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I THINK that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States. The Americans have no philosophical school of their own, and they care but little for all the schools into which Europe is divided, the very names of which are scarcely known to them.
Yet it is easy to perceive that almost all the inhabitants of the United States use their minds in the same manner, and direct them according to the same rules; that is to say, without ever having taken the trouble to define the rules, they have a philosophical method common to the whole people.
To evade the bondage of system and habit, of family maxims, class opinions, and, in some degree, of national prejudices; to accept tradition only as a means of information, and existing facts only as a lesson to be used in doing otherwise and doing better; to seek the reason of things for oneself, and in oneself alone; to tend to results without being bound to means, and to strike through the form to the substance--such are the principal characteristics of what I shall call the philosophical method of the Americans.
But if I go further and seek among these characteristics the principal one, which includes almost all the rest, I discover that in most of the operations of the mind each American appeals only to the individual effort of his own understanding.
America is therefore one of the countries where the precepts of Descartes are least studied and are best applied. Nor is this surprising. The Americans do not read the works of Descartes, because their social condition deters them from speculative studies;but they follow his maxims, because this same social condition naturally disposes their minds to adopt them.
In the midst of the continual movement that agitates a democratic community, the tie that unites one generation to another is relaxed or broken; every man there readily loses all trace of the ideas of his forefathers or takes no care about them.
Men living in this state of society cannot derive their belief from the opinions of the class to which they belong; for, so to speak, there are no longer any classes, or those which still exist are composed of such mobile elements that the body can never exercise any real control over its members.
As to the influence which the intellect of one man may have on that of another, it must necessarily be very limited in a country where the citizens, placed on an equal footing, are all closely seen by one another; and where, as no signs of incontestable greatness or superiority are perceived in any one of them, they are constantly brought back to their own reason as the most obvious and proximate source of truth. It is not only confidence in this or that man which is destroyed, but the disposition to trust the authority of any man whatsoever. Everyone shuts himself up tightly within himself and insists upon judging the world from there.
The practice of Americans leads their minds to other habits, to fixing the standard of their judgment in themselves alone. As they perceive that they succeed in resolving without assistance all the little difficulties which their practical life presents, they readily conclude that everything in the world may be explained, and that nothing in it transcends the limits of the understanding. Thus they fall to denying what they cannot comprehend; which leaves them but little faith for whatever is extraordinary and an almost insurmountable distaste for whatever is supernatural. As it is on their own testimony that they are accustomed to rely, they like to discern the object which engages their attention with extreme clearness; they therefore strip off as much as possible all that covers it; they rid themselves of whatever separates them from it, they remove whatever conceals it from sight, in order to view it more closely and in the broad light of day. This disposition of mind soon leads them to condemn forms, which they regard as useless and inconvenient veils placed between them and the truth.
The Americans, then, have found no need of drawing philosophical method out of books; they have found it in themselves.The same thing may be remarked in what has taken place in Europe. This same method has only been established and made popular in Europe in proportion as the condition of society has become more equal and men have grown more like one another. Let us consider for a moment the connection of the periods in which this change may be traced.
In the sixteenth century reformers subjected some of the dogmas of the ancient faith to the scrutiny of private judgment; but they still withheld it from the discussion of all the rest. In the seventeenth century Bacon in the natural sciences and Descartes in philosophy properly so called abolished received formulas, destroyed the empire of tradition, and overthrew the authority of the schools. The philosophers of the eighteenth century, generalizing at length on the same principle, undertook to submit to the private judgment of each man all the objects of his belief.
Who does not perceive that Luther, Descartes, and Voltaire employed the same method, and that they differed only in the greater or less use which they professed should be made of it? Why did the reformers confine themselves so closely within the circle of religious ideas? Why did Descartes, choosing to apply his method only to certain matters, though he had made it fit to be applied to all, declare that men might judge for themselves in matters philosophical, but not in matters political? How did it happen that in the eighteenth century those general applications were all at once drawn from this same method, which Descartes and his predecessors either had not perceived or had rejected? To what, lastly, is the fact to be attributed that at this period the method we are speaking of suddenly emerged from the schools, to penetrate into society and become the common standard of intelligence; and that after it had become popular among the French, it was ostensibly adopted or secretly followed by all the nations of Europe?
The philosophical method here designated may have been born in the sixteenth century; it may have been more accurately defined and more extensively applied in the seventeenth; but neither in the one nor in the other could it be commonly adopted. Political laws, the condition of society, and the habits of mind that are derived from these causes were as yet opposed to it.
It was discovered at a time when men were beginning to equalize and assimilate their conditions. It could be generally followed only in ages when those conditions had at length become nearly equal and men nearly alike.
The philosophical method of the eighteenth century, then, is not only French, but democratic; and this explains why it was so readily admitted throughout Europe, where it has contributed so powerfully to change the face of society. It is not because the French have changed their former opinions and altered their former manners that they have convulsed the world, but because they were the first to generalize and bring to light a philosophical method by the aid of which it became easy to attack all that was old and to open a path to all that was new.
If it be asked why at the present day this same method is more rigorously followed and more frequently applied by the French than by the Americans, although the principle of equality is no less complete and of more ancient date among the latter people, the fact may be attributed to two circumstances, which it is first essential to have clearly understood.
It must never be forgotten that religion gave birth to AngloAmerican society. In the United States, religion is therefore mingled with all the habits of the nation and all the feelings of patriotism, whence it derives a peculiar force. To this reason another of no less power may be added: in America religion has, as it were, laid down its own limits. Religious institutions have remained wholly distinct from political institutions, so that former laws have been easily changed while former belief has remained unshaken. Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America; and I would more particularly remark that its sway is not only that of a philosophical doctrine which has been adopted upon inquiry, but of a religion which is believed without discussion. In the United States, Christian sects are infinitely diversified and perpetually modified; but Christianity itself is an established and irresistible fact, which no one undertakes either to attack or to defend. The Americans, having admitted the principal doctrines of the Christian religion without inquiry, are obliged to accept in like manner a great number of moral truths originating in it and connected with it. Hence the activity of individual analysis is restrained within narrow limits, and many of the most important of human opinions are removed from its influence.
The second circumstance to which I have alluded is that the social condition and the Constitution of the Americans are democratic, but they have not had a democratic revolution. They arrived on the soil they occupy in nearly the condition in which we see them at the present day; and this is of considerable importance.
There are no revolutions that do not shake existing belief, enervate authority, and throw doubts over commonly received ideas. Every revolution has more or less the effect of releasing men to their own conduct and of opening before the mind of each one of them an almost limitless perspective. When equality of conditions succeeds a protracted conflict between the different classes of which the elder society was composed, envy, hatred, and uncharitableness, pride and exaggerated self-confidence seize upon the human heart, and plant their sway in it for a time. This, independently of equality itself, tends powerfully to divide men, to lead them to mistrust the judgment of one another, and to seek the light of truth nowhere but in themselves. Everyone then attempts to be his own sufficient guide and makes it his boast to form his own opinions on all subjects. Men are no longer bound together by ideas, but by interests; and it would seem as if human opinions were reduced to a sort of intellectual dust, scattered on every side, unable to collect, unable to cohere.
Thus that independence of mind which equality supposes to exist is never so great, never appears so excessive, as at the time when equality is beginning to establish itself and in the course of that painful labor by which it is established. That sort of intellectual freedom which equality may give ought, therefore, to be very carefully distinguished from the anarchy which revolution brings. Each of these two things must be separately considered in order not to conceive exaggerated hopes or fears of the future.
I believe that the men who will live under the new forms of society will make frequent use of their private judgment, but I am far from thinking that they will often abuse it. This is attributable to a cause which is more generally applicable to democratic countries, and which, in the long run, must restrain, within fixed and sometimes narrow limits, individual freedom of thought.
I shall proceed to point out this cause in the next chapter.


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Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in the state of Alabama in the United States. As an infant she was healthy, lively, and happy, but when she was 19 months old she contracted a horrible fever and she was left deaf and blind.
So, Helen communicated by using specific signs that meant specific words, like wrapping her arms around herself and shivering if she wanted ice cream. But her attitude began to go downhill when she was 5 and discovered other people would talk with their mouths. This made her very upset, so she threw tantrums which got worse as she got older. When she was almost seven years old, her family got her a tutor: Anne Sullivan.
Helen had finally found her match, for Anne could control her with sheer willpower and force. Soon, Anne began teaching Helen words by signing them into Helen's hand (forming letters with her fingers) so Helen could feel them. Anne spelled out "water" and splashed water on Helen's hand repeatedly. Finally, Helen realized what words related and their spellings.
Anne and Helen's progress continued for almost fifty years. Helen learned how to read and write Braille, a language where letters are made from a series of raised dots. Helen also learned Tacoma, reading people's lips by touching them as they moved and feeling the vibrations. This was an amazing feat because this is very difficult to do and a very small sum of people can accomplish this. And, of course, Helen learned how to speak verbally.
In 1888, Helen and Anne attended Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. Then, in 1894, they attended Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York together. While in Radcliffe College, Helen wrote her own autobiography titled The Story of My Life. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904. Then, in 1932, Helen was elected vice president of the United Kingdom's Royal Nation Institute for the Blind.
Helen died in 1968, having accomplished many feats. In addition, she had helped set up the American Foundation for the Blind and had been a fervent socialist and suffragette. Helen Keller International, an organization devoted to the blind, was created in her honor.
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One of the key goals for the facility is to gain a better understanding of what its customers are trying to accomplish. For example, if a customer wants to build a particular product, the Autodesk engineers can literary build that product in the workshop, and then understand the customer's pains (and hopefully alleviate those pains using its software). It's a pretty expensive bet, as the equipment in the workshops is all state of the art, but the early returns are quite positive.
The workshop is primarily open to employees and what Autodesk calls "artists-in-residence." But the ideas can come from anywhere. To that end, employees can take classes in the workshop so they can learn how to use all the equipment (just like high school!). I was particularly impressed with the 3D printing lab and the laser cutting and printing capabilities (see the image).
And the fun goes right to the top. This go-cart was designed and built by Autodesk's CEO, Carl Bass. He designed it using the company's Fusion 360 software. It's great that the CEO is so hands on and actually walks the walk.
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Smaller servers are taking over data centers, but Intel believes the future is also bright for powerful big-iron servers, thanks to companies' embrace of machine learning, which requires a lot of horsepower to process complex algorithms and large data sets.
With its new top-line Xeon E7 v3 server chips based on the Haswell microarchitecture, Intel hopes to capitalize on the demand for this type of server. With up to 18 CPU cores, the chips are Intel's fastest, and designed for databases, ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems and analytics related to machine learning.
Complex machine learning models can't be distributed over the cloud or a set of smaller hyperscale servers in a data center. Instead, a more powerful cluster of servers is needed to run deep-learning systems, where the larger number of cores could power more precise analysis of oceans of data.
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Study recalculates cost of combination vaccines
One of the most popular vaccine brands for children may not be the most cost-effective choice. And doctors may be overlooking some cost factors when choosing vaccines, driving the market toward what is actually a more expensive option, according to a new study by University of Illinois researchers.
?The choice of vaccines to administer can be driven by numerous factors,? says Sheldon H. Jacobson, a co-author of the study and a professor of computer science and of mathematics at the U. of I. ?In an environment where vaccines are under growing public scrutiny, no stone should be left unturned in uncovering why one combination vaccine is preferred over another. Such analyses provide information that serve to better inform and advise all stakeholders.?
Only two vaccines are available now that immunize against five diseases with a single injection: Pediarix and Pentacel. Both are administered in three doses, and both immunize against polio, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. However, Pediarix immunizes against hepatitis B (HepB) while Pentacel immunizes against Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib). One or the other - but not both - can be used as the backbone for the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule stipulated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children also must receive either the HepB or Hib shot, depending on which one is missing from their combination vaccine.
?The market will gravitate toward the combination vaccine that provides the best value,? said graduate student Banafsheh Behzad, the first author of the study. ?From the perspective of a health care provider, the important question to ask is: Which combination vaccine should be used to attain the minimum overall cost, given a fixed cost of an injection??
In a previous analysis, the researchers found that Pediarix is the most cost-effective combination vaccine. Yet in the public sector, Pentacel?s sales have been significantly higher. The new study explores whether other factors may be influencing this market response.
The researchers found two complicating factors in HepB and Hib immunizations that can affect health care providers? decisions when comparing combination vaccines. Infants in the United States are given a dose of HepB vaccine at birth, so only two more doses are required. Therefore, children who receive three doses of Pediarix get ?extra-immunized? against HepB. However, if the Merck Hib vaccine is used, one less dose is required, so children who receive Pentacel may be extra-immunized against Hib.
?Our analysis suggests that the relative uptake of the two combination vaccines Pediarix and Pentacel can be explained by health care providers either recognizing the birth dose of Hepatitis B (and hence, choosing to administer Pediarix) or ignoring the Merck Effect for Haemophilus Influenza Type B (and hence, choosing to administer Pentacel),? Behzad said.
When the costs of extra immunizations are added to the costs of the combination vaccines, Pediarix ultimately is the lower cost. The prevalence of Pentacel, however, implies that pediatricians recognize the value of the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, but that they do not take into account the cost savings of administering fewer doses of the Merck Hib vaccine.
The researchers encourage physicians and advisory boards to take all factors into account when determining how to administer the best combination of vaccines for the lowest cost.
?Vaccines do not exist in an immunization vacuum,? Jacobson said. ?The decision to use one particular vaccine may have implications on the choice of other vaccines, even when the diseases that they cover are distinct or only partially overlapping.?
The National Science Foundation supported this work, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Fifty-one pilot whales died Friday in another mass stranding in New Zealand, less than a week after 145 pilot whales and nine pygmy killer whales perished in two other, unrelated strandings.
In the latest stranding, up to 90 pilot whales beached themselves late Thursday at Hanson Bay on the remote Chatham Islands, said the Department of Conservation.
When staff arrived at first light, they said they found up to 40 of the whales had refloated themselves but another 50 had died on the beach. The department said one beached whale remained alive, which staff decided to euthanize due to its poor condition.
The Chatham Islands sit about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of New Zealand's main islands and are home to about 600 people.
Last weekend, 145 pilot whales died on Stewart Island. By the time conservation workers arrived there, about 75 of the whales were already dead and they decided to euthanize the others by shooting them due to their poor condition and remote location.
On Sunday, 10 pygmy killer whales were found stranded at Ninety Mile Beach on the North Island.
Despite the best efforts of 200 staff and volunteers, who managed to refloat eight of the whales after transporting them to a beach where conditions were calmer, all but one of the whales ended up stranding themselves again by Wednesday. Those whales were also euthanized.
Dr. Dave Lundquist, a technical adviser on marine species, said in a video released by the Conservation Department that there was no evidence to suggest the strandings were linked.
"You're talking about strandings across the entire breadth of New Zealand in a very short period of time, which naturally does cause everyone to reflect on whether those might have something to do with one another," he said.
Lundquist said that while scientists don't typically know why individual whale strandings occur, they believe there are probably a range of reasons. He said they could be caused by the whales navigating incorrectly, trying to escape from predators, or some of them suffering injuries or illness. He said there could also be man-made factors like underwater noise.
"In many of those cases, it's probably a combination of those factors," he said.
Whale strandings are most common in New Zealand during the Southern Hemisphere spring and summer.


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December is upon us, so the snow up here in Hokkaido will be here to stay for a while. After a busy summer and fall of taking people from all over the globe into mountains, the Pig's ready for some R&R. This means doing something I'm real passionate about – a solo trip into the Hokkaido backcountry.
For me, nothing beats sitting outside the tent at night with a cup of hot sake in hand, surrounded by fresh snowy peaks and the night sky. (A close second is lying alone in my tent with a gusty storm outside trying to blow me away.)
Doing it solo is not for everyone, but knowing the clarity that goes with being alone in vast spaces brings joy to the isolation. Without traveling companions, there is no talking; just listening to the sound of nature and the thoughts and questions popping up in your head.
I catch myself answering my own questions. (Sometimes I even manage to give myself the wrong answers). These days people don't listen enough to what's going on around them. Too much time is spent complaining, discussing and trying to find things to talk about. Half the time what we do talk about doesn't make sense anyway, so it's nice just to get away from it all, even if it's for a short time.
Hiking by yourself in the backcountry in winter is risky and, in a sense, climbing without a rope, since there is little or no room for error. You have to be more focused and conservative in nearly everything you do, but that's what attracts me to it.
Everything I do, each decision, is my responsibility, so if something goes wrong, I have no one to blame but myself. For me doing it solo is all about safety, not taking risks, being fully prepared, having the right gear and having the experience and confidence to deal with any situation that comes your way.
If you are thinking about heading into the backcountry this winter, even if it's only for a day, you should ask yourself the following questions. If you answer "no" to any of them, you are not ready to go at it alone.
1: Can you read a map?
2: Can you use a compass?
3: Can you use them together?
4: You may say, "Well I have a GPS." But can you use it?
5: What happens if the GPS doesn't work?
6: Are you prepared to spend the night, and do you have the gear for it?
7: Do you have a fire-starting kit or any way to make a fire?
8: If your shoulder harness—or anything—else breaks, can you fix it?
9: If you lose a glove, do you have a spare?
10: Can you read snow and weather?
When you head into the backcountry in winter (especially solo), you need to take a lot of gear. Here is the Bush Pig's List of what you need to bring. If you don't have these items, then I don't think you are well enough prepared.
The Bush Pig's Basic Backcountry "Must Have" List
1: Shovel (I believe this is the single most important piece of gear).
2: Well-stocked first aid kit.
3: Fire-starting kit.
4: Spare wool hat, gloves, sunglasses, wool socks and spare bootlaces.
5: Extra food and a wide-mouthed water bottle (a wide-mouth takes longer to freeze).
6: Repair kit (Can you repair anything that breaks? Look at your gear and ask yourself, "If that breaks can I fix it?").
7: A large tin cup (can be used to boil water).
8: Headlamp.
9: Survival sheet (emergency blanket) plus a large plastic garbage bag (to put your feet in if you have to spend the night outside).
10: Your cell phone.
Note: There are additional things you may also need, such as an avalanche beacon, but these are the basics.
More Tips from the Bush Pig
1: Never follow treks (tracks?) in the snow unless you are 100 percent sure you know where they are going.
2: Always leave a detailed time plan of where you are going, and leave it with someone you trust.
3: Take boiling water with you before you leave home or camp (it will take longer to freeze).
4: Keep your water bottle upside down in your pack (water freezes from the top down).
5: If camping, keep a fold-up bottle with you in your sleeping bag with a wide opening, so you don't have to get out of that warm bag to go to the bathroom (the wide-mouth bottle is to make sure that what goes in doesn't come out all over your sleeping bag. I have learned this lesson the hard way).
Well, that about covers it. Just remember one more thing, "Pigs don't only love mud—this pig also digs snow!


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This time we are presenting you Thomas Mayer, Swiss architectural photographer who works for some of the worldʻs finest architects such as Frank Gehry. He learned photography in Zurich and came to Germany in 1968 where he worked until 1974 as a specialised photographer for car advertising in studio and on location. In 1974 he started to do editorial photography for Germanyʻs finest magazines such as GEO, Stern, Merian, ZEIT-Magazin, Der Spiegel and more. In cooperation with famous designer Otl Aicher he worked for companies like BMW, Lufthansa, West-LB and started to do architecture features for ERCO Lighting from 1977 until today. A long term documentation about Frank Gehryʻs Neuer Zollhof Dusseldorf 1989 – 1999. A documentation on the development of the world heritage site Zeche Zollverein 2002 – 2007 includes the development of the Zollverein School from competition til finalisation of the building.
Thomas Mayerʻs work has taken him to many places in the world and has been published in magazines, books, exhibitions and Calenders. Besides his craftmanship and strong sense of composition, his work can broadcast a visual sense of humor. He is a storyteller who does not need to resort to pathos or trickery but finds beauty in man and structures and in light and shadow instead.
1. When and how did you start photographing architecture?
I learned photography in an apprenticeship with a fashion and advertising photographer in Zurich from 1964-67. After my first, 6 years long career as a car photographer (1968-74) I switched to editorial photography. Since 1974 I have worked for the best magazines in Germany as Zeit- Magazin, Merian, Stern, GEO magazine and others. 2 different situations brought me to architectural photography: first is the continuous work for ERCO lighting company since 1977 up to now in showing the daily life in architecture in the light of ERCO in their reference projects. Second was the ten years long documentation of the development of the Neue Zollhof in Dusseldorf, first with competition winner Zaha Hadid, then from 1994-1999 with Frank Gehry, documenting the design period, construction and finished buildings. After worldwide publications of this project I was established as architectural photographer.
2. Are you an architect?
No, but if I would have studied, it would have been architecture.
3. Why do you like to photograph architecture?
I was always fascinated by urban development and have followed with a critical eye the changes in Germany, where I live, and in metropolitan areas like Paris, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and in Scandinavian countries. I was never a pure architectural photographer. I am a "reportage architectural photographer" and approach to buildings and sites in a journalistic way in showing the design and the life in it.
4. Favorite architect?
Very difficult question, most of the time after visiting a new project I have a new favorite architect, but when you force me I want to name 4 architects:
- Rem Koolhaas for his thinking in urban development
- Frank Gehry who brought joy and fun into modern architecture
- Peter Zumthor who works very careful, very slow, very thoroughgoing
- Rudolph Küppers, who built our home where we love to live and work since 20 years
5. Favorite building?
Most difficult question, I could give you a list with at least 20 buildings, but beside our home I want to point out 2 favorites which are very different in design but similar in mind:
- The Chapel Ronchamp by Le Corbusier
- The Brother-Claus-Field-Chapel by Peter Zumthor
6. How do you work?
I work alone and freelance since 1969, have assignments by magazines, architects, designers, advertising agencies, industrial clients and others. When doing architectural photography I like to visit first the site together with the architect, learn hers/his thoughts and develop my own view to it. Since 2004 I provide clients and the architectural press with images from my website www.thomasmayerarchive.com
7. What kind of equipment and software do you use?
As a reportage photographer I use 35mm camera on tripod, now digital (actually Nikon D3X), software is Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.


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UPDATE 1: Paul Clement will attack the expansion of Medicaid. He's talking about whether it's "coercive," because if it is, it won't fit the Spending Power. Justice Kagan wants to know why a "big gift from the Federal Government" is coercion. "The Federal Government is here saying, we are giving you a boatload of money." Page 3. Just a big old boatload of money is coercive, Clement says confidently. But the actual bill has a "very big condition." Kagan interrupts, trying to make her point that a big boatload of money is not coercive. What if someone offered you a job and would pay you $10 million a year. Of course, you say yes, but you're not coerced are you? Clement lays down one of the cleverest teasers I have ever heard: "Well, I guess I would want to know where the money came from."
"Wow. Wow." says Kagan. Has a Supreme Court ever said "Wow. Wow" before? She can't believe you'd do anything other than snap up that money. "I'm offering you $10 million a year to come work for me, and you are saying that this is anything but a great choice?"
Clement springs his trap: "Sure, if I told you, actually, it came from my own bank account."
Kagan resists. Yes, it's tax money, but the tax money the federal government rakes in is from the taxpayers "acting as" U.S. citizens. It's not the state's money. Their money is the money that's collected from citizens "acting as" citizens of a particular state. Clement re-grounds us "in the real world." People only have so much money, and the more the feds drain out of the people, the less there is for the states to tap into. The point is this "boatload of money" isn't free money. It's money that was taken from the people of the state and then offered back to the state governments, who might have liked to take money directly from their citizens, available to be used for whatever purposes the states have in mind, and not the things the federal government tells them to do.
UPDATE 2: Clement argues that there must be some limit on the Spending Power, on how extreme the "big gifts" — with conditions attached — can be, because "this Court's entire spending power jurisprudence is premised on the notion that spending power is different, and that Congress can do things pursuant to the spending power that it can't do pursuant to its other enumerated powers precisely because the programs are voluntary." Clement has a very difficult argument to make. The states have been taking this money for a long time, and there have been periodic expansions, and the states are told "take it or leave it" (as Ginsburg puts it). He needs to argue that somehow this new expansion is creating something separate and inappropriately connecting it to old money streams from the federal government to the state, which makes it very hard for the state to say no. But it's the fed's money, and they're setting the terms the states have to meet to keep the old income streams flowing.
UPDATE 3: Justice Breyer takes great pains to show that the government might not exercise its option to close up all those old income streams, because it is always under the obligation to act "reasonably." Finally, Justice Scalia breaks in: "Mr. Clement... do you agree -- do you agree that the government has to act reasonably? Do we strike down unreasonable statutes? My God!" With that prompting, I see that it sounds like Justice Breyer was assuring us that we are living in the Lochner Era, when courts assessed the reasonableness of legislation. There's an intense disagreement here, with Breyer talking about the executive branch implementing statutes, which must be reasonable, and Clement and Scalia talking about what is in the statute, which will not be tested for reasonableness.
UPDATE 4: We finally hear from Justice Kennedy, at page 35: "If the inevitable consequence of your position was that the Federal Government could just do this on its own, the Federal Government could have Medicaid, Medicare, and these insurance regulations, assume that's true, then how are the interests of federalism concerned? How are the interests of federalism concerned if, in Florida or Texas or some of the other objecting States, there are huge Federal bureaucracies doing what this bill allows the State bureaucracies to do?"
Clement hits Kennedy with a word Kennedy has used himself in federalism cases. (For example, United States v. Lopez.) The word is "accountability." Clement says: "If the Federal Government decides to spend money through Federal instrumentalities, and the citizen is hacked off about it, they can bring a Federal complaint to a Federal official working in a Federal agency."
(Here's Kennedy in Lopez: "The theory that two governments accord more liberty than one requires for its realization two distinct and discernable lines of political accountability: one between the citizens and the Federal Government; the second between the citizens and the States. If, as Madison expected, the federal and state governments are to control each other, see The Federalist No. 51, and hold each other in check by competing for the affections of the people, see The Federalist No. 46, those citizens must have some means of knowing which of the two governments to hold accountable for the failure to perform a given function. 'Federalism serves to assign political responsibility, not to obscure it.'... Were the Federal Government to take over the regulation of entire areas of traditional state concern, areas having nothing to do with the regulation of commercial activities, the boundaries between the spheres of federal and state authority would blur and political responsibility would become illusory.... The resultant inability to hold either branch of the government answerable to the citizens is more dangerous even than devolving too much authority to the remote central power.")
UPDATE 5: The SG says that Congress, setting up this conditional spending program, jumped through all the doctrinal hoops set up in South Dakota v. Dole, but I note that South Dakota v. Dole did say that at some point federal spending amounts to coercion. (It said: "Our decisions have recognized that in some circumstances the financial inducement offered by Congress might be so coercive as to pass the point at which 'pressure turns into compulsion.' Steward Machine Co. v. Davis...") And Justice Scalia, alluding to that language, asks what it means. What is this "coercion" limitation?
The SG says that "it's possible to envision a situation in which there's coercion." Hmm. Yeah. But tell us what that situation is?! This is like yesterday, when the SG was asked to state the limit on the Commerce Power, and he just couldn't do it. Now, the SG refers to a condition that fundamentally transforms the structure of the state government, but that refers to a kind of condition, not what would entice/coerce the state into accepting the condition. The Chief Justice points that out: You're not talking about the coercion question. What if the federal government had a condition that you could take or leave, but you'd lose all your federal funding? The SG says "that would raise a germaneness issue," which is a reference to one of the doctrinal hoops in Dole (the condition must relate to the spending program), but the coercion idea is separate — and surely the SG knows that. Getting the doctrinal points of Dole straight is first year law school stuff. It's like he's playing dumb. It's really annoying, and the Chief Justice is annoyed.
UPDATE 6: The SG persists in saying that it's hard to imagine a situation in which the condition would not violate the germaneness requirement by the time it got coercive. Roberts and Scalia scuffle with him and suddenly Alito comes to the rescue with a great hypothetical:
Let's say Congress says this to the States: We have got great news for you. We know that your expenditures on education are a huge financial burden, so we are going to take that completely off your shoulders. We are going to impose a special Federal education tax which will raise exactly the same amount of money all of the states now spend on education, and then we are going to give you a grant that is equal to what you spent on education last year.The SG says no! The states have a choice, he says, to which Alito responds: "But if that's the case, then there's nothing left of federalism."
Now, this is a great offer and we think you will take it, but, of course, if you take it, it's going to have some conditions because we're going to set rules on teacher tenure, on collective bargaining, on
curriculum, on textbooks, class size, school calendar, and many other things. So, take it or leave it.
If you take it, you have to follow our rules on all of these things. If you leave it, well, then you're going to have... to tax your citizens, they're going to have to pay the Federal education tax; but on top of that, you're going to have to tax them for all of the money that you're now spending on education, plus all of the Federal funds that you were previously given.
Would that be -- would that reach the point -- would that be the point where financial inducement turns into coercion?
That's a dramatic statement, and the SG only natters away about how there are political constraints on Congress. That is, there's nothing left of judicially enforceable federalism, but we've still got the supposed political safeguards of federalism (i.e., the way Congress will, on its own, restrain itself from too much imposition on the states). This is the SG's theme throughout the arguments this week: It is sufficient to let Congress do whatever it wants.
UPDATE 7: There's a long section of debate about whether the Secretary will use her discretion to cut the states off from all their funds (and whether there's a judicially enforceable limit on that discretion). Suddenly, Justice Kennedy breaks in, and he's using his buzzword again: accountability!
I suppose one test could be -- I just don't see that it would be very workable - is whether or not [the loss of funding is] so big that accountability is lost, that it is not clear to the citizens that the State or the Federal Government is administering the program, even though it's a State administrator.See how that is the same idea he was using back in 1995 in Lopez? The SG blabbers in response (as if he's not too well versed in what moves Justice Kennedy, which you would think would be his primary concern). Kennedy comes back:
In your view -- in your view, does federalism require that there be a relatively clear line of accountability for political acts?That, my friends, is Essence of Kennedy! But the SG doesn't notice. He doesn't see how exquisitely special that question is. Kennedy puzzles on: "Is that subsumed in the coercion test, or is that an independent one?" Come on, SG! If you're good for anything, tell him it's special! Again, the SG natters, but the nattering contains nothing about political accountability. Kennedy pleads again for attention to his dearest concern:
But do you agree that there still is inherent and implicit in the idea of federalism, necessary to the idea of federalism, that there be a clear line of accountability so the citizen knows that it's the Federal or state government who should be held responsible for their program?... And does coercion relate to that, or is that a separate doctrine?Finally, the SG addresses accountability: It's the other side who are arguing that they take "unpalatable choices" because they are subjected to "a high degree of political accountability," which they're trying to call "coercion." That misses Kennedy's point. Kennedy wants the doctrine to work to make the different governments accountable to the people. He says: "Well, but I think the answer would be that the State wants to preserve its integrity, its identity, its responsibility in the Federal system."
UPDATE 8: Quite a bit later, Justice Sotomayor endeavors to bring the SG back to Justice Kennedy's accountability theme, but not in a particularly coherent way: "Justice Kennedy asked you whether... it's coercion if no one can be politically accountable. I'm not sure how that could be practically politically accountable because almost every gift -- if the terms are attractive, it would be an un -- unattractive political alternative to turn it down." I think she means political accountability must necessarily be a separate question from coercion. The point is these tremendously enticing offers destroy the state's will to say no. They're not coerced, but they lose their independent political identity, and that is destructive to federalism.
UPDATE 9: The SG talks about liberty: "millions of people with chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, and as a result of the health care... they will be unshackled from the disabilities that those diseases put on them and have the opportunity to enjoy the blessings of liberty." There's freedom inside all this compulsion and coercion, because when the government supplies your needs, then you can enjoy life. That's the argument!
UPDATE 10: Clement, back in rebuttal, riffs on the SG's liberty remarks: "[I]t's a very funny conception of liberty that forces somebody to purchase an insurance policy whether they want it or not. And it's a very strange conception of federalism that says that we can simply give the States an offer that they can't refuse, and through the spending power which is premised on the notion that Congress can do more because it's voluntary, we can force the States to do whatever we tell them to."
UPDATE 11: There's still another hour! This is the severability part. Clement is up first, arguing that if the individual mandate is stricken down, but the guaranteed-issue and community-rating don't fall along with it, then insurance premiums will "skyrocket."
UPDATE 12: Is the test what Congress would have wanted (whether it would want the whole act to fall if one provision falls)? Scalia suggests that's the wrong approach. The severability question is difficult, as the Court struggles with the sprawling legislation. Clement says there's a "heart" to it, which includes the individual mandate, and the provisions interrelated with it, which will not work the same way without it, and these must fall. Then there's all that peripheral stuff, which could work independently, but Clement calls these things the "hollow shell" of the act, which should fall because they wouldn't have been passed without the rest of the bill. It could also be left standing, he concedes. Everyone seems agitated by the prospect of tearing it all down.
[THERE'S MORE TO COME, but I can't get to it tonight. It's just too onerous for now. ]


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One of the drawbacks intrinsic to liturgical worship is the length of time it takes to adopt expressions that are newly current and potent into the approved forms. Certain forms of language become deeply important to a generation—key words and symbols that are pregnant with meaning, yet haven't been incorporated officially into our forms of worship. So we often feel a certain dissonance in church as the language of worship seems impoverished by the absence of expressions we value so highly in our own exploration into God today. I long for prayers that express, directly and passionately, that God suffers. I look forward to praising God's vulnerability. I am impatient for the recasting of prayer to praise the Creator in terms that unequivocally embrace the evolutionary perspective. In the meantime, preaching is the key field for using this fresh language with passion, in an exciting conversation with ancient expressions and classic symbols that can never become out of date, as long as we use our imaginations to keep on releasing their latent powers.
The scriptures in this season provide rich opportunities for exploring great images of God's transforming power in vulnerability. Has anyone coined the word "paradoxology" yet to express the essence of transformative Christian worship? Only paradoxical language can point with any degree of success to the mystery of God and the revelatory revolution that springs into life out of the action of Jesus, the passion of Jesus, and the resurrection of Jesus.


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I've had many such ones – but the one that came true on Tuesday 20th April probably took the cake.
I've followed his writings and commentary ever since I started watching cricket but never got a chance to meet him. It was my terrible luck that he could not make it as a judge to the "Harsha ki Khoj" auditions that were held in Mumbai. I remember being thrilled to have made it to the city rounds and disappointed at not meeting him at the same time.
We headed to the Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium – a world class facility. We were taken to the Royal Box where it was the meet and greet program. The box carried clippings of some famous cricketing events – the famous Aus-SA 1999 WC semi-final. The entrance was adorned by the two greatest bowlers Murali and Warne and the two greatest batsmen – Sachin and Lara to have played this game. The walls carried bats signed by the Aus and Pak teams that played the inaugural T20 game here in 2009. The score sheets of the game were also placed beside them.
We then preceded to the cricket ground – it was the first time I had stepped into a stadium ground and gone anywhere close to the pitch! BLISS!
All of us took our places and Joy Bhattacharya came on as the host for the evening. After a few minutes Harsha took over and we do not know where the next 2 hours flew by.
Harsha started off narrating experiences from his cricketing career and sharing clippings with us. I'll write about a few in short.
Harsha is right when he says that forget you and me, the one man who will be most unhappy when SRT calls it quits; will be SRT himself, cause he does not know what to do without his cricket.
Harsha Bhogle entertains with his intelligence and how rare it is to find that quality today where everyone is looking to score at any cost. The dignity and the cultured humour stands apart. There are no insults, there are no condescending talks, there is only humility and love for the game.
He was asked his view on match-fixing in the IPL and he says I will not believe till evidence is produced, but till then lets us remember that 2 men of high integrity will walk on the pitch on 21st and that sight should restore our faith again in this game.
He liked the question I asked and here is what I won!
An opportunity of a lifetime, a memorable evening – thank you AR and thank you Harsha!
You wrote in my book "Have Fun", well I always have, always do and I always will – Cricket pretty much takes care of that:-)


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Paullus (14-10-2015)
This is great!
Nice work guys
great work guys!!
i can feel Spectrix' sausage from here
Spectrix (16-10-2015)
Nice to see it back in the flesh.
Hopefully more legitimate advice and sweet write ups will follow!
Yo Imma let you finish.... but Iamhappy46 is the best PGA member of all time
autech (14-10-2015), Dareya (14-10-2015), Ethanolaholic (15-10-2015), n15dave (07-05-2017), Paullus (14-10-2015), Phineas Q. Butterfat (15-10-2015)
Great work guys!
I had just bought my pulsar not long after the site shut down and was struggling to find good info anywhere else. Glad to see it back up and running again and looking forward to it.
Facebook integration is now enabled! At the top of each page you'll notice there is a Like & Share Buttons. These are self-explanatory and DO NOT require your Facebook account to be connected to your profile as described below.
If you want further integration then connect your Facebook account to your PGA profile by clicking the button at the top of the page. This will enable you to publish links to threads and replies direct to your Facebook Feed.
Lastly new members will be able to register with the Forum using their Facebook account.
I've tested the facebook integration and can confirm it's working.
BRB... going to wash the foul stench of facebook off myself
Ruddigger (08-11-2015)
Dude you've lost your Kopps avatar!
Edit: it's back
Still shows up as kopps for me?
Plagued by selfie polyps, narcissistic tumors and hashtag cysts
hi, thanks guys
Great to see this site back up and running
Been a lonnnng time.
Phineas Q. Butterfat (10-12-2015), Spectrix (09-11-2015)


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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Baptist Pastor Mark Harris stood before his flock in North Carolina on Sunday and joined hundreds of other religious leaders in deliberately breaking the law in an election-year campaign that tests the role of churches in politics.
By publicly backing candidates for political office from the pulpit, Harris and nearly 1,500 other preachers at services across the United States were flouting a law they see as an incursion on freedom of religion and speech.
Under the U.S. tax code, non-profit organizations such as churches may express views on any issue, but they jeopardize their favorable tax-exempt status if they speak for or against any political candidate.
"Pulpit Freedom Sunday" has been staged annually since 2008 by a group called the Alliance Defending Freedom. Its aim is to provoke a challenge from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in order to file a lawsuit and have its argument out in court.
The event has grown steadily in size, but the IRS has yet to respond - even though the pastors tape their sermons and mail them to the agency.
Now in an election year, where a few swing states - including North Carolina - will be crucial, political analysts say pastors campaigning from the pulpit could have an impact.
Critics say the movement threatens the U.S. constitutional principle of separation of church and state and makes pastors look like political operatives rather than neutral spiritual leaders.
"When the church further divides the country, where's the win in that?" asked Reverend C. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, and an opponent of "Pulpit Freedom Sunday."
In his sermon at First Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, Harris endorsed a Republican candidate for the state's Supreme Court, but did not specifically takes sides in the November 6 contest for the White House between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
"I don't feel I'm breaking the law," Harris said before addressing a congregation of almost 1,000. "I am speaking as a pastor and as a citizen of the United States where we have that freedom of speech."
Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom, said the group was not pushing any particular political agenda and participants came from both conservative and liberal churches.
However, the event in past years has tended to be dominated by evangelical fundamentalist churches and conservative causes such as opposition to abortion and gay-marriage.
It has grown steadily in size, with just 33 pastors taking part in 2008, rising to 539 last year and to a record 1,477 this year.
It is not entirely clear why the IRS has stayed silent and the agency did not respond to a request for comment.
Stanley said that if the IRS continued to ignore the speeches, it could become clear it was not enforcing the ban and hand preachers the de facto right to do as they wish from the pulpit.
Marcus Owens, a partner with law firm Caplin & Drysdale and former head of the IRS division that oversees tax exempt organizations, cited a 2009 case as a turning point.
In that case, the agency took action against James Hammond, pastor of the Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, after he endorsed Republican Michele Bachmann for Congress.
The move led to a challenge of the IRS' audit procedure for churches, which the agency lost, and since then there have been no publicly known examples of it taking action against churches.
In its latest annual report, the IRS indicated it planned to examine allegations of political intervention by pastors.
But experts who spoke to Reuters said they do not expect the agency to move against Pulpit Freedom Sunday this year, chiefly because of the absence of a new audit procedure for churches.
"If the IRS wanted to get serious about this, there are already plenty of blatant violations they could pursue," said Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington-based group that monitors and informs the IRS about tax-code violations.
Pacing across the church stage and backed by large screens showing close-ups of his face, Harris argued in his sermon that issues such as the sanctity of life, marriage, religious freedom and the national debt mattered "to the judgment hand of God."
"The American politician must hear you. You, sir and ma'am, are responsible for the governing of this nation today," he declared as his congregation rose in a standing ovation.
"As a follower of Jesus Christ, I will not vote for a candidate that violates the principles of God on the issues I've discussed," he said, before going on to endorse Paul Martin Newby, Republican candidate for the state Supreme Court.
Churchgoer Dixie Martin said some in the congregation were uncomfortable with the overt political talk, but she added: "We needed to hear it."
A registered Democrat, Martin said she would be voting Republican this year and was glad to learn more about Newby in a race she had not been following.
Obama won North Carolina by just 14,000 votes in 2008. Recent polls show him now in a dead heat there with Romney.
Though the state has changed over the years, with new population inflows from other parts of the country, it retains a strong churchgoing base.
This means sermons just before elections could be critical, strategist from both political parties agreed.
Paul Shumacker, a long-time North Carolina consultant to Republican candidates, said regular churchgoers tended to be engaged in their communities and formed a strong voter base.
In a race as close as the one between Obama and Romney, "anything that works to build intensity becomes absolutely critical," he said.
A July poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found 66 percent of Americans believe churches or other houses of worship should not endorse political candidates. That figure was only 56 percent among white evangelical Protestants. It was 69 percent among Catholics.
Jason Husser, a political science professor at North Carolina's Elon University, said evangelical pastors may be more comfortable speaking out on politics than leaders of other faiths because their congregations tended to be more uniformly conservative and Republican.
(Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and David Brunnstrom)
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Baptist Pastor Mark Harris stood before his flock in North Carolina on Sunday and joined hundreds of other religious leaders in deliberately breaking the law in an election-year campaign that tests the role of churches in politics.


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LyZ is a plugin for Zotero, which is intended to make working with LyX/Zotero more pleasant.
- Inserting citations to LyX from Zotero.
- BibTeX database automatically updated when citation is inserted.
- BibTeX database can be updated when the references in Zotero are modified.
- Custom BibTeX key format.
- Unique BibTeX key check.
- Custom BibTeX translators.
- Synchronization of BibTex keys between LyX document, BibTeX database and LyZ.
- Editing of master/child documents (the same BibTeX database) and multiple documents (different BibTeX database for each document).
- Persistent association of LyX documents and BibTeX databases.
- Support for group cooperation.
Installation and Settings
- LyZ works with Zotero 2.0 and later.
- Install LyZ from Firefox Addons and restart Firefox.
- Open LyX and set LyXServer path (in LyX go to menu, Tools > Preferences... > Paths and set LyXServer pipe to): Windows users can use the default path setting in LyZ, i.e. "\\.\pipe\lyxpipe". Linux and Mac users can use e.g. "~/.lyxpipe" and change the LyZ settings accordingly.
- By default all characters are escaped, e.g. š becomes \v{s}. Set extensions.lyz.use_utf8 to true in about:config to avoid escaping (in case you need to use non-latin scripts such as Chinese).
- Open document in LyX.
Adding and inserting citations
- Open Zotero, select citation and either from LyZ menu or from context menu (right click on the citation) do "Cite in LyX".
- When you try to insert citation into a new document (i.e. document unknown to LyZ) you have to select BibTeX database. You will be asked to either create a new database or choose a database you have created before (by LyZ). Type the database name (*.bib extension is automatically added if you don't provide it) and press OK. The citation is added into the BibTeX database you have just created and inserted into the LyX document. Your citation should appear in LyX document now.
- Insert the BibTeX database into LyX document. See BibTeX and LyX.
- Insert additional citations, new ones from Zotero, previously added citation can be either inserted through the LyX interface or from Zotero.
- If you modify the reference information in Zotero, use "Update BibTeX" from LyZ menu to update the BibTeX database.
Custom BibTeX keys
- Custom BibTeX keys can be set in LyZ > Settings dialog.
- The default format is "author year title". Good alternative for the use with natbib package is format "zotero", which will produce "human unreadable" BibTeX keys. It consists of library ID and zotero item key, e.g. 0_XXXXX. Format keyword "zoteroShort" will produce only XXXXX, which can be used when exporting from OOo.
- Key formats can be composed from keywords "author", "year", "title", "zotero" and separators such as "_" (the following characters should be safe to use: a-z, 0-9!$&*+-.:;<>?[]^`|), e.g. "author year title", which will produce authoryeartitle BibTeX key, e.g. tichy1988thefoundations. If you prefer the default format used in Zotero BibTeX export (tichy_thefoundations_1988), change the pattern to "author _ title _ year". The keywords and any separating characters have to be separated by space. Characters in citekeys are escaped and unsafe characters are removed conforming to /[^a-z0-9\!\$\&\*\+\-\.\/\:\;\<\>\?\[\]\^\_\`\|]+/g.
- If you use custom BibTeX translator and want to use the cite keys generated in the translator, go to LyZ > Setting and switch creation of cite keys off.
Update BibTeX
Menu command "Update BibTex" will update BibTeX database of the active LyX document. Whatever changes made in Zotero will be reflected in the update, including BibTeX keys if the BibTeX key format or the relevant information (first author, title, year) have been changed.
When a single BibTeX database is shared among several authors, e.g. using version control system such as SVN and CVS, LyZ database is updated from local working copy of BibTeX database.
Only current LyX document will be updated. Multiple document update is implemented, but seems unreliable. Needs more testing…
Synchronization between LyX/BibTeX/LyZ
When Zotero reference is changed, BibTeX database as well as the LyX document can be updated. This is useful when nice BibTeX keys are used, such as 'author year title' and e.g. the title or the first author's surname has been modified, which will result in modification of the BibTeX key. When the "Update BibTeX" is run, you should select to update the LyX document in case your modifications to Zotero references might affect your BibTeX keys. Before the update, a backup of the active LyX document is made (extension *.lyz). LyZ will save, close and then reopen your document.
Notes on usage
- Credits: Lyz is inspired by Lytero, which I wanted to improve, but ended up starting from scratch. Hence the new name. Thanks to Dan Stillman and mronkko at zotero.org forum. Justin Wood for BOM and escaping suggestions and donation!
- Always modify your references in Zotero. If you modify the BibTeX database manually or using other software, LyZ will overwrite all the changes when you run "Update BibTeX".
- Keep your Zotero items unique. LyZ does not make an attempt to identify duplicates, they will be treated as different items and unique BibTeX keys will be created.
- When working with master/child documents in LyX, you will have to specify the BibTeX database for each child document. This will be the same file as specified for the master document. Unfortunately LyZ has no way of knowing the relationship between documents, so it has to be done manually.
- Old writing projects can be deleted from LyZ menu. When the record of BibTeX database is deleted, all associated LyX document records are also deleted. When LyX document is deleted, associated BibTeX database will remain untouched as it may be used by another document. The actual file won't be deleted.
- BibTeX database is uniformly exported to UTF8 and all characters are escaped. Exporting to doesn't seem to have any advantages. When your references contain extra characters such as the degree symbol, add \usepackage{textcomp} to your preamble.
- URLs in bibliography. Use bibliography style that can handle URLs, such as apalike, or add \usepackage{url} to your preamble.
- LyZ stores the information about documents and BibTeX databases in lyz.sqlite in the Zotero folder. If you backup Zotero with some synchronization application, you will notice the new file.
- When working with non-latin scripts such as Chinese, set extensions.lyz.use_utf8 to true in about:config to avoid escaping.
Source code
Please explore at https://github.com/willsALMANJ/lyz.
Problems, Ideas, Requests
Please follow these tips to find out the source of your problem:
- Run Lyx in debugging mode from commandline by (Linux and Mac users change accordingly)
lyx.exe -dbg lyxserver
Useful messages should appear whenever you send some command from Lyz. A useful message will contain words like ERROR, undefined etc.
- To send a command from Lyz, you simply use one of the functions, e.g. "Cite in Lyx" or use command line, viz. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXServer.
- Also you can use a variant of the last version of Lyz, which has additional menu item "Test…". This will allow you to send single commands to Lyx. Currently Lyz uses the following commands (code in the parentheses indicates usage):
- server-get-filename (
- citation-insert (
- buffer-next (
- server-get-xy (
- buffer-write (
- buffer-close (
- file-open (
file-open:path, where path is the response from
All functions Lyz has are patched together using these commands. The most trouble some seems to be the
- server-get-filename (
- Extract useful information from Firefox's Error Console and from commandline where you ran
lyx.exe -dbg lyxserverand send it to me or even better file a bug, ask a question or submit a request at https://github.com/willsALMANJ/lyz


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Yeshiva University has declined to say if it will make public the results of an investigation into sexual abuse allegations at its Manhattan high school despite former students' fears about the scope, openness and motivation behind the probe.
In a statement to the Forward, released January 8, a Y.U. representative promised "a full and completely independent investigation," but declined to say what will happen to the work now being conducted by an international law firm hired by the university. In a follow-up statement issued the next morning, the representative said that after the investigation was complete, the board expected that it "will be in further communication with the public." He declined to explain what that means.
Y.U. launched its investigation after the Forward published allegations by three former students that they had been abused by Rabbi George Finkelstein, who served at Y.U.'s High School for Boys from 1968 to 1995, where he rose to become principal. Another student said that he had been abused by a Talmud teacher, Rabbi Macy Gordon, who taught at the school from 1956 to 1984.
Immediately following the story, Finkelstein resigned from his executive position at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, and Gordon was placed on indefinite leave from his teaching position in Jerusalem.
In the weeks that followed, more than a dozen former students contacted the Forward to say that they had been sexually, emotionally or physically abused by Gordon or Finkelstein. Y.U.'s board of trustees hired a top international law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, to investigate the allegations, and within days investigators began calling former students to invite them in for an interview.
But former students and legal experts who are experienced in abuse cases have raised concerns about Y.U.'s refusal to tell victims whether the report will ever be publicly released. Some fear it is a public relations ploy or intended to guard against potential lawsuits rather than to investigate how Y.U. staff members may have physically, emotionally and sexually abused boys over almost three decades, despite complaints from students and their families.
Shmuel Herzfeld, who is the rabbi of Washington, D.C.'s National Synagogue and graduated from Y.U.'s high school in 1992, is one of those who have publicly complained about the investigation.
Herzfeld said he spoke to Karen Seymour, the lawyer leading the Sullivan & Cromwell team, by telephone on December 26. Herzfeld said he had in mind the report commissioned by Pennsylvania State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky abuse scandal when he spoke to Seymour.
In the Penn State case, Louis Freeh, a former head of the FBI, was given access to university employees and board members. Although some said that the Freeh report had its flaws, it was seen as a breakthrough in transparency and in an institution's willingness to confront errors in judgment.
But Herzfeld said he was dismayed when Seymour told him that her report might be delivered to the Y.U. board orally rather than in writing. He said he was even more alarmed when Seymour said that unlike the Freeh report, which was disseminated publicly the same day it was presented to the board, she "could not say whether… the board would release the report to the public."
Herzfeld said he has spoken to former Y.U. high school students who say they were abused but are fearful "that what they tell the investigator will not be given a proper hearing." So Herzfeld sent a letter, signed by 18 Y.U. high school alumni, to the chairman of the university's board on January 3, asking that the investigation follow the blueprint laid out by the Freeh report. By January 8, the chairman, Henry Kressel, a managing director at a private equity firm in Manhattan, had not responded.
When a reporter from the Forward called Kressel on January 7 and identified himself, Kressel cut off the call. Kressel's assistant later directed the Forward to Y.U.'s press office. (Y.U.'s press office did not respond to several questions, including a request to know who on the board is overseeing the investigation and when the board might decide to make the report public.)
Other high-ranking Y.U. officials declined to speak to the Forward. Reached at his New York home, David S. Gottesman, a billionaire investor and a Y.U. chairman emeritus, said: "I don't talk to reporters. I never have." Another chairman emeritus, Ronald P. Stanton, who made his fortune in agrochemicals, said, "I have no comment, sorry." The Forward was unable to reach the other emeritus chairmen, Morry J. Weiss and Robert Beren.
Seymour initially agreed to speak, but then declined after being told that the interview would be on the record. In an email, Seymour said, "We can assure you that Sullivan & Cromwell LLP was retained to conduct an independent, full and complete investigation into the reports of sexual abuse, and we are currently conducting our investigation in that manner."
Seymour added that Sullivan & Cromwell had retained Lisa Friel, former head of the Manhattan district attorney's sex crimes unit, to help with the investigation. Friel left the DA's office in 2011 to head up a unit at an investigations firm, T&M Protection Resources, where she specializes in probing abuse at public corporations and educational institutions.
Among her first clients was Poly Prep, an elite private school in Brooklyn that was rocked by allegations that a former football coach, Phil Foglietta, had abused students there for decades. During the ensuing civil lawsuit, Friel antagonized some victims by telling The Wall Street Journal that school administrators could not be blamed for earlier lapses, because people "had very different understandings of what sexual abuse was in the '60s and '70s and what a pedophile was."
Norman Lamm, Y.U.'s chancellor, expressed a similar view when he spoke to the Forward last month, on December 7. Lamm, who was president of Y.U. during the 1970s, '80s and early '90s, when most of the abuse is alleged to have taken place, told the Forward that a number of Y.U. staff members were quietly let go during that period, following charges of improper sexual activity. "This was before things of this sort had attained a certain notoriety," Lamm said. "There was a great deal of confusion."
Friel did not respond to a request for comment.
The Forward has cataloged several instances when Y.U. officials were alerted to abuse allegations against Finkelstein and Gordon. Mordechai Twersky, a former student, said he told Lamm about Finkelstein in 1986. Another former student and his father told the Forward that they complained about Gordon to a Y.U. vice president, Israel Miller, in 1980. Miller died in 2002.
Seymour said her team would investigate "any individual at Yeshiva University who reportedly knew of any such abuse, and how they responded to that report." She said that her team intends "to follow any leads, and Yeshiva University is not restricting our ability to pursue those leads."
Like the Freeh report investigators, Seymour said her team is "collecting potentially relevant documents and obtaining raw computer data from Yeshiva University."
Seymour, however, declined a request by the Forward to see a current document that tells Y.U. high school staff what to do if they suspect that a student has been abused. "I believe it would be inappropriate for the investigative team at this stage to selectively disclose information, including the policy that you requested," she said.
Seymour also declined to respond in regard to whether any member of her investigation team has any past or present ties to Y.U.
She confirmed that the university hadn't decided whether the report will be released publicly. "That decision will be made at the appropriate time, by a special committee of the board of trustees of Yeshiva University," Seymour said.
Marci Hamilton, chair of public law at Y.U.'s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a leading advocate of abuse victims nationwide, said she was confident the report would be made public. "No institution can study this issue with any credibility and fail to report to the public what they've found," Hamilton said.
She added, "This is the leading Orthodox university in the country, if not the world, and what's needed is for this institution to set an example for dealing with these kinds of issues."
Hamilton pointed out that the Freeh report let down victims in one crucial area: It only examined abuse allegations after 1998 and ignored the three previous decades when Sandusky was employed by Penn State.
"As I understand with Y.U., the investigation is more broad ranging and not limited solely to [the allegations against Finkelstein and Gordon], but also to the culture of the institution," Hamilton said. "It's certainly not just focused on the high school."
But lawyers who specialize in representing victims of abuse remain cautious, particularly about potential victims giving statements to Y.U. investigators without their respective lawyers present. They said that although the statute of limitations to bring criminal prosecutions has passed, civil lawsuits remain a possibility, and statements given to the investigation team could later be used against them.
Kevin Mulhearn, who won a landmark multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Poly Prep this past December and who has already been retained by former Y.U. student Twersky, said, "I would be very leery of going in without counsel."
Another lawyer, Jeff Anderson, said he would discourage victims and their families "from talking to people hired by and working for the university" without seeking their own legal counsel.
Anderson, who during the past 29 years has brought suits against the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican and Penn State, said he has been contacted by several former Y.U. high school students and that he has agreed to represent "more than one.
He said Y.U.'s report, as currently outlined, fell way below today's standards and seemed "designed more for purposes of public relations" than for anything constructive. He was particularly concerned that Sullivan & Cromwell could not assure victims that the findings would be made public.
Paul Mones, who has been involved in lawsuits concerning sexual abuse against the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America, said it is notable that an investigation has been launched at all. Usually, Mones said, the motivating factor for institutions is fear of litigation or that bad publicity will hurt contributions.
In that sense, the abuse allegations surfaced at a bad time for Y.U. Less than two weeks after the allegations first appeared in the Forward, Y.U.'s president, Richard Joel, announced a drive to raise $600 million toward a capital campaign and future scholarships.
Mones said: "The Catholic Church only began to consider changing its policies because of the threat of lawsuits and the financial fallout of those legal actions."
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