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I am looking for the relations and analogies between the Perelman's entropy functional,$\mathcal{W}(g,f,\tau)=\int_M [\tau(|\nabla f|^2+R)+f-n] (4\pi\tau)^{-\frac{n}{2}}e^{-f}dV$, and notions of entropy from statistical mechanics. Would you please explain it in details?
The relations between the Perelman's entropy functional and notions of entropy from statistical mechanics
For metrics on $S^{2}$ with positive curvature, Hamilton introduced the entropy $N\left( g\right) =-\int\ln(R\operatorname{Area})Rd\mu.$ If the initial metric has $R>0,$ he proved that this is nondecreasing under the Ricci flow on surfaces; note that $Rd\mu$ satisfies $(\frac{\partial}{\partial t}-\Delta )(Rd\mu)=0.$ Let $T$ be the singular time; then $$ \frac{d}{dt}N\left( g\left( t\right) \right) =2\int\left\vert \operatorname{Ric}+\nabla^{2}f-\frac{1}{2\tau}g\right\vert ^{2}d\mu+4\int% \frac{\left\vert \operatorname{div}(\operatorname{Ric}+\nabla^{2}f-\frac {1}{2\tau}g)\right\vert ^{2}}{R}d\mu, $$ where $\tau=T-t$ and $\Delta f=r-R.$ ($f$ satisfies $\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}=\Delta f+rf$; since $n=2$, $\operatorname{Ric}=\frac{1}{2}Rg$)
Perelman's entropy has the main term: $\int fe^{-f}d\mu,$ which is the classical entropy with $u=e^{-f}$ as Deane Yang wrote. (Besides Section 5 of Perelman, further discussion of entropy appeared later in some of Lei Ni's papers as well as elsewhere.) Even though this term is lower order (in terms of derivatives), geometrically it is the most significant as can be seen by taking the test function to be the characteristic function of a ball (multiplied by a constant for it to satisfy the constraint); technically, one chooses a cutoff function. Thus Perelman proved finite time no local collapsing below any given scale only assuming a local upper bound for $R,$ since the local lower Ricci curvature bound (control of volume growth is needed to handle the cutoff function) can be removed by passing to the appropriate smaller scale.
Heuristically (ignoring the cutoff issue), since the constraint is $\int(4\pi\tau)^{-n/2}e^{-f}d\mu=1,$ if we take $\tau=r^{2}$ and $e^{-f}=c\chi_{B_{r}},$ then $c\approx\frac{r^{n}% }{\operatorname{Vol}B_r}.$ So, if the time and scale are bounded from above, by Perelman's monotonicity, we have $$-C\leq\mathcal{W}(g,f,r^{2})\lessapprox r^{2}% \max_{B_{r}}R+\ln\frac{\operatorname{Vol}B_r}{r^{n}},$$ yielding the volume ratio lower bound.
Added December 12, 2013: For all of the following, see Perelman, Ni, Topping, etal. Let $\mathcal{N} =\int fe^{-f}d\mu$ be the classical entropy. Then, under $\frac{\partial }{\partial t}g=-2(\operatorname{Ric}+\nabla^{2}f)$ and $\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}=-\Delta f-R$, we have $-\frac{d\mathcal{N}}{dt}=\mathcal{F} (g,f)\doteqdot\int(R+\left\vert \nabla f\right\vert ^{2})e^{-f}d\mu$ (Perelman's energy). If the solutions are on $[0,T)$, then $\mathcal{F} (t)\leq\frac{n}{2\left( T-t\right) }\int e^{-f}d\mu$, which implies that $\frac{d}{dt}(\mathcal{N}-(\frac{n}{2}\int e^{-f}d\mu)\log(T-t))\geq0$. Let $\mathcal{W}(g,f,\tau)=(4\pi\tau)^{-n/2}\left( \tau\mathcal{F}+\mathcal{N} \right) -n\int(4\pi\tau)^{-n/2}e^{-f}d\mu$ (Perelman's entropy). Under $\frac{\partial}{\partial t}g=-2\operatorname{Ric}$ and $\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}=-\Delta f+|\nabla f|^{2}-R+\frac{n}{2\tau}$, we have have $\frac{d\mathcal{F}}{dt}=2\int|\operatorname{Ric}+\nabla^{2}f|^{2}e^{-f} d\mu-\frac{n}{2\tau}\mathcal{F}$ and $\frac{d\mathcal{N}}{dt}=-\mathcal{F} +\frac{n}{2\tau}\int e^{-f}d\mu-\frac{n}{2\tau}\mathcal{N}$. So, by coupling with $\frac{d\tau}{dt}=-1$, we obtain (Perelman's entropy formula) \begin{align*} (4\pi\tau)^{n/2}\frac{d\mathcal{W}}{dt} & =\frac{n}{2\tau}\left( \tau\mathcal{F}+\mathcal{N}\right) -\mathcal{F}+\tau\frac{d\mathcal{F}} {dt}+\frac{d\mathcal{N}}{dt}\\ & =2\tau\int|\operatorname{Ric}+\nabla^{2}f-\frac{1}{2\tau}g|^{2}e^{-f}d\mu. \end{align*}
Perelman himself wrote about his entropy formula for the Ricci flow that "The interplay of statistical physics and (pseudo)-riemannian geometry occurs in the subject of Black Hole Thermodynamics, developed by Hawking et al. Unfortunately, this subject is beyond my understanding at the moment."
Subsequently, this connection has been explored in some detail in two papers by Samuel and Chowdury: "Geometric flows and black hole entropy" and "Energy, entropy and the Ricci flow". For a discussion of both these papers, see chapter 6 of "On the Emergence Theme of Physics" by Robert Carroll.
There is a nice interpretation of Perelman's monotonicity formulas in terms of optimal transportation, see e.g. these lecture notes by Peter Topping
It seems helpful to look at the elliptic case first. As discovered by Lott-Villani and Sturm nonnegative Ricci curvature can be characterized by the property that the Boltzmann-entropy is convex along optimal transportation. This is very intuitive, imagine e.g. a pile of sand being transported from the south to the north-pole on the sphere.
The idea for the Ricci flow is similar (being a (super)Ricci flow can be viewed as parabolic version of having nonnegative Ricci curvature), but the details are a bit more complicated. The $W$-functional can be written as derivative of a suitable Boltzmann-entropy (see Section 5 in Perelman's first paper) and the monotonicity of $W$ can be interpreted as convexity of this entropy, see the above lecture notes for details.


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I know Jesus is risen and that whole story, but when I was much younger I remember hearing about some people who never actually died in the Bible. Who are these people and how did they leave this world?
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Enoch and Elijah are the two that fit this category.
Some have speculated that Moses also fits into this category, but that doesn't fit with this verse:
The idea that Moses could have been in that category probably comes from the record that Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration.
So, Enoch and Elijah are the two that meet this criterion.
As an aside, Lazarus and a few others died twice, so the death rate of all people who have ever lived is actually slightly greater than 100%. :)
It should also be noted that according to 1 Thessalonians, there are still some people who will not experience physical death, but will enter eternity prior to death. This is yet future, though. (Asleep is thought to be a euphemism for physical death)
Another person who never died in the Bible, and whose lack of death may have made some waves in the early Christian community was the Apostle John (the disciple whom Jesus loved).
By itself it seems kind of mundane, of course John died and tradition holds that he was the only disciple to manage to not die a martyrs death, in exile on the island of Patmos.
But the footnotes of the NAB say:
Which sort of begs the question. Is John really, very truly dead?
There maybe one more that I have found and that is Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:3) There is no record of his father or mother or any of his ancestors-no beginning or end to his life. He remains a priest forever, resembling the Son of God.
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I have a feeling that this might have already been asked, but can't find the question. Anyway, the question is: given a symmetric $n\times n$ matrix, is there a faster way to compute its signature than computing the full eigen-decomposition? (the gt tag is because my application is in computing signatures of four-manifolds, and some others might want to do the same computation...)
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As Fernando Muro points out in the comments, Sylvester's law of inertia is probably the easiest way to determine the signature. You diagonalize the symmetric matrix by the Gram-Schmidt process. This is essentially as easy as Gaussian elimination.
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Note added: Since you claim you're interested in computing the signatures of 4-manifolds, there's some special points one might be able to take advantage of. Certainly then the form will be integral unimodular, so presumably your symmetric matrix has integer entries and determinant $\pm 1$. If the 4-manifolds are smooth, then by Donaldson's theorem, if the intersection form is (positive) definite, then it is integrally equivalent to the diagonal form $1\oplus 1\oplus \cdots\oplus 1=1^n$. Otherwise, if the form is indefinite, then it is either odd and integrally equivalent to a diagonal form $1^k\oplus (-1)^{n-k}$, or it is even and there is a unique equivalence class for a given $n$ and signature. One can then perform the diagonalization process over $\mathbb{Z}$ using some version of the Euclidean algorithm, except in the even case (in which case there is a standard tridiagonal integral form). Actually, in the even case one could take a sum $\oplus \pm 1$ to make the form odd, and then diagonalize over the integers (a similar trick taking a sum with a hyperbolic form makes things integrally diagonalizable in the general case if you are also considering non-smooth manifolds which might have non-diagonalizable forms). See Milnor-Husemoller or Conway-Sloane for more details.
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Notice that this takes finitely many operations. Actually the whole book of Gantmacher is motivated by stability issues in dynamical systems. Thus its main purpose is to check whether a given matrix has its spectrum in a given half of the complex plane.
Here is a textbook solution that runs in time $O(n^3)$ (assuming that Gaussian Elimination can be done in that time, which might not be immediate unless one takes steps to rule out intermediate coefficient growth). The first part of the statement below is merely LU decomposition. The last sentence is what you're looking for.
Unfortunately, if one pivots (which in practice one must), the above rule breaks. In this case, I would recommend first tridiagonalizing the matrix using orthgonal transformations---this will cost $O(n^3)$. Then, you can compute the eigenvalues of the tridiagonal matrix in time $O(n^2)$ (pseudo-polynomial time, though), and then you'll have the inertia.
May I attract your attention on the following formula, where $B$ is a $n\times n$ non-singular symmetric real-valued matrix $$ \int_{\mathbb R^n}e^{-2i\pi x\cdot \xi} e^{i\pi Bx\cdot x}dx=e^{\frac{i\pi}{4}\text{signature } B}\vert\det B\vert^{-1/2}e^{-i\pi B^{-1}\xi\cdot \xi}, $$ so that $ e^{\frac{i\pi}{4}\text{signature } B}=\vert\det B\vert^{1/2} \int_{\mathbb R^n} e^{i\pi Bx\cdot x}dx. $ Of course the Fresnel-type integral on the rhs of last formula is not absolutely converging but, as an oscillatory integral, will become so after integration by parts.
This seems to be an $O(n^3)$ problem, so if your matrix is smaller than 100 by 100 you might as well use an eigensolver.
For bigger matrices you can use Newton's method (see Higham's papers or book) to get a real almost orthogonal matrix and take the trace and round off. To get near the orthogonal in the polar decomposition iteratively replace $A$ by the average of $A$ with the transpose of the inverse of $A$.
That is, let $A_0 = A$ and $A_{n+1} = \left( \frac{1}{2}A + \frac{1}{2}\left( A^{\mathrm{T}} \right)^{-1} \right) $ and then the signature is $$ \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \mathrm{Trace} \left( A_N \right ) $$
If you have a priori information on the norm of $A$ and the size of the spectral gap at zero, you can figure how many iterations to do easily. If not many, this is very fast.
Nicholas J. Higham and Pythagoras Papadimitriou, A parallel algorithm for computing the polar decomposition, Elsevier, Parallel Computing, 20, (1994).


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What is the difference between a theorem and a theory? The two words seem to be used to describe very similar things, but yet do not seem to be interchangeable.
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What is the difference between a theorem and a theory? The two words seem to be used to describe very similar things, but yet do not seem to be interchangeable.
For example, we have Pythagoras' theorem and Einstein's theory of relativity.
A theorem is a result that can be proven to be true from a set of axioms. The term is used especially in mathematics where the axioms are those of mathematical logic and the systems in question.
A theory is a set of ideas used to explain why something is true, or a set of rules on which a subject is based on.
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"Empirical" means, "The word empirical denotes information gained by means of observation or experiments", whereas "deductively" means more of drawing from logic and reason, not facts.
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For a theory, you need supporting evidence, but not actual proof. There may easily be two or more competing theories about the same particular subject, each with some supporting evidence but none actually proven.
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Over the past two weekends, a long string of shattered windows were reported throughout the Little Apple, particularly in the northwest part of town. Police continue receiving reports of damage.
Officials say a BB gun was used to break 33 car windows and windows of three homes.
Multiple reports of damaged cars were reported along Leavenworth Street, Plymouth Road, Cedar Crest Drive and North 16th Street, among others.
The homes that were damaged were located on College Heights Road, Woodoak Court and Dickens Avenue.
The crimes are being investigated as Criminal Damage to Property and they are all believed to be connected.
No injuries were reported.
According to police, the suspect or suspects are aiming at the back windshields of cars and driver side windows. Some body damage has been reported in instances where the side of the car was struck instead of the window.
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How can I move a document into a sub-folder and still maintain its version history from the old location in the new location?
Providing you are using SharePoint 2010, you can move the files, with history, using the 'Open with Windows Explorer' functionality.
Consider using Chris O'Brien's Sharepoint Content Deployment Wizard: http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2007/12/introducing-sharepoint-content.html
It can be found on CodePlex.
If you copy it using the Manage Content Tool from Site Actions doesn't that maintain the old copy and its history where it is? If you are only moving one or two files I wouldn't think you'd need more than that.
One approach would be to use a content migration tool such as Metavis http://www.metavistech.com/ which enables you to move/copy files and lists while keeping version histories.
You can also try the free edition of CopyMove for SharePoint 2007. It maintains the full version history and Metadata on documents that you copy or move.
If you are within the same document library, and just moving folders, then Actions->Open With Windows Explorer will do the trick. You can also use the Site Content and Structure interface from the Site Settings page.
As long as the document is in the same document library it will retain history. For peace of mind,test this with a simple text file before you make any big changes.
Nope. Not in SP 2010. I've opened a library in Explorer but when trying to move files to another library but I keep getting the message "Can't read from source file or disk". This simply does not work, and as an administrator who could move the files using designer or the Manage Content and Structure interface, it is not a problem for me. It is a problem for the many users I have and that I need to provide the ability of moving documents and retaining the version history. I don't have time to spend moving other people's documents for them, and they resent having to ask me to do so. It's a lose-lose.
Sadly, nothing I am finding allows for what seems to me to be a critical need for SP end-users: namely, to move documents -- with version history -- between libraries using the front-end interface. This causes a critical roadblock in the SP roll-out that I am administrating, and could derail my project's efforts to gain user acceptance for the product. Not to rant, but...this shows how tone-deaf Microsoft is to end-users, and suggests that their software development processes do a poor job of real-world user testing. Bottom line: Microsoft needs to get off its butt and provide a solution for this, otherwise the refrain from actual users of SP will continue to be "Yes, they make us use SharePoint at the office, but I hate it and it sucks."
I have attempted several methods to "move" lists and sites around through SP2007 and SP2010. The one that gives me the best results has been using either STSADM command syntax or PowerShell. My preference is powershell.
The problem I faced in all of my "moves" was I want to keep all list relationship history and references without them being updated by me (as an IT guy versus the actual owning user). As an IT resources we are stewards of data in most cases not owners and if we moved a file on a file system we would not be taking ownership (like using a copy and paste command). SharePoint provides a nice interface but assumes if you do something through the interface you own it, even if its a housekeeping effort.
We in IT know we are responsbile for the housekeeping actions when we do this but users are the ones who don't like seeing their object-ownership taken away by someone who may not be in the food chain of the document approval process. This is why I like the method I describe below. I am not discounting the template method or the Explorer move methods, I just find them useful under other circumstances than an administrators organizational management and housekeeping.
You may want to run a browser search through MSFT or other references to verify...please remember this is run through the PowerShell interface but can also be run through a series of STSADM commands.
To Move or a Export List/Site and Import List/Site (note this also works with entire site moves but I'm focusing on list move here; i.e. document lists)
NOTE: the commands are relatively simple and but the results can be painful if the switches are not used {-includeversions 4} is the max number of whole versions SP can move {-nofilecompression} is recommended so you won't possibly lose data in the compressed data (this can happen and is an MSFT sharepoint known issue)
After all this is just my opinion on how to do this...
Best of luck in your move...
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WHEELING - The OVAC Class 5A semifinal, which pitted Wheeling Park against Indian Creek, seemed like it would become a pitching duel between the Redskins' Paige Geanangel and the Patriots' Carly Greer.
Park coach Dee Davis, however, had a change of plans.
''I was going to start (Greer) pitching, but I decided to go with Skylar (Carrington),'' Davis said. ''Either one of them could have pitched. I'm still satisfied with the outcome.''
As well she should be, as Carrington had a solid performance in the circle to go with a two-run homer by Greer that gave Park (17-2) a 4-3 victory against the Redskins at Lisa's Field.
''(Indian Creek) didn't really tee off on Skylar,'' Davis noted. ''They had a couple of hard hits, but no consecutive ones that could hurt us. I thought she did a nice job.''
The game went scoreless for the first three innings before Creek (11-3) got its first run off a Geanangel sacrafice fly that drove in Marissa DeFallo.
The Patriots answered back in the fourth as Greer, who started the inning with a leadoff double, crossed home plate after a hit from Kelly Albers. Park got its first lead two batters later as Ashleigh Sidon's fielder's choice gave time for Morgan Karnell to give the Patriots a 2-1 advantage.
After Carrington walked DeFallo to start the fifth, the Park pitcher couldn't field a bunt by Brey Mays and then couldn't get the throw to first, which bought time for DeFallo to score and for Mays to make it around to third.
The next batter, Megan Markja, hit a sac fly into right field as Mays made it 3-2 Redskins.
Kristin Slater reached on a Creek error to start the bottom of the inning for Park before Greer smacked the eventual game-winner over the left-field fence.
''We needed that,'' Davis pointed out. ''We needed someone to spark us and that was good that she did that. The last about six or seven games, she's been hitting the ball well.''
After Park went in order in the sixth, the Redskins had one last chance to try to get the better of the Carrington. The sophomore, however, was cooler than ever.
Carrington ended the inning striking out two to pick up a victory.
''I think she pitched a good game,'' Redskins coach Angie Penner said. ''We thought we had a chance because we had the top of our order coming up (in the seventh), but, like I said, give their pitcher a lot of credit. She held us off and we couldn't hit the ball when we needed to.''
The victory gives Park a rematch with rival John Marshall for the OVAC 5A title.
''The whole thing is in their heads,'' Davis said of the Patriots. ''You've got to hit (Amy) Rotriga. If you can hit Rotriga, you can win the game. She strikes out 20-some a game, so that's the whole thing. Hopefully her arm will be sore because she had to pitch nine innings then she had to pitch a tough game (Tuesday against Morgantown).
''I'd like to play this game (today), that would give her less time off.''
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We're making a video presentation on the topic of eigenvectors and eigenvalues. Unfortunately we have only reached the theoretical part of the discussion. Any comments on practical applications would be appreciated.
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The problem of ranking the outcomes of a search engine like Google is solved in terms of an invariant measure on the net, seen as a Markov chain. Finding the invariant measure requires the spectral analysis of the associated matrix.
I would comment on Peitro's answer, but I don't have enough reputation; for a marvelously-titled explanation of Google's Pagerank, see The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector.
Google's pagerank system is most likely the most canonical example, however others include,
-Dynamical System If you are able to express a model in terms of a matrix acting on vectors, one can look at the iterations and ask what occurs? This can be done to model the life cycle of some species in an environment (bacteria on a petri dish, wolf/sheep interaction, fibonacci sequence as the spread of a population of bunnies, etc...). These examples are fairly small, however you can certainly have massive systems to model, and if your matrix is diagonalizable, the iterations of this map correspond to iterations of a diagonal matrix (very easy to do!) instead of the standard $m^{2}$ operations to multiply out an $m\times m$ matrix. Think about a $1 000 000 \times 1 000 000$ matrix $M$, where you're looking at whether a certain species will die out (i.e., itererating $M^{n}$ and checking as $n\to\infty$. Quite the time saver!)
-Graph theory As an undergrad one of my summer research projects looked into special graphs called (3,6)-fullerenes, where we were finding that, looking at the adjacency matrix of the graph, one could pick 3 well chosen eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenvetors, and generate nice 3d plots of the graphs, whereas other choices would produce degenerate images, involving some twisted 2d surface.
-Differential equations One can use eigenvalues and eigenvectors to express the solutions to certain differential equations, which is one of the main reasons theory was developed in the first place!
I would highly recommend reading the wikipedia article, as it covers many more examples than any one reply here will likely contain, with examples along to way! (Schrödinger equation, Molecular Orbitals, Geology and Glaciology, Factor Analysis, Vibration Analysis, Eigenfaces, Tensor of Inertia, Stress Tensor, Eigenvalues of a Graph)
All of Quantum Mechanics is based on the notion of eigenvectors and eigenvalues. Observables are represented by hermitian operators Q, their determinate states are eigenvectors of Q, a measure of the observable can only yield an eigenvalue of the corresponding operator Q. If you measure an observable in the state $\psi$ in a system and find as result the eigenvalue $a$, the state of the system just after the measurement will be the normed projection of $\psi$ onto the eigenvector associated to $a$. And so on and so forth.
Of course Quantum Physics is not mathematically trivial: the arena is infinite dimensional Hilbert Space (or more complicated functional analytic structures like Gelfand triples), operators are not bounded, etc...However, in the extremely fast growing field of Quantum Computing the algebra is mostly limited to finite-dimensional spaces and their operators.
Finally, let me mention that Frank Wilczek, a winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, has interestingly reminisced that as a student he found Quantum Mechanics easier than Classical Mechanics because of its nice axiomatization alluded to above..
For visual appeal, you should look into the area of pendulums. There is a good demonstration with swinging bottles, I recall, and this does depend on eigenvalues that are nearly equal. Do a Web search on "coupled pendulums".
Principal Component Analysis is a way of identifying patterns in data, and expressing the data in such a way as to highlight their similarities and differences. It is very difficult to visualize data in high dimensional space, but PCA can be used their to analyze data. From the data set covariance matrix is formed and then eigen values and eigen vectors of that covariance matrix are found. These eigne values and eigen vectors then can be compared to figure out the contribution of a particular feature in the data set. Thus PCA can be successfully applied to reduce dimension of the data.
Another interesting application is rigid body rotation theory. No matter how complicated an object looks, there's always (at least) a set of three mutually orthogonal directions around which it can rotate perfectly without precession.
Maybe not something you can base a whole lecture on, but it's a nice remark.
In telecommunications the so-called "beam-forming" algorithm in case of multiple antennas requires calculation of eigenvectors.
I think the book $Spectra$ $of$ $Graphs$$:$ $Theory$ $and$ $Applications$ by Dragos M. Cvetkovic, Michael Doob, Horst Sachs and M. Cvetkovic is very good source for practical applications of eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
In communication theory, coding theory and cryptography, the minimum distance of codes is very important parameter in decoding and also is very important in coding based cryptography (for example McEliece cryptosystem). It is interesting that the second largest eigenvalue of related graph to a code, can determine a good lower-bond for minimum distance of code.


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Can you help me make a vegetarian dinner?
I'm looking to make dinner this week end for my wife and her family. They are vegetarians, I am not. Though I cook normal meals for my wife regularly I'm looking for something new and a bit more impressive. I'm looking to go all out. Apps, drinks, big dinner, and of course a very chocolate desert. I've done a lot of searching on the internet but I haven't found what I'm looking for. I'd also like to get some real recipes that you have tried (and succeded) and opinions on how they taste.
Thanks in advance!
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I'm a vegetarian so I can tell you some of the things I eat.
1. Vegetable stir fry.
2. Bean Soup (with rice to soak up the water).
3. Pasta/Pizza
4. Baked potato fully loaded with vegetables and cheese (Cheese is okay for vegetarians -- not for vegans).
we really like this recipe (just substitute veggie stock for the chicken stock...but don't use low sodium):
we also use regular pasta instead of whole wheat. combine it with a nice salad and some fresh garlic bread (roast a couple heads of garlic and use that on the bread instead of garlic powder).
In my opinion, unless they have a legitimate food allergy they shouldn't be requesting that you make food to THEIR standard in YOUR house. I've always hated this about vegetarians and especially vegans. I have a few friends and relatives who are vegetarian, whenever we go to their house for dinner we eat what they prepare for us, I don't make special requests for a meaty entree. And we have an agreement that they don't make requests when they come over to my house. It won't kill them to eat meat a few days out of the year.
If they're that worked up about it, tell them to bring over their own food while you enjoy a nice, juicy USDA Prime steak.
The only exception to this rule is when we have grillouts and people bring their own food to grill, bring over a tofu burger or brats if you must, I'll grill them to your standard.
@eraten: reguardless of how ignorant your post is I'll give you and everyone else a bit of information. MY WIFE IS ALSO A VEGETARIAN AND HAS BEEN SINCE SHE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD. We INVITED them into our home they did not invite themselves as I'm sure your friends don't either. I do not eat red meat. Please leave my thread.
Thanks to the other suggestions! That pasta looks good, I'll keep it in mind!
@eraten: What a great host you are. I suppose if you have any Muslim or Jewish friends you'd expect them to eat pork chops if that's what you served?
A fondue party is always fun. I have an amazing recipe for hard cider fondue that I turned vegetarian with a couple substitutions, and there are lots and lots of non-meat dippers that work great with it.
I've also got an awesome recipe for eggplant parmesan. Speaking as a vegetarian, eggplant is great because it provides a sort of "meat" in a lot of recipes. You can serve it with some spaghetti or bake up some red and/or golden potatoes with rosemary and thyme as a side.
Or as already stated, vegetable stir fry is a good option, or pizza, or baked potatoes. I've had vegetarian chili in a baked potato with sour cream and sharp cheddar that was just great. I could give you my recipe for vegetarian chili, which is hearty and a meal on its own. Or, if they like mushrooms, do a wild mushroom pizza with smoked cheese and garlic olive oil on the crust.
For appetizers, an easy one is to bake goat cheese in phyllo dough with melted butter and drizzle the top with honey and sea salt.
I cook vegetarian meals a lot. One quick favorite that you could use for appetizers is sort of a Greek pizza. I use flour tortillas, spread a layer of hummus, then top with roasted red peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, and feta. Bake.
If I'm doing a more complicated main meal for guests, I usually make stuffed eggplant. This is a hearty dish, and can be great for winter, depending on what veggies you use. Slice eggplant in half longways, cut/scoop out inside, leaving about 3/4 inch on the skin. Brush with oil and bake eggplant until about 1/2 done. While it's baking, cook your stuffing. I've use various fresh cooked veggies (want to cook them first so that more of the water is removed or your stuffing could get watery) - onions, mushrooms, corn, potatoes, etc, sometimes adding rice or tofu or veggie meat crumbles. Sometime I add or top with a great cheese. Stuff the eggplant and put back in the oven until the eggplant is fully cooked.
I am not a vegetarian, but left to my own devices I rarely eat meat. When I do I mostly season with it. like my southern grandma used to do. Here's one recipe everyone seems to like:
Caribbean Black Beans
Long way: Wash and boil 1lb dried black beans for 1hr with some salt. Wash again well and add to crock pot with apple juice to cover by at least 1". Cook on low overnight. Clean and slice a fresh pineapple, broil slices in oven or toaster oven. Chop into bite sized pieces, add to beans about 1hr before eating. At the same time add 2 chopped colored bell peppers and (if you like spicy food) fresh hot red pepper to taste. Use dried chipotle if fresh hot red pepper is not available. Green chile is not a good substitute.
Short way: Wash 2 cans black beans well. Add to pan with one can pineapple tidbits with juice. Add 1 chopped, colored bell pepper (halves of 2 different colors is best), and fresh red chile or chipotle to taste. Simmer covered for one hour.
@sunnyx0r: I think I might try to stay away from pasta for this meal just because it's an easy go to for vegetarians when you don't know what to cook. The fondue party would make a great app! plus I'm sure my wife would love that hard cider fondue recipe.
I've also considered a good tartin or quiche (they do eat eggs) as well.
If you want a traditional looking entree, grilled portabello mushroom caps are a great idea. They can be as big as a steak, and you can fill them with cheese, chopped veggies and seasonings as as you desire. I like them best when they have been simmered in balsamic vinegar a bit before broiling or roasting.
A good side dish is one I made for Thanksgiving this year. Brussels sprouts, various mini potatoes (I got the ones that were multicolored), and sweet potatoes. Cut brussels sprouts and mini potatoes in half, peel and cube sweet potatoes. Toss in a roasting pan with olive oil, fresh garlic, salt, and pepper. Bake into done, about 45 minutes, depending on how small your potato cubes are. After done, sprinkle with parlsey. It's a very colorful dish.
Eggplant and brussels sprouts dish are very easy to prep ahead of time so that you can just pop them into the oven about an hour before you want to eat.
Have a great time at your dinner!
@nmchapma: If you don't have a fondue pot you should be able to do the cooking on the stove, but serving will be tricky.
1 (12-ounce) bottle hard cider
3/4 cup vegetable broth
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1/2 pound Fontina, grated
1/2 pound sharp yellow cheddar, grated
3 tablespoons corn starch
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
Salt to taste
Baguette, radishes, roasted shallots, roasted mushrooms, baby potatoes, pears, apples, pretzels.
Heat cider, broth, Worcestershire, and garlic in fondue pot over medium-high heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
Toss cheeses together in a bowl. Sift corn starch over the cheese, and toss to coat lightly.
Turn the fondue pot down to medium heat. Using a wooden spoon, sprinkle some cheese mixture into the liquid. Stir in small amounts of cheese until all is incorporated and fondue is smooth and melted, about 15 minutes. Stir in cayenne and salt.
Serve with desired dippers.
@moondrake: Grilled mushroom caps sound really yummy!
@raijen: The stuffed eggplant idea intrigues me. My wife loves eggplant so I'll keep that on the list.
Do you think I could get away with a small pot of fondue and some kind of flatbread pizza like that for apps/ pre dinner discussion food?
@nmchapma: I think you definitely could do that for apps! Until to hold them over if they're starving, but not enough to fill up. They need to save room for dinner!
@nmchapma: If you want a small pot of the fondue for an appetizer, I would suggest halving everything. The recipe above made about enough for four adults for an entire dinner. Even at half, I think you might have some left over.
My fallback is to make a quinoa pilaf. Easy to cook, and healthy. Serve with grilled or roasted vegetables.
Cook the quinoa, 2 cups water (or vegetable stock) to one of quinoa, bring to boil, simmer 15-20 minutes until liquid is absorbed. Saute' chopped onion in a little olive oil until golden, add to quinoa. Slice and either grill or roast zucchini, yellow squash, eggplant, portobellos, and/or peppers and serve with quinoa. (Optionally add chickpeas or cooked lentils to quinoa with a dash of cumin.)
Appetizers could be humus and pita wedges, falafel, or salads.
@nmchapma: If you don't have a fondue pot, once you warm the fondue you can put it a dish set on top of another dish containing hot water. Like restaurants do to keep food hot. Maintains overall heat while not creating hot spots like sterno or candles do. Try out some nice serving bowls on top of a small saucepan or the like to find one that sits securely and looks nice.
@sunnyx0r: Holy crap does that sound good.
Roasted red pepper soup! I love this:
There's other varieties with gouda cheese. I just love the flavor of red bell peppers.
@sunnyx0r Real (good) Worcestershire sauce is not vegetarian. It has anchovy.
@omnichad: Good catch. You might be able to find a vegetarian version though, they do exist.
I went on the same trek last year, to make a vegetarian meal for the GF's friends, I went the easy route, veggie stir fry, but had not yet perfected my method for cooking tofu, so I folded and bought the pre-seasoned vegan chicken look a like pieces, it was a slightly expensive, but the fastest and easiest way to make the meal for everyone. If I repeat it now, I've gotten much better at my culinary skills for preparing tofu and vegetarian dishes.
I applaud your willingness to make a meal for your guests, it's a courtesy much forgotten now a days when you invite someone into your home.
i am against making vegetarians dinner. they are probably tough and stringy, and besides they would probably object to being cooked and eaten.
//waits for flurry of negative votes
it's a joke! geez.
@sunnyx0r: we have something that we use to substitute for worcestershire. no worries :-)
If you have a small crockpot, that works really well for keeping fondue warm at the table.
And now I want to go cook all the recipes posted already!
No I cannot.
@eraten: That's funny, you have a good point, but when it's your in-laws, it's not quite the same as your friends. Clearly he is looking to impress them...
@dmmutti: thank you for your honesty. your reply points will be rewarded shortly :-)
It seems that a lot of times when people try to cook vegetarian the menu goes light (stir fry). I say put in some buttermilk mashed potatoes, pretzel rolls, cornbread, nice hearty warm items. Then you can contrast it with a cold spinach salad with jicama and apple. Make an interesting dressing with some Greek yogurt and you don't need a main protein. A good meal has a wide variety of color, temperature and texture. Finish off with a nice frozen chocolate mousse pie in an oreo crust.
Eggplant lasagna is always amazing, and would go great with roasted brussel sprouts (and if you just happen to have some of the balsamic vinegar from wine.woot, it's PERFECT on brussel sprouts).
If you have a favorite ground beef recipe, the vegetarian crumbles translate pretty well in most dishes, or people have been too kind to me. I love it in shepard's pies or for tacos.
If you're more of a griller- grilled portabellos as a "steak" or in a burger are awesome. Grill up some asparagus too!
I plan on sniping some of these recipes and using them as they are, or adding meat. Thanks guys!
I don't get a lot of time to cook (busy college student) so my recipe arsenal is a little limited. My girlfriend and I aren't vegetarians, but we skip meat when we can, and we love a lot of vegetarian foods, like tofu. A few of my favorite vegetarian dishes:
* Tofu & Vegetable Stir Fry - I'm a big fan of Asian cuisine and tofu so I love this. Just make sure that if you cook tofu, that you do it right. The first time I cooked it, it ended being to moist and soggy on the inside after cooking it. I find it works best to dry off the pieces with paper towels after cutting, then dry fry (no oil) until they start to get golden on the outside before putting the tofu in with anything else.
* Eggplant parmesan - Delicious and can be really easy to make, especially if you just use store-bought spaghetti sauce.
* Tofu tacos or fajitas - Like I said, I like tofu. Basically like a regular fajita or taco, but using tofu.
* Edamame (soybeans) makes a quick easy appetizer
Since you've all been so good about sharing your recipes with me I thought I'd share one of our regular favorites with you. Its a black bean and sweet potato taco. The recipe doesn't really dress the tacos with anything but we put lettuce, tomatos, sour cream, and avocado on them. The lime is a must for these!
Once cooked you can also mash the beans and potatos together, that sometimes works better for burritos or enchilladas.
If you want an impressive entree, this will do it. http://aveggiegoodday.com/flaky-vegetable-squares-or-vegetables-en-croute/ I do the roast veggie puree the day or evening before and stick it in the fridge until I'm ready to start. I get it & the puff pastry out at the same time. It really isn't hard to make and really looks and tastes great!
Also, Tamari sauce is an excellent substitution for Worcestershire sauce.
Best to make sure they are Vegetarian and not Vegan. That could ruin your whole night.
@agent019: Thanks for the concern but I've been with my wife for almost 8 years, I'm positive she nor her family are vegan :-)
@klutzyruth: I do like the looks of that one. I may have to try it myself first :-) Thanks!
So @nmchapma you should let us know how it went!
It's probably not the best if you're leaning towards something a bit nicer, but one of my favorite vegetarian go-to dishes (especially on cold days) is an adjusted version of this West African Sweet Potato & Peanut Stew: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/african_chicken_peanut_stew/
Leave out the chicken, use veggie or "no-chicken" vegetarian stock, and go a bit heavy on the sweet potatoes. I also add some kidney beans and double the tomatoes. I like it with a lot of brown rice; aside from the fat in the peanuts/peanut-butter it's very healthy, and is awesome fuel if you're an active person.


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One of six schools in the College of Fine Arts, the School of Music plays a significant role in the vibrant cultural life of Ohio University and Southeast Ohio. School of Music students, faculty, and guest artists present over 150 concerts and recitals each year. A distinguished faculty of 34 professors serves a student body of 230 undergraduate and 50 masters students. The School of Music has been fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) since 1946.
Graduates of Ohio University's music education and music therapy programs occupy positions of leadership at the local, state, and national levels. Job placement of our music education and music therapy students has been near 100% since 2003. OHIO music alumni are successfully pursuing careers as music teachers (private studio-university levels), orchestral and military ensemble performers, Broadway show and opera singers, touring artists, conductors, administrators, and award-winning composers.Graduates of all of our music degrees have pursued graduate study at major institutions, such as the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, California Institute of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Illinois, Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, the University of Georgia, the University of Nebraska, the University of North Texas, and the University of Oklahoma.
The School of Music's outstanding faculty of artist-teachers and scholars is dedicated to providing the highest quality professional training in a challenging, yet supportive and friendly learning environment. A favorable faculty-to-student ratio promotes a distinctive student-centered atmosphere where students benefit from frequent interaction with music faculty. Faculty and not graduate assistants teach nearly all courses and private instruction within the School of Music. In addition to degree programs in education, performance, composition, theory and history, the school is also home to a music therapy program. This program provides a humanistic view of how music making can affect so many people.
All OHIO students are urged to participate in School of Music ensembles.Auditions take place during the first week of classes each term. Ensembles include the Symphony Orchestra, Campus Orchestra, Marching 110, Symphonic Band, University Band, Wind Symphony, Jazz Ensembles, Opera-Musical Theater, Choral Union, University Singers, Women's Chorale, and the Singing Men of Ohio. Chamber groups include the Percussion Ensemble, String Quartets, African Music Ensemble, Jazz Combos, New Music Ensemble, as well as ensembles for trombones, trumpets, flutes, horns, and other instruments. In recent years various ensembles have appeared at the College Band Directors National Association North Central regional conference, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Ohio Music Education Association Conference, and the Percussive Arts Society International Conference. For more information, contact Dr. Andrew Trachsel, co-chair, ensembles division, email@example.com
Guest Artists
Each year the School of Music and the University Performing Arts Series hosts outstanding artists from the world of music. Recent distinguished guests have included saxophonist/educator Jamey Aebersold, the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, the Galaxy Percussion Ensemble, the University of Illinois Brass Quintet, trumpeter Sean Jones, The Lark Quartet, singer/educator Sylvia McNair, oboist Martin Schuring, cellist Janos Starker, composer/pianist Dominik Wania, composer/band leader Gerald Wilson, and trombonist Larry Zalkind.
The OHIO School of Music is housed in Robert Glidden Hall, a six-story facility which houses classrooms (equipped with state-of-the-art technology), practice rooms, faculty studios, a McIntosh electronic music lab, two electronic keyboard labs, amusic therapy clinic, a comprehensive music/dance library, critical listening-viewing room, instrument repair shops, and offices for graduate assistants and student organizations. Glidden Hall houses the large rehearsal rooms, and a 160 seat recital hall with digital recording equipment. Many ensemble performances and the opera productions are held in the 2,000 seat Templeton Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium, located one block from Glidden Hall. Additional on-campus performance venues include The Ridges Auditorium, Baker Center Theater, and Galbreath Chapel, which houses a Bedient 18-stop tracker organ.
Music Therapy Campus Clinic
The Music Therapy Campus Clinic allows faculty and students to conduct research and provide individual and group sessions. The Clinic also provides professional services provided by licensed music therapists to adults and children with special needs living in the Athens community and Southeast Ohio.
Athens Community Music School
The Athens Community Music School (ACMS) has been committed to providing professional music instruction, educational programs, and music therapy services to individuals of all ages and abilities in Athens and southeast Ohio since 1979. Literally thousands of students have had their lives musically enriched by our dedicated instructors. ACMS offers group classes and private lessons to children and adults, as well as ensembles such as the Athens Children's Chorus and the Athens String Orchestra. Our instructors include faculty members from the Ohio University School of Music, affiliate faculty (teachers with master's degrees in music and previous teaching experience), and qualified graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Music. Professor Elizabeth Braun is the ACMS Director: email@example.com
Study Abroad
OHIO music students are encouraged to take advantage of multiple opportunities for study in Africa, Europe and, Asia. Students may enroll in summer programs in London and Ghana led by School of Music faculty. Please visit the following website for study abroad opportunities in the College of Fine Arts.http://www.finearts.ohio.edu/education_abroad/index.html
Music Scholarship/Audition Information
An audition is required for admittance as a music major and for scholarship or assistantship consideration. Students unable to audition in person may submit a video recording or, with prior permission, a compact disc for consideration. Students are encouraged to contact specific faculty members to discuss procedures and repertoire. For additional information, please visit http://www.finearts.ohio.edu/music/pages/admission-audition-info/undergraduate/audition.htm or contact Dr. Andrew Trachsel, email@example.com. Graduate students should contact Dr. Richard Wetzel, firstname.lastname@example.com to discuss application and audition procedures.
Academic Scholarship Information
All incoming Freshmen who meet admission deadlines will be considered for all Ohio University scholarships including merit-based and need-based scholarship. Visit http://www.ohio.edu/admissions/scholfinaid/To be considered for School of Music Talent -Based Scholarships, students must audition no later than February 25 of each academic year.
The School of Music's nationally-recognized faculty of artist/teachers and scholars is dedicated to providing the highest quality professional training in a challenging and supportive and friendly learning environment. A favorable faculty-to-student ratio promotes a distinctive student-centered atmosphere where students benefit from frequent interaction with their professors. Full time faculty teach nearly all music courses and provide private instruction. Faculty biographies and additional contact information are available on our web site: www.finearts.ohio.edu/music.
Music (Honors Tutorial College)
Music Composition
Music Education - Choral Emphasis
Music Education - Instrumental Emphasis
Music Therapy
Performance - Instrumental
Performance - Piano
Performance - Organ
Performance - Voice
Piano Pedagogy
Established in 1804, Ohio University is the oldest public institution of higher learning in the state of Ohio and the first in the Northwest Territory. Admission to Ohio University is granted to the best-qualified applicants as determined by a selective admission policy.


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October 18, 2012
Cape Town voted world's second-best city in Condé Nast Traveller survey
Condé Naste Traveller readers voted Cape Town the second-best city in the world, and Africa's number one, in the 25th annual Readers' Choice survey.
A total of 46 476 readers took part in the 2012 annual survey, in which 1 306 winners were nominated.
The popular benchmark canvas positioned Cape Town firmly in the number two position with a score of 84.8, just two points behind the winner, Charleston in the United States, with 86.7. In descending order, Florence, Bangkok, Vancouver, Sydney, Beirut, St Miguel de Allende, Buenos Aires and Gustavia took the remaining top 10 positions.
Topping the list of African cities favoured by travellers, Cape Town received a Readers' Choice Rating of 84.8. Making up this total were scores of 92.3 for ambience, 86.6 for friendliness, 89.3 for lodging, 86.0 for restaurants, 86.7 for culture and sites, and 69.2 for shopping. Knysna scooped second spot with 72.2 and Marrakech (Morocco) came third with 69.1.
This year's results were characterised by numerous high scores, with 370 hotels, resorts and cruise lines rating above 90. The Qualia Resort on Australia's Barrier Reef emerged in a class of its own with a perfect score of 100.
Condé Naste Traveller is a premier online resource for international travellers.


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I've developed many GIS Applications using ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 and 10.0 for ASP.NET .
I'm wondering if i can do a GIS application using my SHAPE files and Pure PHP scripting .
I've googled for that purpose , found many Map Servers solutions , but they were a little bit complicated , my question is : can i have a little Web Application to mange the shape files ,create tiles for them ,deals with Aerial Images, and then display map layers using OpenLayers for example ? i need a lite solution (No php extensions installing required - NO special setup ...etc) .
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I'm going to fell a 75' pine in my yard. Should I cut limbs before felling the tree even if they are balanced?
I've seen mixed advice. On one hand removing limbs makes the fell more predictable and lighter. On the other,limbs will help a felled tree stay in one place when it lands.


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Don't get me wrong. I do love having that ability. But I want to challenge all of you to air your dirty laundry. What are you not on top of? What is the last thing in the world you would want your readers to know about you?
Do you have a sixth toe? Can you not tell the color of your car's interior because it hasn't been cleaned out in a year? Did you really serve that chicken after you dropped it on your "hasn't been mopped since the dog rolled around on it" kitchen floor?
I am daring you to share. What's in it for you, you ask? Well, how about a $25 dollar Target gift card! All I ask is you write a post airing your dirty laundry, leave your link in my comments and link back to this contest in that post. I'll give you all one week to enter and I'll draw a random number and post the winner on next Wednesday morning.
Can't wait to see what you all have hiding in your closets! What's that you say? What dirty laundry am I airing? Oh, OK...Those picture up there^, those are of my kitchen which I have been ignoring for a couple of days because...well, frankly...it scares me. There, now ya have me. My kitchen should be condemned. Now, it's your turn!
1. Write a post on your blog airing your dirty laundry. Make sure to include a link back to this post so your readers can enter too. (Or don't if you don't have a blog. Whatever...)
2. Come back here and leave a comment linking to your post so my readers can come check out your blog.
3. Come back again on Wednesday, the 4th, and see who won the $25 Target card. It just might be you!
Entries will be accepted until midnight of the 3rd. So get hoppin'!


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"We think the decision by the NLRB to once again review the issue of graduate assistant unionization is regrettable, and is particularly unwarranted in NYU's case.
"Decades of precedent held that graduate assistants were not employees and not eligible to unionize under federal law. That precedent was overturned in 1999 in a case involving NYU, but then, five years later, the aberrant 1995 ruling was itself reversed and the longstanding rule was restored. Now the matter is once again being reviewed, for the third time in roughly a dozen years
"At NYU, we have always believed these individuals are students, not employees: they are admitted as students because of their academic promise, not hired as employees because of their job skills. But beyond that, in the years since 2004, the facts at NYU changed in ways that make the case for grad student unionization even less cogent: assistantships are no longer part of our graduate students' financial aid packages – for several years, they have received full fellowship support for five years (including full scholarship, a stipend of more than $23,000, and their health care premiums paid for by NYU – a package worth over $75,000 annually) without assistantship responsibilities, such as teaching or grading. Those who do want to teach are hired as adjunct faculty, and as such are paid over and above their financial aid package and are eligible to be represented by the adjunct faculty collective bargaining unit. This change in facts should certainly have led to a different outcome today.
"The inclusion of research assistants this time around – they were excluded in 1999 at the request of the UAW – is a particularly worrisome development for higher education. What research assistants do is inextricably connected to their personal research and their pursuit of their degrees, and unionization of RAs would raise serious concerns about bringing collective bargaining into the middle of academic decision-making.
"We wish that the Board had paid closer heed to these issues in making today's decision. Nonetheless, we look forward over the coming months to making our case that the current and long-standing precedent should continue to be upheld."


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Has anyone played Castle Panic with 6 players?
I've tried and I think that the rules don't make sense. With more players you actually need more cards, not fewer. Sure you can trade two cards, but even if you use all your cards each turn, the amount of damage just won't equate to the amount of hit-points of the incoming monsters.
Did you house rule the number of cards? If so, how many?


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eBill is Bridgewater State University's official method for sending student account statements. Students no longer receive paper statements (or bills) in the mail; rather they receive email notification when new statements are available online through the BSU Student Account Suite.
This service is a secure method for viewing student account information and making online payments. eBill features online payment options to all students at no charge.
In addition to student's receiving notification of new statements, students have the ability to add authorized users to their account - typically parents or spouses. Authorized users will also receive email notification of new online statements. Additionally, authorized users can make online payments with credit card or online personal check. eBill allows students and their authorized users to save their stamps and simply: Point. Click. Pay!
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TOPEKA -- The Kansas Arts Commission is announcing its 2011 American Masterpieces Kansas grant recipients this week.
The program supports public arts and cultural events happening between January 1, 2011 and June 30th of next year, relating to Kansas's 150th anniversary of its statehood. The commemoration can feature works by recognized Kansas artists, living or deceased.
"The Kansas Arts Commission is enthusiastic about being part of our statehood commemoration," says John Divine, who's chairman of the Kansas Arts Commission. "The events across the state not only recognize Kansas' sesquicentennial, but the talented artists who've called Kansas home."
Grant recipients and their sponsored activities include:
Friends of the Mulvane Art Museum, Inc., Topeka; $1,000 to support an exhibition and education programs featuring the works of Kansas artist David Hicks Overmyer.
Topeka Symphony Society, Topeka; $1,000 to support two school day concerts, a family matinee and an evening subscription concert featuring music by Kansas composers Charles Hoag and Kirke Mechem.
Manhattan Arts Center, Inc., Manhattan; $1,000 to support an exhibition of Kansas watercolors by Margaret Buie, and the ceramics of Gene Sievers, both Kansas artists.
Kansas State's Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan; $1,000 to support an exhibition featuring photographs by Kansas artist George Kren.
Lawrence's Art Guild Association; $1,000 for a reception and exhibition featuring late Topeka artist Bob Ault.
Other recipients in Lawrence include the Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence Children's Choir and KU's Lied Center.
The Kansas Arts Commission is a state agency, funded by the State of Kansas and the National Endowment for the Arts, dedicated to promoting and supporting the arts in Kansas.
Find out more at http://arts.ks.gov.


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I'll be at Intervention7 this September!
We STILL seem to have a RANDOM ARCHIVE GLITCH where clicking on the next comic will take you to the next comic page, but oddly display a comic from a totally different date. Hitting Refresh sometimes helps.
Comic for Monday 11/29/10
OK I know all this just happened but it was a long weekend, so... Refs: Bringing Curshestro | The Setup | The Previous Puns.
Comic for Tuesday 11/30/10
You know, I don't think I did a good enough job of establishing the locked door to the "cage", but you can see it clearly in this comic.


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Sorry, I've relocated my question to here:
It was noticed that some text cannot be shown correctly on windows using RText v2.05
I have a text in Slovak language. I can see it well on Ubuntu & RText (the panel option shows UTF-8 encoding). When I switched to Windows,
RText shows some junk. The RText option panel shows "windows-1251" encoding, but even when I switch RText to UTF-8 encoding, nothing happens, it still shows some junk characters
best, Sergei


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On my embedded device, I have this error showing up after kernel boot:
init.exe: Caught segmentation fault, core dumped
But I cannot understand why is this happening? If I do battery cut( i.e. reboot my device foricbly) then the device boots and comes up fine.
Any pointers will be extremely helpful. Is this some transient low level memory issue?
It is linux 2.6.31 on Arm architecture.


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6 Animals That Prove Nature Has a Childish Sense of Humor
#3. A Turtle That Could Pass for the Human Taint
The above is not a medical textbook photograph of a clown being born. It's actually a rare white Chinese softshell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis). These turtles can be found across Asia, particularly in their namesake country, where they often wind up on the menu.
Good Lord, it's like a Rule 34 Thanksgiving.
The turtles aren't normally this pale. Rare albino turtles like these just so happen to occupy a special place in Chinese culture, namely as a mystical creature in the ancient novel Journey to the West. (And no, they're not portrayed as sea monsters with three uncircumcised micropenises.)
"This beast can only be slain with the Jade Dagger of Exiled Foreskin!" -- Something nobody says in Journey to the West.
Also, these turtles have one particular trait that's unique among all other animals. Last year, biologists at the National University of Singapore reported that an unusual gill-like structure in the turtles' buccopharyngeal region is actually being used to expel urea. Indeed, Chinese softshell turtles piss out of their mouths. At least evolution's keeping things thematic.
#2. A Monkey With an Ass on Its Head
Bearded sakis hail from the South American jungle and boast what strongly resembles a butt for a forehead. But their misfortunes don't end there -- these monkeys live in one of the most heavily human-populated areas of the Amazon, so they're inevitably one of the region's most endangered primates.
Bearded sakis rarely come down from their trees, as locals love hunting them and using their luxuriant tails as dusters. The humpty-humps on the forehead, also known as temporal swellings or "circular coronal tufts supported by underlying muscle," are found only on males and may act to distract the females from their nightmarish penises, which come equipped with large hooked spines.
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Don't be fooled by the meaningful eye contact, ladies. This guy's a real swinger.
Bearded sakis also engage in geophagy, meaning they like to eat dirt. This is an unusual trait for primates. But -- running in contrast to their lamentable reputation as butt-monkey hybrids -- this behavior is thought to merely supplement mineral intake and soothe gastrointestinal problems like diarrhea. So at least bearded sakis are making an effort not to be totally gross.
Ana Cotta
Nonetheless, their profiles alone are an FCC violation.
#1. A Caterpillar and a Frog Who Masquerade as Shit
Let's get one thing out of the way right now: This isn't just us saying, "Hey that sort of looks like a bird poop." These creatures actually evolved to look like turds, because, duh, most predators don't want to eat shit.
Thomas Ziegler
"I thought you ate pieces of shit like me for breakfast? Yeah, that's right, just walk away ..."
For instance, in another article, we told you about the spider that hides from predators by doing a spot-on impersonation of bird dook. Well, mimicking a fresh-squeezed growler is a viable survival strategy all across the animal kingdom. Behold the caterpillar of the giant swallowtail butterfly (Papilio cresphontes).
Bob Harris
"Wait till those other turds see me at the 10-day reunion."
The giant swallowtail is the largest butterfly in North America. Before it takes to the air, it has to spend some time camouflaged as bird crap. But hiding out as avian droppings isn't the only trick up its sleeve. When pestered, they flick out a bright red Y-shaped organ called an osmeterium from behind their head. (Here it is in action.) In addition to emitting a foul smell, this contraption looks enough like a snake tongue to scare off potential attackers, even those desperate enough to eat a piece of crap.
"Please don't eat me. I have a wife and three snake-poop daughters."
And it's not just insects that are into the doo-doo double-cross. Climbing a few rungs up the evolutionary ladder, we find a Southeast Asian amphibian known as the pied warty frog (Theloderma asperum). It's also called the "bird poop" frog, for obvious reasons, but it's not the only frog to have been saddled with that distinction. It is, however, probably the most deserving.
We'd say not to judge him on looks, but his personality is pretty crappy, too.
The gambit is apparently paying off, because this frog is hardly ever seen in the wild. Maybe people are actually seeing these things all the time and are simply not the type of folks to meticulously examine every stray wad of bird glop.
Congratulations, you found me! Also, what's wrong with you?
E. Reid Ross writes some other stuff at RealToyGun.com.
For more reasons Mother Nature seems like a cruel prankster, check out 8 Terrifying Skeletons of Adorable Animals and 5 Lovable Animals You Didn't Know Are Secretly Terrifying.
If you're pressed for time and just looking for a quick fix, then check out The 3 Most Terrifying Faces Drawn by Nature.


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Is there any one of you that can develop a global menu extension for gnome-shell, based on indicator-appmenu? Is it so difficult?
closed as off-topic by Rinzwind, fossfreedom♦ Jun 5 '14 at 9:47
This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:
This isn't the place to ask for commissioned/freelance work.
That said, you might want to take a look at https://extensions.gnome.org/ to start for any extensions you might want, and the proper channels for asking for them.
As for your specific request, I doubt that it will be an easy endeavor (at least for any one individual), since it not only requires knowledge of Gnome and Gnome-Shell, but also of every application and how it handles the menu system (some standards may be found amount GTK, QT, and KDE applications, but you still have the outliers to deal with, as well), and that's assuming that Gnome Shell supports such an extension. Even Ubuntu can be hit or miss with some applications. Depending on your reasons for switching to Gnome Shell, you might be better off starting with Unity and customizing to make it look like Gnome Shell, as opposed to starting with Gnome Shell and making it work like Unity.