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A Common Purpose
On the occasion of the NAACP's 100-year anniversary, a look back at how Columbia Law School students and faculty members helped the organization reshape the course of history and bring about positive change for millions.
Picture the scene in a dilapidated building at 107 West 43rd Street in the early 1950s. A cadre of lawyers, including law professors and students, has for months been working 15-hour days and longer, without more than an occasional day off. The fatigue is such that one of the younger staffers, Jack Greenberg '48, traveling home to his family in Brooklyn late one night, falls asleep on the subway, rides past his stop, and awakens in the train yard at the end of the line.
The group toils in "a pretty crummy set of offices—old desks and tables and partitions," recalls Greenberg's classmate Jack B. Weinstein '48, who, at the time, was a recently hired Columbia Law professor that Greenberg had recruited to join the group. "I would characterize it as 1930s bail bondsman décor." The offices are largely un–air conditioned; the elevator creaks and sometimes stinks of urine.
But the work is electrifying. Here at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the lawyerly arm of the nation's most important civil rights organization, Thurgood Marshall is leading the campaign to desegregate schools through five Supreme Court cases that collectively come to be known as Brown v. Board of Education. And Columbia-trained lawyers, both black and white, play significant roles. Robert L. Carter '41 LL.M. serves as Marshall's deputy and chief strategist. He and Greenberg, along with five others, will argue the cases before the Court in 1952 and 1953. Constance Baker Motley '46, who joined the effort even before she had graduated, is researching and writing briefs along with Weinstein and his faculty colleague Charles Black.
So begins an extensive and historic association between Columbia Law School and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which this year marks a century of struggle for racial and social justice with a series of centennial celebrations.
"The tentacles spread more widely than one could ever guess," muses Professor Theodore M. Shaw '79, "all these individuals, all these relationships, so many connections." Shaw could serve as Exhibit A: Drawn as a student to the Law School by its reputation for pioneering civil rights involvement, he studied evidence with Weinstein. Shaw also enrolled in a seminar on race and poverty law that Jack Greenberg, by then head of the Legal Defense Fund, was teaching as an adjunct. A few years after his graduation, Shaw joined the Legal Defense Fund, where Greenberg had entered his third decade of leadership. Shaw rose to become director-counsel himself, then, last year, came full circle, returning to the Law School to join Greenberg on the faculty. Now Shaw is the one teaching the race and poverty law seminar. "Jack sort of passed it on to me," he says.
The NAACP was born in a New York apartment, a response by a handful of activists to the lethal riots that had broken out the previous summer in Springfield, Ill. That was Abraham Lincoln's hometown, and the new group's founders chose February 12, 1909, the centennial of the Great Emancipator's birth, to issue its Call. The eight-paragraph document questioned whether the nation had fulfilled such ideals as "assuring to each and every citizen, irrespective of color, the equality of opportunity and equality before the law, which underlie our American institutions and are guaranteed by the Constitution." It had not, the Call concluded: "If Mr. Lincoln could revisit this country in the flesh, he would be disheartened and discouraged."
The Legal Defense Fund followed, and though it was separately incorporated in 1940, LDF and its parent initially functioned as intertwined organizations. NAACP board members sat on the Defense Fund board as well; Marshall served simultaneously as the NAACP's general counsel and as LDF's first director-counsel. "They were connected at the hip," Shaw says. Before the Fund moved to West 43rd Street, the groups had shared office space in a midtown building whose directory didn't even mention LDF as an independent entity.
That changed after the Supreme Court victory. "The southern senators went after us in retaliation for Brown v. Board of Education," Greenberg explains. They pressured the Internal Revenue Service, which threatened the Legal Defense Fund's tax-exempt status. Since the law at the time forbade any political lobbying or advocacy by a 501(c)(3) organization like LDF, the groups separated their staff, leadership, and board members.
Yet even as they took steps to disentangle themselves, and for decades afterwards endured some tension, "the NAACP has had a mission that's entirely consistent with the mission of the Legal Defense Fund," Shaw says. At one point, the parent unsuccessfully sued its spin-off to prevent it from using the initials NAACP, he recalls. Yet, "the two organizations have worked together often."
After the split, Robert Carter became Columbia Law School's connection to the national NAACP organization. A quiet, even shy man, he'd never quite meshed with the more charismatic Thurgood Marshall, despite their dozen years together in the legal trenches. When Marshall sent him to the NAACP to be its general counsel in 1956, Carter was infuriated by what seemed like "obviously a demotion," he wrote in his 2005 memoir. "While we never said one harsh word directly to each other, my anger and feeling that he had badly used me were no secret . . . ."
Nevertheless, Carter determinedly set about protecting the NAACP from assaults in southern states—wielding, in NAACP v. Alabama, a First Amendment argument he had developed years before in his Columbia Law School master's thesis. With an expanded NAACP legal staff, he pursued a variety of education and employment discrimination cases and claimed 21 victories in 22 appearances before the Supreme Court. Now about to turn 92, Carter has served as a federal judge in the Southern District of New York since 1972. Among his numerous awards, the one he treasures most is the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, which recognizes African-Americans for "acts of distinguished merit and achievement."
At the Legal Defense Fund, meanwhile, the bonds also intensified. "The staff was heavily Columbia for a long, long time, maybe up to half the people," says Greenberg, who took the helm at the LDF when Marshall was appointed to the federal bench in 1961, and who kept the pipeline flowing.
Julius Chambers '64 LL.M., for example, was the LDF's very first student intern and later succeeded Greenberg as director-counsel. Greenberg also brought aboard his former student Ted Shaw, William Robinson '66, and, later, Patrick O. Patterson '72, Judith Browne-Dianis '92, and Deborah Fins '92, among others. Bill Lann Lee '74 put his years with the LDF to use under President Bill Clinton, as the assistant attorney general for civil rights.
Lawyers could travel the well-trod path in either direction. James S. Liebman worked on school desegregation, capital punishment, and habeas corpus cases as LDF's assistant counsel in the 1980s, then became the Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law at Columbia. The association hardly ended with Liebman's Law School appointment, however; he has arranged for students to assist with briefs for Supreme Court cases he has undertaken, pro bono, for LDF. He has also involved students in a major capital punishment investigation, with the LDF as a partner.
James Meredith '68 occupies a unique category: He wasn't an LDF staffer, but one of its most prominent clients. An African-American military veteran attempting to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1961, Meredith's case generated international headlines. Constance Baker Motley eventually won his admission in an extended court battle; Meredith was nevertheless repeatedly turned away from the university, amid rioting, by the governor of the state. It took Army troops and the National Guard, along with the Justice Department and a proclamation by President Kennedy, to get Meredith registered. His graduation from Ole Miss in 1963 was the most thrilling day in Motley's career, she later said. And it wasn't coincidental that when Meredith decided he wanted to study law, he came to Columbia.
In the Fund's early years, the half-credit Columbia course called Legal Survey, taught by Professor Walter Gellhorn '31, operated as a kind of incubator, preparing civil rights attorneys for work at LDF and other public interest organizations. Its bland name was deliberate: Gellhorn, who had already been compelled to appear before Congress to swear that he wasn't a communist, "didn't want the faculty to know what [the course] was about," says Greenberg, who took the course for four semesters. "He didn't lie about it, but he didn't advertise it. The dean at that time was not very friendly to civil rights."
That's an odd, antiquated notion now. Take, for instance, the case of Anurima Bhargava '02. "Much of the reason I went to Columbia was because of its work in civil rights and human rights law," says the young lawyer. Bhargava studied civil procedure with Greenberg ("he taught us through his experience litigating LDF cases") and took Professor Susan Sturm's yearlong field research seminar on workplace equity.
Joining LDF herself in 2004, Bhargava now directs the organization's education practice. (Kirsten Clarke '00 and Jin Hee Lee '00 are also current LDF lawyers.) "In many of our cases, we work with local chapters of the NAACP, either as our clients or as ties to the community," Bhargava points out. "NAACP chapters still serve as the eyes and ears of the LDF."
The connections continue to multiply. Several years ago, as the Law School began contemplating some sort of institute that would "rethink the framework for seeking legal and social justice," Professor Susan Sturm recalls, she and her colleagues learned that the Legal Defense Fund was considering a similar idea. The resulting Center for Institutional and Social Change, launched in 2007, represents a Columbia Law School and LDF collaboration—an attempt, Sturm says, to answer questions like: "What does racial justice look like in an era when the courts are in retrenchment mode?" and "What does it mean to be a leader for people of color at this historic moment?" About a dozen Law School faculty and 30 students each year have undertaken projects for the center dealing with issues such as higher education, low-wage work, policing, and housing policies.
Dovetailing concern about progress on civil rights issues has also led to such joint events as "Twenty Years after McCleskey v. Kemp," a 2007 conference co-sponsored by the Law School and LDF to mark what Professor Jeffrey Fagan calls "an unpleasant landmark"—the Supreme Court ruling that racially disparate patterns in applying the death penalty did not violate constitutional prohibitions against racial discrimination. With the conference, which drew about 125 participants, both organizations hoped "to reignite interest in racial bias in capital punishment among legal scholars and civil rights activists," Fagan says, and to "identify strategies to reduce racially disproportionate treatment of racial minorities in both death penalty cases and throughout the criminal justice system."
Meanwhile, Columbia Law School students contributed 2,559 hours of pro bono work for the Legal Defense Fund between 1996 and 2007, and Law School students intern there virtually every summer. "It's one of the more exciting placements," says Akua Akyea, the director of international and summer programs at the Law School's Center for Public Interest Law. Students who compete for LDF internships "like that the organization takes on cases that are difficult and new, and require a level of creativity by lawyers that you don't find in a lot of other organizations," Akyea says. (Among the lengthening list of Columbia Law School alumni who've interned for LDF: Eric Holder '76, the U.S. attorney general.)
Sometimes, connections between Columbia Law School, the NAACP, and the LDF arise in less straightforward ways. Consider the events of December 1992, when students were protesting Columbia University's plans to build a biomedical research center on the site of the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated. A throng descended on the Hamilton Hall offices of the Columbia College dean—at the time, Law School alumnus Jack Greenberg. Among the protest leaders was a junior named Ben Jealous.
"He chained me into my office!" says Greenberg, still sounding a bit indignant. The protest lasted only a few hours, after which Greenberg emerged, gave the demonstrators "a tongue-lashing," walked out onto Broadway, and got into a cab. Jealous and three other students were suspended for a semester. Four years passed before he returned to Columbia and completed his political science degree, but Jealous made up for lost time. "He ended up being a Rhodes scholar," Greenberg notes.
And last summer, Benjamin T. Jealous became the 17th president—and, at 35, the youngest—of the NAACP.


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Given a non-negative function $u $ defined on $\mathbb{R}^2 $ , and satisfies : $ \Delta u \leq 0 $ .
How can I prove that $u$ must be constant? Is there an easy way to do it ?
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Given a non-negative function $u $ defined on $\mathbb{R}^2 $ , and satisfies : $ \Delta u \leq 0 $ .
How can I prove that $u$ must be constant? Is there an easy way to do it ?
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The function is superharmonic (due to the condition on Laplacian, note that subharmonic is wider spread but this is just a sign-change) and bounded below thus it is constant, by some analog of Liouville's theorem.
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Things like this can, as commented by Mateusz Wasilewski, be found in certain complex analysis textbooks. (Though as said subharmonic and bounded above is I think a more common formulation, but this is just a sign change.) Here are some lecture notes that contain an essentially selfcontained exposition; see Theorem 8 and the remark following it (note that the definition of subharmonic is different and things are for the complex plane, but this is fine, compare the page linked above).
I don't know whether this counts (probably it doesn't) as an easy solution, but you can use Ito's lemma to conclude that $u(W_{t})$ (where $W_{t}$ denotes a two-dimensional Wiener process) is a nonnegative supermartingale, hence it converges almost surely. However, it is known that we can approach every point on a plane by a Wiener process, so $u$ must be constant because the limit is unique.
This is actually pretty cool. Superharmonic functions bounded below in $\mathbb{R}^2$ are constant, while there are nonconstant superharmonic functions bounded below in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n \geq 3$. Here is a proof that doesn't use complex analysis, and only uses that the fundamental solution in $\mathbb{R}^2$ ($\log(|x|)$) is unbounded from above and below, and the maximum principle.
Slide $u$ so that its minimum on $\partial B_1$ is $0$. Take the fundamental solution $f(x) = -\log|x|$, which is $0$ on $\partial B_1$. Since $u$ is bounded below and log is unbounded, $\epsilon f(x) < u(x)$ for $|x|$ sufficiently large (depending on $\epsilon$). By the maximum principle, $u(x) \geq \epsilon f(x)$ in $\mathbb{R}^2 - B_1$ for all $\epsilon$. Taking $\epsilon$ to $0$, we see that $u \geq 0$ outside $B_1$. But then, we see that $u$ takes its minimum in $\bar{B_1}$, and by the mean value inequality any superharmonic function with an interior minimum must be constant!
This result is false in higher dimensions. For a counterexample, just take the fundamental solution $|x|^{2-n}$ and cap it off above in $B_1$ by a paraboloid and smooth it out.

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The closest star to Earth (after the Sun) is well-known: Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light years away. But what about the closest exoplanet to Earth, outside of the Solar System?
Funnily enough, just until recently, the nearest exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb was believed to be
Source: Nearest exoplanet to Earth may be a ghost world (Aron, 2013). However, according to the article, recent observations have suggested that it may not actually be there. So the answer to this question is not all that clear.
The Paris Observatory has a list of all exoplanets in a sortable database at exoplanet.eu.
According to the Paris Observatory catalogue, if Alpha Centauri Bb does not actually exist, the next closest is the just-larger-than Jupiter sized Epsilon Eradani B (not a hot-Jupiter), at 10.5 light years away. Which according to Nearest Planet Beyond Solar System Might Be Photogenic (Than, 2006):
There is speculation that more planets may exist in that system as with dust rings.


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Climate Change
Climate Change Indicators in the United States
Important Concepts in This Chapter
Weather is the state of the atmosphere at any given time and place. Most of the weather that affects people, agriculture, and ecosystems takes place in the lower layer of the atmosphere. Familiar aspects of weather include temperature, precipitation, clouds, and wind that people experience throughout the course of a day. Severe weather conditions include hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, and droughts.
Climate is the long-term average of the weather in a given place. While the weather can change in minutes or hours, a change in climate is something that develops over longer periods of decades to centuries. Climate is defined not only by average temperature and precipitation but also by the type, frequency, duration, and intensity of weather events such as heat waves, cold spells, storms, floods, and droughts.
While the concepts of climate and weather are often confused, it is important to understand the difference. For example, the eastern United States experienced a cold and snowy winter in 2013/2014, but this short-term regional weather phenomenon does not negate the long-term rise in national and global temperatures, sea level, or other climate indicators. It may be helpful to think about the difference between weather and climate with an analogy: weather influences what clothes you wear on a given day, while the climate where you live influences the entire wardrobe you buy.
Rising global average temperature is associated with widespread changes in weather patterns. Scientific studies indicate that extreme weather events such as heat waves and large storms are likely to become more frequent or more intense with human-induced climate change. This chapter focuses on observed changes in temperature, precipitation, storms, and droughts.
Why does it matter?
Long-term changes in climate can directly or indirectly affect many aspects of society in potentially disruptive ways. For example, warmer average temperatures could increase air conditioning costs and affect the spread of diseases like Lyme disease, but could also improve conditions for growing some crops. More extreme variations in weather are also a threat to society. More frequent and intense extreme heat events can increase illnesses and deaths, especially among vulnerable populations, and damage some crops. Similarly, increased precipitation can replenish water supplies and support agriculture, but intense storms can damage property, cause loss of life and population displacement, and temporarily disrupt essential services such as transportation, telecommunications, energy, and water supplies.
Summary of Key Points
- U.S. and Global Temperature. Average temperatures have risen across the contiguous 48 states since 1901, with an increased rate of warming over the past 30 years. Seven of the top 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1998. Average global temperatures show a similar trend, and the top 10 warmest years on record worldwide have all occurred since 1998. Within the United States, temperatures in parts of the North, the West, and Alaska have increased the most.
- High and Low Temperatures. Many extreme temperature conditions are becoming more common. Since the 1970s, unusually hot summer temperatures have become more common in the United States, and heat waves have become more frequent—although the most severe heat waves in U.S. history remain those that occurred during the "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s. Record-setting daily high temperatures have become more common than record lows. The decade from 2000 to 2009 had twice as many record highs as record lows.
- U.S. and Global Precipitation. Total annual precipitation has increased in the United States and over land areas worldwide. Since 1901, precipitation has increased at an average rate of 0.15 inches per decade in the contiguous 48 states and 0.09 inches per decade over land areas worldwide. However, shifting weather patterns have caused certain areas, such as the Southwest, to experience less precipitation than usual.
- Heavy Precipitation. In recent years, a higher percentage of precipitation in the United States has come in the form of intense single-day events. Nationwide, eight of the top 10 years for extreme one-day precipitation events have occurred since 1990. The occurrence of abnormally high annual precipitation totals (as defined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has also increased.
- Drought. Average drought conditions across the nation have varied since records began in 1895. The 1930s and 1950s saw the most widespread droughts, while the last 50 years have generally been wetter than average. However, specific trends vary by region. A more detailed index developed recently shows that between 2000 and 2014, roughly 20 to 70 percent of the United States experienced drought at any given time, but this index has not been in use for long enough to compare with historical drought patterns.
- A Closer Look: Temperature and Drought in the Southwest. The southwestern United States is particularly sensitive to changes in temperature and thus vulnerable to drought, as even a small decrease in water availability in this already arid region can threaten natural systems and society.
- Tropical Cyclone Activity. Tropical storm activity in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico has increased during the past 20 years. Increased storm intensity is closely related to variations in sea surface temperature in the tropical Atlantic. However, changes in observation methods over time make it difficult to know for sure whether a long-term increase in storm activity has occurred. Records collected since the late 1800s suggest that the actual number of hurricanes per year has not increased.


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Inner beauty on a plate
Feel-fine dining.
We believe our food should be like everything else we offer at Champneys Tring - not only healthy, but also a delight to the senses. Our head chefs and nutritionists work together to plan menus, relying on the principle of moderation, balance and variety. This means nutritious gourmet cuisine, in proper portion sizes, beautifully presented and using fresh locally sourced ingredients, often grown in our own vegetable gardens.
We are what we eat
Healthy eating begins with thinking and talking. Your health, medical history, eating habits and lifestyle will all influence your nutritional needs. If you need to discuss any aspect of your diet with an expert, book a consultation with one of our nutritionists, who will be happy to help you. They can also create a diet plan to follow during your stay and at home.
Champneys Tring also offers Food Sensitivity Screening that quickly detects food intolerances and vitamin and mineral deficiencies.


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The Van der Pol equation, given by
$$x'' + x = g x' (1 - x^2),$$
has periodic solutions $x(t)$, with the period $T(g)$ depending on the parameter. Thus, one can expand $x(t)$ as a Fourier series with coefficients $a_n(g)$ also depending on $g$.
Question: Can one find an asymptotic formula for $a_n(g)$, as $g \to\infty$?
For example, the asymptotic formula for the period is well known:
$$T(g) \sim g [ (3 - \log 4) + O(g^{-4/3}) ].$$


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Nurse aide training offered at BRCC
Published: Friday, July 12, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.
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Blue Ridge Community College has announced its upcoming classes for those interested in training for a career as a nurse aide. Nurse aides work under the supervision of registered nurses and give care to patients in long-term care facilities, hospitals and other healthcare settings.
Day, evening and weekend courses are available in Henderson and Transylvania counties beginning in August, September and October. The Nurse Aide Program is taught by experienced nursing professionals and includes classroom and clinical instruction as well as CPR certification. New students must attend an information session and an orientation session to enter the program.
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The Northwestern State University Child and Family Network will hold a workshop on how to become licensed in child care by the Louisiana Department of Social Services. The seminar will be from 6-9 p.m. on March 5 at The Learning Center for Rapides Parish in Alexandria. Get information from the Bureau of Licensing about Class A regulations. There will also be representatives from area zoning, the State Fire Marshal, and the State Health Department to inform you of their regulations for child care programs.
The NSU Small Business Development Center will advise you about having a business plan and how they can help you. This workshop will be of interest to anyone thinking about opening a child care center, or to anyone who has questions for these regulatory agencies or the Small Business Development Center. Advance registration and a $10 fee are required. To register or for more information, contact Margaret Goodwin, NSU Child and Family Network at 1-800-796-9080 or (318) 677-3152.
Northwestern State University is a member of the University of Louisiana system.
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text: Hey guys, I've got another lesson to submit today with a bit of inspiration from a few members here on DragoArt (namely AllyS). She did a nice job on 'drawing Yumigami from Okami' in her artwork gallery. So after spotting her artwork, I went to find out who this character was (since I'm roughly aware of Okami itself). Browsing a few fanarts for this rabbit, I wanted to do my own with a bit of influence from this Yumigami sculpture. I'll show you in simple steps 'how to draw Yumigami from Okami', step by step. It was definitely pleasant to work on, and drawing animals is probably one of my favorites to do. Let me know if this tut was easy enough or how you did! Thanks so much for viewing, and have fun with your future drawing endeavors. Note, I do not take credit for the background!


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It is well known that "God is Love" but, is there ever a time, according to 5 point Calvinists, in the bible when God is not loving? If so, according to 5 point Calvinists, what causes God to act as such?
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Yes, the God of Calvinism is loving and no, there is never a time when his actions are not loving.
The loving nature of God is, according to Calvinism and Reformed theology in general, both perfect and immutable. There is no time in which he is not loving nor action which does not display his love.
The reason many people have a problem with this is that they are using much more limited definitions of love and trying to apply them to God. A mutable fickle loving nature would indeed sometimes act out of motives other than love -- some actions would be loving, others not. As broken humans we tend to default to understanding others actions in this way, however the model does not apply to God.
God's love is both an intrinsic value and an action.
It is, however, not self contradictory. His love is not expressed in embracing both good and evil. A complete, whole, rational love that is good must also be complemented by a whole, rational and holy hatred. In order to love what is good, it must also hate what is evil. In order for God himself to be loving in Character, he must be fundamentally opposed to things that are not loving. In other words, his is not only just to punish evil, but loving to do so. It would be no love of the good and innocent to let the evil and guilty go free.
The absolutely crazy "exception" to this -- and it's technically not an exception at all because his love is consistent even in this case -- is the forgiveness and reconciliation of sinners to himself through the sacrifice of Jesus. By himself becoming subject to the curse of sin and wrath of God against evil when he himself was good, he earned the right to buy back those whom he chose from death -- to experience God's love of good as one of those good things rather than experiencing his love for good things expressed as his hatred of bad things.
Bible has depicted all God's intent as out of love for His chosen people and consequently through them to the whole of humanity .
He is always loving but this cannot be generalised universally as to force or expect Him to love what is evil and bad. Just because God is 'love' does not mean He is supposed to show love and affection to what is evil and consequently take out hell from existence and allow devil to go scot free (that is what some of us are expecting Him to do). If it is so then Devil would have won against God, hands down.
When man takes side of devil and his ways, God has to correct man to bring him back on track. Remember the saying 'doctor hurts to heal' or else there would be no cure. .


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Romulan Warp Drive
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|'Yes, well the question remains gentleman; can we engage them with a reasonable possibility of victory?'
|Scotty :
|'No question. Their power is simple impulse.'
|Kirk :
|'Meaning we can outrun them.'
Scotty's use of the words 'their power is simple impulse' has been widely misinterpreted and misquoted as 'they have only impulse drive' or 'they do not have warp drive', or some equivalent variant. Even the official Star Trek Encyclopedia has reproduced this error on its entry on the Romulan bird of prey.
Non canon sources have also followed this line of thinking, and some novels maintain that the Romulans did not acquire ships with warp drive until their use of the Klingon D-7 class ships, the Klingons receiving Romulan cloaking technology in return.
The idea that the Romulans as a species did not have warp drive is virtually impossible to believe. The episode 'Balance of Terror' establishes that the Romulans fought a war with Humanity approximately a century prior to the episode, putting it sometime in the 2160s. This is over ten years after Archer's Enterprise made its maiden voyage in 2151; at the time Humans had possessed low level warp travel for nearly a hundred years. Even in 2151 at least three more NX class starships are under construction, with more to come. Certainly Earth's Starfleet should have had plenty of such ships on hand for the Romulan war. The idea that a species which was confined to sublight speeds could hope to fight a war with one capable of warp 5 is absurd, to put it mildly.
That the Romulan Empire had warp drive but that this particular class of ship did not is slightly more believable, but still flawed. Remember that the success of this ship is said to be taken as a signal for an invasion of the Federation. Yet these ships would be useless in such an invasion - it would take them decades to even reach their targets.
Some novels have made the claim that the Romulan bird of prey was without warp drive itself, but was carried by a larger craft which did have warp drive. This would at least allow them to reach their targets, but it would not make them effective combat vessels - ships without warp drive would never be a match for those which could fight at warp speed. Kirk's Enteprise was quite able to fire phasers and torpedoes whilst at warp speed; it could easily do a fast strafing run past a sublight Romulan ship, hitting it without any fear of return fire.
But more than this, the episode 'Balance of Terror' does itself strongly indicate that the Romluan bird of prey has warp drive. Certainly there is nothing in the episode to contradict this idea - remember that Scotty only made a statement about the power of the ship, he said nothing about its drive system. The Federation powers its warp drives with a matter/antimatter reaction, but uses fusion reactors for the impulse engines. So it's perfectly possible - even likely - that 'impulse power' could be equivalent to 'fusion power' in the mind of a Federation engineer. If this were so, then Scotty would be saying that the Romulan ship's warp drive was powered by fusion reactors.
Also relevant is the design of the ship itself. Look at this image :
For much more concrete proof, let's look in more detail at the events of the first few minutes of the episode. 'Balance of Terror' opens with Kirk in the ship's chapel, getting ready to conduct a wedding. The intercom sounds, and Kirk answers it. Spock is calling from the bridge, and reports :
|Spock :
|'Still no answer from Earth outpost number two Captain. And now number three's gone silent.'
|Kirk :
|'Maintain course to outpost four. Keep me informed. Kirk out.'
Kirk then goes to the podium and begins his introduction to the wedding. Then the alert siren sounds, stopping the wedding. Kirk goes back to the intercom and calls up to Spock :
|Spock :
|'Earth outpost four reports they are under attack. A space vessel, identity unknown.'
|Kirk :
|'Full ahead. All decks condition red.'
There are a few cuts in this scene, but none of them affect the timeline. When Kirk cuts contact with the bridge he walks to the podium, and nods for the music to start. There is then a cut to the bride entering, with the music playing unbroken over it. There are then cuts to a closeup of the bride, back to Kirk, back to bride, then back to Kirk. The music continues to play unbroken over all of these. As the music fades out, Kirk begins his speech. The shot cuts to bride and groom, then to a wide shot of Kirk, with Kirk speaking unbroken in each case. Then the alert sounds. Since none of the cuts in the scene affect the timeline, we know that sixty five seconds pass between Kirk receiving the first message, reporting that outpost three had gone silent, and the second reporting outpost four under attack. The only other way the time could be increased is for Spock to have waited before passing the first message to Kirk of events. Yet he specifically states that outpost three has gone silent 'now'. Certainly a few seconds must have passed to allow Spock to receive and pass on the information, but this cannot have been more than a minute or so at the very most.
We are left with the conclusion that there was no more than one or two minutes between outpost three going silent and outpost four being attacked.
After the opening credits have rolled, Kirk enters the bridge and the following dialogue is heard.
|Uhura :
|'Outpost four reported under attack sir, then message terminates.'
|Spock :
|'Verified Captain.'
|Sulu :
|'Our speed is now maximum sir.'
|Crewman :
|'Position eight minutes from outpost four at this velocity, sir.
|Kirk :
|Scotty :
|'I've already talked to my engine room sir, we'll get more speed out of her.'
There are a few more lines, and then Kirk asks Spock to put this star section on the screen and superimpose the Enterprise's position. This is a capture of the map; the Enterprise is the bright dot near the bottom left of the screen.
The Enterprise is approaching outpost four at maximum speed, and is eight minutes away. The ship is 240 pixels from the outpost on this image, so it is travelling at a speed of 0.5 pixels per second. The Romulan ship crossed between outpost three and outpost four, a distance of 46 pixels, in no more than a few minutes - let's be exceptionally generous and say it took ten minutes. That's a speed of 0.077 pixels per second.
Hence, the speed of the Enterprise was at most only 6.5 times higher than that of the Romulan warbird. According to the official scale warp 8 equates to 512 times lightspeed, so the Romulan ship averaged nearly 80 x c between the outposts. For the Romulan ship to be sublight, the Enterprise top speed would have to be less than 10 x c. Even Archer's Enterprise of a hundred years before was well over ten times faster than this!
If we look at the same map as seen some 86 seconds later, we see this :
Whatever the destination, the speed of the Enterprise here is significantly higher than before and so the ratio between the speed of the Enterprise and the Romulan ship rises to 17.59 : 1. But this still isn't nearly enough to allow the Romulan ship to be sublight - for that we need a ratio of at least 100 : 1, if not more like 500 : 1.
The only way around this conundrum is to suppose that the attacks on outpost three and four were actually carried out by two completely different ships. While there is nothing in the episode to directly contradict this, nor is there anything to support it.
It is certainly within the bounds of possibility that the ship in Balance of Terror had no warp drive, and indeed it is possible that the Romulans as a species had no warp drive until after this episode. But in order to believe this, it is necessary to believe that there were actually at least two ships involved in the attack; that even though the success of this ship was to be the signal for war, they would take little or no part in that war; that Kirk was deliberately toying with the enemy ship, choosing to stay at impulse so as to give the Romulans a sporting chance of victory - a choice that ultimately cost him the life of one of his crewmembers. It is further necessary to believe that the Earth-Romulan war was some kind of turkey shoot in which Earth forces simply rampaged over Romulan space, destroying enemy ships and bases at their whim.
And the only thing supporting this idea is the interpretation of Scotty's 'power is simple impulse' to mean 'no warp drive'.
If we do not interpret this line in this way, however, then all of the above problems vanish completely. The Earth-Romulan war becomes a real one, the Romulan ship becomes a viable combat vessel, Kirk's fight against it becomes realistic, the threat to the Federation becomes real.
This might raise the question of why the Romulans ever bought in the Klingon battlecruiser design, if they did not gain warp drive through the deal. But in fact it is not so hard to believe - after all, the Federation had just defeated their 'best and proudest' ship, so the Romulans have more than enough reason to try and supplement their own fleet with another design.
Overall the canon evidence is not totally certain in either direction, but certainly indicates that the Romulans have had warp drive since before the Earth-Romulan war, and that the bird of prey was equipped with this technology.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - As a public liberal arts college, Geneseo is making strides toward increasing liberal arts education's profile in the local, statewide, national and international higher education landscapes.
In the local arena, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Carol Long said Geneseo is pushing ahead with community engagement through work with county and community agencies to help improve the quality of life. Citing alumnus Greg O'Connell's '64 revitalization efforts in Mount Morris, Long said the college is playing a significant role in helping to improve the surrounding areas.
According to Long, Geneseo has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll since its inception.
Statewide, Geneseo is working with the State University of New York as well as other New York institutions of higher education to focus on using technology to foster more collaborative education.
"NITLE really tries to bring the benefits of that digital technology to smaller campuses and to keep smaller campuses abreast of innovations," she said, adding that members of the organization "have the notion that, particularly smaller institutions, need to collaborate more effectively than we have in the past … we need to share ideas and resources."
Long cited the SUNY Language PACT (Pipeline-Access-Culture-Technology) initiative, which she said seeks to foster collaboration between SUNY campuses to make language studies more available. She said initiatives like this one would likely involve courses with both online and offline components.
On a national scale, Long said that Geneseo has worked to increase the role of liberal arts in higher education. Long said public liberal arts colleges have a "prominent role to play" with a "terrific price point in the market." Geneseo, she said, offers "an education that isn't hideously costly, and yet is really high quality."
On an international level, Geneseo is working to increase global education in its students' lives. According to Long, starting in fall 2013, Geneseo will serve as a part of the American Council on Education Internationalization Laboratory, an 18-month program featuring 10 to 12 schools that helps support self-studies of international programs. ACE will send representatives to Geneseo to help form a team meant to review all international curriculum programs and to raise the level of engagement with other institutions in the program.
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Carrot, Chickpea, and Farro Salad with Thyme RecipeCarrot, Chickpea, and Farro Salad with Thyme
This nutritious and filling dish can be eaten alone as a vegetarian meal, but it also serves as a delicious side dish for fish or poultry. Farro, a type of whole wheat, cooks up with a nutty flavor and chewy texture that goes well with the firm, sweet carrots and soft, protein-rich chickpeas.
Tips for the cook: This dish can easily be doubled if you need to feed a crowd. Any of your favorite whole grains can be substituted for the farro. Try wheat berries, quinoa, or sorghum. You can also double the carrots and chickpeas and leave out the farro for a grain-free version.
Yield: 6 servings
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/3 cup finely chopped onion
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups of peeled and sliced carrots
- 2 tbsp vegetable stock or water
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh thyme
- 1 can (15 oz.) low-sodium chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- 1/8 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 ½ cups cooked farro
- 1 tbsp chopped chives for garnish
- Heat the oil in a deep skillet (one that has a lid) over medium-high heat. Add the onion and garlic. Cook for about 1 minute.
- Add the carrots and cook for about 3 minutes, until the vegetables begin to brown.
- Add the stock or water and place the lid on the skillet. Reduce the heat to medium and let cook for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring only occasionally, until the carrots reach your desired tenderness.
- Stir in the thyme and chickpeas. Cook for 1 more minute. Add the salt and pepper. Stir in the farro.
- Transfer the salad to a serving bowl and garnish with chives.
Nutrition information for 1/6 of recipe: Calories 157; Total Fat 3.0 g; Saturated Fat 0.3 g; Trans Fat 0 g; Cholesterol 0 mg; Sodium 194 mg; Carbohydrate 28.8 g; Fiber 7.3 g; Sugar 2.3 g; Protein 6.4 g


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I saw in the latest release of PinguyOS that somehow they had skype under the messaging menu. It looked something like this:
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Let $T(t),t\geq 0$, be a $C_0$-semigroup on a Banach space $X$. If $A$ is the infinitesimal generator of $T(t),t\geq 0$, then $$T(t)x=\lim_{n\infty}(I-\frac{t}{n}A)^{-n}x$$ for every $x \in X, t\geq 0$, and the limit is uniform on any bounded interval $[a,b]\subset [0,\infty)$. This is the exponential formula.
I wonder if one could affirm that the sequence $(I-\frac{t}{n}A)^{-n}$ converges in norm to $T(t)$ and the convergence is uniform on any bounded interval $[a,b]\subset [0,\infty)$?
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I'm looking for something like http://www.wayfaring.com/, but once you created the map, it will let you export it or download it to your phone.
The idea is that I can draw the path I should do, and then be able to see it in my phone. Better if the mobile app don't need 3G (so google maps won't do it).
What I'm doing now is using mapdroid for the maps (but you can't write anything inside the map), drawing them in google maps, and then trying to remember... I've lost my way some times :(


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It is clear that each maximal ideal in ring of continuous functions over $[0,1]\subset \mathbb R$ corresponds to a point and vice-versa.
So, for each ideal $I$ define $Z(I) =$ {$x\in [0,1]$ | $f(x)=0, \forall f \in I$}. But map $I\to Z(I)$ from ideals to closed sets isn't injection! (Consider ideal $J(x_0)=${$f$|$f(x)=0, \forall x\in$ some closed interval which contains $x_0$})
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Ginger adds a lot of flavor to this cheesecake recipe.
Prep Time: 30M
Cooking Time: 50M
Serves: Serves 8
- 1 × 7oz (200g) package British digestive biscuits or plain cookies, such as gingersnaps, vanilla wafers, or graham crackers
- 2 tbsp butter
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature, separated
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 51/2oz (150g) cream cheese, at room temperature
- 9oz (250g) mascarpone cheese
- 2 tbsp syrup from a jar of stem ginger
- 4-5 pieces stem ginger, thinly sliced and cut into thin strips
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
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- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Grease and line the bottom of an 8in (20cm) springform pan with parchment paper. Put the cookies in a plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the crumbs, and stir until evenly moistened. Spoon into the pan and press into the bottom to form a crust.
- Put the egg yolks and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until thick and creamy. Stir in the cheeses, beat with a wooden spoon until smooth, and stir in the ginger syrup and sliced ginger. Sift in the flour and fold until no longer visible.
- Put the egg whites in a bowl and beat until stiff peaks form. Fold into the yolk mixture, and spoon over the crust. Bake for 50 minutes, until golden and almost set. Turn off the oven and leave the cake inside to cool for 1 hour. Loosen the edges with a blunt knife and release the springform. Cover and refrigerate until serving time.
- Bring the eggs and cream cheese to room temperature before starting. Eggs take longer to whisk when they are cold.
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Palladino: Torrington sisters Stack up well on court
They said they were nervous. They said they were excited. They said they planned to go hard.
Alizabeth Stack, 17, a senior at Wamogo High School, and Kimmie Stack, 17, a senior at Oliver Wolcott Tech High School, are twin sisters. The Torrington residents have played sports all their lives: softball, basketball, volleyball, even boxing.
But Monday was a special night for the Stack girls: For the first time in their sports careers, the twins played on opposite sides in a high school game.
Before the game, Alizabeth, also called Lizzy, who is older by 28 minutes, put the challenge down bluntly: "I am not going to ease up. This is not some kind of game. It will be a fight."
Kimme stood nearby. When asked for a reaction, she noted: "It's going to be a fight."
It was. Lizzy Stack's Warriors defeated Kimmie Stack's Wildcats, 47-29, and each had a hand in the outcome. Lizzy Stack scored six, had four rebounds and four steals before she fouled out with 3:08 to play. Kimmie Stack scored four, with a game high12 rebounds, four steals and five blocked shots.
Twins aside, this game was a tale of two runs, and both came from Wamogo (4-13). The Warriors started the game with a 14-0 run, and held Tech off the scoreboard for the opening 6:20. And then in the fourth quarter, when Tech (8-9) closed to within six points, Wamogo ran off again and scored eight points in a minute to put the game away.
"We executed plays," said Wamogo sophomore Brooke Neller, who scored a game-high 14 points. "We passed well, we moved, and had a lot of separation and space. We had momentum," she added about the fourth quarter. "We had a tough time in the third quarter, but we came back."
Emily Kupcho scored seven for the Warriors, with seven boards and six steals, and Kristen Kandefer also hit for seven. Mikey Albreada led Tech with 10 points and three steals.
But this was a game about the Stacks. Born in Waterbury, the twins moved to Torrington at age 12. Lizzy elected to Wamogo with an idea toward studying veterinary medicine. She now is focused on a career in nursing. Kimmie opted for Wolcott Tech where her concentration is on computer drafting design. As Lizzy said, the twins also wanted a chance to carve their own path and identities in high school.
It can be a chore getting the girls to practices and games, and also, deciding where to sit for Monday's game.
"I sat with the family, wherever they were," said mom, Harmony Moss. "I watched back and forth and cheered for both teams. I have two great kids. I can't ask for anything more."
But, when they play on the same night, which is often the case, how does a mom keep peace?
"That is what family is for," she said. "We have extended family, so we have some going this way and some going that way, whatever is closer to their homes."
The girls talked about this game, and little else, for more than a week. As Kimmie Stack said before, "Sibling or no, this is a real game game, and I will treat it like a real game. I love the competition."
The Stacks went head-to-head on the floor, as Lizzy and Kimmie clashed in the low post. They spoke only once: "I told her I was going to bite her," Kimmie said. "I didn't."
That's a relief.
"It was really tough, but we fought through it," Lizzy said, "and I just played like normal. And Kinne played tough. I am really proud of her."
"We were on each other a few times," Kimmie said. "She made her shots. I made my shots."
So, who has the family bragging rights?
"Ah, she doesn't have that many bragging rights," said Kimmie, who is a Constitution State Conference all-star in three sports.
"Oh yeah, I will hold this against her for quite awhile," Lizzy said.
She planned to exploit that victory Monday night as soon as they got home.
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Walden Pond
In 1895, the ornithologist Kate Tryon said of Walden Pond, "It is a charming place, and it isn't." That remains a perfectly apt description of the park surrounding the pond where Thoreau let his mind graze widely. I stopped by Walden Pond not because it offers untamed wildness today, but because it's arguably New England's original wild lake, and it seemed a fitting place to start.
Walden Pond performs the neat trick of being very large and very small at once: small in that it takes less than an hour to walk around it at a leisurely pace, but large in the imagination, as the place where literary and environmental cultures met, had a genteel affair, married, and produced many loquacious offspring.
It was a quiet afternoon when I walked around the pond. Along the pathway I passed a school group, two families, three anglers, and a man in a wetsuit swimming laps, looking like an errant seal. The lake didn't feel particularly wild. Sounds didn't really echo grandly, and the space seemed somehow constricted. Adorned with signs trumpeting WiFi on board, a commuter train sped past the far shore.
But efforts to reintroduce the wild were evident everywhere here–especially in the extensive fences set up near the entrance to keep visitors away from the shore, letting the land regenerate. It was working. New shoots were making tentative stands, sniffing the air to see whether it was safe to return.
Thoreau wrote that "the scenery of Walden is on a humble scale, and, though very beautiful, does not approach to grandeur." I agree with Henry on this; Walden Pond feels more like a chapel than a cathedral. True wildness requires a big dose of grandeur, a place where the slanting sun and drifting clouds define the space: dark here and light there, moving throughout the day, sliding around in three dimensions.
So I headed north, which is the New England equivalent of heading west, where the landscape unfolds and the sky starts to become a major actor rather than a supporting player.
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White House to Go on Offense for Hagel Pick
Aides Say Obama to Stand Firm on Defense Secretary Choice Despite GOP Criticism of Ex-Senator's Stance on Israel, Iraq
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama plans to announce Monday that he is nominating former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to be his next defense secretary in the face of intensifying opposition from Republican lawmakers, administration officials said Sunday.
Those officials acknowledge they have a bruising confirmation fight ahead. They also say they are confident they will prevail because Republicans ultimately won't be able to topple a former colleague, a Vietnam veteran and a two-term GOP senator from Nebraska who served on the foreign relations and intelligence committees.
Mr. Obama also may announce his nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, a position left vacant when David Petraeus resigned last year after admitting to an affair. The two leading candidates for the post are White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan and acting CIA Director Michael Morell.
Republican lawmakers on Sunday stepped up their opposition to Mr. Hagel, who initially voted for the Iraq war but grew to oppose it and who supported Mr. Obama for president in 2008. Critics also have cited Mr. Hagel's past criticisms of Israel as a basis for their opposition.
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R., S.C.) said Sunday on CNN that it would "probably be a bridge too far" for him to support Mr. Hagel. Mr. Hagel's foreign policy views, he said, are "outside the mainstream," and he would be "the most antagonistic secretary of defense towards the state of Israel in our nation's history."
Other Republicans, such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), cited what they see as a leniency on Iran and a past reluctance to impose sanctions on Tehran as reasons for their opposition. "He has consistently advocated weakness with respect to our enemies, with respect to the nation of Iran," Mr. Cruz said on Fox. "Weakness in a secretary of defense invites conflict, because bullies don't respect weakness."
Mr. Hagel's backers say he will respond to charges he isn't sufficiently supportive of Israel by pointing to votes he made in the Senate for a total of $38 billion in aid for the Jewish state, along with multiple trips to meet with leaders there. Mr. Hagel, said a person close to the decision-making process, believes in America's "special relationship" with Israel, but also believes that relationship enables officials from both governments to "speak frankly" with each other.
Regarding Iran, Mr. Hagel voted at least three times for sanctions and is a supporter of multilateral sanctions, the person said, adding that Mr. Hagel has opposed some sanctioning based on specific details, not a broader opposition to sanctions. Mr. Hagel believes that military action should always be an option but, based on his war experience, believes it should only be seriously considered after diplomatic options are exhausted, this person said.
The monthlong lag between the initial floating of Mr. Hagel's name for the post and Monday's expected announcement has provided opponents with ample oxygen for a strong fight.
While a number of former high-ranking national-security officials have voiced support, backers on Capitol Hill were reluctant to campaign hard for someone who had yet to be nominated, said one person close to the process.
The Republican National Committee also joined the fray Sunday, firing its initial shots against Mr. Hagel and indicating the opposition is increasingly organized. Mr. Hagel already has been openly criticized on the airwaves by the Emergency Committee for Israel, an issue-advocacy group that criticized Democrats during the 2012 campaign.
Opponents also have been quick to circulate additional ammunition for their cause, such as an Iranian PressTV report Sunday headlined, "Obama expected to nominate anti-Israel Hagel as secretary of defense."
One of the chief reasons Mr. Obama chose Mr. Hagel is his willingness to buck his own party in opposing the Iraq war, a senior administration official said. The position plays well to Democrats, some of whom have been critical of his potential nomination.
Mr. Hagel's views on Afghanistan and the drawdown of troops there also dovetail with Mr. Obama's, and overseeing the final phases of the war may be the most important task the next secretary of defense faces. It was vital to Mr. Obama that he have someone in that position whose views are aligned with his own on Afghanistan.
Another key reason Mr. Obama is willing to spend political capital on Mr. Hagel is the president wants a Republican in his cabinet, said the person familiar with the process, and there are few open positions to fulfill that goal. Defense has been a problematic area for Democratic presidents, and the White House feels Mr. Obama benefited from initially having Robert Gates, a Republican, in the slot because it gave him some political cover with GOP critics.
Mr. Obama is less likely to back down in the face of opposition to Mr. Hagel after losing the nomination of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who withdrew from consideration for secretary of state in the wake of GOP criticism. The White House plans to push back by casting Mr. Hagel as a decorated war hero with two Purple Hearts and underscoring that he would be the first enlisted military member to run the Defense Department.
Crucial for Mr. Hagel's nomination will be the extent to which Democrats back him to offset Republican criticism. The White House intends to make clear Mr. Hagel apologized for a comment he made opposing an openly gay ambassador nominee about a decade ago.
Officials also will stress the president is confident that Mr. Hagel will complete the implementation of the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," the policy banning gays from serving openly in the military.
A senior administration official said Mr. Obama would not have chosen Mr. Hagel unless he had been assured he would see through the implementation of "don't ask, don't tell."
The White House also intends to push back against critics of Mr. Hagel's positions on Iran and Israel by stressing that he will be responsible for carrying out the president's policies.
Supporters of Mr. Hagel noted Sunday that the top Republican in the Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) refused to voice opposition to Mr. Hagel, whose national-security expertise he has praised in the past.
"I'm going to wait and see how the hearings go and see whether Chuck's views square with the job he would be nominated to do," Mr. McConnell said on ABC, where he pledged Mr. Hagel would receive "a fair hearing" from Senate Republicans.
Still, marshaling the votes to back the controversial nominee will not be easy. A senior Republican aide on Capitol Hill said he didn't think Mr. Hagel would garner much Republican support and predicted as many as 15 to 20 Democrats would have difficulty voting for him, especially those who are facing re-election in 2014 and worry about upsetting the powerful pro-Israel lobby. Democrats and their independent allies hold 55 seats in the new Senate.
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Consider two tetrahedrons one placed inside the other. Prove that the sum of all 6 sides of inner tetrahedron is at most the sum of the 6 sides of exterior tetrahedron.
The question as stated is false, be we can salvage it by answering the following question: what's the biggest possible ratio of the sum of the inner tetrahedron's edges to the sum of the outer tetrahedron's edges?
To approach problems like this, there is the very useful trick of noticing that the distance between two points is a convex function of either point. If we assume the outer tetrahedron is fixed, and fix three of the vertices of the inner tetrahedron, then since the interior of the outer tetrahedron is convex, the sum of the side lengths of the inner tetrahedron, as a function of the last vertex, is maximized when the last vertex is at an extreme point of the outer tetrahedron. Repeating this argument for each vertex of the inner tetrahedron, we can reduce to the degenerate cases where the inner tetrahedron has all of its vertices on the vertices of the outer tetrahedron. We have several cases:
Thus, the sum of the side lengths of the inner tetrahedron is at most $\frac{4}{3}$ times the sum of the side lengths of the outer tetrahedron.
The conjecture about the quotient of the sums of the lengths of edges for a tetrahedron inside another was formulated (a long time ago) by Jerzy Browkin, who saw that, somewhat paradoxically it can be greater than 1, and even arbitrarily close to 4/3, as his examples proved it. He asked if $\frac 43$ is the least upper bound of such quotients.
The conjecture was solved in 1961 by Wlodzimierz Kuperberg and myself. We published it in 1962 or 1963, in Polish, in Wiadomosci Matematyczne (of Polish Mathematical Society). Years later an English translation was published in Alabama Journal of Mathematics (or similar). And a powerful complete multidimensional generalization was obtained and published by Carl Linderholm, An inequality for simplices .
Ancient Greeks could easily formulate and solve the given problem (in 3d) but (as long as we know) never did--it took Jerzy Browkin to raise it.


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Thomaston 64, Terryville 31: Abby Hurlbert registered a game-high 21 points as the Golden Bears outscored the Kangaroos 41-7 in the second half in Thomaston. Maggie Eberhardt scored 17 points while Sydney Keith chipped in with eight points. Morgan Sanson had seven for Thomaston (8-0).
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Let $p$ be an odd prime number and consider the set of $p-2$ integers that is $\mathbb{Z}_p$ minus 0 and 1. Next define two bijective functions on this set \begin{align} f(x) &= 1-x \mod p \end{align} and \begin{align} g(x) &= x^{-1} \mod p \qquad \text{(the multiplicative inverse of $x$).} \end{align} One can view these two functions as group actions (generated by $f$ and $g$) on this set of integers and study the orbits. For example, if $p=7$, there are two orbits namely {2,4,6} and {3,5}.
For the general prime $p>3$, I can prove there is always an orbit consisting of $\{ 2,p-1, 2^{-1} \}$.
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Unsettling revelations
In a rejoinder to those who view the media as inimical to religion, and to the church in particular, the Providence Journal-Bulletin has been running a lavish--and largely positive--serieson Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence. At the same time, however, court documents sought by BishopAccountability.org have revealed that the diocese apparently hadtwice as many clerical abusers (125) than the diocese accounted for in the John Jay survey, in which it reported 56 priest-abusers over the past decades. In an Oct. 19 report in the Journal-Bulletinthe diocese put the disparity down to "a difference in reporting criteria and methodology."That does not seem to explain it all, however.
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The further explanation might be, David, that the bishops are getting better in PR. They are hiring Public Relations Directors at the cost of $150,000 a year or better. The euphemism is "Diocesan Spokesman."Get this. Bishop Tobin actually wrote a Letter of Welcome to the Votf convention in Providence. Votf printed it on the inside page of its program. (Of course you would have known this if you covered the convention. You had company as niether America nor Commonweal seems to have covered it)Bishop Murphy of Queens, of all people, is learning with his new PR director. He is a "changed" man. Externally for sure. The bishops are learning public relations. Maybe the gospel will be next.
Hello All,The (perhaps unintended) implication of this post and Bill's comment is that Bishop Tobin is responsible for the under-reporting. I am not sure that's the case.I could be mistaken, but I believe Bp Tobin was only recently installed in the Providence Diocese--after the John Jay survey. I believe--and I hope someone will correct me if I am wrong--that he was the Ordinary at Youngstown during the thick of the scandal (and Bp Wuerl's secretary in Pgh before that). And I believe his record in Youngstown was quite good if memory serves.Anyone know if it was Tobin or his predecessor?Greg
Indeed, Bishop Tobin was not installed until May 2007, and so I think pointing the finger at him so vigorously does not seem warranted. I am glad he welcomed VOTF--wish I could have been at the conference, Bill, but I have a family to feed, and can't do your p.r. for free. You might try to understand that before popping off. It does seem that the Bishop wasn't exactly forthcoming with updated information, however. Above all, my concern is how such "methodological" differences may have skewed the John Jay study, and its follow-up reports. And primarily, whether methodology means some men are in ministry who should not be.
Oops...Meant to write May 2005 for the installation.
David, I understand you have a family to feed, unlike the bishops who, nonetheless, can feed hundreds of families with their assets. Amazing how they outdo us with our money.
"Bill, but I .... can't do your p.r. for free." Just for the record David I am a volunteer.
And I admire and appreciate your efforts, Bill, truly. But not all of us--or every news outlet--has the resources to cover every story, nor the market to get such coverage printed. I suspect the Providence Journal-Bulletin will do stories, if they haven't already. That is something to be thankful for.
I'd never heard of Bishop Tobin until David's post, and after working my way through the links David provides, I know Bishop Tobin a little better, but still at a distance and for the most part through the eyes of the Providence journalist who is doing the series on the Bishop. Perhaps there is someone who lives in Rhode Island who can provide additional perspective about the Bishop. However, as legalistic a response as "a difference in reporting criteria and methodology" is to explain the disparity in abuse allegations, there is hole big enough to drive a truck through between the "plausible, credible allegations" the John Jay survey sought and the "any allegations" sought as part of the state court suit. From a purely legal perspective, I don't think the diocese can be faulted for the difference in the numbers reported. From other perspectives--e.g., the Church should be above legalistic hairsplitting--the difference may have significance.
While we're on the topic of unsettling revelations, any thoughts on ABC's coverage of Guiliani and Msgr. Placa (or ex-Msgr. Placa?)One of the sftermaths of VOTF conference is some criticsim of VOTF not being sufficiently pro- victim. That's understandable as over the past five years, some f0olk have bent over backwards to try not to offend the bishops they sought dialogue (bishiops, who, in general, didn't care a fig about dialoging with VOTF.)The Bishop Tobim story would be no story as Bill Collier points out if there hads been more open dialogue and truthfulness.Come the Bishop's Conference in November, we'll see how far they've moved - probably not many inches...
William Collier makes a good point, and one I don't have an answer to. How many of these allegations are credible, and how many came to light after the initial John Jay numbers were submitted? Then again, who determined crediblity, and how many--if any--priests were suspended subsequent to the initial figure reported? Too many questions, that's always the problem.
PS: Bob Nunz: Where and when was the Placa report?
I beleive ABC this morning - SNAP had it on its website and the total text is there,Folks from VOTF on LI think the only reason Placa got off the hook was Statute of Limitations. They think he is holding "something over the head" of Bishop Murphy there - a longtoime Law associate.They find it scandalous that he has a superexpensive lower Manhattan (waterfront view) apartment he coowns with the pastor of his parish.You might, when you get a chance go back to the clippings of the LI Grand Jury investigations on this - an interesting story,
Forgot to say ABC report was by "investigative team", viz. Brian Ross and Avni Patel
Snap is doing something about it tomorrow.Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests Dear Friends,We will be holding a press conference on Wednesday, October 24th, at 11:00 AM outside of Rudy Giuliani's offices, 5 Times Square. Giuliani has Monsignor Placa working for him. Placa has three allegations of child sexual abuse against him, has been removed from ministry by his bishop and has actively covered for other predators. We feel it is dangerous for this man to be given such a prominent position. The offices are located in 5 Times Square. Please try to join us- call Barbara Blaine for all the details at 312-399-4747.Thanks for the help.Barbara Dorris
I'm amazed by your consistent talent to begin with what is ostensibly good news, then quickly remind us why we shouldn't be happy about it.You never fail to remind us how bad things are!
Who are you addressing, Mark?
Bill's post of 11:44 a.m. refers to Bishop Murphy of Queens. Please do not mind my correction of geography: William Murphy has been bishop of Rockville Centre (Nassau and Suffolk counties) since 2001. Queens is part of the Diocese of Brooklyn, and the bishop has been Nicholas DiMarzio since 2003.
From Voice of the Faithful Westchester. http://votfwny.blogspot.com/ The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has a website which they are advertising nationwide. However, there is no acknowledgment that it is the diocesan website. Who are they trying to fool? I guess it pays to advertise.la-clergycases.com/
I was at the ba.org press conference and the VOTF convention, and (in my spare time) am researching the criteria for reporting.What I do know is that the bishops' JJ study excluded mentally handicapped victims unless their abuse began before their 18th birthdays. That is an offensive restriction on its face. The victims of seminarians who did not go on to ordination were likewise excluded. Someone in my parish was apparently missed based on that limitation. So much for hairsplitting.Tobin also filed a first amendment defense against the survivor lawsuit in question, but the judge ruled against him early this month. Tobin and all other bishops who routinely use this defense are basically asserting a legal right to negligence in supervising perpetrator priests, and to be exempt from neutral principles of law to protect children. Justice Constance Sweeney in Boston basically demolished diocesan attorney Marty Nussbaum's efforts to claim the bishops could in effect be as negligent as they wanted without consequence under the law.More and more states are disallowing the first amendment defense, but bishops keep using it where the matter has not been adjudicated just to see if it sticks. This is not a matter of theological fine points or faith, but crime. Bishops should be ashamed of distorting reality with their fine tuned claims to be above criminal and civil laws that should apply to everyone.The Providence Journal piece could not have been written better by hired diocesan PR practitioners. Balance was notable only by its absence. The few sentences on abuse cases was misleading in the extreme.


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Fun Fest 2013 (July 12th-20th) is proud to announce the entertainers for the 2013 Sunset Concert Series. Chris Tomlin will kick off the series on Thursday, July 18th followed by Hunter Hayes on Friday, July 19th.
The festival finale will be Chicago and Gavin DeGraw on Saturday, July 20th.
Thursday night marks the second Contemporary Christian Concert at the Sunset Series on the main stage.
The evening will open up with Big Daddy Weave, who has been climbing the charts fast with their latest single, "Redeemed" off their 2012 album, "Love Come to Life".
The headliner for this year's Contemporary Christian Concert is Chris Tomlin.
Tomlin became the fourth Christian music artist ever to garner the number one position on the Billboard 200 charts.
His album, which topped the charts in late January, is only the second artist in 15 years to do so. Additionally, Tomlin has earned 10 number one radio singles, three GRAMMY nominations, 18 Dove Awards, one platinum and three gold albums. He is most known for his singles, "Forever", "Indescribable" and "How Great is Our God".
The Friday Night Concert kicks off with The Henningsens, who have just released their first song, "American Beautiful".
This family trio also wrote several songs for The Band Perry's debut album.
The headliner for Friday night is award winning newcomer, Hunter Hayes.
Hayes was named 2012 New Artist of the Year by the Country Music Association and Male Country Artist of the Year at the Teen Choice Awards.
In October 2011, Hayes released his self-titled debut album that included the Top 15 country single, "Storm Warning", the No. 1 singles, "Wanted" and "Somebody's Heartbreak".
This year, he was nominated for three Grammys and six Academy of Country Music awards and is currently touring with Carrie Underwood.
Fun Fest 2013 will end the week with two great entertainers.
Singer, songwriter and musician, Gavin DeGraw will open the evening, featuring hits such as "In Love With a Girl", "I Don't Want to Be" and "Chariot".
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Chicago has earned 22 Gold, 18 Platinum and 8 Multi-Platinum albums since their debut in the late 60's. Their biggest hits include "If You Leave Me Now", "Saturday in the Park and "You're the Inspiration".
DeGraw has enjoyed success since launching his career in 2003 with his debut album, "Chariot", which sold over a million copies, earned platinum certification and yielded three hit singles.
He followed that with his self-titled second album, which debuted at No. 1 on the digital sales chart and at No. 7 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart in 2008.
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