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LOS ANGELES -- Connor Hughes comes up big when it matters. Thursday night in the national semifinals, the junior outside hitter had nine kills, including the match winner, as defending-champion UC Irvine escaped upstart Loyola, 26-24, 25-18, 29-27 in a match befitting the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship.
As a result, the Anteaters (24-7) could take a well deserved deep breath and await the winner of the later match between BYU and Penn State. UCI never played Penn State this season and lost twice to the top-ranked Cougars in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation play.
"Our competitive objective in 2013 is and always has been to win the national championship," first-year UCI coach David Kniffin said. "And if it's BYU in our path, then it's BYU. If it's Penn State, then it's Penn State."
Either way, Loyola was in the way and proved to be a tough challenge. The Ramblers from Chicago (22-10) went punch for punch with UCI in the first and third sets, coming oh-so-close to winning both. But in the end, the experience and savvy of UCI, which has won three of the last six NCAA titles, proved too much.
"It's a high-intensity game at this point," Hughes said. "It's win or go home. But I feel like we have a lot of experience from last year. We were in a very similar situation to this and just having that experience of being in the final four and knowing what we have to do to get the job done, really helped alleviate the pressure in a lot of ways, for me personally."
Pressure? As a team, the Anteaters hit .500, including .630 in the first set. Hughes? He was nine for 13 with just one error for a .615 clip, reminding you of his performance in last year's title match, when the product of Costa Mesa had 13 kills in 28 attempts against USC.
But that was a different time, when the Anteaters were coached by John Speraw and his former assistant, Kniffin, was coaching women at the University of Illinois, Last May, Speraw took the job at his alma mater, UCLA, and in June, Kniffin came back to Southern California to take over a team that was primed to go back-to-back for the first time since UCLA did it in 1995-96.
"When I took the job this was something I thought about. This has always been the goal and objective," said Kniffin, who was accompanied by his daughter Summer, who's 3, in the postgame handshake.
"It's her favorite part," Summer's dad said.
His favorite part had to be the offense UCI ran that included French Olympian Kevin Tillie hitting 14 of 19 with just three errors (.579).
"We're a tough team to scout, because we have some depth," Kniffin understated. "Our depth isn't just guys with the same skill sets and tendencies, but we can change how we play the game."
Collin Mehring had nine kills in 11 attempts with no errors (.818) and the other middle, Scott Kevorken, had five kills in 10 attempts and, like Tillie, four blocks.
For that matter, all of Tillie's and three of Kevorken's blocks came in the second game when it appeared a rout was on.
But give Loyola credit.
"We didn't know a lot about them," said Kniffin, who compared Loyola's attack to a hurry-up offense in football. "We knew there would be a little bit of feeling out as we went. When we stepped on the court we knew that team had the ability to serve and pass the ball at a very high level. When they can serve and pass the ball at a high level, they can run that fast offense. And when that fast offense gets going, they're hard to stop. You saw a lot of action from their outsides and it took a while to adjust to that.
" ... Once we dialed in our serving and slowed down the pace of the game, it became more of our style."
The Ramblers, who knocked off Lewis, last year's final four participant from their league, the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association, had plenty of chances to win the third set, including being up 26-25 and 27-26 before Hughes had a kill, Kevorken a block, and Hughes the match-ender.
"I was proud of our guys and how they battled," Loyola coach Shane Davis said. "It's a tough loss for us being a couple of points away from being up 2-1."
That wasn't lost on junior right side Joe Smalzer, who had 11 kills but hit .185. Teammate Cody Caldwell led with 12 kills, but hit .200 as Irvine was just too fierce at the net.
"They're a really good team," Smalzer said. "It was a really fun battle. It seemed like it was going back and forth the whole match. There were a few points here and there that both teams let slide. They gave up a couple, we gave up a couple. Overall, it was kind of heartbreaking, but it was a good match."
Loyola, which had just one senior who played in the match, is the host for next year's tournament.
Originally published in July 2013
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My bedroom is directly under my neighbors living room, he has crazy hours and I find myself waking up constantly. I tried talking to him and he's trying his best but it's just not good enough. What can I do (other than buying a white-noise machine which I did and is helpful but not helpful enough) to reduce noise coming from the top floor neighbor who admittedly walks around as if he weighed 5000 lbs.?
During construction of multi-unit dwellings, we install homasote on top of the subfloor (in the unit above yours). In the ceiling, we will add a layer of insulation. And then before installing the drywall on the ceiling, we would install resilient channel that keeps the drywall from directly contacting the joists.
Your options post construction are very limited unless you want to replace the ceiling. Ear plugs, fans, white noise, etc, may be the best you can do until one of you moves.
Edit: If you have option to rearrange your floor plan, I'd move your bedroom to be under another bedroom instead of a living room.
Well, you aren't entirely out of luck, but post construction soundproofing narrows your options:
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What kind of floors are above? What kind of noise is it?
Some options other than the proper 'install proper acoustically separated ceiling' solution B Mitch suggests would be to maybe get the landlord to upgrade the tenant's floor above. Maybe new carpet with a thicker carpet pad?
Or, turn your bedroom into a day room and invest in a really nice futon/pull out couch for your living room.


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Deirdre McQuade, spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretariat for Prolife Activities, comments on a federal judge's decision to allow the emergency-contraception drug known as Plan B to be sold over the counter to women of any age:
Plan B does not prevent or treat any disease, but makes young adolescent girls more available to sexual predators. The court's action undermines parents' ability to protect their daughters from such exploitation and from the adverse effects of the drug itself.
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Maybe she's confusing Plan B with Roofies.
The attempt to legislate or "initiativize" parents in or out of their teenagers' lives (especially daughters) is fascinating now that I have one of my own. Obviously, in the meta-picture of upbringing, my wife and I are responsible for a teen, even the things she does of which we have no knowledge. And there are some things that an adolescent has to start figuring out on her or his own.That said, it occurs to me that despite our litigious society, if a teen has an adverse reaction to a medical procedure or medication of which the parents are unaware, there is less likelihood of lawsuit. Which must make the manufacturers and distributors happy. Dispensing drugs without consequences--nice.The parental approval connection with pro-life interests: I never quite got that. Parents are as likely to insist a teen have an abortion or march down to get some Plan B or whatever pillsas not. So isn't this more an issue for parents, rather than a particularly pro-life thing? Honestly, I'm not aware of the procedures here: if Catholic Charities or Birthright or some other pro-life service is counselling a teen, are they obligated to report to a parent? Or does the obligation only extend to what the political pro-life movement wants kids to hear?And is anyone else bothered by the whiff of sexism in all this? We're spending a lot of attention on adolescent women. But when was the last time we heard of any outreach to teenage boys? I'm not asking these questions to be difficult. (Well, maybe I am in part.) I consider myself a pro-lifer, and I did my time in the political side of the movement--no more, thank you. But I am concerned about the need to be consistent, just, and fair-minded when dealing with youth. They watch. And they know.
McQuade's point seems banal, if anything: imagine a 20 year old who sleeps with a 13 year old, and then dispatches her to get emergency contraception. Hard to see the public interest in ensuring that the 13 year old gets emergency contraception without a parental figure finding out. (Obviously the parents are already deeply incompetent if they don't know what's going on here, but it's not clear why the state should weigh in on the side of the statutory rapist in such a situation . . . )
If USCCB really thinks easy availability of Plan B makes "young adolescent girls more available to sexual predators", then I question their ability to develop effective and meaningful policies and mechanisms to protect against actual sexual predators. By the way -- why the adjective "young"? Accepting the USCCB logic for the moment, are they implying that older adolescents less imperiled? Really bad communication all around.
Well sure, this may seem like a weird angle, but if there's one subject on which the Catholic bishops have absolute moral credibility it's how to avoid making young people available to sexual predators.
The real effect of the court's decision on the availability of Plan B isn't its effect on those under the age of 17. It's the fact that the FDA's rules made Plan B much less available for everyone, including adult women. The age restriction became the tail wagging the dog on access to Plan B for all women because it forced retail outlets to limit its availability to when/where there were open and staffed pharmacies, in order for the pharmacist to be able to verify that the person buying the drug was over the age of 16. The court found that the FDA's decision, which was grounded in safety, was clearly arbitrary because there are much less safe drugs on the shelf. The real reason for the FDA's decision was, of course, more embedded in social policies but the FDA has no portfolio for including such concerns into its analysis. Congress could if it chose limit Plan B availability. I suspect individual states could as well, as they have for pseudoephedrine compounds associated with the manufacturing of methamphetamine. But the FDA's mission is to make drug policy based on the safety and efficacy of drugs. It didn't do that (well, actually, the FDA did but was overruled by Sebelius) and the agency got called out on it.
Reality check, Catholic Bishops. Girls under 17, whether they are predation victims or not, give their 17-year-old friends $50 to go buy morning-afters for them down at Rite Aid. Very little parental involvement ever occurs.
"McQuades point seems banal, if anything: imagine a 20 year old who sleeps with a 13 year and then dispatches her to get emergency contraception. Hard to see the public interest in ensuring that the 13 year old gets emergency contraception without a parental figure finding out."Speaking as a father of teenage girls, I'm completely comfortable that they're invulnerable and that their judgment in all matters is unimpeachable. Especially at the age of 13. Besides, Judge Korman, who issued the ruling, alleviated any concerns on this score by noting that girls who are *younger than* 13 may be endangered - but luckily, those dangers are to be dismissed. From the AP story: "This case is not about the potential misuse of Plan B by 11-year-olds," said Korman, who called the pills safe for girls but said the number using them "is likely to be minuscule" as less than 3 percent of girls under age 13 are sexually active." Whew. I slept better last night, knowing that (according the back of the envelope in my hand at the moment), roughly 100,000 girls who are 13 or younger are sexually active. It goes without saying that none of this activity is exploitative in any way. And besides, who is a parent to interfere with a 12 year old's free choice in this matter? She is in control of her own body.
Just because the USCCB has said this, doesn't mean it's mistaken.
Who said it doesn't make it mistaken -- although if I were representing a group of people who for years had failed to adequately respond to the sexual abuse of minors, I might be a bit more cautious about indicting others for making minors "more available to sexual predators."What makes it wrong? How about the fact that many states already have laws requiring hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims if they want it? (Including Connecticut, whose bishops initially opposed the bill, claiming that Plan B had abortifacient properties, but then backed down, admitting they there wasn't enough data to support the claim. One of those bishops, William Lori, is now the head of the USCCB Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty.) What else makes it wrong? How many sexual predators care whether they get their victims pregnant? Does anyone really believe that a sexual predator will be more likely to victimize a girl because he now knows how easily she can obtain emergency contraception, should he impregnate her?What else? Opportunity is almost everything when it comes to sexual abuse. A determined predator will try to create opportunities to abuse. He will build relationships that facilitate the abuse. Raising awareness of situations that could facilitate sexual abuse is one of the best ways to reduce it. Floating Plan B availability as if it rated in the top 100 challenges to addressing the problem of sexual abuse trivializes the problem. That it comes from a USCCB employee does not help.
If there are roughly 100,000 girls who are 13 or younger are sexually active, then it seems there are probably roughly 200,000 parents who aren't paying much attention. That is a much more grave problem, and one that certainly won't be solved by Plan B's presence or absence on a drug store shelf.
Grant: You could be right. On the other hand, since clerical sexual abuse was mostly same sex, pregnancy wasn't an issue. Of course, sexual abuse is sexual abuse.... What 13 year old knows what's happening and let's bracket the 11 year olds.
Jim Pauwels, if you had a 13-year-old daughter who had consensual sex, he ideal situation would be hat he told you and hour wife about it right away. However, she has a couple of options1. Get and use Plan B if she can.2. Hope that it was an infertile day and play the percentages to avoid telling you.Is there any situation in which you would see #2 as preferable to #1?If she told you, is there any situation in which you would forbid her to use Plan B?I can understand why you would prefer she told you first, but is it worth risking #2?
Typo "the ideal situation would be that she told you and your wife"
"...roughly 200,000 parents who arent paying much attention"Could we be a little more gentle here? I have an 11 year old girl, and I am painfully that paying attention is not as easy as it sounds. An 8th grader has to have some independence and, let's be honest, sex need not take all that long. My wife and I do the best we can, and we pay A LOT of attention, but there are a whole lot of forces (from hormones to billion dollar corporate interests) working against us.
John Hayes - fwiw, a few years ago, I organized and was the deacon at a funeral mass for a baby who died because a 13 year old girl concealed her pregnancy, gave birth (delivered by her 14 year old sister, who had given birth the previous year), and then abandoned the baby. Whether the sex was "consensual", I don't know with certainty, but I understand she reported to child welfare and law enforcement authorities that the father of the baby was the 13 year old's father/guardian (I believe she was a ward of the state). I suppose, if Plan B were available over the counter, the 13 year old might have purchased it. Or not. If she had, one tragedy might have been averted. Perhaps another wouldn't have come to light. I don't know that there is any lesson to draw from this anecdote, except that it's difficult to think of circumstances in which a 13 year old's sexual activity is truly consensual, and 13 year olds may not make what we adults would think of as responsible choices, including the following chronological sequence: "(1) Do I sleep with him or not?", "(2) Do I use Plan B or not?" "(3) Do I tell my parents or not?" The key to the sequence is (1). (2) may eliminate the necessity for (3) - but may also enable (1).As parents, what we do is try to have an environment in our home where our kids can talk to us about important things. I don't know if we succeed, but we try.
Thank you Mark Preece. As a parent of a 13 year girl, I was struggling to compose a response to that post without violating the ground rules.
I am not sure why government has the right to restrict whether young teenagers may get tattoos or use tanning parlors, on the one hand, but has no right to restrict the access of young teens to emergency contraception. Perhaps a reasonable approach should be that access to emergency contraception should be tied to the age of consent, and so would vary from state to state. If a young person below the age of consent is risking pregnancy, then it seems to me the state has a very real interest in what is going on. If I were the parent of a 13-year-old girl, I rather think I would be appalled that the government required pharmacies to sell her emergency contraceptives for the asking. I understand Barbara's point about the role of the FDA, but if they are to pass judgment purely on the grounds of the drug's safety, then some other governmental agency, or the individual states, ought to set reasonable policies. I do believe in democracy, so if the majority of people want emergency contraceptives made available to anyone who has the cash to buy them regardless of age or parental wishes, then I would support that. But I don't buy the idea that because a teen can buy a lethal dose of Tylenol, he or she has some right to buy emergency contraceptives. If the criterion is safety alone, then that may make sense. But surely there is more at stake than safety.
The assertion that the ability to use birth control makes girls/women a target of sexual predators is nutty, and as others have mentioned, the church has little credibility when it comes to the protection of minors.
I majored in a science in college and prided myself on my ability to think logically. I guess I will have to eat some humble pie, because I can't for the life of me see the logic of this argument that the Plan B drug will make young adolescent girls more available to sexual predators. Where did Deirdre McQuade obtain this information? Is there a scientifically sound study that can prove the case? I doubt it. It is much too early to expect such a study and results. Thus, I have to chalk this up to a scare tactic that certain people in our Church use and that only contributes to making us a laughing-stock to any persons who can think critically.
Jim Pauwels wrote: As parents, what we do is try to have an environment in our home where our kids can talk to us about important things. I dont know if we succeed, but we try.I think that's the most important thing. Congratulations on working on it. I agree that a 13-year-old can't really consent to sex. In most states it's called statutory rape. A few months ago a close friend's 15-year-old daughter was talked into having sex by a twenty-something man she knew. She told her mother right away and they went to the ER of the local Catholic hospital where she was treated as a rape victim. I assume they used Plan B, since that's what Bishop Lori and the CT bishops agreed they could use in their hospitals. If she han't had a relationship with her mother that let her talk about that, i guess that I would have preferred that she be able to get Plan B on her own rather than simply waiting and hoping that she didn't become pregnant. You mentioned that you've watched "Call the Midwife." You may remember the episode about the girl (who looked about 15) who delivered her own baby because she didn't feel she could tell her parents what had happened.
Jack and Mark, point taken.
" ... it seems there are probably roughly 200,000 parents who arent paying much attention."Omigod! Do you mean to tell me that this much-ballyhooed marriage between one man and one woman isn't the perfect model to which all the rest of us should strive? Omigod!!!
I majored in a science in college and prided myself on my ability to think logically. I guess I will have to eat some humble pie, because I cant for the life of me see the logic of this argument that the Plan B drug will make young adolescent girls more available to sexual predators.Same logic as parents who don't want their daughters to get the HPV vaccine because they feel that reducing the risk of getting cervical cancer and STDs from intecourse will make them promiscuous.
Even though I am a vaccine enthusiast, I haven't gotten my daughter the HPV vaccine. I think I'll wait until it's around a few more years. Plus, I read that a downside of getting it might be that women would forego annual cervical exam screenings, thinking it's been covered. How comes little boys don't get the HPV vaccine? I mean, who are the girls getting it from?
How comes little boys dont get the HPV vaccine?Gardasil is recommended by CDC for both boys and girls."HPV vaccines offer the best protection to girls and boys who receive all three vaccine doses and have time to develop an immune response before being sexually active with another person. That's why HPV vaccination is recommended for preteen girls and boys at age 11 or 12 years."http://www.cdc.gov/hpv/vaccine.htmlThere's much information there.
How many of these thirteen year olds feel confident to get help from their parish community?The bishops are so aggressive in controlling what contraceptive medicine a child can take but not aggressive in providing a community where that child can seek help.
Bill's comment is spot on.Parishes are seen as linked to bishops, and indeed, the bishops have, by and large, chosen the path of politics over pastoring where sex and related issues are concerned.
"Parishes are seen as linked to bishops"Todd, do you think this is true? I've read of research that indicates that for active American Catholics, their primary bond is with their local parish, but their psychological/emotional connection to the diocese and the universal church is much weaker.As it happens, as I was walking through our parish hall yesterday evening, on my way to a meeting, and I happened to glance into a meeting room, and saw that the voice floating through the door belonged to our auxiliary bishop, who was speaking to an adult confirmation class. I nearly called out, "Hey, your eminence" or something similarly dopey, but I didn't want to interrupt him, and then also reflected that he may not know who I am - even though, ecclesially speaking, he, not my pastor, is my "boss".
Actually, I guess, "Hey, your excellency" would have been marginally less dopey, but still kind of dumb.
"How many of these thirteen year olds feel confident to get help from their parish community?"I don't know, but I suspect that most thirteen year olds wouldn't feel confident about going to any institution for "help", whatever that would even mean. I'd think they'd go to *persons* that they trust and don't fear. My memory of being thirteen is that there weren't many adults that fit that description.
I think that the fathers of 11 and 13 year old girls commenting here should take a chill pill. Sure "anything" can happen and sexual activity can happen in a flash, but really, there is a well-defined set of risk factors here and maybe you should go find them and ask yourself how many apply to your family life. If any apply, then I strongly suggest you do what you can to change the way things are in your household if at all possible. The point here is, pregnant 13 year olds are almost always a symptom of inadequate parental control, sometimes for reasons beyond the parents' control (working two jobs, for instance, to make rent and put food on the table leaving a child with a lot of unsupervised free time) and sometimes not (laissez-faire parenting that isn't inquiring enough about friends and level of supervision at other peoples' houses or that just plain ignores warning signals). How does removing Plan B from the shelves change anything about your child's risk? It doesn't, anymore than removing Plan B from the shelves gives the state more tools to address underaged pregnancy. However difficult, good parenting requires a lot more than maximizing control over the effects of high risk behaviors you didn't do nearly enough to avoid.
I have no children but do have two beloved grand-neices ages 9 and 11. They have had no religious instruction. I do worry about the fact that they will be confronted with a culture in which sexual relations are considered so serious a matter that rape can send a male to prison for many years if not life, while at the same time sex is considered so trivial a matter that hooking up is even expected in many adolescent and young people's circles. How will they deal with this contradiction-- sex is terribly important but it's not?
I don't know what it's like to be a parent but when I was in high school my mom took me to the doc to get a prescription for birth control pills because she was worried about what I was doing. I think parents (and peeps) have a great impact on what kids decide to do about sex.
Ann Olivier. I don't think there is a contradiction. People who don't believe consensual sex outside of marriage as wrong may still have strong moral or social views about what is acceptable. I think there is a broadly held view that not respecting the other person's "no" is always evil - as is taking advantage of the other person's inability to say no (drugs, alcohol, power relationship, or young age) It may be a non-religious morality, but it is a morality. Violating it will get you ostracized or sent to jail.
John H. ==No doubt some people think as you say they do. But *why* is rape so wrong if the licitness is determined simply by what people want or don't want? The same can be asked of all morality based simply on emotive evaluations -- why should what someone wants or does not want be the determinant of what is right and wrong? A kid doesn't want to have his broken arm set. Does that make it sinful for the doctor to set it?
"I dont know, but I suspect that most thirteen year olds wouldnt feel confident about going to any institution for help, whatever that would even mean."A parish should act like an extended family where that parish family nourishes and protects its children. Each child is considered almost as precious as ones own. Build the ideal picture from there. Vatican II parishes started to greet people after Mass. Ethnic parishes came the closest to community since there were greater needs. Even with greater clergy pastors did not know how to build a community. They still do not. The chancery centers on whether parishes can pay their bills or not and how many people attend Mass on Sunday. In general cliques run the societies. Theologians wax on about community but Paul of Tarsus is largelyabsent. Except in sending a letter to the bishop's political dislikes.
Ann Olivier wrote "No doubt some people think as you say they do. But *why* is rape so wrong if the licitness is determined simply by what people want or dont want?""The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others
Sorry, hit the button by accident. The second paragraph is J. S. Mill's proposition that the only actions society can prohibit are those that case harm to another person. Pretty much all first-year college students hear a presentation during their first orientation week telling them that society has decided that if you want to have sex with a person, it is up to that person to decide whether he/she wants to have sex with you - and that if you force that person to have sex after being told "no" - of if she/he is incapable of giving consent, society has determined that that is a harm to another person (in Mills' sense) for which it can punish you. No religious content to it.
John H. =-So why is rape such an awful crime if the culture considers individual consensual sex acts to be relatively trivial?
Ann,The reason rape is a big deal even if some people find consensual sex not a big deal, is because rape isn't about sex, it's about violence ...http://feministing.com/2012/08/28/rape-is-not-sex/
John Hayes - I've never really cared for Mills, or at least the parts of his thought to which I've been exposed. The church would have a very different view of how society should come to order itself, one that recognizes God's lordship over his creation, our dignity as His creatures, and our rights and responsibilities that flow from that. Whether the US as a whole is ready to accept this schema (which is not really unique to Catholicism) is open to question, as it's not clear whether or not there is a social consensus to these propositions (and there I go, talking about "social consensus" in a rather Millsian way), but I wouldn't have an issue with - and in fact, I'd want - a Catholic college asserting these things in its orientation-week talk with the freshman class.
I wonder, what are the adverse side effects of this sort of "medication"? Also, can a drug be called a medication, if it is not used as a treatment for an illness or long term medical condition?
Jim Pauwels - to be clear, I'm not promoting Mill vs. Catholic moral theology. I was trying to suggest an answer to Ann Olivier's comment that there is a contradiction between society's view that rape is a serious crime for which you can be sent to prison and its view (on the part of many people, anyway) that consensual sex outside of marriage is acceptable. That gets into the question of the relationship between the civil law and Catholic morality. Aquinas (and Augustine, before him) said that the civil law didn't need to prohibit every immoral act. Later, the Church's view became that the best system of government was to have a king who was an absolute monarch and would impose Catholic morality on all tnrough his laws. Vatican Ii rolled that back closer to Thomas and Augustine, saying that the purpose of the civil law was to allow people to live together in peace (from memory, without looking up the actual language).In the recent oral argument on DOMA, one of the Justices read out a statement by Congress at the time it passed the law saying that its purpose was to express Congress's moral disapproval of homosexual- [-ity, -al activity? again not looking up] and asking one of the defenders of the law if that was, in fact, Congresses' intent. It was a loaded question because the court had already decided, in a Texas case that a state law punishing consensual sodomy was unconstitutional because it was based on moral views without showing any "harm to others", as Mill phrased it. Similarly, laws against fornication, adultery, divorce, contracepion, blasphemy, etc. have disappeared either by court decisions or legislative action in response to changes in public opinion. Mill's test of "does it do harm to others?" has become the secular morality, acceptable to people who reject the existence of any revealed religious morality. That is why it is used as tne basis for those freshmen orientations aimed at getting people to accept that you have to have consent before sex. I think it would be used even if a Catholic College preceded it with an explanation of Catholic teaching on unmarried sex.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman: No serious health risks have been associated with the drugs use among adults and children, Korman wrote, and even the FDA acknowledged that the drugs safety and efficacy in the pediatric population have been established.Deirdre McQuade: "Plan B is a large dose of a powerful hormonal drug (levonorgestrel) that is available only by prescription when used in smaller doses for contraception.The court has acted irresponsibly by making this powerful drug available without a prescription to minor children.[...] Many studies have shown that wider access to "emergency contraception" among young people does not reduce pregnancy or abortion rates, but can contribute to higher rates of sexually transmitted disease."How are those two statements compatible? By noting that McQuade has not actually said that the drug posed a health risk, and Korman has not actually said that the drug poses no health risk. McQuade said that it is "powerful", which is a suggestive word but does not actually mean anything specific. He said that it "can contribute" to higher rates of STDs, not that it does contribute, so maybe studies are inconclusive. Korman said that it has not been proved to pose "serious" health risks, so it is possible that it poses "non-serious" health risks. Korman said that the drug's "efficacy in the pediatric population has been established", which might simply mean that if they take it, the drug does prevent pregnancy. McQuade says that "many studies have shown that wider access to "emergency contraception" among young people does not reduce pregnancy or abortion rates", which might mean that even if it's available broadly, there are still just as many pregnancies, or which might mean that studies are contradictory, with a majority of studies going the way of the FDA and a minority of studies, which could still be "many" studies, going the way of McQuade.Given that the middle paragraph of McQuade's statement about sexual predators makes no sense, and given that "minor children" is redundant and that the "young" before adolescent is a superfluous restriction, both designed to pull at people's emotional strings rather than be rational, I would believe Korman over McQuade.
Thank you, Crystal. You're almost at the point I'm raising. Let me put it a different way: Some say that intercourse is on a par with, say, having dinner together -- a trivial matter. But if consensual sex and rape are in themselves the same, why is rape not the equivalent of having dinner together? Isn't it because something is *added* to it, for instance, as you say, because rape is also violent. But then the question is: *why* is rape resisted so strenuously if, objectively, it is the same act as consensual sex -- that it so wrong if it has no more intrinsic value than a dinner? In fact, we can tolerate having dinner with someone we don't like (and sometimes we do). Why are we so intolerant of rape? True, it is violent, but that's *because* the victim resists so strenuously. *Why* do women resist rape? I suspect that the reason is not because of what it *is* -- it's because of what rape *isn't*, because of what it lacks. And don't say it lacks the victim's permission. The question is *why* does itlack her permission and result in such strenuous rejection? Surely, not because it is a trivial matter.Actually, I'm not completely sure how to articulate the answer, but the question remains an important one, I think. Sexual morality is in important ways dependent on the answer.
John Hayes - right, I do understand you weren't promoting Mill. And I agree with your take on secular morality. It might be said that the secular morality, in its "does it harm others?" test, is fine in itself but rather minimal, and the more robust Christian (perhaps Judeo-Christian, perhaps even broader than that) morality that I'm advocating encompasses that test but also a good more depth and richness.
Ann, you are really being disingenous here: rape is more like getting beaten up or stabbed than reluctantly having dinner with someone. Why don't we tolerate stabbing and punching? Sure, we might not want to dine with someone, but if someone held us down and forced food down our mouths that would be prosecuted as assault and battery (at the very least). Likewise the difference between reluctantly going on a date and being held down and forcibly penetrated. Rape is almost always accompanied by actual violence or the threat (or sometimes just outright fear) of greater violence than the actual act of penetration. A friend of mine was told that if she didn't have sex with a gangleader she would be forced to have sex with him and all of his cohorts. What would you have done?Indeed, one of the maddening things about the crime of rape is that so many like you tangle it up with sexual ethics. Believe me, that has been transmitted loud and clear to rape victims, who often feel ashamed in ways that victims of other kinds of violence would never dream of. That is one reason why rape is so shaming -- because other people refuse to see it for the violent crime that it is. If I come to your house for the date we agreed to go on and I find that you have decided that you would rather stay home and wash your hair and I drag you out to my car and make you go with me, would you ask me why kidnapping lacks my permission? Why does it matter?Why was it a big deal when two girls tied up a woman and threw her in the trunk of her car and drove around for a few days? Why can't we see that they just wanted to borrow her car and if she said no, why shouldn't they push her into the trunk and take it anyway? It's just a car and the lady wasn't really hurt. Maybe you should be the one to tell us why you see rape differently from these other situations, rather than asking us to justify why women don't just go ahead and have sex with the guy to avoid ugly confrontations.
Ann - I'm not sure that the secular culture, even the subset known as the "hook-up" culture, thinks that sex is as trivial as having dinner with a friend. I suspect that even among those who engage in sex that strikes us as casual and meaningless, they spend a lot of time and energy, and quite possibly money, pursuing the pleasure. It strikes me as more akin to what drug users, even those who aren't addicts, will do to obtain the pleasure of indulging in the drug.
What Barbara wrote. Not only is Ann being disingenous. Utter fantasy is more like it.
Barbara --I certainly am NOT denying that the actual violence of rape is a terrible crime in itself. I have not implied that having dinner with someone you don't like is equivalent of rape -- I'm implying exxatly the opposite, and asking *why* they aren't equivalent. What I'm question is WHY women resist penetration so strongly? They are not simply resisting violence. If they were simply afraid of violence they wouldn't resist. In other words, they are resisting for some other reason in the first place. That is what I'm questioning. All violence is wrong, and rape is wrong even *beyond* the violence usually involved. I'm asking why. I am not "tangling it up with sexual ethics". It is part and part of sexual ethics. Rape is not wrong simply because it is violent. What I'm trying to do is raise a question; what makes sexual intercourse a serious matter in some cases but non-serious in others? No, I don't think the question has been given sufficient attention. Just look at the hook-up culture. If young women thought about it more they might not allow themselves to be used so often as they are.Jim P. -- about hooking up. You seem not to be aware of what is common practice these days at least in American colleges. I haven't read Donna Freitas' book The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy, but what she has to say does concern me because of my fast-growing-up nieces. Her study corroborates what I've been thinking for a long time -- too often girls and young women are, in effect, allowing themselves to be used to their own disadvantage. It's time to start asking questions about it. I know Freitas isn't a social scientist, so her conclusions might not be valid. But her anecdotes are alarming. And yes, my own view isn't politically correct, but so what?
This has been addressed @ dotC before and I refer to this article that was offered up at the time:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vatican-acts-overbosnian-rapes-birt...
Ann,When I was a kid I was sexually abused by a family member and now that I'm an adult, I have to try to figure out how the sex acts that spouses share and that for them mean love are the sex acts that in sexual abuse mean domination and harm. You seem to be saying that the acts are the same in rape and consensual sex, so what's the big deal. That could be said of sex abuse and consensual sex too. It's not the acts in themselves that matter, it's intent, it's the relationship between the people.
"Rape is not wrong simply because it is violent." I honestly am not sure what you mean by this. Rape is "special" in the sense that it is an act that is criminal based on context, unlike shooting someone, which is always criminal when it is done with knowledge. Many women DON'T resist being raped because the perpetrator credibly threatens greater harm if they resist. It depends on how they gauge their chances of being killed versus being able to get away (they might be much better off resisting or not, and they might not even really know and might be acting on pure instinct or they might be frozen with fear). Just like many women don't resist being robbed but others don't. In reading your whole comment, it seems as if you are saying that women are more likely to resist rape than other violent crimes, like mugging or purse snatching, because sex is more important than a purse or a watch, which validates your concern regarding hook up culture because it kind of proves that sex is not actually as trivial as young women make it out to be, or else they wouldn't resist penetration as strongly as they do. A sort of corollary to proving that God exists on the basis that "there are no atheists in foxholes."
" You seem to be saying that the acts are the same in rape and consensual sex, so whats the big deal."Crystal --I'm not saying there is no big deal. I'm saying that beyond the violence of rape there is a reason == or reasons -- why women resist it, and the reason(s) must not be trivial, and the evidence is that women resist it so strongly. In other words, sex is of itself not a trivial matter, and to treat it as trivial leads to unhappiness, for women anyway. No, I'm not saying it's trivial for all men, but there does seem to be that Darwinian thing about males being strongly inclined to spread there DNA widely. (This is really getting complicated.)No, I'm not going to go into what I think the answer(s) is. I'm just trying to provoke some consideration of the question. I will say that Donna Freitas seems way ahead of her time.
Barbara --I'm sorry, but I just don't know how to make the question clearer. I think it is one that is largely being ignored in the culture, but it needs to be raised.
Ann, I honestly don't think rape and responses to rape provide much insight into cultural attitudes on consensual sexual conduct. So yes, I do see what you were trying to do, but I found your analysis to be unenlightening on either rape or the hook-up culture. It also had the balefule effect of appearing to trivialize the crime of rape (for people who avowedly think sexual activity is a trivial event so what's the big deal?), even though I understand that is not what you were trying to do. You were trying to do the inverse, but there are too many variables for that kind of syllogistic logic to provide real insight.


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Beau McCoy of Omaha campaigned in Nebraska City Monday for the Republican nomination for governor with a platform of lower taxes, jobs for Nebraskans and quality education.
McCoy, who grew up on a cattle ranch near the Nebraska border in Colorado and started his own roofing and home improvement company, has represented District 39 in the state Legislature since 2008.
As governor, he said, he would continue to fight for common sense tax relief.
He said that means tax relief not just for a few, but for as many Nebraskans as possible.
McCoy currently serves on the recently-created Tax Modernization Committee along with other members of the Legislature's Revenue Committee and chairs of the agriculture, appropriations, education and health and human services committees.
The modernization committee is scheduling public hearings this fall regarding the state's tax system and and is expected to present its recommendations in December.
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He said he sees benefits from a government of local decision-making with state leadership.He said state Game and Parks' decision this fall to temporarily close some history orientated state parks and recreation areas reminds him of his serve on the Legislature's natural resources committee.
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I apologize in advance because I don't know how to enter code to format equations, and I apologize for how elementary this question is. I am trying to teach myself some differential geometry, and it is helpful to apply it to a simple case, but that is where I am running into a wall.
Consider $M=\mathbb{R}^2$ as our manifold of interest. I believe that the tangent space is also $\mathbb{R}^2$. From linear algebra, we know that a basis set for $\mathbb{R}^2$ is $$\left\{\left[\matrix{1\\0}\right], \left[\matrix{0\\ 1}\right] \right\}\;.$$
Now, from differential geometry, we are told that basis vectors are $\frac{d}{dx}$ and $\frac{d}{dy}$ where the derivatives are partial deravatives.
So my question is how does one obtain a two-component basis vector of linear algebra from a simple partial derivative?
EDIT: Thanks to everyone for the replies. They have been very helpful, but thinking as a physicist, I would like to see how the methods of differential geometry could be used to derivive the standard basis of linear algebra. It seems that there must be more to it than saying that there is an isomorphism between the space of derivatives at a point and R^n which sets up a natural correspondence between the basis vectors.
I may be completely off-the-wall wrong, but somehow I think that the answer involves partial derivatives of a local orthognal coordinate system at point p.


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I have a HP 630 with an i3 processor on which I run Windows 7 64 bit without any problems, I also dual booted Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit I believe, now I upgraded to 11.10 and the clean install doesn't have any apparent problems.
But first thing I update, my Ubuntu won't start it just goes into the purple screen, or more rarely a black screen with a blinking cursor, where it stays indefenetly. The only clue I could find was that when I entered recovery mode the last instruction which appeared on screen before it friezed was:
Booting Node 0,Processors #1
After I tried to install the 32 bit version of Ubuntu 11.10 from a USB stick It froze at exactly the same instruction and wouldn't let me install.
So it's a dual core problem, and maybe a BIOS problem, because it seems that it doesn't want to pass from one processor to another, I added to the grub command line
maxcpus=1 and it worked but I don't think it's healthy and it looks like hell.
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I'm doing old exam questions, and here is one that on first glance seemed rather simple to me, but I just can't get it:
Given are two operators $A$ and $B$, and all we know about them is that $$[A,B] = B$$ and $$B^\dagger B = 1 - A^2$$
From this, I must find the "hermiticity properties" of $A$ and $B$. So far, the only progress I have made is to note that $A^2$ must be hermitian, because for any operator, $B^\dagger B$ is hermitian.
However, this does not suffice to determin the hermiticity of $A$ itself, as $A$ could be hermitian, anit-hermitian or even have one hermitian part $A_h^\dagger = A_h$ and one antihermitian part $A_a^\dagger = -A_a$ as long as $A_h A_a = -A_a A_h$, i.e. the hermitian and anti-hermitian part of $A$ anti-commute.
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Here is an easy, straightforward method good for oven roasting a perfect capon for the holidays, or anytime you want to serve this fabulous bird. The method works for birds whether or not stuffed with dressing. Truss the capon first, as it will make turning the bird easier and help prevent the skin from tearing at the joints in the process. It is also a good method for roasting other large chickens.
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Roasting begins on the lower middle oven rack in a preheated 450°F oven, then 30 minutes into the roasting the heat is reduced to 350°F for the remainder of the cooking time. This jump-starts the browning process and sears the meat, sealing in precious juices. As mentioned, you turn the bird a few times in the process, and baste every 10 or 15 minutes. Rub the capon with our pure, renderedduck fat, lightly softened before gently 'massaging' it into the skin. Season the capon with a good salt and freshly ground pepper before putting it in the oven, and baste with melted duck fat until the bird creates enough of its own pan juices for basting.
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Just did my usual Google search for programming stuff, and got a result from the site
www.weask.us. To my surprise, I got a page that was ripped off Stack Overflow.
After some surfing around it became clear that they are getting all of their content from Stack Overflow and republishing with no reference to the original site.
They have built a total of three sites:
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Their site does not display any ads, but NoScript reports a whole bunch of JavaScript from shady URLs; you have to open a question to get the scripts.
I think the site is in clear violation of the cc-wiki license, because there is no attribution.
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NEW YORK CITY- Peter Shaw, a 1985 graduate of Cheboygan Area High School, CAHS, has released his first solo CD composed and produced by himself, entitled "More Alive."
"The album leans towards a pop/rock sound similar to the Neon Trees, with hypnotic beats like Rihanna uses in her music," Shaw said.
Shaw started his artistic career at CAHS playing the role of Judas Iscariot in the production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." The production was very successful and was soon moved from the CAHS stage to the Cheboygan Opera House.
After graduating from CAHS, Shaw was accepted to the Young Americans and moved to Los Angeles for a year to perform with the group and to gain experience on stage.
Shaw attended Syracuse University and earned a bachelor's of fine arts in musical theater in 1990. After graduation, he moved to New York and also spent time in Los Angeles auditioning for roles in movies and television programs, landing parts in "All My Children," "Practical Magic," and "Hannibal."
Shaw said he enjoyed acting, but his true passion was music.
"Acting was a lot of sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone to yell action. ...There is more passion to music. I'd rather to do something I love totally than something I love just a little bit," Shaw said.
His acting career turned fully to music when he met the casting director for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, TSO, at a gym in New York City. His rendition of "Find Me Somebody To Love," in the middle of the gym lead to him being invited to join TSO, where he opened and closed the band's tours for more than four years and 240 consecutive shows.
Shaw regularly played in front of crowds of more than 23,000 people a night and opened a show with TSO at a sold out Madison Square Garden.
"What moments to remember. ...I didn't take the experience of singing with Steven Tyler, Roger Daltrey, and Tommy Shaw from Styx for granted. I loved every minute of it," Shaw said.
Shaw is always searching for new and interesting melodies and writing styles.
"I'm creating new songs and new sounds for all ages, and all I want to really do is create the most beautiful songs that will inspire people to keep believing that anything is possible," Shaw said.
"If I left the music industry with a few hit songs, I would be so happy. I want my music to leave an impression and a special feeling for everyone who hears it. And I'm grateful to all my fans for their love and support, especially my family and friends in Cheboygan, where it all started. ...I'd love to come back to Cheboygan and play the Opera House with my band sometime," he said.
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The 7 Most Needlessly Terrifying Pieces of Heavy Machinery
#3. The Forage Harvester, aka Destroyer of Worlds
Finally someone listened to all of our articles about the inevitable zombie apocalypse and took some action. The only vehicle more specifically designed for undead destruction was the bus in the Dawn of the Dead remake, only with this one, the chance of accidentally chainsawing one of your own guys is pretty slim. But, God help them if they step in front of you.
What It Is:
It's a forage harvester, and the unfortunate truth is that the only thing it's meant to eradicate is corn.
The harvester shreds the corn into silage, which is then left to ferment and eventually become food for livestock. And we've officially made a complete turn from awesome to boring. Nice try, forage harvester, but there's no way to make farming exciting. Unless you're raising dinosaurs, in which case this would make an excellent pooper scooper.
#2. The TBM, aka Planet Earth's Vibrator
It probably isn't clear what this one does if you've never seen it before. For all we know it could be Voltron's penis, horribly dissected for all the world to see. Whatever the hell it is, those guys in front are really, really proud of it.
When you absolutely, positively have to give a volcano a prostate massage.
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That is a TBM, or tunnel boring machine, and as its name indicates, it's a machine used for boring holes through solid ground, or even rock in some cases, to create tunnels.
The one pictured above is one of the largest in existence, with a diameter of about 47 feet. There is currently talk of a bigger one being built to bore a tunnel under the Bering Strait. This could potentially link Russia with Alaska via a rail and pipeline system, opening up a whole new world of commerce between the U.S. and Russia, which for some reason is a good thing. Here's a video of a TBM in action:
When the TBM breaks through at about 1:20, it looks so otherworldly that we half expected a hatch to open to allow a swarm of aliens to come pouring out and start vaporizing everyone. That TBM was just finishing boring one of two mile-long tunnels in the Netherlands for the construction of a four-lane highway. The tunnels took just under four months to drill. Before TBMs, it could take years to excavate tunnels that long.
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They look sort of like a cruiser from Star Wars on the inside.
#1. The Continuous Miner, aka Satan's Rock-Eating Battle Tank
This looks like the personal vehicle for every member of the devil's staff, and it appropriately enough appears to be climbing out of the very depths of hell itself. At the very least it should be chasing Mad Max down the freeway or battling Truckzilla in a destruction derby. Just looking at the snaggleteeth of destruction at the front will freeze you in your tracks like a deer in headlights, leaving you open to being so intensely obliterated that you will disappear from photographs like Marty McFly's brother.
What It Is:
That is a continuous miner. Its primary purpose, other than starring in your nightmares and stealing children's ability to laugh, is ... well ... mining, continuously. That spinning wheel of metal teeth knocks the coal loose; the coal then gets scooped up onto the ramp below and is collected by the gathering arms on the ramp that you probably didn't notice before because you were too horrified by the metal teeth on the cutting drum to care about anything else.
What were we talking about again?
Then everything is moved by conveyor to the back of the machine, where it is pooped out onto a shuttle car waiting to collect and remove the payload from the mine. Here's a video of one in action:
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 08:54 AM
Because of that night, to this day Onegin is my favourite ballet and between 1984 and 1990, I saw performances with LFB - now ENB nearly every year. I then had a gap but have since seen it performed by RB, NBC, RDB and POB. I think that because I hold the production in so much affection I can't remember any performances that I haven't enjoyed but some have been more memorable than others. Apart from that first time, I loved Natalia Makarova with Alexander Sombart (still my favourite Onegin) and also Lynn Seymour and Eva Evdokimova (again with Alexander Sombart). I was also lucky to see one performance at RB with Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg. We were very fortunate to see one of Kenneth Greve's final performances with Gudrun Bojesen.
This is one ballet that really suits a mature dancer as Tatiana and I vaguely recall that there was some surprise when Alina Cojocaru was cast in her early 20s. The performance I saw proved why she is such a great artiste.
I hope SFB and ABT audiences enjoy this ballet as much as I have done over the last 20-odd years.
Posted 17 January 2012 - 10:13 AM
This is one ballet that really suits a mature dancer as Tatiana and I vaguely recall that there was some surprise when Alina Cojocaru was cast in her early 20s. The performance I saw proved why she is such a great artiste.
I totally agree. This pdd was filmed when Alina Cojocaru was just 23
to my taste it has been surpassed only by Cojocaru and Kobborg in later shows.
Onegin is also in my pesonal list of favourites ballet. It needs great dance actors and unfortunately can seem a poor thing when the dancers are not able to shows all the interpretative details. It seems also more suited to some companies than to others: I'm always disappointed watching clips coming from a certain European major company.
Lets' hope that the Americans will have a great result in it!!!
Posted 17 January 2012 - 11:09 AM
There is actually a lot of dancing in it for the corps and that too required a great deal of rehearsal to get it perfect for the Cranko foundation. One of the most impressive parts for the corps is the Russian peasant dance, which starts with the men leaping and showing off and finishes with an amazing run across stage, in which the men run and with one hand help the women do a series of split grand jetes across the stage. They exit from the downstage corner and run like mad to the upstage corner to start the run again to the opposite side. Anyone waiting in the wings has to get very hurriedly out of the way not to get trampled on in the rush!
My favourite piece is the final dramatic pas de deux (even more than the dream scene pas). It is simply so tragic and so moving that even the dancers come and watch it from the wings every performance, at least ours do! For many of the performances we had a Russian guest star, who was/is an incredible Tatiana. She finishes the final scene in tears and so does the audience. The irony of her tearing up Onegin's letter as he once tore up hers is pure theatre. I can hear the powerful music now as he holds on to her legs and drags himself after her along the floor. It sends shivers up my spine. Also extremely dramatic is the duel scene and Lensky's solo before it. What is nice too is that all this drama is broken with some nice touches of comedy in the first ballroom scene with the old people. That is such fun to do - I can "ham" my head off!
The weakest link as far as I am concerned is the extra long pas de deux in the first scene with Lensky and Olga. It has a whole piece of the choreography repeated, which is one of the things that irritate me about Cranko's choreography. It's a beautiful pas de deux, but too long.
We have had other guest artists dancing the leading roles and although I prefer our Russian ballerina, the performances are still very successful, so I would say that yes great artists can lift the performance more, but it is never boring and always an impressive ballet with gorgeous music. We once did a closed afternoon performance for school children. I remember they started off with whistles and cat calls when Lensky came out in his white tights, and were very restless, but they gradually got swept in by the story and the drama and by the end of the very long three act ballet they were so quiet you could hear a pin drop, until suddenly they burst out in a storm of applause. It was quite something to experience.
Posted 17 January 2012 - 12:02 PM
IThe company rented the costumes and sets from the Berlin Opera and they are beautiful. I have heard criticism that the Royal Ballet's version has sets that are rather dark and heavy, ours are not and when the curtain rises on the 2nd ballroom scene in the palace, there is always applause.
London Royal ballet is using Jürgen Rose sets and costumes, so more or less the original ones; the darker version, absolutely too dark!, in my opinion is the Pierluigi Samaritani and Roberta Guidi di Bagno one, used by La Scala and Rome Opera: especially the last scene in Gremin's home is quite dark and funereal.
The Royal Ballet of Flanders is using the lighter (both because of the luminosity and because the stage is quite empty) version I've seen, by Maren Fisher and Thomas Mika (as far as I know this version was initially produced especially for Far East companies).
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I like being able to take my work anywhere with me, but sometimes my laptop is just too big to take with me. Battery life on tablets seem to be much better than laptops as well. Are there any tablets that would be good for writers and editors? Please explain any recommendations. (Any operating system is fine - Android, Windows Mobile, iPad, etc.)
The iPad is pretty good, but I would suggest getting a USB keyboard as well. You can find some nice cases that have the keyboard built in so you can open them up and type. I usually get 10-12 hours on my iPad, though I don't use the blue tooth.
As for laptops, I have a netbook myself, and I can get six hours out of that without much trouble if I set the brightness to low and turn the wi-fi off. You can also get a bigger battery that can take you to ten hours.
The netbook is a good size to travel with, easy enough to stick into a small bag. Same with the iPad, in fact I usually keep both with me when I fly.
Not a tablet, but a mini notebook sounds like it meets your size and battery life requirements. I have a Toshiba NB 205. 10" screen, less than 3 pounds with 7 hour battery life. Windows 7. Powerful enough to run Office, but I choose not to. I carry it in a backpack on the train daily.
The enTourage eDGe looks like an amazing tablet for writers and editors. It opens like a book and on the left is an ereader with an e-ink screen and on the right is an Android powered tablet. The EE can be folded completely back so that only one screen is visible. The e-ink reader side also lets you use a stylus to write on the document you have open.
My Editor-in-Chief has one and she says it's amazing for both writers and editors.
The iPad is fabulous. I have written a 120,000 word novel on one. Buy the little Apple keyboard. All highly portable. You can save your files on Dropbox and your writing is accessible anywhere, or email each chapter to yourself. I used the Apple programme Pages. It works well.
Just writing, no bells, whistles, games, internet?
HP LX200 (it's a clamshell XT). Load it with WORD 5 for DOS or VDE editor, better yet with a few nifty editing Macros and you can beat the crap out of any Tablet (Mac or Android)... even though it's antiquated and superannuated.
Or go back to the PSION 5MX (but with a fixed up third party flat cable). Marvelous little clamshell.
Tablets are NOT for writers/editors. There's no DEL (or CANC). You can't create simple editing Macros.
I went to a Tablet store taking my 1992 HP LX200 - DOS!! with absurdly slow XT engine (the stone age!) and CHALLENGED them to do better / faster, promising them to pay twice the price on any modern handheld gizmo that could do better in terms of ease, speed on a simple paragraph translation.
Sure, no Angry Birds, no flying in formation with a friend in Singapore, no Internet... I'm talking just about writing / editing work. First draft stuff . WORK.
They stopped snickering when I beat the pants off them...
They got upset and figured I was a crank. But on the same text, they were still poking their fingers on the screen and highlight with their index fingers, while I used the rich editing features of old WORD 5 for DOS to do the same things at blazing speed. I shouted: "Done!" and they were still pecking and poking...
Sure, I have a tablet (HTC Flyer) and I love it to pieces, but when I'm in a hurry and I don't want to be chained to a real computer with a real and proper keyboard (still the fastest way to go), my ancient hardware / software is at least 8 times more productive than Ipad or Android.
This ticks me off, because I'd love to bury the old machine... but there's nothing modern in the handheld - walking-and-typing that comes close...
If you want a Windows option, HP and Dell both have great tablets. HP's tm2 (shopping link) and Dell's Inspiron duo (shopping link) are good, consumer-focused models.
If you're only concerned about the writing and battery life and not other tablety stuff, and you don't mind hacking it a bit, some folks on XDA Developers recently got a Nook Touch to support a USB keyboard. I plan on investing in one of these myself soon, since the eInk screen should be easier on my eyes than a regular monitor.
I'm a big fan of the Asus line of devices. Touch typing is getting much better and their accessories are right on par with Apple devices in my opinion -except cheaper. The iPad still probably sets the bar as far as user experience goes, but the ASUS Transformer Prime is a very strong competitor -that would be my current recommendation.
Here's a CNet review: http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/asus-eee-pad-transformer/4505-3126_7-35089447.html
As with all consumer electronics, the longer you wait, the better your device will be for your money. That said, this might be a good time to wait a bit longer. Quad-core devices with a ton of upgrade potential should be hitting the market soon. Additionally, if you decide you really want to go Apple but price is an issue, wait for the iPad 3 and grab a used iPad 2 while people are in upgrade mode.
I own a 64 GB Transformer Prime and I love it! I'll never own a laptop again. It's an excellent device for screen typing and it is the fastest Android device that I've used. It is a bit expensive, but the investment to productivity and portability is well worth it for me. The number of alternative keyboards available is also a big plus. I prefer Swype personally, but there are many to choose from.
I found that the iPad was not really a good tool for writing, or getting ideas out...at first. While I know this thread is fairly old, due to sheer use, i found myself using the iPad with an iPad keyboard case more and more for writing. I think that the more you use something, the better off you are with it. Furthermore, I feel that with Secunia for the iPad and this case, I have been able to pump out some of my best ideas....fast..
I moved to a Macbook Air. I know it's not a tablet, but for lots of writing, I didn't like the iPad and if I'm carrying the keyboard as well, why not the Air? It's about the same size as my iPad 1, and there are some great writing apps for OSX. I also use DropBox and Evernote to sync notes/drafts back with a home computer to keep a second copy in case I have issues on the road.
I would vote up other votes instead of writing my own answer, but since I'm still new to this site, I can't do that yet. I vouch for the Asus line as well. I'm currently writing this post using my Asus Transformer Tablet. The Prime is the newer model and has some better specs. (I have the older model).
When you look at getting the tablet with the keyboard dock (definitely recommended), it still comes out cheaper than the iPad and other tablets on the market. I find it's easy to carry around and has a very good battery life. With the keyboard dock, it is advertised to have 16 hrs of battery. About 8 hours without the keyboard dock. I've taken this tablet with me on trips and used it to write storires and brainstorm ideas.
Now I'm just looking for apps that will help with that as well. It runs Android Ice Cream sandwich, which is the newest OS for Android. The flexibility of a touchscreen and keyboard brings a new experience altogether. Rather than relying on a mouse/touchpad, I can just tap the screen if I want to edit a specific paragraph. Or scrolling up to read what I wrote before, I can just use finger gestures.
I still personally would prefer a laptop for heavy duty writing, but for being out and about, I would recommend the Asus Transformer line.
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