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The most obvious include putting officials in charge of sending players out of the game if it's suspected they have suffered concussions and cracking down on high, dangerous hits.But is there more on the way?One of the more prevalent talking points lately has centered on the dangers of kickoffs. Prior to the 2011 season, kickoffs were moved up to the 35-yard-line, drastically decreasing the number of returns attempted. If at least one NFL coach has his way, the league won't stop there.According to TIME, Goodell recently discussed with Rick McKay, Falcons president and head of the NFL's competition committee, a radical rule change proposed by Tampa Bay coach Greg Schiano. Instead of a kickoff, the team that scored would then take the ball on its own 30-yard line in, essentially, a 4th-and-15 situation. In other words, they could attempt to keep their offense on the field and try to pick up 15 yards, at the risk of turning the ball over on downs; or they could punt."I don't do things for public relations," Goodell said. "I do things because they're the right thing to do, because I love the game."Limiting kickoff returns is one thing (even that drew groans from fans), but eliminating them completely in favor of an off-the-wall replacement rule? That might change the game dramatically, and not necessarily for the better.As Goodell pointed out to TIME, kickoffs arguably are the most dangerous plays in football because of the high-speed collisions that occur there. Tweaking the framework to add player safety, then, is smart ... but Schiano's brainchild is an off-the-wall idea that may force the NFL to find a happy medium between that plan and the current system.Already in place for next season is a rule that will force all players to wear both thigh and knee pads. Many players have expressed frustration with that proposed thigh/knee pad mandate, arguing that the extra equipment would slow them down and, in turn, lead to a worse product on the field.Goodell is walking a very fine line between the noble cause of making football safer for the players and bastardizing the very game itself. Seemingly with each passing day, though, we learn more about how damaging the brutal NFL can be, both for players currently playing and those who have retired.The issue dove into the spotlight again last weekend, under the most tragic of circumstances. Saturday, Chiefs player Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, before turning a gun on himself in front of Kansas City's coach and general manager.Belcher had no prior history of concussions, but his tragic incident was another piece of evidence for those who would argue that the NFL does not do enough to protect its players -- physically, mentally or emotionally.Heavy criticism was cast, too, toward the decision for the Chiefs to take the field for a game against Carolina, slightly more than 24 hours after Belcher's murder-suicide.Goodell discussed with TIME his reasoning:"It was ultimately my decision," said Goodell, who, according to TIME's report, also arranged for grief counselors in Kansas City. "But it was important to get the views of the players and try to honor their wishes. Clark [Hunt, Chiefs chairman] got back to me and said Romeo [Crennel] and the captains felt that playing the game -- being together as a team and a community -- was important. So that's exactly what we did."The Chiefs won, 27-21. Adjusting kickoff rules feels very disconnected from what transpired with Belcher and the Chiefs. And yet, it harkens back to the greatest challenge facing Goodell: promoting the safety of football without destroying America's most popular league. More Audibles


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Unanswered: $(document).ready vs Ext.onReady()
As the title suggests, whats the difference? As I see their definitions are the same, but apparently Ext.onReady() does some extra/specific for ExtJS magic without which my ExtJS app does not work.
I've posted the detailed question of my issue here. Any input on this topic would be really helpful.
Thanks for any help.
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If you're using dynamic class loading, Ext.onReady() means wait til the DOM is ready and all required classes are loaded.
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Thank you for your support. Your input actually helped alot. But I have another question which google-fu din't help me alot.
Is it wise to use multiple Ext.onReady();? What happens if I have multiple onReady functions in multiple documents and what if I have multiple onReady in one document?
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The PrologueIs it necessary or wanted?
Posted 13 February 2009 - 05:55 AM
Most of the prologues I've seen (ABT, POB, La Scala,) show Odette being captured and turned into a swan, while others (Staatsoper in Berlin, Royal Swedish Ballet) center on Siegfried.
Is the prologue a necessary addition to the ballet, or really desirable? Does it make the ballet better? More complicated?
Posted 13 February 2009 - 08:46 AM
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Posted 13 February 2009 - 10:31 AM
If the production is one that retains the major mime speeches/dialogues, a prologue is unnecessary. Odette tells Siegfried what happened to her in Act II; we don't need to see it twice. Likewise, Siegfried's conversation with his mother in Act I tells us his situation. Even if the mime is removed, a principal dancer still ought to be skilled enough to convey the general idea.
While I agree with this in principle, I think it is perhaps expecting a bit much from the general audience.
A lot of people do not find the mime very accessible. I love it (and really prefer when it is included) but to the lay modern audience I don't think it is easily understandable.
I don't think the prologue is necessary, strictly speaking, but I think it probably *does* enrich the experience for a lot of viewers, and I don't find it distracting or to diminish the strength of a production. Its short, if you don't like it you can close your eyes and listen to the music
Additionally, in ABTs (much criticized) production, where you have *2* versions of Von Rothbart--the swamp thing and the suave princely VR--the prologue serves to clarify that distinction/connection, eliminating possible confusion when the elegant Rothbart shows up for the ball with Odile.
Posted 13 February 2009 - 10:43 AM
I've lost patience with the 'just close your eyes' reaction to bad choreography: If I wanted a concert, I'd go to the symphony.
And I would respond to ABT by telling them that if they hadn't needlessly complicated things in the first place, they wouldn't have to explain it all with a prologue.
Posted 14 February 2009 - 12:26 AM
I know in musical theare more and more "intense" pieces do without an intermission at all cuz they say it's so hard to "bring an audience back" after they've gone back out "to the real world" had drinks, chatted about the show, etc, and a short entr'acte can help. I just think that often some sort of instrumental overture gets people more into the feel of the piece than suddenly thrust into the action. Of course it seems nowadays many people spend the overture as time to talk to their friends, text people, and do other things--basically as "pre show music"...
With Swan Lake in particular I sorta feel it gives away some of the surprise by showing us the backstory--and some of the magic (I feel the same about Nutcracker using the overture to show the nutcracker being cursed or similar things--like at the Royal, but not as strongly)
Posted 14 February 2009 - 03:54 PM
I agree. Plus, it seems to me a Swan Lake prologue is an attempt to explain something that can't be explained in the first place. Sorcerers don't exist and women can't be changed into swans; it's a fairy tale and there's no way to make it realistic, no matter how much 'back story' the audience is given, so why bother?
Even if the audience doesn't understand the mime, that doesn't make a prologue necessary. The dancers should be good enough actors to convey the basic idea, and the audience can read the synopsis in the program.
BTW, SFB's new SL (premiering next week) will have a prologue. Here's an excerpt from Swan Lake chapter of the Season Guide:
" 'Helgi said that though it's called Swan Lake, it was always Siegfried's story, because he was the character you were introduced to first,' says [designer Jonathan] Fensom. 'We wanted to make it Odette's story, and to do that we needed to introduce her then [in the prologue].' "
Posted 14 February 2009 - 06:08 PM
In truth, great acting isn't really necessary. As Martine van Hamel demonstrated (in her final SL, partnered by Kevin McKenzie, so he saw every moment), the story is in the choreography. It's just a matter of making the movements mean something. In the Act II adagio, in arabesque facing upstage towards the lake of her mother's tears, she stretched longingly towards it, pivoted back downstage and, as she bent forward before swooning, you could sense a sigh. And so on, and so on. It almost -- almost -- made the mime unnecessary. In fact, Act II was a seamless blending of mime and dance.
Even if the audience doesn't understand the mime, that doesn't make a prologue necessary. The dancers should be good enough actors to convey the basic idea, and the audience can read the synopsis in the program.
That performance took place in the early 1990s, and I never saw one like it (even from van Hamel, whose performances I always tried to catch) before or since. I don't understand why van Hamel hasn't passed this eloquent interpretation along to some of ABT's current O/Os. Maybe she's tried and they either rejected it or couldn't make it happen.
Only if the film or video credits are rolling, so they don't roll over the start of Act I.
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Posted 15 February 2009 - 12:01 AM
Over with Prologues and stuffed swans...(can't stand that). That's what Google is for, if anybody wants to see what the performance will be about. The Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami started their production with a weird Prologue, showing a caravan of mourners following a coffin being carried away. Among the mourners are Siegfried and his shaky mom, so one assume that the ballet starts by telling us that this is the kid's turn to be in command from then on after his father's death. Didn't like it either. Let Mr T's beautiful music do the magic.
See I actually like this idea of the mourners etc. I guess it just depends on how the choreographer or person setting the ballet wants the story to be told. And to what kind of audience it is for.
Posted 15 February 2009 - 05:42 AM
McKenzie's version -- which I just looked at again on YouTube -- is story-telling at its most ham-fisted, relying on quick costume changes to make dramatic points (Rothbart into gentleman; Odette into Swan).
I have less confidence than Hans in the communicative power of traditional mime in the modern world. I agree with carbro that the answer probably lies in great acting, though that is a rare skill. Also, I suspect that the Swan Lake experience does not really require a literal, cover-all-bases narrative structure -- IF it is danced by principals who know how to communicate feeling.
My own preference is for the traditional theater experience of: (1) lights go down, (2) music establishes a mood(in the sense of overture), (3) curtain rises. This gives the audience a chance to settle down. It also gives time for a sense of anticipation, even suspence, before you actually SEE anything.
Modern audiences seem to respond best with lots of visual information and stimulation. Maybe it IS preferable, given current realities, just to tell some kind of story in the 3 or so minutes of the Prologue. Rather like the "dumb show" in Hamlet's version of "The Murder of Gonzago."
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Posted 15 February 2009 - 07:13 PM
Do you mean they play the written overture with the curtain (or front scrim) down?
Of the three major significant versions of the ballet performed in Russia today, the version performed at the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres has the prologue in musical form only.
Posted 15 February 2009 - 08:55 PM
Do you mean they play the written overture with the curtain (or front scrim) down?
Yes. The April 2006 Mariinsky Ballet performance that is now available on DVD/Blu-ray disc has the orchestra play the entire Prologue with the big main curtain down.
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That's pretty fucked up. Nice going Iowa.
That's pretty fucked up. Nice going Iowa.
It's his business and his money. Also, the woman had no legal argument whatsoever:
"Knight hired another woman to replace Nelson. Nelson sued, saying her firing was discriminatory because she was a woman."
But let's focus on the Iowa Supreme Court being composed of only men and pretend that it's not the biggest red herring on the face of the Earth. We've got some Sarkeesian logic at play here (by which I mean a victim complex).
I'm so tired of looking at Obama's obamacare face
I like it when Fearless Leader scratches the side of his nose and everybody's like, "D'AWWW"
Seriously, that's awesome. Our President is literally Thulsa Doom. You ever watch tapes of his appearances, like the Democratic Convention and stuff? If he told some hippie chick to jump out the bleachers she probably would. That is true power, and our man Barack has done solved the Riddle of Steel.
I used to chat with a Reverend from the Church of Satan* on Myspace and he made a pretty awesome video of it. He took scenes from Conan and cut them in with Obama at the Democratic Convention. Shit was hilarious. He ended it with a photoshop of Barack's face over James Earl Jones's head, and the caption "OBAMA DOOM". Can't find it any more, he deleted the Youtube he had up. Would share his name for google attempts but he left the CoS and probably doesn't want anything to do with it. And just so you know, I was never a chartered member in the first place.
*talking about the real CoS here, the one that LaVey started. Not one of those cheap little Slayer fan clubs.
Whatchoo got against Slayer Willis? o.O
There are a lot of satan churches out there is what I'm saying, and LaVey's is generally racognized as the real one. I wound up running one of their Myspace pages but I have problems with authority, had a bit of a falling out with one of the higher-ups (or downer-lows in their case), and I turned it into the Temple of the Dark Knight instead.
That's right, Satanists worshipping Batman. lol
(haven't checked up on that thing in years, btw)
Just another silly little organization crying for attention. Kinda like Christianity and Islam, probably Mormonism too.
Yeah, exactly. That's why we file them under Politics instead of Religion.
I call it Christmas just to be polite. Those poor WASPs only get like a few days a year so why ruin it for them. We pagans have Saturday for satyrs, Sun and Moon day, then we have Tiu, Odin, Thor and Freya...we've had the whole week this whole time is what I'm telling you. Literally. So yeah, "Merry Christmas" isn't so bad.
For people who believe freely and of their own volition, and have come to accept that our lives are as precious as they are short, every day is a special one.
We just don't spend thousands of dollars on them.
That's something I've always respected about LaVey's organization. They're a place of business and they know their role. To the best of my knowledge they're still the only "church" in North America to refuse tax-exempt status. Correct me if I'm wrong about that, but to me it speaks volumes about their integrity.
Another thing, you wouldn't believe how many soldiers are involved. I don't mean fringe element wash-outs who were discharged either. We're talking active duty US military. The CoS is about as American as they get. It's no secret, really, just something that you don't see mentioned very often. I'm comfortable telling you here because lol, we're on a videogaming site. Everything I say here can be easily discredited should the need arise. Deleted, even.
And besides, Norse Mythology will take priority over any one nation's ancient paganism.
So it's fucking Freya until you're dead and I'm shitting on your grave. Then I will allow for this Frigga to be considered.
Ok well fine then Bloo. Tell us about your ancient paganisms. I'm sure they're SOOO much better.
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Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of the long-running Comedy Central animated series South Park, say that they received a signed photograph of Saddam Hussein from U.S. Marines charged with guarding the Iraqi dictator prior to his 2006 execution. The Marines reportedly made Hussein watch the South Park movie, South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, repeatedly while imprisoned.
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Local NY paper posts satellite data of all gun permit holders.
You know what would really bother me? If they posted the addresses of people who don't have guns.
That's basically what they did. I'm probably missing your sarcasm though.
Actually not being sarcastic this time. Home invaders could go through the article and rule out potential targets, but they still wouldn't know about the ones who aren't listed. For all they know, the unlisted ones could be the most dangerous. Seriously, the guy with a SMG under the bed isn't gonna tell anybody about it.


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I am doing some revision questions on my Portfolio Theory module, and have come across the following question:
Consider an investor who has constructed a risky portfolio from N securities. The investment opportunity set is described by the equation:
$$\sigma^2 = 10 - 5{\times}E(r) + 0.5\times(E(r))^2$$
Find the minimum variance portfolio.
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Reporting a Concern or Incident
There are four main components to an effective violence prevention and response program
- Identifying the kind of behaviors that indicate that the potential for violence exists
- Taking immediate and effective action to report concerns about potentially violent situations
- Assessing the situation to develop the most appropriate response or violence avoidance strategy
- Implementing the plan
Of these steps "reporting" may be the most critical. It is critical that you report any situation that you believe has the potential for violence. It is only after a report is received that the matter can be evaluated and an appropriate response developed.
Urgent and Imminent Threats
Step 1: Call 911
Step 2: Once safe, call the Violence Prevention and Response Team at 253-692-SAFE (253-692-7233).
Step 3: Report the situation to your supervisor or the head of your unit.
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Step 1: Call 253-692-SAFE (253-692-7233) to report the situation to the Violence Prevention and Response Team.
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The Violence Prevention and Response Program provides centralized intake and response to non emergency calls of actual and potential threats of violence. The Violence Prevention and Response Team answers 253-692-SAFE (253-692-7233) Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Harborview Medical Center Community Care Line answers night and weekend calls.
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Depending on the situation, there may be immediate planning to identify a safe situation for a person who may be at risk. The Violence Prevention and Response Team will evaluate the need for a formal assessment where representatives of appropriate UW and UW Tacoma departments participate. The Assessment Team includes members from: UWT Campus Safety and Security, the Attorney General's Office, and the Violence Prevention & Response Program. Other participants are included depending on the situation. For students, the Counseling Center and Student Affairs or Academic Affairs also participate. For faculty and staff members, UW CareLink, UW Tacoma Human Resources or Academic Human Resources, and the affected department participate on the Assessment Team.
The assessment process allows for a coordinated review of the situation, with each participant bringing specialized knowledge to bear on the issue. The end product is a comprehensive issue management and risk abatement plan. Callers are connected with on and off campus resources that fit their situation.
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Greek yogurt has been filling up and flying off grocery store shelves for the past few years. By some industry estimates, Greek yogurt now accounts for 25 percent of the yogurt sold in the United States.
The reason: Greek yogurt is healthy—even better than regular yogurt, with more protein, less sugar, less sodium, and fewer calories. Americans are quick to recognize a valuable new superfood, and so is Robeks.
Robeks has unveiled three new smoothies made with premium Greek yogurt. It's another industry first for Robeks, which introduced smoothie bowls last year and has rolled out an expanded menu of fresh vegetable juices this year.
"Our guests are looking to optimize their health, and Greek yogurt allows us to offer even more nutritional benefits while still maintaining great taste," says Robeks CEO Steve Davidson.
The Greek yogurt smoothies include: Emperor Açaí, which combines Greek yogurt with açaí, strawberries, and blueberries; Strawberry Temple, with strawberries; and Spartan Berry, with blueberries.
Any other smoothie on the Robeks menu can be made using Greek yogurt, too.
The premium Greek yogurt Robeks uses has double the protein of regular yogurt, fewer carbohydrates, and is 100 percent natural.
It has a slightly tart flavor and smooth texture. The difference lies in a straining process that removes liquid whey and lactose, a milk sugar.
"The extra protein is great for people who want to cut down on carbs," says Robeks chief marketing officer Chad Bailey. "It makes Greek yogurt smoothies even more filling, whether you're having one as a meal or a healthy treat."
Robeks has been helping people eat better since 1996 by providing on-the-go smoothies and juices using only naturally ripened fruit and vegetables. The Greek yogurt smoothies join a menu that already features dozens of choices.
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$A$ and $B$ are finite groups. $H \leq A \times B$. Can we find some $C \leq A$, $D \leq B$ such that $H \cong C \times D$?
In case the statement is not true: is it true under further assumptions about A and B, such as solvability, nilpotency, etc?
Special cases I can prove:
$A$ and $B$ are abelian (following ideas from another discussion: $G$ finite abelian. $A \times B$ embedded in $G$. Is $G=C \times D$ such that $A$ embedded in $C$, $B$ embedded in $D$?)
$(|A|,|B|)=1$. In this case we even have $H = C \times D$. By using the Chinese remainder theorem for instance.


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2 new Sencha Touch Apps: Move NY & Fibbers Gig Venue
Hi guys,
I run my own web agency in York, UK and heard about Sencha a couple of months ago from a colleague. After around 5-6 weeks of learning Sencha Touch (with a lot of help from the forums) we've now released 2 Sencha Touch Apps (1 on the App Store and 1 as a mobile website)
I'd be really interested to know what you all think!
'MOVE NY' is an iPhone App built in Sencha Touch & wrapped up in PhoneGap. 'Move Guides' (http://www.moveguidesonline.com/) are a company who design & produce booklet guides for moving to new cities; including New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Boston.
App Store link for the New York version (£2.99 / $4.99):
'Fibbers York' is a mobile website built in Sencha Touch. Fibbers is a gig & club venue in York, UK and they wanted a more iPhone-friendly version of their website.
Visit: http://fibbers.co.uk/ on your iPhone for this one. It's free!
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=> Pazaak, Sabac and Holo-chess won't make the launch. Their are pinned on the wall of crazy
=> Item stats will only be based on the schematic. The challenge will be to find the shcematics and then the required components
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I am editing a LaTeX paper with Emacs. Sometimes, just for myself, I want to make a block of texts less obvious (or less important to see). Instead of totally hide them, I still want them to be there. So I am wondering if there is an easy way to embed them in something so that it changes color (to grey for instance) and looks less important.
Could anyone help?
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Martin Scorsese Triple Feature (Goodfellas / The Aviator / The Departed) [Blu-ray]: Ray Liotta… for $9.99 + free shipping
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I have this and, in fact, was just watching The Departed earlier today.
In case you haven't purchased a "Triple Feature" before, you can do so with a clear conscience. This set is three discs in one standard-size Blu-Ray case. Each disc comes with special features, full HD transfers, etc.
Blu-ray.com has more details on each disc, but I think this is a good value. I paid the same $10.
Goodfellas is one of my favorites of all time. Best Buy has the same price with free shipping and no minimum but you will have have to pay tax if your state has a Best Buy (probably every state by now).
Two great movies and the Aviator. The Aviator is no bad, just not up to par with the other two.


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Monoclonal Antibody Treatment in Dogs
Lili Duda, VMD
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Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
Please tell me about the use of Monoclonal Antibody Treatment for treating lymphoma in dogs once remission is achieved.
Lili Duda, VMD, Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Section, responds:
Monoclonal antibody (MAb) therapy (drug name CL/MAb 231, Synbiotics Corporation) is licensed for the treatment of canine lymphoma, and has been used for about 10 years. The success rate is comparable to conventional chemotherapy protocols. Although there are several theoretical advantages to the use of MAb, it has not become a standard therapeutic option in canine lymphoma for a variety of reasons. However, it is a reasonable treatment option if it is available through your veterinarian or veterinary oncologist.
The typical protocol used starts with two "cycles" of standard chemotherapy. If the dog is in complete remission following chemotherapy (meaning that there is no detectable evidence of lymphoma), the dog is given a three week rest to allow the immune system to recover. If the dog continues to remain in remission, monoclonal antibodies are administered over one week. The dog then receives no further treatment until relapse of the lymphoma occurs.
At the time of relapse, the above protocol can be repeated if the dog goes into remission after another two "cycles" of standard chemotherapy. However, if the dog does not go into a complete second remission, monoclonal antibodies are not administered a second time, and other "rescue" chemotherapy protocols are used.
UPDATE: Canine Lymphoma Monoclonal Antibody (CL/MAb 231), a specific protein directed against canine lymphoma cells, was used following a conventional chemotherapy regimen in an effort to prolong duration of remission (also known as "disease-free interval"). This product was produced by a company called Synbiotics, but has not been commercially available for many years.
You can learn more about veterinary clinical trials at the Veterinary Cancer Society's website.


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Someone who has a crazy obsession for guns and other explosive devices. Finds sexual pleasure in guns other than actual girls. Gets very obsessed with girls who are 10x out of his league. Darren is usually a fat simple boy who likes to bake his cake and eat it too.
wow that boy is a darren!
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A good looking, intelligent, straight individual who is known for partying hard and getting all the ladies. His sexual escapades are legendary as is the size of his gigantic member. When he isn't womanizing, he can be seen hustling and performing the PacMan Jones raindance, in which he gets a stack of $100 bills and throws them in the air while the ladies dance around him/them. Only when he is out of money, may they pick it up.
Damnnn, that guy is one bad ass motherfucker, his name must be Darren!
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Often used to describe someone who is either very smart or very funny.
James: your such a darren!
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1. To be of original swagger and poise.
2. Derivative of the ancient battle-god, Darrenethis, who brought the thunder upon all who opposed him.
3. That dude.
2. Derivative of the ancient battle-god, Darrenethis, who brought the thunder upon all who opposed him.
3. That dude.
1. John is good guy, he's a total Darren.
2. Mike straight Darrened that dude in the fight.
3. Darren.
2. Mike straight Darrened that dude in the fight.
3. Darren.
by Darren McMahon November 23, 2007
True Meaning A very funny person that tells crazy jokes. He has a strong relationship with his love one (girlfriend) and willing to do anything for her. He is also known for his excellent sex performence and unforgiveable sex moments.
That boy has a real darren to his girlfriend.
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The boy nobody likes, is such a loser, in special ed, not the best looking kid, loner, and awkward. Yet to me the cutest , most amazing boy, and i am head over heals for. I am the kind of popular girl that is in love with a 'loser' hoping he feels the same way.
You see that weird kid at the corner, he's such a darren.
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For example, let's say the problem is: What is the square root of 3 (to x bits of precision)?
One way to solve this is to choose a random real number less than 3 and square it.
1.40245^2 = 1.9668660025
2.69362^2 = 7.2555887044
Of course, this is a very slow process. Newton-Raphson gives the solution much more quickly. My question is: Is there a problem for which this process is the optimal way to arrive at its solution?
I should point out that information used in each guess cannot be used in future guesses. In the square root example, the next guess could be biased by the knowledge of whether the square of the number being checked was less than or greater than 3.


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Few choreographers today seem to want to make significant points about the Meaning of Life. But there are still plenty of ballet cliches around (uses of music, uses of choreography, ways of presenting dancers or "characters", attempts to manipulate the audience).
Is it because so many boring ballets have been set to his music that I have come to dislike Mahler? The Mahler ballet: someone sings lugubriously from the side of the stage while dancers toil up Angst Hill and down Weltschmerz Dale for hours on end. Sexuallity, if not repressed, is ambiguous; a Death Figure is bound to turn up somewhere. Mahler is the favorite composer of the deep-think choreographers -- the one they all rely on to dye their musings the rich dark brown of significance.
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I know that by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle that it is not possible to know the exact values of position and momentum of a particle simultaneously, but can we know the exact values of momentum and velocity of a particle simultaneously? I would think the answer would be no because even if we were 100% certain of the particle's position, we would be completely unsure of the particle's momentum, thus making us also completely unsure of the particle's velocity. Does anyone have any insight into this?
It is quite common to discuss the two extremes of the uncertainty principle, sinusoid and delta function. One has a perfectly defined wavelength but no position, the other has a perfectly defined position but no wavelength.
However, neither one of these shapes is terribly physical for a particle's position wavefunction. A true sinusoidal wavefunction would extend through all space, which is absurd for several reasons (including the presence of other matter). A true delta function would be equally likely to have any momentum, which would probably violate conservation of energy. So, these two extreme limits are mathematically interesting, but not physically relevant.
Given the question "Does the uncertainty principle put some bound on momentum and velocity being simultaneously well-defined?", the answer is no.
Given the question "Does the uncertainty principle forbid me from measuring any single variable with infinite precision?", the answer is no.
Given the question "Does anything forbid me from measuring with infinite precision?", the answer is yes.
So, your question mentions 'exact values', which is a very interesting, thorny subject. (Is it ever possible to measure an exact value? How would we tell the difference?) Are you really curious about 'exact values'? Are you more curious about where the Heisenberg uncertainty principle does and does not apply? Or are you curious if there are other bounds on our ability to measure, in addition to the uncertainty principle?
If in your theory the momentum operator and velocity operator are proportional to each other, then yes. Knowing one's eigenvalue means knowing the other's. It is always the case with any function of a "known" operator.
The velocity eigenvalues of the Dirac equation are $\pm c$. This is well known since the equation was found; see Dirac's book, "The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 4th Ed.,", Oxford University Press, Oxford 1958, Chapter XI "Relativistic Theory of the Electron", Section 69, "The motion of a free electron", page 262. It used to be a commonly taught fact of quantum mechanics, but I understand the down votes, it's now possible to get a PhD in physics without knowing the slightest thing about the following quite elementary calculation. Partly since this isn't taught much anymore, the derivation has been reappearing recently in the literature, for example see: Eur.Phys.J.C50:673-678,2007 Chiral oscillations in terms of the zitterbewegung effect / hep-th/0701091, around equation (11).
We begin by noting that velocity is the time rate of change of position, and that you can define the time rate of change of position by using the commutator:
For a state to be an eigenstate of velocity requires that:
Note that the only thing that doesn't commute with $\hat{x}$ is the x-component of the momentum operator, which gives $[\hat{x},\hat{p}_x]=i\hbar$. Thus the above reduces to:
Using the wikipedia's choice of gamma matrix representation, we have: $$c\gamma^0\gamma^1 = c\left(\begin{array}{cccc} 1&0&0&0\\0&1&0&0\\0&0&-1&0\\0&0&0&-1\end{array}\right) \left(\begin{array}{cccc} 0&0&0&1\\0&0&1&0\\0&-1&0&0\\-1&0&0&0\end{array}\right) =c\left(\begin{array}{cccc} 0&0&0&1\\0&0&1&0\\0&1&0&0\\1&0&0&0\end{array}\right)$$ The eigenvalues are obtained by solving the characteristic polynomial. That is, compute the matrix determinant and set it to zero: $$\left[\begin{array}{cccc} -\lambda&0&0&c\\0&-\lambda&c&0\\0&c&-\lambda&0\\c&0&0&-\lambda\end{array}\right] = \lambda^4-2\lambda^2c^2 + c^4=0$$ I leave it as an exercise for the reader to show that there are two real roots, $\pm c$ each with order two.
The four solutions to the velocity eigenvalue problem for the Dirac equation correspond to the the right and left handed electron and positron. That is, the velocity eigenstates of the Dirac equation are precisely the left and right-handed states used to represent fermions in the standard model.
The argument that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle prohibits that we can know the exact values of momentum and velocity of a particle simultaneously is already discredited in the old textbook by Feynman on Quantum Electrodynamics.
Two observables can be simultaneously determined if the operators commute. For velocity and momentum, the operators commute $[\hat{p},\hat{v}]=0$; they do even in the Dirac wavefunction theory with its Zitterbewegung effects.


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I'm practicing for when Fighting is Magic comes out and I bought a pair of Sega Saturn USB game pads which, the Internet says, are the best ones for fighting games. They're pretty good alright, but my left thumb starts to hurt soon from doing quarter and half circles. What's wrong and how do I deal with this?
I had the same problem with original NES and SNES controllers (Sabin's Bum Rush requires a full circle... although there's a really easy way of doing it that I kick myself for not knowing at the time, but I digress...). I'm pretty sure I've permanently damaged the fleshy pad on my left thumb from this kind of thing.
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Try using a rubber finger grip. Just get a size L or XL and use it on your thumb, like the ones people use to count money or separate paper!


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A journey through the heartland
"Frugal traveler" Seth Kugel offers an interesting road trip in the travel section of the New York Times, a south-to-north journey through the nation's midsection, Louisiana to North Dakota. I've traveled the country east-to-west four times, and north to south on both coasts, but this itinerary never occurred to me. He makes it sound very appealing.
Taking the risk of sounding provincial, Kugel offers many interesting observations. The one that most caught my attention is this:
I like to brag about how my New York neighborhood is home to Tibetan, Colombian, Pakistani and Russian markets and restaurants, all within a few blocks. But now I realize an Iowan might rightfully respond: "What, no Dutch letters or Czech kolaches?"
Of course, like New York City, the rural Midwest was the place many Europeans migrated when they came to the New World. There's just been much less turnover, so more cultural relics have endured. My first clue came in the form of "Dutch letters," S-shaped pastries for sale at the Downtown Farmers Market in Des Moines. Figuring it was just a one-off, I shrugged. (By which I mean I bought one and gobbled it up, loving the hidden layer of almond paste.) But then I spotted another stand selling almond bread with the pitch "Tastes like a Dutch letter!
Movies and TV shows may give the impression that a sense of ethnicity remains strongest in American life in the Big Apple and a few other big cities. But as Kugel notes, that's not necessarily so, at least when it comes to European ethnic roots. His example of the Dutch is especially relevant to a resident of Brooklyn, as I am. Many of our streets are named after Dutch settlers, and there is a landmark Dutch farmhouse, parts of it dating to 1720, a few blocks from my home. But, it seems, Des Moines has done a lot better job of preserving the Dutch heritage than Brooklyn has.
Is European ethnicity in its twilight in American life, obscured by a process of assimilation, as the sociologist Richard Alba has written? Or is it just expressed in new ways? Perhaps, as Kugel suggests, it continues to thrive in places mostly unseen from the two coasts.
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A great deal of America "continues to thrive in places mostly unseen from the two coasts."
New Orleans French (the Creoles) seem to have very different feelings about our mother country, France, than the feelings of some of the other ethnic groups have about "the old country". There are reasons. France gave away Louisiana to Spain in settlement of some European war. The Louisiana Council proceded to declare Louisiana to be a free and independent country. (This was *before* the American Revolution, so the New Orleanians were actually the first American revolutionists.) The revolution didn't last long, and the leaders were executed. The French later got Louisiana back, but Napoleon *sold us* (AWWWK!!!) to the U. S., which was infuriating. So Creoles don't have the rosy images of the old country that other ethnic groups have of their original places. We do happily retain our own Gallic mores (especially the food), but we have no big feelings for the old country. Maybe that's why the city has always been relatively welcoming to other groups.
If I'm representative of the general trend, it dies within two generations. My grandfather came from Flanders as a little boy, arrived in the upper-Midwest town that someday would be my hometown on a Saturday, and that Monday was sitting at a desk in a Catholic school that taught only in English, of which he knew only a handful of words. He spent the rest of his childhood trying as hard as he could to shed his former culture and become an American. I'm sure, for him, it was a matter of survival; even in those ethnic-Catholic days, people of Flemish extraction were a tiny minority in that parish and that town.
My dad, who grew up in that same neighborhood while it still had an ethnic cast, heard enough of the Belgian language spoken that he understands it even today (at least the old dialect spoken by his family and his old neighbors) without much difficulty - a fact that I discovered only as an adult myself. But I've never heard him utter a syllable of it. He's American.
I'm hard-pressed to think of more than two or three items (like foods) that would even represent the heritage.
Most of us look forward more so than backward. I'm not saying one way is better or worse than the other. It's just the way of things.
That ethnic identity is alive and well in the Midwest is not news to anybody who lives in "the heartland," where the Coast reporters only come when they want to get some hicks in a coffee shop to comment on national or world events because we talk funny, and (bonus points!) sometimes forget to put in our teeth or button a shirt over our tee-shirts.
I have never been east of Pittsburgh or west of Dallas, so I don't know what they do in New York or LA, but It has never been considered impolite anywhere within those parameters to ask, upon being introduced to someone, the origin of their last name: "Say, is that Dutch or German?" This usually results in a convoluted genealogical discussion that may go back several generations and in which the differences between, say, Prussians and Bavarians or Sicilians and Lombardians are carefully parsed, and inevitably leads to a discussion about food. It's the standard ice-breaker at social events.
Not all of the preoccupation with ethnicity and tradition is healthy or inclusive. Western Michigan's Dutch west side, is often at odds with the Irish Catholic northern Lower, the Scandinavian/Italian U.P. and the African American southeast. A variety of very old and long-standing religious and ethnic grievances come into play here.
Whoa! Jim and I come from the same place (roughly). I wonder if there's a generational gap here that accounts for the differences in our responses.
In cities with long-established populations, preservation of ethnic cultures probably has a lot to do with prejudice. Immigrants who are allowed to assimilate do assimilate. Others congregate in ghettos and continue the old ways because that is all that's open to them. In New York, for example, there's Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Chinatown, little Italy, the Grand Concourse, and a lot of Brooklyn. Hell's Kitchen was an Irish enclave until the Irish pushed into the dominant culture.
In less settled areas like the upper Midwest a century or more ago, a large influx of immigrants may themselves become the majority and have no incentive to change.
For the Dutch in Manhattos, Broklyn, Delaware etc., read Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World. Terrific book.
About language == Although Louisiana became an American state in 1812, Creoles and Cajuns (also a French colonial people) continue to use French as a primary language well into the 20th century. For instance, my grandparents and three grand-parents spoke French at home, but were bilingual. Only with my parents generation did English become the primary language. Yet they were very proud to be Americans. One of my great-great grandfathers even voted against the Civil War because he felt that his primary loyalty was to the U. S., not the State of Louisiana. On the other hand, General Beauregard was a Creole, and he, of course, fought for the Confederacy. Oddly (i'd always though), many immigrants in the South volunteered for the Confederate Army.
Complexity, complexity.
Dutch names were for a time the objects of PETA's wrath. The animal rights group wanted to change the name of Fishkill to Fishlove or Fishsave - too much violence against fish suggested by the original city name. Even worse: Catskills.
Sitting here early Labor Day, drinking my morning coffee, the heavy fog clinging to the tree tops before it rolls back to the Golden Gate later on to reveal the stunning beauty of the Bay area, I can't help my bemusement by this decidedly "East coast" take on how spicey ethnicity only survives a generation at best in our collective cultural American stew.
Back in the Jurassic period when I was a classroom teacher in Massachusetts, trying to assess the students acumen in geography and world view, I asked the kids what was the first state bordering Massachusetts. Most said Rhode Island. The next state? Less than a third said Conneticut. Then the next? Five students knew that New York was next. After that? I got responses like Ohio, Kentucky, Texas - you get the picture. Apparently, the world did fall-off a cliff at the Hudson River!
I guess that here in California, settled first by native Americans then by Franciscans in the name of the Spanish Rey, our ethnicity is served up with heaping portions of salsa. Fusion cuisine is now the California rage adding such spicey Asian flavors.
Having lived in California for more than two decades, I understand better now why the East Coast, and especially "Fly-over country" of the Midwest, just doesn't get it: America is much better off when ethnic cultures are allowed to flourish and express themselves instead of "anglicizing" and dumbing it down.
Unlike in places like Syria and the Middle East in general, and in Europe really, here in California - where whites are no longer in the majority - we are forced to acknowledge that it is our differsity that makes us strong.
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Catskills are mice, no?
Among the many kils in NY State, Wallkil. That's short for walking will kill you.
There's plenty of ethnic continuity on the west coast, including Hispanic and Asian, and there are places like Danish Solvang ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvang,_California
Jean - I think you were able to stay rooted more so than I was. We moved around a lot. We're both parents of teens - I think we're pretty much the same generation. But even more so, I think my ethnicity is just one that never achieved the critical mass of immigrants to establish much of an identity in the New World. Even in Chicago, traditionally a quilt of ethnic neighborhoods, I've never heard anyone mention a Belgian neighborhood or a Flemish parish.
It would be interesting see how children ... and grandchildren ... of people born in the US but who emigrated elsewhere succeed in retaining any of their "native" cultural practices, beliefs and shibboleths.
People need to travel more and further. There is a whole wide world full of delightful people, places, foods, celebfations, pageants and costumes out there. We suffer from insularity and isolation. Ask any traveller what they want most of all - world peace and understanding. Right now most Syrians, Iraqis, and Afghans just want the fighting to stop.
I live in a city and love city living. That said, I was raised in the rural Midwest and love that too. I have met way too many city people who simply have spent their entire lives in cities! San Francisco (the city I love) has an abundance of insular people who sincerely believe the Chamber of Commerce propoganda.
Until and unless these folks find out that "diversity" includes more than racial diversity, they will continue to be sadly misinformed.
It seems to me tht the very notion of "diversity" strikes at the notin of "my people", i.e. "my tribe", and this is one of the reasons why American have such ambivalent feelings about it. Sure, we believe that the U. S. is for all sorts of people, but mostly, I suspect, it's for ME.


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Not quite sure where to begin and where to end this post. Good Gracious what a ride though.
Friday was a busy prep day on site. We all worked on our entries for the categories of Dessert, Taste of the Homeland and the 4 main categories, Chicken Ribs Pork and Brisket. I got a bit behind as I was prepping my pork and we missed the parade for the teams. No worries though as we walked with the uber talented ISS (I Smell Smoke!) up to the distillery. The bus ride up to the Dinner on the Hill was uneventful but completely packed with people. Got to see some friends, have some fried chicken and come right back down. I wasn't interested in having any cocktails on the hill.
Friday night at the Jack I was as focused as I could have been, however, I still got to see some really great friends as they popped by for some "pops" and a chat or two :
Our friends Bill Gillespie, Shaune Connolly and Alan Burke from Smokin' Hoggz came by and we had a blast with them. The night previous we had been having a lot of fun at the hotel. There may have been some cocktails involved. Then some other folks showed up from Michigan (Steve Coddrington) and NY folks Moffats and our great friends from England !! Miss Piggy BBQ !!! Got to see our beloved friends Smoke on Wheels and their entire gang as well. Got to see my sisters in Smoke – Angie Quaale and Jenny Lawler Windsor and their boyz David and Jack ! (Didn' spend nearly enough time with them!)
Everywhere I turned there were folks I wanted to spend some time with ! Big Wayne and Jay Prince, Joshua all made a stop in and it was great to see these guys! From out neighbors next door – Big Bob Gibson to every other corner. Quau right across from us, Tommy Kelly Mike and the list goes on and on. Then the International teams !! Belgium, the UK, Grill Ueli and more!! Nancy & her daughter from Team Top Chick and just getting a hug from her is special. There just isn't enough time to see all those amazing people. Missed spending time with my Sister in Smoke Angie and David Gassaway
We did however receive many very kind gifts throughout the weekend from some very generous people- Gorgeous shirts from Miss Piggy's BBQ, Lots and lots of Apple Pie from (Thanks so very much!!) from quite a few teams and friends, wines, coffee and cheese from Buzz, cookies, candies and cakes. An uber cool Diva shot glass from Momma Prairie Smoke & Spice! The list could go on and on. Good gracious I know I am forgetting a whole lotta folks! I am so lucky to have so many great friends.
Jessie and I with help from Jamie worked right up until 3am on the dessert then I crashed out for a couple of hours. We had a Mack Daddy site! Greg and Debbie Talley from Sam Dog BBQ brought their 5th wheel out for us to use. It just goes to figure that the one time I have every luxury in the world I get the least amount of sleep. LOL The boys kept watch until 5 am in between power naps – they rocked!! It was cold as heck out and they kept the fire burning all night!
Dawn came and I took a walkabout with my teammate Patrick – got to see some folks power cookers lighting their pits and getting ready for their day. It was a beautiful start to the day !!
Then we were off to the races as they say. Sauce went in and it was yummy. Cooking from the homeland dish went in and it was delicious then came the meats!! Chicken went in without a hitch its looked amazing and there was loads of flavor throughout. Ribs went in. They looked fantastic but were average. Nothing spectacular. Pork went in and it rocked on flavor however presentation could have improved. Brisket went in and it was the bomb -awesome flavor in every bite! If you had asked me then I would have had high hopes for our brisket, then pork then chicken. Not so much for ribs.
Dessert went in and it was a 100% team effort. We all helped with the plating the carrying and the blocking to the turn in table. Its always a worry that someone will jostle the tray from your site to the turn ins at the Jack. Over 25,000 people are walking about !!
We got cleaned up as best we could had a whole lotta apple pie and cocktails and loaded up on bevvies for the awards ceremony. Took some pictures at the staging area:
My husband and I finally have a picture of us at the Jack.
We had a blast at the awards ceremony so cool to see so many of our friends!! Then we got our first call !! Happiest Home in the Hollow!! We need to thank our friends at Brown Forman Canada for helping us with some incredible Jack merchandise to show our love for their brand!! This is the second time we have won this award!!
We watched with great pride other teams from Canada get their names called !! Well Seasoned & the Black Pig BBQ for their taste of the Homeland Dishes!!! Awesome to see.
Then our beloved friends from Kansas Smoke on Wheels won Cooks Choice!!!!!! Uber awesomeness!!
Everything passes by so fast at the Jack that its hard to keep up
We didn't receive a call in Chicken or ribs but we got to see so many terrific people take walks. My phone was completely dead and I was sad not to be able to update peeps with Jack results and take pictures.
Then pork came and we cheered on Prairie Smoke and Spice for their 2nd place win!! Everything after that is pretty much a blur. We got called for 1st place PORK! At the Jack. Oh my flip I thought I was going to have a heart attack. They almost had to call a medic cause this Canadian chick lost her mind.
Head to 1:25 and you will get a better idea of what I am talking about.
The rest of the time and the night were a dream. We had quite the party after the awards!! Seeing our friends from big Bob Gibson get the RGC and then Smokin' Hoggz win the GC was incroyable!!!
I left my team to party and I went and crashed for a few hours. I was done in. I had come with some goals and had achieved them. Wired BBQ at the beginning of the Jack gave me an interview asking what I wanted to come out of the Jack with. I told them a 1st in Dessert a 1st in Happiest Home in the Hollow and a 1st in pork. Other than dessert I achieved my goals!! The big one for sure!
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
On the fundamental question--evolution or creation?--Americans are on the fence. According to one survey, while 61% of Americans believe we have evolved over time, 22% believe this evolution was guided by a higher power, with another 31% on the side of creationism. For some, modern science debunks many of religion's core beliefs, but for others, questions like "Why are we here?" and "How did it all come about?" can only be answered through a belief in the existence of God. Can science and religion co-exist?
Director, Origins Project and Foundation Professor, ASU
Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and author
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT
Author, What's So Great About Christianity
Author & Correspondent for ABC News
Director, Origins Project and Foundation Professor, ASU
Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist. He is the Director of the Origins Project and Professor of Physics at the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. Krauss has written several bestselling books including A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (2012). Passionate about educating the public about science to ensure sound public policy, Krauss has helped lead a national effort to defend the teaching of evolution in public schools. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.Learn more
Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and author
Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and Editor of Skeptic.com, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and an Adjunct Professor at Claremont Graduate University and Chapman University. Shermer's latest book is The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (2011). He was a college professor for 20 years, and since his creation of Skeptic magazine, has appeared on such shows as The Colbert Report, 20/20, and Charlie Rose. Shermer was the co-host and co-producer of the 13-hour Family Channel television series Exploring the Unknown.Learn more
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT
Ian Hutchinson is a physicist and Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and his research group are international leaders exploring the generation and confinement (using magnetic fields) of plasmas hotter than the sun's center. This research, carried out on a national experimental facility designed, built, and operated by Hutchinson's team, is aimed at producing practical energy for society from controlled nuclear fusion reactions, the power source of the stars. In addition to authoring 200 research articles about plasma physics, Hutchinson has written and spoken widely on the relationship between science and Christianity. His recent book Monopolizing Knowledge (2011) explores how the error of scientism arose, how it undermines reason as well as religion, and how it feeds today's culture wars and an excessive reliance on technology.Learn more
Author, What's So Great About Christianity
A New York Times bestselling author, Dinesh D'Souza, has had a distinguished 25-year career as a writer, scholar and intellectual. A former Policy Analyst in the Reagan White House, D'Souza also served as an Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as a Rishwain Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor's Business Daily, he quickly became a major influence on public policy through his writings. In 2008 D'Souza released the book, What's So Great About Christianity, the comprehensive answer to a spate of atheist books denouncing theism in general and Christianity in particular. D'Souza is also the former President of The King's College in NYC,
62% voted the same way in BOTH pre- and post-debate votes (31% voted FOR twice, 24% voted AGAINST twice, 8% voted UNDECIDED twice). 38% changed their mind (6% voted FOR then changed to AGAINST, 2% voted FOR then changed to UNDECIDED, 7% voted AGAINST then changed to FOR, 2% voted AGAINST then changed to UNDECIDED, 13% voted UNDECIDED then changed to FOR, 8% voted UNDECIDED then changed to AGAINST) | Breakdown Graphic
Thanks for the reply (#51 to my #49). Sorry if I conflated your potision with that of, say, Krauss, who isn't afraid to say that physicists know more about some philosophical questions than philosophers do. But at 9 minutes into the talk you do say that science has something to say about those [meaning, purpose, etc.] issues , and that it is delivering news to people with a lingering interest in religion. (The news of course, is that the universe doesn't care about you .) This is what I find suggestive of a lack of familiarity with relevant work in the arts and social sciences.The assertion that the universe doesn't care isn't as blatantly polemical as Dawkins' famous pitiless indifference , but it's close. Dawkins used a phrase that normally would apply to humans (inanimate things not being capable of pity or indifference), and applies it to the universe. His procedure is in the same logical category as those asserting that the universe loves you as if the universe might be the sort of thing that loves or hates you, but turns out to be rather more of the latter. Similarly, your assertion, while simply negative, carries a hint of this pseudo-anthropomorphism. The proof? Listen to the cheers of the young atheists in your audience. They associate pitiless indifference with a kind of existential heroism: we can take it , they say.And what I'm saying is that this heroism is uninformed and crude. There are many ways in which our feelings about the world or life in general can be rationally articulated so as to portray the world (or parts of it) as welcoming or appalling or boring (etc.), as worthy of our reverence or contempt or whatever…without reverting to a simplistic religious picture or its shadowy antithesis. Furthermore, there is an ethical argument to be made about what feelings toward the world we *should* express to others. We should be optimistic, for example, so as to encourage our children and neighbors (and ourselves); and we should, by the same reasoning, portray the world as welcoming rather than hostile, if we can find a rational way to do so.You didn't address my point about meaning as transcending the individual (because it inheres in culture and society). It's relevant because the idea that the individual is the source of all meaning is very much in line with the attitudes of young fans of Dawkins, Harris, et.al., viewing themselves as heroes who can suck it up in the face of the withering cosmic indifference. This is, in my view, a pernicious sociological development, for which some scientists bear an ethical responsibility. Don't go there Sean!
Does the north pole, longitude and latitude really exist in material reality? No. They are abstract human constructs that embody imaginary fixed locations that allow us navigate our world. It could be very easily argued that God and religion do much the same thing for human moral navigation. Just as you would not want your imaginary fixed navigational points shifting about frequently since it would make navigation problematic, so those who have imagined aspects of the divine do not like you putzing with their moral compass.Science has not been a very good exemplar of morality or ethics, because Science is dedicated to finding out how things function and not so much what should you do?'. I find it starkly common in scientific thinking that the ability to do something, anything for that matter, is license to do a thing, and claim such behavior inevitable in the name of progress'. For a few fine examples consider the fine Killer Bee, delightful Eugenics, Biological weapons, Pre natal sexual selection, and most human genetic engineering. Any act seems to be forgiven in the name of curiosity, and self restraint and self control are seen as insufferable limitations that should be cast off, along with free will it gets in the way of progress'. I notice that the first thing scientists do after they discover something is try to control it absolutely with little hesitation. What pray tell will scientists do when they claim to have found exactly how the human brain works? Most likely they will set about finding ways to control it as their tenants do not give them reason to pause and consider what they do, only that they can do it. As for Atheism, well. The fact that the universe is intelligible is the first assumption that must be made for any science or logic to be possible, and direct evidence that random chaos does not seem to be the governing principle of the universe. With an intelligible universe as a given (please don't be silly and say you can make a logical argument inside of an unintelligible universe) It would be wise to consider that we have only been looking about for a very short time, and in that short time humanity has created countless imaginary universes in our stories, myths,fictions, and religions. With engineering and science we have created our own indoor worlds that keep us more safe and comfortable than most of the surface of our planet can. Given how much we have created in such a short time How can you be so blithely certain that no one came long before us doing much the same thing..and given enough time on a far grander scale?
In the complicaetd world we live in, it's good to find simple solutions.
Interesting. Haven't had a chance to read through your blog too much yet, but what I have read has been enjoyable. The points raised assume one unfortunate Cartesian mistake: the assumption that we KNOW much of anything. Atheism and theism are both belief systems. One can no more disprove the existence of God than one can prove the existence. Therefore belief and nonbelief are both acts of faith alone. (Sorry atheists, the fact that you first make up your own definition of god and then surmise such a god doesn't exist does not make what you think fact. Sorry theists, the fact that your scripture says something does not make what it says fact either.) If a neighbor's child believes there are monsters under his bed, I don't take it upon myself to disprove the existence of monsters. It is a non-issue for me. If my child believes the same thing, I'll work with him to resolve the issue so he can sleep. If one neighbor is Muslim, another Christian, and another atheist, and they argue amongst themselves, I don't try to convince them any is right or wrong (maybe one, two, or all three are). If they do it belligerently at a party in my house, I try to help them come to terms with each other. (This has actually occurred-- love the diversity of thought, anyway.) Unless some divine presence makes itself known unequivocally, it will always be an unprovable, unending debate. Thinking our extremely limited understanding of the universe proves or disproves the existence of one or many gods is a very limited outlook and unscientific at best. I have my own beliefs, but that doesn't make me right or wrong. The idea that I hold a certain belief may be a fact, but it does not mean what I believe is fact. I just wish more people would understand that and stop the negative energy on all sides. (On the other hand, if any of you fellow human beings out there are omniscient, please let me know. I have some burning questions for you.) All that said, back and forth in a mutually respectful way can be fun and stimulate thought on all sides. I look forward to reading more from your debate.
about the relationship between science and ethics is experimentalism. Experimentalism has no pre-commitments about what reality is like; it does not make an a priori division of things into natural things and non-natural things. Rather, experimentalism has only two commitments, both of which have to do with the nature of evidence. First, whatever evidence we have for our beliefs about what exists must be experimental evidence. Taken broadly, experimental evidence is public, third-person-checkable observation, including observations of interventions (as in the case of controlled trials). Second, if no experiment could be devised to decide between two competing hypotheses, then those hypotheses are not really different they are merely notational variations. In addition to these two suppositions, the experimentalist carries with him or her a hope that whatever reality is like, it may be discovered through experimentation.3a. You ought to more carefully separate dualism and non-naturalism. The reason for rejecting Cartesian, interactionist substance-dualism was not that thinking substances were non-natural. Nor was it that Descartes couldn't think up a way for interactions to work. It was (as you say) that interactionism was incompatible with things like conservation of energy. But now, suppose we made very careful measurements and discovered that when people decide to do this or that thing, some energy is added to the physical system of their brains. Maybe the pineal gland gets a measurable little kick, as Descartes thought. Had that been what we found, I think we accept Cartesian dualism as at least roughly correct today, even if we had no good account of precisely *how* the interaction took place. The point is that (at least one version of) interactionism makes some experimental predictions that are not upheld in actual experiments.3b. Dualism potentially muddies the waters further in that dualism has several varieties not all of which are interactionist, substance dualism, and not all of which have been given up by respectable people. Even among the early moderns, you find non-interactionist dualisms. And today, you find varieties of dualism, like predicate dualism and property dualism, that are not so easily knocked down as is substance dualism. (Moreover, some prominent proponents of predicate or property dualisms today are atheists, and they think of their dualist commitments as perfectly naturalistic. And you can also find sophisticated theists who are not dualists.)Summing up: You would be better off calling yourself an experimentalist and then pointing out that experiments lead you to believe that active, personal divinities don't exist and that inactive, impersonal divinities do not provide opportunities for experimental test. You can happily stay away from dualism, which is a bit of a red herring in theism-atheism debate. Instead, defend the experimentalist presuppositions, since if you get people to agree to be experimentalists, then the experiments will carry them to the truth, whatever the truth may be. And then lay out how you think experiments bear on the question of the existence of divinities.
It depends on the level we are talking about. People like Stephen Hawking even think Einstein's Theory of Relativity can be improved upon because it is an approximation and does not meet the observations exactly. There are still questions about the differences between quantum physics and relativity. There are still things in the quantum world that remains mysterious such as entanglement. There are new species being discovered all the time which open a new light into the time period of evolutionary occurrences. And so on. I wouldn't label any of these total failures. More of a narrowing down to the truth.
But we do know how we came into being, and it wasn't from the rib bone of a human prototype. The folks arguing against this motion assume that the lack of a scientific explanation for the origin of the Big Bang constitutes evidence for their religious explanation, and in so doing are undermining everything they've said in previous discussions on religion. Isn't one of the oldest arguments FOR religion that lack of evidence does not constitute evidence of lack? They have claimed that lack of scientific evidence for God's existence does not mean God doesn't exist. Yet that's the logic they're using in reverse now with the Big Bang. They're saying that lack of evidence for a scientific explanation means there is no scientific explanation, which in turn must mean there's a God. Well they can't have it both ways. If that logic holds true, then science has refuted God a thousand times over. Just because they have found ONE scientific question our scientists haven't found the answer for yet doesn't mean there is not a scientific explanation. See, we already have plenty of evidence that science exists. We don't need to prove that science caused the Big Bang. It's self-evident.
This debate, (and the comments on it), present opinions that have little authority except that claimed by the author of the opinion. I don't object to the challenge to the authority of Scripture and by extension Christianity however for the most part the challenge is based on nothing more than opinion. I doubt that those taking the Darwinist position could present even a minimal grasp of the concepts that describe the Christian world view.
So what does Lawrence Krauss as director of the Origins Project have to offer us? A highly speculative description of the origin of the universe which attempts to explain how the universe as we know it came into existence. Is there one piece of scientific information, (fact), that he can present that provides irrefutable evidence to support the case for the spontaneous formation of the universe? The logic goes like this. We live in a material world. It had to come into existence somehow so we formulate some explanation no matter how unlikely and with no possibility of being tested and describe it as a working model. Who can challenge this? More to the point what authority is presented other than that of the author?
Darwinism, in fact can offer us little to address the question of the origin of life itself or answer the question of how it is possible to live in a universe that apparently was more ordered at one time and is now less ordered and continuing to be less ordered with every passing second. These issues ultimately demonstrate the limits of the scientific method to process Truth! This is not due to a lack of information ultimately-rather an unwillingness to pursue the implications of the evidence that has been uncovered. The Darwinist approach is to conclude the outcome of the debate before the substance of the debate is engaged.
Really you guys just need to see a person's blind eyes get opened when you pray for them, or deaf ears get open or a lame person walk when you share about the power of Jesus and pray for them. It's not "logical", its not "scientific" and it doesn't fit into any models. We'll never know the full extent of what there is to know about the universe. So how in the world can we say God doesn't exist or science refutes Him when we can barely figure out how we came to being, or the numerous other mysteries scientists give themselves too.
In view of scientific knowledge of evolution, humans have greater responsibility to refute the religions that divide and create ideology based violence and persecution, justified by religious doctrine. It produces nothing but self justified genocide and warring peoples...in the name of God...the ultimate insult to the Universe, and to mankind.
Ending these foolish superstitions and mysticism is the kindest act that humans can do for themselves in pursuit of a liberty all should have, free from the religious prisons of the mind built over thousands of years without science. We are a global village that needs to act like it.
By Darwin's own admission "irreducible complexity" disproves his theory. Think ribosomes, flagella etc. -- Darwinism is more akin to a religion than any type of scientific theory. Science can neither prove nor disprove it. The same can be said for intelligent design.
However, when you kick astronomy into the equation, our solar system, the function of the moon, elipitcal orbits versus circular, the unique attributes of the sun the idea of chance and other earths out there just waiting to be found seems the expectation of a fool.
Was disappointed with the debate. The audience reflected a Darwinist convention with no appreciation whatsoever of what science of the last 50 years has added to the arguments for or against intelligent design.
Religion, more than likely, was created to answer what mankind has always been unable to answer because he had not the technology or knowledge, and training, to discover the answers when religion was used as the substitute for the then unknowable.
The real question is whether humans are smart enough not to ruin the plant, destroy it, or make themselves extinct from their pick-and-choose knowledge used for their own self interest.
Quite a few apparently confused cleverness with wisdom when casting their votes.
I by accident watched this debate late last night. This was a non-debate because the opponents of "does science refute God" were representative of a premodern 19th century theology. The proponents were versed in modern quantum physics. The opponents had no familiarity with modern 20th Century theology and its existential approach to religion. I doubt that the producers of this show sought good thinking theologians. They ohly wished to create a specious debate. The great 20th Century theologians are of course dead: Paul Tillich, the Niebuhr brothers, Bultman, and Bonhoeffer. A few of their adherants are living - Marcus Borg, a few seminary professors, Rob Bell and some others like myself. Ciao,
Man made god
A very big deception of the devil is to get you to debate God, Christianity and other religions. This is one of the surest ways to ensure, that you will never experience real salvation and eternal life, and all the wonderful things God has predestined for you.
Let us just suppose (for those who do not have faith), that even if you argue and debate, and finally, even if it is a long shot, and you finally are logically convinced (by the way, there are many books,eg by thomas equinas that logically prove the christian faith) that there is a God, and that He is the christian God. Does it mean you are going to heaven, just because you are mentally or intellectually convinced that Jesus is God??????
Not at all. Not unless you have a spiritual experience called being born again.A logical belief in Christianity will prevent you from experiencing the Real Deal, that is a Spiritual Salvation in Christ in the following ways:
The devil was once a mighty archangel, and presently with billions of demons, evil spirits, unclean spirits, etc with a far superior intelligence than humans.Each human being is assigned to tens, if not hundreds of evil spirits and demon hordes, that would love for you to deny their existence. For if you deny their existence, then surely you will deny God's existence. It is extremely easy, 1,2,3 steps for Satan to deceive humans in more than a thousand ways.
Don't even think you can compete with satan intellectually. However, he has no control over your heart, and what you choose to believe.And that is the loophole, which God has opened up for you. The faith route is the only way you can bypass Satan,and his cronies who guard the intellectual gates of the human mind.
When you get in to the logic debate about God, few important things to consider in SPIRITUAL WORLD which is what actually matters:
1) You could be tempted to fall into the dungeon of SPIRITUAL PRIDE, as you are tricked into judging Almighty God, which is a fool's folly.Spiritual pride was the reason, for satan's downfall. Also for man's downfall, in garden of eden, as eve sucumbed to the temptation about being as knowledgeable as God.
This could also result in the person who is logically convinced that Jesus is God, as an intellectual knowledge of the truth, will become a STUMBLING BLOCK for a real SPIRITUAL SALVATION experience.
2) It could also lead to DECEPTION as the person, cannot find God in the intellectual domain, but only in the Spiritual domain. God's thoughts are far higher than yours, mine and the devil's, so you have to trust Him at His word. As it is written in the bible:
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
God is spirit, only a spiritual born again experience can save the person, and the first thing to do is to humble ourselves. Second, we need deliverance from demonic spirits of unbelief that hold people as captives. This can be done if the person humbles himself/herself and receives Jesus Christ into the heart. Deliverance can be done even online, and specific prayers can set the captives free.
I speak from experience. Not here to argue with anyone.
Simple challenge for those who are sincere: Ask God to open your eyes, and to reveal Himself to you.Ask in JESUS name.Simple. Try it. IT WORKS
I didn't realize until watching the debate how shallow the iqsquick process is. It'd have been a more valuable experience to watch the panel questioned by a skilled interviewer such as Charlie Rose. Viewers don't need 'bread and circus' before and after polling to indicate which side of a simplistic proposal is more believable.
God? What defines god?
The concept of god doesn't require eternal life. It's probable that when we die we'll return to the state that existed before our birth, no matter what our personal virtues and failings may have been.
Science knows a great deal but can only speculate on parameters which define the limits of reality. God is one of many names for the universal process from which our existence stems.
Humans are likely never to fully understand that process. For practical purposes everything that exists is part of a scientific miracle.
Scientists propose! God doesn't.
I'm uncomfortable with the question... because of its right/wrong win/lose nature... and the emotional baggage attached to the "God" word. I'd prefer more win/win explorations into the forces that impact life... including the mystical aspects of life.
Most of you are missing the point. A (nondescript) god/deity cannot be proven to exist or not exist because that god/deity is a non-falsifiable hypothesis, as easily dismissed as it is asserted. Think of satirical examples such as the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Celestial Teapot, etc. However, if one is intellectual honest with oneself, one MUST admit that the god/deity they follow IS well described and DOES have characteristics and attributes that ARE falsifiable. Especially when talking about the Christian/Muslin/Jewish god(s). That particular god has attributes, widely accepted by its followers, and those claims such as physical manifestations, miracles, prayer answering, historicity of religious text and the contradictions and atrocities found within. These are all falsifiable, testable claims that when challenged, DO NOT stand up. That is why when it comes to the god of the bible and koran, he CAN be proven not to exist.
The motion requires that God is within the rational grasp of methodological materialism. If a god is outside of empirical invalidation then there's no point in talking about whether or not God is refuted by science.
It should be established by the opposition to the motion whether or not God can be invalidated. If God can be invalidated, then there are some important logical questions that comes to the forefront. A falsifiable God has to answer to some profound logical contradictions before we can even talk about empirical invalidation.
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Big movie and book news has been released since our last episode and we need to talk about it! We put together this special episode to briefly talk the Episode VII casting and to dig into the big Star Wars Expanded Universe news.
- As our guest this episode we have Megan from Blog Full of Words and Den of Geek.
- Episode VII casting. We give our thoughts on the return of the original actors and the fresh faces.
- Finally! We get official word from Lucasfilm on the future of the EU.
- What did Timothy Zahn have to say about the announcement and is he way off base?
- Will new books and comics be bland? We discuss the possibility that the publishers will play it safe in order to keep things clear for future movies.
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Way to Better Education is to Give Parents, Kids Choice
I was intrigued by Ruth Bettelheim's column "With assembly line approach, public schools fail our kids." It was an informative piece that raised two very important issues (The Forum, Wednesday).
First, America's educational supremacy relative to other nations occurred during the heyday of the "traditional" education she seems to criticize. Our decline started immediately upon adopting what is called "progressive" education. This provides evidence that there probably is a place for the traditional classroom.
Second, Bettelheim's advocacy of "individualized, self-directed" learning is warranted. It is an important and necessary innovation. However, your readers need to know that this vision can never be realized in today's bureaucracy-based, union-driven education industry. The only way to truly "individualize" education is to have the money follow the child to a large network of independent, dynamic, content providers. Either way, the time has come to empower parents and increase educational choices. This can't be achieved under the current model.
Bruno Behrend, director
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Family Literacy Night
Location:St. Helena Branch
Date & Time:Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 6:30pm
Join us for activities and fun for the family that will help to build the love of reading and to improve literacy skills. Ages 4 and up (children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult caretaker). No registration required.