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STEUBENVILLE-Big Red's basketball team is known for causing chaos with its full-court pressure defense. On Tuesday at the Crimson Center, its offense added to the mayhem.
Swishing its first six field goal tries (the initial three came from behind the arc) to open the second period, Mike Haney's cagers broke open a fairly tight contest and coasted to an 81-46 victory over John Marshall.
The Big Red shot a red-hot 70 percent (seven of 10) from the floor during the stanza. Up 18-13 after one, thanks to a Mylik Young hoop at the buzzer, the hosts got rolling when Periogn West nailed a triple. Tajuan Lawson connected from downtown and John Linn followed suit. Baskets by Young, Brandon Herring-Hill and Lawson (he also nailed two free throws) increased the Big Red advantage to 20 (35-15). It was 40-19 Big Red at the half.
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DEFENSE — Steubenville's Brandon Herring-Hill plays defense on John Marshall's Dustin Whitfield during the first half of Tuesday's 81-46 win by Big Red in the Crimson Center. - Mike Mathison
For the night, Big Red, now 2-1, hit on 32 of 51 attempts for a torrid 63 percent.
"Our shot selection was very good," Haney said. "We had some open threes and we didn't have too many forced shots. We moved the ball well, made the extra passes and had nice looks at the basket. We were definitely happy with that."
When discussing the second quarter burst, Haney noted "we got on about a three-minute roll. We were shooting good, making good passes and getting good looks.
"The downside was after that we had a bad three minutes. The ball was flying around, we weren't scoring points and we didn't take good care of the ball."
Defensively, it was a pretty typical Big Red performance. The Monarchs were forced into 29 turnovers and the winners recorded 24 steals (Lawson, Herring-Hill and Young all had five).
"They shot really well, but obviously their pressure bothered us," John Marshall's Bill Storm said. "We had us with 15 turnovers in the first half and just five rebounds. That shows a non-aggressive team that is very passive and that's what we were tonight."
Storm admitted he "didn't think the pressure would bother us that badly."
"I told our kids they would try to turn us and then jump us," he continued. "I pointed out that if we gave it up, we would have numbers at the other end. But telling something and doing something are two different things."
Haney was quick to point out his Big Red "played good team defense."
"We were trapping and really moving around," he added. "But, I'm upset with how many turnovers we had (the Big Red finished with 21). We caused some then we threw the ball away. We missed too many layups that could have been assists. We didn't capitalize on the mistakes we caused and that's a concern."
Four Big Red players reached double figures. Lawson paced the way with 17 (he also had four assists). Herring-Hill added 15, West 13 and Young 12 (he led the winners in rebounding with nine).
"He had a solid game," Haney said of Lawson's performance. "Defensively, he applied ball pressure and was trapping well. He had some steals and a couple of good passes. And, he definitely shot the ball well (he was three for three from the floor in the second period)."
Evan Magers and Cole Sobutka had 11 each for the Monarchs, now 1-1.
John Marshall will return to action Friday when it travels to Parkersburg South.
"They're going to put pressure on us also," Storm noted. "They're bigger than Big Red and awfully good. So we need to get to work tomorrow."
Big Red hosts East Liverpool Saturday, the junior varsity game tipping at 4 p.m.
"We're getting there," Haney pointed out. "We thought keeping them off the foul line helped us tonight. Plus we went 12 of 16 from the line and that's been area of concern. Our free throw shooting has been bad. We've worked on that a little. They only shot eight and that was a positive for us."
Big Red 81, John Marshall 46
John Marshall13 6 13 14 - 46
Steubenville18 22 28 13 - 81
JOHN MARSHALL (1-1): Och 3 0-0 8; Davis 2 0-0 4; Kibert 0 0-1 0; Filben 3 1-1 8; Whitfield 0 1-2 1; Horan 0 0-0 0; Sadoski 1 0-0 2; Smith 0 1-2 1; Magers 5 0-0 11; Whorton 0 -0 0; Sobutka 5 1-2 11. TOTALS: 19 5-8 46. 3-pointers: Och (2), Filben, Magers; Rebounds: 19 (Sobutka 6); Turnovers: 29.
BIG RED (2-1): West 4 4-4 13; Linn 2 2-2 7; Herring-Hill 7 0-0 15; Bailey 0 0-0 0; Lawson 6 3-3 17; Herrington 0 0-0 0; Young 6 0-1 12; Sterling 0 1-2 1; Redman 3 1-2 7; Smith 3 1-2 7; Purdue 1 0-0 2. TOTALS: 32 12-16 81. 3-pointers: West, Linn, Herring-Hill, Lawson (2); Rebounds: 29 (Young 9); Steals: 24 (Lawson, Herring-Hill, Young 5 each); Turnovers: 21.


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The link to submit the "keyword" will also be posted on the team's social media outlets. 'Like' the Rampage on Facebook and follow the team on Twitter for quick access to the link. Below see the team's TV schedule for the 2013-14 season.
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The Rampage is one of four professional sports franchises owned and operated by Spurs Sports & Entertainment – the San Antonio Spurs (NBA), the Silver Stars (WNBA) and the Austin Toros (NBA D-League) – and plays its home games at the SS&E operated AT&T Center. The 2013-14 season marks the Rampage's 12th season in the AHL. In operation since 1936, the AHL continues to serve as the top development league for all 30 National Hockey League teams with more than 87 percent of today's NHL players being AHL graduates.

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So, what's the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum?
Plus, the size of Wales in cubic furlongs
The standard unit of area shall be the nanoWales, defined as 1nWa, representing 0.0000207km2 or 20.78m2, 5.195 Thai talang wah or 28.99 Old Spanish square vara. The microWales, milliWales and Wales (Wa) are, naturally, accepted multiples of the base nanoWales.
- Football pitch = 194.89nWa
- Wales = 1,000,000,000nWa
- Belgium = 1.47Wa
- Democratic Republic of Congo = 113.3Wa
- Known universe (rolled out flat) = 19468502x1012x10256Wa
- The eruption of Vesuvius took out an area of 13 milliWales, although the effects of the blast were felt up to a thousand brontosauruses away. Survivors reported rocks and pumice the size of Bulgarian airbags falling from the sky for three days before the tragedy, and experts have calculated the total debris would fill around 120,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Velocity of sheep in a vacuum
The theoretical maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum is expressed in sheepsecs (Ssx), calculated as follows:
Speed of light (c) divided by wooldrag (Wd) + Welshmen (Wm), where wooldrag is a species-defined drag coefficient determined by the length and pliability of the fleece and Welshmen is the number of locals who have turned up in their wellies, and are hanging on for dear life.
Wooldrags have recently been calculated by researchers at CERN, and the latest experiments shed some light on the phenomenon, but it is still mysterious. The effect is similar to friction here on Earth, but is due to the interaction of the wool and fluctuations in the quantum vacuum. Researchers have applied to the EU for further funding, but it has been put on hold as a result of the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
For example, an unshorn Welsh Mountain Badger Face, with a wooldrag of 67, chased by three Welshmen will ultimately attain a Ssx of c/(67+3), or 4,282.74 km/sec.
Alternatively, a newly-clipped Finnish Landrace, with a wooldrag of 23, worried by just one Welshman has a theoretical Ssx of c/(23+1), or 12,491 km/sec.
Clearly, the difference in these two results means that a compromise standard is required. The El Reg Ssx uses the classic Cheviot as its sheep of choice, with a wooldrag of 50. Wm is in this case 0, since everyone knows that Welshmen do not in fact have intimate relations with sheep and any reference to the same is just a cheap attempt to drum up laughs.
The Vulture Central standard velocity for a sheep in a vacuum is, therefore, c/(50+0), or 5,995 km/sec.
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text: Now that you have a lesson on My Melody, and a cartoon Wizard, I will now show you "how to draw Kuromi step by step". Kuromi is another character from Sanrio world and is very popular. She is the Goth queen in the Hello Kitty world. She too is a rabbit like creature and she is also the friendly rival of My Melody. You may think that a character that looks as bad as she does, wouldn't at all be interested in anything but mischief and chaos. The truth is, although Kuromi looks like she is a tough cookie, she is actually as girly as My Melody and Hello Kitty put together. She is also a sucker for cute guys and she absolutely loves wearing her black jester style hat with a cute pink skull in the middle. Kuromi also likes reading romance novels, and writing in her diary. Anyways, I hope you guys have fun with this tutorial on "how to draw Kuromi step by step". I will provide you with a link to Kuromi's home page on Sanrio's website if you would like to read about her further. All you have to do is click this link and you will also find more fun facts about the rest of the Sanrio gang. I will be back with my last lesson for the day. I redrew Hello Kitty and if you want to see how she looks now you can click on the Hello Kitty link you see here. Have fun guys and remember to keep on drawing and never get discouraged because you will get better with time and practice. Adios amigos.


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I know I can get a categories ID by calling get_cat_ID('category-slug'), however, what is the method to call to determine if a category exists by ID when you don't know the slug?
In other words, I need to determine if category id 1 exists. What's the function for this?
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It moves approximately 5mm when in the locked position.
This nodal head has shot approximately 5000, 360 degree HDRI's and hasn't missed a beat (I work in film post production).
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This paper examines the occurrence and fragility of information cascades in laboratory ex-periments. One group of low informed subjects make predictions in sequence. In a matched pairs design, another set of high informed subjects observe the decisions of the first group and make predictions. According to the theory of information cascades (Bikhchandani, Hirshleifer, and Welch, 1992), if initial decisions coincide, an information cascade should occur: it is rational for subsequent players with low quality information to follow the observed pattern regardless of their private information. However, an information cascade should be fragile: it is always rational for subsequent players with high quality information to follow their private information. In line with existing experiments on information cascades, we find some evidence that low informed subjects follow the herd when it is rational, and this herding behavior occurs more frequently if there is a pronounced imbalance. The main finding of this paper is that information cascades are not fragile. We find strong evidence that highly informed subjects follow the herd regardless of their private information. In accordance with those observations we show, by explicitly eliciting subjects' beliefs about the state, that beliefs are not constant in the number of previous decisions that coincide, whether or not an information cascade already occurred. Subjects' behavior can be understood with a statistical model that allows for the possibility of errors in earlier decisions.
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Search is much more than just finding something; concepts such as Information Architecture, Information Organization, and Findability are very important when implementing SharePoint. Come to this session to see how SharePoint 2010's enhanced Search capability (such as the Managed Metadata Service) can address these concepts and help make your Search implementation much more effective.
This session is presented by Richard Taylor during SharePoint Connections 2010 in Amsterdam.
Rick is a SharePoint architect and has assisted numerous, large companies in their implementations including the US Air Force, Charles Schwab, and Nestle. He is a published author, co-author, and contributing author including the
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator's Companion by MS Press. His influence within the MCT and SharePoint communities facilitated his being selected to present at the first MCT Community Summit held in Zurich, Switzerland and
prompted Microsoft Learning to make changes to the Beta courseware that it might be ready for prime time.
Rick currently resides in the Phoenix, AZ area where he is an avid triathlete (Clydesdale class), and active in the Boy Scouts of America
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Artists' Guild of Spartanburg calling for artwork to show
Published: Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 7:25 p.m.
The Artists' Guild of Spartanburg is accepting applications to exhibit in its gallery for 2014.
Generally, there is a different exhibit each month in the Guild Gallery at the Chapman Cultural Center. For 2014, nine exhibits are scheduled, and each will showcase either one or two members of the Guild.
Entries are due by May 1 and can be submitted only by emailing Robin Els, guild director, at email@example.com.
Guild members who apply should include three images of artwork made within the past two years in .jpg format with the title, medium and size of each piece; an artist statement; and an artist biography. Selected artists will be announced June 1.
Anyone can be a member of the guild by paying the annual $40 membership fee. All members must live in Spartanburg County or in a county that is tangent to Spartanburg, including counties in North Carolina. Apply at http://www.artistsguildofspartanburg.com/.
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DWU alumnus to give Commencement address
Dakota Wesleyan University will celebrate commencement Saturday, May 3, with a baccalaureate service and graduation, and an honorary degree will be conferred posthumously upon a former faculty member.
Baccalaureate will begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Sherman Center on campus, and Commencement is set for 1 p.m. at the Corn Palace with 209 graduates.
Dr. Terry Grindstaff will be the special speaker for Commencement and Dr. Kenneth Novak will offer the Baccalaureate message. An Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters will be awarded posthumously to Ann Mitchell.
Grindstaff, of Omaha, Neb., is a 1999 Dakota Wesleyan graduate and assistant professor at the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. His Commencement address is titled "Appreciating Opportunity."
Grindstaff studied sports medicine at DWU and was an NAIA National Wrestling Tournament Qualifier in 1999. Following DWU, he obtained a Master of Science, Health and Physical Education from Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro; a Doctor of Physical Therapy from Belmont University in Nashville, and a Doctor of Philosophy, Kinesiology from the University of Virginia. He is a certified athletic trainer and licensed physical therapist.
Grindstaff has over 45 publications in the areas of sports medicine and physical therapy. He has been the recipient of over $1.2 million in research grants, and is a regular presenter at professional association meetings. He has served as a medical volunteer with USA Wrestling, Special Olympics, Project Homeless Connect Omaha and various sports tournaments.
He and his wife, Jill, have three children: Jackson, Greyson and Pierson.
Novak will deliver the sermon, "The Culture Made Me Do It!" during the Baccalaureate service.
Novak earned his undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A published author, Novak's professional background also includes 13 years of service to the U.S. Air Force, including roles as a military acquisition specialist, teacher of the year at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the chief speechwriter for the U.S. Air Force Command in Europe.
As an English professor at the United States Air Force Academy, he received the Academy Outstanding Educator Award. As a stay-at-home dad to eight children, he volunteers on many fronts in the Mitchell community, with a special commitment to Dakota Wesleyan University as the school's First Gentleman.
Novak is married to DWU President Amy Novak and they have eight children: Peter, Isaac, Luke, Mark, Seemela Grace, Marianna, Elijah, and Zechariah.
Mitchell, a Boston-area native, taught children's literature at Dakota Wesleyan from 1973-2001, and her love for the written word was infectious. She inspired students and affected generations through her passionate teaching and bag of books, which was her constant companion. Regularly she would pull out a children's book or two and read to her students.
Mitchell was born in 1939 in Canton, Mass., and attended Cornell University in New York, earning her bachelor's degree. She later obtained her master's degree in education from Harvard University. It was at Cornell that she met Dave Mitchell, a New York native. They were married on Sept. 8, 1962.
They spent the first few years of their marriage in Cincinnati, where she taught elementary school, until returning to Boston, where she also taught. It was back in her home city that they met Don Messer, the man who would bring them to South Dakota. Messer, a Dakota Wesleyan alumnus and future college president, invited them to teach in a city by their same name, Mitchell, S.D. Mitchell's adventurous spirit supported the move and they would, to their surprise, make Dakota Wesleyan and Mitchell their permanent home.
One of Mitchell's greatest interests was reading, especially helping children access literature. She was active in the local reading council, assisted the Dakota Wesleyan library and the Monhegan Memorial Library select new books for their collections, and helped develop the book giveaway program for the Love Feast at the First United Methodist Church. Her collection of more than 3,000 children's books was donated to DWU.
Mitchell was an active church member all her life. Among her most significant contributions to the First United Methodist Church was her involvement in the founding of the Love Feast.
She was also a devoted community servant, balancing her commitments to family and teaching with significant involvement in volunteer activities. She was a longtime leader in the local Democratic Party and called hundreds of volunteers yearly for fundraisers and get-out-the-vote efforts. A skeptic regarding electronic communication, she believed in the importance of the personal touch. She received the Goldie Wells Award for lifetime achievement from the state party for her efforts in grassroots organizing.
After a six-year battle with cancer, she died on July 20, 2012, at the family home she loved so much on Monhegan Island, Maine. She is survived by her husband, Dave Mitchell, DWU professor of business administration and economics, and her daughters and their families, Patti Duffy, Fort Pierre, and Nancy Mitchell, Philadelphia.


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I know this seems like an easy target, but I am less interested in taking the gratuitous Mickey at the expense of the ad industry (though, what the hell), than in I am in hearing what other people think about the relationship between advertising and truth. Feel free to chime in as you will, but I actually am deeply interested in serious thoughts on these matters (though fun-poking is absolutely welcome, too).
Ever since I saw an outdoor ad for The Canadian Code of Advertising Standards and almost choked on my tongue at the obvious and egregious lack of irony of the campaign's enthusiastic embrace of, of all things, Truth, I have been dying to blog about it. Talk about people swingin' outta their weight class.
So I want to test my assumptions about what advertising is and what its value is: especially as the industry expresses more and more interest and investment in social media and even talks about the importance of reframing marketing as conversation,
Below are an interesting catalogue of "critiques" of advertising, created by (to the one, I think) people in the business and in at least one case in the service of the business. What do people think of these?
I believe that increasing advertising much answer for three things:
1. It is the world's largest producer of garbage: from magazine waste to packaging, directly or indirectly this industry is easily one of the world's largest polluters. We need to start considering that fact in the context of sustainability.
2. Advertising's holy grail is mind control rather than persuasion. Huge amounts of money go into tactics and research into how to literally short-circuit people's thinking and not just influene but cause purchase behavior.
3. Advertising's effectiveness has not only been called into question by the rise of digital marketing and analytics, but the innovation around increasing effectiveness (thing like neuromarketing) seems not just potentially, but actually sinister.
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Current Athlete Can Be Added to O'Bannon Case
A federal judge ruled Friday that the plaintiffs in the antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA will be allowed to add a current athlete to their complaint.
A handful of former athletes led by UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon is suing the NCAA, claiming that college sports' governing body conspires with its business partners to fix the price of an athlete's image and likeness at zero. The plaintiffs contend that they are entitled to a share of the billions in revenue that result from the NCAA's and member schools' agreements with TV networks and videogame makers.
In a June 20 hearing on the plaintiffs' motion to grant the case class-action certification, Judge Claudia Wilken asked why a current athlete was not included among the plaintiffs. On Friday, Wilken issued a written order giving the plaintiffs two weeks to amend their complaint and add a current athlete. It is not clear who that athlete might be.
The judge has not yet ruled whether the case will be certified as a class-action suit. That decision, which is expected sometime this summer, could increase the potential damages in the case to billions of dollars.
In a statement issued June 21, the NCAA called the lack of a current athlete in the case a "fatal defect" to receiving class-action certification. An NCAA spokeswoman declined comment. The primary lawyer for the plaintiffs, Michael Hausfeld, could not be reached.
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There are so many support groups for women with breast cancer, but I am a woman with lung cancer. A generic support group just doesn't get it- I feel like they don't understand the way other people make you feel since I was a smoker (many years ago!). Are there groups for lung cancer?
Christina Bach, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C, Oncology Social Worker at Penn Medicine, responds:
There are groups for lung cancer patients and their caregivers, but as you said they are not as prevelant as they are for other diagnosis. You can start by contacting the American Cancer Society (800 ACS 2345) as they maintain a national database of groups and support services. There are also online support groups offered through Cancer Care and The Cancer Support Community. You can also connect with a "phone buddy," a trained volunteer survivor who you can link up with on the phone and talk one on one. This program is offered through the Lung Cancer Alliance.
Donna Lee Lista, Lung cancer survivor, advocate and blogger, adds:
There are a few other organizations that you might want to look into; there is Lung Cancer Partnership, which also has some individual state chapters. You can find them at nationallungcancerpartnership.org
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I understand that this question would be trivial for experts, sorry for that, I just need to clarify things.
So let $S(\mathbb{R}^n)$ denote the Schwartz space on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $W_p$, $W_q$ are the Sobolev spaces, or in the other words completions of $S(\mathbb{R}^n)$ with respect to $p$ and $q$ - Sobolev norms.
Let us assume that $\phi: $ $W_q\rightarrow W_p$ is a map , continuously extending the identity map on $S$ assuming that $p < q$.
Question: why is $\phi$ an embedding? It is only clear that $\phi$ is embedding of $S$ ( as it is identity on it).
Similar question for Sobolev embedding theorem into $C^k$.
P.S. To clarify my question here is what I mean by the Sobolev space. For a real number $p\in\mathbb{R}$ the $p$-Sobolev norm on $S$ is given by ${|f|}^2_p=\int{(1+|\xi|)}^{2p}{|\hat{f}(\xi)|}^2d\xi$, where $\hat{f}(\xi)$ is a Fourier transform of $f(x)\in S$. So $W_p$ is a completion of $S$ with respect to this norm.
P.P.S. To make things little more clear I am mostly interested in case of non-integer or negative $p$ when the Sobolev $p$-norm can not be defined through the weak derivatives.


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I want to study quasicrystals from mathematical point of view, but I'm having hard time finding materials about it. If you could suggest me some books, articles or papers, I would be glad.
The trouble with the quasicrystals is that the literature in this area is dominated by non-mathematical or pseudo-mathematical papers and books. In particular, just extracting a mathematical definition of a quasicrystal from this literature is not so easy. This situation is well-illustrated by the wikipedia article on quasicrystals and the MO discussion of this topic at What is the relation between Quasicrystals, Riemann Hypothesis, and PV numbers?
The two papers that I found most enlightening and mathematical, address this problem head-on (more on this below):
[1]. A. Hof, "On diffraction by aperiodic structures", Commun. Math. Phys., 169 (1995), p. 25-43.
[2]. J-B. Gouere, "Quasicrystals and almost periodicity", Commun. Math. Phys., 255 (2005), p. 655-681.
Both papers prove some nontrivial mathematical theorems, on the basis of these theorems one can then form two, somewhat different, mathematical definitions of a (quasi)crystal. Senchal's 2-page long survey paper (see Mahmud's answer) or, better, her book (see Joseph's answer) is a good introduction, the trouble is that she does not prove anything in the book and that she could be sloppy with her definitions, for instance, she conflates functions, measures and distributions, which are needed for defining crystals.
If you look in Senchal's book, you first get the following physical definitions of crystals: "A crystal is any solid with essentially discrete diffraction diagram." (This includes both traditional crystals and quasicrystals.) The word "essentially" will be the difference between different mathematical definitions, which one derives from [1] and [2].
A (mathematical) quasicrystal is a tiling $T$ of ${\mathbb R}^n$ by convex polytopes satisfying certain properties:
a. Here is Hof's definition of a crystal (Senchal's definition is taken from Hof's paper). Hof in [1] takes the auto-correlation function (actually, a distribution) $\gamma$ of $N$ and computes the (appropriately defined) Fourier transform $\hat\gamma$ of $\gamma$ (this is a mathematical interpretation of the "diffraction diagram"). Then $\hat\gamma$ is a measure $\mu$ which, in general, splits as a sum of two measures $\mu_d+\mu_c$: Discrete part $\mu_d$, which is supported on a certain countable subset of ${\mathbb R}^n$ and continuous part $\mu_c$. He proposes that "essentially discrete diffraction" means that $\mu_d$ is nonzero. Hof then proves that "standard" tilings indeed have nontrivial $\mu_d$ (According to [2], Hof even proves that $\mu_c=0$ in this case, but I did not check this). The trouble with this definition is that, as far as I can tell, there is no known purely geometric interpretation of the condition $\mu_d\ne 0$ in terms of the next $N$ itself (at least, none existed 6 years ago).
b. Gouere [2] (his work is an extension of Hof's approach and of a work by Lagarias) works with a slightly different definition, i.e., that $\mu_c=0$ (such sets $N$ are called Patterson sets). His main result is a purely geometric interpretation (actually, several interpretations) of this condition, see Theorem 1.1 in [1]: Patterson sets are the sets which are almost periodic with respect to Besikovitch's metric.
Remark 1. As far as I can tell from reading Freeman Dyson's paper here, definition of a quasicrystal that Dyson proposes is the one with $\mu_c=0$.
Remark 2. Gouere does not propose that a Patterson set is the right definition of a crystal, this is just my take on his paper. Condition $\mu_c=0$ is more limited, but, in view of [2], is geometric and also covers "standard" examples, while the condition $\mu_d\ne 0$ is more general, but is nongeometric.
If you are interested in the non-commutative geometry side of things, there is an overview article, The Noncommutative Geometry of Aperiodic Solids (pdf link) by Jean Bellissard. He writes the paper building up from the most basic possible physical concepts and makes the use of noncommutative geometry to study quasicrystals seem quite natural, and it is done in a mathematically rigorous manner. Edit: I should emphasize that this paper is about the physical side of quasicrystals, written from a mathematical perspective. I wasn't sure if that was what you wanted, as opposed to just the mathematical study of quasicrystals without regard for any related physics.
You might want to consider reading the following excellent introduction to the subject:
Quasicrystals and Geometry by Marjorie Senechal. A bit dated (1996) but still a place to start.
(Amazon link).
and finally a technical paper:
Here is a hard-to-find but worthy book from the point of view of statistical mechanics:
There has been some progress since the writing of the book, but the main question (the construction of a lattice-gas model with translation-invariant finite range interactions admitting a quasi-crystalline phase) remains open.
If you don't like statistical mechanics, there is enormous literature on aperiodic tilings. The book
has two chapters on aperiodic tilings. For a more up-to-date account, I would recommend the lecture notes of Jarkko Kari.
If you tell us more specifically, which aspect of it you would like to study, maybe we could help better.
My favorite paper on this stuff is Applications of Group Cohomology to the Classification of Quasicrystal Symmetries (by Fisher and Rabson)
If you want to study symmetries, then there is Howard Hiller's note Crystallography and Cohomology of Groups


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Quitting is never easy - for smokers, that is.
Adults in Jefferson County who smoke but want to quit can now get help through a research partnership between the Ohio State University College of Public Health and OSU Extension in Jefferson County.
This partnership - called the OSU Quit Smoking Project - will provide telephone support and up to eight weeks of nicotine patches for 60 adult smokers in Jefferson County.
To participate in this project, smokers need to be:
A resident of Jefferson County;
18 years or older;
Have no recent major health issues;
Be a daily smoker; and
Not be pregnant.
Both men and women can participate.
People also must be willing to try and quit in the next month by using telephone support and nicotine patches, which will be provided free of charge as long as they remain in the study.
The purpose of the study is to find out how effective telephone support and patches are for smokers in the Appalachian region of Ohio. Participants will be asked a set of questions before they start the project as well as three, six and 12 months afterwards.
It is important for participants to stay in the study for 12 months, whether they quit smoking or not. Participants will receive a small gift card after each data collection to thank them for their time, according to a project spokesperson.
Jefferson County is one of six counties in Ohio Appalachia selected to participate in this project over the next several years, in part because of high rates of smoking in Appalachia. According to the 2008 Ohio Family Health Survey, 34.4 percent of adults in Jefferson County smoke. In comparison, the statewide smoking rate in Ohio 2008 was 20.1 percent.
The study is funded by the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institute of Health. Mary Ellen Wewers obtained the funding and leads the project at the OSU College of Public Health. Amy Wermert and Julianna Nemeth, also at the OSU College of Public Health, manage the project. Janine Yeske, Extension educator at OSU Extension Jefferson County, helps with outreach and recruitment.
Goldia Smurda is the lay health advisor and interviewer from Jefferson County conducting the local project. Anyone interested in participating can contact Smurda at (740) 314-2498.
Council schedules K. of C. degree
The Knights of Columbus Council No. 472 has scheduled a first degree for Thursday at 8 p.m. at the council hall.
Candidates for the first degree are to be there between 7:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. All members are asked to attend the degree and welcome the new brother knights.
The degree is open to anyone wanting to become a knight in the Steubenville, Wintersville, Toronto and Mingo areas.
Any questions pertaining to the degree can be directed to Don Hall, grand knight of council 472, at (740) 264-6724.
Following the first degree exemplification, refreshments will be served.
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The Sunrise Seniors of Toronto met Feb. 8 with President Susan Kulstad introducing new member Diana Hooper.
A moment of silence was observed for Ted Riffle, who recently died.
Peg Nordenger gave the blessing before the pizza, salad and king cake dinner celebrating Mardi Gras were served.
Reports were given by Mary Lou Deku, secretary; Mike Timko, treasurer; and Susan Conaway, social secretary.
Kulstad reminded members that the second installment payment for the Branson, Mo., trip is due in February with payments to be given to John Bodrog.
Joyce Gribben volunteered to chair the summer picnic in July.
Marcella McKnight and Bruce Pertko were selected as the queen and king of Mardi Gras. Eileen Cernanski and Susan Conaway won the gift certificate drawing.
The 50/50 winners were Kitty Roth and Connie Lupushanski. Door prizes were won by Tim Gribben and Patty Roth. Bingo winners were Jim Wilson, Dorothy Pavelka, Mike Timko, Jim Hope, Brenda Cottrell, Karen Horne, Donna Twyford, Beth Clark, Marion Wilson, Mary Lou Deku, Lucy Timko, Cathy Pertko, Judy Whyte, Jo Andrews and Tim Gribben.
Skat winners were Cathy Pertko, Bob Deku, Bruce Pertko, Jo Andrews, Kitty and Patty Roth and Donna Twyford.
Adena Lions Club
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During a recent Adena Lions Club meeting, Darrin Young read a letter from Rob Murry, past district governor, about the Ohio Lions District 13G Convention to be held April l5 and 16 at the Marlite/Lewis Center in New Philadelphia, where Gov. Beth Johnson will be ending her year as district governor. The Parade of Checks will be taken to the district convention.
Bill Ralston was welcomed as a new member.
Five Lions attended a visitation to the Dillonvale-Mount Pleasant Lions Club meeting in January.
Dustin Kinsey reported that the annual minstrel will be April 19 and 20. The theme will be "Viva Las Vegas." Practice will start March 12.
At the next meeting, Young will have the design plans for the wall at the Village Green.
Members approved a donation and eight folding chairs for the Buckeye Local Performing Arts.
A check will be given to Lynn Sweeney as a donation for the backdrop for the minstrel.


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Finding the optimal performance for a BizTalk configuration can be hard and time consuming. There are a lot of possible configurations and adaptable settings. Performance testing is a matter of starting tests over and over again using different sets of parameters. Before a new test is started the servers should be reinitialized to make sure every test will have the same starting point. I found the below command line tools and commands very useful when doing this. I created a script to automate this initialization process so that boring manual work before each test is minimal.
First some obvious commands:
net stop "BizTalk Service BizTalk Group : BizTalkServerApplication"
net start "BizTalk Service BizTalk Group : BizTalkServerApplication"
iisreset /stop
iisreset /start
Use these commands to respectively:
- stop host instance
- start host instance
- stop IIS
- start IIS
PSService.exe makes it easy to start and stop services on remote systems. If you for example want to stop or start the SQL Server agent on a remote SQL server hosting the BizTalk databases you can use:
psservice.exe \\MySqlServer stop SQLServerAgent
psservice.exe \\MySqlServer start SQLServerAgent
PSService is part of the SysInternals toolkit and can be downloaded from here
Clear event logs
I also wanted to start my tests with clear and clean eventlogs. I found the WMI 'Clear event log' script by Mark Fairpo for this purpose. To clear event logs I used this command:
ClearEvt.wsf Application Security System
Performance monitoring
To be able to monitor and see test results after the has finished we need to define some counter logs in performance monitor. Those logs store performance counter information during the test. Examples are memory usage, network usage, BizTalk spool table, etc, etc. You can start and stop those logs from the command line using the logman.exe tool.
The commands are:
Logman.exe Stop "BizTalk Performance Counters"
Logman.exe Start "BizTalk Performance Counters"
This will stop and start the counter log named "BizTalk Performance Counters"
Clear Messagebox and Tracking databases
Finally it is very important to start each test with a clean messagebox and tracking database. You easily achieve this by executing the following query:
USE BizTalkMsgBoxDb
EXEC dbo.bts_CleanupMsgbox
USE BizTalkDTADb
exec dbo.dtasp_CleanHMData
Be aware that the first mentioned stored procedure doesn't do anything by default (it is an empty stored procedure). You need to load it the first time from the file 'msgbox_cleanup_logic.sql' located in the 'Schema' sub folder of the BizTalk program folder. Also be careful with the parameters you provide to this stored procedure. If you use the wrong parameters all subscriptions will be wiped and you'll have redeploy all BizTalk applications.
If you put the above SQL statements in a script you use it from the command line, like:
sqlcmd.exe -S MySqlServer -i d:\testscripts\init_bts_db.sql
I hope these commands are useful to other people too.


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[4.0.6] Can I opt out of 9 sided frame rendering for buttons in IE 6-8?
I would like to have the cleaned HTML that were produced for firefox to be on IE as well for buttons. I am referring to the 9 cells table structures to create the sides for the buttons that were generated for IE. I tried the following codes but i still see it in IE8 developer tool.
... items: [{ xtype: 'button', ui: 'red', frame: false, text: 'Logout', style: 'float:left; margin-right:15px;' }, ... ]
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I would imagine this is part of the effort to optimize the html for certain browsers. The table layout was the way things used to built for all browsers to ensure that the layout worked consistently. Now however, some of this has been optimized by browser, so that simpler html will be used in cases where the browser can do it consistently. However, IE is usually the case where the simplified HTML doesn't render consistently. This is in fact, why it was originally done as tables - because IE wouldn't play nice.
You could try to override the button rendering logic to not do this for IE, but this may be a lot of work for little benefit.Tim Ryan
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Hi Tryan,
Thanks for your help. yes i understand tables is the key to render consistently across all IE browsers. I asked about this because of the scenarios and problems i am facing in this thread: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?147401-4.0.6-Questions-with-Sencha-Slice-tool-and-theming
Looks like i'd have to override the tpl or renderTpl to get this to work. Will look into that and return with further feedback.


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The 49ers Have Intel Inside
49ers' Harbaugh Is a Disciple of Intel's Andy Grove; Virtues of 'Paranoia'
One of the architects of the San Francisco 49ers' success this season is a 76-year-old intellectual who can only vaguely describe a touchdown.
This man didn't know the team was in the mix for Sunday's Super Bowl until two weekends ago, when he heard shouts from neighbors' houses. For most of the season, Andy Grove, the former chief executive of Intel, INTC 0.26 % couldn't have named the team's coach.
But last week, after finding out that head coach Jim Harbaugh uses the 1996 management book he wrote as a sort of spiritual guide to football, Grove said he's suddenly earned a new flavor of respect from friends and family. For many years, he said, they'd always accused him of being "out to left field" when it came to sports. "I don't know much about the 49ers," Grove acknowledged in an interview last week. "One of my claims to fame is that I used to eat at a restaurant Joe Montana frequented, but I never saw him."
A chemical engineer by training, Grove is a Silicon Valley legend who built Intel into a computer chip giant during his tenure as CEO. He stepped down in 1998 but stayed on as chairman until 2005.
In 1996, while at the top of the chip-making game, Grove wrote "Only the Paranoid Survive," a book that introduced buzz phrases like "strategic inflection points" and stressed the value of paranoia. While it was a bestseller at the time, it has since faded a bit, selling about 30,000 copies since 1999, according to Nielsen BookScan.
In San Francisco's locker room, however, players and executives say it is very much alive. Fullback Bruce Miller said he hears the phrase, "stay paranoid" throughout the practice complex. Offensive lineman Alex Boone said Harbaugh has implored him to read the book and team officials say Harbaugh touts it in private chats.
When asked about Harbaugh's devotion to "Only the Paranoid," cornerback Perrish Cox starts to laugh. "His whole demeanor is all about that book," he said.
Through a team spokesman, Harbaugh declined to discuss Grove's book or its impact on his coaching. But at a news conference earlier this season, he called it "real insightful." He said he believed it was something to be learned from, given that Intel had won what he considers the business equivalent of "40 straight Super Bowls."
There is some evidence that Harbaugh's coaching has been influenced by the book. One of the main points in "Only the Paranoid Survive" is Grove's belief in the importance of commitment to a decision. He writes that companies don't die because they are wrong, they die because they don't commit. Students of Intel say Grove's bet on the emerging value of microprocessors is a good example.
This season, Harbaugh made a similarly bold commitment. With his team riding high at 6-2, he benched star quarterback Alex Smith in favor of Colin Kaepernick, an untested and largely unknown second-year pro. To do this, the team had to reinvent its offense to suit Kapernick's running skills. It was the sort of move NFL coaches rarely make—and especially not when they're winning. "With Colin, his first couple of starts, you did not know what to expect because we had not seen him out there as a starting quarterback," said 49ers lineman Joe Staley. "He did amazing."
Grove noted in the interview, as in the book, that he wasn't much of a cheerleader when things were going well. "I'd tell my employees 'it may not get any better than this but it sure gets worse,'" he said.
According to players, Harbaugh hews to the same philosophy. "He's always the same," Cox, the cornerback, said. "If we lose, he'll say 'forget it, it sucks.' If we win he'll say 'it sucks.'"
Team executives say Harbaugh has brought up the book more often in the past month. He particularly likes to bring it up when things are going well.
Harbaugh doesn't necessarily preach directly from the book, since he rarely gives 'rah rah' speeches or anything beyond a few words of inspiration. He tells players he doesn't give speeches, he gives information and players paint Harbaugh as a mysterious motivator, to say the least. "You don't know if he's saying things to pump you up or to make you think about pumping you up," said a confused Boone. "He once said something about 'the wave of the ocean makes no sound' or something and everyone looked at each other and said 'What the hell is he talking about?' and then later that night you're thinking about it and maybe it makes sense."
Grove said he probably won't watch the Super Bowl. Since he doesn't understand the rules, he said, the only way for him to follow a game is to listen to the crowd. Nonetheless, he has asked to meet with Harbaugh and exchange an autographed book for a jersey. The team said it is receptive and will try to make it happen after Sunday.
"I guess it took 17 years before anyone thought of taking the book and applying it to big-time football," Grove said.


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Pei Wei Market - Coupon for Buy One Get One Entree for $0 + free shipping
Go to the site, watch the 37 second video, click on the fortune cookie, enter your e-mail address, get coupon.
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Doesn't free food always taste extra delicious? Pad Thai here I come!
Yum. Thanks.
Cool. They say your e-mail isn't used for anything other than delivery of the coupon as well.
Nearest location 123 Miles....ouch.
mmmm Pei Wei....
I love Pei Wei - generous portions means leftovers for the next day, so with the coupon we'll get four meals for the price of one - yay! nom nom
Anyone else get their coupon? Is your barcode just a big white box?
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Project Old School-Building Out the DoorsWritten by on April 30, 2004 No Limit Installs One-Piece Power Windows in Project Old School
Ever Since Project Old School's inception, there were plans to fit the truck with one-piece glass. I knew this would be difficult, given the triangular shape of the opening. The reason is that unless the window is all the way up in the channel or all the way down, there is no support to keep the glass from flopping around, or, worse yet, falling out and breaking. No Limit Engineering in San Berdoo advertises the glass, so I made the call to shop owner Rob MacGregor to get the skinny.
In addition to installing kits at the shop, Rob offers a kit in rough form. In addition to the glass itself, he modifies a kit from Specialty Power Windows to use specifically with '64-66 GM trucks. This is not simply a plug-and-play deal, though. Several areas of the door need to be trimmed to make room for the larger glass. Also the channel off of the old wing window needs to be modified for reuse as well. So if you just can't see cutting into a perfectly good door, then one-piece glass may not be in your future.
Since Old School was finally going to have door glass, I was finally going to have to install some kind of solenoid system. For this, AutoLoc came to the rescue with their complete shaved door handle kit with remote door poppers. Also, since this is Old School we're talking about, I could never in good conscience have power window switches in plain view. AutoLoc helped me out in this department as well with their new Electronic Window Crank Switch. This way, my high-tech doors will still be sporting the stock crank! To celebrate this, I picked up the new door and window cranks along with new door seals and check links from Brothers Trucks in Corona.
Again, this is no easy job, even though Rob and the crew at No Limit make it look easy. It would not take much to completely ruin a door during this buildup. But in my opinion, the clean look of the one-piece glass is worth all the work.
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The No Limit glass is as nice as it comes. It's available in clear or tinted and can be used for both power and manual systems. Looking at the shape of the glass, you can easily see why there is a support issue when the window is partially down.No Limit modifies this universal street rod kit from Specialty Power Windows for use in the '64-66 GM trucks. These kits are especially nice because of the sliding roller track that the glass rides on.With glass, there will be no more easy access into the truck. I ordered a shaved door handle kit and keyless entry system from AutoLoc. This includes 75lb solenoids, poppers, an emergency button, relays, a transmitter, and two of their cool new remotes.Time to start cutting. This area is where the inner structure is spot-welded to the inner skin--so each weld must be drilled out. Once the inner skin is free, this area needs to be cut open for access to the inner structure.It was a pretty large chunk of metal that needed to be cleared out of the way, and it could've been done with a die grinder--but it would've taken some time.The doors were gutted a long time ago. Unfortunately, they were gutted a little too much. The vent channels will be reused so they need to be modified. Since mine was long gone, along with the rear channel support, I had to make a run to a salvage yard. An hour and twenty bucks later, here they are.
Since this channel was being relocated to the front of the door, new mounting tabs had to be fabricated as well. They were marked and drilled out.Here is the key component to supporting the triangle-shaped glass when it is partially down. Rob welded these extensions onto the bottom of the glass channel. It's like adding six more inches of glass to the bottom, helping to support the tapered glass up top.
The channel of choice is this soft-style stuff that's available at most trim shops. It's a lot softer than the standard stainless-trim type.This is the job that nobody wants. Rob carefully pounded the channel onto the glass with a strip of cork in- between. The excess cork was then trimmed with a razor blade.The front of the glass was dropped in first and then was maneuvered into position. We slid it up into the channel and held it in place with masking tape while we bolted up the motor.This roller setup is what gives Specialty Power Windows their smooth operation. This piece simply bolted to the bottom of the glass track with two nuts.Now Rob dropped the motor in through the access hole. The two mounting holes had already been marked and drilled as per the directions.
Since I was anticipating this install, I purposely left the four wires for the power doors and windows hanging out of the harness so they would be easy to run now. Rob ran four wires into each door to handle both the window switches and the solenoids.The AutoLoc electronic power window switches are simple to hook up. The up and down side each get a power, a ground, and a wire from the motor. That's it.We mounted the switch temporarily and gave it a go. It takes a while for the channel to soften up and settle into place, but overall the glass went up and down very smoothly.Since the latch needed to be pulled out to open, and the solenoid had to be mounted down, Rob made up these tubes for the solenoid cable to run through.Using the mounting bracket, we marked the holes in the bottom corner where we would be mounting the solenoid.
Four bolts were used to attach the solenoid permanently. We did go back and replace the bolts with stainless button heads, though.The relays and transmitter were mounted under the dash. The transmitter will perform up to six functions; that's why you see so many wires. Other than a power and a ground, we only needed one wire running to the supplied relay to pop each door.AutoLoc makes this really nice billet door popper. Once the new door weather stripping was in place, however, the doors jumped wide open when we hit the button. We'll add the popper in later if the rubber settles, though.I didn't think it would be very smart of me to publish exactly where I installed the emergency button. But it is in place, and it works off of a wire from the relay and a ground.Rob then went to work on the window felts. He first cut them to length and contoured the corners to give them a factory look.
Before wrapping everything up, I did a little shopping at Brothers Trucks in Corona. There I got the new door weatherstrips and door and window cranks that include cool new seals that fit behind them. My check links were broken, so I picked up a pair of them as well.The new weatherstrip popped into place in no time flat. The cab was so much quieter on the ride home; I actually heard my phone ringing for the first time while driving Old School.The new chrome cranks and door panel screws really added a nice touch. The finished product looks just as clean and old school as ever.But it's what's underneath that counts. A simple touch of the cranks sends the glass up and down faster than you can say, "It's hot in here; roll down the window."


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Unconditional Love is Divine Love. It is not bound by any religion, as it is found in all, however one does not need to be religious to experience Divine Love. It is completely part of the human heart. It does not matter if we are theists, agnostics or atheists. The goal of Paramahamsa Vishwananda's mission is to help us realise and live this inner perfection and beauty, to live Unconditional Love.
Atma Kriya Yoga is the main spiritual practise of Bhakti Marga that has been given by Mahavatar Babaji and Paramahamsa Vishwananda.
Atma Kriya Yoga is the practice of allowing you to live your life with your thoughts and actions consciously in tune with your True Self and to transform your life into a living experience of Divine Love or Self-Realisation. This is the ultimate goal of Yoga. The word 'Atma' in Sanskrit means 'Soul' or your 'True Self'. 'Kriya' means 'action & awareness' and ' Yoga' is to unite your lower self with the Divine.
OM Chanting is a group healing techniques brought back for modern times by Paramahamsa Vishwananda. OM Chanting utilises the primordial sound OM to heal the participants physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The healing energy is also shared with all around for 2 km, helping uplift and purify Mother Earth.
Simply Meditation is a set of five simple breathing, visualisation and meditation techniques for the beginners. It helps to let go, relax, calm down and connect to the heart. It is appropriate to be practiced even for a few minutes daily by the people living busy lives. It is recommended by the Hale Clinic in London, one of the biggest complementary clinics in the world.
Simply Meditation courses are led by the certified Simply Meditation teachers as well as certified Atma Kriya Yoga teachers in your country. If you also want to become a Simply Meditation teacher, please contact your OMH Country Coordinator.
Music and Mantras have a key role in all cultures and all religions. They are the language of the heart. Through music humans get connected with the essence of their being – Love. Bhakti Marga – the path of love and devotion – uses music as a means to awaken that Love inside of everyone's hearts irrespective of their religious and cultural background.
Prayers and Puja can be the way in which we connect to the Divine through the outpouring of Love from the heart. On our path of Bhakti (Devotion) prayers are often offered through ritual ceremonies. As we connect the spiritual traditions of East and West, both Christian and Hindu ceremonies are conducted.


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Six Flags One-Day Adult Ticket | 250 My Coke Rewards Pts
Receive a code for free ticket with 250 rewards points. Good for any Six Flags properties - must be used within 2012 season.
Wednesday is the best day for deals like this. Here's your chance to enjoy a day of fun soaring across the sky or enjoying a splash at Six Flags®. Get in on the deal now, while quantities last. Get a Six Flags® one-day adult general admission ticket valid at any US Six Flags® branded theme park. Code expires 10/20/2012. Buckle up and get ready for the ride of your life.
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I miss Astroworld
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Looks like I need to go to McDonalds a little bit more to get some free coke rewards points!
@joshobra: I've only received one 40 MCR points out of maybe 30 online entry codes. There aren't a whole lot of online winning pieces this year.
@omnichad: I just won an instant 40 points when I peeled it from a large fries last night.
Also have another 80 from past entry codes which was like around three days worth of eating McDonalds for lunch.
Anyone know if they have a gang-free day at Magic Mountain?
Now that it's snowing, sure...why not offer a ticket for the 2012 season. Sheesh!
@pigtool: That's right, snowing where you're at but 80+ in Dallas. Again.
Just moved about 15 minutes away from Six Flags for work. If I wasn't working 7 days a week, I'd probably jump on this. Haven't been in years.
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guess its no good anymore
@ratmotor: Thank you, that gave me a good chuckle.


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Lincoln Attendance Center will hold a chili supper and carnival Friday, March 8. The event will be held from 5 until 8 p.m. at the school, located at 113 10th Street in Carmi.
Guests will enjoy a choice of a chili/fish sandwich/or hot dog meal. The meal will also include a drink and dessert for a price of $4.
Each classroom will offer games with prizes, a cake walk and other door prizes. There will be numerous raffle items to purchase chances for.
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Let $n$ be a positive integer, $n!$ denotes the factorial of $n$. Let $d = \gcd(n! + 1, (n + 1)! + 1)$. Show that $d$ divides $n$. (Hint: notice that $(n+1)(n!+1) = (n+1)!+n+1$)
The given hint shows that $\rm\ n\ $ is an integral linear combination of $\rm\ n!+1\ $ and $\rm\ (n+1)! + 1\:,\: $ so $\rm\ n\ $ is divisible by all common divisors, including the GCD. In fact we can go further and show that the GCD = 1. Namely, since the GCD divides the coprime numbers $\rm\:n\:$ and $\rm\ n!+1\ $ it must be 1. Below is an alternate derivation using explicit gcd laws, along with an explicit Bezout linear representation of the GCD.
Putting $\rm\ k = n!+1\ $ below shows that the GCD equals $\rm\ gcd(n!+1,n) = 1$.
$\rm\quad\quad\ \ gcd(k,(n+1)k-n)\ =\ gcd(k,n)\ \ $ via $\rm\ \ n = (n+1)k - ((n+1)k-n)$
$\quad\quad$ recalling $\rm\quad\quad\ \ gcd(k,m)\ =\ gcd(k,\:jk\pm m)\ $
$\quad\quad$ since if $\rm\ \ d|k\ $ then $\rm\ \: d|m\ \ \iff\ \: d\ |\ jk\pm m\quad\ \ $ Above $\rm \ j = n+1 $
In fact we can unwind the above to obtain an explicit Bezout linear representation of the GCD:
$\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad \rm n\ =\ n!\ ((n+1)!+1) + (n-(n+1)!)\ (n!+1) $
Dividing the above through by $\rm\:n\:$ shows that the gcd is 1! $\ $ But, alas, I fear I've exclaimed too much ...
HINT: Use the definition of GCD and the fact that $$(n+1)!+1 = n! \times (n+1) +1 = n! \cdot n + (n!+1)$$ We know that $d \mid (n!+1)$ since $d$ is the GCD
As $(n+1)(n!+1)=(n+1)!+n+1$, so $n=(n+1)(n!+1)-((n+1)!+1)$, let $d=\text{gcd}(n!+1,(n+1)!+1)$, then $d\mid(n!+1)$ and $d\mid((n+1)!+1)$, so $d\mid n$, this means that $\text{gcd}(n!+1,(n+1)!+1)\mid n$


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6 Insane Things Science Can Predict About You at Infancy
#3. Smaller Babies Do Worse on Exams
Want to know whether it's worth it to put money aside for your baby's college education? Just put that baby on a bathroom scale.* A study conducted in England found that the smaller the baby at birth, the poorer he or she performs on exams later in life.
*This is a joke. Do not do this.
So the earlier you start your prenatal steroid regimen, the better.
The researchers picked out 334 kids from schools that had a pretty homogenous socioeconomic enrollment set (so they could prevent winding up with a bunch of kids who were both small and stupid for some extraneous reason, like, say, they were malnourished due to their parents' crippling meth addiction).
Half of the kids selected were of lower-than-normal birth weight, and the others were normal or larger. At 8 years old, the kids were all given IQ tests. The researchers then examined all of their GCSE (a standardized test) scores when the kids had turned 20. The normal birth weight group not only scored higher on the IQ tests, but also scored an average of a half grade better on their GCSE tests than their less wind resistant classmates. They also completed more of the exam (the GCSE lets you choose which portions you take).
Most go right to the "beer and balls" section, which has never been failed by a single participant.
The leader of the research team, Professor Peter Pharoah of the University of Liverpool, stresses that this doesn't mean that your gigantic freak mammoth baby is going to win a Nobel Prize. But nevertheless, science doesn't quite know how it works, though it does seem to contradict the cliche of the short, scrawny nerd outsmarting his ogrish jock classmates.
What we're trying to say is that for accuracy's sake, Bruce Banner should be bigger than the Hulk.
"Dude, just piss him off so we can kick his ass."
#2. Moody Toddlers Grow Up to Be Gamblers
Back in the '70s, some researchers in Dunedin, New Zealand, decided to examine a bunch of 3-year-olds to see whether they could predict future temperaments in kids who are still only old enough to drool on themselves and regard mundane objects with confused fascination. Observing the toddlers during independent 90-minute sessions, the researchers classified the kids as best they could as well-adjusted, reserved, confident, inhibited or "undercontrolled" (because you can't call toddlers "assholes").
Which might be part of the reason so many of them are assholes.
Roughly 10 percent of the children were in that last category, which involved "lack of self-control, rapidly shifting emotions, impulsive and willful behavior and relatively high levels of negative feelings."
When they returned to study those kids at ages 21 and 32, the researchers discovered an unexpected side effect of their subjects' infant dickishness -- they didn't all wind up in jail, as might be expected, but scientists did find that when the "undercontrolled" kids grew up, they were twice as likely to have gambling problems as any other temperament classification.
"You might have trouble picturing this, but I used to be a complete douchebag as a child."
Lead researcher Wendy Slutske cautions that just because your toddler is a mood-shifting jerk, that doesn't mean he or she is destined to be a compulsive gambler, but she suspects that some are born vulnerable to addiction. This would explain why some people can hit up a penny slot, win $100 and never gamble ever again, and others play until they're buried in the desert.
#1. Fearless Babies Are More Likely to Become Criminals
If you've ever screamed at a baby and the baby just stared back with hardcore steely resolve, just go ahead and teach him or her how to turn pacifiers into shanks, because, according to Adrian Raine, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist, a fearless baby is more likely to become a criminal as an adult.
Raine got his hands on a mental illness study from the 1970s that tested the fear responses of about 1,800 3-year-olds. The toddlers were exposed to two sets of sounds -- one was a neutral tone that was followed by nothing, and the other was a neutral tone followed by a shit-your-pants-terrifying wail. The toddlers quickly figured out when to expect the scary noise, and most of them sweated in response -- a normal fear reaction. Then again, there were some kids who showed no signs of fear at all.
"Blast that noise at me again and see if I don't take off my hat and beat you to death with it."
In 2009, Raine checked in to see what the original test subjects had been doing with their lives, and found something fascinating. Along with everyone being a little fatter and uglier than they were when they were 3, Raine found that 137 of the test subjects had criminal records -- and not one of them had been among the group who had sweated during the fear study when they were 3.
The discovery was examined for any result-skewing factors such as race, gender and income, but more than anything else, the outstanding variable was that all of the convicted subjects had been fearless toddlers. This leaves us with an unsettling implication -- the possibility that some people are actually born criminals.
"Rise and shine, you pukes. You got 30 minutes in the rec room, let's move."
Before you use this research to establish a Minority Report-style pre-emptive justice system, Raine notes that many other kids who also didn't show fear as babies went on to lead perfectly law-abiding lives. We would like to note that this only proves that they were never caught committing any crimes. Or maybe they grew up to be scientists who tormented 3-year-olds by blasting scary noises at them.
For more terrifying information on chi'ren, check out 6 Shockingly Evil Things Babies Are Capable Of and 5 Superpowers We All Had as Babies (According to Science).
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Did Christians ever come up with "secret" ways of knowing who other Christians were? I don't mean exactly a handshake, because I get that sometimes people don't (or can't) shake hands. Seems like it might be a bit pointless, like a joke you have with friends or something. But did they?
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The Sator square was likely used to secretly advertise a house as Christian to other Christians in the first century.
The idea of the ICTHUS (or Christian fish) symbol was an early example of this. It wasn't pointless, as it was used to identify each other in a society where persecution of Christians was extremely common. One person would draw one arc of the fish, probably in the dirt, and another would draw the other if they were a Christian as well. This wasn't done just for fun, but for protection, in much the same way as how WWII Allied soldiers would whisper "flash!", and another Allied soldier would respond with "thunder!" in order to identify themselves.


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What are the implications, if any, of brewing beer with water treated by a water softener? I've read lots of conflicting information and am looking for something more scientific and definitive.
A concern with using softened water, whether all grain or extract, is that the large amount of sodium introduced will give a salty taste to the beer.
On the scientific perspective, Mr Wizard, at BYO writes
If you can get a city water report or have your water tested, then that may help you decide if you will end up with too much sodium or not after passing it through the softener.
Assuming the water is fairly hard (otherwise it wouldn't need softening), it's better to skip the softener and use the hard water as is. This is fine if you're brewing extract, since the concentrations of hardness causing minerals are not so important, although if your bicarbonate or carbonate levels are over 300ppm then you might consider diluting, although taste the water first after boiling it and see.
If you're all grain brewing, then you'll need the water report, and use that as a basis to determine how much to dilute the water to get the dissolved minerals to acceptable levels. You dilute the water with distilled/deionized/RO water to reduce the overall amount of dissolved solids in the brewing liquor.
With all grain, it's really best to skip the softener, otherwise you'll have the counter-productive arrangement where calcium and magnesium are first removed by the softener and replaced by twice as much sodium, only for the brewer to then add back in more calcium and magnesium, since these are needed in the mash. By diluting your hard water you can end up with a workable water profile without introducing all the unwanted sodium.
Two considerations not mentioned thus far: 1. pH is important for mashing all-grain. If your pH is low (either with your softened water or with your tap water), you may experience problems. To the best of my knowledge, it is high or low pH that causes all-grain brewers to add minerals or RO water.
I'd suggest you should check your pH using some inexpensive strips. My local homebrew store had these for $4. Alkalinity can be checked by a pool store or with a pool test kit. The pH of your soft and hard water will probably determine your strategy more than anything else.
You can find a guide to each mineral on this blog page by Beersmith. It has a lot more information on each mineral than in my post or mdma's. Note one concern regarding carbonate (e.g. calcium carbonate) is the effect on pH.
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Ereaders - 40% off in store only
This is not an advertised sale. The Borders (physical store) by me - Cleveland- had all these for 40% off. The may be going to 50% off on 8/25. These prices aren't exact, I'm just going off memory and am to lazy to do math... I bought a few Kobo touches for some friends and family
The Kobo wifi - $54
Kobo Touch - $78
and Sony Touch - $109
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My sister called me to ask if these were good prices for the Kobo. I advised that, from what I could see they were good prices. Then I told her how much new ebooks cost and she was a little surprised to say the least. Silly sister, thought just cause the publishers didn't have to pay for ink and paper and binding and shipping the ebooks would be priced like MP3s.
I am guessing she didn't get one. Would be interested in what the rest of you think about these.
Wtb online discount code!
@jazcat: Not that I am encouraging it, but I know you download PDF of books for free... just google
Also, Apple and 5 publishing companies are currently being sued for price fixing of ebooks so prices may be falling soon...


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Learn about the name Harrison.
Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd U.S. president, is known for signing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to protect our markets against monopolies. Actor Harrison Ford has brought some attention to the handsome surname as a first name. It sounds great as a formal version of the nickname "Harry." Benjamin is already a popular pick for a boys' name, and perhaps Harrison will follow suit.
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I am reading hibernate and I came across statements like "JDBC connections open across multiple requests is not a good thing because it is an expensive resource ".
What is meant by expensive resource ?
Edit : I am adding what user unknown has added as a comment below .
If establishing a database connection is expensive , then why not use the same thing again and again (not caching) , instead of closing it and opening it everytime ?


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Modex 2012: MHIA to launch new event in 2012
August 18, 2010 - MMH Editorial
Charlotte, N.C.—Get ready to say hello to Atlanta and say goodbye to Cleveland.
That was the message from the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA) today with the announcement that MHIA is launching a new trade event in Atlanta in 2012 and saying goodbye to the North American material handling show held every other year in Cleveland.
Modex 2012 will be held February 6-9, 2012 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Ga. The tagline—"Solutions that move supply chains"—reflects an expanded footprint as the new event will bring together an inside the four walls focus on materials handling with outside the four walls logistics solutions that connect the nodes in the supply chain. Modex 2012 will showcase equipment and systems solutions as well as learning opportunities that span the entire supply chain, from material handling to logistics across manufacturing, assembly and distribution.
"We are pleased to announce that MHIA will produce this exciting new exposition which at its core will include a similar material handling and logistics profile as our very successful ProMat event," said John Nofsinger, Chief Executive Officer for MHIA. "However, the Modex event will additionally incorporate a broader array of technology, services and educational offerings that serve the overall supply chain—hence the event's tagline Solutions That Move Supply Chains."
The Modex 2012 Exhibit Spacedraw will be held December 14, 2010 beginning at 12:00 p.m. at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. This will be the first opportunity for companies to secure exhibit space for this event. Interested exhibitors can contact Tom Carbott at 800-345-1815 or 704-676-1190 for more information.
MHIA chose the Atlanta location to take advantage of what it sees as an emerging gateway to American supply chains. "Over 40% of North American manufacturing and distribution locations are now within a 500 mile radius of Atlanta," said Nofsinger. "Georgia and the Southeast are also home to extensive intermodal and logistics hubs that drive supply chains now and will continue to in the future. Currently 90% of the global top 25 third party logistics providers (3PLs) have operations in Georgia and more than 48 of the largest retailers have distribution centers in Georgia."
Jones Lang LaSalle, a professional services firm specializing in commercial real estate, has predicted that as much as 25% of the current West Coast cargo-base will shift to East Coast and Gulf ports over the next decade largely due to the Panama Canal expansion, scheduled for completion in 2014.
"We see this to be a major supply chain game-changer and have positioned Modex 2012 as the event that can help exhibitors and attendees capitalize on the new dynamics," Nofsinger added.
The Atlanta location also complements the location of ProMat. "Over the past several years, MHIA has experienced a steady increase in both quantity and quality of attendees and exhibitors delivering more solutions for manufacturing and distribution as well as supply chains," said Nofsinger. "However, with ProMat strongly positioned in Chicago, the location of Modex 2012 in the growing Southeastern market is a perfect complement to ProMat."
MHIA anticipates 500 exhibitors and tens of thousands of manufacturing, distribution and supply chain professionals from over 80 countries around the globe to attend Modex 2012. MHIA will expand its plans to partner with other industry groups via collocation at Modex to provide attendees even more exhibition, educational and networking value. "Industry leaders have taken notice of Atlanta's rapidly expanding circle of influence in the supply chain industry," said Bob Pertierra, vice president of supply chain development for the Metro Atlanta Chamber. The selection of Atlanta as the home for Modex is yet another milestone for this vibrant strategic industry in the region."
For more information about Modex 2012, including a video presentation, visit http://www.modexshow.com.


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I've read the definition, and it basically says p is a supersingular prime iff the fundamental domain of a group generated by \Gamma(p) and a matrix ((0, 1), (-p, 0)) is rational.
And there's a finite list of those, so it's kind of stupid to try to characterize a finite set.
But, anyway, what is the deep meaning of supersingular primes? What are different ways to characterize them?
This question actually arose when I posted a different question about one of the characterizations, the one related to Monster finite group. I hope to collect all possible answers from number theory here.


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I am having some trouble with wunderlist in ubuntu 12.04 64bit.
I followed the instructions on http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/how-to-install-wunderlist-in-ubuntu.html and http://support.wunderlist.com/customer/portal/questions/63885-ubuntu-11-1-installation-?new=63885
It seemed to have installed on my system, the icon is available in my menu. However when I click to run the app it does nothing.
When I try to run the app through terminal with /opt/Wunderlist-1.2.4/Wunderlist
I get this response /opt/Wunderlist-1.2.4/Wunderlist: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
And that is where the files where installed in, unless I am doing it wrong?


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THE conventional view is the oceans are rising and marginal land will be swamped and lost for ever. We are warned the Maldives and other low lying land will eventually disappear under the waves. But the reality is that man is slowly creating more land and even spectacular new islands to great pleasure and profit. So is it time to make Britain bigger too? We can build artificial islands. We can reclaim tidal land. Every coastal city could be expanded in a way that could transform them.
If I had a pound for every time Ive heard a property man say of land, they are not making it any more, I would be rich. Perhaps all clichés invite contradiction. I think it time we confounded this stale estate agents banality. By this I mean start constructing new islands. Artificial land construction is a benevolent option that our planners barely consider.
There are plenty of examples of sizeable infills but they are so long established we almost forget them. There are thousands or acres reclaimed from the North Sea between Spalding and Kings Lynn. Some of the prettiest towns are ports that have atrophied as the coast was extended. The Dutch helped enhance the size of Lincolnshire in the 18th century. They could help us again. Previous reclamations have been for agricultural use but I envisage far higher future value in buildings new homes and new workplaces. Could the entire Wash not be barraged and poldered as they have reclaimed the Netherlands?
I am thinking of adventurous extensions. Some of the most precious acres in London were captured from the Thames when Bazalgette erected the London sewers in the 1860s. The Embankment, in this sense, was a side effect of the cholera scares. The Strand, we forget, is where the Thames used to reach. Strand is Saxon for shore. The lower reaches of the Thames, its estuary on the Essex and Kent shorelines, are rich in opportunities. What would have been an impossible challenge in the past would not daunt hydraulic engineers. The trick is to look beyond our own rather tame shores. The Eighth Wonder of the World is the three Palm Islands off the coast of the Emirate of Dubai. Palm Jumeira, Jebel Ali and Deira will create 74 new miles of beach when they are finished.
Israel is considering erecting four large artificial islands off Tel Aviv, Haifa, Herzliya and Netanya jutting into the Eastern Mediterranean. This is not an original idea. Caesarea was itself a great civil engineering venture by King Herod. The Japanese have been infilling coastal land for generations but an entirely new island is a leap of the imagination. Osaka has a new airport isle, resolving a problem not otherwise easily answered. Tokyo has constructed two vast islands in Tokyo Bay. More are planned.
Brave sportsmen play cricket on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea in summer at low tide. With little more than the waste from Newcastle, Middlesbrough and Hull and some concrete blocks an entire new town could emerge. Perhaps we could consult the Prince of Wales to create a Poundbury out in the sea. Port Grimaud in France is a dynamic community built on newly created real estate.
Hong Kongs new international airport has been constructed by quarrying out an existing island and extending it. It is a triumph. It has reconfigured the entire shape of the city-state. We could do the same for diverse British cities.
Civil engineers can achieve far more than we usually let them perform. We can juggle the priorities for the extra acreage. I might stipulate no new council estates with their mysterious blights. Indeed much of the rubble needed could be derived from bulldozing Britains grottier municipal schemes and creating parks. What I think would be fascinating would be if the conventions of the Town and Country Planning Act were relaxed for any such new acreages. I regard constricting property evolution to the structure plans of the municipal imagination is a huge error that cramps or crushes experimentation.
There is nothing truly new in business. The world famous Edinburgh New Town was built on land reclaimed from impossible bogland. It needed the blessing and permission of the burgh authorities but the harmony and grace of the New Town was a tissue of private contracts not of planning as we know it. Dundee is investing huge sums reworking its frontage on the Tay, including creating new hectares from infill, but the Tay could be enhanced by a little archipelago of islands strung out from Invergowrie to Broughty Ferry.
Any estuary seems to invite consideration for a series of projects that could transform the economic balance of every seaside city or town. Instead of creeping ever more into the countryside of their neighbourhoods we could create thousands of new square kilometres. Too expensive? I cant begin to price it but the raw materials are the cheapest. Britain is not short of stone and much of the infill could be our vast tonnages of urban waste which we already tip or dump at sea.
Cardiff has lifted its commericial vitality by extensive reworking of its bay. It encountered hostility from ecologists who feared the loss or habitat for birds and fishes but it seems these fears have evaporated. Good landbuilding projects would make ample provision for wildlife. Re-configured land could positively enhance wildife opportunities. The millions of tonnes of spill from the Channel Tunnel has been used to create lovely new meadows on the Kent coast.
Have I portrayed the potential for elegance I envisage ? Two of my favourite cities are really artificial islands. The stunningly handsome Venice is erected on marshes so inhospitable none of the medieval princes wanted it. It grew up on free trade. From a mere fishing hamlet on stilts, Venice grew to become the greatest trading city in the Mediterranean. Could there be a new Venice off Britain? The elegance of Amsterdam was built on no more than bogland on the Amstel until people started to drain and pile. Again it was so marginal no extant authorities wanted it. Amsterdam fired the great Dutch boom of the 17th century, based on reclaimed land and the magic of free trade.
St Petersburg too was erected on tidal bogs on a site that seemed to defie utility. Yet the Russian land reclamation was an example of state planning and control. I expressly envisage ventures delivered by the market not by quangoes. I want new land creation to be a private enterprise project.
So, could we make these prospective islands thrive by offering clear tax concessions? If it is too idealistic to suggest zero taxes, would it be possible to at least offer lower taxes? Could they be created as enterprise zones where experiments could be conducted in flat taxes? The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey prosper as curious opt-out islands from the oppressive nature of UK mainland taxes. Could the new British islands be exempt from duty for, say, 50 years? Even better they could be outside the EU too. They would naturally flourish unencumbered by the drizzle of directives from the European Commission.
By constructing such islands I am proposing something rather more than bold civil engineering. The stones and infill are the tangible base for what could be a great adventure for enterprise and architecture. The pressing congestion of the England south east is seen as a permanent threat to The Green Belt yet there would be far more ground to play with if we applied Dutch enterprise to the entire Thames estuary. This does not need money so much as imagination.
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Difference between lon and lng
I run over these three abbreviations:
- "lat/lon"
- "lat/long"
- "lat/lng"
Are they equal?
I run over these three abbreviations:
Are they equal?
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Same, equivalent terms. lat/long is probably the most common, but of course "long" is a reserved word / data type in many programming languages, so you'll find other ways to shorten longitude.
In some contexts, GIS people will use long/lat (i.e. reverse order), since this is the normal X/Y coordinate reference system for a Cartesian plane.