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Algeria Victims Hailed From Around the World
One was heading out of town after a four-week shift when the militants struck. Another had just returned to Algeria after the Christmas holiday. A third managed to stay alive during the first day of the siege, only to be shot by the hostage takers when Algerian forces stormed the In Amenas gas plant, his brother said.
Algeria said Monday that 37 foreigners were killed in the hostage crisis. The victims hailed from all over the world. Several were from Scotland or Texas, two common homelands of the international petroleum-worker community. Six were from the Philippines, two were Romanian and one was French. The biggest group confirmed dead so far—seven still unnamed employees of the engineering firm JGC Corp. 1963 -4.30 % —was Japanese.
Norwegian company Statoil, STO 0.44 % meanwhile, said five of its employees were still missing Monday.
Many of the victims had spent years hopping from continent to continent in an industry that often sends its employees to the furthest corners of the globe.
The U.S. State Department said Monday that three Americans died in the attacks: Victor Lynn Lovelady, Gordon Lee Rowan, and Frederick Buttaccio.
Engineering company ENGlobal Corp., where Mr. Lovelady worked as a project manager until October, in a statement called Mr. Lovelady "a dedicated family man and a fantastic coworker."
Some of Mr. Lovelady's friends and relatives gathered Monday at his brother's home in Nederland, Texas, a middle-class enclave near the refineries an hour outside Houston. They didn't respond to inquiries.
Mr. Lovelady's brother, Michael, told the Beaumont Enterprise, a Texas newspaper, that Mr. Lovelady, 57, was a 1973 graduate of Nederland High School, and was survived by a wife, Maureen; a son, Grant, and a daughter, Erin. He said he last saw his brother in November, and added that the FBI asked the family not to comment on details on the terrorist attack while investigators were still gathering evidence. He told the newspaper he planned to make a more formal announcement on Tuesday.
"We would like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers and ask that you continue in prayer for our family as we mourn the loss of Victor," he said.
Some of Mr. Lovelady's relatives told KFDM, a CBS affiliate in the Beaumont region, that he was a contract worker who was only supposed to be at the site 28 days, and had only been in Algeria 10 days before the attack.
"He was a great father," his daughter, Erin, told the television station. " I have so many wonderful memories of my dad. He taught me the tools to live as an adult. He was very kind, loving and laid back. I could talk to my dad about anything. He gave great advice."
Mr. Lovelady had lived in Nederland but left his home there to move his family into a larger home closer to work in Houston about six months ago, and had already become close to his new neighbors.
"He was a good guy," said a next-door neighbor, who asked not to be named.
Mr. Buttaccio, of Katy, Texas, was a onetime sales operations coordinator at BP, according to his LinkedIn profile, but it was unclear whom he worked for at the time of his death. He graduated from the University of Houston in 1976 with a bachelor's degree of business administration in accounting. Members of his family declined to comment on his death. In a statement released to the Associated Press, they said Mr. Buttaccio "spent a lifetime experiencing the world and always respecting everyone he met, no matter their position, culture, or religion."
Asked in a British television interview whether his deceased brother, Scotsman Kenneth Whiteside, ever worried about his security, Bob Whiteside said his brother was simply accustomed to working in difficult places like Russia and Africa. "That sort of thing never bothered Kenny. He's worked all over the world. He just didn't think about it," Mr. Whiteside said. An Algerian colleague of Mr. Whiteside's told the family that the militants shot Mr. Whiteside and three other hostages after Algerian forces began storming the complex Thursday, his brother said in the interview.
One of the victims of the Algerian attacks, a 46-year-old Briton named Paul Thomas Morgan, was once a member of the French Foreign Legion, according to Mike Lord, chief executive of the security firm that employed Mr. Morgan in Algeria.
"I think you'll find people who've been in the military a long time are attracted to this kind of work," said Mr. Lord, head of the U.K.-based Stirling Group, in a phone interview.
Mr. Lord said Mr. Morgan had been employed in Algeria for several years, working four weeks on and four weeks off, and was on his way out of the country when the militants struck. Mr. Morgan served as a liaison between the natural-gas venture and the Algerian security community, and was unarmed at the time he died, Mr. Lord said.
Another Stirling security specialist who died in the hostage crisis was 52-year-old Frenchman Yann Desjeux, a former member of the French special forces. Mr. Desjeux was killed during an attempt to free other hostages, the French government said.
"Mr. Desjeux, along with our other employees on the site, weren't armed in accordance with the Algerian law," a spokesman for Stirling said. Mr. Desjeux's sister, Marie-Claude Desjeux, told the French paper Le Journal de Dimanche that Mr. Desjeux left for Algeria just after Christmas.
When not on assignment with Stirling, Mr. Desjeux managed a small restaurant in the southwest of France. On Friday night, after France's foreign minister said that Mr. Desjeux had been killed, his friends and family gathered in his restaurant to mourn his death. He had two sons in their 20s.
In the U.K., the family of Garry Barlow confirmed his death in a statement Monday. Mr. Barlow's LinkedIn profile says he began working for the Algerian joint venture in October 2011 as a "gathering system supervisor" responsible for well hook-ups and other matters. In the statement, his wife Lorraine said Mr. Barlow "loved life and lived it to the full."
Also killed was Carlos Estrada, a Colombian national who had been living in the U.K., a Colombian government official confirmed Monday.
Among the missing Norwegians is Victor Sneberg, 56, who had been Statoil's country manager in Algeria since October 2010. A former Statoil colleague, Bjorn Vidar Leroen, told a Norwegian newspaper, Stavanger Aftenblad, that Mr. Sneberg brought a constructive and optimistic attitude to everything he did.
"If Victor is gone, it is completely meaningless. It is a big loss to Statoil, colleagues and friends, but most of all to his family. I don't want to give up hope. At the same time I am prepared that as time goes by, the possibility that we have lost someone is fairly large," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
The other missing Norwegians are Tore Bech, 58; Hans M. Bjone, 55;Thomas Snekkevik, 35; and Alf Vik, 43. Mr. Bech is married to the mother of Norway's minister of International Development, Heikki Holmas, the minister said in a statement Sunday. "It is with grief and despair that I have found out that my mother's husband, Tore Bech, is feared killed in the hostage drama in Algeria," Mr. Holmas said.
—Niclas Rolander, Miguel Bustillo, Ana Campoy, Tom Fowler and Rebecca Smith contributed to this article.


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The Kansas Supreme Court has disbarred a former Navy lawyer who was convicted during a court martial in 2007 for mailing secret information about Guantanamo Bay detainees.
The justices issued a ruling Wednesday rejecting efforts by Matthew Diaz, who was licensed to practice law in Kansas in 1995, to have his license reinstated so he could practice law in New York.
The Office of Judicial Administration had recommended that the justices suspend his law license for three years starting in 2008, which would have made him eligible to get it reinstated immediately.
Messages left for Diaz and his attorney weren't immediately returned.
Diaz is living in New York. He earned his law degree in 1994 from Washburn University in Topeka and was admitted to practice law in Kansas.
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6 Groups Who Don't Work as Movie Bad Guys Anymore
#3. Nazis
While much of Hollywood keeps trying to stay abreast of current events and put in the new anti-American hotness, a certain segment of it tries to play it safe by going back to the good old days, when an unquestionably evil empire was trying to exterminate an entire race of people and take over the world. From the perspective of filmmakers, the world was a refreshingly black and white place ...
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Unlike the demographics of the Nazi party.
Everyone knows Nazis were evil, and Nazis were a huge military threat to the whole world. You don't even need any exposition -- you can jump right in to the hero running away from them or fighting them and get on with your story.
The downside is that so many people were jumping on the World War II bandwagon, both movie studios and game designers, that there's been a bit of a backlash of audiences complaining that they're sick of it.
Even the Indiana Jones series, which milked that Nazi cow expertly for so long, finally had to branch out and do Russians or something. Sure, it was partly because Harrison Ford clearly wasn't young enough to still be 1940s Indiana Jones, but also partly due to come on, enough Nazis already.
The other problem is that World War II was a real thing, and if you have to tell real stories, sooner or later you run out of story lines, unless you pretend something completely different happened, like Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
Remember when Jewish-American assassins shot Hitler 337 times?
#2. Zombies
With all sorts of human races out of the picture, one of the biggest contenders this past decade have been zombies. Dawn of the Dead sequels (plus remakes and parodies), 28 Days Later, I Am Legend, the Resident Evil games and movies, Left4Dead. Zombies can be even more guilt-free than terrorists, since they're literally not people, or if you actually want some moral ambiguity, you can really push the "they were once your loved ones" angle.
There are no political minefields to tiptoe through, and you can make as many or as few zombies as your budget will let you.
You could film Night of the Living Dead today with a cell phone, $50 and a Facebook invite.
The only problem is that zombies are completely mindless, or at best, at a primitive level of civilization (I Am Legend). You can't have them found a monolithic military empire or create a global conspiracy that the hero has to outsmart. Outsmarting zombies is probably the least impressive achievement a movie hero can accomplish.
Outside of "winning" Matthew McConaughey.
Your hero is never going to be led into a zombie mastermind's high-tech control room where the zombie leader turns around in his chair, explains that he has been expecting him and then elaborates on his evil plan. It would look stupid, like Gremlins 2.
We're with the guy on the left.
Even if you're a die-hard zombie fan, you have to at least admit there are entire genres of games and movies where the level of difficulty an individual zombie presents just isn't going to cut it.
#1. Aliens
Which brings us to a perennial favorite: aliens. Aliens avoid all of the problems above, or so you'd think. Like with zombies, you can avoid political minefields. But unlike zombies, you can make them as smart and organized as you want. Even the best enemy Earth can offer is pretty much on an equal footing with America. Aliens can be advanced and powerful enough to kill us all 10 times over. Strangely enough, aliens are the only realistic option for modern day America to play David in a David-and-Goliath story.
No one is going to the theater to watch the big guy smash the kid's face in.
But you actually don't avoid political minefields. In order for the aliens to hit an emotional chord with the audience, there's got to be some frame of reference to something they know or feel already. Invasion of the Body Snatchers scared people because in 1956 they were already on edge about communists hiding among us, looking like ordinary people. District 9 did a great job tapping into people's experiences with apartheid -- or for non-South Africans: immigration or racism.
Either people are going to see some kind of parallel between the aliens and real-life situations, or people are going to feel too distant to really care what happens.
The other problem is that if aliens are able to come over here, they're going to massively overpower us, because they can get a whole invasion force over here while it's still kind of an achievement every time we get a space shuttle up and back in one piece. As we pointed out recently, we depend on the aliens making a series of laughable strategic errors just so the good guys can win.
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Sorry, NASA, no alien race is going to be impressed by us rolling one of these around on their planet.
That means there are a pretty small number of possible endings. Either humans 1) win with a clever plan, 2) win because of something stupid like germs or 3) don't win. Clever plans always end up being filled with plot holes (see Independence Day) because it's just not realistic that we could outsmart aliens that have already been established as so overwhelmingly smart themselves. At a certain point, it's just a deal between the director and the audience where he basically pauses the movie and says, "Look, if you want to see some more cool action scenes, just initial here that it's OK that the alien computers run on MacOS for some reason." And you go, "OK," and he goes back to blowing things up for you.
Brain: Off.
As for the alternatives, if we win because of germs (War of the Worlds) or water (Signs) that's violating a pretty basic rule of good storytelling (having a random event save the good guys for absolutely no reason) mainly because in addition to being pretty lame, it doesn't give the protagonists a lot to do. As for just having the aliens win, that is not the kind of thing people go to blockbusters to see.
Still ... I don't think we should give up on aliens yet. We just can't. Who else is left if we can't use aliens? Are we going to keep going back to poor little North Korea every time? No.
It seems like there could be a better way to tell the story, one that could play off a more realistic extrapolation of human nature. What if we just played the role of the planetary Afghanistan, or Vietnam? You know, making the war too long and horrible for the invaders, until they finally decide the war is intolerable and just head back home. I think we need to think this through, in case some day aliens really invade. When they come, we'd need to do something so horrific the aliens can't even process it and consider the planet an untouchable hell pit they want nothing to do with. Something modern action audiences will enjoy watching on screen.
Obviously we can't get political and have the humans do a bunch of suicide bombings. That's not the statement we want to be making, and nobody wants to watch Will Smith suicide bomb himself. So what if the human resistance just kidnapped a nursery full of alien babies and just pooped on them, over and over? And we filmed it, and sent the aliens the video? "THIS IS THE PRICE OF WAR," we would say.
"They can't get in from the ass, right?"
Or what if we didn't even try to fight them off, but just rolled over and let them assimilate our culture until, over many generations, they became soft and complacent? The alien warriors' grandchildren are too fat to do anything except play video games, and the brawny human mine slaves rise up and take back the planet.
Oh, wait. That meshes perfectly with the infant-shitting scenario. Because with their terrible processed food diet, the aliens won't have the fiber to poop on our babies in retaliation. Boom, humanity wins. One hundred million dollar opening weekend.
You're welcome, Hollywood.
Check out Christina's look at 7 Things From America That Are Strangely Popular Overseas or our look at 9 Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along.


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Hey, trying to finish an assignment but having some trouble with it. I will show all my work. The topic is on wave/particle dualty, uncertainty principle (second year modern physics course).
So the question is:
Calculate the de Broglie wavelength of a 5.7 MeV α particle emitted from an atomic nucleus whose diameter is approximately $1.6 \times 10^{-14} m$.
So I know the de broglie wavelength is $\lambda = h / p$. But we dont know p in this case, however we do know the energy. So to relate energy and momentum I use the following formula:
$$ E^2 = p^2c^2+m^2c^4$$
using $m = 6.644 \times 10^{-27}$ and using $ E = 9.13\times 10^{-13}$ gives me a complex solution. (Check WolframAlpha)
Now I've tried leaving the energy in terms of eV and MeV and they give me real solutions however the answer is not correct.
The answer is 6.02 fentometers.
Anyone have any advice?


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Location:Hilton Head Branch
Date & Time:Monday, February 18, 2013 - 2:00pm – 3:00pm
School's out, and we would love to have you spend part of the afternoon with us. We're "traveling" to Africa where we will share folktales filled with tricksters like the fearsome beast, Anansi the sneaky spider, and even a talking melon. We'll wrap things up with some activities and an African-inspired craft. For kids in kindergarten and up.


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The Rochester Business Journal has recognized seven Geneseo Alumni in its 2013 40 Under 40 awards. Recipients are professionals younger than 40 who demonstrate workplace and community leadership.
The Geneseo Alumni honorees are:
Brian Brady, Class Of 2001
Jason DeLaurentiis, Class Of 2002
Michael Doughty, Class Of 1996
Vincent Esposito, Class Of 1998
Christopher Harris,Class Of 2000
Eric Schillinger, Class Of 2005
Congratulations to all the winners!


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Welcome to the Golden Hills Trail Marathon and the 33rd Annual Dick Collins Firetrails 50.
All of us at NorCalUltras are excited and honored to continue the Firetrails tradition for years to come. Thank you, Carl and Ann, for lighting the way!
The scenic trails, first class aid stations, impressive goody bags and prizes, and extraordinary volunteers make this an event you won't want to miss. And, at NorCalUltras, we think everyone's a winner! The Fall Classics feature awards and unique prizes for everyone- from race leaders to ultra-rookies and those who show tremendous spirit and support for their fellow trail runners.
After your run, kick back and enjoy the post race festivities with Joe's Cafe, Homemade Vegan Soup from Ultra Runner Chef Tim Ruffino and our Divine Dessert bar featuring assorted baked goods.
A special thanks to all of our sponsors for their continued support and generosity. Through their contributions, we're able to provide some of the best goody bags runners might ever receive official race track bags, top-of-the-line race apparel including a commemorative 33rd edition wine glasses. Thanks to Karen Hanke of PinkLime Design for the great logo designs and continued support.
Please take a moment to say "thank you" to all of our volunteers and team, for without them, these events could not happen.
Thank you for choosing Dick Collin's Firetrails 50 and Golden Hills Trail Marathon as your fall classic. We look forward to seeing you on October 10th!
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Enjoy the journey,
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The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is drawing no "red line" for North Korea after a successful long-range rocket test, tempering the public condemnation to avoid raising tensions or possibly rewarding the reclusive communist nation with too much time in the global spotlight.
The U.S. has told the world that it won't tolerate Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons or Syria's use of chemical stockpiles on rebels. North Korea, in some ways, is a trickier case.
The U.S. wants to forcefully condemn what it believes is a "highly provocative act," and that was the first public reaction from the White House late Tuesday. But it also is mindful of the turmoil on the Korean peninsula and treading carefully, offering no threat of military action or unspecified "consequences" associated with other hot spots.
Just two years ago, the North allegedly torpedoed a South Korean warship and shelled a South Korean island. Some 50 South Koreans died in the attacks that brought the peninsula to the brink of war.
North Korea already has the deterrent of a nuclear weapons arsenal. The U.S. is bound to protect next-door South Korea from any attack, but has no desire now for a military conflict.
Raising the rhetoric can even serve as a reward for seeking attention to a government that starves its own citizens while seeking to leverage any military advance it makes into much-needed aid.
"No doubt Pyongyang is pleased. It again has unsettled its leading adversaries. And it is in the news around the world," said Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute. "The allies should have responded with a collective yawn. After all, the plan is nothing new. The DPRK has been testing rockets and missiles for years."
The United States remains technically at war with the notoriously unpredictable North Koreans, whose opaque leadership has confounded successive American administrations. With no peace agreement, only the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War keeps the U.S. and the North from hostilities. Some 28,500 U.S. troops remain in South Korea to deter potential aggression.
Wednesday's surprising, successful launch raises the stakes, taking North Korea one step closer to being capable of lobbing nuclear bombs over the Pacific. As the North refines its technology, its next step may be conducting another nuclear test, experts warn.
The three-stage rocket is similar in design to a model capable of carrying a nuclear-tipped warhead as far as California.
Despite its technological advances and military bluster, it's doubtful that the North intends to strike first against the U.S.
North Korea has spent decades threatening but avoiding a direct confrontation with the tens of thousands of American forces in South Korea and Japan. The government has remained firmly in power despite a drought-plagued agricultural sector that leaves many North Koreans in search of food and a crumbling economy that affords few any chance of social betterment.
"It is regrettable that the leadership in Pyongyang chose to take this course in flagrant violation of its international obligations," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters. He said the U.S. would try to further isolate North Korea in response.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland called the launch "highly provocative and a threat to regional security." It will only further impoverish North Koreans, she said.
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It's so difficult to track dozens of passwords in different locations. Syncing fails from time to time and you end up with collision correction avoidance syndrome.
Is there a single source of safe, online, commercial password storage anywhere? One that will be around for years to come and one that is truly safe enough to ensure protection?


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I am working, with a co-author, on a data modeling toolbox that will someday be sold. Part of the functionality is the extremely common PCA, which we are doing in a more robust way. Thus, we need a PCA function that has the usual algorithm with some modifications. For non-commercial peer-review academic research, I could easily find PCA code that is already written, modify it to suit my needs and use it, citing the author in my research.
My co-author insists that in this commercial venture, it is entirely appropriate to do the same thing. We can take another author's copyrighted code (ex "Copyright (c) 1997 by blah blah blah", not necessarily a GNU license), modify it to suit our needs, and distribute it with the toolbox we are selling. He says that as long as we cite the original author, it's entirely acceptable.
I'm just as strenuously insisting this is not legal, but have been unable to find straightforward documentation. Can someone point me to unambiguous documentation of this?


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Lisbon Portela Airport is located 7km (4 miles) from Lisbon city centre.
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Units in Company of Heroes can be in various kinds of cover. For instance, if the "green cover" symbol appears above a unit group's flag, it means the group is in heavy cover and is hard to hit.
However, does this mean that the whole group (any unit in that group) is really in green cover? For instance, is it possible that even though a group's flag shows the green cover symbol only part of its units are really covered while one or two of them are in yellow or no cover?


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Using Alexander duality, you can show that the Klein bottle does not embed in $\mathbb{R}^3$. (See for example Hatcher's book Chapter 3 page 256.) Is there a more elementary proof, that say could be understood by an undergraduate who doesn't know homology yet?
If you are willing to assume that the embedded surface $S$ is polyhedral, you can prove that it is orientable by an elementary argument similar to the proof of polygonal Jordan Theorem. Of course the proof is translation of a homology/transversality/separation argument.
Fix a direction (nonzero vector) which is not parallel to any of the faces. For every point $p$ in the complement of $S$, consider the ray starting at $p$ and goint to the chosen direction. If this ray does not intersect edges of $S$, count the number of intersection points of the ray and the surface. If this number is even, you say that $p$ is black, otherwise $p$ is white. If the ray intersects an edge of $S$, you paint $p$ the same color as some nearby point whose ray does not intersect edges. It is easy to see that the color does not change along any path in the complement of $S$ (it suffices to consider only polygonal paths avoiding points whose rays contain vertices of $S$).
Now take points $p$ and $q$ near the surface such that the segment $pq$ is parallel to the chosen direction. Then they are of different colors. But if the surface is non-orientable, you can go from $p$ to $q$ along a Mobius strip contained in the surface. This contradicts the above fact about paths in the complement of $S$.
Assuming that K is smooth or locally flat, there is a nice geometric reason based on transversality.
The Klein bottle is not orientable. If it embedded in R3 so as to separate a small epsilon neighborhood of its image, then the neighborhood would be homeomorphic to a trivial line bundle over the Klein bottle, K times (-1,1), and therefore the neighborhood would also be non-orientable. But since any 3-dimensional submanifold of R3 is orientable this cannnot happen.
So the Klein bottle embedding would have to be non separating in this neighborhood. But this means there is a curve C in the neighborhood that intersects the embedded Klein bottle once, transversally.
Now C bounds a disk D in R3 since R3 is simply connected. (Bounding any surface is enough). One can make D transverse to the Klein bottle K, leaving boundary D fixed. One then see that K intersects D in a union of arcs and closed curves, with a single boundary point. But any such collection has an even number of boundary points, a contradiction.
This argument works more generally to show a closed nonorientable surface cannot be embedded in a 3-manifold M with H1(M;Z2) = 0.
If you care only about tame embeddings (a figure being tame iff it is homeomorphic to a polygonal or polyhedral figure) then you can prove the nonembeddability by elementary means.
Using the Link appearing theorem:
By splitting the Klein bottle as two Mobius bands identified along their boundary, $M_1,M_2$, note that the meridian of $M_1$ and $\partial M_1=\partial M_2$ will form a non-trivial link and therefore the two-cells must intersect.
You can take a look at the article "Why is P2 not embeddable in R3?", by Hiroshi Maehara, American Mathematical monthly.
There are proofs that do not use homology, but I don't know that they are more elementary... For example:
Lemma: If S is an embedded compact surface without boundary in an orientable three manifold M then S is orientable if and only if S separates a regular neighborhood.
Thus if K is an embedded Klein bottle in R^3 then K does not separate R^3. Now we have:
Lemma: If S is an embedded compact surface without boundary in R^3 then S separates R^3 into two pieces, one compact and one not compact.
Proof: A cut and paste argument, inducting on the number of saddle points of S with respect to height.//
This is very similar to Alexander's Theorem that spheres in R^3 separate.
If you have a closed (connected) differentiable surface embedded in R^3, then isn't it true that its normal bundle is trivial? This would imply that the surface is orientable. I guess I replied raising another question..


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6 Fictional Places You Didn't Know Actually Existed
Part of what makes fantasy and sci-fi appealing is that it's not just a bunch of characters -- it's a whole world. One you want to live in.
That's true even if it's an objectively bad place -- Gotham City looks like a shithole, but who wouldn't trade their current life with a chance to go there and fight supercriminals with Batman? Of course, that's part of the frustration, too -- we'll never actually see the Shire or Mordor firsthand. But you can come pretty close, because it turns out a lot of these fantasy settings were based on real places. For instance ...
#6. Middle Earth from The Lord of the Rings
The Fictional Setting:
Of course, Middle Earth from The Lord of the Rings isn't just one setting. There are storybook forests and blackened volcanoes and menacing towers. All of it is pretty fantastic, like Isengard, with its tower and surrounding circular stronghold:
From the air it looks exactly like some dude got hit in the eye with a dart.
The Real Thing:
Birmingham Mail
Actually, it's more like a dude in a skirt with a hard-on.
As it turns out, Middle Earth - that is, the Shire, the forests, Isengard, even freaking Mordor -- all came from author J.R.R. Tolkien's surroundings growing up in and around the city of Birmingham, England. Seriously. The above image is what the University of Birmingham looked like back when Tolkien was in town.
OK, so what about Mordor? That charred, ruined country is pure fantasy, right?
The Thain's Book
Or Illinois.
Well, just northwest of Birmingham was an area called the Black Country, so called because it had been marred with pollution from all the coal mines, iron foundries and steel mills dotting its landscape thanks to the Industrial Revolution. The air was so dense with smog and dust and ore that the whole place looked like Godzilla's shithouse, all the time:
Revolutionary Players
There's definitely a troll under that big wheel on the left.
So, when it came time for Tolkien to create a homeland for the most evil being in his fantasy world, he just channeled the Black Country into his writing, renaming it "Mordor" because that sounded less like a racist old debutante's description of Africa.
For a while, Tolkien lived with his aunt in a section of Birmingham called Edgbaston -- an area that was known for having two very distinct towers in it:
Oosoom, Pigsonthewing
Of course, nearly all the orcs have moved off to London by now.
Those are the Edgbaston Waterworks Tower and Perrott's Folly. The former would even periodically billow smoke out into the air, as if fantasy siege engines were being constructed deep in the earth beneath it (or as if steam were coming out of a waterworks tower).
At another point in his childhood, Tolkien lived in Sarehole (a hamlet right outside of Birmingham). It provided much of the inspiration for what eventually became the Shire. It even was said to have large tunnels running beneath it that could've easily been the basis for Bag End, Bilbo's home (and incidentally also the name of Tolkien's aunt's farm in the area). Sarehole and nearby Moseley Bog look ... well ... look like something out of The Lord of the Rings:
The Green Scene Blog
There's one Ringwraith stalking about, but he's pretty old and overweight.
#5. Batman's Arkham Asylum
The Fictional Setting:
Statistically, about 7 percent of Cracked readers have this game on pause right now.
Arkham Asylum is one of those places that could only exist in a comic book universe, the sprawling insane asylum/haunted house where supervillains are imprisoned after being caught by Batman.
The Real Thing:
You'd be kind of disappointed to go here and not be murdered by ghosts.
Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts.
Arkham is of course well-known for both its creepy atmosphere and its atrocious security, which make it kind of a shitty asylum. Even without the costumed villainy lurking inside, Arkham Asylum is pretty over the top. Its looming structures and labyrinthine hallways lean heavily toward the macabre, almost to the point of absurdity.
On the plus side, real estate nearby is super cheap.
It's like a caricature of a haunted house, pulled straight from a turn of the century horror story. That's because it is literally from a turn of the century horror story, specifically from the work of H.P. Lovecraft's stories set in Arkham, Massachusetts, which included (along with cosmic insanity beasts) Arkham Sanitarium. But the sanitarium in Lovecraft's writing was based on a real place: Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts.
So yes, to the horror of comic book fans everywhere, Gotham City appears to be located in New England.
And true to its representation in D.C. Comics, Danvers comes off as a stereotypical haunted house, with such standard fixtures as ominous tunnels that, by the way, make a great video game setting.
Agency Scoop
Don't just stand there, man -- press "X"!
Look familiar?
We would not go down there without a batarang.
It's a vast complex of shadows, arched doorways and exposed brick. It would be a cliche, if it weren't real:
It's like someone designed the perfect hallway for monster ambushes.
And how about the over-the-top, spooky patient rooms tucked away in the Arkham Asylum video game:
No way a real building is going to top that, right?
Yeah, Danvers' decaying patient quarters are now, without question, home to the shrieking spirits of the damned:
Dear Lord, it's nearly as terrible as a nice college dormitory.
#4. Silent Hill
The Fictional Setting:
The haunted town of Silent Hill, as seen in the series of video games and movies. Population: Abandoned buildings and an ever-present, spooky mist.
The Real Place:
Weird Palace
Beware of Pyramid Head.
Those are pictures of the unassuming town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which at one point was a nice enough place to live, with a population of over 1,000 residents.
Weird Palace
If you count all the unburied skulls, it's three times larger today.
Then the strip mine beneath Centralia caught fire, and the residents were evacuated by the order of Governor Dick Thornburgh (it is unclear whether this took place before or after he was punched in the face by Holly McClane in front of Nakatomi Plaza). The fire is still burning ... five decades later.
The massive, smoldering hellblaze has opened up sinkholes, steam pits and carbon monoxide vents all over the town. Just like Silent Hill, Centralia is burning from the inside out, as if it were sitting directly over the gates of hell. This place is literally opening up like the streets of New York at the end of Ghostbusters.
As for the abandoned buildings, they've certainly got that:
Rent: One crowbar.
The similarities aren't coincidental. While the Silent Hill movie was in production, the filmmakers actually visited Centralia for inspiration, which seems obvious when you compare photos of the actual church in Centralia with stills of the Spookhouse Chapel of Barbed Wire Rape from the film:
Rick Rotondo
You don't really find any pictures from inside this building.
So if for some reason you want to visit Silent Hill in real life, you totally can. We'll wait in the car.


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November 13, 2012
NYU today launched its annual Bickel & Brewer – NYU Global Debate Competition for academic year 2012-13. Student teams from all 14 NYU global sites will compete for $37,000 in prizes. The topic for the 2012-13 competition is: "Resolved: Increased taxes on the wealthy will not improve the global economy." The competition is made possible through a gift from The Bickel & Brewer Foundation.
The Bickel & Brewer – NYU Global Debate Competition was the first student activity to spans its entire global network, with undergraduate debate teams from all its global sites competing against one another. In its inaugural year, more than 100 debaters participated in over 1000 hours of debate and research as they competed for prizes totaling some $37,000.
NYU President John Sexton said, "This competition epitomizes the idea of NYU as a global network university by bringing our students and faculty, regardless of location, together as part of one university in an intellectually challenging enterprise. While many of our pursuits, both scholarly and extracurricular, will be particular to one campus, as NYU continues to evolve as a global network university, many others will take place across the entire global network – such as next Spring's NYU GlobalFest – and these will make an NYU education a distinctive and inimitable one."
"For me, as a long-time debater and debate coach, it is especially fitting that our first cross-network activity was a debate competition. At NYU, we do not believe that the life of the mind should be confined within the classroom's four walls. The NYU Global Debate Program reaffirms our emphasis on civil discourse, on the free and vigorous exchange of ideas, and on the engagement of NYU students around the globe in thinking and discussing an important, pressing issue. We were very pleased with how many students participated last year; we hope even more will compete this year."
The Global Debate Program begins this fall semester with the formation of teams, with students registering for the competition in November. NYU faculty, graduate students and representatives from the Bickel and Brewer Foundation will serve as judges for the debates. In the spring semester, "knock-out" rounds will be held on February 15, 2013 on the New York campus and through the use of video teleconferencing connected to other global sites to reduce the field to a "sweet 16." The final rounds on the NYC campus will culminate in the Championship Debate on April 29, 2013 and an awards ceremony with prizes to the top 16 teams.
For more information about the Global Debate Program, contact the Director, Will Baker, at the Academic Resource Center, Room LL18, visit www.nyu.edu/cas/globaldebate, or email email@example.com.
New York University, founded in 1831, is one of world's foremost research universities and a member of the selective Association of American Universities. The first Global Network University, it has degree-granting university campuses in New York and Abu Dhabi, and has announced a third in Shanghai; has a dozen other global academic sites; and sends more students to study abroad than any other U.S. college or university. Through its 18 schools and colleges, NYU conducts research and provides education in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, business, dentistry, education, nursing, the cinematic and performing arts, music and studio arts, public administration, social work, and continuing and professional studies, among other areas.
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