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The title says it all. How can I gauge how long my novel would be, if for example I've written 400 single-spaced pages of size 12 Times New Romans in Microsoft Word?
The standard way of calculating word count, aside from simply using the "word count" feature of your word processor, is to format your document in standard submission format and then multiply the number of pages by 250. This is the technique that was used back in the days before computers could instantaneously count the number of words in a document. It also has the incidental advantage of accounting for the actual length of your paragraphs on the page, so that long passages of dialogue (which consist of lots of short paragraphs) or lists are correctly adjusted for.
I cheated once: I pulled a book off my shelf and recreated it (in InDesign, but you might be able to do it in Word). Page size, margins (I used a ruler), font, type size, everything. Once I recreated what was on the page, I had a gauge for size. Then I dumped my current work into that, and I had a rough idea of how long my "novel" was.
It's almost impossible to be able to calculate this without knowing the final format the printed work will be in. There are a huge number of variables that will all have an impact on the length of the text -
The font chosen, the type size, the linefeed (font leading), the paragraph spacing, the hyphenation settings, whether the text is justified or unjustified, the kerning, the letter and word spacing, the text column width, the text column depth, the likely number of footnotes and so on.
Without really knowing these parameters any estimation will only be a very rough one which could be out by as much as 40-50%.
You can set a page size in Word. Don't use 8.5 x 11, use whatever the real, final page size will be. Also set the correct margins. If you're self-publishing and producing your own master, you can produce the PDF or whatever format directly from this and you'll know exactly what will be on every page. But even in general, it will at least give you a rough idea of how much fits on each page and how many pages the final book will be.
I did my second book with the intended final page size and margins in Word and I found that helpful to give me a feel for how long chapters would look, as well as to help me keep toward my targetted total length. In my case I figured that 250-300 pages was a good length for that particular book and I had it divided into five sections so I wanted at least roughly 50 pages each. So as I was working I had a feel for whether I was beeing too wordy or not wordy enough, whether I needed more material or had to trim, etc.
If you are using Word to create your manuscript, then you can use Word Count to find its length and work from there.
I would expect typical text (whatever that is) set in 12 point Times New Roman to contain approximately 600 words (4000 characters) per page. So a 400 page manuscript would be about 240,000 words.
That will be a big book! The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is around that size and it weighs in at 900 pages in paperback.
Have you considered whether your magnum opus would "work" in two volumes?
It also would depend on dialogue I think. I pulled out a book last night that had 4 novels in one. Page size was around 8x10. I looked up the first novel and the original paperback had 200 pages. In the version I had in the bigger format it was type set on 90 pages.
I went ahead and broke it down: Give or take, the average paperback has 250-350 words per page. Thats 35 lines at 10 words per line. Of course some of those lines may only have 3 or 4 words (for dialogue). So again we're at, say, 300 words. take your total word count and divide it by 300. that'll give you an idea, not accurate down to the letter but still a pretty good idea. I used James Pattersons "3rd degree" and Dean Koontz's "Odd Hours" for reference as they were closest to me atm.


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Men's Jordan To The Moon Tee Shirt
They always say shoot for the moon, because if you miss it you might land on a star. With the Jordan To The Moon tee shirt, you will undoubtedly be reminded of aiming for the moon, because with a screen-printed graphic that consists of a moon that has been transformed to look like a basketball, it is pretty clear that this tee shirt is no small step for style or motivation.
Besides its epic design, this tee shirt is as comfortable as it is stylish too. Its 100% cotton material is soft to the touch, and the interior taping around the crew neck allows for mobility without irritation so you can continue to be able to wear it all day and stay motivated.

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Augusta senior Zach Budda accomplished one of his major goals he had this season Friday at the El Dorado track and field meet.
Budda broke the school record in the high jump, setting the new mark at 6 feet, 8 inches. Budda had come close at the Orioles' home meet a couple weeks ago, but finally got it this time around.
The previous mark was set by S. Simon at 6'7" back in 1974.
"It's really exciting to see Zach break the record," coach Steve Reichardt said. "It's a goal he has been working hard to achieve."
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A coworker was wondering this today: "Why is it that in our industry 'production' means 'final, deliverable product'? You know, like if a movie is 'in production', it means they're currently filming it, not that that it's done and audiences are watching it."
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I think the term "production" has come from other industries like automotive or electronics, where once a component/product is ready to be used, it becomes part of producing/usage in something bigger like in a "production line" or "construction pipeline". In software the term "production environment" might hold parallel in the sense that people use this software deployed in production to do something that important etc.,
The term dates back to the time when the field was known as "Data Processing." Back then, users did not perform their own data entry. Instead, they filled out coding sheets that were punched onto decks of punch-cards by data entry personnel. These card decks were physically queued up for processing by a person known as the "production scheduler." All software ran as part of a batch job stream at that point in time. The production scheduler was responsible for prioritizing jobs. He/she produced a daily of list of jobs that were to be run by computer operations.
Computer operations was a 24x7x365 production environment when I first entered the field. Glass houses were not the typical "lights out" self-operating data centers that they are today. Instead, they were inhabited by computer operators who started jobs, fed card decks, hung 9-track tapes, mounted/dismounted disk packs, and pulled listings from high-speed impact printers. The nastiest job of all was running a bursting machine. A bursting machine removed carbon paper from multipart fanfold paper. Bursting carbon paper from multipart fanfold paper is the reason why one often sees computer operators wearing lab coats in old data center photographs.
S. Lott really hit the nail on the head but unfortunately only posted a comment.
The nuance that people seem to be missing here is that the word production does not refer to the state of the software itself but how the software is being used.
You might have the exact same build of the software, byte-for-byte, running in production and testing environments. The only difference between the two is what's being done with it. The version in production is being used to produce something - transactions, reports, bills, whatever.
A test or staging environment might "produce" those things too, but only in an abstract sense; since the output from those environments would simply be thrown away, what it's producing is more like a simulated product than an actual product.
Remember, most businesses are not development shops, and therefore the software is not the product. The software is a tool used to create that product. It is "in production" in the same sense that a power generator or assembly line is in production, i.e. because it has real output and that output is being sold and/or used to run the business.
In fact, "production" does not mean "final, deliverable product" at all. The correct term for a final deliverable is a release, or RTM. You never use the word "production" for shrinkwrap software.
I think it is an abbreviation of "production environment". For enterprise apps, there is development environment and production environment. The latter is where the real, live company processes are run. So when you deploy stuff there, it is live, and any mistake costs hard cash.
(There may also be test environment(s), and a staging environment, which is usually identical to the production, but not live, so one can perform user acceptance testing (UAT) of new features/releases on it before going live.)
I would guess that it goes back to when software was sold on disks. Those disks had to be 'produced', so the version of the software they were using was the 'production' version, copied from the 'production' server.
Since the core concepts of software are the same whether it's shrink-wrapped or hosted, you still have a 'production' server.
In many industries, the term production does in fact refer to work with a live, usable product. Assembly lines are also called "production lines" because even though the products are being built by workers, the designs are finalized. There is no more "development" being done. You could equate this back to movies as well -- before production there are a number of steps that have to occur first: writing the scripts, storyboarding, etc., etc.


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Whenever I try to run the
named service, I get the following even though my permissions and folder ownership are all fine:
[root@f13 ~]# service named start
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
zone localhost/IN: loading from master file /var/lib/named/localhost.zone failed: permission denied
zone localhost/IN: not loaded due to errors.
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zone 235.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading from master file /var/lib/named/mydb-for-192-168-235 failed: permission denied
zone 235.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: not loaded due to errors.
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zone example.org/IN: loading from master file /var/lib/named/mydb-for-example-dot-org failed: permission denied
zone example.org/IN: not loaded due to errors.
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[root@f13 ~]# ls -lh /var/lib/named/
total 12K
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 named named 191 May 27 09:13 localhost.zone
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We all know it's difficult to keep all your panniers organized during a long trip. These handy packing bags from Touratech help keep your panniers organized so you'll always know where your toothbrush or cooking utinsils are when un packing your motorcycle for the night.
The Touratech Cube comes in three different sizes and multiple colors. Stack them and organize them however you want inside your panniers to keep you things organized. The vented top make sure your clothes stay fresh and everything can breath. The smaller bags are great for toiletries, tools, maps, or other small items, while the larger cubes are great for packing your clothes, camping, or cooking gear. The bright colors make it easy to identify which cube holds what.
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Look at the left figure. $x_1$ and $x_2$ are two vectors with the same length (norm). Then $x_1+x_2$ is along the bisector of the angle subtended by $x_1$ and $x_2$. But look at the upper right figure. When $x_1$ and $x_2$ are collinear and in reverse directions, $x_1+x_2=0$ and no longer represent the bisector of the angle (in this case 180 deg). The bisector should be perpendicular to $x_1$ and $x_2$. (The $x_1+x_2$ works well for the case shown in the lower right figure.)
Question: Is there a way to represent the bisector for all the three cases? I don't want to exclude the upper right case. Is it possibly helpful to introduce some infinity elements?


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In 2004, the Youngstown State baseball team finished the regular season with a 14-28 record.
In 2014, YSU went 12-36. Before entering the Horizon League tournament, it lost eight of its last 10 games.
In both years, the Penguins were down but not out.
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"We knew we had to make a great run," said Justin Banks, a member of the 2004 team. "We did."
Each season, each team rattled off four wins in the conference tournament to qualify for the NCAA tournament. This year, YSU earned wins over Valparaiso and Milwaukee and topped Wright State twice to earn a date in the baseball version of college sport's "big dance."
"They were just like us," Banks said. "Both teams were one of the last to make the tournament and we both caught fire at the end.
"They had a bad record, then boom. Everybody got hot, they put it all together and won the title. I'm proud of the guys for making school history."
On Friday, the Penguins had a date with Indiana at the Hoosiers' home field in Bloomington. They were 42-13 and champions of the Big 10. YSU entered the tournament with the worst record in the field.
The Hoosiers came away with a 10-2 victory.
"It's a Big 10 school, but they weren't anything too special," said Jeremy Banks, Justin's little brother. "YSU competed. Indiana just had more timely hitting and were able to get the victory."
The younger Banks, a 2012 Youngstown State graduate, played four years for the Penguins with a .324 career batting average. He made the six-hour trip to watch some of his former teammates play in front of 4,125 fans - the largest crowd to witness a YSU baseball game.
"It was a pretty cool experience, especially for the team," Banks said. "Getting the chance to play in front of a huge crowd, against arguably one of the better teams in the nation, in a night game under the lights - it's a once in a lifetime experience."
The moment made him think back to 2009 - his freshman year - when the Penguins opened the season playing against Georgia.
"It's a whole different environment there," he said. "They take their baseball pretty seriously in the south."
Jeremy went 65-154 as Penguin.
"Our record didn't match our talent," he said. "I don't know if we just couldn't click or something, but every time we went to the Horizon League tournament, we realized that the regular season was over. Our regular season record was out the window.
"We played decently well all four years. With the 2014 team, they got hot at the right time. The pitching came through - hats off to them. As a fan, it's hard to imagine. But I'm not surprised that they believed in themselves and the coaches pushed them to put out the run that they did."
His final season, was the first for new head coach Steve Gillespie. Jeremy was able to stay on a season after he graduated as an assistant coach with the new staff.
"It's a little bit of a different culture," Jeremy said. "They expect a lot out of the players. They're more hard-nosed, a little bit more-disciplined. Guys can't get away with goofing off too much. If you're not performing, you're not going to get a chance to play. You have to show these guys that you deserve to be on the team and out on the field."
Last year, Jeremy played for the Traverse City Beach Bums in the Frontier League. He recently accepted a job with a wealth management firm in Hermitage, Pa.
Justin remains in Steubenville as an assistant baseball coach for Big Red, under Fred Heatherington.
"As a player in high school I learned a lot from Coach Heatherington and the other coaches," Justin said. "They really prepared me for college ball. I got so much better at YSU, too. But I can't thank the guys here enough for helping me as much as they did."
He remains third on the Penguins' all-time hit list with 249 during his career form 2003-06. Justin's teammate on the 2004 NCAA team, Kendall Schlabach, holds the top spot with 265 career hits.
He also played with standout pitcher Justin Thomas. The Toledo native is currently in the Angels organization after stints with the Mariners, Red Sox, Pirates, Yankees and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in Japan.
"He was an absolute stud," Justin Banks said.
The 2004 NCAA berth was the first in program history. It took the Penguins to Austin, Texas where they faced the Longhorns (a 10-3) and TCU (a 12-8 loss).
"It was just awesome," Justin said. "The group of guys we had played together as a team. The experience was amazing in Texas. We were going up against No. 1 team in the country.
"The people down there were so genuine and nice to us. They love their baseball down there. They welcomed us with open arms and even though we lost, they were still cheering for us."
The following year, Justin helped YSU finish 29-27 - its last winning season.
On Saturday, Youngstown State defeated Indiana State, 5-2, for the first NCAA tournament victory in school history. Today, it faces Stanford in the double-elimination tournament. The Cardinal fell to Indiana, 5-4, on Saturday.


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I see that I can edit permalink information in wp-admin page > settings > permalinks. However, where is that information actually stored in the database?
In the
However, the true, ultimate control of url rewriting is controlled by the WP_Rewrite API which saves/caches its information in the
Also, when editing a page/post, you can change the "permalink" for that page/post (right below where you change the title). All that is doing is merely setting the
For all pages, it seems that the default rewrite rules are the following:
That list was obtained by me running this php code:
There does not seem to be any builtin way to edit routing for pages since the permalink structure only applies to posts.
More random information I'm discovering: if your permalink_structure is an empty string (which is the "default" option you can choose), then wordpress completely skips all rewriting -- I'm really not sure why that's the case, but it is.
Permalink information is stored in wp_options.
Table name :- $wpdb->prefix'options'
And search option name like 'permalink_structure' in option table.
In that row in a table u can view the permalink structure.
The actual information - e.g. the 'slug' for the page or post is stored in wp_posts under the post_name column. This is a slugified version of post_title normally, but can be overwritten on a page by page basis.
The full permalink is deconstructed based on what settings you have chosen in Settings -> Permalinks, but the actual slug is in post_name in wp_posts.


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Here the MD5 hash is being encrypted with the private key of the sender. But I read in a paper that private key is only used for signing and not encrypting. Is the image wrong or can private key also be used in the way that is shown in the image?
Here the MD5 hash is being encrypted with the private key of the sender. But I read in a paper that private key is only used for signing and not encrypting. Is the image wrong or can private key also be used in the way that is shown in the image?
Signing actually means encrypting the hash of the message with the private key, so yes it's correct. That means you decrypt the hash with the sender's public key, therefore you can be certain the sender wrote that message (provided that the hash you compute matches the one you decrypt).
"Encryption with the private key" is how the very first digital signature algorithm was initially described, in a hand waving way (this was RSA, back in 1977; the article also contains more useful mathematics). It turns out that this "explanation":
See PKCS#1 for how RSA should be used. In particular, see how private key and public key operations are not at all symmetrical, and cannot be swapped in such an off-hand manner.
What should be remembered is the following:
Encryption is typically described as changing a peice of data from something readable by anyone (cleartext) to something undecipherable (ciphertext). Then decryption is the reverse process. Any time an operation is performed, regardless of the purpose, these terms apply.
In the case of a signature, the purpose is integrity, but the same process holds true:
The message itself is later encrypted entirely with 3DES and transmitted, so privacy is provided by the the symmetric key.
On the other end: - the signature is removed from the message - the unintelligible ciphertext is rendered back into the original hash by the public key of the sender - the (now cleartext) hash is compared to a repeated hash of the message
In this case, the encryption is something that anyone can decrypt using the public key of the sender - so it doesn't guarantee a private transmission. But it's still encryption because the original data (the hash) cannot be interpreted without first decrypting the signature.
It gets confusing in asymetric cryptography, because "signing" and "encrypting" are two applications of public/private key pairs, but even in a signature the mathematical steps of encryption/decryption take place because cleartext gets turned into ciphertext in either case.


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For most of the past year, we've been posting JörÃḞgarÃḞ maps of the week here. These maps all come from the JörÃḞgarÃḞ campaign setting PDF books that we've been working on for the past 10 years. For those unfamiliar with us, our work is free, open gaming, open source material. The maps all are produced with Fractal Mapper 8 and can be downloaded in the native FM8 .fmp format, so that they can be modified to the user's heart's content.
This year, we'll be releasing several JörÃḞgarÃḞ books. The first of them, UrÃḞ's Heimskringla, was released today. The book, an Open Source Reference Document version and all of the FM8 maps from the book now are available for free download.
We aren't going to make any big announcements until after the GM's Guide and the Players Guide are released later this year. Until then, we'll post only on forums and mailing lists where we've announced the maps of the week. But now on to UrÃḞ's Heimskringla:
First a word of warning âḊ
Commercial publishers can't afford to do this, but being a non-profit operation, we can. This first book from the JörÃḞgarÃḞ campaign setting will not be of interest to all gamers or even all game masters. We hope that our subsequent JörÃḞgarÃḞ products will find an echo in many segments of the tabletop role-playing gaming community. This first volume, however, is something of a specialty book.
We members of the Vintyriâḃ Project Group set at 10 years ago to develop a new campaign setting that incorporated elements of several of the world's great mythologies and that made it possible for game masters to add those that we left out. That isn't any great trick in and of itself. However, we soon discovered that it's a difficult task if one wishes to create an RPG campaign setting that accommodates Odin and the other Ãsir deities of the Icelandic Eddas together with VÃĊinÃĊmöinen, LemminkÃĊinen and Ilmarinen from the Finnish Kalevala.
That was only a beginning. We wanted them to be rooted in the same world with King Arthur, Merlin and Co., and we wanted them, in turn, to coexist with the Irish TÃẃatha Dé Danaan, and we wanted the Sidhe to co-exist with the Slavic spirit worshippers. That wasn't the end of our desires. We also wanted this campaign setting to have space available where game masters can add their versions of any of the many other real world mythologies that we left out as well as new mythologies of their own invention. Above and beyond that, we wanted it all to make sense. That's part of the reason why it's taken us 10 years to release our first product.
In Bavaria, where the JörÃḞgarÃḞ campaign setting is being published, we call this kind of thing an egg-laying wooly milk pig (eierlegende Wollmilchsau). Fortunately, we think we've succeeded âḊ more or less. Fortunately, most of the people who tested this product and other products that still are standing in line waiting to be released say they agree. We hope you do too.
To create this rather complex RPG setting, we discovered years ago (eight years ago, to be exact) that we needed what one might call a base document âḊ a history that tells whence everything in the campaign setting came and why things in the campaign setting are as they are. UrÃḞ's Heimskringla is that base document. It's available to you now. But for many game masters who are interested in the JörÃḞgarÃḞ setting, it also is the least important book we'll release. Let's take a closer look at that thought.
What â if anything â can you do with this book?
As you might expect, there are many answers to that question, depending upon the kind of RPG campaign you run and/or prefer. Regardless of the answer that fits you and your campaign, this isn't the kind of book you're likely to use often during you gaming sessions. Think of it as a reference book with information that you might be able to use to bring color and depth into your campaign.
Some game masters absolutely hate official histories of campaign settings. If you belong in this category, the answer might be that you can't do anything at all with this book. Skip it. But please take a look at our forthcoming releases when they become available. They're the books that will have the meat-and-potatoes gaming material.
If official histories don't get your feathers up, we think you might be able to make use of the Heimskringla first and foremost when you're developing your own campaign material for the JörÃḞ, as our world is called. The book gives you a look at the official legends and lore that you can use to build your own themes. And, of course, the Heimskringla will give you a good idea of the nature and flavor of the JörÃḞ, as it will unfold in future JörÃḞgarÃḞ publications.
There also are those game masters who simply love fictional gaming world histories. If you're in that category, you can start reading! We hope you enjoy it!
Why is there an Open Source Reference Document?
We'll be releasing Open Source Reference Documents to accompany every JörÃḞgarÃḞ PDF book release. These reference documents should be useful both to game masters who are preparing material for their campaigns and to publishers who want to use our material in their publications, in the spirit of the Open Game License.
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Let's consider the following working scenario: I have some movies with audio in one language, and I have some audio recordings of the same films, but in French. I want to replace the original audio track with this alternative soundtrack.
Can you tell me how can I do that? Do you know any free software which can help me? I assume that it is a lot of work with fitting and synchronizing.
I wish to learn French language, and I was thinking it might be a good idea to watch the movies with French dialogues.


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Dress for a mess and join us for our monthly play time where we will have lots of hands-on activities that are just right for your little one. The art focus is "things that go!" Dress for a mess.
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BPM ADF Task forms. Checking whether the current user is in a BPM Swimlane
By Christopher Karl Chan on Sep 19, 2012
So this blog will focus on BPM Swimlane roles and users from a ADF context.
So we have an ADF Task Details Form and we are in the process of making it richer and dynamic in functionality. A common requirement could be to dynamically show different areas based on the user logged into the workspace. Perhaps even we want to know even what swim-lane role the user belongs to.
It is is a little bit harder to achieve then one thinks unless you know the trick.


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British Telecom's .NET Mobile SDK - Making it simple to code communication
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Meet Nigel Pepper and Robbie Clutton, software engineers working for British Telecom. They and team have built an excellent .NET SDK for mobile development (Conference call, SMS, Etc..). They provide a number of services that you can use in your mobile applications
to help you innovate.
The SDK is an exposure of 6 web services: Sms messaging, Conference calling, Voice calling (2 person telephone call), IM and presence, Profile/information store, and a 'white label' authentication service. It is still in beta but are Nigel, Robbie et al are working towards promoting the services and exposure to production.
They have a web site which contains the latest details and is lovingly maintained by Nigel, Robbie et al. Take a look at http://sdk.bt.com/
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Awsome Robbie and Nigel! Big congrats! Nice to see that incmoming SMS is becomming a part of the SDK. Keep up the good work, and good luck on the v1.0 release.
On the curtain shirts, it's an Hawaii shirt, the official "uniform" of the SDK team. They all weared them on the Beta launch at TechEd Europe in November.
Best regards,
Jonas Follesø
Team Norway (Imagine Cup)
Hey, great post (if I do say so myself).
Jonas, since you guys played with the SDK at the Accelerator, we've had another release with added features. We're expecting another release sometime in April, so keep watching http://sdk.bt.com
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Something that is spectactular.
That is spanktacular! Spank you very much.
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If something is spectacular and involves spanking it's spanktacular.
Lat night was spanktacular.
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An event so great, it rivals being spanked in a sexual way...
"We had a spanktacular time last night"
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An expression that describes something as spectacular but with a naughty twist.
That is a spanktacular shirt.
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Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?
Of course all of us are! I mean, with all of the who-knows-if-any of the coaching talk can be believed, we are really ready! And especially if you bleed Blue, it has been a summer dominated not by football talk but that by that fellow Coach Cal, he of the roundball fraternity. Cal has his own PR people who even dominate the airwaves and the social media.
But if Kentucky football coach Joker Phillips wanted to keep a low profile for himself and his Wildcats, he has scored big.
Now the time is near when the talking can end, thank goodness, and the pads can start cracking and popping.
Kentucky and Louisville will clash for just the 25th time at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. If you can't make it, you can watch it on ESPN.
Tickets? Sorry, but it's a sellout. And I'll mention this just one more time: UK sent back about half of its allotted 5,000 tickets and Cardinal fans gobbled them up.
Yes, that 25th is correct, The teams played each other in the early years from just before and after World War I. UofL couldn't keep up with the Wildcats and the series became dormant for 70 years from 1924 until 1994. It's true that UofL not only couldn't keep up with the Cats, but didn't score a point during the first six games between the two schools.
To tell the truth, it took constant media pressure, mainly from sports columnist Billy Reed of The Courier-Journal, and Govenor John Y. Bown Jr. to get the Cats and Cardinals on the same football field. It was even harder to get the teams on the same basketball floor, but we can save that for another day.
UofL is favored and is ranked just out of the top 25 in most polls, and Big East Conference coaches put the pressure on the Cardinals by picking Charlie Strong's team to win the Big East. It's a different story for Joker Phillips' Wildcats, who are picked last in the Southeastern Conference's East Division. And I'll say it one more time: Joker's job appears to be on shaky ground. But remember, he DID beat Tennessee last year.
While it seemingly took forever for Joker to name Maxwell Smith his starting quarterback, UofL had no such problem. Teddy Bridgewater is in control of the Cardinals' attack. Look for him to put the ball in the air a lot and look for high-jumping DeVante Parker to be on the receiving end of most of his passes. They promise to be an exciting pair.
TV Will Be Kind To UL, UK, WKU
Television will be kind this season to the football teams of Louisville, Kentucky and Western Kentucky, starting with Sunday's 3:30 p.m. clash at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium between UK and UofL on ESPN.
Western's Sept. 15 game at UK will be televised at 7 p.m. on ESPNU.
When North Carolina comes to Louisville Sept. 15 for its 3:30 p.m. game with the Cardinals it will be televised on ABC. That's the big network, not one of its ESPN outlets.
Other TV information:
EKU at Purdue, 3:30 p.m., BTN.
UofL at Southern Miss, 8 p.m., Sept. 29, CBSSN.
WKU at Troy, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 11, ESPNU.
Cincinnati at UofL, 8 p.m., Oct, 26, ESPN2.
Middle Tenn. at WKU, 9:15 p.m., Nov. 1, ESPNU.
UofL at Rutgers, 7:30 p.m., ESPN.
Other games will be added throughout the season and the networks will set the starting times.
Notre Dame's Sept. 1 game against Navy in Dublin, Ireland will be televised by CBS at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. That will be 2 p.m. EST in Dublin. Reportedly 35,000 Irish fans will fly to the "Old Country" to see the game.


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Although not site-specific, this monumental work was conceived to debut in New York and has
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Katharina Fritsch was born in Essen, Germany in 1956. She attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Though her work has been exhibited widely in Europe, this is the first major exhibition by Fritsch in America.
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Theology and Other Catholic Sports
Paul Griffiths' plenary address at the CTSA (the full text is now available here) has raised many productive questions. Meghan Clark has responded that theology is messier than Griffiths suggests. Cathy Kaveny just posted a thoughtful comment indicating that the main issue is the CTSA as more "open" and "free-wheeling" than the ACT.
These analyses are on to something, and I would love to engage them in more detail, but I fear that it becomes easy to fall into a dualism—the inclusive liberals over here, the exclusive conservatives over there—that misses the central points of Griffiths' talk. It is not primarily about tidiness versus messiness, nor about open discussion versus more narrow inquiry. It is an attempt to define more carefully what the enterprise of theology actually is, and thus delineate in more detail why there is contention over it.
Griffiths' primary contention in the address is that many members of the CTSA do not have an adequate understanding of what Catholic theology is. He is not saying that their work is not intellectually able, and even "beautiful" (a word he uses)…the question he poses is whether it is Catholic theology. Hence, his primary metaphor of arguments between proponents of cricket and proponents of baseball—or the problems with inviting cricket teams to take part in the World Series. It's not meant to be a point about cricket being worse than baseball…or better. The point is: cricket is one game, baseball is another. The implication: CTSA has people playing cricket and calling it baseball. Doing one thing (which is not theology), but calling it theology.
That the CTSA is playing a different sport is based on three further claims. The first is that any intellectual enterprise is "interesting" and productive in its intellectual engagements insofar as disagreements happen in the context of considerable shared agreements, both about the nature of the enterprise and about its findings. The second is that Catholic theology in particular is a science that necessarily acknowledges the authority of scripture and ecclesial magisterium as the shared foundation for its further "interpretations" and "speculations." The task of "discovery" means that there is intellectual work to be done in discerning what the authority actually says…but this is not a task of critique, except insofar as authority appears contradictory. (So, for example, at this year's ACT, a particular German Cardinal was the subject of quite significant critique!) The third claim is that Catholic theology in the absence of such decisive authority and shared agreement becomes "uninteresting" and even lacking in genuinely productive disagreements…because it really becomes a "labelling dispute" that can only be sorted out by (arbitrary) power and sanction. It is no longer primarily about intellect, but about boundary control. (The claim that such theology is "uninteresting" should be understood in this sense, I think. He means it becomes intellectually uninteresting, because it can no longer be an intellectual discourse open to critique and clarification. It is an exercise in exhortation and power.)
I would then distinguish two ways of responding to Griffiths. First, one could ask whether his claims about Catholic theology are correct. Second, in light of those claims, one could ask whether his descriptions of the CTSA and its members are correct. It is important to separate these two types of responses. One could accept the intellectual construction of the practice of Catholic theology that Griffiths offers, but question his belief that the CTSA is not engaged in this practice.
Griffiths uses the CTSA mission statement as indicative of what CTSA is about—a fair thing to do, but in practice, I am unsure that the mission statement makes much day-to-day difference in theological work. I would instead look at the actual meetings of the Society, which, I think, makes answering the latter question very complicated. It is complicated first by the fact that there are many, many different members of CTSA, with different training, in different eras. It is also complicated by something that Griffiths seems completely right about: a lack of precision, brought on to some extent by a tendency to depart from the role of theologian in favor of other roles—for example, the role of pastor, the role of political prophet, or even the role of a self-interested professional association protecting its turf. Let me be clear: none of these are necessarily bad roles. But they becomes jumbled together in ways that make the task of theological engagement and disagreement more difficult to identify clearly. If nothing else, Griffiths performs a service to the CTSA by encouraging the Society to gain greater clarity about what "game" it is playing.
These complications make it more difficult to know whether Griffiths is right about the specifically theological (in his definition) work done at the Society. Do papers rely on Scripture and tradition? Do they engage in interpretative disputes about what such and such belief might mean? Do theologians believe they are doing work in service of Christ and of the mission of Christ's Church?
It would not take long to find out that, yes, nearly all the work done at the society in some way could be characterized along Griffiths's lines as "Catholic theology." Whether one agrees or disagrees with the conclusions of Elizabeth Johnson or Margaret Farley, it would be difficult to claim that they are not engaging the tradition, doing skilled interpretation, and insistent in their conviction that they are serving the good of the Church.
So is Griffiths just plain wrong? Has he constructed a caricature? Not so fast. In his talk, he has an interesting comparison. He says:
A mujerista theologian might take as authoritative for her theological enterprise only the voices and experiences of Latinas, and thus not see or actively deny the need for doctrinal discovery of the kind I've sketched. A Thomist of the strict observance might think all that's necessary for doing theology is analysis and interpretation of what Thomas wrote. Each can recognize, with enough attention and care, what the other is doing; and each may think of what they are doing as properly and fully Catholic theology. (I doubt that either is.) But disagreements about whether and why what each does, theologically speaking, is to be called "Catholic" are likely to remain sterile and to be resolvedbe resolved, if ever they are,...by stipulation backed, where possible, by sanction.
Here Griffiths is at his most "interesting"—his sly critique of "Thomists of the strict observance" suggest that so-called theological conservatives can also be guilty of inadequate understandings of theology. (Presumably his criticism would extend to those who lack an appreciation for the complexity of both the tasks of discovery and of interpretation, as if Church teaching is simply "available" to anyone who reads the Catechism. I can say that the members of ACT by and large are not "Catechism conservatives" in this way, but spend considerable time and effort engaging and contesting the complexities of the theological tradition on particular questions.) Of course, such descriptions are likely to draw denials from those charged. Nevertheless, they can hit close to home. It is worth pressing them to understand how Griffiths's critique does apply to the CTSA.
First, his example makes clear that a key contested point is the role of experience as an authority in theological discourse. I would narrow this and state it even more precisely: the contested point is whether experience is used in ways that trump established authoritative teaching. No one disputes the role of experience in helping us understand Catholic theology. Further, few dispute the role that ecclesial authority has legitimately played in stamping out heterodox appeals to experiences, e.g., based on private mystical visions. Rather, the dispute seems to be over considered, prayerful "discovery" from one's experience and context that this or that Church teaching is inadequate. The classical scriptural appeal made here is to Peter's acceptance of the Holy Spirit being given to the Gentiles.
This leads to the second issue: Insofar as theologians becomes spokespersons, with some stature, for an individual's or a group's spiritual experiences, are they continuing to do theology, or has their role shifted into a kind of political/ecclesial advocacy? It is difficult but necessary to distinguish these two roles. Difficult, because following Christ is not centrally about doing theology! It is about loving God and neighbor, most especially those suffering and in need. So if those advocating for others' experiences are doing so as a consequence of their faith, it is tempting to commend them. The criticism here is not of the form "don't do that," but rather of the form "don't call that theology." Suddenly we are playing cricket, not baseball. The necessity of distinguishing these roles is important because of Griffiths' claim that the CTSA need more serious contestation and disagreement. Once theology veers into advocacy—whether liberal or conservative—the task of contestation and disagreement is made much harder. Thus, a key implication of this discussion is to distinguish the various roles—or "sports"—of pastoral leadership, political advocacy, and theological inquiry. They are not to be arranged on a better-worse continuum. They are evidently related in living out the Christian life. Yet they are different activities with different rules and ends.
The third issue here is intertwined: While the above points have been expressed in abstractions ("experience" or "church teaching"), the reality is that almost always these questions are about specifically defined issues. They do not call into question the entire Nicene Creed or the very existence of a hierarchical teaching authority. (Clearly, some people make these claims, but they are not at CTSA!) Rather, on a specific question, there is a claim that experience calls into question what appears to be magisterial Church teaching.
So, a simple example: How is the question of the ordination of women treated? At its best, it is treated as a key doctrinal question, in light of other doctrinal understandings about Christology, anthropology, as well as the interpretation of scriptural revelation. At its worst, it becomes a clearly politicized us-versus-them argument, which is "really" about patriarchal authority blithely running roughshod over the living experience of the Holy Spirit in the lives of women of faith. (Notice: as is nearly always the case, the move from theology to politicization can be made in the conservative direction, too—where it's really about "saving the Church" from "radical feminism.") When it is a politicized conversation about experiences and power blocs in the Catholic academic establishment, it's not really an open, free-wheeling debate. It's really a kind of muted brawl, a fight. But when it is a careful conversation about the tradition and developing ideas, disagreements can happen, and interpretations can improve.
Which mode is operative at the CTSA? I think the answer is: sometimes one, sometimes the other, and occasionally both. Griffiths's address encourages the Society first and foremost to try to distinguish the one activity from the other. However, he might also suggest that the theological task of "discovery" on this question would indicate that magisterial authority has already established a position, and so to depart from this position is, in effect, no longer to be playing baseball but instead cricket.
Is he right? One might pause and peruse Griffiths' recent, very positive review of Richard Rodriguez's book in First Things. Rodriguez, it might be noted, is not a Catholic theologian, nor does he present himself as such. But that he is a Catholic thinker Griffiths acknowledges effusively. Anyone worried that Griffiths is suggesting a narrow approach to the theological enterprise should consider this review. I would instead call it an approach that is careful and candid.
About the Author
David Cloutier is associate professor of theology at Mount St. Mary's University and editor of catholicmoraltheology.com. He is the author of The Vice of Luxury (2015), Walking God's Earth: The Environment and Christian Ethics (2014), and Love, Reason, and God's Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics (2008). In fall 2016, he is starting a position at the Catholic University of America.
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I disagree with the claim that
following Christ is not centrally about doing theology!
Don't we need to have some idea of what God is and what God wants of us, in other words, a theology, in order to follow Christ ?
And when we do follow Christ, isn't that encounter and experience of serving Christ in the world, a theological encounter which, in turn, provides the life experience which builds up our knowledge of God, our theology ?
God Bless
Dear Chris,
For a well-educated, American Catholic, pehaps theology seems essential, and in terms of *our* lives may even be so, as we need a physics to deal with our machines and a Constitution to circumscribe our political society.
But I don't know that Jesus offered anything much like our theologies to the fishermen. Aquinas - yes, certainly; Francis of Assisi - well, not so obviously (to me). Oh, we can tell a story looking backward, but living forward?
Mark L.
Amusing to observe the practitioners of "theology" struggling to define their art / craft / game / sport / hobby.
I like to say that theology is profitable but not essential. It is useful for knowing what it means to be a disciple of Christ and can aid in our development as disciples, but our understanding or lack thereof is not the primary factor of our salvation.
I don't want to downplay the importance of theology. A bad theology has the power to corrupt people into vicious demons, and a good theology can help us overcome our temptations. However, I don't want to overemphasize it. A theology-centric theology tends to be quite bad. It can lead to a focus on developing an increasingly sophisticated system to the exclusion of actually doing anything useful with it as well as a tendency to attack anything that doesn't fit nicely into the system.
"It is useful for knowing what it means to be a disciple of Christ and can aid in our development as disciples, but our understanding or lack thereof is not the primary factor of our salvation.
"I don't want to downplay the importance of theology. A bad theology has the power to corrupt people into vicious demons, and a good theology can help us overcome our temptations."
Ryan --
It seems from what you say here that theology is valuable because of what it can do for *you*. -- it's about *your* being a disciple and it can help *you* overcome temptations, and a bad theology can corrupt *you*. But that is a narrow view because theology isn't just about you or me and your or my issues, it's equally about *others* and their needs and aspirations. A theology which answers only my own questions is a very limited one, not sufficient for the whole Church. And theology must be for the *whole* Church.
True, we don't have an absolute right to be wrong, but we do have an absolute duty to seek and speak the truth, and we cannot do that by limiting our questions and opinions to our own. This means we need to be self-critical, and that alone requires that we listen to criticism by others of our own positions and that we learn truth from them as well.
No, it is not enough to tell ourselves that "The official Church has spoken, that's all I need to know". That is not enough because the official Church has been wrong too often. We need to be self-critical even about our own acceptance of the official magisterium -- sometimes we could be wrong. That doesn't mean that we have to start off thinking the magisterium is wrong. Far from it -- we mustn't disagree with it unless there is persuasive reason to think that somebody in Rome got something wrong somehow. The faith is what the faithful believe -- the sensus fidelum. That includes especially the official theologians -- the popes and other bishops. But they too must be guuided in their judgments by the beliefs of the universal Church. (There's that word "univeral" again.)
This is why it's important for groups dedicated to *Catholic* theology to consider questions and issues of interests to *all* Catholics -- and non-Catholics besides. That's what "Catholic* means. The official Church finds the truth when and only when it considers what the whole Church believes and has believed. Just as the Church is said to be a "universal" one in its membership it thereby must be universal in its interests and goals, and this means getting into issues one might not be interested in.
In other words, to be a Catholic theologian means to be broad-minded in interests even though a Catholic theologian cannot agree with all the differing opinions of all Catholics, a theologian should try to understand those opinions and take them seriously, if not agree with them.
It can be upsetting to discover that we ourselves have been wrong. But what that should teach us is that we must always look to the whole Church and consider views opposing our own when trying to find what it is that the whole Church agrees about. Sometimes we ask questions, but there is no satisfactory answer, no answer that makes us feel comfortable that we have an answer that is right. Well, that just seems to be the way the Lord wants it. Jesus did not promise that the Holy Spirit would give us answers to all our questions in this life. But He did promise that the Holy Spirit would be here with us to guide us. But we have to be humble enough to admit that sometimes we just don't know enough to figure out the right answers to our questions. That's when it's especially good to see what others are seriously thinking.
I've tried a couple of times to follow the link in the post to Griffiths' presentation, but the actual .pdf doesn't seem to be available. Not sure if it is a temporary issue or if the presentation has now disappeared.


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You can't write anything about Thanksgiving as you don't know what will happen at the dinner - it hasn't happened yet. So you fall back on things that did happen during past weeks.
Here goes with some events I took part in and didn't get to write about or publish pictures in my column yet.
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FLOWER SHOW — The Ohio Association of Garden Clubs Region 12, took part in a flower show at the Jefferson County Fair. From left, seated, Jacob Nelson; Grechen Nelson, holding Callista; Shirley Steffl; and Pauline Irvin; and standing, Carol Williams, Ann Sage, Eleanor Drazich and Elaine Wukelic. Four Jefferson County clubs took part: Woodland, Rosebud, Four Seasons and Mount Pleasant.
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FLOWER?SHOW — The Ohio Association of Garden Clubs Region 12, took part in a flower show at the Jefferson County Fair. From left, seated, Jacob Nelson; Grechen Nelson, holding Callista; Shirley Steffl; and Pauline Irvin; and standing, Carol Williams, Ann Sage, Eleanor Drazich and Elaine Wukelic. Four Jefferson County clubs took part: Woodland, Rosebud, Four Seasons and Mount Pleasant.
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CONTEST — The Jefferson County Beekeepers Association celebrated National Honey Month with a baking contest. Winners and judges were, from left, Esther McCoy, judge; Cecelia Einioth, breads, first; Sandy Capers, cakes, second; Ian Anderson, best of show with fruit and oatmeal bars; Dennis Anderson, breads, second; Suzan Kovaleski, cookies, first; and Beth Ann McCord, Monterey Bay Fish Grotto Restaurant chef in Pittsburgh, judge. Crystal Hatcher, president, was in charge of the contest.
FRIENDS — Stella Puskarich, left, and Donnelle Tonner, longtime friends through rabbit projects and 4-H endeavors, clown around at the Jefferson County 4-H Advisers Banquet. Stella doesn't always dress in this manner. It was a Halloween costume.
-- Esther McCoy
IN COSTUME — Cheryl Lightfritz, left, 4-H office assistant, and Janine Yeske, extension educator, 4-H youth development, were dressed for Halloween, with Cheryl sporting a hippy looking very much like Cher and Janine as Popeye.
-- Esther McCoy
DRESSED UP — Sarah Cross, new ag and natural resource educator at the Ohio State and Jefferson County Extension, is dressed as an Indian squaw, and Katrina Belininger, program assistant for food and nutrition, came to the dinner as a cabarat singer.
-- Esther McCoy
I'll start with the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs Flower Show that was held at the Jefferson County Fair.
I lost the paper with the list of members and couldn't find anyone to identify all the people in the picture so it wasn't published in a timely fashion.
Wonder of wonders, while cleaning my desk in anticipation of a United Way volunteer using my work area during the recent telethon, I found the sheet of paper with the names. Now the picture appears at this late hour. Sorry, garden club members.
I remember it being very hot when the picture was taken, and I was hoping for an early fall so the temperature would drop. Now I wish it were warm again.
Crystal Hatcher, president of the Jefferson County Beekeepers Association, asked me to judge the annual honey-baking contest, with a new twist it was open to the public this year. Beth Ann McCord, a chef at Monterey Bay Fish Grotto in Pittsburgh, was the other judge.
I picked up pointers from Beth Ann in judging, had great fun working with her and enjoyed some really great baked products made from honey. How sweet!
Lamont and I attended the Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District annual dinner meeting, where we had a nice time seated with the Clevengers and Franckhausers, members of the board.
I scooted around taking photos most of the evening. Most have been published, but there were a few left over.
I snagged Tom Gentile on his way out carrying the Dave Barnhouse print "Parade of Tractors" purchased in the auction to earn money for JSWCD scholarships.
He paid $250 for the print, featuring John Deere tractors. And he has another Barnhouse farm scene that was purchased at the county fair. Ken Perkins was the event's auctioneer.
Then comes the 4-H Advisers Banquet, where leaders came as their favorite character, in keeping with the "Find Your Character" theme for the year.
Carolyn Piergallini was Minnie Mouse; Stella Puskarich was a backwoods girl; Joyce Wetherell was in a long flannel nightie and night cap; Monica Wetherell was a 4-H camper; Carl and Aimee Glenn were in outfits of the early 1900s; and Michelle Wood was a deer hunter dressed in camo.
Lamont and I sat with father and son, Cliff and James Wood, and Mary Ellen Grafton, James' grandmother.
There were items pertaining to Popeye as centerpieces, as Janine Yeske chose him as the model character for 4-H in 2013. "Popeye was loyal, caring and strong to the finish. That is what we want 4-H members to adopt as their ideal," she said.
Getting back to table arrangements, there were cans of spinach to make him strong; coupons for free hamburgers to satisfy his friend, Wimpy; a flower for his girlfriend, Olive Oyl; and a yam because Popeye always said "I yam what I yam."
I left with the spinach as no one else wanted it, the hamburger coupon for a grandchild and the big orange flower.
Katrina Bleininger, program assistant in food and nutrition, someone I have known from Harrison County 4-H since an early age, and Sarah Cross, new ag and natural resource educator, had their heads together. It is nice seeing young people who know the organization well from going through the ranks.
Now for the touching dinner I attended as Lamont's guest at St. Florian Hall Nov. 6.
It was the 11th-annual Cancer Survivor Celebration "Thanksgiving for each Moment of Living," presented by Trinity Health System.
For those who wondered why I was not taking pictures, I felt this was Lamont's time to be honored. I didn't want to leave him alone while I was dashing around taking pictures.
Our table group was comprised of Mark and Lee Clark; his mother, Jackie Clark Haynes and her daughter, Shawna McCoy; Barbara Losey; and us. Anytime Jackie is around, it is a riot.
Keith Murdock gave the welcome, and Teresa Kropka, someone I have known since she was quite young, sang a beautiful song, "Blessed."
The guest speakers offered such touching words one just had to stop and listen.
Dr. Sam Licata explained the advances in breast cancer care over the years and told his patients in the audience that it was an honor to take care of them.
I'm sure Dr. Sam doesn't remember me, but in 1995 he came to my aid after an extensive car wreck. He cared for the broken ribs piercing my left lung and while the pain medication had me in a drugged state I kept repeating that he was too young to be a doctor.
Artie Cline is a 16-year cancer survivor, diagnosed with osteosarcoma in November 1996. He has been a radiation therapist for five years now working at the Tony Teramana Cancer Center since July, and his sunny disposition must surely bring joy to any patient.
Dave Catlett, an enthusiastic West Virginia University fan, was diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 66. "After 39 radiation treatments, I'm glad to be here," he beamed. "The real beauty of Teramana Cancer Center is inside."
Dave showed a WVU license plate found at a yard sale. It is autographed by all who gave him treatments and was slung over his shoulder proudly as he spoke in his WVU gold and blue shirt. He also introduced his wife, who is a 24-year breast cancer survivor.
Keith Jackson was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 2011 at age 40. He underwent robotic radical prostatectomy at Ohio State University Medical Center and told in a touching but sometimes comical way about the circumstances that led up to his discovery.
The description of his treatment brought back memories because it was the same set of circumstances that Lamont went through in going for a biopsy, simply because the doctor thought it would be a precaution, learning when he returned for the results that it was indeed cancer.
We knew what Keith was going through, but his explanation of personal details was done in a delightful way, and he had the audience laughing at his descriptions.
Thanks, Trinity Health System, for the wonderful dinner that brings together all who have been through the same fears, pain, endurance and sunshine on the other side, when healing or remission takes place.
(McCoy, a resident of Smithfield, is a staff columnist and food editor for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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Assistant Vice Provost, Diversity Initiatives; Senior Director of the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program
Bridget R. McCurtis rejoined NYU in July 2012 in the dual capacity of Assistant Vice Provost, Diversity Initiatives, and Senior Director of the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program. As the Senior Director of one of New York State's largest Higher Education Opportunity Programs serving almost 600 students, she provides the strategic direction and operational management of a sizable staff that offers comprehensive academic support services to traditionally underserved students. Both roles offer Dr. McCurtis the opportunity to collaborate with university and national partners to better understand and further facilitate diversity at NYU.
Dr. McCurtis initially worked at NYU from 1996-1998 as Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions. In the 15 years she was away, she had a diverse career in non-profit and education. As a leadership/career coach and administrator her practice is informed by continued engagement in scholarly activities. Her primary research interests include the development of leaders, social change, racial esteem and identity development.
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Since my last column, part of this�series of essays, with the first published on Feb. 15 this year, about my decision to relocate to Oregon, I have taken a major step in working through my grief over my the death of my wife, Betty, in January, 2010.
In retrospect, looking back over how I decided to make this huge life change, I don't think I obsessed. I think it was mostly a hard-nosed logical calculus of the pro and cons of staying vs. moving.
I have become somewhat obsessive. Since I�ve never experienced this fairly common personality trait (not the same as the more severe obsessive compulsive personality disorder), it�s been quite a revelation to me what it is like for people burdened with these tendencies for a lifetime.
Like them, I haven�t been obsessing over major things, like whether or not my house would sell. There were four above asking price offers the night of the first open house. What I wasn't worried abut it turned out I should have been: the house failed the Title 5 test, and needed a new septic system. (I can't close on the house until it is put in, but am moving anyway.)
For a few weeks I obsessed about how to move myself, my dogs, and sundry �stuff� to Oregon. I finally decided to drive, rather than ship the car (stuffed with my stuff), and fly myself and the dogs.
Since I�m not moving any furniture, I began to obsess over what to move, given the limitation that it had to fit in my car�s trunk and front passenger side. The dogs crate takes up half of the rear, and I have to be able to recline the driver�s seat to nap along the way.
How making decisions about what to move helped me confront aspects of grief.�
Deciding what items to bring was an enlightening exercise over the course of which I realized that I didn't put much stock in "things." I found myself deciding that many things others would hold onto because of a sentimental attachment, I unceremoniously tossed in the trash.
I found a knit pair of gloves which belonged to my wife. I held them to my nose and could discern her scent. That got to me, but then I threw them away too. I hold her in countless vivid memories which come up on their own, in dreams, and whenever I choose to conjure them. That's not to say I threw things like her old eye glasses away without emotion. Quite the contrary.
And there are things I couldn't bear to discard, though I know she'd be saying "what do you want with my old passport or college ID card?"
However, I believe that part of the process or working through grief, is (as Freudians would say) decathecting my memories of her from physical objects.
For the last six weeks: itching to get on with things, and without them.
First, I started roaming the house trying to decide what to bring with me. After all, I was going to buy new furnishings in Portland, and could buy household items and clothes too.
I had to decide what I really liked a lot and would miss, and what (four table lamps, good towels) would cost a fair amount to replace. No sense bringing bedding sets bought from Marshall's for $12.
I gradually began to pack the trunk. First I carefully laid down my two expensive paintings, and other pictures. Then I put soft items in suction space bags and packed those. Finally I tucked everything in the nooks and grannies, from lamps to LED light bulbs, from chotskies to china (I don�t have china, but ceramics isn�t an alliteration).
I finally reached what seemed to be the absolute capacity of the trunk, when I managed to squeeze in a three foot long heavy wood carving of a fish my late wife and I bought at Mystic Seaport 20 years ago. Being so large, I wasn�t going to take it until I took it off the wall and saw the price tag of $450.
I squeezed that into a trunk that already seemed stuffed to the gills.
The space limit of the trunk having been reached was confirmed when the automatic electric closer seemed to strain as it latched shut.
I�d open it again to include a photo here if I didn�t think everything inside might explode out (especially if one of the space bags lost it�s suction). Think (or, not for the faint of heart,�watch the You Tube) of the disgusting 400 pound man shoveling food down his gullet, and then exploding, in �The Meaning of Life� (Mr. Creosote, played by Terry Jones, for trivia buffs.)
The next time I open the trunk the car will be backed up into my new garage.
My last day here will be next Sunday.
I am driving first to stay with friends in New York. Then it�s on to my old stomping grounds to visit friends in Michigan. Then it�s west, mostly on Route 80, for 2,300 miles. This follows the Oregon Trail to Portland.
The total drive is about 3,200 miles.
Next Sunday I will have been disconnected from all things electronic.
I�ve been obsessing over what I�ll do besides a final packing of the car.
Then it occurred to me. I�ll do something I haven�t done since my wife and I were active in the cranberry industry controversies and bought copies of the papers which had article referencing us (like�Cranberry industry chronicled on the web, from the Oct. 15, 2000 Boston Globe��). I left those for the new owners of the house, and didn't even keep copies of ones about my wife: for example�I did take this profile from The Globe Sunday Magazine�and this one of Betty on the cover of the business section of the New York Times.
I figure, I'll actually buy and read the Sunday newspapers on paper. Then my wonderful 93 year old father-in-law, �still in the early stages of grief over the death of his wife of 70 years, is taking me for my last lunch in Massachusetts.
It will be a sad goodbye on Monday as I drive by the house, down the road a mile and a half, and see the house Betty spent her first 18 years in. However, �I will be glad once the move is underway.


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I am not sure if it is just my kid or the letter "L", but my toddler can't seem to say the letter "L". I try to help him out and show with my mouth how to pronounce it, but he will say stuff like
Wo-mein instead of
Lo-mein or
Wook instead of
Look or Rook. I also noticed that when I tell him
Woody's name from
Toy Story, he says
Poody. I don't know if he is just messing with me or has trouble saying the
W in the context of
Woody. I will point out that certain words with
L such as
Bottle, he says just fine. He is almost 3.
I am not sure if it is just my kid or the letter "L", but my toddler can't seem to say the letter "L". I try to help him out and show with my mouth how to pronounce it, but he will say stuff like
If he is saying Poody instead of Woody, and Wook instead of Look, but also managing with Bottle then it appears he can say the L and W sounds, so that would rule out physical issues. Many kids do take longer with some sounds than others, and L, TH and S are pretty common ones to get to quite late.
My youngest had trouble with TH until she was 5, but we got around it by a period of correcting her every time, showing her where her tongue should be.
It wasn't much of a worry, because the paediatrician told us it was common and most kids that do have initial problems can quickly learn once they get a bit older. (In saying that I do know a few adults who never learned TH, instead using F...)
I'm not a speech pathologist, so take the following with a grain of salt. I have spent a lot of time concentrating on correct enunciation and being taught correct enunciation, so the following paragraph is based on that experience.
I still don't say the letter "L" correctly, it is hard for people to hear the difference now but I palatalize the consonant instead of using the tip of my tongue (unless I'm concentrating on my enunciation). The "l" sound in bottle is slightly different than the 'l' sound in "Lion", it is much more noticeable if you palatalize the 'l' at the beginning of the word rather than the end. It's possible to make a "W" sound with almost the same mouth movements as an "L" sound if you use the palate to create both, so that could be the problem there. "P" and "W", when properly formed, start with very similar mouth shape. So I think you may have two different issues here--he's not saying his "L" with the right part of his mouth, leading to the "W", and he is starting his "W" correctly but moving his lips incorrectly, leading to the "P". Watch closely how he says things (and watch closely how you form your sounds as well) and worry about it if the problem persists.
To be clear, by "persists" I mean "persists until he's 5 or so"
My daughter, just finished kindergarten (she's now 5) also has this issue, among others. (She could read at 2, so if it has anything to do with intelligence, it's because she's lazy.)
The speech pathologist has been getting her to work on putting the tip of her tongue on the "bump" on her palate right behind her front teeth instead of showing her tongue between her teeth.
Given the way her kindergarten teacher reacted and the way the speech pathologist has reacted, it seems like the best advice is to ask your child's kindergarten teacher for advice when your child reaches that milestone. If your community has speech therapists available for school kids, you'll get a referral or what have you (the therapist actually came to the school for us, so that made things easier). If not, the teacher may have other suggestions. This is likely a regular issue with kids - as has been mentioned, this is not abnormal. Some kids "get it" better than others, but it's not outside the range of normal for a 5-year-old to have difficulty with some pronounciation. The therapist will definitely know better how severe it is at that time, and will (hopefully :-) ) devise a strategy specifically for where your child is at.
Good luck, and don't fret too much. Just keep it in mind as your child ages, and if it's still an issue in Kindergarten, bring it up again there.
(If you don't have school for 4-5 year olds, bring it up with your pediatrician at around that age.)


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Celebs Use Star Power to Support Salvation Army's Japan Relief Work
"Ame ni Mo Makezu," is one of Japan's most famous poems. Roughly translated, the title means "don't be defeated by the rain." Its inspirational message encourages people to have hope and fight the world's heartache by standing up for those in need.
Jackie Chan and dozens of Hong Kong singers and actors have adapted this poem into a new song, "Succumb Not to Sorrow," which will be the theme of their upcoming Japan relief concert. Love Without Borders 3/11 Candelight Gala will be held on April 1 in Hong Kong with proceeds from the event going to The Salvation Army's relief efforts.
But Jackie Chan isn't the only celebrity using his star power to help Japan. We reported last week that Britney Spears donated 2 VIP tickets to her free Sunday performance taping for Good Morning America. California radio station Wild 94.9 decided to auction them off and donate the proceeds to The Salvation Army's disaster efforts. We heard the winning bidder put up $1,136 for the tickets, which will go straight to supporting Japan!
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As I was meandering along, I saw a dragon in the distance. When I got closer, this pillar of light rendered and I could see that the dragon appeared to be Alduin. I looked for a place to hide and observe the events, but once I had found a good spot, Alduin was gone. The pillar of light remains (coming from a dragon burial site), but nothing interesting happened. There is no marked location on the map. What is happening?
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After you break the news to your husband, the next in line to hear the story might very well be your health-insurance agent. If you already have a doctor who participates in your insurance plan and who you want to help deliver your baby, you're all set. But for many women this is the time for making careful choices about the person who will give them prenatal care and who will eventually deliver their baby. Before you can begin to look around or interview physicians, you'll first need to find out what doctors and facilities in your area are covered under your plan. Some plans give you the freedom to choose any health-care provider you like (count yourself lucky if that's your plan). But nowadays, most have a list of participating doctors and hospitals that you must choose from if you want your insurance to cover the bills. If that's the case, there's no sense interviewing a long list of health-care providers, only to discover that the right person and hospital for you are not covered by your plan.
When you call member services (the phone number is usually printed on your insurance card), have a pen and pencil handy to write down all the information. First ask if your policy, or your spouse's, is the primary carrier. Then ask the primary provider the following questions:
If you don't have health insurance, don't let this keep you from getting the prenatal care that's vital to your health and the health of your baby. Call your local hospital and ask where you can find a free clinic. Also ask whom you can speak to about your eligibility for charity care programs or Medicaid.
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Let $M$, $N$ be a symmetric matrix over a ring $R$. $M$ and $N$ are said to be equivalent if there exist an invertible matrix $U$ (over the same ring $R$) such that $N=U M U^T$ ($U^T$ is the transpose of $U$). A question is that what is the simple canonical form of $M$ under such an equivalent relation.
We know that when $R$ is the ring of real numbers, every real symmetric matrix is equivalent to an diagonal matrix with diagonal entries being 1, -1, or 0.
When $R$ is the ring of integers, do we have a similar result?
If there is no nice results, we may assume $M$ to satisfy additional conditions:
(a) $|\det(M)|=1$
(b) There exist a $J$ such that $J^2=1$ and $JMJ^T=-M$.
Edit: I am also interested in finding the simple canonical form of integer symmetric matrices $M$, that satisfy
(a) $|\det(M)|=1$
(b) There exist a $J$ such that $J^2=-1$ and $JMJ^T=-M$.


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Two part question: If I define a linear operator $L=\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} + \frac{\partial^2}{\partial y^2}$ and then use that operator on a variable, say $L\alpha$ then is it accurate to say that the $L$ maps $\alpha$ onto itself like this: $L\alpha=\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2}\alpha + \frac{\partial^2}{\partial y^2}\alpha$. Is that how we talk about operators and why...so that we can get rid of the variable that's being acted on and just talk about the operation that's being performed?
Let's say I have an equation that has $p\alpha^2$. If I wanted to write the operator for this, how would I do it?


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