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The musical pair, Katy Perry and John Mayer, took some time off from having expensive dinner dates—and John, with his selfishness and douchebag-ery—to spend their early holiday days at a Santa Barbara hospital with some unfortunate and some cancer-stricken patients who can't spend Christmas at home with their families.
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Canada won their fourth consecutive Olympic women's ice hockey gold medal with a wild 3-2 overtime win over the United States at the Sochi Games on Thursday.
Trailing by two goals with under four minutes to play in regulation, Canada scored twice, including one with 55 seconds to play, before going on to win on Marie-Philip Poulin's goal eight minutes into the sudden-death overtime period.
The win capped an undefeated run in Sochi for a Canadian team that have won four of the five gold medals awarded since women's ice hockey made its debut at the 1998 Nagano Games.
Switzerland beat Sweden earlier on Thursday to claim bronze.
The Americans, who were clinging to a one-goal lead late in the third period, almost sealed the win when a shot from their end of the ice hit the post of a Canadian net left empty in favor of an extra attacker.
That proved costly as Poulin tied the game moments later, deflating an American team that could almost taste their first Olympic gold medal since 1998.
In contrast to the high-octane ending, the first period was scoreless but things began to heat up in the second.
Canada's Meghan Agosta missed a glorious chance to open the scoring near the midway mark of the second period but her shot from in close was stopped just short of the goal line when U.S. goalie Jessie Vetter got her left pad out at the last second.
American captain Meghan Duggan opened the scoring minutes later when, after a turnover right outside the Canadian zone, she sent a fluttering puck into the top right corner of the net with eight minutes left in the second.
A third period goal from American forward Alex Carpenter, who was parked alone outside the Canadian goal crease when she redirected a perfect Hilary Knight pass into the net, gave the U.S. team a lead that looked safe.
Canada's Brianne Jenner pulled Canada to within one in the game's closing minutes to set up the frenetic finish.
Earlier on Thursday, Switzerland won their first medal in women's ice hockey after rallying from a two-goal deficit to beat Sweden 4-3 in a frenetic bronze medal game.
Trailing 2-0 going into the final period, Switzerland came to life with goals from Sara Benz, Phoebe Stanz, Jessica Lutz and an empty netter from Alina Muller.
"It's an amazing feeling," Muller told reporters. "It's amazing we came back from 2-0 down."
Sweden, the 2006 silver medalists, had looked on course for the win as they controlled the first two periods.
But Switzerland fought back with two goals in the opening six minutes of the last period, first when Benz pounced on a loose puck near the top of the crease and five minutes later when Stanz tallied on a powerplay.
With under seven minutes to play and the game tied, Sweden were unable to clear their zone and the Swiss made them pay as Lutz sent a perfect pass from Lara Stalder flying into the net.
Muller's empty-net goal with 67 seconds to play proved crucial to Switzerland's medal hopes as Sweden managed to get one back in the closing minute of a wild period.
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"It sucks. We have been playing really well through the tournament but we lost all of it in that third period," said Jenni Asserholt, who assisted on Sweden's last-minute goal. "It feels really tough to accept. We just messed up."
After finishing last in their group during the preliminary round, Switzerland beat Russia in the quarter-finals before losing in the semi-finals to Canada.
Since women's ice hockey made its Olympic debut at the 1998 Nagano Games, Canada and the United States have competed for every gold medal except one. The lone exception came in 2006 when Sweden lost to Canada in the final.
Finland and Sweden had been the only countries apart from the two North American ice hockey superpowers to reach an Olympic podium, a trend that put the women's tournament under the microscope in Sochi.
"Hopefully, we can just get better from here," said Stanz. "Women's hockey is going to be taken seriously, especially in Europe."
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Team USA Women's Hockey takes on Team Canada for the gold medal game.
Team USA lost against team Canada day ago 3 to 2.
This post will be updated throughout the game.
Period 1:
- Team USA on the power play. Anne Schleper of St. Cloud Shot on Goal – it was blocked.
– Delayed Penalty Call on Team Canada. Second Power play for Team USA.
– Team Canada gets a Power Play.
- 10 minutes left in the first period, Score still 0-0.
- Team USA is on the Power Play, 5 minutes left in the first period.
- Team Canada on the Power Play, 3 minutes left in the first.
- Shots are 10-7 USA. 2:50 Left in First period.
- Shots are 11-9 Team USA. End of the First Period. Tied at 0.
Team USA - Team Canada
Shots on Goal 11- 9
Scoring Chances 6-6
Power Plays 3 - 2
Face offs Won 8 - 8
Period 2:
-The second period is underway. 16 minutes left, still tied at 0.
- Shot on goal 12-11 Team USA. 14 minutes left in the 2nd period.
- 12 minutes left in the second and Team Canada on the power play.
- 10 minutes left in the second, still scoreless
- Alex Carpenter had a break away, shot but was blocked.
- Offensive Zone face off for Team USA. 9 minutes left.
- Meghan Duggan just SCORED bringing the score 1-0. Jocelyne Lamoureux assisted.
7 minutes left in the second.
- Game is stopped: Referee discussing to many players on the ice for Team USA. Power Play granted to Team Canada. 6:45 left in the second.
- Delayed Penalty coming up against Team USA. 31 seconds with a 5 on 3 for Team Canada. Penalty called on Anne Schleper for Cross Checking.
- Now a 5 against 4 power play.
- 3 minutes left in the second period. Power play is over. Team USA had a great penalty kill. 13 blocked shots for Team USA. No Power Play score yet.
- NBC gives a Game shoot out to Warroad, MN and are showing pictures of Gigi Marvin and T.J Oshie.
- Jessi Vetter (Team USA Goalie) makes a save and the puck is cleared.
- 1:30 left of the Second, Team USA Shoots by Bellamy but is blocked by team Canada.
- End of the 2nd Period! Team USA winning by 1.
Team USA - Team Canada
Score: 1 - 0
Shots on Goal:16-17
Scoring Chances:10-10
Power Plays: 3-5
Face offs Won: 23-14
Period 3:
- Period 3 is underway and Penalty going toward team Canada for tripping. Power Play for Team USA.
- Icing called while on the Power Play for Team USA.
- Alex Carpenter Just SCORED. 2 to 0 Team USA. Assisted by Hillary Knight.
-14:30 Left in the third period. Canada shot on USA but was blocked by Vetter
- Vetter blocks shot from Team Canada. 11:57 left in the 3rd period.
- Nearing the half way point of the third period, score is still 2-0.
- Kessel passes to Monique Lamoureux, shot is blocked by Team Canada.
- 8 Minutes left in the third.
-J. Lamoureux on the face off.
- 6:30 left in the Third Period. Score still 2 to 0. Team USA with the Lead.
- Knight shoots but the shot is deflicted wide with 5:55 left.
- The puck is out of play... Waiting to see if penalty.
- "Gigi Marvin is having a very strong game" annoucers state.
- 5:27 left in the third period, no penalty called.
- Team Canda Shoot on Vetter but shot is blocked.
- 4:45 left in the third.
- CANADA SCORE with 3:26 left in the third score is 2-1 Team USA.
- 2:30 left in the third period. Canada shoots on Team USA but it is blocked.
- 1:35 left with icing called.
- Canada has pulled their goalie.
-USA shot the Puck at the empty next, it went the length of the ice and off the post.
- 1:14 left in the game, time out is called. Score is currenlty 2-1 USA!
-Canada still has an empty net.
-Canada score with 54 seconds left. Game is tied 2-2!
- END of Regulation is over! Game goest to OT. A 20 minute Overtime.
Annoucer- "Right now the team is rattled in the locker room"
Score: 2-2
Overtime Rules: Single 20 minute period, 4 on 4 plus goalies. If no goal in the period goes to shootout best of 3.
-OT begins, Shot made on Team USA but Vetter Blocks. 3rd shot made on Vetter but is blocked.
- 17:45 left in the OT.
-Shot on Team USA...Vetter Blocks it.
- Team USA makes a line change... Team Canada shoots at Vetter but puck goes wide.
-Team USA in offensive Zone, good up and down action, 15 minutes left in OT. NO SCORE YET.
- Delayed offside called against USA.
- Canada Penalty 4 against 3 with 13:51 left. Cross Check penalty on Catherine Ward. 2 Minute Power Play to team USA.
-Time out on Team Canada.
- Canada Goalie saves a shot made by Bozek, Jocelyne Lamoureux sent to the Penelty box for slashing. Going to be 3 on 3 for 2 minutes.
- Team Canada Break away, Cross Check made by Hillary Knight.
-39 seconds of Power Play time to Team Canada. 12:29 left in the OT. 4 on 3 team Canada.
- TEAM CANADA SCORES ON TEAM USA at 11:50 left in OT.
Team Canada wins their fourth striaght gold medal.


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Two of them are the natural wood color shown, and two of them are stained green beneath their varnish. All four are stamped with the emblem shown, but no matter where I search online I am unable to find anything like them or their emblem for a clue as to their origin. I assume from their style that they may be from the 60s, but I'd love to know who made them and to figure out what vintage they are (if they are) for sure. Any information (or even educated guesses) would be appreciated!
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What a nice piece! I am fond of old style chairs. You are lucky that you can have that one :) Anyway, I have never seen a chair like this.
How about contacting Macy's to see if they can give you any information? Sorry I can't offer anything else. The chairs are nice. I'd be interested in seeing what kind of table you are using them with or if you are using them as accents in the living room or bedroom areas.
Those are wild; four of them, I'm envious! I think they're older than the '60s; My gut says late '40s or '50s, but I don't know; I'd just be happy to have them. Nice!
Danish? I looked everywhichway myself...'King Harold', "Crown Harold' Harold Crown..arghh..someone here will know for sure!
I was poking around and found something called Klismos style chair. I did a Google search and it seems like the legs on your chairs fit the bill. No luck on the maker though. I did see this site. At the bottom of the article he welcomes photos and questions. He might be able to help you out? Neat chairs! Good luck!
Mid-century? Maple? There are some great threads at woodworking.com to help identify wood and makers' marks -- a google search of "furniture maker marks" might find something too. And you can always send the pic to various antiques dealers to find out...a good place to start is http://www.cabinetmakersearch.com/. Hope that helps!
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Perhaps they were custom made specially for the window display.
Lovely chairs! They make me think or daisies :)
Antique Roadshow would know!
It reminds me of famous polish designer Teresa Kruszewska - maybe it is her design.
She created collection of furnitures in 70's called "stokrotka" (daisy) here is the link: http://designby.pl/kolekcja/17/w-stokrotce-sila
Boy, Zu! Her stuff looks just about spot on!
Thanks to everyone for the leads!
Zu, that chair does look very similar. I'm excited to delve deeper into her work and inspiration (when it's not Thanksgiving).
GIT, the chairs are serving as our dining room table seating currently. They're surrounding an old drop-leaf table, but its not particularly exciting as a combination. Eventually they will be replaced with ghost chairs and an extremely rustic farm house table, and will become accent seating for parties.
Further ideas and information is always appreciated. This has been a mystery to me for several years now. I'll update if I find their origin. Thanks again!
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Read the title.I need help, this is my Ferard fic list.
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this one is the saddest I've ever written. My friend and mother cryed. It's also my favorite
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Synthetically black
-what if Hitler succeeded in life? The inferior are slave or killed. Gerard being the superior, Frank being the inferior. They fall in love and fight for democracy.
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I do believe in equal rights. I haven't written this one yet.
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The Great Komatsuna Resurrection: Greens in Water!
Here's a great little tip from Lauren at VeganYumYum: Resurrect wilted fresh greens by plunking them in a glass of water. We knew that this worked, but this series of images captures it dramatically!
Lauren of VeganYumYum says that she forgot to put away this bunch of komatsuna the night before, but a good dunking in a glass of water freshened the leaves right up.
So if you get a wilted bunch of greens in your CSA this spring, now you know what to do.
This reminds us: Have you ever tried komatsuna? It's growing in the garden right now, and it's one of our new favorite greens. It's deliciously mustard-like, but not too spicy. Just pleasantly sharp and complex.
Related: How To Store Fresh Herbs
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What a nice way to start the day... one favorite blog giving a nod to another favorite. Warms my heart!
Haven't tried komatsuna, but I've never met a green I didn't like, so I'll have to keep an eye out.
Wow, that stuff is gorgeous as a table decoration! I'll have to remember that the next bbq I have.
When I prep a salad I always let the leaves soak in cold water for about 5 minutes when washing. Then I spin and they come out really crisp. We also store leftover salad in a salad keeper in the fridge so we have it prepped for another day or two. A great way to get a salad "on the go" without resorting to bagged salads!
Often leave the greens out longer that I meant to and revive them before cooking. If only we could do the same to ourselves! The photos make me want to see a time lapse video of the the wilting/reviving
This looks like the sad little chard plant I brought home, after I gave it a nice drink of water. I think it took less than ten minutes. Good idea for the kitchen, too.


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A lot has changed since the beginnings of the male grooming market boom. After the "metrosexual" era (most men hated the term), we now have a wide variety of men from every background flexing their spending muscles in mixed-clientele salons. This signals the start of a migration to any convenient grooming
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Marketers, who have long been chasing men, are undergoing an attitude adjustment. For starters, they're abandoning the disconnect of too many products (pared-down routines are where it's at), and recognizing that meeting men's needs is moving from tapping the women in their lives to making a direct appeal to guys themselves.
Salons that are boosting their male business have long ditched the frou-frou decor and they, too, are amending their "male calls." Their newest tactic: Skip the guy gimmicks and go straight to the "comfortable for all" approach. As a result, that familiar given—consistency—is sometimes altered, and national branding is giving way to localization (even Wal-Mart is doing it). In salons and spas, the translation is individualization and personalization, and even when the operation is a guys-only business, it's got lots more local flavor.
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John Allan launched his men's full service and club membership concept in 1988, and a slew of male-only operations followed. By the late '90s, many of the free-standing operations had disappeared because men stopped traveling very far just for the "exclusive" factor. Men's chains began fine-tuning their acts.
Gordon Logan, who founded the Austin, Texas-based Sports Clips franchise in 1993, says, "What's changed over the years is that men want more than a good cut; they want an experience."
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"There's been a gradual shift away from the efficiency model of inexpensive men's cuts to the 'Third Place' theory," says Logan. "After work and home, there has to be another place for escape."
With 565 locations and 150 more to open this year, Sports Clips meets the modern need for convenience and marries it to the "staycation" trend-—relaxing close to home. Solo operations, like BBraxton, New York's first all-male salon for African-American and Latino men, are filling explicitly local needs.


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The chief information officer of PBS is combining two current contracts for ancillary IT services and for Web development services into the new BPA, called Information Technology and Development Services.
"The future requires the PBS CIO to address issues that require high technical and social complexity," PBS wrote in the request for proposals issued in January. "Issues of this nature require an interpersonal level of engagement, or 'soft sciences,' in order to successfully achieve the transformation of a large government organization."
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As you puckheads out there (like me) know, the NHL season is finally about to get underway this weekend. For you non-puckheads, the hockey season would've normally started back in October but, for the third time in the least 18 years, the team owners locked out the players in a fight over money. Luckily, unlike the last time they did so, in 2004-2005, we're not going to lose a whole season because of a labor dispute.
Why am I writing about this here on ITworld? Because, this labor dispute, which has directly affected my entertainment options, made me think about the issue of unions and programmers.
Namely, should programmers be unionized?
I'm not talking about some sort of professional association to license or accredit programmers or lobby on their behalf, like the AMA. No, I'm talking about a real labor union whose purpose is to enable programmers to collectively bargain for salaries, benefits and such. Like the Teamsters - but nerdlier.
It's an issue that comes up now and again and a question that regularly pops up on discussion boards. In fact, there have been attempts in the past to organize programmers and unions for programmers do exist today. However, for the most part here in the U.S., these efforts haven't gone anywhere and the vast majority of programmers are non-union.
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Wild signs Brodziak to three-year dealPosted on July 23rd, 2009 – 10:29 AM
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The Wild has signed restricted free agent Kyle Brodziak to a three-year deal worth $3.45 million ($1.15 million cap number), thus avoiding a July 30 arbitration hearing.
Last RFA to sign is goalie Josh Harding, who has a July 29 arbitration hearing.
Also, Wild officially signed defenseman Ryan Lannon to a one-year deal.
The team is also in the midst of making a number of changes to its scouting department, I hear. As I mentioned when Chuck Fletcher was hired, typically in GM changes, mid-July is the time scouting changes are made.


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In dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of physical properties toward which a system tends to evolve, regardless of the starting conditions of the system.[1] Property values that get close enough to the attractor values remain close even if slightly disturbed.
In finite-dimensional systems, the evolving variable may be represented algebraically as an n-dimensional vector. The attractor is a region in n-dimensional space. In physical systems, the n dimensions may be, for example, two or three positional coordinates for each of one or more physical entities; in economic systems, they may be separate variables such as the inflation rate and the unemployment rate.
If the evolving variable is two- or three-dimensional, the attractor of the dynamic process can be represented geometrically in two or three dimensions, (as for example in the three-dimensional case depicted to the right). An attractor can be a point, a finite set of points, a curve, a manifold, or even a complicated set with a fractal structure known as a strange attractor. If the variable is a scalar, the attractor is a subset of the real number line. Describing the attractors of chaotic dynamical systems has been one of the achievements of chaos theory.
A trajectory of the dynamical system in the attractor does not have to satisfy any special constraints except for remaining on the attractor, backward and forward in time. The trajectory may be periodic or chaotic. If a set of points is periodic or chaotic, but the flow in the neighborhood is away from the set, the set is not an attractor, but instead is called a repeller (or repellor).
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A dynamical system is generally described by one or more differential or difference equations. The equations of a given dynamical system specify its behavior over any given short period of time. To determine the system's behavior for a longer period, it is often necessary to integrate the equations, either through analytical means or through iteration, often with the aid of computers.
Dynamical systems in the physical world tend to arise from dissipative systems: if it were not for some driving force, the motion would cease. (Dissipation may come from internal friction, thermodynamic losses, or loss of material, among many causes.) The dissipation and the driving force tend to balance, killing out initial transients and settle the system into its typical behavior. The subset of the phase space of the dynamical system corresponding to the typical behavior is the attractor, also known as the attracting section or attractee.
Invariant sets and limit sets are similar to the attractor concept. An invariant set is a set that evolves to itself under the dynamics. Attractors may contain invariant sets. A limit set is a set of points such that there exists some initial state that ends up arbitrarily close to the limit set (i.e. to each point of the set) as time goes to infinity. Attractors are limit sets, but not all limit sets are attractors: It is possible to have some points of a system converge to a limit set, but different points when perturbed slightly off the limit set may get knocked off and never return to the vicinity of the limit set.
For example, the damped pendulum has two invariant points: the point x0 of minimum height and the point x1 of maximum height. The point x0 is also a limit set, as trajectories converge to it; the point x1 is not a limit set. Because of the dissipation, the point x0 is also an attractor. If there were no dissipation, x0 would not be an attractor.
Mathematical definition[edit]
Let t represent time and let f(t, •) be a function which specifies the dynamics of the system. That is, if a is an n-dimensional point in the phase space, representing the initial state of the system, then f(0, a) = a and, for a positive value of t, f(t, a) is the result of the evolution of this state after t units of time. For example, if the system describes the evolution of a free particle in one dimension then the phase space is the plane R2 with coordinates (x,v), where x is the position of the particle, v is its velocity, a=(x,v), and the evolution is given by
An attractor is a subset A of the phase space characterized by the following three conditions:
- A is forward invariant under f: if a is an element of A then so is f(t,a), for all t > 0.
- There exists a neighborhood of A, called the basin of attraction for A and denoted B(A), which consists of all points b that "enter A in the limit t → ∞". More formally, B(A) is the set of all points b in the phase space with the following property:
- For any open neighborhood N of A, there is a positive constant T such that f(t,b) ∈ N for all real t > T.
- There is no proper (non-empty) subset of A having the first two properties.
Since the basin of attraction contains an open set containing A, every point that is sufficiently close to A is attracted to A. The definition of an attractor uses a metric on the phase space, but the resulting notion usually depends only on the topology of the phase space. In the case of Rn, the Euclidean norm is typically used.
Many other definitions of attractor occur in the literature. For example, some authors require that an attractor have positive measure (preventing a point from being an attractor), others relax the requirement that B(A) be a neighborhood.[citation needed]
Types of attractors[edit]
Attractors are portions or subsets of the phase space of a dynamic system. Until the 1960s, attractors were thought of as being simple geometric subsets of the phase space, like points, lines, surfaces, and volumes. More complex attractors that cannot be categorized as simple geometric subsets, such as topologically wild sets, were known of at the time but were thought to be fragile anomalies. Stephen Smale was able to show that his horseshoe map was robust and that its attractor had the structure of a Cantor set.
Two simple attractors are a fixed point and the limit cycle. Attractors can take on many other geometric shapes (phase space subsets). But when these sets (or the motions within them) cannot be easily described as simple combinations (e.g. intersection and union) of fundamental geometric objects (e.g. lines, surfaces, spheres, toroids, manifolds), then the attractor is called a strange attractor.
Fixed point[edit]
A fixed point of a function or transformation is a point that is mapped to itself by the function or transformation. If we regard the evolution of a dynamical system as a series of transformations, then there may or may not be a point which remains fixed under each transformation. The final state that a dynamical system evolves towards corresponds to an attracting fixed point of the evolution function for that system, such center bottom position of a damped pendulum, the level and flat water line of sloshing water in a glass, or the bottom center of a bowl contain a rolling marble. But the fixed point(s) of a dynamic system is not necessarily an attractor of the system. For example, if the bowl containing a rolling marble was inverted and the marble was balanced on top of the bowl, the center bottom (now top) of the bowl is a fixed state, but not an attractor. This is equivalent to the difference between stable and unstable equilibria. In the case of a marble on top of an inverted bowl (a hill), that point at the top of the bowl (hill) is a fixed point (unstable equilibrium), but not attractor (stable equilibrium).
In addition, physical dynamic systems with at least one fixed point invariably have multiple fixed points and attractors due to the reality of dynamics in the physical world, including the nonlinear dynamics of stiction, friction, surface roughness, deformation (both elastic and plasticity), and even quantum mechanics.[2] In the case of a marble on top of an inverted bowl, even if the bowl seems perfectly hemispherical, and the marble's spherical shape, are both much more complex surfaces when examined under a microscope, and their shapes change or deform during contact. Any physical surface can be seen to have a rough terrain of multiple peaks, valleys, saddle points, ridges, ravines, and plains.[3] There are many points in this surface terrain (and the dynamic system of a similarly rough marble rolling around on this microscopic terrain) that are considered stationary or fixed points, some of which are categorized as attractors.
Limit cycle[edit]
- See main article limit cycle
A limit cycle is a periodic orbit of the system that is isolated. Examples include the swings of a pendulum clock, the tuning circuit of a radio, and the heartbeat while resting. (The limit cycle of an ideal pendulum is not an example of a limit cycle attractor because its orbits are not isolated: in the phase space of the ideal pendulum, near any point of a periodic orbit there is another point that belongs to a different periodic orbit, so the former orbit is not attracting).
Limit torus[edit]
There may be more than one frequency in the periodic trajectory of the system through the state of a limit cycle. For example, in physics, one frequency may dictate the rate at which a planet orbits a star while a second frequency describes the oscillations in the distance between the two bodies. If two of these frequencies form an irrational fraction (i.e. they are incommensurate), the trajectory is no longer closed, and the limit cycle becomes a limit torus. This kind of attractor is called an Nt-torus if there are Nt incommensurate frequencies. For example here is a 2-torus:
A time series corresponding to this attractor is a quasiperiodic series: A discretely sampled sum of Nt periodic functions (not necessarily sine waves) with incommensurate frequencies. Such a time series does not have a strict periodicity, but its power spectrum still consists only of sharp lines.
Strange attractor[edit]
An attractor is called strange if it has a fractal structure. This is often the case when the dynamics on it are chaotic, but strange nonchaotic attractors also exist. The term was coined by David Ruelle and Floris Takens to describe the attractor that resulted from a series of bifurcations of a system describing fluid flow.[4] Strange attractors are often differentiable in a few directions, but some are like a Cantor dust, and therefore not differentiable. Strange attractors may also be found in presence of noise, where they may be shown to support invariant random probability measures of Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen type .[5]
Examples of strange attractors include the Double-scroll attractor, Hénon attractor, Rössler attractor, Tamari attractor, and the Lorenz attractor.
Partial differential equations[edit]
Parabolic partial differential equations may have finite-dimensional attractors. The diffusive part of the equation damps higher frequencies and in some cases leads to a global attractor. The Ginzburg–Landau, the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky, and the two-dimensional, forced Navier–Stokes equations are all known to have global attractors of finite dimension.
For the three-dimensional, incompressible Navier–Stokes equation with periodic boundary conditions, if it has a global attractor, then this attractor will be of finite dimensions.
From a computational point of view, attractors can be naturally regarded as self-excited attractors or hidden attractors.[6][7][8][9] Self-excited attractors can be localized numerically by standard computational procedures, in which after a transient sequence, a trajectory starting from a point on an unstable manifold in a small neighborhood of an unstable equilibrium reaches an attractor (like classical attractors in the Van der Pol, Belousov–Zhabotinsky, Lorenz, and many other dynamical systems). In contrast, the basin of attraction of a hidden attractor does not contain neighborhoods of equilibria, so the hidden attractor cannot be localized by standard computational procedures.
See also[edit]
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- ^ http://www.thefreedictionary.com/attractor
- ^ Greenwood, J. A.; J. B. P. Williamson (6 December 1966). "Contact of Nominally Flat Surfaces". Proceedings of the Royal Society 295 (1442): 300–319. doi:10.1098/rspa.1966.0242. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ^ Vorberger, T. V. (1990). Surface Finish Metrology Tutorial. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards (NIST). p. 5.
- ^ Ruelle, David; Takens, Floris (1971). "On the nature of turbulence". Communications in Mathematical Physics 20 (3): 167–192.
- ^ Chekroun M. D., Simonnet E., and Ghil M. (2011). "Stochastic climate dynamics: Random attractors and time-dependent invariant measures". Physica D. 240 (21): 1685–1700. doi:10.1016/j.physd.2011.06.005.
- ^ Leonov G.A., Vagaitsev V.I., Kuznetsov N.V. (2011). "Localization of hidden Chua's attractors". Physics Letters A 375 (23): 2230–2233. doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2011.04.037.
- ^ Bragin V.O., Vagaitsev V.I., Kuznetsov N.V., Leonov G.A. (2011). "Algorithms for Finding Hidden Oscillations in Nonlinear Systems. The Aizerman and Kalman Conjectures and Chua's Circuits". Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International 50 (5): 511–543. doi:10.1134/S106423071104006X.
- ^ Leonov G.A., Vagaitsev V.I., Kuznetsov N.V. (2012). "Hidden attractor in smooth Chua systems". Physica D 241 (18): 1482–1486. doi:10.1016/j.physd.2012.05.016.
- ^ Leonov G.A., Kuznetsov N.V. (2013). "Hidden attractors in dynamical systems. From hidden oscillations in Hilbert-Kolmogorov, Aizerman, and Kalman problems to hidden chaotic attractor in Chua circuits". International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 23 (1): art. no. 1330002. doi:10.1142/S0218127413300024.
Further reading[edit]
- Attractor at Scholarpedia, curated by John Milnor.
- David Ruelle and Floris Takens (1971). "On the nature of turbulence". Communications of Mathematical Physics 20 (3): 167–192. doi:10.1007/BF01646553.
- D. Ruelle (1981). "Small random perturbations of dynamical systems and the definition of attractors". Communications of Mathematical Physics 82: 137–151. doi:10.1007/BF01206949.
- John Milnor (1985). "On the concept of attractor". Communications of Mathematical Physics 99 (2): 177–195. doi:10.1007/BF01212280.
- David Ruelle (1989). Elements of Differentiable Dynamics and Bifurcation Theory. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-601710-7.
- Ruelle, David (August 2006). "What is...a Strange Attractor?" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society 53 (7): 764–765. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
- Grebogi, Ott, Pelikan, Yorke (1984). "Strange attractors that are not chaotic". Physica D 13: 261–268. doi:10.1016/0167-2789(84)90282-3.
- Chekroun, M. D., E. Simonnet, and M. Ghil (2011). "Stochastic climate dynamics: Random attractors and time-dependent invariant measures". Physica D. 240 (21): 1685–1700. doi:10.1016/j.physd.2011.06.005.
- Edward N. Lorenz (1996) The Essence of Chaos ISBN 0-295-97514-8
- James Gleick (1988) Chaos: Making a New Science ISBN 0-14-009250-1
External links[edit]
- Basin of attraction on Scholarpedia
- A gallery of trigonometric strange attractors
- Double scroll attractor Chua's circuit simulation
- A gallery of polynomial strange attractors
- Animated Pickover Strange Attractors
- Chaoscope, a 3D Strange Attractor rendering freeware
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