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November is Adoption Awareness Month nationally.
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Those with the adoption resource program say it's important to remind people that so many children are without permanent homes in our area.
"Everybody thinks it's somewhere else, but these are children in our community that need homes, that need families, that need that forever family for them," says Program Coordinator, Denise Lambrianou.
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When I studied complex analysis, I could never understand how once-differentiable complex functions could be possibly be infinitely differentiable. After all, this doesn't hold for functions from $\mathbb R ^2$ to $\mathbb R ^2$. Can anyone explain what is different about complex numbers?
As Akhil mentions, the keyword is elliptic regularity. Since I don't know anything about this, let me just say some low-level things and maybe they'll make sense to you.
A differentiable function $f : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ can be thought of as a function which behaves locally like a linear function $f(x) = ax + b$. So, very roughly, it is a collection of tiny vectors which fit together. These tiny vectors can, however, fit together in a very erratic manner. That's because since you only have to fit one vector to the two vectors that are its neighbors, there is a lot of room for bad behavior.
A differentiable function $f : \mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{C}$ has to satisfy a much more stringent requirement: locally, it has to behave like a linear function $f(z) = az + b$ where $z, a, b$ are complex, which is a rotation (and scale, and translation). So, very roughly, it is a collection of tiny rotations which fit together. Now one rotation has a continuum of neighbors to worry about, and it becomes much harder for erratic behavior to persist.
The existence of a complex derivative means that locally a function can only rotate and expand. That is, in the limit, disks are mapped to disks. This rigidity is what makes a complex differentiable function infinitely differentiable, and even more, analytic.
For a complex derivative to exist, it has to exist and have the same value for all ways the "h" term can go to zero in $\frac {(f(z+h) - f(z))}{h}$. In particular, h could approach 0 along any radial path, and that's why an analytic function must map disks to disks in the limits.
By contrast, an infinitely differentiable function of two real variables could map a disk to an ellipse, stretching more in one direction than another. An analytic function can't do that.
A smooth function of two variables could also flip a disk over, such as $f(x, y) = (x, -y)$. An analytic function can't do that either. That's why complex conjugation is not an analytic function.
When one uses the complex plane to represent the set of complex numbers ${\bf C}$,
looks so similar to the point $(x,y)$ in ${\bf R}^2$.
However, there is a difference between them which is not that obvious. The linear transformation in ${\bf R}^2$, can be represented by a $2\times 2$ matrix as long as one chooses a basis in ${\bf R}^2$, and conversely, any $2\times 2$ matrix can define a linear transformation by using the matrix multiplication $A(x,y)^{T}$.
On the other hand, the linear transformation on $\bf C$ is little different. Let $f:{\bf C}\to{\bf C}$ where $f(z)=pz$, $p \in{\bf C}$. If one writes $p=a+ib$ and $z=x+iy$, this transformation can be written as
$$ \begin{bmatrix} x\\ y \end{bmatrix}\to \begin{bmatrix} a &-b\\ a &b \end{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix} x\\ y \end{bmatrix} $$
when one sees it as in the complex plane. Hence, not all the matrices can define a linear transformation $f:\bf C\to C$.
The derivative, which can be regarded as a "linear transformation", is also different for $f:{\bf R}^2\to {\bf R}^2$ and $f:\bf C\to C$. In the real case
$$ f \left( \begin{bmatrix} x\\ y \end{bmatrix} \right) = \begin{bmatrix} f_1(x,y)\\ f_2(x,y) \end{bmatrix} $$
$f_1$ and $f_2$ are "independent" for the sake of $f$ being differentiable.
While in the complex case $f_1$ and $f_2$ have to satisfy the Cauchy-Riemann equations.
Edit: The relationship between $f:{\bf R}^2\to{\bf R}^2$ and $f:{\bf C}\to{\bf C}$ is also discussed here.
The proofs I have seen derive this as a corollary of Cauchy's integral formula. Look at the difference quotient as an integral, play around with it, and you get that it converges to what you'd get if you differentiated under the integral sign.
Note that since harmonic functions also satisfy a similar integral equation, they are also infinitely differentiable in the same way (this also follows since they are real and imaginary parts of holomorphic functions).
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Monday, 11 March 2013
Smiling fighters are more likely to lose
Michael Kraus and Teh-Way David Chen recruited four coders (blind to the aims of the study) to assess the presence of smiles, and smile intensity, in photographs taken of 152 fighters in 76 face-offs. Fighter smiles were mostly "non-Duchenne", with little or no crinkling around the eyes. Data on the fights was then obtained from official UFC statistics. The researchers wanted to test the idea that in this context, smiles are an involuntary signal of submission and lack of aggression, just as teeth baring is in the animal kingdom.
Consistent with the researchers' predictions, fighters who smiled more intensely prior to a fight were more likely to lose, to be knocked down in the clash, to be hit more times, and to be wrestled to the ground by their opponent (statistically speaking, the effect sizes here were small to medium). On the other hand, fighters with neutral facial expressions pre-match were more likely to excel and dominate in the fight the next day, including being more likely to win by knock-out or submission.
These associations between facial expression and fighting performance held even after controlling for betting behaviour by fans, which suggests a fighter's smile reveals information about their lack of aggression beyond what is known by experts. Moreover, the psychological meaning of a pre-match smile appeared to be specific to that fight - no associations were found between pre-match smiles and performance in later, unrelated fights. Incidentally, smaller fighters smiled more often, consistent with the study's main thesis, but smiling was still linked with poorer fight performance after factoring out the role of size (in other words, smiling was more than just an indicator of physical inferiority).
If fighters' smiles are a sign of weakness, there's a chance opponents may pick up on this cue, which could boost their own performance, possibly through increased confidence or aggression. To test the plausibility that smiles are read this way, Kraus and Chen asked 178 online, non-expert participants to rate head-shots of the same fighter either smiling or pulling a neutral expression in a pre-match face-off. As expected, smiling fighters were rated by the non-expert participants as less physically dominant, and this was explained by smiling fighters being perceived as less aggressive and hostile.
Of course, the researchers are only speculating about what's going on inside the minds of the fighters pre-match. It's even possible that some of them smile in an attempt to convey insouciance. If so, Kraus and Chen said "it is clear that this nonverbal behaviour had the opposite of the desired effect - fighters were more hostile and aggressive during the match toward their more intensely smiling opponents."
Kraus, M., and Chen, T. (2013). A Winning Smile? Smile Intensity, Physical Dominance, and Fighter Performance. Emotion DOI: 10.1037/a0030745
Image reproduced with permission from the first author.
Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
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When I was a teenager I trained in karate. I remember my instructors telling us solemnly never to smile while sparring. One even went so far as to warn that anyone who did would lose teeth! Makes more sense now after reading this.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:30 am
I always laugh and smile during fights because i love it so much but i never smile at the weigh ins or before. I will have to take this up with my Sports Psychologist Rebecca Symes,. i hope she lets me smile still hahahReplyDelete
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- Anonymous12:09 pm
Interesting....I am going to file this away in the interesting category. Now i have to take this up with my, Interesting Category guy,Delete
Wiley E Coyote. I hope he lets me fill another chapter of fun so I can create a new category for stuff
Wiley E. Coyote AKA the Road Runner and also a champion in the making. MMA Fighter and somewhat of an all around lady killer...Peace!
That's pretty awesome, yet strange at the same time!ReplyDelete
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I think he may have tricked some of his enemies into underestimating himDelete
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No one is saying that every fighter who smiles loses.Delete
- Anonymous5:53 pm
you exhibit A had LOTS of trouble with condit. All he had was wrestling.. Lied about hurting his hand cause his knock out wasnt working for him the few times that he actually connected good... Johnny is one dimentional. He had trouble with koscheck, 2 more rounds and condit would have knocked him out.. GSP still years ahead of this chump.. Why you riding his dick?Delete
He beat a bunch of people who have been in the sport forever and are on the verge of backing down there careers for trainer positions in gyms. They all got beat by GSP already and never fought the same. fitch doesnt care much bout being a champ, so theres an advantage already that hendrix had (hunger) lets not forget hendrix lost to a MUCH smaller welterweight in Rick Story. Oh, koscheck gave him LOTS of problems. Thats right mike pearce another wrestler he had trouble with.. So whats he think he's gonna just walk in and take out George just cause he's thrown a few lefts that have knocked guys out? hahaha fan base who dont acknoledge the actual talents and movements of a man rather then go by a highlight reel of a bunch of washed up fighters or guys who were never anything and started fighting one day.. Atleast johnny has had 1 advantage over most. YEARS of COLLEGIATE wrestling. So he wont be able to take george down, and come 3 round 4th and 5th, johnny just gonna be a pilon for george. Then it will become wrestling practice. Maybe the better wrestler with in the later rounds!
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Researchers are saying it's a correlation. The proposed causal factor is submissiveness &lack of aggression (which provokes smiling & losing)Delete
- Anonymous3:00 pm
it seems like the champs like GSP, Silva, Jones, JDS, Couture, had a lot of confident smiles at the face off.ReplyDelete
Isn't a smile a sign of confidence also.
Did anyone pay for this study? let me guess us Taxpayers probably.Replies
- Anonymous5:56 pm
its a different smile when one man has no emotion and the other has a big smile... Thats the fear. He is intimidated by the non emotions so smiles. Also that smile is to give the eyes an extra couple seconds of focus on your opponents eyes without truly having to look away yet.. GIving your apponent the idea that you're not scared, but secretly in there heads they couldnt wait for that smile and stare down to end cause they were shitting themselves inside.Delete
- Anonymous12:48 am
LOL you can mean mug all you want and you can still lose fights... Look at diego sanchezReplyDelete


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Are there any applications of quantum information theory to physics?
There's a huge body of literature in applying ideas from quantum information to the study of strongly interacting many body systems. If I have time I'll edit this answer with my own personal review (primarily all of the lovely simulation techniques that QIT has given a solid physical and conceptual foundation to) but as a jumping off point, there is a set of lecture notes with excellent references here.


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April 12, 2013
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This breathtaking fisheye panorama, taken from a little overhang while hiking Table Mountain, was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Eric Palmer.
Says Eric: "My brother-in-law's friend is visiting from UK, and we had to do the tourist thing with him and walk up Table Mountain. This one was a five-shot panorama with my 10.5mm fisheye, from under a little overhang."
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
The Four-Leaf Clover Principle
I have quite a few childhood memories of clover. As a grade-school age kid, I had a daily paper route and delivered newspapers from house to house. I used to watch the ground when I walked to see if I could find any four-leafed clover. If I found any, my mother pronounced it a lucky omen. She preserved the clover by pressing it in a heavy book and keeping it safe in a clear wrapper. I recall opening our family picture album and having a few pressed clover fall out. Maybe my mom thought that would bring luck to the family.
Those memories returned to me during the jog and I began to scour the ground for a four-leaf clover. I thought that would be a nice reconnection to my past; maybe it would be lucky, too.
There were no four-leafed clover in the first patch of ground that I examined. Nor the second, third, or fourth. Disappointed, I raised my head and began walking home.
On the way, the thought soon struck me that you can never really look for four-leafed clover. I never actually found one by looking for it; rather, I would be walking along and one would suddenly jump out at me. It was being primed to see one, but not *trying* to see it, that would lead to the discovery.
Most things are like that in life, I realized. You can't *make* things happen. You can't make people like you, you can't make stocks move your way, and you can't make yourself successful. When you press to make things happen, you're no longer properly primed to see opportunity when it presents itself. You're so busy looking for the clover that you miss the patch that lies several steps ahead.
How many times do we press to get in a trade, when it's just sitting back, seeing the trend, and finding a good place to participate that makes us the real money? How often do we try to make a public speech turn out perfectly or try to get to sleep, only to have the trying interfere with what comes naturally?
What makes the four-leafed clover lucky is that it presents itself to us; we cannot make it appear. It's true of all life's four-leafed clover: they appear when we're ready to see them.
I smiled as I made my way home. I realized that there were a couple of areas in my life where I had been pressing to make things happen. What I needed to do was stand back, do the right things, and position for the best possible outcomes. All we can do in life is walk through lots of clover fields and keep our eyes open. Eventually the four-leafed opportunities will present themselves.
As I walked just beyond the picnic tables, a few steps before I reached Greene Rd. to return home, a large four-leafed clover stood out on the ground. I held back a tear as I carefully plucked it and brought it home. I pressed it in a book and put it in an airtight clear wrap.
Somewhere, Mom was smiling. And I was feeling lucky: my blog topic for the morning was set.
16 comments:
- adoshi said...
Dear Dr. Brett,
This post alone make is so difficult for me to adjust my daily routine without you, it is painful to know that I will be missing all of this amazing insights from you. You are responsible for many positive changes in my life. Thank you.
- Luis Paulo said...
These more than any trading related ones, are the kind of posts I will miss
- Radek Dobias said...
It is great to see you turn Taoist on your morning jog, no doubt a spiritual tradition that would deepen and enhance your experience further.
- nqtraderjay said...
Excellent writing. I was happy as I was in a state of total unknown a couple of weeks ago. I stopped daytrading the futures for good reasons. I needed to find what my next thing was and I had this very strong feeling that everything was going to be better and great. I had total confidence that the answer was right in front of me and would reveal itself to me soon enough. I enjoyed the feeling and went with it. And it came to me just as I knew it would eventually. So now I have a set of plans and I'm working on them and it feels good. I have a set of goals and a plan. Short term, intermediate, long term, and emergency. Going thru this for 18 months has made me less dysfunctional. That's a nice clover.
- JYY 葉傑森 said...
Dr. Brett,
I have been an avid jogger myself for few years now. Recently upon hearing this podcast from EconTalk gave me motivation to look into ways of changing up my routine exercise.
If you haven't came across similar info, you might find the podcast interesting.
- Mark said...
Geez, I am really going to miss you. Your blog is the first thing I check in the morning and the last thing I check at night. And your brilliance and generosity are completely unmatched. I hope one day you come back and hope you eventually publish more books. Your an insperation.
- Toad said...
Simply beautiful.
- teds said...
I never found a four leaf clover… but I did find you blog.
I too held back a tear as I printed this post, and as you with your four leaf clover, preserved it.
Hope you are also smiling.
Thank you Doc
- Ebisu said...
Reminds me a bit of an old saying I was told as a college student trying too hard to get A's in every class:
"When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come."
I eventually learned that "ready" really meant "receptive", and not "aggressive", or "eager". When one is aggressive, they focus well but miss much - including many opportunities, or four-leaf clovers.
About trading, it also reminds me of what Dr. Alexander Elder said in one of his fine books on trading:
"The market keeps sending you messages - all you have to do is listen."
- madi said...
Dr. Brett,
Being part Irish, I can identify with your experience. We used to look for four leaf clovers every spring in our front yard.
In a similar vein, yesterday, I picked up my second penny in as many days. Both times it felt really good. I remember the story of Warren Buffet picking up a penny in an elevator and saying, " The beginning of my next billion!" I've never never looked at it that way. I always thought that the penny belonged to someone else and I had no right to pick it up.
But, maybe the person who dropped this shining penny knew they dropped it and was too lazy to pick it up? Maybe, in a cosmological sense, this penny was meant for me? Isn't there an implied protocol that a penny on the street is "up for grabs, anyway?"
Just like good trades or a four leaf clover, sometimes good fortune is there for the picking. I've always thought that if reward or opportunity didn't come from hard work, it was not real.
Maybe, opportunity is staring right at us all the time?
I haven't written in my blog for quite a few weeks. I think that I'll elaborate on this submission and post it at positivelivinginnyc.blogspot.com
Thanks... for your continued insight and experience sharing,
- Roberto said...
Hi Dr. Brett!
How sugary sweet. Though I do understand the principle - how could one not? - I don't believe a word from this story.
Not needing to hold back a single tear makes me a cynic or what?
Best regards and enjoy a wonderful day!
- niklas said...
Hi Brett,
it is a very nice allegory. Very true to most important things in our life. We just cannot *make* them happen, they will come to us, if we are a bit lucky and patient. Regarding trading, we should just sit more on our hands...
- OKL said...
Staying composed, relaxed and a focus on what you're looking for... when it comes, its obvious to you but everyone else.
Make a run for it, grab it, hit the target and get out before everyone else realizes what is happening.
Nice little drop of life Doc!
Maybe you can't post that many trade/market related stuff, but I suppose these are fine! They are for me anyway.
Oh yeah, good ol' Mom is smiling somewhere.
- Scott Trader said...
You will be missed, Brett.
Thank you for this excellent pearl of wisdom.
You are my four-leafed clover -- and I've held back a tear or two while contemplating your departure.
This is not going to be easy :)
All my best,
- Matthew C. said...
Beautiful story Dr. Brett, and right on.
- rmendez said...
a really good friend of mine told me a long time ago that good things are like butterflies.. if you try to catch them, they will fly away but if you stand still waiting, they will come to you!!! :) your post just made me smile, thanks (rosie)


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The title says it all. Is there no escaping memorizing the neck note by note, or is there a nice technique for this?
You don't need to memorise note for note, but memorising a few shapes is useful, as it speeds up learning of positions, chords, scales etc.
So for example, you will probably learn E, C, D, F, A and G fairly early on, along with (probably) Em, Am and Dm.
You'll also learn the simple power chord versions of E and A, and probably a couple of major scales and blues scales. I used to teach an E blues scale and an A blues scale in open position fairly early on.
So a next step would be to realise that to go from E to A is 5 semitones, which equals 5 frets, so if you wanted to play an A blues scale, rather than play it in the open position, you could play the same fingering as the E but 5 frets higher up.
From there you start to get a feel for where the adjacent string relationships are (5, 5, 5, 4 and 5 frets) and at the same time understand the octave positions.
Once comfortable with that, understanding where to move to go from an A shape barre chord to a D shape, or from a G shape to an E shape barre chord becomes useful.
In my head, though, I have never really bothered with learning note by note, but much more by visualising the shapes (at least in the early years) and nowadays I can feel where the next notes might be in muscle memory - although I haven't fully sorted this for my oddly tuned 7 string...I need to consciously convert for the AD at the bottom. I know much more experienced players who can shift tunings at the drop of a hat without worrying where the notes have moved to... some day I hope I will be able to do that.
I'm going to suggest something a little different... It might take a little concentration, but it's that fastest method for learning the fretboard that I know of.
Try playing a Cmajor scale on each of your strings, playing on just one string at a time. A Cmajor scale will give you all the natural notes, but no sharps or flats. Here is a system for learning the fretboard fairly easily in 6 weeks or less:
If you want a more solid system (i.e not playing a major scale just by ear) then you could figure it out with the knowledge that a major scale consists of the intervals: tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone; and that each fret on a guitar is a semitone. C will be a tone below D which is 2 frets, D is a tone below E (another 2 frets), E is a semitone below F (1 fret) etc. The scale and it's intervals could be written thusly:
C (T) D (T) E (sT) F (T) G (T) A (T) B (sT) C where (T) = Tone and (sT) = semitone (not trying to patronise, just not assuming any knowlege, sorry if I'm covering material you already know)
Spend a whole week on just that one string, playing just the natural notes. Perhaps even say them aloud as you play them. Play them ascending as well as descending and eventually moving around non-sequentially on the one string.
At the end of six weeks (or rather, 5, as your 'E' strings will be the same, but take a week off - you've been working hard) you should know all your natural notes on the fretboard. To figure out an accidental (sharp/flat) you can just use one of the natural notes on either side (if I know that the 8th fret on the 'B' string is a G, then I know that the 9th fret is a G#/Ab etc.)
I would also be practicing this AWAY from the guitar in my head. Imagine the fretboard, imagine the string, name each natural note along that string in your mind. The reason for this is that you don't need to be able to play with any kind of decent technique in order to remember the names of notes on the fretboard - it's pure pattern recognition, which is a mental exercise.
Studies have shown that mental practice when combined with physical practice is the fastest, most efficient path to improvement.
Good luck!
From my experience, using and learning power chords is a great starting point. To start with, where the power chords are on the 6th E string: the 5th fret is A, 7th is B, 3rd is G and so on. Then do the same for power chords that start on the 5th (A) string, so 5th is D, 3rd is C, 2nd is B etc.
The second part is understanding that for power chords that have their root on the 6th and 5th string, their octave is 2 frets above the root note, having jumped over a string. Let me illustrate with an example:
For a G power chord, the root is on the 3rd fret, 6th string. The octave will be on the 5th fret (jumping two frets) on the 4th string (jumping a string). The same goes for the 5th string: take the B power chord. Root: 2nd fret, 5th string. Octave: 4th fret, 3rd string.
For the 1st E string, it is just exactly the same note as the 6th E string.
For 2nd B, it is a little more complicated, but the same principle. Take 8th fret, B string. You can take away 3 frets from it, and jump down over a string, and you have 5th fret, D string. That, as we worked out earlier, is G (worked out from jumping up 2 frets from root G in the power chord).
I apologise if this seems a little long winded, or patronising, but using each little method helped me work fret notes out quickly, and with practice, it comes. Knowing the notes around the fretboard will help no end!
Edit: you can also take a look at/attempt to memorise/stick a copy to your wall of diagrams like these
One thing I am doing at the moment is squeezing in memorization time during other daily routines.
I have printed a copy of this:
laminated it, and put it up in my shower. Now every day when I have a shower, I also spend that time memorizing the fretboard and testing myself on note names. Has been working well so far and doesn't take any extra time from my day to do.
That PDF is the best I have found anywhere for mapping out the fretboard and assisting in learning note names and relationships.
That site also has the following chart which is also very good depending on what you want on one page:
Hope this help :)
If you have a song and want to help yourself memorizing notes you can try with Guitar Pro software (Guitar Pro Website)
Basically it can play a music sheet and a tab sheet together helping you memorizing positions between notes/guitar keyboard positions
Memorising the notes rather than 'deriving' them (i.e. finding one you know and working out the one you don't) is certainly a lot faster when it comes to playing them!
Memorising shapes will let you get away with not knowing all the notes in the meantime.
But if you do want to have a go, I highly recommend the practice technique described in this video.
I see the general consensus here is to find workarounds (scale shapes, string by string, etc) that aid your memorizing.
In my opinion, the problem with this is that your brain will not truly memorize the notes one by one, but will just adapt to process faster the scale-shape algorithm that you practiced hard. And the pitfall to this is that when you'll encounter a live or stressful situation, it is possible that the algorithm processing will crack or slow down, and you will block or make a mistake or something bad will happen.
Best way when practicing anything, is to get to a level much higher than you will ever encounter in a live situation, and I don't think you can get there by workarounds.
The only method that I found suitable for this is simply brute-force learning. For that, the only aid you need is some kind of program or a friend that will simply give you random notes and you have to find them as fast as you can. It is also useful to do this exercise without your guitar, because visual memorization is essential in this.
There are variations that you can do with this, like:
The goal here is to make solving this exercise a routine. Then you know that you are sure of your own musical abilities.
Also you want to try this with different chord shapes.
There are also other exercises that help you with this, but they all have one thing in common: put your brain to a stress that it's never encountered before. I'll give you one example that Joe Satriani wrote about once:
I used to write down little riffs I found in musical notation and not read tabs. And studying music theory on the guitar helps a lot too, as it involves reading music a lot. I don't think a dedicated learning method would work better than this natural learning process. It's like learning a new language, the more you speak it, the more you learn.
I'm not necessarily a fan of it, but there is the CAGED method that some people find helpful.


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(its particularly for indian states,i need.....,but kindly quote if any other info you have) the raster data may also work for me in above aspects.
For soils you might take a look at the Harmonized World Soil Database (1km pixel size), and for vegetation you might be able to use the MODIS land cover product (500m pixel size). I would recommend the ESA's Globcover product for vegetation (300m), but their site seems to be under maintenance.
As for water resources, I'm not familiar with any raster products for India.
I am assuming you that you want satellite data that can be used for classification.
Have you looked at the LISS-III & AWIFS data that is available from Bhuvan? This data can be downloaded at http://bhuvan-noeda.nrsc.gov.in/download/download/download.php
If this isn't what you are looking for, please clarify your question. I know quite a lot of NRSC websites inside out, and might be able to help you better.


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Fracking offshore
Lack of transparency for the controversial practice raises major concerns for locals
By Natalie Cherot 12/13/2012
In the summer leading up to Hurricane Sandy, crowds surrounded the state capitol at Albany, N.Y. They wanted to know what would happen in case of a natural gas leak, or a bigger natural gas disaster, to their drinking water. What sparked them? Many had seen the footage of water so contaminated from natural gas frack drilling that it turned brown or caught fire. These water debacles sparked a nationwide movement against natural gas fracking. Fewer people know about fracking in California, and the anti-fracking movement is smaller, but the tide has turned since the time when natural gas was considered a safer alternative energy.
The days when oil companies could find enough oil through conventional drilling are long over on the Central Coast. Drillers cannot get oil trapped tightly in the shale the older ways. It is trapped in rock and has to be coerced out through fracking. Now they need an Olympic-size pool's worth of water infused with chemicals to splinter the rock and discharge the oil from it. They drill a hole, lay a pipe, and drop a bomb where it explodes and tears into the pipe. Making its way down through the pipe hole are sand and chemical water at such force that it splinters the shale and dislodges the oil from it. Central Coast frack drilling can tunnel down a mile and through the water table. Scientists are split on whether fracking can contaminate our drinking supply or cause earthquakes. Wastewater composed of toxic, safe and unknown chemicals is injected into a well and pushed down thousands of feet, where it builds pressure. That pressure under the earth could be a problem.
Oil company executives can describe the thick and sticky shale oil with the same kind of loving tenderness and cravings as any Central Coast reckless wine sipper. Washington and Sacramento have simultaneously fed and regulated the thirst for it. The Dick Cheney-created Halliburton loophole made fracking exempt from much EPA regulation and from the Safe Drinking Water Act. This means frackers do not have to disclose the chemicals they use. Drillers in California are not required to notify landowners or residents who utilize nearby water sources of their intent to frack. This lack of transparency has been a sore spot for the often-locked-in-conflict local farmers, commercial fishing industry and environmentalists who now find themselves allied in the battle against fracking's quest for water. Because so little transparency exists, rumors swirl around the where and when of offshore fracking.
The view from McGrath State Beach
Last June, fresh off the primary election, local campaigning Democrats staged a press conference for Oxnard's McGrath Beach, which was reopening after being closed for lack of funding following Department of Parks and Recreation's sordid fund hoarding. Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, who was running for re-election for the State Assembly district stretching from Santa Barbara to parts of Oxnard, took advantage of the news cameras and changed from an orange T-shirt into a full wetsuit and bright-yellow boogie board, walked into the ocean, and rode the whitewash of the small choppy waves for more shoots. What the camera could not capture was the crossing of slant- and horizontally-laid oil pipes underneath the waves, chemical injection wells on federally regulated oil rigs beyond the white wash, and the Channel Islands thrust fault capable of producing a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. From Williams' vantage point, he could see the reeds and fences hiding more oil company chemically injected and disposal wells. If he had walked south down the beach past McGrath Lake, he would have found Well 1218 producing more than 32,000 barrels so far this year alone.
Williams splashed around over one of the county's major access points to the oil-abundant underground geological development called the Monterey Shale. This now-commercialized piece of geological property encompasses parts of Ventura, Santa Barbara and Monterey counties. Tim Marquez, president of Venoco, told the Oil & Gas Financial Journal that "We knew that our future efforts were going to be focused on the Monterey Shale." Venoco literature claims the company has explored the shale since 1997.
Fracking is a new frontier and Marquez embraces its Wild West nature and its financial and environmental riskiness. The Monterey Shale is about the closest thing an energy company can get to a new oil frontier on the Central Coast in decades. But like the old Wild West, the federal government is still bankrolling while letting companies use its national forests and federal waters.
According to a Venoco report, the company is leasing 380,000 acres in California valued at $1.4 billion. It claims that it has already devoted millions of dollars into setting up new wells and exploring the shale, including the Sockeye field offshore from McGrath Beach. Evidence points to more local shale in its future. Venoco recently advertised for a Monterey Shale expertise job for its Carpinteria office.
What wells has Venoco fracked so far? The company dodges that question. The anti-fracking movement has grown large enough to put oil companies on edge. Calls to Venoco were not returned. But just two years ago, the mood was different. Scarlett Johansson was not hosting celebrity screenings for Gasland, the anti-fracking movie that had not yet won an Academy Award. New York farmers, chefs, wine connoisseurs and environmentalists had not yet joined to push New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Democrat, to regulate fracking. Matt Damon was not releasing an anti-fracking movie called Promised Land that he would use as his next Oscar platform.
But in the more frack-friendly year 2010, Venoco's promotional literature claimed it had fracked and horizontally drilled one well and acidized a second to get to the shale offshore from McGrath Beach. Nestled in federal waters between Oxnard and Santa Cruz Island is Platform Gail. The Santa Barbara-based Environmental Defense Center found that Venoco fracked Platform Gail in Sockeye offshore. Where did the wastewater from the offshore frack go? What was the chemical composition? So far, the only two institutions likely to know for certain are Venoco and a few of the federal regulatory bureaucracies such as the Bureau of Ocean Management or Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. But none is informing the public.
As for spills and water contamination, frack watchers are still trying to get at the chemical formulas of fracking fluid. A 2005 Venoco document reveals XC polymer, a xanthum gum manufactured by Halliburton. Reporters from the nonprofit investigative unit Propublica found hazardous chemicals such as benzene, formaldehyde, sulfuric acid, kerosene, hydrofluoric acid, hydrochloric acid, formic acid and lead. Researchers at the State University of New York at Albany found radioactive materials such as uranium, radium and radon in tests of fracking wastewater. The National Resources Defense Council found a chemical connected to cancer development, arsenic. The Breast Cancer Fund has reported on the risks for breast cancer from toluene and endocrine-disrupting compounds such as phthalate DEHP found in fracking fluid. EPA studies show that toluene can cause spontaneous abortion. Then there is the question that remains of how the hundreds of thousands of gallons of chemical wastewater are disposed of.
According to the Environmental Defense Center, Venoco fracked platform Gail in Sockeye field in the Santa Barbara Channel.
According to the Ventura County Star, Venoco spilled 63 barrels of oil in 2010 from Platform Gail, the year following the reported frack job. Ordinarily, a 63-barrel leak is not controversial, but if it includes fracking fluid or its waste, a concern exists. A frack spill is not an ordinary oil spill. When the chemicals get into the water they are difficult to get out. They spread fast and easy, do not easily breakdown, and can cause more health hazards than crude oil.
The acidity of carbon waste through oil spills threatens marine life and commercial fishing. Shellfish can be especially vulnerable to the acidic water that comes with fracking. But it's not just commercial fishing that fracking can threaten. Venoco's fracking and well acidization next to the Channel Islands Marine Reserve undermines the mission of protecting marine life and habitats, much as state and national parks protect wildlife on land. Little research exists on the impact of fracking chemicals on ocean life.
Fracking started 60 years ago. So why all the fuss? For many, the newer form of horizontal drilling, that is drilling (that goes down, then across) is what makes the new practices more dangerous than those old Fillmore and Los Padres National Forest frack jobs. With horizontal's criss-crossing through the water table, it is more likely to cause contamination.
Venoco's drilling onshore and offshore from McGrath, with its slant and horizontal drilling, has created a regulatory conundrum. Fracking skeptics argue that it is specifically what makes slant and horizontal drilling so appealing. Horizontal drilling can start onshore, then cross to offshore. If there is another spill like in 2010, who regulates this? The federal government? The state? When asked about who regulates a frack job that burrows underneath both land and ocean, Erin Curtis, Federal Bureau of Land Management's external affairs representative, told me that "Whoever is responsible is who is permitting the oil company. That is who should regulate." But if Venoco should spill again as it did in 2010, and it pollutes both offshore and onshore, who will be in charge of remedying that? There is no clear answer from Venoco's office about this question.
The campaigning Democratic candidates also had a wonderful view of the Santa Clara River running through McGrath State Beach and into the ocean. As of August, conversations with the United Water Conservation District, the local agency regulating drinking water coming from the Santa Clara River, revealed that fracking was not even on the radar. This is the agency that must divvy out scarce water.
Aera Energy off McGrath Beach
According to interviews with the California Department of Land Conservation, the state agency in charge of regulating the energy industry, fracking waste fluid can end up in either a waterflood injection well or a water disposal well. While oil and gas companies are not required to report on their fracking chemical compositions, or where they have drilled or injected it into the earth, they do have to get approvals to build wells to dispose of the waste. Wherever one can find an injection or a water disposal well, it is likely some fracking happened nearby.
Two of the biggest global oil companies, Shell and ExxonMobil, teamed up to form Aera Energy. Aera has a new waterflow well near McGrath Beach. This well has only August production on record with the California Department of Conservation. In that month, Aera injected 13,262 barrels of waste.
Our region is what seismologists call seismically active. Several earthquakes have been caused by faults that extend into the Santa Barbara-Ventura ocean basin. We have San Andreas and the Santa Ynez River fault zone to the north, the San Cayetano fault to the east, the offshore Pitas Point near Carpinteria, Red Mountain fault to the east, the Oak Ridge lying on both Ventura and Oxnard, and the offshore Santa Cruz Island and Channel Islands faults to the west. Even the Pacific Operators Offshore LLC (PACOPS), a local offshore driller, in a report to the Federal Bureau of Energy Management (BOEM) admits that all these faults can produce shaking around the wells. The cracking of the shale and the reinjection of waste water back to the strata causes pressure. All this happens on these fault systems.
Aera is no stranger to fracking. Last May, Aera fracked in the mountains above Ventura Avenue. This job used 32,004 gallons of water and drilled down 4,960 feet. Aera admits to using methanol, a common chemical used in fracking and also found in fuel, antifreeze and paint solvent. Inhaling methanol can cause eye irritation, headaches and can be fatal. Ingesting it can produce eye damage or death. Aera's chemical cocktail also included, boric acid, insecticide and flame retardants.
According to a joint study by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, fracturing of rock has a lower risk of earthquake, but the disposal of the waste fluid into a well is high risk. Where lies an injection well also lies an earthquake risk. According to this study, the hundreds of thousands of gallons of waste do not simply disappear in the earth's strata. Underground, the waste builds pressure and causes more cracks in the already cracked earth. Conducting the frack jobs on fault zones just exacerbates the earthquake risk.
What makes this study unique is that its researchers and peer reviewers did not possess ties to energy companies. This is not as common as one might expect. A Plains Exploration study claimed fracking in the Baldwin Hills in Los Angeles was safe, but community groups complained that the peer reviewer had connections to oil and gas. Plains Exploration reportedly paid a Texas geologist $400,000 to write a study that showed that fracking did not contaminate ground water. The oil and gas industry gave State University of New York at Buffalo's geology department $6 million. A new term has been coined to describe these Ph.D.s: frackademics.
Greka's Rincon
Nestled between Carpinteria and Ventura is the Rincon oil field, the desirable piece of ocean property with legendary breaks that has surfers, environmentalists and oil interests competing for its future. Where the state's Conservation Department gave Venoco safety awards in spite of its 32 violations for not following operating procedures from 2005 to 2010, Greka, with its perishing pipelines and rusting facilities, has the opposite reputation with 21 separate crude oil spills in Santa Barbara waterways from 2005 through 2010. One of the spills included a 67,000-gallon oil spill in early December 2007 followed by an 84,000-gallon spill in 2008. Greka's poor public image prompted a name change to HVI Canyon Cat last year. The Santa Barbara Independent reported that the U.S. Department of Justice alleges that HVI Cat Canyon failed to implement adequate plans to prevent spills, which is required by the Clean Water Act.
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Venoco has operations on the pier off the coast in Carpinteria, where, apparently, work has ramped up recently.
In 2002, the company acquired Rincon Island Partnership. According to California Department of Conservation records, Rincon Island Partnership has at least five waterflood injection wells. Two are drilled either on a slant or horizontally. Greka has a thing for horizontal drilling. One of its holdings is Horizontal Ventures, so it is likely that some of its wells are horizontally drilled.
Venoco and Carpinteria's uneasy relationship
Venoco has operations in Carpinteria right near the beach and leases the pier that the city owns. Former Carpinteria mayor Richard Weinberg has witnessed increased Venoco activity near his house, a short distance from the pier — "Trucks go by day and night," he says. Miguel Checa, a member of the board of directors of the advocacy organization, the Carpinteria Valley Association, once only saw a few trucks a day going to the pier a day. Now he notices "six to eight." Some question whether this means offshore fracking is a fixation of many Carpinteria residents. Buzz spreads around Carpinteria environmental circles that Venoco could slant-drill offshore to get entrance to oil under the city limits, but Nathan Alley, a staff attorney with the Environmental Defense Center, claims that would be a feat of engineering.
Carpinteria resident Ted Rhodes has had Venoco in his sites since the company created Carpinteria's 2010 Measure J that would have produced more drilling in the city near the aquifer. His mind is on the municipal water and he has no reservoir of good will for Venoco. The company can bypass local laws by going through federal land management instead of the city.
Weinberg thinks Venoco's plan is to drill slant or horizontal to reach the oil under the city without having to abide by local laws or answer to local activists. The last time Venoco wanted to dramatically increase drilling through city legislation, environmentalists staged a paddling protest. They jumped in the water and paddled out to sea. The paddlers included Rhodes and Weinberg.
Weinberg calls federal and state land management "weak." Federal and state land management will not be as open to citizens' participation. Weinberg may be correct. In October, Alley found that Venoco will drill just north of the city and slant-drill to the oil underneath the city.
The Carpinteria Valley Association hired hydrogeologist from UCSB Hugo Loáiciga to defend against Measure J. Loáiciga publicly testified drilling beneath the city would be detrimental to the aquifer. Although environmentalists point to the dishonesty of oil companies, the prediction tools that oil companies use could be a factor. Sophisticated oil company mapping has provided innumerable safety gains by predicting a picture of the underground. But all these layers might be more fractured and uniform than the technology shows. The assumption of safety depends on the premise that layers of underground rock tightly hold the injected chemicals. But the underground may be more fractured and cracked than these programs predict. More cracks mean more chemicals moving about.
UCSB: gas to the south, oil to the north
Venoco has had its share of Southern California controversy. It had a run-in with famous local environmentalist Erin Brockovich over fracking at Beverly Hills High right next to the track. Where Pennsylvania may allow fracking right on public university campuses, UCSB has the status of having likely oil fracking directly north and PG&E gas south of the campus. Entering the campus on Highway 217, you can see the natural gas field. It is estimated that 90 percent of natural gas wells are fracked.
Elwood lies just north of the campus. Venoco claims, in a 2010 business magazine, to have been drilling to the Monterey Shale at Elwood since 1999. It only took a few short years for this exploration to transform into abundant shale oil collection. In 2007, Venoco wrote to the California Department of Conservation to say it will be injecting waste from the Elwood well offshore to platform Holly. In that letter, Venoco writes, "We have three wells injecting the produced water back to the Monterey Shale." Produced water is the wastewater that is laden with chemicals. Venoco also claims to have injected this produced water on Holly beginning April 2006. Platform Holly has been productive. The state lands commission filed a lawsuit last year claiming Venoco owes the state $9.5 million in royalties.
Venoco ships some of this waste to a water disposal well north of UCSB, in between the posh Bacara resort and the Sandpiper Golf Course. The company has another water disposal well offshore in front of UCSB. It has disposed of 1.3 million barrels of wastewater from the beginning of 2012 through August.
The EPA classifies an oil company's waste disposal well as class II disposal. If some of the fracking chemicals were to be used instead in manufacturing or farming, the EPA would give it a more hazardous classification. Oil and gas companies have exceptions other industries do not.
Bureaucracy and politicians
Checa and Weinberg joined 173 other people in a May 20 meeting at Ventura County Government Center on fracking, organized by the state's Department of Conservation. It was public comment time before the state came out with a draft of fracking rules to be passed around to various environmental groups and the industry. Erin Curtis, the spokeswoman from Federal Bureau of Land Management, says, "We are in rule-making on hydraulic fracturing." Like the state Department of Conservation, that office is inviting public input before making draft regulations. Alley recommends that locals get involved and work toward making fracking transparent. Of course it is much easier to be part of the rulemaking process if you are a mover and shaker at environmental organizations. For ordinary folks, like those at Albany, N.Y., protesting is the only way to get their voice heard.
Ventura County will have to address protecting agriculture, water and property despite the revenues received from oil companies. As for rising oil prices, more local drilling does not translate into cheaper prices at the pump for Ventura County residents. The fracked oil from underneath our feet gets traded to the highest bidder on the international market just like any other oil.
As for local electoral connections to fracking, only state Sen. Fran Pavely, D-Agoura Hills, has put fracking front and center on her agenda, going as far as writing a bill requiring drillers to notify nearby property owners before fracking. Though one bill died earlier this year, Pavley has reintroduced another bill this month that would regulate fracking, which includes advance notice to neighbors of planned fracking and disclosure of the chemicals used in the process. State Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, R-Camarillo, had Venoco as a client during his lobbyist days. Venoco later joined ExxonMobile in contributing to his campaign. Recently retired Carpinteria City Councilman Joe Armendariz started a consulting firm. His new client is Western Petroleum Association. Councilwoman Carmen Ramirez, who also attended the McGrath Beach opening, might be the next local leader likely to take this up as an agenda item. The Sierra Club adores her. She earned their admiration for fighting to keep development off Ormond Beach.
On the federal level, ProPublica found that Exxon is pushing for legislation so it does not have to reveal fracking chemicals, but federal regulators have their own agenda. John Romero at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said that office will not be issuing any more federal offshore permits, but is working on environmental studies for offshore wind power. Even if the local and state governments conflict on offshore agendas, the feds are installing more alternative energy regardless of who is in office. As for when this will happen, UCSB biologist Milton Love is already conducting an environmental impact study for the federal government to bring offshore wind power to our region. The Department of Defense has already made plans to develop more wind power on San Nicolas Island.
A few months after the Democratic candidate at McGrath Beach, I asked a ranger about the fracking rumors. "I have heard them," he says, "but we have cameras. Cameras are all over the park." But the cameras do not show everything behind the walls of the rigs and wells. So I ask him if he sees anything else bad happening in the park. "Yes," and then he laughs.
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Your artical on Fracking is filled with misleading statements. For starters most water injection wells have never seen frack fluid. Secondly, water injection wells are designed to inject water in zones located thousands of feet from fresh water zones. This is monitored and regulated by the Federal Goverment. You imply that oil compainies put up walls around rigs to keep people from seeing what they're doing. Those walls are required soundproofing that does nothing for the oil companies but cost them money and get in the way of the workers and equipment. You again make them sound very devious because reeds and fencing near McGrath beach block the view. Are you kidding? I think the reeds grow naturally and there is no solid type fencing in the area you are describing. Your artical says that 90% of the gas wells near UCSB are fracked. What percentage are fracked in Ventura County? It's not a very high number. That's why you didn't state it. Most of the artical is just plain misleading. You are correct that oil from Ventura County doesn't lower residents gas prices at local pumps. What it does is provide is many jobs and millions of dollars of revenue to our county. This artical is totally biased reporting. It tells one side of the story and makes huge exaggerations. The good news is that there is a sure fire way to stop fracking. Stop using oil, gas, and all petroleum related products. When the oil companies cannot sell their products I can guarantee that all the fracking and water injection will go away. Until then all I see is people complaining about something and then turning around using the product. I guess you could call it biting the hand that fuels you.
Inaccuracies: The Conoco-Phillips pictures from the Carpinteria Bluffs in this story are portrayed as if they are somehow related to fracking. Nothing could be further from the truth. Conoco-Phillips is conducting an operation to properly seal a long abandoned well. The operation has been completely transparent and wholly unrelated to fracking or drilling. The VC Reporter seems to have intentionally taken convenient photos and misrepresented what is happening in them.
We didn't indicate there was fracking going with Conoco Phillips. But rather it just indicated an oil company was working near the pier. Neither the captions nor the story say anything about fracking and conoco philips being related. But thank you for clarifying. I will add a clarification in our paper for Thursday.
Dear Russ Hawkins,
Thank you for responding. My description of the reeds, water, river, and the fencing was to set the scene for the readers who have never been to McGrath State Beach. McGrath is wetland and those reeds are part of its native habitat. They do not grow to hide drilling activity. I imagine the fencing is there as a safety precaution. With drilling comes methane and fencing keeps McGrath park visitors away from any exposure.
The federal government has no rules in place about informing the public about fracking. On November 7th, Nick Pardi of the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which regulates offshore resources, told me, "There are no fracking operations occurring offshore California in federal waters." But this was years after Venoco already publicized its 2009 frack job in a 2010 report. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said I might be able to get access to well records through a very expensive Freedom of Information Act request but they were unsure of the information I would find.
After several phone calls to their DC and Camarillo office I could conclude was that regulators were out of the loop about fracking taking place because drillers do not have to inform regulators.
However, the State of California puts their well records online. Don Drysdale from the Department of Conservation told me that presence of a water injection well indicates the occurrence of enhanced drilling. Fracking is one type of enhanced drilling. Because the state did not know where fracking had occurred, and companies would not tell me where they had fracked, I had to look for injection wells as place were fracking may have occurred.
I did not write that 90% of the gas wells near Goleta Beach were fracked. I wrote that it was estimated that 90% of gas wells were fracked. I received that figure from ProPublica's intensive investigative report on fracking. ProPublica is one of the most respected investigative journalism organizations in the U.S. Once again, the industry would not reveal the frack jobs and the state had no idea.
Today I was on the state's media conference call about the new draft of fracking regulations. Soon some of the guesswork around figuring out the where and when of fracking will be eliminated. However the federal government regulates the offshore rigs. According to my interviews, the federal regulation fracking draft should be circulating this year.
I have requested interviews from oil companies, drilling companies, and oil and gas consultants since September. Please get out the word that I am looking for people in the industry to interview on, or off, the record. My email is email@example.com.
I believe you worked for Venoco in 2009, the year Venoco fracked Platform Gail. Because of your expertise with Central Coast fracking you would be the perfect person to interview. I hope you will email so we can talk on the phone soon.
Good play Michaels. Yes Conoco Phillips is an oil company. They are working near a pier in Carpinteria. However, the photographs in question have nothing to do with the story. You could have as easily taken a picture of a gas meter reader. Or a gas station attendant. I don't like fracking. I also don't like shoddy journalism.
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If I want to say, I told you I was proud of you, what do I say?
Ich sagte dir, dass ich auf dich stolz sei.
Ich sagte dir, dass ich auf dich stolz wäre.
If I want to say, I told you I was proud of you, what do I say?
The German appropriation is neither
Indirect speech works with a different mechanism in English (Please, read about backshift of tenses to understand how it works in English).
We also use German Indikativ
If you are looking for what a native speaker would say in an everyday conversation, use:
It may not be absolutely correct, gramatically, but everything else would sound too formal, use it only in written language!
In non-colloquial speech the variant with sei is almost certainly what you want to use. The default mood for reported speech is the subjunctive I (here: sei) and using it does not indicate any uncertainty about the correctness of the reported information – and thus it does not make any difference that you are reporting your own speech (see also this question).
Using the subjunctive II (here: wäre) would state that you do not consider true whatever is reported. So, in your example you would only use this, if you lied about being proud.
Note that the subjunctive II can be also used instead of the subjunctive I, if the latter is identical to an indicative form (which is not the case here). The subjunctive II in turn can also be replaced by a würde construct, if it is identical to a past indicative form.
In colloquial speech it is most common that no subjunctive at all is used (i.e., bin instead of sei or wäre).
no, you don't speak about yourself in the disjunctive
no, same, --> In the past you said: ich bin auf dich stolz. So in order to reflect that the correct expression is:
Ich sagte dir (doch), das ich auf dich stolz bin. (Warum hörst du mir denn nicht zu?) Warum hast du mir denn nicht zugehört?


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Tubing used in any critical service such as acids , dry gas seals of compressors , is having inherent design with compression fittings , using ferrules typically single or double , based on plant standards of instrumentation tubing .To have safe operation and mechanical integrity of connection , many petrochemical / refinery installations refrain from using tubing ,and use piping with flanges along with required gaskets so that tightening of pipe is safe with no distortion of joint during tightening as part of design standards .
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For Better accident prevention, the followings steps should be taken in Sulphuric Acid application :1). All joints should be flanged instead of pressurized fittings2). If at all ,pressurized fitting is used, there must be covering sleeves on the joints3). Better Steel such as Alloy-20, Hastalloy-C etc. should be used instead of Stainless Steel
Such type of accidents can be prevented if the sample tubing is of good alloy such as Hastalloy-C , Alloy-20 etc. and all piping joints should be overlapped with sleeves fitted on them.Moreover, after installation of tubing, the pressure terst should be done.It is further advisable to use flanged piping system instead of pressured Ferrule system in the Sulphuric Acid application.
In my opinion, the foremost issue is the type of the SS tube fitting, single ferrule versus double ferrule. The second issue here is installation of this SS tube fitting. Instrument technician should have followed the guidelines on installation details like, amount of torque and nos. of turns required to tighten the ferrule over tube, placing the ferrules correctly over the tube and lastly performing the leak/pressure test of the installation.
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The Stainless steel AISI 316 is poor in high corrosion is a problem the production ,is better AISI317L Corrosion Resistance high.same UHB Stainless34L or German W. Nr.1.4449 or AISI316+Nb , AISI316+Ti or ELC Stainless Steel UHB Stainless3Lor 3LN
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No mentioning if the researchers look into the training program of the workers. Work instructions, mechanical integrity programs or any procedures are worthless if the end users are not trained. As well as the quantity of personnel available. Profit margins need to be met most of the time sacrificing the implementation of well written procedures.
What was the Tube Fitting Brand involved in the incidence please?Many a times instrumentation technicians forget to check if there are Ferrules or Olives in the fitting !
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These early U.S. dates include: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, As Long As I Have You, Dazed and Confused, White Summer / Black Mountainside, Pat's Delight, How Many More Times.
Led Zeppelin (unbilled) open for Vanilla Fudge.
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The band also made musical memories in Seattle. Its second show in America was here at the Arena, two days after Christmas 1968, opening for the now deservedly forgotten Vanilla Fudge. Led Zeppelin was unknown — its debut album had not yet been released in America — and the audience almost completely ignored them. The houselights were not even turned down during their set, because so many people were still finding their seats. People talked over the music.
It's one of the greatest shows I ever saw. The opening song, a cover of the blues classic "Train Kept A Rollin'," hit me so hard that I stood on my chair, waved my arms and yelled and screamed. Somebody behind me said, "Will you please sit down?" I turned and loudly pleaded, "Didn't you hear that? Don't you get it? Shut up and listen!" Everybody around looked at me like I was nuts.
Two months later, after the album had come out, I started my first radio show as a disc jockey at KOL-FM, Seattle's first progressive rock station, by playing the whole album. The phone response was immediate. "Who is that? What album is that?" I was so happy to tell them.
Over my nearly four years as disc jockey/music director/program director at KOL-FM, I played Led Zeppelin on every one of my shows. I like to think I helped make Led Zeppelin one of Seattle's favorite bands — although I know that Steve Slaton, now at KZOK and previously at KISW, has as big a Zep Jones as I do, and has carried that torch for all the 35 years he's been a fixture on Seattle radio.
That 1968 Arena show wasn't the only memorable Led Zeppelin concert here. There was that odd one at the old Greenlake Aqua Theater in 1969, where some fans jumped in the lake (I met the band backstage and invited them to an after-party at my house; they never showed). Equally unforgettable are shows at the Seattle Pop Festival at Gold Creek Park in Woodinville in 1969, where they pulled out all the stops because they preceded The Doors, and before 65,000 fans in 1977 in the Kingdome, where they nearly overcame the sound problems. (Patrick MacDonald-Seattle Times / Feb. 2008)


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7 Famous Musicians Who Stole Some of Their Biggest Hits
#3. The Strokes
This spunky New York City band reinvented rock music much the same way Green Day did in the '90s. Translation: They played the same music that people before them had been playing for decades, but somehow convinced the public that what they were doing was fresh and new. Some people refer to it as "The Nirvana Effect," a term coined by us just now in this sentence.
Much like Oasis before them, they kicked off their career by pilfering a stone cold classic. This time, the victim was Tom Petty. Check out the Strokes' hit single "Last Night":
And now, have a listen to Tom Petty's "American Girl":
If you hated listening to that Strokes song, you'll really hate us for not mentioning that you only needed to listen to the first 30 seconds or so. That's where most of the thievery takes place. That instantly recognizable opening riff from "American Girl" was pretty much copied note for note by the Strokes.
If for some reason you think ripping off Tom Petty is something only your dad would consider doing, wait until you hear who else the Strokes have turned to for "inspiration." Many critics noticed that the Strokes' "Razorblade" bears a striking resemblance to "Mandy" by freaking Barry Manilow. Also, we sincerely apologize for the wall of text in that link, let "Ctrl+F" be your guide if you're the fact-checking type. Or if reading isn't your thing, listen to the nearly identical choruses of each song right here.
Ripping off Barry Manilow makes Oasis ripping off a Coke commercial seem like a total gangster move. Their hipster cred isn't helped by the fact that they also robbed Henry Mancini:
That said, we'd be downright floored if "The Peter Gunn Theme" isn't the coolest Henry Mancini song of all time, so at least they have that working in their favor.
#2. John Williams
Right off the bat, if any casual fans are reading this and wondering who in the hell John Williams is, there's only one thing you need to know. He composed the ridiculously iconic Star Wars theme. And you know what? When you're working in a medium like classical music, borrowing from other artists isn't all that unheard of. Hans Zimmer, the man behind several recent scores for Hollywood blockbusters, does it all the time. He even admitted to sampling a Gustav Holst piece on his score for Gladiator.
But the thing about John Williams is that he wins tons of awards for his thievery. To add a nice twist of irony, those awards often come in the "Best Original Score" category. Take the Jaws theme, for example. He took home the Best Original Score Oscar for that famous "Dun dun, dun dun" sound that we've all come to associate with impending danger (specifically, the danger of being eaten by a cartoonishly large shark). Meanwhile, the classical musician who came up with it first is spinning in his grave. Check out John Williams' theme back to back with Dvorak's Symphony No. 9:
That's what's often referred to as "damning evidence" on the episodes of Matlock that currently occupy every inch of space on our office DVR.
But what about that Star Wars theme? Surely he must have come up with that on his own, right? The guy took home an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA award, a Grammy award and a Saturn award for that score. We're pretty sure he would've won an ESPY, too, if they were around back then. There's no way such universal praise would be heaped on something that was clearly "borrowed" from someone else. Well, in a perfect world, that would probably be the case. But the world isn't perfect, and the Star Wars theme was a straight-up jack move. Those iconic sounds first appeared way back in the black and white days on the theme from Kings Row. Behold the evidence:
The prosecution rests. And yes, we learned that phrase from watching Matlock also.
#1. Madonna
Something funny happened on Madonna's way to being hailed as a music innovator. That funny thing being, of course, that the people who have bestowed that title upon her like to conveniently ignore the fact that she steals songs like a crackhead supporting her drug habit by recording hit songs. We'd love to give you a rundown of each and every song she's been accused of jacking, but as you can see from this list, it would take us a minimum of three full articles to do that.
The most obvious rip-off of Madonna's career also doubles as one of the most obvious rip-offs of all time. Check out the similarities between Madonna's "Justify My Love" and Public Enemy's "Security of the First World":
Stealing from Public Enemy back during their badass heyday was a pretty bold move. Almost as bold as, well, suing Madonna. That's exactly what Public Enemy did, taking the pop legend for everything that massive hit earned her, which was somewhere in the neighborhood of "an undisclosed sum."
And that's all the excuse we need to post a picture of Flavor Flav.
To make matters worse, that wasn't the only lawsuit that stemmed from this one song. A poet named Ingrid Chavez, after hearing "Justify My Love," couldn't help but notice something strange. Specifically, she noticed that she wrote the damn lyrics. So, we stand corrected, Public Enemy didn't get everything that Madonna earned for that song. Chavez sued also and was awarded a writing credit and (we're assuming) a massive amount of royalties.
Madonna didn't limit her plagiarism to just songs, either. She's been accused of ripping off music videos from a crap load of people. In fact, anywhere you look, whether it be album covers or even her eccentric style, Madonna seems to be continuously in some kind of plagiarism scandal, with a ridiculous 15 plagiarism lawsuits to her credit so far.
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I know how to trim a document to get rid of surrounding transparent space, but is there a way to do this only for saving off to web & devices, without impacting the actual document?
Solution A: Duplicate Image
When you want to save a web copy, you could duplicate the image (Image -> Duplicate), then do the adjustments for the copied (and possibly flattened) image.
I usually do it that way so the original image stays untouched, while the web save gets little color tweaks and watermarks. After saving I discard the copy, since there's really no need for it.
Solution B: Slices
You could also use Slices for this.
Personally I think it's a bit clunky way to do it, since it likes to create extra folders, and slices get in the way on the image side. But maybe it'll work with your work flow.