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Fiscal Uncertainty Chips Away at U.S. Prestige
Dysfunction Is Limiting U.S. Position Abroad, Observers Say; 'Sadness From Our Trading Partners'
WASHINGTON—As the world's pre-eminent economic power, the U.S. has been the cornerstone of the global financial system since World War II. Now, observers say that prestige may have been badly dented by Washington's latest display of fiscal dysfunction, limiting the U.S.'s ability to get things done abroad.
Laurence Fink, chief executive of the world's largest asset manager, New York-based BlackRock Inc., BLK 0.79 % said Friday that he detected "a pronounced sadness from our trading partners and our friends" as he tried to explain the fiscal impasse during his recent travels abroad.
"It is embarrassing for me to have these conversations," he told a conference of bankers.
For the second time in just over two years, the U.S. government is nearing the point of default if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling in time. The brinkmanship in 2011 brought the U.S. a credit downgrade from rating agency Standard & Poor's. Others have cautioned they could follow this time around.
Fitch Ratings warned Tuesday that the protracted wrangling "risks undermining confidence in the role of the U.S. dollar as the pre-eminent global reserve currency by casting doubt over the full faith and credit of the U.S."
A loss of confidence could have broad repercussions. U.S. government debt has traditionally been viewed as a risk-free asset that underlies much of the world's financial system. Doubt about the country's financial soundness could ripple around the globe, calling into question the value of collateral in many loans and even the dollar's status as a reserve currency. That status gives the U.S. huge advantages, including the ability to borrow at rates lower than almost any other country.
Interest rates on U.S. Treasurys jumped Tuesday after a short-term debt auction drew tepid interest from investors. Investors and banks have dumped billions of dollars in U.S. government debt in the past two weeks.
The debt-ceiling spat, along with a partial closure of the federal government, served as the backdrop as bemused world economic officials gathered in Washington last week for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Often, U.S. officials use the opportunity to build support for their vision of the world economy.
At this year's meetings, however, U.S. officials struggled to reassure representatives of other countries that they wouldn't cause another global economic shock just five years after an international financial crisis began here. Nearly half of all U.S. government I.O.U.s are held by foreigners, and some investors are becoming increasingly nervous that they may not be repaid.
At a panel on Thursday, President Barack Obama's economic adviser Jason Furman expressed confidence the debt ceiling would be lifted before the government ran out of money to pay its bills. The moderator then turned to a top official from China's central bank, the largest foreign owner of U.S. government debt.
"You've got nearly two trillion dollars of his bonds," the moderator said. "Are you worried?"
"I hope what Jason said is true," Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, said to laughs.
Beijing signaled its frustration this week by publishing a stinging editorial in the state news agency Xinhua calling for a "de-Americanized" global economy. After World War II, it said, the U.S. emerged as the dominant economic force in the world. Now, it said, reforms were needed to protect the world from upheavals caused by U.S. policy chaos.
The editorial called for "the introduction of a new international reserve currency that is to be created to replace the dominant U.S. dollar, so that the international community could permanently stay away from the spillover of the intensifying domestic political turmoil in the United States."
But turning away from the U.S. wouldn't be easy, largely because there aren't any obvious alternatives.
The euro area is still shrouded in problems and China's currency isn't freely traded on global markets. Efforts to fashion a viable alternative from a basket of currencies administered by the IMF have come to naught.
No other country has a stock of government debt that is large enough or perceived as safe enough to replace U.S. Treasurys as the bedrock of the bond markets. The real damage to U.S. interests, analysts say, comes more from its loss of global influence.
Mr. Obama was forced to skip a series of Asian-Pacific summits earlier this month to tackle the crises at home. The Russians and Chinese leaders had a "field day," said Fred Bergsten, director emeritus at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. "For Obama to have to flake out gave an easy one to the competition," he said.
"The U.S. does look like a bit of a fool," said Barry Bosworth, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, adding, "The sense that the U.S. can advise other countries on how to handle economic issues—I don't think they take us very seriously with these sorts of things going on."
—Michael J. Casey contributed to this article.
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When God is Silent
I was thinking about Cathy's Post below when I came across these passages in Barbara Brown Taylor's When God is Silent:
In the silence surrounding his death, Jesus became the best possible companion for those whose prayers are not answered, who would give anything just to hear God call them by name. Him too. He wanted that too, and he did not get it. What he got, instead, was a fathomless silence in which to cry out. Forever after, everyone who has heard him bellow into it has had to wonder: Is that the voice of God?...
Only an idol always answers. The God who keeps silence, even when God's own flesh and blood is begging for a word, is the God beyond anyone's control. An answer will come, but not until the silence is complete. And even then, the answer will be given in silence. With the cross and the empty tomb, God has provided us with two events that defy all our efforts to domesticate them. Before them, and before our God who is present in them, our most eloquent words turn to dust.
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It may or may not be relevant here, but it's interesting to note that Barbara Brown Taylor has become something of a religious relativist and has abandoned (apparently) many central Christian truth claims. It's a sad story.At least, this is according to a Christian Century editor who wrote this review of her recent book:http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0606/reviews/byassee.html
Thank you for the wonderful quote, Peter!It's sad to see mlj's ad hominem attack of Rev. Taylor immediately after such a beautiful passage. Perhaps mlj was trying to illustrate the ways in which our words turn to dust?I don't know mlj, and I don't want to repeat the very mistake I'm critiquing. So I'm focusing on the comment, not the person. In response to mlj's opening thought, I would respond: No, it's not relevant here.I'm troubled by the tactic of responding to a person's ideas by attacking their orthodoxy in other areas. I haven't read the First Things article mlj linked to yet, because it doesn't matter. Rev. Taylor's words here stand on their own. They trigger a deep resonance in me, as I struggle with the inadequacy of words, and the silences of God in my own life.There are times when a person's broader beliefs and positions matter: for instance when I'm trying to determine how much weight to give to a shakily supported assertion. But that's a far cry from assuming a person can be dismissed because part of his or her life doesn't match up to my understanding of orthodoxy.
I thought the reading was neat too. The easy labeling (instead of specificity )of "religious relativist:" (sounds like a category out of a 1850's apologetics book where we easily defeat our "enemies") lacks relevance to the quote.Nice to hav ea personal attack on someone who has something good to say.
If God's silence can also be construed as God's perceived inaction in the face of catastrophes large and small, then I offer the following thoughts from Commonweal contributor John Garvey's article in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004:"God has revealed himself in Christ, and here we begin to see how far we are from Gods idea of what Gods power means. Our idea of power is represented by enormity and by force: we think of kings, armies-and tidal waves. If we were God we would have placed our almighty hand on the floor of the ocean and prevented that shift of tectonic plates; we would have sent armies of angels to fly people to safe ground. This assumes an unwounded universe, one in which death and sin are not the main powers, a place that is good in precisely the way God wanted it to be good, and in which Gods inaction is therefore seen as perversity or coldness. It also assumes a universe in which we presume to know what God should do, which means a universe in which God is imaginable, someone of whom we can conceive. This is not the universe about which the Bible speaks, or the one where the God of the Bible reveals what can be revealed to our very limited understanding. When God approaches us, he comes as a baby who needs to be taken care of, who grows into a man who thirsts, is frustrated with the ignorance of his followers and friends, upsets kings, is capable of knowing fear and sorrow, and finally feels utterly abandoned-but because of his obedience to the Fathers will he destroys the power of death, the power that rules this world, and this leads us to resurrection. This is not power as we understand it, not at all, but we have been given no other sign that death can be overcome, and that the God we have is a God who weeps and can weep until the end of time with the mother holding her dead child."Garvey, who is Eastern Orthodox, emphasizes his religion's focus on God, and God's ways, as ultimately, and utterly, unknowable. The article is athttp://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=1086&var_reche...
As I was reading John Garvey, somethng struck me. Scripture seems to teach that sin and death came through us from a time shortly after we first appeared, perhaps 50,000 years ago. But natural disasters seem to have always been part of nature for million of years before we were here. How then could the universe have been "wounded" before we arrived? Perhaps we ought to think of the angels, good and bad, as part of nature and of the universe insofar as creation is one because the Creator is one? Does that make sense? Was the effect of the defection of the "evil one" allpervasive in that way?
I think a problem that most of us have (yours truly included) is that we tend to (usually instantly) judge the veracity of what has been said by our opinion of who has said it. In other words, the truth is totally relative, based upon who speaks it.If that is the case, how can the truth ever make us free?
Jimmy,I don't think it is quite that simple. We look for evidence, We look for consistency and coherence. We look for gaps in the argument. We look for widespread agreement. We ask whether a witness is in a position to know, We look for indications that a witness is biased. And then for practical purposes we consider statements of fact as more or less plausible, more or less probable. As for general statements we consider how widely they have been tested, how well confirmed. It is not simply question of trusting some people and not others. I am inclined to accept my physician's views in certain matters, where he has some sort of expertise and I have found him reliable enough. I am not interested in his opinions on the French Revolution, say, or the Risorgimento--not that he would offer any. I think we apply a variety of criteria and methods of rating. And finally, no one is always right or wrong.
We don't know why there is evil, either moral or physical evil. If I've said this before, please forgive me for repeating myself. But, given that there is evil of both sorts, it's worth noting, I believe, that without evil therre would be no point to the great human virtues of compassion, generosity, justice, etc. In other words, were there no evil, what would we then strive to be? None of this is an "excuse" for evil. It's just to say that our only way to make sese of what human beings are or ought to be up to presupposes that they have some evil to wrestle with.
My only point was that her words here--which I superficially agree with--most likely mean something very, very different to her than they do to a Catholic. This is not an ad hominem attack. It is squaring her statements with other statements.
Bernard--Augustine would agree with your analysis. God is incapable of creating anything that is not good. God created everything. Evil therefore was not created by God and is not a thing. For Augustine, evil is inextricably linked with free will. Evil is a perversion of the will, and is the act of turning away from the good.Augustine also believed, if I remember correctly, that because all that God made is good, even something that is evil can ultimately contribute to the greater good. How? As you said, many virtues couldn't exist without evil. For example, to list a few, courage, mercy, forgiveness, the offering of consolation. Just as evil is the result of acts of will, so are virtues. Free acts of moral choice generate both. I think Augustine would say that a world that had never been affected by evil would be a good place, but that it would not be the best place. The best place would be a world where evil flourishes only long enough to facilitate the development of virtues. Evil can be overcome with good, but good cannot be fully refined in the absence of evil. What good can possibly come out of the Holocaust or the killing fields of Cambodia or the killing of the Amish school girls? I hope it's not trite or callous to say that each of those evil situations may not generate good that is commensurate with the evil done, but hopefully a greater good is recorded on the balance sheet of eternity from having the moral freedom to develop virtues and to take actions in opposition to the evil that results when we turn away from the good that has been created by God. Free will makes evil possible, but it makes virtue and a greater good possible, too.
Jesus is the answer to the problem of evil. What is worse than to have goodness crucified? Only to have God abandon us which Jesus felt for that one time.Everything becomes possible therin, all becomes possible, night becomes day, the Amish girls are in God's embrace and the holocaust victims are made new.It is so difficult to understand. Yet our faith turns sorrow into joy and death into victory.
Bill C and Bill M:My reason tells me that there should be no moral evil, probably no physical evil either. But obviously there is evil of both sorts. Furthermore, weak though I am, I should do all that I can to eliminate evil. Why shouldn't God also do so? Faith tells me that God is a loving redeeming God. Augustine notwithstanding, I have to take on faith that God is not complicit in evil. I can't see that we get anywhere trying to give a rational account of why there is evil or how it is compatible with a God that is both all powerful and all good. In the end, as St. Paul said, our "wisdom" is folly to the Greeks. To our nonbelieving friends, I think that we just have to admit that they are right. We have no "philosophical" sound ground on which to support this belief of ours.
"My only point was that her words here--which I superficially agree with--most likely mean something very, very different to her than they do to a Catholic.'I do not understand what "superficial agreement" could mean. You might agree with all or with some of what was said. In the latter case you might have done well to say where you agreed, or disagreed. To speak of agreeing superficialiy with a set of propositions seems to me to reflect a state of semantic confusion. What she has said here, she has said here. If you claim it has an esoteric force which the rest of us do not comprehend, you ought to give us the key. "This is not an ad hominem attack. It is squaring her statements with other statements."Denying that one has made an ad hominem attack makes it no less just that, for those understand the term, viz., an ad homninem attack. What the woman might have said elsewhere does not change the sense of what she has plainly said here.
Moral evil is the absence of a good that ought to be present. It is always a negative element in the action of a rational creature and it renders the action defective. It is difficult to see how a world without any moral evil would not be better than one in which moral evil occurs. God could have created rational creatures, the only ones capable of moral evil, and still prevented moral evil from occurring. It is not part of the essence of freedom that we should be able to do evil. Still we are not in a position either to determine why God chose as he did or to stand in judgment on the wisdom of his choice.Physical evil is rather different. It is a question of some part or parts of the creation acting according to its/their nature and thereby inflicting harm or even destruction on some other part or parts of the creation. It seems that its occurrence is inevitable in the universe we have. We may suppose that God might have created otherwise, if only by making a series of supernatural interventions in the course of nature as we know it, but we are not in a position to judge that God ought to do otherwise than he does.
There has been a lot of norquisting on the Commonweal blog under the guise of "I participate here because I want to understand the liberal mindset."This is a load of baloney.. I know lots of conservative Catholics in my parish, and they are kindly people who seek common ground with "Catholics in progress" like me. They inspire by example. They reflect the love of Christ.The people norquisting on this blog aren't that kind of conservative. These are people bent on "cleansing" the church, possibly to make it smaller and more faithful, as William Donohue likes to say. Or pushing their political points by showing how they square with orthodox Catholicism.The norquisters, like political mastermind Grover Norquist, derail the point at hand to move it in a direction that allows them to instruct, shame and admonish other readers.Derailing the conversation often includes sweeping generalities ("most psychologists think") that can't be proved, and/or a scattershot barrage of tangential information that set people going in several different directions looking for cites that don't exist."mlj's" jumping in at the outset to call Ms. Taylor a "relativist' and then refering to mysterious "other statements" which might make the quote above objectionable in some way is a classic example of norquisting.I think Grant has given everyone excellent advice: "Don't rise to the bait." Which I just did, of course,, but I promise for the last time.
Thanks, Jean! I think you're 100% right.mlj allowed that the comment about Ms. Taylor may or may not be relevant to which the only response that makes any sense is...no, it's not relevant. Moving on.My next question is what is all this talk about natural disasters and physical evil? What is thought to be evil about natural disasters?"Physical evil is rather different. It is a question of some part or parts of the creation acting according to its/their nature and thereby inflicting harm or even destruction on some other part or parts of the creation."I don't agree.Natural disasters aren't evil even when scores of people die in them. People dying under tragic circumstances does not automatically mean the event causing their death was evil. Some parts of creation suffering harm or destruction as the result of a naturally occurring incident isn't evil either. Is it evil for the lion to hunt the gazelle for food?If someone's death is caused by the conscious, willful act of another human, then yes, that would be evil.If death is caused by being swept away by tidal floods, or buried in an avalance, that's not evil. It may suck, it may be tragic, but it's not evil. It's not a conscious, willful act committed for the purpose of wiping out thousands at a time. We're mortal beings. We're all going to die. Our death taken on its own is not evil. It is simply the way we were created to be. Our whole faith is built around the premise that the death of the body is a transition into a greater life for the spirit. If that's true, then why would God ever step in and change the course of the natural world he created for the sake of preserving human life?
First, I want to thanl Jean for her comments ' I haven't appreciated the remarks by some about wanting to learn more about how liberal or commonweal catholics think. Not only is the viewpoint condescending, it also presumes that the spoeaker only listens to or reads those he likes to hear. Tha's a real dumdown and destructiveof the community process!As to evel, I'm unclear on physical evil. The recent prize wining Comonweal essay didn't due justice to Acquinas's notion of secondary causality to my mind. If evolutionary complexity involves pain, disasyers etc to make the beauty around us, we welcome it as part of our challenge in understanding the mystery of creation.Now that Christ diwd for us, don't we welcome suffering and death as part of the journey (though that's easy to say and hard to live?)Now that we've moved beyond literal Genesis reading, most are content that freedom and hence virtue are only pssible if there can also be moral evil. An interesting new book on the biography of Satan notes he's not the fallen angel who makes evil a possiblity but the tempter/tester who opens to us the choice of good or bad and it's we who are responsible.That hardly says it all, but the first point is that creation, like other great biblical truths, is still mysterious despite kenotic theology and more.
The Oct.6 issue of Commonweal has a fine article that's relevant to the problem of evil. It's Peter james Causton', "Darwin's Ghost: Can Evolution and Christianity Be Reconciled?"
I intended no such thing. She is a relativist. She says so herself. No controversy there. Such statements naturally make me wonder who Jesus Christ is to her and in this piece of writing. I superficially argree with it because they are words I could speak myself with complete faith, as could we all. But I do not know for sure what those words mean to her. This is not ad hominem. This is critical thinking. When I Muslim says "Jesus, may peace be upon him," we are led to wonder what those words mean precisely, because we also know Muslims say other things that make it difficult for us to agree entirely with their statement. Grover is an acquaintance. Good guy. He carries around a briefcase with the attached bumper sticker "I'd rather be shooting Commies." Yikes. Never liked that at all. He is what he is.
Donna,When a lion kills an antelope, the lion is not evil in any sense. The lion is pursuing its own good as a lion should. But the the result is certainly bad for the antelope and that can be fairly called a physical evil. Likewise if a golfer is struck by lightening and killed, that is bad for the golfer, but it is a physical, not a moral evil. You seem to be denying that physical evil exists at all. The ancient Stoics took a position rather like this, viz., that only virtue is good and only vice is evil and all other things are, strictly speaking, indifferent. However some Stoics modified this by distinguishing among the things that are indifferent those that are to be chosen and those that are to be avoided.
mljReiteration is not argumentation. You have not convinced me that the woman is a relativist and I prefer to take what she says at face value. As for her saying she is a relativist, as you allege without citing a text, there are many kinds of relativism and many matters actually can be fairly called relative. I am tempted to day that relativism is the hobgoblin of...
Thanks, Joseph.I wasn't really thinking of things in terms of virtue=good, vice=bad, everything else=0, but I am having a great deal of difficulty with the concept of physical evil. Perhaps I am not understanding fully what constitutes "evil". For example: "But the the result is certainly bad for the antelope and that can be fairly called a physical evil."Why is it considered to be "bad" for the antelope? Because it's dead? And is that what constitutes evil - a poor outcome for one part of the equation?As far as I'm concerned, when the lion eats the antelope, it's all good even though you end up with a dead antelope. There's nothing wrong with the antelope being dead. Granted, the antelope may not agree on a personal level, but in the bigger picture it is a beautiful example of the natural world working in perfect order. And that is a physical good. I am not suggesting indifference. Quite the contrary, I am suggesting that we often mistakenly assign the value of evil to events that are, in fact, good.When it comes to natural disasters wiping out large numbers of people, of course the idea of such events being a physical good is a lot harder to argue. But if one had the power to stop such large natural events from happening, would that then be a physical good? I would expect not. Natural events, even really, really big ones, happen for a reason. The earth is designed to take care of itself and man's interference is not required. In fact, I think we've been shown many times that when mankind does interfere, the end result is ultimately worse than if we had left well enough alone.So I guess that's my question. If a naturally occuring event, even one of disasterous proportions, is a physical good (nature working in its designed order), but the outcome is poor, then is it that poor outcome that is considered a physical evil?Even so, I struggle with the term evil as it does not seem to be a true descriptor of either the event or the outcome although as I said earlier, I may just not be grasping how evil is defined.
Donna,In this context a physical evil is a natural event, i.e., one produced in the normal course of the workings of nature or natural forces, that has bad consequences, or harms, or causes damage to, or perhaps even kills, one or more living beings. The evil arises as an unintended byproduct of a perfectly innocent natural event. We might say that in the bigger picture good must result because it is all part of God's providential plan. But for those who have suffered, say the victims of a hurricane, it would be very odd to say that nothing bad had happened to them, and to speak of evil in this contetx is no different from speaking of "something bad" or "a bad thing". It just happens that in English usage we can speak of "a good" but we do not say "a bad" but rather an "evil".

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A diva, a goddess and a poor-little-rich-girl. This summer, the heroines of �Tosca,� �The Pearl Fishers,� and �Arabella� at Santa Fe Opera have plenty of obstacles to overcome.
The diva: Everyone calls Tosca �la divina,� even her enemies. As portrayed by soprano Amanda Echalaz, Puccini�s heroine is difficult, tempestuous and prone to flashes of jealousy. When Tosca questions her lover about loyalty, Cavaradossi (tenor Brian Jagde) shakes his head in frustration then passionately redeclares his commitment. Poor guy.
It�s Puccini�s music that elevates the story of a self-centered diva into the realm of transformative art. And then there is the villain, Baron Scarpia, cunningly portrayed by Raymond Aceto. His interpretation adds considerable venom to this potent love triangle.
Director Stephen Barlow and Designer Yannis Thavoris add imagination. Acts I and III offer the illusion of a Roman church, inside and out. To begin, the artist Cavaradossi paints and walks on a colossal mural set on a highly raked stage.
After an elaborate Te Deum ceremony where church officials enact part of the Mass, the set rolls up and Scarpia holds forth in a magnificent apartment. Hypocrite that he is, Scarpia stands beneath a giant painting of Zeus Triumphant. His seduction of Tosca gets physically brutal, and when Tosca seeks revenge, the tension ascends right up to the final rooftop scene.
Santa Fe�s �Tosca� enhances the company�s reputation for high concept design and direction, not to mention superb performances throughout.
The goddess: Leila, Bizet�s heroine in �The Pearl Fishers,� doesn�t have Scarpia to poison her love triangle. Semi-divine, Leila (soprano Nicole Cabell) complicates her duties as overseer of ancient religious rites with womanly feelings. Two best friends from childhood seek her love and complete the triangle: Zurga (baritone Christopher Magiera) and Nadir (tenor Eric Cutler). Both are good men; the villain is Fate. Bizet�s early opera, composed at age 24, is largely about friendship, partly about romantic love and lastly about pearl fishing.
Director Lee Blakeley underscores the Romantic fascination with all things Oriental. Composed in 1863, the opera reflected a heightened interest in the exotic, hence a set with colossal ruins signifying pagan religion and costumes befitting an idea of hot and steamy Ceylon.
When disaster strikes, it�s the hand of Fate. In one flashback, Leila appears seated on a gigantic hand rising from the sea. It�s one of many effects that gives this production the quality of a dream.
Bizet�s sinuous melodic lines weave through the score like threads in an Oriental carpet. Carried by English horns, oboes, flutes and the occasional harp, the lines create a musical texture foreshadowing the composer�s most famous work, �Carmen.� Fortunately for Leila, �Pearl Fishers� has a happier ending.
The poor-little-rich-girl: Arabella (soprano Erin Wall) is the only hope of the aristocratic Waldner family to pull them out of debt. Elegant and self-possessed, she�s the calm center of a comedic storm as her gambling father (Dale Travis) and flustered mother (Victoria Livengood) search for a wealthy son-in-law.
Sounds a bit like a Jane Austen plot, doesn�t it? Well, the comparison fits, beginning with a mother�s distress and father�s detachment. But Strauss and his librettist Hofmannsthal deliver a family conundrum set in a European capital in the 1850s with a long list of suitable suitors. Strauss provides a big orchestral score, luscious arias and a Viennese ball.
British Director Tim Albery gives the production a spare-but-elegant, pale gray atmosphere. Into this world, Mandryka (baritone Mark Delavan) arrives. A rough Croatian landowner, he�s an outsider in more ways than his burly overcoat and brown tweed suit imply. His negotiation with Count Waldner is the comic highlight.
Richard Strauss� drawing-room comedy turned out to be the non-exotic outlier in the Santa Fe season. Arabella turned out to be the sane voice of reason in a sea of divas. Who would have thought?
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text: By Sayantani DasGupta Back in September 2010, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) sent cyberspace into a tizzy with the article How to Raise Boys who Read. Hint: It's not with gross-out books and video game bribes. I don't think the article is really that controversial. The writer, Thomas Spence, rants a little about Captain … [Read more...]


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Down and Distance: Kiffin Fired at USC After One Last Blowout
On this college football Saturday, the biggest story didn't break until Sunday morning
College football Saturdays begin before most college kids wake up—and sometimes just after they've gone to bed. They are so long and often so manic that one can forget the amazing upset at noon by the time the 3:30 p.m. game is over, and when Brent Musburger signs off on the prime-time broadcast, even those afternoon matchups seem paleolithic. On Saturday, for example, you could have watched Ohio State's 31-24 win over Wisconsin or Alabama's 25-0 shutout of Mississippi and forgotten about Georgia's 44-41 win over Louisiana State, its second home win over a top-10 team this season (and this decade), a game that Bulldogs coach Mark Richt graced afterward by blessing everyone in the stadium.
This week, though, Saturday stretched so far into Sunday morning that it messed with Roger Goodell's bowl of oatmeal. Saturday's top story didn't happen until around Sunday at 7:30 a.m, 4:30 a.m. in the west, when Southern California fired coach Lane Kiffin after four years and a 28-15 record. It was the final buzzer on USC's loss on Saturday—and the win for USC fans that Kiffin's team hadn't provided a few hours earlier.
This had been a turbulent year for Kiffin. (Of course, every year is a turbulent year for Kiffin, who does turbulent like Les Miles does loony.) USC is 3-2, but 0-2 in Pacific-12 Conference play, first losing at home on Sept. 7 to Washington State and then again on Saturday in a 62-41 rout by Arizona State. Afterward, USC athletic director Pat Haden cut ties with Kiffin "upon the team charter's arrival back in Los Angeles early Sunday morning," according to a news release. NBC pilots have made it longer in Hollywood.
There are many who will say—and have said—that USC never should have hired Kiffin in 2010. He had two previous stints as a head coach, and neither qualified him for college football's glitziest program. Formerly the Trojans' offensive coordinator, Kiffin skipped a grade to become the Oakland Raiders head coach in 2007 at age 31, making him the youngest coach in modern NFL history. He was fired the following year after a 4-12 first season and a 1-3 start in 2008. Kiffin then failed upward to Tennessee, where his brash approach nearly incited riots in Southeastern Conference territory, not least when he escaped to USC in the middle of the night after a 7-6 season.
It isn't exactly fair to compare USC to Alabama, but the two programs' reversal of fortune was especially striking this weekend. If Alabama is now the most dominant program in any sport, USC was the proto-Alabama as recently as last decade: The Trojans finished 80-9 between 2002 and 2008, before Pete Carroll left for the Seattle Seahawks, and Alabama was a teenager's room before Nick Saban arrived in 2007 to clean things up. On Saturday the undefeated Crimson Tide blanked Mississippi, a team that dared during the week to claim it could score against Saban's squad, whose defense responded by giving Rebels quarterback Bo Wallace a noogie and stuffing him into a locker.
This is what Alabama does to people. Like a four-star French bistro, the Crimson Tide is sublime in its consistency. USC didn't have to be Le Bernardin. Under Kiffin, though, it was turning into an airport sushi place. It was surpassed by two Pacific-12 Conference rivals, Stanford and Oregon, as the premier programs west of Texas. Since Kiffin was hired, Oregon is 40-4, while Alabama and Stanford are 39-5. UCLA, a team that Kiffin's Trojans beat 50-0 in 2011, is now ranked No. 13 in the country. Twenty-six other teams had more wins than USC's 28 under Kiffin, according to Stats LLC, including Tulsa and Central Florida. Kiffin hadn't won a bowl game as a head coach when he was hired by USC—and still hasn't.
Despite the NCAA sanctions that limited USC to 75 scholarships—they'll expire next year, just in time for its latest savior—Kiffin recruited as well as USC coaches should, landing yacht-loads of five-star recruits with a pitch so good that Don Draper once begged for it: selling Los Angeles. But the amount of talent he stockpiled, not to mention what Carroll left for him in the cupboard, worked against Kiffin when he sputtered on the sideline.
There were some bright spots, of course, most coming in the 2011 season when USC beat Oregon and finished 10-2. It started 2012 ranked No. 1 in the country before crashing out of the polls with a 7-6 record and a Sun Bowl loss to Georgia Tech. Kiffin's recruiting fortunes began to follow his coaching: USC has signed just seven players for his upcoming class, not a single five-star among them, for a haul ranked No. 57 nationally by scout.com. Syracuse, Duke and Rutgers all have better classes.
Meanwhile, the chants of "Fire Kiffin!" spread through the Coliseum this season like a yawn, so loud that Kiffin said he heard them during warmups on Sept. 7 before the Washington State game. Outside the stadium, someone added the word "Kiffin" to a path marked as a "Fire Lane," a viral bit of negative campaigning that helped buried him. (The person responsible for this heinous graffiti really ought to fess up. Pat Haden owes you dinner at Pizzeria Mozza.)
So the only thing surprising about the news on Sunday morning was its timing. The tweet was sent at 4:28 a.m., coffee and/or whiskey time in California, and announced that Kiffin had been "relieved of his duties." The news release on USC's website said that Kiffin had been "terminated," like a mistaken ATM transaction.
Now come all the promises of tomorrow. Ed Orgeron will reportedly fill in as USC's interim coach, but Kiffin's real replacement will be plucked from the NFL or poached from another school, and when he wins like USC coaches should, Kiffin will be rendered a tailgate punchline. It'll happen soon enough: Haden promised a press conference "at a time and place to be announced," but definitely on Sunday. The last four years of football at USC are the noon game on a Saturday. They are already fading into yesterday.


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Natural Pain Relief in Labor
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Q&A on natural pain relief
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Yes, most women are able to remain active through labor and are encouraged to do so, perhaps using props such as a chair, beanbag, or birthing ball. Staying active can help since this can speed up labor, and changing your position can help you deal with labor pain. When you arrive at the hospital or birth center, discuss your birth plan with the doctor and inform her that you want to be as active as possible.
No, you will simply feel deeply relaxed, but will still be in control and know what you are doing. Don't worry-self-hypnosis will help you be less anxious and frightened during your labor, which will help you to deal with labor pain. With preparation, your partner can help you stay focused and use some hypnotic techniques too.
It depends on the procedures that your health-care provider follows for women who have already had a cesarean. After a cesarean, the doctors will want to monitor you and the baby either continuously or frequently during labor, because there is a very small chance that your uterus may rupture, which is often only detected through a change in the baby's heartbeat. But waterproof monitoring systems are widely available and many practices perform WBAC-water birth after cesarean.
This is up to you. Relaxing in warm water is often suggested in the early stages of labor, as long as your contractions are progressing. You can sit in the warm water for 1 1/2 to 2 hours for pain management, but then get out. Changing your environment helps keep your labor active.
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Thanks for a great talk! It will be very helpful :)
I was wondering: How do I retrieve the Page Load statistics you demonstrated for the different newspapers?
Great session!
WOW! Best session I watched so far. Nice job
To Jason's point (32:30) on there not being a decent online image sprite tool, there is one I use which is excellent: CSS Sprite Generator by Project Fondue - http://spritegen.website-performance.org/
Great presentation, I really enjoyed that from start to finish
Would be nice if this video is captioned for hard of hearing peeps incl myself. Wonder is there a transcript for this video?
This might be one of the very best presentations I have seen on HTML optimization. Thank you VERY much for an doing such an exceptional job!
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Ovarian cancer is typically treated with a combination of surgery and chemotherapy. Most cases of ovarian cancer are detected at an advanced stage due to limitations of current screening techniques and because it typically does not produce symptoms until an advanced stage. Although most ovarian cancers respond to our currently available treatments, many patients eventually experience a recurrence of their disease. Thus clinical trials exploring new avenues of treatment have been initiated. One of the new and exciting areas of research is the development of "targeted therapies" for a variety of cancers, including ovarian cancer.
A phase II study was released at the Gynecologic Oncology meeting last year, that promises some new hope and puts new energy and excitement into the field. Oregovomab (OvaRex, Unither Pharmaceuticals, Wellesley Hills, MA), a monoclonal antibody that targets CA 125, when given to women with advanced ovarian cancer following their surgery, successfully extended time to disease recurrence in a randomized, placebo-controlled, prospective study.
After initial surgery and chemotherapy, patients were randomized to receive the study drug, oregovomab, or placebo. Both were administered every four weeks until relapse or intolerance. The primary end point of the study was time to disease relapse. The outcome of surgery or response to upfront chemotherapy did not influence inclusion or exclusion.
Close to half of all participants had favorable characteristics: successful maximal surgical debulking, a good response to the first 2 cycles of chemotherapy as measured by CA-125, a normal CA-125 at the start of monoclonal antibody treatment, and absence of clinical disease. These favorable patients were later analyzed in a subset analysis to see if their performance differed from those women who did not have these favorable prognostic factors.
The treatment was very well tolerated. Using a questionnaire, researchers were able to show no difference between the study group participants and those taking placebo in terms of overall quality of life and general health. Most of the adverse events noted were mild - grade 1 or 2. The most common complaint was fatigue which was noted in 23% of the antibody treated women, and in 18% of the placebo treated group.
Induction of the immune system is measured by the development of the Human Anti-Mouse Antibodies (HAMA). A HAMA response is associated with a significant advantage in disease free survival, per study investigators. To begin with, the grouping of the monoclonal antibody (from a mouse) and the CA-125 protein functions as the foreign antigen against which the immune system is directed. The natural dendritic cells activate secondary and tertiary antibodies. All patients receiving the antibody had an increased response rate and this response was sustained for the duration of treatment. However, a sub-group analysis showed that progression-free survival was only observed in those patients who had optimal response to previous surgery and chemotherapy. In other words, those patients whose tumor was not maximally debulked during initial surgery, those whose tumors failed to decrease in CA-125 after chemotherapy, or those who had clinical disease at the onset of the study, did not experience a statistically significant prolongation in progression-free survival.
The median time to progression was 13.3 months with oregovomab and 10.3 months with placebo. In a subset analysis, the optimal group had a median time to relapse of 24 months.
Although the study was very well designed, there are some criticisms of this study. It was noted that accrual was discontinued early and the majority of the optimal patients ended up in the experimental arm. Most of the "less optimal" patients wound up in the placebo arm. This imbalance could bias the results of the trial. Another criticism pointed out that the immune response as measured by HAMA , and seen in patients receiving the antibody, may reflect the fact that these particular patients are more immunocompetent and thus may have a better outcome regardless of therapy. Although this is a distinct possibility, the only way to answer these questions is to perform a phase III clinical trial where survival is the end point.
Phase III trials called IM munotherapy Pivotal ovArian Cancer Trial I and II (IMPACT) are currently enrolling "optimal" patients with stage III - IV ovarian cancer after initial surgery and chemotherapy. The same drug administration schedule and dose as used in the Phase II trial are being used in these studies. These trials will examine the monoclonal antibody for possible "consolidation" therapy with the hope of translating response rates to actual survival benefits. The primary end points are disease-free survival, quality of life, and immune response.
If you are interested in looking for clinical trials for which you may be eligible please visit the OncoLink/EmergingMed clinical trials matching resource.


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STEUBENVILLE — A Jefferson County jury found 24-year-old Stedmund Creech guilty of three charges of having a weapon under a disability Thursda....
The incident was described as basically a shootout between two felons so why only charge him with having a weapon under disability? If he was involved in a shootout then he obviously shot a gun which is felonious assault with a deadly weapon. Isn't there a law prohibiting discharging a firearm in city limits? What about a law dealing with criminally negligent child endangerment? The article says the witness was in her front yard with her grandson. this thug obviously didn't care there were children out and it was just afternoon. Hopefully Judge Henderson sets an example with this idiot for the other thugs to try an deter anyone else from committing a similar crime. 30 months is just a few years. These thugs are a danger to our community. He should be locked up for at the very least 30-50 years for everything he has done.
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I agree with you Rsimpson43952 too light a sentence for one. These thug's think nothing about killing people – nothing! That mind-set, that mentally does not deserve to be walking among civil society.
Build more prisons; they hold a good purpose and put the dangerous animals that belong in cages right where they belong. Build the prisons and get dangerous people off our streets.
And a TEEN CURFEW suggested by Mr. Johnson has been suggested many times before. It's a solution to the ongoing juvenile issues we are experiencing. So who's not doing their job?
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I am in agreement with both posts. I am tired of reading how these people are getting these light sentences. If they have no regard for life, they should not be afforded the privilege to live amongst the living and good people.
1. HOLD PARENTS ACCOUNTABLE EARLY - No excuses. Raise your kids EARLY in life with RULES ENFORCED BY LAW. Thus effective TEEN CURFEW. 2. ENFORCE OCCUPANCY RULES. If a person is living in a home not on a lease, EVERYBODY GOES. Perhaps that's an eye opener. Rsimpson, nailed it by saying this person was not charge enough with all that happened in that one day. 30-50 seems about right.
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I have two points, one is moving and one is stationary. I would like to know if the moving point has reached that point or not. I tried to calculate the distance between two vectors and the distance never reaches 0.
You have one of these problems:
Solution is not to treat points as points, but as physical objects, giving them some size, e.g. spheres. You could assume a point is a sphere of 1 pixel diameter (0.5 px radius), it would mean you need to check if distance is < .5+.5 that is
Check if the two points are close enough.
Lets say the speed of point A (moving point) is
If A is moving towards B (stationary point) and is currently in a distance smaller than
You need to check if the distance between the moving point and the stationary point is less than the size of one step for the moving point.
If that happens the moving point will reach the stationary point in the next frame.
If this never happens, it means that point A is not moving towards point B or that it is moving in a speed so slow that it will not allow it to reach point B in a finite time such (C/n^2) where n is the current frame index and C is a constant.
The reason why this is not working is because of your understanding of the problem. You are considering the two objects to be two points. In games the position of an object in world space is most commonly a vector quantity.
Instead you should consider these two "points" as vectors. Next you can follow a few simple steps to arrive at a solution.
The pseudocode for this would be as such:
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
18 comments:
- Eve said...
This looks so good - like calzones, but more bready goodness! I think I might try this next time I make pizza. :)
- April 29, 2009 at 11:17 PM
- andrea said...
it looks wonderful !
i have to try that soon..
- April 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM
- jodye said...
Your stromboli looks beautiful and delicious!
- April 30, 2009 at 1:39 AM
- VeganLinda said...
Yum! I want some now! I know my kids would love this!
- April 30, 2009 at 1:54 AM
- The Voracious Vegan said...
That is seriously impressive, I bet it is just delicious!
- April 30, 2009 at 4:15 AM
- DJ said...
This looks like a great twist on regular pizza - yum!
- April 30, 2009 at 6:09 AM
- shelby said...
This sounds great! I've never had stromboli but it sounds really delicious. I love how you added greens, my favorite!
- April 30, 2009 at 6:44 AM
- Macie said...
Wow, I want that SO bad!
- April 30, 2009 at 8:56 AM
- Tami (Vegan Appetite) said...
Looks to me like you did it better than right.
- April 30, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- Bianca said...
Dude, that looks so good! Especially with the greens. Someday your kids will thank you for feeding them such nutritious meals!
- April 30, 2009 at 12:59 PM
- Tracy Warner said...
Yours looks so perfect! Do you think vegan mozzarella would melt inside there?
- April 30, 2009 at 1:26 PM
- Mary said...
If I don't have a pizza stone? Can I just bake it in the oven?
- April 30, 2009 at 2:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
Looks good, I am pre-requesting for next visit :)
- April 30, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- Charlotte (Music and Veganism) said...
I have to say, I've never had braided stromboli before, but the shot of the inside looks like a dead ringer. Amazing looking... I think I will be very popular at home if I make this sometime soon...
- April 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM
- be'ershevaboheme6 said...
that looks REALLY yummy. I remember when I was little and my parents would bring home a cheese/pepperoni stromboli maybe once a year and it would take our family of 6 three nights to eat, because it's so unhealthy we weren't allowed more than bite sized serving at a time.
This one shouldn't have that issue though...I can't wait to try it!
- May 1, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- dreaminitvegan said...
Very impressed!
- May 1, 2009 at 1:45 PM
- Spencer said...
I'm making this for the second time since this recipe was posted. I never had stromboli before. The first round (4 days ago) tasted great but looked less than appealing - I didn't leave enough edge for the braiding.
- May 5, 2009 at 11:10 PM
- Sam said...
What a great looking! Stromboli looks beautiful and delicious. That looks really yummy. Can't wait to see ur posting. Will try it out soon. Thanks so much for sharing.
- May 29, 2009 at 7:19 AM


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Parents Patrol Nannies Online
Sharon Fuchs, a mother of a toddler daughter, usually keeps it to herself when she sees nannies doing things that she wouldn't do, like pushing a stroller without a canopy on a sunny day.
But when Ms. Fuchs, 32 years old, saw a caregiver leave a double stroller outside a Brooklyn deli recently, she decided to take action. She posted about the incident—describing the nanny's attire, the City Mini stroller and the two infants inside—on BoCoCa Parents, a listserv geared toward parents in the neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens.
"In this instance I was really scared about what could go wrong," Ms. Fuchs said.
Neighborhood listservs, social media and websites such as I Saw Your Nanny and NannySightings.com have given concerned neighbors—most now armed with cellphone cameras—a platform to report nanny behavior that raises their eyebrows. Especially in light of the alleged murder last year of two Upper West Side children in their nanny's care, these sites provide some comfort to parents who like the idea that others are looking out for their children.
But the proliferation of online forums for "bad nanny" postings has also created a quandary for those who witness something questionable: What warrants a listserv post versus a call to the police? When is it OK to do nothing at all?
The answer isn't always clear-cut.
"I think you need to say to yourself, 'Is this just behavior that I disapprove of, or is this really alarming?'" said Susan Izatt, co-founder and an owner of the early childhood enrichment center MoonSoup, with locations in Manhattan and Queens. "I've seen people criticize a nanny for forcing a child to eat, only to find out that the mother was telling her to do that."
Ms. Fuchs was contacted by a woman whose nanny and stroller met the description in the post, and said that the woman seemed thankful for the heads-up. But not all parents welcome feedback about their caregiver, said Susan Fox, the founder of the Park Slope Parents website. "Employers don't want to believe that they have hired someone who is negligent," she said in an email.
The culture of surveillance has "a lot to do with the breakdown of trust between employers and employees," said A.J., a nanny in Park Slope who asked that her name not be used.
A.J. said she understands why parents feel compelled to look at these sites and lists. But, she said, "people doing the surveillance aren't always doing it with good intentions," and may not understand the context surrounding the incident that they reported.
The Park Slope Parents listserv put in place extensive guidelines for nanny reporting in 2006, after a listserv member posted about twins who weren't dressed warmly enough—and the nanny in question turned out to be the twins' grandmother.
The guidelines urge individuals to call 911 if they witness child abuse or endangerment. If they post about the nanny on the listserv, they are asked to stick to the facts and to describe the scene "without reference to an 'upsetting incident,' 'disturbing' or other 'Bad Nanny' indicators." The site encourages people to take photos or videos, in case they are called on to provide evidence of the abuse but doesn't publish the images.
But other sites welcome photos and opinionated accounts.
Nanny Sightings features photos from anonymous users of caregivers who appear to be sleeping on the job. Similarly, a recent post on I Saw Your Nanny describes a caregiver on the Upper West Side who let a baby boy cry in his pram, while she chatted with another nanny.
Through the website HowsMyNanny.com, which issues stroller license plates, observers can report inappropriate or praiseworthy behavior. The site's founder, Jill Starishevsky, an assistant district attorney in New York City, said it receives five times more negative reports than positive ones.
Helen Panagiotopoulos, who spent 19 years working as a Manhattan nanny, said that New York nannies are keenly aware that they may be watched on the job—whether via a video camera in the home or by other parents at the playground.
Sometimes postings about their behavior cross the line into defamation, but nannies have the resources to sue a website, said Ms. Panagiotopoulos, who is now a doctoral candidate in anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center, where her research focuses on the power relationship between domestic workers and their employers.
She said that surveillance creates anxiety, even hostility, on the part of the nanny, while doing little to ensure quality care.
If approached by their employers about an incident, nannies should be honest and provide a snapshot of what they did that day, Ms. Panagiotopoulos said. "If they say, 'I heard that you were sitting down and weren't playing with my child at Kidville,'" she said, referring to the popular indoor play spaces, "say, 'I came in at 7 and made breakfast, then I cleaned up, went grocery shopping, and prepared lunch. Then we did these activities and practiced our ABCs. Kidville was the first time that I let myself sit down and let them play in an environment where I knew they were safe."


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Q: In our new town, there is only one fifth-grade class provided for exceptionally gifted kids and it is full -- we're eighth on the waiting list. Should we consider placing our gifted daughter in middle school a year early? I am extremely concerned about her being bored, which is very frustrating for her. She responds well to a challenging learning environment and is very mature for her age.
A: My main concern about moving her to middle school is that she will always be one of the youngest students in her class. You mention that she is mature, but how does her maturity manifest itself? Sometimes children can be mature around their families but not with their peers. Is your daughter used to being around older kids? Is she physically as well as psychologically mature? Are her interests and abilities more like those of her chronological peers or those of older children? It is true that boredom might be a potential problem in a classroom that does not accommodate the needs of gifted students; however, I am more concerned about the problems that might occur if she is thrust into social circumstances that she is not yet ready to handle.
Perhaps you can find a happy medium. I understand that the program for the gifted is full, but are there some activities, projects, or services in which she might become involved for at least part of the time, either on a daily or weekly basis? Might the teacher of the gifted program be able to assist the regular classroom teacher in creating opportunities for your daughter that are commensurate with her needs and abilities? What about the children who are ahead of her on the waiting list? Might the principal be willing to assign a teacher or a parent to work with them as a cluster group if the regular teacher cannot accommodate them on her own? This kind of multiple "menu" of tiered services is available in many gifted programs, so the situation might not be as bleak as it appears. And remember, you can do a lot to enrich your daughter's education at home. Good luck!
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Felice Kaufmann is an independent consultant in gifted child education. Kaufman has been a classroom teacher and counselor of gifted children, grades K-12, and a professor at Auburn University and the Universities of New Orleans and Kentucky, where she created teacher training programs in gifted child education. She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and the Executive Board of the Association of the Gifted.


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Jeff Gordon, right, walks off pit road with others during during a rain delay before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, N.Y. on Sunday. The race was postponed to today.
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) -- Jeff Gordon took advantage of an accident sparked by teammate Jimmie Johnson and a touch of timely rain at Pocono Raceway to win his first race of the season.
Gordon earned his 86th career victory Sunday and thrust himself into wild-card contention in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Johnson inadvertently gave his Hendrick Motorsports teammate the help he needed. Johnson got loose off a restart and knocked Matt Kenseth into the wall. Kenseth slid down the track and took out Denny Hamlin. With an unexpected opening, Gordon zoomed to the lead in the No. 24 Chevrolet.
It couldn't have come at a better time. The skies opened and cars were ordered off the track. The race was called moments later with 98 of the 160 scheduled laps completed.


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I am fond of the simile structure "I eat like a wolf" or "The light flickered like a candle" in English. I never know how to express these thoughts in Chinese though, even if I know the underlying words. How do I express this style of simile in Chinese?
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This is indeed a complex matter. From the way you ask, I guess you're interested in the grammatical aspect, which is what this answer is focusing on.
Because Chinese language uses serial verb construction, the simile is expressed as a V-O (verb-object) clause with simile connective as verb and vehicle noun phrase as object.
Simile connectives include: 像, 好像, 好似, 如同, 仿佛, etc.
The suffix is an optional part to emphasize the analog. Words include: 一样, 一般, 似的, etc.
Choosing connective and suffix are highly contextual and idiomatic. I don't think there are simple rules. However, connective 像 and suffix 一样 are applicable in most cases. When in doubt, go with these two.
Because there is no ordering relationship between the original verb clause and the simile clause, they can be placed in either order:
A common realization with 像..一样 is:
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16 Feb 2013 8:49 PM #1
Publishing broken: 0 File(s) copied
Since the last patch, seems like publishing is broken for me sometimes again.
I was going ok but now it just does as described above, 0 File(s) copied even though changes were made to the project.
I did see a bug like this earlier and had to tinker hard with the project inspector to force it to work again.
I have a damn project that needs urgent attention. I hope I can find a work around, but this isnt the first time i have had issues with this
16 Feb 2013 9:00 PM #2
OK this was my fault. I just setup a new project and when it forced me to set publish directory. It failed to copy anything when i did that.
When it was changed it moved all the files in that directory. I need to be careful not to mix the project with the deployment environment.
I still think the way this is all handled by the app is a little kookie but as long as i can get work out thats the main thing!
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Where does the last name Kiser originate?
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Medulloblastoma is a primitive cerebellar tumor of neuroectodermal origin. It is a childhood malignancy (median age 5-6) that has a high propensity for neuraxis spread. Hence, standard treatment involves craniospinal irradiation. This carries a rate of toxicity, including significant nausea, vomiting, pancytopenia, and late neuropsychological and growth defects. This obviously would like to be avoided, if possible, especially in young children. This study compares treatment with standard dose craniospinal irradiation (CSI) with reduced dose CSI, in the attempt to maintain efficacy but reduce toxicity of treatment.
The long-term toxicities of CSI can be devastating, with reports of decrease in IQ and growth well-documented. However, in medulloblastoma, CSI is needed as this disease has a high propensity to spread throughout the neuraxis (15-30% in even standard risk patients). This attempt to reduce CSI dose was unsuccessful, as it resulted in a higher rate of failure, which is obviously a very serious result of inadequate treatment. In children, though, toxicity may outweigh even treatment failure-especially when the toxicities of treatment are as serious as those documented with CSI. This report did lead to an additional study, which used chemotherapy and lower doses of CSI to treat standard risk medulloblastoma (Packer et al, JCO 17(7), 2127, 1999). These results were very positive, and chemotherapy with reduced dose (23.4 Gy) CSI has become the accepted standard of care in standard risk medulloblastoma.


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