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Football Q&A with Wolcott's Joe Monroe
This offseason has been among the busiest in the history of the CIAC football committee, and Wolcott principal Joe Monroe has been in the middle of everything.
Monroe is Wolcott's former head football coach and athletic director, and he is one of the local representatives on the panel, which last week recommended a series of sweeping changes in football beginning in 2015.
The CIAC Board of Control is expected to adopt the suggestions, including adjustments to the playoff structure and contact limitations, at a meeting later this month.
The Republican-American's Kyle Brennan caught up with Monroe to get his thoughts on the changes being proposed for high school football in Connecticut.
Are you happy with what the CIAC football committee decided upon for 2015-16?
Everybody has worked extremely hard on this. One of the things I don't think anybody understands is that our great game is under attack because of concussions. Through this whole process, we've tried to be proactive. The committee, the coaches and the medical community came to an agreement that we can all be happy with to have a viable playoff system. I thought it was going to be a war, and it really wasn't. Everybody was pretty much on the same page. It was a lot of good conversation to try to protect our great game.
What were the main goals during discussions about a new postseason system?
The coaches were adamant about wanting the three (playoff) games. When we first went through the proposals, I did not want to lose Thanksgiving in any way, shape or form. It's an event for people. I just don't think we could ever get rid of that. Luckily we never got to that point. The push from the medical community was that the present format — playing on Thanksgiving, then the Tuesday, Saturday and Saturday after Thanksgiving — didn't give enough time between games.
In 2015, the playoffs will go back to a four-class, three-round system with 32 teams. It doesn't seem like much has changed except giving more flexibility to
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the dates of the playoffs — quarterfinals on Tuesday or Wednesday, semifinals on Sunday or Monday.
Why was that the difference?
We don't want to have a situation like last year where you had Woodland and Seymour snowed out on Thanksgiving eve and having to play Friday, and then Woodland playing Tuesday in the quarterfinals. We want to be able to have some flexibility in that regard. That will all be figured out.
Nobody's happy about the 2014 playoffs, right? Having eight champions seems excessive.
It was the best stop-gap we could, at least to have some playoffs for this year. I don't like the idea sometimes of eight champions, but it was a good alternative to having no playoffs. Everything was in place for this year, and I think to go back and reconstruct it was too late.
Was there any consideration to having more or less than 32 teams in the new playoffs?
In the original proposal, they wanted to go to 48 teams. I thought with everything that was going on with the medical society, you were never going to get 48 teams. Then it came back to the bottom line: Do you keep this 2014 format or go back to the three-round system? People wanted to talk about extending the season one more week, but I don't think that would have flowed with other sports.
Where will future state championship games be held?
The 2014 finals will be played at high school sites. They're going to look for sites to host the 2015 championship games. People like the idea of Rentschler Field, but the costs were killing us. Central Connecticut last year was OK. People like the idea of going back to high school sites.
Was there any talk about changing the playoff points system? It seems like there are some spots where there can be improvement.
There were a couple of proposals just in talk, but I think the majority of people felt the system we had in place was a good system. (CIAC technology director) Matt Fischer was able to go back and get data over the last four years, and most of the teams that should be in have been in. I think right now that's the fairest way we have in this point system. It may be something we can look at as we move forward.
But plenty of people aren't happy when tech schools or co-ops occupy postseason spots and get blown out.
I just don't think we want to go down that road of putting them in their own division.
What about a small school being able to petition up in class or being moved up by a success-in-tournament formula?
There were some people that thought we needed to take a look at how the divisions are set up, like basketball, but it didn't really catch enough credence to get the ball rolling.
There are already some contact limitations in terms of minutes at practice that will go into effect this season, but the committee expanded them for 2015. How necessary is that?
I want to believe that a lot of our coaches in the NVL are doing that already. The old days of five double-days before Labor Day and everybody smacking around, all that stuff has gone out the window. I'm really concerned moving forward about the education of our coaches and how they're going to implement these changes. Moving forward, these coaches will have to build in how much contact they're having each day. The new module that has come out for coaches isn't only a concussion refresher, but it also talks about properly fitting equipment and drills.
The other part of the contact monitoring will be a research database that requires schools to enter concussion data. Will this responsibility go beyond the coaches?
The emphasis is also going to be on trainers. Schools that don't have trainers are going to hurt our game as we go further down the road. It's going to be mandatory in 2015 to start reporting concussions, and we're going to see in two or three years if concussions have decreased. The aspect of having athletic trainers is going to be crucial going forward. When schools have trainers just covering games and not working with student-athletes all week, that's really missing a big part of the issue.
Has there been any recent talk about the 50-point rule?
It came up a little bit on the table, but it was never discussed again. People feel very strongly both ways. The way the 50-point rule is now, I'm not crazy about it, but the alternative is a running clock and I don't know if I like that. I think our coaches do a good job of managing the games right now.
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I own a Canon 550D, and I'm planning to do some time-lapse experiments this weekend just for fun. Will it cause any damage or reduce my DSLR's lifetime if I do too much of it?
The camera's shutter has usually a rating for 50,000 to 300,000 actuations, depending on the camera. For yours, I think it is closer to 50,000 but you should check the manual to be sure.
That means you can take that many pictures and still be within the manufacturer's life-expectancy for your camera. When you do time-lapse, you take a lot of pictures, so you are going to eat away at that number. How much depends on the time-lapse you expect taking.
That being said, the number of actuations is just the manufacturer's educated guess. It can fail before or after, I have heard of people who managed to shoot 4 times more before the camera's performance became erratic. If it does fail before and you are within the warranty period, you can probably have it fixed at no charge.
I thought I'd offer a completely different, perhaps complementary way to look at this question: There's more risk to more than 99% of the camera users out there of not using their cameras than there is of ever wearing their cameras out. Use your camera! Break it if you have to! But get it out of the case and learn something! Don't get hung up on what you're going to do to the camera -- it's replaceable, Canon has a big factory -- if you wear yours out, they can make another one. Give yourself a real reason to buy the next big thing from Canon in two years.
Worry about doing this project right -- worry about how much you're going to learn from this, worry about getting the very most from your data and the time/effort it takes to do the set up right ... do a couple smaller trial runs to ensure that you are going to collect the best data possible.
Finally, look at the economics. You can purchase a Canon T2i/550D camera body replacement for less than $700 (you won't have to; Canon will likely give you another if you wear it out doing this) $700 is less than a penny per actuation @ the quoted 100,000 actuation rating. Your time to really review, process, edit and really get the most from the data from 100,000 actuation is probably worth several times more $700 ... if you spend just 5 seconds on average per actuation/exposure processing your data, you'd spend 500,000 seconds ... at 8 hours/day of full-time data analysis and editing, that's almost a full month of utilizing your photographic data ... my assumption is that your time is worth at least 10X more than what the camera body costs -- if I can assume that your time was what supplied the income the supported the purchase of a discretionary item like this DSLR.
[NOTE: As an engineer who's been involved in launching/testing similar products; I'd be slightly surprised if your camera wasn't good for 250,000 or even 400,000 actuations if it's rated for 100,000 ... unless you've managed to somehow introduce some extremely fine powder or some other extra wear agent into the mechanism ... we typically test-to-failure and try to eliminate failure modes in the early failures; you be surprised how long it takes to get the last 95% of the population to fail ... yes, your camera could fail early; that's what warranties are for ... regardless of what the warranty says, the company is probably going to treat an avid user very well if the camera fails in the first couple months, i.e. Canon's cost per unit might not be zero, but it costs Canon a LOT, LOT less than $700 to replace the camera and buy an avid fan for life. Canon understands the DSLR market share game well enough not be stingy on warranty replacements.]
The only think I could add to Itai's answer is that the shutter failing after X actuations doesn't mean the end of the camera, you can have the shutter replaced for around $250 at a Canon authorized repair centre.
Bridge and compact cameras with electronic shutters are more suited to timelapses however, for this reason. An electronic shutter uses circuitry to stop/start the exposure meaning there are no moving parts. The number of images you can capture is practically limitless - think about how many individual frames a digital video camera will produce in its lifetime!
Frequent shooting of the time-lapse videos will eventually wear your shutter, and there is a way to limit that "side effect" other than replacing the shutter when it finally breaks. Remember that time-lapse is meant to be presented only by means of digital displays, like computer screen or a projector, not to be printed, so you don't need the full XX MP resolution, Full HD will always be fine enough. So, instead of actually shooting your frames, film them! If a session is not planned to take longer than a few hours, use one or several high-capacity memory cards and then decimate your frames on a PC using one of the widely-available movie editing apps (by e.g. dropping 9 out of every 10 frames to get the actual 3 FPS). If the recording session should be longer, like nature slow-motion, and you're a lucky Canon DSLR owner, use Magic Lantern alternative firmware — it has a slow motion mode that you can set to anything down to 0.3 FPS, which is equivalent to shooting one picture every 3 seconds. The mirror is locked and the shutter remains open for the whole session, voila!
When using a dSLR or mirrorless camera in video mode, the mechanical shutter is opened once then the electronic shutter is used until until you stop recording. Video mode places actually less wear and tear on the shutter by far for the amount of time used than ordinary photography.
Let me spin it another way to worry you. A prosumer Nikon D7000 shutter is rated for 150,000 actuations. At 24 cinematic fps this is less than 2 hours of "footage".
But, this is a hell of a lot of interval footage (just ask Ron Fricke!). Feature length time-lapse productions are rare and specific. This fact, combined with the likelihood that YOUR shutter will live much longer works in your favor. Or you could be unlucky!
Tim Burton and Nick Park, on the other hand, shooting on the opposite side of the interval spectrum would probably go through your camera many times over in a stop-motion production. But we're not worried...they could afford it. ;)


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Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — After their team's massive meltdown at EnergySolutions Arena on Monday, many Utah Jazz fans were probably hoping for a 45-point bounce-back win.
The non-greedy Utah faithful might've even accepted a 25-point loss, which would've been considered a close call compared to the 125-80 drubbing the Jazz suffered against the Houston Rockets two nights earlier.
And the Jazz?
They'll happily settle for the 104-99 victory they eked out against the New Orleans Hornets in front of a sparse and anxious crowd of 17,490 Wednesday night.
"Absolutely. Absolutely," Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said. "We got the result we were looking for."
Though it was just a five-point victory over a 15-win Hornets team, it got Utah back on the right track after that devastating detour during which the Jazz suffered their worst-ever home loss and the fifth-largest margin of defeat in franchise history.
"We knew that the next game was going to be tough," Jazz forward Paul Millsap said. "We started off slow, but we got ourselves going and ended up winning the game, but it feels good."
That was apparent from the vastly improved mood in the arena — where Utah is 16-5 and has won seven of its last eight games.
It was also evident in the locker room. When media entered the Jazz players' dressing area following the game, the vibe was downright chipper.
Injured guard Mo Williams briefly stopped reporters to jokingly hold a press conference announcing that Paul Millsap had joined Twitter.
In his locker, Millsap smiled about that, teased Al Jefferson while also, no doubt, feeling good about his team-leading 25-point, 10-rebound performance.
Big Al and Randy Foye razzed a derby-cap-sporting Enes Kanter for his outfit — a nightly ritual after victories, it seems.
And Jazz players were simply relieved to be answering questions about their 10th win in January instead of about one of the most embarrassing losses in their organization's 39 seasons.
"I thought it was real pretty," said Jefferson of the win after scoring 22 points and grabbing five rebounds. "It's a win, especially compared to Monday night."
Jefferson scored six points in the final four minutes, including a jumper moments after a 14-foot Millsap make with 1:16 remaining. Those back-to-back buckets helped the Jazz get some breathing room after the Hornets whittled Utah's 10-point, second-half lead down to one with just over two minutes remaining.
Randy Foye hit three free throws in the final 18 seconds and Millsap scored the final two of his 19 second-half points from the charity stripe with 7.7 remaining to clinch the much-needed win.
Accused of having no heart by some, the Jazz were determined to show they still have a heartbeat in their chests.
At least they did that after falling behind 24-12 in the first quarter, that is.
"It's tough to let a game like that go. You have to move on and put one foot ahead of the other and keep pushing," Millsap said. "We let it go and we came out tonight. It seemed like it was getting ready to go that way again, but we got it going and won the game."
Corbin repeatedly insisted that Monday's loss only counted as one defeat despite the humongous disparity, but it was obvious that his team carried over some struggles from their previous woeful outing when this one began.
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text: Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Beyond the Baseline Simon wins 71-shot rally, then match by Courtney Nguyen Twitter Email Posted: Sun Jan. 20, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk_rhsDxUFsWhat happens when you pit two defensive counterpunchers on court with the fourth round of a Slam on the line? Well if it's Gilles Simon and Gael Monfils, two Frenchmen who have a history of forcing each other into metronomically long rallies, you get yourself a 71-shot rally that actually isn't as exciting as it sounds. The two traded rally balls for over a minute and a half before Simon finally pulled the trigger on a flat forehand cross court that eventually won him the point. The rally left both men exhausted but it was indicative of the match itself, which an injured Simon miraculously won 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 1-6, 8-6. The fact that Monfils lost this match against an injured opponent when he looked well on his way to victory is everything you need to know about the Exasperating Case of Gael Monfils. Unbelievable.http://twitter.com/Gael_Monfils/statuses/292658788522156032Two nights ago Petra Kvitova and Laura Robson played an error strewn match that was the epitome of pure offensive tennis gone wrong, a match that Robson won 11-9 in the third amidst high drama but wonting tennis. Saturday night saw the opposite, with Simon and Monfils content to rally for hours despite both suffering from injuries throughout the match (Simon had a knee and elbow injury that forced him to spin in 75mph serves) and playing some of the most frustrating tennis to watch of the tournament. Again, there was drama and intrigue in the same way that the worst reality television can be must-watch TV.Both men are at their best when playing against more offensive minded players who give them something to react to. Take that away and you get neverending hitting sessions. In addition to the 71-shot rally there were two more of 47-shots and more than two dozen that exceeded 20 shots. By the end, both players were staggering between points and eating chocolate bars and drinking Coke on changeovers.http://twitter.com/SI_BTBaseline/statuses/292613638781550592Amazing feat of modern tennis? Or ugly battle of attrition? Not even the tennis players watching the match from the comfortable confines of their hotel rooms could decide. While Caroline Wozniacki and Milos Raonic found the match "unbelievable" and riveting, retired pros Goran Ivanisevic and Ivan Ljubicic suggested the combatants should be arrested for their frustrating display of tennis. Consider me on team Ivanisevic.Here are some of the best tweets from the night:https://twitter.com/SI_BTBaseline/status/292596968461586432http://twitter.com/sabinelisicki/statuses/292580397118783488http://twitter.com/CaroWozniacki/statuses/292597004062834688http://twitter.com/CaroWozniacki/statuses/292613129588858880http://twitter.com/theljubicic/statuses/292611994681503745http://twitter.com/galo_blanco/statuses/292613361030533121http://twitter.com/andreapetkovic/statuses/292613576198348800http://twitter.com/milosraonic/statuses/292618758416105472http://twitter.com/SvetlanaK27/statuses/292619559922442240http://twitter.com/milosraonic/statuses/292619980913127424http://twitter.com/arodionova/statuses/292620944168599552http://twitter.com/SvetlanaK27/statuses/292621334498910208http://twitter.com/EVesnina001/statuses/292621418179461121http://twitter.com/Dinarik27/statuses/292622160248332292http://twitter.com/SvetlanaK27/statuses/292623876276490241http://twitter.com/theljubicic/statuses/292617228174643200http://twitter.com/BMATTEK/statuses/292624385557295104http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPED4-ND44Yhttp://twitter.com/oli_golding/statuses/292622424468504576http://twitter.com/Dinarik27/statuses/292624807848194049https://twitter.com/SI_BTBaseline/status/292600277733879808http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzIyKmqEFtMhttp://twitter.com/BMATTEK/statuses/292627447197872128http://twitter.com/SteveTignor/statuses/292625150313127936http://twitter.com/ivokarlovic/statuses/292627870466072576http://twitter.com/Kamakshi_Tandon/statuses/292626478678560768You can watch the last 20 minutes of the match in the clip below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1o_F5d0X6o More Beyond the Baseline


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It seems to be the way I usually see tables laid out in newspapers as well.
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I know this is subjective, but the principle "should be of interest to mathematicians" trumps. (I hope.)
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I know this is subjective, but the principle "should be of interest to mathematicians" trumps. (I hope.)
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Mike's last joke reminded me of this one: a comathematician is a device for turning cotheorems into ffee.
Your momma's so fat she's not embeddable in R^3. Oh yeah? Your momma's so fat she contradicts Whitney's theorem.
A topologist is someone who doesn't know the difference between his ass and a hole in the ground but does know the difference between his ass and two holes in the ground.
I went to visit him while he was lying ill at the hospital. I had come in taxi cab number 14 and remarked that it was a rather dull number. "No" he replied, "it is a very interesting number. It's the smallest number expressible as the product of 7 and 2 in two different ways."
Here's one I came up with a few years ago that I'm quite proud of.
Here's a legend we have at our institute:
Prof: "Give an example of a vector space."
Student: "V"
A British mathematician was giving a talk in Grothendieck's seminar in Paris. He started "Let X be a variety...". This caused some talking among the students sitting in the back, who were asking each other "What's a variety?". J.-P. Serre, sitting in the front row, turns around a bit annoyed and says "Integral scheme of finite type over a field".
Here are a few of my own inventions:
Old Macdonald had a form; ei /\ ei = 0
Save the environment: use continuation passing style!
What shape of pasta takes the least time to eat? Brachistochroni!
You might be a mathematician if you think fog is a composition.
The Yoda embedding, contravariant it is.
How are Goethe's Faust novels like isomorphisms of sets? Dey're de monic epics.
I'm kind of in two minds about this whole Schroedinger's cat thing...
qwhine, n. self-recrimination
recursive: (λ damn. damn (damn)) (λ damn. damn (damn))
Coeschatology: the study of the beginning of times. The coend is ming!
an anecdote about David Hilbert from the wonderful book (for us laymen ;-) Prime Obsession:
I like this one:
A mathematican walks into a bar accompanied by a dog and a cow.
Don't remember where I saw this, but as a woman in mathematics, it tickles me no end:
A poet, a priest, and a mathematician are discussing whether it's better to have a wife or a mistress.
The poet argues that it's better to have a mistress because love should be free and spontaneous.
The priest argues that it's better to have a wife because love should be sanctified by God.
The mathematician says, "I think it's better to have both. That way, when each of them thinks you're with the other, you can do some mathematics."
jose's post reminds me of one I heard Michael Hutchings tell during an undergraduate calculus lecture:
I've always thought that "What's the value of a contour integral around Western Europe?" "Zero. All the Poles are in Eastern Europe." was pretty good, although not laugh-out-loud funny by any means.
Another one I personally like is "What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski?" "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski."
It's not really a "joke," (and whether it's "mathematical" is, I suppose, debatable), but Knuth's article on the complexity of songs is pretty great.
Q: How do you tell an extroverted mathematican from an introverted one?
A: An extroverted mathematician stares at your shoes when talking to you.
My favourite, from Eilenberg's obituary:
When someone once asked Professor Eilenberg if he could eat Chinese food with three chopsticks, he answered, "Of course," according to Professor Morgan. The questioner asked, "How are you going to do it?" and Professor Eilenberg replied, "I'll take the three chopsticks, I'll put one of them aside on the table, and I'll use the other two."
Here is the one I heard recently.
Professor: What is a root of $f(z)$ of multiplicity $k$?
Student: It is a number $a$ such that if you plug it into $f$, you get $0$; if you plug it in again, you again get $0$, and so $k$ times. But if you plug it into $f$ for the $k+1$-st time, you do not get $0$.
I have a few that I've heard and liked.
(1) The Mobius strippers always show their backside.
(2) Apparently, a quote of Paul Erdos, but it's funny nonetheless : Another roof, another proof.
(3) An experimental physicist meets a mathematician in a bar and they start talking. The physicict asks, "What kind of math do you do?" to which the mathematician replies, "Knot theory." The physicist says, "Me neither!"
(4) The primary reason Bourbaki stopped writing books was the realization that Lang was one single person.
My favorite one-liner:
Why did the mathematician name his dog "Cauchy"? Because he left a residue at every pole.
My favorite anecdote:
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote, indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt already heard. After some observations and rough calculations the engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily, as he now has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humor from similar anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny.
"Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)" by the Klein Four a cappella group at Northwestern University (lyrics by Matt Salomone):
There's a mathematician whose non-mathematician friends are constantly ribbing him because his field is just so abstract and seems to have no relevance to the real world. One day, it gets to him, and he resolves to arm himself with some practical applications of research mathematics for the next encounter. He realizes that his own specialty (mathematical logic) is probably too far beyond them to be of any use there, so he goes to the department bulletin board to find an upcoming talk about something practical. Luckily, a talk is scheduled that afternoon on "the theory of gears." "Perfect!" he says. Nothing could be more practical, more down-to-earth. Finally, he'll be able to prove to his friends that mathematics is relevant to the real world. That afternoon, he's so excited that he goes to the talk five minutes early and sits in the first row of seats. Then, at the scheduled time, the speaker stands up and begins: "While the theory of gears with real numbers of teeth is well understood...."
Based on the answers above, no.
(From the unpublished manuscript "Mathematics in a nutshell":)
A coconut is just a nut
Q: What is non-orientable and lives in the ocean?
A mathematician organizes a raffle in which the prize is an infinite amount of money paid over an infinite amount of time. Of course, with the promise of such a prize, his tickets sell like hot cake.
When the winning ticket is drawn, and the jubilant winner comes to claim his prize, the mathematician explains the mode of payment: "1 dollar now, 1/2 dollar next week, 1/3 dollar the week after that..."
"The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please, rotate your phone by 90 degrees and try again..."
From a former prof. - http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~runde/jokes.html (no longer available)
Archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20121113123413/http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~runde/jokes.html
"Why did the chicken cross the Mobius band?"
The question isn't whether good math jokes exist, but whether they can be classified. The example above works because it plays on ones expectation of the "chicken crossing the road" jokes. Another one in the same vein, known as the shortest math joke:
"Let epsilon<0."
Another one, which I actually heard in class:
"Take a positive integer N. No wait, N is too big; take a positive integer k."
Here is a non-exhaustive classification of math jokes:
A joke can belong to more than one classification. For example, the "Dog and cow knot theorists" has both puns and a twist on expectations.
By the way, I would exclude jokes which are purely made on stereotypes, like the above joke on extrovert mathematician, because I don't find it funny.
I leave with one of my favorite meta-jokes:
"How many members of a certain demographic group does it take to perform a specified task? A finite number: one to perform the task and the remainder to act in a manner stereotypical of the group in question."
Theorem: There are infinitely many composite numbers.
Proof: Suppose there are only finitely many, and multiply them together.
I received today this comment about a paper:
This saying is attributed to someone from Bourbaki in Bourbaki's Art of Memory.
If I remember correctly someone told me that this really happened:
A famous mathematician gave a talk (maybe about mathematical physics), after which an as famous physicist sitting in the first row got up, and loudly declared: "That's all nice, but without mathematics, research in physics would be maybe a week behind the state it is now!"
The famous mathematician responded: "Yes, the week god needed to create the world."
Q: How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One: she gives it to three physicists, thus reducing it to a problem that has already been solved.
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are driving through the high country in Scotland. Atop a hill, they see a black sheep.
The engineer says: "All sheep are black!" The physicist says: "No, no, some sheep are black." The mathematician: "At least one sheep is black on at least one side."
Here are some of my favorites that were invented by friends of mine:
Q: What kind of maps should you take with you on car trips?
A: Automorphisms.
Q: What do you call it when you're trying to prove that a map is injective, but you just can't do it?
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Mr. TIME: Portraits by Boris ChaliapinMay 17 - January 5, 2014National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Over 400 of TIME Magazine's painted cover portraits were supplied by Russian-born Chaliapin between 1942 and 1970, with upwards of 300 within the confines of the NPG's collection and 26 originals, to form part of its retrospective exhibition.npg.si.edu/exhibit/exhchaliapin.html
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Landy's appointment as one of the National Gallery's artists-in-residence has seen him re-contextualize some of the gallery's own paintings, reimagining their subjects as oversized sculptures, adorning those sacred saints with modern-day machine parts and other carefully selected objects ready to be cranked to life by gallery visitors. Renaissance works include portraits of Saint Jerome by Crivelli and Tura, Cranach's Saints Genevieve and Apollonia, and Sassetta's Stigmatisation of Saint Francis.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/michael-landy-saints-alive
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Yes, you may. I contacted Microsoft support and they confirmed this. However, I don't know how much trust I would put into a chat representative for legal concerns. So, I've provided some more information...
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To expand upon Johannes' answer, a simple arrow like you describe in your question is not likely to pass the threshold of originality.
The details vary between jurisdictions, but for example, the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices states, in section 503.02(a), "Minimal standards: pictorial or graphic material":
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The Rampage erased a two-goal deficit to take one point out of the back-to-back series against their divisional rival, who have won five straight and sit atop the Western Conference leader boards with 19 points.
Garrett Wilson and Butler provided the two goals for the Rampage and Dov Grumet-Morris made 22 saves on 24 shots in the defeat. Defenseman Colby Robak had a two-point night with assists on both goals, upping his total to five helpers in his last three games.
Entering the game, the Heat had cashed in on the power play in six straight games, but the Rampage held Abbotsford to 0-for-3 on the night with the man advantage. San Antonio outshot Abbotsford, 31-25, with every Rampage player other than rookie forward Logan Shaw firing at least one shot on Heat goaltender Joey MacDonald.
In similar fashion to Tuesday's contest, Abbotsford took the lead at 11:38 of the first period, capitalizing on a failed clearing attempt by the Rampage. Blair Jones quickly jumped on the mistake, firing the puck at Grumet-Morris, and picking up the primary assist, as Ben Street slipped it past the San Antonio goalie for his second of the year.
Neither team was able to create much offense for the remainder of the period, both passing up early power-play chances, and the Heat skated into the first intermission with a 1-0 advantage.
Abbotsford took a 2-0 lead early in the second period, as Markus Granlund fed a centering pass to Ben Hanowski. Hanowski fired the puck high blocker over Grumet-Morris, and made it a two-goal game at just 2:35 of the middle frame.
The Rampage started the climb back with an excellent penalty kill early in the middle frame, and though they failed to cash in on the power play, San Antonio's offensive push finally gained a bit of traction just past the midway point of the period.
Carrying the puck into the zone, Robak slid a pass to fellow defenseman Alex Petrovic, who fired it from the blueline. Wilson caught the pass in the high slot, and redirected it past MacDonald, cutting the Abbotsford lead in half at 12:00.
The tally was Wilson's fourth of the year and his seventh point in the last five games (two goals, five assists).
San Antonio continued to pile on the offense, outshooting the Heat 15-8 in the second. But despite a few solid chances, Abbotsford clung to their 2-1 lead after 40 minutes.
The offensive control finally paid off for the Rampage, as Robak fed Butler from down low with seven minutes left in the final period. Butler beat MacDonald glove-side to tie the game at 2-2.
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Should the singleton be designed so that it can be created and destroyed at any time in program or should it be created so that it is available in life-time of program. Which one is best practice? What are the advantages and disadvantages of both?
EDIT :- As per the link shared by Mat, the singleton should be static. But then what are the disadvantages of making it destroyable? One advantage is it memory can be saved when it is not useful.
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Should the singleton be designed so that it can be created and destroyed at any time in program or should it be created so that it is available in life-time of program. Which one is best practice? What are the advantages and disadvantages of both?
Whatever floats your boat.
If you need to destroy it (maybe to reclaim memory or maybe it has state that's no longer valid) you should do that.
If it holds state that's inconvenient to recreate on demand, you should keep it around.
If you have no particular reason to destroy it I think you should keep it around.
Singleton's introduce the same dependency as a global variable. Singleton's tend to introduce difficult to test implementations.
That said, I favor a singleton design that is implemented as a standard object. The singleton-ness of the object is an implementation detail where only one instance is created and made available.
The singleton instance is most often useful when it is lazily-constructed. That is only construct the object when it is needed.
The lazy instantiation of the object can often be used to help with testability of objects that are dependent on the singleton. For testing purposes you might introduce a mock object or alternative implementation that is instantiated.
Singleton's have there place in your toolbox. Understanding their limitations is important to using them successfully.
Singletons are completely appropriate solutions to some design problems. However, how the singleton is implemented matters here.
As a C# example,
Would be an example of a singleton that should never be destroyed. Its possible to have an internal static field to store the singleton reference, and to do a lazy instantiation if the internal value is null. But you then have to worry about ensuring singlethreaded access to test for null, potentially create and then obtain the singleton instance, just so you could free up the memory from this one object at some point.
It is really bad practice to create singletons by declaring the class static. It makes object destruction impossible, as well as making it a nightmare for mocking the interface in your unit tests.
A singleton should never be available, it's the definition of anti-pattern.
That said, the supposed benefit of the design is that it handles creation order and lifetime in such a way as to guarantee the thing always exists. Making it destroyable rather defeats the purpose.
The best practice is just to not use a Singleton in the first place. But if you're going to use one, making it destroyable is even worse, and it's quite remarkable to have something worse than a regular Singleton.


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Twenty-two years ago, former University of Louisville football player Matt Battaglia made the switch from athletics to acting, moving nearly 3,000 miles to transition his career. Three and a half years ago, Battaglia decided to shift from being the man in front of the camera, to being the one behind it. And last Saturday night, Battaglia's decision paid off when he won his first Emmy for the television show, "Last Shot with Judge Gun," as executive producer. The Voice-Tribune had a chance to catch up with the award-winning actor-gone-producer to find out what the career change was like and how he enjoyed the Emmys.
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Matt Battaglia: Producing is something I decided to do about three and a half years ago. I wanted to get involved because I felt like there was a whole side of my brain that wasn't being used. I majored at Louisville with a business degree and a minor in finance. As an actor, you're just using the creative side of your brain. Also, as a producer, I can be selective. "Last Shot with Judge Gun" is a program (in which) the judge oversees the most successful drug re-treatment program in the country. These peoples' lives are at stake. It's really a show that makes a difference and tries to have a positive impact. Saturday night was a validation of that.
V-T: Out of all the work you have produced, what are you most proud of?
M.B.: "Last Shot with Judge Gun" is probably the most proud to date in the entertainment world, because it's a field that really has a positive impact on thousands of lives. Not just the participants and those who are rehabilitated, but their families and friends as well. I'm proud that I was successful in producing a show, but knowing that we're helping save lives and reconnecting families. And then to boot, the industry itself favored us to give us the Emmy; it's a win-win all around, creatively and (as a) humanitarian (venture).
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M.B.: The most enjoyable and unexpected part was definitely winning the Emmy. When they call your name, you're like, 'Did they just say that?' It feels like you're in a time warp. Walking from your seat to the stage, saying what you're going to say, and walking off behind the curtains, where they start the interviews; all of that probably took 10 minutes but it felt like it was over in 30 seconds. Though I will say that as great as a lot of people think (winning) is, a fellow former UofL football player who was a friend of mine, Brian Bray, died this morning. You just think, 'You know, Emmys, Oscars, whatever.' It's great for the moment, but it's definitely fleeting. It puts everything in true perspective.


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The symmetry at the Los Angeles Coliseum was perfect. Notre Dame had started the season unranked and slowly climbed, never losing on the way to reaching No. 1 just days earlier. Southern California had started out No. 1 and tumbled from the top 25 one loss at a time. They were playing a game that summed up the pointlessness of early-August predictions and the heartless beauty of college football in late November.
The Trojans had a chance Saturday night in Los Angeles to dynamite Notre Dame's path to the Bowl Championship Series title game. Trailing by nine points just past midway in the fourth quarter, USC had the talent and the time to get two needed scores.
But the Trojans' penultimate drive in Notre Dame's 22-13 win summarized how each team could end up so differently. It showed why USC could never convert its potential to results on the way to a blah 7-5 record. And it confirmed that the 12-0 Fighting Irish deserve—sorry, haters—to reach the BCS championship game Jan. 7 in Miami, most likely against the winner of the Alabama-Georgia game for the Southeastern Conference championship next Saturday.
USC arrived in scoring position as it so often did this season, with a spectacular catch by sophomore receiver Marqise Lee—53 yards, to Notre Dame's 2-yard line. It was the night's biggest blow to the Irish's inexperienced secondary, a presumed weakness entering the season that has turned out to be a strength.
USC lined up with more than five minutes to go and a crucial touchdown two strides away. But several Trojans players moved: false start, minus-five yards. It was one of only three USC penalties for 15 yards on the day, but a painful symptom of a season spent among the nation's most-punished teams. (You'd think that by now the Trojans would be better at learning from penalties.)
On first and goal at the Notre Dame 7, USC's Curtis McNeal rushed for three yards. Then the Trojans got a break. On consecutive plays the Irish were called for pass interference, giving USC a first down at the Notre Dame 1 with more than four minutes left. This was it: the game on the line, a chance to ruin a rival's perfect record, the reason USC quarterback Matt Barkley returned amid great fanfare for his senior season.
But Barkley was on the sideline Saturday with a shoulder injury. And instead of moving with urgency the Trojans dallied as the clock ticked, like browsing SkyMall magazine as a plane's oxygen masks drop from the ceiling. Meanwhile Notre Dame's top-10-ranked defense dug in. USC tried a quarterback sneak with replacement Max Wittek but got nowhere. Next play, second and goal: Wittek again, no gain.
With 3:19 remaining, USC called timeout. On third and goal, the Trojans handed off to McNeal again and Notre Dame's safeties came off the edges and closed on him like the pincers on a spider. No gain. What's that saying about trying the same thing over and over but expecting a different result?
The clock slipped under three minutes. On fourth and goal at the 1, Wittek took the snap and looked to the end zone. He found fullback Soma Vainuku on the near edge but bounced a pass off the turf. End of drive.
The Trojans had hour-glassed away more than three minutes and a timeout with one measly yard to show for it. A year that began with praise for USC coach Lane Kiffin's management of the Trojans' NCAA probation ended with a growing dossier against him, with his management of this pivotal drive the latest file.
The Irish got some luck Saturday, certainly, as they did in their triple-overtime escape against middling Pittsburgh earlier this season. But they also got superb defensive play at critical times. They got the usual stellar game from linebacker Manti Te'o, who made his seventh interception of the season to halt a third-quarter USC drive and conclude a persuasive argument for the Heisman Trophy. They got sturdy leadership from Everett Golson, yet another redshirt freshman quarterback in a season flush with fantastic ones like Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel and Oregon's Marcus Mariota.
It's hard to argue even with saccharine proclamations like that of commentator Brent Musburger, who cooed, "Folks, the Fighting Irish are destiny's darlings."
It is a tall order for Notre Dame to unseat the SEC, the stubborn, six-years-running owner of the BCS title. But Saturday's goal-line stand against one of the nation's most talented teams showed the Irish are worthy. They deserve to be in on the postseason feast—even if they're the ones who end up on the platter.
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The Grohe 28 375 is a stationary shower head.
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Suppose I have a function
Then is this funcion the same as
$y=\frac{ x^2+x}{x } $ ?
The domain of x in the first function is $R$ and in the second function is $x\neq 0$.
Suppose I have a function
Then is this funcion the same as
$y=\frac{ x^2+x}{x } $ ?
The domain of x in the first function is $R$ and in the second function is $x\neq 0$.
In the strict sense: they are not the same
By definition a function is a triple $(f,X,Y)$ such that $X,Y$ are sets and $f$ is a subset of $X\times Y$ with the property that for each $x$ etc.
Two functions $(f,X,Y)$ and $(g,Z,W)$ are - again by definition - equal if $f=g$, $X=Z$ and $Y=W$
If you have the functions $$ f:\mathbb R \rightarrow \mathbb R \quad f(x)=1 $$ and $$ g:\mathbb R\setminus \{0\} \rightarrow \mathbb R \quad g(x)={x\over x}=1 $$ then $f$ and $g$ are not the same function. All you can say is that $$ f(x)=g(x) \quad\text{for all } x \in \mathbb R\setminus \{0\} $$ Just keep in mind that equality of functions is a tiny bit more than $f(x)=g(x)$.
Just to say what Blah said a bit differently.
You can think of a function as a rule that takes an element in a set $A$ to and element in a set $B$. We sometimes write: $f: A \to B$. The key thing here is that a function is always given with a domain ($A$). These have to be the same for us to say that two functions are the same.
So for example. The function $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ given by $f(x) = x$ is not the same as the function $g(x): [0,\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$ given by $g(x) = x$. So even though they have the same expression their domains differ and so they are not the same function.
As a side note we often suppress the domain and just assume that the domain is the set of all the elements where the expression makes sense. So in your case the domain of the first function $y = x + 1$ is all the real numbers, whereas the domain of the second function $\frac{x^2 + x}{x}$ is all the real numbers except zero.


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What's the difference between intranet, extranet and internet?
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The Internet, extranets, and intranets all rely on the same TCP/IP technologies. However, they are different in terms of the levels of access they allow to various users inside and outside the organization and the size of the network. An intranet allows for restricted access to only members of an organization; an extranet expands that access by allowing non-members such as suppliers and customers to use company resources. The difference between the Internet and extranets is that while the extranet allows limited access to non-members of an organization, the Internet generally allows everyone to access all network resources.
Not necessarily definitive definitions, but Wikipedia defines them as follows.
Intranet is used for things that are probably more secure than the Internet. For example, those .mht archives on your desktop are probably more secure than .com. Therefore, your .mht archives are given higher privileges (depending on your internet settings) to doing stuff. Another example would be other computers on the network, if you're in a company. Anything transmitted to you by a coworker might be more trustworthy (at least, to IE*) than .com.
The Internet zone is for letting you surf the web. If you go on a bad site, it will be harder to attack them than with Intranet on. With Intranet, it'd probably be as easy as taking candy from a guy saying "free candies!" (Although, don't eat those candies; they may be poisoned).
*BTW, IMHO, IE is a lot less secure than something like Mozilla Firefox (aka "the most secure browser yet"). I use Google Chrome, though, but at least Firefox is better than IE. (Also, please don't downvote me just cause you're a Micro-softie; this is just my opinion.)
Basically, it is a way of internet explorer to let configure the browser so that different web applications are given different access control rights:
The difference mainly lies on
Internet, and Untrusted zones vs. Intranet, Trusted zones
The intranet and trusted zones are allowed to run active x controls (mainly to allow in-house software be deployed without much warnings to the end users)
As @digitxp said, it really isn't wise to use IE anyways, unless you are bound to use it by some IE only sites, intranet or not.
It's basically an access control mechanism to pump up security on Internet Explorer (that is, if there is any security in Internet Explorer) and other Microsoft web products.
An extranet is a computer network that allows controlled access from the outside, for specific business or educational purposes. An extranet can be viewed as an extension of a company's intranetthat is extended to users outside the company, usually partners, vendors, and suppliers.
1.Internet means global network.
2.Intranet means a single organization where share information can be accessed through a organization.
3.Extranet means a shared accessed content through a organization and also another organization if they permitted.
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Walter Alston
Walter Alston in 1954.
- Position(s):
- Nicknames:
- Smokey
- Born:
- December 1, 1911
- Bats:
- Right
- Throws:
- Right
- Height:
- 6' 2"
- Weight:
- 195 lbs
- Major League Debut:
- 9-27-1936 with SLN
- Hall of Fame:
- 1983
Walter Alston
Walter Alston survived the tough business of baseball despite his jovial demeanor and calm attitude. He was never given anything more than a one-year contract by Dodger ownership, which seemed like harsh treatment considering the fact that he led the franchise to World Series titles in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Behind his quiet exterior, Alston hid a fiery competitive spirit, and he is one of a handful of managers to win more than 2,000 games. He helped establish "the Dodger Way", which translated into winning seasons in 19 of 23 seasons from 1954 to 1976.
Full Bio
When Brooklyn owner Walter O'Malley hired Alston to be his manager in November, 1953, a sportswriter quipped, "The Dodgers do not need a manager, and that is why they got Alston." Despite a cold reception, Brooklyn warmed to Alston, who guided the team to their only World Series title in the burrough. Later, in Los Angeles, Alston added two more championships.
Walter Emmons Alston was born in Venice, Ohio, on the frist day of December, 1911, the son of a farmer who had once played semipro ball. Walter played baseball at Darrtown High School, where his speedy fastball earned him the nickname "Smokey." After high school, the lanky Alston attended Miami (Ohio) University, where he majored in industrial arts and physical education. He graduated from Miami in 1935, after starring on their baseball and basketball squads. With his parents earning a modest income during the Great Depression, Alston relied on his wits to meet his college tuition. He played pool in local taverns and pool halls, winning money to pay for his classes and books.
Alston signed with the St. Louis Cardinals after graduation and spent 13 years in the minor leagues, earning his one major league chance at the end of the 1936 campaign, after he led the Mid-Atlantic League with 35 home runs. On September 27, 1936, after Cardinals' star first baseman Johnny Mize was ejected from the game, Alston was put in the lineup by manager Frankie Frisch. Alston was nervous � in three innings he made an error and struck out in his only at-bat. The next spring, he was back in the Cardinals minor league system, blocked at first base by Johnny Mize and other prospects.
In 1940, Alston's fortunes changed forever when he was offered the chance to play and manage at Portsmouth in the Mid-Atlantic League. That year he led the loop with 28 homers, but the team could only manage a sixth place finish. The next two seasons, in 1941 and 1942, serving as player/manager, Alston led the Mid-Atlantic homers and RBI both years, earning a promotion to Rochester, where he surrendered his managerial cap and performed as a player only. In 1944, the Cardinals released Alston, but Branch Rickey, formerly the Cardinals GM and now the president of Brooklyn Dodgers, hired Alston to play and manage in the Dodgers' system. With the Dodgers, Alston guided St. Paul to the Junior World Series championship in 1949, and the next year found him in Montreal � Brooklyn's top farm club.
The quiet, unflappable Alston spent four seasons in Montreal, grooming several Brooklyn stars for the big club. When the Dodgers' managerial position was open after the '53 campaign, O'Malley surprised the press and fans by hiring Alston, who was not highly regarded by most experts outside of the Brooklyn system.
Since his predecessor, Charlie Dressen, had been axed because he demanded a multi-year contract, Alston made sure to never balk at his one-year deals. He worked under that arrangement for 23 seasons, never knowing if he might be sent packing following the season. But his success quickly gave him comfort, as he won a World Series title in his second season, fulfilling Brooklyn's fans' dream.
Building a winning machine, Alston paced the Dodgers to 88 or more wins in 13 of his 23 years at the helm. He suffered just four losing seasons, and posted a career .558 percentage. Alston won World Series titles in '55, 1959, 1963, and 1965, relying on power and pitching in the 1950s, pitching and speed in the 1960s, and youth and pitching in the 1970s, when he won his final pennant, in 1974. He was named Manager of the Year six times, and garnered a record seven wins as manager of the NL All-Star squad. Walter Alston was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1983.
Best Season: 1963
Many would select the 1955 Brooklyn team, which won the only modern championship in that city, but they were really no different or better than many other Brooklyn teams. The '63 Dodgers were the best pitching team in baseball, played great defense and "small-ball." Koufax (25-5, 1.88) and Drysdale (19-17, 2.63) were the workhorses on the hill, with Johnny Podres (14 wins) and Bob Miller (10 wins, 2.89 ERA) rounding out the rotation. Ron Perranoski provided bullpen support (21 saves, 1.67). Maury Wills led the offensive attack from the leadoff spot, pilfering 40 bases and batting .302. The rest of the lineup was solid but unspectacular, with the exception of center fielder Tommy Davis (.326) and right fielder Frank Howard (28 homers). The key word on offense was balance: two switch-hitters, three lefties and three righties played regularly. The Dodgers outperformed their pythagorean projection by seven games and then swept the Yankees in the World Series, allowing just four runs to the Bombers.
Future Managers who Played for Alston
Tommy Lasorda, Bill Russell, Bobby Valentine, Dusty Baker, Davey Lopes, Maury Wills, Jeff Torborg, Don Zimmer, Jim Lefebvre, Phil Regan, Frank Howard, Gil Hodges, Norm Sherry, Bob Lillis, Roger Craig, Bob Kennedy, Charlie Manuel, Dick Williams
Alston won his 2,000th game on July 17, 1976, at Dodger Stadium, against the Chicago Cubs. Coming back from a first-inning 4-0 deficit, the Dodgers won on a two-run single by pitcher Rick Rhoden in the fourth inning. Alston became the sixth manager to win 2,000 games.
In 1957, Alston used 100 different lineups as the Dodgers failed to repeat as National League champions.
Chuck Dressen, who lost the famous 1951 Playoff, and lost the World Series to the Yankees in 1952 and 1953. Dressen then had the audacity to ask for a multi-year deal, and Walter O'Malley axed him.
Replaced By
His coach, Tommy Lasorda, in 1977. Lasorda was in many ways the opposite of Alston. Lasorda craved the spotlight and loved to hold court with the media and Hollywood celebrities who frequented games at Dodger Stadium. He was a visible, vocal, "rah-rah" type leader, who wore his emotions on his sleeve. Lasorda managed the Dodgers through 1996, giving the organization two managers in 42 seasons. Since the 1997 season, the Dodgers have had four different managers.


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What constitutes "gaming the system," and is it okay or not?
The question about gaming the black triangle system got me thinking about other situations where it's possible to do things that are technically within the rules, but just don't "feel right." Example: An area store (and it is a national chain, for context) has a no-questions-asked return policy, without limits on time, etc. My friend therefore returns EVERYTHING that she ever buys there once she's tired of it or the kids have grown out of it. Worn-out winter boots? Back to the store they go. Shirt she wore in a mud run last weekend? Back to the store.
Her take is that the store makes the rules, so they can't fault her for taking them up on it. It makes me insane. Aside from the part where I feel like people like her lead stores to change customer-friendly policies, it just seems so clearly wrong to me, but not to her.
What do you think?
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i'll just put this out there for people to discuss, though i haven't really thought this through.
mabe "gaming the system" would be taking advantage of the rules (or any leeway or loopholes allowed by the rules) further than the average, reasonable person would. where a person plays to defeat others to win, rather than live cooperatively (not really the rite word, but i am blanking on a better one) with others.
Your "friend" would be no friend of mine. There would never be an acceptable level of trust.
I used to work in Customer Service at a National Retail Chain that sounds suspiciously like the one you are describing. Nothing was more frustrating than having a "customer" return a pair of Chacos that are so worn out that the straps are frayed, there is a permanent curl in the toe, and the sole is worn to the midsole. Clearly this "customer" got their money's worth out of the shoe and the shoe has simply worn out. We had to look the item up in the "customer's" history (even more frustrating when they were not a member and had no history) and refund them the original purchase price. We bought the worn out shoes at 1996 prices and threw them immediately into the trash.
That being said, it's supposed to work that the majority of customers are good, honest people and the gamers are a small percentage. I certainly remember seeing the same people month after month there, returning worn-out junk.
There were a few slow days when returns would outpace sales. That was also frustrating.
We did have some tactics to discourage these people. If they did not have a receipt, and the item is not in their purchase history, we give them the current price in the system, usually between $0.23 and $1.83 (must end in 3). They would fight for a minute, then keep their item. That was always satisfying.
Also, we would not return items if they CLEARLY did not come from our store. I saw Galyean's (predecessor of Dick's) tags on things and got to refuse them. People would try to return branded items from our Canadian counterpart, and they would also get refused. Those were also satisfying.
Your friend is more taking advantage of a courtesy than "gaming" the system. I bet she was a leech on her parents also.
If she ever complains that the price of things has gotten ridiculous at that store, feel free to kick her in the mommy parts. Hell kick her in the mommy parts anyway.
I'm fairly sure I know which store you're talking about, and I hate it when people abuse that awesome rule they have. My mom bought some hiking boots from there, and when they destroyed her feet when she first used them for any length of time, even though they'd been worn outside in mud and whatnot, they gave her a full refund. That's what that rule is for-not so people can be jerks and return stuff they have just worn out through use over the years. Shame on your friend. Shame I say!
Unlike others, I'm not sure at all which chain this is. Perhaps it's my basic unwillingness to give something up once I've bought it. I've returned a few things over the years, almost always because I'd bought the wrong item, or sometimes because the item wasn't the quality I'd paid for.
I do know the type of person you're talking about though. Nordstrom's has always had this policy, and I took great pleasure in being there when a "friend" brought back yet another "buy it on Friday, wear it on the weekend, take it back on Monday) item, and they told her she was now on a special list, and they would not take any returns from her. In addition, they asked her to consider shopping elsewhere. I didn't laugh (although it was VERY hard not to), but I did remain behind after she'd stalked off in an absolute fury with threats of "LAWYERS" and "writing a letter to the newspaper" and so on.
I congratulated them for their wisdom, and completed my purchase. Stores should blacklist more often.
I think it's dishonest. I have a "friend" who is the kind to buy things and not remove the tag, wear for one occasion and return it. I was shocked. I think it is the equivalent of stealing. I would not trust this person for anything. Anyone who can justify such practices will lie and/or take advantage of you and your friendship.
My post was actually about Kohl's. And now I will make a mental note to keep my friend far, far away from REI.
@jjkehoe: Oh wow, really? I didn't know Kohl's had a similar policy! I assumed it was REI...
I thought they were talking about a certain warehouse store.
I thought they where talking about Sears hardware department
Wow! Kohls?
How in the hell can they have such cheap prices with a policy like that?
REI I can see, they are not a "discount" store.
Warehouses make most of their money off of membership fees.
I was thinking LLBean. Years ago I had read about a fisherman who had been returning boots every time they wore out for over 45 years. Now that was certainly abuse, but the store knew about it and accepted it. I wonder if they have this same policy today
Your friend is a thief. She feels her theft is justified by the store having a generous policy, but that is simply the store trying to have a customer-friendly policy - it doesn't mean they want people to get their money's worth out of a product and then return it. She is stealing the value of each item. The more people there are who share your friend's lack of ethics, the more the store has to charge for everything to support the leeches.
My company has an amazing return policy. In our 10 years of business we have never refused a single return - ever. But we do track the returns, and we notice when somebody starts repeatedly taking advantage of us. And then we confront them and let them know that thieves are unwelcome and that they will never be allowed to buy from us again. In doing this, we are able to maintain our amazing return policy while also not letting leeches drive our prices up for everybody else. (We still take their last return, but then never hear from them again.)
Your example is what's wrong in retail today. If someone wears something out and gets full value out of it they shouldn't expect a free replacement. People like that are ruining our country.
My first job out of college was as assistant manager of a national chain dress shop with pretty liberal return policies. We kept a list of habitual returners, but we were not allowed to deny returns. I remember one woman who would come into the store, buy something, wear it on her next trip, then return it the next day saying that she had bought it without trying it on and it didn't fit. (sigh) The one who made me the angriest was a woman who tried to return a blouse because it had shrunk in the wash. The HUGE label in the collar clearly said DRY CLEAN ONLY, which I pointed out. She tried to tear me a new one because, according to her, she felt safe in ignoring the label since the blouse was not expensive. The store manager allowed her to return it anyway, because of that dratted policy. The store (and the chain) folded a few years later. I know it's not fair to blame that a few jerks abusing the policy, but it couldn't have helped.


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