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8 (Pointless) Laws All Comic Book Movies Follow
#4. The Hero Must Lose His Powers at Some Point
Oh, clever Hollywood! In order to make the hero's travails that much more dramatic, the superhero must lose their powers, yet carry on instead of blowing their brains out. It's about the only way writers can figure out how to squeeze drama out of the story, since the whole premise is that the main character is just about invincible and there's not much drama in that. Still, for some reason, this always gets handled in the clumsiest way possible.
Superman of course has the kryptonite thing, but they can't seem to get it straight what exactly kryptonite does to him, even within the same movie. Theoretically, he should still have all his powers, but just be too weak to use them. Like in the first Superman, kryptonite makes Christopher Reeve too weak to swim, but he's still indestructible (or else Lex would have presumably just shot him) and he still is able to use his super-sexuality to seduce one of the villains into helping him.
However, in Superman Returns, kryptonite takes away his powers of invulnerability, allowing Luthor to injure and then stab him.
Of course, he's later able to lift an island containing several billion tons of the stuff. Anyway, in Superman 2 they introduced a special device that Superman was able to use to remove his powers, thoughtfully packed by his mother into a crystal placed in his escape rocket.
The Batman franchise handles this a little differently, since Batman is essentially just a normal person with a super passion for vengeance and gadgetry. So, invariably we must have him face the villain when he's out of costume. In the first film Michael Keaton gets shot by the Joker in his living room, in Batman Begins the hero gets his ass kicked while wearing a tuxedo in Wayne Manor, and must sadly be rescued by his butler.
Perhaps the most the most mysterious of power losses comes in Spider-Man 2, where Spider-Man's powers start to slowly fade away for seemingly no reason, yet conveniently return when Mary Jane is kidnapped by Dr. Octopus.
Even worse, we have the Fantastic Four sequel, where the crew get all of their powers switched around by the Silver Surfer somehow, in a series of events too pointless for us to recap here.Also ...
This rule also has the Alaskan Diner Corollary: while de-powered, the hero usually must perform one heroic act. Clark defends Lois' honor from the Alaskan Diner bully while unpowered, and gets his ass handed to him. Peter rescues a little Asian girl from a burning building.
This is apparently Hollywood trying to distract us from the fact that we're really admiring these superheroes for having powers they got completely by accident.
#3. The Bad Guys Must Invade the Hero's Secret Hideout
The aforementioned invasion and burning of Wayne Manor touches on another rule, which says that at some point, usually in a sequel, the bad guys must break into the hero's secret hideout.
This one isn't just confined to superhero movies, it's a Hollywood rule that if the hero starts the film with some kind of impenetrable fortress, it will later play host to a bunch of bad guys (see I Am Legend for a non-comic example). Like the "power loss" rule it makes for easy drama and a sense of danger for the audience. Unfortunately this also calls attention to just how easily found these hidden lairs actually are.
Superman's Fortress of Solitude gets invaded twice in five films (both by Lex Luthor). Batman's Batcave also gets invaded twice in five films, bombed by the Riddler and Two-Face in Batman Forever and then burned down by Ras Al Ghoul as we mentioned.
Spider-Man's apartment gets hit twice in three films, once by Norman Osborn, once by the alien symbiote. X-Men's Xavier School for the Gifted also gets hit twice, once by the US Army under General Stryker's orders in X-Men 2, and once by Dark Pheonix in X-Men 3.
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This rule has the Cock Block Corollary: If the superhero is having trouble getting laid, letting the girl "invade" his secret headquarters will always do the trick (see Superman 2, Batman and both Fantastic Four movies.)
#2. A Villain Must Redeem Himself
Everyone loves to see a good redemption story, so an easy way to engage the audience's emotions is with a villain who suddenly has a change of heart. We believe this method of storytelling was invented by the world of professional wrestling.
So we have Eve Teschmacher helping Superman in the first film, Mystique turning into a government informant in X-Men 3 and Dr. Octopus sacrificing his life in Spider-Man 2. But one film in particular has taken this rule to dizzying extremes: Spider-Man 3.
First, you've got Harry Osborn. In the first film, he's a pitiful character, ignored by his father and gradually losing his girlfriend. In part two, he's a drunk, a jerk and vengeful maniac. In the third installment, he gains redemption by riding to Spider-Man's rescue and sacrificing his life in the process.
But on top of all that you have Sandman, who goes through a similar series of steps, but solely within the third film. He gets pity banked in the beginning of the film through the manipulative use of a sick young daughter, does several dastardly deeds and then does an abrupt heel turn right at the end by apologizing to Spider-Man and sobbing like a little bitch. This seems to set off a chain reaction that has all of the characters in the film spending the last 10 minutes of screen time sobbing.
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There is about a 40 percent chance that the "redemption" will turn out to be part of the villain's hidden plan. You had Lex Luthor pretending to help Superman in Superman 2, then Magneto and Mystique temporarily helping the X-Men in part two before taking advantage of the situation for their own agenda. So that satisfies the audience's other emotional need, which is to believe that bad people are bad and we should never trust their attempts to be anything else.
#1. The Fifth Film Reboots the Franchise
It's the rare franchise that makes it to four films at all, so maybe just making it there is a badge of honor. Or, maybe not. The problem is each film in a superhero franchise has to keep topping the one before it, and by the time you reach film number four, it's very hard to keep from straying into the ridiculous.
Therefore, by using Hollywood logic, if the previous film jumps the shark, the only way to repair the damage is by jumping the shark again, backwards, and continuing the series from a previous point, ignoring the movies that came in the middle.
For instance, Superman IV had the distinction of proving all the critics wrong who claimed that no superhero movie could be worse than Superman III.
It was bad enough that the studio shut down the Superman cash cow for almost two decades. So Superman Returns required a reboot for casting if nothing else, since Christopher Reeve suffered his horrible accident and eventually died, and Margot Kidder (Lois Lane) was certifiably insane, probably from the horrors of working on Superman IV. Also, actresses her age are generally not allowed to continue acting, so they replaced her with an actress young enough that, according to the film's timeline, she would have been a teenager when the original film took place.
Thus not a single actor from the original four movies appeared in the fifth, other than Marlon Brando, who was brought back from the dead specially for this film. The storyline presumably picks up sometime during the events from Superman II, specifically after Superman bonks Lois Lane (the rules and physics for alien-superhero intercourse will have to be covered in another article).
Of course Superman IV didn't hold the title of worst superhero movie ever made for very long, as the fourth Batman film (Batman and Robin) came along to take the title, with the film makers trying to cram in so many villains, costumes and sets, the whole thing became a nightmarish mess. Thus when it came time for the fifth film reboot, the decision was made to pretend the entire first four movies never, ever happened.
We guess what we're saying is if they make Blade IV next year, run far, far away from the theater. Then come back a few years later for the reboot.
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The fifth film reboot doesn't only apply to superhero movies, though maybe it should. The Rocky franchise got more and more inflated over the course of four films, culminating with Rocky, a legally retarded boxer, ending the Cold War. Stallone tried to do a "back to its gritty roots" reboot (twice) but the results were less than Batman Begins. And in case you thought there was no coming back from the fourth Karate Kid starring Hillary Swank, get ready for a Karate Kid reboot directed by Will Smith and starring his son Jaden. Seriously.
If the pattern holds, we should be due for gritty reboots of the Die Hard and Alien franchises any time now. Don't let us down, guys.
If you enjoyed that, check out our rundown of 5 Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Must Be Stopped. Also, be sure to find out about 15 cool things to do with your helicopter (featuring a few you might not have even tried yet). Or find out about 5 Douchebags Whose Mere Existence Should Make You Feel Cooler.


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Intenet Explorer 8
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When the field label contains radio buttons, the alignment of the label isn't correct. Notice how the field label is lower than the contents.
This looks minor here, but if there is line wrapping in the label, is is more apparent (in my existing code, it is rather noticable in a few scenarios).
See blue rectangle region below to see the slight alignment issues.
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I should point out I did submit a similar issue with this before when mixing components (GWT within GXT),
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$43k a year, humility not guaranteed
If theres a word I dont immediately associate with a for-profit, pre-K-through-nine educational venture that has $85 million in private-equity financing (with another round on the way), that in full-page newspaper and magazine ads has proclaimed its aspirations for expanding around the globe, and that occupies a 215,000-square-foot, light- and art-filled renovated warehouse alongside the High Line Park in Manhattans Chelsea neighborhood, its humility. The very nature of Avenues: The World Schools educational mission, if thats the term, would seem to work against fostering qualities like simple gratitude and modesty. Theres also the $43,000 annual price-tag.Fortunately, the executives in charge at Avenues seem alert to the cognitive dissonance, as detailed in a New York Times Magazine story on Sunday:
[W]hile Avenues offers its students every imaginable educational benefit a 9-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio, a Harvard-designed World Course it has also tapped into an even deeper, more complicated parental anxiety: the anxiety of wanting their kids to have every advantage, but ensuring that all those advantages dont turn them into privileged jerks.As Manhattan, and particularly downtown, is transformed by a staggering infusion of wealth, there is a growing market for creating emotionally intelligent future global leaders who, as a result of their emotional intelligence, have a little humility. In fact, when the nearby Grace Church School was researching whether to start its own high school, it asked top college-admission officers what was lacking in New York City applicants. The answers coalesced around the idea of values, civic engagement, inclusiveness and diversity in a word, humility.And so Avenues students may run to their Empire State of Mind: Thinking About Jay-Z in a New Way mini-mester while passing a Chuck Close self-portrait, but they do so with the intent of being humble about their gifts and generous of spirit, as the schools mission statement puts it.
That there is a growing market [emphasis added] for creating emotionally intelligent future global leaders is something else to think about. But in the meantime, humble or not, Avenues students are at least assured a menu of diverse and healthy fare, and more of it:
After the first week of classes, a group of parents sent a seven-page e-mail detailing concerns: there were not enough worldly snacks like seaweed, zucchini bread with quinoa flour and bean quesadillas (so long as the beans came from BPA-free tin cans). In the black-box theater, Avenues chief administrative officer helped assure parents that their kids diet was sufficiently organic, local and healthful. The regional director of its food-service contractor was on hand to address any fears about carbohydrates. A doctor from Mount Sinai Hospital was ready to answer questions about allergies. A 25-page PowerPoint was presented. After the PowerPoint presentation concluded the questions started flying: Why so much bread? What was the policy on genetically modified organisms? Why no sushi? Nancy Schulman, the head of Avenues Early Learning Center dutifully worked with parents to implement many of their ideas, including more education about nutrition, and more snack time.
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Privilige is a terrible thing to waste on the already-priviliged. But they do deserve it, after all. Weren't they smart enough to be born rich?
The Convent of the Sacred Heart costs $39,000+ a year. http://www.cshnyc.org/admissions/tuition_and_financial_aid/index.aspx
I am curious to know how they understand the word "gifts". Do they mean the students' "natural" "talents"? Or do they mean the unfathomable fortune of being able to attend such a school? I doubt it's the latter.
It looks like a wonderful school. From the Mission Statement:"WE WILL GRADUATE STUDENTS who are accomplished in the academic skills one would expect; at ease beyond their borders; truly fluent in a second language; good writers and speakers one and all; confident because they excel in a particular passion; artists no matter their field; practical in the ways of the world; emotionally unafraid and physically fit; humble about their gifts and generous of spirit; trustworthy; aware that their behavior makes a difference in our ecosystem; great leaders when they can be, good followers when they should be; on their way to well-chosen higher education; and, most importantly, architects of lives that transcend the ordinary."http://www.avenues.org/avenues-school-missionI hope everyone will look at the school's web site and judge for yourselves.
So, let me get this right: born into privilige. educated into and with privilige. graduate into other priviliged educational systems. get priviliged jobs with other priviliged people. expect to inherit much of not all of your priviliged parents' priviliged income without paying inheritance taxes.Yes, that sounds quite American.But be very careful comes the revolution. And the way things are going, that idea is not so far-fetched after all.
Gerelyn,The problem is not with the school's mission statement, and nothing available on the school's website is likely to reassure its critics. Of course, teachers and administrators at public schools in poor neighborhoods would also like to graduate students who are "accomplished in the academic skills one would expect [for a graduate of a school that charges so much?]; at ease beyond their borders; truly fluent in a second language; good writers and speakers one and all; confident because they excel in a particular passion; artists no matter their field"; only, the public schools in such neighborhoods don't have the resources to do it. And the fact that they don't have the funding they need to do right by their students is related to the fact that there are people who (a) can afford the $43,000 yearly tuition and (b) would spend whatever they had to in order to save their own children from our public-school system. "Generous of spirit"love that qualifier. The word "generous," unmodified, would raise too many troubling questions. And speaking of questions, I noticed none of the questions asked at the school menu meeting had to do with whether the people who grow the food their children eat are being paid properly. As long as it's organic.
I just finished Rod Dreher's "The Little Way of Ruthie Leming". (He's the writer/editor on religious and social/political subjects who invented the notion of "crunchy cons".) "The Little Way" is the story of his sister who led a totally ordinary life *by choice* plus the inter-twined story of Dreher's ambitious choice to seek a significant writing career among extraordinary people. When his sister dies of a terrible cancer at age 42 he discovers that this "ordinary" woman was literally a saint who influenced thousands of lives by her following a "little way" much like that of St. Therese of Lisieux. The book is quite fraught in many spots, but generally well-written, with particularly wise sections on community, plus a bit of the humor and zaniness you'd expect to find in the woods of South Louisiana where the stories take place. Most important, it has considerable theological depth in a way that abstract theology can't. Eventually Dreher comes to see that the difference between her life and his was, as he puts it, the difference between "thinking good thoughts and doing good things". The children at Avenues should have this book on their required reading lists. And copies should be given to their parents.
That's quite a mission statement. But somehow they left out "holistic."
There's a Catholic school four short blocks (1/5 of a mile) away with annual tuition at $3900 and presumably no extra charge for lessons in humility.http://www.guardianangelschool-nyc.org/tuition.htmlAnother cultural achievement of the neighborhood: the Oreo Cookie was invented there 101 years ago.
Hi, Matthew: 1) True that nothing on a school's web site reassures its critics. Here's Choate's: http://www.choate.edu/aboutchoate/history_mission.aspx Choate is a bargain compared to Avenues, only 51K including room and board. The proof will be in the pudding for Avenues. Will it be around in a hundred years? 2) Have to disagree with your second sentence, the one that starts with "Of course". Teachers can't pass on what they don't have or want.3) Have to disagree with your third sentence, too. No amount of funding could make a person who is ignorant of history able to teach history. Ditto math, English, etc. (You're young, and I'm old. I remember when the public schools of Kansas City were great: Southwest High School, now a horrible dump, was the 38th best public school in the country in 1958; at the same time, Westport High School, now closed because it had become such a horrible dump, had more Rhodes Scholars among its graduates than any school in the country; etc., etc., etc.) The decline in education, fostered and encouraged by the Republican Party, will continue. Keep 'em stupid, and they'll vote the RIGHT way. 4) Mocking rich parents is easy. (DotCommonweal has done it before. It must be hard for those who despise/envy the "privileged" to live and work in Manhattan.)
The solution is simple: double the price of tuition, and for each rich child, offer a full fellowship to a child from a needy family, chosen according to their motivation and academic potential. That will show generosity in action, develop humility by showing the rich kid how some poor kid, placed alongside him, might do much better in school, make them practical in the ways of the world by exposing them to a more diverse environment, make them emotionally unafraid by exposing them to a broader spectrum of students, etc. And the critics will shut up.
Gerelyn,Your contempt for the people who work at public schools is remarkable, especially since you yourself acknowledge that the problem is largely one of resources. (How did the Republican Party foster and encourage the decline in education if not by withholding the funding necessary to make our public schools as good as those in other rich countries, or to make public schools in poor neighborhoods as good as those in rich ones?) Part of making public schools better is making sure that public-school teachers have the right kind of training, and here the problem is not only one of money. Still, if we paid our high-school teachers what doctors and lawyers make, we'd have better teachers. If we paid them what their important work is worth, we could also fairly demand that they be better educated in the subjects they teach. We might even consider integrating the training program for high-school and college teachers the way some other countries do. But all that would depend on the political initiative to make public education the priority it should be, which would entail higher tax rates for the people who can afford to send their children to schools like Choate and Avenues. "Mocking rich parents is easy." Yes, it is. Too easy. They're making it easier all the time. Old as you are, you must remember the time when plutocrats didn't pose as cultural egalitarians.
This is not mocking rich parents. This is legitimate questioning of a venture that is so smugly certain of its superiority that it acknowledges it might have to teach humility not as a good of its own, but as another marketable skill that the brand of future monetizers its incubating can leverage as a competitive differentiator. Whats problematic here is not (just) the fees and high-priced artwork and sushi, but the all-but-explicit admission that education is simply a means in the accumulation of wealth, and by no other metric should the quality of that education be measured.
Matthew::(I guess I don't regard parents of private school kids as plutocrats. They're not that powerful. They're just people who can pay tuition at private schools. Deriding them and their kids for insufficient humility? Fatuous.)Agree, of course, that teachers should be paid what doctors are paid. If a high school history teacher had to study history for the length of time a doctor studies medicine and had to serve internships and residencies, s/he would be worth the money. Maybe. And if s/he had to earn annual credits, as lawyers must, to keep the license up to date, s/he would be worth the money. Maybe.Anyway, I think the time has passed for the old methods. Want to teach the Civil War? Show them Ken Burns's films. Show them original documents, newspapers, clothes, popular plays, songs, amputation methods, etc. At the end of the day's lesson, test them on it. If they pass, they get a new lesson the next day. If they flunk, they repeat the previous lesson. Every day until they pass. It doesn't require a "teacher" at all. Just a mouse. It could be done at home in comfort. Just come to the big ugly bunker-like building for P.E. and theater.
I'm all for humility, understood as a practical virtue rather than a style of self-presentation, but I wonder if the real problem here isn't so much the lack of humility as the lack of a healthy capacity for shame. To haveand keepmuch more money than you need when others in your community have too little is shameful.To which one could always retort: "Easy to say if you don't have much more than you need. And who gets to say how much that is anyway?" I can well imagine that some of the people who send their children to Avenues would be all for a public-education system that's both fair and excellent. Since at the moment our system is neither, they're going to do what's in their own child's best interest, as any good parent would, rather than sacrificing him or her to their liberal guilt. We don't really have to imagine this response; we hear it all the time.Among these rich parents who would be all for more fairness, there are some who vote and even donate for more fairness who don't just look forward to a time when schools like Avenues are unnecessary, but work for such a time. But again, until that time has come they'll do whatever they can for their own children, because all real love is favoritism of a kind.And then there are people who could afford to send their children to a school exclusively (or almost exclusively) for the rich and choose instead to send them to schools where the children of rich families mix with those of poor and middle-class families. Not necessarily because these parents would rather spend their wealth on yachts and signed Warhol prints than on their own children's future. Some of them recognize and recoil from the very undemocratic implications of a place like Avenues. Gated communities are to be resisted, whether they're for the old or the very young. The best inducement to civic virtue, of the kind the admissions officers at the Ivies apparently find lacking in the graduates of fancy New York prep schools, is having a personal stake in the success of public institutions.
I struggled to stay afloat through the first few gusts of the Mission Statement, but they sank me irretrievably with "confident because they excel in a particular passion," and it only got worse after that. I hope the kids will be "truly fluent in a second language," because the first, it seems, will be Pretentious Twaddle, until now useful mainly for selling the penthouse apartment in Amour Propre Towers.Shame on me for such severity! Yet they have not completed their first academic year. In five or ten or thirty years, when their goals have become accomplishments and they have a long line of marvelous graduates to their credit, and never a failure, then let them sing their own praises, and even then with more restraint.
"Still, if we paid our high-school teachers what doctors and lawyers make, wed have better teachers."Only if we first fired all of our current teachers, though, right? Or is there some correlation between pay and effort in the teaching profession that eluded me: for $50K/year, a teacher makes her third-best effort to teach; raise it to $100K/year, and she tries a little harder; crank it up to $200K/year, and she'll pull out all the stops?Those poor kids up the street at Guardian Angels School, whose teachers, if they are on a par with Catholic school teachers, make some fraction of their public school colleagues, must be getting a really substandard education; those teachers are hardly trying at all.
Jim P. --The reason money makes a difference isn't because it inspires the current teachers to work harder, it's because the current salaries do not attract the people smart enough to be excellent teachers in the first place. This is not such a terrible problem in the lower grades where the content of courses isn't all that difficult, but it does become a problem in the high schools where the content, to be challenging, has to be difficult.What to do about the current not too bright teachers is a very big *moral* problem that we seem totally unwilling even to face, much less solve. The schools have contracted with the current teachers to do their best. I cannot see just firing them when the schools decide that their best isn't good enough. Maybe they can be replaced by good teachers only by attrition, but that will take a couple of generations,
(It's not just a "current" problem. It has been a problem for a long time. In 1972, e.g., the only people who scored lower on the MAT than those going into "education" were those going into theology. Highest scores were earned by those going into psychology, business administration, and engineering.)---This is not mocking rich parents. This is legitimate questioning of a venture that is so smugly certain of its superiority that it acknowledges it might have to teach humility not as a good of its own, but as another marketable skill that the brand of future monetizers its incubating can leverage as a competitive differentiator. Did you read the faculty bios at Avenues? Pretty impressive, imho. http://open.avenues.org/tag/upper-school+teacher-bio
I did, yes. In fact, I turned the bios into a Kindle book. Download it here (proceeds benefit the Commonweal endowment).
Jonathan Wang is my favorite, so far. http://open.avenues.org/meet-jonathan-wangLi-Dai Lu looks pretty amazing, too.http://open.avenues.org/meet-li-dai-lu
". . . the anxiety of wanting their kids to have every advantage, but ensuring that all those advantages dont turn them into privileged jerks."Some who write about education of the privileged (at places like Choate, and its fellows -- see above) have made the point that several generations ago, parents from Park Avenue or the Philadelphia Main Line, etc., packed their sons (not, at that point, their daughters) off to places like Choate and Groton and Exeter and St. Paul's, knowing that they would get both a rigorous education and a Spartan way of living, simple food, hard beds, early rising and mandatory daily chapel, etc. etc. with none of the creature comforts they'd known back home. Privileged of course they were, but the point was to remind little Johnny and Jimmy that privilege had its duties and responsibilities, and they were not to assume that life was all featherbeds and instant gratification. And, say some of the more critical writers, as the culture of the rich and privileged has changed, so has this attitude in such schools, so that the featherbeds and instant gratification, electronic and otherwise, have crept in. The Penn sociologist, Digby Baltzell, published his Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia in 1979, which goes into some versions of this, but there's been more since, in the American Scholar and elsewhere.
Nicholas --I had a great uncle in-law who was the son of a Russian count. He was educated in France by the Jesuits, and I remember his saying that the school was freezing and that the boys were allowed to have a bath only twice a year! Aristocrats typically were hard on their children, especially their sons. The English private boys' schools were notorious for caning the children. I suspect that explains the Spartan style of the American private schools. The reason for the toughness, or so I've read, was because originally the aristocrats' function in society was to lead in war, and officers in old-fashioned one-on-one battles are always the first target of the enemy. Even in WW II second lieutenants were killed at the highest rate in combat. Remember the TV series Upstairs Downstairs? The son of the house was killed in battle in WW I. This required that aristocrats' sons had to be hardened emotionally and physically so they would be particularly brave as officers -- they knew they were the ones most likely to die in battle but had to lead anyway. In recent times when there was a war and a draft, rich men's sons could just continued in grad school, thus avoiding the military -- the death of noblesse oblige.
"The reason money makes a difference isnt because it inspires the current teachers to work harder, its because the current salaries do not attract the people smart enough to be excellent teachers in the first place."First of all, I agree that there is something to this - that if a profession pays more, it will attract higher-caliber candidates. And we can see this in the real world in the teaching profession: there are huge disparities in wages from one school district to another, and the school districts that pay more, attract the best teachers from the best colleges.But this consideration of higher wages must also be balanced against the aptitudes required and, if we dare to use such a word, the vocation-call to do the work. There are many people who are brighter and better-educated than the average elementary school or high school teacher, but would not necessarily be better teachers (I'm married to one such person).As one way to think about this: I've often thought that one of the reasons we have a priest shortage is that the profession of priest is a relatively low-paying profession, even with all of the perks like free housing and meals that come with it - even with all of those perks, it may not attract the best and brightest who could work on Wall Street or as heart surgeons. Whenever I've mentioned this, the reply I invariably get is: do we really want Wall Street traders as pastors of our parishes? The intuition behind such a reply is that not just anyone can or should be a priest; it should be for those who truly are called to that way of life.As it happens, I agree with that point of view. But I would say that this requirement to be called to a particular way of life or work isn't unique to the priesthood or religious life (or the diaconate). In my view, this notion of vocation applies to many different professions. People who are called to teach should teach, and people who aren't called to teach, shouldn't. People who are called to practice medicine, should, and people who aren't, shouldn't. And so on. I'd add that it's possible for a person to have more than one calling. At the margins, so to speak, there may be lawyers or doctors or housewives who find their current situations less than satisfying and who would make fine and competent teachers. And boosting salaries might attract some of those at the margins. In theory, it might help a little bit. In practice, there are practical obstacles: at least around here, public school teacher salaries are "slotted" by tenure and level of education, so a lawyer who wanted to leave the profession of law and teach high school would need to bump down to an entry-level salary."What to do about the current not too bright teachers is a very big *moral* problem that we seem totally unwilling even to face, much less solve. The schools have contracted with the current teachers to do their best. I cannot see just firing them when the schools decide that their best isnt good enough. Maybe they can be replaced by good teachers only by attrition, but that will take a couple of generations."As I say, I think the "slotting" of teacher salaries creates a practical obstacle. If a really bright, skilled and motivated teacher with a master's degree and 10 years of experience makes $100K/year + benefits, the community that employs her might be fine with that - they may feel that it's well worth it to pay her those wages. But as the system stands now, every one of her colleagues with that level of experience and education must earn the same wages. Most of them will be closer to average as teachers, and a certain number of them will be below-average. The community that pays those wages may be unwilling to pay those wages to a below-average teacher. And so we end up, in the short run, with excellent teachers making average wages. And in the longer run, some of those excellent teachers will move to higher-paying school districts, and we end up with a quality disparity.
Jim P.,There is also the fact that public schools are generally funded by local property taxes, so schools in poor neighborhoods begin disadvantaged. It is not a law of nature or of God, but a choice our society has made. Other countries are doing things differently and seeing better results.
Jim P. ==Much of what you say is true. However, priests, unlike teachers, can make their career decisions indepent of the financial burden of spouse and children. This is indeed one of the advantages of a celibate priesthood. On the other hand, a brilliant teacher who feels called to teach, but who has three brilliant kids to educate all the way through college, cannot in fairness to his or her kids choose to teach in most school systems because it really makes no sense for a parent to deny his/her own children appropriate opportunities so that other people's children will have the opportunity to excel. Do a little thought experiment: You're a highly intelligent and well-meaning man. If you lived in a very poor city, say Detroit or Hell Hole, GA, could you justify teaching in a school there if you knew that your own kids' opportunities would be limited because of your salary? Wouldn't that be playing Lord Bountiful without the means of a Lord Bountiful?
My pretty-bright 7th grade daughter has been invited to take the scholarship exam at two all-girl catholic High Schools, each with a ticket of around $40,000 year. My husband works part-time security at a prep school in our neighborhood with a "humanist" philosophy, also about $40,000.I am completely conflicted about even applying to send my daughters' to these schools. I understand we have an obligation to give our children the best education we can, and that these schools have a lot of resources, but I still don't want to pursue them.I don't want my children to aspire to affluence and I think they can get an almost- as -good education for a fraction of the price, or even free. And I'm thinking a lot any more about how we spend so much more than we need on things- cars, houses, prep schools- - maybe we could be more frugal and share our abundance with people who really need it.
Irene --In my experience a really bright kid doesn't have to have a lot of educational bells and whistles to eventually get into a good college, if that's what you're concerned about. (Your daughter sounds really bright :-) If a good college is what you're aiming at, do consult with some college admissions people to find out what they're looking for these days. Besides, different colleges are best for different students, and I would guess that the same is true of high school kids.


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It is often difficult to know what to look for when shopping for outdoors gear. Is there some magazine, website, or other resource that does Consumer Reports style objective evaluation of outdoors gear (boots, trousers, jackets, tents, sleeping bags, ...)?
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I often use Outdoors Magic when trying to work out what to buy! Another magazine in the UK I subscribe to is Trail, there parent website, "Live for the Outdoors" can be found here. There is also Gear Junkie, but have not used their site.
Its often probably a good idea as you allude to to check a few different review sites for an objective view, but I have found the first two certainly informative!
I guess the other place is to look at the major resellers of the gear. They often have customer reviews (although of course people only tend to write reviews if something is wrong!), but sometimes these can be helpful.
Some other sites:
If you are into ultralight/lightweight backpacking, nothing tops BackpackingLight. They do a lot of scientific testing, and the articles are very thorough. It is a pay site, but it's something like $20 USD per year. You can see a list of some of their best articles here. They regularly come up with objective test measures for backpacking gear, and then carry out those tests on a wide array of items. i.e. for testing inflatable air mattresses, they figured out a way to measure how slippery the bottoms of each mat was, along with independently measuring weight, R-Value, etc. Finally the (free) forums on that site are also a great place to find more specific info about particular gear.
As backup for that, I like what BackpackGearTest does.
I tend to look on the livefortheoutdoors site - it has a fair few reviews, not loads, but those it does have are pretty comprehensive and (in my eyes) well written and balanced.


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Just exactly what the title says; often, in mathematics, particularly in the vicinity of Grothendieck, I see reference to "the yoga of...". What exactly does the term "yoga" mean in these contexts?
I've taken "yoga" to mean a part of the body of mathematics which does not consist of many actual theorems or results -- or in fact could not be formalized as just a few theorems -- but rather a collection of principles and techniques that one needs to wrap one's head around completely, after which one will be able to use them almost effortlessly.
As an example, I would say that there is a yoga of generating functions in combinatorics. (Perhaps this is the simplest example of a yoga.)
I sometimes have used the word myself, without ever having sat down and asked myself what do I mean by that exactly. I've used it roughly to mean a coherent body of techniques; I'm not sure if I can amplify much further. "The yoga of adjunctions and mates", "the yoga of the Yoneda lemma and its correlates", and you will find a bunch more scattered around the nLab ("the yoga of 'generalized the' ") if you use the search function. To me, a "yoga" is not quite as formalized (or pretentious) as a "calculus", but it's somewhat in that vein.
"Yoga" and "yoke" (as in of oxen) are derived from the same Indo-European root, meaning a linkage. Of course "linkage", and "relation", and "connection", and "join", all have mathematical meanings already, so one must go further afield to talk about two mathematical concepts being yoked to one another.
When I have seen the word used by mathematicians (esp. Bott), it is usually in exactly this way -- the yoga of X and Y, not of X. (As such I must disagree with the comment `of course it has nothing to do with any proper meaning of the word "yoga".')


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I was reading the Players Handbook 1 and I don't understand how the opposed check works, especially in context of a stealth check.
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Opposed roll vs. Passive DC
In D&D 4E, not all skill checks will be opposed to another skill check. In some circumstances a skill check can be made against a Passive DC. Only Perception and Insight have a passive DC.
A simple example is when a character is doing something else. Fighting, reading a book, sleeping etc. If a character doesn't declare he's looking for something or actively listening, assume he's using Passive Perception. Same for Insight.
Notice there are no Passive Stealth or Climb. This is how I understood when to use passive vs. opposed roll. An "active" skill check requires your full attention and awareness.
Usually an NPC that will sneak on a player or try to lie will always target the Passive skill DC unless the player mention he's actively paying attention.
As a DM, if you believe that your NPC would have a reason to be actively searching (Perception) or paying close attentions to your words and gesticulation (Insight) then use the Opposed check method.
In any other situation, assume Passive DC.
Stealth is never an opposed roll.
The mention of Stealth as an opposed roll in the original Player's Handbook on page 178 is a red herring, especially since the rules for Stealth were significantly revised. Here is a brief explanation of those revisions:
Stealth works by having one creature make a stealth roll, which is opposed by the Passive Perception of each enemy creature in the encounter. If this roll beats all the passive perceptions, the creature is now Hidden (is invisible and silent to each enemy). The roll now becomes the Stealth DC to find the creature.
On the enemy's turn, it may take a minor action to roll perception to search for any hidden creatures. In general, this means they only take this action if they know you are hidden - in other words, this would be taken in combat but generally not during exploration. This would be a Perception Check against the Stealth DC determined when the creature became hidden.
In both cases, a tie goes in favor of the roll: the creature attempting to hide successfully hides if they tie the passive perception; the creature attempting to find a hidden creature successfully finds it if their active perception roll ties the prior stealth roll.
This guide on the Wizards Community Forum is very effective at explaining the way stealth works in D&D 4th edition:
The Rules of Hidden Club: http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/25474357/The_Rules_Of_Hidden_Club:__Targeting_things_you_cant_see_in_DD.?pg=1
Opposed rolls are rare and generally happen outside of combat, as has been clarified since the publication of the original Player's Handbook. These could include bluff vs insight, where both creatures roll their skill, during a conversation where both are actively using their skills to sway the conversation in their favour.
For example, PHB p.183 describes Bluff being used to gain Combat Advantage as a Bluff vs Insight opposed roll; Rules Compendium p.141 amends this to indicate that the in-combat use of Bluff is against Passive Insight.
The central tenet of D&D is:
You succeed in a "check" if you roll a 1d20+a modifier above the target difficulty class.
The rules of D&D have gone through many revisions, and your question touches on something that has been changed so often even I have to look it up when I want to play with it.
I touch on The Rules of Hidden Club. I don't recommend reading it until you have a mastery of the general rules down, but it will be a handy resource later.
The central part is important here:
D&D has mostly done away with "opposed rolls" in favour of passive rolls. (Precicely why you're having a bit of a hard time figuring out what these opposed rolls look like.)
Here's an example.
We have a goblin. Let's name him Dies Horribly. Dies horribly is trying to sneak past Bob the guard.
Bob the guard, being a good and consciencious guard, has stationed himself in a completly dark hallway. Cause he's heard that that is what one does.
This gives dies horribly total concealment. This means that he can try to hide!
He moves 2 squares forward, and rolls a stealth check. This is a 1d20+a modifier. His modifier is 5 (because he's trained in stealth) + 4 (he's got a high dexterity) and +0 (because he's level 1.)
He rolls a 2.
Bob has a passive perception of 12. He's a good guard, despite being a bit... dull.
2+(9) is 11. ... Dies horribly is caught. And lives up to his name.
Passive perception and passive insight are ways to avoid "contested" checks. Instead of having monster and PC roll off, the "passive" component sets a difficulty for the active check of stealth or bluff.
On the other hand, if you're searching for clues, trying to spot a secret door, or any of the other "perceptive" activities, you'd roll perception normally. 1d20+modifier versus a DC set by the DM.
All checks in 4th edition work the same way. 1d20+modifier versus a number. It's just a question of "what's the modifier?" and "What's the DC?"


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3. tell OMPI to --bind-to-core. In other words, tell SGE to allocate a certain number of cores on each node, but to bind each proc to all of them (i.e., don't bind a proc to a specific core). I'm pretty sure that is a standard SGE option today (at least, I know it used to be). I don't believe any patch or devel work is required (to either SGE or OMPI).When you use a fixed allocation_rule and a matching -binding request it will work today. But any other case won't be distributed in the correct way. Is it possible to not include the -binding request? If SGE is told to use a fixed allocation_rule, and to allocate (for example) 2 cores/node, then won't the orted see itself bound to two specific cores on each node?When you leave out the -binding, all jobs are allowed to run on any core.We would then be okay as the spawned children of orted would inherit its binding. Just don't tell mpirun to bind the processes and the threads of those MPI procs will be able to operate across the provided cores. Or does SGE only allocate 2 cores/node in that case (i.e., allocate, but no -binding given), but doesn't bind the orted to any two specific cores? If so, then that would be a problem as the orted would think itself unconstrained. If I understand the thread correctly, you're saying that this is what happens today - true?Exactly. It won't apply any binding at all and orted would think of being unlimited. I.e. limited only by the number of slots it should use thereon.
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I am a 17 year old athlete, and am trying to build muscle effectively. I workout maybe 3-4 times a week for an hour with a combination of running, pushups, crunches, lifting and chin ups in varying order. I am working to increase my endurance as well as mass and strength and I often drink whey protein after workouts, but some of my friends drink it pre workout. I wanted to ask the community if it is more effective or efficient to drink it pre or post workout to maximize muscle gain.
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Having a protein before your workout will allow you to have more energy, resulting in your workouts feeling stronger, but you will not burn as much fat when you workout.
After your workouts, it is commonly accepted that your body acts like a sponge for about an hour while your muscles attempt to collect nutrients to repair what was torn down during the workout. That is why it is important to have a quality source of protein immediately after your workouts.
I would tend to say having your protein after your workouts is more important.
If you are fat and/or you had a decent meal within the last 3 or 4 hours, that protein drink before a workout is not really needed because your body has energy stored up and ready to burn.
If you are very lean and/or cutting calories to drop some weight, then you are likely to show up at the gym with no energy. To prevent this, take 10 to 25 grams of protein 30 to 60 minutes before going to the gym. This does not need to be 100% protein, and it would even be good to have some carbs in there to help make you feel pumped in the gym.
That being said, I should probably start taking a little protein before I go to the gym in the morning because my body has fasted for 6 to 8 hours during my sleep. (Note to self...)
Divide your dose. Have some before and some after your workout. Unlike fat and carbohydrates your body can't store protein. If it doesn't get absorbed it gets passed through your digestive tract, your liver, your kidneys, etc. This not only wastes protein/ supplements and money it also taxes your machine by forcing it to process something that it can't use.
Analyse and calculate your protein needs very carefully and try to meet them without going over. Once you've calculated what you'll need divide that up into doses throughout the day. Use more on workout days before and after workouts. Don't forget to include the protein in the food you consume in your calculations.
Remember more frequent smaller doses are better than infrequent large doses. Why? Because you can't store the protein!
To answer your question specifically: it doesn't matter. Studies show that the average amount of protein taken in over a given period of time(days, weeks)is what matters far more than getting your whey in before or after. The body does not really become magically more efficient at using protein after a workout. As long as you're hitting your daily intake spread out amongst reasonable servings(instead of trying to consume 80g of protein all at once)each day you'll be fine.
Remember the 80/20 rule. 80% of the results actually come from 20% of the things that matter.
The 1 hour post workout window is actually a thinly substantiated myth. If you ACTUALLY want to focus on getting your protein in after a work out then just make sure you get it in at some point in the following 24 hours. I'm not kidding:
Another good reason dispelling some myths:
Agree Christopher, pre/post doesn't matter.
If you are eating enough protein, you will likely still be digesting protein when you workout and for the next few hours after.
Do what makes you feel better. Pre will give you more energy, but I personally do IF and lift fasted, waiting till after I workout for my first meal. Sometimes its a shake, sometimes its chicken or shake.
I also prefer to get as much of my nutrients, including protein, in as close to whole form as possible. This means if I can meet my protein requirements of 240g/day eating meat, there is no benefit at all to taking whey. If I have enough carbs/fat in my macros, I may drink a whole quart of whole or skim milk. Only if I am too busy to cook or too full do I use whey.
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How can I remove the Workspace Switcher launcher from the Unity dock?
Currently I'm using eight workspaces with the help of Unity Tweak Tool. I like to have multiple workspaces, but didn't like the unremovable Unity Launcher icon that much, even more because it could only resemble four workspaces while I was using eight instead.
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Drag the undesirable icon on the trash can.
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By default, the workspace-switcher is not enabled in the Launcher. This setting is toggleable via the Appearance - Behaviour tab in System Settings
Untick the option shown in the following picture to remove the workspace-switcher icon.
If you are prepared to work with just one virtual desktop (i.e. no additional workspaces) then the following will work for 12.10 and later.
gsettings set org.compiz.core:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/core/ hsize 1 gsettings set org.compiz.core:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/core/ vsize 1
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For Ubuntu 11.04/11.10/12.04 (does not work in Unity 2D):
Currently there's a handy little bug in unity that allows you to do this. Open a up a terminal and run 'gnome-panel'. Once gnome panel is running, add the 'workspace switcher' applet to the panel. Open up the workspace switcher preferences and select 1 column and 4 rows. Log out and back into unity, and viola! The workspace switcher is missing now.
Yes I know, it's a somewhat annoying way of removing it if you use workspaces, but it's the only way i know of right now..
To get the Unity launcher switcher back, simply open the gnome-panel in terminal again, and go back to a 2 X 2 grid. Logout and log back in.
This is now easy, thanks to an addition to Isaac Joseph's lovely Unity Revamped (also brings back dodge-windows and dodge-active-window and gives a few other options).
Add the repository with your software manager of choice or:
This is now an alternative source of unity, that'll report itself as just slightly ahead of the canonical one in version. Upgrade and you'll have this new version:
Or if you don't use apt-fast, then:
Or just use the software updater.
Log out and in, and go to ccsm. The Ubuntu Unity Plugin will now have, on the "experimental" tab an option labelled 'Show "Expo Icon" in the launcher', that's enabled by default. Disable this and the icon is gone.
Disabling the icon doesn't disable the Super+S binding, should that be your preferred way of switching workspaces.
Install MyUnity from Software Center.
Open it, go to Desktop, decrease (move the bar to the left) for H Desktop and V Desktop, both to minimal.
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We've been given a bottle of Woodward's gripe water? Is it safe? I see a long list of ingredients, such as
Sarjkakshara and
Bronopol and
Additionaly, is it useful?
From what I've been able to research, personally I would avoid using any gripe water.
Beyond the original alcohol content mentioned by Tim Post in his answer, some doctors attribute much of the efficacy to the sugar content, as sugar exerts a natural pain relieving effect on young children.
At least some doctors seem to feel gripe water in general is relatively harmless, and may provide some relief in mild cases of discomfort. However, for full-blown colic, it appears to be not recommended, and generally regarded by professionals as ineffective (or, at best, questionably effective).
Regarding the specific ingredients you mentioned, Methylparaben occurs naturally in fruit such as blueberries, and is generally recognized for safe for foods.
Sarjikakshara appears to be Sodium Bicarbonate, which is a common treatment for acid indigestion and heartburn. I did find a claim that:
However, this claim is unreferenced, and from a website devoted to advertising a brand of gripe water that touts not having sodium bicarbonate as an ingredient as a selling point, so I take that with a grain of salt.
However, I did find a site dedicated to pharmacists that states:
Bronopol is a preservative used in pharmaceuticals. This site lists it as "an ingredient always to avoid", describing it as an "Allergen that forms cancer-causing chemical". This matches up with information on Bronopol in wikipedia.
Based upon the possible issues with both Bronopol and the sodium bicarbonate, I would say the risks outweigh the possible benefits.
Like any other over the counter tonic, it's always a good idea to check with your pediatrician before giving it to your child. Our pedia gives us the riot act if we don't check with her regarding well known cough and cold medications.
Gripe water probably worked wonders because of its alcohol content. In fact, the recommended dose for an infant was be similar to an adult drinking several (or more) shots of whiskey. Alarmingly, in some countries, it appears to still be formulated with alcohol.
There's a fairly good article about it on Wikipedia, and an interesting history (PDF) published in The Journal Of The Royal Society Of Medicine.
Every single thing I read about it makes me not want to give it to a child. If you're trying to cure a case of colic, ask your pedia for advice.
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I would like to know in what ways and why the concept, appearance, and manner of the zombie has changed from its original conception (early 20th century) to today's?
The silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari from 1920 is thought to be the first depiction of zombies in film. While it doesn't feature the walking dead. The story is about the fantasies of an insane man who has dreams of murdering people. His walk, body motion and make up are the bases of modern day zombies.
The first appearance of the popular North American version of zombies was in the 1932 film White Zombie.
The original zombie was more of a
Another thing that has change is the gap between death and zombie. The original zombie was often a long since dead cadaver re-animated, and today's zombie often come from the freshly dead.
The most significant change since they first appeared is the introduction of the
So from re-animated Frankenstein zombie, to the living being turned into zombies and then the development of the zombie horde. That would be your progression in their history.
This WSJ article gives insight into the cinematic evolution of zombies, particularly into infection-spreading creatures.


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The goal of the The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania survivorship program, called Living Well After Cancer, is to help reduce the physical and emotional impact of cancer and its treatment on survivors and to help survivors find ways to maximize their quality of life. The program will integrate clinical care, research and education in an innovative approach to meeting the needs of the growing population of cancer survivors.
"Thanks to major treatment advances, more cancer patients are surviving than ever before," explained John H. Glick, MD, director of the The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania. "The funds awarded by the Lance Armstrong Foundation will enable us to establish a cancer survivorship program that will serve as a model for the nation."
The LAF shares the Cancer Center's vision. "The mission of the Lance Armstrong Foundation is to help people manage and survive cancer," said Howard Chalmers, president and CEO of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. "Our goals are to reduce the presence of cancer on this planet, continue to define, refine and improve cancer survivor services and facilitate the delivery of those services  along with a large dose of hope  to patients and their families and loved ones." Since its inception, the LAF has approved more than $2.5 million in grants.
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Anna Meadows, MD, former director of the National Cancer Institute's Survivorship Program, now directs the The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania's Survivorship Research Program and provides senior leadership to Living Well After Cancer. "There is a significant need to build a nationally recognized, scientifically-based effort to develop and test interventions designed to improve the quality of life of cancer survivors and to address the long-term medical effects of cancer and its treatment," emphasized Meadows.
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I'm Using Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS on my Optimus-enabled Asus K55v notebook. This means it features two video cards; an integrated Intel one (1GB shared memory), and a discrete Nvidia Geforce 610M. Regarding this, I have a few related questions:
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- How do I determine whether the drivers of the Intel graphics are installed or not?
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In an Euclidean plane, we know that the area of a triangle is determined by the length of base and the height, i.e., $$ S_{\Delta}=\frac{1}{2}a.h, $$ where $a$ is the length of base and the $h$ is the height. Is there a similar formula in Spherical and hyperbolic spaces?
In Euclidean plane, we know that the cosine law says that (suppose $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ are the angles, and $a, b, c$ are the lengths opposite $a, b, c$ respectively.) $$ \cos\gamma=\frac{a^2+b^2-c^2}{2ab}. $$ Then is there a analogue in spherical and hyperbolic geometry? I have noted that the First and Second Cosine law are not so clearly relevant with this formula.
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For hyperbolic geometry, you can find the answers to your questions on Wikipedia. An interesting thing is that there is an absolute upper bound on the area of a hyperbolic triangle, even though lengths are unbounded.
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