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The southeast corner of Rue Ste.-Catherine O. and Rue St.-Urbain used to be the hub of Montreal's nightlife during the Prohibition era, when the Gayety Theatre, a vaudeville house that featured famed burlesque artists like Lili St.-Cyr, stood there. Now, it's the stylish, modern (1) Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (84 Rue Ste.-Catherine O; www.tnm.qc.ca), where vanguard works by Quebec playwrights like Robert Lepage have their premieres. After having a snack in the café of the TNM, walk past the vast arts complex (2) Place des Arts (175 Rue Ste.-Catherine O.; www.pda.qc.ca), and enter the (3) Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal (185 Rue Sainte-Catherine O.; www.macm.org) where works by contemporary Quebec modern artists are world-class touring shows. Then, head west down Rue Ste.-Catherine, past the headquarters of (4) Quebec's MTV, MusiquePlus (355 Rue Ste.-Catherine O.; www.musiqueplus.com). Peer in the windows to see if Madonna or Jean Leloup is taping a concert that day.
Continue on past Rue St.-Alexandre and past the recently restored and historically important (5) St. James United Church (463 Rue Ste.-Catherine O; www.St.jamesunitedchurchmontreal.com), where a well-timed peek in the doors may render a chance to hear a recital or practice of their 30-voice church choir. Further west, on the corner of Rue Aylmer, the (6) Hudson's Bay Company (585 Rue Ste.-Catherine O.; www.hbc.com) sells their famous striped wool blankets, as well as everything else under the sun. Under The Bay is one of the many entrances to Montreal's so-called Underground City, which is really a network of several shopping malls linked by tunnels—useful during the winter months when pedestrians want to minimize their time spent walking outdoors.
You'll now walk past several mall complexes: (7) Les Promenades de la Cathédrale (625 Rue Ste.-Catherine, www.promenadescathedrale.com), which lies underneath Christ Church Cathedral, the upscale (8) Complexe Les Ailes (677 Rue Ste.-Catherine, www.complexelesailes.com), and the (9) Eaton Centre (705 Rue Ste.-Catherine St. O.).
Turning right, walk up Avenue McGill College, to enjoy a view of (10) the gate to McGill University (corner of Rue McGill College and Rue Sherbrooke O.), with Mont-Royal behind. Once you're on Rue Sherbrooke O., you're on the south edge of the famed Golden Square Mile. Behind you is the (11) Musée McCord (690 Rue Sherbrooke O.; www.mccord-museum.qc.ca), which exhibits handcrafts and artifacts from Montreal's history, and was once administrated by McGill University. Going west along Rue Sherbrooke O., you'll travel along a chic shopping stroll, as well as the (12) Ritz-Carlton Hotel (1228 Rue Sherbrooke O., www.ritzmontreal.com), which houses visiting dignitaries and royalty, as well as movie stars. Across Rue de la Montagne is (13) Holt Renfrew (1300 Rue Sherbrooke O.; www.holtrenfrew.com), Canada's luxury department store. Linger in the racks or in the lunchroom (a favorite spot for the well-heeled ladies who lunch), or continue on to another reward: (14) The Musée des Beaux-Arts (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) (1379-1380 Rue Sherbrooke O.; www.mbam.qc.ca), where the city's share of the world's art treasures are housed.
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Coaches depart from Queensland Rd at 09:30 SHARP. The return journey should take approximately 4 hours and 45 minutes.
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When coming by car to meet the away coaches, please be aware that Controlled Parking Zones are in operation around the stadium. The only day you will be allowed to park unrestricted is on a Sunday or Bank holidays. For games where coaches leave on a Monday - Saturday we will try to get use of our car park but due to enforced security this may not be possible. We would advise that where possible you should use public transport, with Holloway Rd being the closest tube station on the Piccadilly line.
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I expect my dogs to behave on leash with anyone. Leash means respect imo. Just as my dogs are not to jump up on people or steal food out of hands. I use german commands for precise obedience and general English commands for around the house behaviours. 'Go lay down' where they meander around the living room for 20 seconds before deciding to down vs. 'platz' where I expect them to drop where they are immediately.
My boyfriend loves the dogs and has decently high expectations from them but has no interest in obedience work or the precision I put into the work I do with my dogs. They respect him, but do push him farther (especially my youngest male). Some things I have tried to drill into him are:
If you want them to listen when you need them to - say a command once and if they don't do it follow through and make them do it.
Never, ever, ever tell them to stay and leave them alone and forget about them. This one I don't care if it is an English or german command, I never want my dogs to be given the opportunity to break a stay.
And to only reward calm, sane behaviour
He has a good relationship with all four dogs. They do not listen to him as well as they listen to me but he adores them and they adore him. And he doesn't want to be walked over by 300lbs of dog so realizes there needs to be some respect from both sides. And when he has the cookies out and is asking for behaviours, I don't care about the 'down.... down..... down....' haha.
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The trouble here that we, humans, rely on verbal language and its meaning, we miss the point that all of us pronounce words differently with different intonations, and our dogs recognise the same commands as different commands depends on the person who says them. Your gf voice must be an absolute copy of yours for your dog to understand. Our dogs ability to understand our human tongue is absolutely amazing, and it is true that they can easily learn foreign words for the same commands, yet, they understand body language much faster and better. Support verbal commands with gestures first, and use gestures only in order to command later. Utilize Dog Hand Signals In Your Training : TheDogTrainingSecret.com
It would be also easier for your gf.
Great idea....no commands given to the dog by my wife unless she fully understands the process.
Oh, I start my dog off very formal out the front door...heeling..then do all the brush up work and the basics...once we have covered this and she shows her ability, I most always give her an "okay" and allow her full use of the lead...she gets this as a reward of sorts. Yes, an entire walk of formal heeling at this stage would be no fun for either of us.
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What spawned my original question was....I watch my wife walk the dog on leash and the dog does "okay"...nothing I would tolerate but more than fine for my wife....I guess?? No pulling or anything but simply in the wrong position for a proper heel and this position seems to reek of ...the dog is in charge.
To me, it doesn't really have anything to do with the dog being in charge, it's me establishing whatever criteria I choose, and then applying those criteria consistently so the dog understands what's expected of it. My walks are anywhere from 3+ to 8 or more miles, so it's completely unrealistic to expect the dog to remain in perfect heel position that entire time, and I actually rarely even use the heel command. But that doesn't mean the dog can do anything it wants, I have criteria for a LLW that I always enforce, and I will occasionally release the dog to "go sniff" after requiring a sit and watch first. If your wife's criteria is simply that the dog remains within a few feet of her left side without pulling or lagging, that's perfectly okay, just make sure she's not using the heel command.
Appreciate the responses and I was hoping for some "magic" answer but what is obvious, is exactly that. I do however like the idea of commands in different languages so as not to temper the dog's proper response, behavior and consistency by others mucking things up. Yes, training the human seems to be the ticket....as these dogs are too smart not to figure out who is hoping versus expecting.
My wishful thought was; if the dog has an environment of humans requiring 100% capitulation and obedience, it should make the process much easier. Our dog certainly is fine with my wife and all but not to the same degree that the dog obeys me. I recently started working with heeling off leash and the dog is doing great.....of course the distractions are minimal at this stage. What spawned my original question was....I watch my wife walk the dog on leash and the dog does "okay"...nothing I would tolerate but more than fine for my wife....I guess?? No pulling or anything but simply in the wrong position for a proper heel and this position seems to reek of ...the dog is in charge. All this made me think it might be making my new project of solid off lead heeling a bit more involved than it need be. Perhaps, I can utilize my wife as a distraction in the training process going forward....or I could find the proper method to have her share my passion in training our dog.....I know the term has been used to the nth degree lately...and all very amusing....but maybe I simply need to alpha roll my wife....
|I suspect training the human as well. Though I actually had to go the opposite direction. I currently have to live with two unbelievably stupid roommates that it seems are always trying to get my dog to "respect their command". But their commands are repititious and usually paired with some sort of physical thing like trying to push my dog to the ground while screaming down at him. Of course he's confused because he recognizes the commands, but not the way they're being used, so I taught him a nonverbal leave it cue. When a roommate screams at him to sit or down, he looks at me for guidance, so I just give the little wrist flick and he'll give the person the "My mom says you're stupid" look and walk away.
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It has started rather heated fights with me and my gf. It is also why I have a set of French commands for sport behavior she never uses. Regular casual obedience is in English. If it comes from her he may or may not listen. If it's from me he knows he better. Pure enforced sport commands in French.
My husband would spout off gibberish Def Leppard commands and the dogs blew him off half the time. I'm a young widow, neither of our sons is old enough to remember Dad's nonsense with the dogs.
Yet they still do the same stupid things their father did, genetic or gender, who cares. My daughter pays attention when I train the dogs. She took Venus through a couple classes as a puppy - until Viv got too strong for her (she was 8) but she still works with her at home. It cracks me up when there's snarky remarks about women with clickers and high pitched voices. My daughter's training voice sounds like Minnie Mouse. Yet the dogs love it.
Venus is better about trying to figure out just what my boys want her to do. Otto, forget it, no ball, no food, not listening dudes.
It has started rather heated fights with me and my gf. It is also why I have a set of French commands for sport behavior she never uses. Regular casual obedience is in English. If it comes from her he may or may not listen. If it's from me he knows he better. Pure enforced sport commands in French.
I don't worry too much about bleed over. They figure out who they have to listen to and who they can blow off and as long as you're consistent on what you do the dog knows the deal.
|My dog and DH are bad influences on each other! DH will give my dog opportunities that I know better than to offer - and his expectations are soooo much lower too, that it's a terrible combination. It's a given that any OB will fluctuate because of this. I had to put my foot down over a few issues, where I didn't want our hard work flushed down the toilet, lol.
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If you were around to provide the consequences good or bad to the dog when another person gave the commands then yeah. Otherwise the dog is going to figure out who enforces stuff and who doesn't and when you aren't around won't hesitate to blow off your SI. You have to train the human.
Dogs definitely figure out what they can get away with from what people, and I don't want him poisoning any of my commands by using them under circumstances where I wouldn't use them (I have formal and informal commands, with different criteria), and the dogs are unlikely to comply.
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Former Dillon Valley Elementary principal to be honored Saturday
October 11, 2012
On Saturday, former Dillon Valley Elementary principal Gayle Jones-Westerberg will be honored with a sign in the school's fifth-grade garden proclaiming it "Gayle's Garden."
The decision to honor the retired educator came from the Dillon Valley Elementary Parent-Teacher Association, which wanted to name the garden in her honor because of her passion for gardening, and for the school. When she worked as the school's principal, it was common to see her outside watering the plants and flowers around the building.
"She enjoyed making the outside of DVE a place children and parents felt welcomed and proud to visit," said Elizabeth Lowe, 2011 PTSA co-president.
Jones-Westerberg worked for the Summit School District for 29 years before retiring in 2011. She taught sixth grade at Summit Middle School before serving as the principal of Silverthorne Elementary, and then DVE beginning in 2000.
She started DVE's dual-language program in 2005 with the class that is currently enrolled in seventh grade. In her career, Jones-Westerberg was an International Baccalaureate trainer, a National Elementary School Principal of the Year award recipient and a past president of the Colorado Association of School Executives.
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If you want glitz, go someplace else," says Judy Burrows. She moved from Williamsburg, Virginia, to New Smyrna Beach five years ago, after her husband discovered the more than 40 golf courses within 20 minutes of this Florida city. She says, "He figured he'd found paradise."
So did Dena Clancy, who arrived in 1928 as a teenager. "We'd go skinny-dipping or ride the turtles down to the ocean, which is a no-no today," she says. Loggerhead turtles still crawl up on the beach to lay eggs, but now volunteers protect their nests. And, at 91, Dena remains here, too, as slender and enduring as the dune grass. "This is like living in heaven," she says.
Straddling the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, New Smyrna Beach is really two towns in one. It's part island and part inland, oceanfront and riverfront, complete with two downtowns. Luxury condos tower over "Beachside." But "Mainland" is a historic small Southern town. Gnarled oaks draped with Spanish moss line the quiet streets. Folks relax on the wide verandas of 100-year-old clapboard foursquare homes and admire sailboats anchored on the estuary.
Best of all, locals say, you drive to New Smyrna, not through it. Interstate 95 between Daytona Beach to the north and Cape Canaveral to the south goes around the town. Civilization stops abruptly at both ends of Beachside. "The beach is finite," says Judy. "You've got the [Canaveral] National Seashore on one side and Ponce Inlet on the other."
That's what led Bill Roe to leave Ohio for these warm shores in 1980. He keeps a sign by his front door: "If you're lucky enough to be at the beach, you're lucky enough."
Bill found what Gene Sheldon already knew. As a teen in the '50s, Gene rode plywood boards in the surf and drove on the packed sand in homemade "skeeters"―cars stripped to their frames, with wood floors and seats. "The original dune buggy," he says. Today, people still drive on the beach, and surfers crowd the inlet when the waves are up. Real estate agent and surfboard builder "Inlet Charley" Baldwin heads for those waves whenever he can. "When it's flat every place else," he says, "it's usually rideable here."
Though young families and teens make up much of the beach crowd, New Smyrna remains proudly connected to its past. Aqua lettering on the Little Drug Company building reminds everyone that it once housed Victoria Theater, where Gene watched Hopalong Cassidy movies for 9 cents. It now holds a soda fountain that seems straight out of "Happy Days."
That's fitting for a town that still offers simpler, sweeter times.
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For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. —1 Corinthians 3:9
It is intrinsic to understanding God's sovereignty that we realize what Paul meant when he said that Christians are God's field. He is showing that God owns us. This simply means that God has total rights to our lives. We have no private life; our private life is His. We cannot go on a two-week vacation and say, "God, I want a good time, and You have been breathing down my neck for most of the year. I would like a couple of weeks away from You." No, He'll go with us on vacation; we have no time that we can call our own. It is His time. We have no secret thoughts about which we can say, "God, I just don't want You to know about this." We do not own ourselves.
Does this disturb and annoy you? Or does this thrill you to your fingertips to know that you are bought with a price? It is true whether you like it or not! You are His; He owns you. You are God's field; it is not your field. For that reason God can do what He wants with you, and because you are His, you can't get rid of Him even if you tried. You may have said to God, "Leave me alone." But He didn't; He would not.
Because He owns us, God has no obligation to us. God ultimately takes the responsibility not only for saving us but also for our development.
Every virtue we possess,
And every conquest won,
And every thought of holiness,
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It is a mystery that God, who chose me in Christ before the foundation of the world, works for my growth.
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I've been cooking this for sometime, but I figured I would share it with DHC. It's a true Southern dish. I took all the extreme spice out of it. And I like it a little better without all the spice, it has more flavor.
I don't have any real recipe for it, I just add duck breast, shrimp as I see fit, but ill try to give you an idea. This will be based on 1 serving, or plate for one person.
1/2-1- mallard breast. (More for teal, wood duck, etc)
8oz of roux based duck sauce.
3/4 cup of Button mushrooms
1 box of Tony chachere's Creole dirty rice. 8oz-10oz person
1 1/2-Table spoons of Cajun seasoning. ( I use the "slap ya mama seasoning" , pictured below)
1/4 cup of chopped green onions
3/4 C Brown Gravy
1/4 C Burgundy, or 1/8 c bourbon (crown for me)
Slice the duck breast in long ¼" thick bite sized strips
Melt butter, add shrimp and sauté over high heat for 2 - 3 minutes.
Add mushrooms, green onions, Cajun Spice and duck meat and sauté for 1 minute.
Add Burgundy and Brown Gravy and bring to a simmer.
Serve over heated dirty rice.
Sprinkle rim with Creole spice, approximately 1 tsp.
Add the Thick duck sauce to the simmering mixture.
I serve with red hot potatoes, which is red potatoes cooked in crawfish boil and smashed, mashed, creamed which ever you call it, I mash em. and server with you favorite cold beer. I prefer dos equis.


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java is my favourite but the most convenient form is simply bash
Well, I've been working around C, C++, Java, and Python lately. I have come to conclusion that the most convenient language for programming in Linux (in my eyes) is Python, maybe with a little C/C++. I was never a fan of Java, even though thats what we use in school. But I would like to know what the best tutorial site(s) are for Python, since I can't find a good one myself, I'd like to know what you guys think a good one is.
java is my favourite but the most convenient form is simply bash
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I've coded Java, but so far I like coding Python better... Its all personal preference, you can most likely make the same applications in any programming language... Only thing I don't like about java is that people must have Java Software. Same with Python, but its becoming pretty much standard in Linux Distros... Python is my first experience with an interpreted language, but I like it a bit better.
I'm a Linux novice (not noob, I can work my way around), is bash programming what a .sh file is? Or are those just shell files for installations & make files?
But back on topic, I'm still looking for a full python learning resource. I am trying to keep my mind steady before diving into O'Reilly's "Learning Python" and if I enjoy it as much as I expect, "Python in a Nutshell" (for building on, references own ).
- Python Tutorial This tutorial is part of Python's documentation set and is updated with each new release.
- Dive Into Python A fine tutorial by Mark Pilgrim.
- Python Essential Reference (book)
If you want a highly compressed K&R-style 'just the facts' overview, David Beazley's "Python Essential Reference" covers practically all of the language in about a hundred pages.
- Wikibook:Python Programming
- Wikiversity:Python The Wiki(anything) information about Python.
- Instant Python A minimal crash course by Magnus Lie Hetland.
- Python Programming for Beginners A short introduction to writing command-line applications in Python by Jacek Artymiak.
- Python 101 - Beginning Python and Python 201 - (Slightly) Advanced Python Two self-training courses from Dave Kuhlman. Python 101 introduces the basic data types, and 201 covers particular tasks such as parsing text and writing unit tests.
- Python Short Course A set of course slides by Richard P. Muller of Caltech that are aimed at scientific users. For example, the first example is a script to process output from a quantum chemistry simulation.
- Learn Python in 10 minutes
- Python for Science Course material written by Konrad Hinsen for an introduction to Python aimed at biologists.
- Software Carpentry: lectures aimed at scientists and engineers.
- You can find a variety of Python tutorials on Code Teacher.
- 'Getting started with Python' blog series at ShowMeDo, includes articles on 'Python Development Environments' and 'Python Under-The-Hood'
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Thanks for that,i was also looking for this stuff.I have seen most of it but some i haven't Thank you.


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I am new to this forum. I am considering making a Boba Fett for my next costume. I am already a member of the 501st (TI / TK 6143). I also have two Rebel Legion costumes, a generic Jedi, and an X-wing pilot.
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Ben designs exhibitions at Scienceworks, Melbourne Museum and the Immigration Museum. He has previously worked designing sets for theatre, and running workshops for kids. Ben loves surprises and performing silly dances.
Over the next couple of months I'll be working on the new animatronic dinosaur exhibition at Scienceworks called Explore-a-saurus. The dinos we've been given by Questacon are in need of a bit of a repair, repaint, and re-interpretation. We decided we needed to supplement the existing dinosaurs with new exhibits to present more scientifically-based themes and a more contemporary approach to palaeontology. No more daggy cargo pants and pith helmets for our paleos!
Our first step was to look at interesting overarching themes to base our interpretation on. They needed to respond to current research since paleontologists regularly make new discoveries that overturn previous understanding. They must be engaging for kids, put kids in the shoes of palaeontologists and demonstrate scientific practice. One element I am particularly interested in is the idea of absolute knowledge. The evidence is open to interpretation, and thus, our knowledge about dinosaurs changes due to new research on old material and discovery of new fossils.
An example of how our understanding of dinosaurs evolution has changed: this old chart in the MV collection suggests the dinosaur branch of the evolutionary tree was a dead end, but current research suggests some dinosaurs evolved into birds.Source: Museum Victoria
We decided the most interesting angle would be forensic palaeontology – a kind of CSI Cretaceous. We're using the phrase 'how we know what we know' as the exhibition focus. Our interactives will use evidence-based research to demonstrate particular theories, and, if possible, show the palaeontologist's methods,
With this in mind we turned to popular dinosaur culture – what do people want to know? What are the interesting facts which we can debunk or expand upon? We started with the way dinosaurs are portrayed in films and TV because this is the most prevalent form of education for kids! We looked at the way dinosaurs moved, how we know the sounds they made, the colour of their skin, whether they evolved to become birds or reptiles; and how well they could see. We came up with a 'how we know what we know' list and then another list of types of exhibit that we know Scienceworks visitors have liked in the past.
The interactive elements of the exhibition are now in the final stages of design before we move on to the manufacturing side, then comes the exhibition installation! Before you know it, it will be June 1, when Explore-a-saurus will open and visitors can come and try the interactive components for themselves.
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Has any one had any trouble with firearms using Blaser aluminum rounds in revolvers, especially Ruger sp101. 357 mag. Thanks for any help.
I've fired hundreds of the Blazer 158 JHP in .357 Magnum through my Ruger GP-100, with no problems at all.
Yes. In 9mm Makarov. Two squibs in one box. First cleared the barrel. Second did not. I caught both before squeezing trigger again.
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None, are you have a specific problem with them?
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Here's the first pair of Rubber knees that i have completed & painted
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Here's the first pair of Rubber knees that i have completed & painted
I need feedback from you guys
Those look sweet!!
I'd love to have a pair of those. ;-)
They came out great bruv... cool paint up too.
I'll get on it as soon as my next paycheck goes through;)
Nice work, the adjustments you made and the finished product look great.:thumbsup
They look great! If you're not already doing it, you should offer finished/painted knees for additional cost as part of your run.
those look awesome!
I like the paint job very much, it's very accurate.
Thanks for the detailed and work put on them.
Oh man, this knees are so darn cool !!
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Those look quite well all painted up.
Looking good!
great work
These are really cool. I like the paint job too. but they look thick? Do they restrict movement at all?
Are the metal ones significantly thinner?
Nicely done! :thumbsup
Those look awesome, any plans to make the rest of the armor with the hyperfirm material?
i like the weathering you made on them
This are the same knees being worn, awesome job. They are comfortable and don't restrict movement.
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Convex or concave? It's a question we usually answer just by looking at something. It's convex if it bulges outwards, and concave if it bulges inwards. But when it comes to mathematical functions, things aren't that simple. A team of computer scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have recently shown that deciding whether a mathematical function is convex can be very hard indeed.
Whatever you're planning to do tonight, cancel it! Because tonight at 9pm on BBC Two it's the first episode of Marcus du Sautoy's new series The Code. It's a three-part series about maths in the world around us, exploring anything from honeycombs to flocks of birds, nautilus shells to planetary motion.
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Summer flies by crazy fast—which can be good or bad, depending on the day, the weather, and the kids. For the first time in I don't know how long, I'm actually looking forward to the summer (give me spring in Austin any day, but I'm happy to not be there from June through September).
My kids are continually thinking of things they want to do to relish the next few months, and it gets me excited, too. I'll be working less, painting lots of walls in our new fixer-upper, and hopefully getting some cast-aside sewing done—and I'm eager for their camping, pool, and library suggestions, too.
I'm in the school of thought that the best sorts of summers are those that rest in-between planned and spontaneous—I want to go to the library every week, but why not quickly toss dinner in to a picnic basket when the weather begs it?
I think it helps to organize just a bit on the front end of the summer, so that the rest of the season can be more spontaneously enjoyed. Here's how we're doing it this year.
1. We're creating a summer bucket list.
There's more than enough summer fun lists on Pinterest, so we're not short on ideas. I've collected a lot of our ideas on my summer Pinterest board, and we're jotting down ideas on a big piece of butcher paper and keeping it on the fridge. The whole family can pipe in when an idea strikes.
A sampling of our ideas:
• Weekly library visits
• Swim at the local pool
• Go rafting down the river after church
• Have picnic dinners
• Have friends over to watch July 4th fireworks from our deck
• Go camping at Crater Lake
• Go camping in the backyard
• Make homemade popsicles
• Have a water gun fight
This way, I'll refer to the list when the "I'm booooored!" choruses begin.
2. We're sorting the supplies.
We have it happen all the time, and I bet you do, too—a fun, spontaneous "let's go to the pool!" suggestion morphs into an hour-long prep session because you've got to gather the towels, the floaties, the sunscreen, and the hats. By the time you're in the car, you can't wait for the pool to cool off from all that sweating.
I've created a few grab-and-go bags for our most recurrent summer outings, and they're stored right by the garage door. When it's pool time, I just toss the right back in the car or the bike basket, and we're off.
Here are a few things in our bags:
For the pool
• sunscreen
• hats
• beach towels
• floaties (deflated, of course)
• goggles
• a few swim diapers
• swimsuits—we usually change into them before leaving, but this way, we always know where they are
• plastic bags, for wet suits
For picnics
• bug spray (I like California Baby)
• sunscreen (I'd rather have a small bottle in each bag than to hunt down one larger bottle)
• a picnic blanket
• napkins
• plastic utensils
• plastic, reusable cups
• a frisbee, and a few other small outdoor toys
• plastic bags, for trash or other incidentals
You can also use a picnic basket or backpack—we like this backpack also.
For road trips
We've got another longer road trip planned this summer, but we're also all about the day trips when we have the itch to get out of Dodge. This bag works for both shorter and longer car rides.
• two small zippered pouches of markers, crayons, and pencils (one for each of our older kids)
• clipboards with blank paper
• spiral notebooks with lined paper
• a license plate dry-erase game—a friend made us this sweet and simple game: arrange license plate images alphabetically by state, print, and laminate.
• books
• headphones
• bug spray
• sunscreen
• plastic bags
• wipes
• a few diapers
• water bottles
3. We're sticking to a somewhat normal routine.
Just because it's summer doesn't mean I get to goof off at the pool at day. We grownups need to get work done, too, and I'll honestly go nuts by August if I tried to be our Summer Cruise Director.
Our sitter is still coming over twice a week so I can get work done. I'll still keep to a simple, rotating menu plan for dinner (right now I'm enjoying Natural Health at Home's Whole Foods Meal Plan). and the bedtime routine is still there, although bedtime is a wee bit later.
I'm completely okay if the kids get bored, because that's when real magic and creativity happen. We'll keep art supplies within reach in the craft cabinet, a few outdoor toys in the backyard, and cold water in the fridge. That's enough for a childhood summer.
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I am looking to purchase a handgun within the next month.
I would like to take the gun to the range and have it for home defense.
Although I realize 9mm are not the best for the range, I do not want a .22.
I have limited it down to these (but open for other input):
Glock 17
Glock 19
Beretta PX4 Storm
Sig Sauer P229 (Kind of on the pricier side - might rather spend on ammo)
I would like to keep it under $650 and definitely purchase new.
I realize that similar questions have been asked before but I have not been able to find any that address home defense and range together. Also newer guns have come out after some of the threads.
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A standard 8-page mini-zine, in which the Enchanted Times launches an investigation into several high profile reports of mirror malfunction, with responses from a spokesperson for Truth-Be-Told Mirrors. Case studies include the Snow Queen, the Emperor (& his New Clothes) and the Evil Queen (of Snow White notoriety.)
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Hey guys, long time no post! I am very excited to reveal my third mandalorian, Trancyi the Mechanic specialist. I am soon starting my fourth and with the fourth, I will document every step I take, creating some sort of mega tutorial on my techniques... stay tuned!
She has been an on going, slow going build since July of 2009. And no, she is not done (relating "done" with the words "mando costume" is an oxymoron... right?)
Trancyi is a modern mandalorian, who exists roughly in the time of the rise of the Empire. As a character, she works in a busy speeder shop upon the high levels of the metropolis world, Coruscant. She was raised in the mandalorian manner far from the reaches of Republic territory. But when she was later estranged from her friends and family - she migrated inwards, quickly finding work first under the nose of the young Empire. Later, using her technical and mechanical know how, she learned to scrape by servicing the vehicles that would later aid the Imperials in their on going war.. Although, Trancyi feared the suspicious nature of the Empire... so she kept her mandalorian talents, a quiet secret. After many years of this life style, a happen encounter changed Trancyi's life forever - once again she donned her rising sun armor, and accrued a healthy bounty hunting business. Who was her employer? Well, that's classified...
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AMES, Iowa – Iowa farmers are increasingly concerned about herbicide-resistant weeds and are changing their weed management practices to deal with the issue, according to the 2013 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll.
"In this year's poll, we directed herbicide resistance questions to farmers who planted corn, soybeans or other row crops in 2012," said J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr., a sociologist with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. Arbuckle co-directs the annual poll with Paul Lasley, also an ISU Extension and Outreach sociologist.
The sociologists developed herbicide resistance questions for the 2013 poll in partnership with the ISU Department of Agronomy. Associate Chair Micheal Owen, university professor and extension weed specialist, said they wanted to gather in-depth information about the state of herbicide resistance in Iowa. They hoped to reveal farmers' impressions of herbicide resistance and gain insight into the weed management practices farmers might be using.
"Typically growers don't realize they have an herbicide resistance problem until 30 percent of the weeds are of the resistant phenotype," Owen said.
Arbuckle said 35 percent of farmers responding to the poll reported they had weeds they believed to be resistant to at least one herbicide group. Glyphosate resistance was most commonly cited, with 32 percent of farmers reporting glyphosate-resistant weeds. Fourteen percent of farmers reported they had weeds they believed to be resistant to ALS inhibitor herbicides. Only 5 percent or fewer reported weeds resistant to triazine, HPPD inhibitor or PPO inhibitor herbicides.
Fifty-two percent of respondents indicated that they had changed their weed management program in the past five years to address herbicide-resistant weeds. Less than half reported that they developed their own herbicide programs, and 65 percent indicated that they hired custom applicators to do at least some of their spraying.
Ninety percent of respondents reported that they used postemergence herbicides in 2012, and 64 percent applied them to more than 75 percent of their land. Eighty-five percent reported using soil-applied herbicides, with half of farmers applying them to more than 75 percent of their cropland. Eighty-one percent indicated that they used formal scouting methods to determine the need for postemergence spraying on at least some of their land.
The researchers also asked farmers whether they used particular management practices and how effective those practices were for managing herbicide-resistant weeds.
Ninety-three percent used crop rotation and 80 percent used multiple herbicide application timings. Seventy-four percent of farmers also had managed weeds using tillage, 71 percent had used multiple modes of herbicide action in a season and 60 percent had used multiple modes of herbicide action in each application.
"These most commonly used strategies for managing herbicide-resistant weeds were also rated as the most effective," Arbuckle said. "More than 80 percent of farmers rated crop rotation and multiple herbicide application timings as effective or very effective. At least 70 percent rated tillage or multiple modes of herbicide action used in a season or in each application as effective or very effective management strategies."
The 2013 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll "provides us with a snap shot of how agriculture in Iowa is understanding and addressing issues regarding herbicide resistance. Researchers still have a lot of work to do before growers are fully aware of the serious issues. Growers can learn there are a lot of tactics they can use," Owen said.
The weed specialist noted that more analyses of the farm poll data would be useful. How did growers with 1,000 acres or more respond compared with growers on smaller farms? Did they use different tactics? Getting answers to those types of questions could be helpful in developing ISU Extension and Outreach education programs.
Arbuckle said 1,209 farmers participated in the 2013 Farm Poll and on average they were 65 years old. Because the Farm Poll is a panel survey, in which the same farmers participate in multiple years, participants are somewhat older on average than the general farmer population. Fifty-two percent earned more than half of their income from farming, while an additional 17 percent earned between 26 and 50 percent of their household income from the farm operation.
In addition to herbicide resistant weeds, the 2013 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll asked for farmers' opinions on climate change, rented land, Bt-resistant corn rootworm, and soil health and compaction.
The 2013 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll summary report (PM 3061) and previous Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll summary and topical reports are available to download from the ISU Extension and Outreach Online Store, https://store.extension.iastate.edu/, and Extension Sociology, http://www.soc.iastate.edu/extension/ifrlp/about.html.
Conducted every year since its establishment in 1982, the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll is the longest-running survey of its kind in the nation. ISU Extension and Outreach, the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, and the Iowa Agricultural Statistics Service are all partners in the Farm Poll effort.


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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by ks777, Nov 11, 2010.
ummm... Jamie Sale?
LOL, that's true !
That is so weird...
Speaking of skater look-alikes and I know that this has been commented on before, but I just watched the trailer for "Black Swan" and Natalie Portman really has that Ekaterina Gordeeva thing going on in this film.
I see skater look-alikes quite often in daily life. Most recent was a police officer who looked like Elizabeth Manley telling us to keep the music noise down (it was only about nine in the evening) while we didn't have any music on at all (we were actually watching Flashforward). But she was kind and even seemed to have the humor of the real Elizabeth Manley.
A few months ago we rented 'Little Miss Sunshine' and the actor who plays the son of the couple (forgot what he was called in the movie) looks a lot like Weir.
And the actress in 'Sense and Sensibility' who plays Lucy Steele always reminds me of Tonya Harding.
My sister and I always yell Tonya Harding whenever we see her in Sense and Sensibility!!
Forget his name but there is a Russian singer who looks so much like Johnny that a lot of people think it's him. The actor in Little Miss Sunshine is Paul Dano
I think that Carolina Kostner looks like a teen Leif Garrett.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Limit and Root Objects
On 15 Jan 2007, at 08:02, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
> One further (I hope last) comment.
As usual I am unable to stick to this kind of promise ;-(
In fact, it is clear that if we want to consider all roots of a
polynomial as a continuous function of the parameter we do not even
need to remove the discriminant. We can simply consider the map
f: C^d -> S^d(C)
where S^d(C) is the so called symmetric product on C (C stands for
the complex numbers). You can think of it as the space whose elements
are unordered tuples (c1,c2,...,cd) of complex numbers - in other
words sets with d elements. So the map f assigns to a polynomial x^d+
a(d-1) x^(d-1)+...+a(0) the unordered tuple (a(d-1), a(d-2),..., a
(0)). The symmetric product has a natural topology (in fact the d-th
symmetric product on C happens to be homeomorphic to C^d but this is
not the case for other spaces, for example the d-th symetric product
on R is not R^d). Anyway, the map f is indeed a continuous map, and
this formalizes the statement that the set of roots of a complex
polynomial depends continuously on the coefficients. However, this is
quite different from saying that you can define one continuous root
on the space of all polynomials, which is certainly impossible (see
again Adam Strzebonski's proof).
I suspect this was the source of all the confusion here and we have
been arguing without understanding what the other side is talking
about. At least in my case this is the kind of situation that is
likely to lead to a loss of patience or even (as happened briefly
this time) temper. I think it also shows the great advantage of using
formal mathematics rather than intuitive arguments, even if supported
by very skillful animations. In 30 years of doing mathematics I can't
recall coming across anyone loosing his temper over a strictly formal
mathematical argument. When something like this does happen it always
turns out that someone was simply not being formal enough.
Andrzej Kozlowski
> There is of course a sense in which the roots of a polynomial are
> continuous in the coefficients. Formally one has to use the concept
> of the symmetric product to state this. Let again X be the space
> C^d-S of monic polynomials of degree d with the determinant remove.
> Now we construct a space Y as follows. We first consider the
> subspace Z of the Cartesian product C^d, consisting of complex
> numbers (c_1,c_2,...,c_d) which are all distinct. The symmetric
> group on d elements (the permutation group) S(d) acts on Z, and we
> let Y be the set of orbits of the action Y=Z/S(d). So now we have a
> map f: X -> Y which assigns to a polynomial p in X, the unordered
> set of its roots (z_1,z_2,...,z_d). This map is certianly
> continuous with respect to the natural topologies on X and Y.
> Intuitively this says that the set of unordered roots (all of them)
> is indeed a continuous function of the parameters of the
> polynomials (but not the individual roots themselves).
> If, what you have been saying is in some way related to the above
> than of course I agree, but I can't see how this fact can in any
> way be useful in a computer program like Mathematica.
> Andrzej Kozlowski
> On 15 Jan 2007, at 07:35, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>> I think I should have expressed myself differently. So here it is
>> again.
>> I am sure that if you read and think about
>> http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2006/Dec/msg00496.html
>> you will certianly know what I have been talking about. I don't
>> beleive you have done that. I can't explain it any better or
>> simpler. However, I can again state in a formal way what I am
>> asserting to be true.
>> To talk of "continuity" of anything you have to specify three
>> things. One is a topological space X - the source space. The
>> second is a topological space Y - the target space. The third a
>> map (function) f: X -> Y. The statement of the theorem is:
>> Let X = C^d -S be the space of all complex monic polynomials with
>> the discriminant (the set of polynomials with a double root)
>> removed. Let Y = C (the complex numbers). Then there cannot exists
>> a continuous map f :X -> Y such that for any polynomial p in X, f
>> (p) is a root of p.
>> This is proved by Adam Strzebonski in the above link. The theorem
>> of Vassiliev says that if d is a power of prime than you will need
>> at lead d open Sets U_1,U_2, ..., U_d whose union is all of X,
>> such that there is a map f_i: U_i -> C with the property that f(p)
>> is a root of p.
>> I can also prove the following. Let X= R^d-S - the space of real
>> polynomials of degree d with the discriminant removed. Let Y=C.
>> Then there does exist a continuous map f: X -> Y such that for
>> each real polynomial p in X, f(p) is a root of p. (There are in
>> fact many such maps, exactly d over each connected component of X).
>> I think this is as clear as it can be made. Now, of course it is
>> quite possible that what you are trying to say is perfectly
>> sensible and correct. However, to make it mathematics you must be
>> able to make a formal statement like the above. An animation is
>> not a substitute for this. I have no idea form you animation what
>> is your X, what is your Y, and what is your function f that you
>> claim can be a continuous function. An animation or a graphic can
>> be useful once you only if they illustrate some formal mathematica
>> notions like these.
>> Andrzej Kozlowski
>> On 14 Jan 2007, at 18:47, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>>> As I already suggested: read
>>> http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2006/Dec/msg00496.html
>>> and then think about what it says. (Obviously the issue concernst
>>> each individual root being continuous).
>>> I think I have written about this as much as I am willing to do.
>>> Andrzej Kozlowski
>>> On 14 Jan 2007, at 17:58, David Park wrote:
>>>> Paul Abbot asked: "Again, ignoring root ordering, why
>>>> isn't it possible for all these roots to maintain their identity
>>>> and so
>>>> be continuous functions of the parameter? And wouldn't such
>>>> continuity
>>>> be nicer than enforcing root ordering?"
>>>> (I'm not certain if I exactly understand Paul's question. Does
>>>> he mean that
>>>> each individual root function, in the set of root functions,
>>>> must be
>>>> continuous, or does he allow global reindexing on the entire set
>>>> to achieve
>>>> continuity?)
>>>> So, what exactly does your mathematical theorem say? Does it say
>>>> that given
>>>> a one-parameter finite order polynomial it is not possible to
>>>> continuously
>>>> reindex the set of root solutions so that the reindexed roots
>>>> will vary
>>>> continuously in the complex plane as a function of the
>>>> parameter? Or that
>>>> you can't do this when the polynomial contains a complex
>>>> coefficient? If it
>>>> says that, I don't believe it.
>>>> It certainly is possible to arrange things so that the roots vary
>>>> continuously, and it can even be useful.
>>>> It reminds me of a Groucho Marx quip, something about: "Are you
>>>> going to
>>>> listen to me or are you going to go by what you see in front of
>>>> your eyes?"
>>>> David Park
>>>> djmp at earthlink.net
>>>> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>>>> From: Andrzej Kozlowski [mailto:akoz at mimuw.edu.pl]
>>>> I don't understand what you mean by "continuous enough" and why you
>>>> think and animation can "disprove" a mathematical proof?
>>>> Please read the argument:
>>>> http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2006/Dec/msg00496.html
>>>> It is very simple. Remember the point is that you cannot define
>>>> such
>>>> a function that will be continuous over the entire 6 dimensional (3
>>>> complex dimensions) space of polynomials of degree 3 with complex
>>>> roots (we actually normally remove the discriminant from the
>>>> space).
>>>> You are using a smaller subspace ( you have just one complex
>>>> parameter) and over a smaller subspace naturaly it is possible to
>>>> have a continuous root.
>>>> If you look carefully at Adam's argument you will be easily able to
>>>> see what must go wrong over the entire space of complex cubics.
>>>> This in fact is a good illustration of what a double edged weapon
>>>> graphics and animations are in studying mathematics: they can
>>>> just as
>>>> easily mislead your intuition and lead you to wrong conclusions
>>>> as to
>>>> right ones. Which is one reason why I think one should never
>>>> rely too
>>>> much on such tools when teaching mathematics. Proofs are proofs and
>>>> no number of "convincing animations" and "experimental mathematics"
>>>> can replace them.
>>>> Andrzej Kozlowski,
>>>> Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
>>>> Warsaw University, Poland
>>>> On 14 Jan 2007, at 01:54, David Park wrote:
>>>>> This looks continuous enough to me, with and without complex
>>>>> coefficients.
>>>>> Needs["Graphics`Animation`"]
>>>>> Needs["Graphics`Colors`"]
>>>>> frame[a_] :=
>>>>> Module[{roots = rootset[a], newroots, rootpermutations,
>>>>> distances, pick,
>>>>> locations},
>>>>> If[memoryrootset === Null, newroots = roots,
>>>>> rootpermutations = Permutations[roots];
>>>>> distances =
>>>>> Plus @@ Abs[Part[roots, #] - memoryrootset] & /@
>>>>> basepermutations;
>>>>> pick = Part[Position[distances, Min[distances], 1], 1, 1];
>>>>> newroots = Part[roots, Part[basepermutations, pick]]];
>>>>> memoryrootset = newroots;
>>>>> locations = {Re[#], Im[#]} & /@ newroots;
>>>>> Show[Graphics[
>>>>> {LightCoral, AbsolutePointSize[15],
>>>>> Point /@ locations,
>>>>> Black,
>>>>> MapThread[Text[#1, #2] &, {Range[5], locations}],
>>>>> Text[SequenceForm["a = ",
>>>>> NumberForm[a, {3, 2}, NumberPadding -> {" ", "0"}]],
>>>>> Scaled[{0.1, 0.95}], {-1, 0}]}],
>>>>> AspectRatio -> Automatic,
>>>>> TextStyle -> {FontFamily -> "Courier", FontSize -> 12,
>>>>> FontWeight -> "Bold"},
>>>>> Frame -> True,
>>>>> PlotRange -> {{-3, 3}, {-3, 3}},
>>>>> PlotLabel -> SequenceForm["Continuous Roots of" ,
>>>>> displaypoly],
>>>>> ImageSize -> 400]
>>>>> ]
>>>>> Case 1
>>>>> polynomial = x^5 - a x - 1 == 0;
>>>>> displaypoly = polynomial /. a -> HoldForm[a];
>>>>> rootset[a_] = x /. Solve[polynomial, x]
>>>>> memoryrootset = Null;
>>>>> basepermutations = Permutations[Range[5]];
>>>>> Animate[frame[a], {a, -6, 10, 0.25}]
>>>>> SelectionMove[EvaluationNotebook[], All, GeneratedCell]
>>>>> FrontEndTokenExecute["OpenCloseGroup"]; Pause[0.5];
>>>>> FrontEndExecute[{FrontEnd`SelectionAnimate[200,
>>>>> AnimationDisplayTime -> 0.1,
>>>>> AnimationDirection -> ForwardBackward]}]
>>>>> Case 2
>>>>> polynomial = x^5 + (1 + I) x^4 - a x - 1 == 0;
>>>>> displaypoly = polynomial /. a -> HoldForm[a];
>>>>> rootset[a_] = x /. Solve[polynomial, x];
>>>>> memoryrootset = Null;
>>>>> basepermutations = Permutations[Range[5]];
>>>>> Animate[frame[a], {a, -6, 10, 0.5}]
>>>>> SelectionMove[EvaluationNotebook[], All, GeneratedCell]
>>>>> FrontEndTokenExecute["OpenCloseGroup"]; Pause[0.5];
>>>>> FrontEndExecute[{FrontEnd`SelectionAnimate[200,
>>>>> AnimationDisplayTime -> 0.1,
>>>>> AnimationDirection -> ForwardBackward]}]
>>>>> But this is a combinatoric algorithm and if there are too many
>>>>> roots it
>>>>> might begin to get costly. But it is perfectly practical for these
>>>>> examples.
>>>>> David Park
>>>>> djmp at earthlink.net
>>>>> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>>>>> From: Andrzej Kozlowski [mailto:akoz at mimuw.edu.pl]
>>>>> On 12 Jan 2007, at 11:05, Paul Abbott wrote:
>>>>>> In article <em8jfr$pfv$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
>>>>>> Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at akikoz.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> What you describe, including the fact that the numbering or
>>>>>>> roots
>>>>>>> changes is inevitable and none of it is not a bug. There cannot
>>>>>>> exist
>>>>>>> an ordering of complex roots that does not suffer from this
>>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>> What happens is this.
>>>>>>> Real root objects are ordered in the natural way. A cubic can
>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>> either three real roots or one real root and two conjugate
>>>>>>> complex
>>>>>>> ones. Let's assume we have the latter situation. Then the
>>>>>>> real root
>>>>>>> will be counted as being earlier then the complex ones. Now
>>>>>>> suppose
>>>>>>> you start changing the coefficients continuously. The roots will
>>>>>>> start "moving in the complex plane", with the real root
>>>>>>> remaining on
>>>>>>> the real line the two complex roots always remaining conjugate
>>>>>>> (symmetric with respect to the real axis). Eventually they may
>>>>>>> collide and form a double real root. If this double real root
>>>>>>> is now
>>>>>>> smaller then the the "original real root" (actually than the
>>>>>>> root to
>>>>>>> which the original real root moved due the the changing of the
>>>>>>> parameter), there will be a jump in the ordering; the former
>>>>>>> root
>>>>>>> number 1 becoming number 3.
>>>>>>> This is completely unavoidable, not any kind of bug, and I am
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>> complaining about it. It takes only elementary topology of
>>>>>>> configuration spaces to prove that this must always be so.
>>>>>> But is there a continuous root numbering if the roots are not
>>>>>> ordered?
>>>>>> What I mean is that if you compute the roots of a polynomial,
>>>>>> which
>>>>>> is a
>>>>>> function of a parameter, then if you assign a number to each
>>>>>> root,
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> you follow that root continuously as the parameter changes? Two
>>>>>> examples
>>>>>> are presented below.
>>>>>> Here is some code to animate numbered roots using the standard
>>>>>> root
>>>>>> ordering, displaying the root numbering:
>>>>>> rootplot[r_] := Table[ListPlot[
>>>>>> Transpose[{Re[x /. r[a]], Im[x /. r[a]]}],
>>>>>> PlotStyle -> AbsolutePointSize[10],
>>>>>> PlotRange -> {{-3, 3}, {-3, 3}},
>>>>>> AspectRatio -> Automatic,
>>>>>> PlotLabel -> StringJoin["a=", ToString[PaddedForm[Chop[a], {2,
>>>>>> 1}]]],
>>>>>> Epilog -> {GrayLevel[1],
>>>>>> MapIndexed[Text[#2[[1]], {Re[#1], Im[#1]}] & , x /. r[a]]}],
>>>>>> {a, -6, 10, 0.5}]
>>>>>> First, we have a polynomial with real coefficients:
>>>>>> r1[a_] = Solve[x^5 - a x - 1 == 0, x]
>>>>>> Animating the trajectories of the roots using
>>>>>> rootplot[r1]
>>>>>> we observe that, as you mention above, when the complex conjugate
>>>>>> roots
>>>>>> 2 and 3 coalesce, they become real roots 1 and 2 and root 1
>>>>>> becomes
>>>>>> root
>>>>>> 3. But, ignoring root ordering, why isn't it possible for these
>>>>>> roots to
>>>>>> maintain their identity (I realise that at coelescence, there
>>>>>> is an
>>>>>> arbitrariness)?
>>>>>> Second, we have a polynomial with a complex coefficient:
>>>>>> r2[a_] = Solve[x^5 + (1+I) x^4 - a x - 1 == 0, x]
>>>>>> Animating the trajectories of the roots using
>>>>>> rootplot[r2]
>>>>>> we observe that, even though the trajectories of the roots are
>>>>>> continuous, the numbering switches:
>>>>>> 2 -> 3 -> 4
>>>>>> 5 -> 4 -> 3
>>>>>> 3 -> 4 -> 5
>>>>>> 4 -> 3 -> 2
>>>>>> and only root 1 remains invariant. Again, ignoring root
>>>>>> ordering, why
>>>>>> isn't it possible for all these roots to maintain their identity
>>>>>> and so
>>>>>> be continuous functions of the parameter? And wouldn't such
>>>>>> continuity
>>>>>> be nicer than enforcing root ordering?
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>> _________________________________________________________________
>>>>>> ____
>>>>>> _
>>>>>> _
>>>>>> Paul Abbott Phone: 61 8
>>>>>> 6488
>>>>>> 2734
>>>>>> School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8
>>>>>> 6488
>>>>>> 1014
>>>>>> The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No
>>>>>> AUSTRALIA http://
>>>>>> physics.uwa.edu.au/
>>>>>> ~paul
>>>>> In the cases of polynomials with real coefficients it is indeed
>>>>> possible to define a continuous root. It is certianly not
>>>>> possible to
>>>>> do so for polynomials with complex coefficients. For a proof
>>>>> see my
>>>>> and Adam Strzebonski's posts in the same thread. Adam Strzebonski
>>>>> gave a very elementary proof of the fact that a continuous root
>>>>> cannot be defined on the space of complex polynomials of degree
>>>>> d. I
>>>>> quoted a more powerful but not elementary theorem of Vassiliev,
>>>>> which
>>>>> describes the minimum number of open sets that are needed to cover
>>>>> the space of complex polynomials of degree d, so that there is a
>>>>> continuous root defined on each open set. In fact, Vassiliev gives
>>>>> the exact number only in the case when d is prime, in which case d
>>>>> open sets are needed. For example, for polynomials of degree 3 at
>>>>> least 3 sets are needed . If it were possible to define a
>>>>> continuous
>>>>> root, then of course only one set would suffice. In the case
>>>>> when d
>>>>> is not prime no simple formula seems to be known, but it is
>>>>> easy to
>>>>> prove that that the number is >1, (e.g. by means of Adam
>>>>> Strzebonski's proof).
>>>>> Andrzej Kozlowski


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On Oct. 1, the day the government shut down and the "Obamacare" insurance exchanges opened, I asked my college freshmen what they thought about Obamacare. Their answers remind me of those that talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel got when he asked on-the-street interviewees whether they preferred Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act. (They are, of course, the same thing.)
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Which is why, as many have pointed out, Republicans oppose Obamacare enough to bring the government to a partial shutdown and to threaten to default on the country's financial obligations. They understand that even partial success for Obamacare will undercut a primary Republican goal, the diminishment of Obama's presidency and the destruction of his legacy.
And Obamacare's success will make Republican achievement of the White House in 2016 very, very difficult. No wonder Obamacare became the point of contention that led to the shutdown and threatens default.
Republicans contend that Americans don't really want Obamacare, a proposition undercut by the 8.6 million who flocked to the exchanges the day they opened. But at this point, Americans' opinions in polls don't really matter, do they? Obamacare has been duly enacted into law, and Republicans' efforts to subvert the law by extortion are terribly undemocratic.
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By Rob Kelly
Nico Yennaris insists he does not mind which position he is selected to play in - just as long as he gets more chances with the first team.
The 19-year-old made his Premier League debut at right back against Manchester United last season, but started in central midfield in the 6-1 win over Coventry on Wednesday night.
The versatile teenager has spent much of his career in midfield, but says he is happy to fill any role that helps the team.
"I don't mind playing at right back or in central midfield, as long as I am playing," Yennaris told Arsenal Player.
"Obviously I had a taste [of first-team football] last year so for this season my aim is to break through again. Obviously I had a chance against Coventry and hopefully I did alright.
"We know we have a big squad this year, and [the Capital One Cup] is a good opportunity for some of the younger players such as myself to get some game time to show what we can do."
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