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This is the "Fungal Pathogenetics" laboratory. Our laboratory focuses on obtaining knowledge on the basic biology and molecular genetics of insect pathogenic fungi so that they might be used more effectively for biocontrol. There are currently three major Research Foci in the lab:
(1) Genetic analysis of fungal pathogenesis
We examine virulence factors primarily in insect pathogenic fungi. We use a variety of molecular (gene knockout) and biochemical approaches to identify genes involved in insect pathogenesis. On another level we are interested in broader questions of fungal pathogenesis of plants, insects and humans. Why are some fungi pathogens while others are saprophytes? What allows some fungi to infect insects but not plants and vice versa?
(2) Population genetics of insect pathogenic fungi
We use allozyme analysis and genetic polymorphism at various loci to examine the population structure and phylogeny of insect pathogenic fungi. We are also looking at comparative population genetics to determine if pathogenic fungi have different genetic structures depending on whether they are obligate, facultative or opportunistic pathogens.
(3) Genetics of conidiation
We are attempting to elucidate the genes involved in conidiation in insect pathogenic fungi. We are also looking at a phenomenon termed "pleiomorphic deterioration". This occurs when fungi that are continuously subcultured lose the ability to produce conidia. This problem has been observed in several other industrially important fungi.
1989 Ph.D. (Applied Microbiology), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.
1985 M.Sc. (Biology) University of Regina, Regina, SK
1981 B.Sc. Hon. (Biology) Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Recent Refereed Publications (1997 to present):
Bidochka, M.J, A. M. Kamp. T. M. Lavender, J. DeKoning and J.N.A. De Croos. 2001. Habitat association in two genetic groups of the insect-pathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae: Uncovering cryptic species? Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 1335-1342
Bidochka, M.J., A.M. Kamp and J.N.A. De Croos. 2001. Insect pathogenic fungi: From genes to populations. In Fungal Pathology (J.W. Kronstad, ed.) pp. 171-193. Kluwer Academic Press, The Netherlands.
Bidochka, M.J. 2001. Monitoring the Fate of Biocontrol Fungi. In: Fungi as Biocontrol Agents: Progress, Problems and Potential (T. Butt, C.W. Jackson, N. Magan, eds), CABI, pp. 193-218.
Bidochka, M.J. R.J. St. Leger, A. Stuart, and K. Gowanlock. 1999. Nuclear rDNA phylogeny in the fungal genus Verticillium and the relationship to insect and plant virulence, extracellular proteases and carbohydrases. Microbiology 145: 955-963.
Bidochka, M.J., S. Burke and L. Ng. 1999. Extracellular hydrolytic enzymes in the fungal genus Verticillium : adaptations for pathogenesis. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 45: 856-864.
Bidochka, M.J., R.J. St. Leger and D.W. Roberts. 1997. Induction of novel proteins in Manduca sexta and Blaberus giganteus as a response to fungal challenge. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 70: 184-189.
Bidochka, M.J., S.R.A. Walsh, M.E. Ramos, R.J. St. Leger, R.I. Carruthers, J.C. Silver and D.W. Roberts. 1997. Cloned DNA probes distinguish endemic and exotic Entomophaga grylli fungal pathotype infections in grasshopper life stages. Molecular Ecology 6: 303-308.
Recent M.Sc. Graduate student theses:
Kamp, Andrena 2002. Genetic and biochemical analyses of pleiomorphic deterioriation in entomopathogenic fungi.
DeCroos, Amrith. 1999. Genetic analysis of cold-activity in the insect pathogenic fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae.
Current M.Sc. Graduate student theses:
Small, Cherrie. Analysis of expressed sequences during conidiation in the insect pathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae.
Recent B.Sc. (hons) theses:
Small, Cherrie. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships among Metarhizium strains based on amplification and genetic polymorphisms in ITS nuclear rDNA and the neutral trehalase (ntl) gene.
Condotta, Stephanie. 2001. Co-transformation of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae with green fluorescent protein and benomyl resistance.
Current B.Sc. (hons) thesis:
Cik, Anica. Amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis and Vectorette PCR for identifying genetic loci and mechanisms of genetic change associated with pleiomorphic deterioration in an insect-infecting fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae.


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I notice you already have this question for the Holocaust but haven't found it for the Spanish expulsion. I understand that many great people gave reasons for it, like the seder hadoros, tsror hamor and ohr hachaim of yosef yaavets linked below. Perhaps you know of many others. Why did the Jewish people deserve the Expulsion?
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The act of making two emoticons have sex with eachother. If they are put up against eachother that is called facesex.
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for a Man to shove his penis into a woman's mouth and aggressively have oral sex..
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Similar to having phone sex, FaceSex is the act of having telecommunicational sex via FaceTime, most commonly done using a portable device such as an iPod or an iPhone.
"Me and Natasha had some crazy FaceSex last night, thank god my phone is stain resistant!"
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Sticking a penis into any facial orifice
lolol teh facesex!!!
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to make out viciously.
hardcore tonsil hokey.
orgasmic french kissing.
kinky saliva swapping.
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To make out. Traditionally, a long-lasting French kiss in a semi-public place. See also French kiss, swap spit
Dude, I so had face sex with my girlfriend last night.
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Seem that someone tried to sign in to my email in live.com with a wrong password too many times. So I am locked out right now. I can reset my password just with security question, but that lovely guy has caused to luck it too with entering a wrong answer too many times. So it is temporarily unavailable too. I have filled the costumer support form, many times, but there is no answer from them.
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LAMPASAS (November 16, 2012)--The Camp Hood exhibit at the Keystone Square Museum will be open through Saturday.
The exhibit uses photographs and descriptions to show the various stages when the government acquired land for Camp Hood in the 1940s.
Many residents in Lampasas County had to give up their lands for that purpose.
The camp became a permanent post in 1950.
The museum is open on Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
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October 18, 2012
Waterfront singers – Flickr pic of the day
This photograph was taken at the V&A Waterfront by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member meeeeeeeeeel.
A variety of performers and artists can be found at the V&A Waterfront, showcasing local talent to the delight of local and international visitors.
"It was my last day in Cape Town, as I was leaving the next morning. I went to V&A Waterfront to have lunch, and there were these guys singing some African songs. Their voices were so strong, so beautiful. Very nice way to say goodbye to a very lovely place!" says the photographer, Mel.
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Lions Lose Doubleheader to Penn College
On Sunday, Sept. 28, host Penn College defeated the Beaver baseball team in a doubleheader, 4-1 and 18-8.
In game one, Beaver junior Joe Scherer (Sewickley) pitched five plus innings and struck out four. He led the team offensively with two hits and one RBI. Sophomore Huston Lorenzo (Miami) ended the game with a triple while junior Justin Parasida (Ambridge) and freshman Jon Minnocci (Ellwood City) each hit a double.
In the second game, Scherer led the Lions in offense with three hits while Lorenzo had two. Junior Ryan Raraigh (Riverside) ended the game with two hits and three RBIs. Minnocci had one hit with two RBIs and Parasida had three hits, including two doubles.
Beaver is 7-5 in the conference and 7-5 overall. The Nittany Lions travel Sunday, Oct. 5, to Penn State New Kensington for its next conference game. Game time will be announced.


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The 8 Creepiest Glitches Hidden in Popular Video Games
#4. The Sims 3 -- Demon Babies
The Sims is intended to turn the most boring thing (real life) into something ... slightly less boring, we guess? But the point is, much like real life, when something goes really wrong, it's terrifying. You can find YouTube videos for everything from Sims with flashing blue shapes for faces, Sims swimming through the floor everywhere they go, disembodied heads fucking (that's not a euphemism, by the way), Sims with distorted limbs and even Sim babies with terrifying deformed heads.
The Eraserhead baby's got nothing on this kid.
But nothing is quite as strange as ... whatever the following is. We'll warn you now. Upon viewing these images, you may taste blood. That's normal. That's how you know that you're still human.
Occasionally, you can have two perfectly normal Sims. They have their usual traits, hopes, dreams ... and they just happen to give birth to some sort of demon spawn straight out of Lovecraft.
It's a face only the Mother of Lies could love.
It appears that the baby's head is attached to some sort of malformed adult body. It's easier to see in some other videos.
It's like Slenderman's birthing video.
But what's even crazier is that it doesn't just happen with adult bodies. Sometimes it happens with ... other things. Like horses. Yeah.
Here seen enveloping its owner.
The most common explanation is poorly programmed user-made clothing. Since 99 percent of all Sims user-made clothing is to make your Sims appear to be nude, we can only assume that this glitch primarily affects perverts. Naturally, no one ever admits to downloading nudie stuff when it comes to explaining their horse babies.
#3. Rocky (PS2) -- The Rocky Horror Glitchy Show
Here are some things a PlayStation game about Rocky should include: boxing, Sylvester Stallone's likeness, the song "Gonna Fly Now," possibly a training montage. Here are some things it shouldn't include: abject horror, unspeakable beings of floating flesh.
And yet here we are.
As pointed out by the Angry Video Game Nerd, the PlayStation 2 version of Rocky is prone to some extremely bizarre glitches. Some of them are pretty inoffensive, like making the audience look like giant pixels, turning the players invisible or causing the presenter to sound like a scratched record. But you know things are really getting out of control when boxers start sinking through the floor like ghosts for no reason ...
Ever wished the floor would swallow you -- arrrgh!
... only to suddenly disappear and be replaced by what looks like a pile of loose body parts, as if they'd become solid again while phasing through the floor and had been chopped to pieces.
"... I still win, right?"
And then comes the horror. Another inexplicable glitch makes Rocky's eyeballs pop right out of his face, but that's actually the least of his problems at the moment:
This is why you shouldn't gargle firecrackers.
He looks like he was born without a mouth and tried to make himself one with an ice pick. The worst part? All this time he's moving from side to side, back and forth, like a mindless zombie preparing to jump at you.
"Roooocky!" "Aiiiirrriiiinnnnn!"
But hey, it could be worse. He could've been born without a jaw ... like Spider Rico here:
He had a big shock earlier in the day.
And what's he doing now? Is he -- oh dear lord they're gonna start falling through the floor again.
"Next stop: your bedroom."
At least Rocky and Spider are still vaguely recognizable as human, though: We can't say the same for Mr. T's character, Clubber Lang, who appears to have been transformed into a giant upside down leg with a screaming face lodged in between.
It's like a fleshy totem pole.
What's really happening here is that his arms and right leg are locked 90 degrees upward, so his leg has actually gone through his body and that's why the shoe appears to be coming out of his head, you see. Whoops, there goes the other leg!
Now that we know there's a perfectly rational explanation, he looks adorable.
#2. Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis -- Creepy Watson
The PC game Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis (or Sherlock Holmes versus Arsene Lupin outside the U.S.) attempts to recreate the classic Holmes/Watson dynamic by letting you play as both characters. You control Holmes most of the time (from a first person perspective), but the programmers made sure that your loyal friend Watson is always close by so you can switch off to him if necessary.
Apparently they forgot one little detail, though: Creating the "walking" animations for Watson. As in, showing him actually move from one place to the other. The unintended result was that Watson ended up looking like the creepiest character in the history of video games.
Seriously, one second you see him standing to your left ...
"Oh look, it's my friend Watson. Hi there, buddy!"
But then you look to your right, and -- HOLY SHIT, how did he get there so fast?!
You try to get away from him -- you start walking in another direction without taking your eyes off him ...
"Just ... just stay there, I'll be right ... "
... but as soon as you turn around he's right in front you again.
Droopy Dog has got nothing on him.
He is a being who moves entirely via monster movie jump scare edits. You turn back around real quick to make sure there aren't two of them ... but nope, it's just him.
Hold on, where's ... ?
Where did he -- GAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!
"But I've been here all this time."
And so on. That video is actually from the demo, but the exact same thing happens in the actual game:
And in the previous one, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened.
"Please do not do that again, Sherlock."
With the next game, Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper, they actually took the time to animate Watson walking as he follows Holmes, and the curse was finally over. We prefer to believe that he still has his powers, though, but chooses not to use them.
#1. Fallout: New Vegas -- Floating Body Parts
Fallout: New Vegas is a glitchy fucking game. If you're lucky, this will manifest in the form of freeze screens that will crash your game without warning and make you lose hours of progress. If you're not so lucky, shit like this happens:
"Can you direct me to the Mirage?"
Floating heads. Floating heads everywhere. Sometimes they'll be moving across the landscape, minding their own business ...
Goodbye, head. May you always fly free in our nightmares.
... and other times they're just sitting there in pairs, completely unmovable regardless of what you throw at them. If you look at the floating heads from underneath you can tell that they're completely empty inside, like this is actually just someone's skin that floated off one day, so the logical question here is: What happened to all the flesh and bone that usually goes inside? Chances are we'll never know.
No, wait, here it is:
Well, this is a relief.
Apparently this is a glitch that can happen when you kill someone, save your game and then come back -- the game thinks the character should look like a mess of body parts, but sometimes it forgets to tell those parts to scatter all over the place and the character (or what's left of it) goes back to its default position. Sometimes they'll even move around and have conversations with you while looking like this.
"Isn't it obvious?"
It can happen to enemies too, even giant ones that were pretty fucking scary to begin with. It's like the game is constantly trying to one-up the atrocities that the creators came up with: "Oh, so you wanna blow people up? Here, let me put them back together while you're not looking -- isn't that much better?" Luckily, we live in an age where game companies can easily release patches that fix errors like these ... or try to.
They should have the eyes and part of the teeth behaving normally on the next release.
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The war on drugs continues, trying to keep prescription drugs out of the wrong hands.
The Save Our Kids Coalition held a news conference Tuesday with local authorities to inform the public about proper disposal.
Stickers are now placed on most medicine bottles in Warren County reminding citizens to drop off unused drugs.
Officials say without proper disposal some people will go to great lengths to find those drugs.
"We are trying to get these unused medications out of circulation so that people aren't stealing them or taking them. So what the labels do is it leads people to the disposal units installed so they can dispose the unused medication," says Executive Director of the Save Our Kids Coalition Eric Gregory.
Drop-off boxes can be found at the Warren County Sheriff's Office, Bowling Green Police Department and the Kentucky State Police Post on Nashville Road.


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"Judging is a craft," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., told an audience of more than 200 members of New Jersey's legal community at Rutgers School of Law–Newark on November 15. "It's not a science. It cannot be reduced to an algorithm."
Justice Alito's remarks, reported on by the Star-Ledger, were delivered in his speech "The Craft of Judging," the inaugural event in the law school's Judge Leonard I. Garth Lecture Series. The lecture series was established by the law clerk family and friends of the Honorable Leonard I. Garth and his former law firm, Cole Schotz Meisel Forman & Leonard, to honor his career of public service and the example he set to promote the advancement of the law as the foundation of a just and free society. Judge Garth is U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Justice Alito clerked for Judge Garth from 1976 to 1977.
Vice Dean Ronald Chen, a clerk for Judge Garth from 1983 to 1984, read remarks prepared by the judge, who was unable to attend. Click here for a full list of Judge Garth's clerks and program details.


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Energy Efficiency
Relatively simple measures, such as switching to more efficient lightbulbs and insulating commercial buildings, hold great promise in efforts to combat climate change. So what's the holdup?
Once again, energy-related disasters and disputes crowd the front pages. The Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and fights over climate change regulation all concern the world's seemingly insatiable thirst for energy.
No one action will solve all of these problems. However, there is one that stands far ahead of all other methods, with the greatest quantitative potential, the lowest cost, and the fewest negative effects: improving the efficiency of energy use. It is a wonder that it is not more widely embraced, but there are explanations.
Only 42 percent of the energy used in the U.S. actually provides energy services; the rest is lost. The National Academy of Science has concluded that the U.S. could reduce its energy use by 17 to 22 percent by 2020, and by 25 to 31 percent by 2030, mostly using existing technologies that are already in commercial use and delivering the same services as their less-efficient counterparts.
In 2010, the International Energy Agency studied what energy measures could, in combination, allow us to achieve the reductions in greenhouse gases that will be needed by 2050 to stay within an acceptable range of global temperature rise. The two methods that have received by far the most attention—renewable energy (such as wind and solar) and nuclear power—would meet 17 percent and 6 percent of the needs, respectively. But energy efficiency would accomplish an amazing 38 percent—significantly more than renewables and nuclear combined.
It could do this at very low cost. The McKinsey consulting firm has prepared a series of reports showing a broad array of energy efficiency measures that have a high net negative cost—in other words, over the lifetime of the actions, they save a great deal of money. At the top of the list are changing lightbulbs, improved residential electronics and appliances, insulating commercial buildings, and more efficient motors. According to Lazard, the levelized costs (that is, counting fuel as well as capital costs) of efficiency are far lower than those of every other source of energy—coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar, or biomass.
Energy efficiency has many other advantages over other energy sources: It does not require siting facilities in places where people do not want them, or where they can have negative environmental impacts; it requires no imports from other countries; it generates neither greenhouse gases nor conventional air pollutants; it is always effective, even when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining; and it is not vulnerable to price fluctuations.
So if energy efficiency is so great, why don't we have more of it? Why aren't more businesses flocking to it?
Part of the reason is that no one has figured out how to become an energy efficiency billionaire. The actions are widely dispersed, both geographically and by method. Efforts are now being made to bundle them into profitable businesses, and a few companies are jumping in, but so far the scale has been limited.
Energy efficiency faces several other impediments. These include "split incentives" (often the party that would have to pay for energy efficiency improvements is different from the party that would benefit—for example, the builder of a commercial office tower has little incentive to spend extra on window insulation that would lower the utility bills of the building's future tenants); "capital stock turnover" (some energy-consuming devices, such as laptop computers, are replaced every few years, and thus new energy-saving characteristics can quickly be disseminated; many other devices, such as refrigerators and industrial motors, stay in service for many years, even though much more efficient equipment has become available); "utility rate systems" (cost-of-service ratemaking, the traditional means by which utility rates have been set in the U.S., and regional wholesale electricity markets, both reward utilities for making and selling more electricity and natural gas; thus, these companies have had little incentive to encourage their customers to use less energy); and "invisibility of waste" (energy conservation is inhibited because people are often not aware that they are using energy unnecessarily; there is no warning sign that an electronic appliance has been left on or is still gobbling energy while in the "standby" mode, though some "smart grid" innovations are beginning to address this).
The law provides several techniques that can be used to increase energy efficiency. Among these are technology standards (such as fuel economy standards for vehicles, and energy standards for appliances and buildings); energy audits that lead to building retrofits; requirements that electric utilities spend a certain amount of money on helping their customers achieve greater efficiency; and government procurement of efficient products. And creative new financing techniques are now being devised, such as New York's new "on-bill financing" law that allows people to borrow money for energy efficiency improvements, and to pay it back through an added charge on their utility bills.
Ultimately, the most effective method for spurring energy efficiency might be a charge on greenhouse gas emissions, such as through a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax. But under the current political mood, that seems remote. Indeed, in 2011 Congress banned the enforcement of a 2007 statute (signed by President George W. Bush) that imposed performance standards on lightbulbs that cannot be met by conventional incandescents, even though this law would save the equivalent of the output of 11 nuclear power plants. Fortunately, bulb manufacturers had already converted most of their production lines, so this law had little impact. But so long as energy efficiency and renewables are on the losing side of America's culture wars, the potential for progress will not be realized.


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I've recently been looking through some RSA certificates ( specifically, Android apk .rsa files) and I'm having trouble deciphering the one and two letter combinations in the Owner/Issuer lines.
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The first group of pilgrims arrived yesterday at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jiddah for the 2008 Hajj, the Arab News reported today. The Cape Town-to-Jiddah flight via Dubai brought nearly 200 South African pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.
Abdulwahid Saifaddin, chairman of the Establishment of Pilgrims from Non-Arab African Countries, and Mahdi Basadien, South Africa's consul general in Jiddah, greeted the visitors.
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An 18-point lead with 7:22 left in the game was not enough for the Peru State College women on Saturday as Culver-Stockton College finished with a 29-6 run to win 76-71.
With the win, Culver-Stockton evened its season and conference records. On the year, the Wildcats are now 11-11 and are 6-6 in the Heart of America Athletic Conference. The Bobcats' season mark now stands at 11-13 and are 6-6 in the HAAC, putting them in a tie with Culver-Stockton for fifth in the ten-team league.
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Awkward Family Photos co-founder Mike Bender recently wifed up his sweetheart Sue. And what wedding ceremony of an Awkward Family Photos co-founder would be complete without an inspirational webcam message from awkward family members?
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This is going to be tough to answer. Too many variables.
I pressure cook all my saved chicken bones until they can be pulverized easily between two fingers (only about 1 hour). Then I reduce the stock from 3 quarts down to about one. When cooled and poured into a can-and-freeze jar it will typically gel at room temperature.
The answer depends highly on the amount of feet used, the amount of water it was cooked in and how much reduction is preformed.
You'll need to go by the consistency of the stock. If your cooled stock is just slightly gelatinous, but falls apart easily when handled, it's probably around 1%. If it is as solid as "dessert gelatin" (Jello), it's around 3% or more. (source: "On Food and Cooking")


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Here's Real Trouble
For several weeks, the NYTimes (and probaby other media) has been running stories about the increasing number of unacommpanied minors crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. When they are found and seized at the border, they are sent to shelters. Increasing numbers have required new and ever larger shelters. "Since Oct. 1, a record 47,017 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the southwest United States border." A few may be reunited with a parent/parents in the U.S. illegally; some may be deported; and some may be held in the shelters until the immigration service/courts adjudicate their cases. Times' story June 4.
A variation on the story is that mothers and children come across the border with the expectation that the Immigration service will treat them more leniently (than men). Such stories and/or rumors have increased the influx of children alone and mothers with children. The "push" is said to be increasing violence and poverty in Central America. The "pull" is said to be U.S. leniency toward children, and women with children.
How could this not end badly. The shelters are or will soon be overwhelmed; stories of abuse and rape will emerge. Republicans will argue that this is why there can be no immigration reform. And the Obama Administration will be accused of not protecting U.S. borders. Any other scenarios?
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The U. S. gets so much blame for the plight of the illegal immigrants, but it seems to me that the most of the blame belongs on their home states. How much are their own hierarchies doing there to change the thinking of the often inordinately rich Central Americans? Do they thunder about inequality there?
Maybe those immigrants could get Pope Francis on their side. I mean, it would be splendid if he made their cause one of his own, as he did with the poor people at Lampedusa.
Ann is right. There simply is no way that the American people are going to turn their back on women and children. That won't happen. The most likely scenario is that Repbulicans will it pick up or amplify or discuss this dynamic. It will turn the tide of sympathy.
What should happen is that the state department should say that we are accepting the tide of women and children fleeing from their home countries with reports of huge income inequalities, lack of access to services.
Demand international in investigation. And here is a thought. Suspend free trade agreements until these home state issues are addressed. Republicans and Democrats both are completely negligent when it comes to embedding human, labour, and environmental protections and standards into free trade agreements. Why free trade is such an untouched dogma in both political parties is beyond my comprehension.
What should happen is that the state department should say that we are accepting the tide of women and children fleeing from their home countries with reports of huge income inequalities, lack of access to services.
George D: Who's the "we" in your statement? American taxpayers who are stuggling in Obama's "fundamentally transformed" economy? Here's a couple of ideas: take the money from Obama and his Democrat party supporters. Or from the Gaderene swine populating the entertainment industry. Or both.
Realistically, what do you think the response of the American public is going to be when images of crying children and their mothers being deported? And stories around dislocation of families. There is just no way that Americans will be okay with mass deportation.
So, the solution has to be with the root cause of the influx of illegal immigration. The geography of the border area makes it pretty difficult to construct impenetrable borders.
Besides, it is only logical to look at the stability of those other countries. You don't see similar waves of illegal immigration along the Canadian border. This is because the standards of living, culture, etc. are fairly similar which makes the incentive to risk illegal crossing way less.
Margaret asks: "How could this not end badly?" How I wish I had an answer. There seem to be no good ones and looking for the least bad one is daunting. Fingeer-pointing is less than useless. All that I can say is that this situation makes it even more morally imperative that both federal and state oficials of both parties start cooperatin on comprehensive immigrartion reflrm. No more "preconditions" like "enhanced border security before legislative reform."
Bernard - if amnesty (citizenship) with its attendant voting rights is taken off the table, a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform becomes substantially more likely.
Slice it or dice it any way you want. If a country is not going to enforce its laws against a particular class of people (and for all kinds of reasons they aren't), then the country is de facto providing "amnesty". Politicians need to get over that linguistic hurdle and just deal with practical realities. That is the solution. Not tortured categories that just strain common understanding.
OK, I know this may sound like pollyanna, but I have a lot of hope for women and children. Women who come to the US as immigrants, sometimes in dire situations, are so hard-working it's breath-taking, and they sacrifice big-time for their children. Give them even a little help, and they blossom. These are the people who keep families together. They're the glue of their communities. We are getting a huge resource, not a liability, when we get women and children. Men are a tougher call. A lot more incidents of violence and social dislocation come with a high degree of male displacement. Women adapt, they seek and accept help easier than men do; sorry, it's just a sociological fact.
Children will learn a new language and set of customs quickly, and they can also become productive members of our society if there is a path forward for them, with an education and the possibility of jobs down the road. What do they face back home? Gang violence, dire poverty, lack of education? Let them come here. Give them a chance.
Jim, how is what you suggest different from apartheid? Maybe you can make a case for a waiting period before citizenship is granted, but it can't be a decade long and it can't have a host of hurdles establisned. Otherwise, it's equivalent to apartheid.
What do we mean when we say "amnesty"? I think the term has lost its usefulness as far a making headway in solving immigration issues. To some people it means being on a track with the goals of citizenship and voting rights, with questions of fairness if some are allowed to move ahead of others in the line. But I think most undocumented immigrants have more basic concerns, such as the fear of being separated from their families and the fact that many of them are exploited by their employers in unsafe conditions. Legal residency under certain limited conditions is needed to address the basic human rights issues before we solve all the questions of who is eligible to apply for citizenship and when. Also, not all who come here to work for awhile want to stay here permanently. There is a need for a guest worker program. I agree with those who have said that we have to protect the vulnerable children and their mothers.
Several have brought up the subject of conditions in the homelands of immigrants being a driving force behind immigration issues here. That is certainly valid, and not addressed sufficiently by our state department. And no discussion of chaos in those homelands would be complete without acknowledging the problems caused by drug trafficking. I don't know the answer to that; sometimes it seems that the war against drugs is making things worse instead of better.
El Cajon, just outside San Diego, has become the home to some number of tens of thousands of Chaldeans in recent years. They are the victims of the war in Iraq (and of the religious and ethnic tensions that are associated with that war).We recognize them as refugees from terrible conditions from which they flee for their lives.
San Pedro Sula, Honduras is the "murder capital of the world," home to some if not the most violent gang warfare found anywhere. Gang warfare born in no small part from demand-side economcs of drugs here in USA. To understand this, one cannot probably do better than turn to the analysis of Ed Tom Bell (in the *novel*, not the movie) in No County for Old Men. The women and children fleeing San Pedro Sula and cities and towns like it in Mexico and Central Amerca are every bit as much war refugees as are our Chaldean brothers and sisters.
"Amnesty?" Really - for civil offense of entering wthout a visa? But put that aside enfrey. It has been our tradition for 3,000 years to *welcome* the stranger Deuteronomy, 24: 19-2 :
"... when thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineard, though shall not glean it afteward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
"And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing."
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Bernard - I think "apartheid" is a bit of a strange comparison to make. Why do you think it would be like apartheid? The typical conservative proposals are some combination of guest-worker programs and border enforcement. That doesn't seem very similar to apartheid to me.
Jim, to have a stable population composed of citizens on the one hand and people excluded from full citizenship on the other hand constitutes an apartheid regime. Recall South Africa. Note the worries expressed by some people about the situation in Israel, where Arab non-Jewish make their home but are alleged to have less that full fledged-citizenship. A class of people who live and work for years in the U. S., often with children born here and thus themselves citizens, who have no road to full citizenship constitutes an apartheid situation.
Until we simultaneously impose severe monetary penalties and/or prison sentences on all businesses and CEOs hiring illegal "immigrants" and finish the fence that was promised us, there are going to be problems, which will only get worse. And by the way, how dare you call our situation apartheid? I'm not buying it and you shouldn't be trying to sell it; trying to lay the old guilt trip on decent citizens is so lame. And Mark, what in pluperfect hell does a guy knowingly violating our immigration laws have to do with welcoming a stranger? Stop it, just stop it. Stop twisting God's words to fit your liberal ideology, and realize that you're not fooling anyone (except, I suppose, yourself).
Dear Mr. Schwartz,
I am sorry that my mesage upset you so much, however, I think I was directly quoting (a least in the KJV) the passage from Deuteronomy, not twisting any words. The Chaldeans in El Cajon are cetainly "strangers" amongst us, and we welcome them (though doubtless we could do more). Surely, so, too, is a mother and child, fleeing from danger in their home (shadowing Matthew 2: 3-23).
If a woman and child arrived at your door one night, asking for sanctuary from violence and something to drink and eat, would you turn them away? Of course not. Should we work to remove the threats that caused them to flee? Surely, but we hardly would say that we cannot help them in the hour of their need because other things need to be accomplished first.
Am I fooling myself? It always is well to ask that. I certainly am construing passages from Scripture, but my consructions are, I am quite sure, very traditional ones amongst both Jews and Christians (and indeed as matter of ethics across neary all religions and moral traditions).
Mark L.
So then you are saying that any enforcement of our immigration laws is contrary to God's word? Then any citizen supporting the enforcement of our immigration laws is guilty of...whatever you seem to think is sinful about supporting our immigration laws? And please, enough of the guilt tripping; you're not fooling anyone.
How is acting with compassion toward specific people in specific need in conflict with any poltical position on immigration? I take no position whasoever on the moral condition of anyone other than myself. In fact, I think one of the major problems we have in civil discourse today in America is that people conflate politics (the business of people living together) with religion.
I am not trying to "guilt-trip" anyone. I am expressing a viewpoint, and a reading of Western history, as part of a discussion. You are at entire liberty to refute the view point, or to simply ignore it.
Mark L
Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. But: You didn't address my direct confrontation of your position that our nation's immigration laws (or any nation's immigration laws) must be put aside so that we treat folks who violate our immigration laws as "strangers", and welcome them into our country, and that any Christian who believes otherwise is violating God's law, and further that any nation that attempts to enforce its immigration laws is violating God's law. I am being extremely precise here (thus the wordiness) in order to compel your response to the issue at hand, namely that Christians must not support the enforcement of our immigration laws because if they do, they are violating God's word.
And thanks for your precisely drawn challenge.
I consider it a duty of my citizenship (as I undersand that for myself, of couse) to work for reform to our immgration policy that would provide a larger measure of love between ourselves and those present in this country without legal documentation. There are legal channels that I can I can persue toward that end, and they imply that I am disatisfied with the staus quo, including what I take to be excessive legalism over documentation.
The ethical foundation for why I see this as *my* citizenhip duty is founded on my reading of the Sacred Writings of the Hebrew and the New Testaments. I take seriously that I was "a bondman in Egypt." I accept Micah's version of the Law ("... seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly in the presence of your God"). I am sympathetic to the "preference for the poor," and a straightforward reading of Jesus' words that we should clothe the naked, feed the hungry, visit the prisoner.
However, my readng of the basis for my ethical position is that of an old-fashioned Protestant: I see the religious component as radically personal. I try hard to leave judgment of the ethics of others to themselves, and to leave the political question where it lies: in public discusssion of our laws. Of course, I hope that my version will prevail, becaue I think would be a yet better socety if it does.
Let me try to summarize differently. If *I* acted on an intepretation that forbade me to offer sanctuary to a woman ad child in need, I woud feel that *I* were acting outside God' law and the best traditions of our country.
Mark L.
Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful response. Myself, I believe that if I were in another country (that is, I was a non-citizen of that country) I would be compelled to obey that country's laws, including it's immigration laws. If I were fleeing a country whose political structure was in ruins, rife with bribery and corruption like, say, Mexico, and had no choice but to flee to a neighboring country where folks have a chance to better themselves and live in relative peace and concord like, say, the U.S.A, I'm sure that I would hope for the best, but I couldn't in good conscience demand that I be taken care of and my children educated, paid for by U.S. citizens. I would apply for citizenship and go through the arduous process as so many have done.
But now we have the President "dumping" women and children in Arizona, and freeing illegal aliens who are convicted felons. I think that you are a kind and thinking person confronted with horrendous scenarios and doing you best to work out a way to deal with those scenarios as a Christian. If an illegal alien mother and her young children came to my door, I would feed them, make sure they were adequately clothed, and transport them to the proper immigration offices and officials. I would give them some cash and wish them well.
I would give to Ceasar the things that are Ceasar's and under my breath damn the American stoners, crackheads for demanding filthy drugs from Mexico or wherever, and well off liberals who employ illegal aliens, because they are too greedy to pay a legal resident.
You, my friend, I disagree with, but you have a good heart and a thinking mind. God Bless.
Bernard, let's agree that there is immoral inequality in many aspects of an undocumented immigrant's life, and that racism plays some sort of a role in the current situation. To that extent, perhaps it has some commonality with South African apartheid. But there are many obvious differences as well: a large majority of persons in the US of Latino heritage are full US citizens with all of citizenship's privileges and duties; undocumented immigrants are not a huge majority of the nation's population but a relatively small minority; and American citizens (of whom white citizens are a shrinking majority) are not the ones who are the colonizing newcomers in this situation. Overall, I don't think hanging the apartheid tag on the situation is very helpful or accurate in explaining how we got to where we are, nor does it necessarily point to a just and politically feasible solution.
The reason I entered this conversation at all was to note that anything that could be considered amnesty is preventing political progress on the immigration issue. In an earlier comment, you had called for "no preconditions" such as border security requirements that would derail efforts toward a fairer immigration system. My view is that a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants is itself a precondition. Wikipedia's article of the Senate's 2013 immigation reform bill attributes to the Senate bill's primary sponsor, Sen. Chuck Schumer, a statement that Democrats will not consider any bill that does not offer current undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. Thus, it seems that a path to citizenship is a precondition for Democratic support.
It seems to me that we are at a political stalemate: House Republicans won't introduce any bill that contains a path to citizenship, whereas Democrats won't support any bill that doesn't support a path to citizenship. It was widely thought in political circles that the results of the 2012 presidential election would spur a chastened GOP to rethink its stance on immigration. Either that reconsideration never occurred, or it did occur but the GOP did not come around to the point of view that immigration reform advocates hoped for. If the common wisdom is right about the coming midterm election, it seems likely that the GOP will not pay a political price for immigration intransience.
In this comment, I'm sharing my take on the political landscape, not advocating a set of policies. But if anyone is interested, my view is that the House should introduce and pass the Senate bill, as its major features would make for a fairer and more just situation. I also think, though, that in the spirit of best not being the enemy of the good, there may be a possibility of bipartisan support for some relatively modest immigration reform measures that fall short of a path to citizenship. It would be good (but apparently not realistic) for the two parties to pursue those modest reforms.
Jim, having grown up in Louisiana during the late 30s and 40s, I saw first hand how African-American people were dealt with by the political powers that existed then, how they faced discrimination in so many ways daily, which amounted to saying in no uncertain terms that they were inferior, by reason of their race, to white people, I find it morally unacceptable to endorse a legal regime that would bar any person from having a path to citizenship. One of the definitions of the word apartheid in the OED Shorter Version makes it synonomous with segragation. But let's not fight about words.
About preconditions. There is a fundamental difference between preconditions that a person desiring citizenship has to satisfy to be awarded citizenship and preconditions that are beyond the power of any such peerson to satisfy by his or her own efforts. It is the latter sort of precondition that I claim is morally unacceptable and is the sort of precondition that Senator Schumer has in mind. An example that comes to mind is the demand that the border be secure before any movemet toward granting any undocumented immigrants can begin. When is the border secure enough? It's a demand that is practically impossible to satisfy perfectly. So it is a practical bar rather than a reasonable requirement. I readily admit that there can be reasonable limitations placed on the number of immigrants who can achieve citizenship during a particular period of time. The justification for such limitations is the shortage of resources, e.g., health facilities, educational facilities, shortages that have nothing to do with the personal qualifications of the prospective candidates for citizenship.
What i find wholly unacceptable is a legal regime that will result in a significant population who are accepted to work in the country for extended periods of time, but, through no fault of their own, are legally precluded from being able to achieve full citizenship. Such a legal regime unjustly discriminates against them. Call it exploitation or apartheid or whatever. It is not morally acceptable. REfusing to legislate such a regime is not a matter of "letting the best be the enemy of the good." It is a refusal to endorse an evil.
Dear Bob,
And thanks to you for your reply and good wishes, and for the manner in which this discussion has evolved. I understand your points and your proposed response to the hypothetical arrival of persons in need. I am sure you would act with compassion and "with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right," in Lincoln's phrase.
Bernard - I don't want to set myself up here as being opposed to your core argument. I would like to see a reasonable path to citizenship, and as I indicated in my previous comment, I consider Schumer's and Rubio's Senate bill as providing such a path.
But in the spirit of playing devil's advocate, let me note this: the population we're discussing is not a population that is indigenous to this country. Nor is it a population that, like the African slaves, was brought to this country against their will*. Nor is it, with relatively few exceptions, a refugee population. It is a population that came here voluntarily, and who came here knowing that the method of coming here that they chose would preclude them from any claim to citizenship, then or in the future. Thus I don't think you're correct when you note that they're precluded from a path to citizenship "through no fault of their own". They precluded themselves by the conditions of their illegal immigration. There is a legal path to immigration in US law, including a path to citizenship, but these immigrants circumvented the process. Doesn't it also seem fair that they should wait in line like everyone else, and also should be punished for jumping the line?
What is the basis for your claim that all should have a path to citizenship? Just thinking about it objectively, it seems to me that in certain circumstances that could be an imprudent policy. And my impression is that many developed nations (and developing nations) don't grant citizenship to anyone and everyone who crosses the border and finds work. The operative principle seems to be that each nation may determine the criteria for granting citizenship. It's not clear to me that US citizenship is a base human rights requirement for any and all undocumented immigrants in the US.
* The main exception to this would be the undocumented immigrant children of undocumented immigrants. Those children did not choose to come; they came because their families brought them. The DREAM Act was intended to address their situation. Notably for purposes of our discussion, the DREAM Act would extend significant rights to these undocumented children, but would fall short of granting them full citizenship. Not the best outcome, but a good outcome.
having grown up in Louisiana during the late 30s and 40s, I saw first hand how African-American people were dealt with by the political powers that existed then, how they faced discrimination in so many ways daily, which amounted to saying in no uncertain terms that they were inferior, by reason of their race, to white people
Bernard, I agree that Jim Crow is a closer parallel to apartheid, not least because the discriminatory social customs were bolstered by unjust formal legal structures. That is a key difference with today's situation regarding people of Hispanic origin: as I noted, the great majority in the US are full citizens with all of a citizen's legal rights and privileges. I don't doubt that a great deal of discrimination still victimizes people of Hispanic origin, but the legal regime is different.
A great conversation, thank you.
Jim, so much to say. Here's a sample.
1. Nobody I know claims that US citizenship is a "basic human right." That's a red hering. But I would argue that there is a basic human right to be a citizen of some state that is not autocratic and where the rule of law is both enforced and reasonable. This is an ideal that we should all endorse and push for.
2. You say that illegal immigrants have "precluded themselves by the conditions of their illegal immigration." This implies that they are culpable for having come into the US illegally. Frankly, I find that terribly naive. For years, agents of US farms and food processing plants have recruited immigrants to do very hard work for wages that were often pitifully low and required them to live in miserable conditions. They had little recourse to health care, etc. Why did the immigrants come? Because their own lives were so miserable?
What about the laws that they broke by coming? They have been written for the most part to benefit employesr and American consumers. They have been enforced so erratically that many immigrants, both legal and illegal, live in constant fear of arrest and/or deportation. Many policde departments have resisted federal efforts to compel them to cooperate with ICE. Families have been ripped apart suddnly and with little concern for the effect on the young children involved. When one talks about the legal regime no in force in the US, one has to take into consideration not just the wording of the statutes, but also the inducements to business to hire immigrants regardless of their legal status as well as the disorderly ways in which the laws have been enforced. To put the blame for their status fully on the shoulders of the illegal immigrants is simpleminded.
3. The Dream Act has its merits, but it does little to address the basic problem of the constant threat somany immigrant families face of being split up through enforcement of the legal constraints underwhich both legal and illegal non-citizens face in the US.
I could go on and on, but I think I've said enough to make it evident why I regard the present legal regime to be rotten. Thank God for the many people, not a few of whom are nuns, who see the basic injustice of our system and refuse to be cought up in defending it on grounds that the illegal immigrants bring their exclusion from citizenship on themselves, simply by reason of having come here illegally.
The first of my family to come to North America arrived as an indentured servant, probably in lieu of debtors prison in England, we assume, in any case certainly an economic refugee. Worked his seven years in the tobacco fields of Maryland, then another three to buy release of the woman he loved and married, a later arrival. Then began the common old story: moving westward bit by bit till, almost two hundred years later, the family arrived in the upper Middle West to become farmers, work for the railroad, and keep small shops.
Not such a different story, really, is it?
I'm in my late 60's and could not manage a trip from Oaxaca or El Salvador to the border, then a race through the desert, hoping to find a cousin or a friend from the old district in some great city, or with a job picking strawberries bound for the table of others. But I look at my grandchildren, and hope that their parents would have the initiative and courage to take their chance. As our ancestors once did, too.
Bernard - we agree on much, most importantly that the existing system needs to be reformed.
I would note that a guest worker program could solve virtually every problem you raised in your most recent comment, from worker exploitation to harassment and deportation threats to families being ripped apart.
We're in agreement on the culpability of employers. But I continue to hold that the immigrants themselves also are culpable. But perhaps they should be forgiven; there are practical arguments for this (e.g. they contribute more to the economy than they cost). And I would argue that forgiveness of poor workers is profoundly in the American tradition. And if a preferential option for the poor means anything, I would think it would mean this type of practical forgiveness.
Fair enough, Jim. We're not exactly on the same page concerning the adequacy or ultimate fairness of any guest worker program that I can imagine. Nor am I convinced that the arguments for forgiving immigrants for entering the country illegally hinge exclusively oor even primarily on the size of their contfibution to the economy. But then again I'm not sure that I can come up with knock out arguments against what you say, certainly not in the blogging format and given the limitations of what I know aabout this terribly complicated practical issue. Best wishes. And isn't Pentecost a great feast! Where would any of us be without the Holy Spirit to call upon!


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The Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home lists services on its website for Caroline Elizabeth Tuttle and Ryder Nichols Deitz. Police say the preschoolers were killed Monday when their Head Start school bus overturned and crashed into a tree in Carrollton.
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The cultural expressions of Papua's renowned Asmat Tribe will be the highlight of Indonesia's most eastern island as the Asmat Cultural Festival is scheduled to take place at the Yos Sudarso Field, Asmat District on 15th to 19th October 2013.
The main feature of the festival is obviously the signature wood carving art of the Asmat. The Asmat are known to have the capability of carving wood into fascinating artworks directly without drawing any sketches first. To the Asmat, their woodcarvings are inextricably linked with the spirit world, and therefore, are not principally considered as aesthetic objects. Much of the highly original art of the Asmat is symbolic of warfare, headhunting, and warrior-ancestor veneration. For centuries the Asmat, preoccupied with the necessity of appeasing ancestral spirits, produced a wealth of superbly designed shields, canoes, sculptured figures, and drums.
Aside from wood carving exhibitions and auctions, the festival will also present hundreds of artisans and performers who will showcase their exceptional skill in weavings, boating, and various dances and traditional musical performances. At the closing of the festival, the fine artworks of the Asmat will then be displayed for open auction.
Located at the southern part of Papua facing the Arafuru Sea, the district of Asmat was once part of the Merauke district. On February 2011, the district gained UNESCO recognition as a world heritage site. The Asmat region shot into world spotlight when in 1961 Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller disappeared here on his second expedition. On his first visit Michael had been deeply impressed by the Asmat sculpture, and planned to display these at an exhibition in the United States. On this unfortunate journey the boat capsized, pushed by the rushing incoming tide. Impatient, Michael swam to shore never to be seen or heard of again.
To reach Agats, you can take a flight from Jakarta or Bali to Timika and then continue by smaller plane to Ewer. From Ewer, you must take a speed boat to reach Agats. The Mozes Kilangin Airport in Timika is served by Garuda Indonesia from Jakarta and Denpasar, and Merpati Nusantara Airlines from the capital of Papua, Jayapura. Susi Air operates flights to local destinations across Papua including from Timika to Ewer. There are no hotels available in Asmat, the only possible way is either to stay at the local house which is called bujang (long house) house, or on Agats, where are simple accommodations whose rates change from time to time.
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The stock market roared, the regulators stirred, the unemployment rate soared and the banks continued to show great reluctance to lend money.
What else happened in 2009? Oh, right, there was a tremendous binge of book publishing related to the financial crisis that began in the summer of 2008 - and Henry Paulson's version of events isn't even out yet (coming soon - Feb. 1 - to a bookstore/online warehouse near you).


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I'm having some difficulty wrapping my head around rigid motions in a plane. In particular, I'm trying to solve this following problem:
In a Euclidean plane, show that the product of two rotations around different points is equal to either a rotation around a third point or a translation. Hint: Show that it has at most one fixed point.
I working in a plane $\Pi$ over an Euclidean ordered field, so rotations are transformations defined by $$ \begin{cases} x'=cx-sy \\ y'=sx+cy \end{cases} $$ where $c^2+s^2=1$. I simply take two rotations $\psi$ and $\phi$ such that $$ \phi=\begin{cases} x'=cx-dy\\ y'=dx+cy \end{cases} $$ and $$ \psi=\begin{cases} x'=ex-fy\\ y'=fx+ey \end{cases} $$ where $c^2+d^2=1$ and $e^2+f^2=1$. Composing them, I see $$ \begin{align*} \psi\phi(x,y) &= (ecx-edy-fdx-fcy,fcx-fdy+edx+ecy) \\ &= ((ec-fd)x-(ed+fc)y,(fc+ed)x+(ec-fd)y) \end{align*} $$ but $$ \begin{align*} (ec-fd)^2+(ed+fc)^2 &= e^2c^2-2ecfd+f^2d^2+e^2d^2+2edfc+f^2c^2 \\ &= (e^2+f^2)c^2+(e^2+f^2)d^2 \\ &= c^2+d^2=1 \end{align*} $$ so $\psi\phi$ is a rotation. I feel I have done something wrong, since the problem seems to be prodding me in a different direction. What is the correct way to show this? Thanks.


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Dark Side of Oz party!!
Now would be a great time for a new post for $3 in MP3s on Amazon.
I think I paid about five bucks for the album when it was new, and it included two posters.
How many copies of this album must I own?
@misry: Apparently one more. ;)
Most overrated band of all time.
@cmarcospol: you are dead to me.
@craigthom: What was it like in those days?
@cmarcospol: Overrated for a reason! And BTW..."all time" isn't over yet.
@cmarcospol: Nope that would be The Doors.
@cmarcospol: Pink Floyd has a record breaking 15.5 years and counting on the Billboard 200 chart...there must be a lot of people with bad musical taste in the world.
A remaster mp3? Isn't that an oxymoron?
A Goat reference - Thanks! Right back to when I was a kid. I used to beg my dad to play "the laughing man" song, so two great memories in one.
@cavimike: Not really. An MP3 is just the same sound file with certain high and low frequencies removed to reduce file size. To remaster a track from analog to digital, it could be done in multiple audio formats. But generally, a proper remaster would be done in full frequency (ex: .wav), cleaned up for distortion or background hissing/noise, volume normalized, then converted to the new format of MP3 to be sold at retail.
@codybodd: Is it me or can you take this two ways?
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All that you deal
All that you buy,
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@ : In that case let me be perfectly clear: there has been no greater band in my lifetime. We saw Gilmour Floyd 3x, and we've seen Roger Waters 13x since 2000. We flew to Munich for one our "The Wall" experiences. My husband even saw the original Dark Side of the Moon tour in college (yes, we are that old). I've seen hundreds of concerts in my lifetime, and I like everything from Tom Petty to George Winston, but the music of Pink Floyd is simply timeless. Apparently the director of the opening ceremony of the Olympics is a Floyd fan as well. Four Floyd references, including "Eclipse"'during the final fireworks was stunning and perfect.
"There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark".
Is the little pitch bend at the end of Great Gig still present on the remaster?
@codybodd: What were the other 3 reference during the opening ceremonies? I was waiting for a Floyd tune, but didn't pick up on anything until the end...
@codybodd: I have a feeling some of the people who down voted your first comment read it the wrong way.
Welp, someone mentioned Dark Side of the moon. Time for me to listen to it.
Melt away the stress at work, you magical blend of tones and rhythm.
I picked up the SACD for $5 a few months ago. Just listened to it last weekend after hooking up my wooted Klipsch Quintets.....Wow--was all I could think. I heard notes that I haven't heard in ten years while listening at my father-in-laws off some junk shelf stereo system he had that, for some reason, had incredible range.
Definitely worth it at this price!
@1rudeboy: yes 4, sorry meant both ceremonies though. In the opening sequence while following the Thames River:
1. The pig was flying between the Battersea Power station (Animals album)
2. When they went by Big Ben, they played the clock sequence at the opening of "Time"
3. "Eclipse" after the cauldron was lit and the fireworks began, and in the closing ceremony, of course
4. The lovely "Wish You Were Here" with Nick Mason and Mike Rutherford playing (awesome) complete with a re-creation of the album cover including the burning man (fantastic)
Also heard some Floyd in the gymnastics floor exercises; I think "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
@gusvonpooch: Ouch, I should have completed my thought.
My intent in listing the album statistics was to politely ask @cmarcospol to move on.
I have issues when The Floyd is insulted.
Pink Floyd I rank up as one of the top few bands.
And the Doors are underrated, not overrated. Incredible band.
Deal is dead, sad face.
@codybodd: It was annoying that someone was doing floor exercises to Floyd and I couldn't see it!
@dontwantaname: I know! It had a very surreal sound in that arena. I think it was a Romanian or Russian gymnast because they're cool with music like that. But I was stuck watching the balance beam...


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Let $(F, \phi): \mathscr{A}\to \mathscr{B}$ a lax-functor between 2-categories. In the setting of 2-categories the axiom of lax-functor become:
Ul) $1: F(f)=F(f)\circ 1_{F(X)}\xrightarrow{1\circ \phi_X}F(f)\circ F(1_X)\xrightarrow{\phi_{f, 1}} F(f\circ 1_X)= F(f)$.
For $f: X \to Y$ in $\mathscr{A}$.
Ur) $1: F(f)= 1_{F(Y)}\circ F(f)\xrightarrow{\phi_X\circ 1} F(1_Y)\circ F(f)\xrightarrow{\phi_{1, f}} F( 1_Y \circ f)= F(f)$.
For $f: X \to Y$ in $\mathscr{A}$.
UA) The compositions $F(h)\circ F(g)\circ F(f) \xrightarrow{\phi_{h, g}\circ 1} F(h\circ g)\circ F(f) \xrightarrow{\phi_{h\circ g, f}\circ 1} F(h\circ g\circ f)$ and
$F(h)\circ F(g)\circ F(f) \xrightarrow{1\circ \phi_{g, f}} F(h)\circ F(g\circ f) \xrightarrow{\phi_{h, g\circ f}} F(h\circ g\circ f)$ are equal.
For componibile morphisms $h, g, f$.
I call $(F, \phi)$ normal (or unitary) if in the axioms $(Ul)$ and $(Ur)$ above all arrows are identities.
Gived $(F, \phi)$ (general) I define a normal lax.functor $(\tilde{F}, \tilde{\phi})$ that is the some of $F$ on objects and on non-identity morphisms, with of course $\tilde{F}(1_X)=1_{F(X)}$, $\widetilde{\phi}_{X}= 1: \tilde{F}(1_X)\to 1_{F(X)} $, and with $\tilde{\phi}_{g, f}$ defined as:
$ \phi_{g, f}: F(g)\circ F(f)\to F(g\circ f)$ if $f$ and $g$ arent identity, and the obvious identity if $f$ or $g$ is a identity. I checked (easly) that axiom $(UA)$ is true for $(\tilde{F}, \tilde{\phi})$, then $(\tilde{F}, \tilde{\phi})$ is a lax.funtor.
I ask if this (very easy normalization) is just know in literature ( I dont know), and if is right (I'm sure its right, but I'm no too sure of myself).
Edit: If in $(Ul)$ all arrows are identies, this imply the some in $(Ur)$ (i.e. $(F, \phi)$ is normal)?
My motivations is a generalization of the J.W. Gray concept of quasi-functors to lax.functors (Gray gived this definition for 2-functors).
EDit As Jonathan Chiche observed, these is the obvious condition than a lax.functor induce hom-functors between hom-categories (I am ashamed for this rough oversight). Anyway if the canonical morphism $\phi_X: 1_{FX}\Rightarrow F(1_X)$ is a isomorphism then the mine definition preserving this funtorialiy, only need a easy correction based on the following observation: the cells of type $\sigma: 1_{FX}\Rightarrow W$ are in bijections with the cells of type $\sigma': F(1_X)\Rightarrow W$ and the cells like $\tau: W\Rightarrow 1_{FX}$ are in bijections with the cells of type $\tau': W\Rightarrow F(1_X)$. With this correction I seems that also the naturality of $\tilde{\phi}$ work well.


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The title basically says it all.
The only thing to take into consideration is it needs to be cross platform.
While not technically a JAVA library SDL is a C library that I use extensively that does input and much more. It does however have bindings for java and can run on pretty much any platform in existence.
There is JSDL and SDLjava
Kind of depends.
Are you using JFrame without a game library or framework?
If so then you want to call the method
If you're using a game framework it should have a polling system instead of events, which I'm not sure how to get around (Unless you could obtain the JFrame). If this is the case, just check each update (or tick) if a button is pressed.


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