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Should Notre Dame have a football team?
That may seem like an odd question, and an unadulterated heresy, especially in a week in which Notre Dame is ranked No. 1 in college football for the first time since the Council of Trent. The team even merits the cover of Sports Illustrated -- and a bonus Latin headline! (Is it correct? Can Notre Dame students read it?)Of course the SI cover means the team is doomed.But in a more serious vein, Notre Dame's return to glory comes just as disturbing questions are being raised about college football and contact sports in general that are causing debilitating injuries, for young and old alike. Big-time football programs have the potential to corrupt colleges themselves, as we have seen at Penn States and in the incidences of execrable behavior by players who are shielded by the administration.The promo for the SI article says, "The Irish are marching onward to the national championship game and downward from the moral high ground they have claimed for a century."I don't have a subscription and don't know what problems the story might detail. But Notre Dame has had its share of scandals and the sport overall is undergoing intense scrutiny.At Real Clear Religion, Jeff Weiss has an article exploring some of the moral hazards, and even citing Tertullian -- via a recent Christian Century cover story.Earlier this month, the New York Times highlighted Liberty University's crusade to make the school founded by Jerry Falwell the evangelical Notre Dame when it comes to football:
We think there would be a vast, committed fan base of conservative, evangelical Christians around the country and maybe even folks who are conservative politically who would rally behind Liberty football, Falwell Jr. said, smiling at the thought. They would identify with our philosophy.The university has a motto for the cause: Champions for Christ.And yes, there are parallels to Notre Dame, Falwell continued. There might even be a little rivalry there the Catholics against the Protestants.
Well, better to battle it out on the gridiron rather than on the field of battle.At MOJ, Michael Moreland cites Mark Massa in noting how Notre Dame football "bequeathed a sense of pride and identity to generations of immigrant Catholics." I'm sure that's so. But what is the purpose of the program now? Still simple tribal pride? Evangelization? Or as a vehicle for the divine?Moreland writes:
"As the Catholic Church in America faces the legacy of scandal and seeming collapse of institutional presence, there's hope that God somehow brings about dramatic changes of fortune, sometimes in mundane ways (like college football, maybe) and sometimes in ways that change the world.It may all come to a crashing end this Saturday in Los Angeles against USC or on January 7th in the BCS national championship game, but, for at least a week, we can rejoice athow quickly things can change and our hope affirmed."
Does the success of Notre Dame football affirm such a thing? Or could it affirm the opposite -- that Notre Dame football should not field a team, or should at least diminish the role of the team?Or am I showing my Puritan roots here on the eve of Thanksgiving?
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David Gibson is a national reporter for Religion News Service and author of The Coming Catholic Church (HarperOne) and The Rule of Benedict (HarperOne). He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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-- Being happy with always being a bridesmaid Im not sure what the first bit means, --It refers back to this: "For most Catholic families who will never be able to afford the staggering tuition at a world famous University such as Notre Dame, .... giving middle class Catholic families an amazing glimpse into the wonderful things being done there on campus ..."Bridesmaids, not brides.
This is exactly the kind of heretical commentary we have all come to expect from Commonweal. And what's with the timing? After 19 years, we are #1 for 3 whole days and you want us -- now?! -- to reject football? Undefeated and with the top graduation rate in all of college sports (yes, above Duke and Stanford)?! Maybe I would entertain your shameless alumni bait of a post at another time, such as after we lost to Tulsa in 2010. But no, I don't want to ponder your questions right now, just like I don't want to ponder the harmful effects of refined sugar on Halloween or pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. I have a proper liturgical sensibility. Also, is the Latin correct? Check it yourself, award-winning journalist and commentator! Actually, though, the Latin could have been better: Victoria et Gloria Dominae Nostrae would have sounded the right notes, I think. Or as we used to say to conclude our prayer at Friday Glee Club rehearsals before home games, "Our Lady of Victory, Pray for Us." And another thing -- but just one more, because I simply will not get baited into caring about or responding to this post -- about the "moral hazards" of football. Are you really going to bring this up when the next and most storied opponent is USC? That entire university is a moral hazard. Manti Te'o has more moral sensibility in his one (albeit very strong) finger than the entire USC athletic department.
I have three things against football (and in some ways basketball too). First, it leads to the maiming of the brains of many players. Second, too often sports takes too much of the players free time or makes them otherwise unfit for study because they are too tired or hurting. Third, at schools which do not have enough money to meet their ambitions (only a few like Harvard with its billions in endowments do) the radical sports alumni with money have assumed a role in making academic decisions. For instance, pressure is put on teachers to give unearned passing grades to football heroes, or a fine academic administrator who has bad luck choosing coaches is replaced because the money guys want him gone. Generous alums will always have some influence, but the radical insanity of some sports-fan alumni has been a terrible thing for universities. True, radical football donors are not the only problem, but they have been a big part of the dumbing down of too many American unversities..
P. S. Let me again recommend Robert Hutchins' "The Idea of a University". It's still relevant.
I have a vague memory that many years ago, President Theodore Hesburgh of ND floated the idea of de-emphasizing (not eliminating) football only to have the Usual Suspects among his alumni call down all sorts of maledictions on his head. So he retreated. Should he have? Some years back in "The Game of Life" William Bowen and James Shulman concluded that alumni threats of this sort are generally empty, at least when it comes to financial support. They also put the kibosh on the notion that Big Time Football makes money for the university so that it can support, say, women's soccer or tennis or other non-moneymakers. Of the ten or so universities they studied (and Bowen, former pres. of Princeton, is an economist), only the U. of Michigan football turned a profit, and that only in championship years. Even more years ago the faculty at Ohio State (I think) passed a motion encouraging the Board of Trustees to go out and hire a football team to play for OSU, thus severing the connection between the University's quasi-mission in sports and its academic mission. Needless to say, nothing came of it.About a decade ago I heard a talk by Leon Botstein of Bard College who came down four-square in favor of a university's mission to teach sports. With this difference: while everyone should learn to play football, for instance, once you've learned it sufficiently well, you should be cut from the squad in order to give a chance to someone else who needs the education. (In the same talk, Botstein, who's a conductor and musicologist, also said no up and coming violinist ought to be allowed to perform the Brahms concerto until he or she has written a cadenza for it. So Botstein sets fairly high standards).
Notre Dame football may have the highest graduation rate in the country, and perhaps a few good players, but they sure don't know how to mold boys into impressive, spiritual, other-centered men http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao109a38uVY&feature=related
I guess one big question is whether you need a high-flying football program to mold these fellows into impressive men given that there are so many other cases of sexual assault against women and drunkenness and horrendous behavior, not to mention the physical toll on these young men and the money that is spent on football. Does a Catholic college need to foster such behaviors in order to hold up a few good examples?
Win one (better, two!) for the Gipper (not RR!)... and we'll discusss this after the Bowl game!
I don't get the point of being a big man on campus and a top athlete if you have to have morals and values and stuff.
But think of all the opportunities for evangelization that will be missed?The Hail Mary Pass?
"Should Notre Dame have a football team?"For most Catholic families who will never be able to afford the staggering tuition at a world famous University such as Notre Dame, to be able watch them on network TV and not on cable is very uplifting. The commercials are especially nice, giving middle class Catholic families an amazing glimpse into the wonderful things being done there on campus and by the alumni throughout the world.
For those that won't watch contemporary football... get the video "Remember the Titans," "The Blind Side," "Rudy," and "The Brian Piccolo Story" and maybe the PBS "Harvard beats Yale-29-29" -- and add in from a score of others (one of my silly favorites is "The Best of Times")- and OD on what football has represented --ENJOY!... but then, soon, we must have this conversation as now even Frank Deford is calling for it...
"Big-time football programs have the potential to corrupt colleges themselves, as we have seen at Penn States and in the incidences of execrable behavior by players who are shielded by the administration."[Holy orders] have the potential to corrupt [religions] themselves, as we have seen at [Catholic parishes] and in the incidences of execrable behavior by [priests] who are shielded by the administration.
"Rudy...Rudy...Rudy...Rudy...Rudy!"But see:http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/16/news/companies/rudy_sec/index.htm
I agree with much of this, and I think we should all look into these things much more deeply. (In 2013, after Notre Dame has won the national championship.)
You want the moral hazards of football? How about this: Cal Berkeley has, once again, raised its tuition to the point that it is becoming less and less affordable.HOWEVER, Jeff Tedford, the alleged football coach (has a 3 & 9 season record) has just been fired. Of particular concern was the teams recent academic performance. Berkeleys football graduation rate is 48 percent, lowest in the Pac 12. By comparison, 90 percent of Stanfords football players graduate.Tedford is due up to three years of his annual $2.3 million salary, but officials say hes only due the entire amount if he doesnt find another job something they say is highly unlikely. (Really - with his abominable record?) If he does land a job elsewhere, he would be paid up to one years salary.Tedford is one of the HIGHTEST PAID EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The other 2 are the foodball coaches of USC and UCLA.That, my friends, is ONE of the moral hazards of college football.BTW, Bob Diaco of UND is being touted as a potential successor.
"For most Catholic families who will never be able to afford the staggering tuition at a world famous University such as Notre Dame, to be able watch them on network TV and not on cable is very uplifting. The commercials are especially nice, giving middle class Catholic families an amazing glimpse into the wonderful things being done there on campus and by the alumni throughout the world."Being happy with always being a bridesmaid, but never a bride? (I do hope your tongue was FIRMLY planted in your cheek with that comment!)
Jim McCrea,The coach of USC is not in any way an EMPLOYEE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.David,I think your Puritan roots are showing. In this fallen world, what human activity doesn't have some possible downsides. Even ND's selection of professors isnt 'pure'.
Bruce: I stand corrected.
How come Loyola football never makes the cover of SI?
Football, and sports in general, seems to be able to create a tangible sense of "We." Though it's an odd "we." virtually no one watching a football game can do what the players are doing.I wonder what it is about sports that does that?
Loyola U. here used to have sports, but eliminated inter-college stuff. It used to be a mediocre school then. Now it has one of the best regional liberal arts colleges in the country plus some other fine programs. I say hire a professional team, like Hutchins said, if you must have sports. Then there will be the moral advantage of the players being paid just wages. As it is the players are like indentured servants or temporary slaves. Evil.
"Being happy with always being a bridesmaid..."I'm not sure what the first bit means, but I was being serious. In the world I'm from ND is like a Catholic Harvard. It is therefore sufficient to say people in the community I'm from have no comprehension what that is like, so to be able to watch on network TV and be transported into that world, similar to going to the cinema, even if it's only for a few hours on a Saturday night, is really special. For my own part, therefore, I value the escapism offered by the television presence of the ND football program and would be disappointed with its absence (which, while interesting to discuss, will never happen).
Let's start by understanding that it is an imperfect world. While there are legitimate questions about the violence of football, Notre Dame football, in a Wasp world, made Catholics proud. That football team unified Catholics more than any bishop ever did. It gave Catholics a connection more than the Roman Rite. The Italians, and other ethnic Catholics in this country always supported. the fighting Irish, connecting to the Catholic identity. Sports has a way of capturing the hearts of people like nothing else. And no team did this better than ND football. Yet the truth is that the faith unites people better, is long lasting and less fickle. It is the difference between the showy and the substantial. One can get you through the day or the week. The other gets you through life.
Malcolm Forbes at the end of his life began to give more substantially to the needy. He said that he wants to do something that will help him "on the other side." Notre Dame, for all its glory, and Ted Hesburgh, is inextricably associated with the upper middle class. Which, perhaps, makes it imperative for us to focus on the captive Christs who, though doing better, are not faring as well. http://newswire.crs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Good-News-for-a-Chang...
Here is a link to Washington Posts Melinda Hennebergers reporting last spring on the link between sexual violence at Notre Dame and the indulgence shown to football players: http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/reported-sexual-assault-notre-d...
Go Irish! We can bear the burden of winning!
Kevin --Thanks for that article. I had no idea the hook=up culture, foolish as it was, was now tolerating rape. Good for the Obama administration. I wonder if the President is inspired by the fact that he has two pretty young daughters who will be in college in the blink of an eye.From what Henneberger says it's not just the ball players who are threats.
I don't understand why a college football coach being paid well is a moral hazard. And, to answer the question, "Yes, so long as it does not win too often." After all, we are supposed to despise the 1%, no? Excellence is to be envied, then torn down.Happy Thanksgiving!
Competitive sports are apparently a decent way to guide the excess testosterone of young men into relatively harmless channels and to teach teamwork to young men and women alike. Beyond that, it's excess. The time when Catholics took heart from rugged Irish immigrants fighting it out for bloody glory on the football field is past. The pragmatic old Irish priests and the honorable-as-day Catholic coaches are long gone, replaced with would-be Commonweal Catholics, cued up for the wine and brie.Sure, let it go. Along with "Catholic" colleges.
What's wrong with wine and brie?
David: it is WHITE wine and brie. It has to be WHITE wine, preferably Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon Blanc.Ripple, and Annie Green Springs no longer qualify. Blue Nun, while white and quasi-Catholic, is so very, very passe .. you know, like Gregorian chant.
And screw top bottles, particularly from Australia and Latin America, are perfectly OK. Right, Ed Gleason?
This is misguided Puritanism at best.Notre Dame is far from perfect. Giving an honorary degree to Barack Obama comes to mind. But Notre Dame football has been an important part of Catholic identity in the United States, and it still is, though far less than it once was. And it is great fun, at least this season.
David Gibson: Bah. humbug!
"Notre Dame football has been an important part of Catholic identity in the United States."Is this what Andrew Greeley meant by "cultural Catholicism?"I guess it beats front yard statues of the BVM in an upturned bathtub.
What would Commonweal readers think about Notre Dame (and other universities) fielding big time cage fighting teams? But the incidence of serious injury, including brain injury, in football is probably on the same general level.I remember a drill on my 9th grade football team (my last year in the sport, before switching to cross country) called "bull in the ring." Details aren't important; it's just one of a great many football drill more than capable of inflicting head injury. I really got my bell rung, but the pride in making the stop more than compensated for the headache I received. Cognitive dysfunction is now recognized as being a frightfully prevalent sequela of past football participation. I had daughters, but I wouldn't have allowed sons to compete in football. I've read that even ex-professional football players are beginning to take the same position, regarding their own sons.I write this while still nursing the memory of the bitter defeat by this year's excellent Notre Dame team of my beloved Michigan Wolverines. And while eagerly anticipating tomorrow's big rivalry game with Ohio State.Perhaps another form of Catholic guilt -- expressed in this blog post.The gladiatorial blood sport.There is nothing new under the sun.- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA
I guess now that we don't have Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to kick around anymore, it's time to beat up on ND football. I am not a football fan. If there were no more college or professional football, my life would go on. But a discussion of whether ND should eliminate football? Talk about a slow news day. Of all subjects to move the tenuous Israeli Hamas truce off the front burner.
Thanks, Larry (2:59). It really is time to stop encouraging kids to injure themselves seriously in the name of toughening them up for real life. But do it gradually, intelligently, with plemty of open discussion and public input.
8:00 PM tonight... Now I know that all of you won't be watching -- heck, my family may have other preferences and I'll only get to check score or retreat to another tv- but even after not following ND for 25 years, I feel a certain excitement--Safe game, all... and GO IRISH!!!!! (Wonder if the President will have any preferences on this? Will the team get a call if they win? Will he get an invitation to speak to the them??? Will Bp. Jenky issue any statements about the communist/fascist influence should there be upset? Oh, the places you'll go....)
I did not let my sons play football. But I fanatically root for my favorite team and watch other teams with sons of other parents. Football is number one is the USA and the tv execs cannot get enough of it. It does not exactly parallel with Augustine's guilt about watching the games but there is something there. There are people who condemn football and hockey but have strong hatred for others. It is a strange world.
A sports team tends to make colleges palatable to Americans by giving those colleges a kind of scrappy go-getter personality they can relate to, unlike the egghead weirdo types studying in the liberry. Because many sports programs at big school earn revenue for the schools and attract donors, they support the eggheads, weirdos, not to mention music programs (what's a football team without a marching band soundtrack?). Anecdotal evidence only, but when I was at Michigan State, a Big 10 (or 13 or whatever it is now) school (or at Central Michigan University, a second-string state university), I was NEVER pressured to give ath-a-leets a good grade. In fact, I was required to submit frequent reports on their grades to the coaching staff, who then pressured the STUDENTS to get with it if they wanted to keep their scholarships. OTOH, most of my students came from "minor" teams (soccer, tennis, golf, track, etc.). I don't know what it might be like to deal with the football/basketball teams, where the pressures are much greater. But the athletes in my classes were generally good students, engaged, and energetic.I have fond memories of fall mornings taking little boys in my son's elementary school class to watch women's rugby matches, to which I was invited by one of my students on the team. The boys got to know the girls, had favorite players with nicknames like Timber and Shorty, and the girls chatted with them after the games and let them play with the ball, try on scrum helmets, and chased them around the field. My kid is almost 17 and still enjoys watching women's sports. Possibly for entirely different reasons now ...
Thank you, Kevin McDermott 11/21/2012 - 10:11 pm for linking to the "Washington Posts Melinda Hennebergers reporting last spring on the link between sexual violence at Notre Dame and the indulgence shown to football players." A girl is dead, the alleged rapist enjoys broad defense in the community, his supporters harass Lizzy Seeberg, the university acquits itself abominably, and I find nothing in the record to commend Notre Dame football. I remember the multiple comments no longer online from rape victims going back decades with the same experience of indifference and hostility by spinning administrators.Sorry, the trauma of so many is not negated by the "we" feeling generated by football. David Gibson asks the relevant question: are there ways to develop men of substance like the truly impressive Manti T'eo by means other than football?Here's an idea: Would Manti lead a program for players and all students by exposing the heinous record of ND and college football in general? I don't see him as a person who would endorse ND's response to Lizzy Seeburg and all ND's other untold rape victims.Would he come right out and condemn the attitude of entitlement by players and others who turn the lives of rape victims into living hells? Who accept violence as a way of life? Who refuse to own their criminal conduct by excusing themselves, blaming the victims, and manipulating reality to escape accountability?I believe Manti T'eo and others like him could teach players, coaches, administrators, faculty, alumni and students another way to be when it comes to football. But how many would respond genuinely to a gathering of speakers and victims? Or would the auditorium draw anywhere near the attendance of a football rally?
Larry Weisenthal:You wrote, I wouldnt have allowed sons to compete in football. Ive read that even ex-professional football players are beginning to take the same position, regarding their own sons. Not only ex-pro players; ex-college players, too. This from The 22-year-Old Retiree, a recent piece in the N.Y. Times about Jordan Wynn, former quarterback at the University of Utah:
SALT LAKE CITY In the end zone at Rice-Eccles Stadium, the turf below colored a familiar red, Jordan Wynn scanned the expanse of empty bleachers. A sling, a maze of straps and buckles, stabilized his left arm. That is the bionic one.Good times in here, he whispered. Indeed. When he played quarterback at Utah, before the injuries and the operations, before the sympathy and the pity, before he retired at 22, some of the best moments of Wynns life occurred in that very end zone. . [He] recorded 297 yards passing and 2 touchdowns against New Mexico, the best debut start for a Utah freshman quarterback. His father, Robert Wynn, watched that game from the stands, saw the hits his son absorbed and said he realized for the first time just how physical, how violent, college football was. The first injury occurred during the spring game of his sophomore season. . . . The second injury took place in 2010, the third in 2011. . . . The hit that ended Wynns career came Sept. 7 against Utah State, On his cellphone, Wynn loaded a picture of an X-ray. It was his left shoulder, the labrum torn all the way around. Staples now hold it in place, along with a pair of three-inch screws and a piece of collarbone. The X-ray looks almost artistic, a medical Rembrandt, a shoulder stitched together by metal and science. . . .After four operations three on the left shoulder, one on the right after one shoulder or the other popped out of joint close to 100 times, Wynn retired this fall. . . . Wynn loved football, loved Utah, loved his starring turn. But the more he talked inside a pizza joint near campus decorated with posters of the Beatles and old-school Utah Jazz pennants, the more he seemed to embody footballs current crossroads. He did not appear bitter over his predicament, only sad and realistic. As he bit into a pepperoni slice, Wynn said: Im not going to let my kid play football. No way. Im going to show him that picture, my screws. Im going to put a putter in the crib.
There were some who couldnt accept Wynns decision to retire:
He shuttered his Twitter account after all the hatred he saw online. One comment read, Im so glad Jordan Wynn is done playing football. Wynn is not glad. At a recent practice, he wore a parka and sweats instead of a uniform, as pads crunched and coaches screamed. Wynn stood there, his arm in that sling, still a part of it and far removed all at once. Someday this would all make sense, what happened to him. But not today, or tomorrow, this month or next. This is the end, said the 22-year-old retiree with the bionic arm. And this is the beginning.
"...ex-college players, too."Footaball is not for everyone, Gene. Each student embraces the sport that he/she carries in his/her heart. Among students, the heart (and what a friend does) is almost omnipotent.
Sunday... post Notre Dame victory (for those who missed it!- low key "Yay")... I watched part of the game with both an Irish fan's perspective and this blog in mind ...and hope that no one was injured... no reports that way, I don't think...Does this have to be an either -or discussion? I don't imagine we'll go for two hand touch or flag football, but I fear the whole thing is quixotic .. even though something must be done... but I will admit to missing some of it already...
Thanks to Carolyn Disco for shocking us out of our reverie and giving us something substantial to chew on. The jock mentality is very much a part of ND football and we have to take responsibility to acknowledge it and do what we can to reduce it. The repugnant truth is that it is true outside of football also. Especially in the colleges who are decidedly afraid to confront it. http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article/2012/10/17/account-sexual-a...
Times change. Bullfights used to be fine. They're fading away, like gladiatorial combats before them. Boxing and football are still fine, but that's changing, slowly. Civilization seems to make us tamer, less accepting of violence. Softer. A proclivity for violence remains, though, sublimated where it can't be externalized. Our mores and sensibilities may change, but our natures stay the same. What happens to the push for violence when it's forced underground, into the subconscious?
I am only a so-so footbal fan, but I think it's an error to equate it with bullfighting and boxing or to see it as a glorification of violence. In the former two, the object is the killing of the bull and the vanquishing of an opponent through hitting him. Football is directed at a goal and admittedly uses blocking to achieve that goal and tackling to prevent others from doing so, but it is far different in many ways. That doesn't mean it's completely non-violent (neither is baseball for that mattter!) or that it should continue, but it's more dissimilar than simliar to these other two.
David P. --I agree about the bullfighting and boxing -- and I'd add wrestling. Their point is to inflict pain to the extinction of life (the bull's) or consciousness (the man's). Football is about the strength of the line the arm and aim of the quarterback, and speed of the runners. At their best those young atheletes are indeed beautiful. But men do seem to have some inner need to pass painful endurance tests. I guess doing such things made sense evolutionarily, but surely it's not necessary any more. Can't you guys just enjoy doing something well without having to suffer too? Or would that turn football into dancing?
"But men do seem to have some inner need to pass painful endurance tests."I would be happy to pass along childbirth pains to see how well they do!
David S: I fail to see how becoming less accepting of violence can be equated with "softer." How abut saner? How about more Christ-like? http://christianity101online.com/blog/2006/09/03/does-jesus-advocate-vio...
You could always combine boxing and bullfighting, like in the Aeneid, where Entellus punches that bull to death. Football is pretty stupid, but I would definitely watch bull-boxing.
Jimmy, there is, among some conservative Christians, the notion that competition, violence, and bashing stuff is what makes men men. My Baptist in-laws encouraged their sons to make their own quarter staffs (staves?) and do kick boxing, and the fathers talked about the dangers of too much female influence on them. They made a conscious effort to reduce the maternal influence after age seven or eight, and now they're married and all belong to the Promise Keepers.Is this good? I don't know, but some conservative Christians have protested the "feminization" of the church (Weigel and Chuck Colson have written on this). They say men feel marginalized, that they feel "church is for girls." Does a winning football team like Notre Dame's make men feel less like this, rape and mayhem aside? Maybe.
I have seen more soccer than I enjoy (some injuries, but little direct violence), hardly any rugby (violence, but I don't know injury rates), golf (!), tennis (!), volleyball (!) basketball (some direct violence, but not the infliction the same way as a rule), and baseball (with the occasional beaning and tragedies of a Tony Conigliaro and the intentionally violent plays at the plate and occasionally at the bases), but football is different, but I'm not ready to accept Ann's "rite of passsage" thoughts. I still think it might be able to be safer, but it's too much TEAM fun to be dismissed.
Notre Dame should take great pride in the fact that they are ranked #1 in both the BCS standings and the graduation rankings.Unfortunately, they have some work to do in the area of the Faith, as they remain unranked in the latest edition of the "Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College."The rankings can be viewed at the link (just scroll down until you get to the rankings):http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2012/11/cadinal-newman-society-publi...


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Napalm gets the stains out every time.
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The Horrible Malfunction:
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... if you have a pacemaker, that is.
L.L. Bean, like all manufacturers, has had their ups and downs. For instance, the first product they manufactured was a hunting boot that was guaranteed to keep your feet dry. They got to eat more than their share of humble pie pretty much immediately, as 90 percent of the boots were returned for being cracked and leaky to the point of uselessness. Since then, they have produced some mighty fine and reliable footwear, so, lesson learned!
The lesson? It's much easier to make small shoes waterproof.
But in 2005, L.L. Bean launched a series of budget survival kits, most notably the handy Outdoorsman in a Bottle. It consisted of a water bottle, a blanket, a compass, a knife and a handy flashlight -- in other words, a pretty decent package for some emergency Bear Gryllsin'. It's not exactly a frivolous product if you're the outdoorsy type who could at any moment wind up stranded in some frozen wilderness due to a broken-down vehicle and no cell reception. You've got a compass to point you in the right direction, and a flashlight to shine the way. And the flashlight doesn't even need batteries!
Then, in January 2006, the company issued a hasty recall of each and every one of said kits.
The Horrible Malfunction:
The kit is actually pretty goddamned dangerous on its own.
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But there's no danger of the other disaster survivors not knowing where you got your stylish blanket and shovel.
Yeah, about the flashlight not needing batteries ... the Forever Flashlight was powered by a magnet, copper coil and some revolutionary shake weight technology so that you can recharge it by making a motion like you're jerking off a robot.
Wait, did we say magnet? And it's in there next to a compass, which works based on detecting the Earth's magnetic field, and stops working forever if it gets too close to a magnet? Yep! The magical flashlight rendered the compass useless.
You'll be lost, but at least you'll have a dim light that requires constant shaking.
And that magnet was very, very strong. Like "disrupt a heart patient's implantable cardiac defibrillator" strong. Which, incidentally, it totally could. The recall, by the way, stated that they would happily replace your nonworking compass. And for the flashlight, they'll send you ... a warning label you can stick on it telling heart patients to stay away. Well, hell, we could just write it on there with a Sharpie if that's all it needs.
If you're wondering, yes, the product was recalled before any injuries were reported. But keep in mind that implantable defibrillators are devices that can jump-start a failing heart if it stops beating, so you can imagine the lethal combination that could have resulted if the person's heart was already under heavy exertion from giving their flashlight a handjob.
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I have a simple 2-tier arrangement - one web server (Websphere hosted on windows), and one oracle db server. The web server needs to connect the oracle database server.
I am trying to write a script that
- Brings up a EC2 instance with the Oracle database
- Brings up a EC2 instance with Websphere
- Configures the Websphere instance to communicate to the database
I am stuck at #3. Every time I run the script, the DB server gets a different ip address. How do I tell my Websphere instance "Use this ip address for the DB"?
Some solutions I have considered -
- Configure Websphere to connect to a host name. When the DB server comes up and is assigned an IP Address, update the DNS record (probably Route 53)
- Pass the DB server ip address as user data when launching the websphere instance, and run a startup script to update the configuration
- Use Elastic IP Addresses - but that would require routing db traffic over the internet, right?
Each of these solutions seem more work than usual. Is there something I am missing? What is the standard way to solve this problem?
EDIT for Bounty Elastic IP Address solution works, but I don't like using wasting public ip addresses on servers that should never connect to the internet. I am curious to hear any other solution you have employed to solve this problem.


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Originally Published: March 5, 2012By Ross Tucker | ESPN.com
It's detestable, but I don't consider it cheating. If it is in fact cheating, then every team I played for during my seven-year career cheated in one way, shape or form.
I'm talking, of course, about the New Orleans Saints' pay-for-performance program that the NFL said on Friday was in violation of the bounty rule.
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Houston County Sheriff deputies pulled over this white van on Highway 231 after an informant tipped them off to illegal goods being sold.
"I received a call from the informant and they told me that this individual had a van load of counterfeit items."
A load deputies say was under this blue tarp behind the back doors of the van.
Nearly 5-thousand CD's, almost 2-thousand DVD's, five hundred and 31 pairs of shoes, 41 hand bags, several computers, and accessories all counterfeit.
"We currently have four felony charges relating to the counterfeit items and with charges to follow."
And the charges are adding up
"According to the law in the state of Alabama for every seven DVD's you have counterfeit movies that's a separate felony charge."
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Next on our journey is the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus. This picture shows the planet's faint rings and a few of its moons. The bright spot on the lower right corner is the snowy white moon named Ariel. The rings of Uranus were first discovered in 1977, before then Saturn was thought to be the only planet in the solar system with rings. Since discovering Uranus' rings, astronomers have found rings around all of the gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Fun Fact: Uranus is much farther away from the Sun than Saturn. While Saturn takes 29 years to make a single orbit around the Sun, Uranus takes 84.
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spoiler:I'm not sure, I was getting that same black screen and only hearing the gun fire after speaking with Daemon for the first time boarding the Orion(as Matilda/Sera/Shadow/forgot the other name)
All I did was make a fresh Override folder and reload the autosave and it worked fine though. I just finished a few minutes ago and I suppose you've heard it enough already but fantastic work. I particular loved the ending scene with the trio walking away. You found a way to give a happy ending without losing your "cool" factor as being Revan as well.
Thanks for the experience.
spoiler:fougth againts the other Revan at the Artefact
spoiler:I´like a lot the scene when Matilda heard the voices and remembers on the Ebown Hawk, it reminds me a lot Metal Gear Solid 4 on Shadow Moses xD
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I have some questions such that the corresponding statements are well-known for affine varieties, and I wonder whether they hold for projective ones.
Let $Z\subset X$ be a closed subvariety of a (projective) variety over a field $K$. Let $L/K$ be a finite field extension, and let $Y/X_L$ be an etale neighbourhood of $Z_L$ in $X_L$ i.e. $Y/X_L$ is etale and $Y\times_{X_L}Z_L=Z_L$. Is it true that $Y$ descends to an etale neighbourhood $U$ of $Z$ in $X$ i.e. that there exists an (etale neighbourhood) $U$ such that the morphism $U_L\to X_L$ factorizes through $Y$? Would it help if I will demand that $L/K$ is separable or Galois?
A reference question. For a domain $R$ and an extension $L$ of the fraction field of $R$ one can consider the integral closure (or the normalization) of $R$ in $L$. Now, Theorem 5.1 here http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~jinhyun/note/normalization/normalization.pdf yields that a similar fact holds for any (irreducible) variety $V$ (instead of the spectrum of $R$) and a finite extension of the function field of $V$. Is there a 'canonical' reference for this fact? How would you call the variety obtained?
The integral closure opeation for (commutative) rings commutes with etale base change by [EGAIV, Prop. 18.12.15]. Does this statement generalize to varieties?


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Well does it? Or does it only grow on one side? Or does it grow only on the side further from the equator? Is there any truth to this old adage?
Moss grows best in the shade (and damp, but most relevant here is shade). Because of the curvature of the Earth, in the northern hemisphere the north side of trees is shadier than the south side, so if moss grows on only one side of a tree, it is likely to be the north side. In the southern hemisphere, the whole thing is mirrored so the moss is on the south side. This is, however, nothing more than a rule of thumb, as there are many other factors that affect moss, especially the density of foliage and humidity.
Moss prefers damp locations irrespective of facing.
You need to cut out a few variables before you can use moss as a pretty reliable method to determine North:
With that in mind, choose moss that's growing at least waist height on a vertical, smooth surface.
It's not 100% reliable however. So check around for other mossy regions to get confirmation.
There's some truth to it in that moss prefers shady areas rather than directly sunny ones, so (in the northern hemisphere) since the north is the generally more shady part, you'd assume moss will be more likely to grow on the north of the tree.
For me though, it's nothing more than a curious fact rather than anything to reliably use in terms of orientation or navigation. There's all sorts of other variables that can cause moss to grow or not grow, and like any living organism's placement there's always an element of randomness as well! Lots of things can affect it, from humidity to moisture to the shade other objects cast around it. If you're trying to use this to navigate it could easily give you a false sense of security or make you feel uneasy about your chosen direction if the "moss rule" contradicts it.
So yes, there is some truth behind it and it's nice to know, but not reliable enough to really be of much use.


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This article seems to indicate that a magnet (atleast magnetite, it may not apply to rare earth magnets) weakens when subjected to extremes of pressure. This is purportedly the result of a decrease in electron spacing ... or so I understand from the article.
Does then a magnet's influence change in a vacuum? Does the magnet appear to become stronger in a vacuum? Or is the converse true again?


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I want to gain around 10 kg in one month, is this possible?
If so, what would be the healthiest way of doing so?
I'm 23 years old and weigh 56 kg with a height of ~6 ft.
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I want to gain around 10 kg in one month, is this possible?
If so, what would be the healthiest way of doing so?
I'm 23 years old and weigh 56 kg with a height of ~6 ft.
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I would not suggest gaining that much weight in one month. You are not going to build more than 1 pound of muscle in one month which means you'll be gaining over 20 pounds in a month.
That is very unhealthy! That type of weight gain will negatively effect your hormone levels...increasing your estrogen level, lowering your testosterone, and slowing your thyroid.
It's a really bad idea.
While I'm no expert on this, there have been a couple very intriguing articles I read on this.
From the blog of Tim Ferriss, a post titled "From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks"
There are a few popular approaches to gaining weight quickly. GOMAD (Gallon Of Milk A Day) is a pretty popular method advocated by Mark Rippetoe in his Starting Strength program. Dozen Eggs a Day (DEAD) is another method which I'm currently playing with myself. One thing to keep in mind about DEAD vs. GOMAD is that w/ GOMAD you'll be getting a lot more calories which will certainly assist in the weight gain (although there will be a fair amount of fat gain). Mass gains will usually result in gaining some amount of both muscle and fat.
On many medical weight-gain programs, eating "doubles" will help weight gain. Meaning basically eating twice what you'd normally eat during a meal. Two sandwiches for lunch, etc. Also, another method to gain weight is to add in some meal replacements as snacks or as a second lunch/dinner/meal. Because the meal replacement has all the components of a meal, adding it to your diet tells your body that you've eaten another meal.
You need to eat 6 non-heavy balanced meals a day with an interval of 3 hours. It's the healthiest way to gain weight. I don't think you'll be gaining 10kg though. On my own experience, took me 3 months to gain 18 lbs (roughly 8kg).
I'm not sure about 10kg in one month, but I know of one person who added 11kg in 8 weeks. It was the Gallon of Milk a Day (GOMAD) diet, where in addition to your normal food, you have 1 US Gallon of whole milk a day. Split it up between meals of course. In addition to the milk, you need to do some strength training which will trigger your body to use most of that milk for your muscles.
Now, Nick (the guy who gained 11kg in 8 weeks) dealt with lactose intolerance, and I think his review of the experience is a fairly balanced view of things.
Bottom line: your goals are very ambitious. While it provides you with something to shoot for, you may have to be OK with a slower pace. If you have a naturally high metabolism, you will have to eat so much food you will get sick and tired of eating.
Consider a cheap creatine (monohydrate) supplement for increased water retention. That should net you another 1-3 kg in no time.
If you work out, it should help a little with strength/endurance as well. And you really do want to spend some time in the gym. Even if you'll mostly be gaining fat, some muscle mass is better than none.


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The FIA is committed to providing two DRS zones at as many tracks as possible next year to ensure that rule changes do not result in a reduction in overtaking.
The governing body announced at the United States Grand Prix that for next year drivers will only be able to activate DRS in practice and qualifying in the designated overtaking zones used in the race.
Although that move prompted suggestions that teams could opt for a set-up that did not make DRS effective, the FIA has moved to deter them away for that.
For 2013, it has confirmed that it will provide a second DRS zone on all circuits where it proves to be practical.
That should ensure that teams have to use wing levels and gear ratios that give a straightline speed benefit in qualifying in the DRS zones, therefore making the moveable wing a useful tool for the races.
McLaren technical director Paddy Lowe said earlier this week in a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes phone-in that the use of two zones was essential if DRS was going to continue providing good overtaking.
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We have measured reading speed in patients with diabetic eye disease. What we have found is that reading speed is faster in younger patients and in those who has better vision as you would expected. However, we have developed an novel measurement which is much faster to do than measuring reading speed. Both reading speed and the novel measurement correlate well with each other but we would like to see whether this correlate is independent of age and vision level. How can I do that in SPSS. Many thanks.
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I see an easier but fragmented way and a more difficult but comprehensive way.
The easier way is to divide up your subjects into, say, 3 age categories and 3 vision-level categories, and to compute correlations for each group. (In SPSS, use the "split file" command). Then you could assess the degree to which these 9 correlation coefficients differ by group. You could do it graphically in any number of ways and/or using formal statistical tests of the difference between correlations; the latter would involve first transforming each correlation using Fisher's Zr method (available through online calculators but not in SPSS). In order to test every difference, you would need to run 9!/(2!(9-2)!) tests, or 36 of them.
The more difficult, but also more elegant, way would be to preserve age and vision level just as they are--not truncating into groups--and use them to build interaction terms into a regression. Your question would now be, "To what extent does the connection between the new measurement (Y) and the old measurement (X1) vary depending on the level of X2 (age) and X3 (vision level)?" You would need to get familiar with linear regression, its assumptions, and the use of continuous variables to test for interactions.


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We currently have four teams for the 2012-2013 season; 12U (2001), 14U (1999), 14U (1998) and 16U(1997). I would be open to interviewing other coaching candidates that may be interested in taking a team. Ultimately I would like to offer the following age groups (10U-18U).
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We will put a skills video together for every prospect and we will have a live website that will feature the players on the roster. We will email and call coaches of the coaches that may have interest. We WILL do everything possible to get your daughter the opportunity the play at the next level. This program is not for everyone; it is for the player that has the desire to play this game at the next level.
Open try-outs will be in early August for two days. The site and times will be announced soon.
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What area of Ky. And why copy a name that is already all over the middle TN. area. Not to mention having to swing and carry all Worth equipment. Just wondering
Teams will be based out of the location of the coaching staff. I'm trying to keep practices in central Kentucky to make traveling to practices as easy as possible on the parents. We are not trying to start Lil' Suzy's all-star travel team. We wanted to have a name that is reputable enough to draw the type of player we are interested in, yet DO IT LEGALLY. I have been in contact with SEVERAL manufacturer's and I did not speak to any of them that KNOWINGLY allow their name to be used in regards to a team. I am not going to use a name of any manufacturer without their knowledge. I worked out details and expectations with Worth and decided that this was a good opportunity for the girls and their parents.
Something that people need to realize, this organization is NOT for everyone. It may not be for you or your daughter. However this will be a great opportunity for a select group. This organization is being formed to allow highly skilled players an opportunity to be seen by college coaches without having to mortgage their homes to do so. Our coaches will coach because they love it, not because they get paid because they will not be paid anything. We are trying to offer an affordable alternative to some similar organizations in the area. I don't necessarily think you have to travel across the United States to be seen by colleges. I believe that goal can be accomplished by driving 4-5 hours and playing with a competitive group of players that have the same goals as you. This is and always will be about the kids.
Now if you have any other questions, you can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and if you feel the need to speak directly to me, you can email me your phone number and I will gladly call you.
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It has not been finalized yet. I hope to have all of the details, date & location, nailed down by middle of next week. I will post updates on here and I will email all those who have emailed me and inquired about the try-outs.
Sorry for the delay. It will be in the first half of August.
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I am an application programmer focussing on Line Of Business (LOB) applications. I am from non-mathematics and non-CS background. What mathematics should I learn which help me improve my programming and problem solving abilities.
It really depends on what you're programming! Some areas of mathematics that have been very useful to me as a programmer (but may or may not be useful to you) have been:
Many of these fall broadly into the category of discrete mathematics. The field is well summarised in the book Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik.
In general, you would be hard-pushed to find an area of mathematics that isn't useful to some aspect of programming. However, exactly how useful will depend mainly on what it is that you're trying to do.
Edit: I would add (and this part is pure opinion) that any developer who says that you don't need to know much mathematics to be a developer is probably not very good. The same thing applies to any programmer who says that you only need to know one language, or one programming paradigm. Programming is a dynamic and very rapidly evolving field. If you're not constantly learning new things, then you will find it very difficult to advance in your career.
Many of the greatest programmers the world has seen were/are also excellent mathematicians (Thompson, Ritchie, McCarthy, Knuth, Dijkstra, etc). I think you would find it tough to point out a great programmer who doesn't know much mathematics.
Edit: Based on the last six months to a year, I would now add Category Theory to the list. Having a appreciation of what it means, mathematically, to be a functor, monoid, monad or comonad has been useful in allowing me to quickly grasp the common patterns and structures when learning the Haskell programming language.
In my programming career, I have used a lot of mathematics. Number theory, mostly, but also elliptic curves, Bayesian probability, latin squares,...
Ask another programmer, and they might say "Numerical analysis, mostly, but also algorithmic complexity, queueing theory, graph theory,...".
To some extent, you will end up learning the mathematics that you need to solve your programming problems. On the other hand, if you already know some mathematics, you will tend to gravitate towards areas of programming that require your particular expertise.
Not very helpful, I'm afraid, but your question is not an easy one to answer.
That's a pretty wide-open question. I'm not sure it admits a definite "answer", since it depends to a large extent on what kind of programming you're doing.
In all likelihood, learning at least something about binary arithmetic is probably going to be useful - if only so you know why your program is spitting out negative numbers when all the inputs are positive. If you're doing to do any database work, then a minimal grasp of set theory is probably useful. It may or may not be useful to understand algorithmic complexity.
Beyond that, it's really, really going to depend on what you're trying to program. If you're just writing a utility program to read a CSV file and spit out some SQL, you don't need to know much maths. If you're building a ray tracer... you're gonna need a heck of a lot of linear algebra!
I have been a professional developer for over 15 years and the highest level math I have used for any professional project is basic trig, algebra and statistics. As others have said though, what math you need highly depends on the field that you work in. I primarily develop applications for enterprises including data-centric applications, web applications and backend service infrastructures (what you would call LOB apps). My ability to think abstractly about complex problems however has been greatly enhanced by my mathematical experience. If you don't have a specific field in min that requires a particular flavor of mathematics, your best bet though would probably be to develop a solid foundation in algorithms and data structures. Regardless of what type of programming you will do, this sort of knowlege will always be beneficial. A good, practical introduction to this topic is provided in Algorithms in a Nutshell.
To be specific, here are a couple of concrete examples of problems I have encountered as a business application developer that actually required a little math to solve:
On the other hand, there are many more instances where I have had to develop rather complicated sorting algorithms or tune a slow algorithm for efficiency. Basic knowledge of data structures and algorithms has been very helpful in this regard.
I can also say that not one single potential employer during an interview has ever asked me a mathematically-oriented question. Rather, they are concerned with what tools, languages, platforms I know, what architectural patterns am I familiar with, how do I manage software complexity (not "computational complexity"), etc. I would be thrilled if I were asked something about math but, alas, it has never happened.
I guess I'll throw my hat into this one as well. Computer Science is in large, a subsection of Discrete Mathematical Science.
Basically, you should learn Discrete Mathematics in order increase your software development ability.
In discrete math subjects, many of the subjects collapse into core concepts that can be applied across subjects. Each specific field simply requires taking these core concepts and applying them in a specific way. This means, that while I might not use graph theory in everyday in my day job, that fact that I've studied graph theory, artificial intelligence, computational complexity, etc etc has developed these core Discrete Mathematical concepts in such a way that I can apply them towards other problems.
In my experience, each field of discrete mathematics is basically applying concepts you've learned in the past in new ways in order to solve a certain type of problems. Because I've learned how to apply these concepts towards X and Y, when I encounter a Z type problem I at least know where to start.
This means that while you may not use many mathematical fields directly in day-to-day operations, these core concepts are useful and help you make correct problem solving and design decisions, as well as debug.
Enormous variance:
I've had days programming HTML/CSS where typically the most complicated math I have to do is on the lines of: if the "left" property is set to 4 pixels and I want it 4 more over, I add 4+4 and get 8.
On the flip side I've had times working in scripting languages like JS or AS3 where I've needed quaternion mathematics like theoretical physicists work with to efficiently calculate forward kinematic orientations in 3d space...like I said...enormous variance depending on what you're building.
But a good place to start is algebra. Programming in some ways can be looked at as literally writing algebra:
Look at that, it's a couple lines that could easily be part of a program...but those lines wouldn't look at all out of place on an algebra exam in the form of "What's the range of numbers possible if x is any whole number from 1 through 10 and y is any whole number from 20 through 30?" Most language of programming themselves are pretty much forms algebra, so that's a great place to start when trying to build up your math competence to be a better programmer!
I am doing a Computer Science degree at a state University and I have to take the following math courses: Calculus 1 | Calculus 2 | Linear Algebra | Discrete Math 1 | Discrete Math 2 | To be a Programmer you NEED math however not all of it. It all depends what are you interested in. You cant just do 3D programming without knowing geometry or maybe Calculus 3 or you can do algorithms involving matrices if you do not know Linear Algebra. You would also would not learn efficiency(Big-Oh) without learning Discrete math.
But best way to answer your question is the more math you learn programming would be more helpful in the long term.
A real programmers uses a DIFFERENT MATH that most of the time is incompatible with regular Math, or more specifically, it is the same with a different focus.
First, regular math is based in formula, while computer math is tabular (think in Excel).
Take in consideration that mathematic is more focused in science arts while computer is pure engineer.
For example, a computer example:
neither x nor y are a incognito value, here x is a assigned value and y store a previous value. In math and computer, both have the same result (x=50,y=20) but a sightly change can vary the result
in math, y=20 and x=50, while in computer, x=30 (or error) and y=20 (or undefined if the first line trigger an exception).
And of course
is valid in computer science but make nonsense in pure math.
Even more, let's say a Summation :
it could be expressed mathematically while
turn more tricky to express it mathematically. Then
is trickiest to draw it mathematically specially since
is never evaluated.
What math should a program know?. The basic is more than enough. In my experience, a good mathematic trends to be a bad programmer. Most math functions already are defined so, in case of needing, it is so easy to apply the function even without understanding how it works.


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Kadison and Ringrose define normal states $\omega$ of a von Neumann algebra $A$ as such that $\omega(H_\alpha)\to \omega(H)$ for each monotone increasing net of operators $H_\alpha$ with least upper bound $H$ (definition 7.1.11)
Let $A$ be a commutative von Neumann algebra and $NS(A)$ be its set of normal characters, and let us endow $NS(A)$ by some natural topology, for example, by the the weak topology generated by elements of $A$. Did anybody try to describe the topological properties of $NS(A)$? As far as I understand, usually this space is not compact, but from the construction of the von Neumann envelope it follows that such spaces are "natural covers" for all Hausdorff compact spaces. So I wonder how this picture can be explained from the topological point of view.


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This section explains how to run Kdenlive for the first time and describes how to edit a simple movie.
Fri, 02/05/2010 - 00:53
This section has both "Kdenlive first project" and "First Project". Both start with a caveat about being unfinished, but based on the principle of boarding up broken windows (http://www.pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/software-entropy) it would be good to explain the differences between them, and help the user decide which to use (this may be one, neither, or both).


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Official Korean Limited Special Edition 3-Disc set of the hit 2008 film The Good, The Bad, The Weird. Contains the uncut Korean version on Disc 1, the International cut on Disc 2 and a 3rd Disc of Special Features


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Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation is widely used in the automotive industry for testing of electronic control units. As hardware is involved, simulations have to be performed in real time. Special methods and tools for real time simulations have been developed at the institute. Results contributed to the hybrid modelling technique. Additionally, methods have been developed and implemented that overcome the kinematic closed loops in suspension subsystems. Thus the resulting equations of motion of the vehicle form systems of ordinary differential equations that can be solved efficiently in real time.
An electronic control unit (ECU) acts as a hardware component designated to be tested. The ECU sends its output signals to the model, which represents the remaining vehicle (engine, gearbox, axle etc.), the driver and the environment. The ECU's input signals are computed by the model in real time instead of being measured in a real vehicle.
Handling of kinematic loops in suspension subsystems
The model reduction approach is based on the formulation of the equations of motion in the independent coordinates together with subsystem-local solution of constraint equations describing kinematic loops. Thus the resulting equations of motion of the vehicle form system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) that that can be solved efficiently in real time.
For the local solution of algebraic equations the iterative method or the stabilised solution of time integrated (local) dependent coordinates have been used. The former has been proven to be less favourable due to the extra computing time consumption compared with the latter. The algebraic equations have been defined both in relative and natural coordinates. The first is preferred due to less computing time, the second one requires less input parameters (just absolute coordinates of linking points between rods and chassis or wheel carrier, respectively) thus being more user-friendly.
The simulation results in the time domain have indicated just small deviations of reduced models compared to the complete reference model of suspension, see graph.
Sparsing techniques
Modelling of mechatronic systems often leads to stiff differential-algebraic equations. In real time simulation neither implicit nor explicit methods can cope with such systems in an efficient way: explicit methods have to employ too small steps and implicit methods have to solve too large systems of equations. A solution of this general problem is to use a method that allows manipulations of the Jacobian by computing only those parts that are necessary for the stability of the method.
Specifically, a priori manipulation by sparsing aims at zeroing out certain elements of the Jacobian leading to a structure that can be exploited using sparse matrix techniques.
At the institute, a sparsing criterion for the linearly implicit Euler method was derived. A stiff real time simulator has been implemented and tested with real life problems.
HIL test environment
The HIL environment was kept flexible, such that e.g. Rapid Control Prototyping is possible, too, which has been demonstrated for an aircraft actuator.


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Reading the Bible without meditating on it, is like trying to eat without swallowing. ~ Anonymous
I believe a vibrant spiritual life must include the reading and meditating on the Word of God. Can we really enjoy reading God's Word? I never read a book twice. What's the use when you know the end of the story? I do re-read nonfiction once in a while. But I read the Bible over and over and over. The crazy thing is how "new" it seems each time I read it. And yet, in the newness there is a familiarity that touches a place of home in my heart.
I bore easily. I really hate to admit it. If my daughters read this they will laugh because I never allowed them to say they were bored. I always had a chore for them to do if they were bored. How can you be bored when life has so much to offer -- a book to read, a hobby to enjoy, a story to write, a picture to draw, enough to never be bored?
The reason I say I bore easily is that I don't like to do anything more than once. Not reading, not a craft project, not even cooking. So I try to keep my Bible reading creative and fresh. To keep the freshness, I:
1. Read a different translation. RB bought the Zondervan's Comparative Study Bible for me. This features four translations across the double page spread. I don't get as far each day by the time I read four translations, but I feel like I grasp the verses and come away with a clear idea of the chapters.
3. Use a Chronological Bible instead of reading Genesis-Revelation. This publication begins with God creating the world and continues in the order the events took place. Emily recently requested one, so I picked up on the idea and bought one for her (We have always tried to purchase study Bibles for our girls to keep their reading fresh).
4. Record thoughts in a notebook. I like to read with pen in hand. (If you like to mark in your Bible, this is the best highlighter I've found: Automatic Crayon Pencil: 8 colors.) Choose a verse to copy, memorize and read, and record some commentary on the verse. Carry your notebook with you and while waiting on appointments, work on memorizing, and be ready to write down a thought God brings to mind. It keeps you meditating on the Word all day long. In Psalm 1 we read of the blessed man who "delights in the law of the Lord and in his law does he meditate day and night."
Women of Faith series. It provides variety and practicality, particularly relating to the 21st Century Christian woman. Another one I like is New Hope Bible Studies for Women. Studying with a friend is often helpful, too.
Long ago I read that we should pray, "Open my eyes that I may find wonderful things in your law" (Psalm 119:18), before beginning our Scripture reading. This helps corral my thoughts, and reminds me the reason I am reading is to learn more about God and His plan in my life. I need the enlightening of the Holy Spirit for the Word to become alive and remain active in my life.
Be an Ezra. The Bible tells us that "he devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the Lord" (Ezra 7:10). Become passionate about the Book God gave to us. Read, study, meditate on it and practice it. Let the Word saturate your heart and delight in it. "Can we really enjoy reading God's Word?" The answer is a resounding yes!


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To mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of the European patent system's founding treaty, on 5 October 1973 in Munich, an updated jubilee 15th edition of the European Patent Convention (EPC) was published in October 2013. The EPC remains the foundation stone of European co-operation in the patent field.
The 15th printed edition contains
It also contains an index of decisions and opinions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal published in the Official Journal of the EPO (Annex I), an EPC 1973/EPC 2000 cross-reference list (Annex II) and an alphabetical keyword index.
Only the HTML files are updatable. They give the
current texts, with any amendments (e.g. to the Implementing Regulations)
included as from their entry into force. The PDF file reflects the latest
printed edition (currently the 15th, published in October 2013), i.e.
without amendments adopted by the Administrative Council since its publication.
It is however preceded by a list of any amendments adopted by the Council since
that edition went to press.
While the HTML version contains internal links between the articles and rules of the EPC and is optimised for online use, the PDF version offers the best solution for off-line browsing including full-text search functionality.
In the HTML files, "version history" can be used to find out about earlier texts of a given provision, including any transitional rules.
For up-to-date information on procedural fees, please also consult the EPO website under "Official Journal" and "Fees".
Printed copies of "The European Patent Convention" (15th edition, October 2013) can be ordered using this form.


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TJX Raises Earnings, Store Count Estimates
Wednesday October 23rd, 2013 - 1:29PM
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TJX has raised its earnings estimates in preparation for its annual analyst meeting, where company president Ernie Herrman detailed how the company will continue to expand operations. Among the coming indicatives is the opening of a new HomeGoods distribution center next year, the company said in the actual presentation.
Herrman pointed out that the company could potentially open 825 Home Goods locations up from an original estimate of 450 as the company grows to 4,730 locations up from an earlier projection of 3,211.
Herrman said one key reason that TJX would be able to grow successfully has to do with its employees.
"We believe we have the best buying organization in retail," he said, adding that the company's effective support staff boosts buyer efforts.
He also said that improvements in distribution would help drive growth. The company's resources have grown significantly, Herrman noted, as TJX has grown from 10,000 to 16,000 vendors over the past five to six years. Future gains will depend upon connections from those suppliers through to stores.
"An important building block supporting our future growth is our supply chain, where we continue to make improvement," Herrman said. "We've attempted to make improvements here continuously over the last 36 years. It's a become a goal of flowing merchandise to our stores in a more efficient way."
With current business strong, TJX announced that it would raise its third quarter financial estimates. The retailer said it now expects third quarter diluted earnings per share to arrive in the range of 84 cents to 85 cents versus last year's 62 cents per share. This guidance includes an estimated 11-cent tax benefit due to reversals of state and foreign tax reserves and allowances not incorporated into previous guidance, the company stated. The tax benefit excluded, on an adjusted basis, the guidance still would represent an 18% to 19% advance over last year's per-share earnings. TJX also noted that it expects third quarter consolidated comparable store sales growth to be about 4%.
TJX also related that it expects to grow earnings per share annually by 10% to 13% for each of the next three years based on sales gains of 6% to 7%. The company believes sales growth would arise from 2% gains in comparable store sales and 4% to 5% expansion in square footage as well as a 1% to 2% segment profit margin improvement. TJX said earnings would get an additional boost of 3% to 4% from its share repurchase program.
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TransCanada and the International Association of Fire Chiefs have started a partnership aimed at improving pipeline safety awareness for firefighters and emergency responders in the US and Canada.
TransCanada and the International Association of Fire Chiefs
(IAFC) have started a four-year partnership aimed at improving
pipeline safety awareness for firefighters and emergency
responders across the United States and Canada.
An $825,000 donation from TransCanada to the IAFC to fund
the partnership will be announced at the IAFC Fire Rescue
International Conference and Expo at the Sheraton Chicago.
"Safety is priority one for both TransCanada and the IAFC
and so this partnership will be a significant benefit to our
employees, IAFC's members and ultimately the communities we do
business in, said Vern Meier," TransCanada's vice president for
pipeline safety and Ccmpliance.
"This partnership will result in further improvements to the
availability of high quality training and awareness materials
for pipelines targeting emergency responders and firefighters.
In the unlikely event of an incident, TransCanada employees and
first responders have clearly-defined roles to help protect the
public and the environment, and this partnership
will enable us to have a unified approach and a consistent
response before, during and after any incidents."
The partnership will focus on improving the availability of
high-quality online training programs for energy and pipeline
safety, encompassing incident prevention and response along
with development of toolkits to be used by first responders,
which will include fact sheets, talking points, safety guides
and information on prevention efforts and IAFC involvement in
TransCanada's regional emergency response field exercises for
departments located near company assets.
"Fire departments have many tools they use to keep their
communities safe, but among the most vital are training
and the collaboration of community stakeholders, said Hank
Clemmensen, IAFC president. "For 140 years, the IAFC has been a
champion of fire department training and education, making sure
responders stay out in front of the changes in the built environment and local
"The IAFC is pleased to bring our expertise in responder fuels
training to this partnership with TransCanada to develop
high-quality educational programs, and build relationships that
support the safety of communities."
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MANHATTAN — Kansas Capital Area Chapter volunteer Theresa Meyer will leave for Tampa Friday, to help families who will be affected by Tropical Storm Isaac, which is expected to hit southern Florida and bring strong winds gusting as high as 75 mph and 4 to 8 inches of rain.
Meyer, a nurse from Palmer, will fly to Tampa early tomorrow morning to provide services needed to those who will be affected by Tropical Storm Issac.
In Florida, the Red Cross is identifying available shelters, assembling disaster teams, and coordinating with government and community partners like the Southern Baptist Convention and NAACP. Preparations occur all year long for storms like Isaac. For example, more than 50 trailers with supplies to support hundreds of people each are pre-positioned along the Gulf and East coasts in preparation for hurricane season. Each trailer is stocked with cots, blankets and comfort kits. Kitchen trailers are also prepositioned with items on board like beverage containers, food carriers and ice chests.
Meghan Spreer, Red Cross spokesman, said volunteers are always ready to go if needed.
"Volunteers are the heart of the Red Cross," Spreer said. "We rely on people like Theresa every day to respond to disasters across our 16 county area, as well as across the United States."
HURRICANE APP: Those who may be in the path of the storm can download the new free Red Cross Hurricane App which puts real time information on hurricane safety at someone's fingertips. The app features information on Red Cross shelters and a toolkit with a flashlight, strobe light and alarm. The one-touch "I'm Safe" button lets someone use social media outlets to let family and friends know they are okay. People across the country planning to travel to areas predicted to get hit with the storm can use the app to receive weather alerts. The Hurricane App can be found in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store for Android by searching for American Red Cross.
GET READY NOW: People who may be in the path of the storm should get prepared now by finalizing hurricane plans and updating their emergency supply kits. Emergency kits should contain a three-day supply of water for each person, along with food that doesn't require refrigeration, flashlights, a battery-operated radio and a first aid kit. A full list of suggested items is available on this web site.
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Telefon: (813) 870 8700.
Website: http://wwww.tampaairport.com
Tampa International Airport is situated 8km (5 miles) west of Tampa.
How to get there
Highway 60 passes in front of the airport entrance to the east of the start of the Courtney Campbell Causeway and to the south of the end of Veterans Expressway. Alternatively, drive westbound via Spruce Street or Columbus Drive from Tampa, from which the airport entrance is west of Westshore Boulevard. On the main highway network, Tampa International Airport is accessed from Interstate 275 at exit 39.
Information about parking possibilities at the Tampa International Airport
Access by public transport
Further ground transportation information is available (tel: (813) 870 8718).
Sarasota-Tampa Express (tel: (941) 366 6600 or 800 326 2800; www.stexps.com) runs a direct service to Sarasota/Bradenton International Airport; the bus stops are in the Blue Quadrant 1 and Red Quadrant 2. HART (tel: (813) 623 5835: www.hartline.org) bus 30 runs to destinations including central Tampa; the bus stop is located at Red baggage reclaim. There is a desk at each end of Arrivals for shared-ride shuttle services. Super Shuttle (tel: (727) 572 1111 or 800 282 6817; www.supershuttle.com) serves Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties. There is a free shuttle from the level 1 to International Plaza, Tampa Bay's newest mall.
Taxis are available from Yellow Cab (tel: (813) 253 0121) and United Cab (tel: (813) 253 2424). Fares to central Tampa and the cruise port are limited to a maximum of US$25.
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Information kiosks are located throughout level 3 and airport information is also available from Travelers Aid (tel: (813) 870 8797) on the same level. White courtesy phones are situated on level 3 for passenger paging.
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I've heard a lot of good things about Glory to Rome, but I've heard many people classify it as extremely complex. I asked around at my FLGS and they said it was more complex than Race For The Galaxy and Puerto Rico, both of which my family and I have enjoyed. How bad is it really? I don't mind reading and explaining a 20 page rulebook as long as its well written, and its also fine if we don't really grasp some of the strategy until 7 or 8 plays. However, if it truly is much worse than that, I should probably think twice before buying it.
How prohibitive is Glory to Rome's complexity to new players? Approximately how long will it take to learn the rules and have a general conception of the strategy? As an aside, how well does it play well with 2 players?