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If you see someone who is having a seizure, stay calm. Although seizures seem to last a long time, they usually do not last more than 60 to 90 seconds. Time the seizure, if you can. If the seizure lasts longer than 3 minutes or the person seizing is pregnant (no matter how long the seizure lasts), call 911 or other emergency services immediately.
A seizure can be terrifying to watch, especially if you've never seen one before. A seizure temporarily interferes with muscle control, movement, speech, vision, or awareness. It may cause a person's entire body to shake violently for a few seconds to a few minutes, and he or she may lose consciousness.
Seizures can be mild to severe, and they affect people differently. Even though you may feel helpless around someone having a seizure and find it difficult to watch, there are many things you can do to help.
How to help during a seizure
- Protect the person from injury.
- Keep him or her from falling if you can, or try to guide the person gently to the floor.
- Try to move furniture or other objects that might injure the person during the seizure.
- If the person is having a seizure and is on the ground when you arrive, try to position the person on his or her side so that fluid can leak out of the mouth. But be careful not to apply too much pressure to the body.
- Do not force anything, including your fingers, into the person's mouth. Putting something in the person's mouth may cause injuries to him or her, such as chipped teeth or a fractured jaw. You could also get bitten.
- Do not try to hold down or move the person. This can cause injury, such as a dislocated shoulder.
How to help after a seizure
- Check the person for injuries.
- If you could not turn the person onto his or her side during the seizure, do so when the seizure ends and the person is more relaxed.
- If the person is having trouble breathing, use your finger to gently clear his or her mouth of any vomit or saliva. If this does not work, call for emergency help.
- Loosen tight clothing around the person's neck and waist.
- Provide a safe area where the person can rest.
- Do not offer anything to eat or drink until the person is fully awake and alert.
- Stay with the person until he or she is awake and familiar with the surroundings. Most people will be sleepy or confused after a seizure.
Things to watch for during a seizure
You may be able to provide valuable feedback to the doctor treating the person having the seizure. Try to remember:
- How the person's body moved.
- How long the seizure lasted.
- How the person acted before the seizure.
- How the person acted immediately after the seizure.
- Whether the person suffered any injuries from the seizure.
When to seek emergency help
Seizures do not always require urgent care. But call 911 or other emergency services immediately if:
- The person having a seizure stops breathing for longer than 30 seconds. After calling 911 or other emergency services, begin rescue breathing.
- The seizure lasts longer than 3 minutes. (The person may have entered a life-threatening state of prolonged seizure called status epilepticus.)
- This is the person's first seizure or if you don't know if the person has epilepsy.
- The person seizing is pregnant (no matter how long the seizure lasts). This could be a sign of preeclampsia.
- More than one seizure occurs within 24 hours.
- The person having a seizure does not respond normally within 1 hour after the seizure or has any of the following symptoms:
- Reduced awareness and wakefulness or is not fully awake
- Confusion
- Nausea or vomiting
- Dizziness
- Inability to walk or stand
- Fever
- A seizure occurs after the person complains of a sudden, severe headache.
- A seizure occurs with signs of a stroke, such as trouble speaking or understanding speech, loss of vision, and inability to move part or all of one side of the body.
- A seizure follows a head injury.
- A person with diabetes has a seizure. Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) or very high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) can cause seizures in a person who has diabetes.
- A seizure occurs after eating poison or breathing fumes.
- The person complains of severe pain after waking up or develops a fever within 24 hours of the seizure.


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Is the new professionalism and ACP's new ethics really just about following guidelines?
The Charter ( Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium.A Physician's Charter) did not deal with just the important relationship of ...
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Physicians (or just folks with MD degrees) and product promotion
Dr, Howard Brody,director of the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston) Institute for the Medical Humanities makes his views clear and is quoted in an article in the March 24, 2008 issue of American Medical News. His blog is here.
What is a doctor doing putting money in his or her pocket,shilling for a product?..There is no positive reason for doing such a thing.
Dr. Roy Poses of the blog Health Care Renewal is also makes his views very clear when he states:
I wouldn't do it.
He argues that an endorsement could induce bias in in favor of a product when it is not in the best interest of the patient.
Arthur L. Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania Bioethics Center offers a more morally relativistic position: I might urge someone to think twice about it, but I can understand they may choose to do it.
The AMA "ethical guidelines" offers another tepid general statement saying that physicians are free to promote their services in what form they see fit but do not mislead or deceive.
I can remember a quaint era when physicians did not advertise at all and I seem to have a foggy memory of a time when internists also did not offer cosmetic procedures in their offices,sell vitamins or skin care products, actually attended their sick patients in the hospital after attending them as an outpatient, spent more time treating their patients than treating their chart in an effort to squeeze the best payment by performing the most clever coding and placating the latest pseudo-quality, documentation initiative and did not relegate their patient's care to "mid-level" practitioners or their call to triage nurses or a telephone answering machine and the default strategy of sending everyone to the ER.
Dr.Rich has spoken of a decline in the pride and ethics of physicians and I have echoed that notion. There is much to suggest a loss of pride and ethics but with the continuing straight talk that call our attention to matters that are wrong and things about which we should express outrage from physicians such as Dr. Poses and Dr. Brody you have to be hopeful that if you keep fighting the good fight there is at least a chance of winning.
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- Anonymous said...
I agree with what you're saying about a drop in ethics and advertising for tonics. It's very sad to see and further erodes our standing in the community.
However, the quaint era you speak of also reimbursed physicians very highly for not selling vitamins, using mid-levels, seeing their patients as inpatients when necessary, and spending less time on the chart.
An argument can be made that many physicians of that era, while caring well for their patients, exhibited poor resource stewardship, and maybe even greed.
The rise of the HMO and cost cutting and 3rd party payers, as well as the increase in regulations have caused PCP's to see a ridiculous amount of volume to keep ahead of overhead.
I am an ER doctor, and have my own problems. But, my uncle was an internist before he retired. In real dollars he made twice as much as my cousin the internist does today.
I think that might be just one reason why we see this slippery slope of medical decay. College kids don't even want to go into medicine... they want an MBA because that's where the money is. They figure they'll give to charity to help people.
- james gaulte said...
I agree that much of what I complain about or grieve about is directly indirectly to a significant decrease in physcian(including internist) income.

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I found a near-mint copy of the original "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale" CD by Edgar Froese for $15 in a record store. This was near impossible to find and if you did find one the prices were ridiculous! I realize Virgin just came out with the Froese solo box set, where the solo albums were remastered. This is probably why somebody sold their original. I still don't think this would de-value the original CD, though, do you?


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Kuler updates: iPhone App & Website Redesign
Earlier this month we showed you a preview of Kuler for the iPhone, the new Kuler website and how you can access your Kuler themes in Illustrator CC. Today, we're launching the new site and making Kuler available on the App Store.
For those of you who missed Kuler in the MAX keynote, Kuler allows you to create inspiring color themes and explore hundreds of thousands of color themes created by other users. The Kuler iPhone app lets you capture color themes anywhere, using the iPhone camera. All the themes you create with Kuler, on the web or with your iPhone, can be accessed with other Adobe applications such as Illustrator and Ideas.
The full benefits of Kuler are available to Creative Cloud members. The Sync Colors feature lets you use Kuler and Illustrator to quickly incorporate colors you see around you into your vector artwork. Sync your favorite themes with the Kuler website, and they'll be accessible immediately inside Illustrator CC – only available in Creative Cloud.
If you are an active Kuler user, you may notice a few pages and features missing from the new Kuler website. I'm writing to explain what's missing, why it's missing, and what you can expect to see in the coming weeks and months. Here's an overview of what you won't find on the new site:
Create a theme from an image: We know many users really like the "Create from an Image" feature. Unfortunately, this feature was not ready for the new site launch. So, rather than launching a buggy or half-baked feature, we decided to take a bit more time to get it right.
We intend to add this feature to the site as soon as it's ready. Until then, you can use the free iPhone app to create themes from images.
Color space "slider" controls: We talked to a lot of Kuler users about the slider controls. Some users like them and others don't. The main complaint we heard was that the sliders add unnecessary complexity and take up too much space.
So, we opted to not add the sliders and err on the side of making the creation experience simple. Though, we decided to keep the "brightness" slider control since some colors spaces don't have a brightness variable. We'd love to know what you think. You can voice your opinion on the Kuler forum.
Change the order of colors: In our research, we found most users did not know you could re-order colors on the old Kuler site. And, it's actually quite a bit of work to build this feature. So, rather than re-building a feature many users don't know about or use, we wanted to hear from you first. Please visit the Kuler forum and let us know what you think.
Avatar: Most of the users we talked with about Kuler avatars were indifferent. In fact, they asked us to focus on other features first. So, that's what we're doing–we're focusing on some of the most requested features first.
Community spotlight and Pulse: The Community Spotlight and Pulse were beta features that never really gained any traction. So, we opted to not continue with these features.
API: We're working to rebuild the Kuler API to offer more robust capabilities. Until then, we're no longer issuing new API keys. If you already have a key and are using the API, your service will not be interrupted (your key will continue to work).
We're always looking for feedback and would love to hear what you think about any of these topics—please join the discussion on the Kuler forum.


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Although it has been more than 20 years since dentist W.C. Jessen's heirs sold his big two-story home on Vine Street, there are still plenty of people in Peabody who refer to it as "the old Doc Jessen place."
Cory and Daneece Foth bought the house in 1999 and plan to stay in it until another generation refers to it as "the old Foth place."
"There really is no reason to look for anything else," Cory said. "The house suits our needs, and we are comfortable here. Plus, it's a nice neighborhood."
Built shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the house is like many older homes in Peabody — large and comfortable, with an historic elegance and plenty of features that don't always fit the lifestyle of contemporary residents.
Upkeep can be expensive, and solutions to ordinary problems sometimes are a headache. However, like many young couples, the Foths enjoy their house.
During their first few years of ownership, the couple made changes to the interior. Cory has a home-based taxidermy business. The basement became his office and workshop. They also made changes inside to meet the needs of their family and their 21st century lifestyle.
"We added a deck, did some interior painting and remodeling," Cory said. "We got the laundry room out of the basement and up to the ground floor — things like that.
"By this summer, painting the exterior had been at the top of the list for a while."
The Foths had considered painting the house a couple of years ago but put it off when summers turned hotter than normal and painting didn't seem like the best choice.
"By this past spring, it was really needing a paint job," Cory said. "We decided if the weather cooperated, we would try to get it done. The weather has been OK, and things also worked out time-wise and money-wise. Our daughters aren't too thrilled, but this is our vacation for this year."
This past weekend the Foths were in the final stages of painting. They had power-washed it thoroughly and then scraped it after the siding dried. The body of the house — in a dark grey — is done, but the dormers, soffits, window trim, and decorative wrought iron still need some attention. They will be off-white. The detached garage also awaits the new color scheme.
"We started painting early last Friday morning and worked all day," Cory said. "Some friends came to help Friday after work and then showed up again early Saturday morning. We moved along pretty quickly."
Daneece found the color they liked several months ago on a trip to Springfield, IL to attend the National Taxidermy Championship competition.
"We were on Interstate 70 between Kansas City and St. Louis when Cory pointed to a farm house on the north side of the interstate and said he like the colors on it," she said. "He said he thought he could remember it, and when we got home, he picked out a couple quarts of paint, and we painted swatches on the back of the house.
"He found the body and trim colors that we remembered, and then we decided to add a dark red as an accent on the front door and porch swing," she said. "The house was beige or white in the past, so this is a big change. Painting makes a huge difference in the look of a home."
Cory and Daneece are pleased with the help they have received.
"That is one thing I would encourage everyone to line up in advance," Cory said. "Plan and prepare — prep what you can yourself, but for problem areas like we have on the corners of the second story soffits, find someone with a bucket truck and make it a little easier on yourself. And if you have friends who offer to come and be part of the paint brush crew, accept the offer. Take all the help you can get!"
Within the next few weeks the project will be finished and "the old Foth place" will settle into its second century with a fresh new façade.
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War, Mental Disorder and Suicide
War, Mental Disorder and Suicide
(Loncar et al. Coll. Antropol. 28 (2004) 1: 377–384, Zagreb)
"War as a human disaster of major significance has led to an increase in the number of suicides committed by people suffering from mental disorders. Considering the results of similar research, we were particularly interested in the effect that war has on the incidence of suicide among of people with mental disorders. The research included 16,362 patients with mental disorders, treated at the Clinic for Psychiatry at the Clinical Hospital Split during the nine-year timeframe which were divided into pre-war (April 6th 1988 – April 7th 1991), wartime (April 6th 1991 – April 7th 1994) and post-war (April 6th 1997 – 2000) periods… In our research, we found a statistically significant difference in suicide incidence between three observed periods …with the incidence being the highest during the wartime period …With this research we intended to offer a better understanding of the complexity of the suicide problem…"
During WWII the cherry blossom was a symbol of the beauty and transience of life used to motivate kamikaze pilots. Fliers painted them on the sides of their planes or carried branches with them in their cockpits.
Here in Philadelphia for the past week, we have enjoyed tranquil, temperate weather and the blossoms have emerged in force.
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I'm often confronted with the question, "What causes screens to lose tension?" While this question appears simple, the answer is not. The truth is that a variety of factors contribute to tension loss. More importantly, several of these factors can occur simultaneously, obscuring the reason for the drop in tension. In the following pages, I'll identify the material and screenmaking problems that most often lead to reduced screen tension and shed some light on how you can anticipate and minimize tension loss on your screens.
Tension loss: Source vs. cause
Low screen tension is a leading reason for poor image quality in screen-printed work. Common problems associated with low-tension screens include improper flooding, poor snap-off during printing, an uneven printed ink film, and image flaws such as smears and loss of detail. Maintaining a high and consistent tension level among screens used on a multicolor job (e.g., process-color work) is also important, otherwise you risk misregistered colors, moiré, mesh marks, and related image defects.
You can trace all screen-tension loss to two primary sources and numerous secondary causes. Note the distinction I've made between the words "source" and "cause." Every printing screen consists of only two principal physical elements: the frame and the mesh fabric. In every case, tension loss stems from one or both of these sources. External factors that lead to weakening or failure of either of these two elements are considered causes.
For example, if a truck ran over your frame, the frame might become too weak to hold screen tension. In this scenario, physical damage to the frame is the cause of tension loss, while the frame itself is the source of the problem.
Wood frames
The most widely used frame material is wood. A well-designed and constructed wood frame will yield an entirely satisfactory print. But wood frames are more likely to cause problems than metal frames.
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Have you ever met a person who says something so backwards that you have to double check to make sure they even knew what they said? Meet Forbes columnist John Tamny, who told Jessica Williams of The Daily Show that he'd abolish food stamps and create something like food stamps all in the same interview.
But wait, there's more. Tamny also said there aren't any people who are "literally starving" in America because if there were, the media would cover it. How did this guy miss that Matt Damon commercial or this entire New York Times series on the city's homeless? Anyway, then Jessica brought up The Hunger Games, you know, that fictitious futuristic movie where the rich watch as poor children fight to survive, but obviously this dude didn't see where she was going with it.
Elsewhere, The Atlantic published a chart detailing the difference in overall food spending between American families with and without government aid. Ultimately, those on food benefits like SNAP end up spending about $3,000 less per year on food, which breaks down to $34 per person, per week.
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Old school grandfather Artie (Billy Crystal), who is accustomed to calling the shots, meets his match when he and his eager-to-please wife Diane (Bette Midler) agree to babysit their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents (Marisa Tomei, Tom Everett Scott) go away for work. But when 21st century problems collide with Artie and Diane's old school methods of tough rules, lots of love and old-fashioned games, it's learning to bend – and not holding your ground – that binds a family together.
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Francisco J. Martin-Mateos emailed us a soundness bug (!) in our handling of
functional instantiation (for example see functional-instantiation-example).
We are grateful for that email, which clearly illustrated the problem.
It is included just below the definition of
push-clause in ACL2 source file
prove.lisp, where we have fixed the bug. This bug was fixed in a
re-release of Version 2.6 in February, 2002.
Rob Sumners emailed us a soundness bug (!) in function
which is used by the ACL2 bdd package. We are grateful for his help;
his email gave a proof of nil and also pointed to the problem function.
This bug was fixed in a re-release of Version 2.6 in February, 2002.
We discovered and fixed a soundness bug illustrated by the book below, which
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nil. The event
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foo calls a
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original body of
foo. During processing of the book below, the logical
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zp is used before
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t in the logic. After
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(foo -3) by going into raw Lisp, where
(zp -3) is
evaluated and reduces to
(in-package "ACL2") (defun bar (x) (zp x)) (defthm zp-false-on-negatives (implies (< x 0) (bar x)) :rule-classes :type-prescription) (defun foo (x) (declare (xargs :guard (rationalp x) :verify-guards nil)) (if (< x 0) (if (bar x) 0 1) ; simplified body reduces this line to 0 17)) (defthm foo-of-minus-3-is-0 (equal (foo -3) 0) :rule-classes nil) (verify-guards foo) (defthm foo-of-minus-3-is-1 (equal (foo -3) 1) :rule-classes nil) (defthm bug nil :rule-classes nil :hints (("Goal" :use (foo-of-minus-3-is-0 foo-of-minus-3-is-1))))The above bug exploited the fact that
zp has a different definition in
raw Lisp than in the logic for arguments that violate its guard). The
following example caused a hard error in raw Lisp, though not a soundness
(in-package "ACL2") (defun bar (x) (cons (car x) (car x))) (defun foo (x) (declare (xargs :guard t :verify-guards nil)) (if (bar x) x nil)) (verify-guards foo) (defthm bug (equal (foo 3) t) :rule-classes nil)We have made a minor change to the notion of the formula of a function symbol, related to the change above, which however is unlikely to be noticeable.
In order to make it harder to hit problems like the guard problem above, we
have slighly modified the raw Lisp definition of
break-rewrite command,
:ancestors, was broken, but has been
fixed. Thanks to Eric Smith for bringing the problem to our attention, and
to Robert Krug for supplying the final part of the fix.
Some proof-checker commands caused errors when all goals have already been proved. This has been fixed. Thanks to Matt Wilding for reporting this bug.
Fixed a bug in
comp. When compiling uncompiled functions with
very large definitions, ACL2 was inserted a backslash (
\) character into
generated files.
Fixed the
brr command (see brr-commands), whose
output was difficult to read when typed after an
Fixed some clumsy handling of errors when including an uncertified book, for
example, with the error message when including an uncertified book with a bad
deftheory event. Thanks to Eric Smith for pointing out this problem.
Two modifications to
certify-book now cause it to reflect natural
expectations with respect to soundness. First, it now has default values of
nil instead of
t for keyword arguments
:skip-proofs-okp and
:defaxioms-okp. Thanks to Robert Krug for suggesting this change and the
ACL2 seminar at the University of Texas for discussing it. Second, when
:skip-proofs-okp (respectively,
:defaxioms-okp) is
nil, either
explicitly or by default, then
skip-proofs commands (respectively,
defaxiom events) are disallowed inside any included books, regardless
of the keyword parameters passed to
include-book. This had not been
the case for previous versions of ACL2, regardless of the values of
:skip-proofs-okp or
:defaxioms-okp passed to
Improved warnings and errors for
certify-book and
include-book to
mention the portcullis as a possible source of
skip-proofs and
ACL2 formerly caused an error when hints in a
corollary were
not well-formed. This situation could arise as follows when certifying a
book. A lemma FOO is proved
LOCALly to the book (or, is present in a
sub-book that is included locally). The
:corollary of a subsequent
theorem, BAR, disables that rule in a hint. When BAR is proved, this is not
a problem. But
certify-book makes a second pass after processing the
events in a book: it essentially does an
include-book. During the
include-book pass, FOO is not known (because it was
local), and
therefore ACL2 fails to process the
disable of FOO in an
in-theory hint. The fix is that during
include-book, hints
are ignored in corollaries just as they have been for the main theorem (or
It was possible for guard verification to succeed where it should have
failed. We have fixed the bug (which was in source function (ironically
fcons-term-smart). Thanks to Robert Krug for sending us an
example of bungled guard verification. It turns out that this bug was also
present in Version_2.6.
The proof-checker command
= has been improved. Formerly, it could
fail to apply when certain
implies terms were in the context. Thanks
to Pete Manolios for bringing this problem to our attention.
The command
add-binop failed to work. This has been fixed. Thanks to
Rob Sumners for pointing out this problem. Also see note-2-7-other for a
discussion of how this and another table are no longer part of the
Book certification could cause a segmentation fault in cases where the certification world (see certify-book) has a very large number of events. This has been fixed.
We now allow empty
:use hints and empty hints, as requested by Eric
Smith. Examples:
("Goal" :use ()) ("Goal")
A large
mutual-recursion nest could cause a stack overflow when
executing either
:pr FN,
:pr! FN, or
:monitor (:definition FN) t,
FN is in that large mutual recursion nest. This has been fixed
(implementation detail: function
actual-props has been made
tail-recursive). NOTE: If you just want the definition of
FN can be much faster than
FN if
is in a large
Hard Lisp errors could occur when including uncertified books. This has been fixed; ACL2 now does syntax-checking formerly omitted when including uncertified books.
Previously, the evaluation of
defstobj and
mutual-recursion forms
could cause ``undefined'' warnings when the form was compiled. This has been
fixed. Thanks to Eric Smith for bring a
mutual-recursion example to our
A bug has been fixed in the syntactic check for valid
values. Formerly, valid
:loop-stopper values were erroneously restricted
to lists of length at most 2 (a minor problem, since these lists typically
have length 1), and the function symbol(s) need not have been defined in the
current ACL2 world. Thanks to Eric Smith for sending an example to
demonstrate the latter problem.
Functions definitions that are
:non-executable (see xargs) had never
been recognized as redundant, but this has been fixed. Thanks to Vernon
Austel for pointing out this problem.
Compilation using
comp now compiles user-defined
program mode functions. Formerly only
logic mode
functions could be compiled using
Handling of
:by hints has been improved in essentially three ways. The
primary change is that now, when the current goal exactly matches the
supplied lemma instance, the subsumption test will always succeeds
(see hints, in particular the discussion of
:by). Second, certain proof
failures involving
:by hints were failing silently, with duplicate
messages ``As indicated by the hint, this goal is subsumed by....'' This
could happen when the original goal was among the goals generated by applying
the hint. This problem has been fixed by no longer considering this proof
step to be specious (see specious-simplification). Third and finally, when
the lemma-instance refers to a definition, the original body of that
definition is used rather than the simplfied (``normalized'') body.
In addition to the obove, we now recognize more cases of specious simplification (see specious-simplification). Thanks to Eric Smith for bringing this issue to our attention.
Fixed building of ACL2 under CLISP so that (1) the appropriate ACL2 startup message is printed out when ACL2 starts up, and (2) the lisp process supplied to make, e.g., LISP=/usr/bin/clisp, is the one written out to the saved ACL2 file. Thanks to Dave Greve and Noah Friedman for suggesting (2). Also, ACL2 now works with CLISP 2.30. We have accommodated a change in CLISP's handling of streams and its package-locking mechanism, as well as certain non-standard characters that formerly could cause CLISP 2.30 to break, even when those characters are in comments.
Eliminated compiler warnings for CMU Lisp.
Fixed an incorrect error supplied when book certification proceeded so
quickly that the file write dates of the book (
.lisp file) and the
corresponding compiled file are equal. Now that error only occurs if the
compiled file has a strictly earlier write date, which probably should never
Fixed an infinite loop when executing
make clean-books (and hence
make with targets that call
clean-books, namely,
regression-fresh, and
regression-nonstd-fresh), which could occur when any subdirectories of
books/ are missing -- even
workshops/, which is intended to be
optional. Thanks to Pete Manolios for pointing out this bug.
include-book command now works properly even when filenames, or
their directories or parent directories (etc.) are links. Thanks to Matt
Wilding for pointing out this problem.
The commands
puff* have been fixed. Formerly,
there was a bug when
:puff or
:puff* caused the execution of an
include-book for an absolute pathname,
P, that was other than
the current connected book directory (see cbd). When including
P, any
include-book with a relative pathname would be erroneously
considered relative to the current
cbd rather than relative to the
directory of
P. Thanks to Pete Manolios and Matt Wilding for pointing
out this problem.
It had been possible in a ``large'' ACL2 image to call
verify-termination successfully on built-in function
with undesirable results. This hole has been plugged. Thanks to Rob Sumners
for pointing out this problem. The new function
gc$ must also stay in
program mode.
ACL2 no longer warns when certifying a book based on
local functions
whose guards have not yet been verified. Thanks to Pete Manolios for
pointing out this issue.
An occasional ``slow array warning'' had been possible during proofs. The following sequence shows how to evoke that warning in previous versions.
(in-theory (disable binary-append)) (in-theory (enable binary-append)) (in-theory (disable binary-append)) (ubt 2) (thm (equal (car (cons x y)) x))(See note-2-7-other for a discussion of a change to
compress1 in
support of this fix; however, users should not need to read that discussion.)
The raw Lisp code for
defchoose had a small bug, which was only
evidenced in CLISP implementations as far as we know. It has been fixed.
ld is applied to a stringp file name, it now temporarily sets the
connected book directory (see cbd) to the directory of that file while
evaluating forms in that file. To see the effect of this change, imagine a
"sub" of the current directory, and imagine executing
(ld "sub/foo.lisp"), where file
foo.lisp contains the form
(include-book "bar"). Presumably the intention was to consider the
bar.lisp in the same directory,
sub/, as
now honors that intention, but in previous versions
"bar.lisp" would
have been a reference to a file in the current directory, not in
For users of
run-acl2 [perhaps there are none!]: A fix has been provided
by a Debian user via Camm Maguire so that acl2-mode anyone using that?] will
work in Xemacs, which apparently uses variable
lisp-mode-shared-map rather
ACL2 has, for a long time (always?), had a mechanism for avoiding re-proving
constraints generated by
:functional-instance lemma-instances
:use and
:by hints. But this mechanism had not applied to defined
(as opposed to constrained) functions. This has been fixed. Thanks to
Francisco J. Martin-Mateos (ChesKo) for pointing out this problem by sending
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Never far from controversy during his career, Liverpool striker Luis Suarez's winner in an FA Cup match on Sunday re-ignited the morality debate in sport -- should the honesty card be played in the heat of battle?
Suarez's goal, aided by a clear handball, against plucky minor league opponents Mansfield Town in a third round tie brought accusations of cheating against the Uruguayan.
- Maradona's "Hand of God" fooled more than one
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers staunchly backed his player and even Mansfield boss Paul Cox said it had been "instinctive" and Suarez had not done anything wrong in the 2-1 away win.
- Messi gives new meaning to 'Hand of God'
The handball was judged accidental by referee Andre Marriner and his assistants but Suarez, banned for eight matches last season for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra, was again greeted by unwanted headlines on Monday.
"Caught red-handed again", "cheated" and "Suarez 'stole our FA Cup glory'" were just some of the accusations laid at the striker's feet.
Suarez was also pilloried for a handball on the goal-line that prevented Ghana's Dominic Adiyiah from scoring a winner in the last minute of a 2010 World Cup quarter-final.
Suarez, then an Ajax player, was sent off but Asamoah Gyan missed the penalty - and Uruguay triumphed in the shootout after extra time to make the semis.
Unabashed, Suarez said he had usurped Diego Maradona by pronouncing "the hand of god now belongs to me".
Just how honest should sportsmen be on the field of play? Is it up to the match officials to spot incidents of cheating or must players own up when they clearly know they have gained an advantage from an infringement?
Former Liverpool defender Alan Hansen, in his column in the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper, said no footballer would ever ask a referee to disallow his goal, by whatever means it came by, and opined that the "outrage" was in part down to Suarez now being an "easy target".
"What exactly was Suarez supposed to do? Run to the referee and tell him it hit his hand? His team mates would go berserk and his manager would not be too impressed either," Hansen wrote.
He added: "From Suarez's reaction, he expected it to be disallowed and when it was not, he has decided to get on with the game. It is not like he ran off celebrating. He did exactly what anyone who has ever played professional football -- and anyone who plays in the future -- would do in the same situation."
Suarez's goal revived memories of France's controversial World Cup playoff victory over Ireland in Paris in 2009 when Thierry Henry handled the ball before setting up William Gallas's winner that put the French through to the 2010 finals.
The striker later acknowledged he had handled but absolved himself from blame when he said: "I'm not the ref. I played it, the ref allowed it."
Some sports have a reputation for honesty more than others.
Golfers routinely penalise themselves for rule infringements, as do snooker players, but there is no such thing as a perfect world.
In other sports, a reputation for upholding the spirit of the game does not always make you popular.
Former Australia cricketer Adam Gilchrist was renowned for his honesty at the crease, walking (back to the pavilion) when he thought he had made contact with the ball before being caught, even if the umpire had not given him out.
His moral stance, once the norm in the game but now a rarity, was not always appreciated by team mates, though. Winning, at all costs and by whatever means, is the often watchword of professional sport.
The UK Independent newspaper's chief sports writer James Lawton said "doing the right thing", and owning up to having infringed the rules, would not have occurred to Suarez.
"He confirmed his status as arguably the most dazzling but troubling enigma ever to arrive in English football," Lawton wrote on Monday.
"Once again, and after one of the most brilliant phases of his extraordinary career, he showed that for some men, however uncomplicated their gifts, doing the right thing, as opposed to simply gaining any kind of advantage, is the most difficult of challenges."
Moments of honesty do win you friends and admirers.
In 1997, Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler won plaudits when he asked referee Gerald Ashby to change a penalty awarded to his side in a Premier League match against Arsenal at Highbury.
Fowler said he had not been fouled by Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman but Ashby did not reverse his decision. Fowler nevertheless took the subsequent penalty, which was saved, only for Jason McAteer to score from the rebound as Liverpool won the game 2-1.
Afterwards, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said it had been a "great gesture" by Fowler who was handed a UEFA Fair Play award by European football's governing body.
In 2001, Italian Paolo Di Canio was commended by FIFA after passing up the opportunity to score a winner for West Ham United at Everton in December 2000 by catching the ball because goalkeeper Paul Gerrard was lying injured.
Another striking moment of honesty came earlier this season when Lazio's Miroslav Klose scored an early goal against Napoli but the referee changed his mind after initially awarding the goal after the Germany forward said he had used his hand.
The spirit of fair play can badly backfire though -- as seen in a Champions League game in November.
Shakhtar Donetsk striker Luiz Adriano was banned for one game for unsporting behaviour after he scored as his team tried to play the ball back to Danish side Nordsjaelland's goalkeeper following an injury.
Shakhtar backed UEFA's decision, saying they "believed fair play is a fundamental part of football".
But just what constitutes fair play in sport remains open to debate.
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Something the TK series made me wonder about... generally, the perception of "Asian" swords is the Katana, but yeah, Chinese swords had more in common with European swords than Japanese... Of course, the scimitar (a mostly middle eastern sword), is more akin to a katana-style than a straight blade sword.
So, my question is, why? What would precipitate a difference that seemed to continue even after contact was made with cultures who used the variant? Was there a specific reason on the battlefield, in the blacksmiths, religious, culturally...? I figure, there should be a reason, (maybe it IS this looks cooler than *that*), but I'm not really sure. Discuss, and if you have sources, sweet
(And if people want bonus cookies, a breakdown of the regions/countries who favor 1 sided curved blades vs 2 sided straight blades, go for it)


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The whole reason Ginger Graves started her annual charitable lunch event, Soup for Sharing, was to make Burlington aware of the constant need for volunteers in the community.
At the third annual Soup for Sharing on Wednesday, it seemed that awareness has been spreading.
In 2011, Graves started a fundraiser for local food ministries, charging $5 for a bowl of soup, varieties of which were donated by local restaurants and families. Last year, word-of-mouth brought in extra volunteers for the event, and bakeries donated desserts to the meal.
Like last year, Wednesday�s gathering benefitted Burlington Assembly of God�s food ministry, Caring Kitchen, where the event was held this year and in 2012.
�They work just on donations,� Graves said. But in 2011, Soup for Sharing was able to contribute $1,376, after 250 people attended the event, and last year 200 visitors yielded $1,300 in donations.
Though this year the numbers held steady with about 250 visitors, Graves said the increased volunteer turnout could be indicative of a community�s growing awareness of local need.
She said this year, many who had attended last year�s Soup for Sharing wanted to help out this time around, including Sue Crabtree, who was monitoring the 10-gallon pots of soup in the kitchen with Jeannie Simpson, Graves� mother.
�She�s manned the kitchen for me every year,� Graves said of Simpson. �We�re stirring it to make sure it doesn�t stick (or) burn,� Simpson said.
Graves said Howard Thompson, pastor of Burlington Assembly of God, had told her more and more individuals and church groups had been coming out of the woodwork to volunteer at Caring Kitchen.
And Wednesday, a group of teachers from the playschool at First United Methodist Church in Graham approached Graves, asking how they could help the Caring Kitchen. Graves said she told them about volunteering at the food ministry on weekends.
The soup being kept warm and served by those volunteers consisted of two variations of potato soup donated by da Vinci�s Table and The Village Grill, chili donated by Mike�s Deli, chicken noodle soup donated by Jeff and Emily Allred, black bean soup donated by Morris and Sue Crabtree, and vegetable beef soup donated by Jeannie Simpson.
Desserts, which were included in the $5 meal, were donated by Paul�s Pastry Shop, Delancy�s Restaurant and eight community members. Wendy�s provided crackers, take-out bowls with lids, Angelo�s Family Restaurant donated cutlery packs, Mykonos Grill lent the trays, and Jimmie and Amy Davis contributed the dessert plates. The Caring Kitchen provided bowls, cups, tea and coffee.
By the time the event ended at 2 p.m., Graves and the volunteers had gathered $1,000 in donations, not counting whatever the church had made from ticket sales. Graves said people were generous, giving more than the $5 for a meal.
To lend a hand at the Caring Kitchen on weekends, call 222-9975 to see if volunteers are needed.


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What is Howard Dean thinking?
A decade after his presidential aspirations ended with a hair-raising scream, Howard Dean is making noise about running again in 2016.
It's eliciting more than a few guffaws out of Washington. But Dean backers say he could be the one laughing last.
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The ex-Vermont governor-turned-liberal pundit was back in Iowa in August giving a talk to labor activists. He's heading to New Hampshire soon to deliver a speech about health care. And as if on cue, Dean will tell anyone who asks that Hillary Clinton is bound to face a primary challenge if she runs — not him, necessarily, though feel free to speculate — but someone.
Whether these are the moves of someone seriously mulling another national campaign or looking to keep himself in the political conversation isn't totally apparent. The smart money seems to be on the latter, especially since Dean says he's backing Clinton at the moment.
( PHOTOS: Who's talking about Hillary 2016?)
But if the goal is to get people talking, the onetime voice of the anti-war left is once again proving to be quite adept — even if he's prompting some eye-rolling in Washington among those who remember the spectacular collapse of his last campaign all too well.
"I don't think he'll do it, and I think it would be very much a niche candidacy and niche candidacies don't win nominations," said Bob Shrum, who ran John Kerry's come-from-behind candidacy against Dean in the 2004 nomination process. "I think he's too smart and sensible."
"I just don't see an urge right now within the party to find someone else," said Joe Trippi, who helmed Dean's campaign that year. Dean, he added, is one of the few people who could spark such a candidacy.
Indeed, it's not clear that there would be room for a serious alternative to Clinton – or whether Dean, who went on to become the Democratic National Committee chairman during the party's out-of-power years and who is now a frequent presence on TV, will ultimately pull the trigger.
"The truth is I'm not ready to get into all of that yet," Dean told POLITICO in a recent interview, insisting it is "too early" to talk about another campaign. "At this point I'm looking at supporting Hillary … so none of those questions can be answered."
( PHOTOS: 12 Democratic underdogs who could be the 2016 nominee)
Still, he added of the media: "I think they're all having fun with it, as I knew they would. "The press, they love these stories. … I knew very well that this would cause a big stir."
Calling out the press has been something of a hallmark for Dean, since he felt the press turned on him during his 2003 run. The bulk of the negativity came after his infamous "scream" into a microphone on Iowa Caucuses night, when he came in a dismal third, after being the frontrunner for much of the year. He rode a wave of anti-war sentiment that appealed to young voters, but many of them were unregistered or were too young to vote.
"It's great to be back," Dean recently told a group of union workers in Iowa, in his first appearance there since the scream heard 'round the world. "I promise not to list any states," he deadpanned.
Several Democratic strategists, who didn't want to be quoted on the record, scoffed at Dean's latest moves.
One veteran Democrat said the notion of someone running for president to promote a book deal or get a TV show has always seemed implausible, but "in this case I'm more sympathetic to that [idea] than other times."
( Also on POLITICO: Dean to visit New Hampshire)
A number of operatives agree with Dean that Clinton would face a primary challenge of some kind if she runs. But her left flank is far less exposed now than it was four years ago, when the Democratic base suffered from deep Clinton fatigue and remained outraged over her vote authorizing the Iraq war. There is far less resistance to her among a Democratic base that spurned her for Barack Obama in 2008, in part because of disappointment with the current president.


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Post 15 West Opens Summer with Two Wins
A few days after the South Dakota State "A" and "B" baseball tournaments ended, Sioux Falls Post 15 West opened legion play with two wins on Tuesday.
Sioux Falls Post 15 West beat Aberdeen 11-0 and 18-1 in a doubleheader.
In a 11-0 rout, Post 15 West was led by Seth Bjordal and Alex Linneman, as they combined to go 3-for-3 while Luke Koveleski and Jaden Holzer each had two hits.
In the second game while winning 18-1, Post 15 West won by getting only six hits, but getting walked 21 times. Roosevelt standout Connor Grove had two hits and Linneman scored four runs.
Post 15 West's next contest is Friday in the Lewis and Clark Wood Bat Tourney in Vermillion. The squad plays Vermillion at 10:30 a.m. and Brookings at 12:45 p.m.


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Joanna Harma
posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 9:28 am
Dear Linda,
I am doing two level logistic regression with children characteristics on lower level and family characteristics on upper level. I am trying to establish what determines the type of school child goes to. Dependent variable is binary and explanatory variables are mix of categorical and continuous.
Is there any way of testing my model fitness?
How can I obtain residuals, y-yhat?
Can you suggest any possbile graphs for such analysis to test model fitness?
Joanna Harma
posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 6:17 am
Can anyone explain the significance of factor score (Empirical Bayes residuals) obtained during multilevel logistic regression and how it can be used to estimate predicted probabilities?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 10:08 am
The factor score is an estimate of the random intercept for each cluster. To estimate the overall probability you need numerical integration over the random intercept distribution. To estimate a probability at a certain value of the random intercept distribution, such as the estimated value for a certain cluster, you simply translate the resulting logit into probability by the usual formula
Prob = 1/(1+exp(-Logit))
where the Logit contains the factor score estimate of the cluster random intercept plus the usual level 1 part of the Logit (including the intercept/threshold).
Joanna Harma
posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 - 7:56 am
I estimated probabilites for level 1 observations using level 2 residuals (factor scores) added to usual level one equation. However when I did normality test for residuals, it plotted long tailed curve. Any suggestions how to deal with it when most of my variables are categorical.
Also the output files gives R-square for level 1 & 2 when standardized option is used in the output. Can this be used reliably for model fitness?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 8:02 am
I think you are saying that the random intercept in the 2-level logistic regression has an estimated distribution that looks non-normal with long tails. In the forthcoming Chapman-Hall chapter by Muthen & Asparouhov on our web site the end of the paper discusses the sensitivity to violations of normality for random effects and how one can instead use a non-parametric approach to estimating the random effect distribution. This is in the related case of growth modeling with binary outcomes using a logistic link. The sensitivity to the normality assumption of random effects has also been studied by Charles McCulloch at UC San Francisco as indicated by his recent talk here in LA.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 8:06 am
P.S. I don't think R-square is useful for indicating model fit with logistic regression.
Joanna Harma
posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 8:34 am
I started modelling with adding level 2 variables as I am more interested in the effect of family characteristics, on the school type child goes to, while controlling the effect of child level variables. I added child level variable after I had added all the relevant family variables. It was surprising to see that the residual variance (level 2) shot up from 10 to 34 and few of level 2 variables became insignificant. Is this normal? Also, most of my level two variables have high S.E. and t-value around 2.5.
My data has 250 families and these families have 475 children. Thus the size of cluster is not very big. Do you think I could do logistic regression with this kind of data?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 8:32 am
I think this residual variance behavior has been described in the multilevel literature - see for instance the Snijders & Bosker book. - Any lit. suggestions from other Mplus Discussion readers?
With an average of 2 children per family you don't have many subjects for within-level parameter estimation. But if you for example do 2-level logistic regression you don't have any within-level parameters (not even a level-1 residual variance). 2-level factor analysis, however, would be problematic.
Joanna Harma
posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 9:10 am
I have 250 families of which 120 send all their children to government schools, 110 send their children to private school and only 20 families send their children to both type of children(i.e. 1 child to government and 1 to private). Now I have school type child goes to as dependent variable. So lower level variable relate to child characteristic and upper level relate to family characteristics. This data structure to me speaks not much within level variance and high between level variance. In intercept model I get between variance as 30. Could this be a problem? Also, could the fact that I have not much variability at child level be a problem? Can I still use 2 level logistic regression?
Joanna Harma
posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 9:14 am
I forgot to ask. Since my cluster size is relatively small, could I ignore two level structure and do ordinary logistic regression with both child level and family level variable?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 9:29 am
Given that only 20 families have within-family variation on your binary dependent variable, the binary dependent variable is almost a level 2 outcome. This may be making your analysis more difficult.
As for your second question, instead of Type = Twolevel, you could use Type = Complex which simply corrects SEs for the clustering of children within families (not estimating a level 1 and level 2 model). That is an easier analysis.
Joanna Harma
posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 6:52 am
Thanks Bengt,
Another question. Is normality and homoscedasticity an assumption for level 2 residual in 2 level logistic regression?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 7:03 am
Yes, that is a standard assumption.
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I am analysing a moderated mediation model using latent constructs and observed variables in a multilevel framework (2-levels). The independent variable (MS � 6 indicators) and moderator (JC-5 indicators) are individual level variables (measured as latent constructs). The mediator is an organisational-level observed variable and there are three organisational-level observed variables.
The model runs fine and I get all the results normally displayed. Howevre, the output gives the following error message followed by the message that �Model Terminated Normally�.
FIRST-ORDER DERIVATIVE PRODUCT MATRIX. THIS MAY BE DUE TO THE STARTING VALUES BUT MAY ALSO BE AN INDICATION OF MODEL NONIDENTIFICATION. THE CONDITION NUMBER IS 0.592D-10. PROBLEM INVOLVING THE FOLLOWING PARAMETER: Parameter 78, MEDJC
Parameter 78 (MEDJC) is the mean value of moderator (JC) = 0 as JC is measured as a latent construct - specified in the model constraint command.
Should this message be ignored or is it something that needs to be fixed.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, August 06, 2017 - 6:42 am
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Date-a-mancy is one of the three disciplines of the Magic class Hippiemancy; it is aligned with the axis of Numbers and composed of the two elements of Life and Matter.TBFGK 38a
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Date-a-mancy is the magic of connections between units. Leadership, stacks, and love are natural date-a-mancy.
Among other things, Hippiemancy is the magic of relationships: detecting and altering the forces of opposition and attraction which bind people or units. Date-a-mancy is the oddest branch of Hippiemancy, in that it follows the Numbers which underlie all action. Date-a-mancy tries to quantify the intangible, things like leadership and compatibility and morale and Loyalty and Duty and even love, by means of match-ups. This can be very useful in warfare and logistics, but tends to wreak havoc among personal and political relationships. Sides tend not to keep their Date-a-mancers very long, because knowing the cold truth behind our interpersonal relationships only causes grief.
A unit's relationship with another unit causes an H-string to form. The stronger their relationship, the more powerful the H-string. If enough units are aided by juice to think of and pull at a particular unit they have a connection to, it is possible for them to change said unit's position.
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- Relationship evaluation
- Can be used to sense the H-string connections between different units, including love.
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- Date-a-mancy was used in the creation of the Laurel of Napster, alongside Hat Magic, in a Caster Link. Considering the Magic Item is worn on the head, we can assume that the greater part of the abilities of the item are Date-a-mantic in nature. The item allows its wearer to instantly and accurately surmise the likely result of any two units engaging in direct single combat. In this way a Warlord can choose the most advantageous pairings in a fight, and improving his side's chances of success. Therefore it is likely that one aspect of Date-a-mancy is the instantaneous processing, and possibly the intuitive acquisition, of important data. Contrasting this with Mathamancy as in Parson Gotti's Bracer, the Bracer provides a precise numerical probability of success or failure in a particular venture, whereas the Laurel simply provides a generalized advantage/disadvantage report (with some indication of severity). The Bracer would tell you how likely you were to win a combat overall, while the Laurel would tell you who would have an advantage if the two best fighters were to square off, for instance.
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Janis, who later mastered all three disciplines of Hippiemancy. She explained to Parson that her abilities make her very good at counseling people.
Uhura, who chose Sizemore as her 'companion for the evening' in text update 31, because he was lonely, and she felt it would be interesting to be with a lonely man.
Magical disciplines on Erfworld often include a variety of different applications, each of which is based on a different interpretation of the discipline's name. For example, Turnamancy grants power over both the number of turns it takes to pop a unit, and the turning of prisoners (changing Loyalty).
1) The term "Date-a-mancy" suggests a particularly interesting potential combination of abilities. First, since this magic is aligned with Numbers and with Hippiemancy, "date" may have a meaning similar to a calendrical date, making date-a-mancy an analog of numerology or astrology in some form or fashion. Another option playing on this relationship is interpreting the name as its homophone "datamancy" - the processing of information, like Mathamancy but with less numeric sorts of information. It should be noted that in the Real World most data processing is done with relational databases. Date-a-mancy may also refer to "date" in the sense of a romantic pairing, i.e. "going on a date", and therefore be involved with love spells. This would be consistent with Hippiemancy ("Free Love").
2) Perhaps the best evidence into the nature of Date-a-mancy is where it falls within, and thus its connotations with Hippiemancy and a date-a-mancy influenced Laurel owned by Duncan Scone, chief warlord of Faq. With their confluence of Life and Matter and their absence of Motion Classes, it may be that within Hippiemancy Flower Power (Erf) might influence the environment/nature (space), Signamancy (Fate) might influence perspective/insight (vision), and Date-a-mancy (Numbers) might influence synchronicity. Synchronicity may be best understood as "time in meaningful events", or put more clearly from the typical perspective, "the inverse of meaningful events in time".
In this way, Date-a-Mancy may detect or impact meaningful events across dates and time. For example, Dittomancy (also of Matter and Numbers like Date-a-Mancy) appears to create causal replicas (Numbers) of stuff that already exists currently (no control over Time.) [1] Foolamancy (also of Life and Numbers like Date-a-Mancy) appears to manipulate the appearance (Numbers) of existing beings including making non-empty space appear empty (again no control over Time.) In this way, coupled with the apparently experiential nature of Hippiemancy, Date-a-Mancy (Matter, Life, and Numbers), may allow a Date-a-Mancer to perceive, create, or replicate meaningful experiential connections (Life) of events (Stuff) acausally [2] that is to say with control over Time or in other words with the ability to manipulate meaningful experiential connections across, between, or irrespective of different dates and times.
So what's the practical meaning of this? It could manifest in multitude of ways, but here are some examples 1) if Date-a-Mancy can give perception it might manifest as a Date-a-Mancer having the facility for accurate assumptions, as every wild guess made turns out to be true, 2) if Date-a-Mancy can create it might manifest as a Date-a-Mancer having the ability to cause "the most unpredictable yet possible" coincidence to occur which would be likely unknowable in advance to the Date-a-Mancer or anyone else, yet be literally reasonably explained post event, 3) if a Date-a-Mancer can replicate it might manifest as the experience of déjà vu or classically defined synchronicity.
Finally, the descriptions (above) now have evidence in the date-a-mancy influenced artifact owned by Duncan Scone, chief warlord of Faq. The magic Laurel allows Duncan to do match up scenarios of two units (or perhaps stacks) in a battle and see who is most likely the victor. In this way, he can pick optimal match-ups and not waste stronger units overpowering weaker (overkill) or the reverse despite unit appearances. This power in addition to predicting the future also has the pun of not being unlike a 'date' between two battling units.


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