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A lot of people are either on the side of first person or the side of third person. But what are the advantages and disadvantages of writing in first person for fiction?
First person makes it easy to show a character's motivations, and using it with an unreliable narrator can add a nice twist of ambiguity. With highly sympathetic narrators, it can forge a strong connection between reader and protagonist.
On the other hand: (Most of this assumes the point point-of-view character is the protagonist, which is the option I've seen most often.) The reader can't witness any action that the protagonist doesn't. It's more challenging to describe the point-of-view character (both physically and otherwise). The reader doesn't get the benefit of multiple perspectives on the same events. It tends to distance the reader a bit from the other characters.
"Disadvantages" might not be the best word, because some or all of them can be advantages in certain types of stories. For instance, suspense might hinge almost entirely on the reader's only being privy to a limited view of events.
I would say that, generally, first-person works best with a point-of-view character who is either extremely identifiable (reader feels at home in the character's head) or not identifiable at all (reader needs an especially deep insight into the character's motivations).
One's disadvantages are another's advantages.
I would like to highlight an advantage that first person gives when writing a text: the emotional edge in describing lists, enumerations and so on. Things are rendered as integral to your personal memories: you could easily build a crescendo where otherwise a detached description would induce other emotions in the reader.
It is a common trick for rhetorical speeches (i.e. preachers, politicians), but some splendid examples belong fully to literature. One example in contemporary literature is 'Je me Souviens' by Georges Perec
I think one of the benefits of writing in the first person is that you are never wrong. In that, all the information that spills into the story is through one person's vision, his brain. So he may interpret events in a twisted way, or may get his facts wrong, or choose not to address backgrounds or facts at all. It's his choice. In other words the advantage and disadvantage is that your story is told through one person's perspective. The disadvantage is that you will somehow need to convey the objective truth to the reader in some way. Perhaps in the conversations your character has with others. It is extremely personal and I like it.
Immediacy and Connection with the Protagonist. Because the audience is given the experience of being "inside" the protagonist's head, there is a direct link between protagonist and the audience. Emotions don't become filtered through the distance of a third person narrator, instead the emotions happen in the moment, as the protagonist feels them. As the protagonist reveals his/her thoughts and fears to the reader an intimacy and connection is created. It is as if the protagonist is confiding in the reader, telling them their innermost secrets like they would a best friend. A lot of young adult novels use first person for this exact reason, it creates an immediate connection with the reader.
The biggest difference between first person and third person limited is that with the former you are directly telling the story in the voice of the character. If you want to have a character tell a story themselves, with all that implies (i.e. you're fully able to make the narrator unreliable here), then first person is really great for that. There are quite a few hardboiled detective novels which use this; in fact, it's almost a cliche in that genre.
On the other hand, don't completely discount third person limited, which still allows you to tell the story from the POV of one character but which also allows you as the author to have just a little bit of distance. So for instance if you want to tell the story from the POV of a 4 year old girl, you'd probably want to end up using third person limited or even a little more than limited so that the audience can understand her (kids that age, while fascinating, are horrible storytellers because they don't understand which details to include and which to leave out). Basically, it allows you to kind of straddle the line between actually making up a separate, coherent voice for a character and still being able to tell a (relatively) neutral narrative.
The other deal with first person which can be really off-putting for some readers comes from the idea that few if any people really think they are villains. Imagine the Game of Thrones series told from the POV of... well, most of the characters, really. You'd have people constantly making excuses and justifications for some really nasty actions, you'd probably confuse the audience a little bit with their insistence that the "other side" is just as two-faced and mean spirited (when that's not always clear), and why should they ever be assumed to be reliable when they lie, cheat, and steal everyone else on a daily basis? That's exactly the kind of character a reader is liable to not want to feel too close to.
Of course, if you're looking for something cool and experimental, all the things I just listed as "flaws" are rather the opposite of that. Consider Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting (and if you've just seen the movie, I highly recommend the book). The dialect used is strange and the narrator is not always the nicest of people, but that's also kind of why it works. Faulkner had a real penchant for writing stream of consciousness style writing that really got into the heads of his characters. See also: pretty much all of Chuck Pahlianuk's novels, especially Fight Club ("I am Jack's whiskey-soaked liver"). See also: the brogue and not-always-completely-reliable narrators employed by Irish author Roddy Doyle in books like The Commitments or The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. First person can be a joy to read but it can also be one of the hardest things to get right.
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Is there an Office365 plan that allows me to upload a Microsoft Access database into Access Services? I cannot see that any of the plans support this, but I'd be surprised there truly is not a way.
Yes it is. See the Office 365 page on Access Services and this MSDN Lab. I am pretty sure they are available in the E3 and E4 plans. A quote from the Office 365 Page:
Access Services is supported in E3 and E4 - as well as the P1 plan. In other words, yes.
I do not believe it is available yet, however I believe I saw it on a roadmap in some presentation somewhere. They are working on moving all of the same features into the online version and have made a lot of great improvements since it was released. I would expect it would happen this year. If I could log into my 365 account from my current location I could confirm that it does not work right now. Ill give it a shot this evening and let you know. I am using the E3 Plan.


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The Brauer-Nesbitt theorem (well, one of them) says that if $k$ is a field and I have two semisimple representations (on finite-dimensional $k$-vector spaces) $r_1$ and $r_2$ of a $k$-algebra $A$ with the property that the char polys of $r_1(a)$ and $r_2(a)$ coincide for all $a\in A$, then the representations are isomorphic.
Is it the case that if the char poly of $r_1(a)$ divides the char poly of $r_2(a)$ for all $a\in A$, then the smaller representation is a direct summand of the bigger?
[I came up against this recently, but fortunately in the case I was considering $A$ was commutative and $k$ had characteristic zero, and I convinced myself it was surely fine in this case (base change up to an alg closure of $k$ and convince yourself that the semisimple representations kill all the nilpotent elements, so WLOG $A$ is etale and now do it by hand). If $k$ is finite then I'm still not sure which way to bet. If $A$ were a group ring and we knew only that one char poly divided the other for all elements of the group, then my gut feeling is that this isn't enough in characteristic $p$ but maybe I'm wrong. If $k$ has characteristic zero then I am betting on yes but then again I'm no algebraist.]


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I'm using FBConnect sdk in order to publish posts to a user's profile via my application. I'm having a number of problems with this:
When the relevant code runs for the first time on the device, the user is re-directed, as wanted, to the facebook app/website, which asks him to authorize it. if the user authorizes it, it returns back to the application, which pops a "Connect to facebook" view controller which asks the user to log in. this is weird, as the user is already logged in, otherwise how could he authorize the app? but I guess this may be ok, as he hadn't logged in through the app yet. after he logs in, it does nothing. only the second time the code gets run, after he authorized the app, the user gets the posting dialog.
If the user hadn't authorized the app, when it comes back to my app after the authorization dialog, it asks the user to login ( just as if he authorized ), and does nothing after he had logged in. only the second time the code gets ran, the authorization dialog opens, with the optinos "Authorize" & "Leave App", instead of "Authorize" & "Don't authorize" / "Allow" & "Don't Allow".
In addition, if the user has deleted his authorization via his account's settings on facebook, instead of just asking him to re-authorize it, a facebook dialog pops ( instead of the post/authorization dialog ), saying: "An error occurred. Please try again later." Trying later doesn't help. it will pop always, even if u restart the app. the only way to make it go away is to re-install the app, which will cause it to re-pop the authoriziation dialog.
So here's what I want to achieve:
- After the user authorizes the app, he wouldn't have to log in again.
- After the user authorizes the app, the posting dialog will pop immedietly, without him having to re-run the code ( which is triggered, btw, with a button ).
- If the user un-authorizes the app, he will be prompted again with the authorization dialog, instead of the error dialog
- If he refused the authorization, I will call a function that displays an error/etc.
Here's the relevant code:
- (void)shareOnFacebook
Facebook *facebook = [[Facebook alloc] initWithAppId:myAppID];
[(MyAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] setFacebook:facebook];
[facebook release];
facebook = [(MyAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] facebook];
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
if ([defaults objectForKey:@"FBAccessTokenKey"] && [defaults objectForKey:@"FBExpirationDateKey"]) {
facebook.accessToken = [defaults objectForKey:@"FBAccessTokenKey"];
facebook.expirationDate = [defaults objectForKey:@"FBExpirationDateKey"];
if (![facebook isSessionValid]) {
[facebook authorize:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"publish_stream", nil] delegate:(MyAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]];
NSMutableDictionary *dictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
//Giving the dictionary some parameters for posting defaults
[facebook dialog:@"feed" andParams:dictionary andDelegate:self]; //Note: we have 2 different delegates! appDelegate for connections & url switching, and self for dialogs
@interface MyAppDelegate : NSObject <UIApplicationDelegate, FBSessionDelegate, FBDialogDelegate>
Facebook *facebook; // kept for facebook sharing, accessed only from MyViewController although delegate methods are handeled in here
@property (nonatomic, retain) Facebook *facebook;
- (void)fbDidLogin
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
[defaults setObject:[facebook accessToken] forKey:@"FBAccessTokenKey"];
[defaults setObject:[facebook expirationDate] forKey:@"FBExpirationDateKey"];
[defaults synchronize];
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url
return [self.facebook handleOpenURL:url];
Is it possible that I'm missing a couple of delegate functions on MyViewController? Because I see for some reason I've marked it as implementing the FBDialogDelegate protocol, although he doesn't implement any function from there.
I'd be really glad if you guys would help me, as this is extremely frustrating for me. I couldn't find nothing about this on the internet, and I feel like im drowning in here.
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People usually say "it is just a myth" to indicate they either don't believe it to be true, or that they are sure it is not true. However, this is inaccurate, as myths can be true or not true, or anything in between. "Myth" only means that there is no (or just anecdotal) evidence.
How can I accurately say that something is a myth and it's false.
Edit: I edited "not true" to "false". Myths are not binary. One answer provided a definition, in the sense of something which is believed to be true but it's not. However, not true and false are not necessarily the same. To not be able to prove something to be true is not the same as proving it to be false.
What I'm specifically looking for is to express that
A) Something it a myth
B) It has been (or can be) decisively proven to be false.
The importance is to accentuate part B. To answer this, do you really require a long list of examples where a myth is ambiguous, some believe it to be true, others don't believe it but no one can decisively prove anything?


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Posted 01 August 2006 - 02:23 PM
Posted 01 August 2006 - 09:41 PM
I do think the Company's ability to dance Balanchine well is a gauge. In the late 90's, I saw a stunner of a Liebeslieder Walzer with Julia Diana and Evelyn Berman, and over the years, a few wonderful Stravinsky Violin Concertos, as well as superb relatively recent performances of 4T's. I was less enthralled with the recent Apollos than most. I don't think they do a good job with Who Cares?, but, then again, I hadn't seen very many good performances of the ballet by NYCB in the early 90's, and I can't remember any outside the company, including Durante's guest turn in the 1993 Balanchine Celebration.
ETA: There must be something in the water in San Francisco, with choreographers Possokhov, Adam, Christopher Stowell, and Paul Gibson all coming out of the SFB dancers ranks.
Forgive me as this is my first post. I am an SFB subscriber and see all 8 programs - sometimes twice - each season. Thank you everyone for all the posts about the Lincoln Center engagement - I wish I could have gone. But I just had to reply to this post - is Evelyn Berman a dancer I don't recall??? I'm sure you must be referring to either Evelyn Cisneros or Joanna Berman :grinning-smiley-001:
Helene - I'm glad that I'm not the only one who wasn't as thrilled with Apollo. In its premiere season, my ballet friend and I did not like it. When it was revived this year, it was the first performance on the program and we had a drink at the bar instead!!! Although I must admit I would have been curious to see Tiit Helimets perform the role.
Posted 01 August 2006 - 09:47 PM
Welcome to Ballet Talk, sf_herminator!
Forgive me as this is my first post. I am an SFB subscriber and see all 8 programs - sometimes twice - each season. Thank you everyone for all the posts about the Lincoln Center engagement - I wish I could have gone. But I just had to reply to this post - is Evelyn Berman a dancer I don't recall??? I'm sure you must be referring to either Evelyn Cisneros or Joanna Berman :grinning-smiley-001:
I did mean Joanna Berman. Thank you for pointing this out -- I always seem to combine these two, who were very different dancers.
Posted 02 August 2006 - 09:35 PM
"San Francisco Ballet strikes me as deeply virtuous, and I cant wait to see it again. Even so, it lacks, for me, a crucial element of great dancing: large-scale personal expressivity. Like most companies, it reflects the characteristics of its leader. Tomasson was an immaculate classicistelegant, tasteful, contained, never vulgar, always correct and frequently charming; thats what his company is like, too (several of the men actually look like him). But he never fully absorbed Balanchines insistence on dancing full-out: His movement was always measured, his presence small-scale. Peter Martins was a cool, smooth dancer, Edward Villella was explosive and full of feeling, and their companies reflect their qualities. How could it be otherwise? Splendid as Tomassons San Francisco is, I cant help wanting moredancers not only superbly trained, hard-working and personable, but dancers who thrill."
PS: Thanks, Kathleen, for the real difference between SFB & NYCB ballerinas
Posted 03 August 2006 - 04:20 AM
On Wed. night, I thought Yuan Tan very impressive. Lovely feet, beautiful beautiful line, deep positions, and dramatically alive.
Act II of the Ballet is the best. Morris had an original idea there and worked in his own idiom and Yuan Tan and Possokhov were most interesting. The final tableau was quite uplifting.
As for the rest: Morris is not a ballet choreographer of great skill by training or experience. He is a great choreographer in his own material but ballet isn't his metier. His ballet here, the enchainements and staging is rudimentary and thin and at times amateurish. A big mistake was to cut the stage to such shallow depth. The processionals in Act III had no punch. The material for the fauns and satyrs at the opening, likewise. There were few variations so no comment on that. But the pas in Act III was student level with a few pyrotechnical tricks thrown in. What I thought of the Gay Svengali Eros I can't say.
This will and has sold tickets because it's Morris doing Sylvia. It should not have been done. Do Act II as a short piece.
I thought Yuan Yuan Tan was best in contempory pieces. Her line is beautiful, but she has no expresssion. Can anyone tell me why Mark Morris made every guy look gay??? I was sooo disappointed in this particular version of Sylvia. I happen to love the original. I know that quite a few people in the audience near me left after the second act. These were both people who had seen the original and those that have never seen the ballet. Mr. Morris' version was a disappointment for me. I love him and adored Plate' . But this seemed a bit tired, perhaps because this was not his idea to. I heard he was commissioned to create a new version. Maybe that is why his vision is stale.
Posted 03 August 2006 - 04:52 PM
I happen to love the original
The original ??
Posted 03 August 2006 - 06:55 PM
Posted 05 August 2006 - 08:05 PM
I've found SFB exactly that way: measured, calculating, precise and polite. I grew up in Saratoga watching NYCB and even as an adolescent found their dancing expansive and demanding to watch. Mr B (as paraphrased by a friend in the company) compared Russians to other dancers in the way they sneeze: "Russians sneeze big and loud, letting it all out. Others sneeze small and polite. We want to dance like Russians sneeze."
I always liked that image of dancing like a healthy, big sneeze: organic, cleansing, unembarassed. SFB, by way of Mr. T's coaching, seems to opt for the more restrained and measured performance: polite a'choos of restrained dancing. If I see Yuan Yuan or Nutnaree on their backs slowly unfolding their legs in one more blue-lighted adagio....
Maybe it's just me, but I really like dancing like skiing: always a little bit out of control. Give me a dancer on two feet taking risks with the music, conductor and audience in tow!
Posted 06 August 2006 - 09:10 AM
Posted 09 August 2006 - 09:21 AM
BTW it was very interesting to hear the audience twitter when the fire curtain slammed down in Artefact. I felt like I was at the premiere of Rite of Spring! I know, I know, it's a gimmick....but I was unexpectely moved to find myself suddenly in a dark room, listening to Bach.
Posted 09 August 2006 - 10:35 AM
The audience did laugh at the fire curtain on Sat. night, but not on Sun. matinee. I think it was a flaw in the idea, not the audience; I like Artifact (see above a few posts - it gave me a lot of nostalgia for when Forsythe was going to be It) but find that after the third time the fire curtain shtick is obvious and doesn't do what it was intended to.
I don't speak for Every Balletomane on Earth, but I felt Forsythe has little allegiance to ballet despite works like Artifact. He hasn't done anything related to ballet as far as I know since '99 - and even before then his interest was waning and at its height only interested in a limited aspect of ballet - slash and burn. There's way more to ballet than there is to Forsythe, and that's why my interest in him is qualified.
Posted 14 August 2006 - 10:30 PM
DanceViewTimes has published six diverse and well-written (as usual) reviews of SFB at Lincoln Center; the first five, by Susan Reiter, Leigh Witchel, Mary Cargill, and Lisa Rinehart are here:
The latest is Nancy Dalva's "Letter from New York."
It's a thoughtful, funny love letter to a dance company:
Robert Greskovic's appreciative review of Mark Morris's Sylvia appeared in the Wall Street Journal on August 10. The full review is only available to subscribers to the Wall Street Journal:
Nonsubscribers can download it for $4.95 after 8/18, possibly via this link:
PS: SFB is back in San Francisco and looked good yesterday during its free summer outdoor performance at Stern Grove. The impression I get is that the New York trip made them more determined than ever to be themselves. The home-town crowd gave them a very warm welcome.
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LOS ANGELES - "Grown Ups 2" is making the most noise at this year's Golden Raspberry Awards.
The silly comedy sequel about four childhood friends starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade led the Razzie lineup Tuesday with eight nominations, including worst picture, sequel, ensemble, screenplay, lead actor for Sandler, supporting actor for Taylor Lautner, supporting actress for Salma Hayek and director for Dennis Dugan.
Sandler is no a stranger to the Razzies, which launched in 1980 as a spoof of Hollywood's awards season. He won the worst actor trophy last year for the man-child comedy "That's My Boy," and his 2011 cross-dressing comedy "Jack and Jill" made Razzie history the year before with a record 10 awards, with Sandler winning both the worst actor and actress prizes.
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"After Earth," ''A Madea Christmas" and "Movie 43" are tied with six nods each. In addition to worst picture, screenplay and ensemble nominations, they're also in worst actor, actress and supporting actor slots for Will and Jaden Smith of "After Earth," Perry and Larry the Cable Guy of "A Madea Christmas," and Berry and Naomi Watts of "Movie 43."
The Razzies announcement comes ahead of Thursday's Oscar nominations. Winners for the 34th annual Razzies will be announced March 1, the night before the 86th annual Academy Awards. While far less star-studded than other award shows, past winners like Berry and Sandra Bullock have sometimes shown up in person to claim their gold spray-painted prizes.
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While I have a nautilus window open I can do Ctrl+Shift+N to create a new folder in the current directory. However there is no default keyboard shortcut for creating a new document. How would I create one?
First, open gconf-editor and set
Second, open a terminal and type:
Now, open the file menu, hover the mouse over Create Document > Empty File and press your desired shortcut (Ctrl-Alt-N seems like a decent choice, or you can reassign Ctrl-N). You should see the accelerator hint change in the menu.
Finally, relaunch nautilus without the UBUNTU_MENUPROXY variable to get your unity menus back with the new shortcut.
Edit: The solution for newer versions is nearly the same , except you need to use dconf-editor instead of gconf-editor. I had to install dconf-editor, comes with the dconf-tools package. Also, the
So, once you've got dconf-editor, run it.
Open terminal:
go to
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The residents of west Ventura are one step closer to building the park of their dreams.The site on the corner of North Ventura Avenue and Kellogg Street was once the home to an industrial shop and now sits vacant, surrounded by a chain link fence. The 2.4-acre parcel of land was purchased in collaboration with the city of Ventura and the Trust for Public Land in 2012 and became the site for a proposed park.
After a meeting of the Westside Community Council (WCC) last week, plans to transform the parcel into what is temporarily known as Kellogg Park have begun to move forward and have entered the design phase.
The park will feature open spaces with trails for walking, a small playground for children and a stage for hosting art-in-the-park events, plays and other activities. Open space in the west Ventura community is a rare commodity; currently there are no parks within walking distance for the residents of the neighborhood save for West Park, which houses the neighborhood's only community center.
Tori Kjer, program manager for the trust, says that communities on the west side of Ventura have wanted a park for a long time.
"The community has done a lot to raise awareness and advocate for themselves," said Kjer. "We've also been really impressed by how the city responded as well. It's the right park, the right place and the right time."
The trust is a national nonprofit organization specializing in creating parks for neighborhoods in which space may not be available. The trust's goal is for these neighborhoods to have a park within 10 walking minutes of the residents.
Jackie Pearce, member of the Westside Community Council and organizer of rallies in support of the park, said that the project is much needed and is happy that the residents have had their voices heard.
"We need open green space; we're very green-space deprived," said Pearce.
With the park now in the design phase, the WCC will host several meetings to finalize the design. The first meeting will be held on Feb. 19 and the final on March 19, with the design review scheduled for April.
"Communities like the Westside of Ventura haven't historically had enough parks to meet the needs of people who live there," said Kjer, who will be in attendance at the upcoming design meetings. "People from all walks of life, community members are driving what their park looks like. We call it participatory design."
Barnes & Noble wins contract to run local college district bookstoresStudents looking for textbooks or school supplies at Moorpark, Oxnard or Ventura Colleges may be in for a surprise this March when the college bookstores will be branded with the familiar Barnes & Noble insignia.
The district board voted at a recent meeting to give control of the bookstores over to Barnes & Noble after a competitive process that saw three potential buyers, including Barnes & Noble, Bookstore Cooperative and Follett, pass three stages involving a written and in-person proposal. The bookstores, which have been operating with decreasing net revenue, had taken a dip in profits of close to $4 million since 2009.
Prior to 2014, the bookstores were operated by the individual schools, with funds coming directly out of individual general funds. According to Larry Kennedy, board trustee for the district, this was a non-profitable way to run the stores.
"Typically that money should have gone to the classes, counselors or student services," said Kennedy.
With Barnes & Noble, however, the privately run stores will not have to dip into the funds set aside for use within the classrooms.
With the contract, Barnes & Noble agrees to invest $300,000 into facilities for improvements to the infrastructure, and $160,000 for technological improvements, as well as donating $15,000 per year for scholarships.
Brian Fahnestock, vice chancellor of the district, says that there are many benefits to having Barnes & Noble operate the stores.
"We anticipate that Barnes & Noble will improve the service to the students in a number of ways over what we were able to achieve by running the bookstores ourselves," said Fahnestock. "The bookstore business is rapidly changing and we are hopeful that Barnes & Noble will keep pace with the changes and student expectations."
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Subtropical Storm Beryl Intermediate Advisory Number 4a
Nws National Hurricane Center Miami Fl
800 Pm Edt Sat May 26 2012
Hurricane Hunters Find That Beryl Is A Little Stronger...
Summary Of 800 Pm Edt...0000 Utc...Information
Location...31.1n 76.9w
About 220 Mi...350 Km Se Of Charleston South Carolina
About 290 Mi...465 Km E Of Jacksonville Florida
Maximum Sustained Winds...50 Mph...80 Km/H
Present Movement...Sw Or 235 Degrees At 6 Mph...9 Km/H
Minimum Central Pressure...998 Mb...29.47 Inches
Watches And Warnings
Changes With This Advisory...
Summary Of Watches And Warnings In Effect...
A Tropical Storm Warning Is In Effect For...
* Volusia/Brevard County Line Florida To Edisto Beach South Carolina
A Tropical Storm Watch Is In Effect For...
* North Of Edisto Beach To South Santee River South Carolina
For Storm Information Specific To Your Area...Including Possible
Inland Watches And Warnings...Please Monitor Products Issued By
Your Local National Weather Service Forecast Office.
Discussion And 48-Hour Outlook
At 800 Pm Edt...0000 Utc...The Center Of Subtropical Storm Beryl Was
Located Near Latitude 31.1 North...Longitude 76.9 West.
The Storm Is Moving Toward The Southwest Near 6 Mph...9 Km/H...And This General Motion Is Forecast To Continue Through Early Sunday.
A Turn Toward The West Is Expected Late Sunday.
On The Forecast Track...The Center Of Beryl Will Be Near The Coast Within The Warning Area By Late Sunday.
Reports From An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Indicate
That Maximum Sustained Winds Are Now Near 50 Mph...80 Km/H... With Higher Gusts.
Little Change In Strength Is Expected During The Next Day Or Two While The Center Remains Over Water.
Tropical-Storm-Force Winds Extend Outward Up To 90 Miles...145 Km
From The Center.
The Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Recently Reported A Minimum Central
Pressure Of 998 Mb...29.47 Inches.
Hazards Affecting Land
Wind...Tropical Storm Conditions Are Expected To Reach The Coast
Within The Warning Area From Northeastern Florida To South Carolina On Sunday.
Tropical Storm Conditions Are Possible In The Watch Area Along The Central South Carolina Coast Late Tonight Or On Sunday.
Storm Surge...The Combination Of A Storm Surge And The Tide Will
Cause Normally Dry Areas Near The Coast To Be Flooded By Rising
Waters. The Water Could Reach The Following Depths Above Ground If The Peak Surge Occurs At The Time Of High Tide...
Coastal Portions Of South Carolina...Georgia...And North Florida...
1 To 3 Ft
The Deepest Water Will Occur Along The Immediate Coast Near And To The North Of The Landfall Location...Where The Surge Will Be
Accompanied By Large Waves. Surge-Related Flooding Depends On The Relative Timing Of The Surge And The Tidal Cycle...And Can Vary
Greatly Over Short Distances.
Surf...Dangerous Surf Conditions Are Possible Along The Coast From
Northeastern Florida To North Carolina Over The Memorial Day
Rainfall...Beryl Is Expected To Produce Total Rain Accumulations Of
3 To 6 Inches Along The Southeastern Coast Of The United States
From Northern Florida Through Southeastern North Carolina.
Next Advisory
Next Complete Advisory...1100 Pm Edt.
Forecaster Beven/Kimberlain
Subtropical Storm Beryl Discussion Number 4
Nws National Hurricane Center Miami Fl
500 Pm Edt Sat May 26 2012
A Small Area Of Thunderstorms Has Recently Developed Near
The Center Of Beryl...But The Cyclone Has Otherwise Changed Little
Throughout The Day.
Satellite Classifications Still Support Maintaining The Initial Wind Speed At 40 Kt. An Air Force Reconnaissance Aircraft Has Just Begun Its Investigation Of The System...And Will Soon Provide A Better Assessment Of Its Intensity.
The Subtropical Storm Has Slowed Down This Afternoon...And The
Latest Initial Motion Estimate Is 225/4. A General Southwestward To
West-Southwestward Heading With Some Increase In Forward Speed Is Forecast Tonight And Early Sunday...Followed By A Turn To The West Late Sunday.
This Track Will Take The Center Of Beryl Inland Over Northeastern Florida Or Southeastern Georgia Sunday Night Or Early Monday.
After Landfall...An Approaching Deep-Layer Trough Is Expected To Cause Beryl To Slow Down And Then Sharply Recurve.
The Models Remain In Fair Agreement Through Landfall...But Disagree Considerably After Landfall.
The 12z Ecmwf Has Shifted A Little To The Left Of The Previous Run But Still Shows Recurvature Very Near The Southeastern United States Coastline.
The Gfs...Gfdl...And Hwrf Models Take Beryl A Couple Hundred Miles
Inland Before Recurvature.
The Official Forecast Remains Between The Gfs And Ecmwf Models And Is Very Similar To The Previous One Through The Landfall...And Then Slightly West Of It Thereafter.
Although Beryl Lies Over The Relatively Warm Gulf Stream Waters...Dry Air And The Overall Broad Structure Of Its Wind Field Should Limit Significant Strengthening Before Landfall. At The End Of The Forecast Period Beryl Will Be Over Cooler Waters And In A Strong Wind Shear Environment...And Is Expected To Lose Any Tropical Characteristics.
The Nhc Intensity Forecast Is Very Similar To The Previous Advisory And Closely Follows The Intensity Model Consensus.
Forecast Positions And Max Winds
Init 26/2100z 31.5n 76.6w 40 Kt 45 Mph
12h 27/0600z 30.9n 77.8w 40 Kt 45 Mph
24h 27/1800z 30.4n 79.6w 45 Kt 50 Mph
36h 28/0600z 30.4n 81.6w 40 Kt 45 Mph...Inland
48h 28/1800z 30.9n 82.4w 30 Kt 35 Mph...Inland
72h 29/1800z 31.5n 82.0w 30 Kt 35 Mph...Inland
96h 30/1800z 34.0n 77.5w 35 Kt 40 Mph...Over Water
120h 31/1800z 38.0n 70.0w 35 Kt 40 Mph...Post-Tropical
Forecaster Cangialosi/Franklin
Remarks by Oscar Fann WTVY-TV meteorologist
Subtle changes may be brewing in the forecast track of BERYL.
As you read in the discussion above from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) there are two camps of thought, and the NHC is leaning toward the idea of recurving BERYL earlier, which would diminish further even the relatively low rainfall we are forecasting in the WTVY-TV coverage area.
Still, there's a decent chance BERYL weakens and travels farther to the west to near Valdosta which would give us better rain chances and amounts - but still rather low rainfall amounts.
Again, from Sunday night into midweek as we stated in our previous updates, the farther east you go from Dothan, the better the rain chances (and the farther west from Dothan, lesser rain chances).
Even in our coverage area to the east (southwestern Ga. and parts of the Florida panhandle east of the Apalachicola River), rainfall amounts look to be limited to 1 to 2 inches from late Sunday into midweek.
Again, for now the severe weather potential from the effects of BERYL look to be very low, and winds would not be a concern (except those you might expect in isolated strong summer type thunderstorms).
No other changes...beach weather along the nearby coast for the holiday weekend looks to be unaffected, although more clouds with low end rain chances would be in the forecast for Monday - but the farther west you are up the coast toward Destin, Ft. Walton Beach, Navarre Beach, you should still find mostly sunny conditions.
More updates through the holiday weekend on this website as well as our regularly scheduled newscasts.


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The Inter coach refused to criticise the controversial forward for his conduct upon being substituted and hailed his side for getting their title bid back on trackAndrea Stramaccioni has played down Antonio Cassano's display of anger as he came off the field during the the 2-0 victory over Pescara on Saturday.
The former AC Milan man was substituted in the 68th minute to give January signing Tommaso Rocchi his debut, but appeared to be at odds with the decision as he trudged off the pitch.
But Stramaccioni claimed it was only a show of passion from the enigmatic striker, and clarified that there were no underlying tensions between the pair.
"He had every right to be disappointed as he could not take his chances. Perhaps he wanted to stay on the field for longer," he suggested after the match.
"That just shows how much this club means to him. Still, I have to keep the Coppa Italia on Tuesday in mind, as well as choose the right opportunity to hand Rocchi his debut."
Inter comfortably dispatched relegation-threatened Delfino, with goals from Rodrigo Palacio and Fredy Guarin, and Stramaccioni was delighted with the quality of the display.
"We have improved our performance level compared to recent showings," lauded the 37-year-old. "We are finding our balance, and this will be important in repeating our results from earlier this season."
The win lifts the club to third in Serie A, six points behind leaders Juventus.


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It seems that there are three basic ways to prove an inequality eg $x>0$.
- Show that x is a sum of squares.
- Use an entropy argument. (Entropy always increases)
- Convexity.
Are there other means?
Edit: I was looking for something fundamental. For instance Lagrange multipliers reduce to convexity. I have not read Steele's book, but is there a way to prove monotonicity that doesn't reduce to entropy? And what is the meaning of positivity?
Also, I would not consider the bootstraping method, normalization to change additive to multiplicative inequalities, and changing equalities to inequalities as methods to prove inequalities. These method only change the form of the inequality, replacing the original inequality by an (or a class of) equivalent ones. Further, the proof of the equivalence follows elementarily from the definition of real numbers.
As for proofs of fundamental theorem of algebra, the question again is, what do they reduce too? These arguments are high level concepts mainly involving arithmetic, topology or geometry, but what do they reduce to at the level of the inequality?
Further edit: Perhaps I was looking too narrowly at first. Thank you to all contributions for opening to my eyes to the myriad possibilities of proving and interpreting inequalities in other contexts!!


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In March 2012, Mississippi College contracted with Cenergistic, Inc. of Dallas, Texas, to implement an Energy Education Program on our Clinton, Jackson, and Flowood campuses. The purpose of the energy education program is to reduce energy consumption by heightening individual, departmental, and organizational awareness of the need to conserve our natural resources. Our Christian heritage encourages us to be good stewards of these gifts from God. The energy education program will focus on changing the behaviors of all faculty, staff, and students through an intensive educational program.
In May 2012, the administration of Mississippi College approved an energy conservation program and affirmed the implementation of a set of Energy Conservation and Building Management Guidelines.
In June 2012, Mississippi College employed an Energy Specialist to promote energy conservation by monitoring individual behaviors and institutional practices through routine energy audits of all facilities.
Mississippi College is committed to and responsible for a safe and healthy learning environment. By implementing the University's guidelines, every person is expected to become an "energy saver". Energy conservation is a team effort. All students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to become involved in the creation of a conservation culture. Below is a brief list of effective energy-saving practices for work and/or home:
- Turn off lights in unoccupied areas (classrooms, restrooms, work rooms, and offices)
- Turn off all computers ( as well as printer, monitors, and speakers) at night
- Sleep mode for computers when not in use during the day
- Turn off appliances not being used (TVs, radios, chargers, and fans)
- Close blinds and angle the slats upward when leaving at the end of the day
- Close windows and doors when HVAC equipment is operating
- Manage your thermostats (Cooling set point: 74 degrees / Heating set point: 68 degrees)


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then Fawkes just went "I don't think you should be deprived of this blah blah blah"
and I was on my couch going "Who cares about the moment, get in there NOW. I DID NOT LEVEL ALL THE WAY UP AND WORK MY A** OFF FOR THIS!"
oh yea, then he decided to go hangout at some library.


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Proof Lab surf shop, located in Mill Valley, CA, is hosting its first "Wizard's Cauldron Skate Contest" tomorrow from 10am to 5pm!
The contest will take place at their indoor facility — built by legendary Mark "The Wizard" Leski.
Skaters will compete in five-minute heats with the top 2 advancing to a 10-minute final. A $500 grand prize will go to the skater with the best line.
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I'm working with Sibelius 7 and even though I'm adding 8va lines at some parts of my score, when playing it back I get the same sound I should be getting if I didn't have them.
Any ideas why this could be happening?
I just tried it (version 7.1.3) and it played back an octave higher. I selected Notations, Lines, Octave Lines, 8va, then clicked on the note where it started. You can drag the bar out as far as you want the effect. After it's there, you can click on the 8va, then press control-shift-i to make sure it's set for playback.
If you still have trouble, there's a good Sibelius forum that could probably help:


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I had a small glitch in my NN5L order placed today. Bill made it right .... I'll just say I am a great fan of Bill & NN even before I receive my NN5L.
Customer service BETTER than it should be!
(now if Vista was as accommodating ..... NEVER UPGRADE FROM XP Pro)


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Wasatch Range (Central) > South Thunder Mountain > Climber's Log
South Thunder Mountain Climber's Log
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|Happy independence America
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2016
|Started in Alpine at the Lehi gate. Skirted up and around Lake Hardy. 6.4 miles to the top, in 3 hours 30 minutes. Coupled it with North Thunder.
|Posted Jul 4, 2016 11:25 pm
|Via Lake Hardy
Date Climbed: Oct 17, 2015
|Did as a two day with Brian T. Windy and rainy but worth it!
|Posted Oct 30, 2015 12:32 pm
|South Thunder Mountain
Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2015
|Began from the Schoolhouse Springs trailhead, through the First Hamongog, then to the North Mountain Trail and up the Lake Hardy Trail. Scrambled from the north side of Lake Hardy, then to the saddle and up South Thunder. The views up there are amazing.
Via Lake Hardy - 07/25/15
|Posted Jul 26, 2015 8:10 pm
|Hematoma Quad
Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2014
|One of the 4 peaks up Coalpit Gulch to North Thunder to Lone Peak and down Jacobs Ladder in a day!
|Posted Oct 11, 2014 11:37 am
|South Thunder
|Did it as part of the Beatout. Scrambling along Lightning Ridge was fun. Amazing cliffs down into Hogum Gulch! Awesome views and good to be on the last summit of the day!
|Posted Sep 20, 2014 12:03 pm
|Rocky Alps
Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2014
|Made the summit as part of the Beatout Hike with David and Kendrick. The views were among the best I've seen in the Wasatch, thanks in part to some cool, cloudy weather. See "Misty Mountains" trip report for details.
|Posted Jul 6, 2014 3:39 am
|David Mortensen
|South Thunder Mountain
Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2014
|I did the Beatout Route with Brandon and Kendrick. It was an incredibly scenic route. It was a long day but worth it. (Pfiefferhorn, Upwop, Chipman, South Thunder).
|Posted Jun 28, 2014 6:23 pm
|Matthew Van Horn
|eat lighning and crap thunder
Date Climbed: Sep 21, 2013
|Traverse from Lone Peak and Upper Bells
|Posted Sep 23, 2013 5:12 pm
|2nd time - From North Thunder This Time
Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2013
|Came over from North Thunder this time. That ridge has a couple tricky spots but we managed to make it with no major issues. Headed down to Alpine via schoolhouse springs for a Little Cottonwood to Alpine traverse. Long, slow day, but gorgeous up there!
Note: Although coming up from Alpine is long, I believe it is much easier than coming up from any of the Little Cottonwood routes.
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|From Alpine
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2013
|8/4/13 - WMC Summer Beatout Trip report
6/1/13 - Hike w/ WMC group. 5 hours up, 3+ down. Took a wrong turn the road walk on the way down and had to find a faint trail to get us back on the correct road. Trip report
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Date Climbed: May 24, 2013
|Fun climbing from the low-point of the ridge to where it turns north, then kind of a slog. Continued to North Thunder and down Hogum Creek, which is kind of backwards. Trip report.
|Posted May 24, 2013 7:34 pm
Date Climbed: May 11, 2013
|As part of WMC group (Sam & Glen) on The Beatout. Too warm for the snow - it was soft & unsupportable.
|Posted May 12, 2013 3:15 pm
|Really windy and cold (via Alpine)
Date Climbed: Nov 9, 2012
|Ran up from Alpine via Schoolhouse Springs with Craig. Very runnable most of the way up. We did detour down to Lake Hardy (pretty amazing), but should have stayed up and to the left about a 1/4 mile before the lake instead of dropping down to the lake. We were intending to go on to North Thunder but 50+ mph winds and cold freezing hand made it a death wish. I was really disappointed to not make it over to North Thunder but we had a BLAST bombing down the mountain on the way down.
|Posted Nov 24, 2012 11:45 pm
|Beatout Hike
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2012
|Very hazy due to wildfires so the views were limited but still good.
|Posted Aug 13, 2012 11:32 am
|S. Thunder Mountain
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2015
|8/2/2015- Via Coalpit Gulch to North Thunder and traverse to South Thunder. Descent in to Bells Canyon.
8/4/2013 Final peak on the Beatout route. Awesome route, great day.
5/11/2013 With the WMC as part of the Beatout.
10/7/2012 Via Bells Canyon with the Wastach Mountain Club. It is amazing the work the Forest Service has done on the trail from the meadow to Upper Bell Reservoir. No issue with route finding all the way to the upper reservoir.
9/3/2012 Via Bells Canyon
6/3/2012 As part of the Beatout Hike with the WMC.
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|Posted May 19, 2012 8:41 pm
|South Thunder
Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2011
|Climbed as part of the Beatout. Continued down into Bells Canyon.
|Posted Sep 30, 2011 12:19 am
Date Climbed: Jun 4, 2006
|Part of the Beatout. Great day with the WMC
09/14/2014 Another great day in the mountains with Miko and Nala. They had no problem with the scramble this time. Via Alpine.
10/09/2015: via Alpine
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|05/30/2010 via Beatout Route with WMC
10/16/2010 via Bells Canyon. As part of Hematoma Quad
05/28/2011 via Beatout Route with WMC
6/30/14 Devil's to South Thunder
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|Thunder thighs
Date Climbed: Oct 16, 2010
|10/16/2010 Traverse from Bighorn Peak with Joe and Jacob, then traverse to North Thunder
05/30/2010 Beatout with WMC. Gotta do Beatout every year.
01/09/2010 From Alpine with good-sized group
05/30/2009 Beatout with WMC group
8/1/2007 With Mtn_rnr and J. Anderson, traverse from North Thunder, hen traverse to Big Horn and Lone Peak
06/02/2007 Beatout with Ammon Hatch
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I tried it with Adventure. Went pretty well. It depends though. Even if you have a somewhat strange combination, if the direction is right as per the genre and the parameters (Fun, Creativity, Graphics and Sound) have high enough points, there are high chances that the combination will succeed.
I tried it couple of times but not sure right now.
Though i generally give audio-novels a go on weird genres. So time-travel/audio-novel works pretty well as i remember. ( like publishing H.G.Wells Time Machine :)
Other than that action and adventure should work too.
If you need some cheats; http://app.downloadatoz.com/tutorial,8289,game-dev-story-compelet-unlock-guide-and-hints.html looks good, giving some idea about the game mechanics, i never knew i can open so many differen genres till now :)


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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Is Christopher Hitchens In Hell?
The reason I bring this up is because of the gleeful tone of some of the Hitchens obituaries and commentary. Of course it is to be expected from irony challenged, petty crypto Stalinists such as Alexander Cockburn but it's more surprising when you encounter triumphalist bile from theologians. Islamic and Catholic apologists seem to be the most ecstatic about Hitchens's death I suppose because they suffered the most under Hitch's withering attacks. Jewish rabbis who have debated Hitchens (and mostly lost badly) have had praise for Hitch's humanism and intellect. Even the fundamentalist Protesant pastor Douglas Wilson (one of Hitch's better adversaries) wrote a thoughtful commentary on his dealings and debates with Hitch over the years. So what is the religious argument that Hitchens deserves to be in hell? From the doctrinaire Christian theologians it seems to be this: Hitchens refused to believe in a God or an afterlife that his intellect told him was completely bogus. That's it. That is sufficient reason for him to go to hell. For using his brain and following the dictates of logic and for not keeping quiet about it. Personally I'd be ashamed to make an argument like this, but I suppose that this is what passes for philosophy these days in the mighty religion of St Francis, St Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and Alasdair MacIntyre.
A more interesting assault on the non existence of the afterlife can be inferred from the work of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom. Or in the lovely late Isaac Asimov short story The Last Answer which has been uploaded here.
47 comments:
- Dana King said...
I was never a Hitchens fan, but the reaction of allegedly religious people reminds me that we don't see many of those WWJD tee shirts anymore. Few Christians are interested in what Jesus would do. That would involve a lot of not casting stones and forgiveness and loving sinners while hating since, all of which can be a lot of work and involve some self-examination.
My wife had a couple of tee shirts made for me several years ago, inscribed WWASD? (What Would Al Swearengen Do?) More people subscribe to that philosophy than the other. At least I'm honest about it.
- December 28, 2011 at 1:50 AM
- Martha said...
At first I was dismayed because this seems to be a particularly bad time to lose one of the few articulate voices of reason in America, but then it occurred to me that there would never be a good time to lose Hitch because there apparently always was and always will be an ample supply of idiocy here. I hope someone picks up his torch.
- December 28, 2011 at 2:05 AM
This has made you angry hasn't it? I don't read newspapers so I haven't had to read all this sort of crap. I expected there would be plenty of it to be had after Hitchens death. I think I said this before, that I don't understand why people think they have to agree with Hitchens or others to appreciate them. I don't agree with some of what you write, but that's what makes for an interesting and balanced life.
I have Asimov's Guide To Science books.Very good.
- December 28, 2011 at 4:17 AM
My neighbour told me that I am a Humunist. When I get a chance to look up what one of those is, ill get back to him on it.
- December 28, 2011 at 4:33 AM
- seana said...
My theory is that Hitchens is in hell, much to his surprise, and enjoying it immensely.
- December 28, 2011 at 5:45 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
Seana: though a God would a sense of humor would have sent Hitchens to Heaven.
Well, folks of Father Raymond J. De Souza's bent have license to fling hatred and vituperation to their hearts' desire because they can excuse themselves by pretending they wish a merciful judgment for their targets.
"I take a different view, and do sincerely pray for a merciful judgment," De Souza writes, the unnecessary "sincerely" revealing an almost endearing sense of doubt about what he writes even as he writes it. Why would he add that word? Why would he think it necessary that anyone would doubt his sincerity unless he doubts it himself. Or maybe he was just too clumsy a writer to cover up his lie.
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- December 28, 2011 at 5:57 AM
Is there a philosophy for someone in despair for whom religion and spirituality have been no help?
- December 28, 2011 at 6:04 AM
Ill go to Heaven for the weather, and hell for the company.
(The Streets)
- December 28, 2011 at 6:07 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
Here's a lesson to that hate-filled priest on the right way to assess a man's faults.
One other criticism of Hitchens the atheist that I've just read is that he never engaged great religious thinkers. Whether this is true or not, I don't know.
Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
- December 28, 2011 at 6:23 AM
- lil Gluckstern said...
Language, literature, and ideas-what a loss.
It could also be said of Asimov at a different level. I saw him many many years ago, and he was elfin, charming, and brilliant.
- December 28, 2011 at 6:31 AM
- Dan said...
Aahhhh d'Souza, the king of ad hominem attacks strikes again. I have read a fair bit of him as he is a great example of poor argument structure and he trumps himself here...good grief. He even argues that Hitch had a chance to redeem himself towards the end so he would NOT go to hell, which is illogical as he did not believe in it.
Anyway, like you I have trawled through a lot of post mortems regarding the man and statistically speaking, the more vituperative the attack, the less logical. The two seem to go hand in hand.
At work yesterday I was involved in a heated discussion about the existence of an afterlife and my protagonist asked me to prove why there was not one.
No, I replied, that is not my purpose here. You prove to me why I should believe in an afterlife, or in a 'god'. Using the tools of logic, reason and good argument, convince me beyond any reasonable doubt there is one, then I shall consider it.
Unfortunately they stormed off, telling me I was going to hell haha.
Martha wonders whether someone will pick up his torch. There are plenty of people out there who could, but they are big shoes to fill....
great post mate
- December 28, 2011 at 7:30 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
What drives me nuts about those T shirts is that the people wearing them are almost never doing what JWD. They're at wrestling matches and at NRA rallies not in the local homeless shelter.
- December 28, 2011 at 7:57 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I can't remember who said it but someone said "the only two things that are infinite are the universe and human stupidity."
- December 28, 2011 at 7:57 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Its definitely a good idea to read people that you completely disagree with. Esp if they're smart its a good mental work out.
- December 28, 2011 at 7:59 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
He's probably down at James Joyce's house inventing limericks.
- December 28, 2011 at 8:01 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
It was almost comically silly that piece. I could practically see him rubbing his hands and cackling with glee couldnt you?
- December 28, 2011 at 8:02 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Sounds like my average day.
- December 28, 2011 at 8:03 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I liked that piece but I do think some Americans are rather Puritanical about drinking. Knock smoking all you like but drinking? I remember going to Thanksgiving Dinner once and there was one bottle of wine for 8 people and we'd brought it. At a similar party/dinner in England or Ireland that would never have happened.
- December 28, 2011 at 8:07 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
He wrote way too much but when he was good he was very good. The Last Question is a classic short story. And The Last Answer isnt bad either.
I like Eric Asimov's drink columns for the Times.
- December 28, 2011 at 8:09 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I'd like to hear what those arguments could possibly be. Maybe they've seen ghosts or something who knows?
I switch off a bit when they start using as evidence a two thousand year old book thats basically a collection of short stories.
- December 28, 2011 at 8:11 AM
What amazes me is adult people who have lived in the world can have such irrational views on a man like Hitchens. It really makes them look ridiculous. That's why I think faith schools are a bad idea if we want logical people. Children as a right should have the room to develop their own ideas. I went to a couple of C of E schools and I don't remember them being very stringent on hell or anything very religious really. I choose not to be very logical, it makes me happier, but I don't hate people that are. Do you know what I'm saying?
- December 28, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Everyone says that America is God obsessed country buts its interesting that under the First Amendment religion is specifically prohibited from being taught in US schools whereas in the UK because of the 1944 Education Act religious education is compulsory in all UK schools.
- December 28, 2011 at 9:24 AM
Well I didn't know that. I can't believe it. How does it go from there to bumper stickers and anti abortion laws? In my last school 1 of 16, in RE the religious pupils could skip it and have a study break in the library, which always seemed unfair. Have you seen the Dawkins programme Faith Schools Menace? In the Rabbi Shmuley Boteach piece on Hitchens athough quite touching and balanced, he seems a bit harsh on Richard Dawkins, calling him a "hate filled atheist" ooooh get your Rabbi handbag out!
- December 28, 2011 at 9:40 AM
I was never really sure about Hitchens (all that lovey-dovey stuff about Lenin and Trotsky: God Is Not Great But Trotsky Is) but then he wrote that piece in Vanity Fair about how women aren't capable of being funny and then I realized he was a real man. Good stuff.
May he rest in peace.
- December 28, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
I think Father De Souza's piece was silly but hardly comically so. And no, I can't associate the word "glee" in any form with a man like that.
Leaving aside American attitudes toward drinking, I have some sympathy for criticism of loud-mouthed, obnoxious drunks, having run into one or two myself. But Pollitt's criticism was at least sympathetic. De Souza sees excessive drinking as a weakness, or a character flaw, or an affliction, and, entirely in character, kicks and mocks the man who suffers from it. That's as disgraceful a piece of writing as I've seen in a long while.
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- December 28, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Well of course if you dont like the lack of religion in US schools you can always sent your kid to a private or a parochial school and there are a LOT of those.
- December 28, 2011 at 10:22 PM
Its a ghastly piece. I'm glad they ran it though because it brought only shame and embarrassment to the writer and none at all to Hitchens.
I suppose if Hitchens had debated a Christian conservative who wass at least competent in moral philosophy they could have given him a run for his money. Alasdair MacIntyre or Charles Taylor or Michael Sandel would have given him a run for his money but no one else really did.
- December 28, 2011 at 10:26 PM
I dont know if its about the business or the biology but very few women comics can make me laugh. Certainly not peoples champion Tina Fey. But being honest very very few male so called comics can make me laugh either. Steven Wright. Norm MacDonald. I think thats about it.
- December 28, 2011 at 10:30 PM
Adrian, I've never heard of those comedians. Peter Kay, Micheal Macintyre, Dara O'Brien, Chris Rock? That's wher funny is at! This is explaining much to me.
- December 29, 2011 at 12:02 AM
I know of Dara and Chris Rock and although I liked their early stuff either they are getting less funny or I am getting more grumpy.
- December 29, 2011 at 12:19 AM
Probably both. Comedians get less funny at about the same rate as men get more grumpy.
- December 29, 2011 at 12:51 AM
- Gavin said...
The thing about logical arguments for/against the existence of God is that they really all go back to the same one or two.
Aquinas has the same arguments as Maimonides, whose arguments are the same as Judah haLevi, and so on, which is none of them like the idea of infinite regress. (Although it's interesting that haLevi and Maimonides also say that logic only takes you so far -- they both say that Aristotle's argument for eternity is equally valid, but that ultimately we fall back on tradition. IIRC Aquinas doesn't make that concession).
And the atheist argument is also pretty much a matter of denying the axioms of the theist argument.
- December 29, 2011 at 1:30 AM
I read C.Hitchens' obituary of E.Said.in Slate and didn't think it was an attack like Cockburn said it was. Parts of it were critical but it was also honest, thoughtful, and respectful. When Said died, no one really replaced him. Without ES and CH it's harder to be hopeful about an Israeli-Palestinian future.
How stupid was I to annoy a much smarter Catholic when I said I couldn't buy the Trinity concept because it didn't seem logical? She said the Trinity was a matter of faith and faith transcended logic. I thought maybe logic was all we had.
Adrian, did George Carlin ever make you laugh?
- December 29, 2011 at 5:46 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Thats not much comfort. Here's a Steven Wright joke:
I read the dictionary once. It turns out the zebra did it.
- December 29, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I think the problem with those first mover arguments is that modern cosmology has pretty much done away with the need for them. Yes the universe can come ex nihilo. In fact it did from the quantum soup.
I do think Dawkins and Hitchens could both accept that Asimov story as a possibility though. In fact Dawkins has said on more than one occasion that he believes God-like beings have almost certainly evolved in the universe. And God like beings could I suppose transmute the software component of your brain into another form. Although it would probably be easier for them to copy your brain state instead, and if they did that the you that is you would still die.
- December 29, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
You're right. In no way was it a hatchet job. There are a couple of Hitchens essays on Said in Arguably and they're both very thoughtful pieces. I couldn't agree less with Said but for Cockburn to say that Hitchens tossed Said on the pyre is way off base.
- December 29, 2011 at 8:26 AM
I've been re-reading God Is Not Great and am enjoying it more the second time through, though Hitch leans a little too heavily and too often on Ockham's Razor in some of his arguments, IMO. But that's a minor quibble about an otherwise brilliant book.
Brian O
- December 29, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Well it looks like we do now know where in fact Hitchens ended up:
- December 29, 2011 at 2:52 PM
- seana said...
Well, we know where his body ended up. As to what happened to his peculiar essence, it is a mystery.
Frankly, I think people who argue for and against the existence of God on logical vs. dogmatic grounds kind of deserve each other.
By the way, even I can make men laugh out loud. It isn't really all that hard.
- December 29, 2011 at 3:46 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
He's not really a philosopher. More of an outraged dude.
- December 29, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
I dont think its crazy to be in the middle on this one. Although I do think Pascal's wager is a bit shabby.
- December 29, 2011 at 9:14 PM
- Gavin said...
Even with the quantum soup, you can get a first mover question -- where did the space-time come from?
But all I'm really saying is that all the decent proofs for God's existence come down to the first mover question (I think Anselm's argument is silly, for example). But, in the end, it also begs the question of the existence of a first mover, so you end up with a back & forth about axioms.
I think one of the things I liked about Maimonides is that he's willing to concede that he can't really prove his axioms, and that at a certain point it comes down to faith.
It's sort of weird to throw around Medieval philosophers as the last word on the question, I guess, but later writings on the existence of God always seem to me to be going over the same ground that they covered.
- December 30, 2011 at 3:43 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Well the cheat there is that the probability wave function extends into the future and past, so the universe reaches into the nothing of the past and creates itself.
- December 30, 2011 at 9:36 AM
Well, at least he knows there's a God beyond a shadow of a doubt now. His questions have been answered. He's probably bending over for the devil as we speak. :(
- January 1, 2012 at 4:12 AM
- Sheiler said...
The problem with comedy is that once the joke's been told, it's hard to get back to that place of being pleasantly surprised. But I have to toss out the tv show Roseanne, which was hilarious for many years (before she let that ape husband of hers take co-production and co-writing credits). Lily Tomlin on stage and also performing work written by her partner, also a woman, in Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (staged production only; don't bother with the movie). Also her performance in All of Me.
Madeleine Kahn.
Even the stand up comedienne Jessica Kierson.
Hitchens was brilliant and talented. He was also a dumbass man.
I grow weary with the xx xy diatribes.
- January 3, 2012 at 1:59 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I'm with you on Roseanne. The early seasons of Roseanne were good but I can't follow you with Lily Tomlin. Always found her irritating.
Except and its a big except in the brilliant Flirting With Disaster.
- January 3, 2012 at 8:00 AM
Eddie Murphy!! Got to be one of the biggest bitches in comedy.
Bit late, sorry
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[Issue #102] Added ad2csv target to the build files. Executable is put into the dist/bin folder.
Removed no-deprecated and permissive flags, then changed deprecated headers with recommended.
Don't use -fpremissive with solaris studio.
Fix safe builds for contrib libraries.
Really fix solaris studio build.
Fix solaris studio build.
Issue 3: added contrib to the distribution and added included them in the admb scripts.
Added build files for contributed libraries.To use:$ make --directory=scripts/configure$ ./configure$ make$ make contrib


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October 10, 2011
Join Khaled Z. Amin, associate professor of public finance and administration at Cairo University, and affiliated scholar at the American University in Cairo, as he offers context and insights concerning "Egypt's Path to Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities" in the wake of the globally reverberating Arab Spring uprisings there.
Amin's lecture will be delivered Thursday, October 13, from 12:30 pm. to 1:30 p.m. at NYU Wagner (Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street at the southeast corner of Houston Street, 2nd Floor, New York, N.Y.). Seating is limited. To attend, fill out an RSVP form, as required.
The event is part of the Conflict, Security, and Development Series co-presented by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School, the Center for Global Affairs at NYU's School for Continuing and Professional Studies, NYU Master of Public Health Program, and the Office of International Programs at NYU Wagner, where Amin is currently a visiting scholar.
Each Thursday, the Conflict, Security, and Development Series examines new research, discusses creative policy approaches, and highlights recent analytical and practical innovations in responding to the challenges of security and development in the context of conflict and post-conflict situations.
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
School of Professional Studies, Events, Around the Square, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Type: Press Release
Press Contact: Robert Polner | (212) 998-2337