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Pax Obama, Part Deux
Amazingly, the Republican fringe may have started to acknowledge reality: it backed down on the debt ceiling hostage scenario in which they basically held a gun to their own heads.Jon Chait explains here. But I think the main lesson is that by incremental steps Obama is forcing the GOP to recognize that they have to govern. Every small compromise they make is a surrender of their all-or-nothing fundamentalism. And a win for actually governing.Addendum: A Sully post at The Dish links to Adam Gopnik on the importance of passing some gun laws and thereby starting to change the culture of guns in the U.S., much as the cultural norms around driving drunk and using seat belts (and smoking -- who'd have thought Big Tobacco could be tamed?) have changed over the years. It's about promoting a "culture of life," as the bishops say in endorsing Obama's gun control proposals. Not one fell swoop. But changing the culture. By forcing the GOP to make any concessions the White House changes the dynamic of "cliff-diving" and hostage-taking and extremism to one that at least affords the chance to make government and society function.Now we can get back to the real news, which is that wild and crazy Notre Dame football team and its star player, Manti Te'o. The good news: he apparently got himself a real girlfriend right after the fake love of his life died so tragically. Bad news: they broke up. So it goes with rebounds.
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Although Manti Te'o clearly invented some of the story of his nonexistent girlfriend, there are some indications that he really was the victim of an extraordinarily elaborate and vicious hoax taking in not just him, but his family. Check out this. Who knows what the full story will be, but I personally am not telling any imaginary-girlfriend jokes until there's more information.
Under Pax Obama can we also have more laws restricting abortion in order to change attitudes toward it? Then we would be moving toward the Seamless Garment. Andrew Cuomo seems to be going the right way on guns, but the wrong way on abortion. Let's embrace the Seamless Garment -- no capital punishment, no torture, no preemptive wars, no more permissiveness on guns and no more abortion.
Laws against/restricting abortion will NOT change attitudes toward it. Think back to the pre-RvW days with (1) offshore abortions for the well-to-do and (2) back alley abortions for the poor.All the laws in the world will not change attitudes toward something that women feel they are forced to do, either because of marital, economic or health status, or personal preference.
And then there is this re: Manti Teo --- http://www.ibtimes.com/sportsnet/manti-teo-gay-rumors-cautionary-tale-be... you imagine being a 21 (22 this month) year old closeted jock (**IF** HE IS) from a conservative Mormon Samoan background at Notre Dame, a school that only this last December (!) has agreed to allow the creation of a LGBT support group? More than one of us has felt the need in our earlier lives to create that all-necessary girlfriend to keep parents, aunts and other people off of our back with those who are you dating? questions. And we learned how hard it is to keep ones lies straight (pun intended).
Jim,"[P]ersonal preference?"
The Pew Forum's recent survey on abortion views ... http://www.pewforum.org/Abortion/roe-v-wade-at-40.aspxHas big tobacco been tamed?
I hope someone will be able to correct me on this, but I doubt it. The sad thing is that when you line up the votes for and against President Obama's gun violence initiatives, the majority of supporters of abortion will be on his side and the majority of opponents of abortion will oppose him. He did do one thing that was smart: He offered so many proposals that he may get majorities for some -- like background checks -- among those who are satisfied with getting their NRA points for opposing others, like assault rifles, but don't want to look like complete idiots.I'll be with the avid anti-abortionists tomorrow and will get a reading on their views on Obama's gun violence initiative. But overall, I suspect the conversation will end where it usually does, with my remarking that they can hardly expect Obama to support them on abortion when they can't name one blinking thing on which they ever have or ever will work with him.
Yes, Frank. There are some women who choose to have an abortion for no other reason than they do not want a child. To my thinking, that is personal preference.That is the one instance where I cannot develop any sense of understanding of the choice to have an abortion. Birth control is too easy to come by to be so cavalier about becoming pregnant.Also, I recommend reading this:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/this-is-forty-the-...
Jim,Thanks for the link. It reminds me of this by Rabdall Balmer at NPR on why and when the republicans began to champion an anti-abortion stance ...http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5502785
The blood of unborn infants put to death cries out to God for justice. While an Illinois state senator, Obama championed legislation that would legally prevent any doctor from giving medical aid to an infant that survived an abortion attempt. That blood is on his hands, and nothing liberal Catholics can say will ever change that.
While an Illinois state senator, Obama championed legislation that would legally prevent any doctor from giving medical aid to an infant that survived an abortion attempt. Bob Schwarz,That is absolutely preposterous. It's malicious nonsense. There was no such legislation. If you believe there was, present some evidence.
Crystal,Well, if you don't like Republicans usurping the abortion issue, then by all means lets have liberal and progressive Catholics speak out against it. Now is the best time. Obama has won. Progressive Christians can use their laudable stance against violence to persuade the government and the culture that abortion is another form of violence that needs to be restricted. As Christians, we need to oppose capital punishment, torture, the fetish of gun ownership and abortion.
David Nickol,Bob Schwarz' contention has been discussed for years with evidence provided by both sides of the issue. Ultimately, it comes down to whose testimony you believe and whose fact-checking you trust.
Frank Gibbons,No, sorry. There simply was no bill "that would legally prevent any doctor from giving medical aid to an infant that survived an abortion attempt." I have debated the Illinois version of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act and the various other abortion bills Obama opposed, but there simply was no bill to prevent doctors from giving medical care to born-alive infants. At minimum, Bob Schwartz has badly garbled something. He should attempt to explain what he is referring to, because whatever it is, he has badly misunderstood it.
From the Gopnik piece:"Thanks to the efforts of MADD and the other groups, drunk driving became socially verboten, and then highly regulated,"Note the progression, from the grass roots and mediating institutions, and then to legislation.For the futility of trying to change culture via legislation, cf the war on drugs.
Perhaps the situation in Ireland with the death of Savita Halappanavar gives us an idea of what outlawing abortion looks like.
Savita's death was a horrific tragedy, but we now know that it was the malpractice of the physicians and not the law which killed her. Ireland--despite giving its prenatal children equal protection of the laws--has lower maternal death rates than most of Europe. Go Irish go.
"For the futility of trying to change culture via legislation, cf the war on drugs." Well, progressive and liberal Catholics could at least raise their voices against abortion as they with capital punishment and water boarding. Why not?I sense a reluctance among Catholic liberals (except for MSW) to address the problem of abortion. When Catholics, laity or clergy, speak out against abortion, they are accused of being mouthpieces for the Republican party. They're further castigated as only focusing on abortion but not on other life issues. If progressive Catholics won't take a stand against unrestricted abortion, why throw rocks at other Catholics who do? You accuse them of not having a seamless garment approach to life, but seem impervious to the idea that you may not have one either.
To return for a moment to David Gibson's main point ("...that by incremental steps Obama is forcing the GOP to recognize that they have to govern. Every small compromise they make is a surrender of their all-or-nothing fundamentalism. And a win for actually governing..."), it seems to me this is, if anything, more important than is generally recognized.For some decades now (at least since Newt Gingrich became leader of the House Republican caucus), the Republican party has concerned itself less and less with the business of functioning (and governing) as a political party in a representative democracy, and increasingly with the business of being a radical, ideological movement bent on removing all internal dissent and discrediting the legitimacy of their political opponents.Spending the next decade or so relearning how to function effectively as a political party would be, I think, a great benefit not only to Republicans but to the nation as a whole.
I thought Gail Collins was good this morning on Manti/Notre Dame:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/opinion/collins-the-girl-of-my-dreams.... concludes her column with this:"This all occurred a couple of years after the Notre Dame team was involved in a genuine tragedy when a freshman from a neighboring girls college reported she had been sexually assaulted by a football player. The school did not order up an outside investigation. In fact, there appeared to be no investigation at all. After a period of dead silence in which she received a threatening text from another player, the girl died from an overdose of medication. Nothing else happened. Writing this week in The Washington Post, Melinda Henneberger, a Notre Dame graduate, noted that 'my alma mater held the kind of emotional news conference for the fake dead girl they never held for the real one, Lizzy Seeberg.'"Games over. Notre Dame loses."
Agree, Luke.The Republicans grab every opportunity to display their contempt for the President of the United States. "Speaker Boehner has turned down an invitation to every formal state dinner President Obama has heldsix in total. And that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had turned down at least two. And that McConnell even declined an invitation last spring when the University of Kentucky mens basketball team was honored at the White House for winning the national championship.In 2011, the White House held a reception for newly elected members of Congress. Only 27 of the new Republican House members showed up out of the record freshman class of 87."--Smerconish http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/18/lets-hope-for-a-more-social-more-civil-mo...
"Well, progressive and liberal Catholics could at least raise their voices against abortion as they with capital punishment and water boarding. Why not?"Indeed.
Jim Pauwels, I'm pretty liberal, and I just did raise my voice against abortion just this morning. But I'll tell you this: Hanging out with the regulars can really bring a guy down. And "if Obama wants to stop gun violence, why doesn't he stop abortion violence?" Which is about the level of analysis I expected.
What to you conservatives want from liberals on the matter of abortion? Yelling and screaming names at those who honestly think that abortion is OK? Many of us liberals are against it and say so, so will you please stop making your overstated claims about who is against it and who is not.I'll believe the sincerity of the conservatives when they start showing some respect for their sincere opponents and try to change them with facts and solid arguments. The conservatives don't seem to think that's necessary. Just show a picture of a fetus smiling and that's all the argument you need to know what the fetus really is. But it's not. Grow up.
Saw this today ... "The Newtown Shooting Really Has Changed the Conversation on Gun Control, as Google Trends Can Show" by Rebecca J. Rosen .... http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-newtown-shooti...
David Nickol: was wrong about Obama championing legislation denying the medical care. What he did do is just as heinous: From 9/10/2012 Washington Post Fact CheckerIllinois lawmakers voted down identical versions of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act in 2001 and 2002 before a new iteration of the bill came before the Senates Health and Human Services Committee, headed by Obama. This new legislation removed the controversial line about recognizing live-born children as humans and giving them immediate protection under the law. It also addressed Obamas concern about previable fetuses, adding a neutrality clause that said the measure would not affect the legal status of fetuses prior to delivery.Nonetheless, Obama voted against the new bill, which happened to be an almost exact replica almost to the word of a federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act that passed in 2002 without opposition in either politial party. (Updated: The vote in the House was by voice vote and the vote in the Senate was by unanimous consent.)
Correction:David Nickol: I was wrong...
Ann Olivier,I've never yelled or screamed at anyone who supports abortion rights. None of the people I know who oppose abortion yell and scream and people who support the right to an abortion. I've never even told those who support abortion or who won't speak against it to "grow up."
Senator Obama objecting to an $8 trillion debt and voting against a debt limit extension was good, but Republicans objecting to a $16 trillion debt and making feeble -- extremely feeble and weak -- attempts to slow the growth of debt to less than $1 trillion per year is holding a gun to their heads??By all means, let us acknowledge reality -- spending $16,000,000,000,000 that you do not have and imposing that debt on future generations is grossly dishonest theft. It was grossly unjust when Senator Obama rightly objected to it, and it is grossly unjust now that the debt is twice what it was then.
Luke Hill: David Brooks column in the Times yesterday (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/opinion/brooks-the-next-four-years.htm...) delved into this matter but from many would consider to be a more confontational perspective. Start here: "Its more likely that todays Democrats are going to tell themselves something like this: We live at a unique moment. Our opponents, the Republicans, are divided, confused and bleeding. This is not the time to allow them to rebuild their reputation with a series of modest accomplishments. This is the time to kick them when they are down, to win back the House and end the current version of the Republican Party. First, we change the narrative. The president ran in 2008 against Washington dysfunction, casting blame on both parties. Over the years, he has migrated to a different narrative: The Republicans are crazy. Washington could be working fine, but the Republicans are crazy. etc.In other words, out-Teapublican the Teapublicans, and give no quarter.
Progressive members of groups that are also on the receiving end of conservative "christian" invective on a regular basis tend to be less eager to jump on every cause that is not commonly held in society but is one of the poster causes for said conservative "christians."This is particularly true when these conservative "christians" want the government to outlaw what they cannot convince others is an immoral action. When they are as upset about rampant gun violence that is spawned by a culture of suvivalist isolation - particularly from "those people", me-first, and "kill 'em before they think they can kill me," then we might be persuaded to pay more attention.
Bender,The vote on the debt-ceiling limit has no material effect on the debt. Congress has already committed the United States to spend a given amount of money. Congress has also determined the amount of revenue the United States can collect. When the bills come due, they have to be paid, and the only way to pay them is to borrow. When Congress votes against raising the debt-celing limit, what it is saying is, "We have committed the government to spending X dollars, we have committed (limited) the government to collecting Y dollars in taxes, but Y is less than X, so the government needs to borrow Z dollars to pay the bills, and we refuse to let it." The president (and the executive branch) have to pay the bills. When Congress refuses to raise the debt-ceiling limit, what they are doing is saying to the president, "We determined that a certain amount of money had to be spentmore money than the United States hasand you have to pay that money. We know you will have to borrow the money, or the United States will default on its bills with potentially catastrophic results, but we are not going to let you borrow the money to pay the bills we decided the government should do unless you give in to our demands."The analogy to taking innocent hostages and demanding ransom is very apt. When Obama voted against the debt-ceiling limit in 2006, he and the Democrats were in the minority. As New York Magazine says:
When Obama, along with every other Senate Democrat, voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006, they did so for the sake of self-serving political posturing, yes, but they also did so knowing that their GOP colleagues could and would dutifully raise it on their own.
Political posturing by a Democratic minority is one thing. Putting the country at risk of defaulting by the House majority is quite another.
Nonetheless, Obama voted against the new bill, which happened to be an almost exact replica almost to the word of a federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act that passed in 2002 without opposition in either politial party. (Updated: The vote in the House was by voice vote and the vote in the Senate was by unanimous consent.)Bob Schwartz,Thanks for your reply. The Born Alive Infant Protection Act Obama voted against when he was in a Democratic minority in the Illinois Senate and later killed in committee when the Democrats took the majority did absolutely nothing to protect the lives of viable born-alive infants or guarantee human care for non-viable ones. The federal version of the bill that passed did nothing either. Here is the statement by my congressman, Jerrold Nadler, one of the most liberal, pro-abortion-rights members of the House, at the hearings for the bill:
Today, we consider legislation reaffirming an absolutely established principle which is enshrined in the law of all 50 States that an infant who is born and is living independently of the birth mother is entitled to the same care as any other child similarly diagnosed regardless of whether labor was induced or occurred spontaneously.It was not and is not clear to me now why we need to legislate that which is obvious and clear in the law, that which most Members of Congress and the general public already assume to be the law, but if the majority is interested in a belts-and-suspenders approach, sobeit.
I do blame Obama to some extent for voting against the bill, but only because he was not clever enough to realize that the bill did nothing that Illinois law did not already require, butas the liberal House members realizeda vote against it could be seized on and its import seriously distorted by anti-abortion propagandists.
The above should read: "guarantee humane [not human] care for non-viable ones."I would be interested if Bob Schwartz or anyone else could cite an instance where either the Illinois or the federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act was ever invoked, came into play, or was credited with doing anything at all to protect or improve care for born-alive infants.
I received an e-mail from Newsmax " Vatican Sides With Obama on Gun Control' http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Vatican-guns-control-support/2013/01/19/... I always find things from "the Vatican" confusing. I know that Lombardi is the communications person, but the article reads like it is what he, Lombardi, personally thinks, which wouldn't be "The Vatican" would it?
Frank G. --Glad to hear that you're not one of the many conservatives who yell and scream (things like 'MURDERER') at those with whom they disagree. But you did give us some reason to think that raised voices are the way to go when you said above at 9:49 a.m.""Well, progressive and liberal Catholics could at least raise their voices against abortion as they with capital punishment and water boarding. Why not?" The reason why not is because that is a rhetorical appeal. Noisy voices have nothing to do with evidence and reasoning. The law will not be changed until the culture changes, and persuasion is the only way to change the culture. Further, the culture will *not* be changed by misjudging the intentions of our honorable opponents, by name-calling nor by rhetoric generally. There are a few English speaking Catholic philosophers who have give arguments against abortion, but some of us do not find them convincing. Rather, some of us are persuaded that abortion wrong on the basis of some classical metaphysical arguments together with some contemporary biological and psychological ones. (I've recommended the Wolter/Sullivan article presenting the basics here at dotCommonweal a number of times. Go read them.) And just remember, there is nothing in Church teachings that tells us *which* anti-abortion arguments are sound.
And some are convinced that the best way to lower abortion rates is to concentrate on education and contraception rather than making all abortion illegal.
Back to Manti Te'o and Notre Dame ...How could a nationally known player on the Irish football team be so clueless and naive about this deception perpetrated, we are asked to believe, solely on the internet??? Strains credulity.I suppose it could happen, it's possible that a football jock could be so gullible as to fall for this "stunt." But, I'm inclined to believe that it is more likely that flying monkeys roost in the Golden Dome.I must admit that this whole story does remind me of a patient, who was a college athlete himself, I consulted with many years ago who in order to hide his homosexuality constructed elaborate imaginary architecture in his personal life all to conceal the hidden truth of his life. There were fantasy girl friends, real girl friends for dates at parties and events, even "vacation trips" to the Caribbean replete with souvenir photos on the beach. His parents, siblings, relatives and close friends had no inkling. This was a life deep, deep in the closet. The anxiety of keeping up appearances eventually crashed in on him. It took him years to recover and start a new life.I don't know about Te'o. Perhaps he was duped. But, there is a part of me that believes in a very painfully public way we are going to learn a lot more about Te'o's private life, a part of his life that he has perhaps struggled to keep from view, before this media storm is all over.BTW: Melissa Henneberger of the Washington Post, ND graduate, has already written about the parallels between Te'o treatment by university officials and that which was visited upon St. Mary's student Lizzy Seeberg who was sexually assaulted by a ND football player. Makes you wonder???
@Jim McCrea (1/19, 4:06 pm) Thanks for the link. In my view, Brooks' column is practically a case study in what is wrong with moderate Republicans, and why they have virtually disappeared over the past generation.First, the almost willful misinterpretation of history. In point of fact, President Obama has, in the past two years, signed into law roughly $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction---weighted more heavily towards spending cuts than tax increases. (According to the CPBB, another deficit reduction deal of $1.2 trillion would effectively stabilized federal debt as a % of GDP for the next decade.)Second, the apportionment of blame equally to "both sides", when Democrats (particularly President Obama) have repeatedly made clear their openness to 1) Republican policy ideas and 2) compromise, only to be met repeatedly by virtually unanimous Republican opposition to anything the president proposes. (As has been extensively reported, this is the result of a conscious, deliberate political strategy aimed at regaining political power that congressional Republicans adopted before President Obama took the oath of office four years ago.)Third, the blind unwillingness to recognize that until some (moderate?, pragmatic?) bloc of Republicans demonstrates their willingness to break with the party's radical majority---and to do so repeatedly---in order to negotiate compromises with Democrats on a broad range of issues (e.g., reducing unemployment, reducing the deficit, improving gun safety, reforming immigration, addressing climate change), the rest of the country will continue to view (and rightly so) Republicans as obstructionists unwilling or unable to engage in the normal give-and-take of democratic politics.If one were to re-read David Brooks' columns over the past year and make a list of the policy proposals he endorses, one would find that President Obama not only has expressed a willingness to compromise with those proposals, he also in many cases has expressed his outright support for those proposals. It is Brooks' unwillingness or inability to take "yes" for an answer that makes one question his intellectual honesty.
"First, the almost willful misinterpretation of history. In point of fact, President Obama has, in the past two years, signed into law roughly $2.5 trillion in deficit reductionweighted more heavily towards spending cuts than tax increases."Luke --Not only that. I read recently that since the beginning of Obama's first term the debt itself has been reduced by 10%! I hadn't seen that before. Makes you wonder about the general competency of American news organizations, not just Fox. They don't seem to know which questions to ask sometimes.
I read recently that since the beginning of Obamas first term the debt itself has been reduced by 10%! Ann,If that were true, congress would not have had to keep raising the debt ceiling limit, and wouldn't be about to raise it again. The national debt declined continuously from Truman's second administration through the Carter administration. It shot up during Reagan's two terms and Bush 41's term. It declined during the Clinton years to the point where at the beginning of Bush 43's first term, projections were that the debt would be paid off by 2011. However, Bush's policies (tax cuts, prescription drug benefits, two wars, etc.) instead caused the debt to climb again, and then the fiscal crisis hit at the end of Bush's second term, and the debt has skyrocketed ever since, including in Obama's first term. So Republicans and Democrats alike from Truman on were paying off the national debt until Ronald Reagan started running it up again. And yet the Republicans claim to be against big government.
Ann:"I read recently that since the beginning of Obamas first term the debt itself has been reduced by 10%!"Wow! Now I am curious: where did you read such thing? I thought it was common knowledge that Obama has been adding about a nifty trillion of debt each year, and that US public debt is about to go throught the "magic" 100% of GDP ratio. Moreover, if as Mr. Gibson says the Republican are going to let Obama "govern" US debt will reach Japanese level within a few years. Fortunately, according to Keynesian orthodoxy, all the spending will produce a wonderful economic recovery. then taxes will pick up the debt will go down. Or at least, this is what people like Prof. Krugman have been telling us for the last couple of years.
Sunday evening: five shot to death in a New Mexico house.http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/20/teenage-gunman-kills-5-in-new-mexic...
@Carlo Lancellotti (1/20, 8:37 pm) I suspect Ann Olivier (1/20, 12:43 pm) simply confused (or misspoke) debt for deficit. Federal debt is the total amount of money the federal government owes. The federal deficit (or surplus) is the difference between federal revenues and spending in a given fiscal year.The federal deficit for FY 2012 was $1.089 trillion, down from $1.3 trillion in FY 2011. For comparison purposes, the federal deficit for FY 2010 was $1.293 trillion, and for FY 2009 (the final budget of the W. Bush administration) was $1,413 trillion. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.htmlIn addition to the reduction in the (annual) deficit since the beginning of his first term, President Obama has signed into law roughly $2.5 trillion in additional deficit reduction measures to take place over the coming decade. The well-respected Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has calculated that another $1.2 trillion in tax increases and spending cuts would stabilize total federal debt as a percentage of GDP at 73% over the latter part of this decade (well below the "magic" 100% debt/GDP ratio). http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3885
1-20-13 "Sunday evening: five shot to death in a New Mexico house.' In NM, a 15 year old killed his pastor father, mother, and 3 siblings. His pastor father had the guns for house protection, one being a AR15. NRA professes the need for house protection ignoring the in-house slaughters and suicides. What is the ratio of in house deaths to protection? , including suicides 10-1? Anyone who has a gun in his house that is not in a locked safe should be considered a fool and be libel for damages. That stance should be the goal of the culture change.
Luke --Thanks for the defense, but I was somewhat confused and confusing. The point is under Obama spending has gone down significantly. And, no, that won't solve the long-term debt problem. That will require higher tax rates or more revenue from more people (higher employment) or both.
Carlo --Yes, most Keynesians did predict that stimulus monies would result in more jobs and more taxes from the new workers. However, in this recession there is a lot of money on the sidelines that is not being invested. I don't doubt it's at least partly because the conservative economists keep saying that Keynes can't work, so they keep their capital idle. Big mistake. No, I don't remember where I read that about the money on the sidelines, but I've seen it said more than once.
Ann:ah, ok, it is the conservative economists' fault. That's reassuring.Luke Hill:thanks for the link. I was a bit concerned because the CBPP does not say what assumptions they are making about GDP growth. They seem to get their GDP estimates from a CBO document, and CBO document are often optimistic. Considering that the US economy may well go back into recession in 2013 (in spite of 4 trillions of federal deficit since Obama took office. But that was partly due to the fact that conservative economists convinced people to keep their money on the sidelines!), I am less optimistic.
Carlo --Isn't it a principle of supply=side economics that lowering taxes will produce more investments causing more production? And isn't a corollary of this that when there is money to be invested the money *will* be invested? (Otherwise, lowering taxes wouldn't cause more production.)What explanation do you have for why the money on the sidelines isn't being invested? Fear of risk? That is probably part of it too. (Today's capitalists aren't the most courageous risk-takers.)
Ann:I am not a fervent believer in supply side economics myself. People do not invest unless they hope to have some return on their investment. Right now they facea) a psychological barrier (people do not believe the economy will really take of under the present conditions)b) lack of demand in the economy due to excess debt. Prof. Krugman will tell you that the state can replace private demand through public spending. Austrian economists believe this will only lead misallocation of economic resources and to an artificial expansion that can will not produce any lasting growth. Choose whom you want to believe. Keep in mind that if Keynesian stimulus does not work, Prof. Krugman will always tell you that it was not big enough.
Carlo --I agree that Krugman sometimes sounds too optimistic. He sounds like he thinks some of his projections are all but bound to happen. If he were a thorough Keynesian, however, he'd admit that nothing is sure in economics. Oh he does admit that at times, but his expectations seem to belie that belief. On the other hand optimism in the face of uncertainty is part and parcel of the capitalist system -- capitalists are people who take risks knowing that they can lose and sometimes will, but have a bit of courage in spite of it. That's what I think is lacking in today's American capitalists -- the courage of their capitalist convictions. They're too chicken to invest in very unsure circumstances, so they blame the government for their woes. Not wise, not fair. It's their failue of nerve that's holding us back.It will be interesting to see what happens in Japan now that it has finally taken the plunge out of austerity. (Oh, lordy, what a horrible, horrible metaphor :-)
Ann:asking people to invest their money without a reasonable prospect of not losing it is asking a lot. As for Japan, I think it's going to blow. See http://www.cnbc.com/id/100391704
Carlo --There is "investment" and Investment. When one but safe, pre-owned stock in the stock market that technically is not Investment with a capital I. The latter is investing in new enterprses that have yet ot prove their value, and if you bite, you stand to lose your money. That sort of investment really pays off (when it does pay off), as it should because the risks for initial offerings are almost always greater.The latter sort of investment is what we need now -- especially in alternate energy since the whole future depends on it. But the current monied guys just ain't adventurous enough.
Ann:you are not listening. Even the boldest venture capitalists need to have some reasonable hope of recovering their investment. In the current economic conditions, an with the current government, many reasonable people feel that there is no such hope. That's just a fact.
Earlier, Frank Gibbon had written,Well, progressive and liberal Catholics could at least raise their voices against abortion as they with capital punishment and water boarding. Why not?And I had replied, "Indeed."... and now I stand corrected (and pleased), because Mollie has written an extremely thoughtful and sensitive post further up. Thank you for your witness.
Carlo --Let's consider alternative energy. Venture capitalists, if they were really the imaginative sort that a functioning capitalist system requires would see that supporting research in alternative energy would pay off long term. But few of them do.
"Venture capitalists, if they were really the imaginative sort that a functioning capitalist system requires would see that supporting research in alternative energy would pay off long term."The ones I've happened to run across in my travels through life haven't had very long time horizons.
Jim P. --I think you've hit on a sad characteristic of most of us these days -- the inability to look very far into the future. It's part of the hedonism of the times. :-( It's why we refuse to consider the dire warnings of the earth scientists and to consider the biologists who tell of the on-going development of new species of horrible diseases which are emerging because we have used too many anti-biotics too often. Yes, it's the unwillingness to take the Al Gores of this world as seriously as we need to. We have neither the interest nor the courage to face the next hundred years. But pity your grandchildren.A hundred years isn't all that long. I've already lived 82. Look ahead!!


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Ext.application({ controllers: [ 'MyController' ], name: 'myApp', launch: function () { //this is undefined, but should be the view console.log(myApp.view.MyView); } })
Ext.define('myApp.controller.MyController', { extend: 'Ext.app.Controller', views: ['MyView'] });
Ext.define('myApp.view.MyView', { extend: 'Ext.panel.Panel' });
At this moment, one can work around this issue by adding the views to the 'requires'-property on the controller, but this is annoying.
Earlier versions of ExtJs (e.g. 4.0.2a) didn't have this issue)
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I can't reproduce this. Drop the attached folder under /examples in 4.1.3, it logs the view as I'd expect.Evan Trimboli
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Hi Evan,
Thank you for finding time to look into this!
I'm trying to narrow down our project to pinpoint the cause of the issue. In our project we still have to add all Ext.app.Controller.views and Ext.app.Controller.models to the Ext.app.Controller.requires by hand to make stuff work.
My idea was to add some more requirements to the controller in the example you sent, to test the loading of dependencies. However i stranded after adding a simple Model. (Of course this might be fixed by adding Ext.require() for some classes above my App, but shouldn't this work out of the box?)
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NN3, PtGui, Pano2QTVR, D100 w/ 10.5mm
I did a little camping and kayaking this week.
I used photoshop to stack and blend the 2-shot nadirs, before sending to PtGui. After PtGui, the panos where resized and sharpened in photoshop before going to Pano2QTVR.
Shameless plug for the NN3 (so I can get into the contest and win big. Although, I'm really very happy with the current NN3. Maybe one of those new rotators?) The NN3 is so small and light, that I was able to take it camping and hiking, and yet so accurate that I was able to template my first pano onto the following panos. Control points? With the NN3, the word is "easy". Let PtGui generate 'em, then go to the control point table, highlight anything over 0.55 and delete it.
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I'm trying to understand the difference between the following and what they actually mean :
- Known plaintext attack
- Known ciphertext attack
- Chosen ciphertext attack
- Chosen plaintext attack
Any clarification is much appreciated…
I'm trying to understand the difference between the following and what they actually mean :
Any clarification is much appreciated…
These aren't "attacks" in and of themselves, they are simply a way to classify attacks depending on how many assumptions they make. For instance, if an attack requires plaintext-ciphertext pairs to recover the key, but they don't have to be any particular pairs, that attack is categorized as a known-plaintext attack. However if another attack required the attacker to be able to give input plaintext and obtain the corresponding ciphertext, it would be a chosen-plaintext attack.
To summarize, from weakest to strongest in terms of assumptions made and data requirements:
Known Ciphertext Attack
The attacker is given some ciphertext, but does not know (or does not know exactly) what the plaintext corresponding to this ciphertext is. As with the previous type of attack, he does not get to choose what ciphertexts he obtains, and cannot produce more.
This is the weakest type of attack, as the attacker has essentially nothing to work with except a few ciphertexts obtained from eavesdropping or other. As such, it is typically the hardest to design, but the easiest to implement/carry out.
Known Plaintext Attack
The attacker is given some plaintext-ciphertext pairs which he didn't choose (say, obtained from an encrypted conversation between two people - he knows what the conversation is about, but he didn't get to choose what was said). The attacker cannot produce more plaintext-ciphertext pairs, he has to obtain them from whoever has the key, for instance by eavesdropping again.
Chosen Plaintext Attack
The attacker is able to select any plaintext and obtain the corresponding ciphertext through that which is known as an encryption oracle, which is a sort of black box that produces the corresponding ciphertext given any plaintext under the sought-after key, but does not reveal the key itself (i.e. you can't crack it open and just grab the key).
Note: there are two types of chosen plaintext attacks. Either the attacker can only submit a set of plaintexts once to the oracle, after which he can no longer use it (batch chosen-plaintext attack), or he can use the oracle interactively, able to select new plaintext based on what the oracle tells him (adaptive chosen-plaintext attacks).
Chosen Ciphertext Attack
This is essentially the opposite of the previous attack, the attacker can choose any ciphertext he wants and obtain the corresponding plaintext using a decryption oracle. It is however a stronger attack model than a chosen plaintext attack, and the strongest of all four here (but there are even stronger models outside the scope of your question, such as related-key attacks).


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Apparently, woodwinds and brass don't get along?
Not 100 percent sure on this - it's news the Sassy Saint brought me from band camp. I thought all the band kids got along, sometimes spontaneously breaking out into mysteriously choreographed song-and-dance. It's what Disney movies would have me believe, anyway.
Not Sassy's band. There's a deep and abiding enmity between the woodwinds and the brass. I'm not sure what caused it. The reasons for it are lost in the misty depths of time.
"It might be because the brass are so loud and the woodwinds so quiet," opinined Sassy, new to the rivalry and more than a little bewildered. "Or maybe they just both want to be the honor unit."
I'm not sure they care about the reason. In the tradition of all good feuds, like the Capulets and the Montagues, the Sharks and the Jets and the Hatfields and McCoys, it doesn't matter what the other side did. It only matters they exist.
Whatever the reason, neither refuses to bend.
"All the other brass told me we can't lose to the woodwinds or we will never hear the end of it," said Sass of the competition for honor unit.
Never mind that there are two other units in the band.
On one side, we have the brass, led by Not-So-Secretly Fabulous Nick, he of the immovable hair, and on the other, we have the woodwinds, led by That-Kid-I-Keep-Calling-Ethan. Only his name isn't Ethan. It isn't my fault, Sass led me astray. She keeps calling him Ethan, because, as she says, "he looks like Ethan and he's a senior, too." Perfectly understandable, only, who's Ethan?
I'm not sure where all the drummers and the silks fall in this rivalry. They're probably the citizens of Verona and wish everyone else would just settle down. Although I am told the drummers are vastly important for "staying on beat." Not sure what that is; this is one of those weird areas where my child knows more than I do.
Luckily for us, when the Little Professor auditioned for band, he was assigned a trombone, thus falling into brass. I wanted him to play the saxophone, envisioning a cute little jazz duo, but Sass told me saxophones are woodwinds in disguise. Perish the thought - it would be like having one child siding with the Union and the other with the Confederacy.
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She hasn't had much success with it as demonstrated by the notorious water balloon battle between the two units near the end of camp. I'm not sure how many perfectly innocent silks - frontline, maybe? when I was in high school, we called them silks - and drummers were caught in the crossfire.
I do know who the first casualty was - my peace-loving Sass.
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U.S. Attorney General Allison Leahy is the Democrats' best chance for holding on to the Oval Office. But she's running neck and neck with her opponent, Republican Lincoln Howe, a retired four-star general and bona fide African-American hero. Then, days before the election, disaster strikes. Twelve-year-old Kristen Howe, the general's granddaughter, is kidnapped. As the nation's leading law enforcement officer, Allison launches a nationwide manhunt even as her opponent publicly questions her motives. For Allison, though, finding Kristen isn't about politics. It's a personal crusade that taps into terrifying secrets buried deep within the past secrets that can shatter all of Allison's hopes, twisting them into a nightmare of lies and the ultimate betrayal.
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there is a part of my paper where I use the distributive property and it's not that clear for the reader to see (I'm using in proposional logic for a proof). The logic equation (part of) is:
(l_{1}) \vee \big( (p \vee q) \wedge (\neg p \vee q) \wedge (p \vee \neg q) \wedge (\neg p \vee \neg q)\big) \\
(l_{1} \vee p \vee q) \wedge (l_{1} \vee \neg p \vee q) \wedge (l_{1} \vee p \vee \neg q) \wedge (l_{1} \vee \neg p \vee \neg q)
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Negotiate a compromiseNegotiating the Maternity Leave You Want
How much leave your employer will allow and how much you want will most likely differ. Many companies are now using a sliding scale for maternity leave, based on seniority and length of time an employee has been with the company. Although, realistically speaking, it will be difficult to know for certain until your baby is born, you must do your best now to choose the right maternity leave for you.
Successful bargainers know that negotiation is a compromise. There must be something each party wants in the final agreement. The hour and setting of the meeting are significant factors, as are your employer's personality and management style. Be sure to listen carefully to everything that's said, especially the objections, and watch body language. Always remain professional; emotions don't belong in a negotiating sessions. No matter what the results are, always thank your supervisor for his or her time. Follow these steps to insure a successful negotiating session:
- Make an appointmentDon't ever drop in unannounced. State the purpose of the meeting in advance so that your boss will be prepared for the discussion. Make sure to pick a quiet time of day. If the office is never quiet, consider going to a restaurant.
- Establish your value to the firmThe more valuable you are, the more bargaining power you will have. You must convince your supervisor of your importance to the company by reviewing promotions you've received and your specific contributions to the company. Prepare yourself by making a list of your assets and memorizing them. Tell your boss that giving you what you want benefits the company; your skills and experience make you a valuable employee, and your company could easily lose more time and money by letting you go.
- Handle the meeting as a professionalSpeak in a non-demanding and positive voice. Stress the benefit to the company of cooperating with a valued employee. State your proposal in a confident way; for example, "I propose a cost-saving approach to retaining my training and experience that will also lead to an increase in on-the-job (select: productivity, concentration, energy, loyalty, efficiency, creativity, etc.)."
- Emphasize that you want and plan to returnAssure your boss that you'll be back to work after your leave; there'll be no need to find a permanent replacement. Stress your commitment to your job. If you want a different work arrangement after your leave, this is the time to discuss it (see "Work Options to Consider When Your Maternity Leave Ends," below.)
- Keep your leaving date openTry to keep the beginning date for your leave as flexible as possible. (Remember, the due date is the actual birth date for only one in ten babies, and passing it by two weeks is not uncommon.) You may feel very fit and healthy up to the last minute and want to avoid being bored waiting at home. If you want to stay at work until labor begins, ask your doctor to certify your expected delivery date two weeks beyond your fortieth week.
- Ask for more than you expect to getTack on four to six weeks to your initial supplemental leave request so that there's room for compromise. If you get the maximum you request without need for compromise, take it. You can always return to work earlier if your finances require it. Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, one of America's leading pediatricians, strongly recommends at least a four-month maternity leave. He believes that new parents need that time to get to know their baby. Additionally, most babies have settled into a routine by then, are over their fussy time, and are sleeping through the night (not an insignificant point for working parents). Clearly, your maternity leave should not end until you're physically and emotionally ready. It takes a minimum of six weeks for you to regain your energy. And at least two months are needed for establishing a breast-feeding routine, finding good child care, and adjusting to the greatest life change of all. No matter how much time you take off, your transition back to work will be easier if your partner will take a leave that overlaps your first days back in the workplace.
- Provide good solutions to your boss's problemsBecause your employer's first thoughts will be about the impact on the business, come prepared with a well-thought-out plan for shifting your responsibilities to others; e.g., delegate your work to previously trained staff; hire a recently retired professional; use a professional temp agency; get a graduate student in the field or a student intern; cross-train a coworker, staff person, or junior employee. Reassure your employer that you'll be available by whatever electronic means the company chooses: fax, voicemail, telephone, or pager. The fact of your availability will be more important than the need to contact you. Have a trusted colleague, family, or friend review your work coverage plan before presenting it to your boss.
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Old-Fashioned Beef Stew
Categories: Big-Batch Meals, Comfort Foods, Entertaining
Type: Soups and Stews
Type: Soups and Stews
Beef stew can cook for hours, which accounts for much of its popularity.This stew is quicker than most to put on the table.
Serves: 8 cups
- 1 pound beef top round or lean stew beef, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1 can (15 ounces) tomato sauce
- 2 cups unsalted beef broth
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon dried marjoram
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 medium potatoes, scrubbed and diced
- 2 medium carrots, peeled, halved lengthwise, and sliced
- 1 medium yellow onion, diced
- 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1 medium stalk celery, thinly sliced (include the leaves)
- 1 cup frozen (thawed) green peas
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- Trim any visible fat from the meat. Rinse the meat with cool water, and pat it dry with paper towels
- Coat a large deep nonstick skillet or Dutch oven with nonstick cooking spray, and preheat over medium-high heat. Add the half of the beef at a time to the skillet, and stir-fry for 2 to 3 minutes, or until nicely browned.
- Stir the tomato sauce, broth, Worcestershire sauce, herbs, and pepper into the meat, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 1 hour, or until the meat is tender.
- Add the potatoes, carrots, onion, mushrooms, and celery to the meat. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender. Add the peas, and simmer for 10 additional minutes. Remove and discard the bay leaves, and serve hot.
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Lamborghini Sesto Elemento Concept 2010
Lamborghini Sesto Element Concept 2010 is extremely lightweight and has astonishingly low power-to-weight ratio of only 1.75 kgs per hp. Sesto Element conept uses advanced carbon-fiber to reduce its weight and has an overall curb weight of only 2,202 lbs ( 999 kgs ). With an amazing output of 570 hp, the Lamborghini Sesto Element sprints from 0 to 100 km/h (0-62 mph) in only 2.5 seconds.


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ARS401S: StudioArtS (2013-2014)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Visual Arts
COURSE TITLE: Studio Art S
COURSE LENGTH: 18 weeks
SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Fundamentals of Art
Major Concepts/Content: The studio art course is designed either as units of study in various media, or as an individualized course for advanced students. Students who would like to develop skill in several media would benefit from this course. Students can concentrate on selected media by choosing activities from a wide range of options such as drawing, watercolor painting, acrylic painting, oil painting, sculpture, ceramics, commercial art, creative crafts, lettering, printmaking, and mixed media.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will provide experience using various art materials, tools, and equipment. Students will produce artworks in a selected medium and with specified limitations. Students will be exposed to several different current styles in art. Visits to art galleries, studios, and museums will be included when feasible.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will demonstrate the proper care and use of tools, materials, and equipment used when creating works of art in a specific media. Student projects will be evaluated on originality, craftsmanship, effort, time utilization, and quality with consideration given to individual student's talent, experience, and/or limitations. Both written and oral tests will he used to evaluate knowledge of course content.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the studio art course, the student should be able to:
- Create Works of Art
- Produce artwork in selected media to meet specific guidelines, time lines, and limitations. Use basic art vocabulary when making statements about art.
- Demonstrate proficiency using a variety of art processes including, but not limited to, drawing; watercolor, oil, and acrylic painting; linoleum block, silkscreen, etching, and woodblock printing; plaster carving; construction; ceramics; batik; commercial illustration; calligraphy; and computer graphics.
- Describe/discuss artworks in terms of formal, informal, and expressive qualities.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the beauty in art by discussing relative merits of peer and professional artworks.
- Express with intuitiveness a wide variety of creative solutions to a single artistic problem.
- Discuss and comprehend the qualitative differences and similarities among artworks, art processes, techniques, and styles in art.
- Display art etiquette (conventional rules of social behavior and professional conduct).
- Describe methods of creating an aesthetic environment.
- Explain how art knowledge contributes to the development of an understanding of humanity.
- Identify several contemporary styles of art.
- Compare the purposes of art in specified historical periods.
- Recognize past and current artists who have contributed in the specific media in which the student is working.
- Discuss cultures that have contributed to the specific media in which the student is working.
- Display an understanding of the contribution of art in enriching our lives and environment.
- Analyze art careers and the training required for them.
- Distinguish between the artwork of a drafts person and a fine artist.
- Identify works in which similar tools, media, techniques, or forming processes were used.
Course Notes: Repeatable Course - Subsequent Enrollment Requires More Rigor.


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February 24, 2012
Cape Town's top pink places to stay
Known by many as the Pink Capital of South Africa, Cape Town is well-known for its vibrant gay scene.
In 2011, Out Now Consulting, an agency that provides gay and lesbian marketing strategy, announced Cape Town as one of its Top Twenty LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Holiday Cities World-wide. Recently, the UK's Guardian recognised Cape Town as one of the 10 most popular gay destinations in the world, and the US publication, Out and About, named the Mother City a world-wide favourite.
With awe-inspiring natural scenery, world-class luxury and countless gay-friendly guesthouses, bars, restaurants and coffee shops in neighbourhoods such as Green Point, Sea Point, De Waterkant and Somerset West, it's not hard to see why Cape Town is fast becoming a favourite destination among "pink" travellers.
Top Places to Stay
Centrally located establishments such as the Glen Boutique Hotel in Sea Point and the Cape Royale Hotel in Green Point offer easy access to De Waterkant's pink hotspots:
Glen Boutique Hotel
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Website: www.glenhotel.co.za
Cape Royale Hotel
Phone: +27 (0)21 430 0500
Website: www.caperoyale.co.za
Pink Rose Guesthouse
Further out of the city centre, the Pink Rose Guesthouse in Somerset West is favoured for its beautifully decorated rooms, as well as its spa and its wine tastings.
Phone: +27 (0)21 855 5189
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.pinkroseguesthouse.com
Shisa! Guest Farm
Shisa! Guest Farm is situated in the quaint little town of Tulbagh. Head out to this oasis for history, relaxation, scenic drives, walks, wine farms, and horse riding.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: shisafarm.webs.com
De Waterkant Cottages
De Waterkant Cottages offers a range of luxury apartments, cottages, villas and penthouses for medium- or short-term holiday rentals.
Phone: +27 (0)21 421 2300
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.dewaterkantcottages.com
Gap Leisure
Gap Leisure also offers a database of "pink" Cape Town accommodation from budget to luxury, hotel to self-catering.
Phone: +27 (0)21 801 4801
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Website: www.gapleisure.com
Tour the rest of Cape Town with the Pink Map that you can pick up at one of the Cape Town Tourism Visitor Information Centres.


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Bluegrass Brewing Company in St. Matthews held a fun-filled day for people and pets on May 12.
The event featured local vendors, demonstrations, adoptable animals and a silent auction. It also celebrated the reopening of the dog-friendly patio "The Wort Dog Cafe" and the unveiling of Fido's Favorites Menu. The Potluck Ramblers and Rude Lucy performed.
All proceeds from the silent auction and a portion of beer and food sales were donated to Saving Sunny and the Kentucky Humane Society.
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Sam's Club is the latest retailer to offer popular Apple products including the iPad and iPhone. The retailer's EVP merchandising, Linda Heffner, announced the addition of those products to the merchandise offering during a presentation to financial analysts Wednesday morning.
Heffner said a key element of Sam's merchandising strategy was to increase the emphasis on top tier brands and she offer the iPad and iPhone as examples of that strategy.
The iPad was available earlier this year at Best Buy and Target also recently began offering the hot product Apple launched earlier this year. Is has been reported that Walmart also be offering the iPad in stores by November. Walmart already offers the iPhone.


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"Papermouths," "slabs," or whatever you prefer to call them, crappie are one of Oklahoma anglers' favorites on the dinner table. Their white, flaky meat is delicious, and the supply of the fish is plentiful. That combined with the fact that they have an uncanny ability to compete well against other predators such as bass make crappie a fish that can — and actually should — be harvested heavily. In Oklahoma, anglers can take home 37 crappie daily.
Crappie are found in waters all over the state, and for most part, a rod and reel with a handful of small jigs will have you catching more crappie than you can eat.
Crappie are usually associated with standing timber and brushy cover in lakes. They hang out in the shallow ends of coves during the spring, and later on will move to deeper waters.
During mid-March to mid-April, crappie move into shallow water to spawn. That's when they are easiest to catch, and also when you have the best chances of catching big female crappie. Whether you like to fish from a boat or tube or even from the bank, this is a prime time for catching crappie.
Wintertime crappie fishing can be good as well, because the fish form schools that make it easier to find other fish once the first one is landed.
Good bait choices include live minnows, worms, and small jigs. Try using a plastic grub or live minnow to tip off a jig for another approach for catching crappie. Additionally, some anglers even recommend tipping off your crappie jig with a small piece of onion, which may serve as an attractant and draw a strike from a hungry crappie.
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Here is the problem: Two mathematicians meet at a bar. They like each other and tend to collaborate. But it is not so clear what problems could be of common interest to both of them. Of course, the traditional way is they keep describing they work or their field in general so that hopefully they catch something at the end. But is there any reference, graph, table or whatever that they can use to help them? This, of course, makes sense only when such a reference keeps updated based on the continuous production in mathematics.
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If I understand your question correctly: I think that dialogue is a far better way to settle on possible directions for collaboration than looking up MSC codes or tables saying how many times the phrases "noncommutative geometry" or "mirror symmetry" are mentioned in a given article. So I think your question is starting from a dubious premise.
First, I have to agree that in principle this is too broad a question. Many fields are closely related, some are vaguely related, and some are at first sight unrelated (but one never knows). And, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez suggestion how to find out about frequent interactions of fields is a very good one.
Second, André Henriques says the graph is the complete graph. And, yes I guess if one looks carefully enough this is indeed true. A place where something along these lines is in my opinion argued very convincingly, and one of my favorite mathematical talks, is "The Importance of Mathematics. A Lecture by Timothy Gowers" available on video, e.g., here but I assume elsewhere too.
From the description of the video:
For example it shows (if I remember correctly) how to arrive in a very natural way from questions on PDEs to questions of (combinatorial) number theory. My memeory is a bit vague, so this might not be exact but something along these lines, which also reminds me that I should rewatch the video some time soon.
Sorry, to those who think this question should not be answered, or think my answer is not precise enough. But, I like this talk a lot and did not want to miss this (in my opinion) fitting opportunity to mention it.


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Guess who's here on Bainbridge to spread a little COOKIE~MAGIC!
Guess who's one of my besties in the whole wide world~not just in blog-land?
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Here's how most of our conversations go:
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Here's what you'll need:
- ornament sugar cookies
- royal icing, divided and tinted grey, red and pink {I use Americolor gel paste colorings and swear by them! For these I used Super Black (just a bit), Super Red, and Deep Pink.}
- disposable piping bags
- couplers and #2 decorating tips
- squeeze bottles
- toothpicks
- meringue powder
- silver sanding sugar
- red sanding sugar (optional)
Now, you'll thin the red and pink icings with water. You'll want it to be the consistency of a thick syrup. Add water a bit at a time and stir gently with a rubber spatula. Cover with a damp dish towel and let sit for several minutes.
Stir gently with a rubber spatula, popping any large air bubbles that have formed on top. Pour the icings into squeeze bottles.
Let the cookies dry, uncovered, 6-8 hours or overnight.
I like to add sprinkles and sanding sugar after the cookies are dry. That way your "add-ons" will go exactly where you want them, and you won't worry about smudging the icing or having it run off the cookie.
Paint the meringue powder mixture onto the cookie where you want the sanding sugar to stick. Over the coffee filter, sprinkle on the sugar. Shake off the excess; use the filter as a funnel to put back into the container.
In the end, you'll have a pile of toothpicks that looks like this:
And a pile of cookies that looks like this: