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I initially thought it was inversely proportional to the mass, but I think that's wrong because temperature is inversely proportional to mass. If someone could give the formula(s) for finding this that would be fantastic. I've searched around and just found stuff about Swartzchild radius etc.
I have wondered about the same question, and I have a short attention span, so I'm going to steal the answer given by other people and put it in direct equations. Stan Liou gave the answer generally for a black hole with mass $M$, angular momentum $J$ and charge $Q$. These values being nonzero implies that it is a Kerr-Newman black hole. To get from his answer to an explicit form, I had to use $r^+$, $r^-$, $a$, $\sigma$ (constant defined in terms of other constants), $\kappa$, $T$, $A$, and finally, the luminosity. This is what I found.
$$P = \frac{1}{240} \frac{\hbar c^6 \left( 1 -\frac{Q^2 }{ 4 \pi \epsilon_0 G M^2} -\left( \frac{J c}{M^2 G} \right)^2\right)^2 }{ \pi G^2 M^2 \left( 2 +2 \sqrt{ 1 - \frac{Q^2 }{ 4 \pi \epsilon_0 G M^2} - \left( \frac{J c}{M^2 G} \right)^2 } -\frac{Q^2 }{ 4 \pi \epsilon_0 G M} \right)^3} $$
Also, I should note that not all combinations of these values are physical. Any BH that violates the inequality $ Q^2+\left ( J/M \right )^2\le M^2\, $ is unphysical, with that equation taken to be in the special universal units. This says what is already obvious from my above equation. We expect that if the quantity in the radical is negative, it won't be an allowed combination of values. So the correct qualifier on my above equation in arbitrary units is:
$$ M^2 - \frac{Q^2 }{ 4 \pi \epsilon_0 G } - \left( \frac{J c}{M G} \right)^2 \ge 0 $$
Now, let's say that it is just a Kerr black hole, implying that $Q=0$. We substitute this in to get a more compact equation.
$$ P = \frac{1}{1920} \frac{ c^6 \hbar \left(1-\left( \frac{J c}{M^2 G} \right)^2 \right)^2}{ \pi G^2 M^2 \left(1+\sqrt{ 1 - \left( \frac{J c}{M^2 G} \right)^2 }\right)^3}$$
Limiting the discussion further, let's narrow it to a Schwarzschild black hole, meaning $Q=0$ and $J=0$. That reduces the above equation to:
$$ P = \frac{\hbar c^6}{15360 \pi G^2 M^2} $$
This matches the equations you can find in Wikipedia.
Naturally, if the black hole is radiating away its mass through Hawking Radiation, mass loss and power output is connected by $E=m c^2$. So $dM/dt=P/c^2$. You could use this differential equation to find life of the black hole. I don't know what rate it would lose charge and angular momentum at.
I also wanted to verify (or refute) the claim that an angular momentum causes the black hole to radiate more slowly. I graphed the part of the equation for the Kerr-Newman black hole with the special units for charge and angular momentum. Neither of these can be zero, so I graphed from 0 to 1 for the range of both. The maximum value of the plot is exactly $240/15360=0.015625$.
So yes, any amount of charge and/or angular momentum decreases the rate of Hawking radiation.
A Kerr or Kerr-Newman black hole with mass $M$, charge $Q$, and angular momentum $J$ has the horizons: $$r_\pm = \frac{G}{c^2}\left[M\pm\sqrt{M^2-\frac{1}{4\pi\epsilon_0G}Q^2-\frac{c^2}{G^2}\frac{J^2}{M^2}}\right]$$ and surface gravity relative to infinity: $$\kappa = c^2\frac{r_+-r_-}{2(r_+^2+a^2)},$$ where $a = J/(Mc)$. The surface area is: $$A = 4\pi(r_+^2 + a^2)$$ And finally the temperature: $$T = \frac{\hbar}{c k_B}\frac{\kappa}{2\pi}.$$ Semiclassically a black hole is a perfect blackbody, so its luminosity is given by the usual Stefan-Boltzmann law: $$L = \sigma AT^4 \longrightarrow \frac{\eta_{\text{eff}}}{2}\sigma AT^4$$ I put in some factors of physical consntants that physicists usually ignore by working in natural units ($c = G = 4\pi\epsilon_0 = k_B = \hbar = 1$). Ignore them if you do as well. The mass loss rate is naturally related to this by $c^2$.
One complication is that when the temperature is high enough compared to rest mass of massive particles in units of Boltzmann constant $k_B = 1$, the luminosity is higher as the number of effectively accessible particle species increases. For a cold black holes, as astrophysical ones should be, $\eta_{\text{eff}} = 2$, counting both polarization types of a photon. If a black hole is hot enough to emit charged particles, it will do so in a biased way, thus changing its charge $Q$. There is probably a similar effect to change the angular momentum through Hawking radiation, but I'm uncertain of the details.
In $D$ spacetime dimensions, the temperature goes like $$ T\sim 1/R $$ and the non-degenerate (e.g. spherical) black hole has a horizon area scaling like $$ A\sim R^{D-2}.$$ Multiply this by the Stefan-Boltzmann law for the energy radiated per unit area $$ \frac{dE}{dt} \sim -\sigma T^D\cdot A $$ where I included $\sigma$ just to remind you it is the Stefan-Boltzmann law and you get $$ \frac{dE}{dt} \sim - T^{2}\sim - \frac{1}{R^2} $$ independently of the dimension. Because the mass of the black hole (energy that will be radiated away) is $$ E\sim R^{D-3}, $$ you may also estimate the lifetime of the black hole as $$ t_{\rm life} \sim \frac{R^{D-3}}{1/R^2}\sim R^{D-1}$$ In all the formulae above, substitute $D=4$ for our spacetime.
This site seems to have the kinds of things you're looking for: http://www.modernrelativitysite.com/chap11.htm It has a formula for the temperature of a Kerr-Newman BH about 3/4 of the way down. Ignore 'e' if you don't care about charge.
Another web page http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Bekenstein-Hawking_entropy offers a formula, marked (11), just short of halfway down, but I don't see Boltzmann's constant, and somehow it doesn't look right.
If I didn't botch up the algebra, for a chargeless BH with angular momentum the temperature is
$T_{BH}={\hbar c \over 4\pi k_B}{c^2\over{GM}}{{\sqrt{1-({a\over{M}})^2}}\over{{1+\sqrt{1-({a\over{M}})^2}}}}$
The rotational parameter $a$ is related to angular momentum by
$a = {cJ\over GM}$
Given a temperature, rate of energy loss (luminosity, or power) is given by standard thermodynamics
$P = \sigma A T^4$
A bit of math, integrating this and equating to the total mass of the BH (time c^2) gives the lifetime. Ignoring spin, this goes up with the mass cubed. With increasing spin, the temperature goes down, and the lifetime longer.
To get a feel for typical physical values, but alas only for a non-spinning BH, one can play with the online calculator at http://xaonon.dyndns.org/hawking/
I don't like listing wikipedia as a reference (but love it for browsing) but still, in case someone stumbling upon this question and answer needs more background, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation


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LOS ANGELES -- They may be from altitude, but they bring altitude, too.
The high-leaping duo of junior Taylor Sander and super freshman Ben Patch, a remarkable one-two punch for Brigham Young, led the top-ranked Cougars into the title match of the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship with a sweep of Penn State on Thursday night.
"They kind of carried us offensively," BYU coach Chris McGown said.
The 25-21, 25-16, 25-22 victory saw the two blasters combine for a combined 29 kills in 54 attempts with just two errors each and 12 of BYU's 31 digs as their quickness, explosiveness and tenacity put them into Saturday night's championship match against UC Irvine.
"They certainly throw enough at you. They're a handful," Penn State coach Mark Pavlik said of the Cougars, who had three times as many blocks as his team and more than doubled its hitting percentage.
Now the men's volleyball world has the matchup everyone has been anticipating and, frankly, expecting all season, the Cougars from the high air of the Wasatch Mountains and the Anteaters from SoCal.
BYU won both their meetings this season in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation play.
"I think it's a whole new match. I suppose we can take a little bit of confidence in that we know we can do this," McGown said. "So that's in the backs of our minds.
"More than anything we're just trying to stay humble about it and stay hungry and have the appropriate amount of respect for how good they are, 'cause they're really deep and phenomenally talented."
"It's going to be a very good match," Pavlik said. "I wouldn't be surprised if it went five."
That would be different than a Thursday that saw both losers get swept. Penn State (23-8), like Loyola in the first match against UCI, gave BYU all it could handle at times, especially in the third set. But in the end, the Cougars just had too many weapons.
Sander, who is from nearby Huntington Beach, had 17 kills in 27 swings and hit .556. Nine of those kills came in the third set.
"It was a good match by us," Sander said. "We kind of struggled in the third set [trailing throughout until taking the lead for good at 22-21 on a kill by Sander]. We were able to battle through that and that's kind of what our team has done all season."
Sander also had seven digs and three block assists. His gamesmanship and awareness have to rank at the top of the men's college game.
"Taylor's one of the top young players in the country right now and he does everything very, very well," Pavlik said. "You've got to find ways to slow him down but you know he's going to come up with a big kill here or there and like any player of the year he's going to turn it on when they need him the most.
"His future is very bright and him in a USA jersey someday is going to be very good for us."
Patch simply killed Penn State time after time by terminating out-of-system plays with big blasts.
"Overall he did a lot of really nice things on the night," McGown said. "Offensively he was really good and got in good spots at the net as a defender and then just took a lot of smart swings. We set him a lot of bail-out sets, 'Here you are, it's up high, go get it' and most every one of the swings he took was an intelligent swing. I was really proud of him."
Patch, clearly one of the best freshmen the sport has seen in at least the last 10 years, had 12 kills in 27 attempts and hit .370, had five digs, a solo block, and five block assists.
"He's going to be the prototypical opposite that everyone would love to have on their team," Pavlik said.
Josue Rivera added five kills and had five digs, and Russ Lavaja also had five kills.
Aaron Russell led Penn State with 13 kills on 34 attempts but had seven errors. Brother Peter had eight kills and hit .300, but their team combined for just two blocks.
"We did a lot of things really well," McGown said. "I was really proud of our defensive effort. I thought we had a lot of nice touches at the net and as the match went on we were able to convert a lot of those touches.
"We would have liked to be a little cleaner from the service line, but it was a match we had to feel our way through."
BYU did struggle on serves, notching six aces but 14 errors. However, Penn State had three aces and 12 errors.
"We missed a lot of serves but we served tough when we needed to," Sander said. "That helped get them out of rhythm and get three blockers up to good spots."
Ultimately, BYU wore Penn State down.
"This match was fairly emblematic of how we played all season long," McGown continued. "Just kind of grinding out wins."
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Retiring are Christina Wells, a 20-plus year employee in the assessor's office; Sheriff's Deputy Matt Rogerson, a 20-year employee, and Cathy Metz, who'd been the sheriff's secretary for more than 22 years.
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Do the type of potions I make have any effect on how much experience I gain towards leveling my Alchemy skill? Are there any ways to level my Alchemy skill aside from making potions? How effective are the methods for leveling compared to leveling by making potions?
I'm fairly sure discovering new effects gives you the biggest boost to your alchemy skill, but throwing together your own potions is gonna be effective, of course.
My strategy has been to go out and collect too many ingredients and then head to an alchemy table and just start throwing stuff together. Generally, I try to put ingredients that I know a lot of effects with ingredients that I know zero or one effects. This way, I have a better chance of matching something.
Eating ingredients will uncover the first effect.
Oh, and you could always train from a specialist and then kill them and recollect your gold. But that's limited to fives times per level.
This wiki is a great source: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Alchemy
My Potion recipe finder generates all possible 2 and 3 ingredient recipes and lets you filter by effect and purity. You can remove items you don't have and it adjust the possibilities. It also sorts by price so the post expensive ones are first.
The amount of exp you receive is directly related to the amount of gold that the potion is worth.
Potions are worth more if they have more effects on them, and the effects have a larger magnitude.
For this reason, even creating a potion that has 1 positive effect and two negative effects will be worth more than a potion with just one positive effect.
Similar to the potion recommender but with a better interface is Andrew's Skyrim Max Potion Tool which starts out assuming you have all ingredients and shows the potions ranked by cost (same as the experience benefit). However, management of ingredients is much easier: Just click on any instance of an ingredient you don't have and the whole list is updated.
This way you just prepare everything you can, clicking on ingredients as you run out.
I am a huge fan of magic regen and health regen (And any other effects I can get in) multi-effect potions, they are about 400g+ each at a minimum to sell, and they're great for leveling. Garlic and salt piles are godsends for ease of gathering and mixing with most other common ingredients.
A secret if you want to grab lots of ingredients and gold is not a major issue, fast travel between towns and hit each apothecary, do it in a circle from town to town and by the time you get back to your starting point- fresh ingredients in the first apothecary.
If you have higher level enchanting you can toss + Alchemy enchants on ring, Necklace and Circlet. I have +27 alch on all three and went from level 71- maxed alchemy in one huge batch of potion making... And I now don't bother looting most enemies because every potion sells for so much.
You may also find The Potion Recommender useful -- it allows you to put in a list of the ingredients you have and it will recommend potions with those ingredients that provide the most XP and money.
If you're going at it from a role playing point of view (i.e. not using forums or calculators to help you find potions) the first thing you need to do is experiment. Do this by making combinations of three different ingredients and hope they work. The game will turn the names of ingredients that can not be combined grey to make it a little easier on you. The usefulness of this, however, is limited to the fact that if they share one attribute and can make a viable potion the game will not keep track and tell you that you have combined them already. Try and keep track of recipes you've tried so that you wont keep testing the same ingredients.
Once you feel you have found enough affects from different ingredients and are ready to bust out the gold/skill gain - just look for the potion that sells for the most. The value of the potion is directly proportionate to the amount of skill that you will gain from making it. From my experience (I haven't actually done the math but visually it appears to be accurate) even if you use the alchemy perks or enchanted armor to get a stronger potion the skill gain will be faster. That means that you gain just as fast or close to it in later levels as opposed to in early levels. On a side note - make sure the Thief Stone is activated to increase skill gain by 20%. I thought it was under the Wizard Stone but it is not.
To procure the ingredients I just fast travelled from town to town and bought them from the vendors and sold them my potions. This happens to be a fantastic way to increase speech as well.
Blue mountain flower, giant toe, and bear claws. Best potion I've seen. Mine currently sells for 1400
Agreed with experience being proportional to potion value. I've found that making poisons out of blue mountain flowers and blue butterfly wings brings high returns, in terms of gold and alchemy skill increase.
Dragons Tongue and Fly Amanita! Holy crap just fill your house gardens and greenhouse with the stuff and you get a boatload of them and they make potions that rake in exp. I'm level 55 alchemy and have like +30% alchemy effects atm and my potions are worth about 510 each.
as most NPCs trainers trade in the items of their respective part, just sell them back the stuffs you make to recover the gold spent in training. As you progress in the skill level of making the stuff you will be able to make higher value stuffs to sell back to them, this goes up to even 90 points of mastery which is quite costly.
I found out that mixing giants toe, glow dust and glowing mushrooms generate a lot of xp and sells for a heap amount of gold it creates a fortify health potion and has other effects as well give it a try it maxed out my alchemy very quick !
If you have good Pickpocket you can pay for Alchemy training. Each time you pay, you raise your level by one. Then you can steal the gold back, but around level 70 it gets hard.
In skyrim the best potion you can make is a fortify health concoction. You put giants toe, creep cluster, and wheat. This causes your level to jump a full level till about forty, and it takes two to level once you reach level 40 alchemy. You do this and you will level as fast as possible. If you have enchanting you should make alchemy gear to improve your potions and gain even more experience.
Once your alchemy is about lvl 40 your potions will be worth at least a 1000 a piece
I use blue mountain flower and wheat grow both in the garden when you can add giant toes levels you quickly.
The xp gotten from potions is linked to its worth. I leveled up fast by mixing giants toe, wheat, and scaliy pholita (however you spell it). The scaliy pholita can be found on fallen trees near riften.Fi
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Trojan Track and Field Readies for Inaugural SAC ChampionshipsApril 17, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Coming off strong performances less than a week ago at the Chanticleer Classic, the Anderson University men's and women's track and field teams are slated to compete at the first-ever Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Championships on Friday and Saturday in Hickory, N.C.
The two-day event will be hosted by Lenoir-Rhyne University, which has hosted unofficial conference championships in the past, at the Irwin Belk Track and the Moretz Sports - Athletic Complex.
The tentative schedule of events calls for field events to get underway Friday at 3 p.m., with track heats to start at 3:15 p.m. Individual awards will be presented for first and second-place finishers, while third place finishers will be recognized as honorable mention all-conference.
The Trojan women's team posted three first-place finishes last Saturday at the Chanticleer Classic, as freshman Olivia Gardner claimed first place in the 3000 meter run, with fellow freshman Sherin Malone taking the top spot in the 100 meter hurdles and Brooklyn Watt won the discus throw.
Three freshmen - Grace Gerlock, Amber Worthy and Mia Swiersz - claimed second, third and fourth, respectively in the 3000 meters, with another freshman, Bari Robinson pacing three Trojans runners in the 800 meter run. She crossed the line in fourth, with junior Madison Guest finishing eighth and sophomore Devan Fisher placing 10th.
Junior Sydney Hazel led five AU runners in the 1500 meter run by finishing third, while Robinson claimed fourth, Gardner fifth, Gerlock seventh and Swierzs was 11th.
The 4x100 meter relay team of Malone, Jill Baxter, Megan Shahoud and Lauren Averitt captured third, while Baxter, Guest, Malone and Robinson also finished third in the 4x400 meter relay.
Baxter brought home third in both the high jump and in the javelin throw, with Shahoud claiming fifth in the long jump. Brooklyn Watt was fifth in the shot put, while teammate Savanna Keese finished 11th. Keese also claimed seventh in the discus throw and fifth in the hammer throw.
Senior Parks Edwards claimed third in the men's 3000 meter run, while senior Westley Wilson took fifth. Freshmen Ned Kennedy and Ben Boerma earned eighth and ninth, respectively.
Freshman Thomas Garrigan paced six AU runners in the 1500 meters, placing third, with Edwards finishing eighth. Newcomer Boerma crossed the line in 10th, with fellow freshmen Jesse Patrick, Kennedy and Michael Burch finishing 12th, 13th and 17th respectively. Malik Brown crossed the line in fifth in the 100 meter hurdles.
Another freshman, Caleb Knight, claimed 17th in the men's 200 meter dash, with junior Joshua Visi-Clark taking sixth in the men's 800 meter. Freshman Jonathan Shorter captured fourth in the 400 meter hurdles, with freshman Eric Hoover taking ninth in the discus throw. Hoover also claimed second in the javelin throw.
The men's 4x100 meter relay "A" team, consisting of Knight, Shorter, Brown and Hoover finished third, while Knight, Hoover, Shorter and Visi-Clark took third in the 4x400 meter relay in a time of 3:36.06. The Anderson "B" team of Garrigan, Boerma, Kennedy and Patrick finished fourth.
Buoyed by 17 season-best performances, the women's track and field team captured second place last April in Hickory, behind Wingate and ahead of host Lenoir- Rhyne.
Watt captured a pair of first-place finishes (discuss throw and shot put) while also finishing second in the hammer throw. Baxter notched four top-seven finishes, earning second in the high jump with a season-best, while placing third in the long jump with a season-best distance. She finished seventh in the 400 meter with a season-best and posted fourth in the javelin throw.
D'Yandra Morris recorded her season best in the hammer throw with a fourth-place finish, while also finishing fourth in the shot put. She placed sixth in the discus throw. Keese earned third in the discus throw and fifth in the shot put, with season-best distances, while Guest finished second in the 800 meter run and fourth in the 400 meter with a season-best time effort.
Sydney Hazel finished third in the 1500 meter and fourth in the 800 meter, while Fisher finished the 1500 meter with a season-best time.
The men's squad placed fifth overall a year ago, while setting numerous season-best marks.
Edwards and Visi-Clark are the lone returnees that competed a year ago, as Edwards placed fourth in the 5000 meter run in a season-best time, with Visi-Clark finishing 12th in the 400 meter dash with a time of 51.68 - narrowly missing the school record by three-tenths of a second.


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Let me denote $X_n$ the set of transpositions in $n$ elements. Equivalently, $X_n$ is the set of doubletons in $[1,n]\times[1,n]$. The cardinality of $X_n$ is $N=\frac{n(n-1)}{2}$.
If $f:{\mathbb Z}/N{\mathbb Z}\rightarrow X_n$ is a bijection, let us denote $$r(f):=\min\{|\ell-m|;\ell\ne m\quad\hbox{and}\quad f(\ell)\cap f(m)\ne\emptyset\}.$$ Finally, let us define $$R_n:=\max\{r(f);\hbox{bijections}\quad f:{\mathbb Z}/N{\mathbb Z}\rightarrow X_n\}.$$
What is the asymptotics of $R_n$ as $n\rightarrow+\infty$. Is it $R_n\sim cn$ for some $c\in(0,\frac12)$? Or do we have $R_n=o(n)$?
My motivation comes from a numerical algorithm due to Jacobi for the calculation of the spectrum of Hermitian matrices. Each step operates on a pair of rows/columns, with the effect of settong the entry $a_{ij}$ to zero. Once one has act on a row, it seems better to avoid coming back to it too soon. On an other hand, one needs to visit every pairs $(i,j)$ every $N$ steps.


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In order to measure velocity, one needs a calibrated measuring stick and clock. But in order to calibrate a measuring stick you need a calibrated clock and velocity. And in order to calibrate a clock you need a calibrated measuring stick and velocity. Thus velocity, distance, and time are all defined in terms of each other. Is this circularity a problem that needs to be addressed by a fundamental theory of the universe? And is it addressed by any theories on the market?
You are getting confused because you are reading somewhere that the speed of light can meaninfully vary. Then if the speed of light changes, what does it change relative to? How can we tell if the speed of light just doubled, or if all the atoms in the universe suddenly shrunk by a factor of 2? Obviously you can't. There is no difference between these two statements, even philsophically.
There is no meaning to the statement that dimensional constants change. You are being confused by incompetent physicists that claim otherwise, because they want to sensationalize to the general lay public, which does not appreciate this well established fact. You asked this question because you realize that it is meaningless to speak about a dimensional constant changing, and this is causing cognitive dissonance. All physicists go through this cognitive dissonance, and it is fixed when you understand that dimensional constants cannot be meaningfully said to vary
No, and no. For several reasons:
In a loose sense (you need to add a mass constant, to speak of momentum instead of velocity), the circularity is addressed by the three constants $\hbar, G, c$ and their respective theories, quantum mechanics, general relativity, and special relativity.
As say by David, $c$ solves the space vs time.
For speed vs distance, it is $\hbar$ what is needed, and in fact the lack of this constant delayed the publication of Newton's Principia, who -after suggestions of two friends- did a lot of rewritting for the theorem of angular momentum, aka equal areas at equal times. Note that the area in an orbit, at fixed $\delta t$, is proportional to speed cross times distance.
I can not argue so easily for speed against time, but if it can be reduced to an issue of spacetime geometry, then $G$ controls it, but again there is the issue that you have no considered mass in your circles. Here it could be more about acceleration or about force.
Another way to see all of this is that in natural units $\hbar=1, c=1$ everything can be written in energy, say $eV$, and then $G$ provides you a natural calibrated stick, Planck mass.
So the second point of your question is yes, it is addressed.
As for the first question, ¿is the circularity a problem for a fundamental theory?, amazingly it seems not, as it is proved by the fact that Newton work was seen as a valid fundamental theory for centuries.
My answer PSE-here is part of my answer. From there: "length, time, mass and charge units are deeply linked through the properties of atoms and speed of light."
Taking $c,\varepsilon,G$ as constants ("field constants" because they depend on space properties) the bulk constitutive equations of the world keep good as long as Mass, Charge, Length, Time units (M-L-Q-T) change by the same scale factor. c speed is an invariant (L/T) and it is imposed by space.


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The Genealogy of Jesus
I love the list of names in the Gospel today, Matthew's Genealogy of Jesus.
The list was the subject of a wonderful homily once given by the great Dominican theologian, Herbert McCabe which concludes with a memorable Advent meditation: "Well, that is the Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ. The moral is too obvious to labour: Jesus did not belong to the nice clean world of Angela McNamara or Mary Whitehouse, or to the honest, reasonable, sincere world of the Observer or the Irish Times. He belonged to a family of murderers, cheats, cowards, adulterers and liars—He belonged to us and came to help us. No wonder He came to a bad end, and gave us some hope."
The homily, along with many other splendid things, can be found in Father McCabe's book, God Matters. Blessed Advent.
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murderers, cheats, cowards, adulterers and liar
Also dopes: I'm looking at you, Hezekiah.
There is a collection of Advent essays called Watch for the Light. It was put together and published by the late, lamented Plough Press in 2001; Orbis distributes it now. For Dec. 16 the reading is from a novel called Evensong by Gail Godwin, published in 1999. The novel is about an Episcopal priest, a woman, who is pastor of a mountain parish. The selection from the book begins with a 10-year-old girl standing before the congregation reading the genealogy.The congregation is taken aback. "If I had dared to do this part of the sermon," says the priest, "there would have been raised eyebrows before Perez and silent mutiny before Boaz." The girl finishes in three minutes and 10 seconds, and Pastor Margaret begins the sermon, which she says is drawn from a lecture she heard by Fr. Raymond Brown, SS, which was published in a monograph, which will be available in the church crypt.
Last year I finally decided to see if the Brown monograph existed outside the fictional church's crypt. It does: A Coming of Christ in Advent, published by The Liturgical Press, and Amazon had it. It's short and it's Raymond Brown, so it's good. I have been re-reading it today.
During the summer I finally wondered if Evensong was available. Mirabile dictu, at my library. On the shelf. It is not a great novel, but it is a very, very good one. You can find the back story for the people mentioned in the Watch for the Light selection. I recommend everything in italics here. Also Matt. 1.
Perhaps that genealogy is why the church decided that mary must have been immculately conceived, to break the genetic chain in this dodgy family tree. Although the tree is Joseph's, Mary too was of the House of David. Joseph, not immaculately conceived, was still stuck with his family ancestry. But Mary wasn't.
In November, the Tallis Scholars (White Lights Festival, Lincoln Center) sang a wonderful piece by Arvo Part of the genealogy, except backwards! from Christ to Adam. It combined a deep chant undertone with a light upper register with the air of an Oh Susanna or maybe Chuck Barry, "I'm going to Neworlens...." Amazing.
Correction: That would be Fats Domino goin to norleans.
Not to be snarky, Mr. McGrath, but I'll bet that if I could go back 14 generations my family wouldn't be any greater shakes than Joseph's. I know what's in my line for four back and already there is a dodgy spot where there are too many spouses without sufficient offsetting deaths or divorces. Maybe yours is exceptional?
Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar
Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab
Boaz became the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth.
whose mother had been the wife of UriahIn
It is interesting to study these women as they foreshadow Mary and shed some light on how Matthew handled the rumours surrounding the circumstances of Jesus's birth.
There is a wonderful book by Ann Ulanov, prof of religion and psychiatry at Union Theological, titled, The Female Ancestors of Christ.
Four women are featured: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba, the only women named in the genealogy of Matthew in the Gospels.
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I'm sure it's not a new observation, but as I read this post and then the Nativity accounts in Matthew and Luke, I was struck by how male-dominated the first is and how woman-centered the second.
Matthew has the long and slightly tedious list of mostly male progenitors of Jesus, which turn out to be legal forebears in some sense, but definitely not biological. He has the numerology of the 14 x 3 generations, which I suspect is mostly a guys' thing (and which he somehow manages to miscount). And he treats Mary as a vessel, rather than a person. She is simply "found to be pregnant." It is Joseph who gets the angel's explanation in a dream, plus two more visitations about going to and returning from Egypt.
In Luke, we are told that God actively seeks Mary's consent and cooperation in this most momentous event. She says yes for herself and for us. And then she goes immediately to visit Elizabeth and stays for three months. There's the wonderful detail of the baby leaping in Elizabeth's womb. And we can imagine the two of them sitting comfortably each day in Elizabeth's sewing room, making baby clothes and talking happily in the immemorial way of women at such times.
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NALE, Bill (Richard William), 70, of Weirton, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at his home.
He was born on Jan. 15, 1943, in Steubenville, OH, a son of the late Richard L. Nale and the late Madelyn Swartzmiller Nale.
Bill is also preceded in death by one brother, Kenneth L. Nale.
On Feb. 28, 1965, Bill was joined in marriage by Mildred Bragg (Valentine) Nale.
Bill retired from IBM as Senior Associate Fire and Safety
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Surviving are his wife, Mildred Bragg (Valentine) Nale; daughter, Rayann L. Nale of Weirton, WV; sister, Tamara Floyd of Georgia; two grandchildren Michael Meyer and Tyler Walkup; and one great-granddaughter Willow Meyer. Also surviving is his beloved pet, Hans.
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Deploy in Designer V2.0.0 Build: 298
First, I'm excited about the new Designer 2.0.
Suggestions about deploy:
Usability wise, I got stuck attempting to deploy my project. I thought the red underlining indicated that the path was invalid, which is somewhat vague. Is it possible to pop-up an actual error message instead that shows the reason it keeps failing? I was initially confused at what the error was trying to communicate. I understood the red line was indicating an error, it wasn't until I accidentally moused over the area that I saw what it was complaining about. That deploying to the same folder as the project isn't allowed.
I thought the deploy function would also minify and consolidate the files in my project. It appears to just copy the files to another location. Is it possible to integrate this function into the deploy? At least have a project setting that allows that to be a possible option for those that want it?
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This needs work, no question about it. Thanks for the suggestions, we'll keep that in mind while re-working the UX of this process. At this point big changes are not likely to make it in the final version but it's definitely something we'll improve in a point release.--
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For many years I have suffered from patellofemoral syndrome. My understanding is that, in my case, the cause is the relatively under developed VMO on both legs. I do a great deal of split squats and they help a lot, but I would like to identify some more exercises. Can anyone offer any suggestions?
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PFPS (patello-femoral pain syndrome) is usually caused by the knee cap tracking off to the lateral side instead of keeping centered in the femoral groove. The causes can be from muscle weakness (the VMO as you mentioned but also the glutes), tightness (muscle and fascia) esp. laterally, and/or faulty lower extremity alignment.
If you haven't already consulted with a sports physical therapist or doctor, that would be a good place to start esp. if you haven't tried the McConnell taping mentioned below.
To strengthen the VMO, first release any lateral muscle or hamstring tightness, and then make sure that you have good alignment while doing the exercises. Avoid pain as this will cause an inhibition of the VMO and negate your attempts to strengthen.
• Muscle Weakness - The problem of VMO weakness as compared to the VL (vastus lateralis) is that it is not just a matter of weakness, but also of sequencing or timing of the muscle contraction. You want the VMO to kick in before the larger VL muscle contracts. If the VMO is delayed, the VL over-powers the smaller, weaker VMO causing the patella to track off to the lateral side.
One training technique involves taping to control the tracking of the knee cap. (McConnell taping.) Then you can practice eccentrics ie step downs within a pain-free range. Pain needs to be controlled when attempting to strengthen the VMO because pain inhibits the muscle contraction. Strengthening of the VMO usually occurs in the latter degrees of knee extension, so you don't need to go into full flexion which places a greater strain on the patella.
• Alignment - When doing VMO exercises, you need to look at the entire leg alignment including the foot and ankle. For instance, a foot that pronates (flattening the arch) causes a shift in the knee and patellar alignment. Foot orthotics may help relieve PFPS by improving foot alignment and controlling pronation.
This video gives a good explanation about how to align your foot and tibia, and focus on the recruitment of the VMO and glutes in weight bearing or closed kinetic exercise such as your split squats.
Muscle tightness may also contribute to poor knee and patellar alignment.
• Tightness - Gently test the mobility of your knee cap. If it glides easily, especially medially (toward the inner thigh) then you are in good shape. However, often with PFPS the knee cap movement is restricted.
Tight hamstrings and gastroc muscles behind the knee can cause a slight flexion at the knee which increases pressure on the patella and inhibits the function of the VMO. Self-massage to release the hamstrings, esp. the biceps femoris on the lateral side, can improve the function on of the VMO, so release tight muscles before strengthening the VMO. Lateral muscles that may need releasing are the lateral quads, TFL/IT band and glutes to allow for neutral alignment.
The following exercises use a a foam roller to massage or release:
• VMO Strengthening - Start with simple quad sets, placing your hand on your VMO for feedback. Tapping on the muscle can also help to facilitate a better muscle contraction.
Progress to closed kinetic chain (weight bearing) exercises like split squats,
Hope that helps.
I have had patellar tracking disorder for years. I run and run and the end result is eventually sublocation in my knee everytime I use stairs, walk, or crouch. I have found a magic tool though! My friends, I am talking about the torture device called the foam roll. Most times the cause of patellar tracking disorder is overly tight IT bands on the outside of the thigh. Rolling on IT band with your weight on the foam roll about 10 times is a miracle. After two days of using the foam roll I can use the stairs again. It is still a little hitchy but gets better all the time. I can not sing the praises of the foam roll enough. Stretching using this tool will loosen it up in no time. Get one!


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Can anyone give me an example of an bounded and linear operator $T:\ell^\infty\to \ell^\infty$ (the space of bounded sequences with the usual sup-norm), such that T has dense range, but is not surjective?
Here is an answer to an easier but related question.
Proposition. There is a one to one operator $T$ from $\ell_1(2^{\aleph_0})$ into $\ell_\infty$ that has dense range.
Of course, such an operator cannot be surjective because $\ell_1(2^{\aleph_0})$ is not isomorphic to $\ell_\infty$.
My proof of the Proposition uses an old result of Bill Davis and mine (Remark 4 in
Davis, W. J.; Johnson, W. B. On the existence of fundamental and total bounded biorthogonal systems in Banach spaces. Studia Math. 45 (1973), 173–179):
$\ell_\infty$ has a biorthogonal system $(x_\alpha,x_\alpha^*)_{\alpha<2^{\aleph_0}}$ with $\|x_\alpha\|=1$ and $\sup_\alpha \|x_\alpha^*\|<\infty$ such that the linear span of $(x_\alpha)$ is dense in $\ell_\infty$.
To prove the Proposition, define $T$ to be the norm one linear extension of the map $e_\alpha \mapsto x_\alpha$, where $(e_\alpha)$ is the unit vector basis for $\ell_1(2^{\aleph_0})$. This mapping obviously has dense range and is one to one because every biorthogonal system is countably linearly independent.
Here is a variation on the OP's question:
Is there a one to one bounded linear operator from $\ell_\infty$ into itself that has dense range but is not surjective?
The interest in the variation is that this question is easily seen to be equivalent to:
Are there quasi-complementary copies of $\ell_\infty$ in $\ell_\infty$ that are not complementary?
(Recall that two closed subspaces of a Banach space are said to be quasi-complementary if their sum is dense and their intersection is $\{0\}$.)
In this paper by Amir Bahman Nasseri, Gideon Schechtman, Tomasz Tkocz, and me it is shown that there is an injective, dense range, non surjective operator on $\ell_\infty$. The proof is not technically difficult but has some interest. From the theory of Tauberian operators one deduces that such an operator exists if and only if there is a dense range, injective, non surjective operator Tauberian operator (``Tauberian" in this context just means that the second adjoint of the operator is injective) on $L_1(0,1)$. Although $L_1(0,1)^* = L_\infty(0,1)$ is isomorphic to $\ell_\infty$, the a priori equivalence is not obvious because of the lack of reflexivity, but we need only the obvious implication. The main tool for constructing the $L_1$ operator is a finite dimensional lemma proved by computer scientists. So, in some sense, the original question about operators on a non separable Banach space is connected to computer science!
I could prove that if $T$ has dense then $T$ is surjective, in the cases where $T=S^{*}+W$, $W$ is weakly compact and $S:l^1\rightarrow l^1$ or when $T$ has totally disconnected spectrum.


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Cabernets Like Cabernets Should Be Eric Asimov writes a thoughtful and compelling treatise on the pendular swing of styles in Napa Cabernet. He visited us at the vineyard in July to taste Dyer wines (he calls our wines "... balanced and delicious") and talk about the subject. It's a fascinating subject and we were happy to be able to contribute.
Vinography, Alder Yarrow
Calling it The Mountain Wines of Napa: Tasting Notes from Altitude, he tasted approx 100 wines from Spring Mountain, Mt Veeder and Diamond Mountain. "The Napa Valley is ringed by mountains, but the cool, fog shrouded Mayacamas mountains to the west of the valley are perhaps the best known, and the three AVAs (American Viticultural Areas) found in this range are home to some of Napa's best wineries.
Mount Veeder, Spring Mountain District, and Diamond Mountain District are less visited than many of Napa's other AVAs. Tucked in the folds and creases of the mountains and protected by sick-inducing winding roads that lead far from the safety of Napa's main highway corridor, these mountain winegrowing regions are quiet refuges from the hustle and bustle of Napa. And that goes for grapes as well as people.
High up above the valley, vines and wine lovers alike will find cooler breezes, long shadows and lingering sunsets, and special wines that have bright, clear fruit and often beautiful intensity."
2007 Harvest Report from Dyer Vineyard and Diamond Mountain District
We harvested Dyer Vineyard on Sunday October 14th. Overall the growing season was quite favorable, with no spring frost, and limited rainfall keep vine vigor quite low. Mild temperatures prevailed through most of the summer, with only two peaks of over 100 degrees. Our vineyard always ripens late due to its northeast exposure, which means the final stages of ripening take place as days get shorter and cooler. We feel this leads to mature flavors at relatively low levels of potential alcohol. As we came into the first week of October, a classic La Nina pattern was beginning to set up for early rainfall. We left the grapes out through two rainfalls of about an inch, which seemed to refresh the vines without reaching the root system (which is deep into rocks) or damaging the thick skinned Bordeaux varieties. A warm day on Saturday dried the vines nicely, and with a third storm forecast for Monday we pounced on Sunday. We picked at 24.2 brix and will produce about 500 cases.
Dawnine writes the weekly update on harvest activities for the Diamond Mountain District published weekly in the St Helena Star… below is the running commentary on the 2007 harvest as a whole.
With only a few vineyards left to pick on Diamond Mountain (Constant, always among the last vineyards to ripen and the last block in Diamond Creek) we can start to take stock of the 2007 harvest. Framed by a heat wave over Labor Day and the early advent of the rainy season, harvest 07 has been long and well paced. For the majority of the district, ripening was slow and steady and grape maturity is very even. Flavors and phenolics are high and easily extractable and fermentations have been fast and complete. Crop levels are coming out slightly above average and nobodies complaining about that!
Last weekend saw a flurry of harvest activity on Diamond Mountain. Picking decisions shifted with the indisputable opening of the rainy season from "why would I pick, (if I can get any more development by waiting)?" to "what are we waiting for?" and those sitting on the cusp took advantage of the window between rains to bring in what was ready. There is still a bit of fruit out and those that have made that choice seem sanguine. Speaking from first hand experience, the fruit that came in over the weekend was in great shape.
Lots of jockeying to get the grapes that are ready in before the rain predicted for Tuesday afternoon, but no alarm. About half of Diamond Creek is in, Reverie still has Petit Verdot to harvest and Dyer and Diamond Terrace are set to ride out this next rain episode before harvesting (soon). Grape maturity has been near perfect, both in terms of sugars and tannin development. Deep, dark colors and easily extractable tannins are being reported across the board. The turkeys, fat on Cabernet, have already voted 2007 a banner year.
On Diamond Mountain harvest is officially in full swing. Von Strasser is reporting 70% complete, Diamond Creek is picking and Sterling has been bringing fruit off the mountain on a daily basis. Most everyone is either picking or counting down to harvest. Crop levels are up and down, but generally solid. There is some raisining and there are the usual discussions about how ripe is too ripe… but the real buzz is about the quality! More later… got to get back to work!
The light rain and cooler weather last weekend served only to settle the dust and seems to have jump started the vines on Diamond Mountain. All over the mountain ripening has been steady but slow. Now with seasonably warm weather and a full moon, winemakers are reporting that berries seem softer, flavors are ripe and pH's are resolving. Sterling has picked 18tons of Merlot so far, but the bulk of the crop on their Diamond Mountain Ranch is between 22.5 and 24.5 Brix and they expect to be busy this week. Diamond Creek has started picking. AGV and TSV are both scheduled to start this week and vonStrasser is almost midway thru.
There's a bit of a lull in harvest on Diamond Mountain and a pattern is emerging. Seems those vineyards with sugars in the 23 Brix range prior to Labor Day continued to accumulate sugar during the heat, while those under 22 Brix held tight and are just beginning to move. So far the yields have been inconsistent, but most are reporting fairly normal crops on average. There won't be much harvest activity this week, but if current weather conditions hold out (no rain on Thursday, please!) things are looking good for vintage 2007.
Diamond Mountain District
What a difference a week makes! With these cooler days, most vineyards in the Diamond Mountain District have rebounded from the heat with little lasting effect. Sugars on some south facing slopes came up fast and will be harvested later this week but the majority of us are now looking at sometime after the 20th for Cabernet. The team at J. Shram (aka Schramsburg) would just love to finish the sparkling harvest before picking Cabernet…and as of today, it looks like they'll make it.
Diamond Mountain District
It's hot and Vintage 2007 on Diamond Mountain is underway- fully 5 weeks earlier than last year and coming on fast. Most of what's been harvested so far is Merlot, Malbec or young vineyards (Graeser Vyd may have set a record by harvesting Merlot in August!). Last week saw sugars in Cabernet between 20 and 22 Brix and there are projections of serious Cabernet harvest by the middle of September.
Diamond Mountain District
Even with the expectation of an early harvest, late August is still fairly quiet on Diamond Mountain. Von Strasser's 2nd vintage of Gruner Veltliner is in the barrel and Reverie's Roussanne should be ready soon, but for Cabernet, the feeling is that things won't really heat up until the 3rd or 4th week of September. Verasion and green thinning are done, with most noting that the maturity is very even. Berry size is small and people are
Decanter, Steven Spurrier, September 07
Decanter, Steven Spurrier, September 07 The famous Paris based wine writer (he organized the momentous Paris tasting of 1976 that catapulted Napa to the top of the wine world) has an article that revisits the comparison of Napa and Bordeaux. In a side bar titled "Better Than Bordeaux? Spurrier's Standouts"…he features our '05 Meteor" saying "a single vineyard Cabernet with smotth, spicy fruit, plush tannins and a nice lift of tannins"(this will be available to our mailing list a year from now—as we inaugurate a new label called simply "Meteor"). In the meantime there are 270 cases of the 2004 available under the Dyer label.
Bill Dyer speaking at Napa Valley Wine Library seminar on Aug 11.
Bill Dyer speaking at Napa Valley Wine Library seminar on Aug 11. The topic of this years seminar and tasting is Napa Cabernet and Bill will be representing the Diamond Mountain District at the day long seminar preceeding the tasting.
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WEIRTON - Tickets are still available for Tuesday's Taste of Home Cooking School, to take place at the Serbian American Cultural Center.
The annual event, hosted by The Weirton Daily Times and the Herald-Star, will feature Taste of Home culinary specialist Michael Barna showcasing 10 recipes before a crowd of hundreds.
Tickets start at $10 for general admission, $20 for preferred seating and $45 for VIP tickets. Doors open at 5 p.m., and the show begins at 7 p.m.
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MAJOR SPONSORS — Weirton Medical Center and Create-A-Room are two of the major sponsors for this year's Taste of Home Cooking School, set to take place Tuesday at the Serbian American Cultural Center. Representing the sponsors are, from left, Mary VanDine, RN-Director of WMC Emergency Department; Stanley Manino, MD cardiology; David Artman, director of WMC operations; Craig Oser, MD plastic and reconstructive surgery; Venkata Kella, MD general surgery; Roger Isla, MD otolaryngology & Mike Postlethwaite, general manager of Create-A-Room.
A special reception for VIP ticket holders will begin at 4:30 p.m., featuring a meet-and-greet with Barna. Maggie McGinnis, inside sales manager for the newspapers, explained VIP ticket holders are asked to be at the Serbian American Cultural Center by 4:15 p.m. They then will be taken to a separate entrance for the VIP reception.
Everyone attending will receive a goody bag, including Taste of Home magazines, coupons and samples.
The Taste of Home Cooking School is sponsored this year by Weirton Medical Center, Create-A-Room and Hancock County Savings Bank, with support from M&M Hardware and Frank and Jerry Furniture and Appliances, Kroger Hollywood City Center and the Steubenville Wal-Mart.
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n The Taste of Home Cooking School will take place Tuesday at the Serbian American Cultural Center in Weirton. Tickets are still available for $10 for general admission, $20 for preferred seating and $45 for VIP. VIP ticket-holders must arrive no later than 4:15 p.m. for a special pre-event reception. The doors will open for all guests at 5 p.m. and the show will begin at 7 p.m.
"It's important for Create-A-Room to be part of the community," General Manager Mark Postlethwaite said, noting a lot of people have asked him about the Cooking School. "We know this will be a great event.
Create-A-Room is owned by Lisa and Derek Ferguson.
"The interest in the show has been overwhelming and it's very important to us at Weirton Medical Center to be a part of such great, positive events in our community," says Kelli McCoy WMC director of communications.
McCoy also will serve as the mistress of ceremonies for the Cooking School.
In addition to the cooking demonstration, dozens of local and national vendors will be on hand, and guests also will be able to purchase tickets for a chance to win either a Weber Genesis E-3-10 gas grill or a Hyde Park six-piece dining set.
Tickets for the drawing are $5 each of three tickets for $10. Tickets for the drawing are available at the Herald-Star office and M&M Hardware, and also will be available the night of the event.
Among the vendors scheduled to appear are Hancock County Savings Bank; Weirton Medical Center; Create-A-Room; McDonnell Chiropractic; Thera, Stella and Dot; Uniquely Designed; BeautiControl; Images; Miriam Soloman - Mary Kay; Origami Owl; Debbie Lawton - Tastefully Simple; Barb Cuchta - The Bag Lady; Mary Bizzari; Tammy Scott - 31; Vickie Garan - Avon; Schrickel Chiropractic; EZ Care; Kathy Soplinski; Suzanne Stable; Steubenville Chiropractic; Bath Fitter; Gina West - Tupperware; Nerium International; Center Spread; Larue Jewelers; and Bayberry Inn.


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The Tottenham star's blistering campaign has led to speculation he will prioritise his club career, but the Celtic man cannot see his team-mate picking and choosing his gamesTottenham star Gareth Bale will not pick and choose his games for Wales, team-mate Joe Ledley insists.
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The 23-year-old has enjoyed a blistering season so far, notching 25 goals in 42 appearances for club and country and once again attracting the attention of Europe's biggest clubs.
As his club career takes off there are fears that Bale, like Manchester United star Ryan Giggs before him, may miss friendly matches for Wales in order to keep himself fresh for club football.
But Ledley believes this is unlikely. "I can't see him picking and choosing his games," he told reporters. "He likes meeting up, being with the lads, the training and the games."
Bale scored two goals the last time Wales and Scotland met in October, including a sensational last-minute winner, and Ledley believes the Spurs star will inspire fear every time he gets the ball.
"Scotland will be nervous about playing against him," he added. "Most defenders would be - because I think he's good at everything."


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NEWELL - Finding a new color for the world-famous Fiesta dinnerware line has always been more art than science - whether it's the old ivory of yesteryear or the lapis of last week.
"For me, it's more instinctive. I'm always on the prowl ... looking for colors that are right for the Fiesta brand," said Rich Brinkman, vice president of sales and marketing for the Homer Laughlin China Co.
"I have an affinity for color," he said.
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HEART BOWL — The Fiesta medium heart bowl is expected to ship June 10 and be available in stores July 1. Contributed
NEW COLOR — Here is a five-piece Fiesta place setting of the new lapis color. -- Contributed
SHIPPING SOON — Jose Gimeno, a ceramic artist at Homer Laughlin China Co., shows off a sculpted mold, top photo, of the Fiesta Dancing Lady cookie jar, which will ship July 1 and be available in stores July 20. Above is the finished product. -- Contributed
The Fiesta Dancing Lady cookie jar will ship July 1 and be available in stores July 20. -- Contributed
Brinkman, the Newell company's chief color developer, is largely responsible for the new, highly anticipated lapis color announced last week at the International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago.
Brinkman said lapis, named for the intense blue lapis gemstone, was several years in the making.
"As the color emerges and starts to define itself, we narrow into the color and say, 'That's the color I want,' " he said.
At Homer Laughlin, Brinkman has to be a trend-setter and a trend-spotter. As he's going about his day, conceptualizing the next Fiesta color, he's noticing things - like trending colors in fashion, jewelry, makeup, high-end home accents and interior design.
Brinkman said he is attentive to shifts in color in the culture and noticed that blues were ascending.
"It happened about three or four years ago, when turquoise started to come on really strong," he explained. "That took us into peacock blues. They were perfect for the palette. Then lemongrass and sunflower became part of that palette."
Next, he considers how the color will look next to all the other Fiesta colors - the color palette.
"Some trending colors may not be right for the brand," he said. "We needed the medium-blue hue. This is the year of the blues."
From its inception in 1936, Fiesta has been known for bold colors that go well together and are easy on the eye. It's also easy to spot, so much so that finding Fiesta dinnerware on TV shows such as "The Big Bang Theory" has become somewhat of a cultural pastime - at least among Fiesta collectors. The current Fiesta palette comprises 15 colors, including lapis, which takes its place among the blue hues: cobalt, peacock and turquoise.
Brinkman said he also wants a color that will wear well in the home and especially in the kitchen during dinner time. Lapis, he said, "is easy to eat food off of. It's one of those colors you only get every so often."
When Homer Laughlin introduced its flamingo color last year, for example, it was because the Fiesta line needed a pink hue but one that's "not going to offend you when you're eating something. ... The food surface has to be easy to look at," he said.
When Brinkman knows he has the right color, he shares it with management and relies on the color team at Homer Laughlin to make it a reality. Because of the proprietary nature of color development, the company does not do research with focus groups.
"It really all starts and ends right here," he said.
Also this year, Homer Laughlin is introducing a Fiesta Dancing Lady cookie jar and a medium heart bowl.
Brinkman describes the cookie jar as the first three-dimensional version of the trademark dancing lady by Homer Laughlin in the history of Fiesta.
"The dancing lady got a huge 'wow' by the marketplace. Nobody knew that was coming," he said.
The cookie jar mold was hand-sculpted by Homer Laughlin ceramic artist Jose Gimeno. Born in Zaragoza, Spain, Gimeno worked for years as a designer at Hispania in Spain. He moved to the United States in 1980 and began designing for Hall China, which is now owned by Homer Laughlin.
"Vitrified ceramics are very strong and sound once they are fully completed," Gimeno said. "However, the process leading up to the completion can be challenging."
Despite the vagaries associated with a three-dimensional piece, Gimeno said he was able, through modifications, to give the cookie jar both strength and beauty.
Brinkman commissioned the cookie jar after learning of Gimeno's skills.
"We are very proud to have a talented artisan like Gimeno as part of our design team," he said. "The possibilities are endless as we explore the process behind items like the cookie jar and others that we have in the works. The Fiesta community may be able to look forward to many new developments in the future."
In development since 2009, the same year the square Fiesta shape debuted, the dancing lady cookie jar was held in abeyance until after Fiesta's 75th anniversary celebration in 2011, Brinkman said.
The medium heart bowl follows on the heels of the small heart bowl, which was introduced in 2009, and will be available in the following colors: sunflower, scarlet, turquoise, lapis, lemongrass, shamrock, tangerine, cobalt, peacock, ivory and flamingo.
The dancing lady cookie jar will be available in scarlet, turquoise, sunflower and lemongrass in May and lapis in July.
"While the basic dinnerware serves as the foundation of the brand, it is unique items like these that Fiesta enthusiasts are drawn to," Brinkman said. "These are the pieces that become highly collectible in years to come."


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Let $f : X \to Y$ be a morphism of schemes. Is it possible to associate to every closed immersion $i : F \to X$ a closed immersion $f^* i : G \to Y$, such that in the affine case, $(Spec(A) \to Spec(B))^*$ is given taking ideals of $A$ to ideals of $B$ via preimages? Probably this is well-known to every algebraic geometer :-)
It sounds as though what you want is the closure of the image of $F$ under $f$. (That is, the minimal closed subscheme of $Y$ factoring $f$.)
If $X =$ Spec $A$, and $Y =$ Spec $B$, and $F =$ Spec $A/I$, and $f$ corresponds to the ring map $f':B\to A$, then we can consider the preimage $J$ of $I$ under $i'$. Consider the set of primes in $B$ containing $J$. Of course, any prime in the image of $F$ under $f$ must contain $J$, since its preimage under the ring map has to contain $I$. Thus, Spec $B/J$ contains the preimage. You can check that it's the biggest such ideal, noting that in order for us to have a map $B/J \to A/I$, $J$ should be contained in the preimage of $I$.
Being the closure of the image of $F$ under $f$ is a universal property of sorts (in particular, it's unique), which more or less allows us to argue that this construction generalizes to non-affine schemes. (Just apply this local construction, and uniqueness tells us that the local constructions glue together.)


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The rateable value of the property mentioned in (a), or the aggregate rateable value of all properties mentioned in (b), must not exceed £17,999 outside London or £25,499 within London, on every day for which relief is being sought. If the rateable value, or aggregate rateable value, increases above those levels, relief will cease from the day of the increase.
Ratepayers who satisfy these conditions will have the bill for their single or main property calculated using the lower small business non-domestic rating multiplier rather than the ordinary non-domestic rating multiplier that is used to calculate the liability of other businesses.
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For the period 1 October 2010 to 31 March 2016, eligible ratepayers who occupy a property with a rateable value of £6,000 or less will receive 100% rate relief rather than the usual 50%. Eligible ratepayers occupying a property with a rateable value of between £6,001 and £12,000 will have their relief calculated on a sliding scale from 100% to 0%.
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FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Fort Riley continues to receive the latest technology the Army has to offer, especially when it comes to their helicopter fleets.
The 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division received several of the CH-47F Chinook helicopters at Marshall Army Airfield Thursday.
Fort Riley is receiving 10 of the cargo choppers, which come equipped with improved avionics and higher altitude capabilities.
The newest version of the helicopter modernizes the cockpit, upgrading the display from dials to computer monitors.
"It brings with it a whole new level of communications and avionics architecture that the old models have never had and never even thought about having. It opens up the situational awareness for the pilots which is dramatically improved over the previous versions and what that correlates to us is our ability to bring our customer, which is the ground force, more accurately and safer to the target where they need to be and with the right equipment that they need to get there," said Lieutenant Colonel Brian Hughes, 2nd Battalion, 1st Aviation Commander.
The newest Chinook helicopters will accompany the 1st CAB on an anticipated 2013 deployment to Afghanistan.


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