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Mark Jordan on the Rhetoric of Abuse (updated)
The Immanent Frame has been continuing to post a series of articles from the "Sex Abuse and the Study of Religion" conference hosted at Yale by Kathryn Lofton last September. I commented on Lofton's provocative opening post here. In that piece, she argued that for scholars of religion the perpetration and cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church ought to be understood, among other things, as a case of religious praxis. Given that the abuse took place in the context of theologically coded relationships, often occurred in ecclesial spaces, and was systematically covered-up by a hierarchy who claim a divine mandate to protect the institution from scandal, Lofton argued that an analysis of the abuse crisis that explains it primarily against the backdrop of secular culture, as the John Jay reports did, is short-sighted.Not surprisingly, Lofton's piece raised several difficult questions concerning the substantive role of theological rhetoric in the perpetration and cover-up of abuse. Was theology simply deployed by abusers to "rationalize" their behavior, or is there something problematic in some of the Church's traditional theological tropes themselves that lent moral plausibility to such abuse? Did theclinical language of psychopathology give clarity or confusion to those charged with responding to cases of abuse? Was the perpetuation of abuse aided by the monarchical ecclesiology of the Church, or was it caused precisely by the more permissive, democratizing, and secularizing influences of Vatican II? Mark Jordan addresses these questions in his recent contribution to the forum. Here's a key paragraph on the first question:
The possibility of authorizing abuse theologically follows too easily from the always exceptional status claimed for modern church power. In modern Catholic contexts, official languages often pretend to be exempt from qualification, questioning, or appeal. They are absolute languages. They function in a state of exception. When that rhetorical character is extended to traditional images of a masculinized God or angel who ravishesrapessouls that are gendered as feminine, then erotic domination seems to receive divine blessing. Im not objecting to mystical writing. Im pointing to a consequence of moving older mystical or liturgical languages into a modern system that endows some church speech with an incontestable and literal authority. Under a regime that claims divine exemption for its decrees, mustnt erotic metaphors of divine domination sometimes seem to authorize sexual demands by priests? Turn the question around: imagine what you would have to change in present claims for church language to prevent the violent misapplication of old metaphors for Gods love.
The whole thing is definitely worth a read, along with the other pieces that have been posted so far.Update: A comment on Peter Steinfels' related article (subscribers) in the recent issue of Commonweal after the jump...
I just read Peter Steinfels' affecting essay (subscribers) in the recent issue of Commonweal, in which he recounts his own experience of discovering and reporting abuse while serving as a counselor at a Boy Scout camp. Steinfels repeats the refrain that the sexual abuse of minors happens in many contexts beyond the Catholic Church, and that attitudes toward and procedures for dealing with such abuse have changed dramatically in the last 50 years. Of course, these claims are indisputable, but he goes on to say:
But my firsthand experience also planted resistance to explanations that attributed the abuse toexclusively Catholic practices or beliefs. [...] In short, my initial encounter left me allergic to explaining sexual abuse in sweeping or single-factor terms, usually ones that coincided with their proponents preexisting convictions, whether about homosexuality or (in my case) the need for a more participatory and democratic church.
While I agree that the sex abuse crisis in the Church should not be blamed "exclusively" on aspects of Catholic belief and practice and that we should avoid any "single-factor" explanations, I also think that the work of Lofton, Jordan, and the other contributors to The Immanent Frame forum can help us to resist the temptation to bracket Catholic belief and practice from our explanations. If the analysis of abuse demands a multifaceted and nuanced approach, as Steinfels rightly suggests, then we should be willing to look at all of the factors that may have contributed to its perpetration and proliferation.I also think that Steinfels concedes too much to those conservatives who would blame the crisis on homosexuality when he suggests that his own belief in the prophylactic need for a "more participatory and democratic church" is a similar "preexisting conviction." The former is driven by clear prejudice and scapegoating, while the latter strikes me as a straight-forwardly pragmatic answer to a problem that stemmed, in part, from an institution that lacks the proper structures of accountability. It cannot be denied that the swift response to reports of abuse and the preventative measures put in place by the non-Catholic institutions that Steinfels mentions were due in large part to the external checks on the authority of the leaders of such institutions that were already in place. We should not dignify ugly homophobic slander by placing it on the same level as this rather commonsensical conclusion.
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I do think the lens is different when looking at the abuse from outside the church vs. from within the church when trying to finds its causes. I also believe that a system of equality between men and women in the church would change some of the dynamics which could cause the abuse to start. There are many good priests, and I think they could operate so much better for their parishes mirroring the society they are trying to serve; that being an equal opportunity employer that includes men and women in equal roles.
"The whole thing is definitely worth a read"Having, despite my better judgment, read the whole thing, I disagree. It would be Exhibit A in any brief to defund liberal arts departments.
I agree with Jim Pauwels: the symposium seems to take no heed or to reject out of hand the social science that might dispute their theses, namely the John Jay study and others. There doesn't seem to be much scholarly or critical thinking going on there, despite some impressive names. Their question is a good one, but has yet to be engaged seriously.
Jim and David: I think you need to do a bit more work, if only not to be thought to "take no heed or reject out of hand" more humanistic analyses of the crisis. Why do you think that the social sciences have a monopoly on engaging the questions being considered? Should we not also be interested in the perspectives of philosophers and theologians on the crisis? It seems ironic that a religious group that is often (and rightly) wary of "scientism" would consider an empirical study like John Jay to be so definitive.
Scientism is the belief that all reality can be adequately explained using only the methods of the natural sciences. It is not the belief that one ought to consider the available empirical data about a problem before offering a theory about the problem. Facts first, then interpretation: that, I think, is all David Gibson is asking for, and this demand doesn't make him -- or anyone else -- guilty of scientism. By all means, let the theologians and philosophers have at the sex-abuse scandal. But when their theories seem to be based on bad information, it's no good claiming that information is for social scientists and we've heard enough from them.
Eric,I believe that the John Jay report is not definitive while at the same time wonder about this theologically based approach. It seems to be that neither David nor Jim reject science so much as they reject this approach. The gnawing question is how is this theological approach that possible since we see sexual abuse in non religious areas. There are certainly issues with a patriarchal religion. But the transition to a cause of sexual abuse seems to be far fetched.
Matt: I don't think that anyone is saying, "information is for social scientists and weve heard enough from them." What is being questioned is the neat division between facts and interpretation. As many have already said, the facts in the John Jay reports were influenced by antecedent expectations concerning the nature of the crisis (e.g. bishops and clergy have the best knowledge of reportable cases). So, getting our facts straight also involves asking ourselves about the plausibility structures that determine which facts we are going to take into account, especially when considering social scientific research models. I take it that part of "scientism" is an unwillingness to acknowledge that all empirical research is guided by some such preexisting theory. To avoid this, then, it is important to think theoretically about the facts that we have and how we got them before we simply take them to be "the" facts.Bill: I don't see anyone making a causal leap. I think that they are just trying to say that the religious context in which abuse occurs does matter, and it cannot be just assumed to be unimportant simply because abuse happens in other contexts as well. Presumably, the specifics of those non-ecclesial contexts would also be important in gaining a full understanding of their failures (e.g. the sporting culture at Penn State).
Certainly there was more than one factor in play in the abuse scandal. Too-proud bishops, old-fashioned and/or out of touch bishops, sharp, rapid changes in American culture, Remote Romans, stubborn Americans, a too-trusting laity, and some number (hopefully a small number) of homosexuals in America were ordained Catholic priests. Now, one can say all day long that introducing gay clergy was not a factor in the abuse scandal, but I do not think it wise to dismiss it out-of-hand, to say it had no effect whatever. Roman Catholics have learned tough lessons in all this and are still learning. Anglicans are now experimenting with ordaining gay clergy, albeit more openly than the Catholic church did back in the late 60s and into the 70s. Well see - give that experiment time to run its course.
In the military, as in the Catholic clerical culture, power, authority and appropriate obedience are all valued highly. When a military man transfers those specific military values to his family life no one thinks it unusual, and when the children of officers are found to be very obedient no one finds it surprising. I dare say some similar thinking goes on in Catholic children relative to priests and bishops.But what about a priest who demands inappropriate obedience from a child? It should be obvious to the priest as an adult that his behavior is wrong (unless he is mentally ill). But can we say that his clerical culture has nothing to do with his crimes? I think not. We tend to transfer values from one domain to another. But is such transference of values the only or main cause of the crime? Who can say. Should the clerical culture abandon its appreciation of power, authority and obediene? No, it should still respect *appropriate* power and authority and demand *appropriate* obedience, and the priests should be trained to know unequivocally which inappropriate exercises of authority and demand for obedience are intolerable.(I might add that these generalizations are also relevant to how the Church treats its theologians. How they are trained and treated is also part of the same general problem of authority and obedience.)
From the article:"Im pointing to a consequence of moving older mystical or liturgical languages into a modern system that endows some church speech with an incontestable and literal authority. Under a regime that claims divine exemption for its decrees, mustnt erotic metaphors of divine domination sometimes seem to authorize sexual demands by priests?"No.
Eric,You make a fair point about the limits of the John Jay study, and I too have reservations about its methodology. If Lofton and Jordan had limited themselves to raising questions about the adequacy of the data presented by John Jay, I would have more sympathy for their project. It seems to me that they are doing something else, however. Because they have theories about why sex abuse would be more common in the Catholic Church than in other institutions, they allow themselves to assume that it is. I think we can too easily be seduced by a powerful theory into overlooking the need to verify the facts the theory is supposed to explain. And, as Peter Steinfels points out, part of what makes a theory persuasive is how well it corresponds to our prejudices, whether these are described as bigotry or creditable intuition.
Under a regime that claims divine exemption for its decrees, mustnt erotic metaphors of divine domination sometimes seem to authorize sexual demands by priests? Mark Jordans question expects the answer, Yes. Stated positively, this yields: Under a regime that claims divine exemption for its decrees, erotic metaphors of divine domination must sometimes seem to authorize sexual demands by priests. I pass over the exaggerated statement about the divine exemption of Church-authority, and ask a couple of questions: 1) What does that must mean? Why must rather than, say, may? Is some kind of logical or psychological entailment intended? 2) What is the status of this claim? Is it meant as a hypothesis? If so, does it require, does it admit, empirical verification? Can it be falsified? 3) And then there is that sometimes: how many times must erotic metaphors seem to authorize sexual demands by priests to qualify as sometimes? If instances of the connection turn out to be few-and-far-between, must not that must become a may, and must we not then turn our attention to other factors?
I don't know... What about Fifty Shades of Grey? I think there is a strain of intertwined eroticism and power that runs through other things than the church!
So, Jordan is arguing that if we didn't use images such as "bride of Christ", then Fr Meffam might not have committed sexual abuse, because he would not have felt as justified in doing it? And the proof is that when Meffan uses exalted vocabulary, he "seems sincere"? That's pretty thin. I'm no psychologist, but I know that when I feel like doing something, I will interpret things to excuse my choices, and that will be in all sincerity.How many people you hear talking of "true love" when they're having an affair. In all sincerity! Does the church need to stop talking about love, to remove the risk that the word will be used in the wrong way by exalted minds? (That's what commitments are for: contracts with myself so that, when I've lost my bearings, I still remember that there was a time when I had decided that no matter what I would not act in certain ways, and I might still abide by that past decision even if it doesn't seem to make sense any more at the moment).
Joe Komonchak deftly cut through the academic sludge passing for analysis to the heart of the matter. Apodictic assertions, even when wrapped in the pretty papers of postmodern discourse, are subject to the old scholastic axiom that what is freely asserted may be freely denied.
Joe: I think that your rigorous consideration of Jordan's claim is exactly what his essay was encouraging us to do with our erotic metaphors for theological power. So, if "sometimes" turns out to be "almost never," then, yes, we turn to other factors. If "sometimes" turns out to be "more often than we would like," which for some of us might be "even once," then we still have to consider other factors, but we might also be more careful the next time we apply erotic metaphors to human expressions of divinely sanctioned power. Cathy: If the "Fifty Shades of Gray" fans formed a church, I think we would be concerned about the way the entwinement of eroticism and power might deform their hierarchical relationships.
Eric: Do I understand you to agree that Jordan's claim needs to be tested and that until it is, its status is that of one of those "bright ideas" that Bernard Lonergan used to say were "a dime a dozen"?Another question: If a troubled priest makes use of an erotic metaphor to justify his evil acts, does the fault lie with the metaphor or with the troubled priest? The highest figure I've heard for incidence of pedophilia among priests is around 10%, which means that 90% of priests are not involved, even with all that erotic imagery available. And of those guilty of the abuse, how many were moved to it or justified it by the erotic imagery? The more I think about it, the more Jordan's assertions strike me as quite untenable.
Joe: Yes, I think claims always should be tested, especially if they are aiming at recommending practical intervention. But there is also a value in thinking for its own sake, and considering the ways in which ideas implicitly or explicitly shape plausible or actual behavior. So, empirical verification, yes, but "bright ideas" can be powerful in ways that aren't always empirically verifiable.As for your second question: Of course, Individuals are always the ones responsible for their actions. You can't prosecute and jail an idea (which is where McCarthy went so wrong). So, the fault will always lie with the perpetrator. But in thinking about how to build a just society or a holier Church, in which, for example, it's easy to be virtuous, ideas certainly do matter, and it behooves us to think about how ideas edify or deform individuals and relationships.
"When that rhetorical character is extended to traditional images of a masculinized God or angel who ravishesrapessouls that are gendered as feminine, then erotic domination seems to receive divine blessing." Wait a minute, since when has the biblical and mystical tradition of erotic metaphors included metaphors of RAPE? I.e., of God forcing Himself (Herself) on the soul against one's will? I thought it was always about wooing, etc. I mean, yes, for Catholicism, even though we must cooperate freely with grace, grace itself enables and brings about that cooperation, but is that really tantamount to rape if expressed in erotic terms? Perhaps I just haven't encountered any examples of that myself, or perhaps I'm overlooking or blinded to the element of rape in various erotic metaphors, but that's never been my understanding nor my experience of the biblical-mystical tradition. (Ooh, or better yet, my "lived experience"! Who can argue with my lived experience?! Mark Jordan's arguments can't hold a candle to my lived experience!)
The big factor in abuse as I see it is the authority factor whether hierarchical or just supervisory. We might remind ourselves that only a few years ago many of us cringed at even criticizing a bishop or the pope or even priests. Psychotherapists, at least in comparable numbers to priests, seduce their patients as do teachers and youth counselors. In the church the power might be considered more awesome because of the divine implications. But to start criticizing the language of God is something that angers someone of faith and stops the conversation. For example, people like Dominic Crossan and Bart Ehrman who begin their criticisms in an apparently scientific manner soon devolve into a total denial of the whole faith. Certainly ideas are important to consider. Yet when there appears a certain bias in progress one should cry foul. So criticism of a particular problem, like in this case sexual abuse, when it proceeds to a total rejection of the body of the faithful it becomes tainted and people become rightfully resentful and angry. As happened frequently in the posts above.
Mr. McGrath --The notion of "wounds" of love is not foreign to Christian mystics. Origen spoke of God as wounding the soul, and for Bernard of Clairvaux God was a violent lover. Mystics, of course, speak in metaphors, but it is easy for me to understand them and others as meaning that God overpowers with something analogous to physical violence. Bernard in particular has always struck me a a masochist. But who knows.
Hi Ann (oh, and please call me Brendan! I'm only 30 -- I hope I can call you Ann?) -- I know the language of wounding too, but at least where I've encountered it (for example, in St. Teresa of Avila, and... well, I can't think of other specifics off the top of my head, but the women mystics in general), it's not connected with rape -- i.e., St. Teresa of Avila wasn't saying no, or wishing God would leave her alone, etc. The wound is more an ache of longing and desiring God even more. I mean, the whole idea of the soul being wounded is just an element that's part of a greater overall joy, ecstasy, desire, etc.
Brendan --Please do call me Ann. I agree with your interpretation of St. Teresa. But there are others. . . Bernard of Clairvaux talks like a masochist a times. See Bernard McGinn' s "The Presence of God". v. II, pp. 158 and 203. Bernard even says of "Love", "What is more violent?" and seems to imply that God Himself is Love and therefore Violence. Horrid. Sure, sure, mystics talk in paradoxes. But I think William James is right to say that some of them are healthy-minded and some are not. Bernard is one who is not.
Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for youAs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bendYour force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.I, like an usurp'd town to another due,Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue.Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain,But am betroth'd unto your enemy;Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,Take me to you, imprison me, for I,Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.(John Donne)
And here are two contributions from Bernini:http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wga.hu/art/b/bernini/gian...
From the OED, two meanings of "ravish" that would be pertinent to Donne's last line:" b. To transport (a person, the mind, etc.) with the strength of some emotion; to fill with ecstasy, intense delight, or sensuous pleasure; to entrance, captivate, or enrapture."" b. To rape, violate (a woman)."The second, it seems to me, is a metaphor for the first.
How about Verlaine: mon Dieu, vous m'avez bless d'amour Et la blessure est encore vibrante, mon Dieu, vous m'avez bless d'amour. mon Dieu, votre crainte m'a frapp Et la brlure est encor l qui tonne, mon Dieu, votre crainte m'a frapp. mon Dieu, j'ai connu que tout est vil Et votre gloire en moi s'est installe, mon Dieu, j'ai connu que tout est vil.Noyez mon me aux flots de votre Vin, Fondez ma vie au Pain de votre table, Noyez mon me aux flots de votre Vin.Voici mon sang que je n'ai pas vers, Voici ma chair indigne de souffrance, Voici mon sang que je n'ai pas vers....Mais ce que j'ai, mon Dieu, je vous le donne.------------------------------------------------------------------O my God, you have wounded me with love, And the wound is still throbbingO my God, you have wounded me with love.O my God, a holy fear has struck me And the strike is still burning, O my God, a holy fear has struck me.O my God, I have seen that all is vile And your glory settled within me, O my God, I have seen that all is vile.Drown my soul in the floods of your Wine, Melt my life in the Bread of your table, Drown my soul in the floods of your Wine.Here is the blood that I did not pour, Here is my flesh, of suffering unworthy, Here is the blood that I did not pour....But what I have, I give to you, my God.
Ann and Fr. Komonchak -- I see what you mean by those examples, and I'm familiar with a number of them, but how can we consider it rape, if the people in question (the speaker of the poem, the mystics, etc.) are ASKING for God to "ravish" them? I mean, I suppose as you said, Ann, there's paradox (though you were talking about the paradox of love vs. violence), but I guess it just seems very mistaken for someone to look at these examples and think it can lend itself to some sanctioning of clerical rape. With a LOT of stretching, you could try to argue that it might lend legitimacy to clergy having sex with people or whatever, but... actually, no, not even that.
By the way, as long as we're posting our favorite erotic passages from the mystics, allow me to add Hadewijch from the 1200s -- I'm copying and pasting this from a packet I made for my students, so the text might be slightly adapted in places to make it more comprehensible, but I think this is pretty much verbatim:With that he came in the form and clothing of a Man, as he was on the day when he gave us his Body for the first time; looking like a Human Being and a Man, wonderful, and beautiful, and with glorious face, he came to me as humbly as anyone who wholly belongs to another. Then he gave himself to me in the shape of the Sacrament, in its outward form, as the custom is; and then he gave me to drink from the chalice, in form and taste, as the custom is. After that he came himself to me, took me entirely in his arms, and pressed me to him, and all my members felt his in full felicity, in accordance with the desire of my heart and my humanity. So I was outwardly satisfied and fully transported. [Then] I saw him completely come to naught and so fade and all at once dissolve that I could no longer recognize or perceive him outside me, and I could no longer distinguish him within me. Then it was to me as if we were one without difference. It was thus: outwardly, to see, taste, and feel, as one can outwardly taste, see, and feel in the reception of the outward Sacrament. So can the Beloved, with the loved one, each wholly receive the other in all full satisfaction of the sight, the hearing, and the passing away of the one in the other. After that I remained in a passing away in my Beloved, so that I wholly melted away in him and nothing any longer remained to me of myselfBy the way, one of my Jesuit teachers at Georgetown remarked of Bernini's "Ecstasy of St. Teresa": "I'll have what she's having." ;)
Brendan ==My main point was that some mystics are not psychologically normal to start with. Specifically, some are manic-depressives, some have typically schizophrenic "intuitions" of being identical with everything else, and some are masochists who "enjoy" pain and being over-whelmed, and the only difference between that and rape seems to be the enjoyment. Not being a masochist I have no idea how they can experience such a state of mind/body, but I don't doubt them when they say it happens. Yes, they seem to confuse an extreme masochistic sexual experience with an experience of God.The speech of Bernard that McGinn quotes waxes poetics about the joy of penance so extremely painful it can hardly be imagined. He also preached the second crusade with relish, and I used to wonder how he could be so enthusiastic about it. The masochist hypothesis explains it, I think.People can be very weird, Brendan. Very, very weird, even with the best of intentions. Even with saintly intentions.


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I have a serial Fortran code (f90), dealing with matrix diagonalizing subroutines, and recently got its parallel version to be faster in some unfeasible parts via the serial program.
I have been using the following commands for initializing MPI in the code
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CPU requirement >> pmem=1500mb,nodes=5:ppn=8 <<
Everything looks OK when matrix dimensions are less than 1000x1000. When I increase the matrix dimensions to some larger values the parallel code gets the following error
mpirun noticed that process rank 6 with PID 1566 on node node1082 exited on signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
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More than 81% of workers at INEOS' Grangemouth refinery in Scotland have voted to strike, according to a Friday news release from local trade union group Unite. The Grangemouth refinery can process 210,000 bpd of crude, with roughly 30% of its output as distillates, according to Bloomberg.
More than 81% of workers at INEOS' Grangemouth refinery in Scotland have voted to
strike, according to a Friday news release from local trade union
group Unite.
The Grangemouth refinery can process 210,000
bpd of crude, with roughly 30% of its output as distillates,
according to Bloomberg.
"This overwhelming result reflects the genuine ill-feeling held
by the Grangemouth workforce, because of the grossly unfair
treatment of Stephen Deans, who has 24 years of loyal service
at the site," said Pat Rafferty, Unite Scottish regional
"Despite the ongoing threats of plant closures at the
Grangemouth site, the workforce are determined to support their
colleague and to bring this injustice to an end," he added.
"This tight-knit community has no tolerance for the unfair
treatment of a trade unionist because they know that an attack
against one is an attack against all."
Deans, who has worked at Grangemouth 24 years, also serves as
the chairman of the Falkirk Constituency Labour Party
He was briefly suspended by the Labour Party in July
2013 following an investigation into claims of
vote-rigging in Falkirk in the selection process to find a
replacement for outgoing Labour MP Eric Joyce.
Deans was subsequently cleared by the party,
though, and reinstated as the local party chairman. A
police investigation into the issue was also dropped.
Since then, however, INEOS has begun investigating whether his
activities were in line with his role as an employee and a
convener. INEOS has said that probe will conclude on
October 18, with a decision published October 25.
Friday's vote has a turnout of 86%, according to Unite
officials. Within that percentage, 90.6% of workers voted
for industrial action short of a strike, with 9.4% against.
Meanwhile, 81.4% voted for strike action and 18.6% voted
INEOS had yet to issue public comment on the strike as of
Friday afternoon.
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41 Moreover concerning the stranger that is not of Thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for Thy name's sake--
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Are there any books that present theorems as problems? To be more specific, a book on elementary group theory might have written: "Theorem: Each group has exactly one identity" and then show a proof or leave it as an exercise. The type of book that I am imagining would have written "Problem: How many unit elements can a group have?" and similarly for all other theorems.
Algebraic Geometry by Robin Hartshorne. An algebra professor once told me that almost every exercise is a lemma or theorem from SGA.
A friendlier and more accessible book for undergraduates is "Linear Algebra Problem Book" by Paul R. Halmos. Halmos is an awesome expositor and this one is no exception.
Some classical books that would probably fit the bill:
Problems and Theorems in Analysis by Polya and Szego
A Hilbert Space Problem Book by Halmos
Fifty challenging problems in probability with solutions by Frederick Mosteller. It deserves to be better known than it is. Some things I like about it:
Lovasz's "Combinatorial Problems and Exercises" is a really good example.
Onishchik and Vinberg's "Lie Groups and Algebraic Groups" (the translation, which is what I read, appeared in Springer's "Series in Soviet Mathematics") is ALL problems, and is very nice. Sadly, it is also out of print.
Classical example
Elementary Topology. Textbook in Problems by O.Ya.Viro, O.A.Ivanov, V.M.Kharlamov, N.Y.Netsvetaev
A number of books by Russian authors (cf. the one by Viro et al. from the Anton's answer) also come close to what you ask for. The two that came to my mind first are:
Theorems and problems in functional analysis by Kirillov and Gvishiani
Abel's theorem in problems and solutions by Alekseev (based on Arnol'd's lectures)
My favorite such book is Problems in Analytic Number Theory by Ram Murty. There could not be enough good things said about it.
Problems in Group Theory, by John Dixon. I worked through a good deal of this as an undergrad, and learned a lot from it.
Here is my favorite: Victor Prasolov, Problems and Theorems in Linear Algebra. Also avaliable in PDF (mirror). However, I wouldn't recommend this to any undergrad without olympiad background.
Generally, writing textbooks in form of problem compendiums is distinctive for Soviet mathematics. I could name some more books of this kind (such as one on Lie algebras), but unfortunately they are all in Russian and most have never been translated.
Modern Classical Homotopy Theory by Jeffrey Strom.
Problems in Algebraic Number Theory, by Esmonde and Murty, is very good.
Pinter's A Book of Abstract Algebra is half problems, half text. Many important topics are covered as problems. For example, direct products of groups are introduced and their properties developed in a set of problems. Cauchy's Theorem and Sylow's Theorem are introduced as problems. I taught myself a good deal of abstract algebra from this book one summer. The high proportion of problems to exposition kept me stimulated, and his decomposition of proofs of theorems into bite-sized problem chunks was a confidence booster. I remember this book with great affection.
"Elements of the Theory of Representations" by A. Kirillov. This is a concise introduction to the representation theory of both finite and Lie groups. It contains necessary background from other fields, e.g. analysis on manifolds. Many theorems are formulated as problems, often with hints. Originally the book was written in Russian, but there is also English translation published by Springer-Verlag in 1976.
Convex Figures I.M. Yaglom and V.G. Boltyanskii Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY, 1961
The first half of this book has definitions and results related to convexity to be proved by the reader and the solutions to these problems (theorems) is given in the second half of the book.
The topics treated include Helly's Theorem, isoperimetric results, Minkowski addition of sets and curves of constant width.
All of this material is clearly and well handled.
I had a lot of fun skimming through Jim Henle's An Outline of Set Theory. (It's now out of print, but I suspect Springer's Problem Books in Mathematics series has a few more such titles still in print.)
Also, a nice little freebie is Stefan Bilaniuk's A Problem Course in Mathematical Logic.
In a different area, there is Number Theory Through Inquiry by David C. Marshall, Michael Starbird, Edward Odell.
Ian Adamson has 2 really nice books pitched at the upper level undergraduate/graduate level: A General Topology Workbook and A Set Theory Workbook. Set Theory and point set topology can mostly be developed directly from the definitions,so these are nice subjects to present in this manner,particularly to students just learning how to do rigorous proofs. Best of all,both books come with complete solutions in the back.
Joe Roberts, Elementary Number Theory, A Problem Oriented Approach. The 1st half of the book is all problems, the 2nd half is the solutions. This book is unusual for another reason; it's done entirely in calligraphy.
Kenneth P. Bogart's "Combinatorics through Guided Discovery" is written exactly this way and all properties touched on in the book are discovered in the book through problems.
The little commutative algebra book by Atiyah and MacDonald is one such—the reason it's so little is that probably two-thirds of the results in it are in the exercises. I guess you know the subject if you can skim through it looking for a fact (which is quite likely to be present, if not in the main text) all the while nodding your head as though the proofs were actually given.
An introduction to the theory of groups by Joseph J Rotman makes for a good DIY second course in group theory.
Learning mathematics by solving problems is part of the french tradition. You will find many problems in Bourbaki or Dieudonne's Elements d'Analyse. At a more elementary level there are several problems covering a large amount of material at the end of Colmez's Elements d'analyse et d'algebre (et de theorie des nombres).
There are several introductory problem texts by R.P. Burns:
A nice introduction (highly recommended!) to abstract algebra which is almost entirely presented in problem format is the following by Clark:
I recently found the following books (which I have no experience with):
There are number of books in the Schaum's Outline series that I would recommend to anyone beginning in the subject of choice, Group Theory, Linear Algebra, General Topology to name a few. They are good in making the initial learning curve less steep, and help to make many of the other books mentioned more accessible to someone new to the subject.
Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2012.05.13
See these two good books :
Combinatorics : a problem oriented approach - Daniel A. Marcus
Graph Theory : a problem oriented approach - Daniel A. Marcus
The first one was recommended for self-study by an AMS article :
See also :
Problems and Theorems in Classical Set Theory by Péter Komjáth and Vilmos Totik.
"Selected Problems in Real Analysis" by M. G. Goluzina, A. A. Lodkin, B. M. Makarov, A. N. Podkorytov. (The authors are modest with the title, I would rather say that this book contains all problems in real analysis.) This is a perfect complement to Polya and Szego, whose book is rather on complex analysis.
Finite-Dimensional Linear Analysis: A Systematic Presentation in Problem Form (Dover Books on Mathematics) by Glazman-Ljubic A (difficult)introduction to finite analysis(no solutions)
Theorie des groupes -Jean Delcourt(in french) (has solutions)
Some answers mention problem books (quite different from standard-format textbooks in that they consist almost entirely of problems and their solutions). Such books have been widely used in Eastern Europe at every level of education (at least when I was getting it). Let me add another one to the list:
MR0447533 Krzyż, Jan G. Problems in complex variable theory. Translation of the 1962 Polish original. Modern Analytic and Computational Methods in Science and Mathematics, No. 36. American Elsevier Publishing Co., Inc., New York; PWN---Polish Scientific Publishers, Warsaw, 1971. xvii+283 pp.
In his foreword, the author states: ``Most exercises are just examples illustrating basic concepts and theorems, some are standard theorems contained in most textbooks. However, the author does believe that the reconstruction of certain proofs could be instructive and is possible for an average mathematics student."
Besides standard material, there is a collection of quirky little facts in e.g. non-Euclidean geometry in the disk or logarithmic potential theory (and much more). All stated as problems for the reader to solve. However, many solutions are included.
There were subsequent editions in Polish. I used one as an undergraduate student and still have a copy.
I would like to mention about Serge Lang's Algebra. Many of the "standard" results/theorems appear as exercises: one particular example is the construction and properties of Witt ring as exercises in chapter XV; of course, there is "that famous" homological algebra problem too.


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Actually, seeing some of the grossly unnecessary shit they turn out, we're starting to doubt the "hard-working" part. How else do you explain the existence of...
#10. Ultra Shield Superman
Oh-oh, it looks like Superman just got a little more invincible! You're fucked, crime!
Wait, what?
All right, even if Superman didn't have the ability to deflect bullets with his bare fists before tearing the engine out of a tank--and he fucking does--the armor "Ultra Shield Superman" comes with is a bit lacking. The metal covers just his chest and back through the use of an improbable metal cape, the bottom edge of which presumably bangs painfully into his calves every time he tries to walk.
Sure, he's managed to protect the ever important nipples, but he's still exposing his head, limbs and groin. Somehow we don't think Supes really thought this through.
#9. Superman Matrix Conversion Coupe
While we're on the subject:
Clark Kent needs to protect his secret identity at all costs but he also needs to get to work on time and in the flashiest way possible. It might be a bit suspicious to passers-by if a news reporter suddenly flew by at super speed, so instead he drives this bad boy.
Coming as close to the Batmobile as legally possible without having to change his name to Bruce, Clark pilots his own terrormobile to strike fear into the heart of everyone else in the carpool lane. And despite its lack of rockets or Boy Wonder, the Matrix Conversion Coupe has one feature that blows all cars out of the water while somehow defeating its own purpose: It turns into a space jet.
Wait, what?
If Clark ever finds himself in a dire situation where flight is the only option, why not just throw on the cape? Because he's afraid it will draw attention? We're pretty sure the authorities will have just as many questions for you after they see you fly your sports car into orbit, Clark.
#8. Sky Dive Batman
Batman is well noted for his lack of super-powers. Where others can travel through time, fire lasers from their eyes or be an awesome flying horse, the Dark Knight relies on his wealth, cunning and the element of surprise. And what's more surprising than a sky attack?
Quite a few things, if said sky attack is performed in a neon-orange jumpsuit and a chrome parachute.
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Either there was a point in his career where Bats chose to exclusively attack blind criminals or he just lost any sense of what "stealth" or "neutral colors" mean. Between the blinding orange suit and silver parachute, the only thing any would-be victims would find surprising about this is that Liberace took up sky-diving lessons and somehow stopped being a corpse.
#7. Slalom Racer Batman
Sometimes you can't land an amazing drop kick from a high altitude. For these times, one must rely on skis.
OK, this could almost make sense. After all, Mr. Freeze is totally a bad guy in the Batman universe. You'd need some snow gear to take him on, right? Even the white outfit works, it'd be great camouflage in a snowy mountainside...
Wait, what?
...if the skis and poles weren't bright fucking orange again.
Oh, and the natural force of physics doesn't seem to be enough for Batman (after all, what if you need to ski up the mountain?), so he strapped a cartoonish rocket on to his back for good measure.
Yes, that's a massive plume of fiery exhaust jetting out the bottom of that thing, about to catch his skis on fire and melt all of the snow for 20-feet in every direction.
The best thing that can result in this is Batman lifting off and catching a ride on Superman's rocket car. The worst thing that can happen is someone shoots his amazing ski rocket and he explodes in a torrent of fire and a horrible understanding of physics. Either way, it can only end in tears.
Oh, speaking of which...
#6. The Human Torch Street Bike
Apparently jealous of all that free publicity Ghost Rider was getting with his sweet ride, the Human Torch decided he needed a badass motorcycle to keep up. "Look at me, ladies! Yeah, it ain't just my head that's on fire."
Wait, what?
OK, let's forget for the moment that that the Human Torch can already fly. A man made entirely of fire has absolutely no place sitting on, well, anything. Let alone on something with a gas tank.
It just shows what a dick Mr. Torch is, really. He's not worried about the inevitable explosion because he's already on fire. "Look, if you didn't want to get engulfed by my exploding motorcycle, then you should have run away faster, screaming pedestrians."


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The members of the 2011 MVSU outdoor track and field program participated in the 2011 Southern Miss Invitational held at the Marshall Bell Track and Field Complex in Hattiesburg on March 12.
In the women's 4 x 100 meter relay, the team of Shayla Burks, Janese Pryor, Kenia Lewis and Kellie Rollie finished third with a time of 49.20 while the squad of Rollie, Tambriya Barney, Queona Williams and Alicia Wimley finished sixth with a time of 50.32. In the women's 1,500 meter run, Joyce Chumo (4th-5:01.98), Winny Tauni (6th-5:09.50) and Irene Cherbuet (5:18.02) all finished in the top ten. In the men's 1,500-meter run, Robert Hernandez was fifth with a time of 4:14.40 while David Pulliam was ninth with a time of 4:29.65.
In the women's 400-meter dash, Queona Williams was seventh with a time of 1:00.04 while Angel Williams had a time of 1:00.60, tying her for tenth place. In the men's 400-meter, Quinton Weeks finished with a time of 49.79. Kenia Lewis (8th-12.81) and Shayla Burks (t-9th-12.85) finished in the top ten of the women's 100-meter dash. David White (9th-11.43) along with Demarcus Speight (10th-11.49) finished in the top ten of the men's 100-meter dash. In the women's 200-meter dash, Alicia Wimley ranked seventh (26.21) while Janese Pryor ranked eighth with a time of 26.25. Quinton Weeks was fourth in the men's race with a time of 22.18.
In the women's 5,000 meter run, Joyce Chumo was second with a time of 19:06.04 while Winny Tauni was fourth with a time of 20:01.96. In the men's race, Hezron Chepkwony won the event with a time of 16:17.74 while Victor Kiplagat was third with a time of 16:32.13.


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What is your fashion view?
If it is true that everyone moves to a different drummer, then fashion ought to convey the beat and rhythm of your life. It's really about style – fashions come and go, but style is an expression of your inner self.
How do you describe your style?
First of all, I try to avoid always following the latest trends. Instead of choosing designs that look great on a mannequin, I choose clothing and accessories that play up my strongest features. If you are talking about clothes in my closet, you'll find everything from cowboy boots to stiletto heels, skinny-jeans to evening gowns. Oh! And lots of hats. I am such a "hat person."
What are your favorite pieces?
Elvis had his blue-suede-shoes. Well, I have my blue suede boots. I have this pair of indigo Italian leather boots that seem to just get better with age. If I were choosing one single staple accessory, my favorite is a pair of large gold hoop earrings. There is really nothing remarkable about them, but it seems each time I wear them, I get compliments.
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Actually, I am not a big shopper, so I choose stores that I know will have styles that appeal to me. I love shopping at Von Maur. The fact that they have live piano music doesn't hurt. Terri and Amy at The Nitty Gritty are always so friendly and helpful; it's just fun to shop there. And who doesn't love finding a great looking designer dress for a fabulous price at T.J.Maxx?
Who is your fashion icon? Why?
There's this scene in Rear Window when Grace Kelly arrives in a black and white evening gown designed by Edith Head. When I saw the film – I don't know, I must have been around 11 years old – I remember seeing this poised, ethereal, radiant, self-confident woman sweep across the screen. The screenwriter's notes actually say, "Her beauty is not alone in her face." At age eleven, I wanted to be her. Not much has changed.


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I've seen many different notion of $\infty$-categories, actual I've seen the operadic-globular ones of Batanin and Leinster and the opetopic too and eventually I'll see the simplicial ones too. Although there are so many notion of $\infty$-category so far I've only seen the following examples:
$\infty$-grupoids as fundamental groupoids topological spaces;
$(\infty,1)$-categories, mostly via topological example and application in algebraic geometry (in particular in derived algebraic geometry);
strict $(\infty,\infty)$-categories, and their $n$-dimensional versions, for instance the various categories of strict-$n$-categories (here I intend $n \in \omega+\{\infty\}$).
There are other example of $\infty$-categories, especially from algebraic topology or algebraic geometry, but also mathematical physics and computer science and logic? In particular I wondering if there's a concrete example, well known, weak $(\infty,\infty)$-category.
(Edit:) after the a discussion with Mr.Porter I think adding some specifications may help:
I'm looking for models/presentations of $\infty$-weak-categories for which is possible to give a combinatorial description, in which is possible to make manipulations and explicit calculations, but also $\infty$-categories arising in practice in various mathematical context.


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Two people are dead and dozens are displaced as investigators continue to seek the cause of an explosion that leveled at least two houses in an Indianapolis neighborhood and damaged as many as 30 beyond repair.
Indianapolis fire officials say they don't know yet what caused the blast around 11 p.m. Saturday.
Citizens Energy says crews haven't found any signs of a gas leak.
Officials have not released the identities of the two people who were killed. However, a candlelight vigil was held Sunday night at Southwest Elementary School in nearby Greenwood for second-grade teacher Jennifer Longworth. She and her husband, John Dion Longworth, lived in one of the homes destroyed in the blast. WTHR-TV reported that friends, family and colleagues of the teacher gathered at the school.


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The way Ohio votes on Tuesday could very well decide this year's presidential election.
Ohioans have every reason to vote for Mitt Romney for president on Tuesday. The past three-and-one-half years under President Barack Obama have been tough ones for Ohio. Fewer Ohioans have jobs than when Obama took office. More state residents live in poverty.
Those fortunate enough to have jobs are earning less.
Romney has a detailed plan to put Ohioans and other Americans back to work at good jobs. Though his program includes a 59-point strategy, it has been distilled to five points:
Achieve energy independence, with emphasis on North American oil, natural gas and coal.
Improve education and job training.
Curb unfair trade practices such as those that have devastated the U.S. steel industry.
Reduce the government spending deficit and tackle the national debt.
Cut taxes and regulations to champion small businesses.
It is a formula almost tailor-made for the Buckeye State. Compare that with nearly four years of Obama's failures:
Ohio's unemployment rate is 7 percent, but at least some of the drop is because many Buckeye State residents have simply given up trying to find work. In fact, 70,680 fewer Ohioans have jobs than when Obama became president.
Though Obama claims he is making progress, September figures show 25,516 fewer Ohioans working than in April.
Ohio's poverty rate has increased to 15.1 percent, from 13.5 percent when Obama took office.
The median income in Ohio has fallen by $3,459 since Obama entered the White House.
Doubt the numbers: Consider that they come from the very federal agencies Obama oversees.
Romney's plan can help. Obama's big government strategy, despite his claims, has failed. If Ohioans really want to move forward, they will vote for Mitt Romney on Tuesday.


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Major roads in Tennessee should be easier to navigate this Easter weekend.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation tells News 5 that it will stop all road construction work that requires lane closures for the holiday rush.
The break begins Thursday evening at 6 P.M. and runs through Monday morning at 6 A.M.
"Suspending interstate construction in Tennessee during the Easter holiday will permit a free flow of traffic and reduce potential delays," said TDOT Commissioner John Schroer. "I also encourage motorists to download the SmartWay Mobile App to get up-to-the minute traffic information before they hit the road this weekend."
You will still encounter some long term lane closures on construction projects that will remain in place. While lane closure activity will be stopped, some workers may be on-site in construction zones and reduced speed limits will still be in effect. You still need to obey all posted speed limits, especially in work zones, and they will be enforced.
For travel and TDOT construction information, visit the TDOT SmartWay web site at www.tn.gov/tdot/tdotsmartway/ or download the new TDOT SmartWay mobile app. You can also dial 511 from any land-line or cell phone for travel information or follow TDOT on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TN511 for statewide travel information.


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I currently have the following code:
public static int currentTimeMillis()
long millisLong = System.currentTimeMillis();
while ( millisLong > Integer.MAX_VALUE )
millisLong -= Integer.MAX_VALUE;
return (int)millisLong;
which returns the current time in an
int format (not exactly, but it can be used for time differences). For very good reasons, I can't use
Yes, I am just interested in the difference between two calls, and this approach works well. But it just looks wrong. I know that. And inefficient. I know. So my questions is, how can I improve it?
I need a function that returns an
int such that:
int x1 = currentTimeMillis(); //my function
long y1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
int x2 = currentTimeMillis();
long y2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
// here, x2 - x1 must be equal to y2 - y1
FYI, I want to do this for benchmarking. I'm running tests on multiple threads in parallel, the stop event is triggered by an external component. I'm also serializing the data in a way that only supports
int, and the object I'm serializing can not have
long members.


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PEGF01: Physical Ed 6 A (2012-2013)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Physical Education
COURSE TITLE: Physical Ed 6 A
COURSE LENGTH: 9 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: These quarter courses are designed to enable sixth grade students to progress in the skill competencies and conceptual knowledge related to the movement and physical activity and personal and social needs of adolescents. Developmentally appropriate concepts of physical fitness, motor skill and personal and social development are included in this course. Students apply appropriate physical activity and fitness concepts to the development of a health-enhancing level of physical fitness. They apply basic biomechanical principles, tactical skills and strategies in modified sports and activities and demonstrate competency in applying throwing, striking and hand-and-foot dribbling specialized skills. They understand the importance of rules and safety procedures and can define the FITT Principle as it relates to physical fitness development. Students plan ways to do physical activity as part of their daily routine.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities focus on students' needs and interests and are designed to further develop students' movement and physical fitness, as well as, personal and social competency. Students participate in a variety of partially modified sports, cooperative, and individual activities, rhythmic/dance, physical fitness, and other physical activities. Applications of motor skills, movement principles, and personal and social skills to sport, heart-rate monitor technology, and other activities are featured. Combining basic elements of movement in fielding, ball control and net/wall sports are emphasized in this course.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Multiple formative and summative assessment strategies are used to enable students to receive and use descriptive feedback to gain competency and confidence in their movement skills and concepts, physical fitness, and personal and social skills; e.g., observations, checklists, written summaries, authentic performance tasks, rubric scoring scales, tests, and portfolio and product assessment, as well as assessments by the teacher, self, and peers. The adopted DoDEA Physical Fitness Education and Assessment program, with pre and post health-related physical fitness testing, is implemented in this course. Students are assessed on their achievement of understanding of physical fitness and motor skill concepts and principles, competency in the processes of fitness and motor skill performance, and achievement of personal fitness and motor skill goals. It is important that the results (raw data/scores) obtained through the performance tests of physical fitness and motor skills are used to determine appropriate personal goals and student achievement of personal goals and not as grading criteria for this course. Students are graded on what they know and are able to do as a result of the learning that has occurred during the course.


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WHITE HOUSE (CNN) -- President Barack Obama has bestowed the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on 13 people from all walks of life, hailing them for changing the world for the better.
One of them, Dr. William Foege, helped lead the effort to eradicate smallpox, saving millions of lives. Madeleine Albright was the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, and Toni Morrison was the first African-American women to win a Nobel Prize.
Others who stood calmly while Obama placed the medal around their necks included singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, wearing dark glasses indoors and never smiling; civil rights enforcer John Doar; former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens; worker and women's advocate Dolores Huerta; former University of Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt, and former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn.
Three recipients were honored posthumously -- Jan Karski, the former Polish officer who escaped Nazi imprisonment and provided firsthand accounts to the Western Allies of atrocities he witnessed in Warsaw; Gordon Hirabayashi, who defied the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts.
A 13th winner, former Israeli President Shimon Peres, will receive his medal at a White House dinner later this year, Obama said.
Albright 'honored' by Medal of Freedom
"What sets these men and women apart is the incredible impact they have had on so many people, not in short and blinding bursts, but steadily, over the course of a lifetime," the president said Tuesday. "They have moved us with their words, they have inspired us with their actions."
They also affected his life, the nation's first African-American president noted.
Referring to Doar, a Justice Department official in the 1960s who pushed for integration, Obama said: "I think it's fair to say that I might not be here had it not been for his work."
"I remember reading 'Song of Solomon' when I was a kid and not just trying to figure out how to write but also how to be and how to think," he said in reference to Morrison's 1977 novel. "And I remember, you know, in college, listening to Bob Dylan and my world opening up, 'cause he captured something about this country that was so vital. And I think about Dolores Huerta, reading about her when I was starting off as an organizer. Everybody on this stage has marked my life in profound ways."
Obama called the medal "one more accolade for a life well lived" and the crowd of dignitaries responded to his urging at the end with a lusty ovation.
The president also injected some humor into the ceremony, beginning his remarks by noting the packed East Room was "a testament to how cool this group is -- everybody wants to check them out."
The medal is awarded to those who make extraordinary contributions to world peace, national interest and security or other cultural endeavors. It was established in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy.


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Drug officers searched a home on Folk Road in Chesnee Tuesday and found drugs and gambling machines.
Johnny Marvin Smith, 54, of 185 Folk Road, was charged with simple possession of marijuana and gambling, according to online jail records.
An incident report states that investigators came to the home with a search warrant. Smith admitted there was marijuana inside the home, the report states.
Three gaming machines were found in the basement, along with a bag of marijuana, according to the report.
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I know there are text books of Algebraic topology. There are books of Differential geometry. But when I read papers, for example lots of papers talking about fundamental groups or higher homotopy groups of certain manifolds, sometimes lots of terminologies from abstract algebra pop out - nilpotent, solvable or amenable etc. I can understand those definitions, but I feel very uncomfortable that I don't have a geometric feeling of those languages. So I ask for a good reference, ideally written by geometer, that covers the material of this part?
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I want to post on a group and don't want anyone who checks my profile to see this post/comment except if he/she is in the same group.
Is that possible? And if yes, how?
I want to post on a group and don't want anyone who checks my profile to see this post/comment except if he/she is in the same group.
Is that possible? And if yes, how?
I use the same type of group for my Fraternity's page on Facebook. We need to let members know information that is going on, and some of which can't be seen by others (especially uninitiated members :D).
The following is a screenshot a setting under "Edit Group" (you can get to this by going to the group page, then clicking on the button at the top right of your page).
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What you need to do is either have a "Closed" or "Secret" group (which I currently have my group set at).
This is typically used by businesses and things of that nature that want to get the word out that, for example, there will be a sale on Saturday or a special on beer. Anyone can see it and there are no restrictions.
This can be used by a business or an organization like what my fraternity is. Basically you are giving the people who are in the group access to the posts. BUT, different from "Secret" group, people can actually see the page in search (and can ask to be in the group).
As mentioned above, this type of page does NOT show up in search because the administrator only wants those people in the group to be able to see the posts. This goes great for a fraternity, because certain things such as ritual should be secret to only those initiated.
Basically how I see this, if you only want people in the group to see posts, you have the option of "Closed" or "Secret". From there you can answer the questions:
Hope this is helpful... if you have any other questions about groups you can go to facebook and they have many help and FAQ sections to help (I'm limited to two links in this post because I'm new).
The group you are posting in must be a Closed Group.
From here: https://www.facebook.com/help/privacy/groups
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