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«Stephen Venables, born in 1954 in London, is an outstanding mountaineer, a gifted author and successful editor. As a mountaineer, he accomplished numerous important first ascents. His daring climb, in 1988, of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen on a new route up the huge Kangshung-Face and his desperate retreat down the mountain, resulted in his becoming a legend in his lifetime.
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Bingo, as we know it today is a form of lottery and is a direct descendant of Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia. When Italy was united in 1530, the Italian National Lottery Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia was organized and has been held, almost without pause, at weekly intervals to this date. Today the Italian State lottery is indispensable to the government's budget, with a yearly contribution of more than 75 million dollars.
In 1778 it was reported in the French press that Le Lotto had captured the fancy of the intelligentsia. In the classic version of Lotto, which developed during this period, the playing card used in the game was divided into three horizontal and nine vertical rows. Each horizontal row had five numbered and four blank squares in a random arrangement. The vertical rows contained numbers from 1 to 9 in the first row, 10 to 19 in the second row, etc.., up to 90. Each horizontal row had five numbers.
No two Lotto cards were alike. Chips numbered from 1 to 90 completed the playing equipment. Players were dealt a single Lotto card; then the caller would draw a small wooden, numbered token from a cloth bag and read the number aloud. The players would cover the number if it appeared on their card. The first player to cover a horizontal row was the winner.
In the 1800's educational Lotto games became popular. A German Lotto game of the 1850's was designed to teach children their multiplication tables. There were other educational Lotto games such as 'Spelling Lotto,' 'Animal Lotto,' and 'Historical Lotto.' Even in today's highly competitive toy and game market, Lotto is holding its own; Milton Bradley sells a Lotto game featuring the Sesame Street Muppets. The game is designed to provide children in the 3 to 6 year age range with a splash of fun while, at the same time, teaching them to count and recognize numbers.
It was an evening in December of 1929 when a very tired New York toy salesman, Edwin S. Lowe, decided to drive on to Jacksonville, Georgia so that he might have an early start for his next day's appointments. The year before, with two employees and $1,000 capital, Lowe had set up his own toy company. Soon after, the market crashed, and the outlook for his budding firm looked bleak indeed
A few miles from Jacksonville, Lowe came around a bend in the road and was greeted by the bright lights of a country carnival. He was ahead of schedule, so he parked his car and got out. All of the carnival booths were closed except one, which was packed with people. Lowe stood on tiptoes and peered over the shoulders of the participants. The action centered on a horseshoe-shaped table covered with numbered cards and beans. The game being played was a variation of Lotto called Beano. The pitchman, or caller, pulled small numbered wooden disks from an old cigar box and, at the same time, called the number aloud. The players responded by eagerly checking their card to see if they had the number called; if so, they would place a bean on the number.
This sequence continued until some someone filled a line of numbers on their card - either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. This feat was marked by the shout of "Beano!" The winner received a small Kewpie doll.
Ed Lowe tried to play Beano that night, but he recalls, "I couldn't get a seat But while I was waiting around, I noticed that the players were practically addicted to the game. The pitchman wanted to close up, but every time he said, 'This is the last game,' nobody moved. When he finally closed at 3:00 a.m. he had to chase them out."
After locking up, the pitchman told Lowe that he had run across a game called Lotto while traveling with a carnival in Germany the previous year. His immediate thought was that it would make a good tent or carnival game. He made a few changes in its play and a change of the name to Beano. The game proved to be such a surefire crowd pleaser and moneymaker that on his return to the United States, he continued to work the game on the Carnival circuit
Returning to his home in New York, Lowe bought some dried beans, a rubber numbering stamp, and some cardboard. Friends were invited to his apartment, and Ed Lowe assumed the pitchman's duties. Soon his friends were playing Beano with the same tension and excitement as he had seen at the carnival. During one session Lowe noticed that one of his players was close to winning. She got more excited as each bean was added to her card. Finally, there was one number left - and it was called! The woman jumped up, became tongue-tied, and instead of shouting "Beano," stuttered "B-B-B-BINGO!"
"I cannot describe the strange sense of elation which that girl's cry brought to me," Lowe said. "All I could think of was that I was going to come out with this game, and it was going to be called Bingo!"
The earliest Lowe Bingo game came in two variations - a twelve card set for one dollar and a twenty-four card set for two dollars.
Several months after Bingo hit the market, a priest from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania approached Lowe. The priest had a problem in his parish. A fast thinking parishioner had come up with the idea of using Bingo as a way to get the church out of its financial troubles. The priest had put the scheme into operation after having bought several sets of Lowe's $2.00 Bingo game. However, problems developed immediately when it was found that each game produced half a dozen or more winners. Lowe could immediately see the tremendous fundraising possibilities of Bingo, but at the same time, he realized that to make the game workable on this large of a scale, a great many more combinations of numbers would have to be developed for the cards.
To accomplish this, Lowe sought the services of an elderly professor of mathematics at Columbia University, one Carl Leffler. Lowe's request was the professor devise 6,000 new Bingo cards with non-repeating number groups. The professor agreed to a fee that remunerated him on a per card basis. As the professor worked on, each card became increasingly difficult.
Lowe was impatient, and toward the end, the price per card had risen to $100. Eventually, the task was completed. The E.S. Lowe Company had its 6,000 cards - at the expense of the professor's sanity!
The church of Wilkes-Barre was saved and after it, a Knights of Columbus Hall in Utica, New York. Word spread fast - "I used to get thousands of letters asking for help on setting up Bingo games," said Lowe - so many that he published Bingo's first Instructional Manual, followed by a monthly newsletter called The Blotter, which was distributed to 37,000 subscribers. By 1934 there were an estimated 10,000 Bingo games a week, and Ed Lowe's firm had a thousand employees frantically trying to keep up with demand - nine entire floors of the New York office space, and 64 presses printing 24 hours a day - "... we used more newsprint than the New York Times!" According to Lowe, the largest Bingo game in history was played in New York's Teaneck Armory - 60,000 players, with another 10,000 being turned away at the door. Ten automobiles were given away. Bingo was off to a fast start, and at the same time, had reserved itself next to baseball and apple pie - thanks to Ed Lowe and the loss of Professor Leffler's sanity.


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# Couchbase raised $14m in series C funding for its NoSQL database.
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text: Plotting the destruction of the U.S. economy By Alan Caruba Right on through to the end of this year, Americans will hear and read about the "fiscal cliff" and the likelihood is that most will remain clueless about its impact or even what it has to do with the taxes they will be paying in 2013. For the 47% of Americans who pay no taxes, the debate is a distraction from watching the bowl games and other diversions. As usual the Heritage Foundation has stepped up to inform those who think these issues are important. Amy Payne spelled it out in a recent commentary, saying "Tax hikes are the centerpiece of the problem, as the largest tax increase in American history is scheduled to kick in on January 1. This tax increase has been dubbed 'Taxmageddon." "Most of this massive tax increase stems from the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts implemented under President George W. Bush. There is also the payroll tax cut, the alternative minimum tax patch, and a host of other policies that expire at year's end. In addition, five of the 18 tax increases built into Obamacare are scheduled to go into effect. Families will bear the brunt of this tax increase among American households, with an average increase of over $4,100 in taxes." One wonders how many of those families voted to reelect Obama. If so, they are in for sticker shock when they filed their tax returns next year. As the Heritage Foundation and others have been shouting from the housetops, Obama care raises the hospital insurance (HI) portion of the payroll tax on wage income over $250,000 from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent. It then applies that 3.8 percent rate to investment income-capital gains and dividends—for anyone about $250,000. Tax experts like Curtis Dubay, a senior policy analyst for the Heritage Foundation, points out that "this is a massive policy change, since it represents the first time the payroll tax will apply to investment income." He calls this investment income HI tax "a dangerous step down a slippery, tax-hiking slope", predicting that "the economy will suffer, because incentives to work and invest will fall. Less work and investment will mean that businesses create fewer jobs and pay their existing workers less than they otherwise would have." Dubay refutes President Obama's claim that his plan for taxing the rich would just be a return to the rates that existed under President Clinton. "That is flat out incorrect," noting that Obama is ignoring the tax hikes hidden in Obamacare. Stephen Moore, a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board and a senior economics writer, a regular commentator on CNBC-TV and Fox News, has a new book out, Who's the Fairest of the Them All? The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America. ($21.50, Encounter Books). It blessedly brief, but it covers a lot of ground, especially as regards the lies coming out of the White House about the "rich." A lot of Americans are oblivious to the fact that the President is operating from an ideology that is the opposite of everything that built the greatest economy the world has ever seen. His views are those of a Socialist or to put it more bluntly, a Communist. He stops short of initiating programs by which the government would nationalize all industries, but only because he knows that would get him impeached. Still, Obamacare in effect does that for the health care industry; twenty percent of the nation's economy. In his book, Moore defends the free enterprise system as "the on-ramp to economic progress and rising incomes." Under President Obama, "the ranks of the poor have risen and the progress of the middle class has stalled in the United States in recent years because we have moved so aggressively away from free markets and toward ham-handed government solutions." The lies the President told all through his 2008 campaign and the last four years of his first term have all been intended to create class warfare. Moore points out that "Mr. Obama says that in recent decades the middle class has suffered and shrunk. He is dead wrong on this count. In fact, the last thirty years (up until this recession) have been a boom period for the middle class." The proof of that, Moore notes, "By 2011, after Mr. Obama's first three full years in office, and after nearly two years of radical spending and taxing policies, the median American family incomes declined by almost $4,500 for every race. The poverty rate increased, and so did the number of Americans losing their homes. Yes, Mr. Obama inherited an economic mess, but his policies have done little to stop the decline." According to Obama, if you earn more than $250,000 you are among the "rich" in America. This is surely a redefining of what we used to consider rich; usually those earning a million or more. As things stand now "Our government," says Moore, "relies for more than 50 percent of its revenue on the richest three percent." The tax rate increase on "the rich" that Obama is demanding would raise enough revenue to run the nation for about a week. Meanwhile, the U.S. must borrow $4.8 billion every day just to meet its expenses. Obama's goals since becoming President can be found in the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" and I recommend you get familiar with it as the nation hurtles toward financial collapse because that is exactly what the strategy is intended to bring about in order to impose a total socialist/communist system on the world's greatest capitalistic economy. Among the strategy's proposals was a "massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls" and we have seen this in the expansion of the food stamp program and loosening of requirements for those on welfare to seek employment. The goal of the Cloward-Piven strategy is to ultimately "sabotage and destroy the welfare system in order to ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would 'the rest of society' accept their demands." That is Obama's definition of "fairness" and it exists today as half of society, those with jobs or self-employed, are having their income taxed at high rates to pay for goods and services for those who do not work or cannot find work. So confident is Obama that he will take his family on yet another vacation to the sunny shores of Hawaii while leaving Congress behind to deal with the mess he not only "inherited", but has expanded. Other presidents "inherited" recessions and solved them by cutting taxes. A recent Rasmussen Reports poll noted that 73% of likely voters want government spending cut. Obama has found ways to worsen the financial crisis and it has been deliberate. He is not merely "transforming" America, he is destroying it. Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center. © Alan Caruba, 2012


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Linked here is a detailed quantitative analysis of Owens & Minor, Inc. (OMI). Below are some highlights from the above linked analysis:
Company Description: Owens & Minor Inc. is a leading domestic distributor of medical and surgical supplies to the acute care market, a health care supply chain management company, and a direct-to-consumer (DTC) supplier of testing and monitoring supplies for diabetes.
Fair Value: In calculating fair value, I consider the NPV MMA Differential Fair Value along with these four calculations of fair value, see page 2 of the linked PDF for a detailed description:
1. Avg. High Yield Price
2. 20-Year DCF Price
3. Avg. P/E Price
4. Graham Number
OMI is trading at a discount to 1.), 2.) and 3.) above. The stock is trading at a 14.3% discount to its calculated fair value of $32.35. OMI earned a Star in this section since it is trading at a fair value.
Dividend Analytical Data: In this section there are three possible Stars and three key metrics, see page 2 of the linked PDF for a detailed description:
1. Free Cash Flow Payout
2. Debt To Total Capital
3. Key Metrics
4. Dividend Growth Rate
5. Years of Div. Growth
6. Rolling 4-yr Div. > 15%
OMI earned one Star in this section for 2.) above. The stock earned a Star as a result of its most recent Debt to Total Capital being less than 45%. The company has paid a cash dividend to shareholders every year since 1926 and has increased its dividend payments for 13 consecutive years.
Dividend Income vs. MMA: Why would you assume the equity risk and invest in a dividend stock if you could earn a better return in a much less risky money market account (MMA) or Treasury bond? This section compares the earning ability of this stock with a high yield MMA. Two items are considered in this section, see page 2 of the linked PDF for a detailed description:
1. NPV MMA Diff.
2. Years to > MMA
OMI earned a Star in this section for its NPV MMA Diff. of the $3,385. This amount is in excess of the $2,200 target I look for in a stock that has increased dividends as long as OMI has. If OMI grows its dividend at 13.2% per year, it will take 4 years to equal a MMA yielding an estimated 20-year average rate of 4.1%. OMI earned a check for the Key Metric 'Years to >MMA' since its 4 years is less than the 5 year target.
Memberships and Peers: OMI is a member of the Broad Dividend Achievers™ Index. The company's peer group includes: Cardinal Health, Inc. (CAH) with a 2.1% yield, McKesson Corporation (MCK) with a 1.1% yield and Patterson Companies Inc. (PDCO) with a 1.8% yield.
Conclusion: OMI earned one Star in the Fair Value section, earned one Star in the Dividend Analytical Data section and earned one Star in the Dividend Income vs. MMA section for a total of three Stars. This quantitatively ranks OMI as a 3 Star-Hold stock.
Using my D4L-PreScreen.xls model, I determined the share price would need to increase to $32.47 before OMI's NPV MMA Differential decreased to the $2,200 minimum that I look for in a stock with 13 years of consecutive dividend increases. At that price the stock would yield 2.5%.
Resetting the D4L-PreScreen.xls model and solving for the dividend growth rate needed to generate the target $2,200 NPV MMA Differential, the calculated rate is 11.8%. This dividend growth rate is below the 13.2% used in this analysis, thus providing a slight margin of safety. OMI has a risk rating of 2.00 which classifies it as a Medium risk stock.
Although, OMI is well-insulated from economic cycles and the effects of health-care policy reform, the company lacks a competitive advantage as a middleman in a low-growth business. Near-term results are likely to reflect tougher hospital markets. There is long-term potential in the OM Healthcare Logistics division, which provides outsourced third-party logistics services. However, it will take this division some time to achieve the critical mass the division needs to break even. More concerning is the decline in is free cash flow payout. This will keep me for adding to my position even though OMI is trading below my $32.35 calculated fair value.
Disclaimer: Material presented here is for informational purposes only. The above quantitative stock analysis, including the Star rating, is mechanically calculated and is based on historical information. The analysis assumes the stock will perform in the future as it has in the past. This is generally never true. Before buying or selling any stock you should do your own research and reach your own conclusion. See my Disclaimer for more information.
Full Disclosure: At the time of this writing, I was long in OMI (2.9% of my Dividend Growth Portfolio). See a list of all my dividend growth holdings here.
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Getting Started with Web Accessibility
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. Please look around the WAI website and let us know if you can't find what you're looking for or have any suggestions.
For People who Use the Web
- Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your Computer
- Provides references to help you customize your particular web browser and computer setup, including links to detailed documentation and step-by-step guides.
- Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites
- Encourages telling organizations about accessibility barriers on their website. Provides guidance on identifying key contacts, describing the problem, and following up as needed. Includes tips and sample e-mails.
Accessibility Basics
- Accessibility - W3C
- The first place to start for a short introduction to Web accessibility.
- Introduction to Web Accessibility
- Introduces Web accessibility and links to additional resources.
- Essential Components of Web Accessibility
- Shows how Web accessibility depends on several components of Web development and interaction working together and shows the relationship between the WAI guidelines: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), and User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG).
- Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization
- Presents benefits and costs of Web accessibility and includes guidance on incorporating these aspects into a specific organization's business case. Includes separate pages for Social Factors, Technical Factors, Financial Factors, and Legal & Policy Factors, and a collection of supporting Resources.
See also:
- Web Accessibility Presentations links to several short introductions.
- WCAG 2 at a Glance is a brief summary of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for websites and web applications.
- How People with Disabilities Use the Web for detailed examples of people with different disabilities using websites, applications, browsers, and authoring tools.
- Finding Your WAI to New Web Accessibility Resources for a list of new resources and how to find more.


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As much as I like to cook, I must admit that I also like to eat out. There's always a new restaurant that I want to check out, or a a restaurant that I pass by a gazillion times but I've never stepped inside.
Lately I've managed to check out the following restaurants/cafes. If I'm blogging about it – then this means that I will be going back.
1 .Tiffin Box (938 Bathurst St) This restaurant has been around for a few years and is in that category of "I pass by it a gazillion times but I've never been in". I ordered a vegetarian Thali platter for $9.95 and loved every mouthful. Plus it's owned by the loveliest couple that have been in the restaurant industry for decades. Please note; closed Monday and Tuesday
The platter consisted of a choice of 2 vegetable dishes with dhal, basmati rice, raita and salad. YUM.
2. Almond Butterfly Cafe and BakeShop (100 Harbord St.) Again, this is in the same category as Tiffin Box. I pass by it ALL the time but have never gone in. This cinnamon bun was gluten free (but there's plenty of vegan options too) and it was delicious. Really delicious. 3. Pi Co – This is the type of place where you can get a "good pizza' but don't want to sit down and be served. Know what I mean? (FYI – otherwise knows as QSR – Quick Service Restaurant). I liked this pizza so much that I went back a week later. Not to mention I liked the price point too! PS. there's two locations: 1200 Bay St and 2177 Bay St. According to their websites there's more locations opening soon!!4. The Drake Commissary: (128a Sterling Rd, Toronto) I've been for a quick coffee but finally made it back for brunch. We were so impressed that once again, we went back a week later for dinner!
This smoked cured and potted fish platter is described as: House cured fish, octopus terrine with nori moroccan olive tapenade, smoked mackerel, roast beet and horseradish dill crema, smoked salmon and caper cream cheese. Served with amazing sourdough bread.
5. Craque de Creme (1360 Bathurst St). This lovely cafe serves unbelievable creme brûlée, waffles (that aren't your typical waffles) and ice cream too. What a great concept and what a skilled chef!
There's a few more restaurants that are on my radar too! So stay tuned. In the meantime, I will be eating at home and have every intention of trying some new recipes too!


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Tanning is just one of those things, like chain smoking or base-jumping, that I've never cared to try; I am nowhere near athletic enough to attempt jumping off of a mountain face. I am also too, well, white to bask in the natural sun without SPF 50 sunscreen; like most people with skin of Fitzpatrick Scale type of I or II, I burn to a crisp and spend the next half-week smoothing aloe on my skin and crying in regret. More


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December 6, 2019
In 1900, so the story goes, prominent physicist Lord Kelvin addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science with these words: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now."
How wrong he was. The following century completely turned physics on its head. A huge number of theoretical and experimental discoveries have transformed our understanding of the universe, and our place within it.
Don't expect the next century to be any different. The universe has many mysteries that still remain to be uncovered – and new technologies will help us to solve them over the next 50 years.
The first concerns the fundamentals of our existence. Physics predicts that the Big Bang produced equal amounts of the matter you are made of and something called antimatter. Most particles of matter have an antimatter twin, identical but with the opposite electric charge. When the two meet, they annihilate each other, with all their energy converted into light.
But the universe today is made almost entirely out of matter. So where has all the antimatter gone?
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has offered some insight into this question. It collides protons at unimaginable speeds, creating heavy particles of matter and antimatter that decay into lighter particles, several of which had never been seen before.
The LHC has shown that matter and antimatter decay at slightly different rates. This goes part – but nowhere near all – of the way to explaining why we see an asymmetry in nature.
The problem is that compared to the precision physicists are used to, the LHC is like playing table tennis with a tennis racquet. As protons are made up of smaller particles, when they collide their innards get sprayed all over the place, making it much harder to spot new particles among the debris. This makes it difficult to accurately measure their properties for further clues to why so much antimatter has disappeared.
Three new colliders will change the game in the coming decades. Chief among them is the Future Circular Collider (FCC) – a 100km tunnel encircling Geneva, which will use the 27km LHC as a slipway. Instead of protons, the colliders will smash together electrons and their antiparticles, positrons, at much higher speeds than the LHC could achieve.
Unlike protons, electrons and positrons are indivisible – so we'll know exactly what we're colliding. We'll also be able to vary the energy at which the two collide, to produce specific antimatter particles, and measure their properties – particularly the way they decay – much more accurately.
These investigations could reveal entirely new physics. One possibility is that the disappearance of antimatter could be related to the existence of dark matter – the thus far undetectable particles that make up a whopping 85% of mass in the universe. The absence of antimatter and prevalence of dark matter probably owe themselves to the conditions present during the Big Bang, so these experiments probe right into the origins of our existence.
Its impossible to predict how as-yet hidden discoveries from collider experiments will change our lives. But the last time we looked at the world through a more powerful magnifying glass, we discovered subatomic particles and the world of quantum mechanics – which we're currently harnessing to revolutionise computing, medicine and energy production.
Alone no more?
Just as much remains to be discovered on the cosmic scale – not least the age-old question of whether we're alone in the universe. Despite the recent discovery of liquid water on Mars, there is not yet any evidence of microbial life. Even if found, the planet's harsh environment means it would be incredibly primitive.
The search for life on planets in other star systems has so far not borne fruit. But the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, launching in 2021, will revolutionise the way that we detect habitable exoplanets.
Unlike previous telescopes, which measure the dip in a star's light as an orbiting planet passes in front of it, James Webb will use an instrument called a coronagraph to block the light from a star entering the telescope. This works in much the same way as using your hand to block sunlight from entering your eyes. The technique will allow the telescope to directly observe small planets that would ordinarily be overwhelmed by the bright glare of the star they orbit.
Not only will the James Webb telescope be able to detect new planets, but it will also be able to determine if they're able to support life. When the light from a star reaches a planet's atmosphere, certain wavelengths are absorbed, leaving gaps in the reflected spectrum. Much like a barcode, these gaps provide a signature for the atoms and molecules of which the planet's atmosphere is made.
The telescope will be able to read these "barcodes" to detect whether a planet's atmosphere has the necessary conditions for life. In 50 years' time, we could have targets for future interstellar space missions to determine what, or who, may live there.
Closer to home, Jupiter's moon, Europa, has been identified as somewhere in our own solar system that could harbour life. Despite its cold temperature (−220°C), gravitational forces from the ultra-massive planet it orbits may slosh water beneath the surface around sufficiently to prevent it from freezing, making it a possible home for microbial or even aquatic life.
A new mission called Europa Clipper, set for launch in 2025, will confirm whether a sub-surface ocean exists and identify a suitable landing site for a subsequent mission. It will also observe jets of liquid water fired out from the planet's icy surface to see if any organic molecules are present.
Whether its the tiniest building blocks of our existence or the vastness of space, the universe still holds a number of mysteries about its workings and our place within it. It will not give up its secrets easily – but the chances are that the universe will look fundamentally different in 50 years' time.
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The 11 most beautiful mathematical equations
Live Science asked physicists, astronomers and mathematicians for their favorite equations. Here's what we found.
Mathematical equations aren't just useful — many are quite beautiful. And many scientists admit they are often fond of particular formulas not just for their function, but for their form, and the simple, poetic truths they contain.
While certain famous equations, such as Albert Einstein's E = mc^2, hog most of the public glory, many less familiar formulas have their champions among scientists. LiveScience asked physicists, astronomers and mathematicians for their favorite equations; here's what we found.
Related: What's the Universe Made Of? Math, Says Scientist
General relativity
The equation above was formulated by Einstein as part of his groundbreaking general theory of relativity in 1915. The theory revolutionized how scientists understood gravity by describing the force as a warping of the fabric of space and time.
"It is still amazing to me that one such mathematical equation can describe what space-time is all about," said Space Telescope Science Institute astrophysicist Mario Livio, who nominated the equation as his favorite. "All of Einstein's true genius is embodied in this equation." [Einstein Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Genius]
"The right-hand side of this equation describes the energy contents of our universe (including the 'dark energy' that propels the current cosmic acceleration)," Livio explained. "The left-hand side describes the geometry of space-time. The equality reflects the fact that in Einstein's general relativity, mass and energy determine the geometry, and concomitantly the curvature, which is a manifestation of what we call gravity." [6 Weird Facts About Gravity]
"It's a very elegant equation," said Kyle Cranmer, a physicist at New York University, adding that the equation reveals the relationship between space-time and matter and energy. "This equation tells you how they are related — how the presence of the sun warps space-time so that the Earth moves around it in orbit, etc. It also tells you how the universe evolved since the Big Bang and predicts that there should be black holes."
The Standard Model
Another of physics' reigning theories, the standard model describes the collection of fundamental particles currently thought to make up our universe.
The theory can be encapsulated in a main equation called the standard model Lagrangian (named after the 18th-century French mathematician and astronomer Joseph Louis Lagrange), which was chosen by theoretical physicist Lance Dixon of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California as his favorite formula.
"It has successfully described all elementary particles and forces that we've observed in the laboratory to date — except gravity," Dixon told LiveScience. "That includes, of course, the recently discovered Higgs(like) boson, phi in the formula. It is fully self-consistent with quantum mechanics and special relativity."
The standard model theory has not yet, however, been united with general relativity, which is why it cannot describe gravity. [Infographic: The Standard Model Explained]
While the first two equations describe particular aspects of our universe, another favorite equation can be applied to all manner of situations. The fundamental theorem of calculus forms the backbone of the mathematical method known as calculus, and links its two main ideas, the concept of the integral and the concept of the derivative.
"In simple words, [it] says that the net change of a smooth and continuous quantity, such as a distance travelled, over a given time interval (i.e. the difference in the values of the quantity at the end points of the time interval) is equal to the integral of the rate of change of that quantity, i.e. the integral of the velocity," said Melkana Brakalova-Trevithick, chair of the math department at Fordham University, who chose this equation as her favorite. "The fundamental theorem of calculus (FTC) allows us to determine the net change over an interval based on the rate of change over the entire interval."
The seeds of calculus began in ancient times, but much of it was put together in the 17th century by Isaac Newton, who used calculus to describe the motions of the planets around the sun.
Pythagorean theorem
An "oldie but goodie" equation is the famous Pythagorean theorem, which every beginning geometry student learns.
This formula describes how, for any right-angled triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse, c, (the longest side of a right triangle) equals the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides (a and b). Thus, a^2 + b^2 = c^2
"The very first mathematical fact that amazed me was Pythagorean theorem," said mathematician Daina Taimina of Cornell University. "I was a child then and it seemed to me so amazing that it works in geometry and it works with numbers!" [5 Seriously Mind-Boggling Math Facts]
1 = 0.999999999….
This simple equation, which states that the quantity 0.999, followed by an infinite string of nines, is equivalent to one, is the favorite of mathematician Steven Strogatz of Cornell University.
"I love how simple it is — everyone understands what it says — yet how provocative it is," Strogatz said. "Many people don't believe it could be true. It's also beautifully balanced. The left side represents the beginning of mathematics; the right side represents the mysteries of infinity."
Special relativity
Einstein makes the list again with his formulas for special relativity, which describes how time and space aren't absolute concepts, but rather are relative depending on the speed of the observer. The equation above shows how time dilates, or slows down, the faster a person is moving in any direction.
"The point is it's really very simple," said Bill Murray, a particle physicist at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. "There is nothing there an A-level student cannot do, no complex derivatives and trace algebras. But what it embodies is a whole new way of looking at the world, a whole attitude to reality and our relationship to it. Suddenly, the rigid unchanging cosmos is swept away and replaced with a personal world, related to what you observe. You move from being outside the universe, looking down, to one of the components inside it. But the concepts and the maths can be grasped by anyone that wants to."
Murray said he preferred the special relativity equations to the more complicated formulas in Einstein's later theory. "I could never follow the maths of general relativity," he said.
Euler's equation
This simple formula encapsulates something pure about the nature of spheres:
"It says that if you cut the surface of a sphere up into faces, edges and vertices, and let F be the number of faces, E the number of edges and V the number of vertices, you will always get V – E + F = 2," said Colin Adams, a mathematician at Williams College in Massachusetts.
"So, for example, take a tetrahedron, consisting of four triangles, six edges and four vertices," Adams explained. "If you blew hard into a tetrahedron with flexible faces, you could round it off into a sphere, so in that sense, a sphere can be cut into four faces, six edges and four vertices. And we see that V – E + F = 2. Same holds for a pyramid with five faces — four triangular, and one square — eight edges and five vertices," and any other combination of faces, edges and vertices.
"A very cool fact! The combinatorics of the vertices, edges and faces is capturing something very fundamental about the shape of a sphere," Adams said.
Euler-Lagrange equations and Noether's theorem
"These are pretty abstract, but amazingly powerful," NYU's Cranmer said. "The cool thing is that this way of thinking about physics has survived some major revolutions in physics, like quantum mechanics, relativity, etc."
Here, L stands for the Lagrangian, which is a measure of energy in a physical system, such as springs, or levers or fundamental particles. "Solving this equation tells you how the system will evolve with time," Cranmer said.
A spinoff of the Lagrangian equation is called Noether's theorem, after the 20th century German mathematician Emmy Noether. "This theorem is really fundamental to physics and the role of symmetry," Cranmer said. "Informally, the theorem is that if your system has a symmetry, then there is a corresponding conservation law. For example, the idea that the fundamental laws of physics are the same today as tomorrow (time symmetry) implies that energy is conserved. The idea that the laws of physics are the same here as they are in outer space implies that momentum is conserved. Symmetry is perhaps the driving concept in fundamental physics, primarily due to [Noether's] contribution."
The Callan-Symanzik equation
"The Callan-Symanzik equation is a vital first-principles equation from 1970, essential for describing how naive expectations will fail in a quantum world," said theoretical physicist Matt Strassler of Rutgers University.
The equation has numerous applications, including allowing physicists to estimate the mass and size of the proton and neutron, which make up the nuclei of atoms.
Basic physics tells us that the gravitational force, and the electrical force, between two objects is proportional to the inverse of the distance between them squared. On a simple level, the same is true for the strong nuclear force that binds protons and neutrons together to form the nuclei of atoms, and that binds quarks together to form protons and neutrons. However, tiny quantum fluctuations can slightly alter a force's dependence on distance, which has dramatic consequences for the strong nuclear force.
"It prevents this force from decreasing at long distances, and causes it to trap quarks and to combine them to form the protons and neutrons of our world," Strassler said. "What the Callan-Symanzik equation does is relate this dramatic and difficult-to-calculate effect, important when [the distance] is roughly the size of a proton, to more subtle but easier-to-calculate effects that can be measured when [the distance] is much smaller than a proton."
The minimal surface equation
"The minimal surface equation somehow encodes the beautiful soap films that form on wire boundaries when you dip them in soapy water," said mathematician Frank Morgan of Williams College. "The fact that the equation is 'nonlinear,' involving powers and products of derivatives, is the coded mathematical hint for the surprising behavior of soap films. This is in contrast with more familiar linear partial differential equations, such as the heat equation, the wave equation, and the Schrödinger equation of quantum physics."
The Euler line
Glen Whitney, founder of the Museum of Math in New York, chose another geometrical theorem, this one having to do with the Euler line, named after 18th-century Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler.
"Start with any triangle," Whitney explained. "Draw the smallest circle that contains the triangle and find its center. Find the center of mass of the triangle — the point where the triangle, if cut out of a piece of paper, would balance on a pin. Draw the three altitudes of the triangle (the lines from each corner perpendicular to the opposite side), and find the point where they all meet. The theorem is that all three of the points you just found always lie on a single straight line, called the 'Euler line' of the triangle."
Whitney said the theorem encapsulates the beauty and power of mathematics, which often reveals surprising patterns in simple, familiar shapes.
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Alston Primary School Germiston 2022/2023
Welcome to Alston Primary School, a primary school in Germiston, Gauteng Province. A centre of academic excellence and not just in subjects and curriculum learning, but also in other supporting activities.
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Application Form
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Source Article: 5G CRISIS: Historic Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against the FCC by Municipalities Across the USA http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=123570
The preceding screenshot was taken from a class action lawsuit aimed at first slowing down and then vacating the FCC "order and declaratory ruling purporting to streamline the deployment of wireless facilities by pre-empting local government authority".
It is critical for every U.S. citizen to understand that this illicit and highly consequential order by the FCC is wholly unprecedented. It is also reckless to the extreme. Much more significantly, however, this FCC ruling represents a massive and complex criminal conspiracy that will seriously injure the American people.
That the FCC would blatantly attempt to unlawfully arrogate power unto itself to foist 5G on the entire nation represents the height of federal overreach and governmental hubris. Such an illegal order is clearly a tyrannical move by the U.S. Federal Government to improperly impose the deployment of 5G on every city and county in the 50 states.
Not only is this usurpation of municipal authority completely unconstitutional, it's a flagrant violation of various federal laws, state statutes, county codes and city ordinances.
There's a HUGE back story to how the ongoing 5G roll-out even got started. It concerns the stealthy establishment of what's known as the Government-Corporate Complex. The only way that the out-of-control 5G juggernaut can be correctly understood is to become aware of how "The Government-Corporate Complex Took Complete Control Of The USA".
5G Crisis
It is quite shocking that the American people are now faced with an unparalleled public health disaster because of the patently unlawful deployment of the extremely dangerous Fifth Generation Cellular Network Technology nationwide.
How, pray tell, did this happen?
That's simple: The IT, WiFi, Smartphone and
Telecom Industries essentially took over the
Federal Communications Commission, that's how!
Once this coup was successful, the FCC was used to override and supersede any and every legal impediment that stood in the way of the seamless deployment of 5G across the USA.
The completely corrupted FCC was able to do this in spite of the fact that the 5G technology platform was not tested as required by law for the most basic safety concerns and human health risks. Therefore, it's indisputable that various federal statutes have been violated, ignored and flouted.
That such a national technology roll-out could even take place without first passing through the many levels of mandatory testing and approval is as inconceivable as it is insane.
Given how pervasive and profound the inevitable health consequences and environmental impacts of 5G truly are, there's obviously an enormous government-corporate conspiracy at work. Otherwise, this overwhelming juggernaut could never have made it this far with the 5G roll-out.
The 5G Back Story
What follows are just a few exposés posted by the website which flesh out the skeleton of the complex and convoluted conspiracy intent on doing great harm to the American people.
They're totally lying about the 5G roll-out!
5G Super-Hotspots: You better know where the "kill zones" are located!
5G GENOCIDE: The Most Lethal NWO Conspiracy of the Third Millennium
ULTRA-SOS: 5G Roll-out Seriously Endangers Every Person on Planet Earth
5Ggate: The Greatest Criminal Conspiracy in U.S. History
5G Termination Strategy
SOTN is not just another edgy Alt Media news website. Our team includes multiple strategists who formulate strategies to address real emergencies like 5G. Hence, there are often several agendas hidden in each of our featured posts.
Not only do we have many concerned members from the U.S. Intelligence Community contributing intel on a regular basis, we frequently receive radioactive info/data from government and corporate whistleblowers, deep insiders and well-positioned patriots.
With that said, it is the firm consensus of our network that this vital advocacy to shut down 5G can only be successful by employing the following time-tested strategy.
It's entirely true that you can't beat city hall; never could, never will. However, the statehouse can. So can the SCOTUS. And the POTUS.
In fact, the federal government can also make it very difficult for the states, the counties and the cities. However, that game works both ways; the cities, counties and states can defy and make things very difficult for the Feds. So can the courts, as the country has witnessed activist judges undermining the President at every turn.
This same disruptive dynamic works with regard to the relationship between the U.S. Federal Government and Corporate America. While it's clear that Washington can quickly chill a corporate enterprise with a single tariff or criminal prosecution, various corporate sectors can exert extraordinary influence on the government as well.
What's the crucial point?
As the proverbial "David" in this epic war to prevent a 5G genocide, it's the job of We the People to pit the various "Goliaths" (e.g. city, county, state, federal and corporate entities) against each other until a satisfactory outcome is achieved for the populace.
Only in this way, after "David" expertly slings his shot at the different "Goliaths" on the battlefield, can We the People be assured that they will be slain where it concerns this perilous 5G roll-out. In other words, very smart citizens (the "Davids") can aim their sling shots at each government and/or corporate entity (the "Goliaths") that are the biggest players and serious stakeholders. When those "Goliaths" that fall do get back up, they only see other "Goliaths" on the battlefield. In this fashion, we let them take each other down, and then out, as only they can do to each other.
The Class Action
For example, this historic class action lawsuit filed by numerous cities is a perfect illustration of this "David v. Goliath" strategy at work. It's clearly a war between the cities and the FCC (or federal government).
The liberal-leaning cities are deathly afraid of this 5G deployment as the roll-out is hitting the largest metro areas first and fast. The urban populations are now wise to the fact that 5G is much more dangerous than even the most graphic exposés have revealed such as the following video:
5G WEAPONRY: Microwave Radiation Technology Being Deployed as Depopulation Warfare, Full Spectrum Dominance & Total Human Control (Video)
The beauty of this massive class action suit is that the involved cities are spread across the USA and provide legal coverage for much of the country. Should a successful suit precipitate an injunction, for instance, an immediate "cease and desist" order will be issued to every Telecom corporation participating in this deadly conspiracy nationwide.
The FCC really screwed up with their dictatorial imposition of 5G.
Not only is the US government now vulnerable to countless costly lawsuits, every corporate co-conspirator is liable to immense financial damages.
5G Roll-out Facing $1 Trillion Class Action Lawsuit
In point of fact, the legal and monetary exposure associated with this misguided scheme are greater than any other in U.S. history.
When the 5G dominoes begin to fall, there will be so much financial devastation inflicted on the corporate criminals and legal liability assumed by the government corruptocrats that a sea change is inevitable. That sea change will surely see the power taken from the government and put back into the hands of We the People.
The Bottom Line:
"The 5G roll-out must be terminated,
before it terminates US."
State of the Nation
June 5, 2019
N.B. The legal filing at the link below represents just one phase of the class action lawsuit brought by the cities against the FCC.


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Research Areas
- Time Series Analysis
- Legal Applications of Statistics
- Economic and Business Statistics
- Environmental Statistics
I earned a B.S. in music education and taught high school band for two years before
coming to my senses and going back to school to study math. Having had very little
math a very long time before, I was forced to re-start at the level of a high school
algebra course taught at a California community college. Eventually, I transferred
to a school in the California State University (CSU) system to work on a masters degree
in math, and then an Ivy League university to work on a Ph.D. in statistics (hey,
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My theoretical interests lie in time series analysis. However, through a variety of
statistical consulting opportunities (including work done for NASA, Public Television,
The Office of the Attorney General of New York State, the New York City Law Department,
Kittitas County Washington, Investment Banks, auto dealerships, manufacturing companies,
oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, and many other firms, organizations, and
government entities) I have found much more interest in applications of statistics
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Gabriel Roth is most recently the author of The Unknowns.
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Author: Gabriel Roth
Subjects Discussed: Leaving San Francisco for Brooklyn, observing the two dot com booms, how moving away from a city often makes you more aware of its dynamics, the benefits of isolation, National Novel Writing Month, descriptive restaurant cues, the delicate balance between invention and specific representation of a place, writing a character who is "a life support system for feelings of anxiety," not fronting before other programmers, attempted parallels between programming code and writing prose, anxiety as literary ambiguity, My Little Pony used in flashback, brony culture, how the origins of geekdom become twisted over the course of dissemination, Maya Marcom as a loaded name, vacillating between a Bildungsroman and a social novel in the act of writing, capturing the spirit of being alive during a particular time and place, tips learned from being in an MFA program, the one-time advantages of in-state universities, reading books without understanding the mechanics behind the writing, the amount of work that a writer must do to create a vivid sensory world, systems-thinking reporting vs. the descriptive needs of fiction, the abstract nature of news writing, Bay Guardian philosophy, Bruce B. Brugmann's "Write while you're drunk, revise when you're hungover" catchphrase, alt-weekly professionalism, exploring material that you are already steeped in, writing what you know vs. writing what you don't know, what your subconscious knows, automatic writing, the revising process, ingesting drugs as a character trait, accounting for the sudden expository twist near the end of The Unknowns, repressed memory, the problems that occur after you've fallen in love with someone, maintaining a good-natured feel in a novel after a sexual abuse revelation, humor applied to a broader emotional spectrum, "lad lit," Benjamin Kunkel, Nick Hornby, the glut of novels about twentysomething white males, whether style is enough to escape white male fiction trappings, judging a book by its flap copy, taking on other voices, The Orphan Master's Son, why Roth zeroed in on Denver privilege, coming from an educated family, the help that comes from background, Eric's lack of ideological background, selling personal data to evil corporations, characters who espouse pro-corporate values, the diminishing of principle in San Francisco, the difficulties of combining politics and fiction, the homogeneity of America's two political cultures, the Iraq War, when people always agree, whether the idea of the overstuffed Great American Novel still applies in 2013, The Adventures of Augie March, Infinite Jest, Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers, critics obliged to fight over Kushner, minituarist vs. maximist fiction, and how to get a TV-obsessed culture hooked on fiction.
Correspondent: I wanted to first of all start off with you leaving San Francisco in 2006. I left in 2007. We both ended up in Brooklyn. And this is one of those interviews. Why didn't we actually know each other during that decade that we were there? I'm wondering how aware you were that the City was falling apart, was being taken by the Google People, by the private buses. What caused you to flee to Brooklyn? And was this novel in some way a way of reckoning with that?
Roth: Well, I left mostly for personal reasons. I was living with a woman who is now my wife and who was starting a graduate program at Columbia.
Correspondent: Yes.
Roth: And so that was the immediate impetus for me to leave, although I had been in San Francisco for ten years. And as you probably know, ten years is a long time to spend in San Francisco.
Correspondent: I was there for thirteen.
Roth: Yeah. You start to feel that time passing under your feet a little bit. It was not yet clear in 2006 — or at least it wasn't yet clear to me — what was going to happen with the second Internet boom and what was going to happen with the City as a result of that. I had been there since 1996. And so I had seen the first Internet boom which had sort of effloresced in the late part of the millennium and then died out very quickly in the first years of the oughts. And so I probably would have thought that any new economic activity was going to follow a similar boom and bust pattern. And now it's not clear that that's actually what's going to happen. Or if there is a bust, then the City will have been pretty permanently changed and marked by the boom, it seems like.
Correspondent: Well, it is interesting. Because with the present boom underway, I remember the first one and that seemed brutal at the time. And I was very fortunate to have an apartment in which the rent had not gone up, as were many of my friends. And we somehow managed to secure apartments. Now I'm hearing reports from friends who are basically cleaving to their apartments, hoping that their building won't be taken over and so forth. And I guess my tangent here was, if you weren't entirely aware, does moving away from San Francisco and writing a novel actually allow you to think "Wow! All this was going on and, as shred as I was, I really wasn't paying attention"?
Roth: Yeah. There is a certain amount of that obviously. I began the novel and I had gotten a good two thirds of the way into a draft by the time I left San Francisco. So a lot of the scenarios and the physical environment that I was describing was what was immediately around me as I was doing that first stage of writing. And then moving away — and I think this is probably true in general for writers — the act of writing is often, I think, an act of recapturing and of preserving your memories. Sort of freezing them in sentences. And I think it worked that way for me partly about the City of San Francisco and the environment around the first dot com boom, but then also about a time in my life. And of course, it's very difficult to separate the place that you were in your early twenties from the experience of being in your early twenties.
Correspondent: Well, how so? Can you elaborate on that? It almost seems like you're kind of mining through your own data and trying to separate it into emotion and tangible information.
Roth: Yeah. That's absolutely right. I mean, the book is in part about San Francisco and about people working in technology and about collecting data. But then it's also about a young man who's preoccupied with looking for love and finding someone to be intimate with and close to. And it's not an autobiographical book and the characters aren't the same person as me. But that experience of being in my early twenties and really wanting to figure out how to love somebody and be loved by somebody — I was preoccupied with that for a long time. And those experiences, along with the experiences of the social world of San Francisco, are what went into the book and what got filtered through the fiction writing process and into the novel. And so there's no way that I can say, "Oh yes. This is just a sort of satirical or an observational portrait of a little microcosm of the world." Because it's all wrapped up with my own subjective experience.
Correspondent: So you had two thirds of a draft before you moved here to Brooklyn. What did moving to Brooklyn produce in terms of clarity for both Eric [protagonist of The Unknowns] and for the view of San Francisco that you had?
Roth: Well, let's see. Around the time that I moved out here, you know, I finished the MFA program at San Francisco State. I had a bunch of chapters. I was trying to figure out — I knew where the book was going to go, but I was trying to stick the landing, which is not straightforward and I think is not usually straightforward when writing a novel. And then we moved out here. And we were in our early thirties — mid-thirties even — and it was no longer a time when I would have moved to Brooklyn and gone out drinking every night or made a whole bunch of new friends. Or I wasn't going to go out on dates. Because I was living with my girlfriend. And so moving to New York, which for many people is like stepping onto the big stage — for me, that was the time where I was a bit more isolated and I was going to work every day and getting my pages done and then coming home and eating dinner with my wife. And I think that was important in terms of finishing the thing.
Correspondent: So the isolation allowed you to finish the book.
Roth: Yeah.
Correspondent: It allowed you to come to terms with and put aside this particular part of yourself in your twenties.
Roth: Yeah. I think that's right. It was putting a clean break on what I had been doing and what I was going to be starting to do from now on.
Correspondent: Did you have any other novels before this? I was curious.
Roth: Not that you would actually call a novel. I had like a pile of pages that I had written during National Novel Writing Month in 2003. Or something like that. That added to nothing but a pile of pages.
Correspondent: I think I remember reading one of your Bay Guardian columns. I think you wrote about it in the Bay Guardian, writing for the National Novel Writing Month.
Roth: I probably did.
Correspondent: Yeah, I remember that. I was a loyal Bay Guardian reader when I lived there. So that was you. You describe "a medium-expensive neo-Cuban restaurant with the kind of deserts that have names evocative of Catholicism" near Lazarus, your invented Valencia Street bar, which clearly evokes Cha Cha Cha. You have the photographs of tailfinned cars, which are sort of like Mel's Drive-In, but not quite. Fiction — this is not reality. Imagination should be encouraged. But this does lead me to ask you about creating a believable San Francisco for this book. Obviously, you have to rely on things that actually exist. But are there any dangers in being too specific when you're creating a sense of place like this? I mean, it seems that you want to alert people like me who have in fact passed and entered into Cha Cha Cha that this is indeed the San Francisco of that era. But I was curious about that fine line between telegraphing exactly what it is and just making shit up.
Roth: Yeah. I mean, I think the main issue you're talking about is with the restaurants. Frankly, there's a lot of restaurants. And most of the restaurants, as you point out, if you were going out to eat in the Mission in the early part of the 21st century, you've probably eaten in some of those restaurants. I didn't worry about that. And I guess I think that's fine. And if you're reading it and you're in the small subset of people who are going to recognize those restaurants, then hopefully that's a sort of pleasant moment of recognition for you. Maybe it's distracting, in which case my bad. But most people are not going to fall in that category. And I think without some amount of specificity, whether its based on real life's specificity or completely fantastic specificity, without that, then it just becomes a generic restaurant. And the whole thing sort of looks flat. Putting in detail — in this case, often detail borrowed from actual restaurants where I ate most of my meals during the ten years I lived in San Francisco — putting in that detail hopefully gives the feeling of something that takes place in a real world that's fully stocked with all the stuff of the real world.
Correspondent: But it is your world. It is Eric's world. And I guess my question is not so much, "Ah! I'm going to go through The Unknowns and cut and paste all those phrases and put them on Yelp." That's not what I'm talking about.
Roth: (laughs)
Correspondent: What I am talking about is the idea that this is fiction. It does require invention. It is not going to be a pure 100% depiction of San Francisco. So where do you deviate between that specificity and just inventing something that doesn't exist but is real enough for the reader to believe, whether the reader be from San Francisco or the reader be from somewhere else?
Roth: Yeah. I mean, really, it depends on the needs of the particular paragraph. You know what I mean? And what comes to my mind as I'm writing it. If, let's say again, there's a restaurant where I'm sending the two characters and I need to envision it, you know how sometimes in your dreams or your fantasies, sometimes there will be a place that doesn't really exist. And sometimes all of the events will transpire in a place that does exist, but those things never happen there. Or it's a place that does exist, only now they're serving vegetarian food instead of Mexican food. And writing a novel seems to me exactly the same process. That you borrow these elements from the real world, but unless you're writing a novel that's just a direct transposition of real life — which this certainly isn't — the filtering process is going to transform it to whatever degree is necessary.
Correspondent: So Eric describes himself to Maya as "a life support system for feelings of anxiety. The anxiety is the organism and I am the habitat." Yet he tells his story in this book much like a programmer, almost as if he's writing clean lines of code. The habitat of this book may indeed describe anxieties, but it seems like it's reliant more upon nouns and adjectives rather than verbs. And I was curious about this. Did you impose any kind of stylistic ordinance upon your character to push his anxieties beneath the text? I mean, verbs are certainly the way that we absolutely spill out our emotion. And yet he seems to not use them as such. I'm wondering if this was something you were conscious of or whether it was designed or emerged through revision or what not.
Roth: That's interesting. I certainly don't, when I'm writing, think in terms of parts of speech like that. I'm not a sufficiently programmatic writer to be able to do that. I don't think it would help me. I'm sure there's some people for whom that would be a useful way to think about things. I do think — and the sentence that you quote is a good example of this — you know, he's out on a date with this girl and she says to him — he says something that seems uptight or anxious and she says, "Do you consider yourself an anxious person?" And he says, "I consider myself a life support system for anxieties. The anxiety is the organism and I'm the habitat." And on one hand, to some extent, that's an accurate description. But on the other hand, hopefully on a date, that's the clever thing to say. That's sort of witty and self-deprecating, but also a self-revealing thing to say to a girl who you're trying to make fall in love with you. And rather than imposing a restriction on Eric's speech, I think of that character as being both messed up in all of these ways and having these real psychological difficulties, making life really difficult for him, and at the same time being to some useful degree self-aware about that and able to talk about and, as in that example, able to present it and able to sublimate it into a self-presentation that hopefully is a little charming and a little attractive and that Maya at least responds to. And hopefully, to some extent, the reader will respond to it in that way as well. He is an anxious person and he is a self-conscious person and yet his self-awareness about those things enables him to defuse their effects a little bit.
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