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Alice Munro Wins Literature Nobel Prize
Canadian Writer Called 'Master of the Contemporary Short Story'
Canadian writer Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, cementing her reputation as one of world's greatest tellers of short stories and focusing attention on a literary form that has fallen out of popularity with some readers.
The Swedish Academy said it picked the 82-year-old author—known for her easy-to-read writing style charting the struggles and moral conflicts of everyday characters in rural Ontario—because she is the "master of the contemporary short story."
Ms. Munro is "a fantastic portrayer of human beings," the Academy's permanent secretary, Peter Englund, said in an interview broadcast on the official Nobel Prize website.
Ms. Munro's short stories are mainly set in the southwestern Ontario region of Canada where she grew up and often document the growing pains and dilemmas of young women in restrictive rural environments and their relationships with men.
While her stories often detail a seemingly polite and respectable Canada, the writer has built her reputation on her descriptions of human despair, exploitation and alienation, often focusing on betrayals between men and women.
"The wallowing in the seamier and meaner and more vengeful undersides of human nature, the telling of erotic secrets, the nostalgia for vanished miseries, and rejoicing in the fullness and variety of life, stirred all together," fellow Canadian writer Margaret Atwood wrote in the introduction to a collection of Ms. Munro's stories.
In a statement through her publisher, Ms. Munro said, "I am amazed, and very grateful." The often publicity-shy writer told Canadian Broadcast Corp. that her daughter woke her up in the middle of the night in British Columbia to give her the news.
"She is one of the greatest short-story writers alive," said Michael Dirda, an American who won a 1993 Pulitzer Prize for literary criticism. In a statement delivered through his publisher, U.S. author Jonathan Franzen called Ms. Munro the best living North American writer and said that, after more than a century, "we finally have a Nobel for a pure short-story writer."
Short stories have lost much of their audience following the gradual decline of many popular magazines that once carried them. Ms. Munro said she hoped the award would help give the short story more recognition.
"It is often brushed off as something that people do before their first novel," she said in an interview broadcast on the Nobel Prize website.
Often commended for her precise language, Ms. Munro never strayed from short stories, even as she has talked in interviews of a desire to write a novel. "Between every book I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff,' " she told the Guardian newspaper in 2003.
Some recent Nobel literature awards appeared to have taken into account political considerations, but the choice of Ms. Munro appeared to be made on a purely literary basis, critic Sven Birkerts suggested. "We didn't have to make the side calculations as to the politics," he noted.
Born in Ontario in 1931 to a farming family of Scottish extraction, Ms. Munro started writing in her teens and has said in interviews that doing that was the only career she really ever wanted. Her first collection, "Dance of the Happy Shades," came out in 1968.
Mr. Dirda noted that Ms. Munro isn't a "flashy" stylist. Rather, he said, the author's strength has been her quiet depictions of human life, of people in crisis.
One of her most famous stories, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," deals with memory loss and the love and betrayals of an elderly couple. It was turned into the 2006 film "Away From Her."
Other stories have charted the early pioneers into Canada's then-lightly trodden hinterlands, sometimes revolving around acts of violence. In a rare excursion outside Canada, the "Albanian Virgin," Ms. Munro weaves a character's reflections on her failed marriage and new start with the tale of a Canadian woman's kidnapping in 1920s Albania.
Having written more than a dozen collections of short stories, Ms. Munro has said in recent interviews with several newspapers that she was considering retiring.
On Thursday, she seemed undecided. She told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. she would stick with that decision but later said in her interview with the Swedish Academy that the award might change her mind.
Ms. Munro, who has said the older she gets the more she likes happy endings for stories, said the award had made her think of her father and "how happy he would have been" and her husband, who died several months ago.
The writer had already won top literary prizes—including the Man Booker International Prize—and had long been seen as a contender for the Nobel Prize.
In her statement, Ms. Munro said she hoped the award also would bring more attention to Canadian writing. In recent decades, the country has been the base of a number of internationally known authors, including Ms. Atwood and Michael Ondaatje.
But she becomes the first writer who has spent her life and career in Canada to win the prize. Saul Bellow, the 1976 prize winner, lived in Quebec until he was nearly 10 but typically is described as an American writer.
The win caused headlines and celebration in Canada, which often sees itself as punching below its weight in global attention. Prime Minister Stephen Harper relayed his congratulations on "behalf of all Canadians" on the messaging service Twitter.
The last American winner was Toni Morrison, who was awarded the prize in 1993.
Ms. Munro is only the 13th woman to win the prize since its inception more than a hundred years ago.
Ms. Munro's books are published in the U.S. by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House that is majority- owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for Knopf, said Thursday that the publishing house "will be going back to press on all of her works."
Winning can translate into an immediate increase in sales. Arcade Publishing, an imprint of New York-based Skyhorse Publishing, had five works written by Chinese author Mo Yan available in print and digital formats when he won the prize in 2012.
Over the next 12 months, those five titles sold more than 100,000 physical and digital copies in North America, a Skyhorse spokesman said. By comparison, the five titles together sold fewer than 10,000 copies in the prior year in all formats.
At a small Indigo Books outlet in Toronto early Thursday, shoppers were already looking for copies of Ms. Munro's work, said Renato Conti, the store supervisor on duty.
"One of them stormed out because we didn't have a display up for her yet," Mr. Conti said. "I'm sure the head office is racing to get stuff out to stores as soon as possible."
—Niclas Rolander and Karen Johnson contributed to this article.
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CADIZ - The Cadiz Business Association, chaired by Kathy Mishler, has planned holiday events for Dec. 1.
Included is the parade along the downtown streets, with the lineup beginning at 5 p.m. and the parade promptly starting at 6 p.m.
The parade will include Snow Kings and Queens, with any child between the ages of 6 and 10 who is designated by a group or business which has a walking unit or float in the parade as their snow royalty. There is a limit of one per parade unit.
An entry form must be completed by an adult and the children will be part of Santa's Royal Snow Court at Wallace Lodge following the parade. They will be part of a group photo a well. Cash prizes will be awarded to the best float and best walking entry. Certificates will be presented to all high school marching bands which participate in the parade. Awards will be given for uptown and outlying business window decorations that evening.
Local businesses can participate by making a $50 sponsorship, which will be recognized on the decorated main stage. All proceeds will go toward parade costs and providing a small gift, punch and cookies for children who visit Santa after the parade. Deadline for inclusion on the main stage is Saturday.
Visitors will enjoy the drive through Christmas Card Lane while en route to meet Santa at Sally Buffalo Park. He will be greeting children at Wallace Lodge following the parade. Members of the Cadiz Lions will serve cocoa and hot dogs at the event.
Earlier in the day, the Lions will be serving a pancake breakfast at Wallace Lodge, where the fifth-annual Christmas shopping open house takes place, beginning at 9 a.m.
Entry forms for the parade are available at Huntington Bank. Deadline for the parade entries or stage participation is Saturday. For information contact Mishler at (740) 942-4664.


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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 file photo, health workers slaughter all the chickens at the wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong after three dead chickens tested positive for bird flu. The U.S. government asked scientists Tuesday Dec. 20, 2011 not to reveal all the details of how to make a version of the deadly bird flu that they created in labs in the U.S. and Europe. The lab-bred virus, being kept under high security, appears to spread more easily among mammals. That's fueled worry that publishing a blueprint could aid terrorists in creating a biological weapon, the National Institutes of Health said. Bird flu, known formally as H5N1 avian influenza, occasionally infects people who have close contact with infected poultry, particularly in parts of Asia. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A deadly virus could be transmissible through the air with as few as five genetic mutations, according to a new study.
This research, published in the journal Science, is the second of two controversial studies to finally be released that examines how the H5N1 bird flu virus can be genetically altered and transmitted in mammals. Publication of both studies had been delayed many months due to fears that the research could be misused and become a bio-security threat.
Although these particular engineered forms of H5N1 have not been found in nature, the virus has potential to mutate enough such that it could become airborne.
H5N1 influenza can be deadly to people, but in its natural forms it does not easily transfer between people through respiratory droplets, as far as scientists know. The World Health Organization has recorded 355 humans deaths from it out of 602 cases, although some research has questioned this high mortality rate.
The journals Science and Nature had agreed to postpone the publication of the two studies related to the genetically altered virus.
In January, the National Science Advisory Board for Bio-security recommended that this research be published without "methods or details" that terrorists might be able to use for biological weapons. The board also said the data could assist in preparing for a possible future outbreak, however.
Then in February, the World Health Organization convened a meeting, at which the recommendation was to publish the studies - just not yet. In April, the National Institutes of Health chimed in, also recommending publication.
The first study to be published on the topic was in the journal Nature, and was led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka. It was released in May.
The other research group, which authored the new study in Science, was led by Ron Fouchier at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Both Kawaoka and Fouchier's groups created a mutated version of H5N1 that made it easier to transmit from mammal to mammal. They used ferrets because these animals are a good approximation for how viruses behave in humans.
Fouchier's study examines what mutations would be necessary to get the virus airborne. He and colleagues found five mutations consistent in a form of the H5N1 flu virus that could spread among ferrets through the air.
None of the ferrets died after developing the flu, the researchers said.
In a separate analysis, researchers looked at the likelihood that an airborne avian flu virus would evolve on its own from the H5N1 currently found in nature.
This study, also published in Science this week, looked at nearly 4,000 strains of influenza virus and frequently found two of the five mutations that appear to be involved in airborne transmission. These two mutations have been found in viruses from both birds and humans, although not in naturally-occurring H5-N1 strains.
Derek Smith of the University of Cambridge, who co-authored that study, said at a press briefing that it's possible that only three mutations are necessary for the virus to evolve. Smith's group also did mathematical modeling to look at whether the other mutations could evolve when the bird flu jumps to a human or other mammal.
"We find that it is possible for such a virus to evolve three mutations within a single host," Smith said during the press call.
If it takes four for five mutations to become airborne, that would be more difficult - but it's unclear just how likely it would be, Smith said. While the Nature study looked at how a bird flu virus could become airborne through mutations and re-assortment with other viruses, the latest research in Science suggests mutations alone could do the trick.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told reporters that the benefits from the Science study, in terms stimulating ideas and pursuing ways to understand the transmissible, adaptability and pathogenesis of the virus, outweigh the risks that someone will use the data for nefarious purposes.
"Does that mean that there's no risk? No, of course not. I can't tell you at all that there's no risk. But the benefits in my mind outweigh the risks," he said.
Making the research available generally will hopefully spark input on this topic from researchers in a wide variety of fields, he said. It is technologically possible to create vaccine based on the genetic code of a flu virus strain including this one, researchers said. Several companies are already making H5N1 vaccines.
Research is ongoing to accelerate the amount of vaccine doses available by using adjutants, which are agents that modify the effects of vaccines, Fauci said. There is also work ongoing into using computational sequencing to anticipate every possible influenza strain that could emerge, such that a databank could be established to prepare for the outbreak of any one of them, he said.
"Right now we're in a much, much better position than we were when we had vaccine available after the peak of the 2009 H1N1 two years ago," Fauci said.


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Rearend Kit - Build It YourselfWritten by on June 13, 2012 Quick Performance's new 9-inch Floater rear-end kit is easy to assemble and a great option for Street Stock racers
After yanking the interior, one of the first things to go in almost every GM metric bodied car being turned into a race car is the rearend. That's because stock GM rearends use a C-clip to retain the axles. So, if either the C-clip or an axle breaks, you not only wind up with a broken axle but you can also wind up with a missing rear wheel and your car backed into a wall.
One option is to install a C-clip eliminator kit, but you still won't have the benefits that come from racing a Ford-style 9-inch full floater rearend. Plus, by the time you've rebuilt the stock rearend to proper racing specs it often makes better financial sense to use a new aftermarket rear anyway. That's why most Street Stock racing classes allow a full floater 9-inch rearend--the safety and economic benefits are just too great.
Quick Performance (QP) offers a wide range of gearing and rearend options for all types of racers. Its line of 9-inch full floater rears includes mounting options so that they will bolt right up to GM "metric" chassis like the mid-'80s era Monte Carlos and Regals. Quick Performance has put together complete rearend kits designed specifically around the needs (and the rule books) of Street Stock racers, so we decided to try one out for a car being built by racer Jason Gulledge. The kit we ordered up includes absolutely everything needed except for the gear oil of our choice, bearing grease (if you choose to use it) and silicone or a gasket for sealing the center section to the housing.
Possibly the best part of the deal is QP can build the center section for you to the specs you require including the gear ratio you need. We spec'ed a 583 gear ratio with a spool for racing on a half-mile track with long straights and tight turns. Being able to order up a complete center section built ready-to-race with the correct backlash and gear mesh eliminates one of the biggest hassles when it comes to building a new rearend. The rest of the build can be handled by just about anyone in their shop with standard handtools.
Besides the center section, we were also very interested in checking out Quick Performance's new Extreme Floated axle housing that uses a new "banjo" section of the housing that, according to Quick Performance, has been redesigned to be both stronger and lighter. QP claims that the new Extreme housing design chops 9 pounds of unsprung weight off the rear versus a standard G-body floater rearend. We also wanted to get a look at QP's new adjustable lower brackets which allow you to adjust the height of the lower control arm mounting points. Just like the adjustable bars on a Late Model, adjusting the height can help control how the car handles as the track changes. The adjustable brackets work with stock stamped steel G-body suspension components, so they should be legal at most tracks.
When using the adjustable lower brackets, QP recommends running the left-side lower control arm in the bottom hole and the right side in the second or third hole down (there are five holes total). If the track gets dry slick, dropping the right-side bar down a hole or two will help tighten the car back up, and doing the opposite will help the rearend turn more when the track is tacky and hooked up.
Although the Quick Performance Extreme Floater rearend kit can be assembled by practically anyone, we had gear specialist Gary Medlin of G.M. Racing give us a hand on the assembly--and his expert opinion in the process. And while we went with the complete kit, if you already have some of the components you need, like brake calipers and rotors for example, QP can put together just the parts you require.
We were also surprised by how affordable QP makes installing a new rearend in your car. For example, the full floater housing set up for a G-body, or Metric chassis, sells for just $950. That includes a new housing, axles, hubs, bearings, studs, and quality Wilwood rotors. For $30 more, you can have the adjustable lower brackets added. Brake calipers complete with pads and all the brackets required for installation can be had for $100, and finally, assembled center sections with a mini-spool start at a manageable $399. Now follow along as Gary gets to work.
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1 QP uses Motive Performance gears for the ring-and-pinion. We chose a 583 ratio and a lightweight spool for racing on dirt.2 Assembling a center section requires special skills and a few specialized tools to ensure the gears mate in correctly and work trouble-free for a season for more. QP's specialists handle the center section assembly to make your life a little easier.3 QP's newly designed Extreme Floater rearend housing design is fabricated from all new materials in-house. The redesigned banjo section increases strength while cutting weight. And QP also welds in all the suspension mounting points to fit the metric chassis, making this a direct bolt-in.4 We asked Gary Medlin of G.M. Racing to lend his expertise as a gear specialist and help assemble the rearend. The first step is to assemble the hubs and Wilwood rotors.5 After adding a drop of red Loctite to the included fasteners, Medlin torques the 5/16 cap screws to 25 ft-lb. Make sure to tighten the fasteners in a star pattern to help spread the loading equally around the diameter of the hub.6 The brake caliper brackets must be welded to the housing's axle tubes, which is why the rotors and hubs need to be assembled. In order to properly locate the caliper brackets, you have to first install the rotors and hubs on the tubes. Slide on the inner bearing over the tube, but because this is just a pre-fit no axle grease is necessary.19 QP provides the outer seal, but it sits below the lip of the hub so you will need a seal driver.20 A spiral lock helps keep the seal locked into place. Install it by slowly walking the lock into the groove.
32 QP includes a few nice touches with its rearends like a jack pad in the center of the housing that also protects the drain plug.33 Here, you can see how the lower control arms mount up to the adjustable lower brackets.24 You don't have to have a specialized hub nut socket to install the nut correctly. The hub nut has slots cut into it, use a screwdriver to tighten it down properly.7 Other than laying off the grease for now, assemble the hubs and tighten them down as you normally would. If you aren't sure how, check the steps for final assembly. Don't worry about drag on the bearings, you just want to make sure the bearings and hubs are fully seated on the axle tubes.8 Begin by installing the brackets onto the calipers using the two mounting bolts. Make sure the pads you are going to use are installed in the calipers.9 Medlin installs the calipers onto the rotors and positions them where you want them to be once everything is welded up. We chose to mount the calipers so that they are behind the axle, slightly above the 9 o'clock position. Exactly where you place the calipers is up to you as long as the bleeder screws are at the highest point on the caliper body.
10 Lock the caliper onto the rotor by blowing compressed air into the caliper body at the brake fluid inlet hole. Now the caliper bracket is correctly aligned so that the caliper is square to the rotor when the brakes are applied.12 Medlin tapes the machined end of the tube to protect it and sands away the paint in the area to be welded. Make sure not to cut so deep you lose the scribe marks.25 Tightening the hub nut increases the drag. Medlin recommends 25 ft-lb of drag for new wheel bearings and 15 when rebuilding a rearend where the bearings have already had a chance to seat. Medlin has developed a feel for how much drag is appropriate, but you can set up a beam-style torque wrench on the pinion nut to get a feel for how much drag is produced.26 Once the drag is set, bend over one of the tabs in the locking ring to lock the hub nut so that it can't spin.27 One of the included axles includes a bolt and locking nut to help set the axle depth.28 Now slide the end plate on making sure the included O-ring is properly seated in the groove.29 Ideally, you want the bolt in the end of one of the axles to be threaded so that both axles sit 1/8-inch inside the end plates. This allows a little bit of room for expansion when everything gets hot during a race.
13 Now you can begin welding up the caliper brackets. Make sure to jump around and slowly stitch the weld together to avoid the change of heat warping either the bracket or the tube.14 QP also provides two gussets for each bracket. Weld them in place on the inside of the bracket in line with the caliper mounting holes.15 Medlin checked over the center section but it required no attention before installation.16 QP uses thick plate steel for the mounting face for the center section, so a bead of silicone is all that's required to seal it up. Notice the beefy inner brace, there's no inner seal to install on the floater housing because you want oil to be able to get to the inner bearings.17 The housing comes with new studs installed, so Medlin is able to drop the center section right into place.


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In this sentence
what's the role of 好了?
I understand this sentence as "You can call me 马丁."
In this sentence
what's the role of 好了?
I understand this sentence as "You can call me 马丁."
By using this word, you are reminding the listener that "he doesn't have to worry about something; just ignore it; don't be so polite; don't speak so formally".
In you case, the speaker wants to express that "That's OK to call me 马丁. Just call me 马丁. You don't have to call me in a polite way such as 马先生 (Mr. 马). Take it easy".
In Chinese the particle 好了 is used to mean "OK".
So in the sentence:
This would be translated as: "You can call me 马丁 (Martin), OK.".
好了 is also used to suggest something where you are not expecting a response:
In this case, the person could still refuse or suggest now is not the right time. But by using the 好了 the speaker is suggesting that the other party is likely to go ahead with the suggestion.
Contrast this with a sentence where 好吧 is used, which is more offering a suggestion:
Also note that 好了 can be used in another context to indicate completion e.g.:
It has no special meaning but just a tone as 就...吧. "你叫我马丁好了" equals "你就叫我马丁吧".
If you really want to find a homologous word in English, it's "can just", in my opinion.
"你叫我马丁好了" means "You can just call me Martin". "我带你进去好了" means "I can just bring you in".
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Saturday's letters: Wrong approach
Published: Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
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To the editor: Barack Obama has issued a lot of feel-good gun control measures, many of which are already in effect and which will never stop the kind of violence we have been seeing.
Where are the recommendations for educating people on how to recognize symptoms of mental disorder, how to make parents understand why they need to get help for their children who show signs of mental illness, and how to get teachers and schools to recognize bullying and put a stop to it?
The Newtown tragedy was the fault of a mother who knew her son was ill yet taught him to shoot and put guns where he could get them. No amount of gun legislation would have prevented this tragedy.
We already know that areas with the most stringent gun laws, Chicago and D.C., have the highest crime rates. Lets focus on the causes rather than trying to circumvent the Constitution something Obama is intent on doing. And why was the Fort Hood massacre by an Islamic terrorist a workplace incident and not the same as the events he has been using as a reason for gun control?
Sibyl Lange
Our epidemic
To the editor: What does it take to get an august body like Parliament or our Congress to act? In the 1850s, London was having a series of cholera epidemics. The medical society didnt have a clue. It thought it was caused by bad air, miasma.
A young English engineer, Joseph Bazalgette, thought the problem was caused by the aging sewer system that could not handle the waste of a burgeoning population.
A young doctor, Snow, thought it was bad water.
Bazalgette was given approval to design new sewers in London. He combined gravity, the Thames current speed and 380,000 bricks to wipe out cholera.
Many times, Parliament refused to fund Bazalgettes plan until 1866. Why so long? The stench of the sewage had finally reached those vaunted halls. Parliament had and did have to act.
We have a similar epidemic now in the U.S. The problem is not a disease. It is murderous, fast-firing guns with large magazines of bullets designed for one purpose only. Our schools on all levels have been hit. Many innocent children and teachers have been horribly maimed or killed!
Will the halls of Congress have to be shot up before those bodies act to protect us?
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How to generate a session key between two nodes in two different subnets when the nodes don't know each other directly, using diffie hellman algorithm?
If the nodes can send messages to each other ( via any number of hops/ intermediate nodes) then you can do straight standard diffie-hellmen even if they don't have a prior relationship. Indeed, thats the point of diffie-hellmen.
However, any one of the intermediate nodes could launch a man in the middle attack and could then impersonate either node to the other. There is no way to stop this if the nodes actually don't know anything about eachother. If they do know each other, you can used authenticated diffie-helmen key exchange or a public key crypto system. Agian, these only work if the nodes know each other's public key before hand.
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I have decided to buy Nikon D3200 18-105mm VR Lens camera, finally! My question is would I be able to shoot insects and photos with great resolution? Distance is not a problem, I can go close to the subject.
You can make non-macro (micro in Nikon lingo) lenses focus at closer distances, and at higher magnification, using extension tubes.
Extension tubes add additional distance between the lens and sensor and have the following downsides:
If you want to retain autofocus and exposure (i.e. aperture) control, then get tubes either from the manufacturer, or, I suggest Kenko brand which offer these features. You will most likely not have one, or both, of these abilities with cheap alternative tubes.
To shoot insects and close-up of flowers you need a macro lens. Nikon calls them Micro and makes several of them.
This camera requires a lens with a built-in focus motor to autofocus, so unless you plan on focusing manually, you need to look for an AF-S Micro lens Or the equivalent third-party model. For insects and to avoid having your shadow over the subject, it is recommended a medium to long focal-length, something like the Nikkor Micro AF-S 85mm F/3.5G DX.


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Cottage Grove, Oregon- After spending the last two races at the Sunset Speedway Park in Banks the Northwest Wingless Tour is excited to return to the Cottage Grove Speedway Saturday June 8th. Already the season has been quite incredible with the first four races being won by four different winners. Cottage Grove will no doubt be another thrilling installment into the 2013 season.
As mentioned there has been no repeat winner thus far in the series this year. That could change this Saturday or it not. When the tour has been in town Kyle Mehner and Kyle Miller have had visited victory lane at CGS. In the last two events Sterling Kane and Mitch Hoffses have been winners in NWWT action.
"We've been solid at Cottage Grove this year," stated point leader Sterling Kane, "I'm hoping to bounce back after my flip at Banks a few weeks ago."
Since 2009 the Northwest Wingless Tour has visited the Cottage Grove Speedway twelve times and has produced five different winners. Kyle Miller, the most recent victor, leads that list of winners with a total of seven victories. Kyler Barraza is the only driver to win on more than one occasion with a total of two wins. Drivers with a single triumph include Roger Crockett, Dale Smith, and Kyle Mehner.
Despite having a flip in round four up at Sunset Sterling Kane would retain his points lead over defending champ Bill Winsley. Current NWSprintCarHistory.com Rookie of the Year contender Rob Lindesy is third in points followed by Joe Bosso Jr. in fourth. Fifth in points is standout Mitch Hoffses who has won three in four starts between Non-Winged and Winged Sprint Cars.
In 2013 the Northwest Wingless Tour will partake in eighteen races at four different race tracks in the states of Oregon and Washington. In four seasons there have been four different champions in this organization that has started to become pretty popular among fans and drivers in the Northwest.
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2009- Kyler Barraza on April 25th, Kyler Barraza on May 23rd, Roger Crockett on June 6th, Dale Smith on July 18th, Kyle Miller on August 15th, Kyle Miller on September 12th
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2. #10W Bill Winsley…..209
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Fix a universe $U$ of sets. I take it we do this to stop accidentally talking about collections which are not sets. MacLane says that a small category is one where the objects and morphisms are both sets. But where do these sets live? Do they have to live in the universe? Are all categories small in this context? Does this mean if we say a category has small limits does it just have all limits? What if I have a category $C$ and I consider the functor which sends A, B to the morphisms between A and B. How do I know that this set of morphisms lies in $\mathsf{Set}$ for whichever universe I've picked?
The set-theoretic setup of Categories for the working mathematician is somewhat subtle. Let's recall it now for clarity:
There is therefore a trichotomy of small sets, large sets, and proper classes. This is not the usual practice: we normally think of all sets as being small. This doesn't cause many problems if you only work with some fixed categories, but if you actually want to do category theory rather than just use it, you will eventually find it more convenient to use the CWM setup.
Here are some of the pitfalls of using a class–set theory such as von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel or Morse–Kelley instead of assuming we have a universe:
Mike Shulman has a very nicely written paper comparing the various alternatives to ordinary ZFC in the context of category theory: you should read it when you get the chance.
Let $\mathcal{C}, \mathcal{D}$ be categories. Let $\mathcal{D}^{\mathcal{C}}$ be the collection of functors from $\mathcal{C}$ to $\mathcal{D}$. If Ob$(\mathcal{C})$ is not a set, $\mathcal{D}^{\mathcal{C}}$ is not a category in the usual sense. One of the reasons that the universes are introduced is to remedy this problem.
Let $\mathcal{U}$ be a universe. An element of $\mathcal{U}$ is called a small set. It can be proved that $\mathcal{U}$ is not small. We usually consider only a category $\mathcal{C}$ such that Ob$(\mathcal{C}) \subset \mathcal{U}$ and Mor$(\mathcal{C}) \subset \mathcal{U}$. If Ob$(\mathcal{C})$ and Mor$(\mathcal{C})$ are both small, we say $\mathcal{C}$ is small.
For MacLane's foundations, we fix a universe $U$ whose elements are the "sets" and whose subcollections are the "classes." So a small category is one whose collections of objects and morphisms are both elements of the universe.
Not all categories are small: the first example is $\mathcal{S}et$, whose collection of objects is exactly $U$. If $\mathcal{S}et$ were small, we'd have $U\in U$, but this would contradict the axiom of foundation. But this begins to look weird, since we defined $U$ as some set, existent according to ZFC (or your favorite set theory,) that satisfies the axioms of a universe. That's why we define $\mathcal{S}et$ as the category of all small sets, that is, all sets which are elements of $U$. The universe axioms guarantee that we can't get from a small set to a large set using standard set-theoretic operations, so this definition is reasonable.
So, no, having small limits is not the same as having all limits. There isn't any limit of the image in $\mathcal{G}roup$ of the identity functor, for instance, since this would be a product of all groups, which would have to have every group including itself as a proper quotient.
As to your last question, if for every $A,B \in \mathcal{C}$, $\hom(A,B)\in U$, we say $\mathcal{C}$ is locally small. $\mathcal{S}et$ and the other main concrete categories are locally small, because the functions $B^A$ from $A$ to $B$ are a subset of $\mathcal{P}(A\times B)$, and the universe axioms guarantee $U$ is closed under products, powersets, and subsets.


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Florida's public school administrators are ready and willing to work with state education officials to overhaul a broken testing regime, improve teacher accountability and experiment with proven academic strategies.
Now the superintendents have another arrow in their quiver: the education experts Gov. Rick Scott and his appointees should be consulting about raising teacher and student performance are actually in Florida's classrooms right now. The National Center on Teacher Quality gave Florida its highest grade in the nation in its State Teacher Policy Yearbook released Wednesday. The center, funded by grants from education reform-minded organizations including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Carnegie Corp. of New York and the Gleasson Family Foundation, cited Florida's improvement in four of the five categories it evaluates.
The report, which can be found at www.nctq.org, looks at teacher preparation, expanding the teaching pool, identifying and removing ineffective teachers and identifying and retaining effective teachers. Florida received and overall grade of B, the only state in the nation that received that grade. Overall, Florida's improvement ranked ninth in the nation. The grade includes efforts to show evidence of student learning in teacher evaluations, linking tenure and pay decisions to teacher effectiveness, dismissing ineffective teachers and programs targeting middle school teacher preparation.
While school reformers often focus too much on teacher pay and benefits, the National Center on Teacher Quality takes a less ideological and more analytical approach. For example, its evaluation of Florida's efforts to retain effective teachers noted that pension benefits are "well-funded and do not require excessive contributions." It also credits the state for giving districts authority to develop salary schedules based on teacher effectiveness and allows them to offer performance pay and bonuses for working in high-needs schools or subjects in which the state lacks qualified educators.
To be sure, Scott's administration has been aggressive in pushing reforms during his first two years, although he earned the enmity of teachers and administrators by slashing eduction spending by $2 billion in his first budget and unilaterally cutting teacher salaries by 3 percent under the guise of shoring up the pension fund, which didn't need it, as the NCTQ report noted. Scott's recent listening tour with public school administrators and scaled back plans for further reforms earned him rebukes from conservative reform groups pushing for shifting money to private schools and reining in teacher unions.
Scott should build on his success emphasizing accountability. He should also acknowledge that his public school administrators and teachers are willing partners in reform. The results speak for themselves. Too often reform is the goal of reform. The real reform needed is to focus on student improvement, not settling scores.


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Hi physics stack exchange.
I am new and a mathematicians - so go easy on me.
I have been trying to read up on QFT in the book Diagrammatica: The Path to Feynman Diagrams, and I have a question.
The construction there seems very dependent on the choice of basis. Indeed, there is often an incomming basis |0>,|p>,|p'>,|pp'>,... and a similar outgoing basis. Also when considering spin (and anti) structures it fixes some basis elements related to the representation of $\mathbb{R}^4$ to "fatten up" the basis for the Hilbert space.
My question is: Where does this choice of basis come from?
In this possibly related question it seems that the choice of basis maybe related to Eigen-vectors for the Hamiltonian, but maybe I misunderstood that question - indeed I don't understand the question but the answer seems to suggest this to me.
Now.. None of the two bases (plural basis?) seems to be Eigen-spaces for the Hamiltonian, but is it then true that the incoming basis is given by a trival Hamiltonian (by which I probably means something like purely kinetic energy), which corresponds to no interactions (and similar for the outgoing basis)? Does this even make sense? I can't make this compatible in my head with the fact that e.g. the Hamiltonian in the simplest $\sigma-\pi$-model is $2\sigma \pi^2$ does not seem trivial at time $\pm$infinity - indeed it seems time independent.
I have probably misunderstood something simple that makes some of this gibberish, and I would appreciate any clarifications.


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What is the origin of the expression "I wouldn't ... for all the tea in China"? I've heard it from a British speaker, and I am guessing it may be of British origin, but I couldn't find a reference for it.
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The Facts on File Dictionary of Cliché by Christine Ammer says:
The earliest result for "all the tea in China" in Google Books is in 1895's The Amateur Fisherman's Guide by Charles Thackeray. There's no preview so it cannot be verified, but it's plausible as Thackeray also founded the Amateur Fishermen's Association of New South Wales in 1895.
The earliest result The Phrase Finder can find to verify the date is from an Australian 1914, but I found an earlier instance in New Zealand's Marlborough Express of 9 September 1907 (actually in a "What The Papers Say" section, credited to the Post):


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In the paper "Homotopy Lie algebras", Schechtman and Hinich proved that any cosimplicial differential graded Lie algebra has the structure of a 'Lie May algebra'.
If my understanding is right here, a Lie May algebra is just an uncommon term for Lie infinity algebra.
Now the question is, if there is any explicit construction of this Lie infinity algebra structure?
I mean, are there any explicit formulas that define the $k$-ary brackets of this Lie $\infty$-algebra in terms of the cofaces/codegeneracies and the Lie bracket of the underlying cosimplicial DG Lie algebra?
Edit: If this is unknown, then I would be thankful for ideas on how to proceed in an attempt to find these maps.


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A first-order sentence is (logically) valid iff it's true in every interpretation. And it's valid iff it can be deduced from the FO axioms alone.
One normal case of showing that a FO sentence is true is deducing it (syntactically).
I guess that indirect proofs have to be interpreted more "semantically":
"Assume that ~F is true in an interpretation. [Deduction of a contradiction] Thus ~F couldn't have been true. Thus F must be true in every interpretation." (But we are left without a deduction of F from the axioms.)
Is this reading of indirect proofs correct?
Are there also direct proofs that work "semantically", i.e. that show directly that a sentence is true in every interpretation?
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- Someone is murdering people with the precision of a surgeon. When Lt. Eve Dallas investigates, Her job is suddenly on the line. Can Dallas survive the loss of her badge? Follows: Holiday in Death.
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- With the precision of a surgeon, a serial killer preys on the most vulnerable souls of the world's city streets. The first victim: a sidewalk sleeper, found dead in New York City. No bruises, no signs of struggle. Just a laser-perfect, fist-sized hole where his heart had once been. Detective Eve Dallas is assigned to investigate. But in the heat of a cat-and-mouse game with the killer, Dallas's job is suddenly on the line. Now her hands are tied ... between a struggle for justice-and a fight for her career...
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GENESEO, N.Y. - The State University of New York Board of Trustees has awarded two SUNY Geneseo faculty members with distinguished professorships. Beth McCoy, professor of English, has been named a distinguished teaching professor, and Linda House, professor and chair of the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, a distinguished service professor.
The distinguished rank constitutes the highest system honor conferred upon instructional faculty at state-operated campuses. All distinguished faculty in active service within SUNY are also members of the SUNY Distinguished Academy, established in March.
The distinguished teaching professorship recognizes and honors mastery of teaching. For this prestigious tribute to be conferred, candidates must have demonstrated consistently superior mastery of teaching, outstanding service to students, and commitment to their ongoing intellectual growth, scholarship and professional growth, and adherence to rigorous academic standards and requirements.
The distinguished service professorship honors and recognizes extraordinary service. Candidates must have demonstrated substantial distinguished service not only at the campus and university, but also at the community, regional and state levels. Further, many candidates for appointment have rendered influential service contributing at the national and international levels.
The board said both students and other faculty extol McCoy's generosity as a mentor, and note that what they learn from her stays with them long after they leave her classroom or office. She teaches African-American literature, as well as a Humanities core requirement and sections of a required first-year writing class. That board also noted that McCoy sets a high bar and assists her students in achieving beyond their own expectations The board also recognized her success in adapting this model to campus-wide teach-ins, which she introduced as a method of engaging the Geneseo community in national and local issues related to race, identity and privilege.
The board said House transformed the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences from a small program into a powerhouse of academic excellence as well as a service provider to the larger community through its highly respected speech and hearing clinic. The board also noted that she was instrumental in initiating an English as a second language program for Geneseo's international students; took on leadership roles on campus committees and in shared governance; held an array of positions in SUNY-wide service; and provided supervision to nearly 40 clinical fellows at the state and national level.
"The Board is pleased to present these individuals with SUNY's highest distinguished ranking," said Board Chairman H. Carl McCall. "Their commitment to the students, faculty, and staff at their respective campuses and their vast achievements within their respective fields is impressive and highly commendable."
"In bestowing our highest faculty honor, we proudly recognize the extraordinary achievements of these individuals and thank them for their continued commitment to excellence," said SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher. "I look forward to working more closely with this group as they join the SUNY Distinguished Academy."
McCoy and House are among 21 SUNY faculty named this year to distinguished ranks. They are among 44 Geneseo faculty members who have received the rank since 1973.
Since the program's inception in 1963, SUNY has appointed 942 faculty to distinguished ranks: 312 distinguished professorships; 284 distinguished service professorships; 341 distinguished teaching professorships; and five distinguished librarian professorships.
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text: Well you guys suggested that my next Hello Kitty concept be one as her dressed up as Spiderman. After considering the idea, I went ahead and made this tutorial on "how to draw Spiderman Hello Kitty", step by step. Even though I thought that a Spiderman version of Hello Kitty was going to be boring to create, I actually had an awesome time. It was really fun turning the sweet looking pop culture figure into a superhero dressed in all blue and red. As I was coloring her in I realized that she is the same color as Dragoart's theme colors. Anyways, I think that even though she is a girl kitty, all you guys and girls will enjoy drawing Spiderman Hello Kitty. I will return with some more drawing fun so try and stay tuned in to see what else I have in store for all ya'll. Peace out and enjoy!


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I have migrated a site from one server to another - both running MOSS 2007.
The bulk of the site transferred correctly, but I did have to manually edit some custom display forms.
The 4 workflows are my main concern. They did come across to the new site, but they're not working correctly. When I try to load them in Sharepoint designer (on new site). I get an error message "Failed to load workflow".
Any ideas on how to go about fixing the workflows?
It appears to me that the listID's are that of the old site, and these ID's have changed with the import, am I right? Adjusting the ID's might be a good starting point.


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1955 Chevy Chop - Chop SueyWritten by on January 20, 2012 Part II: Rounding Out the Basic Chop
Last month we left off finishing the structural support of this '55 Chevy's chopped top. If you remember, this chop isn't like most chops. Reason being is the side glass, rear glass, A- and B-pillars and the doorjambs are being left intact. How's that you ask? Because this chop is coming from the cap of the roof skin and the front side of the A-pillar. For those with that, "Sure, but it's not going to be chopped much," glare; wrong again. This truck is getting four inches removed from the front and a 1¼-inch out back. Sounds impossible, but you'll soon see the outcome doesn't lie. With things finished up on bringing the roof lines down and re-creating a sound structure, the skin can now be placed back up on top and we can get this chop finished.
As mentioned last month, when chopping a top, the roof area is going to increase, which means somehow the metal has to be expanded up top. Usually, splitting the roof in half at some point and reshaping various corners is the only way to accommodate the increased square footage. However, being that I have only cut a chunk from the front side of the A-pillars, and nothing else, the real estate up top hasn't expanded all that much. Still, there is a small gap that needs to be filled, but I have decided to remove the overhang above the windshield. By doing this, I've now got plenty of sheetmetal and no filler will have to be inserted. For those a bit confused, let's break it down. When the A-pillar was cut, the roof line was lowered up front, which called for more square footage up top. However, by removing the overhang, the front of the roof is being pushed back flush with the top of the windshield. With that simple act of moving the line back, I have essentially inserted a filler piece. Actually, it will do more than just delete the need for filler, it will leave me with plenty of sheetmetal. In fact, I'll end up trimming the roof skin to fit!
Besides the ease of the chop, there are other reasons I've decided to get rid of the overhang. Number one, it will give the roof line a clean, flowing transition from glass to metal. For cross-country truckers there's no shame in rockin' the sun visor. They're practical, functional, and all around just suited for the road. But on classic trucks that are made to sit and look good? As Tom Jackson would say, "C'mon man!" Second, by removing the overhang, I can also kill a few inches from the overall roof height and bring things down to a respectable level. It doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of meat right there, but as you'll see, the roof line will be drastically changed. And last, by removing the overhang, I can create a nice rake to the roof. To me, the top of these trucks look like a batting helmet atop a baseball player. It's just an oversized robust bubble up top that seems out of place. Besides the fact there is too much metal up top, another problem is the truck's roof doesn't have that flowing aerodynamic look that was so prevalent in the '50s. Yet by bringing the nose of the roof down, it gives the truck a look like it's moving when it's just sitting still. In the end, chopping the top this way doesn't just lower the lid, it actually redefines the lines of the truck and gives it a whole new persona.
All that may sound like a lot of work, but once more it's just a matter of trimming to fit. In order to get the top down a bit more, an inch will be hacked off along the rear rim of the skin. From there, the rear of the skin gets tacked in position and the front is trimmed and sucked down into place. Because the front corners are being so drastically reshaped, a small filler gets inserted where the corner of the overhang is removed, but that's small potatoes at this point! From start to finish I'd estimate a total of roughly 30 hours to chop the whole top! Then once things are all buttoned up, only a windshield will have to be cut and fit. All in all, this chop is the perfect way for any of you looking to up your game to the next level without having to go full bore. Let's dig into rounding this chop out. CCT
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The perimeter of the cap doesn't need to be cut yet. In order to get the right profile all that needs to be removed is the rear of the cap, which is the area between the marks just made. Using tape I marked off an inch and cut from mark to mark.Here you can see how the front of the skin measures up with the front of the roof. Instead of retaining the overhang, I'm going to remove it for a consistent streamline appearance. It will not only look much more stylish, it will once again drop the roof line, and keep me from having to weld in a filler piece, which I'll get to in a minute. For now, I cut the overhang off right at the top of the ridge where the windshield fits into place.Next, I simply pulled the roof skin down to the windshield frame and marked where the two meet and trim any excess fat.When it comes to chopping a roof, the simple act of lowering the roof line will mean more real estate is going to be needed. As shown in caption 07, you could visibly see how far off the roof skin was to the front of the windshield frame, which would normally be where some sort of filler would have to be added. However, because I removed the overhang, the two more or less butted right up. I couldn't have planned it any better!
Here's another angle of how much filler would have been needed if the overhang would have been retained. Also, notice how the new roof line creates a seamless flowing look as opposed to factory style. To flow the corner of the roof into the top, the corner was cut down along the same line as the front of the overhang.The only filler piece needed in the whole chop was a small corner sliver between the windshield and the top. At this point the sliver is tacked in position.Once welded and ground smooth the corner looks as if it were never touched. Even more so it looks as if GM designed the top that way!Well here's how things measure up. At first glance it's as if the top was never touched, but upon further inspection, you'll notice all sorts of new lines and highlights. The new cap has less than half the meat of the factory top, the glass lines are at an even height, the transition from windshield to skin is smooth and sleek, and to boot, the top now has a new streamlined rake to it. It may not look like much at first, but all around it's a totally different top; not to mention there's a 4-inch chop up front and a 1 1/4-inch out back!


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As he presented his 19-point-five billion dollar budget to the general assembly Tuesday night, Governor Steve Beshear called for an eight-point-four percent budget cut to most state agencies.
"Now remember," said the governor, "these cuts are on top of cumulative cuts of 25 to 30% made over the previous four years. In these agencies folks, the fat has long been burned away, and now we're cutting muscle and we're butting bone."
To help generate new revenue... To combat those cuts... Beshear re-emphasized his desire for a constitutional amendment... Allowing expanded gaming to be put on the November ballot.
"An economic analysis just released," he said, "estimates that in 2010 Kentuckians spent $451 million on casino gaming in our neighboring states. These states are enhancing their budgets with hundreds of millions of dollars they rake in by taxing this Kentucky money. And they know it." Beshear said expanded gaming is just a mechanism to keep Kentucky money in Kentucky.
As he outlined his "bare-bones budget" to the general assembly, Governor Beshear said Medicaid is one of the biggest stresses on it.
But he hopes to lessen that stress by moving to a "managed care" delivery model.
"Folks," he said, "that new model alone will reduce the cost of Medicaid to the general public by $294 million over this biennium, and $372 million over the 32-month contract period."
And for the first time Beshear's proposal provides outpatient substance abuse treatment in the Medicaid program for both adults and adolescents.


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It is well-known that, given a normalized eigenform $f=\sum a_n q^n$, its coefficients $a_n$ generate a number field $K_f$.
In their 1995 paper "Fermat's Last Theorem", Darmon, Diamond, and Taylor remark that, at the time of writing, very little was known about what sort of number fields could arise as some $K_f$. They do claim, however, that $K_f$ must be totally real or CM. This claim is made just before Lemma 1.37, on page 40 of the copy I linked to.
This is probably standard knowledge among experts, but I'm having trouble finding a reference, so my questions are:
1) Can someone please provide a reference for this claim?
2) Is this still the state of the art, or do we now know more about what types of fields can appear as $K_f$ for some $f$? What if we restrict our attention to weight $k=2$?
Thank you!
Edit: In my question, I originally just wrote "modular form" instead of "normalized eigenform". Thanks to @Stopple for pointing this out! Also, I originally claimed the paper was published in 2007, but Kevin Buzzard pointed out it was published in 1995. Thanks Kevin!


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One-sided coverage on Iraq in U.S. media
Margaret Sullivan, public editor of The New York Times, does a good job in her column today of identifying ways in which the paper has amplified the hawkish voices who want the U.S. to intervene again in Iraq and downplayed views to the contrary. As she notes, this is especially disturbing given the paper's much-criticized coverage preceding the war in Iraq in 2003.
In analyzing the current coverage, Sullivan picks up on many of the same journalistic transgressions reflected in the 2003 coverage: excessive use of anonymous sources, coziness with administration officials, and shortage of opposing viewpoints.
Sullivan's role is limited to critiquing The Times, but what she writes applies to many other news organizations. In general, the hawks are getting much more coverage, with their steady criticism that President Obama has not been aggressive enough. The issue can obviously be framed in a much different way: Will it help this dismal situation if the U.S. commits troops or weaponry? Pax Christi USA offers this response:
In response to the recent unrest in Iraq and the possibility of the crisis continuing to spread, Pax Christi USA is unequivocal in its assertion that U.S. military intervention will not achieve the peace and stability that the people of Iraq deserve. A military solution—whether it include air strikes or ground troops or an increase in the flow of weapons into Iraq—will only serve to increase the suffering of the Iraqi people, not alleviate it. Furthermore, military intervention increases the risk of widening the conflict in the region.
As best as I can determine, that statement from June 17 wasn't carried anywhere before today.
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Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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Great column! Fearless but not pugnacious. NYT lucky to have her. The piece about Kagan was shocking puffery; glad she mentioned it.
Ditto to what Peggy wrote. Efifying. Do Catholic publications need a Public Editor. Woundn't it be refreshing if they did. Just a Fox News might not be expected to confess thus, it might be a good idea for liberal Catholic publications to show such humility now and then.
Who is Pax Christi? What war did it ever start? If it never started a war, what right has it to criticize the wars started by people doing the best they could, or wars advocated by honest, upright public officials who were hopelessly stupid about the last war they advocated? If Pax Christi wants publicity, let it be spectacularly wrong! Better yet, let it get a couch in the Fox green room where the rest of the media will have to recognize it, no matter what it says, because then its views will be "out there."
Does the Wall Street Joural have a public editor?
Would the WSJ dare to have a public editor?
@Tom Blackburn (6/29, 5:56 pm) Pax Christi (Latin for "Peace of Christ") is:
... a global Catholic peace movement and network that works to help establish Peace, Respect for Human Rights, Justice and Reconciliation in areas of the world that are torn by conflict. It is grounded in the belief that peace is possible and that vicious cycles of violence and injustice can be broken.
Pax Christi was founded in Europe in 1945 as a reconciliation movement bringing together French and Germans after World War II. Today, the movement has more than 100 Member Organisations active in more than 50 countries and five continents worldwide. http://www.paxchristi.net/about-us
Pax Christi USA is the national affiliate.
I'm curious: on what basis do you conclude that only people/organizations that have started a war can criticize war?
Luke, Do not confuse my snark with my conclusions. I am trying to put myself into the mind of an assignment editor.
I think MOS is right about the WSJ not having a public editor. When your editorial page is based on the last word on The Way the World Works, or God channelled by Jude Wanninski, what could a public editor add?
WSJ: A public editor could point out the differences between the news columns and some columns (Seib, Galston), but above all the editorials.
I understand the implicit criticism (of which I am the recipient): Would I be as critical of news articles and ops that agreed with me as I am of those that don't. Yes, I would. But there's a bit difference between news reporting and opining. Margaret Sullivan's column today points out the thin line that the Times allows between the two. Did they learn nothing from the Judith Miller fiasco back in 2002-03? Check out the various reporting today (June 29) and what the ISIS/IL controls and the Iraqi Army controls. Too many journalits are taking the PR from each side and not being there, or having reliable contacts in those places under attack. Of course, some like CJ Chivers of the Times seems to be on the spot in Iraq.
The US media got distorted after 9/11. Instead of educating and informing the public they went with the public sentiment. Granted the atmosphere was so heavy that even a movie on 9/11 was not considered suitable. Yet there is a big distortion between what US citizens have suffered compared to other countries. The feeling in the US was basically a selfish and nationalistic view. As we write 51 millions are displaced, hungry and dying worldwide to wars. Half of them are children. Generally Americans are livid about 9/11 and tepid about the 51 million displaced and suffering people. The press has to take a large blame for this. They really were too timid to face the heat.
TANGENT: According to Reuther's the Ayatollah Sistani is again entering the political battle in Iraq.
" Over his past three Friday sermons, Iraq's top cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, an ascetic 83-year-old of almost mythological stature to millions of followers in Iraq and beyond, has seized his most active role in politics in a decade.
. . . Sistani has asserted his dominance over public affairs, demanding politicians choose a new government without delay and potentially hastening the end of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's eight-year tenure.
The cleric, a recluse who favors a behind-the-scenes role, kicked off his newly assertive stance on June 13 with a call for Iraqis to take up arms against a Sunni insurgency – the first fatwa of its kind in a century. . . .
"Tens of thousands of men have heeded the call. . . . Sistani's appeal for an inclusive government has further been seen as an implicit rebuke of Maliki, even by some of the premier's supporters. . . .
"Today, the roadmap is clear and there is a timetable. It's as if Sistani has put all the parties in a corner," a Shi'ite lawmaker said."
I wonder what "inclusive" means here.
Oops -- here's the Reuther's site:
After years off-stage, Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Sistani takes charge | FaithWorld
Thanks Paul for taking note of the PCUSA statement. It did get picked up but only in the Catholic press via CNS, alongside Bishop Pates' criticisms of US policy in Iraq. Ran in a number of diocesan papers... Kudos to Sullivan's critique and NYT for having a public editor.


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HILLSBORO (January 3, 2013)--Some teachers with Hillsboro ISD will receive a grant from the Hillsboro ISD Education Foundation.
Teachers submitted their ideas for how they would use the grant, and educators from Franklin Elementary, Hillsboro Elementary, Hillsboro Intermediate, Hillsboro Junior High and Hillsboro High School will receive the grant if their proposal for its use was selected.
Members of the organization will travel to the different campuses on January 25.
The teachers do not know which of them have been selected to receive the grants.
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I often click on a post's feed, so as to go to the post's site, just to make sure I'm not reading outdated information. Does Google Reader update the post's contents, so I don't have to keep doing this?
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Simple answer is no.
More complex answer is...
As far as I know, Google Reader is only a RSS reader. A good one, but only a reader. If you don't know the RSS format (or Atom, for that purpose, there is no difference), just follow me a little.
A RSS file contains a list of dated events. Basically, in a feed, there are some infos for each event:
What Google Reader displays is the event text. And absolutely no source site text content. However, there are some cases where the source site can send new events when the content is modified. In such cases, Google Reader will display both events, with different text.
According to Tshepang
Not unless the URL back to the source has changed since Google Reader took its copy of the feed item.
When the RSS reader grabs a feed, it will be a copy of it as it was at that time. The only reason why a reader would download a new version of the post is if it detects a new feed item with a
But, it will only download a new copy and won't update an existing feed item.
This is why if your favourite blog moves domains you'll see a repeat of old posts turning up as "new" in your feedbox. That's because according to the URL of the posts and items, they are new. Even if it's the same body content.
Yes, Google Reader updates a post's content if it is modified though not immediately.
I have subscribed to my own blog's feed (hosted on Blogger) & whenever I update an older post with new info, the modified content appears in an hour or so.