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Logan Forler Scores Speedweek Finale At Cottage Grove Speedway; Hirst Crowned Speedweek Champ
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Malcolm White Photography)
Cottage Grove Speedway would host another nail biter on Saturday July 5th for the sixth and final leg of the 2014 Speedweek Northwest with the American Sprint Car Series-Northwest Region. Thirty-four entries signed in at the front gate representing the states of Oregon, Washington, California, Montana, and Arizona in addition to the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia as well as the Southland region of New Zealand.
The only things that would really slow down Lake Havasu City, Arizona's Logan Forler would be the handful of cautions that would occur during the course of the thirty-five lap feature as well as some heavy lapped traffic. Forler would make some key passes in lapped traffic to create some separation from the rest of the field as he would lead the entire distance of the main event. It marked the first ASCS-Northwest win for Logan and his Steve Forler Trucking/P.G.H. Excavating/Lucas Oil Products/Rod Ends by LRD Race Products #2L Maxim team at CGS and his first win with the series since September of 2011.
"Last night I kind of messed up I got passed there with a few to go," commented Logan Forler in victory lane, "I woke up this morning knowing that I was going to do everything I could to make sure I won. There was a lot of lapped traffic that was hard to get around but you just had to time it right and keep your nose clean."
Finishing in second and putting Forler under pressure a few times was Colin Baker from Cottage Grove in the Hedge Carter owned Huddle Automotive Repair/Steelhouse Metal Roofing Supply/Oregon West RV/Hedge Carter Gutter Service/Astro Titanium #71 XXX in second while grabbing third in the closing stages of the race was Kyle Hirst out of Chico, California piloting the Finley Farms/CLT Logging/Carlson Trucking/Rider Racing Engines #77 Maxim for car owners Scott and Jason Finley. The balance of the top five would consist of the Kovash Logging/Johansen Excavating/FK Shocks/Big Al Kids and Motorsports Foundation #33V A.R.T. of Henry Van Dam from Enumclaw, Washington in fourth followed by Chico, California's Jonathan Allard in the Clyde and Marion Lamar owned Tri-C Machine/Butler Built Seats/Platinum Powdercoating/K&N Filters #3C Maxim.
Heat race winners were Henry Van Dam, Jonathan Allard, the Cook Crane Corporation/Linder Powdercoating/Speedmart Inc./Rodgers Racing Engines #22 KPC of Garen Linder from Central Point, and Steven Tiner out of Visalia, California chauffeuring the Wright Process Systems/Larry Davis Farms/BR Motorsports/Elma Lanes #94 Maxim.
In the consolation feature J.J. Hickle of Quilcene, Washington, in his Meyer Electric/Go Fast Stuff/Speedmart Inc./Don Ott Racing Engines #3 XXX, would be the winner. When all of the points were calculated Kyle Hirst would be the overall Speedweek Northwest champion in 2014 and the first Californian to win the title since 2011 when Kyle Larson did it with the very same team.
The ASCS-Northwest Region will be back in action on Friday August 8th at Willamette Speedway in Lebanon followed by Saturday the 9th at Sunset Speedway Park in Banks for the final two nights in the state of Oregon. For more information log on to www.ascsnorthwest.com.
Race Summary:
ASCS-Northwest Region Race #12/Speedweek Round #6
Saturday July 5th, 2014
Cottage Grove Speedway
Cottage Grove, Oregon
A Feature: 1. 2L-Logan Forler[1]; 2. 71-Colin Baker[4]; 3. 77-Kyle Hirst[10]; 4. 33V-Henry VanDam[7]; 5. 3C-Jonathan Allard[6]; 6. 55-Trey Starks[18]; 7. 94-Steven Tiner[8]; 8. 22-Garen Linder[9]; 9. 9R-Reece Goetz[3]; 10. 9-Jayme Barnes[2]; 11. 3-J.J. Hickle[17]; 12. 37-Mitchell Faccinto[5]; 13. 4J-Allison Journey[14]; 14. 44-Kelly Miller[15]; 15. 5N-Seth Nunes[11]; 16. 71JR-Colby Carter[20]; 17. 44NZ-Daniel Anderson[19]; 18. 84K-Wayne Kniffen[13]; 19. 10-Kyle Miller[12]; 20. 12-Jared Ridge[16]
B Feature: 1. 3-J.J. Hickle[1]; 2. 55-Trey Starks[11]; 3. 44NZ-Daniel Anderson[4]; 4. 71JR-Colby Carter[5]; 5. 26F-Shane Forte[2]; 6. 16-Nick Tomlinson[13]; 7. 70-Raquel Ivie[7]; 8. 72-Phil Dietz[14]; 9. 8J-Brady Janson[8]; 10. 96-Greg Hamilton[12]; 11. 5D-Patrick Dills[15]; 12. 4B-Cale Brooke[9]; 13. 18-Mike Carrothers[6]; 14. 22R-Mike Romig[3]; 15. 6A-Kady Adelman[10]; 16. 4-Jesse Thistle[16]; DNS 5H-Chase Johnson; DNS 27DD-David Hoiness
Heat 1: 1. 33V-Henry VanDam[4]; 2. 9R-Reece Goetz[5]; 3. 10-Kyle Miller[3]; 4. 5N-Seth Nunes[6]; 5. 4J-Allison Journey[7]; 6. 55-Trey Starks[8]; 7. 71JR-Colby Carter[9]; 8. 96-Greg Hamilton[2]; 9. 4-Jesse Thistle[1]
Heat 2: 1. 3C-Jonathan Allard[8]; 2. 9-Jayme Barnes[6]; 3. 84K-Wayne Kniffen[1]; 4. 3-J.J. Hickle[3]; 5. 44-Kelly Miller[7]; 6. 6A-Kady Adelman[2]; 7. 70-Raquel Ivie[9]; 8. 72-Phil Dietz[5]; 9. 5D-Patrick Dills[4]
Heat 3: 1. 22-Garen Linder[2]; 2. 71-Colin Baker[5]; 3. 2L-Logan Forler[7]; 4. 12-Jared Ridge[4]; 5. 22R-Mike Romig[3]; 6. 8J-Brady Janson[1]; 7. 18-Mike Carrothers[8]; 8. 16-Nick Tomlinson[6]
Heat 4: 1. 94-Steven Tiner[6]; 2. 37-Mitchell Faccinto[8]; 3. 77-Kyle Hirst[7]; 4. 26F-Shane Forte[3]; 5. 44NZ-Daniel Anderson[5]; 6. 4B-Cale Brooke[1]; DNS 5H-Chase Johnson; DNS 27DD-David Hoiness
Current ASCS-Northwest Region Points (Top Ten):
1. 71-Colin Baker 1430; 2. 77-Kyle Hirst 1373; 3. 3-J.J. Hickle 1349; 4. 9R-Reece Goetz 1316; 5. 22-Garen Linder 1186; 6. 55-Trey Starks 1009; 7. 68-Rob Held 1007; 8. 16-Nick Tomlinson 960; 9. 21W-Vern Wheeler Jr. 924; 10. 33V-Henry Van Dam 914
Final Speedweek Northwest Points (Top Ten):
1. 77-Kyle Hirst 862; 2. 71-Colin Baker 727; 3. 3-J.J. Hickle 677; 4. 55-Trey Starks 669; 5. 3C-Jonathan Allard 650; T 94-Steven Tiner 650; 7. 37-Mitchell Faccinto 647; 8. 22-Garen Linder 636; 9. 9R-Reece Goetz 633; 10. 44-Kelly Miller 600
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Why Adrian Peterson Should Be Banned From The NFL and Madden NFL
The Minnesota Vikings may want Adrian Peterson back on the field, but he has been suspended from the NFL for the remainder of the season without pay. This is not long enough since the season is more than half over, but at least Commissioner Roger Goodell took some action.
Sadly, at times, parents go too far when disciplining their children, which Petersen clearly did when he severely beat his young son. Child abuse is rampant across America and seems to be on the rise. In most cases, a four-year old child cannot stand-up for themselves.
The NFL should be applauded for taking a positive stand against child abuse with Peterson's suspension. Peterson may be a great football player and an asset to his team, but the bigger picture must be addressed, which is, it should not be acceptable for anyone to harm a child. Children can be effectively disciplined without violence.
Adrian Peterson should not be allowed back in the league. He pled no contest and would not admit to his obvious guilt in this horrific act of violence. Yes, football is a violent sport and the players do cross the line, but they should never step over that line off the field and when they do they should be punished. We have to think if the young victim in this instance.
Allowing Peterson to continue playing football after his suspension is over would be a travesty and indicates that it is okay for football players to abuse their children without facing dire consequences. If Peterson's football playing days are over, so be it. The focus must be on the child and his well-being.
Goodell has said that Peterson's reinstatement would depend on his willingness to seek counseling and his enrollment in a treatment program. If not, Goodell seemed to suggest that Peterson may miss more games next season. Hopefully, Goodell will not allow Peterson's popularity and other players in the league to alter that decision.
This type of blatant violence off the field has no place in football. If Peterson is reinstated next year without successfully completing treatment, fans should boycott the Vikings and possibly the entire league, if necessary, to bring home the point that violence against children is not acceptable and should not be tolerated.
Adrian Peterson should also be taken out of the Madden Football 2015 Video Game as well. Many young and impressionable people play this game and should be shown that child abuse is not acceptable, no mater how successful or valuable a player may be to the NFL.


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How the Pope stole Christmas
So Benedict XVI writes a characteristically smart and accessible and spiritual book, this one on the infancy of Jesus, the third in his trilogy, and in it he makes some commonplace observations about the likelihood of various Christmas traditions -- all the while highlighting the centrality of the Christmas message, the Incarnation.But some believers and bloggers and media outlets are scandalized at the heresy of questioning the such dogmatic precepts as the presence of cute farm animals at the manger. Reuters' Phil Pullella has the holiday hullabaloo:
(Reuters) - And so it came to pass that in the eighth year of Pope Benedict's reign, some tabloid and social media decreed that he had cancelled Christmas.The day after Benedict's latest book "The Infancy Narratives - Jesus of Nazareth" - was published on November 20, Vatican officials found some headlines they were not expecting."Killjoy pope crushes Christmas nativity traditions," read one tabloid headline, claiming that Benedict had snubbed traditions such as animals in nativity scenes and caroling."Pope sets out to debunk Christmas myths," ran another.Holy Scrooge! Some blogs unceremoniously branded Benedict the new Grinch that stole Christmas and one rocketed him to the "top of the grumpy list for 2012."And then there was this zinger headline from a web news site: "Pope bans Christmas".
"I think that what people need to realize here is that the pope is trying to be as historical as he can be," Father Robert Dodaro, professor of patristics at Rome's Patristic Institute, told Pullella."He wants to see the biblical narratives as history where possible but he is also trying to explain details in the narratives that cannot be historically verified," he said.God forbid.UPDATE: The Vatican paper weighs in, rather unhelpfully, saying the media confusion is another symptom of the widespread and silent marginalization of God in contemporary society. It is alsoa sign of the secularization and spiritual desertification of today's world.I'm not so sure that a love of Christmas traditions, albeit somewhat unbalanced, is a sign of godlessness and barbarians at the gate. Maybe it's a sign that the Church has work to do on education as well as evangelization, and needs to do it better. Benedict's books have been bestsellers, and this one is likely to be so as well. But maybe atheists are buying them all to burn them. For heat. Over the solstice. Yeah, that's it...
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David Gibson is a national reporter for Religion News Service and author of The Coming Catholic Church (HarperOne) and The Rule of Benedict (HarperOne). He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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So can we still sing "The Friendly Beasts"? I like that one.
Of course there were no donkeys and sheep at the nativity. If all the stalls were already full with barnyard animals, where would the three kings park their camels?
It seems (from Pullella's account) that it's not so much "details in the narratives" the pope is calling into question -- where "narratives" means "what's actually written in the Gospels" -- as it is details that have built up in Christmas traditions over time. (Sort of like "FACT CHECK: the baby Jesus probably didn't have blond curls and blue eyes.") Benedict's take sounds pretty edifying, really, if not ground-breaking. Who are the bloggers Pullella mentions who have tried to make hay out of this? Fundamentalist Christians eager to pounce on the pope? Or just general troublemakers?
That is a great story, Father Komonchak. Biblical literacy, or illiteracy, is a real challenge, but I wonder if it is a challenge in different ways for different communities. Catholics are of course accused of not knowing anything about the bible -- we have saints and folk tales and rituals and such dodgy practices and beliefs instead -- and we sure could use some more biblical education.But evangelicals can cite chapter and verse (I was raised on Bible memory competitions in Sunday school) and also not know what it means, or anything of the history or facts of what they cite.
Maybe its a sign that the Church has work to do on education as well as evangelization, and needs to do it better.Agree. But it's not going to happen. Too much trouble. The bishops and priests are too poorly educated themselves and too unmotivated/lazy/fearful to attempt to educate their flocks. Ignorance is bliss. "I had rather feel compunction than know how to define it."
"The bishops and priests are too poorly educated themselves and too unmotivated/lazy/fearful to attempt to educate their flocks. "Groan. Consider the priests who hang out here. Does the above sound like an apt description of them?
"Groan" is too kind. Really, Gerelyn, a little charity at Christmas? Not to mention leaving the broad brush in the tool box. I think Catholics are by and large much different than many Protestants, or at least conservative evangelicals (though not Christmas-hating Puritans) in this regard. We're not biblical literalists, unless you count the whole Last Supper institution of the Eucharist thing. That's actually what made Marco Rubio's recent waffling on creationism so baffling (though understandable, from a political POV). He is Catholic (kinda) and Catholics don't have issues with evolution and the Genesis story the way others do.
Take a look at the seminaries' curricula. Why pretend that the situation is not dire? If a bishop were to require his priests to embark on a five-year-plan of preaching sermons based on real scholarship -- history, scripture, etc. -- designed to educate parishioners, what would happen? How many priests would be willing/capable of doing it? How loudly would the watchdogs bark?Take a look at the book Raymond Burke thinks should be required reading in seminaries: Mariology, (A giant book about a woman written by men. Lots of information about private revelations, apparitions, etc.)I don't find Rubio's "waffling" "baffling" at all. Did his bishop step up to denounce him? As long as the important (non-negotiable) issues are kept on the front burner, other stuff, like science, history, scripture scholarship, etc., etc., is not worth troubling our little heads with.
Catholic (kinda): the world's largest urrecognized and unorganized religious denomination (kinda)
Well, I guess that there will be two less figurines of my nativity set to unpack.
David G. ==True that most Catholics are not concerned about non-literal interpretations of the Bible. But the recent Pew report on why Catholics leave the Church said that something like 18% leave because they are unhappy with the way the Bible is taught (at least that's the figure I remember), and many who leave become Evangelical Protestants. Sounds to me like a good number want literal interpretations.I fear that many people need such a stable (oops) even rigid world-view that even minor changes in it jolts the whole thing. Some people just find change intolerable, and Catholics are taught all too often that "the Church never changes". Sigh.
My Christmas hope is that Benedict XVI's interpretation of the Christmas story doesn't get tangled up in the ""the hermeneutic of reform, of renewal in continuity the only possible interpretation", as explained by Archbishop Gerhard Muller, prefect of the CDF, in connection with earlier complete works of Joseph Ratzinger and Vatican II. The Archbishop finds heresy outside the orthodox interpretation (of the council) on both progressive and traditionalist sides. The significance of tradition, continuity, and rupture in the Christmas story should become clearly visible around town during the next few weeks. http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1205009.htm
"The Vatican paper weighs in, rather unhelpfully, saying the media confusion is another symptom of the widespread and silent marginalization of God in contemporary society. It is also a sign of the secularization and spiritual desertification of todays world."I find the "rather unhelpfully" rather unhelpful. This story never could have gotten legs if the original hysterical media stories hadn't been ignorant enough to send bloggers it scurrying down the road to idiocy. OMG, St Francis, Italian crib-maker, revealed as a liar! Gospel truth: Author Luke got his date wrong! Pope says angels can't sing!It may be unhelpful to refer to media "confusion" when what is meant is media rampant stupidity. . But in commenting on what the boobs made of the babble from the ignorant the Vatican could hardly be charitable and helpful at the same time.
Popular accretions always grow around transforming religious events, and they do no harm as long as the essential thing is kept first. Catholics are asked and even required to believe many things that have less historical verisimilitude than the possibility of domestic animals being in a stable.If the coming of Christ is a stupendous divine condescension that changes everything, it is entirely fitting, even if unverified, that the dumb creation as well as the speaking should witness it, and that the ox should graciously make way for the Lamb.
What about the palm tree in my olive wood nativity set from Bethlehem? Did pope Benedict say anything about the veracity of palm trees? And what about the village characters from my Provence nativity set - the bread-carrying baker, fish-carrying fish-monger, drum-carrying drummer, and village mayor with his blue white and red scarf? Do I have to get rid of all those characters too?
I fear that many people need such a stable (oops) even rigid world-view that even minor changes in it jolts the whole thing. Some people just find change intolerable, and Catholics are taught all too often that the Church never changes. Sigh.Yes Ann, isn't it just so lame to have to tolerate such ignorant riff raff that believe these sorry legends. If only they could be like we happy and enlightened few. Sigh...
I dont think he was writing ex cathedra---dont toss out your little nativity animals!
A shame that the following verse and drum beats will have to be excised from "The Little Drummer Boy"! :)The ox and lamb kept timePa, rum, pa, pum, pum
Bob S. --My post is about rigid people. Why would you identify them with ignorant riff raff?
Guys, if you read the article, the pope's book apparently says this: "No representation of the crib is complete without the ox and the ass." I'm pretty sure that means if your nativity set DOESN'T have an ox and a donkey you have to get them right away, or not receive communion until you do.
Did the pope, in his attempt to be "as historical as he can be," suggest that the local midwife and the other women who helped Mary during the delivery be included in depictions of the nativity?
Ann:Oh gee, I don't know...whatever was I thinking? Rigid? Does that mean people who stand by their hard-won convictions, refusing, even in the face of such tolerant, sophisticated, open to change opinions by the cogniscenti?...you get the idea?
Perhaps he deserves the vulgar and stupid reviews in TIME and the GUARDIAN. He certainly does not encourage serious reviews from theologians and exegetes. They would probably say that he underestimates the imaginative powers of midrashists like Matthew and Luke and that he also underestimates the significance of the parallel to the virginal conception in their contemporary Philo who tells us that Sarah after the angelic annunciation conceived Isaac when alone.
Claire: Do you have the village thief santon? It was my son's favorite when he was little. - which reminds me - I wonder if Pope Benedict XVI has seen Mr. Bean's nativity skit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDOO3FvGsZ4
No, I don't have a thief.http://www.santonsdidier.com/fr/santons/7cm/sujetsDo you have the priest?http://www.santonsdidier.com/fr/santons/7cm/SU029DI wonder what pope Benedict thinks of the historicity of having the village priest come and visit the Holy Family.
I have a Playmobil Nativity http://store.playmobilusa.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-US-Site/en_US/Pr... (with the three kings add-on).And I have a Charlie Brown Christmas Pageant nativity scene as well where Snoopy is a beagle in sheep's clothing. http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Christmas-Peanuts-Nativity-Fold-out/dp/B00... younger daughter just loves to play with both of them.
Article in the NYT this morning about the camels who appear in the Radio City Christmas show. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/nyregion/christmas-show-camels-walk-ti... Christmas superstition: today's the day to begin saying the Hail and Blessed prayer. Say it 15 times a day until Christmas, and you'll get whatever you ask for. (Or something better.) Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, O my God! to hear my prayer and grant my desires, through the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His Blessed Mother. Amen. (It is piously believe that whoever recites the above prayer 15 times a day from the feast of St. Andrew (Nov. 30th) until Christmas will obtain what is asked.) Imprimatur: Michael Augustine, Archbishop of New York, February 6, 1897
I think we discussed that last year: creches have changed from objects of devotion, in front of which one might pray, to mere toys that can be used and abused. I read that they became popular after the French revolution when there were restrictions on live nativity representations. Wikipedia says (in French): In France the first known creche was made in Marseille in 1775 by Laurent and consisted of small articulated models wearing local clothes, along with giraffes, reindeer and hippopotamuses, added in for exoticism. Jean-Paul Clbert says: "During the Concordat Laurent even included a carriage coming towards the stable ; the pope and his cardinals got out of it, the entire Holy Family knelt in front of him and the pope blessed them. During the shepherds' adoration a curtain came up to reveal the sea and a war ship that greeted the infant with a gun salute. Baby Jesus woke up with a start, opened his eyes and waved his arms." http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crche_de_NolThe idea of the Holy Family kneeling before the pope is disturbing. Surely that's an extreme case of clericalism!
Claire:My santons are 4 cm. high. I have about 50 figurines and used to order them from Georges Thullier religious goods on Place Saint Sulpice.I have a gypsy with her baby and tambourine because there is a tradition that a gypsy attended Mary during the birth of Jesus.The thief is pictured on your link has a knife in his hand (5th row, 6th from the left). Oh, I also have monk dressed in brown in honor of St. Francis of Assisi.I read that one of the Avignon popes, Pope John XXII, began the santon tradition in the 14th century.
Gerelyn:For some reason my father was very devoted to that prayer. We were even encouraged to say it when I was in Catholic grammar school. (My best friend told that she was praying for snow on Christmas. I remember thinking that there were more important things to prayer for.)Normally, I would look upon this prayer as a remnant of my early Catholic years. Yet, my brother is undergoing a 10 hour operation for cancer next week. He is determined to be home for Christmas... .
Helen, I'll pray for your brother.
It's a treasured remnant of my early Catholic years, too, along with so many other Christmas memories, including the Advent hymns we sang at Mass every morning. Drop Down Dew was one of my faves. (I'll include your brother in the special intentions I'm praying for fifteen times a day.)
What about the white felt sparkle "snow" I put my nativity scene on. Can I keep that or what? Also, I have some type of herbaceous shrub and a palm tree. Are they kosher?
Wow - what a hissy-fit. I think Tom B. hit the nail on the head and in doing so, he is very "helpful" :"...This story never could have gotten legs if the original hysterical media stories hadnt been ignorant enough to send bloggers scurrying down the road to idiocy. ..."
For clarification:http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/11/what-the-pope-really-said... the article: ". . .But those who have read Pope Benedict at length know that such conclusions would be uncharacteristic of his thought. Had they even held the book? My curiosity was particularly stirred when I noticed the following quotation in the Time story, which they apparently took from the Telegraph (U.K.) rather than from the book: No one will give up the oxen and the donkey in their [sic] Nativity scenes. Any book editor worth his or her salt would notice the obvious pronoun disagreement. No way is that in the English edition, I thought. In comparing the stories, I noticed that the Daily Mail and others instead rendered the quotation: No nativity scene will give up its ox and donkey. In the book, the sentence in question seems to be on page 69: No presentation of the crib is complete without the ox and the ass. This is different from both representations. Which was it? I sought to find out for myself. Random House confirmed via email that neither of the first two quotations listed is in the book; rather they are poor translations from the Italian. Not only have they misquoted the book, perhaps hastily translating the work from Italian, but these unofficial quotations have circulated among multiple publications . . ."
More from same article:" . . . what did the pope actually say about the nativity scene animals? He wrote, The manger, as we have seen, indicates animals, who come to it for their food. In the Gospel there is no reference to animals at this point. But prayerful reflection, reading Old and New Testaments in light of one another, filled this lacuna at a very early stage by pointing to Isaiah 1:3: The ox knows its owner, and the ass its masters crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand. Benedict actually affirms the image of the ox and the donkey present at the manger by pointing to Old Testament imagery and, later, to iconographic tradition that complement the Gospel source. His words justify, rather than call into question, the presence of the animals in the manger scene. This is the beauty of Benedicts writing, and why he is perhaps better read in the study or in the adoration chapel than in the newsroom. On the one hand, he points out what is obvious: the absence of the animals in the Gospel narrative. On the other, he shows why Christians came to understand that the animals were there, adding, No representation of the crib is complete without the ox and the ass.And those talking, non-singing angels? What did the Pope actually say? He writes concerning the gloria, According to the evangelist, the angels said this. That must be about as far as some in the secular press read, because the very next sentence is: But Christianity has always understood that the speech of angels is actually song, in which all the glory of the great joy that they proclaim becomes tangibly present. And so, from that moment, the angels song of praise has never gone silent (p. 73). . . ."
What are we doing discussing nativity scenes anyway? We're still in ordinary time, it seems to me. If Pope Benedict's publisher thinks that his new book would make a good Christmas present, then why did he not wait until Dec 2 before putting that book out? Isn't that jumping the gun a bit? Christmas shopping: that's what Advent is for, no? Must be the influence of consumerism, secularism, greedism, and other -isms.
If the same words had been published in mid-summer by German theologian Pfarrer Unbekannt, their impact and lifetime in the public square would probably have been about the same as the story of Jesus's Wife (remember?). Hitting the market with the Pope's book in the first week of the Christmas shopping season with a press run of 1,000,000 copies in 9 languages (and 20 more to come) and then complaining because some consumers don't read it as Vatican observers wish they did is odd. Every author-editor-publisher who goes public runs the risk that his key message will be missed. Why didn't the author, editor, and publisher in this case deliver a book that left no doubt for the obviously foreseen mass market what the central message was? The process of doing so is demanding but hardly unprecedented. Perhaps a second edition could be a revision that expresses clearly and understandably to ordinary readers, not just to the author, what is centrally important and what is relatively trivial.
A second edition is not necessary jack. Most people skwaking now have not even read the first edition.
As a sign of how things have changed: In the spring of 1960, the professor of New Testament at St. Josephs Seminary, Dunwoodie, Fr. Myles M. Bourke--http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55752195--, published an article entitled "The Literary Genre of Matthew 1-2" [Catholic Biblical Quarterly 22.2 (April 1960): 160-175]. Interpreting Matthews infancy-narrative as a midrash designed to show Christ as a new Moses, indeed a new Israel, he called into question the historicity of the coming of the Magi and the slaughter of the innocents. An Italian priest on Staten Island denounced the article to his friend Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, secretary of the Holy Office. Ottaviani ordered Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York, to remove Bourke from the Dunwoodie faculty. When Spellman inquired of Bourke about the matter, he was told that Bourke had applied to Matthew 1-2 the exegetical methods he had learned at the Biblical Institute. Whereupon Spellman, who did not like Rome telling him what to do in his own diocese, told Ottaviani, This man is not saying anything he didnt learn in Rome. You take of your problems there, and Ill take care of mine here. Not only did he not remove Bourke from the seminary faculty, he made him his summer secretary the following summer and a few months later had him named a papal chamberlain. Auxiliary bishop Patrick Ahearn, then Spellmans regular secretary, later told me that Spellman said that he had to overcome the objections of the Apostolic Delegate, the Congregation for Seminaries, and the Holy Office in order to have Bourke named a monsignor. At the November meeting 1961 of the Central Preparatory Commission that was reviewing a text on scripture, Ottaviani illustrated the dangerous trends in Catholic biblical scholarship by referring to problems at Dunwoodie. (Indeed, the first draft On the sources of revelation would criticize people who called the infancy accounts into question.) By then, Richard J. Dillon, a New York seminarian had published an article which Ottaviani also criticized ("St. Luke's Infancy Account: A Study in the Interrelation of Literary Form and Theological Teaching," Dunwoodie Review 1 [Jan 1961] 5-37). By the time he had become an item in the official Acta of Vatican II, Dillon had himself been assigned by Spellman to study at the Biblicum.But, as Sandro Magister pointed out ten days ago, we now have the Pope himself admitting the possibility that the infancy narratives do not record actual events but rather provide a theological reflection in the form of stories, a conclusion that would not threaten the faith.http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350367?eng=y
David, are YOU now using a "broad brush"? Catholics of my generation were well-versed (!) in the bible. And the generations that followed were given a wealth of information in scholarly and popular books, on t.v., etc. I can still picture the pictures in my 3rd and 4th grade bible history book. (Thanks, Sr. M L. and Benziger Brothers!) This is an earlier edition, (1904), but by the late 40s, early 50s, the pictures and the text were nearly the same. A different cover. http://books.google.com/books?id=fQYXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA76&source=gbs_toc_r&c..., you say "we now have the Pope himself admitting the possibility that the infancy narratives do not record actual events." Is he admitting that or simply stating what everyone knows? Even David, in his opening post, said the pope's observations are commonplace.
Gerelyn:I don't think it's a commonplace that the infancy narratives may not record actual events. There are a good number of people who will be shocked to discover that the Pope thinks it a possibility.
Disagree. Anyone who has read fairy tales, studied mythology, etc., cannot help but recognize the various genres represented in the bible and understand their varying levels of historicity, literary license, etc. (We're all descended from ancestors who celebrated the winter solstice, even if the names they gave the deities born that night were different. We honor their legacy when we deck the halls, light candles, hang mistletoe, sing carols, eat cookies, latkes, etc. Should we pretend not to know who we are and what the old stories mean?)
Fr. Komochak --- A question. The L'Osservatore Romano editorial by Jose Maria Gil Tamayo (dated Nov 30 but apparently the same one referred to above) says this book from the Pope is not an act of papal teaching but the expression of his personal and theological research on the Lord. The distinction is understandable but seems to me to raise questions in his specific case about the weight to be attributed to what he says. Are his research conclusions to be judged differently than some other theologian's because he is Pope? Who judges authoritatively as multiple cardinals did in the Dunwoodie cases you recalled?
Mr. Barry: The Pope has made it clear from the beginning that these books on Jesus are not exercises of his official teaching office, but represent simply what he, as a private theologian, thinks. So what he says is not to be judged any differently than anyone else's conclusions.
Gerelyn: There are lots of people who have not read widely in the types of literature you mention or who consider biblical narratives different in kind from those types, and they will be surprised, even shocked, at the Pope's admissions. This is why I think that it is not a commonplace to regard the infancy narratives as non-historical. (I understand a commonplace to be something commonly known.)
Yes, that's my understanding, too. I was a little surprised by David's opening post. In his first paragraph, he calls the pope's book characteristically smart. (That carries the implication that he, David, is even smarter and therefore able to recognize the smartness of another.) But then he calls the observations commonplace.I'm not tempted to read the book, however commonplace the observations. I know how Bavarians (and Germans in general) love Christmas. Christkindlmarkt, lebkuchen, etc. So I think it's understandable if the pope loves nativity scenes with wisemen and friendly beasts. Jay Strongwater's camel is only $1800 at Neiman Marcus. http://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/Jay-Strongwater-Nativity-Set/prod152430008/ If there are people who "will be surprised, even shocked" at what you call the pope's "admissions," how long do you think it would take to set them straight, to clue them in, to educate them? A day? A sermon? Why don't priests and bishops do it? I think you may be underestimating the abilities of ordinary people. BibIical Archaeological Review has a circulation of 176,000. From Jesus to Christ on PBS was a big success. Etc.I found the thread on the Book of Job interesting. That's a good one to start with to demonstrate that the bible is a biblioteque, a library that contains many books, written by many people, at different times, relying on different sources. A short story like Ruth is easily understood, even by the wilfully ignorant. (The only person in the bible allowed to return to worshipping the Old Ones is Orpha, Ruth's sister-in-law.) And most people would understand the erotic poetry in the Song of Songs. They would not be shocked to learned that the lover's teeth are not literally goats. Etc.I liked the Dunwoodie story. Very different from the seminaries of today.
So Pope Benedict wrote "Unlike the account of the annunciation to Mary, the adoration on the part of the Magi does not touch upon any essential aspect of the faith. It could be a creation of Matthew, inspired by a theological idea: in this case, nothing would fall apart."It seems like backwards reasoning. Start from the "essentials" of our faith, the things which we "know" are true, then work backwards to define a minimum set of events who factual happening is necessary for our faith to be real. Everything else can be questioned, but nothing beyond that. Doesn't that destroy the gospels as a source of knowledge of reality? Something is true, not because it's written in the gospels, but because it is necessary for something else to hold, something that we know is true. But how do we know that that other thing is true? With such an attitude we cannot say: "because the gospels say so". It's weird. For example, how then do we know Christ is resurrected? Infused knowledge??
Claire --As understand it, it puts tradition on a par with Scripture -- if we didn't have tradition as first in time, we couldn't know that that the scriptures are authentic. But we could argue that backwards too -- as you show. Maybe it's the combo that guarantees the truth.This is another question that belongs in theological epistemology. There are many.
Everybody: stay calm. It is the genius of the Catholic imagination to "fill out" biblical narratives to enhance the notion of the incarnation. My wife collects Creche sets (she has about twenty of them) but none are as elaborate as the great set on display during the season at the Metropolitan Museum in New York recreating an entire Italian village. I will visit it again during Christmas to search for the place of Mary, Joseph and the Infant. That great baroque creche makes a powerful theological point: the birth of Christ took place in real time and in the midst of real history.


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Page 2 of 2 - The drain was constructed in 1884. At least four people were buried there after the drain was built, so maybe the cemetery is at a small distance from where the digging was done. Mr. Bush doesn't know about the cemetery, but gave me a description of the drain, saying that part of it is a ditch and part is underground tile.
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i'm new to programming. I wanted to create two integer arrays which are adjacent in memory. i had written the following code, but i'm getting segmentation fault when i run it.
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#include<iostream> using namespace std; void printarray(int* a,int size) { for(int i=0;i<size;i++) cout<<a[i]<<endl; } int main() { int a[3]={0,1,2,}; //the first array int* pa; pa = &(a[2]); pa++; int* b = pa; //the second array for(int i=0;i<3;i++) { b[i]=i+2; } printarray(a,3); printarray(b,3); }
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I assume you are talking of a "known" bug (the question is meaningless otherwise). Well, the answer depends on these factors:
1) Who is the user and how will he/they accept the bug in case it is found?
2) What is the potential impact (damage) of the bug?
3) Is it feasible to delay shipment of the software in order to fix the bug?
4) Most importantly: what do you expect from your software? Time-to-market? Quality? Do you want to see if your customers use the software long enough to find the bug?
It has to always be OK, because there is no such thing as bugless software.
Its a judgement call. Remember, a bug can be many things. If its a major piece of functionality thats flat out not working, then you fix it first. If its something minor that has minimal or no real impact on the program's usefulnes, you might let it slide.
So look at it from a cost/benefit viewpoint.
You ship products with known bugs when the total cost and risk of fixing the bug outweighs whatever problems and negative impact would arise from the bug being out there.
So if you have a 2 week testing period before you release, and a small bug is found, the question is... is fixing that bug worth the 2 additional weeks a team might now have to spend to re-test the application and installation (an often forgotten about step in creating software)? What are the cost to reputation or in sales if the software is late? Are people going to be angry? They might be quite happy to live with a minor bug if the major functionality can be delivered on time.
Risks include the risk of introducing a new problem, not just in fixing the bug, but also things that might arise from creating a new installation.
Negative impact is both the time and effort dealing with customers reporting the bug, and things like reputation damage.
Bugs come in different severities. At any software companies I've worked at we've categorized bugs in order of Priority from P0 to P4.
P0 Is the software does not work/crashes and could cause damage to the customers business. P1 It's not working as designed and crashes consistently in core functionality P2 It crashes occasionally and or a piece of side functionality may not work. P3 Some element of the software is not working as designed/expected P4 Cosmetic issue.
I've worked in places where P4's just don't get fixed because they have such a small effect on the software.
I'd say it's okay to ship if your software has known P3/P4 issues, I'd put this in the release notes and note that they are being worked on.
I'd never release software with a P0,P1 or P2 issue that I was aware of.
It's called a "Known Issue". Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc all ship products with bugs, both known and unknown. Try to minimize them, but don't wait for perfection. Ship fast, ship often.
You can't ship software without bugs. The advice I can give is that it always better to say to your customer: "This version can't do that and that but we are going to fix this" than the situation when customer tells YOU that you have a bug.
when it's a "feature"! ;)
On a serious note, unless you are a perfect programmer with a perfect test setup, to perfectly test every single code path and eventually that could potentially exist, it's improbable that you will ship a bugless product.
Therefore, be pragmatic, if everything you've encountered in your testing has been fixed, anything extra should be fixed on an as needed basis.
As long as you are honest to your customers you can ship with bugs. Telling them about all existing bugs shows them that you have good knowledge about your software, and that is indeed is well tested (if it is..). :)
Obviously the best thing is to avoid shipping with bugs.
It is frequently better to have a product ship on time, with a list of known issues, than not ship at all.
One of the things in the programming world that gives people confidence in a project is whether they have release scheduled and whether the schedule holds.
This is why Ubuntu ships releases every half year, even if there are still open issues.
I'd say that a good rule of thumb is, "is this bug a showstopper?"
If the bug causes a "happy-path scenario" to fail, then absolutely do not ship with that bug.
If the bug causes a "tangent-to-the-happy-path scenario" to fail and there is no workaround, then do not ship with that bug.
If a bug is documented and there is a known workaround, then it is probably OK to ship with that bug.
From a consumers point of view... Never. My point is as long as you know there is a major bug in the software then you should never ship it. However forces of nature (business) override this if the production cycle of the software is now at the stage where it can harm the business model and they are minor bugs that wont: (i) compromise the security of the software (ii) impact usability
As people have said, its a very broad question. It actually takes me to an interesting perspective: the so called "bugs" you claim is only the faults that were discovered by your testers. There could be an infinite more loopholes. Just reminded of an interesting story I heard from a respected Professor in one Graduate Seminar: When people in one of the Scandinavian countries used a "handwriting -recognizable" type voting machine, certain people hacked the entire system by writing malicious SQL code (which the system took in as normal input).
There's something called the FMEA (Failure mode and effects analysis) it's very useful to decide when a known bug is important or not based on:
Another deciding factor can be how the defect relates to your last release. If the bug is part of a new, but broken feature, then the non-functionality doesn't represent a regression of functionality. Go ahead and ship.
On the other hand, if the defect causes a loss existing functionality that is known to be of use to existing customers, then it must block the release. Such a release would be a downgrade for your customers, and would serve neither your interests nor theirs.
There can be shades of grey in this. A regression in core functionalty should never ever go out the door. Some regression in peripheral features could go out to lead users if the release also contains new functionality they have expressed interest in. An obscure defect that is not likely to affect many customers can go into a release, so long as a work around is provided when it does affect those customers. Defects in highly experimental features that are turned off by default anyway should never cause the release to be delayed.


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NEW YORK � A federal judge in Austin, Texas, threw out Lance Armstrong�s lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on Monday, a decision that allows the agency�s drug case against the seven-time Tour de France winner to move ahead.
Armstrong, who repeatedly has denied doping, claimed in his lawsuit that USADA lacked jurisdiction and its arbitration process violates his constitutional rights.
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks dismissed the lawsuit as speculative.
�With respect to Armstrong�s due process challenges, the court agrees they are without merit,� Sparks wrote in a 30-page order. �Alternatively, even if the court has jurisdiction over Armstrong�s remaining claims, the court finds they are best resolved through the well-established system of international arbitration, by those with expertise in the field, rather than by the unilateral edict of a single nation�s courts.�
Armstrong can try to overturn Sparks� decision by going to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. He also can agree to proceed with USADA�s arbitration or accept its sanctions.
In a governing body turf war, the International Cycling Union (UCI) says it has jurisdiction in the Armstrong matter, not USADA. The cyclist could attempt to challenge USADA proceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.
�On balance, the court finds the USADA arbitration rules, which largely follow those of the American Arbitration Association, are sufficiently robust to satisfy the requirements of due process,� Sparks wrote. �This court declines to assume either the pool of potential arbitrators, or the ultimate arbitral panel itself, will be unwilling or unable to render a conscientious decision based on the evidence before it. Further, Armstrong has ample appellate avenues open to him.�
He cited a 2001 decision by the 7th Circuit in Slaney vs. the International Amateur Athletic Association, an attempt by runner Mary Decker Slaney to overturn an arbitration panel�s decision that she committed a doping offense.
�Federal courts should not interfere with an amateur sports organization�s disciplinary procedures unless the organization shows wanton disregard for its rules,� Sparks said. �To hold otherwise would be to turn federal judges into referees for a game in which they have no place, and about which they know little.�
Sparks also cautioned that �the deficiency of USADA�s charging document is of serious constitutional concern.�
�Indeed, but for two facts, the court might be inclined to find USADA�s charging letter was a violation of due process and to enjoin USADA from proceeding thereunder,� he said. �First, it would likely be of no practical effect: USADA could easily issue a more detailed charging letter, at which point Armstrong would presumably once again file suit, and the parties would be back in this exact position some time later, only poorer for their legal fees. Second, and more important, USADA�s counsel represented to the court that Armstrong will, in fact, receive detailed disclosures regarding USADA�s claims against him at a time reasonably before arbitration.�
Almost predicting there will be more legal battles in different venues, Sparks found �there are troubling aspects of this case, not least of which is USADA� s apparent single-minded determination to force Armstrong to arbitrate the charges against him, in direct conflict with UCI�s equally evident desire not to proceed against him.�
�Unfortunately, the appearance of conflict on the part of both organizations creates doubt the charges against Armstrong would receive fair consideration in either forum,� Sparks said. �The issue is further complicated by USA Cycling�s late-breaking show of support for UCI, and apparent opposition to USADA�s proceeding � a wrinkle which does not change the court�s legal analysis, but only confirms that these matters should be resolved internally, by the parties most affected, rather than by edict of this court.�
Sparks had no desire to intervene in the fight between cycling and drug-testing authorities in a case that cites offenses going back 14 years.
�As mystifying as USADA�s election to proceed at this date and in this manner may be, it is equally perplexing that these three national and international bodies are apparently unable to work together to accomplish their shared goal � the regulation and promotion of cycling,� Sparks said. �However, if these bodies wish to damage the image of their sport through bitter infighting, they will have to do so without the involvement of the United States courts.�
USADA says Armstrong took steroids and blood boosters to win the Tour de France every year from 1999 to 2005. Penalties could include a lifetime ban from cycling and loss of his titles. USADA has said former teammates of Armstrong will testify that his teams had a long-running doping program.
�The rules in place have protected the rights of athletes for over a decade in every case USADA has adjudicated,� USADA CEO Travis Tygart said in a statement, �and we look forward to a timely, public arbitration hearing in this case, should Mr. Armstrong choose, where the evidence can be presented, witness testimony will be given under oath and subject to cross examination, and an independent panel of arbitrators will determine the outcome of the case.�
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Why when calling the Cohen even if you clearly know the Psak you cant say I have a Negah at home Instead of saying "Kanegah Nireh Li Babayis" Like a Negah?
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Tos'fos Yom Tov to N'gaim 12:5 gives the following answers, if I read him right:
Midrashim quoted by the Tora Sh'lema say that this is the source of "al tiftach pe l'satan" [which I guess means that they agree with the Tos'fos Yom Tov's own answer].
Rabbi Matis Blum of Queens, in his "Torah Lodaas" weekly d'var-Tora sheet for M'tzora 5771, suggests that according to those who say there never was or will be a house with tzaraas, "k'nega" makes sense, as it isn't, in fact, a nega.
Ralbag says it's because only the kohen can adjudge it a nega. [This is opaque to me, but perhaps he means the Mizrachi's teachers' or the Gur Arye's answer?]
Rav Moshe (in Darash Moshe) says it's so as not to say something bad. [This, too, is opaque to me. Perhaps he means the Tos'fos Yom Tov's own answer, or en m'shivin al hakalkala?]
Rabbi Chayim Zuckerman, in his sefer Otzar Chayim on chumash, quotes רמה״כ (?) as saying that because tzaraas appears on a house because of tzarus ayin, the owner's saying it's a nega is effectively his libeling himself.
Abarbanel says he should make himself seem uncertain and not like he's smart. [This answer seems to me like the Mizrachi's teachers' answer, but I'm not convinced they're the same.]
In Esh Kodesh, the Piazetzner says that the homeowner is unable to see on his own whether the tzaraas is a good thing in disguise (so as to get hidden valuables) or simply a bad thing (a nega), so all he can say is that looks like a nega to him.
Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Shayn of the Yeshiva of Staten Island writes in his book, Birkas Ish, that the homeowner, if he were sure that he were not guilty and that the tzaraas were so he could get hidden valuables, would be glad to announce he has a nega; on the other hand, if he thought he might be guilty and that the tzaraas were a punishment, he would only say it's k'nega; so the Torah is telling him that he should think he might be guilty and examine his deeds.
The Malbim, if I understand him correctly, seems to be saying that the problem is one like more halacha bifne rabo.
Chazon Ish says that if the homeowner is a talmid chacham then the kohen will need to rule like the owner said, that there is, in fact, a nega, since, although only a kohen can rule on a nega, anyone can check it. (This works, he notes, according to those who hold a homeowner can check a nega on his own home, which he says is a matter of dispute among rishonim.) And if the owner is not a talmid chacham (or if he saw it at night or under other circumstances that don't count) then (a) saying it's a nega is lying and (b) one shouldn't begin talking by saying something bad.


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The two latest additions to the burgeoning DISC1...
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The two latest additions to the burgeoning DISC1 literature provide additional support for a role of this gene in cognitive function and schizophrenia, and suggest that more comprehensive studies will be useful as we move to a greater understanding of its role in CNS function. Koike et al. (2006) found that a relatively common mouse strain has a naturally occurring mutation in DISC1 resulting in a truncated form of the protein, similar in size (exon 7 vs. exon 8 disruptions) to that observed in the members of the Scottish pedigree in which the translocation was first detected. C57/BL/6J mice, into which mutant alleles were transferred, displayed significant impairments on a spatial working memory task similar to one used in humans (Lencz et al., 2003). These data are similar to those observed by our group (Burdick et al., 2005) and others (Callicott et al., 2005; Hennah et al., 2005; Cannon et al., 2005), although no study to date has utilized the same neurocognitive tasks. Lipska et al. (2006) report that genes and proteins (NUDEL, FEZ1) known to interact with DISC1 are also aberrant in schizophrenia postmortem tissue, with some evidence that DISC1 risk polymorphisms also influence expression across the pathway.
Taken together, these two papers suggest that the assessment of genes involved in the DISC1 pathway may be worthwhile in the evaluation of working memory function. To date, most studies have focused on risk alleles within DISC1, with little attention paid to the critical interacting genes. Studies are now underway assessing the relationship between FEZ1 and NUDEL and risk for schizophrenia in a number of populations, as well as studies examining their role in neurocognitive and neuroimaging parameters. Clearly, as the Lipska paper indicates, studies that attempt to assess multiple genes in this pathway will be critical, although the common concern of power in assessing gene-gene interactions, especially across multiple genes, may be a limitation. Moreover, these studies indicate that interaction studies will need to consider additional phenotypes other than diagnosis, and perhaps "purer" tasks of neurocognitive function may be worthwhile, as suggested by Koike et al. Finally, both of these papers underscore the fact that the next wave of genetic studies of schizophrenia will encompass the use of multiple probes, whether with neurocognitive assessments, postmortem analyses, or animal models of disease, amongst others, to fully validate the relationships between putative risk genes and the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and related disorders.
Burdick KE, Hodgkinson CA, Szeszko PR, Lencz T, Ekholm JM, Kane JM, Goldman D, Malhotra AK. DISC1 and neurocognitive function in schizophrenia. Neuroreport 2005; 16(12): 1399-1402. Abstract
Callicott JH, Straub RE, Pezawas L, Egan MF, Mattay VS, Hariri AR, Verchinski BA, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Balkissoon R, Kolachana B, Goldberg TE, Weinberger DR. Variation in DISC1 affects hippocampal structure and function and increases risk for schizophrenia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Jun 14;102(24):8627-32. Epub 2005 Jun 6.
Cannon TD, Hennah W, van Erp TG, Thompson PM, Lonnqvist J, Huttunen M, Gasperoni T, Tuulio-Henriksson A, Pirkola T, Toga AW, Kaprio J, Mazziotta J, Peltonen L. Association of DISC1/TRAX haplotypes with schizophrenia, reduced prefrontal gray matter, and impaired short- and long-term memory. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 2005; 62(11):1205-1213. Abstract
Hennah W, Tuulio-Henriksson A, Paunio T, Ekelund J, Varilo T, Partonen T, Cannon TD, Lonnquist J, Peltonen L. A haplotype within the DISC1 gene is associated with visual memory functions in families with high density of schizophrenia. Mol Psychiatry 2005; 10(12):1097-1103. Abstract
Lencz T, Bilder RM, Turkel E, Goldman RS, Robinson D, Kane JM, Lieberman JA. Impairments in perceptual competency and maintenance on a visual delayed match-to-sample test in first episode schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2003; 60(3):238-243. Abstract
In their recent paper,
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In their recent paper, Koike et al. provide new evidence in support of a genetic determinant of working memory function in the vicinity of the mouse DISC1 gene. They report their discovery of a naturally occurring DISC1 deletion variant in the 129S6/SvEv mouse strain that leads to reduced protein expression and that provides a potentially very important new tool for analyzing the cellular and behavioral phenotypes associated with DISC1 insufficiency. Given the strong evidence of a relationship between a cytogenetic abnormality that leads to DISC1 truncation in humans and major mental illness (Millar et al., 2000), this murine model stands to greatly serve our understanding of the molecular and cellular determinants of poor cognition in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
The authors are parsimonious in reminding us of the substantial limitations of models such as this. Specifically, the current approach does not allow for a clear statement that the DISC1 gene itself modulates the traits of interest. The DISC1 deletion variant may simply be in linkage disequilibrium with the actual phenotype-determining gene, and/or variation in DISC1 may influence cognition in a manner that is modified by a nearby genetic region. For example, Cannon et al. recently showed that a 4-SNP haplotype spanning DISC1 and an adjacent gene, translin-associated factor X (TRAX) is more predictive of anatomical and cognitive indices of reduced prefrontal cortical and hippocampal function than are any known haplotypes spanning DISC1 only. Clearly, additional consideration of the genetic environment in which DISC1 lies is necessary, and discovery of flanking regions that contain modifiers of the actions of DISC1, and vice versa, would be extremely interesting.
The greatest impact of the paper by Koike et al. is hinged on the fact that mice carrying one or two copies of the deletion variant exhibit poor choice accuracy in a delayed non-match to position task. Specifically, mutant DISC1 mice made fewer correct choices than did wild-type littermate C57 mice. Because a procedure such as this is necessarily psychologically complex, performance failure is hardly prima facie evidence for impairments of spatial working memory, or for prefrontal cortical dysfunction, in general. Nevertheless, the data are remarkable in establishing a phenotypic bridge between species and in laying the foundation for more sophisticated behavioral studies that will narrow in on the psychological constructs and neural systems affected by variation in this genetic region. Through facilitating a greater understanding of the cognitive phenotypes associated with DISC1 variation, the model should open doors to understanding key phenotypic aspects of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Koike H, Arguello PA, Kvajo M, Karayiorgou M, Gogos JA. Disc1 is mutated in the 129S6/SvEv strain and modulates working memory in mice.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Feb 16; [Epub ahead of print]
Millar JK, Wilson-Annan JC, Anderson S, Christie S, Taylor MS, Semple CA, Devon RS, Clair DM, Muir WJ, Blackwood DH, Porteous DJ. Disruption of two novel genes by a translocation co-segregating with schizophrenia.
Hum Mol Genet. 2000 May 22;9(9):1415-23.
Cannon TD, Hennah W, van Erp TG, Thompson PM, Lonnqvist J, Huttunen M, Gasperoni T, Tuulio-Henriksson A, Pirkola T, Toga AW, Kaprio J, Mazziotta J, Peltonen L. Association of DISC1/TRAX haplotypes with schizophrenia, reduced prefrontal gray matter, and impaired short- and long-term memory.
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2005 Nov;62(11):1205-13.
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Disrupted In Schizophrenia 1 was first identified as a genetic susceptibility factor in schizophrenia because it is disrupted by a translocation between chromosomes 1 and 11 in a large Scottish family with a high loading of schizophrenia and related mental illness. Since then, numerous genetic studies have implicated DISC1 as a risk factor in psychiatric illness in several populations. Given the limitations on studies using brain tissue from patients, an obvious next step was to engineer knockout mice, but these have been slow in coming. As a first step toward this, Kioke and colleagues now report an unexpected naturally occurring genetic variant in the 129/SvEv mouse strain.
Kioke et al. report that the 129/SvEv mouse strain carries a 25 bp deletion in DISC1 exon 6, and that this results in a shift of open reading frame and introduction of a premature stop codon. Several embryonal stem cell lines have been isolated for the 129 strain, favoring it for gene targeting studies. However, this strain has a number of well-established behavioral characteristics (http://www.informatics.jax.org/external/festing/mouse/docs/129.shtml). Therefore, to assign any phenotype specifically to the DISC1 deletion variant, the 129 DISC1 variant had to be transferred to a C57BL/6J background, with its own, rather different but equally characteristic behavior (http://www.informatics.jax.org/external/festing/mouse/docs/C57BL.shtml). There were no detectable gross morphological alterations in the prefrontal cortex, cortex, and hippocampus on transferring the 129 DISC1 locus onto the C57BL/6J background. However, the mutation did result in working memory deficits, consistent with several reports linking DISC1 to cognition.
It is difficult to know what phenotype to expect from a mouse model for schizophrenia, but in humans it is widely believed that mutations confer only a susceptibility to developing illness. Many susceptible individuals function apparently normally, although subtle neurological endophenotypes are detectable. In individuals who do go on to develop schizophrenia, cognitive deficits are a major characteristic. These mild cognitive deficits in mice with loss of DISC1 function are therefore close to what we might predict.
The molecular mechanism by which DISC1 confers susceptibility to psychiatric illness is the subject of some debate. Sawa and colleagues have suggested that a mutant truncated protein resulting from the t(1;11) is responsible for the psychiatric disorders in the Scottish family. Millar and colleagues, however, report that there is no evidence for such a hypothetical protein in t(1;11) cell lines, but rather that the levels of DISC1 transcript and protein are reduced, consistent with a haploinsufficiency model. Identification of the deletion in mice may shed further light on this debate, since while the mutation does not affect DISC1 transcript levels, no mutant truncated protein is detectable, even though such a protein might theoretically be produced as a result of the premature stop codon. Moreover, both homozygotes and heterozygotes have cognitive impairment, demonstrating that DISC1 haploinsufficiency is sufficient to affect central nervous system function.
In this initial study, Kioke and colleagues have left many questions unanswered. In particular, the behavioral studies are limited to one working memory task and one test of locomotion. Ideally, a whole battery of behavioral and cognitive tests should be performed. Since 129/SvEv mice reportedly have impaired hippocampal function, high levels of anxiety-like behavior and altered NMDA receptor-related activity, it will be interesting to discover which, if any, of these phenotypes also co-segregate with the 129 DISC1 variant. It is also interesting to note that the 129 strain is effectively a null for full-length DISC1, but with no gross alteration in brain morphology. This has to be reconciled with the observed effect of transient RNAi mediated down-regulated expression in utero (Kamiya et al., 2005) and the possible, but still anecdotal observation of embryonic lethality in experimental DISC1 knockouts.
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In Chrome, you can edit your resources in line and Chrome will generate revisions of that resource. Here the documentation: http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/chrome/devtools/docs/elements-styles.html#persist
Sadly, it's not working here, and I don't know how to enable it. It is not possible to expand the file in the resource tab to see the revisions.
Using Chrome 15.0.874.121 on MacOS here. A colleague of mine tried the developer channel, but it's still not there. But I saw a demo of it at the Google Developer Day.


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I am new to this stuff. Can some one explain how I could compute the stochastic integral of the form $\int_0^t W_sds$, where $W_t$ is Brownian process?
I am new to this stuff. Can some one explain how I could compute the stochastic integral of the form $\int_0^t W_sds$, where $W_t$ is Brownian process?
What to compute the integral means is unclear in this context but one can say this: for every $t\geqslant0$, the random variable $$ X_t=\int_0^tW_s\mathrm ds $$ is centered normal vith variance $\sigma_t^2$ where $$ \sigma_t^2=\mathbb E(X_t^2)=2\int_0^t\int_0^s\mathbb E(W_sW_u)\mathrm du\mathrm ds=\int_0^t\int_0^s2u\mathrm du\mathrm ds=\frac{t^3}3. $$ The process $(X_t)_{t\geqslant0}$ is called integrated Brownian motion and is the subject of some active research, for a sample see this paper and the list of references therein.
As Learner pointed out, the integral $\omega \mapsto \int_{0}^t W_s(\omega) \, ds$ is not a stochastic integral, it's a pathwise Lebesgue integration.
But anyway: If we would like to obtain another expression for this integral, we can apply Itô's formula:
$$f(W_t)-f(W_0) = \int_0^t f'(W_s) \, dW_s + \frac{1}{2} \int_0^t f''(W_s) \, ds \tag{1}$$
Since we are looking for the "$ds$-part", it would be nice to have
$$f''(W_s) = 2 W_s$$
i.e. $f''(x)=2x$. We obtain this by choosing $f(x) := \frac{x^3}{3}$. By applying $(1)$:
$$\frac{W_t^3}{3} - 0 = \int_0^t W_s^2 \, dW_s + \frac{1}{2} \int_0^t 2 W_s \, ds \\ \Rightarrow \int_0^t W_s \, ds = \frac{W_t^3}{3} - \int_0^t W_s^2 \, dW_s$$


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I'm having some issues with abelian varieties and fields of definition. This already became clear in my previous question on Jacobians. Here's another question. If somebody can explain some nice facts on fields on definition this would help me a lot (because these aren't the only questions I have concerning fields of definition).
Let $A$ be an abelian variety over a number field $K$. Let $L/K$ be a finite field extension. Suppose that there exists an isogeny $A_L\to B$ defined over $L$.
Is this isogeny defined over $K$ if $B$ can be defined over $K$?
I think the answer is negative, but I have to admit that my set of examples is very scarce and, therefore, I can't find an easy counterexample.


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Compass / SASS questions?
Not sure where to post Compass/SASS questions so let me know if there is a better place for this:
Trying to create an application.css file for my new Touch app...getting compass compile error about not finding the mixin 'sencha-panel' ...but really I think it can't find any of them. So probably don't have the config.rb setup properly, or I am completely missing the boat on something else.
I copied the whole resources dir 1.0.2 to a client specific folder off the root of c: (c:\themes\myclient\resources). So that file has all the directories and files from Touch resources dir.
I then cleaned out the resources\sass dir and placed my own config.rb and application.scss files in there, adjusted to my needs. These look like the following:
# Delineate the directory for our SASS/SCSS files (this directory) sass_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) # Delineate the CSS directory (under resources/css in this demo) css_path = File.join(sass_path, "..", "css") # Delinate the images directory images_dir = File.join(sass_path, "..", "img") # Load the sencha-touch framework load File.join(sass_path, '..', '..', '..', '..', 'resources', 'themes') # Specify the output style and environment # For production use: :compressed # For debug use: :expanded output_style = :expanded environment = :production
// Variable overrides $base-color: #00275E; // Options: 'matte', 'bevel', 'glossy', 'recessed', and 'flat'. $base-gradient: 'glossy'; // Include Sencha Touch styles //@import 'sencha-touch/default/all'; @include sencha-panel; @include sencha-buttons; @include sencha-sheet; @include sencha-picker; @include sencha-toolbar-forms; @include sencha-tabs; @include sencha-toolbar; @include sencha-carousel; @include sencha-indexbar; @include sencha-list; @include sencha-layout; @include sencha-form; @include sencha-loading-spinner; // Custom controls @include sencha-button-ui('yellow', #FEB729, 'glossy'); @include sencha-toolbar-ui('aqua', #6D98AB, 'glossy');
"error application.scss <line 9: Undefined mixin 'sencha-panel'.> Sass:: Syntax error on line ["9"] of C: Undefined mixin 'sencha-panel'."
What am I doing wrong?
17 Feb 2011 2:37 PM #2
Looks like when you moved the Sencha css you moved the rerference to the sencha files. so now when you try to include ANY sencha-* compass will not be able to find them.
I have my project set up like this.
# my project specific config
# location of sencha 1.0.1 includes; docs, resources, examples, etc.
sass_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) css_path = File.join(sass_path,'..','..','media','css') images_dir = File.join(sass_path,'..','..','media','sencha','resources','themes','images','default','pictos') load File.join(sass_path,'..','..','media','sencha','resources','themes') output_Style = :expanded environemnt = :developmen
# Delinate the images directory images_dir = File.join(sass_path, "..", "img") # Load the sencha-touch framework load File.join(sass_path, '..', '..', '..', '..', 'resources', 'themes')
17 Feb 2011 8:37 PM #3
Thanks @gcallaghan for the response, don't get many of those in the Touch forum.
As powerful as this technology is, the directions for setting it up are pretty weak. In any event, I kinda neglected to mention that this was on a Windoze box, not that it matters. This guys article did the trick for me. I would also recommend that instead of using the config.rb in the theming article (or this article), I would copy the config.rb in Sencha's sass directory to your scss directory that you create at the same level. That way I think you are more likely to not have any pathing issues in case Sencha makes dir changes from when these articles are written.
Anyway, thanks again for the repsonse, appreciate it
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