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Graduate Course Descriptions
We offer the following graduate level courses. Some courses are taught annually, while others are taught less frequently. For some courses, the content may vary as determined by the instructor.
21-600 Mathematical Logic I
Fall: 12 units
The study of formal logical systems which model the reasoning of mathematics, scientific disciplines, and everyday discourse. Propositional Calculus and First-order Logic. Syntax, axiomatic treatment, derived rules of inference, proof techniques, computer-assisted formal proofs, normal forms, consistency, independence, semantics, soundness, completeness, Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem, compactness, equality.
Prerequisites: 21-373 or 21-484 recommended.
21-602 Introduction to Set Theory
Fall: 12 units
The axioms of ZFC, ordinal arithmetic, cardinal arithmetic including Kőnig's lemma, class length induction and recursion, the rank hierarchy, the Mostowski collapse theorem, the H(λ) hierarchy, the Δ1 absoluteness theorem, the absoluteness of wellfoundedness, the reflection theorem for hierarchies of sets, ordinal definability, the model HOD, relative consistency, Gödel's theorem that HOD is a model of ZFC, constructibility, Gödel's theorem that L is a model of ZFC + GCH, the Borel and Projective hierarchies and their effective versions, Suslin representations for Σ11, Π11 and Σ12, sets of reals, Shoenfield's absoluteness theorem, the complexity of the set of constructible reals, the combinatorics of club and stationary sets (including the diagonal intersection, the normality of the club filter and Fodor's lemma), Solovay's splitting theorem, model theoretic techniques commonly applied in set theory (e.g., elementary substructures, chains of models and ultrapowers), club and stationary subsets of [X]ω (including a generalization of Fodor's lemma and and connections with elementary substructures), Jensen's diamond principles and his proofs that they hold in L, Gregory's theorem, constructions of various kinds of uncountable trees (including Aronszajn, special, Suslin, Kurepa), Jensen's square principles and elementary applications, the basic theory of large cardinals (including inaccesssible, Mahlo, weakly compact and measurable cardinals), Scott's theorem that there are no measurable cardinals in L, Kunen's theorem that the only elementary embedding from V to V is the identity.
Prerequisites for 21-602
The minimum background for 21-602 is the equivalent of undergraduate set theory (e.g., 21-329) and the fundamentals of logic (e.g., 21-600). Students should arrive with a working knowledge of basic ordinal and cardinal arithmetic, Gödel's completeness theorem and the downward Loewenheim-Skolem theorem. An understanding of the statement of Gödel's incompleteness theorem is also assumed. (This theorem is mentioned in 21-600 but proved in 21-700.)
21-603 Introduction to Model Theory
Spring: 12 units
Similarity types, structures; downward Lowenheim Skolem theorem; construction of models from constants, Henkin's omitting types theory, prime models; elementary chains of models, basic two cardinal theorems, saturated models, basic results on countable models including Ryll-Nardzewski's theorem; indiscernible sequences, Ehrenfeucht-Mostowski models; introduction to stability, rank functions, primary models, and a proof of Morley's categoricity theorem; basic facts about infinitary languages, computation of Hanf-Morley numbers. Prerequisites are a familiarity with the basic concepts of predicate calculus, up to Henkin's proof to Gdel's completeness theoremn, and some knowledge of naive set theory.
21-604 Introduction to Recursion Theory
Spring: 12 units
Syllabus covers: models of computation,computable functions, solvable and unsolvable problems, reducibilities among problems, recursive and recursively enumerable sets, the recursion theorem, Post's problem and the Friedberg-Muchnik theorm, general degrees and r.e. degrees, the arithmetical hierarchy, the hyperarithmetical hierarchy,the analytical hierarchy, higher type recursion. Prerequiste: 21-300 or its equivalent.
21-605 Teaching Mathematics
Fall, 2 units
This seminar is required of first-time teaching assistants. Topics discussed are: getting started the first day, how to help students learn, lecturing, and grading. Each new teaching assistant is videotaped, and her or his performance is reviewed.
21-606 Mathematics Course Design
Spring, 1 unit
This seminar treats syllabus writing, lecturing, test design and homework assignments. The seminar is a prerequisite for students interested in teaching their own course.
21-610 Algebra I
Spring: 12 units
The structure of finitely generated abelian groups, the Sylow theorems, nilpotent and solvable groups, simplicity of alternating and projective special linear groups, free groups, the Neilsen-Schreier theorem. Vector spaces over division rings, field extensions, the fundamental Galois correspondence, algebraic closure. The Jacobson radical and the structure of semisimple rings. Time permitting, one of the following topics will be included: Wedderburn~s theorem on finite division rings, Frobenius~ Theorem. Prerequisite: Familiarity with the content of an undergraduate course on groups and rings.
21-611 Topics in Algebra
12 units
Content varies. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
Past topics: Fall 2001: p-adic Analysis
21-620 Real Analysis
6 units
A review of one-dimensional, undergraduate analysis, including a rigorous treatment of the following topics in the context of the real numbers: sequences, compactness, continuity, differentiation, Riemann integration. (Mini-course. Normally combined with 21-621.)
21-621 Introduction to Lebesgue Integration
6 units
Construction of Lebesgue measure and the Lebesgue integral on the real line. Fatou's Lemma, the monotone convergence theorem, the dominated convergence theorem. (Mini-course. Normally combined with 21-620.)
21-622 Finite-Dimensional Analysis
12 units
Linear spaces, linear transformations, duality, bilinearity, inner-product spaces. Convexity. Norms, limits, compactness. Gradients of mappings, divergence and curl. Implicit Function Theorem. Constrained extrema. Spectral theory. Volume and surface integrals, Divergence Theorem.
21-623 Complex Analysis I
Offered occasionally: 12 units
The complex plane, holomorphic functions, power series, complex integration, and Cauchy's Theorem. Calculus of residues. Additional topics may include conformal mappings and the application of complex transforms to differential equations.
21-624 Topics in Analysis
Offered occasionally: 12 units
Content varies. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
Past topics:
Fall 2001: Classical Descriptive Set Theory
21-630 Ordinary Differential Equations
12 units
Basic concepts covered are existence and uniqueness of solutions, continuation of solutions, continuous dependence, and stability. For autonomous systems, topics included are: orbits, limit sets, Liapunov's direct method, and Poincar-Bendixson theory. For linear systems, topics included are: fundamental solutions, variation of constants, stability, matrix exponential solutions, and saddle points. Time permitting, one or more of the following topics will be covered: differential inequalities, boundary-value problems and Sturm-Liouville theory, Floquet theory.
21-632 Introduction to Differential Equations
12 units
This course serves as a broad introduction to Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in mathematics, engineering, and the applied sciences. Mathematical sophistication in real analysis at the level of 21-355/356 is assumed. Topics include: essentials of Ordinary Differential Equations, origins of Partial Differential Equations, the study of model problems including the Poisson and Laplace equations, the heat equation, the transport equation, and the wave equation. 3 hrs. lec.
21-633 Mathematical Techniques in Engineering
Fall: 12 units
This course explores methods of solving ordinary differential equations and introduction to partial differential equations; reviews elementary concepts, series, solutions, boundary value problems, eigenfunction expansions, and Fourier, Bessel, and Legrendre functions; and addresses calculus of variations. Solutions of classical partial differential equations of mathematical physics, including Laplace transformation and the method of separation of variables, will be covered in this course.
21-640 Functional Analysis
12 units
Prerequisites: knowledge of (undergraduate) real analysis and general topology (having taken 21-651, or consent of instructor)
- Linear spaces: Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces, topological vector spaces
- Hilbert spaces: geometry, projections, Riesz Representation Theorem, bilinear and quadratic forms, orthonormal sets and Fourier series.
- Banach spaces: continuity of linear mappings, Hahn-Banach Theorem, uniform boundedness, open-mapping theorem. Closed operators, closed graph theorem.
- Dual spaces: weak and weak-star topologies (Banach-Alaoglu Theorem), reflexivity. Space of bounded continuous functions and its dual, dual of $ L^{p}$, dual of $L^{\infty}$
- Linear operators and adjoints: basic properties, null spaces and ranges. Compact operators. Sequences of bounded linear operators: weak, strong and uniform convergence.
- Introduction to spectral theory: Notions of spectrum and resolvent set of bounded operators, spectral theory of compact operators. Time permitting: Fredholm Alternative.
- Time permitting: Stone-Weierstrass Theorem.
21-651 General Topology
Fall: 12 units
- Finite and infinite sets, Axiom of Choice, Zorn lemma
- Topological Spaces (basics of open/closed sets, bases, countability, product spaces, quotient spaces)
- Continuity
- Connectedness, Compactness, Tychonoff Theorem (time permitting: Stone-Cech compactification)
- Separation Axioms, Urysohn Lemma and Tietze Extension Theorems, Urysohn Metrization Theorem)
- Metric Spaces (Cauchy sequences, completeness, Baire Category Theorem, completion, separability, sequential compactness, total boundedness, compactness, Arzela-Ascoli Theorem, partition of unity)
- Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
21-660 Introduction to Numerical Analysis I
Fall: 12 units
Finite precision arithmetic, interpolation, spline approximation, numerical integration, numerical solution of linear and nonlinear systems of equations, optimization in finite dimensional spaces.
21-661 Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations I
6 units
Forming and solving elliptic difference equations. Relaxation, conjugate gradient and multigrid solution algorithms. Discrete maximum principles and error estimates. Explicit and implicit difference schemes for parabolic equations and systems. Stability of difference schemes. Parabolic free boundary problems. Stefan problems. Stochastic algorithms.
21-662 Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations II
6 units
Finite element algorithms for elliptic equations and systems. Overview of error analysis for finite elements. Finite elements for parabolic equations and error estimates. First-order hyperbolic equations and systems in one space variable. Shocks and numerical methods for shock capturing. Stability in hyperbolic problems. Extensions to more space variables. Finite element methods for second-order hyperbolic equations. Error estimates for hyperbolic problems.
21-679 Foundations of Probability
6 units
Probability spaces: random experiments; sets and classes of sets; conditional probability. Random variables: operations/transformations of random variables, distributions and distribution functions; transforms of random variables and vectors. Independence: criteria for independence; functions of independent random variables; independent events; applications to occupancy problems and stochastic processes. Expectation: fundamental properties; integrals with respect to distribution functions; computation of expectations; moments of random variables and vectors; stochastic inequalities.
21-680 Topics in Probability
6 units
Convergence of random sequences: modes of convergence and relations among them; convergence under transformations; applications. Classical limit theorems: series of independent random variables; the strong law of large numbers; the central limit theorem; the law of the iterated logarithm; applications. Conditional expectation: expectation given a finite set of random variables; expectation as minimum mean squared error; conditional distributions; computational aspects. Martingales: fundamentals; stopping times; optional sampling theorems; martingale convergence theorems; Wald's identity; applications.
21-690 Fundamentals of Optimization
Fall: 12 units
An introduction to the theory and algorithms of linear and nonlinear programming with an emphasis on modern computational considerations. The simplex method and its variants, duality theory and sensitivity analysis. Large-scale linear programming. Optimality conditions for unconstrained nonlinear optimization. Newton's method, line searches, trust regions and convergence rates. Constrained problems, feasible-point methods, penalty and barrier methods, interior-point methods.
21-700 Mathematical Logic II
Spring: 12 units
Introduction to higher-order logic (type theory) with primary emphasis on the typed lambda-calculus. Syntax and semantics, lambda-notation, axiomatic treatment, axioms of Descriptions, Choice, and Infinity, weak completeness, weak compactness, standard and non-standard models. Computer-assisted formal proofs. Formalization of mathematics, definability of natural numbers, representability of recursive functions, Church's Thesis. Godel's Incompleteness Theorems, undecidability, undefinability.
Prerequisite: 21-300 or 21-600, or permission of instructor.
21-701 Discrete Mathematics
12 units
This course gives a broad introduction to Discrete Mathematics.
Topics covered include elementary enumeration and graph theory, generating functions and Ramsey Theory. Introductions to Extremal Combinatorics, including the Erdős-Ko-Rado, Kruskal-Katona and Turán Theorems as well as linear algebraic methods, and the Probabilistic Method, including alterations, the second moment method, the Lovász local lemma and correlation inequalities are also included.
21-702 Set Theory II
12 units
This course is a sequel to 21-602 Set Theory. The main goal is to prove Solovay's theorem that Con(ZFC + an inaccessible cardinal) implies Con(ZF + DC + every set of reals is Lebesgue measurable). Topics covered include absoluteness theorems, Borel codes, the Levy collapse, product forcing, relative constructibility, and the basics of iterated forcing up to the consistency of Martin's Axiom.
21-703 Model Theory II
12 units
The course concentrates in what is considered "main stream model theory" which is Shelah's classicfication theory (known also as Stability). Among the topics to be presented are stability, superstability, the theory of various notions of primeness, rank functions, forking calculus, the stability spectrum theorem, finite equivalence relations theorem, stable groups (up to and including the Macintyre-Cherlin-Shelah theorem on super-stable fields), and some elementary geometric model theory. If time permits also: basic facts about infinitary languages, computation of Hanf-Morley numbers; some of the Ax-Kochen-Ershov theory of model theory for fields with valuations (will apply this to solve Artin's conjecture).
21-715 Commutative Algebra
12 units
Commutative ideal theory: localization, prime spectrum, integral dependence, free and projective modules, primary decomposition, Krull dimension, fractional ideals, Dedekind domains, Hilbert finite basis theorem, Hilbert Nullstellensatz, affine algebraic varieties, coordinatization. Valuation theory: normed fields, completion, p-adic fields, Ostrowski's theorem, valuations, discrete valuations, Hensel's lemma, local fields.
Prerequisite: 21-610.
21-720 Measure and Integration
12 units
Prerequisites: knowledge of (undergraduate) real analysis
- Outer measure, measure, $ \sigma$-algebras, Dynkin $\pi-\lambda$ Theorem, Carathéodory's Extension Theorem
- Borel measures, Lebesgue measure
- Measurable functions, Lebesgue integral (Monotone Convergence Theorem, Fatou's Lemma, Dominated Convergence Theorem)
- Modes of Convergence (Egoroff's Theorem, Lusin's Theorem)
- Product Measures (Fubini-Tonelli Theorems), n-dimensional Lebesgue integral
- Signed Measures (Hahn Decomposition, Jordan Decomposition, Radon-Nikodym Theorem, change of variables)
- Differentiation (Lebesgue Differentiation Theorem)
- $ L^p$ Spaces (Hölder's inequality, Minkowskii's inequality, completeness, equiintegrability (uniform integrability), Vitali's convergence theorem)
21-721 Probability
12 units
Prerequisites: Undergraduate Probability 21-325 and 21-720 Measure Theory and Integration. In particular, the measure-theoretic prerequisites for this course include:
- Carathéodory's Extension Theorem;
- Classical convergence theorems (Dominated Convergence, Monotone Convergence, Fatou);
- Modes of convergence: in measure, almost everywhere, in $ L^p$, and their relations to each other;
- Products of measurable spaces and Fubini-Tonelli theorems;
- Radon-Nikodym derivative.
- Probability spaces, random variables, expectation, independence, Borel-Cantelli lemmas.
- Kernels and product spaces, existence of probability measures on infinite product spaces, Kolmogorov's zero-one law.
- Weak and strong laws of large numbers, ergodic theorems, stationary sequences.
- Conditional expectation: characterization, construction and properties. Relation to kernels, conditional distribution, density.
- Filtration, adapted and predictable processes, martingales, stopping times, upcrossing inequality and martingale convergence theorems, backward martingales, optional stopping, maximal inequalities.
- Various applications of martingales: branching processes, Polya's urn, generalized Borel-Cantelli, Levy's 0-1 law, martingale method, strong law of large numbers, etc.
- Weak convergence of probability measures, characteristic functions of random variables, weak convergence in terms of characteristic functions.
- Central limit theorem, Poisson convergence, Poisson process.
- Large deviations, rate functions, Cramer's Theorem.
21-723 Advanced Real Analysis
12 units
This course is a sequel to 21-720 (Measure and Integration). It is meant to introduce students to a number of important advanced topics in analysis.Topics include: distributions, Fourier series and transform, Sobolev spaces, Bochner integration, basics of interpolation theory, integral transforms. 3 hrs. lec.
Prerequisites: 21-720 Corequisites: 21-640.
21-724 Sobolev Spaces
6 units
Weak derivatives, Sobolev spaces of integer order, embedding theorems, interpolation inequalities, traces.
Prerequisite: 21-720.
21-725 Intermediate Topics in Analysis
6 units
This half-semester course offers graduate students in analysis an introduction to topics which are of interest to departmental faculty, but without requiring the level of preparation necessary for the course 21-820 (Advanced Topics in Analysis). Possible topics are numerical partial differential equations, calculus of variations, algebraic topology, and geometric measure theory. This course may be taken more than once if the content is sufficiently different.
21-732 Partial Differential Equations I
12 units
An introduction to the modern theory of partial differential equations, including functional analytic techniques. Topics vary slightly from year to year, but generally include existence, uniqueness and regularity for linear elliptic boundary value problems, and an introduction to the theory of evolution equations.
21-737 Probabilistic Combinatorics
12 units
This course covers the probabilistic method for combinatorics in detail and introduces randomized algorithms and the theory of random graphs.
Methods covered include the second moment method, the Rödl nibble, the Lovász local lemma, correlation inequalities, martingale's and tight concentration, Janson's inequality, branching processes, coupling and the differential equations method for discrete random processes. Objects studied include the configuration model for random regular graphs, Markov chains, the phase transition in the Erdős-Rényi random graph, and the Barabási-Albert preferential attachment model.
21-738 Extremal Combinatorics
12 units
Classical problems and results in extremal combinatorics including the Turán and Zarankiewicz problems, the Erdős-Stone theorem and the Erdős-Simonovits stability theorem. Extremal set theory including the Erdős-Rado sunflower lemma and variations, VC-dimension, and Kneser's conjecture. The Szemeredi regularity lemma. Algebraic methods including finite field constructions and eigenvalues and expansion properties of graphs. Shannon capacity of graphs. Chromatic number of Rn and Borsuk's conjecture. Graph decomposition including Graham-Pollack and Baranyai's theorem.
21-741 Nonlinear Functional Analysis
12 units
A selection of topics drawn from the following: calculus in Banach spaces, degree theory, Banach and Schauder fixed point theorems, bifurcation theory, monotone operators.
Prerequisite: 21-640.
21-742 Calculus of Variations
12 units
Classical fixed endpoint examples. Fixed endpoint problems in classes of absolutely continuous functions: existence via lower semicontinuity. Tonelli's existence theorem. Euler-Lagrange and DuBois Reymond equations, transversality conditions, Weierstrass field theory, Hamilton-Jacobi theory. Problems with constraints.
Prerequisite: 21-630.
21-743 Control Theory
12 units
Formulation of control problems, observability, controllability, duality, the bang-bang principle, linear feedback. Solutions for problems with quadratic performance criteria, Pontryagin principle and solutions using dynamic programming.
21-759 Differential Geometry
12 units
Manifolds in Euclidean spaces, curves and surfaces, principal curvatures, geodesics. Surfaces with constant mean curvature, minimal surfaces. Abstract differentiable manifolds, tangent spaces, vector bundles, affine connections, parallelisms, covariant gradients, Cartan torsion, Riemann curvature. Riemannian geometry, Lie groups. Familiarity with analysis in finite dimensional spaces will be assumed.
Depending on the instructor, 21-622 may be required as a formal prerequisite.
21-760 Numerical Analysis I
12 units
Numerical methods of eigenvalue problems, initial and boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations, discrete Fourier transforms, iterative techniques for large sparse linear systems.
21-761 Finite Difference Methods
12 units
Review of difference methods for ordinary differential equations. Finite difference methods for elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations, iterative methods for linear systems, analysis of stability and convergence of algorithms. Applications to computational mechanics, electromagnetics, and other areas.
21-762 Finite Element Methods
12 units
Finite element methods for elliptic boundary value problems. Analysis of errors, approximation by finite element spaces. Efficient implementation of finite element algorithms, finite element methods for parabolic and eigenvalue problems, effects of curved boundaries. Numerical quadrature, non-conforming methods.
21-765 Intro Parallel Computing and Scientific Computation
Spring: 9 units
Develops structural intuition of how the hardware and the software work, starting from simple systems to complex shared resource architectures.
Familiarizes the audience with the main parallel programming techniques and the corresponding software packages.
Provides practical guide to build a software package.
Course web site
21-770 Introduction to Continuum Mechanics
12 units
General discussion of the behavior of continuous bodies with an emphasis on those concepts common to the description of all continuous bodies. Specific examples from elasticity and fluid mechanics. Familiarity with analysis in finite dimensional spaces will be assumed.
Depending on the instructor, 21-622 may be required as a formal prerequisite.
21-772 Fluid Dynamics
12 units
Flow, stream-lines, vorticity, circulation, ideal and viscous fluids, Beltrami's theorem, Bernoulli theorems. Potential flows, exterior domain flows, D'Alembert's paradox. Compressible flow, shock waves. Uniqueness, stability of viscous flow, low and high Reynold's flow, boundary layers.
21-800 Advanced Topics in Logic
12 units
Content varies. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
21-801 Advanced Topics in Discrete Mathematics
12 units
Content varies. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
21-803 Model Theory III
12 units
This is a follow up of 21-703 . The main results to be discussed are orthogonality calculus, and the structure of regular types. This will be used in a proof to Shelah's "Main Gap Theorem" for countable theories. If time will permit I will discuss the solution to Morley's conjecture that the spectrum function is weakly monotonic. It is expected that the students will know the fundamentals of classification theory (including various equivalent properties to superstability, forking calculus, and the stability spectrum theorem).
21-804 Seminar in Mathematical Logic
12 units
The purpose of the seminar is to offer a forum for discussion of recent developments in logic. We concentrate in the areas of Model Theory and Set Theory. We meet weekly for two hours where faculty and students present papers (typically not authored by local people) at the level which is be appropriate to that of participants. It is possible to take this seminar for credit. In order to get a grade you must present at least one paper (usually 2-4 lectures). However, some students participate passively (without giving a talk - not for credit). Every few weeks the topic changes, and often the subjects of discussion are not related.
Course web site
21-805 Lambda Calculus
12 units
This is a course in classical lambda calculus with special emphasis on syntax. Topics covered include the Church-Rosser theorem, standardization, cofinal reduction strategies, lambda definability of number theoretic functions, combinators, Bohm's theorem, labelled reduction, and types. The text is Barendregt's The Lambda Calculus, North Holland 1984.
21-810 Advanced Topics in Algebra
12 units
Content varies, but extends material covered in 21-610 in greater depth and detail. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
21-820 Advanced Topics in Analysis
12 units
Content varies. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
21-830 Advanced Topics in Partial Differential Equations
12 units
Content varies. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
21-832 Partial Differential Equations II
12 units
Elliptic boundary value problems, Green's theorem calculations, integral equation methods, variational formulations and Galerkin's method, regularity theory, parabolic problems and semi-groups.
Prerequisite: 21-732.
21-860 Advanced Topics in Numerical Analysis
12 units
Content varies. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
21-870 Advanced Topics in Continuum Mechanics
12 units
Content varies. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
21-880 Advanced Stochastic Calculus I
12 units
This is a first Ph.D.-level course in stochastic calculus for continuous-time processes. It includes martingales and semi-martingales, Brownian motion, the Poisson process, representation of continuous martingales as time-changed Brownian motions, contruction of the Ito integral, and Ito's formula.
Prerequisite: 36-753
21-881 Advanced Stochastic Calculus II
12 units
This is a continuation of 21-880. Topics include Girsanov's theorem, Brownian local time, strong and weak solutions of stochastic differential equations, linear stochastic differential equations, connections between partial differential equations and stochastic differential equations, optimal stopping and stochastic optimal control.
Prerequisite: 21-880.
21-882 Advanced Topics in Financial Mathematics
Content varies. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
Past topics: Duality, Stochastic Control
21-890 Advanced Topics in Operations Research
12 units
Content varies, but may include computational complexity in linear and integer programming, probabilistic analysis of algorithms, and dynamic programming. May be taken more than once if content is sufficiently different.
21-900 Reading and Research
21-901 Master Degree Research
21-902 Doctoral Thesis Research
Selected Courses in:
Tepper School of Business
47-720 Seminar in Finance I
47-721 Seminar in Finance II
47-724 Seminar in Finance IV
47-800 Microeconomics
47-830 Integer Programming (6 units)
47-831 Graphs and Network Flows in Operations Research (12 units)
47-832 Linear Programming (6 units)
47-838 Advanced Linear Programming (6 units)
Department of Statistics
36-703 Intermediate Probability
36-705 Intermediate Statistics
36-707 Regression Analysis
36-755 Advanced Statistical Theory I
36-756 Advanced Statistical Theory II
School of Computer Science
15-754 Complexity Theory
15-758 Pure and Applied Logic
15-850 Advanced Topics in Theory


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Tim got a real tree this year, and it smells terrific. Just like being in the woods in Wisconsin. He put the lights on last night and I set to decorating it today. Being smaller than our artificial tree, I could only put on about half of the stuff we have accumulated over 40 years, but I still love how it looks. No fancy color coordinated balls or theme going on, just a bunch of mis-matched, hand made or vacation bought trinkets that all mean something to us. If there were any kind of theme going on, I guess it would be birds. I am a sucker for anything bird, and the tree shows that trend.
In the work-a-day world, we have been doing Christmas, too. Customer quilts with Christmas themes, or for Christmas gifts, and a couple of my own quilts squeezed in for gifts from Mr Wazoo and me.We have most of them done and now we are in the catch up mode, trying to get show quilts done for the up-coming show season. I have some beauties to quilt, so I have loads of work to do. My knee is still giving me fits, so I have been very slow with the quilting. Doctor says I can try the gel in the knee in January. Until then, it is painful to walk, stand and even to sleep!
I am anticipating the grandkid's visit for Christmas, and having my oldest girl here to help with cookies will be fun. Tim is doing the outdoor illuminations and is really in the Christmas spirit, too. When he's done, I'll take a picture and post it for you! Until then, enjoy these pictures of what's up at Wazoo.
|Tree with just lights
|Tree all decorated. How pretty is that!
|flannel quilt I made for my daughter's friend
|I made a pillow to go with it, too!
|Christmas quilt for my son and his wife
|Customer's first quilt, all hand pieced. For her grandson.
|Customer quilt for a gift
|another customer gift quilt
|A sister made this from Crown Royal bags for her brother
|Darling customer christmas quilt
|one of the blocks
|the borders
|customer gift quilt for her daughter's in-laws
|I love this panel!! My customer made a great Christmas quilt from it, didn't she?
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IN an ideal world meal times are a harmonious gathering where children wolf down their greens with glee before asking for seconds. In real life, the dinner table is often more akin to a battlefield where stealth tactics and bribery are deployed just to get a couple of peas down the hatch. While all parents would like their children to eat healthier foods, many throw up their hands at what seems like a mission impossible. "There is hope," says Mia Von Scha, a life coach who works with parents to steer them on their child-rearing adventure, "and it starts with parents becoming aware of the messages they convey to their kids about food."
Von Scha works with the parents of "picky eaters" and her first task is to assure them that they have done nothing wrong. "It has more to do with understanding how the mind of a child works. My job is to look at ways in which parents can present food as a natural part of everyday life." A crucial step is to introduce children to the process of preparing meals. Start them young." "Even toddlers can be present when meals are prepared. This is an excellent way of demonstrating that food preparation is a normal part of the day, even if they are not actively involved."
As children get older they can help with basic tasks. "You are not testing their culinary skills — they can simply wash veggies or set the table. For the child, this creates a sense of being able to contribute, and they are more likely to take an interest in the finished meal." According to Von Scha, playing with your food is acceptable too. "A child's world centres around learning through play, and yet at mealtimes they are expected to behave like serious adults. Let them explore their creativity at mealtimes, even if it may not be considered grown-up behaviour." Creating fun names for vegetables can make them more appealing. "In our house broccoli was never popular, but 'dinosaur trees' have become a firm favourite." At the same time, Von Scha warns against the trend of making all meals look like a novelty display at a kiddies party. "Children grow up believing that food presented without a gimmick is somehow inferior, and it is a mentality that is easily carried beyond childhood."
This goes hand-in-hand with parents being mindful of how they respond to their own food. "If the child sees that a parent is getting great enjoyment out of eating wholesome food, they are more likely to want to eat it too." In other words, think twice before grimacing at the broccoli on your own plate — impressionable minds may be watching. Above all, exercise patience. "Likes and dislikes can change, and it can take several tries before something new is embraced. If at first you don't succeed, try the same ingredient in a different form. A vegetable that is rejected as a side dish might be lapped up as a soup. Keep presenting the options, in time more will be deemed delicious." The value of cultivating positive eating habits extends beyond bringing peace to the dinner table. Children who enjoy meals in a contented environment are learning how to make better food choices in the future. Von Scha explains: "The first seven years of a child's development are crucial. Instilling healthy habits is not just about better nutrition, it is a gift that parents can give their kids in helping them grow up with a better relationship to food and cooking. What they learn in those formative years they keep for life."
Learn more about Mia Von Scha at transformationalparenting.guru
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Pascal's triangle is a triangular array of numbers that relate to one another in interesting and useful ways from the perspective of mathematics. Forming the triangle is a relatively straightforward affair in which two adjacent numbers are added together to form a number directly below in the triangle. This expands the triangle at a regular rate and creates rows and diagonals of numbers that can be analyzed in many ways. The relationship between the numbers can be expressed as a mathematical formula, but constructing the triangle does not require this formula even though the reasons why patterns evolve are much more complex. Not only do the individual numbers relate to one another in the triangle, but the sums of the numbers and the patterns they form also have interesting applications in mathematics.
Most people in the West associate Pascal's triangle with Blaise Pascal due to his detailed investigation into the mathematical properties of these numbers, but this triangle and the acknowledged relationship of these numbers predates Pascal by centuries. In China, Yanghui studied and described this series, so it is more strongly associated with that mathematician. Pascal arranged his investigations into this topic into a treatise, creating a unified evaluation of the many complexities of this triangle.
The connection between Pascal's triangle and other mathematical concepts is complex. It has relations to the Fibonacci numbers, the Sierpinski triangle, and many other established mathematical patterns. It also has a number of practical uses, such as calculating combinations. Mathematicians can extend Pascal's triangle into negative numbers, revealing even more interesting patterns.
Some of the most interesting aspects of Pascal's triangle involve calculating sums of numbers across rows or shallow diagonals. The patterns of these sums relate to various other sequences. Along the diagonals, numbers progress in significant patterns as well. Many interpretations of Pascal's triangle label the point of the triangle as zero and the line with two numbers as one. Given the way the triangle is formed, the outer edge of the triangle is always one.
There are many different ways in which Pascal's triangle can be used. In very basic math classes, it is often used to think about interesting patterns relating to mathematics and to encourage people to think about the relationships between numbers. For more advanced mathematicians, the triangle presents a number of different patterns that can be useful when thinking about statistics and probability. One of the most common exercises performed in basic math classes using this triangle involves shading even and odd numbers different colors in order to point out the patterns that form.
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Life's Hella Good/
Look closely at the picture above. To the casual observer, this may look like Nerf darts scattered across a suburban cul-de-sac. To me, they spell the word validation. Validation for a moment's notice decision to move the entire family from Los Angeles to a small town no one's ever heard of in Northern CA. Validation for my using the word hella in a post title in an attempt to adopt the vernacular of my new home (ok, maybe some things can never be validated).
When we first packed up and left, I had fears. My own migration into suburbia also happened in 4th grade. It didn't go so well. While times and racial tolerance are different now, I couldn't help but worry that I was removing Fury from everything that he ever knew and plunking him down in unfamiliar territory to fend for himself. Well, he fended for himself, alright. With Nerf guns blazing, sqeals of laughter and a gang of neighborhood homies of all colors, creeds and Axe spray varietals. They show up at all hours of the day, ravage our snacks like locusts, and make this new house a home for Fury.
And because this town was built with parks and bikepaths connecting every neighborhood, I can actually let him bike outside of our own driveway for once. In fact, I give him a cell phone and he rides for miles. I know this because he calls me and says "Dad, I am in front of [any given address]. Check Google Maps. How far have I gone?"
The only thing missing is jobs, which d Wife and I both moved here without. However, things are looking up on that front for both of us. I don't like to jinx things that help me pay my mortgage, so that's all I will say about that for now. However, not having to go to work each day means I can do things like help my buddy Toheed (who moved here from LA a year before I did, and wouldn't shut up about how awesome it was until I did too) do random things like dismantle a car wash. Lessons learned there: a rented forklift is worth every penny, and tweakers you hire off the street are excellent at unbolting lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of bolts.
The dismantled carwash is pictured above. Also, the house next to ours is empty and available in case you're looking to move to the best little town no one, not even NorCal people, have ever heard of. And no, we're not turning it into a carwash, though if that crossed your mind, you know me well.
Oh yeah, file this one under "Makes your relocation a whole hell of a lot easier to swallow": LG Electronics found me at the Dad 2.0 Summit and said (and I paraphrase): "Jim, we'd like to pimp your family room for our Techorating Challenge."
I said yes, and showed them a picture of my family room:
"Have at it," I said.
Then this happened...
And then they gave me a script, some makeup and turned my house into a film studio for 18 hours.
They also did the same thing to High Tech Dad and then pitted us against one another in a grueling fight to the finish. At least we both get to plunk down at the end of this Techorating Challenge and rehydrate in front of our 55" LG LCD 3D TVs (QRS... TUV... WXY and Z). The electronics and home decorating cockfight, hosted by ESPN's Stuart Scott, is depicted below, if you dare:
I'm showing you all this because it too can be yours. Just go to the LG Techorating Challenge Facebook page and enter to win your own Techorated room. You only have one day left to do this (procrastination would be my middle name if it weren't Ching-kuo). They close it off on Wednesday, May 2 at 11:59:59 pm EST. You have to vote for one of us, but really, it doesn't matter who you vote for. The TV and room make-over were enough for me. I don't even know what I win, if I win and it doesn't really matter.
And remember kids, a good disclosure statement gives you healthy teeth and gums and keeps your blog out of the government no-no house, so here goes:
*YO YO YO! LG or its affiliates have not kicked me over a dime for any articles or posts. They did, however hook me up with a gang of stuff, like a 55" 3D LCD TV, some classy "MTV Cribs" caliber furniture (I'm still waiting on that stripper pole, though), an LG Bluetooth Soundbar, and they even threw in a microwave just for the hell of it. All this was provided as part of the Techorator program experience. However, all articles, tweets, and other materials that I post related to LG products and the Techorator program are entirely my own opinion. In fact, everything I post is always my own opinion, which would mean that if this were North Korea, I would be making license plates with my healthy teeth.
*Mic drop. Peace in the middle east.


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Karin Klein: Applying to college is now big business
A college professor friend whose older daughter is at Harvard literally threw up her hands in frustration about the new PSAT, imploring me to explain it after her younger child had just received her scores.
The highest possible score had been ratcheted down a bit; at the same time, the percentiles – how students had scored compared with others – seemed unusually rosy. Rumors were swirling at her daughter's high school in an educated, upper-middle-class town that the percentiles had been given a "bump" this year.
It's a sad reminder of how, in the supercharged environment of college admissions, the PSAT is no longer just a little practice exam to check whether high school students are on track for the all-important SAT college admissions test. The business of applying to college is, indeed, an actual business, or rather, many businesses.
And two of those are the ACT and the College Board, purveyor of the SAT, which have been vying for market share. The territory used to belong lopsidedly to the SAT; in recent years, the ACT surpassed it.
What does all this have to do with the PSAT percentile scoring? After all, the PSAT results aren't sent to colleges. But in most of the country, where students have a choice between the two tests, the percentiles are seen as a toe in the water, an indicator of whether the student is better off trying the ACT instead.
That choice got clouded after the College Board made several changes in its scoring during this first year of the "new PSAT." It's all part of the recasting of the SAT that's supposed to be more aligned with Common Core standards. For starters, the College Board slightly lowered the maximum possible score, a fair-minded but confusing attempt to show students how they would score on the more difficult SAT. This year, there also are "test scores" and "section scores."
And if you're not thoroughly dizzy by now, two changes were made to the closely watched percentile rankings. First, the College Board redefined percentiles to mean the percentage of test-takers who scored at or below a given student's score, in keeping with how the ACT does it. The effect is to raise students' percentiles a little.
Then, because there are no previous years of comparable scores on which to base percentiles, it came up with two different percentiles – the user percentile, based on a sample of students who took the PSAT, and the nationally representative number that compares scores with high school students nationwide. Not just those who are college bound, but also those who might have no interest in college or might be in danger of not receiving a diploma.
Obviously, the scores of college-bound students are going to look better than those of students overall, so guidance counselors have been noticing a big bump in the numbers of top-percentile students. And in a very bad decision, the College Board made those the only percentiles visible on student score reports. The more valid "user" percentile can be found, but only by following the instructions in the fine print.
Why did the College Board do this? It's not saying, but there's no getting around the effect: It makes students think they're doing much better on the PSAT than they really are. And that makes them more likely to stick with the SAT than try the ACT.
If college-educated parents can't figure this out, it's painful to imagine how confused first-generation college applicants must be about the ever more complicated and stacked world of testing. The College Board, wittingly or not, just added to the problem.
Karin Klein is a freelance journalist in Orange County who has covered education, science and food policy. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Good repetition, bad repetition
The ancient Greeks and Romans certainly knew a nice turn of phrase when they saw one. In the first in a series of posts on rhetoric, Doris and Bertie's resident classicist, David Pollack, invites you to experiment with the age-old technique of anaphora.
Most of us remember being told at school to avoid repeating words unnecessarily. After all, why else would the thesaurus have been invented?
There are clearly times when repetition is unwelcome. But there are also times when it is very welcome indeed – that is, when repetition is used intentionally.
Unintentional repetition is painful, jarring and clumsy. Intentional repetition is courageous, moving and rhythmic.
In fact, intentional repetition is such a powerful linguistic tool that ancient rhetoricians gave it a fancy name: anaphora.
Here's an example of a modern orator using anaphora to great effect:
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
The repetition here emphasises the dogged determination of the plucky Brits. And what could be more flattering – not to mention inspiring – than to see yourself depicted in such terms?
In other words, Churchill knew precisely what he was doing when he chose to repeat "we shall fight" 10 times. Educated in classics at school, he would have been well aware of the rhetorical convention of anaphora.
Indeed, he probably learned the technique from Cicero, a Roman senator and lawyer who was known as a master of rhetoric:
Soon all provinces, soon all kingdoms, soon all free states, soon the entire globe, which had always remained open to our fellows, will be off limits to Roman citizens.
You don't have to be a Churchill or a Cicero to use anaphora. You can use it in any of your communications. Either to write more persuasively or to deliver speeches that persuade – the very purpose of rhetoric.
Advertisers use it all the time:
The future's bright, the future's Orange.
Buy it, sell it, love it. (Ebay)
And my favourite from the 70s:
Du pain, du vin, du boursin
Now you know what anaphora is, you'll probably see it all over the place. If you find any nice examples please share them here.


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Paul Ryan - Rape is just another method of conception.
What Paul Ryan actually said in this interview was "The method of conception doesn't change the definition of life." (video embeded below)
This quote is complicated to evaluate, but we rate it as FAIL because the image contains quote marks around the phrase which implies that it is a verbatim quote, which it is not. Even if the quote marks were removed, would the idea conveyed match up with what Paul Ryan was saying? No, not really. If Ryan really believed that rape was equivalent to any other method of conception, then he would need to be of the opinion that rape should be legal, but that's clearly not his stance.
His running mate at the time, Mitt Romney, held the position that abortion should be outlawed in general but should be allowed in the cases of incest, rape, or danger to the life of the mother. Ryan's stance on abortion rights is that abortion should be outlawed without exception, which is what he was describing in the interview linked below.
The headline from the Raw Story article reads "Ryan on abortion exceptions: Rape is just another 'method of conception'", so it is likely the people who created this quote image just took the headline and put quotes around the whole thing. He didn't say that, however, and the meaning behind the two phrases are not truly the same, so we rate this as a Quote Fail. If the image had used something more similar to Raw Story's quote and simply said: Rape is another "method of conception", then we could have rated this as a real quote because it wouldn't have truly changed the meaning of Ryan's statement.


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By Peter Schwartz
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1994 was a memorable year in sports.
The Dallas Cowboys beat the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII. The World Cup took place in the United States. The players' strike forced the cancellation of the World Series. The Houston Rockets beat the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals.
And the New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup.
As the Rangers prepare for this season's Eastern Conference finals, it's amazing to think that it's been 20 years since that faceoff on June 14 with 1.6 seconds left at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers finished off a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals to end their 54-year championship drought.
Rangers fans of all ages can relive all the excitement of that championship season with a new book from longtime NHL writer John Kreiser entitled "The Wait Is Over: The New York Rangers and the 1994 Stanley Cup."
"The Rangers had the best team, made all the right moves, and still had to sweat out a Game 7 right to the end," said Kreiser. "They were a team rather than a bunch of individuals. That teamwork helped to make the difference."
Kreiser recounts that magical season thanks to numerous interviews with players, coaches and broadcasters. There are many stories to tell about the 1994 Rangers and "The Captain" Mark Messier.
It's been well documented how important Messier was in the Rangers ending their long quest for a championship. He's arguably the greatest leader in the history of pro sports and is a six-time Stanley Cup Champion. In 1994, Messier was outstanding.
With the Rangers trailing the Devils 3-2 in the Eastern Conference finals, he guaranteed a victory in Game 6 and scored a hat trick as the Rangers evened the series.
So what made Messier so special?
"Messier wanted to win," said Kreiser. "To an extent that I don't think we'd ever seen. Certainly to an extent that no one connected with the Rangers had ever seen. They were Messier's team from the instant he showed up. I had covered them since the 1970s and had never seen anything like him. He wanted to win … everything else was secondary."
Messier had the Rangers believing all season. They finished with the best record in the NHL and won the President's Trophy for the second time in three years. They swept the Islanders in the opening round of the playoffs and then took care of the Capitals in five games before seven-game victories over the Devils and Canucks to win the Stanley Cup.
When did Kreiser think that the Rangers had a team that could win it all?
"Humorously, I'd say it was when the final buzzer went off to end Game 7 of the final," joked Kreiser. "Realistically, I'd say around Christmas. By then, they were on a roll. Also, the trades Neil Smith made at the deadline were like a booster shot."
One of the key acquisitions during the season was Stephane Matteau. He will always be remembered by Rangers fans for his heroics against the Devils in the Eastern Conference finals. He scored the Game 3 winner in double overtime and then scored the series winner in Game 7, beating Martin Brodeur on a wraparound at 4:24 of the second overtime.
That gave birth to a memorable call from Rangers radio broadcaster Howie Rose:
"Fetisov for the Devils play it cross-ice…into the far corner…Matteau swoops in to intercept…Matteau behind the net….swings it in front….MATTEAU! MATTEAU! MATTEAU! Stephane Matteau and the Rangers have one more hill to climb baby! And it's Mount Vancouver. The Rangers are headed to the Finals!"
For the book, Kreiser spoke to Rose about his out-of-body experience in the broadcast booth that night. Rose, now the Islanders television voice, recalled how his classic call could have been a colossal waste of breath.
"He said he was afraid for a few minutes that Esa Tikkanen might have touched the puck, which would have spoiled the whole thing," said Kreiser.
It's still amazing to me how a guy who will always be remembered for calling one of the great moments in Rangers history is now calling Islanders games!
But now let's get back to 1994.
The architect of the Rangers' Stanley Cup team was president and general manager Neil Smith, who wrote the foreword for the book. Kreiser spent quite a bit of time with Smith — and rightfully so since he was a big reason why the Rangers won.
Smith became the Rangers GM in 1989 and the Blueshirts subsequently won the Patrick Division title, the Rangers' first championship of any kind since 1942. Along the way to the Stanley Cup, he acquired Messier and Esa Tikkanen while drafting Alexi Kovalev. He traded Guy Lafleur for a draft pick that became Sergei Zubov.
Smith made a number of moves during the championship season to fine-tune the club, including the acquisitions of players like Steve Larmer, Matteau and Brian Noonan from the Blackhawks, Craig MacTavish from the Oilers and Glenn Anderson from the Maple Leafs.
"Neil largely traded his way to a Cup which is almost impossible to do," said Kreiser. "Remember, free agency wasn't around so you couldn't just sign stars. Within three years of (Smith) arriving in New York, the Rangers won the Presidents' Trophy. Two years later, they won the Cup."
Winning that Stanley Cup was a huge accomplishment for Smith, Keenan, Messier and the entire Rangers organization, but should they have won more than just the one title? That team was loaded, kind of the like baseball's Atlanta Braves club of the 1990s that won just one World Series.
Is it fair to say that the Rangers should have won multiple cups?
"In theory, maybe, but the goal was to win one," said Kreiser. "Neil said he had been told to do whatever he had to do to win — and he did."
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After starting our journey from Hermanus our very first evening and stay was at a delightful hotel right at the point of Mossel Bay and arriving at the promenade at dusk with the sky a salmon pink above the mist and surfers and boats silhouettes in the ocean reflection there was a mystical quality of beauty in it all.
Friendly staff welcomed us at the Point Hotel to the west on the very edge of the Mossel Bay peninsula where book-in was a swift matter due to well organised referrals by the Windsor Hotel and very helpful front house staff transporting our luggage per lift to the spacious 3rd and 4th floor rooms with breathtaking views right above the ocean.
Beyond the spacious twin beds and large screen TV a comfortable lounging area with flask of chilled water on the table opened with sliding doors onto a balcony where the fresh Indian Ocean breeze brought a sense of well being and peace. Stacked beach chairs and umbrella will transform the balcony on a sunny day into a wonderful haven for a good read or viewing the ebb and flow of the tide into the rock pools.
We met downstairs and stepped down into the sunken dining area an interesting variety of fragrant Indian dishes were on display at the buffet counter and although tempting we opted for the a la carte menu while sipping a refreshing beer and unwinding after a long and rewarding trip before an excellent steak was served.
The foghorn started sounding in the background and added to the maritime experience and I wondered if the fog bank will move in closer.
After a hot shower in the bath cum shower and crispy white towels as well as fragrant toiletries and even a shower cap bed was calling. After charging laptop and phone I tried to watch the last part of a good movie on the large screen but from the 4th floor the waves formed a perfect backdrop to a snug sleep under a fluffy white duvet in a very comfortable bed with the fresh sea breeze and occasional faint flash of the lighthouse.
The next morning revealed the sandy gully of low tide in front of the hotel and languid breakers in the distance promised a wonderful day. We met downstairs for a superb breakfast including fresh fruit salad and delicious chocolate croissants and spoke to some of the staff and other visitors as well as members of an Indian family tour group with quite a few energetic but well behaved children getting ready for one of the many adventure outings the family orientated Point Hotel offers where children are content and cared for. We went exploring outside to see what was to view with the ancient cave and St Blaize Lighthouse to the land side above the hotel.
This archaeologically important Cape St Blaize cave is around 200,000 years old with the manned lighthouse directly above the easily accessible cave within a short walking distance of the hotel at 52 metres above sea level a beacon since 1864 and open to the public during the week. It reminded me of a previous official visit to Mossel Bay when we were privilege to visit the Pinnacle Point caves excavations whilst it was being electronically recorded by an archaeology team. What a fascinating area so rich in history.
Various large vessels were seen in the bay and drifting past as Mossel Bay harbour has two off shore mooring buoys for feeding gas and oil resulting from Mossgas that started out in the area in the late 1980s.
We had a warm and generous farewell from the Point Hotel staff and visitors from Bombay as we left the spacious parking area in front on our way to the local tourism bureau and further on along the coast!
Rated overall comfortable stay, friendly staff, lovely sleep and good food with the most magnificent view from rooms of all accommodation by far!
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Area: 300 sqm
Located in the neighbourhood of San Matteo, a World Heritage site and the original urban core of the ancient town of Scicli (in Southern Sicily), a collection of houses in disuse (dating back to the XVII century) has been restored into new flats and private amenity spaces. The former habitations at ground floor overlook an internal courtyard which is bright and sunny during daylight hours and candle lit in the evening, becoming a cosy and intimate space at the heart of the project. The houses, originally built of stone and earth masonry, have been fully preserved and restored whilst being upgraded to contemporary environmental and energy standards.
During both design and construction phases, we have engaged with local artisans and craftsmen and made use of ancient building techniques and materials. Key to our approach were workshops where local materials like the volcanic rock, lime and sandstone and methods were applied to contemporary design features, such as the 4m tall shower in the main accommodation. We have been insistingly searching for a connection between the stunning surrounding and the interior spaces, designing apertures framing views of the town in every room.
The interior design has been based on the contrast of local stone, wood and steel, and has been decorated with restored vintage furniture.
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The business of seeking publicity and currying favour in exchange for reassuring people and apologising for something you didn't do.
#JusticeforTahirAlam is justice for us all
Oh Knower of Subtleties, Master of Judgement, Just and Mighty Avenger, Protecting Friend and Everlasting Source of Life, strengthen the spines, bonds and arguments of the defamed, humiliated
It has been a few years since an extraordinary sh!tstorm was kicked up by the government and establishment press regarding schools in predominantly Muslim areas in Birmingham and the words Trojan Horse. This storm provided important political capital for British neocon politician and one time Education Secretary/Vandal Michael Gove (whose jaundiced treatise Celsius 7/7 even had a chapter called "Trojan Horse"). It is worth considering the role of the event in politically underwriting the deepening of the Preventitude State enveloping Muslims in this Cartographically United But Crumbling Queendom.
High impact letter writing
In case you've been living under a rock for the past five years, education institutions are now legally obliged to snoop, confuse and grass up students they reckon are at risk to council securocrats. Find me a defence of Prevent that doesn't draw on Trojan Horse imagery.
Operation Trojan Horse saw technocrats and hacks making mincemeat exegeses of WhatsApp group messages between rudeboy types, and the common sense being constructed that all Muslim community organisation in education was suspicious and deserved destruction. While some people are always going to be as thick as pigsh!t, incompetent and/or easy tools to manipulate, the damage political opportunists have wrought with this, to other people's futures is extraordinary. Imagine that your school was colonially invaded, dragged through the mud and dumped on because of the anti Muslim arrogance and prejudice of state institutions and politicians? Now try and sit some public exams that count.
The affair consumed the reputations and educations of hundreds of mainly young Muslim people, stigmatised and scarred by the disaster, which carries the hallmarks of the collaborative skullduggery of people with professional and political axes to grind. People with life experience of such axes in school governance, local authorities, central government or politics might easily empathise with more creative explanations regarding who really wrote the Trojan Horse letter that sparked it all off.
The importance of fighting back, not rolling over and dying
Since 15th March, one of the professionals ruined by the Trojan Horse/Hoax saga, Tahir Alam, has been having his appeal heard by the Educational Tribunal at the Royal Courts of Justice against the ban imposed on him by the Education Secretary from involvement in any schools for 'Violating British Values'. Tahir Alam is widely acknowledged as a wide minded, decent, hardworking and honest educationist in the Muslim community and has done a lot to develop community engagement with education in this country. This is why his crowdjustice funding campaign has raised so much. It is widely felt that he was the primary target of the whole bureaucratic assassination operation.
The Tribunal will make public evidence and alternative understandings of the current establishment view of one of the most important political attacks on Muslim community organising in the past decade. There are a few days left until the hearing ends, Court 23 generally.
I doubt whether corporate media editors will cut their pet Muslim reporters and/or radicalisation hacks some slack on this, but I hope people of justice will take this on, just like many did in order to campaign for the release of poet Talha Ahsan and Babar Ahmad from supermax detention in the US.
Long term we need sophisticated, mature and distributed expertise in educational institutional development and legal defence, this tough legal-political battle is definitely a good one for learning and connecting the dots.
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2 envelopes (1925-1972). Analytical Inventory
Declaration of significant historic interest of 13/03/2006
This archive is composed of 39 documents produced between 1925 and 1972 by the "A. Pellizzari & Figli" company, founded in Arzignano (Vicenza) in 1901, purchased in 1979-1980 by Ansaldo Motori and transferred to the Marelli Group of Milan in 1984. As well as the minutes books for the shareholders and board of auditors, there are also technical drawings of various products, publications and leaflets.
The material was received in 1979 via the HR office of Ansaldo in Genoa.


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It was my birthday last month! Sarcastic yah! I turned 44. I know that anyone older than 35 thinks that 44 is young but I am not happy at all about being in my forties, especially because the aches in my joints make me feel older that I am. And because of that achy hip and torn achilles tendon that just won't heal, I feel that my best, physical, years are behind me. So my birthday is a bitter sweet mix of "hurray, it's a day all about ME" to "Boo, another year older".
But, I suppose, there are worse things in life. And there are some amazing things going on in my life, including but not restricted to, watching my children grow and mature and become amazing young people. I'm so proud of them. I have a lot to be happy about right now. All of this doesn't stop me worrying about the future, about worrying about growing old with type 1 diabetes.
Every year, my birthday reminds me that one day I will wake up and actually be old! Old with type 1 diabetes. I will be old and maybe my brain won't be as sharp as it once was. How will I work out insulin doses safely? When will my old age start?
I have been taking care of my own diabetes ever since I was diagnosed but what happens if old age prevents me from doing that? What will that mean for my husband, my daughter and my son? I don't want them to carry this burden.
Will I end up in a nursing home hoping with staff taking care of me who don't know very much about type 1 diabetes? Should I make a plan to make sure no one has to take on this responsibility?
This is my biggest fear! Getting old and still having type 1 diabetes and the fear that I will not be able to take care of myself any longer.
I do not want to be elderly with diabetes. Full stop. I want a cure before I'm old.
This is a worry I have that is persistently at the back of my mind. I don't allow it to take up much space in my head because it has the potential to drown me. So, just for today I'm letting it out to lessen its influence it has on my outlook on life. Tomorrow I will put it back in and focus on what is good about today.


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Nimki has a flavor of kalonji and is crispy like namakpaare. It has salty and spicy taste. Serve them with kasundi or green coriander chutney, in both ways you will like its special taste.
Maida - 1 cup
Oil to mix in maida - 2 tbsp
Salt - ¼ tsp
Kalongi - ¼ tsp
Chaat masala - ¼ tsp
Oil - to fry nimki
1.Take maida in any utensil, mix salt and kalonji in it. Add little water at a time and knead hard dough like that used for making puris. Cover the dough and keep it aside for 15-20 minutes for fermenting.
Mix ghee and 1 tbsp maida, sata is ready.
2. Knead the dough and make a ball. Roll ball thinly into a circle with 10-12 inch diameter. Place the sata on rolled parantha and spread it evenly. Sprinkle chaat masala on top of the surface as well.
3. Now roll the prepared parantha. Cut ½ - ¾ cm balls from the dough. Prepare all balls like wise.
4. Take one ball, place it on rolling plate and with help of rolling pin roll it in a circle with 3 inch diameter. Fold the rolled puri in a half moon shape. Now again fold it giving it a shape of cone. With help of fork make 4-5 pricks on both sides. Like wise roll, fold and prick all the nimkis.
5. Take oil in a pan. When oil gets medium hot, place nimkis in the pan as much as possible at a time and fry on low-medium flame until they get golden brown color (it takes 10-15 minutes for frying the nimki of 1 time). Take out the fried nimkis in a plate with absorbent paper. Like wise fry all nimkis.
6. Crunchy and crispy nimki is ready. Store in air tight container when cooled completely and enjoy eating for 2 months.
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Ford® Honors KICKER® Fiesta SE with Product Excellence Award
Ford® Honors KICKER® Fiesta SE with Product Excellence Award
STILLWATER, USA – KICKER® Performance Audio is proud to announce that Ford® recently honored the stunning 2011 KICKER Fiesta SE project vehicle and the KICKER Installations Team with the Ford Product Excellence Award.
The KICKER Fiesta SE can be seen on display Nov. 19-21 at Homestead-Miami Speedway during NASCAR's series-crowning Ford Championship Weekend.
"Your excellence in building this project provides a benchmark for all Aftermarket organizations," Brian Nottmeier wrote in the award letter. Nottmeier is the Director of Ford's FNA Product Planning group. The letter states the "award has been created to recognize excellence in product development and total project vehicle execution."
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KICKER's tricked-out Fiesta SE was unveiled at the 2010 SEMA Show in Las Vegas Nov. 2 as the centerpiece of the mobile-sound legend's booth inside the Las Vegas Convention Center's North Hall. "The KICKER Installations Team worked feverishly to create a powerful, unique statement with the KICKER Fiesta that will make a memorable impact," said Kevin Campbell, KICKER Global Marketing Director.
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The Fiesta got a complete makeover, which included a reshaped dash, Sparco racing seats and vibrant exterior paint with graphics. The interior got an infusion of audio glitz, beginning with four 15-inch, rumbling KICKER CompVX Subwoofers each powered by its own ultra-compact, 1,000-watt KICKER IX Subwoofer Amplifier. Smooth midrange and high frequencies pouring from outstanding KICKER QS Components in the doors come to life thanks to a set of small 4-channel KICKER IX Amplifiers.
Dynamat interior sound control lining, Konig wheels, General Tire rubber and Kinetik audio power cells are a few of the other aftermarket products utilized to make the Fiesta the subject of any complete stop-look-and-listen session.
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