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Special, Once
January 1, 2018 by Fergus Lockhart Articles José Mourinho
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]o bastardise a phrase, Mourinho was the future once. As a New Year dawns, it is natural to reflect on successes, failure and hopes of the year past and for the one ahead. It is an unfortunate time to analyse José Mourinho's tenure at Old Trafford, as his lethargic side has stumbled through the festive fixture list with three successive, disappointing draws. This leaves Mourinho's pre-season title hopefuls staring nervously at top four rivals and not up at the near flawless neighbours. After a season and a half as Manchester United manager, questions remain about Mourinho's performance, and his future.
Mourinho's side ends the year on 44 points, having played 21 games, with the team on track to finish on 79 points in May. The Reds are a long way behind Manchester City, but it is unfair to judge Mourinho as a comparative failure given the record-breaking performance by Pep Guardiola's team. Guardiola has set a new level of excellence, re-defined what is possible in the English game, and is on course to finish on more than 100 points. The existing record is held by Mourinho during his first spell at Chelsea, with his team finishing on 95 points in 2005.
[blockquote who="" cite=""]There is no doubt that Mourinho has benefitted from the lowest expectations in a quarter of a century.[/blockquote]
Remove City from the equation, and Mourinho has also failed to finish the year as the best of the rest, despite each of Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal falling below expected standards. This is not just a tale of Mourinho being overwhelmingly out-performed by his nemesis Guardiola.
What the 2017/18 season does represent, though, is progress. There is no doubt that Mourinho has benefitted, following Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement, from the lowest expectations in a quarter of a century. United's structure was centred far too heavily on the Scotsman, and by Ferguson's standards the last four seasons have been a disaster. Mourinho certainly escaped widespread criticism despite finishing last season in sixth with just 69 points. It is widely accepted that Mourinho inherited a side requiring an overhaul, and numerous players in need of re-programming.
During the first half of the season Mourinho's side produce victories in many fixtures that it could only draw in the previous campaign. His team has scored more and conceded less than the same stage of the season last term, and currently has the second best goal difference in the division.
Mourinho also gained credit by winning two competitions last season, especially the Europa League which secured Champions League qualification. Had Mourinho suffered defeat in that Stockholm final, his first season would have been deemed a failure. Cup success enabled the manager to achieve par, which was good enough following the mind-numbing dreariness of Louis van Gaal's possession-based side.
Despite United's December blip, Mourinho has cultivated a side that typically beats inferior opposition. Qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League has been achieved with minimal fuss, and defeat to Bristol City in the Carabao Cup was disappointing, but not season-defining.
The area in which Mourinho is justifiably criticised is his record against the so-called Premier League big six, particularly away from home. Despite United's recent win at the Emirates, which came with more than a touch of good fortune and outstanding goalkeeping, Mourinho's ultra-defensive approach has contributed to losses against Manchester City and Chelsea, while the team could only eek out an unambitious draw at Anfield. This is perhaps the most concerning sign of decline for a manager who has so often masterminded big results on the big occasions.
While Mourinho has improved the side, turning United into a functional and durable team with an inkling of team spirit, the perception is that he should be closer to City. Mourinho found success at Porto, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Inter Milan. To date he has presided over 95 games at United, winning 57, drawing 23, and losing 15. This equates to a win percentage of 60 per cent, which is below his career average of 65.3 per cent. Granted, he is being judged against his own élite standards.
It is also a fair observation that Mourinho has failed to change his approach since he first arrived in England in 2004, cheekily claiming to be the 'Special One'. He has built similar sides: a consistent spine, defensive stability, a high work rate, supplemented by outstanding attacking players possessing pace and power. He has focused primarily on exploiting the weaknesses and mistakes of his opponents, as opposed to playing in any defined style. Style has never been a priority. If anything Mourinho, sneers at the "poets," who he feels should be prioritising competitiveness over entertainment.
Yet, his record against the top six is decidedly poor at United and unacceptable for a club of global stature. This failing is particularly stark for the lack of ambition. While supporters remain behind Mourinho, the seeds of discontent have already been sewn. Despite the obvious talent within the squad, players are not encouraged to express themselves, take risks, or dominate the opposition. Since United's draw against Liverpool, the side has been bereft of confidence.
Much of this is down to Mourinho's personality, where risk aversion dominates. If players do not conform to his disciplined approach, they are not part of the side. Yet, with City setting new standards in a climate where players hold the licence to express flair and creativity, it may be necessary for Mourinho to tweak his approach. Not least because that margins at the highest level are fine, with five sides below City on a similar level. Instead, the gap to City has widened this season, and Mourinho's justification is rings a little hollow.
"You think the club can put £600 million and buy six players for £100 million each?" he asked after United's draw with Leicester.
"The club cannot do that. I cannot expect the club to do that. You can see how the market is, especially with the top teams. I remember my times from my first Chelsea period where everyone was saying money was making the difference. So, I don't think it's changed, I think money makes the difference.
"Sometimes if you don't have that financial profile of club where there are no limits and the only thing that matters is to get the best, there is only one way which is patience, calm, and time."
Indeed, Guardiola has spent more on players over the same period that Mourinho has been in charge: £416 million to the Portuguese's £314 million, according to Transfermarkt.
Not everyone buys the theory. Paul Scholes recently claimed that Mourinho has "whatever money he wants" and that the main problem "is spending it wisely."
Wages is the other, possibly more significant metric. Based on figures published by the University of Salford's Centre for Sports Business, City's annual wage bill was £225 million last season, with United's at £221 million, and Chelsea on £218 million. This puts United roughly on a par with other top sides.
Mourinho has enjoyed mixed success with the players he has acquired in any case. Eric Bailly, Victor Lindelöf, Nemanja Matic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Romelu Lukaku have joined over the past 18 months, each at significant expense and with a view on instant impact. None have fully justified the transfer fees or wages paid.
Bailly is injury prone, Lindelöf has taken time to settle, and Matic has been steady but expensive for a near 30-year-old at £40 million, while Mkhitaryan looks destined for a hasty exit. Neither Lukaku nor Pogba have truly lived up to their spectacular fees. There are even caveats about Ibrahimovic, who joined on a free transfer, but requires tactical accommodation and is destined to spend much of this season on the treatment table.
Another line Mourinho has been keen to impress during his largely joyless press conferences is that he inherited a squad lacking in quality. It is a highly debatable point. After all, the United squad has more than one international calibre player for every position in the side and is bursting with youth in Axel Tuanzebe, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Luke Shaw, Scott McTominay, Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial.
It is a matter of debate, but at the start of the season many pundits placed the United and City squads on a similar level, although that now seems far from the case.
[blockquote who="" cite=""]Mourinho has personally benefitted from the state in which he inherited the club, with fans frustrated and bored with the football on offer under Van Gaal.[/blockquote]
Another criticism that Mourinho faces is his reluctance to develop and promote talent from the academy. He has done little to dispel this observation during his time with the club. Mourinho has consistently asked Rashford and Martial to job-share, although each was already established in the first team. Meanwhile, Lingard has only just become a regular starter despite Mkhitaryan's atrocious form.
Mourinho can take credit for improving many of his defenders, notably Antonio Valencia, Phil Jones and Marcos Rojo, although he has effectively discarded Shaw and Daley Blind. He has failed to extract the most from, or find a defined role, for Pogba, and several of his players are clearly struggling for form and confidence, most prominently Lukaku, Martial and Ander Herrera.
The Mourinho approach is also an issue. He has been publicly critical of both players and his team, questioning the team's attitude and desire more than once, most recently after defeat in the Carabao Cup, but also after United lost at Huddersfield Town. The manager appears to absolve himself of any blame, even thought it is his responsibility to breed the right attitude and mentality.
The approach may have motivated some, but it has precipitated a decline in others. It is a commonly perceived wisdom that modern players typically do not respond well to the hard-line approach, although it has brought Mourinho success throughout his career. Either way, he doesn't appear to be getting the best out of many of the players at his disposal.
Despite the criticisms, there has been progress under Mourinho. He has personally benefitted from the state in which he inherited the club, with fans typically frustrated and bored with the football on offer under Van Gaal. The club also knew what it was getting into with Mourinho, so there should be no surprise in how he has gone about his business. Yet, there is also an inescapable observation that Mourinho is behind the curve considering the resources at his disposal.
He will get time to continue the project. Whether the manager is willing the make the changes that time and context demands is another question. Throughout his career, Mourinho has been a master of smoke and mirrors, diverting attention away from his own failings. This time there's no escape: if United fails to secure any trophies this season, if Mourinho cannot deliver a winning team, then there's not much left on offer. The specialness may have gone.
9 thoughts on "Special, Once"
Nikunj Kanodia says:
PATHETIC ARTICLE.
When you say that Pogba and Ibrahimovic haven't proved their worth, you are being BIASED and you should not comment on United.
"Remove City from the equation, and Mourinho has also failed to finish the year as the best of the rest, despite each of Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal falling below expected standards."
What do you mean by this horrendous statement ???
Jose won 2 trophies and a Shield last year. Only Chelsea and Arsenal can say that they won 1 too. He got us back in the CL and won a trophy as well.
STOP living in the past. BULLSHIT ARTICLE. Disrespectful and in very bad taste.
First, you probably need to get hold a dictionary, Nikunj. Fergus writing his opinion about Pogba and Ibra's impact isn't bias, capital letters or otherwise, it's an opinion. You don't like it because you don't agree? Think it's "disrespectfuL," "very bad taste" and "bullshit". Cry me a river.
Here's something to mull over, the 2017 'annual table'. Doesn't look very pretty for Mourinho given United's relative spend against Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal, both before Mourinho joined and then during his tenure.
Your "annual table" is very much a case of lies, damned lies and statistics. At the very least there should be some recognition that once the top-four was beyond his grasp, Jo$e prioritized the Europa League and didn't invest a lot of energy into the remaining EPL matches. Also, if you look at the first half of the 2017/8 season then you get a quite different scenario.
I reckon that the FA-Cup match against Derby is much, much more important than it would have been if so many points hadn't been squandered in matches with the pretenders and the DeadMenWalking.
It's telling that when Jo$e added another midfielder to free-up Pogba and, especially, not having Lukaku in the centre forward role that it was very much a matter of addition-by-subtraction as the skilled players seemed to be liberated from the rigours of his "zonal-offence" straitjacket.
If UTD buy one player in this next transfer window then I'd like to see someone who can be a significant upgrade on Ander Herrera, in the "McTominayRole" alongside Matic. I'd also like to see Luke Shaw played all the time at left back while figuring out how to upgrade right back since Valencia is pretty-much useless as an attacker while Darmian is just pretty-much useless while AshleyBloodyYoung is – errr – AshleyBloodyYoung.
With regard to transfers, only Mhkitaryan has been a complete bust – and even he had his moments. Pogba is a star but he needs to be used properly, Bailly has had injury issues, Lukaku has done OK but was not the right choice to play #9 (I'd have preferred Morata, for what that's worth), Matic has stabilized the midfield, Lindelof is integrating into the first team,
and Zlatan was a one-year stop-gap who now seems to be well beyond his best-by date.
I agree that Jo$e has been very conservative in placing his faith in "kids" and I share your frustration that Axel Tuanzebe, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Luke Shaw, Scott McTominay, Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial have been marginal – not central – to his team-building. One could add Andreas Pereira to that list, as well.
It would be interesting to know what another manager would have done with those kids. Indeed, it will be interesting to see if any of those kids realizes their potential or whether they will be marginalized because Jo$e trusts the likes of Young/Matic/Smalling/Valencia.
Jozef Regula says:
Well said, your comments are always spot on. Please keep commenting 🙂
The first half the of the 2017/18 season puts United on course for 79 points. It's an improvement, but if – to one point by Fergus – results against the top six are separated out then it doesn't look so pretty. There's also very good data to say that United are currently picking up more points than performances justify. For example, 16 goals against but an XG against that's 60% higher. At some point those good chances might start going in and then we're in trouble. United also conceding a lot of shots – around 250 which is 20% higher than Spurs, for example.
Fergus says:
Hi Nikunj, thanks for taking the time to read and comment! Can I steer you in the direction of @DuncanCastles? I think he's your sort of impartial writer.
Denton Davey, I totally agree about the shape of the side against Everton without Lukaku. Looked a lot more fluid, suited Pogba much better, and allowed more flexibility. Lukaku can be phenomenal, but certain games won't suit him and both Rashford and Martial are at their best centrally supported by other willing runners
Billy Shears says:
Sir Bobby Charlton was right all along about Mourinho.
Specifically on the Shaw situation I fully agree with Denton Davey's point about playing him permanently now – even when Valencia returns making Young available for left back . He's at last gaining in confidence and his defensive work is improving. Going forward he's terrific and great at interlinking with the attack – a real menace to the oppositon. I realise we don't know everything that goes on behind the scenes but Shaw, prior to that horrific injury, was arguably our best player in the first part of that season – not just best full back but best player! LvG had got him up to speed after initial misgivings. By contrast instead of encouraging him, JM publicy excoriated him on more than one occasion – exactly the sort of man management which wasn't needed. Hopefully the manager has had genuine second thoughts and is not playing him because of injuries to others or to put him in the shop window. We do not need a left back but sadly I remain sceptical about JM's intentions in that regard.
Jay Wizzle says:
While I agree with a lot of what you said, I do feel some of this is a little bombastic.
I feel like our squad pre-Mourinho was inferior to most of our rivals, like Arsenal *ugh*, Chelsea and City *uuuugh*.
It is worth remembering, the season before Mourinho came, the likes of Daley Blind, Memphis Depay and Morgan Schneiderling were making close to 30 apps in a competitions.
We are still starting two converted wingers as full backs, who (whisper it quietly) and not very good fullbacks. I get the shivers anytime I see a quality attacker square up Daley Blind or Young.
We spent most of our time since SAF left without an attacker in good form, since RvP downed tools, Rooney gave up football and Chicarito and Welbeck both were decided to not be good enough.
And our best CBs were Rojo, Smalling and Phil Jones pre-Mourinho. Not exactly 2008-2011 Rio, Vidic and Evans by any means.
I am saying this to say, Mourinho has underperformed, but there are caveats, and he would get a whole lot more sympathy if he'd just shut up. Few of the (outfield) players he met coming in could make it into a Bayern Munich or Barca, and he does get my sympathy for that. I see the positives, and not football's culture of immediate results. Sadly 300M isn't what it used to be. Three years ago Liverpool's second highest transfer was Benteke (lol) at 32.5M. I think Mourinho deserves some sympathy in the market.
Last but not least, we also say Mourinho gets a pass for LvG's boring football, but his youth record also gets slated next to LvG. In SAF's last three years, he integrated Cleverley and Welbeck.. but that was it. Since then Matty James, Danny Simpson, Danny Drinkwater, Robbie Brady and more have all gone on to be Premier League players (and champions) while they could have all been worthwhile backup players, saving us money from buying squad fillers like Darmian and Blind.
Mourinho since then has integrated Rashford and McTominay (by no means guaranteed given his record) given debuts to Angel Gomes, Joel Pereira and Axel Tuanzebe, and was perfectly willing to integrate Andreas Pereira. He fell down on Fosu Mensah and James Wilson, but who's to say their training justified a place either way? I feel he gets unfairly criticised there.
And while his top six record stinks, it wasn't great under LvG or Moyes either. Maybe it is because the people actually playing aren't good enough? Yet somehow he still managed to win two and a half trophies last season. (The Europa League is the half)
Overall Mourinho gets a B (not a B+ cause he whines too much), with an expectation of more to come.


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Back with a Bang: Kenya re-admitted to the World Rally Championship after 16 years of missing in action
World Rally Championships Kenya. (Rallystar)
This follows the inclusion of the Kenya's Safari Rally in the WRC 2020 calendar.
World Rally Championship has announced Japan, Kenya and New Zealand will return to the FIA world rally championship for 2020 in a refreshed calendar displaying a more global profile.
Their promotion follows the introduction of a second South American round in Chile this year.
After 16 long years, Kenya has finally been re-admitted to the World Rally Championship circuit.
This follows the inclusion of the Kenya's Safari Rally in the WRC 2020 calendar. World Rally Championship has announced Japan, Kenya and New Zealand will return to the FIA world rally championship for 2020 in a refreshed calendar displaying a more global profile.
Japan's inclusion, 10 years after it last featured in the WRC fixture list, marks mainstream Asia's first appearance in the series since then. Rally New Zealand returns after a seven-year hiatus on 3 - 6 September.
The WRC 2020 calendar. (wrc)
The addition of Kenya's iconic Safari Rally, one of global motorsport's legendary contests, means the WRC returns to Africa, the world's second largest continent by size, for the first time since 2002.
"It's no secret we wanted to further globalise the series by incorporating more events outside Europe and we've achieved that next year with this exciting new-look calendar," said Oliver Ciesla, managing director of WRC Promoter, which owns the championship's commercial rights.
All three countries were confirmed on a 14-round schedule approved by the FIA, world motorsport's governing body. Their promotion follows the introduction of a second South American round in Chile this year.
President Uhuru Kenyatta flaging off the 66th Edition of Kenya's legendary Safari Rally at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani.
Ciesla described the calendar as a 'significant step' in the WRC's growth.
"The return of Japan and Kenya provide a presence in the world's largest two continents by size for the first time in more than two decades. The last time Asia and Africa appeared in the WRC together was 1999.
"The two continents are huge markets for the WRC and I thank everyone involved from both countries and the FIA who have been instrumental in returning the rallies to the calendar for 2020.
"New Zealand requires no introduction. It has a long and successful WRC history and the return of its curving billiard-table smooth special stages near Auckland will be one of the year's highlights," he added.
Long time coming for Kenya
President Uhuru Kenyatta speaking at t Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani where he flagged off the 66th Edition of Kenya's legendary Safari Rally.
In July this year, President Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off the 66th Edition of Kenya's Safari Rally at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani, effectively kicking off Kenya's campaign to be back at WRC.
"Today, the journey we began in 2013 to return the most iconic of motoring events, the Safari Rally, to the International Automobile Federation-World Rally Championship Series, has scaled to greater heights as we proudly host this World Rally Championship Candidate Event," President Kenyatta said.
A rally car participating in the 66th Edition of Kenya's legendary Safari Rally
The Safari rally was a dress rehearsal for Kenya's proposed return of the world rally championship in Africa.
The WRC candidate event, attracted 49 elite drivers from across Africa and covered over 796 kilometres in three days.
In 2003, Kenya Safari Rally was dropped off the world circuit due to concerns over safety, organization and finances.
Here's the full 2020 calendar.
WRC 2020 calendar. (wrc)
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Konstantinos "Dinos" Nikolopoulos (; born 30 November 1993) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left back for Super League 2 club Rodos.

Career
He started his career in 2010–11 season from Olympiakos Lampetiou, an amateur football club in Labeti, Pyrgos, Greece. In July 2011, he was moved to Paniliakos youth ranks. He promoted to the first team on July 7, 2011 at the age of 18. At Paniliakos he made 13 appearances, scoring 1 goal. On August 18, 2012 he moved to AEK Athens to play both for U20 and the first team.

References

External links
  Soccerway Profile
Statistics and profile at myplayer.gr (in Greek)

1993 births
Living people
Greek footballers
Association football defenders
Super League Greece players
Paniliakos F.C. players
AEK Athens F.C. players
A.P.S. Zakynthos players
AO Chania F.C. players
Rodos F.C. players
Footballers from Pyrgos, Elis

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Ce village est désormais célèbre en raison de la découverte, en 1987, par Walter Alva, de la tombe du « Seigneur de Sipán » dans la huaca Rajada. Cette huaca Rajada est un complexe funéraire de la culture Moche abritant aussi de nombreuses autres tombes. On sait désormais que Sipán fut l'un des deux foyers principaux autour desquels se développèrent les Moches et fut à ce titre une ville très importante entre l'an 100 et l'an 700 de notre ère.

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Reading the Bible as Literature (3)
Arjen Vreugdenhil
This is our third article in a series on reading the Bible as literature. The first post summarized and provided examples of a literary approach to Scripture. The second addressed the validity of this method with respect to Scripture's organic inspiration. In this article we want to consider the question, "Can a literary approach do justice to the truth and historicity of Scripture?"
Robert Alter characterizes the Biblical narrative as "prose fiction."[1] For Bible-believing Christians this may sound heretical: by using the word "fiction," does not the author effectively call the Bible a collection of made-up stories that may be nicely told but are not real? Reading further, we find that Alter's commitment to the historical truth of Scripture's stories is not the traditional Reformed view. This calls into question the whole enterprise. If reading the Bible literarily implicitly denies its historicity, we cannot trust it to bring us to a closer understanding of it.
But when these scholars use the term "fiction," they do not mean that the story is made-up and detached from historical fact. Rather, it means that "literary shaping and artistry play no less significant a role in biblical historiography than in fiction."[2] The persons and events of the story are truly historical, but the story is told in a literary fashion. The characters truly spoke, but the author chose what to report of their speech and how, based on literary principles, to report it. In other words, we can characterize the Biblical narrative as "fictional" with respect to its form, not its function or content. V. Philips Long suggests, "It would be far better, at least with respect to the perceptions of the average person, to substitute a term like artistry to describe the historian's literary technique, and reserve the term fiction for the nonfactual genre of that name."[3]
Meir Sternberg discusses this matter in much detail in chapter 1 of The Poetics of Biblical Narrative. He chides earlier biblical scholarship for not making this proper distinction. "Historiography and fiction are genres of writing, not bundles of fact or nonfact in verbal shape."[4] Sternberg gives the example of the 1959 historical narrative by Garret Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1959), which recounts events of history in an artistic way, using literary techniques to select and shape the text.[5] Nothing prevents us from recognizing the same artistry at work in the biblical accounts, while insisting on their essential historicity.
In earlier decades, it was customary to lump the Hebrew Bible together with other Ancient Near East writings. Comparison with Babylonian and other writings convinced many scholars that the Bible was little more than a collection of myths. If the Bible belongs to the same "genre" as these other writings, which are clearly not historical in nature, then the Bible stories cannot to be understood as history.
Thankfully, most Bible scholars today recognize that this lumping-together is unwarranted. The Old Testament is a rather unique document among other literature from antiquity. For instance, it avoids the style of the epos, which is poetry celebrating the legendary heroes, such as the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, the Babylonian Enuma Elish,[6] or the Greek Illiad and Odyssey. Moreover, one must be careful with the concept of "genre." A genre is a collection of writings with formal similarities that indicate their purpose and function; for instance, the genre of fairy is marked by (among other things) the clause, "Once upon a time…" and is intended as a fictional story with a moral lesson. But the similarities between biblical stories and other Ancient Near East literature are too superficial to speak of the same genre. To conclude that biblical narratives served the same purpose as Babylonian legends is therefore unwarranted.
The modern literary approach to the Bible acknowledges the uniqueness of the Bible. Much of this uniqueness lies in its deliberate, self-conscious historical focus. Meir Sternberg discusses this in detail:
Of course the narrative is historiographic, inevitably so considering its teleology and incredibly so considering its time and environment. Everything points in this direction. … [T]his art of narrative has no parallel in ancient times. Alone among Orientals and Greeks, it addresses a people defined in terms of their past and commanded to keep its memory alive.
The very identity of Israel as a nation is bound up with the historical reality of its narrative. Her faith consists of remembrance of past history and hope in future events.
It is this cultural imperative that accounts for … "the greatest surprise" in the whole story of history writing. It explains how there suddenly emerged a people "more obsessed with history than any other nation that has ever existed" [7]
In other words, the Bible stands out as unique among ancient literature precisely because it makes a clear claim of being historical. The message for the ancient Israelite and today's Christian alike is that our identity lies in unique historical events of the past, rather than in the philosophical ideas expressed in myths.
Thus literary criticism acknowledges the historical truth claim of the biblical narrative. This makes it useful for the Bible-believing Christian, whose faith embraces the Bible as historical truth. However, it must be admitted, for a Bible scholar to acknowledge the truth claim of the narrative does not imply that he believes in its truth value.[8] Scholars like Alter and Fokkelman are strong in their defense of the historical truth claim of the Bible, but are not personally committed to its historical truth value. This is a reason for caution: we can generally trust their work in the text, but when they draw theological conclusions our paths go in different directions.
Example: Esther 1:1-3, etc. The story of Esther, for all its novel-like qualities, clearly wants to be read as history. The events are explicitly anchored to a specific time and place during the rule of a well-known king. Likewise, the book ends with a reference to a historiographic document, the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia. For the Israelite reader, it really matters that these events happened: why else would he or she celebrate Purim? The literary reader can respond in two different ways. On the one hand, the unbeliever may reject the truth claim of the story, and perhaps feel superior to the author of the text who thought that this legend actually happened. On the other hand, the believer not only recognizes the truth claim, but gives his assent to it: with the Israelites of 2000 years ago, we receive this narrative as a factual description of the great work the Lord has done for us.
In our next article we'll consider the benefits of a literary approach to Scripture.
[1] Robert Alter, op. cit., chapter 2: "Sacred History and the Beginnings of Prose Fiction".
[2] V. Philips Long, The Art of Biblical History (Grand Rapids: 1994), p. 61.
[3] V. Philips Long, op. cit., p. 63.
[4] Meir Sternberg, op. cit., p. 26.
[6] Robert Alter, op. cit. p. 32ff compares the creation story of Enuma Elish with Gen. 1-2, and concludes that "the monotheistic writer works with very different theological assumptions but also with a radically different sense of literary form."
[7] Meir Sternberg, op. cit., pp. 30f.
[8] For this useful distinction, see e.g. V. Philip Long, The Art of Biblical History, pp. 176f.
Arjen Vreugdenhil was born and raised in the Netherlands where he earned his M.Sc. from the Free University of Amsterdam in Mathematics. He moved to Michigan in 2003 and taught Physics at Grand Valley State University. Afterward he completed his M.Div. at Mid-America Reformed Seminary. He is a member of the United Reformed Churches in North America. He and his wife Jodi have three young boys.
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Q: Is there a bug in the nestest rom? I am currently making an emulator for the NES (like many others) , and while testing my emulation against the nestest rom by Kevtris (found here : https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Emulator_tests),
there is a weird bug I've encountered , at the instruction 877 on the nestest log (this one : http://www.qmtpro.com/~nes/misc/nestest.log , at line CE42) .
The instruction is a PLA , which pulls the accumulator from the stack , while having the stack pointer at $7E at the beginning. (I'm using a 1 byte value for the stack pointer , since it goes from 0x0100 to 0x01FF , so when I write $7E talking about the stack , it's 0x017E , not zeropage
 ;) )
So , when PLA is executed at line 877, the stack pointer moves to $7F and retrieve the first byte and store into the accumulator .
The problem is here : on the nestest log , this byte is 0x39 , then , on instruction 878 which is also a PLA , the retrieved byte at $80 (stack pointer incremented + 1) , is 0xCE, and this has inverted the low byte and high byte.
The values written on the stack (0xCE39) have their origin in the JSR instruction at line CE37 and here is my implementation of the JSR opcode :
uint8_t JSR(){
   get() ; // fetch the data of the opcode , like an absolute address operand or a value
   uint16_t newPC = PC - 1 ; // the program counter is decremented by 1
   uint8_t low = newPC & 0x00FF ;
   uint8_t high = (newPC & 0xFF00) >> 8;
   write_to_stack(SP-- , low) ; //we store the PC , highest address in stack takes the low bytes
   write_to_stack(SP-- , high) ; //lower address on the stack takes the high bytes
   PC = new_address ; // the address we read that points to the subroutine.
   return 0 ;
}

Here are the logs from nestest :
CE37  20 3D CE  JSR $CE3D                       A:69 X:80 Y:01 P:A5 SP:80 PPU:233, 17 CYC:2017
CE3D  BA        TSX                             A:69 X:80 Y:01 P:A5 SP:7E PPU:251, 17 CYC:2023
CE3E  E0 7E     CPX #$7E                        A:69 X:7E Y:01 P:25 SP:7E PPU:257, 17 CYC:2025
CE40  D0 19     BNE $CE5B                       A:69 X:7E Y:01 P:27 SP:7E PPU:263, 17 CYC:2027
CE42  68        PLA                             A:69 X:7E Y:01 P:27 SP:7E PPU:269, 17 CYC:2029
CE43  68        PLA                             A:39 X:7E Y:01 P:25 SP:7F PPU:281, 17 CYC:2033
CE44  BA        TSX                             A:CE X:7E Y:01 P:A5 SP:80 PPU:293, 17 CYC:2037

With my code , I am having 0xCE at $7F and 0x39 at $80.
So the first PLA with my code stores 0xCE in the accumulator , and the second PLA stores 0x39, and this is the invert of what the nestest log shows.
I don't know if my JSR code is wrong , it has succeeded until now.
I tried inverting the low and high byte of the program counter when stored on the stack , but , as expected , the instructions become invalid at the first JSR of the rom .
So , what do you guys think I'm missing ?

A: The mistake is not in nestest; the mistake is in your implementation of JSR and RTS!
You need to push the high byte first, and then the low byte. (This is so that the low byte can be retrieved first, and incremented while the high byte is being fetched)

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Tag Archives: Noah Schweber
Games with the computable-play paradox
Posted on March 28, 2017 by Joel David Hamkins
Let me tell you about a fascinating paradox arising in certain infinitary two-player games of perfect information. The paradox, namely, is that there are games for which our judgement of who has a winning strategy or not depends on whether we insist that the players play according to a deterministic computable procedure. In the the space of computable play for these games, one player has a winning strategy, but in the full space of all legal play, the other player can ensure a win.
The fundamental theorem of finite games, proved in 1913 by Zermelo, is the assertion that in every finite two-player game of perfect information — finite in the sense that every play of the game ends in finitely many moves — one of the players has a winning strategy. This is generalized to the case of open games, games where every win for one of the players occurs at a finite stage, by the Gale-Stewart theorem 1953, which asserts that in every open game, one of the players has a winning strategy. Both of these theorems are easily adapted to the case of games with draws, where the conclusion is that one of the players has a winning strategy or both players have draw-or-better strategies.
Let us consider games with a computable game tree, so that we can compute whether or not a move is legal. Let us say that such a game is computably paradoxical, if our judgement of who has a winning strategy depends on whether we restrict to computable play or not. So for example, perhaps one player has a winning strategy in the space of all legal play, but the other player has a computable strategy defeating all computable strategies of the opponent. Or perhaps one player has a draw-or-better strategy in the space of all play, but the other player has a computable strategy defeating computable play.
Examples of paradoxical games occur in infinite chess. We described such a paradoxical position in my paper Transfinite games values in infinite chess by giving a computable infinite chess position with the property that both players had drawing strategies in the space of all possible legal play, but in the space of computable play, then white had a computable strategy defeating any particular computable strategy for black.
For a related non-chess example, let $T$ be a computable subtree of $2^{<\omega}$ having no computable infinite branch, and consider the game in which black simply climbs in this tree as white watches, with black losing whenever he is trapped in a terminal node, but winning if he should climb infinitely. This game is open for white, since if white wins, this is known at a finite stage of play. In the space of all possible play, Black has a winning strategy, which is simply to climb the tree along an infinite branch, which exists by König's lemma. But there is no computable strategy to find such a branch, by the assumption on the tree, and so when black plays computably, white will inevitably win.
For another example, suppose that we have a computable linear order $\lhd$ on the natural numbers $\newcommand\N{\mathbb{N}}\N$, which is not a well order, but which has no computable infinite descending sequence. It is a nice exercise in computable model theory to show that such an order exists. If we play the count-down game in this order, with white trying to build a descending sequence and black watching. In the space of all play, white can succeed and therefore has a winning strategy, but since there is no computable descending sequence, white can have no computable winning strategy, and so black will win every computable play.
There are several proofs of open determinacy (and see my MathOverflow post outlining four different proofs of the fundamental theorem of finite games), but one of my favorite proofs of open determinacy uses the concept of transfinite game values, assigning an ordinal to some of the positions in the game tree. Suppose we have an open game between Alice and Bob, where the game is open for Alice. The ordinal values we define for positions in the game tree will measure in a sense the distance Alice is away from winning. Namely, her already-won positions have value $0$, and if it is Alice's turn to play from a position $p$, then the value of $p$ is $\alpha+1$, if $\alpha$ is minimal such that she can play to a position of value $\alpha$; if it is Bob's turn to play from $p$, and all the positions to which he can play have value, then the value of $p$ is the supremum of these values. Some positions may be left without value, and we can think of those positions as having value $\infty$, larger than any ordinal. The thing to notice is that if a position has a value, then Alice can always make it go down, and Bob cannot make it go up. So the value-reducing strategy is a winning strategy for Alice, from any position with value, while the value-maintaining strategy is winning for Bob, from any position without a value (maintaining value $\infty$). So the game is determined, depending on whether the initial position has value or not.
What is the computable analogue of the ordinal-game-value analysis in the computably paradoxical games? If a game is open for Alice and she has a computable strategy defeating all computable opposing strategies for Bob, but Bob has a non-computable winning strategy, then it cannot be that we can somehow assign computable ordinals to the positions for Alice and have her play the value-reducing strategy, since if those values were actual ordinals, then this would be a full honest winning strategy, even against non-computable play.
Nevertheless, I claim that the ordinal-game-value analysis does admit a computable analogue, in the following theorem. This came out of a discussion I had recently with Noah Schweber during his recent visit to the CUNY Graduate Center and Russell Miller. Let us define that a computable open game is an open game whose game tree is computable, so that we can tell whether a given move is legal from a given position (this is a bit weaker than being able to compute the entire set of possible moves from a position, even when this is finite). And let us define that an effective ordinal is a computable relation $\lhd$ on $\N$, for which there is no computable infinite descending sequence. Every computable ordinal is also an effective ordinal, but as we mentioned earlier, there are non-well-ordered effective ordinals. Let us call them computable pseudo-ordinals.
Theorem. The following are equivalent for any computable game, open for White.
White has a computable strategy defeating any computable play by Black.
There is an effective game-value assignment for white into an effective ordinal $\lhd$, giving the initial position a value. That is, there is a computable assignment of some positions of the game, including the first position, to values in the field of $\lhd$, such that from any valued position with White to play, she can play so as to reduce value, and with Black to play, he cannot increase the value.
Proof. ($2\to 1$) Given the computable values into an effective ordinal, then the value-reducing strategy for White is a computable strategy. If Black plays computably, then together they compute a descending sequence in the $\lhd$ order. Since there is no computable infinite descending sequence, it must be that the values hit zero and the game ends with a win for White. So White has a computable strategy defeating any computable play by Black.
($1\to 2$) Conversely, suppose that White has a computable strategy $\sigma$ defeating any computable play by Black. Let $\tau$ be the subtree of the game tree arising by insisting that White follow the strategy $\sigma$, and view this as a tree on $\N$, a subtree of $\N^{<\omega}$. Imagine the tree growing downwards, and let $\lhd$ be the Kleene-Brouwer order on this tree, which is the lexical order on incompatible positions, and otherwise longer positions are lower. This is a computable linear order on the tree. Since $\sigma$ is computably winning for White, the open player, it follows that every computable descending sequence in $\tau$ eventually reaches a terminal node. From this, it follows that there is no computable infinite descending sequence with respect to $\lhd$, and so this is an effective ordinal. We may now map every node in $\tau$, which includes the initial node, to itself in the $\lhd$ order. This is a game-value assignment, since on White's turn, the value goes down, and it doesn't go up on Black's turn. QED
Corollary. A computable open game is computably paradoxical if and only if it admits an effective game value assignment for the open player, but only with computable pseudo-ordinals and not with computable ordinals.
Proof. If there is an effective game value assignment for the open player, then the value-reducing strategy arising from that assignment is a computable strategy defeating any computable strategy for the opponent. Conversely, if the game is paradoxical, there can be no such ordinal-assignment where the values are actually well-ordered, or else that strategy would work against all play by the opponent. QED
Let me make a few additional observations about these paradoxical games.
Theorem. In any open game, if the closed player has a strategy defeating all computable opposing strategies, then in fact this is a winning strategy also against non-computable play.
Proof. If the closed player has a strategy $\sigma$ defeating all computable strategies of the opponent, then in fact it defeats all strategies of the opponent, since any winning play by the open player against $\sigma$ wins in finitely many moves, and therefore there is a computable strategy giving rise to the same play. QED
Corollary. If an open game is computably paradoxical, it must be the open player who wins in the space of computable play and the closed player who wins in the space of all play.
Proof. The theorem shows that if the closed player wins in the space of computable play, then that player in fact wins in the space of all play. QED
Corollary. There are no computably paradoxical clopen games.
Proof. If the game is clopen, then both players are closed, but we just argued that any computable strategy for a closed player winning against all computable play is also winning against all play. QED
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dc.contributor.author Hernandez Perez, Francisco E.
dc.identifier.citation Manias D, Tingas A-E, Hernandez Perez FE, Im HG, Galassi RM, et al. (2018) Analysis of Hydrogen/Air Turbulent Premixed Flames at Different Karlovitz Numbers Using Computational Singular Perturbation. 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-0364.
dc.description.abstract The dynamics and structure of two turbulent H2/air premixed flames, representative of the corrugated flamelet (Case 1) and thin reaction zone (Case 2) regimes, are analyzed and compared, using the computational singular perturbation (CSP) tools, by incorporating the tangential stretch rate (TSR) approach. First, the analysis is applied to a laminar premixed H2/air flame for reference. Then, a two-dimensional (2D) slice of Case 1 is studied at three time steps, followed by the comparison between two representative 2D slices of Case 1 and Case 2, respectively. Last, statistical analysis is performed on the full three-dimensional domain for the two cases. The dominant reaction and transport processes are identified for each case and the overall role of kinetics/transport is determined.
dc.description.sponsorship This work was sponsored by competitive research funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). MV also acknowledges the support of the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR).
dc.contributor.department King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal-Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
dc.contributor.institution Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
kaust.person Hernandez Perez, Francisco E.


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Electrical alternans is an electrocardiographic phenomenon of alternation of QRS complex amplitude or axis between beats and a possible wandering base-line. It is seen in cardiac tamponade and severe pericardial effusion and is thought to be related to changes in the ventricular electrical axis due to fluid in the pericardium, as the heart essentially wobbles in the fluid filled pericardial sac.

The echocardiogram of the heart demonstrated the characteristic swinging along with alternating voltage on the ECG.

Generally electrical alternans can be seen with tamponade, and narrow AV junctional reentrant tachycardia with an accessory pathway (such as WPW syndrome). A similar phenomenon,  pseudo-alternans, can be seen in bigeminal (premature ventricular contraction) PVC in the PR interval, alternans pre-excitation, and alternans bundle branch block. For the most part however, the most serious condition to rule out is tamponade.

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See also
 Cardiac tamponade
 Electrocardiogram

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 * Used internally by the KeyCombo class.
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 * @function Phaser.Input.Keyboard.KeyCombo.ResetKeyCombo
 * @private
 * @since 3.0.0
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 * @param {Phaser.Input.Keyboard.KeyCombo} combo - The KeyCombo to reset.
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Q: Jackson add wrapper based on field values I have a class like below:
@JsonRootName("ASSETS")
public class Assets{
    String val1;
    String val2;
}

Unfortunately I need to serialize it to something like this:
<ASSETS>
   <ASSET>
      <val1_val2>
         <val1>x</val1>
         <val2>y</val2>
      </val1_val2>
   </ASSET>
   <ASSET>
      <val1_val2>
         <val1>x</val1>
         <val2>y</val2>
      </val1_val2>
   </ASSET>
</ASSETS>

I can get it to the point where I have a list of ASSET objects inside ASSETS, but how do I add that extra wrapper that's a composite of two of the fields?

A: You need to write custom serialiser. To do that, extend com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer class. Also, to create extra wrap element use startWrappedValue method. Example code could look like below:
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonRootName;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonSerialize;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.annotation.JacksonXmlProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.ser.ToXmlGenerator;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class XmlMapperApp {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
        xmlMapper.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
        xmlMapper.setDefaultUseWrapper(false);

        Assets assets = new Assets();
        assets.getAssets().add(new Asset());
        assets.getAssets().add(new Asset());

        System.out.println(xmlMapper.writeValueAsString(assets));
    }
}

class AssetXMLSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Asset> {

    private final QName wrapper = new QName("val1_val2");
    @Override
    public void serialize(Asset value, JsonGenerator gen, SerializerProvider serializers) throws IOException {
        ToXmlGenerator xmlGen = (ToXmlGenerator) gen;

        xmlGen.writeStartObject();
        xmlGen.startWrappedValue(wrapper, wrapper);
        xmlGen.writeStringField("val1", value.getVal1());
        xmlGen.writeStringField("val2", value.getVal2());
        xmlGen.finishWrappedValue(wrapper, wrapper);
        xmlGen.writeEndObject();

    }
}

@JsonRootName("ASSETS")
class Assets {

    @JacksonXmlProperty(localName = "ASSET")
    private List<Asset> assets = new ArrayList<>();

    // getters, setters, toString
}

@JsonSerialize(using = AssetXMLSerializer.class)
class Asset {
    private String val1;
    private String val2;

    // getters, setters, toString
}

Above code prints:
<ASSETS>
  <ASSET>
    <val1_val2>
      <val1>x</val1>
      <val2>y</val2>
    </val1_val2>
  </ASSET>
  <ASSET>
    <val1_val2>
      <val1>x</val1>
      <val2>y</val2>
    </val1_val2>
  </ASSET>
</ASSETS>

Solution with using default serialiser for a huge bean
To use default bean serialiser for an Asset class you need to use BeanSerializerModifier and register it using SimpleModule. We need to invoke serializeFields method which is protected, so I created ExpandXmlBeanSerializer just to make it public so we can use it in our implementation:
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonRootName;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.BeanDescription;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationConfig;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleModule;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanSerializerModifier;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.annotation.JacksonXmlProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.ser.ToXmlGenerator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.ser.XmlBeanSerializer;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

public class XmlMapperApp {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        SimpleModule assetModule = new SimpleModule();
        assetModule.setSerializerModifier(new LoopBackBeanSerializerModifier());

        XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
        xmlMapper.registerModule(assetModule);
        xmlMapper.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
        xmlMapper.setDefaultUseWrapper(false);

        Assets assets = new Assets();
        assets.getAssets().add(new Asset("x0", "y0"));
        assets.getAssets().add(new Asset("x1", "y1"));

        System.out.println(xmlMapper.writeValueAsString(assets));
    }
}

class LoopBackBeanSerializerModifier extends BeanSerializerModifier {
    @Override
    public JsonSerializer<?> modifySerializer(SerializationConfig config, BeanDescription beanDesc, JsonSerializer<?> serializer) {
        if (beanDesc.getBeanClass() == Asset.class) {
            return new AssetXMLSerializer(new ExpandXmlBeanSerializer((BeanSerializerBase) serializer));
        }
        return serializer;
    }
}

class ExpandXmlBeanSerializer extends XmlBeanSerializer {

    public ExpandXmlBeanSerializer(BeanSerializerBase src) {
        super(src);
    }

    @Override
    public void serializeFields(Object bean, JsonGenerator gen0, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException {
        super.serializeFields(bean, gen0, provider);
    }
}

class AssetXMLSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Asset> {

    private final QName wrapper;
    private final ExpandXmlBeanSerializer baseSerializer;

    public AssetXMLSerializer(ExpandXmlBeanSerializer baseSerializer) {
        this.baseSerializer = Objects.requireNonNull(baseSerializer);
        String fields = String.join("_",
                Stream.of(Asset.class.getDeclaredFields())
                .map(Field::getName)
                .collect(Collectors.toList()));
        this.wrapper = new QName(fields);
    }

    @Override
    public void serialize(Asset value, JsonGenerator gen, SerializerProvider serializers) throws IOException {
        ToXmlGenerator xmlGen = (ToXmlGenerator) gen;

        xmlGen.writeStartObject();
        xmlGen.startWrappedValue(wrapper, wrapper);
        baseSerializer.serializeFields(value, gen, serializers);
        xmlGen.finishWrappedValue(wrapper, wrapper);
        xmlGen.writeEndObject();

    }
}

@JsonRootName("ASSETS")
class Assets {

    @JacksonXmlProperty(localName = "ASSET")
    private List<Asset> assets = new ArrayList<>();

    // getters, setters, toString
}

class Asset {
    private String val1;
    private String val2;

    public Asset(String val1, String val2) {
        this.val1 = val1;
        this.val2 = val2;
    }

    // getters, setters, toString
}

See also:

*

*Jackson xml and json root element

*Using Jackson to add XML attributes to manually-built node-tree

*Multiple Jackson XML Custom (XMLStreamWriter) Serialisers throws Exception

*SpringBoot: Consume & Produce XML with a Custom Serializer + Deserializer

*Jackson deserialization SNS message error MismatchedInputException


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