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WEIRTON - Tempy Moore hadn't planned on a career in the fine arts. Trained in computer-assisted graphic design, it wasn't until she was laid off after eight months on the job that she picked up her chalks and pencils and started drawing in earnest.
"I really had no faith I could do it as a business," said Moore, a Weirton resident. "In my mind, I had a ways to go before I was going to be good. But I got a lot of encouragement from my husband - he said they were really good, we could make something of it. He started e-mailing people, marketing my work."
Her husband Scott is her biggest cheerleader, arranging to display her work at art shows and craft shows, even getting business people to hang her pieces in their shops and restaurants.
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WEIRTON ARTIST — Weirton artist Tempy Moore works on a commission, a portrait of a soldier. The East Palestine, Ohio, native specializes in sports portraits, numbering many past and present Pittsburgh sports stars among her clients. - Linda Harris
"For a long time I did black-and-whites with just a splash of color," said Moore, the owner of Art For Yinz LLC. "Now, I've started to do full color drawings, that's turning out really well."
A 1999 graduate of East Palestine High School, Moore's drawing skills are largely self-taught. Growing up, she remembers her mother always encouraging her to draw.
"I'd get art supplies for Christmas, and when I got in trouble, for punishment she'd make me go to my room and draw," she said.
Over the years she found herself drawing things over and over, "until I got it right." When she was young it was horses; in high school she fixated on famous faces she'd see in magazines like "Rolling Stone."
"I used to do Jim Morrison when I was in high school, I'd do his picture over and over and over," she said. "My friends were blown away - I always said I could do better, but everybody else seemed to like it."
Her focus at the moment is Pittsburgh sports figures, though she accepts commissions for individual and group portraits. "I love doing portraits," she said. "I like to do eyes, the reflections in eyes. ... As long as I can do faces, that's really what I enjoy."
She's done a lot of work with the likes of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Tyler Kennedy, Marc-Andre Fleury and Mario Lemiuex of the Pittsburgh Penguins, and she's also done portraits of the Pirates' Andrew McCutchen and Steeler-greats Jack Lambert, Troy Polamalu, Hines Ward and Ben Roethlisberger, among others.
"I do a lot of custom stuff," she said. "People see my artwork and they'll ask me to do their grandparents or their grandkids, or do something for an anniversary gift or a wedding gift."
Moore recently landed a job at a recent "captains of industry" reception Consol Energy sponsored in the Big Apple, a black-tie event at the Empire State Building.
"There was some pressure with that," she said. "Scott got the call and said they wanted to fly me to New York, they'd heard about my artwork and wanted to know if I'd be willing to paint four canvases in four hours in front of the (attendees). I was so scared, but Scott said he wouldn't take the job if he didn't think I could do it."
She'll be part of a Celebrity Wine Wars event Sept. 26 at the Roberto Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh, during which her limited edition prints as well as one or two custom pieces created specifically for the event will be sold.
And she recently finished a commission for Leaf Trading Cards, doing portraits of 150 of baseball greats, past and present. She sketched each five times for a total of some 750 images for the 2012 Leaf set.
Each of the cards is signed.
"They were looking online for sports artists," she said. "I thought they were taking a chance - I don't have a gallery with a lot of big names behind me, so it's really exciting to do that."
The limited edition trading cards will be randomly inserted in Leaf's boxed baseball card sets, she said. "So you might get one or two in a box, you might get none. Or you might get an autographed one."
For now, the mother of two said some of her favorite moments are when she sits down with her kids to draw. "It's something I love to do, and hope to be doing for years," she said. "I can't wait to see where it goes."

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Contract talks with Williams should pick up [12:34 AM]
The Sporting News reports: The Bills have a good track record of getting their top pick to camp on time. Last year's No. 1, CB Nate Clements, was a brief holdout, but it obviously didn't hinder his performance that much. However, it's imperative that Williams is in camp from day one. The 6-5, 370-pound OT from the University of Texas is slated to start at right tackle. The Bills could have as many as three new starters (last year's right tackle Jonas Jennings has moved to center) on the offensive line, so they need the five men up front to get as much work together as possible this summer to develop continuity.
Mike Doser & Lary Bump: Reed 'likely will be draft-day steal' [12:27 AM]
Shout! reports: By season's end, if not before, expect Josh Reed to have most of the playing time as the Bills' third wideout and building a case to start in 2003.
Lary Bump: Can Bledsoe avoid a pass rush? [12:24 AM]
Shout! reports: This once would have been the $64,000 question, though in these inflated days, it's probably more like the one-billion-dollar question. The answer is simple: no.
New Left Tackles on the spot [11:40 PM]
ESPN reports: Buffalo will choose from three young candidates -- second-year veterans Jonas Jennings and Marques Sullivan and former Denver starter Trey Teague -- for the right to protect Drew Bledsoe. "It's a job you want because, the way the game is played now, (the blindside) tackle has almost been raised to skill-position status," said Teague, who started all 16 games for the Broncos last year. "You're on the spot every pass play, and there is a lot of pressure that comes with the responsibility, but I think most guys like to prove to themselves and to everyone else that they are up to the task."
The Dying Dynasty: Ended by successful decision to build parity [1:07 PM]
ESPN reports: Bill Polian, who constructed the great Buffalo Bills teams that reached four consecutive Super Bowls from 1990-93, said he believes that kind of sustained excellence is no longer possible.
Woulda, shoulda, coulda been a dynasty [9:29 PM]
ESPN reports: 'And then, of course, there were the Buffalo Bills.'
Guess who's coming to town? [1:35 PM]
Brighton Pittsford Post reports: 'Later this month, the Buffalo Bills are scheduled to fill the streets in a cavalcade marking the beginning of training camp. "I feel the excitement of the new season already," Town Supervisor Bill Carpenter said last week.'
AFC East questions abound as training camps near [11:20 AM]
Boston Hearld reports: 'What will the Bills record be at the end of the season? 5-11 would be considered decent.'
Hull goes on Wall Oct. 6 [9:01 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Hull will become the 14th player placed on the Wall.'
Bills ready to sell game tickets [5:40 AM]
D and C reports: 'Buffalo Bills fans can purchase individual game tickets for 2002 home games beginning 9 a.m. Saturday.'
Teams hurt by carrying 'dead money' [5:39 AM]
ESPN reports: 'Despite thrifty cap management and a terrific job of whittling away at the pool of "dead money" he inherited, Buffalo Bills general manager Tom Donahoe is still working this year with a hole of nearly $15 million in his salary cap. Over $5 million of that is tied up in former starting quarterback Rob Johnson, released early in the spring.'
Dates Set for 2002 Promotions [1:15 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: 'The Bills today announced that center Kent Hull will be placed on the team's Wall of Fame on Sunday, October 6 when the Bills host the Oakland Raiders.'
Always in Buffalo [1:14 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: The 1986 downfall of the USFL became a windfall for the Bills. - Kent Hull
Norwood feels your pain over wide right [9:00 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Man, if he only made the kick.'
Ask Kent Hull a question [8:16 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Kent Hull still remains active with the Bills through the team's Alumni Relations department and has agreed to answer your questions in an exclusive interview with buffalobills.com.
Dan Arkush: Football chat [12:10 AM]
ESPN reports: And watch out for Buffalo, Bob. the early reports on Drew Bledsoe are very encouraging, and I think head coach Gregg Williams will keep the arrow pointing up. Nobody works harder. Nobody.
Coy Wire: The complete package [9:53 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: "I'm going to be working harder than any other safety in the NFL! There are places that I want to go (in the league) and I have a lot of work to do to get there. I wouldn't want to be any other place doing anything else. I couldn't be happier."
Kicking with attitude [7:32 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: "I'm having a lot of fun playing football again," Hollis said. "It's all about attitude, it really is."
AFC East recovery room [6:31 PM]
CBS Sportsline reports: The Dolphins have a series of nagging pains that must be monitored, but the Bills and Super Bowl champs have gotten off pretty clean.
RB Travis Henry (knee) -- Ready for camp.
Henry had his knee cleaned out to repair loose cartilage but has fully recovered. He has worked out and expects to be full bore for camp.
G Jerry Ostroski (knee) -- Limited in camp.
Questions still loom how his knee and leg will respond. The team's veteran guard continues to work through some problems in his knee derived from problems with a leg he broke last preseason. Doctors inserted a metal plate for support but the plate has aggravated his knee. Doctors then cleaned out some tissue in the joint in June to promote healing. He is expected to be limited in camp and the team is uncertain when he will return to 100 percent.
AFC East Primer: Dolphins are best of a good bunch [6:22 PM]
Sporting News reports: If Buffalo can settle its uncertainty in the backfield and offensive line, it could easily sneak past .500 and into the playoffs. One daunting factor is the Bills' strength of schedule -- it's tied for the toughest in the league.
Thunder wins Father's Day tournament [11:23 AM]
Miami Herald reports: Former [Buffalo Bills kicker] Booth Lusteg, a Pembroke Pines resident, is conducting Kicking for Christ, a free camp for kicking and punting Saturday July 14 at American Heritage School in Plantation, FL.
Preseason / Training Camp Calendar [10:45 AM]
TBD reports: Training Camp is around the corner as is the Jim Kelly Final Showdown game and the Jim Kelly Hall of Fame Enshirnement / TBD Enshirnement Trip.
Haddad Gets One More Shot at NFL [10:42 AM]
Buffalo News reports: "It feels great to be in a situation where the big guys upstairs all the way down to the coaches believe in you and are on your side," Haddad said. "There were some questions in my head after the Bills released me. But going out there last preseason and being able to do something positive re-lighted my fire and made me realize that I could play. It made me feel that I belonged."
Need Miami @ Bills tickets [8:15 AM]
The Stadium Wall reports: "I'm looking for good tickets to the Miami @ Bills game. I'm looking for 4 tickets in the lower level, trying to get 30-50 yard line."
If you can help Dave land his tickets, visit this link and let him know!
Four 1st level, mid-field tickets available [8:12 AM]
The Stadium Wall reports: "I've got 4 extra tix for the final game of season vs. Cincy... could be a playoff clinching game. 1st level on 40 yard line visitor side. Unbelievable seats... I'll sell them for face value."
Bills: Success hinges on Bledsoe [6:50 AM]
Sporting News reports: 'Key issue: Which Drew Bledsoe shows up. If the Bills get the Bledsoe of five or six years ago who had a nearly 2-1 ratio of TDs to interceptions, they will be a great offensive team. If they get the Bledsoe who was shoved aside by Tom Brady in New England last seaosn, it could be another long year.'
Bob Lamb: The Last Time Bills Fans Awaited A Savior [1:44 PM]
Bills Daily reports: Buffalo has had a number of thr worst game day coaches (i.e. Kay Stephenson) who were nice, likeable guys and made players comfortable but could not get the job done.
Bills help Choice One celebrate milestone [11:38 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: 'The Bills will help Choice One Communications mark a major milestone today when the telecommunications company recognizes its 100,000th client.'
Fulton grad Bradley invited to Bills camp [4:20 PM]
Knoxville News Sentinel reports: '"I went up and worked out last week for them,'' Bradley said Friday. "They're calling me in Wednesday to get a physical and my agent said they're probably going to sign me for two years (non-guaranteed).'''
Williams expected to receive supersized contract [9:28 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"We've had a couple conversations but nothing of real substance yet," said Bills President Tom Donahoe of talks with Williams' California-based agent, David Dunn. "But it's still early. Things usually don't heat up till later in July for the top picks in the first round."'
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By LIAM DENNING
After a decade or so of relying on Chinese growth to fuel
rising prices, energy bulls can look forward to... another two
decades of relying on China.
BP released its latest long-term outlook on global energy
trends Wednesday. Overall, investors in fossil fuels -- oil,
natural gas and coal -- will be cheered. Annual rates of growth
in demand are moderating, down only a bit from 2011's 87%.
China remains the make-or-break factor, though. Between 2000
and 2011, when fuel prices boomed, China accounted for 55% of
the growth in global energy consumption. Under BP's
assumptions, China's share of extra demand between 2011 and
2030 is 43%.
That is less, but still critically large. This is especially
the case when you consider that the Middle East and the former
Soviet Union are also becoming more important in the mix of
energy demand. As major energy exporters, they are tied to
China's continuing success. If it weakens, so does growth in
their economies -- and their own energy consumption.
Taken together, the three regions accounted for 69% of
global energy-demand growth between 2000 and 2011. BP's projections still have them at 57%
out to 2030.
Of the three fuels, coal is the most dependent on China,
with the country set to account for 61% of global demand growth
out to 2030. For oil, it is 43%; for gas, just 25%.
China's continuing importance may be a source of comfort for
investors (hey, you go with what you know, right?) But the
country's model of breakneck investment in infrastructure is
showing signs of strain, and not just in economic terms: Take a
look at the recent footage of Beijing's hazardous smog.
For energy bulls, dependence on China could yet turn from a
rock of support to a slippery slope.
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"Gobbell's exciting fifth Todd Ingram novel (after 2004's The Neptune Strategy) finds Ingram commanding the destroyer USS Maxwell, which comes under Kamikaze attack off the coast of Japan shortly after the second atomic bomb falls on Nagasaki. Following the Japanese surrender, Ingram thinks the end of the war in the Pacific means an imminent return to his wife and son stateside after years of combat, yet he quickly discovers otherwise. While Ingram's next assignment is to escort top Japanese military officials and diplomats on a flight to the Philippines to negotiate peace with Gen. Douglas MacArthur, his old comrade from Corregidor days, Brig. Gen. Otis DeWitt, has bigger plans for the war-weary commander. DeWitt dispatches him to Sakhalin Island, where the Soviets are preparing to launch an attack on Hokkaido. The heroic Ingram gets involved in plenty of intrigue as he seeks to thwart the Soviet threat. History and military buffs will be well rewarded."
—Publishers Weekly
"Edge of Valor is John Gobbell at his finest, with a rapidly-paced historical thriller that will have readers turning pages at a furious rate. His portrayal of the war years in the Pacific and on the home front is brilliant and authentic down to the last detail."
"This well-written, nicely researched historical novel begins just before World War II ends. Background information and the problems of those involved in the war and its end are woven throughout. The interplay of Japanese and Soviet interests as well as the problems of peacetime adjustment make this more than just another war novel."
—The Ensign
"Edge of Valor is eminently readable and a fast-paced, fun story. The plot is complex enough to keep you on your toes as the story plays out. Just when you get complacent, Jack will throw in an unexpected plot twist. He will have you thumbing through your WW II history collection or doing a Google search for more information about some little known and long forgotten historic tidbit that he has woven into his tale. This story is recommended reading for an enjoyable evening or two with a log on the fire, your feet up, and a slow sipping drink."
—Naval History Book Reviews (NHF)
"This is author John J. Gobbell's fifth action/adventure novel set in World War II and continues the exploits of Todd Ingram. A deftly crafted and complexly woven storyline populated by memorable characters all presented by an extraordinarily talented writer, Edge of Valor is a compelling and wonderfully entertaining read which is highly recommended..."
—The Midwest Book Review
"In Edge of Valor, we are taken back to August 1945, when a cease-fire is declared in the Pacific. Expecting to return home with his ship and crew, Commander Todd Ingram is instead sent to Manila, where he meets with an Army intelligence aide. It is this love of the ocean, along with his [Gobbell] insider knowledge of Naval procedure that lends an air of authenticity to his writing, allowing readers to truly appreciate the exploits of his fictional, yet utterly believable, hero."
—Newport Beach Independent
"Having skippered his battered destroyer through deadly kamikaze attacks, twice Navy Cross recipient Todd Ingram is rewarded by Washington with a new and even more perilous secret mission. Gobbell will keep his readers up until dawn to discover if Ingram can possibly accomplish or even survive his hair-raising assignment to foil a bold Soviet planned invasion of Hokkaido from Sakhalin—before the ink is dry on Japan's surrender."
—Pete Wilson, former governor of California and former U.S. senator (Armed Services Committee)
"Jack Gobbell knows how to tell a story, and Edge of Valor is a corking good one—combining the final days of World War II in the Pacific and the beginning of the Cold War. Gobbell skillfully weaves fascinating, well-drawn fictional characters into historical situations and thus makes a learning experience out of gripping drama. Along the way, he gives such real-life characters as Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Adm. Chester Nimitz, Adm. John S. McCain Sr., and even Arturo Toscanini walk-on parts that are often almost as interesting as his main characters. Edge of Valor is, in short, a compelling and well-researched work of historical fiction."
—Stanley Cloud, former Washington bureau chief of Time magazine and author of fiction and nonfiction, including The Murrow Boys: Pioneers in the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism and the novel The Manhattan Well.
"Far better than a yarn. Edge of Valor has vivid historical characters and heart. Like no other historical novel, it brings to life the new world order that followed World War II and is still emerging as the cause of turmoil in the western Pacific continues to shift."
—Seth Cropsey, author of Mayday: The Decline of American Naval Supremacy
"John Gobbell's latest book, Edge of Valor, is another triumph in this series. It is historical fiction at its best. He is a master of the details of the battle actions of our World War II destroyers and extends his tale to include the beginning of the Cold War with the Soviet Union."
—Rear Adm. Hank McKinney, USN (Ret.), author of Flotsam & Jetsam
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Edge of Valor is the fifth thriller featuring the daring World War II exploits of Cdr. Todd Ingram by John J. Gobbell. The action begins when Ingram, as the commanding officer of the destroyer USS Maxwell, must save his ship when it is hit by a Kamikaze on the last day of the war. After pulling in for repairs at Kerama Retto, Okinawa, news of the war's end comes and Ingram expects to be shipped home. Instead, Brig. Gen. Otis Dewitt, an Army buddy from his days on Corregidor, now an intelligence aide on MacArthur's staff, has temporary orders for Ingram to accompany him to Manila on the same plane as sixteen Japanese senior military and civilian diplomats. Over a swift two days, MacArthur's staff and the Japanese envoys negotiate the terms for Japan's surrender, soon to be signed in Tokyo Bay. While Ingram is promised that he will attend that ceremony, DeWitt, in concert with the State Department, have an ulterior motive, and send him to Sakhalin Island to defuse a Soviet attack on Hokkaido. Ingram's old adversary Edward Dezhnev is the brigade commander responsible for laying siege to a Japanese holdout command in Toro, a natural jumping off place for an attack on Hokkaido.
Also on Toro, DeWitt explains, is Walter Boring, a Red Cross representative with two crates of overwhelming photographic evidence of Japan's experiments on live human beings in China. Ingram is expected to return with those crates, but how can he when Boring is being protected by the Japanese garrison in Toro, where Dezhnev and his brigade stand ready to overpower them at any moment?
As his shipmates prepare to return to their loved ones, Ingram's war continues. Three weeks ago he was fighting the Japanese, and the Russians were supposed to be friends. Now he doesn't know who to trust.
John J. Gobbell is the author of seven WWII thrillers about the U.S. Navy in the Pacific, including A Call to Colors, The Neptune Strategy and When Duty Whispers Low. Edge of Valor is the fifth of five stand-alone novels in the Todd Ingram series. He is a former naval officer who served as a weapons officer in a destroyer. He lives in Newport Beach, CA.
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Explore the Fundamental Connections Between Stock Value and Project Management
By Melissa Centurio Lopes on Oct 08, 2013
Senior executives are today more accountable, even vulnerable, than ever before to poor share price performance. There are numerous reasons for this, but the increasing negative impact for organizations means that senior executives need to take a more active role in making the right decisions throughout business operations. According to research conducted by the global consulting firm Booz & Co.1, over the last decade the average tenure of a global chief executive has dropped from 8.1 years to 6.3 years. This analysis of the world's top 2,500 publicly listed companies found that executive turnover had increased from around 12% in 2000 to 14.3% in 2009, with more than a third (36.7%) of departures in 2009 being dismissals rather than part of a planned succession.
For project-intensive organizations, there is even more intense pressure on executives to deliver forecasted returns on investment (ROI). With the current economic climate, shrinking margins and increased global competition, the impact of huge capital investment projects extending beyond their scope and budget carries significant consequences. This places even greater emphasis on capital planning, a core business process that remains fraught with difficulties. In a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit in October 20102, only 11% of companies could claim they delivered expected ROI on major capital projects 90-100% of the time, and 12% reported planned ROI delivery less than half the time. These results highlight that organizations – irrespective of industry sector – are still struggling to manage risks, accurately predict levels of ROI and consistently deliver bottom line growth from their major capital investments. Bad investment decisions can lead to huge financial losses, which serves to place the spotlight firmly on the capital planning process. It also places greater emphasis on executive decision-making capabilities to determine which potential investments deliver the greatest value and reliability, as well as providing the financial stability to attract funding.
The danger of poor evaluation can quickly lead to a significant reduction in the value of the organization's overall portfolio and compromise long range capital planning goals. From here, it is a short journey to poor share price performance.
Click here and read this full complimentary paper that looks at the intrinsic connection between long-term capital investment and short-term market performance, and how this can in turn affect the profit outlook for project-intensive organizations. Discover existing research undertaken in this area, and highlight case examples where project management performance has impacted – whether positive or negative – the stock price and, in turn, the overall image of both the company and those in the C-suite of these organizations.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A new coalition is promising to lobby Kansas officials to expand the state's Medicaid program even if legislators pass a resolution declaring that they're opposed to it.
The Kansas Medicaid Access Coalition had a news conference Tuesday to launch its pro-expansion campaign. The coalition includes more than 30 groups representing consumers, health care providers and religious organizations.
Medicaid provides health coverage for the needy and disabled. The 2010 federal health care overhaul encourages states to expand their programs by promising to pay almost all of the cost.
Many members of the Republican-dominated Legislature opposed the federal overhaul championed by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. GOP legislative leaders are skeptical the federal government will keep its funding promises.
A resolution declaring opposition to expanding Medicaid is pending in the House.


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My folks are using a PC running WinXP to control a non-Apple wifi-router. The PC crashes often, bringing down with it the wifi network. They no longer actually use the PC, just the iPad, but they keep the PC to control the router.
If I replace their router with an Apple Airport Express, can I then discard the PC and control the router solely from the iPad? Could an iPad control a non-Apple wifi-router?


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I've built an Apprentice character that only has about 500 HP and Kobolds in the later waves of challenges have started to one shot my character. This makes it fairly difficult to repair towers once I get behind.
So, I'm curious if Kobold explosions are a specific damage type, like fire, so I could build up some resistances against them so they don't destroy my poor towers only Apprentice build.


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To what extent does the relation between the diagonal representation of $SU(n)$ in $(\mathbb{C}^n)^{\otimes k}$ and representations of the symmetric group $S_k$ remain valid when instead of the group $SU(n)$ we take the general unitary group $U(\mathcal{H})$ ($\mathcal{H}$ is some separable Hilbert space) and its diagonal representation in $\mathcal{H}^{\otimes k}$? In particular is it true that irreducible representations of of $U(\mathcal{H})$ in $\mathcal{H}^{\otimes k}$ correspond to young diagrams of $S_k$ just like in the finite dimensional case? Is it possible to get any irreducible representation of $U(\mathcal{H})$ by considering decompositions of $\mathcal{H}^{\otimes k}$ for sufficiently big $k$?
The answer to all of your questions is yes. This is a theorem announced by Kirillov in
Kirillov, A. A. Representations of the infinite-dimensional unitary group. Dokl. Akad. Nauk. SSSR, 1973, 212, 288-290
and proved by Olshanski in
Olshanski, G. I. Unitary representations of the infinite-dimensional classical groups $U(p,\infty)$, $SO_0(p,\infty )$, $Sp(p,\infty)$, and of the corresponding motion groups. Funktsional. Anal. i Prilozhen., 1978, 12, 32-44, 96
Edit: This answer applies to continuous unitary representations of $U(\mathcal{H})$, where the latter group is equipped with the strong operator topology (which is the usual topology on this group). However, if you are only interested in representations on a separable Hilbert space, the continuity assumption can be dropped, as is shown in arXiv:1109.1200.
As far as I know, there is no representation theory for the group $U(H)$, it is in a way "too big". However there is a rich representation theory for its subgroups admitting some kind of approximation by finite dimensional groups, in particular for the inductive limit group $U(\infty )$. For the latter, I quote the paper http://annals.math.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/annals-v161-n3-p05.pdf by Borodin and Olshanski:
"It is worth noting that the similarity of theories for the two groups $S(\infty )$ and $U(\infty )$ seems to be a striking phenomenon. In addition, as mentioned above, this can be traced in the geometric construction of the 'natural' representations and in probabilistic properties of the corresponding point processes. At present we cannot completely explain the nature of this parallelism (it looks quite different from the well-known classical connection between the representations of the groups S(n) and U(N))".
Thus, at the present state of this theory, the answer to your question seems negative.
EDIT. For the subgroup of unitary operators differing from $I$ by compact ones, the answer is positive. See the papers referred to in Todor Tsankov's answer.
Thank you Anatoly and Tador for your answers - they pointed to the very useful references. Despite to what Anatoly Claims in his answer there is a very rich representation theory of $U(\mathcal{H})$ (not only for separable Hilbert spaces). I am not an expert in this field but as far as I can tell the paper by DOUG PICKRELL: http://www.ams.org/journals/proc/1988-102-02/S0002-9939-1988-0921009-X/S0002-9939-1988-0921009-X.pdf answers nearly all my questions. It stands that all separable representations (ie. representations in separable Hilbert space) of $U(\mathcal{H})$ ($\mathcal{H}$ - separable) decompose onto irreducible components that correspond to irreducibles that are taken "naivly" from some $\mathcal{H}^{\otimes k}$. It seams that this theory was known for $U(\infty)$ but in this paper author handled the disturbing "Galkin Algebra". I only wonder what happens to the determinant representation of $U(n)$ if we go to $\infty$ limit?


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The Washington Square Village Playground ("Key Park") is open to residents of NYU rental housing and community members in the Washington Square neighborhood. The playground key application must be submitted to Cushman & Wakefield, NYU's property manager (Phone: 646.997.9988; Fax: 646.997.9990).


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I have come upon the equation $A^2+B^2+C^2-2AB-2AC-2BC$ and want to factor it. Because of the symmetry, I am wondering if it can be a perfect square or if there is some other nice factorization.
You can use Wolfram Alpha to get some alternative forms
The first two listed are $$(A-B-C)^2-4BC$$ $$A^2-2A(B+C)+(B-C)^2$$
As J.M. says, it will all depend on the value of $A,B$ and $C$
As is noted in other comments and answer, the symmetry is a little illusory because of the signs. This is probably less than you were hoping for, but or any integral choice of $B$ and $C$, you can find an integer $A$ which makes the expression a perfect square. Just take $A = 2(B+C)$, and the expression equates to $(B-C)^2$.
A more symmetric factorization would be:
$$A^2 + B^2 + C^2 - 2AB -2AC - 2BC =$$ $$(A + B + C)^2 - 4AB - 4AC - 4BC =$$ $$(A + B + C - 2 \sqrt{AB + AC + BC}) (A + B + C + 2 \sqrt{AB + AC + BC})$$
if $$AB + AC + BC \ge 0$$
$$ \begin{align} & \left(\sqrt{a}+\sqrt{b}+\sqrt{c}\right)\left(-\sqrt{a}+\sqrt{b}+\sqrt{c}\right)\left(\sqrt{a}-\sqrt{b}+\sqrt{c}\right)\left(\sqrt{a}+\sqrt{b}-\sqrt{c}\right) \\ & = 2ab+2ac+2bc -a^2 - b^2 - c^2. \end{align} $$


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LOS ANGELES (October 14, 2012)--The space shuttle Endeavour has traveled some 123 million miles in its lifetime, but last 12 are proving to be the hardest.
Endeavour was crawling across Los Angeles to the California Science Museum, where it will spend its retirement.
People have been lining city streets for a glimpse and waiting at the museum, but the crowds dwindled as Endeavour hit repeated delays.
The problems have included longer than expected maintenance of the rig carrying the shuttle and physical obstacles within the shuttle's wingspan including light posts, building edges, and lots of trees.
Some 400 trees have been removed to avoid such situations, but officials said most of the trees that gave them trouble could not be cut down because they were old or treasured for other reasons.
In a scene that was repeated many times, a small tree on the narrowest section of the move brought the procession to a stop Saturday, forcing crews to find creative ways to dip a wing under or raise it over the tree.
The shuttle was originally expected to finish the trip early Saturday evening, but officials now estimate it will not arrive at the museum until mid-morning Sunday.


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Sweden possesses a heady combination of chic cities, serene coastal towns, sparse arctic landscapes and vast tracts of deep green wilderness. From the bars, galleries, boutiques and museums of Stockholm to the remnants of a Viking past scattered throughout the countryside, effortlessly stylish Sweden wears both its modern and ancient faces very well.
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Generally Sweden has a temperate climate thanks to the Gulf Stream, although above the Arctic Circle winter can get extremely cold. Sweden's northerly position has a definite summer advantage in that temperatures are rarely extreme and humidity levels are not high, with the average temperature during summer being 22 degrees Celcius. In the south, winter is generally mild with an average temperature above 0 degrees Celsius, but temperatures can vary greatly around the country. It tends to rain more in the months of March, April, October and November. July and August are generally the busiest months for tourism in Europe, outside of these times you will experience fewer crowds.
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1. Old Town
Stockholm's quaint Old Town (known as Gamla Stan to locals) gets a little magic sprinkled over it as dusk settles. Wander the charming, cobbled alleys, stop at pubs that date back to medieval times, browse at market stalls full of handmade crafts and slip into cool jazz clubs after the sun sets.
2. Aquatic Ales
Although Stockholm has no shortage of bars, clubs and restaurants, there's nothing quite like being on the water in such a beautiful city. Stockholm's waterfront is home to several floating bars - located on pontoons and even old ships - so after a day of sightseeing, why not wind down on the water.
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There is nothing quite like the northern European trend of Schlager music. Catchy and unashamedly commercial, singing along to Eurovision-esque tunes in a Schlager bar may not be the coolest thing to do, but it certainly provides insight into Swedish culture. Come on, you know you want to!
4. Northern Lights
Heading north to the Arctic region of Sweden offers the best chance to catch the mesmerising phenomenon known as the Aurora Borealis. Dancing, glittering, coloured lights skip through the sky creating a nightly visual feast of kaleidoscopic proportions.
5. Chill Out
With the bar, walls, chairs and glasses being carved from ice, Stockholm's Absolut Ice Bar is a bone-chillingly good gimmick. Put on the provided parka and gloves, sit in your ice chair and sip on cool cocktails made with Absolut. While not cheap, it's well worth checking out.
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do I add a local or network printer driver on a Windows XP or Server 2003
steps assume you are installing from the software CD. Drivers may also be
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As you might have read in the announcement thread, to be able to do pre-release reviews on the iPod release of Football Manager Handheld, we did up some special 32GB iPod Touches, with the Football Manager logo engraved on the back (by the people who engrave the FA Cup, no less) which were a numbered limited edition of 55.
2 of these devices were cunningly hidden away to be able to be given away to the SI/FM community.
1 of them is being given away in a competition on the FM Facebook page (www.facebook.com/officialfootballmanager) along with a copy of the game.
The other is being given away in this very thread.
To enter the competition here, all you have to do it write "Please pick me! Please pick me!" in the thread below. A winner will be drawn out at random on Monday at 6pm.
Please note that all our normal competition terms and conditions apply, except that this competition is not open to anyone in Germany. Sorry - but we can't sell the game there, so we can't ship the device there either...
If you try to enter multiple times, all of your entries will be disqualified. If you type anything apart from what is written above, you will also be disqualified.
Have a lovely weekend.
(drumroll please......)
The winner is - Dinky Winky.
The process used to decide the winner was thus.
Ben Cooper printed off the thread, which amounted to 123 pages (and yes, they have all been recycled, and used recycled paper to print).
5 random people at SEGA then picked pages between 1 & 123.
The 5 pages left were then taken to SEGA lawyer, who picked one of the pages at random. That page had 9 posts on it, and he then picked a number between 1 & 9, choosing 7.
So congratulations to Dinky Winky - someone will be in touch with you to get your details and send you your prize.


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How can someone estimate the number of years needed to factor an RSA key based on the advancement of technology if followed Moore's law?
It is hard. Main problem is that RSA key breaking relies on integer factorization, for which the most efficient (known) algorithms use CPU but also RAM, with constraints on parallel computation. Moore's law is already a crude approximation of how CPU power evolves over time for a given budget; it fails to take into account memory size and latency (two distinct things).
In fact, Moore's law, as expressed by Gordon Moore, is about transistor density, which does not equate with performance; and Moore himself changed it occasionally. The version that was fashionable about 12 years ago was: "every three years, one can put four times as many transistors in a given area, and clock that twice faster". This translates to an increase in computational power of 1 bit per year when breaking symmetric algorithms with FPGA or ASIC; but for general purpose computers, this is more like a double in power every 18 months, because register size does not increase as fast, and even when registers grow, the data elements we put in them do not. Also, over the last decade, clock rate of CPU has more or less stabilized, so Moore's law can be maintained only through parallelism -- multiple cores. But not all algorithms are amenable to easy parallelism, in particular the big matrix reduction which is the last step of General Number Field Sieve, the current best algorithm for breaking RSA. That matrix reduction appears to be the bottleneck for keys longer than the current record (768 bits).
Read section 6 of this report for a discussion and pointers on the subject. All see this site for estimates computed by various organizations, and even more pointers.
Start with this formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization#Difficulty_and_complexity
and either invert the formula or use newtons approximation.
as for the offset to work on:
the number RSA 1024 appears to not have been factorized, but many companies already moved on to 2048 or even 4096.


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Eric L. Rudsell, 43, of Seaton, died Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 in Mexico. Services are 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014 at the Fippinger Funeral Home in Aledo. Visitation is from 2:30-4:30 p.m. prior to services and Memorials may be made to his daughters, Montana and Erica Rudsell. According to his family's wishes, cremation will be accorded after services. Online condolences can be made at www.fippingerfuneralhome.com.
He was born Nov. 28, 1970 in Rock Island, to Richard and Katherine (Johnson) Rudsell, and raised by Marvin Crooks. Eric attended Rockridge schools and received his GED. He married Cathy Reaber Aug. 8, 1998 in Aledo.
Eric was employed at Meminger's in Aledo as a metal finisher. He was also a well known local mechanic and junker.
He was currently a Village of Seaton board member. He enjoyed demolition derbies, hunting, fishing, camping, carpentry, stock car racing and especially his family.
Survivors include his wife, Cathy; three daughters, Heather of Aledo; Montana and Erica Rudsell of Seaton, legal daughter Elizabeth Rudsell, foster daughter, Samantha, all of Seaton; his special daughter, Caitlin Brown of Davenport; one granddaughter, Stephanie Christianson of Keithsburg; his mother, Katherine Crooks of Rock Island; five brothers, Tom (Stacy) Crooks of Camp Point, Illinois; Adam Crooks of Milan; Danny (Rebecca) Kirk of Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.; Joseph (Nancy) Rudsell of Springdale, Ark.; Victor (Karissa) Rudsell of Joplin, Mo.; one sister, Renee Como of Cinncinati, Ohio; maternal grandmother, Lorraine Knott of Milan; several nieces and nephews.
His father who raised him, Marvin Crooks, one sister, Bethany Crooks and paternal grandparents and maternal grandfather preceded him in death.
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I'm looking for an extension tube for my DSLR. Any suggestions? I see a lot on the internet, but I cannot figure out which is the best.
An extension tube doesn't have any optics in it, it's just a tube that is used to move the lens in relation to the sensor, because there's nothing but air in there all the extension tubes in the world will use the same air will give you the exact same image.
There are 3 ways extension tubes differ:
The air in my Kenko tubes has never let me down. :-)
This is one of my rare third party camera accessories. I can't think of any good reason to pay more for a set of tubes. I bought mine used. The air seems undamaged.
I've been using Kenko for 3 years now and they work well. You will notice some flex in them if you mount all three at once on a heavy lens but other than this they are well built and get the job done.


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Top 10 Ways to Give Back to Your Child's Schoolby Lindsay Hutton
Have you ever wanted to give back to your child's school, but aren't sure how? It's simple! Whether you can donate your time, skills, or money, these 10 ideas are easy ways to help out and show your appreciation.
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Join the PTA
If your child's school isn't affiliated with the PTA (National Parent Teacher Association), it probably has a "home and school" or a booster club (independently operated clubs that function the same as the PTA, just without the national recognition).
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One of the most popular instruments ever known to the world, the guitar is something truly special. Versatile in its ability to play different genres, and coming in a variety of styles, every guitar has something different to offer, allowing musicians to make their individual instrument truly their own. From highly sought after models, to everyday pick up and play options, the guitars found here were made to accommodate literally every need a guitarist could ever have.
So where do you start in a section as massive as this one? From acoustic to electric, nylon to steel stringed, hollow body to solid body, all styles are represented here, so having a good idea of what you're looking for will definitely help. The best place to start is usually with the brand, as each one has a reputation for something different, allowing you to narrow things down from there. For example, you'll instantly recognize names like Fender, Gibson and Ibanez as trailblazers of the electric guitar, while others like Martin, Taylor, and Breedlove are more famous for the unparalleled quality of their acoustic instruments. After that, you'll want to look at things like body type, tonewood, strings, size, orientation and performance level. Once you have a general idea about each of these, your decision gets that much easier. Just remember, it all comes down to personal preference, so as long as you're happy with the guitar you choose you can't go wrong. The guitar is a special instrument, with a different meaning to every player. Whether you're taking your first steps into the world of music or you're a professional rocking out in front of sold out stadiums all over the planet, strumming, plucking and picking on a guitar is a way to express yourself that can't be duplicated with anything else. So pick up a guitar here and start playing... you'll be glad you did.
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If high holiday calories are still calling your name, perhaps this column can steer you to a healthier way of eating.
Information in this column is from "Health Guides" and was provided in a brochure from the Jefferson Behavioral Health System.
Here are a few hints:
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NOT NECESSARILY HIGH CALORIE — Karen Rish made a cheese ball shaped like an apple, with a cinnamon stick for a stem and dried parsley applied to the outside to resemble the Granny Smith variety. A cheese ball can be made lower in calories by using no-fat cream cheese, low-fat mayonnaise and an assortment of veggies included within the mixture.
-- Esther McCoy
Now if you follow these suggestions you will be one step ahead when the new year rolls around. And you'll be in the groove for healthy eating.
Just remember to keep up most of the hints throughout the year and you won't have to be going through all of these suggestions again at the start of 2014.
Appetizers can really pile on the calories before you even sit down to eat a meal. Potato chips and all the other salty snacks are high in fat and calories. Try these bagel chips instead. They are from the Jefferson Behavioral Health System, too.
Herbed Bagel chips
Nine 1-ounce frozen mini bagels, thawed
1 1/2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
Cut bagels crosswise into four slices. Place them with cut sides up on a baking sheet sprayed with butter flavored vegetable cooking spray. Lightly coat tops with spray. Combine other ingredients then sprinkle over bagels. Bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes until crisp. These are 22 calories each, with 12 percent calories from fat and 25 milligrams sodium.
A bowl of low-fat tuna salad can be put out to spread on a reduced fat cracker or on the herbed bagel chips. This is from the april 2005 issue of the Healthy Exchanges newsletter. It is only 33 calories for 4 tablespoons of crunchy salad.
Tuna Crunch Salad
6-ounce can white tuna, packed in water, drained and flaked
1 cup finely chopped celery
1 cup purchased low-fat cole slaw mix
1/2 cup fat-free mayonnaise
1 tablespoon Splenda or any other no sugar sweetener
1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
In a medium bowl, combine tuna, celery and cole slaw mix. Add mayonnaise, artificial sweetener and parsley flakes. Mix well to combine. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Gently stir again and put in a fancy bowl on the appetizer table. Spread on crackers for a satisfying and good-tasting treat. But don't eat more than three or four.
Here is a creamy salsa from the Healthy Exchanges newsletter. A one-fourth cup equals 56 calories. Dip some of the lower fat corn or tortilla chips into this and enjoy. It is said that it is almost as good as the salsa from Bennigans.
Sweet Cream Salsa
8-ounce can crushed pineapple, packed in fruit juice drained
1 tablespoon fat-free half and half
2 tablespoons no-fat sour cream
1/4 cup Splenda
1/4 cup chopped onion
2 tablespoons each finely chopped red and green bell pepper
In a medium bowl, combine undrained pineapple, half and half, sour cream, Splenda, onion, and green and red peppers. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Gently stir again before serving.
How about meat balls on a cocktail pick to combat a raving appetite?
Four 1-inch meatballs equal 159 calories. It is from the Healthy Exchanges newsletter.
Baked Beefy Rice Meatballs
8 ounces of extra lean ground sirloin beef or turkey breast
1/3 cup uncooked Minute rice
1 tablespoon dried onion flakes
1/4 teaspoon dried minced garlic
10 3/4-ounce can Healthy Request tomato soup
3/4 cup reduced-sodium tomato juice
1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8-by-8-inch baking dish with butter flavored cooking spray.
In a large bowl, combine meat, uncooked instant rice, onion flakes and garlic. Form into 16 1-inch meatballs. Arrange in prepared baking dish. In a small bowl, combine tomato soup, tomato juice and parsley flakes. Pour soup mixture evenly over meatballs. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until meatballs are baked through. Put sauce in a separate bowl for guests to spoon onto their plate and drizzle over top of the meatballs.
Now, how about a creamy dessert that is quite heavenly to the tastebuds and only 230 calories for one-eighth of a pie?
Maui Banana Cream Pie
2 cups, 2 medium, diced bananas
6-ounce graham cracker pie crust
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The Republican-led chamber's answer to GOP Gov. John Kasich's spending blueprint spends about $2 billion less while retaining a 7 percent permanent income-tax reduction statewide and removing tax increases on professional services and drilling. Kasich has proposed a two-year budget plan of about $63.2 billion, beginning July 1.
The House's $1.5 billion income-tax reduction over two years is less than the 20 percent Kasich had originally proposed, and excludes the governor's proposed small-business tax cut.
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"I was amazed by the beauty of Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, the stunning colours of the Bo-Kaap neighbourhood, the majesty of Table Mountain, the lively mood of Long Street, and, as if that were not enough, the superb blue of the sea surrounding the Mother City. What more could you ask for?" she continues.
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Son # 2's birthday landed smack on the same day we were traveling back from Ohio to the Great White North after a wee summer vacation and a family reunion. As such, he didn't get a special cake like I do for all the kids on their birthdays. So, when we got home he chose a cake pan at the library (yes, the library), signed it out, and on a weekend trip to the cottage Son #1 made and baked the cake and I did the decorating. The cake is sitting on a slightly nasty cookie sheet that is perfect for the cottage but which you'd probably replace if you had it at home. The cake was a hit with the whole family (cousins, aunt, uncle, etc.) and with the birthday boy.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Happy Belated Birthday, Son #2
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- Megan said...
Whoaaa, looks incredible! Fantastic job with the decorating there. :)
- September 9, 2010 at 2:07 PM
- lmcteer said...
great cake! wondering how you did the icing? powdered sugar and shortening? or is there some awesome vegan "decorator icing" recipe we should know about? thanks!
- September 9, 2010 at 2:40 PM
- Melissa said...
Nice cake decorating skills!
- September 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM
- Mama said...
Wow! I always knew libraries were awesome, but I didn't realize that some of them had cake pans! Books...and cake?!?!? It's too good to be true!
- September 9, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Nobel4Lit said...
Wow, for a cake that you "winged," it looks excellent! I woudn't expect anything less from Vegan Dad!
- September 9, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- Millie said...
that is so nicely decorated...and congrats to the birthday boy.
- September 9, 2010 at 7:36 PM
- Kiersten said...
I can't believe you decorated that cake! You did an amazing job.
- September 10, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- Carin said...
Your son is becoming quite a chef/baker. The cake looks very professional. Which cake recipe did you use for the cake? I've tried several from various sources with usually poor results.
- September 10, 2010 at 11:37 AM
- K said...
Mmmm, that looks awesome! I love your blog and enjoy trying out your recipes.
PS- it's awesome that you can check out cake pans from the library! I wish I could do that at mine!
- September 11, 2010 at 1:48 PM
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AWESOME! Must have taken some time!
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What is a physical law, a theory, and what is the relationship among them?
I know this is a very basic question, so any reference to epistemology will be greatly appreciated :)
What is a physical law, a theory, and what is the relationship among them?
I know this is a very basic question, so any reference to epistemology will be greatly appreciated :)
dmckee is right (in the comments), the distinction between "theory" and "law" is quite subjective and varies a lot depending on who you ask and the context in which they are used. Sometimes they can be nearly synonymous. I would advise you to take any information you get about the difference between these two terms (including the remainder of this post) with a grain of salt, and never be afraid to ask someone to clarify what they mean by "theory" or "law" if it matters to your conversation.
The one difference that I think most people will agree upon is that in order for something to be called a "law," there must (or at least should) be experimental evidence supporting it. There is no such requirement to be called a "theory." So it is possible for a theory to be "upgraded" to a law, once there is enough experimental evidence to make it seem true. However, even when that happens, it doesn't mean people are going to stop calling it a theory; for example, many people still use the terms "theory of gravity" and "theory of relativity" (and many others) even though both those theories have been confirmed by many, many experiments and have unquestionably achieved "law" status.
One other difference that I think is common is that "law" often (but not necessarily always) refers to a single principle, typically something that can be expressed as a single equation or a set of closely related equations. A "theory" can be more broad. For example, when someone says "law of gravity," they're probably talking about the equation
$$\mathbf{F} = -\frac{G m_1 m_2}{r^2}\hat{\mathbf{r}}$$
or a related equation. But I generally don't hear people using the term "law of relativity," possibly because special relativity involves several equations and a set of related concepts.
In my understanding, laws are the "what" and theories are the "why". Ohm's law tells you what the relationship between voltage and current in a resistor is. The theory of electrons in solids tells you why.
So, the laws tell you how physical systems behave, and the theories tell you why they do so.
A law is a precise statement about a physical relationship, ie Newton's laws. A law is a subset of atleast one theory, which provides a context and framework for the law, ie Classical Mechanics, and can also provide relations between laws.
A consistent theory normally has a set of axioms, or assumptions, and restrictions on the situation where they hold, and any statement derived from these can be considered laws.
You can ask why of a law, and it can be backtracked inside the theory and back and forth even, between these axioms. Some will call this process an explanation.
Laws are the building blocks of a theory. A theory is a mathematical model which is a collection of one or more laws.
Edit: I don't think, the answer of @Lagerbaer is right. Here is a confusion. "The theory of electrons in solids" are nothing but a set of more general laws. Take chemistry for example. All of the laws of chemistry are derived in principle from more general and fundamental laws of quantum mechanics. Theories are no more than a set of rules relating different quantities of a model or in other words a set of laws. These laws can be explained in terms of deeper and more fundamental laws. It's not that theory explains any "why" of its own laws.
As the answers of Lagerbaer and sb1 show, the answer can seem quite contradictory:
On the one hand, you can say a law is like a mathematical axiom, i.e. the starting point for bootstrapping your theories. I guess the example hear are Newton's laws of motion. There is no explanation why motion should always stem from second order in time ODEs, and yet this assumption has (in the context of classical mechanics) proven to be correct.
On the other hand, you can say a law is a set of equations (like Ohms law) that can be explained by a theory. But since you can use Ohms law as an axiom as well, I think this latter definition is (IMHO) less correct.
But let's have a look at wikipedia, specifically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem#Terminology links law to the article Laws of science, starting with
not mentioning the word axiom anywhere. However, there's the article Physical Law, which states:
And further down:
Personally, I prefer not using the word law at all (I mean in physics, don't get the wrong idea there ;)


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This was just announced. It says he will remain as a principal with ABT (whew). He will do Giselle on September 13 and 15.
The Mikhailovsky web site has a longer announcement:
If you click over to their "playbill" page, he is doing Giselle with Semionova on September 13 & 15. I notice that Osipova and Vasiliev will be doing Giselle on September 14.
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Marcelo Gomes joins Mikhailovsky as guest principal dancer2012-13 season
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 07:12 AM
Posted 10 July 2012 - 09:15 AM
...he is doing Giselle with Semionova on September 13 & 15. I notice that Osipova and Vasiliev will be doing Giselle on September 14.
Quite a competition...!
Posted 10 July 2012 - 09:49 AM
Are these companies basically merging? Or at war?? Are we to expect an all-Duato bill at the Met in the future?
Posted 10 July 2012 - 10:31 AM
There's an odd ballet representation conglomerate brewing: Ardani-Kekhman-ABT-Mariinsky-Vaganova. One big cartel with several branches. Hopefully the people I care about the most -- the dancers -- benefit economically without selling their souls to cheesy projects. Kekhman and Duato attended the Vaganova Academy exercises this year, sitting front-row center with the evaluators. I didn't see Mckenzie in the photos but there may have been an ABT rep there (?).
Posted 10 July 2012 - 05:53 PM
Well, congrats to Marcelo, I guess! I'm very glad he won't be leaving ABT!!
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Yep, it's only day 3 and it looks like I am scratching for things to write about. In reality, there are lots of things and it is more a case of prioritising them and doing them justice.
I know I mentioned I was a casual player, the the reality is this casualness is a time limitation more than anything. My wife doesn't like my Silicon Mistress much, so my time on-line (in any non-WoW-form) is really limited to work and as I sit next to the boss my writing and researching time will be…. stilted. so bear with me while I try to knock out a few small but regular posts on a myriad of topics.
Ummmm… Now to the real point of this post. Only a couple of days of blog life and I see I have had some visits from a few other bloggers that I have previously lurked and admired. I have even received my first comment from a fellow Gnome Mage in the form of Larísa (Have you seen Larísa's new site – looks fantastic, it's immediately apparent the effort put in – let's not even mention the effort put in to translate the original site!)
Anyway, thanks for the visits folks, please feel free to point out where I have screwed up, mis-categorised (or other errors) your sites/blogs. A lot was quickly thrown together while the boss was pacing back & forth behind me, so in my quick mind refresh of your sites I might have grabbed the wrong impression of their primary purpose (Frostbolt, a case in point, only when Ihit another blog and saw the comment "You would think it's a Mage blog, but it's really a Druid blog", did I realise my error)
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Shipping is another $1.99. Put in a request for Amazon to price match.
That digital copy has to be expired by now, right?
How does one put in a price match request to Amazon...
2$ more (free shipping) from Best Buy.
Or even better, pick it up in store. Either way, great movie, I've been waiting for this to get under 20$ for a while (i missed the black Friday/cyber Monday sales).
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I would like to bottle my homemade dressing. The main ingredients are olive oil, balsamic vinegar, honey, lemon and dijon mustard. Once it is bottled, is there a processing time as there is with canning vegetables?
To can foods safely, you should always use a tested recipe. You can find safe recipes for most things on the site of the National Center for Home Food Preservation or on the Ball Jars canning site.
Sources like this recommend against trying to can your own flavored vinegar or flavored oil ... one could safely assume they would thus recommend against home canning of vinegar and oil.
I think this article is a helpful Q&A explaining why it's not recommended (or safe!) to create and can your own recipes - http://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/nchfp/factsheets/heatprocessingbackgrounder.html
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Hi I'm running Passenger/mongo/Rails 3.2 (no activerecord or mysql) with a Capistrano deploy script.
I'm trying to get my app to run in production mode on my linux server.
In my apache config file i have the following...
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DocumentRoot /srv/www/example.com/current/public
ErrorLog /srv/www/example.com/current/log/error.log
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RailsEnv production
EDIT: In my environment.rb file I no longer have the following...
In my Capistrano deploy.rb I have the following...
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It's been 18 years since John Gorka released his first recording. He's just released his first new record in three years on Red House Records, "Writing in the Margins" with some songs about love and war and hope for the future.
He stopped by the Morning Show studio to play some tunes from that release, plus a rather unusual cover.
Songs performed: "Chance of Rain," "When You Sing," "Writing in the Margins," and "Three Little Birds."
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