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The 6 Weirdest Things That Are Ruining Your Memory
If you want your memory to stay strong, you probably already know what to avoid -- excessive alcohol, beating your head on things, getting any older. What you probably didn't know is that there are other, lesser known everyday threats that may be slowly turning you into that guy from Memento.
#6. Advertising
Between now and Election Day, you're going to see a variation of the ad below from dozens of candidates, several million times. The candidate will talk about how we need to bring back the America of the past, and you'll see images of 1950s-style white picket fences:
... post-war era storefronts:
... and maybe even the Old West:
Remember the good old days of living in filth and getting trampled by cows?
Those are all from a current ad for Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign, but you've seen variations of it from every politician who has run for office since television was invented. The ads are aimed at older voters, and all hit the same button: "Don't you vividly remember how much better things were before?" It's not just politics, either -- around the holiday season, watch how many ads hammer the "Remember how great Christmas was when you were a kid?" message, like this Acura ad that cuts from happy kids opening presents to an adult buying a new car. The tagline: "The joy is back."
Well, those nostalgic ads work because they can not only make you remember the past, but can totally plant fake memories in your mind. The reason your grandpa remembers the 1950s as nothing but friendly neighbors and soda fountains is because ads and TV shows have been hammering his brain with those images for five straight decades.
Ah, the atomic age was the best!
Science has proven it; we described once before an experiment in which scientists were able to convince a bunch of people that they had met Bugs Bunny at Disneyland as children, just by describing the event to them. Participants were suddenly able to "remember" all the details, despite the fact that there has never been a Bugs Bunny at Disneyland, not unless Bugs got very lost (he's not a Disney character, for those of you who haven't caught up).
Advertising works the same way. Researchers did another study where they had a group of people watch a series of advertisements that described the experience of eating a popcorn product that the scientists just made up. Half of the participants were then fed this so-called brand of popcorn (which obviously didn't exist and was hopefully called Falsepop). The rest had to make do with cucumber sandwiches or whatever scientists usually serve for lunch.
When grilled about the experience just one week later, those who had seen the most vivid commercials were just as likely to remember actually having eaten the popcorn, whether they actually did or not. Think about that for a moment -- whether or not they actually ate the popcorn was not as important as how convincingly some advertising executive told them they had. And this wasn't months or years later -- it was seven freaking days.
The experiment was testing a theory of memory known as reconsolidation -- in short, the idea that our memories are not fixed and static, but can be altered and updated based on what our brain thinks is helpful new information. If you vaguely remember that your first grade teacher's hair was black and somebody shows you a photo proving it was brown, you will actually update your memories to remember it as brown ... even if the photo is a fake. We didn't just pull that example out of our asses -- a simple Photoshopped image was enough to convince test subjects they had taken a hot air balloon ride as kids, even though they'd never set foot in one.
"And that's how your mother died."
And while we're focusing on incredibly disturbing things ...
#5. Peer Pressure
The above points out what is going to be a running theme in this list: Human memory isn't really an individual thing but more of a dynamic process that gets shared and altered by the people around us. That's useful when the people around us are telling the truth, but not so handy when everyone keeps bullshitting each other.
"No, really, you're a ghost, and nobody can see you if you get naked. Kim will back me up on this."
A group of neuroscientists wanted to test something called the social conformity effect by showing a film to a group of peers and then quizzing them about it afterward. The participants were allowed to see the answers that their friends gave to each question. Or so they thought. These answers were actually written by the researchers and were deliberately wrong. Because if there's one thing that every neuroscientist loves, it's being a douche. What they discovered was that around 70 percent of the participants agreed with the fake answers rather than what they had actually seen.
"And then Dr. Muntz pulled out his octo-dong and pounded every girl in the room at the same time."
But then, that doesn't necessarily mean that their memories had changed, it could just mean that they didn't trust their real memories in light of contrary evidence. The researchers realized this, and that's why they quizzed the participants a second time -- but this time, they admitted that the first test was bullshit and those answers weren't reliable. So everyone relaxed and just stopped worrying about looking like a moron in front of their friends, right? Actually, 40 percent of them opted not to change their answers, which means that they weren't just bluffing to save face, but actually remembered the fake details. Their memories had changed to conform to what their friends thought had happened.
"I could have sworn that Star Wars was about a high school dance-off."
Actually, it's kind of titillating to think about the prank applications for this phenomenon. "Hey Steve, remember when you ate that entire bucket of turds? I've got six friends who'll back me up on that. Sign this affidavit saying it happened."
#4. Google
As you have probably already noticed in your life, there is a "use it or lose it" element to your brain. For instance, we're guessing that most of you reading this haven't used your high school math skills since your cellphone started coming equipped with a calculator. And by age 22, you've probably forgotten every little bit of algebra you ever learned. Your brain is constantly rewiring itself depending on what you use it -- or don't use it -- for.
That same principal of use-it-or-lose-it applies to information in the 21st century, only now instead of losing your ability to do long division, you're slowly losing the capacity to retain anything in your head. Why? Because of the search engine. Your brain is changing to accommodate the fact that everything you could make the effort to remember is readily available on the Internet inside of three seconds.
Most of us won't ever need this info.
In one study, students were loaded up with a buttload of trivia, then told to record what they had learned into a computer. Half of them believed that what they had written would be erased, and half believed it would be saved forever, as computers are apt to magically do. Both groups were told they needed to memorize the facts they were given, regardless of what the computer was doing.
But when the time came to test the students on their recall, those who believed their answers had been erased scored 40 percent better than those who thought theirs had been retained. In other words, test participants' actual ability to remember was impaired by the idea that they could look up the answers, even when given equal instructions to memorize it. The act of storing the facts on a hard drive made their brain subconsciously delete them.
"I'm almost certain we're related, but I can't find you in my phone."
In another experiment, students were asked to remember both a piece of trivia and which folder on a computer the answer was stored in. They discovered that the students could actually remember the location of the answer on the computer better than they could remember the actual answer.
If you think all of this is "The Internet is making us stupid!" scaremongering by old people, keep in mind that this is how memory has always worked. It's just that it used to be with the people around us instead of Google. Ask a married man when his nephew's birthday is, and he'll ask his wife.
That's called the transactive memory effect, and it's the flip side of what we talked about earlier with other people being able to manipulate your memory. It means that in humans, memory is a collective thing -- there's no need to clog up your brain with facts that your friend has already memorized. We cooperate to build our collective memory base. It's just that recently, our brains have started treating the entire Internet as a friend who we can ask if our own memories fail us. A friend who, if he doesn't know the answer, always suggests, "Titties?"
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How disgusted were you with the MTV VMAs?
I would never have watched it but my wife wanted to see it. Was one of the worst things I have watched in years, and yes, I saw an episode of Jersey Shore a couple weeks ago. Celebs are just so damn fake these days. Why cant they just be themselves. I didnt want to watch it just because I dont like the music these days. Sure if I woke up and took a hit of acid every morning, it would probably be alright, but I miss the good stuff like RHCP, Coldplay, Incubus.
Anyway... The VMAs had a bunch of stupid looking celebs, failed jokes, and bad performances. Saddening really.
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I agree.
I too have a wife, and I get to watch the weirdest mushroom media.
ANYway, last year was interesting. Funny. Relevant.
I think this year they let the advertisers kids have a heavy hand.
The celebs are mostly worker bees. "Stand here, look there, say this, smile!"
If you have bad management, then you have bad product.
Don't blame the workers. The hammer didn't hit your thumb by itself.
You act as if they have been good in the past 10 years.
I don't like any of today's popular music or popular celebrities...
Come to think of it, I've never wondered why they are popular until just now, what is wrong with this earth?
@wickedd365: Theyve been better than they were this year.
@zarfus: Ive been asking the same thing. This youths generation is going to be whacked out.
Not at all, because I didn't watch it, nor do I have any idea what happened on it.
Why do they even bother with VMAs on MTV, when MTV plays no music anyways? They should just be done with it and replace it with reality TV awards, since that is all they have on their network now.


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I have seen people say both 0.25 mile and 0.25 miles. Should we use plural or singular for a fraction of a mile?
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0.25 miles.
The rule I follow is that you use the singular only when talking of exactly one mile. You'd also say half a mile, quarter of a mile, etc., but in these cases it's as though you're still talking of "a mile" first, and then taking half or quarter of it.
Let me say something further, with the caveat that it may be my own idiosyncratic usage: use the singular only when talking of the natural number 1, that is, when you're essentially "counting" miles and there's a single one of them. Use the plural in all other cases, even for the real number 1.0: just like "0.9 miles" or "1.1 miles", also say "1.0 miles" (but "1 mile").
[Mathematically, natural numbers ("counting numbers") are a subset of real numbers, but more properly what we have is an inclusion map, so it does make sense to distinguish between 1 and 1.0, actually. And the distinction between natural numbers and real numbers does have applications elsewhere in English: consider "fewer than" versus "less than". You'd say "fewer than five items" but "less than 5.0 inches", since a length doesn't have to be an integer number of inches, you're not counting but assigning a real value.]
Another aside: the SI standard for symbols is to use the same symbol for singular or plural, so you'd write "2 km" even if you were reading it as "2 kilometres". Of course, since you're using miles, you probably don't care about this. :-)
Depends how you say it. You'd say "nought point two five miles" (plural) but "a quarter of a mile" (singular)
I'd leave it singular unless talking about a range such as "0.25 - 2 miles". In a table, for example, the heading would be the same regardless of the units. You can always abbreviate as "mi" and avoid the issue.
Simon's answer is also good. Also note that it's actually more awkward to say 0.25 mile than "point two five of a mile".
For reasons I'm not too sure about, we usually say "0.25 miles" rather than "0.25 mile". If you Google for both terms, there are about 700,000 "0.25 miles" but less than 100,000 "0.25 mile", and the first few hits for "0.25 mile" give things like "0.25 mile swim" or "0.25 mile wireless setup", where the "mile" is forced to singular anyway.
If we followed the definition of "plural", the correct usage would be:
0.25 mile
0.5 mile
0.9 mile
1.0 mile
1.3 mile (or 1.3 miles, according to Wiktionary note below)
2.0 miles
2.2 miles ..
As the definition is:
However, as Shinto pointed out in his answer here, people usually use the plural form for 0.25.
Here is an interesting note from the Wiktionary about the usage of plural for fractions (and decimals) in general:
This does support the usage of plural for 0.25 though, since it is less than one. But if that is how people use it, we definitely can't say that it is incorrect.
.25 miles or a quarter of a mile.
It's really not complicated or confusing if you think of it in terms of being a fraction.
Essentially, as soon as you go into decimal, you're changing units into partial units.
0.25 would actually be 25 units of "hundredth-miles"
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Since they will apparently be taking to the streets this summer to defend freedom, one would expect the Bishops and their hordes to be particularly scrupulous when it comes to defending those poor souls who experience equal discrimination. But, as others have suggested,it seems that there may be limits to theirsolidarity that are coterminous with a particular political party line.In the comments on my post about the Notre Dame faculty's response to Bishop Jenky's incediarysermon, which compared Obama toHitler and Stalin, and their request that he resign from the Board of Fellows in the best interest of the University, some suggested that his speech ought tobeprotected as a private citizen. Indeed, it should, and I don't expect anyone would disagree with this.However, as anyone who has relationships and uses language knows, free speech doesn't mean speaking without consequences. If you aren't aware of this phenomenon, just ask Roxanne Martino, who resigned from Notre Dame's Board of Trustees last summer "after a conservative Roman Catholic watchdog group reported that she donated thousands of dollars to an organization that supports 'pro-choice Democratic women.'" In this case, not only did Martino not make any public statements, but the University administration also claimed that she didn't even know that she was giving money to groups engaged in such advocacy.So, a liberal, lay woman quietlycontributes her own privatemoney to an organization that, the University claims, she didn't even realize supported activities contrary to Church teaching, and she is expected and allowed to resign. But a conservative, male cleric publicly compares the President to Hitler, and we don't even get a "but he didn'trealize who Hitler was" defense. Something doesn't add up here, but maybe Robert Barron can explain to me how this one "answers itself."
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More Chicago apologetics -pleasing to the Cardinal no doubt!
George Bernard Shaw quipped that a Catholic university is a contradiction in terms.The so-called University of Notre Dame has demonstrated Shaw's point.
And all this time I thought Catholic morality rested upon this: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.Yet Barron says that "Catholic morality rests upon the assumption that certain acts are intrinsically evil, precisely because certain values are so fundamental that they can never be undermined." Is this heretical, especially since "certain acts" can be filled in at will by the speaker?Sheesh. Even Aquinas says that Charity trumps natural law, and he certainly knew something about natural law.But to your point, it seems conservatives have honed the whispering campaign to a fine art. And while I don't think progressives should emulate this behavior, they should figure out how to protect against it.
I'm not Fr Barron, but I can still call a spade a spade. Some human beings have a desired end result. They will use various means at their disposal to achieve that end. A person, when striving for authentic Christianity, when living up to her or his highest ideals, realizes that how one lives is how one is defined as a follower of Christ. Not the end results.
she didnt even realize supported activities contrary to Church teachingDonating money to Emily's List and then claiming you didn't know they were pro-choice is like donating money to the Sierra Club and then claiming you didn't know they were pro-environment, or donating money to the NRA and then claiming you never heard they had anything to do with guns.
I don't see that the two scenarios - the Martino scenario and the Jenky scenario - are that parallel. What they have in common, I guess, is an affiliation with Notre Dame.I had never heard of the Martino affair until I saw this post, and all I know about it is what I've just read in the Barron piece. Based on that info, my opinion would be that all of us make mistakes in our lives, and one of the great blessings of following Jesus is that we have a chance to apologize and make amends for those mistakes. So, if Martino was to express regret for her pro-abortion support, express her resolve to never do it again, state that she accepts Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life, and perhaps find some fitting way of trying to make reparation (e.g. donate some money to a women's shelter) - then in those circumstances, I wouldn't think she should resign, and I'd be pretty mad at the Newman Society for trying to hound her off the board. On the other hand, if she was pretty unrepentant and said, in effect, "Yeah, I'm proud to support Emily's List, and I'll continue to do so," then the Newman Society would actually have done the Notre Dame community a favor by bringing it to light. Just my opinion.One of the things that I like about the Notre Dame faculty letter about Jenky is that it is asking that he repudiate his ill-considered statement, which strikes me as the appropriate measure.
The two scenarios are not parallel in that there are no progressive Roman Catholic "watchdog" groups whose sole purpose is finding specks in other people's eyes.
These posts are becoming tired and ridiculous in their attempts to gin up the "base." They're beginning to remind of the near-constant fundraising emails from political candidates. All they're lacking is the button to contribute to "send a message to the jerks" that this must stop!Maybe part of Martino's problem was her idiotic claim that she didn't know Planned Parenthood provides abortions. Or was is that she didn't know abortion was against Church teaching? Or perhaps it's because Jenky's comments (when you actually read them, i.e. he didn't compare Obama to Hitler) sound sort of like this: http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2012/04/a-students-defe...
Or perhaps its because Jenkys comments (when you actually read them, i.e. he didnt compare Obama to Hitler)Jeff Landry,I suppose you could argue Bishop Jenky didn't compare Obama to Hitler. He said Obama "seems to be intent on following a similar path" as Hitler and Stalin. It is a perfectly preposterous statement. At best (or at worst) Obama has a little over four more years in office and may have less than a year. He has a conservative Supreme Court to contend with, and in all likelihood will have at least one branch of congress controlled by the Republicans. To make comparisons between any American president and fascists, nazis, or communists is just nonsense. Jenky said, In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, Barack Obama with his radical, pro abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path [as Hitler and Stalin]." As I have noted before, the current Supreme Court is not going to let pass any "clear violate" of the First Amendment. The individual mandate and the "contraceptive mandate" raise constitutional questions, but to claim "clear violations" is nonsense. We'll see what the Supreme Court decides on the individual mandate (which isn't a First Amendment question), but the "contraceptive mandate" isn't even written yet. That makes it very difficult to claim it is a "clear violation" of the First Amendment. Eric has a point, although I don't know if the case of Roxanne Martino is the best one to use. I think if a lay member of the Notre Dame Board of Fellows were to make such an incendiary speech about how people shouldn't vote for Romney, he or she would be gone in an instant. And probably the same would be true if Obama were the target. What this proves is that if you are a bishop, you can get away with saying outrageous things that those who aren't bishops would suffer for. Maybe one just has to accept that as the way things are in the Church, but it's not necessary to like it or even be silent about it.
compare |kmpe()r|verb [ with obj. ]1 estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between: individual schools compared their facilities with those of others in the area | the survey compares prices in different countries | total attendance figures were 28,000, compared to 40,000 at last year's event.From Jenky's homily:Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care.In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, Barack Obama with his radical, pro abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path.Sure looks like comparison to me.
I wish our religious freedom campaign was broader than just our right to discriminate... our right to discriminate against gay people, our right to discriminate against women. Yes, we have those rights, but what's it say about us when those are the only things that get us riled up in the public square.
"He said Obama seems to be intent on following a similar path as Hitler and Stalin."I don't say that's wrong. He first said, "Remember that in past history other governments have tried to force Christians to huddle and hide only within the confines of their churches like the first disciples locked up in the Upper Room."He then named four relatively recent historical instances of religious repression in the West: Bismarck, Clemenceau, Hitler and Stalin. And then he said, "Barack Obama ... now seems intent on following a similar path."I don't defend it. I think the best face someone could put on it is that the meant the "similar path" to refer back to the "other governments [that] have tried to force Christians to huddle and hide only within the confines of their churches". It's still pretty maladroit.
Jim Pauwels,Why would you even go through those mental gymnastics to sanitize such a hateful comparison? Hitler and Stalin are in the emphatic position rhetorically and that is what people recall most immediately when they hear a "similiar path." It is more than maladroit it is a deliberate.
Should be "deliberate" not a "deliberate".
Alan, I'm not going through mental gymnastics. I'm putting the most generous interpretation, in view of the facts, of something that someone has written. That is not an exercise in sanitation, but charity. There has been argumentation on dotCom the Sr. Brink should be extended that charity when reading her presentation to the LCWR. Why wouldn't Bishop Jenky be entitled to the same charity? The same question, btw, goes to the author and signatories of that Notre Dame faculty letter.If you read the rest of my comment, and my other comments on this affair, you'll see that I don't defend Jenky's homily in any way.
If the bishops want their speech to be treated as that of private citizens, then they should not expect any better or worse treatment because of that speech than any other private citizen. But they expect to be deferred to within the church because they are "successors of the apostles" and outside of the church because they are Catholic bishops.Sorry, boyz, you can't have it both ways. And you will not!
"A person, when striving for authentic Christianity, when living up to her or his highest ideals, realizes that how one lives is how one is defined as a follower of Christ. Not the end results."Bingo! As those heretical nuns taught me - and the rest of us - years ago: the ends do not justify the means, even if you are ontologically favored.
Tell you what, Stuart: you donate to the Sierra Club (which I do) and I'll donate to Emily's List (which I do).You can feel good once and I'll feel good twice.
Jim Pauwels,Even a generous interpretation has to be based on what was actually written.
Alan, all I've done is quote and recap what is actually written. If you continue to claim that Bishop Jenky compared the President to Hitler and Stalin, I'm going to vehemently agree with you.
Jim, I already know that you agree with me from what you wrote on another thread earlier today:His initial, and probably fatal, wrong turn was to put Hitler and Stalin, and President Obama, in adjacent paragraphs, with the claim that the President with his radical, pro-abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path. (Jean Raber, if youre reading, you once offered to send me a stack of freshman compositions to grade; Im sorta doing that here).I suppose that, technically, Godwins Law cant be invoked, because Jenky didnt make the analogy in an on-line discussion. But there should be an extension, or a corollary, or something, to Godwins Law that would make it applicable to any public-square conversation.I am just confused about why you posted what you wrote here @2:31pm, saying that "similar pattern" refers back to "other governments" and not "Hitler and Stalin."
I think it's only fair to point out that he didn't specify Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. I worked with someone when I first came to New York (1970) whose elderly grandmother was not quite as mentally with it as she once had been. She used to tell my friend, her granddaughter, that U Thant kept calling her up and inviting her to lunch. My friend said she once lost her patience and said, "Look, U Thant is Secretary General of the United Nations. He's a very busy and important man. He is not calling you every day and inviting you to lunch!" She said her grandmother was silent for a moment and then said, "Well, this must be another U Tant."
My donations to Obama, DNC, Michelle etc I guess puts me out of the RCC [according to some] .....not in their lifetime! I can't wait for the million man/women/cleric marching season to begin. Orange/Red /White/Green/rainbow are colors already taken. May I suggest Royal Blue, the SSPX might send a delegation of 8 if they can get visas.
Hi, Alan, it is possible that he meant what I suggested. After naming the four 19th-20th century Europeans, he said the President "now seems intent on following a similar path. Similar to what or whom? The antecedent reference is unclear. The text of the homily demonstrates that he led up to his statement by naming a series of four leaders (among them, to be sure, Hitler and Stalin), and I'm suggesting that the most generous interpretation of that passage is that Jenky is accusing the President of following whatever path has been marked out by those four together. The Notre Dame faculty letter, and the news stories, I've seen, suggest the meaning of that passage is "similar to Hitler and Stalin" - which would seem to imply that Jenky is accusing the President of being a genocidal maniac and the distillation of pure evil. But Bismarck and Clemenceau are not infamous genocidal maniacs, nor are they reputed to be notably evil (so far as I know), so whatever it is that ties together those four - Bismarck, Clemenceau, Hitler and Stalin - it is not mass killings nor murderous anti-Semitism nor whatever connotations first spring to mind when one hears "Hitler and Stalin"I think his real point - which, as I say, was poorly made - is that there are examples, not that long ago and in the developed world, of religious believers being persecuted, and we need to be aware, and willing to defend our rights if necessary. (I also think he meant to allude to something of which the President and his administration have been accused: of reducing religious liberty to mere freedom of worship.)If that is his real point, he needs to find exemplars other than Stalin and Hitler. What about Mexico earlier in the 20th century?At any rate, he said what he said, and there is absolutely no doubt that, in fact, he did compare the President to Hitler and Stalin. It's way past time for a retraction and apology. Bishop Jenky, if you're out there, please do so, quickly and clearly.(Before hitting the "Submit" button, I popped over to the Diocese of Peoria page to see if, by chance, he had already apologized. What I found is a 'clarification', here: http://www.cdop.org/post/PostArticle.aspx?ID=2443 No expression of remorse, though.)
The Bishop is dumb for alluding to atrocities on the level of Stalinism and Nazism; someone should send a memo to any speaker that those analogies are generally best left unexplored.Jenky's larger point, however, is one that is perfectly acceptable. It's been made by people as diverse as Michael Sandel in Democracy's Discontent to Ross Douthat in this column earlier this year (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/douthat-government-and-...). In a nutshell: "Not content with crowding out alternative forms of common effort, it presents its rivals an impossible choice: Play by our rules, even if it means violating the moral ideals that inspired your efforts in the first place, or get out of the community-building business entirely. "It's a common critique of Rawlsian liberalism in whose shadow Pres. Obama solidly stands: that in order to enter the "public square", we should be de-nuded of our particularities in the name of some neutrality. The state is the arbiter of this neutrality.Jenky was an idiot for using the analogy; the critique underlying the idiotic comments remains.
Jeff Landry,I think Douthat only plays to one side of the question. Why is it:"Every tax dollar the government takes is a dollar that cant go to charities and churches." and not Every tax dollar cut for the rich takes a dollar that can't go to helping the neediest in our country? Paying taxes is also something we do together for the common good. It is part of living in a democracy. And on the other point, Obama has compromised on the mandate and is willing to go further when the bishops grow up and decide to pursue the question further. Who are the ones saying "Play by our rules" here?
Jeff,If one of the sisterswho agrees with the Vatican's actionsdeclares that Pope Benedict is following in Hitler's footsteps, using his position of near absolute power to bring a once democratically run organization into conformity with his idea of orthodoxy, and what's more he speaks German and was a member of the Hitler Youth, would you concede that she just made an idiotic analogy, but her larger point is perfectly acceptable? It's all true, isn't it?When the analogy really is the message, I don't think you can say, "Bad analogy, good message." . . . . that in order to enter the public square, we should be de-nuded of our particularities in the name of some neutrality. As I said elsewhere (although I believe it got censored) the cacophony one currently hears in the public square is the screeching and howling of certain religious people ranting about how they are being excluded from the public square.
To make comparisons between any American president and fascists, nazis, or communists is just nonsense.I actually disagree. There is no guarantee that ANY american president will not be a facist, nazis or communist. All three groups exist in the US today and it is entirely possible to associate any president's particular action with one of the groups. In fact, George Soros compared some Bush administration tactics to the Nazis.
Anybody who seriously likens Obama to Hitler and Stalin is out of touch with reality, and, therefore, such a person should not be allowed to influence one's opinions. The comparison is crazy. Pray for Bp. Jenky, but don't give his opinions any credence.
"Donating money to Emilys List and then claiming you didnt know they were pro-choice money to the Sierra Club and then claiming you didnt know they were pro-environment""Martinos problem was her idiotic claim that she didnt know Planned Parenthood provides abortions."Out of curiosity, can somebody tell us which it was: Emily's List or Planned Parenthood? I can in fact imagine not realizing that Emily's list funds pro-choice causes, since it's more generally focused on Women's Issues (so a better analogy would really be to not knowing the Sierra Club's position on, say, the snail darter or the Keystone pipeline -- if you thought about it, you would probably guess the right answer, but you might support it for other reasons without thinking about that specific issue). Doesn't Emily's List present itself as being primarily about electing women candidates?
Sorry! That first quotation (from Studebaker) should have read:"Donating money to Emilys List and then claiming you didnt know they were pro-choice is like donating money to the Sierra Club and then claiming you didnt know they were pro-environment"
Hi, Mark, this is from the Robert Barron link that Eric provided in the original post:"The Newman Society observed that because Ms. Martino had donated $25,000 to Emilys List, an organization whose stated purpose is the electing of pro-choice Democratic women, she would be unfit to serve in such an important position of governance at a Catholic university. A controversy ensued, and Martino, concluded that it was in the best interest of Notre Dame for her to step down."Btw, this might be worth considering: according to recent magisterial guidance, it's wrong to vote for (or, one might reasonably assume, fund the campaign of) a pro-choice candidate *specifically because he is pro-choice*. However, there are instances when it is acceptable to vote for a pro-choice candidate for good reasons other than the pro-choice stance. For example, voters here in Illinois were presented with two pretty strong candidates for the US Senate in 2010, both of whom are pro-choice. Unless we wanted to vote for a fringe candidate or not vote in the Senate race (which was a very close race), we had to choose a pro-choice candidate. I voted in that race, not because I support pro-choice policies, but for other reasons that seemed to me to outweigh my candidate's pro-choice convictions.Given that distinction, I suppose one might reasonably ask, 'Is it acceptable to financially support EMILY's List, not because it supports abortion, but for other good reasons?' In my opinion, the answer is no. I just spent some time poking around their website, and my opinion is that, while most of their messaging is very much about empowering women candidates and women voters, the core of their mission is electing pro-choice women Democrats. My impression is that EMILY's List would not promote or assist the candidacy of a pro-life woman Democrat. I think it would be difficult to argue that financially supporting EMILY's List isn't for the purpose of supporting the pro-choice cause.
In my opinion, for what it's worth, donating $25,000 to Emily's List is sufficient cause to get booted from the Notre Dame Board of Fellows. But let's imagine Martino, instead of a contribution to Emily's List, had made an incendiary speech in which she compared Republicans to Hitler and Stalin. I can only imagine she still would have had to resign. "Little people" are held responsible for incendiary remarks, but bishops are not. But why should anyone expect otherwise?If I am elected pope, I will add levels to the hierarchy so that bishops are accountable to, say, cardinals, who are then accountable to the pope. The pope has too many "direct reports." It used to be remarked how great the organization of the Catholic Church was, but no company would have a CEO with 5000 people directly accountable to him.
Just to clarify, as far as I know, Martino has not commented on whether she knew about the links between Emily's List and Planned Parenthood. According to the Chicago Tribune article, the chairman of the board of trustees and the University president told "concerned alumni" that she didn't know. On a related note, the Political Science Department was recently targeted for having Emily's List on its slate of potential internship opportunities, and they have since removed it: http://www.irishrover.net/archives/1772. I guess we're taking this whole "cooperation with evil" thing pretty seriously.
Interesting, thanks Jim and others. When I responded, I was thinking of my own on again, off again history of giving to Doctors Without Borders, who I became involved with through a mail solicitation some years ago. It occurred to me that, although I know a fair amount about the general sort of work they do, I have no idea what their position is on abortion (a bunch of French doctors, it could probably go either way). It further occurred to me that if, say, one of my daughters came home from school upset to have realized how few women presidents there have been, I might support her consciousness raising by suggesting giving to an organization that supports progressive women candidates, and Emily's List would come to mind, because I always thought that was their mission. Two things I've learned since I wrote, though: first, Emily's List's web page says "Pro-Choice" a bunch of times, and, second, she gave $25,000 (!) -- that might call for a bit of due diligence.
Mark, I'm very sorry to be the bearer of bad news, because I have always thought that Doctors Without Borders is admirable and even heroic, but this report indicates that the organization sees providing safe abortions as a critical maternal-care service. Cf. p. 8.http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2012/Materna-D... don't know if there is a way to donate to them in such a way as to ensure that the donation does not fund abortions.
I think it is clear that under the US Constitution Religious freedom is not absolute.The catechism of the Catholic Church also does not teach that religious freedom is absolute. It is subject to "due limits""2106 "Nobody may be forced to act against his convictions, nor is anyone to be restrained from acting in accordance with his conscience in religious matters in private or in public, alone or in association with others, within due limits...."2109 The right to religious liberty can of itself be neither unlimited nor limited only by a "public order" conceived in a positivist or naturalist manner.The "due limits" which are inherent in it must be determined for each social situation by political prudence, according to the requirements of the common good, and ratified by the civil authority in accordance with "legal principles which are in conformity with the objective moral order."http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7D.HTM
Mr. Pauwels, it's not clear from perusing the Doctors w/o Borders link that this organization supports *elective* abortion.
I dont know if there is a way to donate to them in such a way as to ensure that the donation does not fund abortions.Jim,I think you are reading into the text of the pamphlet something that isn't there. Speaking of its own services, MSF says:
Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) makes it a priority to provide life-saving, emergency obstetric care in both acute and chronic humanitarian crises. In the organisations emergency activities, teams strive to address the five main causes of maternal death: haemorrhage, sepsis, unsafe abortion, hypertensive disorders and obstructed labour.The provision of emergency obstetric care is at the forefront of MSFs work in sexual and reproductive health. Additional medical care provided to women by MSF includes antenatal and postnatal care, family planning, assistance to sexual violence survivors, fistula treatment, post-abortion care, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Speaking in general about maternal deaths, they say:
Worldwide, nearly half of all induced abortions are performed under unsafe circumstances; 98 percent of these unsafe abortions occur in developing countries. Reducing the number of women dying as a result of an unsafe abortion requires a multi-faceted approach. Appropriate care must be available to all women who present to a health facility experiencing complications (incomplete abortion, sepsis, haemorrhage) following an unsafe abortion. In order to prevent unsafe abortions occurring in the first place, women need access to family planning and emergency contraceptives to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, and also to safe abortion care performed by skilled medical workers in safe and hygienic facilities.
They do say that women need access to safe abortions, but they don't say MSF provides them. MSF works in refugee camps, war zones, disaster areas, and so on. I don't think they set up free clinics for elective abortions in such areas. From what I have read, MSF is not anti-abortion, and their doctors will provide abortions under some circumstances where it is legal. But this seems to be largely a matter of providing safe abortions so as to keep women from having unsafe ones.If any organization can be characterized as "pro-life" in a meaningful sense, it is Doctors Without Borders. I would hate to think anyone who would otherwise donate to them with withhold their money because they are not sufficiently anti-abortion. There is such a thing as being too pure.
"They do say that women need access to safe abortions, but they dont say MSF provides them."I think the implication is that MSF provides them."If any organization can be characterized as pro-life in a meaningful sense, it is Doctors Without Borders."Every hospital that provides abortions can make a similar claim: we save hundreds / thousands of lives per year. I would like to see them continue to do that good work and also stop providing abortions.
I wonder how much Bp. Jenky and his ilk know about Hitler and stalin, and who they were (let's add Mao to that trio as well.) Invincible ignorance, we used to call it.After all, the USCCB has said that the Church's teaching in favor of religious freedom is clear. Anyone who says that can't possibly look a history book in the face.
Mark -- my analogy was more accurate than yours. Anyone who knows enough about Emily's List to be that big of a donor (really, anyone who is literate) would know that their ONE AND ONLY concern is electing pro-choice women. Pro-choice is a sine qua non. Not knowing that really would be as stupid as not knowing the NRA is about guns.
John Hayes @ 2:26 said:I think it is clear that under the US Constitution Religious freedom is not absolute.The catechism of the Catholic Church also does not teach that religious freedom is absolute. It is subject to due limits ..As was quoted to me in The Catholic Voice, the house organ of the Diocese of Oaklands house organ in response to letter I wrote to them .Editor's note: "The right to freedom of conscience and, in a special way, to religious freedom taught in the Declaration Dignitatis Humanae of the Second Vatican Council is based on the dignity of the human person and not on a non-existent equality among religions or cultural systems of human creation. Paul VI taught that 'in no way does the Council base this right to religious freedom on the fact that all religions and all teachings, including those that are erroneous, would have more or less equal value; it is based rather on the dignity of the human person, which demands that he not be subjected to external limitations which tend to constrain the conscience in its search for the true religion or in adhering to it.'" Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life," CDF (Doctrine of the Faith), 2002: No. 8.http://www.catholicvoiceoakland.org/2012/03-26/forumlet.htmThe due limits are essentially those that agree with whatever the RCC teaches in any way, shape or form.
"After all, the USCCB has said that the Churchs teaching in favor of religious freedom is clear. Anyone who says that cant possibly look a history book in the face."Money quote indeed. All you blind defenders of the magisterium, no doubt, are allowed to disagree with the pastor on the Parish Council and be appointed annually.
Jimmy Mac, I don't see any logical connection between the Editor's Note and your letter. It hardly seems likely that he could be trying to say that because your examples were non-Catholic groups, the same principle didn't apply to the Catholic Church. Here's the full text of that part of he Catechism, including h parts I dropped outin my excerpt:"2106 "Nobody may be forced to act against his convictions, nor is anyone to be restrained from acting in accordance with his conscience in religious matters in private or in public, alone or in association with others, within due limits."34 This right is based on the very nature of the human person, whose dignity enables him freely to assent to the divine truth which transcends the temporal order. For this reason it "continues to exist even in those who do not live up to their obligation of seeking the truth and adhering to it."352107 "If because of the circumstances of a particular people special civil recognition is given to one religious community in the constitutional organization of a state, the right of all citizens and religious communities to religious freedom must be recognized and respected as well."362108 The right to religious liberty is neither a moral license to adhere to error, nor a supposed right to error,37 but rather a natural right of the human person to civil liberty, i.e., immunity, within just limits, from external constraint in religious matters by political authorities. This natural right ought to be acknowledged in the juridical order of society in such a way that it constitutes a civil right.382109 The right to religious liberty can of itself be neither unlimited nor limited only by a "public order" conceived in a positivist or naturalist manner.39 The "due limits" which are inherent in it must be determined for each social situation by political prudence, according to the requirements of the common good, and ratified by the civil authority in accordance with "legal principles which are in conformity with the objective moral order."40"
The Obama administration need not follow the example of Hitler or Stalin when crucifixion is a perfectly adequate method of enforcement for their purposes:It is kind of like how the Romans used to conquer villages in the Mediterranean theyd go into a little Turkish town somewhere and theyd find the first five guys they saw and theyd crucify them, Mr. Armendariz says on the tape. Then that little town was really easy to manage for the next few years.And so, you make examples out of people who are, in this case, not complying with the law. You find people who are not complying with the law and you hit them as hard as you can and you make examples out of them. Theres a deterrent effect there. And companies that are smart see that. They dont want to play that game, and they decide at that point that its time to clean up. And that wont happen unless you have somebody out there making examples of people."Our current EPA guardians
Sounds like how the USCCB and CDF approach the exercise of intellectual freedom by their theologians.
Jeanne ==The CDF doesn't burn people at the stake any more, and John Allen, in his newest column, seems to be saying that Benedict prefer to either condemn theologians' *ideas*, not the theologians themselves, or leave the dirty work to the local bishops. I'm not sure this is true. Five more Irish priests have been restricted in one way or another from publishing either in whole or in part. That's pretty extreme to me. http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/has-real-ratzinger-come-out-playSurely it is a function of the papacy to criticize/condemn false teachings. But how best to do this? Should there even *be* any censorship at all? Or should the official Church limit itself to vigorously criticising certain opinions? Is it really possible to condemn only certain teachings of a theologian? Should dissenting theologians be banned from Catholic schools or from writing in the periodicals? Should local bishops be given the job of censorship? I think this needs its own thread. Or two or three. Or 20.


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5 Ways The World Could End (You'd Never See Coming)
The funny thing about life is, trouble never comes from where you expect it. You spend two months worried about interviewing for that big job promotion, then on your way there, you get attacked by a pack of wild dogs. That's just the way it goes.
So in terms of worldwide disasters, while Hollywood obsesses over asteroid strikes and earthquakes and whatever the fuck 2012 was about, don't be surprised if disaster comes in the form of one of these lesser-known calamities that you'd never even heard of.
Until today, that is.
#5. Supervolcanoes
Volcanoes are badass, there is no denying that. People worship the things as gods. They can create damned land masses. And sure, Mt. Pinatubo and Krakatoa may have messed some shit up when they went off, but that's really just a problem for the people who made the rather short-sighted decision to live at the base of one.
Whatever, mountain god. We live over here.
But what if you had a really, really big volcano. A super volcano, if you will. One big enough to fuck up the whole planet.
Uh Oh...
Supervolcanoes exist, and they are to volcanoes what nuclear weapons are to firecrackers. According to Wikipedia, a supervolcano can puke out more than 240-cubic-miles of matter into the sky, which is millions of times larger than a normal eruption.
Imagine tossing all of Connecticut into the atmosphere.
They are caused by massive amounts of magma building up pressure under the crust, and not enough holes (volcanoes, geysers, etc,) to vent it all. Eventually, the pressure builds until a massive section of earth explodes. The human race was possibly shaped by one such explosion--it wreaked such havoc on the ecosystem that when it was done, there were only enough humans left on the planet to fill one high school gymnasium.
But don't worry, there are only, like, seven potential supervolcanoes in the world. Three are in the western United States.
So Are We Doomed?
Maybe. There is no evidence that any of these are going to explode in our lifetime- oh wait. Long Valley in California has been showing signs of "waking up" in the past 20 years.
Foul play hasn't been ruled out.
Then there are the Siberian traps in Russia, which are quiet for now. This is very good news because it is estimated that if they blew up, they would likely cause another event like the one back at the Permian Triassic boundary 251-million-years ago... which virtually wiped out all life on Earth.
#4. Verneshot
You know how every once in a while you hear a story about some dumbass who fires his gun into the air like Yosemite Sam, only to have the bullet fall back to Earth and kill some bystander a few seconds later?
Imagine if the Earth did that, only instead of a bullet, it's a hunk of rock big enough to kill millions of us. That's a verneshot.
Also called God's Money Shot.
Uh Oh...
It all starts the same as your mega-volcano up there, when incredibly hot rock starts welling up under the Earth's crust. Only this time, the heat creates a massive buildup of carbon dioxide gas underground. It builds and builds and builds until it erupts with such incredible force that it launches gigantic rocks into fucking space.
Well, not all the way into space. If that's all it did, it wouldn't be such a problem (and in fact we'd probably just sell tickets to that shit--though you'd have to be far enough away to avoid the shockwave and molten rock spraying everywhere). No, the problem is the rock doesn't quite wind up leaving the atmosphere or settling into orbit. So your real troubles start when it comes back down.
So Are We Doomed?
We don't know for sure that this has ever happened, but if it did, it would basically combine all of the horror of a supervolcano with a massive asteroid strike.
The whole theory came about because when looking back over some extinction-level events of the past, you seem to have both signs of an asteroid strike and a volcanic eruption. And that would be such spectacularly bad luck that it would not only confirm the existence of deity, but of an extremely pissed off deity.
So it seems much more likely to some experts that instead of a rock from outer space, that the call was coming from inside the house, so to speak--a hunk of our own planet came crashing down thousands of miles away. It would seriously be like if you were just minding your own business tomorrow and suddenly Tokyo fell on your head.
#3. Gulf Stream Shutdown
In case you didn't know, the Gulf Stream is a sort of a "river" in the Atlantic ocean, a current of water that runs from Florida to western Europe. It has existed for thousands of years, and pumps warm water and air up to western and northern Europe, places that would otherwise be (more) frozen hell-holes.
You're welcome, Finland.
Scientists have noticed, however, that the overall temperature of the stream seems to be dropping, and has dropped a pants-shitting 30 percent since 1992. As you probably guessed, we again have climate change to thank. Before someone in the comments screams, "OH SO NOW GLOBAL WARMING MAKE PART OF THE OCEAN COOLER?!?!?!" keep in mind that when hot air melts a glacier, the hunks of ice break off and cool the water they melt into.
Originally, the fear was that if the Gulf Stream cooled too much, it would stop running, since it's those differences in temperature that keep it going. Then western and northern Europe would once again become home to woolly mammoths and fanged squirrels.
Artist's rendering from a U.N. report
However, studies have shown that if the Gulf Stream were to stop, there appear to be enough other factors warming Europe that it would have an effect, but wouldn't be the end of the world. So hell, why did we even bring it up?
Uh Oh...
The sudden drop off in inappropriate Speedo wearing in Europe would be the least of our concerns. According to measurements taken in 2005, the possible side effects of a "thermohaline shutdown" could include massive climate shifts, increases in major storms, greenhouse gases collecting in the upper ocean and phytoplankton dying off. In other words, Soylent Green would move from "Charlton Heston wailing" to "Grim predictor of the future."
In case you haven't seen this 37-year-old movie, Chuck discovered we were eating humans because we ran out of food, and we ran out of food because we killed the fucking ocean. So it would be like that, only with cataclysmic El Ninos.
So Are We Doomed?
Like with a lot of effects of climate change, we're kind of counting on uncertainty to save us (that is, we don't know exactly how this will work because we've never seen it happen before). Models show the current should keep running for another hundred years or so and they could still wind-up having to adjust those predictions--in either direction.


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Forgive me, checkwriter, but I wonder if one sentence in a review by Alastair Macaulay is going to have much influence over young dancers with body image issues, since they clearly acquired those issues from other, more immediate, sources. (In addition, a lot of the younger people of my acquaintance seem ignorant of where the news they read comes from, surely those more responsible for the fuss are those using the Internet to attack the guy, thus spreading his unhealthy message that slim is better to some who probably would never otherwise seek out Macaulay's reviews.)
I do forgive you, Dirac. If you have been spared the ordeal of having to deal with serious weight and body-image issues on a first-hand basis, then consider yourself blessed. As you correctly suggest, influences come at dancers from all angles and all sources. While Macaulay's one sentence in his review is just another straw, it was not a sentence that needed to be written in the way it was written.
As for the backlash - I think that's helping. While it may have spread his comments far beyond his original audience, the fact that most of the backlash appears to be on the side of the dancers sends a far more positive signal than what his one sentence did in his review.


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Which UI/UX sketching software do you use and would recommend? Why?
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Sketching Is Way Better To Start With
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Here is Adaptive Path's Favorite Tools for Sketching.
And check out Slides 16 & 25 of Leah Buley's Good Design Faster presentation.
In order to be able to collaborate better with co-workers, and give everyone a fair shot at drawing out their ideas who might not otherwise feel artistically inclined, we use myBalsamiq and love it.
Pencil and paper is the best and most cost effective tool you will ever find.
Quick, simple, and you can explore many ideas (as you should) with minimal effort.
For exploring loose ideas (alone or in person), I use paper or whiteboard. When I'm preparing low fidelity wireframes for presentation, I use Balsamiq Mockups.
Things I like about Balsamiq:
They've deployed an online, collaboration focused version called myBalsamiq, but I have not tried it yet so I cannot offer an opinion.
Leading industry ui/ux prototyping or sketching software's are many in the market. Both online/desktop. It mainly depends on to what level of fidelity/interactions you want to capture on the interface.
Just for Basic - Medium fidelity i suggest you can use Axure with all different libraries/widgets loaded, otherwise your prototyping life is miserable in that.
Axure Widgets
For Medium - Advanced you can use iRise which has all the features including even dynamic data showing from database on the inteface. BTW, license is seriously very costly where only enterprises can afford
Other than above, here are listing of popluar tools
The most important part is to understand when you need to sketch in different mediums and styles. Learning when to create the ugly dirty sketches that are simple explorations versus creating actual interactive wireframes.
There are many people who draw using illustrator and a tablet, and they are super quick. The nice thing about that medium for instance is that it can be easily modified and sent to others for manipulation.
So you see, the medium and software depends on where you are in your process but also the habits of whoever creates those sketches.
I Use
I use in order of process and fidelity, starting at rough explorations:
As an alternative to pencil and paper sketching, I recommend using a Wacom tablet + MyPaint. MyPaint is a drawing opensource software with the following features that make it a good choice for sketching:
MyPaint provides the above features (which are not available on paper) without introducing much of the complexity of most drawing packages (e.g., Fireworks) or prototyping tools (e.g., Axure) which are better suited for other deliverables (such as wireframes or prototypes).
I have created a replica of the hand-drawn sketch by @tajmo to illustrate the use:
Pen and paper cannot be mentioned often enough. The flexibility in the early fases is a must-have.
After that: Axure is what I use, but I've also heard good things about Balsamic.
Nothing will better replace pencil and paper. And for this, I would recommend the Action Method paper tools from the Behance Network. I use their dot grid cahier and notebook everyday and it's really professional and beautiful.
What's cool is that they have adapted this Paper Action method to web, ipad and mobile. You should check it out.
As of prototyping/wireframing tools (and not sketching), I personaly use Balsamiq. Fast, instinctive and efficient. They also have a myBalsamiq website in beta to handle personal project. But this is not free.
In my company, we handle knowledge management via a Confluence wiki. We added the balsamiq plugin and this is a very powerful way to handle wireframe within a context.
Finally, for an intermediate way, you can buy a Wacom Bamboo tablet and use UI block and template in Photoshop for the best of all worlds.
Hope all those advises will be helpful.
I'll recommend Adobe Fireworks. It's great because:
Yup. Paper and pencil and pen wins hands-down. All your hand sketching experience will inform any screen "drawing" you do and make it better. I also second the hands-on simplicity of sending scans and photos of your sketches. Design is thinking and form-making. Screen tools that make it too easy to make images do not contribute to thoughtful design. If you just want images per hour efficiency, then any of the drawing tools mentioned will do.
For wireframes, I looked hard at Balsamiq, Mockflow, Mockingbird, Hotgoo, Protoshare and othes. I choose Mockflow and am happy with it for price, power, UI and results.
my opinion ... Balsamiq is to limiting. As the only UX person in a fortune 100 company tasked with many web applications/portals ... i simply don't have time/luxury of sketching wireframes in Balsamiq with their limited palette. Having gone down that road, I've found that Development teams need more definition to wireframes, hence why i've moved into Illustrator which allows complete control and provides a hybrid to photoshop design files. Prior to Illustrator, Thin sharpy pens and grid paper is essential to work out business requirements and build the gap between requirements and agile development teams. Looking into interactive mockup tools, ie ... fireworks, iRIse, and Axure, but don't want to be limited to their predefined widgets and don't have the time to code.


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AMERICAN FORK — Jeff and Debbie Sermon don't particularly like their son's long hair and offbeat look, but they're so proud of his band's success, they're willing to live with it.
D Wayne Sermon is part of a new rock band that's making the late-night talk show circuit and that Billboard Magazine called "one of 2012's brightest new stars." Imagine Dragons has signed with Interscope Records and has a tour lined up that includes major cities and stops.
Following its release, the single "It's Time" had airplay on select major stations. The music video debuted on April 17 on all MTV affiliates and the band was named MTV PUSH Artist of the Week. The album "Night Visions" debuted Sept. 4.
Sermon and bandmates Dan Reynolds, Ben McKee and Daniel Platzman are successfully carving out a unique place for themselves in the tough alternative rock world. They're a hot property after just three years together.
And that's surprising, because their music doesn't follow the familiar pattern for hard rock, heavy metal or even pop rock.
Sermon says the band feels free to pull in a violin or a cello or an ensemble of acoustic guitars, even a synthesizer, if the song calls for something different.
"We try to match sound to song," said Sermon, who grew up in American Fork. "We like to explore but still be true to our sound. It's a balancing act. We want to be recognizable."
Reynolds, Imagine Dragons' frontman and a native of Las Vegas, said he writes song lyrics from a very personal place.
"I think we try to write music that takes the listener through a whole range of emotions. Some songs are sad, some are uplifting, some are introspective," he said. "Above all, we try to write music that helps people cope with what can be a very hard life at times. We want to connect with the listener through the only means of communication we understand — art."
Sermon said the band's main goal is to reach people with music that is beautiful at the core in melody, lyrics and structure.
"We're very much a rhythm kind of band with epic sounds," Reynolds said.
Sermon and Reynolds, who are both members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are pleased with their band's sudden rise. They both recognize it's usually much more difficult to get a start in the music industry.
"In our case, we got a lot of little starts," Sermon said. "But it doesn't matter if we're playing to four or five people in a lounge or in a concert hall, we want to use our music to uplift people."
He also said it hasn't been difficult to be Mormon in the rock music world.
"We're different individuals but our band has always been about the music. One thing we all share is we are committed to making music and being a positive force in the world," he added.
"Our goal is and has always been the same," Sermon said. "We want to reach as many people as possible. We want to go to Europe, to South America, all over the world, bring our music to as many people as we can."
Reynolds echoes Sermon's thoughts. "Our focus is on the music. We didn't choose this career path for fame or parties, but rather to create something that we are all proud of, that fulfills our desire to be an artist and to create. We aren't the most eloquent or perfect people, but we just do our best to present something to society that hopefully makes someone's hard day a little bit better.
"We have always just had the goal of making a living out of doing what we love. That has been the hope since the very beginning."
Debbie Sermon knows this has always been her son's dream.
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I'd really love your help with this one: I got this Fourier series for $f(x)=x$ in $[-\pi,\pi]$: $$\sum_{1}^{\infty}\frac{2(-1)^{n+1}\sin(nx)}{n}$$ and I need to check if it's (i) pointwise converges,(ii) uniformly converges and if (iii) $$\sum_{1}^{\infty}\left|\frac{2(-1)^{n+1}\sin(nx)}{n}\right|$$ converges.. I tried to do it, and I have couple of specific questions that interrupt me.
(i) Can I claim that the series is pointwise due to Leibniz test? since $\frac{\sin(nx)}{n} \to 0$? I was told that I need to use Lipschitz continuity here. How do I use it?
(ii) I was told that this series is not uniformly converges since $f(x)$ is not continuous in this part. How come? Is it because we always see those functions who we compute their Fourier series as periodic functions with period of $[0,2\pi]$ so in our case the function in $0$ is not continues?
(iii) How come I can't use Dirichlet test for series and claim that the $$\sum_{1}^{\infty}\left|\frac{2(-1)^{n+1}\sin(nx)}n\right|$$ does converges? The test requires a multiple of a series that monotonic converges to $0$ and $\sum_{1}^{N}|\sin(nx)|<M$? Is it wrong? How can you prove that this series does not converge?
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Regent's Canal: Waterway offers picturesque views of London's north side
Bob Downing, MCT
LONDON (MCT) — The Regent's Canal towpath is a tough trail.
It is narrow, crowded, bumpy with cobblestones in places, and bicyclists often end up in the canal. There are narrow passageways under bridges, wide enough for one person, who must duck.
As an American, I never figured out if one should walk or pedal on the right or left. From what I could see, traffic on the towpath was pretty much a free-for-all that could not be blamed on one puzzled tourist.
But the canal is a hidden gem that stretches across London's north side. It is a greenway, a walkway designated by the queen and a look at London's colorful past.
A narrow ribbon of water is tucked between rows of warehouses and other buildings in a picturesque urban landscape. It is used by walkers, runners and bicyclists, some of whom are commuting to work at London's high-rise Canary Wharf area near the eastern terminus.
The canal runs 8.6 miles, from Little Venice in Maida Vale in the west, to the Limehouse Basin, London's docks and the River Thames in the east. Its western terminus is the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal that ran from the Midlands.
Part of the appeal of the Regent's Canal is the hundreds of colorful houseboats that ply its waters. They are known simply as narrowboats, because the maximum width of boats on the canal is 14 feet, 6 inches. Some are active homes. Others appear to be mothballed in basins that adjoin the canal.
The canal has 13 locks and three tunnels. It can handle narrowboats up to 74 feet long with a draft of 4 feet, 10 inches. The maximum headroom is 8 feet, 2 inches.
It was quiet today, surrounded by parks, apartments, commercial office space and warehouses. Cafes popped up. It has a festive outdoorsy feel. The towpath also provides a link to the Broadway market, with more than 100 food stalls and some of London's tastiest street food.
Canal locks like City Road Lock and Sturts Lock near Islington are popular spots for locals to picnic and hang out.
Regent's Canal retains elements of its industrial heritage, and planners want to combine that with its recreational uses. Elements along the canal include locks, lock cottages, wharves, lay-bys, bridges, bridge guards, horse ramps and boundary markers. (Horse ramps were built to allow teams that had fallen into the canal to get back onto the towpath.)
An estimated 35,000 boats ply Great Britain's canal system that stretches 2,200 miles. That includes about 6,000 narrowboats.
The canal was proposed by Thomas Homer in 1802. It was developed by John Nash, who hired James Morgan to be the engineer. It opened in 1820, named after the Prince Regent (later King Edward IV).
In the northwest, the canal runs adjacent to 489-acre Regent's Park, which was being developed at the same time. The land was acquired by King Henry VIII in the 16th century as royal hunting grounds. That park includes an outdoor Shakespeare theater, the 36-acre London Zoo, Queen Mary's Gardens, a boating lake and excellent sports facilities. Nearby is Primrose Hill, London's one-time dueling venue.
In the east, it runs by 218-acre Victorian Park, which was opened to the public by Queen Victoria in 1845.
Boat tours and water taxis are available between Little Venice and Camden Lock through private companies. For details, check with the Jenny Wren ( www.walkersquay.com), London Waterbus Co. (londonwaterbus.com), Regent's Canal Pleasure Boats (floatingboater.co.uk) or Jason's Canal Boat Trips (jasons.co.uk). The Waterbus company has three boats on the National Register of Historic Ships.
The canal where it joins with the Grand Union Canal was originally dubbed Browning's Pool after poet Robert Browning, who lived there from 1862 to 1887. Browning later named the area Little Venice.
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