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Traveling to Memphis is a bit of an adventure for sure. However I have even more of an adventure on this trip as I am traveling with my Dad aka Mr. Happypants. Dad is letting me drive him to Memphis then he is carrying on to Florida. Don't get me wrong my Dad is a great guy but he has some definite views on the world. Many of which I tend to disagree with. He was a cop for 25 years and after then a small business owner. My Dad talks in a certain way that's well….. lets just say direct. Its either that or pretty much unnerving dead air silence from him. My brother and I often refer to Dad's way of talking as the cop talk. Its the "let me ascertain the facts" type of lingo. We have reminded him of this over the years. He gives you this defiant look and we all sort of move on. It just always better to move on. Think Ray Romanos Dad – Frank on Everybody loves Raymond. That's pretty much my Dad.
Want to guess which one is my Dad?
To my Dad food is just food. Its either good or bad with no gray. Ask my Dad what flavor profiles he is getting from something and he will look at you like an alien. Then he will tell you he thinks you are full of nonsense. He is a straight up salt & pepper, canned peas, cook it till its deader than cement kind of guy. Burgers, hot dogs, meatloaf and M&M meat shops kind of guy. NTTIAWWT Don't mess around with him on that either. No, just don't -I have tried on many occasions.
Plus don't even try to get him to buy any other roast other than eye of the round cooked to a limp gray. (Dontcha know its good value look at how lean it is!!) He is also the same guy who tried to buy Walmart's ready made "BBQ" ribs that you microwave in front of me. He couldn't figure out why I was a little annoyed. So that's pretty much my Dad in a narrow focused sort of way. He is also a really thoughtful out of the blue kind of guy. Last year knowing we needed a fridge for the competition trailer he offered to buy it for us as a very early Christmas gift. He is that kind of guy. Gruff on the outside not tolerant of anything, or anyone, and unfailingly thoughtful at the oddest and most unexpected of times. He also helped me paint some of my house and fix things.
Prior to getting in his truck to drive I got "the" lectures. I knew they were coming I was prepared. The don't you dare go a km over the speed limit lecture. The you are not smoking in my truck lecture, the I am not eating at any where fancier that Cracker barrel lecture, the why do you need to buy anything at duty free lecture, the well what time are we getting there lecture, the I don't want to stop anywhere lecture, the I don't want to learn how to use a cell phone lecture, the don't mess with my "golden oldies" radio tuning lecture, the can't you turn that black butter (My blackberry) thing off lecture, the why do you need so many clothes when I can go away for 2 months and take only this minuscule bag lecture , the well I only need 1 pair of shoes why do you need 3 lecture, and so on and so on. Dad has become over the last couple of years since my Mom has passed on very, very stuck in his own ways of doing things. (Understatement of the year) Yup that's my Dad. I love him.Wouldn't want to trade him for any other Dad either.
So Mr. Happypants and I set of this morning at 5am. It was -15 in Barrie this morning. Damn. Cold. Loaded up with timmies we crossed through the great white North of Barrie Ontario and headed to the Detroit border. Stopping a couple of times for the inevitable potty breaks we talked about his trip to Florida and my trip to Memphis. My father is as obsessed about Florida as I am about BBQ. Explaining to my Dad about BBQ competitions is always complicated. He does not understand why I pay to go and stand sometimes in field full of mud praying that my meat will turn out well. Why I am paying the potty mouth guy (what Dad and my daughter call Myron Mixon) to take his class. When I inevitably come home from a competition he does not understand why I am beyond thrilled with a Fourth place like I was this past year in Louisa Virginia. He does not understand that beating Tuffy Stone, LeeAnn Whippen and others just once was a thrill for me like no other. That I did not need a GC to feel awesome. He just turns to me morosely and says better luck next time. Hopefully you will actually win. Yup thats my Dad.
We stopped for lunch at Cracker barrel. I always have the same meal there. Its always chicken fried steak. Always. I have this artery clogging meal once or twice a year and thats it. Dad tried it for the first time. (It took some convincing) I don't think he liked it as he ate fries and biscuits and not much of it.
Along the way I got cut off by an idiot in one of those supped up Honda Civics that remind me of beetles on acid – and I cursed at him. Douche noodle. Yup thats what I called the little twit. (Please make sure to click the link to find out who came up with that most interesting of curses on January 30th its epic) Well let me tell you that lecture was one of the longest. The why don't you talk more like a lady lecture was combined with the I know we did not raise you to speak like that lecture, which further rolled into the I don't know whats wrong with you people which he made an even further lamented lecture into the I am sure your Mother would not be proud of you for speaking like that lecture. Trust. It was a long and benevolent (in my opinion) silence that I received after those lectures.
We set out for our final destination. Jungle Jims International Market for the day. I had heard about this most interesting of places from a friend of mine Cam. He has gone back twice. I now understand. This is like a playground for foodies. Truly it was. I could spend days in this place. For my Dad not so much. So we left but not before I managed to grab 7 bottles of wine and some snacks. Ok and also some spices and a few other things. As quick as I could I got out. I didn't like to keep Mr. Happypants waiting. We will be off again early in the AM. We will be staying downtown in Memphis tomorrow night. I will probably need to crack open one or more of those bottles of wine. I am 100% sure I will get a lecture about that


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2013: Unanimous first-team All-Ivy … Second-team NFCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region … Two-time Ivy League weekly honor roll (4/16 & 4/30) … Team's co-Offensive Player of the Year … Played and started 45 games, all in right field … Set the Penn single-season record with 19 stolen bases … Set the program record for career RBI with 123, and finished in the top five all-time at Penn in at-bats (third – 521), runs (third – 98), steals (third – 29), home runs (fourth – 18), and hits (fourth – 160) … Had a team-high 46 hits, 35 RBI, 19 stolen bases, two sacrifice flies, and tied for first with eight doubles and two triples … Second on the team with a .331 batting average, 139 at-bats, 32 runs, and 64 total bases … Led the Ivy League during conference play with 25 runs, tied for first with two triples, and was second with 13 stolen bases … Drove in two or more runs eight times … Went 2-for-2 with a double and a stolen base against Holy Cross (3/4) … Went 2-for-3 with an RBI, a double, a run, and a stolen base in Game 2 against Lafayette (3/15) … Went 2-for-4 with two RBI and a double in Game 1 against Lehigh (3/20) … Went 2-for-3 with three RBI, two runs, a triple, and a stolen base in Game 2 against Harvard (3/29) … Began an 11-game hitting streak in Game 3 against Princeton (4/14) through Game 2 at Columbia (4/26), during which she had 11 RBI … Went 3-for-3 with three runs, an RBI and a home run in Game 4 against Princeton (4/14) … Went 3-for-4 with four RBI, two runs, and a home run against Temple (4/24) … Went 2-for-4 with three runs, two stolen bases, and an RBI in Game 4 against Columbia (4/27).
2012: First-team All-Ivy ... Ivy League Player of the Week (5/1) ... Played in 49 games, making 48 starts in right field ... Finished second in the Ivies with a team-high 34 RBI ... Tied for the league lead with three sacrifice flies and was second on the team with six home runs ... Batted .329 with five home runs, driving in 20 and scoring 18 more - both team highs - during Ivy League games ... Knocked in two or more runs in nine different games ... Drove in the game-winning run vs. Stetson (3/3) ... Went 2-for-4 with a run and RBI in the win against Temple (3/17) ... Drove in two runs on two hits, scoring once, in game one against La Salle (3/28) ... Drove in five runs after hitting a grand slam and drawing a bases-loaded walk in game two against Yale (3/31) ... Scored a run in each of the four games at Princeton and drove in four more (4/14-15) ... Went 2-for-3 with a two-run home run and knocked in the game-tying run in the bottom of the sixth vs. Drexel (4/18) ... Drove in three, including a two-run home run in game one, and scored four runs in the series with Cornell (4/20-21) ... Finished 8-for-13 with a two-run home run in game one at home and hit a grand slam in game one at Columbia, totaling eight RBI for that weekend (4/27-28).
2011: Honorable mention All-Ivy ... Started all but one game for Penn playing right field ... Second on the team in at bats (118) runs (27), RBI (25), home runs (4), total bases (56), and slugging percentage (.475) ... Third on the team in batting average (.305) and doubles (6) ... Had eight multi-hit games ... Scored at least two runs in eight games and drove in at least two runs in six games ... Went 4-5 against Robert Morris with two runs and two RBI (3/7) ... Went 3-4 with two runs and five RBI against Sacred Heart (4/8) ... Hit first home run of the season against Lehigh, one of three hits on the day (4/2) ... Had four hits in two games against Dartmouth, scoring four times and driving in four runs, including the walk-off home run in game two (4/3) ... Went 2-3 with a home run against Drexel (4/20) ... Had six hits and scored six runs, while driving in four in four games against Columbia (4/29 & 30) ... Recorded nine assists in the outfield.
2010: Honorable Mention All-Ivy Selection...Started and played in 41 of Penn's 42 games ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week three times (4/6, 4/27, 5/4) ... Led the squad with 29 runs batted in ... Finished fourth on the team with a .317 batting average and .357 on-base percentage ... Slugged six home runs, including a walk-off grand slam to give Penn a 6-2 victory over Brown (4/2) ... Went 3-for-4 with two RBI, a run scored, and two stolen bases in 9-6 win over La Salle (3/31) ... Had four consecutive multiple hit games in a four-game series with Princeton, including two home runs in an 11-7 win (4/23).
High School: Four-year letterwinner in softball ... Captain her senior year ... Won three league championships (2006-08) ... All-league catcher in 2008 ... All-league designated hitter in 2006 ... Nominated Most Outstanding Student in 2007 and 2008 ... Three-year Scholar Athlete (2006-08) ... Rookie of the Year in 2006 ... Senior class treasurer.
Personal: Daughter of Jodi Ellington and Matthew Coloma ... Enrolled in Wharton.

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THE PARTY More than 200 members and friends of the Lake Forest Chapter of the Infant Welfare Society (IWS) of Chicago attended the Bare Bones "Ladies Night Out" party that served as a kick off to the 15th biennial Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens, which will run from April 27 to May 19. THE HIGHLIGHTS Guests got a "before" sneak peek of the David Adler 1916 Italianate lakefront mansion that will be transformed by 26 interior and six landscape designers prior to the spring show while sipping a selection of fine wines ranging from a Rose Cava from France to other select wines from Wisma in Lake Bluff. Proceeds of this year's home tour will benefit the Angel Harvey IWS of Chicago Community Health Center located in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. Photos by Jillian Chapman


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Let $K$ be a finite extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ and $L$ be a finite Galois extension of $K$. Let $V$ be a $p$-adic representation of $G_L$ Let $D$ be the $(\varphi, \Gamma)$-module associated to $V$ by Fontaine's functor. Is there an easy way to describe the $(\varphi, \Gamma)$-module associated to $Ind_{G_L}^{G_K} V$ in terms of $D$ ?
If $L/K$ is unramified, then the answer is exactly what Matt said. In the general case, you have to take into account the fact that $\Gamma_K$ is larger than $\Gamma_L$ and the construction is given in 2.2 of Ruochuan Liu's "Cohomology and Duality for (phi,Gamma)-modules over the Robba ring", see http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4346
I've always wondered this too. I think that if $L$ over $K$ is unramified, then we just take the $(\varphi,\Gamma)$-module for $V$, which is a $(\varphi,\Gamma)$-module over $\mathcal E_L$, and regard it as a $(\varphi,\Gamma)$-module over $\mathcal E_K$ (which is a subfield of $\mathcal E_L$). (Probably you already knew this, assuming it is correct.)
In the ramified case, I'm not sure; hopefully Laurent Berger will see this and answer!


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I believe the Imperial Star Destroyer is the biggest in terms of size, at 58.8 cm by 50.5 cm by 21 cm, and the Death Star in the number of pieces, at 3803. Are there any newer, bigger models?
In 2008, LEGO released an exclusive Creator model of the Taj Mahal, with 5922 pieces, the most in a commercial LEGO set.
It is no longer available at the LEGO Shop, but it's still commercially available from other retailers. Here's its Amazon product page.
The Super Star Destroyer, with 3152 pieces, is nearly 50 inches (124.5 cm) long and weighs nearly 8 pounds (3.5kg):
While the Ultimate Collectors Edition Millennium Falcon had over 5000 pieces, and was 33" long, 22" wide and 8" tall! (84cm long x 56cm wide x 21cm tall), and was officially advertised as the biggest set ever made - it was almost exactly to Mini Figure scale as well.
In terms of height, I think the Eiffel Tower is unmatched, standing at 1 meter tall on a base of 50x50cm. When looking at the picture below, keep in mind a cat can easily pass under the arches:
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Doomtree is a record label. Doomtree is a rap crew. Doomtree is a family. Over the past five years, Doomtree has become one of the most highly regarded hip-hop collectives in the Midwest, thanks to their innovative recordings, explosive live shows, and tireless work ethic.
By combining the blueprint of hip hop with punk and a slew of disparate artistic and musical influences, Doomtree has won the favor of a broad range of audiences. They are as likely to find fans at indie rock shows as they are at rap shows or basement dance parties. In the past several years the collective has grown to include the lyrical and production talents of more than a dozen core members. The members of Doomtree come from a wide variety of backgrounds and musical interests but joined together to create some of the most forward-thinking beats and rhymes this side of 1987.
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Songs performed: "Rebel Yellow," "Jaded," and "Slow Burn."
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General Discussion
West syndrome is a type of epilepsy characterized by spasms, abnormal brain wave patterns called hypsarrhythmia and sometimes mental retardation. The spasms that occur may range from violent jackknife or "salaam" movements where the whole body bends in half, or they may be no more than a mild twitching of the shoulder or eye changes. These spasms usually begin in the early months after birth and can sometimes be helped with medication. They can also occur rarely in older patients; if this happens, they are called "epileptic spasms" rather than infantile spasms. There are many different causes of West syndrome and if a specific cause can be identified, a diagnosis of symptomatic West syndrome can be made. If a cause cannot be determined, a diagnosis of cryptogenic West syndrome is made.
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Lynch syndrome
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autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance and is caused by a mutation in the MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2 or EPCAM gene.[1][2]Lynch syndrome is an inherited condition that causes an increased risk of developing cancer. Individuals with Lynch syndrome have a higher risk of developing colon and rectal cancer, as well as cancers of the stomach, small intestine, liver, gallbladder ducts, upper urinary tract, brain, skin, and prostate. Women with Lynch syndrome also have a high risk of developing uterine cancer (also called endometrial cancer) and ovarian cancer. Even though the disorder was originally described as not involving noncancerous (benign) growths (polyps) in the colon, people with Lynch syndrome may occasionally have colon polyps. Lynch syndrome has an
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- Kohlmann W, Gruber S. Lynch syndrome. GeneReviews. May 22, 2014; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1211/. Accessed 11/20/2014.
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I have to create 3-4 tables with around 200 columns each and these tables will have around 5000 data records. As per requirement, what should I use from MongoDB and MySQL?
Can you please compare these also?


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The number of partitions of $2n$ into partitions with no element greater than $n$ (copied and slightly adapted from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PartitionFunctionq.html), so I'm looking for a nice formula of $q(2n,n)$.
By asking http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=integer+partitions+of+12 and counting the ones of interest I get results from 2 to 12, that look the following: $$ 1,3,7,15,30,58 $$ which matches the data from http://oeis.org/A026820/table when you start from the $1$ in the 2.row and go straight down. My question is now, if there is closed formula or at least an asymptotic for $q(2n,n)$?


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How do I get an app to run in Full Screen mode on OS X Lion on my second monitor? It seems to be stuck on my first monitor, and I'd like to move it.
You can switch which monitor is the "Primary" monitor by opening the Displays in Preferences and dragging and dropping the menu bar to your secondary monitor. That should make fullscreen apps use your other monitor.
This is an excerpt of Appple's App Kit Release Note for Lion regarding full screen apps & multiple desktops.
The full document can be found here: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Cocoa/AppKit.html
According to this document your full screen apps will always be shown on your primary monitor, and there is nothing that can be done about it.
At present there is no way you can. I filed a bug on this during the developer previews and it was marked as a duplicate and the duplicate is still open. (rdar://9741058 and rdar://8056880 for the Apple folk)
My assumption is that Full Screen mode is designed for single monitor setups and it does work especially well on single small monitor setups (read any MacBook or MacBook Pro).
An upgrade to Mountain Lion will resolve the issue as it finally enables using full screen mode on multiple displays.
You can "take an app full screen on either display. Drag the window to the desired display and click the full-screen button."
I find the easiest way to fix this problem when trying to watch Youtube videos fullscreen on my 47" 1080p TV, was to use Fullscreen Mode in Firefox, as this stays on the 2nd screen. ie Only the Apple supplied software has the annoying fullscreen bug/feature. Hope they fix this
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Lorrie Moore on Hillary Clinton
An extraordinary piece on Hillary (and Bill) in today's NYT by novelist Lorrie Moore (reg. required). The gist: the real crisis in this country is one faced by African-American men, and the mediocre record and missed opportunities of the Clinton presidency do not make Moore yearn for a repeat.
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I don't know where or how to leave this, but I hope someone at Commonweal writes about Philip Kaufmann who died Jan. 8th. I am at the Collegeville Institute and saw this on the OSB blog:"Philip remained alert and sharp. Faithfully a New Yorker, Philip read the New York Times daily. The latest issue of Commonweal was found at his bedside.Father Philip died peacefully on Tuesday morning, January 8, 2008. He is survived by nephews and his monastic community."Sorry if this is in the wrong place! I don't often check this blog.Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM
Moore makes a good case--and without referencing the absurd lawsuit sponsored by Clinton's backers in Vegas, or this pathetic attempt to smear Obama with something he's already admitted: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/clinton-surroga.html Don't forget: Clinton told us on Meet the Press that she boots campaign staff who sling mud. Will she turn down support from the founder of BET? Or Mark Penn, who slipped into some sort of cocaine-referencing fugue state during a pre-Iowa interview a few weeks ago? Does this remind anyone of Bob Kerrey's repeated references to Obama's "Muslim upbringing" and middle name?
Isn't Moore saying white people should vote for Obama in order to give African-American boys a role model? Seems a bit condescending to me.
Grant,I am amazed that anyone could say Lorrie Moore makes a "good case." The basic argument is that we've passed the time when it's important to elect a woman--women have already "made it"--and since the Democratic candidates' policies are all the same, we whould elect a black man to inspire our children! So although it seems to be generally agreed that we shouldn't vote for a candidate just because he is black or she is a woman, Lorrie Moore is arguing that we should elect Obama because he is black.Everyone is entitled to his or her feelings, so I don't suppose we can criticize Moore for her disdain for the Clintons and Al Gore. But I don't think her contempt for Bill, Hillary, and Al is a political argument, and I don't see how an inspiring black man (which Obama certainly is) being elected president will in and of itself make a difference to young black people or young people in general. She does not address the issue of experience adequately, which I feel is important. And even if there's something to be said for her argument about Obama's value as someone who can inspire young people, he's only 46 years old. He can be vice president for the next 8 years, devoting his energies to the problems of America's young people, run for president in 2016 at the still-young age of 54, with all the experience anyone could ask for, and have two terms of his own.
Margaret: I do not see it as condescending. However, if the only reason white people should vote for Obama is to inspire young black boys, that would be wrong. Presumably, the argument is that with Obama, one gets good policy and inspiration.David: Would you be willing to put some meat on the bones of this experience critique? I hear it again and again, and am not sure what it means, really. What kind of scenarios do you envision in which a President Obama would be unprepared, and for which he would somehow be better prepared if he remained a Senator for ten more years?On the race issue in general, I find that whites are not particularly good at discussing it. One significant reason for why this is so is that blacks have too often insisted that it is strictly their territory; white people, it is implied, should just sit back and listen. This has not produced the kind of conversation we need for dealing with what amounts to the single greatest social crisis in our country; namely, the dislocation of young black men.On Obama, Clinton, and King vs. LBJ, I really think Clinton stumbled on this one. There is a clear implication on Clinton's part that the really important figure of the civil rights movement was LBJ (only a president could sign the legislation!). I think it might be the kind of statement she would wish to take back if she had a chance, but now she is making it worse by insisting that Obama is making something out of nothing. This claim was not nothing, it was wrong, and even offensively so.
The issue for children of all colors is not necessarily a role model, but a two-way relationship with a father figure, preferably a real father. As for role models, they abound: find a book about a scientist, a reformer, a musician, or any number of good menwho lived lives worthy of emulation.What exactly does a president gives us as a role model? A few edited video clips at news time. That's going to take the place of absent fathers and inspire young people?Lorrie Moore falls into the trap of misplaced expectations. People allow "specialists" to care for their children. A father can be replaced by a president on tv. Sex education can be replaced with classroom discussions on abstinence or condoms.Moore has a strong interest in young black men, teens, or boys? Fine. Vote for the candidate who will enact or at least support public policy that keeps families together, provides job opportunities, and anything else that's needed. If that candidate isn't Hillary, then fine. But why ask someone to do a job it's not theirs to do. Some of what Moore aspires to will, of necessity, need to get done on the local level. Young black boys don't need to see President Obama on a five-second tv clip. They need their own fathers involved in their lives. And if that's not possible, they need local pro athletes, musicians, teachers, ministers, librarians, public servants, and everybody else involved and pulling for them to succeed.
Joe Petit: The Clintons did stumble on this. But as one who has alive and political back in the sixties, I recall that LBJ did more than sign the legislation, he strong-armed his reluctant former colleagues in the Senate (and House) to pass it. On "Meet the Press" Hillary Clinton did a better job yesterday "explaining" what was meant (or what she wished it had meant): King protested, lobbied, etc., and supported Johnson in these legislative efforts. On his own, King would not have gotten the legislation through (let us remember that though we remain a society serious scarred by racism, back then a very large number of Americans were actual racists, and some still are). The civil rights legislation would never have come about without King and it would have never passed without Johnson who was after all a Southerner (of the Texas kind); and I here enter the possibility that Kennedy might not have gotten legislation through had he still been alive. I take the Clintons to mean that civil society needs prophets and lawmakers and usually they are not the same person.This is a subject hard to discuss partly for the reason you offer: White people are supposed to sit back and learn on the subject of race, civil rights, etc. We should. Many have. But if ultimately it's only a monologue about this period in our history, people move on. Give the Clintons credit, they are bigger supporters of the civil rights movement and affirmative action, etc., etc., than most others in this campaign--Obama excepted (though honestly, it would be interesting to see how the generational shift and his own history shapes his views on this subject).
Margaret: I certainly agree that LBJ did more than sign legislation. Yet, a few more LBJ gives rise to many emotions among blacks. The Civil Rights bill went to Congress on the Monday after the death of James Reeb, a white Unitarian minister. Mr. Reeb was killed by white men while in Selma, having responded to King's call for national support following the bloody Sunday events on the Edmund Petus Bridge. The nation was outraged by Reeb's murder, not the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a poor black man who was killed two weeks earlier by State Police while protecting his mother (no one was found guilty in that killing). Originally the Selma to Montgomery march was going to include carrying Jackson's coffin. LBJ sent flowers to the family of James Reeb. He somehow failed to send them to the family of Jimmie Lee Jackson. After the Civil Rights legislation was passed, LBJ and others ensured its ineffectiveness by failing to fund the number of registrars that would have been necessary to significantly enfranchise southern blacks. LBJ also shut King out of the White House after King's public opposition to the Vietnam War.I absolutely agree that the race issue must become much more than a monologue. Whites need to be encouraged to have ideas of their own on this topic, and even to disagree with blacks, if only because there simply is no such thing as the black voice. Agree with one idea spoken by a black person, and a white person will find her or himself disagreeing with the black people who disagree with the idea. Black minds are as diverse as any.That said, I think blacks have an ear for white condescension. I want to emphasize that what I am about to write should not be directed at any person who has posted on this blog. Rather, I want to communicate something of a tone problem that I think lingers in this discussion. Every time a white person compliments Barack Obama for his eloquence, and then goes on to say that he is not experienced enough, I think they risk sounding like they are affirming a new version of "My, my, those colored folk sure can dance! And don't you just love their singing!" That is, whites have long history of portraying blacks as showmen who are allowed to be at home on the stage, but literally, no where else. Again, I do not think anyone on the blog is guilty of implying this, but there is more to the King/LBJ discussion than who did all the hard work for the civil rights movement. This is not just about history, it is about a very prominent white person whom blacks have looked to as a political advocate coming out and at least suggesting that she has some of that "blacks are great dancers, but, please, let's not fool ourselves into thinking that they could run a country" kind of attitude.Todd: I see nothing in the Moore piece suggesting the Obama would be surrogate father. While I agree entirely with the point that it is fathers that some black households need more than anything else, I do not think this was the kind of inspiration that Moore was talking about.
David: I read it differently. I thought, perhaps erroneously, that her point was that if we're going to discuss the symbolic power of the Democratic candidates, then Obama's is, at this time, more important than Hillary's. Given her other points (the failures of the Clinton administration, the relative similarity of Obama's and Hillary Clinton's platforms), I didn't see the question of symbolic power as the sole one for Moore.
Sorry, that second sentence should read, "Yet, LBJ gives rise to many emotions among blacks."
To paraphrase Grant, Joe are you on the Obama Staff? And is Grant there too?
On the subject of black men, an interesting book is "Being a Black Man" by the Washington Post Writers Group. Two black reporters on one of the anniversaries of the Million Man March decided to interview black men about being black. The articles were published in the Washington Post and are now in a book. The book has its own web page. I don't know how to send a link, but if you google Being a Black Man you will find it.The black men interviewed were from all income groups and they spoke very frankly. The touching thing for me was the difficulty men who were economically successful said they had in explaining to their sons some of the things they can expect in life without imparting a hatred of the Man.
Grant,This is Moore's critique of 8 years of the Clinton administration -Children (Hillary Clintons key policy focus) were killed at Waco and in a strike on Baghdad. -Gore wasnt doing anything (about global warming?) as VP, and now he is doing too much -NAFTA signed, WTO created. -National health care went nowhere -Lewinsky scandal I do take very seriously the idea that Hillary gained valuable experience by being in the White House for 8 years, but I think it is just idiotic to blame her for children being killed in Waco and Baghdad. And her current position on NAFTA and health care are far more important than what happened in her husband's administration.
Lorrie Moore should be ashamed of herself for precisely what Peggy cites above. Second, since when is she an oracle. Third it can be argued that Bill Clinton's presidency was an outstanding one. Fourth, the boys are faring worse? I guess the boys are doing great if a superficial, pop article like this gets on the op-ed page. Give me a break."Boys are faring worse....Obama holds the greater fascination for our children."?Moore is a writer of fiction, alright.
Bill, you haven't been reading your Commonweal: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=1616&var_reche... Moore didn't blame Hillary for the death of children at Waco. The point of that graf is to deflate the notion that the Clinton years were all rainbows and butterflies. What does it mean to take her eight years in the White House very seriously? What about the other twenty-seven years of experience she keeps talking about? Are we supposed to ignore her previous positions on Iraq and Iran too?
Grant,Are you seriously telling me that the point of this sentence is merely that the Clinton years were not "all rainbows and butterflies" and is not an attempt to tie Hillary Clinton to the death of children?
Baghdad was strafed and embargoed; Waco was gassed and burned; in all these events, children (Mrs. Clintons key policy focus) were appallingly killed. [emphasis added]
People who scoff at Hillary Clinton's "35 years of experience" seem to be ignoring the fact that the eight years in the White House have been followed by eight years in the senate! Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas from 1978 to 1980 and then from 1982 to 2000. In general, I wouldn't credit a "first lady" of a state or the United States with acquiring experience in being a governor or a president, but it seems to me the Clintons have always been very much partners in everything they do, so I accept as experience those 10 years as first lady of Arkansas. So 16 + 10 = 26. There are biographies out there (for example, on Wikipedia) that will fill in the rest.I could understand it if people argued that in her capacity as first lady of Arkansas and first lady of the United States, she didn't do all that much. But the argument you actually hear is that, oh sure, she has experience, but she got most of it by being somebody's wife. Well, that doesn't taint it as far as I am concerned.I am not sure you really mean her "positions" on Iraq and Iran, but rather her votes. I think it is with 20-20 hindsight that people say Bush shouldn't have been given authority to use military force against Iraq. I hold Bush responsible for actually invading Iraq, not the people who gave him the authority to use credible threats of force when so many intelligence services all over the world thought he had weapons of mass destruction. (Although I was highly skeptical myself, since the inspectors kept failing to find anything.)
David,I appreciate your passion, but I live in New York. I know who my senators are. As I've said before, I'm not convinced that eight years as first lady amount to serious political experience. Same goes for being the spouse of a governor. (I don't think being married to an elected official necessarily taints anyone.) Regarding Iraq and Iran, I mean both her rhetoric and her votes. I find her statements about the latter worrying. But then she couldn't even muster a straightforward response to Russert's questions about her Iraq vote. This is not a matter of hindsight, David. The magazine has opposed the war from the beginning--and we were not alone in doing so. The notion that there were a few scattered, quiet voices protesting in the wilderness is a Fox News fantasy.
Grant if women are more educated than men now it proves my point. So why are only ten women ceos in the Fortune Five Hundred or only 20 in the fortune one thousand?I do understand the need for fascination, however.
Grant,Fair enough. I may disagree with some of what you say, but I have no quarrel with it. I would only say that you make a far better case against Hillary than Lorrie Moore, who does not mention or even allude to the 2002 vote or the war in Iraq but instead talks about baking cookies, Waco, and the 1998 strike on Baghdad. I live in New York, too, as apparently do a number of those who hang out here.
I'm not sure how fair it is to rack up the failures of the Bill Clinton administration against the Hillary Clinton candidacy; it's perfectly possible, after all, to learn from mistakes, either one's own, or those of others. But neither Lorrie Moore nor her critics above mention one failure that I think historians in the future will consider enormous. That is the squandering of ten years and more of the opportunities given by the collapse of the USSR and its Eastern European empire. Bush Senior began it, of course, since it happened on his watch, and though he called for a New World Order (perhaps not the most fortunate phrase) following the end of the cold war, he neither did much about it nor did he have the chance to do so, voted out as he was in 1992. But Mr. Clinton did have a chance, though it was not until well into his second administration that he began to take foreign policy seriously. Then he was caught up in particular crises that needed particular solutions (Israel v. Palestine, Serbia v. Kosovo, etc.) and never managed to articulate, much less put into practice, any vision of what this new post-cold war order, or system, or rearrangement, might entail. And, of course, even if he had set forth something brilliant, no doubt the genius of Bush junior would have been sufficient to reduce it to rubble. With, perhaps, a helping hand from V. Putin.
Lorrie Moores Last Years Role Model focuses attention on an important policy issue. She argues that an Obama vote will help fix the lost boy problem by providing an important role model. Lorrie properly stresses the problems faced by boysespecially boys of color. Though boys confront a problem in elementary and secondary schools, and need more male role models in the classroom setting, the key solution involves building respect for each boys (or students) individuality and autonomya situation left unaddressed by too many educational policies, and insidiously exacerbated by international policies that favor war rather than diplomacy. Eliminating obstacles for young men and women need not rise to a zero-sum game, nor should efforts to combat various forms of discrimination be so viewed. Senior Democratic heads need to merge the Clinton/Obama assets with a vote competition based on enlightened debate. Then policies might emerge that address the disgraceful underutilization of lost boys and women stymied by discrimination. Having filed the first Department of Education Civil Rights complaint alleging school structure constitutes systemic discrimination against males and minorities, I understand the appeal of Lorrie Moores argument that Obama will help address the lost boys issue. I laud her for forcefully directing attention to an issue altogether too neglected in this campaign, and I encourage the most careful weighing of her opinion. Ultimately democrats will display the greatest wisdom by forging a ticket that understands the range and components of issues and the way to mobilize America to produce solutions. Above all, democrats must avoid sly tactics and dialogue that debase our civic community, advantage forces opposed to equity and jeopardize this years opportunity to send America in a new direction.
Gerry, Has either Obama or Clinton actually addressed this issue specifically?
Michiko Kakutani reviews "30 Ways of Looking at Hillary" in this morning's NYT. Lorrie Moore's essay is one of the thirty. Sounds like Hillary's own conclusion and Kakutani's are just about right:"In the end, this volume of reflections corroborates Mrs. Clintons own long-ago observation that she is a Rorschach test for voters. It also suggests that like three other famous blondes (Marilyn, Madonna and Princess Di), shes in danger of being turned into one of those indeterminate semiotic texts academics love to deconstruct, made to signify everything from the aging of boomer dreams to the future of feminism, even as her every gesture and inflection is sifted, measured and weighed, and her actual rsum and record are increasingly shoved to the side."Here's the whole review:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/books/15kaku.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=...


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Peeling the layers
By Rajat Bhargav on Feb 18, 2013
The intent of this blog is to discuss trends and economic or business data related to the value chain (planning & execution). The aim is to connect the dots between the latest buzz (& hype) and the fundamentals behind it. Am hoping to reach supply chain professionals who are not able to find the time or the energy to do this themselves.
I will attempt to translate the language that economists and the business trade uses into plain English.
The reader is aware that the subject area is quite broad - spanning the areas of consumer behavior, physical supply chain, management approaches, analysis methods and tools at the very least. For a clear discussion therefore, we need to have a simple framework to describe the aspect of the value chain that is in focus. I will use the following graphic for that purpose.
The preeminence of the customer / consumer at the top of the value chain has never been in doubt. A lot of the discussion of the globalization of the value chain has been on the physical supply chain. However, the intermediate layers that connect the customer with the physical supply chain is where we will have to spend time as well. Though we will examine the details in future posts, the layers in brief are the following
|Trends in play
|Customer Channels
| The market facing of companies. This has been the plane with the most radical tech-driven change. Think mobile and online commerce.
|The most far reaching is the burgeoning of constant and ubiquitous communications tech -- think mobile. Omni-channel is the war cry in retail. Offerings and products are being re-imagined and adapted to meet this reality. Demand sensing needs to accommodate social interactions.
| Business Process
|The processes that a company devises to meet it market and manage its value chain have to look at market needs as well its physical, organizational and systemic constraints.
|Rapid and iterative innovation has been driven not just by large incumbents, but also be agile start-ups that have been quicker to spot and exploit trends. Businesses are emphasizing process more than systems.
| Applications and Data
|Though a large part of the data that an organization uses to run its business is created by its own internal applications, an ever increasing share of it from partners and other external sources
The diverse sources, formats and ownership of the data & applications being used is coming of the way of responsiveness and agility. Businesses are keen on 'visibility'
| Logical Value Chain
|Tax, tariff and trade regulations create incentives and artificial constraints that shape the logical supply chain design.
|The root cause is mostly external and sometimes organizational structure. In either case, process automation is central to the solutions being put in place.
| Physical Value Chain
|This is where the rubber hits the road and where the supply of goods and services is created. Often dubbed the real-economy, this is certainly one area that we will discuss quite a bit.
|The supply chains are adapting to cost and risk management. Energy and demography are in the center of a struggle to improve competitiveness (aka productivity). As value chains go they are getting longer (# of tiers) and broader (variety of activities that are outsourced) adding to complexity
Lastly, and not just for the sake of legality, I have to remind you that the views expressed on this blog are entirely my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle.
Look forward to the open discourse that this online medium uniquely offers.


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Plus, I have done Stadium pages for the following stadiums:
And, another team which I can't remember.
Plus, I have done Stadium pages for the following stadiums:
And, another team which I can't remember.
It seems to be exactly the same messages from the last banned spammer. Got to be changed to only registered users can edit pages.
Turns out that there are more pages that were spammed by the same person.
The other pages were:
Spain - La Liga Clubs
France - Ligue 1 Clubs
Germany - Bundesliga Clubs
Championship Manager
I'll undo it now
WTH. All my work on the US page gone.
And who called Landon Donovan Landy Cakes. C'mon, let's be serious, I call him Landy Cakes too, but I don't put that in Wiki.
How do you re-direct a page to another eg. Spurs to Tottenham Hotspur?
#REDIRECT [[Tottenham Hotspur]]
I think that it is that.
I actually have done 9 stadiums.
I am putting them on now.
EDIT: I have put all 9 of them up now.
Last edited by pnefc22; 19-03-2009 at 20:22.
There is no need for anyone to do any stadium guides.
I will do them all.
I will do about 10 a night and will have them all done soon.
Only thinking of saving time Rob and saving you a job.
I don't mind.
If people do some then, that is great but if they don't, I don't mind because they only take a few minutes each.
Right, he's been banned (again).
I guess our only choice is to block all pages for non-registered users.
Block them, as it is getting ridiculous.
When we get to do this, how will we differensiate (sp) between two or more players with the same name? eg. Billy Jones (Crewe) and Billy Jones (Preston)
I was just about to ask the exact same question about Billy Jones after looking at your Crewe article.
Billy Jones at Preston is better.
They were both at Crewe at the same time so they will have had the same problem.
Could we include the place of birth to separate them? Thankfully you took the better one of the books so it wasn't too bad though last season we had Gary Roberts (now Yeovil) and Gary Roberts (now Huddlesfield) in the same midfield.
From the Singapore thread:
Could the person that made this thread sort it out? ThanksThe above was all written by [insert name here] in the Sports Interactive Community Forums. It was originally posted in the Football Manager 2009 International Management Thread. All credit for the above goes to him. As footballmanagerwiki is avalible to anyone to edit as they like, I can not guarantee that the below is the exact work of the original writer. To see the original thread and to discuss this team, please visit the Good Player and Team Guide.
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Right, unregistered users aren't allowed to edit any page any more. It's not ideal, but I felt as if we had no other choice. That's 30 minutes of my life I'll never get back...
Saves all the minutes you could have to spend banning unregistered spammers though mate.
I didn't say it would be the end of the spamming. No problem, i'll probably do some more of the Crewe players tonight. Who else are the mods just in case you're not around?
I am a mod. Only because I made the initial site.
It was BenArsenal, I think because it was me that got permission to use that.
I can't remember though.
Sorry about the disclaimer, I must have forgotten his name and then, not had the time to find it and then, forgotten about it afterwards.
What is the next option after only allowing registered users to edit?
Only allow mods to edit?
For anyone looking to do articles there is a whole host of international tournaments that could be included. I'll consider doing some myself soon, but not tonight.
And, so would you have to add me, ssestig, smallmac and the other contributors of this thread as admins so that we could edit?
Hopefully, we don't get to that situation and the spammers get bored with spamming
I might make some international tournament articles.
I will do 10 stadium articles tomorrow and maybe a tounament article. Plus, some bits and bobs of articles which I have not finished.
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But registered users can edit.
Sorry, maybe I didn't make it clear.
I meant if the spammers kept registering and spamming then, would you have to do the above.
It seems that way, though that would destroy the object of the project.
It's fine the way it is now imo.
Pages Camp Nou and Nou Camp(redirected) have been made
I will do some more stadium pages after my dinner.
Just a thought regarding the stadia articles - How about we just leave the stadium profiles in the page of the club/nation that plays there? Let's face it, there's more or less the same information about the stadia in the stadium pages as there in the club pages
Also, regarding player profiles - Is the aim of having a profile for every player realistic? Personally, I feel we should only have a page on players infamous to the FM/CM series, like Tó Madeira. Otherwise it'd esentially just be a waste of time because wikipedia has all that information & more anyway.
I'd like to hear what you all think about it
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Well, we probably won't have every single player in FMWiki anyways.Also, regarding player profiles - Is the aim of having a profile for every player realistic? Personally, I feel we should only have a page on players infamous to the FM/CM series, like Tó Madeira. Otherwise it'd esentially just be a waste of time because wikipedia has all that information & more anyway.
I'm new to the series (FM08), the only parts I can contribute to the wiki is MLS stuff...
I probably won't have much time to contribute to the wiki anyways...too busy these days.
Thats the post it was written in
I'm going to do quite a lot more on abrevations etc, theres a big list in the GPTG FAQ so I will use some of them.
Yeah, I thought it'd be easy at first. Went blank soon enough after that
We need some more redirects now imo. So if anyone can think of any, please just request them here & I'll sort it out
Good job, no need for the stub tag anymore
Bosman Transfers has been made, as a stub
Affiliated Clubs is also made, again as a stub.
And, lastly, WeeGiE has been made as a stub.
These will all need developing at some point, but for now they are a good start imo.
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Both have been protected
I've added a few redirects for FM series titles.
Okay cheers, weegie is now protected as well.
I've added an external links section at the end of a few articles.
Bottom of the page - lists the patches & the FM09 website. Good or bad idea for other articles?
Good idea imo, although I don't think they are needed for too many articles.
I've added them to all game release articles, as well as a few graphics & editing pages. They're not needed for much else really.
Do you think it'd be worth submitting our site here?
Oh yeah, we're an official affiliate now as far as I know. Forgot to mention that
It's like SIASII, but private.
Last edited by ahmufcwafc; 21-03-2009 at 19:17.
How many stadia have you done Rob?
I've change stadiums to stadia on the front page & on the title of the article.
Sorry, I got lost in my Valencia game.
I have done a few(about 4) but will go and do some more, now.
I will post them up tomorrow probably.
Who changed the 'Stadiums/Stadia category so that it was listed in Alpabetical order?
I think that this is a bad idea.
As, before you could read what leagues and which club it belonged to and was much easier to find a specific club with.
I think that once we get lots of stadium articles it would look bad.
So, my idea is that we have them categorised into League Stadium pages, which have all the clubs in that league's stadiums in.
I might do some more Crewe profiles tonight. To keep the players who have the same name I will enter date of birth eg. Billy Jones 790102 if he was born 2nd Jan 1979. Is that OK?
If it is easier you can call me Stig if you want.
I don't understand what you mean, Jez.
If we had it in League pages, we could have the 'Stadium' page for links to the league stadiums pages.
Someone made a mistake creating the stadia page, meaning that it isn't actually a category. I'll fix it now.
Ah, now I see the problem. Someone spelt 'category' wrong.
It's fixed now
Seeing that category, shouldn't 'Stadia' be put at the top of the page instead of under S? Should only be stadiums in there imo.
Is the site working for you? It's down for me.
New Wales national team page created by WelshWizard11
Who is WelshWizard11?
Whoever it is, welcome
Not sure Alan but definitely welcome.
I still can't get onto the site - any idea why it's not working?
The site is working fine for me
What url are you using?
Tried http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk/ as well, but no luck.
I'm using http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk too but it's working for me.
I am doing a Valencia Stadium page.
But, they move into a new ground on the game in the second season (I think) so, should I include information on that?
Yeah, I am using that url and I am having no problems.
Maybe do an article while you wait for it to fix
Could do Rob.


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I am developing two web applications where one is a server app and the other is a client app, both are using Spring Security. My use case is such that after a user logs into the server app, the user can then access the client app from links within the server app. Since the user should not have to log in again when they click on these links (part of my requirements), I decided to use a strategy similar to Single SignOn in order to forward their authentication information from the server app to the client app.
On the client app, I am using Spring Security's
RequestHeaderAuthenticationFilter to look for a custom request header that is set by the server app.
If this custom header is found, do I have to do any further validation that this request is trustworthy? In Spring's Pre-Authentication doc,
RequestHeaderAuthenticationFilterdoes not perform any authentication and will assume the request to be from the user specified in the
SM_USERattribute. How do I ensure that the request is genuine?
How do I send the user from one app to another with a custom header in the http request? Redirecting the request does not work as the header information will be lost. Forwarding does not work as the forwarded request does not go through the configured Spring Security filters on the client app, thus the request is never "authenticated" and no session is created.


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The recent publication of two papers from the B-SNIP group...
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The recent publication of two papers from the B-SNIP group in the American Journal of Psychiatry provides additional high-quality data supporting a dimensional model for psychotic disorders, different from the current Kraepelinian categorical model. These two papers focus on two different putative endophenotypes for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, namely, cognitive performance and white matter integrity. Interestingly, both endophenotypes show quite similar results.
The work of the B-SNIP group is praiseworthy. Consisting of six centers across the United States, the group has studied quite a large sample of patients with psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, schizoaffective, and psychotic bipolar disorder) using both current categorical diagnostic criteria and a dimensional Schizo-Bipolar Scale approach. Besides that, the group assesses relatives without psychotic or affective disorders, which is essential for further understanding the underlying genetic basis and identifying endophenotypes for these disorders.
Both studies obtain similar results for each endophenotype: Both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder show abnormalities (in cognition and in white matter integrity) compared to healthy controls. There are no qualitative differences in these abnormalities; that is, they share a similar pattern of disturbance, although it is more severe (cognition) or widespread (white matter) in schizophrenia. These disturbances are shared to a lower degree by unaffected relatives, supporting their validity as endophenotypes, even if this is much clearer for relatives of schizophrenia subjects. Undoubtedly, these results support the notion of a single nosological entity with a dimensional nature. On the "schizophrenia edge" of the continuum, a more severe or widespread impairment as well as more abnormalities in unaffected relatives would be found.
However, there are some comments that should be taken into account for a fair interpretation of the results. First of all, the diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder has become somehow a test itself to validate the categorical versus dimensional model for psychotic disorders. The paper by Hill et al. compares the schizoaffective group with the healthy control group and with the other proband groups. The conclusions seem to support the dimensional model, as schizoaffective probands show an intermediate cognitive performance between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder without qualitative differences. Instead, for unclear reasons, the DTI paper splits the schizoaffective group in manic type merged with the bipolar group, and depressive type merged with the schizophrenia group, losing an opportunity to analyze this perspective.
Second, it is a shame that non-psychotic bipolar 1 patients have not been included in these studies. This represents a bias toward the psychotic view, whereas the inclusion of the non-psychotic bipolar subjects would have provided a second enriching view from the "affective" perspective. This second supplementary approach would be more likely to identify possible endophenotypic features that might differentiate schizophrenia from bipolar disorder. In fact, in light of these two papers, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder could be understood as the same disease, bipolar just being a less severe phenotype. Although there is quite large evidence that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share different genetic, neurobiological, and cognitive features, and that a mixed categorical and dimensional approach may be much closer to reality, differences between both disorders should still be kept in mind. For instance, the unique clinical features of the most prototypical euphoric mania or the circadian rhythm disturbances in bipolar disorder are likely to be based on neurobiological features specific to bipolar disorder that are not yet completely understood or identified.
Despite Kraepelin's nosological distinction between...
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Despite Kraepelin's nosological distinction between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and the categorical classification of current diagnostic systems, recent advances indicate that there is considerable overlap between these disorders. In fact, epidemiological, genetic, and neuroimaging studies comparing schizophrenia and bipolar disorder show a complex range of pathophysiological and phenomenological similarities (Demjaha et al., 2012).
In line with previous findings, the two papers from the B-SNIP group in the American Journal of Psychiatry confirm, respectively, the role of potential cognitive and brain functioning endophenotypes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The findings of Hill and colleagues on cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar disorder add an important contribution to a continuum model of cognitive deficits in psychotic disorders in which, on one hand, schizophrenia is characterized by the most severe cognitive impairment, and bipolar disorder, on the other hand, shows less severe but still significant deficits. Moreover, their findings confirm the familiality of cognitive impairment across schizophrenia, while cognitive dysfunction in first-degree relatives of bipolar disorder probands is linked with elevated cluster A or cluster B personality traits.
It seems likely that certain risk factors (i.e., susceptibility genes) may predispose an individual to developing psychosis, and then other genetic and/or environmental risks factors may determine if schizophrenia or bipolar disorder symptoms predominate. In fact, birth cohort and conscript studies have shown that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are distinguished by premorbid cognitive impairment being found in the former but not in the latter. This may reflect a neurodevelopmental abnormality in schizophrenia but not bipolar disorder; thus, on the background of genetic susceptibility to psychosis, additional genes may interact with early environmental stressors, leading to schizophrenia.
However, the findings of Hill and colleagues should be considered in the light of some limitations. First, although they retrospectively assessed cognitive functioning before the illness onset using the WRAT-4 reading test, the authors do not pay much attention to cognitive trajectories in either probands or first-degree relatives. Their results show, in fact, that cognitive impairment precedes the onset of schizophrenia but not bipolar disorder, and a similar pattern is shown by their unaffected relatives. A recent meta-analysis of follow-up studies of cognition in first-episode psychosis and ultra-high-risk groups for psychosis reported no evidence of cognitive decline over, or after, the onset of first-episode psychosis (Bora and Murray, 2013). Therefore, these findings suggest that cognitive deficits are already established before the prodromal phase of psychosis, supporting a neurodevelopmental rather than neurodegenerative model of schizophrenia-like psychosis (Murray et al., 2004).
Moreover, Hill and colleagues underestimate the effect of other potential biological or environmental factors on the association between cognitive performance and schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, such as sociodemographic and clinical variables, as well as the influence of medication on cognitive functioning. Cognitive deficit could be intrinsic to the illnesses but could also be related to other factors such as substance misuse, physical ill health, or prescribed medications (Zipursky et al., 2012).
Therefore, future studies including examining longitudinal changes in cognition using a large sample size and controlling for potential confounders would advance our understanding in identifying the potential causes of the deficits.
Bora E, Murray RM. Meta-analysis of Cognitive Deficits in Ultra-high Risk to Psychosis and First-Episode Psychosis: Do the Cognitive Deficits Progress Over, or After, the Onset of Psychosis? Schizophr Bull . 2013 Jun 14. Abstract
Demjaha A, Maccabe JH, Murray RM. How genes and environmental factors determine the different neurodevelopmental trajectories of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Schizophr Bull . 2012 Mar ; 38(2):209-14. Abstract
Murray RM, Sham P, van Os J, Zanelli J, Cannon M, McDonald C. A developmental model for similarities and dissimilarities between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Schizophr Res . 2004 Dec 1 ; 71(2-3):405-16. Abstract
Zipursky RB, Reilly TJ, Murray RM. The Myth of Schizophrenia as a Progressive Brain Disease. Schizophr Bull . 2012 Dec 7. Abstract
The two reports from the B-SNIP consortium elegantly...
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The two reports from the B-SNIP consortium elegantly address Kraepelin's dichotomy in psychosis and provide evidence using a large sample that there are overlapping cognitive deficits across psychotic bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (Hill et al., 2013), and similar patterns of connectivity abnormalities (as measured by diffusion tensor imaging, or DTI) in the two disorders (Skudlarski et al., 2013). Both phenotypes are also found in relatives, supporting the idea that the cognitive and DTI measures are true "endophenotypes."
The finding that cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar disorder depends more on psychosis than a diagnostic group is a nice replication of our previous findings (Simonsen et al., 2011). This is reassuring and further suggests that it is a robust phenomenon, as the neuropsychological test batteries used in the two studies were quite different. The severity of the deficits is also comparable between the two studies.
The current study also investigated the familiality of cognitive dysfunction, which was quite high, with deficits also seen in non-psychotic relatives of both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Quite interestingly, the cognitive deficits were more associated with cluster A (psychosis-like) personality traits in relatives of bipolar disorder than in schizophrenia. This further strengthens the argument that there is a continuum of psychosis across these disorders which is heritable.
The paper by Skudlarski et al. reports brain imaging investigations (DTI) from the same sample. Decreased fractional anisotropy was found in multiple brain regions in schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar disorder subjects, and to a smaller extent in their relatives, than in healthy controls. These findings seem consistent, as 15 out of 18 regions have been previously reported in schizophrenia and 10 out of 21 in bipolar disorder. Further, the current results are in line with the continuum model of psychotic disorders and the polygenic architecture reported in recent mega-analyses (Lee et al., 2013).
Intriguingly, the authors found fractional anisotropy to be even better correlated with the "Schizo-Bipolar Scale" than with disease category. This proves the utility of cross-diagnostic clinical dimensions when investigating potential neurobiological mechanisms in psychiatric disorders. To bring this a step further, it would be interesting to know whether this clinical scale also correlates with fractional anisotropy (or neurocognition) within the bipolar disorder or the schizophrenia sub-sample separately.
In the perspective of the psychosis continuum model, it seems slightly contradictory that the investigators did not include schizoaffective disorder as a disease category on its own. Instead, they split this diagnostic group in two, classifying the depressed subgroup in the schizophrenia group and the manic subgroup in the psychotic bipolar disorder group. As a rationale for this classification, the authors reported controversial validity of the diagnostic status of schizoaffective disorder. If this controversy led to a split of the schizoaffective group in the paper by Skudlarski et al., why did the same controversy lead to the inclusion of schizoaffective disorder as its own category in the study by Hill et al.? Both approaches could potentially have been applied in both studies to actually explore this controversy in terms of neurocognition and white matter integrity.
Both studies support the hypothesis that reduced white matter integrity and impaired neurocognition are intermediate phenotypes in psychotic disorders. However, it might be debated whether these two features are causative in nature or merely correlate with the clinical symptomatology. Does reduced white matter integrity cause reduced neurocognition, which in turn gives rise to psychotic symptoms, or are the two latter phenomena independent but correlating effects of the former? Future studies should aim at disentangling these levels of correlating phenomena in biological psychiatric research. In line with this, it would be interesting to investigate the relationship between DTI measures and structural and functional MRI. Is the currently reported reduced white matter integrity reflected in the reductions identified with sMRI? And what consequences do these impairments have for brain activity as assessed with fMRI? Lastly, can these alterations be explained by genetic risk variants individually or in aggregate?
In summary, these two statistically well-powered studies have provided robust evidence for the continuum model in psychotic disorders. This is in accordance with findings from molecular genetics, brain imaging, and clinical studies. Now it is time to look for mechanisms behind these correlations.
Hill SK, Reilly JL, Keefe RS, Gold JM, Bishop JR, Gershon ES, Tamminga CA, Pearlson GD, Keshavan MS, Sweeney JA. Neuropsychological Impairments in Schizophrenia and Psychotic Bipolar Disorder: Findings from the Bipolar and Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP) Study. Am J Psychiatry . 2013 Jun 17. Abstract
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PRIMARY NEWSSchizophrenia and Bipolar With Psychosis Share Cognition, Connectivity


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The mathematical definition of neglible and non-neglible functions is fairly clear-cut, but why they are important and how they are used in cryptography?
In perfectly secret schemes like the one-time pad, the probability of success does not improve with greater computational power. However, in modern cryptographic schemes, we generally do not try to achieve perfect secrecy(yes governments may use the one time pad, but this is generally not practical for the average user). In fact, given unbounded computational power, all of our non-perfectly-secret schemes are insecure(also note that for public-key cryptography, perfect secrecy is unachievable using classic cryptography so all schemes are insecure against unbounded computational power). Instead, we define security against a specific set of adversaries whose computational power is bounded. Generally, we assume an adversary that is bounded to run in time polynomial to $n$, where $n$ is the security parameter given to the key generation algorithm(more precisely, the key generation algorithm is given input $1^n$ so that $n$ will be its input size and its output--the key--will be polynomial in the size of its input.)
So consider a scheme $\Pi$ where the only attack against it is brute force attack. We consider $\Pi$ to be secure if it cannot be broken by a brute force attack in polynomial time.
The idea of negligible probability encompasses this exact notion. In $\Pi$, let's say that we have a polynomial-bounded adversary. Brute force attack is not an option. But instead of brute force, the adversary can guess (a polynomial number of) random values and hope to chance upon the right one. In this case, we define security using negligible functions: The probability of success has to be smaller than the reciprocal of any polynomial function.
And this makes a lot of sense: If the success probability for an individual guess is a reciprocal of a polynomial function, then the adversary can try a polynomial amount of guesses and succeed with high probability. In sum then, if the overall success rate is $1/poly(n)$ then we consider this a feasible attack and the scheme is insecure.
So, we require that the success probability must be less than the reciprocal of every polynomial function. This way, even if the adversary tries poly(n) guesses, it will not be significant since it will only have tried:
As $n$ grows, the denominator grows far faster than the numerator and the success probability will not be significant.
Edited to add Here is an informal argument that may make this clearer: To see that the notions of superpolynomial brute force attack and negligible probability guessing are equivalent, consider a scheme with $K$ possible keys.
Brute force attack on the key set runs in $K$ time. Moreover, the probability of choosing a key at random and it being the correct key is $1/K$. Now, if $K$ is polynomial in $n$, (the security parameter), then this scheme can be brute forced in time $K = poly(n)$. Moreover a random guess succeeds with probability $1/K= 1/poly(n)=nonnegliglbe$ and the scheme is by both definitions insecure.
To secure the scheme then, we want to make brute force run in superpolynomial time. In other words,$K$ must be superpolynomial in $n$. Well then, the probability of guessing correctly on a single guess is $$1/K=1/superpoly(n)$$ and this is by definition negligible probability.
Although informal, I think this last part motivates the use of negligible functions in security proofs.
While this is a very good explanation, I would like to add that you will see negligible functions also in other proofs. One example are peusdorandom strings. If an attacker looks at a string, he should only be able to decide if this string is pseudo-random or "real" random" with probability (distribution) $$½ + negl(n)$$
He can always toss a coin (that gives him probability ½) but maybe he can extract some piece of information that "improves" his guess.
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But Study Doesn't Show if High Bisphenol A Levels Affect Health
Nov. 22, 2011 -- Eating just one 12-ounce serving of canned soup a day for five days straight may lead to more than a 1,000% increase in the amount of the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in your urine, a new study shows.
BPA is a chemical used in the manufacturing of many metal food and beverage cans, among other uses.
The canned soup study did not look at how -- or even if -- the BPA spike in urine affects health. This is a major sticking point for many critics of the study who caution against overinterpreting the findings.
Previous research has linked BPA to a risk of breast and prostate cancer in animals and obesity, thyroid problems, reproductive abnormalities, heart disease, and neurologic disorders in humans.
Because of health concerns, many companies have taken steps to eliminate BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups, and others are looking into alternatives to BPA for their products.
As part of the new study, 75 volunteers ate either a 12-ounce serving of vegetarian canned soup every day for five days or a 12-ounce serving of non-canned, fresh vegetarian soup for five straight days.
After a two-day wash-out period, participants switched groups. "After just five days of canned food consumption, there was more than a 1,000% increase of BPA in urine," says study researcher Jenny L. Carwile. She is a doctoral student in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
The study is published in TheJournal of the American Medical Association.
The findings likely represent a temporary peak in BPA levels. Researchers do not know how long this peak lasts or what type of effects it may have on health.
Although the canned soup used in the study was a single brand, Progresso, "it is not about the brand of soup or canned soup, it is about the cans," Carwile says. She says the findings likely apply to other canned foods that use BPA in the liner.
Reducing BPA Exposure
"If somebody is interested in reducing BPA, they can do it by reducing canned food consumption" Carwile says.


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