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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (October 29, 2010) ─ As over 3,500 Walk to School Month celebrations come to an end this October, many communities across the country are considering establishing programs to encourage safe walking and bicycling to school on their campuses. Why not take a few tips from the playbook of one of the nation's top programs?
The National Center for Safe Routes to School announces Alpine Elementary School, in Alpine, Utah, as the recipient of the 2010 James L. Oberstar Safe Routes to School Award, a national annual award that recognizes outstanding achievement in conducting a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program.
"I am pleased to recognize Alpine Elementary School's efforts to improve the health and well-being of its students by encouraging them to safely walk and bicycle to school," said Chairman Oberstar. "Safe Routes to School programs, like the one at Alpine, are the catalyst of change America needs to transform our 'car-first' mind set and embrace other modes of transportation. Our communities will be more livable if we make additional transportation options available. That's what we're celebrating with this award."
The James L. Oberstar SRTS Award is named for the congressman to honor his dedication to American schoolchildren as the pioneer for the federal SRTS program. Chairman Oberstar sponsored the SRTS legislation that strives to create safe settings to enable more parents and children to walk and bicycle to school.
Alpine Elementary School's SRTS program is being recognized for excellence in: increasing the number of children who regularly walk and bicycle to school; engaging, students, parents and the community in the effort; and using creative strategies to encourage families to shift habits to a less car-focused commute. From September 2008 to May 2010, Alpine Elementary School's SRTS program increased the percentage of children who regularly walked and bicycled to school from 35 to 50 percent.
"The Safe Routes to School program has been the keystone to a successful collaboration for student safety and academic improvement at Alpine Elementary School," said former Principal David Stephenson, one of the champions of the program. "Students were so excited to come to school and participate in the activities and incentives provided by the program, and coincidently our attendance and readiness for each school day improved. It has truly brought about a healthy lifestyle change, forged new relationships in Alpine City and even in Africa, and fostered growth for a better future!"
In 2008, Alpine Elementary started its SRTS program with the theme BEE Safe, BEE Fit, BEE Kind. The goal was "to empower students to make a difference in their daily lives and the lives of others, all the while, integrating safety into their actions," and included a partnership with Candle Light School in Kenya, Africa. Over the past two years, Alpine Elementary students have walked over 72,000 miles, and raised enough money through private donations to purchase three months' worth of lunches for the entire Candlelight student body, and a cow and several goats and chickens for the school's farm.
"We are very thankful for what all the students, teachers and parents of Alpine Elementary are doing to ensure other children from a very different culture have an opportunity to enjoy life and have self-esteem," said Fred Afwai, principal and founder of Candle Light School in Nairobi, Kenya.
Having experienced two car crashes involving student pedestrians on their way to school prior to beginning the SRTS program, Alpine Elementary has also been vigilant about teaching safety skills. Students have participated in bicycle rodeos, pedestrian safety walks, assemblies, and safety poster contests. Parents were also encouraged to remind students about safety rules as they walked and pedaled in family participation activities. The school also utilized The Student Neighborhood Access Program (SNAP) to create their safe walking route plan or SNAP map to help facilitate these activities.
"The pure energy, creativity and dedication of Alpine Elementary School's students and parents are inspiring," said Lauren Marchetti, director of the National Center for Safe Routes to School. "Their Safe Routes to School program's overarching strategy to use student-led activities and parental and community involvement is not only working well but it serves as a wonderful model for schools across the country."
Alpine Elementary is part of the Alpine School District, the lowest funded school district in the nation. The school has received federal SRTS funding through the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) in the amount of $71,500, to install four solar-powered speed limit signs designed to slow traffic and improve student visibility at crosswalks, build a new walking/bicycling trail, make improvements to the bicycle storage area, and to support encouragement and educational activities. Alpine City donated approximately $125,000 in labor and materials toward improving routes to school.
The 2010 James L. Oberstar SRTS Award will be presented to Alpine Elementary School at a ceremony in December.
Alpine Elementary School was selected to receive the 2010 Award by a committee comprised of representatives from: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, America Walks, the National Center for Safe Routes to School, the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, Safe States Alliance and the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
About the James L. Oberstar Safe Routes to School Award
The James L. Oberstar Safe Routes to School Award is given annually for outstanding achievement in implementing the Safe Routes to School Program in the United States. The National Center for Safe Routes to School opens a call for applications each year, receives the applications and evaluates them with assistance of an expert panel representing organizations that promote safe walking and bicycling.
The award is named for Congressman Oberstar (D-MN) to honor his dedication to American schoolchildren as the pioneer for the National Safe Routes to School Program. Oberstar, current Chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, sponsored the Safe Routes to School legislation that strives to create safe settings to enable more parents and children to walk and bicycle to school. For more information on the Award, visit www.saferoutesinfo.org/data-central/success-stories/safe-routes-to-school-award.


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I purchased a 40 acre farm this past spring in north east Ohio in the waterfowl rich area of Lake Erie, Pymatuning Lake, Mosquito Creek Lake and Shenango River/Lake. I live across the border in western PA and have had a lot of success hunting this area over the years. The land is basically flat and holds water in the low spots. I regularly jump ducks from tiny puddles around the property after a rain. I am surrounded by ag fields for miles of mostly corn and soybeans including 15 acres of my fields. I manage the wood lots and food plots for deer and turkey and I have 5 acres on the north end of the property that was clear cut about 10 years ago. That area would be easily cleared with a dozer and set up for some levees that can be planted and flooded.
I would appreciate any info, links and books you may know that can help me on the subject. I understand this will take a good deal of time, sweat and money but I'm in no hurry and I enjoy habitat work on this new farm as much as I did on my old place. Thanks,


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Advanced Placement (AP) is a research-backed method to facilitate student participation and success through delivery of college-level courses and corresponding exams in the high school setting to qualified high school students. In 2009 the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) set a goal for 25 percent of all high school students to receive a passing score on an AP or International Baccalaureate (IB) exam or successfully complete dual credit coursework. The percentage of high school graduates passing an AP exam increased from 12.4 percent in 2010 to 14 percent in 2011. In 2009, the pass rate was 10.4 percent. This increase gave Indiana the second highest two-year growth in the nation.
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- AP Central – College Board's AP Information website
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- AP Courses and Exams
- AP Fees and Exam Dates
- Indiana Code for Advanced Placement Program
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Hey guys,
I just moved to the wiregrass area, specifically Dothan. Anyone know of some places to duck hunt in the area?
I'm getting a late start, and have checked in with the Refuge at Eufaula. Past there, I'm at a loss. Not finding anything online.
Thanks a bunch, and I'll try to come around a little more :mrgreen:


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fu$k a damn bicycle!
how the hell are you not supposed to blow um in the fricking ditch anyway? their going like 3mph in the middle of a fricking busy ass highway?
no not on the curb--right in the fricking MIDDLE--
i got plenty of horses --yea they were here first-- but i'll be damned if i'll be stupid enough to ride on down the fricking highway at rush hour.
they need to get their asses back on a bike path and off the highway!


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Re: Plotting A verticle line?
One way is to use the ParametricPlot function. The following example plots
a vertical line at x = 2.
ParametricPlot[{2, t}, {t, -1000, 1000}]
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> How do you get Mathematica to plot a straight verticle line?


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So, you've downloaded Spire, but you want to get Siri functionality.
Spire is the Siri GUI port that was brought to use by Grant Paul and Ryan Petrich. It works on any iOS 5 iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch (excluding the iPhone 4S since Siri is already there). It isn't a full port; it is a GUI that lacks Siri functionality until the user gets that functionality themselves. There are a few ways to get that functionality. One way is to set up your own Siri server and use your own (or someone else's) iPhone 4S as the go-to to using Siri. This means that you will need to update your own server with new iPhone 4S keys daily.
If the daily routine of updating your server's keys sounds absolutely cumbersome to you, then there is the painless option of using Siri server hosts. Almost all of them support Spire. There are many free and paid servers; most being paid if you want good up-time. Free servers can be unpredictable and paid servers can often be scams. There is no real way to stop this, however we would like to spread awareness of some paid Siri servers that we know you can trust to keep excellent Siri up-time, and additionally, some decent free servers which we cannot guarantee 100% up-time from. This is because free servers depend on key donations which are never really guaranteed. Paid servers usually feed their own keys and are much more reliable.
We've done some scavenging around for you to find servers that have good up-time, legitimate payment records, and cheap rates. If you are serious about getting Siri functionality on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, then you might want to consider some of these servers. I can confirm the working statuses of all of the paid ones, however the free ones are mostly free-lance servers that will be hit or miss.
*Please note that we are not responsible for the following:*
- Scams
- Termination of Siri service
- Unreliable Siri service
- Data overages
- Identity or personal information theft
- Issues making your Siri port work
- Linking you to their third-party Siri server Web sites
Installing Spire on your iDevice and using a third party server to gain Siri's service is done completely at your own risk - just like jailbreaking. Please use this information responsibly - never make an online payment unless you feel comfortable.
1. SiriZone - $20/Year
You might think of the figure $20 and think to yourself, "darn, that's a pretty big figure." Thinking in terms of rates, however, it's not a lot. You are paying less than $2 per month to have Siri functionality on your iDevice. This figure is on a 'per-device' basis because they use your device's UDID to register you on their system. This means that if you buy Siri functionality for one device, you won't be able to use it on another one without paying for the new device. SiriZone has four servers - three of which are in the United States (California, New Jersey, and Texas) and one of which is in the United Kingdom. The speeds are excellent and zippy. I always recommend that you choose the server that is closest to you to have the best connection possible.
SiriZone has above 97% up-time which is outstanding. There is a large group of iPhone 4S owners that feed their keys to SiriZone so that there is always a massive amount of potential for users. This means that they have a large area of wiggle room to accept more users. If at any time traffic becomes hard, they will shut down the ability to order slots to help accommodate for the people who are using their paid service. The server speeds are top of the notch in my opinion. The SiriZone team has excellent customer support that you can use if you have any problems. They are right there to answer your questions for any reason through their Twitter, Facebook, and through E-mail. A quick Google search for SiriZone will land you where you need to be to pay for this Siri service.
Name: SiriZone
Price: $20/year
Speed: 5/5
Support: 5/5
Up-time: 5/5
Pricing: 4/5
Spire-compatible: Yes
2. iPhoNews.ro - 10€
The 10€ price figure for this server is a one-time payment which lasts a lifetime (or as long as the service can be legally operated). You go to their Web site, make the donation, and they will make the server information available to you. This server will only give you access to Siri on one iDevice for this price. You will have to pay an extra 10€ per device that you want to add Siri functionality to. The servers are located in both Romania and in the United States. The speeds are pretty decent. This price might be something that you are looking for if you don't mind waiting a few seconds for Siri to be responsive.
iPhoNews.ro has about 95% up-time which is pretty great. The only time that the server is usually down is for 5% of the time when they are renewing the keys necessary for people to use the server. They offer customer support through their Twitter. The pricing is very reasonably done being that it is forever without reoccurring payments. The host also told me that if someone buys four slots, they will get the fifth slot for free. If someone buys three slots, then the price will be 25€ instead of 30€. Not too shabby! You can find information about payments and how to sign up on their Web site which you can find through a Google search.
Name: iPhoNews.ro
Price: 10€ (About $13.16)
Speed: 4/5
Support: 5/5
Up-time: / 4.5/5
Pricing: / 4.5/5
Spire-compatible: Yes
3. SiriServers - $45
SiriServers is a United States-based server located in California. It requires a one-time payment of $45 to grab, however any added devices that you want after you pay the first time will only cost an additional $20. The speed of SiriServers is rather shocking. It is quick and feels like you are using an iPhone 4S directly. They tell me that they have a surplus of iPhone 4S keys running their servers, which of course helps boost their speeds.
The up-time is anywhere above 95% which is pretty outstanding. The two people that run the server offer support through either their Twitter accounts or through email; their Twitters are here and here. Testing it myself, it has great response time. One of our super moderators also uses SiriServers to power his device and he also speaks highly of it. You can find out more about them and how to pay for their Siri server by searching Google for their name.
Name: SiriServers
Price: $45
Speed: 5/5
Support: 5/5
Up-time: / 4.5/5
Pricing: 4/5
Spire-compatible: Yes
4. SiriTD - $11.99/Month
The SiriTD server is a paid Siri server that will cost you a monthly amount. It is in the United States in California. The speeds are great and the response time is pretty nice. I found that the server has around a 96% up-time with a few random hiccups that self-corrected themselves with no problems at all. The administrators feed the server with new iPhone 4S keys every day to make sure that down-time is non-existent or minimal.
They offer a deal for their users where iPhone 4S owners can use their server for free for their devices as long as they feed their iPhone 4S keys to the server. They require that an iPhone 4S user feeds them keys for at least 3 days before they will get their free slot. They often do Twitter giveaways for their Siri server on their main Twitter account here. I found that this server has a reliable latency and can handle some good bandwidth. You can do a Google search to find their Web site where you can take care of the billing and get yourself set up with them.
Name: SiriTD
Price: $11.99/month
Speed: 5/5
Support: / 4.5/5
Up-time: / 4.5/5
Pricing: / 2.5/5
Spire-compatible: Yes
5. The Three Little Pigs - Free
The Three Little Pigs server is a user-based server in the United States. You will get out of it what you put into it. It works by people donating their Siri keys to the server management team. Once they do that, people who are signed up with the server (more information about using it on their Web site - Google to find it) can access Siri for free. The number of devices that you can use with The Three Little Pigs server is unlimited. Just understand that because it's an unlimited server, there is a lot of traffic and because of that, access may not always be granted or guaranteed.
From experience, I have only been able to get this server to work once - late at night. Although, it does try hard to get you though. This is probably because of high traffic or servers that can't handle the bandwidth. Since the server uses a share-all technique where it relies on free donations to serve everyone who might possibly find their server, traffic can often be congested. Since the server is free, no one should be complaining! You can always keep trying to get a request through. It might work at some point. They offer support through each of the server's maintainers' Twitter accounts; one here and the other here. You can find information on their server from their Web site which can be obtained through a Google search.
Name: The Three Little Pigs
Price: FREE
Speed: 2/5
Support: / 3.5/5
Up-time: 1/5
Pricing: 5/5
Spire-compatible: Yes
These should get you started. As more verified Siri servers become available, we will keep you updated on them. If you did not already, please read the disclaimer at the beginning of this post. Ratings are based on user-happiness. Speed is based on the feeling of fluidity, not comparing each server to another. Support is based on motivation of the staff. Up-time is based on how often the server is working for the user. Pricing is based on how fair the price is for the value of the service, not comparing each server to another. We have you Google their Web sites to keep the responsibility in your hands - it's your iDevice and what you do with it is your business, not ours. If you have problems with any of the above servers, contact them for support (we linked each of their Twitters in their descriptions), we probably will not be able to help you with it here because we are not affiliated with them. We can answer general how-to questions in the comments. Also note that there are many other servers out there, however we will only post about the ones that have been verified by one of our writers. We will never post a third party server that we, ourselves, do not trust. Feel free to leave comments regarding your experiences with the servers or your contentedness with them. We are always happy to hear your opinion about them!


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289 - Advice Needed / Modified Heads on Stock Bottom
I don't work on cars, so I am hoping for some advice on the following.
I have a 1963 Comet S22 Convertible with a 289 V8 / 2-barrel stock engine. I have just had the bottom of the engine rebuilt: bored out +.010 with new aluminum pistons, new stock cam - basically rebuilt to original.
The heads/valves were shot. I found a set of complete heads at a great price as follows:
Ford 289 Cylinder Heads
Small Chamber
Date Codes 6-A-3 & 6-A-13
These heads have Chevy valves in them.
Heads have 1.94 intake Valves. 1.6 Exhaust Valves.
8 Hardened Exhaust Seats installed. Valve Springs are good for 500 lift cam with 110 pounds closed and 280 open pressure.
3 Angle Valve Job. 16 New Valve Guides.
Heads have been resurfaced to 53 CC's.
Screw in studs and Guide Plates were installed.
The heads have been magnifluxed and pressure tested.
New seals have been installed.
The Exhaust Ports have been Ported to Header Gaskets for better flow.
(the seller of these heads said that he can make provisions for use with stock 289 exhaust manifolds)
My engine builder knows that I'm not trying to modify this engine, and advised me that these heads are 100% compatible with the "stock" bottom, stock camshaft, stock intake manifold and stock 2-barrel carb, and that the engine will run fine ... just that I won't be maximizing the potential of those heads.
Is there anything my engine builder may be overlooking ?
A friend of mine who is into racing strongly advised me against using these heads. He simply said that the heads will not work properly with a stock bottom & 2-barrel carb.
Any advice would be appreciated.
40 years ago doing that setup on the heads was quite common and it did wake up the motors. of course these days most guys bite it and buy a set of Roush or other aftermarket heads..bottom line..good setup and run em..Check compression as you may need to run premium gas..
Sounds good to me, also.
Be sure to check for the correct valve train geometry. Your builder will know about this, but there is a chance that stock length pushrods may not give you the right geometry. This is because of the valve job being done, the block and heads having been decked, the chance of a different thickness head gasket from stock, manufacturing tolerances, the type of rocker arms you use- ALL have an effect on what the right length p-rod will be needed.
Also, the guide plates need to be checked to be sure they're aligning the p-rods the way they're supposed to and not binding.
The guide slot in the head will need to be opened up some (if it hasn't been already) so the guide plates are doing the p-rod guiding and not BOTH the head's slot AND the guide plate- this doesn't work and will put the p-rod in a bind if both are trying to guide it.
Your heads are marked January, 1966. There was a change made during the year that went from stud mounted rockers guided by close tolerance head slots like I mentioned above, to self-aligning rockers. From HERE:
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The Moscow Warming Hole
This week, PNAS published our paper Increase of Extreme Events in a Warming World, which analyses how many new record events you expect to see in a time series with a trend. It does that with analytical solutions for linear trends and Monte Carlo simulations for nonlinear trends.
A key result is that the number of record-breaking events increases depending on the ratio of trend to variability. Large variability reduces the number of new records – which is why the satellite series of global mean temperature have fewer expected records than the surface data, despite showing practically the same global warming trend: they have more short-term variability.
Another application shown in our paper is to the series of July temperatures in Moscow. We conclude that the 2010 Moscow heat record is, with 80% probability, due to the long-term climatic warming trend.
Figure 1: Moscow July temperatures 1880-2010. New records (hottest or coldest months until then) are marked with red and blue dots. Dashed is a non-linear trend line.
With this conclusion we contradict an earlier paper by Dole et al. (2011), who put the Moscow heat record down to natural variability (see their press release). Here we would like to briefly explain where this difference in conclusion comes from, since we did not have space to cover this in our paper.
The main argument why Dole et al. conclude that climatic warming played no role in the Moscow heat record is because they found that there is no warming trend in July in Moscow. They speak of a "warming hole" in that region, and show this in Fig. 1 of their paper. Indeed, the linear July trend since 1880 in the Moscow area in their Figure is even slightly negative. In contrast, we find a strong warming trend. How come?
The difference, we think, boils down to two factors: the urban heat island correction and the time interval considered. Dole et al. relied on linear trends since 1880 from standard gridded data products. The figure below shows these linear trends for the GISS data for each calendar month, for two data versions provided by GISS: unadjusted and 'homogenised'. The latter involves an automatic correction for the urban heat island effect. We immediately see that the trend for July is negative in the homogenised data, just as shown by Dole et al. (Randall Dole has confirmed to us that they used data adjusted for the urban heat island effect in their study.)
Figure 2: Linear trends since 1880 in the NASA GISS data in the Moscow area, for each calendar month.
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Hmm... I saw a blue cup just like that the other day. Was it you?!?! :-D :wink:
Welcome to the site!
Hey folks, I'm new to the forum... jus' thought I'd follow shipwrecks & everyone elses lead post a pic. I like nice 45...
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Hmm... I saw a blue cup just like that the other day. Was it you?!?! :-D :wink:
Welcome to the site!
Coffee and a cigar your my kind of guy. 8)
COOL, new guy buys cigars!! :-D :-DOriginally Posted by Maximo
Welcome Aboard!
HOWDY and Welcome. That's the rules............new guy buys the cigars and beer......(or coffee).
I didn't know Jack Daniels made coffee.Originally Posted by Maximo
Thanx for the welcome people
.... yeah, I know I know the new guy buys.. :-D . so coffee, rum, Jack, beers or what ever works for you & cigar's.... on me ~ Cheers....
Shipwreck, the guy you saw in the blue cap?..... wasn't me....
Cigars ?.... occasionally, wuz celebrating that night.
Coffee ?.... YES, but not that night... :-D
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P 97, THANK YOU Sir......
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User:Michiexile/MATH198/Lecture 1
From HaskellWiki
1 Welcome, administrativia
2 Introduction
2.1 Why this course?
An introduction to Haskell will usually come with pointers toward Category Theory as a useful tool, though not with much more than the mention of the subject. This course is intended to fill that gap, and provide an introduction to Category Theory that ties into Haskell and functional programming as a source of examples and applications.
2.2 What will we cover?
The definition of categories, special objects and morphisms, functors, natural transformation, (co-)limits and special cases of these, adjunctions, freeness and presentations as categorical constructs, monads and Kleisli arrows, recursion with categorical constructs.
Maybe, just maybe, if we have enough time, we'll finish with looking at the definition of a topos, and how this encodes logic internal to a category. Applications to fuzzy sets.
2.3 What do we require?
Our examples will be drawn from discrete mathematics, logic, Haskell programming and linear algebra. I expect the following concepts to be at least vaguely familiar to anyone taking this course:
- Sets
- Functions
- Permutations
- Groups
- Partially ordered sets
- Vector spaces
- Linear maps
- Matrices
- Homomorphisms
3 Category
3.1 Graphs
- Graph is vertices and edges. Each edge has source and target.
- Notation: G a graph, G0 the vertices, G1 the edges, or arrows.
- Some examples.
- Complete structure given by G0, G1 and the two functions .
- Endoarrow, empty graph, discrete graph, complete graph, small graph, large graph, set theoretical traps, finite graph, simple graphs.
- Homomorphism: Map edges to edges, vertices to vertices, respects source and target maps.
- Paths: A path from the node x to the node y is some sequence of edges with:
- s(fn) = x
- t(f1) = y
- t(fi) = s(fi − 1) for all other i.
- For any node x, there is a unique path from x to x of length 0: ().
- For any edge f, there is a unique path from s(f) to t(f) of length 1.
- We denote by Gk the set of all paths in G of length k.
- This is compatible with out previous definition of G0,G1.
3.2 Categories
- A category is a graph equipped with an associative composition operation and an identity element 1x for each node x for this composition operation. The identity arrows may be viewed as being a function . Additional axioms are:
- Composition respects sources and targets, in that:
- s(u(x)) = t(u(x)) = x
- More on how we write compositions, and why the order is the way it is.
- We denote by HomC(A,B), or if C is obvious from context, just Hom(A,B), the set of all arrows from A to B. This is the hom-set, and may also be denoted C(A,B).
- In a category, arrows are also called morphisms, and nodes are also called objects. This ties in with the algebraic roots of the field.
- Large/small categories. Finite categories. Concrete categories.
- Sub-category. Full subcategory. Wide subcategory. Products of categories. Duals/opposites of categories.
- Slice categories. Free categories generated by graphs.
3.3 Morphisms and objects
Some morphisms and some objects are special enough to garner special names that we will use regularly.
- Isomorphisms and existence of inverses.
- Epi- and mono-morphisms and cancellability.
- Examples in concrete categories.
- Monomorphisms and subobjects:
- Factoring through. Equivalence relation by mutual factoring.
- Subobjects as equivalence classes of monomorphisms.
- Splitting and the existence of inverses.
- Terminal and initial objects.
- Constants. Pointless sets.
3.4 Examples
- The empty category.
- The one object/one arrow category 1
- The categories 2 and 1 + 1
- The category Set of sets.
- The catgeory FSet of finite sets.
- The category PFn of sets and partial functions.
- PFn(A,B) is a partially ordered set.
- Every partial order is a category. Each hom-set has at most one element.
- Every monoid is a category. Only one object.
- Kleene closure. Free monoids.
- The category of Sets and injective functions.
- The category of Sets and surjective functions.
- The category of k-vector spaces and linear maps.
- The category with objects the natural numbers and Hom(m,n) the set of -matrices.
- The category of Data Types with Computable Functions.
- Our ideal programming language has:
- Primitive data types.
- Constants of each primitive type.
- Operations, given as functions between types.
- Constructors, producing elements from data types, and producing derived data types and operations.
- We will assume that the language is equipped with
- A do-nothing operation for each data type. Haskell has .id
- An empty type 1, with the property that each type has exactly one function to this type. Haskell has . We will use this to define the constants of type t as functions . Thus, constants end up being 0-ary functions.()
- A composition constructor, taking an operator and another operator and producing an operator . Haskell has .(.)
- A do-nothing operation for each data type. Haskell has
- This allows us to model a functional programming language with a category.
- Our ideal programming language has:
- The category with objects logical propositions and arrows proofs.
3.5 Homework
For a passing mark, a written, acceptable solution to at least 2 of the 3 questions should be given no later than midnight before the next lecture.
- Prove the general associative law: that for any path, and any bracketing of that path, the same composition may be found.
- Suppose in some category C.
- If for all in the category, then u = 1A.
- If for all in the category, then u = 1A.
- For as many of the examples given as you can, prove that they really do form a category. Passing mark is at least 60% of the given examples.
- For this question, all parts are required:
- For which sets is the free monoid on that set commutative.
- Prove that for any category C, the set Hom(A,A) is a monoid under composition for every object A.
3.6 Graphs and paths
A graph is a collection G0 of vertices and a collection G1 of arrows. The structure of the graph is captured in the existence of two functions, that we shall call source and target, both going from G1 to G1. In other words, each arrow has a source and a target.
We denote by [v,w] the collection of arrows with source v and target w.
We extend the notation, and denote by Gi the collection of all paths of length i. Such a path is a sequence of arrows, such that for each j, target(fj − 1) = source(fj).
3.7 Definition of a category
A category is a graph with some special structure:
- Each [v,w] is a set and equipped with a composition operation . In other words, any two arrows, such that the target of one is the source of the other, can be composed to give a new arrow with target and source from the ones left out.
We write if .
- The composition of arrows is associative.
- Each vertex v has a dedicated arrow 1v with source and target v, called the identity arrow.
- Each identity arrow is a left- and right-identity for the composition operation.
The composition of with is denoted by . A mnemonic here is that you write things so associativity looks right. Hence, (gf)(x) = g(f(x)). This will make more sense once we get around to generalized elements later on.
3.8 Examples
- The empty category with no vertices and no arrows.
- The category 1 with a single vertex and only its identity arrow.
- The category 2 with two objects, their identity arrows and the arrow .
- For vertices take vector spaces. For arrows, take linear maps. This is a category, the identity arrow is just the identity map f(x) = x and composition is just function composition.
- For vertices take finite sets. For arrows, take functions.
- For vertices take logical propositions. For arrows take proofs in propositional logic. The identity arrow is the empty proof: P proves P without an actual proof. And if you can prove P using Q and then R using P, then this composes to a proof of R using Q.
- For vertices, take data types. For arrows take (computable) functions. This forms a category, in which we can discuss an abstraction that mirrors most of Haskell. There are issues making Haskell not quite a category on its own, but we get close enough to draw helpful conclusions and analogies.
- Suppose P is a set equipped with a partial ordering relation <. Then we can form a category out of this set with elements for vertices and with a single element in [v,w] if and only if v<w. Then the transitivity and reflexivity of partial orderings show that this forms a category.
Some language we want settled:
A category is concrete if it is like the vector spaces and the sets among the examples - the collection of all sets-with-specific-additional-structure equipped with all functions-respecting-that-structure. We require already that [v,w] is always a set.
A category is small if the collection of all vertices, too, is a set.


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Hi chaps .
Finally got around to finishing off the knee armor today :). The kit was very nice and most of the hard work was done already just light sanding and a bit of work with the heatgun and they where ready to paint. Undercoat of chrome dulled down, masked , off white detailing,masked, then 3 coats of sunshine yellow and then finally dulled down some more and wethered :). Great kit to make and nice and chunky so for anyone sitting on the fence about these they get the CBT thumbs up :D:thumbsup
A big thanks goes out to Bob and Todd for the knee kit and to Russ for the excellent knee darts.
Only down side was I realised I'd sewn my tool pockets on far to high :/ ah well cant get everything right first crack hehe


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By Nik Brumsack
Arsène Wenger is delighted with Santi Cazorla's impact since joining the Club in the summer.
The Spanish playmaker has impressed since signing from Malaga and was a major influence in Saturday's 3-1 win at West Ham - sealing victory with a superb left-footed effort from outside the area.
Wenger heaped praise on Cazorla at full time and says that his ability with both feet stands him apart from many of his contemporaries.
"He is right footed but when you watch him play you don't know. It shows how important that is in the modern midfield," said Wenger.
"Right or left foot was always important, but we forget about it sometimes. Glenn Hoddle was like that - left-footed, right-footed, you could not say what he was.
"Cazorla is similar on that front. I don't remember anyone else I have worked with who was as two-footed."
Comparisons have been made between Cazorla and ex-Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas, but Wenger says such links are premature.
"It is too early to say," he said. "Cesc played for five years in the Premier League.
"The early signs [with Cazorla] show how good Spain are because you see these kind of players and they don't play regularly for Spain."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Am i the only color blind writer?
Am i the only color blind writer?
I'm like an over-dAUSE!
Simply Original Style. Too Fuckin Bad.
NO, you are not alone.
"give me that can of blue"
"what? i dont have any blue"
"this is purple!"
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wow dude, that blows.
im sorry.
I'm also colorblind.
some colors I am
How does a person even know if hes colorblind?
there are these cars with dots . and there are two differnt colors of dots and one of the colors makes a number and if you cant see the number in the dots then your colorblind.
I do not do graffiti. Anything I post is not done by me regardless of what my post says. I do not condone illegal activities.
That's stupid. I'd rather not know If I'm colorblind.
Im color blind too. light shades next to each other i can't tell the difference. Whites and light pinks, browns and dark greens, blues and purples.... and at night its bad. Everytrhing blurs together in rough black and grey patches. I can see lights like off cars and shit, and street lights, but everything else is real bad unless i get close.
Im also colorbind.. alot of colors look the same to me like blues and purples, greens and browns..
i have red green color deficiency 10% of males have it ..im like a bat if its too dark .. it sucks painting wize .. i couldnt tell you how many times ive mixed up colors and fallen into ditches and bushes
The tests tell me I'm color blind but I don't believe em. Drinking caffine messes with your color vision, I drink a whole hell of alot of caffeine so I'm probably never seeing exactly as good as I could be.
I have astigmatism, anyone else?
My astigmatism is so bad I cant even wear those fucking contacts.
And when you're runnin away, the last thing you want to have to think about is your stupid fuckin glasses falling off.
I have a real bad astigmatism as well.
Horrible, honestly.


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Carnival Triumph passengers need second rescue
posted at 9:11 am on February 15, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
The voyage otherwise known as the Cruise From Hell finally ended last night when the Carnival Triumph limped into Mobile, Alabama and began the hours-long process of disembarking its passengers. However, for some of the passengers, it wasn't the last time they ended up stranded:
Thousands of passengers erupted into cheers Thursday night as the crippled triumph finally pulled up to the dock. As they stepped onto dry land, and into the arms of their loved ones some couldn't contain their excitement.
Carnival then chartered a caravan of buses to transport folks out of Mobile, Ala. To add insult to injury, at least one of those buses became stranded on the way to New Orleans, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner.
Seriously? Just when it seems that the PR for Carnival Cruise Lines couldn't possibly get worse, they hire a faulty bus for their suffering passengers. I have been on a Carnival cruise and had a wonderful time, and this is really a freak occurrence, but someone should have made sure that the buses were first class before they pulled up to the dock. Come on, man!
Is this a good time to remind readers of the Hugh Crew Cruise in July featuring Duane Patterson and myself, leaving on July 27th on the Holland America ship MS Zuiderdam? Er … perhaps not.