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Ousting the Merry Pranksters: How Tech Culture is Eroding the Bay Music Scene
San Francisco has always been a lightning rod. Since the Gold Rush days, The City by the Bay has been looked upon either admiringly or with disdain for its progressive, radical and self-proclaimed enlightened culture.
Even in those days, one could pretend to be enlightened, yet still order an assassination or make money selling women into sex slavery. There were the rich railroad barons on the top of the hills of the city, yet also chinese immigrants trapped in the slavery dens of chinatown.
Today, San Francisco stands as the current capital of Silicon Valley. The city's tech industry has made tremendous strides in making the world a better place, yet has also caused soaring housing prices within the area. Both natives and newcomers complain that The City seems to be pricing itself out of existence. Renters, shopkeepers, and low-income residents aren't the only people howling that San Francisco has rapidly changed for the worse. The most vocal opponents have even resorted to throwing rocks at the increasingly ubiquitous Google buses to express their anger. A quieter despair is also emerging from The City's legendary arts community, its music scene in particular. From the Barbary Coast, to the Beats, to the Counterculture, to today's tight-knit folk-rock scene, San Francisco has always been in the vanguard of the Next Big Thing, not only in entrepreneurship, but also in culture.
But, if the Young Bohemians of the newest wave in the arts can't afford to pay rent in Twitter-era SF, and if the iconic arts institutions that underpin these creative folks are being priced out of town, how long will SF remain SF?
To separate the hysteria from the truth, the claims from the facts, I decided to survey a key market segment of The City's cultural economy—its century-old and highly sophisticated supply chain of performed and recorded music. I approached San Francisco's music trade, speaking to music distributors, record companies, music stores, members of some of the hottest new bands, and various local government officials involved in the scene. With each interview I felt I was compiling useful information, but understood less about the ways in which the city was actually suffering. Even in people's positive stories of cultural growth and expansion, there was a weariness to make such proclamations.
Now I can't claim to be a San Francisco native. I'm utterly suburban, growing up a solid 50 miles south of The City. And yet, even a peripheral observer like myself can see the remarkably quick sanitization of a city that has long rooted itself in whimsical irreverence and a friendly sense of enlightenment. Separate worlds now vie for space in San Francisco; the starving artists, the tech-rich incomers, the small business owners, all functioning adjacently to each other.
But at what cost to that which made The City great—and that which drew all of the young techies there in the first place?
Here's what I found:
When Silicon Valley's high tech industry, largely located in the South Bay until the dotcom bubble started drawing in non-tech types in 2008 and 2009, started migrating north to San Francisco at the beginning of the new century, the price of housing and the dearth of available land within the city limits was already an emerging crisis. SF may appear expansive in photographs, but the fact is that The City's official population of 852,469 is crammed onto the tip of a small peninsula of just over 230 square miles. By comparison, New York has 8.5 million stuffed into 304.3 square miles. There are laws that restrict the use of vertical space. So, while it is only the fourth most populated city in California, it is also the second most densely populated city in America. As the limited supply of residences has met the explosive demand of young techies wanting to live and work in the hippest city around, the results have been predictable.
In the first few months of 2015, the median sale price for a SF home was $1.1 million, an 11% increase in a single year and a 64.4% increase over a five year span. And prices show no sign of leveling off. In just the last two weeks of December 2015, the median listing price increased from $1.41 to $1.5 million. The average price of a 1 bedroom property between October and December 2015 was $842,500. Five years before, it was $485,000.
Those extraordinary numbers still don't fully capture the changes that the tech boom has affected on San Francisco. When the tech industry emerged fifty years ago with companies like Intel, Xerox, and Hewlett-Packard it was built upon mostly small towns, farms, and a sea of orchards. The social networking boom that sprouted in SF, after the dot.com bubble burst in 2001, was built atop a complex and well-established 150-year-old urban culture. Whether that graft was successful still remains a matter of debate—not least among the denizens of San Francisco's cultural society.
The problem, as echoed by all of the subjects of this investigation, was a feeling of separate societies. The affluent, mostly tech-oriented groups, flocked to San Francisco originally because of its freedom, the air of expression and vibrant creativity that they saw in themselves. But instead of digging into the city and understanding the roots of that artsy novelty or help foster its continuity, they merely build around it and —eventually— over it.
Which begs the question: is the tech takeover of San Francisco an anomalous hub of supposed techie synergy, or an extreme blueprint for how technology will, in due time, overwhelm the world?
Bottom of the Hill keeps a relatively modest appearance in a neighborhood of warehouses and industrial companies: a light blue, white-framed house next to an empty lot. Only the crooked neon sign gives any indication of this being one of the most active and influential music venues in the city. Since being founded in the mid-80s by Ramona Downey and Lynn Schwarz, the 'Hill' has been instrumental in fostering local talent and giving it exposure on an almost daily basis. "We've been so happy to nurture so many bands that made it big," says Schwarz.
But the work of keeping a steady rotation, nearly 365 days out of the year, of both locally based and nationally touring acts has taken its toll on Bottom of the Hill. As Schwarz sees it, the problems were a long time coming, but the new affluent sweep has heavily exacerbated historical city issues.
"Maybe we'd close on Christmas, but that was our thing", says Schwarz, "Starting around 2008 we starting closing on Sundays and Mondays unless there was a specific person looking for that date."
Now, with declining attendance, Bottom of the Hill is thinking of closing on Wednesdays as well. But Schwarz is dead-set against that idea.
"Our major touring acts that were our bread and butter are few and far between, and some of these acts that used to sell us out are only getting a third of the capacity, even when we offer them the same guarantee," she says. "We have had to basically roll the dice on selling out and we don't because again—our fan base is decimated."
Schwarz provided a particularly telling anecdote. A few months back, a local tech company rented out the club for an employee's birthday party. Even though the company is a block away, less than five people showed up. When she asked why, the guests said that the company had everything they could want in their company building, including a bar.
The arts in San Francisco has always had a home. Often a not so commercial store. Think City Lights Bookstore for Beatniks. For musicians, its been Amoeba Music.
Amoeba Music first opened its doors in Berkeley in 1990. A gargantuan second location opened in 1997 in SF's Haight-Ashbury District. A symbol of musical and artistic independence, the stores have always offered the entire spectrum of music, including in-store live shows and a consistent trade system in music and movies. Dave Franklin has been working at the SF location since its inception. A store manager and resident jazz expert for the almost two decades, Franklin has seen the ebbs and flows of San Francisco's cultural life.
"It definitely seems there is money in the hands of young people to a crazy degree," he says. In a city so infused with technology, Amoeba is selling more vinyl records than ever. In fact they have become so popular, the store is actually in need of more CDs, even if they end up in the ever-growing clearance racks.
While national acts tend to take the spots for in-store shows, Amoeba has always encouraged the exposure of local music. But from an initial policy of buying local bands' work outright, the store has moved to consignment deals for acts trying to get exposure. Before, any band could come in and peddle albums for which Amoeba would find a market. Now, with declines in sales across the board, the shop can't afford to gamble on buying 50 copies of an album that might not sell, so it has been forced to hold albums and only pay musicians after the fact. As such, Amoeba Music has noticeably decreased the volume of albums it buys. "When they know that we aren't going to buy them outright—or that they can self-distribute—musicians are figuring out that a store isn't the most advantageous route," Franklin says. "The rise of vinyl sales is not enough to make up for sales in other areas, but it helps us stay afloat. It's not like the peak years as far as CD sales go, but it's something.
To help remedy the problem of overall declining sales Amoeba is becoming more particular about its in-store selections, catering to the young up-starts with higher vinyl and classical sales than seen in years. It is also growing its long overdue web presence. As far as the rate of change, "It's not out of the blue," says Franklin, "but it is stunning in a way."
Dave Franklin is also a long time resident of the Mission, a neighborhood seen by many as the epitome of the housing—and overall—challenge in San Francisco. The arts and Latino communities have seen perhaps the most drastic shift in landscape, from a rough, artistic flourish within the traditional neighborhood of SF Latinos, to a white-washed span of blocks, Williams-Sonoma with a tech twist. The change hasn't gone unnoticed by Franklin: "It's a very different group of people all of a sudden making up the neighborhood," he says. "It's been coming down the pipe for a while, but the last two years have changed fast. I mean, I live in the Mission, and Valencia Street has seen its turnover to high end restaurants, boutiques. And Mission Street, which had seemed to hold its core character—now the art galleries, the weird bookstores and punk venues… these places are going away pretty quickly."
"The [tech industry] wanted to move in because it wanted to be part of the hipness and character, but now they don't want to contribute to it. I don't know if it's shyness or being in their own world. I'm not feeling invited into that," says Franklin. "When it was the artist stuff before, anybody could be a part of it if they wanted to."
There are countless theories and strategies and anecdotes about the gradual—then sudden—change of The City. Some blame the shift from a working city to a tourist city to a tech city. Others question whether an entrepreneurial society can be grafted atop an established 150 year-old culture. And still others blame the big money being made by the social networking companies and its distorting effect upon everyday city life. One thing is certain: What were once strange and wonderful hamlets of creative types were quickly squashed under the well-intentioned, but benevolently relentless, capitalism of the city's new residents.
That said, it is too easy to make the tech industry and its transformation of the city into the only scapegoat for a much older housing problem that San Francisco has faced since the 1980s. This point is hammered home by Julie Schuchard, co-founder of Tricycle Records, an innovative, locally focused SF music label.
Founded in 2006 by Julie Schuchard and Don Joslin, Tricycle Records is a independent record label that has a unique DIY business model and releases only local music. Acting as mentor, the label provides full support including merchandising, promotion, and booking for up-and-coming bands.
As for how the city's changes are affecting its artists, "we are definitely in a housing crisis and that has affected musicians' ability to live in the city," Schuchard says.
Schuchard also sits on the board for the local chapter for the Recording Academy, one of the voting boards for the Grammy Awards. "It's our goal to get more local artists in the recording academy, but we've definitely seen a decline in artists," she says. "This doesn't mean they are leaving the Bay Area proper, but they are definitely leaving the City."
Known best for its compilation releases of local artists, Tricycle Records gets a clear demographic picture of submitting area bands. While this year has seen more submissions than ever, the location of these bands is more focused in East Bay cities like Oakland and down the Peninsula.
As Schuchard notes, misinformation is key to understanding all of the city's many problems, not just its music community. For one thing, she says, famous and now dead venues that are used as the symbols of the problem—like The Elbo Room—actually just closed coincidentally with the tech explosion, and for unrelated reasons.
Schuchard doesn't entirely agree with many of the complaints about the 'dot.commers.' "So many people get on this bandwagon and talk about how the city is dying and artists are being forced out. The reality is that music venues are thriving in the city and the tech industry has actually done a lot to help local nightlife."
Schuchard also works with the California Music and Art Association (CMAC), to protect music venues. With the tidal wave of redevelopment, historic venues like The Lexington or Cafe Du Nord have been, in some ways, zoned out of business.
First it's noise complaints. Then the protests follow. Then aggressive rezoning—which in turn forces many venues and clubs to close. To combat these problems, CMAC and others like Ben Van Houten have worked continuously to pass laws protecting venues and other nightlife entertainment. Van Houten is San Francisco's Business Development Manager for the Nightlife & Entertainment Sector, a job created only a few years ago in response to the growing need for a collaboration between venues, bars, clubs and the city government.
The most promising piece of legislation is SF Supervisor London Breed's 2004 Legislation to Preserve Live Music & Nightlife, which since its passing, ensures that venues have historical protection and precedent in the transformation of mixed-use areas of the city. According to Conor Johnston, a staffer for City Supervisor Breed, the legislation is a three-pronged solution. Namely, it gives the developer and venue a chance for a hearing with the entertainment commission. Then it prevents a venue from being sued as long as its complaint with the terms of its operating permit. And the third, and perhaps most importantly, the city notifies new residents pre-emptively to the possibility of a concert venue next door.
According to Van Houten, there has always been a disconnect between The City's nightlife and the government, simply due to the difference in their working hours. The new legislation creates a more interactive atmosphere between business and government. It also puts the onus now on developers to inform their buyers of a neighboring venue or nightclub.
Whatever the hyperbole, there are still musicians left in San Francisco. Though the majority of what would be considered 'national' acts have moved south to LA, there are still musicians living and playing daily in The City. Many of these folks are more hobbyists than full-timers, or increasingly notable bands that still need to pay their rent—situations seen both by Julie Schuchard of Tricycle Records and Lynn Schwartz of Bottom of the Hill. The remaining have scattered out into the last affordable neighborhoods, like Excelsior or Outer Sunset in a kind of cultural diaspora of working artists and musicians.
Kevin Sullivan and Derek Schultz epitomize the musicians and artists working within and around the system to afford living in The City. Respective members of notable local acts Rin Tin Tiger and Owl Paws, Kevin Sullivan and Derek Schultz are friends and roommates with purposefully-antiquated, musical aesthetic. With Rin Tin Tiger and Owl Paws both between albums, Kevin and Derek have more time to devote to their solo projects, Field Medic and Derek Ted, respectively. Born out of their early days busking, it has taken form as Sunroom Recordz & Salon, a collective of the two's artist housemates, Sullivan, Schultz and a sizable group of like-minded and eager music fans.
"I've only been here five years but in that span of time I've seen so many things change. And the people I see when I walk in the Mission, I don't know who they are. And it's fine of course, but at what cost?" Sullivan ponders at the Sunroom Recordz & Salon, headquartered in the living room of the 'castle' as the housemates call it. Besides a hand painted poster, one would never guess the amount of music produced in the plain living room.
Due to fortuitous rent and landlord, the members of Sunroom Records have managed to continue living in The City, and they are grateful. "If we didn't have the garage to practice in we'd be fucked. Everyone in the house is like bankrupt," Kevin says. "Without having this space I don't know what I would do," says Derek.
Sunroom puts forth a multitude of artwork and performances, including poetry and spoken-word readings, concerts or zines, all furthering the label's particularly homegrown, carefully carefree aesthetic. "It's kind of given us all a purpose where we can focus our energy," says Derek Schultz. Schultz, who is a trained sound engineer by day, records his solo work almost exclusively from console to 8-track tape. This lo-fi technique is the heart of Sunroom Recordz & Salon.
As for the broader reception outside of their circle, Kevin feels it is muted if not strange. "I feel like the music scene is just detached. I've never felt like one strong community in SF. I feel like the strongest musical community in SF is bands from LA", Sullivan says. "Lately it's a completely different vibe when you're playing a local show", says Schultz.
"It's weird because it's just so extreme. There's no middle ground. Either people are scrambling to pay for anything, or they are people with way too much money. We just played a housing development in Bayshore and they paid us $1500. We normally get paid $400. It literally covered everything as a band that we needed to do and it was effortless for them," say Schultz.
But for the rest of The City—and really the rest of the world—technology is a double-edged sword. While Sunroom Recordz & Salon records and releases only on cassette, in each of the tapes is a link to a Bandcamp page and a free download of the recordings. The busking roots that propelled both Kevin and Derek into higher musical stature plays a large influence in their simple 4-track, one-take recordings. And however diminutive the projects, the respective members are prodigious, and their output reflects the multi-faceted face of San Francisco's music industry.
Over the last month, Kevin and Derek have played numerous gigs and put on a house show. They are also both due to release new solo and group music. Kevin is also working on his annual Valentine's Day EP, this year being the third. Derek is in the process of mastering a 10 song Solo EP, and yet questions still nag them.
"It's weird being an artist here because when I first came here from San Jose I felt very that everyone was interesting and not yelling at you from their car," says Kevin. "But nowadays when I walk down the street I feel like the weird one again."
As for how the city's changes affect their music, it's somewhat existential. "It's hard for me to see who's really there and who's not. What I've notice here at Sunroom—that crowd is still strong, so there's still people out here that like music and art but they need somewhere to turn to find it," says Kevin. "It's really hard when you have have friends in bands in saying 'come down LA, go platinum with us, we're doing this'. "There are no opportunities in San Francisco and it's like really hard to know what the right thing to do is at this point in time," says Derek.
"It's a weird feeling to reconcile, like, do I want to dip out of the Bay? It feels like betrayal, but nowadays fools just don't care. The people I meet aren't enthusiastic about stuff," Kevin says. "People won't go out of their way to find a show."
What little hope Kevin Sullivan has left is geared towards musical unity. "The one positive side to all this happening is an opportunity for everyone who's left to band together and like oppose. But it's hard to say if that will happen too," He adds.
"It's getting to the point where if I want to sustain, I have to go," says Derek.


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A brand is not a person
Last weekend I bought a gift for a friend who enjoys Scotch whisky. There were a few brands on the shelf that could be described as having very similar personalities: traditional, confident, sophisticated and masculine. I chose the Lagavulin because I know that my friend particularly enjoys the peaty flavour of Islay malts.
Does that mean brand personality is irrelevant to whisky positioning? No, just that it is only one element in building a successful brand and how well a product or service 'does the job' (in this case, delivering a very recognizable flavour profile) is equally important. When I think about peaty Islay flavor, Lagavulin comes to mind. Lagavulin has positioned itself very well by 'owning' that link in my memory.
The power of the subconscious
Ries & Trout's made the point very well 30 years ago in their book Positioning: brands should 'own' a position in the customer's mind and 'get into the collective subconscious of the market'. That advice is now supported by evidence from neuroscience and psychology that shows how our decision-making is mainly non-conscious and driven primarily by emotional triggers.
Inspired by the idea of non-conscious decision-making, for many years we've been using Brand Archetypes as a way of developing brand positioning options. We base our frameworks on the 12-archetype model described in Mark & Pearson's The Hero and The Outlaw. That model has the great advantage of being grounded in psychology and recognizes the power of the collective unconscious that Ries & Trout emphasized.
Archetypes and the subconscious
The origins of archetype theory lie in the notion that we all collectively share innate understanding of certain types of ideas and meanings, including the meaning of recognizable 'characters'. These characters are found, for example, in folk tales where we can recognize the hero, the baddie, the lover, the wise sage etc.
Thinking about brands as similar to 'characters' (such as a Hero, an Outlaw etc.) is a quick way into positioning territories and a clear guide for all those words that need to go into the "Brand Personality" box on brand positioning documents: so a Hero brand might be brave, disciplined and tenacious whilst an Outlaw brand might be provocative, unconventional and rebellious. This focus on personality has been especially helpful in guiding thinking about advertising and brand communications.
Beyond Brand Personality
Obviously a brand isn't really a person or a character or just a set of personality dimensions. As in my malt whisky example, two brands can have very similar personalities but one might just do a better job of being a welcome gift. That's not about personality: it's about the product and its sensory character. Recent neuroscience tells us that deep, meaningful, non-conscious brand associations are built from many inputs including sensory inputs, bodily experiences and emotions. All of these (and more) create a brand's positioning and meaning.
We've taken brand archetypes beyond personality and character for 3 reasons:
- Focus on personality has often led people to pay too little attention to how product and service quality influences meaning. In real life, brands need to not only have an appealing personality, they must perform effectively, play a role in customers' lives and 'do the job'.
- The idea of brands as characters talking to customers is outdated. As Doug Scott of Ogilvy Entertainment recently emphasized, technology changes mean that storytelling is no longer one way; audiences are active in brand creation. Scott argues that agencies need to offer Transmedia Storytelling, creating storyworlds rather than storylines. My choice of Lagavulin is no doubt influenced by its association with a romantic storyworld of Islay: the ruined castle, the illegal stills and the men who fought with Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn. I don't need to know the stories to choose Lagavulin but there is a brand world that adds richness to my ideas about the brand if I wish to enter it and provides creative inspiration for Lagavulin's brand management.
- Strong brands do not just exist as characters in people's lives; strong brands create a conscious and non-conscious brand 'world' that is composed of a network of many different types of associations: personality associations, but also sensory, experiential and other associations. The job of the marketer is to build those associations over time to be stable and resilient – just as the Lagavulin brand managers have done with a collection of flavor, place and storytelling associations.
Creating your brand world
Brands owners need to create worlds in which customers feel welcome and able to participate. That doesn't mean falling into the trap of being blandly 'nice and approachable' or unchallenging; one lesson of thinking about brands archetypally is that powerful meaning comes from realistic nuances.
So, the Lagavulin world depicted (from our analysis) below contains all the cognitive aspects with which we are familiar about price, brand name etc. It is also a world of sophisticated and challenging sensory associations, populated with natural objects such as mountains and water and delivering challenging experiences of exploration. In archetypal terms, this is a world of heroes and chieftains but also of family and community.
We use this model within the brand archetype framework to guide the type of Brand World that could and should be built by each archetype. There are many different types of Hero world and many different types of Outlaw world. As marketers, our job is to build those worlds and keep them vibrant and alive and also to trigger the customer's evocative memory of our brand world at the point of purchase decision.
Putting it into practice
At opento, we've been using these ideas in our brand positioning frameworks with many different types of brands and in many markets.
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- Research
- Open Access
Nontrivial solutions for discrete Kirchhoff-type problems with resonance via critical groups
- Jinping Yang1 and
- Jinsheng Liu1Email author
© Yang and Liu; licensee Springer. 2013
- Received: 25 May 2013
- Accepted: 14 October 2013
- Published: 8 November 2013
In this paper, we study the existence of nontrivial solutions for discrete Kirchhoff-type problems with resonance at both zero and infinity by using variational methods and the computations of critical groups.
- discrete Kirchhoff-type problem
- variational method
- critical point
- critical group
1 Introduction and main results
for all .
and let be an eigenvector corresponding to the eigenvalue , then is an orthogonal basis of , where , , .
(see Theorem 2.1).
Remark 1.1 By referring to the notion of resonance of elliptic equations of Kirchhoff-type [1, 2], we call problem (1.1) resonant at zero if there exists some such that and resonant at infinity if there exists some eigenvalue μ of problem (1.4) such that .
and make the following assumptions:
(F0) There exists such that , , .
() , .
() There exist and such that , , .
Firstly, we consider the case that problem (1.1) is only resonant at zero.
- (i)
- (ii)
and .
Next, we investigate the case that problem (1.1) is resonant at both zero and infinity.
- (i)
() and ;
- (ii)
(), and .
Thirdly, we study the case that problem (1.1) is only resonant at infinity.
- (i)
(), and ;
- (ii)
(), and .
Finally, we deal with the case that problem (1.1) is non-resonant.
- (i)
and ;
- (ii)
and .
Now, we give some examples to illustrate our main results.
where is a smooth connection such that , it is easy to know that , and the condition (F0) holds, so problem (1.1) has at least a nontrivial solution by (i) of Theorem 1.1.
where is a smooth connection such that , it is easy to know that , , and the condition (F0) holds, so problem (1.1) has at least a nontrivial solution by (ii) of Theorem 1.1.
for all . They investigated the existence and multiplicity of nontrivial solutions for problem (1.6) by using various methods and techniques, such as minimax methods, bifurcation theory, critical groups, Morse theory and so on. However, to our knowledge, there are few results on the existence of nontrivial solutions of a discrete Kirchhoff-type resonance problem which is an extension of problem (1.6).
proposed by Kirchhoff [13] as an extension of the classical D'Alembert wave equation for free vibrations of elastic stings. After the famous article by Lions [14], this type of problems has been the subject of numerous studies. Due to the importance of equation (1.6), in recent years, many authors have studied the existence of solutions of equation (1.6) and the corresponding general elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary value condition (see, e.g., [1, 2, 15–18] and the references therein). Obviously, problem (1.1) is the discrete form of equation (1.6). However, there are significant differences between (1.1) and (1.6) in some aspects such as properties of eigenvalues (see Theorem 2.1 and Proposition 3.2 in [1]), which justifies the necessity of research on problem (1.1).
In the current paper, we conclude the existence of eigenvalues for nonlinear eigenvalue problem (1.4) via the Lagrange multiplier rule. This appears to be first such result for eigenvalue problem (1.4). Furthermore, the existence of nontrivial solutions of discrete Kirchhoff-type problem (1.1) with resonance at both zero and infinity is also studied by employing the critical point theory, especially the local linking, Morse theory and the computations of critical groups.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we give the energy functional of problem (1.1) and study the eigenvalue of problem (1.4). In order to prove our main results, some facts about the critical groups are also recalled in this section. In Section 3, the proofs of main results are provided.
2 Preliminaries
Hence the solutions of problem (1.1) are exactly the critical points of J in H and .
Now we consider nonlinear eigenvalue problem (1.4). Firstly, we introduce the Lagrange multiplier rule.
Lemma 2.1 [19]
Let X, Y be real Banach spaces, , and continuously differentiable, and closed. Suppose also that . Then there exist Lagrange multipliers and , not all zero, such that . If , then .
Proof Firstly, we prove the existence of and .
Now, we claim that the number of eigenvalues of problem (1.4) is finite.
Hence the number of eigenvalues of problem (1.4) is finite due to the finiteness of . Besides, we can obtain by (2.5). This proof is completed. □
In the following we recall some facts about the critical groups and Morse theory; see [20–22] for more details.
Definition 2.1 [20]
is called the q th critical group of J at , where , denotes the q th singular relative homology group of the topological pair with coefficients in a field .
Definition 2.2 [20]
Let H be a Hilbert space and , . Assume that is the supremum of the vector subspaces of H on which is negative definite. The Morse index of J at is defined as the dimension of . The nullity of J at is defined as the dimension of . is called a non-degenerate critical point of J if has a bounded inverse.
Then , if or .
Lemma 2.3 [20]
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If is a minimum point of J, then ;
- (ii)
If is a maximum point of J and , then ;
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If is a non-degenerate critical point of J with the Morse index , then .
3 Proofs of main results
Now we give the proofs of Theorems 1.1-1.4.
Noting that , we can choose ε small enough such that for and .
- (i)By (1.3), and the continuity of F, we know that for any , there exists such that for all and . Together with (2.4), we have
- (ii)It follows from (1.3), and the continuity of F that we can find , such that for all and . By (2.1), (2.2) and (2.4), we can see that
By (3.2), (3.4) and , it is easy to see that . Therefore J has at least a nontrivial critical point, which completes the proof. □
- (i)
- (ii)One concludes that there exists such that for all by (1.3), , () and the continuity of F. Hence, we infer from (2.1) and (2.4) that
From (3.2), (3.6) and , we get . So, J has at least a nontrivial critical point. The proof is completed. □
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Equation (1.3), and () mean that (3.5) holds. Thus, by (3.5), (3.7) and , it is easily seen that , which implies that J has at least a nontrivial critical point.
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It follows from (1.3), and () that (3.6) holds. Therefore by (3.6), (3.7) and , we have . This shows that J admits at least a nontrivial critical point. Then the conclusion holds. □
- (i)
Equation (1.3) and show that (3.3) holds. Hence, by (3.3), (3.7) and , we have . This implies that J has at least a nontrivial critical point.
- (ii)
We can deduce (3.4) from (1.3) and . Therefore we can obtain from (3.4), (3.7) and . This implies that J has at least a nontrivial critical point. This proof is completed. □
We are grateful to the referees for their suggestions that helped improve the paper greatly. In addition, this work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province (No. 2012011004-3).
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A little less than a month ago, R' Avi Weiss and 21 other protesters (mostly rabbis, with a few rabbinical students and a communal leader mixed in) were ARRESTED for obstructing pedestrian traffic as part of a civil disobedience protest at the United Nations.
Today was their day in court.
I apologize for the lack of pictures;
recording devices aren't allowed in the court building.
I arrived at the Manhattan Criminal Court building at 100 Centre Street at around 8:10am (and sat on a bench and caught up on last week's parsha). The arraignments for the protesters' Desk Appearance Tickets took place in room AR2, a long courtroom with somewhat weak acoustics (I found it difficult to hear everything the bailiffs and judge were saying).
The first identifiable protesters, R' David Kalb and R' Steven Burton, arrived at around 8:35. Attempting to be a better amateur reporter, I asked if they would like to make a statement. Rabbi Burton (of Shaarei Shalom), who also happens to be a lawyer, said that while he has been in court many times before, this was his first time being arrested and arraigned.
This issue, he said, is "central to everything that my rabbinate is about..." It's an "issue of klal Yisrael." He explained: "We and those who live in Eretz Yisrael are one people, and the threat that Iran presents directly to those in the Land of Israel — I and my congregation consider [it] a threat to us."Other protesters arrived soon afterwards, including R' Jason Herman and Ben Greenberg. Their lawyer arrived around 9:10, and began the process of representing his clients. Some of the arraignees, watching the action from the back of the room, theorized that their lawyer probably needed to get their case delayed, since there was a bris in Riverdale that morning that many of the people involved had to attend.
At 9:15, the judge arrived, and a few of the rabbinic protestors stood up, yeshiva-style, as she entered the courtroom. Almost all of my knowledge of court procedure coming from the media, I expected a bailiff to make a loud announcement for everyone to have respect and rise when the judge enters, but no such announcement was made.
The court came to order about ten minutes later. For the next hour and a half, protesters trickled in while other cases were brought before the judge. A few marijuana possession charges; some unlicensed driving; a few cases of possession of stolen property... Most of the defendents were given ACD — Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal. As the judge said many times this morning to many different people,
If you stay out of trouble, your case will be dismissed and sealed thereafter.While waiting for his case to come up, Ben Greenberg told me about some of the other causes he has demonstrated on behalf of. Just last night, as a matter of fact, he was at a labor rally in support of the workers at the Congress Hotel in Chicago who have been on strike since June, 2003. One of the owners of the hotel, Albert Nasser, was being honored by the International Sephardic Education Foundation at a benefit in New York, and Rabbi-In-Training Greenberg, with 40 workers from the hotel and many other supporters, demonstrated in front of the benefit in order to inform the people attending just who it is that they are actually honoring. Other protesters included R' Jill Jacobs of the Jewish FundS (sic) for Justice, R' Michael Feinberg of the New York Labor-Religion Coalition, and Rev. Dr. Charles H. Straut Jr. of the Riverside Church.
In other words, all of these minor violation charges were put on hold for 6 months (12 months for marijuana); if, during that time, the defendent gets into no more trouble with the Law, the charge is automatically dropped and erased from their record. However, if they do get into trouble during that time, The People have the right to reopen the case.
Getting back to the aftermath of this protest, though...
At around 11am, the rabbinic protesters' case came up. Their lawyer made a statement on behalf of all of them, pointing out that the civil disobedience protest was coordinated respectfully with the Police Department, and that there was no intent to cause a public disturbance — instead, their sole intent was to raise the public consciousness about the threat that Iran poses to Israel, the USA, and the rest of the world. The judge granted the protesters an ACD, and they were called up four at a time so that she could give the detailed spiel about what exactly an Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal is. It all took less than 15 minutes, and afterwards, outside the courtroom, the lawyer explained to the protesters that with a successful ACD — 6 months of not getting into trouble and then the automatic dismissal of the case — they can legally answer the question "have you ever been arrested?" with a 'no' and be telling the truth.
After being released of the consequences of their previous protest, the protesters promptly left the courthouse and protested again. I was unable to attend and play photographer again, however, since unfortunately I had to go to a friend's grandfather's funeral. I hope to get in touch with my sources soon so that I can describe what happened after I left.


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Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Saturday said the SAD-BJP government was acting in desperation to bridge the revenue deficit and was imposing an irrational tax structure to cover up their failures.chandigarh Updated: Jul 20, 2013 22:39 IST
Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Saturday said the SAD-BJP government was acting in desperation to bridge the revenue deficit and was imposing an irrational tax structure to cover up their failures.
Bajwa demanded that the hefty fee imposed on illegal colonies be rolled back saying that instead of helping the victims and penalising government officials who allowed the illegal colonies, the government was harassing the common man.
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He said corruption in the government was a major reason for mushrooming of illegal colonies. People now felt cheated and victimised by the state government, he added.
Bajwa asked Badal to show a sense of responsibility and improve the governance, eradicate corruption, check evasion of taxes and adopt austerity measures to bridge the revenue deficit. He said the policies of the SAD-BJP government were responsible for the revenue deficit of about Rs 13,000 crore.
Bajwa said the BJP was also fully responsible for the plight of the urban people who had been overburdened with taxes. He said the BJP didn't oppose imposition of property tax and their ministers kept quiet in the cabinet meeting when the decision to impose a hefty fee on illegal colonies was taken. He said it was due to the pressure built by the Congress that the state government was forced to review the property tax rates. He said the Congress would not allow the SAD-BJP government to play such a mischief time and again.
Bajwa said the SAD-BJP government was likely to impose fresh taxes of Rs 4,000 crore on people. He said the state government had mooted a proposal to impose professional tax on lawyers, doctors, private teachers and architects.
He said finance minister Parminder Dhindsa had imposed taxes of Rs 2,000 crore immediately after the "tax-free" budget for the year 2012-13 was passed by the Vidhan Sabha. He said the base rate of VAT in Punjab was already 5% against the 4% in other states and the 18% tax on diesel was the highest in the country.
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As Hurricane Florence approaches the Carolina coast, The Weather Channel has provided a mind-blowing, and frankly horrifying visualization of just how bad things could get in the path of the storm.
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|Beelzebub extract from Chapter 21
|..."The Sacred Individual who was sent to them was coated with the planetary body of a terrestrial three-brained being and was called, as I have said, Saint Buddha"...
|..."Here it must be noted without fail that at that time there had already been crystallized in the presence of Saint Buddha, as my detailed investigations made evident, a very clear understanding that during the process of its abnormal formation, the Reason of the beings of the planet Earth becomes 'instincto-titillarian' , "that is, it functions only under the action of corresponding shocks from without. In spite of this, Saint Buddha decided to carry out his task by means of their 'Reason' so peculiar for 'three-brained beings' and he began informing that Reason of theirs with objective truths of every kind."
|"First of all, Saint Buddha assembled a number of the chiefs of the third Asiatic group and spoke to them as follows:
|"Beings with a presence in the image of the Creator of all things!Ā "My essence has been sent to you by certain Enlightened and Most Sacred Final Results, who guide in perfect justice the actualization of everything existing in the Universe, to serve as a helping factor for each of you in the striving to free yourselves from the consequences of those abnormal being-properties which, because of important common-cosmic needs, were implanted in the presence of your ancestors and, passing by heredity from generation to generation, have reached you also."
|...Ā "One day while instructing some of his closest initiates, Saint Buddha spoke in very precise terms about a means for the possible destruction in their nature of the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer, transmitted to them by heredity."
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The Russians are buying up real estate on the Crimean Peninsula. The imminent launch of the movement on the bridge through the Kerch Strait is pushing more citizens to buy property in this region.
Today Yalta is a serious competitor to Sochi, fighting for the attention of investors, who intend to earn on tourists. Note that compared to 2014, housing prices in the Crimea increased significantly — by 25%. Now the cost per square meter of real estate in Sevastopol averages about 75 thousand rubles, the figure is set at around 90 thousand rubles, and in Simferopol — 70 thousand rubles. Most of the buyers are Russians from other regions of the country. Property on the Crimean Peninsula is generally acquired for a summer vacation.
In Crimea increased, not only housing prices but also the volume of input of new buildings. This figure has increased three times in the past year, was introduced about 400 thousand square meters of housing. Construction activity in the Crimea is quite high, especially in Sevastopol and Yalta. With the completion of construction of the Kerch bridge the demand for a house or apartment near the sea will only increase.
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Brexit-since the June 23rd, 2016 referendum result, in which 52% of Britain voted to leave the European Union, this six lettered word has continued to send shock waves throughout Britain and much of the world. I'll now try to sum up the most interesting highlights since 2016's momentous result.
1) Brexit camp abandons £350 million-a-week NHS funding promise
Leaders of the cross-party campaign that convinced the British people to leave the EU have dropped their pre-referendum promise of a £350 million a week for the NHS.
2) Post-Brexit Racism
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A home office report revealed that police records showed a 41% increase in hate crimes in July 2016, compared to July 2015.
3) Pound falls to a 31 year low against the dollar
The Pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985 on October 4th, 2016. Sterling fell to $1.2775 against the dollar due to speculation about a hard-Brexit.
4) Theresa May reveals her 12 point Brexit plan
On 17th, January 2017 Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced her 12 point plan for how she envisages Britain to leave the EU. Key points included pushing for the "freest possible trade" with European countries, and acknowledging Britain has to forfeit it's "membership of the single market".
5) Angela Merkel's Economic Adviser, Michael Fuchs accuses Britain of cherry picking
In an interview with Sky News on 18th January 2017, Michael Fuchs says Theresa May's 12 point Brexit plan is "not possible" because "It was a little bit like cherry picking. So to speak: you can't eat a cake without paying for it."
6) Gina Miller wins Supreme Court case, parliament must vote to trigger article 50
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Self-funded Gina Miller successfully spearheaded the first challenge for Article 50 to be triggered by Parliament. Despite an appeal by the government, the result was upheld by the Supreme Court on 24th January 2017. Nonetheless, Brexit does not need approval from Scottland, Northern Ireland or Wales.
7) UK government invoke Article 50
On 29th March 2017 Britain officially started the two-year time limit for leaving the European Union.
8) May's EU citizen pledge
On 22 June 2017, Prime Minister May promised that no EU citizen living legally in the UK would be forced to leave, conditional on the EU providing the same offer to British expatriates living in the EU.
9) Brexit fee negotiations
May's Florence speech was the first insight into how much Britain are willing to pay to leave the EU, with the amount being around £18 billion. Yet this has increased and is now around £37 billion. In December 2017, EU leaders announced an agreement to begin the next phase of negotiations, with talks on a transition period after March 2019 to begin in early 2018 and negotiations on the future UK-EU relationship, including security and trade to start in March 2018.
10) Lords vote to keep single market
On 8 May 2018, the House of Lords voted to make remaining in the European Economic Area a negotiating target meaning that Britain may not leave the EU's single market.
The annual EU summit will take place in October 2018, where 20 out of 27 members can accept or reject the UK's Brexit deal. This year will see discussions heat up, for the countless numbers of both 'leavers' and 'remainers' who feel betrayed, alienated or simply concerned about the fate of Britain, I urge them to contact their MPs and make their concerns known.
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One day in April of 2015, having just recently returned home from deployment, I stood in front of my bathroom mirror. As I gazed into the water stained mirror I didn't recognize the person looking back. My eyes sad and lonesome, my spirit visibly broken. Now reading just this you may think that this is another PTSD story but how wrong you are. For you see, I was broken not because of what I had seen in Afghanistan as a company medic, or from the death of patients who had contracted Ebola, but because I was once again looking at a reflection of a lie.
For as long as I can remember, from as early as age five, I've always known I was a girl. No, not I want to be a girl, or "oh it would be better as a girl" but actually a girl. I thought, acted, played and socialized as girls do. I ran around the house as Wonder Woman because she was my hero, she was my role model. My parents thought nothing of it. I knew better. But it was the 80's, and being transgender wasn't something I even knew about. So I continued to pretend, continued to dress up as the boy my mother gave birth to. All the while praying to God every night to just make me a real girl. But of course that wasn't the plan.
I hated myself.
As time went on, I realized a wonderful, powerful and amazing fact about myself: I loved men. Yup so that means I'm gay "thank God" I thought, that means I'm just gay.
And so, I came out to my parents and for the next almost 20 years I navigated the world as a gay man, pathetically I must admit. I was in relationship after relationship never really connecting with any of my partners. The truth was I still longed to finally be that girl imprisoned in my psyche on the other side of the looking-glass. I was angry, afraid but most of all confused as to why I was forced to witness the damaging and horrific effects testosterone was having on my body, turning me into something I was not and never had been. From the body hair to the oily skin and the ever coveted receding hairline, I was becoming what I feared the most; a man. No longer could I hide behind my perceived femininity of youth because I was looking like a rugged man. People would comment on how handsome I was and how much I looked like my father but they never saw that this was like an arrow through my heart. I wanted to be cute, or beautiful or gorgeous. I continued to hide under the guise of a soldier and gay guy, I pretended and acted the part I had been cast in. In retrospect I did a pretty good job cause no one knew my deepest secret. I even worked out a lot and tried to be that muscular jock, I did Crossfit to butch up. But instead of becoming the epitome of masculinity I became a mean-spirited, sarcastic and unhappy person in many respects. I wasn't fooling anyone except myself.
I was miserable.
When you try to hold a beach ball under the water its a balancing act. At first, you push it down with such force so that it becomes submerged but then it sways to one side and you compensate. Then it shifts to the other side and you compensate again. After a game of underwater see-saw you loose your grip and it bursts out of the water and there is no stopping it. That is what its like to be Transgender.
My life finally began when I accepted myself for who I was. The start of it all came in the form of a conversations on a couch. At first silence, then the truth which morphed into revelation; my best friend holding me as I let years of anguish and self loathing pour out. With every tear came relief and with that relief came perseverance.
I have been through a lot since April of 2015. I've cried and laughed. Been angry and felt despair. I was introduced to the despicable body shaming that the beauty and fashion industry continue to perpetuate. I received my medal for the care we provided in Western Africa, and I've come out (again) to my entire family who welcomed their daughter (granddaughter, niece, cousin or friend ) with open arms and I decided to transition.
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Installing and using the IDL interfaces
The Healpix package provides all the routines to read, write and manipulate Healpix maps in IDL. S2LET completes this framework by providing similar routines for the MW sampling. Interfaces for the spherical harmonic and the wavelet transforms are provided for both samplings and allow for the same flexibility as in the C and Matlab code. In particular, S2LET enables to work either with MW of Healpix maps from the FITS files to the output wavelets plotted in Mollweide projection.
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make dylib). The variable S2LET must be defined in Bash/Shell and point to the root of the S2LET directory so that IDL can find the dynamic library. Note that CFITSIO and HEALPIX are required to support for the Healpix spherical harmonic transform as well as the FITS input-output routines.
Source code documentation
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Once the dynamic library is built, you may add
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s2let_axisym_mw_wav_analysis Compute exact wavelet transform of a MW signal sampled on the sphere s2let_axisym_mw_wav_synthesis Exactly reconstuct a MW signal on the sphere from its wavelets s2let_mw_read_real_map Read a MW map from a FITS file s2let_mw_write_real_map Write a MW map to a FITS file s2let_hpx_alm2map_real Interface to the Fortran function alm2map in Healpix (ring ordered, inverse spherical harmonic transform) s2let_hpx_map2alm_real Interface to the Fortran function map2alm in Healpix (ring ordered, forward spherical harmonic transform) s2let_axisym_hpx_wav_analysis Compute wavelet transform of a Healpix map (ring ordered) s2let_axisym_hpx_wav_synthesis Reconstuct a Healpix map (ring ordered) on the sphere from its wavelets s2let_mw_plot_mollweide Plot an MW map using Mollweide projection
To access the documentation for each function in IDL, simply run:
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<function> is the function name.
A number of demos are provided to illustrate the use of the idl interface.
s2let_test Run and test all functionalties of the wavelet transform (MW sampling) s2let_demo1 Compute and plot wavelets of Earth tomography data (full and multi-resolution, MW sampling) s2let_demo2 Compute and plot wavelets of a random CMB simulation (Healpix sampling converted into MW) s2let_hpx_demo Compute and plot wavelets of a random CMB simulation (Healpix sampling)


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