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Nas is teaching a Hip-Hop storytelling course for MasterClass.
Grammy Award winning rapper and producer Nas launched the newest class on MasterClass on Hip-Hop lyricism and storytelling.
According to reports, the course features the Queensbridge rapper sharing his techniques as part of an inside look at his creative process. Nas invites members on an exclusive studio session and takes them on a journey to experience how to bring music to life.
While walking them through the writing and recording process of "Big Nas," his latest release written exclusively for MasterClass. The Hip-Hop legend also gives his expert advice on making bold, yet profound lyrics, becoming a successful artist, and finding your identity.
In his class, Nas shares his philosophy as a lyricist and how he uses his life experiences and emotions to create cinematic lyrics. He also offers valuable advice on how to navigate through the music industry.
"Quincy Jones told me years ago, 'You never stop learning. You're always a student,'" Nas said. "Going through my past works made me realize this class was something that I really wanted to do."
Nas added, "I'm looking forward to bringing MasterClass members into my world. Whether it's rap or any genre of music, I want people to embrace their creativity and listen to that voice inside their head. When you trust your gut and first instincts, you can't lose."
Nas joins artists such as Questlove, Timbaland and Alicia Keys in teaching on MasterClass, which costs a minimum of 15-dollars per month.
Check out the video for "Big Nas" that features the Nas Queensbridge Mural by Jorit Agoch below. Share your thoughts with us on social media.


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As previously exclusively reported on Deadline, The Weinstein Company had its annual product preview session for press and buyers tonight at the Majestic Hotel, and the packed crowd got first looks at several films including Paddington, Macbeth, Imitation Game, Big Eyes, Suite Francaise, St. Vincent, and the in-production-phase Jake Gyllenhaal boxing film Southpaw. Harvey Weinstein presided over the presentation, but only after the highlights reel ended was there even a mention from him of the controversy over Grace Of Monaco, the movie TWC (which has U.S. distribution rights ) reportedly threatened to back away from if director Olivier Dahan did not make desired changes to his cut. The director's cut, and the version that opened Cannes to some derision from critics (to say the least), is being released this week in France by Gaumont. Just before its official press conference Wednesday, it was announced that TWC and Dahan had come to an agreement and TWC would be releasing the film after all. Weinstein, in Jordan for a "long-planned" humanitarian mission, missed the opening-night screening and still hasn't seen the version shown here. At least that's what he told reporters who cornered him after tonight's presentation.
Related: 'Grace Of Monaco' Opens Fest As Critics & Royals Take Aim
Despite the TWC showcase, most of the questions afterward were about Grace. The TWC mogul defended his actions on the film and for standing up to the director, who he called a "nice guy". For his part, Dahan told me at the lavish Gaumont after-premiere party Wednesday that he was happy with the way things have turned out and that if there are any changes to the film for its U.S. release, it will be a collaboration between him and The Weinstein Company. He said he previously has had little contact with Weinstein. Harvey clearly knows the ultimate commercial value in all of this: "Boy, am I ever getting great publicity on this. God, I would never even exploit it. It's not like me to do that. But we're going to call it Olivier Dahan's Grace Of Monaco," he said with a smile to the small group of writers who stuck microphones in his face.
Regarding the Monaco royal family heirs' criticism of the film (which they say they refuse to see) and its portrayal of their parents, Princess Grace and Prince Rainier, Weinstein was more to the point. "They have a legitimate problem with the movie. They actually do. In the movie there is a scene, if it were in the film, would go a long way to making peace up there. There's a lot more to do with that incident than is portrayed, I think, in the film. I haven't seen the final thing, but I do know there's a scene in the script. But this is not about Grace Of Monaco. It's about all these fine films we have, but I am going to pay my kids' college bills with all your writing about this, and if you continue writing about Grace Of Monaco, I am going to buy them each a college," he said as he tried to exit the room. He also urged reporters to check with the film's screenwriter Arash Amel or its star Nicole Kidman on the same issue of that missing scene, indicating they will agree with the point he's making. Weinstein never answered my repeated question on when he will release the film, but the company's COO David Glasser said they will figure it out when they return from Cannes. "We don't know," he said. "We'll go back and schedule when we get back. We only closed the [new] deal a few days ago."
As for the actual show, Weinstein addressed flak about his trip to Jordan this week. It was the only mention at all of Grace Of Monaco in the presentation. "It was a long-planned trip, but I read some funny things because of the Grace Of Monaco screening. But it was planned long before I even knew Grace was going to be the opening-night film in Cannes. What was really funny was Neil Gaiman was there and writing a piece for The Guardian. But the movie reviewer [for the paper] obviously hadn't talked to the editors because it said 'Harvey Weinstein planned this trip to avoid seeing Grace Of Monaco' even when Neil Gaiman was writing the piece [about the trip], which proves that sometimes the editors of newspapers don't even read their own newspapers. But I do like The Guardian because they stand up for freedom, and they're great, " he said before going on with a heartfelt description of the trip itself, which included several encounters with some of the 400,000 Syrian refugees now in Jordanian camps. Many of those he spoke with were kids who had seen horrible things happen to their families but brightened when the subject of movies came up. Weinstein's wife, Georgina, is a member of UNHCR, the group that helps refugees in these camps, and he accompanied her on the trip. He said he's making a documentary there on the whole subject and shot much of it there this week.
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The Torrance baseball program lost some key players from last year's CIF Southern Section Division IV finalist team, including ace pitcher Andrew Pulido and center fielder William Kollmeyer.
But that doesn't mean Friday's 12-2 six-inning mercy-rule loss to Loyola in pool play of the Best in the West Wood Bat Tournament at Banning High signifies the downfall of the once-mighty program.
Torrance played lackluster ball in its next-to-last game of the summer, but Coach Ollie Turner is not panicking, not with the team's first big break from baseball in months coming up, and not after a summer that had plenty of upside.
"This time of year, guys are in football and other stuff. You know you can't do everything you want to do, you're not going to play your best baseball," Turner said. "I can't believe we did some of the things we did today, but what are you going to do? We got a lot accomplished this summer, but it didn't show today."
Turner said Torrance won about half of its American Legion games while he got a look at what he has to work with.
"Summer is a lot about playing guys, giving kids opportunities," Turner said. "Playing JV guys and having them see what you have to do at this level."
Typically, Torrance is able to do more at this level than it did on Friday. Torrance made six errors, fell behind early and was never in the game.
Loyola scored five runs on three hits, two errors and a walk in the first inning off starter Joe Dacosta. Two more errors and a hit led to two more runs for Loyola in the second inning.
Dacosta gave up eight runs and five hits in four innings, but only four of the runs were earned.
"We have a lot of pride, but a lot of guys had bad days," Turner said. "It was frustrating all around. We have a lot of work to do before next season, we know that."
Michael Arias, who is from Westchester, led the charge for Loyola, going 3-for-3 with an RBI and two runs. Loyola, which finished 2-1 in pool play, moves to the quarterfinals today.
Torrance (1-2) scored one run in the bottom of the second inning when Dacosta and Mark Ybarra singled, and Dacosta (2-for-2) came home on Trent Gilbert's groundout.
Torrance added a run in the third inning when Tyrone Taylor (2-for-3, RBI) singled home Eun Sup Jung. But that was it for Torrance, which had seven hits – all singles – off three pitchers.
"It seems like every year in this tournament, we have one game that blows up on us," Turner said.
Torrance concludes its summer season with an 11 a.m. consolation game today against Narbonne at South Torrance.
What was Turner's message to the team?
"Just come out and try to have some fun playing baseball with each other," he said.
See page B8 for scores and today's tournament schedule.
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Hypno-Oncology: Hypnotic Interventions for the Cancer Journey. Certification MasterClass
17th August 2020USD325.00
An introduction to cancer formation, grading and staging, along with the treatments employed with potential side effects. Review of ethical and legal issues involved with working with cancer patients. Overview of the most likely issues to be worked with. Teaching of hypnotic techniques and approaches employed to work with cancer patients successfully. Overview of supplied scripts and approaches augmented with numerous case studies, demonstrations and best practice tips.
Introduction, learning outcomes and current research
Legal situations and ethics
Advantages to using hypnosis with cancer patients
Initial fast interventions – discussion and demonstration
Overview of cancer, formation, development, grading, staging and differentiation
Fast intervention sub modality demonstration
Case history
The most common issues cancer patients require hypnosis for
Sessions and approaches
Communication skills with patients and medical staff
The importance of congruency and beliefs
Case histories
The importance of the pre talk including demonstration
Demonstration of authoritarian parts / ego state hybrid technique
Review of authoritarian parts technique and troubleshooting
Overview of cancer treatments
Potential treatment side effects
Case histories – thinking outside the box
Introduction to pain
Overview of five pain control approaches
Review of pain control scripts
Demonstration of sub modality pain control technique
Inductions, deepeners and contraindications
Review of thirteen supplied cancer journey related scripts
First cancer session – dealing with emotions
Demonstration of shimmering barrier pain reduction technique
Presurgical hypnosis approach and empirical evidence
Palliative care
Introduction to psychoneuroimmunology in relation to cancer, review of the empirical evidence
Best practice tips
Further education and research
With over 15 years' experience as a full-time hypnotherapist, Garry is one of a small number in the UK to hold an MSc in Clinical Hypnotherapy, for which he carried out research into the effects of presurgical hypnosis on the recovery quality in breast cancer operations.
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Imitating Mother Earth's nature, the woman is a center and a wonder too. Pythia was a high priestess, one of the Fates, one of the Muses, and an inspirer in the bed, in the kitchen, on the stage, and behind the counter. The woman is a beginning and a future too. Through her, life is abundantly present in every minute. It is present in dream and pain, in madness and fear, in loss and gain. There is no heart that does not beat faster when Nefertiti, Cleopatra, Antigone, Sappho, and others are mentioned or imagined. Depending on her inner self, a woman can transform herself from a queen into a housemaid and vice versa. She has the privilege of giving and nurturing life. That is why she has been initiated into a far greater mystery than the male gender.
Meeting today's needs, Chérie has appeared as a confession and a guide to the woman's role and place in the contemporary world. Fascinating, brimful of real situations and philosophical ideas, the book guides us on the road to ourselves, and hence to the art of living. In a significant part of the text, the gender washes away its boundaries and marks the important duty of each of us. Breaking the threads of fear—getting rid of fear—means carefully nourishing our gifts as the greatest expression of love for the Creator.


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FM: When you think about what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities, and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.
NPR: A lot of people would say what America has done abroad has led to the doubts and even the hatred of its own citizens.
FM: Well, okay, then let's finally talk about the enemy. For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we're up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people's heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters, they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I'm speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I'm living in a city where three thousand of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built.It's perhaps unsurprising, then, that Miller would go on to create Holy Terror. The comic was originally intended to be a Batman story that pitted the caped crusader against Bin Laden and other extremists. Somewhere along the way, and perhaps to the relief of most franchise lovers, Miller decided that this was not, in fact, a Batman story. Batman was replaced by a hero known as The Fixer, and his accomplice/lover is a catburgler rather than Catwoman.
I remember hearing about Miller's Holy Terror a few years ago, but it fell off my radar rather quickly amid the maelstrom of dissertating and a cross country move. It came to mind a couple of weeks ago, however, after I got into a lively conversation on Twitter about modern iterations of militant Christianity, and I realized -- especially since I plan to talk about this topic at length in the conclusion to my book -- that I needed to read it. I bought a copy (used, since I couldn't in good conscience buy a new one) and have spent the past couple of weeks figuring out what to say about it.
Its xenophobic portrait of Middle Easterners is so appalling that -- at first -- it's hard to know where even to start. I'll describe a few of the most crucial moments in the comic, however, in part to give readers a sense of what takes place in the comic, and in part to help me sort out my thoughts on it.
You don't need to look any further than the cover or the comic's epigraph to gather that this comic is is a reactionary post-9/11 revenge fantasy (that it was released close to the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is, perhaps, evidence enough). The cover (pictured left), gives us the first glimpse of the The Fixer and one of many nameless assailants. I couldn't help but notice the difference in the features: consider the clearly defined white/Anglocentric face of our hero with the faceless (and black) void, human only insofar as it has eyes and, at least in the recent past, teeth. From its inception, then, the comic perpetuates the horrendous notion that dark skin connotes threat. And we need only look at any number of tragic narratives in our own country's very recent history to get a sense of why the perpetuation of that kind of imagery is both grotesque and downright dangerous.
Things escalate quickly just a few pages into the comic, where we encounter this epigraph:
"If you meet the Infidel, kill the infidel" -- MohammedThis is not, in fact, a direct quotation from the Q'uran. At best, it's a heavily paraphrased (and wildly decontextualized) version of 9:5: "Slay the pagans wherever you may come upon them, and take the captive, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at ever conceivable space . . . ." It's unclear whether Miller is aware of the original version and its context, but the point of this epigraph is nevertheless crystal clear: to ensure that readers of the comic are encouraged from the start to perceive Muslims as inherently threatening. Again, wildly problematic, but hardly unsurprising.
The first sequence in the comic introduces both The Fixer and the Catburgler, the former chasing the latter on account of a stolen bracelet. The chase takes an erotic turn, but a nail bomb interrupts their rooftop tryst. The comic then flashes back to the events leading up to that bomb going off, and it is here that we are introduced to the first of many caricatured Middle-Eastern villains:
The fact that Amina is both an exchange student and a humanities major should give us pause. In this one panel, Miller implies that both exchange programs and the humanities are in some way in direct/indirect collusion with al Qaeda. And as we recently saw with UMass's decision to deny Iranian students entry, or this study on the likely effects of post 9/11 policies on Muslim exchange students, Middle-Eastern students seeking an education in the U.S. face a plethora of difficulties and are discriminated against in a variety of overt and covert ways. The roots of this discrimination are found in post 9/11 fears of al Qaeda and other forms of militant Islam gaining traction in the U.S., and Holy Terror directly capitalizes on those fears in its depiction of Amina.
Several reviewers have mocked the fact that she's a "humanities major" since no such major actually exists, but I think Miller knew exactly what he wanted to do here as well. All of the characters, both heroic and villanous, in Holy Terror are generalized caricatures created for the sake of the jingoism Miller wished to promulgate. Amina, as a humanities major, then, embodies dangers Miller sees in academia writ large, as he apparently views the scholars within it as left-leaning cultural relativists who inadvertently support the causes of those who would see the end to freedom of thought or expression. His inability to envision academia (or, let's be honest, any corner of the globe) as a space occupied by an array of complex and dynamic persons would be hilarious if it its effects weren't so awful. The representation the Amina as the femme-fatale-suicide bomber-humanities-majoring-exchange-student is deeply problematic, then, because -- like the epigraph that begins the comic -- it relies on a host of oversights that, when played out in the actual world, have direct and downright catastrophic consequences. It perpetuates a cancerous and self-contradictory mythology that condemns freedom of expression while trying to protect it, while also pointing an accusing finger at any exchange student who happens to come from the Middle-East and/or be Muslim (Miller regularly fails to distinguish between the two).
He also deliberately conflates al-Qaeda/Islam (the two are, regrettably, one and the same to him) with "the Dark Ages," implying that the insurgents in his story will usher in second Dark Age if they are allowed to succeed (see left). As many have argued (myself included), to associate anything we perceive as Other or as aberrant with "the Medieval" betrays both ignorance and an unwillingness to grapple with the very real and modern problems of the contemporary world. Al Qaeda is not medieval. It is the result of a complex series of modern events, pressure points, and entanglements. To refuse to see that, is to refuse to take ownership of our contemporary world. An interpretive and an imaginative failure to say the least.
To make matters worse, the comic insists on genocide and torture as the only way to confront and defeat the Other, resorting every step of the way to one-dimensional and caricatured portraits of both hero and villain. Consider, for instance, the implications of this portrait of an insurgent (below right), or the crude and offensive scenes of mass-killing and torture (below left).
The comic reaches its zenith of anti-Muslim rhetoric in its depiction and description of a mosque in Empire City:
The Saudis spent a fortune on this place. It's the oldest mosque in Empire city. People come from miles around -- but only a very few are let inside. It's as close to an inner-city sovereign nation as you'll find, this side of Rome. It's as silent as a tomb. It keeps secrets.It goes without saying that this evokes and plays upon the the xenophobia that surrounded (and in some ways dominated) discussion of The Ground Zero mosque back in 2010. Consider the following quotation from this regrettable and inflammatory op-ed about the proposed mosque, for example:
Not only that, but Rauf [the Imam behind the proposed project] has called America compatible with sharia law. Indeed, America, he says helped deepen his identification with Islam; talking to The New York Times, he stated, "in that sense, you could say I found my faith in this country. For me, Islam and America are organically bound together. This is not my story alone. The American way of life has helped many Muslims make a conscious decision to embrace their faith." And his partner, el-Gamal? He turned to Islam after the attacks of 9/11. (He also has a history of violent crime, with attacks coming as recently as 2005.)
This, of course, raises the question of whether Cordoba [the name of the proposed mosque] can or will become a seat of a jihadist movement. And the truth is, the more we know about Feisal Abdul Rauf and his cohorts, the more I tend to wonder. Rauf has already skillfully turned American Muslims and non-Muslims into enemies of one another -- something even Osama bin Laden failed to do. His disingenuousness, dishonesty, and disrespect make me wonder what else he and his mosque might be capable of achieving in the name of what he calls 'peace.'"The author's cognitive dissonance and weak arguments in this quotation (and in the article as a whole) are obvious, but the paranoia seeping from the op-ed is worth considering alongside Miller's Holy Terror. Both respond to perceived threats of Islam by assuming that we're embroiled in a religious war. Both strongly suggest that a mosque -- ANY mosque -- can and will harbor terrorists. Both insinuate -- if not state outright -- that all Muslims are to be feared and are, to greater or lesser degrees, complicit in acts of terror waged by Muslims extremists. Both authors, in other words, caricaturize twenty three percent of the world's population in order to promote a deeply xenophobic jingoism.
It's no surprise then, that the mosque in Holy Terror affirms and validates such a worldview. The Catburgler enters it -- grudgingly disguised in a burka -- with our narrator describing "the night wind blow[ing] away seven centuries." Yet another attempt to distance the heroes in the text from the insurgents (and, more broadly, America from the Middle East), by insinuating that the latter is somehow still "stuck" in the Middle Ages.
The description of the mosque's interior only builds on that assumption. The Catburgler is almost immediately apprehended by the mosque's inhabitants, and she is led down below sea level into what she describes as "The Old City -- built by long-forgotten ancients . . . a race of madmen." As you can see in the image below, this underground space is adorned with grotesque sculptures and -- oddly -- what appear to be ancient Greek helmets. She encounters both a traitorous drunk Irishman who has teamed up with al-Qaeda and a leader of sorts -- a diminutive figure so covered in jewelry that only his misshapen mouth is visible. This leader ridicules Westerners for their
"We come right out and call ourselves al-Qaeda -- the cell -- and you don't stop to consider what that means. We're scarcely a microbe, a speck, a tiny part of an organism so vast as to be beyond belief. Were I utterly at your mercy . . . even I could only provide the vaguest hint of the organization's size -- or its true purpose. Even Sheik Osama -- may peace be upon him -- was merely a slave beneath a slave beneath a slave."In sum, we're given a vision of a vast and impossibly organized network of insurgents, and we're told that The West (America specifically) has been too blind and oblivious to its vastness. And, as a aside, Miller appears to completely misinterpret and mistranslate the meaning of the name al Qaeda. Again though, here we have an instance where the paranoia and xenophobia characteristic of Miller's worldview loudly proclaim themselves. The insurgents, as we soon discover, are about to launch a weapon of mass destruction on Empire City. They are halted (read: massacred) by the Fixer in the nick of time, the weapon described in ways that clearly attempt to justify the indiscriminate killing. The comic doesn't end there though. Instead, we're introduced one final time to Dan Donegal -- the tough-talking cop in league with The Fixer. We see him "shivering in his sheets like a scared little boy," traumatized by the terrorist attacks at the outset of the story. We are made to bear witness to his trauma, again, as a means of justifying the brutality and xenophobia that precede it.
In sum, this raw, wildly problematic, and downright incoherent story is even more virulent and extreme than the post-9/11 film version of 300. I kept thinking about that film, and about Miller's incendiary comments about Islam and the Middle East at the time of the film's release, as I read this comic, because Holy Terror strikes me as simply a more ossified (I can't really bring myself to call it "refined") reflection of his fear and hatred of Islam and his inability to distinguish between the majority of its adherents and the extremists who warp it.
It struck me as curious (and, if I'm being honest, more than a little hopeful), then, that this comic garnered nowhere near as much attention as either the graphic novel or the film version of 300, and that few -- if any -- could formulate any sort of defense or dismissal for the obvious anti-Muslim sentiment. Supporters and defenders of 300 often resorted to the argument that it's "just an action flick" and that people who objected to the vilification of the Persians (and, to be fair, any non-white person in the film) were just "thinking too hard." The film was frequently praised for its cinematic prowess and was relatively popular at the box office. To be sure, it garnered a reasonable degree of criticism, but there seemed to be a somewhat even number of critics who overlooked or weren't concerned enough to comment upon the racist/xenophobic undertones of the narrative. With Holy Terror, however, you're hard pressed to find a review that doesn't comment on the awfulness of the worldview it espouses, and it garnered nowhere near the cultural traction as 300, even though the two works proffer similar kinds of cultural fantasies.
I wonder, as a result, what role temporal distance has to play in these reactions. Is it easier to tell a story laced with xenophobia when you place the events in the distant past and bury your message in a swords and sandals epic? When, in other words, you appropriate and elide ancient historical particulars as opposed to recent ones? That certainly seems to be the case when you compare the two stories and their reception. And it has made me wonder about the similar "problems" I see in Richard Coer de Lion. As I write in one of my book chapters, relatively few versions of the medieval story include the more fantastical episodes that we often associate with it (the repeat cannibalism, the demonic horses, the lion-heart-eating, the demon mother), and I argue that these omissions in the RCL tradition have to do with the problems inherent in presenting a fantasy version of events in the relatively recent past.
Perhaps, then, we could consider Holy Terror as a very modern sort of "recovery romance" -- a type of romance that, as I describe in my book project, proffers fantasies of Christian/Western triumph over perceived Muslim enemies. Like Isumbras or RCL, Holy Terror (and 300) are symptomatic of cultural desires, appetites and impulses -- specifically of desires for stability and superiority at a time where neither seemed or were possible. It's very easy to dismiss Miller's Holy Terror for its awfulness, its incoherence, even its artlessness, but I think it's important to avoid Othering him over much. To do so would be to risk making the same moves that he deploys by repeatedly arguing that Islam is "medieval." I see Miller, then, as an alarming harbinger of sorts -- as a representative, however, hyperbolic, of a worldview that needs to be paid careful attention to so that we can find ways of pushing back against it. We need -- especially in light of the persistent tendency to code anything that we don't want to acknowledge as modern as "medieval" -- to remind ourselves of the fact that his work is symptomatic of a worldview hardly unique to him and him alone.


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Painting your house, even just a room, can be a pain. Especially if your walls have already painted, wallpapered, or, even worse, wood paneled. But don't worry, we've learned a few tricks that will have your home looking fresh and new without the pain and hard labor.
1. Paint Over Wallpaper
The longer wallpaper is on the walls, the trickier it can be to take down. If the walls themselves aren't in good shape or if you think there's water damage, there's the chance you could even pull of the drywall. But, if the wallpaper is in good condition, you're in luck because you have the option to paint right over it with paintable wallpaper. That's right, assuming the majority of the wallpaper is still adhered well to the the wall there aren't any huge risks, and it means there won't be agonizing hours of peeling tiny strips of paper off the wall. Just be sure that you consider your options carefully, because painting over bad wallpapering can cause the adhesive to loosen and potentially peel away from the wall.
If you decide to paint over wallpaper here some things to look for:
- Check To Make Sure There Aren't Any Gaps Between The Seams And That None Of The Paper Is Coming Loose Before Prepping Your Walls
- Add A Thin Line Of Caulk To The Perimeter Of The Walls (At The Floors And Ceilings) To Help Keep The Paper From Peeling
- Spackle Will Help Smooth Out Any Texture That's On The Paper So It Won't Come Through The Paint
- Sand The Seams — Even If They Aren't Noticeable Now, They Can Show Easily Through The Paint
- Use An Oil-Based Primer Before Applying An Oil-Based Paint To Decrease The Chance Of Bubbles And Peeling
2. Pre-Painted Wallpaper
This fix is perfect for anyone who is still paying rent or just hates the idea and expense of painting. TemPaint is the perfect solution if you're looking for a "wallpaper" that looks and feels like paint. It comes in tons of colors, so no matter what your style, you'll be able to find something you love. Unlike paint, it doesn't require much prep work, although you should be sure to measure your walls so you order the right amount. Once the rolls arrive and you're ready to get started, just wipe down the walls, peel, apply and smooth. And even though TemPaint is meant to look and feel like a permanent solution, it's more easy to remove than paintable wallpaper when it's time to move out of your apartment or your taste changes.
3. Creative Solutions for Covering Wallpaper
Now for the most temporary "fixes". Sometimes it just doesn't make sense to completely change a room (even if it's pretty easy with peel-and-stick products). Maybe it's budget concerns or maybe you know you won't be staying there long enough to make it worth the effort. Whatever the reason, there are a lot of ways to personalize your space:
- DIY Paint Canvas — Great For The Artsy Folks! Go All Out And Actually Paint Something, Or Just Stick With Monochromatic Colors To Keep It Easy. You Can Even Build The Frame Yourself
- Decals — These Can Feel A Little College-Y, But There Are Definitely More Refined Ones. There Are Even Sites That Let You Create Your Own.
- Washi Tape — This Can Be Especially Fun In Kids Rooms Because It's Something They Can Design Themselves. Go For Stripes, Small "Confetti" Dots Or Make Up Something Original
- Weave/Fabric/Rugs — There Are So Many Ways To Use Fabric On Walls. Stretch It Over A Canvas For A New Art Piece Or Hang It As "Wallpaper". Rugs And Other Weaves Can Also Serve As Makeshift Headboards
- Reclaimed Items — Flea Markets Are Full Of Fun Old Pieces! A Few Of Our Favorites That Make A Statement On The Walls: Old Doors (Think Headboards), Empty Picture Frames (Get A Bunch In Various Sizes/Styles To Hang) And Mirrors (Great For Making Small Spaces Seem Bigger).
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100 fashion models on catwalk to usher in New Year
One-hundred fashion models will perform in The Muse 2 show by fashion designer Do Manh Cuong of Ho Chi Minh City to usher in the New Year.
Photo exhibition on Vietnam, Laos relations opens in Hanoi
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) opened a photo exhibition on the traditional friendship between Vietnam and Laos in Hanoi on November 27.
Jailbait wins top award at Vietnamese film festival
The film Em Chua 18 (Jailbait), directed by Le Thanh Son, won the Golden Lotus prize for best feature film at the 20th Vietnamese Film Festival in central Da Nang city on November 28.
Festival honours buckwheat flowers in Ha Giang
An annual festival to honour the buckwheat flowers, the most iconic flowers of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, and the unique cultural values of the province's local ethnic people is taking place in Dong Van district.
Da Lat Flower Festival to be organised from December 23-27
The seventh Da Lat Flower Festival, themed "Flowers of Da Lat – Miracle from the good earth", will be held in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong from December 23-27, with the opening ceremony on December 23 to be broadcast live on VTV1.
Urban Dance Group to feature US, Vietnamese dancers
Young dancers of the HCM City-based Urban Dance Group (UDG) troupe will perform in a show "Between Us" featuring contemporary dance.


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AUSTIN — Despite escalating danger to Griselda's young child, ICE has denied multiple legal and community requests for release on humanitarian grounds. This mother remains unable to protect her while detained at the infamous for-profit T. Don Hutto immigration prison in Taylor, Texas.
Melvin Griselda Cruz Lopez, an asylum seeker from El Salvador, was separated from her 5 year old U.S. citizen daughter Samantha when her abusive ex-partner called immigration nearly a year ago. Prior to her deportation she had lived in the U.S. for over a decade.
Samantha is living near Chicago with her father, the same man who pushed Griselda down the stairs, and repeatedly became physically aggressive in front of their daughter. He has isolated her from all nearby family and she is in constant danger. Griselda has submitted audio-recording evidence of her daughter being physically abused. Most alarming, Samantha's father recently cut off contact between mother and child following a phone call in which Samantha shared information with her mother that raises concerns about possible sexual abuse.
"I ask for help from the people that can support me...I am a desperate mother. My daughter is 5 years old, she needs me," said Griselda. "When I was deported, she stayed with her father in Chicago and it has been almost a month since he has allowed her to speak with me. I haven't heard anything about my daughter and I do not agree with this, since before I was deported my daughter asked me for help because she was being mistreated."
The anxiety over being unable to help Samantha is exacerbating severe injuries. For over 6 months, Griselda has coped with debilitating pain due to a head trauma which occurred from fainting after being given unknown medication in detention.
Despite the danger to her daughter and their culpability in her acute medical state, ICE did not provide any stated explanation in response to a congressional inquiry into their denial of Griselda's release.
"In this time of national reckoning with abuse, we need to listen to the voices of brave women like Griselda speaking truth about how ICE terrorizes victims of violence. By continuing to detain Griselda, ICE is allowing itself to be weaponized by an abuser to lock up a survivor and place her child in danger," said Sofia Casini, Immigrant Rights Organizer at Grassroots Leadership. "We're calling on ICE to stop this inhumanity and release her now to care for her daughter."
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Course unit: Theory of financial markets
- Title in French: Théorie des marchés financiers
- Course code: tba
- ECTS credits: 2
- Teaching hours: 50h
- Type: ground course
- Language of instruction: English
- Coordinator: Dominique Henriet
- Instructor(s): Marielle de Jong (Amundi), Dominique Henriet
Brief description
This course is a ground course for anyone interested in finance. It aims at providing the students with the general concepts that ground the main models of finance. This to better understand the jungle of financial products and the functioning of markets. The practical application of these models will alos be presented through portfolio optimizations. The course is split into two parts. The first part named "Models of finance" introduces the main financial products as well as the corresponding models. The second part is devoted to portfolio management.
Learning outcomes
- Understand the functioning of financial markets
- Know how to model financial asset value
- know how to organize an investment process
Course content
Models of finance
- Introduction
- First questions
- Assets
- Functioning of trading
- Two first models : risk neutral valuation
- Static model: arbitrage free condition
- Mathematical preamble
- No arbitrage condition in a static model
- Dynamics (finite discrete models)
- The tree of states of nature
- Stochastic process on a tree
- No arbitrage condition on a dynamic model
- Risk neutral probability
- Microstructure and behaviour models
- The market efficiency hypothesis
- The Competitive Rational Expectation Equilibrium
- Bid ask spread
- Information and High frequency trading
- The capital asset pricing model
- Continuous models
- Deterministic continuous model : the differential equation
- Brownian motion and Stochastic integral
- Arbitrage free equation
- Continuous asset valuation
Portfolio management
- Introduction
- On the basis of the investment example designed by Elton et al., concepts such as portfolio risk, risk decomposition, the efficient frontier, the Sharpe ratio will be revisitted The students will do elementary exercises (e.g. estimate market betas), estimate a one-factor risk model and carry out a mean-variance optimization in Excel.
- Currency investing
- On the basis of a ten-currency investment example, the students will familiarize with concepts such as carry trading, the interest rate parity, purchasing power parity, the Siegel paradox and currency hedging. They will estimate a two-factor risk model from a dollar perspective which can then be converted into other perspectives.
- Sovereign bonds
- On the basis of a fifteen-country investment example, the students will familiarize with inflation-linked- and nominal government bonds. A global bond investment process will be explored by which risk is decomposed into the two Fisher components: inflation and economic growth, as well as in global- versus country-specific risk.
- Corporate bonds
- It is discussed how corporate bond portfolios tend to be constructed. Rather than doing a Markowitz optimization, they are built by means of stratified sampling. We look at Investment Grade and High Yield bonds. The implications of using the duration times spread (DTS) measure will be highlighted.
- Portfolio and index construction
- The standing market indices based on market shares are becoming obsolete. More cunning smart indices are being developed. We look into this issue.
- Green and socially responsible investment
- The standing narrow definition of investment utility is being widened to include broader stakeholder values.
- Demange & Rochet (2005) "Méthodes mathématiques de la finance", Economica
- Dynkin et al. (2007) "Quantitative Management of Bond Portfolios". Princeton University Press.
- Elton et al. (2014) "Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis". Wiley
- Grinold & Kahn (1999) "Active portfolio management: a quantitative approach for providing superior returns and controlling risk". Mc Graw-Hill.


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kubelik said:ELK, I know the rumor you are talking about. at the time I think everyone sort of gave a nervous laugh and shrugged it off. what muteteh and I are thinking now is that rumor was actual solid info ... it's an interesting way for canon to develop its market segmentation, and actually I don't know that I mind it so much.
I do hope they replace some of the cheaper wide angle primes with "budget" L glass, stuff that sits below the $1000 mark. shouldn't be hard, the 135 f/2 L and 200 f/2.8 L both are around that price point, and I wouldn't mind paying $700-800 or so for, say, a 28 f/2 L or a 24 f/2.8 L if the image quality is there.
Quite agree. Only they say 135 f/2 L is superb quality lens (I never had chance to shoot with it) so it's worth only to introduce IS version of it by keeping this one too. Seems Canon is more interested to keep it's dominance in wildlife and sports - hence all the big lens announcement, rather than wide and mid-range area where Nikon excels at the moment. Since most of us are not pro wildlife and sports shooters, we're desperately waiting for Canon to finally turn its face to us.


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I was able to spend half a day at the Open Hillel conference, including speaking on a panel on "Potential Solutions." One thought: I'd be worried if I were part of the "pro-Israel" American Jewish establishment. These leaders of tomorrow are not going to quietly accept stale dogma.
The students I met and heard talk at the conference are smart, attend elite universities, and are thinking hard about these issues. They are exposed to a range of organizations that not only includes AIPAC/JCRC/Federation/CAMERA etc but also groups with alternate views such as J Street U and Jewish Voice for Peace.
The Jewish tradition was long one of deep intellectual curiosity. In addition, college is one time when many students get to explore ideas. This combination of being party to the Jewish tradition and in college makes for a double dose of curiosity. That's crucial if one is asking these students to blindly accept narratives or avoid peeking outside the existing opinion tent; they'll push back, as they did by even establishing Open Hillel and organizing this first conference.
I'm not an expert on American Jewish institutional life. Moreover, there was a selection effect – the kind of student who would be at an Open Hillel conference lends herself/himself to my claims. Students who are outsiders and questioners now certainly might be co-opted later. Fair points.
So rather than an airtight argument, take this as impressionistic…but plausible. Let's revisit in 20 years and see where things stand.
(I'll write more about the conference tomorrow @BeaconReader).


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AFA-Michigan News Minute
The attached "AFA-Michigan News Minute" will run Wednesday on Christian radio stations in Michigan. Remarkably, there is serious consideration of Right to Work legislation to prohibit compulsory union membership or financial support in the historically Big Labor stronghold of Michigan.
OFF THE RECORD — AFA-Michigan's Gary Glenn on Gov. Snyder and the conservative agenda
AFA-Michigan President Gary Glenn is the guest this weekend on "Off the Record,†the weekly public affairs television show featuring a roundtable discussion with political reporters from the state Capitol in Lansing.
The topics discussed:
* Right to Work legislation, which would prohibit compulsory union membership or financial support as a condition of employment. Gary cited polls which in 2004 showed that two-thirds of union members in Michigan supported our state's Marriage Protection Amendment, which he co-authored, when it appeared on the ballot. But those same union members, Christians and others, were forced under threat of being fired to financially support the state AFL-CIO and Michigan Education Association, which campaigned against the marriage amendment. Gary led the successful effort to make Idaho a Right to Work state a quarter-century ago. http://bit.ly/dtYzXb
* Posting our national motto "In God We Trust" in public school classrooms, such as reported here: http://bit.ly/jJa1Y6
* Anti-bullying legislation, such as reported here: http://bit.ly/jr1Ek1
* Preventing the use of public school classrooms to promote homosexual behavior and gender confusion. Gary specifically cited this Fox News report: http://bit.ly/iVrJac
Click here to watch: http://video.wkar.org/video/1966735959
CATHOLIC RADIO — Al Kresta interviews AFA-Michigan's Gary Glenn on "hate crime" legislation
WDEO Radio
Ann Arbor, Michigan
May 13, 2009
Click to listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KAfjvvZZA
CNN's Paula Zahn Show: AFA-Michigan's Gary Glenn debates Marriage Protection Amendment
WJR RADIO — AFA-Michigan's Gary Glenn interviewed on Frank Beckman Show
AFA-Michigan President Gary Glenn was interviewed May 13, 2009, on WJR's Frank Beckman Show regarding so-called "hate crime" legislation now before the Michigan state Senate:
Click here to listen: http://wjr.com/Article.asp?id=1321556&spid=6525


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Anyone who's watched him in the "Magic Mike" movies knows Channing Tatum has some impressive moves. But on the next episode of "Lip Sync Battle," the actor will prove he can get downright magical as Disney's snow-wielding ice queen Elsa.
Just take a look this sneak peek, in which he sports a platinum-blond wig and blue gown as he pretends to belt out the "Frozen" hit "Let It Go":
The only thing better than seeing him spin around in a fake snow flurry on stage is his wife's reaction offstage.
(Seriously, skip to the 15-second mark for a fantastic jaw-drop from Jenna Dewan-Tatum!)
MORE: From Dwayne Johnson to Anne Hathaway: Our favorite 'Lip Sync Battle' performers
Maybe she's just sizing up the competition. After all, Channing and Jenna will face off against each other for the special one-hour episode, which airs Thursday, Jan. 7 at 10 p.m. ET on Spike.
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The Local Democracy Agency (LDA) of Mostar, for the first time in Bosnia and Herzegovina, initiated the celebration of the Neighbors' Day. Both the City Administration and the City Council supported the initiative and so the City of Mostar became the first BiH city celebrating the Neighbors' Day. The celebration was held for the first time on 26 May 2009.
The celebration was organized in two Local Communities, Podhum and Brankovac, involving citizens, representatives of the local government, the Mayor, the President of the City Council, officers of the local administration and councilors as political representatives of citizens living in respective local areas.
The main idea we promoted, in accordance with the main goals of the Neighbors' Day, was to bring neighbors together, having coffee and chatting, reviving the spirit of neighborhoods, once so strong and important in our city. In fact, the City of Mostar was well known for its spirit and specific sense of humor that was unfortunately mostly lost and forgotten during the war and turbulent political post-war period.
In view of the very bad political and economical situation in our city, this event also provided an opportunity for our citizens to meet with their political representatives in an informal atmosphere, having coffee, chatting, listening to music... For them, that was an opportunity to talk about their daily local problems and the way to solve them with support from their political representatives.
Since the objective of this event was not only to promote neighborhood at the local level, but also Europe as one big neighborhood, we also invited the EU Info Center Mostar to promote European values and to provide citizens with practical information about the European Union, offering promotional materials and brochures on their stands. Following that idea, we also invited foreign guests such as His Excellency the Consul General of Turkey, and representatives of the French Cultural Center in Mostar presenting the French poetry.
In addition, the children's choir of five elementary schools from Mostar performed their prepared show in the Local Community Brankovac, singing songs from the CD that they recently recorded as a part of an international project.
Volunteers of the City of Mostar together with international volunteers contributed to the celebration by providing logistics, but also by promoting the spirit of the Neighbors' Day, both verbally and by wearing T-shirts with the Neighbors' Day logo.
The event was sponsored by:
- EUROVIP d.o.o. Čitluk, Coffee roaster "Brazil"
- Pie bakery "MUSALA" Mostar
- Bakery "DIMAL" Mostar
- Bakery "DAN I NOĆ" Mostar
- Pastry shop "AN" Mostar
- Pizzeria "AN" Mostar
- National Restaurant "MM" Mostar
- Butcher's shop "HALAL" Mostar
The event was featured in local media, in two TV talk shows, radio programs and news papers, but also on posters and invitations.
The attendance was modest, but the present citizens and local political representatives were really enthusiastic about the initiative. They hope to have another one in the future, they said, and this time involving the entire City of Mostar.


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Episode 34 – Pickles is Back – Featuring Big Slop of the Grilled Lincolns
Big Slop from the Grilled Lincoln's joins the crew to honor Pickles Kennedy's legacy. The Chrome Bills hotline; 612-888-3433; is introduced. Famous 34's, including Party John Ramos and Frank Brickowski get a shoutout. Discussions include: Chrome Bills being marked "explicit" on iTunes, Baltimore accents, how hard it is to DJ, Slop's on-stage marriage proposal, College Park history, Travis Pastrana, Nitro Circus, battling, freestyling and baby swapping.
Tracks played are 1) Big Slop and IllMeasured – Ballin on Budget (Featuring Seez Mics and Wax) 2) Grilled Lincolns – MD's Finest (featuring the state of MD) 3) J-Dilla – Reality TV (Featuring Black Thought)


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Some day, the dead blue whale will be the centrepiece of a Royal Ontario Museum exhibit worthy of her antemortem status: She was once a queen of the deep.
But for now, the indignities visited upon Lollipop, as the dead whale is affectionately known to those who flensed her massive skeleton in Newfoundland last May, continue to pile up. This week they piled up literally as her skeleton was buried in manure in Trenton, Ont.
"It's just like your compost heap at home," said ROM deputy director Mark Engstrom. That is true, if your compost heap at home was produced by 385 Prince Edward County dairy cows and housed in a full-size shipping container.
The months-long manure bath is the first stage in a long process of readying the whale for presentation, and not even the worst-smelling stage, potentially.
Lollipop first came to the world's attention when her 100-tonne carcass drifted ashore in Trout River, N.L., bloated with gas. Thinking she might explode, townsfolk panicked. She did not explode, and the ROM struck a deal with the federal government to remove the whale and keep her skeleton for display. Over sevenimpossiblygorydaysin , a team of workers stripped the blubber and guts away — a process known as flensing — and loaded the bones into an Ontario-bound tractor trailer.
READ MORE: Why a dead blue whale is so important to science
In early June, the bones arrived at the Trenton headquarters of Research Casting International (RCI), a museum technical services company contracted by the ROM to prepare the whale. So did the bones of another dead blue whale from Rocky Harbour, N.L., which will go on display at Memorial University.
Then there was a long delay.
"They are still waiting on poop," the ROM's media relations staff informed me in mid-September.
It took an entire dairy farm of Holsteins three months to produce a sufficient amount of manure to bury the bones — eight triaxle dump-truck loads. In the meantime, RCI staff turned a shipping container into a modified compost bin. Using a heavy-duty "rescue saw" equipped with a steel-abrasive blade, they cut a series of vents in the top of the shipping container. Then they cut holes along the side of the container so that weeping tile (porous pipes) could be threaded through the structure.
Last Thursday, with all the ingredients on hand, the RCI staffers got to work building a kind of foul trifle cake: a layer of whale bones, a layer of manure, a layer of whale bones, a layer of manure. The lower jawbones, each weighing a ton, were carefully lifted with heavy machinery and eased into the container, on top of which was piled — surprise — another layer of manure.
The bones of Lollipop and those of the Rocky Harbour whale will actually be mixed together in three shipping containers during the composting process, but the bones are labelled so they can be identified, and reassembled into the correct skeleton, later.
The whole contraption works just like your compost heap at home. Micro-organisms in the manure break down organic matter remaining on the whales' bones. But the process needs oxygen, and unlike a backyard compost, this one can't be stirred, at least not easily. The weeping tile and the vents are there to circulate oxygen into the mixture's interior.
"If you keep getting oxygen in there, it's gonna go like a house on fire," said Engstrom with relish. (Readers might remember Engstrom from the cheerfully grease-slicked photo and TV opportunities he provided from the side of the whale carcass in May. "I said I wouldn't do this," he sighed on Thursday, examining a smear of whale gunk on the sleeve of his jacket.)
"Fire" is not entirely a figure of speech. The aerobic process of decomposition, just like a human aerobics class, produces carbon dioxide and heat — so much heat, in this case, that the interior of the container will rise to over 70 degrees Celsius, melting the snow around it over the winter.
Come springtime, the bones will be taken out and inspected. Those that were relatively clean to begin with, like the rib bones, will probably be ready for the next stage by April. But other parts of the skeleton will need more time. The tough, fibrous flesh around the jaws, for example, may take a full year to be eaten away.
Next summer and fall, the bones will have to be degreased, so that the ROM's future exhibit on the glory of cetaceans doesn't drip putrid whale oil onto unsuspecting children below.
There is no really good way to degrease a whale skeleton. One method is to simmer the bones in a warm bath for months on end. The water eventually replaces the grease in the bones — but the process takes years, potentially. This method also smells terrible, according to those who have tried it.
Engstrom says the current plan is to build a kind of giant dry-cleaning operation at the Trenton facilities. The bones would be treated with organic solvents, which then evaporate, and be recollected.
Even once the bones are prettied up and reassembled, the exhibit Engstrom is dreaming of will be years in the making. The museum has already acquired a humpback, fin, minke, sperm, right and killer whale — and now Lollipop the blue whale, the collection's marquee specimen. But the museum still needs a bowhead whale, a grey whale, a narwhal and a beluga, not to mention the millions of dollars it will cost to mount a new permanent exhibition.
But Engstrom can't help himself. "It's going to be really cool," he said Thursday. "These whales are going to come alive."


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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - With more US troops on the way, up to 600 members of Afghan security forces have helped provide security at Kabul's airport, the scene of chaotic evacuation efforts, even as Afghanistan's military and government has collapsed, Pentagon officials said on Tuesday (Aug 17).
Army Major-General William Taylor, with the US military's Joint Staff, told a news briefing that a total of 4,000 American troops would be at the airport by the end of the day - an increase of 1,000 - and the aim is to have one flight taking off per hour.
About 6,000 US troops are expected to be at the airport in the coming days, according to Pentagon officials.
"We have had no hostile interactions, no attack and no threat by the Taleban," Taylor said.
The United States and Western allies have sought to evacuate diplomats and civilians at Kabul's airport, the only way in or out of the country for many people in Afghanistan.
The situation descended into disorder on Monday, with flights unable to leave because the airfield was filled with Afghans desperate to flee the Taleban.
Taylor said approximately 500 to 600 members of Afghan national security forces were at the airfield "assisting us with that security."
Asked about whether these Afghan security personnel would be evacuated from Afghanistan as well, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told the briefing that it would be up to them to decide.
"That would have to be a decision by those individuals if they wanted to apply for a visa and to pursue that approach," Kirby said.
US military officials at the airport have been in contact with Taleban commanders on the ground outside the airport, Kirby added.
"There have been discussions, there is communication between them and us," Kirby said.
US military officials have said between 5,000 and 10,000 US citizens are believed to be in the Kabul area.
Much of Afghanistan's military crumbled as Taleban forces swept through Afghanistan, culminating with the capture of Kabul and departure of President Ashraf Ghani from the country.
Most elements of the Afghan national security forces, trained by US and Western allies over a span of nearly two decades, rapidly collapsed in the face of a swift advance by Taleban forces.
The Taleban, toppled as Afghanistan's rulers in 2001 by a US-led invasion, moved to regain power as the United States withdrew its forces to end America's longest war.


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"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back." - Piet Hein, "Problems"
Besides beings known for his short poems, or Grooks, Piet Hein is also the inventor of one of the most classic 3-D puzzles: The Soma Cube.
Even if you're not familiar with the name, you've probably seen it. It's consists of several pieces, each made up of 3-4 cubic units, and the basic challenge is to put these pieces together to form a cube.
It was popularized in the US by no less than Martin Gardner, when he wrote about it in his Sept. 1958 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American, and later reprinted in his book, The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. Most of the chapter is excerpted here online.
There are numerous versions, the most commonly available today being ThinkFun's Block by Block version. Puzzles.com features links to several do-it-yourself versions, some requiring little more than tape, strips of paper, and a little time. Some of the links there are no longer functioning, but can still be viewed with help from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Even if you don't already have the puzzle, and don't want to make one, but still want to play around with it, you can play with it on the computer. The version that caught my eye was one that used Google's free 3-D program Sketchup. Once you learn the basics of rotating and moving objects in Sketchup, and download a free set of Soma Cubes for the program, you're ready for the challenge.
I haven't yet discussed solving the classic Soma Cube challenge, so if you want to solve it for yourself without learning how to solve it, stop reading NOW.
You're still here? OK, then I assume you want to learn how to solve it, and more importantly, how to remember the solution. YouTube user MisterCorzi has posted probably the best Soma Cube solving video I've seen, as it emphasizes the points that make the solution easy to recall:
Once you have the basic idea, here's a diagram of MisterCorzi's approach, for quick and easy reference:
I should emphasize that this is only 1 of 240 possible ways (not including rotations or reflections) to solve the Soma Cube, so you can still find plenty of challenge by trying to find the other solutions. There are also many other shapes you can try to make, so create, have fun, and explore!
How to Solve the Soma Cube
Published on Thursday, February 27, 2014 in downloads, fun, Martin Gardner, puzzles, software, videos
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back." - Piet Hein, "Problems"
Mental Math: Exponents
Published on Sunday, February 23, 2014 in fun, math, mental math, psychology, self improvement, videos
There's plenty of mental math shortcuts out there for addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The mental shortcuts for division are harder to find, but they are out there.
When you start asking about mental math shortcuts related to exponents, however, the only methods you find relate to taking roots, like my root extraction tutorial in the Mental Gym. What about actually taking numbers up to various powers instead?
WRAPPING YOUR HEAD AROUND EXPONENTS: Working out exponents seems scary, because most people are familiar with how quickly exponents become large numbers. You've probably heard a version of the classic legend about the reward given to the inventor of chess:
Too many people think of exponents as just repeated multiplying, but it's better to think of it as growth for a given amount of time. BetterExplained.com's article, Understanding Exponents (Why does 0^0 = 1?) is a great place to begin intuitively understanding the nature of exponents.
I've written before about mathematician and engineer Solomon Golomb, who challenged himself to be able to work out, or at least recall, the solution to any problem of the form xy where x and y were any integers (whole numbers) from 1 to 10. In college, a professor mentioned the number 224, joking that "everybody knows what that is." When Solomon Golomb realized that 224 was the same as 88, he was able to immediately reply, "Yes! It's 16,777,216!" The teacher was stunned to learn that it was the correct answer!
I may not get you that far in this post, but I think you'll be surprised just how far you can go with just a little extra mental training.
EASY EXPONENTS: There are a few easy exponents with which you should already be familiar. 1 to any power is always 1. Similarly, 10 to any power is simply 1 followed a number of zeroes equal to the power. 102 is 1 followed by 2 zeroes, or 100, 103 is 1 followed by 3 zeroes, or 1,000, and so son. Also, any number to the first power is always itself.
Squaring, of course, is just multiplying a number by itself. When you learned multiplication starting with times tables, that included multiplying all the numbers from 1 to 10 by themselves, so from this point on, I'll assume you know these already.
CUBES: When a number is raised to the 3rd power, we say it's cubed. A cube is easily worked out by multiplying a number times it's own square. 23 can be determined by multiplying 2 by the 4 (the square of 2) to get 8, and 33 can be determined by multiplying 3 × 9 (the square of 3) to get 27.
After that, we start having to deal with 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers. 43 is 4 × 16, and you might be fine working that out in your head, but what about 53 (5 × 25) through 93 (9 × 81)? Fortunately, Mental Math secrets is here to help you learn how to multiply 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers:
Once you've mastered this, you can easily work out cubes in your head! Even better, since we're only talking about 10 different cubes, regular practice will make them easy to recall, instead of calculate, so you can get them even quicker.
4TH POWER: Taking a number to the 4th power can be done by squaring the number, and then squaring the result you get. Once again, if you know your times tables, 2 and 3 are easy to take the 4th power. To get 24, we square 2 to get 4, and then square 4 to get 16. For 34, we square 3 to get 9 and then square 9 to get 81.
The problem comes, of course, when we need to square 2 digit number. For 44, it's easy enough to do 4 squared to get 16, but how do we square 16? This problem continues up to 94, for which you need to work out 81 squared. Fortunately, Harvey Mudd College Professor Arthur Benjamin is here to show you how to easily square 2-digit numbers:
Notice what the method of moving to the nearest multiple of 10 does - it turns 2-digit times 2-digit multiplications into 2-digit times 1-digit multiplication, which you learned how to do earlier! In fact, you can use those same techniques to help you work out these problems quickly.
Try this technique and practice working out the numbers 1 through 10 to the 4th power. You'll be amazed how quickly you're able to calculate, and before long just recall, each of these numbers.
5TH POWER: Once you're confident in your ability to work out 4th powers of the numbers in your head, you're ready for 5th powers.
To work out the 5th power of a number, you're going to take that number and multiply it by its own 4th power. 35 is 3 × 34, or 3...9...81, or 243. This is easy, as you've already mastered multiplying 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers by this point.
Multiplying numbers with 3 or more digits by a 1-digit number is similar to the process you learned earlier, but you do need to ready to work with more digits. Mental Math Secrets posted this 3-digit by 1-digit multiplication video on their site to help you learn this technique more effectively. Once you get the hang of this, multiplying 4-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers also shouldn't be that difficult.
5th powers also have a neat pattern: Each number 1 through 10, when taken to the 5th power, ends with the same digit as the number with which you started. 25 ends in 2, 35 ends in 3, and so on.
6TH POWER: If you've made it to the point where you can do 5th powers in your head, you may want to stop there. If you're ready for another challenge, however, then you may want to consider learning 6th powers.
To take a number to the 6th power, you'll need to find a number's cube, and then square it. Remember, however, that some of the cubes up to 9 are 3-digit numbers, so this will require the ability to square 3-digit numbers.
Squaring 3-digit numbers was briefly described above in the Arthur Benjamin video, but there are a few points you should know before you practice. First, you should be able to square all the numbers from 1 through 50 as fast as possible. Your adjustments will always be up or down by no more than 50, so this is an essential skill. Second, you'll need to be comfortable multiplying 3-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers.
Finally, when applying Professor Benjamin's technique for squaring 3-digit numbers, there's an easy to way to get that 2nd number you're going to multiply by that multiple of 100. Simply take the last two digits of the number you're squaring and double them, using the hundreds digit plus the final two digits of this doubling (if the number is greater than 100).
For example, when trying to square 729, you're obviously going to multiply by 700, but what's the other number? Simply double 29 (the last 2 digit of 729) to get 58, so you know the other number you need must be 758. What about 343? 43 doubled is 86, so you'll multiply 300 times 386. Once you see the pattern, it's easy to grasp.
Taking the numbers 1 through 10 to the 6th power is as far as I'm going in this post, so you can practice to the level you want. If you find any handy tips or tricks for doing exponents in mental math, I'd love to hear about them in the comments!
Fifth Root Feat
Published on Sunday, February 16, 2014 in fun, math, memory, mental math, self improvement, site features, videos
It's time to train and strain your brain to entertain!
This time around, we're going to take another look at finding 5th roots. Imagine having someone choose a secret number x, multiplying it by itself a total of 5 times, as in x × x × x × x × x, giving you only the answer, and you're able to work out what the original number x!
It was almost a year ago when Scam School covered how to do cube roots in your head. If you practiced that, you may still be worried about handling 5th roots.
Surprisingly, doing 5th roots in your head is actually easier! Numberphile, with some help from Simon Pampena, explains the process in the following video:
Want to practice this feat for yourself? I have a detailed tutorial on working out 5th roots in your head along with a 5th root quiz designed to help you master this feat. Michael Daniel's Mind Magician site also features a different, but still excellent, 5th root tutorial and quiz, too.
There's little you can do with this other than using it to impress people at parties, but with 5th roots, cube roots, and perhaps even square roots of perfect squares and square roots of non-perfect squares, you'll have plenty of tools in your bag to astound and amuse when the time is right!
More Fun With Binomials
I finished the previous post about Prime Test and Pascal's Triangle by mentioning that exploring one idea can often take you to some surprising places.
Exploring those same idea even further, I've run across some additional surprising ideas that I'll share in this post.
• SIMPLIFYING THE TEST: I finished the Pascal's Triangle exploration of the AKS test by mentioning that, if the test returned a row of all zeros, as in this test run on 71, then the given number n is prime.
After seeing this picture, linked from this thread on Reddit, which used the idea of summing (represented by the ∑ symbol) the results of each iteration, I smacked myself in the head for not thinking of that before. Here's the test for 71 re-run with summation. It's certainly much easier to see whether the total is 0 or not.
• FINDING AN ERROR: I thought it might be fun to see how this function looked on a graph, so I headed over to the Desmos.com online graphing calculator. Unfortunately, it didn't work because their software seems to have some sort of bug which occurs when binomials are run through modular arithmetic.
For example, it calculates 462 mod 11 correctly, but when a binomial is calculated as 462, and that binomial is calculated mod 11, then the odd result of 11 occurs (the answer should be 0). I even found another example, where mod returns an answer that isn't even a whole number!
I posted about this bug to Desmos on Twitter, here and here. They've already replied and will have their programmers look into the problem.
• EASIER PEASIER BINOMIAL EXPANSION: I guess the easiest version of binomial expansion would have to be this picture, but there's a more mathematically correct approach that's also quite easy.
Steven Pomeroy of mathtricks.org teaches a great way of expanding binomial equations, even when Pascal's Triangle isn't handy! If you're interested in just the coefficients, as we were in the AKS primality test, you can even skip down to about half way, where he teaches how to calculate each coefficient in the row.
I've found a way to simplify Mr. Pomeroy's version of the calculation that works better for me, so I'd like to share it with you. Recall that the 0th binomial, the leftmost number on any row of Pascal's Triangle, is always 1, so we always start this with 1.
First, you need a row, so we'll use row 8 as an example. You start by creating a fraction with the row number on top, and a 1 on the bottom. In our 8 example, the first fraction would 8⁄1. We'll also be using subsequent fractions in further calculations, which will decrease the numerator (the top number) by 1, while increasing the denominator (the bottom number) by 1. So, the sequence of calculations for row 8 would run as follows:
8⁄1, 7⁄2, 6⁄3, 5⁄4, 4⁄5, 3⁄6, 2⁄7, 1⁄8
That sequence should be easy enough to understand. Also, note that the last half of that fraction sequence are simply reciprocals of fractions in the first half, so the resulting answer we get when multiplying by these fractions will rise and fall symmetrically, as we discussed in the previous post. So, the only part of the fraction sequence you really need from above are those where the numerator is greater than or equal to (in the case of odd numbered rows) the denominator:
8⁄1, 7⁄2, 6⁄3, 5⁄4
After that, the row goes down with the numbers in the same order, due to the symmetry of Pascal's Triangle.
What do we do with these fractions? You're going to multiply them by whole numbers, record the answer, and then use that answer to multiply by the next fraction in the sequence. This may sound confusing, so I'll return to our example using 8.
We always start with 1, and multiply it by the first fraction, which is 8⁄1 in this example. 1 × 8⁄1 = 8, so we have our first two numbers in the sequence:
1, 8
Next, we adjust the fraction as described above (decrease numerator by 1, increase denominator by 1), and multiply it by our new answer. 8 was our previous answer, and 7⁄2 is the next fraction, and 8 × 7⁄2 = 28. We already have 3 terms in the sequence:
1, 8, 28
We continue on, each time using the previous answer multiplied by the next fraction in the sequence. 28 × 6⁄3 = 56, and 56 × 5⁄4 = 70, giving us:
1, 8, 28, 56, 70
Since the next fraction would be a reciprocal of 5⁄4, we know that the numbers are going to start decreasing in the same way they increased, so we can just fill out the remaining half symmetrically:
1, 8, 28, 56, 70, 56, 28, 8, 1
Sure enough, that's exactly how the 8th row of Pascal's Triangle appears!
With 9, or any other odd row, you're going to multiply by the following fractions, until you get down to the point where the numerator and denominator are the same:
9⁄1, 8⁄2, 7⁄3, 6⁄4, 5⁄5
As before, we start with 1, so 1 × 9⁄1 = 9, 9 × 8⁄2 = 36, 36 × 7⁄3 = 84, 84 × 6⁄4 = 126, and 126 × 5⁄5 = 126, giving us the following sequence of numbers:
1, 9, 36, 84, 126, 126
Obviously, it's time to apply the numbers to the end symmetrically, giving us this sequence, which is how the 9th row of Pascal's Triangle appears:
1, 9, 36, 84, 126, 126, 84, 36, 9, 1
Multiplying by weird fractions like this might seem intimidation, but it's actually easier than it seems. When given ANY fraction, even an improper fraction (one where the numerator, the top number, is greater than the denominator, the bottom number), think of the numerator as the number by which to multiply, and the denominator as the number by which to divide. You can do the multiplication and division needed in either order, as well!
Let's take what is possible the worst example from above, which would be 36 × 7⁄3. The numerator is 7 and the denominator is 3, so you could multiply 36 by 7, getting 252, and then dividing that by 3 to get 84. However, in this particular example, it seems easier to divide 36 by 3 first, to get 12, and then multiply that by 7 to get 84. See how easy it is when you know how?
That's all for this post, but that's also plenty to explore, practice, and enjoy!
AKS Meets Pascal
Published on Thursday, February 06, 2014 in fun, math, self improvement, site features, videos
In mathematics, there are many times where you explore an apparently simple idea, and you find unexpected beauty.
Numberphile has recently been posting about tests for prime numbers, also referred to as primality tests, and their latest one fascinated me because of the amazing patterns involved.
Their first video on this topic was about Fermat's primality test, and the fascinating concept of liar numbers. However, I'm going to discuss their more recent video on the AKS primality test, named for the last initials of the authors, Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena:
Let's examine this formula a bit closer, with the help of Wolfram|Alpha. The command used to find the expanded form of an equation is simply the command Expand[]. So, if we wanted to find out the expanded form of (x-1)3, we simply enter it as Expand[(x-1)3], and just like in the video, we get the result x3 - 3x2 + 3x - 1.
As in the video, if we subtract x3 - 1, we're left with - 3x2 + 3x, and both coefficients are divisible by the original power, 3, so we know we've got a prime.
Let's try that with the power 4, resulting - 4x3 + 6x2 - 4x + 2. While 4 is obviously evenly divisible by 4, the numbers 6 and 2 are quite obviously not, so 4 isn't prime.
Note that the powers of x don't really matter much, so perhaps it would be nicer to just look at this problem without all the variables and powers getting in the way. Since the AKS test starts with the simple form of (x - 1)p, all the resulting coefficients (the numbers multiplied by the variables and their powers) are simply what are known as binomial coefficients.
Don't worry, binomials are easy to understand when taught properly. They're basically the number of ways k things can be combined of n possibilities without regard to the exact order. BetterExplained.com's post on permutations and combinations makes this clear. What you really want to focus on in that post in the part about combinations, as they are also known as binomials.
Wolfram|Alpha uses the command Binomial[n, k] to work out these combinations, also read as n choose k. For example, entering Binomial[8, 3] gives us 56, telling us that there are 56 ways 3 items can be combined from among 8 possibilities. The Mind Your Decisions blog's fresh fruit puzzle explains how binomials are used in probability.
Now, if we want to see just the coefficients of the cube of (x - 1), we can combine the Binomial[] command with the Table[] command in Wolfram|Alpha to read Table[Binomial[3, k], {k, 0, 3}]. This command is telling Wolfram|Alpha to work out the possible combinations of 0 objects from among 3, then the combinations of 1 object from among 3, then the combinations of 2 objects from among 3, and finally the combinations of 3 objects from among 3, and to put all that information in 1 horizontal table. The result is {1, 3, 3, 1}, which are the same numbers from the calculation above, but without all those messy variables and powers to spoil the view!
Just for fun, let's throw in the Column[] command, and go through the same process for all the numbers from 0 to 10, by entering the command Column[Table[Binomial[n, k], {n, 0, 10}, {k, 0, n}]]. Does that pattern of binomials look familiar?
. {1}
{1, 1}
{1, 2, 1}
{1, 3, 3, 1}
{1, 4, 6, 4, 1}
{1, 5, 10, 10, 5, 1}
{1, 6, 15, 20, 15, 6, 1}
{1, 7, 21, 35, 35, 21, 7, 1}
{1, 8, 28, 56, 70, 56, 28, 8, 1}
{1, 9, 36, 84, 126, 126, 84, 36, 9, 1}
{1, 10, 45, 120, 210, 252, 210, 120, 45, 10, 1}If it looks familiar, it's because you probably know it as Pascal's Triangle! I've talked about it before, most often in my annual 12 Days of Christmas post, but also in my Happy 10/11/12! post. I think it's interesting that a test for primes has lead us to Pascal's Triangle!
You might note that all the binomials in Pascal's Triangle are positive, while the multiplication of (x - 1) to various powers gives us alternating positive and negative signs. This is easily remedied, by multiplying every other number in the command above by -1. However, the signs really don't matter in the AKS test, as -35 is just as evenly divisible by 7 as +35, so I'm going to ignore the signs from here on out.
Another thing to notice about the binomials in Pascal's Triangle is that the entire pattern has left/right symmetry. For example, the binomials in the 8th row, representing the coefficients for (x - 1)8, are {1, 8, 28, 56, 70, 56, 28, 8, 1}. The first 5 a different, {1, 8, 28, 56, 70}, but then they start going back down from 70 in the same way they built up. By taking advantage of Wolfram|Alpha's Floor[] command, and only going halfway across each table, we can shorten the list of coefficients we need to examine by half!
Also, remember in the text that for any power p, xp is subtracted, which effectively removes the first coefficient from the list. So, by starting at the 1st coefficient instead of the 0th, we can trim the list even more. Not surprisingly, this eliminates the tables for the power of 0 and 1, so we'll just start the list with coefficients of the power of 2.
At this point, we can look at just the coefficients for any power, without getting the numerous variables and powers in the way, and we've minimized the numbers we need to examine at each step. It's time to run through the AKS primality test again. For each of the numbers 1 through 10, it's not hard to see whether the coefficients are divisible by those numbers, because we're so familiar with them. What about numbers on a larger scale?
Let's turn our Pascal's Triangle generator into a generator for a single power, so we can run tests on individual numbers. We remove the Column[] command, and set n to an individual number. I'm going to use 71 for the first test, since James Grime uses that example at about the 2:20 mark in the video above. The result is this horrendous-looking set: {71, 2485, 57155, 971635, 13019909, 143218999, 1329890705, 10639125640, 74473879480, 461738052776, 2560547383576, 12802736917880, 58104729088840, 240719591939480, 914734449370024, 3201570572795084, 10358022441395860, 31074067324187580, 86680293062207460, 225368761961739396, 547324136192795676, 1243918491347262900, 2650087220696342700, 5300174441392685400, 9964327949818248552, 17629195603524593592, 29381992672540989320, 46171702771135840360, 68461490315822108120, 95846086442150951368, 126764178842844806648, 158455223553556008310, 187265264199657100730, 209296471752557936110, 221256270138418389602} *PHEW!*
Since few of us are familiar with our multiples of 71, you can't easily tell whether all these numbers are evenly divisible by 71. If you could verify that, then this test and our refinements via Pascal's Triangle will verify that 71 is a prime number. If all these numbers were evenly divisible by 71, then there would be no remainder. We can take advantage of this by using modular arithmetic!
If we simply take each of the above numbers, and apply mod 71 to them, we get a far simpler result: {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0} Every number is clearly divisible by 71, so 71 is prime!
Using the AKS primality test this way, you can set n to any number, and instantly tell whether than number is prime. Do you see any numbers other than 0? Then it's not a prime number. Is the number 391 prime? If you set n to 391 in this test, you'll see plenty of numbers that aren't 0, so you know 391 isn't prime.
If nothing else, I hope you get an idea of where exploring one idea in math can lead you to some surprising places. Sometimes, it's just fun to explore!
Danica McKellar's Math Bites
Published on Sunday, February 02, 2014 in books, fun, innumeracy, math, Math Bites, mental math, Pi, self improvement, site features, videos
No, I'm not insulting Danica McKellar's math ability, I swear! I even sell her math books over in the Grey Matters Store!
Math Bites is actually the name of Danica McKellar's new weekly video series from Nerdist, which started last month.
Math Bites can be found on YouTube, and you can subscribe to the Nerdist channel for regular updates, as well.
Each episode is only about 5-6 minutes long, and focuses on one math topic. The style is somewhat like that of Square One TV, in that there are short comedy skits and musical segments that help reinforce the concepts or give you breathing time to let the concepts sink in. I especially like the takeaway tips at the end of each episode, which summarize the important points of each episode.
The first episode focused on a topic near and dear to my heart, the constant Pi:
While many Grey Matters readers have memorized Pi to 400 digits, some might prefer the full Dance of the Sugar Pi Fairy to help them memorize Pi to 139 digits.
The second episode talked about the importance of being able to do math in your head. No, this episode doesn't talk about extraordinary mental math feats like those taught in the Mental Gym, but rather knowing how to do basic arithmetic and estimation well enough so that you don't get ripped off:
You can already get an idea of why I like this series so much. It touches on the basics of topics I've posted about many times before. I've posted about binary numbers both on their own, and their importance in Nim, so the 3rd episode on binary numbers was also helpful and entertaining:
The most recent episode as of this posting is about percentages, and focuses on how they can mislead you. Sometimes you can get taken advantage of when businesses can't do math, and also when businesses can do math, so percentages can be very important to understand:
Even if you missed the initial announcement of Math Bites, you're now completely caught up with the series. Here's hoping that Danica McKellar keeps this series up for a long time to come!


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Kyle MacLachlan Joins Season 4 Of The Good Wife
The Good Wife has booked another guest star to join the ranks this season. The latest on the long list of Season 4 guests is Kyle MacLachlan, who is just coming off of fall's first to be cancelled new drama, Made in Jersey.
EW says MacLachlan will be joining The Good Wife in a multi-episode arc. So far the details of his appearance are few; all we know is his character will have some interaction with Eli, played by Alan Cumming. There's no name or description of the character, and no air date for his episodes yet, either.
MacLachlan doesn't seem to have been too bothered by the cancellation of Made in Jersey and is certainly getting back on his feet quickly. For those who didn't see CBS' extremely short-lived legal drama – and that is a lot of people based on the ratings – MacLachlan is better known as Bree's husband from Desperate Housewives. Portlandia fans will also recognize him as the Mayor of Portland; he played the role in six episodes in both Seasons 1 and 2 of the IFC comedy.
It's been something of a banner season for The Good Wife in terms of guest stars. So far they've already nabbed Amanda Peet, Christina Ricci, J.R. Knight, Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing. The series will also have Michael J. Fox come back for another guest appearance, and just recently we reported that Matthew Perry will be showing up again, as well. MacLachlan is certainly in good company on The Good Wife's guest list.
The Good Wife airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on CBS.
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