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I ask here my question because I couldn't find anything on internet. My problem is about 〜くて form for a verb. I asked to a japanese friend what does mean "会いたくて" for example. She told me that there is a complicated nuance behind that... It means "I want to meet you (but I can't)" I didn't have the opportunity to ask again so I ask here... Does someone explain me the using of 〜くて ? I'm so confused (>_<) Especially with the form which express the desire like "食べたい" → "食べたくて" Thank you in advance !
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~くて is not an ending for a verb, it is the ~て form of an i-adjective. In your case the i-adjective formed by the verb 会う + the ending ~たい, where the ending ~たい is translated as "to want to".
The ~て form of a verb, adjective or noun is used as a connective, which can sometimes be translated simply as "and", but sometimes this "and" can be interpreted to give a reason for what follows.
In your case
Was there an ellipsis character (as opposed to linguistic ellipsis as pointed out by @user1205935) after the
If there was a "but" before it etc, e.g.
(I think I also often see this usage of
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Well, such a form has several meanings depending on the case. I am going to provide a brief overview, but it can be helpful. The pattern is always the same:
I am going to provide a direct answer for the specific case pointed out in the question, then, considering that you wanted a generic explanation about the 〜くて form, I am going to post more cases.
In your specific case...
In your case you have a sentence where the 〜たい form is applied. Such a form has the following pattern:
And is used to express will, intention. For example:
Please note that the 〜たい form turns your verb into an い-Adjective. After this, you apply the 〜くて pattern to the verb/adjective and get the 〜くて form. So what is the meaning? Among the possible ones, one is the one reported below.
〜くて as a conjunction
When used for い-Adjectives, the following pattern:
Can be used to put together some sentences. For example:
You can make concatenation of adjectives using this pattern.
About your answer...
last option I showed in this post (some sort of ellipsis as someone else described before):
For a better comprehension, post the full sentence.
Other meanings associated to the 〜くて form...
I promised since you asked for a generic answer. Below I listed some other meanings of the 〜くて form.
In spoken Japanese, used to leave a certain "negation"-like feeling in the air
It is used very often in spoken language and in conversations. Consider the following example where 笑{えみ}子{こ}, a woman working in a shop, is apologizing because she picked the wrong color for a t-shirt a client wanted to check:
As you can see, Emiko thought one thing, but the problem turned out being a completely different one.
Consider this different situation:
Daddy thought his son needed a new bag, but the son told him that it was not necessary.
In these kinds of situation, when you want to express a little disappointment and embarass for something not necessary, you use this form.
To express the cause for something that happened
You can use the same pattern in order to point out the cause for a certain event to happen. However this form can only be used for verbs in negative forms. Pattern is:
Consider the following example:
The previous is not a sentence really used a lot in spoken language, to say sorry for being late Japanese use other forms, but sometimes kids use that. Consider this example as well:
Or this:
To express something like: "no need of..."
The pattern is the following:
But Japanese people, only in common conversations and where all people are at the same level (so no boss, no section manager and so on...), do tend to drop も from 〜くても, so the pattern can also be:
Where も in square brackets means: optional. The meaning of this pattern is: "No need of...". Consider the following example.
When the sentence is "いいです", so we have the following pattern:
The meaning is: "No need...". Consider the following example:
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Religious Causes and Economic Effects?
Over at Mirror of Justice, Rick Garnett rightly calls our attention to a recent New York Times article by Jason DeParle profiling two families, as the headline says, "divided by 'I do.'" As Garnett reads the piece, it is a morality tale about the tragedy that awaits those who make "less traditional lifestyle choices," and indeed, the article is framed as a piece on the economic benefits of the traditional nuclear family. However, if one reads past the headline, the picture becomes significantly more complex, and Garnett's takeaway: "It's not just that marriage might be 'confined' to the fortunate classes; it's also, it seems, that mobility into those classes (or not) is connected to the decisions that people make -- and that people's parents make -- about marriage and childrearing," becomes less tenable (to the extent that it is not meant to be trivial).
It strikes me that stories like this one that look at trends in domestic life, which seem to be increasingly noting the decline of the "traditional family," often serve as opportunities for those who have "done it right" to receive a healthy dose of self-congratulatory affirmation regarding the choices that they have made. For those who have been guided in those choices by certain religious values, numbers showing the unsurprising practical benefits of living in a two-income household tend to be excitedly, if illegitimately, extended to add metaphysical credence to their "worldview." Yet, in this piece, it is far from obvious that anything like a traditional theology of marriage is driving the upward mobility of our nuclear heros, as Garnett's "values-oriented" interpretation would seem to have it.In fact, the seven times that "church" is mentioned in the article, it is in the context of talking about the upbringing and current "lifestyle" of Ms. Schairer, the "non-traditional" parent in the story. Nowhere in the story do the "traditional" Faulkners talk about their own religious observance. The differences that are cited for their successful marriage are increased education and earning potential, andthough she acknowledges the role of her own decisions,the hardships of Schairer's situation stem from having not finished college due to a pregnancy in her freshman year. The story reports, "Abortion crossed her mind, but her boyfriend, an African-American student from Arkansas, said they should start a family." As you can probably guess, the "they" suggested by her boyfriend eventually became a "she," and now Schairer is raising three kinds on a single, high-school-educated salary.So, it is far from the case that marriage alone is the solution to the economic woes of the "less fortunate" classes, but it is marriage at the right time, which means before children, after college, and after getting a job. Speaking of the Faulkners, DeParle writes, "They did not inherit wealth or connections or rise on rare talent. They just did standard things in standard order: high school, college, job, marriage and children." It is important to note, however, that this order presupposes at least enough antecedent wealth and opportunity to complete college and secure a job as well as the wherewithal to delay childbirth until those prerequisites are met and reliably plan subsequent pregnancies in order to maintain the economic benefits of a two-income household.While I'm sure Garnett would have his own ideas on how to meet this latter requirement, I imagine it would be far more comforting and empowering for those concerned if we saved the sanctimonious speeches about "traditional marriage" and simply gave people access to the practical, material means by which they might build a life. To this end, as Diane Johnson has recently argued, "Perhaps the most seriously useful decision society could make might be that menpoliticians or priests and possibly doctorswould not have the power to decide on things particular to women, beyond their own roles of fertilization and cooperative child-rearing."
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"de Parle writes, They did not inherit wealth or connections or rise on rare talent. They just did standard things in standard order: high school, college, job, marriage and children. It is important to note, however, that this order presupposes at least enough antecedent wealth and opportunity to complete college and secure a job as well as the wherewithal to delay childbirth until those prerequisites are met and reliably plan subsequent pregnancies in order to maintain the economic benefits of a two-income household."There are a lot of issues that this excellent article raises. But the most exigent one for Schairer is that she made some decisions while young that put her in a hole that she is unable to climb out of, and now her children are at a disadvantage, too. Would the trajectory of her and her children's lives have been different had she married the father? It's impossible to say. Perhaps it would have made her and the children's lives even worse. I certainly won't speculate as to whether or not it would have been the right thing to do. In that sense, I wouldn't hold up marriage as a magic panacea that will solve the economic woes of all single mothers. But it just seems to me that decisions before and leading up to marriage are at least as important as the marriage in determining the trajectory of the life.The role of the church, istm, is to figure out a way to preach and teach traditional morality, in as unsanctimonious a way as possible, and in as compelling a way as possible, to women and men who are in the stage of life that college-age Ms. Schairer and the father of her children were in. I've tried, and it's not easy to find the right tone. I'm still searching for it. That it is more difficult for the children of single moms to participate in extra-curriculars is something I hadn't considered before. Istm there are opportunities for families with stay-at-home parents to help their single-parent neighbors by taking kids to and from activities. Something to think about.
Instead of denying the documented correlation between prosperity and traditional marriage, why not instead point out that the traditional case for marriage is not that it makes you richer? And why not add that people who wait till their careers are well established to get married, are sexually active long before then, have children only after they marry, and get divorced after they have children are not obviously better examples of Christian sexual morality than, say, a mother who dropped out of school when her first child was born, never married the child's father, but raised her family with him -- and remained poor? The overlap between virtue and success is not as extensive as the successful middle class likes to imagine.
"it's not good for man to be alone" Genesis 2;18" two are better than one, they get a good wage for their labor" Ecclesiastes 4;9nothing there about traditional marriage , just common sense.Even with gays, when together, we see a big difference in their fortunate income level. in my San Francisco.The real problem is that adolescent individualism has now reached to the age of 25.
Matt: I don't think that the "documented correlation" is "between prosperity and traditional marriage." What I call "trivial" and "unsurprising" is the correlation between prosperity and two-parent households, when compared with single-parent ones. The factors that seem to be important for the kind of economic benefits that Garnett is touting are double incomes and shared childcare responsibilities. As many commenters on the Times piece pointed out, gay couples would easily fit the bill as well as unmarried couples that are cohabiting. So, the point is that the ideology of "traditional marriage" has nothing to do with prosperity, and as you seem to agree, it certainly is not causally related to upward mobility, as Garnett seems to suggest.As a side note, I think a stronger claim could be made that virtue not only has nothing to do with success, but in this case, the virtues associated with marriage and sexuality have little to contribute to economic justice. That might be a conversation for another time though.
Eric Bugyis, in my view, seems to have mis-read (or maybe over-read) my post -- seeing it as an "ideology of traditional marriage" post rather than a "some arrangements are better for children" post -- and ascribes to me motivations or attitudes that (I don't think) I have. http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2012/07/more-on-the-i-d...
'So, it is far from the case that marriage alone is the solution to the economic woes of the less fortunate classes, but it is marriage at the right time, which means before children, after college, and after getting a job.'This statement goes way beyond the implications of the article. Even if Schairer education ended when it did, and the children's father did nothing more than be present in the home, both she and the children would have been much better off. Having anther adult to share parenting duties with is better for both parents and the children on numerous levels. And there was nothing in the article which said anything about gay marriage. To assume that two same-sex adults bring the same benefits to kids in the same home is completely unsubstantiated and unwarranted. Adults conceived through sperm donation searching for their natural parent show those assumptions are completely false.
"She was 25 when the breakup made it official: she was raising three children on her own."What I wonder is: where are her siblings, parents, and extended family? What's family for if not to step in when these situations occur? What about her close friends? What about her church community? What about other parents giving her children rides to and from school? Not having a husband doesn't have to imply being alone to raise children. As to her sick leave after cancer treatment being reduced from 6 weeks to 1 week because of her need of money: one would hope that her employer was easy on her during that time, paying her for not doing much, and that her church community took care of meals and of practical matters.This portrays a very cold society.
"Even if Schairer education ended when it did, and the childrens father did nothing more than be present in the home, both she and the children would have been much better off. "Bruce - with respect, I don't think we're in a position to assess that. It's conceivable that they could be even worse off - e.g. if the father is emotionally or physically abusive. Marriages and relationships need to be evaluated by their own lights, and not merely for their utilitarian benefits.
This reminds me of a homily I once heard in Rhode Island, in which the homilist, as his main point, made the case that parents should take their children to Mass because it's been statistically shown that kids who go to church regularly have better grades in school.There was also a homily in which he said (in passing) that it's good to go to Mass because it's been statistically shown that religious people are happier.But I am still waiting for a wedding homily in which he will make the case that people should get married because it's been statistically shown that married people are richer.But, I wonder: aren't Episcopalians, or Presbyterians, richer than Catholics? Maybe it's time to switch denominations.
Claire - the article reports that Schairer's family did live with her parents for a while. But my observation is that most of those sorts of arrangements don't work out permanently. It's hard on everyone. But you're definitely right that a support network or lack thereof can make the difference between poor-but-making-it and poor-and-really-not-making-it.
Lets take a look at some unexpected reality that, more and more, visits families who have done things the right way.In order to survive in this economy both parents usually have to work outside of the home. That means that both parents have to also share burdens in the home. From what I read, that is a reality not necessarily realized in way too many cases.Then, of course, there are those families fortunate enough that one wage earner can support the other partner and any ensuing children.What if one (or the only one) of those wage-earners loses her/his job? Or becomes permanently or long term temporarily incapacitated? That family can end up in virtually the same situation of the single parent who has to struggle with lower wages and all of the situations that visit his/her family.Then there are those families who play by the rules, raise their children by the rules, but then see that not all of their children turn out right. What does THAT say about doing things the right way? Then there are those single parent families that end up with children who turn out to be model citizens, successful and all around good people. What does THAT say about doing things the right way? The two parent family did everything the right way, but still can suffer the same as the single parent family. What does THAT say about doing things the right way? It tells me that counting on a formula does NOT guarantee happiness, family success or anything else.All of this tells me that relationship success can be, at best, a crap shoot. No matter the family style, counting on success just because you play by the rules is a fools dream.Relationships of all kinds need constant hard work in the HOPE (not guarantee) that they will work out.
And I'm not even talking about the divorce rate among those traditional couples who did things "the right way." Good Catholics, too.
Matthew: Most "successful" middle class people who delay marriage don't consider their premarital sexual behavior to have been wrong and don't factor it into any virtue calculation they might be doing relative to other less successful people. They have moved on from traditional morality in that sense.
Barbara,That's a fair point. But conservative moralists who herald studies indicating an economic advantage to waiting till one is married to have children rarely mention that doing things in this order is not a proof of chastity or patience or any other virtue, except perhaps prudence -- not when most people who wait until marriage to have children do not wait until marriage to have sex. In other words, the available economic data do not vindicate the traditional Christian understanding of sex and marriage, which is notably silent about the importance of securing two incomes per household.I do think many middle-class people (including those who would laugh at the idea that it's immoral to have sex before marriage) think of themselves as morally superior to those who have children before they are "economically secure" (that is, middle class). On this view, it is not the fault of society or the state that poor children have fewer opportunities than middle-class children; it is the fault of poor adults for having children before they can promise them the opportunities that come with affluence. First you get an education, then you get a job that pays well, and only then do you start a family, so that you can offer your children the advantages they need to flourish in our economy. To do otherwise is irresponsible. And if our economy makes it harder and harder for people to find secure employment until they're in their mid-thirties, then people should wait till they're in their mid-thirties to get married and have children. I have as little patience for this attitude as I do for conservatives who bemoan the recklessness of motherhood outside of marriage.
Matthew, they may feel superior, but I question whether they feel morally superior. Although you may have little patience for the view, and indeed, I think we should strive to do, can do, and have even in the recent past done better by people generally, it is something of a demonstrated fact that in times of distress the age at first marriage rises considerably -- true during the Depression and most other "hardship" eras. The 1950s, where age at first marriage was lower, number of children per family was higher, than in previous decades, is actually an outlier decade (or so): the clear trend over the previous 120 years was higher age at first marriage and lower birth rate, even notwithstanding relativley paltry choices in contraception. A little known fact, John Stuart Mill way back in the 1820s was arrested for publicly facilitating access to contraception.
I dont think were in a position to assess thatJim,You are being much to generous. Only a few men are abusive. In most circumstances, it is possible for the couple to stay together. That needs to be the assumption unless proven wrong; the opposite leads to the disintegration of the family. That is the core of this woman's and her children's problems.Our society wants the couple to split up when problems arise; but that is only an illusory solution which creates far more difficult problems as this article outlines.
What does THAT say about doing things the right way?Jim McCrea,Families with 2 parents have the inherent capacity to deal with changes affecting one because the other can adjust. There is no guarantee that doing things 'the right way' will prevent problems, but doing things 'the right way' creates a situation where adjustments are expected and occur more easily.
I apologize if this is a really dumb question. Inasmuch as the father of Schairer's children never married Schairer, are his legal child-support obligations identical to what they would have been had they married? In other words, does the law put unmarried fathers and formerly married fathers on an equal footing?
Jim: If paternity is established or uncontested, child support obligations are identical. Even dependent SS benefits are identical. Marriage/divorce would change the situation mostly with respect to considering whether the spouse is owed support in his/her own right.
I suppose it wouldn't be difficult to find examples of families in Schairer's and Faulkner's community that complicate DeParle's thesis. A married-couple household in which one of the parents is unemployed for a long enough period to consume the family savings presumably would be experiencing the same economic, if not social, distress that Schairer's family does. I'd think one could trawl through the faculty at University of Michigan or the high-tech startups in the Ann Arbor area and find examples of professors or career women who are single or divorced moms but who earn adequate income to be able to swing child care and care for the special-needs kid.
Barbara, thanks for that info. That seems just/right, and I'm glad to hear that's how it is.
Matthew and Barbara, your conversation is highlighting that our culture seems to have arrived at a consensus of an ideal sequence - first college, then career, then children - that traditional Christian morality doesn't insist upon. Are all three of those elements essential to climb into a secure a hold on the middle class? To what degree does the sequential order matter? Does Christian morality insist upon a middle class lifestyle for all?
Here's a thoughtful reaction to the NYT story by a child of a single mother household. He doesn't recommend sanctimony but he wouldn't be unhappy to see a revival of stigma regarding out of wedlock births to single parents."Just because I turned out fine doesnt mean that everything is fine."http://www.theamericanconservative.com/this-childs-view-of-single-mother...
I don't really think it matters two bits whether Ms. Schairer married the father of her children. He had no interest in fatherhood once it really hit him, and their more permanent union, such as it was, was simply the byproduct of an accident. We like to think of and popular culture portrays happiness as something you can plan yourself out of and most likely to hit when you are least expecting to find it. No doubt you can overcalculate to your detriment -- but it is my working assumption that people whose lives are built around the execution of intentional plans and focused dreams have always had a better shot at happiness than those who fall into things -- jobs, spouses, parenthood and just about anything else. I don't think her life should be as hard as it is, schools should be better funded, the safety net higher -- but it's hard for me to see that dropping out of your planned for course of education because of an accidental pregnancy is ever going to be the road to happiness. And I think that was true in the 1950s as well, where roles were better defined -- people who got married because they "had to" might have grown to love each other, but many did not. You know that fortune will always be as fickle now and in the future as it has been in the past -- why go out of your way to put yourself at her mercy?
As a side note, many women academics in the US buy into the "first college, then career, then children", and for academics, that often translates into blunt advice given by many women who have reached senior positions: "wait until after tenure" (which, even in a hot field like mine, usually means until at least 35 years old), and "have at most one child" - mothers of two are treated with various back-handed compliments, and mothers of three - actually, right now I can't think of any in my field who did their studies and career in the US. That's actually better than in Math, where 25 years ago a potential PhD advisor told his eager female student, a friend of mine: "I don't take female PhD students. If I do, I invest time teaching them how to do research, but then they go off to get married and have kids, and they're lost for science. It's a waste of time." My friend managed to stay on (for a bit) by pledging that she would not get married nor have kids.Certainly, the author of the article should push his thought on step further: to maximize economic benefits, do get married but do not have any children. As long as he is measuring the economic cost of each decision, I bet that having children affects income more adversarially than not getting married. So, no kids is optimal.
Barbara,You write that in times of distress people tend to wait longer to get married. But you also note that the average age of first marriages has been going up and the birthrate falling for the past 120 years. I think this suggests these trends aren't really about economic distress. (Overall, the last century has not been a period of economic distress.) These trends are mostly about changing attitudes toward sex, marriage, and childbirth. When most people agreed it was immoral to have sex before marriage, people married earlier. When most people believed that parenthood was the normal consequence of sex and marriage, people had more children. Material conditions are not irrelevant to these trends -- when infant mortality rates fall, so do birthrates; with greater access to effective contraception comes greater use of contraception, before and after marriage -- but, in general, cultural changes seem more important than business cycles.
I bet that having children affects income more adversarially than not getting married. So, no kids is optimalClaire, There is no data to substantiate your statement. It entirely possible that parents with children are more focused and willing to sacrifice to maintain their employment that DINKs.
While I insist that opportunities should be available to everyone I do believe there is something to say in living within one's means. I know so many people who make half or less than other people and they saved more money and had better living space. Part of it may be American marketing whose number 1 goal is to get people to buy things they do not need. Parents are helping children out who make twice, or even four times as much. This is a matter of discipline and/or bad choices. Secondly, the view that married people are better off because of economics is perhaps an insult to marriage since ideally it is a relationship to have and to hold during all kinds of vicissitudes. So the proper description in this case is when there are two people have opportunities to do more things. More of an economic agreement than marriage. In too many cases the decision to marry is based on income rather than character. Sadly, economic prosperity trumps all. It is the country's Protestant heritage where prosperity is equated with holiness. It is the industrious who are saved. There are many single women with children who do better than married people and they are high school graduates -many of them.
Also, the mistake that Rick Garnett makes is that he makes it a case of all single mothers many of whom are less responsible than the woman portrayed in the article.
Bruce, I asked my search engine, and this is the first thing that came up.http://www.ehow.com/info_7904316_couples-children-vs-couples-children.ht... you, I'm not advocating it.
Families with 2 parents have the inherent capacity to deal with changes affecting one because the other can adjust.Bruce: is that why divorce rates are as high as they are? Weird form of adjustment, dont you think?Patrick Molloy: If you want to proof text ----http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/familystability.htmhttp://www.usatod...
Matthew, both of those things are true. I haven't looked at data recently, but there was a general upward trend for age at first marriage, and downward trend for birth rate over that period -- with marked spikes during real times of economic distress, and then recovery to the mean, with resumption of the general trend, except for the decade of the 1950s in which the general trend was reversed on both measures, until it resumed again sometime in the 1960s.I was referring to the spikes, mostly, in my prior e-mail, but the trend has also been clear, especially with falling birth rate, which occurred well before people began condoning premarital sexual activity, that is, while it was still considered to be immoral. Agree that cultural changes matter more than business cycles, but I just note that (as Ms. Schairer shows) life can be a lot harder when you are countercyclical in your behavior.
Matthew: don't you think that, in days of yore, a contributing factor to people marrying earlier was because total life expectancy was much shorter?http://www.wisegeek.com/how-have-life-expectancy-rates-changed-over-time...
Anne-Marie Slaughter's article in The Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can't Have It all", has proven the most popular from that that magazine. (I wonder if it inspired the NYT article.) She was on the Colbert Report the other night, and the word she used that stuck out like a sore thumb to me was "tired". The young, working, married wife/mothers I know don't seem to get enough sleep either. I wonder how much their ambition for their children has to do with it. Yes, their husbands do work around the house. Are they tired all the time too? What is going on here? http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-can-...
Claire --You're quite right. Single people have less disposable income than married ones without kids because we don't share some expenses, including big ones like mortgages and car payments. But add kids into the mix and expenses go up - e.g., for a good high school and college for two kids. Depends.
Claire, so everyone, including the Faulkners would be economically better off without children. I don't think that was what the article was about. Indeed, although the focus was on marriage, really, the focus should have been on the TREND AWAY FROM marriage and towards single motherhood. I don't think anyone was surprised by how hard Ms. Schrairer's load is -- I certainly wasn't -- it's that an increasing number of women are headed down the same path she is already on. THAT'S newsworthy.
Matt and Barbara: I hear you having two different conversations, which is what I was trying to get at in the post. On the one hand, there are pragmatic concerns for those interested in the material welfare of children and families. On the other hand, there are moral questions concerning sex and marriage. Those who have a moral commitment to a certain "lifestyle" that falls along "traditional marriage" lines will not and, I would think, ought not to be discouraged by the material sacrifices that they have to make along the way. I'm not a consequentialist about morality. However, these material sacrifices may be severe enough to prove impractical and "unsuccessful" to many, which is not strictly a moral judgement. The question is: Should/Can we as a society make up the gap between material success and morality, in particular, for those children who may be disadvantaged in the former category because of their parents' commitments to the latter? This is a difficult question, but I think it's helpful to keep separate the "should" and the "can" because what we ought to do does not always translate so easily into having the ability to do it and vice versa. In the end, of course, I think we should make it easier for people to care for children, and we should do all we can to make it possible for people to live their lives in the way that they feel called. But I think we can all agree that the successful life does not equal the moral life, and the morality of a life is certainly not proven, or even made more plausible, by its being successful.
"Matthew: dont you think that, in days of yore, a contributing factor to people marrying earlier was because total life expectancy was much shorter?"Yes, Jim, I do. (I also think that birthrates fell partly because of the sharp decline in infant mortality -- as Barbara points out, birthrates began to fall before attitudes toward premarital sex changed.) It's hard to know how the shift in cultural attitudes relates to medical advances. Perhaps we have just made a virtue of new possibilities.My main point is this: Those who would uphold the Church's traditional teachings about sex and marriage ought to oppose economic arrangements that, by discouraging people from marrying young, make chastity more difficult than it should be. To paraphrase Dorothy Day, a good society is one in which it does not require heroic virtue to obey the precepts of the Church. Now, most cultural conservatives do not oppose these arrangements and seem generally untroubled by the fact that people are marrying later and later.
Another reason for marrying young was that many wanted to indulge in sex without the stigma of sex outside marriage. This new practice is due to the sexual revolution. The advice on marrying older followed the new sexual mores. It did not produce them.
This really is more complicated than it appears at first blush.We've been kicking around the morality of the newish middle-class ideal sequential pattern of three elements, "first college, then career, then children". Now we're introducing a fourth element, marriage.For my parents, who were married in the '50s, the ideal sequence would have been "first college, then marriage, then children, then career". My aunt and uncle, who are of the earlier part of the baby boom and graduated from college sometime in the late '60's, tell me that they were invited to something like 19(!) weddings the summer after they graduated from college, which I take as some strong evidence that at least the college-marriage part of the sequence was extremely well-established, not only as an ideal, but a norm for the middle class.Thinking about it a little more, I guess we've also introduced a fifth element, sex. For my parents, the ideal sequence unquestionably would have been college-marriage-sex-children-career. The upwardly mobile dad of those times didn't wait to start a family; he dragged his wife and children from state to state as he advanced his career. Career might have "come first" in terms of priorities, but children came first, temporally speaking.I suppose that, in theory, any possible combination of college-marriage-sex-children-career could happen (well, except for sex-children), but the ordering that must be avoided at all costs is to have children before college, as Ms. Schairer's life bears witness. How interesting that none of these combos from a generation or two ago are the same as college-career-children that seems to be the ideal today. Or, to add in the other elements according to Matthew's reasonable suppositions, sex-college-career-marriage-children (perhaps with minor variations to that order).I guess the lesson of the article is, use the Pill correctly, as the Faulkners might have. Result: middle-class comparative bliss. Or, use the Pill incorrectly or forget to use it, as Ms Schairer may have. Result: Lower-middle-class misery.
You all seem to be assuming that most everybody should go to college. I doubt that is so, unless the skills to participate in the new technological economy are so difficult that 4 more years of schooling is needed after highschool. I don't think this is true. For some kids, high school will be enough. Many others will need another year or two of learning specific skills for the job opportunities in their own area. (Job opportunities will alwas vary by the business there.) Also, there are many highly intelligent kids who can skip a grade or two. I guess my message is that school in the U. S. is too lock-stepped.I am assuming, of course, that high schools and "community colleges" can be improved mightily. The brains are there. Note: trade schools (for electriicans, mechanics, etc.) have historically seemed to keep up their standards high. I wonder how they did it.
"You all seem to be assuming that most everybody should go to college."It's the middle-class ideal. Ideals aren't always realized.
Whether everyone should go to college or not is another debate. If you plan your future around going to college, dropping out because you are pregnant is definitely problematic. I understand that there are people who pine for the early marriage + children model, but if you want that you need to advocate for the social structures and policy supports that made it possible. They have all but vanished. Even in developed countries with much stronger safety nets, age at birth of first child is much later than it used to be.Also, Jim, I really resist the notion that Ms. Schairer lives in lower middle class misery. No doubt her life is hard on a day to day basis, but I didn't get the sense that she or her children are miserable, and what seems hardest for the boy doesn't seem to relate so much to money as it does to the fact that he is on the specturm (for autism).
Barbara - yes, you're right, her family doesn't seem particularly miserable. It seems to me she's handling what life has dealt her better than a lot of other folks would.
-- You all seem to be assuming that most everybody should go to college. Its the middle-class ideal. Ideals arent always realized. --If I had a child who isn't wild about college, the efforts required, nor the daunting future bills, I'd encourage her/him to go to a good trade school.Where I live, plumbers get $95 per hour, portal to portal! What liberal arts grads can expect that kind of money - even if they can find a job? Good reliable plumbers are worth their weight in gold. Electricians also do very well. But the hardest thing to find (and quite costly when you do) is small jobs generalists.


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I am making an Android game that is only in portrait screen orientation. It works great when I run it on my phone, but when I run it on a tablet, even though the screen size is bigger, all of the bitmaps are the same size. Is there any way to make the bitmaps stay the same proportion even on different size screens?
Unless you're using AbsoluteLayout (Usually a very bad idea, as you design your layout using x/y coordinates, which will only suit the device it's been designed on) this should not happen - Android applications automatically adjust to the device's screen-size. However from what you describe (Layout does not adjust to Table Screen), it sounds like AbsoluteLayout might be the issue here.
Make sure that in your layout XML files you're NOT using absolute layouts (this includes setting explicit coordinates/widths/heights on any kind of View). Instead consider using:
... whatever best suits your purpose.
If you're new to Android, then Google offers a nice tutorial that introduces to the different Layout Types mentioned above. More tutorials can be found here.
Furthermore your API Level would be relevant (to know whether you're using Android 2.x or 4.x - I don't assume 3.x as it's not available for Smartphones) to figure out the cause of your issue.
Are you forcing your Application into Portrait mode by setting:
... in your Activity that displays the game's views?
Please provide more info on how you're layouting your views (are you using XML for the layout that you later inflate in your Activity, or are you using in-code layouting in your Activity etc....) ? Furthermore: Did you try running your app in a Smartphone - and Tablet-sized Emulator? If yes, does the issue persist?
The OP asked how he can scale the bitmap's he's using in his game. One option (from all I know about the OP's setup): The SurfaceHolder.Callback that you're overriding to display your game and on which you render all the Bitmaps etc... has a method called:
That method gives you the width/height of your surface, so you could now use:
from the Bitmap class. To resize your images in proportion to the size of the surface you're drawing onto.
What you need to do is this: If you know the dimensions of your bitmap in relation to a given screensize, for instance the screen-size of your smartphone. Then you can calculate the target dimensions of the scaled bitmaps. Here is the math (wrapped in an example):
Say you have a Bitmap A with the dimensions 25x50 (widthxheight) which is displayed on a screen with the dimensions 100x200 (widthxheight). For that screen size (100x200) the bitmap has the correct dimensions - now if you want to display the bitmap on a larger screen you need to:
Say the larger screen is 200x300 (widthxheight) then the scale-factor for the width is:
So 2 is our scale-factor for the width and height value of the bitmap, since we need to maintain the aspect ratio of the bitmap, we can simply multiply the scale factor with the width and height of the bitmap:
So using our example bitmap A from above and the mentioned formula, the new dimensions of the bitmap would be: 50x100 (widthxheight) because:
Soo now that we know the new size of our bitmap we simply use the API call I mentioned above and fill in the blanks:
myBitmap in the above example is the original bitmap A that had the dimensions 25x50 and is scaled to 50x100 using the above code-snippet.
However - this wouldn't solve your original issue of the application taking up only the upper right corner of a tablet-sized device. To answer that one we'd require answers to the questions we asked you regarding your setup. I'll quickly sum them up here:
A general suspicion: Not every smartphone has the same screen size, in fact there's a wide range of screen sizes, which makes me wonder: Did u ever test your app on a smartphone with a different screen size than your screen? Because - the fact that it fits your screen, but not a tablet, makes me wonder who sets those dimensions and when. Because I doubt that an app can adjust to all smartphone-screen-sizes, but not to tablet sizes - won't make much sense (because they more or less have the same android core running on them, some differences between s.x, 3.x and 4.x aside) UNLESS you're using a framework which does not support (for whatever reason - maybe you'd have to buy tablet support extra or whatever) tablet-sized screen sizes. That's why it's really important to know, whether the app resizes properly on your phone only, or on other smartphones as well. The only way I am aware of how an app can be limited to the screen size of one specific phone is by using AbsoluteLayout and generally absolute dimensions for widgets etc...
UPDATE: Scaling x/y Coordinates
In order to adjust your bitmap's location to the screen size, something like the following should do the job:
Now, if you increase the screen size, you'd have to scale those x/y values along:
The scale factor would be 2, because the width and height equally increased by two. Hence the dimensions would be...
Another try - this time with different scale factors for width/height
If the new target screen is 150/250 then calculations are:
Now we need to scale the x/y coordinates, x is scaled using the width-scale and height is scaled using the height-scale, here's the result:
So the new screen dimensions and the scaled x/y coordinates are:
To make a long story short, the algorithm for scaling bitmaps is:
There is a good and relevant article on Android.com : http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
This reference helps you sort through screen size, screen density, and resolution. The goal is to use the Android APIs to achieve "density independence" so that your user interface components and graphics can look good on various devices.
Remember that you can also create different configurations of Android Virtual Devices for the emulator while you're testing layout and appearance: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html
Just a shot in the dark here. Have you set whatever the master layout is to fill parent both vertically and horizontally?


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In theory, political cartoons should be a means to get a controversial point across in a concise, effective and humorous way. In reality, most usually convey less information than, say, grunting or gesturing.
Whether you agree or disagree with the message is irrelevant, as these cartoons are often shitty ass vehicles for any message. Taken on average, political cartoons are the least effective way of making a point aside from suicide bombing and Internet petitions.
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#5. Pictures Requiring Excessive Labels
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Sure, you have to label the politician, and maybe "Vermont's Disabled," I guess. Also, if you are really afraid your audience is too dumb to know that a politician screwing the disabled is probably doing it economically--and not literally feeding them to wild animals--then go ahead label the wolves "economic adversity."
But dear god, why do you have to label them "wolves"?
So the guy in the suit. Is he wealthy? I can't tell. I need at least six clues and I only see five.
I bet you could pick out at least one of those labels that could have been illustrated with, I don't know, a drawing. Hm, unconnected TV, hmm, hmm, how could I illustrate that? There's no way you could get that from a drawing. Oh wait.
And did that jobless guy write a note to himself to remove the water from his pool to use it as a tent?
Again, it doesn't matter whether you agree with the message. It's important that we not get caught up in that. The issue is that it's irritating no matter what message they're trying to convey. As someone with no ability to draw things, let me demonstrate what happens when you use too many labels to convey even a simple, non-controversial message (in this case: "fire hot").
If the unnecessarily explanatory labels make you feel like your intelligence is being insulted and the apparently unrelated labels confused you, then that means I have done my job as a political cartoonist.
#4. "Technology... uh... Exists"
From the below comic, you can gather that "Facebook" is something the kids use (but parents don't), and that they "friend" each other on it, and that's about all, because that's probably all the cartoonist knows.
You see, there are three steps toward making a statement with an illustration:
1) Identify the subject you want to talk about.
2) Figure out what you want to say about it.
3) Figure out how to say it in picture form.
When it comes to new technology, many cartoonists valiantly struggle to lift themselves onto Step 1 and then collapse exhausted upon it, all their energy spent. There is a deadline coming and there is no time to figure out what "Facebook" or "Twitter" or "iPhones" are all about, much less what you can say about them. You are aware they exist and have been able to find the name of one function. WHAT MORE CAN ONE MAN DO?
This poor guy has not even managed to overcome Step 1 and figure out the name of the products involved:
This guy is halfway through Step 1:
He has figured out what an iPod does and what an iPhone does enough to give his character reasons not to use them (I mean, a phone, who needs that). He is not entirely sure what an iPad does, so before anyone figures it out, he will distract you with a pun that is not really a pun. Hopefully you will be too busy going, "iGive up? Really?" to notice he does not know what iPads are used for.
Here, let me give it a try:
#3. Straw Men
If you've spent time arguing with people on the Internet, you know that "straw man" is something you can yell at people arguing with you, and you might even know what it means. If not, it means you create a caricature of your opponent and put stupid arguments into its mouth that you can easily demolish; arguments they never made.
Evolution versus creationism arguments are the most fertile ground for this kind of thing. From the creationist side:
I think these comics completely close the case on the debate. Evolutionists are stupid, rude hypocrites and creationists are polite and patient in response to them. Well, that settles 150 years of debate! Just look how frustrated evolutionists are when you trot out simple factual arguments!
Hell, check out the guy in the last panel of this one; this hoodie-wearing evolutionist is on the verge of physically attacking his opponent:
It's almost like God put them there to ask setup questions for you to roll out your carefully prepared statements. If that isn't proof of a Creator, I don't know what is.
Wait a second...
Hmmm... looks like I was wrong, apparently it is the non-religious who state their thoughts calmly and rationally while the religious spaz out and take offense for no reason. Dammit, what am I to believe?
Oh, wait. Apparently the religious are filthy cavemen from the Stone Age throwing rocks impotently at spaceships. You'll certainly never catch a single religious person ever using technology or inventing anything. They'll just grunt and chuck rocks.
Once more, this debate always hits close to home, so you might find yourself actually siding with one comic or the other, regardless of the technique. Let's put that aside for a second and apply the straw man technique to a less controversial subject, like that your son Tommy should eat his vegetables. When he refuses, instead of talking to him, just draw this cartoon and hand it to him.
Most child-rearing experts don't recommend dealing with parent-child conflicts this way. And even if you don't care about the target's feelings, it's sure not going to convince them you're right. It will amuse other people who already agree with you, and that's it.
Is that the goal? If you want to make yourself a shiny trophy saying how smart you are compared to the other guy, just go order one. They have catalogs. Why disguise it as an argument?


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6 New Weapons That Are Making War Look Like a Cartoon
Let's face it: If you told Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great that current wars are fought using giant metallic birds that poop explosives all over people, they'd think you were shitting them. Then they'd probably cut your face off and feed it to their dogs, just because.
Likewise, when we see the prototypes that weapons designers are testing, we realize the battlefield of the future will be utterly insane.
#6. Blob Bot
So imagine you're on the battlefield of the future. You're holed up inside a bombed-out building, your future-rifle aimed out a busted window. The door behind you is closed and braced securely.
Your jawline is suitably magnificent.
But slowly, silently, something comes oozing under the door. And that something is a slimy robot.
The Blob Bot, which is hilarious to say out loud repeatedly, is a real prototype robot made out of a slimy, almost liquid substance and is actually capable of oozing around and changing shape by itself. It is impossible to read that description and not be reminded of this guy:
But sadly, the Blob Bot looks like this:
Imagine that expanding rapidly in the anus of an insurgent.
We're, uh, assuming the final product won't need that huge bundle of cables trailing behind it everywhere. But that's just its initial state, right? It probably looks a lot more menacing when fully deployed ...
OK, so it's kind of a sticky, partially inflated soccer ball.
The Blob Bot is defined as a "chemical robot" (we're mildly offended that they'd use the R word so liberally here), and it moves thanks to a process called "jamming," basically filling its empty areas with air and letting it out as necessary to control the shape. You can watch it in action here:
Yes, military technology has advanced to a point where we have been able to replicate the flopping movements of a dying fish. Granted, the Blob Bot is still very early in development, but when it's finished, its DARPA-sponsored creators hope it will be able to"squeeze through tiny cracks in pursuit of its target" and then ... spy on it with tiny cameras? Explode into a mass of goo? Sneak into sandwiches and hope its target chokes on it? We don't really know, because they never say what exactly their goal here is. All we know is it sounds creepy as hell.
Build weapons first, ask questions later.
#5. Kitty Corner Shot
So you make it out of the building and are now walking through an urban war zone, gunshots echoing in the distance. You reach a corner leading into an alley. Being the cautious soldier that you are, you hunker down, ready for anything that might spring out. You see movement and take aim ...
Whew, it's just a cat. You let down your guard. Wait ... why isn't it moving? Why does it have that dead look in its eyes? And then you hear a BANG. You have been killed by the Kitty Corner Shot.
Oh, it may look like a state-of-the-art gun with a stuffed cat stuck to the end of it, but ... well, that's what it is.
Finally, we have the technology to make this possible.
The trick is that the front part of the gun bends sideways, with a sighting system that doesn't require you to lean out with it. So if you're shooting from behind a corner, all the enemy sees is a cat. An innocent, dead-eyed, freakishly long-legged, sometimes floating-above-the-ground cat. As ridiculous as this sounds, the logic behind it is pretty solid -- when you're in the battlefield, one second can make the difference between life and death. The split second your enemy spends looking at that cat doll, wondering what the holy fuck is going on, can make that difference.
We know what you're thinking: By that logic, you could strap a Joan Rivers mask to the front of the gun, and it would still get the enemy's attention. This is true, but you also need to use something that the other soldier won't instinctively want to open fire on.
And if you think no soldier would carry a weapon like this for fear of looking like a pansy -- well, the kitty corner shot was actually created by the Israeli Special Forces during one of their operations (according to this segment on future weapons by the Discovery Channel). These are the same guys who make The Expendables look like The Golden Girls.
If you look into his eyes for a few seconds, you will feel a little pee coming out.
Also, this thing is actually pretty creepy when you consider that every time you shoot it, part of the cat's face gets blown off, disfiguring it beyond recognition.
The genius of this weapon is that there is no way to adapt to it. You can't just go around blowing away every kitten that comes along. Just look at this adorable little guy ...
Too late. You're dead.
#4. EATR Robot
You lie wounded on the battlefield of the future, having been shot repeatedly by a stuffed kitten. You wait for a medic to come get you, but instead, a robot rolls up. Hey! Maybe the robot will help!
The robot proceeds to eat you.
This is your medic, so maybe being eaten isn't that bad.
"EATR Robot" stands for Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot ... Robot. It also stands for a machine that literally eats people. So those initials are a really big coincidence, when you think about it.
The EATR's steam engine is specially designed so that the machine's claw can grab a piece of biomatter (like, say, you) and throw it into the burner to be used as fuel. In other words, this is a machine fueled by death, and it really exists. It also looks like a giant Swiss army knife.
This is the lamest damned- HOLY SHIT IT HAS A CHAINSAW!
The idea is to use these guys to do long-term reconnaissance in enemy territory, because apparently satellites suck at doing that (for one thing, their method doesn't involve burning people to death). Since refueling can become a bit of problem for the EATR when there's no delicious human flesh within reachable distance, it can also feed itself by ripping off tree branches and bushes. Since they don't provide much energy, you can expect to see trails of destroyed bushes and trees that lead right to an energy-drained EATR.
Or maybe it's just playing dead so it can grab you by surprise.
WALL-E doesn't look so friendly now, does he?
These guys are run purely by AI, which is a great idea because how could that possibly go wrong? In a stroke of genius, the military also decided to equip them with DARPA's SELF program, which enables these man-eating self-thinking robots to replicate themselves by building their own copies. The SELF program also means they can make any hardware and software upgrades they deem necessary, like for example if they decide that decorating their hulls with severed human heads would be a good idea.
So if you were wondering what our enemies will look like in the wars of the future, there's a very possible answer right here:


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text: Swish uses WordCharacters, BeginChars, EndChars, IgnoreFirstChar, and IgnoreLastChar to decide what defines a word, and thus what is indexed. For example, if you don't have a dash in WordCharacters and you have a string in a document as: 'dashed-words', then Swish will index two separate words 'dashed' and 'words' (or 'dash' and 'word' if using stemming). This means you can search for either word and find the document. The problem with Swish is that it doesn't use the same rules for searching as it does for indexing. So, searching for 'dashed-words' fails because during the search Swish doesn't break the search into the two words. It's looking for 'dashed-words' and that's not in the index. (Of course, you could add the dash to the WordCharacters list, but then you couldn't search for the separate words -- but I'm not debating that here.) One solution is to do pre-processing of the search terms before calling Swish. This requires reading the swish conf file used for indexing and then splitting the words up and passing those words to Swish. Here's a way to pre-process in Perl that replicates how Swish indexes: return grep { /^[$BeginCharacters]/o && /[$EndCharacters*]$/o } map { s/^[$IgnoreFirstChar]+//o; s/[$IgnoreLastChar]+(?=\*?$)//o; $_; } split /[^$WordCharacters*]/o, lc $query; Well, almost. That returns a list instead of a scalar, and doesn't deal properly with ( and ). Or, to modify Swish to handle the words 'properly', in search.c there needs to be a few changes in the search() function: ** Only SLIGHTLY tested. ** Instead of splitting on space as Swish currently does, if (isspace(words[i]) || words[i] == '(' || words[i] == ')' || words[i] == '=') Split instead on non-WordCharacters as defined in your swish.conf file. if ( (!iswordchar(words[i]) && words[i] != '*') || words[i] == '(' || words[i] == ')' || words[i] == '=') Now, looking at the search() function is a bit scary. search() takes the query and splits it into separate words placed in a linked list. It builds the linked list of search terms one word at a time, but in three different places, using the line: searchwordlist = (struct swline *) addswline(searchwordlist, (char *) convertentities(word)); The first occurrence of this line is for adding Metanames to the search (such as when using the metaname=(word) type of search). I don't know what's the point of using convertentities() here, but that's another story. The second two places are used for adding search words to the query. These are the locations where we can modify the search words one-by-one. Add the following lines right before each: stripIgnoreLastChars(word); stripIgnoreFirstChars(word); searchwordlist = (struct swline *) addswline(searchwordlist, (char *) convertentities(word)); Then to make this all work properly, you MUST specify your swish config file during searches with the -C option. Otherwise Swish will use it's defaults for WordCharacters, IgnoreFirstChar, and IgnoreLastChar. It would be nice if those settings were stored in the index during indexing. Bill Moseley mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com on Thu Oct 28 14:29:19 1999


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Eleven employees were recognized for the first quarter of 2014. There are four categories for which employees may be recognized: administration employee, citizen volunteer, Detention Deputy and Law Enforcement. The recipients are as follows:
Administrative Employee – Joan Johnson
Citizen Volunteer – Cary McKee
Detention Deputy – Deputy Debbie Terry
Law Enforcement-Sgt. Rob Coleman, D/S Matt Crawford, D/S Joe Gracie
Joan Johnson was nominated by Detective Rosemary Farless and Lt. Brad Stark. "During Joan's employment with the Sheriff's Office, she has encountered many cases of child abuse, child neglect and tragedies involving both children and their families such as domestic assaults, drowning deaths and vehicle accidents. It takes a special person to deal with any case involving children; however, every time she is asked to respond and assist with an investigation, she is always there to help", stated Lt. Stark.
"Recently deputies responded to a call of a three year old drowning victim. Joan responded where she met and stayed with the parents. After the child was pronounced deceased, Joan stayed with the child, at the parent's request, until being transported. Although deceased, the mother did not want her baby to be left alone. Joan went above and beyond her duties as a civilian, to comfort the parents of this dead child", stated Rosemary Farless.
Joan was recently chosen as the Victim's Advocate for the 19th Judicial Circuit on
Cary McKee was nominated by Lt. Brad Stark, for Volunteer of the Quarter. "I have seen Cary many times entering the Okeechobee County jail with his Bible in his hand to minister to the inmates. I'm sure there are many other places he could be, however Cary is a unique person who not only dedicates himself to his own congregation, but I have also seen him involved in many charitable and community oriented activities. He is always willing to speak with anyone at any time. His dedication to the Sheriff's Office is greatly appreciated by both the inmates and the officers."
Debbie Terry was nominated by Sgt. Mark Garland, who stated, "Despite the recent transitions within the transport division, Deputy Terry has done a great job of meeting the challenges by keeping everything running as smoothly as possible. In the absence of a direct supervisor, she has assumed the responsibilities and duties associated with that position, and has performed well."
Deputy Mark Margerum was nominated by Cpl. Donald Ellis, for Law Enforcement Officer of the quarter. "Deputy Margerum did an outstanding job taking the lead in an incident that involved a child that had been taken by an individual high on methamphetamines. The abductor stated the child was a demon and he knew what he had to do with the child. The child was taken into a wooded area and if Deputy Margerum and his coworkers had not located the suspect and the juvenile, who knows that the outcome for the juvenile would have been", stated Cpl. Ellis.
Sgt. Rob Coleman, D/S Max Waldron, Cpl. Chris Hans, Cpl. Randy Thomas, D/S Matt Crawford, D/S Brian Cross and D/S Matt Grumbling were all nominated for a Unit Citation by Captain Bell. "I write this letter on behalf of the listed deputies. A suspect was wanted and on the run. The suspect did in fact shoot a weapon near or at a victim. The deputies met with the Narcotics Unit and together carried out a plan with safety in mind. The end result was the suspect being put in jail, and a lengthy crime spree coming to an end. This was a very good Law Enforcement effort and should be recognized as such. Job Well Done', stated Captain Bell.
Sheriff May said of these employees, "I am very proud of these employees and am happy to recognize them for things they have done. These employees come to work every day with a thought of helping someone on their mind. It is truly my honor to have them work for me."
Congratulations to all of the nominees and the recipients of these awards.


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Big Spaceship - New Site
Category: Design / Interactive, Designers/Studios, Web / Design,
Posted by: John F
Posted: Feb 25th 2014
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Check out the newly lauched site for digital agency Big Spaceship. What I really like here is the detailed case studies for their projects rather than just a series of pretty pictures. Their process is outlined nicely in the Approach section, including a detailed breakdown from the Harvard Business Review.


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STEUBENVILLE - A new salon is opening in downtown Steubenville.
Things We Grow owners Veronica and Harold Leake have scheduled their grand opening celebration for 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at the new salon, located on the first floor of the historic Fort Steuben Hotel.
Leake, with 12 years of experience at various salons in the community, said the shop will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays, though she said special arrangements can always be made for after-hours service. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments are accepted.
Licensed since 1999, Vernonica Leake said now that her children are older, "I'm ready to venture out and open my own salon."
"I told my husband I wanted to do it and he's been beside me ever since," she said.
She said they'll do eyebrows and nails as well as haircuts, hair color and perms, and she is recruiting a managing cosmetologist looking for self-employment opportunities.
Leake graduated from the Century School of Cosmetology. Also on the Things We Grow staff is stylist Ronni Edwards of Steubenville, who had been with Simon Sez before its closing.


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Is there anyone who studied on the book "Solvable Models In Quantum Mechanics" by Albeverio? I don't succed in understanding the proof of page 116 about the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian with point interactions. In particular I don't understand the proof of the fact that eigenvalues conrespond to the zero of the determinant of the matrix of the Hamiltonian with N point interxations: $$A(k)=\bigg[\bigg(\alpha_j-\frac{ik}{4\pi}\bigg)\delta_{jj'}-\tilde{f}(y_j-y_{j'})\bigg]_{jj'}$$ where $\tilde{f}(x)$ is $\tilde{f}(x)=\frac{e^{ik|x|}}{4\pi|x|}$ se $x\neq 0$ and $0$
I don't know if this will satisfy, but here is a `physics proof' of the above formula. The wavefunction satisfies the Lippmann--Schwinger equation (with units mass $m=1/2$ and $\hbar=1$)
$$\psi_{\mathbf{k}}(\mathbf{r}) = e^{i\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{r}} - \int d^3\mathbf{r}'\frac{e^{ik|\mathbf{r}-\mathbf{r}'|}}{4\pi|\mathbf{r}-\mathbf{r}'|} V(\mathbf{r}')\psi_{\mathbf{k}}(\mathbf{r}'),$$
where $V(\mathbf{r})=\sum_i V_i(\mathbf{r})$ is the potential due to the scatterers. Now a single point scatterer has the (angle independent) scattering amplitude
where $a_i$ is the scattering length (i.e. the `effective range' of the potential is zero). Recall that the scattering amplitude is defined by the asymptotic behavior as $r\to\infty$
$$\psi_{\mathbf{k}}(\mathbf{r}) \to e^{i\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{r}} + f(\theta,\phi)\frac{e^{ikr}}{r}$$
Imagine iterating the Lippmann--Schwinger equation. Since we know the answer for a single scatterer, we can sum up repeated scattering off the same scatterer in the resulting (Born) series to give the scattering amplitude above, only keeping track of when we switch to a different scatterer
$$\psi_{\mathbf{k}}(\mathbf{r}) = e^{i\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{r}}+4\pi\sum_i \tilde f(\mathbf{r}-\mathbf{r}_i) f_i^{(1)}\psi_{\mathbf{k}}(\mathbf{r}_i),$$
where $\tilde f$ is the function you defined above. $\psi_{\mathbf{k}}(\mathbf{r}_i)$ on the right hand side should be understood in the asymptotic sense i.e. as one approaches the $i^{\text{th}}$ scatterer. This is for the scattered wave. If you want a bound state, it should be a solution of the homogenous equation for the wavefunction at each of the $N$ scatterers i.e. without any incoming plane wave. Then the appropriate determinant must vanish, which is just the condition stated in your question (with the identification $\alpha_i=-(4\pi a_i)^{-1}$).
I believe this is called the Foldy--Lax method in scattering theory.


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Knicks Fans, You Are Not Dreaming
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Maybe it's simply time to admit that no one saw this coming.
The Knicks, who entered Friday as the NBA's only undefeated team, have eclipsed the lukewarm, early-season expectations that analysts had set for them. Their fans, no doubt full of glee at the moment, were unsure of what to think this past off-season when the team got substantially older and the neighboring Nets sought to pick off fans jumping from the orange-and-blue bandwagon.
Then, of course, there's team itself, which initially felt it'd been punched in the stomach when it learned that $100 million man Amar'e Stoudemire would have to miss six to eight weeks to clean out his left knee.
So there's definitely reason to be surprised by the Knicks' hot start. But the biggest surprise so far isn't how good the Knicks are, but how they got this good so quickly. "We have high expectations, but I think we've all been surprised about playing this well so quickly," guard Ronnie Brewer said after a statement win Thursday in San Antonio. "We're still getting a feel for each other, because most of us are new around here."
The early hot streak presents an even more tantalizing question: How good can this team be once it has more time together? Because, while the Knicks' core group of players is the same as before, almost everyone else is new. Just six players returned from the 2011 team. Only three playoff teams from last year—the Atlanta Hawks, Orlando Magic and Philadelphia 76ers—had fewer holdovers return.
Despite that, it was more than a safe bet to assume that this year's team would likely feature a top-notch defense. Over the 24 games Mike Woodson served as the team's interim coach last season, the Knicks allowed 91 points per game—fourth-best in the league over that span. New York's 14-spot improvement on defense (up from 18th), marked the third-largest jump a team had made under an interim coach, according to Stats LLC.
"I expect us to be right near the top" on defense, Woodson said recently. He's felt most confident about that side of the ball because he "handpicked" players like Brewer, Rasheed Wallace and Kurt Thomas, who'd played key roles on teams that emphasized defense.
Still, the offense—and the club's ability to stay healthy—entered the 2012 campaign as a huge question mark. During the preseason, they were fighting such a fierce battle with injuries that Woodson was forced to six different starting lineups in the club's six exhibition games. He never publicly expressed that he was concerned about the lack of chemistry. But that sentiment was laid bare when, a day before superstorm Sandy devastated the area, he told his players he wanted them to practice "regardless of what the weather looks like" (he later made the decision to cancel practice).
Somewhat surprisingly, the Knicks have been as effective on offense as they've been dominant on defense. They lead the league in defensive efficiency, and are also scoring on average an NBA-best 114 points per 100 possessions. Utilizing a two-point guard offense, with Raymond Felton and Jason Kidd, they've taken great care of the basketball, with a turnover rate of 9.9%—one that would be the lowest in NBA history if it held for the season.
It now feels like ages ago that Carmelo Anthony uttered wistful words upon learning that Stoudemire would miss significant time. "It's big," Anthony had said, referring to the impact of Stoudemire's injury. "Especially when our goal [to win 50 games and win the division] was to start off and make this push from Day One."
But the injury bug hasn't hindered the Knicks. Nothing has. And until something does, the team will have us wondering how good it can be.
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Life is so busy and there are so many things to do, so many problems to deal with. But I don't want to walk with God just 'sometimes', I want to see Him in everything, not just in church or when I am reading the Bible. Is there any way to that?
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One of the biggest helps I have had in this area comes from a book by John Piper called God is the Gospel. In one of the chapters, I believe its Chapter 5 Delighting in God Delighting in Us, he discusses the idea that our pleasures don't compete with God but should draw us to God. If a spouse gives you a wonderful & thoughtful gift, the gift is nice, but the purpose of the gift is really to draw your heart to your spouse and vice versa. In the same way, God wants us to enjoy all his gifts, and as we enjoy them, we should be appreciating the God who gave us such wonderful things to enjoy.
The reason this helps me is because I used to sit down to a bowl of chocolate ice cream and feel guilty about how much I like the ice cream. Now, I realize that when I sit down to the bowl of chocolate ice cream, God wants me to enjoy it. So I enjoy it and I try to marvel at God and the grace involved both in my ability to taste and in someone's ability to craft such a wonderful dessert.
So we don't have to be either/or. You can be mindful of God even in the midst of busyness. So if you are having a hard (or very good) day at the office or with the kids, talk to God about your day. Remind yourself of the promises he gave you which apply right in those situations. Look for things to thank him for. Recognize all the blessings he has given you and wants you to enjoy. Another very good book which addresses this idea of communing with God in all we do is a A Praying Life by Paul Miller.