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Here is my bike blogger profile of the week.
Today we go to Boston, which will be hosting the North American Cycle Courier Championships also known as the NACCC.
Dan Pugatch is not your typical bike messenger in Beantown. Find out why in this Q and A.
Name, Age, where you live?
Dan Pugatch, 28 and I reside in Scummerville Massachusetts which is one city over from Cambridge (although MapQuest misspells it as Somerville). For you New Yorkers out there think of it like a Borough of Boston, not part of the city Proper, but we still get subway and bus service and I can be downtown in ten minutes on two wheels.
What bikes do you own?
My race bike is a 1988 Paramount custom built b Waterford Precision cycles in Wisconsin (back then they only had two frame builders and both were ladies.) The original owner had it built as a triathlon bike, it's obnoxious, 58cm frame with 650c wheels in the front and rear. All Ultegra components except DuraAce brake levers and headset. I paid $400 after shipping for it on eBay from Bob's Kayak shop in Ohio and made off like a bandit (it's worth over $1000 in its used state) did I mention it's paint job? Highlighter yellow, oh I so love the 80s!
My commuter bike is a 3 Speed Conversion, I got my hands on a 1985 Bridgestone R450 frame in like new condition glitter blue paint job and built it up to be an urban warrior. I laced a 3 Speed Sturmey Archer hub to an Open Pro Rim, a Shimano Generator Dynmo Hub to an Open Pro rim, so I'll never need batteries again for my lights. Rocking the mustache handlebars which are home to my Cetma front frack, Bee Brand bell which sounds like an old phone ringing, and Brass Moby Dick "hood ornament" a coworker made for me last Christmas that I put on the stem. I mixed my past of urban fixed gear culture with this build and have a Nitto Stem, All City Track Crankset, and MKS track pedals and toe clips. The rear of the bike has a Jannd Expedition rack which turns this beast into the Cadillac of bicycles and my Ortilieb panniers gets me home from the grocery store, to work, out into the suburbs to visit family, and around town.
Until this winter I was riding only my track bike, but an accident in October followed by a winter of physical therapy 3x a week after an 6-8 hour day of working as a bike messenger, my knee is better but it hurts too much to ride fixed so I sold off all the parts and frame cheap to my fellow riders in Boston. Sometimes I miss that bike, but I love riding my 3 Speed and can't imagine riding anything else.
Whats the biking scene like in Boston? Alleycats? Events? Critical Mass?
The biking scene in Boston is interesting, it seems to come and go, it always peaks in the summer when people want to go out and ride every night. There's the Boston Fixed Forum which is how I got into our scene after moving up here. I remember back in the summer of 2006 I was looking for a shop that has track parts to upgrade some components n my bike and I was told to go to Cambridge Bicycle (they have a team, sponsor alleycats, and the largest track selection this side of the internet) and it was the employees there who got me into Alleycat racing. At the alleycats I met up with different people who pointed me to the forum and it just kinda exploded from there. We definitely have a bunch of alleycats, most of them are organized by Jacobs, a local messenger living in China Town and the president of the Boston Bicycle Messenger Association. My first race was one of his, the ScumBag cup. I got initiated into this city pretty fast that weekend whether it was being hit by a minivan in front of Forest Hills station, two flat tires at the same time infront of South Station, or the heat exhaustion afterward that had me sleep 16 hours straight missing both the after party and Sam Black Church/Mad Ball show. My grandparents came out to support me that day, photographing everyone in the race, I think they got more scene points than me that day hah!
We also do a series of indoor racing called BoldSprints, its from Fall to Spring and at after parties of alleycats. Our motto? Drink, Race, Don't Puke. It can be tougher than one thinks, I remember my first sprint was very hard, and I felt I was in great shape and a fast rider. The magnetic resistance got harder the faster you pedaled, those 50 something seconds felt like hours. I came in 12th for the
entire evening that night. Months later I tried it again, only drank one beer instead of half a dozen before the race, and kept my greasy
Chinese food intake minimal as well. I was able to beat a friend whose been trash talking me for a year about how much faster he is being a
messenger (my defense is you ride slower when with ladies, they won't want to ride with you if you leave them blocks behind), I came in
fourth for the evening!
This year I am leading the MassBike Spin Series the last Saturday of every month, I wanted to create a slow pace family friendly ride around Boston nothing too crazy, so I created one! Our first ride will be the last Saturday in May and about 8 miles. We are riding to a parkfor picnic lunch, then to JP Licks for ice cream, and back to the bike shop where I work (where the ride starts.) June's ride will be longer
and go into Jamaica Plain to visit Bikes Not Bombs and check them out. In July I want to take them out to a local farm, in August to the
famous Walden Pond where Thoreau did his writing, and September's ride is location to be determined.
Since I mentioned MassBike I should probably talk about them quickly, they are our state's bicycle advocacy group and sponsor many events,
fight for bike lanes and bike trails, and are in charge of the upcoming Bike Week. Bike Week is great, more people learn its safe
and easy to ride to work every year. There's free breakfast for bike commuters every morning for a week, at every bridge going into Boston
there's people giving away Cliff Bars, water bottles, reflective ankle bands, coupons for free coffee, raffles for t-shirts, etc etc. This year Bike Week starts on the 11th, the day after Mother's Day, so go buy your mom a bike this year! For more information check out
Another great group is Liveable Streets which fights for more bike
lanes and wins, along with working with engineers with development and planning, they have open to the public group
discussions with guest speakers once a month and free beer!
There is Critical Mass in Boston, I've never been. From what I've been told its chaos, not as good as Critical Mass in other states, and that
too many people who attend give bikers a bad name whether from their riding style, what they yell to people, and general behavior.
Critical Mass is not for drunken cyclists to threaten to u lock drivers, it's supposed to be a celebration not an ugly disaster. I
therefore, avoid Critical Mass.
There are also many groups of road riders who do many miles in spandex on the weekends leaving from various bike shops across the area. Since
I work in a bike shop my days off are almost never on a weekend and I do my spandex clad long rides at 5am on weekdays usually solo before
going to work.
Boston is trying really hard to go from one of the worst cities to bike in, into one of the best. We have pedicabs now, and more bike
lanes, and more places to lock up, and fun events. We even close Memorial Drive on Sundays (in Cambridge) so people can bike, walk,
jog, and skate along the river. Hopefully more people will get involved and make this a better biking city. Boston is small, there's
no need to own a car, and you can always take the train/bus out to the suburbs to visit family if need be.
What is this NACCC people keep talking about?
The NACCC is the North American Cycling Courier Championships, the Olympics if have you for bike messengers. We compete in sprints, long races, trick contests, drinking contests, and races which simulate work, where we are constantly zig zagging all over the city making deliveries. This year it will be in Boston, and I am very excited for this. Registration is open on the website: http://naccc09boston.com and let it be known I plan on taking home the Gold in the Tetris Competition! I plan to ride in the sprints and the main race but that's it. Most messengers only ride track bikes for work and most of the events are track bike (no brakes) specific. I plan on helping out as much as possible whether it be judging, setting up, cleaning up, being an urban pack mule pedaling beer from event to event. I wish there were more cargo messengers out there like me so we could have a cargo event. Everyone would get their butts kicked, I can sprint up BunkerHill on a 250lb cargo trike with 600lbs of farm food and not take my butt off the saddle, that's Vegan Power baby!
Why are you "Not Your Average Bicycle Messenger?"
I am Not Your Average Bicycle Messenger because I stop at red lights and wear a helmet. The previous sentence is true, but what sets me aside from others is that I ride this crazy cargo trike from England, whereas most messengers ride fixed gear or single speed bikes which have great acceleration rates but max out in top speed quicker. Their deliveries tend to be documents, whereas mine are boxes of food bigger than recycling bins. Most messengers just work downtown, my work takes me all over Boston, Cambridge, Somerville. I deliver to offices, businesses, restaurants, and people's homes. I don't know of any other messenger companies that have keys to make deliveries right to your kitchen! My current gig since I'm back full time in the bike shop for the season, is getting up at 5am to deliver baked goods to cafes all over the city, I have to be done by 7am no exceptions, and my goal is not to have any broken scones or muffins. I watch the city arise in the morning, people waiting for the first bus of the day, parents taking children to school, and I'm done for the day before most messengers even wake up. Over the winter I was working all day, many saw me trucking along slow and steady at 9mph through the wind and snow. That might sound like a nice leisurely pace, but it's not, it feels like you are always going up hill, can you pedal 1000 lbs for 6-8 hours in a snowstorm? Oh yeah, I also stop at red lights and wear a helmet. I also try to keep active in the other parts of bike culture, I write for Urban Velo magazine every now and again, I ride for OrganicAthlete's Boston Chapter Vegan Cycling team, and I really want to build a chopper and ride with SCUL this year. Over the winter this college student followed me around for the day to do a photo essay, and my quote for the day was, "This is what you do with a degree in Journalism." I may have spent years in college thinking I'd be the next music critic, but I make my paychecks by pedaling. We are all a big family, and there's a lot of respect for each other, I'm just the awkward one of the bunch.
Whats that like in the Boston area? What is the Average Bicycle Messenger vibe like?
People like to treat us like a lower class of citizen. "Don't go in those doors, use the loading dock. Don't go in that elevator, walk up to the 40th floor in the stairwell." I find that doormen, concierges, and security are generally on power trips and very rude! They have even threatened to get my trike towed away because they didn't like where I locked it up (on a public sidewalk.) I have found though, like in any aspect of life, people treat you based on how you treat them. When I started asking which door or elevator they want me to use, saying "have a good day" as I left, smiled often, all of a sudden everyone was super nice to me and those doors and elevators I wasn't allowed to use a month ago I'm being told to use. I have found this works well with law enforcement as well. One state trooper told me when we were side by side at a red light in a snow storm, that I am the definition of perseverance.
As a messenger in Boston, and even a cyclist in general you have to watch out for the three main dangers: 1) Pedestrians (90% college
students 10% tourists) who can't walk unless a cell phone is glued to their face and only cross when the orange hand says don't cross. 2)
Drivers who forgot what a turn signal is, even when taking a left hand turn. 3) Potholes, there were days when I got more than one flat a
day, it was just brutal.
Unfortunately with this failing economy, the need for bike messengers is going down, just about everyone I know is making at least 100 if
not more less a week, companies that had work cant' take on new people. Hopefully more people and companies will realize that delivery
by bike is faster, cheaper, and better for the environment. I read an article in the paper written by Taza Chocolate about why they have us deliver for them, and it was because UPS shipped everything from Boston to Providence just so it can come back to Boston a few days later to be delivered. We can deliver same day! So support your local bike messenger, tip him on those bad weather days so he can get a coffee or sandwich, be nice to him, he probably just bounced off a car's hood on the way to get your delivery on time, and he's only
doing this job because of a love for bikes and the environment, not for the pay, I'm pretty sure McDonald's pays better.
What's Metro Pedal Power all about?
Metro Pedal Power is the courier company I work for, run by this awesome lady Wenzday Jane. We used to be called New Amsterdam Project until she bought the company back in the Fall. We have a fleet of five electric assist trikes and working on getting Pedi Cabs and who knows what else in the future. Why electric assist? Well because these cargo trikes which are the size of a Smart Car if not bigger, weigh 250 empty, can hold 600-800 lbs (including rider), and are slow but steady. Before people say, "Hey electric assist is cheating!" Let me fill you in on how it works, you HAVE to pedal while using the assist. Without using it average speed it 9mph, with using electric assist its 3mph. It's one of those things you only want to use when you have to. It makes going up hills really easy, just spinning like on a road bike in the easiest gear, and helped a lot when getting stuck in the slush and snow this winter. Also, the battery doesn't always last an entire days work, and often I've had to ride 5+ miles at 3mph in the easiest gear to get home in bad weather this winter.
So what do we deliver? Anything! Currently we are working with local farms and their CSA programs delivering farm shares to people. We are also working with Harvard University Book Store, Taza Chocolates, The COOP Grocery Store, Greenward (Eco-Friendly) Retail Store, and Petsi Pies. In the past we have worked with Staples, Boston Organics, and other businesses. People have even hired us to help them move, and that's how I plan to move at the end of the summer. We also share space with Open Bicycle, whom is making quite the name for themselves as an independent shop/artists.
Whats up with the Organic Athlete's Boston Chapter Go Vegan, Road Cycling team?
OrganicAthlete (one word) is a nonprofit I found out about at the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival last October. I met up with Matt Miller who had a table, and basically you join this group which promotes healthy lifestyles (eating organic, eating raw, being vegan) and if you want to compete that is even better. The Boston Chapter has more runners than cyclists actually. Matt does cyclecross and is going to do road racing, I will be doing road racing this year for the first time in my life, and another guy does mountain biking. We enter events as individuals (until we have enough members to have a solid core team) and rock the Go Vegan! kit while competing. Matt made the news when he made it in 3rd place at Batten Kill a few weeks ago. We also get together once a month for a dinner on a Sunday night to talk about upcoming events, trade recipes, and geek out on bike stuff.
Why is there so much independent bicycle manufacturing in the Boston area?
Boston has a long history of bicycle culture, don't forget Major Taylor lived in the suburbs not too far away! Back in the 80s Merlin Cycles was a big hand built Mountain Bike company, Metro Pedal Power is actually in their old warehouse space! When Merlin split up, Independent Fabrications and Seven Cycles were formed both which make great bikes. Independent is located in Somerville (North of Boston by two cities and Seven Cycles is located in Watertown (West of Boston by two cities,) These big name companies make some pretty sweet bikes, some set you back as much as a new car. Up North, but still in Massachusetts is ANT Bicycles, which has the old school feel of 3 Speeds, Cargo Bikes, and British Touring, I hope to one day own an ANT Bike, and newest to the trade my buddy Marty is behind Geekhouse Bikes which started out with BMX then moved to Mountain Bikes, and is now the choice of local track and cyclecross bike riders. I think it's something in our tap water, it just makes everyone good at welding. Probably, the real reason is MIT has many welding talented students and faculty who will show you the ropes if you ask nicely.
What muppet best represents you? (a question which came up from Steve Kenivil at How to Avoid the Bummer Life)
I would have to be Fozzie the Bear, because I'm a hairy mofo and I always tell jokes no one else gets, yet I think they are hilarious.
Whats up with this Boston Bike Blogger? Does every Boston Biker have a blog?
Boston Biker is run by Shane from Mass Bike, he started his own blog about Boston cycling, and as it got bigger more and more people wanted blogs and he started hosting them LiveJournal or BlogSpot style. Its free, its fun. I have one, why don't you? I subscribe to his blog to keep up to date on everything bike related going on in the city.
What was it like being a bicycle Mechanic in Cambridge?
Was like? I still am a mechanic! It's just seasonal in Boston, so my days wrenching are April-Thanksgiving then I work as a messenger full time in the winter (part time the rest of the year.) It really depends on what shop you work for, I work for the tree hugging hippie shop that is run by a collective, we are probably the smallest shop in the area and cater to commuters. We don't sell road bikes or children's bikes, or mountain bikes. Just hybrids, a few single speeds, and the Surly Cross Check. What also sets us apart from other shops in the area is we offer mechanics classes and rent out a stand and our tools so you can work on your own bike while we are open. Plus we are a fun bunch of people. What other bike shop has moustache contests? Carrot Cake Bake Offs, Art Gallery Openings, Pride Day, and free treats for dogs? I have to say, it doesn't feel like work, more like going to summer camp.
Any funny stories about delivering organic food with MPP?
Since I get a lot of stares, comments and questions riding this crazy trike, I'd have to say the best comment I ever got from someone was in ChinaTown when this old man asked me, "Are you Chinese?" I replied "No" and then he said, "You are now, you are one of us!" This one time I was hauling butt through Cambridge trying to find this office building, going in circles and I passed a roadie who got a blow to their ego, it was on a downhill, not a drastic one but with all my weight I got my trike up to 26mph and they tried to pass me but couldn't, it made my day.
Are there other ways the bicycle is evolving the "Greening" of the Boston area?
Definitely more people are realizing how easy it is to get around by bike, more and more people keep telling me they use their car less or sell their cars. That's when I tell them how I saved over 6000 last year between insurance and gas by selling my car. Since the Mayor is on a bicycle kick the past few years there has been more newspaper articles and tv broadcasts about the benefits to our environment by people commuting by bike. I feel the failing economy is helping, unfortunately people don't bike to save the Earth, they do it to save money. But hey, at least they are riding! In a less general sense, my fiance bikes to work everyday, and her boss saw her greeness which led to recycling at work, and soon to be installed solar panels to power the entire bakery!
What are your future Cycling goals for work? for play?
I hope to get together with people and resurrect the defunct Boston Cycling Zine, Boston Reflector. I also want to be more active volunteering my time with Mass Bike and Bikes Not Bombs. I had an idea over the winter after spending lunch with an officer of the Boston Police Bike Patrol, they need to learn bike mechanics, they don't have the training and definitely don't have the proper tools. I want to create a basic class and teach it to them. I want to ride across country in the next few years, a lot of friends and customers have done it in the past year or are going to this summer. I just have to do it, its been on my to do list since elementary school.
Anything else I didn't mention?
Heather (my fiance) and I just won the Boston Green Wedding Give Away for being so green! We are getting married in November and getting the hookup with a vegan cake, recycle metal rings, recycled paper invitations, local flowers that get donated to nursing homes, hybrid limo, organic dress, etc. I can't help it, I've been OCD about recycling since before those bins existed on trash day, haven't worn deodorant in years, and been bicycle obsessed since I could pedal.
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A couple of months ago I committed to a summer-based exploratory health initiative involving morning meditation and I promised to report back with an update. The results have been profound. And the most noticeable outcome was completely unanticipated.
For nearly my entire adult life, I have experienced IBS-like symptoms, rotating through ongoing unpredictable bouts of constipation, diarrhea and normal stools. I was never able to detect an etiology or pattern of behavior that would explain my condition and it was very difficult to cope with and manage. Just like Groundhog Day, each time I would complain about these symptoms to my primary care provider at my annual physical, he would tell me that I needed to eat more fiber. I knew this was not accurate, as I have always eaten a lot of fruits and vegetables. My doctor even went as far as giving my samples of the medication Linzess, indicated for IBS symptoms, but I never took them and don't ever plan to.
Not until recently – until I started meditating for 10-15 minutes each morning – did my IBS symptoms completely vanish. And within days of starting my meditation practice too. I now enjoy regular bowel movements each and every morning like clockwork, something I have NEVER experienced before and previously deemed unattainable.
I shared these results with my integrative practitioner recently and she had a very logical explanation for why this is happening. In addition to the relaxation response of me meditation – SCIENTIFICALLY – our organs, namely our our brains and stomachs, require glucose to function optimally. Anyone who experiences stress on a daily basis (i.e. me) requires more glucose to help their brains function. As my integrative practitioner pointed out, anytime my brain is competing with other organs for glucose, my brain will win. And now that I have been giving my brain a rest for 10-15 minutes each morning through meditation – before doing anything, including speaking with others and/or touching my iPhone – my GI tract is opportunistically utilizing this additionally available glucose to vastly improve my digestive process and output. It seems like a miracle but, really, it's just science. And I love it!
I am so fascinated by and appreciative of the fact that we can dramatically improve our lives through minor lifestyle modifications. Although I could have never anticipated this particular mind body connection, it is now something I swear by and absolutely recommend to others. I have even done a little research on it and stumbled an article from Harvard that validates my claim and takes a deeper dive into the science behind this phenomena. Needless to say, I plan to continue my morning meditation indefinitely!

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It's never too soon – or too late – to start thinking about and planning for your retirement. Social Security, 401k Plans, Annuities, Estate Planning…learn about these and other retirement resources that may help you enjoy your later years.
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SHARON, Pa. -- A Penn State Shenango English instructor and a Kate Chopin scholar, with the assistance Penn State Shenango's Reference Librarian, have collaborated on the recovery of a Kate Chopin short story considered lost or destroyed for more than a century.
Faculty member Angela Gianoglio Pettitt, independent scholar Bonnie James Shaker, and librarian Erin Burns uncovered Chopin's "Her First Party" while searching the American Periodical Series Online, an electronic database of more than 1,100 periodicals circulating from 1741-1940 to which Penn State Libraries subscribe.
Pettitt and co-author Bonnie James Shaker then collaborated on publishing the first reprint of the story and writing a critical essay to accompany it, both of which appeared December 2013 in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 30.2.
"Finding the printed text of 'Her First Party' highlights the value of revisiting primary sources made electronically searchable by the digital humanities," said Pettitt, "as well as the importance of continued university library subscription to such archives. This discovery also allowed us to more critically examine both Chopin's final years, as well as the publishing practices of a major periodical of that time."
Pettitt and Shaker discovered that the print version of the story ran seven months after Chopin's death in the Youth's Companion, the longest-running and most widely-circulating family periodical of the nineteenth century.
"Finding the story was quite a surprise," Pettitt said. "We set out wanting to examine how Chopin's short fiction, which is now almost exclusively read in reprints and anthologies, appeared to her original audience. We decided to focus specifically on the Youth's Companion due to Chopin's longstanding and prolific relationship with the famed 19th-century periodical."
According to Pettitt, a simple author and title search within the APS database yielded a list of everything the Youth's Companion had printed by Chopin. "At the top of that list was a story titled, 'Her First Party,' which neither my co-researcher [Shaker] nor I had ever seen," she said. "As far as we could tell, the story had been sitting there waiting to be found for at least the decade since the APS had migrated from microfilm to an online format, but apparently no one thought to review sources that were long-considered mined," Pettitt explained.
Pettitt, who is also the coordinator of the Shenango campus' Learning Center, joined Shaker and Burns for a one-time meeting in the spring of 2012 at the Lartz Memorial Library, where the trio made the discovery. Co-authors Pettitt and Shaker then followed up with additional research into the Companion's publishing practices, which provided an illuminating look into the gatekeeping influence of periodical editors.
"Looking back, these editors had enormous power over what we receive as literature today," Pettitt explained.
According to the abstract provided by Legacy, Pettitt and Shaker argue that the discovery of "Her First Party" also allows scholars to reconsider common understanding of the last years of Chopin's life and career. "Unlike two other stories believed to be [Chopin's] last publications, 'Her First Party' revises our understanding of Chopin's post-Awakening writing, previously interpreted as somewhat depressed and defeated after the novel's unfavorable reviews. Instead, 'Her First Party' allows us to see that Chopin actually enjoyed many successes with the Companion in the handful of years between her novel and her death."
"'Her First Party' as Her Last Story" can be found online at Project MUSE and JSTOR. Print copies are available through The University of Nebraska Press or with a subscription to Legacy.


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Texas US Senate candidates agree on illegal immigration, other issues in debate
WILL WEISSERT,Associated PressAssociated Press
Posted: 06/23/2012 10:24:16 AM MDT
DALLAS (AP) - Bitter rivals vying for Texas' Republican U.S. Senate nomination traded a few barbs during a televised debate Friday, but they largely agreed on the key issues, including illegal immigration, health care reform and foreign policy.
In fact, the biggest shot of the night came after the debate, when tea party favorite and former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz told reporters that Gov. Rick Perry has only endorsed his opponent, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, because he's tired of working with him and wants him to leave Texas.
Cruz is a fiery orator and former debate champion, and he went on the offensive early in the debate against Dewhust, the mainstream Republican favorite in the race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Cruz accused Dewhurst of being too moderate and using his position as head of the Texas Senate to kill a bill last year that would have given police more power to ask anyone they detain about their citizenship status - a charge Dewhurst denied.
Both candidates agreed that the U.S. has failed to secure its border with Mexico, and said they oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants and the Obama administration's new directive allowing many young illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to be exempted from deportation.
Dewhurst won last month's primary by 10 percentage points but didn't capture an outright majority in a nine-candidate field - necessitating a runoff election July 31. His race with Cruz mirrors campaigns across the country that have pitted veteran Republicans against little-known challengers, with both sides claiming to represent conservative values.
Friday's debate at KERA in Dallas was the first of at least two planned before the runoff.
The candidates both said they are against the recently approved Texas Republican Party platform that supports a guest worker program for illegal immigrants.
They both promised to try to repeal the Obama administration's health care reform, gave proposals to overhaul social security that overlapped broadly, and pledged to get the federal government out of the way and keep the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing pollution controls they claimed would kill jobs.
They agreed that the U.S. should not commit to military action in Syria, and said that while the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began for noble reasons, they went on too long. Only a bit of disagreement came when Dewhurst said the Obama administration pulled combat troops out of Iraq too soon and should have left some behind.
Both candidates said they wouldn't authorize blanket cuts to the U.S. defense budget to balance the federal budget - but agreed there were areas where even military spending could be trimmed back. They also agreed on the need to expand energy exploration, with Cruz saying, "unless you are a blithering idiot, that's the right thing to say."
The most awkward moment came when the candidates were allowed to ask each other a question, and Cruz demanded to know if Dewhurst had supported a statewide payroll tax. "I've never supported a wage tax," Dewhurst said. Then he added, "Um..." and trailed off.
Cruz also chided Dewhurst for "repeatedly compromising with Democrats" while overseeing key legislation in the state Senate. Dewhurst responded, "I have never compromised my conservative principles once."
"Now, yes I've negotiated," he added. "I've negotiated to try and get the requisite number of votes so we can pass bills."
Cruz claimed that taxes had increased 49 percent since 2003, when Dewhurst became lieutenant governor. Dewhurst responded that national conservative groups - including the Club For Growth, which is supporting Cruz - have rated Texas' tax record excellent in recent years. "It's a fact," he said. "Facts are stubborn my friend."
Also backing Cruz are the Tea Party Express and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Perry has endorsed Dewhurst, who says he and the governor have been responsible for making Texas one of the most conservative states in the country.
But immediately after the debate, Cruz turned some heads when he suggested Perry fought with Dewhurst over state government spending increases and was only backing Dewhurst now because he no longer wants to work with him as lieutenant governor.
"It is in his political interest to get rid of David Dewhurst, and get him out of Austin and send him somewhere else," Cruz said, referring to Dewhurst's time in the state capital.
Texas US Senate candidates agree on illegal immigration, other issues in debate - El Paso Times


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NTSB releases findings into Metro-North derailment
NTSB findings: Train engineer reported 'unusual condition' on track before crash
Metro-North Railroad is inspecting all rail joints across its nearly 800 miles of track as federal investigators continued to focus on a joint near the site of last week's derailment and collision in Bridgeport that injured 76 people.
On Friday morning, the National Transportation Safety Board said they'd discovered Metro-North replaced a cracked rail joint bar last month in the area of track on the Bridgeport border where an eastbound Metro-North train derailed at 6:08 p.m. and was struck by a westbound train.
The joint replaced by the railroad in April is not the same one federal investigators have focused on after finding two pieces of broken rail at a joint bar at the scene of the crash, NTSB spokesman Nicholas Worrell said. Those two sections were taken to Washington, D.C. last week to be tested further at a NTSB lab to determine whether it contributed to the catastrophe.
The NTSB also revealed Friday that the engineer of the eastbound train told investigators he saw an "unusual condition" on the track ahead as he approached the Interstate 95 overpass, and that his train had ground to a halt before being struck by the westbound train.
Worrell said the investigators were still determining if the broken joint bar and rail -- steel bars bolted together to hold two separate lengths of rail together -- was broken before the crash or was damaged because of the derailment. Worrell said work to document the location of the April repair relative to the track section where the eastbound train derailed is still ongoing.
"We are very early in our investigation and this will be one of our areas of focus," Worrell said.
The remaining members of the NTSB's investigation team returned to Washington, D.C. Thursday night, according to Worrell.
The initial findings have led Metro-North to launch an inspection and inventory of all railroad joints on their mainline tracks on the New Haven, Hudson, and Harlem lines, according to Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the railroad.
Metro-North and Connecticut Department of Transportation officials declined further comment on the investigation.
Earlier this week, the Federal Railroad Administration said that Metro-North conducted one of its required bi-weekly track inspections in the area of the crash on May 15, two days before the accident that did not find any distressed joints or flaws of ties, rail, or other components. In addition, the agency said the railroad had conducted a more in-depth twice yearly inspection scanning the rails for more serious defects in April that also found no problems.
Allen Zarembski, a rail engineering professor at the University of Delaware College of Engineering who worked for the Association of American Railroads for 27 years, said that the New Haven Line's main line track is continuously welded and not normally joined by joint bars. Continuously welded track is more common for busier railroads, where joint bars are most frequently used to stabilize rail in need of replacement, repair or adjustment on a temporary basis, he said.
Rail joint bars can be found more often on passenger railroads on secondary pieces of track with less traffic, Zarembski said.
Under normal circumstances the use of joint bars to keep rail in a stable position until replaced or welded is a safe practice for extended periods of time, Zarembski said.
"Many times, the rail must be replaced quickly to get back into service and there is no time available to weld the rail, so the joint bars are left in place," Zarembski said. "This is a common and safe practice."
On railroads with signal systems, a different kind of rail joint used to insulate circuits at locations where track circuits are separated can also be found, he said.
Zarembski said the underlying flaws that eventually develop into rail breakages at joints can remain barely detectable for years before rapidly progressing to a more conspicuous break over as little as three months.
"Rails can last 10 to 20 years until the initiation of a defect," Zarembski said. "By the time you come to the propagation phase it goes to failure much more quickly."
Worrell said he had no information on whether the broken joint bar found near the accident by investigators had been put in place to stabilize a piece of track for repair or not.
NTSB officials may take up to a year to issue an official finding of the likely cause of the accident, NTSB board member Earl Weener said last week, citing an extensive review of evidence of possible causes of the crash from toxicology tests and interviews to assess the crews on both trains; track and car inspection and maintenance records; and information captured by on-train data recorders.
The two trains were both part of the new M-8 fleet that is being put into service to replace the railroad's aging cars. The trains were carrying about 700 passengers when they collided. Officials credited the construction of the M-8 cars, which debuted in 2011 and meet more stringent crash-protections standards, for helping to save lives.
Federal investigators also said Friday that so-called positive train control technology, a more advanced collision avoidance system being mandated for installation on Metro-North and other railroads nationally by 2015, would not have aided in stopping the collision.
Initial information obtained from the onboard data recorders indicate that the eastbound train derailed, came to a stop, and was struck about 20 seconds later by the westbound train, the announcement said.
Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road are seeking to jointly implement the mandated positive train control system along their tracks, and expect to select a contractor within the year, spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said.
Working through a wireless radio frequency spectrum, a positive train control monitors the position and speed of trains throughout a railway and transmits necessary orders to on-board systems when it is determined that a train needs to stop to avoid a crash. If an engineer does not take immediate action to brake, the system overrides his control and stops the equipment.
Last month, Metro-North informed the FRA in a report that various technological challenges including the need to acquire more "radio frequency spectrum," to run positive train control in some service areas would prevent them from adopting the new system by the 2015 deadline.
The railroad needs to acquire more radio frequency spectrum to make the system operate effectively, Anders said.
"In other words, it is not technologically possible to comply with the federal mandate to have a functioning, systemwide PTC in place by the end of 2015," Anders said.
Worrell said that NTSB investigators have collected a wide array of evidence including photos, video, data from on-board the railcars, and maintenance and inspection records for the trains involved in the crash.
The investigation is also evaluating the crash for lessons on how to improve safety, including to what degree the sturdiness of the M-8 cars contributed to preventing a loss of life.
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal announced plans to convene a hearing on rail safety before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in response to the collision of the two Metro-North trains.
"The hearing is going to be very important not only in determining the causes of this collision but in developing support for investments and improvements that are critical for preventing these accidents in the future," Blumenthal said. "I've said it before and I really meant it that this accident can be a teaching moment."


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December 12, 2014
Arlington Chamber of Commerce
Timothy Keating, Senior Vice President, Government Operations, The Boeing Company
December 12, 2014
Ex-Im is but one case study of the U.S. political system losing its bearing. Another is the legislative impasse over the size and composition of the federal budget. Through sequestration Congress has tried to address what really is a problem with entitlements and other forms of mandatory spending – which make up roughly two-thirds of federal outlays – by gutting discretionary spending.
Under current law more than $70 billion in immediate, across-the-board cuts to discretionary programs and activities will go into effect in Fiscal Year 2016, shared equally by defense and domestic agencies; all of which will be felt, one way or another, by the companies and communities represented in this room and across the state of Virginia.
Remember that projected defense budgets have already been cut significantly since the post-9/11 peak – by nearly $1 trillion when you include program cancellations and other reductions by Secretary Gates, the 2011 Budget Control Act, the sequester of 2013, and then Bipartisan Budget Act at the end of last year.
And because of the way sequestration is structured – with massive savings needed immediately and pay and benefits off-limits – a 10 percent top-line sequester amounts to significantly bigger cuts to training, maintenance, procurement, and research and development accounts; this at a time when the world is growing more turbulent and rival powers are modernizing their armed forces.
Companies like Boeing saw the writing on the wall and made some difficult, at times wrenching, changes to our workforce and geographic footprint to prepare for the defense downturn. The Department of Defense, by contrast, has been prevented from making the strategy-guided management choices necessary to maximize the funding available to sustain our military readiness and technology superiority.
Furthermore, with investment funding shrinking for military modernization it is all the more imperative to have a defense acquisition system that can make every dollar count – for the taxpayer and war fighter alike. We applaud the initiative of Senate and House Armed Services Committee leadership to solicit recommendations to further reform and, more importantly, improve defense acquisitions to reduce unnecessary red-tape while encouraging more innovation. Boeing is contributing to this effort and will provide the committees with its own list of recommended changes in a few weeks.
These management changes are so urgent because if sequestration returns – and stays for the rest of the decade – the U.S. defense and aerospace industry – most of which consists of small- and medium-sized firms in the 2nd and 3rd tier of the supply chain– will be forced to lay-off thousands of employees with unique military skills and close more factories and research labs. The lost capacity and capabilities resulting from these cuts cannot be rebuilt or brought back quickly if U.S. national security imperatives or budget priorities change in the future.
We can't forget that sequester's damage goes beyond the military to other key agencies of government – like Homeland Security, FAA, NASA, the FBI, NIH, and the State Department – that are important to public safety, future scientific breakthroughs, and America's influence around the world.


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"At last we meet!" told he to the bowl in front of him. Filled with a creamy syrup, it hosted little white sponges. What were they made from? "Cheese", somebody said.
The history of me and this sweet, rich Indian dessert dates back to at least two years ago when exploring the meanders of a virtual video gallery, I stumbled upon this video from "Show Me The Curry":
A few sentences shot in the chirping community of Twitter brought to another special and precious event; I met a new friend in Vindee.
From then the project of actually doing these treats slipped away between my fingers.
Thought to be daunting, or too sweet or just out of laziness I almost forgot about them until Aparna proposed we made them for this month Velveteers challenge.
What am I talking about? Ras Malai or their simpler siblings Rasgullas.
These sweet nuggets of paneer are another of the many ways this fresh cheese is used in India. Many of you might be familiar with paneer but I will briefly repeat what it consists of. It is actually a very simple and straightforward way of producing cheese at home; you just need to curdle some boiling milk using lemon juice; strain, press the solids and you got a nice block of yummy paneer to play with.
It is only me or this actually reminds a lot of ricotta cheese? In effect it is a close relative to the soft moist fresh Italian cheese. Traditionally made out of the whey leftover from cheese making, ricotta is obtained by a coagulation process utilising rennet. The resulting curds are moist, flavourful and low in fat. This process is quite cumbersome to accomplish in a common household since the yield of whey is very low (5-6%) so you would need a whole lot of it to make a batch of ricotta. To circumvent this problem, we can simply curdle milk with the more easily available lemon juice. The yield is higher but the cheese tends to be drier than its rennet version, nevertheless delicious.
My last experiment in curdling animal milk featured goat's milk; my aim was that of having a fresh batch of fully flavoured goat's ricotta (closer to the original Italian ricotta always made from sheep's milk). The only problem was that the milk was the UHT variety and so it didn't curdle at all, I had to throw the whole thing in the sink.
This time to avoid any possible problems, I went straight for the fresh milk. Unfortunately we can't get fresh goat/sheep's milk in here so I used cow's one.
It worked beautifully! All was set for my first home-made batch of Ras Malai.
It is always quite interesting when, looking at the origins of a particular sweet, I find that it was some sort of deep religious meaning. I believe that this is a reflex of the high "recognition" once enjoyed by sugar.
Considered as the gastronomically equivalent of gold, sugar was added almost to every dish cooked for a medieval banquet. The host's wealth was in effect measured by his "sweetness". Sugar or marzipan sculptures adorned the table as precious Baccarat's crystals might do nowadays.
Religious festivities and festivals were special occasions when also the peasants could have a taste of sweet treats as often prepared by the monks/nuns hosting the celebrations.
It is also true that these sweet treats were often used as fast reconstituent for the debilitated pilgrims who joined at the holy place just for the special festivities.
Rasgullas do not escape this history.
Rasgullas are in fact said to originate along with a popular religious festival in the city of Puri in the Indian region of Orissa. In Puri, at the end of the Rath Yatra, these desserts are offered to Lakshmi the consort of Jagannath, the main deity in the Puri temple, in order to appease her wraith for having been ignored during the festival times. The actual shape of Rasgullas, spherical, is also said to derive from the goddess' round eyes.
The difference between Rasgullas and Ras Malai is mainly on how the paneer sponges are served. Rasgullas are simply boiled in syrup (Ras) either directly or after being deep fried while Ras Malai are instead served in a milk sauce thickened by evaporation (Malai) and usually flavoured with green cardamom and saffron.
The shape of the paneer sponges is also different, mainly due to this difference in the presentation way. As said previously, Rasgullas are spherical (Gulla) so easily eaten by picking them up with your fingers, perfect as street food; Ras Malai sponges are instead of a more flattened disk shape, perfect for being efficiently covered by the Malai.
So now that we have explained their name we can pass to the recipe.
Ras Malai in a nutty creamy sauce served with ginger-cardamom glass noodles
For the Paneer dumplings:
- 1 l fresh full fat milk
- 250 g cream (optional)
- 3-4 tbsp lemon juice
- 4 cups water
- 1 cup sugar
- 30 g ginger, peeled and chopped
- 5-6 green cardamoms, crushed
- 200 g almonds, peeled
- 60 g hazelnuts, peeled
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds
- 2-3 tsp sugar
- 1-2 tsp rosewater (optional)
- 200 g syrup from the paneer dumplings
- 0.7 g agar
- 1-2 tsp chopped dill
- Orange zest, optional.
Place the milk and the cream in a non-reactive pot and, stirring regularly, bring it to a boil over a medium fire. In the meantime prepare a colander lined with moistened cheesecloth in your sink.
When the milk will come to a roiling boil, add slowly the lemon juice to it. Delicately stir the curdling milk between each addition of lemon juice. Keep adding lemon juice until the liquid separating from the curds, the whey, will run clear. Pour the curdled milk into the colander to drain, sprinkles some cold water on top of it so to stop further cooking and to make the paneer easier to handle.
Tie the paneer in the cheesecloth and hang it from the tap for roughly 30 minutes so to drain all the whey.
In the meantime soak the nuts in enough boiling water to cover them, do the same with the sesame seeds in a separate container.
After the 30 minutes will have elapsed, gently squeeze your paneer by hand to ensure that all the whey has drained out. Transfer the paneer into a food processor and mix it until you obtain a very fine consistency. This step is very important if you want to get smooth and delicate Ras Malai.
Transfer the paneer on a cutting board lined with plastic wrap and knead it gently till it all comes together. Divide the dough in 12 portions (divide the dough in half, then each half in half again and then divide each of these pieces into three). Roll each portion into smooth balls and then flatten them between the cupped palms of your hands. Try to give the paneer a simmetric shape by rotating it into your palms while you gently flatten it out.
In a pressure cooker mix the water with the sugar, the ginger and the cardamoms. Heat the water up so to just dissolve the sugar, add then the paneer dumplings to the syrup; close the lid and bring to pressure (I used the highest setting in my pressure cooker). Once the pot will have reached pressure, switch off the stove and set a timer to 5 minutes. When the 5 minutes will be over, transfer the pot into your sink and gently pour cold water over the lid to release all the leftover pressure.
Open the pot and let the damplings come to room temperature into the syrup. At this point, using a slotted spoon, you can gently transfer the paneer sponges into a bowl. Measure 200ml of the syrup and set aside, pour the leftover syrup (without the bits of ginger and cardamoms) onto the dumplings and refrigerate (you can either discrard the pieces of ginger or better squeeze them through a cheesecloth over the reserved syrup).
The nuts should be quite soft and well soaked by now, transfer half of them into a blender and reduce to a smooth pulp adding just enough of the soaking water to obtain this consistency.
Place a fine mesh sieve over a bowl and cover it with a damped cheese cloth, pour the blended nuts in the lined strainer and using a spoon delicately let the some of milk drain down into the bowl. And now it's time to start the hard work!
Close the cheesecloth around the nuts pulp and get squeezing it to extract all the milk. Toward the end you might also want to use a potato ricer to help in the process.
Continue like this until you are left with a quite dry mixture of nut flour, set it aside or discard.
Transfer the second half of the nuts into the blender and pour enough of the first pressed milk into the glass so to mix them well into a smooth pulp and repeat the squeezing process.
Transfer the nuts milk into a wide saucepan and let it come to a simmer over low to medium fire constantly stirring to avoid scorching. The milk will thicken and some of the enzyes from the nuts will be neutralised. Add sugar to taste (and rose water, if using) to the thickened milk and transef it into a bowl; cover with cling film and let come to room temperature before refrigerating it.
Now to the syrup noodles. Transfer the reserved ginger-cardamom sugar syrup with the agar-agar into a pot and bring it to a roiling boil over medium fire. In the meantime prepare a shallow rectangular container by lightly moistening it with water and lining it with plastic wrap.
You want to use a container wide enough so that the jelly sets into a thickness of roughly 5mm. To check if you got the size right you can measure 200ml of simple water, pour it into the container and check what height it will achieve.
When the syrup will be boiling, switch off the fire, add the dill and transfer into the prepared container and let set over a leveled surface for 30-40 minutes at room temperature.
To make the sesame milk, process the soaked sesame seeds in a small food processor or spice-grinder using a little water. Strain and squeeze the milk out of the pulp as you did for the nuts.
To serve your Ras Malai, place few tablespoons of the creamy nut mixture into the serving bowl; lightly squeeze 3 paneer dumplings from the excess syrup and place them over the nut milk.
You can also serve your Ras Malai at a warmer temperature by letting them stand into the nut milk at room temperature for 10-15 minutes.
Using a long bladed and oiled knife cut thin strips out of the syrup jelly so to obtain translucent tagliatelle and transfer them delicately over the serving plate topping them with some of the sesame milk and a little orange zest.
The 4 Velveteers was started by Alessio, Aparna, Asha and Pamela, who are passionate about different cuisines and food in general. Each month, we will attempt a new dish and share our experiences and the recipes we used. If you're interested in joining the Velveteers, please feel free to drop by our Facebook group.
Check out what the other Velveteers have come up with this month:
- Gayathri's Rasgollas Amarkhand
- Veena's Rasgulla
- Asha's Saffron and Almond Malai shots


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Converting Quicken Files to a Mac
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. Everybody has questions about them, and we aim to help.
Here are a few questions about computers I've received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. This week my mailbox contained questions about converting financial records from a PC to a Mac, scheduling anti-spyware scans and burning home videos in VCD format.
If you have a question, send it to me at email@example.com, and I may select it to be answered here in Mossberg's Mailbox.
I am thinking of converting to an Apple machine, to replace my ancient Dell. However, all my financial records are in the Windows version of Quicken, and I need to keep using Quicken to have access to many years of records. I recall you writing earlier that Quicken was one of the products that didn't convert well to a Macintosh environment. Do you still feel that would be the case?
There is a Macintosh version of Quicken. However, unlike most other software publishers, Intuit, the maker of Quicken, chose to create a Macintosh edition that is very different from its Windows product and uses a different file format. It is possible to convert Windows Quicken files to work on the Mac version, and some readers have reported it went well. But many more have reported problems with the process, which is very time-consuming and can be error-prone. Therefore, I regard Quicken on the Mac as best for somebody who is starting fresh with financial software, and can't recommend it for somebody like you, who is converting from the Windows version.
As an alternative, you could keep around your old Windows PC for using Quicken. Or, you could try a program called Moneydance (www.moneydance.com), which has compatible versions for both Windows and Mac, claims to be completely portable between platforms and claims to import Quicken data with ease. I haven't tested Moneydance and can't verify these claims, or say how it compares with Quicken. But there's a free trial available.
You suggested running anti-spyware and anti-virus scans nightly. Is there some way to arrange these to run automatically?
Yes. Most such programs have a built-in scheduler where you can specify a frequency and a time of day — say, every day at 4 a.m.
I transfer my home videos from a camcorder and burn them into CDs in the VCD format. My problem is that the video quality deteriorates significantly. The movie looks like an old home video. How do I improve the quality?
It's difficult because of the format you are using. The VCD format was designed to squeeze large video files, which would normally require the capacity of a DVD disk, into the much smaller space available on a CD. To accomplish this, the format encodes the video at much lower quality than DVDs typically use. As a result, home videos on VCDs can look much worse than they do on camcorder tapes, or than they would if you burned them to DVD, in the format common on DVDs. So, if video quality is important to you, the best suggestion I have is to buy a DVD burner.
Write to Walter S. Mossberg at email@example.com


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Hormones and the Pill
The hormones in the pill, progestin (which mimics progesterone) and estrogen, decrease the release of GnRH, and therefore the release of FSH and LH. This restricts the follicles from growing, and by extension, an egg from growing and releasing from the ovary. Essentially, these synthetic hormones trick the ovary into thinking that it's already released an egg. The endometrium still builds in the uterus and is released, but this is known as a "withdrawal" period. It's the body's reaction to the withdrawal of the normal hormonal cycle. This is why a period while on the pill is usually lighter and shorter; the corpus luteum can't grow unless the ovary has released an egg. The progestin may also make it harder for sperm to enter the fallopian tube by making the vaginal mucus thicker.
You'll notice that the pill doesn't completely stop the release of GnRH or other hormones. This is an important distinction. While it's not common, some women who take the pill still ovulate and become pregnant. Most often, it's because they didn't take the pill at the same time each day or missed one or more pills. In general, the pill must be taken consistently and regularly to maintain the correct balance of hormones. For a small number of women, their own hormones are no match for the synthetic ones used in the pill and they still become pregnant. Among women who take it correctly, the pill failure rate is 0.3 percent [source: Contraceptive Technology].
All women are different, which is why the pill works to varying degrees of effectiveness. Some also experience side effects. We'll look at these next.


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I am a teacher at 西铁一中。 I teach mathematics in English for students going abroad.
Now this is my problem, there are few mathematics books written in English that are at the level of high school, most are geared towards graduate school.
The book for the school is very dry and basic. I would like to be able to present better problems for my classes. I need help finding good problems, ones with some historical context or from real life events. Example: using a closed Leontief input-output model for linear algebra.
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The quality of oxygen that can dissolve in water depends on the temperature of the water. (So thermal pollution influences the oxygen content of water.) The graph shows how oxygen solubility S varies as a function of the water temperature T. (a) What is the meaning of the derivatives S'(T)? What are its units? (b) Estimate the value of S'(16) and interpret it.
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- From Calculus (6th Edition) by James Stewart.
My other problem is that I've got a group of 6 students that are übersmart. I gave them the AMC 10 & 12 problems, they solve them in class, then I gave them the USAMO problems, and they solve 4 problems in an hour (I gave them both days). Should I just give them the Putnam exams? Now, English textbooks cost a lot and I have to buy them out of my own pocket. Could you help me find online resources which are at the level of a high school student that is just learning calculus and which help him/her understand the more advance mathematical topics? Most I have found are just beyond their mathematical understanding.
The other 24 students are of lower ability than those 6 students.
In summary:
1) Where to find more realistic and historical problems for calculus and prob/stats classes? To help engage my students and improve their English. The graphs and data for the problems, don't worry I can solve it for the answers. Problems that bring in the other subjects : history, economics, etc.
2) What to do about the übersmart students? How to structure the class so the übersmart students don't get bored, but I don't leave the rest of the students behind?
3) Are there any books that are really graduate analysis, number theory, etc. however, are written for high school students?
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I'm aware that for some tensor product space, Schur-Weyl duality lets me decompose the space into irreducible representations by looking at irreps of the symmetric group. The simplest example is $V\otimes V\cong \mathrm{Sym}^2(V)\oplus \Lambda^2(V)$. In physicists' notation (warning, I am a physicist), we would write $T_{ab} = T_{(ab)} + T_{[ab]}$.
However, when talking about tensors on a manifold $M$ with metric $g$, we can also take traces and so further reduce symmetric products into a trace and trace-free part, i.e. $T_{ab} = \frac{1}{d}g_{ab}T + [T_{ab}]^{\tiny{STF}} + T_{[ab]}$ where $T\equiv g^{ab}T_{ab}$, $d$ is the dimension of the manifold, and $[T_{ab}]^{\tiny{STF}} = T_{(ab)}-\frac{1}{d}g_{ab}T$. This seems to be relevant because because $g$ is an invariant symbol of $SO(p,q)$ where $(p,q)$ is the signature of $g$. There will also be an alternating tensor of highest rank which will be an invariant symbol, and this could also appear in the decomposition.
Schur-Weyl doesn't seem to say anything about metrics, trace/trace-free decompositions, etc. What is the general decomposition here? Is there an algorithm to follow?


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It's miraculous that in this modern world sometimes the best cure for life's aches and pains is as simple as a little hot water. A rubber hot water bottle is the perfect conveyance for healing warmth,inexpensive and virtually indestructible.
Our Felted Wool Hot Water Bottle Covers celebrate this straightforward utility. I made them with Dorr Mill's 100% wool, which I washed until it was soft and felted and then stitched together with a handsome zigzag blanket stitch.
The result is homey, classic and my favorite thing… practical! These Covers do what hot water bottle covers have always done; they keep the hot water hot and your body warm.
If you've never tried blanket stitch this project is a great introduction. The gentle rhythm of the stitches is a real treat, and the combination of the soft felted wool and the smart stitching make for a very satisfying endeavor. And just like the water bottle itself, it's built to last a lifetime! –Molly
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To make one cover for a standard 2-quart hot water bottle like this one you'll need:
- 1/2 yard of Dorr Mill's Wool Yardage, machine washed and dried in order to felt it
- 2 hanks of DMC Embroidery Floss (I used colors 413, 414 (shown above), and 415.)
- Gutermann's 100% Cotton Thread in color 1040
- A Felted Wool Hot Water Bottle Cover Template, available for free download here, printed, cut out and taped together as directed.
The Pattern
Using the taped together Templates, cut pieces A (top right, in above photo), B (lower right in the photo), and C (left) from the felted Wool.
Press and pin the long straight edges of pieces A and B, 3/8 inch to the wrong side.
Using the cotton sewing thread, sew down these folds with a ¼-inch seam allowance.
NOTE: For all the embroidery in this pattern, use 3 strands of the DMC floss.
You will work a zigzag blanket stitch around the hemmed edge of piece A and then later around the entire outer edge of the Hot Water Bottle Cover.
First, cut a 24-inch length of the embroidery floss and separate it into two lengths, 3 strands each. Thread an embroidery needle with one of these lengths.
With the right side of piece A facing up, push the needle from the back side to the front side, ¼ inch from the left edge and 1/4-inch below the top fold.
Instead of tying a knot, leave a 4-inch tail and bring the working floss behind this tail. Pull the tail to the left, causing the stitch to angle left.
Bring the needle back around to the front and insert it directly into the previous exit point. Pull the needle through to the back and over the back working floss, as shown above.
Pull the working floss to the right so the stitch angles right. The entire stitch will look like a little triangle. It should look the same on the back.
From the front side, insert the needle 1/4 inch to the right of the bottom point of the first stitch.
Pull the needle through, but do not pull it taut yet. Instead, insert the tip of the needle, from right to left, under the X-shaped intersection at the top of the previous stitch.
Pull the floss taut. It should be anchored to the top of the previous stitch and angled to the left, as shown above.
Continue by inserting the needle, from front to back, directly into the previous exit point. Pull the needle through, passing it over the back floss and angling the stitch to the right.
The second stitch should look like the first.
Just as you did previously, insert the needle from front to back 1/4 inch to the right of the bottom point of the previous stitch. Pass the tip of the needle under the X-shaped intersection at the top of the previous stitch. Pull the floss taut.
Insert the needle from front to back directly into the previous exit. Pull the needle through to the back, passing it over the back floss and angling the stitch to the right. Pull the floss taut.
Keep stitching in this manner until you have 4 inches of floss left. Tie a small overhand knot at the top right corner of the last stitch
Then insert the needle right under the knot, and pass the needle through the hem about 1 inch to the left.
Snip the floss at the exit point to hide it.
To start with the next length of floss, pull the needle from back to front through the top of the last stitch.
Insert the needle ¼ inch to the right of the bottom point of the last stitch.
Coming from the back, insert the tip of the needle under the X-shaped intersection at the top of the last stitch. Pull the needle through, leaving a 4-inch tail, just as you did at the beginning of the first length of floss.
Continue stitching in this manner until the end of the straight edge.
Once you're done with the stitching, hide the remaining tails by tying a small overhand knot at the top of the nearest stitch, pulling the tail through the hem, and snipping off the tail at the exit point, just as you did for the other tails.
Sew Together
Place the newly stitched Piece A on top of Piece C, with right sides together and top edges aligned.
Place piece B, wrong side up, on top of the previous pieces, lining up the bottom edges. Pieces A and B should overlap about 1 ½ inches.
Pin all of the layers together around the outer edges.
With a ¼-inch seam allowance, sew the layers together around the pinned edges.
Cut notches out of the curved sections of the seam allowance and snip off the top corners.
Turn the entire piece right sides out through the overlapped opening in the center.
Press the piece flat and pin the outer edges together.
Using the zigzag blanket stitch, sew around the entire outer perimeter of the piece, making sure to sew through all of the layers as you go.
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Perhaps the strongest sign yet that Charlie Sheen has hopped off the violent torpedo of truth and is taking a more benign ride on the not-so-crazy train comes in a funny preview for his upcoming Comedy Central Roast.
A camouflage-smeared Sheen rises from what appears to be a steamy swamp, ruminating on how low he's sunk, in an "Apocalypse Now" takeoff. His inner monologue is interrupted by the classic film's star – his father, Martin.
"Charlie! Get inside and wash your face!" the elder Sheen barks, beckoning Charlie out of what turns out to be a hot tub he's sharing with two young beauties. "It's past your bedtime."
Martin Sheen's cameo is significant in that he kept a decidedly low public profile during his son's all-too-public meltdown, which began with his arrest at the Plaza Hotel last October. We're taking Martin Sheen's newfound ability to poke fun at his son's travails as a tentative signal that just maybe Charlie is on the road to some form of recovery.
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His decline, complete with bizarre stream-of-(perhaps altered)-consciousness web shows and his disastrous "truth" tour, turned him into a sad joke. Now we're seeing glimmers of a calmer Sheen, one who's happy to be the butt of the joke, while many are just happy he's still among us.
As his former "Two and a Half Men" co-star Jon Cryer put it on "Ellen" this week: "I was worried that Charlie was going to die."
The Comedy Central Roast airs Monday – by no coincidence the same night as the premiere of the newly reconstituted "Men," in which Sheen's character reportedly gets killed off and replaced by Ashton Kutcher.
The roast – which includes host Seth MacFarlane reading Sheen's "obituary" – might not mark the rebirth of his financially successful career. But Sheen is striving to keep himself in the public eye while trying to shed the worst aspects of his image, via guest shots on "The Tonight Show" and "Today," during which he sounds relatively rational.
"I thought I could come back, kinda like you did," Sheen told Jay Leno Thursday night, referring to when Leno lost his primetime 10 p.m. show on NBC and was bumped up to 11:35p.m. about a year ago. (Leno quipped in response, "Yeah, yeah at least one of us got the job back.")
On a more serious note, Sheen told NBC's Matt Lauer in an interview airing Friday: "I said some stuff and then it caught such traction globally and instantly that I couldn't really put out the fire. I had to keep fueling it."
His fuel, he suggested to Lauer, no longer includes illicit substances, though he didn't say how long he's been sober.
There's no way of knowing whether Sheen will maintain his seemingly even keel. It hasn't been all that long since the last of the unbalanced antics during which the self-proclaimed "warlock" slowly self-destructed before our eyes. Let's hope his demons don't include an addiction to attention – which can only lead to more behavior hurtful to him and his loved ones.
In the meantime, check out the (NSFW) roast promos below as Charlie Sheen works on his latest redefinition of "winning."
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India Sri Lanka perhaps :P
If Jayasurya/Atapatu and Murali/Vaas strike, things could get difficult for the aussies...
Well Aus-India final is the one that looks most probable, but I don't think either of the match would be a cakewalk, specially with the Durban day night affair and the susceptibilty of the Aus batting lineup in a slow pitch at Port Elizabeth.
SL can give the Aussies a real fight, specially with the type of wicket that Port Elizabeth has. Also they now have Atapattu in good form to give the support necessary to Jayasuriya and with Aravinda also in good nick, I think their batting is a shade better then what it was looking earlier. I think SL has done a good job by getting rid of Mahela and replacing him with Gunavardene. Mahela has forgotten what batting is and should have been dropped much earlier.
And Kenya has an abundance of one thing that matters a lot in crucial games...the willingness to fight and also a sense that they have nothing to lose.Their achievement has been beyond all expectations and so they would be more relaxed going into the semis which cannot be said about India. But then India is in form and so I would expect them to prevail.
One more thing to be noted here is that Kenya proved quite a handful under lights at Durban, even for the Aussies. And India takes them on at Durban in a day-nighter.
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well i'll stab at kenya vs australia. but that's more who i hope to see. i wouldn't mind seeing kenya thrash us in the final either
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Ok...take a deep breath and then seriously think weather you are Australian or not...Originally posted by Cloete
i wouldn't mind seeing kenya thrash us in the final either
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20...that's a rather big number :(:(:(
They've had (exceeded) their fair share of the wins...I don't think they'd mind
The one thing we've seen with Kenya - they fight like lions
Nigel Clough's Black and White Army, beating Forest away with 10 men
As it stands, SL are 8-1 to win the comp.
Now to me that looks quite worth a punt, since Australia have to lose at some time (note this is not me saying they will lose!), and it could be that Saurav was right, and the slow bowling of de Silva, Arnold, Murali, and when it's 8 down needing 150 more, Jaysuriya, could be their downfall?
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So, you're already afraid of the Indians...Originally posted by Cloete
well i'll stab at kenya vs australia. but that's more who i hope to see.
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The semis that Aus has got on their hands now is the one that they probably least wanted.... against Murali and co. on a slow wicket at Port Elizabeth may be cause for concern, although I think the Lankans' batting woes are not sorted out completely yet, to give the Aussies much trouble.
As much as I would like Kenya to beat India on one level, I feel for the contest's sake we need Aus v India final because these will be the two form sides and if Kenya go through, being honest the Aussies will maul them. But because of the English love of the underdog, GGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KENYA
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ANDREW............ i cant believe you would say that!Originally posted by Cloete
well i'll stab at kenya vs australia. but that's more who i hope to see. i wouldn't mind seeing kenya thrash us in the final either
Call yourself an Australian why dont ya. I know you like Kenya, but more than Australia is just going too far.
for the record id love to see kenya in the final for the fact i dont like India but The world cup final should be a contest and Australia vs India is the best final possible, they are the only 2 teams in the cup that deserve to make the final.
Actually, I think Ind vs SL would be a better game!Originally posted by broncoman
The world cup final should be a contest and Australia vs India is the best final possible
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