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Mackenzie Wartenberger enters her fourth season as the assistant Cross Country and Track & Field (Middle Distance) coach for the Charlotte 49ers.
Wartenberger has established herself as a coach in the mid-distance area, where she has coached three NCAA outdoor qualifiers in the 800m in her first three years at Charlotte (Chase Eckard - 2010, Aaron Kauffman - 2011 and Maraya Slatter 2012). In addition to these highlights, she has assisted Head Cross Country and Distance Coach, Ed Schlichter, in coaching 57 all-conference selections in Cross Country and Indoor/Outdoor Track & Field, producing 18 Atlantic-10 Conference champions, most recently in the 2012 outdoor women's 800m (Maraya Slatter - 2:08.48) and the women's 4x800m (8:54.94). Both men's and women's teams have each won three team titles in indoor and outdoor track combined since Wartenberger has joined the staff and the middle distance athletes have contributed substantially in those performances.
Wartenberger also oversees the middle-distance strength and conditioning workouts, and assists Coach Schlichter in all aspects of recruiting and home meet management.
The cross country student athletes under Coach Schlichter and Coach Wartenberger's direction have also excelled in the classroom earning the Athletics Department highest team(women's) GPA (3.536/ 3.479) for the Spring 2009 & 2012 semesters with over 30 Cross Country athletes on the A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll over the past three years.
Prior to Charlotte, Wartenberger (then Pierce) competed for the University of California, Berkeley in the 800m and 1500m and was a NCAA Championships Qualifier, USA Track & Field Championships Qualifier, and the 2008 MPSF Indoor Conference Champion in the 800m.
Wartenberger is married to Marc Wartenberger, former track and field standout at the University of South Carolina, Upstate, and resides in Charlotte, NC.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Sedgwick County parolee convicted when he was 18 of having sex with a 15-year-old is fighting state rules preventing him from having contact with his children.
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February 05, 2013 / Category: Fitness Advisor
Thinking of skipping your workout for a hot date tonight? Think again. Step outside of your sedentary dinner-and-a-movie comfort zone and go for an active date instead. Not only is it great for your health, it can be great for your relationships, too. The next time you're making plans with your significant other, try one of these active date ideas:
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Gerard Floriano, artistic director and conductor of the Finger Lakes Opera at SUNY Geneseo, will conduct the inaugural gala concert Aug. 10.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Singers from some of the world's top opera companies will help launch Finger Lakes Opera at SUNY Geneseo during a summer gala concert Aug. 10 on the college campus. The concert, which begins at 8 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium and features a 40-piece professional orchestra, will include an official public announcement of the new professional summer opera company's first full production scheduled for the summer of 2014.
"We couldn't be more excited to be embarking on this venture and to announce our 2014 production at the gala concert," said Gerard Floriano, the company's artistic director and conductor, who also is a professor of music at SUNY Geneseo and a 1984 alumnus. "We will start with a single production next summer, but the company's vision is to present several productions in repertory during the season, always showcasing some of the finest singers and musicians in the country."
Tickets for the Aug. 10 gala concert are available online. The event will feature an evening of arias, duets and ensembles from some of the world's best-known composers such as Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Donizetti, Massenet, Gounod, Catalani, Mascagni and Cilea. Scheduled to perform are Metropolitan Opera soprano Danielle Pastin; Seattle Opera tenor Rolando Sanz; baritone Evan Jones; and mezzo soprano Jessica Best.
"As a fervent opera fan myself, I am delighted to see the emergence of this tremendous artistic venture and am personally committed to the project as one of the founding members of the Friends of Finger Lakes Opera organization," said Christopher C. Dahl, president of SUNY Geneseo. "The bucolic setting of the Finger Lakes area is ideal for lovers of opera and lyric theater to escape for world-class entertainment. The project also will support economic growth in upstate New York by enhancing quality of life, which promotes job creation and tourism by attracting new businesses and residents."
Dahl and Floriano said the company will draw patrons from a wide area of Western New York and surrounding states, capitalizing on the area increasingly becoming a tourist destination.
Friends of Finger Lakes Opera have begun efforts to raise $1 million to help support the first five seasons through 2017.
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I know I am being dramatic when I say that I am completely OVER winter at this point. Sure, the holiday season is fun because you are all festive and go ice skating, shopping and sing Christmas songs on repeat (maybe that's just me), but in my personal opinion, when Christmas & NYE is over, I am ready for Spring! I am dreaming of having a sun-kissed tan (of course wearing SPF- safety first!) and wearing lots, and lots of color! So I decided to go straight to the fashion color experts, Pantone, and see what they have decided are the colors for Spring 2012. Let's check it out together!
"We love the mix of hot neon colors with soft pastels, reminiscent of nature at its extremes: a powerful sunset, the ocean sparkling at dusk with flashes of lightning in the distance" — Nanette Lepore
"Bright and Sun Bleached Yellow paired with Dusty Oceanic Blue, and Rich Purple that pops against Warm Terracotta and Citrus Orange: Cairo Yellow, Crescent Moon, Mountain Stream, Prism Lilac, Terra Cotta and Harem Orange" — Elie Tahari
"A Neon Tangerine lace tank — the rope lace is sophisticated for evening but the bright color makes it perfect for day" — Lela Rose


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Key Rules for Running a Family Business
Relatives working in a family business can prevent resentment, rancor, and ruin by setting down a series of rules -- and then following them. Here are five key rules to ensure that your family business operates as smoothly as possible. (By the way; it may not be too late to set these rules into motion, even if the business is already long established.)
Don't Go There
In a family-managed company, relatives are always "top management," whatever their official job or title. Remember, on Saturday evenings they're the ones schmoozing around the boss's dinner table.
Family Matters
The rules set forth for the family business depend on the family's philosophy, mission, size, industry, and resources available. Those guidelines must be consistent with the family's values.
Don't Go There
In-laws may act too tough on each other so as to not show favoritism or act too wussy because of the relationship, especially during trainee time. QED: Try not to have in-laws train in-laws.
The Rules:
Have set rules for hiring all employees -- especially in-laws.
Make sure everyone knows the rules. The rules are not intended to be family secrets, like Uncle Joe's Kathie Lee-and-Frank moment, your mother-in-law's tendency to nip at the cooking sherry, or your brother-in-law's thing about ladies' underwear.
Apply the rules as fairly as possible to every in-law. (Let's not kid ourselves; in-laws are usually going to be treated differently from the hoi polloi. And "differently" better mean "better" or you'll be hearing from Aunt Edna in the morning.)
There must be a way to adjust the rules to deal with changing business situations -- like a decision to stop manufacturing slide rules, black-and-white TVs, or Edsels.
Everyone must be notified if the rules change. (See rule #2.)
What factors should you consider when you write the rules? Here are some of the most important ones:
When and under what circumstances can in-laws enter the business?
What experience and education are required?
Will they fill a vacant position or can a position be created for them?
Do they need to be a certain age to be employed in the business?
Do they need to retire at a certain age?
Is re-entry possible after a voluntary or involuntary exit? (Due to childrearing, attendance at graduate school, jail time, liposuction, argument with family members, etc.)
Is part-time work permitted?
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KILLEEN (January 2, 2013)—Police Wednesday identified the Killeen man who shot and wounded his wife during a domestic dispute on New Year's Eve and then killed himself as Matthews Fredrick Brooks, Jr., 65.
The name of the 54-year-old woman, who remains in critical condition at Scott & White Hospital in Temple, has not been released.
Then incident happened just before noon Monday at 2801 Lavender Ln. in Killeen.
Police received a 911 call from the woman who told the operator her husband had just shot her.
While officers were en route to the home, they learned that the woman's husband had also shot himself.
They found the woman on the front porch of the house and the man dead in a bedroom of what evidently was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
The woman was taken to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center and then was transferred to Scott & White.


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American Idol
Kon Tiki
Game Shows
Fake It
Future from the 80s
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"The record is alive with a lush, symphonic sensuousness that recalls Of Montreal; it's as layered and ornate as an origami crane, but as organic and effortless as the real feathered thing. While the songs are shorter and punchier than the seven-minute marathons of Parc Avenue ... they're complicated and gorgeous and feel as innate as desire itself." - Paste
"Psychedelic, amplified and momentous, songs are multifaceted, with a sense of Radiohead importance, Arcade Fire intensity and très cool dirty-basement rock and roll ("American Idol" gets my vote as the missing link between Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street)." - The Globe and Mail
"utterly thrilling while stil retaining all the muted joy and gentle perfection of Parc Avenue ... an album for the ages and Plants and Animals' ultimate piece of work thus far" - Under the Radar
"rife with chiming bells, ebullient trumpet blasts, and whistled outros. It's a bewitching record — a mix of soft-rock luster, classic-rock grit, and indie-rock dexterity — a sort of AM Gold for the dark-hearted." - eMusic
""By the time the amps stop ringing, you feel you've travelled through a cohesive, front-to-back, old-fashioned album, one that you probably wouldn't be surprised to learn still got plenty of spins decades down the line." - Blurt
Plants and Animals latest offering, La La Land, is louder, and tougher, but also showcases them their smoothest and most cohesive to-date. Inspired by a rediscovery of electric guitars, amplification and fuzz pedals, it takes us up and away from Parc Avenue's Montreal-in-the-summer vibe, and out into the rock n' roll ether. The album was recorded at the band's hometown go-to studio in Montreal, The Treatment Room, and at Studio La Frette outside Paris—a brokedown old mansion filled with vintage gear and a killer board in the cellar instead of wine.
Though plenty of wine went into the album. As Warren puts it, "the Paris stuff is like a nice Bordeaux and the Montreal stuff is more like a baked potato. Sessions in Paris ended by 10pm, sessions in Montreal by 6am." Rum and cokes inspired the initial Treatment Room sessions in late 2008. The album's first track, "Tom Cruz," eventually came out of these late nights. As the Woodman tells it, "it was December, pre-Christmas, so we fuelled the session with rum and cokes. They made us feel like Tom Cruise. It gave us killer smiles and made our enemies wither."
Ultimately it's this sense of hilarious confidence that currently characterizes Plants and Animals, and also gives La La Land its cohesion. The Woodman's drums sound bigger and groovier, Nic colours the album with extra guitars and keyboards like a mad painter, and Warren's vocals have taken even more ambitious strides.
"We got fat making the record but got skinny mixing it," Warren jokes. After handing over album-mixing duties to someone other than Warren for the first time, the band decided they weren't happy with the results, and camped out at the Treatment Room for two weeks in the fall of 2009 to remix the record. Warren even setup a tent in the studio, working around the clock to wrap things up. Many late nights and even more bad working titles later, La La Land was done.
In many ways La La Land is just as eclectic as Parc Avenue, but there's something more mature holding it all together now. As they might say in the movies, La La Land isn't a place—it's a state of mind. Plants and Animals have never been a band with much interest in posturing or unnecessary theatrics, but on La La Land the curtain isn't just pulled back, it's gone entirely.
Both these bands have the sound and the talent to make a live show spectacular, but there are sometimes elements out of their control that can take that away. And certainly, when it comes to Pop Montréal, Plants and Animals have the upper hand.
Perhaps better than any band in town, Plants and Animals have an amazing ability to embrace the infinite possibilities of a song, bringing each one to vivid life and taking us along for the ride.
Les trois canadiens ont débarqué les bras chargés de quelques guitares et d'une batterie qui allait trôner un peu plus tard, au milieu du salon, narguant des ingés sons un peu inquiets par ce qui s'annonçait : de l'amplification et forcément un volume sonore assez inhabituel pour une Soirée de Poche
""Drawing on everything from art-school pop to purple-skies alt-country to '70s-toned classic rock, the album mostly confirms Montreal as Canada's undisputed hotbed of top-drawer indie rock.."
"Warren Spicer sounds like he's following tracks out in the snow on 'Game Shows,' even though the song seems to be set indoors, in front of a television screen. We're transported though, to where the soft and powdery snow is a few inches deep and the longing pangs lead us. It takes us to a small fire for warmth, kicking dirty ashes of exhausted wood cords into a fluttery travel pattern that only takes them up so far and then drops them into our hair or hat and onto our Thermoses."
"La La Land takes its name from what the band has described as a "vortex of confusion," but the dizzying effect that the album's disparate stylistic strains might incur is an altogether charming one ... For a trio that remains consistently unpretentious and accessible, Plants and Animals seem to have sucked up a fair amount of art rock influences somewhere along the way; [but] If there's a connecting thread running through the album, it's the chunky, insistent guitar riffs that pop up repeatedly ... Whatever you call it, that predilection for juicy hooks is a major part of what keeps this mercurial bunch solidly grounded."
"There are wolves out, he thought, squinting into the savannah. He was mistaken. No canis lupus had stalked this land since the suburbs materialized, half a century before. This was a land of dogs."
"American Idol," sounds like a missing piece of Exile on Main Street... explores a wide array of styles, constructing dreamy melodies and sticking indie jams, making for a throwback style that radiates modernity."
Blogotheque has posted a unique Take-Away show today that features Plants and Animals recording "The Mama Papa" in France. They shot this at the same time as the series that ran in June 2009 featuring songs from Parc Avenue. You get to see the band in the recording process. Ultimately the band would actually re-record The Mama Papa with a different arranegment, but the take you see here is include on the iTunes release of the album as an extra: "The Mama Papa (Paris Basement Mix)". It rocks.
"The record is alive with a lush, symphonic sensuousness that recalls Of Montreal; it's as layered and ornate as an origami crane, but as organic and effortless as the real feathered thing. While the songs are shorter and punchier than the seven-minute marathons of Parc Avenue ... they're complicated and gorgeous and feel as innate as desire itself." 85/100
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Knitter's Spotlight: Cardamom by Whatthehay
We had a few sweaters this season that seemed to catch everyone's eye. Cardamom was definitely one of them. Knit in the super bulky Berroco Peruvia Quick, it goes without saying that this cardigan doesn't take long to make. It's also cozy and has great texture, combining stockinette stitches, ribbing and a clever cabled button band.
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I've gotten a weird request today, someone I work with asked if there is any way to track changes to a specific cell in an Excel Spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is hosted on SharePoint and they want to track who and what changes are made to one or two cells in that spreadsheet. So they asked me if there is any way to do this in SharePoint or otherwise?
I have no idea if this is possible so maybe you guys know?
Thanks! Tudor
EDIT: I read a bit more online and theres the Track Changes option within Excel, but is this all we have? And does that show which cell was changed by who?


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Let's say I have a cylindrical piston filled with air and fitted with an electrical resistor. The resistor has a current going across it and a voltage for a certain amount of time. My system would be the air inside the piston.
In the first law of thermodynamics: Q - W = E,
Would the power from the resistor for a designated amount of time perform a heat transfer or a work transfer on the air?


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When traveling by air and checking bags, some airlines will let you declare an item as fragile and put stickers on the box or bag. How common is this policy? What do the fragile stickers do (i.e. how do they change the baggage handling process)? Is this generally recommended when traveling with fragile luggage (to avoid items being damaged in transit) or discouraged (because it may make an item a bigger target for theft)?
Think about what your luggage goes through from the time you check it until you get it back.
When all is said and done, it's a miracle anything gets anywhere unscathed, "fragile" sticker notwithstanding.
As an airport security staff member I can comment and advise on this topic:
'Fragile' items should be taken to your designated 'CHECK-IN desk' where they are usually weighed and directed to the alternative 'out of gauge' screening facility, often used for declared genuine fragile items such as very large passenger cases, bike boxes, large tool or camera boxes, gardening items, machinery, wheelchairs.
All items going on-board an aircraft are subject to the extensive x-ray screening and inspection, particularly if prohibited items appear to be contained. Security staff will require your presence while they inspect the contents.
Departing airports are generally careful with all luggage items. However, the destination airport are only required to throw or lift items onto a in-bound conveyor. In all situations you are strongly advised to carefully wrap fragile items, using bubble wrap or other protective material inside a strong outer case. Applying fragile stickers will improve the awareness but not guarantee safety of your property. Additional insurance is very recommended should the case or valued contents be damaged in transit.
Airlines provide full Terms & Conditions which you are also advised to read fully before packing and departing for your airport. Pay particular attention to prohibited items and dangerous goods.
I would say that they do nothing.
As an example, this Jetstar page explains has a list of things that you should not include in your checked bagage which includes fragile items. I can not imagine that you would find an airline that would make any sort of promise that they are going to treat your baggage gently. There would be little reason for any airline to encourage "Fragile" stickers since that just strengthens enivitable passanger complaints of damaged luggage.
(An aside is that they say these things could be "damaged" but the items suggest that "stolen" should be in there as well.)
Nowdays, when you ask for a fragile sticker, they make you sign a waiver for baggage damage (Limited release) , so its purely for the airlines benefit, they know they dont need to compensate you if they damage something in your baggage if you mark it as fragile


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Is there estimate for convergence of the Jacobi eigenvalue algorithm for Hermitian matrices for "parallel ordring" (Brent-Luk ordering (see comment below)) ?
For example for 4 4 matrices parallel ordering is the following 1a) 12 1b) 34 2a) 23 2b) 14 3a) 13 3b) 24
[EDIT] Moreover convergence itself is not known for such ordering even in 4x4 case. I have consulted with many experts in the field - it is not proved. Numerical simulations (checked more than 10^10 matrices of different form) shows that the convergence exists.
There is certain subtlety in the definition of method. Which lead some authors to claim that there is NO convergence. But actually counter-example is not for "reasonable" implementation of details.
The detail is the following consider 2x2 matrix such that diagonal elements are equal. Then the rotation can be either +45 either -45 - no unique choice. What the authors claim that if we have a freedom to choose +45 or -45 by our own wish, in each step where ambiguity occurs - then there will be counterexample ! However this counter-example does NOT work if we fix +45 (or -45) once and forever ! I.e. in the case of ambiguity we ALWAYS choose angle to be the same. Simulations shows - that than there is no problem.
I spent about 2 weeks trying to prove this just in the 4x4 example - but I was unable to prove it. The difficulty is that we need to analyse about 3-4 sweeps. It can be shown that there always exists a matrix that can be arbitrary "BAD" after 1-2 sweeps...
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As far as I can expect that there should be ultimate quadratic convergence [EDIT] actually as works of Walter F. Mascarenhas suggests their will be cubic ultimate convergence[EDIT] but I am interested at the first iteration - they should be at most linear convergence, but it is not clear for is there uniform convergence speed or there can be some matrices where convergence can be arbitrary bad ? (From simulation we see that probably there is NO bad examples - convergence seems rather fast, but there are certain difficulties in proving this theoretically).
Actually even the convergence for arbirary ordering is not clear for me.
Paper by Walter Mascarenhas:
SIAM. J. Matrix Anal. & Appl. 16, pp. 1197-1209 (13 pages) On the Convergence of the Jacobi Method for Arbitrary Orderings Walter F. Mascarenhas States only convergence of the diagonal elements. Non-diagonal elements may not converge, for some sophisticated orderings. He constructed examples in his PhD at MIT unpublished (private communication from him)


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I'd like to install the newest version of GNOME 2 global menu that is used in Natty. But the only thing I could find was version
0.7.10 : http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/downloads/list
But this old version can't export Firefox 4 menus. It was updated in 2010.:(
Can I get that from Natty ? How?


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I have a SQL Server Express instance with 20,000 databases (twenty thousand databases).. and the service won't start.
I get error message 1053:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
I'm just doing some testing of sharding, trying out some ideas. Apparently, I shouldn't leave this many databases attached at the same time... I can work around this... I just wish I knew more how to predict / forecast regarding the real limits of SQL Server 2012 Express.
Error 1
There is insufficient system memory in resource pool 'internal' to run this query.
Error 2
Script level upgrade for database
masterfailed because upgrade step
msdb110_upgrade.sqlencountered error 701, state 123, severity 25. This is a serious error condition which might interfere with regular operation and the database will be taken offline. If the error happened during upgrade of the
masterdatabase, it will prevent the entire SQL Server instance from starting. Examine the previous errorlog entries for errors, take the appropriate corrective actions and re-start the database so that the script upgrade steps run to completion.
Error 3
Cannot recover the master database. SQL Server is unable to run. Restore master from a full backup, repair it, or rebuild it. For more information about how to rebuild the master database, see SQL Server Books Online.
I assume I should uninstall and reinstall, and then attach half as many databases and split the load between two database servers?


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I'm teaching a short summer course on algebraic groups and it's time to talk about the Killing form on the Lie algebra. The students are all undergrads of varying levels of inexperience, and I try to make everything seem like it has a point (going back to the basic goals of "what is an algebraic group" and "what does this have to do with representation theory"). I am having a hard time justifying the Killing form from anything like first principles: it is useful, and I can prove theorems explaining why it is useful, but I can't think of an explanation of why it is reasonable to invent. The ideal answer to this question will be a "naive" explanation. Other interesting answers (which I would appreciate for myself) can be more sophisticated.
Hi Ryan,
I presume given your description of the students that they know finite groups pretty well, and have seen the averaging idempotent $e=\frac{1}{|G|}\sum_{g\in G} g$, and how this can be used to construct an invariant inner product on any representation of a finite group. Perhaps you can convince them that compact groups admit the same sort of averaging idempotents via integral, and so perhaps you can construct the invariant inner product on finite dimensional representations of a compact group in more or less direct analogy with finite groups. Then you can derive the properties the Killing form should satisfy on the Lie algebra by setting g=e^tX, and taking derivatives of the axioms of the group's inner product?
This is the closest connection I can think of to finite group theory, which is hopefully well-understood by, or at least familiar to, your students.
What do you think? -david
You might find Thomas Hawkin's book "Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups" an interesting place to look for first-principles explanations of Lie-theory facts. He explains how Killing, Cartan, and Weyl first came up with the structure theory for semi-simple Lie algebras. (See Section 6.2, in particular, for a detailed discussion of Cartan's contributions to Killing-style structure theory---including his introduction and use of the Killing form.)
According to Hawkins, one of Killing's insights in his structure theory for a Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ was to consider the characteristic polynomial $$ {\rm det} (t I - {\rm ad}(X)) = t^n -\psi_1(X)t^{n-1} + \psi_2(X)t^{n-2} + \cdots + (-1)^n\psi_n(X) $$ as a function of $X$. (The start of the structure theory was to consider those $X$---regular elements---such that the eigenvalue $0$ has minimal multiplicity.) In general the coefficients $\psi_i(X)$ are polynomial functions on $\mathfrak{g}$ that are invariants for the adjoint action of $\mathfrak{g}$ on itself.
Consider, in particular, a simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$. Killing observed that the coefficient $\psi_1(X)$, which is linear a linear functional on $X$, must vanish identically, since its kernel is an ideal. Cartan considered the coefficient $\psi_2(X)$, which is a quadratic form on $X$. (The value $\psi_2(X)$ is essentially the sum of the squares of the eigenvalues---roots---of $X$, since $\psi_1(X)=0$.) The bilinear form associated to this quadratic form is the usual Killing form. The invariance of $\psi_2$ under the adjoint action translates to the "associativity" property of the Killing form. Cartan observed (in essence) that for $\mathfrak{g}$ simple, the kernel of the the associated bilinear form is either $0$ or $\mathfrak{g}$ (by invariance + simplicity), and he managed to prove that the kernel is always $0$, starting his repair of the faults in Killing's structure theory. One can look at Hawkins' book for the details of the story, stripped of modern efficiencies.
It is tempting to think that the simpler structure theory of finite-dimensional associative algebras (where non-degeneracy of the trace form also characterizes semi-simplicity) may have inspired Cartan. It seems (again according to Hawkins) that Molien introduced this form for associative algebras (as a bilinear form---as opposed to Cartan's quadratic form) independently in the same year (1893) that Cartan published his thesis.
A less algebraic answer, but one that really helped me to understand the role of the Killing form, is that it induces the unique G-invariant riemannian metric on symmetric spaces $G(\mathbb{R})/K$ (K maximal compact subgroup), another fact which was very dear to Cartan as well...
For me, the important property of the Killing form is its naturality with respect to ideals (an illuminating fact to prove). Then, suddenly, its connection to semi-simplicity becomes quite clear: could there be an abelian ideal? Well, it would have to be in the radical of the Killing form.
I always thought of the Killing form as the natural way to introduce an invariant inner product (that was nontrivial) on a Lie algebra, hence the ideal tools for proving theorems in the semisimple case. Indeed, the trace form is a reasonable invariant bilinear form on $\mathfrak{gl}_n$, and the adjoint map is the first choice of a map from a Lie algebra into $\mathfrak{gl}_n$ that one would think of.
It's the essentially unique (Ad) $G$ invariant "inner product"... ok, maybe not positive or negative definite, so just "pairing" ... on $\mathfrak g$. So whatever "geometry" we imagine might live on $\mathfrak g$ is expressed in terms of the Killing form.
A one-sentence answer is that the Killing form provides the appropriate generalized inner product on a Lie algebra. A slightly longer answer is that the Killing form gives structural information about (e.g.) solvability and semisimplicity via the Cartan criteria and (e.g.) allows Levi decompositions to be effected in practice and the compact real form of the semisimple part of a Lie group to be constructed via Weyl's so-called "unitary trick".


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Banks, Oregon- Mitch Hoffsess' record in a Sprint Car is very good. The twenty-year old Beaverton native has started in four total races and has won in three of them. Two of which include a wing and one without. Hoffsess would capture his third victory with the Northwest Extreme Sprints at Sunset Speedway Park's first race of the year on Saturday April 20th.
Hoffsess would dominate in the feature leading every lap after starting on the pole. Building a huge lead Hoffsess would lap up to fourth place en route to the victory in the Schram Brothers Excavating #5H Rocket.
"It's awesome to win the season opener," commented Hoffsess, "everyone gets excited about that first race because their cars are all top notch. I have to thank by Dad Karl for helping me out tonight with the car."
Theo McCarty of Hillsboro in the BDR Racing #6 Rocket was second followed by Oregon City's Ryan Bothwell in the Schram Brothers Excavating #19 Avenger in third. The rest of the top five finishers were Sammy Wright of Vancouver, Washington driving the BDR Racing #11 John Boy in fourth and Forest Grove's Jake Gilman in his Maverick Welding Supply #11X Maxim. Wright would earn victories earlier in the night in both the heat race and trophy dash.
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Since the last few releases have nerfed both water elevators and boat elevators, what is left standing as the fastest upward movement method? Ladders? Stairs? Are nerfed boat elevators still the fastest?
Hopping with vertically aligned boats or minecarts.
The fastest way to travel upwards is on an upward slope of powered minecart rails.
Tell a lie, there's actually a faster way, our good friend TNT. Use this at your own risk!
Pistons elevators are the fastest way to go in 1.7.3 and above.
I believe minecarts would still be the fastest, provided that you have enough space and resources for them.
Stairs would probably be faster than ladders, but again require more space.
Boat elevators and water ladders are now fixed entirely. They will not work.
Ladders are pretty decent. Slow-ish, but efficient.
If you had a fast PC, you may be able to fiddle with portals and see if you can get them working such that you enter portal B at the bottom, arrive in the Nether, get back in the portal, and come out in portal A at the top. For long distances, this is probably pretty fast..if a little unorthodox.
If you don't consider it cheating, WorldEdit's ascend/descend commands are instantaneous and using Single Player Commands can be bound to any key.
If that's too cheated, there's also an elevator mod (also for SMP if you use bukkit: link).
If you insist on vanilla minecraft, fredley is probably right, you'll have to use a powered minecart or TNT - I guess with enough sand blocks between you and the TNT directly below you, you'll even survive being catapulted up, and maybe use some trapdoor mechanism wired to the TNT detonator to shut just in time so you stay upstairs...
edit as akaGrim linked to this youTube video, a minecart elevator might be quicker and still "legal".
As of 1.6.6 it appears boat elevators work again. http://notch.tumblr.com/post/6035819427/minecraft-beta-1-6-6
I saw something on youtube about "teleportation". It isn't really teleportation. It's more like just really fast travel. The basic idea is to cram a lot of mobs into a small space then move the player next to them. The combined "bump" of most of the mobs will add up, propelling the player very quickly over long distances.
I'm not certain that combined bumps can be used for vertical travel, but I would bet they could (maybe bump into stairs or get bumped from below?). The only problem is that this device, while it works, reduces my framerate to less than one per second, so I can't investigate vertical movement using this method.
It would be interesting if someone could take that guy's idea (I forget his name) and turn it into a vertically-moving "teleportation" machine. I simply don't have the computer power for it, though.
The fastest way to move upwards (faster than TNT!) is the
...will have you so far above your map you can't even see it within a second or so.
This only works in SMP, or with Single Player Commands installed.


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A function $f: \textbf{C} \to \textbf{C}$ has a pole of order $k$ if $f(z) = \frac{g(z)}{(z-z_0)^{k}}$ where $g(z)$ is a nonzero analytic function. Why do we call it poles?
This may be apocryphal folk etymology, but I always thought it was because if you plot, or envision plotting, the surface z = |f(x + iy)|, at poles of f, the surface, if you imagine it sitting over the xy plane, looks like it is being supported by a really tall pole. Like a circus tent. I have no citations to support this belief, but I must have gotten it from somewhere. Anyway it makes a good deal of sense.
I'm posting this, despite not having an MO account, because genuinely can't understand why nobody has posted it yet. (Nikita's "because poles stick up" comes close, but seems to have been drowned out by posts about poles being "big", or invocations of the north pole, which seem to be entirely different explanations.)
As Martin O remarks, the french word "pôle" (or the German "Pol") does not include the meaning "pillar", that's why the explanation "looks like a pillar" seems a bit dubious, at least to me. Being a native German speaker, I have always associated the word "pole" to the electrical pole and thus to the function $\frac1{r^2}$. It seems entirely natural to me to use this special example as a prototype for any singularity of a (complex) function.
According to these pages, the earliest known appearance of the term pole might be in "Théorie des fonctions elliptiques" (1875, p. 15) by Briot and Bouquet:
They don't provide any motivation for this choice of a term though.
By the way, in their first memoir on the subject, "Étude des fonctions d'une variable imaginaire" (1856), Briot and Bouquet refer to a pole of a function only as un infini du degré fini.
This picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jahnke_gamma_function.png should make it clear why they are called poles.


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Do you go caroling at christmas time?
I haven't seen carolers going around town since I was a kid. (More than 30 years ago.) Is this yet another tradition that has fallen out of favor?
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People always talk about carolers, but I have never actually seen this occur.
Is this like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster?
Since I haven't seen one in over 30 years, I'm inclined to agree on the comparison.
friday the 9th I took my wife & kids on a neighborhood caroling walk. Met up at the local park with about 30 people (mostly kids and their parents) organized by 2 people that work for the local parks & rec district. they had hot cocoa and cookies, and then we walked the neighborhood around the park, a bunch of houses/townhomes packed tightly together like row-houses. Any house with lights on got a knock on the door and a song if they opened the door... only one scrooge slammed the door shut, and we all laughed at that one.
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I've heard the Chinese are fine to use the English word DVD, rather than the chinese word. What is more common, and what measure word do they use with it?
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I had always used guanng pan (光盘) with ge (个), however I am told that it would be better to use pan (盘) or zhang (张). DVD is commonly used as is die pian (碟片) with the measure word bu (部) or zhang (张).
According to my Chinese friend DVD is most commonly used.
You will also hear wu(五 or jiu(九)after DVD if you're in a shop to signify the type of DVD (DVD 5 or DVD 9).
Just a supplement here. Many technical acronyms are borrowed directly from English, and we don't usually translate them into Chinese characters.Take DVD for example, its definition in Chinese is "数字多功能光盘" as in English "Digital Versatile Disc", however, we don't say "数字多功能光盘", except that you want to explain what it is to other people.In general, we just say "DVD" and read it just in a letter-by-lettter way(Dee-Vee-Dee in this case). I would say "张" as the measure word for a piece of DVD. Some other examples:
My old textbook [1] claims that 看碟 is used to say watch a movie on DVD.
Yellow bridge [2] says 影碟 is used for DVD, and its measure word can be either 张 or 片.
[1] Integrated Chinese 3e, Level 1 Part 2, Lesson 11, p2
[2] http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/wordsearch.php?searchMode=C&word=%E5%BD%B1%E7%A2%9F
In Taiwanese usage, no one says anything other than DVD, and the measure word is usually 片 or 張.
I don't know that I've ever heard a Chinese person say anything but DVD to describe a DVD, although I remember learning 光盘/数字光盘 (guāng pán/shù zì guāng pán) as CD/DVD when I was doing my Chinese course.
The measure word for DVD is either 盘 or 张 - either one is fine so far as I know, although a native speaker might correct me on this.


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Wood is one of the good people.Hide replies
And it probably will be his last season along with Driver.
If it is, so what, @ least he went out like a MAN.
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On Sunday, didn't the announcers say that Woodson donated $5 million to the children's hospital at U of Michigan? He is definitely one of the good people.Hide replies
i believe at the time, maybe about 2-3 years ago, it was $2M to build a new cancer unit at the hospital.
he's the epitome of "actions speak louder than words". he seems to take a strong stand on social issues and he backs it up with his time and money.
i have a lot of respect for what charles woodson appears to stand for on and off the field.
Class act.
I'm happy to hear that Woodson is giving money for charity. Please stay out of politics, though. Don't these athletes know that as soon as they choose a side (left or right), 40-45% of their fan base thinks negatively of them? Don't they have agents?Hide replies
so it's improper for an athlete to actually speak for themselves, without hiding behind the face of their representative or agent?
i have little respect for people who do that. nothing says "i'm with ya" more than actually, you know, being with them in person.
woodson puts himself where he feels he can help. he doesn't need anyone to speak up for him. if fans pick sides based off of that, that's on them, not him. to say he needs to not represent himself because some people might blindly follow him seems a tad backwards.
if they're blind, i would hope they do follow someone like him.
I'm stealing this from Twitter
"Nobody yells at you to "stick to data entry!" when you talk about politics, why should guys like Woodson "stick to football?"
He won the Heisman and has had, what, 15 years in the NFL, including some of the best years of his career in Green Bay. He can say what he wants.
Maybe he should pull a Chmura...pull the politics card and THEN get in trouble...oh, wait, this guy has class.
Most athletes stay out of politics - at least publicly - because they know that about 45% of the people may be less likely to buy their uniform or whatever they make money off of, solely because of their political persuasion.
I love how so many here choose to ignore the fact that Romney's tax plan would greatly benefit Woodson, since he is a multimillionaire.
you think Woodson is concerned losing some of his "fan base"? his actions suggest he wants to share the money he's earned playing a game for entertainment to help people he'll never know. e.g. two million dollars to the children's hospital in Ann Arbor. I don't think he cares what you or me thinks about where he throws his money. romney could discreetly match Woodson's donation to disaster relief times TWENTY but he'd spend a tax deductible million making sure it was advantageous to his tax return. why do his donations to a "cargo cult" earn him a tax deduction?
If all professional athletes were as civic minded as Charles Woodson, they could all be role models for our children. Woodson = true class.
Glad Charles is a giving man! Why not be outspoken about his political beliefs. I just find it interesting that he feels Obama is the right man for the job? Would he vote Obama if he were white? Would Colin Powell, Tony Dungy?Hide replies
I predict you could live to be 100, and never figure out why that is an insulting question.
@MV: It does not suprise me at all that some right winged racist would say something like this. Obviously Charles Woodson gets it! It has nothing do do with the color of his skin. He understands the President can work beyond political boundaries when necessary unlike the right wingers. Keep your prejudice comments for rush limburger, charlie sykes, and the rest of you cronies!
There are plenty of celebrities/athletes who have stated they will vote for Obama because he's a brother. Comedienne Steve Harvey was quoted as saying "he didn't need to know anything more about Obama other than he's a brother". For those of you insulted by mvitch's point... it's true so get over it.
And to say Obama can work beyond political boundaries is a joke. He hasn't done that for 4 years and now all of a sudden because of a storm, he becomes this great uniter. I'm not apologizing for my cynicism. Obama is as big a phoney as there is. What he's been doing on his watch has been aimed at getting another 4 years.
don't be ignorant.
it seems pretty clear woodson is democrat.
do you vote for candidates because they're white?
Those of you who are offended know it's true
it's not offensive.
it's ignorance.
i wouldn't expect woodson to vote for a candidate because he's black anymore than mvitch would vote for a candidate that matches his ethnicity.
would mvitch ask that same question about josh sitton if sitton touted romney?
i doubt it.
Wasn't it a black Democrat who suggested to a gathering of mostly black voters that they should "vote for someone that looks like you"?
I'm not a racist, I just know what this administration has done to my pocket book and the pocket book of the country. Unfortunately I don't have a platform to get my viewpoint out. Maybe these athletes should go place their vote and let everyone make their own decisions without comment.
Arizona... I missed the part where Woodson was forcing you to vote for someone. Guess what, you can still make your own decision.
everyone should be able to make their own informed decisions as adults.
woodson should not shut up just because some aren't mature enough to make their own informed decisions. he has a right to speak up and act based on his beliefs.
just as you do.
anyone who has a problem with this is probably upset because they are afraid he's taking voters away from "their" guy. if "their" guy is losing voters due to charles woodson, that says it all about "their" guy.
let the people speak. it's time to hear the actual voices of the population instead of the politicians who claim to represent them.
don't be afraid of people speaking. embrace it.
wigwam.... The key word you used is "informed". If you don't believe there is a large percentage of people that vote by what they hear from commercials, athletes and celebrities, you are sadly mistaken. My viewpoint is that every politician is in it for themselves. I just chose which one I believe is best for my family and myself from being INFORMED, no matter which side of the aisle they sit on.
My income and portfolio has more than doubled since Obama took office. Were you alive in 2008?
It's why I'm voting for Obama.
I'm sorry that was a reply to packer blood.
i never said uninformed people aren't influenced by celebrities. it's america, the land of the apathetic.
i said it's their own fault if they base their beliefs on those celebrities' beliefs without making their own choices based on their own beliefs.
clint eastwood would strongly suggest this isn't just a left wing or liberal happenstance. in fact, did you question eastwood for the same thing you're questioning woodson for?
if the blind CHOOSE to follow, at least charles woodson seems to be classy and intelligent enough to be someone worthy to follow. there are far worse people to follow their example.
Congrats to Charles for making a donation....Boo on him for making it political...I wonder what his stance is on the Benghazi cover-up?Hide replies
it sounds like YOU'RE the one making it political. woodson has a right to stand up for his beliefs. he has a right to support those who he believes live in unison with those beliefs.
it's you who's not allowing him that.
you're the intolerant one, not him.
to bring up something as political driven as benghazi, when the article is about charles woodson donating money for disaster relief, is despicable.
Probably the same as Ron Paul, end the foreign occupations.
What Benghazi cover-up? There's nothing to see here.
You better believe it's political when there is an election in 5 days and one of the candidates wants to eliminate federal disaster relief and privatize it.
Are you serious??
packerblood, hatebothsides is not stopping anyone for supporting their views. I believe hatenbothsides has the same right as Woodson to state his beliefs. The only difference is that his is on a blog versus the tv or press releases.
he does have that right.
what does benghazi have to do with disaster relief donations?
He said Obama was the best choice for the most people, so hatebothsides was asking what Charles would think of the Benghazi cover up? It has nothing to do with the donation, but a lot to do with the political part of what Woodson said. Which is why I think Charles should've stopped short of endorsing a candidate at that time.
Perhaps this is why hatebothsides asked about the Benghazi cover up. I'm really surprised that someone like this can get re-elected,
or even keep his current position. The land of opportunity I guess.
davev, you believe way too much right wing propaganda.
Maybe, maybe not. Do you have any specific comment on the video? Did you even watch it?
Even if this is Woodson's last year as a Packer, he's still a Packer for life! Class act, so happy he came here, even if we were his last choice. Live and learn!
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Faye Willoughby says: "We've never missed a year. For 46 years."
For Faye and Everett Willoughby the Kentucky State Fair has been a staple in their lives. The Scottsville family has 13 cows in this year's fair.
Willoughby says: "We started out before our children were born with Everett's brother. He was already in FFA and he went to the army so we continued coming. Then we had our children and we kept coming. Now we have grandchildren and we're still bringing them."
Logan Chandler is one of her grandchildren. He's showing Kasie at the fair.
Logan says: "She's a two-year-old."
Nine-year-old Logan has been coming to the Fair with his family since he was a day old.
Logan says: "What I like most is just showing the cows and having fun."
He says when he grows up he wants to continue to family tradition and become a dairy farmer. By showing this year, he's learning what the basics are.
Logan says: "You've got to keep their head up. You've got to set their feet. And make them walk show. That's mostly all."


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I spoke a bit the other day about Envy, specifically Achievement Envy. While I was writing it I started thinking about the other 6 deadly sins, and how they played out in WoW.
Lust in WoW?
Well yes and it manifests itself in a few different ways. I'm sure we all remember the bunny ears from the Easter event… Playboy anyone?
What about the difference in gear. Man Plate = full body defense, GirlPlate = cheerleader skirts.
What about the standard joke that the only people that roll female nightelves are teenage boys?
What about all the stories you hear about females preferring not to speak on vent for fear of revealing their gender and opening the door to unwelcome advances?
Free Mage food anyone? Ok, I guess that isn't really the gluttony I am thinking of…
What about the need to stuff our selves to bursting and exhaustion on more and more content.
- Just one more quest
- Just one more raid
- Just one more honor kill
Greed appears in so many forms in WoW.
Gold greed, and the desire to fudge average sale values to increase profits.
Loot greed (or not Need before Greed). Taking those items for just one more drop, no matter what the impact on others.
Morons and Slackers. Boost me so I don't have to do the work.
Grind for me so I can benefit from your time.
Gems… they have gems now? Can you lend me a few, I will give them back as soon as I am finished with them… I promise…
- Minus DKP anyone?
- Ever been called a noob by some angry player?
- Ever lost your patience, thrown your keyboard across the room?
I covered this in a lighthearted kind of way the other day, but envy has a darker side and has lead to guild explosions and loss of friends.
Are you showing off your mammoth, your T8.5 outside the IF mailbox?
Are you so proud that you won't take a newbie on a run because it might spoil your flawless instance record?
Gnomer and Out!
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New Yorkers young and old have pondered what it would be like to meander museum halls after-hours. Proving once again that celebrities are just like the rest of us, Manhattan chatted with attendees at the American Museum of Natural History's Fall Gala about where they'd head first if they could remain inside after closing time. –Thomas P. Farley


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Monique Houston is aware of the consequences. A former sister-in-law of Whitney Houston, she made the mistake of speaking out years ago about what she said was a pattern of enabling within the Houston family. The result? She was cut off. Monique Houston was married to Gary Houston and the two share a son and daughter. But this time, Houston says she will not be silent.
Like most people who've ever been affiliated with Whitney Houston and who have spoken out since her death, she says she wasn't surprised at how her story played out. But the culprit, Houston says, is that for years there's been a pattern of enabling, and she hopes that by speaking out now, she'll help save the next generation of the Houston clan. Monique Houston talks with EBONY.com
EBONY: Why do you want to talk now?
Monique Houston: If it's not now, when? I just really had to speak out about the cycle that has gone on for a number of years. Now is the time for me really to take this situation and speak about it. So that's where I'm at now. I've really tried to shield my children. They've dealt with a lot over the years and I really try to shield them from a lot of negativity that would come their way, but now that they are adults and they're as healthy as they can be under the circumstances, I think they're prepared for what's ahead and some of the realities.
EBONY: It sounds like you really weren't all that shocked at how things unfortunately ended for your former sister-in-law, is that correct?
MH: No, I wasn't shocked. I was caught off guard. You know, we all prayed that she would recover and …recovery with a drug addict is an ongoing process. But she just was so healthy and beautiful from the press that came out of Sparkle, that it just totally caught me off guard. I really was sitting back and looking forward to the movie actually coming out and what would happen for her with that. So I was really caught off guard, but unfortunately, I wasn't surprised.
EBONY: When was the last time you'd actually spoken with her?
MH: Many years ago. I left right after her wedding to Bobby Brown. I left my husband around that time, and then I think I had Thanksgiving with her and Bobby and Mrs.[Cissy] Houston about a year or two after that. So that was one of the last times I had actual contact with her.
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EBONY: What do you think the real issue was? You kind of say that the burden of being Whitney Houston is what ultimately killed your former sister-in-law. What do you mean about that, specifically?
MH: Well, it was a large image to live up to. I mean, the image they created for her was a part of who she was, but it wasn't the whole person. And I feel that trying to live up to that perfect type of pop diva type of image they created for her was a lot of weight. Trying to live up to what everybody in her family wanted or needed from her was a huge responsibility for her also. And then the media just picked at her constantly and always questioned her lifestyle … I just feel like that was an awful lot of pressure.
EBONY: Did you ever talk with her about that pressure back when you all still had a relationship and were talking more frequently?
MH: We never talked about the pressure, per se, but anytime that she did have down time, you could really get a general sense that she cherished it. It was an awful lot to get out there and work. The road was very demanding and tiring and Whitney was really a homebody. I believe she did love to sing, but my opinion is the performance end of it and the rigors of that really took a toll on her as well.
EBONY: How about your children? I know that they're older, but how are they handling it? And what have you said to them about it?
MH: It was really devastating. The first thing they did was basically to come home and withdraw a little bit. My son didn't want to go to school—he's finishing up at Morehouse. The conversation I have had with them has been the truth over the years. My ex-husband was arrested for drugs in North Carolina (when they were kids). So here I am as a parent trying to shield them and not have them watch TV and they go to school and somebody in the first grade says, 'Your father was arrested for drugs; he's a drug dealer.' You know? Or they would come at them, 'Oh, your aunt's this or your aunt's that.' Over the years, I


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Panthers victorious again
RAYLAND - The Buckeye Local boys basketball team clinched its first winning season in 10 years with a 73-47 victory over visiting Bellaire Thursday.
"That's really big for us," Panthers coach Jay Morris said. "That was one of our goals this season to have a winning season. The last time we had a winning season here was in 2003. We had to win four of five game in the last seven days and that is just what we did.
"That's the second time this season we played three straight nights. We started to fall behind in the second period, but we challenged the kids at halftime and they came out and played well in the second half."
Kyle Michalo continued his torrid offensive streak with a game-high 32 points, giving him 88 in the past three victories.
John Rozenek added 16 points and Brennan Czuchran 11, to go along with nine rebounds each.
Buckeye Local, which was 1-20 two years ago, takes on Meadowbrook in sectional action on Feb. 22 at Ohio University-Eastern.
Buckeye Local 73, Bellaire 47
Bellaire 6 19 9 13 - 47
Buckeye Local 18 10 15 30 - 73
BELLAIRE: Steele 6, 0-0 15; Ramsay 1, 3-4 5; Kimbro 0, 0-0 0; Callarick 0, 0-0 ; Westlake 1, 0-0 2; Back 0, 0-2 0; Pickens 0, 0-0 0; Kyle Hess 0, 0-0 0; Patrone 8, 4-6 20; Kovalyk 0, 0-0 0; Hall 0, 0-0 0; Kenny Hess 2, 0-0 4; Bentz 0, 1-2 1; Ellison 0, 0-0 0. Totals, 18-59, 8-14. 3-pointers: Steele 3.
BUCKEYE LOCAL: Marshall 0, 0-0 0; Czuchran 5, 0-0 11; Agnew 1, 0-0 2; Donahue , 0-0 0; Borkoski 1, 0-0 3; Williams 1, 0-0 2; Martin 0, 0-0 0; Duncan 2, 2-2 6; Carducci 0, 1-2 1; Rozenek 6, 4-5 16; Michalo 14, 3-3 32; Pyciak 0, 0-0 0; Hamilton 0, 0-0 0. Totals, 30-52, 10-12. 3-pointers: Czuchran 1, Borkoski, Michalo.
Lady Royals earn a win
MUNHALL, Pa. - The Jefferson County Christian girls basketball team finished the regular season 13-7 with a 32-23 over the Propel School Thursday.
Kassie Lucas and Lani Moro led the way with nine points each, while Lindy Bowers and Margie Kissenger added six apiece.
JCCS will take on Seeds of Faith at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in SouthWestern Christian Athletic Conference Tournament play at the Neighborhood Academy in Pittsburgh.
Wintersville baseball sign-ups set
STEUBENVILLE - The Wintersville Baseball Association will hold registration from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Feb. 23 in front of Hibbett Sports at the Fort Steuben Mall.
The league is open to children who will be 5 to 14 years old before April 30. New players should bring birth certificates when registering.
For information, visit www.wintersvillebaseball.com.
Last game at Kunzler Gym
TORONTO - The Toronto boys basketball team will take on Wellsville at 6 p.m. on Feb. 23 in what will be the final basketball game inside the George J. Kunzler Memorial Gymnasium.
The Toronto High School Athletic Department invites all Red Knight fans, former basketball players, coaches, cheerleaders, and alumni to "Lights Out Knight," a special event to celebrate Toronto High School's rich basketball history.
The evening will feature special vocal and instrumental performances by current students, recognition of former coaches and record holders, and a brief ceremony at the conclusion of the boys' varsity game to commemorate the last game.
Souvenir event tickets and programs will be handed out to fans while supplies last. Fans are asked to show their Red Knight pride by wearing red to the game.
Richmond to hold sign-ups
RICHMOND - The Richmond Baseball/Softball Association will hold sign-ups from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Feb. 23 at the Richmond Lighthouse Church.
Cost is $45 for the first child, $35 for the second child and $20 for the third child. Cash or check will be accepted. Sign-ups will be at the church only. Online sign-ups will not be accepted.
For information, send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Tennis league seeking teams
The Tri-State Tennis Association is seeking teams for the summer league. Fourteen teams competed in the league the past two seasons. The league is seeking an "A" and "B" divisions this season.
For information, call (304) 564-3053 or send an e-mail to email@example.com.
Toronto sign-ups to be held
TORONTO - The Toronto Softball League will hold sign-ups from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday and Feb. 23 and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Roosevelt Recreation Center.
The cost is $50 for the first child, $30 for the second child and $20 for each additional child. Cash or check will be accepted.
Buckeye to hold shootout
RAYLAND - The Buckeye Local Roundball Club will hold a shootout March 8-10 at Buckeye Local High School. The cost is $125 per team with a three-game guarantee. It will be open to boys and girls divisions in grades 5-9 and 10/11.
For information, contact Joe Czuchran at (740) 391-4063 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Follansbee to hold sign-ups
FOLLANSBEE - The Follansbee Girls Fastpitch Softball League will hold registration from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and March 2 at the Garibaldi Club. The cost is $50 for one child, $35 for the second child and $30 for the third child.
For information, contact Joe Birmingham at (304) 670-8452.
Baseball, softball sign-ups to be held
CHESTER - Oak Glen Junior Bears baseball and softball will hold sign-ups for boys ages 4-14 and girls ages 4-15 at the Chester Volunteer Fire Department from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Feb. 23.
Cost is $50 for the first child, $40 for second child, and $25 for each additional child with additional fundraiser.
For information, call (330) 383-1886.
Pleasant Hill to hold sign-ups
PLEASANT HILL - The Pleasant Hill Baseball and Softball League will hold registration from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and Feb. 21 at Pleasant Hill Elementary and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 23 at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church.
Registration fees are to be paid at time of registration. A copy of the player's birth certificate is required.
For information, call (740) 381-1866.
Bergholz sign-ups announced
BERGHOLZ - Sign-up for Bergholz baseball and softball will be held at the Bergholz Volunteer Fire Department from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 23.
It is open to all boys and girls in the area with T-Ball for ages 5-6; coach pitch (7-8); and baseball/softball (9-14).
The cost is $40 for the first child in the family and $30 for each additional child in a family. The fee is payable at sign-up.
For information, contact Dick Law at (740) 543-3461.
Softball tryouts to be held
STEUBENVILLE - The Steubenville Girls Softball League will hold tryouts for girls ages 8-15 from noon to 3 p.m. on Feb. 23 in the Steubenville High School commons area. The cost is $40 for the first child and $20 for each additional child.
For information, contact Butch Brown at (740) 497-3792 or Jeremy Groves at (740) 424-2859.


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Jimmy Johnson has been where new Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly wants to go: A hot college coach who becomes a smashing success in the NFL.
Johnson — who won back-to-back Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys after winning a national championship at Miami (Fla.) — knows what one of his first big decisions would be if he were in Kelly's shoes as the new Eagles coach: He'd build his offense around Michael Vick as his starting quarterback.
"If Vick can stay healthy," Johnson, now a Fox analyst, told USA TODAY Sports on Thursday.
There's been much speculation about Vick's future in Philadelphia, and the quarterback, 32, seemed resigned to the notion that with a six-year, $100 million contract and the presence of third-round pick Nick Foles, he could be released during the offseason.
MORE: What does Kelly's hiring mean for Vick?
Now it's Kelly's call for determining Vick's status.
"I'd keep him," Johnson said of Vick. "He's got too much talent to let get away."
Talent was a big advantage for Kelly at Oregon, where he built an elite program underscored by a 46-7 mark over the past four years. Kelly undoubtedly blossomed into a hot NFL coaching prospect with a high-powered spread offense.
"I think he would have to make some adjustments to his offense in the NFL," Johnson said. "It's a matter of him fitting his players into his system, and adjusting his system to the NFL. I think he knows that. He's a good football coach."
Johnson made the jump in 1989 and quickly proved able. The Cowboys won a Super Bowl in his fourth pro season. Yet so many other hot college coaches flopped in the NFL, most notably Steve Spurrier with the Washington Redskins.
What type of results will define Kelly's move?
"I don't know him," Johnson said, "But hey, he had a lot of success at Oregon. He's obviously a good football coach. I know one thing: It'll be interesting to watch."
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EDIT: I am looking for scenario where downtown is in the background and person is in front. I am not much interested in taking pictures of moon and stars. I would be also interested to know how we take good shots of landscapes just with moonlight.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - With state lawmakers approving additional funding for the Kansas courts before heading home, four remaining days of statewide court closures and court employees unpaid furloughs have been canceled.
Chief Justice Lawton Nuss made the announcement Monday. He says the legislature appropriated enough funding to keep the courtroom doors open. Nuss says court will be in session this Thursday and Friday, as well as June 7th and 8th. The $1.1 million in supplemental funding has been rolled into the legislative appropriation bill for FY 2013, which begins July 1.
"My colleagues and I wanted you to receive this message as soon as possible," Nuss wrote in a letter to court workers Monday, informing them of the decision. "While technically the funds are not assured until Governor Brownback signs the budget bill, I am confident a bill will be signed."
Despite the decision to keep courts open, Nuss said trials and hearings previously scheduled for Thursday and Friday, then canceled for lack of funds, should not be expected to return to their original date. He said that the required presence of many lawsuit participants such as witnesses, lawyers, parties, and potential
jurors make it difficult to conduct them on such short notice. Nuss said the KansasJudicial Branch "is like an aircraft carrier underway in the open sea, not like a bass boat on a Kansas fishing lake" and cannot be turned quickly.
Courts were closed statewide, and employees were sent home without pay, April 13th, after legislators took no action on a supplemental funding request before their spring break.
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TRAINING: A typical day of training usually begins at about 9am for me. I'm working with Leister Bowling to improve my wrestling and I'm also with Christian Allen to learn how to use my reach effectively.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started training for MMA when I was 17 years old. I walked into Miguel Torres's gym and saw those guys training and I knew that it was what I wanted to do. I started off by taking a couple of BJJ classes and then I eventually started taking kickboxing classes also. While I was deployed overseas I met some guys who trained kickboxing, BJJ and MMA. We would meet up after duty and train with each other every day.
What ranks and titles have you held? I'm a Purple Belt in BJJ under Miguel Torres and Andre Leite. I was All Army Combatives Champion and the All Guard Combatives Champion.
Do you have any heroes? Outside of MMA my heroes are my grandmother and mother. These women taught the values of hard work and sacrifice. In MMA, my heroes are Nate Marquardt, Matt Hughes and Miguel Torres
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? For me, fighting in the UFC is a dream come true. I trained for over seven years and dreamed of this moment for as long as I can remember.
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WLP090 San Diego Super Yeast
A super clean, super-fast fermenting strain. A low ester-producing strain that results in a balanced, neutral flavor and aroma profile. Alcohol-tolerant and very versatile for a wide variety of styles. Similar to California Ale Yeast WLP001 but it generally ferments faster.
Style Performance Listing
A listing of how this style ranks amongst different brew styles, on a scale from 0 to 4.
|American Style Cream Ale
|American Style Wheat Ale
|Fruit Beer
|Herbs & Spice Beer
|Specialty Beers
|Specialty Honey Ales
|Smoke Flavored Beer
|Golden Ale Canadian Style Ale
|German Style Kolsch
|Classic English Style Pale Ale
|English Style India Pale Ale
|American Style Pale Ale
|American Style India Pale Ale
|American Style Amber
|English Style Bitter
|English Style ESB
|Scottish Style Ale
|Irish Style Red Ale
|English Style Brown Ale
|American Style Brown Ale
|German Style Brown and Dusseldorf Altbier
|Robust Porter
|Brown Porter
|Classic Irish Style Dry Stout
|Foreign Style Stout
|Sweet Stout
|Oatmeal Stout
|English Old Ale English & American Strong Ale
|Barley Wine Strong Ale
|Strong Scotch Ale
|Imperial Stout
|Imperial IPA
Feedback and experiences from previous customers. Want to leave a review of your own?
"American Amber"
Great yeast, even though I"m a new(er) brewer this yeast allows me to learn the flavor profile of my hops and grains. I say that because I have used other yeast with the exact same hops and grain and have tasted a difference. Very clean and all the statements of being fast and possibly blowing the cork are true. It happened to me.
"Blew my top"
This yeast was awesome it finished quick, just a warning it is really a super yeast! I was brewing a barley wine, OG 1120, and used a yeast nutrient with the brew. Used a starter over 24 hours in advanced but the yeast showed no activity. I pitched it still thinking it was a bad batched. First day of fermentation still showed no activity, and almost pitched some 007 to save the brew but gave it 1 more day. The next day I woke up to a mess in the cellar; the yeast had fermented so fast and so hard it blew the cork off my fermenter. It kept fermenting so hard for the next 48 hours that I couldn't keep sanitizer water in my bubbler take caution when using this yeast and know that it lives up to its name as a super yeast.
"Very clean and fast fermentation - I think that I've found my new "House Yeast"!"
After reading about how clean San Diego Super Yeast ferments, over and over, I decided to give it a shot in an American Pale Ale.
I made a 2 liter starter, to my surprise, 2 hrs after pitching, fermentation was very actively under way!
WLP090 is very clean fermenting, this yeast really let the malt & hops shine through, very balanced.
I am so impressed with this yeast, I started another 2 liter yeast starter and brewed my Centennial IPA, fermentation started 2.5 hrs after pitching, and it is currently fermenting. I cannot wait to see how it enhances the malt and hop profile of this IPA.
I think that I've found my "Haus Yeast"!
"Clean and fast"
I've used this yeast in many styles of beer and it always ferments fast and clean. I find that it's best for styles that don't have much for finishing hops or dry hopping. The yeast seems to eat up the flavor & aroma hops in my IPA's, other yeasts (like 001)seem to preserve the hop flavor & aroma better than this yeast. Great for all other styles where you want a clean beer that ferments fast and drops out to give you a bright beer. Doesn't seem to be fussy about fermentation temperatures. A great yeast!
"This is just a great clean and dry yeast"
This is just a great clean and dry yeast. Enjoyed that the 4 times I've used it, the FG has always been @ 12 or lower... Again, an awesome yeast to have in a homebrewers' yeast supply...
"Well I just want to say this yeast is a game changer"
Well I just want to say this yeast is a game changer and I love it I brew a light pale ale about 7 lovibond. With a finished A.B.V of 12% I brew down to 1.002 then bottle and let sit for 3 more months -- makes a true ale to be coveted.
"Lots of violent ... "
Starting 1.090 Finishing 1.022. Very clean tasting. Took only 3 to 4 days to ferment out. Highly active fermentation. Lots of violent kräusening activity through blow off tube. Slightly low attenuation.
"... with better flocculation"
I brewed a great American IPA with this strain. Starting gravity of 1.062 and finished at 1.010. Starting fermentation at 65F and raising to 67F over 7 days followed by 7 days of dry hopping at 65F. Very clean and neutral flavor profile and seems to me to leave less yeast character than WLP001 if you can believe that! Great balance on malt and hop flavors and may emphasize the malt a bit more than WLP001. Flocculation was excellent, much better after the week of dry hopping than with WLP001. It wasn't any quicker to attenuate for me, but it was the first generation. Overall very similar to WLP001 with better flocculation. I would like to try it in other American styles.
"Will try again"
Brewed a real big OG 1.091 Strong ale and pitched the yeast, during fermentation everything went great, real fast turn around time and everything. Nice aromas and such, but it pooped out at 1.030 :( I picked up another vial, Shall review again after the next brew.
"Very clean fermenting ... "
64 oz starter brought my 1.109 barley wine down to 1.019 in 12 days @70F. Good attenuation (as of now beer is still in secondary). Very clean fermenting, this yeast really let my Munich and honey malts shine through.
"... will graduate to this yeast ... "
OG 1.055-1.06. A pretty standard IPA Wort. I didn't have any DME to make a starter & pitched the yeast directly after warming the vial for 4-5 hours as recommended & after cooling the wort (natch). Had about an 8 hour lag time. Compared to Cali WL the krausen didn't look as viscous. The yeast had 3 days of vigorous fermentation & then another 3-4 beyond that. After 10 days the yeast had brought the gravity down to final gravity. I went to bottle at 14 days. Samples at bottling were very clean. The yeast flocculates very well compared to California. No diacetyl at all -- kind of surprised due to the strong flocculation. The flocculation upgrade was a nice addition since I don't have temp control & can't cold crash so I imagine it would enhance my dry hopping (does). I think I will graduate to this yeast from cali for a lot of pales-to-DIPA's. Pretty rad yeast.
"... many thanks ... "
Oh thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou for making San Diego part of the normal production line! California was our house strain until our LHBS recommended SDSY when it came out. After using it in our AIPA, it finished fermenting so quickly, floc'd out so clearly, and the flavors were so well balanced and deep that we decided to switch strains. PLEASE keep this strain around for a while! Great job!
"... may go down to ..."
Fermented a 1.066 OG IPA at exactly 65degF. This yeast took it down to 1.015 (a little higher than I expected). Flocculation is poor for me, even after a cold crash. Some pear fruity esters but relatively clean. Seems like it squashed the hop aroma just a bit. All said, it finished quickly and that was really the point. I'll definitely try it again but I may go down to around 62degF to see if I can get some of those esters out and still keep the fast fermentation.
"It finished in about three days ... "
I used this yeast WITHOUT a starter on a Chocolate Rye Russian Imperial Stout with an OG of 1.118. With some temperature monitoring, this beast of a beer was fermented to a FG of 1.020 in just 4 days. Unbelievable. I took a small sample of the left over yeast from primary and cultured it with sanitized sugar and used it WITH a starter for a Cascadian Dark Ale with an OG of 1.068. It finished in about 3 days with a FG of 1.013. Fantastic! The hop bitterness was accentuated but the aroma was lacking, even though I used plenty of aromatic hops varietals late in the boil, so I ended up dry-hopping it with much success. THIS IS A PHENOMENAL strain, guys. The high flocculation may mean it takes a little out of your hops in primary for the hop-heads out there, but dry-hopping will get you back to where you want to be...
"It was definitely fast ... "
I tried this baby for the first time with an appropriate starter. I started it at 64F and let it naturally raise up to 67F. I then, let it finish up at 68F. It produced a fantastic beer. It was definitely fast, done in probably less than 7 days with little krausen formation. It leaves a very clean ale with emphasis on malt and hop character, not yeast character. It seems to clarify faster than WLP001. I don't know if it is as good at higher gravity beers, but I would highly recommend it!
"Very clean & vigorous"
Very clean & vigorous at around 67 degrees, very slow around 64, but either way this yeast gets the job done. This has replaced WLP001 in my yeast bank, despite higher attenuation. My strong cherry ale reached 12% ABV no problem
"I love this yeast"
I love this yeast. At first, I couldn't quite figure out what it was I like so much about it except for that it fermented and dropped bright very quickly. I recently tested this yeast up against the standard go-to Chico strain, WLP001, with a nice DIPA- half was pitched with each of these yeasts (built up in proper starters). Both beers have been in kegs for about 3 weeks and this one (WLP090) is significantly brighter than the Ca! l Ale strain. While on its own the 090 is perceived as clean, it certainly tastes different next to the 001, hence I do not believe this is the more flocculant cells from 001. Rather, I get a subtle and very nice English character. Perhaps my palate is completely unsophisticated, but this yeast seems what might be produced if 001 and 002 had a kid. It's delicious. I love this yeast.
"Pitched a 1600ml starter"
Pitched a 1600ml starter of WLP090 onto 5 gallons of 1.057OG wort and in three days it was cleared and down to 1.010. Clean tasting but it also accentuates the hops.
"I made an IPA with 1 oz Galena hops (@60) and a mixture of 1 oz Summit"
I made an IPA with 1 oz Galena hops (@60) and a mixture of 1 oz Summit, Nugget and Willamette hops (@10, 5 & 0 min), dry-hopped with 2 oz Amarillo & 1 oz Simcoe. OG was 1.062. I fermented @62*F for 3 weeks, then dropped the dry hops in for 10 days. I made a 2L Starter with 200 mg of DME. FG was 1.004. INSANE. I just kegged this yesterday, but if the hydrometer sample is any indication, this will likely be the best IPA I've ever made. I ! think I have a new favorite ale yeast. In fact, I think I will now switch over to White Labs for all my yeasts.
"So far I'm loving this yeast"
So far I'm loving this yeast. Fast, clean and clear! 1.093 to 1.015 in 7 days. Now aging in a Bourbon barrel. Last sample was very clear and tasted great. Awesome strain!
"So far I'm loving this yeast"
So far I'm loving this yeast. Fast, clean and clear! 1.093 to 1.015 in 7 days. Now aging in a Bourbon barrel. Last sample was very clear and tasted great. Awesome strain!
"Best. Yeast. EVER."
Best. Yeast. EVER. I have been using this yeast for a while now and the IPA I just made sealed the deal. This is now my work-horse. Super fast, super flocc, super clean, super beer. Use it, love it.
Attenuation76-83% +
FlocculationMedium to High
Optimum Ferment Temp.65-68°F (18-20°C)
Alcohol ToleranceHigh