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Is there a way to set the Bluetooth in Ubuntu to autoconnect to devices it is paired to when it is turned on. Furthermore, is there a way to automatically change the sound output to a Bluetooth headset on connection?
Pulseaudio >= 1.0
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Previous versions of pulseaudio
Bluetooth devices are recognized in PulseAudio as soon as they are present. However connection needs to be made manually in audio settings. There is a GUI that allows one-click connection to BT devices (stream2ip).
Edit: From version 0.2.5 stream2ip allows auto-connecting to Bluetooth devices.
Edit: you can set up your bluez device as default device (e.g. by using pactl or in the config settings) with fallback to internal audio if no bluetooth device is present.
Edit: Here is a quick and dirty Python script to give you an idea on how to do the job:
Just copy this script and save it as bt-autoconnect.py. Make the script executable or run it from command line (recommended) by
Replace MAC by the MAC of your Bluetooth device (e.g. 00:0C:78:4F:B6:B5) and set a desired timeout (e.g. 10) in seconds when the script looks for the device. This script will then listen to the given MAC every timeout seconds for a Bluetooth device and connects it to PulseAudio if present. The script will run forever until it's being killed or the virtual terminal was closed.
Sometimes PulseAudio seems not to be aware of the device being present again after it has been switched out. With some hope
Not fancy, no GUI but at least in my settings it worked o.k..
Edit for those interested: bt-autoconnect with GUI for convenient setup is released. Please file bugs or suggestions there. Thank you for testing.
Unfortunately, I have only now seen the answer from Takkat, It seems to be the better way than mine.
I guess this might still be relevant for Pulseaudio < 1.0. It doesn't use polling, but listens to Bluetooth events on dbus:

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I'm very new to LaTeX and even though I do understand the power of the system, why is there no single downloadable installer that I can run and install like any other application?
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First of all, I think this should be community wiki or closed :-)
A LaTeX distribution is not a single application but consists from a variety of executables and a large number of packages and other source files written in (La)TeX. As Mike Renfro pointed out a single installer would be a couple of gigabyte in size. In fact a full TeXLive installation is ~2.6 GB in size if you only install the binaries for your platform. If you install really everything (as I recently did), i.e. all binaries for all platforms you have about 4.2 GB.
In fact LaTeX is very easy to install. For Windows simply get the MikTeX installer. MikTeX package manager allows you to easily install any LaTeX package, even automatically once you start using it. The TeXLive installer is text based (at least under Linux, never tried it under windows) and is therefore a little less user-friendly. Besides this it is very easy to use. Also Ubuntu Linux comes with pre-packed (but outdated) TeXLive which can be easily installed over the Ubuntu package manager as usual. See also my answer to What LaTeX system should I use for an Ubuntu/Win7 dual boot environment? for more information.
The TeX distribution for the Mac (MacTeX) is a one click install. (It's also very large, ~1.6 GB). There is a small version called BasicTeX which is only 92 MB, although I wouldn't recommend installing it unless you are very pressed for space or bandwidth.
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My friend and I were able to get in the leaderboard top 100 on the later levels (likely because it's only been out a day) by spamming coin-forges and using coin-trinkets. However, the top few scores still have 3 TIMES (!?!) as many points as we do. Also, in the first couple of levels, we can't even break 2,000th place.
I have a feeling we're doing something wrong. How does the scoring work? How do the top players get so many points?


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This is Mellissa Lami's first time school shopping in the Wiregrass.
Savings are important especially when she's not used to the area's sales tax structure.
"It's a lot, we're coming from 6 and 7 percent in savannah so it's a lot so it helps tremendously," said Lami.
Lami is filling her cart now, since her two kids start school the first week of August.
The tax-free holiday starts August 5th and ends on the 7th cutting it close for her kids.
But that's not going to stop her from hitting the sales in two weeks.
Lami says her daughter, "needs protractors and more expensive stuff and you know a nicer book bag and so we are going to hold off on tax free for her."
Shavania Futch's little guy is starting his first year of kindergarten she's already feeling the pinch.
"How much money do you think you're going to rack up today? I'm nervous, possibly, I hope 50, but being that the list is short but hopefully 50 but it could be more."
Like Lami, Futch's little boy starts school in the beginning of August.
"He starts school August the 9th so I don't want to wait until the last minute. I want to make sure that he has everything that he needs," said Futch.
And everything has a tendency to add up.
That's why Futch still plans to hit the stores in the weeks to come.
"It is going to help out a lot because it's just the fact that I'm putting all this money on school supplies, saving tax alone is good, because if I'm spending 50 dollars and I'm saving 5 dollars that can go towards something else I can buy," said Futch.
Florida is also having a tax-free weekend, that's from august 12th through the 14th.
Georgia is not participating in the tax free holiday this year.
For a full list of the items under the tax free holiday for both Florida and Alabama click on the 4 More Info tab.


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Serial Daters - 04-19-2010, 09:56 PM
I'm sure we all know them. They're the kinds that go through boyfriends/girlfriends like they're going out of style, with their relationships lasting a month, at most.
I have this friend, let's call her K. Now, K has dated at least a dozen guys in her lifetime, and her longest relationship was when she's was in Grade 8 (when dating doesn't mean anything) and lasted for three months. In past year, she's had at least five boyfriends. Most of them lasted a week or two (one lasted TWO DAYS, and they got back together a couple days later, so they could "date" for another three or four days). Her newest boyfriend she's been dating since late March. Quite a shock, I'd say. It's nearly been a month. xD
She keeps talking about how hot the guys are and how much she loves them. I'm thinking, "Right, you love them, you've been dating for a week, and all you can tell me about is their bodies and that 'they're nice'..."
It's her life, but I honestly don't think she loves them. I'm in the best relationship of my life right now, and I can honestly say that I am in love (We've been together 7 months! =D). I've never felt this way before, and I suppose, until she's truly in love, she won't understand what love means.
Of course, the "I love you for a week" serial dater is only one breed of serial daters. Here is a brief list (including the one mentioned above in summary):
The "Fun Run": This is the kind of guy/girl that dates purely out of enjoyment. They aren't looking for a commitment, or even a real relationship. What they want is someone to have fun with, nothing else. These daters usually meet their other at parties or from being introduced by friends. After the break up, they rarely speak to each other. Dates per year (D/Y): 5-10
The "Love Bug": The love bug is unsure of what love is. They usually start dating someone based mainly on attraction, and become easily infatuated, which they mistake for love. These relationships normally last no longer than a month. After a break up, however, they usually feel bad for no more than 2 or 3 days, at which time they meet some other good looking person. Though they don't have bad intentions (they might actually want a commitment, and might honestly think they're in love), they're still serial daters. D/Y: 5-8
The Liar: These are one of the worst serial daters. Usually attractive and arrogant, they use their athletic ability or appearance to snag members of the opposite sex. Though they say they love you, this is usually a lie - their intentions are no greater than the "Fun Run" serial dater. They usually break up with you, without considering your feelings, after a couple weeks. D/Y: 10+, if they're good enough at getting who they want.
The Snob: Usually female, The Snob is really just looking for a servant/someone to push around. When they say that they love you, it's either said in a very nonchalant manner, or very over the top and fake sounding. Like the liar, they usually use their looks to catch their prey. Their average relationship length varies, depending on how good a servant you make. D/Y: 3-7
Fear of Commitment: Unlike most serial daters, these daters might actually have feelings for their boyfriend/girlfriend (and they don't seek out innocent people to prey on), but they just don't want to be tied down and find it difficult being with one person for longer than a month or so. These ones can possibly be fixed with a good talking to. D/Y: 5-10, possibly more.
Fear of Being Alone: Like the previous one, these daters don't search for people with the intention of breaking hearts. However, once this dater is with someone, they can become excessively clingy, possessive, and/or jealous. If they are broken up with (with that reason, or any other), they will be sad for a couple days, but instantly try and find someone else to fill that void. These daters rarely go for a month single. D/Y: 7-10
The Immature One: This ones pretty basic. Usually, they aren't mature enough to handle relationships, so their relationships are short. They may have many, because they don't fully understand dating yet. They might also want to "look cool". D/Y: 4-5
The Cheater: This is the worst type of serial dater you can encounter. Unlike the others, which at least have the decency to date one at a time, the Cheater tends to date up to 5 at once. They will make you feel like they love you, but don't be fooled. The Cheater also can have aspects from other serial daters, usually the Liar and the "Fun Run". They date longer than most serial daters (sometimes up to half a year, or longer, for individual girls). Highly dangerous - beware. D/Y: 10+
So, what I'm getting at is, has anyone here ever experienced these type of daters? I've experienced some personally, but I certainly know people who are these daters, or had been affected by them. Shed your light. :P
Well, I was a big time serial dater back in my day. I would run through boys in about two months, though there was a period where I went through maybe 4-5 in a month. Its not really that I didn't care for them, but I was in a stage where I was trying to find myself. Since I wasn't sure who I was as a person(and felt very badly about myself to boot, so I would often sabotage the relationship), it didn't turn out well. It ended up being a learning experience, though admittedly a bad one since I ended up with "The Cheater" for four years.
On that, everyone has to remember that fun boyfriend of mine who hung around here, basically monitoring everything I say. He totally was a serial dater. During our "relationship"(I hesitate to label it one after the first year because then he showed his true colors--aka being an abusive ass), I knew he cheated at least 3-4 times(and he actually flat out told me too, what an added bonus). I later found out it was more than that. I beat myself a lot for letting myself be terrified into staying, but I guess in some stupid way I thought he would change. Sadly, he went on to do that to a friend of mine and now, so I hear, runs through girls like crazy.
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There's another type; The Insecure. Otherwise known as The Sl*t. There was a girl like that at my school, who'd brag about how many boys she'd slept with, and how awesome she was cuz all the boys wanted to be with her. Obviously she was bolstering up her own terrible self esteem by being so. She eventually had to leave school in fourth year cuz she fell pregnant; right now, she has five kids all by different fathers. I think with her she thought that just cuz guys thought she was easy and wanted to sleep with her, she thought it made her attractive. It's sad in a way.
There is a girl for every category of serial daters on that list, and some fit multiple ones, at my school. It's so annoying to hear them in the halls telling eachother they "love them" when they've only been "dating" for 2 hours. Dating for them is standing at eachothers lockers between class and saying they're married/engaged on facebook. I have never had a boyfriend and I don't want one now because 95% of the guys I know are extremely immature. Most of them are very shallow anyways and just go for eachother because the majority of their friends think they're hot and they want "popularity" amongst themselves.
I've only known of one relationship that was not serial dating amongst my year in highschool, and that was two of my best friends. They went out for almost 5 months, and they actually did stuff together after school and didn't just do it for attention. (It was quite the opposite because a lot of kids gave them strange looks, started rumors and shunned them because they were both girls, but they didn't care.)
I agree with Miranda; the majority of girls at my school or somewhat like the Insecure category.
But I am getting sick of watching this one Snob at lunch and her Boy Pet; they've been dating for at least a year, but the way she treats him is disgusting, and she's not even that pretty to begin with. (I'm not calling her completely ugly, she's just not drop dead gorgeous.)
She had to be putting out. The way she reats that boy (they're both freshman, and the boy looks like he should still be in sixth grade O.o), there's no other reason he'd stay with her. She yells at him a lot, intimidates him, and wants him to hang off her arm mostly silently; if he speaks, she rolls her eyes and yells at him later, when all her friends are gone. It is honestly the most disgusting thing I've seen at our school, and, remember, this is the school that had 27 pregnant girls in one year in one class, so there's a lot of gross stuff going around.
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Mine Closures Hit South Africa Social Programs
SIYATHEMBA, South Africa—Residents near the Burnstone gold mine here burned tires three years ago as part of a protest to demand the mine's owner provide them with jobs and housing. Many got both, though not for long.
In September, the mine's owner, the South African subsidiary of Canadian-listed Great Basin Gold Ltd., filed for bankruptcy protection. Most of the mine's 1,400 employees were fired. Projects the miner had agreed to take on to improve this mostly black township in northern Mpumalanga province—a 500-unit housing development and a school for disabled children—were left unfinished.
For years, South African authorities have required global miners to help prop up public services. Now, as economic and labor troubles shake up the mining industry, communities are facing a double hit: With many companies closing mines, rural communities are grappling not only with large-scale job losses, but also with a blow to social services the mining firms supported.
That leaves local governments to fill the void in areas that are already struggling to cope following a half-year of labor actions over wages and poor living conditions, often shacks without running water or plumbing.
"They have left a huge gap in the community," says 27-year-old Yolanda Nkosi, a former Burnstone mine employee.
Alvarez & Marsal Canada ULC, which Great Basin appointed in December to help with restructuring, didn't immediately respond to requests to comment.
Lou van Vuuren, Great Basin Gold's former interim chief executive officer, said the company had suspended work at Burnstone after overall costs rose and production targets were missed. While electricity prices and labor account for the bulk of mining costs, social spending also contributed, he said, adding that the company was looking for buyers or other funds to save the mine and revive community projects.
South Africa's government requires companies seeking a mine license to promise to spend a portion of profits on community development projects. In 2011, mining companies spent 1.3 billion rand ($147 million)—or 1.4% of profits before taxes—on community development, according to South Africa's mine industry body, the Chamber of Mines.
The government appears to be continuing that course. At a meeting of the country's ruling African National Congress last month, a delegation of around 4,000 members elected to impose more taxes on the mining sector and to deploy revenue from a new tax toward the country's growth and development needs. The conference didn't release further details. The details of the new tax are yet to be determined by various government bodies, said Enoch Godongwana, a top ANC policy maker.
But across the mining sector, company executives say miners alone can't bear the burden for services that in other countries are funded from public coffers. They say the cost is greater than that borne by other industries and has become harder to bear as electricity prices have risen some 20% a year, wage growth has outstripped inflation and commodity prices have fallen.
Meanwhile, several mines are closing or restructuring. In November, Gold Fields Ltd., the No. 2 miner of South African gold, spun off two of its oldest mines in the country into a separate company because its said the mines required a different management approach to extend their life span. AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. said it is in the middle of reviewing its mines in the country and that it may have to shut some that aren't profitable. Aquarius Platinum Ltd. put two mines in South Africa on what is known as care and maintenance in the past year and said that it had to cut spending on community projects as a result.
Companies like Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. IMPUY 6.42 % said they are building new family units to replace the current hostel system. Anglo American NGLOY 3.98 % PLC is building 25,000 houses around its mines in the next five years.
Yet the pace has been slow across the industry. Recent weak earnings will lead companies to build fewer houses and fund fewer projects, according to Vusi Mabena, a senior executive at the Chamber of Mines, an industry lobby group in Johannesburg.
When Great Basin Gold got into financial trouble in August, it told local government and union leaders it had no choice but to put the mine on care and maintenance, firing all but about 40 workers needed to run security and basic maintenance.
At the time, Mr. van Vuuren said the company was spending roughly $700,000 to $950,000 a year in the community, the equivalent of almost one-third of the annual budget of Dipaleseng municipality, where the mine is located. The mine had been funding extracurricular mathematics and science courses at the local schools, repaved roads in the town center and has funded training of local residents in sustainable agriculture, according to another person familiar with the operations. The spending has been cut to about $60,000 for the next few months. Still, many of the township's roads are dotted with potholes and few people have jobs outside a local butchery.
"If the mine can come back it would be a big plus," said Sarah Nhlapho, the mayor for the region around Siyathemba. "They assist the municipality with projects it can't do alone."
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Unrest and closures at South Africa's mines
June 2012 Three platinum mines—including Marikana, jointly run by Aquarius Platinum and Anglo American Platinum—suspend output.
Aug. 1 Three die as fired workers storm Aquarius's Kwezi platinum mine.
Aug. 10 Workers begin striking for higher pay, better living conditions at Lonmin platinum mine. Clashes leave 46 dead. Strikes over pay and housing also hit Anglo American platinum mines.
Sept. 11 Great Basin Gold Ltd. stops production at Burnstone gold mine, dismissing almost all of its 1,400 employees.
Sept. 17 Lonmin suspends work at its K4 platinum mine, leading to 1,200 job losses.
Oct. 12 Fluormin suspends production at its Witkop mine.
Dec. 12 Following worker strikes since August, Rockwell Diamond suspends production at Tirisano diamond mine, dismissing around 90 employees.


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STEUBENVILLE - The Big Red wrestling squad had a season that saw it qualify eight wrestlers for the state tournament with five standing on the podium at the event's finale. One of the senior cogs in the Big Red machine, Jake Howarth, has signed to continue his wrestling career at Ashland University.
"I definitely chose Ashland because they have a great program down there and I really liked the cafeteria," said Howarth. "But seriously, it was nice down there. It just feels right."
Added Big Red head wrestling coach Mike Blackburn of his grappler's fit at Ashland, "I think Ashland is going to be a great fit for him. It's Division II, they always have a pretty good team.
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THE NEWEST EAGLE — Steubenville Big Red's Jake Howarth signs with Ashland University with his father, Marty Howarth, brother, Noah Howarth, assistant wrestling coach Cornell Birden and head wrestling coach Mike Blackburn.
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"I think the coaching staff has done a great job and if you look at the recruiting class coming in, from Fickell to Jake and everyone else they brought in, they're going to be an up and coming team the next few years."
Howarth, who finished his Big Red career with 108 victories, wasn't set on competing at the next level until fairly recently.
"I didn't decide I wanted to wrestle in college until the beginning of this year," he said. "I just started going year round the summer after my junior year.
"My dad and I decided it would be best for my schooling if I decided to wrestle in college and it worked out."
Blackburn discussed the level of commitment Howarth displayed and how it paid off.
"I think the biggest thing about Jake is he trained all summer long as much as he could," he stated. "He went to camps, he went to opens, he did everything he possibly could because he wanted to be good.
"When he decided he wanted to wrestle in college that focus intensified and he ended up having a great year."
That great year included an Ohio Valley Athletic Conference runner-up finish, a sixth- place finish at the Top Gun Tournament, a win at the Watkins Invitational, a sectional championship and a second place finish at districts to go with an eighth-place finish and spot on the podium at the Ohio State Wrestling Tournament.
The senior is quick to credit others for much of the success he experienced during the past year.
"Definitely my coaches," said Howarth.
"My dad supported me the whole year. I want to give a lot of credit to Dunyasha Yetts because he spent countless hours working out with us.
"And, definitely, my teammates too."
The experience of this season was even greater for Howarth when he looked back on how far the Big Red wrestling program came during his time here.
"It was definitely great," he said.
"Freshman year Shawn McGhee and I were part of beginning to put the program back on the map."
Blackburn expects Howarth will succeed on the next level due in part to the fact his work ethic doesn't consist of just athletic pursuits.
"Jake, in the classroom first off, is a talented student and he worked as hard on the wrestling mat as he did in the classroom," he said.


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I received this user requirement recently. The user (a designer) male, 50 years old said that the act of physically writing something down (on Post-It, paper, and so on) was a huge aid to recall and prioritizing ideas later. Any suggestions on what UX innovations could help here or examples from existing apps? Stylus-based Evernote style solution? User likes to be mobile.
I'm sorry to say this, but the "Pen is mightier than the keyboard". This is biology and cognitive science combined to this:
The act of writing triggers more of you, and there are several studies mentioned in the article Why You Learn More Effectively by Writing Than Typing. Well is this a dead end then? Not really, but using typing alone won't be as effective as using a Post-IT note. The only solution I can think of is trying to mimic the pen movements on your touch enabled device to "trigger more of you" - but this may be hard to implement and practically not very useful.
Reference: Why You Learn More Effectively by Writing Than Typing
I would say the age of the user is very important as the culture of writing on paper disappear very quickly.
Here my experience about the matter (I am 45). I hope you may find some clues for your research.
To me, writing as much as drawing is great not only to remember but also to think, to create.
I did publish an article about this a while ago : Drawing helps me to have better thoughts.
Then a commenter left this note very meaningful for me:
I have used many techniques to get the benefit of having the notes on paper and on a screen.
Loosing the digital practically of a drawing note is too much of a hassle. I need to be able to retrieve them and share them. I don't need extra meta fields, the title of the note is usually enough to put all the data I need to organise them.
What I realize is drawing on paper give me so much pleasure that I don't think I'm ready to give that away. When I draw a note, I'm scribbling around. On a screen , I don't feel free.
Paradoxically, I am incapable of writing anything meaningful and wordy on paper anymore. I need to use a word processor.
The article shown by Benny is certainly correct but maybe only for people who used to write on paper. This is why I think youngsters may not really need to write to remember things. They will use other strategies.
I'd second Benny's proposal - from a UX perspective, I think you should consider ways of helping the user outside of the technical solution - consider observing the user making notes, getting them to talk through their thought processes, and seeing how you can design something better. Ideally, do this with multiple users - this could be a really useful piece of research. In terms of existing solutions, mind maps using colour are something I've personally found very effective - there are technical implementations of this, but I personally don't feel they are as effective as paper and pen.
Something I will put out there in defense of typing when compared to using a pen. Something that is typed is indexible and searchable, where a pen (usually) is not.
If you then consider that ideas of distributed cognition, the item that we used tools in our environment to extend out cognitive abilities, you can consider your database of notes part of your memory.
So while you might remember more by physically writing, even that is debatable, you will have a greater access and ability to recall your thoughts through a indexible medium (i.e. keyboard input). Also something that is unequivocally a boost of increasing your recall of facts is repetition. Revisiting and reviewing facts/thoughts/ideas is the best way to commit them to long term memory. This reviewing and revisiting is a lot easier to do with something that is searchable than something that is presented in a linear fashion (note book).
In other words, if you want to perform a single one time memorizing task writing might be better than typing (still very dependent). If you want to remember something more than once than having an searchable notes is the way to go.


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ADDED: I'd prefer to assume a smooth structure, rather than a triangulation.
If this has been answered already, please let me know and I'll delete the question.
ADDED: I'd prefer to assume a smooth structure, rather than a triangulation.
A very simple and low tech solution to this problem is the very first proof, given by Möbius in 1863. He assumes that the surface is smoothly embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and slices it by a family of parallel planes. Assuming that the orientation of the planes is general and that they are sufficiently close together, this cuts the surface into simple pieces -- either disks, annuli, or pairs of pants.
It is then quite easy to show that the result of assembling such pieces is always a sphere with handles.
Count the number of disjoint non-separating embedded circles.
Consider harmonic functions $f$ with exactly 2 log-singularities of weight $\pm 1.$ (locally $f(z)=a log\parallel z\parallel+g,$ $g$ being smooth at $z=0$, $a$ being the weight) on your compact surface equipped with a Riemann metric. They exists by standard elliptic theory ( the two weights $a_1$ and $a_2$ have two add to zero). Consider $\partial f,$ the complex linear part of the differential. This is a meromorphic section of your canonical bundle. Then $deg\partial f=-\frac{1}{2\pi i}\int KdA,$ as the Levi-Civita connection defines a complex linear connection on the canonical bundle.
This shows that if the total curvature is large enough $\geq 4\pi,$ $f$ will not have critical points (only two singularities). Moreover $e^f$ is the real part of a holomorphic bijection onto $CP^1.$
If $f$ has a critical point, then you can easily construct a non-sepreating loop, as in Morse theoretic proofs. You cut your surface, and add two disc (with the right orientation). One, can easily see, that this must increase the total curvature by $4\pi,$ and you end up with the two-sphere after a finite number of steps.
Check out this nice paper by Thomassen for a short self-contained proof.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo President Christopher C. Dahl announced today that he will retire from the university effective June 30, 2014. He will begin a nine-month sabbatical Oct. 1, 2013, after serving more than 18 years as president during a period of unprecedented growth.
He has recommended that Geneseo Provost Carol Long be appointed interim president at that time. He hired Long from Willamette University (Oregon) in 2009, where she was Dean of the College. She has worked closely with Dahl and senior colleagues in advancing a number of academic and administrative initiatives.
"With her deep understanding of 21st century liberal education, not only will Carol do a splendid job in carrying out our academic mission, she also will be able to advance the college in a number of areas during the interim period," said Dahl.
The president, also a professor of English at Geneseo, will continue to support college administrators during his sabbatical to assure a smooth transition during the presidential search.
"This is an appropriate time for transition to new leadership," Dahl told an all-college meeting Thursday. "Serving you as president is the greatest privilege of my professional and personal life. Almost every day since my arrival in 1994, I have been inspired by our students, our faculty and staff, and our friends in the wider community. I have been blessed with superb colleagues in the senior administration. I am deeply grateful."
Dahl ascended to the presidency in February, 1996, after serving eight months as interim president, and before that, one year as provost at Geneseo. Currently, he is the longest-serving president among SUNY's four-year colleges.
"President Dahl has made an extraordinary mark on Geneseo, and SUNY has greatly benefited from his many years of loyal service," said SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher. "His integrity, energy and resolute focus on student success created a national model for high-quality public liberal arts education. We are grateful for the tremendous legacy Chris will entrust to us, and I wish him the very best for his retirement."
Under Dahl's leadership, SUNY Geneseo has achieved distinction in a number of areas and has become, by all measures, one of the leading public undergraduate colleges in the nation. Since becoming president, Dahl's strategic focus has centered on increasing the quality rather than the size of the college, resulting in a variety of milestone accomplishments:
• The number of academically talented students has increased. The average combined mean SAT score of incoming freshmen rose from 1211 in 1996 to 1333 in 2012. Geneseo also has become more selective.
• The college was granted a Phi Beta Kappa chapter in 2004, one of only 280 American colleges and universities with a chapter and the only one at a public undergraduate college in New York.
• The number of students attending graduate or professional school immediately after graduating has increased from about 30 percent in 1996 to more than 40 percent today.
• The college has become more diverse. Geneseo students who are African-American, Latino, Asian or Native American (ALANA) now comprise 25 percent of the student body, more than double the percentage from 1996.
• Service and service learning programs have grown. The college has been named to the President's National Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll every year since its inception in 2006.
• During Dahl's presidency, Geneseo completed or is in the midst of numerous capital construction projects, including the Integrated Science Center dedicated in 2006. The previous two decades have been the most active building period on campus since the 1963-79 administration of President Robert W. MacVittie. Among projects currently under way are the construction of a new college stadium; renovation of Bailey Hall to house social science departments; and the transformation of Doty Hall to become the college's new "front door" to house admissions, college advancement and administrative offices.
• The college has garnered consistently high rankings as one of the best public colleges in the nation, including those published by U.S. News & World Report, Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, The Princeton Review, and Washington Monthly magazine.
• The president has overseen a successful "Shaping Lives of Purpose" capital campaign, which is within $1 million of reaching its $22 million goal.
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Lately I've gotten a friend of mine interested in mathematics. He has no college-level education to speak of, but is well employed as a software engineer. So I feel he's competent to learn this stuff on his own.
He asked me recently if there was a 'mathematical' version of "The Little Schemer".
The point being, if there was an "introduction to proofs" book which took a more hand-holding approach. He's also expressed fondness for the metamath project.
However, metamath's proofs are obviously a bit too low level to learn anything serious.
At one point in our conversation, I mentioned the dependently typed programming language Agda, but I felt it's not quite as helpful until he at least gets some experience with Haskell (for which the target audience of Agda is Haskell programmers, hence the similarity in syntax).
Anyone have any good suggestions on a book?


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Francis: The Bridge-Builder Washington Needs?
The inaugural dialogue of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, launched Tuesday night at Georgetown University (at least something was working in the nation's capital), offered a glimpse into the Church's future. The dialogue, entitled "The Francis Factor," sought to begin a conversation about how Catholics can better engage and shape public life with their "whole package"… and Pope Francis was a subject for much joy and exaltation, from Cardinal Wuerl to Mark Shields to the initiative's director, the long-time head of the USCCB's justice and peace efforts, John Carr. The conversation, playing to a packed house, offered an opportunity not for in-depth analysis of Francis' words, but rather for the broad question of "impact" – and in particular, what impact does he have on Catholics in public life? Six months in, it was a nice opportunity for taking stock.
What did we learn? Well, I learned that David Brooks has a better grasp of Christian theology than many Christian theologians, when he described the "glittering vice of magnanimity" as a temptation, in contrast to Christianity's account of "inverse, ironical, paradoxical powers," which Pope Francis better reflects. But the panel reflected a convergence on four elements:
First, Francis' "authenticity" was praised by all. This obvious lack of pretense and elaborate "spin" offers a stark contrast to and challenge for our standard political culture. These are some of the same compliments showered on President Obama when he first appeared on the screen – and it is interesting that there is a deep hunger for figures who come across as "genuine" or "real" in an age of constructs.
Second, all participants talked A LOT about poverty and inequality. This was not simply driven by the questions – it was a sense that, in both political parties, poverty and inequality are ignored, and that part of Francis' value is his refusal to ignore deep poverty. Moreover, the enormous resources, both intellectual and practical, of the Catholic tradition offered a lot of substance in a public square that desperately needed it. Who know, maybe another "Economic Justice for All" could arise from the American bishops...
Third, I was most pleased to find that the tone was strongly against a "good pope/bad pope" kind of setting of Francis off against his predecessors. John Carr quipped at one point, "People who want to pick fights about this are showing they are more about their own agenda, and not about listening to the Holy Father." Kim Daniels, the spokesperson for Cardinal Dolan as the president of the USCCB, noted the Cardinal's recent statements that John Paul showed the church's "soul," Benedict the church's "mind," and Francis the church's "heart." The general sense was that people were sick of the Catholic in-fighting, because they wanted to get on with the urgent business of actually being Catholic in a full way, and offering this to and for the world. Cardinal Wuerl characterized the recent papal interview by saying that Francis was presenting "one beautiful Gospel message, not separate agendas" for separate issues, and that while Francis of course was not presenting a new faith, he was presenting "a new way of doing the gospel," a "simpler, more profound, radiant" Gospel. As Mark Shields described it, the key question for any movement is "are they seeking converts and welcoming them, or are they seeking heretics and expelling them?" It was evident that the "welcoming" of Francis was not to be an occasion for a new round of "expelling."
Finally, several speakers picked up on the need for a challenge to "rising individualism." Daniels noted the need for Catholics to unite against the economic individualism of the Right and the socio-cultural individualism of the Left. Another commented that the political parties had reached a kind of tacit agreement on the core of individualism, and that there was a desperate need for some force to push back against this cultural "tsunami." This common resistance to individualism is potentially the most explosive dynamite in the Catholic toolbox. Yet it also presents the biggest challenge, for it requires us to think about how parishes and other Catholic groups can actually form and participate in subsidiary groups which not only speak against individualism, but make visible alternative choices to it.
But beyond these points, let me say how good it is when Christian dwell together in unity. What was more refreshing than anything was being at a packed house, at a reputedly "liberal" Catholic university, with a panel from diverse parts of the Church, welcomed graciously and eloquently by an excited archbishop… all of whom were buzzing and excited about what is happening in the Church, and in the papacy. This simply has not happened for a long time. John Carr ribbed his friend in the audience, Commonwealer E.J. Dionne, saying that he and E.J. have had a running dialogue over the years about which institution, the American government or the Catholic Church, is in the most trouble. With Francis, and on the day the government shut down, Carr could not resist wondering if his side (the Church) was in far less trouble, on a range of factors, "even – dare I say it, E.J.? – on bringing 'hope and change.'" That brought the house down. And the joy of the packed house is maybe the most significant Francis factor of all.
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David Cloutier is associate professor of theology at Mount St. Mary's University and editor of catholicmoraltheology.com. He is the author of The Vice of Luxury (2015), Walking God's Earth: The Environment and Christian Ethics (2014), and Love, Reason, and God's Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics (2008). In fall 2016, he is starting a position at the Catholic University of America.
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thanks so much for this generous report. The enthusiasm you convey is infectious (in the good sense!).
Could I ask you, however, to spell out a bit what Brooks meant by "the glittering vice of magnanimity?"
One would have thought that a little more "magnanimity" would be a helpful attribute in today's super-charged exchanges.
And what in the world does the desirable contrast position – "inverse, ironical, paradoxical powers" – mean?
I realize you may not have wanted to lengthen unduly the post. But inquiring minds want to know!
It's also interesting to note that the pope has a completely different account of what he calls "magnanimity" in his interview! Brooks was explicitly referencing Augustine, and his comments were directed toward the temptation to the ancient sense of the proper pomp and circumstance surrounding the possession of power and privilege, and the sense of dispensing such privilege (or withholding it). Basically, he meant it in the sense that Pope Francis critiques "clericalism" - and then I think Brooks was conjuring up Christ as presenting a contrasting way of exercising power, one that is "counterculural" in a paradoxical rejection of power seeking and influence trading. (It may be Reinhold Niebuhr's account of Christianity at work here.) At one point, Brooks said, "Well, Francis just looks like a Christian" - that is, what a Christian would look like inhabiting the very powerful office of the bishop of Rome.
Yes, thanks for this fine and warm report. ("Generous" is a good word.) It certainly seems like a hopeful moment---both because of Pope Francis' actions, and because of responses like the ones at Georgetown the other night.
If you tune in to minute 45 on the video of the panel discussion, you can get the full text of David Brooks' first remarks when he mentioned the "glittering vice of magnanimity." To me, Brooks' insights here and later in the discussion were the most incisive of the evening.
There are so many features to talk about with reference to this unique conference. But what I like most about it is that diverse segments of the Catholic world came together in unity. (Of course we now include our separated brethren and our Jewish brothers in our world.) This was a moment for being Catholic that so many of us cherish and want to see more of.
I don't wish to steer folks away from the excitement of this event, but just want to comment that this observation:
First, Francis' "authenticity" was praised by all. This obvious lack of pretense and elaborate "spin" offers a stark contrast to and challenge for our standard political culture. These are some of the same compliments showered on President Obama when he first appeared on the screen – and it is interesting that there is a deep hunger for figures who come across as "genuine" or "real" in an age of constructs.
... strikes me as quite insightful about the President. I agree that his genuineness is the foundation of his appeal - at least, it is for me.
At the risk of demoting David Brooks from his new honor as "better [theologian]... than most Christian theologians," I feel it necessary to point out that use of the word "magnanimity" to mean pomp and power is bizarre, to say the least. Whatever St. Augustine's point was, that's not what magnanimity means in standard English. It means generosity. It means being great-hearted and great-spirited.
Most people would say Pope Francis is generous and wants to foster more generosity and great-spiritedness in the Church: charity, mercy, forgiveness, love. This sounds to me like yet more "spin" -- trying to change the message of Francis to make it "inverted" and "paradoxical" when actually it's pretty straightforward.
In Augustine's time as in some circles today, magnaminity refers to a superiority of the upper classes who "generously" give to their inferiors. Augustine, (I agree with him on this) rightly condemns it as a giving tied to honors rather than selflessness. Don't worry Rita. Other than this you are right 99 and 9/10 of the time. LOL.
I think the qualifier "glittering" indicated sufficiently that Brooks wasn't using the word "magnanimity" in its most common contemporary sense. A lot of the stuff that early Christians would condemn as "superbia," or pride, pagans would have defended as maganimity, or nobility. Nietzsche also contrasted pagan magnanimity, or greatness of soul, with Christian humility. In any case, I think we can all agree that Pope Francis has been exceptionally magnanimous in the ordinary sense of the word.
The typical magnanimous person is the king who won a battle and who, instead of killing all his ennemies, lets them go. It means to be forgiving in a context in which one has power. It combines two ideas: power and generosity. Neither the gentle but powerless nor the powerful but vengeful man are magnanimous. It's always a quality of character. At least, that's what it means in French, and since the English word apparently came from the Latin through the French, I assume that's also the correct meaning in English.
When was pope Francis magnanimous? When did he have a chance to take revenge on someone who had caused him some injury but decided to forgive him instead? I am not aware of it.
Oh, not to worry. The pleasure of hearing Bill Mazzella agreeing with St. Augustine has made this whole exchange worthwhile. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Bill. :) :)
But, to follow up on Claire's comment, if you look at the background of the interview with Scalfari and the history of his political party, there are observers who regard the Pope's gracious response to him (after all he has done to promote a "godless" Italy) as beyond any reception he deserved. They might say he ought to have turned him away, or denounced him rather than embracing him and talking with him in such a way that they appear to be brothers. It was reported today in the Catholic Herald (UK) that Archbishop Fisichella, now head of the New Evangelization, once said in a lecture that he was proud not to read La Repubblica. Many blame the Radical Party, which Scalfari helped to found, with undermining Church authority, making abortion legal, and so on.
But did Pope Francis have an interview with him in order to tell him "Your soul is in peril. You must change your ways!"? No, not at all. Here's the head of the Catholic Church--he does have power and authority. He did not use his power to condemn him.
As I remember, Machiavelli recommended the virtue of "magnanimity" to the Prince as a way of winning loyalty from his people -- the Prince must be the opposite of stingy. Such magananimity was grounded in the Christian virtue, of course, but was to be put to profane use by the Prince. We find echoes of that distorted meaning (giving for the sake of the good it does for the giver) in the current phrase "Lord and Lady Bountiful". They give because they have and want only to be perceived as good themselves. They're the opposite of people who give anonymously.
It seems to me that people who object to having anything to do with apparently serious sinners is that they don't understand the primacy of conscience. if Jill thinks smoking is a sin and Jack doesn't, she might condemn him as a sinner because he smokes. But smoking isn't a sin for him if he honestly think it isn't a sin -- for him it's only a mistake. it's only a sin if you think it's a sin and choose to do it. In other words, sin is in the intention to do evil. No, this is NOT relativism. It still recognies that some behavior or non-behavior is objectively evil. But it also recognizes the subjective positive value of the primacy of conscience -- we must do what we *think* is right. How could it be otherwise?
Same with abortion. If Jack (or Scarfina) thinks abortion is not a sin, then for them choosing an abortion is not a sin -- it's a terrible, terrible mistake. And, in the immortal words, of Francis the Great, who am I to judge?
Ann: first on the block to call him Francis the Great!
Ad multos annos. Lets hope that he doesn't let us down even though many expectations might be too high, too early.
Jim McC. =
Bear in mind that Peter the Great also won that appellation. It's historically quite ambiguous. But I think there's no doubt that Pope Francis has already earned a major place in the history of the Church. Things are not going to be the same if only because too many bishops have already been converted to the goals he has set.
i do fear, however, that he simply isn't young enough to get all the big changes done. And he hasn't done one blessed thing about the bishops who have covered up the scandals, and if he doesn't do something major about them he is going to lose the affection and admiration of many of us. The cover-up bishops is, I think, is his knottiest political problem because it affects some of the bishops directly and all the rest indirectly. I suspect that he is puting off acting until he has won the loyal support of the rest of the bishops who learned not to cover-up. But that will take a while -- years, I would think.
In the Roman Empire it was de rigueur for the rich to give. But the giving was first to the citizens of Rome rather the poor as such. If the poor happened to be citizens good for them. All the citizen benefited from the largesse of the rich. As more rich became Christians in the fourth century onward the bishops sought to remind them that they should give to the poor not citizens. Not an easy persuasive task and not always effective. Also some of the bishops might have wanted the money to come their way rather than to the poor. That has been the case throughout history in too many cases as the bishop sought out the rich. A glaring example, and there are many) was Cardinal Hayes of New York suppressing the young upstart Francis Spellman from squeeezing in on his rich clients.
At any rate, we should really celebrate this great conference. The poor was loudly celebrated. Hopefully it will translate into deeds. A follow-up is planned for December 2.
Over at Chiesa Sandro Magister contrasts the thinking of JPII and Benedict with that of Francis. He notes that Benedict's notion of "the primacy of conscience" is not the same as Francis'.
I think Magister is right - for Benedict conscience is primary but it's not -- it's *subject to* the magisterium, an obvously contradictory position. I don't find that contradiction in Francis' view. I wonder if this topic is going to be a battleground in Francis's reign.
Rita: you're right!
Ann 12:14: thanks for the link to Magister's article. I find his analysis of the differences between Benedict and Francis illuminating.
I agree that Benedict's position on conscience is extreme and contradictory, but I also find your own view - "sin is in the intention to do evil. No, this is NOT relativism. It still recognies that some behavior or non-behavior is objectively evil. But it also recognizes the subjective positive value of the primacy of conscience -- we must do what we *think* is right" - not entirely convincing. Sin is the act of turning away from God, of choosing what separates us from him, but with the awareness that that is the case. You are saying that if we make the wrong choice, a choice that separates us from God, but do it with the belief that it is the right thing, then we are not sinning but merely making a mistake. Conscience is just a tool to guide us in the right direction. A poorly formed conscience, like a dull knife, will not do its job and properly separate right from wrong. We must always follow our conscience by doing what we think is right, but (presumably) must also work on forming our conscience by, among other things, paying attention to the Magisterium. That's my interpretation of your words.
But I ask: in that case, why does it matter whether we are "sinning" or "making a mistake"? What matters is whether we are following Christ towards God or moving away from that path. Are you saying that when we choose to do an objective evil, if we (mistakenly) think that we are doing the right thing then it does not harden our hearts and move us away from God? I would disagree.
"Are you saying that when we choose to do an objective evil, if we (mistakenly) think that we are doing the right thing then it does not harden our hearts and move us away from God? I would disagree."
Claire --
Right. To mistakenly choose evil does not turn us away from God. To turn away from God requires an act of *choosing* to turn away from Him. If we do not choose that turning away, how could that harden our heart against Him? If, with the best of intentions, you choose to give your child a cup of water that unbeknownst to you has a terrible toxin in it, and if your child dies, have you thereby turned away from God? Or from your child, for that matter? Certainly not.
I think your notion of conscience is good as far as it goes, but leaves some steps out of an actual moral process.things out. Yes, conscience is a tool to guide us, telling us what would be right and wrong in the future, but it also judges ends and means and actions, telling us in the here and now: this is right/wrong -- I must reject the evil and choose the good. And even as I am doing the choosing I am judging: this is right/wrong, and I am responsible for the consequences.
A moral process is often quite complicated. There is 1) reflection on our possible goals, 2) our judging whether or not those possible goals are good or evil, 3) then a choice of a goal or a choice of inaction, 4) our reflection on the goodness or even of possible means to the goal, 5) our choice of means to a chosen goal, 6) our agency (actually causing something to happen) in using the means towards our goal. The process can also be complicated for believers when sometime during that process the believers\ reflects that what he/she could choose would turn him/her away from Jesus, and sometimes the believer makes another choice: to turn from Him or towards HIm.
Knowledge of ends and means as good or evil (2) is itself is never an evil. We *need* to know what is good and evil in order to choose what is right. That is, the knowledge is not good or evil, It's our *choice* of an end (3) and our implementation of he means (our agency) to get to it (5) that are good or evil. And the end itself is either good or evil *ontologically* (6), that is, the end itself is really, objectively good or evil apart from our choices and agency.
Because we choose good or evil we are *responsible* for the objectification of that good or evil. If what we do results in evil, then our wills lack a relationship to what ought to be, and that is the state of guilt, and we are responsible for the guilt. But there can be no guilt unless we *know* that what we choose is wrong. And when a believer adds to that process a movement to or away from the Lord, then there is added right or wrong, added virtue or sin.
When we misunderstand the outcome of an act, we are not morally responsible for it. To use the classic example, suppose you are hunting and see in the distant bushes something that looks to you like a deer. You shoot , but then discover it was really a person. Are you a murderer? Of course not. You made a terrible mistake, but you didn't sin. Objectively/ontologically your act was destructive of a human life, and that is an objective evil. But subjectively you did not intend the outcome, so you aren't responsible morally. You might *feel* guilt, but the feeling which the state of guilt produces is not the same thing as *being guilty*.
In sum, sin is not only a matter of the relationship of our will to Jesus. It bears a relationship to other people and things. An atheist sins, not because he/she choses to turn away from Jesus -- the atheist is a sinner because the atheist choses to do what is wrong (or what he/she thought was wrong).
there can be no guilt unless we *know* that what we choose is wrong.
I agree with that. But here is a different example: what am I supposed to do with the beggars I see on the streets? Women with young children, people ostentatiously kneeling right in the middle of the sidewalk, guys with cute little dogs, pulling at people's sentimentality, all immigrants who hardly speak any French. Each street corner is taken up by a different beggar who changes as the day progresses, in a well-planned rotation of professional beggars. The whole setup is suspect. Let's say that I decide that I will give money to charity but not to them. Let's say that I am convinced of all sorts of bad things about them. Let's say that I try to discourage that shady business by ignoring them. Let's say that I feel righteous, as a person doing her part to try to rid the city of that scourge. Let's say that I think I am doing the right thing by shunning them. Well, that may be objectively wrong, but plenty of people feel that way. What happens then? The more I ignore them, the more I get used to ignoring them, the less I see them, the more my heart hardens like the rich man in last week's gospel. Even if it's an honest mistake of my conscience, I think that it turns me away from God. Accorsing to my vocabulary, that makes it a sin. A sin without guilt, perhaps, but a sin.
And what about all the peoplen who don't go to Mass regularly because they really do not believe, in conscience, that they ought to go? It's a mistake, and it has consequences. It does, in the long run, turn them away from God. If they really thought they were doing nothing wrong, then I agree that no guilt should be imputed to them, but it is still something that distances them from God. In my vocabulary, it's a sin.
Claire --
It looks like our problem is semantic -- we have different meanings of "sin". I'm not including the real, the objective evil as part of the sin.
Now that you've made me think about it, yes, sometimes I might include the outcome of the subjective parts as also being part of the process of "sin". But the subjective parts are the essential parts, what make the process sinful and what makes the sinner responsible. Consider: I might intend to kill my neihgbor, but if he dies before I get to it, I have sinned grievously, I'm still morally guilty of murder, though he just died of heart attack.
I don't see how acting according to a mistaken conscience turns one away from God, not if the mistake is sincerely adopted.
Actually, I think the whole theology of sin needs revision. Modern psychology has a lot to add to it.


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I like Overbay and wouldn't be opposed to this.
I wonder how many brewer fans remember yelling OOOOOOO! during his first tenure in a brewer uniform. Probably not many since he was here before they started winning...Hide replies
I definitely remember yelling "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" when he came back. My 14 year old daughter does, too. LOVED Lyle Overbay and the way he played the game. A nice guy from all reports, too. I am not opposed to this. Not at all.
Back when he was good.
I was in middle school last time Overbay was here! One of my favorite Brewers. Bring him and the Buckethead Brigade back!
That was almost 10 losing seasons ago.
" O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O "Hide replies
There we go!
Gotta love Lyle OOOOOOOverbayHide replies
not unless he can help the team out.
Overbay is Over the Hill, lacks defensive versatility and can't really hit anymore. They'd be better off with a RH bat that can play first but can also play other spots.
Brewer fans need to get over the nostalgia. 2004 was 9 years ago.Hide replies
Nostalgia is a large part of baseball, tbear.
He could fill Ishikawa's role once Hart gets back. I bet he could play rightfield as well as Travis...shudder.
Remember too that we need a DH a bunch this season with the new schedule and there are more RH starters than LH starters so having him while Hart is hurt is a good move
A career .270 BA and.353 OBP are pretty decent numbers for a bench player.
He's entering his age 36 season after hitting .241/.322/.401/.729 the last 3 seasons. (Most of that is coming from his 2010 season as he only had 131 PA last year)
If Overbay could haveever handled another position besides 1B, he would have been playing that position instead of 1B. In his peak/prime, the averahe 1B was typically a 125 OPS hitter. Overbay had 2 seasons over 120 in his career. (2004 122 and 2006 125) He'd have been more valuable if he could play a OF position.
That and Gamel will be in that role when Hart comes back. It doesn't make sense to bump someone off the 40-man for 6 weeks of Overbay.
There are bumpables on the 40-man.
There are bumpables, but I don't think it should be for a Lyle Overbay/temp bench player. I'd rather bump a guy for a better backup SS.
Maybe they plan on keeping him in the minors and off the 40 man unless there is an injury.
Overbay is a washed up player with not a lot of future. At best he would be used for defense but no hit.
gamel will go as a part time right fielder when hart comes back.
Usually veterans like Overbay have a call-up Claus date when they sign a minor league contract.A player like Overbay can usually catch on with another team.
Where would they keep him in the minors? Morris and Halton will be in AAA.
War brings up a good point. If they sign Overbay where does he play if not on the big club? It would basically be a pay him and cut him deal. You won't put him at high A or AA. Wasted money. They are better off getting a more versitle player. Forget about Lee. He won't sign for peanuts and isn't what the Crew needs.
It would be a minor league contract with invitation to camp. He gets released if he doesn't make the roster out of spring training. Figure you armchair GM's could figure that out.
There's really no harm to signing him to a minor league deal, but there's no upside to Overbay at this stage of his career either. You're probably looking at a batting line around .250/.320/.380 (BA/OBP/SLG) at this point in his career with no versatility. There would be a ton more upside in Hunter Morris, although the Brewers are obviously worried about starting his service time clock.
Of course, it's not like there's much better available out there, but there's a reason that Overbay hasn't been signed yet. The Brewers could probably do just as well grabbing someone off of waivers at the end of spring training and get more playing time for their own prospects.Hide replies
Morris needs to be playing everyday which he would not be doing in the Major Leagues with the Brewers. Overbay would just be a backup and a .250 hitting backup 1B is just fine for the Brewers
A .250 hitting, with no power, 1B is not fine no matter who you are. Now, I understand not starting Hunter Morris' service clock if he's not playing everyday. But, it's also useful to get him as many ABs against major league pitching in Spring Training, which signing Overbay will make more difficult. Let Gamel and Morris get those spring training ABs and pickup someone on waivers and you may be better off.
To play a position where offensive production is normal Overbay would be a flop.
The upside to Overbay is he can play a backup 1st baseman, and pinch hitter.
There was no "upside" to signing Craig Counsell a few years back also.
There must be a better fit out there than a 36 year old former Brewer. He's been on the downswing the past three years.He had alot of fans here years ago but that was when they had very little to rooot for.Hide replies
Nobody wants to come here for 1/3 of a season that has any upside, papa. Overbay will take the back-up role, and I disagree with those that say he has no chance of hitting. He could easily hit .275 with decent power. He could be a solid pinch hitter. And he's cheap.
"Easily"? Then why didn't he hit .275 with decent power last year? Or the year before? Why is it that I already feel like it's September, and we're 20 games out?
Because you are a pessimist Tracker. Who would you bring in as a backup first baseman? You complain and offer no solution.
Travis Ishikawa
ishikawa is already signed to a contract.
The Brewers don't need to bring anybody in for the backup 1B role. Hart is only expectes to miss about 6 weeks. Taylor Green can play 1B and looked to have an inside track to one of the IF bench options. Sean Halton is a RH 1B who could be added for the first 6 weeks with a good spring. Khris Davis and Caleb Gindl could step in and cover the 5th OF spot vacated by Gamel.
Interesting. . . this may say a lot more about the Brewers feelings for Taylor Green than Gamel. If they don't feel that Green can pinch hit and give Gamel maybe 4 or 5 days off in 2 months, that's pretty bad.
I think they're looking for a replacement 1st baseman in case of an injury to Gamel, early in the season. They just don't want to mention it as that.
At the all star break last year Overbay's numbers were .317/.400/.500. It was only in the second half, when he wasn't getting any kind of semi-regular at bats, that his numbers began to plummet. He got 18 starts before the all star break and three afterward.
18 starts translates into something like 72 abs, a fairly meaningless sample.
Coincidental or not, he was productive when he was getting semi-regular at bats. It was only after Paul Goldschmidt was playing every day and there were no more interleague games for him to dh did his numbers fall off. BTW, it was 96 plate appearances before the all star game. Perhaps not significant, but at least he has a history of being productive in limited use. And if 96 plate appearances are indeed insignificant, than the 35 he got after the break are even less so.
It's a meaningless sample unless you believe Overbay has the ability to maintain a .387 BABIP.
Because. Taylor. Green. Sucks.
Where did you get the 18 starts from? Hart will be back by June and Gamel will not miss 18 games until then.
Overbay stunk as a pinch hitter last year. We need a pinch hitter occasionally playing first base.
As Jimmiechitwood posted, what did you expect, Joey Vottto as our backup 1B. EVERYBODY complains but offer NO other viable option. The only other options are Carlos Lee and Casey Kotchman. Lee is a headcase and clubhouse distraction and I'll take ovebay over Kotchman.
For all too long this team has lacked balance. Not enough left handers in the bullpen, no balance off the bench. Overbay doesn't meet the needs of this team.Hide replies
Sure he does. He's cheap.
Balance off the bench? He's left handed. That is balance compared to our starting lineup. You contradict yourself.
we could use a lh off the bench.
Well, I guess they could put him in the bullpen, since he's lefthanded.
Maybe we can get Joey Votto to come over and be our backup and evenual 3rd string 1st baseman!!Hide replies
How can you possibly compare Joey Votto and 36 year old Lyle Overbay?
How can you have possibly taken his post as anything but a joke?
it was a real stupid and lame attempt at a joke.
Wake up aaron! It's called sarcasm.
aaron4mvp was a little slow on the Overbay to Votto comparison.
you are bad at sarcasm or humor
GO FOR IT! Whats the worst that can happen? He sucks and we release him and its very little investment and it could pay a decent dividend.
An experienced LH hitter who can play 1st and PH if needed.He seemed to like Milwaukee as wellHide replies
wasted money! When a team is crying poverty you don't throw away money on a one position player that is well past his prime and offers little.
what backup bench player do you have in mind? Overbay isn't getting a multi-million dollar contract.
What an ignorant post. This is a good player we are talking about here. I could not think of a better place to spend the money.
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2 Jan 2011 6:54 PM #31
Hello there,
I m really glad Gwt4Air could help you .
Hopefully you guys are also going to like the next features
With the version 2 coming out in few days, i receive a lot of emails asking me what "support for the flex framework" means. Well it simply means that i ll export the flex api to java(GWT), just like i did with the other apis.
The idea of this project started with a discussion with a customer who had a team of java developers and wanted to write flex based AIR applications without going the AS3 way. They asked me if it s possible the export flex to java. The first time i said i dont think so
The problem with flex is that the mxml compiler generates a lot of code under the hood. And even if you take a look at the generated code you can not learn much from it because it es really cripted
So i had to find a way to manually load flex. I wont explain how i did it here since the project will be open source anyway , but after the release one will be able to do something like this(I m stiill working on the API though) :
ExampleButton testButton = new ExampleButton("Adobe Flex Test"); testButton.addSelectionListener(new SelectionListener<ButtonEvent>() { @Override public void componentSelected(ButtonEvent ce) { FlexFrameworkWrapper.get().initFlex(FlexSkin.HALO, true, new FlexInitiaLizationHandler() { @Override protected void onInitialization() { Button b2 = Button.newInstance(); b2.setLabel("I m an sparkButton"); b2.setX(10); b2.setY(10); b2.setHeight(40); Runtime.trace(b2); Panel panel = Panel.newInstance(); panel.setTitle("Gwt4Air 4 Air Rocks"); com.ekambi.gwt.air.flex.client.mx.controls.Button b = com.ekambi.gwt.air.flex.client.mx.controls.Button.newInstance(); b.setLabel("I m a mxButton"); b.setX(10); b.setY(60); b.setHeight(40); DateChooser dc = DateChooser.newInstance(); dc.setX(148); dc.setY(10); panel.addElement(b2.asIVisualElement()); panel.addElement(b.asIVisualElement()); panel.addElement(dc.asIVisualElement()); FlexFrameworkWrapper.get().addChild(panel); FileSystemDataGrid grid = FileSystemDataGrid.newInstance(); grid.setX(500); grid.setY(10); FlexFrameworkWrapper.get().addChild(grid); com.ekambi.gwt.air.flex.client.mx.containers.Panel mxPanel = com.ekambi.gwt.air.flex.client.mx.containers.Panel.newInstance(); mxPanel.setTitle("FileSystemTree"); mxPanel.setX(10); mxPanel.setY(350); mxPanel.setWidth(455); mxPanel.setHeight(200); FileSystemTree fileSystemTree = FileSystemTree.newInstance(); mxPanel.addElement(fileSystemTree.asIVisualElement()); FlexFrameworkWrapper.get().addChild(mxPanel); }); } }); } });
Like always feedbacks are very welcome.
stay tuned
9 Jan 2011 10:41 PM #32
I ve said it already but you are really killing man !
But i do have some questions.
Will the Flex support or the other libraries also be available for browser based applications or is this only for AIR ?
Can we then combine GXT and the other Libraries ?
Is the source code of the app on the last screenshots available ?
15 Jan 2011 10:30 AM #33
Like the name might suggest, the primary goal of Gwt4Air was to bring the Java(GWT) api to AIR. I was not planing to support web based applications. But since a lot of people are interested in browser support, Gwt4Air will support webapplication in version 3. This means that one will be able to use the Java Language to write flash based webapplications.
Sure you can combine GXT with the other libraries. But i dont think this make sence, specially fror browser based apps. I would suggest to choose one depending on your needs.
Sorry i can not provide the source code of the app, but if you need something special feel free to ask.
9 Feb 2011 2:40 PM #34
Gwt4Air 2.0 now available, Announcing clientside PDF and Excel generation for GXT
Hello community,
I m glad to announce the release of gwt4air 2.0
With this relase I added support for the Appcelerator Titanium Desktop Runtime. This runtime enable you to turn you GXT apps into Desktop without rewriting any code. Gwt4Air provides a Java API to access the titanium fonctinality. Unlike Adobe AIR there s no sandbox restriction, so that the use of the Adapter is no needed. In the picture below you can see my GXT running inside titanium as a desktop app.
What s next ?
in the next release the project will introduce a gwt widget that will let you generate PDF and Excel files from the client by adding eventlisterners to it(no server required).
'The widget will be compatible will the GXT and GWT ones.
Stay tuned
8 May 2011 4:10 PM #35
Here is a small tutorial about using GXT and Adobe AIR together.
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Where in the Bible does it say that Lucifer was one of the angels or an archangel?
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Interesting question. In the Bible, this is strongly hinted at rather than directly stated. Here is the evidence:
In Job 1:6 we learn that Satan was in heaven with other angels.
That Satan is (was) in heaven is also seen in Zechariah 3:1-2, Luke 10:18 and Revelation 12:9. Revelation 12:9 gives a further clue to Satan's identity:
This thought is also stated by Jesus in Matthew 25:41:
That he has his own angels, is a further clue to him being a (former) angel. (And incidentally, Isaiah 14:12-15 is often used to show why Satan fell, because he wanted to ascend to God's throne).
Note also 2 Corinthians 11:14, which says that Satan can "masquerade as an angel of light."
Conclusion: we know that Satan lives / has lived in heaven, with other angels (some of which are his own), that he was (or will be) cast out of heaven. From this we infer that he is a "fallen angel".
Update: In my answer above I assembled evidence for Satan being an angel. But it's not proof (see comments below). Which leads me to consider proof by exhaustion: if Satan was not an angel, what could he be? I know of only three types of sentient beings in the Bible: God, man and angels. He's clearly not God, nor man. That only leaves one other option.
Update on Lucifer: @Dan asks where Lucifer is named as such. The answer is in Isaiah 14:12 KJV:
This verse and the wider passage are historically interpreted as referring to Satan, though it is not directly stated.
Footnote: there are only two named angels in the Bible. Michael (Daniel 10:13, Daniel 10:21, Daniel 12:1, Jude 1:9 & Revelation 12:7) & Gabriel (Daniel 8:16, Daniel 9:21, Luke 1:19 & Luke 1:26).
"Where in the Bible does it say that Lucifer was one of the angels or an archangel?"
It doesn't.
"Lucifer" is actually a Hebrew word when translated means "shining one." The Septuagint uses the Greek word that means "bringer of dawn." That is why some translations render the original Hebrew "morning star" or "Daystar." But Jerome's Latin Vulgate uses "Lucifer" (light bearer), and this accounts for the appearance of that term in various versions of the Bible.
The 'name' Lucifer occurs once in the Scriptures (Isa. 14:12) and only in some versions of the Bible. Traditionally, Lucifer is a name that in English generally refers to the Devil before being cast from heaven. But this description is given to a man and not to a spirit creature as is further seen by the statement: "Down to Sheol you will be brought." Sheol is the common grave of mankind—not a place occupied by Satan the Devil. Additionally, those seeing Lucifer brought into this condition ask: "Is this the MAN that was agitating the earth?" Clearly, "Lucifer" refers to a human, not to a spirit creature. - Isaiah 14:4, 15, 16.
Careful Exegesis has actually conclude that Isaiah did not have Satan in mind when he says "Lucifer," but actually the king of Babylon.
I have read that before the rise of Christianity, it was the pseudepigrapha of Enochic Judaism who interpreted Isaiah 14:12-15 as applicable to Satan, and presented him as a fallen angel cast out of Heaven. Christian tradition, influenced by this presentation, came to use the Latin word for "morning star", lucifer, as a proper name ("Lucifer") for Satan as he was before his fall. As a result, "Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan in the Church and in popular literature", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and John Milton's Paradise Lost.
You may appreciate the following link to further information: SHINING ONE (Isaiah 14:12).
Many commentators use the scripture in Ezekiel 28:11-17 to represent, symbolically, the angel called Lucifer or Satan who was involved with worship and was in the garden and was also among the fiery stones. (See Moses on the mountain for this reference.) All of the allusions in Ezekiel seem to say that the person/angel referred to was the devil/Satan/Lucifer. The most obvious interpretation of the scripture is that it is really about the King of Tyre but as in any scripture there is sometimes an immediate interpretation and a future completion.
If you look at the example in Isaiah 9:6 about Jesus and the reference to a "virgin birth," God speaks prophetically, "Behold a virgin shall bring forth a child." Most historians have said this refers to another event that happened within the life of the prophet; having said this, many of the gospel writers and early church writers have understood this as a direct prophetic word for the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. So the answer to the Question in "Where in the Bible does it refer to Lucifer?" could refer to the story of the King Tyre and the allusions to an angel in the garden of Eden and a perfectly created being that fell because of sin and worship of his own beauty in Ezekiel. There many allusions to Lucifer in Ezekiel in chapters 25, 28, 29, 35 and 39 as well.
You view is absolutely incorrect. There are more than 3 typs of beings. Look up the Cherubim. The bible talks about different beings.
The bible NEVER gives the impression of angelic beings being the ONLY ones in existence besides man, god and angels. And in this instance Cherubims are not baby like beings, they are to be so big that a human can walk under them or even ride them as they fly.
Freds Bend put it the best way I have ever heard.
It is true it never talks about Satan BEING an angel.... BUT! The bible also states the "powers and the principalities"
Ephesians 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Evil can still be in the heavenly realms and FORCES is indeed plural...So I would take that and automatically think that angels are not the only things that turned evil. Correct?
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In the axioms that define open sets, there is the condition says that any union of open sets is an open set. In some textbooks this condition is translated in simbols as follows:
For every family of open sets $\{V_i\}_{i\in I}$ then $\bigcup_i V_i$ is open.
But formally, since $I$ is a set of indices it must have countable cardinality, so in this way it seems that only a countable union of open sets is open.
The same misunderstanding is present for coverings of a set, so when one says that $V$ admits an open covering it isn't clear if it is made with a countable or uncountable number of sets.