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DENX Open Das U-Boot on SheevaPlug
August 01, 2011, 09:28:59 PM »
I installed the latest DENX U-Boot, U-Boot 2011.06 (Jul 03 2011 - 02:54:01), compiled for SheevaPlug. I have had no problems with it, other than my ignorance. I can now boot from a ubifs partition on MTD NAND.
The commands in this version more closely match those in the DULG manual,
, than those in Marvell U-Boot. There are still some gaps, notably for the ubi commands:
ubi - ubi commands
ubifsload- load file from an UBIFS filesystem
ubifsls - list files in a directory
ubifsmount- mount UBIFS volume
ubifsumount- unmount UBIFS volume
Marvell>> ? ubi
ubi - ubi commands
ubi part [part] [offset]
- Show or set current partition (with optional VID header offset)
ubi info [l[ayout]] - Display volume and ubi layout information
ubi create[vol] volume [size] [type] - create volume name with size
ubi write[vol] address volume size - Write volume from address with size
ubi read[vol] address volume [size] - Read volume to address with size
ubi remove[vol] volume - Remove volume
volume: character name
size: specified in bytes
type: s[tatic] or d[ynamic] (default=dynamic)
Marvell>> ? ubifsmount
ubifsmount - mount UBIFS volume
ubifsmount <volume-name>
- mount 'volume-name' volume
I tried to find clues in the source code, but I founf the following by trial and error:
Marvell>> ubi part nand0,2
Creating 1 MTD partitions on "nand0":
0x000000500000-0x000020000000 : "mtd=2"
UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: physical eraseblock size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB)
UBI: logical eraseblock size: 129024 bytes
UBI: smallest flash I/O unit: 2048
UBI: sub-page size: 512
UBI: VID header offset: 512 (aligned 512)
UBI: data offset: 2048
UBI: attached mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: MTD device name: "mtd=2"
UBI: MTD device size: 507 MiB
UBI: number of good PEBs: 4053
UBI: number of bad PEBs: 3
UBI: max. allowed volumes: 128
UBI: wear-leveling threshold: 4096
UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
UBI: number of user volumes: 1
UBI: available PEBs: 0
UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 4053
UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 40
UBI: max/mean erase counter: 25/10
Marvell>> ubifsmount rootfs
UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 1, name "rootfs"
UBIFS: mounted read-only
UBIFS: file system size: 515837952 bytes (503748 KiB, 491 MiB, 3998 LEBs)
UBIFS: journal size: 9033728 bytes (8822 KiB, 8 MiB, 71 LEBs)
UBIFS: media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0)
UBIFS: default compressor: LZO
UBIFS: reserved for root: 0 bytes (0 KiB)
Marvell>> ubifsload 0x800000 /boot/uImage
Loading file '/boot/uImage' to addr 0x00800000 with size 1579576 (0x00181a38)...
Marvell>> iminfo 0x800000
## Checking Image at 00800000 ...
Legacy image found
Image Name: Debian kernel
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 1579512 Bytes = 1.5 MiB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
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Re: DENX Open Das U-Boot on SheevaPlug
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August 02, 2011, 03:47:10 PM »
Quote from: bnborg on August 01, 2011, 09:28:59 PM
I can now boot from a ubifs partition on MTD NAND.
I don't suppose anyone has any details on how to create/setup a file-system on NAND?
In particular, how to create (say) 100MB and 400MB ubifs partitions, put /boot onto the former and leave the latter as and empty but mountable (writeable) file-system?
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August 02, 2011, 04:31:01 PM »
U-Boot 2011.06 (Jul 03 2011 - 02:54:01)
I mentioned in another thread that I could not get this u-boot to boot from USB (usb stick(s) or harddrives).
It works when booting from NAND or MMC.
I perservered for a week and gave up and went back to using the pingtoo u-boot.
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August 03, 2011, 11:25:17 AM »
Quote from: birdman on August 02, 2011, 03:47:10 PM
I don't suppose anyone has any details on how to create/setup a file-system on NAND?
If I were you I would just create a UBI image on another Linux computer and then flash it to the plug with plain "nand write". You don't really need all those advanced ubifs features of u-boot.
I'm curious, why do you need a separate ubifs partition for /boot? How is that better than having the kernel on a separate raw MTD partition?
Lack of knowledge is not such a big problem, unwillingness to learn is.
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August 03, 2011, 01:19:32 PM »
I used Martin Michlmayr's instructions on
to upgrade U-Boot and install the testing version of Debian Linux.
I got there from the Debian page in the Plug Wiki,
Ubifs is recommended on another Plug Wiki page,
. That page refers to
for more information.
With a recent Debian kernel, ubifs is built in. Still, it is tricky to get Linux to mount it as root. You have to pass the right arguments to the kernel by setting bootargs in U-Boot. In my case, "console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=ubi!rootfs rw rootfstype=ubifs rootflags=noatime,rw mtdparts=orion_nand:512k(uboot),4m@1m(kernel),507m@5m(rootfs)" are the ones I used.
To read the kernel and Initrd from ubifs, you have to mount it first: "ubi part nand0,2; ubifsmount rootfs; ubifsload 0x1100000 /boot/uInitrd; ubifsload 0x800000 /boot/uImage". Note, uInitrd and Uimage are in the boot directory on the root ubi filesystem.
In order to create, format and mount ubifs volumes, you need to install the mtd-utils. As a bonus, you get some flash tools including fw_printenv and fw_setenv.
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August 03, 2011, 01:48:25 PM »
I should add that it didn't work until I changed the root= argument to ubi!rootfs. The exclamation point. '!' is mentioned in the UBI FAQ,
, for situations where the kernel boot loader gets "confused".
I went through several iterations of this before I got it to work. I had a working system on an 8 GB SD flash that I copied to make the ubifs image. I modified etc/fstab on the copy, but that by itself is not enough. Root has to be mounted before fstab can be read.
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Re: DENX Open Das U-Boot on SheevaPlug
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August 03, 2011, 05:14:08 PM »
Quote from: sfzhi on August 03, 2011, 11:25:17 AM
I'm curious, why do you need a separate ubifs partition for /boot?
Everything else is on an external USB drive, but there are/were/could be problems trying to boot from USB (which is through a hub), so at the moment I have
left on the SDHC card.
But that seems a bit of a waste of a 16GB SDHC card (which also juts out from the box), so if I were able to use the NAND instead (with
- not
) I'd free up the SDHC card and make some use of the internal NAND.
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August 03, 2011, 10:51:42 PM »
You don't need a separate filesystem for /boot. I have the whole Debian base running on one ubifs partition. The SheevaPlug came with three partitions defined on the MTD NAND:
# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00100000 00020000 "u-boot"
mtd1: 00400000 00020000 "uImage"
mtd2: 1fb00000 00020000 "root"
u-boot is 1 MB, uImage is 4 MB and root is the remaining 507 MB. It came with a basic linux using jffs2 on root. It was only using about 10% of root. My base Debian install took about half of it, reformatted as ubifs. It is now about 75% full after I installed x11vnc and xrfb. I am thinking I will set it up to mount /usr/local from a USB or SD drive. Then I can put most applications there. I am also thinking that with DENX U-Boot working so well there really is no need for the 4 MB NAND partition for uImage. It seems to load quicker from ubifs.
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August 04, 2011, 05:34:07 PM »
Quote from: bnborg on August 03, 2011, 10:51:42 PM
You don't need a separate filesystem for /boot.
I do if I want the rest of the files to be on an external USB drive through a hub. And I don't want things like
to be on a solid-state device that can wear out (I've had an SDHC card get to the read-only state, which is why I moved to the USB drive).
It seems to load quicker from ubifs.
Yes, ubifs is quicker the jffs2 (apparently) but the older U-boots don't have any ubiload command.
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August 04, 2011, 06:21:11 PM »
I see your point. Make a separate /boot partition and don't change it very often.
You could try re-defining the mtd partitions. This is done in uboot when the mtdparts environment variable is set. On my SheevaPlug it is "mtdparts=mtdparts=orion_nand:512k(uboot),4m@1m(kernel),507m@5m(rootfs)".
Maybe "mtdparts=mtdparts=orion_nand:512k(uboot),100m@1m(boot),407m@105m(extra)" or "mtdparts=mtdparts=orion_nand:512k(uboot),4m@1m(kernel),100m@5m(boot),403m@105m(extra)" if you want to keep a uboot image in the default location. Note, my math might be wrong, it needs to be verified.
I don't remember if I had to set mtdids first or if uboot took care of it: "mtdids=nand0=orion_nand". Then in my boot sequence, I run "ubi part nand0,2; ubifsmount rootfs; ubifsload 0x1100000 /boot/uInitrd; ubifsload 0x800000 /boot/uImage". After a ubifs is mounted, you can run ubifsls to list files on the file system.
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August 05, 2011, 11:02:02 AM »
Quote from: bnborg on August 04, 2011, 06:21:11 PM
After a ubifs is mounted...
...but first it needs to be created as a file system. I don't think I can just create the device then run "mkfs -t ubi".
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August 06, 2011, 04:43:14 PM »
No, you have to install first to USB or SD. Then use "apt-get install mtd-utils" to get the ubi utilities. In order to boot with root on ubifs, it has to be compiled into the kernel instead of loaded as a module. Debian kernels 2.6.25 and later should include it.
I changed the layout on my SheevaPlug for a separate boot partition. It is now:
root@debian:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00080000 00020000 "uboot"
mtd1: 02800000 00020000 "boot"
mtd2: 1d700000 00020000 "rootfs"
U-Boot 2011.06 (Jul 03 2011 - 02:54:01)
Marvell>> mtdparts
device nand0 <orion_nand>, # parts = 3
#: name size offset mask_flags
0: uboot 0x00080000 0x00000000 0
1: boot 0x02800000 0x00100000 0
2: rootfs 0x1d700000 0x02900000 0
active partition: nand0,1 - (boot) 0x02800000 @ 0x00100000
mtdids : none
mtdparts: none
I intend to boot SD most of the time and save my NAND from too many writes.
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Are Banach manifolds (or other types of infinite-dimensional manifolds) just curiosities, or have they been utilized to prove some interesting/important results? Where do they turn up? Important examples?
Some pretty fundamental objects in manifold theory are Banach manifolds. Perhaps the simplest would be the space of $C^k$ diffeomorphisms of a compact manifold M for $k > 0$ finite. There's of course all kinds of variations on this theme: embedding spaces, diffeomorphisms that preserve a structure of some sort, the space of smooth maps between two manifolds, etc, etc.
So they're used to prove a variety of results, and they are the "targets" of many important theorems. For example, Smale's theorem on the homotopy type of $Diff(S^2)$, or the Smale-Hirsch theorem on the homotopy type of the space of immersions of one manifold in another. Palais's theorem that restriction maps are fiber bundles (more easily seen to be fibrations) was used by Fadell and Neuwirth to show the pure braid groups are iterated semi-direct products of free groups. The fact that $Diff(S^1)$ has the homotopy type of $O_2$ says that a circle bundle over a space is always equivalent to a circle bundle with linear structure group, etc.
IMO the answer to your question can be summed up in a little nugget of an observation that if you value manifolds, it's only natural to value the automorphisms of manifolds, and mapping spaces of manifolds. And since these mapping spaces have a natural structure (of a Banach manifold) certainly that should be relevant.
As a counterpoint to some of the other answers, actually Banach (and Hilbert) manifolds aren't quite as useful as might be hoped. Two indicators of this are:
So Banach and Hilbert manifolds tend to be used as places to put other things. They are big enough to contain just about everything but simple enough that they don't add any extra complications. This leads to their use as extreme examples of "very big spaces" and means that for any particular situation one can often chop the infinite down to the finite (but very big). So, for example, with regard to representing K-theory, for any particular finite dimensional manifold there's a finite dimensional Grassmannian that will do but if you want to represent K-theory for all finite dimensional manifolds then you need an infinite dimensional Grassmannian.
However, the situation changes once you allow other model spaces (the largest category of such is the category of convenient vector spaces, the introduction of which is a very interesting read on calculus in infinite dimensions). There you can and do get much more interesting behaviour and you discover that you can study infinite dimensional manifolds as objects in their own right.
One example of this is the notion of semi-infinite structure. This is, almost by definition, only available in infinite dimensions (there are shadows in finite) and has proved an important source of ideas, if not actual techniques.
Of course, many of the techniques involve bringing things back down to finite dimensions in the final analysis but that's because we want to actually compute something and so end up with a number; and the easiest way to get a number is to count a finite number of things. But that's no different to any other computation, so shouldn't be seen as a disadvantage.
So back to the original question. Well, I don't really have a good answer to that because I work with infinite dimensional manifolds so I don't spend any time worrying about what others want to apply this work to, I just get on with it. But nonetheless, one theme that I see a lot is that of the infinite dimensional "picture" being the right one and the one that gives the intuition for how the finite dimensional approximations fit together.
Thus we see that Floer theory is really Morse theory applied to loop spaces, but not many will compute it as such. We see that the elliptic genus is (was originally!) really index theory applied to loop spaces, but again that's not useful for computations!
In general, anywhere where you've got functions that can vary, you've got an infinite dimensional manifold and it behoves you to remember it because it can give you important insights on how to proceed.
Infinite-dimensional Grassmannians and their tautological bundles arise in topological K-theory and bordism. See Thom's Quelques propriétés globales des variétés differentiables.
One needs to use the implicit function theorem and Sard's theorem in the setting of Banach manifolds in order to get the theory of J-holomorphic curves off the ground, which is one of the pillars of symplectic topology.
Eilenberg Maclane spaces are basic building blocks of homotopy theory.
Infinite jet spaces are widely used in the geometric theory of PDEs, for instance, when you deal with the infinitesimal higher symmetries that arise in the study of integrable systems.
Fréchet manifolds show up in some "higher geometry" situations. Here are three which I particularly like:
1.) The group of smooth loops (both based at 1 or free) in a Lie group forms a nice infinite-dimensional Lie group. These turn out to be exceptionally useful in integrable systems. For example, there is the Dorfmeister-Pedit-Wu generalized Weierstrass representation which gives an explicit parameterization of harmonic maps to symmetric spaces in terms of some holomorphic data on a loop group.
2.) Len Gross uses the Fréchet manifold of piecewise smooth paths in $\mathbb{R}^n$ to analyze the field copy problem. This is the issue that two (nonabelian) $\mathfrak{g}$-valued connections on $\mathbb{R}^n$ can have the same curvature without being gauge-equivalent. This is pretty weird; the observables of a gauge field are built out of the curvature, but with field copies you have two inequivalent fields with the same observables. At least, that's how I understand it. I'm curious if there is a tamer explanation.
3.) Brylinski does some stuff with the Fréchet manifolds of loops in a manifold in his book. I don't have it handy for reference, but there are some interesting observations. For example, the path space of a symplectic manifold is almost-complex.
Hitchin's Moduli Space in Geometric Langlands is obtained by a reduction from an infinite-dimensional space of connections. See
Douady introduced Banach analytic manifolds in order to solve a conjecture of Grothendieck's on the existence of a moduli space for compact analytic subspaces of a given fixed analytic space. These Banach analytic manifolds were then put to good use in many subsequent important papers (Barlet, Palamodov, Grauert,...). The use of infinite-dimensional analytic manifolds is characteristic for this area.
Here are the first lines of Douady's spectacular thesis [my translation]:
"The aim of this work is to provide its author with the status of Doctor in Mathematics and the set H(X) of compact analytic subspaces of X with the structure of an analytic space. In order to formulate the second problem more precisely..."
A link to the thesis:
This is encompassed by some of the fancier examples above, but a good "classic" example of natural infinite dimensional manifolds is the space of paths connecting two points on a finite-dimensional base manifold. For example a natural interpretation of deriving the Euler equations from the Calculus of Variations is to find points in the path manifold where the derivative of the action functional vanishes. If you use the length functional you get the geodesic equations of a Riemannian manifold. Going a step further and studying the second derivative in the path manifold leads to some nice theorems relating the curvature of the base manifold and its topology.
Malliavin introduced his analysis of functionals on the Wiener space to obtain a probabilistic proof of the Hoermander theorem.
Hoermander theorem states that the generalized Heat equation on R^n has a smooth solution whenever the driving function is smooth, provided that the Lie algebra of the heat operator generators span the whole of R^n at each point. Of course, analysis on Wiener spaces have many applications in other areas also. This is a reference to a review of "Stochstic analysis" by Malliavin
David Ebin and Jerry Marsden proved in a 1970 paper in the Annals that the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations are well-posed for short amounts of time. This result uses the geometry of infinite-dimensional manifolds in a very fundamental way: the configuration space of an incompressible fluid in a container $M$ is the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms $\mathrm{Diff}_{\mathrm{vol}}(M)$ of $M$ and this is of course an infinite-dimensional manifold. The proof then relies on the fact that the Euler equations define a Hamiltonian vector field on this space, and by carefully unwinding the definitions and putting everything in the right Sobolev space you can essentially use existence and uniqueness theorems for ODEs to prove the desired result.
I'm of course glossing over many details. One of the problems, for instance, when trying to make this idea rigorous is that the convective term $\mathbf{u} \cdot \nabla \mathbf{u}$ in the Euler equations leads to derivative loss, but this can be surmounted by rewriting the equations in Lagrangian form. If you want to do all this going back and forth in a proper way, you need a good understanding of the underlying geometry of $\mathrm{Diff}_{\mathrm{vol}}(M)$.
In my opinion, this is quite an amazing result, since it is both powerful and conceptually very clear. There are essentially no hard estimates in the paper, just applications of the Sobolev embedding theorems, Hodge decompositions, properties of vector fields, .... Global analysis at its best!
Loop groups (spaces of maps $S^1 \to G$ where $G$ is a Lie group) are nice examples of infinite dimensional manifolds, and they are important in physics and string theory. They have a rich and interesting theory, the basics of which are developed for example in the book "Loop Groups" by Pressley and Segal. See also the paper "Unitary representations of some infinite dimensional groups" by Segal. As for interesting results, there is the recent work of Freed-Hopkins-Teleman which relates the representation theory of the loop group $LG$ ("Verlinde ring") and the twisted equivariant $K$-theory of the Lie group $G$.
In general, infinite dimensional things come up often in quantum field theory. For example the fields under consideration might be sections of a vector bundle, or say spaces of maps of surfaces into a manifold. It is important to understand these spaces of fields, because we want to do "integrals" over them.
The Wasserstein space of a compact Riemannian manifold is the set of Borel probablity measures endowed with a distance defined using optimal transportation (roughly, the distance between two measures is the least cost needed to transport one to the other, given that it costs $m d^2$ to move an amount $m$ of mass by a distance $d$.) It has been noticed by Otto that this Wasserstein space can be considered an infinite-dimensional manifold. He used this insight to convert some PDEs into gradient flows on the Wasserstein space, the goal being to get existence and uniqueness result more easily. I should add that Gigli recently proposed a rigorous framework for the differentiable structure of Wasserstein spaces.
There are far to be just curiosities.
Infinite dimensional Finsler manifolds are fundamental tools in Variational Calculus. There is a lot of old/recent papers dealing with the infinite dimensional Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory.
Just to select one (sorry for writing the hyperlink on three lines, but it seems it's the only way, I do not know why):
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Sometimes you beat yourselves, sometimes you just get beat. Wednesday night at the Dennis Lesh Sports Arena, it was the latter as the Pratt Community College volleyball team dropped a match to one of the Jayhawk conference toughest teams, Colby Community College.
PCC wasn't going to let themselves be taken lightly, however, as they won the opening set from the visiting Trojans by a 25-23 count. The second set was a nail-biter as well, going into extras before Colby could escape with a 25-27 win.
Had PCC pulled set 2 out, anything might have happened, but once Colby seized the momentum in the match, they didn't let go— and they closed out the Lady Beavers in two more sets 18-25; 17-25.
Set 2 was especially entertaining as both sides showed hustle and made some incredible saves, resulting in some long rallies. "We played with a lot of heart," PCC head coach Misty Arnold observed.
In set three, Colby's OH Lorena Rosario began to find the range and reeled off several consecutive winners, resulting in Colby being able to take the lead. "We were just outmatched by their outside hitter (Rosario)," Coach Arnold explained. "In sets 2 and 3, the errors were even between the two teams. That means for them to have outscored us, they were just simply putting away more winners."
Coach Arnold has been having to shuffle some personnel recently to account for injuries etc. "We moved Haley McKee to outside hitter, so we needed another middle," Arnold said. "Tausha Sniff has stepped up and is doing some good things in there (middle) for us. I'm really proud of her."
There's no shame in losing to a better team, and that's just what PCC volleyball did Wednesday night. But they played hard and made Colby work for it. With a record of 4-16 (2-8 conference), the Lady Beavers have a weekend event at Neosho County Friday and Saturday.
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Doheny Wood Car Show - A Forest of Fine WoodiesWritten by on May 4, 2011
We spent a sunny April Saturday at the annual Doheny Wood car show, hosted by the Southern California Woodies Club at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, California. Technically, it's a 3-day event for club members and visiting woodie owners from other chapters of the National Woodie Club, but Saturday is the big day for the car show portion of the woodies-only event. It's free to participants and to the public (with the exception of the state park entrance fee if you drive in). This year was big, hosting somewhere in the neighborhood of 180 woodie wagons, both foreign and domestic, spanning the years from the late 1920s to the late 1960s. Build themes ranged from stock original and stock restored to restified, hot rodded, and street rodded. The activities included a fund-raising raffle and vendors selling all sorts of woodie and surf culture items, such as custom carved cigar-smoking tiki idols, handcrafted wooden long boards, ceramic woodie automotive models, and other related collectibles. Doheny Wood is a great show that is now big, but still maintains a small-show attitude-and visitors are guaranteed to see some unique vehicles. Enjoy my photos!


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What are the ethics of watching football?
Of all the things President Obama said in the long New Yorker profile-interview last week, I found it interesting how many people seized on his remark that he wouldn't let his son play pro football. Syria? The ACA? Obstructionist Congressional Republicans? There were about seventeen-thousand other words to choose from, but with the two-week gap between conference championships and Super Bowl Sunday, maybe people were itching for something, anything, football-related to talk about (surely it wasn't just another reason to criticize Obama for positing "imaginary" offspring and apologizing for America?).
The president said something similar this time last year, only then it was that he'd have to think "long and hard about it." Of course, the twelve months between have served up still more stories of players now living with (and dying from) the effects of catastrophic brain injury tied to playing football, and still more data confirming the connection. So maybe it's understandable that his position has solidified. And yet then came what he called his "caveat emptor," that current NFL players "know what they're buying into. It's no longer a secret. It's sort of the feeling I have about smokers, you know?"
Just how responsible are fans and viewers of football for the well-being of the people playing it?
Steve Almond writes that "our worship of the game has blinded us to its pathologies" and that the rationalizations we use in continuing to watch—that the NFL is trying to make it safer and that the players, on top of being highly paid, know exactly what they're getting into—don't hold water. I suppose I'm inclined to agree. Though the NFL this week stated support for new federal protocols on youth concussions, by many accounts it's not doing all it can to make the pro game safer; new rules notwithstanding, the hits are still hard, the players leveling them still celebrated, the replays still repeatedly shown. And, while smokers have long since been educated on the dangers of their choice, they're not on the other hand systematically enculturated, trained, conditioned, and finally paid to engage in it. Tobacco companies make their money mainly on purchase of the product by the people smoking directly harms, while the NFL will get $5 billion next year from television revenue alone. Does that make viewers at home complicit in the damage being incurred on the field?
Almond describes the "moral queasiness" more fans are feeling and says he won't be watching the big game this weekend. But in terms of making an ethical choice, I'm not sure he quite connects the dots between this discomfort and the decision to boycott. Similarly Peter Beinart in the Atlantic, who's considering whether to cut his eight-year-old son off from watching football now—thus breaking a generational chain and turning it into something like anti-gay bigotry and smoking, behaviors much less widely tolerated than they once were. "If he made it to adulthood without heartwarming memories of sitting alongside his old man watching other men pulverize their bodies and minds, he'd be more able to rationally decide whether professional football is something a decent society should allow." Agreed. But are there criteria for such a decision? I'm not necessarily saying Beinart should have presented some in his short piece, but it does seem as if we're at the place where someone might need to, if people are in fact serious about challenging the role hundreds of millions nonparticipants play in putting the long-term health of thousands of players at such great and provable risk.
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As a matter of ethics, I think it's fairly complex to analyze. Some factors to consider:
- Of what type and degree is the cooperation of pro football fans in player injuries? I'd think we'd use words like "remote" and "unintended" in describing this.
- To what extent does the voluntary participation of the players factor into the analysis?
- Do the many measures adopted to protect players and minimize injuries - equipment advances, rule changes, collective bargaining, medical research - ameliorate fan culpability?
Also - while lawsuits have proliferated, my impression is that quite a bit isn't known as to the extent and severity of the injuries.
Finally - at the risk of perpetuating stereotypes, my guess would be that neither President Obama nor Atlantic nor NY Times writers spend much time watching MMA/UFC fights. The blows to unpadded, unprotected heads really are appalling. Not only is it worse than football, it's worse than boxing. It isn't just fists: it's elbows, knees, kicks; and it seems quite lightly refereed. The sight of a man using his knees to pin another man on his back and deliver repeated blows to the head with no intervention is really pretty hard to watch, but it's perfectly legal - and completely intended - from what I can tell.
What about ballet dancing? Care to look at what a ballet dancers feet look like? Broken bones and stress fractures. Addiction to pain killers.
How about modelling? I know of one woman whose daughter was a professional model. Smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, 8 cups of coffee, and downed Red Bull like water. All appetite suppressants or replacements for hunger. Had to go in to get her heart checked at the ripe old age of 22. Her defence was that at least she is not doing heroin and cocaine like all the other girls.
Should we stop attending the ballet and looking at the cover of magazines?
On MMA
Bruce Lee is arguably the forerunner of mixed martial arts (Jun Fan Gung Fu)
Bruce Lee studied philosophy and always loved philosophy. It is not possible to understand mma and mixed martial arts without the philosophy attached.
Here is his daughter explaining him. A great man!
Once upon a time, in barely living memory, boxing was as big as foorball is today. Think of "I love a prize fight that isn't a fake," paired with rowing in Central Park lake in "The Lady Is a Tramp." Think of A. J. Liebling writing about The Sweet Science. Remember Gillette Blue Blades with the sharpest edges ever honed. Not that long ago, but I bet most Commonweal readers today can't name the reigning welterweight champion.
Because of its undeniable propensity to cause head injuries, football may be where boxing was not that long ago. Most sports can be dangerous. Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch in baseball, considered a sissy game by today's younger generation, and George D's point about the sufferings of ballet dancers is well taken. But I have been wondering about whether I want to continue to support football. Even as I write, I know I would be putting off this discussion until later if the Packers were in Sunday's game instead of those West Coast teams.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! Many years since I watched boxing. The knockout like the homerun is the elixir that drives the wild sensation. Football has many redeeming features. Peyton Manning is so good and so smart that he challenges the mind as well as the senses. To see him arrange multiple formations to counter the great Bellichick is a thing of beauty. To see him place passes in the most perfect place where no defendor can catch it provokes one to soar into poetry.
Football has made some progress. Not on its own but under pressure. I know longer yell "kill him" or "knock him out." But I am not yet there where I will call it morally wrong. I did not let my sons play football either (at a time when I was an unconcienable fan). It is a great game. I suport making it safer. The comparisons with modeling, ballet are instructive.
Aside from that there will be a statue erected right after the game in Indianopolis and Denver. is that idolatry?
There is no comparing the physical damage of ballet with brain damage diminishing the mind. Boxing is the only comparison with football and look what it did to Mohammed Ali. And for every pro who at least is well compensated financially and with fame, how many wannabes suffer these injuries for a lifetime but with no reward?
Stanley and all: have you seen the news that Northwestern's quarterback, Kain Colter, is tryihg to organize a college football players' union?
It appears that player safety will be one of their top issues. Arguably, college players are more exploited than NFL players.
Safety should can and should always be improved but sport, like music and art has always played an important role in the development of culture. And in sport, there is risk of injury. Hence the need for training, and where possible, protective equipment.
My point is that to boycott or ban sports due to risk of injury is naive. If there are upticks in injury, what other factors contribute. It has been said that sport today is faster, the hits harder than before. Yes, and the amount of performance enhancing drugs circulating in sports has risen dramatically.
i posted the interview with Bruce Lee for a reason. Martial arts is a form of creative expression. Fighting is natural. But it needs to be controlled and channelled. Removing philosophy from martial arts diminishes the art and craft of it.
in sport today, the camaraderie and the fair play that it is supposed to embody has been replaced by a win at all costs mentality. How many golds will we take in the games? That is the marker of our success. That also contributes to a mentality of faster, stronger, and yes even cheating.
As Catholics, our contribution to ethics should not be in facile moralizing but instead in talking about how ethics can be embedded as part of every aspect of human activity.
I don't think that it is simply the injury-risk of football (though that is hardly inconsiderable: when my son's neurosurgeon told us he could never play football, he added that he didn't thimk anyone should); rather, it's the combination of risk with exploitation and interminable profit-drive. Frankly, that should go for the ballet, as well, and lots of other like arts/sports (including the best: pro wrestling).
My prediction - the lawyers/insurance companis will end football on the pee wee and high school level thus starving the sport. And good riddance to it. Like boxing, it has lost its moral legitimacy. But of course, it makes a lot of money for some people and provdes Americans with entertainment. In our culture those realities provide all the moral authorization we need.
I know how to make professional football wither away in a matter of months. Let the Hunger Games begin and may the odds be always in your favor.
There is no comparing the physical damage of ballet with brain damage diminishing the minds
I'm not sure I agree. In both cases, you've severely damaged a body part so it no longer functions effectively. So I'm not sure the moral case is different. Though most of us would prefer a damaged limb over a damaged brain.
Ya think?
"He wouldn't let his son play pro football."
If he had a son big and strong enough to play pro football, I like to see Obama try and stop him.
Stanly P Kopacz, Or, we could popularize Jugger here in trhe US.
I would prefer Roller Ball or Running Man--fine sports, both.
Or Jai alai.
Over at On Faith, the chaplain of the New York Jets says, "Pound them for Jesus".
Men are weird.
For a book group I am currently reading (re-reading actually) Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and when I reached the bit about bullfighting at the festival in Pamplona, I immediately thought of football, and what might be the differences (moral or otherwise) between the two sports.
Not that I have any answers. I avoid football on TV mostly because it seems as if roughly two-thirds of the broadcasts are given over to stiflingly boring commercials.
Some people watch the Super Bowl just for the commercials. Cheerios will be advertised this year for the first time. They will show an interracial couple with an interracial child. Cheerios is celebrating this interracial marriage. I totally agree with this. Except, I am still suspicious of the motive.
The Catholic Church famously sponsored youth boxing for many years, I believe under the theory that Marquis of Queensbury rules were better than street rules for youths who would fight in any case. I just poked around on Google but didn't find any evidence that CYO boxing still exists today. It did as recently as the 1970s.
Surprised nobody has brought up Richard Sherman (if you don't know the backstory....google it).
According to a now calm, composed, articulate, gentlemanly Sherman, football is:
"On the field we are playing a very barbaric sport, you can do as you please, That is when I take all my animosity, anger, and frustration on the field with disciplined football, sound football. It takes a different kind of person to turn that switch on and off and be the intense and focussed, angry human being to be successful in those environments....On the field I am everything I need to be to be a winner..."
I am not sure he is entirely accurate about that. He said what he did was in the lines of a football game.
Bruce Lee in an interview on art, philosophy, and sport. (I put this on my blog because I loved it so much)
If these comments by Brian Urlacher from a year or so ago are typical, then it seems that pro players are ruled by a sort of "morality of the arena" that sees knee injuries as worse than brain injuries.
Isn't there a big difference between a head injury and knee injury?
"Huge," Urlacher said. "Because a knee injury puts you out for a season, a concussion you may miss a game or two. Huge difference."
Then, he acknowledged the long-term impact of head injuries.
"That's why you have to judge," Urlacher said. "If you don't want to play if you get concussed, then don't play. It's your career. It's your life."
Mother tells me,
the immortal goddess Thetis with her glistening feet,
that two fates bear me on to the day of death.
If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.
If I voyage back to the fatherland I love,
my pride, my glory dies. . . .
FWIW - voluntarily entering a risky profession like professional football, and subsequently suffering foreseeable and debilitating health problems, strikes me as roughly comparable to buying more house than can be afforded in a risky effort to make money, and then being foreclosed and evicted when the mortgage goes underwater. Having health issues is a very bad thing, just as being without a home and buried in debt is a very bad thing. In both cases, the "system", for good or ill, favors the big guy - respectively, the NFL and the financial behemoth that owns the mortgage.
The word "victim" is applied to the little guy in both sets of circumstances. In one sense, the word "victim" seems appropriate to describe a person whose health, or whose stability and creditworthiness, was severely damaged through no action of his/her own. In another sense, though, they're not really victims. If an airplane falls through my roof, I'm a victim. If I stand in a busy intersection during rush hour and get hit by an SUV, it might be forgiveable if some people mutter, "It's his own fault".
Not taking sides here. Just looking to highlight some of the ambiguity in figuring this out.
Jim - Not taking sides either, because I like my football. I'm also leaving the notion of "victim" out of this for now....
I guess my question continues to be: what is a fan's/viewer's complicity, if any, in the harm we know the participant suffers? Just because someone "knowingly" enters a risky venture or engages in risky behavior, does that free a nonparticipant to guiltlessly observe anything that may follow? To actively enjoy it? How reliably informed can players be expected to be, when, from the very first moment they step on a field, they are conditioned to ignore the risk and, at the professional level, also paid to do so -- in large part out of revenues generated through television? How does the transactional nature of viewing (or attending) games figure into the equation? Of merchandising? Of purchasing products advertised? I'm not sure I can think about this the way I think of people who make bad financial decisions; we don't tune in regularly to watch them throw money away, and they aren't coached, conditioned, and paid to continue throwing it away for our entertainment. I was taken with Almond's phrase "moral queasiness," but I feel it's only a starting point for the debate. So what might an ethicist have to say about it?
Dominic - I think it's difficult to analyze the fans' complicity. I suspect most fans don't watch football in order to witness injuries. To try to get some help thinking about it, I googled "ethics of football injuries". Several of the articles referred to this New Yorker piece from a few years ago by Malcolm Gladwell:
Gladwell invites us to compare football to two other 'entertainment' pasttimes, dog fighting and NASCAR. NASCAR, he points out, had four fatalities the year that Dale Earnhardt was killed, and in response, enacted a number of safety measures, some of them probably pretty expensive, that have cut down fatalities to pretty much none.
I guess my own view is that football is more like NASCAR than dog fighting, and the path for football is to follow the NASCAR playbook. As with NASCAR, fans don't watch primarily to encourage injuries; they watch to see their team score touchdowns and prevent the other team from scoring touchdowns. The ball can be run or thrown and caught past the goal line under rules that are lenient or restrictive with regard to injury-inducing behavior, and with equipment that is relatively more or less restrictive but safe. I think our ethical responsibility as fans is to insist that player safety is a primary concern; that we expect the NFL to take measures to make the game progressively safer; and to let the NFL know that we will punish it if we sense that it is making player safety subordinate to the profit motive.
Is it logical to used the terms "ethics" and "pro football" in the same sentence?
"Cheerios is celebrating this interracial marriage. I totally agree with this. Except, I am still suspicious of the motive."
And the motives of any commercial are above suspicion? They have one and one purpose only: sales. If sacrificing virgins would sell breakfast cereal, they cry of "freedom of speech" would be trotted out so fast it would make your ethics quiver.
A key factor going forward will be if people stop signing their kids up to play pee-wee and other youth league football. I played high school football forty years ago and had to have a parent sign for me then. In light of the long term injuries that have come to light, I doubt my parents would have signed the permission slips. It may take time but I think a large numer of parents are going to move their kids away from the game at an early age, and that will in the end reduce the popularity of the sport.
As someone who played the game, I have mixed feeling about this, but I think the medical evidence will just keep mounting and over time the public will move away from the game.
Joseph Bierman - I don't doubt you're right. In the suburban area where I live, pee-wee age boys play organized soccer, baseball and basketball in greater numbers than organized football. High school football teams around here, though, still get a lot of boys on the team.*
Your comment raises an interesting question: the connection between playing football and being a fan of football. It's possible that, even if the number of boys who participate in football declines precipitously over the next couple of generations, the NFL will still draw a large number of fans who simply want to watch football. But I suspect you're right, and there is some sort of connection between playing football and watching football, and if the one declines, the other also will decline. I believe boxing, which at one time was one of the most popular sports in the US, is a precedent in this respect.
* FWIW, as an occasional prep football fan, I've noticed that the middle-class, upper-middle-class and upper-class suburban high schools have more boys on the football team than the poor and working-class schools. Sometimes the disparity in numbers of athletes is pretty substantial: I've looked across the field to see teams with fewer than 20 athletes standing on the sidelines while the offensive or defensive unit is on the field; such teams barely have the numbers to be able to platoon. Surely this is not the pattern that held true in my dad's and grandfather's day, when working-class, ethnic players from Chicago populated all those great Notre Dame teams for Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy. My supposition is that this is one small bit of evidence of the slow dissolution of working class and poor society: dads surely are extremely influential in guiding their sons into organized football; and I would guess that communities with high levels of parental involvement are more likely to have active football programs. I believe the latter factor is a major reason why Catholic high schools do so well in football around here.
Ann O. pointed to this: 'Over at On Faith, the chaplain of the New York Jets says, "Pound them for Jesus" '.
This is not too far off from this: http://historicaltimes.tumblr.com/post/49847559796/kill-a-commie-for-christ-victory-in-vietnam
Which, if any, was said with tongue in cheek?
If you read this you might come to believe that neither was said in jest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/perfectenemies.htm
OK, you conservatives, here's one for you. But I must say I really like this article by Fr. Longenecker. It doesn' answer our question, but maybe the question doesn't need to be answered? Hmmm
Sport and the Uselessness of Worship - The Imaginative Conservative
Here's another basic question about sports -- should we pray to win? The question elicits some deep ethical and metaphysical problems. It really does. Deep but trivial? Like "Is it ethical to watch football?"
Some people say that you shouldn't pray for your team, and that God doesn't care who wins. Here's why they're wrong...
I find Frankovich to be dead wrong. The philosophical issue is what is the character development aspect of sport. And as any good coach will say (and has said!), it has nothing to do with the score:
Well I want you to understand somethin'. To me, being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship to yourself and your family and your friends.
Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down, because you told them the truth. And that truth is that you did everything that you could. There wasn't one more thing that you could've done.
Can you live in that moment, as best you can, with clear eyes and love in your heart? With joy in your heart?
If you can do that gentlement you'll be perfect
And most important, don't get caught up thinking about winning or loosing this game. If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're gonna be winners!
That, it seems to me, is the "Catholic" perspective!


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Donna Karan: 10 Things Every Woman Should Have
Donna Karan's busy life can be chaotic, but these ten things—a yoga mat, green juice, and more—help keep her centered, stylishly.
She hits the yoga mat daily, mixes essential oils to suit her moods, and credits meditation for her steady success on the runway. "It's the calm in the chaos of my city life," says Donna Karan. She remains as much a worldly New York City tastemaker today as she was when she dethroned the power suit back in the '80s with her "seven easy pieces"—polished, interchangeable separates that were heavy on black jersey and light on zippers. Karan's fundamental design philosophy doesn't change— "To give urban women a sophisticated, day-to-evening system of dressing," she says—and her latest collection builds on the notion with sporty, shoulder-baring jackets and strapless gowns in totemic prints. The designer also has a passion for social causes, like helping Haitian artisans produce and market their crafts. "The more you give of yourself," she says, "the more fulfilled you feel."
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There seems to be a growing number of "questions" which aren't really questions, but simply requirements specifications. This often happens with regular expressions, but I have seen requests for small but complete Java applications to be written as well.
I would like to hear community's opinion on the handling of such "questions".
I think they substantially decrease the level of discourse on Stack Overflow, so I lean towards closing them as "not a real question", but it'd be clearer that this is the right thing to do if the rent-a-coder "questions" were explicitly mentioned.
Also, it seems to me that adding them explicitly to the "not a real question" category is a more effective way of dealing with them than previously suggested additions to the FAQ. Basic answer to those suggestions was that the offenders usually don't read the FAQ and even if they did, they would ignore it.


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The city came up with the proposal after a forum on gun violence. One council member says the study could have a powerful impact on the community.
The idea was prompted in large part by fallout from one of Seattle's deadliest days - four people murdered after Ian Stawicki opened fire at Caf Racer in the University District.
Stawicki killed another woman near downtown then took his own life in West Seattle. It's a day his father, Walt Stawicki, will never forget.
"One day at a time. I don't not remember him any day," he says.
It's also a day that Seattle City Council member Tim Burgess will never forget.
"Gun violence is a public health crisis in our region and across the country and we need to approach it that way," says Burgess.
The council wants to spend more than $150,000 on researching the relationship between alcohol, drug abuse, mental illness and gun violence.
But Alan Gottlieb, founder of Second Amendment Foundation, isn't sure he trusts a study on gun violence funded by Seattle's officialdom.
"Any study Seattle does is going to be biased, based on the past history of attacking gun owners and gun rights - so it's a little laughable," says Gottlieb.
He argues the problem is not just guns.
"I like to single in on violence in general," he says. "It doesn't matter if you use a gun or knife or a baseball bat. Violence is violence, so when you try to take it out and pin it on a gun or inanimate object, you're not really going after the person that's committing the violent acts."
Walt Stawicki, father of Ian Stawicki, says he thinks the city's money could be used for other services - even though he lost his son to gun violence.
"It's the wrong approach," he says. "We need a bigger approach. All they have to do is sit down and think for a while. They don't need to study it too much."
But Burgess says a focused study could be the first step toward saving lives.
"I think it will pay huge dividends into the future - safer communities, fewer people harmed by gun violence in our community - and that's very, very worth it," he says.
City officials are working with researchers from the University of Washington on the proposal. Burgess expects it will be approved next month.


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As action teed off at the Class B-1 District golf tourney at the Beatrice Country Club, much uncertainty existed about which team would emerge to claim the third position in the team standings and the state qualifying position that goes with that designation.
Many thought Beatrice would be the favorite to win the tourney and the Orangemen came through on their home course with a 330. Norris was supposed to finish second and the Titans came through with a 344.
A pack of teams was thought to be vying for the third position.
S-D-A rose out of that pack, nearly chased down the Titans for the No. 2 position in the district standings and finished third, thus claiming their second consecutive trip to the state tournament.
Harrison Agena led the Rockets by tying for first place with a 75. Agena ended up second after a scorecard playoff.
Blayne Roberts finished 10th in the individual standings.
Other Rockets in order of finish were Tyler Berner, Micah Buller and Brandon Loecker.
The S-D-A team will play at the state tournament Monday and Tuesday at Meadowlark Hills Golf Course in Kearney.
For more information about the district tourney, see the Thursday edition of the Syracuse Journal-Democrat.
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Does anyone have the settings for the Olympus E-510 w/14-54?
Thanx in advance.
Does anyone have the settings for the Olympus E-510 w/14-54?
Thanx in advance.
Nick Fan,
Thanx for your reply.
I think I can use this to find the right position.
Of course if there is anyone else who has the exact settings I will still be appreciative of them.....
hi Alan:
did u find the data? anyone know about the setting of Olympus E-520/14-54 or 8mm fisheye lens? Thanks for your help
Hi Caver,
you have to adjust your focus length and then measure from the sensor plane to the front of your lens. For fl 54 you should find it in a distance from 52 mm from the sensor plane. You can mark this point on your lens and then you have to bring it on top of the turning point of the Nodal Ninja. Start with a longer distance like 54 and move the camera to the points from that point bringing the camera forward. So you always know, you come only from one side, from behind to the nnp.
I use two post behind each other, the camera lined up with them. First shot straight on, turn to the left that you just can sea the posts, second shot, turn to the right in the same manner, third shot. If the post in front does not move to right or left in relation to the post at the back, you have found your nnp for the focal length.
Success and enjoy
I know I can find the points on my own but then these tables have no point in being here
Just to clairfy with another example from the table:
At a focal length of 25mm, the entrance pupil is 79mm in front of the sensor plane.
You need to position the camera such that the point 79mm in front of the sensor and on the central axis of the lens is positioned in line with the horizontal and vertical axes of rotation of the panorama head. Where the front of the lens happens to be is of no interest.


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If an opponent targets one of my creatures with a destroy spell, and in response I tap Nephalia Smuggler to exile that creature and return it to the battlefield, does the destroy spell fizzle due to its target having vanished? Or is the target considered still valid, since it's still on the battlefield after the effect of Nephalia Smuggler has been resolved?
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If the spell only has one target, it will be countered on resolution since the creature it was targeting no longer exists.
First, a correction. The creature isn't still on the battlefield after the effect of Nephalia Smuggler has been resolved. The creature that's there then is a brand new creature with no relation to any creature that was previously on the battlefield. That the old and the new creature were created by the same card is irrelevant. [CR 400.7]
The answer to your question depends on the exact wording of the "destroy spell". What happens depends on if the spell targets, and on if it still has legal targets as it would resolve. If it has targets and all of them have become illegal, the spell is countered. Otherwise, the spell continues to resolve, doing as much as it can with its remaining targets. [CR 608.2b]
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If the only target of the spell was the creature that Nephalia Smuggler exiled, then the spell would be countered on resolution. (Note: fizzle is now depreciated, and is no longer used within the context of the rules. It used to appear in older versions of the rules for historical reasons, but only in the Glossary.)
The creature that is on the battlefield after Nephalia Smuggler's ability resolves is a new Object. The spell that was targeting the old creature is not targeting this "new" one.
There are two possibilities. If the opponent's spell had multiple targets, it would resolve but would be unable to affect the creature that was exiled by Nephalia Smuggler (it would still have any other effects on the card). If the opponent's spell only had a single target, the creature that was exiled, then the spell would be countered on resolution and would have no effect. From the Basic Rulebook (page 10):
The creature exiled by Nephalia Smuggler left the battlefield and went to a different zone. When it did this, it became a new object, and hence this "new" creature it isn't being targeted by your opponents spell.


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The Constitutional Litigation Clinic submitted a brief on November 11 to the United States Court of Appeals in Philadelphia asking it to overturn the decision by the District Court in Newark dismissing the clinic's suit challenging the constitutionality of the war in Iraq. The appeal asks the Appellate Court to return the case to the lower court to consider whether the President and Congress followed required constitutional procedures for launching an all-out war against another sovereign nation.
The Constitutional Litigation Clinic's argument focuses on the intent of the Founders when they placed the exclusive authority to Declare War in Congress in Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution. Much of the brief focuses on the debates at the Constitutional Convention on June 1, 1787. The brief argues that Convention delegates were unanimous that the newly-created Executive would not have the monarchical power to take the nation to war absent a congressional vote. The brief points out that no federal appellate court has heretofore examined the proceedings of June 1, 1787.
The brief quotes extensively from the writings of Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers to the effect that the President had been deliberately stripped of a power formerly exercised by the British monarch. It also quotes Thomas Jefferson's letter from Paris to James Madison congratulating the Convention delegates for having "checked the dog of War" by placing the war power in the hands of the people's representatives in Congress. Then brief also cites three 19th century Supreme Court cases which supported its historical arguments – before 20th century war-power cases began implementing various avoidance doctrines to decline reaching the merits of the constitutional arguments. Since the 19th century, the Supreme Court has never attempted to define the meaning of Article I, Section 8, Clause 11. (Click here to read the full brief.)
Over the past two years, some 15 Constitutional Litigation Clinic students under the supervision of Clinic Director Professor Frank Askin have worked on this case and examined the history of the Constitutional Convention.


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29 Mar 2012 2:27 AM #1
Trying to complete the carstore example with Sencha Designer 2
I am new to Sencha and even JS development (trying to move from Flex).
I am trying to complete the following tutorial:
I seem to be lost at "Project export and event handler" stage:
1. There is no "Project Export" option that I could find in the designer.
2. I can't edit the code from the designer - it is disabled and marked "read-only" for some reason....
Is there really no way (even in Ext JS desginer 1.x) to add event handling within the designer? Why would I use an external text editor when that's an essential thing any IDE is supposed to provide?
29 Mar 2012 10:04 AM #2
In Sencha Designer, you can add event handling via the Events configuration in the bottom right of the Configuration pane. You are still free to use your own IDE to compliment Sencha Designer if you want via overrides files.Aaron Conran
29 Mar 2012 10:05 AM #3
Designer 2's documentation is currently in the works.
http://docs.sencha.com/designer/2-0/...etting_startedAaron Conran
10 Apr 2012 10:35 PM #4
Thank you Aaron,
I have successfully completed the car store sample in SD 2.
Few questions / comments:
1. When I search for a property, in some cases I have to type it in or otherwise I will not see it. This is pretty awkward, as I see no reason why shouldn't properties be always visible.
2. I know it is still in beta, but in some cases (not sure when) SD2 starts throwing some internal error messages to screen after changing a property. Restarting it worksaround (until next time..).
3. What if I have a couple of ExtJS and Sencha Touch projects that I would like to share models / stores or even controllers between?
4. In both SD1 and SD2, what happens if I edit the exported code in notepad for example and then modify my design again? Won't re-exporting/deploying overrun my code? What is the suggested flow for working with SD and code?
And one final question:
For me, a part of using any UI development framework is its tooling, as it can affect productivity and ease of use tremendously. Therefore, I see Flash Builder as an essential part of Flex development.
Not long ago, Sencha proclaimed itself to be an Adobe (Apache) Flex successor, or at least an alternative, which i'm sure you'll agree is quite a challenge. While I feel that one can do with Sencha many of the things that it is possible to do with Flex, I think that Sencha Designer still has a long way to go to meet the standards set by Flash Builder. My overall user experience compared to FB was somewhat missing. Few examples:
1. Coding - FB supports suggestions, auto completion and all other common modern IDE (Eclipse) features. I couldn't see most of these in SD2. Working without auto-suggest nowadays is not realistic for me as there are so many options and properties to remember, not to mention me being new to ExtJS/Touch.
2. Also, there seems to be some slower performance (response) while typing in the code editor. Fairly odd especially when considering that this is just a text editor.
3. When I delete a component, SD displays an "Are you sure?" question. While this can be seen as a nice feature, when working on real projects this is not only unnecessary but also breaks the natural flow of creativity. A regretting user can always undo - so why bother her with redundant messages?
It is possible that I expect SD to be what it isn't (an IDE rather than merely a UI design tool), but that is the standard I want to see when evaluating any HTML5/JS alternatives to Flex - especially ones that aim to be out there with the giants ;]
I do think that Sencha should consider moving everything into Eclipse. It will provide the same leverage that made FB so great - full integration between design and code with all the IDE capabilities, and will enable you to focus on what you do best.
All this is not to say I don't think SD has a great potential - it's just my 2 cents of feedback.
11 Apr 2012 9:43 AM #5
Thanks Yuval, you have lots of great comments in here. Not all of which I have the time to respond to today. We really appreciate your feedback.
Basic vs Advanced - Basic will show only the most commonly used configurations. Advanced will show everything. Any time you search for something it will automatically search from the advanced list.
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I wonder what Christian groups believe that more sinful people suffer more on Earth due to God's punishment?
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Quite the contrary- the Bible acknowledges that the wicked prosper more than the righteous in this life.
The only counter balance to all of this Hebrews 11. Faith, we are told, is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. In example after example it assures us of men who suffered, died, and other things, all in the hopes of a city not yet seen- but one in which the good were rewarded, where justice occurred, where the poor prospered. It is not in this life that the Bible sees the good rewarded, but it is clear that it happens in the next.
Psalm 37 expresses it the same:
The wicked wither, to be sure, but they have a lifespan too.
As a note: I am non-denominational (just a Christian).
I think there is a difference between Israel and the other nations. Other nations did not make an oath in which they agreed to be cursed if they did not keep all the commandments of the Torah (Lev. 26:14). However, Israel did (Deut. 27:26).
As for humanity in general, Jesus said (Matt. 5:45), "That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, for He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and He sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous."
There are some terrible things that happen to pious Christians, and sometimes generally "bad" people get through life "unscathed." I don't necessarily believe that bad people suffer more on Earth than Christians. But, at the last day, there will certainly be a different fate for each.
There are differences among the denominations, but generally speaking, worldly suffering is not believed by Christians to be punishment for sin.
There is no definitive explanation for why God allows (or inflicts) suffering. But suffering is clearly not related to sinfulness or "righteousness".
The Bible puts God on a throne of the universe judging all nations. Whether they rise or fall it is under his sovereignty:
God's omnipotence and sovereignty over the world makes this the only possible relationship that he has to the nations and to individuals:
One of the regular ways God maintains justice is through civil law. Nationally sins may often not brings fruits of judgment to the third or fourth generation of continued disobedience. (Exodus 20:5) For a normal providential perspective, He has provided governments that punish sin doing and made prisons for them. However, in all cases, his own mysterious purposes of will is what dictates the history of the world and rising and falling of powers. In fact in God's wisdom he often allows the wicked to 'prosper' and even wicked nations as a whole 'prosper'. Although the injustice of this prosperity might bother the righteous who often suffer the Bible say's we need not fret about it (Psalms 37:1):
So when we approach this subject of suffering particularly on a national level we are approaching God on his throne and we can't discern how he dispenses justice and in many cases the justice is not administered until the wicked die, but in any case it is from God.
We live in an age that accuses God of being cruel because the innocent suffer, which is just a wicked notion that hold humanity innocent when eternal damnation is its only true desert. The fact is all suffering is the punishment of Adam's sin upon all humanity and only in Christ is that punishment transferred to the innocent sin of atonement, i.e. Christ's soul and body which was presented by himself as our high Priest of a new covenant.
For the believer suffering is no longer a punishment as they are righteous and loved but for the wicked the death of their grace is a mild introduction to eternal burning and torment. The bible presents the suffering of this world easy, light and nothing, compared to those of the afterlife. For believers suffering is all light and easy compared to the glory that will be revealed in us and even a source of joy to our soul as we suffer in this world.
One should distinguish though between public judgments for national sins, or smaller scale but very scandalous public sins, and God's seeming endless patience for our own private sins. If you look at the New Testament we see know miraculous judgments upon people's private sins. Even a man sleeping with his own father's wife in 1 Corinthians did not get sick even though it approached scandal. On the other hand when Ananias, with his wife Sapphira lied to the Holy Ghost during a revival, this was so scandalous that God killed them himself on the spot (Acts 5).
Because Christians are declared righteous and objects of God's love I do not like to use the world punishment, for when a loving father chastises his beloved children to help them grow, this is different from a penalty for the sake of justice such as one serving time in prison. Punishment is still a valid word for many loving parents 'punish' their children in this way, but I am just saying God's vengeance can never touch his people as Christ removed it all on the cross. In this sense death and suffering has lost its sting:


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No institution or body can ensure unity. The Messenger of Allah (saas) has told us who will bring about union, and how. You cannot diagnosis it with a modern mindset. You cannot establish unity with a modern mindset. It is Muhammad the Mahdi (as) and his followers who will bring union about. The Arab Spring is actually the Spring of Hazrat Mahdi (as). The Spring of Islamic Union. The world is rocking on its heels. Typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes and uprisings. The world is reeling with the portents of Hazrat Mahdi (as). But institutions and organizations can do nothing on the subject. If they could, they would already have done so. They just eat cake, drink tea and go their own separate ways again. They meet very often. They have been meeting for years, show off their learning, and talk and talk. But nothing comes of it. Then they all go their own separate ways. You need passion, burning passion. You need love of Allah and love of Hazrat Mahdi (as). It is impossible without them. You cannot do it with official language and statements. You need a passionate love. You must love the nation. You must love Muslims and, above all, you must love Allah, and you must love our Prophet (saas). Once you have people filled with a burning love, once that fire is lit, it will burn up the world. Ice-cold people cannot get anywhere by smoking and being proud and arrogant. My apologies to the people there, of course. The moral values of Islam cannot rule if people are ashamed of the hadiths of our Prophet (saas), if they say that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not come, may Allah forbid.
Some people are all dried up. They just draw their salaries. They have become professors, so their work is all right and they have their families at home. Their wives cook them rice and beans in the evening. They then have a bowl of pickle and go to bed. They even ask, "who can interfere with us?" Fethullah Hodja cannot come here. That blessed person cannot come. But some people say, "He has a huge respect for Muslims." Some say, "We are quite comfortable everywhere." All the religious scholars have migrated abroad and cannot come here. Esad Coşan Hodja went and died. He saved his soul, but nobody can come.
Some people wander round taking part in pleasant discourses after drawing vast sums in salary. But they do not think of the Muslims of the world. They do not think about how Darwinism has gripped 99% of the world. They do not think how Darwinist and materialist education, atheist education in other words, is compulsory in just about all countries. They do not think about how education in which people say "There is one Allah, we believe in Allah," is impossible. That has never happened before. They never think about how the whole world, and especially the Arab world, fell into the hands of communists, how their regimes are just now being torn down and how Muslims are crying out. They never think about how much Muslims are being humiliated and oppressed in Afghanistan and Iraq. They just say, "We are quite happy here, we can eat and drink and everything is fine."
Our Prophet (saas) tells us to hear the glad tidings of Hazrat Mahdi (as). That is not advertising, it means to obey Rasulullah's command. This mindset emerges if one speaks with the mindset of the markets. "There is no need for the media," they say. What do you need the media for? What do you use the media for, then? How come you use it but Hazrat Mahdi (as) cannot? Who do you think you are? Why should Hazrat Mahdi (as) not use the media? Hazrat Mahdi (as) will use radio and television. Bediüzzaman describes this explicitly in the Risale-i Nur. He describes it comprehensively. These people expect to see a metaphysical Hazrat Mahdi (as). They are awaiting a Mahdi (as) who will never come. The Mahdi (as) will speak from his home and the whole world will hear, but without radio and television. But his image will be seen everywhere, without television. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear in everyone's home. They say he is far away. But how do they know? You say he is far off. But you are saying that just so you can relax. When have more than a billion people ever died before? More than a billion people were slaughtered and martyred in the First and Second World Wars and in all this terror and anarchy. And as many people again were injured. Homes were demolished and cities destroyed. All the omens of the Day of Reckoning foretold by our Prophet (saas) have come about. All the portents have come about. Our Prophet (saas) lists all the portents of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Not a single one is missing. They have all come about, without exception. Why do you not speak of those? Because it does not suit them. They speak in the language of the markets, saying, "there is no need to advertise him." But our Prophet (saas) tells us to hear the glad tidings of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Is that advertising? We tell people of paradise. Is that advertising?
No religious scholar can explicitly state that "Hazrat Mahdi (as) has come" on any channel. That is prohibited.
When Hazrat Mahdi (as) comes, he will act according to the Sunnah of our Prophet (saas). Do you know what Rasulullah's (saas) wives said when asked what his moral values were like? "His moral values were the Qur'an." Rasulullah (saas) always abided by the Qur'an. Always.
Attractive women appear on all television channels. On Kanal 7's advertising and on Samanyolu TV's advertising. You see them all. I have the fine manifestations of Allah before me. My heart sings when I see them. I love them. They delight me.
Allah always smoothes my path, because I follow in His path. Allah says He will take 10 steps toward someone who takes one step toward Him. The good things I ask for will inevitably come about, insha'Allah. And you see that happening. But we must think deeply and be honest. We must love Allah and never forget Him. For example, why should Russian TV turn up? It is a miracle. Allah sends it. And it is a really big channel. We preach to the American military in America and tell them of the existence of Allah. What a glorious thing, masha'Allah. Busses travel round in England with "God exists" on the side, masha'Allah. There is a picture of that handsome man on one side, and the Atlas of Creation on the other, masha'Allah. It is wonderful, glorious.
Surah Ya Sin,
In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, Most Merciful
Ya Sin
The letters Ya and Sin. Who knows what this means?
"By the Wise Qur'an," It is full of wisdom. How is wisdom realized? It is realized by thinking and analyzing deeply, with careful attention. Someone who does not think deeply always suffers damage to the intellect. But the minds of people who think deeply expand, insha'Allah.
"Truly you are one of the Messengers."That abjad [numerological calculation] values gives the date of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as). This verse refers to the Prophet (saas), but I am describing the aspect that refers to the End Times.
"on a Straight Path.
The revelation of the Almighty, the Most Merciful."
Allah's being powerful and Almighty instills a great sense of comfort in the hearts of believers. He creates a boundless world, airplanes and cars, pens and human beings and speech. He creates all things, insha'Allah.
"so that you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned and who are therefore unaware.
The Word has been justly carried out against most of them so they have no belief.
We have put iron collars round their necks reaching up to the chin, so that their heads are forced back."
Allah says they are proud.
"They said, 'We see an evil omen in you. If you do not stop we will stone you and you will suffer a painful punishment at our hands'."
What do they threaten Muslims with? "A painful punishment." These fanatics, arrogant types like the alleged terror organization Ergenekon, have been around at all times. They mean they will torture them and swear at them and do all kinds of dreadful things.
"They said, 'Your evil omen is in yourselves." Muslims then reply. It is you who are ill-omened.
"Is it not just that you have been reminded? No, you are an unbridled people!'"
"A man came running from the far side of the city:" from the furthest place. Who comes running? Hazrat Khidr (as), insha'Allah.
"My people! follow the Messengers!" he said.
"Follow those who do not ask you for any wage and who have received guidance."
How does he know? Through revelation. "Follow those who do not ask you for any wage." They will see those who do not ask for wages "and who have received guidance." How will they know? Revelation is required.
"Why indeed should I not worship Him Who brought me into being, Him to Whom you will be returned?
Am I to take as gods instead of Him those whose intercession, if the All-Merciful desires harm for me, will not help me at all and cannot save me?"
He says they cannot save him; "they cannot save me." He says they cannot save one in the hereafter and are of no use in this world.
"I believe in your Lord so listen to me'!"
He says "recognize me".
"He was told, 'Enter the Garden!' He said, 'If my people only knew
how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the honoured ones'!"
Allah describes his situation in paradise.
"We did not send down to his people any host from heaven after him nor would We send one down. It was but one Great Blast and they were extinct."
When that scourge descends on them they cry out. In other words, there is a huge noise, one heard all over the world.
"Alas for My servants! No Messenger comes to them without their mocking him."
They have always mocked Muslims. Just like the monkeys. It is interesting how one can see these animals laughing and mocking, pointing with a finger in the air. They mock in the same way monkeys do.
Allah sets out a miracle here. "A Sign for them is the night: We peel the day away from it and there they are in darkness."
The Sun is moving rapidly towards the star. Sooner or later, they will collide.
Surat an-Nisa', 157. Almighty Allah says,
"and their saying, 'We killed the Messiah, 'Jesus son of Maryam, Messenger of Allah.' They did not kill him...!
Allah uses no such title for any other prophet. Only for Jesus the Messiah (as). Why does He say that? Because people insist on saying, "The Prophet Jesus (as) died." He makes it perfectly clear, "They did not kill him and they did not crucify him. But it was made to seem so to them." It was Judas Iscariot, he who betrayed Jesus (as), who was killed there.
"Those who argue about him are in doubt about it."Allah says they were not certain.
"They have no real knowledge of it, just conjecture."Allah says they are still speculating. But He says they did not kill the Prophet Jesus (as).
"They certainly did not kill him." "Mā Qatalūhu,' says Allah. They did not kill him.
"Allah raised him up to Himself." He ascended into the Presence of Allah.
"Allah raised him up to Himself. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. There is not one of the People of the Book who will not believe in him before he dies;" He says they will all believe, all Christians and Jews. How is this possible? With the global dominion of Islam, He says. Everyone will see. Christians and the People of the Book and everyone will believe. The meaning of the verse will become clear when they die as believers.
"and on the Day of Rising he will be a witness against them."
He will be a witness, insha'Allah.
Light is raining down on England. We have organized busses declaring the love of Allah against those busses denying His existence. It is a historic event. People are talking about it everywhere, Masha'Allah.
Hypocrites boast of their fine manners, what they eat and drink, how well off they are, how they lie down and get up; but Muslims take pride in service and heedfulness. Hypocrites are proud of physical flesh, Muslims of preaching. Hypocrites are proud of their children and what they can accumulate. But Muslims take pride in serving the Qur'an and the results of their good deeds, and they give thanks, insha'Allah.


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