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What writer doesn't yearn to leave his or her readers clinging to every final word? Can you identify these novels from their famous last lines?
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Question 1 of 30
"I don't hate it, he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I don't. I don't! I don't hate it! I don't hate it!"
"The Catcher in the Rye"
"The Trial"
"Absalom, Absalom!"
Plantation society and culture are analyzed in, "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner.
Question 2 of 30
"Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper."
"Les Miserables"
"A Passage to India"
"Memoirs of a Geisha"
The 1997 book "Memoirs of a Geisha" was made into a 2005 film that was filmed mostly in California.
Question 3 of 30
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
"Invisible Man"
"The Grapes of Wrath"
"The Great Gatsby"
F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the lives of people on 1920s Long Island in "The Great Gatsby."
Question 4 of 30
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
"A Tale of Two Cities"
Charles Dickens' 1859 book, "A Tale of Two Cities," starts with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…"
"Bleak House"
"Oliver Twist"
Question 5 of 30
"But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union."
"An American Tragedy"
"Emma" by Jane Austen begins by explaining that Emma is "handsome, clever and rich."
"Jane Eyre"
Question 6 of 30
"As you from crimes would pardoned be, let your indulgence set me free."
"The Tempest"
"The Tempest" by William Shakespeare has become a touchstone of sorts for many works of art since it was penned in the 1600s.
Question 7 of 30
"But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before."
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
American satire took on new heights in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
"In Search of Lost Time"
Question 8 of 30
"He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance."
"The Big Sleep"
"The Lord of the Flies"
Kids embrace savagery in "Lord of the Flies," published in 1954.
Question 9 of 30
"'Rest assured, our father, rest assured. The land is not to be sold.' But over the old man's head they looked at each other and smiled."
"The Plague"
"The Good Earth"
Thanks in large part to "The Good Earth," Pearl S. Buck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
Question 10 of 30
"Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."
"The Picture of Dorian Gray"
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
This 1916 novel by James Joyce showed a man named Stephen Dedalus as he explores his humanity.
Question 11 of 30
"Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is."
"Continental Drift"
Russell Banks won the Dos Passos Prize for Literature for his "Continental Drift."
"Wuthering Heights"
Question 12 of 30
"But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy."
"The Ambassadors"
"A Moveable Feast"
Ernest Hemingway's memoir, "A Moveable Feast," recounts his early experiences and wasn't published until after he died.
"This Side of Paradise"
Question 13 of 30
"She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously."
"The Wind in the Willows"
"Lost Illusions"
"The Grapes of Wrath"
The Great Depression comes to life in horrible and wonderful ways in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
Question 14 of 30
"Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."
Count "Dracula" looks for fresh victims in Bram Stoker's iconic 1897 novel.
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
Question 15 of 30
"The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky – seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness."
"The Tin Drum"
"Things Fall Apart"
"Heart of Darkness"
Joseph Conrad takes his readers into Africa and into "Heart of Darkness," which blurs the line between brutality and humanity.
Question 16 of 30
"Wait and hope."
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
Vengeance meets collateral damage galore in "The Count of Monte Cristo," by Alexander Dumas.
"A Visit From the Goon Squad"
"The Sun Also Rises"
Question 17 of 30
"At that, as if it had been the signal he waited for, Newland Archer got up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel."
"Lord Jim"
"Treasure Island"
"The Age of Innocence"
Edith Wharton was the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize when "The Age of Innocence" was published in 1920.
Question 18 of 30
'I never saw any of them again — except the cops. No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them."
"The Long Goodbye"
As his wife withered from terminal illness, Raymond Chandler wrote, "The Long Goodbye" a tortured gem.
"Native Son"
"The Little Prince"
Question 19 of 30
"It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan."
"Pale Fire"
"Tristam Shandy"
"Moby- Dick"
"Moby-Dick" was a flop during Herman Melville's lifetime but became an American classic.
Question 20 of 30
"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."
"Dead Souls"
"The Magic Mountain"
"My Antonia"
Willa Cather used Nebraska pioneers to bring the American West to life in "My Antonia."
Question 21 of 30
"No got… C'lom Fliday"
"Naked Lunch"
Substance abuse (and odd phrasing) runs rampant in William S. Burroughs' "Naked Lunch."
"Paradise Lost"
"Midnight's Children"
Question 22 of 30
"Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this."
"Pride and Prejudice"
"Jane Eyre"
"Little Women"
"Little Women" was published in two separate installments in the late 1860s by Louisa May Alcott.
Question 23 of 30
"Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision."
"To the Lighthouse"
Virginia Woolf deploys a stream-of-consciousness style for 1927's "To the Lighthouse."
"The Idiot"
"The Scarlet Letter"
Question 24 of 30
"He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize and undying acclaim for her Southern epic "To Kill a Mockingbird."
"Vanity Fair"
"Under the Volcano"
Question 25 of 30
"There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air."
"Father Goriot"
"The Awakening"
"The Awakening" was more than a book; it was a new set of ideas regarding women's roles in society in the late 1800s.
"The Possessed"
Question 26 of 30
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
"The Broom of the System"
"The Flowers of Evil"
"The Catcher in the Rye"
Holden Caulfield skulks around New York in J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," published in 1951.
Question 27 of 30
"Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
"Gone with the Wind"
Scarlett O'Hara is at her most delusional in the last line of "Gone with the Wind."
"All This and Heaven Too"
"Journey to the End of the Night"
Question 28 of 30
"Curley and Carlson looked after them. And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?'"
"American Pastoral"
"Of Mice and Men"
John Steinbeck held back nothing in his often challenging "Of Mice and Men,' published in 1937.
"All the King's Men"
Question 29 of 30
"He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance."
"The Charterhouse"
"The Castle"
Mary Shelley wasn't even out of her teens when she wrote "Frankenstein," a story that would long outlive her.
Question 30 of 30
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
"Animal Farm"
Cruel dictators are really, really bad. That's one of the takeaways from George Orwell's "Animal Farm."
"Charlotte's Web"


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East Penn School Board rejects public TIF meetings on Hamilton Crossings
Should meetings be conducted in public by a committee that will recommend if East Penn School District, Lehigh County and Lower Macungie Township give up increased property taxes to help developers build a shopping center?
That question was debated at Monday night's East Penn School Board meeting, where a resolution that would open those meetings to the public failed by a 6-3 vote.
A tax increment financing (TIF) committee has been created to determine whether whether some property taxes generated by the proposed Hamilton Crossings shopping center should be used to help pay for the development.
Although each of the three taxing bodies appointed two representatives to that committee by late November, the committee has not yet met, according to its East Penn representatives.
In November, at least two Lehigh County commissioners-- Michael Schware and Scott Ott -- also said TIF committees meetings should be open to the public, although the county commissioners did not vote on it.
Tax increment financing allows a portion of increased property taxes collected on a developed property to be diverted for up to 20 years to help pay for the project's public infrastructure improvements and other costs. Hamilton Crossings developers have said they cannot do their project unless they get that financing.
Hamilton Crossings, which will include a Target and the Lehigh Valley's first Costco as anchor stores, is proposed on a 63-acre site located along both sides of Krocks Road between the Route 222 bypass and Hamilton Boulevard. The project is about a year away from getting final land development approval from Lower Macungie officials.
The developers argue that the three local taxing bodies will collect much more money in taxes from the new shopping center than if the property remains undeveloped.
Charles Ballard, president of East Penn's board, said that property now generates only $7,500 a year in property taxes for the school district, but that could increase to $500,000 to $1 million a year.
The TIF committee will determine what percent of increased taxes will be used to finance infrastructure improvements and for how long, after which the full amount of taxes would come to East Penn, Lower Macungie and the county. "It's not any lost taxes," said Ballard. "It's a question of foregoing the collection of a certain amount of taxes for a certain period of time."
TIF committee meetings can be open to the public, but school board solicitor Marc Fisher said the state's Commonwealth Court has ruled there is no requirement that those meetings must be held in public.
Fisher said the meetings will not be public if the Lehigh County Industrial Development Authority, which will run them, says they won't. He said that authority will make TIF recommendations, as a result of the committee meetings.
But Fisher stressed public meetings -- including a public hearing in Lower Macungie -- will be held when those TIF recommendations are made.
School board member Lynn Donches initially proposed Monday's resolution, which stated East Penn taxpayers are concerned about the distribution of their taxes and have every right to hear any discussion about the use of those taxes.
Donches said because the TIF committee is made up of public officials from the three taxing bodies and public money will be diverted for the project, "I believe the meetings should be open to the public."
Board member Julian Stolz amended her motion slightly, so East Penn's two representatives on the committee –Superintendent Thomas Seidenberger and board member Ken Bacher –would support making all TIF committee meetings of the whole open to the public.
Stolz said because the developers are asking for special privileges in the form of temporary tax breaks, they should be encouraged to meet a standard of transparency with the public.
Ballard opposed the resolution because it would "tie the hands of our representatives" and "may get people to believe our representatives are somewhat compromised in their ability to maintain confidentiality in these meetings."
Ballard also expressed concern TIF meetings "could be turned into a media circus."
Bacher said even if TIF meetings are not open to the public, "it's important that we share as much information as we can on the process as it's going on." He said he would appreciate receiving input from district residents because the decision potentially will have a big impact on East Penn's future finances.
Bacher said he is a firm advocate of transparency but, because the committee has not yet met, he doesn't know what the arguments will be regarding why meetings should or should not be public. He wants the flexibility to listen to those arguments and make a decision based on what he hears. "I'm not sure this resolution is the right way to achieve the transparency I believe in," said Bacher.
Seidenberger declined comment on the matter because the committee has not yet met. Only Donches, Stolz and Michael Policano voted for conducting TIF meetings in public.
The TIF committee is expected to work for several months before recommending whether tax increment financing is appropriate for Hamilton Crossings and, if so, how much property tax should be diverted by the school district, township and county. But the three taxing bodies will make the final decisions – in public -- on whether they want to participate and how much Hamilton Crossings tax revenue they want to contribute.
Board member Alan Earnshaw said once the committee has done its work and makes a recommendation, "We get to give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down."
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This series, produced by the FAO Environment and Natural Resources Service, is intended for decision-makers such as heads and division directors of national and international organizations and administrations, as well as project managers, planners and policy-makers of development institutions. This series aims to present new possibilities for the use of remote sensing and geographic information system techniques. This issue addresses the control of vector-borne diseases and the management of rangeland resources.
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The Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites (TEMS) database has been updated with new user features and content about environmental monitoring sites located around the world. TEMS is an international directory of sites (T.Sites) and networks that carry out long-term terrestrial monitoring and research activities. Based on a core list of 120 variables, the database provides information on the "who, what and where" that can be used by both the scientific community and policy analysts. A new version of TEMS has been developed and released on the web by the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) with scientific and technical support from the Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (TOPC) and FAO. This version of TEMS contains many new features including simple and advanced searches, browsing trees facilities (by environmental variables, networks, or T.Sites), maps, improved and revised environmental variable sheets, socio-economic data, and automated on line registry and editing of T.Sites. The information on sites has been or is being updated and new sites are being added to the database. A TEMS brochure is now available from the GTOS secretariat (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com). The development of a French and Spanish version of TEMS is now being investigated as well as the development of a ...
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The Johannesburg summit is a follow-up of the first Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The Earth Summit represented a turning point in the way we look at environment and development; world leaders adopted Agenda 21, a blue print to attain sustainable development in the 21st century.FAO is task manager for many of the land-related chapters of Agenda 21, chiefly, chapter 10 (Integrated Planning and Management of Land Resources), chapter 11 (Combating Deforestation), chapter 13 (Sustainable Mountain Development) and on chapter 14 (Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development: SARD). It is also a major partner in the implementation of several chapters of Agenda 21, notably, chapters 12 (Combating Desertification and Drought), 15 (Biological Diversity), 17 (Oceans and Seas) 18 (Freshwater) and 19 (Toxic Chemicals). FAO is actively involved in contributing to the Rio+10 process and particularly as regards the preparation of documentation for the intergovernmental process. FAO looks forward to Rio+10 as it will provide a unique opportunity to draw to the attention of world leaders some of the key challenges and opportunities the global community faces in the implementation of various chapters of Agenda 21 for which it is a leader and major partner. We trust the ...
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GDB 13: It's on
November 06 2008 10:19AM
Of all the games the Oilers have played so far this year, tonight's is by far the biggest.
"But why Wanye? It's just another game isn't it?" Are you kidding? The results of this game will cement our reputation with a bunch of strangers in Pittsburgh! Oilers win, they'll all hate us. Oilers lose, they'll all hate us. Who can live with the uncertainty!?
This is why gambling was invented by Eduardo Las Vegas in 1879—to make sports more interesting. We took up the cause started by our boys over at jeanshortsandbaggedmilk, who have been deftly battling with this huge blog in Pittsburgh all by themselves.
We aren't going to leave our friends fighting solo. It's like in Junior High School when your friend would get challenged to a schoolyard fight. What do you do? You third-man-in and crack the kid in the skull with your Thermos! Take that Jeremy Tandrup, age ten. Don't mess with our crew. We have never been afraid to get involved in any nonsense that comes our way.
So we contacted these dudes at pensblog. They ignored our email. Then we chirped them. Then they claimed they didn't get the email. Then we went out of town and ignored them. Then made contact and the bet is cemented.
Why should you care about the game tonight? Oilers win, the pensblog will purchase the first two NationGear T-shirts off the line in Dec 2008; we'll give them to two lucky citizens of the Nation. Oilers lose, we have to buy two of their T-shirts for giveaways to their fans. Oh and the loser has to write an article explaining the awesomeness of the winning city.
"But Wanye you don't got no money. You ain't gonna pay for no T-shirts!" That's right Nation. Oilers lose tonight and your ol' pal Wanye is going to have to sell an eyeball. Ever see Pirate Wanye with an eye patch? It ain't pretty.
Oh and Justice League? We hear that Pens fans will be in attendance tonight.
It's on.
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November 06 2008, 07:05PM
Evgeni, meet Sheldon
November 06 2008, 07:05PM
Someone has to kill Matt Cooke
November 06 2008, 07:06PM
Look at that boy go! Pound that dirty peehole.
November 06 2008, 07:06PM
November 06 2008, 07:06PM
Peckham is having none of that.
November 06 2008, 07:06PM
Attaboy Peckham
I hate Matt Cooke.
Im now a fan of Theo Peckham.
November 06 2008, 07:07PM
Kick his teeth down his throat
November 06 2008, 07:08PM
I actually agree with Louie
November 06 2008, 07:08PM
If ever there is a time to get a shortie.......
November 06 2008, 07:09PM
That was a brutal call, tell the ref to bend over and look out his good eye, it takes two to fight
November 06 2008, 07:10PM
why is it that they score two every time I try and make some dinner!
November 06 2008, 07:11PM
Do something constructive like head butt people
November 06 2008, 07:11PM
Someone has got to tie that sweater on Cole down tighter - always over his head
November 06 2008, 07:11PM
Finally there is some GD fight in this team. I hope this becomes a trend for the rest of the season because we have looked like a beer league team up until now.
November 06 2008, 07:12PM
5 on 3?!?!?
Brutal - fire that ref.
November 06 2008, 07:12PM
The awesome factor of this game just jumped into the triple digits...and then the penalties happened.
November 06 2008, 07:12PM
Peckham - 2, 5, 10
November 06 2008, 07:12PM
Can someone tell Souray to turn around and knock out the lady sitting behind the penalty box?
November 06 2008, 07:13PM
My beer league team looks nothing like this. There is more 50 year old men walking around naked. Wait... how old is Roloson?
November 06 2008, 07:14PM
Yesss...clear that puck.
November 06 2008, 07:14PM
shortie please. thanks.
November 06 2008, 07:15PM
Yesss…clear that puck.
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holy shite i thought for SURE Souray was gonna push that puck too far ahead.
November 06 2008, 07:16PM
November 06 2008, 07:16PM
All you Souray haters can officially suck on that!
November 06 2008, 07:17PM
Sheldon Souray is mantastic.
November 06 2008, 07:18PM
Amen Wayne
November 06 2008, 07:18PM
Nice kill + a shorty!
November 06 2008, 07:18PM
I'd eat a Souray, if it was a sandwich.
November 06 2008, 07:18PM
JDD > Crosby. SCIENCE FACT!
November 06 2008, 07:19PM
I want to know who is writing your posts? THere is no way you are still sober at this point. I can picture you jumping up and down, stomping on your penguin stuffed animal while yelling some incoherant verbage!!!
November 06 2008, 07:20PM
78 should hammer his BFF 87.
Really get the game going...
November 06 2008, 07:20PM
Sign me up for the JDD fan club!
November 06 2008, 07:20PM
the PCP keeps him quite coherent.
November 06 2008, 07:20PM
JDD seems pretty comfy in the net there. I like it.
November 06 2008, 07:22PM
Mark my words:
If the Oilers win I am buying 5 Nation shirts and giving them to Loyal Justice League Members
November 06 2008, 07:22PM
^ Agreed
November 06 2008, 07:23PM
so... JDD starting one of the next two?
November 06 2008, 07:23PM
Ride the hot goalie - Classic MacT
November 06 2008, 07:26PM
I still have an erection from that Souray goal. Glad to see Fluery is really aggressive in the net there.
November 06 2008, 07:27PM
Pouliot with the bad passes.
November 06 2008, 07:27PM
I've said it many times, but teams rally around Instigator penalties. They find ways to kill them off. Laraque used to use that as the reason why he never took them. BS I say. A team always seems to kill off a good instigator and Peckham's was good.


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As part of a partnership between The St. Louis Beacon, St. Louis Public Radio and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, John Encarnacion, Ph.D., will team up with doctoral student Garrecht Metzger and historian Michael Allen to explain the complex intersections between the geologic and architectural histories of St. Louis.
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"Downton Abbey" tells the story of Robert and Cora Crawley, the Earl and Countess of Grantham.
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When does the first episode of "Downton Abbey" take place?
"Downton Abbey" begins the day after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Future series carry on through WWI and the 1920s.
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Why does Cora miscarry in Season 1 of "Downton Abbey?"
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Who was killed during a poker game the day after the real Sheriff Seth Bullock came to Deadwood?
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When is the show "Manhattan" set?
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What king is featured on "The Tudors?"
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Which king built Versailles?
Louis XIV
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Louis XVIII
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17th century
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In what town did "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" help to heal the sick?
Colorado Springs
"Dr. Quinn" was set in Colorado Springs in the 1860s, and ran from 1993 to 1998.
Walnut Grove
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Lucky Strike not only serves as Draper's favorite brand to savor, but the company is also one of Sterling Cooper's biggest clients.
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What war does "Turn: Washington's Spies" focus on?
American Revolution
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Civil War
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Which royal is the focus of "Reign" on The CW?
Mary, Queen of Scots
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Queen Victoria
Marie Antoinette
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Jerome Flynn
Matthew Macfadyen
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What is a penny dreadful?
a person
a dead person
a book
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In what state was the "Little House on the Prairie" series set?
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Big props to Anthony, who has worked very hard to get where he is today. I know The Golden Boy doesn't look like you're typical wrestler, but inside that ring he's like his catch implies, "good as gold." I had the opportunity to work with Anthony in AAPW. I always enjoyed him in the ring, as he was a throwback to the old school legends. His work on the mic was always on par too. I always enjoyed being in the promo area when it was time for the Golden Boy to do his work.
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HANDBOOK OF FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC. Jean-Michel Muller, Nicolas Brisebarre, Florent de Dinechin, Claude-Pierre Jeannerod, Vincent Lefèvre, Guillaume Melquiond, Nathalie Revol, Damien Stehlé and Serge Torres. xxiv + 572 pp. Birkhäuser, 2010. $129.
The digital computer was originally conceived as a machine for doing arithmetic, and so you might think it could add, subtract, multiply and divide without error. After all, these are skills we teach to young children. But arithmetic is a subtler art than it seems. For some problems, a computer cannot possibly give an exact numerical answer, because irrational quantities such as the square root of 2 cannot be represented in a finite number of digits. The most you can reasonably ask of the computer is that it always calculate the best approximation to the true answer, within the constraints of finite precision. But even this goal is sometimes exceedingly difficult to achieve.
In the empyrean world of mathematics—as distinct from the material world of computation—arithmetic has rules you can count on. For example, the relation a+1>a holds true for every finite value of a on the real number line. But if you try a few experiments with computer software, you can readily find values of a for which a+1=a. A spreadsheet program on my computer gives this preposterous result when a is set equal to 9,007,199,254,740,992. Another familiar rule that computer arithmetic flagrantly violates is the associative law of addition, which states that (a+b)+c=a+(b+c). In the spreadsheet, when I assign the values a=1017, b=–1017 and c=1, I find that (a+b)+c returns a result of 0.0, whereas a+(b+c) yields the value 1.0.
These anomalies are not the result of programming errors or hardware malfunctions, and they are certainly not confined to this one spreadsheet program; they reflect inescapable limitations of computer arithmetic. The real numbers of mathematics form an infinite continuum, with no limits on their size or on how closely they crowd together; between any two real numbers, there's room for infinitely many more. But a machine with a finite set of discrete parts cannot represent all of those numbers. In the spreadsheet program, every number must fit into 64 binary digits of storage, and so there can be no more than 264 (or roughly 1019) distinct numbers.
The question is: Which 264 numbers should be included in this privileged set? The design trade-off is between precision and range. Packing all the numbers into a narrow interval allows fine discrimination between nearby values; scattering the numbers more sparsely covers a wider territory. The choice made by the spreadsheet program—and by much other software—is a "floating point" scheme similar to scientific notation. It affords high precision for small numbers (close to zero) but much coarser resolution in the outer reaches of the number line.
In the 64-bit version of floating-point arithmetic used by the spreadsheet program, a number takes the form m×2E. Here m is the significand, with 53 bits of precision, and E is the exponent, which is allocated 11 bits. These facts about the internal details of the number format provide some clues about the oddities described above. In particular, the mysterious number 9,007,199,254,740,992 is equal to 253, which is where the significand runs out of digits. In this numeric neighborhood, rounding a number to the nearest representable floating-point value yields the same result for both a and a+1.
Floating-point arithmetic is not a novel idea; mainframe computers had it in the 1950s. But two events in the 1980s shaped modern development of the technology. First, a coprocessor chip made by Intel provided hardware support for floating-point arithmetic in early personal computers. Second, the publication of a detailed standard for floating-point operations, designated IEEE-754, brought a measure of consistency and predictability. The standard was widely adopted both by hardware manufacturers and by the designers of programming languages, so that the IEEE-754 version of floating-point arithmetic soon became part of the computational infrastructure, available on almost all computing platforms. (These days, even cell phones have it.)
It's often the fate of infrastructure that everybody uses it but nobody thinks about it. Particularly welcome, then, is this thorough new Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic, which delves deeply into the murky underworld of numerical computing. Most of the book's nine authors are affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. As a group they have a distinguished portfolio of research publications on numerical analysis, computer arithmetic and related topics.
The Handbook's introductory chapters discuss the nitty-gritty details of how a number is encoded in a sequence of bits, how the basic operations of arithmetic are to be carried out according to the dictates of the IEEE standard, the importance of correct rounding, and what can go wrong. The what-can-go-wrong part gets a disproportionate share of attention, if only because the "corner cases" are where the interesting problems are found. How should the system respond when it is asked to evaluate 1/0? How about 0/0? Questions like these are answered by introducing symbols for exceptional cases: +∞, –∞, NaN (which stands for "not a number") and the concept of "signed zero," with the dual symbols +0 and –0. All these novelties bring further conundrums, such as the curious fact that the statement NaN=NaN is false: The symbol is not equal to itself. On the other hand, +0=–0 is true.
A further series of chapters, in a section headed "Cleverly Using Floating Point Arithmetic," is aimed at the ordinary practitioner—perhaps a scientist-programmer trying to find the best compromise between speed and accuracy while avoiding the worst pitfalls. Presented here are some recommended algorithms for addition and multiplication with a guarantee of exactness (as well as methods for quantifying error in other cases) and advice on common tasks such as evaluating polynomials and dealing with complex numbers. But this is not a text on numerical analysis. You will need to turn elsewhere to calculate error bounds on an overall computation (as opposed to a single step) or to evaluate the stability of a numerical process.
Three more chapters address a rather different audience: They speak to the engineer who would implement floating-point arithmetic, either in hardware or in software. Admittedly, this is a task that very few people will ever have occasion to undertake, just as few drivers design their own automobiles or few musicians build their own pianos. Still, there's the perennial fascination of learning how things work. Take the algorithm for floating-point multiplication. The basic idea is to add the exponents and multiply the significands. Efficient hardware can perform these two tasks concurrently, but then the sum of the exponents may need to be adjusted because of a carry from the product of the significands. Furthermore, multiplying the significands can double the number of digits, and so the product must be rounded to fit the allotted space.
The final sections of the Handbook reach beyond the four operations of elementary-school arithmetic to the calculation of logarithms, exponentials and trigonometric functions. In this borderland between mathematics and computer science the challenges get deeper, and correct answers are not always to be had, even with the most ingenious bit-twiddling. The issue, again, is correct rounding. With the operations of ordinary arithmetic (and also in extracting square roots), calculating a few extra bits of precision will always suffice to determine whether a value that lies between two representable numbers should be rounded up or rounded down. In computing approximations to the transcendental functions there is no such guarantee. In the case of natural logarithms, there is at least one instance where correctly rounding the answer to 53 bits of precision requires calculating 117 bits. It has not been proved that the number of bits needed is always finite.
This state of affairs suggests a rather gloomy outlook for floating-point arithmetic. If we insist on correctness, some programs might be very slow, or they could even run forever without returning an answer. If instead we demand efficiency, we might have to accept answers that are not only inexact but also in some sense wrong—further from the true answer than is strictly necessary at a given level of precision. These facts have long been clear to the insiders who design floating-point systems, but perhaps they are not so well known to those who rely on the outputs. There is no reason for despair, just because the 53rd bit may be incorrect. Marvels of science and engineering were accomplished even in the dark ages of the slide rule, an instrument that came nowhere near 53 bits of precision. But the situation remains mildly irksome. And whereas users of slide rules were acutely aware of how coarse their approximations were, users of modern computers may have delusions of omniscience.
In my own casual programming, I often go out of my way to avoid floating-point arithmetic, favoring methods that give exact results for rational numbers, even though I pay a steep price in efficiency. And I sometimes get curmudgeonly about the overwhelming "mind share" that floating-point methods command in the world of scientific computing. I have the sense that floating-point arithmetic is often chosen without even considering alternatives. Reading the Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic has deepened my awareness of the snags and snares that await the unwary floating-point programmer. At the same time, however, the Handbook has inspired in me a renewed admiration for modern floating-point methods, despite their quirks. There is a huge body of knowledge standing behind the decisions made in formulating the IEEE-754 standard, and in the more recent work described here by the Lyon group. A floating-point calculation may not get every bit right, but it's not leaving many bits on the table unnecessarily.
Brian Hayes is Senior Writer for American Scientist. He is the author most recently of Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions (Hill and Wang, 2008).
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Legal Realisms, Old and New
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
February 5, 2013
Forthcoming in Valparaiso Law Review (2013) (2012 Seegers Lecture in Jurisprudence)
"Legal Realism" now has sufficient cache that scholars from many different fields and countries compete to claim the mantle of the "Realist program": from political scientists who study judicial behavior, to the "law and society" scholars associated with the Wisconsin New Legal Realism project, to philosophers interested in a naturalized jurisprudence. But what does it mean to be a "legal realist"? What unites the two most famous "old" Legal Realisms — the American and the Scandinavian — with the "new legal realism" invoked, variously, by sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists, among others? There are, of course, other "legal realisms," old and new, from the "free law" movement in Germany more than a century ago, to the Italian realism of the Genoa School today. My focus, however, shall be on the old and new Realisms that are probably most familiar. Is there anything they all share?
I argue that (1) American and Scandinavian Realism have almost nothing in common — indeed, that H.L.A. Hart misunderstood the latter as he did the former, and that the Scandinavians are closer to Hart and even Kelsen than they are to the Americans; (2) all Realists share skepticism about the causal efficacy of legal doctrine in explaining judicial decisions ("the Skeptical Doctrine") (though the Scandinavian skepticism on this score is not at all specific to the legal domain, encompassing all explanation in terms of norms); (3) American Realism almost entirely eschewed social-scientific methods in its defense of the Skeptical Doctrine, contrary to the impression given by much recent work by "new" legal realists; (4) the myth that the American Realists were seriously interested in social science derives mainly from two unrepresentative examples, Underhill Moore's behaviorism and Llewellyn's work with the Cheyenne Indians. Moore's case is a cautionary note in taking au courant social science too seriously; and Llewellyn's work was necessitated by the fact that the "primitive" peoples he wanted to study did not write their judicial opinions down. For any modern legal culture, such "field work" would be unnecessary on Llewellyn's view.
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Isaiah speaks about the Messiah—Prepare ye the way of the Lord—He will feed His flock like a shepherd—Israel's God is incomparably great.
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7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
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25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
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There are still people out there who are unaware that Western Underground is Chris LeDoux's band. They are the rock and roll rodeo sound that helped make LeDoux famous. Mark Sissel on guitar said, "A lot of people aren't aware that we follow that same tradition we gained in 16 years of traveling with Chris. We try to play to that fan base and we have plenty of Chris in the show. Our new CD 'Unbridled' is just our new music.
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"We've had a lot of people who love the new music and they write in and tell their stories of how the songs have affected them. One of the songs, 'Think about Rain' is about the drought and how people are suffering. The song addresses that and some people have written in and said they felt like that song was written for them. It touched them. If people can relate to the songs and feel them, then we've done a good job.
"Another song, 'King of Wyoming,' relates what it was like for me running with Chris. Chris was an extraordinary character. If a song touches someone then that's a good song. If you can create an emotion then that's the best thing to do with music. We all categorize our lives with music. Everything ties to a song. Chris wrote a lot of his own material early on and then he let good writers do most of the work. His life was rodeo and cowboys. He stayed true to his character. People just kept coming back to see him.
"We want to encourage everyone to come out to the concert on Aug. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Heck, it's free what do you have to lose? Come out and get fired up. Just have fun. Utah is a special place. It is one of our best markets, everyone here just loved Chris and Chris loved it here. We are doing 25-30 shows this year. Mostly in the summer, fairs and festivals. We always do a stockshow in Denver in January and we always play somewhere at the rodeo finals in Las Vegas. We were at Country Jam in June. I don't think anyone has played Country Jam in Grand Junction more than us. We've been there 13 out of the last 15 years," said Sissel.
It's free, it's fun, it's outdoors behind the rodeo arena at the Castle Dale fairgrounds on Aug. 2 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Bleachers will be set up or you can bring your own blankets and chairs.
The show will begin with the newly crowned Miss Emery royalty performing and then opening act Gwen Sebastian. Western Underground will headline the event.
Desertview Federal Credit Union will be giving away a free cruise along with $500 spending money to a lucky concert goer. Enter at the fair on Saturday or at the credit union offices in Huntington or Ferron.
The Emery County Progress, and Desertveiw Federal Credit Union will also be giving away Lagoon tickets to those attending the concert.