text:
4400 Stone Mountain Hwy
Directions Lilburn, GA 30047
Welcome to Stone Mountain Toyota's website, where you can
browse our
entire inventory of new vehicles and used cars at Stone Mountain
dealership, serving Atlanta. Our Toyota dealership is located directly across from the FPSC of Atlanta, and minutes down the road from the Stone Mountain Golf Club and Yellow River Game Ranch. Our dealership is proud to serve the areas of
Snellville, Roswell and Sandy Springs. You can reach us by phone during normal business hours at 800-768-3693.
There's a reason why Stone
Mountain Toyota is a 5-Time Winner of the Toyota Customer Excellence Award.
It's because we
provide quality Toyota cars, trucks, and SUVs at prices our customers can
Stone Mountain Toyota,
serving Atlanta and South Gwinnett, Georgia, provides customers
with all their sales, service, parts, and financing needs. Whether you are looking to
have Parts and Accessories, schedule service, purchase a new vehicle or purchase a pre-owned vehicle, we are here for you. We thank
you for choosing to do business with us. Do you want to know what your customers think about us? Leave a review for our Toyota dealership here.
Come on down and have a cup of coffee with us at Stone Mountain Toyota you will be glad you did. We have great savings on new Toyota models, including the Camry, Corolla, Highlander, Prius, Tacoma, Tundra and much more. Be sure to see all of our Stone Mountain Toyota Commercials on Youtube. To stay updated with the latest news about our dealership, we encourage you to follow us on Facebook!
We strive to make our customers happy and should you not find what you are looking for simply fill out a contact form found on our website. Once you have filled out the questionnaire, a sales or financing expert will quickly contact you. Also, check out our specials page to find great savings on select makes and models as well as service and parts. You will find us in Gwinnett County and convenient to the area as a Toyota Dealer.
At Stone Mountain Toyota of Lilburn, we not only offer a superb selection of new and used cars, but topnotch customer service. We believe that purchasing a new car should be an enjoyable experience from start to finish. Along with creating an upbeat car buying experience, our expert staff will help you make a truly informed decision.
What new Toyota models do you have to choose from? That depends on what type of lifestyle you have! You will find a wide range of vehicles for sale, including hybrid models, green cars, family sedans, minivans, and pickup trucks. No matter what type of car, truck, or SUV you need, we can help! Head over to our new Toyota inventory to browse our current selection. We proudly serve Atlanta with one of the most comprehensive selections of new Toyota cars, trucks, and SUVs.
Along with one of the most diverse selections of new 2015 Toyota models, our dealership also has a number of used cars, trucks, and SUVs. Our dealership is proud to serve Lilburn, Duluth, Sandy Springs and Atlanta with premium used cars! Feel free to browse our selection of used cars from your PC, smartphone or tablet! Each one we carry has been carefully selected and tested to not only meet your undoubtedly high standards for quality, but to exceed them as well.
Have you found the perfect new Toyota or used car? Instead of searching for an auto loan, allow our Toyota financing experts help! We are part of a massive network of lenders, and we can help you find an auto loan that fits within your budget. Whether you're looking to secure a car loan or lease we can work with you to help make sure you don't overextend yourself. Why do we go above and beyond? That's the kind of service that we would expect if we were shopping for a new car. Our financing center is proud to serve the Atlanta, Georgia region, and we would love an opportunity to earn your business.
Of course, our Toyota dealership does more than sell new and used cars. We will help you service and maintain your vehicle for the duration of ownership. We offer professional car service and repair here in at our Lilburn location. Our service center provides everything from tire rotations and oil changes to full replacements of Toyota parts and accessories. To learn more about our service center or parts store, contact us today.
Want to find out more about Stone Mountain Toyota? We're more than happy to help. Feel free to come by and chat with us at 4400 Stone Mountain Highway Lilburn, GA, contact us by phone at (855) 934-7419 or fill out a contact form on our website. We're a friendly and accommodating bunch here, and we always enjoy getting to know you.
All advertised prices exclude tax, tag, registration and title and include dealer fees of $599.95. College grad and military rebates are not included.


text:
LaTeX documents print beautifully, but images often looks "ugly", "pixelated" or "low-res" compared to the text. By images I don't mean photos, which I rarely use, but rather diagrams, charts and drawings made in other programs such as Visio, Excel and Photoshop. I would love for these to look just as good as the rest of the report when printed.
Vector Imagery
If you can, save diagrams as a vector-based format such as PDF or EPS- these formats can be readily included in LaTeX documents and scale without appearing pixelized. Note that PDF should be used for input to
Inkscape is an excellent, free, cross-platform program for creating and editing vector graphics- similar to Adobe Illustrator. There is even a project that is producing a plug-in for Inkscape that allows Inkscape graphics to be exported to TikZ.
TikZ is a TeX-based language for creating vector graphics- it is incredibly expressive and lets you create graphics right inside your TeX document. However, using TikZ requires writing out the commands required to create an image- it is not a GUI-based drawing program.
If you are using
Raster Imagery
If all you have is a raster image, PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, ect, then you must pay close attention to the resolution that the image file has been saved at. The resolution will determine how much scaling can occur before the image starts to appear pixelated.
Many programs default to saving images at 72 dpi (dots per inch) as that is a lightweight resolution that is commonly used for images displayed on the web. However, for printed output you need a much higher resolution for the results to look good. A common rule of thumb is that the final scaled image should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi if it is to appear on a printed page without noticeable pixelation.
I have switched to PGF/TikZ for all vector drawing. The level of control and the beauty of the results provided by this package is worth learning the syntax.
If you're working with diagrams, I would recommend you to make them using vector graphics instead of raster graphics. This will allow you to upscale them infinitely. Inkscape (free) and Illustrator (paid) can make vector graphics. For graphs, I like to use graphviz (free).
One package that I'll do a shout out for is Ipe. You should think of Ipe as the next generation of xfig: great for line drawings, and by far the best killer feature: WYSIWYG latex. Ipe 7 has many of the modern vector graphics features (gradients, shading, transparency) etc that inkscape has, and is perfect for quick and dirty drawings.
it also has an extensible API, so if you need to demonstrate your algorithm, you can actually write an Ipe plugin in C++ that does the computation for you.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Men's Tennis Prepares for USC Aiken on WednesdayFebruary 18, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Coming off its second setback of the season on Monday, Anderson University men's tennis looks to follow a win with a loss for the second time this season as it welcomes USC Aiken to Max Grubbs Memorial Courts on Wednesday. First serve is set for 2 p.m.
The Trojans
After posting a 6-3 win over South Atlantic Conference opponent Newberry on Feb. 8, the Trojans dropped to nationally ranked Lander on Monday, moving AU to 1-2 on the season. The 1-2 start matches AU's starting record from a season ago, as the Trojans eventually closed the 2013 year with a 10-6 overall record.
The lone bright spot for the Black & Gold against the Bearcats was sophomore Tomas Passalacqua who claimed a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Samuel Poutignat at No. 3 singles. Passalacqua currently holds the best singles record on the team at 2-1.
The freshmen doubles team of Juan Carracedo and Mateo Rivas, who came into the season ranked No. 4 in the ITA Southeast Region Poll and named to the All-SAC Second Team, are 1-2 on the young season with their lone win coming against Newberry's Michael Saunders and Vinicius Botelho.
The Pacers
USC Aiken comes into the mid-week contest with a 2-1 record, kicking off the season with back-to-back triumphs over Valdosta State (5-4) and Belmont Abbey (9-0). Most recently, the Pacers dropped their first match of the season to Georgia Gwinnett, 9-0. Prior to its trip to Anderson, USC Aiken had two matches washed away due to the inclement weather throughout the Carolinas as meetings with SAC opponents Newberry and Coker were not played.
Junior Ettore Damiani leads the Pacers, as he has competed at the No. 1 singles position and the No. 2 doubles spot alongside senior Lucas Gobbi. The tandem is 2-1 in doubles for the season as Damiani is 1-2 at the No. 1 singles spot. Gobbi, who has seen action at No. 4 and No. 5, is 2-1 in singles action.
In 2013, the Pacers finished 11-9 overall and 4-6 in the Peach Belt Conference, which placed them seventh. Despite the record, USC Aiken advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament before falling to Columbus State, 5-1, ending its tournament campaign.
The Series
Wednesday's matchup marks the first meeting between Anderson and USC Aiken since the 2011 season when AU captured a 5-3 win over its in-state rival in Aiken. Prior to that season, the Trojans defeated the Pacers by an identical score in the 2010 season.


text:
I was wondering if there is a general formula for calculating Ricci scalar for any diagonal $n\times n$ metric tensor?
The previous answer is correct, but does not give a practical algorithm for humans, because it is a nightmare to calculate the curvature tensor. You need a good hand algorithm, or else you need a symbolic manipulation package. I prefer hand calculations for the symmetric Ansatzes, because they are always revealing.
The traditional simplified method is to use curvature forms, and this method is described in Misner Thorne and Wheeler. It is indespensible for understanding Kerr Solutions. It also pays to study the Newman-Penrose formalism, because it gives physical insight. I prefer to use my own mathematically inelegant home-made method, because much of the simplification in the advanced methods is really only due to the use of what is called "sparse-matrix computation" in the computer science literature.
If you have a matrix which is mostly zeros, like the on-diagonal curvature, you shouldn't write it in matrix form, unless you want to build good strong writing-hand muscles. Introduce noncovariant basis tensors "l_{ij}" which are nonzero in i,j position. Then write the metric in a mostly-plus convention as:
$$g_{\mu\nu} = -A l_{00} + B l_{11} + C l_{22} $$ $$g^{\mu\nu} = -{1\over A}l^{00} + {1\over B} l^{11} + {1\over C}l^{22}$$
Where I have gone to three dimensions so as to prevent a hopelessly long answer, and where I hope the notation is clear. For theoretical elegance, the basis tensor $l_{00}$ should really be written as $l^{00}_{\mu\nu}$ if you want it to be consistent with the usual index conventions, but since the goal is to get the writing muscles as flabby as possible, don't do that. Since the l's are ridiculously coordinate dependent, you can express ridiculously non-tensorial objects like the connection coefficients and the pseudo-stress-energy tensor.
Calculating the connection
There are tricks to calculating the connection, like deriving the geodesic equation, but I won't use them. If you use the basis-tensors, it is no work at all to get the connection coefficients, and with practice, you can do most of the work in your head for the simpler Ansatzes.
First, differentiate the metric. Since "diagonal" is not much of a simplification, I will assume "diagonal and dependent only on x1 and x0". I will use a prime for differentiating with respect to $x_1$, and a dot for differentiating with respect to $x_0$:
$$g_{\mu\nu,\alpha} = - \dot{A} l_{000} - A' l_{001} + \dot{B}l_{110} + B'l_{111} + \dot{C}l_{220} + C' l_{221}$$
The lesson is--- differentiation is trivial. Notice that this is symmetric on the first two indices, and nothing special on the third index. The Christoffel symbols are symmetric on the last two indices, and nothing special on the first. You transfer symmetry between index positions like this:
$$P_{i|jk} = Q_{ij|k} + Q_{ik|j} - Q_{jk|i}$$
Where P is symmetric in the last two position, and Q is symmetric in the first two. Get used to this, because it comes up a lot. The first term has the same index order just by using a good index order convention, the second term forcibly symmetrizes the second and third positions, and the last term is required so that P keeps all the information in Q. You can do this procedure on the l's automatically, just by replacing $l_{001}$ with $l_{001} + l_{010} - l_{100}$, and so on. This is what you do to get $\Gamma$ from the derivative of g.
Here is the formula for the all-lower-index $\Gamma$ (its not written this way ever, because $\Gamma$ is not a tensor, but I do it here, just to spare the writing hand).
$$\Gamma_{\mu|\nu\sigma} = -{1\over 2} ( -\dot{A} l_{000} - A'(l_{001} + l_{010} -l_{100}) $$ $$+ \dot{B} (l_{110} + l_{101} - l_{011}) + B' l_{111}$$ $$+ \dot{C}(l_{220} + l_{202} - l_{022}) + C'(l_{221} + l_{212} - l_{122}) )$$
To raise the indices when the metric is diagonal is trivial, you just raise the index on the l and divide by the appropriate diagonal entry:
$$\Gamma^\mu_{\nu\sigma} = {\dot{A}\over 2A} l^0_{00} - {A'\over 2A} (l^0_{01} + l^0_{10}) - {A'\over 2B} l^1_{00} + {\dot{B}\over 2B}(l^1_{10} + l^1_{01}) - {\dot{B}\over 2A}l^0_{11} + {B'\over 2B} l_{111} +... $$
Where the rest should be obvious. With practice, this takes a minute to do by hand.
Calculating the Ricci curvature.
To calculate the curvatures, it is important to trace as you go, because this halves the work. The Riemann curvature always has a bunch of Weyl junk that you mostly don't care about.
I always write the formula for the Riemann tensor this way:
$$ R^\mu_{\nu\lambda\sigma} = \Gamma^\mu_{\nu\lambda,\sigma} \mathrm{(AS)} + \Gamma^\mu_{\nu s}\Gamma^s_{\lambda\sigma} \mathrm{(AS)}$$
The "AS" means subtract the same expression with $\nu$ and $\sigma$ interchanged. This form has the property that it is antisymmetric on the lower first and third index, so this is not the usual convention for the Riemann tensor, which is antisymmetric on the last two indices. But this is easy to fix at the end. Trust me, this is the best convention, you fix it up at the end.
The Ricci trace in this convention is on the first two indices:
$$ R_{\mu\nu} = R^\alpha_{\alpha\mu\nu}$$
This is important, because each term you get in the Riemann tensor comes with an "l", and if the upper number of the l is not the same as the leftmost lower number, then that term doesn't contribute to the Ricci tensor. To get the Ricci tensor, you just ignore all $l^a_{bcd}$ with $a\ne b$ and write down $l_{cd}$ in place of those $l$'s which have $a=b$.
Now, differentiate the expression for $\Gamma$, tacking an index on the end. I will demonstrate with one of the contributions, from taking the $x_1$ derivative of the first term:
$$\Gamma^\mu_{\nu\lambda,\sigma} \mathrm{(AS)} = ..+ ({\dot{A}\over 2A})' (l^0_{001} - l^0_{100})$$
Where the second term is the antisymmetrizer. But now, look at the two l's --- does one of them have a matching index on the top left and bottom left? Yes! So erase the top and bottom left numbers from the l, and you are left with a contribution to the Ricci tensor:
$$({\dot{A}\over 2A})'l_{01}$$
This can all be done in your head, term by term. If you get an $l$ which is $l^0_{221}$ it can't contribute to Ricci, because the bottom first and third index don't match the top, if you get $l^0_{121}$ then it is killed by antisymmetrization, etc, etc, it's all obvious.
Next you need to multiply $\Gamma$ with itself, and trace. Here you work out all the terms. But it is a finite calculation, not a hopeless one. You don't get a contribution unless the leftmost lower index is the same as the upper index, so that leaves only a few terms, and further, you get zero on some l-terms after antisymmetrizing and tracing (in your head). Then there are only a handful of remaining terms, and these are real contributions to the curvature, so there is no way to avoid calculating them.
The first time takes a while, but with practice it only takes some minutes for simpler Ansatzes and some hours for the worst ones.
The Ricci scalar is just the trace of the Ricci tensor, which in turn is a tensor contraction of the Riemann curvature tensor, which can be expressed in Cristoffel symbols defined by the local metric.
$${R^{\rho}}_{\sigma\mu\nu} = \partial_\mu\Gamma^{\rho}_{\nu\sigma}-\partial_\nu\Gamma^{\rho}_{\mu\sigma}+\Gamma^{\rho}_{\mu\lambda}\Gamma^{\lambda}_{\nu\sigma}-\Gamma^{\rho}_{\nu\lambda}\Gamma^{\lambda}_{\mu\sigma}$$
$$\Gamma^{i}_{kl} = \frac{1}{2}g^{im}(\partial_lg_{mk}+\partial_kg_{ml}-\partial_mg_{kl})$$
as you see once you have the metric you can calculate all those quantities.
Even so this question is old, but yes there is such formulas, you can check Landau book on Classical Fields (Vol 2, Paragraph 92), or check out this work (there formulas are not as nice as Landau's)
Ricci Tensor of Diagonal Metric
Because the book is Russian and old, I will summarize the result here (with slight modifications):
If we assume that the diagonal metric has the form: $$g_{\mu\mu}\equiv u_{\mu}e^{2l_{\mu}}\::\: u_{\mu}=\text{sign} g_{\mu\mu}$$ then define: $$L_{\mu\nu\rho}\equiv l_{\rho,\nu}\left(l_{\nu}-l_{\rho}\right)_{,\mu}-l_{\rho,\mu\nu}$$ then Riemann Tensor has the form: $$R_{\rho\mu\rho\nu}=\begin{cases} {\displaystyle g_{\mu\mu}\left(L_{\mu\nu\rho}+l_{\mu,\nu}l_{\rho,\mu}\right)} & :\:\rho\neq\mu\neq\nu\\ {\displaystyle g_{\mu\mu}L_{\mu\mu\rho}+g_{\nu\nu}L_{\rho\rho\mu}-g_{\rho\rho}g_{\mu\mu}\sum_{\lambda\neq\rho,\mu}\frac{l_{\mu,\lambda}l_{\rho,\lambda}}{g_{\lambda\lambda}}} & :\:\rho\neq\mu=\nu \end{cases}$$ and Ricci Tensor: $$R_{\mu\nu}=\begin{cases} {\displaystyle \sum_{\rho\neq\mu,\nu}\left(L_{\mu\nu\rho}+l_{\mu,\nu}l_{\rho,\mu}\right)} & :\:\mu\neq\nu\\ {\displaystyle \sum_{\rho\neq\mu}\left[L_{\mu\mu\rho}+\frac{g_{\mu\mu}}{g_{\rho\rho}}\left(L_{\rho\rho\mu}-l_{\mu,\rho}\sum_{\lambda\neq\mu,\rho}l_{\lambda,\rho}\right)\right]} & :\mu=\nu \end{cases} $$
The rest of tensor components vanishes.


text:
Our Publications
- Aspen
- Atlanta
- Chicago
- Dallas
- The Hamptons
- Hawai'i
- Houston
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- New York
- Orange County
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Scottsdale
- Washington, D.C.
Blais of Glory
The Party
Dressed to the nines and literally hungry for the most hotly anticipated restaurant opening of the year, the social set thronged Juniper & Ivy when the new Little Italy resto opened its doors for a tasting and sneak peek.
The Scene
The multimillion-dollar renovation of the Helix Wholesale building on Kettner had already captured foodies' imaginations, and the big reveal didn't disappoint. Sleek and sexy, the space had guests oohing and ahing over details like the Kim MacConnel artwork (La Jolla's Quint Gallery is curating the rotating selection of hangings) and the sparkling open kitchen, which issued bites like carne cruda asada and heritage pork carnitas with seaweed salsa vinaigrette. With top mixologist Jen Queen leading the crew at the resto's hickory-topped bar, the libations flowed liberally, setting the stage for what's sure to be a hot nightlife scene.
The Highlights
His signature spiky coif holding up under pressure, Top Chef Blais worked both the kitchen and the dining room, taking VIPs (including many of S.D.'s top toques playing hooky from their own kitchens for the night) through the gleaming state-of-the-art kitchen and posing for photos with his groupies... er, fans. –Photography by Tim King


text:
Shared Resources, Cores and Services
The Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis at Science Park has a number of shared resources and cores that provide services to members of the department, researchers from other MD Anderson Cancer Center departments in Bastrop and Houston, as well as other Central Texas institutions such as the University of Texas at Austin. These core facilities are used extensively and have proven vital for advancing the department's research mission, allowing faculty to publish in high-impact journals and to generate key preliminary data to help secure grant funding.
Molecular Biology and Protein Analysis
Cell and Tissue Analysis
Histology and Pathology
Research Animal Facilities & Services
Bioinformatics and Biostatistics


text:
For Eye Care Professionals
Boston One Step Liquid Enzymatic Cleaner is a simple and convenient way to effectively remove protein deposits from gas permeable (GP) contact lenses to help maintain contact lens wearing comfort.
Convenient liquid works right in your lens case as you disinfect your lenses so it's easy to use and saves time. Most practitioners recommend using an enzymatic cleaner at least once a week.
Use with Boston conditioning solution or Boston Advance comfort formula.
Is this product right for you?
Age Group(s)
Boston One Step Liquid Enzymatic Cleaner : Additional information
To purchase Bausch + Lomb products online, visit:


text:
The four-part HBO Documentary "The Weight of the Nation" prescribes more walking, biking and other forms of physical activity as a cure for the U.S. obesity crisis.
Oklahoma is the seventh most obese state in the nation, but it's number one in adult obesity growth rate. That means we are better at getting fatter faster than anyone in the country.
The HBO documentary delves into our nation's weight problem and finds that increases in calorie consumption coupled with a lack of physical activity are the root cause. Better diets will help you lose weight, but physical activity is needed to keep that weight off long-term.
"The question is what changed in the last 30 years to make this obesity epidemic happen," says Robert Lustig, MD, a Neuroendocrinologist with the University of California, San Francisco.
The increase of car-dependency in our communities is a major factor in the reduction of physical activity.
"We don't walk, we don't bike, and it's cut off hundreds of calories of physical activity," says Barry Popkin, PhD, an economist and Professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
More than 75% of Americans drive to work — a 300% increase since 1960. In 1969, 42% of children walked or biked to school. Today, more than 80% are driven to school. Currently, less than 5% of adults meet the minimum guidelines for physical activity.
"In fact, roughly one in four adults gets no physical activity at all," says Eric Finkelstein, PhD an economist at Duke University.
"We've engineered physical activity out of our everyday lives," According to William Dietz, MD, PhD, the Director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Our work as adults has been increasingly sedentary."
Much of our sedentary lifestyles comes about from the built environment, one that prioritizes the moving of motor vehicles as fast as possible while ignoring more active modes of transportation.
Cars dominate so much of our lives that one child in the documentary who lives in a poor community with few parks nearby laments, "all these parking lots are, like, kind of the park we have."
Karl Dean, Mayor of Nashville, is working to change his city into one that makes living a healthy lifestyle "the easy choice."
Dean isn't just talking either. He's walking the walk by pouring $13 million into sidewalks. Nashville also has received $7.5 million in grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for obesity prevention efforts, building on their work of improving bike lanes, sidewalks and parks.
"We have to invest in quality of life. People want to live in a city that's healthy, that's clean, that's walkable and bikeable, that's full of places where they can exercise and enjoy fresh air," says Dean.
"We know that to be healthier we need to eat better and exercise more. And how you make that part of the city is really the challenge."


text:
I would like to change an entry for a solution to boot from CD from legacy grub (looks like
title bla bla bla) to an entry to a format compatible to grub 2 (the one that looks like
menuentry "bla bla bla" {.
The original legacy GRUB entry is as follows:
title Boot From CD/DVD Drive
kernel /boot/grub/memdisk.din
initrd /boot/grub/sbootmgr.dsk
Is there any sort of conversion rule to change this to something like the example I've put here on the next line? (This is from my precise's grub.cfg.)
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-25-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos8)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root efc87ac0-daac-4a32-9a85-ea57beff0e28
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-25-generic root=UUID=efc87ac0-daac-4a32-9a85-ea57beff0e28 ro quiet splash acpi_osi= $vt_handoff
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-25-generic


text:
State Ballet of Georgia - Mixed Bill
Posted 16 February 2008 - 03:36 PM
Posted 16 February 2008 - 04:43 PM
Posted 18 February 2008 - 06:34 AM
Posted 18 February 2008 - 06:47 AM
There were technical problems that undermined the performance I saw - especially the lighting. Musically, the orchestra was uninspired (inspiration was back for Giselle).
Posted 29 February 2008 - 09:50 PM
Oh dear...just saw this. I wonder if I should follow-through with my trip to Brooklyn, NY, in two week's time to see the mixed bills? Aw, what the heck -- it's my first chance to see Georgia's national classical ballet live & in person. Their folk troupe (the much-heralded Sukhashvili) is amazing so the classical group can't be too far off the mark, I reckon.
Natalia, if you haven't already left, I would urge you to stay home. It would be one thing if the performance were just a bus trip away but the time and expense of a trip to see a company that is clearly not ready for prime time may not be justified.
They'll be back .. at a theater near you.
Posted 01 March 2008 - 04:00 AM
Posted 01 March 2008 - 10:07 AM
Posted 01 March 2008 - 11:17 AM
Loved, loved Nino Gogue...she is one to watch!
Seconded! She was clearly the highlight of the evening (besides Nina herself).
Chaconne was pretty disasterous I thought. Nina was lovely, but the rest...oof. It was the level of a student performance. the girl in green (tsisia Cholokashvili) kept falling out of all her pirouettes, though at least she carried herself like a professional dancer (and was much better in Sagalobeli)
I was very ambivalent going forward, but I found the rest of the show very enjoyable--surprisingly so after Chaconne (so probably a good one for them to schedule first). I am interested in hearing what people think of "Dreams of Japan" which will replace it for the final 2 performances of the run.
Duo Concertant--with Lasha Khozashvili and Nino Gogua--was lovely. I am not very knowledgeable about Balanchine so perhaps Balanchine experts would have various issues with style, but I thought Nino was beautiful. Really the only dancer besides Nina that you could imagine in a top notch company---Gorgeous feet, lovely extensions and a great sense of movement and rhythm. I loved the piece and the dancing.
Bizet Variations was enjoyable but not a knockout. I don't actually have much to say about it.
Sagalobeli was my favorite after Duo Concertant--Again Nino G was great, and the other two leads--Tsisia and Anna Muradeli were also very good in this. The choreography was innovative and clever, and worked very well with the music (which I loved, though not nearly as much as the Georgians in the audience,who were ecstatic--the woman behind me was singing along in places). It was clearly "ballet," but also involved innovative movements based on the rhythms of the music and its folk nature. I know it has gotten sort of mixed reviews but I thought it was pretty wonderful, and a great closing piece, though I do wish Nina had come out at the end.
Can't wait to hear other opinions
Posted 01 March 2008 - 08:57 PM
The lute trio was all over the place. All three were overparted and the lute seemed to have a six foot neck.
The little duet pair couldn't even manage simplified choreography. The less said about this the better.
The Marzipan-like section worked best for me, with the lead girl having some promise (if she is young).
Doing this piece was no favor to the company. It is way beyond them at this point.
The Duo Concertant was sort of okay, save the dreadful violinist. Too much Indicating of emotion in an effort to "explain" the piece to us and Gogua (again, if she's young) very promising with a lovely body, great feet and the most beautiful knees I've seen in a long time.
The Ratmansky & Possokov pieces fared much better, probably because they were done on these dancers and lovingly crafted on their capabilities.
The audience was enthusiastic. On the way out I looked at faces. The majority of them seemed to have roots in the area of Georgia. They went home happy. We did not.
This company is not yet ready for the big leagues. Perhaps in five to ten years, with stringent teaching and coaching and a school they will be worth revisiting.
For now, you see far better dancing from students at SAB and at ABT 2.
Posted 01 March 2008 - 09:38 PM
The Duo Concertant was sort of okay, save the dreadful violinist. Too much Indicating of emotion in an effort to "explain" the piece to us and Gogua (again, if she's young) very promising with a lovely body, great feet and the most beautiful knees I've seen in a long time.
According to the playbill (or BAMbill) she's 23-4 (born in 1984).
I would like to see her in more. her feet were gorgeous and I was very pleased with her extensions--high but not distorted.
Posted 03 March 2008 - 03:59 AM
Listing the ballets from best to least effective, IMO:
Sagalobeli, with its haunting Georgian folk melodies, was the undisputed highlight for me. Possokhov has choreographed a real winner that shows off the unique qualities of this troupe of gazelle-like women and 'manly men.' Possokhov was wise in not attempting to simply "do" folk dancing, ballet style. Nobody can touch Georgia's premier cultural dance-movement export to the world - the incomparable Sukhishvili Georgian Folk National Dance Troupe, so to have made this a Sukhisvili in pointe shoes would not have worked. Rather, Possokhov has chosen to choreograph flowing movement to beautiful music, with very few 'folksy' traits. I especially loved the line of silhouetted corps ladies, snaking its way across the stage during an early number. The Spartacus-like fighting men, complete with ropes, reminded me of the Caucasus warriors of the Sukhishvili troupe, without immitating them.
Dreams of Japan, one of Ratmansky's early ballets that I saw in Russia about 10 years ago with the original cast, is a very clever work for an ensemble of 7 soloists, loosely based on Japanese folk traditions, set to familiar Kodo Drummers melodies (Canadian Elvis Stojko has skated to all of them, I think). This is the ballet that best serves the company's prima & artistic director, Nina Ananiashvili, who is as powerful as I recall 10 years ago, especially as a Japanese sort of Firebird character -- actually a 'Fire Snake' -- in red unitard. Sergei Filin, a guest from the Bolshoi, repeated his role as the headband-wearing male lover in the 'Double Exposure' expisode. But it's young Tsitsia Cholokhashvili in Tatyana Terekhova's role as the vengeful jilted wife, who made the most impact, with her spitfire manner and spiffy fouettes.
Ratmansky's newer offering, Bizet Variations, is a fluffy, blue-chiffon sort of work for three couples that doesn't offend but doesn't make any point. Nice puffy dancing from the two secondary couple, breezing around the seniors - so what? Gorgeous-faced (Lunkina look-alike), lithe Nino Ochiauri was the stand-out here. Whoever designed Ananiashvili's matronly costume should be shot; it broke my heart to see this esteemed ballerina looking like an overweight veteran hauled around by the tallest guy in the company, especially next to the two other ballerinas in more-flattering sleeveless chiffon.
Duo Concertant -- Balanchine's famous ballet for a dancing couple + violinist + pianist -- was well danced; Stravinsky's lovely score was well played; the spotlights behaved (unlike reports of earlier performances). The problem is with the style -- namely, Nino Gogua's diva-like mugging throughout the piece, more interested in impressing us in the audience than her fine partner, Lasha Khosashvili. Then I remembered that this appears to be the Eastern tradition in performing Balanchine -- to primp and show teeth, as if performing the Sugarplum Fairy. Thoughts of Assylmuratova (and many another Kirov-Mariinsky ballerina) as Terpsichore came to mind...no no no!!!!
So it was a fine introduction to a newish company that is showing great promise. If they ever return to the USA it should be with their unique full-evening-ballet treasure: Chabukiani's Laurencia. That fabulous ballet -- containing 80% of Chaboukiani's original choreography, with missing segments set by a local choreographer last April -- should be the Georgian Ballet's calling card, rather than its half-baked Balanchines.
p.s. Where, oh where, was their 'technical prima,' Lali Kandelaki? My biggest dissappointment of the weekend is in not having seen the famous 'spinning Lali' who will forever be associated with the 2000 Varna Competition, in my mind!
p.s.s. The Georgian troupe seems to be milking the 'George Balanchine Had Georgian Roots" thing for all it's worth. Does anybody know if George Balanchine EVER ser foot in Georgian Territory in his life? Did he ever do Georgian 'cultural things' back in the USA? All I've read about is that he was "RUSSIAN through and through" -- cooking Russian food, celebrating Russian holidays, going to the Russian church, etc. ('though Georgians are mostly Orthodox too, I realize). GB's brother, Andrei (the composer) *did* go back to the Caucasus and was one of the founders of this troupe but isn't claiming GB for themselves a bit of a stretch? Not that they can't acquire GB's works like any other worthy ballet troupe on earth.
Posted 03 March 2008 - 07:03 AM
Sorry, I couldn't resist responding, and please dont' kill me... I do like Nina a lot (regretfully, first time I saw her dancing live was last year, but then at least 3 times, with ABT and then in Gizelle with Filin in New Haven....)
I'm back in DC and extremely pleased to have traveled to Brooklyn to see Program B (Dreams of Japan, Duo C, Bizet Var, Sagalobeli) on Saturday night.
Whoever designed Ananiashvili's matronly costume should be shot; it broke my heart to see this esteemed ballerina looking like an overweight veteran hauled around by the tallest guy in the company, especially next to the two other ballerinas in more-flattering sleeveless chiffon.
Natalia, Nina has to wear sleeves this year. I saw her (from first row) on Wednesday in a sleeveless dress, and it was not me, but my neighbors who commented on the condition of her arms (I will not say more, you are all smart people). But transparent or skin colored sleeves eliminate that distortion...
And I do like her a lot, and her arms are still very marvelous and graceful. And i am not judging, I wish I can be in such shape at 44 after a baby and flying all over the world
And I adore her as a person, and take my head off for her contribution to her country. I appreciate her showing more of her company than herself in the final applause calls on Wednesday night, when she went out in a (civil) dress wearing hills ;-)
I saw the program on Wednesday and loved Posokhov's piece A LOT, admired Nina Gogua... Then came back on Saturday to watch Dreams of Japan - I liked it (and seeing Filin's jumps is such a delight).
Posted 03 March 2008 - 07:22 AM
Posted 03 March 2008 - 07:43 AM
Posted 03 March 2008 - 07:57 AM
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users
Help support Ballet Alert! and Ballet Talk for Dancers year round by using this search box for your amazon.com purchases. (If it doesn't appear below, your computer's or browser's adblockers may have blocked display):


text:
Michaels 50% off coupon & more coupons for $0
50% off coupon valid 10/5 - 10/6/12
9 Comments add a comment
Ooh, 50% off! That's a good one. Both coupons are also available in the Android app. You can just show them your phone to redeem.
@cyberfrog96: Oh good to know about the App! The lady told me about it last time we were in the store, but she had a coupon sitting on the table that she just used for me instead! :)
Now I can buy supplies to paint happy trees.
Bob Ross forever!
As far as I can tell it is NOT available in California, at least not Bakersfield.
I'm pleasantly suprised to see Micheal's coupons here. Not something I expected on woot.
Love this...now I can get those supplies I needed to make some fireworks :P
Thought "oh the wife would like this", then saw it was only valid until tomorrow and thought "she will never get there in time".. too bad. Being a parent has its trials :)
@cyberfrog96: This is information I like to know.
Dang, cannot use it online. Lost of restrictions - cannot be used on clearance, etc.


text:
Georgia Wildlife Resources Division
2070 U.S. Hwy. 278, SE, Social Circle, GA 30025
Marion County Middle and High School won their divisions at Georgia's National Archery in the Schools Program Regional 3 Saturday.
Marion County High shot a score of 3,000 to win the highest scoring team award, beating out 14 other school archery squads to qualify for the 7th annual Georgia-NASP State Tournament March 13 at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry.
Marion County Middle School won the middle school division with a team score of 2,908, while host Lee County Elementary fired a 2,985 en route to winning the elementary division. Both teams qualify for the state tournament with their respective regional division titles.
Individually, Marion County Middle's James Welch arrowed a 281 (out of 300) to win the overall high-scoring male title. Lee County Elementary's Trellis Whaley, the defending female national champion in the fourth-grade division, shot a 277 to win overall high-scoring female award.
Other top individual shooters included: Marion County High's Shelby Carter (275, top high school female); Thomasville High's Paul Nix (269, top high school male); Lee County Middle's Skylar Pressley (269, top middle school male); and Hahira Middle's Faith Johnson (247, top middle school female).
More than 300 students in elementary, middle and high school competed at Georgia NASP Regional No. 3. Schools that did not win an automatic berth to state at the regional tournament can still be selected as a high-scoring wildcard team after the final regional tournament is completed in late February. Individual male and female shooters finishing in the top five in 4th, 5th, 6th grades and the middle and high school divisions all qualify for state.
Tournament results are posted online at www.nasptournaments.com.
The National Archery in the Schools Program is an in-school archery curriculum that meets all education department standards. Only schools that are certified in NASP through the Georgia Department of Natural Resources are qualified to compete in the Georgia Tournament. Schools in more than 100 counties in Georgia are NASP certified.
The program promotes instruction in international-style target archery to improve educational performance and participation in shooting sports. Research has shown that the program, administered through a minimum two-week course during the school year, improves class attendance and behavior. NASP universal fit bows make it possible for students of all sizes and genders to succeed in archery while raising self-esteem levels and improving hand-eye coordination during physical activity.
NASP is taught in 48 states as well as seven countries. To date, more than 10 million students have gone through the program.
For more information on NASP in Georgia, recreational shooting sports opportunities or to find a range near you, visit www.georgiawildlife.com [1], contact a local WRD Game Management Office or call (770) 918-6416.
[1] http://www.georgiawildlife.com/


text:
You Can Shop At Amazon and Help Support Emergency-Preps.com Without It Costing You One Thin Dime - Click Here to Learn How!
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
That is an amazing, and heartening story.99.9999% of all people most likely wouldn't survive these conditions. But they did. And there seems nothing originally out of the ordinary about them, but for the fact that they ran and hid from the murderers of the state, rather than simply submitting.Maybe that's the difference, the refusal to submit.
Started by Haverwilde
Living Off the Grid
Started by Bill Quick
Started by AuricTech
« 1 2 All »
Started by Dale00
General Discussions
Started by Ken


text:
The following real estate transactions were filed in Jefferson County:
Tina Thompson to Henry Thompson, lots 15-16, Whitten & Reynards Third.
Paden Wood and Cylene Wood to Jeffrey Mettenberger, 0.75 acre, Island Creek Township.
Kelley Moore to Rodney Moore, metes, Salem Township; lot 34, West Park.
Bernard Baker (deceased) to Judith Baker, 3.804 acres, Island Creek Township.
Rish Family Trust to Alone and Harry Reichman, metes, Cross Creek Township.
Jean Moore Revocable Trust to Shauna Moore, 2.6929 acres, Island Creek Township.
Robert and Susan Porter to John Bendle, part lot 1, Hillsdale.
Charles Ward (deceased) to Tresa Ward, metes, Knox Township.
Michael and Linda Helt to Gary Helt, 0.0409 acre, Smithfield Township.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., part lots 1-3, Pleasant Heights.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to JP Morgan Chase Bank, lot 21, McLaughlin First.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., lots 19, 20, 22, 26, 31-34, Garrettson Fourth.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to US Bank, metes, Island Creek Township.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to JP Morgan Chase Bank, metes, Salem Township.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to JP Morgan Chase Bank, lot 51, Original Tiltonsville.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to Federal National Mortgage Association, 0.9469 acre, Wells-Warren Township.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to HSBC Mortgage Services, lot 29 and part lot 30, Ross Park Realty.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to US Bank, part lot 1, Overlook Hills.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to Deutsche Bank, metes, Steubenville Township.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to JP Morgan Chase Bank, lot 5, Stringer Addition.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to JP Morgan Chase Bank, part lot 125, Labelleview.
Michael and Gretchen DiCarlo to Petrella Enterprises LLC, lot 45, Simmons & Foster.
Charles Zeigler to Merrie Zeigler, lot 21, Banfield Improvement.
David Holliday and others to James and Rose Gray, 1.104 acres, Wells-Warren Township (survivorship).
Henry Kosikowski (deceased) to Mary Kosikowski, 3,000 square feet, Cross Creek Township.
Ridgetop Capital II LP to Lauren Cortopassi and Jeremy Ward, metes, Wells-Warren Township.
Theresa and Clyde Morelli to Church Street Commons LLC, metes, Cross Creek Township; and lots 37-40, Original Wintersville.
Lighthouse Evangelical Presbyterian Church to David and Carolyn Massimi, 1.2784 acres, Salem Township (survivorship).
Craig and Elaine Niles to Nicholas Vana, lot 18, Simmons & Foster Addition.
Franklin Pool to Richard and Sharon Pool, lot 13, Brentwood Estates Second.
232 County Road 50 Special Way No. 3 to Jim Elia, metes, Saline Township; and lot 21, Original Hammondsville.
Verna Hodovanic to Verna Hodovanic, 1.63 acres, Island Creek Township.
S. Ellen Williams to Gerald and Marjorie Burge, 0.283 acre, Steubenville Township.
27 High Street Trust to OH Seven LLC, part lot 11, Original Smithfield.
Beverly Bartels and others to Paul Castner, part lot 24, Waggoner & McEldowney.
Billie Trippanti to Heather Taylor, 0.344 acre, Knox Township.
Raymond Piergallini to Thomas D'Anniballe and David D'Anniballe, lot 2, Spahn's First.
Mabel Weals and others to Donald and Janet Brown, lot 7, Seaton Third (survivorship).
EH Pooled 712 LP to Jeffrey and Oma Wszeborowski, lot 28, Green Acres.
Ted and Anna Slivinski to Rose Rice and others, metes, Smithfield Township; and 0.00348 acre, Mount Pleasant Township.
Antonio Thompson and others to Helen and Lewis Thompson Jr., lot 5, Yurjevics (survivorship).
George King (deceased) to Michalene King, lot 33, Dana Lynn.
Mark Decker to Mark and Julie Decker, 2.0696 acres, Island Creek Township (survivorship).
Sheriff of Jefferson County to Federal National Mortgage Association, 10,890 square feet, Warren Township.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to First National Bank of Pennsylvania, metes, Salem Township.
Joseph and Emily Cola to Robert and Vinnie Blackwell, 0.9545 acre, Cross Creek Township (survivorship).
Shirley Kokiko, trustee, to Eric Shields, 1.44 acres, Mount Pleasant Township.
Housing & Urban Development to Stephen Badgley, lot 98, Dixon Heights.
Stephan Sacker to Lisa Paolucci, lot 119, Spaulding Second.
Fannie Mae to Rebecca Taylor, 5 acres, Ross Township.
Ronald Yocum (deceased) to Carroll Yocum, lots 46-47, Spaulding.
Carroll Yocum to Bart Boggia, lots 46-47, Spaulding.


text:
10 Everyday Ways to Keep Your Child Reading While Having Fun
9 of 11
Have Family Mad Libs Nights
Who doesn't love a family game night? Mad Libs are a fun grammar activity that anyone ages 9 and up will love "playing." Mad Libs are books full of silly fill-in-the-blank stories that help kids learn adjectives, verbs, nouns, exclamations, and other parts of speech. Modify it for your younger child by simply asking for action words, or a person, place, or thing to complete the tale.
Next: Keep a Summer Journal
More on: Skill-Building Activities


text:
Probably bad searching/not knowing the terminology, but: I've managed to
ssh into my webhost's directory for me, and
tar the webapp I want to back up and download. But when I try to
mv to
~/mydirectory/backups or
mv to
/home/mydirectory/backups, it defines the "home" as my root on the webhost that I'm ssh'ed into.
How do I mv in ssh to a local drive while still "inside" the webhost's system?


text:
WELLSBURG - The Wellsburg Applefest Committee has made beautifying the Grimes Golden Park at state Route 27 and Bradys Bridge Road a pet project, and for good reason.
The park is the origin of the Grimes Golden variety of apple and the inspiration for the annual festival, which will be held Friday through Sunday on Charles Street and the Wellsburg Town Square.
The group's efforts have received a boost through a $4,000 grant from the West Virginia Development Office secured by Del. Roy Givens, D-Brooke.
Article Photos
PARK IMPROVEMENTS SOUGHT — The Wellsburg Applefest Committee has secured a $4,000 grant for improvements to the Grimes Golden Roadside Park at the intersection of state Route 27 and Bradys Ridge Road just outside Wellsburg. The discovery of the Grimes Golden apple near that site was the inspiration for the annual festival and is believed to be linked to the legendary Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman. -- Warren Scott
Norm Schwertfeger, Brooke County West Virginia University Extension agent, submitted the grant application.
Michael O'Brien, who co-chairs the committee with Ernie Jack, said the improvements that may be made with the grant, depending on cost, would include the shelter there, a walkway from it to the park's sign, planting additional Grimes Golden trees and flowers and possibly incorporating the legendary Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman into the sign.
Chapman was known for planting apple trees through much of the Northeast, including Georges Run in Jefferson County, and is believed to have supplied the seeds for the first Grimes Golden tree discovered in 1802 by Thomas Grimes, a public official whose farm included the area now occupied by the park.
O'Brien said a children's book about Chapman, written by Mabel Leigh Hunt and titled "Better Known as Johnny Appleseed," makes reference to Grimes. In it, Chapman mentions pruning orchards he planted near Wheeling and Georges Run and planting a nursery for Grimes.
Various sources describe Grimes as a member of the Wellsburg and Washington Turnpike Commission who enjoyed creating new varieties of fruit through grafting.
O'Brien said the Grimes Golden is a spicy apple well suited for pies and is a parent of the better known Golden Delicious variety.
In 1922 the Franklin Women's Club and county officials were involved in establishing a monument near the spring that once served the Grimes farm. A number of groups have been involved in marking and improving the site over the years.
The sign and park's picnic shelter were established through the efforts of the Friends of Brooke County with support from the Franklin Community Fire Department and Auxiliary, Northern Panhandle Resource and Conservation Development Council, Aladdin Signs and Geraldine MacWilliams, Grimes' great-great-granddaughter.
In recent years the Applefest committee has held various fundraisers, including a reception celebrating the apple's 200th anniversary in 2002, to raise funds for the park, and volunteers with the festival recently cleared debris from the site.
O'Brien noted the park is among landmarks noted on brochures for the Wellsburg and Bethany Scenic Byway. Among byways promoted by the West Virginia Department of Transportation, it consists of 22 miles extending from Brooke Hills Park through Wellsburg and to the Alexander Campbell Mansion in Bethany and back to the park via state Route 88.
(Scott can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com)


text:
Student Financial Services > Withdrawal and Enrollment Changes
Saint Louis University Withdrawal/Enrollment Changes
When a student must withdraw after registering for any semester or session - whether the withdrawal is voluntary, requested by the University, or for other reasons - the following regulations apply:
A.) Request or notification of the withdrawal must be approved on an official withdrawal form available in the Dean's office.
B.) Failure to file the signed permit in the Dean's office within one week of the last attendance in class constitutes an unauthorized withdrawal.
C.) Cancellation may be approved upon recommendation of the Dean and approval of the Associate Provost, and may entitle the student to a refund of tuition.
D.) Residence hall charges will be refunded in accordance with the residence contract.
E.) Withdrawal during summer and special sessions will be governed by regulations printed or made available online in the appropriate Summer Sessions Schedule of Classes.
If a student withdraws from the University or drops classes within an enrollment period, please keep the following in mind:
A.) Consult your school/program's policies and practices regarding grades when withdrawing or dropping classes. If you leave the University and do not formally withdraw, you will be assigned a grade of "F" (failure).
B.) Withdraw or dropping classes does not eliminate your financial obligation to the University. You are still responsible for any charges owed to the University at the time you withdraw or drop classes, based on the University's tuition and housing refund policies.
C.) There are specific federal, state and University withdrawal/drop policies regarding tuition and fees, housing charges, refunds to scholarship/financial aid programs, and repayments, which result from withdrawal from enrollment. Consult the Office of Student Financial services for all particulars. A credit balance on your account after a withdrawal would demonstrate a reduction in educational expenses thus would prompt a return of funds to the lender to reduce overall debt.
When withdrawing or dropping classes, there are two situations, which may require an immediate repayment of scholarship/financial aid funds:
1.) If your University charges are reduced because of withdrawal or dropping classes, and it creates a credit balance in your student account, these funds may be used to repay your scholarship/financial aid awarded programs. This will depend on the amount and type of your scholarship/financial aid and the date of your withdrawal.
2.) If you withdraw completely from the University, you are no longer eligible to receive any scholarship/financial aid payments from that date forward. Federal Work-Study money earned before withdrawal will be paid. Students may not work on Federal Work-Study after withdrawing from the University.
Information regarding the federal/state and University regulations for calculating scholarship/financial aid refunds and repayments and the order of programs to which we restore aid will be administered by the Office of Student Financial Services.
Student withdrawals and the impact on federal financial aid
Saint Louis University awards aid for a period of enrollment based on the assumption that a student will attend the institution for the entire period. In a circumstance where a student does not attend the entire period, he or she may not be eligible for all of the federal aid (also known as Title IV aid) they were awarded. The paragraphs below detail the process by which those determinations are made.
The applicable federal regulation guiding this process, known as "Return to Title IV" is located at 34 CFR 668.22.
To determine a student's eligibility for Title IV programs, his or her date of withdrawal must be determined.
Official Withdrawal: The withdrawal date may be the last day of an academically-related activity or the date of notification of withdrawal.
Unofficial Withdrawal: If a student ceases to attend classes, but does not notify SLU of their withdrawal, he or she will also be subject to the R2T4 calculation upon completion of the semester. Beginning with the Fall 2014 semester an instructor is required to include a Last Activity Date when submitting a grade of "F". This date will be used to identify students who did not officially withdraw from the course but ceased attending class. SLU will use the midpoint of the term to calculate the return in an academically-related activity cannot be documented.
More information on determining last day of attendance may be found in 34 CFR 668.22(c).
The amount of aid that is earned is determined on a prorated basis. For example, if a student ceases attendance after 50% of the term is complete, that student earns 50% of the aid they were scheduled to receive. Once a student attends 60% of a period of enrollment, he or she is considered to have earned 100% of their Title IV aid, and no returns are necessary.
If it is determined that funds must be returned, they will be returned in the following order, up to the net amount disbursed from each source, until the amount to be returned is met:
• Unsubsidized Direct loan (other than PLUS loans)
• Subsidized Direct loan
• Federal Perkins loans
• Direct PLUS loans
• Federal Pell Grants for which a return of funds is required
• Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (FSEOG) for which a return of funds is required
• Federal TEACH grants for which a return of funds is required
• Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant for which a return of funds is required
If it is determined that the student is eligible to receive more funds than were originally disbursed, the student is eligible for a post-withdrawal disbursement of Title IV funds. If the funds eligible for the post-withdrawal disbursement are grant funds, SLU may disburse those funds to cover tuition, fees, and room and board charges without permission from the student. If the funds eligible to be disbursed are loan funds or grant funds beyond the cost of tuition, fees, and room and board, SLU cannot disburse the funds without permission from the student. Notification of eligibility of a post-withdraw disbursement must occur within 30 days after determining the student withdrew.
SLU will determine eligibility for Title IV funds as soon as possible, but not more than 45 days after determining the student withdrew.
More information may be found on the Return to Title IV process from the Federal Student Aid Handbook, which is available through http://www.ifap.ed.gov.
Students receiving a University funded merit-based Scholarship program must request a Scholarship Leave of Absence before withdrawal from the University. Failure to obtain an approved Scholarship Leave of Absence before withdrawing from the University terminates the student's renewal scholarship eligibility.
Tuition Refund Schedule
The percent of tuition refunded is based on the date of withdrawal. Course fees are not refundable.
Fall Semester 2015
August 24 - September 4 100%
September 5 - September 11 90%
September 12 - September 18 80%
September 19 - September 25 70%
Spring Semester 2016
January 11 - January 22 100%
January 23 - January 29 90%
January 30 - February 5 80%
February 6 - February 12 70%
Students who drop classes during the fall/spring semesters and do not withdraw from the University may only receive a 100% refund in the difference in tuition costs during the first 2 weeks of classes. At the beginning of the third week of classes, there will be no tuition refunds for changing enrollment and dropping classes.
For withdraw/refund policies for the following programs, please contact the following:
School of Law: (314) 977-3369, http://law.slu.edu/studentservices/financial-aid/billing-and-payment/refund-policy
School of Medicine: (314) 977-9840, http://medschool.slu.edu/sfs/
School For Professional Studies: (314) 977-2330, http://www.slu.edu/x11121.xml
Study Abroad: (314) 977-2318, http://www.slu.edu/x32436.xml
The policies, regulations, procedures, and fees are subject to change without prior notice, if necessary, to keep Saint Louis University policies in compliance with State and Federal laws and/or with rules and regulations of Saint Louis University.


text:
As i see it, light behaves in certain ways, as the Double Slit experiement shows, So when light comes into contact with dark matter, it becomes both a wave and a particle, the wave is bent around the dark matter, which we see as gravitational lensing, but the particle will go through the dark matter, but will also leave our frame of reference, follow the particle through dark matter and its speed would not change staying at $c$, but only relative to the the space it travels through, it would eventually pass through dark matter, we would see this first as a red or blue shift as it slowly emerges (from our perspective), and continues on it way, Never knowing it had passed through any medium, where as the wave had passed around the dark matter thousands, millions, or billions of years before, depending upon the mass of the dark matter.
closed as off-topic by Brandon Enright, John Rennie, BMS, Prahar, Jim May 5 '14 at 13:30
This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:
Light interacts with dark matter only through gravitation. That is why we try to map dark matter distribution in the universe by statistically studying the small distortions in the images of background galaxies (weak lensing regime).
Whole redshift-sliced 3D maps of dark matter have been traced for some small regions of the sky, by means of weak lensing distortion. In all cases, the observed properties of the background objects are in a statistical sense the same (apart from shape distortion) for objects observed through, and not through, dark matter clumps.
That is one of the proofs for dark matter not interacting with photons.
Another proof is in the strong lensing regime of multiple lensed quasars. The Hubble parameter can be derived by measuring time delays between flux changes of a background quasar, as detected in two lensed images. That time delays happen because the photons travel through different paths, both through the dark matter halo of the lens galaxy and the Universe. But the measured line waveleght redshifts agree perfectly with the optical paths derived from the geometry of the lens, and no additional frequency shift has ever been observed. As expected from GR, photons leaving a dark matter clump behind recover the colour they had when they entered it.
That is, dark matter affects light only by means of the metric tensor, but doesn't interact with the photons. Otherwise it would had been already observed.
This is another version of the "tired light" hypothesis. This doesn't work for a variety of reasons, among which are the facts that there are no absorption or emission peaks evident in light, there is no blurring of the light from distant objects (stars look like points, not globs), and there appears to be no dependence on the angular view from the sky when looking for redshifts (while dark matter DOES appear to be clumped).
Dark matter--as the term is understood--does not interact electromagnetically. Light only interacts electromagnetically.
So, no it could not.


text:
Suppose G is a Lie group (or algebraic group) acting on a manifold (or scheme) X, and H⊆G is a subgroup. Let x,y∈X be points such that x is in the closure of the orbit H⋅y (but not in H⋅y itself). Then obviously x is in the closure of G⋅y, but can it happen that x is actually in the orbit G⋅y (not just in the closure)?
Background: I got stuck on this point when trying to understand the very last line of the proof of Theorem 0.3.1 of Kapranov's Chow quotients of Grassmannian I, which states that every irreducible component of an algebraic cycle corresponding to a point in the Chow quotient X//G is the closure of a single G-orbit. In this case, H⊆G is a torus and X is a smooth projective variety.


text:
In a brush stroke of genius, studios and galleries in Lindsborg will open their doors this Spring so you can have a peek inside this artistic Swedish community with more working artists than Wild Dala Horses. And since Lindsborg is on the Kansas Prairie Trail Scenic Byway, why not spend a day at the Artists' Studio Open House and the rest of the weekend exploring this 56-mile route full of art, culture and history.
Lindsborg Art Studios Open Doors for Event
Posted on April 13, 2011 3:58PM by Cecilia Harris


text:
Are there cases where gairaigo used in every day speech (
アイスクリーム, etc...) have been ousted by native Japanese words?
Sign up
- Anybody can ask a question
- Anybody can answer
- The best answers are voted up and rise to the top
Are there cases where gairaigo used in every day speech (
I can't think of any cases where this is the case. However, there is a current trend, particularly in business, to use waseigo or gairaigo to appear more "educated". So going forward, one could assume that there are going to be more words replaced by their waseigo or gairaigo equivalent.
There are cases where there is gairaigo, but the Chinese word is what is used in Japanese, like baseball. Though I'm not sure what the timeline is such that
During world war two, there was some movement to limit the use of foreign words (since they belonged to the enemy) - this can be compared to the "Freedom Fries" in the US. For example (from the above-linked chiebukuro answer):
However, just like the "freedom fries" in the US, it never really caught on, and even the soldiers in the front lines kept on using katakana gairaigo in their everyday conversation.
Maybe worth pointing out that before western loanwords became popular and "trendy," the fad for over a thousand years was Chinese or faux-Chinese loanwords like "電話." Though they may seem more Japanese than katakana words, they're based on old Chinese borrowings (i.e. on-yomi, or the approximated Chinese pronunciations for kanji characters) and not really purely "native."
Not all of them have one, but looks like "アイスクリーム" have this "氷菓子", but not commonly used, so answer is No. They havn't ousted by native Japanese words.


text:
6th Annual State of IAMD Symposium, 25 June 2015Proceedings (DTIC- external site)
SLAAD Executive Roundtable, 1 July 2014Presentation (PDF)
5th Annual State of IAMD Symposium, 12 June 2014Proceedings (DTIC - external site)
4th Annual State of IAMD Symposium, 11 July 2013Proceedings (DTIC - external site)
3rd Annual State of IAMD Symposium, 12 July 2012Proceedings (DTIC - external site)
2nd Annual State of IAMD Symposium, 14 July 2011Proceedings (DTIC - external site)
1st Annual State of IAMD Symposium, 13 July 2010Proceedings
Anyone interested in obtaining a copy (CD) or learning more about the JIAMDO-produced "JIAMD Operational Architecture" can contact CDR David Wright, USN at 703-602-5214 or Mr. David Komar, the JIAMDO Chief Architect, at 703-602-5350 of JIAMDO (J8), The Joint Staff.
Related Articles by Peter Huessy- June 2016
Study: Command and Control Implications of Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense (Maritime IAMD)
The NDIA SLAAD Division Study entitled "Command and Control Implications of Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense (Maritime IAMD)," conducted by an industry-government team, was completed and delivered to and accepted by our Study Host, VADM Bernard J. McCullough III, USN, the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Integration of Capabilities and Resources (N8), on December 4, 2008.This ambitious study made recommendations to the Navy regarding future investments in Command and Control, Battle Management, and Integrated Warfighter Picture capabilities required to build toward future required Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense and Joint Integrated Fire Control capabilities, including a discussion of approaches to the acquisition of such complex systems of systems.The final report of the "Command and Control Implications of Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense (Maritime IAMD)" Study is not posted on this web site due to the overall sensitive nature of its content and recommendations. Persons or organizations interested in obtaining a copy may contact the Study Director, Dr. Stephen R. Woodall, regarding their eligibility to receive a copy. He can be contacted at email@example.com.
Surface Warfare Phase III Study (PDF)
SUW Study Phase II - Executive Summary (PDF)
The final report of the NDIA SLAADD Study "The Future of the Navy in Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense (JIAMD)" is not posted on this web site due to the overall sensitive nature of its content and recommendations. Persons or organizations wishing to obtain a copy may contact the Study Director, Dr. Stephen R. Woodall, regarding the eligibility to receive a copy. He can be contacted at: email@example.com.
Study: Feasibility of Third World Advanced Ballistic & Cruise Missile Threat
The SLAAD Division provides an open and objective channel of communication for, and builds partnerships among, the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense, and industry to address strike, land attack, and air defense issues of threat, operational concept, command and control, battle management, combat architecture, system technology, and manpower.
The division consists of the Offense, Defense and Battle Management, and C4ISR Groups. Membership is divided between members of the Executive Committee and general members.
The major focus of the division is in conducting and reporting out of studies related to strike, land attack, and air defense. Studies are conducted at the request of a Department of Defense requestor who focuses the effort on providing useful and timely results. Studies are undertaken by subcommittees according to their areas of expertise. Study participation by both industry and government is voluntary. Study results are briefed to the requestors, and reports are prepared and distributed to government and industry, as desired by the requestor. Our study reports --- nearly 100 studies since 1982 --- have helped the Navy articulate and resolve many land attack and air defense issues. A technical report bibliography including an abstract of all published reports is available upon request.
The division holds quarterly meetings at an industry, laboratory or government site. The one and a half-day meeting format includes one half day of EXCOMM and General meetings, a half-day meeting devoted to briefings and tours by the industry, laboratory or government meeting host, and a final half-day of briefings by Government or Navy speakers. These gatherings are excellent forums for technical and programmatic exchange among the government and industry participants.
Additionally, members of the division visit the Fleet Commands each year, alternating between the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. These visits enable us to gain first-hand knowledge of current operating fleet issues and help members to incorporate relevant, timely Navy concerns into our studies. The division, teamed with the NDIA Missile Defense Division, conducts an annual symposium on the topic of "The State of Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD)." Our 6th such symposium is planned for 25 June 2015.
The division periodically confers the Admiral John H. Sides Award "in recognition of meritorious service and noteworthy contribution to effective government-industry advancement in the fields of strike, land attack, and air defense warfare." The award commemorates Admiral Sides' contributions to effective warfighting. Also, Certificates of Merit are presented as appropriate each year to members of the division who have provided significant contributions to study efforts during the year.
For more information on this Division, please contact:NDIA Strike, Land Attack & Air Defense Division Director
CAPT Bruce Roulstone, USN (Ret.)Assistant Vice President, OperationsE-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
NDIA Strike, Land Attack & Air Defense Division Symposium POC
Ms. Tiffany WilsonMeeting Planner, OperationsE-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
I'm a 35 year old woman and I weigh 105. I want to gain 20 pounds and add shape to my figure. I know what I need to do to gain weight, but what exercises can i do that will help me maintain the weight that I gain yet add shape to my bottom, definition to my arms and loose the small baby belly that i have?
Sign up
- Anybody can ask a question
- Anybody can answer
- The best answers are voted up and rise to the top
Great question! As you probably expect, to get the results you're looking for, you'll need to do some work. 20 lbs is a lot of weight to gain, but it's an attainable goal! It's probably not what you want to hear, but in your first year, you shouldn't expect to put on more than 10 lbs of healthy weight. You'll need to be patient!
A great way to get started is with a simple 3 or 4 day per week routine that focuses on weight training and concludes with some high intensity cardio of some type. I've personally lost body fat but gained weight at the same time for months straight using this type of routine, and I really enjoy this style of training. It's fast, has great results, and you'll love it!
To get started, you'll need to get comfortable with a few foundational weight training movements:
I know these may look intimidating for a beginner, but before you get scared off, I'll let you know that I'm going to give you some alternatives that are effective and less intimidating. These are optimal choices though, so if you aren't afraid, dive in!
Now on to that simple routine I was talking about. It's called a push/pull routine, because one day you'll do pushing movements, the next time you'll do pulling movements. That will give your push body parts time to recover until next time, and vice-a-versa. However, since the squat is a movement your body can handle doing more frequently, you'll do squats every time you work out. (Plus doing so will help you get a great butt!)
You should structure your routine around your schedule, but for now be sure to get at least a day of rest in between each workout. I'll get into the details, but here's an example schedule:
The Movements
To start out, you should aim for 3 sets of 10 repetitions of each movement in the routine. You should use a weight that's heavy enough that on your last rep of 10, you are really struggling. You should try to increase the weight as often as you can and strive for 10 reps. Take 1-3 minutes of rest between each set, depending on how you feel. Shorter rest is better in your case.
The squat should be considered the foundation of your training. This exercise is going to do the most for you. Not only will you get some serious "back", but you'll also get great posture. It is the most important movement and you should try your best to master it. I've provided more details on squats in the tips section below. A great alternative until you build confidence with the movement is the dumbbell squat. I have to mention that you should not use the smith press to squat (details here) because it is really stressful on your knees and creates muscular imbalances between the front and rear of the leg (bad news! causes all sorts of systemic issues!). Always use free weights.
The deadlift is similar to the squat in that it works what's called your posterior chain (butt, legs, back). However, it will also help define your upper back, which is something the squat can't do. It's also going to help give you a really attractive and regal posture that happens naturally. There aren't a lot of alternatives for this one, but another option is the stiff-legged deadlift. Here's a video of a woman explaining the stiff-legged deadlift. I recommend doing some more research on this movement to get the form down. Remember: keep your lower back straight.
Bench Press
Not only will the bench press possibly make your breasts more shapely, but it will also help give you the definition in your arms you're looking for (bye bye under-arm flab). A great alternative you're probably familiar with is the push-up. The push-up is a tough exercise! But, if you decide to scale it by doing push-ups with your knees down, you're doing yourself more harm than good. Scale this exercise by inclining against something. The better you become at it, the lower you can go. To throw in some variation, you can also do assisted dips.
The row is important for giving figure to your back. It will also help naturally pull your shoulders back and give you a more upright posture. It's also great for defining your arms. My favorite variation of this exercise is the inverted row. If you struggle for your 10 reps, you can increase the incline. From time to time you may want to add some variation by doing assisted pull-ups if you have a machine available (or self-assisted pull-ups if you don't).
Overhead Press
Your arms will thank you for this movement as well. There's not much to it, just push the weight overhead. You may want to use dumbbells until you get comfortable with this movement.
Contrary to popular belief, long, intermediate cardio sessions -- like jogging for half an hour or using the elliptical -- are really poor methods of conditioning and fat loss. There's a large body of research showing that short, high intensity training is where it's at. I've experienced fantastic results (it's whipped me into such good shape, my resting heart rate is actually in the 40s!, plus it keeps my bodyfat low.)
You can approach anything with a high intensity approach, if you like -- even squats. The idea is that you'll want to go as hard as you possibly can for a short period of time, then slow it down for about twice as long, then go hard again, etc. My favorite type of intervals are hill sprints (run up the hill as fast as possible, jog back down). I also enjoy using this method on a rowing machine, or stairmill, or even chaining multiple movements together with no rest in between (like pushups followed by rows followed by squats). Experiment! The idea is that you push as hard as you possibly can for 10 minutes.
That's it!
Best of luck! You're going to do great. I think you'll be blown away by how great your results are in the first few months. If you have any questions, feel free to comment in the comment section below.
This style of routine really offers a lot of millage. If you find yourself becoming stagnant, come back and ask us about intermediate training methodologies!
You can't achieve your goals by gaining 20 pounds of fat.
You can't gain 'shapes' in a good way. Breasts grow larger with fat, your booty grows with fat. But fat also makes almost every other part of the body look worse.
There is no way to lose weight in only desired places. It is entirely determined by genetics.
To gain 'good weight' you need to lift weights. Yes, exactly as a male body-builder. But any female that does that for several months to few years will not look like one. She will not look like a female body-builder either (they take testosterone and other substances).
Imagine a Victoria's Secret model. She got lucky with genetics for sure. But how her body differs from the average girl's? She has more muscle, and she has less fat.
You need to lose a bit of fat, to lose the belly. And you need to gain muscle, so you don't look skinny, but look and feel great.
If you don't want to read all correct but lengthy (like reading a book) answers, I explain in points:


text:
Were I root, I could simply create a dummy user/group, set file permissions accordingly and execute the process as that user. However I am not, so is there any way to achieve this without being root?
More similar Qs with more answers worth attention:
some of the answers there point to specific solutions not yet mentioned here.
(Actually, there are quite a few jailing tools with different implementation, but many of them are either not secure by design (like
In general, the answers there cover the full described range of possibilities and even more:
virtual machines/OS
kernel extension (like SELinux)
chroot-based helpers (which however must be setUID root, because
[to tell a little more about them!]
Known chroot-based isolation tools:
Another trustworthy isolation solution (besides a
Still, as you can read it, fakeroot-ng itself is not designed for this purpose.
(BTW, I wonder why they have chosen to use the
Of the tools not mentioned above, I have noted Geordi for myself, because I liked that the controlling program is written in Haskell.
Known ptrace-based isolation tools:
One known way to achieve isolation is through the seccomp sandboxing approach used in Google Chromium. But this approach supposes that you write a helper which would process some (the allowed ones) of the "intercepted" file access and other syscalls; and also, of course, make effort to "intercept" the syscalls and redirect them to the helper (perhaps, it would even mean such a thing as replacing the intercepted syscalls in the code of the controlled process; so, it doesn't sound to be quite simple; if you are interested, you'd better read the details rather than just my answer).
More related info (from Wikipedia):
(The last item seems to be interesting if one is looking for a general
The illustration of this approach from the "seccomp-nurse" project:
A "flexible" seccomp possible in the future of Linux?
There used to appear in 2009 also suggestions to patch the Linux kernel so that there is more flexibility to the
This "flexible seccomp" would bring the possibilities of Linux closer to providing the desired feature in the OS, without the need to write helpers that complicated.
(A blog posting with basically the same content as this answer: http://geofft.mit.edu/blog/sipb/33.)
namespaces (
Rootless GoboLinux might be an option as well... – Tobias Kienzler Oct 29 '13 at 9:13
@tobias But does Rootless Gobolinux give a guarantee that a program written by a user won't access the outer environment?.. – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Oct 30 '13 at 9:57
Not really - I was somehow under the misconception that it would also allow one to become a "local" root user which then could simply create virtual users for such a process - though it might be possible to use its
chroot, but that would probably still require real root privileges...
– Tobias Kienzler
Oct 30 '13 at 10:02
This is a fundamental limitation of the unix permission model: only root can delegate.
You don't need to be root to run a virtual machine (not true of all VM technologies), but this is a heavyweight solution.
User-mode Linux is a relatively lightweight Linux-on-Linux virtualization solution. It's not that easy to set up; you'll need to populate a root partition (in a directory) with at least the minimum needed to boot (a few files in
I guess you can have some luck with


text:
When is it called Polenta and when is it called Grits? The South vs. Italy? The difference is in the choice of liquid, the method of cooking, and the flavors added to it! Come join us at Savor Dallas this year, and then enjoy this later to remember the savory flavors of a well prepared dish!
Garlic Grits and Shrimp
Serving Size : 6
2 cups water
2 cups milk
1 cup grits
2 cloves garlic -- minced
1 cup heavy cream
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
6 ounces shredded smoked cheddar cheese
1 pound shrimp -- cut into bite-sized pieces
6 ounces baby spinach leaves
salt and pepper
Bring the milk and water to a simmer in a heavy-bottomed non-stick saucepan over medium heat. Add the grits and the garlic and bring just to a boil. Cook until soft and thick, adding heavy cream as needed to make a creamier smooth mixture. Add as much butter and cheese as desired, stirring to make sure the cheese doesn't stick. Add the shrimp and cook a few minutes more until pink. Fold in the washed and dried greens and remove from the heat. The greens will cook in the hot grits. Serve in a chafing dish for a party or individually for an appetizer or main course.
Recipe Courtesy of Les Dames International Cookbook
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Per Serving : 551 Calories; 36g Fat (59.0% calories from fat);
29g Protein; 28g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 231mg
Cholesterol; 363mg Sodium.


text:
(CBS News) Before Superstorm Sandy put the presidential race on pause, President Obama held just a one-point lead over Mitt Romney nationally, according to a new CBS News/ New York Times poll, while voters continue to see Romney as stronger on the economy.
In the final days of the campaign, the storm may have changed the dynamics of the race, giving Mr. Obama a chance to display presidential leadership while compelling both the president and Romney to give up valuable days on the campaign trail. Just ahead of Sandy's arrival, however, the presidential race remained close, with Mr. Obama leading Romney among likely voters 48 percent to 47 percent, within the poll's three-point margin of error. The survey was conducted Oct. 25-28, while the storm made landfall in New Jersey on Oct. 29.
With just a week to go before the election, 10 percent of likely voters are still uncommitted, saying they are either undecided or could change their minds about who to vote for. Enthusiasm about voting is higher among Romney's supporters, 68 percent of whom say they are very excited about voting. Among Mr. Obama's supporters, 59 percent say they are very excited. Nearly eight in 10 likely voters now claim to be paying a lot of attention to the campaign, including similar percentages of Obama and Romney voters.
There is still a gender gap in the race: women support the president, 52 percent to 44 percent, while men support Romney, 51 percent to 44 percent. And while each candidate gets strong support from their respective political parties, Romney now holds a 12-point lead among the swing voting group of independents (51 percent to 39 percent). Romney retains the support of white voters, while the President enjoys strong support from non-whites.
On the issues
Romney now leads the president on the economy by six points, up from three points in a CBS News/NYT poll released just over a week ago. The Republican candidate has also widened his advantage on handling the deficit and now leads 54 percent to 39 percent. He also leads the president on handling illegal immigration by six points.
Mr. Obama leads Romney by five points on foreign policy and terrorism, but his lead on those issues has narrowed. He also has a nine-point advantage on the issue of Medicare and a 12-point advantage on abortion.
The candidates are close on taxes (Romney leads, 47 percent to 46 percent) and health care (Mr. Obama leads, 48 percent to 45 percent).
More voters say the president (52 percent to 43 percent) would do more than Romney to help the middle class.
Romney, however, has an advantage on the issue of bipartisanship. Half of likely voters think Romney would work better with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, while 39 percent think the president would.
Voters' views of the two candidates differ sharply on corporate taxes. Though both have promised to lower the corporate tax rate, 80 percent of likely voters think Mr. Obama would raise taxes on business if he were re-elected. Seventy percent think Romney would not do so if he becomes president. About half think each man would raise taxes on people like them if elected.
Candidate qualities
As has been the case throughout this campaign, Mr. Obama continues to have an advantage over Romney on empathy: Nearly six in 10 likely voters say he understands the needs and problems of people like them, compared with 49 percent who say so about Romney. The president enjoys an even larger advantage (66 percent to Romney's 46 percent) when asked specifically about the needs of women in the workforce. However, more voters think Romney has strong qualities of leadership (67 percent) than say that about the president (59 percent).
Some voters, however, perceive Romney as pandering to voters. Fifty-four percent of likely voters say Romney says what people want to hear, while 42 percent thinks he says what he believes. Views of the president on this characteristic are more closely divided.
On handling an international crisis, more voters express a lot of confidence in the president (40 percent) than in Romney (30 percent).
More than half of voters think each candidate has made it clear what he would accomplish if elected, but four in 10 disagree.
Overall, more than four in 10 likely voters describe each candidate's positions as being about right. Forty-two percent think the president's views are too liberal, while 35 percent think Romney's are too conservative. Among moderates, six in 10 say Mr. Obama's positions are about right while 40 percent say that about Romney. In fact, 44 percent of moderates think Romney's positions are too conservative for them.
The debates
Two in three likely voters say the presidential and vice presidential debates have been important in their presidential vote decision, including 34 percent who say the debates have been very important.
Among those who say they were important, Romney has a slight lead, 51 percent to 45 percent, over Mr. Obama.
The president
The Obama administration receives negative marks for their handling of the recent attacks in Libya. Just 39 percent of Americans approve of how they have handled that, and more, 45 percent, disapprove. About three in four Americans have heard or read a lot about the attacks.
Evaluations of the administration on this measure are more negative among likely voters. Just 38 percent of them approve, and 51 percent disapprove, including 57 percent of independents.
Mr. Obama's approval rating overall is 50 percent; 42 percent disapprove.