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Re: Elder Gong: "Please don't post that photo…"
Post by Jeffret » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:54 pm
Angel wrote: ↑
Family should always come before anything else. I have LGBTQ in my family too, as well as one of my kids. They come first. You are either comfortable to be seen with them, and take pictures with them like a normal family, and treat them as a person, or....
"just be quiet about it..." → leads to abuse not being taken care of, leads to kids killing themselves when they cannot talk to anyone or be seen by anyone. Isolation - excommunication - don't communicate or talk to them - just keep your mouth shut....
Everyone can be in pain, everyone has the right to express themselves and tell their story.
It is a fight for their lives.
Hagoth wrote: ↑
For what it's worth, I love my transgender child desperately and I am overjoyed that she is in a relationship with a loving partner. That two outsiders, both Mormon and living in Utah, can even find each other is miraculous to me, and a cause for celebration. I would be deeply ashamed of myself if I felt I had to hide from being seen with them. Sure it has been tough on everybody, but we have all grown immensely.
And also this.
"Close your eyes, for your eyes will only tell the truth,
And the truth isn't what you want to see" (Charles Hart, "The Music of the Night")
Hagoth
Post by Hagoth » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:55 pm
fetchface wrote: ↑
Matt certainly upped the ante with this act, but he may just be done. His Dad may have just pushed the wrong button this time. If that's what happened here, I certainly can empathize.
The ball is in Gerrit's court. He has three options: strike back, continue to hide his head in shame, or reach out in love like some kind of, I don't know, apostle of Jesus Christ or something.
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also." -Mark Twain
Jesus: "The Kingdom of God is within you." The Buddha: "Be your own light."
Post by Jeffret » Thu Jan 13, 2022 1:07 pm
Palerider wrote: ↑
If the son had waited a period of time or asked later for permission to publish, elder Gong might have been in a better position mentally and emotionally to assent.
Young people want change and they want it now. It will be interesting to see how they react when they reach their elderly years and have young people forcing change down THEIR throats.
I guess I'm still young because I still want change and I think we should work towards it now.
Some might say I should stay in the Church because it has and will change. I'm not willing to wait that long. I'm not willing to subject myself or family to that while hoping that someday in the future, the Church leaders may eventually come around.
I realize that someday I may be old and feeble and unable to learn and understand new things as they come out. I hope that day doesn't come soon, especially when it concerns such fundamental things as who people are, especially people in my family.
Why shouldn't we seek to change and improve things now?
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Post by wtfluff » Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:16 pm
jfro18 wrote: ↑
This is one of those situations where I genuinely feel sorry for both Matthew and Gerrit...
Though not my initial reaction, sadness has become my reaction after seeing these posts, reading about them and having some hours to ruminate. Sadness for both of the Gong's.
That being said, I must type that I am also very happy that I have been able to (somewhat) separate myself from a "church" that taught me that withholding love and acceptance from my children was the right/righteous thing to do. I guess I should have started that sentence with: "I'd like to bare my NOM-imony that I know..."
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. -Frater Ravus
Keep the company of those who seek the truth - run from those who have found it -Václav Havel
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2bizE
Post by 2bizE » Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:38 pm
I have a differing view point than some….I think Gong is just needing time and space to work this all out in his mind. He didn't ask for a gay son, and has likely never had to deal with this type of a situation. Give him time and I think he will be much different than Oaks.
I have been quite progressive, but still flash back at times to my primitive Mormon roots. For example, rather that going on a mission, my son got a girlfriend and started being intimate. Both my wife and I struggled…it took time. We processed the mission part fairly easily and there was a few years before he got the girlfriend. We like the girl. We were presented with a new challenge this year… DW wanted everyone to stay over for Christmas Eve…what to do with the unmarried son and GF? I spoke with my son and told him we would find a place in the house for he and GF to sleep. We did…in the closet under the stairs….no, just joking…in a bedroom. Both me and DW were fine with that…a few years ago it would have been different…it is super hard to shed Mormonism…but we are working on it. Give Gong patience and I think he will change.
~2bizE
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Post by Mormorrisey » Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:14 pm
wtfluff wrote: ↑
This is absolutely where I'm at - I have some sympathy, and a lot of sadness for both the Gongs. Sad for the Elder Gong, that he'll put the church before his own kid, and sympathy for the crap he'll deal with from conservative TBM's. Sad for younger Gong that his Dad's loyalties are elsewhere, and sympathy that he'll deal with the same crap for posting the picture without his Dad's consent.
And that's why Da Brethren are eventually going to have to admit defeat on the war against "the gays." You can just feel the younger Gong's frustration when he tells LGBTQ+ folks to look elsewhere for an ally, other than his Dad. This crap is just going to continue to break up families, and now it's reached the level of the Q15. It's going to be even more prominent now.
"And I don't need you...or, your homespun philosophies."
"And when you try to break my spirit, it won't work, because there's nothing left to break."
Palerider
Post by Palerider » Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:18 pm
Jeffret wrote: ↑
I understand what you're saying.
My analogy and I think it's a good one is the contrast between the House of representatives and the Senate, WHEN THEY ARE WORKING PROPERLY. (Right now we're pretty disfunctional)
The House, sometimes in the heat of the moment or with a little too much emotionalism comes up with legislation for change. The Senate is supposed to be the body of consideration. Is this change truly for the benefit of ALL CITIZENS? The Senate is where ideas for change have TIME to cool so that society doesn't lurch back and forth. Unintended consequences can be weighed. Is there actually a better way to do this than the House is suggesting?
"By making this change do we end up mistakenly taking freedom away from some people while helping just a few. How do we build in equity under the law for everyone."
So my point is that yes, we are always trying to improve through change but taking some time for everyone to get on board is not necessarily a bad thing.
I'm also a firm believer that you can't legislate morality. Those issues are of the heart and mind and that's where those changes have to occur.
We fought the civil war regarding slavery and we FORCED the change but that didn't change the minds and hearts of many Southerners. Many resent the change even to this day. The old adage, "He who is persuaded against his will, is of the same opinion still" rings true.
Fighting the Civil War was as a last resort, the right thing to do. But didn't we learn anything about how to come to terms with those we have disagreements with? I think Gays have made significant strides in the past 30 years. But do they know what happens when a pendulum gets pushed too far?
"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily."
"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
Have they every really been functional?
There's something to that analogy. The Senate's primary function is to maintain the status quo, to maintain power for the people who are already in power. (It's the primary function of government in general, but in the American system, that duty primarily falls upon the Senate.) That's why they're so resistant to pursuing fair and free voting and elections.
I think Gays have made significant strides in the past 30 years. But do they know what happens when a pendulum gets pushed too far?
Interesting. In what ways do you think the pendulum has swung too far? What do see as the appropriate discipline for this situation?
Post by moksha » Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:42 am
In what ways do you think the pendulum has swung too far? What do see as the appropriate discipline for this situation?
I am hoping Palerider's answer is not the grand opening of a new Soylent Green factory in Lyndon, Utah.
I remember Utah residents grousing years afterward about the Civil Rights Act. They thought it had gone way too far and wished to roll it back through "states rights". Glad that never happened. It was incumbent on the Nephites to accept the Lamanites and quit bitching about their lack of lox and bagels.
Good faith does not require evidence, but it also does not turn a blind eye to that evidence. Otherwise, it becomes misplaced faith.
-- Moksha
Post by Palerider » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:07 am
Actually yes, after the War of 1812 there was what we called the Era of Good Feelings where political parties were frowned upon and lost influence and power. About the time of Andrew Jackson political parties gained prevalence and began to polarize the process.
The Senate's primary function is to maintain the status quo, to maintain power for the people who are already in power. (It's the primary function of government in general, but in the American system, that duty primarily falls upon the Senate.) That's why they're so resistant to pursuing fair and free voting and elections.
And you actually learned this in a civics class? I'd love to see the textbook reference on that.
One example would be the issue of allowing biological males who identify as females to compete in women's sports. I think this is already getting some serious blowback from society in general. There's no true integrity or victory in this case. It may get crammed down people's throats but you can bet that the majority are not going to be celebrating those "victories" internally. They see it for what it is.
If I understand your question correctly, the appropriate discipline would be obvious. The individual involved would have the good judgement and personal integrity to choose not to compete in that venue. Being great advocates of equity and fair play, they would see the integral inequity of the situation and do the right thing of their own volition. No legislation necessary.....
Post by hmb » Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:42 am
Good on Gong for having dinner with his son and partner. Bad on Gong for trying to hide it from social media. It's no secret. He could be such a support for other LDS members who "struggle" having LGBTQ children; a show of inclusion and acceptance of those who use their agency. It isn't like his son will hold the PH or have a high position in the church. It isn't like he's committed a crime (unless being gay becomes illegal again).
I fear for my transgender daughter's future. I know there has been lots of progress for LGBTQ rights and acceptance. I did think that the church would have to eventually be accepting due to political pressures, but I worry that the progress is quickly eroding. As some states work to reverse citizens' rights, law suits with happen and I fear that the supreme court will reverse most rights for LGBTQ citizens. Yes, I am becoming a pessimist, but as voting rights tank, republicans take over, Biden may very well be out of office in 2024, you can bet it will be a straight, white man's society. The church will have its foundation, against anyone who doesn't fit their mold, strengthened.
Somebody straighten me out and tell me it will be okay.
Post by Jeffret » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:04 am
(I knew there was danger in asking that question, but I didn't expect it to diverge from the topic here quite so much. I'm going to try not to derail in that direction, but would be happy to discuss the notion of "biological" sex in some other more appropriate thread.)
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Post by annotatedbom » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:39 am
I get what some are saying in defense of Elder Gong. I have a queer child and my wife was in denial for years about it. My queer child just wouldn't go easy on my wife - would bring up LGBTQ+ issues with wife, and I probably thought more than once "Can't you just back off? Don't you see this isn't getting anywhere?" Years later, said queer child now lives with their long-time partner and my wife adores their partner. My point isn't that all homophobes are going to end up accepting and loving LGBTQ+ folks like my wife did. Some might do just the opposite as others have said here. My point is that I get the defense of Elder Gong.
However, the toxic homophobia of the Iglesia, backed by it's megalomaniac obsession, is just one more thing it does to harm people. I wish Elder Gong could do a little thought experiment to see how hurtful the LDS stance on homosexuality is. Imagine it's the late 1970s and a young and promising Gerrit Gong is sitting down to dinner at a restaurant with his partner, Susan Lindsay (who would marry Gerrit in 1980), and her parents. All's going splendidly until Susan's father is spotted by a fellow member of his country club, Bob. Bob starts to walk across the room. Susan's father jumps out of his seat to intercept Bob half way across the room, they talk, and then return to their respective tables. Susan asks daddy, "Why didn't you let Bob come over to talk to us all and introduce Gerrit?" Daddy replies, "We wouldn't want people to get the wrong idea."
Racism and homophobia are not perfect analogous, but I think they're about as analogous as anything gets. Elder Gong's reaction to his son's selfie is at best pitiful. I feel badly for his son; I feel badly for Elder Gong being so Church broke he let's it harm his relationship with his son.
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Post by alas » Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:15 pm
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My gay daughter might agree with you. I asked her once about "gay pride" and she turned up her nose like I had asked her opinion of Trump. I of course questioned that, and she said that gays have to respect the feelings of straights just as they ask to have their own feelings respected and she said that too many people involved with gay pride are purposely offensive by shoving their sexuality into the faces of straights. She said she wouldn't like it if straights had a parade to brag about their sexual relationships by the same kind of behavior that some gay people use. She said the point shouldn't be to offend. She said that you have to give homophobes time to adjust to the idea that you are just as human as they are and that you love your partner/spouse just as much as they do and you don't accomplish that by embarrassing them. Embarrass a homophone and you give them more reason to hate you. You don't gain love and respect by showing hate and disrespect. Who was more successful with civil rights? Martin Luther King or the rioters throwing bricks?
Eh, I don't know. That's really hard to answer. Such a complicated consideration.
Oppressors rarely give up power and grants rights and opportunities to the oppressed just because they're asked nicely. Playing along and being nice rarely accomplishes anything. I'd like to see any serious academic information on the topic, but my repeated observations in history and things I've seen show me that your question is a false dichotomy. I'm not in favor of violence and am a significant pacifist, but I recognize that without the violent or threat of violence groups, the going along to get along groups make no progress. If it's only violent groups, then there is no demonstration of reasonableness and it's always just stuck with conflict. Calling it a dichotomy and explaining it the way I have is still very wrong, because it's not just about two extremes. To make progress requires a wide variety of approaches, ranging from those that quietly going about living their lives to those that are out and proud and loud.
So, to answer the ending questions: It's really impossible to say and the question itself is erroneous. Martin Luther King Jr. would not have been successful without the more extreme efforts of those like Malcolm X. And Malcolm X wouldn't have succeeded without the more accommodating efforts of MLKJr. It's kind of like asking which is more important in making salt, the sodium or the chloride. And the comparison tends to whitewash MLKJr. He was considered pretty radical in his own right. He wouldn't have been successful without the many people who just went about living their lives and voting and sitting on buses.
There are similar parallels in the struggle for gay rights. Stonewall was out and proud and loud and brash. And violent. It was a seminal event in the struggle, pretty much launching modern American gay rights. Harvey Milk was involved in some of the first big successes for gay rights. He urged gays to come out and let people know about themselves. His tagline, "My name is Harvey Milk—and I want to recruit you", was bold and brash and shocking. Much more so than Matt Gong sharing this photo and describing the story.
The Mormon Church has made the most progress towards gay acceptance not by people asking nicely, but as a result of loud protests, attacks, and pressure. The vocal, directed protests after the passage of Prop 8 made a noticeable difference. Also at the same time, the fine the Church had imposed based upon the efforts of Fred Karger changed their behaviors.
I don't think you can really reach true homophobes in the same way that we continue to see you can't reach racists. Gay rights were won in spite of the homophobes. Success, as much as it is so far, has come from a variety of approaches and factors, including those who are out and proud and brash and vocal.
Yeah, comparing people's human rights to family relationships is a bad comparison. I agree that fighting for human rights sometimes takes "getting people's attention" even if that takes getting angry, getting violent. Scratch that lousy comparison.
Let's compare something we are more familiar with, our own families when we left the church. We know our still believing spouse would be upset with us if we put up a picture on Facebook that hints to TBMs that they agree with our use of coffee or alcohol. Maybe they compromise enough to have dinner with us in a bar, and we slap a picture up on Facebook tagging them. That will be seen by their neighborhood and bishop. That would be disrespect and slapping them in the face for trying to meet us half way.
Maybe my position is because I was caught between a believing spouse and my lesbian daughter. I am glad my daughter didn't put up a picture where it would have impacted his attendance or acceptance at church. Yeah, I am advocating for protection of the homophobe. G*d awful position to take when I really want to smack them. But family relationships are worth working for and something like a picture on Facebook isn't worth offending your parents over. This isn't worth It. Pick a real battle, like I cut my brother out of my life for about ten years, not because he was being a jerk, but his wife just kept saying nasty things about our daughter. So, I didn't see them until my brother was fatally injured. Because I didn't want her hate getting back to my daughter.
And don't forget that Mathew in this case is an adult. He isn't a teenager and his father is TRYING. A picture published on Facebook is just not the hill to die on. Let's get upset if the father refuses to attend their wedding.
Post by Jeffret » Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:26 pm
I accept that as long as we acknowledge that is a personal decision.
I joined NOM many years ago because my wife and I had a relationship that was based on mutual respect and consideration. We had a relationship that was worth working on and worth saving. (We still do, but we're all out of the Church these days.) For some of those earlier years I was on NOM I was still attending Church, but was shifting family prioritization away from the Church. Prior to that my wife and I had both declined church callings for family reasons. I turned down a call to be EQP. My wife was RSP for a relatively short time and informed the bishop she needed to be released. Both experiences were based on long discussions between the two of us.
I can't imagine what it would be like to have a relationship like Gerrit and Matt. Gerrit has always demonstrated that he'll do whatever the Church asks, even to possible ignoring of his family. (See Matt's blog.) He leads an organization that actively tries to harm people like Matt. I just don't know what I would do in that relationship, but I really don't think I would quietly acquiesce and be respectful of everything they do.
He isn't a teenager and his father is TRYING.
I don't know that we know that to be true. That particular instance related by Matt is the minimum that Gerrit could do, really, the absolute minimum. Matt put care into choosing the place and Gerrit did accompany them. So, a little bit of trying, at least, at some point in the past. (Notice that, according to Matt's blog, this picture was taken some time ago.) But, is Gerrit still trying, at this later point when Matt has decided to publish the photo? From Matt's side of the story at least (which is what he bases his choices on), it appears that Gerrit may have done a little bit of trying at some point in the past, but he doesn't seem to still be trying enough for Matt to respect that request. As Matt writes, "For anyone looking for someone to pin your hopes on that the Church will change, it's not him." He knows where his father stands and he doesn't respect him so he doesn't feel the obligation to reciprocate a higher level of respect.
I think this relationship has more similarity to your relationship with your brother (and wife) than the relationship between your daughter and her father.
You are possibly right that Matt has given up on his father, and in many ways, Elder Gong is choosing his relationship with Elder Oaks over his relationship with his son. Now, THAT is a sobering thought. So, I can really see giving up on one relationship to protect a more important one, like I gave up on my brother to protect my daughter. And Matt may have given up on his father to protect his life partner.
We all have limited information and don't know the full history. Looking only at the one evening of going out to supper and request not to publish the photo, I think the younger Gong should give the senior Gong time to adjust.
But I could take one incident with my sister in law, say when she was horrified that I had pictures of all my kids and their partner up in my living room, and implied I wasn't a good Mormon (thank goodness I am not a good Mormon) because I wasn't doing as Elder Oaks had told us. But I could take that one experience and say that I should given her time to see the DD is still the same loving person she ever was. But instead I just kind of let go of the relationship. Because I had put up with it for years.
But full perspective, my SIL has a lesbian daughter, who also cut her out of her life for pretty much those same ten years. Now, after I reconnected because of my brother's death, I find out that she has finally accepted her daughter and her daughter's wife and their adopted son. But it took years and her sisters intervening and I suspect that the sisters did a lot of education of their mother. So, even the most homophobic people can come around. But it took her own daughter cutting her out of her life. So, there is that vote for sometimes it takes the angry rioting approach.
Bottom line is swearing at the church for putting families in this position to begin with.
Wonderment
Post by Wonderment » Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:57 pm
Agreed. It's very difficult to create social change by going slowly, always being gracious, and always aquiesing to the status quo. It would make things a lot more comfortable, especially among family members. Everyone wants social change to be easy and comfortable, if they want it at all. But I'm reminded of civil rights advocate and Congressman John Lewis' advice to "get in good trouble." That's what is happening here.
Especially in the past, gay people spent their entire lives hiding themselves and pretending they were something that they were not. Even going out to dinner with a partner and parents can be seen as something traumatic, something to create worry and stress. Finally, as times change, gay people have the chance to be their authentic selves.
Mormon singer Marie Osmond, whose famous family has tithed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to the church, came out in favor of gay marriage when her gay daughter, Jessica, married her partner, and Marie attended the wedding with joy, to show love and support. She was quoted in the "Advocate" magazine, a long-standing magazine of the gay community. This is from 2013, I believe, quoted in both "People "Magazine and "The Advocate"
Osmond has a gay daughter, Jessica, who wed her partner, Sara, this summer; the performer has publicly expressed support for them and same-sex marriage to the backlash of some of her conservative fans. "My daughter is gay and I went to her wedding. And people were shaming me for supporting my daughter," Osmond told People. "You should never shame anyone, especially for loving your child. Never."
Obviously Marie's not a high ranking church official whose work depends upon supporting church doctrine. But she took a considerable risk in alientating her large family and many of her more conservative fans. She was willing to get into "good trouble" in order to support her daughter, because her child's well-being was her top priority. I pray that Elder Gong will realize also that his son is his first priority. - Wndr.
Post by moksha » Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:18 pm
hmb wrote: ↑
Sometimes God sends floods and pestilence as punishment to the earth. This time He sent Republicans.
Post by Hagoth » Sat Jan 15, 2022 8:32 am
Wonderment wrote: ↑
"You should never shame anyone, especially for loving your child. Never."
Marie has a bigger pair than Gong. His are locked up in Oaks' china cabinet
This topic is important to me for two reasons: I have a transgender child and I am in an interracial marriage. I have seen considerable crossover between the two issues over my lifetime. If we had been 30 years older it would have been illegal for me to be married to my wife in Utah.
On one hand you have the church bragging about how loving and accepting they are of LGBTQ people, while on the other they do pretty much everything they can get away with to dehumanize them.
On one hand you have the church claiming to be the ultimate authority on defining family and marriage, while on the other hand, if you just look back a couple of generations, they are famously the most horrendous example of what is NOT a healthy and "normal" family.
On one hand the church loves to highlight mixed-race families on their videos and publications, while on the other hand they still have quotes from modern prophets in their youth manuals that condemn it.
Those of us with transgender children have cause to worry. Last year was the worst year in history for violence against transgender people. And good luck finding a real career in a place like Utah. As a TMB I never thought I'd say such a thing, but I sometimes wish I had a gay child, because they would safer and more accepted in this environment. As it is, I have a transgender daughter who is the sweetest, kindest, most loving and intelligent person I know, but I have to worry that some dumbass MAGA Mormon might take it upon himself to represent his religion at her expense.
Post by Jeffret » Sat Jan 15, 2022 9:50 am
Being transgender has got to be rough in many ways. The idea that someone would just choose to be trans is patently nonsense if anyone bothers to learn about trans people, their lives, and their experiences. The claim that someone would go through all of that just to go in a bathroom or win a sports competition makes no sense. As my wife puts it, what man would willingly deal with all the discrimination and issues women face, without serious motivation.
We have an extended teen family member who came out as trans within the past year. One of the things I've learned over and over again from LGBT people is that coming out isn't a single, one-time event. Their mother shared with us about it last June, but confided in us that this teen was concerned about other extended family members knowing because of what they might say and do. We had this family over for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, but didn't invite any other extended family because 1), it's a pandemic and we're trying to limit contact, and 2) we wanted to provide them a safe space to be who they are. I get the impression that they've been pretty well accepted at school and by friends. (They live in Colorado, not Utah, which could be a big difference.) I understand that their mental health has dramatically improved since coming out to parents.
My daughter has many trans friends. They seem to be managing pretty well and getting by, certainly better once they acknowledged who they are. It makes a huge difference when they have family who accepts and supports them.
Best wishes to your child, Hagoth, on being able to live to an authentic life. It's great that they've been able to find a loving partner and have loving, supporting parents. That makes a huge difference.


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Q: Finding stateful singleton beans Today, we found this pattern in our code:
class Foo {
    private List<String> errors;

    public void addError(String error) { ... }
    public List<String> getErrors();
}

While the code seems to work, this is a singleton Spring bean and it's injected in several independent places and the consumers of the bean assume that they each have their own list of errors. So this introduces subtle bugs.
The obvious solution is to educate developers to avoid this kind of error but I was wondering if there is a static or runtime code analysis tool which can find this kind of bug.
For example, a bean postprocessor could analyze the bean before it's returned and look for private fields that aren't @Autowired.

A: After pouring some more brains (ours and other peoples) on this, we came up with this approach:

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*Install a BeanPostProcessor which makes sure that all singleton beans (i.e. where the scope in the bean definition is Singleton) have the custom annotation @Stateless on the actual bean type.
We chose a custom annotation instead of reusing @Singleton since we need this functionality elsewhere, too.
If the annotation is missing, the factory throws an error.

*In a unit test, we use ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider with out custom annotation to locate all classes on the classpath. We can then do the complex and expensive tests to make sure the bean has no state that changes after the initial configuration (i.e. after the autowiring has happened).
The second step could become a little bit easier if we moved the autowired fields into the constructor but we don't like methods that take many, many arguments. It would be nice if Java or an IDE could generate builders from the bean code. Since that's not the case, we stick to autowired fields and/or setters.

A: You could create a JUnit test that would load your app config.
This could combine ListableBeanFactory from here :
Can I dynamically create a List by scanning the beans in a spring configuration file?
with the 'isSingleton' check here :
How to enforce a prototype scope of Spring beans
i.e. list all the beans in the app context, then check to see which are singletons.
This would let you find all singleton beans...although it wouldn't really prevent your error case where someone treats one of these singletons as if it were not.

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With all the talk around superfoods these days, perhaps the most powerful of them all is conspicuously missing: deep breathing. One can take all the supplements in the world, and they will do little good without the catalyst of richly oxygenated blood.
I discovered the power of deep breathwork through my Medical Qi Gong and Tai Chi practice during my studies for my masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture). I would arrive at the park at 5 o'clock to practice with my teacher, feeling like canceling and going home to rest, thinking that I did not have it in me to workout after grueling 14-hour days split between the classroom and my side job. But every time I pushed through the resistance, I would feel a major shift in my energy, aliveness, and inspiration during the warm up breathing and joint-opening exercises. By the time the deep breathing practice was over, I found myself feeling completely rejuvenated and ready to get back to studying. Through simple, deep breathing and slow, intentional movement of my joints, I would experience a rising tide of energy and life growing within me.
Many years later, having practiced an enormous amount of Qi Gong, yoga and several other breath-focused healing modalities, I have come to find that conscious, deep breathing techniques are the most transformational tool that we have to heal and renew our lives. There is nothing that I have experienced that has empowered my life more than the shift to becoming a connoisseur of breath.
Beyond the palpable energizing and rejuvenating effects of a regular deep breathing practice, one of the more subtle things I have come to love about breathing is the way that it connects me with the environment I am in. Sitting next to a wandering stream under a towering oak tree, there is a particular vibration and scent that I am receiving and contributing to as I breathe, deeply connected to my surroundings. I believe this is a way that each of us can bring the sacred into our everyday lives. There is an inherent energy that connects us with all living things, and it is abundant in the air that we breathe. I can feel this connection when I allow the air that I am breathing to drop deep into my core, knowing that what I am receiving is entering my blood and ultimately my heart. And as I let this breath flow out of me I am making an offering to the life around me.
To build a healthy relationship with your breath and get the most vitality from your deep breathing practice, it helps to do exercises that increase your awareness of your breath as well as the functioning of your lungs. Although the lungs are not muscles, they are intimately connected the health of all the systems of your body, and like a muscle, strengthen and expand when they are exercised. Related muscles and stuctures, including the rib cage, can become stiff over time and lead to reduced elasticity in the lungs, which creates chronic patterns of shallow breathing. Air can remain in the tissues of the lungs and become stale, hindering fresh oxygen from finding its way into the bloodstream. Every cell in the human body requires oxygen, and although it seems like an automatic function we need not give much thought to, bringing awareness to our breath through consciously practicing deep breathing techniques will help clear out toxins that may have built up in the lungs. Deep, rhythmic breathing infuses nourishing oxygen into your body, blood, and cells. Blood that is rich in oxygen will lead to systemic rejuvenation and healing, providing you with more energy, life, and ultimately joy, as well as deeper connection to your body and the world around you.
Those who exercise their lungs through regular deep breathing techniques, particularly yogis and Qi Gong masters, often have above average lung capacities as a result of taking deeper breaths more consistently. Why? Because deep, rhythmic breathing exercises expand the diaphragm muscle and the air pockets within the lungs. This allows for more oxygen to penetrate the cells within the body, allowing you to further utilize those superfoods that you may be taking, as oxygen is the catalyst for cellular metabolism. Deep breathing techniques also help to stretch out the torso, which is often overly constricted in shallow breathers, leading to diminished health and vitality. Humans need abundant oxygen for complete cell development. To put it simply, it's truly impossible to be vibrantly healthy if you're not getting enough oxygen.
You cannot do harm with these deep breathing techniques so long as you are gentle and aware while you practice. The physical benefits of deep, full breathing are truly life changing, and the more subtle spiritual connections that develop will enrich your life in profound and often mystical ways. Try these powerful exercises for expanding your breath capacity and connecting with your deeper spiritual nature to experience the benefits described above firsthand. Remember to practice regularly, daily if possible, for full effect.
Allow yourself to sit in a place that is outdoors in nature or in a nourishing place in your home. Breathe deeply in and out of your nose very slowly sensing the air as it is traveling through your nose. Become very aware of the subtle feeling of receiving the breath and giving the breath. Notice what the air smells like and how you experience the inhale. After a few deep breaths, become aware of your heart beating in your chest and visualize the blood flowing through you being nourished with every breath.
Now imagine that what you are exhaling is not dirty air, but transformed life essence from within you. That anywhere you send your breath is actually blessed and invigorated by your heart and intention. Breathe your essence into the environment and the life around you. Send it to the trees and to the rocks. Spread it as a goodness that comes from your care and love. Imagine that each conscious breath is loaded with a treasure from within you and share it with pride.
You can practice this deep breathing technique with a loved one and experience the beauty and connection that comes with the intention of sharing essence. Giving and receiving to one another with utmost care and respect.
Sit or stand with a long spine in a place where you can spread your arms wide as you reach out and over your head. Breathe deeply into your belly and begin reaching your arms out wide. As you fill your lungs with air from your belly up, raise your arms up like your are spreading wings.
Feel your fingertips and the muscles of your arms reaching and lengthening along with your spine as you take this long full breath. The arms rise in time with the filling of your breath: When your lungs are full your arms should be stretched over your head. Pause for a few moments while your lungs are full and your arms are stretched up, reaching gently toward the sky.
Then slowly exhale out of your mouth while lowering the arms down again to your sides. While exhaling, continue to stretch and reach with the arms on the way down, feeling your ribs being stretched wide while your scapulas are being pulled away from your spine. Then repeat this same cycle with deep, full breaths while reaching long with your arms in sync with your breath. This is an amazing deep breathing technique that is active and invigorating. It will wake you up and enliven your entire body if done with strong breath and active reaching. You can do as many rounds as feels right to you. I suggest doing at least eight full cycles.
Find a relaxing and quiet place to sit down. Close your eyes, and begin by breathing in deeply through your nose from your belly up. Count to five, inhaling the entire time. Even when you think you can't inhale any more, try to squeeze a little more air in. Allow your lungs and stomach to fully inflate. This enables oxygen to reach the deepest depths of your lungs to inflate all the alveoli and break up any toxins and pollutants that may have accumulated.
Hold your breath for several seconds and then exhale over the course of another five count. When you think you can't exhale any more, keep blowing from the deepest depths of your lungs and stomach. You should feel your chest and abdomen flatten and pull a bit inward. Repeat this breathing technique 9 to 12 times. Performing this exercise on a daily basis will help increase your lung capacity, build your energy, and help relieve stress. It won't take long before you notice positive improvements!


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Gerald P. Mrozinski
Gerald P. Mrozinski, 88, of Moosic, formerly of Mountain Top, passed away Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Regional Hospital, Scranton.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, he was the son of the late Peter and Mary Konieczny Mrozinski. He was a graduate of Coughlin High School and earned his bachelor's degree from King's College. He served his country proudly in the U.S. Army and was the recipient of the Good Conduct Medal. Gerald worked as a human resources manager his whole career and retired from Paper Magic Group. He enjoyed fly fishing and spending time with his family, especially on family vacations. He was a former member of St. Andrew Parish, Wilkes-Barre, and was a member of St. Jude's Parish, Mountain Top. He was also a member of the Brookside Sportsmen's Club.
In addition to his parents, Gerald was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy C. Meighan Mrozinski, in 2011; and son, Gerald Mrozinski Jr., in 1987.
Left to cherish his memory are his daughter-in-law, Regina (Terry) Kloeker; sons, Mark (Levonne) Mrozinski and Gary (Kathleen) Mrozinski; grandchildren, Gerald Mrozinski III, Theresa Gawlas, Joshua Kloeker, Jeffrey Kloeker, Benjamin Mrozinski, Emma Mrozinski and Gary Mrozinski Jr.; sister, Ruth Stanski; brother, Arnold (Ute) Mrozinski; and sister-in-law, Marjorie Flannery.
Gerald was a past member of the board of trustees of Luzerne County Community College and served as its chair from 1980 to 1985.
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Gerald lived 28 years with ALS and was an active supporter and volunteer for the ALS Association, Greater Philadelphia Chapter. As a result of his volunteer work on behalf of the ALS Association, he raised over $1 million to support people living with ALS.
Friends are invited to join the family for a visitation from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday from Lehman Funeral Home, 689 Hazle St., Wilkes-Barre, and at 11:30 a.m. Friday in St. Jude's Church, 420 S. Mountain Blvd., Mountain Top. A Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 12:30 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in memory of Gerald to the ALS Association, Greater Philadelphia Chapter.
Visit the funeral home website for information at www.LehmanFuneralHome.com.
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Anna Kooiman is an American born, international TV host currently working in Australia. She married an Aussie and moved to Sydney in September of 2016. The couple just had their first child January 22, 2018.
Kooiman has a strong broadcasting background and was a major player at Fox News Channel in New York City for 5 years. She landed the job as one of the network's youngest on-air hires - at the age of 27. Kooiman hosted the number one weekend cable morning show in the world, Fox and Friends. Along with anchoring the four hour show, Kooiman traveled around the USA reporting on breaking news, terror attacks, tornadoes, blizzards, political debates, etc. She also showed off her cheeky and adventurous side in a franchise called, 'Road Trip with Anna Kooiman' where she would cross off bucket list items. Kooiman wowed viewers by taking a high rise dip in Boston Harbor with the Red Bull Cliff Diving Team, singing karaoke in Nashville with country music sensations, taking batting practice with the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley field, putting out fires with the FDNY, stunt flying with the Air National Guard, catching waves with professional surfers in California, running the NYC and Boston marathons for charity, etc.
Kooiman also helped host FNC's New Year's Eve programming for several years.
FNC continues to bring Kooiman back to the network for domestic and international coverage. Kooiman recently reported from Seoul, South Korea after having toured the DMZ while tensions between the US and North Korea were growing red hot.
For the second year in a row, Kooiman has been asked to host the network's special patriotic programming around 2018's Independence Day Weekend, "Proud American."
In Australia Kooiman is a panelist, fill-in morning host, fill-in entertainment host, and contributor on several national shows. Appearances include the Aussie Today Show, The Project, Studio Ten, and Sky News. Kooiman is also an official ambassador for the Ronald McDonald House Charities in Australia.
Kooiman's on-air personality is easy going, witty, energetic, confident, empathetic, and trustworthy. Kooiman is always prepared and up to speed on the latest headlines making news.
Before anchoring for Fox News Channel, Kooiman anchored and reported for FOX Charlotte, NBC in Toledo, OH, and ABC in Wilmington, NC (where she won two Associated Press Awards).
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Q: How can I make GameObjects translate across the screen smoothly in Unity? Basically, I have a game where tickets appear at the top of the screen. When a ticket is completed, it gets destroyed, and if there's a gap between the remaining tickets, the tickets slide down to fill in the gap. I actually have it working just fine, but they kind of just jump to the positions and it doesn't look very pretty.
How can I move the objects to their target position smoothly? I've tried messing with Lerp and Smoothdamp, but both of those seem to be producing strange results (tickets go all over the place. Here's the relevant code I'm working with:
    public void SlideRail()
    {
        ticketList.RemoveAll(x => x == null);
        int count = ticketList.Count;

        for (int i = destroyedIndex; i < ticketList.Count; i++)
        {
            if (ticketList[i] != null)
            {
                ticketList[i].transform.Translate(Vector3.left * 35);
                ticketList[i].GetComponent<Ticket>().index--;
            }
        }
        indexer = railPosition.IndexOf(ticketList.Last().GetComponent<Ticket>().item_pos);
        up = false;
    }

DestroyedIndex is the index of the object that was destroyed (so that we only move the objects after it in the list)
Up is a flag that activates SlideRail(), when its set to false the method ends and the next method continues.
SlideRail is then called in the Update() method:
    void Update()
    {
        if (up && ticketList.Count > 2)
            SlideRail();

        if (Time.time > nextTicket)
        {
            nextTicket = Time.time + timeBetweenTickets;
            StartCoroutine(WaitToPrint());
            CreateTicket();
            UpdatePosition();
        }
    }

I feel like I should be able to do this using Translate, but I must be missing something.

A: With movement like this you should usually include Time.deltaTime (as a factor in translate) to bind the movement to the frame rate. [Edit: Translate this sentence to framerate-independant, that's what I meant.]
Now, to the actual point, it looks like you do the movement in just one frame and thus you get this jump (you always set up to false at the end of SlideRail).
A possible way of doing this is to specify a target position upon trigger (task complete, need to push over) and than keep calling ticketList[i].transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(ticketList[i].transform.position, targetPosition, speed * Time.deltaTime); for each object (framed by a "reached target position" check, e.g. using if(Vector3.Distance(ticketList[i].transform.position, targetPosition) > someThreshold). You can add an else to this to directly set the position when in threshold range (make the threshold small so it's not visible, e.g. 0.1f), though you usually only need this for non-linear functions like lerp which slow down at the end and can stall. [Edit: Because of floating point imprecision it's actually mostly always a good idea to use a threshold.]

A: Using iTween, it can be simplified into a one line call:
iTween.MoveTo(someGameObject, iTween.Hash("y", targetY,
             "islocal", true,"easetype", iTween.EaseType.spring,
            "time", 0.2f));

A: I've wrote this piece of code for myself before, maybe it helps you.
using System;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class MoveController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float moveTime;
    public AnimationCurve moveSpeedCurve;
    public AnimationCurve movePositionCurve;

    public void StartMoving(Vector2 destination, Action action = null)
    {
        StartCoroutine(Move(destination, action));
    }

    IEnumerator Move(Vector3 destination, Action action = null)
    {
        float currentTime = 0;
        float perc = 0;
        Vector3 currentPos = transform.localPosition;

        while (perc != 1)
        {
            currentTime += Time.deltaTime;
            if (currentTime > moveTime)
            {
                currentTime = moveTime;
            }
            perc = moveSpeedCurve.Evaluate(currentTime / moveTime);
            transform.localPosition = Vector2.LerpUnclamped(currentPos, destination, movePositionCurve.Evaluate(perc));
            yield return null;
        }

        if (action != null)
            action();
    }
}


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Alabama, LSU tie for most NFL players on Week 1 rosters
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In this case, Alabama and LSU must settle for a tie.
NFL Communications released details from the opening week rosters, and Alabama and LSU were tied with 39 players apiece. USC (37), Clemson (35), Florida (25) and Ohio State (34) held the next four spots.
It shouldn't come as surprise. In his book 4th and Goal Every Day: Alabama's Relentless Pursuit of Perfection, Phil Savage details a story from the 2007 LSU-Alabama game in which he watched the last remnants of Nick Saban's LSU teams take on his new creation at Alabama. The Tigers continued that with Les Miles and, now, Ed Orgeron.
The NFL Draft production since 2010 back that up. LSU has sent 50 players to the draft, including nine first-round picks. Alabama, meanwhile, has sent a whopping 61 players, including 21 first-round picks.
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17 teams have failed to muster an average of more than 20 points per game this season. For a lot of those squads, it's just the statistical quirk of being a small sample size. The ones that should be the most concerned are the nine teams that still haven't averaged more than 15 points a game — the Bears, Bengals, Bills, Browns, Colts, Giants, Seahawks, Texans and 49ers.
The numbers should improve soon enough for some teams. The Seahawks have enough skill talent and a quarterback that some smarter coaching and scheming could do wonders. Cleveland and Buffalo are rebuilding.
The Bears would be better once they abandon the Mike Glennon experiment. The Colts will improve when Andrew Luck comes back, someday. Not that either of those teams is going to turn themselves into a winner this year.
Panic index: Acceptance. It's not going to get a lot better for most of these teams, except maybe the Seahawks. Three teams on this list really need to do some soul searching. The Bengals, Giants and Texans should all be much scoring at a better clip than they are. Plus, Houston and New York have the kind of defenses where they don't necessarily have to score 30 points per game. Cincinnati feels like the most hopeless outfit on this list.
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The Browns, whose players participated in some of the most visible national anthem protests in the preseason, took a novel approach in their season opener against the Steelers at FirstEnergy Stadium.
Before the national anthem, the stadium's video screens played a video discussing racial inequality in the U.S. Afterward, the players stood on the field for the national anthem.
Haden had been under contract for $11.1 million this season, $11.2 million next season and $10.5 million in 2019, though he was not subject to waivers and was free to sign with another team beginning Wednesday after 4 p.m. ET.
Haden missed a number of games over the past two years with various injuries, including a concussion, finger injury and a groin issue. Still, the 28-year-old was expected to be a key component in the Browns' defense.
Instead, he'll face his former team Sunday at 1 p.m. ET when the Steelers visit Cleveland.
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I'm intrigued by the potential Griffin has as a target hog as the current top tight end on a team that led the AFC in targets to the position in 2016. With game script likely to trend pass-heavy as sizable road dogs, Griffin could earn a good portion of Deshaun Watson's attention in New England on Sunday. -J.M.
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Griffin, via Twitter, said he has been lied on a lot over the years.
After Shanahan was fired, reports trickled out that he was not firmly in favor of trading up to draft Griffin in 2012. Washington won the NFC East in Griffin's rookie year, and he was voted to the Pro Bowl.
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Steelers' first big touchdown celebration of 2017 had Martavis Bryant shooting dice
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The NFL's relaxed celebration rules meant Steelers wideout Antonio Brown would have the opportunity to outdo himself when he found the end zone this fall. Instead, he played a supporting role after teammate Martavis Bryant hauled in a 27-yard touchdown catch and then dropped to a knee to roll some dice.
What it means for Martavis Bryant: Bryant scored his first touchdown since 2015, rewarding Pittsburgh's faith after he was forced to sit out the entire 2016 season due to suspension. He had only two receptions in his season debut last week.
What it means for the Steelers: Bryant broke away from a host of Vikings defenders to give Pittsburgh an early 7-0. More importantly, it put pressure on Brown to step up his celebration game and top his teammate's craps game. We'll see if the All-Pro wideout can make good on his promise to take advantage of the league's more lenient celebration rules.
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Paul Richardson scored the Seahawks' game-winning TD after fracturing his finger
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Paul Richardson scored the game-winning touchdown for the Seahawks against the 49ers on Sunday — but the touchdown isn't the most impressive part. It was what Richardson went through prior to making the play.
Richardson suffered a compound fracture of his right ring finger on Seattle's opening drive of the game. His teammate Doug Baldwin told ESPN the graphic specifics.
"I don't know if I'm allowed to tell you guys this but he dislocated his finger," Baldwin said. "It came out of his skin and he's sitting there bleeding, his bone is out of the skin. He goes into the locker room, sews it up and tapes it up, comes back out and scores the game-winning touchdown."
The Texans enter this game with just a 2-6 SU and ATS record in their last eight road games per the OddsShark NFL Database.
Cincinnati was the only team in action last week that failed to record a point, getting shut out 20-0 at home against the Baltimore Ravens. The defense did an excellent job of limiting the Ravens to just 20 points on Andy Dalton's five-turnover day. The Bengals had strung together five Alcides Escobar Jersey straight winning seasons from 2011 to 2015, but last year that streak came to an end with a 6-9-1 SU campaign. Cincinnati Frank White Womens Jersey is 3-6-1 SU and 4-6 ATS over its last 10 games.
Thursday night's total is set at 38 points. The UNDER is 4-0 in the last four games between these two teams.
Houston and Cincinnati both put together two of the worst home performances of Week 1. Since 2007, only nine of the 83 teams that have started the season off 0-2 SU have gone on to make the postseason. Just four days removed from their dud games on Sunday, the Texans and Bengals will try to avoid this unenviable position.
Who will be the first QB to lose his starting gig?
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NFL teams have made 30 trades since Aug. 1, more than twice the average for the same period over the previous five years. There are multiple reasons why.
Who will be the first QB to lose his starting gig? Who's playing for a big contract next offseason? We checked in with NFL execs for their thoughts on which quarterbacks have the most to prove heading into the regular season.
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The most unexpected element in Week 1 for the Chiefs was the superb all-around play of rookie running back Kareem Hunt. Hunt rushed for 148 yards, caught passes for 98 more and scored three touchdowns. Priest Holmes is the only other Chiefs player to hit those numbers all in the same game. While Hunt can't continue that pace, he can be a consistent threat for the Chiefs. "I saw probably the same thing . . . at camp every day,'' coach Andy Reid said. "He's a load and you know he is talented and he's a smart kid, which helps in that position.''
Lions sign Jeff Locke, place Kasey Redfern on IR
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The Detroit Lions have signed punter Jeff Locke to replace the injured Kasey Redfern, who was officially placed on injured reserve Tuesday.
Locke was the Minnesota Vikings' punter for four seasons, averaging 43.2 yards per punt before going to Indianapolis this offseason. The Colts, however, released him last month.
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The Bengals highly value their draft picks and rarely cut rookie draftees in their first year. That made waiving Elliott a difficult decision, because they knew there was a strong possibility he would be picked up by another team. But Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said Bullock was the clear winner of the job.
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A spokesperson with the La Verne Police Department confirmed that Browner was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats, but the spokesperson declined to comment on any circumstances of the arrest because of the department's ongoing investigation.
Browner was a founding member of the Seahawks' Legion of Boom secondary, playing for the team from 2011 to 2013. He spent the 2014 season with the New England Patriots, helping them win Super Bowl XLIX over Seattle, and then spent the 2015 season with the New Orleans Saints.
He signed with the Seahawks last offseason and tried to make the team as a safety, but he was cut in the spring and has not been signed by an NFL team since.
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The Bears were roundly criticized after sending four picks to San Francisco to move up one spot in the draft and select Trubisky, but the UNC product's efficient preseason suggests the overpay may have been worth it. He played his way into the starting conversation after completing more than 70 percent of his passes and posting a 3:0 touchdown-to-interception ratio in his first three preseason games.
While $45 million acquisition Mike Glennon eventually shook off enough rust to claim the team's top spot, Trubisky will have every opportunity to push him for snaps this season. The Bears can jettison Glennon next offseason with just $4.5 million in dead cap money on the books. A comparison of their preseason performances could mean his tryout may not last long.
Beckham rode the stationary bike Monday as his teammates warmed up and practiced.
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He participated in warm-ups inside the Giants' practice bubble on Wednesday before going off to work on the side with a trainer. The star wide receiver then went outside with a trainer and did some light running while his teammates ran through drills. Beckham was not seen doing any full-speed sprints or running before the media left about 20 minutes into practice.
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[Wednesday] was a good day, Beckham said when asked whether it's the most he's done since injuring the ankle 16 days ago. I don't know about the most I've done.
Beckham is trying to get back in time for Sunday night's opener in Texas against the Dallas Cowboys. He said he's done some running and cutting, though he didn't note whether it was at full speed. The Pro Bowler was jogging at about 60 percent on Wednesday.
The Giants are still closely monitoring his progress with the opener four days away. They have their most physical practice of the week scheduled for Thursday.
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With Mark Wexler asap Why doesn't the world seem to move every time you shift your eyes, as it does on the retina? What happens to the visual world when you blink? If you turn off the lights for the same duration, the resulting visual sensation is very different. Does the brain interpolate across the blink? Does time go faster?
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YesterMovies Rewind: Family Plot
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Family Plot. Universal Pictures 1976.
Five years ago this month, Yesterday's Movies officially began. To celebrate half a decade of movie reviews, I'm rewatching some of the highlights and giving them second-look reviews. This week, I'm giving the unfairly forgotten Family Plot another try.
In May of 2011, I was preparing to leave for an extended stay in another state, and I'd decided that my last review the night before leaving would be a family copy of Family Plot. However, shortly after I began watching the movie, I received word canceling the lodgings I thought I'd secured for my trip. I spent the next few hours frantically trying to make other arrangements, and while I managed to get a review posted, I probably hadn't had enough attention to give it. Therefore, I always wanted to find an opportunity to give it another attempt, since it's probably the film on this blog most deserving of a second look.
That story is pretty much all of what I remember about the movie. It's some kind of comedy about murder, but I think that much is stated on the box.
After rewatching the movie:
Fake psychic Blanche Tyler and cab driver/aspiring actor George Lumley have got the perfect con. Blanche has convinced the elderly Ms. Rainbird that she's psychically locating the lost last heir of the Rainbird fortune, and she and George (mostly George) just need to do some real detective work to find him. Meanwhile, jeweller Arthur Adamson and his girlfriend Fran are making themselves a fortune in ransom diamonds kidnapping valuable people, but as George and Blanche's trail leads them closer to Adamson, he becomes more and more convinced they're seeking his arrest.
This still isn't as funny as I was expecting. I found a lot more humor, but it feels like a thriller with characters who occasionally get to be funny rather than a funny mystery. I know it's possible to blend the two much more seamlessly. For example, Foul Play comes to mind. However, it seems like while Hitchcock indisputably knows suspense and thrillers, comedy isn't really one of his skills. One scene in particular stands out as one that seems like it should be funny, but isn't, and the dissonance may come to the direction. At one point, George and Blanche find themselves speeding down a twisting hill road with a jammed accelerator and cut brakes, and while Blanche's hysterics are almost certainly meant to be comical, the tension in the editing and the situation at large is very, very not funny, which just made her annoying.
The comedy is so separate from the thriller that I think it's much more possible to enjoy it as the latter rather than the former. It may not be as dark as most thrillers, but the suspense and intrigue is still quite present, and it is of course as carefully and beautifully made as anything Hitchcock did. Perhaps it can be considered a thriller for people who don't like thrillers.
I find it interesting that much of the best comedy is carried by Bruce Dern, who, judging from a brief look at his filmography, appears to be mainly a dramatic actor. He's arguably playing straight man to Barbara Harris, who does have more comedy in her career, but the humor in Blanche is mainly rather easy, sexist jokes about her being irrational. William Devane's performance is pretty threatening even in a movie too light for him to actually be dangerous. I can see him being really scary in a more serious work.
It's not at all pleasant to reread my old review. I was straining to come up with anything to say about it then, and it shows. I've never had to cancel a review after I started watching the film, but I just wasn't present enough to give this its due. All the suspense and dramatic irony makes it a story impossible to bob in and out of. I often watch bad movies to see if I can redeem them. This week, I hope I've redeemed a bad review.
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Q: Specifying liveness so a cycle doesn't happen in TLA+ I'm writing a specification of a simple client-server interaction to learn TLA+:
-------------------------------- MODULE Bar --------------------------------
VARIABLES
    sessionOK, \* if session is OK or expired
    msg        \* message currently on the wire

vars == <<msg, sessionOK>>

TypeOK ==
    /\ sessionOK \in {TRUE, FALSE}
    /\ msg \in {
         "Query",
         "OK",
         "Unauthorized",
         "null"
       }

Init ==
    /\ msg = "null"
    /\ sessionOK = FALSE

Query ==
    /\ msg \in {"null", "OK"}
    /\ msg' = "Query"
    /\ UNCHANGED <<sessionOK>>

OK ==
    /\ msg = "Query"
    /\ sessionOK = TRUE
    /\ msg' = "OK"
    /\ UNCHANGED <<sessionOK>>

Unauthorized ==
    /\ msg = "Query"
    /\ sessionOK = FALSE
    /\ msg' = "Unauthorized"
    /\ UNCHANGED <<sessionOK>>

Authorize ==
    /\ msg = "Unauthorized"
    /\ msg' = "null"
    /\ sessionOK' = TRUE

Expire ==
    /\ sessionOK = TRUE
    /\ sessionOK' = FALSE
    /\ UNCHANGED <<msg>>

Next ==
    \/ Query
    \/ Unauthorized
    \/ OK
    \/ Authorize
    \/ Expire

Spec == Init /\ [][Next]_vars /\ WF_vars(Next)

=============================================================================

As you can hopefully see the client can run some query against a server, and if the session is OK, it will get a result, otherwise it gets a message that it needs to authorize and then retry. The session can expire at any time.
I want to ensure that the client eventually will get a result, so I added this line to properties:
(msg = "Query") ~> (msg = "OK")

Upon model checking, I'm confronted with a counter-example going like this:
Init -> (Query -> Unauthorized -> Authorize -> Expire),
with the part in parentheses repeating indefinitely. My first thought was to make a strong fairness requirement on OK step. However the problem is in this scenario OK step is never enabled.
I could add things like []<><<OK>>_vars (which reads "it's always the case that eventually OK occurs"), but this feels like cheating, and from what I gather specifying liveness using arbitrary temporal formulas -- and not weak or strong fairness -- is frowned upon.
How can I use weak or strong fairness to guarantee that a query will eventually get a response? Or maybe my model is bad? I'm out of ideas...

A: I'm answering my own question. If anyone thinks they have a better answer, please share.
I found this aptly-named thread How to test a process eventually succeeds after indefinite number of retries?, where Leslie Lamport himself points out we can just assert fairness on a conjuction of an action and some other formula. In our scenario Spec then looks like this:
Spec ==
    /\ Init
    /\ [][Next]_vars
    /\ WF_vars(Next)
    /\ SF_vars(OK)
    /\ SF_vars(Query /\ (sessionOK = TRUE))

Now, what do each of these formulas in conjuction mean? The first three are quite obvious and were included in my attempt at defining Spec.

*

*Init is true on the first state of the behaviour.

*Next is true for every step of the behaviour (with stuttering allowed).

*Next will continue to occur if it continues to be enabled indefinitely, so a system doesn't come to a stop in the middle of message exchange.

Fourth one was my intuition: it fixes the situation where the query is made, and then the session expires.

*If OK is repeatedly enabled (possible to happen) then it will eventually happen.

And fifth is what was missing: it fixes the situation where OK was never enabled in the first place, because the session expired before the Query could happen.

*If it is repeatedly the case that Query can happen and the session is valid at the same time, it will eventually happen.