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8 Insane Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened (Pt. 2)
We've all lived through a coincidence that no one will ever believe happened, usually involving pop-ups of nude women appearing on your screen just when someone walks past your computer. Fortunately, the following coincidences are very well-documented, otherwise there's no way in hell we'd buy any of this shit.
#8. Various World Leaders Fall to the "Two Pandas" Curse, All at the Same Time
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In 1974, three world leaders were forced to step down. Their scandals weren't connected, but the three had one very strange, very specific thing in common: They had all been given exactly two pandas.
In 1976, the BBC ran a documentary called Very Important Pandas that pointed out this bizarre and quite frankly ridiculous coincidence. It starts with Richard Nixon, who was given two giant pandas by the Republic of China during a visit, because they didn't have time to buy him a box of chocolates and that was the first thing they found in the pantry. That was in 1972 -- Nixon Watergated his way out of the U.S. presidency two years later.
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In retrospect, sending his clumsy pets to break into that office was kinda dumb.
Also in 1974, Edward Heath, the prime minister of Britain, quit his job following a series of miners' strikes in the same year. And what do you know, Heath had visited China months earlier and personally asked for two pandas.
"Making demands, eh? Give him some extra cursed ones."
But anything can happen twice, right?
Well, next came Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who, besides being a freaking prince, was one of the founders of the World Wildlife Fund and the guy responsible for making pandas famous despite their biological incompetence. He was fired for getting involved in the Lockheed Corporation scandal -- the same scandal that caused the arrest of former Prime Minister Tanaka of Japan. Why "former"? Because he was given a pair of pandas in 1971 and resigned from office in -- you guessed it -- 1974.
Soon afterward, China threw her arms in the air, screamed "Fuck it!" and discontinued this trend of panda-trafficking, lest the whole world end up leaderless and embroiled in anarchy. Just as the pandas wanted.
#7. The Little Rascals Curse Leaves Everyone Dead
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Child stars tend to have rough lives, so it's not terribly surprising to find out that some stars of a classic kids' show died early deaths. But holy shit, nothing can prepare you for the parade of horror and brutality that was The Little Rascals curse.
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This is different from the 1994 curse, which just left their careers dead.
The classic series of shorts (originally called "Our Gang") was about the misadventures of a group of neighborhood kids and began in the 1920s, because there was nothing more hilarious to pre-Great Depression America than watching poor children performing dangerous stunts. And speaking of depressing, the post-Little Rascals lives (or, more accurately, deaths) of these kids is enough to make anyone believe in curses.
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It all started in the classic short "Our Gang Murders a Gypsy."
For starters, by the time The Little Rascals became a TV show in 1955, five of the original actors couldn't complain about the lack of residuals on account of already being dead. Billy "Froggy" Laughlin had been killed after getting hit by a truck at 16; Norman "Chubby" Chaney was nicknamed so due to a glandular ailment that caused him to pass away at the age of 21; and Clifton Young, who played Bonedust, became pretty much that when he fell asleep while smoking and died in a fire at 33. Another one, Donald Haines, was killed in action during World War II at 23, but at least he died a heroic death in combat -- unlike poor Bobby Hutchings ("Wheezer"), who died in a plane crash at 20 during routine army training.
"Yeah," you say, "but these were unhealthy people and military vets; maybe it's not so weird that they kept meeting unnatural ends."
Oh, we're not done. In 1959, Carl Switzer ("Alfalfa," the most popular one) was shot to death at 31 over $50. Even his brother died a tragic death, and that guy was only an extra. Scotty Beckett expired at 38 from a combination of drugs, alcohol, and getting the shit kicked out of him. Dorothy Dandridge found great success, got an Academy Award nomination ... and then still managed to fall on hard times and overdosed at 42. Jesus, did any of these people die of natural causes? Sure, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas and Darla Hood did. Before reaching 50.
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Plus the dog got rabies and Stymie's kickass derby was ruined by a dry cleaner.
Even those who thought they'd surely beaten the curse and lived to a ripe old age still couldn't avoid horrific ends: In May of 2002, 71-year-old Darwood Kaye was killed in a hit-and-run accident, and a few months after that, 87-year-old Jay R. Smith was stabbed to death by a homeless man.
This is some serious Final Destination shit here. But hey, at least Robert "Mickey" Blake seems to be doing all right.
We're not saying he sold the souls of 50 co-stars to the devil, but it sure would make a lot of sense.
#6. The Hunt for an Unknown Thief Finds Him Just an Inch Away (on the Front Page)
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On Christmas Day 2007, a local newspaper in Lewiston, Idaho, published the picture of a man who stole a woman's wallet from a store, hoping someone would help identify the asshole. The chances were slim, though: The security footage showed a heavyset white man with a goatee nabbing the wallet, which would be an original look in Nigeria or Vietnam, but not so much in Palesville, USA.
Unfortunately, Seth Rogen had an alibi.
However, by complete accident, the page where the thief's picture appeared in the newspaper offered a subtle clue to his identity. Below is the page exactly as it appeared that day. Can you solve this mystery?
Lewiston Tribune
Was it Santa?
Yes, it's the same guy in both pictures, wearing the same clothes, and no, the newspaper people didn't notice until the day's edition was ready to be printed -- a photographer for the paper just happened to snap a picture of some random store owner putting up Christmas decorations, because apparently there weren't any strange-looking squirrels going around that day, unaware that some editor had decided to put the thief story right under the "Let's fill some space with local bullshit" spot. That means that, the next morning, the cops concluded their investigation by simply sitting down and opening the paper, since it included not only two pictures of the suspect, but also his name and place of employment.
Michael Millhouse of Millhouse Signs was immediately arrested for stealing, which he protested by saying that he intended to turn over the wallet to the police, but forgot to do so. He also forgot to not spend $600 of the woman's money. Of course, this didn't stop the torrent of calls to the paper from people sure they were the first ones to crack open the case.
#5. Two Photos of Abraham Lincoln Predict Future Events
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Abraham Lincoln lived in an era when getting a photograph was about as common as having an artist paint a portrait of you. It was something for important and fancy folk, and in fact we only know of about 50 photos that were ever taken of Lincoln, the great majority of which show him by himself, because the man loved his selfies.
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His arms were so long, you can't tell that he was holding the camera.
That's why it's so bizarre that, out of the relatively few photos of Honest Abe that were taken during his modeling career/presidency, two of the most unusual ones happen to contain glimpses into the next hundred years of U.S. history. For instance, these pictures from the Second Inaugural Address mark the only occasion someone was lucky enough to snag photos of Lincoln giving a speech:
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"My fellow vampire hunt- wait, uh, wrong speech. Forget that."
Today it's common for celebrities like Beyonce or Bono to attend the presidential inauguration, and a pretty major one does show up in these photos: renowned actor John Wilkes Booth, who admittedly is best known for other reasons. According to the asshole assassin himself: "What an excellent chance I had to kill the president, if I had wished, on Inauguration Day!" Also in the shot are as many as five other players in the Booth conspiracy playing Where's Waldo?
Via Wikipedia
You'd wuss out too if your target turned out to be a giant.
After Lincoln was assassinated a little more than a month later, his body was put on a train for a tour back to Illinois, which provided one hell of a depressing moment for one future president. Which one? Here, in a picture that went unnoticed until nearly a century after it was taken, is Lincoln's funeral procession moving up Broadway in New York City ... while a 6-year-old Theodore Roosevelt watches, alongside his younger brother Elliott.
New York Public Library, via Stolf
It's either Roosevelt's brother or a small bear he had just tamed.
So one picture of Lincoln shows his future assassin, and another shows the guy he would sit next to on Mount Rushmore. It's a small world, but not that small.


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I know that this may sound silly, but I was wondering if there is a proper way to pedal the road bike? I've noticed that you can be pedaling more with the front, or balls of the feet, or by staying flat for the most part, or even having the heel of your foot slightly angled down. Is there a specific way to pedal that will yield the most efficient use of 'foot power'? If so, what makes that specific technique more efficient?
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[I will treat this from a purely mechanical point of view, as this is my area of expertise -- the actual body mechanics are much more complex, but the effect is similar.]
From a mechanical point of view, the most efficient way to propel yourself on the bike is to step on the pedal so that the distance between your heel and the pedal is maximized. Ideally this place would be your toes; however, due to the toe joints, your ability to do so is rather limited, as the the flexible joint will change the way power is transmitted through your foot.
Thus, the optimal place to step is the ball of the foot -- it has a good surface area for good contact, and the muscular mass which reduces the reaction from the pedal and dampens somewhat vibrations from the bumpy road.
As to why the most efficient place is as far from your heel as possible:
See this handy force diagram below that I found when writing my answer (image license unknown). Although not exactly what we need here, it will come in handy in the explanation.
How this whole biking deal works:
You step on the pedal with force
Mechanically, the greater the arm
Simple enough?
You might be tempted to think that if you make your pedals long enough, you can exert enormous amount of force, and indeed this is so. Archimedes famously said "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth with a lever". The thing is, your feet will need to travel much farther to cover the same distance as with shorter pedals -- but requiring a negligible force. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch in mechanics as well.
But wait, this only takes into account the length of the pedal, not the foot!
Indeed. Your foot only serves as an extension of the pedal, effectively increasing the torque you produce by increasing the lever length. If the length of your foot is
effectively increasing the torque you produce.
As I understand it, you want to expand beyond the "power stroke" and consider pedaling in a "full circle". Starting just past the top of the stroke around 1:00 you would drop your heel slightly then gradually extend you foot somewhat during the power stroke, then extend it further at the bottom, sort of "flicking" the pedal across the bottom. Then, you would pull with your hamstrings during the "back" of the stroke, driving your knee up and pulling your toes up slightly as you go to prepare for the next power stroke. At the top you would flick your foot forward then repeat the whole cycle. It is easier to understand if you attempt each of these while pedaling a bicycle. If feels pretty natural after a small amount of practice.
I would not necessarily say this is the "most efficient" way to pedal, but that it is the method that produces the most output. When Mountain Biking I use the full circle to accelerate or climb short hills. On a long hill I alternate emphasis from the power stroke to the back stroke to shift the load around while climbing. On a mostly level road I pedal full circle to maintain the maximum sustainable pace.
You can read a lot of detail here.
The vast majority of your power in a cycling stroke comes from your hip and knee extensors (gluteus maximus and quadriceps pushing your leg/foot down). The amount of power you can get from ankle/foot muscles relative to that is tiny; when cycling those muscles mostly just keep your foot stiff, not provide primary power.
The position of your foot on the pedal should be optimized for comfort. Don't worry about efficiency/power from your foot position relative to the pedal spindle.
With a "normal" shoe having the center of the pedal near the ball of your foot is likely the most comfortable. Your toes can't really handle the forces involved well, and pushing a pedal up into your arch is likely to be uncomfortable.
With special cycling shoes that click onto the pedal and have very stiff soles you can potentially move that contact point towards the arch or towards the toes more. Changing your foot's contact point will also require adjusting the seat and possibly the handlebars. I think that kind of millimeter level fine-tuning is something best done with the help of an experienced bike fitter, since it's easy to get it wrong in ways that can cause knee injury, saddlesores or other problems. What foot position on the cranks will get you the most power/efficiency will depend on the strength of your calves and is probably best done in a bike shop fitting setup with a power meter hooked up to your bike. But those tiny adjustments of foot position are only necessary if you really care about shaving a few seconds off the time of a multi-hour ride.
Any attempts to get angles and lengths just right for leverage are silly on a typical road bike, the cranks are only one of 4 levers and 2 of those levers can be changed in a fraction of a second while riding to fine-tune your overall ratio just right for current conditions (slope, wind, what you're trying to do, how you're feeling).
If you're concerned about efficiency, worry more about your cadence and stroke. People talk about "pedaling in circles" or "squares", but the most essential part of that is to lift your foot up on the back part of the stroke to minimize how much you're resisting the pedaling force from the other foot. Finding the right cadence is important, pushing hard in a lower cadence can wear your muscles out faster than getting the same speed/power from pushing faster in a slightly lower gear.
I use clipless pedals which places the ball of the foot over the pedal. Given that I've never seen biking shoes with the attachment anywhere but the ball, I'm assuming that there must be some power and/or health advantage there.
Also, keep your feet almost straight with toes pointed slightly out. In the short term, this may provide less power, but if you don't, you'll over develop your outer quads which leads to knee problems. Again, clipless pedals 'enforce' this behaviour.

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Casting 4 a Cure – Supporting the Silent Angles
Posted by admin in Casting 4 A Cure, Valley Events on August 12th, 2010
Life works its magic in mysterious ways and I believe certain people come into our lives for a reason. In August 2009, Teton Springs Lodge & Spa hosted the First Annual "Casting 4 A Cure" fly fishing tournament and party to benefit the Rett Syndrome Foundation. This is when I first met the Farnum family. Ella Farnum, the eldest sibling of the two Farnum children (a third, baby Owen has since joined the clan), was then a five year old delightful child with the hugest brown eyes, thick brown curly hair, the rosiest of cheeks and a smile that perpetually covered her angelic face. Ella was diagnosed with Rett Syndrome in 2008, and this party was for her, and for all the children afflicted with this cruel and unforgiving disease. Not being at all familiar with Rett Syndrome, I did some research.
Rett Syndrome is a unique developmental disorder that occurs almost exclusively in girls but can be rarely seen in boys and is caused by a mutation of the X chromosome. This disease doesn't discriminate, striking all racial and ethnic groups. The parents, well, they never see it coming. These happy, lovely toddlers develop normally until approximately 18-24 months of age and then they begin to lose their speech and motor skills. The devastation to their small bodies doesn't stop there. Rett Syndrome causes problems in brain function that are responsible for cognitive, sensory, emotional, motor and autonomic function. These can include learning, speech, sensory sensation, mood, movement, breathing, cardiac function, and even chewing, swallowing and digestion.
Ella's parents, Bill and Beth Farnum, are ferocious in their commitment to help find a cure for Rett Syndrome. Bill, being a rabid fly fishing enthusiast, decided to combine his passion for the sport into something much more meaningful that simply chasing the illusive Rainbow or Brown trout. "Casting 4 A Cure was born out of a passion to help the children and families afflicted by Rett Syndrome," says Bill, executive director for Casting 4 A Cure. The Farnum's commitment is raising awareness and funding research in the hopes of one day finding a cure for Ella, and all the silent angels. Bill continues, "Combining my passion for fly fishing and the fight against RS was a natural progression. Casting 4 A Cure has donated more than $100,000 towards the cause; our goal is to raise one million dollars by 2015 and have a cure in hand by 2020." Bill realizes this is a lofty goal but one worth reaching for. It's working.
The Fly fishing community has rallied in a big way & warmly embraces the cause. Integral to the "Casting 4 a Cure" fund raising weekend August 26-28 is the fly fishing tournament held for two days on one of the most iconic rivers in the west, the South Fork of the Snake. This year, over 20 teams, with the help of the expert guides from WorldCast Anglers, will head out early from Teton Springs Lodge & Spa and race to the South Fork for a two day tournament and a chance for major bragging rights (and some pretty great prizes too from the coolest companies: Sage, Patagonia, Scott Fly Rods, Fishpond, Dry Fly Distilling, and Kaenon).
However, the main event doesn't require drift boats, waders, the perfect fly, or luck for that matter. The true heart of the Rett fundraising effort for this 2nd Annual Casting 4 A Cure soirée is happening at the Spud, Teton Valley's historic drive-in theater on Friday, August 27th. In addition to first-run flicks, the remodeled Spud is hosting a variety of top notch music extravaganzas this summer season as well as other special events. Everyone is invited to this party, and encouraged to attend, the "Coca-Cola Casting 4 A Cure Concert" featuring live music by the renowned rock and blues band, The Freddy Jones Band with special guests Equal Eyes. Be at the Spud by 5:30 p.m., especially to snag some of the terrific door prizes by K2 Skis, Sage Fly Rods, Patagonia, Fishpond, Grand Targhee, to name a few.
Price for admission is only $20 and the kids 12 and younger are free. Tickets can be purchased online at www.spuddrivein.com or at the door. The feeling you'll get for helping to raise money for critical Rett Syndrome research and family support, well, as they say, priceless! While enjoying the great music, food and friendly vibe, be sure to say hi to two of the most special people I have ever met; Beth and Bill Farnum. They'd like to tell you all about Ella.
Call Teton Springs Lodge & Spa for reservations and information: 877-787-8757 or Bill Farnum @720-635-2572.
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I'm trying to give shapes in my physics engine roundness/ curvature.
I am aware of various methods for mathematically defining curvature such as bezier-curves, ellipses, etc; but I'm not sure which methods are most appropriate for use in a physics engine. I must consider the speed, flexibility, and difficulty of constructing/joining the curves when choosing my approach. The ideal is a system where a user could easily construct and collide a large amount of curved, aesthetic polygon bodies together, yet I could still maintain a satisfactory framerate. However it's inevitable that ease-of-use and other attributes will suffer.
NOTE: my physics engine is continuous, which means I must pre-calculate the times at which polygons will collide. Keep in mind that the curve's route my not be linear.
For each suggestion please give the positives/negatives!
What techniques are there for mathematically defining a 2D curve?
Advantages/Disadvantages (speed, flexibility, ease of construction/use)?
Is the technique feasible for an engine where predictability of collisions is crucial?


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Detox Diaries: My One-Day Detox
A McDonald's-eating detox-newbie goes on her first cleanse. Can she do it? Will she change her fast food-eating ways? Find out
Breakfast: Two hardboiled eggs with a pinch of salt and pepper
Snack: A pear
Lunch: Kale and apple salad with olive oil and cilantro dressing along with a fist-sized piece of lemon and pepper roasted chicken breast
Snack: Handful of almonds or dried cranberries
Dinner: Another piece of chicken with asparagus and Brussels sprouts
It's Day 5 and I haven't cheated on my diet in any way. But today, I give in to peer pressure and fail to abstain from a "Detox Detractor": alcohol. My co-workers talk me into going to happy hour with them and of course, we run into our editor at the bar. First thought: Are there no other bars in town?! Second: Uh oh. My editor immediately points at me and exclaims, "Detox!" Since the jig is up I have two -- OK, fine, three -- glasses of white wine.
The lesson? When you're on any kind of detox diet, it's a given that your social life will take a hit. I have to decline a number of weekend activities because I know my willpower isn't strong enough to sip on seltzer while everybody else knocks back cosmos. But abstaining from alcohol is doing my liver a favor -- little consolation when you're turning down Saturday night plans, but something to keep in mind nonetheless.
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REALLY loving this! I used to be a caffeine addict, but I switched to water in the school where I teach because it has no A/C and is hot year 'round (the heating is very intense and dry in the winter). I realized that I became "addicted" to water and can't really handle caffeine the way I used to; I like that.
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I appreciate the honest assessment.
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I wanna try it... Sounds good!
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This was great info, I was just looking into detoxing especially after all the crap I've ate during the Holidays!!!
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Interesting article. I've been thinking about doing a detox, maybe now is the time!
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I couldn't do it, I'd take death if I can't have my caffeine intake!
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That is so terrifying, but your detox is probably the only one I've read so far that I feel capable of doing.
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I have begun a serious diet - I will add a Detox into it soon. I still stop for a fast food but no later than 3pm. Actually my life have been a continual diet.
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Interesting & well written. And definitely educational.
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Thank you so much for this! You had to deal with a little torture! This sounds like a good detox, but I am one of the people who needs something with my medication (thank you for mentioning that by the way) but the pre-tox sounds interesting!
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Is there any simple way for me to run millions of parcels through some type of script to see if a shape file parcel is on a golf course? For example if I have a layer that has all the golf courses and parcel layers and let's say the max distance would be 100 feet then how would i be able to extract just those parcels?
Since you have quite a lot of parcels that you want to test you should look for a software that uses spatial indexes for this type of calculations.
And also be sure to use a method in that software that really uses the indexes.
If you import your data into PostGIS you should use the ST_Dwithin function. Many people use buffer in combination with ST_Intersects or just ST_Distance but that will be very expensive in building buffers or not using indexes in the ST_Distance alternative.
If you have one table with your golf courses and one with your parcels your query could be something like:
This is if your coordinate system is feet-based.
edit: By default the result will be rolled back if the query doesn't end. But that might be configurable in PostgreSQL, I don't know. But I wouldn't be too worried about the query times. The hard work will be to build the index.
What you do when you are going to run a large query is that you first add a limit on how many rows you want returned. If you start with 10000 and it takes half a second then you know quite well how long the whole query will take.
The query time in this case will depend on two things 1) how complex the geometries is. That is because after the bounding box based index has found a lot of aspirants PostGIS will have to recheck which ones really is in range.
2) how much of the work will the index do. If you for example want to find how many lakes is in Norway and how many is in Sweden from a lakes dataset, then the index will not help almost anything because the bounding box of Norway will cover almost all of Sweden. But if you ask like you do, how relative small geometries relate to other small geometries, then the index will do most of the work by just comparing bounding boxes.
But, what s your parcels? Is it some sort of grid?
Have you looked at rester approaches to your problem. That might be the most efficient if the parcels is just a raster.
I'm not sure what GIS software you might be using, but in ArcGIS you could run either the Near or Spatial Join tool. Both tools will give you a distance value. You can then select or export out all the records that have a distance less than or equal to 100ft. ET Geowizard also has the Point Distance tool which is a free download.
I think the best strategy depends on how many golf courses you have - and how much memory. You might want to buffer all golf courses by 100' and put them into memory.
In ArcGIS parlance this could be done by creating a geometry bag, looping through each golf course calling ITopologicalOperator.Buffer, and adding it to the geometry bag. Since Buffer creates circular arcs - and I've seen performance issues in the past with circular arcs - you may want to call IPolyCurve.Generalize on it before adding it to the geometry bag.
Once your geometry bag is populated, set ISpatialIndex to set AllowIndexing = true, and then call Invalidate.
Then create a spatialfilter, and use the geometry bag as the geometry.
Then create a featurecursor on your parcels using the spatialfilter, by passing it to IFeatureClass.Search, and loop through each parcel feature.
I've heard 10.1 is going to be 64 bit, and memory is cheap. Disk i/o is not going to improve that much (unless you buy an SSD). So this approach should be more attractive.
It would be useful if ArcGIS had some notion of an execution plan so we could tell it to behave this way when appropriate.


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EDIT: the $p$-stable definition I give below is incorrect. I have included the correct definition as an answer to this question.
I am trying to understand the definition of a p-stable group. The first part of the definition is
A faithful representation of a finite group $G$ on a vector space over a field of characteristic $p\not= 2$ is called $p$-stable if no $p$-element of $G$ has a quadratic minimal polynomial.
What does it mean for a group element to have a minimal polynomial?
Additionally, any intuition on a meaningful interpretation of this definition would be much appreciated. What is special about elements which have quadratic minimal polynomials? Why would we want to get rid of them? What's wrong with $p=2$?
After this,
If $G$ has no nontrivial $p$-subgroups, $G$ is $p$-stable if every faithful characteristic $p$ representation is $p$-stable.
If $1<O_p(G)$ and $1=O_{p'}(G)$ then $G$ is $p$-stable if for all normal nontrivial $p$-subgroups $P$, for every $p$-element $x$ such that $[[x,P],x]=1$, the image $\overline{x}$ in $G/C_G(P)$ is contained in a normal $p$-subgroup.
If $1<O_p(G)$ and $1<O_{p'}(G)$, then $G$ is $p$-stable if $G/O_{p'}(G)$ is $p$-stable.
What, mainly, is the connection between the $p$-stable representation definition and $\#2$? Are these somehow the same, but in a different light?
(I see that $[[x,P],x]$ are elements of the form $p^{-1}x^{-1}pxx^{-1}x^{-1}p^{-1}xpx=(x^{-1})^p(p^{-1})^xpx$, so if that is equal to $1$ then $px=p^xx^p$. So there's sort of a "double twist" happening, which must be important in some way; but I don't see immediately any connection to minimal polynomials.)
Sorry if these are basic questions on advanced material. I am sure the answer to this part is, to some extent, because this is a technical definition which is made to prove things with, but even the broadest intuition on this would help.


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On corporate "persons" and the contraction of voting rights
Citizens United (2010) has happened. McCutcheon was decided recently. We can expect a decision in the Hobby Lobby case before June. We seem to be living through a new civil rights revolution, one in which the Supreme Court continues to aggressively expand the retinue of rights associated with corporate personhood. At the heart of this revolution is a point that I think needs closer examination, a point that exposes an important contrast and potential injustice.
If one begins with the argument that the Court in recent cases like Citizens United evinces a continuum of programmatic commitment, in other words that conservative elected officials increasingly tend to act like conservative judges and justices and vice versa, then we can constructively compare Justice Kennedy's opinion with recent attempts at the state level (in North Carolina and elsewhere) to limit voting rights. Despite many important surface-level differences, at the deeper level of ideology, we find continuity.
In the Citizens United dissent, Justice Stevens makes this claim:
Although they make enormous contributions to our society, corporations are not actually members of it. They cannot vote or run for office. Because they may be managed and controlled by nonresidents, their interests may conflict in fundamental respects with the interests of eligible voters (2).
The last sentence here should interest us most. Kennedy's majority opinion in Citizens United grants free speech rights to entities – "persons," if one follows the thread of his argument – that have controlling interests well outside the geopolitical boundaries of the United States. This expansion happens at precisely the same moment as the contraction of voting rights at the level of states: shorter polling hours, more limited early voting days, stricter registration requirements and so forth. It's not just that a civil rights revolution is happening in service of the interest of corporate "persons," but that the actual advances of the real civil rights revolution are being rolled back. Corporations don't need state identification or birth certificates to have their "speech" (i.e. money) protected by the First Amendment; if the Hobby Lobby case is decided in a similar manner, multinational corporations will also have religious "rights" accorded and protected by the Constitution as well. At the same time, citizens who are actual persons find their capacity to "speak" by means of the vote increasingly constricted.
To be sure, as Justice Stevens notes, corporations cannot vote. But as persons, they have interests. They can "speak" in the name of those interests by means of contributions to political causes. According to the argument of the Hobby Lobby lawyers, moreover, they have freedom under the free exercise clause. By means of these freedoms, they can alter the political terrain. As corporate "persons," moreover, they don't have to be citizens to enjoy these freedoms. Actual citizen-persons in contrast increasingly have to endure onerous and arbitrary regulations on the one unique capacity they retain. Corporate rights are expanding while the rights of voters are contracting. These are not unrelated developments: they have to be understood as a single – and singularly unjust – agenda.
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I'm glad someone is following this story, though I'm not persuaded that showing my drivers license at the polls is actually "burdensome." I do think it's a measure designed to address a scandal that doesn't exist (i.e., voting fraud), and a calculated distraction from more serious problems our nation faces.
I think the notion that money = free speech is a flawed premise. Money is money. It buys access to media that allows that speech to be heard "louder" than other speech.
It might be useful to point out that the Equal TimeRule that applies to broadcast media re political candidates is still in force, but it is easier to get around it. As I understand it, hosting candidates in a "talk show" format on MSNBC or FOX, or covering the live event of a particular candidate as news are some ploys that allow broadcasters to promote specific candidates.
The old Fairness Doctrine is no longer a law or requirement for any media outlets (as far as I know), though some publications and broadcasts still take a stab at it within reportage, analysis, and opinion.
Corporations being defined as entities with the same rights as individuals strikes me as another flawed premise. By definition, a corporation is NOT an individiual. However, I think would have fewer objections to this definition if the courts determined that corporations had the same responsbilities as individuals. For example, I, as an individual, could go to jail if I didn't shovel my sidewalk and someone slipped and injured himself.
I await the happy day when everyone at GM is rounded up and jailed for failing to fix that gizmo in the ignition that killed people.
This post singularly fails to grapple with any of the difficult issues that would arise immediately if you actually meant what you say, about corporations not having constitutional rights.
If you knew what you were saying, you would be applauding the following:
1) Government seizes assets of churches. Churches sue. Government automatically wins, because no "person" had their religious freedom or property taken away--just the corporate entity called a "church."
2) Government shuts down New York Times. New York Times sues. Government automatically wins, because New York Times is a "corporation" and doesn't have rights.
Anyone with a little effort can imagine other really bad scenarios that could occur if corporations actually weren't able to possess any rights against government action. Of course, the "corporations are not persons" argument is rarely made by anyone who has thought about the problem at a level that might be discussed in a high school civics class.
Wasting Time --
Your argument is a straw man one. Nobody here is arguing that corporations have no rights. We are arguing that a corporation is not a person, therefore, it is impossible for a corporation to have *personal* rights. Dogs and cats have the right not to be tortured, but those are not personal rights. Corporations have the right not to have their headquarters bombed, but that is not a personal right either.
Wasting Time's scenarios fail to account for the fact that the press and religious institutions were long ago given special status by the U.S. constitution, and their rights and responsibilities have been rather clearly delineated, even if they have evolved or changed over time.
Money-making corporations and lobbying organizations or non-profs fall into a different category that have not, until recently, been recognized as having individual rights.
I think someone could argue that those entities should have rights, though I don't find, as noted above, the current arguments particularly persuasive.
According to the argument of the Hobby Lobby lawyers, moreover, [corporations] have freedom under the free exercise clause. By means of these freedoms, they can alter the political terrain. As corporate "persons," moreover, they don't have to be citizens to enjoy these freedoms.
The claim in the last sentence I've quoted here, may depend on the specifics of a ruling that is in Hobby Lobby's favor. One commenter here has suggested that the ruling might make a distinction between closely held corporations like Hobby Lobby, whose owners are relatively easily identifiable, and publicly held corporations whose ownership can be extremely dispersed.
Thus, perhaps a further distinction could be made between a closely held company owned by the Green family (presumably the Greens are US citizens), and a closely held company doing business in the US owned by, say, Carlos Slim, who is not an American citizen, and who reportedly sends his children to Legion of Christ schools and thus might (or, for all I know, might not) hold devout views on the distribution of contraception.
The "corporate person" is a legal fiction. Its main purpose is to make it possible for corportions to borrow money and to sue and be sued. If I, for example :), buy $1,000,000 worth of corporate bonds, and the corporate officer whose name is on the bonds dies, the corporation still owes me the interest because the courts will pretend it was the corporation, not its officer, who made the deal with me. And if the corporation officers want to claim it doesn't owe the bondholders anything, we can sue it.
The trouble with the Roberts Court is that a majority of justices don't know the corporate person is a fiction. They expect Santa Claus to eat the chocolate chip cookies they leave out for him. And they expect a corporation to have "eyes, hands, organs, senses, affections, passions, fed with the same foods, hurrt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer." If you prick a corporation, they expect it to bleed.
If they don't, they are dissembling for undemocratic purposes and counting on us to be fooled.
The argument is made, as it seems to me by Wasting, that corporations should be treated as persons since they are composed as persons. But corporations exist to protect real persons, managers and stockholders, from liability. To make a corporation a personal entity composed of persons, take away limited liability and that makes corporate personhood more real.
Well, then you have JP arguing not only that corporations are persons but wants to divide this concept into two parts:
- public corporations - have some rights but not personal rights
- privately held corporations - meet and have the same rights as a * person*
Unfortunately, we have experienced the whims of privately held corporations since the Gilded Age....the biggest issue for democracy, for full participation in the benefits of the economy, for a rebalance of the continuing disparity between the 5% and the 95%, lies not in increasing any notion that a privately held corporation (much less a pulicaly held one) is legally a *person* with all of its rights.
There is an interesting article in today's (27Apr) NYT Magazine about efforts to extend standing as "person" to non-human animals. It includes a summary of Somerset v.Stewart and Lord Mansield's crucial decision to recognize Jameas Somset as visible befoe the Law. It discusses - I thought well - factors that go into the Anglo-American legal traditions of personhood.
Probably a failure of my education but I hav a good deal more sympathy for personhood for chimpanzees, dolphin, and orcas wih respect rights than I do for corporations. Legal fictions to limit oliabilities? OK, I can understand that arising as a lubricant for a market economy. Extending to a righ of free speech through payment? Really, this is what - I know I am transposing documents - our Creator had in mind as an inalienable right of Man?
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A recent New Yorker cartoon: two men, dressed in suits and carrying briefcases, are walking past the Capitol Dome. One asks the other: "So, how much speech did you rake in this week?"
As corporate "persons," moreover, they don't have to be citizens to enjoy these freedoms.
People possess rights, and when they associate in a group called a corporation or become part of a class called a citizen, they dont lose their inherent rights as people. In the case of a citizen, they may gain a right to vote; but in the case a corporation are they supposed to lose their right to speak or act according to their religious beliefs? I think not. Btw, the citizen implications of this article are distinctly anti-immigrant.
Bruce, when a person joins a corporation, he gives up a lot of things. Often, the first one is the right to sleep late in the morning. On a more public level, he gives up his right to use the profits of the corporation as he may personally wish -- say, donating it to Catholic Relief Services -- and acquires a fiduciary duty to maximize profits for his stockholders, whether they need it or not. If the corporation has an economic interest in polluting a river, he must support the corporation's stretched reasoning for why a polluted river is better for people ("it creates jobs"), keep quiet or quit the corporation. He can, however, in the privacy of the voting booth, continue to vote for politicians who would strengthen environmental laws. So, yes, when one takes the coin of the corporation one does forego some rights he has as an individual. And that is enforceable in court.
What about the Catholic Church being a corporation? The legal doctrine of corporation sole allows the local bishop to exert control over all Catholic institutions within his feudal domain.
As in most things for the hierarchs, what is sauce for the goose, is not sauce for the gander.
So ... do folks here favor abolishing corporations, together, I suppose, with all the wealth and jobs they generate? I'd imagine that, once the liability shields are down, interest in investing will wane pretty quickly.
We can always try feudalism again.
Jim, is being concerned about corporations receiving "rights" of free speech (that really = backing candidates with $$) taking a pro-feudalism position?
Jean - I dunno, but the comments here seem to be ranging well beyond funding candidates. They seem to be attacking the very notion that a corporation is a legal person, which is not, at bottom, a political-funding construct but rather a legal-liability construct. I'm in favor of the concept of limited-liability corporations, not only because I'd rather have my employer get sued than me, but also because I think there are a lot of good things that flow from limited-liability corporations, from jobs to tax revenues to making the world a better place via technology, medical advances, and micro-brewed beer, among many other products and services.
Maybe this isn't a possibility anymore, but: if the Supreme Court has struck down legislation that restricts the ability of corporations to fund candidates, then isn't the remedy better legislation?
Jim, my concern with legislative solutions is that corporations that merge into larger and larger entities can hire more and more lobbyists to rig the legislative process in favor of the corporations. The court is supposed to to bring us back to sanity (or at least apply precedents and traditions to these questions) when the legislative branch fails to do so.
I'd buy your argument about tax revenue if corporations weren't busy engineering big tax breaks for themselves or off-shoring revenue to make the rest of us pick up the tab for providing basic services for the nation. And if their medical advances were affordable: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/sunday-review/it-will-save-lives-but-w...
Microbreweries have lost their shine for me since they installed one at the entrance to Tahquamenon Falls several years ago. I just wanted to cry. The place is now inundated with people in Sperry Topsiders and J. Crew sweaters pestering the Yooper barmaids for frosted mugs and griping about the bugs. I liked it better when the place was half deserted and if you wanted a beer, you could drive on down to Eckerman and get a Labatts at the Bear Butt Bar and a stick of jerky at the gas station.
Yeah, Labatts is a pretty tasty mass-produced ware. Like virtually every product for mass consumption, it is brewed by a limited-liability corporation, in this case Anheuser-Busch InBev, the largest brewer in the world, based in Belgium (none of the top 5 brewers worldwide are based in North America). If the headquarters locations of the brands we consume is an important consideration, then that might be a good argument for patronizing local micro-breweries. I expect that Labatt's is still actually brewed in Canada, so at least buying Labatt's supports Canadian workers, although the same could be said about the workers at a Canadian micro-brewery, so the support-the-local-workers angle seems to be a wash.
Corporations seem to pay about a quarter of overall federal tax revenues in the US. Individuals pay about two-thirds. This is based on a pie chart in this policy paper and some quick mental arithmetic on my part.
For quick scholarly debate on potential arguments from the bench in the upcoming Hobby Lobby decision, check out the Religious Freedom Project's blog, Cornerstone: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/rfp/blog/hobby-lobby-potential-argum...


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The Mets: Baseball's Marathon Men
The New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 4-3 in 16 innings on Monday night. Just 85 games into the season, it's a surprise that the Mets players haven't asked for overtime pay. It was the team's 11th extra-inning game and the fourth time this season they have played a 15+ inning game. The single-season record for 15+ inning games is five, most recently accomplished by the 1980 Chicago Cubs.
Mets manager Terry Collins recently noted the physical toll playing so many extra-inning games has taken on his team, and entering Tuesday's game, the Mets are only 2-8 in games following an extra-inning affair. The 40 extra innings the team has played however, is still well behind the 1969 Minnesota Twins, who hold the all-time record of 76 extra innings.
But is the Mets' tendency to give fans "free baseball" a blessing or a curse?
As of Tuesday, the Mets had a .442 winning percentage, while the average winning percentage of the 12 teams since 1920 that played the most extra innings is .477. The 1969 Twins won the AL West with a 97-65 record, while the 1945 Philadelphia Athletics, who played 71 extra innings, finished the season 52-98.
So it appears playing all these bonus innings isn't the only reason the Mets are lagging in fourth place in the NL East, but it certainly has resulted in less sleep for the Amazins' diehard fans.
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Since I have some experience of using IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), I thought Standard Chinese transcriptions could be a good resource for practicing my pronunciation. Is such a resource available?
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As you probably know, in China they use pinyin to describe the pronunciation. Dictionaries will normally always mention the pinyin for the characters.
Here you can find the link between pinyin and IPA:
This is a website that will generate both Pinyin and IPA for a certain text: https://code.google.com/p/transcripa/wiki/Mandarin
In Chinese tones change depending on the context, but the pronunciation itself much less so. Especially if you take what is considered as Standard Chinese (what they speak on CCTV), this is not expected to happen.
In my humble option, it is best that you learn Pinyin as it will help you in the long run.
Although it is not what you are asking for this website might also be very interesting for you: http://lost-theory.org/chinese/phonetics/
For every possible pinyin you can hear the pronunciation.
I want to note that if you have a relatively new computer, you have Chinese pinyin in your Input Language. Perhaps you can play around with the typing?
And Taiwanese use a different system to learn, called zhuyin, which looks like this:
Finally, you may easily be able to find Chinese speakers who would like to learn English pronunciation from you. Will you be interested?
OP, you have stated that you want to "study how the pronunciation of words change in different contexts" by reading IPA transcriptions of Chinese speech. I think this might be difficult because:
Given the above difficulties, I might recommend trying to find an audio corpus of spoken Chinese. Some of the people at the wonderful blog Sinoglot have begun compiling such a corpus, with a variety of dialects and speakers; and transcribing the audio segments is part of the project: So, check out Phonemica.


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Careful...my Kohl's deal from earlier disappeared. Keep a close eye on yours...
@okham: does keeping an eye on it help?
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@okham: Do you mean there's a Woot admin with a itchy delete finger or that Kohl's abruptly cancels their coupons?
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Can I stack this with Kohl's cash?
Also, the link goes straight to kohl's home page, not a coupon...
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Granted, it may be tough to tackle your kids' rooms, but you don't have to live with clutter in the rest of your house. Clearing clutter isn't complicated if you follow an organizing principle. Gather four good-sized cardboard boxes and go room by room. Fill them as follows:
Throw away anything that you don't need or want, and that no one else does, either. If you have things that are damaged or broken, and that can't be repaired, toss them.
Give away, donate, or sell anything that you don't absolutely love, but which has some value. If all these objects are doing is taking up space in your home, let someone have them who will really enjoy them.
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AG088: The Garden of Eatin'
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The Garden of Eatin' (Japanese: バナナナマケロ園のカビゴン!! The Snorlax in Slakoth's Banana Garden!!) is the 48th episode of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge.
Episode Plot
The gang sees a sign of Banana Slakoth zoo - named after the bananas the owner grows near the Slakoth. May does not want to go there, wanting an ice cream in next town, so Max and she argue. Brock shows her that the zoo is also famous for the ice cream it makes, cheering and motivating her to go there. May plans what to eat there and soon they arrive to the zoo. However, the gate seems to be locked. However, Ash pushes the gate, revealing to be closed. May goes into the zoo and soon the others follow her. They see that the trees have no bananas, seeming to have been picked. Soon, they feel something huge coming to them, almost causing an earthquake. A crack is made, but a man rushes towards them, saying they need to come with him.
They run into the restaurant to safety. The man shows them that a Snorlax was causing trouble. The man complaints that Snorlax came one day and ate the bananas and soon nothing will be left to feed the Slakoth. The Slakoth have gone to the most further corner of the garden to protect the remaining bananas. The man forgot to introduce - his name is Marcel. The Snorlax causes trouble, even if it is asleep. Brock and Ash find the fact unusual that Snorlax is not in the mountains. Marcel recalls that some people were working on a building in the mountains, so it must have pushed Snorlax out of its territory. Ash says that he has a Snorlax at Prof. Oak's lab.
Marcel wants their help, so they decide to do it. Team Rocket spies, seeing the sleeping Snorlax. Meowth thinks their boss would be pleased for getting the Snorlax. May thinks they should scare Snorlax, but Brock thinks they have nothing big enough to scare it. Ash thinks they should battle and capture it, but Brock reminds them that Snorlax heals itself when it is asleep. Max spots Snorlax is awake and eats the bananas. Snorlax ate the bananas and goes to a different spot. The gang intercepts the Snorlax and Ash challenges it to a battle, although Snorlax still eats the bananas. Pikachu uses Thunder, but Snorlax is unaffected. Next, Pikachu uses Iron Tail, but amazingly, Snorlax is still unaffected.
Snorlax attacks using Yawn, putting Ash and Pikachu to sleep. Max and May rush to wake them up, but they, Brock and Marcel are affected by the attack as well. Snorlax goes to sleep as well. Team Rocket arrives, seeing everyone asleep. They go to get Snorlax, but even if it is asleep, Snorlax uses Yawn, putting Team Rocket to sleep. Meowth accidentally pulls the levers, destroying the balloon and they fall down onto a tree. Next, the gang consults to Prof. Oak. He laughs about the battle, but has a plan. He calls Ash's Snorlax and gives him a PokéBlock. He will send the recipe, but they need still to capture it. Oak says the only way they can defeat it is to have a Pokémon immune to sleep effects, so Max thinks a Vigoroth should be used. They plan to make one of the Slakoth evolve into Vigoroth and battle it against Snorlax.
Marcel arrives and explains that one of them must be chosen to evolve into Vigoroth so they can battle Snorlax. One Slakoth appears to be trained. Pikachu attacks it with Quick Attack, but fails when Slackoth used Counter. Torkoal uses Flamethrower, but Slakoth evades. Grovyle attacks with Leaf Blade, but the attack is cancelled when Slakoth slashed him. Slakoth battles more and when it defeats Ash's Pokémon, it evolves to Vigoroth. Marcel did not forget - they appear before Snorlax to defeat it. Snorlax uses Yawn, but Vigoroth negates the attack. Vigoroth scratches Snorlax, hurting it. Snorlax attacks with Hyper Beam, but misses. It uses Yawn once more, but the attack is negated and Vigoroth scratches Snorlax once more. Vigoroth uses Counter, while Snorlax attacks with Body Slam.
Vigoroth retaliates with Focus Punch, defeating Snorlax. Marcel throws the Poké Ball and catches the Snorlax. The Slakoth come to Marcel and Vigoroth, praising their victory. The guests come to the zoo, so everything is back in order. May asks for the banana deserts, so Marcel shows a giant cake. Brock wonders what happened to Snorlax, so Marcel shows that some guests sleep with Snorlax as a relaxation room. Marcel thanks the gang and they leave the zoo. Team Rocket dreams how will they look when they give their boss the Snorlax, still sleeping in the trees.
- The episode title is derived from the biblical Garden of Eden.
- In this episode, Team Rocket uses a variation of their motto.
- When Ash explains how to get rid of Snorlax from the garden, May's socks were missing.
- Max mentions that Rest can be prevented by Vital Spirit. Vital Spirit does not prevent the opponent from using Rest, but it does prevent the Pokémon which has it from using Rest; it also makes Pokémon immune to Yawn.
- Max says that Snorlax is the biggest Pokémon he's ever seen despite the fact he saw a Pokémon bigger than Snorlax in an earlier episode.
- When May gets out her Pokédex to look up Snorlax, she's shown wearing Ash's glove.


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2 players in the hand. Does a player have to show, expose his/her hand if, at the completion of the river and final betting the calling player makes the mistake of exposing their hand first. The called player tired to muck and a heated discussion insued. The issue was resolved poorly but I am curious as to whether the player who errored in exposing early as well as other players at the table have the right to see the hand that is called no matter what the sequence is in exposing hands. This deals with tells, strategy and reading the opponents style.
The losing player is not required to expose his hand unless other players ask to see it. If the other players ask to see the hand, he is required to open it.
Some card rooms might have different rules, especially at home games. But this is what Robert's Rules of Poker says:
However you should note that it is poor etiquette to request to see a losing player's hand. This rule is in place not to satisfy your curiosity, but to empower the players to police the games and identify cheaters and collusion. Don't be that guy.


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Definition of drop-ship in English:
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- The Associated Student Council will be comprised of all those
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- A council member can be removed by a 2/3 vote of councilperson. The same 2/3 will be needed to elect a new member
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- No business can take place or decisions made unless 50% plus one representatives are present
- All decisions made must have a 50% plus one vote.
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Every commutative $C^*$-algebra is isomorphic to the set of continuous functions, that vanish at infinity, of a locally compact Hausdorff space. Every commutative finite dimensional Hopf algebra is the group algebra of some finite group. Does there exist a characterisation of the finitely generated commutative Hopf algebras that arise as group algebras?
Since the questioner starts off asking about $C^*$ algebras, I am going to assume that he only cares about Hopf algebras over $\mathbb{C}$. Every finitely generated, commutative $\mathbb{C}$-Hopf-algebra is the polynomial functions on an algebraic group $G$. As Ben says, we can just take $G$ to be Spec of the Hopf algebra, and then the comultiplication gives a group structure on this Spec.
There are several ways that working over $\mathbb{C}$ makes things nicer than working over arbitrary fields. Other answers have pointed them out but, IMO, have done so in a way that makes things sound more confusing. Let me instead point out how nice algebraic groups over $\mathbb{C}$ are:
Every finitely generated commutative Hopf algebra is the functions on a group scheme of finite type. Just take Spec: the coproduct and antipode give you the group operations.
As Ben says, a commutative Hopf algebra $R$ is, by definition, the coordinate ring of an affine group scheme. There are also group schemes that are not affine, such as abelian varieties, so these are excluded from the question. Since the question is about algebras, let's say that the group scheme $G$ is defined over a field $k$. Then $G$ is morally, but not actually, the same as its group of $k$-rational points $G(k)$. Unless $G$ is a finite group with $R = k[G(k)]^*$, the dual of the usual group algebra, there are three possible differences between $R$ and a (dual) group algebra.
First, the group elements of $G(k)$ are ideals of $R$ with residue field $k$, and their group law is given by the coproduct on $R$. If $p$ is such an ideal, viewed as a point on $G$, then in general the function that is 1 on $p$ and $0$ on the rest of $G$ is not regular; it is not an element of $R$. This is one way to tell that $G$ must be 0-dimensional in order for $R$ to be a literal group algebra.
Second, if $k$ is not algebraically closed, there may be other closed points in $G$ whose residue field is a field extension of $k$. If the field extension is separable, then the group law on these points is multivalued. For instance if $G = \text{GL}(n,\mathbb{R})$, then it has complex points, which correspond to complex conjugate pairs of complex matrices. The way to multiply two of these points is to multiply conjugates in all possible ways. (This is an example of making a tensor product $E \otimes_k F$ of two fields over a field, an operation that also came up in another MO question.)
Third, in characteristic $p$, $G$ may not be reduced. The simplest example is actually finite-dimensional: Take the universal enveloping algebra $U(L)$ of an abelian Lie algebra, which is to say a polynomial algebra, and divide by the ideal of $p$th powers of elements of $L$ to obtain a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra $u(L)$ which is a local ring. (This is similar and related to a common construction with quantum group Hopf algebras.) However, Cartier and Oort showed that algebraic group schemes in characteristic zero are reduced. You can always reduce $G$ as a scheme, but, as in the example $u(L)$, you may be throwing away everything interesting.
Maybe this can be of use: James S. Milne, Algebraic Groups, Lie Groups, and their Arithmetic Subgroups. Chapter I of this text considers affine algebraic groups; these are in one-to-one contravariant correspondence with finitely generated commutative Hopf algebras. Hopf algebras that happen to be group algebras correspond to diagonalizable algebraic groups; these are considered in I.12. Unfortunately, I don't see any results on how to recognize a diagonalizable algebraic group, but maybe this viewpoint can help you in googling.
Nobody has mentioned the important examples of graded Hopf algebras that occur in algebraic topology. For example, the cohomology of a Lie group with complex coefficients is a commutative Hopf algebra over C that is not a group algebra, or even a finite group scheme in the usual sense. Of course, it is graded, so perhaps is not relevant to the original question, but these are so important it seems worthwhile to mention them.
I am going to interpret the (last sentence of the) question as asking what group algebras are finitely generated and commutative.
So, let $G$ be a group and $k$ a field such that the group algebra $kG$ is finitely generated and commutative. Then of course $G$ is commutative. Moreover, $kG$ is of finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension and noetherian, so theorem 5.1.5 in [Jespers, Eric; Okniński, Jan. Noetherian semigroup algebras. Algebras and Applications, 7. Springer, Dordrecht, 2007. x+361 pp.] implies that $G$ is finitely generated. Since we know all finitely generated abelian groups, and their group algebras are plainly finitely generated commutative Hopf algebras, this provides the characterization we wanted.


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I've just written an app in C++ using SDL 1.2.15 and SDL_image 1.2.12 libraries. It works on my computer but whenever I send *.exe to my friends (of course with all *.dll files from SDL libraries and images that program needs) they say that nothing happens (no message, no error, etc.). The content of the program doesn't matter as every SDL app written by me create such a problem.
I'm working on Code::Blocks 10.05 on Windows XP (as my friends). Obviously I've sent the release version.
I discovered that my program doesn't run in the compatibility mode with Windows NT and lower.


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As a Protoss how do I defend against the Stefano style build that consists of making three very early bases and pushing once there is a huge number of roaches, sometimes maxed out, at a very early point in the game? It is very deadly to protoss and I don't know how they can even think of stopping it.
If you mean the 11-minute max-roach thing, the latest Day[9] daily covers exactly that: http://day9.tv/d9d472/
It basically boils down to lots of sentries to slice his army into manageable pieces.
Your core units to defend it are Sentries and Immortals which must be kept alive at any cost. You also need to keep your third alive which is the hardest part since the attack comes right when you are about to really establish it.
Basically you wait for the opponent to come through any choke point near the natural or the third, forcefield ~1/3 of his army and crush it with your stalker/immortal forces. Then you forcefield the next chunk until you max out on stalkers and immortals and then you just go kill him.
Void Rays are another option that MC seems to prefer but it is a lot riskier since he can drown you in more roaches than your Void Rays can kill in time, which is also called the Mondragon-Counter.
The three base roach attack wins by shutting down your third, then killing you. If you haven't got a third, but have a highly defensible natural/main and don't move out until you are 3/3 with a 200/200 death ball you should be able to beat it. A maxed Collossus/Archon/Immortal/Sentry/Stalker army does hideous damage to roach/ling maxed armies. Roaches are very supply inefficient.
Remember that he's spending all his gas on roaches, he won't have a spire or infestation pit and so getting high level tech is going to take a while.


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My current kart has a groundspeed of 3/6 and an airspeed of 3/6. I'm assuming this means my top speed is the same for when on land and while gliding. Therefore, it would make sense that it doesn't matter whether I take an air path or a ground path.
So, the question is: in places where there's a glide section and a ground section that share the same path, and your airspeed and groundspeed are equal, is it better to keep the glide going for as long as possible, or to dive for the ground and cut it short? Does it matter at all? A good example of the situation would be the forest section of Rock Rock Mountain/Alpine Pass.
A more interesting situation occurs in DK Jungle - there's a gliding section above a water section. My kart has a waterspeed of 4/6. It doesn't feel like I save any time by diving into the water (or stowing the glider) instead of gliding over it, but maybe that's due to the angle I dive at or something. In theory is it even possible for it to help?


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I was somewhat amused the other day when I heard someone in government wants to increase the federal gas tax by 15 cents over three years. It seems the Highway Trust Fund is running out of money. If the increase is approved it would supply around $170 billion over 10 years.
The humor that I personally find in all this is that it's been the government who keeps telling people to conserve gas! Now, they are going to penalize you for doing it because they are making less money. Unless another source of income can be found, this increase could become reality.
Actually, another source of income already exists that can be used. It's the $95 billion a year that the Government Accounting Office states is the amount of money wasted by our own government every year.
This amount includes $600 million in benefits it pays to dead people each year. Yes, that's right. The government sends out checks to people who are no longer alive. Another $890,000 is paid because of certain empty bank accounts. The government is on the hook for the $65 maintenance fee for each account.
The point is that this ridiculous spending needs to stop immediately. Veterans are dying in hospitals and we are sending checks to dead people! How about if each politician who attends a party at taxpayer expense has one less olive in their martini? We would get everything paid off.
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I saw a question today which was closed because it was "not a question". I do think, that it's incomplete and vague but I think it's not a bad question at all. The question indicates that the poster is just started using .NET and possible OO development and doesn't fully understand the difference between abstract classes and interfaces. I was in the same shoes back then, when I learned .NET from book (and grasped OO for the first time). I think there is a legitimate answer for this question: that the difference between them is marginal (if there is - but could be as they don't compile to the same IL code) and comparing their performance is meaningless. They could be used for a similar reason (e.g. heterogenous collections), but this is not the essence of using them: it's not random that they are different language elements. I think this has more educational value, than closing a question with comments that are not pointing to the right direction - the point of SO is knowledge transfer.
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I am new to SSL so can someone explain why my address bar turns green when I'm on certain sites beginning with
https:// and sometimes it doesn't even though I know the site has SSL? Maybe these two nuances are not even related, but if I go to GoDaddy and order a new domain I notice their address bar is green the entire time I'm using the
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I am new to SSL so can someone explain why my address bar turns green when I'm on certain sites beginning with
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This is likely because the site in question is using an extended validation (EV) ssl certificate; as described here.
It is a more expensive SSL certificate, and in order to obtain one you must go through a more rigorous ownership verification process.
Your browser bar turns green when you purchase an Extended Validation certificate. An EV certificate does not provide any extra transport-level security (that is, using a site with an EV is just as secure as using a site without an EV).
What an EV certificate DOES provide is extra peace of mind that you're not about to be ripped off scammers or phishers. We've recently gone through the EV process, and it's a lengthy process where they verify every single piece of identifiable information about your company against what's provided in your application and on your website.
Basically, it's provided simply for peace of mind. Unless you're running a very popular website, or a bank, I wouldn't waste your time or money on one.
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I've made a clean install yesterday, for the first time restarted, everything went good and then after I updated packages and copied my old home directory to replace the new one, when I restarted it hung when it was booting. I tried reinstalling again and doing the same thing, but again same thing happened.
Here's what I see, before when the Ubuntu logo with the five dots is shown:
Then after that, 3 or 4 of the dots will load and hangs there. If I press arrow up before that, this will be shown
I started my laptop again today(the pictures are for the day before) and after that, boot up with live CD and got the logs.
dmesg: http://pastebin.com/aVxV7BQF
syslog: http://pastebin.com/4E2BrRUK
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Linux alFitop 3.2.0-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 21 16:52:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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sources.list : http://pastebin.com/2HazmuyV
My problem is a bit similar to here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1918271 Though I didn't change my x.org config. Only changed home directory and updated packages.
I've tried memtest and fschk, both passed.
In the recovery mode boot option, I've also realized that same things happen in failsafe graphical mode. But when I go into the network mode, I can boot up my system, but of course same the graphics are just basic.
blacklist intel_ips to
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf solves the first message, but still I get the broken pipe and CPU stack traces.
The current kernel version is 3.2.0-25, I've tried booting up in the 3.2.0-23(the one the installer came with, but same results.)
Also uninstalled apparmor, didn't help. I've installed Ubuntu again, this time without copying the home directory, also same result.
This problem was solved before with removing backports, but its back again! I've updated my laptop last night and the problem came back. It's definitely one of these packages.
My /var/log/apt/term.log and /var/log/apt/history.log.
I'm almost having the same situation.
I realized this also have happened on times that I have updated(haven't restarted after it) and my computer power has been cut off and its shutdown due to lack of power. And I realized if I just do as I answered but not in somewhere without GUI(networking mode has the GUI) it wouldn't work.


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BEIRUT—Syrian rebels and regime forces on Sunday battled for a fifth day to control a Damascus neighborhood, as both sides appeared to be preparing for a bigger fight in the capital this week.
Jobar residents on the east side of Damascus said government security forces warned them to evacuate the area by the end of Sunday in preparation for storming it. Rebel factions, who last week mounted one of their most ambitious assaults in Damascus since July and who have taken over army positions inside Jobar, said they are determined to use the strategically located neighborhood as a foothold for "the liberation" of the entire capital.
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The outcome of the fight in Jobar could determine whether a fate similar to Aleppo in the north awaits Damascus, seat of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Rebels from the Aleppo countryside assaulted neighborhoods in Syria's most populous city in July, triggering continuing battles with regime forcesthat have devastated sections of the city.
Similarly, fighters from several Islamist rebel groups spearheaded Wednesday's assault on Jobar and other areas along the Southern Flyover, a highway that snakes around the capital and constitutes the official demarcation between Damascus and its suburbs. Among the groups was the al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, based in the suburbs and countryside east of Damascus.
With the exception of coordinated rebel attacks inside Damascus in July that the regime repulsed and occasional bombings inside the capital, government forces have for the most part hemmed in rebels through aerial bombardment and shelling and ground incursions in the suburbs ringing the capital.
"The security forces have informed us that they will commence their bombardment Monday and that we have to leave Jobar by Sunday at the latest," said a Jobar resident reached by telephone on Saturday who identified herself by her first name, Danya. "But they have started shelling already and we are preparing ourselves for a long stay in the bunker."
Danya, 24 years old, said her mother and six brothers refuse to leave Jobar despite the fact only 12 families remain on their street. She said her father was among the first people to be killed there in the spring of 2011 when the Assad regime brutally suppressed peaceful protests across the country, paving the way for civil war.
But most residents of Jobar, a religiously diverse working-class neighborhood that was once the site of one of the Middle East's oldest synagogues, have either fled to the relative safety of central Damascus or the rebel-controlled eastern suburbs.
Adel, who owns a garment workshop in Jobar, said he moved in with his brother in central Damascus on Thursday after rebels told him and others that they didn't want civilians to be "an obstacle in their war with the Assad gangs."
The fighting also appeared to be affecting adjacent areas. Mortar rounds fell near a police station on Arnous Square on Sunday, damaging parked vehicles but causing no casualties, said opposition activists. Residents on the streets between Jobar and Abaseen Square, a major traffic circle, said they were told by security forces to evacuate after a shell and a rocket hit the area on Friday.
Syrian state media made no mention of the fighting in Jobar or the warnings to residents, airing instead breaking news about a foiled "terrorist suicide bombing" in the neighborhood of Rokeneddin on the capital's north side. The report couldn't be verified. State media also touted the progress of military operations in the Damascus suburbs, where opposition activists spoke about several raging fires resulting from aerial bombardment and shelling by regime forces most notably in the town of Daraya in the southwest.
Meanwhile, not far from Jobar, an official ceremony was held in Damascus marking the enthronement of John X, recently named Patriarch of Antioch and all the East for the Greek Orthodox church.
The ceremony, which was broadcast on Syrian state TV, was held in the Holy Cross church in the neighborhood of Qasaa and attended by regime officials, foreign dignitaries and the heads of churches in Syria and neighboring Lebanon.
"God is not pleased to see coexistence with non-Christians with whom we share the same country regress and even vanish," said the newly enthroned patriarch, a native of the western coastal city of Latakia.
Syria's Christians, like other minorities in the country, have mostly remained neutral or supportive of the Assad regime, fearing the rising power of Muslim extremists in the ranks of the rebels who belong to the Sunni Muslim majority.
Another church leader, Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorius Lahham, warned on Friday that more than 200,000 members of his church have been displaced from conflict zones across Syria and that about 20 churches have been destroyed or damaged.
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