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Information-silkReal NameHope Summers (name legally changed from "Baby" Spalding; her given birth name is unknown)
Information-silkRelativesunnamed maternal grandmother;

Scott Summers (adoptive paternal grandfather);
Madelyne Pryor-Summers (adoptive paternal grandmother);
Jean Grey-Summers (adoptive paternal step-grandmother);
Louise Spalding (mother, deceased);
unknown biological father;
Nathan Summers (adoptive father);
Hope Summers (adoptive mother, deceased);
Tyler Dayspring (adoptive step-brother, deceased);

Summers and Grey Family Tree (adoptive family)
Information-silkAffiliationX-Force (leader); formerly X-Men (Jean Grey School member), Jean Grey School student body, Lights, Extinction Team, partner of Cable
Information-silkBase Of OperationsAbandoned S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier "Pericles", Pacific Ocean; formerly Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Westchester County, New York; Utopia, San Francisco Bay, California; mobile; Ensabahnur I; Clean City;
New Liberty; Cooperstown, Alaska
Information-silkIdentitySecret Identity
Information-silkMarital StatusSingle
Information-silkOccupationAdventurer; former nomad
Information-silkEducationTutored by Cable
Information-silkHeight5' 6"
Information-silkWeight106 lbs (48 kg)
Information-silkUnusual FeaturesHas shown having irises in the form of the Phoenix
Information-silkPlace of BirthCooperstown Memorial Hospital, Cooperstown, Alaska
Information-silkCreatorsMike Carey, Chris Bachalo
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Quote1 I'm assuming you saw what she did? How her power works? Anything we can do -- anything any of us can do -- she's already there. It's like -- someone made a voodoo doll for the whole mutant race. That's what Hope is. She's us. All of us. Quote2
-- Prodigy src
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Cable escaping with the mutant infant

Messiah CompleX

Hope was the first new mutant born since the M-Day. The moment she was born, Cerebra blew up. Soon after her birthplace in Cooperstown, Alaska was attacked by the Purifiers, who had used information given from the time-traveling Sentinel Nimrod warning them of her arrival. Although everyone else in town was murdered by the Purifiers, Cable managed to save her. According to him, the baby was the messiah supposed to save both mutants and humankind. However, according to the Purifiers and Bishop, she would become an evil antichrist and kill a million humans within six minutes, turning humanity against mutants once again, thus leading into a new era of mutant persecution, the very timeline in which Bishop was born.[citation needed]

The baby was later kidnapped from Cable by the Marauders and delivered to Mister Sinister who was actually Mystique in disguise. She took the baby and made her touch the comatose Rogue. Gambit quickly took her away from Mystique, believing that she just killed her but he was amazed to see that the baby was alright and that it even cured Rogue of the Strain 88 virus. After a huge battle between the Marauders, X-Men, and Predator X, Cyclops decided that the baby would be better off with Cable, and allowed his son to take her to the future. However, an adamant Bishop decided to track Cable and the baby in order to finally kill her and prevent his future from happening.[citation needed]

Into the Future

Upon jumping into the future, Cable took her to the secluded safe haven of New Liberty in the future, where Cable married a fellow civilian named Hope, who became like a mother to the mutant baby. Years passed, since his last battle with Bishop damaged his time machine, Cable could only jump forward in time. She was now seven years old. But then New Liberty was invaded by humanoid insects who called themselves the United States Army. Cable fought them and left New Liberty with his wife and Hope in order to make sure New Liberty didn't fall. After spending months in the wasteland, the family was attacked by the president of the insects, whom Hope managed to save her family from by stabbing the insect in his weak spot, since she had been watching Cable fight. Cable questioned the president where he found out that Bishop, in order to find Hope in the future, had destroyed all the continents in the world, except North America, in order to easily find her and kill her. Cable killed the president, and the family moved on. The family encountered a settlement, but were met with resistance. Cable took care of them easily, but not fast enough, as her mother was shot and died in Cable's arms while she watched. Hope saw Cable bury her mother and departed with him. After arriving at a church, the pastor asked the name of the child. In that moment, Cable decided to name her Hope Summers, in honor of her adoptive mother.[citation needed]
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A young Hope Summers

Messiah War

Hope later became the center of another conflict, this time between Cable, Stryfe, and X-Force. Hope was kidnapped by Stryfe who was working with Bishop. She watched as Stryfe tortured Warpath until Cable, Wolverine, and Elixir came to their rescue. In the following fight she survived along with the rest of the X-Force and Cable with Bishop losing an eye to Wolverine and having his time travel device damaged. When Cable and Hope were forced to time travel again, Hope resisted because she wanted to stay with X-23 and Elixir, with whom she had bonded during the War. That caused her to kick Cable in mid jump stranding herself and Cable two years apart from each other.[citation needed]
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Hope and Emil on the Ensabahnur I

Hope fled the rubble of Stryfe's Celestial City and befriended Emil Spence, the descendant of Stryfe's warriors, Stryfetroopers. Hope survived for two years, with the help of Emil, until rejoining Cable and fleeing Earth on the second last spaceship on the planet, the Ensabahnur I, which Cable commandeered posing as Stryfe. Hope was devastated at being forced to leave Emil, the boy she loved.[citation needed]

At some point during their journey Hope accidentally revealed Cable's true identity, and he was imprisoned. Bishop and Emil eventually caught up to Cable and Hope, Emil under the impression that Cable had kidnapped Hope and Bishop was her true father, Bishop was also armed with a thermo-nuclear device which he planned to activate as soon as he saw Hope. While Bishop and Emil raided the Ensahabnur I, Emil and Hope were reunited and Hope explained to Emil that Bishop was in fact trying to kill her.[citation needed]

During Bishop's invasion, the Brood, attracted to Hope's power, attacked both ships, distracting Bishop from Hope. While Cable and Bishop both fought the Brood, Hope and Emil made their way to the ship's two terraforming pods, which would facilitate their escape. Emil placed Hope in the pod against her will as she refused to leave Cable. As Emil was preparing the second pod Cable appeared and Emil gave the second pod to Cable, sacrificing his own life.[citation needed]

After Cable and Hope had left, Emil obtained Bishops thermo-nuclear weapon, detonating moments before he could be attacked by a Sleazoid. However, Bishop escaped by allowing himself to be absorbed by an Acanti, and two years later he had tracked Hope and Cable in cryo-sleep within their terraforming pods.[citation needed]

Hope and Cable survived the brutal crash-landing back onto the dying Earth. Hope and Cable made encampment in ruins infest with mutant rats.[5] Soon Hope made the decision that she was ready to go home and join the X-Men. However, the only fully functioning time machine in Bishop's robotic arm, and Bishop was still trapped inside a dying Acanti. Cable blowed up the Acanti corpse, awoke Bishop and narrowly escaped with Hope into the past, but not before Bishop fired a bullet point blank at Hope's head. Fortunately, Hope mutant powers manifested and she used Cable's telekinesis to stop the bullet in midair.[6]

The cobbled together time machine turned out to be somewhat faulty, making it difficult to time-sliding to a specific date. Also, the remnants of Bishop time device were triggered with each jump which allowed him to follow Cable and anywhere in time. A violent chase ensues across numerous time periods on Manhattan Island including Revolutionary War and ruins of the apocalyptic future.[7] Suddenly, they arrive in 2044 where Cable and Hope were briefly reunited with Sophie Pettit. However, Bishop also met some former comrades, Turnpike Authority, and begins chasing Hope with his new reinforcements. Unfortunately, during the chase, the car carrying Cable, Hope and Sophie crashed in Central Park. Cable was able to save Hope and time-jump, but Sophie died. Hope and Cable land in Central Park of 1933 and waste no time in moving before Bishop follows.[8] Cable and Hope made several more rapid time jumps, each time over shooting their true destination, but each time getting closer. Bishop finally reach them and was almost successful in killing Hope until Cable activated the time device in his arm to send Bishop to the year 6700 AD. Finally free of their pursuer, Hope and Cable borrow a car and drive to the X-Mansion and prepare for their final jump into the present.[9]

Nathan Summers (Earth-616) and Hope Summers (Earth-616) say goodbye

Hope says goodbye to her father, Nathan.

Second Coming

Cable and Hope arrived at in the present at the ruins of the Xavier Institute. While searching the rubble for clues on the X-Men's current whereabouts, a team of Smiley Faces attacked them. They were able to escape, but now Bastion knew about the Mutant Messiah's return.[10] Bastion began tracking the pair using Cable's T.O. virus as a beacon. Hodge's Smiley-Faces and Stryker's Purifiers both continued to pursue the pair, but the X-Men were also alerted to Hope and Cable's return via the Stepford Cuckoos and Cerebra.[11][12][13]

A select team of X-Men was able to stop both the Purifiers and Smiley Faces, and catch up to Cable and Hope. Once the X-Men understood how Bastion was tracking Cable they broke into two teams: Nightcrawler, Rogue and Hope teleporting back to Utopia and Wolverine, Cable and the remainder of Alpha Team acting as decoys.[13] Bastion quickly uncovered the deception and attempted to kill Hope personally, but he was confronted by Rogue and then damaged when Nightcrawler sacrifices himself to save Hope by teleporting in one leap from Las Vegas to Utopia.

The X-Men hold of Bastion's attack

The X-Men hold of Bastion's attack.

After Hope arrived on Utopia, Bastion launched the next phase of his plan. During the months leading up to Hope's return a large energy dome was built over the Bay Area to cut off the X-Men from escape or help. Once the dome was activated, Bastion opened a dimensional portal from his home reality to allow in more Nimrod-Series Sentinels.[14] Like the original Nimrod, these Sentinels are able to detect, analyze and adapt to mutant powers. They are also self-repairing. The X-Men were barely able to subdue them, and several X-Men sustained severe injuries.[15] Every five minutes a wave of five new Nimrod Sentinels continued to appear through the portal.[16] Only by sending X-Force, Cable and Cypher on a one-way mission into the future to reprogram and destroy the Nimrod Master Molds were the X-Men successful to defeating them.[15][17] However, to get X-Force home safely, Cable sacrificed his own life.[18]

Once the dimensional portal was closed, Bastion decided it was time to confront Hope personally. He converted both Graydon Creed and Stephen Lang into robotic forms to battle the X-Men on the Golden Gate Bridge. Hope, grieving profusely at the death of her father, allowed her sorrow to turn into purposeful rage. Her mutant powers manifesting once more, Hope was able to draw on the mutant powers of the X-Men around her and single-handedly destroyed Bastion, Lang and Creed.[18]

After the battle, Hope laid down cradled in the remains of Cable's techno-organic arm and fell asleep for nearly 30 hours due to sheer exhaustion.[19]

Hope Summers (Earth-616) wants to go to Alaska

Hope wants to find her family in Alaska

The Five Lights

Once the dust had settled after the final battle with Bastion, Hope, accompanied by Rogue and Dr. Nemesis, was sent to the Baxter Building in New York City to be thoroughly examined by Mr. Fantastic. After the examination, Richards concluded that Hope showed no major signs damage from time-traveling. He did recommend she have some dental work done and begin her vaccination regiment. He also said what would be most helpful is a biological family history.[20]

When Hope returned to Utopia, she was confronted by Cyclops. They agreed to not let Cable's death stand between them. Cyclops began to talk about Hope and a small group of X-Men visiting the five newly manifested mutants, but Hope refused to go. Cyclops realized he was expecting too much from Hope, and per her request promised to send her and a few X-Men to Cooperstown, Alaska to search for clues of her biological family[20]

Hope with Rogue, Cypher and Dr. Nemesis went to Alaska, and discovered that Hope's mother was Captain Louise Spalding of the Cooperstown Fire Department. While visiting Louise's grave, Hope met her own grandmother, who told Hope about Louise.

Immediately after leaving Alaska, Hope and the others headed to Vancouver, Canada to save "the first light". Hope arrived just in time to save Laurie's life and stabilize her powers. After that, Laurie committed to follow Hope to the ends of the Earth.[21] From Canada, Hope and the others went to Mexico City, Mexico where Hope similarly saved Gabriel Cohuelo.[22]

Next Hope accompanied by Storm traveled to Nigeria to save Idie Okonkwo from a paramilitary group threatening to kill her. Hope stabilized her powers and brought her back to Utopia with the others?[23]

The next light was originally located in the Ukraine, but when Hope, Rogue and the other lights arrived in Kiev, he was gone. They tracked him over most of Europe and finally found in in Miami Beach, Florida. Like the other lights, Hope was able to stabilize Teon's powers, and unlike the other she also "tamed" him?[3] After Teon joined, they group set off for Japan to stop the fifth light from destroying Tokyo.[24]

At first, Hope was unable to get close enough to touch Kenji, but she was able to control her powers enough to mimic Kenji although the strain of mimicking his powers made her faint with exhaustion.[25] Cyclops then ordered the lights and Hope to stand back while the X-Men handled Kenji. Ignoring this order, Hope convinced the lights to help her save Kenji. She was able to again mimic Kenji's powers and use them to successfully subdue Kenji so she could physically touch him which resulted in the stabilization of both his powers and personality.[26]

Hope Summers (Earth-616) and the Sixth Light

Hope tries, and fails, to calm the Sixth Light.

The Sixth and Seventh Lights

After the incident in Tokyo, Cyclops replaced Rogue with Kitty Pryde as his envoy to the team. As a newly officially sanctioned X-Men team, the Lights were deployed to Germany, where a sixth light had activated. They discovered the the new light has in fact an unborn child who telepathically took control of those near him. Kenji and Teon proved immune to its power, and Kenji was able to create links to the rest of the lights to protect them as well. Laurie theorized that the child was acting out because it did not want to be born, and so Hope had Kenji link them to the baby. After several attempts to reason with it, Teon managed to calm the baby, and he was successfully delivered. Hope touched him, stabilizing his powers. The Lights then left Germany to return to Utopia; Teon's family had started legal action to regain custody of him.[27]

While awaiting the trial, Hope was furious with the blasé attitude taken by Dr. Rao and Evangeline Whedon Teon's custody. In an effort to distract her team from the looming legal proceedings, Hope insisted on adopting code names. Later despite his normally animalistic nature, Teon was able to eloquently offer a sound case of why he needed to stay with Hope and the X-Men. Immediately after the trial, Laurie and Kenji began to speculate on the reason all of the Lights (themselves included) seemed to be so drawn to following Hope.[28]

After the events in Germany and Teon's trial, Hope and her team continued to train and prepare for more new mutant activation's. Thanks to the Stepford Cuckoos monitoring in Cerebra, Hope and the Lights were alerted almost immediately of activation of the Seventh Light's powers. They left quickly, but arrived just after Zee had committed suicide. The whole team took the death very hard.[29]

Fear Itself

Laurie and Idie decided to confront Hope and force her to take a break from her constant training. The trio went shopping in San Francisco and was ambushed by Crimson Commando, who kidnapped Hope. Wolverine tracked her down and rescued her. This allowed Hope to confront him on why he's avoided her, and Wolverine shared his fear of the potential of eventually having to kill her, which Hope respected.[30]

When Kuurth, one of the Serpent's Worthy, was marching on to destroy San Francisco and Utopia, Hope was a vital part of Cyclops second plan. After the initial attempt to stop Kuurth failed, Cyclops instructed Hope to utilize the power of other X-Men to remove Kuurth helmet. She was successful, but Kuurth proved more difficult to stop than the regular Juggernaut.[31] Kuurth was eventually driven off by Colossus, who had become the new Juggernaut.[32]

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Laurie and Hope argue

After Idie killed the attacking Hellfire Club at the Mutant History Museum, she argued with Laurie whether it could have been prevented. Laurie also disagreed with Hope on the issue of whether to remain on Utopia or not, but Hope forced her to stay. In the aftermath, Laurie insisted that Idie be made to go with Wolverine; Hope relented.[citation needed]

Hope's relationship with Gabriel was cut short when she discovered him kissing Pixie. However, Hope harbored no ill will towards Pixie and invited her to join the Lights.[citation needed]

Hope and her team thought that they had found a new Light, but instead found Sebastian Shaw who had previously been mind-wiped by Emma Frost and now had no memory of his past. Hope brought him back to Utopia and convinced Cyclops to allow him to join her team. Later, Kenji put his plans to betray her into motion and attacked her and the rest of the Lights. With help from No-Girl, they managed to kill him.[33]

Avengers vs. X-Men

While the Avengers were massing and traveling to Utopia, Hope was training rigorously with Cyclops. After Cyclops pushed her too far, she manifested the Phoenix Fire Bird and sent him flying. Their training session was interrupted by the arrival of Captain America who demanded that the X-Men turn over Hope to the Avengers. Cyclops refused and blasted him which caused the Avengers to attack.[34] Hope was taken out of the battle but dispatched her Lights teammates and Wolverine and Spider-Man who came to capture her, and proceeded to flee Utopia hoping to lure away the Avengers.[35] She scrambled her signals which made her seem to be in five places at once to prevent the X-Men or the Avengers from finding her. She tracked down Wolverine who was left in Antarctica by Captain America and offered him a deal. She was planning to travel to the Moon in order to confront the Phoenix but wanted Wolverine with her to stop her if she lost control. Wolverine betrayed her, however, and summoned the Avengers and shortly afterwards the X-Men arrived. Before the two groups could start fighting, the Phoenix finally arrived.[36]

After being attacked by Iron Man the Phoenix breaks into five pieces and chooses Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik, Namor and Colossus as its hosts. The unconscious Hope is taken back to Earth by the Phoenix Five who go about reshaping the Earth into a better place to live for all.[citation needed]

Hope continued to hear the Phoenixes voice calling to her however, and when Cyclops asks her if she would accept the Phoenix Force now, she eagerly responds yes. Cyclops doesn't give it to her however, stating that she proved herself unworthy when she denied it on the Moon. The Avengers broke into to Utopia in order to capture her so as to better study the Phoenix Force, but they were stopped by the arrival of Cyclops and Emma. The Scarlet Witch showed up as well however and Hope voluntarily went with her.[citation needed]

She was taken to the mystical city of K'un-Lun and received the prophecy that she will be trained by Spider-Man who was puzzled as to what he was supposed to be teaching her. She was initially outraged over her new teachers lack of knowledge and seriousness but was quickly won over and began to listen, after he told her how he got his powers and that his uncle always told him "With great power comes great responsibility".[37]

Hope's training was interrupted, however, when Cyclops, now empowered due to receiving more Phoenix portions after two more of his fellow Phoenixes fell, managed to penetrate the wall between K'un-Lun and the regular world. Cyclops made short work of all the Avengers that opposed him, even managing to defeat Shou-Lao, the dragon that gives K'un-Lun its power. Hope managed to stop him by copying both the dragon's flames and the Scarlet Witch's hex bolts, and used them to incapacitate him and send him to the Moon. Afterwards, when Cyclops became Dark Phoenix, Hope and the Scarlet Witch fought for a while because Hope believed Wanda ruined her life when she decreased the mutant race during the House of M event. Captain America and Iron Man broke up the fight and later created a plan to defeat Cyclops. During the fight, Hope and Wanda went head to head with Cyclops by using chaos magic with Shou-Lao kung fu to hurt Cyclops. Jean Grey came to Cyclops from the White Hot Room to help him let go of the Phoenix Force. When it did, Hope became its host and took away the flames of Dark Phoenix, becoming the White Phoenix. Wanda talked to Hope on understand her true purpose as the Phoenix. With their powers combined, they both said "No More Phoenix", which broke the original spell "No More Mutants" and brought back the mutant race. The Phoenix Force was presumed dead but there is no evidence to show what really happened. Cyclops was then taken to a prison and Hope had returned to her normal life. She attended the Jean Grey School for higher learning.[citation needed]

After the events of Avengers vs X-Men she received a letter from her adoptive father Cable telling her at the end not to go looking for him, but burned the letter. Captain America and the Scarlet Witch went to her and suggested that she could go to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. She agrees, believing that this will give her a normal life since completing her destiny as Phoenix. After arriving at the school, she was thinking about the Five Lights, and how they would know what to do after the time as Phoenix. In the night, she began sneaking around parts of the world looking for her father Cable. When Utopia fell into the seas she went to take a look, and was confronted by Namor about why she was there, to which she replied the truth. Hope asked how he was after he had possessed the Phoenix and destroyed Wakanda. He said it was just war, and he did what he had to do, angering her into leaving him behind. Continuing her search, she was confronted by the Avengers, who asked where she had been. Before she could respond, the talk was interrupted when Spider-Woman said there was a prison escape that led Cyclops to be freed, engineered by Danger, Magneto, and Magik. She returned to the school and found a note to look out the window. She saw Cable for the first time after the event and said he will be there for her when the time is right, after which they said their goodbyes and she went to sleep at last.[38]

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Cable and X-Force

Hope has been living a 'normal life' for four weeks now. She speaks to a psychiatrist named Doctor Townley due to The Avengers making the sessions mandatory. She now has foster parents that watch twenty-seven hours of television a week, and their excessive smiling makes her uncomfortable. She feels that her foster parents can't compare to Cable. Domino is speaking to Boom Boom via communication link about how she made a sucker out of a client to pay her three times the amount for a job to rescue a professor from M.I.T. she considers "easy money". Turns out Hope had hacked into her files, and beat her to the punch. Domino is surprised to see Hope again. Hope makes a deal with trade the missing professor for her luck powers to find Cable. Domino and Hope locate Cable in a junkyard in Nebraska. She becomes enraged and mimics Cable's telekinesis. She explains that while she was looking all over the world for him, he was there and didn't bother to reach out to her the minute he woke up from his coma. Cable responds with "I miss you too kid. Every damned day". Hope's rage stops and she hugs him. Suddenly Cable has another headache and Hope sees visions of a future event, Cable passes out and awakens later on, only to see Hope's vision on television.

Hope later joins Cable's X-Force and fight with him against Stryfe and confront Bishop, who is back in the present and member of another X-Force team. At the end of the battle, the two teams are disband.

At the graduation day of the Jean Grey school, Hope makes a surprise visit to see Idie.[39]

New X-Force and MeMe

After a huge disaster occurred in Alexandria, Virginia, Hope became comatose due to the nature of the blast. This led to her father Cable to reform another X-Force team. During the team's first outing, they were able to save a new mutant named MeMe, who also was stuck in a catatonic state. Unbeknownst to them, MeMe was brain dead but still alive to the point where Hope was able to mimic her mutant abilities of electro-magnetic transference and decided to impersonate MeMe in order to stay close to her father.[40]

She began to help X-Force as a digital interface to override the doors locking mechanism with her mutant abilities, which allowed Cable to access the door so that he could eliminate their target Qareen, in exchange for the information from Fiqh about who was turning mutants into weapons.[39]

Meme next shows up with her X-Force teammates in northwestern Brazil to locate a mutant named Antonio Aggasiz who was targeted by arms dealer Volga for his dimensional teleporting abilities. Unable to scan the compound due to psi-dampeners, Meme and the team infiltrate the place using her abilities to hack into and override the computer systems and doors, while Psylocke handled the soldiers.

As they entered the building, they noticed multiple mutants being held captive but no Antonio. Meme digitally scanned the remaining areas until she located his signal in a separate room. They came in to see a frightened and paranoid Antonio strapped down to a chair, while screaming out the name Volga. Volga then showed up behind X-Force taking every member out including Meme with concentrated energy blasts. After that he incinerated Antonio on the spot before they could get him to talk.[41]

After being captured by Volga, X-Force was rescued by Cable and Dr. Nemesis. As the group retreated back to their base Psylocke was able to telepathically read MeMe's mind revealing that she was really Hope in disguise. Hope begged her not to tell her father, because this was the only way she could be close to him.[42]

After Fantomex became crazy by his compulsion to become the best there is, X-Force found Mojo, who revealed to Cable that Hope has been disguised as MeMe all along.[citation needed] After Fantomex was defeated, Cable left the team and Hope became the new leader.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Hope Summers using her powers

Hope Summers using her powers.

Hope Summers (Earth-616) battles Bastion (Earth-616)

Hope uses Cyclops' optic blast against Bastion.

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Hope Summers using Armor's Psionic exo-armor.

Hope Summers is an Omega level mutant.[43] She was born with the following powers:

Pluripotent Echopraxia[42]

Hope can psychically duplicate the power-signature of mutants physically near her.[31][42] Although she does require close proximity to subjects, she does not need to physically touch them (as with Rogue), nor does it appear as though her using a subject's powers deplete their own power level. Additionally, Hope can duplicate multiple power-signatures concurrently with seemingly no limit.[31] However, her duplicated powers fade due to time, distance, and usage.[44][45] She is only able to duplicate mutant powers, not those of other metahumans.[46] The upper-limits of her powers have yet to be reached or determined.[47] The powers Hope has demonstrated so far include:

  • Power Absorption: from Rogue. She touched Rogue and survived without any damage and erased all of the previous memories and abilities Rogue had absorbed, including those of the Hecatomb. She also cured Rogue of the Strain 88 virus.[48] In other words, she did "reset [her] powers".[49]
  • Telekinesis and Telepathy/Volga Effect: from Cable. Using telekinesis, she was able to stop a bullet in midair, and she was able to sense Bishop's presence using telepathy.[6] When she was finally reunited with her father, she again mimicked his telekinesis and upon contact with him may have briefly gain precognition.[50] Hope was briefly an Omega Level Telekinetic after having stabbed Cable with the Psimitar.[51] Cable's telekinesis spilled out and was absorbed by Hope,[52] stored and used for weeks, allowing her to form force-fields,[45] telekinetic superhuman-strength[52] and "Omega-Level Mind Bullets".[53] After having copied whatever perversion Volga put in her father, left hope physically in a coma but kept her mind percolating enough to use her core power.[42]
  • Energy Absorption and Concussive Blasts: from Bishop. Absorbed and re-channeled a concussive blast at Bishop while he was hunting her.[6]
  • Optic Blasts: from Cyclops. Exhibited once when Hope yelled at Cyclops for sending Cable into the future without a way back[54] and again displayed it while battling Bastion.[18] Hope later displayed this power while furious with Evangeline Whedon in Cyclops' presence.[28]
  • Organic Steel Transformation: from Colossus. Used while battling Bastion to punch through his torso.[18]
  • Cryokinesis/Thermokinesis: from Iceman (or possibly Storm). Used while battling Bastion, to create a pillar of ice and temporarily freeze him.[18]
  • Telekinetic creation of biological matter and ferrous material: from Kenji Uedo. Used in Tokyo when trying to save Kenji when his powers first manifest. This is also the first time Hope consciously used her mutant powers.[25]
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Hope draws on the powers of Pixie, Transonic, Rockslide, Magneto and Gentle to face Kuurth

  • Pixie Wings: from Pixie. Used while attempting to remove the helmet of Kuurth.[31]
  • Inorganic Rock Form: from Rockslide. Used while attempting to remove the helmet of Kuurth.[31]
  • Magnetokinesis: from Magneto. Used while attempting to remove the helmet of Kuurth.[31]
  • Stepping Disks: from Magik. Used to teleport to a vantage point and shoot Sinister in the forehead.[57]
  • Organic Diamond Form and Telepathy: from Emma Frost. Used to shield herself from mind control by Sinister, and later to communicated while Emma was trapped in her diamond form while battling the Sinister-controlled Dreaming Celestial.[58]
  • Breathing Fire: from Shou-Lao. Used when fighting Cyclops. This is the first and (so far) only time Hope's been able to mimic the powers of a non-mutant. (although this was more due to her absorbing his power, which is the same as that of Iron Fist)[61]
  • X-Ray Vision: from closet mutant in physics class. Accidentally used while at boarding school.[50]
  • Luck Manipulation: from Domino. Used to find Cable.[50]
  • Sentient Data Form, Cyberpathy, and Electro-Magnetic Transference: from MeMe. Currently Hope is secretly mimicking MeMe's powers and assuming her identity to allow herself better assess and to be closer to Cable and his X-Force.[42]

Other Powers

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Hope Summers with Phoenix eyes

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Hope Summers with Phoenix eyes

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Hope Summers as the Phoenix

Phoenix Force

Hope has demonstrated a flaming energy aura like the Phoenix raptor several times, even as early as five months old.[63][5][18][19] These manifestations could suggest she is a potential avatar for the Phoenix. After Cable's return from the future and being consumed by the techno-organic virus, Hope absorbed the virus and used the Phoenix flames to destroy the virus and cure Cable. Cable then told Cyclops that Hope was the Phoenix.[64] The Scarlet Witch said that Hope is a part of Phoenix.

As the Phoenix comes nearer to Earth, Hope has been able to feel its presence and exhibit the following powers:[65]

  • Cosmic Pyrokinesis: Hope has created cosmic flames often under duress, but with increasing control.
  • Concussive Force Blasts: Hope has wielded this energy to project beams of immense concussive force.
  • Resurrection Force: Despite being fatally stabbed by the Shi'Ar Death Commandos, Hope was almost immediately revived by the Phoenix Force, with all of her injuries healed.
  • Immortality: Hope cannot die, as the Phoenix will resurrect her if she sustains a fatal injury.
  • Phoenix Force Avatar: When Hope finally became one with Phoenix Force she was able to use all of the Phoenix's powers. Though Hope is Phoenix it is unsure how strong she is compared to previous Phoenix hosts, such as Jean Grey. While bonded with the Phoenix, Hope gained the title White Phoenix, implying some connection to the Phoenix or Jean who took the title White Phoenix Of The Crown implying that Jean could still be more powerful then Hope.

Psychic Energy and Undetectablity

It is also notable that after Hope's initial detection at birth, Cerebra blew up.[66] After repairs were made the Three-in-One tried to search for her because she had been kidnapped by the Marauders yet she somehow became undetectable by mutant-detecting equipment. It is possible, however, that she was merely being shielded by Cable, as he was with her from the time she left the hospital until he left to stop the Nimrod-Series Sentinels.[67]

Hope was again able to disguise her signal when both the X-Men and Avengers were looking across the globe for her, through the use of a device Cable taught her to build.[68]

The Five Lights

Also, soon after Hope's return to the present, five new X-Genes manifested across the globe. Besides her own birth, these are the first new manifestations of mutant powers since M-Day.[19] More new mutants have continued to manifest, but slower than the original five.[69]

  • X-Gene Stabilization: All of the mutants activated between the events of the Second Coming and Avengers vs. X-Men displayed wildly unstable powers. The only thing the seems to stabilize the new mutants powers is direct contact with Hope.[70][26][71]
  • Influence & Lights Bonding: The Lights were shown to be linked each other and to the new activation's, with some low level control from Hope over them. Hope has exhibited some subconscious low level of persuasion or manipulation over the post-M-Day new mutants.[28][72][73] All the Lights were also affected by the suicide of Zeeshan.[29] That situation was witnessed by Laurie and Kenji,[28] and later by Kitty Pryde.[74] Also, when the Sixth Light activated, all of the Lights were able to sense it.[69]
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Official Ratings[75]
Energy Projection*
Fighting Skills*
* Potential power ratings
Fan Ratings
Energy Projection
Fighting Skills

Hope has learned to fight from Cable by observing him. Hope was further tutored in survival techniques, various hand-held firearms and blades, stealth, CPR, combat first-aid, warfare strategy, and some gymnastics.

Strength level

Possesses the strength of a normal girl her age, height, and build who engages in extreme regular exercise (although this can vary, depending on what powers she has access to)

Hope's mutant powers are not fully under control and generates power levels that are potentially dangerous to people and environments around her.

Hope's ability to mimic superpowers is limited to mutants only.[46] Therefore, she cannot duplicate the abilities of non-mutant superpowered beings (i.e. Spider-Man, Luke Cage, or the Fantastic Four).

X-Men Blackbird, Magik, Pixie; formerly Cable's time device; Terraforming Pods; Ensabahnur I.

Usually some sort of firearms.

  • Hope loves peanut butter.[77]

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  1. X-Force Vol 4 #2
  2. Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 #13
  3. 3.0 3.1 Uncanny X-Men #529
  4. 4.0 4.1 New X-Men Vol 2 #36
  5. 5.0 5.1 X-Men: Hope #1
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Cable Vol 2 #21
  7. Cable Vol 2 #22
  8. Cable Vol 2 #23
  9. Cable Vol 2 #24
  10. X-Men: Second Coming #1
  11. Uncanny X-Men #523
  12. New Mutants Vol 3 #12
  13. 13.0 13.1 X-Men: Legacy #235
  14. X-Men: Legacy #236
  15. 15.0 15.1 X-Force Vol 3 #27
  16. New Mutants Vol 3 #14
  17. X-Men: Legacy #237
  18. 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.7 18.8 X-Force Vol 3 #28
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 X-Men: Second Coming #2
  20. 20.0 20.1 Uncanny X-Men: The Heroic Age #1
  21. Uncanny X-Men #526
  22. Uncanny X-Men #527
  23. Uncanny X-Men #528
  24. Generation Hope #1
  25. 25.0 25.1 Generation Hope #2
  26. 26.0 26.1 Generation Hope #3
  27. Generation Hope #6- #7
  28. 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 Generation Hope #8
  29. 29.0 29.1 Generation Hope #9
  30. Uncanny X-Men #540
  31. 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 31.4 31.5 31.6 31.7 Uncanny X-Men #541
  32. Uncanny X-Men #543
  33. Generation Hope #17
  34. Avengers vs. X-Men #1
  35. Avengers vs. X-Men #2
  36. Avengers vs. X-Men #4
  37. New Avengers Vol 2 #27
  38. AVX: Consequences #5
  39. 39.0 39.1 X-Force Vol 4 #2
  40. X-Force Vol 4 #1
  41. X-Force Vol 4 #3
  42. 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 42.4 X-Force Vol 4 #6
  43. X-Men: Phoenix Force Handbook #1
  44. 44.0 44.1 44.2 Cable and X-Force #9
  45. 45.0 45.1 Cable and X-Force #15
  46. 46.0 46.1 46.2 Avengers vs. X-Men #0
  47. 47.0 47.1 X-Men: Legacy #263
  48. New X-Men Vol 2 #46
  49. Marvel Fact Files #2; Rogue's entry
  50. 50.0 50.1 50.2 Cable and X-Force #1
  51. Cable and X-Force #14
  52. 52.0 52.1 Cable and X-Force #16
  53. Cable and X-Force #17
  54. Uncanny X-Men #525
  55. Namor: The First Mutant Annual #1
  56. Uncanny X-Men #539
  57. Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 #2
  58. Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 #2-3
  59. Wolverine & the X-Men #11
  60. Wolverine & the X-Men #12
  61. 61.0 61.1 Avengers vs. X-Men #10
  62. X-Force Vol 4 #14
  63. Cable Vol 2 #5
  64. Avengers: X-Sanction #4
  65. Avengers vs. X-Men #2- #4
  66. X-Men: Messiah Complex #1
  67. X-Force Vol 3 #27-28
  68. Avengers vs. X-Men #3- #4
  69. 69.0 69.1 Generation Hope #6
  70. Uncanny X-Men #526- #529
  71. Generation Hope #7
  72. Generation Hope #11
  73. Generation Hope #15-17
  74. Generation Hope #12
  75. X-Men: Phoenix Force Handbook #1
  76. Generation Hope #10
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The Maryland State Department of Education opened part of its child care subsidy waiting list for low-income working families on March 11, 2013.  With this reopening, child care subsidies are available to additional eligible Maryland families with a child care need.  Eligibility for the subsidy is based on income level and family size.  For example, a family of three can have an annual gross income of up to $23,676 and still be eligible.  Vouchers were issued to eligible families effective for service beginning March 11, 2013.  Eligible families with higher income continue to be placed in frozen status. Click here for more details.

The purpose of the Child Care Subsidy (CCS) Program is to provide financial assistance with child care costs to eligible working families through each local department of social services. The CCS Program issues vouchers to eligible families in need of help with the cost of child care. To receive this assistance, families must meet certain requirements. In addition to help with the cost of child care, families can receive help locating a licensed child care provider.

The applicant must be:

  • A Maryland resident who is working, in an approved training program, or in public school.
  • A recipient of Temporary Cash Assistance or Supplemental Security Income or within CCS income guidelines.
  • Willing to have your child immunized by Maryland State standards.
  • Pursuing child support.

Families in the following categories may be eligible:

Family Size Maximum Annual Income
Family of 2 $24,277
Family of 3 $29,990
Family of 4 $35,702
Family of 5 $41,414
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Family of 7 $48,198
Family of 8 $49,269
Family of 9 $50,340
Family of 10 $51,411

NOTE: For teen parents and non-parent custodians $5,000 is disregarded from their gross annual income

To apply, a family must submit the following information to their local department of social services:

• The Child Care Subsidy (CCS) Application
• Verifications of work activity and income

The contact information for the Local Departments of Social Services may be found on the Department of Human Resources website: www.dhr.state.md.us/county.php.

Eligible families receive a voucher from the local department of social services to take to the provider of their choice either a regulated (licensed center or home) or informal (self arranged) provider. Families that need assistance in finding a regulated provider are directed to the statewide LOCATE: Child Care service that is available through the Maryland Child Care Resource Network. The voucher indicates the local departments subsidy rate and the parental assigned copayment. The subsidy is paid bi-weekly by the centralized payment processing center to the providers. The family must pay the copayment directly to the providers.

  • A signed application to the local department of social services.
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  • Proof of identity for all household members includes, but is not limited to, a valid unexpired United States passport, a birth certificate, a valid driver's license or a current photo identification card.
  • Proof of address (apartment or house lease; electric, gas, water or phone bill)
  • Proof of income (most recent 4 weeks of pay stubs or a letter from the employer stating gross salary)
  • If you are a student, proof of enrollment
  • Proof that your child(ren) has met the Maryland State Immunization requirement.
  • If you are a single parent, proof that you have met child support requirements by reporting information about the absent parent.

  • Temporary Cash Assistance applicants or recipients who are working, in job training, or in public school receive top priority.
  • Families who have received TCA at any time during the last 6 months.
  • Income eligible families, not receiving Temporary Cash Assistance who are in public school, working or in training to lead to employment.

A voucher is a coupon given to a customer by the local department for use in purchasing child care from a provider.
The voucher is valid for a maximum of 12 months from the effective date.
There are two types of vouchers:

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Care may be provided by:

  • A relative in the relative’s home or in the child’s home;
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A voucher co-payment is the amount that the customer is assigned to pay to the provider towards the cost of child care by the local department of social services.

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Vatican Necropolis

I found this link to a virtual  tour of the Necroplis under St Peter's Basillica on NLM, after the ancient tombs you are led to the tomb of the Apostle.

gemoftheocean said...

Nifty! Thanks, Fr. Blake.

Sonia said...

Great stuff. Wouldn't let me out of the clivus though so didn't get to 'proceed'.

Sharon said...

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The Fruits of the Mystical Sex Act (with Strangers-Use a condom?)

Holy Moley. Yer kiddin me, i'm old and need to pass quietly away. I need to find a mountain and go die.
The school paper (College Level) has an editorial about since college students might find themselves having sex with strangers they should keep condoms handy.
The story is here: Collegian thursday,  9/16/10

Here is my little reply. (Perhaps they will publish it on tuesday. Perhaps i will be tarred as an extremist? no. no one cares.

Editor: Really?
Thursday’s lead editorial, Hooking Up, in the Collegian states K-Staters need to “start protecting their bodies when they are out in a social setting where they might have a sexual encounter with someone whom they are not familiar” –Holy Moley.
Forget about your heart and soul, forget about your mind and intelligence, forget about your ideals of who you are, what kind of man or woman you intend to be.

Just make sure as you wander about, without any direction or principles, that you cover your genitals with bits of plastics to lower your chances of getting diseased, from "someone with whom you are not familiar”...
Really! BTW, Did you know that 10-15% of condoms are faulty? Did you know, women, that you can pick up a sweet case of Lifetime Genital Warts even if the “unfamiliar” stranger is wearing a condom?
You can know the weight of an action by its fruits. The fruits of the sexual act are enormous. The sex act is connected with love making babies, the ultimate enjoyment of connection, the union of individuals, the procreation of the race, lifetime diseases—that is, it’s Not Just a Cup of Coffee.

College students “should be” intelligent enough to make important decisions based on their principles, using a measure of self-discipline and foresight. If you can’t handle managing this giant act, it’s no wonder I hear faculty constantly complaining about the lack of discipline and foresight in students’ academic performance.
Please inform me: Is it really the norm to act as if you are 5 years old, wantonly eating candy with your rotting, decaying teeth? Is falling onto a stranger’s genitals in accidental blind stupors typical for students? Or is the “media” painting a false picture and making it look as though this is the norm?

Is giving strangers a go at your genitals at the risk of giving them Rot so much more important than making sure the other 99% of your Self is beautiful, intelligent, extraordinary, vigorous?

Nature has a way of thinning the herd. Get smart, Fu'cryin' Out Loud.

I hope you will educate me, and start a discussion among the k-state collegian readers. I really would like to know where the norm is.

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  1. To my dear Collegian friend,

    I am a little confused here...(my mom always told me "stay away from strangers" so please pardon my dilemma)

    what kind of a person am I if my body is not in my control and I will have to keep a condom with me because I don't know where my body will end up tonight??

    Will the condom protect me from everything? is it only sex? As Katytold mentions, a condom can be faulty!

    Will it be fun to wake up realizing that some stranger invaded my body and I will never see that person again? Is it worth remembering that one night I had sex which I totally do not remember because I was drunk? Will I be happy to look back at my life and see so many of my nights gone because of 'sexual encounters' with strangers?

    And I am not even thinking about the stranger's character and intentions!!

    I am so happy for you my dear Collegian friend, that all of your questions are answered by just having a condom in your pocket! For me, I will have to have a mind, a soul and a personality to be with my body and together we make a decision! And I will still stick to my "stay away from strangers policy"

  2. maybe writing here is just preaching to the quior. this is just crAZY. WE NEED to write to the collegian and make the students who do not think this way feel supported. i was assaulted by a stranger i thought was safe. how old is the girl who wrote this peice!?

  3. i think about half of my college friends will sleep with a stranger and half wont. but i think most of my non college student friends would never do it. too risky.

  4. What I don't want to hear is ANYONE complaining about ANYTHING after they do something so risky. Rapists look like and are theguy in the bar, the guy at the party. How did girls get so free with giving anyone access to the inside of their bodies? First of all, if someone is wasted drunk you cannot have legal sex with them. thats just Kansas Law. Second, why would a woman or girl, even with a condom, want strangers to do that? I have had to counsle so many of my female friends for stupid behavior. yes it is stu[pid

    You bring up a key point, that sex with strangers is so much more than about diseases. Are these people who do this living with their heads under a rock? i wish you could all go to the collegian story and leave a comment on this story because unless we talk about it, everyone thinks this is how we all act.

  6. Yeah, having a condom with you is advisable if there is the possibilities of having sexual relations with anyone. However, the author of this article doesn't address any of the emotional or psychological problems that go along with a culture that promotes "hooking up."

  7. Well, CJ, i guess my question is, how many people act in a way that this article is necessary/relevant- or, rather, how many students are sexually promiscuious with strangers? I wonder if/how many of the students feel that if the stranger is another student it is safe? Or is this Whole Conversation about 6% of the student body? (no pun intended)

  8. itz a crazy thin g. love and honesty will not exist/......


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When Glen H. Rudler filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in August 2006, he had already planned to surrender his house — and escape its $4,000 monthly mortgage payments. But he nonetheless included those payments as part of his debts when calculating his monthly disposable income, helping him slide under the bar of the so-called means test.

The U.S. trustee objected to Rudler’s arithmetic, saying that if Rudler knew he was going to give up the house and the debt, the court should count the $4,000 against him.
Now, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Rudler was correct.

Judge Kermit V. Lipez ruled the statute calls for bankruptcy filers to state their present financial situation, not what it will be in the future.

Lipez cited “Form B22A,” one of the documents a debtor must file with a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition.

“The instructions on Form B22A confirm that the debtor is expected to provide current information for all secured debt,” Lipez observed. “The form, like the statute, asks in the present tense for a list of debts secured by property. In sum, any debt that ‘is secured’ is covered by the statute’s inquiry.”

Had Lipez ruled the other way, Rudler’s monthly disposable income would have been calculated as $1,461, far in excess of the $167 a month allowed by statute.
— Jack Dew

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I would like to understand the implementation that allows MemberQ and FreeQ to be as fast as they are.

I noticed this thanks to this fine answer.

I start with a list of True|False values:

lst = Insert[Table[True, {500000}], False, 499000];

It is not packed:

I compare timings:

Scan[Identity, lst] ~Do~ {100} // Timing
MemberQ[lst, False] ~Do~ {100} // Timing
FreeQ[lst, False]   ~Do~ {100} // Timing

{4.93, Null}

{0.405, Null}

{0.25, Null}

What allows these functions to be more than an order of magnitude faster than simply Scanning the list?

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What you observed seems to be an instance of the general behavior of the pattern-matcher when used with what I call "syntactic patterns" - patterns which only reflect the rigid structure of an expression, like e.g. _f. The speed-up with respect to the scanning is because the main evaluation loop is avoided - for FreeQ and MemberQ, the scannng is done all inside the pattern-matcher, which is lower-level compared to the main evaluator.

In this answer, and also here, there are some examples of this behavior, and further discussion. I think that a good rule of thumb is that you gain an orderor an order and a half of magnitude speed-up by clever use of syntactic patterns in place of top-level scanning code (pushing all work into the pattern-matcher), and you gain 2-3 orders of magnitude speed-up if you manage to recast the problem as a vectorized numerical problem on packed arrays.

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Would you add some examples to this, please? –  Mr.Wizard Feb 6 '12 at 22:05
@Spartacus I added links to two relevant questions / answers, containing some examples - will this satisfy you? I am afraid that otherwise right now I'd have to just copy those example and paste here, which doesn't make much sense IMO. –  Leonid Shifrin Feb 6 '12 at 22:12
@Spartacus Most functions that do their job "in one go" (Union, Split, etc.) seems to be fast too. –  Szabolcs Feb 6 '12 at 22:13
@Szabolcs they are only fast with default comparison etc. functions, and that is also because they bypass the main evaluator with default functions (not to mention that Union switched to a pairwise comparisons for explicit comparison function, which leads to a quadratic-time algorithm, so Union, as well as DeleteDuplicates, are bad examples here. Sort and Split are good examples). This is probably what you meant by "in one go" - they don't have to oscillate between the kernel code and high-level evaluations. It is these oscillations that kill the performance. –  Leonid Shifrin Feb 6 '12 at 22:17
@Leonid, it is good. Szabolcs yes I suppose so. I guess I saw FreeQ / MemberQ (in the basic form) as more general than e.g. DeleteDuplicates (also in the basic form). Perhaps that was a mistake. I would not have posted this question except that it seemed like a slow day, but I did not honestly know the answer beforehand. –  Mr.Wizard Feb 6 '12 at 22:26

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Football vs. Furniture – A Tale of Probabilities

Gallery Furniture's crazy math infused promotion! ~Bon We have a local legend, icon and hero here in Houston, where I live. His name is Mattress Mack and he owns a furniture store.

Okay, his real name is Jim McIngvale and his furniture store is a little more than just that. It’s THE furniture store.

He’s built this amazing empire of furniture sales doing crazy, fun and remarkable things.

This past weekend was no different.

Gambling with Football and Furniture

I got an email on Friday – two days before the AFC and NFC championship football games.

They were running a(nother) bizarre promotion.

Here’s the gist of the rules:

1. Purchase $5,000 or more of furniture from Gallery Furniture (the name of this iconic furniture store).
2. Have it delivered by 2PM CST Sunday, January 19, 2014 (before the first football game starts).
3. Choose you you think will win both football games.
4. Pick the winner of both games right and you get your money back on your purchase (yep – all $5000+ dollars you spent).

Sounds crazy, right?

I read the rules four times. It was fact. They were really doing this.

The Math behind the Madness

I immediately started thinking about the math.

Two games. Two winners. 25% chance of guessing both of them right.

The probability tree looks like this:

So, mathematically, for every $20,000 in sales, Mattress Mack will give back $5000. Assuming his profit margin is more than 25%, he’ll still be in the black.

I did some quick research and found that the furniture retail industry has around a 40% profit margin.

I breathed more easily knowing that – at least statistically – Mattress Mack was going to come out fine.

People Picked – People Won

I read today that 85% of the players won in this crazy game of football vs. furniture.

Which blows the 25% I originally figured out of the water.

It cost Mattress Mack $600,000.

Who would play this game?

Doing a little arithmetic, we can see how many people joined in on the game:

$600,000 was the payout, which means about 600,000/5,000 = 120 people won.

85% of the people who played won, so we can use this equation to model the number of players:

120/x = 85/100, where x is the number of players

Solving for x, we see that about 140 people played.

Good Idea or Just an Idea?

If he was only playing the numbers, he’d have been okay.

Alas, he forgot to consider what the parimutuel betting folks factor into their games (as well as actuaries). There are favorites in football games. And there are long shots.

Mattress Mack set up the game as if there were equal chances of each team winning. Thus giving him the clear advantage.

But there were not equal chances.

Unfortunately for Mack (and fortunately for 120 people), it wasn’t a “fair” game.

He’s still our hero!

Mattress Mack is as crazy as he once was. And we still love him.

Especially since his reaction was, “I realized it was a great success because it made a lot of customers happy.”

Can’t deny that!

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  1. Thank you so much for your kind words and support of Gallery Furniture!

    We are so excited for all the great customers who won based on our previous Pigskin Promotion where Gallery Furniture is paying out over $650,000 in refunds to our fantastic customers. We are even more excited about our NEW Big Game Promotion where we will pay out millions more if the team from Seattle wins.

    If you ever relocate to Houston, make sure to come visit us! Gallery Furniture delivers same day and has the highest quality furniture and accessories in Houston! When you shop with Gallery Furniture, YOU CANNOT LOSE!

    • Hey y’all! I’m always glad to support a local business and hero. :)

      I’m excited to hear about your SuperBowl promo – I’ll keep my eyes peels in my inbox!

      • Thanks Bon, as always we truly appreciate your support! We’re all thrilled for our amazing customers who won the Previous Pigskin Promotion. Our NEW Big Game Promotion sure is exciting with The Big Game right being around the corner! As our owner and fearless leader Mack said, What’s good for Gallery Furniture customers is good for Gallery Furniture and good for Houston! Gallery Furniture is a touchdown for every customer, every time!

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The question below might be well known, and using different words (I made these up, I'm not a number theorist or specialist in combinatorics)

For all integers $n\geq 2$ denote by $\mathcal{P}(n)$ the set of partitions of $n$, see here for a definition

We say that a postive integer $k$ is $\mathbf{n}$-squarable if there exist $(p_1,\ldots,p_t) \in \mathcal{P}(n)$ such that $k=\sum_{i=1}^t{p_i}^2$.

Let $\alpha(n)=\lfloor (n^2-3n)/4\rfloor$.

I would like to show that the integers $n, n+2, n+4,\ldots ,n+2\alpha(n)$ are $n$-squarable.

If we need to reduce a bit the size of $\alpha(n)$ to make it easier to prove this, I'd happily do that.

Also, given $n$ and $k$ as above, could we find a "constructive" algorithm that would find a partition of $n$ verifying $k=\sum_{i=1}^t{p_i}^2$ (without calculating all elements of $\mathcal{P}(n)$ and then doing a search, obviously).

Thank you.

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is there a special reason why you consider numbers with the same parity of $n$? (i.e. why not $n,n+1,n+2,n+3,\dots$?) –  Pietro Majer Nov 3 '12 at 12:33
@Pietro $\sum p_i \equiv \sum p_i^2 \mod 2$. –  Felipe Voloch Nov 3 '12 at 13:08

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Every integer is a sum of three triangular numbers (Gauss). Let $k > n$ be given with $k-n$ even. Then $(k-n)/2 = r(r-1)/2+s(s-1)/2+t(t-1)/2$, so $k = n -(r+s+t) + r^2+s^2+t^2$. If $n > r+s+t$, then $1,1,\ldots,1$ ($n -(r+s+t)$ times), $r,s,t$ is a partition of $n$ with squares summing to $k$. Clearly $r+s+t = O(\sqrt k)$ so you get an $\alpha(n) \ge cn^2$. I am not sure if the constant $c$ here is $1/4$.

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This should work for all $k\le \frac{n^2}{3}-3$ by Cauchy-Schwarz. –  Gjergji Zaimi Nov 3 '12 at 3:08
@Gjergji, what do you mean exactly by "This should work"? –  Portland Nov 3 '12 at 23:34

Let $N$ be the number you want to get as a sum of squares. Let $k$ be the first number to square. Then $N$ is $n$-squareable if $N-k^2$ is $n-k$ squareable, right? Now let's play the usual game. Suppose we want to show that all numbers from $n$ to $A(n)$ of correct parity are $n$-squareable and know it for $n\le m-1$. Let $m\le N\le A(m)$. We should be able to find $k$ such that $m-k\le N-k^2\le A(m-k)$. Trying $k=1$, we see that we can assume $N>A(m-1)$. Then we can go up to $k=[\sqrt{A(m-1)-m+1}]=q(m)$ for sure. Thus, we can take $A(m)=A(m-k)+k^2$ with any $k$ up to $q(m)$. Let now $c^2=\liminf_{m\to\infty}m^{-2}A(m)$. Then we can take $k>am$ with any $a<c$ eventually and get $c^2\ge c^2+c^2(1-c)^2$ whence $c=1$. Well, formally I need to show that $c>0$ to claim that, but this is not hard. First, you check that $A(m)\ge 2m-1$ by replacing $1^2+1^2$ with $2^2$ a few times and then use $k$ up to $m/5$, say, as the first square and see that you can add anything from $m-k$ to $2m-2k-1$ to it and the resulting intervals overlap as long as $2k-1+m-k\le 2m-2k+1$, which is OK with $k\approx \frac m4$. Thus, eventually, you can fly to the top. However, the takeoff is pretty bumpy, and is better left to computers.

This is constructive enough, though will require "special considerations" for small $m$ (up to $50$ or so if you are aiming exactly at what you wrote).

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Starting from an ordinary 1-categorical point of view, there are various obvious candidate definitions for ‘finite homotopy type’:

  • The homotopy type of a simplicial set that has only finitely many non-degenerate simplices.
  • The homotopy type of a CW complex that has only finitely many cells.
  • The homotopy type of the nerve of a finitely-presentable category.

Homotopy type theory affords another candidate:

  • A higher inductive type that admits a finite presentation in some syntactic sense.

Question. Do these notions coincide? To what extent is each one the ‘right’ notion of finiteness for homotopy types? For instance, are these precisely the homotopy types $X$ such that the representable functor $\mathrm{Hom}(X, -) : \infty \mathbf{Grpd} \to \infty \mathbf{Grpd}$ preserves (homotopy) filtered colimits?

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I believe the first two notions coincide, but they definitely don't coincide with the third: as was pointed out in a deleted answer, the nerve of any finite group is a (3) but certainly not a (1) or (2) in general. I think most would agree that (3) is not a good notion of finiteness.

As for HITs, any (1) or (2) can be presented by a HIT of a very simple form: all constructors take zero arguments and the source and target of each constructor is an $\infty$-groupoid expression in the previous ones. I haven't written out a proof, but the converse should also be true.

I don't think I would presume to say whether these, or their retracts, are the "right" notion of finiteness. Perhaps there is no unique "right" notion.

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The non-existence of a unique right notion would be unsurprising, given the plethora of notions in e.g. constructive mathematics and even choiceless classical mathematics! –  Zhen Lin Jul 17 '13 at 10:26

The answer to your last question is no. The compact (small) objects in $\infty \mathbf{Grpd}$ are the retracts of finite CW complexes. See, e.g. http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/compact+object+in+an+%28infinity%2C1%29-category (also google "Wall's finiteness obstruction").

As to whether the first three notions coincide, I would guess yes, but I haven't thought about it much.

EDIT: The third class is strictly larger, as was just pointed out in Mike Shulman's answer. Theorem 2C.5 in Hatcher states that any finite CW complex has the homotopy type of a finite simplicial complex. This shows that the first two notions coincide, and are contained in the third notion (take the poset corresponding to a finite simplicial complex).

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Ha! I added that bit to the nlab earlier today! –  Omar Antolín-Camarena Jul 16 '13 at 17:55

Another possible definition of "finite homotopy type" but not from a categorical point of view is suggested by the paper

This shows that for such a connected CW-space, its homotopy type may be represented by a simplicial group such that its group of $ n$ -simplices is finite for each $n \geqslant 0$.

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I've heard those spaces called "π-finite". –  Omar Antolín-Camarena Jul 16 '13 at 21:28

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Say that a number is an odd-bit number if the count of 1-bits in its binary representation is odd. Define an even-bit number analogously. Thus $541 = 1000011101_2$ is an odd-bit number, and $523 = 1000001011_2$ is an even-bit number.

Are there, asymptotically, as many odd-bit primes as even-bit primes?

For the first ten primes, we have $$ \lbrace 10, 11, 101, 111, 1011, 1101, 10001, 10011, 10111, 11101 \rbrace $$ with 1-bits $$ \lbrace 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4 \rbrace $$ and so ratio $5/5=1$ at the 10-th prime. Here is a plot of this ratio up to $10^5$:

I would expect the ratio to approach $\frac{1}{2}$, except perhaps the fact that primes ($>2$) are odd might bias the ratio. The above plot does not suggest convergence by the 100,000-th prime (1,299,709).

Pardon the naïveness of my question.

Addendum: Extended the computation to the $10^6$-th prime (15,485,863), where it still remains 1.5% above $\frac{1}{2}$:

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The fact that primes greater than 2 are odd only biases one bit, which should have a negligible effect in the long run. Ignoring the last bit, looking at any particular finite subset of the bits should reveal a uniform distribution by the strong form of Dirichlet's theorem and the difficult question is whether this is still true if one looks at all the bits. –  Qiaochu Yuan Nov 2 '10 at 14:58
I guess the 2.5% bias in favor of odd-bit primes in the first 100K is just an unexplainable fact about the distribution...? –  Joseph O'Rourke Nov 2 '10 at 15:18
What you call "odd-bit numbers" are often called Thue-Morse numbers. I like your terminology better, but tradition is tradition. –  Kevin O'Bryant Nov 4 '10 at 3:08
@Kevin: Thanks for the key phrase! Wikipedia says: "The Thue–Morse sequence was first studied by Eugène Prouhet in 1851,.... However, Prouhet did not mention the sequence explicitly; this was left to Axel Thue in 1906." Quite a long and tangled history! –  Joseph O'Rourke Nov 4 '10 at 12:08
I thought the "odd-bit numbers" were usually called odious numbers (and the complementary set called evil numbers). –  David Eppstein Oct 31 '11 at 21:51

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Yes. This was proven in

C. Mauduit and J. Rivat, Sur un problème de Gelfond: la somme des chires des nombres premiers, Ann. Math.

(I found this by searching for "evil prime" and "odious prime" in the OEIS.) More precisely, they prove the Gelfond conjecture: let $s_q(p)$ denote the sum of the digits of $p$ in base $q$. For $m, q$ with $\gcd(m, q-1) = 1$ there exists $\sigma_{q,m} > 0$ such that for every $a \in \mathbb{Z}$ we have

$$| \{ p \le x : s_q(p) \equiv a \bmod m \} | = \frac{1}{m} \pi(x) + O_{q,m}(x^{1 - \sigma_{q,m}})$$

where $p$ is prime and $\pi(x)$ the usual prime counting function.

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Beat me by 23 seconds. +1 for that. –  Charles Nov 2 '10 at 14:48
Thanks, Qiaochu & Charles for your quick answers! –  Joseph O'Rourke Nov 2 '10 at 14:57

Yes, the ratio approaches 1/2. This was proven in

C. Mauduit et J. Rivat, Sur un probléme de Gelfond: la somme des chiffres des nombres premiers.

See Three topics in additive prime number theory for exposition. Also, the poorly-named sequences in Sloane: A027697 and A027699.

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Thanks! There is a nice conjecture of Vladimir Shevelev embedded in the OEIS descriptions: the n-th odius prime is less than the n-th evil prime. I agree that these are poorly named! –  Joseph O'Rourke Nov 2 '10 at 16:16

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Every Saturday: Farmers’ Market
8 a.m.-noon, White Horse Park, Ocean Pines.

Every Sunday: Morning Worship

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Every Sunday: Morning Worship

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Tea Party Meeting

6:30 p.m., doors open; 7 p.m., meeting begins, Ocean Pines Community Center. Guest speaker will be Charles Lollar, Chairman of New Day Maryland. Join citizens who believe in limited government, fiscal responsibility, lower taxes and the Constitution. For more info, 443-614-7214

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July 20: SAL Chicken Barbecue

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Two seatings, 5 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.; Knights of Columbus, 9901 Coastal Hwy., O.C. (behind St. Luke’s Church). Menu includes Chicken Sicilian, linguine with Sicilian sauce and more. Cost: $12.50, ages 10 and over; $9, under 10. For reservations, 410-524-7994, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

July 22-26: Vacation Bible School

6:15-8:30 p.m., Buckingham Pres-byterian Church, 20 S. Main St., Berlin. Come learn about God and our neighbors from exciting places while having fun singing songs, making crafts and enjoying games. Daily puppet show. All children ages 3-11 are welcome. Forms available at St. Paul’s Episcopal, Stev-enson United Methodist and Bucking-ham Presbyterian or come early on Monday. For more info, 410-629-1029.

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Monday, November 15, 2010

Fun With Refinancing

Last week Mom closed on the ReFi on her condo. Yay Mom! So we celebrated, as one does, with a bottle of champers at Gulf Beach in Milford.
Cheers, Mom.
There were a whole lot of Corey women around that day . . .

. . . just the way we like it.

We also took several thousand photos. And although I'm usually a rigorous and strict editor of photos, I like these too much to delete any. Like this one.

Or this one.

This one is borderline, but it stays in because of Jacquie's expression.

And this one stays because of Mark Dowd's outfit. We'd been raking and bagging leaves in his yard and rushed to get to the beach for sunset. That's his rationale, at least.

Mark Dowd and Mistah Schleckah have been friends since high school, and here they are now, all these years later . . .

. . . still best buddies . . .

. . . and both honorary members of the Corey family.

Poor lucky bastids.

The sunset was spectacular. Naturally. They don't call them sunsets for nothing. And we took full advantage.

Don't mind Jacquie; she can't help herself . . .

. . . she just can't . . .

. . . it's in her blood.

Margaritas, a bottle of champagne, and about 17 cameras make for lots of Fun With Photography.

Mistah was going for the "November" page for his 2011 calendar.

And . . . I think we've found our shot.

We quoted our young San Diego friend Brady, who was about 3 at the time, all afternoon: "When the sun goes down, the sunset comes up."

And when the sunset went down, we went back to The Dowd's for more frivolity.

There is nothing quite like an outdoor campfire in November . . .

. . . especially when the coke-bottle Halloween glasses come out.

Those two make quite a team.

Actually, we all  make quite a team:

And we're available for your next ReFi party.

Me, You, or Ellie said...

Thanks for including even the ugliest photos of me, sister! feeling the love, feeling the love. I have about 80 billion of the same photos, although I'm certain that I looked stunning, even after yardwork. It was gorgeous out there.

Me, You, or Ellie said...

Dude, have you met yourself? You are stunning you silly silly girl. Especially in the sunset rays. And with coke-bottle glasses on.

Pat said...

Your Mom is lucky to have so many daughters...I wish I had a few more just like Beth!

MB said...

Those pictures are hysterical! I love them all. Miss you all already... xoxo

Me, You, or Ellie said...

It took me a moment to discern if Mom C just couldn't help herself either, but I'm now fairly certain it's not her middle finger in the photo with Mr. Dowd.

Love that Brady quote, I'd not heard that one before.

You all looked like you had yourself some fun. Shocking! Can't belive you've already gone and come back, J!

Mom c said...

Not me Beth, I was just rubbing my eye - try as I may, I still can't keep them in line.....


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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Recording: Johnny Dowd

Artist: Johnny Dowd

Song: Emily/Meryl*

Recorded at Comfort Zone (CMW 2012), March 23, 2012.

Johnny Dowd - Emily/Meryl

Full review to follow, but my quick notes for this set can be found here

* Thanks to a commenter for passing the title along.

  1. Emily/Meryl from upcoming No Regrets (April 2) - 13 songs on 15 "girls and women I have known, imagined, or seen on TV. I love them all."