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Pete Thamel
Pete Thamel is in his ninth year as the college sports reporter for The New York Times. He covers the national college football and basketball beats, and has reported stories everywhere from Maui to Istanbul to Beijing.
In 2006, the Times nominated Thamel for a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his work uncovering diploma mills that were giving fast and easy grades to talented high school prospects.
Mr. Thamel is a 1999 graduate of Syracuse University, where he served as sports editor of The Daily Orange for three years. He also worked covering college basketball for The Post-Standard in Syracuse and for ESPN.
As Tough as His Task
Long before Bill O'Brien chose to lead the rebuilding of Penn State football, he had already been dealt a far greater challenge.
August 26, 2012, Sunday
'What Happened to Him?'
Jonathan Hargett was once thought to be the first point guard to jump from high school to the N.B.A., but that was before a tumultuous college career and a prison sentence. He blames himself for his past decisions, which include years of abusing...
August 19, 2012, Sunday
Landing in West Virginia, Dakich Checked the Exits
Soon after Dan Dakich took the head basketball coaching job at West Virginia in 2002, he realized he made a mistake and decided to return to his old job at Bowling Green.
August 19, 2012, Sunday
Calhoun Breaks His Hip
Coach Jim Calhoun, who has led the Connecticut men's team to three N.C.A.A. titles, broke his hip in a bicycle accident and had surgery at the UConn Health Center in Farmington.
August 5, 2012, Sunday
Central Florida Banned From Postseason in 2 Sports
The university was penalized for its dealings with a man identified by the N.C.A.A. as a recruiter for a sports agent.
August 1, 2012, Wednesday
Kiffin Feels for Penn State While Angling for Its Star
Trojans Coach Lane Kiffin, no stranger to scholarship reductions, could use a player like Nittany Lions running back Silas Redd at Southern California.
July 25, 2012, Wednesday
Real N.C.A.A. Penalty for Penn State, but No Cheers Yet
Although the punishment was harsh, the outsize role of money in college sports may be a bigger factor in the degree to which the Penn State scandal will resonate at universities.
July 24, 2012, Tuesday
N.C.A.A.'s Action Is the Defining Moment of a Presidency
Under Mark Emmert, the N.C.A.A. — an organization with a history of bureaucratic delay — wasted no time in deciding how it would sanction Penn State.
July 24, 2012, Tuesday
Sanctions Decimate the Nittany Lions Now and for Years to Come
The N.C.A.A. banned the football program from bowl play for four years and vacated wins from 1998 to 2011 in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
July 24, 2012, Tuesday
Q. and A. With Mark Emmert
The president of the N.C.A.A., Mark Emmert, answers questions about penalties against Penn State.
July 23, 2012, Monday
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Peter Olson is the Legal Adviser to the Secretary General and the international staff of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the senior lawyer in NATO. He is responsible for all legal aspects of NATO headquarters' institutional, internal and external relationships and operations.
Mr. Olson served over 30 years in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. Following initial assignments in treaty, maritime, environmental and nuclear nonproliferation law, he was in succession the principal legal adviser at the Department of State for inter-American affairs, for ethics and personnel, for arms control and verification, and for European affairs. His core professional focus before arriving at NATO was on European organizations, notably the European Union and the OSCE, and on Balkans matters.
Mr. Olson has also served as Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and ran major USAID democratization programs in South Africa during the final years of the apartheid regime and in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) in the 1990s.
Mr. Olson is a graduate of the Harvard Law School.
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zach_stoner7 1 year ago
It's not that I dot like the site, but when I go online to access fantasy football the internet is much slower than any app I've ever had. I understand that nobody is planning an app, but not only will it make everything more convenient but will bring in many new people to use this fantasy server. The app DOES NOT need to be something that you do a lot on. Just something to check transactions, manage your team, and check up on your score. I feel it would be very smart for fleaflicker to rethink the idea of not having an app
IvoBraz 2 years ago
The question is not if i need a app for android or not (i do actually, all the other leagues i play in other providers i use the apps much more than the sites) but how much more people would be playing at fleaflicker if there was an app (i play in a 12 men league here and 8 are inactive, i wonder if that would happen with an app). Ofc i can open it at the browser, but people with ipads and iphones can use the browser too and nevertheless Fleaflicker made an app for it.
CoinReturn 2 years ago
I would love to have an app just to get notifications for my games. I work most Sundays and have to steal glances at the site. I hate having to update a second app with my weekly roster changes just so I can get some inkling of how my game might be going.
PovertyBayOrca 2 years ago
It is not so much that I need a dedicated app for my tablet ... it is that the desktop site is not touch friendly.
- you cannot zoom in on areas to touch thus getting the intended result is mostly hit-or-miss
- the areas that are hover on the desktop do not work well on a touch tablet ... plus the information on the page when you touch click is not the same as the hover.


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In the scope of today's musical smorgasbord, Antoine Dunn's offerings of "old school yet new school slant" are fortifying. The 24-year-old vocalist hopes that audiences have a taste for some flavor, describing his sound as "fresh, yet familiar." With popular singles like "Can't Forget " and "Miss My Love" already establishing his vibe, the Donny Hathaway and Stevie Wonder enthusiast was the opening act for Anthony Hamilton and Estelle's recent tour.
A self-taught musician/former church music director, Dunn desires to bare his soul while simultaneously breaking down barriers and uniting people through the messages in his melodies. Dunn's debut CD, Truth of the Matter, drops today and is a testament to the healing power of music; the keyboardist/guitarist found solace while recording this project following last year's death of his mother, Janna Dunn. After she succumbed to breast cancer, the songwriter/producer found it not only fitting to dedicate the CD in her honor, but to also release it in October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. EBONY caught up with the Cleveland, OH native to find out more about his sound and why some consider him to be the next great 'soul man.'
EBONY: Are you nervous about the release of your debut CD?
Antoine Dunn: Nervous wouldn't be the best way to describe the feeling. I'd say I'm 'ready.' It's been a long hard road to this point in my career. The culmination of years of writing songs in the basement and cutting class to play the grand piano is embodied in this debut album.
EBONY: You dedicate this project, and the song "I Am," to your mom. I'm sure you have good days and bad days. How do you move through the range of emotions?
AD: "I Am" is a song that speaks to my struggles with life, love, and the loss of my one and only mother. Learning that a loved one has only a few weeks left to live isn't exactly the easiest thing, 'ya know? We all like to feel like we are in control of our lives, but at times we are reminded that there are things beyond our control. The song says: "Take me out of time…me out of space…me out of everything that I am." It was my wish that if those things happened, it might not hurt so bad.
EBONY: Describe your sound.
AD: My music has been described as: "Intimate, personal, soothing, sensual, and sexy." I must say that is the way I feel when I'm writing and performing my music. I draw my sound from many different genres and generations of music. Soul, classic soul, rock and blues are the ingredients to the personal conversations I have with fans through my music.
Every song on this project was written from a true life experience which makes it that much more personal to the listeners. A wise man once told me: "What's from the heart is received in the heart."
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EBONY: How does a young man have such an old soul musically?
AD: Well, when you grow up listening to groups like The Dramatics, The Stylistics, The Chi-Lites, and The Jackson Five, you don't really have a choice in the matter. I'm a product of my environment. The interesting thing is that my "old soul" isn't something that just exists in my music. It's who I am. My parents loved those groups, but they displayed an even greater love for showing me what it meant to be a mature and responsible young man. My music is a direct reflection of my environment and how I was raised.
EBONY: The industry is filled with new singers—here today and gone tomorrow. How do you plan on making a lasting impact?
AD: The connection I plan to make with fans through this music is not a relationship that will fade. Every song on this project was written from a true life experience which makes it that much more personal to the listeners. A wise man once told me: "What's from the heart is received in the heart." If he's right, a heartfelt connection isn't something you forget.
EBONY: How would you define the current state of music? Are you pleased with the direction?
AD: I often times refer to the contrast between 'artistic purity' & 'artistic popularity' when talking about the state of the music industry. Music is in a state of transformation. I believe that for years what was pure was [also] what was popular. In recent years, I believe that dynamic had changed, but is quickly approaching a turnaround back to where pure original music is the standard again. I can say I'm extremely pleased with that direction.
EBONY: People are saying that you're bringing real R&B music back. How does this make you feel? Do you think it's ever left?
AD: It makes me feel like I have a purpose in not only this business, but the world. Authenticity and individuality are so important to me in my everyday walk. I don't think real music ever left; I just think it just was removed from the forefront of our media outlets.
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we know $u$ (if it is a solution to the wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^3$) decays as $1/t$ as $t$ goes to $\infty$. this comes easily from spherical means. but how do we know this is the maximum possible rate of decay?
Let $\bar u(t,r)$ be the spherical mean over the sphere of radius $r$, centered at (say) the origin. Then $r\bar u(t,r)$ satisfies the one-dimensional wave equation. If $u$ has compact support initially, then eventually $r\bar u(t,r)$ is an outward traveling wave. This wave has constant shape, and so $\bar u(t,r)$ decays as $1/r$.
Harald has already shown that the $1/t$ decay is the best "general decay rate" for, say, smooth data with compact support. I claim that a slightly stronger result can hold: if you have smooth data with compact support, and the evolution is such that there exists a constant $C$ such that your solution decays faster than $C/t^{1+\epsilon}$, your initial data must be trivial.
Harald's answer already tells you that, after fixing an origin, the spherical mean of the solution cannot decay faster than $1/t$, unless it vanishes. So if the solution has our supposed decay, the spherical mean around any point is 0. This is equivalent to saying that the spherical Radon transform of your initial data is 0. So if your data is in a sufficiently nice class (smooth with compact support will do), you can invert the spherical Radon transform and get that your initial data must be 0.
Another way to see this is to take the inverse scattering point of view. Look at the fundamental solution of the wave equation. If you multiply it by $t$ and formally take the limit as $t=r\to \infty$, and consider the function $f(x,e) = \lim t u(t,x + re)$ (where $e$ is a unit vector), you see that $f$ is the Radon transform of the data. For data with compact support, the $\limsup$ and $\liminf$ are well-defined (by the general decary rate of $1/t$), and they both go to 0 if the $u$ decays any faster. So taking the inverse transform you have that the data must be 0 also.


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Dear Prudence
There has recently been much talk about whether Rep. Paul Ryan's budget is faithful to the principles of Catholic social thought—or is instead a libertarian rejection of the church's commitment to the poor. In response to the Ryan budget, the chairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Justice, Peace, and Human Development, Bishops Stephen Blaire and Richard Pates, have written that "the needs of those who are hungry and homeless, without work or in poverty should come first.... Just solutions, however, must require shared sacrifice by all, including raising adequate revenues, eliminating unnecessary military and other spending, and fairly addressing the long-term costs of health insurance and retirement programs." In a later interview, Blaire said, "The budget is not just a financial document; it is a moral document: Are you cutting services to the poor and leaving the military alone?"
Yet other bishops—for example, Ryan's former ordinary in Milwaukee, Cardinal Timothy Dolan—have praised Ryan as a strong Catholic, and some have gone considerably further. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, one of the country's most thoughtful bishops, has raised questions about those who have challenged Ryan's claim that his budget is authentically Catholic. In a recent interview Chaput said, "Jesus tells us very clearly that if we don't help the poor, we're going to go to hell. Period. There's just no doubt about it. That has to be a foundational concern of Catholics and of all Christians. But Jesus didn't say the government has to take care of them, or that we have to pay taxes to take care of them."
Although that last sentence is literally true, its use in this context is deeply misleading. Jesus also didn't tell his disciples to count on the government to respect religious liberty, forbid abortion and same-sex marriage, or provide the lion's share of the budget of Catholic Charities across the United States, but today these are all expectations of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). A lot has changed since Jesus' day, including the rise of democratic governments, which citizens rightly expect to play an essential role in the achievement of the common good, particularly in protecting the weakest among us, who are threatened in a me-first culture. As Pope Benedict XVI has said, economic life "needs just laws and forms of redistribution governed by politics" (Caritas in veritate, 37).
We should not be shocked that a bishop can make a mistake in explaining Catholic doctrine. As renowned canon lawyer Ladislas Orsy, SJ, argued in The Church Learning and Teaching, each bishop receives at his episcopal ordination a charism ensuring the help of the Holy Spirit in witnessing to the Word of God, but this doesn't guarantee that he will make no mistakes in exercising his charism. And because in our tradition the bishops in communion with one another are the final arbiters of doctrine, it is all the more important that they be theologically well informed.
It's always possible for bishops, like anyone else, to be misquoted in the press, but a pattern of public statements by several high-profile bishops seems to point to misunderstandings of two basic elements of Catholic moral theology. This becomes clearer if we continue with the next sentences in Archbishop Chaput's discussion of Ryan's budget:
Those are prudential judgments. Anybody who would condemn someone because of their position on taxes is making a leap that I can't make as a Catholic.... You can't say that somebody's not Christian because they want to limit taxation. Again, I'm speaking only for myself, but I think that's a legitimate position. It may not be the correct one, but it's certainly a legitimate Catholic position; and to say that it's somehow intrinsically evil like abortion doesn't make any sense at all.
Intrinsic evil and prudence are the key notions here. Fifty years ago, the quite technical concept of intrinsic evil was mostly confined to the writings of professional moral theologians. Today it appears in just about every episcopal statement on public policy in the United States. An action is intrinsically evil if it is always and everywhere morally wrong. (Recall that most evil actions are not always evil and depend on context: taking a life is acceptable in defense of one's own life; stealing a car is acceptable if it's the only way to get a dying person to the hospital.) The problem is that the standard of intrinsic evil seems to have become a litmus test for what is essential Catholic moral teaching. Perhaps I misunderstand him, but in the passage I've quoted the archbishop seems to be arguing that because neither reducing taxes nor cutting government assistance to the needy is an intrinsic evil, neither can be described as contrary to Catholic teaching.
The problem here is that, while some actions are both intrinsically evil and extremely important (abortion being one obvious example), other actions—for example, masturbation—have traditionally been considered intrinsically evil but are far less important. And while torture is both extremely important and intrinsically evil according to church teaching, few bishops are calling for stricter legal standards against torture, even after the excesses of Abu Ghraib.
It is therefore a serious mistake in Catholic moral theology to conclude that the category of intrinsic evil creates a bright line between matters of greater and lesser moral importance. Pope John Paul II cautioned against this very error in Veritatis splendor (53): "The fact that only the negative commandments oblige always and under all circumstances does not mean that in the moral life prohibitions are more important than the obligation to do good indicated by the positive commandments." Somehow many of our bishops seem to have become convinced of the contrary: that if something isn't intrinsically evil, it's necessarily less important, and we may not even be sure that the tradition holds it to be wrong.
What has led so many bishops to this position? Although every bishop I've ever asked says he doesn't allow such things to influence his thinking, my own guess is that the nasty reports to Rome of episcopal "error" by a small number of militant Catholics have pressed many bishops to retreat from the plains of moral ambiguity where everyday life occurs into the canyon of unassailable moral certainty. And in this process, theologically challenged lay Catholics hold their bishops to a standard of doctrinal purity that Pope Benedict himself has rejected. Recall that Benedict made twice-divorced French President Nikolas Sarkozy an honorary canon of the pope's cathedral, St. John Lateran, in spite of Sarkozy's public support of prochoice policies. In the United States, meanwhile, many bishops won't even allow prochoice politicians to speak at Catholic colleges in their dioceses—not even to speak about, say, environmental policy.
This brings us to another point: prudence, which led Pope Benedict to honor Sarkozy in spite of their doctrinal differences. Prudence is regularly overused in addressing economic justice and underappreciated in discussing life issues. Thomas Aquinas taught that prudence is the virtue that allows us to take concrete action as we live out our moral principles. At its best, prudence allows us to foresee what will occur and judiciously decide how best to put our principles into practice. Laws distinguishing between first-, second-, and third-degree murder arise out of prudence in applying the principle "thou shalt not kill." Similarly, it took prudence for the bishops to move from the principle that all abortions are morally wrong to their support for a health-care reform bill that would have incorporated the Hyde Amendment, which allows the federal government to pay for abortions in the case of rape or incest. And yet the leadership of the USCCB later claimed that it was only principle, not prudence, that led them to reject the Obama health-care law on the grounds that it would fund abortions.
While prudence is nearly invisible in the bishops' teaching about life issues, it is too often used to trump all doctrinal concerns in discussions about economics. In the interview quoted above, Archbishop Chaput seems to be suggesting that because it requires prudence to determine how much tax revenue to raise in order to help those in need, there can be no Catholic criticism of Paul Ryan's circular argument for lower taxes. When the discussion is about spending, Ryan argues that the government can no longer afford to help the needy as much we do now. Yet when the discussion is about the tax policies that determine what we can afford, Ryan insists that we should never raise taxes, no matter how low they are already. This is the content of Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge, signed by Ryan and 95 percent of the Republicans in Congress. Federal income-tax receipts as a percent of GDP have been lower the past couple of years than they've been since the 1950s. We "can't afford" to help the poor only because we've decided to lower income taxes instead. And, as Bishop Blaire reminds us, even without raising taxes, more money could be spent on programs for the needy and less on the military if our priorities were what they ought to be.
What about Ryan's concern for the size of the national debt? Isn't this a good reason to cut government expenditures? We've all heard it argued that the national debt will swamp our grandchildren. But if debt were Ryan's real concern, why would his plan spend the savings from budget cuts on further reductions in income taxes? Even Fox News admits that the Ryan budget would add $3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
Then there's the claim that lower taxes for the rich will result in more jobs, which will end up helping the poor. Jobs are indeed the long-term solution for the able-bodied poor, but during the economic slump the wealthy have moved much of their money into safe, non-job-producing investments. For example, the monetary value of the world's (largely unchanging) supply of gold has doubled from $4 to $8 trillion since the financial crisis began. The wealthy undertake job-creating investments only when they judge it will make them wealthier—not simply because Congress gives them a windfall tax break unrelated to job creation. Today firms and investors are holding back, sitting on the sidelines with trillions in cash. They don't want to start making refrigerators that will only sit in a warehouse until economic activity heats up later. Giving the wealthy more wealth by means of tax breaks will not create more jobs in the current economic climate.
Ryan has also claimed that reducing government help to the poor is actually good for them, because it reduces dependency. In fact, far fewer of the poor are dependent than right-wing rhetoric suggests—most of the able-bodied poor are eager to find a regular job—but dependency is indeed a danger in helping others, and we must be savvy about it. Still, how does the dependency argument justify the dramatic cuts Ryan proposes in assistance to those too old, too young, or too sick to work? Or cuts in retraining programs that help the able-bodied poor qualify for a job so that they can support themselves and their families?
Finally, there is the claim that government should leave care for the poor to the churches and the private sector. Of course we should not depend on the government to do it all. But it is a right-wing illusion that private donations will take up the slack if the government reduces assistance to the poor and vulnerable. Across the nation, 62 percent of Catholic Charities' budgets and a similar proportion of Lutheran Social Services' budgets come from state and national governments, not from private contributions. Cut government aid significantly and these agencies will have much less to work with.
Thus we find that the five arguments most often made in support of Ryan's economic plans—budgetary constraints, the national debt, job creation, welfare dependency, and a shift to private charity—don't really explain his policy priorities. Something else must be going on.
From the Catholic perspective, society, market, and government each have an essential role to play in securing the common good. Paul Ryan's budget arises from his underlying political philosophy, tersely formulated in the assertion that "government is the problem." Notwithstanding recent attempts to revise his personal history, he made clear in a 2005 speech to the Atlas Society what originally motivated his interest in politics: "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism." As the theologian Vincent Miller has argued, Ryan's political philosophy is completely at odds with the principles of Catholic social thought, which rejects both individualism and collectivism as deeply inadequate accounts of authentic human flourishing.
One final clarification is needed. Describing a handful of moral issues as "non-negotiables" furthers our misunderstanding of Catholic moral theology because it reinforces the two errors identified above. First, it implies that for these few issues both the underlying moral principle and a particular plan for the political implementation of that principle are morally binding on all Catholics. Second, mistaking certainty for importance, it implies that Catholics can demote other similarly fundamental moral commitments that all the modern popes have insisted on—for example, the role of government in protecting the poor and ensuring the right of workers to organize.
Intrinsic evil and prudence are both fundamental realities in the moral life. But it is a serious mistake from the perspective of Catholic moral theology to use intrinsic evil as the litmus test for what's truly important, or to use prudence as a cover for public policies that distribute benefits to the prosperous at the expense of those who can't meet their own needs.
This article has been funded by a gift from Margaret O'Gara and Michael Vertin in honor of James O'Gara.
About the Author
Daniel K. Finn teaches economics and theology at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University. His most recent book is Distant Markets, Distant Harms: Economic Complicity and Christian Ethics (Oxford, 2014).
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God bless you for speaking truth even though "power" isn't listening.
Great commentary. I learned something. Bravo Dan.
I don't agree completely with Ryan's budget plan. However, it is unclear if Ryan's plan is Romney's plan. IMO, this has to be clarified and explainded. On the other hand, Obama's plan is far from perfect and has made things worse, not better. His claim that things are getting better forgoes the reality that his policies made these worse for 3 years, then things started to get better. In the end, we are back to where we started when he took office and implemented his stimulus plan. There is little optimism that Obama's plan is the answer to our fiscal and social problems.
Unfortunately, no politician reflects all the positions and teachings of the Catholic Church. Some are so-called pro-life, but are for saving the life of the mother when the fetus threatens it and the fetus cannot survive under any circumstances (the Phoenix case); others are for more entitlements for the poor but are also in favor of same-sex civil marriage. The list goes on.
Benedict XVI, as cardinal, said it best. Catholics need to use the principle of proportionality when making informed social ethical and political decisions. No candidate is defined by one issue. This is where prudence and wisdom are most important, as well as charity and justice. It is all a big balancing act.
In almost every election since I was able to vote, I have voted for the lesser of two evils. This is the case again in 2012. I am saddened by this, but as Michael Barbieri notes, the principle of proportionality must prevail.
I am grateful to Dan Finn for his incisive and clear analysis. He is one of our best and those who do not know his work should get to know it. Level-headed and not seduced by rhetoric, his analyses are always reliable.
When weighing a libertarian approach to abortion {pro choice}, I find Romney more narrowly pro-choice and Obama more broadly pro-choice. But both are pro-choice in certain circumstances, dividing only on the circumstances.
I find Romney-Ryan ideologically so opposed to Catholic Social Thought that the choice is clear. Having to decide between two "limiited pro-choice" candidates, the ticket with the less obnoxious opposition to Catholic Social Teaching is the lesser of two evils.
Would that it were otherwise, but Finn helps us see that a vote for Romney-Ryan is, in effect, a vote for a (limited) pro choice ticket oppposed to the traditions of Catholic Social Teaching and a vote for Obama-Biden is a vote for a (limited, but broader) pro-choice ticket that is far more in line with applying Catholic Social Teaching.
The latter is the lesser of two evils, IMHO If one votes on principle (and some may abstain on principle), why should one not vote for the latter?
Today Romney is sounding more pro-choice. He's courting the women's vote. His morality is quite flexible and practical. As the debate showed, he'll say whatever it takes to win. He is a great businessman, a great salesman. Yet his business policies and practices have not created jobs here at home, but instead overseas. Also as the debate showed, he's very comfortable and very good at firing people -- and large fowl. We saw the essence of Romney in his remarks to Jim Lehrer about firing him and Big Bird.
This is an interesting article and certainly timely. As others have commented, there seems to be no candidate with an unobjectionable platform. As we sort through all the rhetoric, we hope for the prudence, as Professor Finn says, to help us forsee the consequences of our decisions.
Finn doubts that lower taxes for the rich will result in more jobs for workers, but then states that the rich have moved their wealth into low-risk investments such as gold rather than into job-producing investments (I take this to mean equity shares or participations in businesses.) But logically, anyone with money to invest, whether rich or middle class, appreciates that a lower tax on the profits from business, whether delivered through the corporate or the personal income tax system, will increase the after-tax reward for taking the same investment risk. (Of course, in any business risk, a loss is also possible.) So, with lower taxes, more investors are likely to put their money at risk, creating jobs. Dr. Christina Romer, who chaired Obama's Council of Economic Advisors during the first two years of this administration, concluded that every income tax increase since WW II has had a negative impact on GDP, and every tax decrease has had a positive impact on GDP. That has an impact on workers and on the poor. In the high-tax decades of the mid-20th century, innovation was suppressed, job growth slowed, millions were left in misery, and the money-flows at non-profits were stifled.
I do not doubt the statement that 62% of the budgets of Catholic Charities come from state and national governments. But let's add an important disclosure. One hundred percent of the 62% comes out of the pockets of taxpayers, just as does the balance, through charitable donations. Government can be a wealth-redistributor, but government is never a wealth-creator. Whenever government takes a dollar in taxes, however noble the purpose and however well-administered the program, that tax dollar is not available for any other purpose, including charitable donation or investment. We sometimes fall into the trap of believeing that "government" has its own resources. Actually, in every election we are choosing how to use the products of our own labor or investment. Some we render to Caesar and some we render to God, etc. Our decisions have consequences for workers and for the poor. Let's hope for prudence, and make the best choices for the common good.
Joseph J. Dunn Author of After One Hundred Years: Corporate Profits, Wealth, and American Society.
Insightful comments by Joe Dunn.
I agree that when it comes to taxes and redistribution, the issue is not as black and white as Finn describes. Romney's plan has some merit and is better than Obama's plan. I am not against taxing the rich "more" but the revenue gained is dwarfted by the enormous debt, deficit and questionable spending we have to address. I am for a safely net for the poor, and believe we need to do as much as possible for them. Nevertheless, this must be accomplished within budetary reasonableness and without seriously harming them. However, we might be better off prioritizing the available funding and directing the funds to both new and existing programs that will better serve the poor. Educatiing the poor and creating jobs for them is better than entitlements.
As for Terry's comment, it is perplexing:
Would that it were otherwise, but Finn helps us see that a vote for Romney-Ryan is, in effect, a vote for a (limited) pro choice ticket oppposed to the traditions of Catholic Social Teaching and a vote for Obama-Biden is a vote for a (limited, but broader) pro-choice ticket that is far more in line with applying Catholic Social Teaching.
Catholic Social Teachings cover a wide series of issues, not just the issue of pro-choice with circumstances. I think Terry's opinion (and Finn's) do not consider other social and ethical issues like same-sex marriage. Obama is for same-sex marriage and made that clear in a major speech on this subject. Romney believes marriage should be between a man and a woman, but leaves the decision to the states.
Another social and ethical issue is contraception. Obama passed the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) that forces many Catholic institutions (e.g., Universities, Hospitals, Charitable) to offer contraceptive coverage. Romney made no such "mandate".
While I have my own opinion about these and other social and ethical issues, it is not very clear what candidate represents the lesser of two evils. More importantly, there are a host of social and eithical teachings, and each candidate's position on them, that must be weighed. In the end, there is no decision (e.g., a vote for Romney or Obama) that is right or wrong.
Joseph Dunn seems to forget the Greatest Generation's top bracket paying income taxes at 90 percent for 20 years, paying off WWII debts, helping other countries with theirs, building the freeway system, and investing in returning warriors with the GI Bill that educated over a million highly trained professionals including scientists and engineers, thus helping create the middle class we are now losing. Now most of those in the sciences and engineering are foreign students who return to their home contries after graduation. Back then there was no whining then about taxes on the wealthiest. The wealthiest then were patriotic, creating jobs here at home, not shifting them overseas.
What if our top bracket paid at 45 percent for 10 years? That would be one-fourth of what the Greatest Generation gave for the common good. That's about what Warren Buffet has suggested.
I remember, and historical records support my recollection, the "90 percent years" as decades in which there was, in fact, limited innovation and limited job growth (referenced in several of JFK's main speeches) followed by high inflation. For white men and their families, the fifties and sixties were golden years, and are so remembered. For African-Americans, these were years of such severe social and economic segregation and oppression that they produced the urban riots of the late 1960s. Women in the 1950s and 1960s could choose from a variety of vocations: housewife, nun, teacher, nurse or secretary. A more accurate and just appraisal of the high-tax decades might thus be: limited opportunity and benefits shared unequally. Hardly seems like a way to promote the common good. Our American history is rich with lessons on what has worked, and what has failed, in promoting the common good, but we must put aside our favorite axioms and embrace the data and the human experience if we are to have that Prudence that Aquinas describes. Joseph J. Dunn
Joseph J. Dunn
You raise some good points. One of my main points that I perhaps did make well enough: We now need SOME increased revenue, SOME increased taxes. At least during and after WWII we taxed at an extremely high rate to pay for the war. With our last two wars we didn't raise taxes; we lowered them. And now the right seems loath to make any tax increases at all for any reason. Another point was that we are not patriotic today: country and the common good is scarcely considered, corporations are persons and labor is a commodity, and wealth is increasingly concentrated in the top one percent or top point zero one percent, more and more excluding the common good.
Greed is not good. It is still one of the seven deadly sins.
No doubt, we need more revenue. Now let us get the benefit of our historical experience to see whether higher rates (on corporations? on incomes greater than $250K? etc.) would produce more or less revenue, based on our historical experience. As you point out, we've been here before, several times in the past hundred years. Of even greater importance, we are told as Catholics to consider all our policies (including tax changes) with a view toward a preferential option for the poor. Research by Obama's chief economic advisor, Dr. Christina Romer, documented the negative impact on GDP resulting from each tax increase since World War II. Does this forseeable impact on the poor (and on workers) line up with our duties of a preferential option for the poor, and to promote the common good? Whatever we think about corporations, or wealthy people, we have these duties. Our policies should focus on those duties, rather than on somehow counteracting greed, or restoring patriotism, or (as in the 1930s) to "soak the rich." Intuitive approaches to taxation have sometimes proven drastically wrong and inflicted suffering on large numbers of our people. Fortunately, we have a century of experience to draw upon, if we will take the time. That is Priudence. Joseph J. Dunn
Just what is prudence when it comes to determining what is needed for the poor? Do we merely calculate the need and fund it? This is not an easy question to answer. Consider the fact that we have many people on welfare that don't want to work. If they could find employment, the income (mostly at mininum wage) would be not much greater than what they get from the government. This may not represent the majority of those on welfare, but we have issues that must be resolved.
The other problem is the alarming percent of minority women who have children out of wedlock. They have very little means of support but where is the accountability and responsibility of the so-called husband or father? Are there means of enforcement for irresponsible fathers? What do we do when the mother does not press charges or refuses to cooperate? Many other women have husbands that have abandoned them or refuse to work. Many make money by selling drugs.
Don't misread what I say. Most or many poor people have legitimate problems and they need our sence of love of neighbor. However, what we are doing is merely criticizing one candidate's position, and concluding that this is a vote for the lesser of two evils. Prudence is about the larger picture because a candidate is not defined by one issue.
I am all for a safety net for the poor, but prudence also means considering all the facts and issues and the other problems our nation has. I don't know what the so-called number is, we have the poor and near poor and this is a growing number.
Pointing to virtue, the common good and our responsibilities to God and neighbor, is appropriate. However without specifics it is an abstraction. Why doesn't the Church put forth a "plan" and not just criticism. How much should the rich be taxed; what is fair? Would this solve the economic problems of the poor? Do we merely fund whatever the number is and cut othe programs regardless of the consequences. I think not. Each candidate has many speaks in their eyes. However, to criticize one candidate about one of his specks when the other might have a plank in his, is also what prudence is also about.


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Price/rebate good for XBox 360 version also.
For me, with tax and shipping it came to $36.00 even so it ended up being exactly $1 out of pocket, which is still a heck of a deal. Thanks, OP!
$1.06 for me. Stupid tax.
Thanks, it looks like it worked, but I won't know for 8-10 weeks. Since I already played the game, I'm going to trade it in for 6 bucks or so, so I will have essentially profited by around 8 bucks.
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If you want a game with 15 minute cutscenes that you can't skip, this if the game for you. Horrible.
Might be too late for PS3 version: just sold out online.
@bongrip: I would argue the story and its presentation style is the primary selling point of this game. If you want fast action without any story, go for BLOPS II or Medal of Honor:WF. Max Payne isn't a "horrible" game just because your attention span sucks.
@bigz7337: So, you took a copy from the site that someone that hasn't played it could have enjoyed? I mean, if you're gonna be greedy for your own gain, why trade it after all that work and waiting, when you could just sell it on eBay for a lot more? Greedy and lazy. Great combo.
@galapogos: I would also argue that I bought a video GAME, not a movie.
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Make a mash with the base grains and hold the temp at 100F-110F for 1-3 days. Preferably you want to cover the top of the mash with some plastic wrap as the Lactobacillus prefers oxygen free environments. Inevitably there will be some permeation of O2 into the top of the mash, that will promote the growth of pedio and some others and it will smell horrible. You can scoop the first inch or two out to not add that to the beer.
Some people mash a small portion till its really sour, then add it to a larger mash at brew day. Its a personal preference thing and there are a couple ways to get there.
You can use acidulated malt (Sauermalz) to adjust the pH of your mash. That is a Pilsener-type malt that is put in contact with lactic acid before kiln-drying. I am not sure it will make your mash really sour but it will definitely help you to lower the pH.


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In an inspection report on my house, the inspector said "hot and neutral" are not separated. I think he meant "neutral and ground" are not separated. I've attached the picture, is that the case?
I'm guessing from the image that this is a sub-panel, in which case the inspector is correct. The National Electrical Code (NEC) says:
Which means the only place the "neutral" (grounded conductor) is bonded, is in the main service panel. If the grounded (neutral) and equipment grounding conductors (EGC) are bonded anywhere else, you can end up with neutral currents on the EGC and metal parts of equipment which is a violation of 250.6(A).
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After taking another look at this, he could mean that the white insulated wires are not marked appropriately. When you use a wire with white (gray, or with three continuous white stripes) insulation as an ungrounded (hot) conductor, you have to mark the wire in some way to indicate that it is not used as a grounded (neutral) conductor.
Since the white wires connected to the breakers are not marked, it looks (to the untrained eye) as if the grounded (neutral) conductors are connected to the hot bus. The most common way to mark the wires, is to wrap a bit of black electrical tape around a small section of the wire.
It would help if you told us where you are, and what you are showing us a picture of.
If it's a main panel, neutral and ground and bonded together. If it's a sub-panel, neutral and ground must be kept separate.


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Let the functions $f_n$, $f$ be defined on $[0,1]$ by $$f_n(x) = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{ if } x \in \left[0,{1\over 2}\right] \\ 1 - n\left(x - {1 \over 2}\right)& \text{ if } x\in \left({1\over 2}, {1\over 2}+\frac{1}{n}\right] \\ 0 & \text{ if } x\in \left({1\over 2}+\frac{1}{n}, 1\right] \end{cases} \qquad f(x) = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{ if } x\in \left[0,\frac{1}{2}\right] \\ 0& \text{ if } x\in \left(\frac{1}{2}, 1\right] \end{cases} $$
Prove that $\|f_n - f\|_{\infty} = 1$ for each $n$ so that $f_n$ does not converge to $f$ in the $\sup$-norm
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I have already proven pointwise convergence of $f_n \to f$, but I have shown that the $\delta$ I require for convergence to hold depends on $n$, thus implying that $f_n \not\!\to f$ uniformly. I have a theorem that says that $f_n \to f$ in the $\sup$-norm $\Longleftrightarrow$ $f_n \to f$ uniformly. However, I am wondering how to show that $\|f_n - f\|_{\infty} = 1$ for each $n$. It seems like this would take place at $$\lim_{x \to 1/2^+}[f_n(x) - f(x)]$$ but I am not sure how to formally show this.


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There are certain cases in which an animal designated for a sin offering (Chat'as) could not be brought in the Temple, but was required to be killed ("חטאות המתות"), according to some opinions, by starvation. This seems like it conflicts with the Torah's notion of not causing "tza'ar ba'alei chayyim", excessive pain to animals. How can we reconcile this?
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Tzaar baalei chayim is usually measured by the ratio of animal pain to human gain. I guess the gain is considered high/necessary enough here?
The Noda BiHudah says directly killing the animal in any normal sort of way, e.g. deer hunting, is not considered tzaar baalei chayim per se. But yes, starvation is more problematic.
The Rambam (Hil. Pesulei Hamukdashin 4:1, from Temurah 15b ff) points out that this is a law given to Moshe (ודברים אלו כולם מפי משה רבנו נשמעו). He may be stressing that point in order to explain how indeed the rules for treating such animals can override the rule about avoiding tzaar baalei chaim.
[It's actually a matter of dispute as to whether the latter is a Biblical-level mitzvah anyway; this is discussed in Bava Metzia 32b-33a, and tangentially in other places. The accepted halachah is that it is (Rambam, Hil. Rotze'ach Ushemiras Nefesh 13:13; Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 272:9 in Hagah).]
On a basic level, it may boil down to the fact that killing it outright would be a violation of another mitzvah, that of not slaughtering sacrifices outside of the Beis Hamikdash, a sin which is punishable by kares (spiritual excision). While it is true that this penalty doesn't apply to chataos hameisos (Rambam, Hil. Maaseh Hakorbanos 18:6), that doesn't necessarily mean that it is permissible to do so.


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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: add STCI component to OMPI/RTE framework
From: Ralph Castain (rhc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-27 15:46:39
On May 27, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Edgar Gabriel <gabriel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I'll let ORNL talk about the STCI component itself (which might have
> additional reasons), but keeping the code in trunk vs. an outside
> github/mercurial repository has two advantages in my opinion: i) it
> simplifies the propagation of know-how between the groups,
Afraid I don't understand that - this is just glue, right?
> and ii)
> avoids having to keep a separate branch up to date. (We did the second
> part with OMPIO for a couple of years, and that was really painful).
Ah, perhaps this is the "rub" - are you saying that you expect us to propagate any changes in the RTE interface to your component? If so, then that violates the original agreement about this framework. It was solely to provide a point-of-interface for *external* groups to connect their RTE's into OMPI. We agreed that we would notify people of changes to that interface, and give them a chance to provide input on those changes - but under no conditions were we wiling to accept responsibility for maintaining those branch interfaces.
Given that the interface is wholly contained in the ompi/rte component, I guess I struggle to understand the code conflict issue. There is no change in the OMPI code base that can possibly conflict with your component. The only things that could impact you are changes in the OMPI layer that require modification to your component, which is something you'd have to do regardless. We will not test nor update that component for you.
> In addition, IANAL, but I was actually wandering about the implications
> of using separate code repositories outside of ompi for sharing code,
> and whether that is truly still covered by the contributors agreement
> that we all signed.
Of course not - OMPI's license only declares that anything you push into the main OMPI code repo (and hence, our official releases) is covered by that agreement. Anything you add or distribute externally is on your own. You can *choose* to license that code in accordance with the OMPI license, but you aren't *required* to do so.
> Anyway, I don't have strong feelings either way as well, just would see
> a couple of advantages (for us) if the code was in the trunk.
I'm still trying to understand those - sorry to be a pain, but my biggest fear at this point is that the perceived advantage is based on a misunderstanding, and I'd like to head that off before it causes problems.
> Thanks
> Edgar
> On 5/27/2014 1:45 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
>> I think so long as we leave these components out of any release,
>> there is a limited potential for problems (probably most importantly,
>> we sidestep all the issues about syncing releases!).
>> However, that said, I'm not sure what it gains anyone to include a
>> component that *isn't* going in a release. Nobody outside your
>> organizations is going to build against it - so what did it
>> accomplish to push the code into the repo?
>> Mind you, I'm not saying I'm staunchly opposed - just trying to
>> understand how it benefits anyone.
>> On May 27, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Edgar Gabriel <gabriel_at_[hidden]>
>> wrote:
>>> To through in my $0.02, I would see a benefit in adding the
>>> component to the trunk. As I mentioned in the last teleconf, we are
>>> currently working on adding support for the HPX runtime environment
>>> to Open MPI, and for various reasons (that I can explain if
>>> somebody is interested), we think at the moment that using the RTE
>>> abstraction layer could be easier for achieving what we want to do.
>>> That is not at all a judgment on ORTE, but a combination of what
>>> HPX offers and what we want to achieve within that project.
>>> I do not foresee at this point that our component would be
>>> production quality or part of an upcoming OMPI release, having
>>> however another component in the rte framework could be useful
>>> from our point of view. (And yes, the person that asked the pmi/rte
>>> question on the mailing list was my student who tried to make the
>>> pmi component work, and was confused about the fact that other
>>> emails said that the pmi stuff is working, while he couldn't even
>>> get it to compile :)
>>> Edgar
>>> On 5/27/2014 12:23 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>>> I have mixed thoughts on this request. We have a policy of only
>>>> including things in the code base that are of general utility -
>>>> i.e., that should be generally distributed across the community.
>>>> This component is only applicable to ORNL, and it would therefore
>>>> seem more sensible to have it continue to be maintained there.
>>>> I'm unaware of anyone outside of ORNL that regularly tests for
>>>> ompi-rte abstraction violations, and I suspect that your
>>>> internal tests are the right place for catching them as nobody
>>>> else really seems to care. It isn't clear to me how adding this
>>>> component directly to the general code base impacts that
>>>> operation. The original PMI component in the ompi/rte framework
>>>> wasn't intended to provide an alternative method for building
>>>> OMPI - it was solely created to support the development of that
>>>> framework and had no intended utility beyond that time (hence the
>>>> RFC to remove it to avoid user confusion as we just saw on the
>>>> user mailing list).
>>>> On May 27, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Thomas Naughton
>>>> <naughtont_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>> WHAT: add new component to ompi/rte framework
>>>>> WHY: because it will simplify our maintenance & provide an
>>>>> alt. reference
>>>>> WHEN: no rush, soon-ish? (June 12?)
>>>>> This is a component we currently maintain outside of the ompi
>>>>> tree to support using OMPI with an alternate runtime system.
>>>>> This will also provide an alternate component to ORTE, which
>>>>> was motivation for PMI component in related RFC. We
>>>>> build/test nightly and it occasionally catches ompi-rte
>>>>> abstraction violations, etc.
>>>>> Thomas
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6 Badass Jobs That You're Probably Already Qualified to Do
Everyone dreams of having a more exciting job, like the ones we see in movies and on television all the time. But those dreams tend to be quickly crushed by the realization that all the really badass jobs are the ones that require the kind of training that is next to impossible for most of us to accomplish without capturing a wish-granting leprechaun.
Well, as it turns out, some of the most awesomely portrayed jobs in movies require almost no training whatsoever and can be done by almost any old jackass who walks in off the street. Like ...
#6. Bounty Hunter
The Badass Job:
Bounty hunting is a centuries-old, time-honored tradition, where grizzled bastards harder than a coffin nail set out to capture other, possibly even more grizzled bastards, armed with only their wits, guts and whatever trusted weaponry they can carry. One larger-than-life character after another has roamed the modern bounty-hunting circuit, bringing bad guys to justice and looking like real-life versions of action movie heroes in the process.
"These are just my Thursday night bullets. I don't put on the good ones 'til Sunday."
In movies, bounty hunters have been played by everyone from Clint Eastwood (For a Few Dollars More) to Robert DeNiro (Midnight Run) to the Rock (The Rundown), and there's a reason why Star Wars fans love Boba Fett despite the fact that he doesn't do anything. It's because the idea of cruising around, answering to no man as you doggedly pursue your prey is as badass as it gets. It's a job that has all of the action and danger of being a cop, with none of the rules. You're operating beyond the law to bring criminals to justice and collect your reward.
Your reward is years of painful digestion in a sarlacc!
To do it in real life, there must be years of training to be undertaken, possibly even a previous career in law enforcement or some horrible personal tragedy that must be avenged. You don't just wake up one day and decide you're going to start driving around looking for dangerous fugitives who wouldn't hesitate to throw a shotgun blast into your face like confetti at a disco.
But in Reality ...
We have charted the path to becoming a bounty hunter below:
1) Decide to become a bounty hunter.
2) You are now a bounty hunter.
OK, a dinosaur bounty hunter.
Turns out the Taylor v. Taintor Supreme Court case from 1872 -- a ruling that, stripped from its law-talk, basically says that it's OK for people to be bounty hunters -- is used in many states as the be-all and end-all of their bounty-hunting legislation, despite it technically having no binding precedential value whatsoever. While bounty-hunting requirements do vary from state to state, it tends to be more about what color form (if any) you have to fill before getting your badge than what your required training is -- because there are no diplomas nor any training whatsoever that you legally need to practice the profession.
Not even a mullet.
Sure, there are bounty hunting "schools" you can attend, but even they themselves admit that they're pretty much bullshit. Just operate within the laws in your state, grab your favorite pair of leather pants and feather earrings, and find yourself a bail bondsman to work with and you could have your own reality show/Tony Scott movie in no time, provided the first criminal you put your hands on doesn't immediately stab a straight razor into your eye socket.
#5. Martial Arts Instructor
The Badass Job:
Every single one of us has at some point spent time in front of a mirror, imagination-kicking opponents into oblivion with fierce karate stylings. And every single one of us has wished Mr. Miyagi would walk in at that exact moment, notice our uncanny potential and whisk us away to his dojo to be sculpted into the ultimate fighting machine.
Don't ask how he got in. He has a key. To everything.
Martial arts instructors get to do that exact thing for living, passing their mystical knowledge on to a host of students via bizarre, seemingly unrelated tasks that only become clear once the training is complete.
Their methods are the result of decades of tutelage under great masters of the past. Their art is more of a religion than a form of combat. They rarely speak, choosing their words carefully so that each syllable is laced with ancient wisdom gleaned from a lifetime of intense study and dedication. You can see it everywhere from Morpheus in The Matrix to the old master in Kill Bill Volume 2:
"It takes years of training to not get a wedgie from the high tension wire."
Of course, martial arts instructors exist in the real world, too, and the list of requirements for the job must be mind-boggling. That's why the movies portray these people as being almost magical -- after all, they're turning their students into living weapons. To do that job in reality, at the very least you'd have to have devoted your entire life to the study of your art, passing rigorous tests that would cripple an average man.
But in Reality ...
Nope, not at all. You don't even need a black belt or a trainer's license.
The martial arts industry has zero governmental or centralized regulations or standards, meaning that any dickhead can set up a school if they want.
"Today, young wards, you'll tell the police officers outside that we've been training for the last 48 hours straight."
There's no word on exactly how many fake instructors are out there, but the problem is large enough that the martial arts community is pretty furious about it. Several legit martial artists are hunting down and naming particularly blatant examples of fake instructors on a site called Bullshido. People have also written detailed instructions on how to spot a fake instructor, and apparently the fake martial artists are even unionizing, although someone should probably point out that their make-believe ninja moves are useless against real, actual karate.
Still, they're very well-trained in Taek Ma Do.
This means that you, too, can totally bullshit your way into martial arts instructordom pretty much any time you want. Your options for this are practically unlimited, from inventing your own style to buying a certificate with hard cash to just claiming expertise in an established martial art. Whichever avenue you choose, you can start giving courses right away. Just be careful to avoid sparring with someone who actually knows what the hell they are doing, or your ruse will become apparent almost immediately.
#4. Private Detective
The Badass Job:
You know them best from fiction: Sam Spade. Hercule Poirot. Sherlock Holmes.
"See, if we just remove the rubber mask, then we find the real culprit is -- oh. It's racism."
Different men in the same business -- the business of solving crimes that the police either can't or won't. Their methods may vary, but they all get results. Sure, they may take a bump or two in the process, but hey, that's just part of the job. And it's not just some silly fictional job dreamed up by writers, either: Private investigator is a very real profession, and one that can be pretty diverse and interesting.
"Diverse" here meaning "accelerating lung cancer and studying a child's brick."
The reality of private investigation might not be quite as glamorous as the myth of it (although we have to imagine that the temptation to speak in 1940s gumshoe slang is pretty hard to resist), but that almost makes the people who actually do manage to work in the business seem even more awesome.
But how do they become private eyes? In the movies and on TV, they're usually ex-cops with years on the job. You'd almost have to be; after all, you'd need keen detection skills, dubious yet trustworthy underworld contacts, an intricate knowledge of the back alleys and motorways of the city's seedy underbelly and a perpetually refilling flask of whiskey. No one just develops all the moxie for a job like that overnight.
It takes seven, maybe 12 DUIs.
But in Reality ...
While spending years in the police force before getting booted out unceremoniously is definitely one way to become a private eye, there are alternate routes. For instance, you could just take a short course online, like this one. Or if you don't like that one, try this one.
There are plenty of training centers willing to let you in on all the wonderful secrets of private detection that require basically the same amount of effort from you as a few all-nighters stuck reading obscure Wikipedia articles. At the end of the course, you press the "Print" button and voila! Out comes a diploma that actually enables you to start your new, awesome career as a private eye. It literally couldn't be any easier.
The mood lighting will probably set you back a fortune, though.
Wait, actually -- yes it could. Now that we think about it, there is an even quicker road to your own trench coat and grubby office: You just need to happen to live in the right state.
You see, requirements for private investigators in the USA vary between states. Sure, in some states you need to pass a tedious examination and have a law enforcement background in order to get your license, while many others start throwing licenses at you if you just bother to skim through one of those online courses. And then, of course, there's Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, South Dakota and Mississippi, where you can just set up your office right the hell now, as these states have no requirements for private investigators whatsoever.
"When trouble walked in on 4-inch heels, I thanked God I got my diploma in film noir cliches."


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Four wonderful Topeka homeowners have graciously offered their homes for this year's 25th Annual CASA Homes for the Holidays tour. They've each decorated for the holidays, and shared a go-to holiday recipe with 13 News This Morning. Now we're sharing them with you!
Topeka's Clarion Lakes is filled with beautiful homes, including one belonging to Steve & Derie Briman. When Chris and I arrived, Derie had the house filled with the delicious smell of cinnamon. Derie's husband is Jewish, so she prepared a traditional Jewish dish for us - Kugel - and decided their home on the tour would have a different twist: a winter and Hannukah theme.
At the Briman home you'll see beautiful winter decor, coupled with traditional Hannukah decorations in the lower level of the home. Steve even arranged to have someone at the home during the tour to answer questions about the traditions and meaning of Hannukah.
The tour raises money for CASA of Shawnee County. CASA is Court Appointed Special Advocates for children. The organization's mission is to be the voice for abused and neglected children in the court system, to make sure they don't get lost in the legal and social service system.
You can experience Derie's home, and three amazing others, the weekend before Thanksgiving in Topeka by going on the home tour! I've listed the information for you below, as well as Derie's Kugel recipe. Enjoy and happy holidays!
Saturday, November 17
Sunday, November 18
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
$9 in advance - $10 at the door
(Visit in any order)
8311 SW 33rd (CASA Collective)
4414 SW Clarion Lakes Drive
3616 SW York Way
2233 SW Millers Glenn Drive
1 large package of regular size egg noodles
7 eggs
1¼cups butter, melted
4 heaping Tbsp cinnamon
1¼cups sugar
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Boil noodles per package directions.
Meanwhile, mix well all remaining ingredients.
When noodles are cooked, drain and rinse. Fold noodles into egg mixture, evenly coating all noodles.
Pour noodle mixture into deep 9x13 cake pan.
Bake at 400 degrees 30 minutes. Then, reduce oven to 300 degrees and bake another 40 minutes.


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March 19, 2009 -- Maggot therapy -- using live maggots to eat away dead tissue -- is more painful and does not lead to faster healing of leg ulcers than standard treatment.
Maggot therapy uses the larvae of the green bottle fly, also known as the green blowfly. Maggots eat only dead tissue without harming living tissue. That makes maggot therapy an efficient way for doctors to rid wounds of dead and decaying tissue, a procedure called debridement.
People with poor circulation in their legs often develop difficult-to-treat leg ulcers. Standard treatments for these ulcers employs various kinds of hydrogels -- wet dressings that pull dead tissue from the ulcers.
With hydrogels, but not with maggot therapy, a compression dressing can be used to cover the wound and ease patients' pain.
But because debridement is an important part of wound management, maggot therapy (also called larval therapy) is on the rise.
Yet there have been few randomized, controlled clinical trials of maggot therapy, note Jo C. Dumville, PhD, of the University of York, Enlgand, and colleagues. To remedy the situation, they enrolled 267 patients with leg ulcers and at least 25% wound coverage with dead tissue.
Patients were treated either with loose maggots, maggots contained in a net bag, or a hydrogel product.
Maggot therapy did indeed remove dead tissues better than standard therapy. Yet patients treated with either form of maggot therapy did not heal significantly more quickly than those given the standard treatment.
However, patients who received maggot therapy reported twice as much pain prior to healing as did patients who received standard treatment.
"We found no evidence to recommend the routine use of larval therapy on sloughy leg ulcers to speed up healing or reduce bacterial load," Dumville and colleagues conclude. "If debridement in itself is a goal of treatment ... then larval therapy should be considered; however, it is associated with significantly more pain than hydrogel."
Dumville and colleagues report their findings in the March 19 Online First edition of BMJ.


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PETERSEN MEDIA: After several weeks off from competing with the Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour, Shane Stewart and his ROCKSTAR/Makita/Silva Motorsports team head to the West coast for six nights of action at three different tracks kicking off in Washington this weekend.
The West coast swing is one Stewart is particularly fond of because in the years prior to him hitting the road on the national scene, him and now car owner, Paul Silva, made their rounds out west driving for Mike Doyle in the potent Doyle's Harley Davidson Machine.
Stewart and his team will first check into the Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, WA for the Fifth Annual Fred Brownfield Memorial. Stewart and Paul Silva have been very successful at this event in the past as they captured the first two editions of this race in 2007 and 2008 before charging to eighth from the B in 2009, and grabbing the second spot in 2010.
Following two nights of action in Washington, the series sets its sites to the racy Cottage Grove Speedway, in Cottage Grove, OR. The Cottage Grove Speedway has been one Stewart has had great runs at and picked off numerous wins. The last two years at the track Stewart has picked up a win and a fourth with the series. Early this year during a 410ci event at the track The ROCSKTAR/Makita A.R.T. was on its way to a victory before motor issues ended Shane's night prematurely.
New to the Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour schedule in 2011 is two nights of action at the tight confines of Placerville Speedway in Placerville, CA. Though new to the schedule on the national scene, this place is familiar to Stewart and car owner, Paul Silva as Silva grew up at the track and got his start as a car owner racing at this facility. The last time the duo made an appearance at this speedway was in 2009 when Stewart made a late race pass around the late, great, Jesse Hockett, to grab the win in front of a jam-packed crowd.
"I'm definitely looking forward to getting out West," said Shane. "Paul and I worked for Doyle a few years ago and ran these tracks several times a season and had a lot of success at them. It's also special because a lot of our sponsors are out West, and they don't get a chance to watch us race, and its nice to show them what we do week in, and week out."
The Silva Motorsports team thanks ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK, Makita Industrial Power Tools, Lucas Oil Products, A.R.T. Speed Equipment, Pro Bilt Construction, Palmero Properties, Cross Creek Trucking, Finley Farms, Car and Fleet, Race Gear X, OMP Racing, Wesmar Racing Engines, McColloch's RV, Shift Creative, Amerikote, XYZ, Hoosier Tire, Pro, Banshee Graphics, Dan Olson Products, K&N Filters, RE Technologies, Weld, Schoenfeld Headers, Butlerbuilt Seats, Vortex Wings, CP Pistons, Cometic Gaskets, Huggins Cams BR Ignitioneering and Seven Industries for their partnership in 2011.
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If you have what it takes to be a W&M student, the Financial Aid Office will use all available aid sources to help meet as much of your need as possible. Through a combination of financial aid options - including grants, loans, and Federal Work-Study - we will make every effort to keep your loan debt as low as possible.
We typically meet 100% of demonstrated financial need for in-state students, and through the William & Mary Promise, implemented in 2013, we reduced loans and increased grants for entering Virginians. Qualifying out-of-state students may receive up to 25% of their full cost of attendance in grant aid.
All returning students need to complete the FAFSA every year. Our federal school code is 003705. Freshman and transfer applicants must complete the FAFSA in order to be eligible for federal financial aid. Freshman and transfer applicants also must complete the CSS Profile (code number 5115) in order to receive any additional financial aid. Please note that consideration for merit scholarships does not require the submission of either the FAFSA or CSS Profile.
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From 2004 to 2012, Brazil's consumption of finished lubricants grew by 33% to reach 1.23 million metric tons (metric MMt) of products in 2012, according to the new IHS chemical special market research report. The total 2012 global market for lubricants was approximately 39 metric MMt.
An accelerating economy has doubled the passenger car fleet
in Brazil to about 30 million vehicles since 2000. The new car
fleet has also driven significant demand increases for
lubricants in this country. These trends have combined to
propel Brazil to the sixth-largest lubricants market globally,
after China, the US, India, Japan and Russia, but ahead
of Germany.
From 2004 to
2012, Brazils consumption of finished lubricants grew by
33% to reach 1.23 million metric tons (metric MMt) of products
in 2012, according to the new IHS chemical special market
research report. The total 2012 global market for lubricants
was approximately 39 metric MMt.
According to
IHS, nearly 70% of all lubricants used in Brazil are for
automotive applications such as motor oils; diesel, gasoline
and flex fuels; greases; powertrain fluids for transmissions
and axles; and motorcycle fluids. Other uses include industrial
lubricants for process, marine and specialty applications
(aerospace, electronics, fine mechanics, vacuum technologies
and high-temperature). Globally, automotive applications
account for 56% of lubricants used.
increase in demand for lubricants is a direct reflection of its
economic growth, said Dr. Stefan Mueller, author of the
study and a specialty chemical analyst at IHS. The
countrys GDP tripled during 2004 to 2011, and, with that
impressive growth, the disposable income of the population grew
rapidly, allowing many families to buy their first car. This
rise in economic activity propelled the lubricants market to
new heights in Brazil, since automotive applications constitute
a majority of lubricant uses in the country.
there is ample room for growth in automotive demand in Brazil,
which will continue to expand the need for lubricants.
The Brazilian automotive market continues to be driven by
formal employment creation, improved financing rates that are
at an all-time low, and a low unemployment rate, said
Guido Vildozo, Brazilian automotive analyst for IHS Automotive.
This powerful combination, which enables consumers
access to credit, will continue to drive Brazilian automotive
demand for years to come.
Brazil also
has a low motorization rate of five people per car, thus
allowing ample market growth. IHS expects the Brazilian auto
market to be close to 5 million units before the end of this
decade. Forecast that the motorization rate will approach 3.3
people per car during the next 10 years. Brazil has become such
a critical pillar of growth for original equipment
manufacturers worldwide, and the same can be said for producers
of lubricants that supply the automotive sector.
While the
Brazilian lubricant industry has changed significantly for the
better quality and quantity of its products, the industry still
faces some significant technological and regulatory challenges
that it must addressed, says Mueller. From a quality
perspective, the lubricants market will change greatly before
2020. New regulations are coming that demand less air pollution
as well a decrease in fuel consumption for motor vehicles.
These goals can be achieved only by introducing products based
on higher-quality base oils, and new additive chemistry that
has already been developed in North America and Europe.
challenge, Mueller added, will be for Brazilian market
participants to decide whether to upgrade technology and invest in the
required production plants or to import those products over
time. With the trade balance for chemicals in an increasing
deficit, he expects the government will likely offer incentives
to install the required plants and to encourage refiners to
increase collection and re-refinement of used oils to help
decrease the requirement for base oil imports.
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