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Shorewood School District gets a handbook
Shorewood - After more than a year of back and forth between administrators, staff, and community members, the School Board approved an employee handbook and teacher appendix tonight.
Though the board needed to address two areas of the handbook text before it was approved, board members and teachers expressed their relief to finally have the handbook - required by Act 10 to replace teacher contracts - in place.
"The employee handbook has been worked on for months and months," Superintendent Martin Lexmond said. "I think it's been a very smart process here. It's been very collaborative, (looking back at) when we backtracked all the various meetings and players, and I think it's been done very well."
Though the handbook has been approved, the district isn't done with it yet. On the horizon is the district's "big idea" meeting in January 2012, at which teachers, administrators, community members, and the School Board will have the opportunity to examine any defects they may have found in the handbook.
"It's good to have a document, something to build on," Shorewood Education Association President Michael Halloran said before the board meeting. "Now we get to take it for a test drive."
Whitefish Bay resident takes home grand prize at the Hottest Kitchen Entrepreneur Challenge
Village of Whitefish Bay -Whitefish Bay resident Linnea Harrington was the grand-prize winner of the Hottest Kitchen Entrepreneur Challenge in the Early Stage category Wednesday, July 20, at Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Harrington beat 80 other candidates in the competition. The concept of her business is to create handcrafted and spirited frozen treats called Linnea's Pops & Lickers, LLP. The "pops" are virgin and the "lickers" contain alcohol. Seasonal flavors include strawberry basil lemonade and jalapeno peach margarita for summer, and spiced cranberry orange for fall.
Harrington launched the business in 2014. Her primary goal for the business is to resolve packaging issues and to take manufacturing to the next level.
Harrington won $2,000 in seed money from Reliable Water Services, tuition for a three-credit course at MATC during the 2016-17 academic year, consultation with FaB Wisconsin's Director of Innovation and a one-year membership in FaB. She also won a booth at the 2017 Midwest Foodservice Expo and a prize package worth $400 from Fein Brothers Restaurant Equipment & Supplies.
Social media story on the storms rolling through Milwaukee area
A social media story of the storms that moved through the Milwaukee area during the morning of July 21.
Milwaukee's first surf shop rides into Shorewood
Shorewood — When Jake Bresette was growing up in Madison, he would often dream of moving to California while watching a surfing DVD he found in a free swag bag.
After graduating high school, he and his girlfriend Alaina headed to Colorado to work at a large ski resort. After two years in recreational paradise, they returned to Madison to be with friends and family. It was around this time that they learned that they didn't have to leave Wisconsin to live the surfer's life. They could surf in Lake Michigan.
After many months of long day trips from Madison to the Milwaukee area, they decided to move to Milwaukee and start their own surf shop. They explored several business districts close to the lake, like Whitefish Bay and the Third Ward, but they found fate when they saw a 'for rent' sign at 1926 E. Capitol Drive — just a couple blocks away from their favorite surfing spot at Atwater Beach.
The young married couple found a nearby apartment on Murray Avenue, and so far, they've been loving the atmosphere here in Shorewood.
"The main reason we chose Shorewood is because of Atwater Beach, and because it's a family-friendly community with low crime," Jake said.» Read Full Article
Rock climbing wall, trampolines might come to Brown Deer business park
Brown Deer — A rock climbing and trampoline park could soon be coming to the Brown Deer Business Park.
The business, called Rockin' Jump, would be located in an existing 33,000-square-foot building at 9009 N. Deerbrook Trail. Rockin' Jump is a national franchise with one other Wisconsin location in Madison. The Madison franchise was opened in June 2015 by Jim Thorpe. He is partnering with Four Seasons Skate Shop owner Neal Levin to bring the franchise to Brown Deer.
Rockin' Jump would be the first facility of its kind in the North Shore. Only two other facilities of its kind exist in the Milwaukee area: Helium Trampoline and Climbing Park in New Berlin and Sky Zone Trampoline Park in Waukesha.
Thorpe and Levin were looking to open a trampoline and climbing facility in the north Milwaukee suburbs, and the Brown Deer facility is the only building that met their space requirements. They are in the process of acquiring funding and working out a lease, but they are hopeful that they will be able to work out those details in the next several weeks.
"There are still some things that need to get taken care of, but it looks promising," Thorpe said.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay baseball team ends Shorewood magic with regional win
The rocket of a first-inning double by Whitefish Bay first baseman Andrew James not only tied the game for the Blue Dukes in their WIAA regional baseball final against visiting Shorewood on July 15, but it also marked a bit of a breakthrough for the offensively struggling team.
James and fellow senior Jake Fisher both had two hits and two RBIs, and pinch-hitter Connor Nethen broke open the game with a bases-loaded triple in the fifth, as Bay won the regional title in their final game at Cahill Park with a 9-3 decision.
"I was happy to get it started because once something like that happens, then everyone gets going," James said.
"We had an error (in the top of the first), and that let them take the lead," said Blue Duke coach Jay Wojcinski. "Then we get a double, tie the score and later take the lead. That was huge."
The Blue Dukes eventually ended their season with a 2-0 loss to NSC champion West Bend West on July 18.» Read Full Article
Nicolet baseball team goes down fighting in regional loss to Kewaskum
The season-ending 10-6 WIAA regional semifinal loss for the Nicolet baseball team on July 12 was a microcosm of the season.
Fall behind, work to stay in the game, fall further behind, work even harder to stay in the game.
"We always felt we had a chance to win," said Knight coach Jason Grodsky. "The guys never felt they were really out of it. I just like the way we battled. It really marked our last 10 games. We could have won any of them."
The loss ended the Knights' season at 9-21, while Kewaskum (14-12) went on to fall to defending state champion Menomonee Falls in a regional final July 15.
The Knights fell behind, 1-0, in the first, but then the Indians pushed ahead, 6-0, in the third. A big error on a bunt with runners on first and second really opened the floodgates that inning, Grodsky said.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay's Rybakowicz shuts out Brown Deer in regional semi
Whitefish Bay senior pitcher Jake Rybakowicz had his curveball working July 12 in the WIAA regional semifinal baseball game with area rival Brown Deer, and that was bad news for the Falcons.
Rybakowicz had a career night with 11 strikeouts, eight of them in the first four innings, and just two walks in blanking Brown Deer, 4-0, and advancing the Blue Dukes to a regional final back at home at Cahill Park at 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 15, against Shorewood.
The Greyhounds were upset winners over Cedarburg.
"I established the curveball early, and then I was able to get a good mix going with that and the fastball," Rybakowicz said. "This was a good way for us to start the tourney off. Do it in a very positive fashion."
Bay (20-11) beat Shorewood (6-21) twice early in the regular season. Blue Duke coach Jay Wojcinski said Bay will have to get the bats rolling if it wants to advance much further in the WIAA tournament.» Read Full Article
Initial Reaction Podcast: Wisconsin Badgers football, WIFCA All-Star game
Lake Country/Now sports director JR Radcliffe and Time Warner Cable Sports Channel's JP Cadorin chat about the Wisconsin sports scene, with an emphasis on Milwaukee-area preps. Find the podcast on Stitcher and iTunes.Future football stars in Wisconsin were on the table this week when Ben Worgull of the Badger Nation stopped by to talk about the state of the Badgers gridiron team, which begins in earnest Sept. 3 with a battle at Lambeau Field against LSU. Ben also talked Badgers basketball recruiting and JP and JR discussed the WIFCA All-Star game, featuring a couple future Badgers last weekend. Plus, the baseball state-tourney field is set. Each week,
West Bend West's Burns beats Whitefish Bay baseball team on mound, at plate in sectional
Nobody had to tell the Whitefish Bay baseball team just how good Nathan Burns is, as the Blue Dukes have been facing the state Player of the Year candidate for three seasons now.
Burns upped his candidacy by throwing a three-hitter on the mound and driving in the only runs of the game with a two-out, two-run single in the sixth, as top-seeded West Bend West pulled out a 2-0 win over fourth-seeded Whitefish Bay in a WIAA sectional semifinal July 18 at Germantown High School.
"We knew coming in it was going to be a close game," Whitefish Bay coach Jay Wojcinski said. "Burns pretty much beat us by himself."
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It was evident Burns was on from the start, as the Oregon State commit struck out six of the first 10 batters he faced. Whitefish Bay senior right-hander Liam Kahn was equally sharp, as the two traded zeros for five innings.» Read Full Article
Maslowski oversaw creation of nine tax incremental financing districts
Retiring Glendale City Administrator Richard Maslowski oversaw the creation of Glendale's first tax incremental financing district in 1981.
It was used to help redevelop the site of a former elementary school into the Manchester East Hotel & Suites, now the Radisson Hotel Milwaukee North Shore, 7065 N. Port Washington Road. It was the first of nine such tax financing districts Maslowski helped create during his 36 years on the job.
Additional tax districts were developed during the early and mid-'80s near the hotel site: one to replace a former city public works facility with Northeast Corporate Centre, a small office park at 7020-7080 N. Port Washington Road, and another to build Coventry Apartments, 255 W. Coventry Court, and the neighboring four-story office building that now houses BVK advertising agency, as well as North Shore Library.
In 1992, Glendale used a tax financing district for environmental cleanup costs — a then-unusual tactic that is now common. That was needed to help convert a closed Holiday Inn, built on the site of a former dump, into what is now a La Quinta Inn & Suites, 5423 N. Port Washington Road.
Maslowski said that district also became perhaps the first in Wisconsin where the developer, Marcus Corp., instead of the city, paid the costs upfront. Marcus then received property tax rebates to compensate the company for the environmental cleanup costs.» Read Full Article
Maslowski transformed Glendale in impactful career as city administrator
Glendale — When Richard Maslowski started working as Glendale's city administrator in 1980, the community's most visible properties included Bayshore Mall and Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co.'s massive grain elevator.
More than three decades later, the mall has been redeveloped as the mixed-use Bayshore Town Center, while a business park has replaced the grain elevator. They're among the many commercial developments Maslowski helped create through the city's use of tax incremental financing districts.
Without Maslowski, much of that construction might not have happened, said Jay Hintze, who served as mayor of Glendale from 2000 to 2005.
"He has the ability to look at a project and formulate a path" for development to occur, Hintze said.
Also, Maslowski's ability to help guide complicated projects and his reputation for treating developers with fairness and respect helped attract investment to Glendale, Hintze said.» Read Full Article
Development is off the table in Wilson Drive discussions
Shorewood — After hearing overwhelming opposition from residents, a committee of the Shorewood Village Board is recommending the Wilson Drive Task Force no longer consider residential or commercial development on the west side of Wilson Drive.
The idea of narrowing and possibly developing Wilson Drive was floated by local architects Mark and Linda Keane in 2005 as a way of improving connectivity between Shorewood's western neighborhoods and Estabrook Park. The idea was reintroduced in 2014 during the update of the central district master plan.
Residents objected to the idea of development on Wilson Drive, so Shorewood Village Board members agreed to remove the concept from the master plan. Trustees formed a Wilson Drive Task Force, which has been meeting since December.
The task force is headed by a 13-person steering committee, which seeks input from four work groups dedicated to traffic and safety, environmental impacts, development and parks and recreation.
The task force solicited feedback from residents during a June 15 open house event, which was attended by more than 200 people. More than 130 written responses were collected, only eight of which favored development on the west side of Wilson Drive. Many of the responses emphasized the need for green space, recreational amenities and improved park access.» Read Full Article
Debbie Roesner appointed to Fox Point-Bayside School Board
Fox Point — The Fox Point-Bayside School Board on July 18 appointed Fox Point resident Debbie Roesner to fill an open school board seat previously occupied by David Smulyan.
Smulyan, who was in the final year of his three-year term, announced in May that he would resign on June 30. Five people applied for the position, but the board members unanimously agreed Roesner's experience in the Fox Point-Bayside Education Foundation, Fox Point-Bayside PTO and her career as a banker will be an asset to the board.
Roesner will serve out the remainder of Smulyan's term, which ends in April. Roesner served on the education foundation from 2006-2010, and two of those years she served as president.
Roesner served as a long-term substitute teacher in the library of Stormonth School, and she also served as a substitute teacher in special needs programs at Stormonth and Bayside Middle School. After serving in the schools for several years, Roesner returned to her profession as a commercial lender. She is a vice president in the commercial banking division at BMO Harris.
"I'm passionate about the quality of the schools, which is why many parents choose to move to the district," she said. "I feel like that's something we need to continue to provide to our residents."» Read Full Article
Bublr makes push for extra bike rental stations in Shorewood
Shorewood — Shorewood has federal funding for nine Bublr bicycle rental stations, but the village may get another two stations through some unusual maneuvering.
In the last four years, Bublr has set up 40 stations in Milwaukee with a total of 350 rental bikes. By 2017, the organization hopes to have more than 700 bikes at nearly 100 stations in Milwaukee, Shorewood, West Allis and Wauwatosa.
Shorewood has received $400,000 in federal grants for the project, which would allow nine Bublr stations on Oakland Avenue and Capitol Drive. Shorewood would contribute 20 percent, or $100,000, to the overall project cost.
The proposed Oakland Avenue bike stations would be near Kensington Boulevard, Lake Bluff Boulevard, Jarvis Street, Capitol Drive, Newton Avenue and Edgewood Avenue. The Capitol Drive bike stations would be near Wilson Drive, Maryland Avenue and Downer Avenue.
In addition to those nine grant-funded stations, Bublr would also like to see a bike rental station near Atwater Park and another bike station at Wilson Drive and Congress Street, providing easy access to Estabrook Park and the Oak Leaf Trail. Kevin Hardman, the executive director of Bublr, said parks are prime locations for bicycle rentals, but they do not qualify for grant funding.» Read Full Article
#BestSummerEverNOW: Share your 2016 summer photos of you in the Milwaukee suburbs
Are you having the best summer ever?
It's a great time to be outdoors with many events going around in the Milwaukee area.
Whatever you might be doing, it's likely you've snapped some photos or selfies.
Whether you're enjoying a picnic in the park, a local festival, some splashing around at your community pool, or attending your local farmers market, there's plenty going on in the Milwaukee suburbs this summer.
We have started a photo gallery of our staff photographers' best summer photos from local events. But we want your photos to be added to this gallery.» Read Full Article


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How can I show that if a metric is complete in every other metric topologically equivalent to it , then the given metric is compact ?
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How can I show that if a metric is complete in every other metric topologically equivalent to it , then the given metric is compact ?
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I encountered this result in Queffélec's book's Topologie. The proof is due to A.Ancona.
It's known as Bing's theorem. We can assume WLOG that $d\leq 1$, otherwise, replace $d$ by $\frac d{1+d}$. We assume that $(X,d)$ is not compact; then we can find a sequence $\{x_n\}$ without accumulation points. We define $$d'(x,y):=\sup_{f\in B}|f(x)-f(y)|,$$ where $B=\bigcup_{n\geq 1}B_n$ and $$B_n:=\{f\colon X\to \Bbb R,|f(x)-f(y)|\leq \frac 1nd(x,y)\mbox{ and }f(x_j)=0,j>n\}.$$ Since $d'\leq d$, we have to show that $Id\colon (X,d')\to (X,d)$ is continuous. We fix $a\in X$, and by assumption on $\{x_k\}$ for all $\varepsilon>0$ we can find $n_0$ such that $d(x_k,a)>\varepsilon$ whenever $k\geq k_0$. We define $$f(x):=\max\left(\frac{\varepsilon -d(x,a)}{n_0},0\right).$$ By the inequality $|\max(0,s)-\max(0,t)|\leq |s-t|$, we get that $f\in B_{n_0}$. This gives equivalence between the two metrics.
Now we check that $\{x_n\}$ still is Cauchy. Fix $\varepsilon>0$, $N\geq\frac 1{\varepsilon}$ and $p,q\geq N$. Let $f\in B$, and $n$ such that $f\in B_n$.
The original proof can be found in V. Niemytzki and A. Tychonoff, Beweis des Satzes, dass ein metrisierbarer Raum dann und nur dann kompakt ist, wenn er in jeder Metrik vollständig ist, Fund. Math. 12 (1928), 118-120.


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Texas A&M will be seeking its seventh straight top 10 national finish at the 2013 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships Thursday through Saturday at the Indiana University Natatorium on the IUPUI campus.
The Aggies are well-equipped for the challenge with 16 student-athletes on their NCAA roster, including 10 swimmers and divers making return trips to the national meet. Nine of the veterans of previous NCAA meets have earned All-America status.
Representing the A&M women at nationals are seniors Jordan King, Maureen McLaine, Tess Simpson, and Rebecca St. Germain; juniors Cammile Adams, Erica Dittmer, Breeja Larson, Melanie McClure, Caroline McElhany and Paige Miller; sophomores Kelli Benjamin, Sammie Bosma, Sarah Henry and Liliana Ibanez; and freshmen Ashley McGregor and Meredith Oliver.
Veterans of multiple trips to the NCAA Championships include McLaine, Simpson, Adams, Dittmer, Larson and Miller, while St. Germain, McElhany, Henry and Ibanez will be making their second trips to the national meet. Making their NCAA debuts are King, McClure, Benjamin, Bosma, McGregor and Oliver.
The Aggie head to Indy with scoring potential in every event except the platform dive, and have the national leaders in five swimming races. Larson tops the psych sheet in the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes, and is the NCAA and American record-holder in both races. The 2012 London Olympian will be seeking to defend her NCAA crown in the 100 breast. Adams, also a London Olympian, is the national leader in the 200 butterfly and will be seeking her first NCAA title after taking silver in the race at the past two NCAA meets. Henry, who redshirted last season due to injury, returns to the NCAA meet as the top seed in the 500 and 1,650 freestyles. Her time of 4:33.07 in the 500 ranks No. 2 in NCAA history.
Also ranked in the top 16 on the pre-NCAA meet psych sheet are Adams (No. 3) and McLaine (No. 14) in the 500 free, McElhany (No. 9) in the 200 IM, Ibanez (No. 15) in the 50 free, Adams (No. 4) and Henry (No. 5) in the 400 IM, McElhany (No. 9) and Miller (No. 13) in the 100 fly, Ibanez (No. 10) in the 200 free, Miller (No. 3) and Simpson (No. 13) in the 100 back, McLaine (No. 4) in the 1,650 free, Ibanez (No. 14) in the 100 free, McGregor (No. 6) in the 200 breast, and McElhany (No. 2) in the 200 fly.
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ESPN3 will stream live the championship finals sessions Friday and Saturday. Coverage of the finals sessions Friday and Saturday will also be broadcast on ESPNU at 7 p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, April 10.


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:autosave => false on an association should NOT save those associations when you save the parent. This doesn't appear to work for me. I just created a vanilla Rails 3.0.8 app and here's what I get:
class Foo < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :bars, :autosave => false
accepts_nested_attributes_for :bars
class Bar < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :foo
f = Foo.new :name => 'blah', :bars_attributes => [{:name => 'lah'},{:name => 'lkjd'}]
=> [#<Bar id: 1, name: "lah", foo_id: 1, created_at: "2011-06-20 20:51:02", updated_at: "2011-06-20 20:51:02">, #<Bar id: 2, name: "lkjd", foo_id: 1, created_at: "2011-06-20 20:51:02", updated_at: "2011-06-20 20:51:02">]
What?? Why did it save the
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!! What am I missing?
Update: It appears as if
accepts_nested_attributes_for automatically saves children, even if they're not built using the nested attributes feature. It think this is a bug.


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Shawnee County Election Commissioner Elizabeth Ensley Deiter is predicting a lower-than-average voter turnout, at 31 percent. She says the numbers are neck-and-neck with the turnout in 2008.
Signs are posted to remind you not to forget your required photo ID at the polls. But if you do, you can still vote.
"Go ahead and vote a provisional ballot. Then they can bring their ID to the election office and show it prior to the board of canvassers meeting and their ballot will be counted," Ensley Deiter said.
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CHESHIRE — Getting to halftime was all the Cheshire football team needed Friday.
After squandering a pair of scoring opportunities to pull away from Notre Dame-West Haven in the opening two quarters, the Rams exploded for 35 points following the break to pull away for a 48-13 victory over the Green Knights in a SCC Division I East contest.
"Things just clicked on offense and defense in the second half for us," said Cheshire senior quarterback Vin Sansone. "Up front, the guys played very well. We got great push when we were running the ball and I had a lot of time when I was throwing the ball."
With the score tied at 13, Cheshire took the second-half kickoff and ran the ball seven consecutive times. Sansone's 3-yard run capped a 62-yard drive that put the Rams (3-1, 1-1) ahead, 20-13.
Notre Dame (1-3, 0-2) had its next possession stall at its 39. After a 1-yard punt, Sansone stepped back on the next play and fired a 40-yard touchdown pass to Beau Bartone as Cheshire extended its lead to 27-13.
"We made a few adjustments at halftime," said Cheshire coach Don Drust. "I just told the kids that we were fine and we just had to play and to what we're supposed to do. We ran with the adjustments, played hard and good things happened."
The first of two interceptions by Jack Cunningham gave the Rams the ball at the Notre Dame 30 just before the end of the third quarter. Cheshire needed eight plays to score again as Sam Pascale scored from a yard out as the Rams led, 34-13, with 9:16 to play.
"Downhill, tough, hard-nosed football," Drust said. "I've got guys that play four quarters of football and will never quit on me. That's what we preach - play for each other and play four quarters."
An interception by Colin Thorne and a 43-yard return set up Cheshire at the Notre Dame 7. After a 5-yard penalty, Sansone ran untouched on the next play for a 12-yard score. The Rams then picked off another pass, using Cunningham's 35-yard return to start at the Green Knights' 20. Pascale first ran for 18 yards and then went the final two yards on the next play as Cheshire led, 48-13, with 6:32 left.
"At halftime, our jobs as coaches are to say what we're seeing and what we think we have to do," Drust said.
Notre Dame opened the scoring, using a fumbled Cheshire punt return to start at the Rams' 30. After a 21-yard pass from Andrew Natale to Chris Perry, Cameron Taylor needed two runs to give the Green Knights a 7-0 lead just 2:35 into the game.
Cheshire had its next drive end at the Notre Dame 5. The Rams later had a drive that began at their 20 stall at the Notre Dame 3-yard line when Sansone was tackled for a 2-yard loss. A Notre Dame fumble at its own 15 led to a 10-yard touchdown pass from Sansone to Bartone. A 15-yard pass from Natale to Chris Perry gave the Green Knights a 13-6 lead, but Cheshire responded with a 13-yard touchdown pass from Sansone to Bartone as the first half ended in a 13-13 tie.
"The first half we were a little dead," Pascale said. "We knew we had to come out in the second half and start pushing those guys around and play physical football. We came out and lit it up in the second half and the offensive line did a great job."
Tucker came out into the game averaging more than 210 yards rushing and had 82 in the first half, but had only two yards on eight carries in the second half. Pascale and Sansone each had 16 carries for 87 yards as Cheshire outgained Notre Dame, 340-180, and also forced five Green Knights' turnovers.
"It's a big win," said Drust, whose team was coming off a 35-7 loss at Hand-Madison. "It's a huge difference between being 2-2 and 3-1 in the SCC. We will enjoy the win and get ready for another battle."
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Consider a stack $\mathcal{X}$ over $\mathbb{C}$ as a category fibred in groupoids over the category of schemes. Let $\mathcal{X}^s$ be the $\pi_0$ of this category, i.e. objects of $\mathcal{X}^s$ are the objects in $\mathcal{X}$ and morphisms of $\mathcal{X}^s$ are the morphisms in $\mathcal{X}$ modulo automorphisms of objects. It "kills" the groupoid structure, so I think it is possible to consider $\mathcal{X}^s$ as a category fibred in sets over the category of schemes. Assume $\mathcal{X}^s$ is represented by a scheme. Should it be the coarse moduli space for $\mathcal{X}$?
Yes, this would imply that $\newcommand{\X}{\mathcal X}\X^s$ is the coarse moduli space, but I don't think this is the "right" question to ask -- I believe that $\X^s$ will not even form a sheaf unless $\X$ happens to be a scheme/algebraic space to begin with.
Anyway, any morphism from a groupoid to a set factors through $\pi_0$ of the groupoid. This implies in particular that any morphism from $\X$ to an algebraic space factors through the presheaf $\X^s$. And the map $\X \to \X^s$ is a bijection on geometric points because it's in fact a bijection on $S$-points for any scheme $S$. So if $\X^s$ is a scheme/algebraic space then it is the coarse moduli space.
Addendum. I think you are confused about some basic issues. Let us see why $BG^s$ is not the coarse moduli space of $BG$. Let $G$ be a nontrivial finite group, say.
Consider for simplicity the topological setting, so we have a topological space $X$ and an open cover $\{U_i\}$. If we have a $G$-torsor on $X$ then we can restrict to a $G$-torsor on each $U_i$, and on each overlap $U_i \cap U_j$ we have isomorphisms between the restrictions from $U_i$ and from $U_j$. These isomorphisms satisfy cocycle relation. Conversely, if we have $G$-torsors on each $U_i$ and isomorphisms satisfying the cocycle relation, we can reconstruct a $G$-torsor on the whole of $X$, unique up to canonical isomorphism. What this paragraph says is exactly that the functor $BG$ which sends a space to the groupoid of $G$-torsors over it is a sheaf of groupoids, that is, a stack. (In the usual Grothendieck topology on the category of topological spaces, where open covers are, well, open covers. And when I call $BG$ a "functor" I should say "pseudofunctor" or "fibered category".)
On the other hand we can consider $BG^s$, which is now a priori just a presheaf of sets, mapping a space to the set of isomorphism classes of $G$-torsors over it. If we have an isomorphism class of $G$-torsor on $X$ then we get well defined isomorphism classes of $G$-torsors on each $U_i$ with compatible restrictions to each $U_i \cap U_j$. But it is NOT true that if we have an isomorphism class of $G$-torsor on each $U_i$ which agree on double overlaps, then we can reconstruct a unique isomorphism class on all of $X$: consider the case when $G$ is nontrivial on $X$ and $\{U_i\}$ is a trivializing cover! What this says is that $BG^s$ is in fact only a presheaf - it is NEVER a sheaf of sets. Put simply, one can not glue together isomorphism classes.
What this shows is in fact that if we sheafify $BG^s$, then we get a point. If we only remember isomorphism classes of torsors then every $G$-torsor becomes equivalent to the trivial torsor on some open covering of your space, which means that these torsors are identified under sheafification.
The same arguments work verbatim in algebraic geometry, since every $G$-torsor is locally trivial in the étale topology.
In any case, this is why I said above that this is not the "right" question to ask: it is not natural to expect $\X^s$ to be a sheaf in the first place. I would suggest reading Heinloth or Fantechi's notes on stacks (they are somewhere online) and thinking over just what question it is you want to ask.


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I learned that the force from magnetic fields does no work. However I was wondering how magnets can be used to pick up pieces of metal like small paperclips and stuff. I also was wondering how magnets can stick to pieces of metal list a refrigerator?
How can Magnets be used to pick up pieces of metal when the force from a magnetic field does no work?
The Lorentz force $\textbf{F}=q\textbf{v}\times\textbf{B}$ never does work on the particle with charge $q$. This is not the same thing as saying that the magnetic field never does work. The issue is that not every system can be correctly described as a single isolated point charge
For example, a magnetic field does work on a dipole when the dipole's orientation changes. A nonuniform magnetic field can also do work on a dipole. For example, suppose that an electron, with magnetic dipole moment $\textbf{m}$ oriented along the $z$ axis, is released at rest in a nonuniform magnetic field having a nonvanishing $\partial B_z/\partial z$. Then the electron feels a force $F_z=\pm |\textbf{m}| \partial B_z/\partial z$. This force accelerates the electron from rest, giving it kinetic energy; it does work on the electron. For more detail on this scenario, see this question.
You can also have composite (non-fundamental) systems in which the parts interact through other types of forces. For example, when a current-carrying wire passes through a magnetic field, the field does work on the wire as a whole, but the field doesn't do work on the electrons.
When we say "the field does work on the wire," that statement is open to some interpretation because the wire is composite rather than fundamental. Work is defined as a mechanical transfer of energy, where "mechanical" is meant to distinguish an energy transfer through a macroscopically measurable force from an energy transfer at the microscopic scale, as in heat conduction, which is not considered a form of work. In the example of the wire, any macroscopic measurement will confirm that the field makes a force on the wire, and the force has a component parallel to the motion of the wire. Since work is defined operationally in purely macroscopic terms, the field is definitely doing work on the wire. However, at the microscopic scale, what is happening is that the field is exerting a force on the electrons, which the electrons then transmit through electrical forces to the bulk matter of the wire. So as viewed at the macroscopic level (which is the level at which mechanical work is defined), the work is done by the magnetic field, but at the microscopic level it's done by an electrical interaction.
It's a similar but more complicated situation when you use a magnet to pick up a paperclip; the magnet does work on the paperclip in the sense that the macroscopically observable force has a component in the direction of the motion of the paperclip.
A magnet picks up pieces of iron because someone has configured that system to have the initial conditions such that this happens. The magnet was moved into a particular location near some pieces of ferro-magnetic metal, or vice versa.
The pieces of metal move because doing so reduces their potential energy in the magnetic field by a greater amount than it increases their gravitational potential.
The system releases energy. When the iron piece strikes the magnet and sticks to it, it produces a sound, and heat. It's not really a question or who or what does the work, but a situation in which a physical system has rearranged itself and changed energy from one form to another.
When the pieces are next to the magnet, they cause the field to be concentrated through them because they are highly permeable. As the magnet is covered with pieces, more and more of its field is concentrated through the pieces, and less and less of it is available for attracting new pieces. It is like a discharged battery.
Eventually you have to "recharge" the system by cleaning up the magnet so that you can keep using it. When you separate the pieces from the magnet, you have to put in energy.
Although what Ben and others have said might be sufficient, I would like to state my point.
Consider a piece of conductor being lifted up by the magnetic force. The current is towards the right(with velocity $w$), and the magnetic field is going into the page. Hence, the magnetic force is upwards. Now, as the conductor moves up, it gains a velocity $u$ in the upward direction. Hence the magnetic force changes direction as shown in the figure, but the upward component remains the same.
Now, observe that the horizontal component of the magnetic force is acting against the current. To maintain the current, the battery responsible for the current does work against this force and is the source of work done.
A popular analogue in Classical Mechanics is that of the role of normal force in pushing a block upwards a slope. The normal force does no work but is required to move the block up the slope. It's role is simply to redirect $F_{mop}$ in the upward direction. This is exactly the role of magnetic force in lifting stuff.$
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The Lorentz force is the only force on a classical charged point particle (charge $q$ - see Ben Crowell's answer about nonclassical particles with fundamental magnetic moment such as the electron). The magnetic component of the Lorentz force $q \mathbf{v} \wedge \mathbf{B}$, as you know, is always at right angles to the velocity $\mathbf{v}$, so there is no work done "directly" by a magnetic field $\mathbf{B}$ on this charged particle.
However, it is highly misleading to say that the magnetic field cannot do work at all because:
We can put most of the mechanisms discussed in statements 1. and 2. into symbols: suppose we wish to set up a system of currents of current density $\mathbf{J}$ in perfect conductors (so that there is no ohmic loss). Around the currents, there is a magnetic field; if we wish to increase the currents, we will cause a time variation in this magnetic field, whence an electric field $\mathbf{E}$ that pushes back on our currents. So in the dynamic period when our current changes, to keep the current increasing we must do work per unit volume on the currents at a rate of $\mathrm{d}_t w = -\mathbf{J} \cdot \mathbf{E}$.
However, we can rewrite our current system $\mathbf{J}$ with the help of Ampère's law:
$\mathrm{d}_t w = -\mathbf{J} \cdot \mathbf{E} = -(\nabla \wedge \mathbf{H}) \cdot \mathbf{E} + \epsilon_0 \mathbf{E} \cdot \partial_t \mathbf{E}$
then with the help of the standard identity $\nabla \cdot (\mathbf{E} \wedge \mathbf{H})=(\nabla \wedge \mathbf{E})\cdot\mathbf{H} - (\nabla \wedge \mathbf{H})\cdot\mathbf{E}$ we can write:
$\mathrm{d}_t w = -(\nabla \wedge \mathbf{E}) \cdot \mathbf{H} + \nabla \cdot (\mathbf{E} \wedge \mathbf{H})+\partial_t\left(\frac{1}{2}\epsilon_0 |\mathbf{E}|^2\right)$
and then with the help of Faraday's law:
$\mathrm{d}_t w = +\mu_0 \mathbf{H} \cdot \partial_t \mathbf{H} + \nabla \cdot (\mathbf{E} \wedge \mathbf{H})+\frac{1}{2}\epsilon_0 |\mathbf{E}|^2 = + \nabla \cdot (\mathbf{E} \wedge \mathbf{H})+ \partial_t\left(\frac{1}{2}\epsilon_0 |\mathbf{E}|^2+\frac{1}{2}\mu_0 |\mathbf{H}|^2\right)$
and lastly if we integrate this per volume expression over a volume $V$ that includes all of our system of currents:
$\mathrm{d}_t W = \mathrm{d}_t \int_V\left(\frac{1}{2}\epsilon_0 |\mathbf{E}|^2+\frac{1}{2}\mu_0 |\mathbf{H}|^2\right)\,\mathrm{d}\,V + \oint_{\partial V} (\mathbf{E} \wedge \mathbf{H}).\hat{\mathbf{n}} \,\mathrm{d}\,S$
(the volume integral becomes a surface integral by dint of the Gauss divergence theorem). For many fields, particularly quasi-static ones, as $V$ gets very big, the Poynting vector ($\mathbf{E} \wedge \mathbf{H}$ - which represents radiation), integrated over $\partial V$ is negligible, which leads us to the idea that the store of our work is the volume integral of $\frac{1}{2}\epsilon_0 |\mathbf{E}|^2+\frac{1}{2}\mu_0 |\mathbf{H}|^2$, so the magnetic field contributes to the stored work. It should be clear that this discussion is a general description of any dynamic electromagnetic situation and is wholly independent of the sign of $\mathrm{d}_t W$. So it applies equally whether we are working through the currents on the field or the field is working on us.
The above is very general: we can bring it into sharper focus with a specific example where it is almost wholly the magnetic field storing and doing work: say we have a sheet current circulating around in a solenoid shape so that there is a near-uniform magnetic field inside. For a solenoid of radius $r$, the flux through the solenoid is $\pi r^2 |\mathbf{B}|$ and the magnetic induction if the sheet current density is $\sigma$ amperes for each metre of solenoid is $|\mathbf{B}| = \mu_0 \sigma$. If we raise the current density, there is a back EMF (transient electric field) around the surface current which we must work against and the work done per unit length of the solenoid is:
$\mathrm{d}_t W = \sigma \pi r^2 \mathrm{d}_t |\mathbf{B}| = \frac{1}{2} \mu_0 \pi r^2 \mathrm{d}_t \sigma^2 = \pi r^2 \times \mathrm{d}_t \frac{|\mathbf{B}|^2}{2 \mu_0}$
This all assumes the rate of change is such that the wavelength is much, much larger than $r$. So now, the energy store is purely magnetic field: the electric field energy density $\frac{1}{2}\epsilon_0 |\mathbf{E}|^2$ is negligible for this example, as is the contribution from the Poynting vector (take the volume $V$ in the above argument to be a cylindrical surface just outside the solenoid: just outside the solenoid, the magnetic field vanishes and the Poynting vectors are radial at the ends of the cylinder so they don't contribute either. The above analysis works in reverse: if we let the currents run down, the electromagnetic field can work of the currents and thus the stored magnetic energy can be retrieved.
The work in picking up something is not done by the magnet, but by you!
Were a magnet and a piece of iron in free space (i.e. vacuum and no gravity), they'd simply start approaching one another, converting the potential energy of the magnetic field into kinetic energy. In gravity field, both would fall downwards, but e.g. if the magnet were above the iron, the magnet would fall slightly faster and the iron slightly slower due to the common attraction.
But now there's you (or e.g. a crane) holding the magnet in a fixed position (and the floor preventing the iron from falling via reactive forces). There are two scenarios:
Below is opinion of Landau & Lifshitz.
Quote from "ELECTRODYNAMICS OF CONTINUOUS MEDIA" (Second Edition), page 128:
"When a conductor moves, the forces
($\overrightarrow j$ current density. $\overrightarrow H$ magnetic field)
do mechanical work on it.
At first sight it might appear that this contradicts the result that the Lorentz forces do no work on moving charges.
In reality, of course, there is no contradiction, since the work done by the Lorentz forces in a moving conductor includes not only the mechanical work but also the work done by the electromotive forces induced in the conductor during its motion.
These two quantities of work are equal and opposite.
In the expression (1) $\overrightarrow H$ is the true value of the magnetic field due both to external sources and to the currents themselves on which the force (1) acts.
The total force exerted by a magnetic field on a conductor carrying a current is given by the integral
$$\overrightarrow F=\int\overrightarrow j\times \overrightarrow H\frac{dV}{c};\;\text{(2)}$$
In calculating the total force from (2), however, we can take $\overrightarrow H$ to be simply the external field in which the conductor carrying a current is placed.
The field of the conductor itself cannot, by the law of conservation of momentum, contribute to the total force acting on the conductor."
End of the quote.
The magnetic field causes the orientation without actually doing any work. The formula for work is not $F$, it is $W = \int F \cdot dr$, where the integral is along the path and $\cdot$ is the vector dot-product.
If you do your calculations correctly, you will see $W = 0$.
Well, here we go in maths.
W = SF.ds F = ma = m d2/dt2. F = qv x B = - vB x v = vmB x (v x dv/dt) F = vmB x 0.5x(v x ds2/d2t + dv/dt x dv/dv) F = When v = constant => dv/dt & other derivates are 0), thus SF.ds = 0


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Steve Winkleman is the incumbent alderman for Carmi's Ward 3 and is facing opposition from Doug Redman for the seat. Both candidates have answered questions prepared by The Times and their responses are included here:
Steve Winkleman is seeking reelection to his fifth term as Ward 3 alderman for the City of Carmi. He and his wife of 46 years, Mary Ann, have three children and six grandchildren. He has owned and operated Town and Country Barber Shop in Carmi for 48 years. He is a Vietnam-era veteran, having served eight years in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Winkleman is a Carmi High graduate and completed his barber training in Springfield.
He has also served as a supervisor for Carmi Township for eight years.
WHAT IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST CHANGE YOU PLAN TO IMPLEMENT IF ELECTED TO OFFICE? "We have made changes and improvements to the infrastructure in the last four years. It is important that we continue these improvements. The playground equipment at the parks need to be improved and sidewalks need to be repaired or replaced."
WHAT DIFFERENTIATES YOU FROM THE OTHER CANDIDATES IN YOUR RACE FOR OFFICE? "Experience. [I have] 16 years on the city council as finance [committee] chairman. I have a good working relationship with the alderman and mayor. I also have a good working relationship with city employees."
WHAT IS THE BEST THING ABOUT THE CITY OF CARMI? "Carmi is a great place to raise a family with great schools, churches and civic organizations. It is a community willing to help others in need."
WHAT IS THE WORST THING ABOUT THE CITY OF CARMI AND HOW DO YOU PLAN TO CHANGE OR CORRECT IT? "Lack of businesses and lack of a hospital. We will continue to work to attract new businesses and industry and assist where possible to open the doors of our hospital"
WHAT ARE YOUR LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS? "I have years of experience dealing with financial situations as township supervisor and as city alderman as finance chairman. I want to make this city grow and become an even better place to live."
WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE ELECTED TO THIS OFFICE? "To help our city's businesses and population grow, with a safe place to live for young and old alike."
WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR HOBBIES AND INTERESTS? Steve enjoys playing golf and playing guitar at his church. He is active in his church choir and enjoys spending time with his children and grandchildren.
GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PLATFORM? "I want to make Carmi a place that is safe, friendly and a place everyone can enjoy living. This can be done by continuing with improvements to our infrastructure. We need improvements in our streets, sidewalks and parks. A pressing need is getting our hospital open and there are ongoing improvements taking place daily. Getting our hospital open is a key to attracting new businesses and industry. As your alderman, I will continue to work toward these goals.
Page 2 of 3 - CLUB OR ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Steve is a charter member and past president of the Carmi Jaycees and is a past president and 28-year member of the Kiwanis Club of Carmi. He attends First Christian Church in Carmi and is a member of the praise and worship team. He is also a past board member of the Carmi Chamber of Commerce.
OTHER COMMENTS: "I feel privileged to have spent my life in the Carmi community. It's been an honor serving the people of Carmi. I hope to continue serving our town. We have made improvements in the past few years and, if elected, I hope to continue these improvements. My door is always open for suggestions because I am here to serve you."
Doug Redman is a 1985 Carmi High graduate and is making his first foray into politics as he seeks election as Ward 3 alderman for the City of Carmi.
His work history includes serving as an EMT and he has worked at an Indiana ethanol plant. He is a coal miner.
He is the son of Jim and Sand Redman and he and his wife of 18 years, Carrie, have two children.
WHAT IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST CHANGE YOU PLAN TO IMPLEMENT IF ELECTED TO OFFICE? "Growth of the city, new businesses and helping with cutting unnecessary costs."
WHAT DIFFERENTIATES YOU FROM THE OTHER CANDIDATES IN YOUR RACE FOR OFFICE? No response was received for this question.
WHAT IS THE BEST THING ABOUT THE CITY OF CARMI? "Small town, great community and Christian atmosphere."
WHAT IS THE WORST THING ABOUT THE CITY OF CARMI AND HOW DO YOU PLAN TO CHANGE OR CORRECT IT? "Empty storefronts. I would like to be part of helping the mayor and chamber in changing that."
WHAT ARE YOUR LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS? "To listen to both sides of proposals and to research and give the best advice that I believe will benefit the city."
WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE ELECTED TO THIS OFFICE? "I would like to help with making economic growth for the city."
WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR HOBBIES AND INTERESTS? "I enjoy spending time with family, boating, fishing and talking with people."
GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PLATFORM? "To work closely with the mayor and other city officials and employees to continue to make Carmi a great city to live in. To help bring more companies and stores to thrive here. Also, a chance to help budget our city so we may continue to grow."
CLUB OR ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Doug is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Carmi.
Page 3 of 3 - OTHER COMMENTS: "I would like to say thank you for the wonderful response during the campaign and hope to see everyone out to vote."
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Discussion in 'Science Fiction' started by Mugwump, Mar 27, 2004.
We've all come across these frustrations. List them (and the reasons for abandonment) below:
Simon R. Green's Deathstalker series : Green takes a fun-if-dim Star Wars inspired universe and populates it with one lethal death machine after another, letting them kill each other off one by one. The problem being that he takes several novels to do it in, with an awesome amount of repetition. He will literally repeat the backstory almost verbatim three times per book.
Aside from that, Green writes well below 'fun pulp' in the realm of 'kitsch crap'. Murderous teddy bear cyborgs may sound fun, but they're not. Red haired feisty female space pirates never giving our muscle-bound hero a break but secretly loving him may sound fun, but they're not. Wafer thin characters, a rebellion plot seemingly written by a 12 year old and as I said, you don't have to sit through it just once, he's sure to repeat back what has happened so far every few hundred pages.
I can think of a few others, but I'm not sure they're worthy of villifying in public to the same degree as the above.
Unreadable sci-fi?
Well, if it was in Chinese or Russian I most definitely couldn't read it!
Seriously, i can't speak for all sci-fi fans, but I would never discuss in public another author's short comings.
All science fiction books are treasures to me, even if i couldn't get into a-- difficult to understand novel.
Okay - David Brin's Kiln People, the absolute worst novel I've read in years.
Also pretty much anything by Samuel L. Delany. I cannot understand the worship.
I have to second the "anything by Samuel Delaney". I feel the greatest of guilt saying this, because... I've met him. I loved him. He liked me. We had similar thoughts about the movie Species. And still, if I make myself read something by him, almost every sentence is a slog and in 30 minutes I won't be able to remember what the story was about. :/
Because hope springs eternal, one day I will still try to read Dahlgren.
I'm with you, Mug. That's(Kiln People) the only book I have abandoned in the last year, and I can't say that I feel any the worse for not knowing how it turned out.
Kevin J Anderson's Hopscotch. the premise was very flimsily presented and the characters were such cardobaord cut outs. The prose itself smacked too much of the sort of mildly-dumbed down narrative you get occasionally in YA novels. I just went and traded it in for somethung else after finishing a hundred pages. Avoid this man's books, please.
Paul Pruess: Broken Symmetries. A very cool premise marred by an attempt to appeal to the techno-thriller crowd as well, and this horrible habit writers have of making a couple of their main characters attractive and involved in a sexual relationship with each other, in hopes of landing a movie deal.
I'm still unsure on Delaney - I really liked his short stories collected in Driftglass, really didn;t make head nor tail of The Einstein Intersection.
One man's treasure .............
Actually, I didn't love Kiln People, but I did find it entertaining enough to keep reading it. Though I found the ending a bit cheesy.
The one book that I found unreadable was Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. There is just too much science, it hurt my brain. And other than two characters (over the 300 pages I did manage), I found all of them childish and annoying. Though even through what I disliked, I can see why others adore this book. It just wasn't for me.
I still struggle to try to read the original Foundation books by Asimov, even though I've read everything else of his over the years.
Anything by CJ Cherryh. I just can't get into it. I've tried over and over again since I met her years ago and she used to come to our little Science Fiction club. She's great in person.
Anything by Frank Herbert execept the first Dune book.
I find her or his work a brilliant piece of writing. Although, I'm still trying to get through the first two chapters.....
Glad I named my book "Red Stars". Has nothing to do with the above novel.
Agreed. I fought my way through Downbelow Station. Three chapters of Rimrunners convinced me she's just too much hard work.
I'll agree that some of Cherryh's books are pretty painful to get through. However, a few were good, IMO.
I read the first Chanur book and had to put down the second book in the series. Both books were just very boring and not much seemed to happen. The 2nd book is probably the only SF book I haven't finished. On the other hand, I can give a huge list of fantasy books I've put down.....
Anything cyberpunk (well, there are some exceptions: Besher's novels, for example.)
Speaking of Cherryh - her stuff is usually great but Downbelow Station is one of the few books I couldn't finish.
Greg Bear: he's probably my 'unreadable author'. I loved Blood Music but his other novels just don't work for me. Moving Mars was painfully boring and unjustifiably long. Still, he is someone who's ideas I admire.
(He's not sci-fi, but) Raymond Feist is a disaster.
I had the same problem, to the point where after I read a sentence I couldn't remember what I'd just read because I wasn't paying attention anymore. I'm going to give it another go some day though. Having said that I really enjoyed Cyteen so I won't write off Cherryh as an author, maybe it was just that novel?
I agree with you about Delany as well, though I did like Babel-17. I can appreciate his work, but it's just such an uphill battle to read. For example Dhalgren is obviously a great achievement, and I liked bits of it, but most of the time my obviously feeble brain couldn't grasp what the point he was trying to make was. Maybe writing about decay, voilence and sexual exoerimentation/depravity was cathartic for him.
Another author that I find can be a real struggle is Gene Wolfe. I loved The Book of the New Sun, but the other novels of his I've read just couldn't hold my interest. He manages to make me think the problem is more with me than him so I periodically keep trying his work. His new fantasy novel(s) The Wizard Knight looks hopeful though.
These are clearly not bad authors, just sometimes inaccessable.
The Mars trilogy was science filled but I liked it.
But....I found The Years of Rice and Salt SOOOOOOOOOOO boring. Reincarnation....blech!!
It always amazes me what some readers find hard to read. Some of the authors mentioned are favorites of mine. At the same time, my least favorite authors, I know to be favorites aroud here, namely Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny and Harlan Ellison. It is indeed a situation of what is one person's trash is another's gold. I really don't like (in general) the whole "let's get metaphysical and obtuse" phase of SF in the late 70's and early 80's. But, this was a major phase of SF and I do respect it for what it was.
Have no fear, Gregg Bradley, we are not here to trash authors. We do not tolerate indescriminate author bashing here. But, no author can reach out to all readers. We all have our likes and dislikes.
Just like you, Kamakhya, some of those authors listed for distain are also some of my favorites. I don't believe that one author who writes several or hundreds of novels should be trashed.
However, I can understand when a particular book can be labeled as "trash" or "it stinks" or "is very hard to follow".
Trying to write a 356 page novel or more is not an easy chore.
On the other side, free speech is a God-given human right. Everyone has an opinion on who they like and who they are displeased with. I'm attitude is the same on Amazon.com.
One star to five stars!
It certainly is subjective - to the extent that the Kevin Anderson book I panned earlier actually had very glowing blurbs on it by other SF writers like Gregory Benford. Threads like this are really only about opinion - nothing is carved in stone and I certainly wouldn't take offence at others panning some of my faves (actually a couple have!). It is useful however, in that, if you know of a member who has similar tastes, you can get a heads-up on what you may want to avoid.
Let me completely second that sentiment, tbird. I've never been able to get more than 2 chapters into "Rice and Salt."
C.J. Cherryh is one that I have real trouble with, but I probably haven't given her a fair shot. I tried "Foreigner," hated it, and never tried anything else.
Let me add Tad William's "Otherland" series in here. Talk about incomprehensible! Again, put the first one down halfway through and never looked back. Way too many storylines, it seemed like there was no center to that book at all.
A lot of people might disagree with me, but one novel that was an absolute struggle to read was Dune.
I haven't even bothered to read any of the sequels.
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I often hear people say that so-and-so [some famous physicist] can see the solution without calculation. What exactly does this mean? Is it an intuition? But how does one have intuition when it comes to say QM? How might one develop such an intuition?
There is nothing spectacular about "seeing" the solution, everyone does it. The reason they tell you this is to try to get you to do it. The famous physicists become famous because they see it for a new problem, where no-one else saw it before, and an important problem. Please, do it too. The purpose is to learn something about nature. Never in the history of the world, has anyone seen something internally that not everyone else could also see. They just saw it first. It does require learning the appropriate background, a short explanation from the seer, and questions/answers, but nowadays pretty much every good physicist can see everything that Newton saw, and Einstein, and Feynman, etc.
There is no magic to it, anyone can do it, but it does require a lot of mental work, and a tremendous amount of internal intellectual honesty, so you can catch when you did something wrong. Feynman was very good at it, but equally so was Bethe, and Landau, and Gribov, and many others. Feynman was easily the best at explaining to others how to do it, through his terrific popular works.
The thing that makes Feynman so much more famous than all the others is nothing to do with his physics (which is very great, don't get me wrong). It is his essentially American character, like a physics Walt Disney or Ronald Reagan, he fought alone against the big-shots and nay-sayers. By his own design, he fits into the American media story of the individual genius, standing out from the crowd. American capitalism uses such fables to justify awarding large amounts of wealth to a small number of people, and they need examples of people who actually do something exceptional who people will think are somehow exceptional people, people who deserve to be rich. This is not really Feynman's fault, he doesn't think this way. But I am sure that he understood that the media thinks this way. The bias for capitalist-reinforcing is strong, so much so that communists like Tullio Regge and Shoichi Sakata have been generally excluded from history books.
As for "seeing the solution", the best examples are cases where you can't do it by symbol manipulation. For instance, suppose I give you beads on a line of parallel circular tracks, all connected by springs at tension. I pull the first particle. What happens? Did you set up differential equations, or did you see the waves run down the spring?
I will share with you a story from a famous physicist, Feynman, related by him at a workshop back in the 80s.
At the time Feynman was a trained physicist; in addition he had eidetic memory, books he read he could reread mentally.
Building up an intuition in physics does need a lot of perspiration, but the inspiration part should also be there, and surely genetics must play a role in an eidetic memory.
It doesn't need to be such complicated stuff – "seeing the solution" can also apply to perfectly simple differential equations. For instance, in $$ \tfrac{\partial^2}{\partial t^2}y = -\eta\cdot y $$ every physicist would immediately tell you the solution is $y(t)=\sin(\sqrt{\eta}\cdot t)$, or the corresponding cosine or complex exponential / linear combinations. Even many high school students would say this is pretty obvious.
But then, this very equation once turned up in a maths course I was in (functional analysis, not really advanced but not a beginner's lecture either), and when I told them this everybody was rather baffled. They said you can't just do it this way, you rather have to
Physicists don't have the time to go through all of these steps every time they encounter this equation (it just comes up far too often), but they just know the solution. Now extend this to more complicated problems, then there will often still be clever guys who have seen the equation before (or, more often, a sufficiently similar one) so they can immidiately tell you the solution others will take hours to calculate.


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Note that these nutrition labels aren't the same as grading beef. Grading beef is a voluntary program under the USDA that manufacturers can use to judge the perceived quality of their product.
More than 20 cuts of beef now meet the USDA's regulations to qualify as lean or extra lean. Of theses, the following are considered extra lean:
If you still have questions about which cuts of beef are lean or extra lean, ask your butcher or grocer. If you're dining out, ask the restaurant server or chef for recommendations for lower fat options. But keep in mind that the same cuts of beef can have different names. For example, a boneless top loin steak may also be called a strip steak, club sirloin steak or N.Y. strip steak.
Other tips when choosing cuts of beef:
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