend


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Together, the companies will refine the hydrothermal treatment process developed and operated today by Sapphire Energy at pilot scale. In addition, they will jointly license and market the technology into an expanded list of industries, including algae, municipal solid waste and farm waste.
Sapphire Energy, one of the world leaders in algae-based
"green" crude oil production, is teaming up with technology
company The Linde Group to expand their partnership for the
commercialization of a new industrial-scale conversion technology to upgrade algae biomass
into crude oil.
In the announcement made Tuesday, the companies said they
will refine the hydrothermal treatment process developed and
operated today by Sapphire Energy at pilot scale.
In addition, they will jointly license and market the technology into an expanded list of
industries, including algae, municipal solid waste and farm
waste in order to upgrade other biomass sources into
Sapphire Energy is very pleased to build upon its already
successful strategic partnership with Linde to build a
commercial oil upgrading process designed to increase yield and
lower the cost of crude oil production, said Cynthia
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Large energy projects like we are building
require very significant partnerships to fund the development
of new technologies and make available engineering resources
needed to bring these projects on line at commercial
scale," she added. "We think Linde is a perfect partner to help
Sapphire achieve this goal.
The agreement spans a minimum of five years through the
development of Sapphire Energys first commercial scale,
algae-to-energy production facility.
We have been working with Sapphire Energy for two
years to develop a cost-efficient CO2 delivery system for
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This growing partnership builds upon Lindes and
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was previously announced in May 2011.
Linde, the leading merchant CO2 supplier in the US, also became
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
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Mt Fuji, Lake Ashi and Bullet Train Day Trip from Tokyo
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Hakone Komagatake Ropeway
ewibowo, May 2015
Komagatake is the central volcanic cone of Hakone range, rising 1327m above sea level.
Mt Fuji and Lake Ashi
Anonymous, May 2014
Mt Fuji and Lake Ashi
Mt Fuji Day Trip
Anonymous, May 2014
With Lake Ashi and bullet train
Mount Fuji from the visitors centre
Garry W, January 2014
Garry and Kate Christmas Day 2013
Expect great views from the visitors centre
Hovsep Y, November 2012
One of my favorite pictures from the whole trip.
Mt. Fuji from visitor center
Gregory B, December 2011
This picture was from the visitor center at the base of Mt. Fuji. The second stop is about halfway up and above th snow line.
Hakone Mt Komagatake
Sarah B, Australia, January 2010
A couple of Aussies on top of Mt Komagatake with our awesome tour guide Tadashi. The coolest Japanese man we met!


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I have seen this phrase do not pass go a couple of times reading Internet forums, but I don't remember figuring it out in context, as I've never played the game Monopoly. What does it mean?
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The other two answers are correct, but they miss a crucial detail which is key to why the phrase has entered popular idiom. The message on the Chance card is worded the way it is to be unambiguous, but the intent is that it is to happen straightaway and no detours are allowed. Because of this, using the phrase outside of the board game means not only "you've failed" but "you've failed right now and you are not allowed any benefits that might ordinarily happen on the way to account or atone for it."
In the game of Monopoly, every time you pass go you get $200. There is a card in the chance pile that sends you to jail without passing go. The text is "Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200."
So saying "do not pass go" has become an idiom for "not only did you fail/lose, you failed/lost badly" or "not only did something bad happen, but there were bad side-effects as well."
Its a reference to a popular phrase that appears on several Monopoly cards.
In Monopoly you roll dice to advance your piece around the game-board, and at every square on the board one of several things may happen. One square on the board (a corner square) is designated as "Jail" where your piece waits when it is in "Jail" (details don't matter), another square (also a corner square) is designated as "Go", where the pieces start from at the beginning of the game. The game rules stipulate that every time your piece advances onto or past the "Go" square a certain sum (typically 200 monopolybucks) is given to the player (a salary if you will).
If a player picks up a card that tells him to go to jail, the card stipulates that the player's piece goes directly to jail, and stating that you do not pass go and do not collect $200.
Outside of monopoly "Do not pass go" may be a euphemism for going to jail, or something similar. (A contrived example would be a parent telling the child to do the laundry without "Passing Go.") But otherwise it would be helpful if you post the actual usage you heard.


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PSP remake is so much better
PSP remake is so much better
Never had a PSP so I wouldn't know. How could it get any better?
Yeah that sounds pretty hot. I don't know about those updated graphics, though. I just looked at some screens and it looks fugly compared to the SNES sprites.
Why don't have a seat right HERE
i wanna be that man...
(i wanna be in that man)
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He doesn't look too gay to me. Maybe kinda gay. A lil bit gay.
Nothing about that guy is gay.
He's certainly gay, but maybe not gay.
Well he does look happy.
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But then again, wouldn't you be happy if you could summon rainbows?
If I were a slug, I'd leave a rainbow trail of slime.