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Re: Finding a continuous solution of a cubic
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- Subject: [mg85941] Re: [mg85899] Finding a continuous solution of a cubic
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:51:07 -0500 (EST)
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On 27 Feb 2008, at 18:36, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > > On 27 Feb 2008, at 10:25, Hugh Goyder wrote: > >> I am investigating the maxima and minima of the expression, e, below. >> The expression is a quartic in x and has two parameters a and b >> which, >> for my problem, are restricted to the range -1 < a < 1 and 0 < b (the >> interesting part is 0<b<1). >> >> I start with a simple approach and take the derivative with respect >> to >> x and solve to find the three turning points. The solution is >> complicated and not easy to examine. I work out the discriminant to >> see when I will have three real roots or one and plot the region. I >> work out three functions for the three roots r1, r2 and r3, and three >> functions for the value of e at the roots, f1, f2, and f3. I am >> expecting three real functions when within the region defined by the >> discriminant and one outside this region. I plot the three roots and >> the three functions (there are some artifacts where the functions >> turn >> from real to complex, this is not a problem). >> >> Now my problem. The function f3 is continuous in the region where >> there are three solutions and this I like. Functions f1 and f2 are >> not >> continuous but contain holes. If functions f1 and f2 are plotted >> together then they each fill in the others holes. The holes makes my >> life difficult because I do not have continuous functions. >> >> Is it possible to make Solve find roots that will give rise to three >> functions one corresponding to the maxima and two corresponding to >> each minima without the functions crossing over and jumping between >> the turning points? >> >> I also notice, from the plots when shown together, that my desired >> functions are even with respect to the parameter a. Is this correct >> and how would I show this if I can't assemble them as continuous >> functions? >> >> Thanks >> >> Hugh Goyder >> >> e = ((1 - x)^2 + b*(-1 + a)^2)*((1 + x)^2 + >> b*(1 + a)^2); >> >> d = Simplify[D[e, x]]; >> >> dis = Discriminant[d, x]; >> >> ContourPlot[dis, {a, -1, 1}, {b, 0, 1}, >> ContourShading -> False, Contours -> {0}, >> FrameLabel -> {"a", "b"}] >> >> sol = Solve[d == 0, x]; >> >> ClearAll[x1, x2, x3, f1, f2, f3]; >> x1[a_, b_] := Evaluate[x /. sol[[1]]]; >> x2[a_, b_] := Evaluate[x /. sol[[2]]]; >> x3[a_, b_] := Evaluate[x /. sol[[3]]]; >> f1[a_, b_] := Evaluate[e /. sol[[1]]]; >> f2[a_, b_] := Evaluate[e /. sol[[2]]]; >> f3[a_, b_] := Evaluate[e /. sol[[3]]]; >> >> r1 = Plot3D[x1[a, b], {a, -1, 1}, {b, 0, 1}] >> >> r2 = Plot3D[x2[a, b], {a, -1, 1}, {b, 0, 1}] >> >> r3 = Plot3D[x3[a, b], {a, -1, 1}, {b, 0, 1}] >> >> Show[r1, r2, r3, PlotRange -> All] >> >> s1 = Plot3D[f1[a, b], {a, -1, 1}, {b, 0, 1}] >> >> s2 = Plot3D[f2[a, b], {a, -1, 1}, {b, 0, 1}] >> >> s3 = Plot3D[f3[a, b], {a, -1, 1}, {b, 0, 2}] >> >> Show[s1, s2] >> >> >> > > Mathematica will certainly not give you such a formula. I think in > your case it will be quite hard to obtian one, and I can't at the > moment suggest a good way to do so, but it may be helpful to first > consider the the cubic geometrically and understand how Mathematica > deals with the ordering of its roots. In general a cubic (with real > coefficients) can have either 1 or all 3 real roots. If the cubic > ir represented by a polynomial poly (in your case poly = d) in the > variable x then these roots can are given by the Mathematica > functions Root[poly,x,1], Root[poly,x,2] and Root[poly,x,3]. > For example: > > In[31]:= Root[x^3 + x + 1, x, 1] > Out[31]= Root[#1^3 + #1 + 1 &, 1] > > In[32]:= ToRadicals[%] > Out[32]= -(2/(3*(-9 + Sqrt[93])))^(1/3) + ((1/2)*(-9 + > Sqrt[93]))^(1/3)/3^(2/3) > > > > Root[poly,x,1],Root[poly,x,2] and Root[poly,x,3] are your functions > f1,f2, and f3. > > What Mathematica counts as the first root of a cubic, as mentioned > above, is always real. So suppose you define your real root > function as Root[poly,x,1] and also suppose that we "start" in a > situation (a set of parameter values) where we have one real root > and two conjugate non-real ones. The real root is our Root[poly,x, > 1]. Now, however, as we vary the parameters, the two non-real roots > Root[poly,x,2] and Root[poly,x,3] will at some point coalesce to > form a double real root, which may be smaller than your original > root. At this point the roots are "renamed", in other words these > two roots become Root[poly,x,1] and Root[poly,x,2] and the original > root then becomes Root[poly,x,3]. So if we stick to the function > Root[poly,x,1] we will have a discontinuous jump. In order to avoid > it, we should take Root[poly,x,3] as the value of our function after > the jump point. > > So in fact, to construct a continuous function you only need to > consider Root[poly,x,1] and Rot[poly,x,3] for the root will never > jump from the first to second place, because whenever two complex > roots coalesce, two new real of the same magnitude roots are created > and so what used to be root number one will become root number 3. > > As you noted, all the jumps take place on the curve > dis=Discriminant[d, x] = 0, because the choice of a smallest root > can only be changed once a double root appears. However, not every > appearance of a double root will result in a jump, because the two > real roots that appear due to the merging of two complex ones may be > larger than the real root we had before their merger. > > Now, in the case of a cubic with a single parameter, the equation > dis can actually be solved numerically so we can find all the jump > points and use the function Piecewise to combine them to get a > continuous function of the parameter. This is easy and has been > considered more than once on this list in the past. Your two > parameter case seems much more complicated (however, I have not > considered it very carefully!) since the discriminant is now a real > curve of degree 9 in the parameter space so at this time I have no > good idea to suggest. Still, I hope you can find something useful in > the above remarks. > > Andrzej Kozlowski Just one more thing. You can see graphically how the "jumping" takes place by plotting together just the first and the third root of the cubic. Here is one way to do it: F[a_, b_] := Module[{poly, x}, poly = 4 x^3 + 4 a^2 b x + 4 b x - 4 x - 8 a b; Piecewise[{{{Root[poly, x, 1], Root[poly, x, 1]}, Im[Root[poly, x, 3]] != 0}}, {Root[poly, x, 1], Root[poly, x, 3]}]] Plot3D[F[a, b], {a, 0, 1}, {b, -1, 1}] Of course the vertical part should not be there. The "single" sheeted surface is the part given by Root[poly,x,1], which I had to tell Mathematica do draw twice, in order to have two values for every pair {a,b}. The double sheeted part of the surface consists of Root[poly,x, 1] and Root[poly,x,3] over the part of the parameter space where there are three real roots. The upper part, that joins continusly onto the single sheeted part is Root[poly,x,3]. The lower part which ought to be isolated from the rest of the graph (but is to it connected by vertical lines) is Root[poly,x,1], so you can see where one has to change the choice of root to obtain a continuous graph. Andrzej Kozlowski
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Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2005, 10:59
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Do I need to use framebuffer on Compaq Presario 1242?
i was trying to run from cd for a while, i finaly went and selected option 2 to set the home file in a partition. I've been trying to run linux on this 366mhz with 32mb of ram (i can't figure out waht the ram speed of the compaq persario 1242 so i can't find the right ram to buy). THe big problem, is that the other distros like DSL and feather (which uses way to much ram to be usable on this laptop) but these distros allow to chose between a newer faster desktop, and a old framebuffer run desktop which works great, the newer one on this screen, makes the screen mostly green and distoreted and usable. I can see windows but I can't read anything. Is there a cheat code that i can use with option 3 that will force framebuffer 800x600 perferably?
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You will need more memory, since the video also borrows some memory from the base ram onboard the system, which seems what you have. It looks like PC-100 CL=2 144 pin sodimm?
Do you have the users manual?
I looked around, and depending on the system...
I found
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that will give you an idea. However, I do not endorse this specific ram, just use it as a guide.
I would suspect the performance with what you have now in terms of ram, would be less than adequate, since Puppy likes 64 mb of ram. Some have gotten along with less, but with a swap partition.
What size hard drive is in the system?
...and yes, you will need a framebuffer version of Puppy, given the vintage of this laptop.
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Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 22:03
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wow sry my mistake it's a 1245 system and when i researched it said the max ram was 190. but what i'm concered with is getting frame buffer to work, scece console works fine of course, is there a way i can install before it boots to gui? (i'm guessing the install is a command line interface and non gui). but yeah figuring out framebuffer would be nice. if it installed i figure that i could boot up with anthor linux like DSL and then mount it as read/write and then go into the xserver config file and somehow make it boot famebuffer if that was possible without installing extra drivers or somthin.
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Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 22:13
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btw how good is your sound support, DSL couldn't load up sound, and vector linux, i wasn't too sure but i think it scaned all the IRQ and came up with possible cominations and then it worked, well kinda, cds we're working fine, i went to play internet radio, and it kept saying problem with sound device, went to output changed it to OSS or somthing like that then cd and mp3 streaming worked so. but yeah i think puppy uses fbvesa and i need it to use fbdev
also if yours didn't have advance sound support do you think their could be a way that to barrow a config file from vector, (if it uses the same sound driver) so i could make it work?
also this problem may not happen in puppy but in vector, it is set so it's 800x600 res which is the monitor resolution, yet when i run it, all the text was blocky and i'm teahknig why should be 1:1 ratio for pixels on the monitor, then i find when i move my mouse to the edges it shows the rest of the screen, for some reson it's making 800x600 bigger then the screen, i check the xserver config file but i couldn't find any lines or values that would let me change it to fbdev or anything else. so thats kinda a pain to use that scence i can't get it sized righ.
So what do you guys think?
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Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2005, 05:06
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i went to play internet radio, and it kept saying problem with sound device, went to output changed it to OSS or somthing like that then cd and mp3 streaming worked so.
So the OSS driver worked, not alsa. Puppy uses the OSS drivers, so adding alsa, if it did not work in Vector, is not the solution. I bet they are depreciated in alsa, given the vintage of the laptop.
Most likely you can find the driver in Puppy, or add it. Do you have any idea what the sound driver was in Vector, or the sound card that is in the system?
Also, you are going to need more ram or make some swap space for Puppy, if it will work fine with this much ram. This is why I asked how large the hard drive was. You need room for the Pup001 file and some swap space to fill in for the lack of memory.
...and what partition(s) are currently on the hard drive? fat32 or fat16?
I will try to find the link for the fb version of Puppy, which is built in.
You may want to try Bladhunter's version based on version 1.0.3 located
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Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2005, 15:03
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well thats the thing, not only do i need the right sound driver for:
ES1869 Control Interface (WDM)
ES1869 Plug an dPlay AudioDrive
at least thats what the compaq restore cd loads up sound as and it works. my graphics i have also found out isNeoMagic MagicGraph128XD
reson why i'm using windows right now because i have found just about no support pretty much anywhere for usb wireless cards which is the olnly thing i have.
i'm donwloading the cd now and will give resualts when i've tried it.
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Framebuffer is way too slow on the older laptops....
Wonder over to announcements and have a look at my latest release announcements....I wont give the download link here as there is some stuff you need to know......Plus they are based on 1.0.4
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Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2005, 18:33
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Yep, I have the same NeoMagic chip in my old CTX. Try the framebuffer version.
I just got a Linksys USB wireless for my itx box. No luck with Puppy yet. Have not tried Bladehunter's refined version yet. maybe this week.
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Run any one of the XFree versions...you'll like it
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Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2005, 19:16
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maver, could you let us know the vendor and product id of your USB wireless adapter.
You can usually find it by plugging in the adapter and running dmesg in a terminal window. The last line or two gives a hint.
Alternatively, the make, model and version is often on the device somwehere.
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Posted: Tue 30 Aug 2005, 23:19
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sorry I was out of town, I know the wireless is a linksys instant wireless v. 2.6, but recently i have also gotten a netgear wireless b, i'm gona look up the specs now, but the netgear is pcmia and seems to load up fine in DSL though i'm not clear on how to setup the connection with the router so i can't say the card work even though it did let me configure the card now. (but i know the card works fine in 98se with proper drivers). I believe it's a prism 2 chipset. the prims2 setup didn't work in DSL but in 98se the control panel has a new icon label prism2.
btw the link you gave me needs a log in.
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I am working on a toshiba tecra 8000 and it will boot ok from the 1.0.3anthros cd but once it is installed on the hard drive it stops at starting x. I keep getting closer though. I can't mount any drives with that cd though so I think there may be a problem with the file system so I am going to format again and give it another try.
The other thing I cant get to work on that release is the network detection. We will see if I have any luck after the retry.
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We have officiallz learned what the Mexicans must feel like in our nation. Dresden wasn't so bad as we knew where we were going and there were a few English speakers around. Feeling our waz around Augsburg has been more difficult. We went to a Piyya Hut tonight for some dinner and it was a new experience. Good thing the name of the menu items are in English. Of course, it was a joint KFC and Piyya Hut together. The Greece-Russia soccer game was on the big screen on one side of the restaurant. Zou can buz beer in the restaurant as well. We ordered and left. It was difficult. Trzing to work out trains, even where we are if lost has been a pain. We are slowlz picking up our German for sure! Eingang is entrance, ausfahrt is exit. I alreadz knew mz numbers so that has helped.
Todaz we headed for the famed Sleeping Beautz Castle, Neuschwanstein. It took us a couple of hours to get there via tram, train, and bus. It is a bit out of the waz. But we took a tour of Hohenschwangau Castle as well! It was a full daz trip, but well worth while.


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Director James Cameron's sci-fi epic "Avatar" surged to No. 1 at the box office in North America over the weekend but a massive eastern snowstorm stopped the flick from beating "I Am Legend's" December record take.
"Avatar" raked in $73 million in the U.S. and $159.2 overseas, for a $232.2 million total take, Fox's senior vice president of domestic distribution told The New York Times.
That fell short of the $77.2 million grossed by "Legend" in 2007 and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's" $86.5 million opening when adjusted for inflation, according to the Times.
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"We believe, especially given that women worldwide responded so strongly, that this is just the start," Tom Rothman, co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment said.
Ticket sales had plummeted 75 percent Saturday in Washington D.C. and also fell in places like Philadelphia and New York as local TV stations warned people to stay out of the path of the massive storm.
In New Orleans and Dallas, Fox blamed a football game for dampening sales, according to the Times.
Still, "Avatar" displaced Disney's animated musical "The Princess and the Frog," to second place at the box office with $12.2 million, bringing its total to $44.8 million.


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The Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen shows what makes the phenomenon of flight so fascinating.
Discover the innovative and groundbreaking designs of aviation pioneer Claude Dornier and the Dornier group on a journey through the past 100 years of aviation and aerospace history. Countless world records, patents and technological marvels document the impressive history of the Dornier company. Displays on political, economic and social conditions show what motivated and inspired people in the different periods.
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Beano Boy wrote:A cliff hanger ending? No,, I have not stopped posting Remco. This topic is not shelved.
Beano Boy wrote:I have stuff on order, but it comes in wet in a bag and does smell like Horse Pea.
sberry wrote:BTW: Has anybody ever figured out the scale of those Asterix figures? I think they may be close to 28 mm - if this notion of a "scale" is applicable at all here.
Beano Boy wrote:Well that's it for now. I hope to see you guys again soon. BB
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Once you get past the setup -- two lesbians raising a pair of teenagers who decide to seek out their sperm-donor dad -- "The Kids Are All Right" is most shocking for how not shocking it is. It is at its heart nothing more than a smart, funny drama about a very normal family.
"The Kids Are All Right" tells the story of two siblings, Joni and Laser, being raised by lesbian parents, Nic and Jules. One day the kids decide to find the man who supplied the sperm that made them possible. Your instinct will be to gird yourself for a lengthy polemic in favor of gay marriage. Nope.
All four members of the family fall into traditional roles. Annette Bening's Nic is your basic every-Dad, with her close cropped hair and bread-winning career as a doctor. Julianne Moore is the sexy, Earthy-crunchy, stay-at-home mom desperate to find some purpose as she faces the prospect of of an empty nest. Mia Wasikowksa is Joni, the mousy, insecure, overachieving brainiac. And Josh Hutcherson is Laser, the affable, shiftless jock. This family is pure apple pie.
Watching his best friend wrestle (literally) with his own father inspires Laser to convince Joni they should find the man who helped make them. When Joni finally gets Paul (Mark Ruffalo) on the phone, it takes him a minute to process the family's construct. "I love lesbians," he blurts when he finally figures it out.
The acting is as good as you would expect from a film that features three of Hollywood's best. Bening is great as the aggrieved, wine-swilling head of household who feels her family slipping away. Ruffalo makes the perfect shaggy dog, free of responsibility, unburdened by conscience and just happy to be along for the ride. At the center of the action is Moore, whose Jules is grabbing at anything that passes her by in the hopes of finding some ballast -- no character goes through more emotionally, and Moore keeps it believable at every turn.
Wasikowska and Hutcherson are both excellent as well. "I wish I was that good coming out of the gate," said Ruffalo when asked about his young co-stars. Wasikowska has proven herself adept at doin gthe adolescent in turmoil before, she's on comfortable footing here. And Hutcherson proves her equal in every scene. You watch him and think, "Yeah, that's probably how a 15-year-old with two moms acts."
"Kids" marks the first time director Lisa Cholodenko has collaborated on a script, co-writing the film with Stuart Blumberg, who has previously written two very nearly good films, "Keeping the Faith" and "The Girl Next Door." The serious, lesbian indie dramatist and the hetero Jewish comic make for an unlikely pairing, but it works.
The dramatic arc and tension that Cholodenko maintains keeps Blumberg's sense of humor focused on the story at hand. The structure of story is very disciplined, never going off the rails, chasing the cheap joke or ratcheting up the melodrama.
Chodolenko does a nice job of pushing us closer and closer to the family's first meal together before pulling back to let us and them breathe for a moment, only to dive back in. She also does a nice job of creating space between Nic and Jules as finding their way through some heavy marital strife and she makes pitch-perfect use of a slow-motion -- usually the kiss of death in an adult drama -- close-up on Bening at a pivotal moment.
Where Blumberg helped Cholodenko was, by her own admission, knowing how far you could take the humor. There's a great bit about gay male porn in the film that comes directly from Cholodenko's life. When Blumberg heard the story he insisted it be written into the film, an idea Cholodenko says she originally balked at, fearing it was too "out."
You've probably heard the old joke "I'm all for gay marriage -- gay people should be just as miserable as the rest of us," and this film is proof of just how true that maxim is. What's unfortunate is that as great as it is, "The Kids Are All Right" will likely end up preaching to the choir.
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What comes to mind when you hear the phrase "52 Pickup"? I remember losing a card game and hearing the victor scream that phrase as he launched the cards in the air and ran away, leaving me to clean them up.
We all love to play games, but who wants that kind of memory associated with playing cards or family game night?
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Some of you may remember a post from awhile back, about a guild named Paranoid.
Originally written by Döra
Paranoid is a guild for the socially awkward, the shy, the people who'd like to raid, but get a headache just thinking about all the things they could screw up. The people who type a message to someone who's LFM in trade, then backspace, then type, backspace, type, stare at what they've written, backspace again and go quest on their own. And if they do press enter, they're relieved if they get the reply: "Sorry, full."
It's been about a year, and I hear that Paranoid is still going strong, which makes me very happy.
I was also very happy to receive an email Paranoid's GM, Mer, who had fantastic news for those of us socially anxious (and fabulous!) WoW players who live on the US side of the big pond: someone had taken the initiative to start an equivalent guild, on a US server!
Swords For Everyone was founded last week by Cantafrond on Wyrmrest Accord-US. In his words (taken from his recruitment post on MMO-Champion):
Anyone who has social anxiety (or a similar social disorder) who wants an understanding community to play WoW with. If you're someone who:
– is terrified of public chat channels, including Vent (Mumble, Teamspeak, etc.)
– starts hyperventilating when a dungeon or BG queue pops
– has avoided large chunks of game content because of other players
– immediately logs off for the rest of the day (or week) after a wipe because you fear that it was your fault
– is nervous and sweaty just thinking about applying to this guild
– experiences any other irrational (but entirely understandable) anxiety because of interactions with other players
then you're probably a perfect fit. There are no specific requirements to join, aside from a completed application.
I don't play WoW much these days – with my real life, the rest of my gaming and my crazy work schedule, I barely manage my 7 hours of raiding a week, but I am really tempted to level an alt with them, if they'll let me, if only for a little while.
Best wishes to Cantafrond and the rest of the crew at Swords for Everyone! It's a wonderful to have a haven like that in our community, where everyone understands what it's like. And from the enthusiastic chatter in the WoW forums recruitment thread, it seems like SfE is off to a great start!
If you'd like to join, you can post an application on the guild website or contact Cantafrond in game on Wyrmrest Accord.
If you live in the EU and would like to join Paranoid, you can do so via their guild website.
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Mathematician David Orrell writes in a new book that scientific truths may not always be "beautiful" and "elegant" theories:
It is easier to claim a theory is beautiful than to show that it actually works, or makes sense.
As further described by Christopher Shea in the article:
He [Orrell] points to modern physics, in particular, as especially prone to develop ever-more-elaborate models whose goals have more to do with elegance or beauty for beauty's sake than anything else.
"Historically, there was this give and take between mathematical beauty and scientific productivity," Orrell said in a recent interview. But in physics, "if you look in recent decades, it's as if the aesthetics has taken over. Theory hasn't had the input from data to put it on the right path."
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By now, Calgarians should be used to this game of hide-and-seek that spring likes to play. And right now, spring is definitely hiding.
The city awoke Saturday morning to fluffy flakes of snow floating down from the sky, with 2 to 4 cm expected to fall by tonight, according to Environment Canada.
A weather system moving in through southern Alberta is bringing in a mixture of rain and snow, prompting the weather agency to issue a special weather statement for the area.
In the mountain parks, and regions south of Calgary, snowfall warnings are in place as 15 to 20 cm could fall, with the heaviest amounts expected near the Montana border.
In areas near Lethbridge, the precipitation will start as rain and turn to snow. The snow will taper off by evening as the weather system heads east.
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Calgary is on track for a typical April, which gets an average of 18 cm of snow. Average snowfall amounts for May are around 12 cm.
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Have you ever wondered why you can destroy every Commonwealth station you encounter and no one does anything about it until you dock at a station? I have started working on a generic sovereign reputation / crime system where any faction will become hostile if you persist in attacking them (but other sovereigns may become friendly if they see you attacking their enemies).
The basic idea is that destroying ships / stations causes a reputation loss with the sovereign the ship belonged to, any allied witnesses, and a reputation gain with any enemies of the victim. As the players reputation with the various sovereigns changes the disposition can change from friend to neutral to enemy. So if the player destroys several Startons the Commonwealth will become hostile and attack on sight.
For major crimes (destruction of a majorStation or majorShip) the reputation penalty is applied immediately. For lesser crimes (smaller ships, capital ships, freighters and small stations) the reputation penalty is only applied if a friendly (to the victim) witness survives.
I haven't implemented a working justice system to replace the commonwealth trials yet, but the witness tracking system is mostly complete. The mod does track various details about the attack which could be used to distinguish deliberate attacks from accidents e.g. the number of other hostiles attacking the victim, number attacking the player and total number of hostiles in the area, these are shown when the player docks (along with the option to ignore the crimes). Eventually there should be a few generic justice systems e.g. Commonwealth trials, blackmarket fines.
One side effect of the mod is that it is also possible to become friends with the default enemies, though none of them aside from the Huari have dockscreens / other content yet...
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"Hmm, if I were a colander, where would I be?" Avoid this kind of pondering by assigning everything a place in your kitchen. Keep frequently used tools in easy-to-reach caddies or convenient drawers.
Read the whole recipe before you start
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While food is boiling, broiling, or sautéing for a few minutes, get the next step of the recipe ready to go.
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Michael Jackson made his debut this week on the one Forbes list nobody wants to grace: top-earning dead celebrities.
The late King of Pop's estate has reaped $90 million since his sudden death on June 25 at 50 – putting him at No. 3 on the Forbes rolls amid such taken-before-their-time music icons as Elvis Presley and John Lennon.
The list, of course, was compiled before the release of the concert-rehearsal film "This Is It," which reportedly pulled in $2.2 million alone in late-night showings Tuesday.
The box office take marks the latest indication that Jackson, who reportedly signed up for the never-to-be London concert run because he desperately needed the money, may turn out to be worth more in death than in life - and that's bad.
It's also sad.
The film has inspired an Internet-driven backlash from some fans who believe Jackson was in no condition for the planned concerts, and contend "This Is It" was edited to downplay any physical distress.
While Jackson, whose death has been ruled a homicide, looks frightening thin in the footage, we may never know the full toll the rehearsals took on him.
Meanwhile, the movie is shaping up as a hit. The Los Angeles Times even raised the possibility of "This Is It" emerging as an Oscar contender, given the recent doubling of Best Picture nominees to 10.
It's natural that many fans want a last glimpse of the superstar on stage in the days before his death, while others will be drawn to theaters by morbid curiosity. That's a man-in-the-mirror reflection of the forces that defined the last two decades of Jackson's life – half brilliant performer, half freak show – and now trail him in death.
The jury is out on whether "This Is It" is a Jackson tribute or exploitation. But there will be, little doubt, more found footage, more "lost" recordings to come as the marketing of Michael Jackson threatens to drag on well past the movie's limited run.
No matter what his personal problems, Jackson, as a performer, always gave his all. With his death, it seems that few are ready to stop taking.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Well, it's Black Friday again, and sales appear to be booming. The Wall Street Journal is already reporting that big box stores and mass retailers are seeing strong sales for the day after Thanksgiving. Burlington, Vt., TV station WCAX reports stores in malls opening at 4 a.m. to accommodate bargain-thirsty shoppers. And Reuters says:
At a Best Buy in Springfield, Pa., at midnight, the 50 people in line created an atmosphere part football tailgate and part Department of Motor Vehicle tension. A card table was set up near the end of the line, but the reception on that end was quite frosty, possibly "enhanced" by the consumption of cheap beer.
And then there's this from the Washington Post:
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At Best Buy in Rockville, for example, 514 people were waiting in the cold when the doors opened at 5 a.m., including at least one hardy soul who arrived 8 1/2 hours earlier and ate a Thanksgiving meal delivered by sympathetic friends.
Thankfully, no trampling deaths have been reported. YET. But this whole Black Friday thing has gotten completely out of control. It's now accepted by retailers that a certain percentage of the American population is willing to wait in line forever to save 30% on a TV, and they're exploiting that fact to the hilt. They mark down a small number of big-ticket items as loss leaders, far too few for everyone in line to get one. So you'll come to the store early in hopes of you're getting your hands on it. And, if you don't manage to succeed, well you're up and in the store already, so you may as well buy some stuff. It's a hook. Bait. A cheap trick to get you in the store to buy all the crap that ISN'T on sale, because they know you don't want to have to come back.
Look, if you're willing to sit out in the freezing cold for a shot at some of this stuff, more power to you. The economy is tough, and sometimes you have to go the extra mile to save what you can for you and your family. But know that these stores are more than happy to see you wait in line a little bit longer each year, and to whip up such a frenzy over discounts that the people next to you in line will happily elbow you in the face to jockey for position. Maybe more people would be willing to spend money in this crummy economy if the American shopping experience was more enjoyable than urban combat.


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The first perfect 30s of the season hit the ballroom Monday night in time for the "Dancing With the Stars" semifinals, but the flawless (or flawless-ish) routines hardly compared to the other action on the dance floor.
Then again, the first big scene-stealer of the night didn't even happen on the stage.
Rehearsal footage revealed just what tricky moves left pro hoofer Kym Johnson on a stretcher late last week. Determined to give partner Hines Ward every advantage in the semifinals, Johnson choreographed some creative and downright hazardous lifts for their Argentine tango. One such lift went awry when Ward's full weight came down on Johnson's neck.
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Good thing for Johnson, the fall looked far worse than it was. By show time, she was able to break out several safer lifts alongside Ward, who for his part excelled at every aspect of the tango. The routine proved to be their best dance in the competition. It left Ward in tears and earned the couple the first 30 of the season (but not for long).
Oh, and during a congratulatory hug, it also led to a quick nip-slip for the pro who'd already had one heck of a week.
(Props to host Tom Bergeron. He maintained his best-live-host-in-the-biz status by somehow graciously body blocking the camera, informing Johnson of the wardrobe malfunction and making it seem like nothing had happened at all.)
Ward and Johnson later followed up the perfect score, if not their perfect moves, with a not-so-hip-shaking salsa.
The next spectacle of the evening came courtesy of Ralph Macchio. After performing a flat Argentine tango and earning so-so scores — i.e. two 8s and a 9 — early in the show, the '80s star returned to show off his assets in the salsa. Too bad they weren't his own.
Yes, Macchio wore a prosthetic rear enhancer, aka Butt Booster, to turn his shapeless backside into a salsa-ready rump. At least that was the idea. What it actually did, as Bruno Tonioli pointed out, was make it look as though the former "Karate Kid" was wearing "extra large diapers."
Of course, that wasn't the only fashion faux pas on the dance floor. Moving next to the modified Macchio was pro partner Karina Smirnoff, decked out in an open front, somewhat shaggy, leopard-print catsuit complete with a belly chain and red sparkling bra. No really.
Tonioli had something to say about Smirnoff too, but the folks in charge of the bleep button made sure no one outside of the studio audience heard it. Let's just say it started with "You were too rough with your …" and it ended with the incredulous judge arguing, "What? A pussy cat?! What is she?"
If looks could kill, Smirnoff would have made sure that was the last "pussy cat" comment Tonioli ever made.
Costumes aside, somehow the judges managed to score the dance despite the distractions and gave it a generous 23 out of 30.
Chelsea Kane earned her share of attention for the night, and she somehow did it just by dancing. First the Disney Channel star wowed the judges with a less-than-wow Argentine tango with partner Mark Ballas, worth 28 points. Then she topped that with a truly stunning rumba that might have actually merited the perfect score it scraped up.
As for Kirstie Alley, other than a few obligatory late-season rehearsal fights with Maksim Chmerkovskiy, she also let her footwork do the talking. Both Alley's Viennese waltz and paso doble had the panel raving. But raving or not, Len Goodman and the gang never raised anything higher than a 9 paddle for the actress.
After each couple put on their primary performances, they came back for more with a winner-take-all cha-cha-cha challenge. Not surprisingly, the real battle came down to the night's — heck, the whole competition's — front-runners: Ward and Kane. Both presented top cha-chas, but Kane clearly earned her win and the 15 extra points that came with it.
On Tuesday night, one of the four remaining ballroom contenders will walk away before making it to the finals. If dance alone determines the ouster, Macchio's time is running out. But if it comes down to a battle of the biggest fan bases, it's still anyone's game.
Ree Hines is cha-cha-ed out. This season alone there have been eight individual cha-chas, two team routines and six quickies. Follow @ReeHines on Twitter and tell her what you want to see more or less of in the ballroom.


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Fighting mosques in the name of freedom
Last year, a Muslim congregation in Murfreesboro, Tenn., a pleasant college town of about 110,000 people southeast of Nashville, decided that the time had come to build a proper mosque.
For 20 years or more, the town's roughly 250 Muslim families had met for prayers in makeshift quarters, and the congregation's prosperous leaders — doctors, professors, auto dealers — thought they could do better. They bought a 15-acre plot of land next to a Baptist church south of the city limits, and won approval from the Rutherford County Planning Commission for a 53,000-square-foot community center.
Then, as has happened in several places around the country lately, bedlam broke out.
Conservative activists protested that they didn't want a big, visible mosque in their quiet Southern town. A candidate for the Republican congressional nomination decried the construction. Vandals torched one of the (non-Muslim) contractor's bulldozers. And a group of residents filed suit, charging that the building permit had been issued improperly and that they would suffer "emotional distress" if they had to live near a mosque.
What happened next was unexpected, but it was what should happen in a country where freedom of religion is enshrined in the Constitution: Most of Murfreesboro rallied around the Muslims. Christian clergymen and a rabbi formed a support committee; there were marches and teach-ins. The fiery congressional candidate lost her primary race.
Among the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro's most important supporters was the elected mayor of Rutherford County, a Republican farmer and retired healthcare executive named Ernest G. Burgess. He's also an elder at North Boulevard Church of Christ.
"This is going to sound a little philosophical, but this is a matter of principle," Burgess told me this week. "When I took this office, I promised to uphold the constitutions of the United States and the state of Tennessee.... As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of the story."
Only it wasn't.
In a move that could portend a shift away from mosque battles as strictly local fights, the anti-mosque forces consulted with national conservative groups to marshal arguments against the project. And they imported a Washington-based activist, former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney Jr., to testify in court that American Muslims — including those in Murfreesboro — want to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, on the United States, and that the proposed mosque, gymnasium and swimming pool were part of a "stealth jihad."
"I'm willing to take this case all the way to the Supreme Court if I have to," said Joe Brandon Jr., the plaintiffs' lawyer. "And I'm getting a lot of help. I didn't know anything about Islam or Sharia when this started — I'm just a criminal lawyer — but I've learned a lot."
In short, what began as a strictly local zoning case that looked open and shut — under federal law, religious congregations can build houses of worship almost anywhere — has become the focus of a battle that opponents would like to take national.
"I can't help thinking that if this were just a local controversy, it would have been settled by now," Mayor Burgess said last week.
Brandon, the plaintiffs' lawyer, dismisses the idea of outside agitation, noting that national donations to pursue the case haven't been pouring in. But he acknowledges that national groups such as Gaffney's Center for Security Policy have helped him make his case.
Gaffney's argument boils down to this: Devout Muslims want to live under Sharia, the religious legal code that governs in Saudi Arabia and other traditional Islamic societies. But Sharia, which treats women as unequal, is incompatible with U.S. law. So organized Islam, Gaffney charges, is conspiring to supplant American law with Muslim law — and that, he says, is sedition.
"What is going on in Murfreesboro … fits into the profile of the stealth jihad that is being waged by the Muslim Brotherhood," he told me. "It's a mega-mosque that's clearly disproportionate to the community that it's intended to serve. It has the purpose of demonstrating a kind of triumphalist agenda."
Murfreesboro's Muslims haven't actually done anything explicitly seditious, he acknowledges, but "you want to err on the side of caution."
It's hard to see how the lawsuit against the Murfreesboro mosque can prevail. Even if Brandon wins his case, the most he can ask for is a rehearing on the building permit. Meanwhile, the Muslim congregation has actually sped up construction on the advice of its lawyers, who say that once the building is up, it will be harder to undo.
But it's unlikely that even a resounding defeat in court will end attempts to stop mosque construction. In Gaffney's view, the protests across the country are crucially important, "analogous to the Cold War and the struggle against communism."
Newt Gingrich probably wouldn't disagree; last year he called Sharia "a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States."
Gaffney has a point: Not since the communist scares of the Cold War have we heard that kind of rhetoric. Back then, plenty of politicians found it useful to run against sedition, both real and imagined. The Bill of Rights survived, but it certainly came under attack. Looks as if it's in for another battle.


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- Bulant Wailzer Lugner BridgeThe world's first fully glazed suspension bridge recently rose in Vienna, where it connects the Lugner City Shopping Center with the street below. The clear glass bridge was designed by architecture duo Bulant & Wailzer for the city's busy downtown area. The transparent structure becomes a visual treat at night, when it is illuminated with neon colors to emulate the traffic outside.1
- Bulant Wailzer Lugner BridgeThe Lugner Bridge rises from the Otto Wagner metro station and hovers above the avenue, connecting pedestrians to the shopping and sports complex above.2
- Bulant Wailzer Lugner BridgeThe escalator from the street stretches to the bridge at an odd, trapezoidal angle, extending over traffic at the top.3
- Bulant Wailzer Lugner BridgeThe space connecting the bridge to the escalator holds a small café that extends into the bridge, affording guests an interesting view through the floor to the street below.4
- Bulant Wailzer Lugner BridgeThe bridge itself seems to float, as it is suspended by two cables that are secured to adjacent buildings instead of traditional pillars. The geometric shape of the tunnel is reinforced with thin steel rods, creating a trapezoidal framework that skews the visitor's perspective as they pass through the space.5
- Bulant Wailzer Lugner BridgeDuring the day, the double-glazed glass skin allows the bridge and café to be entirely lit by natural lighting. The glazing blocks solar gain, ensuring a comfortable temperature inside. At night, the bridge is illuminated with blue lights.6
- Bulant Wailzer Lugner BridgeThe glazed bridge, which connects pedestrians with the subway, is part of a Viennese program to revitalize the heavily trafficked area, while cutting car emissions by encouraging both pedestrian traffic and public transportation.7


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Samir Amin, one of the most influential economists today, has produced another groundbreaking work. Spectres of Capitalism cuts through the current intellectual fashions that assume a global capitalist triumph, taking the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Marx and Engels's classic tract, the Communist Manifesto, to focus upon the aspirations of the destitute millions of the post-Cold War era. In this succinct theoretical text, Amin examines the changing notion of crisis in capitalism; misconceptions of the free market model; the various distortions of Marx's method; the role of culture in revolutions; the decline of the "law of value" in economics; the philosophical roots of postmodernism; how telecommunications affect ideology; and the myth of "pure economics." Amin has a broad following among students of economics, who value his analyses of the intricacies of capitalist development, both in the major powers and in the third world. The comprehensive scope of this work will also attract readers as a contribution to the international dialogue of intellectuals commemorating the Communist Manifesto.
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Currently, research is in the works to make mathematics more accessible to the blind, and the following projects are just completed, undergoing beta testing, or still in the planning/prototype stage. For more information on their work in progress contact:
Design Science, Inc.
140 Pine Avenue, 4th Floor
Long Beach, CA 90802
Phone: 800-827-0685 (no technical support calls at this number)
Main: 562-432-2920
Fax: 562-432-2857
Contact: Neil Soiffer
Website: http://www.dessci.com
MathPlayer's Math-to-Speech Technology. MathPlayer 2.0 makes math in web pages accessible to visually impaired readers.
Dr. Neil Soiffer, Senior Scientist at Design Science, will be presenting a session at CSUN 2005 entitled, "Advances In Accessible Web-Based Mathematics." He'll discuss how the recent reauthorization of the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and ongoing standards and technology development will make mathematical expressions on web pages and other media accessible to everyone. He will also be demonstrating how math in web pages can be made accessible today. The talk takes place noon Wednesday, March 16th, in Marriott's Boston Room. A session abstract is available from CSUN:
For more on math accessibility(http://www.dessci.com/accessibility/)
Dotless Braille
Contact: Susan Jolly
Nemeth Back Translator
They are almost finished developing open source software, BackNem, to back-translate all linear (but not yet spatially-arranged) Nemeth braille expressions to MathML. BackNem is written in Java so it can be installed on any computer. The generated MathML can then be displayed as print math by using any number of freely available browsers. Examples include Microsoft Internet Explorer in conjunction with the MathPlayer (see Design Science above) plug-in as well as Netscape.
They plan to make a beta test version of BackNem available starting in September 2004. Please watch Dotless Braille for details. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. IIS-0312487.
gh, LLC
1305 Cumberland Avenue
West Lafayette, IN 47906
Phone: (765) 775-3776
Toll Free: (866) MY-3-DOTS [693-3687 ]
E-mail: gh
Website: http://www.ghbraille.com
MathSpeak" Initiative
A grant from the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund was awarded to gh, LLC in the Summer of 2004 to develop MathSpeak". gh was chosen by Indiana's Department of Commerce to research and develop a standard for the production of Digital Talking Book versions of Math and Science Books (using MathSpeak"), and a software player (the gh PLAYER") module that can properly render the math and science both aurally and visually. Specifically, several mathematics textbooks, one science textbook, and a standardized test involving math and science are being prepared in this format by gh and tested among print disabled students in a variety of settings.
Henter Math, LLC
Phone: 888-533-MATH (6284) or 727-347-1313
Website: http://www.hent ermath.com
Virtual Pencil
VPAlgebra is now available! Henter Math is pleased to announce the release of Virtual Pencil Algebra, computer software for interactive access to algebra for students who are blind or visually impaired. This standard Windows application presents the equations visually for the sighted teachers, and audibly for the blind students.
MathMonkeys, LLC
26 Church Street, Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.497.2096
ht tp://www.live math.com
http://www.math speak.org
Math Speak. In MathEQ Expression Editor highlight an expression and MathSpeak This to hear your computer read the expression as a human would read it aloud.
National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST)
NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 3460,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3460
Website: http://www.nist.gov
NIST Prototype Tactile Visual Display
Computer scientists and engineers at NIST have created a tactile graphic display that brings electronic images to the blind and visually impaired in the same way that Braille makes words readable.
Tactile Dynamics, Inc.
110 Commerce Drive, Suite 210
Fayetteville, GA 30214
Tel: 770-716-9222
Fax: 770-716-9599
Website: http://www.wyfiwyg.com/ no longer active
TDI Full-Page Braille Display
Their patent was awarded in November 2004. They have worked out most of the manufacturing issues and should have demo units available mid spring 2005.
Many innovations evolved as the development process progressed. Originally, they anticipated a bdm (braille display module) 30-dots by 30-dots as a basic component out of which larger displays could be assembled. A lot of time and little funds encouraged them to simplify the assembly steps further. A standard industrial technology, which they discovered recently, permits the manufacture of displays as 1 unit as big as 24-inches by 24-inches. They can consequently offer 2 initial models, text-only with 6-dot and 8-dot characters, 20 cells by 6 lines and 40 cells by 25 lines at retail prices $2600 and $5200 approximately.
The current design does permit braille text as well as tactile graphics. Dot elements are spaced uniformly on the grid so this is possible. They want braille product developers to create the necessary driver software before we enter the tactile graphics arena.
They will be presenting at CSUN in March 2005 and anticipate a prototype will be available for show and tell.
Touch Graphics
330 West 38 Street Suite 1204
New York, NY 10018 USA
Phone: 212-375-6341
Contact: Steven Landau
http://www.touc hgraphics.com
TTT: Talking Tactile Tablet
TouchGraphics Company has begun work on a sophisticated Authoring Tool that will allow teachers of blind and visually impaired students to create their own talking tactile pictures for the TTT, a new computer peripheral device. This site will offer news on the product as it is developed, and will provide special information to members of the Teachers' Design Collaborative, a group of experts in the field who are participating in the Research & Design process. Check in regularly to learn of our progress, and to find out about an exciting opportunity to receive free materials in exchange for your participation in the development process.
ViewPlus Technologies, Inc.
1853 SW Airport Avenue
Corvallis, Oregon 97333
Phone: 541.754.4002
Fax: 541.738.6505
Website: http://www.viewplus.com/
The Accessible Graphing Calculator (AGC) is new and improved.
AGC is a scientific calculator that provides voiced feedback, and can even make those graphs accessible by audio. Extremely versatile it can import data from Excel ® and a host of other applications. Sighted users can use the access the AGC through a slick visual user interface. And, of course, it can print perfect tactile copies of graphs in seconds by printing directly to any Tiger Embosser. The AGC is accessible to anyone who can use a computer, regardless of ability, allowing the user to concentrate on math, not on learning the tools to access it.
Ink & braille - plus ink & tactile graphics. The Tiger TM Pro embosser now has the option to print ink text and emboss braille concurrently, and even overprint.
IVEO Software with Touch Pad - allows you to touch, hear, and see electronic documents simultaneously.


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This week Apple's disappointing financial results announcement sent shockwaves through the stock markets in both the US and Asia, with the lower than expected sales of the iPhone being a matter of concern for some.
The latest filing in the Samsung versus Apple case shows why the iPhone is so important to Apple's bottom line. It appears that Apple's gross margins from iPhone sales are a lot higher than the gross margins it makes from sales of its other wonder-product, the iPad.
Apple can see as much as 58% profit margin on sales of the iPhone, while the iPad can see as much as 32% profit margin, according to the filing.
Apple doesn't typically disclose profit margin information, notes Reuters in its report.
It's the high profit margin that Apple is able to make on the iPhone that has made the companies meteoric rise in value possible, Apple is the biggest company by market cap (currently $538.81 billion). It is the importance of the iPhone on Apple's bottom line that has analysts and investors concerned.
Apple stock falls, is Apple too reliant on the iPhone?


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Here we have the geo board with rubber bands:
I've been wanting to make one of those forever, anyway, and I also have instructions from a recent issue of for turning it into a small marble maze.
LOTS of scooping and transferring works:Sydney loves her sensory experiences, so I see lots of sand tables and rice tables and dried bean tables and river rock tables in our future.
Willow loves her photography, especially catching her sister:Sydney likes to smile for Willow just until Willow is a second away from clicking the shutter button, and then she'll hide her face as quick as she can, but Willow caught her this time.
I'd like to have a large assortment of these kinds of activities at the ready to bring out whenever a child shows an interest in a relevant topic.
Neither of the girls bring home these labelling works very often, but aren't they wonderful?
Neither of the girls bring home these labelling works very often, but aren't they wonderful?
Willow loves the scrubbing station, which changes often--sometimes a gourd, sometimes a pumpkin, sometimes a big piece of driftwood, and sometimes this wonderful, large conch shell:
Sometimes Willow has the responsibility for washing some dishes at the kitchen sink, but one of the first things that I'd like to accomplish when we homeschool full-time is to rearrange the kitchen so that each child can be responsible for (and successful at) washing her own cups and plates after every use.
I have the making of lots of these types of geometry puzzles and manipulatives in mind:
There's a space in the living room that seems as if it would be a pretty good spot for temporary installations of a week or so. The electric football game hung out there for a while, for instance, before I got sick of it and it had to go live back in the playroom. Sometimes, instead of electric football, I imagine that a little science experiment could hang out there, such as this "Will It Float?" work that so absorbs the girls:And the math manipulatives!!!I don't think that I'll be doing number beads exactly the way Montessori does them, but I will be doing them, and yep, we'll be going all the way up to 9,000, too, because I find the visualization of this simple concept to be both amazing, and one of the foundations that makes the Montessori program itself so amazing.
Sydney also loves this little game:You each have a little basket of things, and there is a stack of cards in front of you. Taking turns, you draw a number, not letting your playmates see it, and count out the appropriate number of things in front of you. Then your playmates have to count those things and tell you what number you have. The kids LOVE it.
As they love dancing. Here they're all doing one of my favorites, Jump Jim Joe: The dance begins with one pair of children. After every verse, each child who danced must find a new partner, and then they dance again. So two children become four, who become eight, who become sixteen. By the fifth verse all the children in the class are dancing, and then they still do several more verses, because it's equally fun to mill around in the circle to procure your new partner as it is to Jump Jim Joe.
Since you're not under-the-rock dwellers, I'm sure you can imagine that we have taken a lot of heat for our decision to homeschool the girls after this year. And it's good to have these conversations, because our children's education is something that we should always participate in thoughtfully. But the one argument, and perhaps the only one that I've heard so far, that I find actually offensive is that I should send my children to public school in order to support public school. If everyone just pulled their kids out, public school would crash. Instead, parents should work to make a difference in their schools.
It is my responsibility not as a parent, but as a citizen, to support public school, and I do. It is my responsibility not as a parent, but as a citizen, to work to make a difference in my community's public schools, and I try. All citizens, whether or not they are parents, should do the same.
It is my responsibility as a parent to choose the best method of schooling for my own children. I firmly believe in a child's right to a free education, but I won't sacrifice my own children to that political ideal if I don't believe that the free education that they will receive will be the best education for them. Yes, I'll work for a better educational system, but I won't submit my own children to education that isn't already the best.
My children adore their Montessori school, and it is, for them, a terrific method of schooling. If we could afford to send them back next year, we would. If our public schools worked exactly like that Montessori school, we'd be even happier to send them there. But you know what? The girls are also going to ADORE homeschooling, and it is going to be, for them, also terrific.


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STATE HOUSE — In an opinion authored by its next chief justice, the Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday struck down lifetime parole sentences for sex offenders, ruling that a law authorizing the Parole Board to impose additional prison terms for parole offenders violates the state's constitutional separation of powers.
Justice Ralph Gants, who was confirmed on Wednesday to be the next chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, wrote that judges alone have the power to sentence criminals to prison, and vacated the sentences of those sex offenders currently living under the "community parole supervision for life" program.
In his opinion for the 6-1 majority, Gants said community parole supervision for life "constitutes an impermissible delegation to the executive branch of the core judicial function of imposing sentences, and therefore violates the mandate of art. 30 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights."
Justice Robert Cordy wrote a dissenting opinion, arguing that while he agrees the Parole Board should not have the power to impose additional sentences beyond the original sentence handed down by a judge, he disagreed with his colleagues that the Parole Board could not continue its parolee monitoring functions under the law.
The case stemmed from a motion filed by Casey Cole, who was classified as a Level 2 sex offender, seeking to "correct" his sentence by arguing community parole supervision for life was unconstitutional. Cole in 2011 pleaded guilty to failing to update the Sex Offender Registry Board when he moved from West Bridgewater to Taunton.
Cole was sentenced by a judge to six months of supervised probation and community parole supervision for life, but challenged the sentence after completing his probation without incident. The Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys and Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts filed amicus briefs in the case.
Unlike traditional parole which is granted by the Parole Board as an alternative to serving the remainder of a prison sentence, the law authorizing lifetime community parole for sex offenders who have served their initial sentences gives the Parole Board the power to determine when a sex offender has violated the terms of that supervision and to order them back to prison for 30 days to a year depending on whether it's a first, second or third offense.
Community parole supervision for life was established as part of 1999 law that created the state's Sex Offender Registry, and expanded in 2006.
"If the Legislature wishes to mandate a period of supervised release for sex offenders following the expiration of their sentences, and to authorize a term of imprisonment after the original term of imprisonment where a sex offender violates a condition of supervised release, the Legislature may do so without violating art. 30," Gants wrote for the majority. "Such legislation simply must require that a judge, rather than the parole board or another executive agency, determine whether a sex offender has violated a condition of supervised release, and whether a new or suspended term of imprisonment should be imposed."
Gov. Deval Patrick, asked about the decision on Wednesday, said he had not yet read the opinion, but Attorney General Martha Coakley responded in the afternoon.
"Post-incarceration supervision of high risk sex offenders is a critical tool to protect the public, particularly our children. We are committed to acting quickly to update our laws to maintain this important protection, using the roadmap the SJC laid out in its decision," Coakley said.
The court, citing Parole Board figures, said there are currently 275 to 300 individuals sentenced to CPSL, about half of whom are incarcerated and half are under parole board supervision. Gants said resentencing of defendants without violating their "double jeopardy" rights in certain cases would be a "substantial, but manageable, burden."
While the state argued to the SJC that community parole supervision for life – and the punishments for violating that parole – are part of a defendant's original sentence, Gants said the law makes clear that the Legislature considered it additional to the original sentence, not a suspended penalty. Furthermore, Gants wrote that the "fact-finding determination" to impose a suspended sentence is the domain of the judicial branch, not the executive.
Cordy argued that the SJC could have struck down the sentencing powers of the Parole Board without stripping it of the ability to monitor sex offenders for life after they have served their sentences.
"The court's decision not to sever….fails to consider adequately the importance of those monitoring provisions, deprives the Legislature of the opportunity to remedy the constitutional defect as to the many CPSL sentences previously imposed, and will result in an unnecessary burden on our judicial system in what likely will be a largely futile effort to resentence hundreds of sex offenders," he wrote in his dissent.
Cordy also argued that CPSL sentences serve an "important and central monitoring purpose, facilitating public safety by permitting and requiring intensive supervision of the sex offender population."
Citing a News Service article from 1999 to show legislative intent, Cordy noted that conditions put on sex offenders could include participation in sex offender treatment, submission to polygraph examinations, restrictions on Internet and computer usage, and restrictions on unsupervised socialization with minors.
Former Sen. Robert Bernstein said at the time that, "The objective is to … keep tabs on them. We will know where and what they are doing and who they are."
Cordy also referenced statements made by former Rep. Paul Haley who was quoted saying the 1999 law would serve "the compelling need of the general citizenry to be assured those offenders posing the greatest risk are … closely monitored with lifetime parole," and by former Sen. William Keating, who is now a Congressman, who said, "Sex offenders are never cured of their destructive impulses."
Gants said it was "plain" that the Legislature would not have enacted CPSL without giving the Parole Board the means to enforce violations of parole. Without the power to jail, the justice said parole officers could notify police of violations, but "could only cajole a CPSL parolee to obey a noncriminal condition."
Gants was confirmed unanimously on Wednesday by the Governor's Council to become the next chief justice of the SJC when Chief Justice Roderick Ireland retires in late July.


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(visited by Carlos Puch, Ana-Isabel Camacho and Fidel Molinero)
01-Dec-2001 -- Ana-Isabel and I tried to reach the confluence to no avail on November 1, as we ran out of time because of the early sunset (photo 5; the computer linked to a GPS was useful during the first approach). On December 1 we went back with Fidel and finally reached the spot. A Jeep trail from the small village of Estables ends near some ruined old sheep barns ('parideras' in local languaje). From there, a decending slope with lots of savine and small oak trees, followed by some ravines (photo 1, general view) and a new ascending slope leads to a small limestone ravine (photos 2 and 3). The confluence is right there, on the northern side of the ravine, near the top. The GPS showed an estimated accuracy of 4 meters (photo 4).


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JW Collective have revealed a new creative partnership with Common People Films (CMN PPL).
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) have used the billboard lights at Piccadilly Circus to highlight the challenges by blind and partially sighted people post-lockdown.
Lockdown hasnt stopped Absolute Post from bolstering their Flame department with the signing of Milo Paterson.
Moxie Pictures have added director Henry Mason to their roster for commercial representation.
I really enjoyed this! The little girl is brilliant and the director has made this fun and feel good :)


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A while back, I posted a comparison of the 1850 federal census' free population schedule to the 1849 through 1851 tax records for the Roberts family of Jackson County, Georgia. While doing research in the poor school and academy lists for Jackson County, I found the following record naming two children of Shiner [China] Roberts who were school-aged in 1852.
The front of this list is preceded by a brief description, "A List of Children Entitled to a participation in the poor School fund of Jackson County for the year 1852." China and his family were then living in "District 245 Jefferson." The columns from left to right are: "Parrents," Males, Females, and age. The numbers directly to the right of each child's name are the number of male and female children listed for that district.1
These lists, usually called "Poor School and Academy Lists," are one of Georgia's most useful but least known records sets. Georgia has a long history of supporting local schools with public funds. Before 1817, that funding applied only to county academies and institutes of higher learning, but in that year, the state began to provide funding for common or free schools aimed at educating the poor.2 In 1828, the legislature began requiring lists, returned by the clerks of each county, of the names, ages, and "sexes" of each child who was eligible to receive poor school funds.3
While not every county has extant lists, many counties do, some for several continuous years if not decades.4 Different information might be contained in each list, depending not only upon state law, but also upon local practices.
The practical applications of these lists are numerous. Not only can they serve as a substitute for missing or inadequate federal and state census records, they can also provide evidence, either direct or indirect, of parent-child relationships.
This is the case with China Roberts and his two school-aged children in 1852, both females, named on the above list for Jackson County as C. E. Roberts, age 10, and N. A. Roberts, age 8. In the free population schedule of the 1850 federal census, "Chiner" had three young girls enumerated in his household, the eldest two having attended school within the year: Elizabeth, age nine; Sarah A., age seven; and Harriet, age 5.5
Great information, but there's just one problem: the information provided by this federal census does not directly state relationships; it only suggests them. This presents a real problem in proving connections between one generation and the next. Using Georgia's poor school lists in conjunction with federal censuses can often provide exactly the proof desired, even in the absence of estate and land records. Both of the latter types of records are used frequently by genealogists to provide evidence of relationships, but for the poor, these records may not exist. Poor school lists, on the other hand, were designed to capture information about the very poor. It is not unusual for them to contain direct evidence of relationships, as above, yet they are often overlooked because researchers simply are not aware of them.
In the case of China's family, an astute researcher can compare the information gleaned from federal censuses and the poor school lists, then combine it with information found (or not found) in other records to write a cogent proof argument that more fully meets the Board for Certification of Genealogists' Genealogical Proof Standard than one that uses census records alone. Ain't that grand?
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1. Jackson County, Georgia, Poor School Fund 1852 – 1863: 2; Probate Court, Jefferson.
2. Oliver H. Prince, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia: Containing All Statutes and the Substance of All Resolutions of a General and Public Nature, and Now in Force, Which Have Been Passed in This State, Previous to the Session of the General Assembly of Dec. 1837. With Occasional Explanatory Notes, and Connecting References, to Which is Added an Appendix, Containing the Constitution of the United States; the Constitution of the State of Georgia as Amended; the Statute of Fraud and Perjuries; the Habeas Corpus Act &c. Also a Synopsis of the Local Acts, Arranged to Each County, and Classed under Appropriate Heads. With a Copious Index., 2nd Edition: 18 (Athens, Georgia: Privately published, 1837); accessed through Google Books.
3. William Dawson, A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Passed by the General Assembly, Since the Year 1819 to the Year 1829, Inclusive, Comprising All the Laws Passed Within Those Periods, Arranged Under Titles, with Marginal Notes, and Notes of Reference to the Laws or Parts of Laws Which Are Amended or Repealed. To Which Are Added, Such Concurred and Approved Resolutions as Are Either of General, Local, or Private Nature. Concluded with a Full and Ample Index to the Laws, and a Separate One to the Resolutions.: 49 – 51 (Greensboro, Georgia: Grantland and Orme, 1831); accessed through Google Books. An act of 1823 required county academies to keep a "bound book" to record the proceedings of those institutions (Prince, p. 21). A very few lists date from 1823 to 1828, possibly because of this requirement.
4. For more information about 19th century education in Georgia, see Education in Georgia by Charles Edgeworth Jones (a circular issued by the Bureau of Education in 1889, available through Google Books) and Secondary Education in Georgia by Elbert W. G. Boogher (Philadelphia: L. F. Huntzinger Co., Inc., 1933).
5. 1850 U. S. census, Jackson County, Georgia, population schedule, Subdivision No. 45, page 29B, dwelling 435, family [blank]; digital image, Ancestry.com: accessed 10 November 2012; citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 74. Also enumerated in this household was Elizabeth Roberts, age 42, China's presumed wife.