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Five points on the Trump vote in Flyover Country
Heavily armed black militias marched on the Kentucky Derby
Whether it should or it shouldn't it will.
So much so that if Steve Bannon wasn't in jail* I'd say he's funding them.
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35 thoughts on "Five points on the Trump vote in Flyover Country"
Hallowed Be September 7, 2020 at 8:46 am
The armed open carry thing is an interesting phenomena to watch (from a safe distance). If it's legal to form a group like that then some are going to do it. I don't know whether its a vote winner or loser..unless there's more than just walking up and down the street to the mix. As it is at the moment it appears as 2a flexing.
bloke in spain September 7, 2020 at 8:52 am
That's odd. Just searched Google-News for "Kentucky Derby 2020" & learned the winning horses. But according to Google, this didn't happen. Times must've imagined it.
Soon to come to a country near you. No doubt uniformed spades carrying automatic weapons will be deemed to be "kulchral" & excusable. Just don't be white & on the street with a copy of a gun magazine with photos in it.
BiS- i looked it up – their leader, sensibly – marched them out of there when his group were joined by protestors, though ostensibly on the same side, were nothing to do with them. Known as the goading girlfriend scenario.
philip September 7, 2020 at 9:28 am
Shy Tory = shy Republican.
Pollster: Do you think racism is a problem in our society?
Voter: Yes
Pollster: So I'll put you down as a democrat then.
But the logic might go the other way. Racism is a problem whose solution is to have less of it, so vote for the least divisive candidate, i.e. Trump.
Mr Ecks September 7, 2020 at 9:59 am
More re Demorats election stealing plans.:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdf
bloke in spain September 7, 2020 at 10:52 am
Oh this is a goody. From Ecksy's link
"In this report, TIP explains the basis for our assessment. Our findings are bolstered by the historical expe-rience of Bush v. Gore(2000) and other U.S. electoral dysfunctions. The closest analogy may be the elec-tion of 1876, a time of extreme partisanship and rampant disenfranchisement, where multiple states prof-fered competing slates of electors, and the election was only resolved through a grand political bargain days before Inauguration—one that tradedan end toReconstruction for electoral peace and resulted in a century of Jim Crow, leaving deep wounds that are far from healed today. "
Completely omitting to mention:
"The results of the election remain among the most disputed ever. Although it is not disputed that Tilden outpolled Hayes in the popular vote, after a first count of votes, Tilden had won 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes from four states unresolved: in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, each party reported its candidate had won the state, while in Oregon, one elector was replaced after being declared illegal for being an "elected or appointed official". The question of who should have been awarded these electoral votes is the source of the continued controversy.
An informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute: the Compromise of 1877, which awarded all 20 electoral votes to Hayes; in return for the Democrats' acquiescence to Hayes' election, the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction. The Compromise in effect ceded power in the Southern states to the Democratic Redeemers, who proceeded to disenfranchise black voters thereafter. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876_United_States_presidential_election
Mr Ecks September 7, 2020 at 10:52 am
Bill Whittle also believes in the Demorats election-stealing plans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEu0zaDyPpA
Diogenes September 7, 2020 at 1:47 pm
Yes BIS, the Republicans withdrew troops from the Southern Democrat states, the troopers who had been attempting to stifle the KKK and force Democrats to allow equalish rights to Blacks, outlaw lynching etc. The KKK made a comeback and incredibly racist politicians such as Woodrow Wilson were allowed to become president and brutally screw up Europe after WW1
Dennis, Bullshit Detector September 7, 2020 at 2:20 pm
Only 57 more days of Ecks raving about Democrats trying to steal the election.
Andrew C September 7, 2020 at 2:37 pm
My hope is that the Democrats win the election morally, in terms of total votes cast, intellectually, on the arguments, from the perspective of truth and justice etc etc.
But that Trump wins in the "being President" sense.
So Much For Subtlety September 7, 2020 at 2:55 pm
I hope Trump wins and wins big. Mostly because then Trump will win.
But also because last time I was a gentleman and I did not gloat. I rose above it and offered my sympathy to the other side.
So I want to make up for it this time – plus some more. I want not to merely rub it in but I want to rub so hard it causes spontaneous combustion. I not only want to kick the Democrats when they are down, I want to stomp on the squishy bits.
Mr Ecks September 7, 2020 at 3:03 pm
Until they do steal it yeah.
Dennis, Clear-Eyed As Always September 7, 2020 at 3:09 pm
Ecks –
I'm still waiting for you to give us the "how"… You know, the mechanics of how this fraud will be perpetrated. In detail.
I'll bet money you haven't even bothered to learn the mechanics of how mail-in voting will actually be done, much less how it will be gamed.
Providing links to guys who get paid to run their mouths running their mouths doesn't cut it.
Dennis, Proven Correct In Most Things Most of the Time September 7, 2020 at 3:15 pm
It's flexing of some sort. Maybe it's just me, but buying matching 5.11 tactical clothing and gear and then marching around on open ground with a variety of AR-15 style firearms doesn't necessarily demonstrate seriousness of purpose. Personally, I'd suggest they choose someplace with readily available cover to play badass soldier, just in case someone stupid with a gun decides to take them seriously.
JerryC September 7, 2020 at 3:20 pm
I think the "how" is obvious. Refuse to concede, dispute every closely contested loss in the media, insist that the courts resolve the dispute in your favor (they probably will).
If all that fails, have sympathizers in the Pentagon and the "intelligence community" forcibly remove the usurper.
https://americanmind.org/essays/the-coming-coup/
Dennis, Clear-Eyed As Always September 7, 2020 at 3:09 pm – "I'm still waiting for you to give us the "how"… You know, the mechanics of how this fraud will be perpetrated. In detail."
We have seen how it is done – California legalised vote harvesting. So Democrat activists could take around voting forms to unserviced communities – like the homeless and the dementia suffering elderly – and fill them out for them. Scouts honour they did not cheat – or offer a bottle of gin.
Minnesota has just removed the requirement that mail-in votes need a witness. So they want to junk mail everyone – and every ballot returned will be valid if it matches a name on the register.
They want to cheat and they are making it possible.
Didn't Truman show how it was done? How have things changed since 1944?
bloke in spain September 7, 2020 at 4:11 pm
@Diogenes 13:47
That indeed is the history. It's that Democratic supporters want to draw attention to it amazes me.
Dimpled Chad's lawyer September 7, 2020 at 4:35 pm
Those hanging chads are pussies.
Dennis, Tiresome Denizen of Central Ohio September 7, 2020 at 4:44 pm
A witness and a notary are no longer required. They do not strike me as being much of a firewall. If you are truly bent on submitting fraudulent ballots, having witnesses and notaries on hand wouldn't be all that difficult.
Mass mailings of ballots will not be allowed in MN. The voter is required to submit a written application for mail-in ballot.
PJF September 7, 2020 at 4:48 pm
Every little helps.
Outrageous moment BLM protesters scream 'f**k the white people' at elderly outdoor diners before downing their drinks, smashing glasses and forcing other patrons to leave the restaurant
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8704827/Anti-racism-protester-struck-CAR-Rochester.html
Dennis, Phobic Of Whatever Today's Stupidity Happens To Be September 7, 2020 at 4:51 pm
I find it strange to read posts by people who decry Democrat efforts to de-legitimize the election of Republican presidents pushing conspiracy theories in an effort to de-legitimize the (possible) election of a Democrat president.
Fling poo in the monkey house long enough and someone will assume you're a monkey. Is that where you want to be?
Anybody else confused by the recent proliferation of Dennis's?
Dennis the Peasant September 7, 2020 at 6:56 pm
I multiply like rabbits.
BlokeInBrum September 7, 2020 at 7:07 pm
So if voting by mail is such an important issue, why are the Democrats pushing it so hard now?They had plenty of opportunity to do it when O'Bama had the hot seat.
Occam's razor suggests that they didn't care about it before cause they were 90% sure they were going to win the last election.
If they're all for it now, it's only because they think it will give them an advantage.
Dennis, Etc., Etc., Etc. September 7, 2020 at 7:54 pm
BiB –
Google 'shortage of poll workers' and start reading.
Poll workers tend to be older and right now they fit the pandemic's most at risk population. Unsurprisingly, they aren't volunteering much this year. State and local officials of both parties in numerous states have been chirping about this for months. If you can't man polling stations then other methods of voting have to be considered.
"Dennis the PeasantSeptember
This is an urban myth. I gave a rabbit a simple 7 x 5 sum and the rabbit just looked at it blankly before starting to nibble on the paper.
Dennis, He Who Divides To Conquer September 7, 2020 at 8:21 pm
He was probably one of Richard Murphy's rabbits.
Bloke in North Dorset September 7, 2020 at 9:04 pm
I did just that and hadn't realised it it had that bad. There's some weird solutions, the best one seems to be akin to do what we do here and IIRC it's in your State:
" In Ohio, the Cuyahoga County Council on Tuesday approved a resolution that will allow county employees to receive paid leave while serving as poll workers in the November election. Under the resolution, county employees would get their usual pay on Election Day as well as the compensation normally paid to poll workers."
You seem more confused than usual Dennis.
I doubt anybody here wants a Demorat election steal or is trying to legitimise their thieving attempts.
I want Trump to win but am concerned that the Demorats will get in by cheating.
You reject that and then say that in person ballot personnel wont turn out so postal it has to be. The Demorats know that and it helps their cheating plans. Yet you don't seem to care.
I don't need to show how the Demorats plan will work–you need–beyond smug assertions–to show that it cant possibly succeed. You say that but I don't think the scumbags would be wasting time with something they KNOW can't work. I think THEY think it can. They may be wrong –but you haven't given ANY convincing reason why it MUST fail.
Dennis, Pointing Out The Obvious September 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm
I don't need to show how the Demorats plan will work–you need–beyond smug assertions–to show that it cant possibly succeed.
(1) Ecks, based on a couple of fact free opinion pieces written by Republican hyper-partisans, comes to the conclusion that the Democrats are going to try to steal the election.
(2) When asked to provide some substantive evidence support said conclusion, Ecks claims that he doesn't have to, but rather any doubters of his conclusion must prove it to be false.
(3) Until proven false, the claim that Democrats are going to try to steal the election in November is to be treated as fact.
That's not how it works in the sane word, Ecks. If you want others to take you seriously – and in your case that always seems to be in doubt – you need to provide some fact, some evidence, to support the claim of an emerging massive conspiracy to commit voter fraud on a nationwide basis.
You have no substantive evidence. That's because in your world, anything that feeds your paranoia (like theory of a vast conspiracy) is accepted uncritically. Facts don't matter. What matters is finding scraps of information that supports your preordained conclusion.
You have the same contempt for fact, evidence and critical thinking that dear old Richard Murphy has. In a lot of ways, the two of you are peas in a pod: Earnest, stupid and unable to deal with the world as it is.
If there is nothing going on LOTS of people are also concerned. Maybe they should all read your smug lectures about how the world works. Another quote:
"5. Zuckerberg has the exact opposite definition of normal than the rest of us. Every election is determined that day. So that is normal by definition. He is trying to claim that taking weeks to determine the winner is normal. Yet that has never happened before. But he does use the word "Consensus" exactly right. An imposed decision by the minority on the majority and all objections will be demonized as 'hate speech'.
Zuckerberg: "what we and the other media need to start doing is preparing the american people that there is nothing illegitimate about this election taking additional days or weeks to make sure all the votes are counted." pic.twitter.com/lGdnWMUzgm
— Zach Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac) September 7, 2020″
A lot of people seem to think the election steal is something that the Demorats could pull off. You say they can't but offered nothing as to why the plan–as delineated above–ie lotsa boxes of Demorat votes in marginals appear over next few weeks post election and lawdogs get the final result into the willing hands of assorted Demorat Beaks– CANT work.
Because in truth you got nothing. It could work. If it can't pick a state and tell us WHY it can't. I agree I know little about US elect rules etc–but it seemed to nearly work in 2000. And that was without the anti-Trump loons that now exist.
Dennis, Showing Off My Scots-German Temperment September 8, 2020 at 5:37 pm
It could work. If it can't pick a state and tell us WHY it can't.
OK. Ohio. From the Secretary of State's website:
"Each of Ohio's 88 counties has a Board of Elections (BOE) office that is responsible for administering local elections. A four-person board governs each BOE; with two members from each major political party. All petitions for local, legislative, and congressional district offices are filed at Boards of Elections as well as petitions for local issues and options. Campaign finance reports for local candidates, political parties, and political action committees are also filed at BOEs."
Got that, Ecksie? Each county Board of Elections has an equal number of Democrats and Republicans. All 88 of them. Think through the implications of that real slow and the obvious just might make its way through that foot-thick skull of yours.
I agree I know little about US elect rules etc…
Then why do you persist in raving about how the U.S. election is going to be stolen? Wouldn't a bit of knowledge in the area, you know, be a Good Thing? Especially when you're pushing the sort of shit you're pushing?
I asked –you answered. Ok.
Lets hope you are right.


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: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In this report, we mistakenly say the rupture of the Nord Stream pipelines released hundreds of millions of metric tons of methane gas. In fact, experts' current estimate is that hundreds of thousands of metric tons were released.]
Europe is investigating what caused two key natural gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea to rupture.
Yeah, officials say the damage sustained by the pipelines running from Russia to Germany on Monday night appeared to be a deliberate attack. And some are accusing Russia of sabotage, which the Kremlin has called absurd.
MARTIN: NPR's Rob Schmitz is with us this morning. Hey, Rob.
ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: Hey.
MARTIN: So the damaged pipelines that we're talking about, this is the Nord Stream 1 and the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines. Walk us through what happened to them.
SCHMITZ: Yeah. On Monday night, scientists detected two underwater explosions large enough to register on the Richter scale near the Danish island of Bornholm. Soon after that, operators of both the Nord Stream pipelines reported drops in pressure. And footage released by the Danish military showed a half-mile circle of white, churning sea, essentially hundreds of millions of metric tons of methane gas, a harmful greenhouse gas, bubbling up to the surface. Now, neither of these pipelines are active. Russia cut flows in Nord Stream 1 in August. And Nord Stream 2 never opened. But both of them were still filled with natural gas when the explosions happened.
MARTIN: So that's kind of a crazy sight to see this happen...
SCHMITZ: Yeah.
MARTIN: ...And this water bubbling up like that. Explosions - pipeline explosions are really rare, especially underwater. What do authorities think happened?
SCHMITZ: European leaders believe this was not an accident. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said this to reporters yesterday.
PRIME MINISTER METTE FREDERIKSEN: (Non-English language spoken).
SCHMITZ: And, Rachel, she's saying here that we can't rule out that this was an act of sabotage. This is an unusual situation where you have three leaks on two gas pipelines in the same area, but with some distance between them. So she says it's hard to believe it was a coincidence.
MARTIN: So the question is, now, why would anyone want to intentionally blow up these pipelines? And how would that have been accomplished?
SCHMITZ: Right. Both were key pipelines that delivered Russian gas to Western Europe. Nord Stream 1 is majority-owned by a Russian energy company, Gazprom. And Nord Stream 2 is owned by a Swiss subsidiary of Gazprom. The U.S. criticized both pipelines, saying they made Europe, especially Germany, too dependent on Russia. Germany never opened Nord Stream 2 as a stance against Russian aggression. And Russia cut all gas in Nord Stream 1 as retaliation for EU sanctions. Russian state-owned news hinted the U.S. was behind this. But many in Europe are pointing the finger at Moscow. Poland's prime minister called this the next stage in Russia's war escalation. This leaves open the question as to why Russia would attack its own pipelines. But neither pipeline is being used. And Europe is working hard to replace the Russian gas that flowed inside these pipelines.
MARTIN: So I mean, how would they have even done this? I mean, if these suspicions are correct and it was Russia, how would it have happened?
SCHMITZ: Yeah, the investigation just started. But the pipelines are in water that is just a couple hundred feet deep. If a submarine did this, authorities should have detected that. One military source speculates that mines may have been laid from a disguised commercial vessel and then detonated later on.
MARTIN: Wow.
SCHMITZ: What's interesting here is these explosions took place just outside the territorial waters of Denmark. So it's the kind of detail that might be expected from a state actor who wanted to be sure that it wasn't carried out on a member of NATO. Also, the owners of the pipelines - companies based in Russia and Switzerland - are not headquartered in NATO territory. So both the location of the explosions and the property damage would not, under international treaty, demand any kind of NATO or Western military response.
MARTIN: NPR's Rob Schmitz from Berlin. Thanks, Rob. We appreciate this.
SCHMITZ: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
Corrected: September 28, 2022 at 6:00 PM HST
In this report, we mistakenly say the rupture of the Nord Stream pipelines released hundreds of millions of metric tons of methane gas. In fact, experts' current estimate is that hundreds of thousands of metric tons were released.
Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.
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$ f(n)+o(f(n))=\Theta(f(n)) $
for example:
$ \forall n \geq n', n + \log(n) = c \cdot n $
so far I have:
$ \forall n \geq n', f(n) = o(g(n)) \leftrightarrow f(n) < c \cdot g(n) $ (definition of little-o)
$ \forall n \geq n', f(n) = \Theta(g(n)) \leftrightarrow f(n) = c \cdot g(n) $ (definition of big-$ \Theta $)
Given $ g(n)=o(f(n)) $:
$ f(n)+o(f(n))=f(n)+g(n) $
$ f(n)=c \cdot f(n) $
$ g(n)<c \cdot f(n) $
I feel like I'm going in circles... any suggestions?

A: Those are not correct statements of the notation.  Try something like

*

*$f(n) \in o(g(n))$ when  $|f(n)| \lt c|g(n)|$ for all $c\gt 0$ and for all $n \gt n_0$ for some $n_0$

*$f(n) \in \Theta(g(n))$ when  $k_1|g(n)| \lt |f(n)| \lt k_2|g(n)|$ for some $k_1,k_2 \gt 0$ and for all $n \gt n_0$ for some $n_0$
Instead, you can show that  $\frac12 \left|f(n)\right| \le \left|f(n)+o(f(n))\right| \le \frac32 \left|f(n)\right|$ for all sufficiently large $n$, i.e. when $\left|o(f(n))\right| \lt \frac12 \left|f(n)\right|$, and so  $f(n)+o(f(n)) \in \Theta (f(n))$.

A: Suppose that $g(n)$ is $o(f(n))$, and let $h(n)=f(n)+g(n)$; you want to prove that $h(n)$ is $\Theta(f(n))$.
To show that $f(n)$ is $\Theta(h(n))$, you must show that there are positive constants $C_1,C_2$, and $n_0$ such that $C_1|f(n)|\le|h(n)|\le C_2|f(n)|$ for all $n\ge n_0$.

Note: My $n_0$ corresponds to your $n'$. Note that in your post you have the inequalities involving $n$ and $n'$ backwards: you want something to be true for all $n$ from some point on, not just for all $n$ up to some point. Your definitions of $o$ and $\Theta$ are seriously off in other respects as well; you should check them against your text or this article.

Unpacking $h$, we want $C_1|f(n)|\le|f(x)+g(x)|\le C_2|f(n)|$ for all $n\ge n_0$. Since $g(n)$ is $o(f(n))$, we know that for each $\epsilon>0$ there is an $n_\epsilon$ such that $|g(n)|<\epsilon|f(n)|$ whenever $n\ge n_\epsilon$. Take $\epsilon=\frac12$, and let $n_0=n_{1/2}$. Then whenever $n\ge n_0$ we have $|g(n)|\le\frac12|f(n)|$, so
$$\begin{align*}
\frac12|f(n)|&\le|f(n)|-|g(n)|\\
&\le|f(x)+g(x)|\\
&\le|f(n)|+|g(n)|\\
&\le\frac32|f(n)|\,,
\end{align*}$$
and we see that $C_1=\frac12$ and $C_2=\frac32$ do the trick with this value of $n_0$.

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Salford 7/2 to beat League Leaders
Leaders St Helens travel to Salford on Thursday, in front of the Sky Cameras, to kick off the Rugby League weekend.
Saints will want to get back on track on the road as they lost the last time they played away from home, at Wakefield
This won't be easy though, Red Devils Coach Ian Watson has done a great job this season on limited resources, they had a very impressive win at home to Wakefield last week in a game many predicted they'd lose.
The Red Devils get a 12 point start on the handicap and are 10/3 for what would be a 3rd win in a row.
Saints though have only lost twice this season and, for me, should justify odds of 1/4 to win the game.
Warrington won by 16 points at Salford last month and that makes me think that the Red V can do the same here. They were ruthless in putting 60 points on Huddersfield last week, and whilst this won't be anything like that I do think they can win this by around 3 scores.
Saints conceding a 12 point start is available at around 11/10 and this is probably where the value lies.
Prior to the defeat at Wakefield, Saints had won by more than today's handicap at Hull KR, Widnes and Warrington and whilst Salford are probably better than at least 2 of those you feel Justin Holbrook will want his side to prove they are not vulnerable on the road.
Ben Barba heads the 1st try betting at 7/1 but Makinson would be my pick at 9/1.
As for man of the match, hard to look further than Barba given how it is picked but 5/2 is very short, an alternative could be Richardson at 10/1. Evalds is the lowest price in Salford colours at 12/1.
Friday night Rugby sees the West Yorkshire derby between Castleford and Wakefield.
Both sides will be smarting from poor defeats last week, but bookies make the Tigers clear 2/9 favourites to win this.
That is no surprise though as Wakefield, who started the season well, have now lost 6 of their last 7 ( their one win though was against St Helens) . These sides met last month at Belle Vue with Castleford winning a tight one and I expect the Tigers to make home advantage count on Friday.
Daryl Powell's side had won 5 of their last 6 before last week's defeat at Wigan and have only lost at home to Warrington, on a bog of a pitch, so far in 2018.
Wakefield get a 12 point start on the handicap that looks spot on and too close to call.
If pushed would just fancy Trinity to stay inside it with a Tigers win by around 6-10 points.
If it's dry I'd expect lots of points between these 2 as both sides prefer the attacking side of the game, conditions were very wet when they met earlier in the season.
Minikin heads 1st try lists at 17/2 but Ben Jones Bishop looks great value at 16/1.
As for man of the match, Gale is very short at 5/2, Mcshane looks better odds at 12/1. Miller at 10/1 could be the one for Trinity followers.
2 other games on Friday, Huddersfield are around 7/1 to put last week's debacle at Saints behind them with a win at Warrington.
The Wolves concede a 20 point start on the handicap and whilst this should be a comfortable home win, I'm concerned that their decent run of results has flattered them somewhat. It's hard to put faith in Huddersfield though looking at recent away results.
2nd placed Wigan concede a 14 point start for their trip to Widnes. The Warriors away form is nothing to write home about and whilst they should justify 1/5 favoritism for an away win you feel it may be inside the 14 point cap.
The Vikings are around 7/2 for a home win.
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Ex-49er Gary Plummer: Seau's suicide was a wake-up call to seek help
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Gary Plummer realized something was seriously wrong a little more than 10 years ago.
His headaches had become more persistent. Plummer figured it was payment for a lifetime of football at Mission San Jose High, Ohlone College, Cal, the USFL's Oakland Invaders, the San Diego Chargers and then finally with the 49ers.
The peak of his career arrived following the 1994 season, when the 49ers beat the Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX. The Chargers were led by linebacker Junior Seau, who lined up for 64 games and four seasons alongside Plummer in San Diego.
Plummer was working out on his elliptical on May 2, 2012 when he saw the news — Seau had taken his own life with a shotgun blast to the chest. In an episode of "HeadStrong: Mental Health and Sports" as produced by NBC Sports Bay Area, Plummer knew he'd come to a crossroads.
His own headaches had become longer in duration, leading to depression, and Plummer said he contemplated taking his own life just as his friend had done.
"I just stopped and started bawling," Plummer said.
It began a process during which Plummer learned he had early onset dementia, the result of what he said were "thousands" of concussions.
"People will go, 'Oh my God, that's such an exaggeration,' " Plummer said. "You put this forehead under the chin of an offensive guard that weighs 300 pounds, because you're trying to get leverage on him, I promise you, every single time you're going to see stars."
Corey Plummer, Gary's wife, had already begun to notice some changes in her husband. Normally handy around the house, Plummer suddenly had difficulty fixing and building things.
"Simpler tasks were not as easy as they once were," Corey Plummer said.
Gary Plummer simply pushed it all aside.
"I would remind myself, I've had more joy than a hundred people have a right to have," Plummer said. "So if there's this headache, that's just the price you have to pay. And for some of us, it takes a long time for that 'I'm invincible' feeling to go away. So you just choke it down and you don't want to complain."
After Seau's death, Corey and Gary had a serious talk.
"We went outside and had a beer and I said, 'I can't have you be next and we can't ignore what's been happening. It's just time. It's time to acknowledge and get some help,' " she said.
Plummer, 62, acknowledges the conversation, as well as Seau's death, "saved my life."
What followed was a regular regimen of yoga — Plummer even had a steam shower built so he could do it at home — as well as music therapy and gardening.
"To go from contemplating taking your own life to six months later feeling like I can't believe I ever had that thought is pretty dramatic," Plummer said. "It's being given a second chance at life, and not even a second chance, a chance to having the most joy I've ever experienced."
After her husband was tested at Tulane University and checked out by the NFL, Corey Plummer said her husband "astounded" doctors with his progress.
Gary Plummer closed the feature with his reasons for going public.
"If we can save one person's life by watching this and understanding that it's not too late," Plummer said. "Yes, you might be in the depths of depression. Been there, done that. There is a way out and I think there was an embarrassment about this before, and now there's understanding and that's what we need. Knowledge is key to all of us living our best life."
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Q: Form is submitted, but I do not get results in the database I am new to Symfony and I have a problem with submitting a form with data to the database. So I have done the linking, but somehow the logic does not catches that I have submitted the form.
This is my controller where I check if I have submitted and encrypt my password:
    use AppBundle\Entity\UserLogin;
use AppBundle\Form\UserType;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Method;//removed it because it says it is depricated in 3.4
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

class SecurityController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * @Route("/login", name="sec_login")
     * @Method("POST")//removed it, because I do not use the namespace anymore
     * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
     */
    public function loginAction(){
        return $this->render("default/index.html.twig");
    }

    /**
     * @Route("/register", name="sec_register")
     * @Method("POST")
     * @param Request $request
     * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
     */
    public function registerAction(Request $request){
        $user = new UserLogin();
        $form = $this->createForm(UserType::class, $user);
        $form->handleRequest($request);
        if($form->isSubmitted() && $form->isValid()){
            $password = $this->get("security.password_encoder")
                ->encodePassword($user, $user->getPassword());

            $user->setPassword($password);
            print_r('here');
            $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
            $em->persist($user);
            $em->flush();
            return $this->redirectToRoute("sec_login", array('form'=>$form->createView()));
        }
        var_dump($user);
        return $this->render("default/index.html.twig");
    }

    /**
     * @Route("/profile", name="user_profile")
     */
    public function profileAction(){
        return $this->render('default/profile.html.twig');
    }
}

My entity for the database:
 <?php

namespace AppBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\UserInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

/**
 * Userlogin
 *
 * @ORM\Table(name="user_login")
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="AppBundle\Repository\UserLoginRepository")
 */
class UserLogin implements UserInterface
{
    /**
     * @var int
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    private $id;

    /**
     * @var string
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     * @ORM\Column(name="username", type="string", length=20, unique=true)
     */
    private $username;

    /**
     * @var string
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     * @Assert\Type("\email")
     * @ORM\Column(name="email", type="string", length=20, unique=true)
     */
    private $email;

    /**
     * @var string
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     * @Assert\Type("\password")
     * @ORM\Column(name="password", type="string", length=25)
     */
    private $password;

    /**
     * Get id
     *
     * @return int
     */
    public function getId()
    {
        return $this->id;
    }

    /**
     * Set username
     *
     * @param string $username
     *
     * @return UserLogin
     */
    public function setUsername($username)
    {
        $this->username = $username;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get username
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getUsername()
    {
        return $this->username;
    }

    /**
     * Set email
     *
     * @param string $email
     *
     * @return UserLogin
     */
    public function setEmail($email)
    {
        $this->email = $email;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get email
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getEmail()
    {
        return $this->email;
    }

    /**
     * Set password
     *
     * @param string $password
     *
     * @return UserLogin
     */
    public function setPassword($password)
    {
        $this->password = $password;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get password
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getPassword()
    {
        return $this->password;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the roles granted to the user.
     *
     *
     * public function getRoles()
     * {
     *     return array('ROLE_USER');
     * }
     *
     *
     * Alternatively, the roles might be stored on a ``roles`` property,
     * and populated in any number of different ways when the user object
     * is created.
     *
     * @return (Role|string)[] The user roles
     */
    public function getRoles()
    {
        // TODO: Implement getRoles() method.
        return [];
    }

    /**
     * Returns the salt that was originally used to encode the password.
     *
     * This can return null if the password was not encoded using a salt.
     *
     * @return string|null The salt
     */
    public function getSalt()
    {
        // TODO: Implement getSalt() method.
    }

    /**
     * Removes sensitive data from the user.
     *
     * This is important if, at any given point, sensitive information like
     * the plain-text password is stored on this object.
     */
    public function eraseCredentials()
    {
        // TODO: Implement eraseCredentials() method.
    }
}

And a form:
 <?php

namespace AppBundle\Form;

use AppBundle\Entity\UserLogin;
use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\EmailType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\PasswordType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\SubmitType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\TextType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver\OptionsResolver;

class UserType extends AbstractType
{
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $builder->add("username", TextType::class)
            ->add("email", EmailType::class)
            ->add("password", PasswordType::class)
            ->add("registered", SubmitType::class);
    }

    public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
    {
        $resolver->setDefaults(array("data_class" => UserLogin::class));
    }

    public function getBlockPrefix()//removed that, because some people suggested that this might cause problems
    {
        return 'app_bundle_user_type';
    }
}

My template is that:
{% extends 'base.html.twig' %}

{% block stylesheets %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ asset('/css/indexStyle.css') }}">
{% endblock %}

{% block body %}

            WeConnect
            Login
            Register//replaced a href with button, because it was adding # after register in the url

            <form action="{{ path('sec_register') }}" method="post" name="sec_register">

                <input type="text" name="userlogin[username]" placeholder="Username..." />

                <input type="password" name="userlogin[password]" placeholder="Password..." />

                <input type="email" name="userlogin[email]" placeholder="Email..." />

                <input type="hidden" name="_crsf_token">
                <input type="submit" name="userlogin[registered]" class="btn btn-light btn-block" value="Sign up" />

            </form>

            <form action="{{ path('sec_login') }}" method="post">

                <input type="text" name="_username" placeholder="Username..." onfocus="value='Type username here.'" value="" />

                <input type="password" name="_password" placeholder="Password..." />

                <input type="submit" name="logged" class="btn btn-light btn-block" value="Sign in" />

            </form>

ha

{% endblock %}
{% block javascripts %}

{% endblock %}

When I submit the form there is no data in the database and when I var_dump($user) I get NULL on the properties. I do not get in the if($form->isSubmitted() && $form->isValid()) at all. Please help, I do not find any error and there is no error or exception thrown.
EDIT:
Because you asked for the security.yml. This is it:
# To get started with security, check out the documentation:
# https://symfony.com/doc/current/security.html
security:
    encoders:
        # Our user class and the algorithm we'll use to encode passwords
        AppBundle\Entity\UserLogin: bcrypt

    # https://symfony.com/doc/current/security.html#b-configuring-how-users-are-loaded
    providers:

        database_users:
          entity: { class: AppBundle:Userlogin, property: email }

        in_memory:
            memory: ~

    firewalls:
        # disables authentication for assets and the profiler, adapt it according to your needs
        dev:
            pattern: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/
            security: false

        main:
            anonymous: ~
            # activate different ways to authenticate

            # https://symfony.com/doc/current/security.html#a-configuring-how-your-users-will-authenticate
            #http_basic: ~

            # https://symfony.com/doc/current/security/form_login_setup.html
            #form_login: ~
            form_login:
                check_path: sec_login

                login_path: sec_login
    #access_control:
    #    - { path: ^\register, roles: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONIMOUSLY }

But honestly the problem is with the registration form. And I think it might have something to do with that both of the forms are in one page as you can see guys. The form does not get submitted at all, but I submit it. Ran a check in the if statement adding if($form->isSubmitted() or 1) and it says that I am trying to insert null values on my fields in the database that are mandatory. Please help.
Some of the var_dump($form->getErrors()); (couldnt post the whole thing, because even pastebin says it is too long and gives error on the request):
https://pastebin.com/7YB9CicG


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April 26, 2017 by Tassos Sarampalis
Healthy feedback: An interview with Stéfanie Enriquez-Geppert
Every quarter, we share articles published in the BCN Newsletter and we are happy today to share an interview with Dr. Stéfanie Enriquez-Geppert, who recently started working at the Psychology Department as Assistant Professor in Neuropsychology. The interview was conducted and written by Anna Leonte, a BCN MSc student.
Anna Leonte: You are a newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of Clinical and Developmental Neuropsychology. What were your first impressions of conducting research in Groningen?
Stéfanie Enriquez-Geppert: Earlier in 2016, I was invited by André Aleman (Neuroimaging Centre, NIC) to give a talk about a neuroscientific training approach for the improvement of specific cognitive functions. At that time, I already noticed that executive functions are a vivid scientific topic not only at the NIC but also at the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, which makes it very easy for me to discuss my own research with fellow scientists. Exchanging information on such levels really makes it an exciting and valuable experience. I also have noticed that most of the researchers strive to relate basic and applied research to daily life activities, such as the relationship between cognitive dysfunctions and driving ability. This scientific translation is an interesting approach as it addresses the question of whether and how our research can affect and improve day-to-day life.
Another characteristic I have positively been impressed by is the explicit promotion of collaborations between different departments. Within the university, symposiums are organized regularly to offer scientists a platform for exchanging their views and discuss certain topics. I think it's quite special to be able to connect and work so easily with other groups and departments, and this benefits research enormously. I feel very welcomed and am quite happy to be here.
I think it's quite special to be able to connect and work so easily with other groups and departments, and this benefits research enormously.
AL: I noticed that you have worked in many different labs and have visited several countries where you worked on your research. Do you believe that going abroad and working in different labs is something every researcher must do?
SE-G: Yes, I believe that working in different research labs forms an important aspect in a scientist's career. Each lab has its own way of how research is organized and performed. Given that each lab has its own field of expertise, research approaches and techniques as well as preferences for hard- and software products, working in different labs promotes the development of new and fresh ideas. The collection of such experiences can give insight in intercultural competences as well as the advantages and disadvantages of various techniques. In this way, one gets used to take different perspectives and learn how to add or apply newly acquired skills to one's own studies. To give you a concrete example: during my PhD research stay in Norway, I got to know a new and advanced data analysis method that we applied to MRI data I collected in the past. Later, we used this knowledge to adapt the method also for EEG data.
Apart from the personal and professional development, changing labs enables the use of resources that are unavailable in one's own country. My research stay in Cambridge allowed us to study not only a very specific but also a large pool of subjects, namely a group of specific lesion patients in a very short time. Of course, it is uncomfortable in the beginning to leave one's familiar surroundings and stable social network. However, I really believe that for going abroad the benefits outweigh the negative. It's a nice way to connect to other scientists and broaden one's network, and I especially recommend it to young scientists.
Of course, it is uncomfortable in the beginning to leave one's familiar surroundings and stable social network. However, I really believe that for going abroad the benefits outweigh the negative.
AL: Now that you are here in Groningen, what will you be working on?
SE-G: The neural correlates of executive functions and their impairments form my main research interests. One of my work foci will be the testing of novel neurofeedback techniques to reduce cognitive impairments in patients. Back as a post-doctoral fellow in Oldenburg, I investigated whether executive functions are plastic and could be trained for improvement. The use of neuroscientific approaches allowed us to develop new tools for the training of executive functions based on what we already know about the brain. It has been shown that there exists a relationship between executive dysfunctions and the prevalence of several clinical disorders such as ADHD, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), disorders that are extensively investigated here in the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology and the NIC. It is exciting to observe that neurofeedback could serve as a technique to train executive functions. We noticed that there is a lot of expertise that could be combined, which led us to make the decision to collaborate. Shortly after, positions became available at the RuG. It really was a lucky coincidence!
AL: Could you tell us more about neurofeedback and how you use this method in your studies?
SE-G: In a nutshell, neurofeedback is a method in which subjects learn to regulate their own brain activity measured with MRI, NIRS and EEG. The combination of learning mechanisms and the accessibility of brain activity enables subjects to gain control over their own brain activity thereby improving behavioural outcomes.
In the case of EEG neurofeedback, one could utilize brain oscillations that are associated with cognitive processing. Some oscillations are suggested to serve as a medium through which the brain communicates. This was shown on a single-cell level in experiments by Womelsdorf with macaque monkeys carrying out executive functions tasks. Especially with executive functioning, a clear brain rhythm can be discerned: theta waves. Frontal-midline(fm) theta – an oscillation usually measured at frontal midline electrode positions with EEG – serves as the "working language" of the brain by integrating information originating from computations of different brain regions. Whenever executive functions are needed or successfully implemented, fm-theta increases in amplitude or power. This relationship is so prevalent that power values of the oscillations can be used to predict behavioural outcomes, as some fellow scientists have shown. This is of course an interesting scientific observation because the question of what effects on behaviour would the manipulation of these power values have arises. Trying to tackle this issue, we established a protocol of a neurofeedback training. Subjects visited our lab for several days and learned how to voluntarily increase their theta activity. Executive functions were assessed before and afterwards by means of a neuropsychological test battery. Comparisons between a group that received true feedback and a group that received a mock training showed indeed a change: after 8 sessions, subjects were able to increase their fm-theta power and this effect was transferred to task performances on executive functioning. In the past, findings were inconclusive about whether every type of oscillation could be manipulated using neurofeedback. So for us it was very exciting that we were able to show that fm-theta can be trained and even had an effect on cognition.
AL: Now that executive functions are shown to be plastic and can be improved, how can this be helpful to people who struggle with daily life situations?
SE-G: The improvement of executive functions by neurofeedback is still at an early stage. Facing the worldwide demographic changes regarding ageing and the burden of disorders associated with executive impairments, a next step will be to apply the neurofeedback training to patient groups and the ageing population who are negatively affected by the consequences of their cognitive impairments. From the literature, we know that there is a positive correlation between age and a decrease in executive functioning, which in turn is associated with the decreased ability of older people to live on their own. This increase in cognitive impairments poses a challenge that many patients, caregivers and the society in general must face. The application of hypothesis-driven research to daily life activities is central to such a possible study and the science community will eventually have to figure out how such interventions can be implemented in real life in order to be maximally helpful and effective for the affected population.
AL: You are improving subjects' executive functions by training them to regulate their fm-theta brain activity. I wonder, however, whether executive functions solely rely on fm-theta waves?
SE-G: Indeed, theta waves are crucial for executive functioning but they are not the only type of oscillations important for these cognitive processes nor are power increases the only mechanisms associated to successful performance. It is known that some oscillations are the driving force behind other oscillations, suggesting that executive functioning might not solely rely on theta waves but on the combination of different oscillations and their computations across different brain areas of a network. Power increases of fm-theta form one mechanism that we investigate in our studies. In regard to neurofeedback research, one of the next steps is the training of connectivity. We assume that theta oscillations are generated in the midcingulate cortex serving as a central driver in the network to implement executive functions. Previous experiments have shown that the midcingulate cortex is working together with the lateral prefrontal cortex. Having this in mind, future neurofeedback protocols can be developed that eventually will lead to a better and more specific training of executive functions.
AL: As you explained in the beginning, neurofeedback can be used as a therapeutic tool for disorders such as ADHD. I can imagine that for ADHD patients who have trouble sustaining attention, it can be quite difficult to follow the training, which in turn might affect the outcome. Does this pose a problem to your research?
SE-G: You are right to assume this. Conducting neurofeedback is similar to all other EEG experiments. Participants should try to sit still, avoid movement and excessive eye blinking. And this can pose a real challenge for specific patient groups with motor agitation such as schizophrenic patients. In contrast to standard EEG experiments, however, neurofeedback underlies online analyses meaning that the data can't be processed afterwards to get rid of artifacts. Every time a participant is moving or blinking, trials have to be excluded and learning time is lost. It's something you have to expect when working with patients and stresses the importance of adapting the protocol to patient groups for instance by including online correction methods. This is not the standard for most software products, however, and much more work is needed to improve such methods. It would be very unfavorable to ignore the effect of movements on the EEG. In that case, there is the risk that subjects wouldn't learn to self-regulate the brain activity but instead would learn the association between muscle tension and the enforcement signal. The neurofeedback sessions would turn out useless. On top of that, neurofeedback often has received justified scientific criticism when used without a control as a therapeutic tool. As a result, it's difficult to figure out if the reduced ADHD symptoms for example indeed derive from the neurofeedback training or just stem from the fact that the ADHD participant learned to sit still during sessions. Thus, one has to be aware of such pitfalls and use scientific criticism, which is very helpful, constructive and required to scientifically move forward. The increase in knowledge about brain mechanisms along with a continuous technical development makes me really curious about how neurofeedback will develop in the next 7 years!
Note: Text and photos by Anna Leonte
Tassos Sarampalis
Dr. Sarampalis is a lecturer at the Psychology department of the University of Groningen. He began his career in psychoacoustics in the UK where he worked with Deb Fantini and Chris Plack, before moving to California to work on hearing devices, first with Monita Chatterjee and then with Erv Hafter. His current research interests involve understanding the contributions of cognition in complex hearing situations and the interactions of cognition and hearing impairment. For more information, you can visit his website.
Everhardt, M. K., Sarampalis, A., Coler, M., Başkent, D., & Lowie, W. (2020). Meta-Analysis on the Identification of Linguistic and Emotional Prosody in Cochlear Implant Users and Vocoder Simulations. Ear Hear, 1. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000000863 pdf
Pals, C., Sarampalis, A., Beynon, A., Stainsby, T., & Başkent, D. (2020). Effect of Spectral Channels on Speech Recognition, Comprehension, and Listening Effort in Cochlear-Implant Users. Trends in Hearing. https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216520904617 pdf
Everhardt, M. K., Sarampalis, A., Coler, M., Başkent, D., & Lowie, W. (2019). "Perception of L2 lexical stress in words degraded by a cochlear implant simulation." Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne, Australia. pdf
Pals, C., Sarampalis, A., van Dijk, M, Baskent, D. (2018). "Effects of Additional Low-Pass–Filtered Speech on Listening Effort for Noise-Band–Vocoded Speech in Quiet and in Noise." Ear and Hearing, pdf
Baskent, D., Clarke, J., Pals, C., Benard, M.R., Bhargava, P., Saija, J., Sarampalis, A., Wagner, A., & Gaudrain, E. (2016). "Cognitive Compensation of Speech Perception With Hearing Impairment, Cochlear Implants, and Aging: How and to What Degree Can It Be Achieved?" Trends in Hearing, 20, 1-16. http://doi.org/10.1177/2331216516670279 pdf
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Department of Educational Leadership Scholarship and Creative Works
Education Research and the Shifting Landscape of the American School District, 1816 to 2016
David A. Gamson, Pennsylvania State University
Emily Hodge, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Despite decades of critiques and scores of innovations designed to abolish or weaken it, the school district remains a central institution of the American educational system. Yet, although the district remains the primary agent of local democratic control and serves as the main unit for educational decisions, relatively little attention has been given to the historical evolution of the school district as an institutional form. Reformers and researchers alike often hold misperceptions and inaccurate assumptions about the nature of the school district's development, precisely because the district has been understudied. The authors of this chapter offer a first step toward correcting that oversight by broadening our attention span, providing a solid historical overview of how the district has developed over the past two centuries, and exploring how scholars have analyzed districts at different points in our past. They focus on how the definition of what constitutes a school district has changed over time and on how perceptions of what it has meant to be a good or effective district has shifted throughout our history. They argue that the district has never been a static institution, that its changing forms and functions deserve greater recognition, and that conflicts regarding school districts often reflect deep and enduring frictions that are endemic to American social structures.
10.3102/0091732X16670323
Gamson, David A. and Hodge, Emily, "Education Research and the Shifting Landscape of the American School District, 1816 to 2016" (2016). Department of Educational Leadership Scholarship and Creative Works. 13.
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